NPSD School Board Action Meeting 10-21-21

001um good evening everyone welcome to tonight's action meeting i'm going to start off the meeting with the pledge of allegiance please okay just a reminder tonight um that there is a mask mandate in effect this evening both from the north penn school district and from the state of pennsylvania so please be sure to wear your mask appropriately please if you do not wear a mask you might be asked to leave and if you do not leave when asked that would be considered disturbing a public meeting which then would be considered trespassing so please just um if you could just wear the mask we thank you all in advance for your cooperation thank you okay so next up we are going to have the 2021 national merit scholarship recognitions i'm sorry i'm having trouble opening my

002document so we're going to go down for that one yes megan shoppie and nicholas taylor are the 12th grade high school principals that are going to introduce the students and doctor teacher and i are going down there and uh just for the minutes just to reflect that mr rash is participating virtually in this meeting good evening and thank you for having us tonight the mission of the national merit scholarship corporation is to recognize and honor the academically talented students across the united states of the 1.5 million entrants some 50 000 with the highest psat scores which is calculated by doubling the sum of reading writing language and math qualify for recognition in the national merit scholarship program in september these high scorers are notified through their schools that they have qualified as commended students or

003semi-finalists commended students make up more than two-thirds or about thirty four thousand of the approximately fifty thousand high scorers of the psats they receive letters of commendation in recognition of their outstanding academic promise this year fourteen north penn high school seniors were commended the first student is simon on who is not with us this evening the next student matthew j beauquist [Applause] molly m casper hannah cox who is also not with us this evening rafiq eid benjamin filgrove luke kim mark kim the next three students are also not here this evening sean lee aaron mcdonnell and matthew petticone malind pulagura nadia sharifi and kaylee spencer who was not here this evening the national merit semi-finalists are comprised of about 16 000 students or approximately one-third of the fifty thousand high to ensure that academically talented

004young people from all parts of the united states are included in this town pool semi-finalists are designated on a state representational basis semi-finalists are the highest scoring entrants in each state the nine north fence seniors that were recognized as semi-finalists are anna chen edward kong what do you see metal naman park [Applause] the following students couldn't be present today david shin and sulein shin and anthony wang and finally oh excuse me i'm sorry that was anthony wang was the student that was just given the award and then the next one is eric wang [Applause] thank you for recognizing the accomplishments of these exceptional students we are very proud to call them our you so can we get another round of applause for our students okay next up will be the audience of citizens so we

005have 22 speakers that have been signed up to speak tonight um that should take us to about an hour or so of public comment and um so we're gonna do that and then we'll go on to our regular order of business and then there'll be a second opportunity for public comment at the end for those who wish to speak tonight so let me read off the statement first and then we'll get started this meeting is being videotaped for community cable channels and streamed live individuals attending this meeting and intending to speak to the board be aware that they are being videotaped 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

006the 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 may come before the board it is not designed for debate or discussion with the board when appropriate individual school board directors may choose to respond to public comments that have been made once the audience of citizens period has concluded or request that a member of the administration follow up with the speaker after the meeting so i'm going to throw this over to

007dr um bauer so he can explain again the process with the two podiums that we have set up for this evening dr bauer please my pleasure mrs stoll thank you good evening everyone so similar to the august and september action meetings we have two podiums to my right is podium one to my left is podium two the television monitors uh next to the podiums are associated with that podium so if you see your name on this television here that means you're the next speaker at this podium so that would mean for that reason we don't need to have a line here so whoever is speaking i will switch the name of the person on the screen and you'll know who's next so for example on podium one the name that you are about to see

008is our first speaker and then on podium two this is our first speaker to my left so if these two individuals could please come down to the podium and we can begin public comment and once mrs heath begins her comments i'll switch the name on podium one thank you dr power so as dr bauer said first up is mrs heath i'm sorry i can't tell her three minutes three minutes kathy heath upper glen township last year was my child's first year with the post 12 program post 12 is for special ed students who still have needs to be addressed but they don't seem to be a high priority for the district at the virtual back to school night last year a post 12 teacher in front of a special ed administrator informed us that our

009students best chances for job were our own personal contacts our own personal contacts i know not one of you would find that acceptable from a college or trade school that your child was interested in attending so why is it acceptable for our post-12 students this year a new teacher was hired who hasn't started yet at this year's back to school night she admitted she had not yet received a syllabus for the courses she is teaching this is sabotaging that teacher's ability to serve the students by not preparing her for the position actions like this just drives teachers to resign at a time when teachers are supplied to high demand as for the occupational seminar class to date there is not a single grade and infinite campus for it and the more compared to ends of

010what two weeks some of the students including my son have an interest in art and at least one has an interest in security the work study offerings for my child have been a thrift store a warehouse the weight room and making cheese sandwiches i don't see the connection to art which could be easily accomplished within the district by having them to help put together the district newsletters that's graphic design additionally my child has focusing issues so warehouse wouldn't be a safe environment for him where is the safety priority for my child it really feels like the district just shoves the kids into any open position security interests would be possibly addressed by reaching out to the local historical societies but when this idea was suggested the district's response was for the parent to look into

011it and get back to them the independent living course should be individualized to what each of the students need and parents should be included in that conversation some kids need to learn how to cook to survive and others are capable of cooking meals some need help making a phone call while others are quite adept these are just a few examples but time is wasted while the district uses a one size fits all approach some of these kids already have part-time jobs and some are taking classes at makko these students have an individualized education plan iep intended to serve the needs of this individual student it's a district's job to find ways to meet the students needs instead of forcing everybody in the program to do the same things the iep is a legal document and

012being out of compliance can lead to the department of ed intervening and the district losing funding speaking of funding i'd realize that the government does not fully fund special ed but the district needs to ensure that those providing services have all the credentials in order to properly bill may in the past some district providers did not have their credentials i have done my part by giving the district permission to bill may for these services you need to do your part by ensuring that ma can at least be billed for those services otherwise you are potentially leaving money on the table finally on another note has a roof leak at pendel's costume room been fixed yet my understanding is that it destroyed some expensive custom fabric last year and the trash can is not a long-term

013nor safe solution thank you thank you mrs heath next up is mrs howard please is mrs howard here this evening okay if mrs howard's not here then we will move on then to mr lanier uh jason lanier lansdale borough um i'm here to talk to a couple of board members specifically last action meeting i finished off by talking about critical race theory and privilege walks and mr fusco and ms g said to me that those weren't happening i can give you the quotes that they're um this is absolutely not happening in our schools you need to stop watching fox tv mr fusco said he was just tired of the bunk yet in the debate you made reference to the fact mr fusco that these were possibly happening may or may not be happening it may

014or may not be happening or it is happening and you just don't want to talk about it this is a problem why are you guys implementing this i suspect it has something to do with i was for a long time saying the american federation of teachers i heard this is not it it's not the american federation teachers it's the nea the pennsylvania state division of the nea giving lots of money to certain candidates mr casa got something like 90k from the the pennsylvania education committee for running for office i don't know if mr fusco is either is also running but he would be getting money as well so the implement implant implementation of this privilege walk does what to benefit kids this is what i'm wondering what is many of the things that you guys

015are implementing to the benefit of the kids and you tell me you're not you're not implementing crt yet you're purchasing books that are proclaiming crt and and backing it and talking about the advantages of it one of the books you have is anti-racist baby by abram f ken and abraham mckendy i don't have you guys read what his anti-racist book and what he basically concludes that there's good racism and bad racism to me that doesn't make sense it's all bad racism why do you have these books in the school why are you implementing this kind of thing in the school why do you look to divide the kids into sections or groups and then pair them part them against one another in order to one group feel better one group feel less how is this

016benefiting on anybody you really need to come to grips with this there's a whole lot in fact a whole lot of books in our libraries which really have no business being there a bunch of them talk about critical race theory in in in talking about how good it is a bunch of them talk about very sexually explicit content and if there's any parents here who have kids currently in the audience you might want to to step out when people start talking about the books that are in the school district you'll be you'll be glad i'm telling you right now it's horrifying what you'll read thank you very much [Applause] thank you mr linear next up is mrs blaso and then next up after that is mrs trolley if you want to come up to the

017podium so you'll be ready to go thank you um i'm here on behalf of moms for liberty um god has entrusted us the parents the greatest responsibility to raise and protect our children with that being said please research what this is really about control under the guise of the safety plan these districts are taking money to teach our children what is most likely child abuse please look up edcovid19 handbook online i'm not going to break that apart but basically all the restrictions around covid this is all about money control and power over all people look up these great reset word economic forum bilderberg group gates foundation rockefeller foundation when does this end when we the people don't comply southwest already buckled on forcing americans to get the job since they have no rights we have

018constitutional rights in the state and federally bill of rights nuremberg code of 1947 states no forcing or coercing any medical treatment without consent tracing testing and jab under eua do as you please but parents have the choice not the schools big picture scare the people activate emotions identity politics divide the people so evil can swoop down and conquer when people awake from their slumber it's gonna be biblical the time is coming when everything is covered up will be revealed and all that is secret will be made known to all luke 12 2. vote for the new board members on november 2nd parents choice let's go brandon thank you mrs blaso next up mrs drolla please alexis drollet montgomery township i'm here tonight to speak because these public comments lately have been used to instill fear

019in the public using buzzwords but i'm here to speak as a parent who is actively involved in the cultural proficiency work in the district i was part of the team that put together the equity policy and i serve on several district committees where i see firsthand how the district works towards our equity goals i'm one of the parent leaders of the parents and equity group formed to connect the parents across the district to see what it looks like to have an inclusive and welcoming environment on every building and we've done a bunch of really scary stuff like we focus on the importance of diverse literature by putting up bulletin boards and giving away free books that feature authors and characters of color so that children can see themselves in the books they read we help

020our members develop stronger partnerships with home and schools and we share resources to recognize a wide variety of cultural holidays i am proud to raise my children in a district that actually sees and recognizes the diversity of its student population instead of just pretending we have all had the same lived experiences i've heard people speak at these meetings numerous times about how white privilege is not something that should be mentioned in school but i feel there is a way to handle these topics with nuance and understanding in age-appropriate manners and that's precisely why cultural proficiency teacher trainings are so important and i wanted to thank the board and the district for their support in this area over the summer i attended the district sponsored equity summit and we watched a video where a black woman

021shared that she was mistaken as the hired help at an event where she was in fact the keynote speaker this video moved me deeply and in our breakout room i shared with much vulnerability that her story reminded me quite sharply that i walk around every day with a privilege that i did not earn it did not make me feel bad about myself as others might suggest but it opened my eyes to the experience of someone who doesn't look like me and i think this is something that we should be teaching our kids i want to thank the current board for their dedication to the work in this field so these eye-opening moments and vulnerable conversations can continue to occur so i come here tonight not afraid of what's happening in schools right now or afraid

022of what might happen if these board members get reelected but i come here deeply concerned about what types of learning opportunities and valuable discussions will be lost if they aren't this is about more than air conditioning and masks don't forget that thank you mrs burleigh next up is mr shoots please good evening my name is dave schutz of grapevine drive in hatfield i'm a father of two boys in the north penn school district and a 20-year resident i'll be very brief i just want to offer a sincere thank you to all of you for the way that you have conducted yourselves in the face of some pretty despicable abuses i want to thank you for allowing the scientists and experts to guide your response to the covet 19 pandemic i want to thank you for

023listening to the experts regarding the use of masks and schools you have done what is right to protect our community from a deadly virus of which the long-term effects are still not known what you've done for all of us what you have done for me and my family despite the abuses you have suffered is nothing short of heroic you are all heroes in my book i will be proud to cast my ballot for fusco stole casa and roche on november 2nd thank you thank you mr streets mrs rudnick good evening my name is convey reddick i'm the parent of two daughters one at pembroke and one at montgomery elementary following monday's debate i decided to search research a couple of the points brought up by the challengers running for office i was particularly interested in

024the points that were brought up by mrs bradica during the academic programs topic i went back to investigate some of the claims made regarding requiring teachers that were they were asked to attend the symposium in the summer i discovered very quickly that this was in fact not the case however i do want to thank those involved in the development of what sounded like a very informative symposium as mrs bradica stated i want to thank others like mrs draleigh who just spoke who has been deeply involved in being a great ally of parents of color in particular black parents in the school district we all know that the first step to meaningful change is learning and understanding while i understand that diversity inclusion and creating a space where everyone feels like they belong are not valued

025by everyone i do again want to thank the current board for listening to parents such as myself when we brought the experiences of our children living in the district to their attention while it is great to celebrate cultures and recognize cultures in lesson plans as mrs bradica stated it is the bare minimum that is required what i am asking for is for us to do better as we started to do we've talked about understanding and recognizing all our children for who they are yes but it is also important to note that when you have a situation as we've had where three out of let's say five disciplines are given to black children when they make up one of five in the district if that that is what we're trying to address as black parents our

026children also have a right to have a voice to be recognized and to have their teachers recognize them for the individuals that they are that is what i am asking for i could go on with examples but i do know that the parents that should be listening to understand are those that are spewing hatred and misinformation so i will not bother but if you actually care to understand the deep changes that are required then make the time to listen not to go to symposiums with to strengthen your own confirmation bias and then come back with misinformation and creating distress thank you [Applause] thank you mrs rudnick next up is mr stachov i am jim stashiff the resident of montgomery township i have two grandsons one in elementary school and one in middle school i've had

027all three shots for the covid in the hopes that i'll be alive to see my sons graduate from at least high school and hopefully college i complement the board on doing all they can to see to it that my grandsons do survive to the end of high school or on to college our schools are meant to be community schools and again i complement you on thinking of the health of the whole community rather than individuals as you postulate what to do for the benefit of our children our teachers and all the other staff thank you thank you mr sasha up is mrs ross please uh good evening my name is donna ross i am a resident of montgomery township i live in the district and i would like to thank the board for believing in

028science requiring masks and vaccinations for staff and students as the fda approves vaccines i would like to thank the board for ignoring fake outrage like those of people in the audience like moms for liberty a group of paid agitators supported by billionaires and the koch brothers let's please people thank you for being pro-life and stewards of public health and safety because there are hate mongers that are harassing and threatening our public officials our school board members and yet you continue to serve bravely and intellect with an intellectual bent and you implement common sense policies common sense policies that relate to public safety that have been upheld by our pennsylvania supreme court since 1905. let's talk about the um and one one thing i'd like to say is you know i g there was laughter in

029august the people who spoke with the moms of liberty and shouted out at you so horrifically that the meeting had ended in disruption and you could not be completed it's because that it was about the money they projected why they were here to sow chaos and so i would also like to say as we go forward with the maxine vaccine mandates let's be real there is hardly anyone in this room that didn't get a polio vaccine and had it in school in many forms and variations okay with this you can't get into this school district without having measles mump and rubella that is required in all 50 states unless you prove some compelling reason not to even colleges are requiring meningitis vaccines for students in who who stay on college campuses the brazen pa paid

030agitators are deliberately so in chaos and distrust and should not have any place in these conversations because many of them either don't live here or don't have a child in the district or don't pay taxes themselves in the district so i would thank you school board members for having the best interest of the public and for all stakeholders thank you mrs roy your time is up mrs excuse me please keep the clapping mrs ross your time is up thank you appreciate it please be respectful of the speakers when they are speaking thank you [Applause] so our next up will be mrs ferry and then on the next podium will be mr french samantha ferry hatfield township tonight i would like to talk about transparency and truth this current school board posts all over twitter calling

031parents domestic terrorists and how the new candidates have ties with dark money what i have learned is that when someone uses lies to make the other side look bad it's usually to make others look away from the corruption that they are involved with there is truth about ties with dark money but not from our new candidates for school board it's through mr casa when mr casa ran for a house seat the donations he received had ties to george soros george soros has funded da's all across our nations where you see crime rates have went through the roof george soros has no belief in god funded antifa and has veiled to bring down america with that being said parents are not domestic terrorist terrorists mr casa you are and your string of puppets we as parents

032have the right to speak free speak freely and fight for the rights of our children we have our constitution our bill of rights our bible and our faith in god you will lose this battle our school board candidates are putting themselves out there to protect our children from evil people like you you don't want what's best for our children you want to push your agenda and help create communism in america starting with our school board our school district to call parents domestic terrorists is disgraceful all because we we don't want to agree with the agenda and the indoctrination you are pushing on our children you were put in those chairs to listen to the parents and make adjustments according to what we say is best for our kids let me remind you again you work

033for us it's time for you to get out of those seats and allow real true american patriots to do what is right for this school district tell us mr fusco how did it feel to breathe oxygen freely without a mask while exercising at planet fitness you sir just like the rest of the corrupt government decided that you are above all and you can do as you please mrs stohl instead of promoting how parents are domestic terrorists let's talk about some of the books that were found in north north penn elementary middle and high school libraries these books include child pornography and pedophilia one book describes a fourth grade boy performing oral sex on an adult male the other books give detailed descriptions of a male having sex with a boy these illustrations include nudity masturbation

034sex toys and fellatio this is child pornography and you will be held accountable you should be in jail last board meeting you were called out for segregating the kids and pushing your critical race theory you tried to cover it up i truly hope the north penn community has watched that full blatant lie that dr g tried to throw out there parents they are coming for your children the aft has put 2.5 million dollars into a legal fund to fight parents for control of education curriculum this is communism at its best indoctrinate the children through the school and you will see a rise of a new generation of communists as dr campbell stated during the meeting on august 19th your children are being trained parents your children are being taught reverse racism and gender fluidity thank

035you mrs perry next up is mr french matthew french county long road landsdale there used to be there used to be a thing in this country but peop sorry i'll start again there used to be a thing this country stood proudly behind and that was freedom a right many brave people throughout your history have lived and died for a right this tyrannical government is quickly trying to erase through fear bullying and a medical apartheid i will not go down without a fight and i will not look my children in the eyes in years to come and tell them as as this world fell to its knees i did nothing to prevent it this medical tyranny that is currently sweeping across the world is the worst atrocity i think we have ever suffered on a global

036scale and now they are coming after our kids for those who are doubts i think now this is the proverbial straw that's broke the camel's back brace yourself because officials are already coercing young children into lying to get the clot shot without their parents consent this is so far beyond unethical it begs belief for those students who are listening check the data and see that you are not falling ill and you are not dying due to covid in a real pandemic people would not be arguing over whether this is real or not if your vaccines work then why are you so scared of the children why muzzle them to protect yourselves when apparent apparently that's what the vaccines were supposed to do just last week a teacher told my daughter to pull her mask up

037because she wouldn't want her to make her sick again imagine making a young child think that they are the reason people are getting sick these people have no right working with children with that mentality just as this scoreboard has no right making health decisions for your children especially when one of the members on this board openly said on stage the masks we are sending the children to school in do not work yet despite this they force our kids to wear a dirty wet bacterial infested mask all day every day the children are not being affected by this virus nor dying from it this has and always will be a pandemic of fake testing not testing for covid applying kobe to every death certificate they can and vaccine injuries and the only way to cure it

038is to silence the corrupt media and say enough when our front line heroes who refuse to take this vaccine walk out of their jobs what does this tell you we are told that our hospitals are apparently unable to cope with the ever-growing covey cases so why are we firing the only people who can help care for us the same people we praised as heroes and rightfully so on the front line since the pandemic began and ask yourself if this fake firebase was so contagious and the pandemic you claimed it to be then surely they would have caught it and and they would have natural immunity but we are firing them and stripping them of their healthcare this is evil in all its form also ask yourself if these nurses and doctors truly believe this was

039a pandemic then wouldn't they be lining up for the shots ask yourself what they know that you don't when people feel the government we have tyranny when the government fears the people we have freedom more people are waking up and saying no pilots police firemen medical professionals and the military are all fighting back and forth your time is up go ahead mr ferry good evening ken ferry hatfield township going to school board meetings to stay up to date on our children's scholastic upbringing and holding academia accountable used to be called good parenting today it's called domestic terrorism but here's the thing regardless of how uncomfortable or angry it makes you you are not owed our respect we have no obligation to kiss your feet and your inflated sense of self does not supersede the u.s

040constitution on the topic of free speech the u.s supreme court wrote that this nation has a profound national commitment to the principle that debate on public issues should be uninhibited robust and wide open and that it may well include vehement caustic and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials no one is bullying you we are not domestic terrorists we are tax paying citizens and concerned caring parents holding you accountable because you work for us we don't work for you a school board is meant to be a group of members who work together respect each other listen to one another's ideas and most importantly represent the students and families of their district unfortunately this board has repeatedly shown that ego personal vendettas and political theater come before the children in our schools this is

041the same board that touched their scientific approach to school safety while ignoring any signs that contradicts their preconceived opinion the school board the same school board that will decide it is too dangerous for children to attend in-person learning the same month they are partying up at a massless indoor wedding the same school board that will condemn parents for wanting their children to breathe freely in school while running around montgomery county breathing all over planet fitness weight benches this board's political leaning would be ill-relevant to this discussion if it weren't so obvious that our children are merely pawns in their in their goal of furthering the agenda of one stuffing their pockets and the politicians they wish they were i'm confronted about a sexual graphic reading material in your middle school libraries your solution was to

042tell a concerned parent that they didn't get the benefit of talking to you and blocking them on social media because who cares it doesn't serve your political agenda and we all know you don't care long boy here we go penn down middle school i'm going to read a couple uh a couple of sentences out of here and please if you have children cover their ears but come on don't you want more yeah more i'm being serious nick we got more jesus why are you so sensitive speaking of look at that homo by the window but there's one thing i'd never tell nick in a million years not that it really matters in fourth grade at a church youth group fourth grade at a church youth group meeting out in the bushes behind the parsonage i

043touched doug goebbel's dick and he touched mine in fact there were even some mouth involved it's not something i'd even think about all these years later except that gobble is the hottest real estate agent in caps county parenting our children [Applause] thank you mr ferrari mrs shilinski hi kelly karetsky landsdale what do you see when you look at me do you see privilege a fox news fan maybe i don't know at this point i didn't have a lot growing up i had two parents neither of whom attended college we are respected very much for their work ethic we didn't have a computer at home so in order for me to play sports i went to school early to use the library i went to type the papers at lunch to make sure that they got

044handed in on time i needed access to the school to help me complete ap courses that i later applied towards credits for college one less student loan to take out you chose to close the schools to students you denied access for those who needed it the most i know what that feels like kids without wi-fi at home kids who rely on school lunches to eat high schoolers who had to help their younger siblings while their single parents were at work while simultaneously completing their own assignments the term equity gets tossed around a lot these days in reference to skin color the original definition is treatment that is fair and impartial how was your decision fair to those kids but let's talk about skin color at the debate mr fusco said this was not an appropriate

045forum to denounce racism or to talk about the incident that occurred at the elementary school there is never an inappropriate time to denounce racism no matter whom it's coming from you have heard from several students who can all testify to the event that happened where they were lined up by skin color lightest to darkest the only acceptable response after investigating this teacher while you removed her from the classroom is there is a zero tolerance policy for racism and this teacher has been terminated period anything short of that condones it there were plans to address the infrastructure in the schools and there were certainly had to be plans before the building of the new stadium only one set of those plans went into action the stadium was your priority because you chose it to be mr

046casa i didn't walk across the stage of a fancy new stadium but my grandma watched with pride you don't need to have your own school sports field there's plenty of green space in this community there were other options not explored you missed the mark an equitable learning environment and safe infrastructure always need to come before the niceties of a new stadium this choice reflects your own privilege you need to find compromise for all families in this district examine your own implicit bias you're making decisions that affect my kids and right now i don't trust your judgment to those of you running for re-election you're voluntarily choosing to run knowing it is a four-year term if you are elected and then choose to run for political office during your school board term it will be clear

047that your true intent was to use our kids in this district as stepping stones for your own political ambitions and mrs g i don't even have cable so i don't watch fox news or anything else these are my own opinions thank you for your time thank you mrs schalenski mr kennedy go ahead michael kennedy hatfield township um first i wanted to come up here and truly thank everybody involved with monday's debate especially the candidates up on stage it was really a lot of fun honestly i was proud to be part of something those kids did an unbelievable job this community really needs to be proud people won't realize beyond stage those kids did everything and they did an exceptional job in this community really needs to be proud of what those kids did um with

048that said i didn't really prepare anything but um i just wanted to say again the event was very eye-opening and um this whole experience for me has been very eye-opening and i didn't really prepare anything to say but i i i'm listening to this and this whole process makes me think of a lesson i have to give every year and it's a lesson i don't really like to give but i have to give because it is important it's a terrible lesson it's the lesson of 9 11. and every year i teach 911 i focus on a specific topic on top of the general story like flight 93 or the ferries that go back and forth and saved all those people in lower manhattan this year i focused on september 12th and it dawned on me

049that my students never experienced september 12th they don't know what that feels like they've only seen in america where we're divided and it really bothered me this year i don't know if it's because of this thing i happen to be involved in but it was very upsetting to me to know that my kids my students who are 15 16 years old only knows in america where we're broken into pieces white black rich poor gay straight christian whatever and all the other various groups that we've been shattered into i don't know what's going to happen on november 2nd and again i sincerely whoever gets it it is what it is whoever gets elected is going to represent the people i just hope that we can figure out as a community how to get back to september

05012th because the kids who didn't experience that need to witness that at least once in their life we got to be that example and that's that's all we're trying to get at all right thank you thank you mr kennedy mrs blanc hello my name is erin blanc and i live in hatfield and um i don't think i've ever introduced myself or told a little bit about myself my involvement in this district i do live here i'm a taxpayer i grew up here my parents were heavily involved in this school district since i was young and some of you know me i volunteer in my children's school every chance i get i'm on the home and school board okay so i'm involved i'm also involved in my children's lives and education as much as possible so

051i didn't even want to speak tonight however when i saw the debate it lit my fire again so i'll pick up from there mr fusco has really been out of shape over the reminders of what happened in the past the reason they are brought up again and again is because we no longer have trust okay so you hurt our kids and some of them are still hurting it has not stopped and we the parents now are just pissed okay during the debate was the first time i can recall hearing any of you say you may have done some things differently or may have made mistakes i never hear an ounce of concern or care in the tone of your voice or your words these things that have led the children suffering suffering and doing poorly

052have really hurt some of them your words come across very cold and uncaring maybe that's just my interpretation you are still standing by your phantom data that led your decisions i haven't seen any of these numbers i've asked why do we now need assurance testing to allow supposedly exposed students to stay in school if they are wearing masks not every district requires a test or quarantine to come back at this point they haven't been all year are you aware that out of all the kids in montgomery county who quarantined due to exposure only two percent tested positive so 98 out of 100 students sat at home for nothing you are correct none of you on the board are medical direct doctors or scientists neither is our pennsylvania health director she is a lawyer and we

053also have a lawyer up here turning away mask exceptions that it was written for i'm rushing now mr fusco we hear you loud and clear you nee we need everyone to get on board you would like to force every student to take an injection that may or may not work and may or may not harm them fortunately in pennsylvania the law allows for three vaccine exemptions for children attending public schools you can go to www.informedconsentpa.org to find a religious or philosophical vaccine exemption it's as simple as a parent submitting it to school thank you thank you mrs blanc next up is mackenzie ferry mr ferry is that your daughter order uh we kept her home tonight um i'm just gonna finish i got like one minute no you already had a chance to speak sir

054it's only one it's one public comment opportunity you can speak again at the second public comment if you want but it's one opportunity right now next up would be mrs blystone please hi my name is dianna blystone from lansdale jonathan casa 2017 town hall statement and i quote this is this is fear-mongering let's take people for their word isn't this great we are having a discussion we are actually having a discussion about the issues and vincent lempinski isn't just shutting us down close quote fast forward 2020 to 2021 you shut us down and labeled us smoldering embers of the tr of the big lie the teachers are fighting for our kids parents are fighting for our kids for mass no mass schools open schools virtual can you say that you are doing the same without

055getting defensive with the amount of alternative placement and lawsuits over the past few years we are draining money from our school district instead of fixing the current issues this failures are telling the community these special kids lives don't matter they aren't the right kind of different and there isn't a place here for them at north penn change it fix it all of you sitting in those seats when you when you voted to pull back and return and not return to school did you think of the kids who couldn't speak on the other side of the computer or parents like me who listened to two hours of a discussion and eventually voted for safely bringing kids back to for sports with no plans for my son who's nonverbal to go back discuss discuss publicly i closed

056the laptop with tears in my eyes thinking about the disappointment on my son's face standing at the door with his book bag he wanted structure so bad that he had his shoes on the right feet learning loss for him his life skills lost for his for his communication and simple needs met you've failed him you all have failed him we can't go back and unring a bell but we can do is fight like hell making this population a top priority moving forward if political noise makes you questions parents intentions on difficult topics then you aren't the ones for this for the service the decisions you make affect my child's outcome and that is worth fighting for on my end thank you mrs blyston next up mr when evening i have some random stuff to say

057it's not super organized so forgive me uh i have several friends sorry could you say your name in municipality eric wang montgomery township i have several friends who have had to deal with north penn's special education program and like people have said today there's a lot of problems with it it is in dire need of improvement and this current board has not done a good job in addressing the needs of the neediest students and i hope this community will not tolerate that neglect however i have some major doubts that the opposition candidates really care about or even understand the issues with the special education budget jesse bradica stated before the community that there was no provision for the funding of the special education department in the budget she said she read i was a bit

058confused because i know that all the budget information is online and available for anyone to read it turns out it's pretty easy to find the special education provisions march 16 2021 special finance committee meeting minutes and associated documents at that meeting department level budgets presentations were made for the 2021-22 special education budget you can find it under the agenda portion of board docs i was able to find it so i'm not sure why mrs bradica was unable to maybe she was reading the budget summary and didn't realize i find it pretty damning that a candidate for this school board was unable to properly understand the budget she is criticizing the current board for and claims that she will fix in office and i think someone who is either unable or unwilling to do the research

059necessary to understand the duties of a school board member is unfit to hold such public office some other things jason linder commented on privileged walks yes i agree with what he said it happens in schools it happens in classrooms guys uh you don't have to say it may or may not have happened because it happens i know what happens i talk to people talk to parents students who've seen it it happens uh and i don't agree with it i don't think privileged walks are constructive at all towards building a multicultural more understanding community i mean think of the kid that's up against the wall who has nothing who doesn't move who who doesn't have any of these privileges how do you think they feel when they when they see their classmates ahead of them and

060then when everyone sees them they know that this kid has nothing you know it just makes makes people feel bad i don't agree with it something else i'd like to address somebody i forgot who i apologize but at the town hall debate somebody attacked this current board for their masking policy and said something like teachers are not required to wear masks in classrooms now i distinctly remember at the uh mass debates one of the biggest issues was uh one of the biggest legitimate criticisms of the masking policy was to give teachers an exemption to take their masks off if they needed to do some teaching that was essential and now that that exemption is there i find it a bit hypocritical that that is used as a line of criticism thank you to mr frolic

061for being such a welcoming and kind person i have the most respect for you even when i knocked on your door canvassing for democrats you wish me luck so i really appreciate it you give me hope that we can move past these political slogs mr wang i'm sorry your time's up thank you miss sackle go ahead hi crystal sachel lansdale pa i find it really upsetting that some people decide to classify truth as misinformation if anything what we've been dealing with for the last two years has been propaganda which the definition is information especially of a biased or misleading nature used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view and it's a real shame because it seems like that this board has completely been politicized when the only concern that we

062have is for our children in fact we wouldn't even be here right now if it weren't for the fact that we are dealing with propaganda there was an individual that came up here and said that moms for liberty were paid and god i wish we were paid but unfortunately no we're just concerned moms unfortunately a lot of people have been hearing on the tv the radio the grocery store intercom we are constantly being indoctrinated with propaganda on just one side and last i checked that's not what america is about i have met numerous individuals as i jump around on my paper with my three minutes that have gotten the jab the shot the vaccine whatever you want to call it and they promote it they're okay with it some of them believe in choice some

063of them think that everybody should have it however these same people have had family members who have been fully vaccinated and they have unfortunately died of covid so anybody treating this vaccine like it's the end all that everybody needs to get it so that way we all survive is that's not how it works in australia i don't know if anybody has been seeing what's going on there but unfortunately they have a 9 pm curfew they're only allowed outdoor exercise for like an hour a day there's actually video surfacing on social media that an officer actually had to go and check to see if a cup of coffee actually saw a coffee in it so they could have their mask down that's not happening here in the u.s thank god but let's not get to that

064point also in india they've actually pretty much eradicated covid with ivermectin it is an actual drug that is noble winning not just horse dewormer and it actually has drastically decreased that issue they actually have kits that they're handing out to people in india so while it's not promoted here in the u.s for covet it is working lastly ronald reagan said freedom is a fragile thing never more than one generation away from extinction we don't pass it on to our children in the bloodstream it must be fought for protected and handed on for them to do the same or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was like in the united states where men were free ronald reagan good guy even some democrats agree [Applause] thank

065you mrs tackle next up would be mr jones please go ahead hi i'm floyd jones from lansdale and i'd like to start with a quote from john stuart mill he said that i have observed that not the man who hopes when others despair but the man who despairs when others hope is admired by a large class of persons as a sage and i bring that up because i think that there are a lot of reasons to be hopeful but we seem stuck in a cycle of fear and panic with regard to covet 19. and so i have a report here this is from the pennsylvania department of health they put this out every week i don't know if you're aware of it but it's on the website you can go and see it i look

066at it regularly there are lots of interesting facts here and i'd like to bring a few of them to your attention according to the pennsylvania department of health in pennsylvania there are more quote-unquote covid deaths among people 100 years old and older than coveted deaths under the age of 40. there are more coveted deaths among people over the age of 95 than under the age of 55. so you look at me i'm no spring chicken i'm 52 years old the risk to people my age is less than the risk to people who are in their late 90s among children there are only eight deaths among children aged 0 to 18 in pennsylvania now there are slightly over 13 million people living in pennsylvania 2.7 million children the odds of a child dying from coveted in

067pennsylvania are roughly 335 000 to 1. nationwide the cdc reports that that pneumonia is a much greater threat to children than covid and in fact while the cdc says that there are about 700 deaths involving covet and that's how they phrase it not that's from kovit that's involving covid they also report that there have been about 630 000 deaths involving pneumonia in the last 18 months nobody panics over pneumonia the overall risk for pennsylvania residents is only about 1 in 500 and that includes all the very old very sick people and the people counted as covet deaths often shouldn't be we test too many people and the tests we use are too sensitive a lot of the cases we hear about are false positives last year dr fauci said that pcr tests run over 35

068cycles and that's most of the tests will pick up what he called dead nucleotides in other words what we're seeing is are cases where people aren't sick and they're no threat to make anybody else sick so i understand that we all want to believe in the science let's believe in the science and stop the panic please thank you mr jones next up is mr flannery good evening mr flannery mike flannery north wales folks at home understand this mess and crt are only the flavor of the year for these commies it's why i choose not to waste my two minutes pointing out the obvious destructive qualities of each come next year they'll be on to the next game if i had to bet it'll be something climate related the people on this stage and the people

069sitting on stages in every county across this country have one thing in common they don't believe in anything they do not live their lives by any code or with any values and it's exactly why they were chosen they are the useful idiots we have read about in our history books the tools used to demoralize nations make no mistake we are at a precipice in our nation's history either we're going to continue down the path we are on allowing these useful idiots to decay us from within or we're going to follow in the footsteps of our ancestors and fight back against those who seek to destroy us the time is now to stand up to this tyrannical machine starting right here in our own backyards first we take back our schools then we take back our

070counties then we take back our states and finally as one united states we take back our government and put it in the hands of men and women who will do right by we the people remember this patriots we are the descendants of free men we are the gatekeepers of the land that are free handle the title with care and wear it with pride now to the useful idiots out there understand this you are on the wrong side of history if you think your global masters are coming to save you you have grossly misunderstood how this ends for you if you are successful and you won't be in helping them topple this country you will be the first ones rounded up by your global masters because they know you stand for nothing they know you're the

071weakest among us but know this it's never too late to change course we've all made mistakes in life that we wish we could take back you have the opportunity to do just that the pairs of good and bad are only one step long it doesn't matter whether you've been on the path of bad for a day a year or a decade we all have the opportunity to make our the next step in our life down the path of good take that step lastly to the global masters you're on a precipice of your own a meeting with the unstoppable force of god fearing free men we'll see you soon thank you mr flannery mrs flannery go ahead vicki flannery north wales borough i just want to put a disclaimer if your kids are here or if

072they're watching i ask that you just please remove them on september 25th of this year jonathan casa retweeted seems somewhat hypocritical that moms for liberty wants to ban books and wrote ironic how such rugged individuals are so delicate when it comes to masks facts and now books snowflake mr casa let me share with you and your colleagues one of these books that up until this week resided in the oak park elementary library this book was removed because of one of our parents this book is all boys aren't blue a memoir manifesto by george johnson you told me to take off my pajama pants which i did you then took off your shorts followed by your boxers there you stood in front of me fully erect and said taste it at first i laughed and refused

073but then you said come on matt taste it this is what boys like us do when we like each other i finally listened to you you eventually got up off me and told me to come to the bathroom that you wanted to show me one more thing you turned on the light and closed the door you began stroking yourself in front of me i just stood there nervous because i didn't know what to expect next you said just keep watching matt so i stood there and watched you for several minutes then he began to moan slightly i took a step back because i didn't know what was about to happen and then it did you ejaculated into the toilet in front of me i was very unaware of what sex involved at the time primarily

074because i stayed away from it for the first few minutes we dry humped and grinded i was behind him with my stomach on his back as we kissed after a few minutes of fun and games he got up and went to the nightstand where he pulled out a condom in some lube he then laid down on his stomach i knew what i had to do even if i had never done it before i had one point of reference though and that was seven plus years of watching pornography although the porn was heterosexual it was enough of a reference point for me to get the job done i remember the condom was blue and flavored like cotton candy i put some lube on it and got up on his knees and got him up on his

075knees i began to slide into him from behind i tried not to force it because i imagined it would be painful i will not continue do any of you any of you find this book that depicts a sexual encounter and rape acceptable for any minor regardless of gender or sexual orientation because i do not find this at all acceptable a child is a child and if you see this acceptable you belong on a national registry and not a school board [Applause] thank you mrs flannery okay that concludes the public comment now we're moving on to approval of the minutes can i get a motion for approval of the minutes please so moved second motion by dr lewis campbell seconded by mrs ramich any comments or questions seeing none all in favor say aye any opposed

076motion carries move on to the personnel report or the committee reports rather first up is personnel the personnel committee of the board did not meet this month end of report finance mr fusco please thank you mrs stoll at the october 12 2021 finance committee meeting which was a virtual meeting the financial reports were provided in addition to the following items mr skraki provided an update on the status of the on-site health care clinic due diligence process as well as addressed remaining questions from last month's meeting this topic will be discussed again at the november finance committee meeting the committee heard an update from mrs kristen johnson regarding the 2020 2021 preliminary audit results a discussion was held regarding the transfer of unspent funds into the capital reserve fund a resolution regarding a transfer of 3.5

077million dollars appears on tonight's agenda mr skaraki reviewed a draft of the 2022-23 budget calendar this item appears on tonight's agenda mr skaraki provided an update on the status of the 2021 district initiated real estate tax assessment appeals this summer the district filed real estate tax assessment appeals against 21 parcels that were deemed to be under assessed in accordance with the district policy eleven of the appeals settled prior to the board assessment hearing resulting in increase of assessed value of one million six hundred sixty four thousand three hundred eighty dollars which will generate forty six thousand dollars in annual revenue mr skrock every point reported that the base one act index for 2022 23 has been set at 3.4 percent mrs johnson reviewed a number of requests for proposals and a bid award these items

078appear on tonight's agenda the next finance committee meeting is scheduled for tuesday november 9th at 6 pm and will be held in a virtual format and a report thank you mr fusco are there any comments or questions seeing none we'll move on to the safe schools report mr acasa please thank you madam president the safe schools committee met on monday evening september 27th an accelerated rfp timeline request for proposal timeline for school safety assessment services was discussed and approval to advertise this rfp appears on this evening's action agenda a special safe schools committee meeting has been scheduled for thursday december 16th at 5 45 pm in virtual format to discuss the rfp responses dr bauer then shared school safety dashboard data and the plan to incorporate it into the district website data updates will continue

079to be a regular agenda item at safe schools committee meetings dr bauer then provided an update on traffic congestion and a new student drop-off pattern recently implemented at north penn high school the new pattern had an immediate effect on reducing traffic delays finally dr bauer reviewed new communication flowcharts designed to assist parents with contacting schools the plan is to create flowcharts for each school in the district and post them on the individual building websites the next meeting of the safe schools committee is scheduled for this coming monday october 25th at 5 45 p.m in a virtual format end of report thank you mr casa are there any comments or questions seeing none we will move on then to education curriculum and instruction dr g please the eci committee met on october 5th at 6 pm

080in a virtual format at the meeting the following topics were on the agenda adult english learner classes mrs rachel earley north penn school district curriculum supervisor presented information regarded regarding classes and support for adult english language learners this is offered through the district's community education program dual enrollment program dr todd bauer presented a summary of the dual enrollment program at north penn high school further updates regarding this program will be provided in november in conjunction with the program of studies for twenty twenty one twenty two dr deanna waters provided information about the psychological sense of school membership assessment that will be administered to students in grades seven through twelve the next eci meeting will take place on november 1st at 6 pm in a virtual format end of report thank you dr g any comments

081or questions seeing none will move then on to policy please mr fusco thank you mrs stoll every page here the policy committee met on october 12th at 5 pm in a virtual format during the meeting six policies were discussed these policies are on the agenda this evening for a first reading two policies policy 006 meeting and policy 903 public participation in board meetings had been approved by the board however due to the sunshine act being amended by act 65 on august 29 2021 these two policies had to be revised to be in compliance with the law also the following policies were discussed policy 802 school organization policy 803 school calendar policy 804 school day policy 805 emergency preparedness and response the next meeting of the policy committee will be on november 9th at 5 pm

082in a virtual format end of report thank you mr fusco are there any comments or questions seeing none we'll move on to facilities and operations mr casa please thank you madam president the facilities and operations committee met on monday september 27 2021. the committee reviewed change order requests for the knapp elementary school renovation project fire alarm and pa replacement project and a contract amendment the three items were recommended to be moved to this evening's action meeting for the board's consideration the committee next was presented with an in-depth update of the knapp elementary and crawford stadium projects this can be found of course on the north penn tv committee committee archives and it really is a in-depth uh review of how far knapp elementary has come in the closing items for crawford stadium the next facilities

083and operations meeting is scheduled from this coming monday october 25th 2021 at 7 pm and will be held in a virtual format and a report thank you mr casa are there any comments or questions seeing none we will move on to the north monco technical career center that's dr lewis campbell yes i will the north monco joint operating committee met on october 18th via zoom financial reports were provided in addition to other items such as personnel motions and student requests for travel some of the requests included students visiting morris arboretum and the volunteer medical services corps as well as the skills usa leadership conference the jlc also approved revisions to a board policy that addresses grooming and dress for students the next jlc meeting will be held on monday november 15th at 7 00 pm

084in a virtual format end of report thank you dr lewis campbell are there any comments or questions seeing none we'll move on to the montgomery county intermediate unit mrs ramich please great the mciu board met on september 22nd in a virtual format dr speaker shared that explorations opened a partial hospitalization program on august 31st to serve all needs of elementary students k through 6 throughout montgomery county dr speaker provided an overview of the mciu organizational goals for the upcoming year which will be housed in board docs library and reviewed and updated often dr landis provided an update that the mciu has has now officially signed a fully executed agreement of sale for the property located at 375 morris road in west point pennsylvania we're very excited about that expansion of early childhood development programming so

085close to home the board approved various other grants and proposals approve new personnel and the next mciu board meeting will be held on wednesday november 17th end of report thank you mrs ramich are there any comments or questions seeing none we will stay with mrs ramich and ask for the north penn educational foundation report please great we had a great meeting of the foundations board on wednesday october 13th we met in an online format the foundation welcomed penfield family consumer science teacher leslie fulp to the meeting miss folp updated the board of trustees on her farm to table hydroponic garden grant she and her students have been busy all year growing tomatoes in the classroom that they will soon turn into salsa the trustees also listened to an update from carmina taylor who is working

086with the montgomery county cultural proficiency and equity student ambassadors group of which north penn students are a part the foundation trustees are moving forward with a partnering with the ambassadors group to apply for a grant funding to help their work in this year including expansion of racial literacy activities the foundation is thrilled to report that the 20th anniversary golf classic held on october 5th at talamor was a huge success more than 30 thousand dollars was raised at this popular event through a somewhat rainy day over 90 golfers enjoyed a day on the course lunch dinner and awards a special recognition and award was given to dave kratz who recently resigned as the president of the foundation after a decade of service we wish to thank dave kratz for his service the foundation is currently in

087the midst of its unite to inspire employee giving campaign and will soon begin again its annual appeal there are many ways to support the foundation and i hope you will consider donating as the board's representative to the north penn ed foundation we try to also strive to encourage and make sure that we have 100 board support and i'm so grateful that for your attendance and your support of the ed foundation which really does inspire teacher innovation and great projects so in honor of the work of the foundation i ask my fellow board members to show our support for the ed foundation and for the launch of this campaign by wearing our north penn strong gear in the next week or so the foundation will seek mid-year grant proposals and twenty one thousand dollars has been

088designated in funding i encourage our educators to consider applying and to contact christine lebroski at the esc with any questions any questions about the foundation can also be directed to christine or you may find your answer at the northpennedfoundation.org website our next meeting is wednesday december 8th thank you end of report thank you mrs ramich are there any comments or questions i just said clarification is that virtual or in person that board me okay moving on on next would be the legislative report mr mcvean thank you madam president a proposed bill in harrisburg hb 1332 moved swiftly swiftly through the pennsylvania senate education committee earlier this week after being passed by the general assembly this bill will require districts to post all curricular materials instructional activities and other course material online by the start of

089the 2022-23 academic year the bill is vague in its description of what would qualify under these headlines and could easily require limitless hours of work by educators and administrators alike in order to meet the letter of the law there is no funding for those hours included in the bill which would put an enormous potential cost on school districts and taxpayers end of report thank you mr mcbain are there any comments or questions okay seeing none then we will move on to the solicitors report mr summers please uh thank you madam president the board did meet in a virtual executive session on october 12 2021 for the purpose of discussing a personnel matter as well as matters of potential litigation and that concludes my report thank you mr summers next up will be the superintendent's report

090dr dietrich please thank you i recommend the approval of the items under the consent agenda namely adoption of policies adoption of policies first reading repeal of policy gifts to the district contracts bid award for a cargo van the budget calendar for next year proving to advertise for rfp and bids student agreements alternative placements the acceptance of a patent resources for universal design for learning implementation grant award and future north penn school district resident tuition free do i have a motion so moved motioned by mr fusco and seconded by mr casa are there any comments or questions i just want to say that probably never in my life i will ever say this but um mr shkraki i'm very excited about our upcoming budget year and the way that you plan the calendar and our presentations

091and i know that it's a team effort um but i'm very appreciative of that and i'm so glad that we're approving that calendar and getting that on the books and we're ready thank you mrs romich are there any other comments or questions all right we have a motion on the floor so 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 so moved do you have a second listen i'm sorry motion by mr fusco seconded by mr casa are there any comments or questions seeing none all in favor say aye aye any opposed motion carries recommend approval of j mia kim edd for a new term as director of human resources beginning july 1st 2021 ending june 30th 2024 approval

092of the employment contract with dr kim a copy which is on file in the office of the chief financial officer do i have a motion emphasis motioned by mr fusco and i believe supported by doctor okay are there any comments or questions i equally emphatically approve of this so thank you um all right all in favor say aye aye any opposed motion carries um congratulations dr kim we really appreciate all your efforts especially this past year it was it was a tough job so thank you so much [Applause] recommend approval of administration of the student sense of belonging survey to students in grades seven through 12. do you have a motion so moved do you have a second motion by dr wanda lewis campbell and seconded by mr casa any comments or questions seeing none

093all in favor say aye aye any opposed motion carries recommend approval of the administration of the pennsylvania youth survey to students in grades 6 8 10 and 12. do you have a motion second motioned by mr foxco and seconded by mr casa any comments or questions all in favor say aye aye any opposed motion carries recommend adoption of the attached resolution regarding a capital reserve fund transfer for the 2020-21 fiscal year thereby transferring three million five hundred thousand dollars into general funds to the capital reserve fund the motion so moved second motion by mr fusco seconded by dr lewis campbell any comments or questions yes ma'am president go ahead mr cossack just to make sure for the uh the public many of these items that are being voted on have been worked upon in committee

094or in work session in finance so that's where more information can be found out thus it's why we have an action meeting which is for the formal vote after the work and deliberation has occurred in public thank you mr casa for clarifying that i think we get so used to doing it that we just assume people know that so thank you so there's a motion on the floor all in favor say aye any opposed motion carries recommended approval of change order 10 to low bar incorporated in the amount of zero dollars for various structural changes encountered during construction by having a contractual change made to apply the unit cost allowance 10 to this change order do i have a motion so moved motioned by mrs ramich seconded by mr casa any comments or questions all

095in favor say aye any opposed motion carries recommend the approval of change order one to electrotech incorporated in the amount of zero dollars for various changes encountered during construction by having a contractual change made to apply the unit cost allowance one and four to this change order do i have a motion merchant by mr casa drive a second second seconded by dr lewis campbell any comments or questions yes madam president go ahead mr costa i would just like to thank the administration and uh mr durr and the team as well as mr schneider of facilities for being able to ensure that we have consistent uh emergency notification fire suppression and alarm systems uh it's been a significant goal to make sure that we could upgrade this technology and ensure that it was consistent across all

096of our school buildings you know not only the ability to save lives but this is something that saves taxpayer dollars by having this type of strategy [Music] thank you mr casa are there any other comments or questions seeing none all in favor say aye any opposed motion carries recommend the approval of a contract amendment to increase geostructure incorporated contract amount by twenty thousand dollars to a total contract amount of seventy three thousand four hundred ten dollars do i have a motion second second motioned by mr casa and seconded by mrs ramich any comments or questions all in favor say aye any opposed motion carries recommended approval of the memorandum of understanding with the north penn education association for turning to classroom items as per the attached do i have a motion so moved do i

097have a second second motion by mrs ramich and seconded by mrs wesley any comments or questions all in favor say aye any opposed motion carries recommend approval of the memorandum of agreement with the north penn school district support professionals association pertaining to the special education assistance as per the attached do i have a motion motion by mr mcbain you have a second second seconded by mrs wesley any comments or questions all in favor say aye any opposed motion carries thank you dr dietrich okay next up was the finance report mr scraki please thank you madam president good evening everyone a few updates for the board first off for property owners in north penn school district a reminder that october 31st is the end of the base period for the tax bills after this date a

0985 penalty will apply that penalty used to be ten percent and two years ago the board lowered the penalty from ten percent to five percent uh we are nearing completion of our local audit uh there were no findings or weaknesses in this annual audit and a presentation of our draft audit report for the 2021 fiscal year will be made at the november 9th finance committee meeting just a quick update and reminder on our tax rebate program we've received 297 applications so far since july first of this year and we've issued 79 131 dollars in rebates with the average rebate amount of 266 dollars also as a reminder anyone that might be eligible for the pennsylvania state property tax and rent rebate program could possibly be eligible for the north penn rebate program as well and

099through our program we've had a number of individuals that have had 100 percent of their property taxes rebated through the state and north penn also want to let the board know that we received a thank you letter from one of the recipients of the property tax and property tax rebate program here at north penn school district this individual has received a rebate each year that the program has been in existence we're in our fourth year and this wonderful resident simply says dear north penn school board thank you thank you thank you words cannot express how grateful i am to you for receiving the tax rebate so i want to pass that along to the board and again anyone in the community watching this if you know of a family member or a friend or neighbor

100that you think might be eligible typically senior citizens if they've received the state rebate program they could be eligible for north penn's program so ask them to reach out we have quite a bit of information on our website about the program in terms of the finances of the school district we are in the 21 22 fiscal year this report is through the month of september so we've completed our first quarter of the fiscal year revenues for september totaled 52.3 million dollars expenses for the month totaled 33.3 million dollars we had total available balance at the end of september of 202.6 million dollars that's about a 3.7 million dollar increase over the same time last year i'd be happy to address any questions from the board otherwise i'd ask for approval of the treasury support for

101september 2021. do i have a motion got a second second motion by mr fusco and seconded by dr louis campbell i know i have a question um mr scrappy how do we stand um compared to last year with the tax rebate um applications do you know that information or i have that information we are about the same as last year so we are right on track for the number of applicants but it never hurts to try to spread continue to spread the word but we're pretty much right at the same spot we were through the end of september last year great that's good news thank you are there any other questions yes madam president uh mr scrocky for the sanctioned approval of invoices and that disbursement is a good opportunity for the engagement we have

102with the community uh those of us who've been doing this month after month year after year can just explain that part of the process so when you see an approval of tens of millions of dollars what does that really mean and and the the thought and process that goes into that sure and that's going to be the next item for vote the sanction and approval of invoices this is a monthly standing item on the finance report so we do have a board policy that allows administration to proceed with paying a bills as long as the bill is in sync with the district budget or contracts that have been previously approved by the board so you'll notice the wording of the upcoming agenda item is ratification that means these bills have already been paid they've already

103been reviewed and vetted by the business office as per the budget guidelines as per purchasing guidelines so the board is really doing a ratification pretty much after the fact these bills have been paid so it's a ratification after the fact again allowed by district policy thank you very much mrs rocky thank you mr casa are there any other comments or questions so we have a motion on the floor all in favor say aye any opposed motion carries okay the next item we have are the sanction and approval of invoices and i'm recommending ratification of disbursements for the month of september and they totaled 38 million eighty-two thousand four hundred seventy eight dollars and forty eight cents do i have a motion do you have a second motion by mr fusco and seconded by mr casa

104are there any comments or questions seeing none all in favor say aye any opposed motion carries and finally we do have the monthly financial reports we do review these in more detail at the finance committee just one quick note i want to mention the real estate transfer tax that the school district receives that's based on properties that sell in north penn school district we are like going like gangbusters so far this fiscal year and it really syncs up with what we experienced in the second quarter of last fiscal year i should say that the second quarter of the calendar year the last quarter of the fiscal year so for about six or seven months straight now there's been a tremendous amount of activity in sales transactions you might have noticed that in the residential market

105but it's also spilling over to the commercial market so that bodes well for our budget we are well ahead of projections with the realty transfer tax and we're expecting a very nice positive variance in that area as long as this trend continues thank you mr scrocky are there any other comments or questions okay then we will move on then to um the next audience of citizens so we'll do another 30 minutes if anybody would like to come up and make public comment now is your time to do so okay hi montgomery township and i've attended occasional north penn school board meetings in the past and the business of the meetings is conducted efficiently and budgets are discussed committees reviewed votes taken public comment is heard and pretty double stuff in recent months we've all witnessed

106some speakers who seem to attend for the purpose of hurling personal insults at board members and to spout conspiracy theories about covid19 masking and curriculum choices people conflating words like diversity and equity with critical race theory to provoke controversy anyone who reads a newspaper knows that this is not unique to the north penn school district but is happening at school board meetings all over the country which is a strange coincidence i asked myself why now why these particular issues coming up at all school boards well after doing a little looking around i found according to the la times the current attacks on school boards and district leaders are not politics as usual they are tied to a much broader effort by powerful and well-funded groups seeking to undermine the legitimacy of democratic governance this is

107not about education folks this is politics funded and organized by political operatives every parent has a right to be involved in their child's education and every community member has a right to civilly address their elected leaders what is happening now is disruption and obstruction of school board business for political goals it is unfair to the community to taxpayers and most of all to the kids most people say that being on a school board is a thankless job well i do want to thank you for attending these meetings week after week and sit with dignity and integrity as you are attacked and berated there is much more positive support in the community for the job you are doing here other than what you hear from uh loud agitators so i want to say thank you for

108that and i wish i had the time to discuss or to uh to discuss all the uh falsehoods and conspiracy theories that i've heard here tonight but we don't um so again just wanted to say thank you thank you mrs tontoni we're gonna um so i'm gonna skip over to here because i think were you there next yeah okay so we're just going to go back and forth okay so if you could state your name in municipality please katie hirsch north wales um i'd like to follow up on some comments that mr fusco and mr costa made at monday's town hall debate they mentioned that we as a community know exactly where you stand on covid but i have questions that continue to go unanswered and i implore that you have a robust public discussion

109to answer these questions first it was stated that the board voted to maintain masking at the elementary level until those students have the opportunity to be vaccinated what will your policy be when the vaccine is approved and there's no state mandate requiring mass what will is your position that mass will become optional for all students once the vaccine is approved for five to 11 year olds if not under which circumstances will mass be required and for whom second you say that vaccination is how we will get rid of mass and you support a state vaccination mandate and that your original intent going into this year was to give students who have had the opportunity to be vaccinated a more normal experience does this mean that you plan to have different policies regarding mass quarantines and

110or testing depending on vaccination status if so i strongly urge you to consider the disproportionality of vaccination rates based on race and the associated equity concerns with any policy that involves different treatment and access to education based on vaccination status third you briefly mentioned that assurance testing for students will be rolled out soon will this be the type same type of program we currently have for our teachers where they must either show proof of vaccination or be tested weekly if is this a self-swab pool testing program through pa department of health if it's this program are we really expecting kindergarteners to be able to properly swab themselves will teachers be required to assist students who are unable to do so independently will it be required or optional is parental consent required will there be repercussions

111for parents who opt out of testing if that's an option will student testing be during school hours if it's during school hours how will it impact classroom instruction if not during school hours how will it be accessible to the bus riders what did you mean to say that there's a test to stay program that is forthcoming if so will the virtual streaming option for quarantine students remain or will it not be needed with a test to stay program fourth when the vaccine is approved for younger kids will we have vaccination clinics in our schools will they be during school hours if so how will parental notification and consent be handled how will you ensure medical information isn't disclosed to other students or staff how will you ensure kids who are not vaccinated will not be

112discriminated against with or without onsite vaccination clinics what will be the in-school messaging to our students will the vaccine be discussed or encouraged by teachers in class or not mentioned at all we need to learn from past mistakes and be proactive in making plans and not just reactive there will be a judgment in the legality of the current state masking order in about two weeks which is approximately the same timeline as vaccination approval we need to have a policy in place give insight to parents as to what you're thinking and so we have a plan to go when these things happen i also want to circle back to get to school i'm still waiting for guidance on what is or is not an appropriate gift to school thank you dr dietrich for following up on

113the aac devices but i've yet to hear from single board member about what is or is not an appropriate gift to school thank you thank you mrs hirsch go ahead sir larson from doyle's town want to talk about i'm sorry doylestown yes i'm sorry you're not in the district you're not a you have to be a taxpayer resident that's correct you have to be a taxpayer or resident of the district to speak okay thanks thank you good sir hi uh floyd jones landsdale i just wanted to uh point out that some people will come to you and say you know please don't believe in these uh vast right-wing conspiracies regarding uh the critical race theory and that kind of thing while at the same time decrying the belief in conspiracy theories all i would say

114with regard to the racial stuff is of course you should treat all of the children um the same way you know regardless of the color of their skin as martin luther king said people should be judged by on the basis of the content of their character not the color of their skin so let's try to live up to uh dr king's words and not be racist and not believe in any kind of right wing conspiracy theories thank you good sir hello my name is stefan ross i live in hatfield township and my son and daughter attend am cult elementary last year in fifth grade my son ben ross had mrs chappelle or miss chappelle he was one of the 60-some students of several classes that were subject to the lineup or i don't know what

115they're calling it the privilege lineup and questions outside he came home to us with concern and told us what miss chappelle had done and one of ben's other teachers had come up to ben after the fact and asked him what that was all about um you know he he explained to us that they'd line up against the wall and if they said yes to a question they were to step forward and apparently she was speaking to them through like a mini megaphone i guess one of the the first things was she pulled a band-aid out of her pocket i guess it was a tan colored one some of the kids stepped forward some of them didn't uh he said that one of the girls in the class um got yelled at and told to stand

116back because she wasn't the color of the bandit apparently she was an indian girl so didn't quite match the band-aid um then the typical questions you have an iphone do you have a smartphone blah blah blah do your both your parents work are your parents married um do they live at home all questions that i just don't find he has has to let anybody know what is behind private doors um it's personal information besides the fact that it made a lot of the kids feel very uncomfortable in class i mean you have kids back up against the wall middle and somewhat up front so you know if my son's up front is he's supposed to feel guilty because him and his mom work harder or do do the right things maybe we get lucky maybe

117we don't some people don't always get lucky i get that um but you know is my son supposed to feel guilty because he's ahead and they're not i mean they all just want to be friends none of them talk about color or where they're at their life neither did i when i went to school we were just nice to the kids we were taught treat other people how you want to be treated nothing was made into this world where we have to make up more stuff to say we have to be equal i don't get that um but anyway there were other things i guess i kind of talked myself out of time here but we were just wondering if she's going to be held accountable for that or if you're looking into it or

118not if you're not my wife and i are watching you guys we're watching the teachers my kids are watching the teachers and you guys everyone in this room is watching you and everyone watching the slide is watching you so let's do it right thank you thank you mr ross mrs redneck be rudnick lansdale i think i can actually answer that question for you i think they repeatedly said that they are investigating the matter and they are going to do so and they have been doing so it's just this regurgitation of just nonsense is beyond me now every time someone comes up here to talk about please every time somebody comes up here to talk about covet vaccine and the equity related uh aspect of it i guess is the point that they're trying to make

119and they bring up just as the last speaker did the fact that there is a descript maybe disproportionality is what they want to say between people of color getting vaccinated and white people i want to make it clear that that is not the case in this township so no whether or not people within this township black people like myself just be clear that's what you're referring to choose to get vaccinated and we are vaccinated we don't need you to stand up for us we can stand up for ourselves very clearly we do not need you to stand up for us don't come up here talking about mrs white the race i'm saying yes i will address you guys yes thank you coming up here and talking about oh if you don't um have people vaccinated

120you know that you know it's not equitable for the people of just please that is like the most insincere nonsense if you i would actually prefer you know the people who come here and spit than that nonsense of insincerity the black people who live within this district are hard-working tax-paying parents as well who can take care of their own and that's why we're here today that's why i'm here today i don't need you to be talking about whether or not there's equitable treatment because of vaccines we got it thank you very much and for the rest of you who keep quoting the bible like you're the only christians in the room matthew 25 40 whatever you do to the least of my brothers life should do unto me you should go read those five verses

121between 40 and 45 and go back to your lord which is the same lord i serve and explain to him why it is appropriate for you to come up here be quoting his bible and you're treating other human beings the same way shame on you all thank you mrs rodnick next up hi my name's carrie rox i'm in upper grinded township i have four children uh 13 down to 5 years old um again disclaimer if you have kids here get them out of the room for years my standard method of masturbation was stuffing a sock into the front of my pants and manipulating the bulge this would involve hip thrusting while thinking of my latest gay ship memorably i got off once while driving just by rubbing the front of my jeans and imagining getting

122a this is page 61 of genderqueer it is in the high school fast forward to page 166. we've been dating for two months we've made out we've had sex we've moved on to sexting at work i got a new strap-on harness today i can't wait to put it on you and it will fit in my favorite dildo perfectly you are going to look so hot i can't wait to have your in my mouth i'm going to give you the of your life then i want you inside of me this is the most turned on i've been in my life i am dying again this is genderqueer it is in the high school fast forward again 167. this is the visual i've been picturing but i can't feel anything this was much hotter when it was

123only in my imagination hey z let's try something else of course do you see this from there do you see that here's another one we're just going to skip this one because it just gets more graphic and more disgusting but i mean i say to you to hearing these words make you uncomfortable as an adult how do you think this makes a kid feel i'm like actually sick to my stomach thinking that my kid could go to one of the libraries in this district and pick this up who made the decision to okay this i know for a fact that this book list had to come across one of your desks to approve this is your dei is it in your intent to groom our children who made it your job to steal their innocence

124there's a reason i pulled my kids two years ago in homeschooled there is a reason they go to charter school this year hey christian i'm not even going to say mr folsko because i have no respect for you just because you think we've only been putting paying attention for the past six months doesn't mean that we're blind to what's been going on it's a constant barrage of your terrible policies mismanagement of our schools that has pushed us to a tipping point you are satan's pawns to me right now you all are disgusting you are the lowest form of scum and you all need to go to church you all need jesus in your life that is a scary what's been going on considering every single one of you has kids or grandkids remember your place

125you do not have the right to parent our children your time is up thank you [Applause] and i would just remind the audience to please be respectful of the speakers thank you mr linear you're up uh jason lanier lance albaro so unanimous is how you guys vote i've been watching every single committee meeting in every single board meeting say maybe one that i missed because i was out of town you vote unanimously 9-0 inaction meetings whatever number of committee members are there to form the quorum to vote unanimously there's no diversity of thought you vote not unanimously and when things such as genderqueer pop-up or lawn boy all these horrific books these pornography these pornographic books why are they what good does this do for a child this is what i ask what good does

126it do for anyone when you do the the uh the privilege walks who does it benefit you were told months and months and months ago this was happening i went to these meetings i talked to a couple days but so i talked to you specifically i said if this is happening will you resign and you said no you said it's not happening prove it now how am i to get the proof you've heard from a number of parents who've had this happen to their children you had a national honors student come up and tell you that it's happening it is happening who is it benefiting how does this benefit anyone and if that you guys are all unanimously voting do you all unanimously agree this is a good thing these privileged walks and if you

127all unanimously agreed that this is a privileged walk and you called me a liar because i told you what's happening you said it wasn't it maybe you should all unanimously resign there's no reason for this crap unanimously you all agree to do these things you need to take responsibility for it and tell me why it's beneficial to anyone please i'm i have a minute here can can somebody change how is it beneficial anybody want to speak you're out of order mr linear yes no stop mr lanier if you have any if you have any more comments i have 40 seconds i wanted to hear why you're commenting your opportunities to speak not to stand there in silence do you have anything else to do talk to me mr summers i'm asking the board whether or

128not they have so they have some way to describe why this is positive mr lanier we've told you before that we are not here to debate you right now you have public comment i know so you'll wait till i sit down and then you'll sit up miss characters mischaracterize what i'm saying imply that i'm lying and yet you've seen people come up and tell you you've had students come up and tell you and yet you still tell me i'm lying and you won't accept responsibility that this is actually happening why is that are you finished mr linear what's that are you finished your time's up go ahead you're next we have about time for four more con so i'm sorry ma'am what's your name can i start yeah just one sec so you can speak

129then mrs bradica then mr lombros and then mr hi i'm kimberly from hatfield i am a property owner and a taxpayer i also worked for north penn school district for eight years jonathan casa this is for you this question if re-elected as a north penn school board member will you serve your four years or will you step down to run for a pa state office isn't it true that you have no intentions to fulfill your four years as a north penn school district board member you should be ashamed of yourself in regards to jessica brecka i can personally attest that she is for the special needs population i have an autistic child and she personally took the time to go bullying with us and spent time talking to him asking me questions about my needs

130she is an amazing woman who does care about the specialties population please vote on november 2nd for kennedy snyder bradica and frolic on november 2nd in regards to the mass mandates every board member here i believe is playing political theater prior board member meetings no one wore a mask and all those who attended had a choice whether they had wanted to wear a mask or not yet here we are tonight and everybody is messed up and we don't get a choice i don't want to infringe on your rights to make a choice but don't infringe on mine in regards to masking children child sex trafficking and is an all-time high a child's voice and their mouth is one of the most powerful tools they can be used to save them in the event of a

131possible abduction the first thing a predator does is cover a child's mouth and yet the mass mandates are taking away a child's most effective means to protect themselves in fact it's conditioning them to not speak out we need to think about this this is just a few things at the top of the iceberg okay that's all i have to say thank you go ahead mrs bradica uh jessie bradica upper gwyneth i want to congratulate eric wing for his award i also want to wish couldn't be rudnick much luck in the election for auditor at montgomery uh township and i'd like i encourage anybody to check out kff.org where i got my information about races and vaccinations and the reason why that is important is because of quarantines and mandatory quarantines whether or not you have

132symptoms if you are unvaccinated and you are exposed to a person who said who tests positive for a period of 10 minutes you must quarantine for a minimum of 10 days you may test out i think at four days after four days if you go and pay for a rapid test or or go get a regular test for free and then wait for the results and if you are vaccinated and you don't show symptoms even though you may be carrying it because you're vaccinated and aren't showing symptoms um you can stay and so when 11 of african americans and five percent of asians are vaccinated and that you can again check it kff.org not a conspiracy theory that is disproportionality um and and that is a problem 61 of white americans are vaccinated that's a

133fact i want to read a message that was sent to me prior to the board meeting and they asked if i would share she's it says here's where i need help today at one of my schools four students tested positive for covid they sent home dozens of kids many of whom were kindergartens kindergarteners who happened to be crying hysterically because they did not want to leave the school this is really messing up the social life and the mental health of our students and also siblings don't have to quarantine uh if the the siblings of kids who test positive don't have to quarantine um the kids who are being sent home to quarantine just the ones who sat together for maybe 10 minutes at lunch this needs to be brought up to the board and the

134superintendent and this needs to be finished we can't live like this anymore and i am sickened and i am saddened by the division that is perpetuated frankly on both sides at times and we have got your responsibility sitting up there is to find balance to find some way that the division of these people can stop thank you mrs bradica mr lombros you're up and then mr flannery hello my name is yani lambros from lansdale owner of coffee corner i've been to a few of these meetings and each time i constantly see things and hear things it's always oh it's conspiracy or oh it's just they're watching fox news to me that seems like a weak cop-out from weak candidates it also seems like you tend to virtue signal more than actually help people i've seen

135students i've seen parents cry in front of you in previous meetings trying to legitimately express their concerns not even to bash on you that's too easy there's plenty of parents out here that just wanted to express their concerns you belittle them you belittle all of us good for you no one cares we see all of the negativity being spread when all we're trying to do is have a conversation but you don't want to have a conversation you just want to sit there lecture and virtue signal so you can get votes after that if re-elected you really won't give a damn and i'm only saying that judging by the actions that i've seen you take and the way that i've seen you treat these people now i'm here because i went to north penn when i

136went i thought it was a great school nobody cared about the color of their skin i don't know why you're trying to turn back the clock people if they had problems with each other the other students at that time it was usually for other things that normal teenagers go through you know maybe somebody was talking nonsense or a girlfriend or a boyfriend or this or that not because of their background the community is waking up the community sees you i've seen you and heard you be called out multiple times we remember we don't forget your little friend who was there with the pink hat to mask i think she's here tonight at penndale was the reason the cops were called that night even though you like to say it was us being rowdy even though

137we were nothing but respectful worst thing we did was god forbid talk back to you my apologies the community is waking up and they will turn out november 2nd they will be voting for kennedy snyder bradica and frolic many people will be voting you out [Applause] thank you mr lambros with whales i'm not a doctor so i'm not going to give anybody medical advice but what i am going to do is give you some medical advice from dr fauci and the nih so rendezvous the drug that fiachi told all hospitals they gotta you know treat everybody with covet for in 2018 they did a study on ebola they did it on four drugs two of the drugs were called zmapp and remdezvir so after the results from the first 499 participants have been reviewed the

138trial safety monitors recommended that two drugs zmapp and remdezvir be dropped from the remainder of the trial these drugs were much less effective at preventing death overall about 50 percent of the people who received zmapp or remdezvir died during the trial now i'm going to switch over to a new different study that the french did the french didn't treat their people with ramdezvir like our experts did give me a minute i wasn't really prepared for this so france did a study with five patients using remdezvir the last screenshot is from the french study i'm not going to show you two patients got alanine amino trans ras at elevations three to five times higher than normal two others went into renal failure and had to have kidney replacements france pulled remdezvir and didn't treat their patients

139with it which is why their death rate is so low america makes up five percent of the world population we had over seven hundred thousand the rest of the world which makes up 95 percent of the world population had roughly two 1.2 million or whatever through the math now think about what we're hearing about patients that go into the hospital three to five days after taking rendezvous your kidneys start failing you start drowning the heart and liver with fluid so what's the next step you guessed it the ventilator if anybody that gets sick this coming flu season if you feel the need to go into a hospital i highly recommend going on to the nih.gov website and reading what i just read don't take my word for it take dr fassey's word for it do

140not take remdezvir okay mrs blonk he'll be the last speaker i i'm not actually tall but this is yes i know how you feel my name is erin blanc and i'm from hatfield so this is um in response to some comments tonight we've gone from it didn't happen it definitely didn't happen you're lying to it may have happened we're investigating to yes it happened students telling us it happened a parent telling us it happened i need to know that my kids will not be subjected to an activity that makes them feel terrible in school i don't want them to be subjected to an activity that makes their classmates feel terrible about themselves in school i don't really care what the questions are i know how it made children feel i talked to six of the

141parents okay i know a lot more than you think we know i talked to a whole bunch of them and the story was the kids came home crying and we never want that in school and so i need to know that my kids will not be subjected to that activity and i'd love a phone call thank you thank you mrs blom okay so that ends the second public comment um are there is there any other new business before we adjourn this meeting this evening yeah i just wanted to take a minute um there was a pretty salacious accusation about a book at oak park and i do think the community is owed at least an explanation about that it was removed right no uh dr bauer would you mind explaining to miss flannery and the

142others uh that situation excuse me you're out of work excuse me do you want an explanation because we're going to give it to you ma'am you're out of order it's not it's our time to speak go ahead dr power uh so i did look at it i'll look into it and i will say that i was equally surprised by everyone else in the room by what was read by miss flannery my understanding is that the librarian did read that book it is no longer on the shelves it has never been signed out and while i do believe it was purchased with the best of intentions the librarian did deem that that book was inappropriate so thank you excuse me you are out of order [Music] security thank you security can we please thank you thank

143you okay is there any other business yep yes madam president i'd like to make sure that the community is aware of a very special event that's going to happen on veterans day november 11th at 6 p.m this is one of those opportunities for the community to come together and to thank those who have served whether they were north penn residents and students at the time or they now live in reside in north penn but they went and served their community in the armed services and for whatever reason while they were sacrificing for our country they did not finish their degree this is an opportunity thank you to dr dietrich something that he's done before and with our fellow board colleague mr al resh they put a lot of energy also christine lebroski into making sure

144this special event involves jrotc cadets who will usher in veterans and family members this will be at the audience at six o'clock and it's also going to involve the color guard and many other special speakers as we make sure that those who are the patriots in our community get the respect and see the civility and unity that the north penn community represents so please mark your calendars and we look forward to seeing everyone there thank you mr casa is there any other business that anyone would like to discuss mr fasco no okay do i have a motion to adjourn so moved thank you everyone you