001Good evening. I would like to call to order this Thursday, June 26, 2025 regular board meeting. Can we all stand for the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States? I will now have members of the board read the district mission and goals. The mission of the school district of Hbert Township is to educate and to inspire a community of lifelong learners who become well-rounded global citizens. The pillars of our educational system are our school environment is safe and nurturing. Excellence in education is a shared responsibility and partnership with all district and community members. Whole child development is vital to our educational system. Supports and conditions exist whereby all students have opportunities to grow and excel in the areas of academic, technical and career and social, emotional learning. Our decision Our decision-making process
002is student centered and student voice is valued. The 2020 to 2025 district goals are social and emotional wellness, produce a community of empathetic and resilient learners with skills to socially and emotionally flourish. Prepare contemporary citizens, modernize and expand learning experiences to prepare students as critical thinkers, problem solvers, innovators, and designers within a complex global society. Finally, diversity and inclusion. Establish a culturally diverse and inclusive educational experience that develops social cultural proficiency. Thank you. Mr. Tesla, can you call the role, please? Yes. Miss Lee here. Dr. McCay. Mr. Schwarz here. Dr. Shelton here. Miss Snodgress here. Miss Vitali. Miss Weedman here. Dr. Larson here. Dr. King present. Um Dr. McKay and Miss Vitali are absent due to travel. will continue on to section C. Can I have a motion to approve the official minutes from the
003June 5th, 2025 regular board meeting? Moved. Moved and seconded. Any discussion? All in favor? Any oppose? Motion passes. We have no students with us. Not until the school year comes again. So, we'll keep going. um to section three for the superintendence reports. Thank you so much, Dr. King. Uh just two short items. A reminder to folks that our summer reading and math uh learning experiences are posted on the website. So we encourage folks to visit the website and check out what those are. And a quick message from our transportation department. Uh for those students who are qualifying for extended school year and uh hoping to ride a bus, those bus passes were all emailed as of this morning. So if you expected that you were going to get that transportation and did not receive an
004email, we encourage you to email our transportation department whose website whose uh email address is on our website, but everybody should have received them who qualifies. And that's all I have this evening. Sure. The first opportunity I did not. Sorry about that. For a board vote. All right. Seeing We're going to continue on. Section five brings us to board reports. So 5A is for Delaware County Community College. Dr. McCay um is not absent and so a report can be given at the next meeting. Uh 5B for the DCIU. Miss Lee, no report. 5C PSBA. No report but there is an agenda item later for the delegates assembly. Thank you for legislative council. Dr. Shman, thank you. The legislative council me met on June 10th and just uh sometimes I don't explain what it is. It's
005the you know local district representatives coming together with DCIU and they DCIU provides an update on bills at the both at the federal and state level. Uh there really is not a lot. Um the the federal and the state budget have not been finalized and it looks like the state budget is not going to meet the deadline of June 30th which is by statute when it's supposed to be finalized. Um but there one bill has moved from the house passed. The House is now in the Senate, which impacts our district, which is the charter school reform bill, House Bill 1500. Um, basically, this bill caps uh the the rate, the tuition rate, and also add some accountability provisions and um and it's expected that the Senate will try to change this, add some voucher language
006uh is what is reported. uh but uh a spreadsheet was uh presented which suggested that our district would uh potentially uh benefit uh up to h half a million dollars if this if this pass in in its current form. So uh did suggest we advocate for that. Um and some districts in the area like the William Penn school district would benefit quite significantly more. So that's that's basically the update there. There was no other shifting of any other bill. Thank you. Uh, next for finance and facilities, Miss Wman. Yes, thank you. The finance and facility committee meeting was on Monday, June 9th. All of our committee members were present. That's myself, uh, Mr. Schwarz, Mr. Dr. Shelton, and Miss Lee. And this was our last finance and facility committee meeting in this format. Uh, there
007were several items on the agenda. Uh we had a presentation from our uh maintenance administrator J.R. Guli. I can never say that right. Um about an outlook for the next several years. Uh the projects include HVAC, roofing, parking, the turf field. These are some big ticket items that are nearing their end of life or at risk of failing. um they add up to tens of millions of dollars uh that will need to be budgeted. The projects will need to be scheduled and we'll have to consider ways that we will pay for those. Um but they were identified as necessary to address basic operating needs throughout the district and to improve safety and efficiency. So, we will be um I think what we saw was kind of an initial presentation draft and we'll be getting more
008reporting on those estimates and the time frame that's being proposed so we can look at how we'll fit that into the budget. Um, one of the items on tonight's agenda, uh, we were discussed at the committee meeting was for a wrestling mat donation. Uh the mats are valued at $33,000 and the district will incur $13,000 of expenses that we will put in to pay for their installation. Um the Hilltop lease with the township is also on tonight's agenda where um it's a modification to our lease for the maintenance and bus facility where the district will be um or the township will be responsible for supplying the diesel fuel for the tanks there. Um, and that's in part because the district has reduced its reliance on diesel vehicles with more propane and so the township is
009taking over the the fueling there. Um, one of the areas of the agenda was to discuss the goals of and options for an energy and building efficiency audit around the district. Um, talked about what that could include and we learned that Mr. Tesa and the business office had met with um a consultant who could do potentially a free assessment and the business office will be exploring that to get some consultation on ways that the district can identify efficiency that leads to cost savings and it could be timely to link into this broader repair and replacement plan. Um then there were several info items again some of them are on tonight's agenda uh to renew the right at school which provides the before and after care uh to have Celtano prepare a solar request for proposals.
010Uh those are both on tonight's agenda. Then we began a conversation about um earned income tax as a way to potentially change the the way that the district uh taxes and raises funds for our budget. Um, we will be getting more information in the fall, be able to consider what that could do with future budgets, but it was proposed as a possible way of alleviating real estate taxes by bringing in additional sources for the district. Um, and then the final topic was about the property tax rent rebate. Uh, there's a state rebate. There is information on the district website and um a match by the district could be considered in future budgeting. And that's it. Thanks. Thank you, Dr. Larson. For curriculum and people services, no report. Thank you, Miss Ngrass. For policy, no report.
011Thank you. Um, for a board president's report, are there any members of the board that was just to share events attended in the district since the last meeting? I think there were a lot of commencement activities, lots, graduations. Um, I didn't realize that this was the first year that the middle school did a graduation. Um, but we, uh, I was able to attend with, um, Dr. Shelton, one of the middle school. Um, I kept calling it leveling up, but I know that that's not right. Promotions. Um, and it was a wonderful ceremony. I loved it so much because it was so studentled, similar to the high school graduation that has so many student speakers and the students um, saying the names and everything. I mean, there were just um, it was it was a lot
012of student participation and student recognition and so um, it was it was a a lovely afternoon. Uh, I also did attended some of the fifth grade moving up ceremonies. They were really sweet to see each school represent its community in that way. Um, shout out to Monoa, not just because it's my neighborhood school, right? But because there were just such fabulous examples of inclusion in that ceremony. There was space for everyone in that community. Um, talkers being used. Like it was just a really sweet thing to see the way that this community embraced everyone and it was at all of the ceremonies, but I just I really I was like, "Okay, Manila, I see you." It was nice. Anyone else want to share? All right. Well, thank you everyone and congrats to all the students
013whether it's graduation or moving up or whatever the um different schools that use. Congrats to you all. Enjoy the summer, leveling up. Um let's continue on to section six, which takes us to finance and facilities. So item 6A is the bill list. Can I have a motion to approve dispersements for payment totaling 4,293,45582 cents? Shelton moved for a second. Moved and seconded. Any discussion? All in favor? I. Any oppose? The motion passes. Item 6B. I have a motion to accept the recommendation of owner's representative CB Development Services Incorporated and authorize the change orders totaling $74,45326. Was moved and second. Moved and second. Any discussion? I see our CB development here in the audience. Was there anything you wanted to add or comment on the change order or updates of things at Chadam and Coopertown? I
014think particularly my question would just be whether there are any surprises here, whether these are typical change orders that we see on all of our projects. Hello, good evening. Uh, no, these are all uh standard items, things that have come up. You know, just even an example, uh, we're tearing apart the gym right now. There's some additional wall work. going to have due those unforeseen conditions that come up. Uh so these are all typical items. Uh nothing out of the ordinary here um that we would normally see. You can see contingency is getting uh down at this point. You know, we're down to 170ish,000. It's actually going to be a little less than that uh since I put this together. Um but we have that and we have allowance money left that's already built in
015the contract. So it's only two months uh to go here. So, we're in kind of the uh the crazy phase. The building's torn apart and we're just trying to get everything put back together. So, um everything's moving along as planned and um there's a lot of work to do, but they're uh pushing hard. So, can you tell us about the um the credit on the chemical fire suppression system? Is there an alternate system in the main network class? Uh so, in a lot of places you do do chemical um in like a real network and Not that this isn't a real network closet. I'm talking the Amazon type network closets of the world where you have millions and millions of dollars you would use a chemical. This engineer did that for some reason here and
016it's really completely unnecessary. Uh so that's why we took the credit back. It was just one of those things. Sometimes each engineer is different and little nuances and it just wasn't necessary. How much is left in the allowance by the way? I'm sorry. How much is left in the allowance? Uh the allowances we have over $200,000. Okay. So between the allowances and the contingency, you're 350 easily. So uh we do feel comfortable with where we are uh and what's left to do with only uh you know eight weeks left to finish. And one kind of ancillary question still looking for completion by by I mean by the end of August. Yes, we have to be done. I mean furniture's coming uh for everything. Uh the front edition is probably about 85% uh 90% done. So,
017um it's really the CL the classroom work is the biggest thing, but there's not a whole not a whole lot to it. It's just really flooring, paint, um and new case work. So, but they have everything. It's all coming. Uh so, figure that's just that's the question I get asked most more than anything else in my neighborhoods like like will be done or not like this will be done. Yes. Okay. there, you know, they'll there'll be little things like punches in the outside. Landscaping is not going to be done because you can't plant in a in the middle of August. So, you know, a lot of those type of things will be done through September. Um, and there'll be punch list items that may have to be done on off hours. I mean, you know,
018because we're right right up against it, but uh everything else will will be done. Thanks. Any other questions? Thank you. All in favor? I. Any oppose? The motion passes. Continuing on to item 6 C, audit services. Have a motion to approve the contract with Robert Kane. Barbara Kane Thornton and Company LLP for 2024 2025 fiscal year audit services at a cost of $29,500. Moved. Second. Moved and seconded. Any discussion? All in favor? I. Any oppose? The motion passes. Item 6D. Have a motion to approve the contract with Wilson of Wallingford for LPG commodity and delivery services at a cost not to exceed one 1.20 per gallon for the 2025 2026 school year. Shelton. moved and seconded. Any discussion? Mr. Tester, would you be able just to speak to um how the district is able to
019buy I believe this is the propane for 128 gallon. So, we uh did advertise for propane services and delivery and um of the three vendors that we did receive um prices back from, this one came in the lowest. Some of them had additional service related to fees to it. So, this one was the the best pricing. Thank you. Propane, like when we put out the bid, is there a specific grade of propane? Kind of like, you know, there's regular premium. No, I can find that out though. It's a good question. All in favor? I. Any oppose? The motion passes. Item 6E, acceptance of donation. Can I have a motion to accept a donation of wrestling mat for the middle school gymnasium from Miller Sports Construction? Moved. Read them in second. Moved and second. Any discussion?
020Thank you very much. Thank you. Miller Sports. Yeah, this is a vendor that has worked with the the district in our different of our building projects and it was fortuitous that they were able to to do that and then were able to repurpose some of the mats that had been around the side walls in Chattam and bring them to repurpose them to fill out the wrestling room. So Oh, okay. Reuse, reduce, recycle. All in favor? I. Any oppose? The motion passes. Item 6F, lease amendment for Hilltop Road. Have a motion to approve the amendment to the lease at Hilltop Road maintenance and transportation site for township fuel usage. Shelton moved. Second. Moved and seconded. Any discussion? I know this a question that came up uh facilities and finance, but this is sort of a temporary
021arrangement until the township because we've moved completely away from diesel. We have uh two maintenance vehicles that are still on. So, we're gradually, you know, getting to the point where we won't need it. So, this gives the township some time to work because they are on a um calendar year budget. So, this would, you know, be quite an interruption to for them to jump into it when we're on a fiscal year budget. Um, and we've made this this, you know, we've made this move to mostly diesel. So, you know, this will buy them some time. But the ultimate goal is for the township then to to establish their own facility for Okay. All in favor? I. Any oppose? The motion passes. Item 6G, professional services agreement for solar project. Can I have a motion to
022approve the agreement with Sento Energy Services to assist with drafting an RFP for installing a solar PV system at Chattam Park Elementary under the solar for schools grant program and subject to Commonwealth Financing Authority requirements cost not to exceed $12,000 pending final review by the solicitor. Moved second. Moved and seconded. Any discussion? One question quickly for Mr. Tessa. Um once the RFP is once the screaming is finalized, how long will it take? Do we anticipate the bidding the RFP? The RFP is going to take a little while to prepare and then it goes out. When can we expect to vote on? So it would have to go into um two forms of publication for a period of three weeks. So at least that length of time before we get them back to review. Okay. And
023then so we would be voting on this probably in August. Uh pro August or maybe or September the latest. Okay. depending on um what we do because I I know with the Commonwealth Financing Authority, we actually have to um show them the items that we have to make sure that they are up to their requirements for the program. When does that due to the to CFA or is there not a date for that? There's no date for that. All right. And did um Mr. Santano give an idea about how long this process would take his process that we're um putting on tonight? He did not, but I can follow up with him on that. Okay. I see that there's estimated hours, but obviously it's not like he's going to work on this project every second
024of the day until it's done to get that time right. And so, you know, just to Mr. Schwarz's question, I think would would be good to know when we can expect to see this as well. Thanks. I had a question on the Commonwealth Financing Authority requirements and the language. Is that something is that does that apply to all of our facilities? Um the requirements for subcontractors, etc. spelled out. Is this a legal terminology that is state? It's I guess I'm asking is it boilerplate from the state? This is yes and the solicitor did review it as well to make sure that okay it just uses some language that I was shock a little shocked by they need to update their agreement anyway. Okay. Spoiler plate. Yes. Okay. Thank you. All in favor? I. Any oppose?
025The motion passes. Item 6H, renewal of child care program agreement. Have a motion to renew the agreement with right at school for a child care program and the district elementary schools for the 2025 2026 school year. Sandress moved first and second. Moved and seconded. Any discussion? All in favor? Sorry, I did have a question. Um I think this was discussed at finance facilities. There was a family survey. Is that right? Yes. And so could you just give like a very brief summary? This is a new contractor for us. So just you know what was the family survey? Um so I I don't have the um specifics the bullet points in front of me but um all the families were pleased with the program. Um they were happy to have something that replaced it. Um and
026it was cost-effective for the families. So there was good feedback this year. Um the writing school was flexible with the district. So I felt like it was a good partnership to replace the the one that was on hand. I have the slide presentation. It's attached to the um finance and facilities agenda. Um but they reported a 75% satisfaction rate that 77% of families say they will register for the new school year. um above or meeting expectations for program staffing, communication, fitness, and games. Um we're like nearly 90% above or meeting expectations in those categories. Thank you both for that. Sorry. All in favor? Any oppose? The motion passes. Item six I district fund depositories. Can I have a motion to approve the depositories for district funds as presented? Moved. Second. Moved and seconded. Any discussion?
027All in favor? I. Any oppose? Motion passes. Item 6J, middle school roof repair. Can I have a motion to to approve? Can I have a motion to approve the to proceed with the first section of the middle school roof replacement at a cost not to exceed 259,000 through an approved coster roofing vendor? Sress moved. Second. Moved and seconded. Any discussion? I think that was a co-star. Oh, co-star. My apologies. Thank you. that. Um, and again, Ken Matthews is here to answer questions, but um, at the finance and facilities committee meeting, we learned that this is to repair the roof above the coral room, which is now taken out of service because of roof damage and leaking. So, this would need to happen this summer to open up that classroom for the fall. Hello again. Uh,
028so yeah, this is the first step. This roof is just in horrible shape. they had to shut down the room. Um, so it's really it's a 4,000 square foot section, but generally speaking, the middle school roof when the renovations were done back in '09 and 012 was towards the end of its life. Uh, some repairs were done to kind of flimp it along for another 10 years, and here we are, you know, 15 years later. So, we have do have Mark Sobeck, the roof consultant, did a study uh on the entire roof. Uh, we actually just got it. I haven't even had a chance to digest it myself, but to put a plan together to how to replace the roof in sections, it's too big to replace it once. Uh, but obviously with this being
029um so bad that you can't even use the space. This is a high priority and that's why it's here presented to get done. Hopefully by the end of the summer, we'll see. We are soliciting another Co-Star vendor price uh because this price seemed to be a little inflated. So we hopefully have that next week and then we can make a dec final decision uh to proceed. So that's why we did it as a not to exceed uh for your approval tonight. And so just for clarity in the event that um the repair work is not able to be done over the summer that space would not be usable. Uh so luckily this roof is concrete so a lot of roof replacements for example if it was metal decking or wood decking you really couldn't do
030it. Uh but because it is a concrete deck, we uh probably can do it even during school. So we're trying to push to get it done as soon as possible, but um yes, most likely until the roof is fully replaced, the room will not be usable. So we're we're pushing to get it done by the end of the summer. That's pretty difficult at this point because all the contractors are basically booked, let alone getting material, but we're hoping by September at the latest. Uh but we'll have that answer here shortly and we can certainly update everyone and let the board know. Are concrete roofs I mean obviously this is a I'm looking at the price that's pretty high for 4,000 square. Oh no. Well the the roof decking is concrete. It's ripping every The reason
031why it's so expensive is it's been you know it's from over the last you 100 years. So you built up roofs. It's very difficult to do. You have all the rooftop equipment. You're you basically have roofers laying on their stomach chipping away. Is there equipment on on this? There's a ton a ton of equipment on the school roof. It's a sea of equipment. Okay, that's going on. So, that makes it even that much more difficult. So, that's why the cost goes up tremendously. Okay. Is there any chance that insurance will pay for some of this or just negligent in not preparing the roof on that? That's a good question. I would think uh not certainly not an insurance expert. I would think not. Uh but you know, Tony, I mean, we could certainly look into
032it. I I would guess not. um you know if the roof is blown off by a storm or something like that, you get into that, but it's just the age of the roof. So, it's really a maintenance item. What was the consequence for the coral room? It's the cor mostly over the coral room is the worst area. Like what happened to the coral room? Because it's just it's such an active leak, you know? So, anytime it rains, they they tried doing some repairs, it just uh unfortunately didn't work. Um, so it's just so much water is coming in, you just you can't hold class, so they decided to shut it down. Yeah. I don't I don't I think it's been a while. They haven't been in the courtroom in the middle school. Um, yeah, I
033don't know how long how long it's been. Sorry. It's been a while, but I I have another question. Um, so what percentage of the roof you said is 4,000 square feet, this one repair. What percentage of the roof is that? Um, small. I mean, this is a big roof. This is a something thousand 120,000 square foot roof. I mean the full roof repairs is somewhere between two and a half to$4 million uh for the full roof repair. So it's a very small that was yeah that was going to be my question. So I guess in this report I'm sure we'll we'll hear from you again about the middle school roof. Yes. Um but I imagine that you know I think our questions next time mine would be you know what are the other areas of
034like you know immediate um repair right that that we can sort of look at and say this is going to be the next coral room incident. Uh we're going to prioritize it that way. There's no other areas that are anything like this. Okay. Uh there's little things here and there but nothing to this extent. That's why this was carved out to get done immediately even before the report was done. I think Jr. uh presented the middle school roof replacement, you know. So this is this is a pat, you know, this is putting a band-aid. Well, so this se No, this so this section is is a full replacement. Full replace. So for for this small area, it is a full tear off and a brand new, you know, 30 plus year roof. We are planning
035to do the entire roof to to do the entire it will be a phase project. It's too much to do it once. It could be anywhere from a two to four year two to four year uh re-roofing project because really you can only do the bulk of it over the summer. And I'm sorry given the sound of thunder uh that just roared in the background. When will we start this after we vote on this? Well, so we're hopeful by the end of the summer. Uh it really depends on we're soliciting one other price. We should have that next week. So I'm hoping within a week we can really uh hone in and get a contract done and then know how quickly they can do it. Okay. And once the roof is repaired, are we looking
036at repairs to the coral room walls? Um, so luckily there's really not too much. It's kind of a floating acoustical ceiling. So, um, you know, ironically, the damage hasn't been too bad because they have garbage cans in there. And, uh, so it's not too too bad in there. It really isn't. So, luckily, if it was a drywall ceiling and then you'd be tearing that apart, but it's not. It's similar to to this. So, you can just replace some tile. Thank you. All in favor? I. Any oppose? The motion passes. Continuing on to section seven, human resources. 7A for retirement and resignations. Can I have a motion to accept the following resignations as listed? Moved. Shelton. Second. moved and seconded. Any discussion? Just want to wish Dr. Crater well in his new role and he will
037be missed here in the district. Yes, he was an awardwinning middle school principal. We have a a banner for him and uh happy to see that his career continues but he'll be missed at middle at Hford Middle School. All in favor? I. Any oppose? The motion passes. Item 7B, appointment. Can I have a motion to approve the following appointments as listed below? Contingent upon receipt of all necessary clearances, including act 168 of 2014. Moved second. Moved and seconded. Any discussion? Yep. I believe Miss Saxa wants to say thank you, Dr. King. Uh it is my pleasure this evening to introduce uh Miss Elizabeth or Libby Foster as the new assistant principal for Chestnutwald and Coopertown elementary schools. Uh Libby holds a bachelor's of science in psychology from Lebanon Valley College and a master of science
038in applied educational psychology from the University of Cincinnati. She also earned her principal certification from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. And Libby brings over 12 years of experience as a school psychologist, having served in Onslow County Schools, the William Penn School District, and for the past eight years here in the Habford Township School District as both a school psychologist as well as a principal intern. Uh we're thrilled to welcome Libby to this new role, and we look forward to her expertise, passion, and the dedication that she brings to a new leadership role. So, welcome Libby. Uh it is also my great pleasure to introduce Mr. Kevin Smith. uh who is going to be our new K12 STEM supervisor for the school district of Havford Township. Uh Kevin holds a bachelor of science in pure mathematics which
039I had to look up but is very impressive uh from Mansfield University and a master of education in secondary mathematics education from St. Joseph's University. He also earned his principal certification in school leadership from the University of Pennsylvania. With over a decade of experience in education, Kevin has held a range of leadership roles. He served for five years as a middle school assistant principal in both Norristown and Sheltonham school districts, spent two years as a school climate manager with the school district of Philadelphia, and another year as an administrator of climate control in the Sheltonham school district. Additionally, Mr. Smith has taught mathematics at both the William Penn School District and the Universal Odinide Charter School. We are really excited to welcome Kevin to the school district of Hford Township and look forward to the
040valuable expertise and leadership that he will be bringing to this very important role. Welcome. And I believe that Mrs. Badestelli brought the swag bags over. So, there's some good reading in there. a couple of uh a good uh goodies in there. So, thank you to our HR department for putting those together and welcome to our new administrators. Thank you, Miss Safa. All in favor? Any oppose? The motion passes. Item 6 C, miscellaneous rates. Can I have a motion to approve the mis miscellaneous salary and hourly rates for the 2025 2026 school year? Shelton moved. Moved and seconded. Any discussion? All in favor? Any oppose? The motion passes. Item 6D, food service pay rates. Have a motion to approve the pay rates for food service employees for the 2025 2026 school year. Moved and second. Any
041discussion? All in favor? I. Any oppose? The motion passes. Item 7E, new act 93 of athletic trainer. Can I have a motion to approve the new act 93 athletic trainer position? Second. Moved and second. Any discussion? So, this is uh the I'm just make sure I understand. This is the creation of a new position because we had previously had contracted services. Yes, that is correct. And the um institutions that provided those contracted services are no longer in business. And so you will find that across our county, we are uh many of us moving to this model instead. Thank you. Any other discussion? All in favor? I. Any oppose? The motion passes. Section 8, people services. Item 8A, educational service agreements. I have a motion to approve the following educational service agreements for district students. These
042agreements cover reimbursement for privately obtained legitimate educational services as incurred by the families for the benefit of the students. Shelton moved. Second. Moved and seconded. Any discussion? All in favor? Any oppose? The motion passes. Item 8B, out of district 2025 2026 contracts. And I have a motion to approve the following educational agreements for services provided to students attending out of district placements for the 2025 2026 school year as listed. Shelton moved. Second moved and second. Any discussion? All in favor? I. Any opposed? The motion passes. Item 6 C out of district 2024 2025 ESY contracts. I have a motion to approve the following educational contracts for students attending extended school year at out of district placements as listed. Moved second. Moved and seconded. Any discussion? All in favor? Any oppose? The motion passes. Item 8
043D, emotional support curriculum resources purchase. Have a motion to accept to to approve the emotional support materials and associated training as listed below. Shelton second. Moved and second. Any discussion? I do have a question. So, are these um materials that we've used in the past? Are they that that that just Thank you, Miss These are the additional U materials that we reviewed at the May 29th curriculum pupil services meeting. Okay. Thank you. All in favor? Any opposed? The motion passes. Have no nothing listed for section 9, curriculum and instruction. Section 10 brings us to policy. 10A is policy 301 creating a new position. I have a motion to accept the second reading of policy 301 creating a new position. Address moved. Shelton second. Moved and second. Any discussion? This is our second reading of the
044policy and there was one change which you can see um at the beginning of the guidelines that we discussed making last time. So um the the recommendations for evaluating new positions instead of continuing new positions which didn't make much sense otherwise um no additional changes since it was uh had its first reading and uh as I gave last time um I think a pretty thorough review of what we talked about at the um policy committee for this and all of the other policies on the agenda tonight. Are there other words that were discussed instead of evaluating um and the reason I ask is I'm I just don't want this to be confused with the evaluation process for roles um that professional staff typically go through. That was the only suggestion that we had the last
045uh at the first reading. But if um if that could be confusing, we could change it to a similar a synonym. And if it remains evaluating, I would just take the comma off that part. So would Yeah, the comma doesn't make any sense there for sure. It would be evaluating new new additional positions. Are you thinking more like considering Dr. Larson? Something more along those lines or recommending. It's recommendations or recommending. or just recommendations for new or additional positions will include or considerations. Yeah. Yeah. I think striking for recommendations that works too. Sure. That makes sense. Gets the same point across and you know in fewer words. Fewer words is always better. Okay. Right. All in favor? I. Any oppose? The motion passes. 10B is policy 308 employment contract board resolution. have a motion to
046accept the second reading of policy 308 employment contract board resolution. Moved second. Moved and second. Any discussion? As I mentioned with the last policy at the last meeting for our first reading um I explained what we discussed with the policy committee and the purposes for reviewing this. Now um and since the first reading and the second reading there were no changes. All in favor? I. Any oppose? The motion passes. 10 C takes us to policy 309, assignment and transfer. Can I have a motion to accept the second reading of policy 309, assignment and transfer, along with the corresponding AR moved? Second. Moved and second. Any discussion? I'm going to sound like a broken record. Um but this is the same thing as the previous one. There were no changes between the first reading and the
047second reading of either the policy or the administrative regulation. All in favor? I. Any opposed? The motion passes. 10D policy 323 tobacco products. Can I have a motion to accept the second reading of policy 323 tobacco products along with the corresponding AR moved? Second. Moved and seconded. Any discussion? Um at the first reading we discussed some um language from the administrative regulation that seemed to make more sense in the um policy itself because they were definitions. So those definitions have been taken from the administrative regulation and moved into the um policy and at this point um it that was the entirety of the administrative regulation. So there will be no AR for this policy going forward if we accept this change. All in favor? Any oppose? Motion passes. 10E takes us to policy 324 personnel
048files. I have a motion to accept the second reading of policy 324 personnel files. Moved and second. Moved and seconded. Any discussion? No changes since the first reading at the last board meeting and tonight the second reading. All in favor? I. Any oppose? The motion passes. 10F policy 702 gifts grants and donations have a motion to accept the second reading of policy 702 gifts grants donations moved in second moved and seconded any discussion the policy is is showing why it's needed already we accepted a donation earlier tonight this policy would apply to that type of donation um but more importantly there were no revisions between the first reading and tonight. Great. All in favor? I. Any opposed? The motion passes. 10G is policy 828 fraud. Can I have a motion to accept the second reading
049of policy 828 fraud? Sress moved. Second. Moved and seconded. Any discussion? Last policy of the night. There were no changes between the first reading and the second reading. So, we'll see all of these policies again for adoption um at the next meeting. So, certainly if anyone sees anything um that that should request a change again um let me know and there can obviously always be public comment before um or during any of these read um for the meetings any of these readings. Thank you. All in favor? I any oppose? The motion passes. Continuing on to section 11, other items. Can I have a motion to approve three board members to attend the PSBA delegate assembly in October of 2025? Moved and seconded. Um, any discussion? I think you you just said to approve three members.
050We're allowed to have up to three, but don't need to necessarily have three. Okay, that's fine. Up to three. And so, um, we did have volunteers for Dr. Shelton and Miss Weedman. They volunteered for two of the appointments. Um, if there is a third person that would like to volunteer, we can also do that as well. All right. So, that would be Dr. Shelton, Miss Swedman, and Dr. Larson. All in favor? I. Any oppose? The motion passes. Thank you for volunteering. Continuing on is section 12. This is a second opportunity for public comment. Um this section of the agenda is for anyone that wishes to speak as a a member of the township or um I have one group rather or person. Um so it's girl scout troop 5699 and I believe they're sitting here.
051So, please just go to the podium there. Um, and just confirm your residency in the township. This is our bronze award by TR who troop 5699. Our troop and leaders Emily D, Libby B, who isn't here right now, Best W. Harry C, that's me. Clara W. Clara WW, who's also not here right now, and Eleanor L. And if I just sorry, interrupt you one second. Um, just confirm for me your residency in the township just for the sake of the minute. So not your address. Yep. Just say Htown. There we go. Now it's in the minutes. Okay. And our leaders are Megan G and Sandy L. Our bronze award project matters to us because we want to do something that causes an impact on others. This will help prevent bullying in everyday life in our
052school district and outside of school. We can be make a difference by helping kids to be an upstander towards bullies and to stand up to them. This could also completely stop bullying in our district. This is realistic because our troop can really work hard to make a difference in our lives. Solution to bullying. Our project can help stop bullying by putting posters in our school that have links to our prevention of bullies website. This website is about giving kids ideas about how to stand up to your bully or bullies or even if you are a bully, you can go to the website and found and find out how to stop being a bully with the information given. What is bullying? Bullying can be when somebody harms you physically. This can be hitting, punching, shoving, and/or
053ganging up on you. Bullying is most likely repetitive. It is almost always someone harming you, teasing you, verbally attacking uh or threatening you several times. Bullying is more likely to be repetitive from the same person or group. Bullying can also be when someone verbally attacks you or threatens you. This can be name calling, harmful words, or threatening you in different ways. Bullying is intentional. If a close friend is hurting you, it is most likely unintentional. If it continues to get worse, you should talk to them about it. We have two recommendations that we are asking your permission for. We are recommending that all the schools could possibly put up posters to our website with either QR or a link. We also suggest that the schools can have a kindness committee so targeted students will have
054a peer to help stop the bully targeting them. In my school, we have the kindness committee. In the kindness committee, they try to include everyone in things like assemblies and trips plus activities. They also help people who are bullied and stand up for them. So, in total, our plan is to stop bullying with our websites, posters, and more. We hope you pitch in to help us achieve our goal to stop bullying from escalating and preventing it from happening in the first place. Thank you and thank you for listening. We hope to hang our posters in schools by the beginning of the school year. Thank you. I would ask that u Miss Saxa if we could follow up with some of their recommendations. All right. Is there anyone else that wishes to speak? I have no
055one else that signed up. Right. We will continue for um item 13. The board met in executive session before tonight's meeting to discuss our annual report on safety and emergency preparedness with our director of safety and security. Section 14. So the next regular public board meeting is scheduled to be held on July 17th, 2025 at 7:30 p.m. in the boardroom of the Oakmont Administration building. I have a motion to adjourn the meeting. Shelton moved. Moved and seconded. Meeting is adjourned.