001thank you everyone for joining us this evening um we are going to have some student proclamations this evening but before we do that i would like to start with a proclamation of our own for the board here to our superintendent who is retiring after a 40-year career in education and 12 years here in north penn school district so um last night we were able to have a celebration and i just want to say that it was a really heartwarming event it was so nice to see all the people there to celebrate your legacy the former administrators put on a hilarious skit which i hope is going to be on video mr gilmer i don't know where you're at but i hope you have that video for everyone to see um it was really nice to
002see everybody on the video congratulate you including your family members your grandchildren and especially your mom yeah it was very nice so um and it was also nice to see the car tour from last was it last week or two weeks ago that you took and got to go to every building in the district on the car tour and all the students and staff were outside cheering and um it just went to show how loved and respected you are in our district and how much you'll be missed and i just want to say it was a pleasure working with you we're going to miss you but on behalf of the board we congratulate you on your successful 40-year career in education and we wish you all the best in your retirement so and we present
003thank you tina thank you for those kind words thank you those in the audience and you know since i announced my retirement i've just been overwhelmed with the number of people from our community have reached out to say thank you and express their appreciation and their gratitude it's been a great run i've enjoyed virtually every minute of it uh there were some moments here and there that were a bit challenging but we found a way to work our way through all of those and as tina said uh it all started uh more than 40 years ago as a as a school board member myself and then in 2006 i came here as assistant superintendent and then in 2010 named superintendent so it's been a great run i appreciate all the support i've enjoyed over the
004years and i say thank you thank you to everyone best wishes to all thank you okay so um okay next up will be the student proclamations and we are going to start off tonight with the odyssey of the mind and i believe it's mrs joanne wernetz and um mrs dougal that will be making the presentation good evening members of the school board cabinet members and dr dietrich i am proud to be here tonight as district coordinator of north penn's odyssey of mine program to acknowledge our students achievements in odyssey the mind competitions to prepare for the competition students work together in teams of five to seven to solve a detailed problem odyssey of the mind problem solutions are presented in an eight-minute skit which is performance based and might include technical elements balsa wood structures
005team created vehicles and dramatic flair creativity of costuming and props is encouraged humor is essential each team performs their skit at a regional tournament and based upon scores can advance to state and world finals over the years north penn has enjoyed increasing success earning a number of medals and distinguished awards north penn teams have advanced to world finals every year since 2010. this season about 120 students from 14 north penn schools participated in odyssey of the mind these students formed 19 teams each of the 19 teams was coached by one or two adult volunteers and supported by parents that went above and beyond to contribute to this team's success of these 19 teams eight qualified for the state competition tonight you will meet students from a montgomery elementary school vehicle team that placed first at
006the regional competition and then went on to place first at states you might be surprised to hear that this was the team's first year together and only one team member had participated in om before this year this team was challenged to create moving vehicles that perform specific tasks like true champions they overcame obstacles and work together to achieve their goals their success led them to ames iowa where they competed in the world finals against teams from the usa poland korea and china their experience was fun exciting and educational on behalf of these students and their families i thank you for your continued support of the north of north penn odyssey of the mind a program that offers a challenging and fun learning opportunity to the students of the north penn school district i now present
007to you the coach of the montgomery elementary school odyssey the mind vehicle team ruchi de gaal good evening everyone i would start by introducing myself i'm ruchi the coach of these incredible seven boys of montgomery elementary odyssey of the mind team who persevered through the regionals states and made their mark all the way toward finals over the eight months of their journey they worked hard overcoming the obstacles of being totally new to the program facing the challenges that pandemic brought figuring out things that they had never done before all on their own and learned all this time to have fun and learn to do their best to be their best not to mention they are a great team because they chose to believe in themselves and in each other we as parents and as coaches
008we have been witness to their awesome odyssey of growing into their best versions and what a joy it has been the collective effort of parents and co and these kids are the reason we are here i want to say a special thank you to the north penn school board to everyone to to joanne especially who was a rock star and a guide to us and without whom we wouldn't be here i thank all and montgomery elementary school especially for being a rock and northwind community for cheering these boys always and being there for us i would now like to present to you montgomery elementary school odyssey of the mind team i'll start with the first arab google sean carr dylan carr directly benjamin chaplin justin miller and arjun thank you all right let's give one
009more hand to the odyssey of your mind i have to say i have a little experience with odyssey of mine my son participated in it prior to the pandemic and it requires students to be multi-talented resourceful artistic skills theater skills math skills engineering skills theater skills it's very impressive very impressive so congratulations all right we're going to move on to the unified bocce team very exciting and the coach sue a heart is going to come down and talk about their accomplishments hi there good evening thank you for giving me this opportunity to brag about my team i've got a few words so just settle in i'll explain a little bit about unified bocce because i think um a lot of people don't know what unified sports are because they didn't exist back when we were
010kids but unified sports are where were created by special olympics and it's where we have students with disabilities compete along with students without so they compete together on an equal playing field it's a ton of fun krista padanski started unified bocce back in 2017. she built that program from the ground up she put a lot of blood sweat and tears into it and she always had the mindset that any student who wanted to come out and play would be she would make room for them on the team kristin stepped down and carrie burns and i picked up the team this year unfortunately carrie wasn't able to be here tonight but i would not have been able to run bocce this year without her so i needed to make sure she got a sound out so
011we do have a very large team compared to other teams in um in our area most most other schools have a team of eight or 16 students our team has 38 but you know in typical north penn fashion we go big so we were able to run two varsity teams and a jv a large jv squad as well our jv team did had fewer opportunities for competition because they didn't have any other teams in the area to compete against but they still showed up at practices over and over again and gave our varsity teams a run for their money on a regular basis um they we have many very strong players on our jv squad and um i'm looking forward to what may shape up come next year um our we had two varsity teams
012team columbia which consisted of six juniors and two post-12 students these are a highly competitive group of students who hit their stride a bit later in the season they went and entered into our district playoffs with three wins and three losses they receded fifth out of eight teams in our division but despite being underdogs they really hit their stride there in our playoff competition and after winning their first round they hit our team navy in their second round of playoffs where they beat team navy and moved on to our state competition they hit some heavy competition in states but continued to rally they lost one big game to the team that ultimately ended up taking the state competition so i'm very proud of that group of students and i'm very thrilled to have six of
013those eight students back for this year team navy consisted of all seniors and post-12 students they were very strong group of athletes with a very high bocce skill you don't want to meet them out on a you know out of fisher park they'll they'll take you down for sure so they went into playoffs with five wins and two losses they were seated second going into playoffs but as i said were knocked out by team columbia the underdogs they overall we had a really fabulous bocce season which was only happened because of the support of of many within our community and i will take a moment to recognize our administration both district level and here in the building supported this program in in it being able to run in all aspects they supported me in trying
014to figure out and work through the details of how to put things together and showed up for our meets and for our staff and student competition um linda law and patty sell two secretaries here at north penn high school i don't think i could have made it through the season without them anytime i hit some sort of logistic that i was not able to figure out they were my go-to's to help me to work out those problems don walsh our athletic director was critical in helping me to work out our competitions and to help me find gym space he made sure that we had gym space to practice during the very busy winter sports season i had the support of the faculty and staff here at north penn high school who encouraged our students to
015get involved many of them worked our meet and participated in our student and staff competition we also had many student groups who supported us we were supported by the boys lacrosse team the baseball team track teams who both participated in our polar plunge that raised money for special olympics and they were there to support us in our meet mike boyer and the epics club helped us to figure out storage solutions for our our courts and to help us to figure out ramps that are needed for our students in wheelchairs our key club helped us by purchasing our uniforms that were delayed by by the challenges of this school year and north penn tv the night crier they covered many of our events with stories and articles the chorus sang at our meet and jrotc presented
016the flag but in addition we had the support of the parents of our students which was very critical we had parents who picked up their students from practice they showed up at every competition we had regardless of the time of day or the location and for many of our students these parents also made bocce a priority by changing their their child's schedule of specialized therapies including specialized speech therapy ot and pt sessions so i greatly appreciate the support of the parents to make sure that these students were able to participate this year so now that i've said a few words i will announce the team we had three team managers which include molly agres john dolan and scott nagorski team columbia included jimmy shay nick lupinacci luke williams luke chavore kevin voss jocelyn franek layla
017richardson seegers and maureen gambouji you can start coming up guys hmm team navy included brian duffy arushi mattel mark heath dylan brown aaron chee kayla puglisi michael twinem and hannah mallis and last but certainly certainly latin and certainly not least is our jv squad including jeffrey mcgowan julia kyle john burke manu mattel chris larosa jaden riley jack pacosi john weber jared sands cara mcgowan emma hirsch isabel maggie maria mia sparango lauren bernstein lauren blanche jess alvarado katie mumford emily habib and nicholas orpisa um hello so uh thank you again all right let's give it up one more time for the unified bocce team well done we're going to take a minute to just let everybody who's exiting have their opportunity to do so okay so next up on our agenda this evening is the audience
018of citizens i will read off the uh guidelines and then we will start with um the public comment portion 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 videotaped in order to meet the requirements of pennsylvania's sunshine law it is necessary to record the names of all citizens who speak to the board during the meeting to ensure 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 allow time for all those who wish to speak to the board the board president may ask an individual to yield the microphone to the next speaker
019as a reminder the audience of citizens portion of the meeting is designed for residents and taxpayers of the district to provide comment and feedback 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 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 so with that we have a couple or three people that signed up ahead of time and then if there's anyone after that that would like to make public comment um they will have their turn after that so first up this evening is mrs pauline brocco after that is mrs nina voci and
020then mrs diana good blystone um my name is paulie imbracio and i'm from town manson township um you don't have a timer up today and how many i don't know how many minutes okay there we go i see it thank you um i wanted to there's been some things that i've seen that are very disconcerting and that has to do with um porn and sex in the schools it is really distressing to know that there's a book i'm not going to say the title of it because it actually is in the library of the north penn high school the building that we are in and i don't want to have a run on it by the students i think if parents want their children to read porn then they can take them to the bookstore
021or the adult store and get them whatever they want i was going to read an excerpt from this book i'm not really sure that i should because all of these experts that i excerpts that i have here are really uh quite um explicit and it is just really amazing to me that you would have a book like this in the school library the book actually says it actually says here that this book is not for minors okay this is the page it says not for minors well the vast majority of kids in high school some of them may be 18 but the vast majority are under 18 which means they are minors so again whoever made the decision to put this book in this library is a little skewed to say the least also i'd
022like to go back to what i've mentioned before about having cameras in the classrooms there is money in the district for that and i think if you apply for it it can be done and i'm not talking about constant surveillance i'm talking about having classrooms videotaped because if there's a discrepancy between what a student or a teacher is saying then somebody who is authorized can go and review the tape they would have the date and time stamp on it and they can see exactly what happened i know that out in pittsburgh for instance which is obviously not the school district but it's in the state so i don't know what's going on in the school district since we don't have cameras in the classrooms there is a teacher kindergarten teacher teaching her students about transgender
023because she has a five-year-old at home who is transgender it is beyond my comprehension how a child can decide or think about being the opposite of what they are unless somebody plants that in their head that's the only way that that can happen because a child just living their life playing with their toys playing outside whatever they're doing would not come up with that on their own i think there really needs to be some oversight and i think some teachers and i think you need to vet the teachers uh better thank you mrs brachio so next up is mrs voci am i pronouncing that word right sorry sorry but nobody gets worried uh nenevose upper gwenett um i sort of thank you for the bocce recognition that really makes me happy and i hope that
024continues with our unified sports and our special olympics because i think it's really important for that inclusion and that's all i wanted to say and dr dietrich enjoy your retirement your son's reaction and wanting to get your attention to make sure that he saw it was just priceless being able to see it from from this angle so yeah that's him he's yeah he's um he like sees that he likes to make the attention it was incredibly touching to see his pride and wanting to shut down that's exactly what i'm saying you know like this recognition is it's a really good thing and i just i hope it continues it's our pleasure thank you you know everybody's more aware of it but it was great thank you mrs a heart too thank you is mrs blyston
025here i don't think she was here earlier but i don't think i see her anymore um okay so is there anyone else that would like me to make public comment at this time hello erin blanc of hatfield um i just want to bring something to like a broader scale attention it's not a big complaint and i actually spoke with dr mckenna about it and he kind of pointed me into the proper direction to um discuss it more and give more clarity and uh maybe go further with it so i'll just let you know what i've been thinking about specials in planning for next year i wanted to point out that there is an issue in the elementary schools at our school and other schools i know we have um a discrepancy in the number of
026sections and then the staff you know hours so we have to uh move things around this was the first year that we experienced it in our school and with both of my children oddly enough two sections in our school both of my kids were affected so basically we had too many sections at our school so a teacher from teachers the four specialist teachers from other schools had to come over to our school basically they came at the end of the day so that i guess that's how the teacher ended their day at the other school i'll say that one of my kids was in the cafeteria for every special so that wasn't ideal he sat on the cafeteria floor after lunch before it was cleaned it made him really uncomfortable he's my kid so he
027doesn't like to do things like that he wasn't pleased you know he would tell me and complain and so forth i don't feel that my kids and the kids in their classes received an equal experience to the kids throughout the rest of the school i can go more into detail in a private conversation i know that some of it was not under the control of the teachers some was they can't bring everything with them but basically we need to look more into how this is run for the next year this ties into my next request and suggestion offering foreign languages and stem as specials i did ask some friends and i've been hearing that districts around us do offer these things as specials they have five or six specials spanish is the the frequently used
028foreign language that these schools offer i feel that these two areas are crucial as our world evolves to compete in the job market and survive in society starting at the younger ages would really set the children up for greater success and ensure that they are more well-rounded children and you know members of society so it's been something that i've been thinking about for a while and when this problem came up with my kids this year i felt like it may be like a way to you know mesh it all together and think further about it so i'm happy to talk with anyone about it so thank you thank you mrs blind sure jason lanier lansdale borough wanted to touch again on the subject that was brought up here regarding transgender education and what it seems
029to be in this school district is your your not just making this an informational thing for kids that are about to graduate but this is sort of a a push to indoctrinate kids into a transgender mentality now is anybody at the board can can they tell me that that's not happening and this i know you don't want to have conversation but i would be i would question it based upon the literature that has been brought into the into the school district and are you aware of the suicidal ideation that comes along with transgenderism and i don't know if if if you've looked at the research but there is uh there's country called sweden who's done this for since 1974 and just recently they have stopped doing this and you know why they've stopped doing this
030they stopped doing this because they realized the suicidal adhesion was beyond belief in the number of kids that were signing up or being pushed into taking hormone blockers was astronomically high this is really a serious situation you talk about wanting to make a school welcoming and safe and yet you're pushing kids from kids have a lot of issues i realize and there is suicide isolation among all kids but when you take a specific mindset and you promote it in the school you end up with more of that in which case you're you are promoting kids to have suicidal ideation and this is the statistics the more kids that identify as transgender the more kids will be committing suicide have you read any of this literature or is this simply a political push for you guys
031honestly i know you don't want you don't like to respond but this is isn't isn't this for the public i am speaking so that other people who have this on their mind who don't want to come up and say anything will hear the answer the answer should be from you guys what is the agenda here to push these books into into the lower classrooms and even higher i don't know if there's a plan ultimately to try to get kids to do gender reassignment surgeries and puberty blockers and all sorts of things i mean i know that's happened in other school districts around the country but have you read the books that you guys have put into the library and into the classrooms and just for k-3 there's 15 different books and it's all you're doing
032it isn't it was they weren't sitting here prior you guys have pushed this and i would like to know why you're doing that how does a little kid identify as anything other than a kid thank you mr lenny thank you is there anyone else that would like to make public comment at this time okay then we'll move on with the rest of our agenda i'd just like to announce that mrs wesley and mr casa are both with us they are on attending virtually through uh telephone so all right um so first up i need approval of the minutes from the may 19th 2022 action meeting do i have a motion please second motion by mr fusco and seconded by mrs romich are there any comments or questions all in favor say aye aye any opposed
033hi motion carries next up are the committee reports first is the personnel the personnel committee of the board met on june 7 2022 to discuss matters of personnel including the appointment of staff staffing considerations and collective bargaining end of report the next report is for finance mr fusco please thank you at the may 24th finance committee meeting which was a special meeting the following items were reviewed uh ms froelich coordinator of school nutrition services provided an overview of the department and new initiatives and presented the department's 2022-2023 budget the budget for this enterprise fund appears on tonight's agenda ms scott coordinator of extended school care presented the program's 2223 budget the budget for this enterprise fund also appears on tonight's agenda and mr shkaraki provided an update on the changes made to the 2223 general
034fund budget at the june 7 22 finance committee meeting the following items were reviewed the monthly finance reports were provided and budget transfers were reviewed with additional discussion on the following items mrs lebrowski director of school and community engagement presented the 2223 community education budget the budget for this enterprise fund appears on tonight's agenda rfp and bid results were discussed mrs kristen johnson reviewed the results of the in-school counselor and social worker services rfp as well as the results from the water filling station bid mr skaraki reviewed the potential conversion of the first student bus fleet servicing north penn school district from diesel to propane buses at the current diesel prices the district would save approximately forty seven thousand dollars per year the savings are net of the increased cost of the fifteen dollars per
035bus per day the contract amendment with first student appears on tonight's agenda and mr saraki if i'm not mistaken that was what 58 buses you said that's correct 58. so 58 buses you'll see running through the neighborhood with the little green bird on it 2223 general fund budget mr skaraki presented an update on the changes to the final general fund budget for the upcoming fiscal year the final budget appears on tonight's agenda we had an update on our state performance audit mr shkaraki provided an update on the pennsylvania department of the auditor general performance audit that is being conducted on north penn and 11 other school districts oddly request for information number four was recently received and responded to we discussed real estate tax assessment appeals mr skaraki reviewed the list of potential district initiated
036tax assessment appeals for the 2022 school year the identified properties meet the criteria of the board policy since they are at least six hundred thousand dollars under assessed mr skaraki reviewed the homestead farmstead exclusion for the 22-23 year the exclusion on tax bills will be 264 dollars and 13 cents which is a which is 51 higher than the current year the increase is due to the higher gaming revenue received by the district to offset property taxes for eligible homeowners home owners so keep betting those parlays the next finance committee meeting will be held on tuesday july 12 2022 at 6 pm it should be noted that the july meeting is typically cancelled end of report thank you mr fusco are there any comments or questions seeing none we'll move on to safe schools and since
037mr casa is on the phone i will read off the report the safe schools committee met on tuesday may 31st mr dore presented a general overview of the school safety work and investments which have occurred since 2018 also discussed for door locking requirements and communication strategies in light of the recent incident of school violence in texas chief david duffy of the upper clinton police department was present to comment on law enforcement training and preparation in the north pan area the committee was also updated on the progress of the comprehensive school safety assessment project the final report has been delivered by mcgraw-less healy and findings are said to be presented to the board in july an executive summary will also be shared publicly in the coming months finally mr door shared information about safety and security
038preparations for the north penn high school commencement ceremony planning for this complex event takes place over several months in collaboration with local public safety leadership over 40 personnel including the north penn school district security local police and ems supported the safe execution of this event on the evening of june 9th the june 27th safe schools meeting committee meeting is canceled the next meeting is scheduled for monday july 25th at 5 45 pm and will be held in a virtual format end of report and i would like to thank the uh mr door and his department and the security it was a lovely event for graduation night and uh we appreciate all your efforts there so thank you okay next up is the eci report mr fusco please all right on tuesday june 14th the eci
039committee met in virtual format the eci meeting this week the final presentations from principals and staff were given regarding the work by they and their staff to promote cultural proficiency and awareness in their respective buildings presenting this month where mr jeff mccosko principal walton farm elementary school mr john winkle principal of oak park elementary school ms deepa richardson principal of york avenue elementary school and dr shawn o'sullivan principal of penfield middle school we invite you to take the time to view those presentations which are posted with the june 22 eci meeting in board docs and i really do encourage you to check those out there's some really fascinating wonderful things that are happening in our schools this was a series of presentations that span the entire district and the entire school year so for those
040who are curious about what's happening in the schools and school buildings that is a good place to start the committee also received a report on revising the district's administrative regulation concerning homework the regulation was reviewed and evaluated by a group comprised of several stakeholders including parents students teachers and administrators this again i would encourage folks to check out there are some relatively big changes coming to the district regarding how we implement homework uh the next meeting of the eci committee will be held on tuesday july 5th at 6 pm in virtual format however i will remind you once again that these meetings typically are not held in july end of report thank you mr fusco does anyone have any comments or questions seeing none we will move on to the policy committee meeting mr rash
041please the policy committee committee met on june 14th in a virtual format at the meeting the committee continued to review policies in the 800 series policies we discussed were policy 824 maintaining professional adult student boundaries policy 827 conflict of interest policy 828 fraud policy 830 breach of computerized personal information also the committee discussed the revision policy 810 transportation the next next meeting of the policy committee is on july 12 at 5 pm in a virtual format thank you mr rash is there a possibility that might be cancelled as well since it's in july i was told that mr summers wants us to continue the meetings because there's a number of policies okay it's mr summersland yes we are hosting the meeting slave driver way to throw him under the bus there mister well if we
042have important business that we have to do it fine thank you all right facilities and operations mrs wesley is on the line and she will be reading her report mrs wesley there uh oh i am just a moment okay just one moment please sorry president stole sure okay thank you uh the facilities and operations committee met on tuesday may 31st in a virtual format the committee reviewed the following items to be moved to this evening's action meeting for the board's consideration there are five change orders for the knapp elementary school project uh there is a roof replacement bid award for the north penn high school natatorium there is a replacement a roof replacement and roof restoration bid award for gwenor elementary school and there's also an elementary school media center dehumidification systems bitter war bridal
043path when it square and walton farm are included there's also a gift from general nash's home in school to have an elite to have a led sign installed outside and a paper product dispenser ownership agreement with torque paper products it was a busy meeting the committee was presented and discussed informal items including knapp elementary project update and a discussion regarding the ongoing and current cleaning and operational protocols during the increase in the recent coven 19 cases the next facility facilities and operations meeting is scheduled for monday june 27th at 7 at 7 pm and will be held a virtual format thank you president thank you mrs wesley are there any comments or questions seeing none we will move on to the north monco technical center the north monco technical career center is did not meet
044since our last action meeting they are going to meet monday at seven o'clock in a virtual format thank you mr rush montgomery county intermediate unit mrs ramich please great thank you the mciu board met on may 25th we started the meeting with a retirement celebrations recognizing and honoring the accomplishments and years of service for this year's 12 retirees the we start each meeting now with a program highlight and so at this last meeting paula rice the head start director and cherilyn west the family and community partnership super supervisor both presented um on the work of the head start program it was an incredible presentation we were so grateful to learn more about it dr speaker in her superintendent's executive director's report shared that the mciu leadership participated in the piiu day on the hill on
045may 24th to advocate for increased detention and financial support for our early intervention programs i had the privilege of attending the anderson school graduation which was held today where we honored and recognized the 13 graduates of that program it was an incredible opportunity to meet those graduates where they started off each day with an announcement that all students matter the board approved various contracts we reviewed budgets and the next iu meeting will be held next week end of report thank you mrs ramich are there any comments or questions seeing none i don't think there's a legislative report tonight there is not so we will stay with mrs ramich and go on to the north penn educational foundation report please great the foundation met last wednesday on june 8th in a virtual format it was dr
046dietrich's last meeting serving on the foundation and he thanked the foundation for its work during his leadership as superintendent trustees are grateful for dr dietrich's support and wish him well in retirement his vision has guided the foundation over the past 12 years and he has been a huge supporter of the foundation's work including the augmented reality program at north penn high school which he helped to make happen trustees also talked about offering a student scholarship during next year's senior awards ms labroski will bring details to the next meeting where we will discuss criteria and award amount we look forward to expanding our impact on student success in this matter in terms of fundraising we are happy to report that last month's online auction raised close to thirteen thousand dollars it was our most successful auction
047yet thank you to those who donated items and to those who bid on them next up is the golf classic which will be held on tuesday october 11th at talamore golf course in addition to golfers we are looking for sponsors for the 21st annual event we also approved 30 grants totaling more to more than 35 thousand dollars for the 2022-2023 school year projects range from field trips to technology to guest speakers congratulations to our north penn educators who are receiving those grants our next meeting is august 17th end of report thank you mrs ramich are there any comments or questions okay moving on then to the solicitors report excuse me sorry mr um summers please thank you madam president my report this evening is to announce that the board did meet in an executive session
048on may 22nd may 26th and june 1st for the purpose of discussing the filling of an administrative vacancy the board also met an executive session on june 7 2022 for the purpose of discussing matters of personnel involving changes to administrative staffing assignments and that concludes my report thank you mr summers next up is the superintendent's report dr dietrich your last one thank you i recommend the adoption of the items on the consent agenda namely items a through q as listed slow motion still move second motion by mrs roman seconded by dr g are there any comments or questions i would just like to thank the square human school association for their generous gift or i'm sorry general nash homeland school association for their gift of the um led display sign um okay if there's no
049further comments do um all in favor say aye aye any opposed motion carries recommend approval of the amendment to the act 93 compensation plan for administrators effective july 1st 2022 establishing the position of administrator of secondary education and renovations as per the attached do you have a motion so moved do i have a second second motion by mr fusco and seconded by dr g um any comments or questions seeing none all in favor say aye aye any opposed motion carries recommend approval of the personnel items as per the attached do i have a motion motion second motion by dr g seconded by mr fusco any comments or questions all in favor say aye aye aye aye opposed motion carries and with that approval uh in the audience this evening we have uh some of the
050individuals were able to make it others are on vacation uh dana kenny as north wales elementary principle [Applause] dr sarah radigan is cult principal kyle hassler as north penn high school principal jen cicinski as nap principal [Applause] marie kim as montgomery elementary principal i don't think she's available tonight i think her staff of the district where she's leaving through a quick surprise party for her dennis ryan transportation coordinator [Applause] pete nicholson administrator of secondary education and renovations and i think pete is on vacation with his family stephan muller the principal of penndale middle school i believe stefan is on vacation with his family and tj seidenberger north penn high school assistant principal and tj also was unavailable for this evening and they'll be with us after the meeting to meet board members individually so thank
051you for that approval and best wishes to all of you thank you and yes best wishes and good luck in all your new positions all right we're going now to the knapp elementary change orders we recommend the approval of the change orders to low bar incorporated namely change order 18 and 19 and 20 for low bar we recommend the approval to change order 04 to micromechanical for plumbing contract and another 104 for micromechanical for the mechanical contract as listed do you have a motion motion by mr rush to have a second second seconded by mr fusco any comments or questions all in favor say aye aye aye aye opposed motion carries recommend the approval of and concurrence with the recommendation of the superintendent to curtail or alter the educational program of the district as a
052result of substantial decline in course enrollment and or and in order to conform with standards of organization based on the ground set forth in section one one two four a two of the public school code by eliminating 18 k-6 teaching positions within the virtual academy effective june 30th 2022. do you have a motion some move you have a second motion by mr fusco and seconded by mr rush any comments or questions yeah dr dietrich can you just kind of in layman's terms explain what we're yeah so we did embark upon providing a virtual academy for the present school year and we had explained at that time that it was on a year by year basis we are now in the process of determining the necessary staffing for next year's virtual academy it won't require nearly
053the number of teachers that we had this year so we are curtailing and changing that program quite a bit thank you dr dietrich are there any other questions or comments so there's a motion on the floor all in favor say aye recommend the approval of the bid award for the north penn high school natatorium roof work to the lowest responsible bidder and one roofing corporation in the amount of 619 four hundred dollars joe emotion so moved okay motioned by mrs ramen seconded by mrs wesley are there any comments or questions seeing none all in favor say aye aye any opposed motion carries recommended approval of the non-renewal of contracts of those temporary professional employees listed as a result of the elimination of those k-6 teaching positions within the virtual academy based upon the ground set
054fourth in section one one two four eight two of the public school code effective june 30th 2022. do you have a motion so moved have a second dragon motion by mr fusco and secondary mr rush are there any comments or questions seeing none all in favor say hi any opposed motion carries recommend the approval of the bid award for the guinner elementary roof replacement and restoration work to the lowest responsible bidder detwiler roofing llc and the amount of 675 thousand dollars do i have a motion so moved i think that was mrs wesley so motion by mrs ramich seconded by mrs wesley any comments or questions i do i want to thank mr saraki and his team for for not only getting the lowest bidded but making sure that they can finish in the time
055that they can finish their work in a timely manner that was very nice thank you mr rush any other comments there's a motion on the floor so all in favor say aye aye any opposed motion carries recommend approval of the water bottle filling stations bid to burrell enterprises llc in the amount of 28 751.99 so move motion by mr fusco and seconded by mr rash any comments or questions seeing none all in favor say aye aye aye any opposed motion carries recommend the approval of the bid award for the elementary library dehumidification systems project to micromechanical in the amount of 159 000 do you have a motion so second motion by mrs wesley and second in by mrs romich any comments or questions on favorites [Music] if he could just explain the uniqueness of this
056particular bid just quickly absolutely miss wesley thanks for the question this was pretty exciting the results of this bid because there was a tie so the two lowest responsible bidders ended up with a tie so we had requested of each vendor if they were agreeable to a coin flip to break the tie which is permitted both vendors agreed and we had a coin flip it i felt like i was an nfl referee at the super bowl at midfield at the start of the game with the coin flip but that's how this bid was decided we had a drawing out of a hat to see who would call the flip and that individual had an opportunity to call the flip or defer so the one particular vendor won the drawing from the hat decided to call
057the toss called heads and it was heads so that's who's being recommended for the bid award tonight so in my 29 plus years in school business this is the first time i had the opportunity to do a coin flip to determine the winning bidder on a project all right did we vote on that no i said did we i don't remember if we did it i don't think we did okay all right we have a motion in a second all in favor say aye recommend approval of an increase of 2.25 percent to the salary hourly rate schedule of the non-union and confidential support staff for the 2022-23 fiscal year effective july 1st 2022 can i have a motion question by mr rash second second by mrs ramich any questions and seeing none all those in
058favor say aye aye any opposed motion carries recommend approval of the final budget resolution in the amount of three hundred million three hundred eighty six thousand one hundred forty nine dollars for the fiscal year beginning july 1st 2022 per the attached resolution and the pde 2028 budget document can i have a motion motion by mr rash have a second a second second by mrs ramich any last questions or thoughts all right seeing none all those in favor say aye aye any opposed all right motion carries recommend approval of the 2022 homestead and farmstead exclusion as per the attached resolution do you have a motion do i have a second motioned by mr fusco and seconded by mr rash any comments or questions [Music] all in favor say aye any opposed motion carries recommend approval of
059the 2022-23 school nutrition services enterprise fund budget in the amount of six million one hundred twenty three thousand fifty two dollars breakfast meals will be free for all students for the year and the lunch meals will be free for all qualifying free and reduced students for the year do you have a motion second motioned by mr fusco and second invited mr homage all um i'm sorry are there any comments or questions i have one quick question sure go ahead um as i'm understanding this or reading this the breakfast will be continue to be free despite um free and reduced lunch no longer being available correct so for the past two years of all breakfast and lunches were free for all students so that program expired at the end of the school year but for a
060transition we're recommending that all breakfasts be free for all students for the 22-23 fiscal year for one year period now for reduced students they paid i think it's 40 cents a meal for reduced students that will be free and we're recommending that continue in perpetuity that that's not just a one year thing for lunches correct so if you are on reduced you'll pay nothing if you're free you'll pay nothing for lunch were we able to use esser funds for this or you were able to cover it through the enterprise yes we were able to cover that through the enterprise fund because of the significant fund balance the school nutrition services department has now okay thank you i really like the idea specifically of having breakfast be free for all students i think especially students who
061are coming really early in the morning to the secondary schools to be able to walk in and grab breakfast i think is really important so thank you for um to the our nutrition department for working through that thank you dr g are there any other comments or questions the motion on the floor is so all in favor say recommend approval of the 2022-23 extended school care program enterprise fund budget in the amount of 2 million 188 676 dollars as per the attached do i have a motion second motion by mr fusco and seconded by mrs romich any comments or questions all in favor say aye aye any opposed motion carries recommend approval of the 2022-23 community education enterprise fund budget in the amount of one hundred seventy four thousand six hundred eighty three dollars as
062per the attached do you have a motion second motioned by mr fusco and seconded by mrs ramich any comments or questions i would just like to congratulate the community education program for a recent award that was i think news has just hit for the esl class that they've offered for parents so it's an incredible program um and the news of the award was just shared today so uh thank you um to the teacher andy murphy and to all those involved thank you for that comment mrs romich it is a um really great program that they're offering so are there any other comments or questions the motion on the floor is all in favor say aye any opposed motion carries recommend that the attached stipulation to settle the real estate tax assessment appeal between the north
063penn school district and platinum owner pa llc concerning the property located at one five one zero gaiman road town tow manson township parcel number as listed be approved as presented and that the board president be authorized to execute the stipulation the current assessed value for the parcel shall be increased from 5 million one hundred four thousand eighty eight dollars to six million one hundred forty four thousand six hundred eighty dollars do i have a motion so move to a second motion by mr fusco and seconded by mr rush any comments or questions all in favor say aye any opposed motion carries recommended approval of the filing of the district initiated real estate tax assessment appeals by the august 1st 2022 deadline as per the attached list of parcels and board policy 3631 do i have
064a motion so moved do you have a second second motion by mr fusco and seconded by um mrs ramich any comments or questions all in favor say aye aye any opposed motion carries recommend approval of an amendment to the school bus transportation services agreement between the district and first student incorporated requiring that first student service the district with school buses powered exclusively by propane fuel an increase in the daily rates for the 2022 23 and 20 2023 24 school years by 15 per bus subject to review by the solicitor do i have a motion so moved do i have a second second motioned by mr fusco and seconded by mr rush are there any comments or questions just to reiterate mr sukharaki the overall net uh difference in this action is going to save the
065district money correct that is correct that the current diesel prices is roughly 50 000 so diesel would have to come down by about 50 cents a gallon in order for this to be break even but as we talked at the finance committee there's many benefits to this in addition to the financial benefits absolutely absolutely i appreciate the environmental benefits of the green vessel so thank you very much for taking that opportunity it kind of just um fell into your lap i think from what you told us at finance so i'm glad you took the chance or the opportunity to get us those bosses thank you so um there's a motion on the floor if there's no further comments all in favor say aye all right any opposed motion carries thank you dr dietrich okay next
066up will be uh the finance report from mr scracky please thank you madam president well with tonight's passage of the 2223 budget we will be working with the elected tax collectors in preparation for the issuance of the tax bills we expect those will be in mailboxes right around the first of july if you're a property owner in north penn school district and you don't receive your tax bill by about mid-july please reach out to your elected tax collector and your municipality unfortunately failure to receive your bill does not excuse you from payment of the real estate taxes dr bauer would be disappointed if i didn't bring up an update with respect to the tax rebate program so we are in the final two weeks of the 2122 program that provides a 60 percent reimbursement for
067individuals that also received a rebate through the state program so please encourage anyone that you know that might receive a rebate from the state to apply at north penn there's still a couple weeks left starting on july 1st we'll issue our new forms our new forms will include the reimbursable percentage of 75 of the state rebate amount so the board has increased the amount of rebates each year now we'll be entering in our fifth year of the program so it's been very successful mr scrocky can i quick stop um do you have any update on what the state is doing no update i'm just going to give an update on the state budget because that's part of it governor wolf did propose a 200 million dollar increase to the state property tax and rent rebate
068program we heard about that directly from governor wolf last month at a public presentation at the y on main street here in lansdale but there hasn't been much movement on the state budget including that particular item i did receive a legislative update today through the passbow organization it appears that things are starting to heat up a little bit now the hope is to have a budget pass by the end of june which is actually a requirement even though it doesn't happen every year so i think they're trying to hammer out all the details with respect to a number of things including that federal stimulus spending that the state needs to do within the next two years and that additional state rebate money was part of that potential federal stimulus spending money the big one for
069us though of course is how much increase if any will be to the basic education funding the governor did propose quite a substantial increase about 1.5 billion dollars it'll be interesting to see where the legislature ends up with an increase in the basic education funding we're hearing numbers somewhere in the neighborhood of 500 to 750 million dollars it won't be probably won't be to the extent that the governor presented but a 500 to 750 million dollar increase would be nice for pennsylvania so we appreciate the governor's support of public education and we're hopeful that we will see a nice increase we do have a three percent increase in our budget for uh the basic education funding and special education funding so certainly we're hopeful that the increase is at least three percent for north penn
070school district in terms of the uh the numbers for the month of may for the financial report we did have cash receipts in may that totaled 7.9 million and expenses were 18 million dollars left us with a balance of 94.1 million dollars at the end of may and that's about seven hundred thousand dollars higher than the same period last year so we are going to be entering our period starting on july 1st where we are very cash rich our balance will end up well over 200 million dollars so the timing of the fed's 75 basis point rate increase yesterday will certainly bode well with our investments this summer madam president asking for approval of the may treasurer's report please do have a motion please so move do a second second motion by mr fusco and
071seconded by mrs ramich any comments or questions all in favor say aye aye aye any opposed motion carries okay next up we have the sanction and approval of invoices for the month of may and they totaled 21 million 633 7753.56 and we're recommending ratification of those disbursements please do i have a motion so moved second second motion by mr fusco seconded by dr g any comments or questions all in favor say aye aye any opposed motion carries and finally for vote under the treasures report we have the budget transfers for the month of may we did review these at the finance committee meeting we're recommending approval of those transfers totaling two hundred ninety nine thousand nine hundred twenty seven dollars and fifty five cents there are motion so moved a second motion by mr fresco
072and seconded by mr rash any comments or questions all in favor say aye aye aye any opposed motion carries and finally for information purposes we do have the monthly finance reports remain again we do review these in more detail at our finance committee meetings i just do want to point out that when we started the fiscal year 2122 it had a budgeted 5.8 million dollar deficit through additional revenue that has come in and curtailed spending we do expect to have a positive surplus at the end of the year and we'll have discussion at subsequent finance meetings for consideration of moving some of that money to the capital reserve fund thank you madam president that concludes my report thank you mr scracky next up is other business um first under that uh category would be the
073psba voting delegates so [Music] mr scraggy this is we needed a motion for this too right to recommend approval of yes jonathan casa timothy mcbain and al rash to service the north penn school school district voting delegates at the pspa delegate assembly assembly to be held on saturday november 5th 2022. do i have a motion so moved second motioned by mr fusco and seconded by mrs ramich are there any comments or questions all in favor say aye any opposed motion carries next up then would be other business does anyone have any other business this evening to discuss nope okay seeing none we will move on to our second audience of citizens mr summers i don't need to read this statement again right okay same rules apply is there anyone that would like to make a
074public comment at this time hi pauline brought you thomason township did i understand correctly that you're going to fuel buses with propane because you're going to save 50 000 a year you're filthy rich because mr scracky just said that you're getting 200 million dollars in your investments if i heard that correctly what are you going to do the first time a bus crashes and the whole thing explodes and children are burned beyond recognition did you really think this through using propane i have some experience with propane are you seriously considering or have you seriously made this decision to have children carted around in propane fueled buses you people are i mean i'm not going to stand here and insult you because you already realize how foolish you are can i just stop you i i
075kind of had the same concerns when we first talked about on the propane buses don't be taking up my time you can talk to me but you stop the clock well i'm just going to stop you because um you know gasoline is also combustible so i mean okay okay propane is more is much more volatile and i'm not done so please put my minutes back up i have another topic as well i don't see the minutes up there go ahead the clock is keeping up okay um the other thing that i wanted to ask well i'm not even asked but just um [Music] now that you've said that you have all this money you can actually put cameras in the classrooms i don't understand why you would be opposed to that i don't understand why
076any teacher would be opposed to that if they're not doing anything that needs to be clandestine then why would they oppose it um i i just that is just beyond my comprehension as well i guess i just don't understand a lot about what you guys are doing um the other thing is as far as this book is and other books are concerned one of the excerpts from this book is actually describing rape and um you know it's just really there were two graduates from this high school that um are rapists and one of them is our current vice chair uh of the montgomery county i'm gonna stop you um no you don't have to stop me it's going to be the mississippi i can speak about what i'm speaking about i'm talking about the school
077district mrs no mrs to go on mr why don't you just why don't you just stop talking you know because you're making mrs brocco please stop ken lawrence is a rapist mr mrs brocco that's enough please take miss yeah this forum is not used for you to slander people that's not the purpose of public comment security can you please um escort mrs brocco out okay yes it is i know i know i'm the one who raped okay have a good night security can you please explore mrs brachio out thank you yes please mr lanier can you just wait a second please can you just wait a second um as long as are you as long as you don't disrupt the meeting anymore mr lanier will give you your turn to speak mr lynn here jason
078here lansdale um i wanted to go back to what we had talked about before i i really want to know is is sort of the promotion of transgenderism being activated in the school are you guys promoting this to younger kids it's a real easy question to answer and it's not just me who's asking it it's other people who've read can't understand why these books are in the school which seem to be promoting this and i'm not i'm not looking at the books and saying this is my interpretation of the book this is how the book is listed in its description it's listed as a transgender if you wanted to do a search criteria you could search it by this criteria and these are for k through third grade what what is the rationale for this
079and you and you all realize you i'm sure you realize this because it was in in your your uh pride uh month newsletter that you sent out that that showed links to the was a dylan project and their mention of of how much suicide alienation is on kids that are transgender and it's less for kids who are not transgender so are you trying to promote suicidal ideas ideation uh among kids this is a serious question i mean what is the purpose of having these books at k-3 for for everybody watching the school board doesn't seem to want to be answering this very simple question which is why would they promote books or why would they have books that promote uh transgender ideology in k through third grade or for any minor in that for that
080matter you can answer the question no so i want to get back to this study that was from switzerland or sweden rather have you read any of this do you realize what they've come they were very progressive in their thinking no doubt one of the most progressive countries in the world and they stopped doing this because of this reason and here you guys are promoting this and is it a pro and it's not because it's beneficial to anybody or is it strictly for political purposes are you guys going to wait until i stop speaking and then mischaracterize what i said and answer a question i'm not asking because it's a very simple question why are you doing this or do you admit that you're not doing this and if you admit that you're not doing
081this then why do you have these books very straightforward thank you mr lanier is there anyone else that would like to make public comment this evening that ends our public comment portion of the meeting mrs still can i just i would like to just share and reflect i think this has been an incredible month for us with graduation and um both at the north penn graduation and then at the anderson graduation that i got to the anderson school graduation through the iu that i got to attend today it was so amazing to be able to talk to each and you know to as many students as we could right about their future plans and in talking to some of those students several identified as being trans and never did their health status their their gender
082identity never did it come up but their hopes and dreams did and they shared with us where they hope to go what they hope to do and there's a lot that they have to give and so for every student who is is questioning or is very firm with their gender identity or their sexual orientation your future matters your decisions about what you do after north penn matters to us and we want to be a part of helping you get there thank you mrs ramich are there any other comments or questions this evening from the board or administration okay seeing none do i have a motion to adjourn salute second thank you have a nice night everyone you