001All right. [Applause] >> Order 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, please. >> Mrs. Bainy Shaw, >> here. >> Dr. Bary, >> Mrs. Bush here, >> Mr. Jeff, >> Mrs. Lamb, Mr. Manaric >> here, >> Mr. Vanas >> here, >> Ms. Vneski here, >> and Mr. W here. >> Visitors. Anybody? [Music] Uh we did have an executive session prior to this for uh personnel and we also had uh two committee meetings prior to this which uh posted on the website. There anything to add to that? >> No, just that we have ongoing committee meetings. Uh it'll be once a month and like I said they are also out on the board docks
002where our agenda for our committee meetings and our voting meetings are also housed. There'll be a motion on regular voting agenda to approve the July 9th 2025 committee meeting as presented. And there'll be a motion on regular voting agenda to approve the July 9th voting meeting as presented. And Mr. Fry, you have a federal report. You want to go the sheriff doing the elementary? You doing both? >> Yeah, we'll do both. You want me to do this first? >> Yep. >> All right. Good evening everybody. So, one of the titles that I have is the federal programs coordinator. So that deals specifically with our title reading funds um which is a federal program that we receive money for uh to help support our students in grades K to five. So part of that is we
003have to present to the board each year what our plans are to share our budget to share our goals. Um there's two different applications we have to fill out in this process. One is through egrants that's the federal uh consolidated application and then we have to do another one in the future ready comprehensive plan portal. Um, so we do some of our schoolwide district plans, but we also have to do school plans for our title programs that breaks it up into individual schools. So, what is title? I'm going to go through that real quick, talk to you about how we qualify for the funds, how are they used, present our goals. Um, and we have parental rights, and I'll just go over that now. So, parental rights, this is listed on our school web page.
004Parents have the right to ask to see how we use the money through the title program. They're also a part of developing our plans and our goals that we have. So, we have to have a parent meeting every year. We usually have it in the early spring to just talk about making goals for the next school year. Uh title team made up of uh pretty much everybody K to five. I mean, involves the teachers, parents, uh guardians, and then of course our title teachers, which I'll talk about how some of the funding is used for >> uh funding their salaries and benefits. So, what is title? So, like I said, title is um a federal funds for compensatory educational services that we can utilize within our elementary buildings. Um what that compensatory means extra. So,
005we're able to get extra funds to help utilize both our reading and our math programs in the elementary schools. How do we qualify? So, it's based on percentage of students who are free and reduced lunch. So, I know our students receive free lunches and breakfast, but a lot of this comes from and I know we really push our parents to fill out those free and reduced uh forms every year. That really helps with us put submitting this application and being able to get more money for our students. Uh and also goes off our poverty index. So, one of the things that we have to do, uh, we do provide some salaries and benefits for one of our classroom instructors. And depending on which of our two elementary buildings would school score with having the highest
006highest poverty index, that's the building that will help support that teacher salary benefits. So because our poverty index overall is greater than 40% that's why we qualify to be able to receive the funds from the the government. What do the funds provide? So this year for the 2526 school year we were allocated $541,540. So we all have all stakeholders uh so people I showed you before have the right to talk about how the money is going to be spent for our students. So this is a breakdown. There are three different categories that we qualify for. So title one is improving just basic programs. This is where we're going to utilize our money for our math and reading programs. You've heard us talk about ECRI um and our Acadian scores. We talked about linkit for math
007and some of the programs we use. Title two is for supporting effective instruction. So, this is where it's going to come in with supporting that uh that teacher I talked about with class size reduction. So, we use some of the salaries and benefits for that. And then title 4 is also student support and academic enrichment. So, we're able to take the funds from title 4, add it into title two. So, in all, we can use about $90,000 to support a classroom teacher with salaries and benefits through the money we we receive. Uh the purpose is just helping our students become more well-rounded, giving them a better education. And over the last couple years, we've really incorporated the math component. Uh we've really focused on reading up until the last two years. Now we're pushing math
008in as well. Uh some of the funds are used for, as I said, salaries and benefits for faculty and staff, books and supplies, title services. So, our title teachers were able to help with their salaries and benefits for our title teachers. Our afterchool club programs that we have throughout the year like our tutoring program, our summer uh reading program that we do is come the funds come from this professional development opportunities. We also put some money in there for our technology programs for library and computer science and then of course our family engagement nights throughout the year. This is just a breakdown of how we spend the money. So I had shared all the different ways we spend the money and this is just a breakdown of how we utilize the money. Um so just
009a couple big things from here. 369,500 comes goes towards paying the salaries and benefits of our title reading specialist and our reading assistant that's also at school mills. Uh so we spend about 43,000 for our books and supplies. So, majority of the funds in title one do go towards salaries and benefits for our title instructors, but they're the ones that are really diving a lot deeper with our students with their reading and trying to support our our students that need that extra reading support. Title two and four, as I shared before, this goes for a classroom reduction size teacher. This year, based on our poverty index, Philsburg Elementary was a higher need than Oscola Mills. So this year, Christina Sites is going to be the teacher um at PE. So when we do this, we
010have to name what teacher it's for and then we just track data from the room. So the last couple years um we've had Kylie Manaric at Oola Mill. So we've just taken her reading data at the end of the year and we have to support how that's that's helping the students in the classroom. So the title two allocations goes to the partial salaries and benefits for that first grade teacher. And then as I shared the title four, we take these funds and put them right into the title two to help support that. So the biggest thing is developing our goals. So within our elementary buildings districtwide, our goal is to have at least 90% of our students K to five will either make a year's growth in reading or read on grade level from the
011beginning of the year till the end of the year. Um our title reading teachers do a phenomenal job, our classroom teachers do a phenomenal job of tracking where their students are, updating their levels. Uh we do multiple assessments throughout the year and those are some of the programs that we utilize for our for our students um with reading math also 90% of our students will show at least a 10% growth uh or score on grade level with our math assessment that we do with a cadence that's K to two for a cadence and our link assessments which is 3 to five which I know that was shared out with Dr. Hushnake's plan about Lincoln and those are the programs that help support how we get those numbers and what we look at with the students.
012Our parent and family engagement for title students. So we both have different events throughout the year within our elementary building. Some of them might be book bingo, reading and math nights. We do STEM nights. Uh there are other activities that take place. And our goal is to try to get at least 80% of our title parents to be involved in our activities. That 80% would be 80% of the building, but that's a total between all the events we do throughout the year. Um the federal programs coordinator. So for myself, I go to an annual conference to learn about updates that are coming up. Uh especially this year, there were some changes. There was a hold put on title 2 and four for about a month and then they released it back to the schools. So
013I'm able to find out, you know, if that stuff's happening or what changes are going to be coming up for next school year. Um and 80% of our first grade students in that class reduction size room, they're going to meet or exceed making a year's growth in reading or will read on grade level. So that's another goal we had that I said that we have to provide to the government to the about how we are using that money and how it's beneficial to our students. And then we also put in some money to have our students utilize coding. I know Mr. Good uh Mrs. Wagner do a lot of coding robotics with their students in library and computer science. So we put that goal so all of our students are exposed to um coding and
014robotics as well. Parental rights. So all of our parents have the right to be involved in the decisions of our schools. Um they're allowed to request and get information about teacher qualifications. Um they're also able to talk about how they can participate in coming up with the decisions to help support their children. And all this is listed on our website under title. So, we have to put all this out for our families to be able to to see that they have these rates. Does anybody have any questions? >> All right. Thank you. >> The elementary presentation. Is that you or chair? >> Sure. >> All right. Um, for Mills Elementary, we're getting ready for the start of the school year. Um, our kindergarten teachers just hosted a kinder camp on August 4th, 5th, 6th, and
0157th. So, that's when we invite any kindergarten students that want to to come in and they get to learn about the school, go through the cafeteria, learn some of the routines. Um, it's a nice way for them to start the school off, the school year off, um, in a less intimidating way. Um, just a very small group. Um, what else? We Oh, we are preparing for our open house. And if any of you have been to open houses, a lot of community events come in and they set up in our gymnasium. Um, so we have all of our sporting groups, scouts come in. And this year, um, two of our force first responder groups are coming in. So, we'll have an ambulance and a fire truck there. So, the kids can kind of check that
016out and talk with those groups. So, that's nice. um Horus man reached out and they wanted to partner with us. So we're having them join with our PBS program and right before I came, we dropped off $500 worth of items for our school store. So it was a heaping cart load of things like STEM kits, circuit kits, ukuleles, basketball. So it's kind of fun. We'll get to set those things up for the kids for the start of the year. So we're very grateful for his donation and supporting our student. So >> did you say name yet? >> Horus man. George F from Horses Man just dropped all those things off. So, yeah, we're very grateful, but we're ready to start. So, we're looking forward to have the kids coming back. >> Thank you. >> All
017right, I'm going to piggy back off a couple things Sherah shared there. Uh the first thing we did have at Kinder Camp as well as PE. Uh we had about 25 of our students, so a little less than half were able to attend um a two-day session. We had two two and a half hour sessions each day. So, the kids had a chance to come two days in a row. We're able to get um the YMCA provided breakfast and lunch for our students through their summer program and Fington was able to get a bus up there for the students to be able to tour not and get on the bus, see what it's like, and also tour our school to see what the school setting is going to be like cuz it's a big building
018for the little kids that are getting ready to come in. Um George Pry also is partnering um with PE. we're using it as incentive for our attendance. So, we want to try to um increase our student attendance in in the building this year. So, he's working with some rewards that are given to both students and some families of increasing school attendance this year. And then the last thing, I don't know if everybody saw this. I know I appreciate uh Mrs. Mason and Mr. Pela putting this out on social media. On this past Saturday, we had a little community event. Um, I had some organizations from around Center County reach out uh about 3 weeks ago and asked if we would have a back to school event to not only give some school supplies and backpacks
019to students as they're getting ready to get back to school, but also to make a connection with the Philipper community. Um, I know a lot of times when people think of Center County, they don't include us a lot of times. So they these organizations wanted families to be aware of what's out there, what opportunities they have to get support uh not only for their kids but for themselves as families. So, we had um it was called OneHand Foundation, the Faith Leaders Network, Penn State University Police was there were there, Midstate Literacy Council, Sen Clear, Jana Marie Foundation, uh the Center County Youth Service Bureau, the YMCA, and then we had a state trooper there with a with a vehicle. The Philsburg Fire Company had a couple engines there, and Fullington had a bus there. We
020had about 150 people attend and about 75 to 80 students. So, it was a good turnout for the first time doing it on kind of short notice. Um, I also want to thank Dr. Petushnake for allowing us to be able to do that and just trying to build that connection with the agencies that are in Center County. >> Thanks. >> Thank you, Dr. >> Have a couple things to report tonight. Uh, just want to commend the staff. Um whether it be our custodial, our support staff, we're a couple days out and our our buildings are looking in pretty good shape. We have a couple places to tweak, but all in all, we're ready for the students. We're ready for the teachers. We're ready for the paras secretarial staff. We're ready to get our 25 26
021school year underway. I know Elaine and her crew has been busy with some SCM training. And there's just been a lot of activity throughout our district. Even for us to look at certain areas of that we might needed to have addressed in our facilities of trying to find a time where our buildings are not being utilized has been a challenge and that's just serves to all the things that are going on throughout our district even throughout the summer. So I just want to uh recognize those staff. I do want to say our admin team's been busy this summer um as recently here's last day or two, you know, working in uh traveling to Keransville to get uh to to receive some personnel training. Um we also had some title N training and um all in
022all, we've had some work sessions throughout the the summer and things are starting to to come together as a group and the admin team. uh we're ready again for everyone to return here for the school year. Do want to just note that uh had an opportunity uh received a uh an invitation there a few weeks back from Mel Curtis. There was an event uh that I attended that was a really good event on Monday night. It was a legislative food insecurity event at Rustic Ridge Farm. And so there was a lot of individuals from Clinton Center and Clearfield County there. and uh just appreciate the opportunity to be able to be a part of that and uh looking for opportunities in the future where our school district can be can be involved in a rustic
023ridge farm. So uh with that that concludes my report. >> Thank you. >> Uh budget, finance, transportation. There will be a motion on regular voting agenda approve financial report for July 2025 as presented. There will be a motion on regular voting agenda to approve the following dispersements credit card statements for the month July 2025 and the total amount of 1.66 million for the dispersements and payroll of 1.1 million. There'll be a motion on regular agenda to authorize district administration to work with PFM financial advisors LLC as financial advisor stifle nucleus as underwriter Dbor as bank council solicitor in conjunction with the issuance of general obligations note series 2025 in the amount of $3.5 million we have a dual process for the purpose of capital improvements to the district's facilities and pay cost for the issuance
024of the note and >> you'd like to have a few words here. >> Yeah. So, um I'd like to just um bring the board up to speed on this. So, as you as you guys know, at the June board meeting, we had adopted a um a resolution that basically would allow us to be able to reimburse ourselves for any projects that we had going on up to a cost of $3.5 million. Um we have been awarded the facility improvement grant. Um we initially through Dr. Reese had looked at trying to get in about $900,000. If you remember, we got about a $460,000 award to be able to do um roof projects at the high school. So, our cost um to doing that, our match to that would be about $278,000 because we paired it down
025from the first phase, first two phases just down to one phase. So, um again, we had many more needs that we had to look at. So, um I put a list here together of different projects um again that we would be looking at doing that would total that $3.5 million in cost. And again, just kind of summarizing them into different categories. And you know, each each person here has a copy of that. But if you look and see um we have about $1.5 million um in in roof projects. Again, these are estimates that were provided to us uh by TMCO, who's done the um who did the work up at the high school right now and completed that project. We have um a second phase that needs to be done at the high school, which
026is about $450,000. Those roofs were last replaced um in there's three different sections, but they were done in 1998, 2001, 2004. And then at our Ola Middle School, we have roofs that go the whole way back to 1995. So, they're they're definitely past end of life. Um, at this building here, um, with our HVAC units, we actually have, um, and 13 units, um, at the middle school here that are actually at end of life. They were, uh, installed in 2013. They have about a 10-year useful life, and they're already past that. And we actually have rooftop units at Philsburg Elementary. We have 10 units there for um, that are originally from 2003, so they're 22 years in age. Um, we've also identified some um areas with our parking lots obviously that need to be uh
027resurfaced, resealed and and line painting. We've also talked about we have a situation obviously at Philsburg Elementary School um we have a lot of kids that um they get dropped off and picked up and we've had issues with um cars along the side of the road. So, we've looked at different options. One option that we have on there is that we could put a turnaround in there uh for for the parents to be able to park and and to eliminate that safety issue that we have right now. And then some of these other projects on here, again, if you look at our high school and buildings, um a lot of the lighting in there has not been updated to the LED. We um we've had issues um for several years now with the music band
028room at the high school as far as when the um weather gets really really cold and being able to maintain the temperature in there. And then we've had some issues with um the the boiler out of PE. So again, this is just a um just this is not a set in stone. This is just a list of different things to show you things that you could do um with that funding. Um, and again, what we have on here is a motion to basically have PFM advisors come in to be able to help us with these things. I work with PFM when I was at Center County government. They have a extreme knowledge of these kind of things in these kind of situations. We had a situation again when I was at the county where we
029had to look at different financing options and they were able to come in and basically tell us is it better to go for a direct loan with the bank? Is it better to go um and issue bonds? And so, um, we have Jamie Doyle here, um, who again, uh, from PFN took her time to come in here to to talk to you. And so, she's just going to kind of elaborate on more on what this dual track process is and kind of their role and how they're going to work with, uh, with the district. >> Good evening, everyone. It's a pleasure to be here this evening. As I'm passing these out, just a little bit about myself and my FM. First of all, we're an independent financial advisory firm, which means we're different from all
030of the banks and underwriters that you may have worked with in the past or in your personal lives. We don't have any money to lend. We've made a conscious decision not to have any money to lend because we sit on your side of the table. We have a legal fiduciary responsibility to always represent your best interests. You know, banks and underwriters are great, but they have customers on the other side of the transaction to satisfy and and their their customers want the highest interest rates and best terms and conditions, which is the opposite of what you want. You want the lowest interest rates and best terms and conditions. So, uh, again, we're a pure independent financial advisory firm. We work with almost half the school districts in the Commonwealth from the very smallest district to
031the larger districts. my largest school district client is Pittsburgh School District. And you know, that's that's just a whole different uh ball game. But if you look at at page one of my handout, the beauty of being a school district in Pennsylvania when you're thinking about borrowing is you get the best of both worlds. You get to invest your money, your reserves, any borrowed proceeds at taxable rates, which are higher. When you go to borrow, you get to borrow at tax exempt rates, which you can't do in your personal life, but you can as a school teacher. So, you get to borrow at the lower tax exempt rate. And if and when that difference between the taxable investment rate and the tax exempt borrowing rate is positive to your favor, mean the borrowing rate's lower
032than the investment rate, which it is right now by a little bit. you get to keep that as a Pennsylvania school district as long as we follow federal tax law and and of course state law as well. So, I won't go into the weeds on any of that, but please know that everything that we're going to talk about this evening complies with state and and tax law at a federal level. So, on page two, this is a tax exempt yield curve. It's called the BV val curve, which stands for Bloomberg valuation, and it's three different snapshots of this same index. So, what the top snapshot tells us, we're currently at the blue line. It tells us on the short end of the curve, I'll call that the one-year box on on the left hand side
033of the page, the rates at which you invest are excuse me, above historic averages. And as you look out the long end of the curve, you can see that we're currently from a borrowing standpoint pretty much right on historic averages. Maybe a little above on the very long end of the curve, but we're not talking about borrowing out that far. You know, maybe about 10 years or so is is what we're talking about this evening. And so, you know, you hear a lot of doom and gloom on the economic news, but borrowing rates for school districts on a tax exempt basis are pretty much right on historic averages. If you look at the middle snapshot, it just shows this same index going all the way back to 1993. So, you can get a more historic
034perspective. You can see the all-time low rates were set in August of 2020. And then you can see as you you uh look beyond that, the spike upward for COVID. You can see in that bottom box a focused in snapshot of calendar year 2024 to present. So if you look toward the right hand side of that page, you can see April of 2025. That spike upward had to do with tariff talk at the time and you can see how things have really settled down quite a bit since then. So again, uh it's an excellent time to be considering funding your capital improvement projects because of the both the investment environment we're currently in and the the borrowing environment. Um because you know if you look back three four years ago and and that the past
035decade before that you were earning next to nothing on your investments. So this would have been a whole different grandfather plan con reimbursement that you get on most of your issues. you can tell which ones uh in the bottom of the page it says project eligibility percent. If the there's a percentage on that line, it means you're getting that old grandfathered plan con reimbursement. If it says zero, it means you're not because plan moratorum on new projects has been in place uh for quite a few years now. But as as your independent financial adviser, we'll help you monitor your existing debt portfolio for refinancing opportunities. good news and the bad news is you have really low interest rates in your existing portfolio because we were just coming off really a decade of all-time uh low
036interest rates. The important column or the most important column I should say on this page is column 18. And so you can see in your current fiscal year budget ending 2026, your net effect on your budget for debt service is $2,178,92. And then you can see next year it goes down to a,785,000 and it it stays uh around a million8 and then it starts to drop down to a,650,000 and you have a really big drop off after 2041. So column 18 is really important as we think about strategically how we might structure new debt to fit with your old debt in this portfolio. If you look at page four, just a couple of bullet points in that first section. We'd be remiss if we didn't talk a little bit about federal tax law. So, the
037IRS doesn't let us go borrow at these attractive tax exempt borrowing rates just because you have to have reasonable expectations. Those are the key words. Reasonable expectations that you can spend 85% of the borrowed proceeds within 3 years from settlement. reasonable expectations that within six months from settlement, you anticipate entering into a binding obligation to spend at least 5%. Doesn't mean you have to have it spent, just that you're getting close to entering into that upfront contract that's usually with your architect or an engineer or an energy savings company. That that initial upfront contract satisfies that test. And then the third prong of the test is just that you proceed with your capital improvements with due diligence. In that second bullet, bank qualified interest rates mean an even lower taxexempt rate. And you get those
038if you are a small issuer and plan to issue less than $10 million in any given calendar year. Not not school fiscal year, but calendar year is important there. And you know what we're talking about this evening about $3.5 million is is well below that limit. So you would get the lowest possible bank qualified interest rate. If we turn to the next page, page five, this is a an example of what a $3.5 million borrowing could look like. So in the black in column three, there's your existing local effort that we just looked at two pages ago. And and that should look familiar. And so as we look about how to structure this new three and a half million in the green columns, if we wanted to amvertise this over a 10-year term with level
039payments, you can see in column four a conservative estimate. You'd have a partial payment of about 72,000 in the current fiscal year and then about 500,000 in each of the following years through and including 2035. And then you can see in column five all in what your local effort would look like between your old debt and this new $ three and a half million dollars. And that would leave leave you plenty of flexibility for the future because we're always thinking about the future. We know you know you may have additional needs in the future. So as you look down column five, what we're doing is we're preserving some of those drop offs in basically the same places that you already had them for future borrowing needs. So, you know, those drop offs basically mean when
040they occur, those dollars are freed up and available to go toward new debt service if you so choose. So, this this plan has an eye toward the future as well. Any questions on that page? That's that's probably the most important page in here. Hearing none. on page six, just for discussion sake and to give you an idea of what some future capital borrowings could look like. If you borrowed the prior page 3.5 million for 10 years with level payments, now that's added in uh to this analysis. And let's say, you know, a year from now, the end of 2026 or later, you wanted to borrow an additional $5 million in the blue column. You can see what that could look like in column five conservatively. So this is a wraparound structure. So a different structure
041than the prior page. Again, this is what we were saving those drop offs for. And as you look down column five, the payments start off smaller until your old debt in column 4 drops off and then we start to fill in with larger payments because by state law, you have to have in column six overall level or declining debt service. So that that complies with this. But that's a a good planning tool strategically for the future and and whatever additional projects may be on the horizon. So you can see in that scenario um at the end of the day now you'd be left with column six. And scenario two is you know what if again you did the prior page now three and a half million but what if a year from now or more
042you wanted to do $10 million of additional capital improvements. You can see how that would layer on in column 7 payment wise and you can see your all-in running rate in column 8. So again, this is that future flexibility I was talking about. Uh if and and when you have additional needs, it doesn't necessarily um stop with just this three and a half million if you so choose. The the last page, page seven, is just the sample motion that you have on your agenda this evening. again just for uh that 3.5 million v via the dual track process. What the dual track process is because our job as an independent financial adviser is to leave no stone unturned and whatever produces the best economic answer to the school district is what we're ultimately going to
043recommend with the dual track process. We'll start with a bank loan RFP and it'll have a a really long distribution list. It'll be all of PFM's bank contacts. It'll be all of your local bank contacts. you know, the administration will review and approve that list before the RFP is distributed. We'll get those bank loan RFPs back. We'll evaluate them. We'll boil them down to true interest costs. So, we that will include the rate. That will include any costs at settlement. It'll boil everything down to one number, which is called the true interest cost for comparison purposes. And then we'll compare the best bank loan true interest cost to the bond market true interest cost. Because the trade-offs with bank loans and bonds are bank loans have less fixed costs at settlement than bond issues do,
044but bank loans have higher rates than bond issues do. So that's why it's so important to boil everything down to true interest cost and and one number for comparisons purposes. Uh so we'll we'll help you through that process and and arrive at the best economic answer. If you were inclined to proceed, you'll see a sample timeline below that. This is a committee discussion this evening and uh if and when you authorize the finance team to proceed with the motion above. The finance team again consists of myself as your independent financial advisor. Uh Dinsborn and Scho as your bond counsel, Steifel Nicholas as your underwriter, and and your local solicitor would be involved of course as well. And once we're authorized to proceed, we would do the dual track process that I just described. Uh most
045likely during the month of September, we would be back at your September 24th voting meeting with a resolution. That's the the single uh legal document that that you need to approve under the local government unit debt act, which governs your borrowings. And that would lock in the winning bid. And then assuming that happened in September, you'd settle roughly 35 days later by the end of October. That's about how long it takes from start to finish until the money would be in your construction fund, available to pay invoices, available to reimburse yourself for things you already did under that reimbursement resolution, and also available to start earning the interest earnings that I was describing at the beginning. So, I know that's a ton of information. I'm going to pause there and I'm happy to answer any
046questions that you have. >> What's the average fees you're seeing today on from the bond perspective on this, you know, $3 half million? >> I know it can vary, but >> it can vary and we would bid out as many of those as possible. The biggest costs are the underwriters commission and uh the bond insurance policy. So, you know, usually they're a percentage of the size of the issue, but you know, you're you're probably talking at least 3% of the principal amount you're borrowing for bond issuance costs on an issue of this size. >> You're looking at 100,000 income. >> So, from a bank perspect maybe >> from a bank perspective, >> a couple thousand bucks. Well, yeah, you you still have some other fixed, you know, there's bank fees, there's bank counsel, you still
047have your bond council fees, financial advisor, advertising, things like that. >> A lot of the banks can do it in house. So, >> they can. You're absolutely right. And that's part of what we'll ask them in the RFP process because again, you know, we want to make everything apples to apples and boil it down to true interest cost all in for comparison purposes. >> All right. Thank you. This allows you again to have somebody independently has enough skin in the game to be able to look at all of this stuff and then by doing this process. It gets a lot of people involved and then you can get a good rate that way too. And again, the players that are on this financial team here are all people that we've worked with in the past.
048So, whoever the bond council was, the gentleman that I talked with was who's done our stuff in the past before. So, um, everybody's familiar with Phil School District. It's a good process. >> Yeah. Yeah. It's a really good process and like I said, um they did a wonderful job um at at when I was at center county government and again a lot of the school districts are using them. It's a really good tool to have with you. >> If I can just speak to to my time prior school district putting in elementary school and funding it. We work with Jamie and PFM there. very familiar with the process and used widely Mifflin County like >> y used all over the state. Yes, >> they're experts. >> Y >> thank you very much. >> Thank you.
049>> We have any questions? >> Questions. >> Thank you. >> Thanks. >> Have a safe trip. >> Thank you. >> You're welcome to stay, but you got to hit the road. Please. >> I might hit the road. Thank you. I don't know how far you have to go, but >> I appreciate you coming. >> Absolutely. >> Thank you. >> We're going to come back to you unless Tom, you have anything you want to add to any of that. >> I'm sure we'll follow up more with the numbers and >> Yep. >> tap on >> right >> Dusty's brain and your brain with that. >> Yep. >> All right. >> Yep. >> All right. So Dusty, can you continue with that? >> Sure. There'll be a motion on regular voting agenda approve a contract with Quest
050Educational Technology by category one and one and two consulting services for 2016 2017 as presented. There be a motion on the regular moving agenda to approve the title one school plans for the filter elementary and osuming 2526 school year as presented. There be a motion on the regular vgenda to approve Don Don Baney and Greg Westwood as drivers for Grace Hill School District vehicles for 2526 school year and there will be motion ready for the pulling following bus drivers for the 2526 school year as presented and there motion rings for the following drivers for long buses for the 256 school year as presented. >> Thank you. Voting in rounds. >> Motion on the regular voting agenda to inoperable mill at Oola area high school on community relations. Nothing listed. Uh, somebody to take the curriculum
051and instruction. >> Take that. >> You got that? >> There will be a motion on the regular voting agenda to approve field trip requests for the 2024 2025 school year as presented. >> We're going to change that to the 2526. Yep. >> 25 26. Mrs. Bush personnel resignation. There'll be a motion on the regular voting agenda to accept the resignation of Caitlyn Fi as a middle school science teacher effective July 16, 2025. Post middle school science position. There'll be a motion on a regular voting agenda to close the middle school science teaching position for the 2025 2026 school year at the Philsburg Oola Middle School hosting effective July 31st, 2025. Force transfer. There'll be a motion on the regular voting agenda to force transfer Lisa Groves from a senior high chemistry teacher at Philsburg Oola
052High School to middle school science teacher at Philsburg Oola Middle School effective at the beginning of the 2025 2026 school year. Post anticipated vacancy. There'll be a motion on the regular voting agenda to post an anticipated vacancy K through six elementary teaching position first grade for the 2025 2026 school year at Ool Mills Elementary School posting effective August 6, 2025. hire. There'll be a motion on the regular voting agenda to hire Vanessa Ericson for a 5.75 hour special education instructional assistant/PCA autistic support position requiring safe crisis management certification at Oola Mills Elementary retroactive to August 4, 2025. Hire. There'll be a motion on the regular voting agenda to hire Ashley Lindstöm from 5.75 hour special education instructional assistance/PCA emotional support position required safe crisis management certification at Oola Mills Elementary School retroactive to August 4th
0532025. There'll be a motion on the regular voting agenda to hire Carrie Slaughter for 5.75 hour special education instructional assistance/PCA autistic support position requiring state crisis management certification at Philsburg Oola High School effective at the beginning of the 2025 2026 school year. Create special education instructional assistant position. There'll be a motion on the regular voting agenda to create a 5.75 special education instructional assistant/pca life skills at Ool Mills Elementary School effective at the beginning of the 2025 2026 school year. Post. There'll be a motion on the regular voting agenda to post a 5.75 hour special education instructional assistant PCA life skills position at Ool Mills Elementary School posting effective >> to be determined here. to be determined. >> Okay. >> Hire. There'll be a motion on the regular voting agenda to hire for a 5.75
054special education instructional assistant/PCA life skills position at Ool Mills Elementary School effective at the beginning of the 2025 2026 school year. Hire. There'll be a motion on the regular voting agenda to hire Tristan Day as a five-hour districtwide custodian at Philsburg Oola High School effective upon completion of required paperwork. Hire. There'll be a motion on the regular voting agenda to hire Eli Kwa for 5-hour district-wide custodian at Ool Mills Elementary School effective compon upon completion of required paperwork. resignation. There'll be a motion on the regular voting agenda to accept the resignation of Sha Burns as a fivehour district-wide custodian at Philsburg Oio High School effective August 4th, 2025. Post. There'll be a motion on the regular voting agenda to post a five-hour district-wide custodial position at Philsburg Oioa Area High School posting effective August 14th,
0552025. Create. There'll be a motion on the regular voting agenda to create a two 5.75 hour special education instructional assistant positions at Oola Mills Elementary School for the 2025 2026 school year. Post. There'll be a motion on the regular voting agenda to post two temporary 5.75 hour special education instructional assistance positions at Ool Mills Elementary School for the 2025 2026 school year posting effective August 7th, 2025. Um, okay. Department chairperson. There'll be a motion on the regular voting agenda to approve the following department chairpersons for the 2025 2026 school year as listed on your agenda. Technology liaison. There'll be a motion on your regular voting agenda to approve the following technology leaison for the 2025 2026 school year as listed in your agenda. student teachers. There'll be a motion on the regular voting agenda to
056approve the following student teachers for the 2025 2026 school year as listed in your agenda. Agreement. There'll be a motion on the regular voting agenda to approve an agreement between the Philsburg, Oola Area School District and the United Steel Paper and Forestry Rubber Manufacturing Energy Allied Industrial Service Workers Industrial Union AL CIO on behalf of local 8166-44 for the period of July 1st 2025 through June 30th, 2026 as presented. There'll be a motion on the regular voting agenda to update the job description for special education instructional assistance as presented. >> Take a break. >> I bet I couldn't whistle. There'll be a motion on the regular voting agenda to approve an alternative education for dis disruptive youth contract between Hillsboro Oola area school district and Nitney Learning Services for the 2025 2026 school year as
057presented. Education services. There'll be a motion on the regular voting agenda to approve educational services agreements between the Philsarosiola area's school district and Pyramid Healthcare um TDA Soaring Heights School for the 2025 2026 school year as presented. There'll be a motion on the regular voting agenda to approve a school psychologist agreement between the Philsburg Oola area school district and Heidi Meyers for the 2025 2026 school year as presented. There'll be a motion on the regular voting agenda to approve 2025 PAR educator handbook as presented. There'll be a motion on the regular voting agenda to approve the 2025 2026 coaching handbook as presented. There'll be a motion on the regular voting agenda to approve the 2025 2026 athlete extracurricular and parent guardian handbook as presented. There'll be a motion on the regular voting agenda to accept
058a resignation of Rebecca Cahoot as game manager for girls soccer effective immediately. There'll be a motion on the regular voting agenda to approve the following extracurricular positions for the 2025 as listed in your agenda. Okay. There'll be a motion on the regular voting agenda to approve the fall sports team scheduled for the 2025 2026 school year as presented. >> What's the choice? >> Did I take some of yours? I'm sorry. Did I >> You're on a roll. >> I'm on a roll. I just kept on >> take a break. >> Was that when I was done clear back then? I'm sorry. I just came. >> Hey, Mr. Bank, would you like to do that? >> Be all right with you. >> Sure. >> Just other >> other items. [Music] other the four items under the
059number item. >> Yep. >> Okay. There will be a motion on the regular voting agenda to approve the Philsburg Oola area school district faculty handbook for the 2025 2026 school year as presented. There will be a motion on the regular voting meeting to approve Philsburg Oola area school district elementary student handbook for the 2025 2026 school year. There will be a motion on the regular voting agenda to approve the Philipsburg Oil Area School District Middle School student handbook for the 2025 2026 school year as presented. And there will be a motion on the regular voting agenda to approve the FSburg Oila area school district high school student handbook for the 2025 2026 school year as presented. >> Anything else to come before the board? Have a motion to adjourn. >> Second. Oh, before we go,
060one additional thing we throw out there about meetings, about date changes or >> Oh, welcome the input from the board, some ideas what we could do, >> what works for people. So, it seems to be some conflicts coming up on uh meeting dates that were scheduled ahead. Is that like effective immediately? >> Well, that's >> we would have to advertise. So, it would be for, you know, that would be part of the discussion of when >> I don't know if we could do it for the next meeting or not. That's too soon. I don't know what the laws are, but >> I we would have time to advertise and that's basically one of our obligations is just to advertise, make it public. Basically, if we come up with an idea, it would be a trial
061to see how it goes. And it's been suggested just to throw out ideas that have come back. Uh going to a Monday. We were on Mondays prior to uh getting changed back to a Wednesday. We were on Mondays many years. Um it was Tuesdays and Baney had switched to Wednesdays because of sports, right? Uh we go we can also the idea is out there to try to consolidate into one evening and do the committee first might be a little bit longer night but it would be within one night. Um the second Monday is >> vote >> is not a good one. That's a vote meeting. Uh if you want to try a Monday, we can look at the other three Mondays, the third Monday, the fourth Monday depending on people's schedules. If if that's something
062you want to try, >> the end of the month would be better for the fire nationals. >> Dr. Pesnik, what's your um experience with, you know, one month or two? >> So, I've seen it done different ways. Um I've seen it done where you have a ton of meetings and you're you know basically all your Tuesdays of the month are taken up with meetings. Um CTC is a it's a smaller entity but they're able to make like a 6:30 committee the whole followed 7:00 then by a voting. I think it's something that could be entertained especially um just like for tonight we had some presentations uh we have an exec session but the experience here has been at PO traditional work session um in how we just read the agenda here for our committee the
063whole meeting that could probably be done in one night but I think it would probably gonna if you would decide to go that route I think there then would be more say communication probably most likely by email from myself because we're only going to one meeting then there would be more information being given then through email uh because of the the one >> we would we get the minutes out sooner then give people a chance to >> so part of for the minutes for the meeting in other words >> that's something that we could discuss with the board it would go out with the agenda traditionally how it would be is the week before the actual meeting but if you needed them out sooner That's something we could talk as far as what that would
064look like. >> I assume people would want to come and potentially chat if they want the public. >> So from a So you're looking not only from the minute standpoint, but the actual agenda. >> The agenda. I apologize. The agenda. Yeah. >> Um yeah, we can we can definitely >> I'm just trying to think all angles what questions could come up. >> Yep. from the public. >> Um, >> we would still have the ability in theory to do the 24 changes up until the 24 hours before, but let's say we pick a Monday. I mean, if if you wanted to go to the prior Monday or Tuesday before for the preliminary agenda out with any tweaks coming in, you know what I mean before that Monday. Um, that would be something as far as the
065board you could decide. Would it be safe to put it on a on a Thursday prior to >> I think even at the CTC it were we've tried to get it to the Wednesday because that was a concern of how much time >> well on a Wednesday that gives Thursday and Friday in case somebody on the board has questions has to come back in admin to get in clarity on it. Could it be more beneficial for the administration though just to make sure they could still everyone could still attend from that angle? Like, you know, is there things going on Monday nights within the schools that would just make it more difficult? >> Would you rather have two or one? I like the idea of like how we did tonight starting at 4 and I'm
066happy to meet all night long on one night like because then even like when we meet at seven like I'm sitting here not that I don't have other work to do but still it's like 7 o'clock come on like you know so I thought that was great like I >> to stack them if you're going to give up your night stack the night. >> Yep. That's just >> agreed. Uh Tom, does the third Monday work good for financials? >> Yeah, I mean we can turn, like I said, when we're trying to turn them around for the first like if we have a if it's first Wednesday of the month and everything, it's a quick turnaround. We're just getting everything and we can get it turned around, but you the more time we have, it's better.
067So, yeah, third would be fine. >> The fourth might be better. >> Third or fourth would be fine. I mean, it's just when we have to turn around for the first week in particular, it's really hard. And then the second because we always try to have the financial report ready for the committee meeting. >> How about uh personal calendars with anybody in the room? >> CIU is Thursday. So as long as we avoid Thursday, >> pardon >> CIUs are Thursdays. >> Okay. But on the third or the fourth Monday, we go to a Monday. >> Does anybody have anything? >> And there their other committees are Tuesdays and Wednesdays. So I've always declined their Wednesday one anyway. I have something on Mondays, but I can >> Yeah, >> so it go. [Music] >> Yeah. >>
068Wednesday, Friday, yesterday, Friday. >> Every Monday, >> correct? >> Admin, anybody have anything there on a Monday? We'd like you to speak up now if you have some big conflicts that show up on Monday. >> I know as far as coaching wrestling is very few on you don't have Mondays. >> My advice would be if there if everyone's uh would entertain that would be that we would finish out August with a voting session on in two weeks and then set that date for September as the first month to do one if if everyone's in agree. You guys have a lot >> as long as you stay away from the first because I feel like the first Monday tends to be when there's holidays for some reason. >> We run into that at work. Anything like
069the first >> what that first Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday can be cancelled more than anything. >> You guys just you have a lot going on towards the end of the month. So I would suggest the third Monday. >> The third makes the most sense for the third. >> And I know there's some conflicts coming up on the next voting meeting. Sean, you have a conflict on the next. >> You and I would have the same conflict >> for the same reason. So, >> right. >> You don't think we can pull it off for this month? >> So, what basically we're going we can't we have time as long as we have time to advertise. So, let's look at the calendar real quick. >> I mean, it's not like >> how would how do you go about
070like these hires and things when you have the So our next meeting would >> because we need to vote on the stuff we did tonight. Stuff >> the 27th. So the 3 Monday. Now granted we can advertise in in theory it could be the 25th of August and then after that be the third um Monday because the 25th is actually going to be the fourth Monday. But bottom line is we could We can advertise to make that work. >> Anybody have objections to starting on the 25th of August for the first do it all in one night? Exact sessions will have to you know be prior to that. So it might be a little longer but really when we get into our voting it's a consent agenda anyhow. >> So we don't have a lot
071of addendums >> something to to consider. October is going to hit the conference. >> So let's let's tentatively say the 25th of August. Then let's look at calendars out September, October. >> Yeah, October is going to hit. >> Yep. The PSBA conference >> in November we'll have new people coming in whenever election is. >> If you get people >> December. >> Yeah. >> First week of December. So November, it would be the 17th of November. >> The third one in December is good because it's the way up in the 15th. >> Yep. >> So if we looked at October real quick, well, we have everyone. >> We might need to do like the 27th that month or something. >> Or the week before. >> Does anyone have an objection? Coming back to everyone with the
072fourth Monday. If not, we can peacemail it of third this month, fourth this month, or just make it fourth. >> It would be the Monday of Thanksgiving and Thanksgiving or in November. If I have this correct, let me look at that again. >> It would be the week of Christmas too in December. >> No, the reorganization meeting is just first Wednesday. >> Yeah, we have to get that one. >> If you hold it the same Monday. >> So, is there an objection with going with the fourth? No, I was just more less looking at it from a >> registration standpoint. >> So >> any objections on the fourth Monday? >> Okay. >> And that will be next meeting date will be the 25th. >> Chad, are you all right with all >> good? >> Yeah,
073Mondays will work fine for us. third Monday or fourth. Either one, someone will be able to cover. >> Let's do the fourth till till we get through into December reorg. >> We need a >> um >> it's not a voting meeting and what we'll do is we'll retroactively approve it. It How's that going to Joe? How can we do that because it's a different date than the schedule? >> When do we have to vote? Uh in terms of doing it tonight, >> yeah, >> uh you can add a motion to the agenda to do it formally and then do a public comment period on it since it wasn't advertised and then just add it to the agenda through updating it within 24 hours. So we can vote on it at our meeting on the 25th
074>> to to vote on it at the next meeting. You would need to uh do that as a motion tonight or advertise it afterwards. >> We don't have a voting meeting, but >> yeah. >> Yes. At the voting meeting >> on the addendum for the next meeting. We usually add motions to to the addendum. So Joe, we don't have to add is there action taken tonight other than to add it to the voting agenda on now the 25th of August and we'll cancel the um the 20 I guess so if we're looking at this >> tonight's the 13th um >> we will the 25th will be a meeting before for our next regularly scheduled meeting. >> So that meeting we can call a >> do we have to call it a special meeting or we'll
075just call it a a special voting meeting or just our voting monthly voting meeting has changed? I I think just for the sake of simplicity, we we should just call it a special voting meeting and then effectuate the date change at that meeting and then just go forward with it from there and make sure that all the notice is put on for the special voting meeting in that regard. >> All right. So, we will advertise a special voting meeting on the 25th which will then set course >> and strike the the other one that would normally occur. Yeah. >> Yep. Yep. Anyway, >> we're only setting three meeting. >> We have to advertise. >> Correct. What what our solicitor is saying is we're going to advertise a special voting meeting and we're then that'll allow
076us to have the meeting to then change the dates going forward >> and then and then have regular meeting. Do we need a motion tonight to advertise a special voting meeting or just add it to this? >> No, I'm really thinking about just in history if there if there was an issue of some sort like, hey, we need to have a special voting meeting, we would we would advertise and we would have >> I Joe, are you all right with that? Basically, it's what you you would you just report it. >> No, I don't think that's substantially a substantial deviation. No, >> good question. Good. >> I think we're good. >> All right. >> Have a motion to adjurnn. >> Motion. >> Second. All in favor? [Music]