001throw up my mouth. Before we begin, uh, Mrs. Ramage, do you copy? Yes, I hear you. Thank you. Thank you. Good evening everyone. Sorry we're starting a few minutes late, but welcome to the April action meeting and we'll start with a video. Hello and welcome to this North Penn news update. Spring has sprung and the district is a buzz with activity. Our students continue to give back to the North Penn community. 9th graders at Penrook Middle School dedicated a day to community service. Students planted trees, performed spring cleanup, made dog biscuits and dog toys, and volunteered at local organizations, including several of the district's elementary schools. And over at the high school, the annual raised over $14,000 for the Four Diamonds Club to help fight childhood cancer. Walton Farm Elementary School celebrated diversity in a
002unique way. The celebration was a showcase of several North Penn High School cultural clubs featuring traditional cultural dances, games, and information about their heritage. It was a great experience for the younger students to see how the older students celebrate their culture. The elementary Korean Cultural Club celebrated the end of the year in style. This club was the first ever districtwide cultural club offered for students. This was a great experience for all involved to learn about and experience a new culture. The high school's national honor society hosted a jump into STEM day. Elementary students could show off their science projects while a range of high school science and mathematics clubs offered hands-on demonstrations including robotics, chemistry, and solar panels. just to name a few. North Penn seniors were reminded of the consequences of making bad decisions
003with the annual DUI reenactment. With the assistance of local first responders, students witnessed firsthand the harsh realities of driving under the influence. Congratulations to the high school indoor ensembles for their performances at their championships. For the first time in 15 years, the winter percussion is a WGI World Championship finalist, finishing seventh in the highly competitive Scholastic A competition. In addition, the injured guard placed third in their championships. Congratulations. And after a successful competitive season, the district's jazz program held its annual night of jazz. Seven ensembles performed with guest soloist Haley Brunell. This night is sponsored by a grant from the North Penn Educational Foundation. And speaking of the Ed Foundation, you can help support grants like this by participating in the foundation's online auction. The auction kicks off on May 1st and runs through May
0048th. All funds raised through this auction will return to North Penn classrooms through innovative grants and supplemental programs. Check everything out at the address on your screen. In sports news, congratulations to the high school hockey team for winning the first ever state team title. The boys swimming 400 relay team took gold. Lacrosse senior Quinn Rodoff scored her 100th goal. Boys lacrosse goalie Connor Howard racked up his 500th save in net. Tessa Wlock is now a member of the U7 National Flag Football Team. Head baseball coach Kevin Monero chocked up his 200th career win. And the high school athletics department received the Myron Cop award for the best high school sports media account from Point Park University. And this weekend is one of the biggest events to happen in the North Pan community, the International Spring
005Festival. Be sure to stop by North Penn High School for this free event from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Performances take place all day in the gym, cafeteria, aon lobby, and the auxiliary gym. The high school planetarium will be open for free tours of the night sky, and Food will be available for purchase in the cafeteria as well. Come and celebrate the great diversity of the North Pank community. And next weekend, do not miss another fantastic performance from the high school's theater department. Children of Eden takes the stage May 1st through the 4th with a special gold card performance on Wednesday, April 30th. Show times are 700 p.m. Thursday through Saturday with a matinea at 2 p.m. on Sunday. Tickets are still available at the website on the screen or head to npen.org. theater for
006more information. And that is all for this North Penn news update. But guess what? We got so much more at YouTube.comv where you can find us 247365. Welcome to our regularly scheduled action meeting. This meeting is being videotaped for community cable channels and streamed live. Individuals attending this meeting and intending to speak to the board should be aware that they are being In order to meet the requirements of Pennsylvania sunshine law, it is necessary to record the names of all citizens who speak to the board during the meeting. To assure compliance with this requirement, it is essential that those planning to address the board state their name and municipality. Members of the audience will limit their questions and comments to three minutes. And now, please stand for the pledge of allegiance to the flag of
007our country. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Okay, good evening everyone. Uh, special shout out to Mrs. Fakish for that excellent update video and thank you for to Ethan for pressing play. I would also like to uh wish Dr. Waters, our esteemed assistant superintendent, a happy birthday. So, happy birthday, Dr. What better way to spend your birthday than to spend it with us. So, um, with that, in a continuation of a series of spotlighting some of our student programs, I'm very pleased to present to you this evening, uh, Dr. Christy Johnson and Mrs. Katie Grunm, who have really organically led a really neat opportunity in a couple of our schools
008in North P. So, to tell us more about that, Mrs. GRE and Dr. Johnson. Hello. Do you want to come up? All right. Good evening. First off, thank you so much to the board and administration for having us here tonight to share about the peer connections mentorship program we love and feel so passionately about. I'm Katie Grunm. I'm a teacher at the high school and this is Dr. Christy Johnson, our social emotional learning coach in BCBA. Um, last school year we were approached with an exciting opportunity to pilot a student mentorship program with sixth graders at NAP Elementary. The Peer Connections mentorship program brings together high school students enrolled in a leadership course with elementary students to foster positive social development and meaningful relationships through bimonthly mentorship sessions. High school mentors serve as role models,
009guiding elementary and middle school students in building confidence, improving social skills, and developing positive peer and adult interactions. This cross- mentorship initiative not only supports younger students in navigating social challenges, but also provides high school mentors with hands-on leadership experience by promoting empathy, responsibility, and connection across age groups. The program cultivates a school culture rooted in respect, support, and community growth. We recognized that high school students having recently navigated similar experiences could serve as powerful and relatable role models for our younger peer for younger peers by sharing their own stories and insights. They've been able to form meaningful authentic connections that truly resonate. After seeing positive outcomes for both mentors and mentees last year, we were very excited to expand the program to include fourth, fifth, and sixth graders at NAP Elementary. This year, we
010are also piloting the program at Pemrook Middle School with seventh and eighth graders. It's been incredibly rewarding to watch the program grow and evolve and witness the positive impact it's had on students of all ages. Tonight, a few of our amazing uh mentorship program students are here to share some highlights from their experience. I'm going to invite Sophia up front. Good evening. My name is Sophia Tubertini and I am a junior at Northbend High School, a part of the mentorship program at Penrook Middle School. One of the things I've gotten out of being a mentor within this program is being someone a student is able to rely on. During times when you are struggling or just don't know what decisions to make, it's nice to have someone there to answer your questions. I enjoy being
011able to help my mentee in whatever way she needs to be able to help her succeed at all of her goals, big and small. As a mentor, I have learned to I have learned to listen to the feelings of my mentee and help give her the best advice that is going to help her achieve all that she wants to do. This program has helped me to create a friendship with my mentee and has left me looking forward to each time that I get to meet with her. Seeing her growth and determination to achieve her goals is very inspiring. I think this program has done so much to positively influence the students in our community, and I can't wait to see how much more we can all grow from these opportunities. Now, I have a few
012words from my buddy who is in seventh grade. She says, "This program has helped me to open up. Penrook is more fun now since I am a part of the program. The program has made me feel more comfortable with adults. I now make eye contact easily with adults. I like my mentor. She understands me and is really nice. We connect well and I am thankful for her. And now I have some words from an eighth grade mentor buddy. Sorry. The program has helped me keep up with my work and also my schedule. The program has helped me become more respectful towards peers. Instead of reacting with anger, I am more calm. I like the activities that we do in the program. Thank you. Hi everyone. I'm Alana Wyn. I'm a senior at the high school
013and I've been doing this program for two years now. Hi everyone. My name is Miriam Hammock and I'm also a senior and I've also been in this program for two years now. So I just want to say that since starting this program and we've been at this program since the beginning of last year as well. I've noticed that also like recently after COVID a lot of kids have had a lot of rise of mental health issues and we see that a lot with not only us but also younger generations. So I feel like having this program has helped them navigate through that not only having that personal relationship with us but helping them guide them after elementary school when they go to the middle school as well. It's not only benefited us but it's also
014benefited them. And I feel like this has been such an amazing program because my mentor my mentors as well as my the students that we teach they have seen such a dramatic change and I've it's been amazing and along with the mentorship um for the mentors at least I think that it gives us sort of a responsibility and um honestly we're seen by these students as a role model and a person to look up to when um a lot of them don't have that person in their life. And I feel um working with all these different students um kind of gives us like gives us a new vision on how different everyone is and as we go through life, how we can kind of like navigate all through those walks of life because it's everyone
015doesn't come from the same background. Not everyone has that role model at home. So for us to come down there and to be their older sibling say is really special to us but also to them. So, we just have a couple words for some of our um mentees from NAP. Someone has said, "I like the mentorship program because they help me set my goals. I like I like the mentorship program because they help me improve my thinking skills. My mentor helps me with my social skills as well." And a couple more. Um I like the mentorship program because it has fun activities. My mentor gives me advice. Um I like the mentorship program because it makes me less shy to older kids because I was really shy meeting them. My mentor helps me learn new
016things. I like the mentorship program because we can bond. My mentor helps me make good decisions. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you to our students for sharing their experiences and for the heart they've brought to this program. It's clear that these connections are making a real difference not just in the lives of the mentees, but in the growth, confidence, and leadership of our mentors as well. Our students have truly exceeded expectations, embracing the roles with compassion, maturity, and enthusiasm. We're incredibly proud of the relationships being built and the impact this program is having, and we look forward to watching the Peer Connections mentorship program continue to grow and inspire in years ahead. Dr. Johnson, Mrs. Grunm, and our student speakers, could you guys please come up and give a handshake? You're okay. Thank
017you so much. I'll [Music] wait before they leave. So before all of you head out um Miriam, Sophia and Alana I on and the other members of the board may want to speak as well. I just want to say thank you personally. I think what you're doing is very very um selfless. Um you all demonstrate your maturity and you have such confidence and I can't help but think that the mentees are truly benefited by what you're doing for them every day. So, thank you for sharing. Thank you for not be Thank you for being fearless, especially in these days. So, I really mean it. It's I'm I didn't know about this program. Okay. And um I wish that had been something that was available even when I was younger. I mean, that relationship building is
018so special. So, thank you again, ladies. I've I've had the opportunity to observe these great students in action at NAP and at Penrook. And I stumbled upon it at NAP. I didn't go there for this reason. Uh Katie, you might be able to help me with the young man's name that was heckling me for money. Do you remember Killian? There's there's a young man named Killian. And I walked in. He's like, "Dr. Bower, come here." He goes, "Can I get a million dollars?" And I said, "Killian, do you take any other form of currency like M&M's, Skittles?" And he said, "Nope, straight cash." So, uh, but Killian's buddy was mentoring him. And once Killian went back to class, I got to hear about the impacts that his mentor is having on him. Uh, the relationship
019they've built, the way they're keeping in touch outside of the meetings as well, just to try to keep the students on track. Same experience at Penrook, obviously a little bit more mature. But really to the kids, you guys are amazing. And to the mentors, thank you for taking the initiative and doing this. It's really making an impact. So, thank you. Yeah. Very quickly, I don't know if this works. Mrs. Rnik, I don't know if is this working. Can you hear me? All right. One more. Sorry. Yeah, just one more. I mean, since we're piling on, but alas, I'm sorry students, this is not for you. It's for the teachers. So, I want to just thank you. I mean, we get a lot of feedback around um what programs there are at North Penn. And I
020I mean the time that you all spend out of your day jobs to continue to pour into these kids is just incredibly admirable. And I tell you, I I have a junior and every time students come and we hear about programs like this, I'm thinking I'm sending her a note and saying, "Why aren't you involved?" But the reality is that because of the school and the school district that we have, she's involved in a lot of things because of teachers like yourself who continue to provide opportunities for students to be involved in a lot of things. And that's why she did doesn't have the time to be involved in this, but you guys keep creating opportunities and we're just incredibly grateful for it. But also the students, you guys are great, too. [Applause] All right.
021Um, we'll move um to our audience of citizens. Would anyone like to make public comment this evening? The disclaimer has already been read. All right. So, just let me know if I get close to my three minutes. Good. Good evening. Could you please your address? Bridget Kunicorn and Line Lexington is my municipality. I'm very familiar with the Roberts rules procedures. So, we're good. Um, I'm still in training. No, I'm sure you're doing great. Okay. So, I just you um you either know me um or you are just meeting me now and you know that if I'm here, I'm here for a serious reason because I don't come for just light reasons. So, um, recently there was an event, um, that I've been following closely in our neighboring district, Central Bucks, um, with a self-contained classroom,
022which had abuses in, um, the individuals and the teachers. So, what I would like to see here is I'm also part of the safe schools subcommittee, the mental health subcommittee. I find that those things are very um very passionate about them and so I try to give my time and donate and give back into our school community as much as I possibly can. And while I do not have a child in a self-contained classroom, I do not have a child that is non-verbal, I do have autistic children, so I can relate on some level to the nerves of the parents who are sending their children to school every day hoping for the best. And we know that 98% of our teachers are amazing, maybe even 99%. But there's just that 1% and similar to what
023has happened with our policing situation, most of them are good, but occasionally there's some bad apples. So, what they've moved to do is body cams. I would like to strongly suggest that we get self-contained um closed cameras in the self-contained classrooms. They would not need to be able to be distributed. Parents do not need to be checking in. I understand privacy and teachers want to teach how they are and not be bothered by eight million questions a day. But that way if a situation arises, we can then have the school review the footage and we won't have an issue like in Central Bucks where unfortunately not only did the principal of that school lie, but their superintendent lied about the situation. It's very serious. You can look it up in the local news if you're
024not familiar with the situation. I don't want that happening here at North Penn. We're an amazing school district. We are really making strides towards safety and I want to continue to make those great changes. And I think this is a super simple, very smart change that protects our teachers and protects our students and provides that reassurance for those parents who are sending their non-verbal children to school. And that is all I wanted to say. And oh, I think that program is amazing. If we could get a buddy program for the special ed students, that'd be great, too. That's all I have to say. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Is there anyone else who like to make public comment this evening? Good evening. Good evening. Uh Jason Lir Lansdale. um on the cusp here
025of a uh another election and I know a couple of board members aren't running. I I just wanted to run review some stats with people on on why it's not good to have a board that votes as a single block for the last five years, six years, seven years. It's unbelievable the stats when you look at it. So since 2019, December of 2019, uh couple couple of changes in personnel, but primarily the same voting group. There's been since there to last month, there's been 2, 103 votes in action meetings. Now, that's not work session meetings, and that's not committee meetings. Committee meetings don't count for uh vote, and work session can, but you got to kind of look through them all. But action meetings all are law-abiding requirements. And I'm not talking about the the
026regular votes in terms I mean they're included in here, but mind you this. We're not talking about the budget uh or when you're trying to buy propane gas or you're looking to uh replenish supplies for the cafeteria. Everybody understand there's there's not a lot of controversy in that. But in those 2,13 votes, there were four votes that were not unanimous. Just four. Do you guys know what four they were? I bet you do because two of the people here, three of them are here who voted that way. Actually, maybe all four of you. One had to do with uh the head hunter to find uh Dr. Bowers. One had to do with the health center. And then two votes were voted down regarding an appeal for an assessment. Those were the only four controversial votes.
027Only four. Everything else was unanimous. Every vote. So that's 98 99.8% of the votes are unanimous. Now, you're trying to tell me that there's really a a diversity of mindset here. everybody's is singly focused or is there agenda that isn't written and you're going to do what you think is just what you what as a voting block what you guys want to do without actually having a conversation of what's right and what's wrong any any challenging of of of thought process it's just unanimous voting no intellectual curiosity just vote for it 2,13 votes four were not unanimous This is why this board needs to be changed just so that you know what you're getting makes sense and that's led to some pretty bad things. And I got 30 seconds here, but there's been some pretty
028poor things that have come out through that unanimous voting. And if you guys are shaking your head, you want to challenge me, bring it up. Are you going to wait till I sit down and then you're going to talk about me? You can you can challenge me. I'm right here. Bring it up because it's true. I I did the math. It's right here. Have a spreadsheet. you want to look at it, I'm more than welcome to share it with you. And I'll leave it there. Thank you. Thank you. Anyone else like to make public comment this evening? Good evening. Good evening. I'm Carol McGrie Derstein, Lance Del Barrow. Um I actually have a question that Mr. Laneir brought uh up last time. Um there's a focus on the metrics and the rating of the district.
029Dr. Bower responded with our statistics. Our ma math scores, our EL ELA scores, all of the statistics are pretty good. In that conversation, Mrs. Stole brought a point up that what's impacting our ratings are the conditions of our facilities. Um, and so I have children that are much younger than the high school and I'm just curious if we could start having a conversation or like maybe there is a conversation. I'm not like aware of this conversation about the long-term plans to address those issues that are harming us statistically. So if our test scores are okay and then it's really our buildings and and you know there is a problem with having decades of single thought because my knowledge of this community was 30 years of a single political party dominating ideas not taking ideas about
030facilities to the public has put us in a position and has left us with a really dilapidated archaic facility and infrastructure. So, what is the plan? Where as a community member can I find out that plan? And I appreciate like little things like I know about the audit for the playgrounds and I was able to find out a lot of information about that for my own child's school and I can see the vision in the future and I appreciate that. So, like I see that my tax dollar is going to be invested in a way that's sustainable and helpful to my community. So, where can I see that? not just for the high school but across the district in a way that we will be improving those algorithms that negatively impact our niche rating or
031negatively impact our like what best schools I don't remember all of them but like where is that and how can I find it and how can it become more accessible so as a community we understand the plan for our future so thank you and have a lovely night Oh, okay. Would anyone else like to make public comment this evening? Good evening. Hi. Hi. I'm Karen Cole. I'm in Hatfield. I have two kids in the high school. I have one child in um Penfield. My one child in Penfield, she has special needs. and I want to address the board because there is no life skill programming for my child and she's not receiving the education that she needs and deserves. Um my understanding is they're trying to find outside placement for her. However, there is no
032place available in the 50 60 miles from here. So my child right now is not receiving the education she needs. She's in a classroom with other children that have similar disabilities and my understanding is she's not at the bottom of the class. She's actually at probably the middle or higher level of that class. So there's other kids in there that are not receiving the education that they need and deserve. For example, in the beginning of this year, I had to tell the teachers she should not learn about electrons, protons when she's still learning that when it's cold outside, you put a jacket on. And I had to fight for that. She can't count one, two, three, four all the way up. But she's learning how to do fractions in math. But I had to fight
033the school and say, "Hey, this is not right. This is not okay. My child is in seventh grade now. She deserves better and I think North Penn needs to put together a program to help these kids. She is not alone. It is there's several kids that need this and special education for children that have disabilities like her, they're being denied education. And so that's what I wanted to bring up today. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Is there anyone else this evening that would like to make public comment? Okay, so Okay, sure. Good evening. Hello, Yanni Lambros from Lansdale. Um, I saw the story on the CB West case. what happened. Um, I can imagine that a lot of people, a lot of parents are feeling very uneasy that something like that could happen.
034As I was reading through it, I kind of couldn't believe all that could happen within a school, let alone an elementary school. And I think that's why, you know, a lot of people here too would appreciate more transparency from this board, from the schools. I think that, you know, you've had multiple people come up and talk about the camera situation. I think that is a good thing to mindfully look into. I understand it is a delicate balance due to privacy of teachers and students, but also safety of students and a peace of mind for parents. But I think it's something that possibly, you know, should be tried out in the elementary school levels. something, you know, where if you could find a way almost like like was said um police body cam or like a
035blackbox on the plane. It's not something that people would watch live. It's not something that anyone would use to evaluate a teacher teaching, but it should be something there just in case of an emergency, just in case something happened that could protect both student or teacher depending on the situation. Also, you know, one thing I give credit to some over at CB West for making it transparent, even though it's very bad to read, even though it's not a good look, but you guys didn't do that with the last report and the last investigation from the little girl who was attacked. And I don't know why. I don't know why trying to hide so many things um doesn't make sense. And I don't think it gives the community a peace of mind. I don't think everything
036you guys do is bad, but I don't think everything you do is necessarily good. And for the kids, I think some things are agendas being pushed. And you have a couple members that are now looking to run for tax collectors. They want to get their name out there. Is it about the kids or is it about you? You know, ask yourselves that question. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Anyone else this evening that would like to make public comment? Okay. I just have I know I already went just one second. Do you mind? Um actually I do be I like to stay on schedule. I'm sorry but um I will say I don't think the agenda is going to be very long and we're happy to stay after and talk. No, I'll send you an email.
037You sure? Okay. Well, I Okay, so we were going to respond. What I wanted to do, I'm going to trip through this now, is I'd like to respond to Mrs. Durstein. Doctor, pardon me. Um, there is a very detailed capital project plan, 10-year capital project plan that looks at all of the facilities and is over overseen by Mr. William Slaughter who is our director of facilities and operations at our facilities and operations committee. uh meetings which are virtual. We discuss all the let's say operational reactive items that need to be repaired. We also review the 10-year capital project plan. So while I agree with you there's been a lot of information uh provided regarding the high school project, we do um have a focus on the rest of the facilities. Um, not just you mentioned
038the playground assessment, there's other assessments going on, but there's work being done. The 10-year capital project plan is very detailed. It's methodical. It actually measures the and and quantifies the severity of the issue. Um, we look at the age, we look at the safety, and I'm actually I'm looking at Mr. Slaughter and he's thinking, you know, he should be the one addressing this. But I would offer that at some point it would be I'm going to welcome you to join the facilities and operations committee meeting virtually online. Um is it 7 o'clock this coming Monday as a matter of fact and then there's other meetings where you can hear about it but mostly facilities and operations and I'd be happy to um ha ask Mr. Slaughter to reach out to you if you'd like to
039understand a bit more. Oh he already knows me. Oh um if I may murder. All right I messed up. Um I also wanted to it's just my energy level about this stuff. Sorry. Wanted to respond about the comments regarding cameras. Um there has been progress um exploring one of the public commenters mentioned really think it would be you know prudent to explore. Um we do have cost estimates on the number of classrooms the infrastructure that would be necessary not just cameras themselves but the POE switches um network space all those things the installation costs. We also um we've met with a group of parents that spoke at the board meeting last month. Um Dr. Waters, Dr. McKenna, and myself met with those parents and I've had separate meetings with both of our employee groups uh
040about the matter and we actually have a mutual meeting with those employee groups and a group of parents to discuss the matter further. We also have some engaged um community members who you heard from at the podium this evening offering some legislation uh from some other states around the country. So, we're definitely making progress uh in that area and when we have a full understanding of the situation, the cost, all those things, uh we'll bring it to the board to discuss. So, um but yes, absolutely worthy of a conversation and um we're taking it very seriously and moving forward. I just want to give a little credit to Dr. Durstein. Um she's a very strong advocate for this. She emails us fairly consistently about this issue and I can tell you that my thinking on
041it has evolved um in part for sure from the information you have shared. Uh so yeah this is absolutely something that is um being looked into and seriously one suggest actually Dr. Dine, I I want to Yeah, please. Or you know what? As as as Mr. Fusco said, this meeting should go quickly if I don't ask too many questions tonight. Um, but it would be helpful to speak with you and you after the meeting and make a point and reach out. Thank you. And if I could say one thing, I'm also the chair of the uh North Marco Technical Career Center and I did ask that we get camera vest for security at the North Marco Technical Career Center and that has been approved and now the security at North Marco Technical Career Center is
042wearing uh camera vests when they do their work. Okay, thank you. All right, we're going to move on in the agenda. Um, next up will be approval of meeting minutes from two of our meetings, March 20th and April 8th. May I please have a motion to approve both of those meeting minutes? So moved. Is there a second? Oh, I did hear a second. All right, so it was Mr. Fusco and Mrs. Stole. Are there any comments or questions regarding the minutes? Hearing none, all in favor say I. I. Any opposed? No. The motion passes. Thank you. The minutes are approved, I should say. Pardon me. All right, moving on to the committee reports. So, the first one that we'll hear about is Gee, I'm sorry, Mr. Mr. um Rash. I apologize. The North Monco Tech
043Center update. Oh, that's actually me. Oh, I'm sorry, Mrs. Rnik. I didn't realize that. You're just trying No worries. No worries. No worries. You're just trying to confuse me more. Okay, I'm I'll make it quick. Uh the North Monco Joint Operating Committee met in person. uh this past Monday, April 22nd. Um in addition, the ad hoc capacity committee met before the Joocc uh meeting and this committee will continue to meet monthly. Several North Penn students competed in the State Skills USA competition in Hershey in early April. Um I had mentioned last month that they were going to compete. Uh we're happy to share that two students placed first uh in HVAC and uh baking and pastry. Four students placed second um as part of the entrepreneurship team cosmetology and we had one student placed third
044as part of the crime scene investigate investigator team uh specifically protective services. So, congratulations to all our students who participated uh particularly to our students who placed. The first place winners will advance to compete at nationals on June 23rd to 24th in Atlanta, Georgia. Uh in March, Dr. Manastra provided the 202526 enrollment update. Again, I reported on that. Um but the initial placement process has now been completed. 402 students have been placed to date with 32% of these students having an IEP. There are still 207 students on the weight list including 116 students from North Penn. Uh I know that this has been a topic of compet of conversation for a number of parents that were eager to find out um if their students were placed. Um but and note that this is exactly why
045we have a capacity committee because as much as we want to try to find a home for all the students, it's been a challenge. Uh there are a number of exciting events coming up at Northmont NMTCC uh including Skills USA signing day which is May 6th and new student orientation May 8th. Uh, finally, as mentioned last month, the North Monco Educational Foundation car show, it's a mouthful, uh, will be held on Saturday, May 3rd from 11 to 2:00 p.m. U, I'm excited to share that we have approximately 100 vehicles that were registered and we invite community members to join us. U I'll also add that at the meeting we had this past Monday, we heard from two students who are part of the electrical program. Um and we I would like to thank Lensdale Electric
046that uh continues to significantly support our North Monco Technical Center students. Thank you. Thank you, Mrs. Rnik. All right. Next up will be two reports, the Montgomery County Intermediate Unit and the North Penn Educational Foundation. And Mrs. Ramage will um is joining us virtually to provide those updates. Mrs. Ramage, Mrs. Ramage, either you are not m unmuted or we need to turn our volume up in the room. All right, we'll we'll move on and if Mrs. Ramage can join. Fine. Mr. I can give an update. McBain, Mr. McBain is going to do the intermediate unit. Yeah, sure. Thank you very much. I I'll do a an overview as best I can. Um from the March 26th board meeting, uh we have Joe Walsh, a program administrator uh for emotional support, provided a presentation on pathways
047to the uh empowerment program. A copy of this can be found on board docs from the MCIU. Uh Dr. Speaker shared a one-pager executive level comprehensive plan and the board approved the 25 through 28 comprehensive plan. And towards the bottom where all the fun stuff is, leadership monco.org has launched and are accepting new applications for 50 participants this year. And the board approved an agreement with Special Olympics of Pennsylvania to support in intercolastic unified sports programs. Uh, the next meeting of the MCIU board of directors will be at 6:45 PM on April 23rd and the rest can be read on board docs. Thank you, Mr. McBain. So, I do want to see if we have Mrs. Ramage online, of course, for voting purposes on future items. So, Mrs. Ramage, I saw Mr. Gilmer working behind
048the scenes there. Okay. All right. See how it says in the top there, it says talking. So, she is speaking, but Bob, we are not hearing her in the room. Uh, so we'll see if we can get that ironed out. Let's do the Ed Foundation report. Dr. G will give that. Thank you. The foundation continues to prepare for its annual online auction, which will be held on May 1st through the 8th. The auction will feature an assortment of items to bid on, from Philly's tickets to art classes to restaurant gift certificates to unique experiences. There's sure to be something for everyone. The link to the auction will be shared with the community as we get closer to May 1st. Last week was the deadline for North Penn staff to submit grant applications for the 2526
049school year. We look forward to reviewing the proposals in May. Thank you to everyone who took the time to submit an application. If you have any questions about the foundation, please contact Christine Liberoski at the ESC or go to npenedfoundation.org. Thank you, Dr. G. Next up is the legislative report by Mr. McBain. Thank you very much. has been as has been covered widely in the news. A number of executive orders, agency memos, and other policy decisions pertaining to education were recently announced from the executive branch of the United States government. As these all trickle down through the various levels of both federal and state judiciaries and legislatores, we want our community to know that we are aware. Like other K to2 public schools across the country, we will continue to monitor these progressions uh and
050take steps to comply with the with these laws as they are made clear. Committee members are also uh reminded that as registered Democrats or Republicans, you should make a uh plan to vote in the Pennsylvania primary. Your last day to register to vote, if you haven't done so yet, is May 5th. The last day to apply for a mail-in ballot is May 13th. And your local polling place will be open from 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. on election day, Tuesday, May 20th. For more information, please visit pa voters.pa.gov. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. McMain. Mrs. Mrs. Ramage, can you let us know if you can try and speak? So, Bob, she's clearly speaking because it just came up with Julian Ramage on the screen. Um, if there's anything I can do in the room to
051help tell one of the kids. All right, we'll keep trying. All right, thank you. Next up is the solicitor's report, please. Good evening, everyone. And I have one announcement tonight, which is that the board met in executive session immediately prior to tonight's meeting to discuss matters of personnel involving two support staff employees of the district and to consult with a solicitor regarding a right to know appeal currently before the Pennsylvania Office of Open Records. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Now, we'll turn it over to Dr. Bower for the Superintendent report. Thank you. Okay, one more try because I'm about to ask for a vote. I want to see if we have Mrs. Ramage. Okay, I think we will raise your hand. We could do that. Um, Mrs. Ramage, can you digitally raise your hand
052and then maybe we could see it on the screen, Bob? And we can count that as a vote. If not, we'll just move on with seven, right? Which is totally fine. Yeah. Okay. All right. All right, I am not seeing anything. So, we are going to move on. Sorry, Mrs. Ramich. You can simply uh observe or catch up later. We hope you feel better. Oh, no. Oh, there he is. The man behind the curtain. Okay. What? He's amazing. All right. Can we see it? Oh, I see your thumb up. Can you lower your thumb? Ah. All right. So, your hand is up. If you could lower your hand, Mrs. Ramage. Uh, there we go. We will move forward and just raise your hand and we will keep track of that. You got that, Joanna? Joanna,
053you'll watch. Oh, we just heard you talk again. Oh, no. It's working. Okay, there it is. Hey, thank you, Bob. You're incredible. Thank you. All right. Um so the first item is the consent agenda. I recommend all the items listed on the consent agenda. Agenda items A through N, including the adoption of policies, adoption of policies for a first read, approval to advertise for bid, approval to advertise for an RFP, the Pennsylvania seal of biiteracy, summer programs, contracts, student travel, alternative placements, North Penn High School Plan Con J, a future resident tuition free, student agreements and hearing waivers, student agreements, and appointment of appraisal company. Okay, thank you. May I please have a motion to approve consent items A through N in the agenda? So moved. Second. Right. Mrs. Stole and Mr. Fusco. Are there
054any comments or questions regarding any of these items? No. No comments. All right. All in favor say I. I. Or raise your hand. Mrs. Ramage. Now that we have her speaking, she Oh, she can speak. Oh, I forgot. Mrs. Yes. Yes. Okay. Okay. Any opposed? Hearing none, the motion passes. Thank you. Okay. Next, I recommend approval of the personnel items as per the attached. Okay. Please have a motion for the personnel items. So moved. Second. All right. Mr. Fusco and Mrs. Stole. Any comments or questions. All right. Hearing none. All in favor say I. I. I. I. I. Any opposed? Hearing none. The motion passes. Thank you. And with that vote, I would like to bring the director's attention to the fact that you just approved uh the appointment of our new assistant director of
055business administration. Miss Mary White is in the audience. Congratulations, Mary. [Applause] Congratulations and welcome to the district. Um next I am very sorry to share. Um, we've started this this year notifying the board uh when an employee passes away. Um, so I am sad to share that we lost Rachel Herring who is a tech support specialist in the district. She passed away on March 27th, 2025. She's been employed with the district since January of 2020. Um, Rachel was a valued member of the team. Uh, always willing to help students and staff. her husband is actually a volunteer fireman in the community and she does have students in our schools. So, um, very tragic and very sorry to lose Rachel. Next, I would like to recommend the approval of the act 93 compensation plan for our
056administrators for the 2025-26, 2627, and 2728 fiscal years. The plan includes a 3% increase to the salary schedule for each respective year of the plan. Starting July 1st, 2026, the employee medical contribution will increase by 1% from 17% to 18% and the co-pay for doctor's office visits will increase by $5. A copy of the Act 93 compensation plan is on file in the office of the chief financial officer. And those parameters that I just listed there in terms of the increases are consistent with our other bargaining units. Okay. Okay. May I have a motion to approve, please? So moved. Second. All right. Mrs. Stole, Dr. G. Any comments or questions? Hearing none. All in favor say I. I. I. I. Any opposed? The motion passes. Thank you. I recommend a non-awward of the desktop bid
057due to the inability of the manufacturer to be able to deliver the equipment promptly before the June 30th deadline as outlined in the bid. May I have a motion? So moved. Second. All right. Mrs. Stole, Mr. Fusco, any comments or questions? Can you explain this a bit more? Yeah, I will try my best. It's unique, right? Yes. So, uh, I believe we put it out for bid. Uh, we had a successful process, but then we were notified by the successful bidder that they cannot deliver the product before June 30th. Um, which would not allow us to purchase it within this budget cycle. Um, and for that reason, they can't meet our parameters, so we're rejecting the bid. Dare I ask, is any of this associated with the government tariffs or concerns at all or it's
058more of an internal issue with their organization? Yeah, thei my understanding is the devices are new and they're utilizing a new manufacturer um and it's just taking longer and they're behind schedule and they just notified us they couldn't get deliver them by June 30th. So, we're passing on them. All right. I have a question, a thought on this one. So, it sounds like it's just something that occurred within this this process. However, if we start to is there something we can do in when we put bids out to get heads up about these types of situations if there were think they're going to be delayed so we don't have to go through this again. Yeah. I don't know if that made sense. No, it didn't. Yeah. This was a purchase um that you know at
059this time of year we start to see in certain budgets and some of the expenses budgeted for next year we can start to move up some purchases. Uh that was this case. Um so it is it's not a big problem. We will budget for it next year. It just won't meet the need for this year. Thank you. Thank you. Any other comments or questions? Good. Mrs. Rnik. Yeah. I had a clarifying question. So we we decided that we would unbid I forget the term nonawward non nonawward. I'm going to start using that. So we decided that this would be a non-awward and it would not be more economical for us to just wait for them to deliver instead of going next year to next year's budget. Just want to make sure I understand that. Would
060you like to try to answer Mr. cylinder. It's we did discuss that. It's entirely possible that we could still do that. Actually, these most of these computers are available through what's called Pepum. It's the state uh bid uh for school computers. So, uh we're we're working on it. Unfortunately, as Dr. Bower said these computers are not going to be even available till into September is what they told us when we uh after the bids were looked at and analyzed and before we recommend an award we check out and so it was not only them it was the other the other vendors had a an issue too with secure and as as Dr. B said it's a kind of a new product. So, does that mean the prices will go up? Excuse me. Prices rarely go
061down. So, I don't want to say I don't I don't want to say they're not going to go up. Okay. Mr. Rush, like when we talk about when we talk about construction work, we lock in a price for a product. Can't we hold the uh person who won the bid and submitted the bid responsible for the added cost to acquire the new computers in the future? I think the issue here, Mr. Rash, was really about timing. It wasn't about price. Um, so we wanted the computers prior to the start of the school year and to be delivered during this budget cycle. And since they can't meet that demand on our part, we're just moving on from that bid and maybe going to the state contract instead. But but I if the state contract cost us
062more than the the bid that the uh uh provider gave us, shouldn't we be able to recover the cost difference between what what they submitted to us and what we're going to have to pay uh in the future for those products? I'm I I may be missing something, but no, it's not the fact. So, this vendor would still deliver us this product at this price. It's just they can't meet our deadline and that was part of the bid spec. Um, so we put in there, we need this to be delivered by a certain date. So, the price isn't the issue. Um, they would meet that price. They're just not meeting our timeline. That's all. And, and just to jump in real quick on this, Dr. Brower is exactly right. Our bid specs specified that we
063had to have them by June 30th and and none of them can. So there could have been other companies that could have done this after June 30th that didn't bid. So we can't allow we can't bring a recommendation to you to award these bids at this time because you could have another company say, "Well, I didn't bid because I didn't know I could deliver them in September." Great point. Yeah. Increased competition. Okay. Thank you. Any other comments or questions? Thank you, Chuck. Yes. Thank you, Mr. Linderin. All right. Hearing none. All in favor say I. I. I. Any opposed? Hearing? None. The motion passes. Thank you. Okay. Next, I recommend approval of the entire Chromebook bid award to Bloom USA Incorporated for Chromebooks, Google licenses, and protective cases uh for 1,573,865.50 as the lowest responsible
064bidder as listed in the bid summary. Dr. Landis did outline this purchase as part of her uh budget presentation. Um, so it's this is part of our replacement cycle for a certain number of Chromebooks each year. Thank you. May I have a motion to approve? So moved. Second. Second. All right. Mr. Fusco and Dr. G. Yes. Any comments or questions? She did a lot of uh detailed analysis on this one. So thank you. All right. Any other comments or questions? Hearing none. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Hearing none. The motion passes. Thank you. Okay. I recommend awarding the audit services RFP contract to Zelinkovsky Axelrod LLC, also known as ZA, to perform the annual independent audit of the district for fiscal years ending June 30th, 2025, 26, 27, 28, and 29 as
065per the attached engagement letter for a total of $197,500 for a 5-year term. I have a motion to approve the contract for ZA. Second, Mr. Fusco and Mrs. Stall, any comments or questions? Hearing none, all in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Motion passes. Thank you. I recommend awarding the digital science resource resource tool RFP curriculum contract as per the terms of the submission for a five-year term to generation genius which is $54,973.75 and mystery science aka Discovery Ed as per the attached RFP order form agreement of $95,875 at a total cost of $150,848.75 for 5 May I have a motion, please? So moved. Second. Mr. Fusco and Mr. McBain, any comments or questions? Could you give some additional information about these two um programs? Just briefly. Sure. I'd need to lean on Dr. Waters
066for that. Uh Dr. Waters, the question about these two science resources. Yeah. So the science resources are something that the uh K12 steel or the elementary committee recommends just to align with the new steel standards that are being implemented in the next school year. And these were piloted by educator by teachers in our district already? No, not yet. No, they're they're just res they're like digital resources, hands-on inquiry based types of resources. Yeah. No, it's not new curriculum. It's just supplement. It's just a resource that they will be using as a supplemental. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. I I have a question. Uh you have Mystery Science on here, but I don't see that Mystery Science was rated. Is that Is that uh a tool that's out of one of the rated companies? I'm not
067sure I understand your question. You said you're going to buy uh generation genius for the students and adding mystery science. I got it. To to the thing. Yeah, Mr. Rash, that is um it kind of says in there aka Discovery Ed. So, mystery science is discovery ed in that chart. Okay, good. Sorry. Thank you. Yeah, good question. Thank you. I I I didn't No, that's a good catch. There was a an aka there. Okay. Okay. I Okay, thanks. You're good. Yeah. All right. Any other comments or questions? All righty. Hearing none. All in favor say I. Any opposed? Hearing none. The motion passes. Thank you. Next, I recommend awarding the library management software system RFP curriculum contract to follow as per the terms of the RFP contract submission for a three-year term at a total
068cost of $68,258.91 for three years. Thank you. May I have a motion for the library management software? So move. So move. Second. Mrs. Stole first, Dr. G. Second. Any comments or questions on this? All right. Hearing none. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Hearing none. The motion passes. Thanks. Thank you. I recommend approval of a one-year extension to the proposed uh proposal agreement for Sycamore International Incorporated to continue the computer and peripheral recyclables per 12522 award proposal. Okay. I have a motion for the recycling bid contract. Do I have a motion? So moved. Second. Mr. Rash and Mr. McBain. Any comments or questions? Can I just for clarity this is when it says revenue will be generated by item and weight. So this actually is a contract where we stand to make money
069for recycling our products with them. Is that correct Mr. Slaughter? I don't know the answer to that. I apologize. Okay. If the word revenue is used in there I was I believe that's the business model. So I like that I from other districts that handled by Dr. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So, it's it's typically our obsolete equipment and technology that is recycled and we get a fee for them to take our devices. Okay. Okay. Thank you. All right. Um, any other comments or questions? All right. Hearing none. All in favor say I. I. I. Any opposed? Hearing none. The motion passes. Thank you. I recommend the approval of the North Penn uh MPWA permit for the installation of two water meters and two meter pit tie-ins for MPHS phase 1 construction project. All right. May I
070have a motion please for this? So moved. Second. All right. Mrs. Stole and Mr. Busco, any comments or questions? Is is this this is part of the high school project? Yes. And is it within the high Oh, Mr. slaughter. Um, yeah, he's he's moving better. Sorry. Last month he came with a cane. So, so this is in the Yeah, it's part of the high school project. And in a uh a previous board meeting, we asked for an approval for an agreement where we took ownership of all the water lines on the high school property. This is the uh will serve letter which is uh a permit fee for North Pen Water Authority to make connections from their line to where we take over which is our meter pits, one on Snider Road and one by
071the uh the North Monco Technical School. Are we taking on more risk by doing this or this is normal operation procedure? This is uh a normal operation procedure. We will take on more risk, but all the water lines are going to be new. Uh, but this expedites expedites things. In case of uh an emergency or a broken water line or a leak, we don't need to rely on North Pen Water. We can fix it ourselves. Okay, I like it. Okay, any other comments or questions? All right, hearing none. All in favor say I. I. Any oppo? Any opposed? All right, hearing none. Motion passes. Thank you, Mr. Slaughter. I wish I could bring Mr. Gilmer in to make this next recommendation. I recommend approval of issuing the notice of intent to award bids to the
072contractors listed below and attached for the amounts stated for the removal of radio towers 1 through 4 at the former WMPV site. So moved. All right, Mrs. Stole and Mr. Rash. All right, you want to bring them in? Any comments or questions? Now, this is taking down four of the five towers, I believe. Mr. Slaughter, that's correct. So, uh, we're using that, uh, field area there as a layown area for construction for the duration. In doing so, we're removing four of the five towers that are not in use, uh, leaving one tower to continue operations. At some point, we will replace that tower with a self-supporting tower that does not have guide wires in order to facilitate the rest of the renovations that take place there. Mr. loader. The um scrap m the scrap um
073material from this is that something we can that was built into the bid that the contractor would keep the scrap. Uh that came in uh about a little over $10,000 under budget. So that that was included in their in their price. I was hoping. All right. Any other comments or questions? All right. Hearing none. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Hearing none, the motion passes. Thank you. I do think it's important for anybody watching or in the audience that if you see that site, there are those five skinny little towers. There is also a cell phone tower. The cell phone tower is remaining. Those the four of the five thinner towers are the ones coming down. That's correct. 170 ft towers. They're only about 18 by 18 in diameter, right? But 170 ft
074tall. Thank you, Bill. Okay. Uh, next I recommend approval of the attached MCIU 2526 intergovernmental agreement for shared services. So, uh, may I have a motion to approve the MCIU? Um, so moved. Shared services. Second. Mrs. Stole and Mr. Fusco. They're on a roll. No, we are. Um, any comments or questions this evening on this? All right. Hearing none. All in favor say I. I. I. Any opposed? All right. Hearing none, the motion passes. Thank you. What do we whisper? All right. Um, next, I recommend the approval of the contract or agreement between the Hapo Horscham School District and the North Penn School District for the use of the pool facilities at Simmons Elementary School during the high school project during our natatorium renovations in the amount of time and material reimbursement for expenses incurred.
075expenses would be the overtime, the chemicals, the repairs, the cleaning of the space, and other miscellaneous expenses outside of their daily routine. To provide further context here, um Hapro Horscham School District is being very very generous uh neighbors in supporting our students and our student athletes and our coaches. Um they are opening a new pool that actually they filled this week I believe and um their old pool resides in Simmons Elementary. So rather than demolish and take that pool offline, uh they are keeping it open for the North Penn school district so that we can use it while they are renovating our pool. Um so it is the best case scenario. We had other um I am also going to give a shout out to Hatfield Township. They were willing to work with us, but
076obviously in the months September through November, it is more ideal to have an indoor pool than an outdoor pool. Um but we're just really grateful to Hapro Horscham for working with us and their efforts to make this happen. So I recommend this contract. Okay. Thank you so much. All right. May I have a motion? So moved. Mr. Fusco and Mr. McBain. I just like to add that uh approximately 35 years ago, I learned to swim in that pool. Of course, it was Keith Valley Middle School back then. But uh yeah, just a little trivia. And again, shout out echoing thank you to Hap Barrow Horscham School District for assisting us majorly. I just had a quick question about that. Thank you to Heper Horscham. Um, but it is kind of farther away. Like, not if
077you live in Montgomery Township, it's not. Yeah. So, the times that our student athletes would need to use the pool is like prime time swimming at the YMCA and would shut off to the pool for their paying customers. Um, so really our athletes use the pool essentially 5:00 in the morning to 7:00 in the morning and then they would use it after school hours 3 to 6. Um, and it's just that doesn't work for the YMCA. I would be willing to bet there are folks in Montgomery Township that it is not further from be perfectly honest. That's true. Depending on where you are, if you're on Horscham Road heading that way. Just a quick followup to the question from uh director stole. Will we be providing transportation for students who might not be able to
078get there or their parents might I mean that's far for a parent to drive. Will we work out some type of bus situation or something? Yes. So we will um be transporting students from Hapo in the morning to Northpen High School and we will also be transporting students after school for practice. So from Hapo to Northpen and obviously in the afternoon to Hapo and back. So okay, thank you. Um just a note that I will be abstaining from this vote as I work for Hatboro Horseman School District. While I am very grateful that they are supporting um my home district, North Penn, um I'll be abstaining from this vote due to my employment. Thank you. All right. Thank you, Dr. G. All right. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Hearing none. The motion
079passes. Thank you. And one abstension for the record. For the record. Got it. We're all good. Thank you, Mr. Slaughter. I recommend that the attached stipulation to settle the real estate tax assessment appeal between the North Pen School District and Pico by its tenant citizens bank concerning the property located at 273 Dal Pike, McGomery Township, which is parcel 46007961-3 be approved as presented and that the board president be authorized to execute the stipulation. The assessed value for the parcel shall be reduced from $1,420,000 to $1,65,000 in 2024 and from $1,65,000 to $987,000 in 2025. Of note here, it does read very confusing. Pico owns the property. Their tenant is Citizens Bank. So, thank you for that clarification, Dr. Bower. All right. May I please have a motion to approve the assessment appeal? So moved. Mr.
080Fusco second. Second. Mr. Rash, any comments or questions? Hearing none. All in fa All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Hearing? None. The motion passes. Thank you. Okay. And lastly, I recommend that the attached stipulation to settle the real estate tax assessment appeal between the North Pen School District and BD Edgewood Partners LLC concerning the property located at 701 Wel Road, Tommenson Township, which is parcel 530094400-2 be approved as presented and that the board president be authorized to execute the stipulation. The assessed value for the parcel shall be increased from $3,934,920 to $4,717,460 in 2025 and from 4,717,460 to 5,500,000 in 2026. Thank you. May I have a motion? Thank you. May I have a motion, please? So moved. May I have a second? Second. Mr. Dr. Fusco and Dr. G. Any comments or
081questions on this assessment appeal? All right, hearing none. All in favor say I. I. I. Any opposed? Hearing none, the motion passes. Thank you. This include concludes my report, Miss McMerry. Thank you. All right. So now the finance report from Mr. Linderman. Good evening, Mr. Linderman. Good evening. Um the first item is the treasures report. You have cash receipts of 12,148,914 dispersements of 20,124,518. This is for the month of March. Uh and your total available funds at this at the end of March was 181 million81,930. We recommend approval of the uh treasures report. All right. May I please have a motion to approve the treasures report? Second. Mrs. Stole and Mr. McBain, any comments or questions? Hearing none. All in favor say I. I. I. Any opposed? Hearing none. The motion passes. Thank you. The
082second item is the sanction approval of invoices. So we we recommend uh that you you approve the the ratification of dispersements for for March in the amount of 24,180,366. May I please have a motion to approve the dispersements for the month? So moved. Second. Mr. Fusco and Mrs. Stole. First and second. Any comments or questions? All right. Hearing none. All in favor say I. I. I. Any opposed? Hearing none. The motion passes. Thank you. Okay. And we we uh recommend approval of all the financial reports. as much as you'd like me to go over everyone individually. Um we um went over them at the finance committee meeting. So we recommend the approval of the reports. Mr. Linderman, these are reports that are on file. We do not need to. Okay, then don't don't approve them
083then. All right, then. If you want me to go over everyone individually, I'd be happy to, but definitely not necessary. Mr. I motion to approve the financial report. No, we don't need that. All righty. I usually whatever gets done. All righty. Thank you, Mr. Linderman. Um, are is there any other business from any of the directors? You don't have to vote on it. Oh, I would just like to state there are many uh recognitions in a school district. um many months, many weeks, many days that we honor employees, but yesterday was administrative professionals day and our administrative professionals in this school district really make the world go round. Um including Miss Chavez over here. So, I just really want to thank them and show our appreciation on behalf of our administrative professionals. [Music] [Applause] Thank
084you for that, Dr. Bower. All right. Um any other comments or questions? All right. Hearing none, I'd like to uh have a motion to adjurnn, please. So moved. Thank you, Mr. Fusco. Everyone, have a good evening. Thank you.