001ladies and gentlemen thank you for coming tonight and welcome to the Abington Heights School board meeting for Wednesday March 5th would everyone please rise and pledge the flag Alle to the flag United States of America and to the Republic stand indivisible Mrs Cass can we please have a roll call you may Mr Abdullah here Mr AAR here Mrs Henderson here Mrs hillbrand here Mrs carum here Mr Moran Mr ropson here Mrs Tierney and Mr AER here thank you very much can I please have a motion to approve the agenda so mov second are there any comments or changes to the agenda roll call please Mr AAR yes Mrs Henderson yes Mrs hillbrand yes Mrs carum yes Mr Robeson yes Mr abdalah yes and Mr AER yes seven nothing uh Dr Schaefer I'd say the floor
002is yours but it looks looks like you have something truly amazing for us now yes we do something more exciting than our board meetings well that wouldn't take no it would not it's it's a low bar to clear at this time we'd like to have Mrs Leonard the principal at Waverly Elementary School introduce her students good evening Bard and thank you for the invitation to showcase our our wonderful students on their accomplishment tonight I bring our Science Olympiad team which is made up of mostly Waverly students but we also have two South Abington students with us so we're happy to have them here with us um our team was very successful at their Regional competition and they're moving on to the states coming up in April so a little bit of what their judges had
003to say about their performance which they're going to explain to you because that's all part of their gig is that overall it was an O an enjoyable and witty performance that they had creative and ingenious backdrops skillful and intricate vehicles I Les overall playful and charming and that it was great teamwork and an awesome work with their vehicle for their mechanical animal so that was their division so I'm going to have the kids take over because they're going to tell you all about how they got here Odyssey of the mind is um a club where you to problem solve and our problem was to create a Mech animal that would perform uh different tricks and um this was our problem the saying goes dog is the van's best friend but this year's Omars get the
004chance to invert their own bestie in this problem team will design build and operate an original robotic animal that has the ability to make people happy in the performance the mech animal will perform various tricks that share people up when it suddenly goes missing the people search for it and find the mech animal in a very unusual place the performance will also um include music a toy for the me animal and a trainer character that explains the tricks this is our Mech animal that we made and we made the script out of we typed and we thought of what we should do for our uh for our play and we thought of what it would be made up of and we thought a regular animal would not be enough so we used a penguin that
005nobody else used and when we were making the script we put in some funny puns to make the Jud just laugh and that would score us a little bit higher um so in the rules um there has to be an instrument um and we had the night the idea to make an instrument um and I made a guitar um and I performed with it in the play so I made the robot and I'm holding it right now so and it works I put it together and I welded it I worked so okay I worked on I worked on the mechanisms like our like the little flying mechanism I built it using a a crate a piece of uh a wooden board and some stomp Rockets So Amelia the trainer character uh she she Stomps on
006these and she puts her feet on these ands the penguin one of the tricks it had to do was pick up an object and instead of using a crane or an arm we used magnets and I wrote some things about it magnets have two sides positive and negative if a positive attaches to a positive that they will go away from each other or vice versa but if a negative goes to a positive they will attract and if a positive goes to negatively will attract magnets can have something between them and they will still attract but the stronger the magnets the thicker something can be between [Applause] them last thing I want to say that these kids uh they worked so hard to resolve the problem this is this their second year doing the Odyssey of
007the mind coming first every time on their division um on the Regionals and wish us luck on on States next uh months thank you good luck good luck to of we have certificates congratulations [Applause] am [Applause] thank you very much thank you gets a lot more boring after this yes it's all downhill so Dr Schaefer do you have anything to top that no because of that I will do not have any report for tonight in that case we'll go to public comment and um Mrs Dominico you wish to say something I again you've got a tough act to follow I do have one thing I um the presentation last week was fantastic loved it it was um very interesting um I do have a question about the general Bond um bonds when are those going
008to hit us in millage like like when are those bonds coming out and when can we expect the millage to to go up so that's my only question so good question so kind of regardless of the the bonds is what we laid out in the ACT 34 was that you know persuade to act one we we can't legally um nor would it be prudent to raise the taxes to the amount of money that would cover The Debt Service right so there's a staircase approach to that so they wouldn't go up any more than whatever the board votes in June to um increase taxes or not what whatever it may be um and that's why when we've talked about our our our renovation and our building projects that we look look look at it over a
00910-year period of time okay then I guess our next point of business is the action and discussion items this time I would ask the board to consider a request to approve the Personnel report so moved second second on the motion roll call please Mrs Henderson yes Mrs hillbrand yes Mrs carum yes Mr ropson yes M Abdullah yes and Mr AAR yes and Mr AER yes s nothing I'd ask the board uh consider a motion to approve the agreement between Abington Heights and the Chester County Intermediate Unit to provide customized professional learning on the Danielson framework and datawise professional learning so moved second on the motion roll call please Mrs carum yes Mr Robson yes Mr Abdullah yes Mr AAR yes Mrs hry Anderson yes Mrs hillbrand yes Mr AER yes seven nothing Mr AER ask
010the board consider a motion to approve the 2526 Evington Heights High School curriculum guide so moved second on the motion roll call please Mr Robeson yes Mr abdala yes Mr AAR yes Mrs Henderson yes Mrs hillbrand yes Mrs Kum yes Mr AER yes nothing Mrs Henderson and Dr Cass I'd like to thank you for a nice job on that I think the real shout out goes to Dr ton and her crew and Dr CA coming in and making sure everything was polished up and ready to go so I flawed flawed the administration um there's a lot of good offerings I know that some of the kids are excited about what they have in front of them all the endless possibilities so thank you Mr aard ask the board to consider a motion to approve the
011Western Pennsylvania school for the deaf agreement to provide a student an additional service of a one-on-one PCA for the 2425 school year so moved second on the motion roll call please Mr abdalah yes Mr AAR yes Mrs Henderson yes Mrs hillbrand yes Mrs carum yes Mr Robson yes Mr AER yes seven nothing okay the next uh item in the agenda is informational and list of use of the facilities for February followed by is there any unfinished business any new business in that case I'd ask for a motion to adjourn so mve so moved thank you very much what