CorpusRecord 71160

BOARD OF SCHOOL DIRECTORS WORK SESSION

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YouTube / KOGoldenEagles
Date
2025-04-16
Location
Allegheny County, PA
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2,361 words · about 14 min
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2026-06-09

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001[Music] Good. There's a male and a female. So everything's in your favor. Okay. Okay. Well, good. Good. Yeah. I still can't believe it. I think we're going to be online. We're on live. We're live, right? Not yet. It's still thinking. Here we go. Now we're going to anger the audience. All right. All [Music] supporter 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. All right. No public, no comments. Um the first thing that we will be um going over next week is um approving the work session minutes for February 11th and the business legislative minutes for February 18th. Um Miss Shot, anything for Parkway West? Uh no, I'll report next week. Alrighty, Mr. Razo should I'm

002not report. However, there was a student conference over the weekend, but I could attend. That's a personal uh emergency take care. Um I have to talk to Dr. Leonard to see what he learned. So that's all I have. Thank you. Thank you. Um Mr. Widen, the SBA. Um I the only thing I have is that if anyone would like to um propose anything for changes to their legislative platforms, we actually need to get that in next month. So if there are any thoughts on changing direction on any of the platform um points speak um any news from the burrows? I'm sure that the Dormmont pub tour is on April 26. Get a chance to wander around town, see your friends, buy your shirts, get them ahead of time. You uh probably won't get the right

003size if you don't get them ahead of time. Extra 26. The 26th. It's a Saturday. On the 29th, Green Tree, um Women's Civic Club will be holding meets candidates tonight for um all of the folks who are running for burough council and mayor. Uh we currently don't have anybody on um school board, but the rest of the folks will be you're welcome to come. Anyone who has to vote in green tree and wants to hear what uh everyone's points are. Great. Any others? All right. Um, we did meet for executive session um to uh discuss personnel and real estate. Uh Dr. Stropk with superintendent report for Thank you, Mrs. Donghu. So for next week we have uh approval for um second reading of three policies. Then we have the first reading for a number of

004policies. They are listed there. And then also listed are the board meetings for next fiscal year. Yeah. So they are all listed. Uh I listed them all where they would be in the event that you wanted to cancel a meeting or two. It's easier to cancel than have to revertise. So they are all on the second and third Tuesdays again. They're all listed there minus well a couple. So second third Tuesdays October 14th is listed will be at Parkway. That one I confirmed that with Parkway and in December that's the one that's not because you're required by law first week of December you have to have reorganization. So we have the reorganization work session and then business legislate. And if you decided to cancel businessually, whatever, you could do that like we did last year.

005So that's totally up to but at least they're advertised. It's e it's you don't have to. Yeah. So work and I think that is yeah that's all okay. Okay. U so um you know these I'm sorry that's that's my fault. I should had marine to put these in a little bit different order but make it easier but I'll go through them as an order. The we have an agreement with MHY family services. There's an attachment B. Um just to give you a little bit of background MHY um family services. Um uh who they are uh you may know them under under the name you may have heard the name Longore Academy. They run Longmore. That's that's this group here. Did they just change names and stuff, man? But uh this is for um obviously for

006services for this coming summer for some of our students who would receive their extended school year and that would be a place for them to go instead of here within the district. So um that is the um first one that is listed there. Are all the students going to Baltimore? No. No. There there might be a couple. So we try to keep as many of the students as we can here and do our own extended day but some of them because of the types of services and needs that they have make those law once in a while we give a couple of students have gone to um campaign. Yeah. So yeah so it depends it depends what the IEP team has decided for each one of the kids you know what was in the best

007interest of them and for their extended school year. So, we do have some going though long where we have uh the next one is the St. Vincent's College Education Agreement. We've had those before. We just had to update that. Uh Bradley Centers for the uh agreement between Bradley Center and the district for the approval for next school year to send students out there. That's just the general agreement. That's just general agreement. Yeah. Uh Satan Hill, they sent us another addendum uh update tuition so it reflects that extra $10 and so on so forth. So, just wanted to make sure that that was listed there. Um, so get that on the records. You probably seen sequence of sequence hill. And finally, River Academy of Excellence agreement agreement for one of our students uh to attend there.

008The River Academy of Excellence is uh located out in Fox Chapel. They work with students that are more in intensive needs that are on autistic spectrum disorder. U could have intellectual or learning disabilities, speech and language disabilities, but a lot with physical disabilities. So, they're located in the Fox Chapel area. And we have an agreement there for another place for these students. So, I just want to give you a little bit of background on that one. I think I haven't heard of that one. Yeah, that's rather new. It's rather new. We didn't either. Dr. Hannah did. I wish Dr. Hannah couldn't be here tonight. She wasn't feeling good this afternoon and I told her. So, I did the best that I could with audio. She's a better expert than this. She will tell you, but

009they're new. They're rather new. And so, they're private academic. They're private academic. Yeah. Very, very small. Did she check them out? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. She's going to very small, but the IEP team had decided for whatever good placement for somebody that got whatever. So, they're always fully checked out. It doesn't Yeah. And they're they're vetted out. I should say check out should say um Well, that's it. Thank you, doctor. You're welcome. Yeah. So, you want to do um next week there's going to be um appointment for uh food service. Um there's also a change in stipend um for the musical as well as approval of activity stipens. Um there is a family and medical leave and an intermittent family and medical. Thank you very much. Um just one question. the the medical

010um the medical the musical the stipens is all per the contract. Correct. Yeah. So um Mr. Ibeck took less money as director to added to his assistant pool. So it's all within dollar amount. Um that's just why they and they are able to do that to move it how however they want. Thank you Jim. I saw it on Thursday night opening night. Thought it was pretty good. You did a good job. Um something else to say was very pink. They did a wonderful job. Congratulations. All right. Finance report. Mr. Hill. Oh, there will be two items for approval next week. One is your your accounts payable uh for the month ending March 31st. Assisted 1.2 roughly 1.2 million there. uh put a general fund into a service fund uh and and Joe just for confirmation

011purposes just scrolling through the details most of that was just uh quarter payments is why we're a little higher. Okay. Yeah. The second item is the vector solutions and this is um online professional development effective July 1st at a cost of 7244 $7,244. What is that for more context on that? So what they do is they provide um now with state mandates and trainings there's a lot of different trainings that we have to give to staff um because it's mandated um including new staff is hired things of that nature safety educational specialist education nurse train a lot of things like that. So what this software does is it provides all those trainings that we're required to do rather than us look for them, pay people to do them all in one platform while also keeping

012track of when they're certified. It keeps it on record for the district um alerts them um and has when they've completed when they're due. So it's really just to keep um everything in one system update and provide that rather than us trying to pay other people. So um like I said um if you want it's on the state's website. You can see all a mandated checklist now of the required training. Um it's very extensive on what we have to provide every year. All of that training is virtual for the staff. So yes, it's all available virtual on there. All the staff that meet on demand. Whenever they come in, it's asynchronistic. So it's always there and they're always taking stuff and so they will take trainings at their we hire somebody in the middle of

013the year. You have to boom, here you go. So it's a learning management system. Um no, not really learning management. It's just more of a system to keep that has them available um for you to view like a library and then it keeps track of it. Yeah, it will track it and then it automatically uploads after it uploads directly into the state system. So we don't have to do a manual anymore. It will automatically upload. You will not lose these documents and so on so forth because you know we all have for example the state might lose them. Well goes to possibility. It's always possibility. It goes into TIMS. They give you Yeah. Yeah. It actually uploads right into TIMS and gives you all the credits and stuff and then and then the teacher gets

014all or the person's accredited like Shannon and I have to do that. Yeah. And gives us all our our hours and stuff. Yeah. Yeah. That's I mean that's a timesaver too that all of that happens together. My company uses Relias and it's the same thing. They issue um Yeah. They issue certificates. It shows exactly when you finished it, when you completed your test and everything like that. So, yeah. So, are we are we eliminating some other costs to institute this or um So, yes and no. I mean, we've had costs having people come in to do training, um paying overtime for certain things. Um in that aspect as far as the dog, we're not eliminating the software, but we're eliminating those costs and time as well. Thank you. And the rest of this is justformational

015account summary level information. That is my report. Thank you, Mr. Hill. All right, Mr. Leort, activities and athletics. All right, we have uh two competitive events uh educators rising national conference level three. Uh all the information is listed there and the FBLA leadership conference level two that information that already took place. Yes. Do we know how they did? I don't I only got nobody moved on for SPLA. Nobody moved on. Yeah, they did have said they had a great time but unfortunately Mr. Albstone came down this afternoon when both Dr. and Mr. Kak were busy unfortunately nobody has moved on this year and she was a very young group that they got to see what competition like and really left with ideas of what they could do for next year. Yeah, it makes sense. Educators

016rising. Oh, that's the conference. Okay. Are they are they doing something like competing or Yes. Okay. We have two I forget the categories, but we there's two STS that are actually competing. They they they were at a competition regionally won and now they're eligible for this. So, I could find out more specifics of what it is. Yeah, I know they have to do a recording on a topic and they only have certain amount of time and they present that. Two minute presenting. Um I can Yeah, we'll share more information. I forget what they just curious. That's a new program. See what they're doing. New to us. Yeah. And if you notice, we did put the uh inaugural picture behind everybody. So, that is part of the ribbon. That is part of the ribbon that got

017cut. Everybody knows. We will also have um Odyssey of the Mind on there for next week. Um we just got the final paperwork this evening. Um congratulations to all four teams that are moving on. um made it wonderful as always, but we'll have that on for next week as well. If anyone wants to donate to the GoFundMe to get everybody to show the world, we have that big businesses. We're also doing that. Which one? What's that? Michigan. Michigan State. Yeah. So, it's a little closer than Iowa. Yeah. And um that concludes our report. It's a lot easier to get to coaches. Yeah. Yeah. Driving. Yeah. Last year they flew, right? That's I mean my family drove and had a grand time getting there. Not everyone's that [Laughter] cool. Um all right. So, no extra public

018comment. Anybody else have any comments? The signs are on. Yeah, they are. It looked They got booted up today. It looked a little weird though when I came in. Yeah, because it said like SD Keystone Oaks. There's So, I will say there are some glitches with the software that we're dealing with. Um, I actually just got an email about how we have to reset some things to try to make it look better. So, yeah, we're still going through some of that. Yeah. Yeah. So, there's some things going. We figured it out. Oh, anyone who hasn't done the the um survey for the new logo. Uh you're And thanks to everyone who came to the focus group. Um we had a good time looking at each of Golden Eagles. I'll use that giving feedback on that.

019But weren't Yeah. Yeah. There was a lot of Emily, I don't know if Sarah told you, but I think she's going to send out an email tomorrow to all of the board members and what would want you to come a little bit earlier next week and wants to have a second each focus group with just the board. Yeah. So, she's going to send that out just with the board. I already went through my focus group. I do want to say if you see the three logos that are currently out there, I want to make it clear that those are not one of the three logos we're going with. Those are the three logos that are gone and that's not clear to that is not clear from it's not clear for this comment. I want to

020make it clear. So um so I just there was clarification to everyone. There was clarification that those are a thing. One of one of them absolutely cannot be used anymore. The other two well trademark well. [Music] All right. Yeah. So, but anyhow, yes. So, I just wanted to say that those are not one of them looks like yet. Another one looks like a seagull. That's what I was told. No, it's out there. The third one, I have no clue where it came from, but apparently it's out there somewhere. Never saw it before. Never saw it until they presented it to me last week and I said, "Where did you get that?" I have no clue. It's the one that looks very mean. Well, it looks like a student picture like it's the I don't know

021where it came from. We It was I mean, it's not the mean part, but it just looks like it's Those are not Those are not the logos. Those are not the logos. The idea is just to get an idea of what you might like about it. Not right. Yeah. It could be anything from the direction, the profile, the whatever. Yeah. So, just to get ideas and there's room for comments, right? So, you can they're not even committed to just, you know, it could be a whole, right? You know, there could be wings involved in flight. There could be. Yeah. Well, that would even went as far in my book because script people asked, "Do we have to continue with the golden eagle?" Yeah, I think we were asking that too. That that question was asked

022and then somebody said, "Well, you know, why don't we go back? Why don't they This is what was said in my group. Well, let's go back to a bear." I said, "When was there a bear there? Never be." Oh, wait a minute. Wasn't a bear in there. It used to be the Dormmont bears. And I said, "Uh, uh, that was that part. It's a new configuration." So, it was the Dormmont school district with Dormmont Bears. I did not Well, I I looked it up and we could be the bad news Bears. I think we could be the Parag Falcons or whatever those things are called that are now. What's wrong with the Golden Eagle? Nothing. I love that. Nobody knows what it looks like. I think it's G City to figure this out. Grove City's

023golden eagles are Yeah, it's not a jar. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Can I get a second? All in favor?

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