001Call the meeting to order. Roll call, please. >> Mr. Fry, >> here. >> Mrs. Fendish, >> here. >> Mr. Campbell, >> here. >> Mr. Kronock, >> here. >> Mrs. Longwell, >> here. >> Mr. Lynch, >> here. >> Mr. Reed, >> here. >> Mr. Shaw, >> here. >> Miss Shoalter >> here. Nine present. >> All right. constitutes a quorum. Please stand for the pledge 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. >> All right, good evening everyone. We're a little bit late today and we apologize for that. Uh let's go ahead into executive session recap with Mr. Delonso. >> Yes. So during executive session, we touched on a number of personnel items involving um staff across
002the entirety of the district. We touched on some um policy issues and then some transportation issues involving personnel as well this evening. >> All right. Thank you. Superintendent's report. Dr. Forensic. >> Thank you, Mr. Fry. Uh just a reminder, starting next month, we'll do our traditional superintendence report that's printed and available. Um, and then that'll also go out to our Trojan Spear Network. Uh, that'll include the foundation report from our our director, Miss McKesca. Um, on the first day of school, August 25th, we welcomed 1,778 students. Uh, and again, PD forecasted us to be at approximately 1,743 for this school year. So, we are at a plus 35 from that projection. Yet, still down a little from last year. So down 10 students in comparison uh to where we ended the 2425 school year. Um
003we transitioned the kindergarten last uh last week, Monday, Tuesday, and then the prek students. So this week, here we are with all students enrolled and the needs have never been greater, but uh our team's up for that challenge. Some important dates just so that you know, um golf September 8th, senior day at 3:30 p.m. against Janette, and that's at the LRO Belks. Tennis senior night, uh, September 15th, 3:30. They're here against Burl. Cross country has a senior night on October 2nd, 4 PM against Lake Trobe. For soccer, senior night, it's October 7th. This is all available on the website. It's really good the way Mr. Raymond has it set up that I'll stress to you. Soccer, again, October 7th against Greensburg Salem, and that's at the stadium. Uh, for volleyball, uh, girls volleyball, it's October
0049th, 700 p.m. at Gateway. And Miss Rolo will get you up there here shortly. uh for uh football, October 24th, 7 pm against Y. Uh next weekend, a big weekend for us where we have our alumni and friends weekend. It's also the uh home game where we do our salute our heroes in memory of 911 uh for first responders and military service members. So contact the athletic office or visit the school district Facebook page to sign up for that salute our heroes event. Currently have 21 um forsomes in the alumni and friends outing, a number of sponsorships. Things are coming along very well there. And again, a reminder um to check the Trojan Spear for a lot of different activities that are taking place next week. I'm really looking forward to that. 9:18 we have
005a Let's Glow 5K run for the registration 6:30 p.m. Race at 7:15 benefits our student activities. We also have an event that's coming up this uh Saturday um at the amphitheater u which would be a movie night for youngsters $3 admission that goes to the activities that is um going to be a neat opportunity that we'll advertise and talk about later on here at the meeting. And then we were also another winner. Thank you to Kaitlin Whiteitman of the T-Mobile 5G Friday night light. So if you saw that new wrapping that's on the stadium fence, some of that money was used from last year. this year as well. Now, we've received another $5,000 from uh T-Mobile. And so, we'll be looking to make some other stadium enhancements. That's specifically what that has to be targeted
006for. Uh Jod Gil, I'd like to thank Jod Gil, the manager at Macy's and West Morland Mall. They reached out to us uh to sponsor some different events for uh our students this year. They came together to collect school supplies for a local district and they selected Grand View Elementary. Uh, Miss McClan, it was a very nice picture that you had online as well with Jody. So, um, we were selected backpacks, lunch boxes, pencils, markers, everything in between. Uh, they filled to support our youngest of learners at Grand View. Um, and also Macy's, they do a nice job hosting the high school version of Shop with a Cop through the Pennsylvania State Police. Kids that are less fortunate and can't afford a suit or a prom dress, they pay for for that to happen and
007host at Macy's West Morland. So, we want to thank them for helping our students, those that are in need, and our youngest of learners. So, that's it for now. I'll be sure to have an updated report, full full-fledged report in October. Thank you, Mr. President. >> Thank you. And now the presentations, correct? >> We have the Grand Students who are here, our scholars, right? They're the student leaders. It is the start of the school year and so we wanted to just do a highlight of a building and Grand View is up for that here tonight. >> Yeah. And that's kind of why it's just Mrs. Mlan and I tonight. Uh we're eight days into the school year. Not a ton of exciting things happening besides getting the students in teaching rules and routines getting that
008kind of you know groundwork laid. So Mrs. Mlan are going to speak to our ECRY overview which is something she's very excited about that's occurring in Grand View this year and the coming years uh as we move forward with ECRE in our building. So this slide shows um the facets that comprise the uh multi-tiered system of supports framework and we are in year two of that at Grand View. And so as you can see some of those main areas um we have already addressed um to a maximum capacity in just that year one. So core instruction, you know, we've mapped our curriculum and we've worked to align that both horizontally through the grade level and vertically between grade levels. That's an ongoing recursive process that will continue. Universal screening, you always hear me talking about
009a cadence that that is our outcomebased measure, our universal screener. That's an indicator that predicts future reading success for our students. And so we use that for all kiddos in grades K through five. uh the shared ownership. So this year our focus is teaming data teams and the MTSS team in the building and having those teams have specific responsibilities in the process database decisions. We're not data driven. We're data informed. And I think that's important to note because we're always looking at how do the children respond to our tier one instruction. The data shows us that the data is the is the read that we get on that. It shows us how they're responding or not responding and then if they need that tier 2 level of support. Family engagement. We are uh we have
010talked um especially at our uh FA parent engagement with pack what this framework looks like and things we're doing in the building. Many of the things we showcase in the framework or during those meetings deal with current tier one programming that we have. Um and our next pack meeting is actually October 16th at the one room schoolhouse. Um, we also have the multiple tiers. So, we've really, as I've said, dug into tier one. Uh, tier two would be interventions and supports. I think it's important to note that tiers, as I said before, are not people you go to or places in the building, but they're levels of support. And that's very important to note. And lastly is professional learning. Um, that was the mantra last year when we had the two-hour lead starts and when
011we had people come from Patton and the WIU. The goal is to professionally develop and become versed in the things that we're doing so we can better serve our students. So, ECRI stands for enhanced core reading instruction. And right now, our focus is tier one in kindergarten. And Dan's going to talk a little more later about how that's going to roll out. Tier two is where you get that intervention piece. We're not year we're not there yet, but our uh title one teachers will be trained in that and eventually that will come to pass. Um it is teaching routines and they're very explicit. So in the very last slide, we won't show that here, but you can actually look at some of those routines and that manner of teaching actually supports, it's evidence-based and supports
012all of the good things we look for in targeted instruction. You can actually Oh, so tier two. Um, this is what I want to note. So, if you have a child who's not responding to the things you're doing in your tier one dayto-day large group instruction, they may need need that level of support in tier 2. If you use an intervention that's unrelated to your tier one, that can create confusion for a child who's already struggling. The beauty of ECRI is that it fully aligns to our tier one programming and wonders. So it actually makes it more feasible for the child to be successful. So those are all of the things that ECRI encompasses because it is evidence-based and it's really just ultimately an intensification of the good quality instruction that the kiddos are getting
013in tier one. So why ACRE? There are so many tier 2 programs and resources that we could utilize. Why do that? First of all, we were provided a very generous grant through patent. Um, and so that grant's going to help sustain some things going into year two and year three. And Dan's going to talk about that in in uh a minute. Um, but also if you look, there is a full alignment to Wonders. So, we made that investment a few years ago. Wonders is the resource that we have. And so, this doesn't add to the plate for teachers. it actually aligns and um really strengthens core funological components in the program. So when I came on board um April of 2024 some of the feedback that we got from teachers was that they wanted strength
014in the fondological components and wonders and so we started to dig and figure out how can we address that and equity will do that for us. Um it's it's okay. Um in response to longitudinal grade level data. So we look at that data in Aadian longitudinally over several years. Again that's not the same cohort. We can look at the same co cohort and follow them through. But since co and we not it's not just exclusive to our district. There's been that struggle that residual struggle because of how education was at that time. And so we need to respond to the students and we need to figure out ways to do that. Uh lastly, this is probably one of the strongest things we can do is that it creates a common system, a common language, and
015a common approach. And so when you talk about that commonality, that is strengthening your tier one. And that's the main important thing because all of your students are receiving that type of instruction. So Dan's going to talk a little more specifically about what this looks like now and what it will look like. >> So here's kind of our plan for our roll out how this is going to affect our building um including our teachers. So looking at it systemically over the next couple years was do we want to roll this out to all K to2 teachers in year one and really that was I think too much in conversations on what we were trying to do and want to take a little bit slower approach to it. So this year we rolled it out uh
016in 2526 to all of our kindergarten teachers, our title one ELA teachers and then our special education teachers. So starting there laying the groundwork kind of with that kindergarten group first and as they move through obviously first grade, second they have their own, you know, framework for it. So in year two, we bring in grade one teachers. Um and again during these years they get year-long coaching throughout the year. So throughout the year, Lydia, Amy from Patan, and the WIU will come in, and they'll have coaches come in to work with our teachers, step in, watch them teach and instruct the ECRE lessons, and go from there. And then in year three, all grade 2 teachers, uh, that's 2728, and again, they'll receive that same year-long coaching. So, what have we done so far? Um,
017last February, Mrs. Mlan, and I'll give her a lot of credit on this. She kind of this is kind of her baby. She's really been the backbone behind it. So all credit to her here. Um but she introduced ECRI to our faculty and staff and to me as well because I've never heard of it before. I was new to it. So that was in February of last year. Um in March of 2025, we had an overview with Dr. Lydia Amy. Again, she's from Patan along with Miss Natalie Smith from the WIU. And that was kind of given to our faculty and staff. This is what this looks like. This is what we're going to be doing um to get them an idea of what's coming. And then we got the acquisition of the grant funding
018in the spring of last year, which is kind of how this is being funded over the next couple years. Um I think how much did we get from then? >> 18,000. Okay. For the for this year, right? Okay. So we'll continue to explore those options to make sure we have the funding to keep this moving in the right direction. And then start of this year during our inservice week, we had an intensive two-day training in which our kindergarten teachers, learning support, title one ELA were all involved in. And then part of our Google classroom, we have the equity hub for all of our teachers to access all of our documents and materials. So it's always available to them whenever they need it. So our next step, I kind of talked this uh about this a
019second ago, but job embedded coaching for our teachers. This will happen monthly, but TAM will come in with their coaches and they'll work with our teachers to support and kind of go through what they see, how to improve, and how to keep instilling this into their lessons. Um, and again, we're going to work towards tier 2 intensification training. So, I know we're talking tier one, but we're going to work towards that tier two level as we continue to go through the, you know, the process here. And the end here, there are some links. We're not going to go into these links, but this is stuff that sh we'll share this out with you. You can look at them. They're available to click on and go in and kind of see what those links lead you
020to. So, feel free to look at those. Any questions later on, you can always talk to Mrs. Mlan around. Right. >> Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Boring. Thank you, M. Mlan. >> I have one question. >> Sure. I did a little cheating while you were talking because I I knew what funological components I thought they were. When I read that sentence, I can't remember what slide, but uh funological components. You're trying to make them easier or something I said on that slide or more universal. I can't remember which slide it was. While you're doing that, Mr. Boring, I just want to stress that you you brought up something that's extremely important. Even in leadership, you don't know everything. So, you're learning with the teaching staff as well. And I think that's an extremely important piece
021to recognize, too, is because even when you're a principal, you it's important that you're learning with your staff, right? To show them that importance of that professional development, too. So, thank you both for that. We've seen that when we've popped in even at the beginning of school on those two-day trainings of how you're learning with them, too. So, I'm sorry, but go ahead. >> I was um I can't see it. No, it was maybe >> if you can see that one, Mr. Cry. Good luck. >> So, bondological awareness. Hold on there. >> That's okay. So, >> is it I think it's the next one actually. >> Might be the next one. >> Yep, it's that one. Tightening and strengthening of phological component. Yeah. Tightening and strengthening of the funological components. Um, is there an example
022of how you do that with new sounds and stuff, right? >> So, when you talk about funological awareness or funological components, there is a phmic awareness piece and phmic awareness is sounds and how letters make those sounds. So, usually when you're talking about phmic awareness, it's strictly auditory. Um, and so this program and we also have Hagerty, which I know you saw the second graders last year do that, that those programs um have facets that strengthen that auditory piece because the sounds are important. So think about vowels for example, A, E, I, and O, and U. Those alone make several different sounds in and of themselves, long and short. But then you havewa sounds, which means they don't sound like a long or short. They sound like something totally different. Um so that phmic awareness
023piece would be strengthened. Funological is the connection between the sound and the written word. That's your phonics piece. So what ei does is it it kind of segways in. It starts with more of that phmic piece with sounds. Um especially in the K level and then through those routines it gradually intensifies. So now you're connecting sounds to written or spoken word language and that's your phonics piece. So those little links at the end, you'll see many lessons and it's pretty intense. >> Yeah, it seems like >> Yeah. >> Thanks. >> Yeah. >> Any other questions from the board? >> I just wanted to state for the record that I know that this the training staff from Batan and Harrisburg came out here and we were not forecasting a grant. But once that training staff came
024out here, met our administrative team and our teachers, it was a natural fit when they saw our building capacity down there for that $18,000 grant. So that's kudos to our administrators and our teachers down there that the state sees the work that we're doing. So thank you. >> Absolutely. >> That's why we got it because in that very first nine-month time period, I know you were part of that meeting, we had showed such progress and systemic change um and that's why we qualified for the money. >> Thank you guys. >> All right. Visitor comments. Agenda items only. For agenda items only. Yep. Yeah. >> So, she's got mom. So, my name is Kim McKini and I'm here on behalf of my daughter Renee Majin and my son-in-law Rob to give you guys a few words
025that she wanted passed on to you tonight. She said, "We would like to take this opportunity to express our deepest gratitude to the administration and the school board for believing in supporting our daughter, Madison, her educational rights. As parents, we want nothing more than to see her succeed and follow her dreams. Madison has always had a passion for helping and caring for animals. She aspires to build a future in the animal sciences in the veterinary field. We truly believe she can make those dreams a reality here at Derry area through the a court program. Unfortunately, our journey to this point has not been easy. We face many roadblocks from our home district. Roadblocks that were not only stressful but heartbreaking, especially for Madison. But we are firm in our commitment to our daughter's education and
026we are aware of her rights. We stand by her to advocate for her. In the past three months, every encounter we've had with Barry has been a beacon of hope and positivity in an otherwise difficult time. From the very beginning, Mrs. Freeman and Mrs. Iver showed compassion and support to us in Madison. We also want to thank Mrs. Gardner, though no longer with the for her guidance and her encouragement, as well as Mrs. Duvich, Mr. Rooney for their willingness to answer our questions and provide clarity. And to Dr. Francac and Dr. Long, we are truly overwhelmed by the amount of support and encouragement that you have given. We are beyond grateful for the compassion that you show, not just to the students in this district, but to all students. Your dedication to doing what is
027right and what is best for each child is nothing short of exemplary. It's the It is educators such as yourselves who make dera district truly exceptional. As proud graduates of dairy ourselves, we can honestly say that your integrity and commitment to your students is second to none. And we thank you all. >> Thank you. Appreciate your time. Thank you for being here this evening. >> Yep. >> It's nice to put a face with the name. So, thank you. >> Absolutely. Okay, we'll go to uh approval of minutes. Motion to approve minutes of the regular meeting of August 7th. >> Second. >> Was that Mr. Kryog? Miss Shwater. Questions, comments. All in favor? >> Opposed? Motion carries. Motion to approve the minutes of the special agenda prep meeting of August 21st, 2025. >> Second. >> Mr.
028Shaw, Mr. Lynch. Questions, comments? >> All in favor? I >> I >> opposed. >> Motion carries. >> Approval of bills. Motion to approve the payment of the following bills. Gentlemen, >> second. >> Mr. Lynch, Mr. Reed. Questions, comments? All in favor? >> I opposed. Motion carries. Approval of the financial reports. Miss Smart. Welcome. >> Good evening. The beginning balance as of June 30th, is $33,94027. Total receipts 260,576.39. Total investments return 2,790,000. Total investments 48,2549. Total dispersements 2,946,1268 and the ending balance as of July 31st 90,1859. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Motion to approve the treasures report as present. >> Second. >> Who's that? Mr. Shaw and Mr. Cry. Questions, comments? >> I just want to make a quick comment. uh under the receipts on this report. You'll note for July and August and likely
029into September, you will see no state or federal funding flowing uh due to the budget impass. So you will see the district utilizing its reserves um and additional investments return to uh continue to operate, pay their bills, etc. So I do just want to note that on this report. >> All in favor? >> Opposed? Motion carries. Personnel resignations, retirements, and leaves. Any discussion for A or B from the board? Any poll for discussion? >> A or B. >> All right. Motion to approve A and B as published on the agenda. >> Miss Fendish, Mr. Kryog. Questions, comments? All in favor? I >> opposed. Motion carries. Under personnel employment 8 to K. Any of those need hold for discussion under the personal employment A2K. Any need for discussion or comment? >> Um just on K, the
030name was not published on the agenda. I think we should go ahead and plug that in at this point in time. That would be Abby Rolo. >> Ab y ru l o. Okay. Any others? All right. Motion to approve A2K as published on the agenda. >> Second. >> Mr. Shaw and M. Show order. Questions, comments? >> Mr. President, before the votes taking, I know it might be a preemptive strike, but I just want to say for 9C, 9E, 9F, and 9K, we're very happy with Amber, Lisa, Madison, and Abby with the full-time positions, whether they're in the cafeteria or in the professional ranks as a teacher. And so, we look forward to that. One of which is here this evening, Miss Rulo. Um, so we'll see how the vote goes. >> All right. >> All
031in favor? >> Opposed? Motion carries. >> Welcome aboard. >> Congratulations. I know you're a volleyball coach. If you'd like to say something, you're welcome to. If you'd like to go coach volleyball, you're welcome to do that, too, because I know we have a game going on this evening. So, but welcome aboard here, third grade. It'll be a uh we're just very pleased to have you on board here at Dair Area School District at Graanby Elementary. >> All right. Congratulations. All right. >> Under personnel conferences A to D, do any need pulled for discussion? Again, personnel conferences A to D. Do any need pled for discussion? Motion to approve A to D as published on the agenda. Second, >> Mr. Reed. And we have a couple over here. Miss Longwell. Questions, comments? All in favor? >>
032I >> opposed. >> Motion carries. >> Under athletics, motion to accept the resignation of Taley Dunaway as the girls varsity basketball assistant coach effective August 28th, 2025. >> Second, >> Mr. Kryok, Mrs. Fendish. Questions, comments? >> All in favor? >> I >> opposed. Motion carries. Business Affairs A to R need pulled forward. Any discussion under business affairs A to R need for discussion? >> I'll just go ahead and note on motion H for -ate technology purchases. The amount of that was not published on the agenda. It has since been added to the online version. Uh for those of you that are in attendance, uh it is $88,64930. Um, so that is funded with -ate funding through USACK. Um, I think that was the only one that I needed to fill anything in on, but if
033there are any other questions or comments, I'll open that up to the floor. Now, >> I would like I think we should discuss, not discuss, but make sure you read Jay. It's a pretty big amount of money. I just don't want to try to slide it back. So is J. Motion to approve the purchase of ABI Force Z23 SLT with attachments from Baker Vehicle Systems at a cost of $48,935 to be paid for by the capital project fund. Do you want to >> Yep. So we had that in our capital project budget for this year. We budgeted $50,000 for that purchase. Uh so you'll see it's coming in about $1,000 under budget. Uh that is a very um very complex piece of equipment that Mr. Germaine did a lot of research on that will actually
034fill the need of several pieces of equipment that we have here uh that are either nonoperational or beyond their life expectancy. Um so it has different hedging tolls have different seating um air rating. So it'll be utilized on all of the fields throughout the campus. So I know he's very excited to hopefully get this item purchased and move forward with with utilizing it. And just another piece of uh efficiency when you see the results on campus of working smarter not necessarily harder of becoming more efficient and seeing the the end result. Um that's why this came about during the budget season and into the capital project budget. >> All right. Any other any others to R? >> Motion to approve A to R as published on the agenda. >> Move second. >> Mr. Campbell. We
035go Mr. Lynch. All right. Questions, comments? >> All in favor? >> Opposed. Motion carries. Committee reports. Joint operating committee. Mr. Reed, Mr. Campbell, Mr. Lynch. >> Our last meeting was August 27th and we had the u motion to approve the minutes for June June 25. had a motion to approve the general fund treasury report for June and July. Motion to uh pay the approve the general fund bills for June and July and August. We approved the student handbook for 2526. Had a motion for using $45,000 for boiler repairs from the capital building fund. Approve the uh following sub uh custodian secretary rates for 2526 at $15 an hour. That's no increase from last year. Approve the um teaching assistance at an hourly rate of $17 an hour for uh and that's going to be paid
036by the Perkins fund. Approve the club advisor 2526 at the current contract of rates. A motion to employ Autumn Pavick for a full-time cosm cosmetology instructor at the bach step one salary for 2526. We had a motion to hire Kathleen Katherine Fleming as a substitute teacher for digital media and graphics for 2526 school year. And that's it. And our next meeting was uh was 27. I don't have that date. >> All right. West Morland IU board. Mr. Shaw, >> our meeting was on September or August, sorry, August uh 26 and that was a 5-hour long meeting including executive session, information session and board meeting. We had an executive session for personnel issues and parking parking issues that I will be going over in a second. But uh we had a number of resignations and hirings
037and basically your run-of-the-mill normal paying the bills for the summer, that sort of thing. But we had a parking issue at the IU. Um over the summer the building in between the um Clear View School and the administration building was purchased by another group and they no longer allow the employees from the IU to cross their property. So, the IU found this out on July 14th and went into an agreement with the Mesionic Lodge up the road to um allow parking up there for IU employees and to went into an agreement to shuttle shuttle people from there to down there. Um the reason I bring this up is because the IU board wasn't told of this until the August 26th meeting even though this happened on July 14th and now we're going to have a
038virtual meeting about it on September 11th or 10th or 11th to discuss it. We got a packet that's like five pages about the timeline and why they need to shuttle people back and forth. Um, other note for the IU other note, it's going to cost around $78,000. It's nonbudgeted and so it's going to be coming back to the districts to pay for this. And if I'm not mistaken, Derry's going to be on the hook for 8,000 of it from what I understand. I might be wrong >> for shuttle services. >> Shuttle services and parking. >> I might be a little off. You're fairly accurate on that number. Yeah. >> And >> not yet. >> Another thing that um IU also um you voted on a rand which is um Scott correct me if I'm wrong
039is revenue anticipation note which is for the IU is not a taxing authority. So for a school district it would be a tax anticipation note. >> Yes. But for the IU, it's a revenue anticipation note. We took out a loan for five thou55$5 million to cover expenses because EIU at the hasn't gotten any money from the state or the federal government and from some of the notary but some of the other school districts still owe money from last year to the IU and there the parking issue was very divisive on the board. There was a lot of discussion of communication of why the um board wasn't reformed back in July when this happened and the IU entered into an agreement. It ultimately passed, but there was a lot of discussion and still a lot of
040wondering about that and that's about it for the IU. >> Okay. Always interesting. Thank you. >> It's like its own little show up there. So, Um our next meeting is sorry our next meeting is September 23rd but we are having an virtual information session um for legal matters on September 10th 10th or 11th I think it's the 10th Wednesday is the 10th next yeah Wednesday the 11th 10th >> and that's it for the IU >> Adams Memorial Library Board Miss Shalwater We met August 20th. We had a brief regular meeting and then um went into discussion with the architects GBBN. Um the library needs a lot of renovation and updates. That's basically what we discussed. >> Okay. Policy committee is finished. Mr. Campbell, Mr. Lynch, Mr. Shaw, how about it? >> All right. We had
041two meetings since our since we last We had a meeting on August 13th uh and the meeting on August 25th. The August 13th meeting uh Mrs. Mlan sat in on and she discussed with us the assessment of student pro progress there the AR reisions for that. Uh in addition to that we discussed the policy attachments due to us there were five of them actually uh Dr. Forenzy can speak to the detail of those because it's complicated. >> Yep. They were approved at the last board meeting uh mainly the updates with the uh universal grant guidance that comes from the Edgar or they they changed the name of Edgar from federal funds um to the uh federal programs administration manual. So just different compliance pieces that needed to come through. But again, at the last meeting
042when we met two weeks ago, we did approve those attachments to the 600 policies. When you look at attachments, those are not policies. That's essentially what is being enforced and how it's carried out. And that's needed from an audit standpoint whenever we receive federal funds like title, supports, interventions, and services. how we have to uh go through the administration of those funds or the distribution of those funds to other agencies. We have to go through and adhere to the universal grant guidance for federal funding. Essentially, that's what that comes to. The updates came from the policy news network and so annually thresholds change. So, the attachments were updated to meet those annual threshold and expectations. All right. >> And then at the August 25th meeting, Dr. alongside sat with us and he uh updated us
043where they're at on the K through2 controlled substance policy. Um and we discussed the new uh the newest revisions for the policy news network for August 2025 and the that discussion surrounded the new policy 122.1 for non-school sponsored student groups. Uh and we looked at policy revisions for academic standards, curriculum, extracurricular activities, intercolastic athlet athletics, and diabetes management. Uh those are all links to all of those can be found on the website. You're welcome to take a look and look for the green. The green is new. The red will be deleted. Um that's probably the easiest way to to review it. >> We don't have a next meeting planned. I don't think so. >> Right now, we do have one more policy that I did not put in the minutes and that would be under
044volunteers because we did have that slight revision to the volunteers policy and essentially it's in the board's packet. It's also available on the district's website. And the the revision just simply states um that our board believes that community partners routinely enter the building except the administration building. they hold accountable that are held to the volunteers as the employees of the district. Meaning we do turn in our volunteer clearances. That's been a policy under local board procedures that we've adhereed to. Um that was something that the committee talked about. And then additionally is that all volunteer positions will be submitted for approval by the board regardless of level. That way it helps clarify from those who are uh going through to volunteer throughout the year that all are submitted for approval for the board. But in
045the interim if there is a gap between meetings that the superintendent is able to conditionally approve those. So as long as the whole packet the whole packet and clearances are all met but that would be again conditional approval before anyone can start working as a district volunteer. That would be the first read of the updated for the volunteers policy. This is share person. >> Then we have our we had our final read today for the 217 graduation requirements. >> Correct. Yes. >> Correct. Yep. And if you remember that would be the honoring of the uh military sashes as well as EWCTC garb at the uh um commencement ceremonies. So we'll put that on for approval at the next month's meeting. And for anybody that questioned, we do we have passed the baton to the um
046the BCK school as far as getting in alignment with what the graduation what they will wear as far as cords and and what have you so that we can bring it all together and everybody can be represented properly. >> Nice. All right. Dair Area School District Foundation. Miss Shower, Mr. Shaw. >> Uh, next meeting will be October 15th. >> Okay. Building and grounds committee. Mr. Lynch, myself, Mr. Kronock, Mr. Reed. >> September 10th. Next meeting. >> I do just want to note for that meeting, we will have Mccor on site to present to the building grounds committee. So, if all of you can be present, I think that would be highly beneficial. uh even if it's in a remote capacity. Uh they will be talking about some of the potential uh renovation plans that they
047would be looking at recommending as far as phases for middle school, high school and then even including uh Grand View into that. So talking about different types of esco projects which would be energy savings. So I did just want to go ahead and make mention of that. Um I believe TMCO might also be um on on that agenda as well to talk again about the um stadium grand stands and the potential for the um restoration of that. So I I think it'll be a very important uh very beneficial meeting. >> Yeah. >> Athletic committee myself, Mr. Kronock, Miss Longwell. >> So >> I was there but Mrs. Longwell was there. I asked her if she wanted to give her first. >> Yeah, I was nominated for you. >> Bear with me. >> That's good because
048I was taking some notes, too. So go ahead. >> No pressure. >> So we met on August 15th. We discussed some coaching vacancies. We had the varsity track and field assistant coach, varsity wrestling assistant coach, uh boys basketball assistant coach, varsity and the middle school if I recall. Um we also discussed about the strength and conditioning position that we actually approved last board meeting if I recall. >> Um then the most exciting thing is the getting back opened up to the public for open swims and they'll look into hopefully swimming lessons down the line. And then our completed projects that we talked about were the middle school gym schoolboards, the stadium sound system, middle school gym branding, the high school gym acoustic panel covers, soccer field flag pole. They don't have to hold it anymore.
049Um, >> did I miss anything? >> I think that's pretty much that's what I'm sitting here thinking. That's pretty much everything. >> Okay. And then our next meeting is October 7th. >> Yes. Good job. >> Nice. >> There you go. In the books, >> Mr. President, I'll just stress that uh on the district website under departments, facility use, it's right on the main page of being able to access. It's live based on Mr. for Raymond's presentation with regard to the pool usage. So, a social media post was made um and so that information is available up and running and uh ready to go for the the public like we talked about. >> Thank you. >> All right. Public relations committee, Mrs. Fend, >> we haven't met >> next meeting typically as we've done these on
050almost a trimester. typically in November. That date's going to come out at some point next week. I do want to state um a big focus area at our last meeting were the online forms through P school. I know that we were able to catch a glitch. I know that some parents were upset about that because if you completed the forms, you had you had to redo them because the error that we caught. But what I will say after the first week of school, close to 90% of the forms were done K to 12 by parents. Thank you. That typically takes two months and I believe um like through this week we're close to almost finished outside of a few students. So parents, thank you for your patience. Thank you for completing the forms. But next
051meeting at some point in November around Thanksgiving. >> Yep. >> Uh finance committee, Mr. Reid, Mrs. Finish, Mr. Campbell. Uh we meet on the 18th is our next meeting uh at 4 pm. Um I think some of that discussion will uh kind of be around the talks that McCor is doing at the building and grounds and the potential for you know what any sort of bonds or borrowing may look like here in the very near future and then in the uh subsequent years. So I think we have a lot that we'll be going over at that meeting as well as well as updates potentially on state and federal funding if there is any um to be had at that meeting. >> All right. Mr. show. >> Um, we had a meeting um or we don't
052have a next meeting scheduled yet, but events coming up is the um Hall of Fame weekend and the golf outings. Is there still time to get a forsome if you want to or is that >> It'll cost you a little more. No, I'm just messing We're always taking uh we do put deadlines out there, right? But uh we'll take them if need be up until the the day before. Yeah. Okay. Well, the Hall of Fame has been on um baseball. Caitlyn has done an excellent job with that. And yeah, we like I said, we don't have a next meeting scheduled for the 4A. And if there's anything you would like to add, Dr. Fran, >> I'll just add the alumni band concert 2 p.m. on Saturday the 13th. Um and that's in our middle school
053auditorium. the uh Hall of Fame banquet at 5:30 p.m. on Saturday the 13th in the middle school auditorium and then a reminder for the Blue and Gold alumni and friends social after that at 7:30 p.m. in Rosemary's Country Kitchen. Does not have to be an alumni or a friend or anyone that's in the Hall of Fame ceremony. It's a nice opportunity for a social gathering and reminiscing and reathering just to bring back of um the times that have had and to see where people are almost like a a homecoming of sorts, right? But that's towards the end of September homecoming. I will state as Mr. Shaw mentioned um they we did share the information in the LRO bulletin. Uh they were able to get that in with our our hall of fame. So we thank
054them for that. Um we also discussed about the greenhouse. So that's important to know as part of the 4As with the agriculture that uh we met yesterday 3:30 p.m. four interested groups were here and the RFPs are out for that. Submission is due by September 24th. So we're hopeful with uh the RK Melon Foundation to carry on uh that application and to provide you with some updates into October, November. >> All right. Thank you. >> Thanks. Agricultural Horicultural Committee, Mr. Lynch, Mrs. Fendis, Mr. Shaw, Miss Showwater. >> The next meeting is to be determined sometime after the OAC fall meeting, which should be somewhere around November. Visitor comments. Non-aggenda items. >> Chalk. I'm the president of Dair Education Association. I was here back in July. I missed the August meeting. I apologize. But uh on
055the agenda tonight was the hiring of those teachers. One of which was through the checkerboarding. That was Abby that was sitting in front of me. So, thank you very much for getting those on. Thank you very much for adding the kindergarten teacher, Amber, that started down there at the beginning of the school year. Um, that's tremendously helpful with the student that we have coming in right now with the type of student that we have that gets them to some manageable numbers so they can do a lot to get those kids ready. What'll help uh as Mr. Boring and Mr. Mlan put out with getting that new equity program in place. But thank you very much for that. I just want to say thank you for it. >> Thank you, sir. >> Any other visitor comments?
056Okay. Other concerns of the board? >> I just have two. Um, this Saturday in the high school auditorium, the Dair River Days Committee is going to have its first royalty um court and the public is invited. Doors will be open at 5:30 and the event the court starts at 6 o' and we are giving the dairy railroad base committee is giving away $5900 in scholarships and I just wanted to mention the second thing uh for the Wu I did put a video online of it. So if you are interested in hearing the discussion at the It is online. It's on my u Facebook page. >> I was going to bring it up. Thank you for doing that. >> Yeah, the record itself. >> All right. Any other concerns of the board? >> I don't know
057if it's a concern of the board, but I apologize. I didn't have a chance to call anyone this week in the administration. I was reading in eighth grade. I don't know. Excuse me, Mr. Mock Chalk for what class it is, but I think in the LA class. I I'd like for the board to read that paper that they got over the books that we're going to read and our kids. I just want to make sure we're all clear on what these kids are going to read this year. So, if we could have that, please. >> The the novels you're saying? >> I'd like to have a list of them and I'd like to have that paper that was sent out. >> Sure. >> Thank you. >> Any other concerns of the board? >> Yeah. I
058Dr. Do you know whether or not the Votech is still having their car show this coming Saturday? >> I believe so. >> Signs up. >> So, unless it rains. I I didn't hear anything else, >> but they have a car show. >> There's a sign. >> Yeah, the sign is up. >> Yeah, the sign's up. >> Yeah. >> We'll see what it's going to do for rain, too. >> The car shows I think it's 4 to 10 to 4 I think it is on Saturday this coming week. And um if it goes off, it'll be great food. A lot of old looking cars. The last time I think we had over 300 cars there at that show, so it's a good time. >> Go. >> Anyone else? >> I just want to say uh just
059kudos to our HR department. I had a statement I wanted to read and I like doing this every summer because all the work that they do. Our our board personnel committee is also part of that, but our support staff is tremendous with with what they do starting in March the whole way through up until our last hire Abby Rola for full-time positions. As we as we finish uh this meeting this evening, I would like to pause and recognize the incredible work of our HR department uh team this summer. While many were enjoying some time away, our HR staff was fully engaged in the critical work of advertising, interviewing, and onboarding employees across the district. Their dedication and attention to detail ensured that when the first day of school arrived, our classrooms and departments were staffed
060and ready to serve students. This was no small task, and their execution was nothing short of outstanding. On behalf of our leadership team and the board, I want to express our sincere gratitude to the HR department for their hard work, professionalism, and commitment to our district. This team includes Caitlyn Whiteitman, the superintendent executive secretary who serves as the point person for all new hires, Jacob Guyire, our fiscal assistant, who leads the onboarding process from the business department, Christina Seesac, who works in accounts payable, who oversees also the volunteer onboarding process outside of her accounts payable position, and lastly, Amanda Conway, who manages payroll as part of the onboarding process. together. Their efforts ensure a smooth and successful start to the school year and we deeply appreciate their contributions. >> All right. >> Anybody else? >>
061I just wanted to stress, Mr. President, that I mentioned about the uh amphitheater this weekend around 7:45, maybe after the royalty, right, Mr. Shaw? They can head down to the amphitheater. All proceeds benefit uh the class officers to help offset costs of from the movie Happy Gilmore will be displayed. Concessions will be open. So, thank you. >> All righty. Anyone else? Motion to adjourn. Second go. Mr. Reed, Mr. Kryog.