001All right, welcome to the July uh Great Valley School Board meeting. First thing on the agenda is pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands nation. All right. Uh let's see. First thing, recognition calendar. Recognitions will resume in September. Looking forward to it. Uh no student council in the summer. No, we give them summer. Uh school representative here. Uh let's see. Um board met in executive session to discuss some legal issues and some informationational issues. Secretary correspondence. There was no correspondence this evening. All right. IU report. I have an IU report. Um, so the IU is off this month, but last month we discussed things um like the IU's relationship with several universities in the area and colleges in the area for students to
002get credits while they are still in high school. They have relationships with Immaculata, Westchester, Northampton Community College to name a few. So that's a great way for some kids to get um college credits while they're still in high school. Um they also talked a little bit about their building. So the um the Engle Education Center in Avenrove is slated to open in August of 2025. So that's a new facility for them. And then our CCDC right here in Great Valley is slated to open in September of 2026. So uh one more year and that should be fully functional there. Um they talked a lot about their IGRO program. I've talked about this before, but this is kind of an in-house professional development program to grow educators that they need at the IU that they're not
003able to fill positions. They take staff that has interest in it and then they help them through the process to get the credentials and the experience they need for these roles. And it's been really successful and really great in helping them fill some part to fill roles. Um and then two frustrating things they talked about were with um we know there's a lot of uncertainty with the federal budget and things like that. So the way it impacts us for instance is if there are cuts to Medicaid then that's going to impact the reimbursements we get for um various services that we provide even though we're still required to provide those services through IDA. So we're still required to provide them. We were getting Medicaid reimbursement for them. we will not under new cuts. So that
004is additional funding um we may eventually have to make up. And then additionally the state budget can't pass until the federal government passes their budget. So there's we're expecting up to a sixmonth delay in the state budget. So that will also impact um some of the funding that comes down. So looks like we're in a lot of wait and see and contingency and whatifs and um a lot of things dependent on other things. All right. Always amazing how the state doesn't have to abide by the law, but we have to and have our budget done by June 30th. All right. Legislative report. Yeah. Kind of dubtales with some of what Andrea was speaking of. I'll start with just briefly. There is a federal piece that was discussed and just even more recently than the last
005meeting among the the members of the legislative council. Um be in the in this in the federal reconciliation bill, the big beautiful bill, uh there was included and passed in that a $1,700 voucher credit um that states can opt into and uh 10 of the 12 it you may remember last year we passed a resolution against vouchers. 10 of the 12 districts in Chester County passed a resolution. The concern is that our governor who has in the past been somewhat supportive of vouchers um could opt into that and so there might be some movement in Chester County via the legislative council if there's a um you know if there's an agreement to come up with a resolution I may come back with a resolution here. The idea would be to try and push Governor Shapiro
006to not opt into that $700 per student voucher program because that would take money away from public schools but he did um he has supported vouchers in the past although he hasn't always voted with the voucher people. We don't know which way he's going to go there. So, that could affect us if if people in our district if the state pass if he opts in and then the state enacts in a way to implement that and then students in our district decide to take the $1,700 voucher and go somewhere else um then that could take money away public schools. So, we'll to stay tuned for that. So, then on the um state side, I've got just a a update here of legislative action that's been passed since April. So, I'm going to start with bills
007that have passed the state house. So, one, but these are not enacted into law yet. They haven't passed the Senate. So, state house, there's um HB17 mandating cursive writing instruction. Um HB 191 requiring AEDs at school athletic events. HB265, unemployment compensation for education support professionals. Um this would uh in my understanding of it allow certain um non-eing uh support professionals in schools to uh receive unemployment in the summer which could end up being a burden on the districts because of the cost of paying those unemployment taxes. I'm not fully aware of exactly how that would be a burden but there was a discussion. I would need more information. It's only been um at the house level for now but basically that would make them eligible for unemployment. Um, another one that passed just the house
008was HB681, which eliminates school BMI screenings. Another one, HP 1326, increasing efficiency and transparency in school transportation. It's just, um, seems like it's logistical as far as how you compute distances at all, but no real change. Um, if there were to be real change, that sounds like it would come more the transportation committee, and I know Paul Fel, a neighboring district, um, is is the House rep and is working on that. HB1402 is around um teacher cert certification fees that would reduce um fees. HB1403 is professional development for teachers that provides for pro professional development which we already do a lot of. HB1404 a secondary a second career certification which would help people who are getting a second career in teaching coming from a technical background to get a teaching certification which would be a
009good thing in my mind. HB1500 is cyber charter school reform. It's not around the cost that we pay for cyber charters, but it's much more around all kinds of accountability that they would be subject to, which would be um you know, a a good thing for public schools that have to pay for them. Um then on the House level also, there's bills that have not been passed yet by the House, but have gone out of the House Education Committee, so will be subject um to vote. I won't list all the numbers but teacher certification GPA requirement so a minimum GPA for teachers to be certified. updated teacher certification levels that would kind of change the grade spans and age levels that certifications are for health care coverage in school settings updating things like tele medicine
010in there protecting access to prek counts so um early learning programs and then there's several on CTE continuing technical um education sorry technical education training which would be barbering cosmetology um there'll be a change in how the grant funds are calculated for um technical education. So that's on the house side. Then I'm going to tell you that this these are the bills that have passed the state senate. Again, they would have to be passed by the house also to be enacted. Um one is SB9 Save Women's Sports Act. Another one is um SP 226 PSBA subject to right to know law. And there's an accompanying one 227 PSBA is a state affiliated entity. So you all know school districts are subject to right to know. PSB has not until now been subject to right to
011know and because it's state if these things pass it will be a state affiliated entity and they'll also be subject to right to know. Um another one uh that passed the Senate is notification of weapons in schools that provides for parental and employee notification of certain incidents. Um another one is SP310 free application for um the FAFSA which is uh you know I think positive there to help students apply for that. Another one, I won't again make it short to not read all the numbers. AEDs at intercolastic athletic events. There's one around destruction of RTK documents as criminal right to know documents as a criminal offense. There's one requiring bus drivers to have hearing tests. And then so those are all passed by the Senate. Now the ones that have moved beyond the Senate Education
012Committee and are up for vote uh is one around Pennsylvania awards for student success scholarship program. There's a Holocaust education bill requiring education on the Holocaust. There's one um that's fostering independence tuition waiver program that's for higher education and waiverss for foster and adopted children. There's one around literacy achievement for all students. There's a couple others around um technical education again barbering, cosmetology. There's one around veteran service experience counting towards them towards veterans getting certification to be able to um teach um oh no to not enough to teach to get the yes teach to to be able to teach. Uh and then there's just a few relevant bills that have moved beyond other committees. One around PIA playoffs and championships appropriations, general fund appropriations. We need to wait on the budget for that. And this
013one, the last one I thought could be of interest is right to know vexacious requesters. So this would um make it more difficult for what they're calling vexacious requesters to, you know, repeatedly uh put in for right to knows and get that information. But again, that's just in out of committee. And that is um one one more thing. I know this is a long one. Sorry, it's been a couple months. Um and the House and Senate have been active. Uh there's a group called Children's First that is uh advocates for fair funding in Pennsylvania schools. They are working with some other Chester County schools to do a um press conference event to bring uh to the you know the public more information on the unfairness of funding of schools in Pennsylvania. There's going to be
014an event on it's September 4th at Coatsville. They're putting out PR. They have Beth Trapani who some of you know from Trapani Communications who's helped us in the past who's doing their publicity. It'll be a panel discussion. Um it'll be legis legislators will will be on there with panelists, administrators, students, parents, seniors. Uh and when I have more information, I will give that all to you. You're all welcome to attend um that event. And so they're looking for a good turnout from Chester County School Districts. So that's a lot. I can breathe now. Any questions on any of that? Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Uh let's see. Becky's out. So no foundation report only thing under committee is uh facilities. So we met on June 16th. We went over the uh five-year capital project plan
015and forecasted budget. Um obviously very fluid but um all looking in good shape. We discussed um facility fees update for policy 707- AG um raising uh all the charges that we get for all the different uh facilities by $5 except for the high school auditorium. Um and we discussed putting the 56 center online uh come this fall. So that'll be more available for the gymnasium and the stage learning stairs. Um just to note the rates haven't gone up um in three years. So $5 isn't a lot. So um looking around um Sheree was able to look at all the other school districts and what they were charging and we were on the lower side. So we're just bringing ourselves more in line with what other districts are charging for the use of our facilities and
016classrooms and gyms and fields etc. So, uh, the other thing did we reviewed the field study concept plan that we got, um, a lot of different options in there. Um, different proposals. Um, so there was one option to move fields all over the place. Um, can't remember the exact number on that. There's another option to update current fields, um, which would cost about $39,000. So, a lot of that's just releveling them, recede, etc. Um, simple things, but to bring some of the fields that aren't used well, more up to date. And then they also, uh, gave us a proposal for, uh, putting in another turf field, rough idea, about 850,000, which includes putting a fence. And did that include the track too or no? Yeah. Yeah. So, if you know the middle school property in
017the far back left, if you stand on Phoenixville Road, uh there's actually a a quasi track um that was put in I don't even know when. Long long time ago before us. Um so, the football team uses or middle school football team uses the middle of it for practice, but it's actually not big enough for a 100 yard field. So, they can't um actually games there and then the track that goes around that isn't a quarter mile of official shape. So, that's not of use either. But the proposal is to put in a a turf field that would be big enough to handle football and other sports. There would still be a track around it, but it would just be for practice. It would not have the official oval and line configuration um that a
018uh the one at the high school has. So, but that's upwards of a million dollars, which isn't a surprise because I think that's what it cost us to replace the two that we have in high school and the middle school now. So, miss anything. All right. On to the superintendent update. Yeah. Thank you, Mr. Barrett. Um this evening's update is focused solely on the district goals and these don't require any formal board action but certainly we want your support your input and how we shape and finalize these goals so that when students and staff return that we can right out of the gate are articulate our focal points for the year. We this is also a continuation of our June presentation. I know the board had asked for the district goals to be presented earlier.
019So the administration is part of our our June I believe it was ninth meeting I had done first draft the board at that time had asked for a little more specific detail regarding some of the goals. So to help uh with that request if you look within board docs you will see a two-page document and that'll list each of the revised goals along with sub bullets that bring some of that context that that I think you were looking for. I will not report out in my presentation on all those sub bullets. That's simply there for your purview as a board member. Uh if you have questions as I go through uh the four categories, please let me know. That document that's also in board docs is revised. You will see there's one goal that was
020completely stricken from June and replaced with a subsequent goal. You'll see that marked and I tried to indicate in italics. there were maybe two or three others where we tweaked the verbiage for a little additional clarity um around the goals. So um I will have a slide the slide will simply present the updated goals in their final form and then that document and board docs will be there to guide you with some of the specificity and action steps associated with with each of the the goals. So with the annual goals, the first category which um remains largely constant. It's about academic growth. We are adding the student development piece because we do think that is inherent within many of these goals. Um the first one is unchanged from our June discussion. You see a few
021details within board docs. The second bullet I know Dr. Beck will be leading Dr. Beck will be taking this on personally uh establishing these collaborative math and English language arts teams focused on best practices in instruction and professional learning. That second bullet is one that has been uh I think streamlined from where we had it in the June presentation. And really the goal of that second bullet is simply to bring teams of teachers together K to2 along with our specialists along with our administrators to really talk what are those best practices we should be seeing universally in all of our classrooms and what is some of the required professional learning to be needed. This also will give some of our staff some voice um and we'll work together on identifying these practices. It'll be year-long.
022Uh the teams will be approximately 20 staff members in all. So that'll be 20 on the math team, 20 on the ELA and as I said, Dr. Beck will lead those groups um personally. Um the third bullet is unchanged. We continue to work on our growing population of uh multilingual learners and using the WEDA standards. I know back in June I incorporated the WEDA information around WEDA. It's a very popular consortium. Almost all of the states in the country subscribe. Uh and we'll continue to focus on our multilingual learners. The last bullet has been res revised. I believe previously it said in our secondary schools and for clarity I want to be clear the responsive practice framework is a K to8 framework and um last year we were able to work and and get it
023implemented in the 56 center. Uh this upcoming year the goal or the intent of the administration is to expand it into the middle school. that is not uh a high school framework although many of the practices really do uh I think they're just good for all students and they help us to build community but I wanted to be really clear and I felt the goal needed to reflect that clarity that it simply is a K to8 framework again I asked you to look at that document within board docs you see some of the sub bullets and let me pause and see if you have any comments questions or feedback I know I missed last month so I want to read y I missed last month. I don't want to reinvent the wheel. Um I and
024I I just read the sub bullets also. So um on the second one establish to me that's establish I'd like to see an outcome. I don't know what's happening. Even in the sub bullets it says help 20 people whatever like what is the are they going to produce a best practices document to be approved by someone at the end of the year? Are they going to implement something like I don't want to see a goal where they just get together regularly. You know, I I'm sure that in everyone's minds, the idea is an outcome, but I'd love to see the outcome in the goal or the initial Yeah. to do what? What's coming out of it? Are they going to implement them for the following school year? Are they going to implement them this year?
025That kind of thing. Appreciate that feedback. That's something we can we'll we'll definitely look at and I'll communicate back to the board. Thanks. All right. Thank you. Is it okay to go to the second band of questions? I just question about the responsive uh practices. So I see a lot about the work and we've talked a lot about the work being done but what are the metrics that we're using on the back end to show that responsive these responsive practices are having an impact on student like what what are we looking at to say this is worth pursuing or this is worth you know we need to I I guess I don't we talk a lot about it but I don't know how we're making these decisions based on any data. Yep. Um I two
026things that I think we would do. I I know with just coming off the implementation at the 56 center this past year, staff were surveyed. We certainly got the the input of our staff on the value that they saw and how it goes. So we are getting that information from those on the front lines serving the students building these communities within our classroom. We also started last year with our PD student climate survey. And so as we continue to administer that each year, we're hoping to see this work start to pay off that students feel a greater sense of belonging. they they feel um they have more voice. They feel like they belong. They feel that they have trusted adults in in the building. This is all somewhat related. Now, can we we draw that
027direct nexus to specifically with responsive practices? Um no. So, we can certainly explore I don't know how you because there's so much that goes on right within a classroom to say this isolated variable has led to this outcome. But those are some indicators that are we en enhancing that student experience and that classroom culture and our teachers viewing it as an improving area and are students and if we see that come through in some of the surveys then um for me it's it lends itself to think that this is in fact moving the needle. Great. And I I don't expect we're going to find causation, right? So correlation is great, but I guess surveys only tell one story. So I guess I would be looking for some other outcome data. Um One thing that comes
028to mind is we talk about how we're seeing greater diversity in our AP classes, right? That that's a product of specific efforts that happen. So, what are what kind of information like that can we talk about maybe at the elementary level where it's been in practice the longest? What are we seeing? Fewer referrals for behavior issues. Um, more students choosing different peers when there's opportunities for group work. I guess things like that. I'm not, you know, I don't need hard and fast really specific data points, but I do think that surveys are only as useful as the I don't know surveys themselves. But so I'm looking for a little bit more that's showing that we're seeing some concrete evidence that we're seeing a shift or at least maintaining some progress that we have made in
029creating a climate of belonging. Thank you. And then you say work to establish a responsive advocacy period in 2627 is you're referring to the middle school. It is. Yes. So and you're proposing we put a whole period based this correct. The the the training and the launch at the middle school this year would be get the training, get the foundation, start to discuss and really frame out what a middle school advocacy period would look like next school year. that it would start. We would look at the duration, um the time. It's certainly a big trend that we're seeing in middle schools, taking time at the beginning of the day to do check-ins with students to build that sense of community, uh and move forward. So, uh so this isn't this isn't necessarily saying we're going
030to go from seven periods to eight periods. This is saying we'll figure out how to make home room bigger to then establish this. Correct. We're not looking at any sort of uh significant. We may have to shift some periods, but as you shift time, not periods. Yeah. Um to make sure that we have ample time. We we know like a five or 10 minute advocacy at the middle school is not going to be sufficient. We need a longer chunk of time. 50 minutes would be but it's not going to be the equivalent of a classroom period either. That's when I see when I see period, that's what I was thinking. So that's why I want to make sure we're all on the same page. Yep. Oh, you're right. And because the way that's worded. So
031um that would be advocacy time. Yeah. Correct. Uh it would not be an equivalent. And don't get me wrong, not for having advocacy time. I was just worried that 50 minutes a day. Yep. Taking away from you. We're not expanding the school day to do this. We're figuring out how to give up everywhere else. Yep. It may mean just shaving a minute or two off of some of the existing periods and repurposing that on the front end of the morning so that there's a 20-minute period. I'm just saying hypothetically, but we want Dr. Cohen uh and Dr. Dr. D, her her new assistant principal kind of work with a team of teachers, get their their training about responsive classroom because we have not done any formal training really with our middle school staff. Uh let
032them get familiar with the framework, how to build those communities and on a parallel track also start talking about that advocacy period and how we can make use of that. So taking the whole year to do it properly for implementation and the other thing back to Andrea's comments around You know, you made the comment about how we're seeing other middle schools doing this. Um, is there any way we can find schools where they can show success and what it means or is this just a trendy thing that everybody's doing now and in three or four years you're going to be looking at how to shrink it back and put the back to teaching kids learning? No, we'll certainly we'll look at research and evidence-based approaches as we as we build this. But I you know
033I I mean it really to to Andrea's point really I think the board would like to see examples of where and how this is working not just best practices and all that because those are to me those are two very different things. We I think we need to see some examples because we have spent a whole lot of money on this. I'm not saying it's not worthwhile, but we need to see what we're getting for the I don't even know what the number is. Half a million dollars we've spent so far on this on consulting. That doesn't even count um probably pulling teachers out of classrooms to work on things like this. So, yeah, certainly as we work towards the goals, what one of my intentions for this upcoming school year is also do a
034better job informing the board of progress. I normally do a mid-year check-in on the goals. We want to try to do more regular check-ins so that as we're going instead of addressing all of these goals in January all at once, trying to give you more snippets of progress as we move throughout the year. So, as that team mobilizes and we start to unpack things, um making sure that we're coming back to you on a more regular basis either through superintendence reports or just outright program presentations by administrative team members. So, uh we'll be sure to to make sure um we give you an update before we get to January. I that is one of my one of my personal goals for the year to better inform you on our progress on these goals. All right.
035Great. Anything additional on the category? I welcome the feedback. There are certainly all things that I'm going to take notes on and um our our team will will certainly look at this in in the weeks ahead so that we are re ready to finalize. We do meet again on August 11th, well before the start of school. And um I'm happy to bring back just maybe we touch touch on these these clarification points uh back in in August. All right. Okay. To progress to the second category, I might need a little help. The remote seems to have frozen. There we go. Thank you, gentlemen. All right. Second category is our culture and well-being framework. Um, we talked about PD's common ground framework back in June. I know a few board members weren't here, so I did
036repost that. that real focus point with that u with that common ground rubric which I think is really robust and and is laden with a lot of really um sound practices for our students but we will have that focus on the trauma-informed classroom practices and you'll see that I have in the bulleted document in board docs that there's really three main categories to this framework one is cultural awareness one is trauma aare mental health and wellness and that's going to be our focal point uh you can see it's a pretty robust. Uh we're not going to impact the entire thing. And the third category is the technological and virtual engagement, but really focusing on that trauma where it does layer in nicely with some of the responsive practices. And that goal is largely unchanged from
037uh our discussion back in in June. Uh the second bullet, our our guide and approach on philosophy of disciplinary practices. You know, we've talked about uh several approaches. Um, one is we we are concerned in some of the behaviors that we're seeing in our schools. We're seeing behaviors that historically we have not always seen. And so one of our goals this year will be to engage some of our staff directly and what exactly are the behaviors and how can we support them in consistent approaches K to2 and approaches that are really developmentally appropriate. Uh, and also ways that not only hold children accountable but help them to be better people moving forward. And we're talking about repairing relationships when they're damaged, restoring relationships, and also equipping our teachers with the right skills and um techniques
038so that when children misbehave, um they they are able to deal with it in an appropriate and consistent manner. So, uh we will be pulling together a team of of staff to work that through. We have a class time class staff climate survey. uh I have February on there, but I really do hope that we can administer administer it sooner, perhaps even in the late fall or the winter uh earlier in the winter season uh to go through and that will certainly couple with our student climate survey that was rolled out last year. We'll certainly do to get that voice from our from our staff. And then lastly, we have the three formal presentations on our equity plan. We are in year entering year three of that three-year plan. And I want to make sure
039uh that the board is getting several updates on our progress. We've accomplished quite a bit. Uh there's some things that we're still going to work on and I know early in the fall um we'll have members of Dr. Wexler and myself will likely present on our outcomes there. So um I don't believe we had a lot of changes to this section of goals from June. So um I'd like to take your questions and comments. Yeah. So to me for the climate survey um in administering it's great but um I'd like to see um outcomes right I mean if you're administering a survey you're looking for opportunities for improvement um so we should have you know what you what you've determined from the survey and what plans are going to be put in place to uh
040jump on those opportunities this year especially if you're doing the survey February or earlier. That leaves you plenty of time to interpret it. May not mean that you you implement what you want to have done in this school year, but you ought to have a plan in place to how you're going to do it, right? That's exactly what I was going to say. And I would actually even add dates to it. So, if you're administering in February, you're going to identify actions by I don't know what, March or April, you tell me, you know, tell us. And then you're going to have a plan again, maybe not and a plan a plan for implementation developed by another date, right? Identif. Yeah. Yeah. So like a a whole suite. Yeah. And and will this this survey
041be something that is internally developed or um kind of purchased and validate previously validated? Yeah, we're open to both approaches really at this point. I mean, we'll we'll get a team together. We'll evaluate several options, see if they meet what it is we're truly looking to measure and what we hope to garner from a staff survey. Uh right now we're we're certainly willing to to leave that open uh as we do the investigation, identify the survey, administer the survey, and as to to your point, uh I agree with you, and it is inherent. I just wasn't explicit, but you're right, the the idea of administering it early is so that we can turn it around with those action steps. Uh I just left that part out, but u we'll certainly be more more specific and
042I can come back with with more details. But to answer your question, it we're really open to both or even if it's a potential survey that you know we modify or add our own if there's some unique things. So as that investigation goes on, we're going to leave our doors open options. And can you clarify for me when you um talk about the shared philosophy and approach for disciplinary practices, who among who is that shared? Yeah. So that really is working um with our teachers, our principles, our administrators, kind of K to2 more consistently um getting a sense on what exactly are the behaviors that you're seeing and where do you need support and what are the appropriate responses based on what we know in terms of child development effectiveness um and also looking at
043longterm growth of the the children. Many times, you know, I'm a former high school principal. you give it detention, you give a suspension, they come back, you move on. Uh we're really trying to do some deeper repair work so that we don't have things linger and that children are truly learning the lessons of their impact, the consequences. So really trying to take it a little deeper too from those more traditional approaches that I think schools commonly use. And kind of along that that line of thinking of you know moving beyond the more traditional approach is has there been any or would there be any um consideration of bringing some student voices into that discussion? Um you know it's great we you include administrators and and teachers but I would be interested in hearing what students
044would find um or think about what appropriate discipline would be. Um and and I'm certain there's a cohort of students who actually might have some some value to to add to that. Yeah, we can certainly explore um student voice in this. It really is I mean our our focus right now is getting a handle on where our staff are and again across the system, but I agree with you as that work continues to get some student groups. You know, we have several student forum that we use and I really want to leverage those those groups in meaningful ways. So, we certainly have plenty of structures where we could get in front of students and capture their voice. Appreciate the suggestion. Um, along those lines, I guess as you go through this exercise, I'm most interested
045in the supports that teachers need to implement these best practices. And in particular, I'm thinking about things like group punishments often happen for individual couple individuals because there's simply not a st enough staff to go around to deal with, you know, a small group when someone needs to be responsible for the other group. So, if this is a staffing issue or support issue at different times of day where you're finding like there's a lot of disciplinary actions happening at lunch or at recess, is this maybe where we need to put more of our efforts into staff and um you know, teachers as we're looking at next year when we're talking about adding positions and things like that. So again, looking at data to figure out why we're asking to add these positions or do we
046need additional support at these different times a day so that the practices that you want to see implemented can be implemented because the teachers and the staff have the resources that they need if that is even comes down to just extra bodies to deal with um differing behaviors. Very good point. And taking a look at those times when when are some of these are they having truly in the classroom? are they having at the off times in the cafeteria during transition points on the playground the recess so that's where we want to engage our staff directly to hear from them uh where is this and then as we start to identify the issues then we look at all right what are the systems so I think what you just framed is exactly where we're headed
047with this thank you all right any additional questions on the second band of goals see if we advance there we go all right communication Um we did have a change here. Um I know um and Miss Marson who had come to us in February even started to engage our communications committee in the spring about thoughts that she had moving forward. Um so we do know and this was a goal for this year but with our transition and leadership and our director position uh it needed to go on pause but um Miss Marston is prepared and she started working towards this upon arrival is developing that three-year strategic communication plan and you could see u the sub bullets there within she also framed I know for our communications committee about the annual report I thought that
048was pretty well received uh getting that annual report out that showcases a lot of our efforts uh and doing that uh relatively early in in the school year. The third bullet, uh we definitely need to enhance our internal communications. Uh this would be to all of our internal our our staff uh people that are on the front lines so that they understand what's going on here at the board level, what are the district initiatives, where are we headed, where is our vision. So this creation of a regular monthly newsletter that really highlights a lot of our good work. And then the last bullet is a is a change. We did decide, we talked about a community bulletin board, but we know that can get problematic. Um, I think as we started to unpack a little
049bit more about our website, although we did the huge heavy lift of an overhaul just a year or two ago, we know there has to be a lot of further refinement and enhancement. So that heavy lift of a brand new website, we got through that, but now it's let's take a look at is it truly meeting the needs? Are things populated the way they need to be? So we decided to move more away from that community bulletin board and just look more at website uh because we know there's going to be some some items that we need to address there. So that is a change and a pivot. That's the one goal that we we have certainly scratched altogether and replaced. Uh let me see if you have any thoughts there on communication might be
050a theme coming for me. I really like smart goals that are time bound and um the I think the fourth one is an ongoing thing with the first three I would love to know when like you don't have to give me an exact date but it's by December it's by is the annual report being going to be published be in you know before the winter is it going to be when when is the three-year plan going to be available does the monthly internal newsletter start in October or does it start in January or does it start in September I think having goals helps get things done and even if it's you know a quarter you don't know the exact month or it's just by a certain date and great if you do it two months
051before, but I the way this is written, they could all happen in June and you'd still meet the goals. So, and we do have that mapped out. So, I think we'll have to just add that language. We just didn't reflect it there, but I I do understand that point and when we come back, I'll make sure that some duration is in there or expectation. Yeah. No, good feedback. Thank you. But I do want to say I wasn't here for the June one so I I didn't get a chance to put my two cents in on this. But I do want to um just say that I really like these um uh plans for the strategic communications because I do feel like it addresses the concerns that we had for which we sort of hired this
052position in the first place, which is kind of how do we get the community together with the administration and the staff and the students like how how do we build this so that we can all grow and move together? And I feel like um a lot of these goals help address those um those. So I I appreciate it. Good. And that really is true. I mean I I know the board's concerns over the years with communication. We've also had some really big things that we've had to communicate over the years. Um I do thank Miss Martson with her stewardship and the communications committee. I mean engaging that committee early on really helped us to shape this. So thank you. And that's why I do believe it it reflects much of the board's um desire when
053it comes to communication. Right. Well, thank you for that. Um we have one remaining category which is our finance and operations. And as I look this over, I do not believe we have any change changes or adjustments. So I think they largely speak for themselves. You have the sub bullets. Uh I'll just rather than read these to you just see if you have any questions, comments or feedback. just wording the second one. I know in the bullets you gave us it's a little bit more I think you need a verb in the beginning. It's otherwise it's not a sentence just for the public reading this. Are you implementing a casual process so we don't have one or are we expanding when we already have I think it's expanding so I would just put something first
054so that people know what we're talking about. Yeah, I have expand in the word document but for some reason I didn't carry it over. I'll make sure that gets and then I just had a question on the bullets. Um under the cyber security it mentions clear touch board training. I'm not Are the clear touch boards the new things that used to be smart boards? Yep. It's those boards. So what does that have to do with security? That's where I'm lost. It's just related to to the training. It's not the training. Oh, I thought it was training on the board. Technology training. Yep. It's You're right. It is not. That's more of an instructional tool, but we're going to we're kind of layering in the training for staff both cyber security and getting this cadre of
05550 new boards rolled out. So those are separate. It's not that you're training them on cyber security via these boards. Correct. It's two totally all right. I just correct. We just layered the training the rather than break it out. I see cyber security and professional development on new technology. Correct. But I thought the new technology was all related to security. So maybe you could change the wording if someone who's looking at it fresh gets it. You know, I I thought it was all related to security. You can't even break it out to a fit pool. I was just trying to be to it was lost. So if it goes if the public were to see this, I I would fear that they would get it as lost as me or maybe more. And if anybody
056else has thoughts on that, otherwise all good goals. I appreciate it. I have one question. Sorry about the first bullet. Um the registration process, that's registering to be a student in Great Valley, right? Correct. Is there anything in here that looks at the way we ask people to do other things like pay fees or register for, you know, sports? as someone who is just coming into this, the amount of login I've had to do just so she could try out for a team knowing that I then have to go to three other places to find something and then pay a fee and then so is there anything I would love to see some sort of goal to streamline like everything just being in one place and I also think yeah like just wrap it up
057and that I I think also would help address some of our concerns that we had earlier in the year about fees being paid. Um that needs to be So, I think if we can, you know, just the easier we can, even if we can't get it all into one ideal system where I could pay for a sport and lunch in the same app, um, at least have them housed somewhere or at least have them connect to each other so nobody misses pieces. Yeah. Single. I mean, 2025, we have a single sign on here, you know, so we're we're getting there. But I I I believe Sheree might add a little a little context here, especially with our CIS and some other things that we're working on and goals that she's tackling. Yes. So, all of
058that is a part of the process. Um it I would probably say that it's more aligned with the cashless process. Um as we look through that, um it's about getting everything in one system. Your school lunch, how you make payments to pay for your school lunch for the activity fees, um or any sports fees that you're paying. all of that in one system. That's a cashless process. Um, right now we do understand it's going in a bunch of different methods. Um, some people are paying online, some people are bringing checks to the school. Um, so we're just trying to streamline that entire process. Um, and that starts with having that cashless process because once you pull all of those things online, then that's how everyone is going to need to make payments. Um, so that's
059what we're looking at. So it is a part of the process and we can definitely add verbiage uh to make it more clear. Um but the goal is to have an endpoint place where we could pull all of that information all from one system at one time with a couple clicks of the button. And so we could look at that goal and I know Mr. Barrett you had some feedback but just to to round out that point Dr. Rizzo I it's it's almost contradict. We're talking about expanding cashless systems but we also want to consolidate at this and kind of bring them under one roof. So let us work through that. It's almost contradictory terms, but I understand we want to go more cashless, but we also want to have this one stop that I
060single sign in. And so, we'll we'll see how we can address that for August 11. Thanks, and and can we just confirm that that we are not exclusively cashless that that there are mechanisms to pay for families who may not have access to to standard banking? Yeah, I believe Sheree, yes, we've also looked at that. Um and that's why it's not to go 100% cashless. Um it's recognizing that that not every family is going to be able to move in this direction. Um but it's to put um procedures in place. So for the families that cannot move in that direction, they at least have a single place where they should be going so that it can still be processed through a system so that it comes through the process as far as we're concerned on
061our side. So do we have a because this is operations. Do we have a process in place that ensures that if a child participates in an activity or sport that someone don't know who it is might be the coach might be the EDR person is you know is it their responsibility to make sure that 20 kids sign up that 20 kids pay their dues. Is there a process in place? And if not, we put that as a goal. So, yes, there is a process in place. Um, currently, right now, when a student signs up for an activity or sport, um, it is the EDR's responsibility to keep a roster of what that looks like. They're collecting the payments and then they're sending and processing that through. Um what we would like to do through this
062process is they tell us what the roster is. It goes into the um electronic system and then parents have the capability to be able to go into the system and make payments when need um when needed. Um there are two people in the district um who have the information to determine whether or not a student is to pay or not pay for a fee. Um so in the event of that uh those two people in the district athletic director and the food service supervisor um have that information and that is embedded as well in the system that only those two would be able to view and be notified if there's any issues. I guess my concern that there was comments last year that there was quite a few activities where none or only some people
063paid. Um I just want to make sure that we have processes in place to ensure that whe they have to pay or don't have to pay, but at the end of the day, everybody's got a check box next to their name saying they've met their obligation, which whatever it is, right? And then I was going to say that makes sense. And if it sounds like there's a meeting in the minds, if you have a roster system in a software that you would be able to then report back to the coach or who the EDR, whatever, that everyone's got a checkbox, whatever that is, right? like someone in the district business office is doing that versus the doesn't matter who does it at the end of the day. I want to make sure you know there's
064a policy in place that says we're charging for this and therefore we need to make sure there's a process in place to ensure it's it's all linked together that's right that's perfect that's the goal um and the point of why we're going to move in that direction. So I agree that goal was actually written before the year even ended. We knew and you're right, we will own that we had some system breakdowns and uh I thank Miss McInney for for getting a hold of this. Um we had issues with field trips and certain field trips being approved or not approved and etc. Right. People ordering buses that shouldn't have been ordering buses. Um has that process been fixed or is that a goal we need to put in here that says it needs to be
065fixed? Yeah. Um, I mean, I'm not I'm not worried about the policy of overnights. I'm more worried about um some of the descriptions we heard about um field trips just being planned without authorization or buses being ordered without authorization. I just want to make sure that we're it is Mrs. McInny and I are leading a committee. We've had uh principles, we had transportation involved, we've had a variety of stakeholders. We're meeting and we are looking at it all. Everything from revising the overnight trip form that comes to you for approval. I think there's a lot more information that we can bring to that. Uh, additionally, more or less streamlining the processes for how someone gets a field trip, the timeline for board approval if it's something impacting the whole grade. So, we're still working on
066that, but the goal is to have that ready to go. I think the committee has met twice so far. We kind of break off, we work on some things, then we come back together. So, um, we will have that system ready to go when school starts, but that's one of our summer projects that we're continually working on. Yep. That was another problem and I I will certainly own that. I won't be here in September, but in October I'll ask if it's in place. If not, we're gonna have another goal. No, no, it's it it is important and I think we realized um one making sure our teachers have a good checklist. They know timelines, process. We're going getting away from paper. We're going to have some electronic systems so that it's it's digitized. Uh and
067also by the time things come, you often get handwritten forms sometimes are hard to read. I mean, uh, there's some work there that I think we're doing top to bottom with with both processes, both overnight and those early field trips. Yeah. I know the overnights are being worked on by policy. They will. Yes. Yes. But I was more concerned about the regular field trips. So, good. No, appreciate the questions. And again, these goals really are based. We hear you as a board. So, we really, even though we might not have fully articulated the when or the details, uh, I hope that you get a sense that they do reflect what you want to see in the district and I appreciate the additional comments. So, um, you know, with that, we'll I'll tweak them and when
068we come back on August 11th, we'll address some of these points and hopefully finalize them and have them ready to to share with all of our stakeholders before the start of the year. All right. Um, with that, that's my my formal presentation. Are there any closing comments from the board on the goals? Well, thank you. Um, Mr. Barrett, there's one other item under the superintendent report and that is our support staff perfect attendance list. This is the last year that we'll have such a list. I think after enduring a pandemic, we realize perhaps people need to stay home when they're sick. Uh, however, we had some things in the handbook. There was a time years ago where, you know, there was something to be said for showing up to work every day. Uh, I think
069our perspective has changed. our handbooks have changed. So, I do thank those employees who were able to stay healthy and able to come in on a regular basis. Uh, but this will be the last year and I just wanted to share that list. I know Mrs. McInny has shared um the information with both the employees and their direct supervisors just so they've they've been acknowledged for for their work. All right. But just to be clear, this will be a practice that ends this year. All right. With that, Mr. Barrett, that concludes my report. All right. Thank you. All right. Uh, first thing is, uh, we're going to enter the voting section. So, at this point, if there's any public comments, seeing none at this point, we'll move on. We'll go through the rules. All right.
070First thing up for vote is consent agenda items 801 and 802. Do I have a motion? Motion to approve 801 and 802. All right. Second. Thank you. Any questions around these? All right. All those in favor? All right. Motion passes six to zero. So, uh the financial approvals before we start. Um since we didn't have a work session, could you hit the highlights? I guess if they're renewals, unless somebody's got questions, we could move along. But, um anything that's in here that's not a renewal, 910 I guess 910 on Yep. So 9.01 through 9.09 are renewals. Um so I'll start with 9.10 which is the educational service contracts. Um this con there's one contract with cave one contract with kids piece and one contract with school for blind. 9.1 is the foundation's behavioral health life
071works school. Um this is an agreement with the foundation's behavioral health and life work school for the 2526 school year for occupational therapy, physical therapy, speech and language pathology and psychology. Do you mind going back to 9.09? I know we've used that service in the past, but it's not exactly a renewal because it's been a few years. So, I want to make sure everybody is aware of services. Um, yes, this is for communication services for the 2526 school year. Um, we have used it in the past um uh for communication services. We will be using services um for the new school year to aid in the negotiations process specifically for because we're we haven't done it a few years specifically because it's tailored towards correct contract negotiations and that's why it's only every few years.
072Okay. Thank you. 12 I did speech pathology consultants. Um that's a speech uh agreement with speech pathology consultants for 2025 extended school year and the 2526 school year to provide therapy services. 9.13 is the wrestling mat donation. Uh this is a donation from the Great Valley Wrestling Booster Club for $11,5344 uh for the purchase of a wrestling mat for our Great Valley Wrestlers. 9.14 is the district initiated assessment appeals. This is for 17 identified parcels in accordance with the school board policy number 627 and 9.15 is the special education settlement agreements. Uh the agreements are attached for your review um and up for approval. So that completes the financial approvals. All right. Thank you. Does anybody have any questions on the Can you just speak to kind of the plan for the um for Lindsay
073Lynch um you know with the the difference from prior years for going forward? Yep. No, I'm happy to. Uh we've certainly used Lindsay um for several years now to help implement the responsive practice framework. So we've largely implemented K to6. I shared earlier that it's a K to8 framework. the goal this year to use Lindsay, which is a much scaled back approach to some of the prior contracts where we had to get every elementary going. Uh now we're down to just where we need to do the implementation work at her middle school. And so for this year, there's really three main focal points for um Lindsay Lynch. One is to help uh Dr. Cohen uh in her first full year and with her assistant um principal to help implement the framework in the middle school.
074We also talked about building towards a response of advocacy in 2627. So, Miss Lynch will certainly work as a guide and a support at the middle school. Uh the second option, she'll continue executive coaching with our current principles and with a lot of district office administrators who use u Miss Lynch to to do consultative work also so that we could really bolster the support so that um in the end if Miss Lynch is is no longer used uh but our principles are able to fully sustain that. And I suspect uh that's likely to happen, but we'll wait to see how the year goes on. But I I I would suspect this is probably going to be the the last year that we use Miss Lynch. Um but she would help to certainly get those principles
075and our district office team to a place where we can fully support and sustain where we are. As you know, with a lot of the other main initiatives, opening up a school, we had redistricting the year before. We had a lot of big things that took the need of the attention. We needed that support to help move this initiative forward. And the last part is uh supporting our new teachers. We will again have a very large induction class this year. When you add up the long-term subs, it could be 30 to 40 teachers. And so obviously playing catch-up with them. So Miss Lynch will work with those that cadre of new teachers to make sure they are caught up on all the training um as as it relates to their position. So three main focal
076points for this year. Does that maybe speak to your question? Okay. Thank you. Can I also add um that Lindsay has Lindsay Lynch has also been picked up via the IDA grant. Um as per this agreement, this would be picked up under the ready tolearn grant. Um so it would be picked up via grant funds. So we obviously every year we'll have just seems to be the nature of the beast right now, especially with us hiring people because we're growing. Um, every year we're going to have lots of new staff to train. We pay uh mentors, teacher mentors, 750 bucks and that be part of the responsibility is to start, you know, that's part of your mentoring is to bring a new teacher up to speed. I mean, we're paying them a fee to to
077do that. I mean, for the future, I'm not saying for August this year, but that may be something to start thinking about is how do we, you know, what are they doing for that 750 bucks? Uh, to me, that sounds like a great opportunity to say, you know, you're onboarding a new staff member. They should be mentoring. This is part of the mentoring. How do we do things in Great Valley? Yeah. And that is part of it. I mean certainly the for the mentors for the $750 it is getting acclimated to the great valley culture our belief our operations our systems there there is a great deal even supporting whether it's curricular or expectations so they do a lot of that work as far as staff development you know turning that over to the mentors
078gives me a little bit of pause that if we have 30 I'd hate to have 30 individual mentors who are now delivering staff development but I do think there are opportunities where they can reinforce the tenants of responsive class maybe helped elevate this is how we set up community and class in Great Valley. And it's hard because we're in the throws of it, but I know when we come out as we continue with this training, and I said this a few meetings ago, we are talking about changing the entire school system and its approach to how teachers create classroom, how we have students connect with one another, how we show our our, you know, our our connections and on-ramps and making sure things are developmentally appropriate. I know in the years to come we're going
079to really move the needle and I think this framework is going to be a big part of it. So to reinforce it in multiple ways, Mr. Barrett, as you said, whether it's our training that I think we're going to pick up as an administrative team, but also if there's ways that those mentors can reinforce it, uh I think that just amplifies the the importance of the message. Y thank you. And kind of along just kind of to to dovetail there um you know since it sounds like the goal and the plan is to to have um kind of Lindsay's model and the responsive classroom model training be picked up and brought internal which which I think is fantastic. Um but I'm wondering if kind of that is a big task and requires a lot of
080it's going to require a lot of thought and planning. Should that be incorporated into our district goals for next year um in a in a more like I suspect it's probably embedded in there somehow. um but maybe more overtly as part one of the goals. Yeah. And certainly we'll speak to it. I mean our goal is to really implement I mentioned those those three main u focal point. So I mean that's kind of our focus. You know support the new teachers um get the executive coaching that people need and do the implementation. I think as we get to the tail end we'll get a clearer picture of what we're going to get into in 26 27. Um, I do understand that's what we're I just think that's going to be if we haven't done the
081implementation at the middle school yet. We haven't done some of the work. It's going to be hard to predict where we're going to be in 20. I I think that's going to happen naturally, but I just be careful to put out that we're going to give you a robust plan on what we're going to do in 2627 when I think we're just doing implementation in one of the buildings. But the essence of that is true that we are going to take that on as an internal initiative amongst the administrative team to sustain and continue to promote and propagate the work the community building and all the tenants of responsive classroom. So I'll certainly reflect on that. I just I'd be careful but being overly ambitious where I'm just sensitive to that. Yeah. No, and I
082and I definitely appreciate that. I just I guess on the flip side, I would just be concerned that if there was no like kind of stated plan for that happening or even even a like a whisper of a of a plan for how that might happen um that it could be easily kind of forgotten about and then we'll be in a position next year. Yeah. Saying, "Oh, we don't have any to do this this onboarding for these new teachers now. We need to maybe add another year to this contract or find somebody else." I just want to make sure we don't lose sight of kind of what that goal is. I do I understand the board's commitment and the desire and you've expressed concerns about the high price of an external consultant to support this
083work. So that's why I do believe this we need to take this on. I I understand the concerns but uh I'll make sure as we report out that I'm going to make a note that we certainly speak to that so that you know we're looking down the road just not at the hearing now. I understand your point just that we're, you know, just again just to reiterate in in other words is just, you know, we're going to be passing the baton this year just so that we know where that's going and how that transition is going to going to be, but All right. Yep. And we'll make sure that we we address it. Yep. Thank you. All right. Let's see. I have a motion for 901 through 9:15. Motion to approve 901 through 9:15. All
084right. Second. Thank you. Any other questions or comments? All those in favor? All right. Motion passes six to zero. Personnel approvals. Let's see. New extra duty responsibilities. That's a new one. We discuss those before we Yep. No, I'm happy. There are some new I know during the course of the year I had alluded to this some prior meetings that we were working towards this um so we've kind of talked about them but it's all synthesized now Mr. Barrett is is one uh one solid proposal for the board's consideration tonight. On the on the EDR proposal, science fair at the bottom. I just just curious. It says there are two fairs at this school only, but it doesn't say what school. Is that the the high school or something bottom? It's probably just hypo. Yeah, I
085apologize. I should have five six center. It should six. Okay. Correct. Okay. Yeah. What we realized is when you took fifth grade and sixth grade, they each had unique science chairs. So, there's actually two with that grade configuration. say it's always true. Yeah. I have a question on personnel items also. Is that okay on 10.01? I know this is the time of year when we have a lot which is good when we're hiring a lot of people when we need when we have those open spots and and one thing I saw was that we we found a Latin teacher which is great because I was worried about that. I think we all are one. Um but I just had a question. I know I've seen this before but I can't remember. So there are sometimes
086teachers who are hired as fullyear or halfyear long-term substitutes. Um, and then there's teachers who are hired as full-time professional employees. What's in between? What is a full-time temporary professional employee? That's basically a teacher in their first year. So, as a teacher, not in our district though. Correct. You actually hold that status for your first three years in as a TP temporary. But like the other the Latin teacher doesn't have that. That means he was teaching somewhere else first. Correct. Whereas these teachers are new to teaching. Correct. Got it. All right. All right. I knew they were temporary for two years, but I thought it was everybody. That's why I was confused. All right. Got it. Thank you. Yeah, you're welcome. Yep. And you do see we have a few additions in red. Those were
087interviews that we just wrapped up today. And we got French. Yeah. Yeah. I'm sorry. Yeah. The two that we have on on the bottom of page one. That's good because sooner we approve this, the sooner they can give their notice if they're somewhere else. So, all right. Uh motion to approve 101 through 102. Second. Thank you. Do we have any questions or comments? Conditional. All those in favor? Motion passes six to zero. All right. Nothing under policy program approval. So we have um two programs to approve 1201 and 1202. A motion to approve. Motion to approve 1201 and 122. All right. Second. Thank you. Any questions or comments? Just to be clear, all this is this is a new course for this school year, right? It says something says winter 2025 and I imagine winter
08825 is this before December, right? But this is for this school year, right? Yeah. I mean, it looks great. I'd love to take the class. So looks really interesting. It's an elective. I assume it looks like an elective. No, it's not world history. This is this is one version of the new world history. One of the levels of the world history because it's just 1960s on, right? Uh from for the 11th grade US history. So the teachers have been out uh working on the curriculum. Uh and so this is going to be the next iteration of the in essence the grandfathering of kids in their senior year were on the old curriculum and now with the new curriculum in the last three years. We started out in nth grade, 10th grade and now this is
089the next group uh next course in the sequence that needed to be revised. And they get all of US history up to the 1960s before now before before 11th grade. So they only need 1960s on. I was interested to see that it was just said 1960s on. Yeah, they they had uh two years we started uh two years of of of US history in seventh and eighth grade. And so they will have basically I I can't remember all of how far they go into. Yeah. But they but they get it's you know in seventh and eighth grade they have more depth than what they've received at at the elementary level and then this is a opportunity to expand upon US history from what students received in seventh and eighth grade and then their senior year
090what we would look at is an that's where the elective potential comes in where we're having conversations nothing formalized yet but where we could look to add a an elective that focuses on um you know civic action, students doing something or having a a choice uh of a project of some sort that students could work on. That would be not this upcoming school year, but something that we would work with the social studies department at the high school to explore for the 26 27th school year. Thank you. Again, to me it looks great. So I think the unit then that's listed is the is the first unit then and that's why it says because there's that we're approving the course but we're also approving a unit. I believe units one and two were already approved
091and then this is unit three but we've tried to make sure that we are articulating when that unit will be implemented so that uh the board knows that this isn't something that's just happening tomorrow. you know, we were receiving some feedback that we needed to at least share when uh which means that units the other units are still being worked on and will more than likely come to the board in the fall for for approval for the second half of the year. So, this gets us through units one through three, which gets us through the winter and then the teachers will continue working in the fall to wrap up the units for the spring of 26. Okay. So the units one and two must have been approved at a prior meeting that I miss in
092correct. This all looks great. Thank you very much. If it was the last meeting or if it was the meeting before, but they've the teachers have been working. I believe this uh was based off of uh timeline for the teachers were to come out uh right after school ended, but we we had to delay that uh until we looked at approval of hours and then those teachers then met subsequently from the approval of the hours. And then this this unit was was developed. All right. Any other questions? All right. All those in favor? Motion passes. 6. All right. Next thing up is facilities, transportation, food service, technologies. Uh first uh four items are renewal. Anybody got any questions on those? Thanks for dealing with the geese. All right, moving on to the rest of them.
09313.05 is the contract with premium power solutions. This is an annual preventative maintenance uh contract for generators at all of our school building locations. Uh this is also in accordance with terms under our co co-stars purchasing consortium. 13.06 is the facility's approval for the low bar remaining change orders. Uh this is to complete all of the change orders for the 56 center building. Um the largest one that I believe is that's on here is for change order 42 which is $24,31. Um all of them are primarily based with uh just the landscaping erosion um and different uncontrollable items that occurred uh due to the building of the 56 center. Can I ask are these happening now because they're things that have to be done in the summer? That's why they're kind of all so now
094almost a year later or or we just discovered them like why why all of them all at once now? So they're going through their year-end process. they go through their reconciliation process. Um it gives us the opportunity to be able to um determine if we're questioning anything. Uh that's why we hold a retainer uh just to make sure that everything is finalized. So that's why we're just now getting some of these change orders at the end of a year. So the work may have already been done. They're just Okay, got it. And does this then close it out? Are we finished? This should close out uh the change orders for lowbar. So, um, as we go through, um, the close out process with each prime or contractor, uh, which they are the primary, so we
095should be at the end. Um, but it doesn't mean that one's not still out there. Um, because once everything is finalized and closed, retainers are closed and all of that, that's when we know that we're final, but uh, for the most part, this is where we're at. Okay. 13.07 7 through 1317 are all yes they're all renewals. Uh one thing that I did want to point out is under 13.08 8. Uh there is a price increase to the uh school lunch program. Uh this is an annual uh price increase that does occur. Uh this year the price per meal will go up by 10 cents per meal. Um and just also to note that breakfast will continue to be free that free breakfast have to be renewed each year by the state or so it's
096this year but we don't know for next year. for this year for now. This year for now like every year we go through the same process to determine that lunch or breakfast. Okay. Um is free but yes it is an annual process. All right. 13.18 is project lead the way digital access. This is digital access for the pre-engineering program consisting of five sequence courses designed to help students explore tech and engineering related courses. 13.19 is the digital text digital text purchase for AP courses. This is the purchase of 328 digital texts for AP environmental, AP psych, and AP world history. 13.20 is the perfection learning digital license. This is for students enrolled in the AP human geography and AP government courses. 13.21 is the Dell pen purchase. This is the purchase of 100 Dell pens
097for the teachers to use for their tablets. 13.22 is the frontline single sign on. This is to set up single sign to set up single sign on for our frontline system. Uh this will allow staff to log into the frontline system using their single sign on multiffactor authentication. 13.23 is the VLAN switch purchase. This is the following the completion of the penetration test that was done in April. It was recommended to replace the van the van land switch VLAN switches throughout the district. 13.24 is the RICO copier purchase. This is to purchase 14 Rico printers to continue the replacement P replacement plan for the outofdate copers. 13.25 is the clear touch board purchase. This is the purchase and installation of nine clear touch boards and mounts for the middle school. 13.26 is for -ate services
098for the 2526 school year and 13.27 is an information item for facilities use report for the facilities use report. That concludes items 13.01 to 13. 26 for vote and 13.27 for information. Thank you. All right. So, a motion for 1301 through 13.26. Motion to approve 13.01 through 13.26. Any other questions or comments? All right. Seeing none, all those in favor? Motion passes six to zero. That concludes all the voting items. Any public comments? See, is there Mr. Fair? Is did Is someone second? Oh, no. Oh, sorry. I first second. Sorry. I was getting anxious. We're at the end. All right. No public comment. Any other board comments? All right. Seeing none. Motion to adjurnn. Motion to adjurnn. Second. All right. All those in favor? Motion passes six to zero. Have a good month. See you
099in August. Stay strong.