001And that's where I was talking. Good evening everyone. It is Thursday, December 4. This is the annual reorganization meeting of the Council Rock School District Board of School Directors. Welcome everyone. Great to see so many people here. Thank you for coming. Uh Dr. Senko, would you get us started, please? >> Thank you, Mr. Tate. Um please welcome 12th grade Council Rock High School South student Simone Shiovarts. And Simone, I'll pass it to you. 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. Oh, say can you see [singing] by the dawn early light what so proudly we held [singing] at the twilight last gleaming who brought stripes and bright stars [singing] through the perilous fight. For
002the ramparts we watched were so gallently streaming. And the rockets, the bombs bursting in air, gave proof through the night, that our flag was still there. [singing] Oh, say does [singing] that star spangled banner yet wave [singing] or the land of the free and the home of love. [singing] [screaming and crying] >> [applause] [applause] >> Simone, that was absolutely beautiful. We have a little goodie bag here for you. Thanks for giving us your time and talent tonight. I'm sure there's nothing as good in here as the cookies next door. Go get another cookie. Okay. Thank you. >> Thank you very much. Thank you. [applause] >> The purpose of this meeting is to administer the oath of office to the recently elected school directors and to hold the annual election of officers of the board. Then
003um the newly reorganized board of directors will elect its leadership for the coming year. The holdover school directors are Joseph Hago, Anne her, Tracy Oeki, Linda Stone, and myself, Edward Tate. The recently elected school directors to be sworn in this evening are Jim Green, Nicole Khan, Cheryl Rickert, and Michael Roosevelt. First on the agenda is the election of a temporary president. Um, okay. We'll have public comment. I haven't gotten a signup sheet with anyone signed up. If anyone wishes to make public comment, you're welcome. Um, just announce your name and the municipality of your residence. I don't see anybody. We'll check the signup sheet and then we'll move on. All right. Very good. So now we'll move on with the election of a temporary president. Nominations are now in order for the office of temporary
004president. Miss Stone, >> I would nominate uh T Tracy Oeki. >> Thank you. Um, second is not necessary. Are there other nominations for the office of temporary president? All right. Hearing none, um, Miss Oeki, would you please take over the meeting? >> Sure, I'm happy to. Okay. Will the board secretary please read the certificates of election of all new or reelected board members? Uh, I'm hearing that Judge Patrrui has it. >> Okay. [laughter] >> Do we need it? We need it, Judge. Sorry. [laughter] >> We've gotten to off to a smooth start tonight. [laughter] >> [clears throat] >> I don't need to >> Okay. >> Thank you, Judge Patuchi. And you can stay because we're gonna have you do you're you're up next. >> Okay. Miss Brink, >> we the undersigned members of the county
005board of elections hereby certify that after tabulating the votes cast at the municipal election held on the 4th day of November 2025, Nicole Pete Khan was duly elected to the office of school director of Council Rock School District Region 9 for a 4-year term. Cheryl Rickert was duly elected to the office of school director of Council Rock School District Region 8 for a 4-year term. Michael Roosevelt was duly elected to the office of school director of Council Rock School District Region 6 for a 4-year term. And Jim Green was duly elected to the office of school director of Council Rock School District Region 3 for a four-year term. Thank you, Miss Frank. Judge Patruchi, will you please administer the oath of office for the newly elected members? >> Absolutely. Thank you for having me. Uh,
006any particular order the board wants or I'm usually a ladies first guy, so all right. Um, Miss Ripper, do you want to go first only because yours is in in my hand? Oh, yeah. Come on up. Bring your family. microphone. Tony has >> well this stretch over this. >> Oh, are you sure? >> Okay. left hand Bible, right hand up. Are you Are you guys ready? >> Okay. All right. You're going to repeat after me. Okay. I, Cheryl Rickert, >> I, Cheryl Rickert, >> do solemnly swear >> that I will support, obey, and defend >> the Constitution of the United States >> and Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania >> and the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. >> and as a school board director >> of the Council Rock School District, >> I will
007discharge the duties. I will discharge the duties >> of my office with fidelity. >> Congratulations. Welcome to Council [applause] Me with Are you ready? That's weird. >> Oh, thank you, sir. >> Are you ready? >> I'm ready. Thank you. >> Okay. I, Nicole P. Khan, >> I, Nicole P. do solemnly swear >> do solemnly swear >> that I will support, obey, and defend >> that I will support, defend, obey, and defend >> the Constitution of the United States >> and Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania >> and and the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania >> and as a school board director >> of the Council Rock School District, >> I will discharge the duties >> of my office with fidelity And congratulations. Welcome to Council Rock. [applause] Congratulations and Mr. Green, if you're ready.
008>> [clears throat] >> Are you good? Everybody's in good position. >> Okay. All right. Mr. Green, are you ready? >> Ready. >> Okay. I, Jim Green, >> I, Jim Green, >> do solemnly swear >> that I will support, obey, and defend >> the Constitution of the United States >> and Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania >> and the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. And as a school board director >> And as a school board director >> of the Council Rock School District, >> I will discharge the duties >> of my office with fidelity. >> Congratulations, sir. >> Thank you. >> Welcome to [applause] Absolutely. Mr. Roosevelt, come on down. Mr. T, good job. Thank you. Okay. I, Michael Roosevelt, >> I, Michael Roosevelt, >> do solemnly swear >> that I will support, obey, and
009defend >> the Constitution of the United States >> and Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania >> and the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. And as a school board director >> And as a school board director >> of the Council Rock School District, >> I will discharge the duties >> of my office with fidelity. >> Congratulations. [applause] Good job. All originals. Thank you so much. Thank you guys. Wish you all the best. >> Congratulations to the new board. >> All right. Thanks for being here, Judge [applause] Okay. All right. I think we need a roll call of our newly elected school board. >> Mr. Tate, >> present. >> Mr. Hidalgo >> here. >> Mr. Roosevelt >> here. >> Miss Osaki >> here. Miss Khan >> here. Miss Stone >> here. >> Miss her >> here.
010>> Miss Rickert >> here. >> Mr. Green >> present. >> There you go. >> Okay. Uh, next on the on the agenda is the election of board president. Nominations are now in order for the office of board president. >> Ma'am, I I would like to nominate I would like to nominate Nicole Khan, please. >> Okay. Are there any other nominations? I would like to second that nomination. >> I don't think we need a second, but >> Okay, >> that's fine. >> Okay. >> Like to nominate Mike Roosevelt. >> Okay. Any other nominations? >> Okay. Seeing that there are no further nominations, we will close the nominations and proceed to vote on the board president. So, it sounds like we're going to do a roll call, Miss Brink, >> Mr. Tate, >> Nicole Khan, >> Mr.
011Hidalgo. Mr. Roosevelt. >> Michael Roosevelt. >> Miss Osaki, >> Nicole Khan, >> Miss Khan, >> Nicole Khan, >> Miss Stone, >> Nicole Khan, >> Miss Mike Roosevelt, >> Miss Rickert, >> Nicole Khan, >> and Mr. Green >> Nicole Khan. >> Okay, Miss Brink, please announce the tally of the votes for board president. >> So, we have six for Miss Khan and three for Mr. Roosevelt. >> Okay. Um, so now I hand it over to you, Miss Khan. >> Thank you, Miss Osaki. Next on the agenda is the election of vice president. Nominations are now in order for the office of vice president. Are there any nominations? Miss her. >> Joe Hodago. >> Are there any other nominations? >> Miss Osaki. Sorry. >> Ed Tate. >> Any other nominations? I >> have a point of order.
012Or do I Hold on one second. Seeing there are no further >> I'm going to refuse the nomination. Thank you. >> Okay. Uh seeing there are no further nominations, we will close nominations and proceed to vote on vice president. Since there is only one nomination, Mr. Ed Tate, do we still do a roll call vote? >> Sure. >> Because there's one you can either vote yay or nay for Mr. Tate. >> So, Miss Brink, could we please do a roll call vote? >> Mr. Tate. >> Yes. >> Mr. Hidalgo? >> Yes. >> Mr. Roosevelt? >> No. >> Miss Osaki? >> Yes. >> Miss Khan? >> Yes. Miss Stone, >> yes. >> Miss her, >> no. >> Miss Rickert, >> yes. >> Mr. Green, >> yes. >> That's seven yes and two no. Thank you. Receiving
013majority of the votes, uh, Mr. Ed Tate is the vice president. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> All right. Um, we Okay, so give me a second here. Sorry. Um, we already did the roll call of the reorganization of the board, correct? School directors. Okay. All right. Thank you. We will move on. Apologies. Bear with me. All right. We are going to move on to I believe we are on item D. Um, the approval of school board committee charters. um that is for the education, facilities, finance and policy committees. Um I would ask um Dr. Senko if you could just briefly just in a couple sentences explain what the charters are for the purpose of the vote. Thank you. >> Yeah. And [clears throat and cough] I'll give you a high level overview and I'll
014ask Peter to help help with that. But each year we we have um when we have a new election, we have to commit to the charters for each of those uh the committees that you just referenced saying that we will follow by the guidelines set forth in the charters. >> Uh that's correct and these are the documents are here before you just outline the charters of each of those committees. >> Great. Thank you both. Um can I get a motion for the approval of the school board committee charters, please? I move to approve the school board committee charter charters education facilities finance and policy committees. >> Thank you. Miss Oeki. Can I get a second? >> Second. >> Thank you, Miss Stone. Miss Frank, please mark the vote as unanimous. All right, we're moving on
015to item E, the president's appointment of committee chairpersons. Um at this point in accordance with board policy 005 I hereby appoint the following members of as chair or co-chairs of the following committees for um Nicole Khan and Tracy Osaki to serve as co-chairs of the education committee. Ed Tate and Linda Stone to serve as chair of the facilities committee. Linda Stone as chair of the finance committee, Tracy Osaki and Jim Green to serve as chair of the policy committee. Thank you both for serving and thank you for any of the board members that previously served on committees this past school year. All right, we'll move on to item F, which is the appointment of Bucks County Intermediate Unit number 22 representative. Um, I will serve as a Bucks County Intermediate number 22 representative this school
016year. Um, moving on to G. Item G, appointment of two MBIT representatives to represent us for Council Rock. I hereby appoint the following two members as MBI representatives. Anne her and Cheryl Rickert. Thank you both. Item H, the appointment of KF liaison. I hereby appoint the following board member, Mr. Ed Tate to serve or to continue to serve as our craft liaison. Thank you. Uh item I, appointment of Pennsylvania School Board Association legislative chairperson, the PSBA representative. I would ask that Mr. Ed Tate represent us there. Thank you. And um item J, appointment of PSBA employee relations contact. um just kind of a point of contact emergencies and that will be myself. Thank you. All right, we flew through that. Um at this point, we're moving on. Thank [clears throat] you so much to public
017comment the second half. Um I don't know if there was anyone signed up for public comment in the second half. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Spring. All right. There is nobody. Is there anyone in the audience that wishes to speak? Oh, excellent. Uh, thank you. Um, all right. We're moving on to item eight, board comment. We have new business. Is there any new business for board members? Okay. I will just take a minute um to make a short comment if if I may, please. Um, I would like to thank my board colleagues. um Jim Green, Tracy Osaki, Cheryl Rickert, Linda Stone for their support and confidence in me to fulfill this role. I would also like to thank our previous board presidents, Mr. Tate and Mrs. Py for their unwavering support, leadership, and mentorship. We have
018many things to be proud of as a district and have implemented new initiatives that will change the future of this district for the better, such as full day kindergarten, the the successful implementation and redesation of the hearts safe schools for our school district and the work that has begun in structured literacy. I will continue to work and serve this district to ensure that every student can learn and every staff member can teach in a safe and welcoming environment. My priorities are to continue the path forward to support educational excellence and student well-being uh that is best for for Council Rock. Every decision that I will make as one vote will always be in the best interest of students in our district and our community. I look forward to the work ahead and collaborating not only
019with my fellow board colleagues, also our administration. Um thank you and have a great evening. Um, I will move on to old business item 8B. Mr. Tate. >> Yeah, please. I can't resist just because it's the season of giving and I want to just make a couple of comments on behalf of the Council Rock Education Foundation. I want to thank the community for the incredible support that we received. Um, Giving Tuesday was a great success for the Council Rock Education Foundation. There was a great deal of generosity that is going to help fuel the educator initiative projects that really spark creativity, curiosity, and meaningful learning across Council Rock School District. As we continue the season of giving, we encourage families to consider making a gift of gratitude. And it's something our family tries to do
020regularly. Um, in honor of a CRSD staff member, a teacher, an administrator, a school staff person who really has made a difference. You can make a small gift in their name to Council Rock Education Foundation and they will be notified of your recognition. Um, and of course, gifts are taxdeductible. Um, grant action visits are underway. There's a um World War II voices of democracy exhibition at CR North, an upcoming visit to Holland Middle School. If you're interested in any of these grants and action visits, you can contact me or Beth Anne Doash um or any Craft board member. Um let's see what else. Um and two save the dates. Um the money Carlo Gayla is on Friday, February 27. And I happen to know that at least one board member has already purchased tickets for
021the event, which is terrific. And the Craft Golf Classic is Monday, June 15 at Jericho National. Thank you very much for your support of the Council Rock Education Foundation. >> Great. Thank you, Mr. Tate. Any other old business? Board comment. Okay, we are moving on to adjourn the meeting. Do I need to make a motion or can I just adjourn the meeting? >> Make a motion to adjurnn. >> You can make a motion and then adjourn. >> Okay. I make a motion to adjurnn the meeting. >> Second. >> I adjourn the meeting. Um I believe we are in an executive session and then we'll follow with uh facilities and finance immediately afterwards. >> That's correct, Miss Khan. Um if the board and our solicitor would meet in the fishbowl for a few minutes and we
022will follow that brief executive session with the combined facility finance meeting in HC1. Please and thank you. >> Thank you. Good night everyone. >> What are we doing next?