001Yes. Mhm. Yes. Woo. Mhm. God be with you to record this event for us. Good evening to everyone. Thanks for coming out tonight. Um the regular board meeting of February 20th, 2025 is now in session. Please rise for a moment of silence to follow the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Buckton? Here. Dr. Powell? Here. Mr. Cole? Here. Mr. May? Here. Mr. Lenhart? Here. Mr. Pratt? Here. Ms. Jew? Here. Mr. Smith? Here. Mr. Zell? Here. Okay. Thank you. Executive session was held on February 12th, 2025 from 8:25 p.m. to 8:45 p.m. personnel and legal matters. I need a motion for the approval of minutes of the
002rescheduled board meeting on January 16th, 2025. January 21st, 2025. You have a motion to approve the minutes. So moved. Second. Any questions? All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. I need to finish with that. We need a motion to table agenda item H9 titled custodial recall. Do I have a motion? Motion. Second. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. We need a motion to approve the agenda as presented. Second. Any questions? All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Remarks from visitors. We have Mrs. Popowarcheck here with the cross country team that wants to address the board. Dr. Popowarcheck. So, good evening. I'm Dr. Popowarcheck and the head coach of the Carmichaels cross country team. We had a great season this year and we owe a great deal to our supporters. And before I get too
003carried away, I like to showcase our cross country team here. They're um We're a little bit short on our numbers. Uh we had a flu outbreak so our runners kind of getting sick but they're with me tonight and I'm going to hand it over to Ava Smith, our co-captain. Hi, my name is Ava Smith. I'm here tonight speaking on behalf of the team to acknowledge the tremendous support of the school board. In particular, its members, Mr. Buckton, Mr. Pratt, and Mr. Surkle. I'm not sure how many members of the community know but our school just established the Carmichael's cross country team in 2023. This year was our first official season and it was our first time ever hosting. But as of July 2024, we didn't have a course and we were on a schedule to
004host early in September. In essence, we were in a panic because we didn't have a course and we didn't have a plan for one on campus or elsewhere, anywhere. We didn't know what to do, but Mr. Buckton, Mr. Pratt, and Mr. Sokol did. Together they mapped out a beautiful course on campus that included the existing track and woods by the football field. However, that was only half the battle. The wooded area would need a path carved out and we didn't have the equipment or manpower to make it happen. Mr. Buckton and Mr. Pratt graciously donated their time and equipment to personally carve a path in the woods for the cross country course. This endeavor took more than hours, it took weeks and we are very appreciative. Please accept these plaques as a small token of
005our appreciation. Your efforts enabled us to host the first of many of our cross country meets here at our school. We appreciate you. Thank you for supporting our team. Last but not least, we would like to present a plaque for the trophy case to Mr. Morcroft. We hope that you would display this plaque commemorating our inaugural and first official seasons as a Carmichael's cross country team. We thank you for your time in allowing us to come tonight. Thank you for all you do. Dr. Pop Tart checked everything. Are you finished? sir? we're finished. Thank you so much, ladies and gentlemen. You're welcome to stay for the meeting. Um but this is probably a good time for YOU TO LEAVE. THANK YOU SO MUCH AND CONTINUED success and congratulations on your inaugural season. Thank you. Principals,
006do we have any student representatives this evening? Okay, thank you. Administrative reports, Superintendent Morecraft. Thank you, Mr. Maynard. Um So, just want to talk some student achievements in athletics. Um this past month was filled with outstanding student accomplishments. Kinsley Rodeheaver, a fifth grader, celebrated an exciting achievement as her all-star cheer team secured a bid to secure a world championship uh competition in Florida. Additionally, uh Cormorant Area District uh Cormorant Area School District's uh Paisley Pratt and Parker Hewitt were awarded prestigious Rudy Maurice scholarships and named the Greene County uh athletes of the month. In sports, we congratulate Coach Connard in his first career win as the varsity girls basketball coach in the win defeating Jefferson Morgan. Um while freshman Kaylani Chunn stood out with a stellar 17-point game earning the McCracken Pharmacy Athlete of the
007Week. Senior night was a great success celebrating our dedicated senior athletes, cheerleaders, and announcers as the girls and boys teams claimed victory over their opponents. Academic and extracurricular activities, students continue to shine academically and creatively. Mrs. Freeman's fifth graders took on an innovative challenge creating toys from recyclable materials while the elementary book club kicked off the new year while engaging with uh while engaging discussions and activities. Mrs. Santella and Mrs. Adamson recognized students who achieved their 100 club honors for their academic excellence. Mrs. Moore's third grade class celebrated Chinese New Year with cultural activities and high school students had the opportunity to learn about conservation through a visit from the National Aviary. We also thank Rebecca Yeager for sharing her career insights on flagging traffic for gas wells with Mrs. Knezers career class and former
008Miss Rain Day Abby Ray for her inspiring talk on hearing loss awareness with the elementary book club. Community involvement and and contributions, uh the generosity of our community was evident this month. The Console Cares Foundation donated $10,000 to our helping house to support essential services for children. Carmichaels Area's Elementary School's fifth grade team once again partnered with the local Humane Society collecting donations and writing persuasive essays to encourage pet adoption. Our high school guidance counselor Mrs. Panepinto was honored in Southwest Training Services publication for her dedication to students. And lastly, the drama club is working hard preparing for their spring production The Addams Family scheduled for the weekend of March 21st. Stay tuned for ticket information. Um I want to thank our students, our staff, our community members for making uh January and February uh
009successful months and uh we appreciate their generosity. That concludes my report. Thank you, Mr. Moore proud. Does anyone have any questions before we move on? Okay, elementary principal Mrs. Sacco. Um I just I printed out I included our attendance year to date and also our incident reports. Um RPSSA testing which is within the window. Unfortunately, the ELA testing window falls right after Easter, but we're doing the best we can um and trying to make the best, you know, combinations for our students. I gave you flyers regard regarding our literacy night on March 20th and our kindergarten registration which I am scheduled to meet with both of those groups to finalize um plans, but these I don't think will change. Um I'm pretty sure this is what we will stick with in terms of dates and
010time. And that's really all that I have for tonight. Okay, thank you, Mr. Sacco. Any questions? Okay, middle school principal, Mr. Paul. sorry. I did I The Read Across America Week will be before our next meeting. I included that as well. That'll be March 3rd to the 7th. Um, that's also we're we're still working as a staff. But one of the things that we will be doing, um, we will be kicking off a program with the Washington Wild Things where we will set goals and then our students can earn free tickets to the games, to a game that we designate. Um, and it will not be during the school day. It'll be weekend or evening game. All right. Mr. Paul. Thank you, Mr. Meinhart. Um, in your packet you're going to find some things coming
011up, um, weather permitting the 6th grade will attend planning and science meeting tomorrow. Um, item C in your upcoming educational opportunities for middle school students, March 25th is going to be our 6th grade trip to BizTown. Um, students and teachers are working very hard. It it's about a 2-month process that engages 6th grade students in job interviews, um, the questions that you might ask and then they actually go to BizTown and actually perform those jobs. Kids enjoy it, teachers enjoy it. Um, it is free to the district, so something that we're very excited to do. Um, also in your packet, uh, as Ms. Sacco said, we're going to try to copy her in regards to PSSA testing. We come back on a Tuesday now, um, and state schedule state testing that first week. So, we
012come back on a Tuesday, we're going to bring our students back as as normal as we can on that Tuesday. That Wednesday, Thursday, Friday we are going to be testing ELA. And then hopefully the next week we'll test math and science in middle school. I I we're going to follow the same schedule as the elementary. Also in your packet, some things that are concerning obviously, you know, Dr. Poplar checked out the flu is hitting up the attendance the last two weeks in middle school at around 87% staff and PTO. We're getting sick around here. So it's hard to find any consistency really to put them back in quickly. So hopefully next couple months we can settle in here for the middle school. In your packet here you're also going to find out I did want
013to mention Faith Willis. Faith was the lead drama production last year here. She all attends Lancaster Bible College right now. Was also given a lead in a role there and she was Princess Winifred in the musical Once Upon a Mattress. We have a proud mom in the middle school and then her dad as well. So congratulations to Faith. Some of our students in the middle school also attended the ballet Romeo and Juliet. We were actually featured in Duquesne's article. Mr. Lino was quoted in there. I've provided that for you in the packet as well. Um you know, student retention right now is a little bit up uh as well as discipline staff attendance. But you know, it's it's been a great year so far. Hopefully we can keep all the people healthy and continue on
014with the year. With no questions and Thank you, Mr. Poland. Mrs. Surbaugh's out tonight. Yeah, she was she said so. Mr. Council. Thank you, Mr. Bernard. Um PSSA testing kind of piggyback off of what Mrs. Sacco and Mr. Poland has said is uh in full swing. Uh test registration and test management opened up on the 17th. I sat down with Mr. Poland, middle school guidance, Miss Caris to set up um training on how to create those test sessions. Uh this year we're going to test 285 total students testing online simultaneously. Uh that's the entire middle school as well as some of the population of the elementary students. Uh the other population of the elementary is going to be paper and pencil. This is the last year we could opt for that. Next year they all
015have to be online, mandated by the state of Pennsylvania. It's going to add another 233 students to online testing. We're going to be okay this year. We're going to be okay next year, but going further than that without starting to life cycle some of those elementary devices, it's going to be a challenge getting accurate test results with those older devices. So I know I'm beating a dead horse and I bring it up every meeting, but I just don't want anyone to be surprised when when that day comes. Moving on to another subject, we're looking at expanding our huddle camera system. Those are the cameras that are on the press box of the football field stadium and also in the gymnasium and they live stream the games that we host here at home. We're looking at
016avenues to get the baseball and softball fields also under that umbrella. It's a challenge because they require a hard connection. We have wireless out there right now, but they won't run on a wireless connection. They have to be hardwired. So we're exploring different avenues of extending my network to those locations via fiber. Mr. Franks is helping me get estimates and cost estimates for what that would cost as well as looking into things like Starlink and using that as an alternative to to provide network for those solutions. When I have hard numbers on that, I will absolutely present it to the board. If there's no questions, that concludes my report. Any questions? Okay, I have a question. Sure. I principles you can shine in. When you're testing online, I know how stringent this is and they
017come in and monitor you and do security checks. What happens with the system? Has that been discussed by anyone? That actually has happened. The first year that we were mandated to test online was during COVID. The state servers crashed during testing and the whole state went on pause. They fixed it within a couple hours and then we were back online. We paused testing for that day and then resumed uh the following day. Uh knock on wood, uh everything we do, you know, robust and and handled this year. Um but uh it could happen. You know, nothing's ever perfect. and it's okay with the state because their system went Right. But what if ours goes down? I think as long as we maintain that testing window of completing those tests within that week or two-week period
018that they give us, we're okay. Um but I don't know if the principals could speak to that. That's the thing, as long as you don't go past May 9th. They want all the tests in. And really, they give you that whole week from May 5th to May 12th. can divide that up any way you want, right? Right. Yeah, we can, you know, you have a morning and an afternoon session, so we have basically three days to get the test done. And what happens if it doesn't happen? And if it would happen after it starts, there are areas that we report, there's like paperwork that we fill out. Yeah, we have actually we have to notify to the to the state that that happened. Okay. Thank you. Mr. Cox. Mr. Thank you, uh Mr. President. Um
019Okay, beside the the weather conditions where we get interrupted all the time lately with snow and ice, um we're taking care of uh work that has been planned. Right now, uh this last month, the work in progress, uh one of the big things that we accomplished was taking care of our insurance carrier's recommendations. In the fire uh in the gym at the elementary, 35 sprinkler guards were installed in the ceiling. Uh they're arranged across the entire ceiling and it doesn't seem like 35 things are a big deal, but you have to move the lift to go underneath each one of them, then go up 20 ft and and change them. But we did accomplish those. Uh the other insurance carrier requirement was to move some wooden shelving further more feet away from the glass fusing
020oven and the kiln in the art room at high school. That's been completed. Uh there are other uh items that they had. All of them are similar in that uh water damage or fire damage, you know, the interests that we're taking care of. There were uh about six more things, but we'll have them done within the window the insurance carrier gave us. Um one of the items that was on our five-year plan was the pump rebuild and Carl and Gary accomplished that last week. We have two pumps that run together to provide redundancy during cold weather. They provide all the heat from the Uh looking ahead a little bit is uh the three-year AR AHR report. It's due I was talking with Mrs. Todd about it and uh we're getting quotes on having that done.
021Something again we do every three years and it's a required. Um I mentioned the last board meeting that we're have we're due for the three-year hydraulic test on both the elevators. Um we have put in the request for the test to take place, but there are three individual entities involved to get the test done and I yet I'm still not scheduled, but we're still within the window. Um Uh Mrs. Todd and I have worked out uh a lot of the first draft of the five-year buildings and grounds plan. Uh there's a whole bunch of things need prices put in yet uh to uh give the board. Um I I like how Mrs. Todd has laid it out. It gives us a lot of flexibility to move things around and then just move the totals around
022as it is so that we can fit them to our budget as as we and we're also working to reduce the cost on some of the things as much as we can. Whatever we can do in house, some of the smaller things, just like the pumps, we took the one pump off the list as it's been completed. Uh there's uh uh no progress, of course, on the um field house roof because of the weather. Um it's uh way outside the allowable temperature ranges right now. Um on the uh item that was tabled for that la- next um board meeting, uh my custodial staff is currently uh we have three short of what the previous staffing level was. Um I've been informed that a second senior employee has uh began his exit process for retirement. Uh
023one of them that is uh will his last day will be in March. And uh uh although that uh the workload has is unknown at this point, I've taken uh measures to have a work study done and in tour in order to determine that exact word load workload and equitable division of labor, I've asked uh uh a study to which began this Monday the 17th. The gentleman performing the study has provided his credentials and qualifications and it's being done actually calculated by software. Uh the uh the janitorial supply, which is one of our vendors, has offered to do it at no cost for us. Um they had done it once before 7 years ago right after renovation. And now there've been quite a few changes. We've actually added a lot of uh closets have become
024offices. There's a lot of differences in the way we do things now. So, some of the uh areas have come up plus and minus. Although the total report isn't done yet, I will have those two areas uh when they're completed, I will have them received and reviewed the complete report. I'll submit it to uh the board for their evaluation next uh next work session. I'm hoping that uh you the board can look at this and realize that uh we're going to be in imminent danger of losing uh another Well, we are losing another person uh on top of the fact that the one person is off and we're using uh sub in their place. We will wind up really short. Right now, there is a difficulty. The work study will prove what I need and
025give you guys the rational information to make a proper decision. So, I thank you for your time. If there's any questions. I I I have one. What's the baseline to the work study? Is it the you know, you tell me how many people it needs to clean every inch of flooring in all three buildings in one single evening? Or is it It's an how much manpower do I need to be safely clean like I just know many of us work in a building where you only have it cleaned once a week? Exactly. And so, what what's the baseline of the study going to tell us? Like It's going to tell you on one end what it takes to do it in every classroom, every day, every surface, every avenue of it. Okay. And then it
026will also be able to be adjusted to suit Okay, we're only going to do desktops every other day. You see what I mean? There's a lot of flexibility in this. Yeah. But you have to start with knowing what the full Monty is first, and then you can adjust if you could afford to adjust. And I will I've seen these reports before. I have the old one, and it was really comprehensive. Um the study can't be done by saying I've got 100,000 square feet. The study involves measuring every room, counting the desktops, teachers' desks, how many doors, how many windows, how many door knobs, phone, yes, no, smart board. The differences between commercial empty spaces or cubicles or offices versus an elementary school is immense. Oh, sure. We have soft surfaces, multiple things that you don't
027have in office space. I just want to make sure it's giving us different options, and that's what you're telling me that we ton Okay, traffic area occupancy. But those studies are already out there. They've already been done. I mean, there's a million schools here. Absolutely. And these It's not nothing or anything. Right. Yeah. And these are very much what we talked about. These will be It will be very enlightening for everybody, including myself. I will know exactly what is needed to do the task. Okay. Okay. Thank you. That's it then, gentlemen. Any other questions? Thank you, Mr. Price. Okay, committee reports. Human Resources, Mr. Circle. Thank you, Mr. All right. Motion to approve one student readmission as presented. We need a motion. Motion. Second. Second. Roll call, Mr. Mr. Buckland. Yes. Dr. Kraft? Yes. Mrs.
028Kroll? Yes. Mr. May? Yes. Mr. Pratt? Yes. Miss Shue? Yes. Mr. Smith? Yes. Mr. Circle? Yes. And Mr. Menhart? Yes. Motion to approve the 2025-2026 school calendar as presented. Do I have a second? Second. All right. Roll call, please. Dr. Kraft? Yes. Mrs. Kroll? Yes. Mr. May? Yes. Mr. Pratt? Yes. Miss Shue? Yes. Mr. Smith? Yes. Mr. Circle? Yes. Mr. Buckton? Yes. Mr. Menhart? Yes. Motion carries. And we uh do you have the dates that you all support with the Yeah, so so part of that calendar we did work with the the fire company. We have our open house. We're still in teacher negotiations, so that's kind of still up in the air. But we are working with that so that it won't interfere with the with the the the King of Prussia parade and
029the So So again, we have I've spoken with Mr. Bailey. Um so we are we are working with them 100% to make sure there isn't an interference. Sorry. Motion to approve the request for Mrs. Todd to attend the PASBO annual conference in Hershey, PA March 11th through the 14th of 2025 at no cost to the district. Do I have a second? Second. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Motion to approve the agreement with The Meadows Psychiatric Center as presented. Do I have a second? Second. Roll call. Mrs. Kroll? Yes. Mr. May? Yes. Mr. Pratt? Yes. Ms. Chew? Yes. Mr. Smith? Yes. Mr. Zerbe? Yes. Mr. Buckner? Yes. Dr. Crowl? Yes. And Mr. Miller? Yes. Motion to approve the memorandum of understanding with blueprints for early learning programs effective July 1st, 2025 through June 30th
030of 2026. Second. Is there any Yeah, is there any cost of this? No, the blueprints we get we get them the building. So, they're paying rent to come into the building, but we don't have to provide any teachers, we're not providing Oh. No, they don't go to our From my understanding, they don't go to art, gym, or anything, right? I don't I don't think they do. They are our tenants. That was the question. Yes. Oh, wow. They do um 20 minutes a day. Just the two. They do um they don't go to music, it's library and gym. They use the cafeteria as well. They do use the cafeteria, but I mean we get Yes, we get so I think what Mr. Pratt's question was how to offset what they're paying us for rent and what
031services we're providing to them. I'd have to do a cost analysis, but we do give them the rent and be janitorial services. You know, we clean the room. And my question, piggybacking off of his question, is it says to refer to the lease to approve this, and I don't have the lease. So, I can't see what documents are in the lease to approve this paper here. I'll have to look at the lease. I don't know what it says. that I don't again want to vote on something because I don't know what the what the document says. Has anything changed since before tonight? Not that I'm aware of. I don't want to say for sure but Yeah, but um Any other questions? Let's roll call. Mr. Pratt. Yes. Mr. Shue. Yes. Mr. Smith. Yes. Mr. Seiple.
032No. Mr. Buck. No. Dr. Pratt. Yes. Ms. Kroll. Yes. Mr. May. Yes. Mr. Menhart. Yes. Motion carried. Motion to approve a resolution of resolution nominating Dr. Richard Krauss to stand for election and appointment to the IU1 Board of Directors. Second. Any questions? Roll call. Mr. Shue. Yes. Mr. Smith. Yes. Mr. Seiple. Yes. Mr. Buck. Yes. Dr. Pratt. He's going to abstain. Yes. Ms. Kroll. Yes. Mr. May. Yes. Mr. Pratt. Yes. Mr. Menhart. Yes. Motion carried. Thank you everyone. Yeah. Good luck to you. Good job. Good luck. You're all good. Motion to approve the revised school calendar for 2024-2025 as presented. Second. Any questions? Roll call. Mr. Smith. Yes. Mr. Seiple. Yes. Mr. Buck. Yes. Dr. Pratt. Yes. Ms. Kroll. Yes. Mr. May. Yes. Mr. Pratt. Yes. Mr. Shue. Yes. Mr. Menhart? Yes. Motion carried. Motion
033to approve the restoration of health sabbatical leave request one of an elementary school teacher for the second semester of 2024-2025 school year. Do I have a second? Second. Questions? Roll call, please. Mr. Sager? Yes. Mr. Bacon? Yes. Dr. Pratt? Yes. Ms. Groff? Abstain. Mr. May? Yes. Mr. Pratt? Yes. Mr. Shue? Yes. Mr. Smith? Yes. And Mr. Menhart? Yes. Motion carried. I was out. We just I was out. We have to say you're not here. I was out. All right. Thank you, Mr. Sager. I was late for it. I was out. I was out. Budget and finance, Mr. Smith. Thank you. Uh number one, teacher appreciation week, May 2025. Motion to provide a luncheon prepared by the cafeteria and a momento at no rep at cost not to exceed $30 per staff member during teacher appreciation
034week, May 5th or May 5th through the 9th, 2025. Do I have a second? Second. Questions? Yeah. Just out of principle, I don't think we should be doing dinners our first time we have a school board meeting at the beginning of the year. I just think it's a waste of money, I actually do. That's just my personal opinion, so. It has nothing to do against teachers. I just don't think we should just keep having luncheons and dinners every time something new happens. I just feel I just had to say Any other questions or comments? Okay. Uh Mr. Buckland. Yes. Dr. Krauss. Yes. Ms. Brohm. Yes. Mr. May. Yes. Mr. Pratt. Yes. Ms. Shue. Yes. Mr. Smith. Yes. Mr. Circle. No. And Mr. McMahon. Yes. Ms. Shue. Number two, the IU budget. Motion to approve the
0352025-2026 budget in the amount of $549,522 and the district share of $6,260.61 as presented. Second. We have a second. Any questions? Ms. Brohm, roll call. Dr. Krauss. Yes. Ms. Brohm. Yes. Mr. May. Yes. Mr. Pratt. Yes. Ms. Shue. Yes. Mr. Smith. Yes. Mr. Circle. Yes. Mr. Buckland. Yes. Mr. McMahon. Yes. Ms. Shue. And my final one, this is the second reading for the the policy change. This is a motion to approve the second reading of the policy item A below as presented, which is just in relation to thresholds and things like that for bids and quotations. Do I have a second? Second. Any questions? Roll call, please. Ms. Brohm. Yes. Mr. May. Yes. Mr. Pratt. Yes. Ms. Shue. Yes. Mr. Smith. Yes. Mr. Circle. Yes. Mr. Buckland. Yes. Dr. Krauss. Yes. And Mr. McMahon. Yes.
036Thank you, Mr. Smith. Athletics, activities and athletics, Mr. Pratt. Number one, resignation D. Jones, assistant football coach. Motion to approve the resignation letter of Dave Jones as assistant football coach effective February 3rd, 2025. Second. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Number two, resignation Shawn Delaney assistant football coach. Motion to approve the resignation letter of Shawn Delaney as assistant football coach effective February 3rd, 2025. Second. We have a second. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Number three, resignation Don Beck assistant middle school football coach. Motion to approve the resignation letter of Don Beck as assistant middle school football coach effective February 3rd, 2025. Second. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Number four, assistant varsity softball coach. Motion to offer the assistant varsity softball coach position to Joanna Harris and Morgan Paisley with salary
037split in thirds per professional contract effective the 2024-25 season. We have a second. Second. Any questions? All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Number five, field house monitor position. Motion to offer the field house field house monitor position to Jacob Smith to assist Jacob Pennings at the hourly rate of $15 per hour and no fringe benefits retroactive to February 11th, 2025. We have a second. Second. Any questions? Yes, I'd have a lot of questions here. Number one, why are we hiring the two people for this job? Will the time be split between them and how many hours a week do they work? They are split. Yeah, their time is split between between How many hours a week? 12. So, Monday through Friday from 3:30 to from 3:00 to 6:30 and Saturday 8:00 to 10:00. So,
038we got 2 hours. Is it Is it 3 Oh, they were they started at 3:15. Is it at 4:30? It says weight room then have a 20 I think I was being asked to and it's the the hours are Yeah, the hours are 2 hours. This is what we have 2 hours a day Monday through Friday. And Saturday. Saturday all day? No, 2 hours. 2 hours, so 12 hours a week? Yeah. 12 hours a week. Now, is he a subcontractor so he's being 1099 or is there burden on top of the 15? They They go through payroll, so they're but they don't get retirement, so social security. So, instead of the standard 70% burden, it's probably going to be around 40. Yeah, it's Yeah, cuz there's no retirement So, you're realistically this is a $21.50
039an hour is what it's costing per So, you're looking at like $17,000 a year roughly, $16,000 a year for that. That is if the time is split. With it being retroactive to the 11th, have we already essentially extended this position to Jacob? I believe what's been happening is that Jacob um the gentleman that was doing it is working more, so he's not able to to do it. So, the other gentleman was filling in uh you know, to in his absence because of his workload. That's my understanding. Is that your understanding? So, it's your understanding that this is money he's Although we're going to be over budget again. If money was budgeted for as it was at the beginning of the year, regardless of how much I understand I know what This This is a budget
040that we did budget some some money for this. And there's a necessity for this position, I assume. This is the open, this is the community usage of the of the field house, the people who come in. When the community is in the field house, these are the people who wanted it at the field house ball. The community uses it. A lot of community uses it in there. Is this just during the school year? And they do it all summer. This is the one that Albert Albert Albert McKinley used to do, I believe was the former one. So the one person was getting paid for a certain amount of hours. He's going to do half his hours now and this new person's doing So there's no more hours. There's no additional hours. Right. Just to back
041up the when the field house was built, you can really That's what everybody should see. person? No. Every employee, every dollar you're spending their tax money on top of that. It costs the taxpayers. To back up to the time period when the field house was built, the money was raised through the community to build that field house. The field house itself did not cost the community, it did not cost the school board anything. Uh so I uh there was a stipulation put in at that time that the public would always get an access of some type to it. Not does have to be 2 hours a day, I don't know uh what that is, but that was understood at the time when the fundraising happened and I do not want to go against that anytime.
042Yeah, we'll have to have a discussion on that because we met with some safety people from other districts and they do not allow it in theirs. They try to keep the public way away from the the student population. 100%. I don't believe this is for students. You have students up there at the same time. I'm asking what the school policy is if do we have is this time that they're talking about with Mr. Pendergrass students in there with the I mean there there could be. I know the baseball team could be in the batting cages while someone is in the field house. I don't know if the doors that they're talking about would allow that. Would you close the doors if you're in the batting cages? The public is not allowed in that section. Okay.
043Yeah, I think it needs to be reviewed being reviewed. Maple Shade baseball team was in there. Cuz it it started out it was early morning there were people that came in and we opened it up for the public at that time and I think there was some Saturday hours. But that's how I remember it initially Dickie maybe you remember better. But that's that's what it started out as and you know so I think absolutely we need Times have changed but you know you still have to honor what what happened. I know but you you're spending $18,000 We we spend $18,000 a year on a person to sit up there 10 years $180,000. You You've only paid $220 for the cost to be built. You're 30 years in this. Yeah, I know how to do that.
044Okay, well that's your We'll we'll discuss this it'll be I just think it's inherently dangerous to have kids in there with the public. Okay, we have a motion. We have a second. We have questions. We're going to vote. This is Todd Groh call. Mr. Mack. Yes. Mr. Pratt. No. Miss Shupe. Yes. Mr. Smith. Yes. Mr. Sensenig. Yes. Mr. Becker. No. Dr. Kraft. Yes. Miss Groh. Yes. Mr. Mentzer. Yes. Mr. Chair. That ends my Thank you, Mr. Pratt. Okay, transportation, buildings, and grounds. Mr. Mack. Okay, um Number one, facilities. Motion to approve the request for facilities uh item A through F below as presented. Do I have a second? Second. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Motion carried. Number two, policy the first reading. Motion to approve the first reading of policy item A below as presented
045and is and it deals with the school day and I believe that was the changes we made if if the inclement weather closes school but can we have activities such as sporting events so we made some changes to that and that's the policy there. Yeah, you're correct. Okay. Okay. Do I have a second? Second. Any questions? All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Motion carried. Thank you Mr. May. Well, I didn't Well, we'll get to you later. Okay. Curriculum instruction, Mrs. Crowl. Nothing to report. We've had a lot of curriculum meetings but nothing everything's still in the works so nothing here to report today. Okay, thank you. I have a question for her cuz I have a bad memory. I mean there's been like 20 meetings or 50 months so I'm just trying to get caught up
046to speed here. Um are are your meetings you're having are they for to purchase curriculums for these areas that do not have curriculums? Sometimes yeah. So we talked about that for one. The the majority of the recent meetings have been there's people that have resigned and we need to adjust placements. So you're manpower We're trying to figure out schedules for next year basically. So has there been any cost analysis done on what curriculums will cost to provide them to everybody that needs them that does not have them? Curriculum yeah. Curriculum not yet no. No. No, they're working on I know Mr. Morcraft is is working on different Okay. different curriculums and we are working in the budget process of trying to get a line item in there to start that process, but they've been focused
047more on on how how we're going to adjust staffing at this point in time. Right. Okay. Um So, you're doing placement balance class sizes cuz I know we're really upside down. So, we have three teachers that left and we want to shift things so we have to not hire anybody else cuz we don't have room in the budget to do that. So, that's what they're working on. When you do this, can you get with other principals and Mr. Morcraft and I've been reading a lot on attendance. And it amazed me as what I found, but 15 to 18 days missed, do you know how much that drops the grade? One to two grade which is possible. I mean, that's every data I could find. So, it's not just we have to have a partnership with
048the public, with the parents, and we have to get them to buy into what we're trying to do here and get these kids in here and get them getting on the school getting their attendance up. Yeah, I think they put a lot of emphasis into their report cards. They do. They do. That's what I was just tracking. But, there's I mean, every little thing is going to help with their grades. So, but that's pretty much it. Any other questions? Thank you very much, Mr. Proctor. Thank you, Mr. Cole. This is cool. This is manager. We need a motion to approve the bills for payment in the amount of $1,656,585.05 as presented. We have a motion. So moved. Second. Roll call, please. Mr. Pratt. Here. Yes. Ms. Jew. Yes. Mr. Smith. Yes. Mr. Sacco. Yes. Mr.
049Buckman. Yes. Dr. Crow. Yes. Ms. Carroll. Yes. Mr. May. Yes. Mr. Meinhart. Yes. And we need a motion to approve the secretary treasurer and other financial reports as presented. Motion. Second. Any questions? Okay. Roll call, please. Ms. Jew. Yes. Mr. Smith. Yes. Mr. Sacco. Yes. Mr. Buckman. Yes. Dr. Crow. Yes. Ms. Carroll. Yes. Mr. May. Yes. Mr. Pratt. Yes. Mr. Meinhart. Yes. Yes. Motion carried. Thank you, Mr. Pratt. Federal program, Mr. Sacco. We have um Federal Green, excuse me, Fayette Green Federal Coordinator Association. Our literacy or our family workshop will be occurring on Wednesday, March 12th at Lake Fayette venues. I will share that information with our parent council on we meet on Tuesday. Um it will also be circulated through Facebook. And this come out this comes out of our um title money. We
050typically pay for 10 to 12 people to go and we usually have that that many attend. Um I did include the agenda for that morning. Uh it is only half a day this year. And then also as a group the Fayette Green coordinators have agreed to we're kind of going to join forces with Washington County and we're going to hold joint meetings at least three or four times a year. So we will still have the monthly meetings on those off months where we don't meet as one big regional group. Um in we usually meet in Uniontown. But then three or four times a we will get together with Washington um with the idea that we have more people to exchange ideas and get feedback from. And with that, their family workshop is usually held in
051August and we are discussing that possibly going to one or we'll all be helping with the other ones. So, we'll be looking to help with the one in Washington this coming August. And that really concludes my report federal. Any questions? Okay. Thank you, Mrs. Hackett. Legislative report, Mrs. Shue. Nothing to report at this time. Thank you. I will tell you they IU is having a legislative um Yeah, it's coming up. I'll let you know the date if you would like to attend. It would be in the the Montgomery campus in in the township. So, so I'll let you know if they have that if you want to attend it then then Okay. I think maybe she could report next time. Public relations, is anyone have anything to report? Thank you. Comprehensive plan representative. Nothing to
052report. Thank you. Mr. May, GCC and TC. Real quick, I'm going to hand these out to the board members. We're having an open house at the CDC. We have it every year. It's April the 10th and this year as in the past years, Fox Ford is going to partnership with us. They'll have a couple of new cars up there. They'll show us a little bit about them. Everything that's to do with maintenance technology and uh great automotive technology. Uh food truck will be there. You get to see the teachers and show us that they're you know what they're going to show off that night. So, I just you know want to give everybody a a heads up on that. Put that on your calendar. And if you if you do plan to attend that, all
053you have to do is let me know. I'll make sure that I have the right agenda for you. Show them around when you get there. Okay. And other than that I think that's good and that's all I wanted to say. Thank you, Mr. Man. Okay. Safety and security. I could say I'd like to add or or say that the state police has done an assessment of the security of our campus. Um Chief Miller informed me that that has that that person that did that report or assessment has to have that approved by his superior before he can give it to us and we're waiting for that right now. And then we'll proceed accordingly. Thank you, guys. We met with we Steve met with Uniontown school, went over their safety procedures and policies and then we
054just recently met with the superintendent Jefferson School District, their president of the school board and their staff for policing over there. They had some really really good really good things that we found there. There was like six or seven things that actually I really didn't cost anything to do. Just implementing different policies and procedures and they were pretty I mean nothing's 100% foolproof but this was pretty good. Um and I think we'll get together when we have our first meeting, Mr. Manhart and we'll get with Mr. Miller so try to get some of this stuff um is feasible for here to work. Um try to get you here so we don't have another breach like we had before. That can never happen again. Ever. So, I I can say as far as that breach is
055concerned, I'd like to commend the guys the way they handled it. It was long as it could happen anytime. But uh you know, I'm proud of the our security here. I think our guys did a good job I, my grandkids are in this building as all of you have people here and I think our guys do a great job. So, with that being said, we need a motion to adjourn. Motion. Second. All in favor? Aye. The motion is carried. Thank you for coming out tonight.