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Wednesday May 28, 2025 School Board Meeting

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YouTube / Philipsburg-Osceola School District
Date
2025-05-29
Location
Clearfield County, PA
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2,908 words · about 17 min
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2026-06-10

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001to the 28th voting meeting. Please rise for the pledge to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Mrs. Sh, Dr. Mary here. Mrs. Bush here. Mr. Jeff present. Mrs. Lamb. Mr. Manaric here. Mr. Vanis here. Miss Vesnuski here and Mr. Wood here. Thank you. None of you are visitors. No comments. No. Okay. Uh we had an executive session. uh was for legal personnel prior to the meeting. Apologize it went a little bit over. Um need a motion to approve the April 23rd, 2025 voting meeting minutes as presented. Second motion and second. All in favor? I I motion to approve the May 14th, 2025 committee meeting minutes as presented. Motion. Second. We have a second. All in favor?

002I approve. We have a motion to approve the May 14th 25 special voting man minutes as presented. Second. All in favor. Now we're down to presentations. Yep. So tonight we have Mrs. Hockey, Mr. Pelin, Mrs. Selfridge. Um, what is yours? All right. So, hello. I have two things to share about the high school. I know that for the high school students have shared a lot of information with you this month. So, um, I tried to come up with two things that you haven't heard about. So, aside from the fact that we're trying to get ready for graduation, and it's been challenging, thank you to the weather, but I think we have things under control. So, on May 2nd, it was school lunch hero day. And we love our lunch ladies. They're very special to us

003and they treat us really well. They take care of the staff and the teachers. They take great care of the kids. So, we wanted to do something special for them. Um, the kids made cards for them that everybody signed. They hung all around the school. The the lunch ladies loved them. We, myself included, washed dishes, dried dishes, served lunch to the kids, wiped the tables, and it was a great experience. They thought it was great. They felt really special and we were happy to do it for them. It was great team building and made us feel like a united group. Um, on May 9th, it was an inservice day. We learned about steels in the morning. In the afternoon, because May is mental health awareness month, we had a mental health awareness event. We decided

004to invite eight different outside agencies to come and join. My staff, my teachers were there. We had the groups mixed. We had activities and discussion all afternoon. Uh both groups learned a lot. Some of the things that we did while the event was happening, we engaged in conversations about the social and emotional compet competencies that our teachers are teaching the kids, what that looks like from a teachers perspective as well as from the outside agency perspective. We also had conversations about how we can work together to support our kids mental and behavioral health needs. We gave the agency folks a chance to talk to the teachers about what it is they do and how they can provide support to teachers and families in school as well as in the home. We had a Q&A session.

005Um we had lots of activities where they were mixed together at tables and they were having conversations about how we can uh revamp our sack program to make it more intentional next year as far as how we can provide interventions and supports for students. So it was a very successful afternoon and we thought it was very valuable for for both groups. Thank you. Thank you. Sure. Um I just wanted to share with you some of the things that are happening with special education. So, our um high school life skills classroom and our high school autistic support classroom, they did the life skills prom earlier this month, which is always a big hit. And the life skills prom rotates among districts. Um so, it was at Mo Valley this year, and um it it was it

006was enjoyed by all. They had a Miami theme and so um the kids had on their floral shirts and um they had neon decorations and they just really enjoyed it. It was a fun day for them to all be able to experience that and get to hang out with their friends. Um and it is they are always really excited to go and really happy and thrilled when they come back. So it was a great day. Um, and I understand that we will be up in about four years, so it'll be our turn. So, that'll be something to look forward to. Um, I also wanted to share with you about a sensory space that some of Justin's teachers created in his building. So, the CIU offers a grant which is called the educate grant and it

007is funded by their employees directly. So their employees give a piece of their paycheck that gets automatically deducted each pay and then that grant opportunity goes out to local schools. Meg Beardsley and Amber Miller who are two of our autistic support teachers at PE. They applied for the grant back in the fall um and were awarded and it it took a while for everything to go through and get the supplies ordered and figure out a space and they were working really closely with Mr. Fi but um they installed their sensory space at the beginning of this month. It's under the stairs. They have a nice little um area there with tiles and they have spinners and they have sensory tiles on the walls that light up and change color and are interactive. They have some

008different calming things there. Miss Beardsley did a lot of research looking into what items were going to actually be beneficial for students and um I've been in the school several times and there's a constant rotation of students using the space. They use it as a reward area. They use it as a calm down. They use it for students who just need like a break in their day before they move on to their heavy academic work. So, it's been really wonderful and it was really exciting for me to see some of our teachers taking that initiative and stepping up and doing something really great for kids. All right. Two tough acts to follow. Um, so this month, May is probably the craziest month. I'd say that next month it's craziest. Maybe it's December, but it doesn't

009hold anything to May. We had our sixth, seventh, and eighth graders uh all had their field trip. Sixth grade went to the curve game. seventh grade to outdoor odyssey and eighth grade went to Canobyl. Uh today Dave Harmon got up on the stage at our talent show and he gave 22 seventh and eighth graders their inaugural four seasons uh sweatshirts and if you recall that is for the kids that participate in extracurricular activities. Now you're going to see kids wearing their four seasons sweatshirts around. So we had 22 this year and um we're hoping it, you know, continues because we like to see those kids doing extracurriculars. We had our spring fling dance in May and we had over 90 kids show up in seventh and eighth grade. That's roughly 40% of the seventh and

010eighth grade that showed up for the dance and they had a great time. You might have seen in the report um our eighth grade science or our science department took our eighth grade students to six mile run, did a stream study, tested the waters. I'll be posting something about that here shortly on Facebook as well. Mr. wood took kids to the solar car challenge and we had two kids come in first place for coolest design the croc car. We thought that was really nice and I just wanted to make a quick announcement. Education foundation is looking for new members. So if there's any we did put an article in the journal and if there's anybody out there um that would like to you know volunteer their time for the ed foundation we could certainly use

011it. So thank you very much. next session after good. Okay, back to the agenda. We have a consent agenda um going on the agenda for C through K. Real quick, if I could, I'm just going to uh jump in just to announce about graduation Friday for the superintendence report. Hey, just want to make sure uh everyone and those who will be online listening um we are looking at out at the forecast for the weather preparations been made. We did receive some feedback when we set about a rain date onto Saturday and um it was clear that there was a a few people that had had plans already scheduled for Saturday and with the weather from our viewpoint the weather doesn't look great for both Friday and Saturday. So, uh, announcement went out as late as

012tonight, um, from a school messenger, uh, basically, uh, letting the community know and the parents of our seniors that, uh, rain or shine, um, graduation will be this Friday. Um, if it is moved indoors, that decision is going to be made by noon on Friday. And if it's moved inside, uh, help me out. Uh, Miss Saki, tickets per graduate or right now at how many per? Um, everybody got five. We were inundated with requests for additional tickets. So, we sat this afternoon, counted everything, and we're we're going through every email and trying to give out extras as much as we can in a fair way. So, so if someone said, "I didn't need all five, I only need two." We were redistributing the other three afterwards. Um, we do have plans to live stream the

013graduation to the community. It'll be on our YouTube um, site and I believe that link's already out there, isn't it? Yeah, it's chat. It's on the website. So, it's already there. We also will have um for overflow attendance in the event that everyone isn't able to fit into the auditorium, there will be an opportunity where you it doesn't require having a ticket um in our gymnasium and we'll have it um streamed and broadcast up on a screen. And so that is also going to be available if in fact we do move inside, which uh right now is looking very likely that that will be the case, but we'll make that decision on Friday. So, I just want to make sure that uh everyone has that information and we're all prepared for Friday. Well, the people

014that requested extra tickets, how they're the ones that should go to the gym first, I think. You know what I mean? I mean, how you going to Well, we had I don't know maybe 30 requests for extras. So, we looked at how many extra seats there were and then we just started a lot. We went through and we figured out which we called home. Anyone that didn't show up to practice, we called home and had a lot say they weren't walking. So, we were able to take those five for each of those kids, put them back into the mix. And then there were some extras. So, I, you know, tried to count up how many schoolboard members, how many admin, um, the necessary people we needed to block off and then we looked at how

015many were extra and then we started saying if if someone requested two, we gave them the two. We start started going through the emails. Um if there was a request for an extra and there were like 12 to 15, we said we know that no. No, we can spare two to three. Um and we were able to give every additional request an extra two to three. Um and we still have a few. So to and that's the redist red distributing of the tickets is to make it live in the auditorium. You won't need a ticket or anything to show up for the gymnasium. So that won't will not require any type of ticket or anything like that. Um so you can come as as a family as a group and uh the ones with the

016tickets will go in the auditorium. The rest will be able to go over to the gymnasium and then reunite after the ceremony's over. Okay. Yep. And start time start time 7 7 o'clock. 11:00. Anything else you want to add, R? I don't think graduation. It's a good group of students. I was over there in the background watching for uh graduation practice. Um some of those can be a little unruly at this time of year and whatnot. And that's probably one of the best behaved group of students that I've observed in my 15 years of they are group. Great. They did a great job to be commended. Yep. Okay. Anything else? Nope. Any board member have anything they want to bring up? More than welcome. Door is open. Uh just a short note if you uh

017want to any use of computer for board work uh they can be signed up. Uh there won't be any uh confidential information on taxes and stuff. So, if you want to use ordocs and I'll send something out um after the meeting or later with some more information on that. Okay, let's go to the consent agenda. We do a consent for C through K. And I am going to ask that we pull I8. Mrs. Bush, you had one you wanted. Yes. G6. C6 C6. Anybody else want anything for R2? [Music] Did you purricular? So, could I have a motion to approve the consent agenda C through K polling G6 and I8? I have a motion, please. I have a motion. Second and a second. Roll call vote, please. Mrs. Bainy Shaw, yes. Dr. Bumar, yes. Mrs.

018Bush, yes. Mr. Jeff, yes. Mrs. Lamb, Mr. Manaric, yes. Mr. Vancus, yes. Mrs. Vasneski, yes. And Mr. Yes. Uh personnel G6 vote on it separately. Do you need me to read that or go ahead? Motion to approve the following summer school positions for the summer of 2025. Motion second. Second. Motion and second. Roll call, please. Dr. Bumary, yes. Mrs. Bush, I abstain. Mr. Jeff, yes. Mrs. Lamb, Mr. Manaric, yes. Mr. Vanis, yes. Mrs. Vesneski, yes. Yes. Mr. Wood, yes. Motion carries. Okay. Uh, I pull I8, could you read I8, please? Don't we have to do the other personnel one? 16. It's in the other. It's on the other one. Okay. Go ahead. Motion to hire the following extracurricular positions for the 2025 2026 school year sending all required clearances as listed. Motion. Second. Roll call,

019please. Mrs. Bush. Yes. Mr. Jeff, yes. Mrs. Lamb. Mr. Manarchic, yes. Mr. Vancus, yes. Mrs. Vneski, yes. Mr. Wood, Mrs. By Shaw, yes. And Dr. Boler, yes. Motion carries. Okay, that takes care of the agenda. And then we have the addendum. That's a good doctor for that. It's good thing I brought a water with me tonight here. Hey, let me just highlight each one of these as we get down through. There's 60 some of them. Number one's Baker Tilly has to do with our engagement letter for our audit. Item two uh is to withdraw from the Tuscar Intermediate Unit Capital Insurance Trust. Um item three is to go with First National Insurance. Um, United item four is to vote on going uh on our annual United Concordia Dental Insurance. We have five is a transportation

020service agreement with the CIU10. Item six is a special education service agreement with the CIU10 for the 2526 school year. Um, item seven is articles of operational agreement for the CTC. This is to clean up some language. Um, so there was a small change that the JOC was in favor for and also the the superintendent. So asking for approval for that tonight. Um, we have an update to our official salary scale 2526 school year for sports. We have our extracurricular um appointments for the 2526. We have our postgame managers for the 2526 school year. Item 11 is to sell or dispose of old uniforms and warm-ups. 12 is a resignation from a five-hour district-wide custodian. 13 is to post a five-hour district-wide custodian or actually custodian at Philsburg Middle School. 14, 15, 16, 17, 18

021is asking for approval for unpaid days. Um 19 as this is getting into our um just our our budget and our um outlook for next year. uh due to enrollment in our classrooms. Uh we have uh a second grade classroom we're going to close. Uh we're going to open item 20, a fourth grade classroom. Um through bid day, we're going to uh recommend transferring Doug Sabino, a teacher. Item 22 is to close a fifth grade classroom due to enrollment. Um 23 would be a transfer of Brandon Anderson as a result of bid day and of the classroom closing. Item 24, close a third grade classroom at PE. Item 25 is to open a fourth grade classroom at PE as we follow the bubble of kids in enrollment. 26 is a transfer of Bethany Thompson at

022PE from third to fourth. 27 is to open a special education classroom at OM. 28's a transfer of Jodie Oppel uh special teacher. 29 is going to be a transfer of Jessa Klamison from middle school PE to elementary. 30 is going to be a transfer of Amy Troxell to a reading teacher position. 31 is going to be a transfer of Samantha Sanker from fifth grade uh to the middle school. 32 is going to be to close a 6-hour position. 33 is to open a 7-hour position in special ed uh PAR position. 34 is to transfer Nicole Appleard um as a special education assistant uh as a result of bid day. Another close 35 is a close of a six-hour special ed position. 3, that's 35. 36 is to open a 7-hour special ed assistant position

023in life skills. 37 is to transfer Nette uh Sigf freed special ed instructional assistant. 38 is going to be to close a six-hour position at PE. 39 uh special education instructional assistant position at PE. 39 is to open a 7-hour special education instructional assistant autistic support position at OM. 40 is to transfer Kim Freeman, special education assistant, instructional assistant. 41 is to transfer Lorie Clark, special education instructional assistant. 42 is to create a 7 and a half hour health room assistant LPN position. Um 43 is going to be transfer agenda 4 special education instructional assistant to health room assistant. 44 is to transfer Barbola special education instructional assistant. 45 close a 5-hour special education instructional assistant life skills position at at the high school. 46 is to open a 5.75 hour special education instructional assistant

024PCA life skills position at the high school. 47's to transfer 5.75 hour special education instructional assistant PCA life skills position at the high school. 48's to transfer Aaron Evans special education instructional assistant. 49 is to create a 5.75 hour special education instructional assistant PCA learning support. It's for the CTC and through the high school. 50. Transfer Carla Twist from a 4.5 hour CTC to a 5.75 hour CTC PCA learning support. 51. Transfer Sheila Lurch from a 5.75 hour PCA to high school to a 5.75 uh PE learning support. 52 is to close a learning support 5.5 hour PE. 53. Open a 5.75 hour special education instructional assistant autistic support at 54. Transfer Christina Zendex special education instructional assistant. 55. Close 5.75 hour special education instructional assistant learning support position at 56. Open a 5.75 hour

025special education instructional assistant emotional support position. 57. Transfer Shauna Thompson special education instructional assistant. 58. Close a 4.5 hour special education instructional assistant afternoon position at the high school in CTC. 59. Open a 4.5 hour special education instructional assistant morning position at the high school in CTC. Item 60. Create a 4.5 hour special education instructional assistant PCA morning position at the high school and CTC. Item 61 is a separation agreement with employee 2425-4. 62 create a 5.75 hour special education instructional assistant autistic support at position. 63 post pair professional positions open as a result of bid day. 64 posteing positions open as a result of bid day. 65. purge outdated, unused curriculum books at uh Philsburg Elementary School. And item 66 is the resignation of Relle Sedoric, health and physical ed teacher at the elementary

026schools. We do those again, but I could they probably won't be read the same way. So, we have an addendum. We have 66 items 1 through 66. [Music] uh 1 through 66. I'm going to pull number 11, 16, 29, and 31. We do separate votes on those. So, I have a motion to approve 1 through 66, not counting those four items, 11, 16, 29, and 31. Do I have a motion to approve the addendum? So move a motion and a second. Roll call, please. Mr. Jeff, yes. Mrs. Lamb. Mr. Menargic. Yes. Mr. Vanis. Yes. Mrs. Vesneski. Yes. Mr. Wood. Yes. Mrs. By Shaw. Yes. Dr. Bulary. Yes. And Mrs. Bush. Yes. Motion carries. For number 11, have a motion to sell or dispose of old uniforms and warm up. Do I make a motion to

027table it? We have a motion to table number 11. Have a second. We have a second. for the roll call, please. Mrs. Lamb. Mr. Manaric. Yes. Yes. Table. Yes. Mr. Bankas. Yes. Mrs. Fesnuski. Yes. Mr. Wood. Yes. Mrs. Bainy Shaw. Yes. Dr. Bumary. Yes. Mrs. Bush. Yes. And Mr. Jeff? Yes. Motion table. Number 16. Do I have a motion to approve a request from an employee for half an unpaid day on March 3rd, 20125 and full unpaid days on March 4th and 5th due to exhausting all sick and personal days? We have a motion to approve. We have a second. Second. We have a second. Who is that? Dr. Yes. Yes. Okay. Mr. Manic. Yes. Mr. Vancus. No. To Mrs. Vasneski. To remove. Obstain. Mr. Wood. No. Mrs. Benny Shaw. Dr. Bulary. No. You said

028no. Mrs. Bush. No. Okay. Uh, four nos. Oh, and sorry. No. And Mrs. L. Okay. There's five nos, one yes. Oh, she did not care. Motion was defeated. Defeated. Number 29, a motion to transfer Jessica Lamison from FA and teaching position at PO Middle School to PE teaching position at Philsburg Elementary and Oola elementary schools effective beginning the 2526 school year. This is a motion to transfer. I have a motion. I'll make a motion. Have a motion. Do I have a second? Second. We have a motion in a second. Roll call, please. Mr. Vanis, yes. Mrs. Vesneski, yes. Mr. Wood, yes. Mrs. Bainy Shaw, yes. Dr. Bulary, yes. Mrs. Bush. Yes. Mr. Jeff, no. Mrs. Lamb and Mr. Manaric. Yes. Seven yeses. Motion carried. Number 31. A motion to transfer Samantha Cyper from a fifth

029grade teaching position as a fifth grade teacher at Oola Elementary to a reading teacher at Pulsburg Middle School. Pulsar Oola Middle School. Effective. at the beginning of the 2526 school year. This is a motion to transfer. Motion to table. We have a motion to table. Could I have a second? Second. We have a second. Roll call, please. Mrs. Vesneski, yes. Mr. Wood, yes. Mrs. Bainy Shaw, yes. Dr. Bulary, yes. Mrs. Bush, yes. Mr. Mr. Jeff, yes. Mrs. Lamb, Mrs. Mr. Manaric, yes. And Mr. Vancis, yes. Motion carried. Motion tabled. That one is tabled. Uh, any other items? Just the last thing, the sheets we gave you on the evaluation. I don't know if you want to send them to me, you want to bring them next meeting, u put them in an envelope and go

030by admin with my name on it. Uh I'm over here frequently pick them up. Whatever works for you. I'd like to have them by the next meeting if I quickly with that. Right. Motion to adjourn. Motion to adjourn. Second. Second.

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