001Check. One, two, one. Whatever you're How are you? Thank you, sir. You already got any Hello. Yes, sir. Yeah. Thank you. Oh, good. Good evening. I'd like to welcome everyone to the Monday, June 30th, 2025 business board meeting. Please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. To the flag of the United States of America and to the stands, one nation under God, indivisible, liberty and justice for all. The board met in executive session prior to this meeting to discuss personnel and legal matters. This meeting lasted approximately 30 minutes. And now, um, is there any public comments on any items on tonight's agenda? Uh, is it related to something on the agenda? Personnel, is it related to the swimming situation? There'll be another comment period at the end. You're welcome. Thank you. Uh, then I will turn
002it over to Dr. Christian for the superintendent report. Thank you. Motion to approve the personnel report as presented in 3A. Board action is requested to the attached personnel changes. Appointments for promotion employment or transfer are subject to the presentation of valid credential employment verification documentation and statemandated requirements. May I have a second please? Sharon. Any questions or comments? All in favor? Thank you. Uh Rick. Motion to approve the non-bargaining unit rates for the 2526 school year as presented. May I have a second, please? Gale. Any questions or comments? All in favor? Thank you. This is a motion to approve agreement with substitute teacher services for continued substitute services for the period July 1st, 2025 through June 30, 2027 as presented. May second, please. Will. Any questions or comments? All in favor? Thank you. Motion to
003approve an agreement with Dr. Carl Coleman of Celine Pediatrics to provide student physicals at Colonial Middle School for the period July 1st, 2025 through June 30th, 2026 in the amount of $4,000. Second, please. Rick, any questions or comments? This is for all of our students in the middle school who want to participate into in PIA sports this coming season. It's a new position. Thank you. All in favor? Thank you. Again, this is a motion to approve the separation and release agreement between the Col Colonial School District and employee number as presented. Second, please. Chris, any questions or comments? All in favor? Thank you. Uh, and now we will move on to public comment. Um, you can approach the mic and please state your name and place of residence. Testing. Uh, good afternoon everybody. My name
004is Phil Warbeck. I'm a resident of Plymouth Township 6 circle PA 19462. My wife and I have been residents of Plymouth Township in the Columbia school district for 20 years at this point. And my family, the Moravs, have been residents for 75 years since 1950. I also have three children in the district who all go to Colonial Schools. A rising third grader at Plymouth Elementary, a rising sixth grader going to Columbia Middle School, and a rising high school going to 9th grade in Pl Marsh High School. All three of them are also swimmers competitively and have been swimming since the age of seven. They all currently swim for Ply Marsh Aquatic Club, DWAC. Um, one of them has also swam for Colonial Community Aquatics, CCA, as well. And we do have other parents um here.
005Uh and some of them also have uh kids who swim in both. One do diving for one, swim for the other. Um historically, I don't understand why we have two teams when we've got other swim programs throughout the area like North Pan and Upper Dublin that seem a lot bigger and only have one. But I'm just a parent. That's not my choice and it's really not my decision. What I do know is that for many years they seem to coexist. Again, I've been on both and we always seem to get pool time for everybody. We'd be at the high school, they'll be at the community center. They're at the community center of the high school and we'd be at the other. And it all seemed to work out until last year when all of a
006sudden it all fell apart. It didn't work that way. And we found ourselves going all over the place for swim. And when I say all over the place, I mean Arcadia University for Washington, West Hicken High School. And my kids would ask, "Daddy, aren't we PW? Why are we going to West Hen High School?" So, well, they can't take us right now. I don't understand why, but I do know because we also do run track for Con Electric Force. So, we're at the high school that often that pool was sitting empty. Well, we could have been swimming in it. Um, something happened last year and it changed. And this year, we now know that the community center community center's pool is going to be closed for 6 months of the year for renovations. And I'm
007sure those renovations are very important and are well needed. But it brings up a a bit of a scheduling crisis. So I come to the board asking for two things. One, just to warn everybody of this impending scheduling crisis, and it sounds like Dr. Christian is aware of it already. So I'm, you know, happy to see that school district cares, but also to, you know, ask for a commitment to fairness and transparency regarding how we allocate pool time. Clinical Rush Aquatic Club has been around for 50 years now. is a class one organization by community standards here at CSD. And we'd like to make sure that, you know, we're treated fairly. We're not asking to take away from CCA. I don't have anything against them. Again, I've been a CCA currently. We have other parents
008who do CCA, too. But just making sure that, you know, next year we're not a stress trying to run around everywhere outside of our district to get pool time. It's very inconveniencing. It's very expensive. And also, it's uh it's difficult to manage, especially when you have three stores all going to different places. And we know because this community center is going to be closing the pool that there's going to be a huge crunch on that, you know, very singular resource. And I know that our two clubs are not the only two that are going to use this pool, that they also have Special Olympics and other organizations that need to use it as well. So, I'm just asking for some fairness and and some transparency. And I know behind the scenes everybody's working together on
009it. But I'm asking for transparency for parents so we can actually understand you know what's happening and when and why because we are trying to plan our years as well and again kids for everyone's awareness swim 3 to 5 days a week often. So it's not a small commitment for kids who are in any of the swim programs in our area. So I just want to make sure that you know everybody's aware of that and that um yeah ask for some transparency. Thank you. Thank you. Uh after we exchanged emails this weekend, uh I did talk to Mr. Lowry this morning for facilities and I asked him to send an email uh to all uh user groups that used the pool last year. We understand with the community center being under construction this fall and
010your need to get schedules uh created for families uh we ask everybody to submit their requests no later than August 1st so that we can uh allocate time as equitably as possible and I also ask them to send each of the user groups policy 707 so that each of the organizations who submit time can adhere to those policies. You're welcome. Is there any other public comment this evening? Any further board comment? All right, seeing none, this meeting is journ. Thank you.