001football. Yeah. I assume my photo I'd like to welcome Griffin Hazel and Dot as our pledge leader this evening. Congratulations and justice for all. Please remain standing for a brief moment of silence. Thank you. Hazel and thank you so much for being our certainly welcome to stay for the remainder of the evening or if you decide you may run out the back door. Okay, thank you so much. Call the meeting to order at 7:00 p.m. 143 announcements in executive session was held on April 28th at 6 p.m. for personnel and video discussions. A board meeting was held on April 28th at 700 p.m. in the boardroom. The executive session was held on May 12th at 6:30 p.m. for student safety, personnel, and legal discussions. A special board meeting was held on May 12th at 700
002p.m. Workshop meeting was held on May 12th. After the special board meeting, an executive session was held prior to this meeting at 5:30 p.m. for personnel discussions and board meeting held just now at 7 p.m. in the boardroom. Mr. President, Mr. Devel Mr. Dwayne Delair here Mr. Jeremy present Mr. Sean absr and here thank you to recognition of the student board representatives and Okay, so this is our like outro for the year. So, I would like to start off by saying thank you to everyone at the table, board members and administrators, for allowing Jake and I to represent the high school student body at each meeting. I thoroughly enjoyed taking the time to connect and communicate with students belonging to organizations outside of the life that I was involved in. Through this role, I was
003encouraged to expand my sphere with sphere within the high school. I appreciate those of you who listened about the great things Jake and I have said about the high school. I hope we're able to give detailed insight about our student body, classes, and various extracurriculars our school offers. I'm sure Connor Ewan and Morgan will do a phenomenal job in the year ahead. Lastly, I would like to share my future plans. Come August, I will be attending Boston University and I will be a student in the Quester School of Business and will concentrate in accounting. I'm very much looking forward to the next four years and hope the skills that I have learned here will be put to good use during my undergraduate years. Well, I don't have a paper so come out and speak. I
004appreciate this opportunity that me and Anna had to come here and speak on behalf of the student body. It's been a great time and it's been fun. It's been nerve-wracking at some points and throughout all this, I definitely become a better public speaker than when I first came in here. So, thank you for all the practice. Thank you for listening to what we had to say and for my future plans. I I'm going to pen college for construction management. So, I'll use the skills I learned here with public speaking to help me in my career. So, thank you guys. On behalf of the school board and the district, we do have a certificate acknowledging um you as student school board representatives for the 2024 2025 year and we would like to present these to you
005and in recognition of that and you for making a commitment which is not an easy one for for seniors who are involved in quite a few different things throughout the school district. So thank you so much Thank you. Should we please recognize the Yes. you would please stand if you could just briefly introduce yourselves. Oh, they have a report to do. Okay. Hello, my name is Connor. Um, you know, I'm usually a loud person, but for some reason tonight I'm trying to be a little bit quieter. Anyway, um, I'm a soccer player, a wrestler, and track track athlete. I've been on teams for as long as I can remember for both for both track and soccer and wrestling and soccer. Um, I try to get involved with as many things as possible in the school.
006So, it's school board, I'm in FA, I'm a vice president coming year. Um, and I'm looking forward to the many meetings that I have to attend with you guys. Have to check, but yeah, looking forward to a bright future. I'm Morgan Schaper. I was a junior class vice president this past year and I will also be the senior class vice president for this upcoming year. I'm the student council secretary. I'm in student forum. I'm a varsity cheerleader and I'm also in the band, both concert and marching band. And I've been part of band since fifth grade and cheerleader since middle school and then obviously continuing it in high school. Hello everyone. My name is Ecoan Warner. Uh I am a part of the highend football team and the highend uh track and field team. I
007do hurdles. my favorite thing to do. Um, school-wise, I am a part of student forum as well. I am an upcoming uh historian for student council. Uh, I'm a part of a medium, debate club, uh, yearbook and probably another one, but can't tell right now, but I'm really excited for public speaking, I would say. And I'm kind of nervous as well. So that's great. I look forward to it. Thank you. And you certainly need have something else to do. So thank you for giving up more time. We did write up a little May board report. And the first thing we have is about our band concert. On May 8th, our high school band concert performed their spring concert with a variety of different songs. We had eight total songs. The concert started at 7:30 following
008the art show. And on May 29th, the high school jazz band will be performing their annual jazz concert with around 18 songs. This concert will start at 7:30 and we highly encourage everyone to attend as it is a fun and entertaining performance. If you are not able to attend this year, we encourage you to attend the both concert and jazz band concerts next year. Two weeks following the May 8th concert, there will be a chorus concert on Wednesday the 21st. The chorus held their annual spring concert. The show choir also performed their songs that had been rehearsed for months. There's a great turnout. Um, and I personally heard them singing throughout the school. It's a lovely sound. Also on May 8th, the high school art department held their annual art show because they like to
009do their partnership with demand to get a better turnout. Displays all the students artwork in photography, visual arts, ceramics, painting, wood shop, metal shop, and many more. Community also had an opportunity to purchase plants that were provided by the agricultural club, a blue club that started just last year, just this year. The community also had an opportunity to purchase plant. I'm sorry. Our seniors also had the opportunity to showcase their artwork over the last four years by setting up a personalized display. The amazing art department and staff hall does a great job every year putting together this event. My personal favorite art piece was Ev's tire stand. Fantastic. Um this year's prom was held at Woodstone Country Club on May 2nd. The prom lasted from 5 to 12 and the team was under the lanners
010and it went with the tangle movie. The seniors and junior class officers along with Mrs. Hardney and Mrs. Harris created many amazing decorations and all the students had a great time. Over the last few weeks, both the junior and senior officers had their elections. The junior class officers are Taylor Moyer as president, Jed Cordez as vice president, Briana Demage as secretary, and Tory Ne as treasurer. And the senior class officers are Sophia Baston as president, myself as vice president, Aiden Soul as treasure, and Avery Bowder as secretary. A few of our seniors also had their collegiate um athlete signing day. On May 19th, the senior athletes that will be continuing continuing their athletic career in college had their signing day. Julia Smith, Tamara Clutz, Laura Thomas, Joe Roth, Riel Frabel, and Emma Rupture will all
011be attending schools around the area to continue their academic and athletic careers with the track and field teams. Okay. 39 athletes from the Highen had the opportunity to compete at the Colonial Leagues Championship Meet and White Hall. This meet was split into two days, May 6th and May 8th. A select few talented athletes throughout the Colonial League who were top 24 in their events competed in order to advance the districts. Um, competition and general expectations are usually high when it comes to bigger events such as these. Joseph Roth and Emma Rapture both took first place in thrills, winning the 2025 Colonial League Championship title in Javelin. Laura Thomas, myself, and Liliana Shapiro all medal in third place for our events. In addition, 10 athletes meddled for fourth place. Eight of the 10 meddled in relay
012events while others the other two meddled in field events. Congratulations to all the athletes who participated in leagues. PIAA 2025 District 11 Championships meet lasted from May 13th and May 14th. Similar to leagues, this meet is where the best athletes from all of the leagues and the 11th district compete to advance to PIAA 2025 state championships. 19 athletes qualify for this competitive meet. Only the top two athletes of each event with the ex exception of state qualifying times or throws advanced to states. For the boys AAA division, Joseph Ral placed fourth in javelin and advanced to state with a qualifying throw of 183 feet and 1 in. And in the girls triple A division, Emma Rupture also qualified for states with a throw of 137 feet and seven ines, earning a silver medal in javelin.
013As of last week, Joseph Roth placed fifth in states for javelin. And this is such an amazing experience for all athletes who attended and he is very excited to see what Joe and Emma can do in the near future. Best of luck. The top 10% ceremony happened on May 15th. Some of our students were recognized at the top 10 10% ceremony. The ceremony started at around 6:00 and had a guest being followed by the presentation of awards of four students. There were a total of 43 students recognized at the ceremony. In the sophomore class, there were 13 students. From the junior class, there were 15 students. And from the senior class, there were 14 students. These students have been working hard all year to maintain their GPA while still remaining involved. That's all we have
014for our May board report. Thank you for giving us this opportunity to continue with the following year. And we're say we're all probably excited seeing what all we have to write about and to give to you guys for our upcoming senior year. We would like to thank Jake and Anna also for showing us kind of the reigns and showing us what to do. Great. Items 1.6. Do we have any public comment on the proposed agenda? No. Do I hear a motion to approve the agenda as presented? So second comments or questions from the board. All those in favorions have it. Moving on to item 1.8. Do we have any traditional public regular reports? We've already heard from the student board of representatives. Uh superintend um just some legislative updates. Uh these are bills that have
015been proposed that are standing in either the state house or state senate. um that from this past month that that obviously if they were to come to permission um we would have to make sure that that we were in line with what they called for. First is House Bill 265. This is related to providing unemployment compensation benefits over the summer to education support workers. So some of our some of our workers obviously this would have an impact on the district. Um, this is something that's being talked about in a lot of schools right now. Um, if this bill were to pass, all of our workers who are not on fullyear contract, but are rather sort of uh hourly workers that are not paid over the summer, we would would be eligible for compensation benefits should
016again should that bill go through the House and through the Senate successfully. It's it's not there yet been introduced but certainly could have significant impact. Senate bill 679 is related to providing a minimum hourly wage for educational support workers. So again that would certainly depending upon what that was could potentially have an impact on the district per uh in Congress. Uh Senate Bill 749 is related to notification of parents of weapons found in schools. Um it's very very detailed as what is out there right now. Um and this out of all of these seems to have pretty good pretty good traction right now. Senate 180 is related to expanding no cost breakfast program is currently participated uh in in several school district in a lot of school districts across the state uh to lunches as
017well so that there would be no cost directly to the family. Of course, that is also um there's also some federal federal discussions right now about where some of that funding uh may be may be relooked at as to who qualifies for it and who does not. So, those are some that's certainly something that we can keep an eye on. Uh obviously, Nutrition Inc. would have to keep very close eye on it, but it would also impact sort of what our guarantee is with them potentially should should it pass. Uh and then Senate Bill 645 is related to mandatory instruction of cursive writing which currently is not in state code. It is not legislation. Um, and it'll be, you know, obviously something that I I'm I'm do not know for certain, but I have to
018almost assume that we do teach personal writing. We have a few elementary teachers here. Third gradely, second grade in in the second grade. In second grade, third grade. Um, so we already have that. We just have to modify it where that legislation actually comes. Uh, some updates on some projects out of projects elementary facade. Uh the formal agreement is on the agenda tonight for be voted upon. I have been in communication since we passed the original resolution about site visits. Um should pass tonight. Um we are probably set for either somewhere between the second and third week of June for them to be on site to review those buildings. And obviously their work involves coming up with an analysis of the report and delivering a report in which you can kind of say where where
019did this fail? How did it fail? Where did it fail and and why? So very excited to be getting closer and closer and closer to closing that loop that was here for quite a while. Uh psychologic another thing that we've been working on terms of facility maintenance planning. Um there has been some engagement obviously since we passed uh the resolution to go into that. Um we are still working on final formal agreement that is right now being uh finalized by solicitors. So hopefully we can get that to come to fruition uh in short order. My hope is honestly that by this time next week we have a final formal agreement that we can then move forward with shipping and then I I have kind of given a peak of this and talked about this discussed
020this at several meetings. Um we are in the midst of formulating uh a strategic plan um that coincides with a comprehensive plan that really gets into uh kind of overarching goals. uh the nitty-gritty of the work that we plan to do. Um my plan is to fully present this in June, but I I I did want to just briefly show you sort of what you can what you can expect. This is not formatted yet. Um this credennia will make this look amazing. I just write words on paper. Um so if you can actually see um in terms of an outline here that we have four four key areas I'm really going to focus on one which should always be first and foremost is academic performance and then how we break that down and look at
021different actions within that category. Two is financial management. Uh three time culture and then four human resource management. And just as a just as a brief sort of overview, you can see the curriculum right now in draft form. Uh there's quite a bit and we'll be doing we talk about the tasks that we want to complete over the next three years and the responsible persons in the second column both primary responsibility and the contributing responsibility. Um and that is done for obviously every letter that you saw up there in the outline above all the way down through um all those major all those major categories. I don't want to spend too much time on this because I do believe that in the future workshop there will be a good good amount of time spent on
022this. I just wanted everybody to be aware eventually once it is formatted once it's been discussed. It will actually be fragment center at some spot on our website. Um because I want all stakeholders to know essentially this outlines our values of what we need to do in order to reach who we want to be. So the comp plan is more general quite frankly. uh a strategic plan is more impactful in terms of everyday actions dayto day, week to week, month to month and then essentially year to year. So a pretty comprehensive document coming your way that will be completely visible open to the public. Um, and we are getting closer and closer to that being. Um again just a reminder to the public at large final budget will be voted on and board meeting. Uh
023the proposed final budget is is on the website for review. Uh we welcome any level of feedback detailed or or generalized as such. Um, and then obviously I want to say once again I want to thank J and Allen for serving the the role of student school board representatives this year. And that concludes my report unless any board members have any questions about any topics. I am tickled to hear that we are teaching cursive. I ran into a student that I believe was in the Palmer school district in Palmer a couple of weeks ago could not write their own name. Had to print it. I thought that was pretty disgusting. I want to be clear that doesn't mean Palmer did not teach. They should have known it by that time. Other questions for Jason? Um,
024with the business administrator not being here, do you want to give a preview of his report? Oh, Matt is with us virtually. Oh, he is. Yes, I'm here. And I apologize. I could not be there in person tonight. I had a pre-arranged family trip over the Memorial Day weekend. Um, as to the report for the business office, of course, we have been extremely busy with budget. Additionally, we have been working on beginning to prepare for audit for the 2425 fiscal year as well as we have uh been uh in receipt of bids for HBAC uh general services uh for operations as well as uh next week we'll close on the school photographer RFP which is out on the Matt, would you please turn the volume off on your device? Done. So, I'll I'll briefly highlight
025again. So, we've been obviously working on budget in the business office. Um, we have already begun our planning for the 2425 audit. Uh we also are in the sampling process for the plan con audit uh that is underway to round out our state reimbursement and then we have opened and are reviewing the uh RFPs for HVAC services as well as uh next week we'll open the RFPs for photo services. The uh summary is attached to the agenda can be found. Um the main meeting was a very brief meeting and um they discussed about how they did go and meet with some of our legislators and it was very important that Dr. got to do that. got more information on some of that pending legislation that you did. So, um, other than that, that's really all
026I have to report. Thank you. CC I am happy to report that we have a new carpentry instructor and a new graphic design instructor. Um the NIM scores we were 93% advanced or confident. The student attendance update two years ago there was over 100 students with 20 more days absence. This year we had only 16 students with 20 days or more. The upcoming event CCTI math camp for 9th and 10th grade students is June 16th through the 19th. June 23rd to 26. Transportation and LA snack will be provided. Um, the CCTI is shine non-traditional camp will be held June 16th through June 20th, 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. open to fifth through 8th graders and is free. They will be providing breakfast, lunch, and transportation. Um the available technical areas to go to we are
027in this camp are precision machine auto service technology auto collision repair culinary carpentry cosmetology HVAC and electrical distribution and graduation is going to be on June 3rd at 5:30 p.m. Rand date is June 4th if it is on June 4th and it remains it will be in the gym for high school. This concludes my report. Thank you. Library time. The annual fundra um started it has brought in $16,896 as a 42525. Um it's a bit behind last year's. So if you have your little envelopes, please feel free to donate. Um registration for the arts camp and summer learning adventure begins June 1st. sponsorship opportunity for people in the area businesses area memorial library will be participating in the heightened burrow's Christmas and July celebration in the burrow of park burl park sorry on Saturday July
02826 2025 we are holding a basket raffle to raise funs for children's material and service services. Um, thanks to community's help, Western's raffle is a great success. This year, we are seeking four $200 sponsorships to cover the cost of the tent rental for the event. A two um two 2 and 1/2t by 4 foot banner um advertising your business will be displayed on the tent during the event on the 26 and then at the library um until August 31st. Um, your donations will also be acknowledged on our website, Facebook page, on Instagram, and any other additional PR we do for that event. So, if anybody's interested in donating $200 towards our event, let me know. Thank you. Have a great day. Thank you. reports and favor a motion to approve the minutes of the April
02928th board meeting, the May 12th special board meeting, and the May 12th workshop meeting. Second comments or questions. Harry missed the April 28th one and I missed the workshop. So, we have to just Okay. We don't need to split it up. Any comments or questions other than that? All those in favor? Opposions? Thank you. Motion passes. Thank you. Workshop meeting. So, Part two, financial matters. Um, item 2.1, consent agenda. Do I hear a motion to approve consent agenda items 2.2 through 2.12? So, second or questions? All those in favor? Oppos. Heather. Yes. Mrs. Carler. Yes. April Walker. Yes. Miss Margo. Yes. Yes. Mr. Kevin. Yes. And yes. Item uh 2.13 a motion to approve GB8 to continue to serve as a vision plan administrator for area school district. comments or questions. None. I believe Mrs.
030Carrie Silver. Yes. Miss Ael Walker. Yes. Yes. Mr. Dwayne. Yes. Mr. Chairman. Yes. Miss, yes. And yes, thank you. Items, do I hear a motion to accept the cost saving participating contract with PHA for the 25 to 26 school year with 20% down payment of $681,249? So, second question. Yeah, I have a comment. Um, this from what I saw was received on April 4th, was supposed to be done by April 30th. I don't know what happened, but I think we need to do better there. That's all. I mean, it could have been delivered to the wrong building. Anything could have happened. Correct. Other comments? None. Roll call vote. Miss Walker. Yes. Miss Barbara. Yes. Mr. Wayne. Yes. ML. Yes. Miss. Yes. Mrs. Karen Sitler. Yes. And Mr. Yes. Yes. Thank you. Item 1650. Do I
031a motion to make the following transfer from the general fund to the food service fund as for the reimbursements from your screen? Thank you. Questions? Hearing none. All those in favor? Opposed extensions have it. Item 216. Do I hear a motion to accept the following donations? Uh the deputy sheriff's association, four tournaments and four flashlights for our police department scores $10,970 for the backpack program and Walmart $100 gift card um to use for the closing. So second comments or questions. Thank you supporting individual organizations. All those in favorions have it. Items 2017. Do I a motion to approve the area high school and area middle school activities for April 2025? Second or questions? All those in favor? Opposed extensions. 218. Do I hear a motion to approve the May 2025 exemptions from per capita and
032or occupational tax? Second. Comments or questions? All those in favor? Opposed? Abstensions? Your eyes have it. 19. Do I hear a motion to approve the following reports for April? The finance board summary, the expenditure report, the revenue report, reports. All those in favor? Opposed? Extensions. Now item 220 a motion to approve the following payment bills for May total amount of4,210,792 second comments or questionsbody. All those in favor I oppose abstensions. The eyes have it. And part three personnel one. Do I hear a motion to approve the director of school safety and security and team lead? So move second. Was there questions? Just just a brief a brief comment on the team lead job description. There is one line in there that people will come back and want to revise regarding after school student supervision. Um
033so as such we'll come back in favorions 3.2. Do I hear a motion to approve the following candidates for employment in accordance with those five contracts? Let's see on the screen. I'll second it. Jason probably answer the question. What on earth is a parent university professional and a paraprofessional for parent university? I was actually going to ask Mr. Sland to briefly explain this all going back to if you recall from a couple months ago parent engagement funding. I remember that but I haven't seen this term before. Go ahead. Well, it's also on the um main page, the homepage. There's a Yeah, it's on the website. We created a flyer. Um it's on the television channel 13 type news. So we're holding something called we're calling parent university. We come up with a different name. Um
034but it's basically a program set for parents at the elementary center where we can share information with them just on on different topics. how to deal with anxiety, how to how help build schedules for your kids, how to help with homework, a whole bar mirage of different um ideas, and we're going to take a survey and see, you know, parents work, but they're going to be able to work pretty much one-on-one with some people on our staff. We're going to create we created a panel of uh let's consist of teachers, par professionals, a school social worker. Um, so we're going to be meeting once a month, last Wednesday of the month, from 5:30 to 7:30 at the elementary center. Um, so it's an opportunity for parents to come out. Um, we're going to ask that
035everybody put their phones away for two hours. We're providing child care. Um, so if you have younger kids or older kids, you don't want them to be at home alone. Um, they can come in and they'll be supervised by one of our staff members. Um, and we're going to have some food at the end as well. So it's a it's a new program that we're starting. We're hoping that a lot of parents take advantage of it. Um but uh it's kind of a grassroots and an idea that Mr. Moser kind of brought forward. So we'll take it and run with it and hopefully a lot of people will participate. um something I do uh you know one night a month uh throughout the summer and hopefully help parents and for the constitutes that are school.
036And and just just to follow up and I if you recall the money earmarked for to pay for this was originally going to send a couple of parents to a conference out in the western part of the state and pay for lodging and but it would have been reduced to like maybe two or three families. So kind of almost the same amount, maybe a little bit more, but not nothing significant. And we think that this is a great opportunity to bring to bring parents into network and get the experience of being inside building hopefully have have a highly positive impact on both parents and students. And it's just the the the piece there says par professionals and and professionals but basically our staff we have teachers and our aids that are are performing are providing
037help for parents. Awesome. questions. Do I hear a motion to approve the following list of requested candidates for the substitute list? I'm pleased to see Mrs. Rel on this list and Mrs. Correct. Yeah. [Music] All those in favorions. Now have it. Item 34 a motion to approve the following request for athletic coaching managers and extracurricular advisor candidates as per contract attending attending the necessary paperwork. questions. All those in favor item five. Do I have a motion to approve the following requests for preapproval of courses programs study for employee contin? All those in favorions have it. 6 motion to approve the following professional development requests. Second. Comments or questions. All those in favorions have it. Item 3.7. Do I have a motion with a grant to accept the resation of following employees? second question. I'll just
038I just want to thank I want to thank Miss for her service. Um this is not an easy decision for her. Um had a great conversation with her. Um she has she has a unique opportunity and she's she's taking us. So we wish her the best of luck. All those in favor? Opposed extensions have item 28 motion appreciation to accept the following resations for retirement. Chris Snider second Mr. Schneider had to use a fixture. Questions? Yeah. Well, once again, it's perfect. Um, I want to thank them for for their service and dedication to the district. Um, they will certainly be missed. All those in favorions have it four programs 4.1 consent agenda. Do I a motion to approve consent agenda items 4.24 questions. Call Miss Mar. Yes. Mr. Queller. Yes. Mr. Jeremy Glo. Yes. Miss.
039Yes. Mrs. Kler. Yes. Miss April Walter. Yes. And yes. Yes. Thank you. 4.5. Do I motion to approve the following school enrichment journey requests? So move second or questions. All those in favorions have it 4.6. There a motion to approve the use of school property for the following requests. We have three comments for questions. Yes, I have questions with him. That's an outside group. Um and we are retroactively approving this when it should have been brought to us 30 days prior. Yes, it absolutely should. So, I mean, I don't know how this work. I don't know that because I checked the files that were sent and it wasn't approved by anybody else. How did this get approved? It was approved originally at building level and I was honestly I was told that very early on.
040Okay. It's not on the files we received from building. That's so moved obviously to the board, but it is it is okay. We just need to do better. I just I know it's it's not been this way before, but we do have to do better. I agree. Okay, other comments. All those in favor? Post extensions on part five. Uh I'm going to call for nominations for school board trigger for policy for remainder of a one year. Yeah, I think it's carry over um from July 1st until June 30th of next year who is the current treasur. I nominate Jeremy. I declined to nominate. Why? There are none. Do I hear a motion? Close nominations. Second. Comments or questions on closing nominations? All those in favor? Oppos? abstensions. Motion passes. Can I ask a question? Absolutely.
041Has ever looked at an invoice? I don't know. Question. So, we have a treasure as far as we know as school board treasury term effected July 1st through June 30th of next year. Second comments or questions? All those in favor? Opposions. Your eyes have it. Item 5.2 two motion to appoint as board secretary for the United School District for term one year July 1st through June 30th of the board June 30th9 comments or questions regards All those in favor I opposed abstensions have ite motion to appoint Amanda Bronco as the assisted board secretary of school district also July 1st through June 30th question. She's also encouraged to sleep in secretary. These girls do a great job in their own. All those in favorions have it moving in front six business item 6.1. Did you give
042us our date previously. I'm sorry. Can I go back a minute? I checked with Missy and Kyle. The date on the agenda as well, but it's it's so for6. I mean, I only know what's presented to me in writing. I just wanted to get I I underlined the same thing. So I was saying like and just for the record just because I'm getting from them she's already been invoiced for this year which was already previously approved. So that is the date to reserve for next year. Well do for it is for scheduling error. So that's great. So basically they put in right after the last session. That's the way to do it. Yes. Okay. We appreciate that. I will I will go back to 6.1 learn. Yeah. So, the update here, uh, no news, but
043I I have reached out to the mayor to see if we can kind of broker a meeting between the bureau and the school district to, you know, kind of talk about what our what our concerns with what our concerns are with the resolution as it stands now as I think Mayor Saunders and I will be working on a date in the near future. Great. 6. Any comments on this? Great. Item 6.2 traffic 6.3 target club. Hoping to put together a June presentation with with Mr. Jerome Sarpati who is the individual that is is interested in forming this club. Um we are also I am also still working through some of the insurance uh concerns but but there has been a lot of progress there. I would say that by by the June voting region that
044would be ready to to vote. Awesome. Will the questions that I gave you answered then? They will. Thank you. Other questions or comments? Item 6.4 Farmers of America. Okay. So, where we're at here is uh first of all, in order for for an MFA chapter to be open, really you need to demonstrate that you have uh clearly established agricultural educational courses. Right now, we have one that is that is there. Um we would probably want to add one more in order to flush that out um to being more more support at the state and national level. Uh once you sort of have that program in place in terms of course programming um students can begin to join on their own independently is my understanding but in order to get a chapter you have to go
045through an acreation process which requires a development steering process. Um so I think our first step is obviously we want to make sure that we flesh this out so that we do have another course um that is that is offered as as an opportunity for students. Once that's in place, I would see no reason why we would not come down yet. But what is the course we offer now? It's called agricultural education. Uh so the course we offer right now is called agricultural science. So we covered uh pretty much start at the beginning of the year start with natural resources going to soil. Then uh moving into uh plant systems and fruits and vegetables and then uh at the end of the year as we just finished up um animal science with dairying beef cows
046and uh production um just a little bit about hydroponics. But generally uh it's kind of an overarching um course just to kind of get everybody's feet wet. uh because we have students that have never even planted a tomato plant and then we have kids who own fairyland farms. So um kind of a very diverse uh group of kids uh and next year even more so. Um but Amy Michael teaches biology and um couple of other science courses. Um, Perman is um Jim Ger, we currently um kind of advise and steer um the uh agricultural club uh which just had our plant sale at the art show. Um so different things going on there, but as far as FFA goes, Mr. Roser is correct. You do have to have more of a set program. It's almost
047all related to a college major um where you kind of have to take certain courses and then um you know you're certified by the state to have an agricultural program and an FFA. All that sort of jes together but it has to be very structured and there has to be you know some sort of rigidity to it. It can't just be uh willy-nilly. Um but again I I don't know if I said this but I'm all in favor of it. I think FFA is wonderful. It's not like uh FBALA. It's not like your Red Cross club. It's not like your traditional clubs that you go to during entertainment. It's something where you're doing your uh SAPE, your supervised agricultural experience and you're doing um kind of internship work and a little bit of research maybe
048and things on your own that's enhancing your education. So, it is very involved, but it is very rewarding for students. Well, I know at some point you were looking at um adding a greenhouse. I think that would be a terrific step forward. I cannot express that enough. I'm sure Michael. Yes, we were discussing. Yeah. Um so another addition onto this, um I'd like to thank um Mrs. Caro for working with us. Um, we did get a grant through giant grocery stores that we didn't uh we were able to purchase, I believe, 60 fruit trees and shrubs and everything and the kids and I just planted those uh out back high school with the pear trees that we we received in the fall. So now it's a little holistic orchard. If you see the grass not
049being cut, that is strategic because um I'm talking with the kids, we we want to really steer away from using pesticides and insecticides and those sort of things that can be harmful and you have to have your spray licenses and all that. Um so we're trying to go to the more organic route is coined as the holistic route which focuses on um defensive colonization. So you have to apply these sprays and it's really al any of you ever had kombucha. Okay. So it's like kombucha but for fruit trees. So you spray that on the trees and here's where it's all getting I'm getting some weeds. Anyway, the grass over time will fall over with the rains and then it'll compost and then there will be what is known as a fungal duff and that's what's
050going to uh continue the um in perpetuity the uh nutrition of the fruit tree so that we're able to uh produce fruit from those trees without having to use chemical fertilizers. very Oh, yes. Absolutely. We don't need without them. Sorry. So, just I just might add Jordan and Amy um and Mr. Burka with AB this year. They've also been able to provide some really cool experiences for our students in the program this year. They've had some field trips offsite to some really cool places. Um we've had to cows on site. Um they came to being seen have cattle brought to the school. So that was quite an interesting morning. Um and that went really well as well as they raised some big chicks. Correct. So how many did you match with the room? 35 35
051hats. We put 42 in the incubators. roosters and then those shifts over then sold through the club back to the students or some staff members who do not reside in a burrow because there's a sh um however that money then went back to lead club to help be able to purchase things for the club and we add department and things of that nature stuff you know they also we also did name for the right. Oh, correct. We did say our rendering uh early March um with Mr. Shay and Mr. Ber. They actually did it after school and the kids were able to come down and sample with that. So, we're looking to hopefully expand that for next year. Also, um I would also like to thank you on behalf of the uh practical arts department
052for the purchase of the new milling machine that was approved. We very much appreciate that. Um and also going back to the SAPE, I know I alluded to this before. Um the SAE as I said is the supervised agricultural experience. Um there's two parts of that. There is the foundational SAPE which we cover in agricultural science or you know what in the future might become agricultural science one. Um and then if we do do a second level course, there would be what's known as the uh immersion essay. That would be more so um the internship, the uh research enterprise, you know, they might have a couple fruit trees at at their house and set up a fruit uh a stand in the springtime or in the fall, whatever. Um but again giving those those uh
053experiences for the students to uh improve their um entrepreneurship and agricultural uh exposure. Yeah. And then that is why I the June board meeting science department will be here to talk about new textbooks that are being pushed as well. Um, one thing that we noticed and working with the middle school team on kind of vertical alignment curriculum is that ecology was a big piece that was being missed and the gap and in order for our students to be successful at the next level at the high school level with agricultural science and biology, we need to fill those fill those gaps. So, I know um they're looking at ways to incorporate ecology down the middle school level. Mike and the science team have worked really hard first analyzing new textbooks that we'll be presenting on in
054June and looking to purchase for next school year to help get our students at the speed so that we can stand further negotiations. Um I don't recall anyone sending me a volunteer email. I didn't see it. So, um, what's that? Otherwise, I'll start. Is there any other people to be on the negotiating so far? Oh, number 6.6. We talked last time about the CCT holding options. Yeah, just just some a few things. Uh first, there is there is technically a half day option existing now. Uh we have very few students who participate in that. Um and part of the reasoning behind that is uh the classes with our traditional schedule and their AB schedule where where their shops they do full almost full shot one day and then I can say their academic courses now.
055Um so one of my things one of the things I want further conversation about is it the case that the half day option I heard a rumor that there's no restriction on that it could be as many students as to do that that is what that is what I was told yes by CCTI that we don't so if we could accommodate on this end as many students as wish to experience the do that correct um the challenge becomes how would we schedule them and make sure that they're making progress in all the areas that they need to academically and still get that full job experience. So, um, one of the one of the followups that we really need to look at is that half student who knows every day if they're not with their peers,
056what are they doing in the shops? Those things that makes so much sense. So if I fulltime student there and I shop every other day, but now we're sending somebody half a day every day. You could be sending someone at a level higher level. And my my assumption would be they would still be in that area. Um but I I don't I don't want to I don't want to present to you assumptions as as what the case would be. Are you telling us that you're going to continue that conversation? Yeah, I I have reached out to the talent director Dave Rival a little bit. I plan on continuing that. I also am interested uh in seeing getting a more exhaustive overview of what their admission process looks like um so that you know we can
057provide the best options for all of our kids as possible. One of the questions I would have with that is what would be the cost factor to district? Is it half tuition? But that's what I mean. If we had 104 students going just to use that because it's a round number, I don't know what the tuition would be per student. It would be half of that, but it would cost the district that much. So that should be looked at as transportation. That right costs essentially morning, midday, you know. I mean the idea with influence all day is when you go to work you wear they get their uniforms on their on and their whatever their shirts their t-shirt and they go over they wear hats they have their hats and you're there this is how
058it was explained when my children went you're there to be like they're at work for a whole day I mean the reason this was brought up was that was so children have So I'm just curious too as it further and I know one one part one conversation piece that we had and I had was if a student really wanted to have time or really wanted to remain basically a part of the primary high school um you could have the option of combining lava with those They'll every other day that on their day that they are here, they could literally be working at online courses to make sure that they're still making progress in their academic credit to fulfill. Um that doesn't solve every cap, but that does that does provide almost that we want to
059look at kind of a continuum just the same way special education sort of a continuum of service options. So they have these full day shopping days. They were a time student couldn't expect a whole day here and then a whole day here and then a whole day there. So prior to the change of schedules at both locations I mean either we switched to traditional after they have switched to obviously a flex schedule meaning a day is technical B day is academics. The way it works out now is we currently schedule three academic classes for a student to go to CCTI that time. That's obviously a struggle to maintain credits because all that all together they get CCTI is the technical piece only. Their academics are back in our building. So only having three credits times
060four years obviously becomes an issue with our our state requirements and our criteria. the numbers drastically reduced half time since essentially co since the since the schedules have changed. Okay, so that that's that's the biggest issue is that scheduling. So when we met we discussed maybe an option is looking at lava potentially. So obviously we can increase their courses they virtually at home working on that setting only student and they get a full day of the technical because right now the way it works they have time they only get half day of that technical as well. many struggles that meet their required hours at CCT full days at CCTI isn't part of the issue. Um the class size that's why we're restricted and how many students we can send because there's five sending districts. I
061don't understand why it's a case if it's it's a full-time student there's a restriction but if it's a parttime student there's no restriction that's my understanding uh there there may be how many kids will still exist program they're still not gonna be able to definitely get into the program that they want to limit number so so there some of that as well. But I think that exploring a sound, you know, a couple level of sound options for providing that we don't talk, we could be talking about five, we could talk about 20. um we won't know until we actually have options to present to students and have to plan for what each of those options actually looks like on a full basis because what we don't want to do is I think jump to something
062that then we're trying to fix while it's been there and rather have a couple of sound options that CCPI says yes we can work with that we know we can work with them we have a plan for how we're going to satisfy all the other requirements and then move forward forward that student and family CCPI and us knows exactly what each student needs as they enter that program. So where would they graduate from fulltime graduates from CCTI and then halftime students graduate from area school and families have other questions? I guess just one thing I don't know if the employee talked to you if he had suggested moving forward instead of sending 10 applicants freshman that we can send all of them so that way if there's additional space open our students to attend yes
063we can send more than 10 we did we did talk about that so it's like maybe maybe a smaller smaller district might not have to fill so those two then kind of and then my question was okay well what if three schools have two kids that want to go how do we how do we end up filling those seats and by which I that's really what I'm asking about the admissions process as well so yeah there are additional seats all I know is it's a really great opportunity for the kids both my wife and I have vocational education and traditional college education And the benefits are unbelievable to having a place like CCPI where kids who are really good at working with their hands learn a skill that will serve them very well in the
064future without being saddled with tens of thousands or worth in dollars of debt to go to college that they may never use. So have more options. I think it's a great option for the kids. administration will continue on that we can move on here to part seven process. So I'd like to thank Jason for this this uh question has been coming up from the board all the way back until when Dave Bradley was still on the board. um you know board had an interest in having more input in the hiring process and Jason I believe you're bringing something that's done to other school districts. Yeah. So the administrative regulations that are on the agenda um really are you know kind of lay out a process from start to finish quite frankly. Uh meaning from the
065beginning when there is a position for which we are going to advertise um that is either vacant or new. Um how we will advertise for that that position. Um how many how we will collect applications, how we will screen applications. um how we will you know select an interview panel um for preliminary rounds so to speak um all the way up through till they get recommended and voted upon by the board. Um the the the crux in terms of the board here is that there would be final interviews uh for any position. Um now we only have one hour interview. Um what we what these these regulations do and I have I have I have worked under these two previous school districts and there are several school districts that that have personnel committees or just
066board at large. Essentially those final interview rounds um the board would be made aware of what those final interviews are and they would be invited to attend should they desire to they be available um regardless of it regardless of what type of position it is. Um there is there there is a great responsibility I've said this to our administrative team at least on three occasions. The most important thing that we do is recommendations for hire. Um, I think that certainly if not the most important, one of the most important things that the board does is hire candidates. In some cases, let's just say a teaching position. It is literally actually a 35 year commitment. Um, that is over a $4 million investment in today's money over the course of those 35 years. That is a
067serious serious uh responsibility. I do not take recommending candidates lightly. Um I would not anticipate uh the board to to take uh the responsibility of hiring lightly. Um and if you are going to be asked to cast a vote, you should have the opportunity to meet an individual who you are voting on. That is the crux of the board. internally in terms of how we handle the process, in terms of how we hand even applications, the number of people we will say we will um a document at the end that says here are all the people who we interviewed, you know, all those things. It it it really does actually take away any appearance of any appearance of lack of transparency, any appearance of malfeasants. I say we're going to have the best hiring processes
068of anybody. I mean that and we have nothing to hide. And so I would welcome and like you know according to these regulations the board the opportunity to observe those interviews before they're ask people or these three people have to then kind of be put into this process. I was founding more in the board at large type of approach where anytime there's an interview Jason sets it up and then as many board members as as possible or have interest or have availability and then it'll just kind of be a slightly different group that happens to be one of the I like the idea as long as you make Zoom meetings because I'm working all sometimes back here and back to work. It's just not that easy. As long as you No, as long as you
069uh as long as you indicate that some some participants may be in the room virtually. I'm good with even just later in the day at the end of the work day. Well, yeah. I just figured that there might be some candidates that are not good with that. We try to make accommodations during the day or later in the day, but if they're working somewhere else and you're working on Jason, when do you normally do um your interviews? I was just about to say I think this really it really depends upon what the position is who is the who is taking the lead on the interview panel um because doing them all all interviewing I mean you go back and scour through agendas for you're we're hiring people all the time you're hiring people all the
070time and so I would I would be it would be impossible for me to say that we could do all of them after 5:00 because we there were times where we wouldn't get home quite frankly. Um but I think certainly there are certain interviews that I I think obviously professional administrative professional yes that certainly I would reserve those later those later slots for final rounds coaches some teach or coach multiple sports. So how would they you know the students that are getting hired for the summertime you do find it out to interview everyone I mean if we felt that a position you know didn't need board examination administration as we are now certainly in terms of coaching you know you do those in my experience pretty They're actually called coaching interviews are actually like the
071ones where you have to show the most flexibility with the bold interviews to candidates because if they're not teachers, you don't know what shifts they're working, where they're coming from. So, you know, that's why when you ask like when are most interviews held, it's it's it's difficult to answer. I would say that most most preliminary rounds are held during the day. what we would be reserving is for final interviews of two to three candidates for a teaching position or administrator position. Um but we we we interviewed um seven I believe we we we first for the uh elementary principle of academic interventions and achievement we we started with 17 candidates. Our first round was a video submission. Um two people decided they weren't going to even submit those and then we ended up with seven
072that we actually brought in. That was a good five hour truck. Um, and then you know we're down to four at this point for the next round. So that's not even final round at this point in time. My what I would be saying is our final round would be no more than three. It sounds like our reputation is getting better out there. 17 people wanted to come here. Wouldn't you say? I I will say it was a it was I was impressed with the pool. Absolutely. Some difficult conversations actually comments or questions process that you're in front of two. This is an old topic. We brought it up before. Um, and Sean, you brought it up this time. Jack was here. All right. I I remember bringing up with Jack. I thought I felt like
073he was kind of staying here too late and um I asked the window spa and it didn't happen. But any event, um, there's a request here now that the board's interested in moving meetings back to 6:00 at six. So, we're going to be moving them back. What the meetings have always been at 7 p.m. Going back, I only have um minutes back to 20. No, I'm just saying moving the starting at 6. We want to start at 6:00. Yes. I don't think it's fair to the public myself because people work, they work till 5:30, they have to drive home depending on where they work. Not everybody works in town. They eat their dinner and then they show up at meetings. It would reduce, I would think, public participation if they wanted to be here. Okay.
074because my understanding but it it doesn't say anywhere in the minutes I thought um that 7:00 was settled upon for the sake of the public but that is my understanding of it. Not my recollection but it's not important to go home and change. Okay. Same thing I got to make from my home. You know I can't do it. All right. I'm I'm fine with 6 o'clock. I'm fine with 7 o' as long as I'm home by 9:00 my granddaughter in bed. I'm fine moving up to six o'clock. Um, I did a cursory look at other districts and what they did. There are some districts that do it as early as I think I said 5, 5:30, 6:00. Um, and if it makes sense to for everybody that you can make it to six o'clock, obviously
075generally can um, you know, be I obviously concern every other week to do a problem executive sessions but that's my only concern unfortunately like I will talk to change schedule and um we'll see what he can do I mean obviously doesn't make sense if we can an executive session. Well, executive session can happen after the meeting as well. So, but still I'm hardressed for an executive session like today. I have to leave early and have I think that we should survey the public because the meetings are public meetings and they are for them. So I think we should get there. I agree. The agenda that we'll get some feedback what folks have said folks here you know who's here now what their preference is six with having kids in sports and whatnot if it was
076six o'clock that's on most of their sports starter clubs. I would not I mean I have a hard enough time getting into my cousins my kids work schedules. Uh but when I am able to um I can do seven plus with my husband's work schedule he gets home later so he can at least pick them up so that I can stay for the day. So seven is much easier. Okay. Thank you. on item 7.3. Um Heather and I are the board of representatives to the legislative uh you know uh meeting that they have at PSBA in fall and uh we asked the board last year this time in the board but we have until I think sometime the end of June if the area school district wanted to make legislative platform suggestions to the SBA
077um we do not uh perform in June. So I'm bringing this up now to get people thinking. I think my first question is is suggestions and if the answer is yes, I can email to everyone um the current legislative platform that PSBA basically um you know they lobby and they push that in Harrisburg all year round. And so I think email us it's probably exactly so I think the question would be do we want to prepare legislative suggestions I don't know how the PSB the SBA works as far as that goes, but I would imagine that things that are bought out by multiple districts, you would probably get one. They have a committee. So they'll bring all the suggestions in. That may not mean if 100 schools say a week like this and correct then
078we have the committee that looks at all of the suggestions that are sure they're conscious of something then they'll prepare these adjustments for the platform and then fall vacant. So, um I think what I'll do is I'll just resend the platform to everyone and then Jason we can have a discussion at the workshop meeting and if any board members have suggestions we can check out them and see if the district wants to get behind any there's another school board association out there I'd like to know more information on that I don't think PSTA is the end all to school boards. I heard that there's no other association that has the appropriate certification. Let me know that has to be appropriate certification. They have to be certified in state. Correct. I knew an individual who used
079a program um that was compete with PSBA and his daughter was working on it. He was a retired pharmacist. um she's a lawyer and they were talking with their local state rep and and they were saying that the certification process going to be almost impossible. So they created their own but it's focused on um private organizations that's interesting. So we have an organization that is set up to help guide school boards made up of retired administrators and teachers. Sort of like bureaucracy in the federal government. It's an ongoing difficulty. So I'll send out their legislative platform and we can discuss it more in future. Great. Communications 8.1 director's concerns. Oh yeah. Now can I say something first? Hopefully director's concerns. There is a procedure to bring a director's concern. It's not supposed to be off
080the cuff everyone, right? And unless we change the policy and allow it, then everything has to be submitted by noon on Wednesday before the agenda comes out, etc. I'm not against hearing your concern now, but I think we need to make that point. I think any director wants to talk, they should be able to talk. Period. Um, all right. At last meeting, we had a special meeting to discuss the budget. We know there's not going to be a tax increase. However, I started looking at some numbers and I would like our business administrator to look a little bit further at the information I'm going to give to you guys tonight. So, I was comparing our revenue versus expenditures going back to the fiscal year which ended in 2021 versus our audited revenue and expenditures for
081all of those years. And when I look at the discrepancy between what was budgeted and what was audited, we have discrepancies as much as 9.91%. So for example, the latest year which would have ended last June 2024, the re the budget showed a difference in revenue versus expenditures of a negative 2.2 million. But the audit that we got in January for that year end showed a positive 2.3 million. Now that's $4.5 million off. And we want to know why the budget surplus is increasing. So I mean basically I have a couple of questions. How did the right school district go from projected deficits in 23 and 24 year end to audited surpluses totaling $6 million? If the projected budget doesn't bestow very drastically from the audited figures, shouldn't the school district be looking to change
082the projected budgeting process? Now, I'm not blaming our business administrator or our superintendent. They're only here slightly longer than I am, but I worked up some numbers here based on information that is readily available on our website, and I'm just trying to figure this out. So from year end 2021 through year end 2024 the fund balance has grown every year and increased to $15.5 million. Doesn't this mean the taxpayers have been overt taxed? That is where I stand on this and I have plenty of copies of this for anybody who wants to look at. Thank you. What I propose is that we'll have your accounts studied by the business manager and then we'll have an attachment at the next board meeting and we can talk about everybody has access to the figures and comments or
083questions. comments on 8.3 in favor. Wow. All right, this video