001Good evening and welcome to the Gaysburg Area School District's uh board of directors meeting. This is some housekeeping notes. After last board meeting uh two weeks ago, the board held a workshop immediately following and this evening we held a factf finding session with the administration. No deliberations occurred uh no decisions. Having said that, the purpose of the ga of this meeting is to conduct the business of the Gaysburg Area School District. Board of director meetings or committee meetings are open to 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. Excuse me. Public comment is welcome and all issues will refer to the appropriate board committee or administrator. Comments are always summarized
002in official board minutes and they can be made available by contacting the business office. Please take a moment and silence any electric devices including your cell phones. We have two members currently absent. I think you can see Jeremy and Mike. Please stand 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. We're going to go past notices and communications. board members. You can see uh some items there in terms of food service report etc. It's on your agenda form. That leads us to citizen participation. Al thank you Mr. President and welcome everyone. Uh we have one person tonight that is asked to address the board. Mrs. Justine Zigg. >>
003Good evening. I just came to speak tonight um because of little bits and pieces that I've heard about the um proposal for the team room. Um it's a large investment, 2.1 million, I guess 2,18,000. Um and just making sure that everybody's on board. Seems like um an investment that may be a good one, maybe not. Um I'm curious because I think it's really going to benefit solely the football players. Um, thinking about athletics, I'm fully supportive of all programs, but I struggle to wrap my brain around um, such a large investment. And my understanding is it's a team room, so there's no lockers, and I'm not sure how the teams are benefiting from it. Football's the only team that has time at halftime to go to a team room. Um, so you're again I I
004just keep thinking $2.1 million, a lot of money to benefit maybe about 70 athletes in our district. I do think so. With that said, thinking of $2.1 million and where that could be spent, thinking of all of our athletes, um, you have no turf practice fields. So, if we're thinking football, lacrosse, field hockey, soccer could really benefit from a turf field at the high school. Um, and I'm just wanting to make sure that hopefully the finance committee can bring forward. I know it's in the agenda and it's there, but hopefully when it comes to that item tonight that there's more shared for the general public to hear where that $2.1 million is coming from. And I know that there's bond money included in that. I know that there's also repairs that are being proposed to
005the visitor side, which is great. Um, but just seems like maybe money could be spent elsewhere for our athletes again um to benefit some others as well. So, thank you. >> Thank you. [Music] >> That's it. That's it. That brings us to our routine approvals. Um, I'm going to ask for a consolidated motion. 5.1, which is the agenda. 5.2, the financial report. 5.3, approval, bus and van contractors. 5.4 is the approval of drivers. 5.5 is the approval of bus stops. 56 approval bus and van routes. 57 approval bus and van changes. 58 authorized superintendent approval and 59 is the HR recommendations from the administration. I have a motion for 5.1 through 5.9. >> So moved. >> Second. Question on a motion on the floor. Mr. President, I have a question. >> Yes, >> I have
006a question. So, 5.3 to 5.6. >> Yes, those attachments are in executive content for the board to see. Any additional? >> I have a question about 5.8. Um, I just want to make sure that we're authorizing Dr. Matsner to essentially hire drivers, but then those drivers are going to come in front of us after the fact. I think in the past and and Jeff you can stop me if I'm wrong is is the superintendent uh has the approval to do the contracts and the hiring of the company or slashd drivers and then that list comes to us after it has been through administration for vote or board action. Is that accurate Belinda? So I yeah I I think it's like everything else um when you look at a hiring process in a district um outside
007of of what we would refer to as the A team. The offers would come the offer would come from the administration. The board then would take into consideration the administration's recommendation and ultimately each board member can make their individual vote as to whether or not they support that particular hire or that direction that the administration's going. >> And Dr. Metser, I'm assuming this gives you the agility to move more quickly in an area where almost every district that I'm aware of is fighting to try to find enough fan and bus drivers. So this way we can uh get people on board uh a much more quickly. >> Yeah, makes makes a lot of sense. >> Any additional question on the motion hearing? on 5.1 through 5.9. Roll call. Ryan, >> yes. >> Kathleen, >> yes.
008>> Michelle, >> yes. >> Al, >> yes. >> Alice, >> yes. >> Tim, >> yes. >> And I vote yes. That brings us to items for board action 6.1, policy number 706.1, disposal of surplus uh property, equipment, supplies, and textbooks. May I have a motion, please? So moved. Second >> question on 6.1 motion hearing. None. Roll call. Tim, >> yes. >> Alice, >> yes. >> Al, >> yes. >> Michelle, >> yes. >> Kathleen, >> yes. >> Ryan, >> yes. >> And I vote yes. >> That brings us to ourformational items. I'm going to go down through each of them individually. So if a board member has a particular question or needs or wants to share additional information including the administration just stop me. 7.1 it's act um acti 2526 budget amendment for personnel. Is there
009any questions on thatformational item? >> Um I don't know if it's a question as much as it's a comment but maybe is a question. Um, the ACTI superintendent of record is now being asking is now asking to be paid an additional stipen of $15,000. And we're trying to justify that by saying that it's due to land purchase and a building project. And I have a problem with that because what happens when the building project is over? Are we going to continue to pay the ACTI superintendent of record $15,000? Is it going to be like the Johntown flood tax? I don't have a problem with the additional position for the allied health seat or the allied health teacher because we all know that we have plenty of kids that want to get in the program and
010I'm pretty sure Mr. Rekenro came in here and told us that he had to cut seats because he didn't have the teachers. I don't have a problem with that. Um but the collective bargaining that you know they made inaccurate amounts because I mean this is kind of ridiculous as well as you know an additional $30,000 for office personnel. um they were making it pretty good with what they had previously and now all of a sudden we're adding a whole lot of administrative positions to ACTI and the program hasn't expanded yet. So I have a real issue with that. Um, these are the, you know, they're saying, well, it's inconsistent with salaries compared to similar districts. Well, I think we need to stop comparing ourselves with everybody else and do what we need to do to
011make things right here. Taxpayers want us to get our hands out of their pockets. That's pretty much all I have to say about it. >> I I would just go ahead, Alice. I I have a question about the second uh bullet point and I'm not sure what amount of information can be shared or by whom, but um when talking about um the collective bargaining negotiations still being in progress that I understand um when the original budget was submitted, but then it says some of the assumptions made were inaccurate and amounts were adjusted. So, I'm curious about what like what types of what would that have been about types of assumptions that were inaccurate? things that they had to like forecast for the amount, but I don't know what category of money we're talking about here.
012Is there a person to ask this question to >> and see? Go ahead, Jeeoff. >> I was going to say I I I don't know the answer off the top of my head, but I could certainly try to find out. >> That'd be great. Thank you. >> So, I can solve this real easily um to some degree on anformational item. If there's questions from individual board members, there's two two distinct ways that we can go about getting that information. One is leading up once the agenda is released, reaching out to the administration and letting them either get the appropriate people here to answer the question or if they're able to answer the question like in that given evening when it's presented. Outside of that not happening, which is it is give or take. the only
013additional option if members aren't satisfied and aren't prepared. And I don't mean by lack of preparation, but because they don't have the answers to their questions. And and I'm not saying you have to satisfy every board member because that's not what's going to happen here. We can also run it for a secondformational item to get those questions answered. So, if we can't do it between now and the next board meeting, questions that each board member individually has, then we'll we'll put it into anformational item and make sure that the appropriate people are here to answer it. Does that work? That I mean, because they're legitimate questions. I'm just trying to streamline it a little bit. >> Yeah, I appreciate that. On my end, just an answer would be fine. So, it's fine if that comes
014in an email. >> You had several. I I think going to an putting this as anformational item again would be appropriate and >> maybe we wouldn't have so many questions if we would be getting a report from our ACTI rep. >> I understand. So, I'll >> see that I make the agenda, then I'll discuss it with Jeff and and and and Matt will see, >> you know, how easy or how quickly we can get uh the questions that you pose here answered. And if not, we'll have somebody representing to their best of ability acti. >> Uh Mr. President, I I appreciate everything that you're saying and uh Alice, Michelle, I like your questions. Regarding the one question that Michelle was talking about regarding the bullet uh regarding the uh superintendent of record, I know in
015York County where they have 14 contributing schools that are fairly large uh there is a superintendent of record. I believe in Cumberland Perry it's more of a shared responsibility. I think it'd be helpful for the board here to have an idea of what what does the performance responsibilities look like for superintendent of record before we approve a a pretty good stipen uh an annual stipen that would help us out, I think. Thank you. >> Thank you, >> Mr. President. I do have three questions I'd like to add to the mix. Um I'm I'm curious to know why the part-time lab assistant position is difficult to fill. So that was the reason given for wanting an additional full-time faculty member. So I'm curious to know I'm also curious to know the acti superintendent of record. Has
016that been paid from another budget? Is that a volunteer position? So I'm curious to know to know that. And third, how many business office personnel are there for this $30,000 plus request? >> Two. Thank you. >> So I think moving forward you would agree. >> Yeah. >> That and if you have additional after this evening if you would email them to you can email them to me and I'll I'll move them forward. We'll see if we can't satisfy the answers and if we have to run as anformational item at the next meeting. I don't know if there's a time constraint on this particular item or not. I can I can check with AC because you I think we have to be conscious of the fact that we are one district one district of several obviously.
017So we're not going to we don't have to say all end all. I mean the board votes how it votes. Other boards can vote how they vote but I'll I'll make sure we we address the concerns or questions at the next meeting. Next is 7.2. It's the uh team room bid review. Uh, I know in terms of discussion and our speaker here this evening hit on some bullet points. Um, Jeeoff, is there someone this evening that's going to give a quick overview? >> Kevin, did you want to or Josh? >> What would you like to know? >> Just a quick overview of the uh bid for the team room, >> please. The bid tabulation will be put up on the screen here in a moment. Um so we had several biders, three general construction biders.
018The lowest bid um overall including the MEP uh factors of the situation uh with all adds resulted in in 2.108 as she alluded to earlier. um that the district's um position is that we're we're not super excited about the viewing platform in that it um it presents two, you know, safety and staffing concerns. Um just our our view. Um so it's a 3200 ft box for rooms that will be used by any team that wants access to it given the 80s availabilities. Um it it is primarily for the football team uh in thought process, but it will house practice sessions for all teams uh that are on the field at the time when when necessary. And um it's pretty straightforward box in the hillside. Vanessa, can you Thank you. >> Thanks. >> So, could you
019allude a little bit more about the um um sports medicine part of that, please? >> Absolutely. So, there either either side has room for a team. Uh the home team side is slightly larger. And then in the central location in the front of the building, there is like a T-shaped room that will have it has a a separate room for treating athletes with hot tubs, spas. Um, it has a centralized location for taping and general needs. And then it has two storage locations and a restroom as well. So it's it's fully functional facility for health medicine as well as or sports medicine as well as you know athlete use. And what just for people, well, I'm realizing I don't know this, but I'm sure some of the public doesn't either. What are the um what
020are our sports like medicine people doing the athletic change? What are they using right now in terms of space for that? >> Right now, the the location they're using is inside this in in front of the locker rooms between the locker rooms and the gym. So, if there's truly they have to tape up up there and walk all the way down. They've been doing it for years. It has it hasn't been a bone of contention to this point, but it will provide them more access readily available on the field for more the injury side of the thing uh side of the house, but just generally a a centralized location for him to work from as as opposed to 200 yards away up in the building. >> Great. Thank you. >> I don't Anybody else? If
021not, >> yes, thank you. Um so I want to confirm two things are happening here. We are looking to renovate 1976 bleachers on the visitor side and building this team's room structure. Right. And I want to acknowledge that before I joined you, the board and administration has worked really hard on all of this. Um, but as we look to the possibility of shrinking income with federal recision, I do have two questions that are related to each other. Is this over $2 million project, is it a must-have? Is it a nice to have? And what do we lose by not moving forward building a team's building? >> Tim, was was was some of this addressed in the finance committee meeting or No, >> I I wasn't there. That's why I'm asking. >> Um nothing about u
022necessarily want or need. We've just been discussing um the project itself. Uh and I didn't catch I'm sorry. I didn't catch the second part of your question. >> What do we lose by not moving forward with this $2 million project? >> Well, I know and I'm pretty sure and Kevin and Josh could correct me, but I know that they do have the the place in the middle school they use now, but I don't know if does that have the um the hot tubs and ice baths and that kind of stuff in that >> as well? No. >> No. And it's it's to be fair um to this concept of this room, the the places they're working out of in the in the middle school are pretty >> pretty tightened up. They they have in centralized
023locker rooms in lockers within the room that kind of prevent you from contributing, you know, as a team. Uh there's no sitting area for them to be around and just looking at each other's eyes. They have to be standing up around these lockers to see each other. So that was one of the driving forces for the the thought process of this. >> Yeah. And the other thing too is um and I know that um people think it's just for the football team and they're probably going to use it the majority of the time and I get that but there are no place other close uh depending where you're at on the field if you had lightning or in climate weather to go to. Like if you're at that end of the track, you have to
024run all the way to the school to get in somewhere. And this gives them a place to get out of that weather as well. Doesn't matter if it's lacrosse, field hockey, soccer, football. >> Well, to to a couple points, wasn't the driving force, at least if I'm going back almost 8 years now, was the inequate inadequate uh room at the middle school across the board because we were hearing people in changing over were actually dressing or getting ready out in the parking lot because the room wasn't in wasn't available or it was overcrowded. I can't speak to eight years ago, but >> no, I'm saying from eight years up until this point, that's what we continually heard. And and we I've watch I've watched them changing in the parking lot in between whether it's coming
025from lacrosse or the girls soccer or whatever, people pulling in and changing that parking lot because the the facilities were inadequate for the amount of people and athletes that we had there. Well, I think the other thing was uh President Hasser is that the high school cannot use the middle school locker rooms because of middle school sporting events. So, you can't have the middle school kids in the same locker room as the high school kids. So, there was no place for them to go in because the middle school athletes were in there. >> That's the changing I was talking about. you had the high school kids that were coming over changing in a parking lot because middle school was running practices and utilizing the facilities at the time. And I'm not saying I'm a proponent
026for this. I'm just playing devil's advocate here. And to another point, um the recommendation on the safety and the uh staffing, the recommendations for that, not the top. I'm just unclear on where that recommendation and I'm not pointing it finger at anybody is coming from. And let me just let me just say safety. I don't understand that. I don't see it. Unless somebody can tell me a different safety hazard that we have currently at that field and what the additional safety issue is, I don't see it. Well, it would it would have to do with the I mean, obviously the number of people that are up there, what uh the capacity that it would be able to hold. Um any any I mean, if it's at a Friday night football game, obviously we would have
027to have, you know, security up there to make sure if it's open and st and we have kids up there that they're being monitored. Um, plus in the location that it's going to be, um, you're talking about like if you have a railing in the front of it, you know, the people who were up against that railing, the first row would be able to see, but anybody standing behind them, unless it's built a certain way, really wouldn't be able to see anything anyway. Um, so I know that for us, at least uh, from our perspective, you know, we're looking at again having to have additional staff, maybe security up there. Um, and then any I mean any anything up there as far as safety, like I said, it would have to be a capacity. You
028know, what what the maximum weight would be that it could hold. Um, and really just any any um inappropriate behavior that's going on out there. >> Well, and Jeeoff, I you know, I've had this conversation and I I get that, but that's that that those problems are the same problems that we have across that field at any given time. And it wasn't long ago. And for the people that come from this community, how it how they lost that they lost it. We lost the hill. The argument when we built the field there when that field got changed and not come out to the high school was that hill was there and it was inside this community and then we took the peel away from the kids and we took it away from the kids and
029the family sitting there just like they do in Williamsport and we wrapped it around safety and security. Same problems are going to be there no matter what. We're going to have adequate security whether we have a we have a rooftop or whether we have people standing along the railings. Right now we have a capacity in that football field. Go anytime to any game. Look at the amount that the band takes up and look at the number of people in the seats. It's capacity full and everybody's around the railings. And I'm not advocating for this. I'm just saying I don't understand the I I understand the reasonings. I'm just not buying into the completely into those reasonings. Tim, >> can I can I just clarify for people before you add your thing, Tim? Sorry. I just
030feel like we turned into part of a conversation about this that wasn't stated. So, we're talking about >> we're talking about specifically that the viewing platform right now the idea of taking that off of the project >> and I apologize if you were to last. That's a little different than the team room. I understand what's going on. I'm saying this for the public now that's hearing this part of the discussion. Thank you. >> Okay. So, so yeah, the team room, the team room is at the table for as anformational item, but from last week's board or two weeks board meeting, we asked for a recommendation from the administration on two topics. Number one was their platform on the top and the walkway from the team room that extended around and they gave us a pricing
031on that. So, the board as they move forward, if they're going to look at thisformational item and if it moves to an action item, has to make a decision. Do they follow the administration's recommendation and not do those two, leave out those two items and still build the team room or scrap the whole project altogether? I mean, it's it's rather cut and dry. >> Mr. President, I have another question. So, the high school students can't use the middle school locker room when the middle school is using it, but the team's room won't have lockers. Is that right? >> That is correct. So, I I think the intention things that I'm hearing that I didn't hear before in the conversation were the team room for privacy, right, for kids that need to be in there to
032get ready for their thing. Um, team room for medical needs and and assessing injuries and things like that, which I I do understand that. I think that's important to have near the field. and the safety for lightning, which is also a real thing in terms of getting people into a space inside quickly whenever that happens. So, those are just the three big things I'm hearing that feel newer to me in the conversation. And I don't I did not mean to cut Tim off. I know he was about to say something, so I'm going to turn it back over. >> No, I'm I'm I just want to uh reiterate. I mean, I know that um into uh Jeff Mastner's uh defense, you know, you weren't here when the stadium was built. You didn't see um the
033people that, you know, cuz they was going to go to high school. They wanted here. They wanted the hill. It was opened and I think for one year the hill was open and that was the end of it. Um it does give people a perspective from that end of the field who appreciated that for years that been coming to these games. Um, and also, uh, the stadium is packed and a lot of people, and I will say this because it's, this is me, I can't sit in the bleachers. It kills my back just to sit there for that long time. So, I stand. But if and I I agree that if if you did this the first game, first maybe two games, uh, it's going to be new. It's going to be the thing and
034it's going to be a lot of people's going to want to try to get on it, but you're going to realize being at a concert, everybody's standing there. You're not going to see nothing. So, you might have two, three rows of people there on a consistent basis behind that railing, but that's all you're going to have. It's not going to be three, 400 people standing on that route. That's not going to happen. But everybody would be able to stand on the rail the whole way along that walk path and along there. And our seating capacity at the stadium on the home side is packed. We are we do not have enough seating for our home side and home side people are not going to go on the visitor side and sit there and watch the
035football game. That's not going to happen. Um so it does benefit have a lot of uses as far as like um maintenance goes. It's no different than the rest of maintenance we have at the rest of the stadium. The railings are the same. It's all going to be the same stuff. Uh and security doesn't stand at the mezzamine all day either. They walk around that stadium. Nobody's standing there making sure nobody's climbing the rail at the mezzamine. It's no different. They're just going to walk up to there. They're going to walk back around like they always do. It's It's not going to change. >> I'm sorry that I missed this, but why is the viewing platform a security issue or a safety issue? >> What was the reason? >> It's more of uh we were
036looking at more of as a security like we would we feel that we would need to have somebody up there just to make sure that the people who are up there are doing what they're supposed to be doing. >> Are we concerned about safety? Are we concerned people will fall off of it >> or should they? >> I don't want to say people would fall off of it, but again, if if something does happen up there, we want to make sure we have somebody up there to control it. >> Yeah. I mean, I guess I feel like if it's a safety issue, is that a non-starter for us? Is that Do we just stop there? We're concerned about people's safety and well-being. Therefore, it probably is not something we should pursue. Well, it's no different
037than the mezzamine. So, if you've been to the stadium, you have a mezzamine that just is over top of the track. There's no difference. If you were on that rooftop or you're at the mezzamine, it's the same safety issue. There's no difference. >> Has there been an artist's rendering of this so that we can see? >> Yes. Uh, but he Oh, there he is. Do you have that available, Kevin? >> Thank you. >> Give us a moment. We have a couple of uh documents we could share. She's just not >> We're having technical difficulty. >> So, as that's coming up, I'll go back to my original question again as we're looking at the possibility of losing income with federal recision. Is this a mustave or is this a nice to have? So on the screen
038is the closest thing we have to an artist rendition of this. Um it's set into the hillside. Uh so the bottom of the building will be at grade and the back of the building will be essentially at grade as well. So you have a roughly 30° incline u from the front of the building to the back of the building and a fence all the way around. How do the um fans from the opposing team get over to their locker rooms? Is it like are they going to be are they going to be walking in front of those doors or do they have to >> I guess I'm not understanding your question. I mean if they're on the field there are two gates. They'll be shuttled out towards the end where the 100redyard dash kind of
039runs out. There's a big 12-oot gate right there. And then there's a 10-ft gate that's going to be more centralized a little to the right of the center door you see there that so they can both come out and take a slight left and be separate the whole time until they're on the field. >> So back to my question, does it just kind of stay lingering as rhetorical without an answer tonight? your your question of is it a mustave or a nice to have. >> Let me just say this. Several years ago, when we finished the beautiful middle school that we have, and it's a beautiful building, uh the people on the board and administration, most of them are not here tonight, built a middle school that would not accommodate high school kids that were
040involved in co and extracurricular activities. They built the facilities there for early adolescent kids. I'm not sure why all that happened. And at the time when that was being built, it wasn't built to accommodate for what we're talking about tonight, which is why we're here. And that's really unfortunate. So, uh, so we're inheriting a situation, uh, that's been a kind of a a problem for quite quite a while. I do think this is resolving it to some to a high degree as we move forward. and yes is expensive and whether it's a uh a nice to have or a needed I do think it's needed uh for high school students to be accommodated to meet their needs. We should have done this when the middle school was built. No question about that. But but we
041we don't own that situation. >> Belinda, >> thank you Dr. Moyer. >> Belinda, just going back to two meetings ago, the funding for this is already here. Correct. This is not something we're going out and doing something new. I mean the funding this has been set aside. >> This is the second goound of our bid documents. This has been in the financial and facility committee meeting now for some time. Um it has been going around many many times discussed many times uh what the rendering is going to look like the decisions of how the how the team rooms are going to be set up. Um and before we even move forward to this point, like if this bid's denied, there's no moving backwards simply because um we're we've got to approve app prove or reject
042the bids. So there's the likelihood of us going back out again is not very high. Um but basically the team room project is going to be funded by um some funds that were available in the capital reserve as well as the bond money and those bond monies need to be spent down as I mentioned numerous times with this board. >> And that's my point because I don't want to wake up tomorrow and read in the paper that Gettysburg school district is building this elaborate building and we were not fiscally responsible. We have bond money that has to be used one way or the other. And this is what the administration and this board looked at over a long time to accommodate as Al Moyer said. This is not this didn't come in the last half
043a year or the last year. And it's not something where we're going to come back in a budget meeting a new board next year and go by the way we built this and now we have to look at a change of tax rate. This money was already been set aside and fiscally responsibly saved to do this project if we chose to do it. >> There was money set aside to do the um the excuse me the bleachers. The capital projects had the bleachers in. This project has to address the bleachers as well as the team room and the capital uh projects and the bond fund will take care of funding whatever option the board so chooses to approve this evening. I mean, not this evening, next evening, next meeting. Excuse me. >> President Heser, I'm
044so glad you asked that question because that took away a lot of my heartburn. >> Yeah. And and I I recognize because you you had you had told us told us that before, but knowing on the bonds and knowing that, I recalled that. Okay, we're good. Are there any additional questions on this particularformational item? >> Um, kind of related. Not really. Not really. But where are we on replacing the turf? Because that's 11 years old now. >> I can speak to that. The turf is on the the capital plan for looking at it the 26 27 year and as long as we continue to receive excellent reports from the inspections. It's going to continue um not to be addressed until we have a need to address the field. I'm glad you said that and I'm
045glad you asked that question because I won't be on the board and the board coming in new should take up the mantle that we tried to do before and the speakers this evening spoke about is the facilities that we have at the high school and everything else in terms of putting turf here. We ran into that issue with the injuries with the football team down below practicing here several years ago and that can has been kicked to the curb so many times. So in terms of a fiscal responsibility the new board should start looking >> and as economy of scale when we replace the field at the high school is when we should be looking at other fields simply at that time not to do something backtoback but to look at at the same time.
046>> Thank you. 7.3 uh the policy 249 bullying and cyber bullying. Are there any questions from the board? >> Yes. Hi. Thank you. I do have a question. Um and and Dr. Moyer, help me understand this. I think the subhead that we're looking to modify, which reads Title 9, sexual harassment and other discrimination exists because this is the only section of this policy that refers to federal law against discrimination, which I think is why that language is in that subheading. Um so um so why are we thinking about removing that language? >> I'm going to defer to Dr. Dalton on that. >> I I'll speak for you. Um discrimination and harassment happens on many many bases. Title 9 is specific to that happening on a basis of sex. But there when PSBA had inserted that
047language, it seemed really honed in on title 9 versus any title six, title um seven, other areas that there could be discrimination based on um protected classes. So we removed the reference to title 9 to make it generally applicable whether it's federal or state was less of the concern. Yeah. >> Thank you. Sure. >> Anything additional 7.4 4 policy 822. It's AED policy uh related to CPR. Any questions? 7.5 policy 918 title one parent and family engagement. Any questions? 7.6 uh AG77 use of school facilities. Any questions? Uh not not a question but a uh quick remark as the policy committee chair. Uh we made minor uh changes to all uh four of these policies that were out here at our last policy committee meeting. Uh I've also asked Dr. McFarland, who probably deals with
048our title uh funds and titles uh f federal uh monies uh to possibly uh to share some feedback regarding uh family engagement and how we're doing in that regard. I I I just know uh over the years many times it's uh it's tough to get families in uh for programs that are related to that. So I I I think the board would be interested in seeing how we're doing in that regard. And then also I just want to thank our athletic director and Dr. Matzer for their support in the small change that we made to policy 707 uh with the use of school facilities. The only change we made was for the feast structure of using uh the stadium on Sundays for the youth football program which is a strong feeder program to our program
049where we lessened the amount of the hourly rental for using the facility. That that will be a big help to all those volunteers that help out with our youth football program. And on behalf of all them, I just want to say a big thank you to the school district for making that change. Thank you. We good? >> No additional questions. Board committee reports. We just debated mine. So, >> I don't know if it was a debate, but okay. We we talked about policy and then real quickly as a uh legislative liaison according to Torren Ecker uh we are going to have a state budget in early October. Belinda, I don't know what you're hearing. It'll be in that that's probably optimistic. And then also on a side note, uh two uh thank yous here. Um
050the high school wrestling team, uh the girls and guys wrestling team and the coaches all participated in Saturday's United Way National Day of Caring. And on a personal note from the wreck park, uh the uh two of the teams were out there helping us with a number of different projects. And I just want to say a big personal thank you to our high school wrestling team. We have great role models in our coaches and the kids were uh fantastic. And then also uh recently uh Dave Snyder from the Adams County Technical Institute, the trades uh teacher had his uh senior class also out to the Wreck Park. I think uh our Habitat for Humanity projects have been on hold for a little bit. Hopefully not too much longer. Uh but we are going to provide
051some projects for them. Uh the initial one will be to install our new North End playground that we got through a county green space grant. So a big thank you to Dave Snyder, Adams County Technical Institute, uh for their assistance with us out there to provide uh some great community resources for the kids and our community. Thank you. program reports. >> Yeah, just very quickly a reminder that Friday is a professional development day, so there is no school for students. Uh just a quick uh congratulations to the football team for their win this past weekend. Uh was homecoming weekend and the homecoming ceremony at halftime was spectacular. Uh and I've heard nothing but good things about the dance on Saturday as well. So congratulations to all involved. >> Uh Mr. Her, I just have a
052quick comment. um because this doesn't happen very often. So um to some of our administrators, so I had a a friend of mine called me pretty irate uh about uh their kid getting punished at middle school and so on and so forth. And I was like, "Well, you you need to call the school, set up a meeting, whatever you have to do." And um he was pretty irate. I calmed him down. And then he called me back two days later and I have to give a shout out to and I cannot remember his name because I can't remember his name. Uh but the vice principal at the middle school, he had the best things to say about him. He said very professional, knew what he was talking about, a great guy. He said he's a
053good one. So I wanted to say that, you know, you don't get to hear those stories very often. So I wanted to give him a shout out. >> That would be Matt Lob, our high uh middle school assistant principal. >> Yes. uh he did a great job and kudos. >> Thank you. >> Our next uh meeting will be October 6th, obviously 2025, 7:00 here in the administration building. May I have a motion to adjurnn, please? >> So moved. >> We stand adjourned. and Jeff. I still