001All right, we'll call the meeting to order for Tuesday, April 28th, 2026 of the Central Dauphin School District Board of Directors. Ms. McConnell, call the roll. Mrs. Bingaman Here. Mrs. Cavoli Here. Mr. Terman >> Here. Mr. Epstein >> Yep, I'm here. Mr. Garlic Here. Mr. Gordon Here. Mrs. Hanford Here. Mr. Jacobs >> Here. Mrs. Webster Did we call her in? No, she should be here. Yes, she's joining virtually. >> Mrs. Webster I know she's online. Okay. Can we count her as present? I don't know, at least Yeah, and we're voting on it. intercom today for the schools, you think we'd have it together. And we kind of need her to I mean, I don't know how we How do we know? You text her? >> The The guys in the back told me she's on.
002Well, She's on. We need a little bit more than that to definitely say She's in. Okay. Hey, are you in? >> [laughter] >> All right. All right. She said that she's muted. But she's present. No, no, she said There, thank [laughter] you. Present. >> There are nine board members present. Thank you. Um moving to item 301, uh the pledge. For those able to stand, please rise. 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. It just figured out that clanking noise is your metals. It's a nice sound. Moving on to item 401, additions, deletions, and modifications to this evening's agenda. Do any board members have any? Hearing none, moving to item 501, approval
003of the April 14th, 2026 meeting minutes. Mr. Terman. The administration is recommending approval of the April 14th meeting minutes. May I have a motion to approve? Motion. Is there a second? >> Second. Any questions? All those in favor, signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed? Thank you. Moving to information and proposals, I'd like to announce to those joining us here in person, as well as those joining us online, that prior to this meeting, we held an executive session to discuss personnel and legal issues. Moving to item 602, student speaker. I'm pleased to introduce our student speaker from Central Dauphin High School. Please welcome Fiona Royer. >> [applause] >> Hello. Okay. Good evening, members of the board, administrators, and community members. You're good. Okay. Um my name is Fiona Royer, and I am a senior at Central
004Dauphin High School. Each year, I've challenged myself by taking numerous AP and honors classes, and I'm proud to say that I will be graduating as the valedictorian of this year's senior class. Throughout my time in Central Dauphin, I've been involved in Four Diamonds, NHS, and Nexus, our school's Connections leadership team. So far this year in Four Diamonds, we have raised $62,652.81. We have had a very successful 12-hour Mini-Thon event, but we are still continuing our fundraising efforts as we approach the end of the school year. Our final large event for the year will be our powder puff football game on May 19th. Through that event and other smaller fundraisers, we are hoping to reach our goal of $70,000 this year. In the last weeks, our Data Jam team has won the Eastern Regional Top Award
005and the National Fan Favorite Award for their data science presentation. This is a testament to the hard work and dedication they have put into the program throughout the school year. On another note, our music program has had an extremely notable achievement in the past month. Our CD Singers were named champions at the Roxbury Choir Invitational. Congratulations to Dr. Mattis and our fantastic CD Singers for this great accomplishment. Choir also has a concert coming up on May 6th, where they will be able to congratulate the program's seniors. In our sports programs, varsity boys volleyball and girls softball both have an 11-1 record right now, and are both playing games tonight, with the girls softball team having their senior night tonight, and coach Sam Hartley making his 100th career win this past week. Our boys tennis team
006has won third singles in Mid-Penns. Congratulations to all our teams for their success. Coming up in the last 2 months of the school year, we have a very engaging schedule of events, both academic and extracurricular. With events like prom happening on May 1st, AP exams starting in a week, the senior art show on May 5th, and the choir concert on May 6th, there are many chances for students to showcase their talents and their personalities as we end this year. Thank you for the opportunity to speak tonight. Thank you. All right. Just curious. >> [applause] >> Um Two two questions. Um to win the a valedictorian, what was your GPA? Are you allowed to say? Um >> I mean, your GPA, whatever the number is, cuz it's always like over 100 now, right? Yeah, so I
007had 104.something. Hm, that's a little blow mind. >> [laughter] >> Uh Not your temperature, your GPA. >> [laughter] >> No, I did about half of that. Did you know where you're going to school? Uh yeah, I'll be attending Boston University, and I'll be majoring in bio. >> Wow. Wow, that's a great place to go to school. Thank you. Congratulations on all your success. THANK YOU. >> [applause] >> MOVING TO ITEM 603, superintendent superintendent spotlight. Mr. Terman. All right. So, at this time, uh Mrs. Live is going to come up, and we are going to honor and celebrate the boys basketball team, who are state champs, and uh have them come up, and I'm sure they've been traveling all around the county. Every time I turn on some place, they're they're being recognized by some place,
008but uh it's our time to recognize them this evening. Shannon. Good evening, President Jacobs, members of the school board, Superintendent Terman, Dr. Box, members of the audience, and those members watching online. My name is Shannon Live, Director of Communications and Community Engagement. It is my privilege and honor to welcome Seth Leonard, his assistants, and members of the boys basketball team to the podium to be recognized as part of the superintendent spotlight. In his inaugural year, Coach Leonard, his assistants, and the members of the team were incredible, and their achievements are incredible. The Rams posted a 29-4 overall record, 13-1 in conference play, culminating in the PIAA 6A championship with a dominant performance over Imhotep Charter. If you direct your attention to the monitors, you can view some of these achievements by the way of two
009slides. I will turn the podium over to Coach Leonard and allow him to do the honors. >> [applause] >> Seeing if you guys want to come with me. Have a good evening. President Jacobs um Superintendent Terman and members of the school >> Hold the mic. Hold There you go. members of the school board, as well as community members and administration, uh we are uh well, I will say I'm indebted, you know, for getting the opportunity to come here and uh do what I wanted to do with you, you know, just serve them and let them know that they're capable of of doing more. Um but we have had an amazing season. Uh there seems like there was nothing but highs, but at times, we were really high, and there's other times where we had character-building
010moments. But I'm going to speak to some of the highlights in our season. So, the first thing um that I have to highlight is that this group of young men is, bar none, one of the best groups that anyone can ask for. Very high character, um very hard-working, and the one ingredient that I think has to do with a lot of our success is that they genuinely love each other. They're that team that didn't get tired of competing against each other, getting tired of fighting for each other throughout the entire season. So, um a kudos to this young man and this community. You all deserve a round of applause for WHAT YOU'RE DOING. >> [applause] >> THANK YOU TO OUR OUR UM PRINCIPAL, DR. STRADER, I appreciate that. Um all of our family members that
011came, um my coaching staff. But here to talk about some of the accolades that we had, and I'll we'll pass the mic to our senior last uh get him ready for some media. But we were able to accomplish uh some things that a lot of people have not. Um coaches, I'm very blessed to be able to say that we did win a state championship. Um that's an incredible mark, because there's some coaches that don't get to experience that. Um along with that state championship, uh we won a district championship prior to that, uh a Mid-Penn championship for a tournament, and a league title, along with another tournament, the MLK tournament that's honoring Dr. Martin Luther King um over his birthday. So, uh we had a ton of winning, but I really think that the wins
012that we had um within the season was doing things for what became of these young men. Not only did they become champions that could be validated, but they became champions in habits. They became champions in the way that they believe. Became champions in the way that they fight when situations aren't going the way that they're supposed to be going. You know, we have a model where we talk about goal setting goal getting. Even though we had goals, we had a lot of adversity and they showed tremendous character in accomplishing the things that we set out to do. without further ado, I'm going to introduce you to our senior captain to finalize any remarks on the season. >> [laughter] >> Uh I'm Jelani Easter, you know. Uh very unexpected to be up here speaking for you
013guys, but >> No speech? No speech prepared, no. Got nothing written down? >> [laughter] >> All from the heart. Um throughout this whole season, you know, this group of guys, special group of guys, I can't believe how much they've improved, how much they've grown. You know, the guys that are younger than me, I've seen them since they were freshmen. Seen some of them since they're in elementary school. It's crazy for me, you know. And there's just like there's no other group I would have wanted to do this with, you know. As a senior, my last year, leaving what we have behind is just it's amazing to see and I'm excited to see what they do in the future. Can I ask you two quick questions before you The medals, some people have two and some
014have three. Um is I assume the one that has to be for the state championship. Uh yeah, the big one right here that says PIAA, dark blue, that's the state championship. Then the district ones right here and this is the mid pen. Okay. Yeah, they're they're a little smaller than mine. So, the other question is um you guys lost four games and and you still and that's great that you overcame that. Maybe it's a learning experience. Who who did you lose to? I'm just curious. Uh we lost to the Harrisburg. Yeah, that I remember. >> Haverford, and Bonner and Prendie. Wow, is that last one is that a charter school or Private school. Yeah, private school. Yeah. Yeah, the only reason I bring that up because that is demonstrate a lot of character that you
015overcame the loss and I got to tell you a monumental win for the championship. Thank you. >> I I rarely say this, but I hated the other team. >> [laughter] >> I was I had an opportunity to be at the Giant Center in person to watch the state the state finals and first of all the the community support and the crowd was awesome. Obviously, we were lucky, close to home to have the game. That was great, but to be in the arena when you guys did it was remarkable and truly special. And so, congratulations on all your success. It's a long season. You guys worked incredibly hard and so, on behalf of the district, on behalf of the board and administration, thank you so much for representing Central Dauphin the way you did and congratulations
016on your success. Of course, thank you guys. I I got one thing to say as I want to say Coach Leonard, congratulations. Watching you on Raw Sports all year like fantastic, you know, seeing the behind the scenes, the interviews has been amazing. Like and subscribe if you guys don't know. >> [laughter] >> It's fantastic content. It's great basketball players throughout the state. So, it's really a great thing. So, fantastic. Came in late, had a lot to do there. The boys, I see you guys at the gyms late at night, 9:00 10:00 working hard. That all that hard work is preparing you guys for for life. So, see you all the time. You almost got to my I see Jackson. He's across the street from me, known since a baby, hard working kid, fantastic. Khalil, I
017got to coach him in baseball. Just one of my favorite kids ever to coach. Sorry. Uh messing with him all season long, I was like, "Hey, it's team destiny. Play your game." And he's like, "I got you, coach." Every time I saw him, he I got you. So, congratulations, Khalil. Fantastic. Uh undefeated this year. And you guys kept saying three for three, right? Mid pen, district, and state. You forgot number four, the best team in Central Dauphin history. When they hang that banner up in the fall, you guys are going to be there for the rest of your lives telling your kids and your grandkids. So, congratulations, fantastic work. Yeah, WELL DONE. >> [applause] >> GENTLEMEN, [applause] CAN I HEAR SOME A LOT OF NOISE? >> [laughter] >> THERE YOU GO. There you go. All
018right. All right. You're off the You're off the board. Again, congratulations to Coach Leonard, assistants, team members, Dr. Schrader, his APs, and Athletic Director Chris Hunter. Um I'd also like to just give a plug for Thursday evening. We have our first farm to family event produce market at Central Dauphin Middle School, 3:00 p.m. 3:00 p.m. And also um multicultural night at 6:00, 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. Hope the community can come out. Um we're really excited for the event. Should be a big affair. >> What's the date time for the farm? 3:00 on Thursday, April 30th. No, right now I have I don't know if And then right into our multicultural night indoors at CD Middle in the cafeteria, 6:00 p.m. >> I was there before. No auditorium this year? It might segue into that for
019some of the performances, but at least we'll start in the cafeteria. >> I was there last year. And some of the food and events. President Jacobs, this concludes my superintendent spotlight for this evening. Thank you. Thank you, Shannon. We appreciate it. >> Shannon, before you go, how do you think the Eagles did in the draft? I love the kid from Georgia. Yeah. I think he's hungry and I don't know. I see us running it back to the Super Bowl. I do, too. Yeah, Cowboys. Yeah, get rid of the Cowboys, man. Thanks, Shannon. No comment. >> [laughter] >> Just wanted to rub it in. >> Moving on to item 604, this is the first of two opportunities for public speakers to address the board. The first of which is for agenda items only and we have
020one individual signed up to speak, Bill Thompson. Mr. Thompson. I follow, but this is more on a serious note and I just have some questions for the board. Can you hold the microphone closer? Thank you. There you go. How many teachers or employees does CD schools have teaching ESL and English language development? Is that available online anywhere? All right. How many employees does CD school have as aides and translators? How much is it costing the taxpayer to run the identification of English language learners? One of these programs, they can opt out of. I think we're committing social uh and societal suicide. How much did it cost 20 years ago? When my kids graduated from CD, there may have been five kids that didn't speak English. I recommend, which isn't going to happen, one classroom, all
021people that don't speak English, you teach them English for 1 year, you hold them back 1 year, everybody moves on. It's a distraction having kids that don't speak English. Okay? I understand there's overcrowding in the CD schools. Why is the CD school district sponsoring Medicaid sign-ups? I understand it's a safety net. I think it's good for people. Uh I went there and yes, at the end, they can ask, you know, "Are you registered to vote?" You present a license, they're good. They send it off to the state. There's a lot of people in this community that are voting that aren't US citizens. I know a lot of post postal carriers. Okay, uh Dauphin County is in the top third for Medicaid and SNAP benefits. Lower Paxton Township has 56,000 residents. In 2016, it was 48,000.
022There's a lot of families that have two and three families in a house. I've been part of NutriPacks for plus or minus 8 years. Started with 200 students. Now it's close to 800. At least a third of the parents don't speak English. They're now computerized. They come with a card. They present the card cuz they don't speak English. Okay? Uh at Thanksgiving, cuz I witnessed it, they were upset because many of them that have two and three families in a house, they were upset that they were only going to get one turkey. And they pitched a fit cuz I saw it. CD is celebrating in recognition of Arab Arab Arab American Heritage Month, which I think is a good thing. I'm not going to name any names. This person came from Jordan, came here in
0232022. This person came from Egypt in 2023. Came with his mom, dad, brother, and they both play soccer. My guess is there's a couple parents of CD kids that thought their kid was going to make the soccer team, but they didn't because there's this influx of people coming to the school. Now with that said, does CD celebrate Jewish heritage month? It's the month of May. How about Italian American Heritage Month? It's all October. Polish Heritage Month, it's October. If you did or doing it, I missed it. Uh Have you been to Costco Burlington Coat Gabes? You would think you're in a different country. That's just my observation. Talking to the police, some say there's over 10,000 Nepali families in Lower Paxton Township. I just moved to a new neighborhood of 18 homes. Two of them
024have three generations in the home and they don't speak English. What's their income, you might ask. I talked to a branch manager. He's given out 10 loans and their employment is senior care. How many home health care companies do you think are within 6 miles of my house? Some might guess 10, 20. There are 60 home health care within 6 miles of my house. I have a friend who moved here from England. Dad and brother were MI5. When asked why I came to America, and he's now a US citizen and paid a lot of taxes, married, two kids, lives in Lower Paxton Township. The culture has changed. All of Europe is totally changed. In England, for example, six out of nine cities are now run by Muslim. Somebody needs to get their hands around this
025because here we are in Lower Paxton Township. We're talking about building one community with another 700 homes and we just saw between Devonshire and and Earl Drive, another 700 homes. Talk to people who live down on Derry Street, where Blue Ridge Country Club was. >> Can you just wrap up cuz your time's up? I'm good. I spoke my piece and just my question is is there any place that I can get these numbers? Is it 10 million, 20 million that we're paying for this? Is there a place where I can find these numbers? What are you asking for? Are you asking for the number? >> How much are we spending on teaching English as a second language? We have three programs and how much it's costing the taxpayer. That's that's your request? Yes. >> Okay.
026Well, I'm sure we're going to look into that. I mean, I don't you know, what we always have proprietary issues. I don't know if we can. Is that a personnel? I mean, we don't have the the the information now, but the budget the budget once the budget's adopted, all that information is available publicly on the website. So, I Can I look at last year's? I think we also need to be very clear. >> [clears throat] >> Can we be very clear for a second? Okay, when you talk about ESL, there's not just 715 teachers in the district who are instructors of ESL students. All the ESL students that walk walk in this district, all of them are taught by all of the teachers in the district, okay? So, there are specific training that teachers have
027in terms of how they instruct ELs when they're in their classroom. So, if you want the budget for ELs, you look at every single teacher in this district. We do not as a district seclude kids or segregate kids and put them in a classroom by themselves. So, if you're talking about a specific budget for ELs, you need to look at every single person who works in this district because every single teacher and staff member touches every EL that walks in the building. We do not segregate our students. Thank you. Moving to item 605 budget presentation, Mr. Bard. I'm trying to be civil. Thank you, everybody. So, when you look up at the the screen up there, you'll see this is our general general fund presentation for April 28th, 2026. Um >> [snorts] >> if you
028got I'm going to stop as we go through to ask any questions you guys have any questions as we go through it. Um as we go forward, you guys have this presentation at your seat, so you guys can follow along. Um as some of this stuff, especially as you go through some of the line items, will be a little difficult to see. Um so, as we go through this, um you guys may see that here. So, as we go through this here, this is the key additions to the 26-27 budget at the kindergarten center. There are four new buildings where we're where we work for all day kindergarten. There are 21 kindergarten teachers, six custodians, three health room aides, one certified health nurse, four autistic support teachers, five autistic support paras, one learning support teacher,
029one learning support para, one ESL teacher, one guidance counselor, and co-op kindergarten classroom assistants, which will consist of 90 high school students that are going to be on track or be senior students that will want to be on track for an educational background. These students >> Peter, can I make a suggestion? Is Is this going to be posted on our web? >> Yes. >> Cuz I don't know that you need to run through all the Maybe you can just hit the highlights. Okay. It's no problem. Great. I will [clears throat] go through this so you know, but there are a total of 44 new positions, not counting the co-op, at a total cost of four of 4,672,301 dollars and 62 cents. This was done to bring on all day kindergarten to our to our students.
030Um the next will be the key additions to the 26-27 for special ed and regular ed. This is a new cost for special education positions district-wide due to rapidly increasing case loads. Um as you can see here, there is uh three occupational therapists, three speech and language pathologists, the two psychologists are grant funded uh they're grant funded as well as a psychologist secretary that's grant funded. Also included in this is the two JR JROTC positions that will be positioned at East High School. Uh however, the CD high school students will also be able to attend and the total cost for these positions are 1,571 5 1.1 million 571,563.60. Um before I move on to anything beyond the key additions to these positions, uh as you can see, there are 58 new positions that were included
031into this budget due to our due to the increasing uh uh increasing programs and increasing case loads. Does anyone here have any questions about the increasing number of additions to the uh to the budget going forward? I just wanted to point out, Peter, I don't have a specific question, but just for for those listening and for those attending, um this presentation really contextually is the administration's budget proposal um for consideration by the Board of Directors. Accurate? Correct. Correct. >> And so, I just want everybody to understand that's that's what uh Mr. Bard is is walking us through um and that's what we're taking a look at. So, just for context. No, that's good cuz we'll have a finance committee meeting prior to the vote and we'll see if it gets out of committee or needs
032some modification. For sure. And I also want to emphasize that the special education positions that are included in this budget are based on a the minimum positions that we can handle in the district based on case load increases. So, as you know, there's statutory limits in in state law that require us to bring on a certain amount of teaching per per case loads as well as hours that are required for occupational therapy, speech and language therapy, as well as um as physical therapies. If we did not bring on these positions, we'd end up paying through due process claims and through um through comp ed times, which would cost us actually more money than bringing on these positions, whether or not we are in-house positions or whether we were we contract these out positions if we
033couldn't bring them on. So, as we go through this budget, even though it is the administration's budget that we're presenting to the board for their consideration and adoption, we also have to understand that these are the bare minimum that we can to successfully operate the district. So, as we continue to move on through this, the key additions to the 26-27 budget, there are 20 There are summer projects that are ongoing. A couple of weeks ago, um Mr. Cressley had submitted to your for your biweekly update a exhaustive list of all the projects that were ongoing in 2026. I would refer you back to that list um so you can see them. It was extensive um and it was very very well put together by him. Um but these are just the highlights of that. The
034renovations at EH Phillips and Paxtonia elementary schools, they're not just air conditioning projects, they're complete renovations uh where they're getting new furniture, they're getting a new uh the board will be voting on a new intercom and clock system. They're also getting the air conditioning systems for those schools. We borrowed 41 million dollars in a bond issue. The debt increased by 1.6 million. However, the total debt service for the district is 5%, which is incredibly healthy for a district the size of Central Dauphin, which is a top 10 large district in the Commonwealth. We refinanced current debt as well during this during this um during this issuance. We saved over 2.5 million dollars over the course of 10 years, which we don't experience the savings at one time. It is spread out, so there will be
035a reduction of the debt over that time over that period. And there will also be several key demolition projects over the over the district on two properties that have become decrepit. Peter, can you walk people through our bond rating? Our bond rating is AA2, which is one of the highest that a school district can receive. Um so, with that being high, that does decrease our um that does decrease our our interest that we received on the debt, saving us uh several hundred thousand dollars on the debt issuance. The reason it's one of the highest a school district can receive is because the state's credit rating is poor um and we are locked into what the state uh credit rating is as well um due to the fact that we receive 35% of our revenue from
036the state. So, that's why we're kind of chalked to what the state's credit rating is. So. Does anybody have any questions on this before we go into the the nitty-gritty of the line items? That's very detail oriented here. So, when we go into the detail oriented, these are the two largest pieces of the budget by far, which is the function object listings for the 1,100s and the 1,200s. These are where the personnel salaries and professional services technical services are for the budget. As you look through here, I want to drag here. I'm not going to go line by line for this because I will seriously put your guys to sleep if I do that and nobody will get anything. Although, that might not be that bad of a thing. Uh when you get through that
037So, the the personnel services piece here is where you'll see a decreases in the 1,200 300 object uh function object function and the 1,100 300. You'll see decreases in there. And the reason you'll see decreases in there is because we took all of the paraprofessionals that we've had contracted out and we put them all into our own personnel services budgets and buckets. The reason for that is because we have a significant we have a series amount of people that are contracted out in our schools because of the positions that we have not filled. We put them into the personnel services so that we'll make a concerted effort to fill all of all the positions with our own people. And then we will once we once we fill a position with one of our own people,
038we will then fall away with the with the services with the person that is on our personnel budget and we'll get rid of the contracted services. We will then every 3 months round out the if we have a contracted service, we will then transfer money from the personnel services budget into the 300 services budget to to fill that out. As you can see the increases in there are driven by the increase at the contractual increases as well as the health insurance increases that are that have been a standard in the budget Peters increases as well as the increases to staffing. So, are there any questions on this on this sheet as we go along? >> transfer would be come from where on the personnel? >> Um they would come from the salary and benefits piece.
039So, from the 100s 200s on each column into the the 300 object. So, the salaries and benefits then would also that when you move it would be covering salaries. Yes, so what would happen is so what would happen is is we start July 1 with every position being budgeted for in the in our own internal in our own internal budget. When we go out and we have openings that we need to be filled that we have no applicants for or we just can't fill the positions, we would contract them out with one of our staffing agencies. As we go forward with that and we get the bills in every 3 months, I would go through we can't do any budget transfer for the first 90 days in any event. After those first 90 days are
040through and and every subsequent month beyond that, we would look and see what the difference is in the 11 in the in the 1,200 100s and the 1,200 200s and see what the savings are and transfer the money into the 300 so there's not an unfunded >> So, there is not an assumption when you do the transfer that the jobs are being filled by full-time district employees. Yeah, we will get the list from HR and what the what we're being filled. There won't be an assumption, we'll know by facts what's being filled and what's not being filled. So, we'll know who what's a contracted position and what's not a contracted position. But, this will give a a good list to our union our union leadership friends that they know that we're making a concerted effort
041to fill all of all the positions with our own internal positions. So, the next slide is the 1,300s 1,400s and the 1,300 to the 1,600s would round out the instructions. The 1,300 the only thing then in vocational ed is the payment that we make to DCTS. This number will be revised slightly lower for the reducing of the payment that is that DCTS came out with. So, this will be about $30,000 lower in the in the May presentation. Um the vocational the the 1,400s 1,500s 1,600s the 1,400s are the the alternative ed placements for things that we do internally in in alternative ed not the out placements. Any out placement education is placed in the 1,200s and the 1,500s and 1,600s are just um play uh items that are not cannot be accounted for in the
042other object codes. The total amount for instruction uh went from 180 million to 191 411 819 or an 11 million dollar 9 or 11 million dollar 5,400 dollar increase from the previous year. So, just one question on that. So, on the vocational tech, just want to commend you for going through and looking um at the reconciliation and if I recall um there wasn't any excess funds that the technical school kept uh this year. Correct. There isn't any if there is, we we always go back every year and check and then they will issue the check if there's any excess. >> Thank you. Yes, sir. So, when we get to the 21 through 2300s, these are the support side of the expense ledger for support services. In the 2100s, that's where the nurse the nurses psychologists
043counselors are. Um and in 2100s, we'll have the the nur the increases you'll see in there are the increases for nursing services uh psychologists counselors. Um that's why those increases are there. The 2200s are for instructional staff and support services and the 2300s are where the superintendent's budget is and where the school board's budget is. Now, the principals' budgets are also in there. So, before any members of the public think that the school board has a 15 million dollar budget, that is completely uh false. They have a very they have no budget, but they do have we do budget legal fees and different things of that nature into the 2300s. So, you will see legal fees budgeted in the 2300s um and that's where all the principals and all the administration central administration except for
044the business office and the maintenance office are held in the 2300 object code. >> Where would legal services be? Uh 2300 300. All right. Yes, and we can get a breakdown for costs if you guys request it. >> I you read my mind. So, if you need that, just make sure you send an email and I will get that for you for you guys. Are there any questions on a lot of these increases when you get into the 2200s and 2300s are all contractual increases and insurance increases. >> personal services, is that people that we're contracting out to? Um Because we had other I mean, when you look through this, what's confusing is there's a lot of personal service designations. It's hard to tell one >> Which which line are you looking at? Like what
045was the functional object line? >> at is actually the last three pages where you had personnel services and then the next page where you had personnel services and the next page personnel service. So, it's obviously for different personnel I I would assume. >> Yeah, so each each personnel line item is covered by its own. So, each personnel line item is covered by its own account code. So, for an example, Mr. Turman's salary is covered under the 2300 100. He wouldn't be in the 1100 100 1200 100. My salary is covered under the 2500 100. So, it's it's covered under a different account I got you. So, who's covered under 1100? 1100 100 is all the teachers. Okay. And then the following page, who does that cover? The 1200 100 are all the special education teachers.
046Thank you. That's all I was asking for some clarity. >> Yes. >> [snorts] >> When you go to the when you go to the next page is the 2400s and that's where you will find the pupil health. So, when you say pupil health, you're thinking they're thinking different kind of nursing services. These are the nurses services that deal with the school in the the school health services inside of the schools. So, these are the people that are physically dealing with the the students individually in the schools themselves. So, when we talk about nursing services in the 2100s, they're the the nursing services that are contracted out. These are the student the services that are dealing with inside of the schools. So, these are the nurses that are the certified nursing aid the the the the
047certified nurses there. So, these are the >> me just stop. So, the nursing services we also provide to parochial schools? >> Yes. That would be in the 2400s here. All right. So, how many schools do we provide nursing services to that aren't within the public school system? I will have to get you that number off I'll have to get you that number. >> Thank you. Yes. The the 2500s is the business office. That is also where we pay for our tax collecting services off of as well. And the 2600s is where the physical plant is. So, the physical plant is where all the custodians all the maintenance services are paid for as well as the director of buildings and grounds is paid for out of there. Also paid for out of there is utilities and
048buildings insurances. So, that is where primarily another huge chunk of the budget comes from, probably the second or the third largest or the third the second largest chunk of the of the budget comes from at 22 million. Um as you see inside of there, you'll see the increases for bringing on four new buildings online with the utilities and with the insurance cost um to bring those four buildings online and adding them. Um that is why you see the the increases that are larger than normal um larger than a previous normal year. This is a place where the administration also cut $880,000 from capital projects that were requested by the maintenance department. Um we are going to move them forward to the next year um simply because uh that would have thrown the budget out of
049whack this year. So, we did postpone those projects to the 2027 2028. So, just for clarity, the money that we borrowed for the air conditioning in the elementary schools really wouldn't be reflected here except for our total amount of borrowing. Correct. None of that is a reflected None of that is reflected here. Yeah. No, I said that that service >> Yeah, yeah. Yeah. No, none of that is reflected. None of that is reflected. >> Thank you. Are there any other questions on this? So, [clears throat] for the next slide here is the transportation services. This is the money that we have we contract out to Christ transportation. And any other services that we use outsourced. I want to give credit to to Christ. I worked very we worked very hard with them to keep their
050prices even though they're adding five new routes for our kindergarten students. They went out and they've only they have not increased our budget number. They have only taken their what it was a required in their contract which is a 2.7 increase which is the consumer price index increase for their busing and so I want to publicly thank them for that. And so that is why the the number is actually gone down because that is a a trend a budgetary trend where >> Does that cost include fuel purchases? >> No, the fuel purchases is actually the line below that cuz we purchase fuel at 2700 600 and that is why there's an increase of 120,725 for diesel fuel. Diesel fuel has spiked over the last 6 weeks as it has gone everywhere. We are tax exempt
051entity so we do not pay the price that you see at the pump. We pay a significant amount of less than that but it's still a significant increase for us that we've paid year to date. But we're still >> why has transportation not Why would it not decrease with the new kindergarten centers because we're not we're not doing all the runs? Because we still because we have to get all the kids into school early. We don't have so instead of having say we have a thousand kindergarten kids 500 in the morning 500 in the afternoon. We have all thousand kids coming at one time. So we have to add routes to get all those kids into the school. But the way the project was advertised by the admin is that we would reduce rates and
052save money. So what you're saying with the opening of the four kindergartens we're not reducing routes. Yet at the same time I heard we're doing five new routes. So those routes are not for the kindergarten. Is that right? I don't know what I don't I don't I don't understand. >> The the question is this the way the kindergarten full day was advertised is that we would need less buses. Ergo there would be less trips. So what I'm hearing is that there aren't going to be less trips. There's going to be there's going to be less trips in the afternoon so we're not going to have as many vehicles moving around in the afternoon so there is going to be a transportation decrease in there but we have to add five routes for A&P routes because
053we're going to have more kids coming back and and forth. So we're not in I got that. What I'm saying is the savings from the afternoon does it and and and I I thought I heard you say that we weren't being charged by Christ for the five >> of $201,000 in the budget and number there. And that's attributable to the kindergarten afternoon runs not being needed. That's attributable to a couple of things also Christ not charging us for buying having to buy five new buses as well. So it's attributable to a couple of factors. I don't want to give it to just one factor as being as being >> just wondering do we have a situation where Christ buses were purchased by Central Office School? >> No. Not not at all. No, we have no
054not none of that stuff. No. In the 2800s [clears throat] we have that's where the IT budget is that's where the informational technology budget is exists and that is all the increases and decreases there. I want to thank Chris Lopez for reviewing the budget at short notice when she took the position and making streamlining the budget as well as she could and moving forward with that. 2900 is just a for anything that really does not fit in 2100 to 2800. And 3200 is for clubs extracurriculars student organizations field trips that the non-instructional portion of field trips band music drama and student events. So that is where those salaries and that's where those portions of >> That's under the 3200. >> That 3200s that that section right there. >> extracurricular. Correct and that's not that is
055not athletics. Athletics has its own fund and I will touch on the athletic budget in a second. >> When you do I'm going to ask you what the total cost is for extracurricular. The the athletic budget I could tell you is 2.5 million. Okay but what's the the salaries for extracurricular? I don't have that number off the top of my head. I will have to get it for you. Yeah. Okay. I I won't know the entire number for all those off the top of my head. When you go to 33 when you go to 3300 that is for community based services for anything that we do in the community that comes out of the general fund. That is where we would budget those those items there. That's not a a lot of money there. The
056the big items here is the 5100 and 50 and 5100 and 50 the 5100 800 and the 5100 900 is where the debt service exists and that is where you'll see the transfer and the use of funds. The 2.5 million is the is the debts or not the debt is the athletic fund transfer. We operate the athletic fund as a separate fund fund 29 and that is as you could see in your in your treasurer's book report that is where the athletic fund exists and that where the fund the money gets transferred out. >> So the financial product we just financed that I think I signed off on includes two schools elementary schools for air conditioning and then also 4 million for kindergarten. Correct. >> Okay. Yes. So the total general fund the total general
057fund budget for 26 27 is 292 million 15,471 or a 19 million 367 324 increase. If you look at the budget for the AFR number from 24 25 it was 258 84,000 866. >> tell people what AFR stands for? The annual financial report. Okay. And the the budget from 25 26 was 272 648 147 and that's so this is actually considering everything that we have done is in line with previous years expansion which I think is a big testament to the administration and the work that we have done for this. When we scroll to the next slide this slide is very difficult to see on the screens. That is why I've given you a handout with it. This is the best I can do with the font. This is a summary of all the object
058codes from 100s to 900s. Personnel services salaries are all the salaries throughout the district for every salary. The benefits includes health insurance retirement and any any type of benefit that is provided. The 300 are professional and technical services that includes contracted out services as well as professional development. The 400s are the purchase property services. The 500s are where tuition exists both cyber charter and outs out placements. The 600s are where you would find utilities and also where you will find any supplies that we purchase for the schools. The 700s will be where you find property purchases such as furniture or anything that we will capitalize on in our audit. The 800s and the 900s where you'll find our our debt service payments and and other transfers in and out of the general fund. And that
059will come to the total of 292 15 15,4766. So this is where I'm confused with the other objects you're saying is for debt service but we had another line item I thought in the 2700s for debt service or no not 2700s I guess 3300. No, there's only the only the debt service lines on the 5100s. All right so okay. So I I think I may be on the wrong page. So the 5100s I get debt services but on the page that I can't read it looks like McDonald's menu. Is there also debt service in in that? No, there's only debt service on the page where it says 5100s. >> Okay I misunderstood you. Thank you. Yes. So the next page is the cyber school piece that is that's driving the cost that is driving costs
060throughout the school district throughout school districts throughout all Pennsylvania. But I wanted to touch on this as well so that we the board has and the and the public has an understanding of what this was. In 2021 we had 1100 1141 students at a cost of 14 million 939. It has gone up to >> [clears throat] >> Excuse me an enrollment of 12 1285 or a cost a budget of cost of 19 million 220. So the reason that it has gone up cost-wise by only a about 100 students is because every time our budget costs have gone up so that's why I pointed out what the in the 20 the 23 24 AFR and the budget costs have gone up our PD 363 that sets our that sets our our cost as also goes up
061our tuition rates go up as well. So that is important to note that as our budget goes up our tuition rates go up as well. >> What hasn't changed is our tuition rate goes up every year and then the amount we pay for special education is almost double our tuition rate and so what confounded me is that at some point I have two questions for you. The first one is how many students are enrolled in our charter school? I could get that number for you but our enrollment is actually on our website under enrollment and you could find out how many students are on our go to our charter our cyber school. >> So having that school likely precluded a larger increase. And so if you follow that logic, if people knew that was available,
062perhaps we could reduce the number of folks going to charter. Correct. I actually went to a a seminar or present session at PASBO my annual PASBO conference that showed how we can market our our cyber school and do a better job at doing that and getting more kids attracted into coming back to our district. I think that's a big thing and Mr. Turman can talk on that a little bit, too. But this is a big thing to happen. It's five It's 500 kids. Okay, it's 500 kids, but In ours. Yeah, so if you look at the percent of our budget that gets diverted to pay for charter schools, it's like 5 or 6%. And and we only have a limited amount of discretionary spending. So, that one of our priorities should be making sure or
063doing everything we can so we don't have this. Correct. Absolutely. >> disruptive kids popping in and out. Correct. Correct. Um Peter, Ms. Webster I don't think was able to speak over the phone to you, but she did ask where she can find the PEERS contribution in all of this. Um the PEERS contributions are in the 11 the anything that's listed as a two a 200 object code. That's where the PEERS contribution is and you will find the state's reimbursement to us on the revenue side when we get to that point and I'll show you where the revenue reimbursement is. That will be in the 200 object code, but it's it's not segregated out. It's baked into the the benefit piece of that. Okay. I'm sorry to ask this cuz I was distracted. Why is the
064cost per student higher every like this year? Like why is this the highest year ever? Um because every time our every year that our budget goes up, our PD 363 is a form that the business office fills out and sends out to the cyber charter schools. It's based on our budgetary expenses. So, every year our budget goes up whether it's special ed or regular ed, our tuition rates go up as well. So, is there like is there is there a formula for that? There is a formula, yeah. Do you mind sending that along, sir? >> Yeah, I can send that out. And so, one thing that was brought up was So, I'll touch on this. The cyber charter reform that helped us actually gives us a cost avoidance of about $2 million or $1.9 million
065roughly. If we didn't have that if we didn't have that legislation passed this year, this number budgeted number instead of being stagnant at 19 million 220,000 for the number of students that we've had, we would have probably been somewhere around $21 million budgeted for cyber tuition. So, we had a cost avoidance of $1.9 million. It just didn't show up as like a a true savings. It showed up as a cost avoidance of $2 million. >> So, next year if you look at the trend, you're going from 14 7 17 6 to 19 2. This maybe shouldn't have been a surprise. I mean, it's been coming. I I mean, it was a surprise to me and um So, the tuition is going to go up every year for for cyber charter. I mean, that's we're locked
066in on it. Nothing we can do for both regular and special ed. Next year if we have another increase in students, that means there's another corollary increase in basic ed students and the students with special ed. That that that would be That's fair to summarize that, yes. So, it could be worst case scenario we would be up to 21 or 22 million. In the worst case scenario, that's a possibility, but we have to work as hard as we can to make sure that we mitigate those that number increase and then stay on top of it. And obviously we you know with respect to the state the Commonwealth and their budget, you know, Eric you and I have talked about and there's been discussions around um you know, caps you know, and and capping the dollar
067amount that public institutions pay to the the cyber charters. Um that hasn't been done. I don't know that it will be, but if something like that were to occur, obviously our costs would probably dramatically decrease. Correct. We are sensitive to that if that were If that were to occur, especially on the especially on the special ed side. Our regular ed tuition rate is not is not as high or as sensitive for >> rate right now? I I don't want to speak to it if I don't have it in front of me. I don't have that in front of me right now. I could I could send it out like David had requested. >> no. I just want to do this for the public. So, I think we're probably between 11 and 13,000 a student. And
068so, what was proposed in the legislature was an $8,000 cap. >> Right. And the problem is when you look at the formula, charter schools getting reimbursed assuming that they're brick and mortar, they have transportation, and they have food services. So, there's more work we could do to make it equitable. And that's really I think what most people are saying. You know, let's just make it fair. Yeah. Could Could you also like Sorry, I have just What do we budget student wise for for next year? Like how many students did you put in the budget? Um we put in a budget that we're going to add that we're going to add I think 93 students because that's what we trended for. And 93 out of the 1285? >> Yeah, so 93 more and that's how we
069got to that 19 million 220 number because we budgeted they budgeted the the 1285 and we budgeted a 93 more students. I work with EDM on this number and that's how they came to me and saying that we had a cost avoidance number that we can budget the same stagnant number because we saved the 1.9 million. Um they did the analytics on the the invoices that we have for the last 6 months and what we brought in cuz I had EDM take a look at EDM is By the way, for the public, EDM is our interim director of business services who's filling in for the position that's been open for the last 5 months. So, they looked at the data and said that this number would be solid because of that increase. They said if
070we were stem the tide or not have that many students that we would experience a savings in that number, but they thought that number would be a safe number to budget based on historical trends and based on these trends and based on the trends that they saw in our invoices and our invoicing from the cyber charter schools. From the brick and mortar and the the the the the the cyber. Could you also get what the state averages for special ed and for regular ed and then where we compare to that? Sure, I can I can work on that. Guys, also before I wrap this up before I wrap word data, but could you guys also send me these questions in an email too as well because I'm not obviously not writing anything down, so. >>
071Don't worry. By the time you get home, the questions will be there. >> That's fine. That's good. That's what I want. I want that so I can get them the information for you. >> be careful what you ask for, but David, there's also a link on PDE that has every school district and it gives what they pay for charter and what they pay for special ed. So, maybe we can find that and send it out. >> Yeah, I just want to I just want to make sure that I get I capture all the questions you guys have so that I can answer them in a timely manner, so. >> it's a disturbing number. >> Yeah. Well, I'm talking about all the questions, too, so. Yeah, so I want to get to this This is the
072state revenue. Now, I'm also starting backwards. Usually it goes local, state, federal. I'm starting with the local last. So, I want to go with the state revenue first here for 26 27. Um this is where we get about 67 to 60 67 to 68% of our revenue from local. So, we get the other 32% from the state side of the house. So, we'll start with this. The numbers that are in italicized are the governor's proposed budget or numbers that are fluctuate from other from other functions. But the state basic The basic education funding formula is the basic education funding >> [clears throat] >> and that's a 30 million 264 806 and that's what the governor Shapiro had proposed in his budget. I feel pretty confident that we could put that in there. The basic education
073funding for social security. That is the 50% social security that you get reimbursed from what we pay in at payroll time. The 7820 at the bottom, the state share of retirement contributions at 19 million 390 395 is 50%. So, this is where if Ms. Webster wanted to figure out what the PEERS contribution is, you take 19 million 390 395, double that and that's what our PEERS contribution would be. Um so, that is where the 50% of the of the retirement contributions is. >> So, that's 50 We all You double it, but we only pay half. We only pay half, so that's why the 19 million is 19 million 390 395. Peter, I the with respect to 7111, so just to reiterate, you took what the governor proposed in February and put it in here. So,
074I just have some concerns um because as someone who professionally is involved in the state budget process in a whole another area of the budget, um the conversations that I have been privy to with respect to the overall state budget proposal, particularly on the education space when they find out I I'm a sitting school board member even though I was there talking about a completely unrelated issue, um I have some significant concerns that the number that he put in his budget is the one that we're going to see what's passed in July. Um and so, [clears throat] I just I don't have intel. We're too far away from it, but I just I have a little bit of concern that that's the number where we're going to land. And I and I just worry from
075a budget perspective that um we're going to overshoot potentially the revenue. I'd rather err the other way. Are the italicized My My point is a really good point. So, the italicized, that's the governor's budget. Correct. >> Which is a fantasy. So, um the 29 is what? The 29 Is that from the following year? Previous. Previous year. >> previous year. I I've said this before I want to agree with with with Mr. Jacobs is that I would never construct a budget off the governor's number because it's never realized. I mean, that's something you can bank on. >> Well, I would I would just say though the what has transpired in the last couple state budgets has been fairly beneficial driven primarily through the adequacy dollars um because it disproportionately benefits like school districts like ours who
076have been short changed for a multitude of years with respect to you know, both the the poverty levels increasing in our district as well as the the population increases. But to Eric's point, I mean I think that um we may want to just think about keeping it flat from previous year to this year and then be surprised come July 1st because it's more than that. um Just I I only say it because I've I've been privy to conversations with respect to those in legislative leadership and and on state budget related issues and they made [snorts] a point to say there the the governor's education budget is Okay. So. Well, that's actually the opposite of what I heard and that's why I put that in cuz I was when I was at PASBO, that's what they
077said the it was okay to go with these numbers. But I will that and that's the rationale >> But you heard something different so I mean we could as an administration scale it back that will also change I get it. for the rest of the deficit numbers. >> No, I get it. I I just I would I I would and and I'm one of nine but but I I feel like I'd I I'd be a little bit more comfortable being a little bit more conservative with respect to the one of the main revenue drivers um in the budget. Just >> Okay. perspective. Just one person's perspective. >> a real big difference. >> No. No, but the when when you add it up and when we get to the later slides I got the um you
078know, when it's $400,000 here and then $300,000 for special ed um that's $700,000 and then when you're adding a talking about how close you were to the to the to balancing the budget, that's what you add to the financial pressure that the district's under. >> with the proposal tonight is the administration's budget. Well, correct. Yes, it is. Um So we're we're not at the real number. Okay. So in other words, we get so when you total up all the state revenue, you get the $92,065,048 and that would be what this uh state revenue proposal is for for this particular for this particular uh slide deck. When you get to the federal and total revenue for '26-'27, this is where we have the increase in title money. Um title money has been confirmed for this year
079so this stuff is solid at $5,004,879. The title two money is at $500,037.5. What you mean? $500,037,927. The title three money at $301,832 and the title four money at $238,163. The school based access program uh reimbursement stays consistent and eight 8810 and 8820 are basically the same thing but they have to be separated out for accounting purposes. Um 8820 is basically the accounting for how much we can charge the medical access for the administration of the program. Um we hope that in the fourth quarter that that number becomes the rising because of the the the consultant that we hired to help us drive that revenue up. Um but the total federal revenue is $6,864,387. Um and that's the total federal uh federal revenue. The consultant was to increase the amount of revenue we got because
080they would either expedite or be more inclusive of Is that correct? Correct. Yeah, but it there's it's a lag process so we shouldn't see it we won't see the big increase until '27-'28 because of the lagging of billing and then different things of that nature. >> Wow. That was my question. Okay. >> Yes, there's a lag there's a lag in billing um and different things of that nature. So. When you look at the enterprise fund transfers and the internal and the internal service fund transfers, um the internal service fund transfers are health insurance fund. Um we bill in everything out of our health insurance fund so the money goes to our internal service fund then it pays out to Peach Bottom to pay our health insurance claims. We took $2.5 million out of that the
081same as we did last year. This is not a fund that comes out where we just pay it a one time and transfer it right into the general fund. We do that at audit time if the budget if the if the if the general fund is in a deficit at audit time then we make the transfer the transfer at that particular moment. And to do that there's also three columns here. Just focus on the one column here where the total revenue comes out to $288,024,462. So the reason there's four different categories you'll you'll understand why in the next slide um moving forward because that's where the local revenue comes into play. But that is why the uh the the $288,024,462 uh is here for that. Are there any questions there? So when we go to
082the next slide here, this is the local revenue piece and I'll put the microphone back up on the circuit. But This is the local revenue side. So I'm showing multiple scenarios here um in this picture. I'm assuming a 96% collection rate with a 3% increase in the growth of earned income tax and an increase in the facility rental charges due to the new software that the board and the district has enacted. The '25-'26 budget is shown in the far left. The '26-'27 uh with a 0% tax increase is shown in the second column. The third column is the one is a 1.9% tax increase. The '26-'27 uh they're assuming the 2.9% is in the second to the last on the right. And the 3.5% uh tax increase is shown in the far right. >> I
083requested and for the next finance committee meeting to use a 2.5% model to include it in both of the levy scenarios and also the resource. Okay. Uh that that may be a likely option. Okay. And then Peter just uh the cap um the Act 1 index. The Act 1 index is 4.4%. [music] Thank you. So this will show you that the local real the current real estate taxes went up um from '25-'26 to '26-'27 without a tax increase and the reason that happened is because our assessed values throughout the throughout the district has increased uh in large part because we have reversed taxes tax appealed uh certain commercial properties in the district thanks to the vision of Mr. Epstein who has really spearheaded of that over the last several years. Um so we got a
084lot of that revenue online. Um so that's why the current real estate went up to $110,032,907. The current uh the earned income tax is another large chunk of this which is $59,881,863. That is driven by employees that work inside of Central Dauphin School District. They pay a a uh an earned income tax. It is not 3%. That is a 3% increase in the growth of the earned income tax. The IDA pass-through funds is actually a federal fund but since it's passed through through the IU, it ends up in a local fund and that shows a slight decrease. And I also wanted to show the rental increases here. It goes up from 20,000 to 100,000 thanks to Mr. Cressly and his department running the the rental program. Um so does anybody have any questions on the
085local revenue for '26-'27? >> for next year the the amount of money we get from reverse tax increases [clears throat] that we keep increases until we get to year 10 but we won't really see the full impact for another year or two in the in the reverse taxes and I hope this year we can pursue the pilot payment in a low um cuz that's been static forever. Correct. >> I think that's the hospital. Yeah, it's the hospital and there are so um there are also a few other small properties but mainly it's UPMC uh campus. Yeah, that that assessment is way out of line. Correct. So we will get to the levy scenarios that Mr. Epstein had alluded to that he would like to see at the finance committee which we will certainly do. So
086this is a the levy scenarios and what their impact would be on the on the taxpayer in the in the in the district. So when you look at the 1.9% tax increase, the dollar increase is the yearly increase to a tax bill. The median assessed value is what the average homeowner in the district is their property or their home owner the home is assessed at as 120,000. If we went with a 1.9% dollar increase would be $41.71 for the year or $3.48 a month. A 2.9% tax increase would be $63.66 for the year or $5.31 a month or 3.5% tax increase would be a $76.83 per year or a $6.40 a month increase. Um that is what and we will show at the next finance committee which is on May the 14th, we will show
087a 2.5% increase and what that impact would be. But in in theoretically we'll land somewhere between 1.9 and 2.9. I would probably estimate around $5.15 uh a month or a month increase. >> is when's the next board meeting? May 12th. All right. So yeah. >> It was May 12th. You corrected me. I thank you. >> Right. Yeah, so it's May 12th and the finance committee on May 14th would mean that we should vote on the budget on May 28th. >> Correct. We could do that. Yes. Yeah. We are going to do that. Okay. So the next slide will be the administrative uh recommendations. And these will be what we have put together as an administration team to balance the budget now. This would be if the board did not raise taxes at all. So if
088the board decided they didn't want to raise any taxes, there would be a 0% tax increase, the deficit would be $4,035,044. All these positions are vacant uh with the exception um there's one dean of students that is in a in a position. Um the co-op positions would be eliminated at $525,690. Three new kindergarten teachers would be reduced from the from the request at $330,000. Three new custodians at the kid the kindergarten centers would be reduced at $276,000. Three deans of students would be reduced at a cost of $330,000. Seven elementary positions that are currently open would not be filled at $770,000 for a total savings of $2,231,690 leaving a balance that we'd have to take from the unreserved fund balance of $1,803,354. Can I ask why the administration did not include any administrative positions in
089the cuts? Because the administration does not we are extremely understaffed in the administration position role. >> I can't be. So we >> Extremely understaffed? So the dean positions are {quote} {unquote} they are in the in the teachers bargaining unit but they are administrative positions. So all these positions that are here are basically coming from the kindergarten center. For the most part. So instead of having a class size of 20, then your class size will go up to 23, 24. Instead of having the co-op students who would support the teachers, you wouldn't have that. Instead of having two custodians at a building, you would only have one. So for the administrators who we were going to put at some of these centers, we would be eliminating those positions. So what I'm saying is these are positions
090that you would propose to cut and as someone who's done this before, you try to spread the pain. And and I'm not saying that. The other issue is you're just looking at personnel in terms of cuts, right? You're not looking at anything else. We just added a whole fleet of vehicles. I mean so we'll get together and chat but I think there are other options. I the board may be fine with it but that Peter, that's my initial response. Okay. So the the 1.9% tax increase, the deficit would be 1.847 uh $47,441. The revenue increase would be $2,187,604. The following the following issues would be uh the following things would be reduced. One HVAC position, one electrical position, one project custodial positions would be reduced. They are currently vacant at $335,132. Uh Chromebooks would be
091or touch panels would be reduced at $500,000. This would make it if we reduced the Chromebooks, the fifth graders going to sixth grade would no longer be one-to-one if this would if this cut was uh uh adopted. And there would be no professional conferences district-wide um for administrators or teachers at a at a reduction of $347,900. This would reduce the budget by $1,183,032 and we'd take from the unreserved fund balance at $664,409. >> Yeah, I I don't know who came up with the cut in professional that that ain't happening. You know, all we get lectured on is curriculum and curriculum development. The question I had for you that still hasn't been answered, when you look at all these scenarios and you have to from the unreserved fund to balance the budget but the numbers decrease.
092So you started I think 1.2 million go to 650. I'm just trying to find the logic between in your proposal decreasing 4 500,000 with every iteration. When you raise when you're raising taxes, you're increasing revenue so you won't have to take from the the unreserved fund balance. >> What I'm saying if you used a static amount a static amount for all then I think that's something that we can talk about what we see. Um because I got to tell you I I just find the proposal the way it is unsettling. So are you saying are you saying Eric if you if you took the balance from the unreserved fund balance of 1.8 that is listed under the zero tax or something like that >> Right. and kept it static and so regardless of what potential
093tax increase then then the cuts would be mitigated to some extent because that other source of revenue is balancing out whatever's coming in from the tax increase, right? >> not I'm not cutting teachers or textbooks but so I asked Peter to look at we have I think 31 million in our uh reserves. The the full reserve is 30 a little over 33 million. So with 18 million which you know is out there, I asked him to and we're at a 6.8% funding level. We can't go above eight. Uh we've never people we've been in the high 59s so I think Peter when we looked at it, we looked at how much money drawing it down would be. I don't I'm not sure I completely understood and I appreciate you going through the exercise but what
094I was saying is we get that number, we know what we are dealing with what people have the appetite for. So the amount of money would be dictated by if you're at 6.7, 6.6. Normally there's a couple hundred grand there if you draw down. Correct. So the unreserved fund balance is $18,659,500 which is 6.4% of our $292 million proposed budget. So if we were to zero we drew down $664,409, that would be a 0.3 reduction percentage point reduction of our unreserved fund balance as it stands. Okay, that's what I've been looking for. Okay, that that's what I thought. >> Yeah, thank you very much. >> So so help me understand real quick. So the percentage of the unreserved fund balance as a percentage of the overall budget explain this >> is not a is 6.4%.
095So the the unreserved fund balance is $18,659,500. That is what was in the previous year's a annual financial report. It is 6.4% of the proposed 20 26 27 budget which is what you have to go by. It is so that is 6.4%. We are barred from by state law to go over 8% of the unreserved fund balance. The board at its discretion can label any amount of its total fund balance which is a 30 33.1 million into different categories committed, assigned and so Mr. Epstein had asked me to what would happen >> Epstein. I'm Epstein I'm sorry. >> want to be confused. Epstein I'm sorry. Mr. Epstein had asked me to what would happen if I reduced the uh what would happen to the percentage if we reduced it by the 1.9 or 2.9% of
096the unreserved and so I did that quick and if we reserved if we unreserved if we reduced it by $664,409 and we could increase this by anything you guys want to um it would be a 0.3% reduction of that 18 uh it would go down to $17,995,091 or 6.1% of the of the of the fund of the general fund. >> what would the amount be? What would the amount be? $17,995,000 is there >> the amount we're taking to balance the budget. Um the amount would be the unreserved would be $664,409. So that's what gets you to 664 taking 3/10 of a percent >> No, yeah 3/10 of a percent of it. Yeah, 3/10 of a percent. >> Okay, I I'm going to I need to review that but thank you. Could could you walk me
097through the administration's like rationale or philosophy on what number would you feel comfortable why are you at this number? You know, let's say whatever you say 6 5 like what's what's a range like what why do you guys have it there? Um the range what we feel comfortable asking for in terms of a a tax levy to to balance >> no. On you said you it's at six and why aren't you at 5.5%? Like what's >> So I did so I would feel comfortable with the unreserved fund balance to be anywhere um around 5% to to 7% I'd be comfortable with it because the overall fund balance is 33.1 million. So we have enough cash on hands when you when the fund balance depletes lower than 20 million, you're starting getting into cash flow issues.
098We need to get later in the school year. >> So if you feel comfortable at five, then why would you need to raise taxes if you can So there's there's there is a very logistical reason for that. Um when we talked about that with their credit rating, the credit rating agency made it very clear that if we draw too much on our cash reserves that when we go out to borrow more money that there's a a strong possibility that our credit rating could decrease and if our credit rating decreases, then we will pay Yeah, I get that so what what number did they say that we should avoid drawing >> will not give a number because they will have to they'll have to evaluate the portfolio. But they normally evaluate based on what other school
099districts have and we're high. So I mean we're not going to be at the same level as Dari. Nobody's at eight. We used to be in the low sevens but we usually you know, we're my comfort level is never going below six. >> So we could be at eight if the board decides they wanted to be at eight because we have 33 million dollars in total fund balance. >> Yeah, so what that does it increases our bond rating and then increases the discomfort for our personnel. You know, so what we're looking at here basically and I think this is what David's saying, you can draw down on that, not hurt our bond rating and then minimize the amount of money for a tax increase. Philosophically you may look at it different Peter, I get that
100but the board has that option, that discretion. You know, I don't see us go if we go 6.0, it's not I don't see it affecting. If you you think it we just have a different opinion but right now compared to our norms and our comps, we're we're healthy. So we go to the 2.9% tax increase, the budget changed, the deficit is $696,000 um $696,070 and the revenue increase with a 2.9% increase is $3,338,974. The deficit reduction strategy here would be postponing the new social studies curriculum by 188 by $188,000 and the unreserved fund balance reduction would taken from the unreserved fund balance would be $508,070. If we did this, that would be a two per a 0.2% drop in the unreserved fund balance. So, that was another point. >> So, here here's my confusion in
101every option. You're cutting different programs. You know, there's not There's not one program that's consistent. So, I have no idea what is a priority in social studies curriculum. Where the hell did that come from? I'm just Are you putting numbers up there based on if you all eat if you needed to cut 188, that program would be closer to how much it actually is to run. No, we were taking We were looked at the holistically what we needed to do to reduce things that we could postpone for a year and re-evaluate that program in a year. And that's the things that we put up there. It wasn't just let's throw stuff at the wall and see what sticks. These were things that we can postpone um for time to see what we can do to
102get the >> kind of feels It kind of feels like that. But, um can we get a list of all the different things that you think that we could cut or delay? So, we have like a full menu of says, "Here's all the different things that we see." Um I think that's really helpful in the kind of determining what we need to do is here's the different options and so we can have some some different ways to look at it. And I would always ask and I'm sure Chris is going to get asked is like, "Is there anywhere else that we're looking to cut that's waste?" I know there's not a ton. I know like 90-some percent of our budget's like spent. But, is there anything else that we're missing? And you know, is there
103>> So, if you get an exercise to look at those. Yeah, there is. I mean, you guys can look at all I've given you guys all the data in the budget you guys have. You have it all at your discretion in your >> I got it, but I got a full-time job. I can't read >> No, no, I understand that. But, if you looked at it, there's not the expenses and the increases are not very high. So, there's not a There's This budget is cut to the >> I'm I'm just asking the question. Have we gone through the exercise to make sure that we're looking Yes, that's a >> in every under every couch cushion We have. And that's why the budget was 2 weeks later than you guys have normally got it. So, that's
104why it was 2 weeks later than we normally got it. Thank you. When did we have a new social studies curriculum presented? Is that part of our curriculum cycle? Well, it's the middle school social studies. That was postponed last year. So, this is something we're looking to to We're proposing to move forward with a pilot this coming year for the program to be purchased for the following year for middle school social studies. I think what Dave is asking for is a menu and not just item 6800. Um do we have a listing a menu of the cost for specific projects? Not minimum, but but you know, bigger ones. Whether be curriculum or uh substitute teachers. Well, I think I think everything that you've listed in the bubbles, right? On each sheet, right? Building building and
105sort of putting that all in one document. So, without reference to this in level increase or this level increase, but just here are things from the administration's perspective that we view as potential um decision points that we could make with respect to postponing something for a year or not doing something or not filling this position or whatever. And just sort of so that the board has the entire picture, not segmented by maybe uh each each increase scenario. >> Yeah, so we're looking for like not like the French laundry where you got like three choices. Like I want a Waffle House of like here's all the different things that I can want to smother, I want to cover, I want that. You know, I want to ask for the sauce. >> And it could just as
106easily be the custodial or could be the Chromebook. >> Correct. >> In that Sure, I could do that. That's no problem. I could I could make a list of those things. >> a menu, I believe. Yeah, I could do a list of those things. What's a French What was that? French laundry, it's a place in Napa Valley. It's very good. Oh, it's a restaurant. So, Michelin stars, very delicious. So, here's the last one, the 3.5% tax increase. It provides a 4 million It provides a 4 million 29,796 revenue with a balanced budget. There will be no reductions that will be necessary for this. Um and it will provide uh There's So, some of the talking points that we had for this, the health care savings we came through or or we were trending at a
10713.9% uh increase. However, we got it down with bringing Scott LaBreckin and his short partners, we got that down to 8% going with a going with Capital Blue Cross. How much savings was that? Uh it was It was about It was a little over a million dollars. >> Right. Thank you. >> So, there's a lot of I So, we've cut a lot of things from the budget that did not show up in these >> But, that's not a cut. That's a savings. >> It's a savings You're right, but it was a savings in the budget that did save us money, though. So, a savings or a cut are the same things when you reduce the expenses to spend. >> Actually, they're not. A cut is eliminating a program. A savings is providing the service at
108the same level without increasing the cost. But, we can debate that later. Yeah, that's sure. We adding air We added air conditioning in two buildings. We had an increase in special staff or special ed staff. And we had full-day kindergarten. And we had And by over by adding full-day kindergarten, we addressed overcrowding at several buildings throughout the district. And so, by doing all this and only needing a 3.4 3.5% tax increase, I think that is a substantial effort and deserved uh a significant amount of of praise to the administration team. And I'm extremely proud to work with this administration team. >> not going to get a significant amount of praise. Well, that's fine. That's fine. I think What you can ask for about For instance, you just said one of the problem with a budget
109is we're doing the air conditioning. It's not reflected in here. That's what That's That's debt service. And there are things that you've done that are really good. I appreciate. But, this is what happens when you don't have a finance committee meeting to discuss it. You know, we're we're left juggling balls. So, I think at the next meeting we can probably work through all this if not most of it. We have to because we have to get a budget done by the end of April. And I'll send you those questions as a follow-up, Peter. Um and then just one thing. I know Dave said this sort of generally speaking, but as we look in the the technology budget, I remember last year when we were going through, there was a lot of programs that I know
110when Matt was the director was going through and looking at the utilization for them. And it was I I kind of thought there were some that it was like in the middle of the cycle and we were going to look at it more for next year. I know you're very new to this position, so you probably didn't have a whole lot of time to really review everything. But, I just wanted to make sure that since I remember that being one that was a potential area for for savings just cuz they weren't being utilized, that we we've kind of looked at all of those as well. So, on that um that was something that before I took this position while Ryan was the acting director, he did go through and he had found a number of
111things and was able to already cut them. Um so, there were things that have been cut already from technology's budget. >> Okay, I appreciate that cuz you know, No, I absolutely sure because when you're looking at total numbers instead of all the details. Do we Do we have a um I know like we did for the technology in the classroom, we now have a inventory. Do we have like an inventory of all the different softwares we have? Like how many licenses? We We do have an inventory. I mean, I can go through what we have and what's included in technology's budget if you'd like to see those different things. That would be wonderful. Thank you. So, we don't have a tech committee, we can't ask these questions anymore. So, I I'm always free to to
112answer questions. [laughter] Thank you. Thank you. So, I wanted [clears throat] to show you the Act 1 trends for the Act 1 index. This is the last 5 years um the actual 4.2% a couple years ago in '22-'23 all the way down to this year 4.4%. You saw that it did get uh really big in '24-'25 at 6.6. The uh forecast for the next 4 years, this came from the independent fiscal office from the state. Um it looks like it will dovetail down a little bit to 4.1, 4.2, 4.2, and 4.0. Um and finally, the last slide. Is there a formula for like why is that 2022 it was 4.2, it went up, and now we're It's based on the the average weekly wage in the state. Um so, it's based on economic factors throughout
113the state. Um and when they got when the COVID money was It's a delayed It's a delayed uh index. So, when the COVID money came in and everybody in the state's unemployment dropped to a record low number, that's why the 6.6% was high. But, once um things cooled off in the state, that's why it's dropping back down to low to lower levels to more realistic lower levels. >> connection between employment Yes. Yes. Does it have anything to do with COLA at all? Um no, it has nothing to do. I could send you the independent fiscal forecast. It does have the formula in there. And um I did adjust that to our adjusted base cuz we this This is based on our adjusted Act 1 index, which does increase from the base. Um the base index
114is about 3%. Ours goes up a little bit higher based on our economic condition. So, this is the last one. This is a lot of data on it. Um so, you guys might want to take this and look at it um to study it cuz it does show our assessed value over the last 5 years. It also This is basically the moral of the story is um if the district had uh raised taxes 2% over the last uh for the last 5 years, what the increase of additional revenue would be. And that's in the lot in the bottom right-hand corner of what the additional revenue would have brought in. $2 million, $4 million, $6 million even with the increase last year additional $3 million on top of that. And this year uh would have been
115an additional $1.7 million with no tax increase. Um the reason I put that in >> my Nvidia stock got me on a yacht right now. I mean, we can't look back. I mean, it's Well, I understand that, but I just wanted to show the cumulative effect of what happens when taxes are when money's left on the table. So, there's a cumulative effect to it. So, anyways, the next Please, if you have Please uh accumulate your questions, send them to me. I will get the answers out to you. Um obviously, the third bullet point does not need to happen. And the final the last the the fourth bullet point does need to happen. We have to have a final budget by by June 30th, though. >> Yeah, I would recommend We're going to do the budget.
116I think what What Is that the 26th is the last meeting in May? Yeah, uh June, yes. >> Yeah, let's shoot for that cuz then we can have a uh finance committee meeting and then work out all the differences so we can have something recommended uh for the meeting. Okay. Thanks, uh Peter. Thank you. Nice job, Peter. Thank you. >> [clears throat] >> Moving on to unfinished business, uh I would like to propose a consent agenda vote for items 701 through 709 as they were all given first read at the last board meeting. So I'm looking for a motion to motion. Is there a second? Second. Thank you. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Opposed? Thank you. Moving on to new business item 801 personnel report. The administration is recommending approval of
117the personnel report as discussed in executive session. May have a motion to approve? So moved. Is there a second? Thank you. Questions? Is there an a corollary increase based on the salary change to any of the positions? I mean so if you're changing the name of the position We're not on that. You're you're ahead of us. We're on 801. 801. Yeah, I'm only off by eight. Any any questions? All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Opposed? I lost a page. >> Item 802 supplemental staffing provider agreement, Mr. Board. The administration [clears throat] is recommending approval of the supplemental staffing provider agreement with A healthcare Inc. This item will never mind. Skip that line. You're as bad as new. Peter, do you want to explain this because this is the first time it's appeared
118on the on the agenda and and we're moving from not just a first read but an immediate consideration. Correct. So we have a this will be paid for out of the psychologist grant that we received from the federal government. And this provider A healthcare has a has a an in-person psychologist available to start tomorrow. So that is why the administration is asking for the board to vote on this tonight. And that is also why we didn't have time to present it for a first read last week because the in-person person just got came on board like within the last week or so and they've been vetted out and everything. So It's a it's a benefit to our students. So May have a motion to approve the recommendation? Motion. Is there a second? Second. >> Any
119questions? All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Opposed? Item 803 adjudication of student case 1352 just for the public's information. We do not use student numbers for privacy concerns and therefore each student is assigned a number, Mr. Turman. The administration recommending approval of the adjudication of student case 1352 as discussed in executive session. May have a motion to approve the recommendation? Motion. Is there a second? Second. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Opposed? Thank you. Moving to item 804 treasure report for month ending March 31st, 2026, Mr. Board. The administration is recommending approval of the treasurer's report for the month ending March 31st, 2026. This item will appear on the May 12th board agenda for approval. Again, not not a voting item for today. If you have questions between now
120and the next meeting, certainly let Peter know. Item 805 proposed school board meeting dates for 26-27 school year, Mr. Turman. The administration is recommending approval of the proposed school board meeting dates for the 26-27 school year. This item will appear on the May 12th, 2026 board agenda for approval. Moving to item 806 Dolphin County Technical School budget for the 2026-2027 school year, Mr. Board. Mr. Board, the administration is recommending approval >> Board. I didn't say Board. Well, I'm just I saw that it said Board. Yeah, I spelled it the wrong Board anyways. I just wanted listen, I just wanted I just wanted Mr. Epstein to get a laugh out of me. That's We're good, all right, you know. The administration is recommending approval of the Dolphin County Technical School budget for the 26-27 school year.
121The contribution for CSD is 8,029,415 or a 4,000 or 400,063 463,037 dollar increase from 25-26. This item will appear on the May 12th, 2026 board agenda for approval. You did a great job by the way on the the to make sure there wasn't a clawback. How So how many what percent is of the the students are ours? Is it 40? >> 43. Yeah. 43%. >> 43% of then Harrisburg? Of all Of all the students, yeah. All the students. So we are by far are the largest sender of students there. So this is a public complaint, but so we're the largest so we're the largest contributor, yet when we vote, we have the same votes as smaller districts. It would just seem to me that's something we need to remedy in the future. I know that
122this that conversation did happen and the superintendents from the other districts that conversation went nowhere. Well, there's it's a charter that needs to be renewed coming up and I think we can use that a leverage for it to go I would they want to do it there. We could just not vote. No, there there I there's going to vote come up and Genie or Janelle can let us know where they need to renew. I think it's the charter or something else. And so yeah, we can throw it out there, but it's it's it's financially it costs us. Okay. Moving on to item 807 approval of food service management company, Mr. Board. The administration is recommending approval of the nutrition group as the food service management company for the 2026-2027 school year. God bless you. This
123is a cost reimbursable one-year contract requiring annual board approval. This item will appear on the May 12th, 2026 board agenda for approval. So Peter, I hate to monopolize your time, but next year we will have to put this out for RFP. Correct. This is the last one-year renewal we have on the on the agreement. Item 808 unified strength and conditioning opportunity, Mr. Turman. The administration recommending approval to establish a unified strength and conditioning team at both high schools. This item was reviewed at the April 22nd, 2026 personnel committee meeting. This item will appear on the May 12th, 2026 board agenda for approval. This will be two stipend positions, one for East High School, one also for CD High School. Goes along the line of bocce would be through Special Olympics where regular and special ed
124students will be able to participate in activities together. Moving on to item 809 job description revisions, Mr. Turman. Administration is recommending approval of the following revised job descriptions. These items were reviewed at the April 22nd, 2026 personnel committee committee meeting. These items will appear on the May 12th, 2026 board agenda for approval. Coordinator of curriculum development instructional practices, digital media and branding specialist, building and grounds coordinator, warehouse supervisor/copy shop supervisor. When these were discussed at the HR meeting, the coordinator curriculum development instructional practices is just replacing Chris Lopez's old job description. The digital media and branding specialist, that individual is at the warehouse now. Will be coming over to this building to support the technology department. Building and grounds coordinator, that individual is in this building and would then transfer to the warehouse to be
125the supervisor there. So I guess it would be appropriate to ask the question now. Do I need a new job definitions include increases? First two do not. Third one, the individual will go up one band because now that individual will be supervising. Right. Okay. Moving to item 8.10 first reading of board policy, Mr. Turman. The administration recommending the first reading of the revised board policy 237 electronic and personal communication devices. This item was reviewed at the April 22nd, 2026 policy committee meeting. This item will appear on the May 12th, 2026 board agenda for approval. This is going after the basically cell phone usage and personal device is by students in all buildings. Really is looking bell to bell. We're talking glasses, smart watches, cell phones, the whole nine yards where they will not be permitted
126for students to have them out when they enter the building and to and also will be able both permitted to use them once they leave. So I wasn't able to attend that. Is that going to be in line with the governor's or the the legislature's thing? Correct. And that's due to come out for the 27-28 school year. We are We this policy will be going into effect Correct. once it's approved. Yes. We're going to focus on communication and then also working with all staff. We're going to start at the beginning of next school year. And just so everybody is aware, the state the governor's plan requires policy to be put into place for this coming school year and then it be enacted for the following school year. We are just doing it all at one
127shot. I I when I was at the Capital Area Intermediate Unit meeting, I talked to the Derry Township rep cuz they've had the policy in and basically they had three weeks with lots of discipline and then it just died off. And most of their um issues came from parents not kids. So so it didn't it did work out well. They didn't require special bags. They They just had to be away and they uh uh only allowed them to use them at the after school activities for contact, you know, then you can contact your parents and let them know your pickup times and stuff like that. So, they said the parents were more resistant than the kids? Yeah, the the the kids once that you know, they they it was the teachers supported it cuz now
128all of a sudden it's a standardized policy, so you can't you know, do your own thing. Um and then the kids got used to it after you know, seeing enough of them get punished um that it wasn't an issue after about that third week. Yeah, you probably don't want to read on Facebook comments, but it's actually a lot of parents that are said, "Hey, I want to be able to communicate." And that things now so a lot of the comments of the parents actually want the cell phones. And that's That's just I was surprising when you go like on going some of those things. >> what he he verified that the parents caused more issues for them than the kids. And if you take a look at the policy, there are certain obviously exceptions when
129students have you know, I you know, you know, it's a could be a medical or health issue or or whatever. So, you know, there are exceptions built into the policy. Okay. Are there any lines is that it goes beyond cell phones as well like to the watches? Cuz I know a lot of people would say if you don't have your phone Meta glasses. Yeah, it's everything. >> glasses record as far as I know, I'm not a techy. The watches don't do anything, right? If you don't have a phone. It's everything. If you have a phone with a cell phone plan, but they make Apple watches and other ones with phone plans. I just wondered if the law the legislation actually states like other things or if it's specific to cell phones. If I can pull
130it I have to go back and look at it. Yeah, you can't catch your steps now. >> Right, I think we're it's going to be our policy. So, yeah. Yeah, I don't know if with what he put out as law. I can't remember if he included everything. Okay, moving on to item 8.11 agreement with school scheduling associates, Mr. Chairman. The administration recommending approval of the agreement with school scheduling associates. It consult will support the district creating a master schedule for all secondary students. The cost will not exceed $27,000 for the 2026 school year. This item was reviewed at the April 22nd, 2026 academic committee meeting. This item will appear on the May 12th, 2026 board agenda for approval. Um this individual will support myself and then also the administration in basically gathering a team uh
131to really look at what we want for schedules for our high school and middle schools. Um so, there will be community involvement, uh there will be teacher involvement, some student involvement and we will really take our time to make sure the schedule that is created for all of our secondary schools that every that there's buying in terms of what we would like as a district for our kids. Moving to item 8.12 technology purchases, purchases, Mr. Chairman. The administration recommending approval of the following technology purchases to the lowest responsible bidders. The purchases are being funded by title one. These items were reviewed at the April 22nd, 2026 academic committee meeting. These items will appear on the May 12th, 2026 board agenda for approval. 123 iPad keyboards to SDS of education $84.89 each for a total of
132$10,441.47. 44 classroom charging carts to Troxell $620 each for a total of $27,632. 249 interactive panels from Troxell $1,932.50 each for a total cost of $481,292.50. Sorry, I don't want to belabor this this meeting, but uh Mr. Barr, since we're pulling forward some technology purchases we probably had scheduled for next school year, is that reflected in the budget that we're not going to need those for some of those? Yes. Yeah, so that's that is reflected in the budget. And these are strictly for elementary. The ones that potentially could get taken out of the budget were for secondary. Item 8.13, this is the second of two opportunities for the public to address the board and we have no one signed up to speak. Item 8.14 board representative reports, are there any? Um I just wanted to
133report that I had the pleasure of taking part in the uh STEM summit at Central Dauphin High School 2 weeks ago that was for all of the ninth graders. They were able to get involved in some real hands-on activities to learn about the careers in the STEM and I wanted to thank all of the community volunteers that came out to work in all of those stations cuz without them these days wouldn't have been possible and it really gave the kids a great opportunity to have some different level of engagement with some hands-on science things. And then today and tomorrow um the 11th graders at East High School are participating in the real life uh financial literacy also through Junior Achievement. And um I was actually there today and it was just a great experience for
134a lot of these kids to again have um amazing community volunteers come from banks and other you know, local businesses to share budgeting and um some real life skills for them. So, I just wanted to um to point that out that our kids are really getting some extra um things and learning outside the classroom right now. Other board representative reports? Yes, over the weekend uh I was not able to attend, but I I brought this up before John Kramer, a former teacher and wrestling coach uh basically a rock in this district um and uh just a quick story. He after wrestling practice, he would would do 50 pull-ups after doing the entire wrestling program or practice with us. He was honored uh uh inducted into the I think it's the Pennsylvania Coaches Hall of Fame
135last night. He was intimidating. I mean, he was a very effective coach and math teacher. >> Good math teacher, just a good yeah. Yeah, the 50 pull-ups after practice is amazing in any era. Other board representative reports? Uh I wish we would have known. 8.15 board committee reports. We have a finance committee coming up. I'm going to say the 14th of April. 14th. Buildings and grounds right after that. >> May. May 14th. >> Yeah, May, not April. >> Yeah, I'm hitting all cylinders. May. And May 27th for >> [clears throat] >> I actually think it's May 27th for 4:30 and 5:00 for personnel, policy, and academic. Academic. I think it's May May 27th. Yep. We have those posted. Yes, they are. Yeah, they're on the website. Thanks, Ken. Item 8.16 sympathy sympathy resolutions, Mr. Chairman.
136Sympathies are extended to the family of Jonathan Uriaga a CD cyber student on his passing. Sympathies are extended to the family of Shirley Eckard, former teacher on her passing. Item 9.01 adjournment, may have a motion to adjourn. Is there a second? All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Opposed? Meeting adjourned. >> Well, it was a