001all right we're almost there just checking north penn television okay north penn televisions online our youtube channel is online our meeting is live so the meeting is yours president stahl thank you mr gilmer okay i will call this evening's action meeting to order um and before we get started with anything i would just like to say um that tonight's meeting is virtual because we didn't have the facility space is being used for some student activities but we will be going back to in-person action meeting for next month in may so i just want to make sure to let everybody know about that um okay so now we'll start with the pledge of allegiance please i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one
002nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all [Music] all right next up is um [Music] recognition of students receiving proclamations but before we do that i would also like to say um we have uh i would like to announce there's three north penn school district students that passed away in the past month and um the school board and the administration would like to extend our condolences to those families and to let them know um that they are in our thoughts and prayers and just maybe take a moment of silence um just a minute to recognize their loss so [Music] okay thank you all right with that we will start off with um our proclamations for our students um who have all been invited to view this meeting first off we're going to start
003off with the boys track and we have coach jonathan fluck here tonight with us this evening mr flock the um mike is yours uh thank you for having me my name is jonathan fleck i'm assistant coach for the boys winner and spring track teams um and we're honored to be including this board meeting and i know i have the four athletes messaging me and they're all watching and they're proud of this moment um the four members on this winning track team were seniors devin nugent gavin zanck uh anthony ayala and sophomore mark cobbs and they took um second outdoors last year and this was our goal to come away with the state championship at this indoor meet these guys worked hard all season long uh and it paid off at the end and it was
004awesome to see these guys cross the finish line at first they're outstanding student athletes and we're excited because this season's going really well and we're hoping to see some success at the state meet outdoors as well so i'm really looking forward to seeing it and coach jones says his best he could make this meeting so i'm glad i could be here to recognize these fine young student athletes congratulations to all four of them thank you and thank you for joining us this evening absolutely thank you for having me you're welcome all right um next up are the students from the north monco technical career center and we have mr stephen manostra here to recognize those students please thank you good evening everyone my name is stephen manastra i'm the principal at north montclair technical career
005center i want to thank you for giving me this opportunity to celebrate the accomplishments of our students as we support them in their preparation for entering the local workforce and post-secondary education this year north monco technical career center re-established our future health professionals chapter also known as hosa host is a career and technical student organization for students who want to enter the health healthcare field and are enrolled in our health and human services programs poster prepares our students to become leaders in the global health community through education collaboration and experience i would like to recognize the following students for their accomplishments in the hosa state level competition i sure bat 12th grade biomedical technology took third place in the biomedical debate team rafik eid 12th grade bio biomedical technology also took third place when the
006biomedical debate team aspen hondu 12th grade biomedical technology took third place on the same biomedical debate team brenda patel 10th grade health sciences student took third place in creative problem solving it's a team event and miranda westolowski 10th grade health sciences also took third as part of the creative problem solving team also north monco participated in the annual skills usa state conference skills usa empowers its members to become world-class workers leaders and responsible american citizens we improve the quality of our nation's work our nature nation's future skilled workforce through development of skillsusa framework skills that include personal workplace and technical skills grounded in academics i would like to recognize the following students for their accomplishments at the skills usa district level competition andrew coughlin 10th grade construction carpentry took first place in the carpentry event
007sinai green 11th grade cosmetology took first place in the job skill demonstration a event sean wolfinger 10th grade computer integrated machining took first place in the precision machining event julia hein 12th grade baking and pastry arts took second place in commercial baking allison bobbitt from 11th grade cosmetology took second place in employment application process alex carpenter 12th grade protective services took second place in firefighting zachary fitzgerald 12th grade internet technologies took second place in internet intern networking aiden colvin 11th grade mechatronics took second place for the mechatronics team event david obingy 11th grade mechatronics also took second place on the mechatronics team event harsh patel ninth grade internet technologies took second place in the technical computer applications carlos gonzalez 12th grade protective services took third place in criminal justice brandon libel 12th grade electrical trades
008took third place in the electrical construction wiring miriam gurgis 12th grade for allied health took third place in the health knowledge bowl team event those students who placed first at districts were eligible to move on to the state competition at this time i would like to recognize the following students for their accomplishments at the skillsusa state level competition jayla collins 12th grade culinary arts took first place in the state for career pathways team event and julia frederick's 12th grade culinary arts also took first place as the part of the career pathways team event as well jayla and julia earned a spot to compete at the national leadership skills conference in atlanta georgia happening in june this year on behalf of north montco i'd like to congratulate all of our students for their hard earned earned
009success thank you thank you it's very impressive it's and i'm glad to see so many students taking advantage of the offerings at the tech school thank you so much for coming this evening and honoring those kids it's a really nice thing to see and i wish them luck in june thank you okay next up um will be the penfield jazz and that is with mr orahowsky the penfield band director please thank you very much and thank you for giving us this opportunity to recognize our students um i'm so proud of the penfield jazz band members there are 24 really wonderful student musicians both as people and as musicians that make up that group and this opportunity to perform like the navy band came through an audition process where recording we send from last year so
010we're also grateful to last year's jazz bands because they're as much part of this as this year's and the other thing that made it really special was that penfield was supposed to perform at the conference two years ago that of course was canceled so it's nice that we got to follow through and get this opportunity and to make it even more special was to share that concert hour with the high school navy band with so many students that we all know and my good friend mr de valentino so we just couldn't ask for a better a better concert setting for us all to be in so i'm really proud of the students they did a fantastic job and it's my honor to present them to you now i'll start with our seventh graders karen norman
011aretha rajan justin maddox hayden and matthew nillians and our eighth graders kaylee perez julie o jasmine richardson joey godio thomas maglind brodie mcgregor charles schutz brian diffley julia dressler jeet satpute and our ninth graders and a special shout out to this group they've been outstanding leaders over the course of these years despite our challenges last year and how to rehearse and they are they're also equally responsible for guiding this group with me and i'm really proud of them glenn xavier jason dodge nick beruffi luigi cardone ethan weed sean peters tim snyder ethan kim and ethan butler thank you again for this opportunity and just a shout out to my students for such a great year i'm so proud of them thank you thank you mr rossi and congratulations to all the students too thank you
012uh next up then will be the navy jazz band with mr uh d valentino with penfield our penn dale band director yes good evening everybody and then thanks again for having us um uh echoing what mr orholsky said these students have uh persevered over the past couple years they stayed in our program um they kept up with their academics and uh they really made north penn shine this year um the navy band this year had two uh exceptional awards number one was the steel stacks high school jazz band showcase there was um four preliminary rounds with six bands in each round uh we made it to the final round and then we ended up winning that showcase so out of 24 bands we came in first place for that and that was uh about two
013weeks before we went to pmea um and then the second thing was this pmea trip that we recently took up to the poconos um this this experience this year was super emotional for all of us um the energy in the room it was a packed house there was uh eight to ten people lines deep in the hallways looking in the conference room listening to our bands uh performing and we really that these students set the bar for what music is supposed to be like here in pennsylvania um so i'd like to give a special thanks to all of the students for their hard work and determination but i also like to thank thank the board and our administration here um i got a numerous emails and calls after our performance saying how lucky we are
014to be in such a supportive district and uh when times were tough over these past few years we we didn't make excuses we looked for solutions and we worked to uh better our program through through these past two years so that you know while you guys were making decisions about masks and covet and school and policies you also took the time to sit with us and help us figure out how we can implement our program and for that we're grateful so uh without further ado let me introduce the kids the students hopefully they're all watching um our 10th graders aaron kirschner jd mcgregor logan bigelow jacob johnson akshay krishnan brandon oh our 11th graders holly kennedy johnny mang sophia lynn brendan johnson ryan perez simon baxter aiden hayes megan neil megan lockery and charlotte jaffe
015and then our seniors who a special shout out for all of your hard work throughout your career here in north penn um after this trip they're all talking about they're going to be engineers and lawyers and doctors so it's good to hear all that as well um but this is our seniors ben barron nicholas taylor victor mccoy julian nguyen thomas pyle ethan libiger david reilly and sean snyder so again congratulations to all the students and thank you again and thank you for all your support thank you and thank you for all that you guys did um it was a tough time and you guys did come up with the solutions and um i would say um working with the music department was one of the easiest things um through this last couple years so thank
016you guys for all of your hard work and um coming up with the solutions to keep the music program going which we all know is just exceptional at north penn so um which is why we have another group um the pmea district 11 choir with matthew clink please thank you and good evening everyone um so uh what i'm going to do is acknowledge our students you just heard mr warhowski and mr d valentino talk about our ensembles that were honored with the opportunity to perform at our state conference a couple of weeks ago but another thing that's an important component of that conference every year is that the high school directors myself mr santana ms melbourne who you'll hear from after i speak we all have the opportunity to nominate students at the high school
017level to basically compete against the other outstanding musicians from the other high schools around the state and the way pmea works is that we have a district level which for us is bucks in montgomery county for band and orchestra and course and then any student we nominate who is selected for those groups have the opportunity to advance to them the region level which is for us is all of southeastern pennsylvania and from region level students can advance to allstate and then if they were to make all-state band or orchestra or chorus they perform at the same conference that you just again heard my colleagues speak about a moment ago so this year we had quite a number of students from the high school who were chosen and and again just to echo something that that
018dave said a moment ago you know there we are certainly aware of a lot of programs where um there are struggles there are problems with student motivation and we we simply don't have that in our in our building our students are still highly motivated to achieve as highly as possible in music and that obviously excites and motivates us as teachers so um so the i'm going to read a list here these are our students who i nominated and who were selected this year for pmea district 11 chorus so acknowledge uh from our soprano section megan flanagan megan keeley from our alto section riddy date and allison wolfe and angelina sutra tonto and kayla brandt from our tenor section brendan johnson and eric lewis and then from our base section jack bachman then we had another
019number of students who were able to advance past district level to the region six chorus again which is all of the high schools in southeastern pennsylvania those students were elenadi in our sopranos section jamin condesceti and mahinuth from our tenor section nick bressler and daniel shoots from our base section and then we had two students in the choral program who were able to advance to the all-state level uh nathan cho and julian nguyen and i do want to say a special congratulations to julian in particular um julian actually this was the third time he was selected for allstate um and he as a piano player that's actually an incredibly hard thing because they don't take very many pianists but all three of his years at north penn he made all-state uh course the the frustrating
020part was we haven't had actual conferences so they gave him the honor but he never actually got to play so this year he finally was able to and on top of that i do want to say for julian um who was planning to go on and major in music education he also because he made allstate in a previous year actually was this year selected to be an all-national modern band as the piano player which is just a huge accomplishment so to all of these students and in particular again as i mentioned julian the second ago congratulations to them and you'll hear about our abandoned orchestra students next from from joe and from erica thank you congratulations to them and especially to julian as well that's that is very impressive i am glad he finally got
021his chance to play okay next up um will be the pmea district 11 band with mr santaniello good evening i would like to thank my very well spoken and handsome colleagues who uh did such a good job of of saying so many of the important uh recognition that our students deserve i'm going to tell you about the students who were selected to district region and all-state level band and i would just like to say that not only are we proud of these students achievements as musicians we're proud to know them they are some of the absolute best human beings uh in the world and getting to work with them day in and day out is a pleasure in itself and then to see them go on and do all these great things at the state
022level domestic district level region level is just icing on the cake to working with really great young people so i also like to recognize the fact that these are largely very individual achievements um that means the students are incredibly motivated to work hard on their own practicing hours and hours and hours outside of the practice that we give them and assign them as teachers and they're working with fabulous private lesson teachers in many cases so i wanted to say thank you to all the private lesson teachers in our community that work with our students and i want to say thank you to all their parents who are driving them to lessons and paying for lessons and so much support from their wonderful parents so uh our band students i have to say we had an
023incredible ridiculous number of students uh selected to district band 21 students which is just crazy um and then as i read them i'll let you know if they advance beyond districts so we had a senior benjamin barron who also made it to region band sophomore logan bigelow who made it to region band senior luke bidding who made it to region band and allstate band senior claire bursick who made it to region band sophomore noah filgrove who made it to region band uh senior benjamin phil grove his brother who made it to region band as well uh junior aiden hayes who made it to region an all-state band uh junior abigail holmberg senior renee kang who made it to region band junior holly kennedy sophomore aaron kirschner who made it to region an all-state band junior
024joshua kim who made it to region band all-state band and i would like to also mention that joshua auditioned to be first chair french horn in the entire state of pennsylvania which is a huge accomplishment junior johnny mang who made it to region an all-state band and was also selected to be first chair clarinet in the entire state of pennsylvania a sophomore sumithondagendra who made it to region band junior megan nield uh junior yash prabhu who made it to region and all-state band sophomore suhas rakotu uh junior michelle schwartz who made it to region an all-state band senior sean snyder junior lily wang who made it to region band and sophomore ming yu who made it to region and all-state band so again just an amazing amount of really amazing and highly motivated and special
025young people that we are really excited to recognize tonight thank you thank you and congratulations to all your students as well it's very impressive and thank you to you guys for um teaching them and you know they're very fortunate to have such a great staff of teachers to help them um you know take advantage of all these opportunities so thank you so much for that okay um and last but not least is um orchestra with mrs erica melbourne mrs melbourne oh good evening thank you i'm erica melbourne and i am the orchestra director at north penn high school and also at penndale middle school um and in addition to all the things that have already been said and all the handsomeness that has been passed around times four now i also want to just take
026a minute to acknowledge all of our elementary and middle school staff who had started all of these kids you know with their love of music at a very young age and who have nurtured them all through their years and then pass them to those of us at the high school who get to enjoy their talents every single day and as mr santanello said these kids are truly just great people to be around i mean we love making music with them but we just love hanging out with them too they're just awesome kids um similar to uh the well the process is the same for orchestra with the auditions and um the qualifiers to go on to the next level but one thing that's special for orchestra um is that the string players can audition in
027ninth grade and this year we were very fortunate to have um a couple of students from penndale who did that as well um so i will read their names um so for district orchestra uh we had uh senior anna chen um sophomore lily labelle junior daniel o uh sophomore hannah pierce sophomore megan pierce and yes they are twins junior annie pearson um and then from pendle middle school we had ninth grader carlos graffelds ninth gra ninth grader david song so of those students um four of them advanced to uh the region level so anna chen lily labelle daniel o and annie pearson advanced to the region orchestra and then from that from that level three students advanced onto the allstate festival which were anna chen daniel o and annie pearson and i did want to
028go ahead and also mention that julian nguyen who we've heard plenty about this evening as well um he was the accompanist uh uh the pianist for region orchestra and for the allstate orchestra as well so just to put a couple more feathers in julian's hat so congratulations to all of the kids and thank you to my colleagues or you guys are great to work with and i especially love working with matt and joe at the high school they're just great people and we all make a great team here thank you to the board and thank you to the administration and uh to the parents as well um and just thank you for everything thank you and congratulations to all your students as well mr melbourne and thank you all for coming out tonight and honoring
029your students we appreciate it now um you're more than welcome to stay but if you don't we won't be offended have a good night all right um i'm just surprised i didn't want to start um okay moving on next to the audience of citizens um we will go on to public comment i'll just read off this statement real quick before we do that so 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
030the 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 as 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 though of individual school board directors may choose to respond to public comments that have been made during the audience of citizens period has concluded or requests that a member of the administration follow up with the speakers after the meeting this is per policy
031number 903 so with that mr gilmore is there anyone in our audience this evening that would like to make public comment at this time see i'll just remind our attendees tonight that if you intend to make comment go ahead and raise your hand at the bottom of the interface uh it's the little hand the raised hand at the bottom uh up first we have nina vos nina i have enabled your microphone so when you're ready to begin please state your name and municipality and you can begin your comments hi um nina voz upper gwenet township hi oh hi i'm sorry that's okay i'm not used to this um i've come here to talk like i have before about the post 12 um at the high school i just wanted to say i think i think
032post 12 needs their own space um they are you know 18 19 20 20 uh one-year-old um students adults um in a high school setting um i think they also need to be a program um with their own space with real independent living setting um let you know students learn or try to learn jobs that they're interested in um just want to make them feel like they're they've achieved something and they're proud when they leave north bend um also to involve them more in their community so when they leave when they leave businesses know their worth and know that they are employable i know you all do a lot of work um and a lot of decision making as well as a special education department um and i just can't have it it being pushed
033off in each other i said we need to work together um i want it better for the students to come after my son and i hope just to see some positive changes happen with the post-12 it's just really it really means a lot to me um and i do want to thank you miss stohl for attending on last night our viewing of intelligent lives i hope you get a chance to talk to the other board members about that we will have another screening most likely in the fall and maybe some other screenings of some other documentary films about people with disabilities and i hope you will all attend them and we will also be willing to have a pr uh a private screening if you would like or you know we can make you know
034other arrangements because i know people have you know their life and you know scheduling and stuff like that but we had a nice turnout and i'm really glad um um that the you know the people that attended thank you mrs rose i've lived one more thing if you allow me to say it's not i'm not a big well it's a big deal but kind of not a big deal the high school parking lot nobody has to comment on this when you come out the back where you have to come all the way out back of the parking lot if you drop your kid off at school it's horrible the holes are just out of control i was just hoping maybe they could fill them up and they're just like every time i go through the
035pick up my son there's like a ton more and that's i just wanted to say that so i don't know anything could be done about it but i just wanted to mention it not you know throwing anybody under the bus or anything like that but thank you just yet just something to say i just drove through there tonight and it's like crazy or dodging them like it's yeah it's everywhere yeah well thank you and thank you for the invite to the um movie yesterday it was my pleasure to be there and i i really enjoyed it did you good thank you very much thank you okay up next is pauline brachio pauline i have enabled your microphone so you're ready to begin state your name and municipality and you can begin your comments please and
036you can unmute there you go thanks you there pauline i can hear you i'm not sure you can hear us i cannot hear her yeah i mean i hear her mic there pauline i'll uh i'll go ahead and and disable you i think sometimes if your zoom isn't up to date you're not able to talk to us so i'm not sure when you logged in if it gave you a prompt to do that i'm going to disable that for right now i'm going to lower your hand so if you're able to update that you can raise your hand again there is a second public comment so this will be last call if anybody has any other comments you would raise your hand right now okay up next is jason lanier jason i've enabled your microphone
037so when you're ready to begin i'll meet your mic state your name and municipality please jason lanier lansdale um i'm calling again regarding the fact that you guys are holding these meetings against the sunshine law act uh i know uh mr summers mentioned something about being able to if you can have a quorum virtually then you're okay that that's not accurate and i don't know if you guys have bothered to look into this but uh act 15 is so that excuse me uh sunshine laws so that people can comment to you guys and we can actually uh if if we feel uh there's a cause to object while you are having a um emotion we're allowed to object i don't know if it's in sunshine law 710-1 section c says that citizens are allowed to
038object when there's a problem when you guys do this virtually it it takes away my right to object to what you're doing when you're breaking rules or breaking the law with the sunshine act um that being said now that you know this is the third time i've told you guys the third time i've told you that you're in violation because the only reason why you were allowed to go virtual for these meetings is because the act 15 that was passed in early march 2000 because of the covet situation now that that has been repealed so has your right to have these meetings virtually uh you might want to get mr summers on this and actually investigate it because you guys are in violation let me tell you what happens if you're in violation which you
039are and there's actually a couple lawsuits out there in other school districts which are looking to uh find uh find resolution uh in the near future here but what this means is for every penalty every time you guys are found in violation of which is now there's three we could probably backdate this for another month um it requires the individuals of the board to pay a hundred dollar fine at the minimum for each first violation and each of you will have to pay at least 200 for every violation on the second the third and so on on the high end it could be as high as a thousand or excuse me 500 for each first violation um and up to a thousand for each second violation so you guys are looking individually you guys are
040looking at somewhere between eleven hundred and five thousand dollars with the fines and these cannot be paid by the school district i know mr summers gets paid to defend you in court for the things that are done he is recommended to you wrongly meaning this is okay to do but um i'm i'm telling you now you guys individually be required to pay these fines and i'll save the rest of my comments for the second uh second opportunity thank you mr linear mr gilmore is there anyone else that would like to make public comment yeah we have a couple hands up here i'm gonna go up to up next we'll be roseanne gad roseanne i've enabled your microphone so when you're ready to begin unmute and state your name and municipality please yes hi roseanne gad
041lansdale if someone tells you to jump off a bridge with roaring rapids below would you do it and prior to the jump will you ask how far is the drop and are there rocks down there well you have officially jumped off the bridge now plunging into uncharted waters because you did not follow pa federal or international laws if you are not aware that your oath of office that you signed is to uphold the pennsylvania constitution and the united states constitution then your solicitor and anyone else on this board have not been forthright in giving accurate information and you are following unnecessary and unconstitutional mandates in the health and safety plan you are complicit in breaking many laws title 23 chapter 63 intentionally knowingly or recklessly doing anything to endanger a child or interfering with the
042breathing of a child pa code 28 pc 23.84 master dean medical devices all medical devices must be installed via authorized medical practitioner so please heed the warning if you reinstate the mask mandate which by the way is not a law knowing that there is a law about mass needing to be fitted you are violating your of office pa statute title 63 practicing medicine without a license you are recommending medical procedures vaccinations with holy non-fda approved product that is licensed under an eua therefore it's experimental and cannot be average for federal law environmental vaccine was introduced you advertised the availability of a local pharmacy via email and supplied these on north penn property are you aware that this is completely illegal under this law and again something your solicitor should have advised you about in the
043last two years you inflicted these illegal mass mandates on your children on february 15 2021 in the principia scientific international news study finds covet mass harm children's physical and mental health by regan hall there are many behavioral physical and psychological problems associated with masking children if you had done research before decision on masking you could have determined by following the science the consequences of your uninformed proclamation it is the cdc mcoph and pdoh did not follow the science you are an elected public official you have no jurisdiction or authority to create or enforce mandates or laws if you resume unlawful covert response actions as stated in the health and safety plan then we will pursue a claim against your bond and blanket liability insurance policy you are not above the constitutional rule of law in
044closing i would like to quote one of our founding fathers john jay for supreme court justice america belongs to we the people it does not belong to the congress it does not belong to special interest groups it does not belong to the courts it belongs to either people thank you mrs gad anyone else mr kilner yes sorry he's getting to my mic here up next we're we're gonna go back to pauline we're gonna try her again so pauline brocco i've enabled your microphone so you're ready to begin um your mic and state your name municipality please okay can you hear me this time we got you oh good okay thank you my name is pauline braccio and i'm in town manson township um i would like to talk about the um the idea that i
045had at the previous meeting the one before last month i think that there should be cameras installed in every single classroom montgomery county is receiving 161 million dollars through the american rescue plan and the district can actually devise a plan an idea or however you want to set it up and submit that to get the money to do exactly that put cameras into the classrooms i think they're especially needed in classrooms that have special needs children even if a special needs child is mainstreamed into class then that classroom should also have a camera i think all of them should but the things that are going on today with and i and i haven't heard this specifically about north penn district but i don't know if it is happening in any of the schools where teachers
046are grooming children coaching children uh talking to them about sexual identity that has no place in school at all and i'm not talking about the teacher's sexual orientation i don't care what any teacher's sexual orientation is or what their lifestyle is they have no business crossing the boundary from educator to a personal relationship with a child um so i do and also i i think that it's a good way for people to for parents especially to understand what is being taught in the classrooms the um [Music] the controversies that are going on right now is it's just getting to be too much and the only way we're really going to know what each teacher is doing is to observe them so i really do urge the school district to look into getting cameras with audio
047in the classroom say they can be discreet the cameras don't have to be so obvious um and they shouldn't be because this way teachers can relax and not even remember that the cameras are there so we can see what they're doing and i'm not trying to cast shade on teachers as a group but within every group there are going to be people who are not above board who are not doing things in the in a correct way and students especially if they're young will not realize it and uh as especially when teachers say don't tell your parents uh sometimes students obey that because they don't know that they should be telling their parents so that's that's really what i'm talking about tonight and i really hope that you looked into it the montgomery county will
048have the money and um the school district is getting money from other sources as well thank you thank you mrs bachio okay up next we have margaret burke margaret i have enabled your microphone so when you're ready to begin please unmute state your name municipality please hi good evening this is margaret burke and i live in upper gwenet i just wanted to um start out by saying i'm really appreciating all these wonderful accomplishments that we heard about at the beginning of the meeting tonight i feel so fortunate to be in this district there's just so many great things with track and music and while the teachers were thanking the students and and the board and the district i was thinking i want to thank these teachers they're amazing and thank you so much teachers for
049what you do for what you put up with and i hope you know that most people in the district are just so proud of all the accomplishments that some of which we heard about tonight also i um i want to note that the um unified track at the high school is starting their first track meet tomorrow and i want to wish them good luck to all those um special education education students who will be competing um another thing i wanna i wondered you mentioned that next month will be a um in-person meeting and i'm wondering um if it's possible if we can still comment uh via zoom for people like me who are immune compromised who as cases go up of covet again um would rather not be in a room full of people who
050don't wear a mask i hope that we can all have the opportunity to comment it's easy for anybody to comment by zoom so um i hope we can keep doing that i don't know what the technicalities around that are with how we broadcast this but um in addition somebody mentioned having cameras in each classroom and i just want to say for me i find that to be a violation of my child's privacy whatever they discuss with their teachers especially in the special education classroom is really none of another parent's business and i would never want parents to be able to just watch online what's going on with my child and hear what my child is saying i find that to be a major violation of their privacy and i hope that we will not allow
051the sexual identity police to be in there listening to see if my children talks about their sexual orientation and giving them a chance to take away my child's freedom to speak as they want to speak in their classroom in private in privacy of their of their class thank you very much and again to the school board thank you for all that you do um i think the north penn community belongs to all of us and i appreciate how much you serve our community and i just want you to know again that there are people out there who really support what you've done and will continue to do and thank you have a great night thank you mrs burke quick question is the uh track meet at home tomorrow i just disabled her sorry oh sorry
052okay put her back on no that's okay no go ahead sorry sorry it's in a way me and i believe that it's lower marian okay thank you all right very good alrighty so that will conclude the first public comment um for this first public comment all right tina yes mr rush um citizens still are able to comment in our meetings even when we go live isn't that a true statement i'm sorry what when when we go live people will still be able to comment at home in our meetings right i think that um that's a technical uh situation that we need to work out with mr gilmer yeah that's something we haven't figured out yet so so if you're if the committee meetings are virtual they can comment there um it was either all virtual
053or all in person okay i didn't know that thank you for explaining that to me thank you okay um if there's no further comments we will move on then to the next item which is the suspension of board policy zero zero six point one um i need a motion to approve can i read i should read it first thank you thank you all right approve the suspension of board policy zero zero six point one with specific regard to the limitation of the number of school directors participating in a meeting electronically and the requirement of having a majority of the board physically present at any meeting location and we already have a motion on the floor by mr fusco is there a second mr rush okay um any comments or questions all in favor say aye
054or raise your hand any opposed motion carries thank you all right um next up is the approval of the minutes from the march 17 2022 action meeting can i have a motion mentioned by mrs romich second by mr tim mcbean any comments or questions all in favor say aye or raise your hand any opposed motion carries thank you all right now we'll go up to um the committee reports first up is the personnel committee the personnel committee of the board met on april 5th 2022 to discuss matters of personnel including the appointment of staff staffing considerations and collective bargaining end of report finance um vice president fusco thank you president sult uh at the march 22nd uh meeting special finance committee meeting which was a virtual meeting the following items were reviewed first the 2022
05523 department budgets for special education and human resources were presented to the committee an executive summary the presentation and line item budget for each department are posted in board docs second the revenue spotlight which is a new feature of the finance committee where the administration presents a deep dive into a particular revenue item at this meeting mr shkaraki presented information regarding investment income and the district's investment plan all financial presentations are accessible via board docs third mrs chris mrs kristen johnson provided the quarterly updates on the various sources and uses of the federal stimulus funding this presentation also accessible via board docs a fourth item was the 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
056school districts at the april 12 finance committee meeting which was also a virtual meeting the following items were reviewed the monthly financial reports were provided and budget transfers were reviewed with additional discussion on the following items first department budget presentations the 2223 department budget for technology was presented to the committee second was our revenue spotlight at this meeting mrs johnson presented information regarding the school-based access medicaid medicaid reimbursement program third we discussed the healthcare premium holiday mr skrocky reviewed the possibility of another premium holiday for 20 22 23 and the financial impact it would have on the district the fourth item was the general fund budget mr shkaraki presented the first draft of the upcoming fiscal year budget the proposed final budget is scheduled for approval consideration on may 10th with final adoption on june
05716th the next finance committee meeting will be held on tuesday april 26 2022 and tuesday may 10 2022 both meetings will start at 6 pm end of report thank you mr fusco are there any comments or questions are you moving on then to save schools mr costa's not here this evening so i'll read this one um the safe schools committee met on monday evening march 28th mr durr presented an overview of the behavioral threat assessment work by the district occurring over the last year this included the final finalization of formal protocol and team structure as required by state regulations as well as the development of a data collection tool mr durr reported that 30 threat assessments have been conducted by schools in the district so far this year work is now being done to align
058north penn's protocol with the pennsylvania model and to increase school leader awareness of their responsibilities surrounding threat assessment mr dirr then shared a progress update of the ongoing safe schools assessment project being conducted by marcolis healy the assessment team was on site in the district from march 7th through march 17th during this time they interviewed 115 individuals and spent hours at each of the district's facilities an outbrief was conducted with mr durr on the march 17th during which the team shared their overall positive impression of north penn school district safe schools efforts no critical items needed immediate attention were found a first draft of the final assessment report is expected in may finally an initial discussion was held about the use of specially trained dogs as part of the mental health or learning support interventions
059at schools which is becoming increasingly popular the committee requested that the administration conduct greater research about successful programs and report back at a future meeting the next safe schools committee will take place on monday april 25th at 5 45 pm in a virtual format end of report does anyone have any comments or questions all right next moving on then to the education curriculum and instruction mr mcbain could you take this one please surely thank you madam president on thursday april 7th 2022 the eci committee met in a virtual format at this meeting members of the curriculum department provided information regarding the academic programs being conducted for district students this summer these programs will service students in grades k-12 and include programs designed to provide academic support and remediation as well as enrichment opportunities the curriculum
060department also presented information describing proposed textbook and resource adoptions for french one french two and middle school math these materials are available at the esc for public review in addition to the items proposed for action the committee members received updates regarding the work in which building principals and their staff are engaging in the area of cultural proficiency and awareness in order to help all students and their families feel welcome and included this month's presentations were given by dr tamara jenkins and this is rita whalen principal and assistant principal of pembroke middle school respectively mr jason bashaw principal of glen square elementary school and mr dan grunmeyer representing north bridge we invite you to take the time to view their presentations which are posted on the april 7 2022 eci meeting in board docs the next
061meeting of eci committee will be held on tuesday may 3rd 2022 at 6 p.m in a virtual format end of report thank you mr mcmahon any comments or questions just want a second um the suggestion that folks check that meeting out there is some tremendous work going on uh in our buildings across the district uh to make our district more inclusive for all students and um it will make you feel good so i recommend checking out that that was long it was three-hour meeting so you may want to scrub through a little bit but i got that meeting it was very informative all right uh next up would be the policy committee meeting mr rush please all right the policy committee met on april 11 2022 in a virtual format at the meeting the committee
062continued to review policies in the 800 series policies reviewed this month were 808 food services 814 copyright material 817 energy management in addition the committee reviewed policy 218 student discipline and policy 236-1 uh behavioral threat assessment in response to a discussion at the safe schools committee meeting that was held in watch the next meeting of the policy committee will be on may 10th at 5 00 pm in a virtual format thank you thank you mr rash next up is facilities and operations the facilities and operations committee met on monday march 28 2022 in a virtual format the committee reviewed the following items to be moved to this evening's action meeting for the board's consideration uh one change order for the knapp elementary school project the contract award for the ssc exterior walk-in freezer permission to
063advertise for the health care center site work and foundations permission to advertise the annual facilities and operations service contracts and the committee was presented and discussed the informational items including the knapp elementary and crawford stadium project updates an update on the high school master plan process and recent activities and an update on the healthcare clinic the next facilities and operations meeting is scheduled for monday april 25th 2022 at 7 pm and will be held in a virtual format next is the north monco technical career center which i don't believe has a report um this evening i don't think yes mr maybe may i read it off here this evening add a little bit of a glitch and i apologize okay thank you very much thank you as you heard earlier from mr manastra north penn
064students are not only learning the skills that they'll use towards future careers in high priority fields but they're stepping up to represent our community and compete against other students across the state and they're taking top honors when they do so so we're so lucky to have a great group of educators administrators guiding these kids along their paths so i just wanted to put a thank you out there to mor the north monco team once again for all your work uh the north monco technical and career center joint operating committee met last evening april 20th at 7 pm virtually and approved a number of personnel and facility maintenance actions as well as accepting the very special donation to the school believe it or not a fire truck we thank the plum said township fire company for
065giving our students this opportunity to train with and learn to maintain such a complex and essential piece of machinery the north bronco educational foundation held a very successful first annual car show recently on april 9th thank you to so many car owners and spectators who came in from all over the region and raised money to support our students the committee also approved the selection of dr david zurby from the facton school district to serve his superintendent of record for the 2022-23 school year the committee thanked our own dr dietrich for his leadership over the past few years and wish him well is approaching retirement operation i'm sorry orientation for enrolled students and their families will be held on may 11th and we look forward to senior recognition night at north penn high school on june
0661st the next meeting of the joint operating committee will be held in person on may 16th at 7 pm thank you very much and report thank you mr mcbain that's quite a generous gift a fire truck they're very expensive and i tell you what it's going to be used in so many ways the kids are absolutely going to benefit from that we're very lucky to have that gift that's cool thank you all right next up then will be the montgomery county intermediate unit this is veronica please great thank you so much so the last mciu board meeting was held on march 23rd and we're starting a new tradition at our board meetings by featuring a program highlight the first program highlight featured the life skills program and the teacher molly luke from the office of
067student services she presented an overview of the mciu virtual life skills program um and it was great to see her work in action and the and the interaction engagement that she's able to maintain with students the mciu board approved the appointment of jeff jeffrey cardwell as the mcu school safety and security coordinator the mciu board approved various budgets and opportunities for professional development and approved an agreement with the pennsylvania trust as well as submissions of grant applications to expand the head start program the office of community and governmental relations provided a fantastic overview of current legislative issues and highlighted the need for advocacy for early intervention funding and child nutrition waivers the mciu board granted approval of the 2022-2023 joint purchase purchasing consumer shamline item supply bid and in terms of human resource updates provided
068updates on professional development requests 12 new employees eight resignations 10 retirements and one professional contract that was awarded the mciu board approved continuations and renewals of contracted technology service agreements and approved budgets for contract service agreements and the support to support many trainings programs and services provided by the office the mciu head start policy council will be meeting on met i guess met on april 19th mciu celebrated earth day on the 22nd mciu will be joining psba stay on the hill on the hill and we'll be recognizing staff on staff appreciation day april 27th and nciu retirement um presentation on may 25th the next mciu board meeting is april 27th end of report thank you mrs ramich are there any comments or questions seeing none we will stay with mrs ramich and have her read
069off the north penn educational foundation report please great the north penn educational foundation met on wednesday april 6th at oak park elementary school the trustees were treated to a fantastic tour by school principal jonathan winkle and got to see some of the foundation grants in action including a hydroponics flex farm where our oak park students will be growing lettuce and other vegetables and that will be shared within the cafeteria and through other educational opportunities as well as an outdoor seating area that's been set up for kindergarteners the other topics of discussion included a v a grant which the foundation is working on we recently found out that we've been approved i'm invited to apply for that next step and we'll have more information coming up in coming months the foundation's upcoming online auction was also
070discussed it's being held may 4th through the 11th we're still looking for community businesses who want to donate services and products to this popular fundraising event we've already seen received more than 50 items including phillies tickets restaurant gift cards and themed baskets look for yard signs around the community pointing to the website where you can preview the items i'd like to just thank the school board directors in joining and contributing so far we've put together two school board um sponsor baskets and i'm working on a third that will be dropping off shortly another north penn strong apparel launch this week and goes through april 29th with a delivery date and time for summer and graduation in addition to the north penn strong items we will also offer north penn school district and alumni selections as
071always look for an email and on social media for information about this popular fundraiser i'd like to point out and thank um fellow school board director al-resh for supporting his north penn strong gear this evening finally a spring grant application window is open and we are accepting innovative classroom project ideas for the next school year and i really do hope and consider and encourage all school district employees to consider applying we would like to support your innovative and creative ideas our next meeting is on may 11 at 8 00 am thank you so much and end of report thank you mrs ramich lots of good things going on there okay um next up will be the legislative committee mr mcbain please thank you again madam president house bill 2169 a measure to establish mandated voucher
072savings accounts which mimic a similar failed bill from earlier sessions currently sits in the house appropriations committee this bill would drain nearly 170 million dollars from public schools and forbid the state from setting new requirements on the non-public educational institutions that would receive those funds the bill stops any objective monitoring of the program's success as it does not require student academic den data partner student academic data to be reported instead a survey of parent satisfaction administered by the pennsylvania treasury would provide the only mechanism to ensure academic accountability the stated purpose of this bill to assist low-income families in purchasing non-public school education is not reflected in the letter of this potential law as there is no income limit for families to receive the voucher in other news house bill 2468 not kitten 2468 proposes
073a 45 million dollar grant program to help school districts fund increased mental health services in our schools as written the funds could be used for many purposes including staffing training and the purchase of mental health services we again ask our community to contact their local representatives and advocate for these measures that support our work for north penn students and families and a report thank you mr mcbain all right next up um will be the solicitors report mr summers please thank you madam president i'd like to announce that the board met in an executive session uh virtually on april 19 2022 for the purpose of discussing a matter of personnel involving an administrative position and again on april 21st 2022 immediately prior to tonight's meeting also virtually for the purpose of discussing a matter of personnel
074involving a former administrative employee and also just to follow up on comments that i made during the policy committee meeting with regard to virtual meetings and the application of act 15 of 2020 again that act focused on quorum requirements that are contained within codes that are applicable to boroughs third class cities and first-class townships and and not school districts and the law that it refers to does not include school districts within its definition of political subdivisions that act did not uh amend the sunshine act nor did it even mention the sunshine act and as we've discussed before the sunshine act requires that meetings of agencies which does include a school district be open to the public and certainly virtual meetings are advertised to the public made available to the public the public is able to
075view and join and comment during these meetings and that concludes my report thank you thank you mr summers and thank you for clarifying that for us again okay next up then will be the superintendent's report dr dietrich please thank you i recommend uh the adoption of the consent items listed a through end time motion so moved do i have a second motion by mr fusco and seconded by mr mcbain any comments or questions all in favor say aye or raise your hand any opposed motion carries i recommend approval of the personnel items as per the attached do i have a motion so moved motioned by mr fusco and seconded by mrs ramich any comments or questions i'd like to say that um one of the names on this list tonight is uh nick cranach who
076i think has um done an outstanding job for this district in the time that he's been here and i'd just like to take a moment to wish him well as he moves on to um i'm like i said greener pastures because north has a great place but um he's certainly moving his career in another direction and congratulations to him and we wish him well thank you for uh all you've done for north yes thank you mr fusco for pointing that out we do wish him well are there any other comments all right seeing none all in favor say aye any opposed motion carries recommended the approval of change order 16 to low bar incorporated in the amount of zero dollars for miscellaneous changes during the course of construction by having a contractual change made to
077apply to the unit cost allowance number 10 seconded by mr fusco are there any comments or questions seeing none all in favor say aye or raise your hand any opposed motion carries recommend approval of the bid award of the support services center walk-in freezer work to uh the lowest responsible bidder pen builders incorporated in the amount of 222 thousand three hundred forty dollars do you have a motion [Music] by mr rush sorry i'm sorry second by mr fusco any comments or questions all in favor say aye raise your hand any opposed motion carries [Music] recommend the approval of the following law firms to provide legal services to the north penn school district effective may 1st 2022 for a period of five years whistler protostyle p for general counsel rudolph clark llp construction and tax assessment
078appeals kegel callum litzenlord bound council as per the submitted proposals in response to the district's request for proposals do you have a motion don't move motion by mrs romich second seconded by mr rush any comments or questions all in favor say aye or raise your hand any opposed motion carries recommend approval of the memorandum of understanding with the north penn education association returning pertaining to the utilization of third-party independent contractors for the school psychology and speech and language pathology services as per the attached do i have a motion so moved to a second by mr fusco and seconded by mr mcbain any comments or questions all in favor say aye or raise your hand any opposed motion carries recommend approval of the memorandum of agreement with the north penn education association pertaining to the adjustment
079of the 2022 extended school year professionals pay rate as per the attached do i have a motion so moved do i have a second motioned by mr fusco and seconded by mr rash any comments or questions or comments or questions yet just this is an important program and that i think this is making sure that it's properly staffed for the summer yes absolutely okay all in favor say aye or raise your hand any opposed motion carries thank you dr dietrich okay next up then is uh the finance report from mr scrocky please thank you madam president good evening everyone nice to see everyone i hope everyone's doing well uh this financial report is for the month of march 2022. had cash receipts in march that totaled 12.3 million disbursements in march were 32.1 million leaving
080us with available funds of 117.1 million at the end of the month and that's 2.7 million higher than last year just a couple additional reminders mr fusco mentioned these in the finance committee report but may 10th is the scheduled recommended proposed final budget adoption and june 16th would be the final budget adoption so we're coming towards the tail end of our budget process we have another special finance committee meeting coming up on tuesday we'll have the final two department budget presentations that'll be from the curriculum department for one and elementary education for the other we'll also provide another update on the draft of the 2023 budget so we encourage everyone that might be viewing tonight to tune in to the finance committee meeting next tuesday at six o'clock and that's basically it for update tonight
081a short report but we would ask for approval of the treasures report for march 2022 please can i have a motion please i moved i have a second motion by mr fusco and seconded by mr mcbain any comments or questions all in favor say aye raise your hand any opposed motion carries thank you next item for vote is the recommendation and sanction and approval of invoices for the month of march and they totaled 37 million 109 dollars and 367.39 cents and we are recommending ratification of those disbursements can i have a motion so moved have a second second motion by mr fusco and seconded by dr lewis campbell are there any comments or questions seeing none all in favor say aye or raise your hand any opposed motion carries okay thank you final item for
082action is the approval of the budget transfers for the month month of march 2022 and they totaled 831 765.38 we did review these at the last finance committee meeting and we are recommending approval of those transfers can i have a motion please so moved have a second motion by mr fusco and seconded by mrs ramich any comments or questions all in favor say aye or raise your hand any opposed motion carries and finally madam president just for informational purposes we do have the monthly financial reports posted and as usual we do review these in more detail at the finance committee meetings so that concludes my report thank you very much thank you mr scracky okay next up is other business does anyone have any other business to discuss this evening madam president if i might
083just for a moment i just relative to the legal services appointment i'd like to just thank the board for their vote uh this evening and the administration for the support um our firm is appreciative of the opportunity to continue working with the district and personally as a very proud north penn school district graduate um it's a huge honor to represent the district and appreciate appreciate the opportunity and look forward to working with everyone moving forward so thank you thank you mr summers we appreciate appreciate all your efforts as well okay um and other business i just wanted to remind people that international spring festival is this weekend on saturday and that is a great event um i'm not sure what time it starts though um i i believe the parade of nations is around 11
08430. 11 30 okay yeah and that's where they make their way from um the lobby outside the auditorium to the gymnasium and then there are a few speeches and celebrations um so if you can join that would be wonderful it is a great family-friendly free event yes and it's going to be so nice to be back in person and to have it at the high school again this year so i'm looking forward to it i will definitely be there thank you does anyone else have any other business that they want to go over before we go to the second public comment all right then mr gilmer we have anybody in the audience of citizens that would like to make public comment yes we have several hands up okay all right up first is uh john
085ziegler john i have enabled your microphone so you're ready to begin please unmute state your name and municipality and get your comments uh pardon me good evening uh john ziegler lansdale i had a question about the mou for uh psychology and speech and language services um i i don't know i was curious if uh the uh board was made aware of what the what the plan is in terms of how the district plans to ensure that the services that are delivered by the independent contractors or third parties will be of sufficient quality to be at least as as good as the services that are provided by psea association members um we i will answer that we did have an update in our um personnel committee meeting when this was discussed okay well and i will
086say for what it's worth um this is out of need for sure the the psychologist in particular because of the need for evaluations for special education services and timeline requirements um that are legal requirements and throughout the state likely throughout the country it's a shortage of these folks certainly um they have a lot of opportunities to go into private practice um so this is just reflecting a need within the district um and i have although i have not spoken to dr kim at length about this i have no doubt that um they're vetting the service providers and the agencies in which they would be working through um and then also just the collaborative effort of a special education team to look at the documents and discuss you know with the team at the table the
087results evaluations and you know being able to make proper recommendations for students thank you mr ziegler okay up next is pauline broxio brocco pauline i messed up your last name again i apologize i brought you there you go pauline your uh mic is unmuted so state your name and it's pouty and be in your comments please uh my name is pauline brocchio town manson township um i would like to answer margaret burke i was not saying to have it shown live in every classroom all day long for people who has time like that what i'm saying is to have recordings in case something does come up if a student is disturbed by something then the appropriate people can go back and look at the video and see exactly what happened so there's no back and
088forth between a teacher and a student as to who claims this or that the other thing is i feel sorry for any parent who wants to relinquish their parental duties and allow their child and even want their children to go talk about such personal matters with somebody else in a group setting there's no expectation of privacy in a classroom if you're a parent who does not want to discuss personal matters with your own child or have your child feel comfortable enough to talk with you then take your child to a professional outside of the school why would you want your child to talk about their personal issues that has to do with anything that's not school related in a setting with other children there it's still not private and also don't you still have i
089know that when my child was in school um parents could ask to observe a class for an hour or so if they if they wish to and i actually was allowed to do that and did take advantage of that so um i i don't understand where it's this privacy expectation for anyone to discuss uh sexual matters with children please remember they are children and it's not anybody's business but their own parents to discuss these things with them so as i said i was not talking about anybody can log in and watch a classroom it was specifically for if a child wants to discuss something and they can go back and observe what happened and this way there's a clearer you know picture of what's happening and also parents should have the right to know what
090their children are learning school is for geography spelling all those things and also for baking woodworking whatever it is that prepares a person to go out into the world to make a living and to continue further education it's got nothing to do with your personal life at home that's for the parents to deal with and i i guess i said i feel sorry if your child does not feel comfortable with you mrs burke thank you mrs brachio um thank you for clarifying your stance on the cameras i i did also take it to mean that they would be live so thank you for clarifying is there anybody else that wants to make public comment look at me now i'm muting my mic yes i have enabled your microphones when you're ready to begin you can
091unmute state your name in municipality and begin please um nina voos albergue township um i just wanted so i wanted to ask a couple questions if i can um mr mcvean you mentioned two bills um that are guessed with the house i'm not sure what you said can you tell me what those two two bills are because i always like to contact our representatives to support and i know you said the one was about mental health services could you just give me these bills the names of those bills are the numbers under the house bills if you just give me a moment to bring that back up real quick if it's not going to take too much time no i tell you what i'm almost there i opened a lot of reports as we were
092going through your green it was house bill 2169 2169 and 2468. yeah i apologize for the slow recall there my dear oh that's okay so 21.69 and then i knew the 2468 was the mental health yes and then also um mr fusco you mentioned something about this i kind of was doing stuff here so i wasn't paid attention at some point you said something about a three-hour meeting um that was like the easter egg yeah i was referring to the most recent eci meeting and what is that i'm sorry so we had presentations from um from different schools across the district uh about just the work they've been doing um related to diversity equity and inclusion and okay that's what i thought you said but i i wasn't i didn't hear the for like the
093rest of it yeah well i was suggesting that if you did go to look that it was a very long meeting and you just might want to scrub forward to the process where and where would that be is that like on youtube on the north pole i do think if you're on board docs um that you can get both all the agenda items with things like you know um information that's presented in the legislative reports and also i believe there's video links um okay yeah yeah yeah i'm familiar with it i've gone on there before sometimes it gets confusing on there yeah it's kind of it's yeah sometimes it's not user friendly um they're always on youtube well the meetings so right right i do want to mention also i don't know i short i
094don't know if everyone knows here um that our unified bocce special olympics received the bronze medal for the state championship back in march so i don't know if anyone knows about that i just wanted to mention that and i thought you know i don't know how we can do this but maybe they could get recognized at a school board meeting um for that accomplishment of bronze medal in the state champion shabachi i'm sure that they will be on our um next list of okay i mean i didn't know if i could do something to make that happen or yeah i'm not sure you can send me an email as a reminder but mrs liverpool she puts that together in the communications department and she's very good with that so i'm sure okay i could contact
095her yep okay all right thank you thank you mrs rose sorry i'm better off cutting off again moving along i apologize uh and then and and it is in board docs as well so all of our meetings uh the links to all of these meetings along with the agenda the attachments are part of the board docs as well as youtube.com nptv all right up next is margaret burke margaret i have enabled your microphone so when you're ready to begin please state your name eminenciality and begin please yes hi this is margaret burke and my municipality is upper gwened um since somebody commented to me by name i just like to say that there is no reason that my child needs to feel uncomfortable about discussing anything that they want to discuss in their school and
096nobody no parent no teacher no board no state gets to marginalize any of my children just because you have a closed mind my child is comfortable talking about their life with their wonderful teachers and their friends and there are times in school when that is appropriate and it isn't appropriate to be different just because somebody keeps telling them or in some states tries to keep legislating that it's wrong for them to be different that is causing so much depression and anxiety in already marginalized communities and you whoever you are i'm sorry i'm going to remember your name because i don't want to know it you have no right to make my child or any child feel less than or that they have to live up to your standards because that's not the way the u.s
097constitution works and i'm sorry uh board that you ever have to deal with a tax like that um it is inappropriate to attack my family just the same as it isn't appropriate to attack you um i did want to mention about a wonderful presentation that i recently heard by somebody named mike body from north penn on universal design for learning and i already knew a little bit about universal design for learning but not a lot and i have to tell you he did a great presentation where he talked about universal design for learning using universal design for learning and one of the biggest learns i had was i always knew it was about maybe learning in different ways but also he talked about how people express what they have learned in different ways and it
098was just such an eye-opening presentation for me and i want to encourage the board to get one of these great udl or universal design for learning presentations and i'm really glad that the the district is moving in the direction of adopting universal design for learning practices and i want to thank the the school for doing that okay have a great evening everybody take care thank you mrs burke have a nice evening alrighty up next we have jason lanier jason just waiting for my interface to update apologize there we go all right jason i'm sorry if you could raise your hand again it just hung up there you thank you all right i have enabled your microphones and you're ready to begin you can unmute and state your name municipality and begin yourself lance delbaro um
099just wanted to uh correct the record for for mr summers and maybe he can he can give me some feedback here but i'll read you what act 15 says and you're trying to tell me it doesn't include school boards you're highly mistaken and if you talked about sunshine law doesn't require talk about meetings something along those lines sorry i was in the car because i'd had check on something but uh the sunshine law specifically refers to meeting in in and allowing for free exchange with uh members of a board such as a school board right so if you go over to the act 15 which suspended rules of the sunshine lack sunshine act it specifically references it in the act 15 it says authorized um this is the authorization of an agency department authority commission
100board council governing body or other entity a political subdivision including uh declaring of a disaster emergency specified in 7501 d okay this was it says right here next line may conduct hearings meetings proceedings there are other businesses through our business through the use of authorized telecommunications devices until expiration or termination of the kovid 19 disaster emergency that happened you guys can't be having this meeting maybe you guys should rethink about upping mr summer's uh contract again because he's going to cost you all personally a lot of money and it's also going to cost the school district a lot of money to defend themselves i want to go further with this just a little bit just a little bit if this was if it was the fact that you guys could just make up your own
101uh whatever it is 601c and suspend rules for quorum that's not the case you have to have enough people um you have to have a physical meeting and then you can have members call in but you have to have the physical meeting so that members of the the audience or the citizens can uh respond accordingly and can um offer any kind of objection when you guys decide to break the rules again uh that being said so did you know there's a house bill currently going through pennsylvania now actually i don't know if it's made it to the floor but it's specifically to amend the sunshine act so that you can have virtual meetings if this is to amend the sunshine lack so that you can have virtual meetings obviously you cannot have virtual meetings whenever
102you want that's what this law says hb you can look it up mr summers is in the wrong here if he wants to comment back uh i'm i'll listen into what he has to say and i i'd like for him to answer a couple questions as well thank you mr lanier is there anybody else that would like to make public comment mr gummer that is it no more hands are up that will conclude the second public comment okay do i have a motion to adjourn so okay thank you all right everyone have a great night being here bye-bye thank you thank you everybody thank you thank you