School Board Meeting: July 17, 2025

001Good evening everyone. It is Thursday, July 17, 2025. This is a meeting of the Council Rock School District Board of School Directors. Welcome everyone. It's good to see you here. Dr. Senko, if you would please get us started. >> Thank you, Mr. Tate. Um, I know it's the summertime and we asked our friend and student Bren Rogers to please lead us in the pledge of allegiance. Bren. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you very much, >> Bin. Thank you. I know you had to leave basketball camp and go get ready to come here tonight. Here's a little something for you. Thanks for giving us a summer night to

002uh be here. Thank you, >> Madam Secretary. Could we have a roll call, please? >> Mr. Tate, >> present. >> Mr. Hidalgo, >> present. >> Mr. Roosevelt, >> here. >> Mr. Hickeyi, >> here. >> Miss Paulie, >> present. >> Miss Osaki, >> present. Miss Khan, >> here. Miss Stone >> here. Miss her >> here. >> All right. >> Thank you very much. Dr. Senko, could we have the superintendent's report, please? >> Thank you, Mr. Tate. Welcome and good evening to the board of school directors, to the staff and community members joining us tonight and those tuning in on the Council Rock YouTube channel. Thank you and welcome to Miss Polly and Miss Khan who are joining us via Zoom. And once again, thank you to Bin Rogers for taking her time from her summer break

003to lead us in the pledge of allegiance and to Mrs. Crawford who came back tonight to join us from her vacation. We are all just about halfway through the summer break with the first day of school only now 47 days away. As always, the summer months in Council Rock are anything but quiet. And the district remains active both in the classroom and behind the scenes. Our extended school year and summer academy programs are well underway and based on the classroom visits we have had, students are making strong gains. These programs play a vital role in strengthening skills and building confidence, ensuring students are wellprepared and ready to thrive in the year ahead. Preparations for full day kindergarten are moving ahead with great momentum. Teachers are setting up classrooms, finalizing daily schedules, and crafting engaging curricula

004to support student learning. Sincere thanks to our kindergarten teachers, support staff, and administrators for their thoughtful planning and unwavering commitment to launching a vibrant, highquality fullday kindergarten experience this fall. Our facilities team is hard at work across the district, ensuring buildings are maintained and ready for a new school year. Classrooms are being cleaned, organized, and stocked for a smooth return for our students in September. Meanwhile, our human resources and business departments are managing the important behindthe-scenes work of hiring and procurement, helping new staff members transition into their new roles and ensuring that schools are fully operational for the start of the upcoming school year. Richboro Middle School is currently hosting law enforcement training and the Starbur Cafe is open with summer hours to continue serving our community. These are just a few of the many

005ways Council Rock stays active throughout the summer months. Across every building and department, preparations are well underway to ensure a strong and successful start to the new school year. Soak up every one of the 47 days of summer still ahead. The first bell of the brand new school year is just around the corner. So kick back, recharge, and enjoy all the sunshine if we can get some and memories this season has to offer. Each year, Council Rock proudly selects a charitable organization to support through district-wide fundraising efforts. Our staff and students participate in a variety of activities ranging from dress down days and car washes to bake sales and more. It is truly a communitywide effort, one that we embrace each year with enthusiasm and generosity. This year, we were proud to support Able Force,

006a local nonprofit organization led by Mr. Mike Fitzgerald. Able Force provides meaningful employment opportunities for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities, often called ID, through its family of small businesses, Reququipped, Classic Rock Auto Detail, Able Fulfillment, and Shreddable. All four businesses operate out of a shared facility in Richboro where 95% of the staff are adults with ID. Organizations like Able Force play a vital role in creating pathways for individuals with disabilities to gain real world experience in a purposeful, inclusive, and supportive environment. Through the collective efforts of our school community, Council Rock raised $24,889 for Able Force during the 2025 2026 school year. We are honored to contribute to this important mission and confident that Mr. Fitzgerald and his team will use the funds to expand opportunities for individuals, many of whom are proud Council

007Rock alumni. A heartfelt thank you to our Council Rock staff and students for their unwavering support of our district charities. And now, it's my pleasure to welcome Mr. Mike Fitzgerald to the podium for a few remarks. Mr. Fitzgerald. Thank you, Dr. Senko, and thank you everybody on the school board. Um, as you can see here, I have Shawn with me also who many of you know from your times at school and Mr. Funk and others. Um, what a meaningful contribution it has been for us. Um, under our umbrella of Able Force, we have Able Force Education and Fitness as well. Uh, along with the Able Force employment and the companies that Dr. Senko represented and talked about with your contributions especially with the Able Force Education of Fitness, we've been able to keep our prices

008very low in terms of offering our programs. We have four programs rolling out uh in the fall starting in August, beginning of September that are targeted to young adults 15 and above all through our oldest our oldest activity person is 42 years old. And we're rolling out uh yoga at the garage bar. We have uh swimming at Richboro Swim Club. We have non-cont boxing at Joe Han Gym. And we started a new exciting sport called floor ball, which is a team sport for our adults in the community. So again, your contributions helped keep those prices low and allowing more and more individuals and families to participate in our sports. Um, if anyone is ever interested, they can just check out our our website at www.able-education.org. And as it relates to the companies, the four companies

009mentioned, you know, it came at a timely time for us this year. We unfortunately lost a contract where we were providing fulfillment work uh for a pharmaceutical company, but they actually went on out of a business. So, we had to let go seven adults. However, with your contributions, we've been able to come up with new various products under our Reququip brand where we're able to bring back two of those employees already this week and then we have two more coming on next week. So we'll have a total of 12 adults back working for us. And we couldn't have done that and taken those risks without the contributions that the community made for us to keep us afloat to keep us going through these different times. So thank you very much Dr. Senko, everyone here, the

010school community, especially the school community, New Town, Rich Barrow, you know, they've been just phenomenal coming in. And we will be offering everybody in the council rock schools, the teachers, administration a 10% discount for any kind of car detail you would like to have at at Classic Rock Auto Detail. So Sean, what do you have to what do you have to say? What what's your turn? Come on. Come on. Come on. Thank you. >> Okay. Go ahead. Say thank you. Come on. You >> all right. Well, Sean usually has a lot to say. So again, thank you very much for all your support for us and is there anything we can do for you? >> My best >> best teacher, best principal. >> Again, if there anything we could ever do for you for if

011you ever know any parents, students, or anything that have questions, comments, please feel free to have them directed to me. We'll offer any support we can just like you've given us support. So, thank you again very much for everything you've done for us here. Thank you. Mr. Fitzgerald, congratulations and thanks for doing what you do for our community. Sean, I agree with your dad. That's the first time I've ever seen you speechless, and I've known you since kindergarten. Uh, some reminders. We have a few important reminders to help families prepare for the upcoming school year, even if September still feels a bit far off. First, our food service department is in the process of transitioning to my school bucks, a new platform for managing student meal accounts. This system will be in place for the

012start of the 2025 2026 school year. Parents and guardians will need to create a new account in my school bucks. So, please keep an eye out for additional information and setup instructions in the coming weeks. Second, we acknowledge that summer can be a challenging time for some families in terms of food access. To help bridge this gap, the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services is offering a special program called Sunbucks. This grocery benefits program provides a one-time payment of $120 per eligible child to help families purchase food while school is out. Sunbucks benefits can be used at participating retailers and more details are available on our district website at www.crsd.org. Finally, a reminder that the home access center or known as hack will open on Friday, August 1st. At that time, parents and students can view

013class schedules for the upcoming school year. It's also a great opportunity to review and update your contact and demographic information. Accurate information is essential as our emergency communications rely on the data stored in Hack across all platforms. Thank you for staying informed and helping us ensure a smooth start to a new school year. Some dates to mark on your calendar. Monday, August 4th, there will be a policy committee meeting at 7 PM. Thursday, August 7th, there is a facilities committee meeting at 7 p.m. Thursday, August 14th, there's a finance committee meeting at 7 p.m. Thursday, August 20 21st is a board of school directors meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday, September 2nd is the first day of school for all students in grades K through six, grade seven and grade nine. And Wednesday, September 3rd is

014the first day of school for all students grades K through 12. This is a reminder that for reliable, accurate, and up-to-date information about our district, please refer to resources, websites, and social media platforms managed by the Council Rock School District. We urge the community to be discerning and choosing where to obtain information and to be aware that unauthorized social media accounts, use the Council Rock name, to post inaccurate or misleading information regarding district matters. If you have questions about what you see, need additional information, or require reliable fact check, please contact the district directly. Our c our contact information is readily available on our website at www.crsd.org. This concludes the superintendent report. Thank you. >> Thank you Dr. Senko. The solicitor's report. If you would please, Mr. Amuso. >> Uh thank you, Mr. President. Nothing

015public to report. The the board has our written report. And also in these summer months, I'm pleased to report there have been no executive sessions since our last meeting. >> And we're pleased that there were no executive sessions. So, thank you very much. Uh, next on the agenda is public comment. This is an opportunity for members of the public to address the board. We would ask that you limit your comments to no longer than 3 minutes. Please consider the fact that there may be young children in the audience or watching this broadcast live on CRTV. When speaking, it is our goal to maintain a respectful environment so that members of our community have an equal opportunity to address the board without interruption. While the board welcomes your ideas and will consider them in deliberating an

016issue, we most likely will not respond to your comments or questions. We have one person signed up for public comment and of course anyone else who wishes to comment on agenda items uh will be welcome to come up. Jen McCarter from Northampton. >> Um the table if you would. >> Oh, I'm sorry. >> No, that's that's a that's a little change in our process. Thank you. Thank you. there. Okay, now I'm going to be louder. Sorry about that. Um, I'm Jen McCartcher. I live in Churchville in Northampton Township. I am speaking tonight in support of the resolution on the agenda regarding the federal government freezing Council Rock funds recently. I would hope that every board member can stand up for our district and the kids and vote for this resolution. I know at least one

017board member is urging that the board be patient about this situation, but I'm a mom and we all know we're not patient when it comes to protecting kids. So, I really don't expect that the school board will just sit back and wait to act. We've seen federal funds have been cut in other areas haven't been restored and now we're faced with Congress pulling back money previously allocated to various things. I don't think sitting back is the prudent way forward. We need to ensure quality public education provided by Council Rock and Doors and we should come together as a community to say no to this. It's $242,000 now, but what will it be next time? President Trump has indicated that he wants to shut down the Department of Education and he appears to be well on

018his way. We don't know what cuts may be coming next and I can only imagine how difficult it is for our district to be planning for the upcoming school year when faced with the prospect of additional funding cuts. In addition to being a mom, I'm a taxpayer as well and I don't think it's prudent to wait to act. taxpayers. I would expect that taxpayers would be on the hook to cover funds that the federal government refuses to disperse to our district. If we aren't covering the funds, then I would think that services would have to be cut and that's only going to hurt the children. The freezing of funds is a recipe for destabilizing public schools. And it seems that's how they want to go. They want to destabilize public schools and then swoop in

019to privatize education. And we all know private schools do not need to accept every student. When public education gets cut, the kids who have special needs and additional education requirements, their needs are not going to be met. And I'm a big proponent that public education should serve all students equally. Thank you. >> Thank you. Is there anyone else who wishes to comment at this time about any agenda items? Anyone else? No. All right. Thank you. We'll move on. That concludes public comment. Approval of minutes of the meeting of the board on June 19, 2025. Miss Stone, would you read the motion, please? >> I move to approve the minutes of the meeting of the school board directors held on June 19th, 2025. >> Second. Thank you, Miss Oeki. Comments, questions, hearing? None. Would you please,

020Madam Secretary, record that motion is passing unanimously. Next on the agenda, approval of the 202526 Council Rock School District Board of School Directors meeting calendar. Um, and let's have the motion and then I'll ask Dr. Senko to comment if you would. Um, Mr. Mr. Roosevelt, would you make the motion, please? >> Sure. I move to approve the 225 to 2022 Council Rock School District Board of School Directors meeting calendar as contained in this item. >> Second. Thank you, Mr. Ricky. Dr. Senko. >> Thank you, Mr. Tate. Uh, this is one of the agenda items we missed in the dark at last month's meeting and we moved it forward to to this month. I would like to point out to the board and the community to uh as you're reviewing that, please pay close attention to

021December um because we have some combined meetings just given the the school break schedule um as well as October around some of the holidays. So as you go through this calendar, there are a couple joint meetings finance and facilities just due to the existing calendar for the school district. Thanks very much, Dr. Senko. Are there any questions or comments about the board calendar for the coming year? Hearing none, would you please report record this as passing unanimously? Thank you. And next up is the education committee. And I failed to find out who's presenting the education committee report. Miss Connor, are you doing it? >> Yes, I am. Well, much to report, but yes, thank you. Good evening. >> Long distance. Thank you for making the effort. >> No, of course. Thank you. And I apologize

022for not being able to be there this evening um due to a family emergency. Um the education committee did not meet um since our last meeting in May. Um this evening we will be actually approving uh a few contract agreements between the district and our special services along with a settlement agree agreement. Um, I move to approve consent agenda items B through F as contained in the attachments to this agenda. >> Thank you, Mr. Hickey. Are there any comments, questions on any of those items? None. That passes unanimously. Thank you very much. >> Okay. Oh, sorry. just thank you that the next education committee meeting will be held actually um on September 25th at 7 p.m. here at the Chancellor Center. Thank you. >> Thank you, Miss Khan. Next is a report from the Bucks

023County Intermediate Unit representative. >> Okay, just briefly, uh the IU met on Tuesday, July 15th, and we have wonderful news to report. Federal funding for the Head Start program has been renewed. We are so thrilled that we will be able to uh provide this important service for the county and I really have to commend Mark Hoffman and the administrative team at the IU for pushing and pushing and pushing to get this funding restored. So um thank you to them and um wonderful news moving forward. >> Thank you Miss Oeki. A report please from Middle Institute of Technology. I'll take care of that. Um, good evening everyone. Uh, the executive council met on July 2nd and as with most boards and committees, our meeting was very short with, uh, not much of note happening. Um, one

024thing that did happen is we had the final results that came in from our Skills USA national competition. Uh MBIT finished second nationally in digital cinema, eighth in audio sound, 10th in photography, 16th in extemporaneous speech and uh good job done by all. Uh congratulations. Uh in addition, 31 students and five chaperones spent eight days in England and France on a cultural exploration trip. It was a non-sponsored trip, but except for one student, it was experience that was had by all. Uh, an anonymous donor gave $100,000 to MBIT for use of a greenhouse that needs replacement and also for the student financial fund. Although we don't know who that donor is, we would like to thank them publicly. And also Miss Sawyer, who was very instrumental in obtaining the grant. And finally, our administrative director,

025Dr. Kovll was selected to serve on the NCLA board, which is a national organization for CTE. It's a pretty significant honor as MBIT continues to gain notoriety nationwide as a model for others to follow. Our next meeting will be September 2nd. And that concludes my report. Thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. Hickey. That's pretty impressive student achievement and a very substantial gift. There is no report from the Council Rock Education Foundation this evening. We'll hear from CF in the coming months. Next on the agenda is policy committee which did not meet last month. So I suppose there's no report. >> Just going to mention that our next meeting is on August 4th. That's it. >> Um thanks Miss Oeki. I appreciate that. Um facilities committee did not meet last month and that takes us to

026finance committee which did at a busy meeting last week. Miss Oeki please. >> The finance committee met on July 10th and discussed several purchases most of which were software purchases for our teachers. Some of these programs were very interesting and I really encourage any students, parents, and especially teachers to watch the meeting and review the robust softwares available in our classrooms. And um with that, I move to approve consent agenda items B through R as contained in the attachments to this agenda. [Music] >> Mr. Roosevelt. >> Yes. I'm sorry. I would just like to request that items MN and O be pulled from consent. >> Say it again, please. Which one? >> MN and O items. Agenda items from seven be pulled from consent. >> MN O. >> Yeah, the last. >> All right. Yep.

027I will do it again. I move to approve consent agenda items B through L and P through R. >> I second. >> Thank you. Comments, questions on those items? Hearing none, we'll I'm sorry. Okay. Hearing none, we'll record that please as passing unanimously. So that takes us to items MN and O. Um N. Would you make the motion please, Miss Oeki? >> I move to approve uh items MN and O as contained in the attachments to this agenda. >> I second. >> Do you want me to take them separately? >> At least M. Yeah. >> Yeah. Let's let's one at a time. Thanks. I move to approve consent or I move to approve agenda item M as contained as contained in the attachment to this agenda. >> I second. >> All right, >> Mr. Roosevelt.

028>> Thank you. I I I'm sorry. I think this is interesting content, interesting technology, but I'm concerned about how this software changes language and how the software arranges topics for discussion. it. Without a review or without some examples of this, it's difficult for me to be uh confident that intellectual property or copyrights aren't being abused and more importantly that the content isn't being manipulated um to provide perhaps a different understanding to the kids in the classroom. I I once again I want to reiterate I think this is fascinating to be able to take news articles uh from a various different um news sources and scientific sources and pull them together and then adapt the language and even provide auditory readbacks through this uh to help children understand reading and science as well as current events.

029Um I just wish that we would have been able to audit this and some examples could have been provided um at least to make I think intellectual property copyrights and informing children is important and I don't have the confidence in this case that it is. It sounds like it's great but hopefully I'm wrong. Thank you >> Mr. Hago. >> Sure. Thank you Mr. Tate. So, uh, I'll be voting yes because, uh, Dr. Senko brought it to us and I believe that's fine, but I would like to audit it myself and take a look at it cuz, um, is there a it's basically 40,000 for just the one year, right? But we can renew or is it for how many years? I should just look. >> Um, looks like one year. >> So, the bottom line

030is if it's 40,000 we're spending, then we'll get to it. take a look at it and uh you know make sure we're prepared next year to to object with knowledge if need be. Thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. Odalgo. Anyone else? No. Um >> actually, I do have a question. >> Yes, Miss Con. >> Sorry. Thank you. Um I guess since we're pulling these items, I'm an out of consent. Um just before we vote, can we have a little bit of um explanation of what these are? I know we had some discussion in finance committee um on July 10th. So the newella item N that we're discussing right now um maybe Dr. Senko or someone else be able to explain what that is. Uh so Nuzella Newella is a a product that is used that

031takes um news articles from various news sources and uh changes the language to match uh the reading level of the students who are uh looking at the content. And that that applies not only to grades but even within the grade where students of different reading levels in the same grade can get different um uh so that different levels of uh the article so that students can discuss the articles or discuss the item in the um in the uh together so that they have every student has an understanding and no student is left out from um using using uh you know being able to get an understanding of of the articles. Um it is an education Ben and uh the uh product does uh whether or not and you know to address uh the uh question

032about uh copyright they do list their news sources as as content partners. So um uh you know I don't want to make any assumptions about that what that means but you know I would imagine that these large organizations would take if they weren't allowing them to list them that they would take uh take exception that they were using their identifying them as content partners. So it that you know that's the purpose is to engage uh students in allow students to engage with each other on um different topics uh related to you know in their education. >> Um thank you Mr. Ha. I just want to clarify. So Nuzella is a program for K through 12 use. K through eight. >> It's it's for for for for us this school. It's for K through eight. We

033use another Okay. >> program for high school. >> Okay. So, this is for K through eight use. Okay. So, this is for K through eight use that allows participation of all students regardless of reading level. So, this would also include special services. It different differentiates learning and comprehension. So, every student can engage in the teachings and learnings that's happening in the classroom. >> Correct. Okay. All right. Thank you so much. >> Any other comments or questions about this purchase? All right. Could we have a roll call, please? Madam Secretary. >> Miss her? >> Yes. >> Miss Stone? >> Yes. >> Miss Khan? >> Yes. >> Miss Osaki? >> Yes. Miss Paulie, >> yes. >> Mr. Hickey, >> yes. >> Mr. Roosevelt, >> no. >> Mr. Halgo, >> yes. >> Mr. Tate, >> yes. >> That's

034eight yes and one no. >> Thank you. Next is item N. Approve Lexia Aspire Professional Learning 2-year license. Miss Oeki, would you read the motion, please? I move to approve uh item Alexia Aspire professional learning agreement subject to solicitors review and audit. >> I second. >> Thank you. Comments, questions? Oh, M Mr. Roosevelt. >> Um yeah, I just sort of want to reiterate some comments here. This is Well, perhaps Dr. Senko, if you could explain these two. I think it's a it's an interesting idea. Um, and just for the community's edification, perhaps it would be it would be good if you could do that brief review that you included in last week's committee meeting. >> Sure. I'll ask uh Mr. Rap and Mr. Funk to jump in um and then I'll I'll fill in with

035with the two of them if that's okay. gentlemen. Uh >> so Lexia Aspire is uh a product for uh instruct teachers in uh four to six ELA programs. It um teaches them uh it it moves on from the letters training where where this now moves into more appropriate skills for for teachers at that level where they learn about um uh syntax syntax syntax and morphology. uh and uh you know it's required to have them trained in this to to maintain their uh act have to keep the active licenses. Um and uh it's used for regular and special ed. the uh so it it it uh you know it it teaches them it teaches them how to better teach children at that age uh the structured literacy or the the program I don't know what else

036I would add to that for item Nexia Aspire as Mr. rep said that's grades four through six. It is a two-year contract. So, we would have 200 teachers uh regular education teachers and special education teachers grades four through six trained in uh the science of reading. It's really an expansion on the K to3 which is a more robust intensive training that you will see reflected in item O. uh and that's also 200 teachers K through three. Item O I would add has another component for administrative training. So we will endeavor to train each of the uh so the 10 elementary schools and the two middle schools, all the building level administrators. We will train the supervisors of special education and some district level administrators as well in that second prong of item O. So basically

037item O is the letters training uh grades K to three and administrative training and item N is the Aspire training grades four to six. >> Thank you both. I would just add that both of these um agenda items are in support and in uh a requirement put on school districts with structured literacy. And uh one of the things we discussed at the committee meeting uh is the the mandate from the state to have folks trained in structured literacy. We know that's required a lot of attention here and gained a lot of attention from our our parents and rightly so. Um we chose particularly letter O. Uh we've used the Bucks County Intermediate Unit previously. We went with the other company only because they were the most coste effective and they could support that large number

038of teachers to be trained at one time. I think our our maximum cohort size at the IU was 20 or 25 teachers. We can get 200 trained at one time through the other organization. >> Thank you. So this is uh I think an effort by the administration to invest in the training of our administrators and our teachers here at Council Rock and the district had the ability to go to the IU in smaller numbers which would take a lot longer to get through all of these individuals. So by this investment, this district is able to provide that both required training as well as mandated training uh to a larger group faster. Um didn't you also indicate that completion or at some point they're Wilson trained? >> There is a component to it that people could

039get Wilson trained and we've made the commitment to go the extra step and have one teacher at each school. Wilson tr Wilson certified. There's a difference between Wilson trained and Wilson certified. Yes. >> So this gets Wilson certification to those >> for those who go on could obtain or will obtain Wilson certification >> and item N alone is um is about $160,000. Thank you. Mr. Hickey, ju >> just a question and I'll ask it before um I asked it. So we're doing it sounds like you know wonderful programs you know like I said fully in support of them. However, they are in response to a state mandate. Correct. >> Correct. >> Does the state offer Council Rock any monetary grant or aid to implement a quarter of a million dollar program? Not for this one.

040No. >> Thank you. >> Yes, Mr. Seki. >> Uh, in my time on the board, I don't know that there has been anything that I have heard more about than our literacy program. It is a very large purchase and I'm highly aware of that. Um, but I do believe that this is urgent and whether it's state required or not, I believe our teachers can benefit from this and I believe that our students deserve it. I remember in uh the meet and greet we had with Dr. Oberman, I specifically asked him about how we could improve our literacy programs at our upper levels. And I'm, you know, for one, I'm thrilled that we're seeing some action being taken um for those upper levels where students still might be struggling with literacy. >> Thank you very much.

041Any other comments? I think we need a roll call vote on this motion, please. >> Mr. Tate, >> yes. >> Mr. Halgo, >> yes. >> Mr. Roosevelt, >> yes. >> Mr. Mr. Hickey. >> Yes. >> Miss Paulie. >> Yes. >> Miss Osaki. >> Yes. >> Miss Khan. >> Yes. >> Miss Stone. >> Yes. >> Miss her. >> Yes. We have I think we have one more. Um I move to approve this is letter O. I move to approve the Lexia letters participant agreement subject to solicitors review and audit >> second. >> Miss her. >> Oh, I want to comment one one thing just I was waiting for the three to go through. Um I'm very pleased that this district is going to move forward with professional development on literacy to not only help our teachers

042but also students. Um, I've even asked for it since last year. So, I'm very happy and our parents have been asking for it and I'm glad that we are doing this tonight to make this and put this into the the district. So, that's a yes. >> Thank you, Miss Warner. >> Miss Stone, [Music] >> what >> this is? >> Oh, I'm sorry. We're in the middle of voting. >> Yes. Miss Khan, >> yes. >> Miss Osaki, >> yes. >> Miss Paulie, >> yes. >> Mr. Hickeyi, >> yes. >> Mr. Roosevelt, >> yes. >> Mr. Hidalgo, >> yes. >> Mr. Tate, >> yes. And now I think we're on item S. Is that correct? >> But we have No, we have to do uh Oh, yes. S. I'm sorry. I move to approve the techpool consortium

043agreement as attached to this agenda subject to solicitors review and audit. >> Second. >> Thank you. Comments questions hearing none. Please record this. Sir, please. >> Okay, we will have a roll call, please. >> Mr. Tate, >> yes. >> Mr. Halalgo. Yes, >> Mr. Roosevelt. >> This is Q&R or this is >> this is S. >> No, >> Mr. Hickey. >> No, >> Miss Paulie, >> yes. >> Miss Osaki, >> yes. >> Miss Khan, >> yes. >> Miss Stone, >> yes. >> Miss her? >> Yes. >> That's seven yes and two no. >> Thank you. The next item on the agenda is approval of a resolution to restore federal funding. Miss Oeki. >> Okay. On June 19th, the Council Rock School Board passed a funding budget for the 2526 school year in compliance with the

044law that specifies budgets must be passed by June 30th. The budget passed included federal funding in the form of title 2A, title 3A, and title 4A that were committed to our district and expected to be paid to districts on July 1. On June 30th, the district was notified that these grants had been frozen while the government reviews whether or not the funding is in line with President Trump's agenda. On July 2nd at 4 p.m., the school board of directors were notified by Dr. Senko that at Council Rock, teachers, and teaching assistance in the following areas: teacher training, English language acquisition, and student support and academic enrichment would be affected. The total amount of frozen funding is about $243,000. Having previously witnessed a similar federal funding hold up at the Bucks County Intermediate Unit where I

045sit on the board, I went to board leadership to discuss how we could follow the IU's model to advocate for our district. At the IU, the executive director and his team, including the board president, sent letters to Senators Federman and McCormack and Representative Brian Fitzpatrick. The administration also traveled to Washington DC to advocate for Head Start funding with Representative Brian Fitzpatrick in person. Of course, the IU had more notice than we did, seeing as they had received notice about funding uncertainty in early April for a program that was due to be renewed on May 30th. I wanted to be sure that as school directors, we did everything possible to ensure that Council Rock receives the money it had anticipated when completing the annual budget last month. Board leadership created a resolution prior to our July

046finance meeting on July 10th. This resolution calls on our state and federal representatives to advocate on behalf of Council Rock for the funding that was allocated by Congress. At last week's finance committee meeting, board president Tate presented the resolution to our board colleagues for discussion and review. An animated discussion of the exact language ensued, but most of the board felt that it we should discuss this resolution further at our monthly meeting. Hence, it's on the agenda for tonight for an open discussion in public about what the resolution should include. I look forward to discussing this in public tonight to provide for the full transparency that our district advocates for. Timing is of course urgent as waiting would be a disservice to our administration, our teachers, and our students. The full text of the resolution, subject

047to change, was posted to board docs on July 14th. And with that, I move to approves approve the resolution to restore federal funding as attached to this agenda subject to solicitors review and audit. I second. >> Thank you. Comments. >> All right. Mr. Halgo, >> Mr. Tate. So, at last meeting at the end when we uh first saw this, I mean, we all agreed that, you know, asking for the funding is appropriate. Um, we had not seen the resolution before the meeting, so we weren't really prepared to discuss it then. And I do believe that you had mentioned that the process would be that you would speak with Mr. Hickey and then solicited the board for more uh information or our input so that you could come up with something. Um, I did send you

048an email with the resolution. I did post to a Facebook page which kind of takes a different uh angle. uh uh on on on the issues ahead because this is a very big issue. Um and you're up against a big wall when it comes to trying to keep that Department of Education up and running the way that it is. So, I'm wondering what you did say good stuff in the email and uh you look forward to the discussion, but I only see that the resolution hasn't changed since the one that you asked for uh information except for maybe the title. And so, I'll maybe let you and Mr. Hickeyi because you worked together. I think that's you uh wanted him to spearhead it. uh just gave us some information and and what about the information

049that you know we uh did and I'll just say today timing is everything but um and of course so I don't mind you don't need a resolution from from to to ask your your you can do individual uh letters too because trying to get the nine of us to agree on a resolution the way that it is uh written um is is difficult which expressed and maybe you don't like the one I did, but I don't see mine making it into any of this on the on the board docs or anything. So, I would say, but now I understand the call from the public to want to to act quickly. So, get get it get it signed, get do what you can do, but uh we don't have to have nine v nine votes. It'd

050be happy just to have Democrats together for Council Rock. That's what I call it because it that's what it it consists of. Um, and that's what's proposed and that's who runs this board. Um, and so I'm just hoping we can uh have a lively discussion and and you guys are running this board, so go for it. My only comment would be I think your resolution was very well written and I think you if you want to move it forward could bring it to a next committee meeting and we could discuss it as committee in committee as to whether or not the board wants it on on the agenda >> and I'm fine with that and that's how I feel it it should be with the resolution that was brought to us at the last committee

051meeting. I understand the timing is an issue for you guys and you have five votes. Let's uh we don't have to beat around the bush. I'm not going to sit here and and and and accuse people of being political because little God to as my witness this is a political position whether anybody likes to say it or not. It wasn't when when we got on the board, you voted for me to be on on the board unanimously. I was uh I was uh appointed to the board by a nonpartisan board. Things have really changed since then, but our hearts are all in the same place. You know, of a personal um note there, it's gotten ugly. It gets difficult to be here um uh to be here and to uh do this sometimes. So, I'd

052rather uh get through this resolution quicker than later. I I will take you up on that. We'll bring my resolution next um month. And I think in that time you'll see that a lot will have changed. Uh and hopefully your your letter will will do something to uh to be a part of that positive change. But I would say I I'm asking for uh the reductions any reductions in the federal level to make its way down to the local level to us and to give more give more uh power to the local people more money. I would think we're going to get more than $242,000. And we can play all kinds of games and say, well, what about the tax increases when we talk about a half a percent? How much that cost? How much

053is $240ome dollars to each person? It's it's a criminal thing to do, you know. It's a crummy uh thing to to waste our time. So, let's not try to waste a lot of time tonight, which I just stated my piece and I'm going to leave it there and just let you guys do your vote. Um hearts in the right place for sure. I probably have more to say, but that's it for now. >> Thank you, Mr. Odago. Um Mr. Roosevelt and then >> Well, I was kind of shocked here. Um, I thought this item was going to be something that was going to be discussed more in committee. It seems that the will of the leadership is to have the discussion here. So, I was under the impression that somebody else around this table would

054like to talk again about it. Or am I wrong? I I've I've got some things to say, but I'd like to hear what you have to say since you wanted this to be discussed publicly here on the cameras. >> That's the idea indeed. Yeah, Mr. Hickey. >> Yeah, I'm kind of confused and frustrated as to why we're here. I mean, it's a motion to approve the resolution and the wording is there. So, if we approve it, we're approving it. >> The board can amend the wording of the resolution before it's passed. And one of the things, for example, that I suggest that we make as an amendment is the suggestion that Miss Hero made, which is to specify our state legislators by name. Um, which I think is a good suggestion, and I that's what

055I'm going to propose. And I have your suggestions with me, and I have that that you emailed me, and I have the suggestions that Miss her sent me. So, are we going to put this on the board? >> Was this resolution on the original board? Was this resolution on the original board docs that came out last Friday when the agenda was set? >> I believe the agenda is posted. When is it posted? Sunday night, Mr. >> Correct. The the agenda was posted to the board on Friday. >> When was this resolution posted to board docs? >> It was added to board docs, I believe, on Monday. >> Okay. So, it was not in the original board docs. >> No, but the agenda item was in the original agenda sent to the board on Friday. The

056resolution was on the agenda when the agenda was sent to the board on Friday. The actual because I didn't see it on board docs on Friday when I went on. >> It wasn't on Friday. I looked at it. >> The reason I emailed you in the beginning was because I happened I looked on Friday for Board Docs and then I was notified on Tuesday that it is now on board docs. So, I'm like I said, I'm kind of confused and frustrated as to how this got on. Like I I'm going to say even in the first place, like we can start from the beginning. When was the board notified of the resolution itself of of any mention of a resolution to the federal to to our legislators? When was the board, the nine of us

057notified? when we brought it to committee >> and when was that >> and that was last Thursday >> and when in the meeting was it brought to our attention >> at what point of the meeting >> I don't specifically recall >> at the end >> I can say it was when we discussed the federal funding update Mr. rap give us an update on federal funding. >> So it it was at the end and at that time we were given a handout. So we have already we sat into a committee meeting for over an hour and then we were given a handout that we were supposed to look at and comment upon. When was board leadership notified of the plan to move ahead with some kind of resolution? We discussed this at the committee meeting that

058well >> you want to discuss this publicly so I >> you're interrupting me. >> I'm I'm sorry. >> Okay. We discussed it at the committee meeting. Let me clarify about the posting. The resolution as an agenda item was on the agenda that the board received on Friday. The language of the resolution itself was not added to board docs until Monday, but it was on the agenda. >> Do you think we >> That's all right. We brought up the I believe it was Moseki brought up the idea of the resolution after as she just said we had a discussion about our federal funding and the fact that we lost apparently this $243,000 and that's when we introduced the resolution. I it would have been I don't know out of sequence to to put it mildly to

059introduce the resolution at the beginning of the committee meeting. Three of us worked on the resolution and didn't share it with others until we brought it to the committee meeting because the committee meeting is the venue for us to discuss uh um an agenda item proposal. Do you think it would have been proper for the other board members to have been notified by maybe a phone call or an email or a text message that this was going to be on the agenda and the language so that we would have had 3 days to prepare for our response? >> I'm not sure that would have been the right thing to do. I think it's much smarter and much more appropriate to do it in a public meeting. We brought to a public meeting the proposal that

060we wanted to make and discuss and we discussed it Thursday night and we're discussing it here now. >> Okay. >> Right. I get an opportunity to comment or speak. >> I just can I finish? >> Yeah. I >> Oh, no. that that's fine >> because on Thursday night we all were in general agreement about a resolution and sending something out, but we had much disagreement about the language of that resolution. And when we went around the table, we didn't even have a consensus to move this forward to this meeting. So, as I said, I'm surprised we're even here talking about it tonight because it never should have gotten out of committee. We didn't have five votes to move it ahead. And in and as Mr. Hidago I mean reference I did make edits to it

061you know to the resolution and I sent them to you but as I read the resolution as it stands now there was no collaboration between yourself I know Mr. Halgo sent some of his suggestions as well. So like he says, I mean, I guess what we can do is just vote on this resolution as is now with the language. But like I said, I I get frustrated where I feel that I'm not a part of the discussion or the input until it's already been decided. And you know, so what I say really doesn't even matter and I have no input. And and as I said, it kind of gets me frustrated to be a part of a group of nine, yet I feel like sometimes I'm either a group of four or two or one.

062And as I said, I'm I'm just amazed that this is even here that we're talking about it at at this point in time when we never even had a consensus to move it out of Thursday night. And it's there for a vote. I move to approve. It's not this is not new business or old business that we're discussing. This is an actual agenda item that I have to vote yay or nay on. And like I said, I'm not sure how I'm going to do it because I do believe in the resolution, but I disagree wholeheartedly with the wording of it. And like I said, it just very frustrating for me personally as I sit on this board. Thank you. >> You're welcome. I um I want to just correct a couple of points. Um one

063is we had um seven people at the committee meeting and we had at least six people had expressed support in moving the resolution forward to the agenda tonight. Um it >> and as a matter of fact um the draft of the resolution that was posted on Monday was the draft that we discussed Thursday night. I didn't have feedback to make changes in that draft until Tuesday or Wednesday. So, it was the original draft resolution that got posted and we're here tonight to discuss the language of the resolution and to vote on the potentially vote on the resolution itself. Miss Khan. >> Okay. Thank you. Um, I appreciate everyone's thoughts on this resolution. I feel like we're spending this time look, you know, discussing the timeline versus the importance of the resolution itself. Um, I know

064as a as an elected official, um, I feel that part of my responsibility is to, um, fiduciary responsibility to stand up and defend our students and our schools and our staff and our school district. Um, I believe this resolution is one of those opportunities and timing I think is important whether sooner versus later. I know we're talking about somewhere in the ballpark of of around $240,000. Um, but it, you know, for me, if we sit back and do nothing now, then it's a matter of, you know, when is the right time? Um, I'm wondering, is it possible? I know other times at different concerns or issues that have come up or even policies, we've talked about reading it and going line by line through it. You know, can we sit here and go through it

065now? What is it that needs to be changed and what can we come to consent or agreement with? >> I think anything's possible. Miss her, >> I agree with Mrs. Khan on that because that's exactly what I was going to come up to start to say is it's here in front of us. Some of us did put some stuff in. I did my oversight. I called some of our federal senators and congressmen and local and our state. Both of them. Some of them called me back, some did not. You know, I wanted to understand where we at, what's going on, what's current reality. That's why I said in the meeting, Dr. Senko, Mr. Rep, if you would publicly say, as I asked in the committee meeting last week, we're good for 2526. there's nothing's going

066to be affected, right? Can you reiterate what we discussed? >> Right now, we would recommend that we continue with the expenditure budget as it is and uh we would use fund balance to pay for these. Uh budget budgetarily, we would use fund balance to pay for these positions if if the um if it is shown that the funding is permanently Right. So, no students, no students programs, no teachers, no staff, nobody's being effective. I don't want that out there at all as a fear. On the other side of that, getting back from what the feedback I got from everybody was is, you know, they did pull them. It's on hold. Things are being audited. If the districts are not following being lawfully and following the policies, they're not going to get the money. We are

067a great district. We just have to wait to see what's going to come. >> The only thing, excuse me, the only thing, Miss Warner, I would add to what Mr. Rap said, the thing I said the other night is we are committed to making sure no programs are impacted. >> Thank you. >> No students, no adults. >> Thank you. >> And to just to say is I would be happy and glad tonight to go through this as I did put in what I've recommended. So >> yeah, I have your suggestions right in front of me. Thank you. Um, Miss Py wishes to comment. I just got a text message from her. Miss Polly, go ahead, please. >> Yeah, so I have some issues with the audio. It comes apologize and I try to follow the

068discussion, but it has not been very easy. Um I just want to make um I know we talked about it during the finance committee meeting. So um to me it's very simple. You know the money was promised and uh was in our budget and then all of a sudden it was tipping away. So it was allocated and then all of a sudden to just stand up and demand for this money to be given back to us and how are we supposed to make up the difference because do we have to have the taxpayers pay for it? Uh do we have to cut pieces and sectional assistance? Of course we don't want to do that has about 6.5 um billion dollars deficit and this cut increases the deficit. So to be simple simply say oh nobody's

069going to be cut and we have enough money to cover for it. It's not really that simple. And if we want to be responsible in our future, so if you don't want to be political, you just have to contact our um representatives and demand that this money is given back to us. I don't understand the all this issue about the semantics. It's very to me it's very simple. This money was promised the position representatives to just give the money back to Council Rock the way it was promised. And you know I I I know some people said, "Oh, that's not a lot of money." Well, maybe 245,000 have to pay teachers and uh teacher assistants. So, I don't of course we can discuss about you know the language and so on but simply it was

070promised it was taken away and we're asking for feedback. Thank you. Thank you, Miss Polly. Um, you probably want to know as as you mentioned to me in the text message, you you did break up a bit, but I think your um point was rather clear or your points rather clear. Um, Miss Stone. >> So, um, first I wanted to make something sorry. I wanted to uh state that uh I know we're getting into procedural things here which I don't find particularly important but I will correct the fact that if the agenda items for the board are decided on not by a majority in during committee but they're decided on by the president of the board and the superintendent. So you didn't need consensus to put it on the agenda. Um if that was the

071case, we would have no agenda because we don't even have a requirement for everyone on the committee, everyone on the board to be at every committee meeting. So um to me that's just a moot point to be arguing about procedure. Uh, I will, um, we understand that Head Start's already been cut. Um, we're looking at this uh, 250,000 or whatever the exact number is. This is an item that we have been receiving over the past 13 years because I listened to the uh last finance committee meeting which I I wasn't in attendance but I listened to it. So this is expected money and something has to go if we don't get the money. um we can't have as an is suggesting a wait and see attitude because that doesn't help us. And I also um

072am appreciative that someone took the time to write this resolution, which I think covers a lot of good points. And I think we it behooves us if we are supporters of public education that we make a strong case that we should be getting the funds that were approved um and were expected and we have been receiving year after year. And if we don't make a strong case then and we don't um you know put in the details of why we need the money then it's tacid approval for them to make cuts whenever they want. And I listened again to some comments that were made and I was I found it, you know, insulting that Miss Horner would call the rest of this mumbo jumbo, which was her words. And I think it's important that we

073let them know that we are facing a uh a calamity in public education. And if you're truly supporters of public education, which I assume everyone is because we're on this board, then it obliges us to send this uh resolution out as quickly as possible. And as Joe had mentioned, we have difficulty in finding the exact words to use. And I think he's right. We could take months in trying to make this resolution appeal to every individual. And then and I know Mike is always very concerned about words that words matter but if the words don't get anywhere they won't matter at all. So I think that you know as a member of this board who is so concerned about the education in this community and in this country that we make every effort to stand

074up and make our voices heard in a strong manner. not to make uh say, "By the way, you promised this to us. Please send it to us." We really have to go in and say, "Look, we didn't ask for this willy-nilly. We spent a lot of time or our administrators spend a lot of time uh defining why we needed these, why we need funds." And I think we should be backing those up strongly and uh not with um and not in six months time or whatever it may take to get this rolling. So, I thank I thank um those who put this together because I think it is strong and I think we need to not put it back in committee because that will drag this out and I think that we should send it

075out and if some people don't want to sign it then they can say I don't want to sign it and they can make make their voice heard or unheard that they're not in support of federal ederal funding and public education. And that's all I have to say. >> Mr. Roosevelt and then Mr. Hild. >> Thank you. Um was the intent to go through the language that and the suggestions that Mr. Hickeyi, Miss Hero, and Mr. Hadalgo uh provided along with this and put it all up on the board. I'm wondering if if that's the intent to go through it as as Miss Khan suggested also that we do that. If the intent was for all of us to deliberate on the cameras uh sort of redundantly to what was done in the committee, we're doing

076that. Um but I'm also concerned and want to put some things in perspective here. Um I'm in support of education. I'm in support of education funding and I was happy to hear both last Thursday as well as today that this administration uh has assured us both from a business office and an administration that this is not going to impact teachers, positions, programs, and kids. I think that is the message. That's the headline. um that Council Rock has been managing its finances well for years and that this was on the radar, I believe, uh probably back in January and I recall several finance committee meetings talking about this either from the administration's point of an update on federal funding, maybe it was just an email, perhaps it was in the finance committee meeting. So I think

077this administration has done a great job tracking this and preparing for this. Um and the impact here just for proportionality of the community um is well there's been couple of numbers thrown around. First it was 285 then it's 245 now it's 242 243. Um so 243,000 the the budget of this year is roughly $300 million and with a $6.4 million deficit with this added would bring it to a 6.5. So, this body just approved software um from from our items here, items 7E through 7M total to $562,000. That's double what we're talking about. That was approved by unanimous consent and a routine action by the board. That's twice what these funds represent alone. Item O alone is another $479,000. and items N and O are 639 together. So this body just approved about a million

078dollars where this represents about 25% of that. This is a fraction of our total budget and this is not impacting as we've been assured from the administration. It's not impacting teachers. It's not impacting programs. We should be talking about kids. So if the intent is to go line by line and talk about discrepancies and bring in items reports, I support that. I support this body getting funding from federal, from state, and from local. Local taxes attribute to over 80% of this board's revenue. Federal is about 3% of what we need, and state is about 16%. So while 243 or 250 or $300,000 is a lot of money, proportionality to what we have here, it needs to be measured here. Similarly, we have a deficit of $6 million that didn't alert anybody who supported it last

079month to cons be concerned about programs, kids, and teachers salaries. But now we're concerned that 243 or 250 or whatever the final number is going to be is going to impact that. I find that disingenuous. So once again, if we're going to go line by line, please put it up on the board. If we're de because I agree with Mr. Hickeyi, what are we approving? Are we approving this language that's sitting before us, which I can see has changed since last Thursday, but I see that it doesn't incorporate suggestions from several board members. Um, the other the other thing here is the governor I also made a few phone calls and looked into some things and did some research. The governor of Pennsylvania is currently suing the administration for these funds on behalf of the

080entire state, including the 243 or whatever it works out to be going to Council Rock. The IU has passed a resolution on behalf of all of the school districts in Bucks County for these same funds. Wouldn't it be redundant for us to enter another resolution for the same thing? Especially with language like this that talks about the state, that talks about other items, we should only be talking about how it impacts Council Rock from an honest position. And you know, at best the some of this language is uh an exaggeration, an overstatement. At worse, it's it's it's a lie. And I don't think that this body should be concerning the members of the public. They're concerned of their upcoming school year. So, I'm support I'm in support of this body receiving funds, but I'm not

081in support of the language, the sequence that we're doing it. We should be talking about kids at this point. And I think that we've got some time for the IU's resolution and the governor's lawsuit to settle out and figure out where we're going to be, where Council Rock is going to be. So, are we going line by line? Are we putting it up on the board as several board members have suggested, or are we going to continue to deliberate around the table? Mr. I kind of piggyback on to what he was just saying. I am going to take a point of personal privilege at one point and have to excuse myself tonight. There's uh something going on where I have to go to New Orleans in the morning or tomorrow and a lot of uh

082texts blowing up. So everything's fine. Everybody's good. But we have to do something. Um but uh it's important. So I mean it's clear to me. Um I mean and I'm not trying to be divisive. I'm just being real. Okay. And so when I didn't want to uh vote for the the the teachers contract, uh I was told that if you don't support our bill or our then you don't care about teachers. And now I just heard at this dis not calling out anybody by name that if you don't support this resolution, you don't care about federal funding. that is just like if you really think that maybe you should think twice about the the motives of people on this on this board. Of course, we care about funding. I do finance. I I care a

083lot about it. I actually think that in the end, everything that you guys are getting upset about is going to bring more money to our school district. Like I said at the last at the last board meeting, we're going to create more efficient uh I mean what the Department of Education came in under Carter and we haven't seen improvements. We've seen actually things go the wrong way and we've seen a bureaucracy very bloated. And so if we're if there is a little pause because they are working out exactly how this money is going to get to us, I believe that it would be in the best interest of the administration to give us more money than what we have now. And because if you're saving money, you know, your taxes, let's say the deficit, the

084federal deficit goes down, maybe the taxes will be less tax liability. There'll be other benefits to it, but I don't want to see that. I want to see the money come back to the local level. Uh, and as I said, we talk about unfunded mandates. Maybe some of that stuff goes away. So, this was a shock as we said, but it's okay. We're we're we're used to working together, however, as best we can. And uh I think your motives are fine, Mr. Tate. You know, and so I would be okay if you guys just don't coin it like if we don't agree with you that we don't want that funding. We want that funding plus more. we want some of the savings that put that in the resolution and and and I'll be fine. So

085that's why my resolution I thought which I posted already and if if if if if time is of the essence and the passion that I hear in the voices of the people around the board then that your resolution should have already been mailed and stamped to the to the and your phone calls which people are doing even go down to Washington and and make your voice heard as an individual as an individ individual board member. I don't need five people on this board to to have the power to tell uh my congressmen and my senators how I feel. Matter of fact, I can do it right here as I'm sitting on this dis, you know, on my soap box, which thank God for um the uh the community for giving me this opportunity. So, the

086bottom line is my resolution is is boasted already. It's it's real clear. There's um I support that removing the bureaucracy as long as long as some of that money is is equating to more money for Council Rock and other school districts. And I threw something else in there where this is goes way bigger than just $250,000 coming to Council Rock, but we have a funding disparity in this uh in this state that needs to be addressed. And that's something that we should be coupling at the same time because there is a lot of uh disparity between poor and rich uh or say affluent school districts and we're one of the affluent ones but if we really care about the community of public education it goes beyond. So last point when I say going beyond so

087when I talk about trying to keep costs down and maybe like the pension levels lower everybody in the state pays pays to that pension. So if somebody wants to come here and speak publicly, they everybody in the state is paying taxes towards the pension. Basically, everybody pays the pension for any teachers. And of course, I'm I'm hop skipping and jumping around here, but the point is is that just I think I won't be around for this line item by line item thing. That's where we could coordinate it. I think it's very fair for for the you guys to just vote as you have it. Maybe a little bit of a change, but as you said, we'll be here till till next year trying to get something that we all agree upon. There's a clear divide.

088Uh it was even said by the president two two terms ago that there's a new direction that Council Rock is going in and it has been completely different since then. And it's okay. We all accept that there's Democrats and Republicans and that school boards are are are uh divided. So instead of trying to play games, I mean, you want to click bite, uh you want some uh you know, sound bite that oh, the Republicans didn't vote for this resolution, so they don't care about federal funding. They're going to ban books, too. Watch out. Um, you know, then we're going to draw some faces on the schoolboard president and put some put some like math equations on him saying he does thinks girls don't aren't good in math. I mean, I'm traumatized by the level of

089nonsense that I've seen on this school level school board and you wonder why I don't care what I say because I think we're all we're all in this together and we're going to make it work. But I think we're wasting our time. do your resolution and uh I'm fine to sit here and waste my time with you for a little bit longer. >> Thank you, Mr. Adago. I appreciate your sincerity. Um Mr. Hickey and then Miss her. >> Joe, you keep the thing like you said, we had general agreement that something should have been set in. We just didn't agree on the language that was used. And you come saying if we're if we vote no that we don't approve of funding. No. No. What's going to happen is if we vote no because we

090don't agree with the language that is written, we're going to be accused of not defending public education. That's what's going to come out. So if my if I vote no to this resolution is going to be Mr. Hickeyi doesn't care about public education, not funding, that I don't care about public education, which is entirely false because one of the other things I mentioned at that meeting the other night, and you just touched on it as well. I said we should send something to the to the state about the disparity in funds that we don't get. We we we just voted on, like I said, $300,000 worth of programs, which I wholeheartedly agree with and we've been talking about it now for years with the letters DR, but it's mandated by the state so they can

091tell us what to do and yet they don't have to give us any funding to implement the program. So, like I said, I I said, "Hey, let's take it a step further. Not only should we write a resolution to the federal government, we should be writing resolutions to the governor's office. And then the other thing I just want to touch upon because even after it was said, a few board members said it again, we are not cutting any programs. Programs aren't getting cut. The teachers aren't getting cut. The kids are going to be taken care of, which is the most important. So for everybody to keep on saying that this is this funding is going to directly it's not going to affect us at least not at this point until we see what the resolution

092is. So I just wanted to like I said my issue with this whole thing was the language which was why I made suggestions to that. I was just under the impression that we were going to be able to discuss this and hopefully between an suggestions my suggestions the one that was originally written and Mr. Dow goes that we could come up with some general kind of agreement that we could set forth. But as it is currently written, I don't like the language that it is and but I am not against public education or defending public education. I just want to make sure that everybody is sure that you know where I stand as it relates to public education. >> Point of order. Mr. Tate, you haven't answered my question. I don't I believe it's Miss

093her turn to speak. >> Thank you. >> I just want to clarify something to make sure because Miss Stone don't put words in my mouth. I specifically said after Miss Khan spoke that I wanted that it would be great that if we can go line by line item then I said I had spoken to all of the elected officials and what they said is that it would take time. That's all that said. Taking time does not mean that I want to take time. I'm taking time to have the wording correctly for us to send it out. I wouldn't have done all that oversight and sent in. If I didn't want to get it done, don't put words in my mouth. >> It's on the tape that you called this resolution. >> We're not going to

094go back. We're not We're not >> Excuse me. >> We're not going to go back. We're not >> I did say that. I did not mumbo jumbo. I accept that. I will accept >> I wanted the wording to be redone. Correct. Don't put words in my mouth when I specifically asked right after Miss Khan spoke. You continue to do that. I don't I don't >> All right. I'm going to ask um our board members on the line if they have any further comment. Miss Khan or Miss Pali. Oh, I'm sorry. Miss Oeki. We'll we'll check with them and then Yeah. Miss Pali, Miss Khan, any further comment? Okay, Miss Oeki. >> Okay. I uh Okay. Um I have several comments. I'm going to go back um particularly to Mr. Roosevelt. Um had some comments that

095I would like to to um clarify. You commented that none of us were concerned about the budget deficit at last month's meeting. I would encourage you to go back and listen to that recording because I spoke about how uncomfortable I was about that budget deficit and I am even more uncomfortable now. This money has to be has to come from somewhere and if it doesn't come from federal then eventually it's going to come from the taxpayers. I also didn't understand your comment about it being redundant for us to send a resolution because the IU already did or because the governor is suing the administration. In my experience on this board, uh, we get public emails all the time and when we get one email, I think, huh, that's interesting. But when we get multiple emails,

096I think, hey, we better pay attention to this. The public is really concerned. So, I don't think it's at all redundant for us to send uh many, many letters. And in fact, as I alluded to, the IU sent several letters uh to our representatives on behalf of the Head Start funding and visited DC to meet with um Representative Fitzpatrick. So, so I do have a problem with that. Um I also took issue with the the comment about that we need to get back to kids and talking about kids. Um this is about kids. This is directly about kids. This is uh teachers salaries and instructional aids salaries. And I I I don't know how anything could be more about kids than teachers who work with kids and especially kids who are receiving these funding. Um

097this is funding again for titles two uh 3A, 4 A, 2 A, 3A, and 4A. And these are particularly going after um students with special um accommodations. Title 3A is English language acquisition and that's the um biggest well the second biggest uh contribution here. So it's very important I think for we've had an influx of uh students especially Ukrainian students and I think it's very important that we find funding for them. Um, of course, nobody wants to cut that programming. And of course, um, we won't, we will make it up, but again, the money has to come from somewhere. And I am very uncomfortable with the deficit as it was, and I am more uncomfortable with the deficit now. I disagree with Mr. Herdalago who said at the last meeting that, you know, hopefully it'll

098be a surplus. Well, I hope it'll be end up being a surplus, too, but I I I don't know. I don't have any confidence that it will be. Um I think just as at the federal level I'm concerned about a deficit, I'm concerned about a deficit here in Council Rock. Um in regards to Mr. Hickeyy's comment about the disparity of funding and making a resolution about that, you know, I I encourage you to do that. You know, maybe we can do that in the future. Um this is not that though. This is urgent. Letting our legislators know how it's going to affect Council Rock at a at a detailed level is critical and urgent. Uh this is our fiduciary responsibility just as it is the responsibility of our legislators to advocate for our district. It

099is our responsibility as well. We have to stand up for our students. We have to stand up for the educators who work with our students. And I think our federal representatives need to know how difficult it is to budget and to plan with all this uncertainty. I mean, I know how much time Mr. Rap and his team spent in putting together this budget. and then you know 10 days later part of it was cut you know with no notice. So so this is it's really important. I hope that we can restore the funding but we won't have it restored if we don't ask. So um with that I also did want to mention here I have copies here of Bob and Ian's changes as well. I think Mr. Hodalgo's changes I read I read his

100resolution. I would consider that a totally different resolution which you know as Mr. um Tate recommended he could certainly bring up in August. Um Ann and Bob's resolutions I have here uh they cut quite a bit of uh maybe half of maybe half maybe three/arters of the document. So I I don't feel that that provides enough context for our senators and legislators. They of course have a lot going on and I think just as when we get emails and there is more context in the emails from the public I think it's important to put the context there for our state legislators who are going to advocate for us. However, I do support adding the names of our local uh representatives to this resolution. I don't understand Excuse me. I think I don't like I don't

101understand the way Mr. Hickeys I assume it's a it's a mistake here because it has two paragraphs and it says now therefore be it resolved that the Council Rock School District board of directors respectfully calls on Representative Brian Fitzpatrick, Senator John Federman, and Senator David McCormack to re request that these funds be reallocated to the Council Rock School District. And then there's another paragraph that says, "Be it further resolved that a copy of this resolution to be be sent to Representative Fitzpatrick, Senator Federman, and Senator McCormack, as well as other relevant state and federal education policy makers that we request a formal response to our request." I assume that you meant to in the second paragraph include the um local representatives. >> I'm trying to look at it now. My edits, like I said, I

102did cut and paste and remove things. So, and as I said when I sent it, I actually said it's going to need editing itself. This was just I wanted to try to get >> I don't I don't at all mean to like, you know, nitpick. We all make mistakes and this is there's a lot >> it's going to need editing >> and it it might not even be a mistake. I just I thought you wanted I was under the impression that you wanted to address it to the local uh representatives as well. >> Uh no, not this one. This one was not the one for federal was, you know, but I I had wanted to get something to Sorry about that. I wanted to get something to uh Mr. because he had requested at the

103meeting, hey, give us your thoughts and I only thought it proper to respond in a timely manner. So, as soon as I was able to put something together, I said, here's my thoughts. I'm sure we'll be discussing it further. I just thought further wasn't tonight, but >> okay. Um, I think that's all my comments for now. I'm happy to go through it. I wouldn't say line by line, but I think we could go through it paragraph by paragraph. I know Ann and Bob removed a lot of paragraphs and I in general I would not be supportive of removing um the details. Thank you. >> I'm going to comment. Um I want to correct for the record some statements that were made. First of all, there was a statement that language was changed between Thursday night

104and what went on the website, and that's 100% untrue. No language changed at all. Two things changed. One is the dollar amount was updated by the administration based on, I believe, the latest information we had from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Um, and I originally had $285,000 in my draft in the draft that um, Miss Pali and Miss Oeki and I put together and that was revised to 242,332. The only other change was one that I made um, I think in response to Mr. Roosevelt didn't um like the original headline or title on the draft and I changed it. It was originally resolution to protect public education and I changed it to resolution to restore federal funding. Those are the only changes in the language. I would not have changed any language between Thursday night's committee

105meeting and the posting of the draft agenda. Um there was a statement that said that uh people have been suggesting that programs are being cut. No, I don't haven't heard anyone suggest that programs are being cut in Council Rock as a result of this money going away. From the very beginning, it was clear that we are going to cover it from our own budget. The $243,000 that we expected from the federal government that we're not getting is going to come out of our budget. Um, it was the decision by the administration, which I think we all would 100% support, that we're not going to cut any programming whatsoever, that we're going to cover the loss of these federal funds. And I'm not willing to sit back and wait and see. I'm also going to use

106a very worn out, tired phrase, slippery slope. I mean, this is $243,000 now. We get close to $2 million a year from the federal government. Mr. Rap, I tell me if I'm reading the budget incorrectly, but I believe I'm looking at this year's budget document on our website and I'm seeing 1.805 million um out of a total budget of 286 million. Is that correct? >> Uh that is correct for what is specifically labeled as federal funding. Uh, I would also add that there's an additional $1.8 million under local funding that is actually federal funding, but because it's provided by the IU, Pennsylvania has it classified as local funding for the uh idea program for special education. I would also add that there's an additional I believe I have to I'd have to double check an

107additional $2 million in federal funding in uh food service uh that does not fall under the general fund in food service reimbursements for free and reduced meals uh from the federal government. >> Well, good. So, I thank you very much. That really helps. Um, I did have the figure of 2 million in my head generally for for general federal funding and then you just uh told us that there's an additional 2 million in food services support from the federal government. Is that what I heard? >> That is correct. >> Okay. That's $4 million. I mean, we're looking at $243,000 now. Um, I'm not willing to sit back and and just take a punch like this. And we're not doing anything other than simply asking our two US senators and our congressmen who helped out with

108Head Start, by the way. We're asking those three members of Congress to please do what they can to restore this funding for these valuable programs. I mean, I think that's a that's our responsibility. If someone's taking money away from us that that we have received for years and that Congress appropriated, then I think we have to speak up. And collectively as a school board, our voice carries a lot more weight than any one of us individually. That's what I that's what I want to accomplish. Um, and and I'm confident that in fact, somebody said to me from another school district, if Council Rock passes this resolution, people are going to notice. People pay attention to Council Rock. And um, you know, I I I think that's a good reason to move forward with this resolution.

109Um, the suggestions that I received from Mr. Hickeyi and Miss her were to um cut a number of paragraphs. Uh I I'm just wondering if I got it correct. Essentially um you were proposing um Miss her to cut Let me see. Um once again, why don't we put it up on the board? Um, Miss Hero, you were suggesting to cut paragraphs um 1, three, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 12. And I think Mr. Hickey suggested cutting the same except number three. >> Point of >> um >> point of order. >> It's a point of order. You're on you're you're you're naming paragraphs. They're not named. The public is I don't know what you're doing, but the public's following. >> I'm asking Miss Horner. >> Nor can I. No, but it's not paragraph. >> You're

110interrupting. >> I said point of order. >> That doesn't Point of order doesn't change anything. You're interrupting. Sorry. >> Well, my Did I understand that correctly, Miss Horner? Five, seven, eight, nine, 10, and 13 if I got it correctly. >> Okay. And and Mr. Hickeyi was making the same suggested cuts with the exception of um the third paragraph. >> I'm sorry, I'm not following. Can you repeat those paragraphs so I can write them down? >> Sure. And I've added the local. >> Oh, and and adding the state legislators, which I think is a good idea. >> Yeah, I added all the local. >> Yep. >> 1 3 5 6 7 8 9 and 12. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> Okay. So that's the that's a summary of the recommendations that were submitted. Um and

111as I said, oh Mr. Go ahead. >> Well, thank you. Um, so yeah, I was going to comment that number nine especially, uh, reads, uh, if I got the paragraph numbers correctly, increasing local taxes to offset the local federal funding would make it more difficult for families of afford uh, to live in this district, potentially driving residents away, reducing home values, and making community less attractive to prospective homeowners. So when we go and start um you know increasing taxes in future years by signing this you uh don't want to contradict yourself by going over that 2% uh that that I talked about. You got to kind of live within your means. But that's the one point. Mr. Rap, I wanted to ask you because Mr. Tate did uh inquire about numbers on the budget. when

112you get a chance, and it doesn't have to be tonight, but I would like a three-year um uh report of the the uh the legal services and how if they're not they increased in budget over the last three years. Do we budget it as a line item, the legal services? >> We have two line items for >> Okay. So, combine those together and report back either tonight or when you get a chance. I'd like the last three years budget what we um I think the but because I've seen the prices go way up. I'd like to know how much the the the uh the line items have gone up from year over year for the last three years and you don't have to do it now. Um lastly, I do time is getting um long

113for me. Uh, so I have to be scued and I hate to do that, but um I do encourage you guys to uh to uh to move forward. Thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. Odago. Um, we have a motion on the table and I'm going to ask the secretary for a roll call vote, please. >> I still have something to say. >> Yes. So number one, I think the purpose of having a discussion and a deliberation in public at a school board is to communicate and clarify for the public. I'm confused as to why you, Mr. Tate, as well as Miss Oeki and Miss Pali, which I understand from the committee meeting last Thursday, were responsible for pushing this onto the agenda last week and getting it to this meeting tonight. So clearly there was

114an effort to have a discussion in public, which is fine. I agree. We should have discussions like this in public. But to Miss Oeki's point about me talking about concern over the deficit of $6 million proportionately to 200 I'll just say $250,000 that we're talking about in this resolution. Was there a call for a resolution regarding that deficit? And the amount of time that each of us and all of us have spoken about this issue is more than that $6 million def deficit. It's inverse proportionality. I'm not saying it's not important. I'm just saying how about this, Mr. Senko? You've been here for a long time. How many years have you been within Council Rock? 137 I believe. >> 37. How many resolutions are you familiar with this board sending in the past 37 years?

115>> I would have to I would have to go back and check that. I don't know. >> Okay. So, my understanding with a resolution we're talking about this whole issue is getting lost on the public, which I think is doing a disservice. I don't understand if we wanted to have a discussion and wanted to incorporate changes then it should have been put up on the board like several members including myself asked for and you have dodged my question on why it's not on the board twice. So please let's put it up on the board if we're going to continue discussing. I will sit here all night go paragraph paragraph line by line or talk about the whole thing in general. It doesn't matter. But a resolution is typically a political move. This is not supposed

116to be a political body. And this body is supposed to inform the public, not obiscate or distort. And that's what's happening here, which is why it's bothering me. I think that we are all here because we support education. We support kids. We want to make sure that we can provide the best education that this community can afford. But that's not what we're doing. This this whole design appears to be an ambush as Mr. Hickeyi was alluding to that if we vote yes, we vote yes for this language which we don't support. Multiple members have supported changes. It's not being put up on the board for the community to see. They have no idea what we're talking about. Paragraph 1, paragraph 3, paragraph 9. It's it's effectively a waste of time. And I maintain that we're

117spending more time talking about $243,000 than we did talking about $6 million. Yes, they're both a lot of money. Yes, it's both very important. But this is an ambush to not inform the the public, to not incorporate changes by the board. We this we are supposed to make decisions together as one of nine and that's not what's happening here. So I understand and I agree with Mr. Hickeyy's frustration and Mr. Hadgo's frustration as well, I'll put it. So, I you've been on this board a lot, Mr. Tate. Also, I think you have the most tenure of any board member seated. How many resolutions are you familiar with all the boards that you've sat on sending? >> Mr. Roosevelt, you've asked a lot of questions. I'm going to make a couple of statements here. >> Answering

118one would be nice. And I think it's unfortunate that you would word I've written down words that you have used this evening. You have used the word disingenuous. You have used the word ambiguous. You have said it's a lie. You have used the word dodged. I'll answer one question very directly about putting this document up on the board. We have a motion on the table and we're going to vote on the motion and it is for the draft resolution which we introduced publicly at last Thursday's meeting. We corrected the dollar amount, changed the title and we will copy our state legislators as Misser suggested. That's the motion that's on the table. It is in board docs. It is available to the public and I ask for a roll call vote please madam secretary >> Mr.

119Tate, >> wait. One more just quick question. So the question that I asked earlier where I said we have to approve the resolution as written and you said no, we're going to discuss it. That that is an incorrect statement. We're approving the resolution as written. Correct. >> Yes, it is on the table as a motion. >> That's inconsistent with other statements that you've made in this meeting. Mr. Okay, >> he's adding >> Miss Oeki, >> I have a question also. Um, the the resolution as it is on board docs will be updated to include the names of the local um legislators like the state um at the state level on at the bottom. and >> a copy of this will be also sent to >> relevant state and federal education policy makers >> and so

120then we'll put in parentheses for example Kristen Marcel and uh Perry Warren and Steve Sosiero all those will go there >> and I just uh double checked with Dr. Senko, Miss Hero's list is is accurate. It's senators >> Frank Ferry and Steve Sanero, representatives Joe Hogan, Kristen Marcel, and Perry Warren. So, they will be added to the resolution. >> I guess I would ask um if we're not going to go through it paragraph by paragraph, I would ask I guess if there are any other amendments that people would like to have added. [Music] Yes, Mr. Roosevelt. Thank you. So, I'm still waiting for some answers to some questions and thank you for confirming that I've been clear. Unfortunately, you have not been clear in this meeting. So, as long as we're not putting it up

121on the board, I I think this is ridiculous as far as what this is going on. This is an ambush. We should have discussed this either openly as you intended and had everything up on the board or should this should have stayed in committee or we should have been working on this over the week as three board members thought they were but apparently we're not. So whereas continued uncertainty in federal funding makes it difficult, if not impossible, for our educators to plan and for students and families to count on school services, making our district less efficient and effective. This district has made it. It's not impossible. It hasn't even been difficult. This administration has demonstrated in the beginning of this meeting how this would be funded for like I said before at best this is

122an o or this is an overstatement. At worst we'll let the community decide what this is. I provided a range not a specific but this is not impossible. This district has done it. Whereas continued defunding and dismantling of public education infrastructure would shift an unsustainable financial burden onto Pennsylvania school districts, leading to budget shortfalls, increased local taxes, and/or significant cuts to essential programs and staff, ultimately harding harming students, families, and communities. Mr. ate at last Thursday's finance meeting. >> Do you have an amendment? >> I do, but I go ahead. >> Do I have rights to have communication or is that what you >> I'm not cutting. I asked >> talking to try to stop my ability to speak here. >> Not at all. I'm >> Thank you. >> Well, then you're interrupting me. >>

123Yes, I'm I am asking you a question as >> I do have an amendment, but since you're not putting it up on the board, it's ridiculous to read off the paragraph. So, I'm reading the language as other members have done. or do I not have that right? >> I'm listening to you. I simply ask if you have an amendment. >> Can I continue? I said I had an amendment. >> Go ahead. >> So, I'm reading since we're not putting it up on the board for the community to read. Read along and understand. I'm reading out the language which for some reason you don't seem to want to make available to this community other than you've put >> the language is a posted public document >> and do they all have it in their hands in

124the DS right now? >> Would you proceed please with your amendment? >> I'd love to proceed if interrupting I could I could proceed. So this is not dismantling public education infrastructure an unsustainable financial burden. This these are part of the paragraphs that Miss her and Mi and Mr. Hickey suggested removing. Additionally, I believe one of Mr. Hickeyy's edits was to remove the word public so that it just stands as education. So, I am making proposals that we put all of this language on the board, which for some reason seems to be hiding. I think that we do the public a service to share with them what we're discussing. This is a meeting that you orchestrated that you wanted to have done perhaps for these comments. I don't know. I don't know why we're making it

125confusing for the public. So my amendment is that we sorry one of the interruptions I was trying to indicate is that the last of the the last of the finance committee meeting last Thursday you indicated that you did not want to work on this alone that you welcomed the support of other board members and you wrote and you said that you were going to make sure that there's nothing in here that implies that we are going to cut any programs. So, but the language that I just wrote indicates that programs are going to be difficult, that public education infrastructure is shifting to an unsustainable financial burden, and that this uncertainty in federal funding makes it difficult, if not impossible, for our educators to plan and students and families to count on school services. Which one

126is it? Were you going to remove this language to make sure that there's no indication? Were we did you want support from other board members or did you just want to push through what you wrote? That's a question. It would be great if I could get a direct answer at least once. >> Miss Stone, >> I have an answer to that paragraph. I think the point there is whereas continued defunding. So it's not saying this, it is looking at going forward and making a projection of what could happen if this continues. And I think that's what most of of this is trying to do. It's trying to say, hey, it's not just this 242,332 that we're concerned with. We're concerned with the path that is moving forward and we want to make it known that

127these are the results if the path continues uh in the manner that it's going right now. Um I would say if you one possible suggestion is to vote on paragraph by paragraph whether we keep it in or or take it out. I would not go through every word in the paragraphs, but decide whether we keep one paragraph or not and then and so vote on it paragraph by paragraph and that might get us to an end. >> Mr. Muso, um and this was the sidebar that we just had. Um, as far as handling amendments, uh, would it be reasonable to consider as separate amendments each paragraph that's proposed for deletion? Sure, you could you could do it like that. I mean, normally you'd say this is the resolution. I'm proposing the following amendment and then

128we can vote on the amendment. So, I guess we could say if you go paragraph by paragraph, somebody proposed deleting the paragraph, that's the amendment. If there's a second, then you'll vote on it. If you vote nay, it stays in. If you vote yay, it's deleted. >> All right, Miss Polly had a comment. >> Uh, yeah, thank you. So, I um the language in the resolution provides some context uh about the federal cuts and possibly what may come next. And we need to inform our um representatives about what is happening and how this not only this specific cut but how possibly cuts that may happen next because we've seen what is happening at the federal level the huge cuts in um at the department of education and I know some people think this will trickle

129down to us but there's nothing to support this at this point. Uh so it is fiscally irresponsible to assume that council rock will make up for federal cuts going forward. Right now we have a $6.5 million deficit in our budget and yes we discussed this when we voted for the budget and um we a lot of us we did not want this deficit. It was a compromise and the people that did not vote for the budget, they wanted an even higher deficit. So that was fiscally responsible. And now to assume that we can make up for all for this cut or for other possible cuts in the future. This is not sustainable. This is wishful thinking. And for people who understand budget and finance, they have to understand that we cannot make promises like that

130to um to our students. We cannot promise we will cover things just because we hope that there will be a surplus in the budget down the road. So uh we took an oath of office and we and our fiduciary responsibility seriously. So we have to fight for every dollar that is owed to us and to taxpayers of Council Rock and we need it's urgent to send this to our representatives. So we publicly as a group, as a board express that we need to support our students and our teachers and we are not going to take these cuts without any resistance. So you if you want to go paragraph by paragraph, you can. I I strongly support this document that we put together and I w I would like us to vote on in its totality

131but if you want to break it apart and I mean the the language provides the context that is required and I'm behind it 100%. Thank you. >> Thank you Miss Polly. Yeah, Mr. Turkey, >> I don't say if you want to make life easier, the first proposal you could do would be yes amendments or no amendments. And if it passes 54 with no amendments to send as is, then there's no point in in voting on every paragraph. So I I would say the amendment, you know, I propose to send the amendment as is or you can say I propose to send it with amendments, whatever. But if you have five, send it as is. you know, we going to just go through this till 11 o'clock. I mean, I'm I'm okay with staying till 11,

132but I'm just saying in the effort of some of these people's times, we could just say send it as is or with amendments. And if it's five, if you if there's five for sending it as is, it just gets sent as is. [Music] >> All right, a motion's on the table. We'll have a roll call vote, please. Madam Secretary, >> Mr. Tate. >> Yes, >> Mr. Roosevelt. >> Point of order. This is the motion that Mr. Hickeyi just mentioned about amendments or this is the motion about passing this or are we still in discussion? >> The motion that's been on the table for the past half hour or so. >> Could you restate that motion? >> Um, Miss Oeki made the original motion. Sure did. If you would, please. >> Uh, you'll have to wait

133for my computer to power back on here. Thank you. I move to approve the resolution to restore federal funding as attached in this as attached to this agenda subject to solicitors review and audit. So this would be asis without amendments. >> Second picking. All in favor? Uh no. I'm sorry. Roll call. Yeah. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Mr. Roosevelt. >> No. >> Mr. Hickey. >> No. Miss Paulie, >> yes. >> Miss Osaki, >> yes. >> Miss Khan, >> yes. >> Miss Stone, >> yes. With the adjustments that we already said we're going in there. >> Okay. State and the numbers change. >> Yes. the state including the states >> state legislator state legislators is what's on the >> that's miss her >> all right by name yes >> and Miss her >> yes >> that's six

134yes two no and one not present at vote >> thank you everyone we move on to the second session of public comment uh I'll just remind you very quickly Um this session is on even um it's on any issue that the public wishes to bring to the board agenda or otherwise. This is an opportunity for members of the public to address the board. We would ask that you limit your comments to no longer than 3 minutes. Please consider the fact there may be young children in the audience or watching this broadcast live on CRTV when speaking. It's our goal to maintain a respectful environment so that members of our community have an equal opportunity to address the board without interruption. While the board welcomes your ideas and we'll consider them in deliberating an issue, it's

135likely we will not respond to your comments or questions. Do we have anyone who wishes to comment? I don't see anybody wishing to comment. So, we'll move on to new business. Do any board members have new business? Mr. Roosevelt? >> Yes. It was a previous board. I think it was perhaps two boards ago when you, Mr. Tate, indicated that you didn't think it was appropriate to bring politics to this board. I agree with this statement. I disagree with the context and how it was added. This, however, is bringing politics to this board. I find this meeting to be embarrassing. I wished I think we all wished you expressed yourself that you want you were happy to be able to go home and not have be frustrated after a meeting. I joined you in that sentiment

136and agreed. But this is this is not how Council Rock should be conducting itself. This could have been done better. So I'm I you know you indicated in the last committee meeting that you wanted support from all nine of us. It doesn't seem that you wanted support. It seemed that you wanted your language and that is and and this meeting has disclosed and opened up how this board currently operates and I don't think any of us are happy with it and I think that we should return back to the way this board is supposed to operate the way it has been operating in the past and that's without politics. Other new business? All right. Do we have old business to discuss? No. All right. Can I have a motion to adjourn? So moved. Good night,

137everyone. Thank you.