001I call the Peterstownship School District reorganization meeting to order. Please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. Down. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. I'm going to do the roll call of the holdover board members. Mrs. Binsay? Here. Mr. Briegel? Here. Mr. Camilletti? Here. Mrs. Schotary? Here. Mr. O'Neill? Present. I'll hold over members present. I now open nominations for temporary president. I'll nominate Mrs. Schotary. Second. Any other nominations? If there are no further nominations, I consider a motion to close the nominations for temporary president and elect Mrs. Schotary. So moved. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Opposed? Congratulations, Mr. Schotary. Between me. Thank you, everyone. I am in possession of the required
002certificate of election for each of the newly re-elected school directors for the Peters Township School District. Please stand when I say your name and summarize your certificate of election. I will call you individually. Please stand where you are and stay standing until I announce everyone. Thomas Adrian. The County Board of Elections hereby certifies that Thomas Adrian was duly elected on November 4, 2025 to a four-year term as school director. Thank you, Tom. Sarah Kennedy. The County Board of Elections hereby certifies that Sarah Kennedy was duly elected on November 4, 2025 to a four-year term as school director. Thank you, Sarah. Michael Lynch. The County Board of Elections hereby certifies that Michael Lynch was duly elected on November 4, 2025 to a four-year term as school director. Thank you. Richard Soder. The County Board of Elections
003hereby certifies that Richard Soder was duly elected on November 4, 2025 to a four-year term as school director. Thank you. And now I'm going to turn over the proceedings to the Honorable Phil Melegrane for the Administration of the Oath of Office. Thank you, Mr. Melegrane. First of all, I got to tell you, it's truly an honor for me to perform this, say, a task, but it's really not a task. It's just a true honor because this school district is the heart and soul of our community and it's people like you that give it such an outstanding reputation, quite frankly. And so let's get on with it. So if everybody could just raise your right, first of all, congratulations to everyone. Absolutely. If everyone could just raise your right hand and please repeat after me. I,
004state your name. I, Dostalmi Swear. I, Dostalmi Swear. I, Dostalmi Swear. That I will support, obey, and defend. I will support, obey, and defend. The Constitution of the United States. The Constitution of the United States. And the Constitution of this Commonwealth. And the Constitution of this Commonwealth. And that I would discharge my duties as charge of my office with fidelity. Congratulations. Congratulations on your term as school directors. Welcome aboard. It'll be great to work with you all. Mr. Rao, can we please have a roll call of the newly sworn and reorganized board? Please. Mr. Adrian. Please. Here. Mrs. Binsay. Here. Mr. Briegel. Still here. Thank you. Mr. Camilletti. Here. Mrs. Chaudhuri. Here. Mrs. Kennedy. Here. Mr. Lynch. Here. Mr. O'Neill. Here. Mr. Soder. Here. All members present. I, state your name. I, Dostalmi Swear. I,
005Dostalmi Swear. I, Dostalmi Swear. I, Dostalmi Swear. I, Dostalmi Swear. Okay. Next on the agenda are nominations for the president and the election of that president for one-year term ending December 2026. So I'd like to open nominations now, and again, it's for one-year term, so feel free to nominate someone now. Mrs. Chaudhuri, I'd like to nominate Alex O'Neill for board president. Three. Are there any other nominations? Okay, seeing that, the nominations are now closed. All those in favor to elect Alex O'Neill, please say yay. Yay. Yay. Yay. Yay. All those opposed. So. Thank you all. This is an honor. Thank you. Thanks. Thank you. Congratulations, Alex. Thank you. Do I move? Move here. Okay. So now the proceedings are turned over to board president Alex O'Neill. Pack up all my stuff. What's that saying? I
006lose my head. So nominations for vice president and election for one-year term ending December 2026. The nominations for the board vice president for a one-year term ending December 2026 are open. If anyone would like to make a nomination. Mr. O'Neill, I'd like to nominate Kathleen Chaudhuri. Do we second or? Okay. All right. Okay. Are there any other nominations? All right. Then I'd like to request a motion to nominate Ms. Chaudhuri for vice president for a one-year term ending December 2026 and elect Ms. Chaudhuri as vice president. So moved. Second. All in favor. Aye. Aye. Thank you everyone for your confidence and thank you, Alex, for doing a great job. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Ms. Chaudhuri. Congratulations. All right. We'll move on to public comment on agenda or other items. Seeing none,
007we will move on delegates. First for Shazda seeking any nominations, Mr. Briegel, I know you've regularly done this in the past. Are you interested in maintaining? I certainly am. I would be happy to do that. I believe that's any other interest or nothing. Can we have a motion to approve Mr. Briegel as the Shazda representative? So moved. I will second. All in favor. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. All opposed. Mr. Briegel, congratulations. Thank you for our continued serve on Shazda. Can we go back to the yay thing? That was fine. The yay's have it. PSBA representative, the nominations for a board representative PSBA for a one-year term ending on December 2026 are open. Is there anyone interested or anyone would like to nominate someone for this role? who is our long-term committee or representative
008PSBA is, you know, since served out her last term no longer here. Is anyone interested in this position? Aye. Yeah. Ms. Kennedy? I'll pass. Would you? Yes. Okay. All right. Could we have a motion to recommend Ms. Kennedy as the PSBA representative for the term one year term ending December 2026? So moved. Second. All in favor. Aye. All opposed. All right. Congratulations, Ms. Kennedy. Thank you. Fixing of the time and place for regular meetings. Consider a motion to fix the time and place of regular meetings of the board of school directors of Peters Township School District. I move to schedule the regular board meetings in year 2026 as follows. January 20th, the Tuesday after Martin Luther King Monday, February 17th, Tuesday after President's Day on Monday, March 16th, April 20th, May 18th, June 22nd, August
00917th, September 21st, October 19th, and November 16th with the reorganization meeting scheduled for December 7th, 2026. All regular meetings will begin at 7 o'clock. The reorganization meeting will begin at 6.30 at the Peters Township School District Administration Office. Can I have a motion to approve the... Moved. Second. All in favor. Yay. Yay. I assume unless otherwise noted those were all Mondays. Correct. The only two Tuesdays were January and February. Thank you. You're welcome. And Dr. French, will you be forwarding us all those dates in email? Yes, certainly. All opposed. All right. Motion passes. Committees, as has been the recent norm. We'll have committee chair and vice chair assignments sent out prior to the next school board meeting. In the interim, I'd ask anyone who's interested in various committees, please reach out to me. Let me
010know. And, you know, they all won your assignments, so... And we're a committee of the whole, so we're still all actively involved in each of the committees. This is only just the chair and vice chair selection. But, you know, let me know if there's interest in the various committees. Finally, public comment on agenda items only. Okay. Can I have a motion for adjournment, please? So moved. Second. All in favor. All right. Yay. Yay. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.