001all right we ready to go good evening everyone welcome to tonight's reorg meeting we're going to start off with a pledge Allegiance please Al to flag of the United States of America stand indice just uh before we get started Mrs St just want to check to see if Dr G is with us I'm here thank you Dr G thank you Dr G we're going to have a roll call so Mr scroy do you do that good evening everyone roll call vote to determine who is present Miss Wesley present Mr R Mr McBain present Mrs romage present Mr casa present Dr G present Mr Fusco present and Mrs stall present so we have uh seven board members present this evening thank you Mr scroy moving on to the audience of citizens um if there's anyone who
002would like to make public comment tonight I'm just going to read off the statement and then we can take audience of citizens comments this meeting is being videotaped for Community cable channels and stream live individuals attending this meeting and intending to speak to the board should be aware that they are being videotaped 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 to Ure compliance with this requirement it is essential that those planning to address the board State their name and municipality members of the audience are asked to limit their questions and comments to 3 minutes as a reminder the audience of citizens portion of the meeting is designed for residents and taxpayers of the district to provide comment and
003feedback on matters which are or may come before the board it is not designed for debate or discussion with the board when appropriate individual School Board directors may choose to respond to public comments that have been made once the audience of citizens period has concluded or request that a member of the administration follow up with the speakers after the meeting and this is in reference to policy board board policy 903 so with that if anyone would like to make public comment at this time now is your time to do so good evening Mr ler uh Jason lir Lansdale um it was back in margin 21 I asked you guys what equity and education meant and you guys passed an equity policy and I brought up the fact that this looked a lot like critical race
004Theory to me and there's a lot of denials that was the case but I said that the the tenants are the same and what would happen is you would reduce standards in education and it would show just like they have done out on the west coast and some in the east coast there's been a lot of that and the education standards have fallen precipitously in those areas and now we're following suit and I say this and I'm not I'm not just making this information up as as sometimes the some of the uh board members like to pretend but when you go look at the department of education's pssa scor Bing since your Equity policy pen Brooks uh basic and below so there's four categories Advanced proficient basic and Below basic you're striving for proficient or
005better it is increased by 33% basic and Below basic in math it's 20% at Penbrook pendale it's 62% increase in the number of kids in basic or below basic math it's 21% at pendale Penfield 51% for English 31% for math so my question is who's taking responsibility on this board for this I mean this is an educational institution this is public education you're supposed to be becoming brighter and more prepared for the world yet we have more and more kids that are below basic proficiency or basic proficiency who's taking responsibility for this and what else is happening what what about the violence in the middle schools I brought a little chart here so people could see and I'm not making this up either this is also on the pa uh Department of Education website and
006what you can see here is that the violence and not violence related to drug and alcohol property weapons we're talking about violence among students is five times the county average at Penbrook or pendale I'm sorry it's three and a half times the a uh at at pen field and three times at pen Brook again who's taking responsibility for this you guys do all your committee meetings you but this is never addressed when do you when do you look at what's happening and say you know what maybe we made a big bad call with this and we need to change direction because what you're doing is a disservice to these kids by not addressing the needs of of higher education keeping them the standards and get and the kids who get in trouble they need to
007be suspended that's what needs to happen who's going to take responsibility I want that question answered please thank you thank you Mr ler is there anyone else who would like to make public comment at this time okay if there's no further public comment we're going to move on to the next section of our agenda which is the election of a temporary president do I have a motion for um temporary president please so moved uh who are you nominating sorry so you can nomin um I nominate Jonathan Casa do I have a second second thank you are there any further nominations so now I'm going to close the nominations and take a motion on that right Mr scy you should okay close nominations can I have a motion have a motion to close the nominations please
008so moved can I have a second great thank you all right uh all in favor say I I any opposed motion carries so just to clarify hearing that there are no other nominations other than Mr Casa we were voting on Mr Casa to serve as the temporary president and now we'll vote to gotcha okay I'm one step ahead right super anxious with Jonathan in charge so want to follow procedure all right now um do I have a motion um to have yes a second for we do have a second because it's Mrs Wesley okay all right so all in favor of Mr Casa temporary president please say I I I any opposed motion carries congratulations Mr enjoy it this is an opportunity now on the agenda for us to have the reading of the certificates
009of election U we're going to read the election winners as certified by the Montgomery County Board of Elections and state the total number of votes that each successful candidate received the board secretary has been officially notified as to the results of the municiple general election that was held on November 7th 2023 the election of the following individuals to the North Penn Board of school directors has been certified as the following Cathy Wesley 17,7 52 votes Julianne ramit votes Timothy McBane 17,1 160 votes Dr Alicia G 16,9 76 votes and kby Rudnick 16, votes do we have to make a motion to uh for certify no so we move to the oath then Mr scari at this time we will U have the honorable Judge LaVine uh perform the oath of office Mrs scroy how should
010we go in order I have it listed alphabetically by females first so Mrs romage you're up Mr scy should we announce that M Dr G got um took her with this morning yes that's a good point uh the public should know that Dr G did take her oath this morning I am in receipt of that oath of office thank you thank you who's swearing you in and your husband going join me all right I need to borrow a b oh you have your oh you have your Constitution beautiful do you want to hold it and have her place her uh right hand raise her left hand do we I want to make sure the cameras have all this repeat after me I Julianne romic I Julianne romic do solemnly swear do solemnly swear that I
011will support obey and defend that I will support obey and defend the Constitution of the United States of America the Constitution of the United States of America and the constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and that I will discharge the duties and I will dis discharge the duties of my office with Fidelity of my office with Fidelity congratulations thank [Applause] you Miss Wesley you're you're up next all right here we go ready to go I'm ready to go place your left hand on the Bible is that left yeah right hand on the Bible raise your left hand you ready yes I Katherine Wesley I Katherine Wesley do solemnly swear do solemnly swear that I will support obey and defend that I will support obey and defend the
012Constitution of the United States of America Constitution of the United States of America and the constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and that I will discharge the duties and that I will discharge the duties of my office with Fidelity with with of my office with Fidelity yes congratulations thank you and Mr Bane I think right hand and then raise the left hand here we go I Timothy McBain I Timothy McBain do solemnly swear do solemnly swear that I will support obey and defend that I will support obey and defend the Constitution of the United States of America the Constitution of the United States of America and the constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and that I will discharge the
013duties and that I will discharge the duties of my office with Fidelity of my office with Fidelity congratulations well done I will sign bring back thank you to our sworn in uh board uh board members fellow directors want to also thank the judge um for the time and for being a part of this ceremony means um a lot having someone from the community uh be able to perform the oath uh also want to mention for the community that uh our one remaining uh board member could uh board member elect could be Rudnick will be sworn in at the Action meeting next week Monday December 12th Tuesday Tuesday December 12th though right uh so please uh feel free to tune in or for those um who are able to make it here it's a great opportunity
014is uh we welcome a new board of director uh a new director to the board of directors U with that uh information we'll move now to the election of president for a one-year term I would like to open up for nomination I'd like to nominate Tina sto second are there any other nominations is there a motion to close uh nominations so moved second all right all those in favor say I I I e test test we can pass it around y if we have to okay all right who's facilitating Tina can we is it working I think the mics are back this one's not everything's got it Swit again sure that's fine thing was you didn't switch when you actually were supposed to with the gavel ended up doing it anyway chairs tonight get away
015from it there you go done anyway so thank you um to everyone for entrusting me with this position again for another year I really appreciate the vote of confidence I love our team and um just thank you for the honor appreciate it all right with that we'll move on to the election of the vice president for one-year term can um I have a nomination please I nominate Christian Fusco can I have a second second motion by Dr G and seconded by Mr Casa are there any other nominations if not can I have a motion to close nominations motion to close second um motion by Mrs Wesley and seconded by Mrs romage all in favor of closing the nominations say I I I any opposed that motion carries and now we have a motion on the
016floor um having a nominating Mr Fusco for vice president all in favor say I any opposed motion carries congratulations Mr Fusco thank you president sto just going to take a moment and um congratulate my board colleagues um on a well-run campaign I think that uh the resounding victory that you had uh demonstrates the confidence that this community has in your leadership and in our leadership as a board and our vision for this District so it is um it is an honor for you all to see me as a a leader amongst you thank you thank you okay moving on then to the next item on the agenda which is the north MCO technical career center joint operating committee nomination can I have a nomination please that's a good question that is a good question no
017so we um motion to table this till uh all right so can I have a motion to table this till the um next Action meeting mov motion by Mr McBain can I have a second please second seconded by Mr Fusco all in favor of tbling this motion till the next meeting on um December 12th say I I I any opposed motion carries thank you for bringing that up Mr MC didn't even think about that all right other business we have the this is just informational right no we do need a un approval okay so we're going to recommend approval and advertisement of the 2024 board meeting and committee meeting schedule as per the attached can I have a motion please can I have a second second motion by Mrs romage and seconded by Mr Fusco
018all in favor say I I any opposed motion carries and then the um committee assignments are posted as informational only all right so uh does anyone have any additional topics or other business that they'd like to discuss this evening anything should we just reminder that tomorrow is the community forum for the um High School renovation project and we encourage everybody to either attend in person or it will be um streamed live correct great yes and tours will be starting at 5:30 at 5:30 before the Forum so we're super excited about all the information that will be presented tomorrow they're about what 15 minutes the tours so the tours are spaced 15 minutes apart so the first tour will begin at 5:30 and 5:45 6 o'cl and then the last tour will begin at 6:15 with
019the actual presentation uh keep in mind this is an administrative presentation it is not a Schoolboard meeting uh that will begin at 7 o'clock so uh for those who have not done a tour I highly encourage you to do so I'm hearing from community members that that was the most beneficial and then the actual presentation itself will begin at 7 great looking forward to it thank you all right if there's no further comments or any other business can I have a motion to adjourn so move second great thank you very much congratulations everyone good night