001Good evening and welcome. The purpose of this meeting is to conduct the business of the Gettysburg Area School District. Board director board of directors meetings and committee meetings are open to the public but are not public meetings. All school district residents who wish to make public comment should sign in prior to the start of the meeting and request to speak during citizens participation. School district residents wishing to speak to the board shall do so only during the citizen participation section of the meeting. Public comment is welcome and all issues will be referred to the appropriate board committee or administrator. Comments will be summarized in the official board minutes which will be available by contacting the business office. Please take a moment to silence your cell phones and other electronic devices. Um, prior to this meeting,
002the board conducted an administrative session to discuss board procedures. And um, all of the board members are accounted for except for Mike Dickerson and Tim Sigman, who are excused this evening. Please rise for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> All right. Does anyone have questions for the notices and communications that includes the cash activity summary, capital projects funds report, year-end projections report, food service report, and student activities second quarter report. Okay, hearing none, we're moving on to citizens participation. Do we have any citizens participation this evening? We do not. Okay, thank you. Straight into routine approvals. My apologies. Normally I do this on my computer
003and my internet's not working. So I'm going to I'm just going to flip through and find them all. All right. So we're looking at uh taking this as a chunk. That's 5.1 the agenda. 5.2 the financial report. 5.3 the early graduates, 5.4 human resources recommendations. Do I have a motion for those, please? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Thank you. Any comments or questions, >> Madame President? >> Yes, Kathleen. >> I would like to congratulate our two retirees. Tomla Becker, kindergarten teacher from James Gettys. Thank her for 31 years of service to the district. Chad Decker, technical education high school, 25 years of service to our district and and we thank both of them and we wish them well in retirement. >> Thank you, Kathleen. Yeah, many many years of service between the two of
004them. Um, I'm also going to give a a shout out to uh that impressive list of early graduates for uh completing all those requirements and and uh it's a big big accomplishment. So, congratulations to them. All right, any other comments or questions hearing none, we will vote. Ryan, >> yes. >> Dave, >> yes. >> Justine, >> yes. >> Al, >> yes. >> Kathleen, >> yes. >> Donna, >> yes. >> And I vote yes. Moving on to items for board action. We have a handful of uh policies. I think can I can I take Thank you. That's that's very helpful. I appreciate that. There's a lot of pages to flip through otherwise. Wonderful. All right. So, um 6.1 to 6.6. uh unless I hear any requests to separate those I'm I'm also going to take those
005as a clump. So that would be 6.1 policy 100 comprehensive planning 6.2 policy 113.3 discipline of students with disabilities policy 113.4 confidentiality of special education information 6.4 four policy 146 student services. All policies that we have um had on as information items in the past and 6.5 the um ACTI nursing agreement for the 2526 school year that came back on our table and 6.6 theou workday calendar um that has been signed with the Gettysburg Area Education Association already and this is just us approving it so that it can be changed in the collective bargaining agreement. May I have a motion for 6.1 to 6.6? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Thank you. Any questions or comments on those items? >> Just a quick comment uh that we had uh a really good policy committee meeting.
006Guess that was last Tuesday, I believe. Uh a good robust discussion on several of these that uh some are new, some are uh just uh updated. And thanks to Dr. Dton for uh her consulting on these. Thank you. >> Any additional comments or questions? Okay, hearing none, we will vote. Dave, >> yes. >> Justine, >> yes. >> Al, >> yes. >> Kathleen, >> yes. >> Donna, >> yes. >> And I vote yes. Moving on. Oh, no. >> I will also vote yes. >> Ryan, thank you. My check at the top. one of these days. So, at least once a month here. Thank you, Ryan. All right. Um, we are moving on to information items. Um, any questions for 7.1. That's the York Adams Academy general operating budget. Um, this is very similar to the uh
007LIU operating budget that we are um we are required to approve because we have students who attend there. Questions for 7.1. How how many seats do we have there? >> I believe at this moment we have four. >> Four. >> Gotcha. Thank you. >> Great. Hearing no additional questions. Uh questions on policy 111 lesson plans. >> I do I do have questions. Um >> and it could be my interface. I don't know. Um, the document that's attached, I don't see the PSBA suggested changes in black or the Gazdy changes in red. Can you tell us what they are? I'm pulling it up on my own end, but I don't I guess I don't I I do what I do know from this one is that this was it was so outdated we proposed a new
008one, an entirely new one. So it I'm not sure how it reflects on the on board docs or agenda manager I should say. Um but it was sort of just so oldish we needed a newish one. So >> yeah, I also I did ask Morgan about that in terms of our practice of writing on those um that for the ones that are being updated in a small manner that would turn up red, but if it is something that's either brand new or overhauled to the point of being new um that that that would then not be all in red. Um but that typically they're listed as new. So perhaps this one um >> yeah, this is a replacement. It's not even new. It's like the the district has had one, but we're proposing a new
009one because it was just from the n 90s, I think. >> So, wow. >> Yeah, >> we want lesson plans from the from the 2020s, >> at least the 21st century. >> All right. >> Small goal. >> Any other questions on uh 7.2? >> Okay. 7. >> Sorry. Just go ahead. Be crystal clear though. It does say on here last revised October 18, 2004. So the document that we're seeing in front of us has no revisions. It is the original and we're then in the process of revising it. Is that accurate? >> My internet's not working either. So I can't seem to I have what I sent in which >> it doesn't have a revision date on it, but if it's even if it's 2004, I I think that it's technically not new to you
010guys. It's just going to be a lot of new information, but it's not like a new policy like you've already had it in place. So, um, if it says 2004, that mean it's still 22 years old. >> Well, right. So, now now we're wondering if this is the updated one or if it's the old one. I guess what the question >> It won't pull up on my >> Yeah, I'll try it. Well, how about how about we um how about we find out how about we find out if that is the updated one and the date was just not edited or if not, we can uh >> yeah, >> we can we can put it back on as an information item um next meeting if needed. If that's not the up-to-date one, >> it it
011don't I have no reason to think it isn't. Uh hold on a second. Yeah. Talked about >> this looks this looks to be right. >> It looks like it's the new one. >> Okay. >> Yeah. Like we This is the new one. Um I will say it's only Yeah. And then the we had two comments. The one was um where it says delegation of responsibility. It said teachers shall make thorough preparation. That second sentence we had just said that the lesson plans shall be completed and submitted in the designated online platform. That's optional. So that was our one comment on that. And then the next one was um just making sure for number one within the guidelines that number one line that the lesson plans um should to consider some language about that they should
012be prepared in the designated format or template. So basically just trying to have some consistency throughout. Otherwise we didn't really make too many plans. This is an optional policy. This is just a way to sort of make sure we're having some consistency throughout the district. But there was nothing else like other than I think updating it from 2004. So if it has that date, I I think that's fine that it was in existence and then we're just sort of updating it with entirely new language. Is that where I see it going? Yeah, >> have the new language in front of us. >> No, you do. >> That is the new language. >> The the question was whether we had added or revised it in any way. We had basically taken PSBA's newest newest version looked
013at it and gave two options on optional language but otherwise we had nothing to take away from what PA PSBA was offering. So the one sentence within delegation of responsibility and number one within guidelines each of which we just basically said that they can be in a certain format and those are optional pieces of language otherwise it's good to go >> and we can we can look at having the last revised date updated. So I do just want to pop in really quick. >> Well, it would be the date that we next approve it. >> Yes. So the date would be changed to what the approval date is, but like for example, policy 100, like the lesson plan one that was completely reformatted. The original policy that was updated has the old logo was probably
014done on a typewriter is the format that it was in. So the one that you're looking at attached to the agenda is completely reformatted up to date. So what you see attached to the agenda is the newest >> form. Yeah. It just doesn't have our revisions on it because the language was optional and the policy committee agreed with that language to keep it in. So it's brand new, right? Language wise. >> Okay. Thank you. Thank you for all the questions and clarifications there. Um, we have a handful of other policies on here. Are there questions about 7.3 policy 218.1? >> Yes. Yes. Go ahead. >> I do I do have questions. So, uh, in the definitions section under weapon, we are removing replica of a weapon. >> Can you tell us why? Yeah, because one
015of um based on legislative change, there is a new requirement that requires reporting based on any incident with a weapon and it's based on the policy that each district has. And so there is a concern and I don't disagree with the concern that we will now be reporting in the reporting requirement is to parents and to employees um within any school building where a weapon as defined by this policy is defined. And so it would likely, and I'm going to let the superintendent and the assistant superintendent who are going to be in charge of all this communication, weigh in, but that there would be a lot of communication about lookalike replica weapons. And there's also from a lot of work I've done with families, there's been a lot of angst, I will say, about discipline
016based on a lookalike when it seems like the student themselves is maybe being targeted. you know, there's been just a lot of concern about using a replica for a weapon rather than a a a true in fact weapon when it comes to the type of discipline that is associated with this policy and having a weapon in place. So, um many most of our clients are removing the replica and this is what we talked about at the policy committee because um a lookalike weapon um will increase the reporting on on what a weapon is under act uh 47 for purposes or act 44 for purposes of having to now report every single time that there's a weapon. So, I will let doctors uh Matner and McFarland weigh in, but that is just a ad. I'm not
017going to say it's advice, but we believe that it's just that it is a an appropriate removal from the policy, although some a handful of districts are keeping it in, but most of the districts are removing replica from their policy. So, I have a couple thoughts about that. If I'm in a building and someone has a replica weapon and is being even implicitly threatening with it, I may not know the difference that it is real or fake. And I'm thinking also, you know, 3D printing can create uh actual weapons, but I think technically they may even be called replica weapons. So, I think I have a little bit of heartburn about taking that out. I understand the concern about the reporting. >> I don't want to say burden because I don't think it's a burden,
018but but I hear that. But I think one of the things >> I'm concerned about I'm concerned on even people's perceived safety in the buildings with replica weapons being allowed. >> If you I think one of the things that and Lee, correct me if I'm wrong, we talked about at the policy committee meeting was if we take it out >> and somebody were to bring in like a something 3D printed or um even was somewhat threatening with us threatening with it, we would still have the ability to communicate that home to the parents that this happened and and and handle that. If we had a first grader, second grader bring a water gun into school that is not threatening at all, but is a replica, we would still have to report to the whole all
019the parents in that building that a student brought a water gun to school. And we don't necessarily want to have to be reporting that every time a student brings a water gun to school because you'd be getting you you may be getting reports all the time. >> So, we want to really focus it on being able to report when there's a a real issue that that needs to be reported. So taking if again correct me if I'm wrong but taking the replica of a weapon out gives us a little bit of uh flexibility on you know if it's a Nerf gun, if it's a water gun, we don't necessarily have to then go through the whole process of communicating that to all the families that a student brought that in. >> And there are other
020ways to address a student bringing in a replica of a weapon than under this policy. This policy is a pretty hardcore policy. There's a lot that's tied to it and there's a lot that ties Dr. Batner Batsner's hands in terms of like a recommended one-year expulsion simply and I'm not laughing away replica but it ties hands whereas I think there's more uh I don't want to discretion within within the within central admin and within the board to to respond to this to this policy if there's there are ways to address a rep the possession of a replica weapon that are not necessarily based on this policy. And that's I that's where we have landed with many of our clients who are not who do not their board and their their superintendent and their central admin
021do not want to be reporting every time a lookalike weapon is brought in. Um but that again is left up to the district. Um so I just want to say like I think there are other ways you could handle the a student with a replica that wouldn't have the same ramifications under this policy that are required. Well, I hear what you're saying about toys, right? Like a water gun, that's a toy. And I and a toy gun would be a replica. I get that definition. That makes sense to me. I guess I'm just more concerned about replicas that really look like the actual weapon and the people in the buildings not knowing the difference. And that's a concern for me. >> So, um, again, Dr. Massner, Dr. McFarland can also step into this. I I
022hear that concern. And I I share that concern. I think for me the outside of this policy, there are many different procedures and expectations in place at the building level um that our administrative team have as like you know a crisis response team or whatever it may be um to address that. So I think like should there be an adult in the building who sees something that is a replica and they don't know then they're going to report that the same way they would report anything else. um this just enables them to respond appropriately to whatever that outcome may be. And maybe you guys could speak to some of the some of the procedures in place for addressing a discipline um disciplinary action with something that is not an actual weapon because this addresses the
023actual weapon. Um >> m Mr. President, just real quickly, uh Dr. Mr. McFarland before you start uh I I am so glad uh in the school systems uh the pendulum swings back and forth regarding zero tolerance policies getting away from zero tolerance policies and giving our school leaders that we've hired and giving them discretion discretion I think is the way to go. I think coach Mike Shashevsky maybe said it best. I don't want to be a dictator or a manager. I want to be a leader and leadership requires discretion. I like giving our uh superintendent, assistant superintendent and principles as much discretion as possible. every disciplinary situation is somewhat unique and I think taking in the multiaceted factors that come into making a decision regarding consequences and so on really that this uh policy I
024think allows them to use their professional discretion that we would like for them to use. Thank you. >> Sure. Sure. If I could just add to that uh very briefly. Um we we'd handle all of those in very very different manners. Obviously, if if a student brings in a water gun in his book bag because it's, you know, June 1st and we're going to a friend's house afterwards and that kindergartenner just did it because we always play water guns there. Um it it allows this this policy change allows us to operate underneath intent. Um I agree with you entirely, Miss Pratt. we have a lookalike gun that is brought in and that student is using it intending to scare or threaten or harm, we can still notify under Act 44 to our families and then
025handle that with an appropriate disciplinary consequence up into uh suspension. Um, however, if the policy contains that replica weapon in, um, the student who forgot that the Nerf gun was in the book bag, who is in kindergarten, who doesn't even check the book bag, um, and just put it on in the morning cuz they were rushed, um, now notifying that there was a firearm brought to school, um, and moving forward with disciplinary action according to then Act 44. So this allows us to look at each individual situation and respond accordingly um for how it's being used and allows us to work as administrative team moving forward in that regard. >> Thank you. >> Any other questions on policy 7.3? >> Okay. Uh moving on to the next one. Questions on policy 7. Uh sorry that's
026not policy 7.3. policy 218.2 this time. Terroristic threats. Um questions or comments on that one. >> Yes. >> Go ahead, Kathleen. >> All right. So, just a question. Um and I'm I'm having some connectivity issues, so I'm not able to pull this one up, but there is a sentence that says the superintendent or designate may report may report uh incidents involving terroristic threats on school property, etc. to law enforcement. agency. So I'm curious why that doesn't say shall report. So if there's a terroristic threat that is in fact made, why may versus shall I I well I will say a lot of what has to be reported is based on the safe schools which is under chapter 10 which is all the regulations on what a district may or may and must report to law
027enforcement. Um, but I know with you having law enforcement here employed by the district, it's probably a lower bar how often things are being reported to to the police. Um, but there are certain there are type because sometimes a terroristic threat may not meet the standards of the of the definition that's within this policy. Um and and the question sometimes or not the question the response sometimes can be handled internally and sometimes can be handled by law enforcement and it does depend on the nature of the threat whether it's founded and um the extent to which we believe there will be some harm that will come but that does fall under the safe schools chapter 10 which has a list of a required reporting and a list of b uh discretionary reporting. >> Thank you.
028Sure. Any other questions on that policy? Okay, moving on to 7.5 policy 218.3. Student adjudicated convicted of sexual assault. Questions on that one. You're allowed to have questions, Kathleen. That is okay. Go ahead. >> I do have questions now. Um I read through this twice because I thought, gosh, I think I'm missing some something. But so I just have a couple questions for clarification. As I read through this, I just felt like the policy didn't go far enough to protect the victim. So here are my questions. And it really is focused on that. So Okay. >> Sure. >> Um >> first, who is our Title N coordinator? >> Dr. McFarland. >> That's me. >> Okay. Thank you. Just that was just cur I was just curious about that. Okay. All right. So, um, if we're
029in the section about, um, let me find this. Um, now again, this policy is about students who have been adjudicated or convicted of sexual assault. So, this just as by like a brief one sentence about this policy, this is very much a literal response to a law that was passed in 2019 that requires everything in this policy. So everything in this policy is required by law. >> All right. Well, thank you. Thank you. Okay. >> Just saying >> that helps. We want to follow the law for sure. All right. So, but I still have the question. >> Yeah. No, no, no. I get it. >> All right. In section one, um, so this is again conviction or adjudication. So, we're not saying maybe it happened. We're saying >> So, conviction is if they're charged by
030as an adult. Adjudication is if they're charged as a juvenile. Either way, they have been found to have sexually assaulted a student who is also a district student in Gettysburg. Yeah. >> Yes. So in section one, this is the section that speaks to if the action happened on school on campus property. All right. So my question there is this. >> Um if the title N coordinator determines that the convicted or adjudicated student, and here's where I'm getting a little heartburn, I'm not done. um does not pose an immediate threat to the physical health or safety of any student or other individual arising from the conviction or adjudication of sexual harassment, sexual assault, then essentially the student can return to school and like so it's a yes and a no. I just have to say that
031the elements of what any element that references title n is because you we have to remember that school districts title nine is a civil rights law or civil rights yeah civil rights act and then we have our criminal code of conduct our state you know criminal code that's going to say whether you're convicted or adjudicated technically speaking if we were to follow this law without taking any title n reconsider or considerations it would be a viol violation of that would call it the respondent, the person who either is convicted or adjudicated, it's technically a violation of their rights under Title 9. If we don't do a an analysis under Title 9, it is a very brief analysis. We are going to look at a document from a court because that's the only way this policy
032comes into play is a document from the court that says so and so is adjudicated or so and so is convicted of sexual assault. We're going to look at that. Emergency removal is a really high bar. That means that we haven't made a determination that the student has violated title 9. It is very likely that Dr. McFarland upon receiving an adjudication or a conviction from an outside law enforcement court, a court that was, you know, enforcing um a charge and has found a student to be guilty, it is very likely that there's not much more than that particular piece of proof. We would go through the title N process really briefly, but for purposes of um we for purposes of again under Title 9, it is a civil rights law that we want to make
033sure that we treat the students fairly, but it is going to be a brief time because we will have the proof that shows that the student was convicted or adjudicated and we would likely remove them pretty pretty uh quickly from the time that we would be notified. sometimes that we don't know like their student could be charged with an assault and we don't know until we get the actual conviction or adjudication. Um so is is the title N coordinator going to look get the piece of information and say no the student is not a harm and and the emergency removal is a really really high bar. Um, and so it's likely that the student will qualify for the emergency removal, but it's sort of the policy language that has to be in there to show
034that we're considering all angles of the students actions. Um, it would probably be a little less advisable to have no language in there to just assume. I I don't know. It's just sort of the way it goes because there's different level there's a prepoundonderance of evidence in our level of consideration and then there's um a different standard under the criminal co under for criminal code as to whether they admitted or committed a certain act. >> Right. And this policy really comes into play after after >> it's been done and yeah after it's already been decided that the act was that the student was in fact guilty. >> Yeah. And it I I I pro I prom it's like and I've only had a I've had less than less than a handful of situations where this
035policy comes into play and it's usually a matter of a conversation and the parent of the convicted or adjudicated student is already well aware. We already know what's going to happen, but we have it in the policy to show that we're still going to consider um based on what our obligation is under Title 9. For the most part, we are going to be removing the child, the student pretty pretty efficiently, pretty pretty quickly from the time we get the notice from the um legal side of things. >> I would hope so. I think every student matters for sure. Absolutely. >> Even students who are convicted of a crime, they're people >> and they matter for sure. But I but but I really do have a deep concern for the victim, for a student who we
036still want to come to school and thrive in an academic setting and then in their adult lives. >> And I can't even imagine a situation where a victim would have to be in the school building. >> Up until this law, there was nothing to protect them from that. And so basically like if like if I were to get a call tomorrow from Dr. Matsner that they received a notice, the student would probably not be returning, but we would still be internally doing some of these processes, but we would make sure that they weren't returning until we knew, you know, we were assured of our uh next steps, which is to probably if it's on campus, they can't come back. If it isn't on campus, there's some discretion and that would depend on the administration and
037conversations with the board. >> Yeah, thank you. And I did read that when I read through this twice. I did read that >> it's a long one, but it's intentionally >> I did read the attempts that will be made to protect the victim and that is in here. >> Yeah. >> Um I just felt like we could go a little further, but you've you've settled my mind a little bit. So >> yeah, I there are very few circumstances where we've received a letter of a conviction and we're like, "Okay, let's bring the kids back and let's have a kumbaya. Like that's not how it works in this situation. There's a it's a pretty significant act that we handle seriously. So, yeah. Sure. Thank you. Any other questions on that policy? Okay. One more policy. We're
038looking at uh 7.6 policy 236.1 threat assessments. Any question on that one? Great. Hearing none. All right. Moving on to information item 7.7, GD preliminary budget presentation. All right, Belinda, we're ready for you. At first, I see you all pretty much generally caught the memo that we're in black. So, I had to mention that as I looked around the table. But anyway, uh first view of the 2026 27 budget. Next slide, please. So just so you know regarding um since we have several new members the our budget process really starts out begins in October. We issue directives to our building principles and our program directors. The directive usually will set the parameter basically to say this past year we were targeting 2627 estimates with the lower of 23 24 actuals or 2526 budget allocations as
039the maximum amount. any new additions and justifications had to be justified and uh ready to support uh the reasons thereof. Our budgets were due in November quite right before Thanksgiving. Our budget reviews occurred December 11th through December 18th. Um during the month of January, we had some software uploads by job class. Job class typically means by department. So it'll be like facilities department. It'll be like Lincoln Elementary like it'll be by um by a job class department like so it's easy identified within our system and all of the payroll contracts including active, proposed and retirements known as of January February. Um as well as the audit wrapup is is expected in January. Um so we can ascertain the unassigned fund balance to uh garner if need uh any fund balance necessary to balance the next
040year's budget. We present the preliminary as early as possible. Um, typically wait until the governor's proposal and the board direct us to help direct further changes. The governor's proposal was out. We're still waiting on numbers per se uh simply because I do not anticipate a large change in the governor's proposal. I think we will pretty much be at bay but with what we have for state funds. Um then further we review with cabinet um then of course the first review with the board which is this evening and we continue to review with the board up until the final adoption. Next slide. So as we begin with any budget cycle we begin with the end in mind. The end is being June 1st in accordance with our budget meeting our board meetings that we have uh
041intend to adopt by June 1st. In act one guidelines, there are certain requirements need to be met in order to make sure that you're processing along with your budget. Um, meaning that there is a required number of notification uh for approval. So, the important dates on this slide, of course, with the end in mind, June 1st, um, we have to back up and by April 20th, approve adopt the advertisement of proposed final. This action requires a 30-day notice prior to the action on the final budget. It's required in law that you have to have a a certain timeline associated with it before you can approve a final budget. May 4th in along with our board meetings, we will have a public hearing and then of course June 1st is the date that um we will
042move for action final budget approval, tax rates and fund balance discussions for that night. Next slide. So known variables and changes for this budget. Uh heck of a year first of all I'll say um but regardless the expense and revenue funding will be a third year for ACTI commitment. Um and we were shooting for a fouryear. So this would be the third 2627 will be the third year. So of course we had some funding for personnel. We had some contract approvals. We have health care costs cost of services. This includes special education, charters, transportation costs, and of course inflation in some of the areas as well. Biggest change for 2627 is the adoption of the comprehensive plan and what special education will mean to our district moving forward. Of course, we always have act one
043index. This year and planning is 4.2%. the rules involved or of course the resolution not to exceed which the board has already done that. So which in order allows us to provide more time for review and changes up until the end of the time. Um also during this process we find out what our unassigned fund balance our policy itself says that it needs to maintain 68%. uh we are currently maintaining 6%. Um and uh that is down from over the past few years but the unsigned fun balance is rolling right at 6%. Uh county um real estate assessment data. So in this presentation today that it'll be um utilizing the November certification of the assessment data. More is to come. So I'm likely to see more changes in terms of assessment but not not by
044leaps and bounds. Um basically um more certifications will be coming in more determinations will need to be had um in terms of properties that are available that would actually hit the rules on July 1. So, we continually receive updates from the assessment office and we will provide those updates as we continue to review and update our budget. Expense changes as well as any directives by the board um will be discussed and we again continue to monitor and update the revenue and expenditures. Next slide. So requirements and request. The biggest requirement and the biggest effect on our budget is the special education comprehensive plan. What does that mean? Well, during that plan, we are committing to seven positions. Four of those were added to the 2526 year. Um I'll pause for just a second. those four
045that were added to the 2526 year um were not a school district's choice to do. The IU had indicated to us that they were pulling back some services. Therefore, our district had to be responsive to those. So, while our current budget did not plan for those four positions, we now have to include them in next year's position because the likelihood of them going away is not probable. So seven positions four were added in the 2526 year and three are anticipated more for the 26 27 year and those areas that of service are as autistic support life skills learning support all required and all as a response to the IU's level services that they're pulling back on and that the district is taking on based upon the special education comprehensive plan. out of that the request
046for the new budget is a social worker. Also, um in addition to the comp plan, there's a request for another supervisor special education. And the ultimate goal there is we already have one, but we want to have another simply because we can designate one for elementary and one for secretary. And in just a few minutes, I'll talk a little bit about numbers. And so therefore um bear in mind is the importance of of having two supervisors simply because the magnitude of some of the AIPs am I saying that correctly? IPS um are quite um cumbersome and as well as increasing in numbers. So therefore uh not not just one person can handle that type of workload. Um, another request for the new year is the technology department, which is a classified position. Uh, this is
047really assistance with PIM's, uh, help desk and building supports. Um, there is a need to help bring in more technology supports to the district. So, that is really the the main goal of main goal in the requirements and the request for next year. So you can see the slide doesn't have a lot but the side represents a lot of changes in our district's budget. So moving forward, next slide. Our general fund revenue is proposed. So we have an operating total revenue of $79.7 million. Out of that the local is 54 million, state is 24.4 million and federal is 1.13 million. the federal other is basically sale of assets which is very min minute um the majority of our budget of course is local funds as you could see see that it is 68% versus 31%
048state I don't anticipate receiving a lot of additional state funds so the revenue source is either going to fall on some changes and or local revenue being changed um some of the federal funds I'd like to announce that we still including sources from title one two three and four. It's uncertain if three or four will remain. We have heard that title one and two will be in still in effect. So there could be some changes in sort of uh the the revenue section of for the federal budget moving forward too as more is known. When we will know is not certain. But that 1.13 million is basically current year's revenue sources of all title programs. Next slide. This is another um slide bar chart. As you can see uh we're really uh proportionately all four
049the actuals to the budget to the proposed uh where it all lies. It's you know mostly funded by local uh state and federal. They haven't changed much by revenue by year. Next slide. our expenditures by object. So it's far easy to discuss a budget when you can kind of put um not by function but by object. Object are this the sources. So for example you everyone is familiar with salaries and benefits purchase of service and supplies rather than um education uh instruction versus special and support services and so forth. Um, but I can also cover that in just a few slides. But for the most part, so our proposed expenditures are $85.9 million. Our salaries and benefits, which is our one and 200 object series, is $49.2 million. Purchases services, which is 3, four, and
050500 objects, 22.3 million. Our supplies which covers supplies, technology, support services, support uh such as uh software and and so forth is just 4 million which is 5%. Um and then other expenses which is our 7800 900 categories uh includes all of our debt, all our principal, interest, um capital reserve and uh some replacement of equipment for $10.3 million. The largest portion of our budget, of course, 57% salary and benefits, which is not a surprise simply because we're a service organization servicing the education of our students. Next slide. Here's a graph showing um where the largest changes are. You, as you can see, of course, the salaries and benefits are going up. The biggest change in the budget is purchase of services, which I'll explain relative to special education. Supplies have remained relatively consistent as
051well as the other expenses. Next slide. As I mentioned before, it's easier to discuss a budget by object. This is a discussion by function. So functionality of a district's budget. Um instruction. So out of our total $85 million, what's attributed to just instruction alone? That's 49.8 million. Support services are all other services such as um principal services, um facility services, and so forth. That comes into $24.5 million. operations and non-instructional services, which is a 3000 series, 1.7 million. The facilities and construction is a 4,000 series. Of course, there's zero dollars there. That's simply saying the general fund is not supporting facilities and construction. That would typically be capital reserve. Other financing sources, principal interest in capital reserve funds, um to move towards capital reserve, $9.7 million. ACTI funding is in that 5,000 category of other
052financing services. So the majority of our budget of course is 58% of instruction, 29% support services, operation of 2% and other financing sources of 11%. Next slide. Here it is again just showing a bar chart just to kind of relatively show the the natural um increases in terms of instruction. instruction and support services is the majority of where the changes are for our current budget. Next slide. I wouldn't be remiss if I didn't talk about fund balance comparison just over a three-year period. The actual versus current versus proposed. Um we can definitely see a decline uh on fund balance and I will reference this is unassigned fund balance. This is not committed, assigned and or restricted fund balance which we can you can clearly see in the audit how those uh assignments are. So the
053unassigned family balance obvious obviously over the next three years is declining. What does fund balance mean to the district? Next slide. It really means the cash on hand. Um especially over the summer months. You know we typically how cash flow occurs uh when the tax taxes go out um funds were attributed to the district we will take and invest them out and invest them according to our payroll calendar our accounts payable calendars and we will um bring back investments in order to pay. Um this really indicates of the assign unassigned fund balance how many days on hand can we operate or or not operate. um with an assign fund balance and this is really assuming cash only no receivables and it's calculated on a 365 day a year. So you could see we had 24
054days and 21 as we move to 26 we're down to 13 27 we're now um below 15 days um with the proposed budget. Next slide. We talk a little bit about de demographics. I'm not sure if this was really shared over previously. I know we had a demographic study. Um what I like to point out here is we have you know over since 2016 we were slightly increasing. We've come down in 2122. Um again those are co years. Um so we've seen a little bit of a change. Um now why you'll see 24 25 and 26 the same is simply because uh last PIM's reporting and last certified data has not been obtained yet for those years. So we maintain that the last known um actual enrollment on file which is 2886 students. Next slide.
055So per pup people general fund expenditures. So this is the general fund expenditures divided by district educated enrollment. Well this is slide before. So you can see their expenditures. This is um our actuals along with our 26 um here which is a current budget number but the others are actuals. So we could take the total district expenditures divided by education enrollment. You can see that for 25 ended it's 26,948 per student. Next slide. >> Linda, can I ask a quick question about that? Is that based off of that number that was static like not having the enrollment number? So in theory, >> we know the money, but we don't know the official enrollment. >> So the official enrollment the previous Very good question. So the previous enrollment um was certified at 2886. So it's taking
056the district expenditures divided by 2886. So that may not be entirely accurate for the most current years. >> Correct. >> Okay. Thank you. >> The demographics daily cost per pupil is the next slide. Um this is based upon 180 days. So of course you can see again the factor of the the enrollment. Um and divided by 180 days it's this is the cost per day. So for 2025 is $150 per day per student for 180 days. Next slide. I know um we talk a little bit about uh we are service industry. We are very much heavy on the benefits and the personnel cost of the district which is majority of what we do. But how do we invest in our people is the question. So you know understanding the staff compensation and how it fits
057into the district's budget is something I wanted to share with our board. something because I don't think we've ever really talked about it in a high level. So the next slide, you know, the share of salaries and benefits are very important. So we have contracts in place. The salary expense makes up 34.55% of the budget. Benefit cost makes up 25.31%. The benefits represent 42 cents 42.28 cents on every dollar spent on compensation. So you can see and this is as of 2026. So this is where we are anticipating and how we are planning appropriately. So um this number is obtained by several resources pulling in data. So uh this isn't just on budget. This is looking out at several reporting agencies that are required uh that we provide information to. Uh so a further breakdown
058is uh how is it distributed? Next slide. So 72.75% of those salaries all equate to the certified professional staff in the district. The classified staff are next in line at 14.94%. Administrative salaries account for 9.85% and all other roles together represent 2.4% of the salaries but dollars. So the largest equation in the whole salary structure again 72.75% of our total budget equates to salary spending. So what type next slide please type of benefits we provide of course we provide retirement health insurance and other benefits as part of a total benefit package. Our retalment benefits accounts for 56.82% 82% of all benefit dollars. Health insurance benefits represent 37.53. That's medical, dental, life, health, um, excuse me, and I'm forgetting one. Vision, excuse me, vision. Um, all other benefits equate to 5.65%. Um, within our control is
059all other benefits. And why I say that um this includes some HSA funding which you know was discussed greatly at negotiations um and so that number could potentially gain but I don't um that number could potentially reduce not for next year of course but probably within next contracts negotiation but as you can see that number is the smallest percentage retirement benefits makes up the majority and that is mandated. So of course that's not changing anytime soon. Health insurance as we all know keeps increasing um from year after year. Just the cost of services keeps increasing. So we try to being a part of Lincoln benefit trust the self-unding we try to help um help offset some of those peaks and try to avoid the declines in the peaks and rather try to stay consistent with
060with the healthcare cost. um that only helps our staff as well as our district's budget. Um as next slide then please. So from here we'll move to special education. We'll spend a little bit of time. Next slide please. So why I felt this is important to say and to show in a graph form. So 428 special education enrollment for fiscal year 24 that is that is a true number that is actual. Out of that, that's 5.6% growth historical special education from 19 to 2024. In comparison, we are well above states special education enrollment growth because that growth is 2.4%. 2.54%. And then of course in the average national special education growth is 1.59%. So, Gettysburg is providing special education service above national as well as state um trends and it will continue to go simply
061because the needs need to be met by the students in which we serve. Um when I talk a little bit about what that en special education enrollment is, we are seeing a huge increase for the as I mentioned before. This influx is all cross special education services. However, the main influx is the as autistic support services. So you know we received notice from the IU again as I mentioned before um that they're scaling back some of their services. So of course we've got to provide services in some fashion or another whether that's in district or whether we're sending them to a location to receive services. And we just want to indicate to you how much this growth has occurred. For example 2023 24 we identified four as students 24 25 we identified 22. So 22
062+ 4 25 26 we've identified 17. So 17 + 22 and four 26 27 we have identified approximately with the the uh special I'm sorry the um prek student numbers coming in the potential of 15 more as students needing to be served. So over a 4-year window, we are anticipating a service of 58 autistic support students. That's either internally or sending them out to location. An approximate cost for an AS student is about $70,000 per student. We've utilized out district placement of such services such as Soaring Heights, New Mar. We have students presently at all three locations. Keep in mind classroom count to hold in-house cannot exceed more than the maximum of eight children. So we cannot load these classrooms up to 20 24 26 because we're mandated to stay at eight or below. So
063in district we rely currently on new story. We have two classrooms. One's at Lincoln and one's at high school at the moment. The total cost of those present conditions is $1.45 million. And each one of those students is a approximate cost of $60,400. Next slide. Historically, our special education cost, you can see the average 5-year cost change is 32.44%. And this is actual. This isn't budget budget to budget. This is from 19 to uh based upon actual expenditures. Next slide. I wouldn't be remiss if I talked about our tax history impact. Um so I some of the members that have been here before and with Dr. Pin before if you recall his goal was to have uh a minimum of 1% tax increase a year uh since 1718. And um we shortened this slide just
064a little bit simply because uh we wanted to represent the most current years with Dr. Matner now being here and what has transpired since 2023 to 20 22 to 23. So um we've also included what the act one index here is and what the gazd's percent tax increase. So over the three years and and right now as we prepare our next year's budget is 0% and I go in to explain some options later. Um if we're just looking at those four years we have a 676% average um based upon uh what the percent index was. Now bear in mind the 2425 and the 2526 school year, the 1% was attributed directly to ACTI's funding of the loan. So all of their services increases, contractual increases didn't continue to go up, but we didn't address uh
065any new tax funds to attribute to um to those level services. Um, we ran some numbers within the office just to out of curiosity. I'm one that comes to know of if we obtained um if we had funds um at least to the index andor 1% what was our loss revenue that we did not obtain um over those period of times. So um if we were looking at excuse me let me find my documentation here. If we were maintaining 1% over the last several years, um the lost revenue was slightly over $3 million. If we went to the index over those period of years, exactly what the index was, um it would have garnished an additional $ 8.2 million. And why I say this is simply because as we move into the next slide, revenues
066are supposed to equal expenditures. How you do that is a combination. Um the goal is never to use fund balance as one-time money to help balance your budget. The district has been doing that simply because it hasn't been raising taxes. The day has come to where our fund balance is no longer going to be able to be tapped. Our fund balance is a 6% of of expenditures. And again, if expenditures change, the fund balance appropriation change because 6% of the expenditures is what needs to be maintained by policy. So, right off the bat, if we have 70 $85 million worth of expenditures, 80.9 85.9, our minimum 6% unassigned fund balance per policy needs to be at 5.1 million. Our audited unassigned fund balance was just over $4 million. So, as I mentioned before, you know,
067we do have a significant change in next year's budget. how we're going to balance it is going to take some major looking um and looking at how we do things simply because um even if we have if we have a 0% tax increase for example we have a $6.2 $2 million deficit. We've historically used some proposed piecers commitment that we have assigned funds by the board. So the increase in piecers percentages that are calculated out on based upon salaries is an amount that's factored in every year so that we can bring some of that support back in to help um a revenue stream. So in doing so with the 0% increase in considering the piecers assigned commitment um we're looking for 5 million $9 million is the gap. So there's no fund balance to rely
068on um simply to to fund that. If we were to look at a 1% tax increase which is usually brings in about $360ome,000 worth of revenue. Uh we are still looking at a without the piece commitment a 5.8 million gap and with the piece commitment $5.5 million that we need to look for and with the maximum 4.2% uh we will be looking at a $4.2 million gap of fund balance or not fund balance excuse me just revenue versus expenditures. That's a gap that even a maximum tax increase cannot address. Like $4.26 million, it's very hard to obtain how to balance this budget without using fund balance. So why I mentioned the previous act one index, I think hindsight is 2020. If we knew the comprehensive plan was changing and we knew special education was changing
069with the IU, we could have been going to the index and we wouldn't have to have to worry about this type of deficit because we would have those funds already set aside. We can't raise taxes far enough or above enough to even ever come back with those funds lost nor to address a $4.2 million. What are we going to do? It's a great question. Um, we are going to look at services. Do we need to replace retiring teachers? Do we need to reassign reassignments? Do we need to have all the contracts of other professional contracts in place? Do we stop funding our capital reserve with hopes that we have um an assigned fund balance to help that moving forward? Do we cut positions is the question. Do we cut services? Uh we obviously can't cut
070special education services because we already know there's a need there and we already know that there's a need that we have to fulfill. Um so there's there's a lot of work that's needs to go into this budget. I don't anticipate any more additional state revenue. So it's really going to rely on local funding um and how we can maximize. we have um factored in some growth from some of the developments that are going on. We'll need to take a look at what those uh what those percentages are. Um I do know from last year to current year analysis just in real estate growth without a 0% increase consideration that the real estate grew $894,000. So, um I again don't increase I don't anticipate any large changes in that fashion by looking at the other developments
071that we've already factored in. But we'll receive some updated uh data from the assessment office. We'll look at our ending earned income. We're going to look at some of our other services that we have. Um we're going to look at some of the additions. Is it really necessary or can we put it off for another year? Um, so there's more work to do on this budget, but this is the this is the big elephant in the room. Um, the gap is higher than we've ever had, and I don't want to be the bearer of bad news, but this is not a good budget situation to be in. Any questions on the budget? >> I've got one real quick then. So right now the expenditures um and revenues I guess really on the revenues end is
072assuming the full federal commitment. >> Yes. The one point whatever million. >> Correct. Mhm. Another area I believe that Dr. Mcfarling can address is that we may be looking at some residential residency uh verifications that may bring back some funds to the district. But that is a work in progress. It's not something we can put some numbers to at the moment, but there there are some things that we need, you know, further to take a look at um and, you know, run some risk or everything's going up. The charter charter expenses are going up. Um transportation services continue to go up. Um as well as we have contracts in place uh with the association and um others. So, uh, it really is going to take a hard look at some of the other services that
073we can address, but um, even 4% is not going to, which was our supplies, 4% is not going to make up the deficit of $4.2 million. So, um, and if anything holds bar, uh, we are not the only district relative to this at this moment simply because, um, I think all of us, especially probably in Adams County, you know, with and York County with the IU's changing its level of service, um, are making decisions to bring back services um, simply because they they still have to provide some level whether it's sending the students out or whether it's having that availability within our district to to provide that level of service. So, we're not the only one in this particular predicament. Um, I don't know if that weighs any weight, but more work to do. And
074like I said, we will continue to update the board. We will update you as to where uh we found any type of um financial impact. Our goal is to reduce that 4.2 as best as we can. Our goal is not to use on a sun fund balance, but um we may once as the expenditures reduce to some degree, then that on a sun fund balance will likely go up a little bit more. So we can kind of use maybe some of that. Um but more to come. And if you have any questions at all relative to the presentation, feel free to send them my way. >> Not not really a question, Belinda. Uh just uh a couple comments. Uh I do appreciate the early information on this even though I don't handle bad news well.
075Uh I'm I'm hoping this is possibly worst case scenario that uh the governor is going to uh with the our friends in Harrisburg are going to help us out a little bit more. At least I'm hearing some pretty positive information coming out of there from for Adams County Schools. I I would just say, you know, being on the board now, I I guess around 8 years or so, as much as it is appealing to do a zero tax increase and become a hero of the community for 5 minutes, in the long run, just to meet contractual obligations, inflation, and and all the other factors that go into this, it just doesn't make sense to do that. uh or at some point you and your district are going to fall off the literal fiscal cliff. And
076I I really don't want that to happen to Gettysburg. So, I I do think and I would just challenge this board, you know, as we look at this and and the administrative team, I know you're going to go back and give a hard look at everything and make sure everything's justifiable, but at the but the reality is we have a very small discretion over a very small percentage of the budget. Most of it is locked in and mandated and contractually obligated. So, so uh uh again uh at some point when you do uh when past boards don't do their due diligence at times uh current boards have to make up for that and uh and and again I'm part of those past boards. So I'm part of the issue uh there. Uh so when I'm
077being critical, I'm criticizing myself as well, but uh so we're going to have to really uh pick it up. And I I but I do appreciate the early information uh that's going to help us along the way and uh at least u we we know we've got some work to do and I know you all have some work to do and I know you will do that. So thank thank you for the early information. >> You're welcome. >> Educate me on LIU's funding. >> Sure. Um LU the the budget that you recently received that is for administration services. So that is operation of the IU in the building in which they serve. Uh special education services are are not approved by school boards. That is a level of service that they provide districts. They at
078one time they build by what's called a schedule A which is a whole schedule services include salary and benefits and what that service looks like and where it goes. Um they used to have fair share which meant um you had to have classroom space available within your footprint. Um the model has changed with Yayu and some my colleagues could probably say a little bit more detail on it but the model has changed where they're selecting levels of service now where they're not funding or they're not providing. they're having just as hard of time finding staff and their staff and benefits are a different rate of course and it's spread out across the schools. So, um they're pick they're choosing what level services they can provide. Um and many of the districts are bringing back services
079simply because it's a better rate, more coste effective rate and we need to provide the service um that we otherwise could not get. So um what we're attempt to do is still send our students. Sometimes we'll use local LEAs which is our surrounding schools. We'll share classrooms and so forth. Um, but the schedule A is build out and will be invoiced over a 10-month period. So, our cost to the IU for special ed services is currently at $3.2 million. So, um, I don't envision those costs changing because they're servicing students. I I would envision our cost increasing on our own simp because we now need to it's it's truly growth in the autistic support arena is really where this this budget is coming in where it's being hit the hardest and autistic support services is
080not something the IU is providing for us anymore. I don't know if that answers your question. >> Okay. Yeah. >> I use revenue stream. >> Where do they receive all their revenue? They receive some from the government, some from the federal government. They receive amounts per district for operational um operational that is and uh special services. So for example, they have a great technology support system at the IU and they help do training, professional development. Um we take advantage of that. We pay a fee for that. We pay a fee for joint purchasing. We belong to the joint purchasing board where we're able to obtain better rates on purchasing our supplies um purchasing our energy product um simply because we joint procure that. So there's other levels of services but we pay to participate in
081it's just not the actual approval that you've done. Um and special education is built out separately based upon the level of service that you need. So I'm trying to think if there's other levels of service. Um I'm drawing a blank at the moment but um they will rate not moving forward they will rate their level of service and what's available to the districts so they can choose which levels of service they want to rely on the IU for um and it will be invoiced to us based upon a year's worth 10 months and there's a reconciliation that happens at the end of the year. Then >> just along those lines with the changes for special education >> along those lines with the changes in special education is do you know what the um the margin
082increase is for with just on the per student basis. You you were throwing around about 70,000 were we with the IU services under over >> the IU services were over. >> Huh. >> Yeah. Now I will say we're getting very close andor more when sending our students out of placement. So we can provide more service in district uh simply because we have more control over the salary and the benefits than what it would cost going out. But again sometimes going out for out of placement services is a better deal as well. just depends on top what services is because um benefits are always a factor of what those rates are. So not knowing what they are they'll say this is the rate and per day or whatever it may be. So it could range depends
083upon what level of service and and where they're pulling you know their their needs from what what organization that they're utilizing to provide that service. But um our costs internally are are far less than what it was to provide IU. So if we were to take a teacher salary and benefits, ours would be less simply because our contract benefits benefits specifically are less than what the IUs were. >> And we could keep you here all night. So the uh the other thing I just was wondering about was ch cyber charter school tuition reform which I think was a pretty big number if that went through Harrisburg, but I haven't really heard much in the news about it lately. Um what would our potential district savings be? I know you did a presentation on this to
084the previous board. >> Yeah. Um the rates have just been um changed slightly. So cyber rates have come down. I would say that they're a range from five to $10,000 down from per student. Um the regular ed bricks and mortars haven't changed in the rates. So they will maintain themselves, but um I say within the first year you'll see a decrease um of approximately $5 to $800,000. >> Not Not four million. Four million. No. >> Yeah. But great question. Um it's definitely an area as well as residency. We want to make sure that um terms of residency in the cyber charters that we are capturing district students. Great. Thanks Belinda. Um again if you I'm sure there will be many many more questions and you said any questions I think yes a lot right. Um
085but it is a work in progress at present moment. So, if you have any questions, please uh send them along and CC myself and Al, and we will um make sure that information gets out to the board. We look forward to hearing hearing more about it. I'm sorry I didn't wear black for you. I I didn't get the memo. Um board committee reports. So, uh we saw the product of the policy committee meeting uh earlier on going through many many policies there. And our uh finance and facilities committee meeting is coming up this Thursday at 4. A reminder that that is the final committee meeting at that structured time of four o'clock and starting in the month of March, we're starting that committee of the whole on the first uh meeting of the month. Program
086reports. Dr. Mer. >> Yeah, I have uh quite a few things to go over. I'll do them all very quickly. Um I want to have everybody leave with some positive uh some happy thoughts after the budget presentation. Um, starting with our, uh, monthly winners for our gassy glows, uh, which is a program we use to recognize staff throughout the district. Uh, our winners for the month of January were Mark Smith, a counselor at the high school, Robert Craft, who is a district maintenance tech, and Susan Medlock, who is a custodian at James Gettys Elementary. So, I like to give a shout out to all them. Um, winter sports has ended. Um, regular seasons at least have ended. We have a lot of postseason things happening. I'm just going to do a quick uh winter sports
087rundown. Uh boys wrestling finished the season 22 and two as a team. They were the district 3AA champions and qualify for states uh for individuals. They won section four, the section 4 championship and are sending 11 wrestlers to districts this weekend. The girls finished the season 17 and two as a team. They finished third in the first ever district 3 championships which we actually hosted here at Kettisburg. Uh for individuals, they also won the section 4 championship and they will be sending six wrestlers to regionals uh on February 28th. Our botchi team had their very first season this year. They finished 4 and 12. Uh but there was incredible an incredible amount of growth for those athletes throughout the season. Um, I know if you had a chance to go and watch any of those
088games, they were a lot of fun. Uh, girls basketball finished the season 9 and 13. Boys basketball finished 4 and 18. And then our swimming team had a very good season as well. They will be sending eight swimmers to districts on the 27th and 28th. So, I'd like to congratulate all of our Warrior athletes. We have a lot of them participating in some postseason activity, which is great. We are hosting um two kindergarten readiness events. Uh we want to welcome our new warrior families that will be joining us next school year. The first one is scheduled for this Thursday at Lincoln Elementary at 5:30 p.m. The second kindergarten readiness event is scheduled for February 26th at 5:30 at James Getty's and the third March 12th at 6:00 at Franklin Township. We have a lot of
089staff uh working hard to get these activities put together to welcome our new warriors for next school year. Um if you have nothing to do the weekend of February 27th, please come out and check out the high school's spring musical. Uh will be Shrek the Musical. It is going to be on Friday the 27th at 7 p.m. and Saturday the 28th. We have two shows, one at 2:00 and one at 7:00. Tickets are available on the homepage or uh on the high school homepage on our website. And finally, you may have seen a post recently uh we are hosting an event in March on March 25th uh called Keeping Kids Safe from Hidden Digital Dangers. We are partnering with um uh FBI special agent Jeffrey Ford to present a program that evening for our families
090um at the high school. Again, it's March 25th at 6:30. We're actually starting at 5:30 with light refreshments and a resource fair featuring other local agencies that support youth wellness and family services. Um, also would like to thank the Gettysburg Area Education Foundation. Um, we've partnered with them. The first hundred Gassy families registered to attend this presentation will receive a free copy um of the book, The Anxious Generation, which is a very good book. for anybody who hasn't read it yet, I recommend it. Um, there's a lot of things in there that will tie well to the presentation. So, we have done presentations on digital safety uh at the high school for our students. We have some upcoming at the middle school for our students and we also thought it was um in our best
091interest to do something for the community and for the parents as well. So, that's happening on March 25th at 6:30. Uh, that's all I have. Our next uh meeting dates, I guess Alice, go over. >> Sure. Um, yep. Thank you. Our next meeting date is on March 2nd, Monday, March 2nd in this room. There are no further items and I'll take a motion to adjourn. >> Tim's not here, so >> second. Second. >> You just have to say so moved.