McGuffey School Board Meeting February 20, 2025

001e e e all right it is 603 p.m. and I'd like to call the committee meeting to order Dr oberg thank you Mr President good evening and welcome members of our board of directors Administration that is in attendance and also the community members that are here with us tonight I have three items for committee agenda um before I do though just want to take a moment a PSA I would I guess You' call it about our upcoming High School Musical High School Musical this year is God and Dolls it will run from Thursday March 6th to Sunday March 9th uh tickets are now available uh there is a Facebook posting of it there is an an a newsfeed on our websit and I believe there's one other the place uh but there's a QR code

002that you can purchase the tickets uh students are $5 for tickets and adults are $10 so thank you for indulging me on that just want to put that out there um so first tonight uh recently um PD has come in uh to do a audit of our vocational agricultural Department uh this is something that occurs every five years and not only did they um complete the audit but uh it was a very very successful audit so today Mr Renee cambui who is our agricultural teacher and also an FFA adviser uh is here toight to discuss that audit we've talked a little bit about here uh as well as share some updates I notice we have someone else with us tonight here too talk about what's going on in our CTE program so with that M

003kruy hi and happy national day week um which is why we brought truth so um my chapter president Ali Hoover is with me tonight um so we're celebrating nationalday week so it's a great time for us to be here too um so I was asked to come a little bit and talk about what is going on with Career and Technical education here at mcy high school um I'm Renee czi I've been the teacher here for 16 years um so I actually had the pleasure of teaching my cohort te my cooperating teacher uh John laser when he was in school for a Junior and Senior year um and now also uh Andrew Valentine is in our in our department so we have three approved programs in Career and Technical education at mcguy um one of those

004is engineering technology and technicians um ad mechanics and general agriculture I primarily teach General agriculture John primarily teaches agriculture mechanics and his engineering technology um and then that programing um 132 and one student per day so those are just our numbers they're pretty big a growing program we're one of the largest programs um in K house in a comprehensive High School um in West so there's a couple things that as a board I'm not sure that you're just aware of and I kind of wanted to make you aware of as we're going through our auditing program and one of our audit and I'm going to review with you an audit we have some things that we have to do yearly and every five years just to keep keep compliance with the Department of Education um

005one of those is a yearly program re revision um that goes into an electronic system called cats um and it's a lot of upload of things like our Community Partnerships and our courses and our course scope and sequences what are we teaching how many students do we have for that are going to be in that program in another year and all of those types of data we upload those each and every year to give a good reflection of what doing at uh the school we Den knock the exam just like the Western area does for our students in all three programs um we program um what they're taking how many courses they have completion of the program which dictates how much our funding we receive in back to it so every five years um our

006programs audited which is why we're here they do a program um and we got that EV valuing back which is what I'm here to report on um today but just to give you an idea of what we have to do um we receive funding um this is our federal funding balance is um so the secondary career in technical educ um subsidy that came back for 2425 school year was $189,800 this number that's the amount of money that came back for our program this year we are projected our proposed number is 2,782 and that's a refund or reimbursement for our students that are in our program so just kind of understanding where I know you guys see our budgets you see how much money we do spend or to our program um we do get some

007of that a lot of that reimbursed in our numbers so just so you see that um each year um we apply for a supplemental equipment Grant it's the leftover of this money that's actually reimbursed there's always a little pot of it left over um that money gets divided into programs across the state we just basically have to apply um as long as you meet the pro the approved program criteria you usually will get a generally a portion of this we haven't received this funding yet it's the Department of Education I might take a minute um but we will uh probably or we're looking to get the funding to uh support that CNC mill so just some IV about numbers um we had a program evaluation in the fall of 2025 um and we completed it

008um with the help of like our administrative team this takes everything from special education uh regular education teachers guidance admin um and staff to collect basically an arsenal of information that we're doing what we need to be doing here at McGuffy um and to be in compliant and uh we also then completed a two-day inperson evaluation so they no longer just do you know upload your files and review those they come and talk to us about what we have in those files what maybe doesn't meet their criteria they ask for those things right on demand so you have to be ready um so they come and then they also review they walk through our shops our lab St um and all of those types of things to give us an idea of what we are

009doing how could we improve is their biggest goal so we had uh six audit Corrections um three of them are all the same um so my numbers don't match I'm a top and I'll talk to you why that happened um in 2017 18 we had 20 audit Corrections so you can see that we've have a lot of growth in this process we also um understand what they're now looking for these reviews are a little bit more more common than they used to be I got audited my very first year of teaching and this started this is now my third audit in in my in my teaching career but prior to that they didn't audit for 20 or 30 years um so this is kind of a new Department of Ed kind of checks and balances

010to our programs especially because we're receiving funding um so this is also dictates whether we can continue to receive that funding um so the program we had uh five things or four things on here we have student occupational OB Ive forms um they show proof that they're student they're stored in student permanent records we do keep permanent records but we found that we get rid of senior's permanent records after a certain period of time well this is a fiveyear audit so they went back five years so they're looking for students that we did not have current files for um but this is something we are correcting um and then a senior a student only or a CTE that should say CTE student exit survey only we give a senior survey not a senior CTE student

011survey so they want to see that be more specific to our crew and Technical education students um and then oddly enough we have to provide evidence that our shop size is adequate to Industry standards um even though when they were here everyone in the our entire state that I've talked to has got audited this was its correction they actually want to see that you have um industry standards job sizes and work spaces so those were two separate two separate um items on the list um and they went like if one was uh industry standard space and size so they want to to review that and just that's just nothing more also than a motion from our occupational Advisory board that they see that that's a good size which they've met walk through our shops and

012do see adequate but we still get uh a little ding there so and then we also have to show proof one of the items we have to show proof of is that all the corrections were made in 1718 so all of those were made they reviewed them while they were out here we still have to upload proofs that they were that they were done so that's kind of where our audit is we got commended for being one of the most um the one of the best Comprehensive High School CTE programs in the state um and you know recommended that you know others that are starting new programs kind of come out to see what we're doing and how we were doing it here so we thought that was a really good really good feedback from

013us they were really happy um when they were here really happy when they left um and and like I said very minimal very minimal things um to show so I think we did a really great job um and I wanted to share a little bit about that is there any questions about that before I move on so I'll just go into student stuff I like to talk about the kids more than I like to talk about anything else um so we have student organizations just so everybody's aware actually and and this is kind of newer maybe newer um TFA and FFA we're so our student organizations that we we uh have are required um so we have to have a student organization associated with Career and Technical education so SSA is is the a programs

014and then TFA actually is the engineering program um required by the state we had to sh submit rosters of students you know show all of those things too so I know it seems like we're always here talking about these organizations they are requirement that we have um this is just a little bit on the Fay update I have an all girls Fay officer team so um it's always a fun year with all girls um and Ali being our President uh most of them are senior girls too um we went to National Convention which is something that your a board approved we take the students every other year to National Convention um it is uh public speakers there's a lot of fun things that they get to do as well they get private concerts this year

015with Megan they were very happy um but they also do like a trade show there's a college career fair um we saw Temple grandon speak like they do a lot of big big things like that they had a great time we had two our students receive their American American degrees their National degrees Chad Hoover and Eric SE Garden uh receive their National degrees so we were there to see them do that um and this is just a few pictures that they put in um we're involved in the holiday gift drive we did a um we raised you know funds we gathered collected and gave out for 126 of our students or of our family students 126 students K through 12 um so we do this in partner parip with Team Action so kind of one

016of those things that we get to do together and we did 50 families this year so if you're giving to our toy drive know that that's where it goes it comes into FFA teen action and we kind of distribute from there and we raised about $2,200 we have Keystone degree recipients just this January unfortunately it was the day of the snowstorm um so we didn't get to travel and you all proved that great trip but um we had some of our students that happen to be there happen to be showing uh their parents put them up over the weekend so they made great strides to so that they could be there for their Awards um and six of our students made it for those Awards um you could do them with uh secretary Russell reading

017we do tons of events each year that you guys um are approving that we are going to as well and these are our Career Development vs or contests and they're competing at a county level um but they're going to move on to a state level in June uh so we'll be uh going to Penn State here in June to compete on a state level potentially and National level then if we would move on um we this is just some of our company and Community involvement um Mr leer and Mr Valentine have done a really good job of reaching out to some of our businesses that want to hire our students some of them are coming to us saying hey we have jobs for them um all of these companies we've done something with um we've

018sent students there to work we've toured um they've came in and talked to our students um and the list keeps growing so this list is not comprehensive ensive of everyone um that's helping us um we have a local advisory committee um that several maybe even you sit on or occupational advisory committee um that kind of Drive what we're doing in our program and help us out um and a lot of the people that are in these organizations or companies come in and sit and they give us guidance on what we should be doing in our classroom what equipment we should be buying what should we get from a grant um and then they want to employ our kids so that's really we're at um and we have tons that would take and we don't have

019enough kids for the jobs that there are um which is I don't know it's a it's good though that they're coming to us um we've done some commun partnership things where we like build signs for this is the uh Conservation District they also awarded eliud was our conservation speaker of the year last year and they gave him an award but we make the center pieces for that breakfast and kind of do a full uh together uh partnership um Mr lady has built this relationship with shanea brown from the Washington County uh business district um where he made all of these trees he's always doing a yearly project with them now um where they're working on the project uh this one they built we built them here for them the students did it as like a

020fundraiser and then those went out into Community they were decorated and they moved on from there these are just some of the field trips that our students have won over the last year um rain had us out to do a private wellpad tour not very long ago so that their pictures on the left um and then they go to all kinds of different industry tours um also Community Partnerships this is actually um so Kudos ter range resources for being a good partner with us but they we build things for them they do um like these sheep feeders and little sheep um all kind of seem like silly this is the rain barrels but their employees come in to actually do these projects with our students so our students design and develop them that range resources

021employees and staff in all areas is everything from Human Relationships to uh to bio their Biola to um Engineers are in and they come and help them so it's a really good opportunity very informal that they talk to our students while they're building them but they're actually built for elementaries to decorate for the running of the Wolves contest but it's kind of a two-fold project where they're in and giving us some like career talk while they're there and doing it so it's a really good opportunity for us um and then we represent range at a lot of things where we're doing like flower bouquet at some of their like events um which is just gets us out there and in to the community uh we did the full landscape at the Conservation District a couple

022years ago last year and um the kids went and designed and installed uh that as well so just to talk about some of the things that we're doing um and then these are just general shop projects um that we've been doing our big buck contest once this little little ni grade girl Marley Reese and she's about as Tiny as ever um and the guys were really mad um TSA uh is and and I wish Andrew was here to talk about it but um is participating in BQ um it's a combat robotic uh competition the robots have to be under 15 pounds they also have to find um community and uh company sponsors uh these company sponsors this year are accutrex Price Brothers Fabs uh Theon manufacturing and IGS was their sponsor last year um and

023they have to work with those companies they have to either help them Supply materials that they need uh they have to do a tour related to uh in related to manufacturing or to uh something with robotics um and then they also some of these are cutting Fab pieces for us like acut TRX cut some metal for us and cut some different parts on our robots for this year um price boy Fab which is actually Logan price for those of you might know him he's a senior um his family owns and they are sponsoring and they cut a bunch of metal for that all the time um so have to do paperwork with the robot accounting bill of materials a safety plan they have to have a power weapon and a drive system explanations Electronics electrical

024schematic battery safety plan and then engineering drawings so they have been doing all the paperwork and the robot runs all the time I can vouch for that um these are their field trips as are related to uh so they had a uh boss I training they had a circuit in so in uh soldering training and then Devon manufacturing uh tour um and then we always kind of piggy back and a goes with engineering we're kind of like a little family in the wing down there um one goes the other one goes it seems like um so we did we partnered and went with them um to B IQ but this is their current robot it runs in the hallway after school is pretty toly um and they have 15 students participating um they have preliminary

025competition on March 5th and the finals are on April 11th and 12th um and then these are some of the engineering course projects that they do and they did the flags they did the 25 year Flags um they do all kinds of cool things like that so that's kind of what we're doing I'm gonna take a minute to introduce Ally stand Al we standing W um allly is a Al Alli is a senior um she is our chapter president she was also named the Keystone uh western region Keystone star farmer um and she will be representing us of pen uh in the spring or in the or in the summer in June um as a state F officer candidate um so we're really excited for Ali and what she has coming up but she's also

026accepted to Penn State for a education so she'll be me or her mom someday so I just wanted to take a minute [Applause] to and I know that you guys received just like a copy of our letter I think this was in your packet today for our uh correction just so that you knew that we would be submitting that so and I'll be happy to feel any questions or comments I just want to say thank you I really appreciated this um I don't know how how many people know just how much the students have available to them yeah um I know I don't think enough people know we'll put it that way so this is really helpful for not just all of us but even the public and the community so thank thank you very

027much yeah oh thank you thank you for having me thank you I am not I am not the guy like Andrew might be but I am not so what the mill is um it's not as it's not as big I know it's definitely smaller um it's more uh education size based um but I know that they've had a couple um of the manufacturing companies that we're working with like kind of guide them in that in that purchase um so hopefully we hopefully good [Applause] congratulations thank thanks for the milk J and thanks to Mrs rarick for initiating that was awesome I [Music] hate we thank [Music] again so tonight uh we have our presentation um much B Hood I've been sharing this with the board for the last uh two three months that uh we

028also in a process wor the state uh with our future ready comprehensive plan and so tonight we're going to make a presentation a very high level Pres presentation of what is expected why we do what we do how long that plan exists for and what our focus is going to be over the next three years so having said that so what is f frcp every three years all 500 schools in a district in the in the Commonwealth have to create a plan a strategic plan for where they see themselves in the future they then have to create based on what they see as items of concern need growth objectives to accomplish that plan what we have done over the last three and a half months is followed a process that we're going to share with

029you tonight and that process includes everything from data collection to then taking that data and making meaning from it then taking that data and making meaning of it and prioritizing our challenges and saying okay now how do we how do we address this over the next 3 years which is 2025 to 2028 how do we address this what are our goals and they have to be measurable you have to be able to say we're going to accomplish X in three years then with any goals if you don't set up strategies or in this case what they call Action planning how do you know that you you're able to accomplish them like what are the tools that you're going to use to accomplish those tasks so again I I addressed the what is frcp and how

030often it doesn't seem like it was that long ago we are still in the middle of our last three-year plan and this plan here will take us into the next three years now um I want to introduce uh members of the teams because this truly was a team effort but it was broken down into two main categories of areas and I have to start by saying and you heard this in Rene's uh conversation with us tonight that throughout the course of Any Given school year there are requirements that are put upon us for that particular year meaning uh audits uh in this case the F frcp there has to be a chunk of time that you've all put aside and I when I say that I'm going to share with those that have done this

031both from the ministrative side of things but also from our steer committee which I'll share with you and I'm just as I stand here I'm just so very appreciative because it wasn't like I was able to say to the admin team behind me hey take this off your plate right you need to focus here so take this off your plate in the middle school take this off Elementary that's not the case that's an addition to that's during the course of the day that's after school hours all those things so I just want to share that right from the very beginning of how appreciative I am at this time because it was very time consuming quite honestly so the the f frcp team is made up of administrative team which I just spoke about you can

032see the names up here representing experiences expertise different backgrounds many of them have gone through a futur comp plan some have not it was a learning experience we see ourselves as colleagues so anytime we have discussions sometimes we don't always agree sometimes there were there were thoughts that maybe a certain group would would say that's where we need to go and but we always came to a consensus and that was the key to this the plan was put together primarily by this administrative team but as you can see in a minute it was also in concert or with help from our Spar committee and uh I will tell you that the steer committee is made up of McGuffy teachers uh Business Leaders community members School Board member we also had both Jenny lent and Ron

033Gallagher from iu1 they served in the capacity of any kind of questions we had regarding the plan itself they were there to address those plans and these folks now I got to tell you too this is something when we started this uh with the steer committee there was actually double the number of names see there double um but as we go from November into December you go through the holidays we come back in January and then February attrition happens okay some some folks fall off some folks I don't hear from I did it I respect that because I understood that what we tried to do this year that was a little different from the plan we did just three years ago was have multiple ways in which our steer committee could engage the plan three

034ways primarily both on site we would have on-site time I would feed them in the library try to entice them with food uh two was to do a virtual so that we could all go home get comfortable join online and then third and this is really the way that we experimented this year was the first time we've done this um we created a parent Guardian survey because we knew that there was a lot of voices out there that just again couldn't make the time to come on site couldn't make the time to do it virtually and so we also have had a parent Guardian survey that was along with this I don't have the names of all those Folks up there because that was private but those were three ways primarily that the steer Community

035came together and again just appreciative of their time you can see the dates that we met uh for all ATT purposes this work actually started in October the planning of it but for the first time the admin team met with November all these times you see here that the ad team EX for two were onite and this often times is preparing for our time with our steer committee because we knew the time with our steer committee was precious we knew I I I I Lally did not want to go over two hours because I didn't want to just suck that time away from them so a lot of preparation of time before we met with our steer was spent as an ad talking about things working things out then again you can see one two

036three four five times so far so far and uh I haven't told us to Mrs RAR who is our representative but you have one more time coming I lied the other day we have one more ask um but you'll see in here just in a little bit what I'm asking for okay so that's the planning team next let's talk about the key components so when we talk about the FCP what is it that we are doing what are we accomplishing here and what we were asked from pde was to identify between two and four what they term priority challenges you may remember this because the last few years uh every year we give a presentation of where we are with our f frcp up to date this year as you see in just a minute

037we identified again four priority challenges areas that we see looking at the data both a quantitative data and a qualitative quantitative I mean looking at tests looking at ways in which local and state assessments are directing us ways our stud achieving but also we're using qualitative that's succussion those are the means that you see there that's the the parent Guardian survey that you saw there we take all those data points and then we come to the point in the plan where we have to say Okay where do we need to focus over the next three years where do we need to have our our resources our attention focused on so this is The Ready Set Go plan they have okay this is from pte I know oh that there's a lot of steps okay there's

038a lot of steps that that goes into this the ready section is just what I talked about that's the the data collection that's the um looking at what you represent your school demographics what you value as an educator and also our mission and vision which I'm going to share in just a second the set part of it is where we take all that data and we make meaning from it so so what what are we seeing here what's being shown what are those priority challenges that we need to address then finally the go Section is just that it's of bit as uh a funnel the ready section is all this information being dumped into it and slowly over time through the set section it starts to funnel out and filter through and by the time

039you get to the go you have exactly what you should be focused on and that's where we've been for the last probably part better part of six weeks or so in there we attach goals to our prior challenges which I'm going to have ministrators here in a minute share and then we also create action steps or strategies to accomplish those goals which we will not share tonight because there's a lot of them but I will tell you something in just a second that they are visible just not on this plan right now so real quick this is for the audience do the audience is always welcome three years ago we created a mission and vision your vision is why you exist your mission statement is how you accomplish your why very self-expand Vision why we

040exist as a school mission how you accomplish your why your vision anyone remember put everybody spot here this is really important to all of us that from top to bottom bottom to top you all know what our why is why we exist why we do every day what we do our vision is any many remember it's one sentence want to shout it out from the audience exactly right we will ensure all students and this is very important three years ago we hammered this out we were having we're given a chance to do this again we said listen we think we have we're really focused on which is no matter who you are in adct we want to help you reach that greatest potential whatever it is you want to accomplish what are we doing to

041make sure we're helping you to do that that's our why why we exist help every student reach your greatest potential mission is is the house all right so now that we know that we can find the answer somewhere let's see smart out there what is our house what is our mission St is someone new someone new um you were you struck by that that statement there the very first line was anything stick out to you about St yesterday just start saying yesterday it's not thr L that's it's for everyone so we know when we look at our plan and we look at our plan moving forward for the next three years we're looking internally are we better today than just yesterday it's incremental we're not making huge down it's incremental are we better are students

042better today we challenge you to be better today than just they were just the day before learning from our mistakes learning in general right taking place those are our two statements the acronym itself um we' talked about before okay this was our plan our priority challenges as we addressed this three years ago three of the four are going to move forward over the next three years I'm not going to share with you but you can kind of see what our three are were or Focus areas were of the last three years here condensed condensed here are our pring challenges for this year a vision and and culture of high expectation again we're looking at ways in which we can help our students all across from K all way through 12 ways in which we're assessing

043them ways we're using those Assessments in the classroom to differentiate instruction Ai and education I'm going to tell you something right now because in a minute the m is to share each of these sections with you AI especially if we're not addressing the changes in AI in a plan from year to year we're going be missing the boat because AI is changing right now as I'm standing here like what I know be AI for way our students are going to be impacted by them in the workforce but also too the way our teachers are going to use them are going to change and so that's my caveat as you hear the admin team come up here and describe each of these that we do have goals for the next three years but they will change

044because we'll adjust this is very fluid okay our regular attendance this firstand team right out the pandemic and attendance was invisible not just here in the Commonwealth or or even at McGuffy but Across the Nation it's still not where we need to be that's that's a very very important point and finally not last but not and definitely not least is we know what's going on in education nowadays when it comes to the retainment and recruitment of high quality staff teach ERS administrators everyone it's very very difficult to find very good people and so we have to continue to address that so having said that as I was suggesting before our administrators have been focused on specific areas so tonight the Stars you see next to the names in this case upper left hand column Leah

045Augustine who's an elementary principal Force as well as Dr chat wel was focused on uh high expectations for our students staff recruitment attention was Dr Dan Gan and Justin Wes Dr Gan is our curriculum director um and Justin is our assistant principal at clo bottom right hand side is regular attendants we had three individuals working on it we had Mark bonis who's our high school principal we have Ally Waldo who is our new still relatively I Ed Ally too uh Alison Waldo who is our assistant principal at the middle school and brv story who's actually newer who's our high school assistant principal and then finally AI in education we have Jen berdine is not able to be with us tonight we have Mr Craig mcke buing ground to the back there and we also have

046Mr White Mike Wilson makes a lot of sense because Mike is our director of Technology over there on the technology so having said that I'm going to first ask up Dr wel who will take us through very high level why the why it's very important here why this is something that we're going be focused on for the next few years hello everyone uh Chad wel Middle School principal uh so Mrs augus Mrs Augustine and myself um along with uh the group and the committee uh we focused on uh the vision and culture of high expectations so kind of to summarize our measurable goal statement um there's two scores uh that the students get uh going through uh 3 through 12 uh with pssas in Keystone there's a growth score and then there's their proficient score

047So Below basic basic proficient Advanced um we've went through curriculum revisions uh in the last F frcp uh so now our curriculum in math Ela and science is all aligned to State Standards uh so what do we do with that uh so what we're going to do with it is um before uh we align that as we were going into the process um we noticed that our uh diagnostic T testing and our Benchmark testing it wasn't aligned so it wasn't aligned between Claysville and Joe Walker everyone was giving different kind of Assessments and it was kind of focused more individually uh so we wanted to fix that and then at the secondary level um our content level so we wanted to make sure we were giving the same assessments as kids were going across the

048content from Middle School uh into high school so with Ela we were able to track what you're doing in sixth grade all the way up to uh your 11th grade uh 12th grade year so that's what we came up with for our first uh year Target um we decided that we will use common benchmarking and diagnos diagnostic assessments across grade levels both the elementary and contest content tested secondary classes and pssa and Keystone test tested subjects so with that we'd also develop a uh testing calendar so we're not looking to over test but we have to get a diagnostic to see where students are at the beginning and then that will allow us to drive our instruction so what we're working on next year for that first year is to have a calendar uh where

049um our teachers and the the parents and the students will all know when you'll get a benchmark or diagnostic for math or Ela or science and that will be planned out in math uh so that'll allow us to better drive and plan our instruction so once we get that developed in year one year two then we moveed on to that individualized instruction with our individualized instruction in our new curriculum in both math with the Alex program uh Ela with waggle it allows those students to get their original score and then it prescribes them a prescription based on where they're at so if they're below the GR level it gives them a path um with a little bit more remediation if they're above where they're supposed to be it gives them more of an accelerated path

050um so each student will be given their own individualized uh path of learning and um that will be K through 12 so we'll use the common data to drive individualized instruction across the district to ensure all students show growth academically we're looking to take you from where you come into a grade and we're looking to move you to get you and ensure that you grow as you go go through that grade so that's year two and then in year three we'll use what we did in year one and year two to improve our growth and proficiency numbers that meet or exceed the Statewide growth average or or and uh proficiency averages for math Ela and Science and those are the tested subjects in the state of Pennsylvania um both in the elementary and at the

051secondary level so to kind of summarize we're going to start out we're going to develop that academic testing calendar so everyone knows uh when we'll be tested and um we're going to have Comm commonality between the elementary schools and a developed plan at the secondary level once we get that in place we can have that individualized struction an instruction and the teachers can review the data use that data to uh Drive the instruction to make sure the students are growing and then lastly in year three we should see the results of that in our testing numbers in both grow scores and uh proficient and advanced numbers that's kind of from a high level quick summary I have a question yep so if I'm understanding this correctly in year one you're going to use an internally

052agreed upon diagnostic tool to to determine where they are in year two what tool are you going to be using to look at how students are growing according to those benchmarks that you got from the first year so it'll be a little bit different in the elementary based on what they use um but in the at the secondary level we have the the Alex program that firef still internally agreed upon and then year three you're using the pssa the Keyon as a like a final for I thought I just want to be clear yeah the pro the problem was is that we've not having this unified plan everyone kind of has their own thing right so when you go from one future to the next you kind of start from back Square well I will

053say year one's probably going to be the hardest as far as an internally agreed upon we're all going to be the same thing so that's why I was H thank you any other questions all right thank you thank [Applause] you all right good evening Justin wise I was partnered with Dr Dan Gan um we worked on Recruitment and Retention of educators um a measurable measurable goal statement I'm just going to read it um increase the retention rate of newly hired highly qualified Educators from 71% to 90% over the next four years while increasing our overall retention rate of all teachers from 93% to 95% by implementing targeted professional development mentorship programs and competitive compensation strategies this percentage includes retirement resignation and other departures so in year one to start we're going to take a step

054back and listen uh we'll survey teachers hired over the past five years to see what's working and what's not when it comes to onboarding and induction we'll also check in with midcareer and Veteran teachers to understand how we can better support them at the same time we'll start conducting exit interviews with teachers who decide to leave giving us insight into why they're moving on our goal this year is to retain at least 80% of new hires and 93% of all teachers in year two once we have that feedback we'll put it to work updating our onboarding process refining professional development and making sure our Act 48 offerings are actually meeting teachers needs the goal is to retain at least 85% of new hires and 94% overall year three and Beyond over the next four years

055we want to see a major Improvement in retention increasing new teacher retention from 71% to 90% by 28 and bumping up our overall teacher retention to 95% we'll get there by strengthening mentorship improving professional development and offering competitive compensation to keep great teachers in our classrooms as we move to uh the next slide I'm going to again read the measurable goal statement increase the retention rate of school leaders from 73% in 2024 to 90% over the next four years by implementing targeted professional development mentorship programs and competitive compensation strategies this percentage includes retirement resignation and other departures as well um in year one we'll continue our principal Academy that began this school year to support new building administrators while also checking in with current leaders will survey them about what keeps them here and what

056might make them consider leaving we'll also look at exit interview data from those who have already moved on this will help shape the next ACT 93 agreement which takes effect in 2026 in year two once that agreement is in place we'll follow up with administrators to see if it's making a difference we'll also look at other ways to better support our school leaders whether it's more professional development mentorship or additional resources year three and beyond our goal is to increase School leader retention from 73% to 90% by 28 just like with teachers we're looking at professional development mentorship and compensation as key ways to make that happen when we support our administrators they can focus on what matters most helping teachers and students succeed and that's all I have y and I do appreciate it

057I am I think these are great goals I have my question is going to come back to what if we discover because when you're talking about we we definitely want to see those numbers right so we're saying our goal is to increase from SE for example 71% to 90% retention over the next three years and I think it's great to look at mentorship programs competitive compensation though is probably my biggest concern because what if we early on discover that the largest reason we're not retaining is based on money as a district with limited funds there's only so much we can do and so we've all then we're we're not going to reach that goal with 90% if that's the key so I two things and I'll go back to what I said first um each

058of these goals from from the four priority ches that you just heard from year to year we will look at them and say are they still pable yeah you know because again we're sitting three years out from from that end dat so that's that's first and foremost and secondly again um we're going to look at that and look to see what we can do um share uh data with the board when they're looking at the ACT 93 share that with comparables with other districts that we would necessarily compete against thing that we all recognize is that in Washington County we right up against Alig County and uh where we've lost many administrators and that number jumps up you know so those was the discussions we look to have with the board once we get to

059that point I really appreciate the fact that you twoo pronged it you looked at staff as well as leadership because I think those are completely different areas um and have completely different um criteria for why people are leading or staying so I thank you very much I think that's a great idea one one piece all there just as well you heard Mr wise note about title two funds um so every year we get um title two money as everyone's familiar with Title One um title two is professional development kind of focused but um because this retention concern is kind of a a pania wide issue um there is now some flexibility with title two that it can they're calling it the ABCs it can be used to pay for um teacher agency working conditions and

060in certain cases compensation stuff um and there there are limitations there right we have to we have to investigate that but that that's in there because we we think that might be one way to help with at least some of the the compensation piece so that's um not a not a short thing at this point but it's it's at least one strategy we want to dig further into so thank you thank you good job next we have our direct technology I forgot to say Transportation as well make sure I give you a few um good evening Mike Wilson dor of transportation and Technology um Mrs berdine was not able to make it with us uh or join us this evening um but I do have my trusty sidekick Mr mcke maintenance um director of uh

061buildings and drowns and he he's here tonight to really pick up the tighten up the loose nuts and bolt that I missed throughout our presentation so um how many people have heard of AI I think probably just about everybody in the room if I had to guess um one of the things that we we talked about with with AI specifically um is really the reason why why are we including into artificial intelligence into our um comprehensive planning process here and I think it really comes down to uh a few things number one it's it's not going any way it's it's here to stay um and whether we like it or not it's going to have an effect on our lives and our personal lives and our professional lives oural here are going to be affected

062affected by it so why not not put something out there that that we can use as a structure um to help guide us through that process um it's important for us to number one uh it's it's it's important for us to know how to use it number two um it's it's also important to understand what pitfalls might come down the road that we need to avoid in order to continue to use that responsibil um responsibly so you know those are the kind of the the high level um need that we saw why why we decided that artificial intelligence intelligence should be part of our comprehensive plan so um if you look through the packet or if you look at the the screen here we really have two goal statements um one's related to the the

063teaching and and learning in the classrooms from a a professional and paraprofessional perspective um the other is related to to student learning and how that's going to affect um that student and really again this it's it's really providing a structure artificial intelligence technology in general we all know how fast it moves um and so when we we put a plan together it has to be flexible enough where we can you know adjust it as we go um strategies as we move through this will become more intentional um and more specific to the students needs um and really by the end of year three our Target would be for everybody in the school to be able to use this artificial intelligence in our classrooms to um promote good learning and teaching throughout so um I'm not

064going to read it to you specifically I think you guys have packets here you can do that on your own but essentially at the at a very high level that's that's kind of where where we're talking I miss anything Mr Mickey any questions I have a question yeah with the AI that will um be integrated um I know it happens at the teacher level and then it's introduced to the students etc etc will the board be given an opportunity to review the AI tools that are being used prior to them being implemented yeah I don't I don't see why not I mean these are these are tools and resources that are going to be ready readily available for for everybody um and that's something that we'll we'll talk and and make sure that we include

065that in our planning process and integration process and implementation process so absolutely I don't see why not as part of that process um as far as introducing AI specifically in how to apply it the application of it and apply it in a positive productive manner um anyone who's worked with AI will tell you that you know machine learning is only as good as the human who is teaching the so what process is going to be used or are you have you discussed a process by which to verify legitimate because AI will throw out a lot of hypotheticals a lot of misinformation to be able to differentiate is that part of the learning that's going to take place being able to differentiate the hypotheticals and and the misinformation I hate that term but that's really what

066it is in this case and um and legitimate yeah I think that's something that we have to prioritize from our perspective in the structure that we're going to develop and in the strategies that we develop for implementation um I think that's a very important piece that that we have to consider um we don't have anything in in place currently because we're kind of in the in the throws of putting it all together but that's a very good point and that's well taken and that is something that we've discussed to this point sure and then the other question I had was when you're talking about student application um one thing that came to my mind immediately was being able to use it for special education needs so for example we have a student who has for

067whatever reason an occupational challenge right physical challenge um there's a lot of AI out there that will translate basically audio to written word um without be a place where we can look at application of an AI tool yeah absolutely and that's something that we looked at um part of this process is going to be I think that we're going to have to identify uh tools that we can use districtwide for all individuals and and that's kind of the unique thing about AI is as you as it progresses it can become very um very direct and very intentional for specific users right and it and it can be it can Target those um students or teachers that that need specific help in specific areas um and tailor that learning and and teaching um for that I

068guess that's it is correct yeah and then my third question final question I'm sorry okay is um co-pilots currently available for for District employees on your 365 and are they using it or are we going to make that available to students as well or we don't know yet well um we haven't specifically talked about that but it is available um it's a Microsoft product it's within our package as an ed it's I mean it's built right into the browsers and everything else and all the app right okay thank you I can just add if you look at the Timeline we were intentional with the first year being introduction to you know the AI for the staff right so the first part of that plan was okay let's let's get a a group together let's see

069you know there just so many things out there right then we've got to weed some of those out right and you come back and you say okay here's here the ones we think are applicable to what we want to do and you know we use the term guide rails uh in our discussions because we need to get those in place we can't have you know this teacher likes this one that one likes that one right we're we're going through great pains to standardize our you know benchmarks and and so on in the other areas um we want to do the same thing here we want to make sure that we're deliberate with what we're doing we want to make sure that we're including all the staff uh because obviously we're going to have different levels

070of enthusiasm uh for it and so on uh we want to give them time to you know we want to ease into this during this coming year so they have a chance to test it out to use it to get you know so we can get the feedback and say okay we thought this was going to be good maybe it's not right so we have a chance to to be flexible is as Mr Wilson said so that when we hit that year two and we start to introduce it to the student and show them how to use it and educate them on the pitfalls and as you said you AI is basically just a ton of averages and it thinks this is but we still have to teach the kids critical thinking and so on

071how to recognize that those averages don't seem right or how to check those averages and so on but we don't want the staff to have to learn at the same time that the students are learning so when we put the plan together just as much as you know what's specific tools was the timeline of okay we we need to move right and and you know we're starting to move ahead now but we also need to you know again be deliberate with our intentions to make sure that our staff feels comfortable when we're you know getting into this new new technology thank you great job thank you thank you and finally we have she speak to us team hi everyone hello I have to lower this a little bit because they're all tall and I'm pretty

072short um okay so yeah so I'm Ally wo I'm the Middle School assistant principal um so for this final priority challenge regular attendance was brought up again um as Dr o has stated right we're still kind of in that covid Fallout so we have definitely seen gains in our attendance but it still remains to be something that we want to continue to improve upon um so for our goal statements with the team I worked with Mark bonus and Brady stoy we came up with the idea of splitting it up into two goals so one for the elementary level and one for the secondary level um for two reasons so one reason is that the data was different of course and two because whenever we look ahead into those action steps they're going to look a

073lot different for an elementary student versus senior right so that's why we wanted to make sure that we had some specific goals for each of the levels but okay so the first measurable goal statement for elementary schools is that we would like to increase average attendance percentage across all elementary grade levels at Joe Walker and Clay Elementary to 89% now I want to talk about that number and where we got that number from so right now we don't have the 2023 2024 attendance data um if you unaware of that and the reason why is because of us it's because of just the way it works that data will not be given to us until October of this year but um Dr Gan actually kind of develops and comes up with kind of a projected percentage

074so for um both of the the elementary schools actually was 86% it was even for both of them so that's why we started with the 1% gains for each year so we figured that that was definitely attainable they are well over where they should be so that's really great so we just figured let's just keep it going um so for that first year we definitely want to reach 87 the second 88 and then finally for Target three we want to reach 89% um how we're going to do that is by using proactive strategies including early identification of barriers targeted interventions family engagement and Partnerships with Community Resources um and with all of that being said the first year what we really talked about was sitting down and figuring out what do we do already ready

075because we already do so much Miss Kelly payner she's our attendance coordinator she's fantastic she does a lot for us within the district um we also have a lot of tier 2 supports that we meet these needs with attendance but kind of just what do we do how can we make it better and going on from there and then for the next slide so this is for secondary specifically so their Baseline data it was the same again for middle and high school not sure how but just happened to be that way and that was 72 % so it was a little bit lower um and so for this one we decided to increase it 2.3% every year so looking at a larger increase because we want to reach specifically 78.1 because that is the golden

076number that we want to reach to say that we have attained attendance for where we should be in this in our state here um so again I don't want to read this again but it's pretty much the same here with the same goal statement the same targets other than just the numbers being different and then of course as we go on with this plan those action steps like I said will look a little different for the secondary level so yeah so attendance was definitely a little bit shorter there but do you have any questions or anything that you're concerned about I have one hope was it you said that the middle school high school is currently at so we are currently at it was 72% yes that's the Baseline for what we project for 23

07724 yes okay thank you always like a year time yes yes um this is the same question I ask every time that we talk about attendance that um where does the fiber school where do the mix fiber kids come into play because you know got Joe Walker we got Clayville got Middle School we got high school but and I I get that there's um we don't have a lot of resources to fully develop that but attendance is an issue in MC cyber and we all know that um that attendance also is a direct um influencer of Student Success correct so I I ask every time we talk about attendance so I'm gonna ask again are we planning on incorporating that into our attendance go at some point so no no I me you're the MC

078cyber person so you can goad this point um we have all considered our MC cyber students to still be part of which whichever building they would have attended in person so those numbers will so those numbers are part of like when we say the projected 86% or projected 72% that includes miyer students that would have been in that building I can tell you at the elementary there are very few in MC cyer currently um at the high school there are a good bit more like we're close to 40 high school students so it's it's a good point it maybe it's worth exploring should we treat MC cyber students at least for the high school as its own cohort have its own attendance data um to this point that's not what we' done they're still being

079accounted for in the goal because of them being considered mcguy high school students but we we certainly have the the tools or the capability that we could track specifically what's the attendance rate of our Vic cyber students we definitely have the the capability to do that so and and something we do plan to do that we've talked about is having surveys so meaning giving surveys to parents and Guardians as well as even maybe some of our secondary level students um to kind of figure out who who maybe isn't coming to school and maybe the why part of it too so that could maybe tie into the Mi cyber as well and maybe hopefully get some of them to maybe come to school too physically now that I know that the numbers are going to be

080included if we don't address the attendance issues in the mix cyber that's going to pull down uh what you could accomplish um in totality so um this well mentioned uh Mrs painer I know one of Mrs Pain's challenges is that sometimes when in the building student is having some attending concerns um they the family sometimes will say what can we go online I'm having trouble getting them to the building can they go online and mixb sometimes there are kids that will go online and they they do they Faithfully you know participate and turn that attendance in um sometimes we see the the same struggle just move from in person to online attendant so it's um I think it just depends on those a kid in the situation and probably the biggest Factor too is remember

081attendance looks different for student to attend in ayber classroom they're their virtual it's their time um it's different from the way weord but you see that's and how it looks the more reason why to differently hey I'm sorry you have questions for Al no thank you [Applause] all right last a little bit and then I promise we were done so what anything else so you probably didn't know system slide there's still two sections left in our go plan and that is the way in which we're communicate each of our goals based on the four priority challenges so there's a communication plan that we still have to button up uh as a na team we'll talk about when we're going to do that next and then the second thing is some of our strategies and it

082was clear when you saw this requires professional development so we have to be very intentional in AI certainly it's going to require a lot of professional development and making sure everyone feels comfortable with those tools so those are the two things that are still what's left and then what's next so here's what's next starting today you can go on to our website under the admin Tab and you will see our comprehensive plan posted there we uh are required to have it for 28 days public view so that by the next time we come together which will be Thursday March 20th actually be 29 days uh the community will had a time to look at this uh I will we're going to put a banner up on our website to direct people there I'm going to

083have Facebook post tomorrow describing where to go there's already a news feed on the website telling you where to go so we've already started to communicate this but that's a big part of the plan is making sure that we're communicating um as I said our next admin meeting uh where we're going to come together and tighten up this plan and take some of the feedback we even heard tonight uh is going to be March 20th with the hope I'm sorry March 5th with the hope of the board adopting this come March 20th and that puts us well within the timeline we required Again by Department education to have our plan to the state by the 31st of March which will be well under that that plan and this is why I was referring to Mrs

084Rearick for you future forecasting now um one of the things we've never done in the past but we started to talk about this as an admin team was as I said the very beginning if we're not checking the plan from year to year saying okay as you heard there's year two goals and then year three goals if we're not adjusting them if we're not adjusting them to the information we're getting back we're not doing a good enough job it's not it's really just sitting on a shelf somewhere probably the plan is so sometime in mids spring of next year we're going to bring back the entire steer committee and do just that look at year One what do we say we're going to accomplish what were the goals that we set what were the strategies

085to accomplish those goals moving from there and I I promise to feed you moving from there then we'll go and look at the next year's goals and doing the exact same thing so that's the final piece that I have there and then finally I I have to do this one more time because this was this is a process as you can tell this is not just something you just kind of throw together this has been a process since November of last year I am very thankful to the men and women behind me I'm very thankful to the steer committee the teachers the community members the parents board member that were part of this because whether they volunteered their time or the case of Administrators they made time in their day and evenings that was a

086huge ask but I believe the time commitment that we all put together has created a very solid plan so again I just want to say thank you to all those groups and make it know any questions timeline just so that we're all CL fine tuning between now and March 20th so at the committee meeting meeting on March 20th would you give not the whole thing but maybe if there's any changes highlight any changes since this yeah absolutely the the plan though as you see the the the the nuts and bolts the meat potatoes is not going to change there just ways in which maybe we're going to communicate to professional certainly I thank you I have one question as well um let's say we adopt this and six months down the road we decide this

087isn't going the way we wanted it is it amendable so the plan itself is something that the state has a requirement for it's more of a requirement and I'm not going to get up to to answer your question absolutely because that's exactly what we did with the last plan okay if you remember from from the year two to year three last a year ago we made that presentation this is what we're changing so this this does not work if we just say let's put it in stone let's shift off the pte let them approve it and then say we're good because especially with AI as as Mr mcke and Mr said even right now as just stand here probably thinking of things that or haven't thought of things haven't thought of things that are going

088to be coming our our way both for students and for teachers so we've got to we've got to be able to do that yeah and maybe just for clarification for everybody it's not like the state ever comes back and and looks at whether you've accomplished your goals they you have to submit the plan to them the internal is really where you look at did we accomplish the goals what do we need to change that's all the state requires it but they require just more of a a way for you by which to guide right through your changes so right okay I I'll stay here I'm just gonna he great job everybody thank you [Applause] all as we wait for uh Mrs Alber talk I think uh would like to congratulate her on her recent marriage

089went from Miss Filan and Mrs haror I still can't get to the name oh yeah yeah absolutely all right so I'm going to talk again today about the budget for 2526 I'm going to give a re recap of where we are for 2425 some of this is going to be repetitive from our last session so I'm going to go through it a little bit quickly current 2425 budget comparisons this is on the revenue side we budgeted 30 almost 35 million as of January 31st and all of these numbers are as of January 31st we're sitting at about 75% of that as receivables so $25.8 million that is um basically made up of our investment money which we only had $300,000 in the budget but with the interest rates fluctuating so much we I was kind

090of keeping track of where we were so we're almost at that 300,000 so we're going to surpass that for this year so I'm glad about that our delinquent taxes we budgeted 431,000 we're at 321,000 so it's 74% collected our taxes ly these are our school taxes we budgeted 13.4 we actually collected 12.5 since the 2024 calendar year has ended everything that has not been paid has been turned over to the Washington Tax Claim Bureau that is now delinquent taxes so if that money comes in it'll be put into that delinquent tax po so you're aware and then our state basic and special education subsidies I just wanted to highlight these um we budgeted 13.7 we're at 6.2 we will get the 13 I'm not worried about that they typically send us about $2 million every

091other month and we are scheduled to get about2 million next week so we're right on track there for the expenditures we budget just under 36 million as of January 31st we had spent just under 20 million I'm using almost 55% of the budget and we are about 60% into the year F schal year so I'm pleased with our progress there now to talk about the 2526 school year I just want to briefly go over the timeline again um the deadline for homeowners to file a homestead application is by the end of March and there were some questions from the community about they did not receive one and that is probably because they application has already been approved those are approved for three years at a time so every three years you should be receiving one

092there somebody who hasn't had but they don't have how could they can always call either the Tax Claim Bureau or they can call the school and we can research it for you in the march by the March meeting I want to have a preliminary budget proposal um because we we need to move pretty quickly between March and June to get it all finalized in April the state will release the property tax relief Reserve amount that's the state allocation for the whole state and then by May the Department of Education will tell each individual School District what their Farmstead Homestead Property Tax Relief amount is we take that amount and um offer it to our approved applicants to reduce their tax obligation and then in the May meeting I want to adopt the 2526 proposed version

093of the final budget that will still be a proposed version that has to be available for the public to view for at least 20 days and then in the June meeting adopt the final budget so that we can have that to the state by the July 15th deadline just again quickly some of the expenditure considerations and concerns for 2526 our P contributions are going up ever so slightly but because our salaries are contractually increasing every year too that does add to that um pie increase our health care is through Asik Asik is estimating a 9% increase again this year in health care costs um last year we spent 3.6 $ million on healthare and that was the district's responsibility not including what the employees put in as their premiums and then the year before that

094was 3.4 million so those are ever so slightly going to be increasing again um and again almost every year our salaries increase by 3% so looking at 2425 budget compared to di that would mean about $430,000 increase in salaries across the board and just to you're aware we do employ about 270 to 280 people and that's all of our employees full-time part-time coaches Subs um our tax collectors everybody that is receiving a paycheck in some capacity from mcguy is about 280 people so our anticipated expenditures for 2526 uh our salary like I said increasing to about 14.6 and and I want to say these are very broad overview amounts right now um any of you that are familiar with any type of accounting software there are hundreds of different accounting expenditure codes when I rolled

095them over to from 2425 to 2526 there are 8,000 at McGuffy some of them obviously we don't use because they're year specific but being the way I am I want to go line by line through all of them for the past couple of years to see what we had budgeted where we ended up that a actual year and look at what I really need to budget for those um expenditures moving forward to 2526 I just want it clean and that's the easiest way for me to do it is each one individually so salaries we all we all know what salaries are benefits that's the things like the Pacers and the health cost the purchased Professional Services category all of these so it is a little bit confusing but um indicates the purchase Professional Services are

096are contracts for things um like occupational therapists that we don't have in we contract that out so that's that category our Property Services these are services that help maintain all of our properties all of our buildings so anything maintenance related other purchased services this is our busing contract our cyber school tuition our Charter School tuition that's all in there I think everybody knows what supplies are we have to have supplies to help keep the place Runing the property is actually leases that we have with companies so this is our printers our copiers and our postage machines other objects dues and fees these are just the dues that we all pay for our professional organizations any fees that we have to make pay for any type of professional development we categorize as other objects and then

097our other financing uses that's our bond issue and that is the actual number that we will be paying for 2526 did I I probably stepped on it there we goting a little under 37 million and expenses like a broad overview right now cleaning up um some Revenue considerations 2526 so the PA released until the they have given us preliminary amounts really at all year I'm not I'm not anticipating a big increase in revenue from Ines actually decreased from last year so that is lost almost $200,000 right off of the bat the Act One index again just as reminder we can go up to 14.62% [Music] I'm looking at 14.4 million is the anticipated Revenue there our state revenue and that's all of our basic Ed special ed the uh career technology subsidies all of those

098subsidies wrapped into this we're looking at 18.9 million federal revenue we're really now only receiving title money um and a little bit of our Medicaid access funds so we're looking at only 460,000 there for a total revenue of just under 34 million so the Outlook doesn't look great right now expenditures at 37 Revenue at 34 so we're looking at a $3 million deficit I don't want you to panic right now because I I still have a lot of work to do um I don't have all of the building budgets yet so we're working on them and I'm going to clean clean clean as much as I can to get this to a place that I'm happy with just as um some information for you the mill rate increase impact like I said if we do

099nothing we're going to lose almost $200,000 in Revenue if we increase only by 1% we're still losing money compared to last year about 75,000 the 2% increase would net us about 56,000 more and so on up to the 5% increase which would get us about 450,000 and as you heard me say our salary increases are probably 427,000 so that's just going to barely cover our salary increases this is where we stand right now with our current reserves our fund budget this is after year 2023 because our Auditors are still processing and finalizing our audit right now for the 2324 school year um I do anticipate gaining a little bit of of unassigned Revenue after the 23 24 school year but I won't know final numbers until they have everything back to me what is important

100on this slide is the unassigned because we can use that to fill the gap of a deficit in our budget we cannot use the unassign the nonspendable and the assigned the unassigned right now sits at about 6.8% of our proposed budget the state tells us if our unassigned reserves is less than 8% we can go up to the full Act One index that they have recommended so just keep that in mind next steps I'm still working with the budget managers building principles administrators so we're going to finalize that I'm cleaning cleaning cleaning that's really what I've been doing all week um and then I'm going to continue to monitor the state budget and see where our actual allocations come in and subsidies come in any questions yes a reassessment every year of the property they're

101constantly doing assessment appeals and they don't go out and assess everybody every year but there's a lot of appeals um what has caused us to lose money this year and assess property values has been coal depletion we basically lost $24 Million worth of assessed value 14 million 14 14 yeah yes I just as a comment I say this every year and since there are more people sitting in their seats tonight I'm goingon to say it again and that is um call your local rep yep because there are two areas in which we could really use help one is it would help us a lot if the state would pass their budget before we have to pass ours it's really hard to pass a budget when you're guessing at what the state is going to give

102you or not give you um and they never you guys know you watch the news their budget is never done until months after schools are required to have their budgets approved and into the state the other consistency the other area that would be helpful to um Lobby for is the Cyber reform that Governor sherio has proposed that right now the school districts are responsible for paying any of the Cyber or Charter School costs that students that live within our district attend for a regular education student we pay a cyber school a little over $155,000 for special education student we pay a cyber school over $35,000 per student per year those costs are costing you the taxpayers $1.2 million they are consistently over $1 million for us his proposal. his proposal is to make an $8,000

103across the board for regular education students the school would have to pay the charter school or Cyber School $88,000 per regular ed student the special education would be a little higher than that they'll have a formula that would determine the amount so I can't give you uh an actual figure but it's going to be a lot less than the 35,000 per student we're paying now does the state have a current date that they're supposed to have a budget pass and just don't I'm just curious is it somewhere that they just keep June their fiscal July Jun June state isos to it's never yeah so I also would say start replacing the representatives that aren't what we're telling them to do yep absolutely run for office but I'm is contact your local reps call them email

104them go visit them yes K right do we I don't expect you to answer this now um but do we track or assess value from year to year to see if it's gone up down oh yeah I have it for the number I have it for a number of years yes um did we get any explanation of what the 14 million was for sped down on a percentage basis or line items yeah they send us um what they call um a corrected assessed value report and I can look at that report and see what township that property is it gives me the property ID it gives me the address and it gives me the reason why and a lot of our loss is because of the coal depletion yes would if you could get that

105number for of percentage of what the code depletion was overall would be very helpful because I think it's probably significant oh it's significant yes thank you thank you so much app that will close committee at 7:30 let's reconvene for our regular school board meeting at e e e it is now 7:41 I'd like to call the the regular school board meeting of the McGuffy School District roll call [Music] please present here here Pledge of Allegiance please as we stand for the Pledge of Allegiance I'd like to take a moment and for any mapi alumni that has passed this past month since we left last and just take 10 seconds to reflect and get our head straight and if you need to pray please pray at this time dear heavenly father we thank you for for

106this time that we can be here together and we ask for your presence here that you will guide us in all of our decisions we give you all the praise and the glory in Jesus name we pray father God in heaven I do thank you for the opportunity to um just come to you in prayer when we need when we see fit I do ask that you be with the families of those who have lost loved ones um since the last time that we met father um help them look to you for their strength and their guidance um and if they don't know you father please put people in their path who can bring them to you we thank you always for your presence um we know that you're always there the question is are

107we there listening so we ask for Open Hearts and open minds in Jesus name we pray a pledge aliance to the of the United States of America and to the for IT stand One Nation indivisible withy and thank you ladies just want make an announcement that we did hold executive session prior to uh to discuss and litigate need a motion to accept with regret the resignation of Michelle liart as board director so move second discussion I would like to um pass along a message from miss liveart that she had asked me to pass along to the public um she has asked me to relay that unfortunately due to her health she has had to resign from the board it was her pleasure to serve for the last three years um I think I can speak

108for the majority of the board when we say uh we wish her the very best in her recovery and that we will miss her and she did a great service to the McGuffy School District absolutely [Applause] Mr President I'm sorry Mr Thomas uh Mr Thomas go ahead um we're we're beyond that at this point I apologize he he sitting there Mr President go ahead Mr laser I guess a question that it might even be tooed but Mrs was a vice president do we need to hold elections now or do we not hold them until we get another board member we aren't required to hold elections immediately because vice president is you have a president vice president would serve when the vice president couldn't so the uh you don't need to hold that until you've appointed

109a new member and I think uh the next topic of conversation would be how this board would like to appoint that member so we saw we don't need to yeah correct yeah we still need to vote on well if something would happen to Mr Kerr between now and next month this board would just elect a temporary president that's all yeah any more discussion before we uh vote on the resignation and then we will discuss what we're going to how we're going to fill it moving forward all those in favor say I I I oppose abstain was that a a regretfully right um motion carries uh moving forward um we as a board um will have to make a decision collectively as a whole as how we want to move forward with filling the vacancy it

110is my recommendation um and I'm open to suggestions as well but it's my resignation that my suggestion sorry um that we uh solicit from Moors Township and South Franklin Township anyone that would be interested into it uh into filling her seat for the rest of this year that they inform Us in writing to the school board no later the March 15 with that would be the understanding that we would then hold public interviews at the March 20th meeting that's really up to us if that's how we want is that is that part of your recommendation because that would be M okay if we do that my suggestion would be let's have a set set of questions that we ask each one like if be one question it could be two question done in the P

111you you have to do it that way question unless we only get one then yeah and then following those somebody would make a recommendation or a motion as to who to um fill that seat and the board would take an official vote in public correct that is correct yeah everything yeah everything would be done in public and by inwriting via email doesn't have to be USPS you want both I think I think email is fine and should that go to the board president and the solicitor just the board president and the superintendent what's the recommendation generally they would go to either the superintendent or the board secretary they would gather them F drberg and Mr cyers am if I could remind me the other options that we have the interviewing in public the letter so

112it's it's completely up to the board how you want to fill your vacancy uh you if you don't if somebody had somebody in mind and and you didn't want to solicit letters of interest you didn't have to I always would recommend at least soliciting letters of interest and then it's up to you if you want to bring back everyone if there's only a few candidates you'd want to bring back and then you can h have them you don't have to bring anyone back at all you can determine based on their written letter of interest that you want to take that person or you can bring them in for interviews or you can bring them in and let them speak for UPS set amount of time you know three minutes five minutes and tell you why

113that they would make a good mcguy school board director that's an option as well you could do a combination could you not could you not have them come back and give them two or three minutes and then also interview you can but I it depends how many you bring back because you don't want to be here till midnight typically we've not had a large pool with people who true but that's that's a sub a letter of interest you do have I would just say that I I'm all and everybody who knows me knows this um I believe in full transparency I think the most transparent thing to do is to solicit letters of interest and to have them attend the next meeting um and regardless of whether we want to interview or whatever um and

114then do the vote then publicly that's my I would just like to note and Mr ker just asked me this we have 30 days to fill that seat um if we fail to fill that seat within 30 days people can go to the court and ask the court to F the seat uh most recently that was done in West Morland County the judge then put out put out an advertisement he got letters of interest and he picked so that's what would happen if and and it doesn't the next meeting is 29 days away correct correct so just so you all know that doesn't if no one files the petition you still would have time to fill the seat but I just want to let you know you are on a 30-day timeline and um Mrs

115cyber and I counted the day so we knew that we were okay so Jason you said by the 15th correct so that gives us time to look at them before the next meeting well we would uh they would be forwarded to us by the board secretary yeah how do we plan on soliciting in what it would be my recommendation to advertise it on the website um for that um I think Word of Mouth goes around too um but I would recommend we put it on the website would we need to put it in the paper as well you don't need to put it in the paper honestly I think website and your social media probably gets more circulation in your local paper dust anymore and it's a lot less expensive that's true too you do

116have a nice cost associated with I would like that all plac that we now surve through webs through thank you do we need an official motion then no uh before we move on any other on that on how the process will go all right Mr President I understand the process we've done it a couple times yes in the past um Mr Sher was one of the people that we put on the board um I'm just a little concerned if we only have 29 days if we don't come to a decision that night it poses a problem so it can yes if somebody files a petition two days later yes I'm just a little leery at the Timeline um you could vary four4 vote and we could get nowhere unfortunately I guess it's verse we have

117to take you care if somebody files the petition and then in the inter courts appell that that's it makes that Petition Moot able to fill the seat you will still be able to fill the seat but I would PR you the so we're asking people to solicit till the 15th correct we will do everything public on the 20th that is correct and they didn't solicit in writing with I'm just curious somebody didn't know about it till last minute and decided to throw their hat in the ring does that Mak sense I don't I don't know but if the way you said by the 15th that to me says that's your date correct they haven't submitted an in letter of interest by then putting it everywhere we're supposed to and if you're interested it's the 15th

118if we don't have it by the 15th and you could still run I mean you could still get be on the ballot to build that spot but right as far as that according to what he said that's what it sounds like to me I just want wanted to make sure I understood completely be my understanding yes for us board secretary and the superintendent are on the same page the board can appoint somebody that seat for the remainder of the term that term ends November of this year so if there is after that then it would be filled by whoever wanted the election so if there is somebody who's interested in running I believe the petition deadline is March 9th that correct 11th marchot it was 11th could be but it's our March yeah to um

119consider getting your name on the primary ballot um uh for May um and then run through the election but those are two separate processes um and just that we're all clear them that and to further clarify although the position would be voted on in November the appointe will serve till that first Monday Tuesday of December reorganizational meeting in December right that person would not start yeah December 1 and I I believe I put out that in March that's what our motion will say you will right right right just to clarify for the community that's all thank you Mr President yes I have a feeling we probably won't get a large amount of people but if we do how do we go to limit them down when we have them at this meeting at the same

120time I I mean do we need to do something before the meeting I don't think we can do anything before the meeting can we everything we can have a special meeting you guys can decide you want to take the top three the top five who you invite back is up to you um you would want to say that like kind of now though like we want to bring in you know I think the question would be more like what would be the criteria to determine the top three or the top five right true that right we won't have time to bring them back because we're going to accept them at the same meeting next what I'm concerned is Mr Thomas had a question as well vo now what you could do well the 15th you

121could see how many you get and if you get a lot you could do a virtual special meeting with 24 hours advertisement and hold a special meeting to decide who you wanted to bring back so we had to figure out who we want to be at the next meeting basically I think the last time I know the last time we did that I think we only had two cans well I know for a fact that when my mother was seated that same way she was the only one so if I could ask too um when when emails are received will they be held till the 15th and then distributed to the board or will you be forwarding them as they come in thought I would suggest you put them together in a packet and then

122you email out that packet to each board member because the last thing you want to do is Miss one right good right all right uh moving on uh to middle school student of the month and I'm going to ask this Ali Waldo will come up with for our Middle School student another the month yes okay it's me again um all right so yeah I'm just gonna show you the video hi I'm ASO and I'm the assistant principal here at Muki middle school and it is my honor to introduce our student of the month for February Miss Leon's hair launch um I'd like to begin by sharing a few words from Mr Roberts who nominated Leona for this special recognition he said Leona comes to class every day and gives 100% effort she stays on task

123is quietly focused and often volunteers to questions though she's a quiet student her dedication and engagement in shine fruit she's been an Exemplar student all year and truly recognized each month her cons doing her best Lea we are so proud of you and your commitment to Excellence and You' definitely earned this recognition and we couldn't be more thr to celebrate you all right so now now on to some questions that we have prepared so the first one so tell us what is your name your grade and what are you involved in at school U my name is l I'm in eighth grade and I'm in the mghs awesome um what do you like to do outside of school so any hobbies Sports any other activities um I play piano and I like camping and Hiking

124a lot um what does being student of the month mean to you um student of the month just means being on task doing as told and also like maintaining grad and yeah um what is your favorite subject in why do you enjoy the Reading part of it or the writing part of it or being a favor book yeah awesome okay last question advice would you give to other students who s up a month in the future basically oh awesome well thank you so much l we're so proud of you keep up the great work um we're going to miss you for sure next year but in the high school I hope everything goes well keep up the good work we know you're going to do great um so be sure to congratulator today and all

125right bye all right so without further Ado [Applause] Miss congratul congratulations Mr President I'm sorry but a quick question do we give I will next is a high school student council representative it's m hi M good evening my name is m catula and on behalf of student council I will be reading some school updates the National Honor Society is sponsoring a blood drive on February 26th our MC Olympiad is scheduled for February 28th with te with teams from Trinity and Washington high schools attending this event McGuffy wintergard will be hosting a competition this sat this Saturday afternoon at 1:00 18 teams will be competing the sophomore class will be hosting Amanda's pickle ball tournament next month their resource period this year's drum of production a Guys and Dolls will take March 6th through the 9th

126the high school marching band and choir are PR trip to Walt Disney World April 8th through the 13th here are some sport updates we had a great winter sports season winter sports teams qualified for the WHIO playoffs Bo's basketball hosted a playoff game for only the second time in school history our wrestlers won the section title and finished third in the whii team wrestling tournament and qualified for the State team tournament many winter Milestones Aiden Cunningham and Taylor schoemer for oranged in basketball careers bar and EMT wol won their 100th wrestling match and Reed T Garden win is 100th tomorrow at the whiel tour we're advancing 10 wrestlers to whip individual championships the most for any AA School rifle qualified for the team playoff and finish second in the section finally for the first time

127to the best of my knowledge we had a cheerleader designated with the first team All-American status by Infinity cheerleading organization nah Henderson a lot of individual wrestling to still be determined the next few weeks so stay tuned don't throw don't throw away your seat cushions as the spring sports team look to also be strong thank you thank you thank you Ma at this time we will take public comment on agenda items chief Mr President F Casey McFarland South Franklin Township thank you Chief hi everyone Casey McFarland uh South Franklin I'm just going to be extremely I wanted to just give a public thank you and gratitude to Michelle for all the time that she served on the board I know I haven't been um attending quite as long as she served here but for all

128the time that I have been here she has been extremely kind and um welcoming so I just want to give another public shout out to all the time that you serve for us thank you thank you thank you thank you Casey Vicki Jordan Buffalo Township thank you Township I would also like to ask everybody to keep in prayers during this difficult um I'm curious why J1 on the agenda a trans to WBUR uh that started on November 13th is on the agenda three later uh was it an oversight or did it slip through the cracks also okay where I'm going with this there was a lot of about surveys and surveys for the parents so why are we talking about to coaches athletic directors I'm going to continue to push it every time on the

129agenda and then lastly with all due respect I would like to request the board to call a second executive session and allow me to speak on possible litigation I'm trying to be respectful um but if you deny my request I'll just speak on it publicly and we can let the chips fall where they may but I feel it's an important matter um that I would prefer to share because it is possible litigation in an executive session meeting so you guys let me know what you want to do I make a motion that we Grant her request second you can make a motion to go on Executive session at any time so is that is there a motion to go into yes I make a motion that we go into executive session uh at the request

130of Mr Jordan uh to discuss potential litigations and Miss fry seconded that yes discussion now now I'll be I'll be because I know you all want to get out of here Rob's roll call vote please and this is to adjourn to Executive session yes yes that's it we will adjourn to Executive session at 8:07 p.m. e e e it is now 8:17 we will reconvene the uh meeting the board after hearing the topic did not hold an executive session because they felt it was not litigation um M Jordan you still do have four minutes and 38 seconds left if you would like the podium I am going to hold all right thank you Miss Jordan thank you y just that time I don't think it works that way Chief anyone else that concludes all Mr

131President thank you Chief thank you I need a motion to approve the minutes of the January 23rd 2025 school board meeting as submitted so movees second discussion all those in favor say I I have discuss opposed one oh I'm sorry I'm sorry it's okay I'm Sorry Miss fry with in regards to last Mar with with the consensus voting that we did cons vote I understand but it was on the minutes and it's it was in the minutes I should say but it's not in the written minutes and I think it should be it's not in the minutes because it wasn't a vote correct it wouldn't appear in the minutes because the minutes reflect official board action on official board business that was how the board wants to organize its agenda I believe and that's not

132board business I mean it's how you organize yourselves which is based on board consensus you had a vote you had you had a discussion you had a consensus I there was no real vote taken on it so as long as I think I'm understanding this correctly the the minutes aren't necessarily a reflection of everything that takes place it's meeting it's just a summation of the business that was was completed at the meeting is that correct that is correct okay it was with adding the agenda items moving things around things like that um changing the name no it's okay what no oh yes at the end of our no we had two wait wait wait wait wait because now we're on to something else yes that and then board comments what I thought that was is

133the same thing I thought it was the same thing did not know that that was the same thing I thought that was for like that unresolved Business board comments aren't necessarily like we talked about it it could be happy birthday to somebody or Mr President you did something I didn't like or whatever like last month I misunderstood because I thought that could cover both I don't think it does I think that could be used against board members whenever they do want to make a comment and somebody says this isn't continued discussion we didn't talk about it before or something like that not saying it will I'm just saying it could Monique what I'm sorry P what is the second item that you want it on the agenda I didn't hear you it's okay there were

134two items that we we pull a consensus for and it was board comments and then the unresolved business or unresolved whatever they decided to word it but then now we're hearing it's Consolidated to items for continued discussion but I don't see that as the same thing I see continued discussion is something we've talked about before but we need to keep talking about it not necessarily board common maybe we could have a consensus at the end of the meeting again to have it on for next month or there's two things I don't I don't I mean I don't know why we should have to we had a consensus last month and we've had a consensus of other things that have happen with you I say we discuss it when we get to that point on yeah

135yeah I think the minutes I get confused about because when I compare to a Township business uh business meeting that they have or you know even other school districts honestly I've seen where there's comments that are that are placed whenever comments are made and and it is it is I'm sure left of the discussion of the secretary sure sure and I think I've seen those things too but I think the board the individual board each board decides and our board has decided and this is what she's doing you know that's what they're saying like the township they decide what they went on there and some other school groups they decide how their agend will go right right that's the purpose of the conversation is it was a consensus vote for board govern not board governance

136but for setting the agend not setting the agenda either whatever you would call that and so I thought it was supposed to be on there or should have been on there I think it would conflict even more the misunderstanding of vote versus consensus the the agenda is a reflection of the action that was taken on business that's votes um I think if you leave it at that we can talk about other things obviously but when we take like a straw pult which is what a consensus is um that's not business and I think it would just create more confusions to add it to the agenda okay two the minutes I'm at the minutes what did I say at we're still back though on the on the agenda item just approving the minutes I mean we

137can discuss that when we get it down to that agenda item um but is there any further discussion on the agenda item no sorry all those in favor say I I oppos no anybody abstain I oppose okay one oppose policy committee meeting minutes are attached for your review I need a motion to approve the general fund schedule of bills from January 17 2024 is that should be 2025 2025 to February 20th 2025 check number 8324 to check number 804 85 in the amount of $541,500 as submitted second discussion all those in favor say I I oppose motion carries need a motion to approve the food service schedule of bills dated February 20th I would really appreciate it if we would not make a motion till after he's read all of the information I agree with

138that I know you don't mind Mr President but the public listing the communities here where' I leave off date of February 20th 2025 check number 7786 to check number 7787 in the amount of $50,900 motion carries be a motion to approve the go series 2021 Bill list dated February 20 uh February 20th 2025 check number 21059 to check number 21060 in the amount of1 15,712 183 as submitted second discussion all those in favor say I I oppose motion carries need a motion to approve the Spring Fling dance fundraiser to be held on Friday April 4th 2025 in the Middle School gym yeah move discussion our CB gr on any further discussion thank you Dr wel all those in favor say I I oppose abstain motion carries need a motion to approve the girls on run

139as a school activity at McGuffy Middle School for the 2425 school year at no cost to the district s Miss discussion I just have a question I know there's Girls on the Run and then there was kids of Steel Girls on the Run used to be Elementary is Elementary now kids of Steel and middle school girls on the run or is it being offered this is this this program is being offered to a middle school we do have a girls in a run I believe at claz that they had this wrong and kids are still at Jo but they're all Su programs then Tim end up in the podcast right I think they're great my daughter participated in I was just curious where was what because I just think they're awesome thank you that was

140it any further discussion all those in favor say I I oppose abstain motion carries I need a motion to approve members of the McGuffy High School Career and Technical program local advisory and the occupational advisory committees for General agriculture agriculture canonization and engineering technology programs for the 2425 school year to move second there was any a time to stop me early Mr laser that was it discussion all those in favor say I I oppose abstain one abstain motion carries need a motion to adopt resolution 2024 2025 number three providing for the appointment of Miss Charlene hitchock and deputize Keystone Collections Group to collect real estate taxes for the McGuffy school district for properties located in a bla Township as authorized by 24 PS 601 of the Pennsylvania public school code until the next election that

141move discussion to clarify um for the community and and for myself to be sure this is a position that we are appointing only because it is vacant and if somebody chooses to run and fill the position that would supersede this appointment and that elected official would take over the responsibilities correct okay and it I know it it said since 2021 do we know when that did that person resign in 2021 or were they elected in 2021 and then later resigned and it's just been vacant since nobody okay thank you so I understand this correctly we've been doing this for the last couple years but we have to do it because we have a new business manager right correct thank it's changed every time like was Mrs Todd and then when she left it was Mrs

142englan and now what's your turn would this have to be reappointed when the term is up or this is it till somebody I guess I didn't think of that question till just now will you serve the position since we appointed you just indefinitely until somebody runs for the position and and wins the election okay and if nobody runs then main correct okay okay thank you any further discussion all those in favor say I I I opposed abstain motion carries need a motion to hire Alex fry as special education teacher at Master step one pro rated if necessary subject to a sign current assignment McGuffy middle school and per the terms and conditions of the current McGuffy Education Association agreement and pending receipt of all required clearances medical exams and act 168 verifications a move second

143discussion all those in favor say I I I I oppos abstain motion carries Dr wel [Applause] young sound state for his undergrad um and he got his masters of education and special education from Grand Canyon University uh Mr Fry has been with us for the last two uh years and placed as an emergency substitute as well as the building stuff he's worked his way through his um educational experience while getting on the job experience here and he's done a fabulous job in the Middle School uh so we'd like to at this time uh welcome Mr Fry to the [Applause] team thank you very much uh my name's Alex fry I really H just want to say thank you to really appreciative of the opportunity and look to excited to get this started and continue uh

144building their relationships in the school um and get after it so I really appreciate it thank you thank you congratulations welcome Alex need a motion to hire Renee Bailey as a special education teacher at Master step 8 pro rated if necessary subject to assignment current assignment Clayville Elementary and per the terms and conditions of the current McGuffy Education Association agreement and pending receipt of all required clearances medical exams and act 168 verification move second discussion um this we for both of these positions I guess I didn't even think about about it for the last both both of these positions are being um salaries coming from that access funding is that correct not not those just this one okay okay thank you any further discussion all those in favor say I I I opposed abstained motion

145carries uh Miss Bailey is not here tonight but if she's listening welcome to [Applause] mffi need a motion to extend the director of Athletics contract of Mr Edward Dalton through this one 26 school year per the terms and conditions of the current agreement between McGuffy school district and Ed Dalton second discussion all those in favor say I I I oppose abstain motion carries need a motion to approve Renee cambui and John laser to chaperon and attend with students to the Pennsylvania FFA State leadership conference on March 23rd through the 25th of 2025 in Harrisburg Pennsylvania move discussion yes there's always um the question for Clarity on on the funding and I was trying to even look back on what the answer was to how this worked and I couldn't find it would would somebody be

146able to clarify again the the where the funding comes from so this particular funding is built into their budget they have a budget for professional development for conferences for travel as do all departments in the district so they have budgeted for that on a yearly basis and why do we have to approve this versus one other departments Athletics for instance you know something to be covered like the subs are something we have to them to yes the subs understand a any conferen we had conference I mean we approved like when when guidance plus they're Administration goes guidance goes to PBIS training or whatever we approve those conferences correct yes you have unless there was a conference which I think there was one recently where there was actually no cost to the district um but to

147to just further answer your question uh in regards to that again it's budgeted um sometimes those uh budgeted items AR not not necessar for athletics like if they're going to go to a competition that's actually already budgeted for that's budgeted for yeah right right and but what we've done and it's been protocol since before I was here is to make sure that you know not only did you approve that budget right you're going to have to here uh very soon but we want you to know how that money is being spent so that's why it's here for you tonight right so with I think this might be where the the Mucky water is with this budget is any of this their funds that they've been earning through I think that might be so the subsidy

148money so the subsidy money just goes into the general budget it's not really set aside to go back towards their Department it goes into our general State funds subsidies that we're receiving to pay sorry to pay any bills that we have so none of this is like their fundraising that they've done this is simply budgeted from their budget from the district okay yes I appreciate it I the fundraising for different um groups it actually goes to a different account correct it doesn't go to yes they're separate right I think the confusion is it it's they I understand like what is general fund budget and what is their student acity budget yes at least for me that's what I was trying to find clarification and I knew there was an answer before and I did try

149to find it so thank you for you clarifying again any further discussion Mr leisure Charlene um you sent us an email out I requested at the last meeting that we find out what type of funding they receive reimbursements based upon what their cost is and if I remember correctly it was like 75% would get reimbursed for their particular program so that would mean that we're only paying 25% of the whole entire I program it yeah pretty much yeah ballpark M and that doesn't happen to any other program right no they basic education funding and basic special funding that's what say special ed yeah any further discussion I think manique if it helps this is right if it helps cost to the district to me means that it's coming out of the general fund coming out

150of the the school's budget yeah it were coming from the Student Activities fund we wouldn't have to approve that first of all right and it wouldn't be worded as cost to the district right if I help I it does and sometimes we say like part of it at no cost of district and then other parts of it it is cost of the district and I just think that because it's not consistent with every time it's brought they're all different yeah so I just again I just wanted to make sure I understood thank you all those in favor say I I oppose abstain motion carries I need a motion to approve Mrs Charlene halber halber talk to attend the Pennsylvania Association of school business official conference on March 11th to 14th 2025 in Harrisburg Pennsylvania at

151no cost to the district this professional development conference will be funded through title two funds second disc clarification based on the last conversation this has to be approved because she'd be missing days from work correct correct correct correct so even though there's no CA to us she won't be here and that's what we're technically approving am I understanding that correctly so again part of this is procedural this is also part responsibility corre right totally agree I just am trying to make sure that we're all understand working but not in the building correct and that's the reason it comes to us for approv okay so so it's no cost to the district because the title two funds are being spent and the board has to prove spending title two fund is why it's there thank you

152any further discussion all those in favor sorry it's Leisure all those in favor say I I oppos abstain I'll abstain Miss cyber motion carries you a motion approve Mrs Amy gusy to attend the ntsa National Conference on Science Education on March 26th through the 29th 2025 in Philadelphia Pennsylvania second discussion we got it got it all those in favor say I I opposed abstain motion carries need a motion to approve the sabatical leave of a Clayville elementary teacher as request Ed for the remainder of the 2425 school year Mo second discussion I do have a question how is a medical sabatical leave different from an smla so the medical sabatical they do get half of their salary while they're on a medical sabatical and FMLA they would not FMLA they do not get paid we

153do still continue to pay for their health care under FMLA and they're they have the opportunity for medical Cal Le under their contract correct correct yes just to make sure it's in their contract FMLA we would not be required to vote no now with a medical sabatical is it do they have to use up all their other time before using it just like you would for an FMLA yes okay and there's verbage in the contract that if they do not return that they have to repay what we paid them while they were on the medicalal thank you thank you any more discussion all those in favor say I I oppose abstain motion carries need a motion to approve Gage Bloom as an additional substitute custodian retroactive the February 14 2025 for the 2425 school year

154second discussion all those in favor say I I oppose abstain motion carries need a motion to approve Elizabeth spres as an emergency day-to-day substitute teacher and Par educator for the 2425 school year pending receipt of all clearances and act 168 verifications second discussion all those in favor say I I opposed abstain motion carries need a motion to hire the following list of 2025 spr Sports assistant coaches per the terms and conditions of the agreement between McGuffy board of directors and McGuffy Education Association pending receipt of all required clearances in act 168 verifications in the event of a partial season salaries will be prated second count discussion yes Flor is yours could we take into consideration the parental surveys or even student surveys for how things are going with their coaches or the assistant coaches the

155head coaches um when it come you know you hear from a select few that may have some complaints but wouldn't it be reassuring if we knew the majority is happy with with whatever is happening in those departments I I'm just gonna add not did I don't think that's a conversation we shouldn't have but I'm wondering if that should be saved for items for continued discussion because it doesn't really relate to these specific coaches being hired at this moment so was like a point of order I guess I don't know I I I would agree with Miss Jackson Let's discuss it at at the end of continued business and um or unfinished business however that is worded at the end there this fry um continued discussion so can we save it for that yeah okay thank

156you any further discussion on the spring coaches all those in favor say I I I opposed abstain motion carries need a motion to approve the 2425 transportation contract with Tiffany pic as submitted move second discussion yes um why are we Contracting with an individual rather than like a company or me to answer or you I mean whoever could answer um a parent she's transporting her students to another school because they need the Intermediate Unit one services in lburg which isn't necessarily unusual because it's sometimes cheaper to pay that parent than to right been to contract is there a reason why we're it's just now coming up on the agenda because this is from November until currently it's actually till the end of year right but I mean it's you know currently now is when it

157brought up okay one of our contractors the okay okay thank you I appreciate that and I did missp speak I didn't mean it was up right now I just meant now it's on the agenda sure you yes thank you any further discussion thank you Mr Wilson all those in favor say I I oppos abstain motion carries need a motion to approve resolution 2024 2025 number four authoriz izing 2526 Intermediate Unit one General operational budget as presented no move did we have a second second discussion yes um I try to compare things from year to year and I was looking at last year and I was curious if if ever there's a conversation when these are created because I know it's created I believe it's our superintendent that attend those that um input on on their

158agend not agendas their budgets that they present to the rest of the districts to approve um do we know why oh yes okay okay yes yes okay they do that on level times in the past had the opportunity for members of our board to participate on that board we just haven't had anybody who's chosen to do so in a while right but that would be our Avenue of input and they our board members would be voted on there right maybe I'm confused with something they voted on it yeah okay they would okay [Music] right right that's what we attended last year correct correct yeah okay Mr Lane was the last person from McGuffy to be on that board okay okay yeah any further discussion yes um I I did have some questions so how can

159we find out and maybe this is more for um for Miss hobber chalk got it right first the name is a nightmare isn't it um like I said I was comparing and do we know why the care and the upkeep of the grounds this year was $2,600 but last year it was $62,400 now I know McGuffy doesn't pay that total but if you're the L the itemized line items that they were giving us and what we are contributing to you're asking I I think why it was fluctuating so I mean we 2600 this year for upkeep of grounds but 62,000 last year I would imagine they purchased equipment if I had to guess could have been or we individually could contact correct I think I just looked to the overall it's a decrease this year

160oh yeah I see all the things that we've had increases I see that too but I mean a decrease is great but I mean we still I'm still looking at everything that we're contributing to as a whole as well um right right I was just curious um and then do we know if and maybe this um Amy maybe you could answer this one if we know why the legal services were more this year than last year and if any of them had anything to do with McGuffy and I I I understand that that might be something can't be answered out here you're probably not going to be able to get that information because it's going to be their their their executive content as well but if it were if it had anything to with McGuffy

161we would know we would know okay um um okay this one is more for miss hch our estimated contribute contribution last year was 20,35 and2 cents how much did we actually contribute because I know it we did contribute all of that because I know it me mentioned an estimate based on whatever data they're using Okay um um has it ever been over that you know of okay okay that was all of my questions thank you thank you Miss fry any other discussion all those in favor say I I oppose oh I'm sorry I'm sorry it's a roll call because it's a budget I apologize roll call thank you Miss ibert yes yes yes yes you're welcome thank you I need a motion to approve payment to Andre and price invoice dated January 31st 2025 in

162the amount of $5,100 as submitted so move second discussion yes um last month it was asked that the board got a redacted version of that line item um but we did not get that is it in the works or will we be receiving that I thought so so I just want to be clear because U there is SCH information on that reacted and there is also teacher staff information so in the past if that was ever wanted to be looked at that by a board member we asked that you come on campus to see the redacted which is what I thought we had said last month I don't recall being told we were going to get a reacted version We I remember somebody asking about could we get a re retracted version reacted version excuse

163me but the conversation was that if somebody wanted to see it they could make arrangement to come and see [Music] it right that's what's there now Ian that that's what's there now I'm not sure like what we give you now in student person'll have doll am person you know sure sure [Music] right we have to come to like finances if you want to go to see finances to some comp you have to come in maybe here you have to come in and see well for example when we put the budget out for public review um if they want to see it they need to come to the school and so that's just standard I guess so okay I think we can discuss it further in items for continued discussion okay all those in favor say

164I I opposed abstain motion carries Dr over the facilities use report wrestling basketb want off thank you the budget expenditure report is there for your review cafeteria report for the month of January 2025 is presented for your review bless you you're welcome the par car spending report for the month of January 2025 is presented for your review Madam solicitor do we have a solicitor's report solicitor has no report Mr President thank you Western Area Career Technology Center report Miss fry I do not have anything um since last month's meeting our next meeting is next week on Wednesday um I encourage the community to come and um see the facility um come to the meetings meet the other board members uh the director the um weekly updates are there for your viewing um I really enjoy

165reading those and sharing those so I hope you guys enjoy seeing them and reading them about all of the good things that are going on there um and uh that that'll be all thank you Miss Ry the Pennsylvania School Board Association report Miss shingle I just have a couple of things and these really are uh Big Ticket items the ethics act how to stay out of the papers the way they're advertising that it is available it's at the facility in Mechanicsburg on April the 14th and the other one this is also at the facility of the spring legal Roundup it actually is a virtual review of all the legal aspects and events that are taking place in it we should be aware of and it's on April the 4th both of those are at the

166facility I'm supposed to remind everybody about those little 10minute webinars they are really action pack there's a lot on there and they're real easy to do they only take 10 minutes that's really all I have thank you thank you Miss shingle now we will entertain public comment on non-agenda items actually it's non-agenda or agenda items my apologies that's after that's after y I'm sorry okay ahead Chief I'm sorry no you're good Mr President call Casey McFarland thank you Chief yes sir hi everyone Casey McFarland South Franklin um thank you again for the chance to speak um I wanted to really thank Dr oberg about his presentation with everything the mcguy district has been putting together with that plan for the mission for the vision how to obtain those things and I think it really appes

167what I want to speak on today um so the school board has brought together as stewards of public education ensuring that every student has access to high quality Equitable learning environment this responsibility comes um with an essential expectation and that is that we must set aside our own personal agendas beliefs and biases in order to serve a greater good for our schools um this board does not exist to push individual viewpoints or Advanced personal interests our role is to make decisions that reflect the needs of all students and Families uh not just those who share our own backgrounds values or perspectives so what this means is we must remain objective our decisions should be based on Research expert recommendations and Community needs not personal convictions we must be inclusive every student has the right to

168feel safe and valued in their learning environment that means we must ensure policies are Equitable and free from discrimination we must listen our job is to serve the entire Community not just those who agree with us we must listen to parents Educators and students considering multiple perspectives before making decisions and we must hold ourselves accountable and that includes these meetings because they are open to the public they're open to the entire district and if we find our personal biases creeping into our decision making we must recognize that challenge that and refocus on what's fair and right for all of the students and I know that's definitely difficult to do um I work in the mental health field it's it's something I need to do every single day I'm showing up neutrally without bias to each

169of my clients everybody has different views and that's a perfectly fine and normal thing it's actually a great thing it's what makes Community come together and work together and make things work together we find compromise and we meet in the middle on things so that everybody is feeling involved so I just want to encourage that to be um continued and to be a value of the school board thank you thank you Miss McFarland Chief Sir uh call Robin Crow bla Township thank you Chief Robin Crow blae Township I'm here in support of public your public prayer before your meetings I believe with the prayer with God God's presence it will give peace and calmness to your meetings that you will be able to do what's good for the children and in my case grandchildren now

170in the community thank you thank you thank you Miss Des appeal thank you chief hi good evening Jessica Capel Clayville burrow again coming with the dep positive uh that I see in our community in our school district um I wanted to thank our F frcp committee um for all of their hard work um I was very thankful for the opportunity to be included in that committee it's wonderful um all of the things that we learn and to be a part of that wonderful process um our Bachi team had their last home game on February 11th um it was wonderful to see how excited the players were to have uh a sport that they were able to participate in um it was wonderful to see the amount of staff and students that showed up to support

171our brand new sports uh here at mcui school district um I'm excited to see what our Bachi team continues to do and grow over the years to come um I realized after I left last month that I forgot to say when our MC Olympics um was is going to be taking place um it is uh actually next week February 28th um again I encourage you to come it's a wonderful day um if you can only come for a brief time I would suggest the um Opening Ceremonies um it's where they get to Showcase all of the kids from all of the different schools um it's it's a great time I promise to you say next week it's next week February 28th um I unfortunately I'm going to miss it again with um our of monitoring

172uh like we were talking earlier we have our special ed monitoring coming up um we've been working uh very diligently over the last few weeks if you see me running around I look a little lost or I'm talking to myself because I'm a going a little uh s crazy uh Mr CAC and myself have been Gathering all of the documents along with and I would like to uh thank some of our teachers uh Mrs bywalski Mrs uh Osco and Mrs Crush hour they've been helping us gather those documents as well um and I also wanted to thank um our CTE teachers for all of the time and work they dedicate towards our uh school and students uh my oldest son who is going to be graduating this year took a majority of the um classes

173that they offer um my youngest is going to be going into ninth grade he looks forward to those classes through his high school years as well thank you so much thank you Miss pill what time does the MC Olympics opening ceremonies on I believe it's around nine but I can find out the exact opening ceremonies that's that's always my favorite time of the day perfect thank you is it I think I saw it on the Facebook page too wasn't it yeah well was I think they sh something maybe the Middle School shared um looking for volunteers maybe that might have been it okay I just remembered seeing it and sharing it okay thank you Chief uh Shannon dorsy Dono Township thanks don don West Finley East Finley in Donal but I'm Donal so uh Shannon

174dorsy Donal Township and I wasn't going to speak tonight I really wasn't but um something really upset me I am here for the prayer I'm sorry public prayer is not a bad thing it um I wasn't going to say anything at all until the Pastor was dismissed that was very rude if um if anything there is no nothing being forced on our children if you are against prayer in your own home that is your own personal thing that if that I was under the understanding that a consensus would be taken to dismiss this and that was not taken to dismiss prayer from here you people are are making rules making doing things for our our children you're not forcing the prayer on our children you're asking God to come here and help you to make

175those decisions in the best need of our children I don't think that that is a bad thing if I don't agree with something I leave the room if I don't want to hear a prayer I leave the room if there's a problem with it then leave the room and you come back I am so against taking prayer out of anything thank you thank you three more AG go Mr President Vicky [Music] Jordan good evening Vicky Jordan Buffalo Township uh you all know where I stand on prayer so I'm going to move on to my other matter I did ask to adjourn for executive on what I felt was possible litigation and I still feel that way and the reason I do is um I'm TR I wanted to be respectful to Dr oer but here

176we are so last time I called out our superintendent for changing the agenda Within spin 24 hours of a board meeting and questioning whether was a violation of the sunsha law two things happened one our solicitor stated it wasn't because the title wasn't changed I'm sorry the content wasn't the title was changed um but the content was changed within 24 hours and I didn't accept the answer then that it wasn't a violation and I still don't the agenda was altered within hours of the board meeting and it wasn't in a small way the entirety of the parental consent verbage was removed I asked the board to address this with new policy reviews and add to the district policy that no changes will be made to the agenda within 24 hours of the meeting and let

177the board decide how to proceed with any suggested changes publicly in a meeting since my public comment on those two things since my public comment on that two things have happened first Dr erber has now twice attempted to embarrass me publicly at a meeting by scolding me and once talked over me loudly that he didn't do anything wrong I'm sorry you're upset Dr oberg because I spoke on this publicly and you felt I should have called you and that was your words this wasn't a just make a call all type of infraction this was the type of infraction that the community needed to be aware of so that we keep an eye on it moving forward and two the policy meeting that was advertised on our District page and in the local newspaper as the

178second Tuesday of each month at 4:00 was changed to 5:15 for the February meeting without notice to the public within the 24-hour deadline I know this because I reviewed our District page on Monday February 10th at 5:00 p.m and saw no changes I showed up on Tuesday at 3:45 and no one is there I reached out to director fry to find out that the meeting was changed to 5:15 again there was no notice to the public within the 24-hour period per policy 006 which was just discussed at not one but two policy committee meetings so now my question becomes at what point do these policies policy violations or Sunshine Law violations become an issue for the superintendent the the solicitor can hide behind the Minimus but we have now established a pattern of these types

179of violations by our superintendent so board of directors I'm going to ask you how many times will you allow him to violate our district policies and Sh Sunshine laws before you reprimand him and force him to follow the P policies of the district and law before this does become a legal issue I'm fed up with these failures yes everybody makes mistakes but now it's a pattern it was Pro proven by the removal of public prayer from the meeting without the consent of the full board it appears threats of legal action is what get your attention so I'm putting you on notice on both issues if there are any more violations of our policies and the Sunshine laws I will seek out legal advice I'm already in the process of Consulting with an organization about filing

180suit over the removal of our public prayer after a year of established prayer my goal has never been to take action against the district as this takes money away from the students but I not will not sit here while one Community thre member threatens legal action and takes away the majority of the board and the district wishes to continue public prayer and I would like to end by saying those who deny our L Lord and savior in public following the steps of Judas and Peter is that really who you want to model yourself after thank you thank you I was I I would like to address um everybody in attendance I Mr Jordan I'm very respectful to you and and your words um but I just want to remind everybody that commentary should be addressed

181to the board as a whole not to individual members including the superintendent individual staff member nor the audience that is a violation of Her First Amendment right it's in her policy in the process of changing that which has not changed yet miss fry I understand but our policies are to abide by the Constitution and it is her first amendment right all right Chief Mr President call Christy floran East Bley Township Chrissy Florian East Finley Township first real quick I just want to do a shout out for my son Hayden he obtained a co-op position as a network technician and he will be starting next month at his job I'm so proud of you also um I want to say to Michelle thank you and I will continue to pray for you and now um what

182has been done with the prayer is unacceptable I hope that the situation is resolved I do not agree with how it was had been handled um a lot of you know un unfortunately cancer has affected mine and my children's lives more than I could ever imagined or could have ever imagined after a horrible cancer diagnosis to my husband it started to make me think about life a little differently think about what could possibly be causing something so horrible today was or that food was definitely one of my main concerns and continues to be it is by far the most important thing that we can do with throughout our day for our bodies so my question is why are we not making this a top priority for those for these children every single day why is

183it when the school actually serves decent somewhat healthy food that it isn't the norm it's a step but we need a giant leap I can only do so much at home until it changes at home for others I'm not sure it will ever work in the schools households need to change for their children you follow what you're told and what they tell you is best as we are finding out it's not always the right way I think it's time for a reform focusing on nutrition for these children because what we have in place is not working I think the program you're in with it isn't working I think these schools need Doge for an overhaul I hope there is a major change Chang sooner than later and before I continue I'm going to apologize I

184don't mean any disrespect on any of you but I am absolutely sick and tired of this delay stuff and cancellation stuff so next thing I'm sorry to say but recently you have all dropped the ball on these delays and cancellations as one of our marvelous Community me community members has said it's as if you're playing rock paper scissors like which one do we get today there is a certain level of respect to be maintained and I try not to step over that with all of you but when the questions are not asked and pro problems go without solution Solutions that's what gets us into this mess to say that someone running the Schoolboard and making big decisions shouldn't be questioned is absolutely crazy do we not learn anything from covid I reserve the right to

185question anyone and everything especially when it comes to the safety of my children you've got to remember we are paying you there needs to be a policy for weather delays and cancellations I know a previous School Board member pushed this issue with Dr overberg and it ended up with no resolve you delay for a 7 degree weather day at 700 a.m. on January 23rd of this year but then there's nothing for a 7 degree day this past Tuesday with a wind chill of -7 or Wednesday when it was 9 degrees at 7:00 a.m. did you figure it would just that it would only get up to 9 degrees by 9:00 a.m. so just the heck with it make them go because a cancellation would make a bunch of people upset with you are you out

186of days I know it definitely has pull on your decision making you had two buses not starting and children standing outside for 40 minutes I find that very unacceptable completely I so upset with you guys um you inconvenience at least 60 to 100 parent people parents children and drivers that morning of January 23rd when it was just a delay you ended up with a bus in a ditch and a late van just say just stating facts here from what I've documented and I hope that that any backlash that you did get that you start taking it seriously I understand that you don't want to take days away from putting it a uh but putting a makeup day in the middle of February was a little bit silly you were absolutely inconsistent with your calls and

187that's what is most frustrating I as a community member have every right to question these decisions and those trying to say I don't I don't appreciate that I speak up for those that remain silent due to the possible criticism I don't care because my children come first our children come first the whole reason I'm here also why do these buses not have chains on their tires anymore is is that not allowed I'm kind of confusing that's change thank you that would be the fing company Chief Mr President last is um I believe Brandy Edwards thank you Chief hi Brandy Edwards Clayville uh I'll keep it short um I'm here for prayer open close um I put a a a thing together somebody else did I just shared it to the community McGuffy Community um we

188had 60 people that were totally for only two not so that tells me something right there um the other thing there was 140 149 comments most of them were for it there was just two people that just kept kind of fighting at people I left it I I could have easily removed it I could have hid whatever I wanted I left it all open for everybody to have the discussion for maafi um I'm on a few other committee or committees we all do open and close prayer I don't see a problem with it it's not harming the children it is just asking for God to be here with us on your decisions so open and close totally for thank you thank you thank you Chief Mr President that concludes public comment thank you Chief thank

189you now we will entertain uh items for continued discussion well I'm going to address the elephant in the room go ahead mingle what are we doing here because the general consensus that we did last year and we've been doing for a year was 72 that we have the prayer and now all of the sudden we're letting the pastor sit here for a half hour and not even giving him the opportunity to get up and for an hour hour so are we having a another consensus or what is our plan until another consensus is taken the the one the correct could we make a motion then to add us to next month's agenda we have to make I don't think we have to it's not it's not anything we have to vote on at this point

190since it's been so discussed in public I think for transparency purposes you should put a motion on the agenda and and hash it out next meeting so Chad you made a motion correct at the March meeting I second that I second that so we have a motion on the floor we have a second discussion Mr V There's No Agenda yet it's going on next month agend next month's agenda yeah further discussion on that I just I want to say I agree um we had a so we're gonna so what we're going to vote on right now is correct me if I'm wrong to add that to the next agenda okay and add the motion to the next agenda I I will um yeah I understand that but I do not understand how we can say

191it's a general consensus and now we're going to say a vote it doesn't really matter because my vote's not changing but or my consensus your view don't we had already decided Mr shingle I'm only saying just for transparency purposes you might as well just put it all out on the table and just have it in public I think it be abouts are we waiting till next month to have discussion on this then at this point or yes oh well it's my understanding yes because it's not on the agenda right now we would put it on the agenda for March and that's when we would discuss it and vote on it but item discussion would be any topic that's not necessarily on the agenda right right you can discuss it here but you can't vote it

192you can add it to next month's agenda right you can say that that the board would like to add six month agenda so then I so we're going to have well it gives us more time we have the motion or not but the only thing I would caution you with Miss fry which you know I respect your opinion but as Mr Thomas stated when we appoint that um new board member let them be part of that discussion as well before the vote if we vote if we discuss it now without them here then are we just going to have to rediscussed when they are appointed probably so the yes so the motion and second is on the floor to add it to the agenda there's no more discussion you can vote it okay I can

193call roll it's I'm going to roll call the vote please do we have to have a vote or is this a consensus I'm kind of confused I'm saying because you're asking to add it the agenda I'm asking for you all to vote it okay thank you I I know that you don't want to have discussion but I'm I'm confused why we would motion to have it added to the agenda it's not a measure on which we need to make a public vote correct a vote an actual vote it would just be a general consensus well what I'm there's a motion to add it to the agenda to have public common on it if you don't want to do that then you don't have to but I'm recommending that you do because it's been such an

194issue here I'm recommending that you put it on the agenda and vote it and vote on it and discuss it at the next meeting in public and vote what are we voting on exactly what to add prayer to the public so we're g to take it from a general consensus to an actual business vote Yes I'm confused there you previously told us it was of business is consens I'm sorry I'm just trying to understand because it was really not correctly it no I believe that it's to an issue and just to make for clarity sake and for transparency sake if you put it on the agenda then everyone knows about it you can just get it done so put Ona you no I'm you to make an item of business right so then here's here's

195my question I know we said we would deliberate next month but again the motion on the floor is to added to the agenda for next I get it let's just stick to that and let's roll call that vote if that's okay so just for the inst of going home sometime tonight this is important to me um Mr Kern did you seek any legal counsel from Amy before making the decision you made did you ask her what you should do about it or did you just take it upon yourself to eliminate it or let me answer it this way Miss fry um I keep hearing the word consensus and majority wants this and that but that is your opinion you don't know if it's the consensus that once said anymore correct well so then it should

196have been another consensus that doesn't answer my question did you seek did you seek legal counsel from Amy to make the decision you made I don't recall I don't I mean that was almost two months ago so did you just decide out of the blue you didn't want to do prayer last month did tell anybody till right before the meeting and we you know everything happened I'm not going to hear me interrogated by you I'm not I'm not interrogating you I'm trying to understand what happened because it it means something because the consensus was and we knew we had a consensus of a 72 vote okay you knew you were part of those emails we got the right to know we know it was a 72 vote back then correct and we had all of

197the same board members here time correct consensus a roll call whatever you want to call it consensus I have no problem doing it again that's not the isue it's not the issue of doing it again that we told already it's really not part of business it's not a business now and it's a general consensus then that's what we should be doing again now and now all of a sudden we're saying wait a minute now it's that's like we're picking and but we need to wait till we have all of the board members I agree to that point my concern is how come our solicitor isn't saying to our president you can't do that you had a consensus already well and I think that previous consensus should stand cor new consensus and why is our solicitor

198not advising that no I don't think we should vote this month I think it should be on next month this is just to put it on the agenda okay sister leiser had something to say I believe I I trying to understand all this because it's a little confusing but I think this is what it boils down to what's changed from this consensus to now the only thing I can look at and we have a new president and it's my understanding that the president is in charge of leading the meeting um I don't assume that he decided to do that and that's his prerogative I that's my understanding it was not his authority to do what he did though I understand next mon we reorganized I understand I I'm just trying to understand the whole consternation

199I guess right so the reason I my my opinion was it's consensus is because how the board organizes itself it's consensus however because it's been such an issue with cons what a consensus is and what a vote is my recommendation is because nobody seems to understand the difference let's just do it as a public vote just makes it cleaner yeah zero no my my legal opinion doesn't change I think you got the letter that we wrote to whoever I think I did or Dr oberg did my legal opinion doesn't change with liability it's just at this point it seems that everyone is confused so miss fry that's that's actually my my legal opinion that's why I think to eliminate the confusion I'm just saying let's just put it out for a public vote to eliminate

200the confusion motion on the right are you roll calling that yes and just so that because I'm there's been a lot of discussion what exactly is the motion motion is to add it to the agenda next meeting to add vo on public prayer at the meeting making it agenda District business and therefore make it yeah District business okay and only for the sake of transparency and because it's a hot button item Miss jackon I'm I'm conflicted I'll be honest with you because I don't feel it's public business I understand um what you're saying so I I think that as long as it's clearly worded that we're doing this as a business vote simply for transparency and that's clearly worded on the agenda and in the motion I don't have a problem with that is that

201okay so I'm going to say yes with that caveat do we need to change the motion in some way okay [Music] Mrs Johnson said transparency only and it will be on the agenda if you allow me to craft the motion it'll say [Music] that yeah yes yes on the next any additional items for continue discussion Mr Mr leer go ahead I was the one who questioned about the solicitors report last month um I think the the board deserves the right to have a redacted version with uh line items stating what they're actually for just so we have a better understanding I don't care to see any names of the administrators staff or students it's just a little better explanation of what the line items for because the codes that are on the invoice that we

202see I have no idea what they're for but that was my concern that's all and if you don't to work with you understand well for an example last invoice had Personnel listed twice so I don't I would just like a brief explanation of Staff student whatever it is no names I just would like to can I ask for clarification because I I know what our bills look like so we send a summary sheet which is what I think you all get that's each matter number so when we bill when I bill to my billing in McGuffy it's 25,000 General non- retainer is 25,000 point1 General retainer is 25,000 Z and then it continues I think I'm up to like 162 with matter numbers here at McGuffy I love just say for clarification that's not money

203the number is 2000 mcy number is in our system you provide the board with that whatever the numbers are what they're for then we would know okay I mean that's well protected is a little bit different I could also we also have our itemized bill which sometimes can be pretty thick and you're asking Dr oberg or Laura to take their time and cross out people's names and that I think that was a confusion of what you wanted you want the matter number the only thing that I would ask is if you could give us what the matter number is and the description of that matter number I could care less about anything else I can prepare that prepare that makes it easier for everybody thank you thank you for clarifying because that that's what we

204wanted to know like redacted means couple different things something different yeah thank you thank you one more one more thing was um the coaches um using surveys to parent parent surveys student surveys when it comes to either evaluations or rehires or renewing even I don't know what you would call it but maybe it isn't 5050 though maybe it really is only a couple people I mean that's I think that's part of why we want to find why we want the information because I guess my question would be though about whether whether we can is that part of governance um because the evaluation process is done by the athletic director um and I don't know um Mr maybe you have a better better explanation can the board dictate in what way he fulfills that part of

205his contractual obligation you see you really can't um I mean honestly that's what public participation at a board meeting is for is for people to give feedback to the board about items on their agenda such as coaches and things like that generally your athletic director here at McGuffy reviews your coaches and then your athletic director shares that with the superintendent and he shares that with with you all when you're going to renew a coach so and don't forget that supplemental positions in a lot of cases are filled by bargaining unit members you've you have collective bargaining agreement issues as well [Music] well I mean that's they're they basically said that the items for continued discussion was for board comments which I didn't understand it to be the same thing um I think it should be

206two separate I'm fine with the items for continue discussion swapping that out for that unresolved business that we talked about last month but I still think we should have something a specific line for board comments I don't know what letter P and we still have till z to go I don't yeah yeah they could we've had it in the past what was that I'm sorry I missed we've had board members in the past during public comment go up to the podium and comment or even because you're a resident be time yeah because you're a resident so you're entitled to that time as well I don't for I for me items for continued discussion would cover continued means it started somewhere so to me it doesn't mean it's a new board comment it's something that we

207either well discussed earlier in the night or a month ago it would be continued from earlier in the night right tonight it works but I'm saying for comment is you have something new to say I think I mean I think we're splitting hair I think we are um I don't think it would the items for continued discussion I I agree with Mr laser you can make it items for continued discussion slash for comment or or a board member can use a lot of time to get up at the podium or sit in your seat and be timed during discussion I mean I don't think we're trying to silence anyone by any means no I'm not accusing that at all I'm not accusing I just didn't understand it to mean both like like we had talked

208about and P the consensus on last month I would just like to ask if we could come to consensus on LGH items contined discussion SL flash or comments be added to the agenda for next items for discussion yeah wouldn't that cover it well yeah I think we will I don't know that we need can't we just take out the word continued if that's the word that you really find unacceptable items for discussion yeah I think either either way is fine I just I honestly I am too I just was confused because like I would everybody be okay sorry M Ry would everybody be okay would just taking the word continued out and items for discussions I am that would be fine for me done all right um I have something um next board meeting when

209we have to appoint um a d a new board member one thing that we do need to discuss is if we have multiple um community members that are interested in it how we're going to go about um giving them either a question or time it is my recommendation but um I I would recommend that we utilize committee time for that all right I let me finish please Oh I thought you were finished sorry you Trail off I thought you were done no no it's okay Miss Jackson um I am recommending that we give each I'll call them candidate each candidate two minutes up at the podium uh just tell us why they want to become a McGuffy School Board member but we limit it to two minutes because if you get 10 or 15 people

210you don't want to be here for seven minutes each for each one are we gonna ask them questions something about the top three well what I'm suggesting is instead of asking them questions just let them go to the podium for two minutes and tell us why they want to be a a school board member I like how that I think that's more Oran iic and yes I know and I liked it because it was perfect um yes I think I think that I would prefer that over a specific question or two Mr President so that would mean they would speak for two minutes then we would decide what ones do we want to speak further or two minutes they just get two minutes and then we V yep then we vote then somebody would make

211a motion I make a motion to app point so and so thank you so basically we're not going to quote unquote eliminate anybody we're just going to let everybody come forth two minutes to spe tell us why you want to do it or why you fit the position they still have to submit a letter I mean not a letter but in writing by the 15 I'm sorry if you clarified I missed it is that during committee meeting or during the public meeting it's during public corre at committee at committee at committee all right we'll do it at committee Miss ibert we we'll do that at committee so we'll let him speak at committee committee and we v on it that's typically how it's done I just wanted to clarify if if the board hey um

212can we hold uh one second go ahead Miss fry um I was just gonna say if the board did decide to reorganize at that time what does that have to be you can you're asking if you can remove the president you cannot remove a president without a you can't reorganize in the middle of a year so you can't re or do you mean vote for vice president no I meant reorganize yeah you can't remove a president without there's been a court case that's come down recently that they have a loudermill right you'd have to have a hearing can you share that court case with me please or the board certain certainly I I think it's it's not pen Crest Pennhurst but I'll send I'll send it up okay I'm asking if if somebody were to

213motion to reorganize right I thought she the vi not getting rid of them he would still be on the board because that's a vacant decision right anyways um it was just a what if question if somebody worked to motion to reorganize how would that work because I was under the understanding that it could happen at any time of the year but that's been clarified yes you have to you would have to remove the president if you wanted to reorganize okay but not remove them as a board member remove them from no you there's very very very limited ways to remove a board member section 318 of the school code it's incredibly complicated you can you cannot remove a sitting officer without a hearing Ah that's okay that's what I was confused about okay um I

214had one more question but don't remember what it was so I apologize if I Remember by next month you'll hear from me we need to finalize how we do the vote than two people that would be nominated um well can I take this one you want okay I um well you would make a mo somebody would have the motion for a candidate like for instance I would have to say I make a motion for so and so to become a board member to take Michelle Art's Place then that person would need a second but then another board member can make a motion for another candidate works the same way so you would have then the most Cent so for every candidate that has a motion and then a second they will be the ones we

215would eventually vote on and we would roll calls right and count and and just so you all know the person who you pick has to have five votes so I'll be over here doing the thing right kind of like we did at reorg like we do at reorganization exactly you open nominations to be elected I mean to be appointed they have to have five votes it has to go by five right so you can't it can't be a plurality is work% you can't have like one one one 44 would not pass right right right I make a motion to adjourn I second all those in favor say I I oos obain motion carries