April 27, 2026 LASD Board Meeting

001The board has signed. The board wants it confirmed. If the board has signed. The board has signed the customer. The board has signed. The board has signed the customer. This is like The board has signed the customer. Just want to make sure the board has signed. We did have it earlier. Right. Right at the end of the Yeah, that would be fantastic. That's too bad. What time can I come back? So shall I come back? All right. Going to call this uh meeting to order at right on time at 7:02. Start with some opening exercises. Good evening. I'd like to welcome Stephanie and Joseph Hudak as our pledge leaders this evening. If you would come up to the table, Stephanie and Joseph. Ready, Joe? I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of

002America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Please remain standing for a brief moment of silence. Thanks, guys. All right, Joe. Joseph and Stephanie, THANK YOU SO MUCH. ALL RIGHT, YOU'RE OUT THE DOOR. THANK YOU SO [laughter] MUCH. All right. >> [laughter] >> You can go with them. Uh first we have some meeting announcements. Uh so a board meeting was held on March 23rd, 2026 at 7:00 in the board room. A negotiations meeting was held on April 7th 6:30 in the administration conference room. An executive session was held on April 13th at 6:45 for negotiations and personnel discussions in the administration conference room. A workshop meeting was held April 13th at 7:00 here in the board room. A board meeting is being held

003currently April 27th at 7:00 here in the board room. Uh an executive session was held prior to this meeting at 6:15 for personnel and legal discussions. And finally, a workshop meeting will be held on May 11th at 7:00 in the board room. Janine, may I please have a roll call? Sure. Mr. Joey Beers? Present. Mr. David Bradley? Here. Mrs. Lori Frye? Present. Mr. Jeremy Glauser? Present. Ms. Denise Hartley? Here. Mr. William Hellen? Here. Mr. Alex Methica? Present. Ms. Heather Neff? Present. And Mr. Timothy Tap? Here. Thank you. All right. Next up, presentations recognition. We have none at this time. Um public comments. Uh so is there any public comment uh pertaining to items for the agenda? I think that's for the proposed Proposed. That's for the proposed approval of the agenda. Uh I'm sorry. On

004the proposed approval of the agenda. All right. Uh so do I hear a motion to approve the agenda as present as presented or in the alternative? So moved. Second. Questions? Comments? All in favor? Aye. Opposed? The ayes have it. All right. Next up, traditional public comment period on agenda items. I have a few tonight. All right. Let's start first with uh Fred Kemmer. Thank you, Alex, for allowing me to speak. Um I just wanted to um I watch every single meeting. Um I know it's very important for the general public to uh be able to watch it on Zoom. One thing that I have had a little contention with um I've been a supervisor in Franklin Township for a number of years, chair. Uh I've been on many boards uh within the county and other

005capacities. I think that we missed a little bit um with the school board. Um and nothing but mention Alex, you do a great job. Uh Joey did a great job. Jeremy did a great job in different ways. But I think the blend of all three of you would be best for what is going on in this type of uh uh meeting. I see a lot of over-speaking. Um no one really respects the president. Um um it doesn't seem that way because I see people arguing back and forth without even getting the knowledge. Um I think that that cure is is disrespect. Um and I think that is something that we should be working towards. Um at least getting your thoughts in before we're talking. And then actually the amount of time that we talk about

006something. As you know, um we can limit my speaking, the public speaking, but you can also limit the amount of time that we spend on the topic. I think some things get beat over head. And then they almost seems like it's choreographed where people just talk back and forth because of what they're pointing out. I think that short and sweet, get to your point, and move on. We have a session every other week where um the we talk about these things. By the time you guys get here, you should almost know where your allocations It shouldn't be a big dog and pony show, but that's what it seems like it is more often than not. And the respect should start uh tonight. Thank you. Thank you for those comments. All right. Next up, we have

007Walter Slonjech. Two things. First one is related to the last meeting. I just want to thank uh board member Dave Bradley for apparently having a change of heart and voting for 010 and protecting my students. And the second one that I'm going to bring up is um weapons. Weapons are not allowed on our school grounds anymore is my my understanding. By anyone other than our school authority or our state authority. It's come to my attention and I have no idea if it's true because some people say things that turn out to not be true. But we may have board members carrying weapons onto our school district property. So I just I I want to get that out in the open and that it's clear that no matter who it is, unless they're the authorities, they're

008not to bring a weapon onto our school property. And you know, I don't want there to be a misunderstanding that they think that if it's a board meeting or or or the public thinks they can come here at night for a board meeting, I just want to make that clear that they're not allowed on our property on the school property with weapons. Thank you. Absolutely. Thank you, Wally. Uh next up, we have Pastor Mike, Pastor Mike Olson. All right. So uh Mr. President, members of the board, thank you for the opportunity to uh to be here this evening uh speak to you all here. I appreciate appreciate all the time and effort that you put in. I know it's a lot more than what we see here at these meetings. Uh and I appreciate the

009the passion with which you serve. Uh there is an issue that I would like to to bring up and address though. Uh and as I believe Mr. uh Kemmer, if I remember correctly, spoke about the the decorum of the the meetings. Uh it is uh something that we talk about in our homes, our churches, our sports teams, and I'm sure in our classrooms as well, healthy conflict resolution, about controlling our emotions, not letting our emotions control us, about uh in conversation and in being speaking with kindness and respect to one another. Those are hallmarks of a civilized society. They have not always been uh uh and I would just encourage uh that that be worked on uh for a number of reasons. Uh the children and youth that are present in these meetings, uh as

010well as the ones who are at home, I uh would venture a guess to say that the majority of people who listen and watch at home are parents of children in the school district and have children in the background. I would hate for any of those parents to have to explain what the arguing and yelling and name-calling is about that they hear coming from our TVs or phones. We have a duty as uh leaders in our community to set a positive example of how to speak to one another even in disagreements and even when our values and beliefs may differ on a topic. Uh secondly, uh as the parliamentarian of procedure of the Lehigh School District and Robert's Rules, uh you have a duty to follow in them. Uh if I can uh just I'd

011like to just point out just a couple sentences from it. I've served on a number of nonprofit boards, served at a number of national conferences organizations. I'm a little familiar with it and uh just to share a few things uh section three, subsection 30, before member in assembly may make a motion or speak in debate, he must obtain the floor. That is, he must be recognized by the chair as having the exclusive right to be heard at that time. Uh section four, subsection 30, debate must be confined to the merits of the pending question. Speakers must address their remarks to the chair, maintain a courteous tone, and especially reference to any divergence of opinion, avoid injecting a personal note into debate. This Sunday must never attack or make any illusions to the motives of members

012has already noticed speakers should refer to officers only by title and should avoid the mention of other members' names as much as possible. Uh and Mr. President, uh just as a reminder, this is the power that you wield uh in section 47 subsection 7, uh part of your duties is to enforce the rules relating to debate and those relating to order and the quorum within the assembly. Uh that means that you have uh that all persons present at a meeting have an obligation to obey the legitimate orders of the presiding officer. Uh section 61 subsection 8 and then subsection 19 says an assembly has the right to protect itself from annoyance by non-members and its full authority in this regard can be exercised by the chair acting alone. The chair has power to require non-members

013to leave the hall or to order their removal at any time during the meeting. So, as the uh approved parliamentary procedure of the Lehighton School Board and in its governing document documents, uh it is your duty to fulfill this. Uh the Pennsylvania courts have found that uh not following through on the governing documents of a school board uh for the school district is actionable. Uh so, hopefully that it would never come to that, but if not for the example and the the duty that you hold here, hopefully that is enough to make sure that these meetings run smoothly. I've found that meetings that operate in an atmosphere of respect uh and civility are the most efficient and fruitful meetings that we can have. Uh and we owe that to the community and students of the

014school district be setting a good example and making the most of the time that we have with all of you wise and intelligent individuals coming together to make decisions on our behalf. Thank you so much for those comments. Certainly as president, I still feel my training wheels are on in many regards, so uh definitely appreciate the feedback and you know, I think um alluding to those comments and and and and Fred's comments, I think we we can be better as a board in terms of you know, appropriate quorum for sure. All right, next up we have uh Ryan Bowman. >> [clears throat] >> Evening. So, uh in reference to uh policies of the first readings of these two policies specifically in policy reference to the tutoring and the policy in reference to the instructional uh

015supplies. Um just as a as being first read, I certainly would hope that the board would along with Mr. President would ask the school teachers for their feedback on it. Uh I think that uh policies are a little slim for idea. Uh I'm curious as to how the tutoring uh law seems to be uh devoid of the idea that how tutoring is going to be the thing. I think as parents, I think we should we should uh know specifically how our child is going to get tutoring. Um if they need that tutoring, how that's going to be implemented and what that procedure looks like. Uh and that seems to be uh absent from this policy. Uh finally, in reference to extracurricular activities, um there there seems to be a cap here uh if I'm correct

016uh as to what the board is willing to I believe that was the one pardon me. Um Anyhow, one of the policies speaks to the cap. Uh yes, performance competitions and so forth. Uh while I recognize that part of the uh student body is responsible in raising their own money, I I do think that um again, this has been a hot topic with FBLA. Uh certainly we have I think the greatest students uh here in Pennsylvania, the student body. And certainly we should uh when they exceed uh the mark of excellence in whatever competition they are, I don't think that there should be an objection by the school board uh in funding those extracurricular activities and competitions. Um I know I've had a discussion with Mr. President about the idea of bringing back extracurricular trips

017uh and so forth in the school board. Finally, I'm going to uh comment on the last two people, Mr. Cameron and Pastor Mike's uh comments. Um I'm a firm believer in what the Constitution says. Uh certainly there's been uh certainly we all know that world events that occurred this past weekend uh with uh what occurred with our first amendment rights. Um I think there's a debate there what Pennsylvania Constitution and case law says. Uh certainly uh we all have a right to come to the table uh with this school board or in attendance to this. Uh and I do agree it should be done in a manner sometimes topic gets hot, uh but I think we all need to be heard at the table. Uh I just think that there needs to be a way

018to do it. Um however, uh I would ask that Alex, that you and maybe Mr. President have a conversation with attorney because what I'm alluding to that is the idea of uh the idea of pushing you to censure people either on the board or in public. Certainly I welcome that idea of being censured. I personally I will admit that I've I've spoken um but I believe that firmly that it is my constitutional right uh to speak uh and and so forth. Other than that, I have none. All right. Thank you for your comments. All right. Uh next up we have uh item 1.9 on reports. >> Mr. President, I have a public comment. >> [clears throat] >> I put I put a I put a thing in for public comment on the agenda. It's right

019underneath your computer. You were here when I put it in this when I first came [laughter] in. I remember seeing you coming in to drop off your keys with you. >> Yep, here it is. All right, I'll check it. Thank you. Dave Bradley. If I have uh two things on the agenda that I'm concerned with. One is the uh PSBA um shows where we're going to be spending somewhere upwards of uh over 15 and probably closer to $20,000. I believe that should be bid out. There's other organizations including the National School Board Association which does this service as well and can be much more effective uh to uh Fred and uh the Reverend Reverend, is that correct? Pastor? Pastor or Reverend? Either is fine. All right. I'll tell you what, Mike. Yeah. All right, I'll

020go with Mike. I like Mike. Uh actually, I like Pastor better. So, as the Pastor said that and and Fred also said that when you get the agenda, you should have some understanding by the time you get here. We were not able to access a lot of that because of using PSBA system that is currently down and having problems and and they're not the greatest at that. We should get our agendas earlier rather than on Thursday or Friday. Uh but that would also help. And then finally, the other thing on the agenda is um director's concern or old business. I was asked for an apology. So, um in reference to the Coach Miller letter, first and foremost, the board is here to provide oversight of the district ensuring student safety. I'm making this statement as

021David Bradley, as individual school director for the Lehighton Area School District with an oath of office requiring that I act with fidelity to my standard. And whatever the statement says. I further affirm that the information provided today in the statement is true and correct and to the best of my knowledge. Coach Miller is seeking an apology from me as a sitting director of the Lehighton Area School District for upholding my oath of office. Furthermore, Coach Miller appeared to be disgruntled that I listened to the constituents and spoke to constituents. I believe our president also made comments similar. Please let me inform the entire community public officials have an affirmative duty to be fully informed and as such may study, investigate, discuss, and argue problems and issues outside the confines of a public meeting. That is

022a direct quote from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court case number 82 A3 D 407. The protection of students is also codified in our state laws and in the LASD policy. As Pastor Mike mentioned, I know I listen to the constituents, that governing doctrine has to be actionable or you'll end up in court. And I agree with that. The use of profanity and other behaviors is strictly prohibited in our coaches' handbook. The handbook behaviors are enforced by the students, the parents, student school administrators, including but not limited to school principals and the athletic director. And our government-run schools, All parties, students, staff, parents, community members, they're all asked to speak a safe to say something if they see something and they are safe to say. Anyone intimidating a witness needs to be held accountable and my door

023is always open. The method of reporting a violation is very simple. >> [laughter] >> The witness that is interested in protecting the safety of and well-being of our students just has to file a formal written complaint with the district. It's online. hipordocs.com When it comes to student safety, people interested in protecting our students and willing to come forward and are protecting and helping our students to avoid future mistreatment. This also helps protect our district from massive financial liabilities. It's self-correcting. [clears throat] For some general understanding, completely general understanding, let's be clear, completely general understanding, Pennsylvania law requires any abusive actions against a minor to be reported to the child and adolescent services. I confirm that directors, coaches, staff, and administrators are all mandatory reporters. ChildLine replies to my request for clarification and when asked if

024coaches have the use of profanity, name-calling, derogatory comments, and public humiliation with impunity, they said no. ChildLine then advised that all abuses be reported to ChildLine, even perceived offenses. The PIAA sports disqualifications get issued to the athletic director and the school principal. Three of the four that I received from my investigation came from the basketball program. Therefore, David, you have 30 seconds left in public comment. I will use it. Thank you. Therefore, the only apology that I will give is for the delays the board has created in adjudicating the formal written complaints that were filed when the premature resignation was received. The complaints need to be properly and professionally cleared so we can adjust policy and better protect our students. What do you think, Lehigh? Should our coaches be held accountable? Thank you. All right,

025thank you. Um one thing I I'm making a trend of forgetting for roll call. Do we have I'm going to look at the chat now. Oh, no, okay. President Zito. Can I address Can I address you? Uh very briefly. What you just said was all hot air washing. He comes to me claiming he wants to protect students. He pulled a huge picture which included the school. He then wants the community to come forward to the board to report issues, but calls me out of the meeting and I don't care, but the next person may care and not come forward. It's because of guys like him that he may not want to step forward and say, you know, something's wrong. You know what's going on. Fred, let Dudley step forward. He's a man of character. Yeah,

026we're going to need somebody to He's a man of character. Our community has been a character. All right, enough, my guys. I just want to say that I was one of them and I was not addressed. So for him to sit up here and say he did an investigation and he talked to those that submitted that, that's another lie. Thank you, Wayne. Uh we have our student board representatives. You guys are welcome. All right. Track and field will host their senior night tomorrow, they will be hosting Northwestern Lehigh. Tomorrow is also their last meet of the season leading each districts and states for those who qualify. We're wishing good luck to all of them. The softball girls have also had their senior night on April 17th against Executive Education. The girls are also taking on

027the Tigers in Northwestern Lehigh tonight at home. The girls have had a fighting season and they're ready to finish off the season strong, so we wish them the best of luck. >> [laughter] >> And our baseball team, tonight our baseball team held their senior night where six seniors were honored. The game is also against Northwestern Lehigh at home and it started at 4:15. I also found out after the sport that they won 10-0. Um the boys played Northwestern Lehigh last Saturday and also came out with a win. The boys have three regular season games left and we're waiting to see if they'll make playoffs. On April 24th, we held our annual scholarship assembly. Seniors and their families were invited to the assembly. Around $400,000 in scholarships were awarded through 88 individual donors. Additionally, awards for

028academics and volunteering were also provided to the students who qualified. On April 23rd, 24th, and 25th, our drama club performed Anything Goes as this year's play. It was a great performance and we'd like to congratulate the seniors and everyone else who was involved. This week is our prom spirit week. Each [clears throat] day is featuring a different theme to get students hyped up before the dance. Monday's theme was PJ's or comfort wear. Tuesday's theme is soccer mom versus barbecue dad. Wednesday's theme is Hawaiian and Thursday's theme is pink out. And we have our step and dance team on April 25th travels to the state competition and we'd like to congratulate everyone who qualified for states and and did well at all of their other regular season competitions, so we would like to congratulate them all

029on a good season. Thank you. Fantastic, thank you. Can I add one thing about the scholarships? I was in tenth in attendance there um as a grandparent, not as a board member, and it is amazing the alumni that comes out and donates money to the seniors to go to school. They are proud Indians. I'm just saying that. Yes. A huge thank you. Absolutely. We're all very thankful for everyone who has given us scholarships and so many people have received them. Well deserved. Yes. Thanks, guys. Thank you. All right, next up we have our superintendent's report. All right, I will try to be as brief as I can with this information, but first of all, wanted to provide you, as we've been doing, with monthly Safe2Say summary. Uh when you see this, this is essentially here's

030the date range, 3/20 through 4/27, and you can see these are the reports. That does not mean that they haven't been investigated, obviously. Um and that would be available on the website for further review. You can see in that [snorts] month uh 12 total. So again, a fairly fairly low number that month. Uh threat against a person being the most commonly reported, anyway. How do I get back to this? Okay. There you go. Okay. I was asked about student enrollments at the last workshop meeting and so here is here is a a breakdown of those 2,074 students actually within our schools, another 83 at CCTI. My numbers were reversed. Home school is in the 40s at 43, cyber charter schools at 185. So that would that would include all students in the districts in in

031Catasauqua. Does that include students that are in the BNI? They would fall under our enrollment cuz they're technically enrolled with us, so we outsource their placements. I just want to Yes, no, great question. Would you say the Catholic school was where? In Sorry. Kids who go to Catholic school, where are they counted at? That would So the Catasauqua, I that's the one number we private schools that we don't necessarily have a handle on in our Catasauqua. So um in terms of if they go to Catholic school in our district, if they go to another private school, because they get enrolled directly with that and no bill comes through us, so they're actually not enrolled with us. So we don't know about them necessarily through our through our student information system. Thank you. We also want

032to look at at revenues and expenditures because this was a lot of conversation at the last at the last meetings at the last couple of meetings. I wanted to provide you just an overview for the board of first of all, what this looks like when you think about percentages in the pie chart, I think it's helpful um by what comes in and also what goes out in different areas. As we talked about, there are only certain areas of expenditures that we can control and there are only there's only one area of revenue which we can control. You see here, the blue is and I I can't see I think I think it's pretty small, but the blue is actually local revenues, so that would include property taxes, real estate transfer taxes, uh anything anything that

033is generated directly by within our community. Uh you see the federal is that small slice of orange, and that's under 3% of overall revenues. This is actuals based on 24-25. If you went back for 3 years prior to 24-25, you'd probably see a very different story in terms of revenues, where the federal government would be a much larger slice of the pie given the amount of money that was flowing through ESSERs. And then you see the state at 47.7%. I do think, you know, again, we have no control outside of advocacy for the state. We have even less control over federal. Uh obviously, the one that we do have some modicum of control over is the local. Probably more importantly this slide, the expenditures by percentage, and these are based on actuals of 24-25. So

034you see salaries Salaries are represented in that large blue slice of the pie, and benefits in the red slice of the pie. So this would be for all employees of the school district, all monies paid out through salaries and benefits. And you see that that obviously comes out a little over 60% So it's right around 61% of total expenditures on salary and benefits. We do have some level of ability to control those costs. Um and it is obviously the highest proportion of the overall cost to the district. Okay. Okay, then I have to turn around. Okay. Cuz it gets a little small. >> So what am I actually pointing at when I click? The little white button. Oh, look at that. So >> [clears throat] >> other services is pretty general. It's things we pay

035out, but you see here other principal payment, that's our debt service. Uh is is that peach color look. Again, at this point in time, no control over that. Interest on our debt service. This small blue slice is equipment purchases. So that would be vans, it would be it would be tools, it would be potentially even desks, water fountains, things of that nature. And you can see that that accounts for 3.5% of our overall expenditures in 24-25. Move down, supplies. So supplies is a lot that captures a lot of different areas. It's not only classroom supplies, that would be things like technology as well. Am I correct in that? This one is Um so at 4.1% to to there. Other tuition would be placements that are out of district, not CLIU programs, and not BHA. Um

036there are some instances where we do send students to other placements, and that's represented by that very small sliver, which is 0.6%. Community College of the Tri-C represents 0.5% of our overall expenditures there. Uh and then this would be CCTI, which is 3.6%. And those students are our students in enrollment, so we, you know, some of those students in terms of where they go, that that money follows them. And you see this blue here is and it cuts off there. Those are very close. That's the two blues. That one's Yeah, that one's charter tuition, so cyber charter schools at 5.5% of our expenditures. Uh transportation at 3.4% of our expenditures. And then you see this slice here at seven 7. zero 7% is BHA. This small green slice here is actually our IU online course

037platform, which is what we use to provide our in-house cyber students who are in the Lava program coursework. So we have to purchase those courses, that platform, we've purchased rights to that licensing, and that's what that small green sliver represents. This one here, this yellow, is IU special programs. And that really concludes it. So when we talk about bringing expenditures down, uh you know, this here represents truly the most bang for your buck if you can figure out how to reduce costs in personnel. It makes up over 60% of your overall operating costs. Uh it's it's where it's where it is. So other things then as we've talked about here, obviously in terms of cyber charter or charter tuitions overall, and I don't believe if we have any students who are charter students that are

038not cyber charter, it is very few, very limited. There are a few brick-and-mortar charter schools in the Allentown area. We may have one or two students who attend that. It's not very many. So I have a line in the in like 185 for the cyber from charter school, and that's like 8%. But it only consumes 5.5%. Right. But when when you think about that, you almost have to take transportation out of that, too, that maybe you're having it for comparison, right? So we obviously offer an alternative. We have We have This is not Our Our charter tuition is not actually an area of major concern in our district. Uh we can do better, and I think over the time we will do better. Um but the reality is is we we offer a pretty robust

039program that a lot of students take advantage of through Lava in-house, which uh you know, they they remain they remain enrolled with us. They're We're in touch with them constantly. They're in their our charge, our responsibility. And we have systems in place that do that. So who knows in the district long before I got here, they started that, and they have run that pretty well, and they have a number of students uh that that that is pretty high. Um obviously, we've been talking this 7% and the uh BHA, and then the IU special ed program costs at 2.6%, I believe. 9.6% total um is is something that we can definitely, by providing a stronger continuum or robust continuum of services in-house, be able to bring down. Obviously, you could potentially bring those expenditures down. At

040the same time, that also does require additional staffing, which then has the effect here. So you have to do it in a thoughtful manner, which is strategic, careful, making sure you're building out the supports for to provide for students directly in the classroom in the buildings. Um and it's not a sacrificing of those supports. It's truly making sure that we do what we need to do in order to provide those students with uh their their educational placements. So I thought it was at least helpful to see those in terms of big categories because a lot of times what districts will do when they are facing deficit spending is is try to cut supplies. That's like the first thing that they'll do, and the reality is is if you look at supplies, you go back to

041that orange, it makes up 4.1% of our budget. Is there money to be saved in supplies? Absolutely. Is it a drastic amount? No, it is not. So reducing things like buying markers, buying pens, buying pencils isn't going to get the job done when you're thinking about, you know, over a million-dollar deficit deficit budget. That just isn't It isn't there, and it's not sustainable. Because however much you save, you can really tighten it up in 1 year, which we are looking at each and every line item. You can tighten it up in year one, but in future years, there are no more savings to yield from that unless if you're going to start saying we're not buying any pencils, we're not buying any pens, which is nonsense. We're a school. Right? Our students need those things,

042and I've been very clear that philosophically, if our students need those materials >> [snorts] >> to be successful in learning, we are providing them. So then there's only so much you can squeeze out of that supplies uh category. And I thought that the visual the visualization of this is very helpful. This will be loaded on the website. Uh Put it on my page. Where do you go for the calendar? Yeah, sure. And before we change it Yes. Can you go back to the income? To the revenues? >> Revenues, mhm. There's no slice for when we provide um services to other school districts. Yet there's a half-a-million-dollar slice from where we're out providing hidden services from other districts. We had trouble in our school in the past that we weren't billing to these things for some

043reason. We had to go back and chase and go get it. Seeing that there's zero, are we doing that still? Are we not invoicing it? Are we not counting it in that? >> When we are providing services, we are we are we are invoicing. >> You are invoicing. >> That's how we actually do it. We have two MOUs. I don't know that they've been utilized yet. I wouldn't be able to to actually answer specifically if they have been utilized Northwestern and Powerton. Great. When students are coming here or we're providing services to them in another app. Yep. And then so did we have any revenue in 2024 2025? Zero. It's Again, I think that would show up under local revenues, but I don't know if it's Matt Matt would be able to answer that better.

044Where do you hide them? Yes, we did. But the actual students are reported through child accounting [clears throat] and that's how we get reimbursed those costs through our subsidies as well. So it's twofold. So So why isn't it on the revenue chart? If we're If we're billing to them and we're receiving the money as revenue, where is it in that chart? So if we've billed it, it goes into local revenues. Well, if it's from the state, it goes through the state. I would like that separated out in the future. If we're providing services to other community members and students with our wonderful staff, it beneficial to find the value that we're providing if we're our recording what we're taking out. Thank you. This is rather that makes no sense whatsoever. What's that? Why would Why

045would we need to separate it? It's a sub It's a sub category. Local is local. It all falls under that under that as local. Okay, so how much are we using for that purpose? How much are we getting for that purpose? And how much It It's not significant enough to change that graph. So You're trying You're trying You're trying It is trying to kill You're trying to kill kill an I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I just I just wanted to share and Dave kind of alluded to it, but for anybody that's following along on the agenda that the board documents is not working. So if somebody's following along on Zoom,

046that they knew there was a problem. That's all I wanted. I apologize. That's how we should mention that. In rebuttal that you you can't manage what you don't measure. So measuring things would be valuable. Thank you. It is measured. Okay. So another topic of conversation that came up at the last workshop meeting was around discretionary expenditures. Uh so I thought, you know, kind of breaking this out a little bit and looking at it, you know, what does it actually mean? So these are This is certainly not exhaustive because to do that, you'd have to dive in in in like at a very very deep level to say what's discretionary and what is not. But a good chunk of our of our expenditures are discretionary. A very high percentage are. So some of those things include

047some forms of transportation. Most of the transportation provided in the district is a discretionary expenditure. Not all of it, but but most of it is. Uh the the two The next two with asterisks, this is based on school code. Uh the amount of art, music, HPE, library, technology education, and business are all above the required amounts at all grade levels So those are expenditures in personnel and supplies. The number of secondary core, meaning ELA, math, science, and social studies departments and teachers could certainly be reduced to bring down expenditures. While they have to be provided to students, uh we certainly have very manageable class sizes and we offer very strong electives. And so by going down, everyone you go down, you're going to increase class sizes a little bit. And at the secondary level in

048particular, you're going to reduce the electives that are actually offered because you don't have as many people offering as many courses. Athletics, completely discretionary. Extra and co-curricular activities that Mr. Bowman was referencing earlier, all discretionary spending. Teacher, student, and teacher use of technology. We are a one-to-one district. That's discretionary. There are still schools who are not one-to-one computers. Um and then, you know, you think about not just computers, but then you think about projectors, you think about those types of things, smart boards, all those. They're all They are not mandated by school code in any way, shape, or form. Library donation that we make, that's been a popular one. And then again, classroom supplies provided by the district. And there are certain things that are baseline, but the reality is that many of those things

049are discretionary in nature. Uh so when we talk about reducing expenditures, these are kind of your bigger areas. There are other areas, certainly. Um you You know, you don't have to have >> [cough and clears throat] >> a fleet of vans, for instance, and equipment. But everyone you go down, it's one less that the school community has to use um for transportation students, for extra and co-curricular activities, etc. etc. So there's always a lever and I I thought, you know, that has come up before. I know we talked about it before. That kind of naming some of the bigger ones is really important. And you know, the amount I'll I'll go to that second bullet, the amount of art, music, health and phys ed, library, uh technology education, and business all being above, um those

050are things that are required by by by school code to be taught at the primary, uh intermediate, and the middle school levels. However, there is When I say are all above the required amounts, what I mean by that is that the state, while it says it must be taught, does not give an amount or an amount of time that it must be taught. So you do have to offer certain things, but they don't have to be like for us, we have those courses Most of those courses there would represent at the elementary center, uh electives that students have once every cycle. And they rotate throughout the course of the cycle, they get exposure to all of those. So it's already a reduced amount compared to ELA and or math, etc., but we're because the state

051does not mandate any, it could be incorporated into the classroom. It could be, you know, done on a smaller scale, which then stretches people out, you know, in terms of where how it's delivered. Uh it could be less frequently before less amount of time. So you can't pinpoint an exact number, if you will, but those are what we do and what we offer is [laughter] well above the required amounts. Okay. When you put down on some transportation, our transportation number back on the expense side was about what? $2 million? What was it? 3.7 4.7 Transportation 3.4% of the of the overall budget. Yeah, so let's call it a a million and a quarter. How [clears throat] much of that, if you go back up one more, is in that big stink pie of reimbursable subsidies.

052Yeah, because cuz we When we pay out for transport Transportation is the safest way to move students. >> Yes, absolutely. >> Hands down. They should never cut it again. They should never be even on the table and it shouldn't be done. However, it would be nice to be able to measure how much of it is actually being paid for by our local community because most of it's reimbursed. How much of it's not reimbursed over the whole Last year, I believe it was like 769,000. So a little less than half. Yeah. It's usually between 40 and 50% from my experience is reimbursed. But that's showing up as revenue. It's not because you're It is. That shows That shows up as revenue. The The subsidy Yeah, but it's in the state. In the state, right. It's in

053the big red It's in the big red side. Correct. Correct. Again. So if your expenditures go down in transportation, your revenues would also go down in the There's [clears throat] There's no value [laughter] to it to don't know. Yeah. Same thing with PEASERS. Right. And same thing with uh social security. So with all those things would be beneficial. The only way to save on the PEASERS and the social security would be an adjustment to salaries and or employees, which is that biggest part of that expenditure as well. You got to dig down a little bit, guys. But I appreciate the report that you provided. Thank you. And finally tonight, legal update. Uh the work required in December 2024 right to no court ruling has now been completed. All documents have been provided and will be

054uploaded to the district website. Uh total cost, and this was a a great move by the by the board at the time to engage with Toshiba to ship and produce scanned files was just under 17,500. And the total amount of hours by our employees to complete redactions necessary was approximately the 850-hour range over the course of those 2 years. I ask a question. You may. How much did it cost for those employees to take that 850 hours of their time to complete this task? 220 days, Matt? Yeah. I think it's 850 I just ballpark. >> [cough and clears throat] >> All right. I mean, it's ballpark 1,600 to divide it in half. It's about half of a salary for a full-time person. So somewhere in the area of one 25 24 and 26, somewhere around

055there. 25 for the salary. So this why still quite a far cry from 300,000. Okay. I'm 45. To provide that service came from salaried employees. Yeah, 850. Yeah. And and it's also a lawful requirement to provide these documents. So, it's part of the government responsibility to have those expenses inside that office to make sure that those people get to see everything that happens [snorts] within the district. And after losing millions of dollars for programs that weren't provided and millions of dollars that were off budget and all the other things. Fantastic savings. It looks like it's about 1/10 of 1% of what was found by the auditor general. Thank you for your question and I appreciate it. Just because you can doesn't mean Okay. That right there blows my mind. And you don't have to ask

056for it, you already have it. Just because you can doesn't mean you should ask for it. All right. Next up, we have Altricey. Okay. Approves. Oh, wait. I'm sorry. I have to jump again. Uh Matt, business administrator. Sorry. Well, Mr. Bowzer addressed budget, which is one of our big focuses. We did have our renewal meeting for health care with BSI um over the past month. Um the current rates will require a 12.4% increase over 2025 to 2026. I didn't anticipate It is We're at 10%. As this was said, we've got 10. So, it's it's a little more than we originally thought. What's What's the justification for the increase? The district participates in a health care consortium. And so, they purchased stop loss for the consortium. The stop loss back increased 19 and 1/2%. Uh also,

057our contributions to the shared fund because there's a shared risk component in the consortium was 18% um to that fund. Our own claim rate is about 10%. How do you What does that translate into an actual cash layout projected for the next budget? How much more? >> Yeah, what do we need? Um it's a total of around $900,000. Um again, it will depend upon our contribution rates. With them because we obviously split that on the on the premium share piece. If I'm correct, we contributed 1.2 million last year. Dave. Can you answer that question? Can you answer his question? So, if I'm correct in that, is it 1.2 from last year? Right. So, wait. So, just because I'd like to set a precedent moving forward with meetings. Please reserve public comment to the end for

058the public comment. >> Well, nobody's going to speak about it. I'm asking questions that everyone might to know. It's a fair It's a fair conversation. I'm not here to debate anything. It's If we're going to So, if you have questions, please write them down. But I feel uncomfortable. They look horrible. You can't come in public comment and have them address it. So, why not address it now? You can recontextualize the issue at public comment. Recontextualize comment? For the policy. Dave, nonsense. I'd appreciate that. Did we get a rebate this year at all? We did. How much was that rebate? Uh about $125,000. Okay. And what then it's been upwards of much higher in years past. It's very reduced in recent years because we're only funding 90% of the claims. Okay. So, we actually hold on

059to a claims fund of about $567,000 to protect from what we have as our 90% to the max in the event that we hit it. And the total amount that went to BSI? Roughly? Plus or minus a half a million dollars. Um I mean, our total Total bill to BSI in the consortium? Um so, for this year it was 7.8 million. For next year, it'll be 8.7 million. And of that $8 million expenditure that we're going to have. Did Did we even consider bidding it out again? I mean, we did it back in you know, years ago and uh we reviewed the different providers and it was significant savings. This year you made them compete a little bit. They sharpened their pencil pretty well. Have we reviewed that as a board at all in the

060past year or so? Has anyone looked at it before we jumped down this path and just accept the whatever 15% increase without even shopping it around? There is no way. I know. So, now No, because you're you're committed to be a part of a consortium. For how long? So, there's there's an agreement with the consortium and you can't when you get rate rates withdraw because it affects everybody else's rate who's part of that shared risk. Yeah. So, you would have to withdraw in a whatever fashion related to the provisions of that new So, when was our window of opportunity to withdraw? I don't know exactly, but it would be before they issue rates. So, you'd be withdrawing not knowing what the rates were. Correct. When When would that When is that enrollment period to decide?

061What months of the year are we looking at? I think you're running a bit I think you'd have to submit your notice to withdraw around October time frame. And we didn't even consider that back in October, did we? Okay. So, in the future, this coming October we can or in September, August, September, we can go out for bids. Find out where we stand and then make our decision as to whether or not we would withdraw in October. Is that correct? If that is desired, you could. There are penalties to withdraw from the consortium. Correct. And everything else. But we'd be at the end of the cycle, so there wouldn't be a penalty to withdraw at the end of the cycle. No, there is. There is So, this is the You have to pay off You

062have to pay off your share. Can we find the agreement? >> So, we have to figure out what that agreement is and during the bid and then make an adjustment. This This is a math problem, people. We should be able to do it. Right. Denise. My My question was just simple. We've talked about health insurance increasing all over the board. So, my question was to Matt, the 12.5, if I'm remembering correctly, is that the average of what health insurance has been increasing across the board? I'm just trying to make a point that we're we're we're saying it's more than the 10% we thought, it's 12.5. That's a scary number. But in the same process, is it really scary compared to what it could look like? That's what I'm asking. I know anecdotally this was I

063know I heard some districts were talking about 17, 21% increases. I I And again, that doesn't mean that's the average. I'm not trying to say that. Anecdotally, or that of a superintendent's meeting. Right. That's what I I think I'm trying to get across is I I I mean, I understand what Dave is saying, but I think we talked about the fact that working with the consortium, can I pronounce it correctly? Actually, percentage-wise compared to some of the other districts in the increases in their health care has actually been to our advantage. Is that Is that I I just I I I think for taxpayers that are hearing this, they need to understand that although it's more than we thought, it could be significantly more. The The district was in PE check before and pulled the

064PE check consortium in years past and then pulled out at one point in time. Am I correct in that? Yes. Yes. One of the great benefits of being a board of directors is we don't have to play Let's Make a Deal. We can literally get to open up all the doors September, open them, see what's behind door number one, door number two, and door number three, and then make a decision rather than just casting off the work that we do for them. We can actually remove the doors, look at it all, and see what they think is worth. So, I'd like us to at least consider in the savings. If they want to spend more to give more, fantastic. If they want to save more to give more, fantastic. Mr. Riley, I believe we're locked

065into that for four years. We Yeah, we want to look at that. That's one of the doors you want to open. If I remember correctly, you only had one insurance last year. Brian, I appreciate that, but that's just one of the doors we need to open. You You look at the It's a math [clears throat] This is a math problem, people. It's a really easy math problem. And you're allowed to look at all of all the doors before you make the decision. Nobody wants to get the goat. Do you have more? Thank you. All right. Thank you for your report. >> Thank you, Matt. All right. Much anticipated. Sorry, Dave. Cross. Altricey. Thank you. Um our commencement this year will be held at the PPL Center again on May 18th at 6:00 p.m. So, that's

066coming up pretty quickly. Um they've done a great job over the years of really dialing in and getting the students through. I think we got handed out 600 and something diplomas last year in just under two hours, which was a record. So, you think about our commencement of what, 100 and some kids. So, um it's always a great event for the students and the staff and the trustees as well. Our trustees collected $700 in gift certificates from their respective restaurants for a dine-around basket raffle for the foundation's annual fundraiser. So, that they split that up into two baskets since we got so much this year. So, we try to put our efforts toward the foundation as well. I'd like to remind you that the ballot for our at-large trustee reappointment is due May 15th at

067noon. So, I'm sure you got you should have received that. If not, it's should be here quickly. Um get that and Mr. Bosket, who's on the the ballot, is currently serving as a trustee and he's from the East Penn area down near Allentown area. So, just for some background information. LCTI will be transitioning to a new Zoom performance service. Uh once it's complete, it allows you to make and receive calls directly through our Zoom workplace application on your computer or your mobile device. So, I'm not a I'm not a techie. I'm not exactly sure how it works, but I'm assuming it's going to be almost like a FaceTime call. You have that option when people call you. And lastly, I'd like to request that Miss Yaf encourage her LC or CCTI to attend our joint

068operating commission or committee. Um it only meets once a year. It's the IU CCTI, the highest uh career and tech, and LCTI. Uh we used to meet four times a year. Kind of got time consuming. So, and then it went to bi-annual. Now, we're down to an annual meeting. To re- you know, limit the time, but now it's a little bit more of a strategic meeting and I know they missed quite the last few. So, if you want me to come along and talk to Dave or whoever they want to send as a representative, I'd be happy to to join you. And I also did attend the scholarship assembly, which was amazing. Um the students were incredible as always. Very well dressed, very respectful. Um 300 90,000 or something totally. I mean, if you divide

069that per student, that's unbelievable. But, uh Mr. Tack presented the one for the LEAF Foundation, which was a concept developed almost 20 years ago. Um our business manager and myself, when I was on the board of directors of the Dallas Southern Lehigh, they did a presentation on on non-profits and foundations, ways to generate funds to support the school district. And um I got the ball rolling and and Tim Tack was instrumental in getting that thing launched off the ground. So, I don't know. It's been what? 15 How many years has it actually been in in place? I think we're it's 15 years old. >> to be double that as well. And we're now to four scholarships with $1,500 per student. And then also with teacher grants, student grants, and so forth. As we go through

070and it was um Mr. Surface, Dennis Surface, and Mr. Yoduke. And it's it's quite It's amazing the the number of uh graduates multi-generational Yes. that are giving back to the school. So, we're very fortunate. It's had a small school with over your head probably. Yes, that's That's all I have. Thank you very much. Mr. House. Yes. Okay. Now, after you said I I I'm just I'm curious. You said uh commencement. I'm wondering um how many Lehigh and seniors are graduating with their associate's degree concurrently? Don't know the number. I I always get that at the commencement. Okay. It's usually around 30, I think. It's quite a few. Not every I don't sure everybody attends. I I can We'll know that with the roster. Sure. They they go through the actual ceremony and collect their cuz

071if they're going on to four-year schools, sometimes you know, perfunctory. But, uh I will certainly provide that information. And that doesn't include the students who just take classes that aren't graduating with their associate's degree. Oh, and that reminds me, we just got another I think it's a federal grant for a dual enrollment. Yes, that's what I was going to ask about. pay tuition. So, not only was it a great deal before versus, you know, so you get your associate's degree and your diploma, now it's actually going to be half funded further. So, great opportunities. And that dual enrollment is the the only thing that's really grown. All the enrollments have been pretty flat, you know, whether it's the adult uh cohort or the the students that go on from high school. Thank you. Thank you.

072All right. Um C L I U Last Monday was uh C L I U spring meeting. I I didn't really get to attend it except for two things and because I had to work. Um but, that's where a lot of everything is discussed. We have a video on that. So, how does it How do you get a student to express themselves artistically without speaking any words or using a single paintbrush, crayon, or pencil? The answer is AI generated art. I think the coolest part is really getting to see their personality and their character come out in some of these pictures. You really get to see their likes, what they think is funny, what they think is amusing to them. Speech therapist Rebecca Lesawsky is with her students at Sheckler Elementary. Using a worksheet and the

073students' student engaged devices, they're making funny and wacky art by typing in prompts on Google Gemini. They needed chose a horse wearing yellow underwear swimming in some other kid. And Harper chose a camel wearing purple pants and slippers driving a car to bowling. I never thought as a speech therapist that I would get to do something so incredible with my students and they're so creative. You always think of new therapy materials and new therapy things that you're going to use, but I didn't even think this would be possible. In speech therapist Kayla Rivera's class at Whitehall Elementary School, it was a group effort. They would sit around a table taking turns choosing from a worksheet. And they're able to ask questions and comment to their peers about their preferred topics. So, they're able to engage

074with each other about what they really like. With the help of the worksheets, it gives our students the opportunity to form sentences and put them together. And see a visual example of those words. Using ChatGPT, they came up with a monkey, a fish, and a lion fighting at a circus with fish and bowls wearing a couple dresses with horses. And places to describe using those adjectives and verbs that they wouldn't necessarily compare together before. So, take a look around at all the unique AI artwork. It's more than a picture. It's collaboration. It's a fresh start. This AI helping children learn. The theme [clears throat] of the spring meeting was to appreciate everybody from the top down. Um it wasn't just It's not just one person, you know, not just the director, not just the board

075that makes everything run at the IU. And that's what the appreciation was all about. Uh the general operating budget is the only budget required by Pennsylvania statutes to receive individual board approval from each member district and is the only budget requiring a district contribution based on PDE formula. So, for 2026-2027, all 14 C L I U member districts unanimously approved the budget with a reading vote of 569-0. There were some other nice things uh that were done this uh The Dream of Symphony Hall turned Monday [clears throat] at Whitehall Elementary Early Learning Center. C L I U representative representative Chris Spade in a week of the young child celebration. Early intervention students received personalized copies of The Dream of Symphony Hall, created in collaboration with the Allentown Symphony Orchestra, highlighting partnership connecting literacy and music.

076Which was a small book, which was personalized to each you know, each individual student. And from what I understand, the reception was uh great and it was something to smile about. But, um that's pretty much my report. Great. Thank you, Jeremy. I love those videos. Yeah, they are great. Um there's some that we didn't get to see that just I'm telling you they they interior Yeah, for sure. Excellent. All right, Heather, CCTI. All right. Report is brief. Graduation is going to be held on May 28th with a rain date of May 29th. Um we are currently looking for a business office assistant secretary position and unfortunately guidance counselor position. There is an awesome competition going on. Two of the teachers up there have volunteered to shave their heads with the NOCTI test going on if

077they score 95% advanced or proficient in um both written and performance parts. So, that'll be interesting to see the cosmetology girls get to shave Mr. Jeremy's and Mr. Valentine's heads before the end of the year. This concludes my report. We'll prove them all. >> [laughter] >> We should do things like that here with the students. >> [laughter] >> Good evening. Thank you, Heather. Denise, library. Um we have our meeting tomorrow. Just uh preparing for the Christmas in July celebration with the basket raffle, which is our biggest fundraiser. Excellent. So, keep that in mind. All right. Thank you very much. All right. So moving on we have the minutes. Do I hear a motion to approve the minutes from the March 23rd board meeting as well as the April 13th workshop meeting? So moved. Second. Any

078questions or comments? I had trouble getting this on board docs. They were I know they were Yeah, I had to the link and We got to get that fixed. It was it was down today. Yeah, thank you. All right, all in favor? Aye. Opposed? The eyes have it. Moving on consent agenda. Do I hear a motion to approve consent agenda items 2.2 through 2.9? So moved. Second. Questions or comments? Hang on a second. I can review them quickly if you want. No, I'm looking for the Is that before the PSBA, right? Yeah, that's the one I'm looking at. Yep. All right, hearing none all in favor? Aye. Opposed? Uh contract one day training wheels which is all right. Mr. Jeremy Gluck? Yes. Ms. Denise Hartley? Yes. Mr. William Holland? Yes. Ms. Heather Nett? Yes. Mr.

079Timothy DeKay? Yes. Mr. Jody Years? Yes. Mr. David Bradley? Yes. Ms. Lori Fry? Yes. And Mr. Allison? Yes. I vote yes. >> [laughter] >> Next up item 2.10 is Eastern Lawn and Turf Company. So essentially we received a new quote from what was presented previously at the March workshop and this updated quote is strictly for spraying the playing surfaces for clover. So no longer fertilizing the surfaces. Do I hear a motion to approve the updated quote with Eastern Lawn and Turf Company for weed spraying for May 2026 in the amount of $2711.23. So moved. Seconded. Any questions or comments? Hearing none all in favor? Aye. Opposed? Is there anyone who wants to call for a roll I guess that's you Mr. Gluck. Mr. Gluck, can I please have a roll call? I apologize. Ms. Denise

080Hartley? Yes. Mr. William Holland? Yes. Ms. Heather Nett? Mr. Timothy DeKay? Yes. Mr. Jody Years? Yes. Mr. David Bradley? Yes. Ms. Lori Fry? Yes. Mr. Jeremy Gluck? Yes. And Mr. Allison? Yes. I vote yes. >> [snorts] >> All right, so next up do I hear a motion to accept a cost saving participation contract with BHA for the 26-27 school year with a 20% down payment of $741,533 due by July 1st, 2026. So moved. Second. Any questions or comments? I have a I have a comment. Uh one thing is that it truly is I just want to make this distinction. It is not actually a down payment of what we will pay next year. It is 20% of our overall costs from this past year. >> [snorts] >> There's a difference. That's that's what I was

081going to ask so that answers that question. Thank you. So just because it's $740,000 now that doesn't mean you multiply that by five and that's what we spend on BHA. Cuz it doesn't include their cost increases for their different programs or services related there of. What did we put on the budget for the next year for BHA services? We're still working through transitions. Um the targeted budget would have a $500,000 reduction from previous year which was 3 and 1/2 million. So it's going to be 3 million now. It was the second and correctly from what I got but it was the second was one of the largest in the size of contracts benefits. It makes up the majority of the budget. Right. It was one of the largest increases and wasn't it kind of 94%?

082Correct. Correct. And the increase is on just year to year costs. >> Right. And it ranges anywhere from you know, certain things no increase but as high as like 80%. Two So your comment that this is not 20% of next year it's 20% of last year. That is my understanding from reaching out to them. That is >> So that's 3.7 million, right? So you're saying it went up 80% for the next year. You know, so we changed the contract to bring the classroom back last year. And [clears throat] then we're looking to make changes for this year. Both our 24-25 costs that were presented or tonight was 3.5. There is that 3.5. Okay. And we're anticipating a $3 million in 25-26 depending on how it shakes out. No, I'm expecting higher than 3.5 million based

083on what we've seen to date for 26-27. Okay, so what is your budget for 26-27? If if we are able to develop programs here that include work based learning and other programs for students it would go down to the 3 million dollar number. And if it doesn't? What did we budget for next year? I mean did you put 3 million in the budget or you thought you knew you were going to be able to meet those commitments? >> I can't speak to you. Our budgets are developed with the department administrators and the understanding of their budgets. With that I I don't personally have Well, the board approves the budget. So if we say this is what we're going to do then that has to get executed. Cuz at the end of the day it's the

084board that creates and approves the budget. But that's definitely one of the moving pieces of the puzzle. Yes. And it looks like there's a a million dollar wash in between there. Yes. But that being but yeah, the BHA I'm sorry I You're good. But the BHA this is a long going topic and we keep talking about it is unfortunately we don't have what it's going to cost in in advance, correct Matt? Correct? With they they the amount for next year we don't know. So we're we're basically making an estimate and the BHA cost has gradually gotten higher which is why we talked about moving programs in. But at this point when we looked at the budget the last time we looked at the budget you had us estimated that that was going to be the

085highest increase. And at this point that's kind of why we keep talking about the BHA and and soft and and and what options we have. >> And the reason why it's going to be the highest increase is because last year's budget if you recall was not really based on actuals. Right. Whereas now we have last year's actuals to base as we're living in this year. And so the adjustment there to the budget itself is so that we do get closer to budgeting the the proper amount of money that is to pay that back up. And that's what I was trying to get at is is unfortunately it's we're getting better but we didn't have a good good base we didn't start with a good basis. We we we've improved our basis. So it >> But

086but but that makes it look more like it jumped up that much more. The fact of the matter is that two years ago we under budgeted by a lot. But I think but I think David is asking for a number and unfortunately because they've changed and we still are in the learning process it's it's very difficult isn't it? I mean that Am I Am I speaking out of turn in saying that at this point giving a number is very difficult cuz it's still setting up the [clears throat] the ground. It it it it it is because it's the various services that are provided as well as in what we land our services back here which we started to make some transitions. Mr. Mosier I have one more comment. The uh Denise, with it with all

087due respect to the budget you you can't turn one in with a maybe number. It's it's a fixed number. At the end of the day when we approve the budget there's going to be a number. And that number is fixed inside that budget. And then we make adjustments throughout the year. Thank you. Any other questions or comments? Mr. Mosier, isn't the intent to bring BHA services and dissolve that and bring the services back into the school district? Our intent is to build out a continuum of services by which allowing us to bring some students back where appropriate where we can support them appropriately within our own buildings and then to also avoid you know, continue continue to to provide those services which would be future cost avoided at the same time. Okay, while David is

088asking for a number for commitment of a budget I'm asking for a commitment of a plan. What is that plan? We we have that plan currently right now we're working on designing an autistic support classroom at the elementary center which should be in place at the beginning of next year. Okay, so how much does that save off of that budget? Do you have that number in that budget? >> right well, current year it's about seven probably somewhere in the neighborhood of 75 to 80,000 dollars per student. For just the autistic support classroom. Correct. And how many of those students are we bringing into the elementary school? We will build that out to support, appropriately support, four students. That is the goal. Four students. Four students. And do we know All right, and these are Please,

089these are good questions. Please reserve them for the public comment period. Well, we're we're having this discussion. Like you if I was to you don't like my questions is I think they're good questions. Century then. Century. We're going to deal with this in court. Aren't I asking the thing that the public has a right to know? >> And you are you are welcome to ask them during the public comment period on the agenda. No, because that's not how I'm thinking. He doesn't That's how the town policy 903 is written. Okay, well, then century. I'm going to teach you you ask my questions. How does she answer my questions? Brian, during the workshop, we have a more open forum for this. I I I like your questions as well. Okay, so then why why aren't we

090having this open discussion now? We don't do that at this meeting. >> Not everyone can be at the workshop, Jeremy. I'm just telling you that we do it at the workshop and it's a more open forum there. This meeting is for public comment at the beginning and at the end. Okay, well, I'm asking the question now for the people that are in attendance. Sorry. We're treating this as a contract. Yes. Let's do a roll call vote, too. Mr. William Cullen. Jason, hold on a second. Matt, did you attend the workshop meeting? I did. Mr. Sothern Nace. Yes. Mr. Timothy Taft. Yes. Mr. Ayers. Yes. Mr. David Bradley. Yes. Ms. Lori Klein. Yes. Mr. Jeremy Glick. Yes. Ms. Denise Hartley. Yes. And Mr. Alex Scott. Yes. I am yes. Thank you. All right, thank you. Before

091we move on to next item, I want to notify the board Attorney Short has joined the call. Good evening, Attorney Short. Say thank you. I'm just looking on how to unmute yourself. >> [laughter] >> Thumbs up. Excellent. Thank you. I'm here. I I was not able to get into the meeting earlier. Thank you for for admitting me. Got you. Thank you. Um next step is the PSBA membership renewal. Do I hear a motion to approve the all access membership package option for the PSBA membership renewal of the 24-25 >> 25-26 school year in the amount of $16,363.16. The Keystone agenda platform that we discussed previously in the amount of $2,000 and the administrative regulations package in the amount of $905.25 for a total of $19,268.41. Do I hear a motion? I so move. Second. Questions?

092Comments? Dave. Yes, do we have to bid out such a purchase on a contract like this? Or can we bid out this purchase? You you could, but you don't need to. And why would we not need to if we're spending $20,000 or close to it? Well, let me catch up here a little bit. Um what was the dialogue that was happening before because I just joined the meeting. Joined right now during this procedure only. It's the question just asked if the PSBA is asking us to pay them $20,000. I'm suggesting that we should bid it out before we approve such a purchase as a sole source contractor. If we're not required to but we're allowed to. Is it that we're not required to bid such a large expenditure? You're not required to under the public

093procurement guidelines here and the whole purpose of sole source procurement is is that the services that are being provided are so unique that it exempts a public entity from having to bid out for the for those services. There's other services that are available through the National School Board Association. They provide more services for less money. Has any of the other school districts that you are currently working with use that entity or any other entity other than the PSBA? Uh to my knowledge, everyone all of the districts I work with use PSBA. Do all 500 districts in the state use PSBA? I could not answer that question as I don't represent all of those districts. Okay. I suggest we table this until such time we can bid it to the National School Board Association and see

094if the proposal is to do the best interest we can for the community and attempt to save money on our budget. Significantly. I get a second on my motion to postpone until such time we don't have to worry about We have an open motion. Yes, yes, that's that's fine. So so my question is we talked about this at the workshop meeting, correct? And when we discussed it at the workshop meeting, we discussed other options that that Janine has looked at. Sorry. I talked with my hands a lot. I apologize. And this was one of the most cost effective. I'm trying to give you a little background about Wait wait a minute. Wait a minute. Are you are you confusing this with the program? It's part of the the board Yeah, part of it. It is

095part of it. Yes. Because if we because the board documents I I think I think what [clears throat] I'm going to ask, and maybe I don't have the right to ask this, is since Janine, this is kind of something that she worked on and we did talk about it, but maybe Janine should explain it. Are you okay? You're looking at me like Kind of. I mean, I put a little I can brief what's on here. I don't know if that helps in any way. It's no. Okay. I'm sorry. I'm sorry that I'm not So So PSBA is is moving away from board docs and billing. They're looking for a new agenda platform, which was Keystone agenda, which was the most reasonable that Brett and I Brett and I have looked at. Um Board docs is

096set to end June 30th. But there is a migration period that needs to be done before that, which PSBA is willing to help with. Um which they are willing to start that process once they get the affirmation that we're willing to do our membership, even though we're not paying for it until July 1st. So they need to have a go-ahead in order to start moving towards a new agenda platform. Sorry, Denise. Um what? I'm sorry. For what? Well, because I misread something. >> No, it's okay. I just think that it's it's good to have the background and it wasn't for me to give because it's 1 + 1 = 2 and I'm not a computer person, but basically that in order for us to keep all our pretty documents in this place that everybody has

097worked hard to put in this place, this is the best option. So if we don't do this and we bid it out, we lose the chance of in one place. Is it Am I Am I The other thing also is that our policies right now are with uh PSBA and we pay for that policy maintenance. So I think the whole policy system would have to go. Right. So if there's a lot of moving parts and this this allows all those moving parts to go into one basket. Yeah, I mean, look, could you do it legally? Yes, you could. You would have to make the policy call in your judgment as a board whether it makes sense to put out a bid and knowing that if you're not part of the PSBA system, you might lose

098the the the efficiency to post all of your minutes, agendas, policies easily through a platform that that that you've been working with. We're paying for a lobbyist. That's what we're paying for. Thank you. So um the PSBA is holding you hostage with our own information. We have our There's a variety of ways to manage that information. It is not the most expensive thing. You do not have to have the fear that you're going to lose your information, lose your policy maintenance because we already have the policies, they can't take them away from us. And at the same time, having an alternative to the PSBA would be beneficial because they are a lobbyist organization. They do take in millions of dollars from us and other school districts. They have a captive audience and they have been

099known to provide policies that are not in accordance with the Constitution and have been professionally spanked for doing so. Um costing districts hundreds of thousands of dollars, including 903, which was the public participation portion of the PSBA, which was told to stop. Um I think we should bid it because it's $20,000 and it saves the community money to have something good. Either they might sharpen their pencil or the other company might have some other available and all your questions of where you whether or not you can move this information to them or not to them can be asked and we can find out. And again, much like it's not let's make a deal and be trapped that you can only pick door number one cuz it's the only one left. You can look at all

100three doors, take the doors out of the way, have the transparency to look at it, show it to the public for what we are spending their money on so that they can lobby you uh to do that best interest of them who we are servicing. Uh the PSBA is a monopoly. In the past two weeks, have you looked anything up and do you have numbers there? >> Great for asking. Thank Could you have provided them before the board meeting? >> I literally got it last night and the information I got was I need a copy of the PSBA offering of what we're doing. So, I was able to send that to her um today because I finally got it because door BoardDocs was down. But, um I think they did this whole BoardDocs thing and

101all the other stuff. If you'd like me to read the email, I can. But, I think it's just important to recognize that there are options. We have a responsibility to act with fidelity and before you get fear and trapped into making a decision, we should at least get the information and I don't think there's any fear about losing our information because we own We own the policies currently. We bought them. [clears throat] They belong to We own all the documents. They bought them. Running an agenda, we're not the the Pennsylvania School Board Association does not have a monopoly on entities that run meetings with agendas. And whether they use Diligent or BoardDocs or any other questions or comments, there's other options. I'd like to Hey, you got to remember there's also a technology side of

102this. We don't have the problem with Fresh and probably correct me if I'm wrong. Do not have the certain the local server space to host all the information that we would receive. You may or may not need to. It might be the same process that you're renting the space from the other end of the time before June 30th to actually research actually. Yep, you could do it by the workshop meeting and then figure it out. They're very eager. They are working with it because of the horrendous process of the lobbyist PSBA on our local school districts to block public participation, block the transparency, and a lot of student safety matters um within those policies. I would like to advocate for student safety and can we have a I wanted a motion to postpone it until

103we have a chance to look at it and act with fidelity. The motion's open. Can I get a second on that motion, please? >> I can second your motion. Thank you very much. I see a problem with researching it if we're If we end up going with Diligent not Diligent and with Keystone as planned, another month isn't going to matter if you don't sign this contract. So, I really feel that it's not a bad idea. If he has some information he can share with us, a more informed board is better off, I think. Jenny, did you just confirm that Did you call any of the National School Board Association or the other entities? Didn't we go with this in 2021? Um Troy, didn't we have a good PSBA back then cuz they had a fit

104in '19 and '20? And I thought we researched PSBA and it was our best bang for our buck. At that [clears throat] time, we didn't really look at really any other alternatives. So, then you're you're you're you're assuming you're going to use the other alternative. >> Yes. So, I have What have we got on the table now? >> So, we're Did you Did you look at the PSBA table? There's another motion on there. Right. There's another motion on the table. You have a motion to table. Back to the motion. >> [snorts] >> So, which one needs to be addressed first? So, if Dave I think Dave Did you make a motion to table? >> Table it? Yes. And I already seconded it. So, we we would vote on table this before voting on Just to

105be able to act with fidelity and make sure that we all follow our oath and get all the information. All right. So, then this So, can I have a roll call vote on the motion to table the discussion? Okay. Miss Heatherly? No. Mr. Timothy Tack? No. Mr. Troy Beers? Yes. Mr. David Bradley? >> Yes. Miss Lori Fry? No. Mr. Jeremy Glenn? Yes. Miss Denise Hartley? No. Mr. William Holland? No. Mr. Alan Tica? No. I have a motion to I'd like to reopen the previous motion. Okay. Thank you for your help. So, do I hear a motion to approve the all access membership package option for PSBA membership renewal for the '25 '26 '20 I think we just go back >> You just go back to All right. So, back to the original motion. Um closing

106up questions and comments. Uh can I have a roll call vote for the original motion, please? Did you have a public comment on this? What's the original motion? The original motion to approve the all access membership package option for PSBA membership What else? I was asked a question. Roll call? Roll call, please. Mr. Timothy Tack? Yes. Mr. Troy Beers? No. Mr. David Bradley? Absolutely not. Miss Lori Fry? Yes. Mr. Jeremy Glenn? >> No. Miss Denise Hartley? Yes. Mr. William Holland? Yes. Miss Heatherly? Yes. Mr. Alan Tica? Yes. Yes. Thank you, Jenny. Moving on, food service transfers. Do I hear a motion to make the following transfer to the general fund to the food service fund as per reimbursement from the Commonwealth. So, sorry, Dave. Second. Any questions or comments? Hearing none, all in favor? Aye.

107Opposed? The ayes have it. Next, we have a budget transfers. Do I hear a motion to approve the following uh for budget transfer in the amount of $30,000? Second. Any questions or comments? Hearing none, all in favor? All right. Opposed? The ayes have it. Next up, we have activity funds. Do I hear a motion to approve the high school high school high school high school high school high school high school high school high school high school for March 2026. Questions or comments? Hearing none, all in favor? Opposed? The ayes have it. Next up, we have our reports. Do I hear a motion to approve the following reports? They're the defense board summary, March expenditure report, revenue report, treasurer's report, and the fund summary. So moved. Second again. Questions or comments? Hearing none, all in favor?

108So, we asked where the um interest came from and you gave us a report of a variety of different banks that are holding this money and in that list, apparently, you're counting interest from the different townships that are holding our tax dollars that then pay us interest cuz they didn't give it to us fast enough. Is that what I'm hearing? No, they deposit their funds into our bank accounts. And then the interest that you're showing that you added up was their deposits or their interest? Their interest. Their interest. So, how did they get that interest? Because they were holding the taxpayers' funds on our behalf, collected interest on it, and then moved it forward. No, I think you misunderstood me. Those are our accounts that they deposit their taxes into. Okay. So, what's the What's

109the maximum interest rate of any savings dollar that we have? What's the highest interest? Well, all of our accounts at MCT are the same rate aligned to the market, which is roughly right now at four or something. Four or something. I don't think it's that So, that tells me that you have roughly 20 million 25 million dollars in all those accounts. I think the number at the end of March was around 19. Okay. Any other questions or comments on the reports? Hearing none, all in favor? All right. Opposed? The ayes have it. Next, we have per capita occupational tax exemptions. Do I hear a motion to approve the exemptions for per capita and or occupational taxes for April 2026. So moved. Second. >> [laughter] >> Questions or comments? Dave, how much does it cost if

110we get rid of these? What do we lose? It would have to be fairly equal related to any IT rate. Why is that? Can we just abolish these two taxes? I defer to the solicitor. I believe there's a tax enabling act. I don't know all the specifics of it, but if a school district was to eliminate these per capita taxes, the offset is Beth, can you opine on that? I think you need to speak a little louder. I missed the last comment right before you asked me to opine. is the per capita and the occupational tax. Dave is asking if those can be done away with. I believe this is the way that he's asking. Matt responded, Matt, I apologize, I did not hear your response so I can't repeat it. But the question is,

111is that an option? And Matt asked us to ask you. Well, I'm actually the question on that I ask is, can we give an exemption to everyone in our district? No. Okay. Why? Uh Let me Let me get back to you on this because it's a little more complicated. Appreciate that. So we want to the people who are eligible for the exemptions, we want to table those exemptions? It's not that we don't want them to get it. I think we can extend it to everyone. But couldn't we do that at a later date and Yep, that's fine. Let it die. I'm good with that. I want these people to get their exemption but I also want everyone in this community to have that same exemption. Do we have a second I don't know lawfully if

112you could do that. We're going to find No. I second that. Exactly. By law. Second the motion to table. No. What? Yeah, that's what it is. Oh, that's what the motion is. No. No, I don't want to table this. All right, so hearing no second, so the motion fails. Um other motion is already open. That's the one I thought we were voting That's okay. That was already open. Um All in favor? Aye. Aye. Opposed? The ayes have it. Uh next we have upper capital occupational tax refunds. Uh is there a motion to approve following refunds uh for per capita and or occupational tax for April 2026? So moved. Second. Questions or comments? Hearing none, all in favor? Aye. Opposed? The ayes have it. Next we have payment of bills. Do I hear a motion to

113approve the following payment bills for April payment of bills for April 2026 in the total amount of $3,330,670.88? So moved. Second. Questions or comments? Hearing none, all in favor? Aye. Opposed? The ayes have it. Moving on to personnel starting with consent agenda. Do I hear a motion to approve consent agenda items 3.2 through 3.5? So moved. Second. Questions or comments? Hearing none, all in favor? Aye. Aye. Opposed? Was there a Mr. May, please have a roll call vote. You may. Mr. Dwyer? Yes. Mr. David Redmond? You're going to 3.5? Yes. Yeah, this 3.2 to 3.5. Yes. Ms. Lori Fry? Yes. Mr. Jeremy Gluck? Yes. Ms. Denise Parton? Yes. Mr. William Halden? Yes. Ms. Heather Nett? Yes. Mr. Timothy O'Connell? Yes. And Mr. Allison May? Yes. Thank you, Jenny. Okay, next step item 3.6, we have

114additional candidates for athletic coaching {slash} manager. Do I hear a motion to approve the following request for athletic coaching manager candidates as per contracted rate pending any necessary paperwork. We have Terry Kakinda track worker and Heather Spots middle school field hockey coach at a stipend of $3,716.33 as well as Will White for boys basketball head coach at a stipend of $6,139.43. Second. Questions or comments? Would you please address the managerial oversight that you made decisions on for Ms. Heather Spots would be directly as a middle school field hockey coach would be evaluated and supervised by middle school administrators. Thank you. Good move. Any additional questions? Okay, hearing none, all in favor? Aye. Opposed? The ayes have it. Next step we have job descriptions. Do I hear a motion to approve the following job descriptions? They're

115for head competitive cheerleading coach as well as sideline cheerleading club advisor. So moved. Second. Any questions or comments? Jason, I think the public would like to hear why we're doing this. Sure. So uh we look we looked at the jobs, you know, in terms of we looked at the as it as it existed or as it exists until we take it out of the high school. Uh as being in almost too encompassing for to be done really well in terms of one person because there are individuals who would like to participate in competitive but potentially not participate in sideline and vice versa. Those who would like to be on the sideline squad but not necessarily want to be competitive. Uh feedback from the board was, you know, let's think about splitting these into two positions

116so that people can the individuals who are appointed in the future um are sort of streamlined and focused on one area or the other, not to conflate the two. And we hope to see this move actually increase participation uh potentially in both. Did I encapsulate that fairly well? >> Yeah, you got it. I got it. Any additional questions or comments? So the next step then if these are approved would be to uh repost both positions separately, contact prior candidates and let them know that they would be considered for either one, their first interview with standing because the questions would essentially be the same with some exceptions around specifics. Excellent. Thank you for that context. I have a question for Since I only being considered for a club, am I still going to be able to

117get a varsity letter? I do not believe so because clubs Do Do any other clubs get varsity letters? No, but just asking because I know girls that are coming up through and expecting to wear a varsity jacket and earn a varsity letter. It certainly be I think we had a discussion about that. It certainly be discussed. I don't think it needs to be necessarily done at this moment for these two positions. No, but they were discussed. No, we're good. Thank you. Um If it's a club, are we still going to get a contract out of the person that's providing that service we do for As as we have for other extracurricular Yes, exactly. Good. Thank you. So what I'm hearing is that may not. So approval of this doesn't necessarily preclude the potential for varsity

118letters. That was just a question I had. Okay. Sure. Good question. But then we should take a look at all clubs for varsity letters. I was just going to say nothing but if if you're going to consider varsity as cheerleading as then debate, science, all of them should be able to receive varsity FBLA is popular one. FBLA. I mean because then you're then you're making a choice. I think it's a good question but I think you have to look at other activities as well. Varsity letters are always given for sports. Cheerleading is a sport. And conversation. I don't know why the clubs need to be considered for the paper. I didn't get a a letter. And I'm going to politely say that in my opinion that cheerleading is maybe a sport but there are other

119aspects that also could earn varsity letters. And just to say that sports athletes should only receive them is sidelining other clubs. Yeah. >> So I think you should look at other clubs as well because why should you say an athlete should receive a varsity letter because four years of athlete service, yearbook, FBLA are also putting time in? Isn't an athletics person more important and receives a varsity letter? In college, other clubs receive varsity letters. They don't have to participate in athletics. I've never heard of such a thing but okay. Uh if you show me that policy, I'd really appreciate it. Pretty sure back in in God, my day back in the '90s, I believe that other clubs did get varsity letters in college. In high school. They did. I hear I don't Just not here

120doesn't mean that it doesn't happen in the world. I don't I'm sorry. I don't want to go out of procedure. So if I wait till the end to comment, I will I just need to know if I can fill out to out paper. No, you can go ahead and comment. >> Okay. I I'm just double-checking. Is this motion re- Yeah, re-defining cheering as a club and our I there's been so much talk about >> the two. Competitive cheer would be a varsity sport, sideline cheer would be a club. Why? >> So then therefore sideline cheer would not have to go through PIAA. Correct. They don't have to get their physicals. They may have to depending upon the requirements of the >> PIAA sport physical. PIAA would have to but sideline cheer would not necessarily have

121to unless the police said yes to the show. Why are we splitting? I don't understand why we're splitting >> I I feel like you're punishing the cheerleaders because of what you need to do with the coaching. I I agree. I mean There are some girls that don't have the time commitment to do the competitive. I I mean from the 1930s on cheerleading had a sideline football has been a sport. Yes. Yes. I received a varsity letter in cheering. So is there any way we could consider repurposing um sideline cheering as a varsity sport? Can I say one more thing? I'm sorry. No, that's fine. This program has suffered so much over the years to take this away from the girls too. I mean my daughter, you know, her senior year I'm appalled. Why why why

122Jason, what is the reason for this? Why are you splitting this? What what What is the explain to me here in Tennessee? >> competition cheering and sideline cheering, Brian. It's a long season. It starts in midsummer. It doesn't end until But yeah, I understand that but you sign up for that. Just like football. My kids practice now for fall. So that's what you participate in. That's a choice. It also gives the option for people to cheer sideline cheer as part of a club. I'm not currently in support of this but the idea is that if you allow sideline cheer to do different layers of sports, the individual athletes that do deserve a letter and are have been a PIAA sport for a very long time can also participate in other sports as well without having

123to take the commitment towards the entire year for the cheer. I mean I I mean I get that. Okay. opening up opportunities. We're we're not going to we're not going to punish cheerleaders >> We're going to sideline cheerleaders. We're not having a letter for First of all, I I'm not understanding the supplement of punishment. Yeah. There's no intent there. Right. It's actually It's actually about student choice where you may have individuals who wish to participate in sideline cheer but not the competitive cheer side of things. In colleges, these are two completely different things. They are two completely different squads. I agree. Completely But competitive cheer has a lot of gymnastics and and it's like intense. But if we're going to give one letter to one, we're going to give a letter to all of them.

124Honestly, if I give them all letters. I would Whatever I would I would I'm sorry. I'm But the reality is that we're we're we're looking at two different levels of involvement. Potentially some a lot of kids are going to do both and that's fine. It's perfectly fine. Can I just take the word club out? the magnet of the sport category Sure. Why don't we make that amendment? So with the So this motion is with I make motion for the Uh do I hear motion to make an amendment to the sideline cheering club advisor [clears throat] position to be uh cheerleading sideline cheerleading coach? And make that a I'll second. >> I'll second. Any questions or comments additionally? Uh public comment. motion Will it be a shared stipend or two different stipends is that our It

125would be two different stipends appropriately set aside in comparison to other coaches and the amounts of time and etc. I look at it as being more inclusive because there's probably some women I guess close to them or females cheerleaders who do not actually go out for it that wouldn't go out for because of the competitive nature or they drop out but they still want to be part of it on the sideline. So to me having that approach is more inclusive. Yeah, and they they they cheer at the pep rallies, they cheer at senior night, they cheer at all those events. I mean that is an important part Yeah, that's an important part of the school spirit. So I don't see why they shouldn't be considered for varsity letter. Can I just clarify? The girls have

126always had the option of cheering for either sideline, competitions or both. It's just the amount of varsity letters that they receive. So if they only cheered sideline, they got a varsity letter. If they cheered competition, they got a varsity letter. If they cheered both, they got two varsity letters that year. Sure. Right now we're proposing that to not change. That would be wonderful. Yes. This this conversation is not about varsity letters. This conversation is about separating two distinct items so that the students can choose one or the other. It was never brought up to decide whether somebody should or should not receive a varsity letter. That wasn't the reason it was brought up. And that I certainly wasn't mistaken. And that What I'm saying is that's now the focus and and that wasn't the reason

127it was brought up. It was If you only take club out it takes care of the whole thing. Yeah. It's problem solved. Yes, problem solved. Just taking word club out. The discussion was also a function of coaching and being able to separate the two coaches, one for doing uh competitive cheer and a different and separate coach for doing sideline cheer. And that's the main driver between the two. Thank you. All right. So So we just made a motion and seconded it uh for an amendment to amend the motion. All in favor? I. Opposed? The eyes have it. So now we we vote on the motion itself. All right. Do I hear a motion uh to approve the amended uh job descriptions? What's that? So all in favor of the amendment? I think you have to

128ask since we're past the Another public comment. public comment Thank you. Training wheels. Any other any additional public comment? Hello. This is on [clears throat] me. >> [laughter] >> Read the motion. I think reading the motion would be helpful. Now that you've changed it. for everybody. Okay. So a reminder that this motion is to approve the job description job descriptions for head competitive cheerleading coach as well as uh sideline cheerleading coach. All of those whoever's hired for the position hopefully we do not have the same drama All in favor? I. Opposed? The eyes have it. All right. Uh moving on candidates for the substitute list. Do I hear a motion to approve the following list of requested candidates for the uh 25-26 substitute list pending any necessary paperwork? So moved. Second. Questions or comments? Are

129any of the substitute um teachers on our list union members? No. They're all non-union? Unless they're an association member somewhere else. Somewhere else, right. They could be. Do we ask our union to provide substitutes when the union employees do not have the ability to show up and do the job? We don't have that caveat within our contract. And thank you. I don't know how they would they don't have hiring They're a They're a pool just like you're doing here. They're a pool of individuals that come from a subcontractor. The scope of work would be that you are seeking is for providing teachers a teacher to actually make contacts to substitutes to cover up for themselves or The first people within the union for their job because it's within their jurisdiction. Thank you. All right. Placement

130and assignment is not within their jurisdiction. Say it again. Placement and assignment of other teachers is not within the teachers' jurisdiction. They're clearly not They're clearly not supervisory. >> their jurisdiction. I I within ours. Yes. But the ability to the pool from which we pull them from is also within our control and it can be negotiated with our union contract. All in favor? I. Opposed? The eyes have it. Resignation for retirement. Uh we have two, Guy Watson and Kelly Kohler. Do I hear a motion to accept the following resignations for retire- for retirement with appreciation? So moved. Second. Questions or comments? Just want to thank both of both of them for their incredible amounts of amount of years of service. Great for us. Thank you. All in favor? I. All right. Opposed? The eyes have

131it. Next we have a pre-approval for employee continuing education courses. Do I hear a motion to approve the following request for pre-approval of courses {slash} programs of study for employee continuing education? So moved. Questions or comments? Hearing none, all in favor? Aye. Opposed? The eyes have it. Next we have item 3.11, acknowledgement of FMLA leave. Um do I have a motion to acknowledge FMLA leave for the following employee not to exceed 12 weeks, it's employee 715. So moved. Second. Questions or comments? Hearing none, all in favor? Aye. Opposed? The eyes have it. >> [clears throat] >> Next programs, uh agenda item 4.1 is consent agenda. Do I hear [clears throat] a motion to approve the consent agenda items 4.2 through 4.7? So moved. Second. Questions or comments? All right. Uh we have a contract in

132there. Janine, can I please have a roll call? Sure. Mr. David Bradley? Yes. Ms. Lori Bryant? Yes. Mr. Jeremy Glauser? Yes. Ms. Denise Hartley? Yes. Mr. William Hower? Yes. Ms. Bernadette? Yes. [clears throat] Mr. Timothy Taft? Yes. Mr. Roy Beers? Yes. Mr. Alan Sutherland? Yes. And yes to Janine. All right, thanks Janine. Next up we have item 4.8. This is first reading of policy 304. Um so this is actually something I brought to the table. Uh we can obviously discuss. Um I figured since uh the district has afforded the board uh essentially the privilege of attending head coach uh interviews, and again this is nothing new. Um I felt it might be prudent that we um codify some of the language and and sort of felt appropriate to package in uh along with policy 304

133uh essentially um to set what are what are the the guidelines with the board expectations essentially for their observance roles. Um again this this policy was made for district administrators um essentially um packaging together head coaching head athletic coaching uh roles into that policy as well. Um So, do I hear a motion uh to approve the first reading of policy 304? So moved. Second. Uh questions or comments? Should [clears throat] this go through the workshop meeting so everybody can review it and the public rather than just shoehorning it into this agenda? I mean it was just that's the right way to do it. Pretty minor change. And it's actually it's just It's establishing the ground rules that I had essentially established via email already. And it's not the right way to do that? Go through

134workshop first before it gets the first reading so everybody so not only us but the rest of the community can read it. >> Right. It gives them the two-week interval between Yeah, and everybody gets to see it and make their comments and I make a motion to table it. Yeah, I'll second that motion. We'll move it to the workshop meeting. Correct. It doesn't matter if it's a minor change. I mean it's all about procedure and we just don't want to skip that procedure. >> only reason to rush it is if there was an emergency or we had to make a repair because of some some other reason. Others have thoughts on No, I I think the Actually, I think the interview process has been going fine. I have not seen any problems in it and

135I've attended quite a few. So, I don't think anybody's going to step out of line if we wait. My opinion is All right. Um I can I have a roll call on the motion to table? Um Ms. Lori Bryant? Yes. Mr. Jeremy Glauser? Yes. Ms. Denise Hartley? Yes. Mr. William Hower? Yes. Ms. Bernadette? Yes. Mr. Timothy Taft? Yes. Mr. Roy Beers? Yes. Mr. David Bradley? Yes. And Mr. Alan Sutherland? Yes. And yes to Janine. All right, thanks. I'm not offended. No. There's no need to No, I'm not. It's logical. All righty. Uh so the motion will be tabled. Uh next up we have item 4.9, school enrichment journeys. Uh do I have a motion to approve the following school enrichment journey requests uh listed below? So moved. Second. Questions or comments? Hearing none, all in

136favor? Aye. Opposed? The eyes have it. Um next up, do I stay for this one? Oh, no, it's at the very bottom, sorry. Next up is item 4.10, uh use of school property. Um do I hear a motion to approve the use of school property for the following requests. And that's uh Heather's Spots with uh Lehigh Valley Booster Club Field Hockey. So moved. Second. Questions or comments? Hearing none, all in favor? Aye. Opposed? The eyes have it. Next we have item 4.11, disposal of surplus property. Do I hear a motion to approve the disposal of the attached unneeded surplus, unusable, and or obsolete property from the district that's consuming valuable storage space according to policy 706.21. So moved. Second. Questions or comments? Hearing none, all in favor? Aye. Opposed? Did you skip the The eyes

137have building principal um approval? That does not need to be approved. Say again? That does not need to be board approved. It's just information. It's there for information. Thank you very much. Yep. I actually printed this agenda yesterday so I didn't know. Here's the agenda. I was a day early. Somehow right before the the board crashed. >> [clears throat] >> Um we did not have any directors concerns submitted in advance of this meeting. Um do we have any public comment? Uh yeah, I do. Uh if if you're going to continue to not follow your own policy on item three, you know, essentially then I'll continue. If you're making exceptions to other people, then we can play. Please play. You know this calling out. You're going to play with policy with one versus another and you

138want to play politics on who can talk and who can't talk. Then we can play. I think he made the exception for Autumn because you had already spoken. >> No, he had already exceptions. Ah. Correct. Thank you for your comments. Uh do I hear a motion to adjourn? So moved. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? The eyes have it. Meeting adjourned 9:07. Yeah, okay.