001healthier. >> Yeah. >> So, plus they had a house in Johntown and and I lived here. >> Oh, really? >> Yeah. >> You know, I I told her, I said, "Look, we drove back like four times. I had an SUV and she had fill it up and >> Yeah. >> I got lucky in that. We found a realtor. She had a sale ready to go for I sold. I was just lucky. disapp >> Oh my gosh. So you have to do it all. >> Yeah. Yeah. So I said, you know, it's just not realistic. >> Yeah. >> That's right. >> Hey, it's come to close. Hello. >> How are you? >> I'm good. >> Good. >> I was telling your wife, your daughter's after school plan is one of the best I've heard. >> She
002doesn't talk much to me, but >> I know what that's like. >> She talk plenty to me. >> She did say she did say she was telling me about it. So that's good. That's good. >> I am too. >> That's a great great plan. >> I hope it works. >> I was like, how did you even know about that? Because, you know, one of our teachers husbands does that. >> So I thought it was great. Hi Richie. It's gonna be tough though. I bet you that's I bet you that's tough. >> I bet you it's gonna be tough. >> Yeah. >> I mean, well, >> I had no I had no plan myself. >> She wants to do it. So, how that's half the bout, >> right? She knows she wants to do it. >>
003She already shouted it. She shouted it. So, she kind of knows what she's getting into. >> Yeah. >> Good. Good. >> We're excited for >> her. Hi, Miss Franny. How are you? >> Good. How are you doing? [Music] Did you bring home >> No, I look at the god. >> That's him. >> How much are those things? There's no money to replace it. >> These things are they're really tough. >> How about that? >> Every week I try to get this cat and every week I can't. >> You're gonna go right to that. >> What are What are the odds? How do I >> Mr. Can you help me please? >> Screen is up there. >> How do you undo that? Stand up. No, this is something I should know. I don't know. I don't
004know. >> They move it. They move it all the time. >> I spend a lot of my life asking Rob Hicks for help. >> It's impersonal in HR like that. No, a student sent me like you have a couple >> take two vacations. It's >> not what you think it is. How much is [Music] >> Good evening everyone. Welcome to the voting session of the Blackhawk School Board of Directors meeting. Um, at this time, would you please stand and say the pledge of allegiance with me? >> I pledge allegiance to the flag, United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, liberty and justice for all. >> We're going to ask our solicitor tonight to please go ahead and do roll. Thank you. >> Yes. Thank you.
005Um Mrs. Klein >> here. >> Mr. Husak >> here. >> Dr. Makoszie >> here. >> Mrs. Manzel. >> I'm here. >> Uh Mr. Sch >> here. >> Dr. Sprinker >> here. >> Mr. Vanzalynch. >> Mr. Wisner here. >> And Mr. Zakowitz here. Eight present. We do have a four. >> Thank you. There was an executive session prior to this meeting to discuss personnel safety and legal matters. Uh we'll turn it back over to our solicitor. Do we have a report this evening? >> Uh no report. Thank you. >> Thank you. Dr. Vanetta, superintendent update. >> So I um have a couple updates. Um, a few things I want to go over. Do you want to go first and give the student report or you want me to? >> I can go first. >> No pressure.
006>> I have a bit but >> whatever you want. Go ahead. >> Okay. >> Maybe >> not. >> It's blinking. >> Wait for it. >> Y. Okay. So I have a few updates for you guys tonight. Um to start off there is a high school football game at community week. Our high school students have started selecting their choice to succeed. And this week our high school has is taking a start which is to be awesome benchmarks to and supporting their PTA annual fundraisers and they're eagerly looking forward to as well. The middle school has had a lot going on. They are very academics. The eighth graders were are learning how to use the microscope and practicing their writings. Yesterday was constitution day and the seventh graders had an activity that taught students their individual rights
007by the US Constitution and the eighth graders had been working on a project that allows the classes to interpret different sections of the constitution and and to present them and to present them to their peers and to help better understand the functions and limits of our government. And then our sixth grade, our sixth graders are our sixth grade is working on their multiplication division of fractions and decimals and how to fifth grade is currently raising money for their campus. And they have just finished their 911 lesson by a star project to remember how people have lost and that's all. Thank you. Great report. So, I want to um share with you a little bit about some district partnerships and professional development. Last week, um you voted to move a Greyel grant forward and um there's
008a lot that comes with that grant. So I want to speak a little bit to that as well as um a great announcement that for the League of Innovative Schools which you may have heard about um which I'll try to articulate the importance and significance of that uh selection for Blackhawk 2. So um as always you know we start with our mission and vision and that you know and our values and that guides us through those those aspects and our decisions as >> um I also want to make sure that it's clear that we we are Blackhawk and the administrative team has heard me say this and um it was so funny because I never really unders I didn't go to Penn State so I never really understood in my younger years what the we
009are Penn State truly was. I I didn't understand that concept, but I've come to learn that that means all we do represents who we are. So, we are Blackhawk. Everything we do represents it. When people hear the name Blackhawk School District, I want them to think great students, great teachers, great administrators, great board, great community. That's mean that's the focus here. So, when we have opportunities to learn and grow, we take advantage of them. we have opportunities to speak in conferences and are asked um for our opinion on things. It's it means that we are respected and we are looked upon as a good example of it. So, it's an honor to get out there and to be able to represent our community and our district and I'm very proud that we are able to
010do that and that we're asked to do that. So, that's the significance of this for me. So on that um PSBA is a partner that we have and it provides policy support. It provides organizations recommendations but we were also asked um board and and myself to present at the PSBA conference which is an honor to represent Blackhawk at the PSBA conference uh to speak about the great things that we do here. So that's one one great thing that we get to do and that is at the end of October. There are a few district partnerships and learning opportunities that we have. Now we have many partnerships and collaborations with intermediate units with TAND with various things but these are a few to highlight this evening. Greyville Foundation being one of those um Pittsburgh University of
011Pittsburgh another and then digital promise we'll talk a little bit about those. So the Greyel Foundation um provides support for us regionally, nationally through various philanthropic areas. It is um a a great organization and foundation that provides funding for school districts to mention other things. We are part of a Western Pennsylvania Learning Alliance. There's about 42 districts in the region that have been invited to take part in this learning cohort. Um it started three, four, five years ago at this point. Um and has grown. It's become a national model for professional development. People from around the country come to Pittsburgh and say, "How do you schools you collaborate? You work together. How do you do this?" Um because there was a time you not too long ago within the past 20 years that schools were
012pitted against one another. Um that they didn't share their learning and their growth and their experiences. and the Greyel Foundation has provided opportunities for us to learn from one another. So that's that's a wonderful opportunity that we have there. There are grants, moonshot grants, remake learning grants, days um that Greyville helps us with. There's a lot on this slide, but this is basically also on the board agenda. So I took this straight from the Greyel grant that's on the board agenda as well. The Western Pennsylvania Learning Alliance provides about $11,000 a year to Blockhog for various learning opportunities. There are various conferences. Some are only for key people, some are for others, but it helps us to go out and learn without taxing the district. So when we have the opportunity to go other places
013and learn, many many times the it's funded through the Greybel Foundation. Um, Mrs. Baron has an opportunity to go to Washington DC and that was a thousand dollar grant for that and sometimes other ones pop up. Um, so we take advantage of those through this network. Some of the events that are coming up, we have uh school tours. Now certain ones are aster and those are ones that we may be interested in looking at. Um what are we going to learn from these other schools? What can we learn from them? Um would we want to host here? Would we want other schools to come here and learn from what we're doing? So those are free learning events and workshops. And there's also regional workshops. um most recently AI horizons and a regional progress forum that
014was brought on by um the in University of Pittsburgh Institute of Politics that was a recent one. Um there's a global impact forum that's a huge conference that Pittsburgh is hosting um that we have availability too. Um it's in our backyard and there are other aspects in September and throughout the year. University of Pittsburgh um that provides a lot of support to Blackhawk School District and other districts. Tri-State Study Council um provides professional development. There's workshops on um budget updates, legal symposiums, other things. And also the Western Pennsylvania Superintendent Forum and that's something that I was admitted to years a couple years ago. Uh it's a select group of superintendent and hold on continue to present um that is is a robust learning workshop too. So PIT offers those things and now sort of the
015you know the Super Bowl of it all. Uh most recently we were admitted the district to the League of Innovative Schools and um someone asked me what that means. Is that about technology? No. No, it's not about robots. It's about being able to come up with different solutions to solve problems. Uh Mrs. Brony and I went through a application process and an interview process um for this and um we are the only district in Beer County that was accepted uh to the League of Innovative Schools and there are only a handful throughout um the state and the nation. It provides uh a national network and opportunities to learn about learning and to speak with some of other schools that are doing great things and how we are doing great things and what we can offer
016and that's it's all about gifts and gets what can we give to the educational community locally and nationally and what can we get from others too. So it's a it's an honor to be a part of that. Um, if anybody wants to ask me or or chat a little bit more about it, we can. Um, you can go online and find all of this information, too. It's all there. But, um, it's a huge Super Bowl and if it were not for, um, our staff, our students, our board, our administration, we we would not have been selected for this. So, um I'm excited uh to be a part of this network and to see what we learn from it and um what we can continue to do for things. So, any questions or anything about uh
017these learning opportunities? >> Give us a round of [Applause] >> and Mrs. Bernie, thank you so much for that working on that application. we do know what that entails and um we're very excited that this is coming to Blackhawk and that we get to participate um at at really the national level educationally. That's a really big deal and thank you. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Other questions about the announcements tonight with the learning partnerships questions. All right, we will move on to agenda item number three. Um, and thank you again Dr. Vanata for sharing all that information tonight. Um, I will turn it over to Thank you. You're welcome. Black Op is very proud of our students achievements and we encourage the extracurricular activities that happen in each grade. Please visit each of those
018websites for updates and happenings in our buildings including holiday events and concerts. And I did not see that anyone had signed the form uh to speak on an agenda item. Has anyone changed their mind about speaking on an agenda item? >> Okay. >> And do you want to um do we have do we have a um report tonight for no PSBA? No PS. >> All right. Thank you very much. No report for PSBA tonight. Uh Mr. uh it does not look like we have a report for Beaver County Career and Technology. >> Yeah, nothing for this meeting. Thank you >> very much. Uh, Mrs. Man, >> nothing. Thank you. >> They sure are. >> Yes. Down in Midland and it's going well. And um I will say this, what initially was thought to be just
019this Oh, sorry guys. Um, we're talking BVIU. it. You know, they were hoping to have New Horizons back in operational by the end of December, and now it's looking like it it's going to be the whole school term into the spring. And everybody's fine with that. The administration, the students, the parents, and the owner of the building, and they're going to just settle in there this year and operate out of there. So, they're good. Thank you for the update. Um sometimes um during our voting meetings we move to a full consent agenda. We are not going to do that tonight and we are going to go line by line and we are going to go to um 8.1 which is approval of minutes. May I please have a motion to approve the board meeting minutes
020for the September 11th floor session? >> Make a motion. >> I'll second show seconded by Miss Manel. Any discussion on this particular item? Hearing none. All in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? Motion carries. Agenda item number nine by sister show. Lost my spot here. Still lost my spot. Um, can I make a motion to uh submit items 9.6 or 9.1 to 9.6 for vote? >> We have a motion um from Mr. Sche to approve the finance consent agenda items. Do we have a second? >> I'll second. >> Thank you, Mr. Zawitz. Any questions or discussion on any of those items? Hearing none. All in favor? >> I post motion passes. >> Personel, Mr. >> Uh, yeah. I'd like to Yeah, >> thank you. Uh, may I have a motion to approve personnel consent items
02110.1 and 10.2? >> So, we have a motion. the personnel consent agenda items made by Mr. >> I'll second it. >> I think we need to I would have a discussion on 10.2. >> Yeah. And I would suggest that be a roll call vote on item 10.2 only. >> Thank you. >> So, um we have a motion and a second. Um, but we are going to pull 10.2 out if I'm understanding that correctly to do a roll call. >> Correct. >> Should we vote on 10.1 and come back to 10.2 or just do the roll call now? >> I would say we could vote on 10.1 now since that's been motioned and seconded and then we can do the roll call vote after that for 10.2. >> Thank you. So, we are going to do
022um a motion or we have a motion on 10.1 report. We have a second on it. Any other questions or discussion on? >> All in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? 10.1 carries. >> 10.25. 2023 1115. We're going to move to a roll call. >> Thank you. Uh Mr. Huzak. >> Yes. >> Dr. Makoszi. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Manzel. >> Yes. >> Mr. Shopee. >> Yes. >> Dr. Sprinker. >> Yes. >> Mr. Vanzing, not present. Uh, Mr. Whistner. >> Yes. >> Mr. Zachitz, >> yes. >> And Mrs. Klein, >> no. >> Okay, that is seven in favor. So, the motion passes. Thank you. >> If I may provide Oh, you turned it off. If I may provide a little clarity with personnel sometimes, so I think there's been some questions with it and it it
023can be confusing. Personnel um we decided a while ago last year is the only area that we vote on each week. So because that agenda can be so fluid and sometimes people are coming or going and the lull um can cause an issue sometimes in our buildings with personnel. So we want to make sure that we are active with that. So at the first meeting there's voting and at the second meeting there's voting whereas the other areas such as finance just votes to be moved to the next agenda or the next uh the action meeting. So personnel is the only section that is voted on each time and can change each time. So just trying to make that clear. Are there any questions on that? It's indicated in the agenda um as the motion. If
024you look carefully at the motion, it will say motion to vote on and you know and move forward. Others will say motion to move to the next meeting. So that's the difference with those. Um sometimes if you look on the agenda electronically it'll say view, but if you go into PDF, everything's there. It's a lot more clear under the PDF version. So I recommend looking at view PDF, that's like a 32page document. Has all the details and the details of the motion. So that may make it a little bit more clear. um if if that helps. >> Thank you. >> Sorry. >> Okay, we are on agenda item number 11, education. Um and for education um cont content um I'd like to make a motion to approve um 10.1 which is which are the field
025trips. Um do we have a second? >> I'll second that. >> Thank you. >> 11.1 >> 11. Sorry. Thank you. 11. Sorry, I'm trying to wear my Adam hat right now. Okay, so we have a motion and a second. Any discussion on requests? Hearing none. All in favor? >> I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Uh we will move on to 12 support services. Um 12.3. May we have a motion? There is not the consent item. So that's what's throwing you. So where Matt had like n motion for that. So it's she was missed on there. But if you look there's a motion. If you just read the bottom one 123 to 122, it will include that. >> That's right. >> Okay. Just making sure. I thought it was weird. >> So 12.3. May I have a
026motion, please, to approve consent items 12.1 and 12.2. >> I'll make that motion. >> Thank you, Mrs. Klein. We have a motion. You have a second. >> I'll second. >> Thank you, Mr. Zachitz. Any discussion on either the acquiring orending school? >> Hearing none. All in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? Motion carries. >> Athletics. Mr. Whisper. >> Yes. I would uh like to take a second to congratulate Taylor Yama um girls lacrosse head coach on being hired and representing our team this next year. So congratulations. Is she here? [Applause] Welcome. >> Moving on to >> uh may I have a motion to approve item 14.1. >> So moved. Second by Mr. Klein. Any discussion or questions on this item? All in favor? >> I I Any opposed? Motion carries. We do not have a
027policy cohort. We will move on to additional business at this time. Comment on any non-aggenda items. Hi, my name is Bart. I would like to respectfully request that the approval of all conferences be added back to our board agenda. Moving this item reduces transparency and limits the board's ability to exercise appropriate oversight of district resources and priorities. Conferences are not only a financial investment but a professional development opportunity that directly impacts our staff and ultimately our students. When the board has the opportunity to review and approve these events, it ensures accountability alignment with the district goals and responsible stewardship of taxpayer funds. Other districts across Pennsylvania maintain this practice as a matter of good governance, recognizing that conferences involve both financial expenditures and instructional implications. Restoring conference approval to our agenda reinforces the board's role
028in oversight, supports open communication and demonstrates our commitment to both fiscal and fiscal responsibility and staff development. For these reasons, I strongly urge that conscious approval be reinstated as a standing on the board agenda. Thank you. >> Thank you, Mrs. Any other visitors that would like to speak tonight? 16.2 school directors. Do we have any um court uh members that would like to share anything tonight? >> Dr. Vanetta um just thinking do you think we proper to offer a small moment of silence or some briefment for all fans amongst the audience regards to that backyard brawl? >> Yes, I I do think that they may need some some consoling. So, you know, we can >> It's four years till they get the chance to get their butts whooped in here. >> I agree. I agree,
029>> Dr. Mosie. I wasn't sure where you're going with that. >> Well, you went to WB. Any other directors? The next meeting of the black board of directors will be on Thursday, October 9th, 2025 at 6:30 at Middle School. At this time, do I have a motion to adjourn? >> I'll make a motion. >> Thank you, Mr. Second. >> I'll second. >> Thank you, Mr. Whisler. All in favor? I >> I [Music] then was a good one. Mr. Rosie Rosie >> student representative. >> He said I was like stuck. I was talking to my mother and I was wondering if you'd be willing to recommendations. >> See you next month. >> I expected you to be >> November 1st is when I had >> you doing the um the college the um >> I'm doing
030I'm also for IEP, but so I can either >> come to me like yes, it'll just send you an email. So I would just read an email. >> Okay. Team biceping.