001Good evening and welcome to the Gettysburg Area School Board of Directors meeting. The purpose of the meeting is to conduct the business of the Gettysburg Area School District. Board of Director 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. 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 may be made available by contacting the business office. Please take a moment to silence any electronic devices. So for roll call this evening we have Mr. Dickerson on the phone. Mr. Davis, Mr. Sigman, and Miss Pratt are excused.
002Please stand for I'm sorry. >> Ryan Morris. >> Oh, Mr. Morris. I thought I said him. Mr. Morris. Did I? Okay. Thank you. Did you get that, Belinda? Thank you. Please stand for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to flag, United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Uh, first up here under notice and communications, uh, Michelle, >> um, I have for the eighth grade class, um, 230 copies of the United States Constitution, which were donated by the 917 Society, um, per federal law, specifically Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2005, Public Law 107-447 section 3 of Title One Division J, which promotes awareness and understanding of the US Constitution among students and federal employees. Specifically, the law states that all
003education facilities receiving federal money are required to provide educational materials and programming about Constitution on September 17th or a date close to it if it falls on the weekend to commemorate the signing of the Constitution on September 17th, 1787. Um, I really don't see a whole lot of need to vet these materials because it's simply the Constitution. And with the amount of people that are out there crying about the death of democracy, um, let's start educating our students by uh, understanding the guiding document of this country. Same document that each board member took an oath here to uphold. >> Thank you. Thank you, Michelle. Citizens participation. Al, >> thank you, Mr. President, and welcome everyone. We have one person who has asked to uh address the board, uh Karen Roer. Okay, thanks. Well, good evening.
004Um, I'm Karen Roer. I am co-president of the Gettysburg Teachers Union. My partner, Axa Jones, can't be here because she is welcoming new families for kindergarten orientation. Um, but we, as representatives of Gettysburg's dedicated and hardworking teachers, just want to welcome the board and administration community to a new school year. Um, we look forward to working with the board and the administration to ensure that Gettysburg continues to be a great place to learn. We understand that ours is a three-way partnership that serves the community. And we know that together we can continue to build on our successes and meet the needs of all our students. So, thank you as a board for volunteering your time in this important endeavor. >> Thank you so much. I think that might be the first time in eight years
005somebody's commented. Very positive comments. Thank you. Thank you so much. I I don't mean to knock the other eight years, but that brings us to our routine approvals. Is there a board member or any board member that need a separation of anything? So, without objection, 5.1 through 5.5 will go as one motion. May I have a motion, please? >> So moved. >> Second. A question on the motion. And before I get started, 51 for those listening is the agenda. 52 is the financial report. 53 is a resolution for superintendent to sign its contracts. 54 is the occupational advisory committee members. And our last one, 5.5, is the HR recommendations. Questions on 51 through 55, please. President Hassinger, I did have a question on subject 5.4, the Occupational Advisory Committee. I I I think it's wonderful
006that we have an occupational advisory committee. I was just wondering how often does this group meet and who do they meet with? Uh Dr. Matzer or Dr. McFarland, would you happen to have the answer to that or could find that out? >> I can find that out for you for sure. I don't know the answer off the top of my head. >> Thank you. >> Any additional questions on the motion on the floor? Hearing none. Roll call. Michelle, >> yes. >> Mike, >> yes. >> Mike, so yes, vote. Alice, >> yes. >> Al, >> yes. >> And I vote yes. Motion carries. There are no items for board action this evening. There is anformational item 7.1. and it's policy 706.1, disposal of surplus property, equipment, supplies, and textbooks. Um, does anybody have any questions on
007that particular informationational item? Not not a question, but a quick comment. Uh, I believe during our policy meeting, uh, Dr. McFarland, Dr. Matser, there was really only one change there and we just changed the uh benchmark or the dollar amount on items that needed to come to the board. Am I right about that? That was really a very small change. >> That was it. Just the dollar amount. >> Right. >> Any additional any additional questions hearing? None. Board committee reports should be very light. I haven't given the summer, >> right? I I would only say uh as the legislative liaison, it would be nice if our friends in Harrisburg would give us a budget sooner than later. And uh but Linda, just very quickly, uh uh I know some districts are uh struggling a little
008bit with the delay in uh in funds and so on. Uh Gettysburg, we in pretty good shape for at least a little while. >> I think we'll need to revisit maybe in November, but I think we're going to be able to weather the storm. Now, if the state budget doesn't pass until December or later, we may have a concern. >> Yeah. >> Fund balance only carries so far and the taxes collection come in is what we're addressing most of our needs right now. >> That Thank you. >> Program reports. Are there any this evening? >> Uh just that you know we have have an important day coming up on Wednesday. Uh students will be back. We're excited to have them back. We're excited to get the school year started. Um, I know that Vanessa, our
009communications coordinator, sent some things out about arrival times and dismissal times and everything else that anyone needs to know for first day of school. Rather meeting uh on the agenda. Uh, I would echo um Dr. Masner's respon or response and uh our speaker this evening uh and wish uh both the students and the staff uh a successful year this year and hopefully our meetings are smooth as smooth in the classroom. Also, having said that, the next meeting for the Gettysburg Area School Board will be September 2nd at 7 p.m. May I have a motion to adjurnn, please? >> So moved. We