001All right, I think we are ready to go. Yep. Okay, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Averton Heights School Board meeting for Wednesday, June 4th. Would everyone please rise and pledge the flag? I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Okay. Okay. We're gonna have roll call. And I believe Mr. Moran is down. Yes, he is. right there. Oh, there he is. Perfect. Greg, can you hear us? Okay. Greg, can can you hear us? Okay, Greg. Now I can. Thank you. Okay. Okay. Great. Okay. Mr. Abdala here. Mr. Azar. Mrs. Henderson. Mrs. Hillbrand here. Mrs. Carum here. Mr. Moran here. Mr. Robson here. Mrs. Tierney here. Mr. Ecker here. Thank you very much. May I
002have a motion to approve the agenda? So moved. Second. On the motion. Any changes? Roll call, please. Mr. Abdullah? Yes. Mrs. Hillibbran? Yes. Mrs. Kum? Yes. Mr. Moran? Mr. Robson? Yes. Mrs. Tierney? Yes. Mr. Aker? Yes. Seven. Nothing. Thank you. I think what we're going to do is have public comment now. So, when I call your name, please come up. Uh, please keep your comments to more or less three minutes and um identify who you are and where you where you live. So, first would be Eliia Holgate. [Music] Hey everyone, my name is Aya Holgate. I've been in band since middle school and I'll be graduating next Tuesday. I'm the current band president, have served as drum major for the past two years, and I've been active in jazz and marching band. With me today
003are the members and officers of the Abington Heights Concert, Marching and Jazz Band. We are aware of the open position for a music teacher in the middle school and urge you to choose someone who will be adequate at teaching band as well as general music. Currently, there are only three periods a day where band is offered in the high school and one of them is supposed to be a study hall. This means that students who can't fit it into their schedule in the afternoon do not get the opportunity to take band. It also means that more students are crammed into three periods, one of which has 40 students. The large class size means that no matter who is teaching, students cannot get the personal attention that they need for their individual instruments. But it isn't
004just anyone teaching band. It's Mr. Lesneski who has been our program director for the past four years, and he's made it a wonderful experience in spite of all the challenges that he's had to face. During the past four years, he's taught sixth grade, seventh grade, seventh grade advanced, eighth grade band, eighth grade advanced, ninth grade, 12th grade, 9th through 12th grade, and concert band, marching band, and jazz band. In case you weren't keeping track, that's eight ensembles. And not only has he managed these ensembles, but he's grown our band program, especially our marching band, which has gone from 36 members in its first year to 120 members in counting for this upcoming season with more students signing up every day. These increased numbers are amazing for our program, but they unfortunately make it harder to
005run. It's undeniable that Mr. Leneski has made great contributions to our band program, but it's also undeniable that all of this is too much for one teacher, and it's unfair to the students. In my role as drum major, I've gotten to see a lot of the behind-the-scenes work that happens in our music department. And Mr. Lesneski is doing a great job. And of course, he's doing a great job, but it's and and the numbers reflect this as well. But I've also been able to see that there are many more opportunities for growth and excellence that he hasn't been able to take advantage of. It isn't because he doesn't want to or he isn't motivated. It's simply because he doesn't have the time or resources to devote to it. what he is managing is currently impressive
006and even if you don't consider how many ensembles he has or how much he takes on but I know that it could be even better than it is if we were able to invest all that we could into it is for the betterment of our program students and teachers that the teacher that is hired is willing and capable of teaching band classes in the middle school as well as sharing Mr. Lesneski's responsibilities this would allow the program to grow more smoothly and allow Mr. to concentrate his efforts on certain areas because there'll be another awesome teacher shouldering some of the responsibility. Don't just take my word for it though because our student body agrees. We've created a petition for more support from Mr. Lesneski in the middle school and have gotten over 200 signatures that
007include middle school, high school students, community members, music department officers, class officers, student council officers, and our se senior student school board represent representative. We urge you to take this into consideration when hiring a new music teacher for our middle school. Thank you all for your time. Thank you. And I have this if you wanted to see it. Thank you very much. All right. Thank you very much. Thank you. We appreciate your your comments and your passion. And I can uh I'll I'll address it after we do our our all of our comments. Okay. Yes. All right. That means you have to stick around. Yeah. But we won't make you stick around for all the other presentations unless you want to hear. All right. It's great. Okay. Mr. Strawler, the floor is yours. Evening folks.
008Thanks for the time. I'm here to ask if you would share your thoughts and your recommendations for the financing part of the middle school project. At last month's meeting, it was noted that we were going to use municipal bonds and district funds for the project. Is that collaboration, cooperation going to happen? I'll leave you to your comments. Okay. Yeah. So, I'll um I'm gonna have Jim come up. Sure. Didn't um if you're good. How are you? Yeah. So in uh all of our or at least most of our finance committee meetings where we discussed the financing of this uh project, we had determined that it would it would take a combination of local funds which are in reserve currently and bond financing. So I think the answer to your question is yes. Okay. There was
009that was almost always the plan, right? That's why we've built up a capital reserve fund. Um, and that's why we, if you look at our budget, which we'll be presenting, it's actually on the website, you'll see that we have a signed and committed fund balance. $7.5 million of that fund balance in the general fund is committed for capital projects. So, there's evidence that we've been planning this project. Yes. So, we have we have it allocated from that space and we also have the capital reserve fund. Now the exact number will be determined after you know all of the different pieces come into place and the project progresses on but that was certainly um our our discussion part of the budget that you're you're going to pass. No, not that wouldn't that wouldn't include uh that
010right now because we'd have to determine what that would be and when that would be. So I I guess in short we the the project financing is happening in phases. First phase would be a bond borrowing to get started. Second phase to be determined will be a combination of use of our funds in reserve and potential additional borrowing a as the project goes on. But certainly I I don't believe there was ever any intent to not share as you say share in the cost. That was that's been the plan throughout. We heard that last month. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. That's um I know Mrs. Kum keeps copious notes on those meetings and uh you know those are public meetings uh the finance committee meetings and uh long had open discussion about sharing in the costs to
011use you know we we have gone through Mrs. Karen like 25 different scenarios. Oh way more than that 30 scenarios. Um we have scenarios you can dream about. Uh but the bottom line is uh we looked at it from the standpoint of first of all being able to finance the project or obviously make sure we have a plan to do that but secondly protect the district from things like increased borrowing rates down down the road so that if we took several bonds would we incur higher interest costs and so on. Um, I believe that the most current version of what we're talking about is that we will be drawing down the uh funds from the school at the end of the cycle. But that that will give us the most flexibility in terms of how
012how we look at this. Sounds good. Look for the progress. Yep. Thanks. Appreciate the time. Yep. Did you say at the end of the cycle? So when would that be? What approximately how many years? So, I have a committee report that I'll deliver shortly. Um, and um what what you're looking for, we do have graphically organized, but not just yet. So, we are waiting for PFM, PNC to give us our numbers, and then you'll be able to see tenyear projections for everything, the interest rate, the impact on the budget, and um you'll have a bet a clearer idea of when um there's a there's a coordination with the draw schedule for the construction, the financing, um capitalized interest. Uh so we are working to make sure that that data is all accurate out there and
013you'll have a clearer picture I think once we get those projections um of when the cap reserves are coming in and we'll also want some flexibility as Warren um just said on the back end to um to use the cap reserves and borrow in a in an interest rate environment that is um conducive to the lease burden on taxpayers. Does that make sense? Sure does. Okay. Thank you. Thanks. Thank you, Mark. I will wait for um Mr. Mayor Belly to discuss the um operational budget that we'll be approving next month and I will ask about the capital reserve then. All right. Where are advanced students? here in the back so I can see you over that podium. It's hard to see you. All right. Um, so, uh, a couple a couple things and I'll try
014to keep it as as as as brief as possible. I hope it'll be uh um informative. Um, one is we do have a position uh that's that's that's vacant that will be uh filled uh tonight um if the board uh so chooses. And that's for a general music class. So, um I imagine you all have gone through our middle school for the most part. Right. And so we do uh I I kind of liken it sometimes these rotations with world language and STEM and and and general music is to like a general education program where you're getting a a smattering of some uh different courses and and and content that would help you make some more informed choices as you get up into the high school where you've got uh numerous courses um that you
015can take. Um, in the in the case of uh Mr. Leeski, he does teach uh I want to say it's uh three courses that you guys know they do that a little differently at the middle school. At the high school, you're there pretty much unless you're on a semester, but you're there every day taking those courses. And they would be doing it more on a a cycle at the at the middle school. And right now, uh Mr. Lesneski has three courses for band at the at the high school and that's what the what the schedule demands as far as um the enrollment. Okay. And we still need the general music teacher at the middle school to do that who um this year had one of the of those of those band courses. and uh Miss
016Tion uh had a uh group of 20 teachers come together at the high school to take a look at the schedule and some improvements and she made a presentation in April which the board approved uh and two people sitting on that committee made some recommendations for music. Both uh Mr. Lesneski and and Miss Kovville were part of that. So, what we've done, and this is kind of the the behind the scenes baseball that the kids all know about, is if you're going to be taking um senior privilege, I was just nine mod and you know that nine mod is a little different than the other first through 8th period. So, we've made those all equal. So, students will now be able to, if they wish, to schedule eight periods. uh seniors will be given the
017choice probably predicated on some of the schedule choices they make um to have senior privilege first period uh or ninth not and right um this allows us to have gre uh greater uh scheduling capabilities so that our students in the band and the in our music department don't have to make tough choices between uh remaining in the program and say taking a world language. So, um, both Miss Tion and the teachers in this committee feel like this is a a really good first step in that. Um, when we see uh enrollment in the the band program specifically um increase, then um the board to take a look at those numbers and make those those staffing allocations. Um so um while this isn't happening next year, I can tell you and you can probably get the
018details from your some of your teachers and Dr. Tion um that uh for instance, we talked about an honors band program and I believe that that will probably be on the docket for next year because we already have an honors choir and an honors uh chorus. And uh Mr. Lesneski, and I shouldn't even just say Mr. Lzneski. It's really that content area teacher that has the most input. They're the ones that Dr. Tion will be speaking with and I believe that they are poised for that next year. So, you take a look at who you have uh in your classes um and and and what works well. So, um I have every reason to believe, um that our band program and and I'm I'm saying band because our band folks were here talking about that
019and I don't uh I would be saying the same thing with orchestra and choir if they were here. Um uh we'll we'll continue to grow and we'll we will see that and we don't have any problem advocating for that when we see their numbers. So um for instance uh you know I've noticed that uh our marching band numbers uh have increased and that's a great thing. Uh and and we went back to uh the music department and said hey you know we know there may be some interest and need for uh new uniforms and things like that and the and the board has said that they would be right there uh behind to uh support that and and pay for that. in the same way as when we see these numbers that we would augment
020our staff um accordingly. So I hope that provides you with the uh the um the answer you needed or the information um that you that you needed. And Dr. Yes. I just also want to say for the board's benefit and the students as well, Mr. Lneski did actually sit with Mrs. Snder and myself and really talk about what was needed in that seventh grade position or that open middle school music position. Um, and the person on the agenda tonight is a person who I think fills some of what was shared with us um about what was for that position at the middle school. So of that when we hired that person as well. Okay. All right. I intend to yield my time tonight to uh Mr. Mirror Belly, who he's going to give his uh
021third uh financial presentation ahead of um the uh final adoption of the budget for FY26 at our uh next board meeting. Uh last time we spoke um we we had said that oftentimes um you know the changes that we are uh really looking for don't come to us in the month of June um despite being mandated by the state to do that. They they do a really good job at bringing in the budget after the deadline. Um but um Jim's been working hard. We've been working hard to do some uh uh forecasting and let you know kind of where we sit. Great. Thank you for the time. Um so I I wanted to talk quickly about uh something that that uh will drastically we've made a lot of investments between the HR office, payroll, and
022uh business office in order to improve and streamline and spend quite frankly less time on reconciling and doing manual calculations for the budget. So, we collaborated with the HR office because our HR and accounting software talks to each other and we said, "Let's leverage this." Uh, so our friends at HR and payroll made sure that they got all of our salaries and benefits up to date for next year. And that might sound like a simple thing, but we have salaries and benefits, which is 75 to 80% of your budget calculated down to the penny for next year. you know, save for overtime and some some things that you have to calculate, but everybody who's here today is calculated down to the penny and transferred directly into next year's budget. In the past, we would have
023these manual spreadsheets and we would have this reconciliation process probably two times a month. Um, so this is much more streamlined, much more accurate, and much more reliable after going through this process. So I when we talk about what's changed between uh the preliminary budget that we passed and talked about in January and the budget now that is actually a major thing that's happened uh in this budget. So there were hundreds of and if not thousands of changes that were made they don't necessarily materialize in the in the bottom line but we do have a much more streamlined and efficient budgeting process. Uh so for us you know accounting nerds we do you know we do like this efficiency and not having to hand reconcile everything as we go through the budget process. So I
024just want to make that note that what you see in front of you is built on um a little bit different and streamlined system although it may look the same with slightly different numbers on it. Um couple highlights from the preliminary budget. Um, we talked about the main item there, health insurance increase of approximately $1.45 million. Uh, we've been working on that, but it that number has not changed in this budget. Okay. So, that remains a $1.45 million increase on the health insurance side is probably the biggest budget driver we've seen um since the, you know, the pension spike was going on um over over the course of a decade. Um, so that that was a big one and that one really tells the story. Um, without that increase, that mandatory increase, we would be
025looking at some probable surpluses at the end of the the budget. Um, but just wanted to point that one out. Um, we had contractual salary increases of 3% on all of our contracts. Transportation increases. Um you'll see we we put in 3% but as we reconciled that with the transportation office you'll see that there's a little bit more in transportation that we had to cover. Um and then uh we had a budgetary reserve of 200,000 and then inflationary increases across uh across the budget. So since then um we had some staffing changes. Uh we we had a special ed teacher come on and then we through attrition um removed a high school position. Um we also had a curriculum director and HR secretary. So just some staffing that that kind of moved around a little
026bit there. Um we had to increase the amount for charter schools to adjust a trend. We're seeing a spike there. I think I showed that last month that we're we're seeing those numbers creep up. Um I just mentioned transportation had to be moved upward. Um and then another benefit of budgeting in the software so to speak is I can really quickly look at variances fiveyear history up to present. Uh so using that data uh we do this manually anyway but using the data it was very easy to determine that there were some areas where we're a little light on the revenue side. So I was able to boost up some of those uh revenues such as earned income tax. look at the trend. Uh interest earnings we looked at. Um we saw that real estate
027transfer tax is performing well. So we revised that upward. Uh as well as delinquent taxes. So just a few upward revisions. So we had a little upward pressure on the expense side, little upward pressure on the um revenue side. Um but overall we we had a $ 1.9 million deficit to begin in January and uh right now we sit at a 1.48 48 million deficit. Um, however, some notable things that are in that deficit. Um, we have carved out 625,000 for additional debt service. Because of the timing of the borrowing, it is likely we will not be having to pay additional debt service in this upcoming fiscal year. Um, just because of when the principal payment hits. Okay. Um, so that one is said 625,000 is is keep in the back of your mind. We
028have a $200,000 budgetary reserve. We call that out every year. That's not specifically budgeted for any one line item. And I think in my career here, we've had to use it once and that was dealing with ratification of a contract and retroactive pay. So, uh, unique circumstance there. Um, we have not budgeted yet for any of the additional readytolearn block grant monies that the governor proposed. If that comes through, that would be $563,000 in additional revenue coming uh to us. Okay. Um, we are waiting to hear anything out of Harrisburg and I I haven't heard anything concrete. It's it's been very quiet. Um, we also did not budget for any potential charter savings yet in coming out of the state. Now, there's some things talked about about the $8,000 cap that would help us out.
029Our internal calculations were somewhere around 200,000, maybe a little north uh as far as savings that we would um claw back from that reform. Um and also we we haven't um haven't we have some solutions on the table for health insurance but we have not included any savings or clawing back of cost measures uh related to health insurance at this time. We're budgeting what our consultants are telling us we expect to spend next year uh in terms of health insurance. So, as we try to sort of reconcile where we were in January, where we talked last month, and u where we are now, those are kind of the main highlights. And uh I apologize for getting off on my software and accounting uh sort of efficiency, but that that was an important development in our
030uh in our process here. Um, with regard to taxes, we have in this budget the 4.7% increase, um, which equates to approximately $140 on the average property. Uh, we also did receive an increase of our uh, gaming revenues. The state property tax reduction allocation will um, save about 32 additional dollars. Uh so back that $32 off of the approximate $140 tax increase. So the state is, you know, reducing taxes back a bit there. Um so those are highlights of what's in here. I can go through this particular budget. Um I think we're kind of familiar with the with the with the format, but you know, I can I can go through it in detail or if anyone has, you know, questions at this point, happy to take them. Um, I know we've talked about budget,
031you know, several times through this process and we started extra early. So, um, happy to take any and then we can kind of talk about that debt service a little bit if you like. Any questions? Mr. Mayor Belly, if I So, if I understand what you're saying, the bottom line is at this point we're showing a 1.4 for 1,480,000 deficit which would be if it were it existed at the end of the year would be made up out of general funds I assume but you are suggesting that will probably be offset by $625,000 of debt service we won't incur $200,000 budgetary reserve that hopefully we won't have to rely on and then the possibility of uh the state coming through with block grants which they would normally do. That correct? I I would think I
032I would expect given the economic climate we would see an increase in either basic ed subsidy or the ready to learn block grant. Um you know I would say it's more likely than not that that occurs. But I would not budget that aggressively. Uh we we don't we have a long history of not being aggressive with these numbers. Shouldn't be. Um, so my my I guess where I'm heading then is those three items, if I'm not mistaken, total 1,388,000. So basically bringing us in perhaps $100,000 deficit at that point if that happens. And my response to you would be we absolutely have a path to a break even year. Yes. Very good. Thank you. Great job. I mentioned this at the last uh board meeting. I'll just reiterate. I've I've uh spent a lot of
033time this uh year working with our local, state, and federal legislators on kind of a myriad of topics. One is uh facility improvements, specifically uh reimbursements uh to the district through one form um or another and um charter reform. And right now under the governor's proposed budget which includes uh charter reform uh cyber charter tuition for regular education students and then a committee to establish a fee for cyber charter for special education students the following year. Again, that is just proposed. Um there is a um think tank out of Philadelphia. This this happens yearly that would take that information on the proposed budget and run our current numbers to provide us with a subsidy number. if the proposed budget goes through and that number for Aington Heights is north of $900,000. Um again, we we
034wait the the state um is supposed to pass their budget by the last day in June every year. And everybody sitting here knows that I I can't recall when that has ever happened. Um, so we we budget conservatively and every year that I sit up here at this time seemingly we're we're always looking at a deficit of anywhere from 1.48 48 to 2.5 and our job is to u manage that budget um as tightly as we can and as Jim mentioned in one of the the great challenges in in education relative to budgeting is that 75% of our budget is is our is our teachers and again I I I'm going to reiterate what I always say and it should be we're in the people business. We're in the teaching and learning business. Our investments
035should be in our students and our staff. They're the nucleus. They're right in front of our teachers. And that's why, you know, almost eight out of every $10 goes to um just that. As a result, that can make balancing the budget very difficult because now you're looking at those $2 out of every 10. How do you how do you sharpen that? And we've been uh working on insurance uh over the the last six months or so. Right now, we're looking at uh increases in in our pharma uh close to 25%. That is uh aligned to what other districts are seeing as well. Um, so we'll we'll continue to to watch that, work through that, work with our our union leadership who's been very supportive and collaborative as we um look to come up with some
036efficiencies so that we can uh claw back some of that $1.4 million uh increase. Um the transportation increases that that Jim uh talked about align very closely with some of the increases that we have seen uh in special education. So, from time to time throughout the year, um the board has uh passed uh action items for new van routes. And when you see that, um that has everything to do with some of the the uh adjustments we're making with um special education. So, we'll continue to monitor that uh do our very best to uh bring everything in. Uh at the same time, we've had some some very nice headwinds. Our earned income tax uh and transfer taxes have come in uh above budget. We've done very well investing our money and bringing back um interest
037that is much higher than what we had anticipated and much of that uh has to do with the current uh financial landscape um that is uh changing. Two years ago, I would have been talking to you about uh an inverse yield curve where we are able to invest in some short-term treasuries north of 5%. That's something that Jim hasn't seen in his career until this year. Um and quite frankly, I haven't seen uh in my 30 years. May maybe in the beginning when I was wet behind the years and I didn't know much about that and I was a a school counselor but um you know cash management wasn't something um that we talked about uh because all we could usually get was maybe 1% one and a half% uh in a regional bank. Um
038so we we we've done a good job there. We've brought the budget in and we've prepared um well for our uh facility projects and uh this is um not not new territory and this is something that the the board uh deals with every year and how we how we uh face some of these um financial challenges. So um I appreciate the work that Jim's done. the next time we come back and see each other, we'll be uh voting on the um the final budget. And I would um hope that at some point before our students come back that we'll have a state budget in place and uh we'll be able to provide you with an update. Certainly if if um the uh ready tolearn brock grant and charter reform come into place then we're looking
039at a very significant chunk uh coming off that deficit. And I will continue to reiterate like I've done with all of our local, state, and federal legislators about uh my um dismay with the current charter formula. Um as Jim mentioned, we've had to uh budget for increases and um you know, those those those increases are due to more students choosing it. However, those increases are due to the increases um that we have to um pay based on a formula. And believe it or not, um the more money we get from the state, this is a very gross and general uh assertion. The more money we get from the state, the more money we put onto our own kids, the more money we then have to uh pay our our cyber charters. So, as a for
040instance, and this is an example that I give to local legislators because they're unaware of it because this is just in the weeds and nobody wants to hear about it, but it makes a huge difference. So, if you run into uh Representative Kazarosi, feel free to get in here about it. But Jim mentioned the ready tolearn block grant. This is something that probably a lot of board members never spoke about before. Uh we got very few funds in the ready tolearn block grant and when Jim would do the calculation every year uh there is an amount of money that we're able to write off and that amount of money was probably close to 90% of the block grant. By writing it off, it meant that it didn't go into the calculation for charters. This writeoff
041was established in the Corbert era. So, it's been a long time. It's been close to 15 years. Last year, the state decided to provide us with uh more subsidy based on a court case that they lost and they decided to provide us these funds through the ready tolearn block grant. So we went from a very small amount to a very large amount, but yet we could only write off that number established by the Corbett administration, which meant when Jim did his calculations, that money that we got out of adequacy and fairness and equity to invest in our kids, it's turned into this formula. and more money goes out the door. And this is something that uh in in in many newspaper articles we've seen uh late uh not us but superintendent writing stories and opinions,
042op-eds saying that they're having to spend all of their adequacy money into charters. So um any moment any time that I have to talk about this I will because in in certain cases it's the the the gift that keeps on giving. Um and then the other thing that I finally talk about is uh tort reform relative to um special education uh settlements and things like that. um that you know I believe in my opinion is is is out of control and there's no regulatory body that's doing that and it keeps on getting upheld uh in court. But that's for another day. But those are my those are the the two biggies. So Jim, thank you for um your presentation today. Mr. Mayor, thank you. Mr. Aker, at this time I'd ask the board uh consider
043a motion to approve the personnel report as follows. So moved. Second. On the motion. Roll call, please. Mr. Abdala. Yes. Mrs. Hillbrand. Yes. Mrs. Kum. Yes. Mr. Moran. Yes. Mr. Robson? Yes. Mrs. Tierney? Yes. Mr. Aker? Yes. Seven. Nothing. Uh I want to pause for a moment just to um I had the opportunity to speak with Dr. Prow today and she wanted me to relate a couple things to the board. So um this is on on on behalf of Dr. trial and she um will be taking a a new position as um a director of press professional learning in uh East Straburg and she has done a fantastic job here and she wanted uh me to uh publicly thank the board uh for investing in her and in and trusting her. uh I know that
044she will uh do a fantastic job in her new role uh that she is ready uh for this new role as a director of professional learning. It's something that uh she has aspired to for some time. Um so we wish her all the best. So I want to relate those thanks again on behalf of uh Dr. Prow, Mr. Accurate asked that the board uh approve theou between the Abington Heights school district and the Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania for the early college program. These are articulation agreements that um we see now um frequently relative to dual enrollment. So moved. Second motion. Roll call, please. Mr. Abdala. Yes. Mrs. Hillbrand. Yes. Mrs. Kum. Yes. Mr. Moran. Yes, Mr. Robson. Yes, Mrs. Tierney. Yes, Mr. Aker. Yes. Seven. Nothing. Mr. Aker ask the board consider a motion to
045approve the agreement between the Abington Heights School District and Aviana Healthcare to provide nursing services to a student attending OOLP. So moved. Second. On a motion. Roll call, please. Mr. Abdala. Yes. Mr. Mrs. Hillbrand. Sorry. Mrs. Kum. Yes. Mr. Moran. Yes, Mr. Robson. Yes, Mrs. Tierney. Yes. And Mr. Aker? Yes. Seven nothing. Mr. Aer ask the board consider a motion to approve the sale of repository property. So moved. Second. Have a motion. Roll call, please. Mr. Abdullah? Yes. Mrs. Hillbrand? Yes. Mrs. Kum? Yes. Mr. Moran? Yes. Mr. Robson? Yes. Mrs. Tierney. Yes. Mr. Aker. Yes. Seven nothing. Mr. Aer ask the board consider a motion to approve the settlement agreement for student 21X. So moved. Second. On the motion. Roll call, please. Mr. Abdullah? Yes. Mrs. Hillbrand? Yes. Mrs. Kum? Yes. Mr. Moran? Yes. Mr.
046Robson? Uh, no. Mrs. Tierney? Yes. Mr. Aer? Yes. 61. Mr. Aker ask the board consider a motion to approve the school board meeting dates for the 2526 school year. So moved second motion. Roll call, please. Mr. Abdala, yes. Mrs. Hillibbran, yes. Mrs. Kum, yes. Mr. Moran, yes. Mr. Robson, yes. Mrs. Tierney, yes. Mr. Der, yes. Seven nothing. Mr. tracker as the board consider a motion to approve the agreement between the Abington Heights School District and Interpret Tech for sign language interpreting. So moved. Second on the motion. So uh roll call, please. Mr. Abdullah, yes. Mrs. Hillbrand, yes. Mrs. Karum, yes. Mr. Moran, yes. Mr. Robson, yes. Mrs. Tierney, yes. Mr. Aer, yes. Seven nothing. Mr. I could ask the board consider a motion to appoint Scott Thorp, Clark Summit, PA as real estate tax collector
047for Glenn Burn Township, Ransom Township, North Abington Township, and Clark Summit Burrow for the 2025 taxes. So moved. Second motion. Just a question. Did we always have two tax collectors or is this No, we've had many more. We've had way more. We are consolidated. We're happy where we are. Is is Scott Thorp also the South AB collector? No. What? Who's the South A taxi? Yeah, she's coming up next. Yeah. Next. Roll call. Mr. Abdala. Yes, Mrs. Hillbrand. Yes, Mrs. Kum. Yes, Mr. Moran. Yes, Mr. Robson. Yes, Mrs. Tierney. Yes, Mr. Aker. Yes. 7 nothing. Mr. Aer ask the board consider a motion to appoint Kathy Platt, Clark Summit, PA as real estate tax collector for Waverly Township, Newton Township, South Abington Township in the burrow of Clark's Green for the 2025 taxes. So moved. Second
048on the motion. Roll call, please. Mr. Abdullah, yes. Mrs. Hillibbran, yes. Mrs. Kum, yes. Mr. Moran, yes. Mr. Robson, yes. Mrs. Tierney, yes. Mr. Aker, yes. Seven nothing. Okay. The next uh item isformational use of facilities uh which is in the attachment. I noticed that that goes on for something like 14 pages. Yeah, that's just for a month. Uh, is there any unfinished business? Is there any new business? I'd ask for a motion to adjourn. So moved. Thank you all. So that's my fault. I