001from um Oh. Oh, wow. We are live. Yes. 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. Taking such big. All right. Uh for next week, we will be um approving the board minutes, uh the authorization to hire necessary staff over the summer. um the superintendent's compensation which will be filled in for next week. And then uh we have an addendum confidential employee compensation plan and the appointment of voting delegate for PSBA delegate assembly meetings. Any questions on those? I just don't have a name and nobody reached out to say they were interested in going to that. So, I would need I would do it, but I'm not going to drive up there. So, because I've
002done it every other year, but and that's all the way in they've offered it virtually every every previous year. Do we have to have somebody go? No, I think we just wouldn't have a Yeah, I mean as the PSA lays liaison you can put me down as but I'm not like I said I'm not going to go if they're only going to offer it in in person in the Poconos and we're not going as a district because I'm not going to go up there for one afternoon. It's a long drive. Yeah, for one afternoon. Yes. Or do we add another person? Five and a half or six hours even. So, it's still just for you guys. For you going, Bill? No. Okay. No, you can go for I mean I mean we No, I I
003I have no intentions of going because the week before you'll see you'll be approved tonight. I have to go down to Washington DC for AASA for a few days. So, uh I I'll be out of the district too much. So, I'm not I'm not going to go. If you enjoy don't want to travel. There's no direct flight up there either. No. Is there an airport anywhere near then you have to go but then you have or Philly but then you have to travel. I mean it's still different. Well like what what what is like when does the conference actually take place? So this is also this is different. The the conference begins a Sunday afternoon. It that's the last day is Tuesday which is in the afternoon. So it used to be uh Wednesday, Thursday,
004Friday and this would have been on a Friday. I think you came back for the weekend. This is in the middle of the week. Can I ask you a question? So it would so it would it would start on Sunday evening afternoon. Yeah. And then so there would be like like some kind of boost and stuff to visit on Monday. Yes. There's all events. There's there's all kinds. Yeah. Meetings, presentations, workshops. Yeah, they do. I'm not. I mean, I don't think I'd go up just for that, but Well, that's why I said I'm not going to go up just for this voting. If I was going to attend the event, I would consider it. But I'm not going to go up just for that afternoon. It's too far. It's too far away. You'd have to
005go the night before anyways. I think you have to go up if you're that voting meeting is on that Sunday, right? The voting meeting is on Tuesday for Tuesday. So the events start I believe for the delegates on Sunday and Monday all day there's sessions there's the floor there's events and then Tuesday go half the day half day and then you vote then the voting is the other half the day which then also begs like when that ends is that do you drive home at that point or no I I will recommend if anybody does but I would not drive on 80 or come down through uh we came home one time. We left there at 5:00 to come home on Tuesday. And they're done now. Yeah. It felt fun. Well, you don't like all
006the trucks locking you in and out. And I believe it's true through winter weather. I say I've done it in January. Yeah, because that's in October, too. So, who you never know. They do have this pretty like red concrete road. Well, let me ask this. And this is for next I'm just throwing this out there. if if they don't get enough attendance or enough people to go and they decide in the middle here to well let's go ahead and make this virtual that's what I'm thinking do you want to take a vote and stuff and say you know like somebody will go up in the event that it's virtual I mean if somebody I mean it's a un unless one or two board members want to go up for the couple days only thing is
007like you won't come my advice you want to come home until uh Wednesday morning you're going to have to go to Sunday it's my understanding and they gave no reason as to why they weren't offering it virtually from what I can tell from that email. They're trying to increase attendance to the conference because they have to fill because they have a contract there. They have to fill those um groups and they can't because ever since they moved it up there, the contingent from southwestern Pennsylvania is is is is protest. We won't go right. I mean, I would totally go I just don't think I would have to vacation, right? But, you know, not making that decision today. I would as to the PSBA liaison put my name in for that as the voting delegate. However,
008if it is only going to be in person, there's a good chance that I will not be there. I'm okay with that. Teresa, we all are okay with that. Yeah, because if you go Yeah. But they may decide to they may decide to And there's the flip side of that too is that I didn't hear from one person about the the um you know what they plan to do for the year. If nobody made a comment on whether they they agreed, disagreed, or wanted something from on the platform. On the platform. Yeah. So, I haven't seen anything I haven't seen anything come out from that. So, yeah. And I didn't have any disagreement with what the plat No, there was. And I sent it to everybody. Yeah. You did? Yeah. And I didn't see any
009issue with anything on there. I was in agreement with what they were doing. So, 15 hours on the train. Thinking about the ways to get up there. If it's a train, it's really usually on time. Yeah, it was wonderful company. It's it's it's a nice train trips are nice. I just Yeah, at least you don't have to drive on 80. I haven't done Pennsylvania in years and years. I took the train from here to Philly. You have to go to Philly. I used to go to Philly Scranton. I haven't taken I took the CO Led a few times. I've never taken the train to get I mean Ireland it's different from here to Philly. I also did. Oh, I did. So, it's Teresa sending So, it's Teresa for now. Wonderful. All right. So, we have
010um some information from Parkway West. Um no, I'll share information next week. All righty. Uh Mr. Rozo is not here for the Shaz report, but I'm going to guess there's no movement. No, there's not. Um and we just talked about PSBA. Nothing. Nothing else. How about news from the burrows? Dorma pole is open. Probably freezing. It's freezing. Yeah. How was the um Castle Shannon uh community day? I think it went very well. It was unfortunately as as the last two weeks have been abnormally cool. Yeah. for the end of May. But I think we had a a great turnout and I mean um no rain. No, it uh it did not it did not rain. It just um was cooler, you know. It only match that day. It was only like the upper 60s at
011that. Um I I saw I saw Emily there. So Miss Schneider, I don't know. Miss Lindsay if you came. Um no, I was in Lancaster. Oh, okay. Um, yeah. I I'd like to hear there were any kids who came if they enjoyed it or not. Particularly the laser show. I heard good things about that from the neighbors and other people. I heard they like that. Enjoy. Cool. Cool. Because I think it's important to get kids opinions on things and I don't have any kids. So, since it's for them. Exactly. Yeah. I heard a good thing. They they thought it was like the pirate show when they do their so they enjoyed it. I know my son. Oh, I took him in the watches. He liked. We didn't make it that long. But the ice cream
012was good and the balloons were fun. More ice cream and balloons. All right. We did meet an executive session previous to tonight to discuss contract in person. and Dr. Sty with the comments. Thank you, Mrs. Sn. So, uh, quickly did you see what second reading of, uh, five policies that are listed there? Second reading. Um, item number six, we're voting next week. We did receive the police memorandum from Green Tree. So, we do have them all. they're in. And then I'm not going to go through all that, but you could see the listing there. The compensations run number seven. And all of the blanks will be filled in for next week with all the salaries will be listed there. And that'll be uh for number one, number two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine,
013all there. And then uh we have uh two sets of professional development. Um we'll have our gifted education teachers attending the uh conference here in Pittsburgh uh November 13th to 16th and then I will be attending the AASA Real Skills for Real Life Summit uh in Washington DC. Greyel Foundation gave $1,000 towards that. So the cost of the district will not exceed $1,950 because it'll be deducted off of there. So that'll just be next week. That concludes my report for next week. Um, okay. The education report. Thank you, Dr. Um, next week we are going to vote um on the adoption and purchase of the textbooks that have been on display. Um, the science textbooks. Are they still on display? Yeah, they're still over there. There was a line there line up the other day.
014Yeah, they're there. Our new summer reading. They're there. And um that concludes the education report. Back to Dr. St. Sure. Real quickly, the pupil personnel report for next week. an agreement with uh ACA CLD Tillitson school uh for the time period ask for one of our students to uh attend there for extended uh extended school year for that and then the second one is the agreement between the district and FY I'm sorry F I'm sorry right M hy family services and the district and that's for student M hy family services. Some of you may have heard the school called Longmore Academy. This is the firm that runs Longmore. So, the way you do the agreement. So, if you've heard of Longmore where we have sent some students there for placements and we renew this, we
015renew this agreement every year at this time and we have a stage or so that goes through. So, that's all for next week. Thank you. Uh Miss Snider with the personnel report. Um first item is going to be resignations. Um there second item is going to be appointments. We have um summer home instructors as well as substitute custodians. Um we're also going to have an item for extended senior staff um for the positions listed there. We have um the summer academy program with the middle school math acceleration position there. Um and then um we are going to approve the um the list of students for the summer work program. Great. Uh item six will be mentor teachers. Um below those were teachers who served over this past year. Um item seven um you have second
016semester um teaching loan compensation stipens. Can I ask what classes those are for? Okay. Uh I know one. Okay. Um one's health. So it's actually the health. Mr. Health. Health. Okay. Uh one is uh science, one is social science. Okay. Thank you. Uh for item one. Item two is uh kindergarten. Item three is well solicitor special education. Yeah, it was the secondary that I was curious what courses they were. Yes. Um item eight um grade level and department leaders additional compensation for 2425 although should the should correct it should say 20 you were right it should say 2425 I know. Oh, a lot of time here. Nine 10 years. [Music] Um, item 10, Kendra. Wait, how is she different than the other? Five days difference. Oh, gotcha. Five day difference. And then the last item
017is a family and medical. We'll be here all evening not doing my personal even more. Yeah. We'll be here forever. You know, you could always do too if you want to with particularly personnel because the nature of it, you could always say recommend recommend approval of items one through 10 or whatever. You could do that. That's always Oh my god. particularly person a new personel report going to be swift uh the finance report Mr. Hill is not here today. Uh we will be uh looking at adopting the final budget um and also recommending uh the approval of the accounts payable which is just north $1 million. And we have a finance meeting on Thursday. Yes. and buildings and grounds together at Myrtle. Where are we meeting? I'm waiting on a confirmed location. Okay. Got a
018table that shares also in the gym. Myrtle Elementary. It's the uh Thursday. What's the committee? So for those who are So for those who are attending, I would say obviously park in the back in the parking lot, walk down the steps and then we'll we'll be waiting down there. Yeah. And maybe we'll just meet in the cafeteria down there. Huh. The problem is EDS is there um for certain times. So we Yeah, that's the issue. What time do they go to? But are they there in the summer or is it just in Dormmont? I don't know how much longer. I They probably ended I I don't know how much longer, but they don't It's not a full year at all. It's just Dora, but I don't know when that year ends for them. Oh, that
019was my in recommend park. Yeah, park in the back. We'll meet you guys at the back door back there. let you know we can walk with it. Uh we are also um going to vote to approve the authorized depositories for the purpose of investing school district funds with the following bank or invest Mr. Hill so much. Um then we are um going to vote on um the following designated deposiitories listed. Uh First National Bank with the funds listed. Um and then district insurance policies. We're going to uh vote to approve those. 12% is a nice job. Yeah. Um, I can say originally when we first had it, um, we were about 25%. Um, most districts actually saw anywhere from a 20 to a 50% increase. Um, again, because of the climate, um, basically commercial property
020and equipment um, insuranceances are just raising um, rates based on claims for everyone and the cost of things and trying to um, make money because they've lost money in the past years. um we haven't really had many claims, so we were able to lower that in there. Um our workers comp um only increased because our payroll increase that's based on payroll. Um but we are still um the lowest district around here as far as workers comp premiums. Um which is very well. Um in addition to that, we did add a cyber insurance policy this year. Um, in the past it didn't make sense based on cost and other issues we've had, um, other, you know, items and software we had, but, um, this year they were able to get a group discounted price for $7,000,
021which will protect us, um, very well in there. So, I did add that um, just as um, a second set of insurance, you know, is that in case we're attacked? Yeah. So, um right now we have a a program called Crowd Strike, which we pay for where um they try to guarantee it if something happens and they'll cover up to like $150,000 or so, but they've never experienced something. Um this insurance policy will be addition to that, but it also um protects us as far as um if someone has fraudulent um banking information, get to my payroll department and they accidentally pay someone if we issue a check to someone fraud. So it covers more than what Crowd Strike would do. Crowd Strike is more for if they just attack our system and we have
022to pay a ransom or something along that nature. It would be there where this cyber policy includes a lot of this other thing um with that. So that's why I went with it. Again, $7,000 um a good price. In the past anywhere from uh 20,000 to like $50,000. So thank you. Um we are also um voting to um approve the current Act 511 taxes including the local service tax $5 per working individual earned income tax of.5%. And real estate transfer tax of.5% for next week which is no different than the current or previous years. Uh we are also looking to um increase the breakfast and lunch price not because we want to but because we're forced to by the state and then oh it's not even okay I can see why this bill is out.
023Um, let's see. We're going to buy that conveyor gas oven from Shoeward Equipment Sales hopefully if we So um last month it was approved. Um, when we reached out to the company, they realized that they did not um put um installation or um delivery onto that invoice. Um we tried our best to have them just keep the price as is. They said they couldn't. Um so they provided us with a new quote. um it was below the threshold that we didn't have to go over bids again. So um they are still the lowest compared to any of the other quotes that we had received. Um it's just to update that delivery. And how much extra was that? Um, I believe it was about $3,000, almost close to $4,000 for it. And then, um, Kelly services,
024it's recommended that we, um, approve exhibit A, uh, being part of the agreement of educational staffing between Kelly Services and the district. And oh that's for clerical and paraprofessional people. So we use Kelly services for all our substitutes. Um we found out through them that we're supposed to really um sign an agreement every year with the board and Kelly as far as rates. Um we haven't had one signed um for about three years now. Um they've reached out um regarding that. Um as far as pricing goes, um the teacher sub cost stayed the same. Um we did add an additional um category for teachers that sub in the same position for 21 days plus. Um the reason we added that is because we're trying to entice um substitutes with the certificate um that for that
025content area to come and do that. If you're in there for 21 more or more days, you have to be certified in that content. So, um, right now we've been, um, having a lot of, um, emergency certified subs or building subs fill in, um, that may not be certified in that area, but we need someone to cover those where, um, a lot of other districts have that category. So, we're losing out on some of those, um, short-term positions that are shorter than the 96 days in the contract will be considered long-term. So, um, we added that. their pay will be um the same pay as a building sub um just to entice them to take that if that is an option to meet that. Um other than that the only other change was to increase
026the um clerical rate and paraprofessional rate. Um we honestly haven't had um really any we've never had a pair of sub um I don't think since I've been here. Um we do have one substitute um secretary that comes in occasionally they were very low um so we raise them some just to be competitive. Thank you. And then um number 10, we are going to vote on the pre-proposal letter of understanding from how do you say that? Question. Um EDTE management to deliver a technology service tailored to meet the express needs of our district. Yeah. Can we So, they're going to come in um it's a they're going to do an assessment um that has to do with um the business department, technology department, and regarding curriculum, what they do is they come in, interview individuals
027from all of those departments. Um they may interview some board members as well. We'll talk to Bill and I along with Shannon and some principles for the curriculum. But what they really do is assess how the district is using technology um for curriculum and meeting our district goals and um where curriculum is at as far as statewide. Um they're very known for their use of um technology and providing innovative ideas looking at it. So, what they're going to do is come in, see where we're lacking, um, where we could improve on, what we're doing well, really give us an outside perspective of their opinion on um, everything that goes on here regarding that. So, we thought um, it'd be a great opportunity for us where we're headed just to see um, you know, their thoughts,
028their take. Again, it's no cost to the district. um they will you know do a proposal at the end but it's really just to give us that assessment from an outside point of view rather than Bill and I doing it um with our own um internal biases whether good or bad just based on things so they're doing it at no cost no cost is yeah it's free no cost they just have the letter of understanding but there's no cost to this at all but they're going to try to sell it stuff afterwards right so they will yes so that that's that's will you gave your cell phone number in your email. I they do act. So yes. So that's Are they doing a vulnerability assessment? Yes. Thank you very much. I hope that concludes this
029report. Yes. All right. Mr. Report, you're up with the activities and athletics. Great. Thank you. There's two items. One is the extra activity worker positions for the 2526 school year. It's uh it's recommended the board approve the following extra athletic worker positions and stipens for 2526 school year. And all the activities and amounts are all listed there and there are the same amounts as last year. And we also have the extra activity workers for the 2526 school year. And those individuals are listed below there. Oh, we have some people coming back, right? Is that the same list that is always put together, though? I'm just curious. Exactly the same. Yeah, there there's some new individuals on there. Um, a lot of them are the same um that have been there, but there are a few
030um new people. A couple of our retirees that are going to come back. We have been some of them have been on here. Some of them have. That's all I have for Steve. Oh, that was a nice short one. Thank you, Mr. Um any public comment, any discussion? I just mentioned that um Green Tree is having the summer reading kickoff program this Saturday afternoon. So there'll be fun activities for kiddos in the uh parking lot. Anyone who might want What parking lot? The Green Tree Library parking lot. Oh, okay. I thought maybe your your driveway now one was I thought it's a pool because many more people it's a little bit bigger but no this is the the library parking lot. All right. Can I have a motion to adjurnn? I will make that motion.
031Second. All in favor?