001you do your report first and then I'll is that you take a little break for me and my son Next time on Facebook. Come on. Just in case. Yeah. really just says why are we [Music] I will send her and Yeah. How beautiful. [Music] It's okay. Good evening, Blackhawk community. It is May 15th. This is the regular voting session of the Blackhawk School Board of Directors, and we are officially going to call this meeting to order. Uh would you please rise and say the pledge of allegiance with [Music] me of the stands one indivisibley and justice for all Mrs. Klein would you please call roll Mrs. Fine. I'm here. Mr. Husk here. Dr. Mosie here. Mrs. Manley here. Mr. Sh here. Dr. Springer here. Mr. Vans Lynch. Mr. Wisner here. Mr. Zachitz here. We have
002eight of them. Thank you very much. There was an executive session prior to this meeting to discuss legal personnel and safety matters. Mr. Shakro, do we have a solicitor's report tonight? I have no report other than I think I just left my bag back in the library because I'm have to go back to I'm sure it's safe back there with all those students. Okay, moving on to agenda item number two, administrators and superintendent update. We will turn it over to Dr. Benad. Thank you very much. And I will defer to Aubrey first and then I believe Mr. Gord has an update for us. song. You guys hear me? So, we are so close to the end of the school year, but we still have some super exciting events. Tomorrow is the senior awards where community
003members will come to the high school to give out awards to our graduating class. Tomorrow is also the NHS lunchon where senior NHS members are invited to a lunch in the library to celebrate all of their accomplishments. Seniors will also have their senior walk tomorrow. During during this, they get to visit the elementary and middle school buildings to reminisce a little bit. Student council is also hosting a movie night on the field tomorrow night for any Blackhawk High School student um is able to attend. They will be showing Copin Maverick at 8:45 p.m. So, in conclusion, tomorrow is going to be a busy day, at least for me. But besides that, the high school art show is also running inside the auditorium lobby. At Blackhawk, we are blessed to have such talented artists, and it's
004great to see their work on display. Finally, I would just like to say how grateful I am to have been the 2425 student representative. Thank you to the board for being so kind and welcoming to me. Blackhawk is such an amazing place and I'm so thankful for the knowledge I've learned here and I and for being able to represent its students. Thank you for Can you give us just one moment? We're just gonna wrap up with Aubrey. Mrs. Klein has some words. Thank you. So, I would like to recognize and extend a heartfelt thank you to our student representative Aubrey Roman for her outstanding work on the board this year. She has done a remarkable job keeping us informed about the many exciting activities, achievements, and events happening throughout our schools. Her thoughtful updates and
005perspective have helped keep student voices front and center in our discussions, and for that we are truly grateful. Thank you for your dedication and the energy that you have brought to this role. On behalf of the entire board, I'm pleased to present you with a small gift as a token of our appreciation. We wish you all the best in your future endeavors, and we know you'll continue to make a positive impact wherever you go. Thanks, Mr. Ford. Well, that's a tough act to follow, Mrs. Klein. Um, I just want to say again, I mentioned last week, Aubrey, thank you very much uh for stepping in. you led the student and represented the great at the board level. Also this evening with us tonight is Miss Paige Brin. Uh Paige is our junior representative at at
006the August meeting. Uh we just thought that she will take her role as the student rep for the 2526. So Miss Paige Brin will be our rep next year. [Applause] Congratulations, Paige. And thank you I do. Yes. On behalf of the board, I'd like to take a moment to recognize and congratulate our very own school board president, Dr. Carol Springer, on her induction into the Beaver County Educational Trust's Educate Educator Hall of Fame earlier this month. Dr. Springer has dedicated her career to advancing public education across Beaver and Alageney counties, serving in roles from classroom teacher to principal and now as executive director of the right promise. Her leadership has touched every level of education from developing early literacy strategies in kindergarten classrooms to shaping district-wide strategic initiatives here at Blackhawk. In addition to her
007work in education, she serves on board on the boards of YMCA Camp Conquerable Foundation. Dr. Sprinker's lifelong dedication to student success, inclusive practices, and community partnership makes this recognition especially well deserved. Please join us in congratulating Dr. Sprinker on this outstanding achievement and thank you for your continued leadership. [Applause] I've lost my spot on the agenda. Um I believe we're back to Dr. Benetta. Thank you very much. So um we have more recognitions um this evening. So this evening um it's a special evening to celebrate Blackhawk where we have been and where we are going. It truly takes a village u to prepare our students for the next chapter of their lives whatever that it may be. So, our board, our administrators, our teachers, our staff, but also this evening, it's a chance to also
008celebrate our parents, our sponsors, our donors, our contributors. Um, so to all of you, I thank you. I want to give a special thanks to my admin assistant, Mrs. Saxon, Mrs. Baron, um, Mr. Fiscus, Mr. Mole, and Mrs. Wisner, and Mrs. Fleshman for all of their help and contributions for getting this evening going. So, after the board meeting this evening, if you haven't noticed, there's a little different buzz about us today, we're celebrating all of the great things that that we do. And some of these celebrations couldn't be here without some of our donors and sponsors and foundations that work around us. So, I want to give thanks to all of you. If you look at this beautiful program here, we have an extensive list in microscopic font because there are so many people here.
009Um, and if I read it, we it will extend our evening quite quite a bit. So, I want to thank everyone on this list. Um, if there's anyone that was omitted, I sincerely apologize. Let us know and we will make that correction. But, um, when the board meeting is finished, I encourage you please walk around, enjoy, see the wonderful things that we have going on here. Um, everyone's taking time out of their day to to show and it's just it's an amazing place. Um, so I thank everybody for it um, most sincerely and um, it's great. If there are various foundations or donors here that would like to speak or say anything, I invite you to please do that. I believe some foundations are here. Brian, I'm staring right at you. Okay. Good evening. Thank
010you very much for having us tonight. My name is Brian Wright. I'm here on behalf of the Blackhawk School District Educational Foundation. uh wanted to just uh first of all thank the board for your support and everything that you've done with us over the years and thank the administration uh for all of the help that you do throughout the year when we're fundraising and then we're trying to give scholarships and work with the uh with the teachers to to go through. Uh there's three main causes that we raise money for. The first one is scholarships for students going on to secondary education. Uh this year was our best year so far. We had uh almost 60 60 students uh fill out applications for the scholarships. It was great to see we're getting more and more
011buy in every year, not only from uh the community, but the students are starting to see the value of being able to go online and submit for multiple uh scholarships at one time. Second is many grants for the teachers uh kind of supplemental to their budget a little bit. We did two rounds of funding uh for the the teachers. They submit applications uh gets approved. I'm sure you see that you have to approve them before we go through. That's been great. Getting a lot more buy with that. And the last one that's kind of special, we don't um it doesn't get a lot of broadcasting, but we have a third cause that uh we help out students that are in need or may have an emergency uh throughout the year. Anything from clothes, clothing or
012heating oil, uh different things like that to help the students that come into uh some type of uh situation where they need some additional money. And uh those are pretty quiet go through, but we have a couple of groups uh that we work with that are interested in funding that. So it's an unlimited amount of money, but we've never had any issue uh that. So again, just want to say thank you very much for everything you've done to support us. [Applause] I have a list of those who may be in attendance. Is there anyone from the Jet Charitable Foundation wanted to speak? Jan or um Flick Financial. a representative from click and then All right. Well, thank you everybody and hopefully you enjoyed the evening. Mrs. Klein, we will come back to you for public
013relations and communications. I think you may have already reviewed some of your recognitions. Are are there some more to announce tonight? While you're looking for that, um, we'll let the, uh, the record show that Mr. Vanzol Lynch has joined us after his baseball game. Good to see you, Mr. Manage. We are now nine for nine. So, Black Ops is very proud of our students achievements and we encourage the extracurricular activities that happen in each grade. Please visit each school's website for updates and happenings in our buildings, including holiday concerts and events. And I would also like to express our deepest gratitude to the donors and supporters whose generosity continues to make a remarkable impact on the Black Hawk. Thank you. So we do not have anyone that has signed up to speak on agenda item.
014Okay. Agenda item um number four, PSBA board representative. Mrs. I don't believe there's a report tonight. Yes, sir. Thank you. Um, same for you. Uh, Mr. Fusiaak, Beaver County Career and Technology. No report tonight. Uh, no report today. Thank you, sir. Uh, Beaver Beaver County Intermediate Unit. Mrs. Manel, no report. Thank you so much. Okay, we're going to move on to number seven, the full consent agenda. And I would like to u make a motion or ask actually I'm going to ask for a motion to approve the full consent agenda as presented. Would anyone like to make that motion tonight? I'll make the motion. Thank you, Mr. Zakowitz. I'll second. Second. Thank you, Mr. Show. Do we have any um questions or discussion about the full consent agenda items? The only thing that I would
015like to bring up is our our calendar. So, if we look at 11.1, we have a district calendar update, and I would ask um that the board pull that out and give me an opportunity to revisit. What we have is we generally have some two-hour early dismissals throughout the year. That was not put in. However, I've learned that we have some standardsbased grading in K12 and there needs to be time for that. So, I need to speak with my administrative team and perhaps some teachers because what may happen is our days will probably stay the same, but I think this is going to need some early dismissals few times throughout the year at the end of those nine weeks. So, if I could get that back to you by June 12th, I would appreciate that.
016So, I think that we need to adjust the motion. Um so we are we need the motion to now read um full consent agenda as presented with the exception of 11.1. Mr. Zachitz, are you good to continue with that motion? Yes. And second by Mr. Shopee. Yes. Okay. Any other questions or discussion? Hearing none, we will move to a vote. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Okay, we will move to agenda item 16, additional business. At this time, we have public comment on non-aggenda items. And I do believe we have a couple of folks here to give us some updates. So, um, if you'd like to speak on the non-aggenda items, please, um, come up to the podium, um, share your name, and then you can share your words. Hi, my name is
017Eric. I am the head track coach here at Blackhawk. Um, I just want to take a minute to kind of brag on on the kids this year. Um, it was an odd season with the way Easter fell. U, but they came out, did great. The guys didn't do as well as what we had expected. Um they split their season three and three, but um the shining star this year was um the girls team, women's team. Uh they went six and0, which was a back-to-back section champion. And those girls that are graduating this year have won the section three out of the last four years. So that's a great accomplishment on their part. Kind of the fun statistics that I kind of ran real quick. Um we outscored our our opponents in section uh meets 619
018to 239 um averaging us about 103 points to our opponents 39 points. Um this year hope was added to our section. The hope girls had not lost a meet a section meet since 2016 and we beat them uh 95 to 51. So it was a really uh monumental season I feel for for these ladies. Um some of the highlights of our season, um we had four county champions. Um Isabelle Ford in the 800 and she came second in the mile. Uh Grace Benomo won the mile 32. She was also voted Beaver County's track MVP. Um Kaylee Kley got first in the discus in the shot. and our girls score by eight relay team of Grace Phenomen Lindsy Seat, Isabella Ford and Haley Tesh were county champions also. Um that also secured those ladies to be
019backto back we were county champions and with the help of the guys which wasn't a whole lot but they helped um they were the overall team combined champions backtoback seasons. Um I'm so proud of these girls. Um, all these kids, they worked so hard. I mean, we had thunderstorms, we had rain, we had hail, we had snow, wind. There's always wind in the track. Um, so they they really overcame a lot of adversities. We had one uh broken record this year in the long jump by AJ Montgomery. He jumped 22 feet 4 in. Um, not too shabby. Um, and he was our only athlete that placed invitational in the long jump. He placed second out of 90 out of 90 jumpers. So, with him coming kind of late in his track career, um, it's pretty
020impressive. Um, so they look forward to big things. Um, we have a fundraiser that kind of people are scratching their heads about. a Cougar Proud Ultra 24-hour relay race that we're going to host at the high school. Um, so there's going to be stuff being pushed out to the community. Sign up. It's going to be a great night of fun, food trucks, music, awards, prizes, um, at the end of July. And also, there's kind of been in the works um, they're possibly bringing back the Macki to Blackhawk. It hasn't been run here since I think 1986 something like that. So if we can pull that off, it's 2017. It's great exposure for our for our school. Um and great opportunities for our kids. So want to also thank my assistant coaches Paty, Brian Feroli, Chad
021Watkins, Brian Yowler, and my two volunteer assistants, Caitlyn Taylor and Nate Fernetti. Um Darren and Bill and Grunts, thank you for all that you guys do. Um I know I'm a real pain, but um the kids appreciate it. I appreciate it. So big things coming from the track team. Um, I expect the board to put together a team to come and [Applause] relay. Yeah, we took seven kids to the woods yesterday. Um, AJ went in the long jump and high jump. Our 4x8 relay team, the same one went and you shot EJ Baron went in the discus. So, it's a small group, but they're really hard working, dedicated, dedicated. They don't think they realize if you make the top 24 top that's pretty impressive. Very proud of these kids. Thank you. Thanks, Dr. Posi. Do
022you think you could organize the board relay that he's talking about? I'll read it for you guys. Thank you for coaching, Eric. And I really like the ring of back-to-back Black Dog champions. That's awesome. Thanks for sharing. Do we have any other um comments from the public tonight? Hi, Robert. The union president. I just want to congratulate Francesca Garing on being hired. Uh, she's been with us all year. Um, has done a fantastic job filling in and now to be officially recognized as as a teacher. So, congrats. Congratulations, Francesca. Any other comments this evening? 16.2 to school directors. Do we have any school directors that would like to share this evening? A party like the party starting now, right? I believe it is. Like let's get involved. Our next meeting will be a voting session.
023Um it will be on June 12th, 2025 at 6:30 p.m. here at the Highland Middle School Auditorium. At this time, could I please ask for a motion for adjournment? I have a question. I think I think Mr. Diac was first. Would you like to second, Mr. Mr. Second? All in favor? Motion carries. We We hope that um everyone in attendance tonight joins us at Celebrate Blackhawk and we really appreciate you coming to our meeting tonight. That's a wrap. There you go.