Conestoga Valley Board Meeting - 4/22/2025

001Call to order the Tuesday, April 22nd meeting of the Valley Board of School Directors. The board welcomes those in attendance as well as those who join us online. This is our second meeting of the month where most official votes are taken, many of which are listed on the consent agenda, which includes those items which are routine or have been discussed at our work session last week. All agendas and related public documents are posted on the district website. Our meetings observe all the legal requirements to the best of our understanding and ability. 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. This is Martin. We please

002have attendance. We have seven directors present tonight. Mrs. Capka and Mr. Hurst are absent. We do have a quorum in place. Excuse me. Are there any corrections to the agenda, additions, deletions, or changes? Yes, we have one we have one minor change today. Policy 121 had a uh edit and was re-uploaded uh to the agenda. Could you mind me the title of that? Field trips. Uh, I asked the first one. Yeah. Admin review. Yeah. Action discussion. Okay. I have a motion to approve the agenda with the uh noted change. Motion to approve the agenda with the not change. Second. All those in favor say I. I. Any nays or abstensions? If not, we will move on to board commendations. Get comfortable, folks. Congratulations to Kosoga Valley High School wrestlers as well as the entire coaching

003staff who were recognized by the Lancaster Lebanon League following the conclusion of the 24-25 season. Individuals named to the section of two first team were Shawn Mley, Omar Vargas, Nick Horton, Tanner Kaine, Tagan Rubble, and Tal Staltz. Named to the second team were Townson Bagley, Canden Yamarella, and Abdul Aala. Honorable mention went to Jerry Richards and Sam Camold. head coach Charlie Combmes who's named section two coach of the year and his assistant assistant coaches Lucas Ortiz and Jared Simpkins with the name section two assistant coaches of the year. Congratulations to Konos Valley High School Career and Technology Technology Center students. Mia Kulpa was named student of the month in the intro to culinary program at the Brownstone campus and Dove Udolf was named student of the month in the patient care technician program at the

004Willis Street campus. In addition, Alan Sj contrteras was named student of the month in the Carponde technology program at the campus. faculty and staff nominate cooperation cooperation initiative assistance and other and other positive attitude attributes. In addition, junior Isaiah Richardson was named the Paradise Rotary Student Club Student of the Month for April. Congratulations to Kosigga Valley students who competed in the 2025 North Museum Science and Engineering Pier. 10 students came in as top finishers. Nearly 200 students from 23 schools of Lancaster, 11 counties competed. Many came many CV students came home as top finishers in their respective categories. In the senior division on animal behavior science were Alicia Vasquez, Andrew Marine and Josiah Castler. Biochemistry and medical science. Grin Stro, Jamie Olerity Gilligan, and Shamir Isa. in earth and environmental sciences. Naomi Longi, environmental and

005engineering technology. Jeremia Jeremiah Techloo, physics and robotics. Joseph Staler, Alec Telus, Isaac Walton, League of America's Red Rose Chapter Award went to Andrew Marine. And the North Museum Science and Engineering Fair Student Choice Award went to Josiah Castler. Tanosa Valley High School, excuse me, announced it student of the month for February. In addition to honoring the teacher of the month, February students of the months were selections were based on the month's character strong trait of honesty. The students were chosen by the CB High School student body. Congratulations to Connor Miller, Ben Walter, Isaac Hudin, Olivia Warfl, and the teacher, Mrs. Katie Fake. The CV athletic department would like to recognize and thank Ed receiver for his years of service retirement from teaching at CV2 and two Ed has served as a basketball scorekeeper among other

006duties for the athletic for the ath CV athletic department. Ed has decided to step away from his athletic duties and CV appreciates his years of dedication both as a teacher and member of the athletic staff. Bravo to the cast and crew of the High School spring musical, the Adams family. On a great weekend of performances earlier this month, as well the cast and crew of the Gerald Huskin Middle School play, Good Night and Goodbye, which also marked its 50th ann 15th anniversary of the play's debut. Congratulations to National High Society members, students, and staff for successful minithon this year. this year is event raised $11,689 and somebody gave 40 cents. That 100 was $1,600 more than last year's tote. I would like to add one more uh commendation and that goes to the CV uh

007board of director secretary to today or tomorrow. I'm not sure which is professional uh executive assistance day and uh we can't begin to tell you how much she does to make sure the sport keeps going and otherwise we will be buried in documents. Thank you Marilyn. [Applause] Super make a comment. Yes. on the um winners for the science and engineering. Okay. Um I would like to know what each one presented for thing. I don't know how you mean what the well you mean what the title of the project was. It would it would be nice to know. The science department probably has that we could get that for you. Nine times out of 10 when I read those titles of the projects, I have no idea what they're talking about. These kids are just so

008far ahead and do such a great job. Um I don't know if they still present locally at the high school. They used to have it here first before they took them over there and it was fascinating to see what what they were doing. Just amazing work. Okay. Uh I'm sure uh Dr. department will take care of getting that from the science department for you. Superintendent comments. Good evening. Uh before I begin with my comments, just to clarify and piggyback on on where debt shared administrative assistance day is tomorrow, not today. If it were today, I'm in trouble. That means I forgot. I think it's tomorrow. At least that's what we're going to go with. Um so uh just real briefly before I start with my introductions uh at everybody's seat uh you'll see a copy

009of a PA school's work handout just uh we wanted to share this Adele and I had the fortune to meet today with PD Gantert who works for uh works with PA schools work which is an advocacy group uh really uh leading the charge across the state in the fight for adequate school funding right now. Uh and so I know advocacy is a topic that we discussed and continue to discuss at our board retreats. So uh he provided this uh this document that provides a nice summary of of uh specific to our district and and what uh we should be entitled to based on uh the recent uh legislation and court cases involving fair funding adequacy uh and what that means to our programming. So if you're wondering why what that handout is, I just wanted

010to explain that. Uh, I do have three new staff members I'd like to introduce this evening that are here with us. We actually have four uh four new teachers to be approved on the agenda, but only three of them could make it here this evening. Uh, and the one who couldn't make it here, we'll make sure she comes at a future meeting, but she's at home in Virginia this evening. Uh, first we have Bradley Swigert. Bradley, Bradley's going to be joining us at the beginning of next school year as a high school German teacher. Uh, he graduated. He has a bachelor's degree from Lebanon Valley College and a master's in education from Wilks University. Since 2011, he has been a middle school and a high school German teacher at the other CV, Cumberland Valley. Uh,

011and he's now coming to the good CV, Konesoga Valley. I know I make that joke all the time when we hire somebody from a CV, but uh he's a Lancaster County native, I believe, at Epherta graduate. Yeah. So, he's he's coming home to his roots in Lancaster County, and we're we're happy to have him. So, welcome Bradley. Next, we have Julianne Wheeler. Julianne is going to be joining us as an autistic support teacher at Smoketown. She will be graduating from Bloomsburg University in May with a bachelor's in special education and early childhood education. She also played field hockey at Bloomsburg. And she's also a Lancaster County uh native from the Mount Joy area. So, welcome Julianne. And finally, we have Dylan Tol. Dylan is going to be joining us as a high school chemistry teacher

012in the fall. He is uh graduating from Millersville in May. He's currently a student teacher right here at our high school. So, we nabbed him up. Uh he also has play been a tennis player both at Millersville University and before that at Lasale University. Uh he's originally from Lebanon and a graduate of Cedar Crest. So, welcome Dylan. So certainly those three areas are are all as you've heard me talk about hard to fill. Certification areas, chemistry, special education are not easy positions to fill these days. Uh so we are excited that not only are we able to fill those positions, uh we feel that getting on the ball early uh here in making those hire in April. We we not only are filling them, but we got the cream of the crop and and we're

013bringing the best to CV. So, we're certainly excited about all three of our our new candidate or our new teachers joining us. So, welcome. And I I think you're filling some very big shoes as I remember about these teachers that have retired. Absolutely. So, that concludes my report. For comments, are there any uh any comments on recent district activity? I was I missed last week because I was at the Phillies game. Did you guys talk about that at all last week? We mentioned it. All right. Because it wasn't televised. I'm sorry. It wasn't televised. They didn't show it, I don't think, on TV. The kids singing, which was really dumb. So, I'm going have to take that up with Philly. Um, but anyway, I was at the game. They did awesome. The choir did great.

014It was super cool. Um, to watch them out there uh singing and to hear Knosoga Valley mentioned to however many thousands of people there. Anyway, I just wanted to mention that one specifically. That was really cool. Somebody did run the video on Facebook. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Any other comments? Mrs. Martin, do we have any correspondence? Do not. I'm sorry. I do not. Okay. Then we will move on to our presentations. Uh starting with social working update. That's two out of three, right? What? Three of you two out of three of you. Yeah, two out of three tonight. So, thank you for having us again. We always look forward to coming and sharing what's going on in our department of three. Um again, so thank you again for having us. I'm Katie Reefe. I'm the elementary

015school social worker. I'm Carla D. Clemens, school social worker for the high school. And unfortunately, Janna couldn't be with us here tonight. I don't think they can hear you. It's good. Can Can you hear me better? All right. All right. So, this year we thought we would do something a little bit different aside from our numbers that we've done in the past. Um, we thought it was important to kind of highlight our roles by each level. Um, we are in a unique role as school social workers. Um, where we can adapt to the needs of our our buildings and our levels. Um, so we'll start with the elementary level. Um although we all share the homeless liaison coordinators and um kind of residency in investigations we'll call it or followthroughs or looking into the residency

016piece as well at all three of our levels. Um but at the elementary level, Katie um works heavily with individual behavioral support, um in-depth family case management, coordinating community referrals and um programming with families and outside agencies. Um at the middle school, Jenna um is um more so utilized with attendance and truency citations. Um again, building support, IEP participation, and then community referrals. Um for me at the high school it's a lot of um attendance um trying to follow up with our students getting them back into school understanding the reasons for um school avoidance attending truency site um truency court as well um and then building support as needed. Um I am bilingual so a lot of my days are spent with our Spanish speaking families and students. Um and then I also run a

017grief group with our high school students and then again direct support um more conflict resolution um and mediations with our students. So next we would like to highlight our community partnerships. We wouldn't be able to do the job that we do without all of the community partnerships that we have. Um Power Packs is um newer new this this school year. Um, and Katie works with our power packs program in two of our buildings that we have it set up, Leola and Smoketown. And of course, Owl Hill and Steps to Success are both amazing partnerships that we have for our preK um, programs and before and after school care. And I understand um, Michelle will be talking more about that a little later, so we won't get into part of that. Um, modernize has been amazing

018as well. we earn um certificates to pay it forward to our students with um students that don't have insurance usually we focus on. So we are able to provide a free exam and lenses um to our students who have that need with modernize and then of course our schoolbased counseling. We have Panessa in all of our buildings. We have smoker counseling services at the high school. Um and then our amazing ministerium seeds and CBCCS and meet the needs of our families um especially with residency pieces, food basic needs. So we are definitely lucky to have all of these different partnerships available to our our students and families. And just as a reminder, excuse me, the CV ministerium um has really provided an opportunity that we have very unique to CV. Um, if we have any

019family or student who has an immediate need that needs to happen today or tomorrow, we as the social workers have unlimited permission to go out and buy whatever we need to meet that immediate need and the the ministerium just reimburses us. So, we don't need a purchase order. As much as I'm sure Adele would love to receive lots of purchase orders from us, it really takes the responsibility um off of the district to make sure that the needs are being met. Um and 11, this is my 11th school year and we've never had a a need go unmet. So, it is a very unique resource to the CV community. You don't find this anywhere else. And it allows us to do a a great job at point of service being able to provide whatever any

020one of our students or families need. Whether it's a night at the hotel, whether it's a pair of shoes that CBCCS might not have um available or whatever it may be, we can just go out, buy what we need, and we get reimbursed. So, we just like highlighting them every year because it's so amazing to our community to have that level of support. So, McKenna Vento um I want to start by highlighting the last three school years. Um in 2021 2022 we had 137 students identified. In 2223 school year it jumped to 161. Last school year we had 173. We continue to be the second highest school district in the county for serving um Mckin Vento homeless students. This year um we provided our data to Maryland this slideshow on last Monday and at that

021time we had 197 students identified as homeless. 52 of them were at the high school, 38 at the middle school, 11 at Brownstown, 16 at Fritz, 21 at Leola, 27 atm. We had two private school kiddos who we had to um identify and then 30 younger age school siblings age zero to five. Um and that is our obligation legal obligation to uh to identify them. Since last Monday, we have had seven additional students identified as homeless. Um which puts our numbers at uh 207. um five of those were students and two are younger sibling. So just to put into perspective how quickly those numbers add up in a matter of a week we added seven to that 197 um and that was out of three families. So that was three new families since last Monday

022that have become um homeless. So it just puts it into perspective how quickly our numbers are rising. Um, and our growth is significant and we're not even we're what six, seven weeks away from the end of the school year. So, if we keep on that rotation, we'll probably end up identifying at least another 10 to 15 students by the end of the school year. So, why have our students become homeless? Um, we just it's important for us to just help shed light on to why. The majority is because of eviction. Um 13 are friendship financial hardships or job loss. 10 are because of domestic violence. 10 are kicked out or left um home. So those are typically our students in high typically those are all students in high school. Um separation, parental separation or divorce,

023sale of rental properties and incarceration are those are our top ones. Um we have this other category that that really fills in the rest. Um, and it's hard to identify that actual precipitating event. What actually caused their homelessness? It can be multi-layered. It can be it's like an onion. It just keeps, you know, you have to really try to root to the that one cause. So, we use that other category or unknown when it has so many different layers that it's just hard to identify that one reason. Um, and where are they staying? The majority of our students are staying doubled up with another family or a friend. Um 30 are those students are in hotels. 17 are in shelters or transitional programs and two are unsheltered. Those two just for context are two zero

024to aged uh 0 to 5 age younger sibling. They are staying in a water that has water and electricity, but because it's technically in a camper, I identified them as unsheltered. The older siblings who attend school are staying as doubled up. So, just for context as to why, if anybody questioned, why do we have two unsheltered? In a typical situation, if we become aware of any unsheltered family um or student or living in a car, we will immediately place them into a hotel. again using CV ministerium funds and um provide them that housing stability until um we are able to um get support whether it be through seeds or through tenfold to be able to get them into a shelter or have the county chip in for their for their housing costs. It does cost

025a family living in a hotel about $500 per week to stay there. And I'm not talking about the Eden Resort. These are um are hotels that are run down. They um are small. So, it is costing families a lot to reside in these hotels, which brings me to a really exciting new project that I'm not sure that you all have been made aware of. This is a new project that was just um solidified in I believe it was November December partner with a partnership between East Chestnut Street Housing or Chestnut Street Housing, my apologies, Seeds and um a group of members from the Forest Hills Menanite Church um Seeds had provided a um presentation using a lot of my homeless data on what homelessness looks like in CV and a group of um members from

026Farsest Hills took that presentation and decided to act upon it and they were able to pull their resources together and a per a property was purchased in Bridgeport that is now dubbed the Bridgeport housing project. Um and over the next uh 2 to three years 12 to 15 new apartment builds will be built on that property. The total project is costing approximately 3 to four million. Um, but we're really excited about the um opportunity to be Chestnut Street Housing's first project outside of Lancaster City. So, CV gets gets that um title of being the first project outside of the city limit. So, really exciting stuff. We're excited to be able to provide housing um solutions for a lot of our homeless as we are that second uh highest homeless population. um just gives so that

027just gives you a little inside look into our homeless just in general the between the three of us we've had contact with over 500 families this school year we serve um families from coming from 36 different native languages and our districtwide free and reduced lunch status rate is at 37%. So just highlighting some of the needs. Um so along with our um high high homeless numbers obviously comes transportation. I'm challenges. I'm sure you've heard about that from Adele. Um the costs are great, but we're really appreciative that our kids are getting transportation arranged. Um we have kids coming from very far distances. I'm talking kids being on a bus for very long time, but they're getting here and we are providing what we need to to keep them stable in school and giving them that

028one consistent component of their chaotic and transitional lives. So, um, it continues to be a challenge. We're not naive to the fact that it's costing a lot of money to to transport our kids, but we are appreciative of the fact that we keep finding this the transportation solutions. Um, but it's not going to go anywhere and I think our numbers are going to continue to continue to rise. So, um, increasing needs of families is just in general limited resources. you know, we're doing the best we can with what we can, but um you know, the needs are just continuing to increase. So, um the housing component we talked about, but it is still a problem. Finding housing for families is hard. Um the one incomebased apartment complex, which is Country Club Apartments, has a two-year

029weight list. So, it's just a struggle. It's a challenge, but we're we're working with our community partners and seeds um to be able to try to at least insert some support and relationships and um build that rapport with families to be able to make the changes necessary that when they find their some of their other um some of the other contributing factors are being taken care of during their weight. So, we're excited about those possibilities and those partnerships moving forward. Another um challenge that we are seeing is again with our attendance numbers and the students that are um school avoidant. So just one being time with I think all of these challenges to be able to meet with the families really um engage with our students, engage with the families um in a mindful and

030intentional way when it comes down to to attendance and what their needs are to walk beside them daily sometimes meeting them at the door trying to figure out where the barrier barrier is from their door to our door. Um so time resources and then again limited uh community resources. Um we do turn to like children and youth for their um um different programs that they offer but they're also capped out. Um the attend program the same. There was a pause on some of those referrals. So it's not just um CV, it's Lancaster County, it's actually national crisis that they're calling it with attendance and and school avoidance. Um, so we're just trying to do our best again with the time resources we have to help our students and engage them. Um, and at the core

031of that is of c of course building the connection and relationship with the students and that sense of belonging for them to come. Um, and so I think especially at the high school level, we've done um a great job with trying to build that within our our own little community. So it's something we'll still continue to combat um from K through 12. So um our second uh challenge is with our mental health needs of our students which also ties into the school attendance which also ties in with some of the homeless pieces. So that ties into the whole child. Um so mental health resources we are um like I said happy that we have two at the high school and then Panessa districtwide um to support our students. when we're looking at more intensive services,

032that's where there's really um you know, beds are running out with our inpatient partial programs um seeing a psychiatrist, seeing a psychologist. So, there's definitely a need for more mental health services um to actually meet the needs of our students with not only mental health but DNA as well that we're seeing at the upper levels and behavioral behavioral management, behavioral support. Sure. So, PBIS is one component. It's not a solution to mental health, but it's at least providing a framework um in the schools in how to have safe, respectful, and responsible behavior. And a lot of the components of tier 2 PBIS involves a lot of um rapport building and relationship building. So, those are all positive things that the district is um supporting initiatives, those frameworks um that the district is supporting that contributes

033to to meeting the need. So we're grateful for for the framework to be able to insert those relationships, meaningful relationships into the framework of PBIS, which then in turn helps meet our mental health needs. So as school social workers, we're part of those teams as well. Yeah, for sure. So that is what we have for you. If you have any questions, we're happy to to try to answer them. Um and so yeah, thank you for your attention. The Bridgeport Apartments are they low moderate income free? The new ones um so they're not they will be low um low uh income based. So it's actually going to be a partnership between Seeds Chestnut um Street and um Bridge of Hope. So Bridge of Hope will also be a referring resource. Um, we had a really great

034story just come out of um, it was in the newspaper a few months ago, but the East Lampeder Township is doing a lot of really great work in the in the realm of housing and they had contacted Bridge of Hope and simultaneously I had contacted saying, "Hey, I have this wonderful single father who would do really great in your program. He's looking for this exact type of program." and we were able to um connect Bridge of Hope with the East Lampeder Township Police or Township um they have a property that is right down the road. And so the um father and and daughter were able to move into that that home and it's been a really success it's been a success story for everybody. So he's a really great guy, a veteran, and it fit

035exactly what what East Lampeder Township was looking for. And then they have the support of Bridge of Hope. So we're already doing a lot of the partnerships that are starting that are needed to to end up referring to the the 12 to 15 Ying. So it's really exciting to see the work that's being done in this in our district. My other question, excuse me, and I apologize for distraction. Um the attendance issue, do you deal only with attendance with these families or do you deal with attendance in general? like Carla. Yeah. I mean, clue attendance is a window into a lot of different things going on. So, usually that's our red flag when we see a student that's missing three, four or five days of school. Um, so that'll activate well, especially at the high

036school team. And, um, I think Jenna would probably say the same, a home visit, a call home, a text message. Um, our phones have been a great tool for that. I think our home visits have actually diminished a little bit because parents are really just responding to a text message and so we're getting a lot of feedback that way. Um, but we'll start there of like, okay, something's not right. Something's going on. And so we'll kind of gather the team with, especially at the high school with our school nurse, school counselor. Hey, who knows anything going on with this child. And then I'll kind of um fill in the gaps there. And then it usually is either there's sometimes the housing the housing piece and insecurity so we'll discover that piece um or there's the

037mental health needs or there's something health related going on with the parent or you know other things. So attendance really is one of those like first like okay something's not right and then we canate yeah look into it further and support is needed through that. And just as a real life example, today, Kelly and I went to Truency Court and she texted me. She's like, "Are you coming today?" I'm like, "Yes, I need to I need to get in contact with this parent. Of course, I'm coming." And sure enough, when we went, she was like, "Well, we were living in a hotel from this date to this date." I'm like, "Okay." Again, communication would have been great to have known that I could have set up transportation for you. So, we were able to connect

038even at truency court and it went really well. And she was like, "Yeah, I accept responsibility, but here's what's going on." And so we were able to address some of those things that are happening within their life that I would only have known had I showed up to truency court. So you know it is just one thing one thing that starts everything else being able to look into all the other things going on in a life. So do you find that uh absenteeism isn't a matter of just purposeful tru and see that there's usually usually something behind it. Yeah, usually. Yeah, we're usually finding I mean some of it stems from COVID and then some of the habits that are were formed from there, the anxiety piece, the school phobia. Um but some of it

039is such such a just cluster of everything happening. Um whether it's the parents and trying to work double shifts, they're leaving before the kids are getting on the bus and so they don't know. And so then that's where it sparks the phone call and some parents don't even know that their child isn't coming to school. And so then it's also problem solving through powers school. They don't have powers school. We don't have the right phone number. There's all of these different things that get activated through all of that. Um, but you know, every student is different and that's where it's nice to just meet the student where they are, where the family is and and just kind of peel back all of the layers and and trying to use all the the different tools that

040we have with assessments and each one of us holds a different puzzle piece um between the school counselor, our teachers, our school resource officer, um you know, our administration of all event and then putting it all together to figure out how we can support the student and the family and then hopefully get them back into school on a regular basis, but we have some cases that are a little bit more difficult than others because it has been such a chronic issue. Um, so we do our best. Um, we're supposed to be in the education business, but the very first step to learning is showing up. If you're not here, it doesn't matter what else they're being offered. So I'm always concerned when I see absenteeism go up, especially if it isn't just rank truency. Yeah.

041Thank you. Sure. Any other questions? Our next presentation is Dr. Koser and Mrs. Trosberg for the PreK Counts program. Good evening. Well, since we've seen Mrs. Taj. Hi. So, we are here to share uh updates to our prek counts grant application for the 2526 school year. Um, right now CV is a recipient of a five-year grant, but every year we get to reapply. We can readjust. We can um change up slots, locations as needed based on our program. And so we wanted to share with the board our plans for next school year. So currently you're looking at the partnerships that we have that um are finishing up of the second year of the 5-year grant. So this would have been the 23 24 school year and the 2425 school year. We are working with three

042main partners. Steps to success was our our biggest financial partner. Knesoka Valley was the grant recipient. We passed money through to steps to success to run the classrooms at Brownstown, Fritz, and Leyola. Al Hill Learning Academy, they are the lead agency on their own grant, and we are their partner. So, they just run our classrooms here at Smoketown. There's no money that's exchanged through that partnership. They're the lead. We come in as the partner. And then Lancaster Menanite School, um, they were another partner agency. We get the grant money. we pass through to Lancaster Menanite School. Couple of things over the course of the last few months have led to changes in those key partnerships. Steps to success um is going in a a different direction with their programming and Lancaster Menonate had decided to

043make a change to how they're offering preK as well. And so that left us with an opportunity that Mrs. Trasburg is going to talk to you a little bit about. Um, but basically the opportunity for the Knesogga Valley School District to now take ownership of the prek funding and the prek program at three of our schools. So Michelle's going to walk you through what that potentially looks like under the application that is into Octel right now. So that's loud. Um, in the previous slide it talks about their 77 students. So, um, with steps to success, 72 of them are grant-f funded and the other eight slots that are there are available for fee. And so, what we are going to be doing is um taking that 20 per classroom and having that be the same

044as was this year, but obviously we're not charging for anything. And so that allows us to same the same number of students in which classroom which was four classrooms at 20 but when we absorb that it's $84 and $840,000 and so not $840. Um, and so we're keeping the class size at the same amount, but because we're not giving $84,000 or I was an ELA supervisor, not a math supervisor. So, um, we get $10,500 per child. So, whatever that is times 8, we then recoup and we can then use that as part of our grant as well. The other piece is that as Dr. codes are shared um prek counts. The state of Pennsylvania passed new legislation that there was a requirement that prek counts had to be completely secular. And so Lancaster Ananite um

045while they wanted to stay a part of prek counts did not feel that they were able to continue to move forward with that. And so those 16 slots um we were able to absorb eight of them. So the 72 plus the eight slots gives us $840,000 to spend across four classrooms. And so that number magic that occurred um has allowed us to create a budgetneutral proposal. And so I really do want to stress that it is budget neutral. We've worked very very hard to make sure that um the the the process and everything there does not take away from things that are at CV. And we've built in money um spent a lot of time working with all the different departments, nursing, food service, transportation, etc. to ensure that we align with our CV practices

046and that we're not putting an undue um kind of like strain on the district. For example, the prek counts program pays for a part-time nurse. And so prek counts, as an example, requires um hearing screenings, uh physicals, um also dental screenings, but with the time and energy that Karen Sullivan is the first 10 administrator and myself in my position, I'm able for example to find um dental screenings at no cost whatsoever. So, it's just a matter of, you know, getting out there, partnering with the community, understanding how the community works. There's a lot of resources that are out there that are available to us and we're able to um leverage those and then also bring them into our CV community and really align our curriculum, our resources and you know wrap our CV love around

047them, you know, starting at age three. And I'm really really excited about the opportunity if you can't tell from my face um that that that brings us. And so like Katie shared um you know we've been working a lot with CAP, we've been working a lot with seeds, we've been working a lot with different you know doctors and dentists to make this happen. So it's not just CV. It's really a a big community effort. And I'm just I'm really really proud of us and everything that that this has the potential to bring to like the whole child um for our our prek kids. So the the impact as Michelle said there there is no general fund dollar there are no general fund dollars needed. Everything that is needed to run the program comes from the

048prek counts budget. Um but the impact across the district, we will now take four dish four teachers into our collective bargaining agreement. Um they will be CVA um professional staff for assistant teachers. We will work with Sassil who already helps us provide those um par professionals. They would now come under their organization. Our students would officially be rostered for our PIMS and our enrollment reporting which is a change. Uh, transportation. Don Dixon's been doing a phenomenal job helping us with busing for our pre-K kids. So, not a whole lot changes there. Um, couple of tweaks with food service. Our expressive arts teachers already offer specials to our prek students now. So, they would continue to do that. Our principles would pick up the supervision of the teachers at their building. So, at Brownstown and Fritz,

049that's one additional teacher. At Leyola, that would be two. And then the as as Michelle said, the thing we're looking forward to the most is the full integration of the prek students into the CV culture into the CV community. So our last slide, Dr. Hartman, because we just can't leave a prek presentation without why we're doing this every day, right? Um, you know, just just to show you our our outcomes, quantitative initial data, qualitative feedback, our outcomes have just been phenomenal in these first two years and um we are just hearing rave reviews across the board uh in all areas. So very exciting to see this next phase and and potentially bring the um program under the CV umbrella. So right now our grant application is sitting at um the office of child development and

050early learning octel. Octell is the office that's right in between PTE and the department of human services DHS. So it's it's its own little office that just oversees early childhood. Um so we're waiting to hear if that's approved. When that is approved um we'll launch on putting all these logistics into place. It's that refrigerator that it happened to me at a meeting the other day, Marilyn. And if you are pumping gas at Costco, you will see a billboard for prek counts um starting next week. And they gave us one um for free that I actually just saw going on Route 30 the other way on my way here this evening. And so, um, again, a lot of it is about coordinating with the community and, um, making those those types of things happen. So, stop.

051It'll stop. It will. Can I confirm what are the ages, the hours, and the days? So, um, it starts at three. So, we have three and four year olds, and it is a regular school day. There is a quiet time um for those kiddos that need that rest period um in the afternoon, but it follows the same schedule as Konosoga Valley. So, it's 5 days a week. Yes. Mhm. 180 days is one of the requirements. So, it follows the the same calendar. Okay. You said this is a fiveyear grant. How much per year is it? How much per year is the grant? So, starting with this next school year, $840,000 for CV's amount. Is any of that pass through money from federal programs? No, this is completely state funded. Good. We're very happy about that.

052I worry a lot about programs that are Sure. I have a question. And then once the five years is up, do we get another grant? How do how do we continue this? So we actually have been a preK counts recipient since 2014, I want to say. So we've had this for about 11 years. Every time that new cycle re-ups, we're in such good standing that we're eligible for that next um grant cycle. And we actually were able to significantly increase our slots this last time around. So, our program is is high quality, gets really good performance reviews, and so it's a they they they batch the money in five years, and then they'll do a full state reallocation. Um, but we we feel confident that we're we're in good standing and we'll be able to

053continue that application for the next cycle. We get goodness sorry we get um audited and we have to participate in different assessments each year to like maintain that and our our rankings are very high. Good. H how do you deal with uh prek students who age out of prek but their parents don't want to put them in kindergarten yet? Yeah. We actually can't by law, by the regulations, we can't give kids that extra year. So if they're five by September 1st, they we can't reenroll them in a prek program. So then that family would have to find another program for a year. Enroll your child in That's right. Yep. And so we typically with pre-K counts, we don't find that this is they parents want that seamless continuation. Um, you know, a lot of parents

054when they get their child into pre-K counts, then they're able to go out and um work whatever jobs they need to work. So, because we've got the school day covered um at no cost and so that's a significant impact. You have to qualify for prek counts and it's 300% of the poverty rate is one of the it yes up to 300% of the poverty rate. And then um we also look at other factors like um there's just like any type of needs-based factors um that would be there give you additional points. So we want we want the students to be in prek that need it the most. What now? I understand that's needsbased but surely you come across some of those students who have uh need other supports. So how do they get that? So

055early intervention um if we have a student and we do have students right now who are receiving early intervention supports through IU13. So we partner with IU13. So there are other agencies that these students are already connected to and and that's a big piece of it. And if they're not connected, it's about getting them connected at age three and at age four and helping parents understand, you know, what resources are available. And so a piece of it is that, you know, collaboration and connecting with age in the county within the county. Thank you. Is there a wait list? It varies. We typically run a short weight list. It's actually not like we actually have the right amount of slots. Um, within our schools, I I know there at one point we had maybe two kids.

056Um, so we're usually able to keep a boot moving. Now, we can't always get everybody in at their home elementary school of residence. We may need to um have a fritz kiddo over at Lyola. Um, but we it's it's it's just about the right size for the the population we have. We have two classrooms at Leola, one at Fritz, one at Brownstown, and then atmobile has two atm. We have a handful of kids on the wait list right now. Focused on homelessness. How do you deal with homeless children who qualify instantly in the program that that's one of the factors that they're instantly admitted to the program and then again by law we make sure that students are receiving the transportation that they're entitled to. Any other questions or comments? Thank you. Thank you. We'll

057keep you posted. Dr. Hartman, are you going to update us on the uh AI task force that we heard about what uh two months ago? I am. Yes. So, this is just a brief update, not as uh detailed as our last two presentations. So, uh, I feel a little inadequate compared to what we just heard. Uh, not as exciting. But because this is out of our comprehensive plan and our goal is to keep the board a breast of of how we're, uh, progressing towards our comp plan goals, we thought we'd provide a just a brief update on, uh, the work of AI task force thus far this year. So, uh, this slide is just a reminder of of where it fits into our comprehensive plan. and it's under our our strategic imperative or our bucket

058of learner innovation and partnerships. Uh so for this year uh the goals or the the action steps under this goal uh were to uh first and foremost form a task force get to reach out to uh reach out to some key stakeholders who are interested in the topic of AI and form we're calling it a task force not a committee because we have very specific tasks we want to complete and then really at the end of it it's not going to be one of these committees that never never goes away. it's sort of here to kind of initiate some things and then and then determine what our next steps are. Uh so we did that. We developed and received approval for regenerative AI schoolboard policy as you're aware that that's on the uh board agenda

059for approval. Uh that was a big task of the once the task force was formed. A big part was to uh uh develop a policy. Uh at the time when we wrote the comprehensive plan last year, there were not a lot of schools across the state of Pennsylvania that had a schoolboard policy on generative AI. There still aren't. Uh there was not even a PSBA recommended policy. So our job got a little bit easier because by the time we got around to forming a committee, PSBA had come out with a recommended policy that we were able to use as a template. But we did uh discuss it. We vetted it. We we uh added some items to it that we thought were pertinent to our district as well. Uh and then uh you have heard

060about uh recently we we had a professional development opportunity where we were able to bring in Rachel man who was a nationally known uh speaker and author and consultant uh on innovative education practices. Uh we had over a 100 staff members attend uh on a Monday evening for her to come in and and present. Uh and then uh our next step is we've we've worked on planning our future professional development. So we are having uh it was great that we had over a hundred over a third of our our professional staff attend that evening. Uh but we want to get to more of them. Uh so we are having a summer AI symposium that we're currently planning. uh that'll be in early uh or mid June where that's going to be we're not bringing in

061any outside experts but that's going to be more of an opportunity to uh kind of rein our collective expertise of some of our teachers where they'll have an opportunity to share what they're already doing uh share ideas with one another around this you know the the artificial intelligence space so uh they're actually moving quicker than what what I anticipated uh the task force to move quickly because of some opportunities that came along such which is bringing Rachel man in. So, uh, moving forward, um, we're working on some foundational professional development on our district policy and ethical use of AI that that all district employees will be exposed to going in next school year. Uh, we're working on administrative regulations to clarify what is in that schoolboard policy. So, get a getting a little bit more

062specific, almost coming up with a a a usage guide for our staff. And then obviously the task force moving forward into the next year now we have some of these things in place we'll be looking at ongoing monitor monitoring and evaluation of professional development needs. So uh AI you know you've you've heard me say this as we've talked about it. Uh I've been around long enough to to be involved in a lot of educational initiatives and things come and go. Uh AI is is a little bit of a different beast and I don't mean that in a scary way. I don't mean that in a negative way. Uh but it's it's more than just a tool. it's really an agent of its uh of itself and it continues to evolve and grow and uh and

063it's one of those things it's hard to say okay let's train everybody on AI well by the time you train somebody on the latest and greatest tools almost daily new tools and new new ideas are being generated so it's really around a lot of our PD is being focused around that idea practices how to be able to use how to be able to vet and analyze the tools that that are available that continue to become available because it's not as simple as hey here's this one tool that we think is useful we're going to use because by the time you get everybody trained and well versed in it something else is out there taking its place. So it really is a it's a different type of professional learning. It's a different type of efficacy we

064need our staff to have to be able to keep up with uh you know with it but it but it's also exciting at the same time. So the goal of the task force is really to to stay on top and to kind of navigate that, you know, those evolving evolving waters with around AI. So uh but but a lot of interest around the district. It's peaked a lot of great discussion, a lot of great conversations and we're looking forward forward to continuing that. Happy to answer any questions, but I know this is sort of just a brief update and we've been talking a lot about it throughout the the school year. I have a comment. Um, last week I did mention about being at the AI with Rachel Man, which was very good. And I

065left out one of my big was with was with the generative um the avatar, the humans and all and and people getting involved emotionally with unreal real friends, etc. But the whole thing just really impressed me that we really need to be proactive about making sure our students are making real human being contacts and relations. And I'd really like to see something like that with if we need to have track markers track you know whatever. Yeah. Yeah. I think any of any of the the real educational experts out there that you hear that talk about it talk a lot about that in that too. Yes. Y absolutely. I had just one question when it comes to did they did they develop a way to site AI sources now when it comes to like term papers

066and stuff like that? there is and that's actually in our policy to um for if it's being used to to indicate that something generated like you would any other resource and stuff. Yeah. Yeah. I'm just a stupid question, but just curious. Um, yeah. Again, there's a variety of ways and that's, you know, and it really doesn't really answer your question, but a lot of the when we had uh Rachel Mann in and if you listen to any of the other experts out there, a lot of a lot of it's not around like teaching about the tools themselves because a lot of them you students and and teachers you teachers are pretty savvy and and they can figure out how things work about but it's really about learning a whole new set of literacies AI that

067regardless of what the tool is, you can uh use and and how you're uh and you know it's where and it's almost like redefining things like cheating right where we we want to say oh we don't want people to use AI to generate things well why not that that out in the real world you're expected to use it uh but how you but we need to teach new literacies like how to appropriately be able to maybe evaluate two things that are created by different AI tools and which one's the better one for what what you're using up uh prompt engineering which is just a fancy fancy way of saying how to write good prompts for AI. Uh you know the what what is created through AI is only as good as the prompt that the

068the human enters into it. So a really a lot of it is around teaching those skills and how to how to appropriately site or give credit to the tool that you're using and so on. So there's there's a whole new set of learning, a whole new set of literacies uh that can be used but if if done well is really promoting all those things that we've always wanted to promote, critical thinking, deeper deeper learning, etc. Any other questions? Uh you say this committee is ongoing, so is that going to be more or less permanent or simply long term? So, that's a decision uh we're going to have to make at the end of this year. We we're going to uh discuss what do we have work to do? Uh is it time to put did

069this task force serve its purpose, but maybe it's time for a new group that might involve some of the same people, maybe different people uh to take on different tasks. Uh so that's that's to be determined at this point. And I I apologize. I don't remember if you gave this the last time what ma what what's the makeup of the task force it's primarily uh teachers primarily teachers and administrators and uh uh we don't have any students or parents at this point but that's probably a next step community business people are they showing any interest there they are yeah I mean we don't have any on our task force was really based around this year developing a policy and then identifying professional development needs But as we move forward, I think as that purpose evolves

070of that group, we'll probably bring in more outside. Well, I think at some point that the local businesses are going to want input on what skills even with AI they expect these kids to have. Absolutely. Anything else? If not, uh, this is the point in the agenda where we accept public comments from items that are on the agenda if anyone would like to address the board. If not, is there anyone from CVEA that wants to uh be heard or any other employee groups? If not, we're going to move on to the consent agenda. We have items A through Q. Are there any comments beforehand? I have two. Number one has to do with item P. Uh we have a revision for our 2425 calendar. Uh we were originally given it what was a three-year calendar.

071Two years. Two or three. Uh, are we making those changes on that one in time to or don't we have to? What What letter are you looking at? I'm looking at P. P. I thought you said T. I apologize. Uh, no. This is for the current year calendar. This is the adjustment because we had a snow makeup day on an act 80 day. Uh, so we just have to uh we're still well above our instructional hours. So, we're just revising the current year calendar to reflect 179 student days instead of 180 student days, which um it does not impact our uh future calendars that have been approved for next school year and the following school year. And we did take into account when we were building those calendars to make uh we tried to build

072in our snow makeup days to to not be uh on act 80 days. Thank you. Also, I would like to ask us to remove item D for a separate discussion. If there's no objection to that, I would take a uh a motion for the consent agenda. I have a question um comment on O on supplemental transportation agreement with first student. I was I had to ask Adele because I said, "Oh, is this replacing the ones that will be have faithful transport like that?" And she assures me, "No, this is a third transportation company." Oh, yes. So, so you're okay with it? I I am. Yeah. But it's just good to know. Could I uh please have a uh a motion to approve the consent agenda without item D? I move that we approve the consent

073agenda minus item D for the pol the 200. We have a roll call vote, please. Dr. Martin, Mrs. Fischer, I. Mr. Tally, hi. Mr. Gensel, Mr. Mr. Eie. Hi, Miss Trowbridge. Hi, Miss Scruff. Hi. Um, item D, as you know, is a a soft spot on my mind. Um, I have not been able to shake it. So I um I found myself trying to find some basic documents uh of the district that sort of explained how this should be. The first thing I do want to say is that just because the behavior has been there traditionally doesn't mean it's right. And just because uh any one person was part of that tradition and now they think it's their turn does not make it right. So I've looked at uh our basic documents and found myself

074finding this under our mission. We talk about the kids becoming caring students. Do you want to say what you're speaking right? Oh, I'm sorry. Um, that's a good question. I don't know if I remember the number. 247. It's the one on um 247. 247. Thank you. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I did write it down. Item 247. I'm sorry. Push your mic down. It is a little closer. Move it down. It is on there. Yeah. Should I lean right in? Um, basically what we were referring to is initiation practices on athletic teams. Um, as a global citizen on our profile, we talk about turning the kids into caring citizens. Mhm. Uh we say they should be able to demonstrate compassion and empathy and respect for others. In our character strong program, we talk about seeing and valuing

075people and treating them with care. Under responsibility, we talk about understanding the impact of our behaviors. Under gratitude, we talk about appreciating the people in our lives. Under empathy, they would say it means you understanding and understanding and connecting with other people's feelings. Under courage, it talks about doing what's right and kind. Our harassment policy talks about kids being safe and comfortable with all the people around you. Under bullying and cyber bullying, the state all the laws that we try to uh obey basically focus on either sexual harassment or violent, anything violent, where is actual physical observable injury. But when I got to the extracurricular social eligibility code, I found something more interesting. It says that the behavior expectations is that all students should adhere to high levels of sportmanship, exemplify good character, and demonstrate

076respect for self and others. Exceptionally important in all interactions involving teammates and it specifically says that any form of uh intimidation is considered harassment. My final question to you all is would we tolerate this kind of behavior in the classroom where a new student had to earn acceptance as a fully equal classmate by serving the other students maybe serving his butler and maid and hanging up everyone's coat for them or returning everyone's trays to the cafeteria until they were a full member of the class. Do we treat our new employees this way or do we welcome them? Does the leadership team behave this way? Do other clubs and activities outside of athletics behave this way? Or are we compassionate and welcoming, meaning what we say and owning the strength of our own convictions? Please remember

077this is 2025. old ways don't necessarily stand up to scrutiny. That much said, does anyone have a question for me? If not, I will make a motion that we do uh that we uh ask they bring us back 247 uh with an additional um paragraph that any behavior that demeans or disrespects the full membership, privileges, acceptance, and respect of its members or assumes or allows less than equal treatment for all by any member of any t team or organization is prohibited as as a discrete form of hazing. I'm waiting for a second. Second. I'm wondering if this isn't covered under policy 103 about discrimination. But we well it depends how it depends how you want to interpret those policies. I would like it to be very specific that we no longer do these initiation practices

078in our athletic teams. We tend to follow the law and and and how the law defines harassment or intimidation. And I think sometimes we have to go beyond what just the law says and not hide behind it. I have a second uh we're going to do this as a roll call vote. Can I just clarify since we're going to be absolutely there's there's a a significant difference between hazing and harassment where hazing the definition of hazing is specifically things that the law says you can't force another. It's not it doesn't define ways we want people to behave. It's defining things that are you cannot require somebody else to do. You can't coersse somebody to violate a federal or state criminal law, consume an alcohol or a drug or I mean it's all listed there. So

079I guess I'm asking if we're going to change the what just from a logistic standpoint where where it makes sense to put this in policy. My my feeling is what the law says we follow. But I think we need to go beyond what just the law says and find that you know any form of inequal treatment is not acceptable as a kind what I refer to as a discrete form of hazing where we don't necessarily it doesn't necessarily rise to the legal problem. There's no sexual uh harassment. Uh there's no uh there's no threatening. is maybe not considered intimidation, but if we don't allow this anywhere else in the district, and I have a feeling most of you don't allow your children to behave that way anywhere else, it shouldn't be allowed here. And I

080will work to put this wherever in the policy if it's best. Any other questions? We do a roll call vote, please. What do we Yeah. the mo the mo the motion is to uh change the policy to include this kind of behavior. Okay. That goes beyond just the physical intimidation that the hazing usually defines. I need to sit with that for a minute. Yeah. Not ready to do that. I still feel that you're talking about harassment where hazing is something different. And in my book, the way it it's done in the athletic teams, uh it's one and the same. But I will gladly look at any other policy where I feel this this has to belong. Meanwhile, we do have to take the vote. Well, why don't we take this one out and we'll table

081it and then we'll get everything else through because it should be rewritten instead of just Well, we we have approved the other policies. I'm asking that this one be rewritten as we approve it. Well, it just no longer becomes a f a final a second reading. Correct. When we make when we make a change in a policy, when that change then is brought to us, it comes back as the first read. Yeah. But this is the second read. This is the final reading. So if you change what you said in the policy, it's going to go into the policy. Correct. It's going to be approved. Your your change is going into the policy. Oh, you mean to stand the way it is for now? Whatever you the words that you said. Yeah. To make the

082change is going into this policy if we approve it. No, that would have to be under a first reading again. We'd have to start. Correct. So why don't we why don't we separate it? Maybe we get these through. Are we trying to get these through? Are we not trying to get these through or the these what these policies? Yeah. We've already approved all the other 200s in the consent agenda. No, we pulled item D, which was all of pulled. We pulled item D, which is everything. Okay. Yeah. So, what I'm saying is let's get through everything we need to get through and if we want to use hazing, separate it out. You want one vote for all the other 200s and a separate? Yes. And then we'll we'll talk about the hazing. I will I

083will with who gave me my second? I did. Okay. We do approve of withdrawing the motion, of course. Okay. We're going to withdraw the motion and ask for a a motion to have all of them in that series approved except for 127 24. So now we're voting I'm sorry. So just to clarify the mo the motion right now and I will make it is to approve the second reading with the exception of uh item 247. That's the motion now. And there's my second. Will you do a roll call vote? Mrs. Fischer. I Mr. Tally. Hi. Mr. Gensel. Hi. Mr. Eie. Hi. Miss Trobridge. Hi. Mrs. Gra. I. Dr. Martin. Hi. Okay. So, all the others in that series have now had a second reading. My next motion would be to uh have this policy number

084247 brought back to us rewritten and how they do the wording will be up to whomever does it because I need to see what it says before I approve it. I think from the looks on some of our faces, we need to really talk about it more. Yeah. Are we crossing a line? I think is what I'm Well, if we bring it back to an agenda item, then it goes up for discussion some more. That's what I'm asking. Yeah, that's fine. Yes. So, do we have to vote on that though because we already took it out? Well, then it doesn't exist at all. At least it has to be under consideration. No, it can't. You could put it to a future meeting and I'm sorry. Why? You can add it to an agenda for for

085the next meeting or next the summer or however meeting. It can be put up for the next meeting. Yeah. Yeah. Which is what I'm asking is to have it brought back as a working session for next month as its own action item. How does that sound? Yeah, that's that's fine. As long as it comes back to the agenda. That's fine. And can you give us your wording like written out? The motion would be to take uh policy 247 and bring it back to our next agenda. Yes. But your words what you want to add that that was just an example. Okay. Okay. I'm going to leave it up to someone else to do a better word smithing job. I was under the impression those were your words. Did I don't really understand the words. I'm

086sorry. You're trying to hazing. You're trying to add anybody who's trying to make you a servant I guess somebody on a team demonstrate complete respect that doesn't treat them but that could be a lot that could be a lot of things. I don't Yes, it can be. None of which are acceptable. That's not hazing. I don't know if that's hazing. That might be something else. the rest. Well, we'll see where we'll see we'll see where it fits in our our policies. Okay. And I'll gladly take a look at the others, too. All right. So, uh Mr. Martin, you want to add that to the next the agenda for the working session. We'll just add as its own separate entity and Yep. And we'll we'll address it then and we'll figure it out. So, just to

087it just to clarify not to not to add any more to it. So the definition of hazing that's in the policy as is comes from that comes right out of the the state constitution title title 18. We certainly have the authority as a school board to expand on that definition. But I think the way it's worded I don't think we want to take away from what's worded in here because what what is listed there is one through six are things that an individual may not force another individual to do. I think based on the example that we were given, that would be things that aren't necessarily somebody's being coerced and doing, but other things that a person might do that might be considered hazing. So, I would I would recommend whatever statement we come up

088with would go underneath where it says hazing here, uh, but not as one of those listed numerical areas. It would be kind of a separate little blurb right there. So we can come up saying we we use the definitions that come right out of the law and I think we should expand on that by adding we can we can expand it but I think you want to add your own different section and you don't want to what I don't want to do is I don't want to co-mingle the constitution the state constitution with our thoughts the other are we're we're not negating the constitution. I'm not no this is not a constitutional argument. I don't care where it fits. All I mean is I'd like this brought back to us that we can address. That's

089all I'm saying. Okay. Which is what the motion was to bring it back at our next Yeah. We'll bring it We're going into rabbit hole. So yeah. Yes. We'll bring it back. Yep. That's fine. And just another clarification on more of a logistical. Would that come back as a second reading? No, we'd be back as a first reading. You start over? We start over. Yep. First reading or admin review? Uh what's that? Would it be first reading or would it be admin review? Normally we go admin review. first reading, second reading. So, are we bringing it back as admin review if you're adding language? Well, they'll bring it to us for discussion. Yes. But fine. Meanwhile, the policies that we have are all still in effect just because we don't change it. And I want

090to make sure everyone understands that. So, they'll they'll bring it back to us so it's in a form where we're comfortable with and then you can vote it up or down. Can we at least benchmark P uh PSBA? Excuse me. Can we at least benchmark PSBA? PSBA only follows the law. They follow the law. They follow what everybody does. It's great to hide behind. We'll figure it out. We'll figure it out. We'll figure it out. I'm confident. So, the the motion on the table right now is to bring it back at our next meeting. There No, there's no motion. We're just going to add it as an agenda item. Would you like it to be a motion? Yes, I would. Okay. And I have a second, right? Yeah. All those in favor say I. I

091will say I. Oppose. Okay. I appreciate your patience to me. Well, I owe you a few, so I'm I'm good. I know it it it doesn't fit neat and clean in any one policy. So, we have to make moving forward if we want to do that. All right. So, M. Martin, are you clear? Now, now the fun part, folks. All right. The budget discussion. Now that you have us all in a good mood, yes, you have provided us with um yes, we've all a couple of documents. Yes, I provided you with the five-year projections. Um for the 2526 projections and forward does not include any millage rate increase. I have a notation on um on that document for you. But uh if you go to the PowerPoint, just to follow up from our discussion last

092week, you had asked me to run a couple different scenarios and we know that we still have time and these numbers are going to continue to change as we get closer to um June with the governor's budget and hopefully we'll have some solid information to make some changes. But based on our current numbers right now, without a military increase, our revenues are at $91.2 million and the total expenditures are 95.5 with estimated staffing included. So that takes us to a deficit of $4.2 million. And as I mentioned last week, if we take 50% of the new ready tolearn adequacy supplement, uh that gets us to a deficit of $3.5 million. So, in running some of the scenarios for you, uh, and I bet you had asked last week what the, um, what the value of

0931 mil is, and it's just under $3.5 million. Our index is 4% this year, and we're not, we can't go above the index anyway because we're accepting the uh, ready to learn adequacy funding. But running some of the different scenarios that we discussed last week, I have all of the um 2.5 2.75% increase, 3% and 3.25. So another way of looking at it too is each quarter of a percent generates about $139,000. So what does this look like to uh the taxpayer? Um so again showing the um some of the various scenarios of military increase at the top there uh you had asked me to look at 2.75% and that will bring us again to a$1.9 just under a $2 million deficit. Uh again some of the other um issues that we need to find

094out is what will happen with cyber reform, what will happen with the governor's budget. So, uh, again, I'm hoping that more time will, uh, give us some more solid data. But at a 2.75% increase, the impact to the taxpayer is $93 in addition. Um, and for a 3% increase, uh, T cost to the taxpayer for an average single dwelling residence is $102,000. $102. What did I say? 102,000. Oh, no, no, no, Todd. It was $102. I don't want those headlines. You got me back on this one. Um so anyway, there are the various uh a history of the various rates and what the costs are to the um the taxpayer and u then of course on the next slide are the staffing requests uh that are included in the budget. This does not include the

095impact of what um Jill and Michelle Trasburg were talking about this evening regarding prek counts, but that's all budget neutral. So, uh just looking ahead to May, we must have a proposed budget approved by May 12th, the first meeting of May, uh because we have to wait 30 days until we can have the approval of the final budget. Again, we still have a lot of time to work with. And what we did last year, again, similar um situations. What we did last year is I came back to you in May with updated numbers and with a scenario of whatever uh two different uh percentage rate increases were uh at the time. I can do that again for the May 12th board meeting, giving you updated numbers, letting you know what has changed. And then what

096I would need for you that evening would be to approve one of those proposed um budget documents. Uh we can still continue to change the budget up until uh June at the second board meeting when we have to have final approval. So this is still just going to be a work in process for a while. Any thoughts? Any requests for more information? Any other ideas? So I'm going to fast forward to June. Okay. It's a budget. Yes. Okay. Right now we're within 3% three and a half% of of the budget. Things are going to go on, things are going to come off throughout the school year, etc. We've always tend to make it take work as you massage your budget to a thing. And I don't want to get into a paralysis by analysis on

097all the different scenarios from that aspect of it. Save it a little bit of pain. As a board, I think we need to think about, you know, from a tax increase perspective because, you know, there'll be a tax increase perspective. you know, what's going to be our limit and then what what how are we going to make it work is is really from a directive standpoint. Sometimes we've gone above the the average, sometimes we've gone a little bit below the average and just kind of get a gauge about where we are from a tax increase perspective and then make it all work. And I know Mrs. Ruff has an opinion on on that and we don't talk about that now, but just give that some thought. Part of our problem is that we may find

098out that we're in better financial position than we expected, but meanwhile we will have already passed the tax increase. Correct. Correct. And as I look at this, anything higher than the 2.5% gives us the highest increase we've had for three years. With the exception of one of those years, it will be the highest we've had in 1 2 3 4 six years. Mhm. At a time when our standard of living is squeezing so many of our residents, I can't defend raising taxes higher than they have for six years. That just the logic of that and the decency of that just does not ring true for me. I agree. So, no. Good. Yeah. So we So just is that good guidance for for you to go back with or is that sort of mud? Are you

099looking at 2.5 2 You're looking We look at 2.0. We looking at 2.5. Is that kind of like the gauge that we're thinking about? I think 2.0 would be very difficult based on what we know right now. And we've never done that before. That is that is really low. Okay. Not that I wouldn't like to. Yeah, understand. So, what I've done is I I have my Excel spreadsheets all set up and I run my different scenarios. What if we got the full amount of the ready tolearn adequacy? What if we did get cyber reform where they're dropping uh the general education tuition rate down to $8,000? What does that leave us with? Uh and based on like uh what I had in my spreadsheet today was just a 2.5 or 2.75% increase. It gives us

100um puts us in a much better position. That's again only if we get that money from the state and if we get cyber tuition reform. Um some of the options too is we understanding that we're going through uh renovation projects one after another. We still have some other capital items um that we have to take care of that just aren't going to wait any uh wait until we get to that building in particular. you know, the Fritz Elementary, the high school, the annex, the service building. Uh what we can do is look at uh possibly taking some of those items out of our capital reserve fund. Um that's something I just kind of keep on the back pocket, back burner. It's not something I want to do up front because we only want to use

101the capital reserve funds for a one-time expenditure. So, a roof replacement isn't going to be something I'd like to take out of there, but I can work with Ken Johnson and we can look at some of those items. Um, so that's there's some it's not dire. You know, what you don't want to do is you don't want to cascade yourself into a hole and and then have it build year after year. So, and I get that. Yeah. Yeah. I think that's the key to remember. You know, the index is the index for a reason. Not that you want to go up to the index, but it is whether you agree with that formula or not. That's the state saying your community based on your tax base, you could be you have our permission to go

102up this high without going out for Yeah. You know, with the waiver. So, every time you don't whatever percentage you don't go to that that compounds. You never get that back. Not to say you should go the full way, but but you don't want to get yourself in a situation where you go low too far where then when you have a big project, a high school project or something like that that you have to go out, you find yourself in the situation some other districts in our area are finding themselves in. So just for what it's worth, I agree with you. It's an unusual situation because when you raise taxes, you don't just raise them that year. that you every year like if we raise and say $30 a year. Next year we pay that

10330 and another. So you know that works both ways but uh I I understand the state came up with 4% but what were things like when they did that? What was the economy like when they said our our residents could afford 4%. When did these number when did that index come out for the current for 2526 that came out? I believe in December or January somewhere around there. Maybe back in the fall and it's based on things were very different back in December. Yes. Than they are today. I I'd like to I I understand going below 2.5 is is not healthy for us financially. I I would support that. Yes, that is not would not be fiscally but that's still where where I'd like to stop it. That's me, but there are nine of us

104and she needs some direction. Right. So, thoughts. Do you want to do scenarios at 2.5 to see how to make that work? That's where I am. I don't know where the rest of the board is. They're all sitting around serious. I support that. There's that's Is there anyone who objects to going forward with a potential 2.5% increase? Seeing no objection, I would take that to be accepted at least at this point in our budget project. And what I can do is show you uh in May what the impact is of not raising it up. you instead of uh going 2.75 if we only go to 2.5 and you can see a multi-year impact. It would be nice if the state would get the budget in on time so we didn't have to do this blindfolded.

105So when Dr. Hartman and I had a call uh earlier today with a gentleman from Pennsylvania schools work uh that was one of the comments I said it's very frustrating for us. It's very difficult. We're trying to make the best decision uh without having some of the big key elements. Yes. And the state knows that. We we see it every year. Yeah. Yeah. Well, another thing that I think was was relevant on our conversation is is we're we're very pleased with the with the adequacy funding and we're happy that we're getting that. But that's not we need to make sure we're viewing that's making up for it's an it's called inadequacy funding for a reason. It's to make up for we were inadequately fine long time. So this isn't like a new investment in education.

106Oh great, we're getting extra money now. The state cares. It's making up for something we should have been getting all along. So when you look at it like that, it it does change and we're still not guar even though it says well based on the that adequacy, we should be getting this, we're still budgeting right now at 50% of that because it's until we know it's guaranteed. We see that in writing. We don't know, right? So that could play a huge role in whether or not that 2.5 is good for us or not because you just don't know, you know, we're hearing about cyber reform. We don't know if that's happening or not. Um, you know, and then then we'll have to make decisions on if that all falls into place then then that that

107deficit really gets manageable. But if not, then we're we're talking are we are we going back and opening up our budget and cutting things if if we go to that or are we just or are we taking from our fund balance, which isn't a bad thing because we want we got we don't want that percentage to get too high either. Correct. Or too low. Right. That's after we after we land on the percentage, we need to decide what's how are we shrinking that deficit. Yes. And the worst case scenario would be that we we end up having to go back and reopen our bike. Correct. Uh well, and the other worst case scenario, the part that thaws at me is if we don't pass this budget on time. Oh, we get fined $300 a day.

108Yeah. The state would close down our funding until we did pass the budget. If they don't pass their budget on time, it's Well, yeah. Mhm. We're taking an educated guess and I'm okay with that. I'm sorry. We're taking an educated guess and I'm okay with that. Well, it always it's always an educated guess. Don't be Chicken Little where the sky's falling every year, right? But it's not. Yeah. So, but I do agree with your point that we've increased it a lot over the years. Um, and we could address that. And one of our goals is always to stay away from programs. Where else can we find the savings or the banding revenue? Yeah. Years ago, we came up with priorities and but and uh program was always at the bottom of the list and safety

109at the top. Yes. Yes. Phil, did you have a question? The the fair funding is that part of the state budget. So, we wouldn't find out about correct any additional funds until after the budget's passed. Correct. Okay. And that's only if they agree to continue it next year because there are some legislators who don't want to continue the fair funding of formula at all. I mean, we're very fortunate here in CV. Granted, you know, there's a lot of money that we weren't getting for years, but we're fortunate to have uh a very diverse tax base, which has helped us to keep our millage rates low, too. There's no doubt we've been more fortunate than a lot of school districts. Have you read some uh articles in the paper around the state lately? I slept pretty

110good last night. Surprisingly, nothing else to do but read that uh your revenue report. Did you want to go over that or I don't have to. That's a lot of Yeah, a lot of detail in there. So, okay. So what I heard from you is you want me to come back to you with a proposed budget of 2.5% knowing that there are going to be changes between now and May 12th and then ch additional changes between May 12th and June and then we just cross our fingers. Yes. If you hear anything too, let me know. That might help to uh be a little more wishful. So Okay. Anything else? Okay. Good. Thank you all. Thank you. And now just because we haven't had had enough of it, we'll go back to policy review. Dr. Hartman.

111If Thank you. Uh so this is uh simply a uh um what do we call this? Not a first reading. It's a review. An admin review. So we're presenting these policies just to give a little context. These are policies that were uh a part of the initial policy review that we had going on that we put a pause on and we decided to wait for a variety of reasons. So, as you did, we approved the second reading of the 200s tonight. Uh you'll notice a lot of these are 200 series policies. Uh and if you notice the theme with them, a lot of them have to do with uh health services. So, health exams and screenings, food allergy management, ex diabetes management, etc. The reason these didn't come along with the first batch of 200s

112is we wanted to give our our uh medical professionals, our school certified school nurses and those who would have to implement these policies time to review them and give feedback on them. So, this is part of our initial review, but we we put a initial pause on these policies and they're just coming forth now. So, uh they're being given tonight for an opportunity to look over them to get feedback prior to first reading uh which will take place in May. Uh we did notice already one item that we'll be uh recommending a revision to and that is for policy uh 209 which is uh food allergy 246 school wellness which I am going to uh ask Kathy did you want to mention that since it was you're the one you're the one that caught it

113or did you want me to? No. Um the 246 talks a great deal about allergies especially at the bottom of page seven in my self management of food allergies in district schools and then it has six things under it. One is eliminate uh two rapid response for the allergy protective rights um and accommodations for allergies. And then four um assess and imple implement improvements to make walking and biking in school safer and easier for students. And the next two follow on. What if you're allergic to walking and running? Right. Right. So, um, those last three need to be elsewhere. Elsewhere, have their own title or something. So, when PSBA condensed the the um allergy management policy into an an overall school wellness policy, they didn't catch that apparently. So that's so we're just basically recommend

114all that falls under the category of management of food allergies in school districts. And so we're just recommending we after number three we create a new heading that addresses routes school routes to school items that are listed there. I don't think this is the first time we found out the PSBA recommendation is not the all end all and be all. Uh, I always try to remember that the people that are going to be reading this policy are the parents and we shouldn't be sending them on a scavenger hunt to get little bits of information. So, that will be adjusted. I um I have for some time since I realized that PSBA deleted some things we didn't realize been trying to trace back all the policies that they skipped in the past which isn't easy when

115they were combined to three and 400s because they were all over the place and just when you think they missed one you find it someplace else. Um, and I went down through what I had finally come up with and those that uh because of uh Dr. Hartman's I was able to find, you know, what happened to them and uh and and I'm pretty good with uh I'm pretty good with this that they're all there. Um, we have a few that we did right before we started this policy review in the 100s, but I think this pretty well covers all of our other policies so that we can move on and and see the light at the end of the tunnel in this policy review. Just one final comment, the two policies that are not 200s,

116121 field trips, same thing. field trips a lot. There's a lot of language in there about like med med distribution on field trips. So, once again, we wanted our nurses to take a look at that uh to make sure that's consistent with with our practice. Uh and policy 001, we simply had to change that lists the address of your district office and with our move to Mount Sydney Road, we had to update the address. So, that's the reason for those recommended revisions. I would like to clarify the health exams and screenings. It looked like we no longer will have a school physician. Is that is is um the screenings, the examinations, school physician is crossed out and now they're to be conducted by the patient's primary care provider. For the most part they they are

117we still offer physical screen. I have to look in before I mean we can get feedback on that before first reading but I don't know the answer to that. Okay. Yeah. The same with the school. I'm sorry. What number is that? Uh that is 209. Okay. Yeah. Dr. Hartman, with these changes at these three, can they still be ready in time for May? Mhm. Okay. Absolutely. And you have, if you remember, a a phase two uh that Dr. Hartman provided us to pick up the last of these that run from 101 336 down to 803. So I think that's the end of the review, isn't it? You get down through those. That should be the end of our Yep. current review and then we're which that involves picking up a few of ones that have

118there have been recommended changes since the initial policy review was started by the SBA. Okay, any questions? Review and approval of boys volleyball booster club const constitution. You have attached the constitution and their bylaws. Any questions or concerns? Oh, sorry. Didn't see it come up. Good evening everybody. I'm Dena as you know hopefully Phil Judy is is with me this evening. He is um going to serve as the new president of the boys volleyball booster club and we are here asking for an approval on um the new constitution and bylaws for the boys volleyball booster club. Could could you point out what are the basic changes or are there any? One more time. I'm sorry. Could you point out whether or not there are any basic changes in this? These are brand new. These are

119brand new. That's what I meant. Which brings me to an unrelated question. At some point, we need to decide which of our booster clubs must have bylaws and which one do not. We all must have them. I don't know if we have them all, but Is there some reason why you chose to start with a constitution document? We followed a template that um is on our website and so we have some booster clubs and and general clubs who have a organizational guidance district or state. So these the the template it w is um has been used in the past for our athletic programs, booster clubs. So that's what we follow. Questions, concerns about them. If not, we will take a That's what we were hoping. Pretty straightforward. It looks complete to me. They're asking for

120They're asking for approval, which means I would need a motion. How does that need to sound? What do you need us to say specifically for that approval? What do we need? You just need a motion to approve the constitution and bylaws of the boys volleyball booster club. Okay. Motion to approve the constitution and bylaws of the boys volleyball booster club. Thank you. Second. All those in favor say I. Opposed or abstensions. Congratulations. Thank you. That was our easiest piece today. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for being here. No problem. We're down to the information agenda. Does anyone have any questions on the finance and operations report? I have two. Um, under the student learning safety and security met with student athletes regarding title nine. I'm thinking would that be about bullying or what would

121safety and security have to do with title n? safety and security met with student athletes regarding title number nine. Yes. So, um title nine um this was recommended to us by our HR director that um John Warner and I meet with our teams to discuss what Title 9 is, what it means, how to report, what their duties are, who to report to, that type of thing. and and John Wernern his part would be he's the title N coordinator for the students. Okay. Okay. Y thank you. You're welcome. Don't fight with the HR guy. Anything else? Uh no. My other one is about food services under positive climate and culture. Food services attended the MS play dress rehearsal. I don't think that was meant to be under food services. I I believe that was mine that

122I put in there. Oh, hold that a typo. Just a wrong category. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. In case you wonder if these get read, that's a good thing. Anything with federal funds, Dr. Hartman? nothing this evening. N we're getting down to my last wire. Uh board reports. Uh my IU reports are there. Uh PSBA has one addition to be added to it and that's a school safety and sum and summit uh meeting they're having uh and they're having one on May 28th. I'm sorry. On June 28th, but that'll be in my next month's report. Lanster County Academy um has nothing new. We're getting ready for next year. Uh we expect to have maybe three or four CB graduates this year, which is always good news. Um that graduation is May 31st if any of

123you want to attend. And I think that's my three reports. PSBA, IU13 uh is listed and the academy. And we then have Mr. Hurst here, Hurst here for our U CTC report. Is there anything from the construction committee? We didn't get to have our meeting last week before, but in the report, I mean, everything's proceeding as planned. Leo is really starting to take shape. That's always good news, isn't it? Are there any other reports? This is the point in the meeting where we will accept from the public any comments on any issue, whether or not it's on the agenda. Would someone like to address the board? I apologize. I'm sure your brains are full. Mine is. That's okay. We have your name, please, for the record. Wayneheim. Wayneheim. And you're a res of the district.

124I live in Speak for yourself or a group. I'm sorry. Are you speaking for yourself or representing a group? I'm speaking for myself. Okay. uh but um trying to plant a seed for anything in the future. That gives you 3 minutes of our time. Okay, I'll try to This is This, by the way, is um a collection of things over the last year about girls wrestling that I've collected. And uh I I've put together just a a couple things here. Um I appreciate your time. I'm here to try to um encourage you uh to approve the expansion of the the CV wrestling program to include a girls wrestling team. Um I prepared a PowerPoint, but uh there's no room in the agenda for the rest of the year for me to do a PowerPoint for

125you. So, I've I've uh I have a folder here for you with a copy of the PowerPoint in there that you can look over uh with uh various points that I would like to make and I won't be able to this evening. Okay. Um I'm going to be speaking fast because I have such limited time here. So, I'm gonna hit you with a lot of facts. Um first of all, girls wrestling, girls uh scholastic wrestling is the fastest growing sport in the entire nation. Um our own uh Lancaster Lebanon League. There are 20 school 22 school districts. 18 of those school districts have girls wrestling. 18 out of 22. Four of them do not. I contacted those four and um Epherta has no plans at this time. Um Senko, they're going to try to accommodate

126some girls that are interested in wrestling um sort of outside of the school with uh wrestling independently in various activities. And Cocalico, it's being discussed, but there's no final decision at this time. And the fourth school is CV. And there are no plans at this time for anything at CV. So why expand uh the wrestling program to include a girls wrestling team? Uh it allows girls to wrestle girls. Uh it's ranked second in sports that produce first generation college students. Uh there's no minimum number of uh participants required in order to do it. Uh it's an additional outlet for girls to connect, engage, and belong to a school group. Uh there are presently 16 uh elementary girls that are wrestling in youth and elementary tournaments and things like that. And uh I think that we

127should be providing a pathway to continue in that sport as they come up through the elementary to the junior high or to the middle school and high school. Um it provides uh one of the things that was talked about before was the character education kind of program and uh this is just a list of some of the life skills that uh it it addresses um work ethic, sacrifice, teamwork, self-discipline, personal responsibility, increased confidence, mental and physical toughness, respect, self-esteem, physical fitness, uh leadership opportunities. Uh all of these fall into those programs. Uh and um boys have had this at at their level and we're just asking that maybe I'm just asking that girls maybe have the same opportunity. Um I looked over the the the district's mission, vision, beliefs, notice of non-discrimination, all of that

128stuff, and there's loads of stuff in there that backs up the idea of putting it into girls. Um, will girls wrestle? It's, uh, research says that girls are more likely to wrestle when they know they're wrestling girls and not boys. Um, I said before, there's no minimum number of girls uh, required to start a team. As a matter of fact, onethird of the uh, the wrestling teams in the state of Pennsylvania formed without having any girls at all identified. Um it's a matter of the board saying we approve it. The athletic director checks a little box telling the PIAA we approved wrestling and then you can go out and recruit from there and form a team. Uh also wrestling is exceptionally inclusive. Uh it accepts people of um all individuals regardless of culture, race, size,

129stature, ability level, and also uh socioeconomic levels. It's there's not a lot of uh money that goes into this from the family. Uh one last thing I I'll say because I'm sure that this is uh three minutes goes really quickly. within this packet that I'm going to give you, there is a a page in there. On the back side of that page, there is a website. It's it's pbs.org. It's public uh channel. Uh and in 19 Oh, 19 in 2024, they did a documentary on girls wrestling in the state of Pennsylvania. And they followed some girls through this to the state tournament and everything. And I think that it if you watch that, you will find u a lot of information to help support the things that I'm saying. And also um even if you

130can't watch all of it, I think it's like 55 minutes long. It's pretty long, but even if you watch part of it, and it's difficult to do because you stay with it. Um but even if you watch part of it, I think that you'll you'll learn a lot from that. Uh so that's there pbs.org or uh see if you can take a look at that that video. It's called the chance to wrestle. And that's it. If you have any questions for me, I'd be glad to answer. Uh if not, I included my uh contact information in here. You can give me a call or ask me any questions, anything. Uh anyone, some of you may not know, but Mr. Ham used to work here in the administration and at CV. And I'm sure he understands

131what I'm about to tell him. Make sure we have your contact information. Okay. And and and and this request will go through the chain of command. I couldn't. Well, I said and this request will go through the chain of command. when it comes to the board, it'll have all the data we need uh to make a decision from the cost to the projected participation. I'm sure a lot of that is already available, but you need to bring it to us that from that direction, right? Uh did you have a deadline that you were hoping for? Well, originally I gathered this because I thought maybe it could go into place next year. Um, if I can just say something about the budget. Um, because wrestling has minimal thing, a head gear and a singlet to wrestle,

132you know, a warm up and mats and coaches and No, we have the mats and everything, but we there's the big thing is there's no facility. Um, I was here with uh Mr. Holmes uh earlier and he says he thinks that there's room there there's there's room to put another room in but that facility would have to be equipped so that people could wrestle without getting hurt. So, it's just a matter of uh finding a location and equipping that room because um the booster club and and so on, they help out with things like singlets and headgear and stuff like that. Are you talking about renovating space that we already have? Mhm. Have you identified that? Uh Mr. Combmes has. Okay. Well, I'm sure it'll be in the report once he gets to us. Okay.

133Thank you. You know, this is the first time you've actually talked during a comment. You've had questions. Usually it's Thank you. We'll take it. You know, interesting. I'm sorry. I I'm missing your point. It's It's the first time you've actually debated in a public comment. I'm not debating. I'm not debating. I'm just telling him what the process will be. Make it make it a point. Well, I think there is a policy, is there not? on a sport on creating a sport because we've had clubs that want to be sports etc. There is a policy on creating I only remember going to that once before and that had to do with girls junior high volleyball where they wanted that to be added. We we we have a process uh for yeah I I I address that

134in there. Okay. There there is a thing. No you have to tell me hello. So, um, um, yeah, can I just address that? Yeah. No, at one point, we're good. Okay. At one point, we have to that stop the discussion and Yeah, but there's a there's a process to creating a and it's in here. I get it. Yeah. I only meant your name. Your name's on the folder. When it comes to us, it will have all the information we need, not to start a discussion about what that is. Yeah. But thank you. We appreciate your time. Okay. and your patience for working. Thank you for your time. And I like I said, I know your brains are full at this point. So, thank you. Okay. Um, board matter. Is there a vice president's report? Okay.

135Uh, board initiatives or announcements. The only initiative I wanted to bring up was I am beingounded by PSBA to uh join their resolutions on both cyber charter and mandates. And my question is, do you want me to bring that resolution for our approval? Are you interested in participating in that? They they they have a standard resolution that they ask school boards to approve uh supporting uh mandate relief and and changes in in cyber charter programs. My question is, are we interested in participating? I still don't quite understand what you're asking. PSBA has a program, an initiative to advoc advocate with state legislature to pass cyber charter changes. Cyber charter, okay, as well as mandate changes, okay? They are asking school boards to adopt that resolution and send it in on their own. We have done

136this on some occasions but not regularly. And my question is, do you want to do that this time? Are you interested in filing a resolution on either or both of those issues, or would you rather wait to see where it goes? It's late vote. Does Dan or Adele feel that it might be helpful? I think if you recall at our last board retreat where we we talked about wanting to become more involved in advocacy public education, I don't think it could hurt uh depending on what would be that in that resolution. Uh there there is a lot I could stay here till midnight talking about cyber school funding reform if you wanted to, but I won't do that. But uh I I I think it's up it's up to the board. But I think I

137I I certainly think cyber reform funding, if you're going to advocate for something, I think right now that's probably the most pressing urgent thing that that probably has legs that I that it sounds like. I think there's bipartisan support in the legislature to do something with cyber form funding. I don't know if anybody knows exactly what that will look like at this point. So that's a long answer to say I don't think it could hurt. And and the short answer is uh the effectiveness of full school board member resolutions is not huge. The most effective are individuals. That means if we all send a letter to our legislator, they'd get nine letters. If we pass a resolution, they get one resolution. However, there is that saying you can't do everything, but you can do something.

138So my question is, do you want to do something? If so, we will, you know, adopt a resolution, bring it to you to read, and hopefully you won't feel you have to word smith every line of it. We we've done it before. It It's just It's a resolution to show unity and support and support your public school, etc. So, do I would you like that on our next agenda? We can put that on the next agenda item. Okay. So, I I wasn't about to go to the trouble and then have you say, "Oh, we don't want to bother with that." And we've done it before, so Okay. we should be able to find it. I just want you to know that I've been invited to go to the Lancaster Chamber regional meeting on Thursday uh

139to discuss curriculum and they've given me five minutes. So, needless to say, I did not ask Dr. Hartman to join me because that would be a huge waste of his five minutes and his 20 minutes to drive back and forth. But, we'll see if anything worthwhile comes out of that. And what did they ask you to speak on? how we address curriculum to make our educational experience more robust. And I have five minutes. Yeah. I would love to be able to address how we develop and how we um monitor and how we uh deliver curriculum, but that's not the questions they question they provided me with. We'll see how it goes. uh you have the dates for our next meetings. Next Monday we have a retreat. If you have any item that you would like

140in included or addressed during that retreat, especially as it well you'll see what we have on the agenda so far in case there's something you want to be part of. That much said I will take a motion for adjournment. Motion to adjourn. I second. All in favor say I. I. We are ajour. And if you stick around just long enough, I have.