001Good evening. I call this April 14th board meeting to order. Mrs. McConnell, will you please take roll? Mrs. Bingaman. Here. Mrs. Cavoli. Here. Mr. Dorneman. Here. Mr. Epstein. Here. Mr. Garlic. Here. Mr. Gordon. Here. Mrs. Hanford. Here. Mr. Jacobs. Here. Mrs. Webster. Here. There are nine board members present. Will everyone in attendance that is able to please stand for the pledge? 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. Do any board members have any additions, deletions, or modifications to make to the agenda? Okay. Having no objections, additions, or deletions, um we will move to 501 approval of the March 24th, 2020 six meeting minutes. May I have a motion to approve the
002recommendation? So moved. Second. Is there any discussion? All in favor? Aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? Motion carries. Under 601, I would like to report that prior to this meeting an executive session was held to discuss personnel and legal issues. This brings us to 602, our student speaker. I am pleased to introduce our student speakers from Central Dauphin East High School. Please welcome Breelyn Morales and Raouf Kiboungari. I'm sorry, I tried. Good evening. It's different to have two board speakers at a meeting, but we both said yes, so here we are. We would both like to thank the administration of Central Dauphin School District for giving us the opportunity to speak this evening on behalf on behalf of our school, Central Dauphin East High School. My name is Raouf Kiboungari and I'm a senior at Central Dauphin
003East High School. I've been a part of this district since I first immigrated to America and I've attended E.H. Phillips, East Middle School, and in less than 2 months I will soon graduate East High School with multitudes of honors. It'll be sad to say goodbye, but it's worth it because this district has helped me become who I am through its diversity, community, and overall support. In the fall, I'll be attending Penn State University of Harrisburg campus and studying mechanical engineering for 2 years and then I'll finish my last 2 years at the main campus. My name is Breelyn Morales and I'm currently a senior. I've been with CD schools since kindergarten from Lawn Elementary, to Swatara Middle, and now also East High. With graduation right around the corner, I find myself with mixed emotions. I'm
004ready to begin a new chapter, yet also deeply sentimental about leaving behind a community that has played a significant role in my life. Over the years, this district has provided me with not only an education, but also lasting friendship, meaningful experiences, and and valuable lessons I will carry with me in my future. This year I had the opportunity to intern at Lawn Elementary as as assistant in kindergarten. This has helped to solidify my plans for the future, which include attending Arcadia University to study early childhood education. Okay. So, we have a busy time upcoming at East High. Spring sports are soon wrapping up along with celebrating many senior nights. In May, there will be AP testing along with Keystone testing. We're not really looking forward to that, but we will be so relieved when it's
005over. On May 8th, prom will be held at the Best Western Premiere. And at the beginning of June, will look forward to their senior cookout. The whole school looks forward to May Day, which is our end-of-year pep rally and celebration. We're happy to to report some of the highlights at East High from the last 2 months or so that have been submitted by our faculty and staff. We would like to congratulate the cast, pit, and crew of Shrek the Musical, which was performed in March. Students did an outstanding job with this fun and engaging performance. The East High Art Department would like to invite everyone to the art show being held at East at CD Middle on April 23rd from 6:00 to 7:30. The The show will feature students' works from both high schools and
006all four middle schools. In addition, they would like to congratulate junior Moira Goffnauer, who has an installation at Wildwood Park for the 2026 Art in the Wild Exhibition. Frau Weiser reports that on April 8th, 21 students traveled to Penn State in in State College to compete with students from across the state at German Student Day. Students competed on the theme German on the state in poetry recitation, the spelling bee, 2D and 3D art, graphic design, took part in some in sample college classes, and some students participated in a college campus tour. In April, select German students will take in level one will take part in the German National Exam, in which students compete nationally for ranking and prizes. Also, the science department nominated 10 student scholars for outstanding academic academic performance for the month of
007March. Our STEM students received a donor's our STEM students received a donor's choose that funded additional STEM projects. Dr. Sprunk reports that 18 East High Latin students took the National Latin exam and the following students won awards. Silver medal was won by Quentin Hang, bronze medal was won by Prachand Basnet, and honorable mentions were Nicholas Gonzalez, Nam Sahang Rai, and Laude. In addition, many students won awards at the 2026 Capital Area Classics competition at Dickinson College on April 13th. In March, members of the Central Dauphin East Chapter of HOSA attended a leadership conference at the Hershey Lodge. This conference allowed our students to network and investigate career paths at a career fair. The fair contained many medical pathways and also included a variety of medical equipment related to those pathways. Students could Students could interview
008professionals and experiment with the equipment. The entire experience allowed our chapter members to prepare for future service projects and competition within the HOSA framework. We look forward to expanding our chapter's reach in the 2026 to 2027 school year. On March 27th, a cultural diversity a cultural diversity celebration took place at East High for students and staff. Over 86 students participated in the flag ceremony to represent one of 28 countries of origin for our student population. 22 students volunteered show volunteered showcased their dancing and singing skills of traditional music from their native native country. Thank you to those who enable the equity and diversity that makes East High a special place to be celebrated. Coach Worley reports that the boys volleyball team placed second in the Reading tournament on March 28th. Mrs. Jay organized another successful
009blood drive with the Red Cross Club. We collected 40 pints of blood during our last school drive for the school year. These 40 pints will help save at least 120 lives. We're looking forward to seeing all of you on the stage at Landis Field on Monday, June 8th for our commencement commencement ceremony. Thank you again for your support of all of the students and the teachers OF EAST HIGH. CAN I ASK YOU GUYS ONE QUESTION? YOU SAID there were there were 18 Latin students that compete competed. So, it sounds like the number of students taking Latin has increased. I don't know if you can answer that or I don't know much about it, but I know I have friends that are in Latin. All right. That sounds good. By the way, what's HOSA? HOSA, I
010can't remember the abbreviation. All right. I'm going to stop asking you. It's Health Occupation Students of America. What is it? Health and Occupation Students of America. That's what I thought. Yeah. Good. Yeah, I'm good. All right. This brings us to 6:03 public speakers for agenda items. This is for agenda items only. At this time, we do not have anybody signed up for to speak. 6:04 Superintendent Spotlight, Mr. Turman. All right. We have two groups that we are going to highlight this evening. Uh Mrs. Leib is going to come down and we are going to start out with Paxton Element Paxton Elementary School. Um we're going to honor the staff and the students at Paxton for the amount of money that they raised for the American Heart Association. Shannon. Good evening. Madam Vice President Bingaman, members
011of the Board of Directors, Superintendent Turman, Central Administration Leadership, audience members in attendance, and those watching online. My name is Shannon Leib and I'm the Director of Communications and Community Engagement. It is my honor, as part of the Superintendent Spotlight, to highlight students and staff from two of our schools this evening. I would like to invite Mr. James Fickes of Paxton Elementary School, Molly Emrick from the American Heart Association and our top fundraising students resplendent in their Lifesavers t-shirts tonight. Molly, come forward. Paxtonia Elementary raised an an amazing $58,594 this year and placed second in Pennsylvania out of 779 participating schools. They also earned second place in the 13 state region of the country which includes the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic region. Since Mr. Fickes has taken over the program for the past 5 years, the
012school has raised more than $220,000. The students joining us this evening, Cecilia Hayward from first grade was in first place at Paxtonia and second place in the entire state of Pennsylvania. She raised $3,450. Gigi Patrick in kindergarten raised $2,729. She placed second at Paxtonia and sixth place in Pennsylvania. ROWAN FICKES IN SECOND grade raised $1,980 placing third at Paxtonia. AND STELLA HUBLER IN THIRD grade raised $1,060 placing FIFTH AT PAXTONIA. I WOULD LIKE TO INVITE MOLLY Emrick to the mic to say a few words. Ooh. I'm a shorty, sorry. I'm going to take this. All right. Thank you all. Thank you all to the board. Thank you for all of us having us tonight for allowing me to be here to support Jim in the Paxton community. For those of you that don't know, I'm
013the your local representative for the American Heart Association. I'm based locally in Lancaster County, but I cover six counties which covers our Dolphin County here. I've been doing this for 11 plus years and have been making very amazing relationships including ones like Jim. Very honored and thankful to be here tonight to support the Paxton community and our top fundraisers tonight. Can we give them all a big ROUND OF APPLAUSE? BECAUSE OF THEIR PASSION AND SUPPORT OF THE American Heart Association and Kids Heart Challenge, it's been nothing short of incredible the past few years. So, I just also want to thank Can we give a big thanks for their parents as well? YEAH. SO, I WANT TO ADD to that total here with those that phenomenal amount that was raised this year. It does place Paxton
014in second in Pennsylvania and second in our 13 year 13 state region which I'm so incredibly proud of. But this actually brings their life-saving total up to 308,776.68 cents which I know is going to only increase over these years because Jim has big goals and I know he's a competitive and we're definitely going to be moving towards all that all that amazing things. So, a big portion of that support is represented tonight again with our top survivors here. One including our survivor, but also our celebrating our top fundraisers that are raising a thousand plus dollars. We can't do what we do without the support of our community members, without our families, without the reason why we have our why like GG and we have CC and we have Estella and we have Rowan tonight and
015we're mixing make make uh Ryan, right? Crime Crusher? Okay. Because we can't continually do what we do without these families' support. So, for this specific year, 266 students with Paxton were involved with Kids Heart Challenge this year. 113 families completed Finn's Mission, walking away knowing the the life-saving skills of hands-only CPR. And I just want to give a little quick shout out to not just Jim, but also his wife Tina here that's here tonight because Rowan wouldn't be a part of this community um without the support of her parents and for them stepping up and leading um you know, community community efforts within this district. So, Jim being passionate about Kids Heart Challenge, Tina being so passionate about Finn. So, I just wanted to give them nice quick kudos for just allowing them to be
016so supportive of everything in this district and going above and beyond their role in general. And the last thing I will mention Uh yeah. No, no, no. I actually we we we ever we were able to cover everything. Again, I'm so um excited to see where Paxton falls nationally this year. Um I will definitely be keeping Jim updated, but again, from the bottom of my heart, for being your local representative, for you all being um bought into our mission and wanting to make your communities a better and safer place to be able to celebrate these little ones tonight and their families for just doing all the wonderful things for the American Heart Association. So, thank you so much. Thank you. Yes, thank you. Appreciate it. Thank you. I just wanted to say that um I'm
017a little upset that we didn't get a picture of the beard and the hair color. That I think is what motivates a lot a large portion of your population because I think they love to see how wild you go each year. Shannon, he's playing a picture, so just ask him for it. I think I may have seen And we got the video we got the video reveal. All right, thank you very much for Next up, I'd like to ask Mr. Norberry and Vedika Burman to come to the podium. Vedika is a sixth grader from Central Dauphin Middle School who recently won the 2026 WITF Penn Education Central Pennsylvania Spelling Bee. Vedika secured the title in the 16th round by correctly spelling patriotism and will advance to the 2026 Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C.
018In 2024, she was also recognized as a top 10 speller in the same regional competition while attending Paxton Elementary School. There seems to be a theme here with Paxton. Mr. Norberry, would you like to say a few words? So, uh we are very proud of Vedika. Not only is she the Spelling Bee champion, but she's part of our um sixth grade math 24 team that won the district level competition. Uh she was selected for county orchestra string fast and she was also represented at our last character breakfast. So, she's all around a uh wonderful student and uh we're very proud of her AT CD MIDDLE. BEFORE YOU GO, VEDIKA, CAN I ASK YOU A QUESTION? How do you practice? Um I basically just practice. So, we have a word list and by going through it
019repeatedly, that's what comes up at the regionals. Um but on the national level, we're going to have to go a bit further and um just it's just a whole dictionary. They don't have a study list, so it's going to be a lot of work to do. Very impressive. Thank you. Madam Vice Chair, that concludes my Superintendent Spotlight. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. All right. We are now in unfinished business, 701 Treasurer's report for the month ending February 28th. Okay, I'm sorry. It's all right. All right. So, in under unfinished business, we have the ability to do a consent agenda. Is there any discussion on any of the items 701 through 7 04? Yeah, I do have a question on 702, the resolution to support the House bill. Who is sponsoring that? When I looked
020at it, there was no uh affiliation. So, that's a good question, Eric. Um, we've received information from I I don't remember the school district that kind of started this bill. Um, but they did reach out to all school districts to see uh to garner support for for for the House bill. Um, there have been several school districts in our region who have jumped on board. Uh, Cumberland Valley was one. Um, there was one or two others who were supporting the bill. Uh, but all it is is really separating out your your those who have an attendance from a from a standpoint in terms of where you attend compared to your private schools where there's really no boundaries. So, it started from one school district and kind of went across the Commonwealth, honestly. Yeah, I'd like
021to know who the school district is, but I noted uh Act 219 was amended in '72, and it dealt with private schools and the city of Pittsburgh, and the goal I think we all look for the same goal. We want a competitive formula. I I my concern is in order to get this changed, I would have to amend the constitution. So, uh if we could break this out, I and I'm sorry I should have said something earlier. Yeah, I'm just not comfortable supporting a motion with no sponsor. Eric, the sponsor of the legislator is Conklin, Scott Conklin. >> Yeah, I know Scott, but he should put his He's from State College. >> Yeah, Centre County. Right, so that's the sponsor for the legislation. Yes. And so, do we know who signed on with him or
022that he's In other words, I want to make sure this is a real exercise and not one by just one house member. Um are there any other co-sponsors? Uh I'm on right now. Hang on a second. I'm on I'm on the the state's website right now. >> No, it's a state website. It'll take a while. No, it's uh It'll be back up in a minute. >> Yeah, there is there is um a Conklin, Sanchez, Hill, Hill-Evans, Warner, and Harkins. Okay, there's five members on it. All right, so we're going to separate that one. Yeah, and I just just to make it aware, I'm I'm going to abstain from the 702 vote. I have some conflicts. All right, so is everybody okay with combining 701, 703, and 704? May I have a motion to approve items
023701, 703, and 704? Motion. A second? >> Second. Second. Second. Any I guess we're not having any discussion. All in favor? I. I. I. I. Anyone opposed? Motion carries. Okay, we'll go back to 7:02. Resolution to support House Bill 41. Mr. Herman. The administration recommend approval of the resolution to support House Bill 41. This legislation seeks to create separate private and public school playoffs for interscholastic competition. This item was reviewed um at the March 24th, 2026 board meeting. May I have a motion to approve the recommendation? Motion. Or a second? Second. Okay. Any discussion? I I just think this is a long time coming. So, I I'm okay with this. Anyone else? Okay. All in favor? I. I. I. Anyone oppose? I am opposing. Okay. So, we have seven and one abstain. All right. Now,
024we're moving to new business, 8:01 personnel report. Mr. Herman. The administration recommend approval of the personnel report as discussed in executive session. May I have a motion to approve the recommendation? Motion. Second? >> Second. Any discussion? Anybody here? All right. All in favor? I. I. I. >> Okay. All right. Sorry. All in favor? Uh I. I. Anyone opposed? I. Okay, motion carries. 802 overnight trip approval, Mr. Turman. The administration recommending approval of the following overnight trips. Central Dauphin High School indoor drum line to travel to Dayton, Ohio April 15th, 2026 through April 18th, 2026 for the WGI World Championships. Um, unfortunately, we just received this probably about a week, week and a half ago, so um, we're going to have to have this on for approval this evening. May I have a motion to approve
025the recommendation? Motion. Second. Second. Any discussion? Yeah, what accounted for the delay because apparently they're leaving tomorrow? I can't tell I I don't know if Sarah just just came in probably what, 2 Mondays ago? Correct. It it just got to us. I do know that it they just um, recently received word that they had uh, had qualified to attend. We are working on a process next year where we are ensuring that these are pre-approved much earlier than than this one. Thank you. All in favor? >> Well, could I ask a question real quick? I just need to know Mike my granddaughter's going to this. I'm okay with voting for this or Who's trip? Yeah, but it's I don't think it's no money involved. It's fine. Okay, I just want to make sure. Boy, that'd be
026interesting if you voted no. I might just do that. All in favor? I. I. I. Anyone opposed? I have opposed. Eric. Practice. Yep, motion Motion carries. >> Yeah. Sorry. All right. 803 adjudication of student cases 130 1349 and 1351. The administration recommend the approval of the adjudication of student cases 1349 and 1351 as discussed in executive session. May I have a motion to approve the recommendation? Motion. Second. Any discussion? All in favor? I. >> I. Anyone oppose? Motion carries. 804 commitment of funds to the Nurture Pack project, Mr. Turman. Oh, sorry. Okay, it's me. The board is recommending approval of the commitment of funds for the installation of a water line and electric panel to the building currently referred to as the cheer barn at an estimated cost of $124,160. This commitment is in support
027of the relocation of the Nurture Pack programs to this building and the accessibility of restrooms for the cheerleaders. This item was reviewed at the April 9th, 2026 building and grounds committee meeting. May I have a motion to approve this recommendation? So moved. Second. Any discussion? I just want to say this is a really good thing. Uh our Nurture Pack serves almost 10% of our kids have that program, so giving them this proper space they need. Um it's still close to CD middle so they can do the volunteer work. Great benefit for the cheerleaders as well, so I think it's a really good thing for the district. You also Panorama is going to make a donation, you know, either through in-kind labor or fundraising. So, um it's a joint project and uh uh hopefully it'll be
028done. What are we looking for? 2027 school year? 27-28. I'm a year off. Just just to throw in also that it's it it helps with neutral packs, which is a great program. It helps with the cheerleaders and it helps with the overcrowding. So, we're taking care of three different items. Anyone else? All right. All in favor? I. >> I. I. Anyone oppose? Motion carries. 805, irrevocable letter of credit, Mr. Bard. The administration is recommending the designation of Mid Penn Bank as a depository bank and authorizing Mid Penn to issue a irrevocable irrevocable letter of credit for the district to deposit security with Solebury Township for Executive Park Drive improvements in the amount of $2,529,160. May I have a motion to approve the recommendation? So moved. Second. Any discussion? I want to compliment uh Mr. Bard
029and our attorney guy Mike, sorry I forgot your name, for working on this. This is a big deal and I think Peter, correct me if I'm wrong, we're actually going to save some money. Correct. The initial letter of credit from Fulton Bank was a 1.5% annual fee and this annual fee is a 0.5% annual fee. Anyone else? All right. All in favor? I. I. Anyone oppose? Motion carries. 806, job description revisions. The administration is recommending your approval of the revisions to the following job descriptions. Secretary 1210, middle school middle and senior high school. Secretary 1210, that 210 that will be at the elementary level. Secretary 1210, counseling office middle and senior high school. Secretary 1240, middle and senior high school. Secretary 2210, that would be at the elementary level. Secretary 2240, central registration. Autistic and
030emotional support internal coach. Special education teachers. Para professional, multi dis- multi disability support. Para professional life skills support. Para professional autistic support. The items these items were reviewed at the March 25th, 2026 personnel committee meeting. They will appear in the April 28th, 2026 board agenda for approval. Um this was nothing more than uh Dr. Beeston started to work with all of the individuals to look at job descriptions to make sure that the role they were doing was actually what was in their job description. So, it's nothing more than kind of right-sizing job descriptions. There's no additional uh positions or anything that's put in the budget. Uh so, if you have any specific questions on the job description, please reach out to me or Dr. Beeston and we can be able to provide that for you.
031807, first reading of board policy, Mr. Turman. The administration recommend the first reading of board policy 206, assignment within the district. This item was reviewed at the March 25th, 2026 policy committee meeting. This item will appear on the April 28th, 2026 board agenda for approval. Um this policy nothing more than dealing with some of these students in the Printbook area and then also making sure the parents actually know exactly uh what elementary school or what what elementary school and also kindergarten center their child will attend next year. Uh 808, math resource recommendation, Mr. Turman. The administration is recommending approval of the new K-5 math resource, Eureka Math Squared, at a cost of $235,427.78 per year for 5 years for a total of 1 million 177 77,138.85 cents. They said in what's reviewed that the March
03225th, 2026 academic committee meeting, the site will appear on the April 28th, 2026 board agenda for approval. Um there was an extensive process uh that the academic office uh used in terms of getting to Eureka Math. Um they had an opportunity to uh work with teachers across the district. Every teacher had an opportunity to participate. Uh any that wanted to and opted to could be part of the pilot program. Um we actually at the academic meeting had two teachers who came and spoke to the committee uh about why Eureka Math and they were very positive about that. Um I'm very happy in terms of the process the academic team used uh to get to this resource. Everything that the board has asked for in terms of getting teacher input was definitely done to get to
033a point where we are today. Okay. I just had a question on that cuz I had to leave early before the academic committee meeting was open. Did they have all grades also piloted or just certain grades piloted? >> All grades from kindergarten through fifth grade and some grades had more than one teacher who was participating. Okay. Yeah, it all and it went to All teachers received an email invitation to participate in the pilot and every single one that um responded was able to participate. Uh and we had we also represented 10 schools across the district. So I know there was you said there was two that presented but the feedback across the board including those that piloted weren't there also had favorable Correct. So what we did um there was it was two part. One
034part of it was um a rubric that was research-based that looked at Like I said right now, looked at um three different categories. Specifically looked at accessibility for students, usability for teachers, and impact on learning. Um so that rubric was scored and Eureka Squared did um come out much higher than um the the other uh math resource. Um, additionally, there were multiple meetings where the all the teachers involved met um to discuss qualitative data and what their findings and feelings were about um the the information, everything from the communication with families and how it impacted that to what they were seeing um and the engagement of the students that they were seeing in the classroom. So, it was a pretty extensive process that involved uh both a rubric and and compiling quantitative data as well
035as qualitative data in the form of um interviews and and communication conversations. And the three schools that did not participate was not because we told them they couldn't. It's because they didn't have anybody at those schools who opted to pilot. Correct. And even um student or teachers who were not able who or who who chose not to pilot, all of the materials were available in all of the buildings um for actually since last spring for teachers to all review. The first step of the process was providing an opportunity for all teachers to review and provide any feedback or suggestions, recommendations prior to the pilot even beginning. So, all teachers had multiple opportunities to um to participate in the selection um from in a variety of ways, whether it's piloting or reviewing resources or providing feedback.
036Thank you. That also included special education and other teachers who are not typical um regular education classroom teachers were involved in the process. I have a couple questions. What other math curriculums were looked at and reviewed? So, when whenever we were starting and we narrowed it down to three um and then we had to pause because of budgetary constraints. That was that during the 24-25 school year. The three that were narrowed down were Eureka Squared, Reveal, and Bridges. When we came back together and took feedback from individuals who had reviewed those three programs then, we narrowed it down to Reveal and Eureka Squared. And correct me if I'm wrong, but we use Reveal in our middle schools? Correct. So, we're getting away from that or We are using So, you're you're Reveal Reveal will continue
037to be used in the 6th through 8th grade setting. We found that through the um the pilot process, the feedback that the resources and program available for kindergarten through 5th grade met our needs in a in a much greater way. Um we have had discussions and we're beginning the process of what that transition especially specifically from 5th grade to 6th grade looks like, how we can ensure students have what they need in order to be successful at the middle school level. Okay, the the other question I had was what is the biggest concern they had with Eureka and what's the um What are we going to do to remedy that? The biggest concern with Eureka? Um I would say, you know, when they when they took a look at it, one thing that was mentioned
038was that it is um the the time. It is a a large the a large block of time that is utilized for instruction. Um and it was seen both as a positive and a negative. Negative because it is something where they recognize that it um we make sure that we are providing the time available to go through it. The positive was that they said that even though it was a lengthy um lessons, that the students were fully engaged and excited about the math process, and they felt that the students were getting a solid understanding, not just that rote memorization, but truly understanding the process and such behind the math that they were doing. A lot of real-world examples and such pulled into it. One of the things that we are um working through right now
039is ensuring that we have the um the interactive panels available for all of the elementary classrooms because that is one piece that there is a technology piece, not a one-to-one where they're going to be working on on laptops or Chromebooks or iPads, but more of a um for the teacher to be able to project and and demonstrate and such. So, that's one of the things that I know that was a concern because we wanted to make sure that we have resources that are able to handle that. Okay, and then the other question I have is from a parent's perspective. When we went to Everyday Math, it was far from Everyday Math. Um when we went to um adding, subtracting, they created these graphs that, you know, parents couldn't even understand how to help their kids
040um get to the actual answers, and you would have to and the answer would not be correct unless you went through that methodology and that um way of doing things. So, this >> Is that going to continue with this? >> No. One of the One of the things that was um a positive that was communicated over and over again was the feedback they had from communication from home. Each of the lessons has um descriptions and and uh information to go home to demonstrate how the students are to participate um both on the pages they're doing, but also there are videos to go through the process, and they are not locked into having to use one algorithm, but instead taught how to um go through the process, make sure they're that they're understanding what they're learning,
041how they're and they're how they're going through that. So, the home communication specifically for Eureka Squared is one of the reasons that um that scored higher than the other resource. Okay, thank you. I I'm sorry, I missed that meeting, and I wish I didn't because I could have asked you those questions earlier, but I did go out, and I found that there's a school district that actually puts each module from K through 5 out on their website, and if anyone wants to see what the kids will be doing um per module um I'll send a link to the board members that you can actually go and and look at them. I thought it was very interesting and very good. Thank you. All right, next we have 809 curriculum services proposal. The administration recommend approval of
042the curriculum service pro proposal with the CCIU at a cost of $35,000. This item was reviewed at the March 25th, 2026 academic committee meeting. This item will appear on the April 28th, 2026 board agenda for approval. Um this will allow the academic office and Dr. Box to take the audit and be able to now start to get a level of consistency and curriculum credit across the district. And this also is will be added to the budget for next school year in her department. Okay. 810 approval of the launch program at our high schools. Mr. Turman. The administration recommending approval of the addition of the launch program at East High School and Central Dauphin High School. The cost per school is $210,000 for a total cost of $420,000. This item will appear was reviewed at the
043March 25th, 2026 academic committee meeting. This item will appear on the April 28th, 2026 board agenda for approval. So this will give an opportunity for us to have internal support for students and also for staff dealing with students who need another level of support. Um this is something where the the team had an opportunity to go see this program at another school district, came back and thought this was something that would definitely be beneficial for our school district. How we are paying for this for next school year as we have decreased the number of paid slots at some of our other alternative ed locations. So this is budget neutral, correct? Correct. All right, we can follow up on that next year. Thank you. The question I had is with this program, are the students integrated
044into the rest of the school or are they isolated? Mike and Joe, if you can come up and speak uh to the launch program. Yeah, so uh the school district that we visited it was a Spring Grove and that's the district I currently I came from. And uh this was uh a program that was tremendously successful for us. Um so, basically what happens is you have up to 12 students that you can place in there. It's not a formalized approved PDE old Ed program. That allows us to get flexibility of moving students in and out. So, the structure in which we are envisioning this is a student would be placed in this program here to start. We provide that student smart goals and if that individual meets those smart goals, then eventually we allow that
045person to be out maybe for a period. So, for example, they'll be in to a room um with, you know, a behavior manager, a counselor. They'll be receiving instruction through CD Cyber Academy. And they meet their goals, we'll say, "Okay, fourth period, let's see how you do in math class." So, an individual goes out in math class. "Oh, you're doing great. Let's try lunch now." Um that person messes up, not handling it well, we can bring that person back in. It provides us a lot of flexibility um and it's been successful in my previous district and I think it'd be great here. So, the question is So, there are portions of the day when they would be integrated with the population. Whenever they earn that uh that right to to do that, yes. Okay, so
046I guess I'm just postulating here. They You said it's not approved by PDE, but can we send them as an alternative education option if there's a disciplinary issue? >> Absolutely, yes. That's all on the table. This program isn't something that I would say, "Okay, you're going to be in there for 4 years." Or anything like that. What we use that for is let's say a student is even transitioning back into the school from expulsion. For them to help with that transition, we could bring them through that program. And then, you know, allow them once they meet their goals to be out in general. So, it's really a wide variety of things that we could use this program for. also includes the staffing that's supplied by another entity, correct? By River Yes, by River Rock Academy.
047So, we would be expanding our partnership with them to provide this in-house programming then. Okay, so the cost actually to River Rock would actually increase over the year, but would be made up by other placements. Yes, we have other prepaid slots that we purchased with other programs. We were able to look at those numbers pretty closely with child accounting and see what our trends have been over years and we're able to identify some areas that we would be able to decrease our pre-purchased slots with our out-of-district programs to cover the cost of this program. >> Were we Were we transporting kids in the past? In other words, these kids if they were went to a placement, we'd have to provide the transportation. Yes. >> Okay. Yep. Thank you. Again, you you probably said this before
048I'm sure you did. But just clarification, they're isolated in a different part of the building. I mean, I know they would be during the class. But during the during the day they would be then separated. Like they would eat lunch in a different area. >> in this classroom for the duration of the day. Okay, so it'd be multi-subject. And transportation to and from school. From Okay. So, but they would be in the school with the rest of the kids. And then, as they're working toward their goals like Dr. Injury kind of highlighted, we can then do a trial period where they're going out, see how they're doing, and add or >> complete isolation, except for maybe sight, that you could see somebody. Oh, no, they I mean, they'll be in the hallway. Like, they'll be
049like the classroom will be in the hallway with other students. They won't be isolated. No. No. >> But, and it could be with it they would leave at a different time. Like, I mean, we've had kids leave 5 minutes before or 5 minutes after the bell. We can make adjustments. >> can do that. So, you mean like arrival and dismissal time? >> Well, like when you would leave the classroom, I mean, in the past we've had kids that we would wait until the bell would ring to let them leave because of disruptions in the in the hallway. Absolutely. If you're moving the whole group, you do it whenever there's not an actual class change throughout the whole building. Um But, if needed, you could What's that? >> If needed, you could move an individual. Well,
050you you or you're not really moving the kids, really. Right, they're staying in the same room. >> They're staying in the same room. Yeah, I mean, the times that they'll go, um you know, again, we got to work through some of these, but in my past programs, uh they would leave together and go to the cafeteria to receive their food before lunches actually begin or in between lunches. They would then go and bring that food down to that classroom. Um I have a really good space that I was able to to get in the old G, if you're familiar with the East High uh hallway, in which there's several other breakout like rooms on these little offices that will be good um uh for the River Rock staff if they have to individually counsel those
051students. The other time, too, we'd have to just see availability is a PE class, if we want to offer that to them. Um which, you know, then they would use the gymnasium, but we would ensure that there weren't other PE classes in that area. So, what grades are we talking about? 6 through 12? 9 through >> For right For right now, what we're proposing, this would be at each of the high schools. So, there would be a classroom at CD High and a classroom at East High. >> get you, but you could have within the classroom kids from 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th grade. >> Yep. Okay, so if they if the kids are enrolled in this program, are they eligible to participate in extracurricular activities? Yes, they are. Okay. And typically, to be honest
052with you, we find whenever they participate in extracurricular activities, that is a good connection to the school and they're more successful whenever they do those type of things. And just again, I think you answered this before, but clarification on discipline, the principal would still be basically in charge of disciplining. Or is that more of a class It's more No, I Comes out of classroom. It is more of a classroom situation for discipline than you might you might have to be involved. Yes, so what happens is they handle a lot of it internally. So, um They're able to do a lot of um Certain big things, it could get to us. However, they do steps one, two, and three before it gets to us. Um and that's something that River Rock is pretty good at. Uh
053and they they instituted in these type of programs. Um the actual person who ran our program at Spring Grove has now, because this this program has become more popular, a lot of school districts came and visited us. Um that individual now who ran our Spring Grove program now oversees all these type of programs that River Rock has to offer. So, just talking with him, you know, I know what that kind of looks like. Uh you know, I I'll work with that River Rock employee or employees as I know he works with them as well. I just had one question cuz in my mind I'm having a hard time. Um so, are these students that would otherwise be in the River Rock program or are these in addition to that maybe we're casting a wider net
054of whom could benefit from this? Yeah, so Yep, so essentially, if you're familiar with how we provide support throughout the district academically, socially, you know, social emotionally, behaviorally. We provide that on a continuum. So, tier one, you know, everybody gets this intervention. Tier two, small group. Tier three is for the kids that we might be talking about for this intervention. That is a small number of students, but if you're looking at discipline, they have, you know, quite a a long list of behavior and discipline referrals. And right now, as we've been looking over our data across the district, you know, at our high schools, we can see that we aren't necessarily meeting the needs of those tier three kids because we don't have an intervention like this that can be, um, you know, offer that
055structure that students would really benefit from and the support that they would really benefit from, both academically and behaviorally, um, without, you know, getting to the point of an expulsion, which we don't really, you know, want to have to go down that road. So, before, you know, our hope is that before we would have to get to that that a student where you know, a student is up for expulsion, we're able to actually provide supports and interventions at each of the high schools before it would get to that point. Um, but then also, as Dr. Henry highlighted, this is would also be very helpful for students who are returning from an expulsion, that they're going from a very structured environment, and sometimes, you know, they're just going right back into the high school, and it's
056not necessarily a a continuum of support >> down program Yeah. Okay, thank you. That So, the idea Sorry, I hate to go back to the budget, but the the idea that it's budget neutral is because you're assuming that because of this program, you will essentially keep them from reaching the level of expulsion, and therefore needing a slot outside the district. Is that >> we we don't anticipate that expulsions are going to go away, um, but we do, you know, we were besides this, we were able to kind of see, all right, our trends with placements over the past few years, we we able to identify where we could um cut some of those prepaid slots. And then in doing so, we thought what would we really want to do to be able to provide still
057a level of support for our students. We would be able to put that funding into this instead of waiting to for the need for them to go you know, go out. And I can provide an example just from my experience here. You know, at Spring Grove at the high school we had the launch program. Um I was assistant principal there. It was very successful as established. I then became principal at the middle school. The first year I I didn't have a launch style program and there were five students in which uh we had to place at River Rock for one thing for one thing or another. That second year I established a launch style program at the middle school and we didn't have one student in AEDY. Now, the third year we had I think
058two policy violators in which we had to expel and then they had to go, you know, to an outside placement. But I saw in the four years, well, it from the first year I was head high middle school principal for four years. Year one, I saw how many kids we placed at River Rock and then I saw a reduction the other three years. Sorry for all the questions. I wasn't able to attend the academic >> So, if you um were going to the more traditional River Rock or more traditional placement, would the child be in a grade just one grade or would he be in a class with students from 9, 10, 11, and 12? Yes, the students actually in AEDY programs, um they they can be placed they can be placed with students in
0596th to 12th grade actually, depending on the size of the program. Um so yeah, it would be typical depending we have we have a partnership with them for special education placement and also for alternative ed placement. So, um they are typically placed in, you know, within a couple year age span of their peers at either one of those programs. So, a couple grades, then. Yeah. Depending on Yeah, depending on the class sizes. Yeah. So, and we didn't we didn't really highlight this part of it, too. And Dr. Martin, I don't know if you want to come up, but we did um the way that we are going to provide academic support, if that's where, you know, and kind of looking at the need here, we would be utilizing our CD Cyber program. And um I
060know Dr. Martin might be able to talk to a little bit more about that. That um if you, you know, to to kind of highlight their different grades and what they would be able to receive from the asynchronous program. From the curriculum standpoint, um to try to keep them as less disruption in their um in their coursework, we're going to put them in the blended CDSD um cyber program. A lot of those core classes do align with what our students receive even in the typical um brick-and-mortar both of high schools. So, this will be an easy transition. We just would just do a little logistics in the back end. Um but then that would provide the same um curriculum for that student. So, if at in November, they are able to transition back for a
061math class, they should be right on pace. There should not be a divide. And we were very strategic with including our blended program. Um so there is no no divide in the curriculum. So, I mean, that seems pretty optimistic. I've got to be I've got to be honest with you, that you're transitioning out of this program, and then you can pick up with your classmates in in in other program. But I I got to tell you, I was not aware that when we send our kids to placement, that they were put in classes with kids from 6th to 12th grade. I mean, it just seems to me to be a challenge. I mean, you're talking about kids that had challenges, and then you're putting together 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th, if I think I heard
062you right for these uh two projects. So, real fast, going back to the academics, from my experience, again, I I can just speak from that. Um let's say they do go out for a class period, you know, they're getting so much more individual versus support. So, even okay, they go out for that class period, math, and that student then goes back into the launch room and needs additional help. Well, we got two staff members uh and no more than 12 students to provide still some individual support. So, I've seen we typically we didn't put students in this program for academic reasons. Uh but I would say 85 90% of the students' grades improved, you know, uh from being here. >> That's actually not the point I was making. The point was the socialization of having
063sixth graders in the same class as 12th graders. No, just 9th through 12th. Sixth grade's not sixth grade. >> about at River Rock. Like when we send them out. >> Yeah. I I was not aware of that. I think there's a from experience, not from personal experience, but from academic experience, I think that there are a lot of like stipulations put into place. Like I am aware I I know that they can't even be on a bus like if it's a male and a female going, they can't even be on the same transportation to the location. So, I think that there is definitely more than what we're I'd be interested to know too because that was the first I've heard of that as well. Yeah, and when we went to we went to visit River
064Rock, I think that was last year. Um I within the classroom um there may have been like two or three classrooms adjacent close to each other. Like they had the kids separated to a certain degree um doing our academic portion. So, it wasn't like it was a room this size and there was 15 kids in that room. So, uh we saw a middle school program, we saw a high school program while we were there. I think we were at uh what district was that at? Uh Michael, what know where to visit. I can't remember. It wasn't Spring Grove? No, no, last year, last year. When we went to see River Rock. It was me and you >> Carlyle, there you Which is probably most closely aligned with our demographic. Carlyle? Yeah. Yeah, so Carlyle had
065to give us an opportunity to go out there and visit the River Rock program. So, um, the kids out there were actually doing very, very well in the program and you were able to identify I think we had maybe one or two kids who were there, um, at the program. Thank you. All right. 8:11 Central Dauphin School District sports summer camps, Mr. Turner. The administration recommend >> sorry. Can Can we just go back? I only had one question and I couldn't find the speak button on here. So, my apologies for the interruption. But, can you tell me it's going to cost us approximately $24,000 per student to have these kids in this program. What do we pay for placement at River Rock now? The cost is not per student for this program. It's a total
066of $420,000 for the two classrooms, one in each high school. So, and the the cost for a student to attend River Rock right now is per student and it varies based off of their special education or alternative ed needs. Can you give us a range of what that is? Um, off the top of my head, which everybody knows how I am with numbers, if I don't have them right in front of me. >> to me with that? Okay, let me get back to you with that. Thank you. Okay, thank you. All right. Can I go now? Yeah. Okay. The The recommending approval of the following Central Dauphin School District sports summer camps. This item will appear on the April 28th, 2026 board agenda for approval. CD girls volleyball, June 2nd to the 5th. CD boys
067soccer, June 15th to the 19th. CD girls soccer, June 15th to the 19th. And CD boys and girls tennis, June 26th to June 22nd to the 26th. And then also August 3rd to the 7th. A note, all of these camps are open to all Central Dauphin students. Yeah, we were talking about eligibility. Are they open to all students within the Central Dauphin School District? No, the clarification we got from Mr. Hunter today is this is just for Central Dauphin School District students only. Okay. 8.12, Job Corps partnership agreement, Mr. Turman. The administration recommending approval of the partnership agreement between Adams and Associates of Nevada through Keystone and Red Rock Job Corps centers and the Central Dauphin School District to expand the education and training opportunities for eligible students. There's no cost to the district. This
068item will appear on the April 28th, 2026 board agenda for approval. This is just a standard agreement for our kids to maybe loan credits or potential dropouts for them to be able to go to Keystone and be able to potentially get their their either their high school diploma or be able to get into some type of skill while they attend there. We have to renew this every year? We do. This may not be something that we have to bring here every year. We had it on the agenda last year, I believe for the first time, so it's just the the same agreement as last year. Okay. 8.13, intercom system and clock replacement projects. The administration is recommending approval of the intercom system and clock replacements projects at Paxtonia and E.H. Phillips Elementary School. This item
069was reviewed at the March 23rd, 2026 Building and Grounds Committee meeting. This item will appear on the April 28th, 2026 Board agenda for approval. We have Paxtonia Elementary, $271,694.54. We have E.H. Phillips Elementary, $254,100. Both of those will be coming out of the borrowing for that we are doing for both schools. 8:14, bid award for replacement dishwasher. Mr. Furman. The administration recommending the bid award for the replacement dishwasher for Central Dauphin Middle School to Dauphin Equipment in the amount of $45,099.92. Cafeteria funds will be used for this purchase. This item will appear on the April 28th, 2026 Board agenda for approval. So, this is different, obviously, than I thought we were looking also at a washing machine. Correct. >> Or Okay. Yeah, this is a little bit different than that. Okay. This is a dishwasher
070for cafeteria, correct? The washing machine was what we discussed at I think that was Building and Grounds. We wouldn't be able to go with that. Okay, the dishwasher, man. Is it multi-purpose? >> Yes. >> This is a very expensive dishwasher. I don't think we'll be washing any clothes in that, but it's fine. There are a couple of times I looked at the I thought you guys said it was multi-purpose. We can try it, but I don't I would try washing clothes. Okay, this brings us to 8:15, public speakers for non-agenda items. We have three people signed up to speak this evening. You will have 5 minutes to speak. First up is Rose Hubert. Hello. It's been a long time. Um my name is Rose Hubert. I have a senior at East High. I have a
071freshman at East High. And I have a stepson that is in seventh grade at Linglestown Middle. Um so I just have some general concerns. My experience is related to East High, but I don't think this is specific to just East High. So earlier this school year um there was a smoke event and there were fire alarms. Um it was in September, September 16th to be specific. Um my daughter texted Well, my son texted me first. My daughter texted me at 7:37. They were sent to East Middle. They said stuff would be sent to the parents. We didn't get a call till 7:48 as parents. It was a very generic call telling us almost nothing. Again, I'm not blaming East High for this that I think there's just communication concerns. At 8:08 we got the call
072that everything was cleared. The students were sent back there. In between all of this I'm also getting texts from my son that he is literally scared to go back. He's afraid he's going to die. I get that that's very dramatic, but he's a 14-year-old boy and these were the thoughts in his head at that time. So I opted to send my husband to go get him. He came home. He did get excused for the day. Um but so that all happened in September. Fast forward to March 31st and there's a gas leak. Okay. My daughter is a nerd. She goes to school early. She gets there early. She parks. She's sent to East Middle because all of this is going on. My son is not a nerd. I take him to school because he always
073waits till last minute. We get turned away by the firemen. I get all this. I'm not complaining about that. My problem is there were a lot of kids turned away that day. Kids that drive, kids that walk, parents that drive them. There was no communication to any parents about those children being turned away from the school district or the school. I understand that it was the firemen doing it. However, these kids were not accounted for. There were a lot of parents who if these kids didn't tell them, wouldn't know anything. And if our kids didn't have cell phones that day, we would have known almost nothing cuz at 7:25 my daughter told me and we didn't get a call till 7:44. And then we got the all clear at 8:52, the call. But there was
074no call saying what these kids that were sent home were supposed to do. And by 9:13, all doors to that building were locked. So they all had to go in through the office. I don't know how to tell you to handle this better, but I know that it needs to handle better because there was a lot a lot going on that day. You have a lot of kids who are just learning to drive, who are sent away in that traffic jam that is already Union Deposit. And then nobody knows what to do. I will say kudos to Dr. Inchaurregui cuz I did email him about making sure my son was marked excused because I didn't have time to take him back. I had to get to work. And I understand he could have ridden the
075bus. He could have already been at East Middle, but it probably would have been a whole situation like had happened in September. Also, while they were at East Middle, there were at least two if not three fights. Because we're sticking all of these children with some of them with anxiety, probably undiagnosed, into this auditorium. There's not enough room for all the teachers who were by the way mostly standing outside on the park on the sidewalk. I could see them. What are we telling these kids when they're being sent away by the firemen? And again, I understand it wasn't the school, but as parents, we're trusting that when they get there, they're safe and we know what's going on with them. And in this moment we didn't. There was very little communication. And I don't know
076how if these kids went home from 8:52 to 9:13 in 21 minutes, they were all going to be back there and in their classes where they were supposed to be. I don't live that far away and it would take me longer. Also, side note, I don't know if it's just East High, but the missed periods thing, it's not working the way it's supposed to. I get calls every day that my daughter's present for the day and missing classes. Yesterday, it's because she was at the Latin Festival. Today, it's because she was giving eighth graders a tour. I'm almost positive these lists are being communicated to the teachers and it is they're still being marked absent and now I'm getting calls, but I'm getting these calls at 3:30 in the afternoon when I can't even call
077and talk to anyone. So, I don't I don't understand why it's not being communicated properly or if it is, it's not being acted on properly. But as a parent, I want to help and I can't if I don't have people helping me help. So. So, thank you. Thank you. Next is Jessica Snyder. I have a little bit of um I'm hard of hearing and I have a speech impediment. So, I have some papers if anybody wants to read them if they don't understand what I'm saying correctly. I don't know. I didn't print out enough, sorry. >> Okay. So, my husband and I are parents of third grade students in the school district of Wash Hannibal Elementary. I'm here today because we're concerned about the safety and the learning environment in her classroom. Our daughter has
078been sitting facts about disruptive incidents and behaviors. The repeated incidents, I believe, started sometime in January. This one child is running out of classrooms, throwing her desk, throwing her chairs, papers, scissors, physical aggression towards the staff. And the final straw was she told me that she witnessed the student stab the teacher with a pencil. When these incidents happen, she stated the classroom would leave the room and sit in the hallways or walk upstairs and sometimes go into other classrooms. Our concern is not about the one child getting help, as she should. The current approach is negatively impacting every student in that classroom. This is not an isolated incident. It is ongoing and there has been no improvement. I'm here tonight because how is my child and the other students learning these actions? These actions are
079disruptive and quite frankly traumatic for the entire classroom to witness on a regular basis. The students are being removed from class. There's physical aggression and learning time is consistently being disrupted. This is not a safe and appropriate learning environment. What is the plan to ensure my child receive an uninterrupted instruction? What happened if another child with that number gets hurt? I do feel the school administration should be notifying the parent of the situation and the behavior that the classroom is experiencing on a regular basis. We pay a lot of taxes for the school district to provide a safe and a great learning experiences and education. That's not happening in this particular classroom. My kids are wildcats at West Hanover Elementary. And they are proud to state the wildcat word pledge every day. We are respectful
080to everyone. We take ownership for our decision. And we are honest reporters. We always try our best and help others do their best. And their school work and behavior, we are responsible wildcats. Thank you for allowing me to speak on this matter and hope to resolve this soon. Thank you. Just um I did We did We told this evening that you will be week meeting with Mr. Turman on Thursday. Um I will have to need to reschedule my meeting on Thursday because my husband is actually out of town. So, he won't be back until next week. So, I'm going to call tomorrow to reschedule. Okay. Okay. All right, and our last speaker for this evening is Angela Rogers. Hello again. How is everybody? Um just a couple things. I was here back in November to
081talk about my daughter Rosie about the special ed situation at East Middle School. I just wanted to give you an update on her. She's I mean, we figured it out. It took us a while, but we finally got her where she needs to be. I think that there's room to grow when it comes to special education accountability at East Middle. But, I think that I think that it's achievable. And I've always wanted to be a part of the solution. So, I've offered that to Mr. Hale. And the administration there just just, you know, in case they they needed any parent input. Um, one other thing that I wanted to talk about was I get a lot of questions from parents. I don't know why. Maybe because I come to the board meetings, I don't know.
082I get a lot of questions. Some of them when we go to try to research the questions, we don't have the appropriate resources. So, a lot of it I'm wondering if we knew what was going on in like the other like the executive sessions and stuff like that, maybe with recordings or something like that, then we would know where we would go to address we should go to get our opinions addressed or our questions addressed. Um, so and I looked on our website, looked at the board docs, and we don't have we only have this meeting recorded. Um, we don't have any of the other ones. Um, I looked at Westshore School District. Now, listen, I know I just was just nosing around a little bit, not really comparing, but they had all of theirs
083recorded. So, um, I also think if you recorded them, you would get a lot more input I because people would understand where the money is going, what is happening. People would know like what to listen to um, or to watch if they had questions. I mean, it's almost like did anybody see Hamilton? Did anybody see that? That That That Okay, the room where it happens. I feel like that your committee meetings are the room where it happens and we don't know anything about what's going on in there as parents, as teachers, as all of the stakeholders in the school district. Also, um that's I have a third thing that is not even related to the other two things. Um the volleyball camp we were just noticing up there is is scheduled for June 2nd through
084the 5th. I believe the volleyball camp we're not out of school yet. It's held in the evenings. Okay. Okay, that's that's interesting. It's good to know. But, um there we go. We know now. So, um that's all I had. Any questions? I know it was random. I just had several different things in my head. All of our committee meetings are open to the public and we would really love to have more people attend committee meetings. We've tried to group them together. Um what time are they? Um well, next I know there's one Thursday. We have a finance meeting at 4:30 so they're usually stacked. >> Okay. But, there's also minutes of the meeting and we are working to have those televised as well. Okay. We're aware of that. And that's great. That's awesome. Um 4:30
085in the afternoon not many people are going to come. Yeah, I I you know what no matter what time we pick, that'll be the problem. I mean, so I mean, I get it. I get it. It's just that for me personally, and you see me here almost at every every board meeting. I can't get there at 4:30 and I can't go. I mean, I would love to make a playlist and when I'm mowing the lawn just listen to the meet listen to the meeting. I know if you'd really want to do that. >> No, like no, I know I'm weird that way. I'm sorry. It's just, you know, but I also read the user's manuals when I buy something. >> have you so you have the minutes that you have access to and you have
086the ability to find and the chairmans are all identified. So, you have the ability to send an email saying, "What is happening here or why did that happen?" Certainly, we can't share executive session because that's confidential. Okay, and that's fine. Okay. Um financial, I would think you would be able to. Buildings and grounds, I would think you would be able to. It's in the minutes. There's no nobody's hiding anything. >> are fine, but that the minutes don't tell you everything. I went to a PAC meeting. And the minutes that I got didn't include everything. So, I've had the uh interesting experience of having everything in the minutes. It's a transcript. It's expensive. If you're willing to pay for it, it would be about 20 or 25 pages. So, what we try to do is compress
087it into two or three minutes. Well, two or three pages. It's not two or three minutes. Okay. That and I I appreciate that. I appreciate that. >> Also, for finance, if you go on the web, you'll see all our budget presentations. Everyone is on the web. Is on the web? Yes, ma'am. I understand that as well cuz I've looked at them and I've I've reviewed them. Um Send me your question. I respond within 24 hours everybody. I've done that for the last 11 years. >> don't think that that's what it is. I don't think people they I don't know if they know who to talk to. I don't think they know who what the policy is on certain things. I get a lot of questions about, "Is this the way it's supposed to work?" I'm
088like, "Well, I guess we got to go look at the policy." I I mean or go to the policy meeting that's held at what? 4:30 in the afternoon? And if we had it at 7:00, 8:00, or 9:00, people would say it's too late. And if we had it before then, then our teachers couldn't attend. >> But at least you could say that it was in a time frame that people could actually make it. I think 4:30 is reasonable. For retired people. Not for retired people. We we have a lot of people who attend who aren't retired, but I don't want to go back and forth. If you think that it's not accessible for you, I certainly get that. My point is that the transparency is not there. It is there. But it's not. Well, it's
089not It's not convenient. I I get that. Well, but when I first came on the board, you had to sign up on Friday. Now you can walk in and sign up at that time. We had no video. We introduced that. We have archives for every meeting. So when you say it's not transparent, I have a hard time with that. We sit I'm on the finance committee, so we have 14 to 16 meetings a year. And it's a slog. If you have questions, you can email me. I will get back to you within 24 hours. So I don't know how that's not transparent. I've had people all the time email me, get right back to them. And that's And I'm not saying you don't. I do. I'm not saying that you don't. I'm saying that I'm
090saying that if you would like more people to be involved, that there should be more direction. That's all I'm saying. And there should be more the And I think that starting with a recording of these sessions that are happening behind closed doors, What sessions are happening behind closed doors? >> Buildings and grounds. They're not behind closed doors. I'm ahead of buildings and grounds. It's right It's right after finance. >> too, right? Every Every They're all public. But this is what I'm saying, guys. This is not what I'm talking about. I am talking about the people that want to be involved can't be. That's what I'm saying. I'm not going to argue back and forth, but I don't agree. I've seen a lot of change in the 10 11 years I've been on here. There's always
091room for improvement but I can't make people reach out and call or email which they're welcome to do. And I'm not saying that they should I'm not saying nor should you. I'm just saying that this is something that I see as a possible improvement that a lot of parents would appreciate. So we would have extra resources to understand how the school district is run. That's all I'm saying. Uh the information's there. It may not be in the format that you would like and certainly we've been working with tech to have all the committee meetings. We we have we have six committees or five? Five I think we're Every board member here also is represented in an external body at which sometimes those meetings begin at 8:00 a.m. So you know, we have this cavalcade of
092requirements necessities that we have to address. I don't think most people are aware that. And how how are that we supposed to let them know? Well, if you look and see where we have an agenda or rather we have our calendar for a year ahead of time. All right, we advertise all the meetings. We have a list of committee meetings. I don't know what more we can do. That's what I'm saying. Yeah, I'm not going to go back and forth I have we have different opinions. >> I am just yes let's agree to disagree. I am just saying that this is where these are things that I'm hearing from other people. I'm I'm the messenger so please don't shoot the messenger. >> Thank you for being the messenger. I really do appreciate it and I
093I actually enjoy when members of the public come and and voice their concerns. I think that is good government and I appreciate your involvement in all of it and I do hear what you're saying and I also understand that as a person who is busy it may be difficult to attend. I also understand that the meeting minutes sometimes don't include the granular level of information that you may want to see. And I think that we, um, now that we have arranged our committee structure to be multiple meetings stacked, it may be something that we could look to recording them in the future cuz it may be more or less cost-prohibitive because we would be recording like three meetings at a time as opposed to one on Tuesday, one on Thursday, one on Tuesday, you know.
094So, I think that, um, that's something that we should definitely hear you and maybe look into is something that we could do in the future. So, thank you. Okay. Thank you. All right. 8:16 is board representative reports. Do I have any? 8:17 board committee reports. We have, uh, finance committee meeting 4:30 on Thursday and I Dave, I'm looking at you at building and grounds following that. I think this is a >> country. Yeah, because when you get into April, it's really, um, where the rubber starts to hit the road when it comes to financial planning and the budget. So, my assumption would be it's 4:30 it's here. It'll probably run more than an hour. It'll probably be about a 90-minute investment and, um, and then we have I think one meeting in May and one
095meeting in June, uh, to finish it out. But, feel free to email or call if you have any questions about the budget. Happy to answer them. Next Wednesday. It's at the 22nd, 4:22. We will have personnel at 4:00, board policy at 4:30, and academic committee at 5:00. And they are extremely exciting meetings, then. No, they're really not. I mean, but they're necessary. Okay. Before we do the sympathy resolutions, also note that, um, a teacher from Tracy and I will be on PA Good Day America tomorrow at 9:15 or 9:15 I think we start 10:00 and uh we are going to talk Mrs. Park how do you say her name? Park Park Polko um we're going to go talk about full day kindergarten uh next year. So that'll be at 10:00. Okay. Brings us to 8:18
096sympathy resolutions Mr. Turman. Sympathies are extended to the family of Deborah McKenzie golf coach at Central Dauphin High School on her passing. Sympathies are extended to Rebecca Boop teacher at Central Dauphin Middle School on the passing of her mother Karen Boop. Brings us to 9:01 adjournment. May I have >> Move. Second. >> Second. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? Okay. I call this meeting closed.