001That resolution's passed. So even though I just want to point out even though the resolution is going to say something like not to exceed $12 million, we know that we're only going to borrow somewhere between nine and a half and 10 million for the first phase. But that part's always a little confusing to uh to be in compliance with state law. Any questions about this page? Okay, so page number three. This is the page that you know you've really been focused on here over the past two and a half years. So you've seen I don't know how many versions of this. So I apologize to that. This right now this is the last version for uh for now. Okay. And this is the 20-year borrowing plan as we talked about. So when you start on
002the left side of the page, you can see what uh Scott was referencing was that your your payments right now in column six, if you do nothing, are going to pay off by the uh 2027 year, the 28 budget year. Okay? And you're about $2.1 million. So the plan, the way it's laid out in this scenario is step one, step two, and step three gets you about $22.5 million for projects. And then I'm just I'm going to do this page fast. And then if you go to column 14, you can see your payments still stay at that 2.1 million that you already have in your budget. Okay, now the debt is longer. You can see the debt goes out to 2045, but it funds $22.5 million worth of projects. Okay, so again, we're just talking
003about moving forward with step one right now. As things become more clear, as the projects get more specific over the coming months, then we'll decide what the yellow and the green and if there's anything else, what those look like. They very well may change. Typically, when we're doing a plan like this, things do change. You know, a lot of our school district clients, so I don't want you to get wed to exactly what this page says. It's just meant to be a guide, but we're really focused on step one right now. And as you can see in column 8, if you just did step one and never did anything else after that, column 8 shows you what your payments uh would look like. All right? And in those first few years where you do go
004above the $2.1 million, we've been working with uh Scott to figure out some ways that will help you, you know, kind of shrink those payments in those first two or three years so that you don't have to go above your budget. All right. So, I went through this page quick, but I know you've seen it a lot. Any questions or thoughts? Or Scott, if there's anything to add, feel free. >> No, I think you touched on everything. Okay. >> The next page I'm not going to go through, but that's if we did the four the 30-year ver version. Okay. So, we'll skip that for now. And then lastly, I just want to hit on the timeline. So today, actually, we had the Moody's credit rating interview. Okay. Um, your superintendent and your business manager did
005an excellent job. What that is is we get a lot of information together for uh Moody's credit rating services. We send that over. They send a list of questions back. They answered them, and then we have a an online interview, okay, for about an hour. They kind of grill them on various aspects of the school district's budget, finances, economy, everything. It went very well. They did a good job. So, we expect to have the credit ring back in about two weeks. Um, we think it should be in the high a category, which would be fantastic. And then once we have that, um, other than the debt resolution, which is on November 6, we would kind of have everything that we need in order to move into the market, uh, shortly before Thanksgiving this year. thoughts,
006questions. >> Okay, great. >> I think you did a nice job, Zach. Thank you. >> I appreciate your time, Zach. And >> yeah, absolutely. >> Put everything into a couple pages pretty quickly and >> trying to I know you have a busy agenda. So, >> I appreciate that. I really appreciate your time. Thank you. >> Great. >> Any questions there from the board? >> Okay. So, you will see your bond council on November 6. Sean Garren from Dinsmore will be here and obviously your solicitor will be here too and they can walk you through the resolution and then we should be all set. >> All right. >> Great. >> Thank you. >> All right. Thanks everybody. >> Thank you. >> If I can just for a second to to with off of Zach's comments, we'll
007be doing a not to exceed resolution. Um we'll explain that all at that time. Um just for no one gets excited at that point. Not to exceed resolution. Um the amount is well beyond what you'll ever have to finance, but because of legal requirements um you know how attorneys are unfortunately um that number is always inflated from what the real number actually is. But we do that to make sure that we're covered when we get to the market. >> Yeah. And I I expect it to be probably that $12 million number. >> Right. Yeah. So we're talking about doing 10. We have to show on there that not to exceed is a $12 million number. >> No, that that one always trips everybody up. So Thanks for that. >> All righty. Have a good night.
008>> Appreciate it. >> All right. Next up, we have the Pennsylvania You Youth Survey, Saint Vincent Prevention Projects, and West Morland Drug and Alcohol Commission. >> All right. Julie Lovas and Donna King here today. So, thank you for being here. Okay. >> Thank you for the opportunity to present on this. So, um, so again, I'm Julie Loves with the Westland Drug and Alcohol Commission, director of prevention services, and Donna Keen is the executive director of St. Vincent College Prevention Projects. So, today we're here to talk about the Pennsylvania Youth Survey um, which is administered across Pennsylvania um, every two years. Um, and it's to help uh, us better understand youth behaviors and also to identify risk and protective factors. Um, so the the survey is given um, Is that >> Yeah, it should be. >>
009Sorry. Can I use it or no? >> There you go. You got it. You got it. You got it. >> Thanks, Larry. >> You can do it. Oh, thank you. I'm so sorry. >> Um, I'm not used to having somebody else change the script the size for me. Okay. Um, thank you. So, um, >> it's the special treatment here, Daryl. >> Thank you, Dary. I appreciate that. Got to hit up other people to do that, right? Okay. Um, so the survey can be given in 6th, 8th, 10th, and 12th typically. This year they did start a fourth grade survey. The fourth grade survey does have different questions um not really asking schools to participate in fourth grade um because we kind of want to see like what kind of data comes out of it, right?
010So um but you can choose to do whatever grade level, 6th, 8, 10, 12th. Um so the survey does collect data on substance use violence, mental health, and school climate. And it's all coming from the student perspective. So this is giving them a voice, right? Um PCCD, the um Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency sponsors the survey um because they um you know, they find it very valuable to the state and to the schools. Um so it's free for all the schools in Pennsylvania. Um any school can take it, not just public schools. Um and the um questions in the survey support data driven decisions around prevention and student support. So which helps us a lot in our jobs. Right. Just to let you know, there's like 390 public school districts right now participating in
011the PS and then on top of that it's almost 470 total schools because that would include charter schools and technology schools schools a lot of other schools too. So, um, when we're looking at the questions in the survey, they are asking students questions surrounding, um, individual self and their peers, um, family, community, and the school environment. Um, and it's just measuring their attitudes and their behaviors. Um, why are we asking these students these questions? Because we want to understand better the risk and the protective factors um, that go along with students and their um, attitudes and behaviors. Um, I want to reiterate this a couple of times. The survey is anonymous, so you will not be able to tell what child answered what questions. Um, and a student is allowed to skip any questions they
012don't want to answer. Um, so when we go to risk and protective factors, so any of you are familiar with the risk and protective factors, we want to reduce risk factors and increase protective factors when it comes to kiddos. So when we're looking at the survey and the risk factors um risk factors are something that increases problem or is a likelihood of problem behaviors to increase right so substance use violence depression and then the protective factors are things that strengthen or support those kiddos so that they don't get into those problem behaviors so you have like family bonds religiosity um peer support those different things um now we're able now I don't know if you guys are familiar this or not, but um St. Vincent College Prevention Projects, we started a pilot with them, but
013now we've expanded to a full-blown program through the data, through the pays um to implement a um student assistance program, drug and alcohol liaison in West Morland County. And Derry has um our drug and alcohol liaison as well. Not every school district has it um but through the pays, we were able to um fund Sinc. So, that's an intervention service that we're able to afford through the data that we found. um in different schools. So the earlier um the interventions are more effective, right? Um when they reduce the high risk factors and they boost protective factors. Um so like one of the things with the drug and alcohol leaison is that we're seeing a lot of kiddos get in trouble with drug and alcohol issues instead of catching those behaviors ahead of time. Right? So
014that's why the stat drug and alcohol on is here to catch kiddos like the the risk factors that they have and and what they're exhibiting um before they get in trouble disciplinary wise and sent over for discipline issues and then they lose out on school. It causes a whole wealth of issues, right? Um, so the survey helps us in seeing so like if you look at your pays report that everyone was given. If you look in the back, I forget what page number it is, you'll see a table that says risk factors and protective factors and they label a number um and they tell you what u percentage of risk your students are at and then they um give you a protective number as well. Um Derry had a pretty nice number. Uh I mean
015there's risk obviously at every school district but compared to some other districts you guys are are pretty good with um your risk factors. Um so looking at the 2025 administration um I think Donna has a timeline for you guys that has some um facts on it as well. Um but we are looking at the pay survey would be administered the fall of right now right 2025. It takes roughly 20 to 40 minutes a class period to um take the survey. Um and then in April of 2026, your local reports will be received. Um it's no cost to the school and again the survey is anonymous. Um no responses can be connected to the student. Um the students are informed they can skip any questions. Um and also the a big thing with the survey since
016they are being asked some questions that um may cause concerns for them, they um are told that after the survey they can go talk with their um counselor or trusted adult in the school if they have any issues with any of the questions that were asked or if they have any concerns. So what is the value of the data for D area school district so through the um the data um I don't know if you guys are familiar like we do a lot of data dissemination um we're also looking at adult data to try to get some funding and and see where our problems are um having that school district specific data and even grade level specific data is so valuable because when we look at data we have to look at West Morland FET
017Washington data you know or um Somerset West Morland green I don't know like they just combine the craziest counties together so it's nice to have the data specifically for your school specifically for your kids so then you can identify emerging trends and issues that you have with your kids you can look at your risk and protective factors that you have because they're not all the same I'm going to tell you West Morland. If you look at the West Morland County report, it encompasses all the schools that take it in West Morland County, but each school is so different. Um, you can also compare your um information to the state and to the county um to see where you fall. Um, then also, you guys, we talked about this earlier about PCCD grant applications or any
018type of grant application. Um, I know that we partner with some school districts in the past to apply for grants because they had different levels of usage in their schools and we were able to use their data to successfully um, acquire grants for drug and alcohol as well. Um, it also gives your youth uh, a voice in shaping your school. I know we work with Colleen here um, with the CESA group and she attends our youth summit every year. Um, we were able to um, acquire funding for our youth summit through PAS data as well. Um, but she's very active. Um she has a great group of kids. I know Donna has done a lot of activities with them >> and Cay stands for Council on Substance Abuse. >> And I can tell you your
019your students are very devoted last year. They were on a panel on the youth summit and that was a day in February that school district that day and these students went to the community college and presented to other >> and we're changing the date of our youth summit because of dairy. Um >> we are >> we've moved it one week back because we want them to attend. Um the last thing you guys can do is there's so many positive things in your report that come out. Um like the kids feel comfortable coming to your school, they feel safe coming to your school. So you need to celebrate these with your successes with your your staff and your faculty and let them know like this is what our kids are saying in this report, right? I
020I just think it's important to have that student voice whenever you're looking at different things that you want to implement in your school. Um so this next slide is wrong and I greatly apologize. Um Donna found that you all have participated in the Pennsylvania survey since 2003. That is a lot a lot of data. So I put the 2015. Yeah, Donna has it with her. Um, so you guys, you could look back all those years and see now the report was not as nice, but you can look back at all those years and see how things that you've implemented have changed what students have thought about the school. And obviously there was no vaping in 2003. >> 2003. >> Yeah. So as you guys may be aware we have um a growing need for mental
021health issues right in what in in the county and in the world I think period. So mental health is another thing that um is important in the pays report. There's some questions in there. Um you guys can look through your report and see what students are saying about their mental health. Um we are partnering with um the county mental health um well county mental health um to really look at these reports and to um focus their efforts on areas that need to be focused on um because we have some concerns that we see by looking at the report um and it's all across the county. Um but then also if you guys get your report back and you see drug and alcohol needs um and you can reach out to us and and say like
022hey you know our kids are reporting that you know there's much more um alcohol use or um parents hosting parties whatever you can reach out to us and we can start to implement some programs that can help you. Um and then also um your student group with Colleen Smith um there's a chance for them to create like positive school messaging around the school. Um like you know this many 20% of our kiddos reported um using alcohol. So 80% of our student body does not use alcohol, right? So that they could create that positive messaging because not everybody drinks alcohol like everyone says, right? And I say everyone says, but not everyone says. So, but there's so many possibilities of things that you could do with this data. Um, and that leads me to say that
023Donna and I love data and that we will come and we will help you look at your data and we will, like I said, um, if you want us to create fact sheets for you to hand out to parents, we're more than willing to do that. anything you want us to do, um we're more than willing to come and help you guys out. So, and then there's our contact information on the last page if you want to email us with any questions. Um does anyone have any questions? >> I actually got two things to say. I I think it would be good if the u parents would get results from this because, you know, sometimes parents are surveyed just like board members, you know, the years go up, you know, everything goes up, you know.
024But my question is, and maybe I'm asking a wrong question, but from these testings, is there anything that we learned demographically from them from different regions like our demographics of Derry say based with demographics of uh Mount Pleasant because we're same size school district, you know, roughly same area, same rural. So is there anything can be pulled from this from area? So you can only compare your data to the county data or the state data. But if you know if um Superintendent Fronzac would like to work with um Dr. Gabber um then you guys could work that if they would share their data, you could sit there and compare their data with your data. Absolutely. And I think schools would be more willing to share their data. I I really do. Well, if they do
025and one or two things are extremely high, let's just say in drug use, then you know, you're putting some heads together, might be able to come up with something to, you know, knock it down a little bit, whatever. >> Do you have common issues or common goals? report from another school and I could not similar size you're higher in the area or you're higher in sadness, hopelessness, depression kind of area. So I just relimilar. >> Yeah. And then you could take a look at like what programs are offered in the schools versus, you know, community as well. and then compare like what's is something else working in another district that you guys could use. >> Right. Exactly. >> Absolutely. >> Thank you very much. >> There's so much you can get from it. Yeah. >>
026Anyone else? >> Well, thank you guys for your time. >> We appreciate you. Thank you for your time. to think about your students starting on October 23rd will go engage in the red ribbon event. So, we have these bracelets that everybody can see. This year's theme is called life is a puzzle. Solve it drug. Thank you. >> Thank you very much. Appreciate it. >> Okay. >> Ready? Thank you. >> All right. Next, we have the Bruce Hassel rig group presentation educational pro project on civility and diversity. As Bruce Hasser group makes their way up, I know that they're going to introduce themselves. I just wanted to give a little introduction. I think it's a perfect segue with what uh Julian Donna spoke about in terms of that a majority of our kids feel safe and
027comfortable here within our walls of our school. I know that every year that we study the climate and culture within our schools and we take a look at discipline data etc and we talk with our administrative team, our teachers and something that we've seen on the rise especially at our secondary levels has been the use of insensitive language toward one another and even racial slurs. So that's something I know that our board has worked together to create a very thorough harassment policy here that's that is punitive and it's very firm. However, we do believe that education is required that if you know anything about dairy the grounds level of dairy all kids are treated the same here um not better not worse. So we do believe and we studied for uh thirdparty educational consultants with
028with a background and a proven track record to address this issue with administration, teaching staff and students. And the Bruce House group has a tremendous uh background in this and has presented in dozens of schools, athletic teams, colleges, universities, and we're glad to have him here as we're looking for board approval for student programming at the secondary level. >> Thank you. Thank you. Geez. If I had known I was going to get an introduction like that, I would have worn my other suit. Uh we appreciate being here. Uh we have a little Oh, that's Kurt Davis. Uh who's one of our staff, but we're going to uh go through actually uh I passed out a a another version of what you probably have in your packet. I went through and handled the typos and stuff
029like that. So, that's why I put corrected down a lot. Um, but we're just going to go through a little bit of of this uh instead of all of it certainly because this is something we're going to try and do with students. Um, the Bruce House group, as I said, we've been um talking with you. When was that? When did we have our first >> Zoom board meeting? >> It was January of 2024 we started the process. >> Wow. Yeah. >> Okay. And uh I remember some of your phrases, but uh we started then and then we began talking with each other. We began talking with administrative staff um Zoom as well as in person. Um we did uh was it u January of 2025 with the uh administrative staff? >> Yeah. >> Yes, that's
030right. you were there with their with your Penn State shirt on. >> Yes, sir. >> But um we were able then to come back and at the end end of the year um No, it was in the fall. We we met with the No, it was beginning >> the teachers. >> We met with the teachers. Was that in >> that was that was June of this past year? >> That was June. Okay. it all all goes chaos especially when we run around with school districts. So um now we're you know we've talked enough we researched enough uh we want to um do a program with all the students middle middle school to high school and so I'll talk a little little bit about what we anticipate doing. First of all, uh, I want to introduce
031our staff there. Oh, no. Went too. Oh, yeah. I was going to say I went too far. That's me. I didn't know I looked that good. But but uh my background certainly is higher education for 30some years and uh was a the person that handled our campus discipline on campus. I was a associate vice president and is also director of our student union student activities and uh it was certainly um experience that wasn't a job for me. So heavily involved in the community and I still am. Uh I've been retired 19 years from UPJ. Um but I've continued to do a lot of experiences. I'd like you to meet who is next here? >> Kurt. >> No, there it is. Kurt Davis. Kurt, you want to say a little bit about yourself? >> Coming to
032you from Rhode Island. >> Yeah. Um, I'd like to add a little bit to the uh Can everybody hear me? All right. >> Sure. >> Yes. >> Go ahead, K. >> Uh, yeah. I worked with the uh alternative community resource programs. Uh, been dealing with students and uh before that I was also uh the safe and drug free schools coordinator for uh 15 years for the Greater John Southside School District. And what's interesting is you just had uh the presentation on the Pennsylvania youth survey and I used to use the data from that uh for a lot of grant writing because I did the grant writing and I was also the student assistance coordinator uh for the entire school district. And I'm also a certified uh Pennsylvania certified schoolwide positive behavior support and uh intervention
033support specialist. So, I've been working with students for actually over 40 years and a lot of uh community organizations. I have a master's degree in public administration and been working with Bruce and Allen for years. Um I put in schoolwide positive behavior intervention support. Uh I was the trainer for Ligonier School District, Northern Cambria, um Northstar, and did work at Greater Johntown. >> All right. Next we have uh >> Allan. >> Yeah. >> Here you go. >> Get in front of the mic for a moment. My name is Alan Castaw. I graduated from Penn State and um way back long time ago and um basically in chemical engineering. Did uh 34 years in industry. Ended my industry tour with quality engineering um and quality auditing. Then I've always worked in the community even while I
034was in industry. So uh coming back to Johntown and um being president of the NAACP just community work that you you do and that's what you do. We've uh run student summits uh as part of NAACP and Kurt actually presented page data uh to those students of for about 13 14 school districts. So um it's um this is what we do uh in the community. We work on having the students respect each other, learn to be with each other, live with each other, and grow up with each other. So uh we're here to do that for you as well if you will have us. Thank you. >> Okay. So, what I'd like to do uh is just hit a couple spots, a couple of our lesson objectives, which are now up there. Okay, there it
035is. So, just as you read um we feel that once once we finish this students will be able to define civility. they will be able to give examples of what good civility is. Um when you think of all of us as we go through our life uh our daily experiences there are people who treat each other with you know not respectfully. So what we want to get everybody to think about in your school and I was glad to hear those statistics that they had right here they presented that your students like to come to school. uh that's very positive. So we hope out of all of that we'll be able to bring together the students at the end with some recommendations from them or what they think ought to happen here to continue the movement.
036Okay. Um we'll we're very interactive the things that we do. So we will try and let the students meet each other because um they they you may have in one grade how many is in the grade how many students >> we have approximately anywhere from 120 to 140 >> right so they don't know each other all of them so we want to do something to get them interactive one of the things we do is the name game which some of you went through and I'll talk about that because you usually do that >> well and the name game is an opportunity for the students to bond even more with each other. They get a chance to talk about themselves, talk about something unique about themselves. In this case, what's unique about their name? Uh, did
037it come from their parents? Did it come off the back of a cereal box? You know, and and they get to say that. And students often find that these little unique things aren't known to the other students. and as a result they become closer to each other as opposed to uh um drifting further apart. So we look to do that to get the students to be able to communicate with each other while we're in workshop and they open up. They break down some barriers in communications and they talk to each other and we get that out. >> And we certainly want them to be able to communicate with each other, meet each other, new folks, and certainly hear different perspectives, different attitudes about things. Uh we're going to break them up in groups constantly and
038move them around so they interact with different people at different times. Okay. Um Oh, okay. Kurt Kurt, why don't you talk a little bit about the uh you know brain exercise? Yeah, your exercise which we have down at the bottom. Well, uh, one of the things we do, part of the presentation is, uh, having taught psychology for 25 years, uh, we try to teach the students that, uh, first of all, what impact do their behaviors have on others and we try to tell them you need to understand to be able to look at things from the other people's perspective. We don't always see things the same way. So, we do a lot of what does perception look like? What what does your interaction do? What kind of impact does it have? Now, one of the
039things we want to do is if we have the students, and we'll adjust this according to whatever grade levels we're presenting to, you have them pick a a word out, break into groups, sit down, talk about first of all among themselves what they feel civility, explain that word, then put a skit together, come back out and act that skit out to show that word in action. Now the rest of the people will be trying to determine which of those words it is because everybody will have seen those words and then at that point everybody has a discussion as to okay was this a good example. We'll have a couple people come up with a couple different words do a skit that makes it very interactive gives the kids a chance to laugh a little bit.
040Uh gives a chance of people to volunteer. If somebody doesn't want to volunteer we can always call on somebody. Uh then at that point it now shows what do we want our behavior to look like in our school district. You know what does uh patience look like whenever you're dealing with other people? What does considerate being considerate look like? You know what does what does being helpful look like? You know what what do you see if somebody's walking down the hall and they knock the books out of somebody? Do you stop? Do you pick it up? Have you seen that? What what kind of a climate and culture? And to be honest with you, this type of training fits right in with the pays you're going to do because that's what this is all about.
041You know, what kind of a culture, what kind of a climate do you want? And you get the kids to thinking about, you know, what is a good culture? What's a good climate? What makes us feel more comfortable? What happens if a new student comes into the area? You're sitting in a cafeteria all by themselves. You know, what do you do? Does anybody go over, introduce themselves, try to bring them in? That's what we're trying to do. Change that culture and make it interactive. So, I hope that gives you a kind of a feel for that. >> And we'll also talk about, you know, those uh behaviors that are not what we want to have, what we want to see. Uh most of the time they're going to be moving around. We're going to be
042recording uh recording recording what they're saying, what they're doing. Uh the idea when we are all finished is uh that we we record it uh we make uh we summarize everything that we've done and that they've done and then we give it back to you as administrators and also uh our followup will be with the student council. Hopefully, we can make a group out of there, the student council who would like to follow up and keep doing um activities to improve the the culture in the school. We've done that at uh some of the other schools when we we're pushing uh trying to think Johntown and Forest Hills etc. Valley >> Col Valley having student groups continue and come up with ideas and bring speakers in etc. Um okay so we want to now how
043about go and hit the the last one >> schedule >> that is the schedule that is the schedule that will be the 4th of November and the 5th of November and it will be three per day three sessions per day and you'll notice that the the uh let's see oh yeah they're all ninth and tth grade will go together but All others will be the same. We're going to change as we go through and start doing things. We'll find out some things that work better with certain students. Some with certain students. Sometimes uh they don't. And we'll certainly uh make adjustments if we need to. Just like a good football program, we'll make halftime adjustments. Um okay. Any questions? Kurt, you want to say anything else? Kurt cut off. Okay, go ahead. >> Questions, thoughts?
044>> No. Well, yeah. What I want to say is uh part of this will also be establishing for the classroom teachers how to be teaching certain lessons that they can integrate into their classrooms about what does civility look like? uh because it's always nice to have that reinforced on a daily basis. So we want to try to incorporate that into the curriculum and that's why part of it's going to be you know how do we establish common ground uh how do we lower temperature uh how do we handle sensitivity uh sensitive topics in a classroom those kind of things will be discussed >> and that's what we got from uh teachers that they wanted to know how could they do this and how can we help them etc. But we've pulled out a lot of
045research a lot of lesson plans and some things that we'll make sure they're available to them that they can use throughout the year. >> All right. Thank you. >> Yeah, if you don't mind, go ahead. >> Um, you know, dairy students, dairy area students are different than I'll be honest that I feel in any other school district, even our close neighboring school districts. um they have a sense of helping people. They have a sense of community pride and and our teachers kind of push that in them. You know, we want that, you know, we want them going to hand out meals. We want them and they do. We get kids that stay all day and all night handing out Christmas meals. I mean, it's a wonderful area, but when I think of what's going on
046in this world and civility describes it, >> it describes it. I I've been it's been bothering me for months and I read this and I said, "That's what it is. There is no more civility, right? >> There isn't." And I think that is so important. >> I really think that's important. You know, we never had race issues in this school. I went to kids school here, you know, 1980. I graduated. We had black kids. We had a a couple oriental kids. There was never any race problems at dairy. Never. And I don't think there really is now, but I know it's out there. >> And man, if we can teach civility and drive it in their heads. >> Yeah. >> I I think it's a wonderful thing. That's all I just want to say. >>
047All right. Well, thank you. Yeah, it's very important. Uh again, wherever we go, I mean, think about what you see uh how people treat each other, whether it's a a wrestling official like like I've been abused. Not because I was wrong, because they didn't get the call that they won, >> cuz I was never wrong when I officiated. >> Mine are now, Bruce. >> But, uh, yeah, it's a concept that we've been talking to other schools about as well. We pitching. It's it's if we can just win a few more every time, that's what's important. And so, we're looking forward to working with your students. Yeah. the the faculty, we had a good time with them and they had a lot of good selection or se suggestions uh in terms of what could happen as
048well. So, we're putting that list together and I'll be giving that to you hopefully shortly. >> Yeah, when a few more they'll catch on. >> Yeah, >> they all catch on. >> All right, any other questions? >> Thank you guys. Any other questions? >> Thank you so much for coming out. Thanks, guys. a game. >> Remember, I wasn't the guy that was up there wanting you to spend or get millions and millions of dollars. >> That wasn't me. >> We only entertained one of those every couple months. >> Thank you. >> Okay. >> Visitor comments on agenda items only. Do we have any Seems like none. All right, we will move to personnel resignations, retirements, and leaves. I would like to combine motions A through E, unless there's something there we would like to pull
049for discussion. A through E. Do we have them? >> I'll make a motion. I'm sorry. >> It's okay. >> I'll second. Okay. Questions, comments? All in favor? >> Opposed? Motion carries. >> Under personnel and employments, let's see here. We're going to combine motions A through D. >> Motion. >> Second. >> Mr. Lynch. And I think ML. >> Yes. questions, comments? >> All in favor? >> Opposed? >> Motion carries. >> I just wanted to state real quick um if you see act 86 emergency permit, all that states is that we have a current student teacher who has permission from the state to substitute teach on emergency ser for up to 10 days. So, that is part of how the state helped to um like bring some closures and also fix the teacher uh shortage issue in
050Pennsylvania. Thank you. Okay. Personnel conferences. I would like to combine motions A through C unless somebody wants to pull something for discussion. A through C. A motion. >> I'll make I'll second. >> Mr. Shaw, Mr. Krono. >> Questions, comments? All in favor? >> I >> opposed. Motion carries. Athletics. I would like to combine motions A through E unless we'd like to discuss something. A through E. >> Second. >> Mr. Campbell, Mr. Reed. >> Questions, comments. >> All in favor? >> Opposed? Motions carry. Okay. Business affairs. I am going to read, I guess. Uh Motion to approve the uh bus and van driver and aids for the 2526 school year as >> second. >> Mr. Lynch and Mr. Krono >> questions, comments. All in favor? >> I opposed. Motion carries. >> Okay. So, this is a
051roll call. So, I'm just going to read all of this. >> Yes. Yes. >> Be it resolved. The board of directors of the Dair Area School District does hereby authorize administration to work with PFM Financial Advis Advisors LLC as independent municipal advisor, Raymond James as underwriter, Dinsmore and Schaw LLP as bond council, and the district solicitor to proceed with the issuance of general obligation bonds series of 2025 in the approximate amount of $10 million. Roll call. We need a motion. >> So, we need a motion. >> Second. >> Who was the first? I'm sorry. >> Mr. Lanch the first. Yes. >> And Mr. Reid. >> Yes. >> Thank you. >> Now, roll call. >> Mr. Kronock. >> Yes. >> Miss Shoalter. >> Yes. >> Mr. Lynch. >> Yes. >> Mr. Reed? >> Yes. >> Mr.
052Campbell? >> Yes. >> Mr. Shaw? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Longwell? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Fendish? >> Yes. >> That's eight. Yes. Zero. No. >> Very good. >> Okay. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> Good with that one. >> All right. Motion to renew a contract with Adelfi Village, Inc. to provide day treatment services on an as needed basis for the 2526 school year. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Mr. Reed, Mr. Kron. >> Questions, comments? All in favor? >> Opposed? Motion carries. Motion. Motion to approve the administrator administration of the Pennsylvania Youth Survey for grades 6, 8, 10, and 12 for the 2526 school year as presented. >> Second. >> I want to be sure we had the first one. I'm not sure it was. Was it Mr. Kryok and Miss Sha Walter? >> I
053think so. >> Okay. >> All right. Thank you. >> I have a comment on that one. So, this was tabled last meeting because some of the board members expressed concerns about some of the questions. I read the survey all nine pages and I'm okay with all the survey except for one question on the question one and it kind of contradicts the presentation we just had from the Hassel group about civility regardless of skin color and so on and so forth. The third question is what is your race? Asian, black, African-American, Hispanic, Latino, etc., etc. If the idea of the survey and the rest of the survey is good is to prevent bullying and drugs and alcohol, why does it matter what color what color the person is? So, the district implements the hassle group to
054teach kids and students and staff and across the board that doesn't matter what skin color you got, but yet at the same time, the district says to a student, "What color is your skin?" If that can be taken out, I'm all for the rest of the survey. Um, just me just because of that question with what we're doing with both these, I would be opposed to it only for that. >> Dan, I agree with you. There's too much of that to say. >> Yeah, the rest of the survey I'm okay with, but I I can't in good conscience, you know, and I'm all for the Hasord group and I'm not saying your survey is bad and maybe it can be amended or edited, but I can't in good conscience say, "Okay, the district approved teaching
055kids that it doesn't matter what color your skin is." And at the same token, we're gonna ask what color your skin is. I'm out. >> I just want to be sure, you know, it's not Mrs. Keen's. >> No, no, I know that. No, no, no. And I the only reason I directed is because maybe I didn't have any questions before, but that is a question that now I have. Maybe it can be edited. Maybe it cannot >> I'm not faulting anybody, but >> that's okay. >> I just I'm I'm not okay with it >> only for that reason. >> No, I you know what? There's too much race. It's it's brought up too much. I agree with you. That's the only way you can snuff it down. >> Yeah. The only way we're going to
056stop it is I'm not >> I don't look at Mr. Hasselri who's no longer here as a black man. I don't look at Mr. Kryog as a white man. I just look at him as adult men and that's it. >> And if we don't start that and continue that, >> it's just I agree. >> I'm not okay with it. >> I do agree. >> So that's all. >> Any other comments? >> Is that something that can be >> edited and limited? >> I don't know that. >> I I don't know the answer to that. Can we can we proctor to say question one, two, or three isn't on this test. We don't answer that question. Can we do that? >> I agree with you. >> Yeah. All the other I've read every one of them
057and all the other ones I I'm okay with them. >> How do you want to proceed with the motion then? Yeah. I >> mean, the only thing I would say is to essentially see if there's a vote and if it doesn't, then we could look to do it again in early November. If we get an answer from Bach Harrison essentially is what I would say. >> Well, >> or you could vote. >> Can I say one more thing before? >> Absolutely. >> We can get an answer from Bach Harrison, whatever name is. Or >> the students have a right not to answer a question. >> They do and I understand that. Yeah, that >> we push it. Don't answer that question. >> You have a point, but it's still the district >> approving to ask
058them. >> I get >> what color your skin. So, that's just where I'm at. I can only speak for myself, but that's where I'm at. >> I don't like the question. I'll live with it if it's there, but it should be eliminated from future use. Absolutely. >> Okay. Um, all in favor? I >> I >> opposed >> where I am. >> I I I'm opposed also. >> Gotcha. So to be sure >> 62 is that what we added as to be sure. >> Okay. >> And that might be something that you know they can they can look at future reference to eliminate off of the survey. >> I can promise you we'll send them an email. >> Yeah, we're classifying answers right away. you'll reach out to their director tomorrow. >> 100% >> because I
059do agree with with Dan. >> Yeah, >> sure. >> And just because of other things, I just want to make it clear that the and they may have said it and I might have missed it, but it is it is something that parents can opt their kids out of. >> Yes, we will send home a uh information about the survey and then they'll be able to do the uh um it's passive consent so they would opt themselves out. Yes. Correct. And to be transparent, I have a student in high school and I'm not gonna opt her out of it. I just it was just something that I saw. >> Perfectly fine. >> I appreciate that. >> We will certainly send a message tomorrow and see what we're able to come up with. It is an
060online test where like I said, it used to be paper pencil. Possibly that is something they're able to exempt from. Okay. >> Okay. Um, up next motion to approve Bruce Hasselig Group to deliver student presentations to the middle school and high school students during the 2526 school year as presented. >> Mr. Reid, I believe, and Miss Longwell with the second. Okay. Thank you. >> Questions, comments? >> All in favor? >> Opposed? Motion carries. Visitor comments, non-aggenda items. Do we have any? >> No. >> Somebody say something. >> Other concerns of the board. I have one thing. Um, yesterday we had the meeting for the foundation and Mrs. Huber gave a very excellent recap of um the kind closet and I just wanted to remind people that it they do have clothing from infant to adult
061and the open house dates you can see them online but it'll be November 6th, 7th and 8th. Um it's free clothes, shoes, toys, books and more. Uh the kind closet toy drive is October um 6th the 24th and you can drop off at the middle school in the high school lobbies and this is really an important toy drive. It it gives kids presents that normally wouldn't have them. Um let's see. Pie auction. If you've never been to the pie auction, you have to go. It is it's outstanding. >> If you've never been to the one room schoolhouse, it's a great opportunity to go there. but it will be October 26th um 1 to 3 and you can donate a pie um from 11:30 to 12:30 um that day and bidding will start at 1:00 p.m.
062sharp. >> I would just like to say I was at the pie auction last year and well I got a pie before Dean bought them all. Dean likes to buy a lot of the pies there. >> If you show up you can bid on any pie you want. I attended the uh pack meeting this afternoon to one room schoolhouse and I just wanted to say one of the quotes. M Dave Mr. Dave McClary was there. He's a retired teacher from here and he said quote the school district grounds and facilities have looked the best that I can remember in the past 40 years. So I'd like to give credit and thanks to Mr. Maine and his team because they've done a heck of a job. >> I agree. >> I do have a few comments
063I'd like to make but anyone else on the board first? I >> have some Gohead. >> I'd like to tell you goodbye, Dan. I guess since you're leaving us someday, I probably won't see you after this month because I'm going to go by too. But uh it's nice having you here, man. You spent 12 years here as a student. You know, worked here. I wish you spent about 25 30 more. I just wish you luck, Dan. Just wish you would have stayed. >> Thank you. Anyone else? >> Good luck, Dan. >> Good luck, Dan. It's been great working with you. >> Wish uh and Mr. Boring best of luck there in his new position. I just wanted to stress a couple dates between now and when we meet. Miss Sho Walter talked about the pie
064auction. Friday, October the 24th, hard to believe is already the end of the first nine weeks. Um so just know that scheduled Monday, October 27th is a scheduled two-hour late start for students only. We will have professional development for our faculty that morning. Um and then our next regular meeting is November 6th. One important announcement would be December 4th is our board reorganization dinner. And that meeting starts at 6:00 p.m. So we will be announcing that change in the time because of the uh student presentations and the dinner that takes place after. We've always started that at 6:00 p.m. So we're starting to announce that now 6:00 p.m. on December 4th. and we'll be sure to get that announcement out on our district website. So, thank you. >> Okay. Anything else? All right. Meeting adjourned.
065>> We have to have >> That's right. We can't go anywhere and Miss Joe Walter. >> Appreciate you, man. >> All those in favor? >> Any opposed? Stick around. Thank you. Sleep.