001Good evening. We'll call the uh meeting for Tuesday, August 26, 2025 of the Central Dolphin School District Board of Directors. Miss McConnell, call the role. >> Mrs. Bingamin, >> here. >> Mr. Dorne, >> here. >> Mr. Epstein, >> present. >> Mr. Gordon, >> here. >> Mrs. Hanford >> here. >> Mrs. Haw >> here. >> Mr. Jacobs >> here. >> Mrs. Silvers here. >> Mrs. Webster >> here. >> There are nine board members present. >> Thank you. For all those who are able to stand, please join us. Pledge of >> Allegiance. I pledge algiance 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. >> Thank you. Moving on to item 401, additions, deletions, and modifications to the
002agenda. Do any board members have any additions, deletions, or modifications to the agenda? >> Seeing none, moving on to item 5.01, approval of the August 12th, 2025 meeting minutes. Mr. Turman, >> the administration is recommending approval of the August 12th, 2025 meeting minutes. >> May I have a motion? >> So move. >> Is there a second? >> Second. Any questions or comments? All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> Opposed. >> Moving to information and proposals. I'd like to announce to those here joining us in person as well as those joining us online that prior to this evening's meeting, the board met in executive session, which was held to discuss a variety of both personnel and legal issues. Moving on to item 602, public speakers for agenda items only. This is the
003first of two opportunities for the public to address the board. Uh the first is for agenda items only. Later in the uh agenda later in the agenda is for um any items that the board wish that the public wishes to address the board. We have no one signed up to speak. >> Moving on to unfinished business. Item 701, approval of TSI plans. Mr. Turman, >> the administration is recommending approval of the following targeted support improvement plans. eh Phillips Elementary School and Central Dolphin East Middle School. >> May I have a motion to approve the recommendation? >> So moved. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> Any questions or comments from board members? >> All those in favor signify by saying I. >> Opposed. >> Moving on to item 702, job description revisions. Mr. Chairman,
004>> the administration is recommending approval of the revisions to the following job descriptions. Director of student services would change to executive director of student services. Also a change to director of pupil services and also a change to the special education supervisor. These items were reviewed at the August 4th, 2025 personnel committee meeting and the August 12th, 2025 board meeting. >> We have a motion to approve the recommendation. >> So move. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> Thank you. Any questions or comments from the board? >> All those in favor signify by saying I. I >> opposed. >> Moving on to item 703, treasures report for month ending June 30, 2025. Mr. Bart, >> the administration is recommending the approval of the treasures report for the month ending June 30th, 2025. This item was
005reviewed at the August 12th, 2025 board meeting. >> We have a motion to approve the recommendation. >> So moved. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> Any questions or comments from the board? I had a couple items that uh and questions with for Peter and which were uh answered to my satisfaction. In addition, it's my monthly shiel uh big payment. I don't I I don't remember the exact number for charter schools. What's interesting in July we had uh no invoices. So, it was good to get a breather. >> All those in favor signify by saying I >> opposed. Thank you. >> Moving on to item 704, purchase of replacement laptops. Mr. Turman, >> the administration is recommending approval of the purchase of HP Probook replacement laptops for Lingotown Middle School and East Middle School
006through Int in Integral 1 at a cost of $140,576. This item was reviewed at the July 28th, 2025 technology committee meeting and the August 12th, 2025 board meeting. May I have a motion? >> So move. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> Mr. Snop is here. Does anybody have any questions? Or Matt, is there anything else you wanted to say? >> I do have a question. >> Go for it. >> The kids have enough laptops right now to get them through. How long is it going to take to get these? >> These are for the teachers. >> Oh, these are for teachers. >> Yeah, the Excuse me. These are for the teachers. >> Okay. >> The kids use Chromebooks. These are Remember Matt pointed out the difference because I didn't know the difference between
007a laptop and >> I lost that brain cell. >> Thanks Matt. I still don't know the difference. >> Other questions for Matt. >> All those in favor signify by saying I >> opposed. >> Thank you. >> Thanks Matt. Moving on to new business. Item 8001 personnel report. Mr. Turman. >> The administration is recommending approval of the personnel report as discussed in executive session. May I have a motion to approve the recommendation? >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> Thank you. >> Questions or comments from the board? >> I don't see anybody. >> All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> Those opposed. >> Motion carries. Thank you. Staying with new business, item 8002, treasurer's report for month ending July 31st, 2025. Mr. report. The administration is recommending the approval of the
008treasures report for the month ending July 31, 2025. This item will appear on the September 9, 2025 board agenda for approval. >> Just to follow up, Peter and I had a discussion. If you look at the exoneration, there was a uh an error for about 367,000 that I think was on the from the from the county. I don't know that's going to have a material impact on us. Um, I guess we're looking into that. >> No, there's no there's no material impact because the uh assessment office just um split the two properties due to to a uh uh do to a a sub a sub I forget when they divide the property what it's called, but it just divided it into two. So >> subdivision subdivision >> a subdivision. Yeah, I'm sorry. It's a subdivision.
009So all they did was subdivided two properties up. So there's no material impact on the district financially. Yeah, I think we'll approve or we'll vote on it next month, but there's seven uh exonerations for disabled veterans. Uh so that is notable. >> Again, this item is not a voting item, but will be on the agenda for September 9th. If you have questions between now and then, please direct them to Mr. Bard. Moving on to item 8003, transportation routes for the 2526 school year. Mr. Turman, >> the administration is recommending approval of the transportation routes for the 2526 school year. Uh just a little background. I do want to thank and very thankful for the transportation department and the business department have worked really hard over the past couple of months, especially the past couple of
010weeks to try try and resolve any transportation issues. It's just important for the community to note that the district is also transporting to up to 87 nonpubs. Uh and that also includes daycare. plus the transportation department with enrollments is receiving up to 30 new requests each and every day. So, I definitely would like to thank them for working with the community and the parents to help resolve issues. Um, I know Mr. Bard has been on emails and phone calls to parents to try and help resolve issues. Um, this is just a very large district in terms of really trying to accommodate everyone's needs. If there are any questions or concerns, um, please call the transportation department at with call the transportation department at 717545-4703 extension 70220 and they will be able to assist you uh
011with any of your questions and concerns and try and resolve them. Um, just also to note, I know a couple of districts have had some issues with staffing to a point where um, they have not been able to either bring kids to and from school or from school. Um, and talking to our transportation director today, um, we are solid and good to go for next Tuesday, uh, so we do not foresee any issues with getting kids to school on that first day of school. And >> I was just going to echo that sentiment. I think we've seen the headlines locally of some districts facing some challenges with respect to transportation issues and there are always going to be um some some challenges and difficulties as you start the school year. So I would just plead
012for everybody's patience and families patience as as our as we sort of get the school year underway. There's always concerns and challenges, but I think in this environment today I think it's probably a little bit exacerbated as we've seen by local headlines. So I would just urge patience. >> Can I ask a question? There was um >> Did we have a motion? Do I need to wait? >> May I have a motion to approve? >> So move. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> Any questions or comments? >> Sorry. >> Well, I think Dave had a question. >> Uh just quite I saw someone online. There was some confusion of you know for the go to the votech and they're like should I go to the school and everybody's confused. They said they tried
013to call but obviously like with being in session this week is other schools and they were having trouble getting through. is like an email address or somewhere else that they can reach out if they're not able to get a hold of anybody. >> Yeah. So, and then Mr. Bard, if I miss anything, you can help me fill in the blanks. I know we had some conversations with the Votech as well. Um, they gave them access to be able to look at everything we do. So, a parent can call the CTC and get the same information they would get from us. Um, there was a little bit of confusion from the staff because they were calling the school and not calling the transportation department. So, the school was giving them one set of this information which
014was inaccurate. So the transportation department has worked with uh the individuals at the CTC uh so that if a parent calls there they can get the exact information that we would give them. >> Perfect. Thank you. >> Just credit to Peter and uh to the transportation department. Usually the number of routes are about this thick about as big as a phone book and just hoping for patients from the parents and students. We obviously we'll have to make some modifications as it's rolled out. >> Yep. Thank you. Any other questions or comments? All those in favor signify by saying I. >> Opposed. >> Motion carries. Thank you. Moving on to item 8004, student code of conduct. Mr. Turman. >> The administration is recommending approval of the student code of conduct for the 2526 school year. >>
015May I have a motion to approve? >> Motion. >> Is there a second? Thank you. Questions or comments from the board? >> It's extraordinary document. Long overdue. I just want to make a comment that I'm just Yeah, I'm just really thankful for I don't know if it was mostly Miss Miss Howard um that did >> uh Dr. Beaston is here. >> Oh, sorry. Oh, Dr. Beast who was working on that. But thank you so much. It was um >> I actually read the whole thing and compare compared the old one to the new one and um was really impressed with it how much more streamlined, condensed, and easier to follow and read. So, thank you so much for the time you spent on that Dr. Beaston. Thank you. >> Kudos. Well done. >> I will
016second that. That was a monster to take care of and I I couldn't get through it all. I think I got to page 80 and then I was like my eyes were crossed and I had a migraine and so great job. >> And to note for parents too, it now references the policy. So um every part of the code of conduct, you know, the major parts and positions uh echo back to the policy uh the board policy that um supports it. So that's a big change for us too. um just supporting each thing with policy which is you know very important for school districts. >> Well that's important to note because there were a lot of parents that wanted that and we didn't get get to that point >> with all the work we did
017and so >> and we still have a ways to go but it is way better. >> Yeah. Awesome. >> Amazing. >> Any other questions or comments from board members? All those in favor signify by saying I. >> Opposed. >> Motion carries. Item 8005 approval of lease agreement. Mr. Turman, >> the administration is recommending approval of the lease agreement with Landmark Commercial Realy for 449 Eisenhower Boulevard at Harrisburg, PA for the relocation of the district warehouse. This item will appear on the September 9th, 2025 board agenda for approval pending solicitor review. >> So I think do you just want to take 30 seconds and explain why we have to find this and and the rationale and what we're doing? >> Sure. So, well, probably about almost a year ago, a little bit less than that, um
018the district took the stance of looking and restly going after full day kindergarten. Uh with that, we ended up having to take the old administration building and that will be one of our kindergarten centers for the 2627 school year. Um in that location, uh we have our warehouse and our transportation department. Um we obviously need to get them to another location. um this building here was able to fit all of our central office staff from that building and also from our cyber building. So we were able to com condense and combine those two buildings to one. Uh we now just needed a location uh where we could take for our warehouse and be able to get distribution items in and out of out of the district. So um and also our copy shop will be
019there as well. So, um, this location definitely fits the needs of the district and would provide us an opportunity to really be able to provide the things that buildings would need and so forth at a location that is very close to majority school. So, um, we are very happy with the possibility of this being the warehouse for the district and we definitely uh really appreciate the opportunity that Belove has presented to us. And this item was reviewed at buildings and grounds and discussed at length. Howard's here. Um uh while it's not a voting item, if you have questions now, we can certainly ask if you have questions that come up between now and the voting uh opportunity. Uh certainly direct them to Howard. Um he can help answer the questions. As Mr. Chairman indicated, Mr.
020Posh is um currently working on the lease agreement. Um and so that should be finalized by the meeting. Howard, is there anything you wanted to say? Okay. Any questions for Howard? Yeah, thank you and you and uh Peter appreciate it. Looks like a good project. >> I don't want to have I don't have a question. I just want to let the community know that this was talked about for about an hour in buildings and grounds. So, you got the reader digest version here. Um so, if you want to know more information about certain things, um we do have our our committee meetings online and the times are available and you're more than happy to uh participate in those and they're held in this this very room. So that's all I wanted to say. >> Thank
021you. Moving on to item 8006, request for bid replacement cafeteria equipment. Mr. Bard, >> the administration is recommending the award of the bid for replacement of cafeteria equipment using cafeteria funds to the following lowest cost responsible biders. These items will appear on the September 9th, 2025 board agenda for approval. There are slight changes to these numbers um because I made an error in interpreting the uh tabulation. So I'm going to I'm going to read the replacement numbers. They're actually lower cost than what is on here. So that's actually for the good. Um it's going to be in parentheses one replacement combi oven for Central Dolphin Middle School to Singer Equipment Company in the amount of $32,221.87. 87. One replacement combi oven for Central Dolphin East Middle School to Singer Equipment Company in the amount of
02232,22187 and two replacement steamers for Central Dolphin High School to Singer Equipment Company in the amount of 16,74788 each. The change in price would have been there would have been two at 25,000 each and so that would have been about 53,000 and change. So the price was 32,000. Um I spoke with our warehouse supervisor um and they will meet what we need. Um I spoke with the food service director and they will meet what we need. We will pay with surplus cafeteria funds and the current equipment which is on its last leg. We will have to nurse until we get this uh equipment in which should be in around November. We have we have surplus cafeteria funds don't we? >> Yes. And that will be pay with the surplus cafeteria funds. >> Uh again this
023is not a item for voting today. If you have any questions about this please direct them to Mr. Bard. >> Moving on to item 8007 tax appeal settlement. Mr. Determined. >> The administration is recommending approval of the settlement terms for the tax assessment cases relative to the properties located at 8 I'm sorry 6455 Allentown Boulevard, lower Paxton Township, 7195 Grayson Road, Swera Township and 7253 Grayson Road Township in accordance with the report of special counsel dated August 21st, 2025. These items were reviewed in executive session uh due to the legal nature um but they are in settlement benefiting the uh school district. Uh may I have a motion to approve the recommendation? >> So move. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> Any questions or comments from the board? All those in favor signify
024by saying I. >> I opposed. Moving on to item 8008. This is the second of two opportunities for the public to address the board on any items that they wish to and we have no speakers signed up to speak. >> I signed up there. >> Uh Mr. Gristto, there are two uh forums out there to sign up to speak just as every other meeting. They were beside the signin sheets for visitors. >> I did sign my name. There's another sheet out there in the hallway. >> Mr. Gristo, it's okay. It's okay if you want to speak. That's fine. >> Let him speak. >> Sure. Yes, sir. >> Otherwise, I don't know where else to sign. Thank you. 2531 Bow Street. I know that there were a number of school districts that order books from Scholastic
025Corporation, and it's more than likely that the Central Dolphin School District may as well. Concerning teachers, as the district possibly know, but teachers can do that on their own, just simply ordering and bringing them into the classroom. So, as a taxpayer, I'm extremely concerned what kind of literature goes into the libraries as well as literature that goes into the classroom through teachers. So I'm asking that those in authority, proper authority to see to it that teachers are checked as to what kind of books they're ordering. Uh there are books that absolutely sexually explicit pornographic promoting uh homosexuality and you can go on and on and on. >> You need to narrow your focus. Are you just targeting Scholastic? Because I would have a problem with that. >> They're they may not be the only one,
026but they are one that does promote that literature. Just so you know, my daughter is contracted to Scholastic. >> So, but there's a number of them and they they promote that type of literature. They have it. They ship it out to schools. That's a fact. It is a fact throughout the United States. So, but it has no place in schools that that >> I don't agree. I'm just going to tell you right off the top. >> I did look up research on that. >> So did I. >> So, but they they have it and they do distribute it. It's it's a question of is it getting into this school district? It is other school districts. That's what I'm saying. >> I think that's what I'm asking to put a guard to debate with you, but
027it's a question really between an ideology that's uncomfortable with anything that Scholastic puts out and you know it's a politization of curriculum. I think that's what you're talking to. not politiciz politic um really want to talk to anyway but I'm talking about as far as decency is concerned and there's a lot of school districts that have books that do promote a sexually deviate lifestyle which is absolutely wrong. Uh there's there's students that cannot read properly and do math properly. I brought up some of those statistics last year. That's where we need to focus not on a deviate lifestyle. I mean, it's bad enough alone that students are being shipped out to get abortions in some school districts without the parents being known. And that's a fact. I pray to God it doesn't happen here. Uh
028the other is as far as the school off of Mountain Road, uh they had in their auditorium flags from all the different countries. This is the United States of America, not the United Nations. We should not be wasting taxpayer money on getting flags from every different country. and our allegiance should be to this country. I hope they still say the pledge of allegiance in the schools here. Thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. Stil. Did you go ahead? Sure. >> Jean Sto 1550 Fisher Creek Valley Road. I just asked a question. Who are right to know requests directed to in the school district? >> Me. >> Peter. >> Mr. Bart. >> Me. >> Mr. Bart. Okay. Peter Bard. >> Peter Bart. >> Should be on the the web. It's on it's on our website and if
029you send it to the opens record uh email comes to come to me. >> Okay. Go ahead. Yes. >> And uh solicitor what firm is a solicitor with? >> I'm sorry I didn't hear. >> What firm is a solicitor with? >> My firm is uh debt lift pyos and Murphy from Campville. >> Thank you much. That's all I have. Hey, it's a nice coming. This is my first school board meeting. I appreciate the opportunity to speak. Thanks. >> Thanks Jean. >> You were very educated. >> Okay. Uh, moving on to item 8009, board representative reports. Are there any? >> I just want to report for the uh uh the baseball the 8U Central Dolphin team uh was the champion on of the Iron Man for the World Series in Ripken. So, uh incredible run for
030those young boys and they uh they did a really good job and uh it was it was it was a long way. I think they had eight games in there. So, long time in New Jersey, so families had to bear through a lot, but the boys did amazing. So, congratulations to them. >> That's awesome. other board representative. >> I just wanted to point out that yesterday um we had opening day for all staff in the district um was held at East High. Um a couple of us were able to attend and the energy in there was wonderful. Um there's some videos that are put out on social media to show the rebranding. Um, the really cool thing about the rebrand is that it was created by a CD high school student. So, that was really
031cool to see. Um, I don't know, just feel like the energy is different and I think that there's excitement about the school year starting and I'm also, you know, thankful for hiring processes that are taking place and all those things. I just want to just feel very proud to be a part of this board and proud for these teachers that we have teaching in this district. >> So, it's the end of the apple. >> The end of the >> other board representative reports. >> Yeah, I attended I I'm not sure exactly what it's called, but the band open house or the band uh performance for the parents after the summer practice. And uh anybody who follows band knows that usually you practice before school in 90 degree weather, 100% humidity, and the weather was gorgeous
032for the first time that most people could remember for them to perform and they did an incredible job. So thank you. >> I have two quick things as well. Um first want to recognize there were two board birthdays um between our last meeting and now. Uh Jeff's birthday was July 18th and Michelle was July 19th. So happy birthday, guys. Um and then um just wanted to recognize um Mr. Dorman had asked me that there were some questions about some policy uh about advertising. So I just want to open up that anybody could ask me any of those questions if they want to contact me by email. It's about um uh what our policy that we just uh recently brought out was about simplifying um sponsorships. Um not doing anything um complicated with there are 501c3s
033that are involved with sports boosters clubs. Nothing um that we did changed any of that. It's just addressing um semi-permanent and permanent advertising in the district. And we're trying to raise some money to help our uh fields and maintain um those things. and uh some neat things rolling out. Uh Mr. Turman is rolling out some corporate sponsorship opportunities on the fields. Um but if there are any questions, the policy is actually much clearer and more simplified and does not interfere with those 501c3s and booster clubs at all um in any way. So if anybody has any questions or needs clarification, they can certainly text me or email me and um we can get get you answers. >> Other board representative reports. Uh given this is our last board meeting before the um school starts next
034week, um I just wanted to on behalf of the board um send our best wishes to all of our staff and our students um as they embark on another school year and uh we all think it's going to go um great uh and we're excited especially given the uh opening day ceremonies that um several of us participate in. So on behalf of the board, we just want to send our our best wishes for a great school year to our staff and our students. >> I think the other thing we should know is that uh you know have two uh elementary schools air conditioned. >> Uh thank you for that. >> It's a a huge difference. >> Um I think Mountain View and was the other chamber. >> Yeah. So we're hoping we're able to do
035two more this year. >> That would be great. >> That's the goal. >> Any other board representative reports? Moving on to item 8.10, board committee reports. Are there any? >> We have a finance committee meeting >> September 10th. So, I just want to point out, traditionally these meetings weren't held until November. Last year, we started in October. So, we're starting in September. Um, one meeting a month starting at 4:30 on Wednesdays. >> Yep. >> You don't want to miss these meetings. It's compelling. >> Yeah. Are we going to now that we're in the new building, are we going to be able to put those committees on video or anything since we have a set up here? >> Mr. Technologies right there. >> I think we can >> um >> just let us know what button
036to push to start and what button to push. >> It's not that doesn't work. Matt, can you stand up at the podium? >> We're getting like the stuff right now is temporary. We're getting this reconfigured. We're getting they're bringing TVs in. We're going to mount two TVs on each side and a whole new system. So, once we get that in, we'll have a better idea how it'll how it'll operate. >> Okay. I think it's I think I think for now it's probably better just to do them in person. um probably by the budget time in like February, March when we're talking about budget numbers, we could have a better idea as to how it will work if we do it both like live stream like we do the board meetings now. >> I think it's
037not it's not just for that. It's for all the >> Yeah, it's for all the committee. Yeah, exactly. For all >> the public really wants to be able to do that because not everybody can get there. So being able to have that and watch a recording later. It's like we talked about the the in building grounds, hey, we went through all these things, but if nobody you can't get there at four o'clock on a Wednesday, right? >> You're not going to be able to see that and there's no way to see that. So, I think it's really important for us to find a way to get these committees on teams and have a recording so people can see those. And one of the things we've tried to do is build out a committee meeting schedule
038far in advance and so that to try to provide as much notice as possible to the public that the finance committee for example is scheduled on such and such a dates on in you know months out um and so >> we're prepared to work on that today like so as we leave this meeting we'll work with Kim and try and get the fall on >> and Kim those would be on the website once once we schedule them correct >> yes that's correct >> Mr. President Peter, I'm going to put you on the spot. Um, just uh what impact is the budget not being passed having on the district? >> Um, well, it's not. We would normally get a payment in for our basic ed subsidy in this in this month and we haven't gotten it.
039We would also have gotten a payment in for our quarterly retirement uh reimbursement which would have been 50% of our retirement. We have not received that. Um what we have received from the state was 50% of our property tax uh homestead farm uh homestead um reduction. So we have received that which is about two and a half or $2.6 million. In terms of cash flow, we're fine and we will be fine for for a while because our real estate money and real estate collections are coming in. where it will be problematic for me I think would be sometime after Christmas and sometime in the new year when we start running out of the real estate money and um then it will start impacting where we start collecting or cashing out some of our investments that
040we have in the uh that are earning that are earning uh revenue or interest for us. Yeah. So the problem that I have and the issue and the issue I have and if you could call your legislator that'd be great would be a lot of these real estate taxes that we deposit earn interest and some of that we cannot earn interest on because I needed to pay regular bills and the regular payroll. So that's kind of where the issue is why we don't have why we need the the district the budget to pass. Plus there's a cloud of uncertainty that is hanging over the district um and hanging over districts size of central Dolphin um that it really isn't fair. Uh, if I told you guys, if I told the nine you guys volunteers who
041work very hard, work your knuckles raw to get a budget passed um by June 30th. If we didn't pass a budget, we'd be fined for not passing a budget. The district would be, but yet they're not. So, I think it's just it's just very important that they get that budget passed so that we have certainty as to what we're doing because I'm going to next month we're going to start talking about the next the future of what the district's going to look like next summer in terms of summer projects. So, we have two elementary schools. If I don't know what we're going to get from the state budget, how are we going to how are Mr. Tur and I and Howard and the entire team going to talk about what projects we're going to bring
042for you guys in that in that summer or that that >> I think the problem is late budgets have become normalized >> and we have a you know, we have to have a pre-budget done by May. We have to have a budget done by June. These folks continue to get paid not to do their job done. Uh, so I don't know what it's going to take to shake it out, but thank you for the summary. >> And maybe stop Tik Toks and get to work. That'd be great. >> Any other board committee reports? Moving on to item 8.11, sympathy resolutions, Mr. Chairman, >> are there any? >> No, we don't have any. >> Okay. Uh, item 9.01, adjournment. May I have a motion to adjurnn? Is there a second? >> All those in favor signify
043by saying >> I opposed.