001e e for but if you're [Music] call all right I would like to call this March 12th 2025 special W meeting to order can we all stand for the pledge Al to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all I will ask board members to read the mission and goals the mission of the school district of hord Township is to educate and 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 in partnership with all district and community members hold child Child Development is vital to our educational system supports and conditions exist whereby all
002students have opportunities to grow and Excel in areas of academic Technical and career and social emotional learning our decision-making process is student centered and student voice is valued our 2020 2025 District goals are social emotional Wellness to produce a community of empathetic and resilient Learners with skills to socially and emotionally flourish to prepare contemporary citizens modernize and expand learning experiences to prepare students as critical thinkers problem solvers innovators and designers within a complex Global Society diversity and inclusion inclusion to establish a culturally diverse and inclusive educational experience that develop social cultural proficiency thank you to start can I have a motion to appoint Trisha mccy to serve as acting board secretary for the March 12th 2025 special meeting morson moved Shelton second moved in second in any discussion all in favor I I thank you
003miss m can you please call the role Miss Lee here Dr McKay here Mr Schwarz here Dr Shelton here sress here miss Vitali Miss Weedman here Dr lson here Dr King present Mrs Vitality is out due to travel all right so next up on the agenda is public comment there are two opportunities on the agenda to give a public comment the first is for items that are listed on the agenda and the second opportunity is for anything that you may with wish to speak on um you may give a public comment provided you are member of the heord township if you would like to give public comment you'll be allowed at 3 minutes a timer will start and um you'll be you'll conclude your remarks once those timer is complet it I don't believe we
004have anyone that signed up is there anyone that wishes to speak all right let's continue we're going to keep going election of District superintendent and approval of employment contract can I have a motion to accept pursuant to section 1073 of the public school code to elect Dr Matthew C Hayes as the district superintendent for a 5-year term starting on July 1 2025 and ending on June 30th 2030 and to approve the attached Employment contract that contains a salary of $240,000 for the 2025 2026 school year French benefits and superintendent duties among other terms okay moved Carson second moved and seconded any discussion say I'm very excited to have Dr Hayes joining um the district um I I think he's going to bring um a tremendous amount of um sorry just like wonderful leadership I think
005just this whole process been through it's kind of emotional like 3 months in the making um but just looking forward to the skill set that he brings the experience he brings um collaborative efforts um his focus on data driven Improvement for schools um his focus on diversity Equity inclusion and I think he's going to be a great fit here in haford I'm excited to have you on board Dr Hayes so welcome it's important to say that we looked at almost 50 candidates I think for for who who who who Smitt resum is and um so it was definitely not an easy you know Road here and uh thrilled to toly have you on board and back in the area it was a pleasure to um get to hear from you throughout a long interview process
006multiple uh interviews that you sat through and um what came across as uh Dr Larson said was um the skill set that you bring but also uh your your demeanor and openness to collaboration and ways of communicating I think will be a great fit in the district and I know that we had the community Forum last night as a first introduction uh if people weren't able to attend that was recorded and um you'll be able to uh see the remarks that uh Dr Hayes gave on a broad range of topics um of interest to our community members uh but uh look forward to many other opportunities for our student staff and community members to get to know you when you uh come on board this summer um just one thing that I've been mentioning to
007community members is just to stress like we took this very serious and this is a representation of a lot of hours of time and it's really exciting for us to come to a point to have the person that we've Chosen and that we're excited to move forward but that this process was something that we all worked really hard on um and it come we took it really seriously so yeah I'll also just extend my welcome and um a thanks to the board for all of the work that that went into this I was really proud of the way that the the board worked together on this it was a lot of work um but for Dr hay specifically every interview that we had every interaction we had um I just was continually impressed by uh
008your thoughts thought of you know those who are who were maybe struggling who we need to help forward those who maybe need more of a challenge you know I really felt like there was no stone unturned um for what you were thinking about with education really exciting um you know Innovative work that I think you've done in your current District that you know would hope to bring here and um I'm I I'm very I I have been very sad this whole time that Dr rushi is leaving us for a wonderful retirement um but I'm really excited for Dr Hayes to to sit up here and and work with us and work with the district um I think it's going to just be another great chapter in this District's history so um before I give my
009remarks I do want to read a statement from Mrs Vitali as I mentioned earlier she is traveling um but she sent me a statement that she would like for me to read and so from Danielle it says I wanted to write a statement of my strong support for Dr Matthew Hayes as the next superintendent of the school district of Halford Township Dr Hayes's strong commit to academic rigor as well as his unseizing professionalism set him apart from the start of the interview process I'm thrill that he will be our next superintendent I'm truly sorry that I cannot be there be here tonight to officially welcome him to our district I look forward to working with him in the near future I would just like to you know Echo those comments and and echo my strong
010support and as someone who's literally been where Dr Hayes has been um one of the things he talked about a lot during his interview was uh the school that he impacted and that he worked in in the school district of Philadelphia I too am a product of that school and so it is wonderful to know that the Innovation and the thought process that is coming to us the same thing that you learned when you were working at Roosevelt are are things that I learned when I was walking the third floor of Roosevelt as a middle schooler right and so I just I I welcome you to have her first you belong to us now I know you've got some ties otherw but um just just welcome very glad to have you so um in addition
011to thanking all of my colleagues here I also want to extend um a thanks to the dciu and and Dr as a board um from being intentional about hearing what the community members have to say from checking in with our staff and administration you were truly um instrumental in this process for us and so I do thank you Dr Hees I'm excited to work with you I'm excited for what you're going to bring to the district and I look forward to um what is to come so I believe we've all spoken all right so with that this will be a roll call vote Miss Lee Yes Dr McKay yes Mr Schwarz yes Dr Shelton yes snug yes Miss vital Miss Weedman yes Dr Larson yes Dr King yes all right the motion passes congratulations and
012there is one last opportunity for public comment so I would um extend that to anyone that wishes to speak seeing none the next regular public board meeting is scheduled to be held on March 20th 2025 at 7:30 p.m. in the borom of the Oakmont administration building I have a motion to adjourn the meeting moved sh and second