001I can hear you barely, but it's a little loud in here. It'll quiet down once we get started. [clears throat] I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Please remain standing for a brief moment of silence. Thank you. All right. Item 1.2, call the meeting to order at 7:05 p.m. Item 1.3, meeting announcements. An executive session was held on September 22nd at 6:30 p.m. for personnel and legal discussions. Board meeting was held on September 22nd at 700 p.m. An executive session was held on October 13th at 6:15 for personnel discussions. A special board meeting was held on October 13th at 700 p.m. Workshop meeting was held on October 13th after the special board meeting.
002An executive session was held prior to this meeting at 6 uh 6:15 p.m. for personal and legal discussions and a board meeting is being held now. Item 1.4 roll call. Miss Joy Beers present. Mr. Richards here. Miss Barbara Bose here. Mr. Dwayne Deler here. Mr. Jeremy Glau present. Mr. Sean Gleas here. Miss Heather Ness here, Mrs. Carrie Sidler present, and Miss April Walker here. Thank you. Thank you. Item number five, [clears throat] presentations. You starting with the nutrition. Sorry, psychologic. Psychologic. Yes. [clears throat] Psychologic. Sorry. [laughter] We introduce site logic. Uh this goes back to uh work beginning late last spring so that we could put together a comprehensive facility assessment plan in an effort to help us build out a a long-term maintenance plan for the district and all of our facilities. So I
003know they they've been there's a lot of work that is entailed in this. We thank them for this and uh hopefully the information we get will help us and aid us in constructing that comprehensive plan moving forward. So I'll turn it over to the team from site logic. Right. Thank you Mr. Moser. We appreciate the opportunity to present in front of you. [clears throat] Said we contracted with you several months ago do a full deep dive into your facilities facility assessment review. I say deep dive we can get into a lot of detail and we have a fairly detailed presentation for you tonight. I think it's a very positive presentation. Um, you know, you have to speak in context. We work with work with about 150 districts across Pennsylvania. So, we do an awful lot
004of these and your facilities are in very good condition. Obviously, with the quantity of facilities you have, we have a few things to report on that will need your attention. I think it's a positive report. We're black off the rooftop. We check everything. I'm going to introduce the people we have here tonight and then turn things over to them to complete the presentation. First of all, we have at my far left, Mr. Pto is our director of deliverables. We have John to my left. He is our senior development engineer. I'm Wayne Dorard again. I'm a senior consultant. This is Katie Ben Comfort who is our director of governmental affairs and our great language specialist and LA. So, the vested interest to be here tonight. Okay. I'm going to turn things over to Melissa then step
005to the side so we're not blocking everyone here. and uh any questions at the end. I'll be here for you. Yeah, you can advance to the next slide. Um this is who we are. So you have names and faces for reference a little bit later. Uh you can go ahead and keep going. Just to highlight our local presence across the state. As Wayne said, we work with over 150 school districts across the Commonwealth. We have a 30-year history working with those school districts. Many of them are our weekly clients and uh many of those relationships start just like how yours did with the facility condition assessment. Districts have answered or questions about their facilities and we help them pursue some answers. Um next slide is just helping you understand how we support our districts. Uh
006we offer a variety of services. uh MEP engineering, construction management, energy services, facility assessments as well as conditioning. So, we're positioned technically uh in terms of like an engineering uh perspective whenever we look at your facilities. Um and then we also consult with many architects as well. Uh so, let's get started. We have a very short agenda, but we will cover a lot of material looking at your facility assessments. We'll talk about asset protection. what does that mean for your district? And then uh Katie's here and she will talk a little bit about alternative funding sources and how all of this is tied together. So before we get into talking about your facilities, we absolutely have to take pause and note the exceptional exceptional uh condition your facilities are in. We can say that uh
007everyone here was incredibly impressed with your district. Uh Josh and I work actually very closely and in the last four years we've conducted about 45 facility assessments for many different districts. He came back and he said, "Your buildings are the best maintained. They have the best facility maintenance program that we've ever seen for any district. Full stop." uh we absolutely have to call that out because it is so unique and if this was a best practices scenario and a way to kind of show other districts in the Commonwealth what uh good best practices would be or gold star would be your district would be it was absolutely using it as a benchmark and compare it uh for other districts but what we notice there outside of the exceptional maintenance is that you're it it shows
008that you're just continually investing in your buildings Uh that's so important. Districts should spend about on average 11 to12 per square foot year over year to maintain their facilities and you are doing that uh very consistently and it shows. We also have to call out your community, your students, your staff. It's very clear that there is a lot of respect in your buildings because there certainly is no defacement of properties or anything like that. So there's no graffiti in your buildings. We didn't see anything like that. It was purely just respect. Everybody loved to be in these buildings. We had such great interaction with the facility staff. It's such great uh feedback whenever we had questions. So we just certainly appreciate how seamless this process was and it was just so wonderful to actually be
009in your building. So thank you for making it easy for us because like I said, it's not the norm. So, um, let's go ahead and move on and talk about our facility assessment. What does that mean? Well, as we said, this is our rooftop to black top assessment. And it truly is rooftop to black top. We are walking around on top of your roofs assessing the condition of those roofs. Josh is there. He's taking photos of the equipment. He's understanding the rooftop units. And then what we're also doing is looking at the categories that you can see uh behind you. So architectural finishes, the floors, the ceilings, you know, the window treatments, what types of conditions are they in? Uh considering how your buildings have evolved in terms of classroom additions. Uh the building envelope,
010which would be your roof, the exterior facade, windows that make up your buildings. site and grounds is something that we also assessed as well as MEP systems. We are also looking at ADA code compliance in terms of your facilities as well as security systems. So all of these categories are ways that we assess and look at your facilities. The list on the right hand side are all of the buildings that were included in that assessment. So we started that in late June. That took us into um September in terms of best practices data collection. This is how we were able to assess and organize your facility. So we were considering things like not just what does the building look like? We were literally breaking it up into these different components called facility assets. So individual
011pieces of equipment are noted as well as their condition. We are identifying how much remaining life a certain piece of equipment or asset within your building has. We are able to generate a lot of this information looking at the floor plans. We're taking field measurements. There's a lot of photo documentation. We're taking 360 photos. We're interviewing your staff. Um and then wherever possible, we're taking notes from vendors who service your facilities. On the right hand side of that screen, you can see an example of one of your final deliverables. You're not just receiving a written report, but we have a facility information system called my site IQ where we populate all of this information. So, it now becomes very living breathing document that we are able to update over time. The example that we've provided
012here is an example that you can see. Um, we're not using your actual floor plan just for safety security reasons, but this is the level of detail that you can expect. So, floor plans that are populated with layers of asset and facility data. And then on the very right hand side of the screen, you can see how we're able to populate a lot of the photos uh within that myite. Next slide. So, this is again more detail within that assessment. you see the photographs that we're able to capture. And then as we are able to assess the condition of all of the assets within your building, we're starting to build a library of all of that asset data. And this is just an example of what you can see here. So, uh, for example, this
013is the high school and within this snapshot of your dashboard, you're able to see we're looking at things like the parking lot, driveway, we see lighting, and in the very upper right hand side, you can see how we've broken down your system into these different categories. Uh, so this was a work in progress and then you would be able to have access to this to be able to get some insight into your facilities. Next slide. So I keep talking about condition. What does that mean? So on the left hand side we have um how we categorize the condition of your assets. So we're talking alarm, alert, caution, acceptable, excellent. No surprises here. Most of the assets that we um looked at within your facilities are within that alert caution. The vast majority are acceptable. It's
014excellent condition. But what this allows you to do is rank your assets. Your asset condition is what informs your strategic plan. So if anything, let's say, is in that alarm alert phase, that is something that you know you would have to prioritize earlier rather than later. And then you can prioritize that however you'd like. District priorities, the budget impact, educational impact. It's up to you how you'd like to prioritize the scopes of work. Uh Josh is here. He is on site. He's going to take us through some of the higher priority items for each of your buildings. So I'm Josh as I did have the privilege of walking on your site. I was one of the guys with the camera on the stick walking around your roofs, walking around your pavement. It was actually a
015real privilege to see such a great facility so well maintained. Kudos to your maintenance guys. It's impressive how well they know their own systems. Um I am going to point out everything we noticed while we're on site. This step would be maybe potential products coming up in the future. At the high school we noticed a couple of good energy savings projects with the lighting converting it to LED would save some energy there. And then there's also some old uh air handling systems from the original construction of the building. They're getting very close to end of life if not past it at this point. Starting to phase those out and some newer units would help bring some energy as well as maintain longevity for the HVAC systems. Some of the other stuff we noticed on site
016was the interior finishes like the carpets and the tiles and rooms need some updating. The paving on the parking lots is starting to degrade a little bit. a new uh set of refinish on top of that would be really helpful. And then we have on there listed, you know, some some code things we found. I need to stress this. What we found is not stuff that's safety concerns. Codes have changed since the building was built in the '90s. So, if they were to touch any of the spaces that would need code upgrades, there may be some more to consider. By all means, this is not a safety concern. There's nothing that needs to be done immediately. This is just hey if you touch the space you should also include these little things you [clears throat]
017keep it up with the modern code. Next [laughter] is by far your oldest [clears throat] building and this is a huge testament to your maintenance team. It is in [clears throat] excellent condition. I was so surprised to be in a building from the I think it was the '60s that was so incredibly wellmaintained. Um again similar things as the high school. There's some opportunity where there's still some fluorescent lighting in some spaces that could be phased into LED for energy savings as well as some older air handling units for the HVAC system reaching end of life. Start phasing them out little by little so it's not one big cost at the end. On site, we got to talk to Mike. He was the the guy there. He was telling us about one of the domestic
018water heaters had gone out recently when we were on site doing our study. They're from 2009. They're just starting to reach that end of life. Their maintenance costs are only going to go up. That's kind of an expected thing to see happening, but it's something that could be a quick and simple fix. The electrical generator you mentioned as well was not connected properly. I know Justin's been working with the contractors to make sure that that gets resolved. On to the next. So, the middle school, I mean, this is your notice building. There's not a lot to say there. Overall, um the only thing that you guys are probably all aware of this, but the window rentals, you know, we did notice that. We did see that that's being added by the district and that's great.
019The other thing that was brought to our attention by some of the facility staff was that some of the cafeteria ventilation in the faculty dining areas was a little bit low. They feel like they're getting a lot of air flow out of the uh diffusers in there. A simple fix to that that would be adding some air dampers to the existing uh duct work in the cafeteria to help force some more air down those paths. Um something we' be very easily able to help engineer a solution for. So district admin building is probably the building that had the most need. Um but that's kind of to be expected as it's not where students are. So it's not where the bulk of people's money wants to go. You care about your students you want to focus
020on. Thank you. Um, so some of the bigger items here, you know, paving and interior finishes. Again, they're mostly original to the building. They just need some updating. They're starting to show some signs of wear. Uh, there's a couple of air handling units outside here that are starting to show some signs of aging. Uh, again, they're running fine. Our maintenance uh team is doing a fantastic job keeping them running, but they will start incurring more and more maintenance costs as they continue to get old. And then again there's some opportunities for increased uh savings with changing to LED lighting from the fluorescents that are here. You go to the next slide. So part of our study is that we also do what's called an operational energy cost assessment. What that means is we take two
021years worth of bills, water, sewer, gas, electricity and we analyze them and we come up with free charts. Um but what it does allows us to give your building a score that we can compare to other buildings both in the United States and locally. Uh you can see here on the left or my left anyway the pie chart there that is the percentage that you spend on each utility of the total utility cost per year. Um electricity is obviously pretty high but that's to be expected with fluorescent lighting. Um, but still if you compare it to the scores on the chart to the right there on the bar chart, your scores are still in a very good spot for electrical compared to other schools. Honestly, all of the buildings in the district have great scores
022compared to other schools that we see all over. Um the only building that has anything to note would be the district admin office here has a relatively high gas store but it's also because it's main source of heat in both the garages which are not super well insulated as well as the rest of the building are is a gas furnaces in these units out here and then some gas heaters in the garages. So that's going to have a bigger store because it's a smaller square footage. That's just something to note. There [clears throat] few opportunities for savings here as you can see with some lighting and maybe a couple of changes to some minor HBC systems but overall your buildings are looking fantastic and it's a testament to your maintenance team. I'll turn it back
023over. Yeah. Thanks. Great job. Does anybody have any questions actually before we move forward on kind of what we saw the assessment things like? Well, I thought um trying to remember if it was a high school, but when the elementary center was built um that Hback was lead certified, but we also upgraded I I know the middle school and I think the high school as well around the same time. Yeah, I think there certainly were some assessments talking about 2017, right? I believe so. Well, it opened in 2018, so yeah, between 2016 and [clears throat] 2018. Yeah. Um, and there might have been some upgrades done uh prior to I didn't get involved in anything with the school until 2018. So, yes. So, there were some minor modifications to the H5 systems to help uh
024kind of offset the aging equipment. Uh most of the rooftop units at the middle school and high school are 1993 I believe. Um and we can kind of get into that because that's actually kind of one of those priority things that we'll be talking about. Right. So as we talk about asset protection uh believe it or not that's what you're doing and that's the name that site logic has for asset protection. You're not growing. you have wonderful assets within your district and now what we're looking to do is how can we maintain these assets um very strategically how can we get the most amount of life out of the assets that you have without having to make major investments because you actually don't. So asset protection is what we call a warm safe dry approach
025to well-maintained facilities. Warm, safe and dry. That is our baseline. Um whenever we talk about facilities we when somebody says where should we start we say start with warm safe and dry what is going to keep your buildings warm safe and dry for the next 20 years and uh again the strategy is just focusing on equipment replacement when and where needed and it could be MEP building upgrades some code compliance as Josh had mentioned and then just slowly and strategically updating any worn finishes. This is work that can be done with minimal disruption to the students. It's typically done during the summer months and it's a way for you to continue along the path of good stewardship and maintenance of your facilities. So, [clears throat] what does this look like for your district? So after
026our full evaluation, uh what you're seeing are facility costs that represent the aggregate value of deferred [clears throat] maintenance across all of your buildings. So for the high, so we're providing ranges for you. Uh so at the low range of the high school, it's about 7.4 as high as about $8 million depending on the scopes of work. The middle [clears throat] school has a little bit less need, so two and a half to about $2.9 million. the elementary center minimal uh some of the diffusers that um Josh had talked about and then some exterior sites components [clears throat] that could be addressed within this building. You can see there's a little bit uh higher cost associated with it just because there are some aging systems in here that haven't been addressed as recently as the
027educational facilities. So all in we're looking at about 11 to just over $12 million. So what is important again to note is when we are looking at your district by comparison against other districts in the region, these costs are notably low. So this is a very modest backlog of maintenance requirements. We've been in districts very similarly sized, very similarly positioned. We're looking at 80 90 almost hundred million dollars for their deferred maintenance and uh that is not an exaggeration. That is actually what a lot of districts are looking at. [cough] The next slide please. So as we look at priority project recommendations, if we had to consolidate this to a shorter list and be very strategic about what it what we would recommend to be addressed, we would say you would probably want to address
028the asphalt. um across the campus. There's certainly a high need there. And um depending on the areas that you would like to to pave and address, that's about $3 million. I have a question on that. Yes. What does main drive mean? Just the main campus drive. This was just all this out here and then some of the connective um driveways as well rather than try to separate. I mean I I know that um except maybe the elementary center [laughter and clears throat] I know the um parking lots. Yes. Yeah. That is generally what that cost is the parking lot. I would assume that the worst one is probably a lot. Yes. Yes. Definitely [laughter] in fact. Yes. Yes. Um and then again looking at rooftop equipment at the high school and middle schools. We're seeing
029that equipment again. It is older. There is a lot. It has been very well maintained. This is not something that needs to be addressed immediately. We are saying as you prepare to make decisions about your facilities and what you would like to replace or upgrade as your uh budget allows, these are the priorities that you should be taking a look at. Additionally, um we had talked about some scopes of work here within this building. So, all in about $8.8 8 million. Um, you know, the recommended projects can be addressed within the next five years in a phased manner as your budget allows and many of the scopes of work that we have prioritized or identified for the district are also eligible for grant funding. Katie is here to talk more about those. Okay, back up.
030I I actually have a question. I think it'll be best suited for Josh. [clears throat] When calculating out the asphalt paving at the high school, middle school, and the main drive, was any consideration given given to and the middle school parking lots back. I'm not going to argue that, but has any consideration been given to either skin patching or seal coating in these areas to reduce cost? Because paving is going to cost you a fortune, you know. Yeah. Seal coating can maintain the life of of the parking area and skin patching is a third of the cost and for a low volume I shouldn't say volume a minimally used I'm not looking for that speed limit for [clears throat] something that you don't go fast on skin patching is perfect so there's definitely opportunity to
031look into those options if knitting is something that gets pursued we went with the cost of less just say we're going to mill and overlay it. That's idea. So that's up to as we go into a project. This was just our here's a rough estimate of like a high end, right? Okay. So that way we're not telling you, oh, it's going to cost you $100,000 for this whole lot and then you're but that actually needs a lot more work long term and then it costs a lot more. We rather do a high cost and then say better here's some other options as we develop a project. Yes. Okay. So the low range when it comes to where did I see that they told the page before three. Yeah, but there's a [laughter] there's a low
032and high range for high school. This is just all deferred maintenance costs. It doesn't break it out into that. But I if we're going to spend $3 million on, and I agree that the middle school parking lot something needs to be done with, that's that's too far to save. But when it comes to everything else, skin patching will cost us a third of the full price that should be factored into this. It's true. Um I think that the best way to understand how we would like to approach and phase these projects is exactly that type of feedback. How do you want to approach it? And then what we have Yeah. Then believe it or not, that's what skin patching is, right? But it's you using very fine stock. Y and then what we have [cough]
033to do is come back and show you updated estimates and then we can show you a phasing plan on how we would best recommend that if paving is a priority. There is a phasing plan that we would approach so that you [clears throat] know it makes sense and aligns with um the school calendar and schedule. Sure. Now, I mean, the the RTUs, I mean, if if we got 30 year old units, then it's time to start working on budgeting for [clears throat] replacement. But this is exactly what we wanted to see to try and figure out where [clears throat] we're going in the future, right? Well, they're not efficient, right? Yeah. Technology is always going to be more efficient no matter where. [cough and clears throat] And not only that, with the price of electric,
034[laughter] [clears throat] I think uh we can move on to grants. [laughter] All righty. So, good evening everyone. Uh as we said, my name is Katie Heatherington. I am a resident here in Lee Heighten. I brought with me my second grader. So, as I said, I have a uniquely vested interest in making sure Lee Heightton gets opportunities for funding. I do the government affairs and grant writing management on behalf of site logic. I work with all of our client districts to help with that process when you're looking for alternative funding and then advocating for that funding. So, this last year was the public school facilities infrastructure grant that school districts had an opportunity to apply for. Uh we worked with a lot of our member districts and were able to secure over $19 million in
035grant funding for various projects across that footprint. Um, we actually had the highest success rate of any company that assisted any school districts and our awards tended to be higher than the vast majority of other uh, district applications across the board. We do this as a service to the district. This is part and parcel to being a partnership with Psy Logic. Um, and then we also help with those relationships with your elected officials. I myself am a registered lobbyist. We have another registered lobbyist in house. And we employed two lobbying firms, one in Harrisburg and one in Pittsburgh. That's all part of our process. That is not a cost to the district to try to help get those opportunities because these are all legislative grants. So our legislators have have options and are part of
036this process. If you can flip the next slide. So this is just an example of some of the grants that we work with school districts to try to access on a lot of our public clients. Um that list is that uh the clients that we were able to get the uh PSFIG grant for last year. Now I know we do not currently have a state budget. Knock on that happens in the next few weeks. Um don't I know I work government fair since I was her age. So don't worry. I know. Um but I can confirm that there is at least $100 million for PSFIG in that budget. it has been in every budget version that has shown up over the last few months. So, there will be that grant in this coming year's budget.
037Once that budget is passed, then that will open and we'll have the opportunity to look at some of these priority projects that the district has identified. I will say, and I apologize, Mr. Moser, everything listed but the DAO is available for funding. The district admin office is not allowed under that grant. I'm sorry. This would be my last concern. I'm just letting you know. I'm sorry. So, I have one school district who wanted to openly fight the Commonwealth on that and they lost. So, um but that everything else that has been identified is opportunities. You can kind of see on that list the range of awards was about 500,000 to 1.5 million depending upon the project. Um, a lot of those districts put in for $5 million, but that was knowing there was only so
038much money and every project that was going to get awarded was going to be only some of the amount of money they requested. So, what we did was we worked with the districts on projects that either they were always going to [clears throat] do the project, so they picked a, you know, $2 million project. They were always committed to 2 million and if they got money, then that was found money. Or some of those projects, we slimmed the project down to the amount of money that they got. We made sure it was a scalable project and that was a conversation with the district. And so we try to do that with every of these grants because they all kind of have that DC community economic development likes to do a a sliding scale. So come
039up with what is your priorities as we're working through this process. I will say on behalf of the district, we will do all the grant writing for you and then give you the grant to review to make sure it's correct or we can work in an iterative process. It depends on the district and what they like. I have some districts who want to take it on their own and I help where they say here's all my paperwork we do this and I'm happy to do that. Um and then we work with the legislative uh letters that you can support and all of the documents that go with that that approach. So this is like I said this is an opportunity of some of the projects that we could look at we've done for the paving
040projects. There's the multimodal program there's transportation set aside there's lots of different ways that we could look at opportunities. Um there is the um ARAP program. That's the redevelopment program. That's hard for school districts, but there's ways to manage it to get in there. There's other opportunities that we can look at that may be available that we can crack open. And this is just a list of several state grants. We have also done federal programs. We have done local applications, done private applications. If you can find it, we'll help you work on it. The the act 34 is the the partial matching correct. Yeah, that one has that one has a match to it. What's that? 25%. 25%. Yes. Unless you're a district in in financial concern, we're not worried about that here. [laughter] No,
041no, I am. You're not you're not just, but yeah, that one has that one has a 25% match and like I said, we've worked with a lot of districts on so they got so much of their funding and this next year they're going to apply for what is phase two of whatever that project is. So that gives you the opportunity to kind of plan out the other benefit within the myite IQ tool. If you think that you want to apply for a different grant, you can actually identify within the system, we'd like that to come out of grant funding. So you can prioritize where you want the funding to sit and that can be an identified opportunity for money. All right, that's great. Yeah, that just takes us to our next steps, which is we
042just have small little tweaks in terms of facility reports and some of the estimates. We'll absolutely take that feedback about parking lots back and uh show some updated information. Another piece of this is to provide access to my site IQ uh for district admin to start pointing and clicking their way through. So you can really see right into your um facilities and the information we collected and then just supporting the district in terms of summer 2026 projects and grant applications. So we're happy to be here uh to present and provide updates whenever you'd like. And again, we can't say it enough. You've done a wonderful job with your buildings and we are so proud uh to be able to support you in your next endeavor. So thank you. questions. I I I'd probably have more
043of a statement than than a question. You guys did a great job outlining what we have in our facilities. This has been a major point that the board wants to see what we need for our facilities over the coming years so that 30 years from now there's not a group sitting here saying, "Oh, well, we got to throw this building away and spend $50 million of taxpayer money." It's better if you properly maintain things. They will definitely last longer. Question for you. Does never done farms ring a bell? Yes. your family. Yes, that's my husband Justin and my father-in-law Dennis. Okay. Yeah. Dennis Long. Yeah. I actually So I saw Dave Notes the other morning and I told him that we were giving the presentation today giving him a huge kudos for his work and
044then also with Justin for the work that he's done to maintain the facility. So I gave him a a thank you. I I will say I I have had the opportunity within my office to say that I have the best school district and I now I can now say that officially. So I appreciate that that you give me the bragging rights in over. Yeah. Other question. Unfortunately, your point is excellent. I'm not in any districts. We deliver a lot of messages like that. [laughter] Yeah. You absorb something that should have been dealt with a long time ago. There's a huge number for you to look at. What are you going to do? That's a horrible position to be. You guys have done a great job. What I'd like to see us do from here is
045prioritize things over the next couple of years and work with you on getting grant funding to whatever degree. I mean, paying 25% on the dollar is where I want to be. Yeah. We have a couple districts that, like I said, we're I'll give a good example. I've got some districts that with the multimodal and the transportation set aside programs both being open at the same time earlier this year. I broke apart their projects and applied for both in hopes that one has a match, the other one doesn't, but some of them have a really tiny amount that they award. So tried to stretch where I could because they could actually one's federal, one's state, they could actually match each other. So we did a lot of applications like that where we kind of stacked the
046capital. Um, a couple other projects I'm working on. I've got one school district in the west. They are in the middle of gas country and they don't have a gas line in town. It is it's the dumbest thing. [laughter] So, trying to help them come up with um an access to they actually have a natural gas line to the building but not into town. So, working with them to try to find grant opportunities. We've applied to a couple different places. haven't been successful yet, but there we are actively lobbying to recapitalize a program called the pipe grant and that physically does help build it pays half the cost of putting in a natural gas line and doing those last mile extensions. So on our lobbyist side, we've gotten the Senate to agree to recapitalize that
047program and hopefully that's in the budget. So that's the other side of the fence is coming up with these opportunities. Something that I'm personally currently advocating for, there's the local share account. That's the state gambling money. School districts don't qualify for the local share account. I think that's silly. School districts are the emergency shelter if there's an issue in the district because they're typically the biggest buildings. You need backup generators. Oftent times school districts are the place where you're having voting uh you're having you're having polling places. So the municipalities and the counties are the ones who can get access to local share, but they're relying on the districts to manage those base uh functions on behalf of the community. So school districts should be allowed to access that as well because that is a
048base function of your community. So we're advocating to see if we can get that program changed because it's the one program that actually has more money in it each year because of our gambling uh issues in Pennsylvania, but it's actually growing as opposed to needing to pull out of the general fund. Are you telling me that the municipalities and the counties cannot apply for a grant to put a generator at emergency shelter if it's on school district property? Technically, no, because the municipality has to be the owner and the maintainer of that piece of equipment. If they're willing to agree to do that, then yes. But if it's not owned and maintained by the municipal government, then no. I'd sign an agreement with the burly [laughter] open and we have a month. So I'm not
049kidding you. If you welcome it today [laughter] on a note, I think you know seeing this is we stressed the importance of setting aside at the time $2.8 million in the capital reserve. We have you know uh Mr. Lens put together a fantastic uh financial investment plan to yield some interest to help keep acrruing that and and hopefully we can you know make that money that we've set aside very thoughtfully uh do a lot of the work and keep working for us into the future in satisfying some of our priority steps as we move as we move through the next couple of years. [laughter] We definitely we needed this type of information to be able to make a plan and I think board members will digest this information and we'll start working on a plan
050going forward. Does anyone have any further questions? By the way, thank you for answering my question. Great last thing. We appreciate the opportunity. Thank you so much. nutrition group. Hello. Good evening everyone. My name is Melissa O'Hara. I am the regional manager with nutrition group. I just wanted to introduce myself as I'm not new to the nutrition group. I am new to the district. I will be working with Nicole and her team to ensure that your students have the best experience in the cafeteria. Uh Nicole has a great presentation that she's going to be going over this evening to review with you what we have for the 256th year. Hello. I'm caring people serving great food. Um [clears throat] this [laughter] year nutrition group is celebrating 50 years. We were established back in 1975. Over
051the summer, the directors of food nutrition attended summer seminar. Our summer seminar was at the Wind Creek Casino in Bethlehem and was back in July. Um this year's theme was be the spark. At that the guest speaker was Simon Bailey. He was great. Um and he pointed out the five things for spark. See them as guests. Personalize the experience for those you touch. Anticipate and uncover needs. Respond to immediate and appropriate service and keep them loyal through acts of kindness. [clears throat] So the be the spark team as directors then we rolled into our staff's professional development day. [clears throat] the LA the LAN staff along with Weatherly and Jim Torp and Tima had their professional development day at Penn State Hazelton. Uh early August, we um had a classroom setting and we had sessions
052involving civil rights and offer to serve, passive logs, um safety and PPE. We went over production records, uh, employee manuals, and we talked about emergency preparedness. The year in review for 2425. Um, breakfast we budgeted, it was to feed 121,000. The actual was over 127,000. Um, lunch budget was 252,000 and we fed over 262,000. and profit budget was 137,000 and our actual profit was 23,000. So what's new at nutrition? We have new initiatives, programs, and ideas that we're cooking up to keep our customers excited. The one new program that was rolled out was nutrition expedition and it's focused um on elementary students that's called take um nutrition expedition and the high school one is called taking nutrition global. Um so far we had a Korean barbecue sandwich. So we visited Korea. Um we have pulled
053pork barbecue and pulled pork loaded fries. So we're looking at um the southern United States. We uh did roasted chickpeas, so we were talking about turkey. And we also have done tool alfredo as well as ravioli. So we discussed Italy as well. Our chefs came out with tons of new recipes this year. Um as you can see there's a whole ton out in the lobby. We have the mandarin orange chicken with rice to sample and we also have the torillini BLT salad to sample. um all a cart items that we sell. We have two different kinds of Scooby-Doo crackers out there as well as spicy buffalo sheets. And then I also brought over some of our breakfast items. There's a pumpkin roll, a raspberry swirl, and also a pull aart. They're all two grain um
054whole wheat items on our breakfast menu. Something else that's new this year is um sustainability. Um TNG cares. We care not only about our people and our customers, but also about the world. Uh we got a whole bunch of window things in. We have in the uh elementary school right on our serving lines about, you know, just taking one napkin and not being wasteful, taking the food you're going to eat. um and being a planet pal. We've always had a farm to fork program. This year it's called um a farmers market and this year it's features locally grown food and it highlights foods and ingredients that are grown in our area. I myself have made several trips to Celtier Brothers Produce stand and brought back um yellow and orange peppers. We did Gala apples, Macintosh
055apples, their broccoli and also their cucumbers. And we promote that in all of our schools that it's locally grown and we're offering it here that we had [clears throat] engagement and feedback. At the start of the school year, I sent out principal surveys um just asking for their feedback on what they think of our programs. We got a great response to that and I will be scheduling ACT meetings with our students to get their feedback on each menu items and just to see what their concerns are and what their voices be heard. In September, we did nutrition for life. It was for three days uh to welcome the kindergarteners into our lunch program. Um if the kids participated in all the different classrooms like one day they might have got an eraser, another day a
056sticker, another day a scented pencil. Then we promoted it that the class with the highest participation over three days, they had the uh they they got treated to an ice cream party. So for this year, Mrs. Hers's class had the highest participation. So I delivered them an ice cream cart. The byamerican provision during this school year we're require required to comply with federal by American provision. Um no more than 10% of tolls we purchase for the school lunch to school breakfast programs can be non from non-domemestic sources. So that being said, we are we still are offering like pineapple and bananas on our lunch menus and breakfast menus, but we are limiting as they are something that are not they're not domestic. As well as we're limiting the kind of juice choices we have compared
057to other years because of that also not being domestic for our employees. to continue to do the Tangi Cares and the moments matter. Um, for me here, I try and highlight a different employee every month in my board report. Um, someone that goes above and beyond. I know at the elementary school, I'm always amazed. Like, here it is, October. And quite a few of my staff know just about every single child's first name when they come through the line. You know, hi Annie, have a good day. like their faces light up that everyone already is recognizing them. It just goes a long way and that these these kids feel welcome. TNG charities is um they provide grants for students to assist with post high school plans. I'm happy to say that one of my middle
058school employees won one of these grants this past spring. Um she's a graduate of Lee Heighten. She applied for the grant, won the money and used that money to purchase a laptop and now she's still working for us but also enrolled in community college. So we were quite thrilled to see that she won. We're looking forward to a good school year. Thank you. And thank you for the u delicious. [laughter] recess. [laughter] All right. [laughter] Do we have any public comment on the uh on the agenda? [laughter] [clears throat] Sorry, I didn't get to before you started. Hearing none, move on to item 1.7. Do I hear a motion to approve the agenda as presented? So moved. Second. Comments or questions? All those in favor? Opposed? Extensions. [clears throat] I have it. Moving on to
059item of 158, the traditional public comment. No, [clears throat] not on not on the agenda. What's going on? Public comment. There's public comment, but it's not on the agenda. No, mine wasn't public on the agenda. [laughter] Oh, that's [clears throat] Melissa Hall. Good evening. I am Lisa Hawk. Hi, I'm the director of the Behind Are the Heighten Area Memorial Library. Um, tonight's agenda list is a vote to approve the donation of $10,000 to the Height Memorial Library. Um, and a vote on an increased library donation amount. uh over my eight years as a director at the Heighten Library um and for some time before that, the usual way the contribution was handled was for us to request to release the funds. The funds have already been included in the budget. $10,000 is listed in line
060uh as community services. We are asking for the check to be sent. An increase would be welcome and would bring us back to the funding loan prior to 2021. I've anticipated some questions the board members in the public by now. First, is it common for school districts in Pennsylvania to contribute to their local libraries? Yes. Out of 474 libraries, 108 receive all or some of their local government funding from their school district. The Office of Commonwealth Libraries is part of the the Pennsylvania Department of Education and they set our service area um and our service area is actually in in the entire uh Lehigh Area School District. [clears throat] So why does the Leeh Heighten Area School District contri contribute to the library? We provide free resources for teachers and students. This includes access to
061the Lehigh Carbon Library Cooperative collection of ebooks, online magazines, and audio books, which students can borrow at school or at home through the Sora platform on the school website. This collection is paid for by local public library funds. They also have access at home and at school to over 25 e resources through power library which is a collection of resources paid for by public library funding. [clears throat] These sources include newspapers, magazines, journals, historical archives, ebooks, and even 247 chat sessions with librarians. Um the Time magazine and National Geographic magazine archives were added last year. We offer many other online resources that can be accessed through your library card which is free to all residents, all the students and all the parents and all of you in the library in the in district. Um at
062the library [clears throat] we offer additional materials and programs and services. This includes early literacy, steam enrichment, and summer engagement activities for children, as well as recreational and educational programs for teens and adults. Library card holders can also choose from over 1.4 million books, DVDs and audio books through the 27 library outlets in the Lehigh Carbon Library Cooperative and the multi-dist Lehigh Valley Pocono Library partnership. We are ai dynamic free resource for the entire community. So what is our current financial situation? We practice responsible spending. Our total library operating expenses average appro approximately $110,000 a year. $110,000 a year. We consider this a very modest amount and strive to be excellent stewards of the community's money. Over half of our income is generated by our board and staff and volunteers through various fundraisers and grant
063awards. Many individuals, local businesses, and community organizations donate to our annual fund drive and participate in our other fundraisers. The recent addition of the children's area and community meeting room was paid for by private donations from our community and a grant from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. If something is purchased that is outside operating expenditures, a light table for the preschool programs, a 3D printer, building sets, STEM kits, the permanent story walk that is in the upper and lower parks, summer reading prizes, all of this is funded by donations and grants. This year we have been awarded $29,750 in grant funds, materials, and equipment. That brings the total amount of grant funds earned from 2023 to 2025 to 68,850. We also have an investment account. Through cost-saving measures, prudent planning and foresight, the library's board of
064directors, four of whom are here with us tonight, have built up an account for emergencies, rainy days, or crisis. No matter what may flawless, we want to be able to keep meeting the needs of the community. Are there any other reasons for the library to receive the support from the school district? History and community pride. The library opened in 1948 as a memorial to the local soldiers who lost their lives in World War I and World War II. This was made possible through the efforts of many local groups and the financial support of the Leehighen Area Union School District. For over 75 years, this partnership has served not just the Leehigh Area School District students and staff, but the taxpayers and community as a whole. I have in the packet that I had handed out
065earlier to you, um there's a flyer with our programs and services. There's our 2025 budget, our 2024 financial report, and our latest treasury report. Thank you for your time. Thank you, [clears throat] Ryan. Boom. So there's two things that I want to address with the board. Um first is uh there's a first reading of a board uh educational opportunities for military children. Um most of you know that I'm military operation freedom uh veteran. Uh I want to thank the board for for addressing this this issue. Uh certainly [clears throat] um those children who are children of active duty certainly we have recruiters that come to our community um at time times there's a number of people in the heighten who are prior military that this policy affects. Uh I I certainly appreciate that support of
066our military. I think that totally distincts us from many other school districts uh within Norththeast PA. The second thing that I wanted to address is the uh graduation requirements specifically if you're looking at the policy it is section uh sorry section uh is the section for eligibility for the veterans. Um, interestingly enough, um, prior to over the last couple years, I had a nonprofit. There are quite a number of veterans out there from the Vietnam uh, and Korean uh, era that do not have uh, high school diplomas. Uh, further, I would ask the board uh, to direct uh, Mr. Moser to publicly advertise that. I would also ask that uh we authorized as the board to allow those veterans who choose to get their diploma through the school district and recognition for their service to
067our country that they need an opportunity to walk at graduation if they choose to do so. Um I did see that in here. Um but I would certainly think that they've earned that right to walk across stage. That's all I have. Thank you. [laughter] We're going to take the other public comment that would normally go to the end now just to not make people wait. Uh, Michael Doctor. Oh, you made it way too long already. Hi folks, ladies and gentlemen, my name is Michael Patrick Joseph. Trying to adapt to that mind. Anyway, um from Wilsonboro, graduated Notre Dame 64, been up here 30 plus years, 15 years in the highrise. I um would like to ask, are there non-curricular uh clubs and such like a chess club or something in the school? Yes. So what
068I I I read in the paper that Turning Point USA was brought up at the last month's meeting. Now this this is a a very good everybody knows about it. Everybody knows it's a good thing. I really don't have as much else to say about that because it if there's other other clubs that are noncurricular then why not Turning Point USA? And basically that's all I have to say is is this is good for the students to learn how to associate how to get up there and savor their two pits like I am now. That's all. And and I would like I would like to ask the members of the board to vote on it at this meeting. Um thank you. [laughter] Great. Um Ally Carter. [laughter] First I want to thank you guys all
069for um all that you do because when I was watching this um [laughter] powerpoints I was thinking you have a lot that they have to decide and I really respect and honor everything that you do. Um mine's way smaller. Mine's way way smaller. Um, uh, I'm the director of a a group that comes into your schools called the Good News Clubs. And we have been doing Good News Clubs in your schools for about 50 years now. Um, uh, service many, many children over the years, thousands, like, let's be real. Um the children just like the nutrition lady said um come in and they're greeted and they're valued and they're loved and they just really enjoy this uh communication together with their fellow students. Um the the one thing that I will tell you that's really
070really special for us is to watch the socialization take place within the club and the confidence that they have together with their as they develop their friendships and just just the the belonging that they actually belong together and um that's been really special especially after co we saw a huge need for that socialization and just just being there together is really special. Um my um fee to the board is that I know that it doesn't sound like a lot but the use of facility fee um for a nonprofit with a shoestring budget literally comes out to a lot for us. Um we want to continue this program for the kids and the parents absolutely want it. We already have parents asking us when is it, when is it, when is it? every year since we've
071changed to the elementary center because remember we used to be in like all the elementary schools throughout the district but since we've changed to the elementary center we have over 100 children that sign up for this club. Um so we know that it's very well received and the parents want it, the kids want it and we want to do it. um with rising costs as you know, you know, our insurance that the snacks for the kids because we provide the snacks, just the snacks alone for 100 kids. You guys get the math because you deal with millions, not hundreds. Um but I'm just going to just just just ask that you would reconsider um the faith. Um I I I feel like we're part of you. I don't feel like an outside group at all
072because um all of our kids are we how our children together. So I know that you have made decisions and that you have like outside groups and things like that, but again um I if you ask the kids if they're an outside group, they're going to say no because they're all in the school and they're all together. Um so I just that's not all I need to ask you. If you would please reconsider that fe. [clears throat] Could you put together a brief for the board telling us what you do, how long you've been doing it, how often a year you come in, how many children you work with, what specifically you do, and then what you're requesting of us. Absolutely. Thank you. I have a question. Do you still do the um summer camp?
073No. ever since co we um ran out of people who had the um availability and um yeah so and the funds too the funds are are limited again um the one thing I do want to tell you though not only is it just the elementary center but then we have the kids coming from the high school to help fulfill their um national honor society requirements and they come in and and and they get leadership skills and are able to fulfill that um for themselves also. So we do we do just it's all the kids. So um thank you for your time. Does anyone have any more questions for me? I don't think so. I'll be glad to do that for you. Thank you so much. [laughter] All right. End of public comment. Great. Moving on
074to the reports. Uh the student board representatives. [clears throat] Hello everyone. Um, for starters, this past Friday, October 23rd, our football team had their last regular season game against our rivals Jim Thorp. Uh, they defeated the Olympians with the final score of 40 to 20, leaving with possession of the 209 trophy. Blake Roberts is now the lead receptionist, breaking the highest previous receptionist record by held by Zacker with 114 career catches. Lucas Croer also went over a thousand yards on the season against which hasn't happened since 2017. The team will advance on to the first round of playoffs on Thursday and they will be away against Good evening everybody. Our girls soccer team ended their season last week as their playoff run. They played the first round home against Possible defeating a score of two
075to one and moved on to the next round. Afterwards, they played against Blue Mountain North and Lehi, which ended in an unfortunate loss, finishing their season. Despite a challenging season that concluded with a 1-7 record, the spirit of our boys soccer team never wavered. Their senior night game against Jim Clark was amazing. Just truly unforgettable night and marked by an electric playofflike atmosphere that captivated every fan in attendance. On October 9th, our volleyball team held their final game and senior night against Colin. The student section was loud and proud and everyone enjoyed themselves to close off the girls season. After a long season, our cross country team attended their district and league meets producing three medalists at each. At least Elijah Pagato and Quinn Heinbach medalled seventh and eighth place. And for the girls, Claudia
076Pagato medal 10th place. On October 22nd, our cross country team advanced to districts and succeeded again. Elijah Gado placed sixth place at districts and Quinn Heimbach placed 10th. For the girls race, Claudia Pagado placed 14 14th and all three of them will be advancing to the state competition. Last week on the 23rd, the LHS chorus held their Halloween spectacular in collaboration with FLA and FCCLA. The fundraiser featured musical performances by the chorus as well as a haunted gym and face painting in the foyer. [clears throat] As part of their duties as FBA officers, our chapter set their leadership to the FBLA regional leadership conference at BSU. While at the conference, the region holds a business pitch competition. We're happy to report that for the third year in a row, our officers have got home. And
077finally, this week, um the week of October 27th through October 31st, we are celebrating Red Ribbon Week at the high school. Our goal is to spread awareness about drugs and alcohol and we hope to ensure that all students live healthy drug-free lives. This week we have a spirit day dress up themes along with drug awareness trivia questions that are read over announcements every morning. The first home room to call the end the correct answer gets a point and the home room with the most points by the end of the week will receive a gun party. That's all we have for tonight. Thank you. [laughter] Superintendent report deferred my time uh for the site logic and and uh nutrition. Okay. We don't need to write that out. That's a huge component though groups again but a
078lot of useful information. We obviously have a lot of work to do in terms of planning out the next years. Business administrator. Yeah. just briefly spoke about this workshop, but to let um everyone have an update, we had auditors on site um since we met last also completed majority of the leg work for the audit date. Um so we're on target to be able to have that completed um for November for the submission of the annual financial report to the state um and um then the issuance of the final to the board of directors. Um next um we've begun our review of current year budgets with administrators [clears throat] and today Mr. Moser and other members of the team um began meeting to review 2526 budgets to review the current year where we are with
079those budgets which also sets the scene as following each of those meetings. Those administrators had um their um knowledge of the next timeline for their budget development, which again has the goal that we'll be working with the administrative team on budget development to have those budgets submitted by the holiday break um to be able to when we come back from break have those reviewed and developed to begin to um flesh out information um in detail for the 2627 budget. Thank you. Um, El Yeah, El is uh in the second year of their five-year strategic plan. Uh we've met many of our goals on on time and the rest of being partially met or in progress. And this has been a great tool for us as a board and administration to help guide us uh with
080all our decision making. Uh we've begun our process of setting our budget from 2627. Believe it or not, we face similar challenges as you with a 21% increase in healthc care costs, flat enrollment, and lack of funding for the state, of course. And I would encourage you all as elected officials to contact our legislators and encourage them to pass the budget. I know as a former board member, if we didn't get ours in by June 30th, we face pretty serious consequences. And here we are in November and we do not have any funding from them yet. Now, despite these challenges, um, LRYC remains the third lowest tuition in the state and we're just 1% lower or higher than number two. So, statistically, I'm claiming we're number two. There's a bit of good news in our
081budget is that we do not project any increases again for the school districts. So, you start working on your budget uh until further notice. Uh you can hopefully count on no increase from LRYC. And lastly, I received a nice thank you from Mrs. Mahalik for my participation at the Heighten's Career and Counseling Advisory Committee that met on October 2nd. Uh it's really a pleasure serving on this group with a dedicated community and of course all the district uh folks that are involved. Lee height is very fortunate to have such caring and professional group of counselors in our district. I I think the numbers are up from where we were many many years ago. So we're really providing a great uh service to our students and I find it very rewarding to be part of that
082group. They have really excellent discussions and of course with the recent fire and the students that were involved here. Uh it was did you get a little bit emotional but uh quite a great group of people and that's really all I have to report tonight. Thank you. Yeah. Yes. We uh at this month's meeting we had a presentation for the local task force uh which is basically you know responsible for how would you say the being the leaison for the IU um to Harrisburg and the other IUs [clears throat] and um the local task force 21 action plan focuses on increasing awareness and participation with outreach efforts such as presentations and easily easily accessible meeting information on the IU website supporting ongoing family and district engagement. Of course, that's at the uh summary that we
083have there. We also had a tech overview from Eric Black. Um he gave us basically an overview of what our districts can receive from EIOU and it's a vast offering. So, we really get our money's worth there. Uh, they also with the retirement of Dr. Scott, we also hired a new director of special programs and services. Uh, Dr. Kathy Nelson has been appointed. So, we welcomed her last Monday morning. So, that concludes my report. Great. Thank you. CCTI. Um, CCTI is still looking for HBAC instructor and group updates from Mr. George the business administrator. There will not be an overall increase for the 26 27 school year. This is a 13th consecutive year with no increase to the ascending school. This concludes my report. Amazing library. Well, I really don't have anything because Melissa had
084everything. However, the Lee Airing Memorial Library is having a live pie fundraiser. You can get your pies for $16. You can go online. You can contact the library or anybody who works there. We'll be more than happy to take your orders. You will get a certificate. You can just take it at the librates. You can get whatever you want. And they do not expire. That concludes my report. Thank you. And Carrie's selling them as well. She's got the paper right now. I do actually. [laughter] [clears throat] All right. Item 1.10. Do I hear a motion to approve the minutes of the September 22nd board meeting, the October 13th special board meeting, and the October 13th workshop meeting? So moved. Second. Comments or questions? All those in favor? I opposed. Abstensions. The eyes have it. Moving
085on to part two, financial matters. Uh item 2.1. [laughter] I hear a motion to approve consent agenda items 22 through 24. Comments or questions? Uh I believe we need to do a roll call vote because there's a contract in there. [clears throat] Miss Heather, yes. Mrs. Carrie Sitler, yes. Miss April Walker, yes. Mr. Richard, yes. Miss Barbara Bose, yes. Mr. Dwayne Deler, yes. Mr. Sean Bes, yes. Mr. Jeremy Glaus, yes. And Miss Joy, yes. And yes, thank you for the donations. Thank you, Justin. trust and the Burger King Foundation. Great. [clears throat] All right. Item 2.5. Do I hear a motion to approve the amendment to the consulting agreement with EDM Financial to provide business managerial services to the Heighten Area School District as attached? Second. Comments or questions? Roll call vote. Mr. Richard Bell.
086Miss Barbara Bose, yes. Mr. Dwayne Eller, yes. Mr. Shan Bleeds, yes. Mr. Jeremy GL, yes. Miss Heatherneck, yes. Mrs. Carrie Sitler, yes. Miss April Walker, yes. And Miss Joyce, yes. Nice. Thank you. No. Item 2.6. Do I hear a motion to approve the donation of $10,000 to Lehigh Area Memorial Library for the 25 to 26 school year? So second. Great. So you can see I put two motions on here because at the last meeting there was some discussion of increasing the 10,000 back to the original 20,000. So both of the motion options are here. Um, I myself am interested in increasing it to the 20,000, but I would like to incorporate Jason's idea of making it an agreement rather than a donation so that we can work more closely with the library to have our
087students receive special services. [laughter] I have a question. If we agree to the first one, we can also agree to the second one. Correct. I mean, it's just to add an extra uh I don't know. I think if both motions passes, then it's $30,000. Yeah. [laughter] Well, then I should probably done the 20,000 first. Mr. motion. Can you explain Can you explain what the the versus adminion versus agreement will mean for the school district and the school body? An agreement could simply be uh some sort of exchange of of services that we know are available, whether that's helping to hope helping one of our summer camps out, something along those lines, which I know the library probably already does in hand, right? Um but but it it kind of cleans up an expectation of what
088that partnership and relationship is together so that it's not just a oh the board is giving giving away money to different different organizations. Why are we picking and choosing? And and if we want to do an agreement, then what we need to do is we need to actually fail both of these motions and have an agreement crafted which would appear on the November agenda. Well, why can't we pass the $10,000 one and then for the second$10,000 we have an agreement and you can move in that direction for the future. But I mean, we were told that it's unusual for a school district to support their local library. And obviously, it's not. No, I'm I'm in favor. I think that's a fair I think that's a fair way we could pass the 10 because I would
089like I mean, it's already October. They should get it to the check. Mr. What is it possible that we could propose the idea that our body I know this, right? We got to keep the meetings under control. Yeah, it's already an hour and a half in. So, I I'm okay with Barb's concept. How do other people feel? I'm okay with that. I'm okay because then it would cover both their concerns. I think we should proceed on number one, fail number two, and work on that agreement. Okay. All those in favor? I oppose. Okay. Abstensions. The eyes have it. Do I hear a motion to um Did you get April's vote? Did you hear it? I thought you did. Okay. Just want to make sure against the first one. Oh. Oh, then I didn't hear that.
090Yeah. She was an A. That's why. Thank you. Okay. Um, so we're going to skip 2.7. Do we need to make an official table? Okay. Do I hear a motion to table item 2.7? Second. Comments or questions? All those in favor? I I please reach out and we'll opposed abstensions. The eyes have it. Sorry, I just said [laughter] to talk, please reach out and we'll [clears throat] we'll get something together. Item 2.8. Do I hear a motion to approve the budget transfers the 25 to 26 school year as attached? Second. Comments or questions? Yeah, I have a comment. Thank you, Matt, for lowering my blood pressure. Um, I I He explained stuff that came to like over $400,000 and I'm like, you know, um, but he explained it and it's all fine. Um, hopefully we
091won't have this many next year. I mean, it' be a lot easier to go through. Um, but thank you, Matt. And it depends upon the state publishing a chart of accounts. Well, yeah, that would help. You're doing a budget and then they publish a 25 or 26 chart of accounts. I think this one came out in a first draft in August this year. So, so yeah, and and your budget's already set and everything's already well, they should pass a budget, too. We shouldn't have to pass ours until they pass theirs. Agreed. Other comments? All those in favor? I [clears throat] oppose. I abstensions. The eyes have it. Moving on to item 2.9. Do I hear a motion to make the following transfer from the general fund to the food service fund as per the reimbursements
092uh for September 2025? So on the screen, second. Any comments or questions? All those in favor? I I opposed abstensions. The eyes have it. Item 210. Do I hear a motion to approve an update to the restricted bank account established in the 2024 to fund the 25 to 26 health insurance at Pichick in the amount listed in the [cough] [clears throat] so move second comments or questions? Yeah. Why I mean it's not going to be 10% of what we pay. It's not gonna come amount to 10%. I'm just wondering why it's that amount basically. Is there a reason? Is there is there thought behind this or so [clears throat] the consortium that you're in establishes the trend for claims but you're self-funded, right? So the rates we have are at that 90%. What they ask
093though is that you know if the projections hit what they anticipated they could have hit that you have those funds set aside. So last year the board approved a 10% set aside that wasn't used but then we have to update that to reflect the increased rates which is what we're coming back to for for this year. So the last year's gets relieved from the book. so to speak. This goes back on until we get to this point next year that will through audit claims don't always don't come in necessarily on June 30th for that. Um and they [clears throat] require it for so this is like funded at what they think is going to be 10%. Correct. That's what that's essentially what you're putting aside because they know that our rate to develop and because
094it's restricted if it has to be but they need to know that if we had another 597,000 claims we have the ability to pay that from somewhere since it's not part of our rates right and it's not just setting in the general fund correct the consortion says you only owe up to what they project if we go over that that's part of how the consortion works you have to be committed to fund up to that amount and Since we're not doing it through the rates, we have to take the set aside. But again, last year we never used the set aside, but this in short is a hope of them. Okay. So, it's not like when we first joined, I remember one year we got over $700,000 back even though we funded it at 90%.
095Correct. We still have the potential to get funded back in the reconciliation that usually comes late winter time frame, right? Okay. So hopefully I won't for seeing another $400,000 payment. Yeah. I mean I don't know that we anticipate using this but we have to commit to the consortium in the event we hit over sort of like with the um the letter of credit for the Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Other questions? I just don't remember saying it. I think it was done July 1st, 2014. I'm getting old. What can I say? I don't remember everything. Other questions? All those in favor? I opposed abstensions. The eyes have it. Item 211. Do I a motion to approve the renewal of the administrative services only dental contract with United Concordia for the period the policy period of January 1st
0962026 through December 31st 2026 I'll second that motion but I have a question on the motion I I don't know if everybody had a chance to look at this contract but this is for administrative services only for our dental program and it's increasing 6.2%. For administrative purposes, you know that anybody knows anything about these darn dental programs is they don't increase and they don't pay out very well and the dentists don't even want to accept them anymore, but yet they want a 6.2% increase in their administrative cost. Sorry, I'll be voting against this. Other comments? All those in favor? I opposed. No. Okay. [clears throat] Abstensions. The eyes have it. [clears throat] Item 212. Do I hear a motion to approve the attached quote from Howard Refrigeration and Air Conditioning to repair the high school
097cafeteria walk-in coolers at a cost of $22,988? I'll make that motion. Comments or questions? Caveat being paid from the food service fund. [laughter] All those in favor? I I opposed abstensions. The eyes have it. Can I ask a question on that, Jason? I know it's kind of after the fact. What did they do? They just completely demolish what's there now and and replace it because I was treating the paperwork. I also don't exactly know. Okay. They just re they take down the lining. They refurbish it essentially. It's been a giant how many times they don't touch your box at all. The box stays intact. They come in, they insulate the inside of the box and basically build a new hole. Oh, perfect. Yeah, we've st done a giant response. Item 213. Do I hear a
098motion to approve the exemptions from per capita andor occupational tax? So moved. Second. Comments or questions? All those in favor? I I opposed abstensions. Motion passes. Item 214. Do I hear a motion to approve the following per capita and/or occupational tax refunds of the five listed? Second. Comments or questions? Yeah. If someone is applying for two years or more, that amount is for each year. Correct. Um like Richard Green 24 and 23 at 245. So he would actually get double that because it's I just want to clarify that it's for each year. It's not 245 total. Correct. I didn't put the motion together, but I think what your logic is, I think that makes sense, right? Yeah. Okay. Other questions? So, I have another question, but it's not really about the actual motion. It's about
099Oh, why don't we include these ones in the um as what? They were received later. [clears throat] Well, I was just thinking, okay, so basically when you made the consent agenda, these were received after that act. Yeah, it's based on the workshop. If we didn't have the names by the workshop, then it gets pushed out of the consent because it hasn't been has not had the opportunity to be discussed on the floor. No, I totally understand that. Okay. Thanks. Well, the other ones aren't Well, I don't know when they were received. Um, I thought maybe he was asking because they're not in the form of the ones previous, which were the October exemp exemptions. I didn't think that the names actually mattered. I thought, you know, it was something that we do at every meeting.
100I thought we could do it, but now I understand. All those in favor? I I opposed. Exemptions. Abstensions. Item 215. Uh, do I a motion to approve the height high school area middle school activity funds for September? So move. Second. Comments or questions? All those in favor? I opposed. Abstensions. The eyes have it. Item 216. Do I hear a motion to approve the following reports for September? Um, we see them. There they are. Five of them. Second. Comments or questions? Yes. State has to pass the budget because that is absolutely dismal. All those in favor I opposed abstensions. The eyes have it. Item 217. Do I hear a motion to approve the following payment bills for October and a total amount of 5,412,7569 second? Comments or questions? Yes. Dwayne, did you go through it? Yeah.
101Did you find any issues? I didn't find anything in particular. I know you're always looking, did we pay tax on something we shouldn't have. I didn't see any of that, but I'll tell you what, 4 and a half hours looking at all that's 160 hours of work putting this together. So, you didn't notice, and I'm pointing this out because I'm not going to be able to do it. one. There was a file that was in the executive file that was not on the agenda for the public. I I don't go on the website and look to see what's available to the public versus what we get in the board packets. You actually get a printed packet. I get an email. Yeah, it's the same agenda that everybody in the public sees. Oh, okay. So, but
102I saw everything the public saw. Okay. Because there was and and it happens sometimes. Sometimes the uh scanner doesn't pick it up properly or you know it it's a lot of work done. What's missing? What was missing when I took care of it was the capital reserve fund checks, but it was missing on the public side only. it was in the executive. So, all you [snorts] have to do is count to make sure there's the same amount for each one. And the other one for the Pearson books were the cover page was missing that gives you uh the description and where it's coded and the picture of the check was missing. And there was a note with the total on it, but that's not acceptable to me. So, they took care of that this morning.
103But I knew what it was because we had seen the Well, the board had approved that. But there I mean there's over 50 reports here. Tell me about it. I did it for two years. Good. Well, keep doing it. Just call me. No, because I can't see the unred after November. Other comments or questions on the payment of bills? [laughter] All those in favor? I opposed abstensions. The eyes have it. Part three, personnel 3.1. Do I hear a motion to approve consent agenda items 32 through 3? Second. Comments or questions? All those in favor I opposed abstensions. The eyes have it. I'd like to point out that included a retirement from Devlin a school school counselor at the elementary center for nearly 28 years. Thank you. Uh thank you for your service. Does does a
104fantastic job with this. Item 3.5. Do I hear a motion to approve the resolution to accept the resignation of district superintendent, declare a vacancy, and a resolution to elect the district superintendent in accordance with um should probably say school code 24 sections listed on the screen and entry into an agreement covering items and conditions of employment for the district superintendent. So second comments or questions? Yes, I have a comment. I was against this in the beginning and I'm absolutely for it now. And the reason why is the early severance package has been taken out. Agreed. All right, we'll call a vote. Miss Barbara Bose, yes. Mr. Dwayne Delicer, yes. Mr. Sean Gleaves. Yes. Mr. Jeremy Glaus. Yes. Miss Heather Nap. Yes. Mrs. Carrie Sitler. Yes. Miss April Walker. Yes. Mr. Richard. Yes. And Miss Joy
105Beers. Yes. Nine. Yes. Thank you. Thank you, Jason. Thank you all. We have to swear him in or anything. Going to reward him with free chicken. I probably did. [laughter] I just mean you just have to walk out to the lobby. Let me give him some scoopies. [laughter] Thank you for the support. I appreciate it. Jason, you've done a good job. That's why this was a great job. Well, let me read a note that I received from a parent just actually a grandparent just today. Um, I've been wanting to ask you if changes were made in how children are being taught in Leighton. Our little man started kindergarten and were absolutely amazed by what he's already learned in such a short amount of time. They had another child who passed through the elementary center some
106time ago. Just skip across here. I'm really imp impressed. He learns new words every day and writes them without me having to spell them. He loves learning. He was at Walmart with his mom and was pointing at signs saying that's $10 and got it off. I could go on with you, but I think you get the idea with these few examples. We're really impressed at how quickly he's learning new things, and I'm just wondering about the program and what are they doing to teach over there right now. I am not a kindergarten teacher, [laughter] never was. I will say uh I I am very impressed with the work that our professional staff, our support staff, our administrative staff has done to really focus on academics, specifically early academics, early literacy. Um there is a there
107there is an energy in that building at the elementary center that um you know they're they're really working through a lot of things curricular-wise, methodology wise, instructionally. Um I I see my job I will not take credit for for that. My job is to create the conditions for that to to occur and what what others do with it and encourage them to to take it and run. So very proud of the work that those folks are doing in that building across the district. Um there are initiatives in every one of our buildings that is a lot of work can be very daunting at times can be overwhelm can feel can make us feel overwhelmed at times but every conversation I have kind of reinvigorates the fact that they really do want what's best for kids
108and that's what our focus will continue to be on. Thank thank you for supporting the staff and and and also keep in mind we supported Jason in making some tweaks to the staffing at the elementary center moving teachers around to increase the teacherto student ratio in the elementary center. So there weren't as many students per teacher and I think that'll pay off in dividends over time. A lot of great things happen. All right. Item 3.6. Do I hear a motion to approve the following requests for athletic coaching and manager candidates as per the contracted rates pending any necessary paperwork? Second. Questions? All those in favor? I I opposed abstensions. [clears throat] The eyes have it. Item 3.7. Do I hear a motion to approve the following candidates for employment in accordance with the respective contracts?
109Kevin Bond is a mentor. So move second. Comments or questions? All those in favor? I opposed abstensions. The eyes have it. Item 3.8. [laughter] Do I hear a motion to approve the following candidates for extracurricular positions? We have four people. Looks like it's moving slow here. Sio, Steven Kbach, Brian Huffington, and Nicholas Miller. Second. Comments or questions? All those in favor? I I opposed extensions. The eyes have it. Item 3.9. Do I hear a motion to approve the following professional development opportunities? Second. Comments or questions? All those in favor? I opposed [laughter] abstensions. The eyes have it. Item 310. Do I hear a motion to approve the following requests for pre-approval of courses and programs of study for employing continuing education? So moved. Second. Comments or questions? All those in favor? I opposed abstensions. The
110eyes have it for four programs item 4.1. Do I hear a motion to approve consent agenda items 42 through 44? Second. Comments or questions. Yeah, I would like to unfortunately poll number 4.2. There's a policy policy in there that I think is gonna need a lot more tweaking. We can leave it in for now. That's I had the same thought myself, Barb, and that's where I ended up. This is a first reading and we have the opportunity to work on it at the workshop and we can stall it if we 620 is is given what you receive. I agree. I read through it and then I thought to myself, this isn't a workshop. This is a a legislative meeting, so I'm comfortable pushing it through at first reading knowing that we can stall it additionally
111at the workshop. I mean, and it's it's a lot to the email that we've got explaining things is a lot to go through. I agree. So, if you're okay, we can leave it in. Yeah, we'll leave it for first reading and then we can just retain it there. Correct. Okay. If necessary. Agree. If we struggle with it at the workshop. Okay. Other comments? All those in favor? Oh, there's a contract in there. Yep. So, there is roll call vote. Mr. Dwayne Delicar. Yes. Mr. Sean Ble. Yes. Mr. Jeremy Glow. Yes. Miss Heather Neck. Yes. Mrs. Carrie Sitler. Yes. Miss April Walker. Yes. Mr. Richard Belts. Yes. Miss Barbara Bose. Yes. And Miss Joy Hughes. Yes. Thank you. Item 4.5. Do I hear a motion to approve the MLU Retaining Leighton Area School District to provide
112evaluation services to Palmer Area School District? So moved. Second. Comments or questions? Question. This this was the one that we had previously discussed. We're basically one of our counselors or we have a little bit of available time with our counselors and in essence we're going to be leasing them out to Palmer. Correct. I think that's a great way. This is this is an awesome idea. It helps Palmer and helps us. Um other comments follow Mr. Sean Gleaves. Yes. Mr. Jeremy Glououch. Yes. Miss Heather Nap. Yes. Mrs. Caris Sitler. Yes. Miss April Walker. Yes. Mr. Richard Els. Yes. Miss Barbara Bose. Yes. Mr. Dwayne Eller. Yes. And Miss Joy Be. Yes. Nine. Yes. Thank you. Item 4.6. A motion to approve the following school enrichment journey requests. Items 1 through 10. So move second. Comments or
113questions? All those in favor? I opposed abstensions. The eyes have it. Item 4.7. Do I hear a motion to approve the use of school property for items 1 through three? So move. Second. I have a question on the motion. Item number one, October 14th, Entertainment LLC. What's the subject of this filming of a feature film? It's a biopic of a musician who grew up in Carbon County. Nice. Very good. I just I don't remember the musician's name. I'm sorry off the top of my head, but yes, they want to use outside of the elementary center against one of the walls and maybe inside the cafeteria. Nice. What about number three? since we had something come up today. It would simply be held for the organization. Okay. Other questions? All those in favor? I opposed. Abstensions.
114The eyes have it. Item 4.8. Going through 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. So comments or questions? [clears throat] Disposal of this surplus or is it being most of it's [clears throat] being tossed? We we do uh use this a bit to put things that are that have that have retained value available to the public for auction. We have started that endeavor this year. So none of that stuff. I would have to actually see what it is. All right. Did I take the I got distracted now. Did I take the vote on that? No. All those in favor? I opposed. Abstensions. the eyes have it. Great. Part six. Um, this got brought up again uh because it slipped
115through the cracks. We had talked about it and then it didn't get pushed forward. Item 6.1. Um, I believe this is a policy that was forwarded to the board from Dave Bradley and the point of it is um to make sure that the board receives the information uh that it needs. So, um since this is more of a workshop item and board members are okay with it, this will appear on the workshop agenda. I think we should pass 6.1 tonight. [laughter] Are you making a motion? No. Oh, but I think we should. You could. Well, why would you want to pass on the required constitutional duties there, Barb? You don't go after. It's not public comment. I don't care what it is. I'm a taxpayer. You work for me. Excuse me. I don't get paid.
116I do my time. work needs to get paid. Do not get paid. All right. Anyway, just moving on to items. I was wondering why it was on here because it's not a workshop. Yeah, it just uh No, I agree. Uh someone had brought it up and I I put it back in so I don't forget about it basically. Um okay, moving on to item 6.2, which was a similar item. I think Dwayne, last meeting you said you weren't quite ready and now you've uh written this document for us with suggestions. Correct. If if just [clears throat] pardon me, just to remind the board, policy 317 directs the superintendent or designate to develop and implement disciplinary procedures for violations of board policies, administrative regulations, rules, and procedures that provide for progressive discipline, including but not limited
117to verbal warnings, written warnings, reprimands, suspensions, demotion, dismissal, and/or pursuit of civil and criminal sanctions. Whether or not these uh administrative regulations exist, I don't know. However, several policies include a statement that says a district employee who violates this policy may be subject to disciplinary action up to including termination in accordance with all applicable district disciplinary policies and procedures. So I I guess the first thing is going to be a question to Jason if if do we have an accountability policy outside of the actual policy 317? We do have admin uh admin ranks on disciplinary procedures for 317. Okay. Then at this point in time what I'd like to do is table this 6.1 till I can have an opportunity to look at the administrative regulations. Great. You mean 6.2? So 6.2 Can I ask
118you when 6.2 was added to the agenda? Yeah, I don't recall. Yeah, I mean cuz it wasn't there on Thursday and Friday. Dwayne had forwarded this to me and it was belated and I forwarded on to Jason and I don't recall what it got on and that's why it's not a motion. It's just a discussion item. Okay. Because I will check when I get home because I I think it was this morning. Yeah. It was like So technically it shouldn't have been added. Mhm. Just saying. It's just a discussion. Yeah. You're not allowed to change the agenda. I would just um All right. Any questions for Wayne on 6.2? [snorts] Hearing none. Part eight. Moving on to 8.1. Any director's concerns? I have something that we're going to discuss a little bit and a request
119that I meet of the board. Now, one thing I want to say before you get started. Oh, thank you, Jason. We have a procedure for director's concerns for a reason. Okay. It's supposed to be given with um it's supposed to Wednesday before noon. It's supposed to be submitted for the agenda and you're supposed to give uh information on why it should be put on evidence [clears throat] of and the part of the reason being it was always done that way. But we have a motion in the beginning to change the agenda and take stuff off the agenda. Traditionally in the past that was used only for director's concerns. So, we can't do that if someone puts it on the night of the meeting and does that again violate the sunshine law because the public doesn't
120know it was ever going to be on there is my thought. Well, Lord, this just came to my attention on Friday night. So, how on earth going to get anywhere? I'm just telling you, you have to follow the laws. People can have an issue. Sure. And that's fine. Let them have an issue and we can discuss it again at the next meeting. I'm just saying that there's a reason why director's concern in the policy has parameters on when it has to begin, etc. And with the sunshine law, with that change too, where you have to have everything on the agenda 24 hours beforehand, unless it's an emergency, it's all I'm saying. I'm going to make this public regardless. I don't care. Okay. In January of 2025, the Carbon County Court of Common Police issued an
121order requiring the Lehigh Area School District to release the right to know information that Mr. David Bradley had been requested for an extended period of time. As a result, this board hired a company to assist the staff in supplying this information. The cost was a mere $16,000, not the $200,000 the former boarded administrator claimed it would be in their argument as to why the board should not release right to no request information. [clears throat] This information has now been or about half of the information has been supplied at a very minimal cost to the school district. Recently, I was provided information from this right to know request regarding the NEF, [clears throat] that stands for National Education Foundation contract under which the school district spent over $3 million to purchase their STEM, that science, technology,
122engineering, and math curriculum for the school district. This program was supposed to be administered by our staff to advance our youth by better preparing them for careers dealing with STEM. this documentation that I've received over a 100 pages of information. This documentation appears to show that a dozen staff members, some of whom are current employees, were paid stipens totaling $55,000 for a program that allegedly involved work that was not done. This is what I have in my hands here, and I will gladly let anybody see it. [clears throat] Included in the 100page complaint is documentation indicating that the STEM program was approved, that over $3 million of taxpayer money was spent, and a dozen staff members submitted time sheets and received stipens totaling $55,000 for a program that was not fully implemented or administered to
123our students. The auditor general's report dated October 2020 and the Knox law firm letter dated March 2022 appear to document that the NAF program was not provided to our students by the staff. And and by the way, this is no reflection on NEF. The program looks like it was a very good program. If all this information is verified and correct, we have a serious problem that occurred under the leadership of former board members and former and current staff. All of these documents have been in our administrative offices only recently being brought to light by the diligent efforts of Mr. Bradley and a court order. I would like to thank our superintendent who who's hasn't been with us for a year for coordinating the right to know effort and Mr. Bradley for bringing this matter to
124our attention. But in reviewing this documentation, if this is what it appears to be, I have a real problem with the ethical behavior of former and current staff as well as former board members. The school board is responsible for overseeing the school district and should never allow decisions based on friendship or family ties with employees. Our duties include ensuring that the board members and staff perform their duties properly. As a result of this, I am actually making a motion to forward this complaint to the Carbon County District Attorney's Office and the Pennsylvania Department of Education for further investigation. If you recall, some time ago, the county District Attorney's Office was a complaint was filed by Mr. Bradley and the district attorney says, "We don't have the staff or resources to investigate this." Well, now with
125the help of the right to know information, we have the information. I would like this board to say, "Let's have this properly investigated by the authorities and make sure that everything was done above board." And if not, I want those stipens repaid. Let me ask you a question. Um, in that narrative, the board members mentioned, but the board members apparently never even knew that there were contracts. Now, the agreed for contracts that had to be the partnership that had to be forged with NEF in order it was all in order to get the QAP grant. Okay. Um, those extra licenses did not have to be purchased. Correct. But we still spent over $3 million. 3.46 million. Yes. To be exact. Now, in 2014 was the first act. Mhm. And that I believe was for the
126middle school. That one had somebody to oversee the program and it was Mr. Packard. Um, and that one was actually checked and things were done properly on that one. If you look at the Oh, yeah. The first one was done. The second one was never done. I know that. Well, then but staff who received stipens for the first program which ran from 2014 I think to 2018. I'm pretty sure five years, but you may be right. I I I haven't looked at okay in couple years or a year. um they're not part of it because and it was NEF that supplied the stipens. Yes, we put out all that money, but we bought licenses. Then they supplied the money back to the district is my understanding for the statement. Does does Dwayne's motion have a
127second or do we want to hold it for the next meeting? I would be 100% fine with seconding that motion. Okay. [clears throat] So, do we have to make a separate motion to add a motion to the Yep. Do I hear a motion to add a motion to the agenda? Some moved. Second. All right. Comments or questions from the public? adding a motion to the agenda. I'm just glad that by we're going to make the previous administration accountable. It's about time that that we make people accountable and that's what I'm asking this board to do. That policy that you approved tonight to your affirmative duty. If you read it, it talks about your constitution and a responsibility as a board member to this district. You have a responsibility to this district, to the taxpayers, if
128anything, to the student body to hold these people accountable for the money that they wasted in this district. Thank you. I have to say, Ryan, we just didn't have the information till this point and now the information has been provided. I appreciate that. Have you seen it? I did read it. Yes. Oh, that's nice. I haven't seen it. I received it in an email. Well, that's nice. The rest of us, too. In my personal in my personal email. Doesn't matter. You're making a motion on something we haven't even seen. I'm making a motion based upon taking care of business that should have been taken care of. I would have liked to read this. [clears throat] Well, look at my paperwork. I can't read 100 pages in like 3 seconds. What the hell do you think
129I know the basic story line? It confirms the basic story line of what we have to take word for it. There was a letter sent to my vote as to whether or not we want to add the motion. Let's take a roll call vote. And he sent it on to the attorney general. Mr. Jeremy left. Yes. Miss Heather Net. No. Mrs. Carrie Sitler? No. Mr. April Walker? I'm going to say no only because I think that the board should have an opportunity to review these documents. Mr. Richard Bell. Yes. Miss Barbara Bose. No. Mr. Mr. Dwayne Deler. Yes. Mr. Sean leaves. Yes. Miss Joy Mirs. I'm a no because the board should also be able to see the documents. Four. Yes. Five. No. Motion fails. We'll push it to the next meeting. at least put
130on the floor to have this [clears throat] to power a law firm investigate this and make sure this is getting right to no documents but it's not it's not public comment do we have other director's concerns hearing none next one is the public comment which is for And there is none. Item 8.3. Do I hear a motion to adjourn the meetings? I order the question. It was requested earlier by a citizen that a vote be taken on turning point USA. I ask for that vote now. So just to let you know sir, we don't make a motion to create clubs. I know that there are students who are working to build the club right now and the board has already previously agreed to not stand in the way of any student creating the club. Okay.
131It's just they're allowed to they're allowed and it's in the works from what I understand. Okay. Um sorry I didn't explain that earlier. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you. Do I hear a motion to adjourn the meeting? So move second. All those in favorions. [laughter] The meeting is over.