001good back oh yes take yes Magnus yes yes Bailey UK yes we have a forum just like to say that um board member Bailey said since her regrets she had an unexpected conflict this evening okay first item is the uh resolution accepting the amounts and rates as determined by the budget commission and authorizing the necessary tax Lees um this is just a sort of formal approval uh we send the information off to the budget commission they send it back and we approved it so they collect our taxes motion to approve I second I'm just going to ask questions that so so how you explain um on the screen what you explain to us in the email does it change how much people p no um it is not a change in any of the tax
002rates um I guess one of the highlights from it would be that that um if if you look on the actual resolution itself uh the Total Bond millage is down to 6.25 um when we went out we talked about how we were not going to collect the full amount until the um the 2000 Bond fell off the 2000 bonds at 1.25 now and the 2023 is down to five Ms um so it's combined for 6.25 which is below what we even said you know our goal was to keep it under that's the millage rate so Mill Bas is different than that's really as millage drops that means that may pay and that's due to housing Construction in part um so part of it is probably due to new properties coming on which adds to the
003tax base um so everybody else's piece of the pie gets smaller and then um the other part is as property values go up they reduce the millage so that you don't pay more it's designed to collect a set amount so if you paid $100 last year you're going to pay $100 or L okay that's good news for the taxpayer yeah District yeah I I had one more question for you does it change anything about the um no we are on the 20 mil floor so um we are at the floor so that is the area that you can't go below 20 Ms um so thank you okay would you like to take a hling yes Magnus yes Potter yes UK yes motion passes four to zero okay the next item is um the nutrition company
004presentation uh which uh will need to be uh rescheduled uh but fortunately we have room for that presentation at our next regular board meeting on Thursday and so we will ask the nutrition company um presentation to happen then and then now the superintendent thank you for being flexible she just emailed me so she's a little dis I said it's all right we'll get you next um okay I'm GNA put this up here but I did print a copy for for your board members so you might be able to follow better uh on your printed copy I just want to provide a more in depth update about um a couple things um first is ma our Master facilities so this Saturday which is April 5th at 10:00 a.m. at the board office we are having our
005first asset sale office it it's not in our office it's in a um storage room down the hall um this will be the first of probably two or three because as we are piloting new furniture as we are kind of doing this phasing we we have no room for some of this I'm going to call it obsolete Furniture certainly usable um so it's open to the public um cash or check um or card cash or card um uh the boosters are running it for us because they can accept that and then they are going to donate um money back for any money we make is going to what sort of things are for sale let me just tell you student best chairs tables other chairs that J calls midcentury has been generous they might have
006been made mid century but um uh so s um a big I'm going to call it a router CNC router CNC router okay um short throw projectors long throw projectors chemistry photography equipment chemistry photography equipment just a lot so we don't have chemistry photography here anymore um but anybody that has their own dark room at home uh there there's some equipment um it is as she stated obsolete stuff for us um some of it's like some of the student chairs or some of the old desk um there's not enough to make a classroom anymore of this so it's like you know 15 chairs and so um we replaced some of this or as we go through the project we we have new furniture um or we we' purchased some new furniture for the modular that
007will move in after Renovations so the classroom stuff that was there is no longer of Need for us um so it's a way of BU your little piece of right school history all in a very good price if you show movies in your backyard a little short for a projector so you said that there's going to be two more waves after that probably two it's just because of the way building project this stays that as we move in and out of stases can we take pictures of I don't know that it's against any rules if you come to the uh Board office I'm happy to yeah just want to make know and right it was um and I verify certainly y so we should so interested guess that another question people might have is does
008purchase count as a tax deductible donation I I do not believe it but we can get so that's Saturday and it's but um the next thing is before next week's board meeting so at 6 o' and so um I had to pick a time and I just grab that so I hope that perhaps you can get here a little early but what we are going to do is we are going to have a demonstration here out front of the outdoor sign that we hope to get for both this campus and the middle school high school so I've given you kind of um mockups of the sign so from those long they would actually use the structure that's out there because you know it's the kind that somebody actually has to go out and change so
009these signs are all cloudbased so you can sit inside at your computer change the message you can put graphics on it and we can have rotating messages we can have rotating messages we can turn it off at night if we need to um I've already talked to the Village manager as well as my you know I'm sure we'll have to get a a variance but but I think all the things that cause concern are things we can control um with this but we just wanted to see it you know so it'll be out here um the middle school high school sign is double-sided so that people can see it from each direction there's not really anything there you know that's a pretty highly traffic road so it's it's good to be able to so for
010the board meeting next week okay other facilities updates so for Mills Lawn and I put in a couple pictures um in the primary hallway they finished the batement um they are continuing to demolished the classrooms in that area they disconnected the water um they disconnected the hydronics we cut something and it impacted our boilers we had motor knock on one and cross your fingers that we never fix that um next week which is really this week a continued demol demolition um and they're starting the rough in for um Plumbing electrical as well as the cry vle and so you can see those questions they look quite different when everything's out of them so they're open from one to another an opening here um yeah and I don't know what specific room that is yeah there
011might have been a reason that they had take that out I don't know um I've not been in here because when I was around was often because of um okay so at the middle school high school you know the music room the band room is gone um last week The Shoe Box uh demolition was started um that continues uh demolition interior demolition of the 2002 um is in progress electric for the fields in progress they're going to tie that in um we have temporary pads for the cranes but they the crane is so good we have to actually put AAL pad down so they're working on [Music] that and uh gravel additional gravel for parking we are having a meeting tomorrow to discuss Ral and dismissal because we are having some issues because it's just
012not it's just so tight so um buses are getting stuck a little bit so trying to figure that out little concerned about water this weekend because if you think about you're going in the building and looking right at the office and you turn left to go let say the center you make another left if you went straight you go to the shoe box and then there's the all that's SP and so there was that ramp so we were just afraid that water would just come so they were working on today demolish I think Saturday the next four days kind of over four days six eight Ines so um but they have a they have a plan for that and they're going to start the excavation for and then you see some of these pictures I
013shared already the demolition of the band room um you can see that on the on page four that back hallway by the back bathrooms um and you see the crane attacking The Shoe Box those two Center pictures are our engineering lab Mr Bling's um lab that's where the router came out of um and then you see a science classroom that's in the 2002 ring and then the the next picture is kind of a view from what used to be the courtyard looking towards the shoe box which now is no longer that's it's all open it is all open my goodness look at that yeah so um we are moving along at our next construction progress we'll talk about the technology package me that meeting I believe is next Tuesday to get some um estimates or
014signs we we have that be discussion on Tuesday question any that it's um I I I know I should know this but you know the what they're working on the hall uhhuh when will that be is it going to be usable next fall I want to say early fall then the next area they go to the Cent so then the next area here starts like where the office is kind of down here yeah actually have to dig back into the schedule well try to come up with to show the schedule better because now I think [Music] abouted other questions about the another question just to say that this is a mindstone a project this this feels almost unreal we got there okay this is this is happening and I think that we're getting into the
015the thck of it in terms of potential disruption and changes of habits and routines um my kid who on first changes came back for Thursday after being in the trailer and said m i was perfect today I adjusted very so I just want to commend all the stuff and making this as as possible I think every been a tremendous job in doing that and you know kids generally are so flexible that they just yeah I've also been hearing from parents how much they like the modul so that keeps coming yes maybe but again you know it was a construction project so and I'll continue to sh um the next part of my update I just want to talk a little bit about um some professional development I was on last week with Jack P and
016so every spring is the lead inov schools spring Comm so all member districts come for S Comm and it always includes schools so this week was actually in Pitt um so if you remember last spring we took a team of teachers from both buildings to some Pittsburgh schools two two different princi schools um actually three different so this conventing was hosted by it's called the western Pennsylvania collaborative it's 13 school districts who are in the leova schools um so we arrived on Monday um and then they always start with intended meeting and then evening reception and that was actually at the hind hist C which was amazing because Pittsburgh it's actually my first time Pittsburgh is Mr [Music] Rogers Pittsburgh is that is at the um intersection of the Ohio and the Al and um
017and I learned that just SC down here I learned that um Pittsburgh has more bridges than vity I'm gonna ask yeah imagine imagine [Music] nating it's lot of I didn't challenge them on it but that that's what they said and they were proud of it um but that that evening reception at the high Center kind of set the stage so we had that Monday evening all day Tuesday School visits no evening EV Wednesday was kind of all day at the hotel PD sessions led by these um member schools and Thursday all day more school visits and so what what struck me and we had the whole Drive to to talk about this was that in Pittsburgh there is a found lots of Phil philanthropic um groups and um and there is a foundation aable Foundation
018been stud committed to children and youths and so they do a lot of funding of education and they work with an organization called remake learning and so remake learning just had it 10th um anniversary and so what their kind of philosophy is is how do we just step back in across all facets of work could be ped could be K12 could be preschool would be Senior Center how do we really do things differ and remake learning is largely funded by the gr foundation so they give lots of Grants to these school districts and they call them moonshot grants so this gentleman from the graille foundation kind of stayed with us over the time and provided a lot of detail and context as we went to schools as we sat in sessions but everybody was given
019kind of these these two books and I'm happy to share them this is Wonder with us how educators families and neighbors can find inspiration of their gers um completely funded by the gr foundation and this is a little book I have a better one but this is a remake learning um Better Together the story of an ecosy so it talks about how they work together so as we were driving home you know what what struck me and and struck Jack and Meg is that we are small enough that this this model can really apply to us so it just so happen of the foundation we and this so it was just a great week we learned a lot um about 300 uh attendees from schools were there um and I want to just go over
020some of my takeaways and in this document online there are some links if you want to kind of access some of this information but you know as we continue to change um Innovation is is how we survive because if we don't innovate we not survive um we must continue to connect our students to career and Workforce opportunities at a young age um so use of the ricep which is Holland codes is helpful we we saw this last spring when we design and if you if you know what the Holland codes are been around forever you take a little assessment you can take it all the time you there are six codes uh realistic investigate investigatory um I remember all the issues but it gives you your top three and so every student in every school
021district some were wealthy some were almost 100% free reduced in everything in between they all when you talk to them on these visits they they're like yeah I'm in R and that's why I chose this it is fascinating but it's a nice frame to help kids understand um how they might we might connect them to things that they're interested in how we might connect them to things that they're skilled at how we might open the doors to things that they haven't even thought um so I think that's good as we continue working with on our career um in Workforce Development um path technology skills must go hand inand with people skills you know this is e the 22nd century skills Care Connection culture Community um I think uh there was a school district Hampton Township
022that really does a great job on what they call their portrait of a learner um we have our portrait of a Blog which is he not grad they should have these skills but that means a refresh and even more importantly what we need whether we do by gr level or grade band here's a portrait of Aluna in ustri at the end of grade two our children can be these things our children have these things at the end of grade four Etc so that's on our list um this year we made a small start on personalized professional development for staff um we need to continue work on that and we also need to to Begin work on what does it mean to have personalized learning for every student in the district I think that's the direction
023um things are moving and I think that helps us as a small District gr need of all ours because they're all different um the Western PA districts I found this fascinating they frame a lot of their work around the Pennsylvania Department event they call them the seal the seal standards and their science technology engineering environmental literacy and sustainability and so I actually went into them to look at like the sustainability ones and the environmentalist literacy ones and there are things in there about climate Justice I mean I was impressed quite honestly um but I thought how might we just look dig into those a little more and see how do we align those with things that we are already doing with others clever um we can and should develop Community Based learning through Innovative Partnerships
024with foundations local businesses Community organizations um Pittsburgh through the help of the grael foundation and remake learning did something that they called little bets so they invested money on things that were a small scale start that they could scale later so these little bets made that that way they could make sure they were successful and then make it grow back can yep um do you remember the picture of the conx that had the hydro conic um that the high a little bit um that had a solar flower to power it well we went back to that District that happened be on that tour they now have a food truck that these kids take to games and events but that would be one um you know they kep emphasiz they use Bridges because of all the
025bridges in for Bridges as a metor you know how do we go Bridges with each other how we think about um the transitions our kids go through as a as a bridge right Crossing from one point in life to another but basically the thing was how do we use Bridges to build community and build neighborhoods and I think it was a good message to have last week because there was a lot going on politically and I think um in all that I've read you know unless we kind of to say I'm uses the term closed ranks but that's not just closed community how do we build that community and and count on each other in times that are pretty um hard to take you know when you watch the news or or read the news
026and get high levels of anxiety I think it's focus on that was a message that I took back and then again I mentioned that I met with the foundation so it was just um pretty powerful I Know Jack and and felt that way it was absolutely exhausting because aside from Tuesday evening you you go from like 7 a.m. until 9:30 or 10 at 9 it was was a lot so you know when I look at this and you mentioned sustainability which definitely touches my interest and it seems underlying all of this is that sense of resilience which is what we mean right now just the the approaches that seem vetted here little bets the community reinforcement looking at not just science but ethics and social aspects of that as well I can see that it
027would be inspirational and also fitting for the princi SCH I think I think there's a lot I me you know we're not concerned we're not big we have all of that so I I mean got money right steal money but I I do think there are things from that model that we can take away and bring to life for us and a way that make sense to us there's other ways to constant um investment constant refresh you don't necessarily need so the value system that it's built you know children services offer is really um it's it's it's really a leing voice in the country and I'm just really excited about the fact that got a chance to go amaz so I'll continue to justed and to Jack who actually gave up thank you to the
028to attend um okay just a quick update on Staffing it's that time come and people go I think after next week's meeting um we will have filled high school administrative assistant position High School ma athletic director TR teacher assistant to the treasure and superintendent then we're currently working on Elementary admin assistant mle school ma High School social studies Elementary princip special in technology that's 12 positions and eight were due to retirement that's big that's a that is a testament to um the work we do here it's a testament to the commitment that folks um who are retiring have given to the district so it's it's often this point have many well that's a sad thing for us it's a good thing for these individuals and then go back to the bridge now transition transition from
029Journey so we're we're doing okay for Elementary principal search I just want to make a public announcement back on the evening of Monday April 21st our final two candidates start the process our final two Cates to the public I don't have time yet I okay so Monday April 21st correct so when is the application window closing the window closes next Monday April 7th okay know we interview process we currently have about 30 apps wow so cool about 30 so still another week that's so but um it'll be right the but we'll make sure we get that information out and then my last two items are just events know a little bit about my schedule so you have an idea of what I'm doing but mainly end of year EV because it is that time I
030know they're in the calendar and I know you have a calendar but I thought if I can put them in another place I don't have times here um but something um some things I want to point out to you um you know bike bus just started today y um so that will continue through the rest of the spring music April 17th through the 19th music 7 p.m. and then they will be mat at 2 p.m on Saturday very um April 18 is a professional our last professional development Day School for students um then we get into testing promise on April 26 our eighth grade Goes to Washington DC that that's end of April beginning of May um exhibition April 30th and May 1st and then concerts our final concerts and drum line on May 6th
031Orchestra and cono music May 7th midd choir May 13th middle school high school choir mayth um and finally May 15 honors dioma dinner we will receive an invitation for that um that will be at Young clap out for our class 2025 will be May 16th sixth grade farewell May 20th and then um this is like the Sprint last commencement [Music] this is always the period of year where it feels like a Sprint because it's already a lot of dates and you have only one line for the music man but I can't tell you that they're working every on it right now so for parents whose kids are involved in there it's like having another ch [Music] well thank you Dr H for that report um an update and that brings us to the end of
032the the workshop session the C good I have a motion to second all those in favor I post meeting is a journe [Music]