001offer up any any information all right nothing wait back why [Music] I what [Music] what sear okay fine right over there good evening Blackhawk School District Welcome to the March 20th regular voting session of the Blackhawk Schoolboard board of directors we're so um happy that you're all here tonight um for our meeting thanks for coming um at this time would you please stand and say the Pledge of Allegiance [Music] me United States of America to the stands indice Adam would you please call roll sh M here Mr H Dr mcos Mr Mano here Mr sh here Dr sprinker here and I'm here Mr wner here and Mr Z here you have seven or n thank you there was an executive session prior to tonight's meeting to discuss Personnel safety and legal matters Mrs Clark do
002we have a solicitors report tonight no not report thank you thank you next on our agenda is the administrators and superintendent update do we have any updates tonight um I do update and recognition if I can kind of roll those together that would be okay um so a couple updates um today our middle School hosted um an event with multiple districts um throughout our region not just County but multiple counties and um two of our teachers who are taking part in agency by Design um which is a learning centered Focus um LED design challenges um with other teachers our students our staff it it was a lovely event and uh the theme that resonated through the entire event was our sense of community and um that is a core pillar in our strategic plan and
003I thought it was U very validating that they even noticed this when people came into our building that have never been here before that they noticed that sense of community that we had so um it was a wonderful day um girl was able to stop by and and share some insight with us as well so you know thank you again middle school for opening your doors and welcoming strangers for a great learning experience um the second thing that that I would like to speak to is um thankfully our high school um was recently recognized by um US News and will report as one of the best high school rankings so um they may have received this before but congratulations Mr Ford and to your entire uh faculty and staff for this prestigious ranking it's based
004upon uh six criteria which is college readiness 30% um College curriculum curriculum bread 10% % uh State assessment proficiency at 20% graduation rate 10 and underserved population 10 in state assessment performance 20% um there were some methodology changes in the past year um that went through but overall that's the criteria uh that the high school was evaluated on and um I'm glad you came out as you do so congrats again to that [Applause] yesterday the high school student council took a field trip to Dave and buers in Pittsburgh all members and attendance had a great time playing arcade games and eating yummy food every year student council Works super hard to provide a fine and inclusive environment for the high school so it's great when they get to do a little something fun for themselves
005on Monday March 17th the varsity lacrosse team won their home opener against senica Valley 22 to1 also on Monday the Varsity softball team won their opener against hope well 2 to one overall it has been a great week for women's sports thank you thank you Aubrey agenda item three public relations and and Communications Mrs Klein black hop is very proud of our students achievements and we encourage the extra curricular activities that happen in each grade please visit each school's website for updates and happenings in our building including holiday events and concerts item 3.2 when I looked at the um sign in sheet there was nobody that had signed up to comment on any agenda items so move on and Mrs Klein it does not look like there is a psba board representative report tonight is
006that correct thank you um Mrs Mansel um no Intermediate Unit report either noort thank you so much and I also know um in talking to Mr husak um that there was no Beaver County Career and Technology report as either so we're good to go there um could we please let the um attendance record show that uh um Dr MOSI has joined us for the meeting so we are I believe eight of nine at this point 603 thank you okay we're going to move on to 7.1 and I'm going to ask if I could please have a motion to approve the full consent agenda as presented I'll make a motion thank you Mr zackowitz may I have a second a second thank you Mr show is there any discussion on this motion so uh a couple
007things um to bring up we may if we look under Finance uh there's a replacement light base and poll proposal this um a while ago and this blor F me in if I need you I believe a garbage truck hit a pole at our high school and U they're replacing and repairing that um through their insurance so the district will will receive a check um from this from their insurance and we went through a variety of of vendors to go through to repair it obviously and this is the recommended uh repair company based upon their costs how much we are going to get from the insurance reimbursement obviously we want to stay within that so um that is on the agenda thank you certainly would you also be um able to give um some discussion
008or some clarity to any of the changes in the Personnel section of the agenda too certainly you um as you are all aware our human resource report does you do act on that Weekly um so there you know are some fresh names there um but also 10.2 is in agreement with the principales association the Pennsylvania principes Association um offers a service for substitute principles when and if districts need it um so it's a nice agreement to have if that should arise as you all are aware we do have some transition within our administrative ranks occurring um and based upon 10.1 in the Human Resources report one may preclude that we will be meeting this agreement um to fill in a substitute principle um if 101 goes goes as as anticipated because um persons on the
009HR report will finish out through the year before they transition into the principal ship if it if that so goes that way so the district would be entering into a contract cont with the Pennsylvania principales Association to provide a substitute principal assistant principal correct until the presumed hire would her start date would come into effect that correct that is exactly right um and it's a contracted service similar to our substitute teacher Services just just like this so the person who they would recommend to serve in that position for us temporarily would you be meeting with that person interviewing them ahead of time oh of course of course um I would be recommending um that person but all of their paperwork um and various things go through the principal Association many times retired principal someone that's
010already drawing from their pension there's a lot of paperwork um and emergency um permissions from the state that they need to have in order for their pension to not be penalized when they serve in this capacity so um this Association just make sure that not only the district is doing what they need to do but also that those persons are not are not penalized so it's it's a nice buffer um an intermediary for that um but as soon as um that is solidified I'm sure that we will welcome that person and introduce them to to the community um as they will be serving you know in a temporary basis in the in the elementary um at this time we are working through discussion of the full consent agenda is there anyone um else from the
011board that would like to um discuss any of the agenda items that we're going to be voting on um I would um like to ask the board to um revisit policy 328 we um we had some discussion about this policy last week and um I'm sure that we've all had some time to think about that policy read through it a little bit more perhaps we have some additional um questions as well as opinions about where we want to move forward with this policy and in my opinion I think we just need some more time to revisit the policy and make sure that it represents exactly what we will be doing with regards to hiring and what steps our candidates will will be on based on their past experience um back based on their past work
012experience so um I would like to recommend that we pull 328 out of voting for tonight and move it back to first read at our April meeting so we could have some more time to talk about that actually Dr sprinker I agree with you and I don't know if it's appropriate I'd like to make a motion to table that policy 328 um for further discussion review and consideration thank you Bobby um I'm just gonna look to Kathy for a minute here so I think we have a motion and now another motion can you talk us through how to move forward with that please sorry no it's okay I just want to make sure that I get that I'm accurate on it no that's okay um so what you should do first is finish what you're
013talking about which is the I'm sorry the 7.1 full consent agenda figure out what you're going what you're pulling out of that vote on that part and then we'll have Bobby make her motion after that about tabling 328 okay so I believe um Bobby let's um look at so I believe that that's in 15.4 is that correct 15.3 I think so right so for right now you pull policy sorry right is that correct Bobby right okay thank you um do we have any other discussion on any other policies so last week Dr MOSI had a question on our reduction to staff it was suspension in furlos policy 311 and the question was I believe correct me if I'm wrong it was regarding if this occurs if if a district chooses to Furlow you have to
014always Furlow administrators as well and that Furlow is only with economic suspension requirements that which is not the program so I believe you gave an example of Latin years ago that was a program elimination so that program elimination there are guidelines within that within the first section of this policy um and it talks about the curtailment or alteration of educational programs and what steps the district has to take in order to do that within curtailment of educational programs there is not a stipulation that the district also has to Furlow administrators or other members of staff only that is only for economic reasons and I believe the rationale is the state saying if you have to go to such extremes for economic reasons it shouldn't be isolated to just one group the economic impact is the
015entire District which is why I think that provision is for economic reasons and not program curtailment does that make sense there was a a lot of content in last week's discussion about policies so we're just going to pause for another minute and see if there's any other questions or clarifications to the policies other than 328 and could you say the number of the policy that you just clarified 311 311 um Dr Bata just reminded me that there were some um maybe typos or page number Corrections or date Corrections and so those have all been updated and changed um for review on your on your iPad there okay all right so we are back to 7.1 I believe we have a motion on the table to approve the full consent agenda agenda as presented I believe
016we have Mr zackowitz is the making the motion Mr schope is the second we've had discussion do we have any other discussion or questions for the full consent agenda I just had one question um regarding policies did you want to discuss that now for the title changes oh yes so next month we will be working on finance and property and in finance um we have a Director of Finance and there the title is business manager throughout most of those policies um if it if the if it pleases the board what I would ask is that on the table where it says um reviewed no modification needed at this time for those policies that only have a title change in it may I put in there reviewed no modification at this time you title change parenthesis
017instead of muddying up the board docs inbox with simply a title change with many policies if that's if that's okay yes thank you any other uh discussion or questions on the full consent agenda okay at this time we're we'll move into the vote so um all in favor any opposed okay motion passes um if we could please show um on the record that for 10.2 um I Carol sprinker am abstaining from the vote on 10.2 other otherwise um I approve all of the other consent all the other consent agenda items and at this time um I think we also have a motion on the table um from Mrs Manel um that we are going to table policy um revision first read of 3 point or I'm sorry 328 which is the compensation plan in the
018policy manual um do we have a second on that motion thank you Mrs Klein any discussion or questions okay hearing none all in favor I any opposed motion passes this brings us to agenda 16 additional business 16.1 is public comment on non-agenda items um the public is welcome to speak at this time and just as a reminder um this is public comment and it won't be a question and answer time this evening so um public comment is now welcome I just wanted to take a moment to welcome Miss pots to the administrative team this really is this is really a night of great pride for everyone in the room because it shows that we are creating amazing graduates Vanessa was an honor graduate here at blackhaw she finished college early she came right back and
019started subbing for us and working um she did our principal internship with me this summer she is one of the hardest workers I've ever met and she has a very unique distinction she said that when she was a child she always wanted to be a principal not a teacher but a principal and there's only one other person I know that has said that and she might be at the table with the gabble so Vanessa is in very good company and I can't wait to watch her grow as a leader here thank you thank you Mrs Bron and congratulations to we're gonna start a club right might be more somay you never know Brown chip uh first um it does warm my heart to see Vanessa be um hired as S as the principal tonight it
020we have a lot of Blackhawk graduates that work here and live here because they want to come back here it's important um I have a question this evening after last week Personnel report and there were several pair of professionals that were leaving or going on leave I'm just wondering what we're doing to replace some of them because because I haven't seen an add in the paper and I'm wondering if we have a plan for that thank you Mrs Brown um we will definitely have somebody contact you in the next couple of days to talk more about that any other public comment this evening uh 16.2 School directors do we have any school directors who would like to um comment um or have any discussion this evening um 17.1 our next meeting will be on March
021nope it will be in April thank you April 10th 6:30 pm here in in this uh in this LGI room at Highland Middle School and um at this time could I please have a motion for adjournment I'll make a motion I'll second show thank you all in favor any oppos motion passes meeting is adjourned have a great evening everyone