NLSD Special Board Meeting and Committee Meetings - August 4, 2025

001Okay. Test. One, two, three, 4. Test. One, 2, 3, 4. So, at this time, I'd like to call the meeting to order and begin with a pledge of allegiance. >> I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Roll call. Madam Secretary, >> Mr. Chris, >> Mr. Fedora, >> Miss France >> here. Is here. >> I'm sorry. >> Present. >> Sorry. >> Miss Husach here. Miss Culp here. >> Miss Snder here. >> Miss Williams here. >> Mr. Green here. >> We have a farm. >> Thank you. It's public comment. I'm not sure what public comment would be, but it's on there. Anyone read public comment? No, nothing on the list. Okay. Anything superintendent

002this evening? >> Uh, there is no superintendent report this evening, sir. >> All right. Thank you. Okay. We'll go to the other item then. You're asking him to check. Okay. >> Just give him a second in case somebody signed in. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Uh, we have Mr. Van Norman here that said he would like to comment on the open board position. Uh, but I believe you are also a candidate for the office. >> Yes. Did I check it or no? >> Yeah, you um just >> I already know what I need to do, so I want to cover all my bases. Yep. Understood. >> Public comment this time. >> Appreciate it. Thank you, sir. >> And that's it. >> Okay. Let me let me just go over this so everybody's on the same page.

003We're going to open the motion. Uh we have I think two applicants at this point in time. Uh those people will need to be nominated. Uh we will then vote on those people. Five votes been wins. Uh if after the first round and I want everybody to understand this, if after the first round no one gets five votes, I will reopen nominations. Okay? Uh and since if no one gets five votes, everyone technically is on the losing side. So anyone can make a motion because you were on the losing side. I will take a second nomination. We will revote. Uh, I'm out of order now, but I think we have two excellent candidates and and I hope this board can can come together and and nominate one of them. Uh, I don't want it to

004go to Lehigh County Court, which it will in about 3 days. So, uh, having said all that, everybody okay with the procedure? We all got us here. Everybody okay? Okay. Uh, we need a motion to open nominations. >> So move. >> Second, >> Mr. Dorch in a second. Uh discussion or questions hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> Those opposed, no. And so ordered. And it doesn't say so. But now I would take nominations for the school director. >> No, I thought so. We don't do the interviews like we used to. >> I'm sorry. >> We don't do the interviews like we used to do. >> Uh let's take the motions and then we'll do the interview sheet. Okay. >> Okay. We need we need them to be nominated

005first. So technically, >> okay, >> you want to nominate someone? >> No. Anyone nominate anyone? >> I I'll nominate Ryan Van. >> I'm sorry. >> I'll nominate Ryan Van Norman. >> Okay. Are there any other nominations? Uh Ryan Van Norman has been nominated for the position. Are there any other nominations? >> Hearing none. >> Oh, >> seem to hear both. I would like to nominate Mr. >> Also, you want to nominate him? >> I'll second it. >> Yes. We would like to hear >> I would like to hear from both candidates. >> Thank you for your nomination. >> Yes. >> That was you were about 1 second away from closing nomination. >> Sorry. >> Okay. Uh Mr. Weber has been nominated. >> Okay. >> I move to close nomination, sir. >> Is there a second

006to that? >> Second. >> Okay. All those in favor of closing nomination, please signify by saying I. >> I. Those opposed? No. >> And so order. Uh Mr. Van Norman, you were nominated first. So, if you would like to ask the questions, uh, I think you have his resume in front of you. You going to do it? >> Traditionally, you have done it, sir. >> You want me to do it? Okay. Um, >> Mr. I have a I have a question. >> Yes, sir. >> Can we have both candidates in at this time? >> I'm sorry. >> Can we have both candidates in at this time? >> Yeah, you should probably be the room, too. >> Yeah. >> I I thought that's what we did previously. We only had the individual candidate. So if he

007comes up with some wonderful answers, you you know. So >> why are you interested in being on the Northern Lehigh School Board? >> I've been involved in many community aspects uh throughout my life. Uh 20 years in education and still going. Uh started as a school teacher. I did my student teaching here at Northern Leh High. Expanded past that into middle school teaching, high school teaching. Then I went to a vocational school uh teaching high school students. Uh I don't have any type of agenda. I've been involved with lots of community aspects and I saw a board opening. It's short-term. It's like filling a long-term sub. Um I've worked within board positions. I'm still in multiple boards. Uh just realizing if there was a vacancy and you need somebody to fill it, I have plenty

008of knowledge within the school setting to assist if needed. And if I'm the best candidate or you feel I fit that need for that short time frame, so be it. >> Thank you. >> What do you can feel you can offer the school board? >> Uh just background knowledge of for my years in education. Uh went through superintendent courses. I have to deal with it on a daily basis. uh everything from personnel, HR, one of the other boards I'm part of as far as fiscal responsibility, understanding uh budgets, maintaining those budgets, also balancing that with what is the true need and with that true need, are we doing the best for our community and our students at the same time. So I believe that's what I can offer with my experience going forward. >> Experience.

009Thank you. Uh what do you feel is the biggest challenge to public education today? We don't have enough time in saying so but honestly uh with all those any anything that comes up can be a challenge. It depends on what the focus and need is at the time. Um but honestly everything that comes across the board is very important to deal with. So as far as the biggest challenge, it's no doubt that the uh financial aspect of funding everything going forward is the biggest thing right now in schools and raising taxes. Taxes are part of it. everything goes up. But in the same aspect, how can you do that responsibly and keeping all the students in mind and staff to make sure we can keep it moving forward and not lose any important aspects of

010what this district can provide to our students. >> Thank you. Uh in the last two years approximately how many schoolboard meetings or committee meetings have you attended >> for this school? Zero. >> Okay. >> Did you see any online or stream? >> Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, I didn't attend in person. About two years, maybe three years ago, I suppose one, but no, I have not been in person. >> Okay. Are there any other questions for the candidate? I'm looking right. Anybody down here? Anything? No. Looking left? No. We thank you for your time and we would now excuse you and and send him in and we'll go from here. Thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. >> Thank you, Ryan. Should have went home. Go. There he comes. Okay, thank you for applying for the position. We

011have a couple questions for you this evening. Uh, question number one, why are you interested in being on the school board? Well, I uh have been a part of the school district for all my life. Um, I moved here when I was in middle school, uh, in sixth grade. I graduated from Northern Lehi. Uh, both my daughters graduate from Northern Lehi. I was a teacher, an educator, uh, with the district for over 28 years. Um in many of my roles I um have been able to attend the school board meetings for well over 14 years and uh value the leadership responsibilities of the of the board and uh feel it's very important. >> Thank you. What do you feel you can offer the school board? Uh well my uh experience in education um uh which

012anybody with educational experience could bring that also. Uh I'm not sure about the other candidate. Um but uh also as I said I I've lived and I've been a part of this district for well over 30 years. Um, I've also been, if you look at my resume, I was on a board for a children's camp for, uh, well over, uh, 10 years, uh, and was able to experience leadership in that role, served as the, uh, secretary for that board. Um, so I've had experience in other leadership responsibilities with budgets. Uh, I've worked in the district with uh developing curriculum, uh, writing grants. Uh, but the biggest thing for me is is the fact that I want the success of the district, the success of of the students, each student here in the district and and

013that's my main goal. >> Okay. Thank you. Uh, what do you feel is the biggest challenge to public education today? >> That didn't take long. >> Thank you. Uh, last question. Uh, in the last two years, approximately how many Noyal Lehigh School Board and committees have you attended >> in the last year? Two years. >> Two years. Um, I'm guessing we have uh one every month and then a committee meeting every month um except for uh summertime. So I I'm guessing uh 40 maybe in the past two years. Community music. We have seen your face once or twice. Uh any other questions for Mr. Weber. Uh, looking right. Anyone down here? Anything? No. Looking left. No. Thank you for your time, Mr. Weber. And if you want to bring back the other candidate [Applause] Is

014she here to swear? I can't. I don't know where he started going on there. Hello. Mr. Weaver, we see where he is. >> They're coming. They're coming. >> Oh, you see them coming. Oh, you saw a shadow. Okay. >> Oh, >> there we go. Thank you. >> Okay, at this time, uh, we've heard the questions. Uh, we've done the vetting that we need to do. Uh, so it's time to take a vote. Uh, Mr. Van Norman was nominated first. So, uh, sorry, I got it on here, but I can do that. That's fine. Uh, uh, I'm going to do it this way because we always do it this way. All those in favor of Mr. Van Norman, please indicate by saying I. >> I. >> Those opposed, no. >> No. >> That's a roll call.

015>> Yes. >> So, um, our solicitor suggested that we actually read this motion here and fill in a name uh to be legally compliant. >> Okay. Uh motion of the board of school directors to appoint blank as school director of the northern Lehigh school district to serve in the position until the end of the board reorganization meeting. Okay. And and what they're saying is uh thanks for applying but it's only like a four-month position. Unfortunately, the way the voting went, uh, if it had happened like a month and a half later, it would have been closer to the primary and it would have been the full 2 years plus, but it's in that short window where it will only last until the reorganization and meeting. So, it's really a four-month position. We have an individual

016here tonight to swear a successful candidate and if we have one so you will be officially a member for July August or no August, September, October, November for the full month. Okay. Um >> and if I may sir just just for a little additional clarity on that it's because Mr. Kerna resigned his position with more than two years before his term naturally ended. Um so that's another way of looking at the timeline that Mr. just described. >> Yeah, but it was it wasn't if it had been later, you would have served two plus years, but it wasn't. So, it's only it's about as short a term as you can possibly uh be appointed to the way the law works. And I don't want to talk election law. That's not why I'm here, but uh I

017know that it's only a four-month appointment. So, okay. Again, having said that, we did not have a unanimous vote. So, uh we'll have a roll call. Madam Secretary, >> Mr. Mr. Podora. >> Yes. >> Miss France. >> Yes. >> Miss Husach. >> Yes. Miss Cole? >> Yes. >> Miss Snider? >> Yes. >> Miss Williams? >> No. >> Mr. Green? >> No. >> We do have five votes for Brian. Four. Five. >> Motion passes. >> Congratulations, Mr. Van Norman. you have been uh elected the newest school board member. Do you want to officially have him sworn in now? >> Um we can I would truly like to thank Mr. Weber for applying for the position. I do appreciate all um your dedication to the Northern Leist and I hope you continue um to participate in our

018meetings. Uh Mr. Weber, thank you. Um we can swear in Mr. Van Norman. Now we have our school district notary here, Mrs. King. Uh Mr. Van Norman, if you can step forward and Mrs. King, if you can please swear him in at this time. >> Sure. >> You're going to raise your right hand, please. >> I state your name. >> Ryan Enderman. >> Do solemnly swear >> that I will support >> obey >> and defend the Constitution of the United States >> and defend the Constitution of the United States >> and the Constitution of this Commonwealth >> and the Constitution of this Commonwealth. and that I shall fulfill the duties >> and I shall fulfill the duties >> of my position as school board director >> as with my position as school board director >>

019for the Northern Lehigh school district >> for the northern school district >> with fidelity >> just congratulations >> and just one more thing I'm going to have you print and sign your name here and then I will memorize it >> uh I think that concludes the business there's other business unless you have anything else that you want to address this evening. >> No sir. Okay. We have a motion to adjurnn. >> So moved. >> Second. >> All those in favor of adjourn, please signify by saying I. >> Those opposed, no. >> And so ordered. Okay. We'll take about two minutes and then uh we'll start with our committee meeting. And I don't have that agenda in front of me but The first meeting we're going to have tonight is the education meeting. Since our chairperson,

020Mr. K, is no longer with us, our new chairperson will be >> That's what you get to decide. >> That's you. So, you're in charge of opening the education meeting. >> You're up. You're you're the boss. Do I have to take the time? >> No. Okay. going up to the educational committee and do I get to pass it off to Dr. Shberry? >> Excellent. >> So, I hear you saying Mr. uh Green that he will be the new chair of our committee. >> Yes. Yes. He's going to replace Mr. Kern as chairman of this committee and I think he's vice chair of is he curriculum? Help me out. >> Uh he's also curriculum but also >> in ECC. >> Okay. Yeah. >> Okay. Thank you. Welcome to education committee. Uh so our next item on

021the agenda is our title one schoolwide plan. Uh title one provides financial assistance to schools that have a highly economic uh disadvantaged population. Northern Lehigh school district um is trending around 50%. Uh we have C lunch uh right now. So we don't have a very accurate number just because we don't collect title one forms anymore. but Nikki does a really nice job to direct certify people, but we think we're somewhere around 50% or more. Um, so with that, uh, we receive a Title One, um, grant through our federal programs for 2526. We're looking at, um, $413,669. Um, that has been released to the district. And then I'm sure that you've been looking at the uh situation that's been going on in the federal government with title 2, three, and four not having been released yet.

022Um so title one we have, we know how much that's going to be, and we've allocated that for three teachers at Peters and three teachers at Slington. It does not pay the full salary and benefits, but it does pay the partial um salary and benefits of of three people in each of those buildings. I'm going to turn things over to uh Mr. Schneider at Peters and then Mr. Briner at Slington just to briefly um talk about what will be in the 2526 schoolwide plans. >> Thank you, Dr. Good evening, distinguished board members. Um welcome back to a hopefully wonderful school year. Uh just a reminder that as part of um you know our plan creation, um there's a lot of there's a big process that goes into it. We meet on a monthly basis with

023our families. Um we we share information regarding Title One with our families. We send out a survey and then at the end of the year we actually meet with families and stakeholders including community members to basically discuss this plan and then over the summer Mr. Briner and I work at the individual level to put that together with data as well as information from families. Okay. So this year at tit at uh Peters um our goal is related to um early literacy. What I look to do is some of the data I presented to you um at the end of the year, sort of snapshot of the school of the of the school year's data last year. Um the one area that stood out more than than others was um was kindergarten end of the year

024um literacy. Um students are rated at benchmark or above benchmark. Um it was a pretty good number. It was better than it's been in years, but it was still 69%. Um, so our goal always is to shoot for 80%. We want people to we want students in second grade to go on to third grade meeting what we consider the MTSS triangle. Ideally 80% of any of of our student body should be proficient or on grade level and then you know typically it's 80 155. So what I'm looking to do my goal this year is going to be to increase uh that 69% of kindergarten. We're looking at the same students who are now in first grade and we're looking to by the end of this next school year raise that by six percentage points working

025towards a 75% um with the hopeful hopeful goal that by the time they reach second grade it's up to 80%. Um also and it's not literally part of the written goal but our always goal since I've been principal here at Peters is family engagement. So we're going to continue Mr. Briner and I engaging with our families on a monthly basis and we're trying to again receive and uh take family feedback into mind as we plan for another year of family engagement meetings. We'll turn it over to Mr. Brier. >> Thank you Mr. Sheright. Good evening everyone. Everyone's having a great summer so far and uh welcome back to the school year. Um just to add on to what Mr. Schneideright said about family engagement. Uh, one of the things I think we toy with every

026year, um, and it's part of the feedback that we get every year is trying to figure out a way to get people more involved. Um, so we've changed, we've done meetings at different times of the day. We've done them in the mornings, we've done them in the evenings, we've done them late evenings, we've flip-flopped back and forth, we've had child care at them. Um so this year we're going back to based on the feedback back to kind of later evening um meetings to hopefully uh bring in more people and also do do the meetings virtually which we have in the past as well. Um in terms of my title one uh kind of goals that are written in the plan again focused uh very similar to Mr. Schneiderite on uh literacy and um and numeracy.

027uh in my goal, we I've used um EXL um as the data point uh to focus that goal and take a look at the different um uh how we're performing in different cohorts. Uh so basically I've targeted uh kind of a cohort that needs the most improvement. Um and that's uh our fifth going to be our fifth grade cohort. Um, so I've kind of tracked this cohort over the course of uh now two years. Uh, and we're continuing to track this cohort, setting goals uh to move the cohort forward. So in EXL, if you if you recall, um, there's a point structure and each 10 points equates to about a month. Um, so I'm looking to move uh that fourth grade 120 points. Uh, so about a year and two months. uh so more than

028a year um and try to uh decrease that gap in math. Um the same cohort looking looking at um uh uh the same kind of data points, same cohort uh but we're looking to move them 100 points. Um so we're looking to move them a year uh basically a year's worth. Um so uh we are uh and the reason it's 100 points there is um over the course of the last couple years um we've moved them about 80 points. Uh we're looking to move them to 100. So bumping jumping that up a little bit. Um so those are uh the two goals that are written in the plan as well as detailed action plans on how we're going to get there. >> Thank you. I'll just add that um title one our federal programs are

029actually going to be monitored this year. Um that's part of our cyclical moni monitoring. Uh so we are on the cycle for 2526. Um also as part of the money we get for title one, we have a homeless set aside that we use to support our students that um present as with homelessness. And then also there's a portion of that money that has to go to the non-public institutions um wherever our students from Northern Lehigh go. um has the money has to follow those students um you know who who fall into that same economic category and then we see if there are students at those schools that need remedial services as well. Uh so we do have some uh non-public institutions in our district and then outside our boundaries that we serve with that money

030too. >> Okay, any questions on that? >> I have a question on the family engagement for just a question in general. Are those family engagement events um recorded so that a a parent who may have missed going that they can go watch it similar to like our board meetings? >> Um they are not right now. Um we did try to record them a couple of years back and really kind of struggled uh with the technology of that um and just compressing it down. I know that we we are able to do this here, but we don't necessarily have the the tech crew on hand for the family engagement meetings. The tech crew is basically me and Mr. Schneider, right? When mostly Mr. Brian. >> Um, so it's something that we've we've talked about, we've done

031before. We also uh tried to record last year um for uh we had brought the CHCM to do parenting sessions um and the first recording the microphones weren't set up right. You couldn't you couldn't hear it. So um it's something that we can continue to work on and do. Certainly >> just might be a another avenue to let people get out there and see what's going on. And >> sometimes we just can't get there, right? >> Yeah. So >> when will this data be available? When will you be making a presentation? At the end of the year or >> uh on the results? Yeah. So the the goal is set up throughout the entire year. So obviously um it it really kind of goes off of my baseline data started the fourth benchmark of last

032year. So I won't have the results till the fourth benchmark of this year uh this upcoming year. So it'd be the end of the year when we have the results. Typically we uh present it at the last family enga I was a I've been able to present the findings the end results of uh the goal um at our last family engagement meeting um and it's also kind of encompassed in our ISL data presentation that we give at the end of the year usually June. >> Yep. And we have to report them to this date by January of the like following year. I would I would ask I guess that you remind us what your objectives were and and how you made out with those. Did you reach them? Did we reach them? You know, if

033if you can do that just to keep us up to date. Thank you. >> This is called the other question too. >> Yeah. I um I know we get the data presentation at at the end of the year. I would hope with the EXL and the data that we do have um that if we realize that we're not making progress, perhaps we look again at what other additional needs may be there and um try and provide uh additional support um instead of waiting a whole year. So that's just my input. Um, you know, whatever we can do, if you can make this, if you can make the progress, great. But if you're getting stuck, anything we can do to try and support, that would be something I'd be in favor of. >> Appreciate it. >>

034Okay. >> Anything else on the Title One schoolwide plan? >> I I I just my apology for being a a whatever, but uh Mr. Norman is new here. I I'm just wondering if if you guys could just take a moment and and just go along and say, you know, what your name is, what your title is. I don't know if you know all these people. >> For the most part, yes. >> For the most part, >> I don't want I don't want to eat up any more time. >> Okay. >> I'll pick it up as we go. >> If if you're if you're comfortable with that, then then we're okay. I just say, you know, who the heck is this guy? You know, it's like But we've been asking the same question for years and

035so we we'll get there. Right. And and the other thing, we don't vote on items at a committee meeting. In other words, if if somebody I'm looking at something uh canvas license, uh we will not vote to get the canvas license. What we will vote on and we don't really vote on is give him permission to put that on the upcoming agenda for a vote because we can't technically vote at a committed meeting. So when you get to that, that would be the question. Are you ready to put it on the agenda? not are you voting in favor of it? Although there there's kind of a thin line there, but that meets with the requirements of the law and I'll be quiet now. So, thank you. >> No, I won't for the information, >> Dr.

036Stoker. >> Okay. Um, not hearing any other questions on title one. We'll move to the comprehensive guidance 339 plan. Um, that plan is also something we'll be working on uh this year. after we finish our comprehensive plan. The following year is always the comprehensive guidance plan. Um so this is the plan that really discusses across the district what we do to prepare students for college and career readiness. Um so we will look at the career education and work standards, stakeholder engagement. Um our team, our core team consists of our administrators, counselors, um educators across the district, community representatives. Uh we have higher ed that sits on that. We have our um CTC that sits on that. Um we have uh business owners in the district. We have a board member uh Mrs. Snyder has uh

037indicated that she's going to continue to to be the liaison to our group as well. Um so we'll be bringing together that core group. If you turn over the paper or if you go further down in our agenda, you'll see the tenative uh timeline that we have. So, the August 20th inservice day, we're looking to kick off um I have an internal kickoff meeting uh for that um plan. Um also, Mr. Williams and our new um assistant principal at the elementary center are also part of that core team um as well. So, we'll be kicking that off on August 20th internally. Um August 13th, we have our fall advisory council meeting. That's where we bring uh together the larger group and start to talk about the work that we're looking to do for this year.

038December 1st actually is when PTE releases the 339 plan requirements for phase three districts. So sometimes within those different phases, the questions that they ask or what's required in the plan changes based on law or other needs that they have. So we were hoping we would get that plan released a little bit earlier so we can start the work um you know along with our our tenative timeline in August. But we're going to start to move forward in planning some things even though we won't know fully what's involved in the plan until December. Uh February 6th is spring advisory council meeting. That's really when we're going to talk um in detail about what that plan includes so that all of our stakeholder or larger stakeholder group is um on the same page with that. We'll

039right around that time post the plan for review. um March 9th, we would put that as an agenda item for approval on the schoolboard uh agenda and then we would submit it by March 31st uh which is when it's due uh to PTE through the future ready comprehensive planning portal. So that's kind of our timeline. Anyone that wants to come to those advisory uh committee meetings is certainly welcome to um and we'll share out more information as we move through the school year on that. Any questions? Okay. Um, our next uh agenda item is the bounceback program with Valley Youth House. Mr. Schneiderite. >> Great. Thanks. I'm pleased to be able to bring this for your consideration tonight in thinking through this potential new program that I'm looking at at Peters Elementary School. Um, the

040program is through Valley Youth House. Uh, they are already a district partner with us. Uh, they um have an employee coming out on a weekly basis throughout the year providing tier one supports for some of our students, really teaching of social skills. um they presented to me the idea of this new program called the Bounceback program. It is a school-based counseling program that's a little bit more intensive. Um so it's considered what I would say a tier 2 program. It's designed not for every student but for students uh targeting those that are actually facing trauma. They noted some things such as uh loss of a family member, uh family separation, right? uh these are things that you know all students that are facing those type of adverse childhood experiences um you know sometimes need support

041with right so um the idea of this program is it targets that smaller group of students um you know the process would be we would gain parent support uh they would sign off that they would like their child to basically meet with the counselor it's a 10-week program they basically meet on one day a week um with the uh students they consider them small groupoup counseling sessions between two than three students they noted not more than five and they're not actually doing you know I think about counseling sometimes you think about we're talking about my challenges it's not really about focus on the challenges it's really focused on how to build the resiliency in the students to be able to address the challenges right um they use a pre-est post test model so they'll give

042the students a pre-EST um you know from a researchbased uh you know it's called the CPSS the child post-traumatic stress scale and you know afterwards they give it to them again and see how they're doing. Um this is uh you know there's also family connection with this. The idea is they will share out with the families of these students um you know worksheets and ways in which they can support their child at home as they're continuing to work through this. Um, so the next steps if uh the board uh has no considerations or no concerns about it, um reach out after the board meeting um and and basically gauge interest. Mrs. Cromer and I, our school counselor, um you can probably go through our sort of notes uh from the last year or two and

043sort of determine families that might benefit from it and have those individual conversations. Uh the group suggested to try to begin the program midepptember in order to complete the 10-week program by uh 2026. So hopefully before that holiday break um you know in the new year we'd be able to do a first round and then if funding continues for the program through the state uh we would continue to receive it for free and if not at that time we can say okay we're not going to do it anymore. So I'm not sure if there are any questions concerns uh from the board if you want to talk through it more. >> Is that contingent upon the state budget getting passed this year? >> Yeah right now they have funding up until December 31st. Mrs. culp

044um they said they expect funding but you never know until things are passed. So um this would guarantee us one session of 10 weeks with the students that you know need that program and then after that if the money goes away then at least we got through that one session and provided that support and if it continues then we can start a second round. So >> thank you. >> Yeah but contingent of course on continued money. >> And Mr. Schneider, did you say there is anou that would need to go to the board level? >> Correct. So that'll be I mean we're ready to present that to the board at the next uh meeting. So um you know if that you know obviously um you know that'll sort of highlight for the board what the

045um you know agreement would be between ourselves and the belt youth house the organization. >> So do we have the ability of the board members present to move that to Monday um Monday night's board meeting for a vote? >> Yes. >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Thanks everybody. >> Thank you. Thank you, >> Mrs. Dada. Everyday speech. >> Good evening, everyone. Um, this is um a highly engaging social skills supplemental materials for the teacher out at Peters Elementary who has quite a few um itinerant level students that come to him to um have some lessons in in some of the self-regulation and uh perspective and emotional regulations and self-esteem areas um that is within their IEP. This is supplemental material that will help him um engage the students in these materials. It would be funded

046through the special education budget and I know I have the quote there. It is $499 a year. Um and then we will re-evaluate how that progresses next year. Does anybody have any questions about that? >> Okay. >> If it helps. >> How many students do you think would a ballpark would serve? I'm gonna say 25. He is quite a large with the kindergarteners and and first grade count. >> We're looking to have an agenda item for this in the board. Yes. For Monday night as well. Do we have the ability of the board members president to move this for a vote for Monday evening as well? >> Yes. >> Thank you, Mrs. Tada. >> Mr. Pine, canvas licenses. >> I'll be looking for the board for two other agenda items. The first one, both of

047these I've mentioned in previous committee meetings. It's just now they're coming to fruition. Uh the first one is I I believe in June I'd mentioned that our canvas implementation has reached a threshold where our user numbers are exceeding our license numbers. Uh so I'll call that a successful implementation. But with that for this last year, the contract comes some additional cost. So I have linked in there the quote for that and it's an additional $732.20. Um, and then when we renew for another contract next year, obviously we'll just increase that number for the full contract. At this time, just because it's an expected expense for all the buildings, the curriculum instruction budget's going to absorb the entire cost of that. We're good to do that. >> So, this is only for the for this year,

048right? >> For the this year's the remainder of the original contract, >> negotiate the whole contract, >> correct? Yeah. Then we'll start all over again. Yeah. >> The school year or this calendar? >> School year. Okay. Sorry. Yeah. The licenses that are required are those student based or teacher based or >> it's total users. >> So that's a parent logging in. >> No no no no no. So it's students students andor uh you know teachers. Um so I I would guess the bulk would be students just proportionally. Uh but I honestly I didn't go in and calculate out exactly like how many we've had an increase in uh in each group since we started the contract. Um, I just went in and I looked at the analytics and we're definitely we have we've had an

049increase in users of about I want to say it's 140 or so additional users. Uh, yeah. So, we bought modestly. We bought right at our threshold at that time. So, any increases we just we weren't really ready for because we didn't really know where we were going to reach the limits of when we when we sort of put this in place. So, >> can you confirm for me and I apologize I just don't remember the grade levels Canvas is covering now. Was it now K through 12 or was it just high school, middle school? >> K through 12. Okay. >> Yeah. So, >> and are the are any pair professionals in educational paras? >> Correct. Yes. They would be included in that group as well. So, so again like that's an area whereas we've seen

050some increases. I mean those are additional licenses because they also have access to the platform. Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. >> I'd love to see some data as far as like who's who's using it and who's continuing. sure >> to use it because I know a license you get it and are you really using it? I guess that's part of what my >> Yeah, sure. I mean, I can either get that ready for an update very easily or we can plan that for a future committee meeting and I >> I would just like to see the the numbers to just, you know, see if they continue with it. >> Yeah. And the first year we did that, I mean, I brought in the numbers to show it was growing, bless you, but like it just it has

051grown. Um, I could also sort of get together some numbers about like in terms of how it's being used as well. Um, so >> something to see if if they're continuing to use >> Oh, for sure. For sure. Yeah, absolutely. >> Thank you. >> I have a question. Is Bulldog Academy based off of Canvas as well? >> No, it's okay. All right. >> Yeah. So, yeah, I'll talk about that a little bit too because part part of this next piece is going to be about a provider related to that. But in terms of canvas, are we all okay with motion for that >> to bring a board motion forward just for the additional licenses? >> So, is the board okay with moving that forward? >> Okay. 140 staff and students will be happy to hear

052that. Um, the next agenda item I have on there is Bulldog Academy handbook. When we addressed handbooks in the spring, uh, I made mention that we were in the middle of making some revisions to the Bulldog Academy handbook, but that were there was still some tinkering going on. Um, so I did include in this last week's update the final update of the handbook, which very much mirrors our brickandmortar handbooks, uh, at least in terms of its structure and its design. Obviously many of the components and elements are a little bit different just because of the nature of the difference in type of education. Um but uh just in in a quick scroll through without going over it in in any you know sort of too much depth here um you will see in it that

053the big changes have to do with uh a couple of things. One, this originally came forward because the school counselors were concerned about students who were in Bulldog Academy and we didn't really have strong mechanisms for triggering a removal from Bulldog Academy. This was not a good choice. We didn't have strong documented mechanisms. Uh we also didn't have we had to update some of our attendance work with things that we learned through the pandemic about the ways that we can define and um sort of uh oversee and enforce attendance policies. So, a lot of the stuff that you're going to see in there is related to that. But I did also take the opportunity uh as we were switching from having two providers. Uh we had Edison that we were working with through uh Kayola.

054Uh Kayla is the provider, the umbrella for both Edison and then Accelerate Ed um for our elementary. So Edison was at our secondary accelerated. We've seen Edison's quality and the um the touch points degrade over over the past year. Um and in that and having some conversations with the IU who confirmed that there were some issues there um we began to look at accelerated ed. Accelerated ed in order to get us and other districts to join at what seems to be a time of crisis for their competitor um is offering us the same price we were paying at Edison. One of the deterrents with Ed with Accelerated Ed prior was that they were a little bit more expensive um and we saw similar quality for a long time. Uh and as a matter of fact,

055this year for anyone who signs up this year to switch over, uh it's going to be half price for this year. So we'll actually see a reduction in cost, a pretty marked reduction in cost for Bulldog Academy students this year. And then next year when we resume, we'll be resuming at the same pricing that we are currently experiencing at the secondary ed level with Edison. With that, uh because Edison supports are a lot more robust, we were able to redefine a lot of the responsibilities for mentor, teachers, parents, and things like that. Um I won't go into much otherwise but uh a lot of this was designed in order to make sure that we have strong entry points, strong monitoring points uh and then you know a strong structure for us to be able to

056start engaging with families and students um who are not being successful and begin reworking them back into the brick and mortar system. I don't know if there are any questions specifically about anything within the handbook or about anything I said. And if not, what I'll be looking for is like our our our other handbooks, getting this approved at the board meeting. So, putting a motion forward on Monday. Uh, and then in subsequent years, this handbook will join the rest of our handbooks. And at the same time, we'll be able to look at all of them um concurrently. We're okay with us moving this for an agenda item for Monday night for approval. >> Thank you. >> I believe that's all we have for the education committee. Um Mr. Vander, I don't know if there's anything

057else that anyone wants to talk about. >> I know I don't have anything. Anyone else have anything for the committee? >> We can close it. >> Closing the educational committee meeting. I'll go ahead and open the policy committee meeting and turn it over again to Dr. Stoker, please. >> Thank you very much. Uh we have three policies on the policy committee agenda for this evening. Um these came out and were released by the PNN by PSBI over the summer uh I believe in June. Um they are related to federal programs. Um and again we've discussed earlier at the education committee that federal programs is going to be monitored this year. So, it's been perfect timing um as our policies need to be updated when we're being monitored. Um so, I will put it out there.

058Does anyone want to see um the policies in any more detail? Otherwise, I would ask that we move them to Monday night for um approval at the the board meeting. >> Yes. >> Any questions by the board members? >> Hearing none, we Okay, go to the board. Okay. >> Thank you very much. Anything else to review in policy? >> Nothing here. >> Anybody from the board policy? If not, I'll go ahead and close policy and turn it over to Miss France for technology. >> Okay, I will open the technology meeting and turn it over to Mr. Hill. >> Hello. Good evening everybody. >> Dr. Lee, do you want this or Mr. Hill? >> Yes, please. Thank you. >> Okay. Uh what I'm going to go over today is first the uh just a quick uh

059overview of our summer technology update. Um our staff is doing a good job. We're on schedule uh for this time of the year where we should be uh to have everything ready to go. So I just have some highlights on here. Uh some of the things that we did uh some of the important things that we did this summer. Uh first one was the uh phone system CPU update. Uh if you recall a few board meetings ago, a few committee meetings ago, uh we talked about updating our uh phone system CPU. Uh so that was completed uh early in the summer. Uh what that does is that buys us um another approximately four years uh of service cuz our phone service, our phone system is getting to the end of life. So by updating that

060CPU that bought us another approximately 4 to 5 years uh onto our phone system. So uh it'll now be good until about 20 29 2030 school years when we'll be looking to uh possibly replace that. Uh so that was done. Uh the other big project that we did this summer was uh we rolled out our endpoint protection uh that we purchased at the end of last year. Uh so we rolled that out to all of our devices and uh we also attended a few uh training sessions. our IT staff was involved in a few training sessions for that and uh that went really well. Uh another big thing that we're doing this summer is uh Windows 11 updates uh on all of our Windows devices uh staff and we do have some student Windows devices

061yet too at the high school. We have some mobile labs. Uh so we're updating all those devices to Windows 11. Uh the majority of those are complete. There's still some stragglers out there that we have to get, but we've been doing that. And uh um so so that that's nearly complete. Uh in addition to that, we're also doing server updates. Uh so we're updating the operating system, all of our servers. Uh really Mr. Haw is the man behind that. He's been doing a great job of keeping things running and uh trying to do that at times where uh we don't impact uh the daily uh routine of everybody. So he's been doing a great job of that. And again, we're probably about 80% complete on most of our servers. There's a few we still have

062to do. Uh in addition, uh new Chromebooks. Uh we did receive our new Chromebook order uh for two grade levels. Uh so part of that process is when the Chromebooks come in, we have to unbox them, you know, we asset tag them, then we inventory them. Uh and then of course we have to turn them all on and get them enrolled in our domain and get them ready uh for the uh school year. Uh so those are all done, ready to go. In fact, um those those those are ready to go and we're already assigning those out to students. And that's my next point here. uh the Chromebooks in addition to the new Chromebooks. Uh we're to the point now where we are what we do is when we get all the Chromebooks back, we

063check them in, we go through them, uh update them, and then what we do is uh this point of the summer, we start checking them out again uh to the students. Uh so so it's recorded in the system who has them, and then we start uh moving them to the home room. So that's the point where we're at now. Uh so that's really we've been uh busy. We're always uh technology is always busy uh all year long. So summer it's really crazy. So uh that's where we're at. Does anybody have any questions uh about our summer, how it's going? >> I would just like to take a minute to compliment Mr. Hill and his entire technology department, which is truly only three other people beside himself. You don't even see the work that they're doing.

064It just happens. And that's pretty remarkable because everything's up, everything's running. If there is any downtime, it's minimal and often times it's done outside of the traditional work hours. Um so again, I just want to compliment you and your team on everything that you've done. um this summer already. >> Thank you. Thank you. It helps to have a great staff. They do a they do a great job. We have a really really good IT staff here. Um so the next thing I have on here is Google Workspace for Education Plus. Um as you may know, we use primarily Google for our account creation, uh for our email system, uh also for all of our Chromebooks. Um again, all of our students, we have one to one devices from kindergarten all the way through 12th grade.

065Uh they all have a Chromebook assigned to them. That's all managed through uh Google Workspace for Education. Um we currently have Google Workspace for Education. It's called Fundamentals. Essentially, that's a free version. That's what we've always had here. And it's really it it serves our purpose, okay, for what we have. But they do have other versions uh that you can pay for. And one of the things we've been looking at over the last few years is uh they have a version called Education Plus, which is their uh high-end version. Um, so what I have here is I have a quote. Uh, it's a three-year quote and this was provided by IU13 because IU13 just this past summer announced that they now have they they uh they have an agreement with Google where they have consortium

066pricing. Okay. Before it used to be um about $5 a license and it was we looked at it but it was a little I thought it was a little out of our price range. So now with the IU13 consortium pricing, um I had him give us a quote and I believe that this is now very reasonable for us to purchase. So the quote is for a three-year agreement and it would cost about $6,187.50 per year. Okay, for a three-year agreement. Now what the Workspace for Education Plus gives us, uh the main reason our department's interested in it, it gives us a lot of advanced security features um for like email security. Uh they have something called a security center uh where you can analyze uh you can look at like um attachments that are coming

067in the email and they have something called a sandbox. You can put them in there and you can isolate them and look at them. Uh they have investigation tools where if we get fishing attacks, things like that, we can actually go in look at the emails that are doing it. We can even pull some emails back from staff like if we know they got a fishing email, we can actually pull it back right from the admin council. We like that's things that we can't do now. So there's a lot of there's a lot of advanced things in there. there's audit capabilities. Um and then there's things uh our staff primarily our educational staff, our teachers um primarily use d use uh Google for their data storage. Uh so what this does too is this also

068provides us a lot of tools for data protection. Okay. So that that's really one of our primary uh uh things that that we're interested in getting the paid version uh the uh education plus. Uh but then there's some other things that are really uh good for us too. Uh with the paid version too, we would also have advanced device management capabilities. Again, right now we have the free version which again it it's fine. It works for what we do. Uh but this provides a lot more granular uh things that we can do with device management. Uh it also provides um the the paid version would provide a premium Google Meet. During the pandemic, we received that for free. Uh after pandemic, they took that back. So, we only have the free version now. So, if

069we're doing a Google meet, you're limited to one hour. You're limited to only so many participants. Um, plus the premium gives you all the things like the breakout rooms. It gives you like attendance things. So, you can do a lot more with it. Um, so it gives you that as well. Another thing it does, it gives you increased storage. Um, not that we need it right now, but it's nice to have. It would give you an additional 20 gigabytes per licensed user. Um, and it would also give us access to priority support. right now. If you ever try to contact Google, it's through email and you never know if they're going to get back to you. This would actually give us a line where you can call somebody and talk to somebody, which we don't

070have right now. Um, so it gives you a pri uh priority support. So these are some of the things that um that the uh Google Workspace for Education Plus would give us. And uh again, the cost would be $6,187.50 per year. And that's a threeyear that would be a three-year uh license agreement. and that would be paid for from my technology budget uh through the existing budget. I don't need any uh increase to this. I have enough money in my budget to cover this. So, uh what I'm asking for the board is um if we could move this forward uh to the board agenda, but first I'll open it up to any questions. >> No, I think it's good. >> Okay. So, can I move that forward then to the uh board agenda next week?

071>> Yes. >> Okay. Thank you. And that's all I have for this evening. >> Does anyone have any questions or concerns? >> And I will close the technology meeting >> and I shall open up the uh building and grounds and I'm going to turn it over to Mr. Mayor. >> Thank you, Mr. Uh evening everyone. Hope you had a wonderful summer. Um the first one you can forget about. Uh unfortunately after the um the talks with the dealership um somewhere along the line they sold it. Um so we'll have to go back to bidding uh for a new truck for yeah um for the the maintenance department. So that we'll wind up with the second one going with the flooring update. Um so the abatement is completed. >> Mr. Ma'am. >> Yes. >> Sorry. And

072a question for that one. >> Sure. Is it helpful if the board would agree to something so that we don't this it seems like when we get to these points and you wait I hate to see us wait again and then it goes away and waits again and goes away. Is there anything that we could do to assist with that or is this just the process we have to deal with? >> This was the process with this dealership because back in June we were already approved for the the cost up to a $55,000 for the total cost of the truck, the plow and any branding we put on it. >> Okay. Um there was just a big communication loss between the dealership and myself. Um when asked for certain uh documents, they couldn't or didn't

073supply them in the time frame that I needed. Um and then when it came time for it was actually over the weekend. Um the individual that I was working from with from the fleet wasn't there and they ended up selling it. Um, really no fault of myself or the the fleet uh salesman >> support of us to go to go do that moving forward that >> I hate to see you do all the work, try to get all this stuff and then wait on us and >> Yep. No. Um, so that's that's where I think we've come to the point now where we'll do the whole 3 weeks. We'll go out for bid. Um, hopefully we'll get multiple dealerships. Um, and we'll find something that is get back in our price range. >> Fantastic. So,

074this was a Co-Star dealer. Okay. >> Um, and we learned through the multi-year process of trying to purchase two vans to ask the board to give us prior approval, which you did. Unfortunately, this dealership was um less than communicative. >> So, >> yeah, you had our permission to go to 55,000. So, it wasn't that >> I thought we did, but that I just wanted to make sure that we were all covered that I don't want to see you guys >> we did get something that Yes. >> Thank you. >> Hopefully there'll be more options for you, too. >> Well, and that's the whole idea of going out for bid. Hopefully, we'll find um >> you know, a good price and somewhere local close by. >> Okay. >> Um so, this next thing on my agenda

075is the flooring project at the high school. Um this has been long awaited. Um the abatement was finished in towards about the beginning of July. Um they started laying epoxy mid July. the first week in July to the second week. Um here's some of the the classroom pictures of the finished product. Um today they actually laid the coloring in the hallways. They're supposed to be looking at being finished Wednesday um and cleaning up Thursday into Monday of next week. Um so again that's the the second floor classrooms that were a part of the the grant uh the state grant that we um received. >> Are you pleased with it? >> Absolutely. Dr. Link and I both went up and looked at it uh relatively the same time. Um we're both pleased with the classrooms. I

076have not been up since the hallway was finished. Um like I said, they just put that down today. I'll have to wait till Wednesday um to get up on that. But if it's anything like the classrooms, absolutely we'll be we'll be quite happy with it. >> I think aesthetically it looks so much better than the old flooring and as far as manh hours for maintenance on it moving forward. It has knocked that down to basically wet mopping. Um it's a pretty remarkable product. >> So the color of the flooring is going to be different in the halls than in the classrooms. >> Yes. >> Okay. So this is like a gray kind of white. It's real hard um to pick up the colors. There's there's grays, there's light blues, there's white actually in that flooring.

077It's real hard to get the the right lighting to get there. Um I think one of them >> Yeah. Um once it's finished, I'm sure we'll have >> um the board around to see it. >> Is it is the hallways like a solid color then? >> Uh it's a little lighter. >> Oh, it is lighter. Yep. >> Looks looks great. So >> does look good. Yeah. And like I said, uh the pictures really don't give it any justice. To see it in person, >> um is a big big big difference. >> I think your maintenance guys will be very happy. >> Absolutely. The custodians uh will be absolutely Yes. Um like Dr. Link said, the maintenance um when talking to the salesman and the people that's literally walking around with a wet mop. Um and

078they used, if anyone remembers, Simple Green. M >> they walk around with a bottle of Simple Green. The heavy sticky areas where someone might have spilled soda or something, you hit it with a Simple Green and you wet mop it and you're done. >> Um there's no stripping. There's no waxing. >> Oh my god, that's awesome. That's great. >> That saves a lot of time. >> Absolutely. A lot of time and money for wax and stripping. Absolutely. >> So we're we're quite excited. >> Particularly time. When we do our fall walkth through, one of the um talking points will be the continuation of this product even after the grant funds are expended as part of the multi-year plan to actually complete the first floor and a basement level in the um in the high school.

079naive question. Is there a possibility of another grant in the future or uh >> I'm always looking. Um once this one expires in 2027, um all we can do is continue looking. >> We did a heck of a job on this one. Congratulations. Yeah, that was >> big bucks you got there. So >> I think continuation of that. I'm just curious. I don't see it on here and sorry if I'm jumping ahead, but for the summer work crew, I know we talked about painting. >> Can you go through what painting occurred at our buildings? Because I I see some of these pictures and I would have >> liked to see some of the walls painted with those nice, beautiful floors. >> Well, um so if you if you want, um I can skip down to

080the summer work crew. Um if Dr. Link wants to click on some of the pictures, I guess. Um, so our summer work crew did an outstanding job this year. Um, the pictures that we have don't really show everything that they did. Um, they painted all of the hallways out at Peters Elementary from the gym side um, all the way down to the IU, both wings. Um, they painted uh, the guidance counselor's office. Um, another room for the guidance counselor. Um the picture with the different colors is a B is a billboard actually up here at S Sington Elementary that they did for Slington. Um they painted the front of the stage. Um they didn't do much at the high school. Um only because we did a lot of the painting there last summer. Um but

081absolutely with the new flooring, the classrooms have to get done. >> Yeah. Yeah. And it will be on on the the list. Um, and again, I thank the board uh immensely for the eight kids that we had. Um, the amount of work that these boys did this summer is is is mindboggling. Um, between the painting, the mulching, um, they moved furniture. Um, they'll be moving furniture come Wednesday to help move everyone back in on the third floor. Um, endless endless uh, jobs that they've done for us. Sounds good. >> And I hope next year we can we can we'll have as many kids uh applica applicants as many applicants as we did this year. Um >> you want to talk about the returning kids mentoring? >> Sure. Um so we do have we'll have three

082juniors and a sophomore um that were this year. We had four seniors return this year. So hopefully we'll have those three juniors and that one sophomore coming next year. Um, I think the the big reason that they did the work that they did was they had those four seniors, the underassmen to look up to. Um, those four seniors, um, the foreman pretty much picked two and two seniors, two underassmen, and said, "Go do this work." And they took the other four and went and did another job and he bounced in between. Um, where before it was five kids and he stuck with them. Um, so you're kind of limited to your work. Um, I'm hoping next summer we'll we'll have those kids return and we can do the same thing. Have another the four returning

083kids, four new kids, and we can have that endless cycle of um younger kids moving up. Um, which I think made a big difference. You you will notice on the upcoming um August 11th board agenda, one of those young men did so well over the last few years in this program. Um we are placing him on the agenda to be hired as a permanent part of the maintenance department. Um >> Oh, cool. >> Yeah. and it's a direct um correlation to his experience here and his time here and understanding the district and what we want to do um for our facilities. So, we're we're excited about that kind of um classroom to um job site pathway. >> Fantastic. >> That's fantastic. >> That's awesome. >> Um so then we'll we'll bounce back up. Um so

084again at the June meeting we had talked about water softeners. um for the the various buildings. Um we have two quotes. Um we actually called in Mccclure uh to get us a quote and the reason is Mccclure is a co-stars contractor. Um so they'll get us a co-stars price. So once I get those prices again, we'll reach out to the board to let you know. Um I think we were approved for 20,000 per um building for water softeners. Um, so if we're in that range, um, we'll let you know and and when construction can start. The second one is, uh, or actually that's my third. Um, the auditorium rigging system was installed over the summer. Um, so that's up and running. There are some minor, um, fixes that will have to be made. Um, but

085they'll do those on downtime. Um, only because of the limited time frame that they had before they had to go to another job. Are you happy with what they did? >> Um once they do the minor fixes, yes. >> Yes, we will be quite happy. Um but besides that, um the system is a real nice system. Yes. >> Y um last is softball and baseball fields. Actually, second last. Um, at this point, Lehigh County, the the um the district did not release the permits. Um, the water basin still has the lack of vegetation where needed um in order for them to close out that permit. Um, the last I talked actually was this morning to Tyler. um they're looking at possibly still asking the planning commission to come out and do a test or to

086to look at it and do their survey to see if they'll close the permits. Um but at the end of the conversation, he wasn't 100% convinced that was the best way to go. Um so hopefully within the next day or two, I'll find out exactly which direction they're going. um if they're going to come out and recede and then wait for that to grow to bring it the the planning commission back out or if they're going to come out um and try and get it approved. >> So that's on the the basin side. >> Yes. >> What about the actual fields and the >> the outfields of the of the fields when I saw I think that's us watering them now. I'm not sure. >> Yep. So, thank you for doing that because they didn't

087look great. >> Um, so at one point >> the main field though, my question too is the dirt on the main field >> that had more weeds on it than I was expecting it to have >> and that takes time then to repair to maintain that field was I have to ask the question in this way. Was that the right stuff used on the field? So, yes. Um, so >> hold on. Yes, absolutely it will. >> Okay, thank you. >> Yeah, so it's what they call summer grass. Um, it grows every year. Um, usually what happens is, um, we'll let it go for a week or two. The summer grass grows, we'll we'll go in and rough it up. Um, we'll let it go for a week or two because it's not being played on.

088Sure. >> Um, and it's not our our primary concern at that time. >> Um, we did it at softball. I don't know if you if you watch closely, we had some weeds on it. They went in, roughed it up, the weeds were dead within a couple days. Um, that's what we do throughout the summer. Even before these new fields, it was the same thing we did. Um, if you let them go completely, it will die. The summer grass will die over the winter and come spring, we come in, we rotoill it like we do every spring, they disappear, and the fields are ready to be played on. So, I mean, it's something that it's an endless cycle. >> Sure. >> Yeah. >> Was there any more discussion about access to the fields for the teams

089early? >> We will not allow access until the fields are released by the Lehigh Valley Planning Commission because we don't want the contractors to say they're yours now. Even if we're not happy with them, >> we want to make sure that they we receive the release permits from the planning commission >> and then we can discuss that's an option. Yes. >> Okay. Thank you. >> That's that's primarily what we're waiting on is that release of the fields from the county. >> So they're the ones who >> Thank you. >> I'm sorry. One last question just for our our fall programs coming up for the soccer and the baseball. I know they weren't necessarily part of the softball baseball fields, but there's still some practice that goes on in that area. >> Will those teams be

090able to be practicing on those areas come next week or so? >> So, soccer right now is still um I think still has some mesh in it that they use to cover the grass. Um so, with that mesh being there, it can be a tripping hazard. um once that m mesh deteriorates we may um but again I don't foresee that happening within the next week or two um as far as football being that football still a part of the complex itself um I don't foresee it opening I mean we can't we can't very well give football their their practice field but yet >> soccer can't or you know baseball can't play fall ball or softball can't play football ball I I still um I I'm looking at Maryanne and she kind of agrees with me

091too. It it it's the it's one whole complex. I can't give one and not the other. >> I just didn't know if they were touched separately when that was coming up and then so I'm fine with that not being touched by anybody. >> Do we have the space and availability for those teams to practice come next week >> with with that? There's there's schedules and you got all that covered. >> Perfect. That's what I like to hear. It'll be uh right outside the middle school, the fence field and then alongside um the middle school as well. It's going to be double lined so it can be dual purpose for field hockey and soccer. >> Okay. >> So, and football will still be weren't they practicing back here or something? >> By the line, >> right?

092>> Okay. Thank you. >> Now, again, hopefully within a short time frame, you know, we can get a resolution to this. >> Sounds good. I think it's important that we get that information out because there's a lot of bad information going around in in the community about, you know, what's happening, etc. And uh >> clearly when it comes down to it, we don't even own these darn fields yet, you know, but yet we're getting all the >> right and we're we're still trying to maintain them the best we can. Yeah. So, >> and last um so for the 2526 school year, I need to make my first purchase of my janitorial supplies. Um, so this would be about a third of what I'll need for the school year. Um, so with any questions and the

093board's approval, I'd like to move that to Monday for approval. Again, this is the first phase. This is mostly my janitorial supplies. Um, I'll have then a paper uh more or less my tissues, toilet paper that'll be closer to December. And then my paper towels will probably be in 26, 2026. >> That's covered by your >> That is all. Yes, it is in my budget. Um, that's planned on every year. Yep. >> So, any questions? Do I have the board's approval? >> Yes. >> Thank you. And that's all I have. >> Mr. May, before you close on the agenda, at the end of the school year last year, uh, myself and two of our students, we presented about a parking spot, a painting project, and I know that there were some questions that came up

094from the board. And speaking of Mr. man. He had said that uh in an update he answered the questions for you, but I just want to make sure that we're good because if so, I'm going to start getting the information out to our seniors and uh planning that and making sure that they can get their material and we can move forward. So, just want to make sure we're good with that. All the questions that you guys had were answered. >> Okay, great. Appreciate it. Thank you. >> Any other questions for the board or anyone else? Seeing none, I will close this meeting and move on to Mrs. Culp and the finance >> and I will in turn ask Nikki to start us off. >> Thank you, Mrs. Co. Good evening. Um, I just have a

095couple updates from food service starting with um we are still we are still qualifying for C, which is great news for our district um to offer free breakfast and lunch. again. Um this is actually our going on our fourth year with C, but it's um our second year in our four-year cycle because the first couple years I kept reapplying for it to extend that four-year cycle out. So, this is year two of our current cycle um within that four-year cycle. And I did notify families and students and staff of this last week on the 29th um of July. So they are aware of that. We also um do a beginning of the year letter where we provide that information that gets sent home as well and also posted on our website. And then um I

096also have listed here we have to update our pricing. So I know it's a little confusing. Everybody gets their free breakfast and lunch, one of each per me per student per day. Um some students who opt to buy a second meal at breakfast or lunch, we um do offer that. So you given that food cost is increasing all the time every 3 six months or so. Uh we do increase slightly our meal prices each year. And these are the meal prices that um are updated in our handbook, also updated in our beginning of the year packets and posted on our website, excuse me, for parents and students and staff to um refer to each year. So they're all listed there. And um we have partnered with IHAB I need. This would be our second or

097third year with them. uh second year >> um which is a company that basically takes any of any food that would otherwise be wasted and um reallocate those to local food banks shelters, food pantries, things like that. And at the end of each year, um, the CEO of the company sends me a, you know, how how many pounds of product were donated from Northern Lehi, which was, uh, 38, yeah, 3,834 pounds of goods. So that could include, you know, milk, um, juice, cuped fruit, things like that. Um, we try to, you know, limit our waste as much as possible by utilizing what we call shared tables during breakfast and lunch services. So, if a student opts to not drink their juice or their milk or, you know, open their bag of apple slices, whatever it

098would be, they put it on our share table rather than throwing it in the trash. Um, with the program that we're running, we can't reutilize that and like recycle it and offer it the next day. um cuz we claim our meal counts and get reimbursed for that. So that would kind of be like double dipping. So um we try to, you know, share the product with nurses to have on hand for snacks for the kids, you know, for any diabetic students that need a snack throughout the day or something like that. Um and uh we actually set the share table items out at each meal to you know up for grabs for any other student who's extra hungry that day and wants to take off the share table. But after those are all you know

099exerted then that's when um the company I have I need comes around weekly to all the schools to pick up those products and redistribute them to the community. Um, >> if I can just add to that, I I have I Need is actually a nonprofit. They >> they make zero money off of this. They are truly looking to just redistribute the food to people who are in need and so it doesn't go to waste. Um, and this is another one of those examples through uh Nikki's leadership here, through Mrs. Sphinx leadership, that um we were the first school district in Lehigh County, actually in the Lehigh Valley, to make a connection with them. and now that has expanded out to a handful of other districts throughout the area um you know so compliments to Mrs.

100Fank on um really getting this up and running with the nonprofit um because it it they're really doing good work and a lot of the food goes right to Northern Lehigh Food Pantry. >> That's terrific. >> You're giving everybody here first dibs and like you said the nurses I'm sure can yeah use what you have and then the students but yeah community that's terrific. Thank you. And then just my last bullet here is just some upcoming caterings that we have on the books that I can't believe are here already. Feels like the summer just flew on by. Um but our new teacher orientation Monday, August 11th. Our welcome back breakfast for all of our staff is coming up on Tuesday, August 19th. And then we also are hosting again, I believe it's our second year,

101right, with CLIU teacher induction August 12th, 13th, and 14th. So, we're looking forward to that. And that's all I have for tonight. >> Thank you. It sounds like things are going well. >> Yes. >> Yep. Everything's going good. Glad to hear it. >> Thank you. >> Who's going to come here? Is there a way suppos supposeding a local person would like to get some of this food, do they know how to go about making that connection or or what have you? Uh >> uh we don't have a >> Yeah, we don't have anything like posted on our website per se. I believe um the company or the nonprofit reached out to Dr. Link initially and then we all had a meeting and came up with a plan from there. So for an individual user, I'm

102sorry, an individual um requesttor, they would not come to the district. They would go to one of the community based like the food bank or the food pantry um for that for that direct support. If we would receive a call here, >> we would, you know, direct them to those local uh support agencies. This nonprofit actually has a team of strictly volunteers that goes out to like >> Mrs. Fink and her team will have everything out by the loading dock. They will come pick it up at the loading dock and make sure it doesn't sit there for long at all so there's no spoilage and then they drive it immediately to the recipient agency. Um so it's like a welloiled machine um for the logistics. Uh so yeah. >> Yeah. We actually don't have him

103come to all four schools. So, um, Alex actually does a weekly sweep. It's always on a Thursday because sometimes we have Fridays off. So, Thursday just was a good day to select. And, um, Alex will every Thursday, that's part of his routine, bring everything over to Peters because that's the best location for them to pick up from. So, um, they just do one stop at Peters with everything from all four schools and take it where it needs to go. So, and then, you know, if somebody reaches out, we typically have the backpack buddies program that we would start them on to rather than, you know, just come and give like bulk food to somebody, you know, we would refer, like Dr. Link said to the other local agencies. But, >> thank you. So, >> okay.

104Thank you, Mrs. Fank. Um, Mrs. Molotores asked that I share the following information this evening. The auxiliary salary schedule um will be on uh upcoming for your your consideration. We are not recommending any changes. If anybody would like to see a copy of the auxiliary salary schedule, I have it here. Uh but there are no changes recommended for the 25 26 school year. So this is like the fees that we pay to um like the school district physician, the school district doctor, the dentist, the dental hygienist, um game employees, the announcers, um those type of positions throughout the district uh which are not not part of like schedule E uh within the contract. It's the auxiliary payments. So if anybody's interested, I can share this with you, but we are not recommending any changes for

105the 2526 school year. um as we go into the 2627 school year budget planning which will be in the spring um you know we'll bring this forward to see do we want to make any changes okay no takers okay um while they're here if you would like one um next Mrs. Molus asked that I share if if you recall uh the school board has previously approved administration um to secure district insurance. Uh and we have done that with the following motion will appear on the agenda for approval this upcoming um Monday evening. So we're looking to appoint um MEK which is Maine Employees Mutual Insurance Company as a district workers compensation. This is a change for us, but we believe that this will actually benefit the school district and our employees. Um, award insurance coverage

106for the 2526 school year to the following companies. I'm not going to read through all of these here. Um, but these will all be um on the Monday night agenda for final approval. And Mrs. Molus um, you know, strongly urges along with myself and the rest of administration that the school board supports these recommendations for our insurance needs. I'm I'm looking at that first one uh and and it's like an estimated premium of 57,000, a decrease of 60,000. It's actually dropped in half. Is that correct? >> Uh compared to the previous provider, >> the previous provider, they're they're half of what the other >> Yeah. So, this would be a um new to Northern Lehi but gaining ground in Pennsylvania. >> Okay. So, so she she went out and was looking at different >> Yep.

107She went out and solicited proposals uh from different providers. >> I I remember she was talking about it. I'm just amazed that we got it for like half price. >> Yeah, I'm shocked. >> Sure is. >> Is there a consortium involved here or not? >> Not for not for these individual ones like this. Not like our actual healthcare provider which we do through >> Yes, I know that. >> Okay. >> This one we don't have the same. >> Correct. So she did all this. >> She she goes out and um you know engages with all these providers. >> Impressive. Thank you. >> Yeah, >> that's great. >> And then the last update is kind of a a null update because there's been no movement at the state level with the state budget. Unfortunately, um it

108is um aggravating uh that we do not yet know what our state uh resources are going to be. Um I know I appreciate everybody's support that did contact our legislators uh asking for them to um you know not only move forward with the state budget but to also take a serious look at the cyber school uh charter cyber school funding mechanisms. Um I know a number of you have reached out to our state uh in particular our state senators uh because it's now at the senate's uh chamber uh for consideration and um we are hopeful that they um move on that this year. Uh I will be attending another state legislative function um this Thursday with a number of Lehigh County uh superintendent and the IU director at Skookul County Intermediate Unit. We're taking the

109message up there now because the chairperson of the uh state senate uh education committee will be there. Uh so we're going there to engage with her again and encourage them to not only pass a um responsible budget, an education friendly bud budget, but to also take action on reforming uh cyber school uh funding. >> You think we have a chance? >> I think on the cyber school part in particular, Mrs. I think there's a better chance than there has ever been. Um and there was significant momentum. Um unfortunately that seemed to Wayne a little bit when they decided to um go on recess. Uh but we as a group of you know educational leaders around the county and the state are not on recess and we are continuing to uh advocate that this happens this

110year. >> Thank you. Um, that's all I have on behalf of Mrs. Molator as far as updates for the finance committee. >> Does anybody have anything else they'd like to discuss? >> Hearing none, I will close the committee and then turn this over to uh Natalie for the extra and co-curricular committee. >> Okay. And we will now open the extra and co-curricular committee meeting. And we are turning it over to Dr. Link. >> Uh, yes. Thank you. Um, and if I understood in the conversation at the very beginning of opening the committee meetings tonight, uh, Mr. Van Norman, congratulations. You are now the co-chair of the, uh, extern co-curricular committee, which we typically refer to as the ECC committee. >> Okay. Thank you, sir. >> I thought Bob had a different committee, but it's this

111one. So, yeah, congratulations. Um, so tonight I'm going to turn it over uh to begin uh with the first um kind of major bullet here and then the sub bullets to Dr. Rush Wallace uh for athletics and extracurricular summer update. >> Thank you. Good evening everyone. I'll go ahead and apologize. Um my update isn't as robust and in detail as my colleagues, but moving forward I will rectify that. Um so the first thing and in conjunction with Mrs. Dada and Dr. Bali will actually meet next week. We are looking to add unified sports through the Special Olympics. Um the first sport would be botchi and that provides um an opportunity for both students with and without intellectual disabilities to compete on a team together. Initially, it wouldn't they would provide the funding. They would provide

112the botchi set for us. It would just be a matter of funding um a stipen position for an adviser for it. So, again, it's in the very preliminary stages of that. I just wanted to put it out there on a radar um on everyone's radar and kind of give a a heads up with that. Um at the end of this past school year, I was approached about having a volleyball murals at the high school. uh there was a a large uh popularity for it at the middle school and now that those students are transitioning to the high school um they're asking for it there. We had an open intram murals position so that worked well. That will be provided in the spring and she will be on Monday night's board agenda for approval. And then

113for wrestling um we've had about 10 girls coming over the summer. So, I think that shows that there's really good interest for it uh as they're starting their first season. However, uh we will need to purchase possibly one or two new mats. Not only do our teams use it, but NLA also uses it. Uh so, the practice mats are getting used every day, multiple times. Um, so >> so in particular with the mats, um, we have three mats that they use in the wrestling room. And normally we would recommend that we replace those on a rotation. One of them is in excellent shape, one of them is in good shape. One of them has holes in it. Um, so we would like to replace that one, but we would also like to see if this

114committee supports us replacing two of them at the same time this year. Funding is within the athletic budget. Um, so we could actually replace the one that's in, you know, um, needs significant repair. We don't even know if the holes can be repaired. The other one that's um, in in good shape, but not great shape. And then go to a rotation of singles. And then the one that's kind of like um okay right now we would keep as like a backup if we need it. Uh the the reason why we're requesting that this committee support buying two of them this year is because we're actually going to have they're going to have increased usage now that we have two varsity wrestling teams. Um the NLYA like Dr. Rush Wallace mentioned does use them, but they

115actually purchased and gave to the district the mats that hang on the wall around the wrestling room to just make sure that there's no injuries um with students uh because it's a little bit tighter quarters in there. It's not a full-size gym. So, they actually purchased those and let the district use them. So, we're looking to kind of cooperate and we would say, you know, if the board so chooses, we would get two mats this year. This funding would come through the athletics budget. um uh through a combination of um the traditional budget, but then we also have the budget for, you know, specific to things like repairs. Uh typically, we have about $30,000 set aside in that budget in case there's any significant repairs in the wait room. Um and uh we're not anticipating

116any. However, we're not going to make the final recommendation until this until the wait room's inspected by Advantage, I believe the company is called. Um that usually happens um early in the fall semester. >> Is there enough room for the extra mat in there? >> So what what we would do is we would probably find a place to store it and then bring it out if we need it. Um but we we can get pretty creative with storing stuff in the back side of the of the high school. >> Okay. But there's enough room for folks to use them. >> Oh yes. >> In the home. >> Yeah. >> Do you have an estimated cost of what that is? >> I'll look to do Dr. Rushwallis because I forget. >> So the one was 5,700.

117So you can anticipate 114 roughly. >> Thought you were going to say like >> I know >> 20,000 >> too. >> 20,000. >> Well, so keep in mind these are not the full size roll out mats that they use during competition. >> Okay. They're the they're for the practice. >> Correct. >> Can't we just give the old mat to the girls and let them >> Matt? I'm going to hit you. >> Just kidding. >> Okay. I was only kidding. >> The title N coordinator says no. >> I'm done. That's it. Okay. Uh that that botchi my my grandson participates in that at his school and and it's a wonderful thing to see those kids getting together. They've now expanded it to where they go bowling like once a month and they love it. So that's

118a great sport. >> It's awesome because there are multiple aspects to it. It's not just the botchi. There's a club part of it as well that they also have. um they do c like a service learning within the school district as well. So there's there's three components to it. Um and feel free to chime in because I know I'm probably overlooking some of the >> there's there's three to it to to really have the culture of inclusivity. Um part of it is uh two times a month they would do like a club um an inclusive club that we call it. Um, and then there's also whole school activities that need to be done just to keep that whole idea going to have everybody included and and things like that. I think lunch and learn will

119be a perfect spot to be able to do some of those things. So, I mean, moneywise, it was that they're going to pay for the coach. Um, we actually have a coach that's on board like so everybody's really we just want to get everything tightened up before we kind of present. >> Sounds great. So, if it's okay, by the way, um there is anou that we would like to uh ask the board if we can put on the agenda to get the ball rolling, so to speak. >> Sorry. [Laughter] >> Don't get it. >> Does everyone good with that? Does anyone have any concerns? We move that to four. >> I I do have a question about the the volleyball. So the volleyball, it's the girls volleyball that that we're looking at. >> It's just

120intramurals. >> Intramurals. Okay. When I toured during lunch and learn, um there were quite a few students who girls who came up to uh Dr. Bali and mentioned volleyball. So if there's a good participation, is there perhaps a plan in the future to consider it for a team? >> I think that's definitely a discussion that we can have. Um, it'll be really creative with gym space, but >> yeah, I think it's I think I think if the need is if the want is there, I think it's definitely warrants a conversation and >> getting creative with the schedules. >> I didn't even know if there were other teams in in all are there a lot of teams in the valley? >> Yes, absolutely. >> Okay, great. Thank you. because like I said, they came up and

121they knew I was a board member and then they wanted to talk about >> the volleyball. So, thank you. I'm glad to hear that. It's it's starting. >> Yes. >> Great. >> Thank you, Matt. >> Will you be coming back to us with the request for the mats or are you looking for an update? >> I was just I was just going to ask if this committee supports um the wrestling mats, two of them to um the August 11th board agenda. >> Agenda. Yes. >> Safety first. >> Yep. As well as like Mrs. Dada and Dr. Rushwall mentioned, we do have a faculty member who's interested in being a coach as well. So, you know, we'll kind of we'll bring all that forward Monday night um for full consideration >> and and they fund it

122for the first three years for the thousand site, which is really nice. They also provide the bot chief set and they provide jerseys. >> So, if we can get it cool. >> Yeah. Yeah, if we can get it going >> and after that, sorry, no, >> even after that three years, they encourage you to fund raise, but if you don't meet that benchmark, they don't just drop you. They they'll pick up the slack and continue it. >> How many students would be able to participate? >> Pairs. How many pairs? >> Well, they ask for a minimum of six. A team is a minimum of six. >> Okay. >> Yeah. I'd like information on the company that's going to support this. I just think it's awesome. I just like to learn more. >> Special Olympics. >>

123Oh, Special Olympics. >> Oh, terrific. >> Thank you. >> And they also have districts and you know, and so they go with I believe the basketball team, right? Um >> to the districts at Hershey if that were to we would be right >> get that far. But it is a truly competitive sport. Yes. It's not Yeah. >> Which is really nice. And they'll also support then funding for those things if we were to get a team and be that competitive with that. >> So that's like what White Hall High School hosted the one time the Special Olympics. So this would be something that would >> this is one of this is a competitive part of the Special Olympics. >> Yeah. They have botchi and then they have track. So Botchi is a in the winter

124and then track would be during the spring. >> Thank you. If anyone has any other questions, concerns or welcome to close concerns. Okay, questions. Um, the high school gymnasium, is there any way we can get the American flag moved to be in the center? Um, it's to the left of the gym and if you're sitting on the home side, these a lot of times you cannot see that flag. I mean I I and I did look there is a you know a a banner in the middle of the gym. If we could just swap it that would be awesome. I just feel like when you go to other gyms mo you know during a game or something the flag is usually in the center of the gym. Ours is like all the way over in

125the corner. I'm just wondering if we could just flip whatever's there till so everybody can see the American flag like before a basketball game or >> when you say center do you mean I don't know that we could hang it from the rafters. Do you still mean on the wall? >> On the wall. Yes. Yes. Yeah. Whatever. I think there's like a big banner there right now. I would just you could just flip them. But I know when I'm at a home game for basketballs and I'm sitting there, I can't see the flag, you know, and it's like you're looking underneath things trying to see that flag or if it was in the center, everybody in the a, you know, could see it. That's if it's possible. If not, >> we can look at that.

126>> Okay. Thank you. >> Any other concerns, questions? >> Then we'll close. Extra co there. >> Any other questions? Any other items this evening? Move to >> Thank you everyone.