001Call the meeting to order. Committee meeting first. Please rise for the pledge. I pledge allegiance 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. We have a roll call, please? Mrs. Bean? Here. Dr. Bulmer? Here. Mrs. Bush? Here. Mrs. Cookerly? Mrs. Reinstein? Here. Mr. Vankus? Here. Mrs. Vesnesky? And Mr. Wood? Here. Uh make formal announcement that we had an executive session for personnel prior to the committee meeting. Uh Do you have a motion to approve the voting meeting minutes? All right, back to executive session. We're going to need to announce that it was at 5:30 p.m. And it was for personnel. Uh approve the voting meeting and the committee minutes on the agenda. >> [snorts] >>
002We'll go down to reports will be in the regular meeting. Under budget and finance I have a motion to approve the financial report for the month of March 2026 as presented. We have a list of disbursements in March totaling $1,499,888. And the payroll was $1,161,838. I have a motion to approve the 2026 proposed general fund budget for the PO school district in the amount of $39,302. $39,302. There's a memorandum of an agreement for the health insurance transition between the with the PO Education Association. And there's a memorandum of agreement for the health insurance transition with the PO Educational Support and Professional Association. Meridian Health and third-party administrator will be our health insurance as listed. Inspire will be our HSA third-party administrator. Can I get a motion on that? First stop health virtual urgent care and
003virtual short-term mental health care. There'll be a motion to approve that effective July 1st, 2026. For business service agreement for the CIU for the 25-26 school year. There'll be a motion to approve that. PA fish and boat arts free educational grant in the amount of $1,300. The district will match $450 and be funded by the PO fly fishing club. And on that note, I think the fly fishing club does five stockings. That's what they do. They help the PA uh fish and boat commission as a volunteer. We have uh Mike Menarchek is the leader of the group. And they do a really nice job. This grant will help them. Uh booster club report. Uh, for the PO cheerleading. Will be a motion to approve the report. Also be a motion for the competition cheerleading report
004to approve. Also the cross country. And these are the end of the year reports or after season reports that are submitted annually. The booster club report for the soccer team is also submitted and is up for approval. Booster club reports for the girls soccer. For the quarterback club. For the volleyball and sport. And they'll all be up for approval tonight as presented. The drivers for the 25-26 school year. Will be a motion to approve John Martel and Bethany Bish. One for Long's and one for Saxton. We'll go to building and grounds. Uh, nothing is listed on the agenda. The only thing I'll add to it is uh the way building and grounds has changed for the better. I don't know if you guys everybody noticed coming in. We have a guy with taking care of
005the trees and getting them all cleaning things up. We've turned the corner on making our school grounds look a lot better. Curriculum and instruction, Dr. That is [clears throat] CIU assistive technology learning library. We have an agreement between us and the CIU between 2026 and 2029. We're looking to dispose of outdated curriculum materials in O M E and P E. And we have field trips up for approval in 2025-2026 school year. Mr. Bush, you have 50 some odd left. Okay. Post summer school positions. Motion to post the summer school positions for the summer of 2026, posting effective April 28th, 2026. Posted post extended school year positions summer of 2026. Motion to approve the extended school year position for the summer of 2026, posting effective April 28th, 2026. Special Ed ESY home instruction teachers district wide
006special education assistants, school counselor or social worker occupational therapist, COTA speech language therapist, nurse, physical therapist, vision hearing as defined by student need contracted with CIU. Post Title 1 K through 5 reading program positions summer of 2026. Motion to post the positions Title 1 K through 5 reading program positions for the summer of 2026, posting [snorts] effective April 28th, 2026. Six teachers, three at Osceola, three at Philipsburg. Teacher substitutes, two, one at Osceola and one at P E. Special education instructional assistants, two, one at O M E and one at P E. Hire accounting specialist. Motion to hire Heather West Wrestler as the accounting specialist for the P O school district at a salary of $60,000 effective June 8th, 2026. Transfer Anne Bacon, special education teacher, Philipsburg Elementary School. Motion to transfer Anne Bacon from
007a special education life skills at PO Middle School as to a special education teacher at PE, effective at the beginning of the 2026-2027 school year. Transfer Kelly Gregory, special education teacher, Philipsburg Middle School. Motion to transfer Kelly Gregory from a special ed teacher at PO HS to a special education teacher at the middle school, effective for the 2026-2027 school year. Close grade four classroom at PE. Motion to close a grade four classroom at Philipsburg Elementary School, effective at the end of the 2025-2026 school year. Transfer Bethany Thompson, teacher at Philipsburg Elementary School, from a grade four teacher at Philipsburg Elementary School to a grade three teacher at Philipsburg Elementary School, effective at the beginning of the 2026-2027 school year. Transfer Tina May, fifth grade teacher, Philipsburg Elementary School, to a grade five teacher at Philipsburg
008Elementary School, effective at the beginning of the 2026-2027 school year. Close grade one classroom, Osceola Mills Elementary School. Motion to close a grade one classroom at Osceola Mills Elementary School, effective at the end of the 2025-2026 school year. Open grade five classroom, Osceola Mills Elementary. Motion to open a grade five classroom at Osceola Mills Elementary, effective at the beginning of the 2026-2027 school year. Transfer, Michaela Ross, teacher, Osceola Mills Elementary School. Motion to transfer Michaela Ross from grade one teacher at Osceola Mills Elementary School to a grade five teacher at Osceola Mills Elementary School beginning of the 2026-2027 school year. Close grade three classroom, Osceola Mills Elementary. Motion to close a grade three classroom at Osceola Mills Elementary School effective at the end of the 2026 or 2025-2026 school year. Motion to transfer Brandon Anderson
009from a grade three teacher at Osceola Mills Elementary School to a grade three teacher at Felsburg Elementary School effective at the beginning of the 2026-2027 school year. Close grade four classroom. Motion to close a grade four classroom at Osceola Mills Elementary School at the end of the 2025-2026 school year. Transfer, Ashton Fox, teacher, Osceola Mills Elementary. Motion to transfer Ashton Fox from a grade four teacher at Osceola Mills Elementary to a grade one teacher at Osceola Mills Elementary School effective 2026-2027 school year. Close grade six teaching position. Felsburg Osceola Middle School. Motion to close a grade six teaching position at the Felsburg Osceola Middle School effective at the end of the 2025-2026 school year. Transfer, Kelly Thompson, grade six teacher, Felsburg Osceola Middle School. Motion to transfer Kelly Thompson from a grade six teacher to
010a grade six teacher at Hillsboro Osceola Middle School effective at the beginning of the 2026-2027 school year. Transfer Roy Warlow to drivers ed teacher Hillsboro Osceola High School. Motion to transfer Roy Warlow from a social studies teacher at the Hillsboro Osceola High School to a drivers ed teacher at Hillsboro Osceola High School effective at the beginning of the 2026-2027 school year. Close math teaching position Hillsboro Osceola High School. Motion to close a math teaching position at Hillsboro Osceola High School effective at the end of the 2025-2026 school year. Transfer Steven Williamson social studies teacher both Hillsboro Osceola High School. Motion to transfer Steve Williamson from a math teacher at Hillsboro Osceola High School to a social studies teacher at Hillsboro Osceola High School effective at the beginning of the 2026-2027 school. Transfer Jody Row biology
0117-12 Hillsboro Osceola High School. Motion to transfer Jody Row from a social or science biology teacher at Hillsboro Osceola High School to a biology 7-12 12 teacher at Hillsboro Osceola High School effective beginning of the 2026-2027 school year. Close math teaching position Hillsboro Osceola High School. Motion to close a math teaching position at the Hillsboro Osceola High School effective at the end of the 2025-2026 [clears throat] school year. Transfer Jordan Albright science teacher Hillsboro Osceola High School. Motion to transfer Jordan Albright from math teacher at Philipsburg-Osceola High School to a science teacher at Philipsburg-Osceola High School effective at the beginning of the 2026-2027 school year. Closed English teaching position, Philipsburg-Osceola High School. Motion to close an English teaching position at the Philipsburg-Osceola High School effective at the end of the 2025-2026 school year. Closed librarian
012position, Philipsburg-Osceola High School. Motion to close a full-time library position at Philipsburg-Osceola High School effective at the end of the 2025-2026 school year. Closed library library position, Philipsburg-Osceola Middle School. Motion to close a library position at the Philipsburg-Osceola Middle School effective at the end of the 2025-2026 school year. Open library position, 50% Philipsburg-Osceola High School and 50% Philipsburg-Osceola Middle School. Motion to open a library position, 50% PO High School, 50% PO Middle School effective beginning of the 2026-2027 school year. Transfer Jesse Mann library position from 50% High School, 50% Philipsburg-Osceola Middle School. Motion to transfer Jesse Mann from a library position at the middle school to a library position half at the high school, half at the middle school at the beginning of the 2026-2027 school year. Closed art position. Motion to close an art
013position at the Philipsburg-Osceola High School effective at [clears throat] the end of the 2025-2026 school year. Transfer Autumn Anderson from an art teacher at PO High School to an art teacher at Philipsburg-Osceola Middle School effective at the beginning of the 2026-2027 school year. Close school counselor position, Philipsburg-Osceola High School effective at the end of the 2025-2026 school year. Transfer Rebecca Kephart, school counselor, Philipsburg-Osceola Middle School. Trans- Motion to transfer Rebecca Kephart from a school counselor at the high school to a school counselor at PO Middle School effective at the beginning of the 2026-2027 school year. Resignation Motion to accept the resignation of Paige Karen as speech-language pathologist for the Philipsburg-Osceola Area School District effective at the end of the 2025-2026 school year. Post speech-language pathologist position, Philipsburg-Osceola School District Motion to post a speech-language pathologist
014position with the Philipsburg-Osceola School District posting effective April 28th, 2026. Transfer Motion to transfer Kylie Kennedy from a 7-hour special education instructional assistant/PCA, autistic support position requiring safe crisis management certification at Philipsburg-Osceola High School to a 7-hour special education instructional assistant/PCA, Clearfield County Career and Technology Center autistic support position requiring safe crisis management certification at the Philipsburg Osceola High School effective April 6th, 2026. Motion to transfer Madison Laneski Houck from a 4.5 special education instructional assistant requiring safe crisis management certification at PO High School and Clearfield County Career and Technology Center to a 5.75 special education instructional assistant requiring safe crisis management certification at Philipsburg Osceola High School {slash} Clearfield County Career and Technology Center position effective April 1st, 2026. Close a 4.5 hour special education instructional assistant position Philipsburg Osceola High School effective April
01527th, 2026. Motion to open a 4.5 hour special education instructional assistant at Osceola Mills Elementary School effective April 28th, 2026. Motion to post a 4.5 hour special education instructional assistant position at Osceola Mills Elementary School anticipated vacancy posting effective April 9th, 2026. Resignation Anna Amy Gemchak special education instructional assistant autistic support {slash} PCA position requiring safe crisis management certification at Philipsburg Elementary effective April 15th, 2026. Motion to post a 5.75 hour special education instructional assistant autistic support {slash} PCA position, safe crisis management certification at Philipsburg Elementary School posting effective April 28th, 2026. Motion to accept the resignation for retirement purposes to hear and Shaw as a cook at the Philipsburg Osceola High School effective August 17th, 2026. Motion to transfer Hannah Price from a 5.5 kitchen helper at Philipsburg Osceola Middle School to a 5.75
016hour cook at Philipsburg Osceola Middle School effective April 1st, 2026. Motion to post a 4.5 hour kitchen helper at the Philipsburg Osceola Middle School posting effective May 31st, 2026. Motion to transfer Cheryl Anderson from a 4.5 hour kitchen helper at Philipsburg Osceola Middle School to a 5.5 hour kitchen helper at Philipsburg Osceola Middle School effective April 13th, 2026. Motion to accept the resignation of Todd Weld as a 5-hour district-wide custodian at Osceola Mills Elementary School at the end of the 2025 to 2026 school year. Post 5-hour district-wide custodian position at Osceola Elementary School posting effective April 14th, 2026. Motion to post an 8-hour maintenance position with the Philipsburg Osceola Area School District posting effective March 31st, 2026. Motion to approve an addendum to an agreement between Philipsburg Osceola School District and ESS Northeast LLC for
017a maintenance substitute at a rate of $19 per hour as presented. Motion to approve Who'd you say again? Nick Mauston. Nick Mauston as a homebound instructor for the 2025-2026 school year. Motion to approve an affiliation site agreement [snorts] between the Philipsburg Osceola Area School District and the University of Scranton as presented. Motion to approve the resignation of employee 2026/3 at the end of the 2026 school year and authorize the board president to sign any necessary paperwork to effectuate same. Motion to approve a request from an employee for an unpaid day on March 31st, 2026. Half an unpaid day on April 1st, 2026. And unpaid days on April 8th, April 9th, April 14th due to exhausting all sick and personal days. Motion to approve a request from an employee for an unpaid day on April 13th,
0182026 due to exhausting all sick and personal days. Motion to approve a request for an employee for an unpaid day on May 7th, 2026. Sick days may not be used for reason requested. Motion to approve a request from an employee for an unpaid day on March 27th, 2026. A half of an unpaid day on April 14th. A full unpaid day on April 22nd, 2026. And a half unpaid day on May 20th, May 1st, 2026 due to exhausting all sick and personal days. Motion to approve a request from employee for an unpaid day on April 21st, 2026. And motion to approve a request from an employee half of an unpaid day on April 17th, 2026 due to exhausting all sick and personal days. Joe Let me take a drink. You don't have anything else? >> [laughter]
019[cough] >> Under policy, Haley, you have anything different? Nothing? Uh Rebecca is going to read for Mrs. Brubaker. A customized learning program, motion to approve customized learning program between the PO Area School District and the Nittany Learning Services as presented. Client Services Agreement, Teresa Ditty, motion to approve a client services agreement between the PO Area School District and New Directions LLC. EBA Pro Care Therapy for the purpose of extending medically necessary one-on-one student nursing services through May 28th, 2026 as presented. Merakey Agreement, 2026-2027 school year. Motion to approve an agreement between the PO Area School District and Merakey State College for the 2026-2027 school year as presented. Athletic Trainer Physician Supervision Services Agreement, 2026-2027 school year. Motion to approve an Athletic Trainer Physician Supervision Services Agreement between the Pottsville Area School District and Geisinger Clinic
020for the 2026-2027 school year as presented. Resignation, Jason Risho, Geo multi strength coach. Motion to accept the resignation from Jason Risho as a Geo multi strength coach effective at the end of the 2025-2026 school year. Post multi strength coach coach position for the 2026-2027 school year. Motion to post a multi strength coach coach position for the 2026-2027 school year posting effective April 28th, 2026. Position volunteers, 2025-2026 school year. Motion to approve the following position volunteers for the 2025-2026 school year as listed. Cyber charter chaperone grade six field trip to the Curve. Motion to approve the following cyber charter chaperone for the grade six field trip to the Curve, Brandy Sandoval. Extracurricular, 2025-2026 school year. Motion to approve the following extracurricular positions for the 2025-2026 school year pending clearances as listed. Extracurricular, 2026-2027 school year. Motion
021to approve the following extracurricular positions for the 2026-2027 school year pending clearances as listed. Good. I'm done. All the way back around. Facility use agreement, Brandon McClimate, UFC soccer. Motion to approve a facility use agreement between PO area school district and Brandon McClimate for UFC soccer as presented. Facility use agreement, Sydney Swales and Laura Sharpless, YMCA summer play and YMCA student youth theater summer show. Motion to approve a facility agreement between the PO area school district and Sydney Swales and Laura Sharpless for the YMCA summer play agreement and the summer YMCA student youth theater summer show as presented. Thank you. Doctor, you have two more. Annual physician services, um agreement with Penn Highlands Ice Healthcare. Um this will be through 2028. And we're looking to plant a tree in memory of Christie Kelly, who was
022a was a former teacher at Fellsburg Elementary School that unfortunately passed away. Do we have anything else? Doctor? Meeting will be adjourned. Have a breakfast and get into voting meeting. Everybody have to vote. Motion Motion to adjourn? Motion. Second. All in favor? Aye. Aye. >> Call to order this evening. Roll call for April 27th, 2026. We have roll call here. Mrs. Danny Shaw. Here. Dr. Rosemary Mrs. Bush. >> Here. Mrs. Cookerly. Mrs. Brian Here. Mrs. Pasanski. And Mr. Boyce. Here. We'll announce that we have an executive session at 5:30 for personnel this evening. Uh there will be a possibly an executive session after this meeting, which will not reconvene. Uh excuse me. For what purpose? For personnel. Right. the voting meeting in the committee meeting minutes and we're going to go right to the kids
023cuz they want to go home and do their homework. >> [snorts] >> Hey, good evening everybody. We are back and we're going to share some of the things that have happened at PL over the last couple months. All right. Uh we did our production of Grease scenes in grades 9 through 12. Uh we finished our show in March 27th, 28th, and 29th, so Yeah, we can do it again. Uh the show was very successful and we got a total of 21 seniors to join us this year and most of them being their first time on stage. Um here are some photos that we got taken during our show. Um this is freshman Braden Jones playing Danny Zuko. And I'm over there playing Sandy Dumbrowski. Also this morning, we recently got our Isaac nominations from the
024Altoona Community Theater and we got nine nominations. We got um um nominations for uh Braden Jones for um best actor in a leading actor in a male role, a nomination for Grace as Sandy Dumbrowski. Um for best actress in a female role. And then we got one for Johnny Levonick for best supporting actor in a male role. Um best uh nomination for best production. Um best dance number for Grease Lightning. Choreography. Oh, Abby for >> Abigail Belosky for best actress in a female role. And then Choreography. Choreography for Grace, Hannah, and Chloe Dunlap, and Kieran O'Connell, and stage crew. Do you want to tell them when that is? When the Isaac song I know that the Isaac song is Memorial Day weekend and we go on that Sunday, but I do not know the day
025of that. >> [laughter] >> Um we're going to skip back to about around February. Um we took students from our music [clears throat] department to PMAS events. Um these are all of our choir students. We had a total of five all from our select choir that went to region chorus and I think 11 or 12 that went to district chorus. Um next we have band. So we sent eight kids to district band and then we had three move on uh to region band. And then we also had students um they had to pre-audition to go to this event. It was district jazz and a cappella. We took five students for a cappella and three for band. And we also want to congratulate Lucas Amy. He was a runner-up for the jazz scholarship and also won
026the district band scholarship. So he has a total of $750 just from attending these PMAS events. Next we have sports. Uh right now uh currently still going on uh track. Um congratulations to their members on a great season. Um and the students who are attending invitationals. We don't have things up there. >> [laughter] >> We have a lot of people going. Um most of them are runners, but we do have some throwers which are mentioned at the end. Um we have two pictures here. There was uh Layla Laurel Lesswood uh throwing discus and junior Robin McLain and doing high jump. They're both at the invitational tonight as Go Lady Mounties. Um also congratulations to the Lady Mountie softball team because they just recently won against Richland and they actually have a season of 11 to
0271 now so far. So let's go Mounties. Let's go for them. They had a little of a rough start but they are doing great and that is senior Madison Hanson. And then we also have senior Ali Newcomer and junior Macy Bush pitching. Um baseball uh congratulations to the Mountie baseball team for the recent win against Richland Richland and for a great season of 9 and 3. Um and congratulations to Zach senior Zach Yoder on getting a thousand not a thousand. I can't read it. >> [clears throat] >> 100 strikeouts. Um and pictured is senior Fisher Wood. Last [clears throat] two more pictures, we have junior Archer Bowman and uh senior Zach Yoder. Some important dates that are coming up especially for our seniors is our senior to senior breakfast which is on May 5th, baccalaureate
028which is May 17th, our class trip which is May 22nd and then graduation is May 29th. And then for the general um the juniors are having their class officer election on Thursday of this week instead of Friday. Um May 8th is our prom. Um May 16th and 17th is our art show and then also May 29th is our last day. We also have AP testing coming up starting next week. And then our Pops Concert which is May 7th at 7:30 at the PO High School. And then also in the midst of that is Keystone testing and our Tri-M showcase on May 19th at 7:00 p.m. And our donations from that will be going to CJ Cutright and Alvin Williams. >> [snorts] >> And we just want to say thank you for everything that you do
029for our school. Um I'll be continuing my education after this school year at uh the University of Westchester which I was not initially uh accepted for music education. Right now it would be I'd I'd have to start my education in with a theater degree. Um but I hope to change my major back into music. And I'm currently unsure of where the future is going to take me, but I'm planning on staying here for now. I'm hoping at helping out at my local dance studio and hopefully going to be a real estate agent. Grace was awesome. All right, the adults' turn. It's going to have to have a tough act to follow. It is a tough act to follow. Um oh my So good evening. So a couple more things from the high school. Um Mr.
030Williamson, one of our math teachers, recently took a small group of students to the Keystone competition STEM challenge which was held at IU 10. The kids while they were there, they worked in small groups to tackle real-world challenges, designed innovative solutions, and showcase their ideas. We had first-place winners, Olivia Versaw, Hannah Villers, and Bella Harvey. They invented the TechLock, which is similar to a electronic fence for dogs. However, the TechLock blocks out cell phone signals within a perimeter. We had second-place winners, Davian Richie and Heath Yergen, who created the innovation that they called Teds. Teds is a one-stop shop for communication for students between the teacher and students. Um they use it for assignments, grades, et cetera, and it eliminates all the other platforms that students have to interact with and allows them to use
031one a one-stop shop of Teds. So, that was a success for the students who attended. We also recently had Christie Shields, who is a former WTAJ meteorologist. She came to the high school. She currently works at Discovery Space in State College. She did a presentation with our life skills students as well as our autistic support classes while she was there. She taught the kids about different types of weather, demonstrated how clouds and lightning forms. Uh the kids made miniature tornadoes in bottles. They talked about career paths in meteorology, the classes at the high school that are most important if they would want to get into that field. And she also shared information about a radar station at Black Moshannon that supports local weather reporting. The kids learned a lot and had a great time. Thank
032you all. Good. All right, I'll put you up next. All right, good evening everybody. Um couple of things going on at PE. Uh we recently had a PBIS fundraiser. Our students and families raised over $5,000 for our PBIS program. So, all that money goes back into rewards um for our program and different activities that we do. Uh students, if you see on the pictures there, that was a extra recess day they won. They recently had pizza with the principal. Um and then at our next monthly assembly they'll get to pie some teachers. They can also win a Nintendo Switch, a trip to Delgrosso's, and a family packed to the Roll 'n' We also recently had a reading challenge for the months of February and March. Our students read over 100,000 minutes in our building. We
033put them into mini groups, so we had K1, 2 3, and 4 5. Uh the top class in each group, they won books for their classroom, and the top readers won gift cards for Barnes & Noble's. Uh I also wanted to share we recently had a yearbook competition uh to design the cover for this year's yearbook. We had over 40 applic- or 40 entries for that, which was the most we've ever had, and we had uh Leona Shafran, her uh design was picked for our front cover, and our second, third, fourth, and fifth uh place students will be on the back cover of our yearbook. And I also want to just Next week is Teacher Appreciation Week, so I want to thank the teachers for everything they do. Uh this Friday is Cafeteria Appreciation, so
034I want to thank the cafeteria staff for what they do, and then nurse appreciation week is next week as well, so thank you, everybody. Thank you. We're going through a hard agenda here. Mr. Polka, I think I missed you here. You got to go with the high school, right? Oh, thank you very much. Uh this Friday, May 1st, is our spring dance. Uh it's a luau themed aloha, so uh this is our first year including sixth graders in the spring dance, so we're excited for that. I'd like to Mr. Rushton just actually let me know this for our stock market competition. Mr. Rushton has a stock market class. Star Val came in fourth out of 120 teams in Western Pennsylvania, and Aubrey Halterman came in seventh out of 120 teams in Western Pennsylvania. So, there's
035some some future investors. Uh our sixth grade just planted around 1,500 trees at Six Mile Road. Part of the mine reclamation, which is part of our science department. Um we're doing some stream studies with seventh and eighth grade at Six Mile Run and a cold stream in the next couple weeks, but sixth grade, that's seventh and eighth, sixth grade already went and planted around 1,500 trees. So, we're really proud of them. And of course I put lots of dates on here. Uh May is going to be starting and it's a busy month. We're in the middle of PSSA's and we have lots of field trips. Tomorrow we have some eighth graders going on a civic to the civic speed with Mr. Rischel. Busy, busy, busy for middle school. It's cute. Another elementary principal. Um at
036Useless Elementary on April 16th we did a school wide tie dying event. Um parents came in and volunteered and then what we do with our shirts is on the first day of PSSA testing the whole school wears a tie dye um and we do a PSSA parade for the kids that are testing. So, even though testing is hard it really gets the kids excited. They look forward to being part of the parade and having everyone cheer for them. So, that was really fun. Um April 15th our fifth graders attended the math 24 challenge. We didn't have anyone place this year, but they learned a lot and they had a really great time participating against the other schools. Um we had our OME band concert. It was phenomenal. Um our fifth graders played their musical instruments.
037Um it was a small group, but it was really powerful how loud they were playing together. So, it was very impressive. And then the whole fifth grade was part of the chorus concert. So, it was really nice to see that and anyone took me back in time. They did 50 nifty United States and I remember seeing that as a fifth grader as well. So, it was very lucky. Jolene. Hello. So, our counseling department had their annual advisory council meeting for stakeholders with a little luncheon and an explanation of how they're helping our students from K through 12 prepare for future goals. They went over data from this year and just reviewed their goals for the future for next year. It was really wonderful. Our nurses facilitated dental screenings for any students that hadn't turned in
038a dental form and for parents who wanted to opt in for that. And with kindergarten registration over, our school psychologist, um, OTPT and speech are now out there at the preschools. They're doing screenings, they're having um, parent meetings and getting them ready for next year so they come in prepared. And um, just an interesting thing for enrollment, not sure, but April we've had a lot of comings and goings and just seemed a little busier than usual. So, just thought that was an interesting fact. Good. Wayne? So, it's the time of year where we start preparing for our June 1 count, which is where we have to we have two points during our school year, December 1 and June 1, where we have to make sure that all of our paperwork is in compliance, our our
039counts are up-to-date, and we have accuracy in our special ed records. So, our teachers are preparing for that, but they're also still providing services for students. April was occupational therapy month. Um, our occupational therapist is Morgan Ammerman and our assistant is Britney Smother and they've been working with our teachers to implement um, push-in services within their classrooms that focus on multi-sensory approaches to like letter formation, coloring, and cutting skills. We're seeing a lot of need in the area of fine motor skills with our students who are younger and are coming into school. So, they in addition to still providing their necessary services through the IEPs, they're also trying to equip teachers to better be able to support those skills within the classroom. April was also autism acceptance month. Um, during the month of April, PE
040students and teachers participated in the AAC challenge. So, we have several students who use um, an assistive technology device for their as their primary communication. Um, they had a day where one student read the announcements using their AAC device, and they take them around and model them in the classroom, and the students and the teachers compete, and then the fastest teacher and the fastest student compete at a all-school assembly. Um, the new unified art class at the middle school also designed t-shirts for us. So, [clears throat] each student in the class drew a light bulb that was their light bulb, and then that was what was featured on the t-shirt. At the high school, students in the autistic support classroom completed a STEM project in science. Our life skills and autistic support classrooms at the
041high school use a hands-on science curriculum. So, they had to use everyday materials to build a bird's nest that held two chocolate eggs and one marshmallow peep. Um, and then our fourth grade students, our fourth grade learning support students at PE, they spent this month learning about biographies and autobiographies, and then they had to develop a poster and a presentation based on the biography and the person that they chose. So, lots of students and teachers around the district who are working really hard and doing a lot of good work. Thank you. Let's go with Spring sports are really fun with our weather. We've had a couple good days, but it looks like Tuesday and Wednesday we've got rain coming. Our baseball team just went They're 9 and 4 and tied for second place in district
042six. JV baseball 2 and 8. Varsity softball is rocking it, and they're 12 and 1, and currently second in the district to Bedford who's undefeated still. Um track and field today they're participating at the Bellwood Invite Invitational. So, hopefully get some good news from that event today. Um but we have 58 roster student athletes for track and field this spring. Um for varsity though that's pretty exciting and eight of them this year have reached top 10 in all time PO history record book. Um in junior high baseball we supported A team and a B team. The A team's four and four probably different cuz they have no games are happening today. The B team's two and six. Softball they won today 15 nothing. They just we just played an A team today due to numbers
043were down a little bit with injury in this time of the season. So, um their A team is doing well with their seven eight and three right now. Junior high track and field uh they have 38 athletes on the roster. So, it's almost doubled in size since last year. So, um track and field's up and coming in PO. So, that's exciting. We had seven uh athletes qualify for the middle school championship. Um like the past in comparison the past like two three years we've only had like one maybe student athlete each season. So, uh seven to have seven is pretty exciting. That's Saturday May 9th at Mansion Park. Uh but Logan Eckland in the 3200 run, Jackson Hunt pole vault, Evan Reems javelin, Sarah Cronenwetter in the 3200, Ava Smith and Bella Amy in the
044100 hurdles, and Bria Walk in the high jump. So, uh things sports is pretty exciting and hopefully uh we have a exciting ending of the season. So, and weather cooperates. Thank you. Pray now. Okay, let's go. >> Okay, so I'm going to go over the 2026-2027 proposed general fund budget for the school district. So, we have total revenues of 39.3 million and total expenditures of 39.3. No change in fund balance. Right now, both budget tax millage for Centre 64.55. Clearfield 72.401. Total 136.96. So, this will be 1.1% increase after uh uh changes that were made by PDE. We'll talk about that. The Act 1 index that we had for 2026-2027 was 5%. So, that's the maximum amount that you could raise real estate taxes for the year. So, if we look at this PDE rebalance,
045and again, we're a multi-county school district. So, we run Centre and Clearfield County. And depending on the market value data that you have for that particular year, they adjust the market values based on that. So, the information for Centre County in 2025-2026 there was 2.3% adjustment. So, when we got to the end of 2025-2026, the millage rate for Centre County was 63.07. For Clearfield, 70.93. When we started the process for this year for 2026-2027, that 2025-2026 ending balance was actually 64.53. So, it was a 2.3% change made by PDE for Centre County. And so, again, this is just these are screenshots actually from the PDE system again showing our rates last year going from 60.57 to 63.07 in Centre, Clearfield 136.035, but then when they changed the assessed values, um that changed to 70.93, but
046if you look down here for this year, again, we're starting off the year 64.53 for Centre, 70.93 for Clearfield. So, again, based on the changes that you can make as a school board right now, the change right now, again, for Centre County is 0.04% towards the index and that's 2.09% for Clearfield. Now, assessed values in Clearfield are down. Centre County assessed values dropped. So, we have the KOZ properties up in the um the economic development center. Those came onto the books uh following this year, so we got an increase on the Centre County side, but on again on Clearfield County side right now, we've been seeing a decrease in the assessed value. So, again, when we get into this year, that's why you're seeing that 2% increase um right now on the Clearfield side. So,
047again, actual year to date, we've collected 10.5 million for 25/26 compared to budget about 10.48. Um we've had better collection rates percentage than what we had anticipated 25/26. For 26/27, this would bring in 10.6 million in real estate taxes, which would be an increase of $112,745. Again, where did the the uh where did all of the revenues come from on the local side, again, majority's going to come in through real estate taxes and then our earned income taxes and real estate transfer taxes. Um we're looking at about 13.9 million. Again, um expecting a little bit of an uptick on earned income tax and real estate transfer tax. Um the interest rates are are dropping, so you expect to see more borrowing and more purchasing of houses. State revenue, again, increases in the basic ed fund
048at basic ed funding up to 14.3 million, special ed 1.98 million. You see some increases in transportation, total [clears throat] 24.5 million. Again, like we talked about in the prior meetings, minimal increase on the state side. And then federal revenue staying flat at $751,000. Majority of that coming from our Title 1, Title 2, and Title 4 programs. This is a breakdown of where these expenditures are by expenditure level. So, again, the top two are at the 100 level, salaries, and 200 level, benefits. So, 14.3 million and 9.5 million in benefits. So, we're looking at 36.5% 24.2. The next biggest area is other purchased services. So, this is all of our transportation services. This would be for our career technology center and then also our fiber charter schools and also all of our private institutions [clears
049throat] for students. So, $27 million there, about 17% of the budget. Next two biggest areas, professional services and then under supplies. Supplies include things such as anything that's not a capital asset that's going to show up under supplies. So, again, we're not talking office supplies when you see supplies there. We're talking a multitude of things and even all of our our heating, electric, oil, those are things that are considered supplies for the PDD and show up underneath there. So, total expenditures 39.3 million. Some different things again this year, we have a transfer from the general fund to capital of $500,000. $60,000 going over to our cafeteria. And then we'll talk about other objects here, too. So, if you look here, these are the areas that we have things under. So, instructional is 21.7 million, 55%
050of the budget. Support 12.3 million, 31.5%. Student activities, 2.9% of the budget, 1.1 million. Debt service for '26-'27, 2.5 million. We have a budgetary reserve in here for $933,851. And then, transfers of $560,000. So, again, first year that we have budgetary reserve in here, first year that we have transfers going over to our capital projects to be able to, you know, again, we're looking at different things that we have to with our buildings getting older. Again, this is a breakdown of the budget from last year, '25-'26 compared to '26-'27. See on the revenue side, increase of about $400,000 between state and local. Um under expenditures, salaries, 14.9 million for last year's budget for '25-'26. Typically, that's going to go up by several hundred thousand, four or five hundred thousand, I'm not positive on that. You
051can see we're 14.3, so that's a $600,000 decrease on salaries. On benefits, $10.9 million budgeted, 9.5 proposed for '25-'26. That's a $1.4 million uh decrease there. The larger increases, again, other purchased services, uh budgeted about 6.3, uh projecting here about 6.7 million. Um and again, small increase on uh supplies of about 126,000. And again, as you look under other objects, again, that's where we have the budgetary reserve. You see that increase of 933,852. And then again, transfers to other funds, we're transferring that 500,000 to capital. Again, less of a transfer uh to the cafeteria. Doing some really good things. The principals that are here have been doing second chance breakfast. It's been really successful, and so we're seeing a lot more participation there, and so that's really helping out the the cafeteria. So, highlights from
052this, we have a balanced budget, we have no furloughs, there's no elimination of programs or services. Again, like we talked about, there's a transfer of 500K to the capital project fund. Um we have a reduction of expenditures before transfers of 425,000 compared to last year. Again, so when we talk about the salaries and benefits and all those other things, and now we have a budgetary reserve of 930K in in this budget. And then um for health, uh on the third-party administrator medical and pharmacy network changes that were on the agenda, they're resulting in savings of 1.627. [clears throat] So, um tonight we will uh we have a proposed budget available for public inspection if if approved. Um on May 13th, public notice of intent to approve final budget. So, I have on here May 27th.
053Our initial meeting right now is set set up for May 26th, which is a Tuesday. Uh we need 30 days in between there. Tuesdays also are awards night for um seniors, too. So, um we can talk about that, but that's why I have uh May 27th on on the um on the dates here. We would adopt the final budget and set a tax levy, and then we would implement the homestead and farmstead exclusions. So, at this point, PDE hasn't disclosed the homestead and farmstead exclusions. We'll know that on May 1st, and that will update some things, too. [music] So, again, when we come back in for um for the next meeting for the final budget, um we'll have the millage rates on there, and we'll have the homestead farmstead. And again, um if there's any
054questions about anything with anything that's in here, just please feel free to ask. Good. Well, thank you Tom. Uh I'd like to thank everybody that worked on the budget, whether it be people who cut their budgets and uh different unions and associations that accepted health plans and retirement package. It was uh It took a lot of people to get this thing on the right track. So, I think we're headed in the right track for the future. Thank you. Do you want to talk Is it okay with the board to make that change from the 26th to the 27th? Does anyone Uh the 26th right now is a Tuesday following Memorial Day, which is a Monday. Monday the 26th. There's no issue with allowing me to make that change in the paper? The Wednesday the I
055won't be here. All right. Is there any other >> Journey's separation agreement. >> [laughter] >> Sorry. >> [snorts] >> It's the Wednesday, May 27th. Yeah. Or later. Like that is the earliest we can do is the 27th. It can be later than that. We could do Thursday. I mean, it's >> do Thursday. It has to be done by the >> before graduation, right? Graduation's Friday, so we can do it Friday. All right. When would it be done by the 30 days? We just need their 30 days 30 days would take us to that Wednesday. Any day any day after >> 26 days. And I can do it with you. We could. We could. It's just a matter of you're going to have to have a board meeting in May typically. Yeah. Did not have, right?
056And I'm trying I just stated it then before you even because really you don't really you're going to need 30 days to be able to post it anyway. So, Wednesday the 12th. And then have your meeting on the 23rd so that we can do Well, they say the one they go Wednesday if you go Thursday, that's the night before graduation. We got those two choices, once you get those done. Yep. Either one works, so whatever works best for you people. For the boss people? Do any of you have a conflict all week? No. I can't do 28. Well, it has to be the earliest is the 20 7th, right? 27th, if you go 27th or 28th. >> [snorts] >> I can do 28th. Alex, can you do 28th? I have soccer. Yep. Or you can
057do it without me. I've done that before. You can do it without me from the concert. >> [laughter] >> We can zoom. Zoom me in. Problem with the 27th? That's good. With me, yeah, the 27th. You're good? Any [snorts] objection if she says Linda can't make it? Do the 27th. Veronica can advertise that. Uh And that'll be a regular board meeting. Committee meeting at 6:30 and board meeting at 7:00. For that, would that be the final? Yeah, that would be the final. Okay. On the 27th, then everything where we would say, you know, if if you guys it will be brought before you to approve. Even tonight, like when you have you have a motion and second on that item tonight, you could discuss it, you know what I mean? There would be discussion opportunities
058there, too, or now, however you want to do Yeah, ask Tom questions now. No, no. I mean, for that, should we try to find a date that works for her? Yeah, we could go into June, but we still need to have a meeting. >> She She said no. Veronica, she said no. No. What's that? I wouldn't recommend going into June in case there'd be some reason where your budget wouldn't be for the next 30 days? I'm Your wife is good for Saturday. Maybe. Saturday and both work for you? Good. They both work. What is that it will be? >> [clears throat] >> What's that? Thanks for taking it right now. No, I don't. >> [laughter] >> No, no, what we're doing moving forward in future years we'll we'll try to maybe maybe move up the
059April meeting for the proposal and then that way we're we have plenty of 30 days to send them in. Is there any whispers about when the state budget might be? Well, I can tell you this, um they have not passed one on top of the Senate. So, I'm not holding my breath. Well, the idea was hopeful August. Yeah, I think I I don't think it I think I'm hopeful that it won't be as long as the one was before, but they've not passed one by June 30th. We have to Good. Meeting the next meeting will be on the 27th. Do you have anything else besides the one through the consent? I have one question to talk real quick. Just for um for everything or I guess if we get a proof would that be a
060better time to ask? Like if this motion passes would it be a better time to ask questions? It's all good. It's better to do it now that way the bugs can get worked out. Yeah, that's all. So, like with the proposed budget Right. with Centre County or we have our pre-filled in Centre, what would be like the average percentage for someone Centre County? Um like if increase in taxes to Well, what I will for when we get to the point when we have the final budget like and I have it on set forms that I'll give you exactly what that dollar amount's going to be. Is like a general like percentage wise if you had with I know obviously home set forms and that but just a do you have a Well the the rebalance
061by PDE was 2.3% and we're basically doing 0.04 so it's basically 2.3% increase and then on the on the Clearfield side it's a little over 2% but again you as a board basically are holding the line on center you're not you're not raising it up from the rebalance but it's about 2.3. Okay. You would not think about the future though and raise it so it doesn't hit us as hard next year like 2.5 or something? That's up for discussion and you know again if you want to go more on that again we can again we've talked to about again looking at an index like a CPI index for increases and then trying to put that in. One thing this year was because of some of the things that we were doing are on the state
062side we get again we get reimbursement for subsidy for retirement social security so because of what we're doing with wages those numbers aren't quite what they typically would be so I was just kind of factoring that in a little bit too but again that's up to the board to discuss on as far as what direction you want to go with those real estate taxes because >> I'm not saying gouging but I'd rather have a little bit of safety there than come back here in two years and say we put a furlough people or I mean we're cutting pretty far back this time. Correct. What is the current inflation rate do you know? Right now it's about 2.4 now everything that's going on right now with what Iran that is impacting things right now but it's
063been running about 2.4. >> Well maybe lower than 2.4. No. What would be the difference, can you guess, between like 2 and 1/2% and 3% for a household? I can I can guess. I I mean, I would think that in the end that that difference might be on average maybe 20 to 30 dollars a year difference. It just depends. You know, it depends on the on the size of your house, you know, and and what that assessed value is on that property and everything. I what we do is take we take the average. They'll give us the average median household income and size and then we basically I run it through and then calculate that out, but that difference, like I said, is typically going to be like a half percent will probably be 20
064to 40 dollars, but again, I can have specifics once I I set those in and I can bring that back to the board. But that would help us district wide, though. I mean, if we were taking that per household. Right. Right. Yeah, I mean, if you go another half I mean, every percent that you go up is going to bring in an additional about 100 grand in revenue to the 120 grand in revenue. So, is it a fair assessment and I'm not going to hold you to the exact numbers, right? I'm just trying to understand it. Right. But if I pay 3,000 dollars in taxes a year and for round numbers if it's a 3% increase 390 dollars. 390 dollars, right? So, if it's monthly, it would be nine nine dollars, yeah. Seven eight dollars
065a month. Now, would be with both a Centre County resident and a Clearfield County resident or is that Well, if we if we move up, though, that will move up, too. So, the Clearfield would move up, too. You know, so if we make them if if we increase on that, they'll kind of go kind of in lockstep. Again, you're seeing the difference right now because of the assessed values going down in Clearfield and the assessed values going up in Centre, so you're not seeing as much of an increase on the Centre side, but you're seeing a bigger increase on So, I guess just like a rough let's say it's a thousand cuz I'm Right. He's making numbers way too hard. Right. >> Let's say I'm in Centre County, I pay a thousand. Right. And he's
066in Clearfield and pays a thousand. Right. What would just generally just based off what what the millage is, what would be like a general what am I paying this coming year versus what Clearfield would pay? They'd be pretty They'd be pretty close um in the end on the Centre to actually be a little bit more based on the rebounds. Like I said with the rebound right now it's a 2.3. We're looking at the at the um Clearfield side is about 2.1 right now. So, again, if we bump up a percent roughly, it would go to like 3.3 and two or 3.1 roughly. So, it'd be about the same. What What's the difference right now is on the Centre County side the assessed value the average assessed value is higher in Centre than it is in
067Clearfield. We have more parcels in Clearfield, less parcels in Centre cuz you only have two taxing You just have Rush and Boggs Township Borough in Centre County, but because of the values of those properties and everything, it's it's larger than Clearfield, which is a lot more taxing area. Good. A lot of thought gone through. Have another one. No questions. I don't believe. Just thoughts. The regular percent agenda uh we'll go through it. Want anything pulled? Right. We have uh budget C. Doing something pulled? Please give me a minute. Letter number D, building and grounds. Neither was nothing. F curriculum instruction. G personnel. H there was nothing. I student affairs, I would like to pull number 10. You could do 11 in I as well. This offer number seven. Yes, and number 11. I guess the
068only thing under F curriculum. So what is the budget? To the Yes, what is the budget? The proposed budget. This would be the 2.3% So the proposed budget, like I said, at this point you're not you're not setting any millage rates at this point. You're just basically We're just looking mainly You're looking at the spending. >> million >> Yeah, you're just yeah, the 139.2 million that you see on there and everything. Like I said, when we get to next month's meeting, >> [clears throat] >> we'll have motions on there to adopt the final budget. Because then we'll have motions on there for for millage rates also, and they'll be separate separate line items. So if we were to have a concerned citizen that doesn't want to see their tax rate go up, next meeting That's
069when you're going to find out. >> will be the day to come voice your concerns. >> Correct. Okay. Are you doing another presentation on the 27th? Final Yeah, yeah, we always do. Yeah, I always do them. Yeah. Yeah. Anybody want anything else, folks? If not, I'll ask for a motion to approve the consent agenda excluding I number 10 and I, number 11. I get a motion, please. Motion. Second. I have a motion by Vankus. I have a second. Roll call, please. Mrs. Benning Shaw. Yes. Dr. Bomary. Yes. Mrs. Bush. Yes. Mrs. Cockerly. Mrs. Reinstein. Yes. Mr. Vankus. Yes. Mrs. Wesneski. And Mr. Wood. Yes. Motion carried. Can I have a motion for extracurricular activities, number 10, motion to approve the following extracurricular positions as listed. Can I get a motion for that, please? Motion. Second.
070Motion. >> [snorts] >> Second. I have a second. Dr. Bomary. Yes. Mrs. Bush. Yes. Mrs. Cockerly. Mrs. Reinstein. Yes. Mr. Vankus. Yes. Mrs. Wesneski. Mr. Wood. Abstain. And Mrs. Benning Shaw. Yes. Motion carried. And number 11, this is also I, I 11, Sodexo agreement with Brandon McClimate for the soccer to approve the agreement between the Pella School District and Brandon McClimate for UFC soccer as presented. Can I get a motion, please? Motion. Second. I have a motion and a second. Roll call, please. Mrs. Bush. Yes. Mrs. Cockerly. Mrs. Reinstein. Yes. Mr. Vankus. Yes. Mrs. Wesneski. Mr. White Yes. Mrs. Bain Shawn Yes. And Dr. Bullard >> Yeah, I abstain from that. Motion carried. Anything else to come before the board? Um the the budget tax cuz I know we had an issue last year where
071we kind of got hung up because the one passed and the other one did not. What Let's say I obviously being straight up and say it. I'm not a huge fan of tax increases, especially my area we pay the most. Um I'd say I right now I'm not very happy with it. Let's just Let me just We'll throw that out there and let the public know that people I live around are very happy with it. Um the survey wasn't very overwhelmingly supportive in my area. Um Let's say they want to say we have people in the in my area that really are not for it. Do they voice it between now and next meeting or do tell them come to the next meeting? How do we I think they're both options if they would want
072to send their concerns to myself, I can disseminate them out to the board or if they want to also then come to our next board meeting, they're able to do that also. So either way. Okay. You got a motion to adjourn close? Motion. Second. All in favor? Aye. Aye. This district executive