001[Music] I be sure today I'd be remembering. We call to order the May 19th meeting of the state of Valley Board of School Directors. This is our general meeting, the second of the month, where most official votes are cast, many of which are listed on the consent agenda, which includes items which are routine or have been discussed at our work session last week. Our meetings observe all legal and policy requirements to the best of our understanding and ability, and all agendas are available and related public documents are posted on the district website. Would you please join me in the pledge to the flag? I aliance 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. Mrs. Martin,
002may we have attendance, please? We have eight directors present tonight. Mr. Eie is absent. We do have a quorum in place. Thank you. Um are there any changes, additions, deletions, or corrections to the agenda? There was a minor update to the document um posted with the FID uh action discussion. The FID plans document was updated um with some new language today. Okay. Thank you. Anything else? If not, I'll take a motion to approve the agenda. Motion to approve the agenda. Second. All in favor say I. I. Are there any naysay or abstensions? If not, the agenda is approved. Board commendations. Congratulations to Kaga Valley High School students Clementine Johnson and Philip Lee who were nominated for Hershey Theater Apollo Awards for their performance in the spring musical The Adams Cafe. um for as outstanding supported
003actor and actress in a musical for their respective roles as Posley and Uncle Fester. In addition, students Sam Rodski and Connor Lewis will represent CV High School for the opening number in the Adams family. Congratulations to 41 KNA Valley students from the middle and high school who qualified for the TSA, which is a national organization of students dedicated to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. CV came home with a lengthy list of top 10 finishes, including two number one finishes at the high school level in the category of computer AED design and engineering and ondemand video. Congratulations to the following CV High School individuals who were recognized as students of the month for March for the character trait of cooperation. Abel Adne 12th grade, Edgar Frius Batista, 11th grade, Lauri Yang, 10th grade, and Noel Kern
0049th grade. In addition, Miss Bridget me was named the teacher of the month as voted on by the CV High School student body. On Friday, May 9th, two foot elementary students were recognized by Pennsylvania State Senator Scott Martin at the school's first at the school's Fris's first Friday assembly. with his good citizenship award to fourth grader Carter Johnson and fifth grader Jackson G. They were nominated by their teachers for being outstanding leaders in the school and were awarded for their hard work, respect, and dedication. Knesa Valley School District has once again received the distinction of being a best community for music education. This is CB's 12th year to receive this distinction. This award recognizes and celebrates outstanding efforts by teachers, administrators, parents, students, and community leaders who have made music education part of a well-rounded
005education. Designations are made to school district and schools that demonstrate an exceptionally high commitment to an access to music education. Congratulations to CB High School junior Alicia Vasquez who was named the Paradise Rotary Student of the Month for May. And congratulations to CB High School junior tennis player Michael Horse who was named a Lancaster Lebanon lead section 2 allstar. Kudos to Connor Valley High School junior Aland Thompson for serving our community as a junior firefighter with the Acan Volunteer Company. A group of fourth and fifth students at Fritz Elementary competed in the Lancaster Conservation District's Junior Environ, an environmental competition for students in grades three to six. School teams de demonstrated their knowledge of trees, mammals, birds, and pollinators in the field and meadow habitat. The program supports PA science and ecology steel standards, builds
006early interest environmental stewardship, and develops teamwork and critical thinking skills. Congratulations to third place fourth grade, Carter Johnson, Lewis Young, Aayia Guma, and Adelyn Schwarz. Fourth place, fourth grade, Lewis Schlotsky, Pavani M Duri, Alen Scott, and Liam Gensel. Fifth place, fifth grade, Jackson G, Olivia Bedia, Isabella Aguilar, and Cold Kjan Poo. And that compete completes our board accommodations for the month. Dr. Hartman, would you like to do the next section, please? I sure would. So, I am going to hand out. Yeah, you could start to do that. Okay. So, uh it's a night of celebration this evening where we get to honor a couple couple awards. Uh first up, we have our uh retiree recognition. So kind of this is a bittersweet recognition as we're have a lot of years of service that that we're
007losing this year in the Konosoga Valley School District. Uh but we're certainly happy uh for for these individuals and and for the next uh phase of phase of their journey. So first I'd like to uh recognize Molly Blevens who is a learning support teacher at the middle school. So Molly, I'm gonna read some sentiments that were written by her. uh her leadership team at the middle school. Uh the middle school is lucky to have Miss Blevens as a special education teacher, a dedicated educator committed to our students and school community. Molly started at Fritz Elementary, bringing learning to life through creative hands-on activities tailored to each students unique needs, inspiring confidence and curiosity in the life skills program. Molly's true gift was her ability to nurture creativity and guide students towards personal success. During her
008three years at the middle school, she established and developed the support room, providing invaluable interventions, mentorship, and academic support that made a lasting difference in the lives of the students who worked with her. Congratulations, Molly. Thanks. Next we have Lori Ditsler. Lori served most of her career here at Brownstown Elementary, but uh has also served with our prek counts program at the district level. Uh throughout her career in CV, Miss Ditler dedicated her career to providing positive structure and hands-on learning to our youngest learners. Whether students were making applesauce, hat hatching chicks or working on foundational skills, classroom instruction was always purposeful, fun, and tied to rigorous standards. Lori was also an active member of the Brownstown PTO and led the way for the installation of the current Brownstown playground. Lori was an integral part
009o of bringing prek to CV and served as a strong advocate for our littlest buckskins in prek and kindergarten for decades. I also want to note that this year will conclude her 35th year at Konesoga Valley. So in in addition to her plaque and her bag of goodies, there's also a little uh your 35th year recognition pin on the front of your bag. So thank you. Thank you Lori for your 35 years. Okay, next we have high school foreign language teacher Dean Conungle. Dean has served 31 years at Konesoga Valley teaching German, Spanish, and French. For these years, Mr. Kungl has dedicated his service as a foreign language teacher at at the Konesoga Valley High School. Dean has not only taught the language but has also fostered a love for cultural understanding, personal growth and
010academic excellence in students. Mr. Kungl has in impacted countless lives, inspiring students to engage with new languages, perspectives and experiences. We are thankful for his years of service, passion, and dedication to education. Thank you, Mr. Conungle. [Applause] And last, but certainly not least, we have uh Judy Lef Fever, high school chemistry teacher. Mrs. Judy Lef Fever has dedicated herself as a chemistry teacher at the Konesoga Valley High School for 27 years. Throughout her years, Mrs. Lef Fever has sparked curiosity, inspired a love for science, and helped students understand the wonders of chemistry, making complex concepts accessible and engaging. As she steps into retirement, our CV community wishes her a future filled with health, happiness, and new adventures. Thank you for all of your invaluable contributions to our school community. So, congratulations to all four of
011our retirees. [Applause] I'm going to Photoshop. Keep going. Superintendent's comments. All right. So, for my superintendent comments, uh this evening, we have kind of the opposite end of the spectrum. I'd like to introduce one of our newest Buckskins uh joining us. If you note on my written superintendent report this month, we have several new teachers being approved uh this evening, but only one was able to make it tonight. So, I'd like to introduce Miss Savannah Buyers. Savannah will be joining us at the middle school next year as an eighth grade science teacher. She graduated uh last year from Geneva College in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania uh with her bachelor's degree in biology and a minor in psychology. And she went back for a fifth year uh to get her postback teaching certificate in biology. uh she
012was while at Geneva she was a volleyball uh player I believe and she was also her class president uh for her for her class at Geneva and most importantly she's a CV alumni so welcome Savannah welcome back I should say that concludes my report for this evening are there any board comments on district activities yes I attended the um science fair, the fifth grade science fair over at Smoke Town um last this Friday. Yeah, this past Friday. It was absolutely amazing. It was super cool. Don't be surprised. I Well, I you never know what you're going to walk into with something like that. But every student that I talked to, um I had a very specific question that I asked all of them and they were so articulate. It was impressive. They did a nice
013job. That's great. We look forward to those kids at the high school level. Yes. Yes. And I missed what was it again? The um fifth grade science fair over at Smoketown. Do all the Do all the elementary schools do that or is that something they've done there? I I think uh I think every building has their own sort of spin on things. Uh I know last year I think they have a specific science fair. Uh, I think Smoke Town might be our only one that that does that. I remember I helped Judge last year and it was something they were they were trying to kickstart at the time. That's great. Wonderful. Anything else? I attended the elementary joint um band concerts. I don't I don't remember what that event's called, but that's the best sum
014up. Um, of all the events that I've attended at the high school, that was the one with the worst parking. Um, for sure. like you ever want to get a sense for how big our music departments is in all four of our elementary school buildings attend that concert? I practically had to park up a tree just to be able to get in the building. It was awesome. Um but it's really cool to see um all the dedication that those teachers put into teaching these young kids how to play instruments and the growth they go through from fourth to fifth grade is just mindboggling to me. As a as a trombone player in fourth grade, those kids could play me under the table. Oh, it wouldn't be good. Um, so that was the other one thing.
015The other thing I got to attend was a uh Lancaster Park day uh for Fritz for fourth graders. Um, which was on the piggyback of the Environ which was a really cool event. Um, which some of the kids were mentioned the teams that placed. Some of the kids were really excited about that. A lot of them were talking about doing it next year. They were really excited about that. But I got to trapes around in the mud with a bunch of fourth graders. That was a lot of fun. Um, yeah. Super cool. and helps explain why we won that music award. Yeah. And anything else? I got to attend the Brownstown Family Folk Dance Night on Thursday. It was their first ever and I believe um Mr. B, who's in charge of the music there,
016ran it and they invited the Hulie school dance to come out and teach us some Irish dancing and and Jill was there and I don't know if you were dancing, but we we had a nice time. It was fun. A lot of families came out. Oh, it's great. Anything else? It was a busy month for everybody. Anything else? If not, Mrs. Martin, do we have any correspondence? I do have correspondence. I have a letter that was sent to the um school board. Dear schoolboard members, my name is Gabe Halgrren and I am in eighth grade. I played Merlin in the most recent middle school play. I just want to thank you for providing me and many others with the opportunity to participate in the middle school play. The school play is a great way to
017make friends. We worked hard and built relationships to make an amazing production. The play gives students something to be proud of. I have made many friends through the play. I also get to express myself without feeling the judgment of others. The memories I made during the school play are very special to me. I will never forget my middle school plays. This couldn't be possible without the support of our school board. So, thank you for everything. Sincerely, Gabe. Great. Go ahead. Are we ready? Okay. So, next we have our educator award of excellence for the spring. I'd like to invite uh Dr. Annette Facera to come up to the table if she would. And I'm going to stand up for this one and and hopefully project loud enough without a microphone for everyone. So, Dr. Facera,
018uh I truly consider her our resident expert in the area of online learning and virtual learning. uh she's always staying up on current trends uh reading the latest research and best practices and helping our whole CVVA team and and our even our administrators who aren't necessarily always operating the world of online learning keeping us breast of things that are happening. Uh so certainly well deserving so as far as the comments that her her colleagues and her her supervisor No Upton who nominated her had to say uh Dr. Facera has been leading the revisioning of the high school CVVA program since 2021. She facilitates professional development for CVVA teachers and coordinates on each individualized professional development day and collaboration day. She sends a weekly email to CVVA teachers regarding uh procedures and best practices for online
019teaching and learning. She has trained one CVVA coordinator and four CVBAVA special services facilitators uh in policies and procedures, platforms, and expectations. As the program continues to grow, she recommends new courses to be added to the CVPA catalog. On a personal note, she's also a member of my uh superintendent advisory council. So, I'm always appreciative of of what she has to offer when we have those those quarterly meetings. Uh as far as her role with students, anytime a new student at the high school enrolls with with CVVA, uh Dr. Facera meets individually with them. She meets with their parents and then she provides support and individualized uh ongoing support throughout their their tenure in the program. So certainly uh one of our one of our best and brightest and and we're certainly happy to have
020her and she's certainly well deserving of this recognition. So congratulations. [Applause] Did you include what she gets? I did not mention that. You want to add that? Yep. I just wanted to mention for those who aren't familiar with this award. Uh this is a board recognized award. A school board uh votes on any any staff member in the entire district. Administrators, teachers, other staff members can nominate teachers or other other uh professional staff members. Uh and then the school board actually reviews all of the applicants and all the candidates and they select one one in the fall and one in the spring and along with the award and the recognition and the plaque uh they also receive a stipen to be used in their classroom or for the program that they support. So and that
021stipen is for $500 I believe. So to be used for educational purposes. This is the point in the uh agenda where anyone who would like to make comments relative to something on the agenda is welcome to address the board. Is there anyone here from CVEA who would like to address the board or any other employee groups? If not, we will move on to the consent agenda items A through W. Are there any questions or concerns? If not, I will entertain the motion to approve that entire agenda. Motion to approve the consent agenda items A through W. Could we have a roll call vote, please? Dr. Martin, I. Mrs. Fischer. Hi, Mr. Hurst. Hi, Mr. Tally. Hi, Mrs. Capka. Hi, Mr. Gensel. Hi, Miss Trobridge. Hi, Mrs. Gra. I that is a unanimous vote. The consent
022agenda is considered passed. We'll move on to the action discussion items and start with a report from Mr. Kramer, Mrs. Why for Roman James and McNees Wallace? Just push the button on your microphone. Got it. While the handout's going around, I don't need to spend a whole lot of time on my handout. It's very similar to what I brought out here in January. Time flies when you're having fun. Um, if you recall, uh, at the time, uh, we gave an update for the next, uh, plan of financing for the projects, which is a $15 million issue um, for again a laundry list of of the projects that are on on the district's list. Um, not a lot has happened. Well, a lot has happened in the financial markets over the last uh, four or five
023months. Uh, but interest rates have been hanging in there for you. So, um, again, I'm not going to go through the handout. Um, very similar to the numbers that you saw from you back in in January. Uh, if you recall at that time, I said we'd be back um late spring, early summer uh, to pass the parameters resolution uh, that your bond council is here to discuss this evening. Um that is just another piece in the uh timeline. Uh I know Adele uh has been working with our office to prepare the necessary information we need to submit to the rating agencies. I think we have that ready to go. We're going to have our rating call. Uh we don't expect any surprises there. Uh so that we be in a position to um lock in
024interest rates sometime in June and close on the bond issue and have funds in the bank in July. Uh so again, nothing new from the presentation I made back in January. Um I know uh your bond council is going to go through the resolution. I don't want to steal her thunder. Um but just to make sure that everyone, we're only talking about borrowing 15 million. U for those of you who have been here in the past, uh the parameters resolution gives us the flexibility. Uh it's a maximum principal amount and a maximum interest rate. um once the dust settles and we actually go to market and lock in interest rates um the folks at MCNE will file a certificate of non-comp completion. So again, we're just talking about 15 million. The 21 is just kind
025of a placeholder uh to give us the flexibility that we need. Um so I'll pause there and answer any questions that you all might have on the numbers before I turn it over to your bond council. I I struggle with trying to follow all this bond talk. You do pretty well. Yeah. So, this may be a simplistic question, but on the schedules, what happens in 2022 that cause those numbers to change? That's the wrap, I think. Right. So, if you recall, um, well, let's look at my handout. Would I think it'll make a lot more sense. Well, it shows up on the maturity schedule and the, uh, fund. Yeah. So, if you want to look at probably page six of my handout that just went around the table in in the orange column on page
026six that's I on the other handout. Yeah. Yeah. So, Oh, yep. So, what you're looking at is the resolution. And I think to answer your question, it'll be easier just to look at at my handout, column three of page six. Um if you remember from January um this additional 15 million is utilizing what we call a wraparound structure. Uh and so all the principal is out there in 2015 and 2053. Um it creates leveled debt overall when we kind of think about all the other pieces of the district's debt. Um we have to file a a statement with department of community and economic development that shows level or declining debt when we factor in all of your your pieces. And so that accomplishes it. Um it's the it's the structure that allows for the lowest
027impact to the taxpayers. Um so that's why you see kind of a wonky two big principal payments out there at the end. Okay. Thank you. Yeah. Any other questions for Scott? All right. If not, I will take a couple minutes here to review the resolution. Uh my name is Erikica Wyel. I'm with MCNE Wallace and Nurk. And the resolution that you have either in front of you or virtually in front of you this evening has been prepared by mcnes. Um it's been prepared in accordance with the local government unit debt act and that's the state statute that tells us how districts uh can issue debt like this. Uh and this resolution has been uh reviewed and circulated among the working group which does include your solicitor as well. So the resolution authorizes the district to
028issue general obligation bonds in the maximum aggregate principal amount of $21 million. Those proceeds will be used by the district to undertake a number of different capital projects including the renovations to some of the district's elementary schools. Uh proceeds will also be used to um finance the cost of issuing the bonds. Uh as Scott uh stated in his presentation, uh this is a parameters resolution. So that means the resolution is authorizing certain parameters by which the bonds can be issued. And if you turn to section 11 of the resolution, you'll see those parameters. Uh Scott highlighted those big ones. uh you know the resolutions are that we can't issue bonds that exceed $21 million or a maximum interest rate of 6%. Although the resolution itself is authorizing uh bonds in the maximum amount of $21
029million. Again, we expect that to be much closer and right around that $15 million mark. Uh the use of this inflated number just gives flexibility uh to Scott and his team when they're pricing the bonds. These are general obligation bonds. Uh and what that means is the security for these bonds is the full faith credit and taxing power of the district as is the case with all uh general obligation debt um of the district. Uh this resolution does also authorize um the proper officers of the district to take incidental steps so to execute the documents and takes the necessary steps that'll be required to um fulfill the issuance of the bonds. Uh, and as Scott alluded, it will also authorize you to submit to DCEED a debt statement that shows that by issuing these bonds,
030you are still within your debt and borrowing capacity, which you are. Um, and so MCN has prepared that um with with um Raymond James, and we will submit that on your behalf um after the uh adoption of this resolution. Any questions that I can answer about the resolution? We either perfectly understand it or don't know what to ask. success then. Yes, absolutely. Okay. Thank you. We appreciate your time and your work. Thank you. Review and approval of clear ID proposal. Mrs. Shan Singer. Hi. Good evening. Good evening. So, um, within the last couple weeks, Dr. Hartman, Sarah Schaefer and I have, um, um, been in contact with a gentleman from a company, uh, Thompson Routers, uh, virtually to review a program that they have. uh what they do is they gather uh and have a
031very large database full of information about people's residencies and this is nationwide and what is of interest to us is uh if we provide them with specific information uh we can verify that uh a student that is at placed at um another school you know for certain special services or even with the cyber tuition if they are still currently uh a resident of our district or not. The benefit here is that if we find out that they are no longer a resident, they've moved, they uh did not notify the cyber charter school, they didn't notify us, not realizing that they had to. Um then we can go back to the cyber charter school and uh have them uh issue a corrected invoice uh removing those tuition payments from um from the bill. So, if we
032were to move forward right now with a 36-month agreement, we have the option to term earlier, uh, if we choose to, uh, if we even found um that there are two regular ed cyber students that, um, are no longer a resident of CV, uh, we could basically recoup one year's cost just right off the bat. Go ahead. I just wanted to mention so this kind of came about uh the gentleman from Thomas Reuters met with uh the superintendent uh our Lancaster Lebanon superintendent group and shared there are two districts currently in our IU uh utilizing this uh both have reported uh one one is just kind of getting it launched and but they've already based on some preliminary reports they've run uh think it's going to be successful. Well, the one district, I don't want
033to mention that district, I will say it's it's a significantly smaller district than ours, they flagged 20 families that they were paying their cyber school bill for that uh no longer lived lived in their district. uh sharing some of the data. Uh you know, there's no guarantee, but but but from the schools in Pennsylvania that this company has worked with, uh there isn't a school uh that has implemented this that that hasn't at least identified enough families that aren't living in their district, but yet the district is paying their cyber bills that that this hasn't paid for itself. So, I say there's a lot of traction for this. Um, we got consortium pricing through the IU. Uh, and that, uh, even though there's currently two schools using it, all of Burks County intermediate unit is
034using it. And uh based on the last meeting I had with our superintendent group, it looks like uh pretty much every other district in Lancaster County at least is at the same point we are. They're recommending this to their board is something that we bring in and we at least try to see if we can we can recoup some of that cyber funding that we're we're losing that we've talked about at at Nauseium. Um there's other uses for it as well. can help with um you know tracking down students that sometimes we lose track through because of that's why Miss Schaefer's been involved some of our homeless population. Uh really it uses a national database to really look at like most recent addresses that people are filling out on things like when they apply for
035credit cards or or apply for different things. It has uh gives us access to that database. uh even going into our conversation from last week with uh students who have lunch debt and things like that, I could see some benefits to us maybe being being able to identify, okay, or is some of the reason students we're not getting this money from students or families just cuz they're they're not even living in the district anymore. Um, you know, believe it or not, it's more frequent than you would realize that sometimes families, for whatever reason, they have circumstances that they just up and leave and they, you know, coming in and going to their child's school office to, you know, uh, unenroll them isn't their top priority. Uh, so some we have we have students who are
036on our books sometimes who who aren't even living in our district and they they're wrapping up attendance fees and lunch fees and things like that. So, we think this is a tool that ultimately will help help in those areas as well. I I would assume this is to some extent a two-way street. Yes. Where if we find someone that doesn't live in our district, you found someone from another district that does, which leaves one set of of students who have simply withdrawn from cyber school and the cyber school chooses not to remove them from the bill. So, uh, I don't know what the proportion is there, but I'm sure all three happen. Oh, yes. And I do want to mention, too, that uh, Miss Upton does her due diligence and trying to verify addresses. This
037just gives us, um, more teeth in doing so. Okay. Easy worthwhile. You were recommending the 36 month. 36 months. Yes. Okay. Um and we we can certainly Yeah. Meaning what exactly? Meaning that we do have the option with proper notification um to end the agreement early without penalty. Correct. Without penalty. Correct. Yeah. Because I mean obviously I'm not asking you asking you to to know how often this happens but I'm wondering if we would do it for one year and every five years do it again kind of thing with how often there's families moving out of the district sending their kids to cyber school where all the you know things align for this to pay for three years. Would it be wiser to pay for one year and then four years or whatever and then
038do it again or you really think there's an actual benefit to pay for three consecutive years? I I think we could take it on u one year at a time. You know, we if we went with the three-year agreement, we have a lower monthly fee, lower annual fee and you can cancel that after one year lower fee. Yes. Okay. My my problem with that would be is if you only do every four years, you're going to find people that you've been paying for for four years and you can't recoup that. Correct. That that's gone. So, it would be uh difficult for this to be worth its while if we didn't keep it up to date. I I would think. Yeah. I would be curious to to know the results of this when they initially do
039it and how many So, one of the benefits of bringing this to you this evening is that if we can if we provide them with a uh an approved agreement or purchase order, they can begin some of the setup initially and they wouldn't charge us for the month of May and June. uh the invoicing would be effective for July 1, but this would give us like a little jump start trying to look at our current uh in information, current listing of students that are enrolled in these programs and maybe reach back to this current this past year too and be able to reduce some of the costs as well as looking forward when we have new families. Um, so yeah, we usually get a regular uh cyber charter uh report every year. Perhaps you can
040make a note to include in that report this. Yes. Yes. Okay. Is there is there anyone already like because I I see this basically this is access to a database with some training on how to use their database to find out the information and see who's here and who's not. And I imagine that's where the rigma roll happens. It's like checking students names and stuff. So I understand the need. It's going to take we have a large school district. It's going to take a while to move through. Is there anybody or is there any role that is actively always keeping their eye on that now or they're trying to check things or is this kind of a jump start to this whole idea of let's really dive in and find it or is there somebody
041already assigned to trying to find that task? Yes, Miss Upton and um Maria Aerodando, our um registration um support staff, uh they try to keep up on that, verifying addresses, sending out mailers, trying to confirm, and if if an um a letter comes back is undeliverable, then that's one of our clues that yes, okay, something happened, they moved. This just gives us a lot more uh powerful information. Sure. Okay, cool. Any other questions or concerns? If not, we'll wait for the next cyber report. Okay. Okay. Thank you. Can we have an approval this evening? Okay. Good. Absolutely. Uh I'm trying to like to move. I think we have to do these separately. I will take a a motion to approve this contract. We approve a motion to approve the three years specifically. Uh yes, he
042might as well. Motion to approve the three-year contract with the Thomas for school district. Second. Uh, we better do a roll call vote. Mrs. Mrs. Fischer, I Mr. Hurst. Hi. Mr. Tally, hi. Mrs. Capka, hi. Mr. Gensel, hi. Miss Trobridge. Hi, Mrs. Gra. I Dr. Martin, thank you all very much. district policies. Dr. Hartman. Sure. So, this is just a a first reading of policies uh that we were bringing back to the board. These are ones that in our comprehensive policy review uh we either put a pause on or had some additional time we needed uh in order to go through them. So, uh, as we mentioned before when we first gave these to the board just to take a look at, a lot of them have to do with, uh, were were things that
043we wanted our health team to take a look at. So, policies that involve something that has to do with with, uh, our medical processes, our nursing processes, field trips, uh, health examinations, diabetes management, etc. Uh, so those are on there. In addition to that, the the one that kind of is outside of that that I would mention uh is policy 001, our name and classification, which previously we mentioned uh that's just due to our district office moving from the old district office here to Mount Sydney Road. We had to update that in schoolboard policy and policy 101, which is our mission uh and vision and values, which which we made some updates to based on feedback through the comprehensive planning process. happy to answer any questions or we still uh answer questions when it comes
044to second reading. When we have that, we'll take a motion to approve the first reading of the list of district policies. I move to approve district policies. I second. All those in favor say I. I oppose or abstensions. If not, they are approved. Health E tools. Mrs. Schaefer. Good evening. Um, I'm here to present a tool for our uh, health rooms and also to seek your approval for that tonight. Um, we have been working off of Sapphire for a number of years, trying to make the decision how to move from off of Sapphire and how we would be able to use our screenings in a much better way. um have our our office appointments, our medications, basically our entire health system. Power School is not able to support that for us. So, there was a
045a a long-term vetting process and determining which was going to be the the program that we were going to use. So through a tech review and through um our nursing team headed by um Nancy Lopez, they have recommended that this tool which is called health e tools or healthy tools uh be brought for approval and we're looking for a three-year contract for this. Questions or concerns? If not, we will need approval for this contract. That means a motion. I move that we approve the cont contract for the health e tools contract. Second. We'll need a roll call for this. Mr. Hurst. Hi. Mr. Tally. Hi. And Mrs. Capka. Hi. Mr. Gensel. Hi. Ms. Trobridge. Hi. Mrs. Graf. Hi. Dr. Martin. Hi. Mrs. Fisher. Thank you, Dr. Hartman. Flexible instruction days. All right, I'm going to
046turn things over to Dr. Man who's our flexible instructional day guru. And I wouldn't use the term guru. Well, good evening everyone. Um, FIDS is what the state calls flexible instructional days and we have to make application for us to use them. Um, the application is good for three years. This past year we didn't apply for it and we were fortunate enough didn't didn't necessarily need it. What you have attached here are two things. One is the document that that Mrs. G needs to sign that I need to have with the application I have to send to the state. The other one is is really an outline of the program itself um the different procedures and so forth. what I have to submit to the state is basically this outline um and the detail along
047with that in addition to several exemplary uh lesson plans um what a what a what a lesson plan would potentially look like. So that's what the application is. The it's due June 1st. So that's why we came tonight. We'll need approval tonight so I can get this up tomorrow. Our goal is to get it up tomorrow in the event that there's something missing that we have a little time to um resubmit. Then questions. I think we've gone over this before with our calendar. If there are none, I will take a motion to approve the flexible instruction day application. Motion to approve the flexible instruction day. Second. All those in favor say I. I oppose your abstensions. If not, you've got your approval. Thank you. Thank you. Are there any questions or concerns on the finance
048and operations report? Are there any questions or concerns about the curriculum and instruction report? Do we have any federal funds issues? No issues at this time. Okay. Then we will move on to board reports. Uh unfortunately the IU has still not gotten us this month's uh update. So I'll have that on on next month's. Uh the only thing I would mention on the PSBA report is uh for some reason PSBA is really full steam ahead on these uh uh different types of advocacy. Uh you knew they were doing cyber schools and they switched to to put an emphasis on mandates and now they've added infrastructure. So uh I I have brought along the short form of the letter that I told you I would provide uh after the meeting. Anyone that wants to uh have
049that letter is is welcome to uh to look at what they recommend. The the full length letter is on the web page. Uh I couldn't make a copy because it's one of those where there's an inset with the body of the letter and you can scroll through the inset to see the whole letter, but you can't see all the whole letter at one place. then it's an automatic where they would send it in for you. I don't think there's anything else unless anyone has any questions about what PSBA is doing. If not, um the academy has has not met yet, but we are I will tell you we are looking at a new location. Uh as soon as we get that settled, I'll give you those details. Uh Mr. Hurst, is anything good happening at
050the CTC? Yeah, a little bit. Um, I have some some uh links on there that I would encourage you to look at at at some point. Um, uh, since I wasn't here for the LA last month's meeting, I'm behind. So, there we had three three students of the month, two for March, one for April. So, I want congratulations to them. Um, also congratulations to Lindseay Floren for being getting second place in the skills action contest um, in the medical assistance program. um uh news article up uh up there and there's the application status for SE uh secondary and also the material handling program as there's a video up there we don't need to watch it here but I think it's 6 8 minutes something like that but I would encourage you to watch it it's
051really good it explains that program it's a first and only one where it's in direct relation with the IU um and you have to have an IE DP as a student to enroll in it and it's actually a a really good program. They're really proud of it and I think they're doing very well with it. So, uh that's it. That's it. Unless anybody has any questions. No information on your search. Um that's okay. It's paused for a moment. Okay, that's fine. That that happens. Yes, that's all I can say at the current moment. Can I ask um is the uh the CTC still uh maintaining a very long waiting list of kids that can't get into the programs that they want on on certain ones certain there's always certain uh yeah classes and stuff that
052run heavier than others. So do you get those applications now for next year or Yes. Yeah. because the the secondary report is for next year. Oh, okay. Yep. All right. Anyone else have any questions about the CTC construction team? Any information? That report's attached. I attended a soccer game recently at Leyola. I can confirm the retention pond was very pondy in case you wanted to know. It was doing its job well. Okay. Right, Ken? Yeah. No, it's nice to see the building. particularly those inside shots. If you haven't taken a look, it's nice to see the building coming together. There's new skylights on the roof and stuff. It's cool. And when and if you go by there, the building is looking a lot different. They're painting it. Um the additions of the white really change
053it up. Um so I'm looking forward to see that back entrance done. That's kind of where a lot of the culmination's happening. So um the activity around the building continues and it's all cordoned off for construction. So I get to see it quite often with soccer games. It's nice to have a construction project. It seems to be going so smoothly. Any questions for the construction committee? Under other reports, I would just add and Dr. Hartman provided this earlier, but I wanted to bring attention again to the Knesga Valley Education Foundation. It gave its grants this year. Uh they are as usual uh extensive and varied and very generous. And at this point in the meeting, is there any of the public who would like to address the board on any issue at all? Is there
054a vice president's report? No. Any board initiatives or announcements? Well, then you have the dates uh for next week. Uh the only thing I would uh try uh before we adjourn is to remind you all that tomorrow is an election day. And I always encourage board members to set an example for our students by letting your children see that you go and vote. Um other than that uh I will take a a motion uh for German we will not have an executive session but I will announce that the board is going to stay for a few minutes to do a review of the latest um sunshine rules on executive session. Motion to adjourn to executive to review. No, it's not an executive session. Motion to adjourn to a non-executive hangout to review Sunshine Law. All
055those in favor of returning say I. We are adjourned. Thank you.