001I'm going to call this order this uh meeting to order. My name is Mike Posh. I'm the solicitor for uh Central Dolphin School District. Um and today is Tuesday, December 2nd, 2025. Um this uh meeting will serve as a reorganization meeting. Um and we'll also have two action items uh on u as part of the agenda. Um, I want to announce that uh prior to the meeting um the Honorable William Wer uh swore in the following individuals um as board members, returning board members in reading in region one um Janelle Bigamin and Michelle Halls, region two, Kristen Hanford and region three David Dorne. in. So, congratulations to the uh all returning uh board members. Um at this time, um I'll ask uh Miss McConnell to call roll. >> Mrs. Bingaman >> here. >> Mr. Dornan
002>> here. >> Mr. Epstein >> here. >> Mr. Gordon >> here. >> Mrs. Hanford >> Mrs. Haw >> here. >> Mr. Jacobs >> here. >> Mrs. Silvers >> here. >> Mrs. Webster >> here. >> There are nine board members present. >> Okay. Thank you. Um for all those who are able um if you could uh stand and join me in the pledge. >> I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States. At this point, I'm going to serve as the uh parliamentary president for purposes of uh the election of the school board president. Once the president is uh elected, uh we'll uh turn the meeting over uh for the election uh for vice president and assistant uh secretary. Uh for purposes of uh nominations, I just want to go over uh the procedure. Um
003I'm going to ask for uh nominations three times. Um and then afterwards, I'm going to close the floor to nominations. Uh nominations will not have to be seconded. Um you could nominate yourself for a position and when it's time to vote, you could vote for yourself. Uh once the nominations are made, um I will call for a roll call in the order that the nominations are made and that the first person who receives a majority vote uh will win the election for that particular office. So, with that being said, uh the first order of business will be uh the election of uh president of the board of school uh directors for Central Dolphin School District. Um do I hear uh any nominations for this uh office? >> I'd like to nominate Mike Jacobs for president.
004>> Okay. Miss Hamford uh nominates Mr. Jacobs. Are is there any other nominations for the office of president? I'm going to ask one more time. Is there any other nominations for the office of president? Hearing none, uh close the floor to nominations and uh Miss McConnell, would you please uh call a roll call vote? Those in favor of Mr. for um Jacob's uh being president, respond by saying yes. Uh those who are opposed, please respond by saying no. >> Mrs. Hanford, >> Mrs. Haw, >> yes. >> Mr. >> Jacobs, >> yes. >> Mrs. Silvers, >> yes. >> Mrs. Webster, >> yes. >> Mrs. Bingaman, >> yes. >> Mr. Dorn, >> yes. >> Mr. Epstein, >> yes. >> Mr. Gordon, >> yes. The motion passes with nine affirmative votes. >> Congratulations. >> Thank you. Thank you.
005I appreciate that and thank you for the nomination. >> Moving on to the election of vice president, item 601. Again, we will follow the same process. Um, I will open the floor to nominations for the office of vice president. >> I'd like to nominate Janelle Bingaman. >> Are there any other nominations? Are there any other nominations? I will close the nominations. We have one. We will do a roll call vote. Those in favor of Mrs. Bingaman for vice president will vote yes. Those opposed will vote no. Miss McConnell, call the role. >> Mrs. Haw, >> yes. >> Mr. Jacobs, >> yes. >> Mrs. Silvers, >> yes. >> Mrs. Webster, >> yes. >> Mrs. Bingaman. >> Mr. Dornan. >> Yes. >> Mr. Epstein. >> Yes. >> Mr. Gordon. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Hanford. >> Yes. >>
006The motion passes with nine affirmative votes. [snorts] >> Thank you. >> Moving on to item 701, election of assistant secretary. Again, we will follow the same process as the previous two office positions. I will open the floor for nominations for the office of assistant secretary. like to nominate Eric Epstein. >> Are there any other nominations? I move to close nominations. Those in favor of Eric as assistant secretary will vote yes. Those opposed will vote no. Miss McConnell call the role. >> Mr. Jacobs, >> yes. >> Mrs. Silvers, >> yes. >> Mrs. Webster. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Bingaman. >> Yes. >> Mr. Dornan. >> Yes. >> Mr. Epstein. >> Yes. >> Mr. Gordon. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Hanford. >> Mrs. Haw. >> Yes. >> The motion passes with nine affirmative votes. >> Thank you very much.
007Congratulations. Moving on to information and proposals. Item 8001, public speakers. We have no one signed up to speak. Moving to old business, item 901, overnight trip approval. Mr. Turman or Miss Box. The administration is recommending approval of the following overnight trip requests for select Central Dolphin School District students. This item was reviewed at the November 25th, 2025 board meeting. CDES cheerleaders, January 8th, 2026 to January 10th, 2026. Somerset PA for PIAA competitive spirit 2026. PMEA District Chorus January 9th, 2026 to January 10th, 2026 at Boiling Spring High School. >> May I have a motion to approve the recommendation? >> Is there motion and a second? Any questions or comments? All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> Opposed? Motion carries. Thank you. Moving on to item one item of new business item
0081001 authorization to identify parcels to erect a school facility. Mr. Turman. >> Yes. Can everyone hear me? >> Yes. >> Okay. The administration is recommending approval of the resolution of the Central Dolphin School District directors to authorize the superintendent, solicitor, and special counsel in conjunction with the district district architect to identify a parcel or parcels for the purpose of condemnation to erect a school facility. Um over the past couple of months um the district has learned of a potential housing developments which um would definitely have an impact um in one area definitely that would be Linglestown and potentially another area down the road would be West Hanover. Um at this time we are already over capacity in just about all of our schools. Um even though we are moving forward with full lake kindergarten which
009will give us some breathing room. Um we still have schools who will be up against the wall. uh in terms of capacity. So the administration is looking at the opportunity um that as this develops um that we would be giving the the we'd be given the authorization to potentially go look for parcel land to bring back and discuss with the board of directors. Um we'd be looking to potentially do that through eminent domain. So we at that point in time could prepare for anywhere from 500 to 700 kids um who could be coming into the district down the road. But this does not this agenda item does not tie us into doing anything right this second. >> May I have a motion to approve the recommendation? >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> Any
010questions or comments from board members? So that I'm clear, this resolution then becomes active upon uh adoption. >> Correct. >> That's correct. >> Other questions or comments from board members. >> All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> Opposed. >> Motion carries. Moving on to our last item 1101 adjournment. Do I have a motion to adjurnn? >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> Thank you. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> Meeting adjourned. Thank you. >> All meetings should be that