001I aliance 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, Dr. Bary, here. Mrs. Bush, here. Mr. Jeff, present. Mrs. Lamb, present. Mr. Manarchic, Mr. Venus, here. M. Mr. Wood here. Uh, we have any visitors? No. Visitors? No comments. I'll have it later. Now, we had an executive session uh prior to this meeting for personnel reasons. Need a motion to approve the voting minutes of March 26th, 2025. So move. Second. All in favor? I motion to approve the April 9th, 2025 committee meeting minutes as presented. Motion. Second. All in favor? Uh, administrative reports where Mrs. Hawk did it. Yep. All right. Good evening. So, the last time I shared with
002you, I had let you know that we were about to have our second blood drive of the year. And I'm happy to report that we exceeded our goal again. Our goal was 37 pints, and we collected, well, teachers and students collected 46 units. Good news there. We also decided to shake things up in our senior class officer elections this year. In the past, kids would just say, you know, I sign up. I would like to be voted for treasurer, secretary to secretary, president, vice president, whatever. And then the kids would vote um pretty much in my opinion a popularity contest. So this year we decided to make some changes moving forward and we ran out like a real um election. So kids who wanted to run for senior class officers had to um were required
003to do the following. Complete a petition by gathering 10 students and three teacher signatures. Sorry. Develop and advertise a personal campaign. Student campaign topics included things like creating an inclusive school culture that meets the needs and interests of the entire student body, how to create positive change within our school, and ideas for fun class trips and events. They also had to deliver a three-minute campaign speech to the current 11th grade student body. The results of our election for 2026 senior class officers are Satie Seni for president, Broo Brandon for vice president, Ava Baney for secretary, and Grace Henry for treasurer. Uh we look forward to that being a tradition in the future. Uh community service, Mr. Labonic's woodworking three and construction tech classes are working on two lifeguard chairs for the Oola pool. It's being
004funded by the Oola Burough and the students will receive community service hours. They hope for the chairs to be ready for the pool's opening on Memorial Day. And then CTC information, great news to share from our information tech program. So, I'd like to invite my friend Aiden Anderson up to join me. So, this is Aiden Anderson. He's a junior at the high school. He is in the information tech program at the CTC. He attended the state championship at Hershey. Correct me if I say anything wrong, Aiden. It is called Skills USA. His group won first place in career pathways business management technology. So, he's here this evening to share a little bit about his experience and his accomplishments. This is Aiden Anderson. Thank you, Sie. So skills USA is basically how to put your skills
005to the test. Whether you're in masonry, IT, cooking, or cosmetology, it's put your skills to the test. And so my competition, it was about it's called career pathways business management and technology. It was it was basically designed to give back to the community. We g we're having uh conferences and meetings with five or six different foster families from Jefferson County, Cleville County and Center County to teach them how we we're donating them a computer, a printer, a hard drive and a USB. So if they need it for jobs, work or just to have them. I guess the cool part about it was it started that last year at the beginning of the summer and it came all the way up to April 2nd. So that they had fundraisers, events planned to raise enough money to
006buy computers, printers, and everything they needed for all these foster families. Now, I had two other people on my team. One was from Clearfield, the other was from Carbonville. They did all the work. I was originally put on the team two weeks before the competition cuz my my teacher came up to me the one day in the morning and he said, "Aiden, I had a kid just drop and he asked if I'd be willing to take the spot to be on the team." And my heart my I was in a state of shock. I didn't know what to say. So my first thought was, "Okay, yes." So five minutes later, I'm on the phone with my mom asking, "Can I go to this? Can I go down to Hers to Hershey Lodge and competence competition?"
007Obviously, it was a yes. So it was it was a great experience. We we were scored out of a,000 points. Our score was a 990 out of a thousand. We only missed 10 points on working more community. Our our topic was called technology for a cause. So giving back to people in need and next year I'm hoping to take it over. Bring back another gold medal. So what's next? What's next for the group? Uh we're going to Atlanta, Georgia June 23rd to the 28th to compete for a national title. For the national? Yep. National. So, it's quite an accomplishment for Aiden and his his his classmates down there at the at the CTC. We're awful proud of the accomplishments of and even though there might only been a couple weeks there, I'm sure you're not,
008you know, it took a group of three people contributing to get 990 points out of a thousand. So, I think as far as we're proud of you, we're looking forward for big things. uh and just for even for you and your classmate that experience that you're going to get down uh down at the nationals u that'll be something remember for a lifetime. So we're awful proud of you and looking forward to good things. Thank you. [Applause] [Music] You're already going right Aiden? Yep. All right. Good evening everyone. uh PO middle school board report started PSSA testing today was the first day of ELA. So we have one day down and two more to go for our ELA. Uh you can see here in my report we have students of the month for February. It was
009kind of interesting. We had a brother sister combo. Blake and Lana Kutri different grades but they both got student of the month on different teams. So I don't know if that'll ever happen again. um our Domino's fundraiser. Um it was nice to partner with the new business. We raised $452 and that money is going to help us pay for our buses that take us down to Slap Town, take us to Cold Stream. Uh they would do hiking. They'll be fishing at Cold Stream. Of course, Slap Town, there's so many things they can do. Bike bike park, skate park, and Mr. Kamola and Mr. will also be taking some eighth graders on tour of Hailhurst and the Episcopal Church. So that's going to be May 28th. May 29th is the rain day. Something I'm really excited
010about and I have to first of all give credit to Dave Harmick. He's a pair professional at our school. He came to me and he said, "Brian, I have an idea. You know, what do you think?" And and we're running with it. It's called the Four Seasons Society. And it was all Dave. It was his idea. He did all the leg work. Um we just supported him. It's kind of through our positive behavior program, but basically what it's doing is trying to encourage extracurricular participation, whether it's the math counts competition, whether it's the fall play, the spring musical, basketball, and if a kid can can participate, and it's only for seventh and eighth grade. If a kid participates every season, they get a point. And if you get if you end the year with three
011points, what we're looking at right now is Diamondback's considering donating money to buy these kids just sweatshirts that say four seasons because it it goes from, you know, winter, spring, summer, fall. They're it's four seasons they're participating in extracurriculars. So, we're hoping it's something that might gain some popularity. We actually have a seventh grade girl who does multiple kind of a Kelly where's Kelly all the letters that she got in high school. this girl, she'll do the play, she'll do basketball, she does math counts. It's just extracurricular, extracurricular. And the good thing about that is they're busy. They have to keep the grades up and they're learning to work together, you know, as part of some type of a team. So, I wanted to commend Mr. Harmonic. Um, and you know, we're supporting him through
012our positive behavior program, but it's he's already sent out letters to local businesses and we're already starting to get some money coming in and we're hoping it's something that grows at the middle school. Um, and I think you might have seen that, uh, Greg Cypo took all our sixth grade kids up to Sandy Ridge and they planted like 1,600 trees, uh, like as part of like a reforestation project to kind of improve the quality of the runoff water. So, that was a, you know, really proud of them. And our seventh and eighth grade science students are going to be going to um, six mile run and cold stream to, you know, be testing some water, doing some stream studies as well. But things are going good at middle school. Thank you. Sorry, I got my
013sides on you. Um I just wanted to um talk a little bit about autism acceptance month. So April um back in 1970 actually it goes back that far was um declared I guess for lack of a better word as autism awareness month. And that has sort of morphed from some disability rights group into autism acceptance. And the idea behind that is that we recognize that an individual who has autism is no less of an individual and no less of a value than any other person. Um, and just recognizing them as having innate value as a student. um and making efforts to include them and accept them into our educational settings because for a long time um that didn't happen for students with autism. And um if you're not aware, our district has a pretty high
014population of students with autism. Um, and we are very very fortunate that we have some really excellent um, special ed teachers who who kind of specialize in that area of autistic support. And we have students who are able to take classes and be in their neighborhood schools who maybe in other districts would not be able to. And that's because of the support that you have all given. Um, one of the really special things that we have that started last year is the unified botchi program at the high school and we have a growing number of athletes who are students with special needs and their partners who are peers and they compete. Um, and this year we didn't quite make it to the finals, but we hosted the finals and that was really exciting because we
015got to see lots of teams. But also, um, kind of out of that last year, Jess Lomison here at the middle school um, brought to us a proposal to do a unified PE class. So those students who maybe before would have been in a specialized PE class that was not with their peers, they're running a unified PE class here at the middle school and also at the high school, which is students with special needs who are partnered with a peer buddy and everyone gets a PE credit for that class. and the focus is on working together and learning new skills and just getting to know one another and them being able to see the value that each of them brings to the experience. Um, as part of that, we had two of our athletes, so
016Danny Glesner and Hank Hazelton at the high school, they designed um our autism t-shirt for us this year. So, that was a joint activity that they took on with Barry Rager at the high school. So, just a lot of really exciting things um going on as far as acknowledgement and acceptance and even beyond acceptance like welcoming of those individuals into our schools and appreciating them. So, up next we have our Mounty Pride uh award winner in recognition, which we have a few in the crowd here tonight. Uh once a quarter uh we celebrate our Mounty Pride Award winners nominated by their peers from our teachers. It's, you know, things such as excellence in the classroom, motivation, leadership, community service, creativity, and imagination. And for our staff members, um, same thing, nominated by peers, it's for
017the individuals, makes a difference on their PO school, goes above and beyond expectation, and excels as a a team player is just some of the few attributes of the individuals tonight. So, this is always a good night each quarter. Um, and with that, we are going to have Mr. Wood. He's going to provide those certificates. So, when we call your name, if you would like to come up and we'll get a picture, and then we'll get a group picture at the end. And so let's see what I have here tonight. First up as our Mount Pride staff award, we have out of Oola Mills Elementary, we have Mike Basilo. He's our school [Applause] police on three. One, two, three. Thank you. Excellent. Congratulations, M. Thank you. Next Middle School, we have Marie Smith. All right,
018we'll move on to the next one. Out of our senior high, we have Kim Torres. [Applause] Show this one. One, two, and three. Thank you. Congratulations, Ken. Thank you. Thanks. Yep. Next, I Mills Elementary, we have Deborah Adele. Is Deb here tonight? All right. No, Deb. What about Philsburg Elementary, Heather Haney? Nope. All right. Uh, from the middle school, Alicia McGra. [Applause] One, two, three. Thank you. Thank you. All right. And for our last one for this quarter, it's out of the senior high and that is James Hines. [Applause] Thank you. One, three. One, two, three. Thank you. Hey, for the ones that are here tonight. I love my picture, too. Okay. In the middle, we'll be good. If we just want to make a line across here, if you want to be on that
019end, maybe if I can do this without tripping. [Music] How's it look, Brian? Open them up. Looking good. There we go. All right. On three. One, two, three. One more. One, two, three. Thank you. Excellent. [Applause] I thought you wanted your picture taken. That's true. Yes. Hey, we appreciate you're welcome to stay and if you got to get going, we understand that, too. Congratulations. Hard. Thank you, Kenny. Bye. Bye. You ready to roll? Yep. Go a budget budget presentation. So, in the last several meetings, um I I went over our revenue from uh state sources and then went over revenue for local and federal. Last meeting we went over um supplies and benefits which make up about twothirds or about 66% of our budget. So now we're going to go over um our services, supplies
020and debt service which are the other expenses that are made up um in our budget. There you go. So for 2324 our actual number these services were about 13.7 million. In 2425 we budgeted 12.9 million. Our estimated for 2425 is about 13.4 million and proposed right now for 2526 is uh a little under 13.5 million. Our estimated number right now uh is over budget typically due to increases in um tuition and our transportation services. Next slide. So again, this is just a breakdown over the since 2020 21 the whole way through just showing our professional services, property services, purchase services, supplies and utilities, and debt service and transfers. And when I get to the future slides, I'll I'll explain kind of what's in those particular services and what makes them up. But um again you
021can see for our proposed budget here for professional services we have about 2.1 million um there property services about 376,000 purchase services a little under $6 million supplies and utilities 2.3 million and then debt service and transfers about 2.7 uh 2.7 million and again if you look at the percentage increases um in 2223 is about 8.6% 6% 232 24 about 8.3 2425 that number the budget number was down about 5% and we're showing about a 4% increase and some of these numbers why you saw some increases in some of those prior years was also due to ESR funds that we had running through there and some of the services that we were providing. Next slide. So these again um the 2526 just a breakdown of what makes up that $13.5 million. Again um professional services
0222.1, property service 376, purchase services 6 million, supplies and utilities 2.3 and debt service 2.7. Next slide. So what makes up professional services? So uh broken into these kind of main four main categories here. So substitute services um these are for our teachers, nurses, our pair professional and custodial. Um special education again we provide um services for autism, life skills, speech, occupational therapy, visual and then auditory services. Um under psychology we provide therapy services for our students. And then under business related services um our solicitor are the the auditors that do our audits at the end of the year any architects facility director and our technology services. So again we outsource the facility director and we outsource the technology services. Next slide. So purchase services um what makes that up tuition. So this is tuition
023for cyber and charter schools um for private schools for special education students and then we have students that go to the career and technology center. And so that's that tuition is included in here. Transportation um to and from school with Fullington, they do our our buses, longs and zones do our vans for our our special ed students. And then under student activities um Fington does all the transportation for those activities. And then um our insurance, our general property and liability insurance runs through this purchase service. So supplies. So, under supplies, there's classroom supplies, operational and facility supplies, uh things that we have for cleaning, different things that you would have throughout the buildings, and then any equipment that's under $5,000. So, again, when you think supplies, you're just thinking, you know, staplers and paper and
024things like that. But for instance, when we get down into some of these sections like the hardware section, laptops, any kind of iPad, anything that's under $5,000, any type of piece of equipment is going to fall under the supplies. Curriculum, all our books, our classroom software, um any operational orformational technology software that we have to run all the different systems that we have. And then um again under hardware classroom staff laptops the screen that we're looking at right here would would fall under there the hardware um any phone system upgrades uh and then all of our utilities run through supplies. So our gas electrical and then fuel oil for um our old seal and mills building and then um for the multi-purpose build also last uh area is debt service. So, our debt service payments
025for 2526 would be $2.5 million. When we did several projects that we funded with the debt service, we qualified for plan con state a a funding. So, we received the subsidy each year and it's about $430,000. So, that offsets that payment. So, our net payment is about $2.1 million um in the end for 2526. Our total long-term debt um at the end of uh this fiscal year will be $23.7 million. And right now there's proposal in in the budget here for $150,000 transfer from general fund to the capital service fund to complete our 25% match requirement for the facilities improvement grant that's being done at the high school for the roof project. So impact areas um we you know again we're seeing increases in tuition um for the cyber charter and private schools for special
026education students um increase in transportation services and rates and then professional services for uh psychological and occupational therapy right now. So we're seeing increases in that. So future board dates again uh we'll be meeting again here in two weeks and um we will have an adopted we'll have to adopt post budget and we'll make that available for public inspection. Um and then there will be an advertisement in the paper uh letting everybody know that we have an intent to approve the final budget on 62525. But that final budget that is when we you can hit the next one. We will uh adopt the final budget and we'll set the tax levy and we will also implement a homestead and farmstead exclusion. So we'll be getting those that information from the state here May 1st with
027the homestead farmstead. We'll be able to set those amounts. But what we do on May 14th is just to basically adopt again a proposed budget is not final. The final budget won't be until the end of June and that's when everything will get set. So and again this is going to be a moving target as we keep going through this process um and as we continue to update information. Again, we're waiting on state budget to see where we're at with the state funding. So stay tuned. Any questions? Thank you. Good [Music] job, Amber. I think it's your turn. Amber, we got a hot seat for you here. Let me adjust this here with the micro microphone. So, feel free to Nice to meet you, David Kushnik. It's nice to meet you. Thank you for having
028me today. All right. So, a little bit of lay of the land here. We have um we're going to have some questions. Mrs. Bush is over our personnel committee. Thank you. She's going to ask uh some questions for you and and she'll get things uh moving here at this point. Do we I guess everyone we have our name tags so we're familiar with those uh that are around the table here too. Hi Amber. Hello. We're going to ask you to tell us a little bit about yourself and then we have eight questions and we'll see where we go from there. All right. I came prepared with a whole folder full of notes. Um I guess maybe that's the first thing. I do have a tendency to really overthink things. So um I don't know if
029that's a strength or a weakness, but um yeah. So I currently work at the Center for Childhood Obesity Research. Um I'm a nutrition educator. That's where my real passion is. Um I really enjoy talking with families and educating children about nutrition. Um, prior to working at um, SECORE, I worked at Sinclair. Um, sorry, I'm a little bit nervous. Um, at Sinclair, I worked with, um, pregnant moms. I worked with, um, children between the ages of birth and three. Um, preschoolers, teenage moms. Um, I worked with the young parent program. I worked with, um, retired people who were filling in as mom and dad. So, I have a lot of, um, experience there. Um and actually that's probably where um my foundation really came in um as far as education goes. Um just like kind of
030um developing a love for you know teaching and for helping out people in the community. Okay. Can you tell us why you're running for the school board? Um yeah, you know, it's interesting. I really really love being on a team. I find brainstorming with others to be really invigorating. Um, you know, and I was just kind of getting to the point in my life where I was starting to look for the next thing. And I I'm really lucky because I truly love my job at Secore. Um, I really enjoy what I do. I'm out in preschool classrooms. I'm talking with kids about healthy eating, about the importance of physical activity. But I've been there for about 7 years now. So, I was starting to kind of get to the point where I feel like maybe
031it's time to do something new, something different. So, I started looking into other positions and um which is kind of hard for me because I really do truly love my job, but I want to do something different. I feel like I'm capable of more. Um at the same time, this position kind of came open and I thought, you know, that's a really great opportunity. It's a way that I can further serve my community. It's a way that I can um kind of add another layer to my knowledge. Um I think that this would be really great um to have under my belt to be able to say like I know what happens on school board. I know um how things are done and I know how to contribute. Um I think that there are a
032lot of um oh gosh challenges ahead. I think that there's a lot um of unknowns facing us, a lot of uncertainties. So I really see this as being a great opportunity to get involved, a great time to get involved um for our children and not just for our children but also for the whole community. Thank you. What has been your personal involvement with education in our community? Oh, so going back to working at Sinclair um and just educating mostly families, you know, whenever we go to visit a home, we're not just dealing with the children, we're dealing with the whole entire family. And we're um developing adult goals and child development goals, and we're working on health, safety, and nutrition goals. Um, we're connecting families to resources such as early intervention, um, such as the
033Sinclair summer food program, which I helped out with. Um, we're connecting young moms to par programs like the, um, young the young parent program, um, behavioral health. So, I've done a lot through Sinclair and um, outside the community, you know, again, just walking into preschool classrooms. Um, right now I think I'm back and forth between eight different school districts. So that background I think really gives me a little bit of an edge. Um, I'm in and out of different buildings, different classrooms, different districts. And I see so many wonderful things that are being done and I find so much of that to be very inspiring and I look at it I look at as you know are these things that we can incorporate in our schools. So, um, you know, and also not just preschoolers,
034but I'm also working with children, um, who are between the ages of kindergarten and sixth grade. And, um, I'm also working with a lot of teenagers through that program. So, it's I cover Snider, Union, Mifflin, Huntington, and Juniata counties. So, I'm kind of all over the place. And I've I've seen a lot in my travels. What special attributes, talents, or abilities will you bring to the district? Um, you know, I think that that's one of the things I really enjoy is just being on a team, brainstorming with others. I'm very independent in my thinking. Um, I'm hesitant to make a decision until I have all the information that I need. Again, sometimes I like to overthink things. Um, but I also like to do my research. If I don't have the answer to a question,
035I'm going to go out. I'm going to find it. Um, oh gosh, I like to think outside the box. And not only think outside the box, but I like to step outside my comfort zone, which is what brings me here. Um, I really think that that's important. That's how we learn. That's how we grow. Um, I think it's important to shake things up every once in a while. Um, I find it to be important to be able to collaborate and work with other people even during times of conflict. Um, to be able to see other people's perspectives. So, I I think that have a lot to offer in that regard. What do you feel is the number one challenging challenge facing our schools today? Wow, there's a lot um working in preschool classrooms. And it's
036interesting because also working at Penn State right now we have oh I have the number written down here somewhere. It's I think 28 undergrads working for us at my center. Um so I've seen both ends of it. I've seen um you know preschoolers who are about to hit the kindergarten classrooms and I think whenever I'm in those classrooms well like how are these teachers ever going to do it? You know like how are they ever going to manage some of these behaviors? um some of these behavioral health issues that these we little kids have. I mean that is happening more and more frequently. So I see that as a big challenge for teachers. Um I also see it as a challenge you know preparing adults preparing these kids to go out into the world to
037be adults. Um working with all these undergrads it's very clear you know whenever these kids come in you know there are things that stick out instantly. Are they making eye contact? Um, are they asking questions? Are they advocating for themselves? So, things like that, just preparing them for real life scenarios where they're going to be, you know, forced to interact with their peers and they're going to be, you know, in situations that might not be comfortable, um, where they have to learn and grow and be productive. Although standardized test scores show increasing improvements in our schools, significant differences among economic and cultural groups still exist. What can the district do to continue the overall success in academic academic achievement while significantly closing the achievement gap? That was a long question. [Laughter] Um, you know, I'm
038going to go back to the importance of Head Start and it really breaks my heart because uh there's been a lot in the news lately about, you know, that program maybe not receiving the funding being defunded altogether. Um, but I see Head Start programs like Head Start and PreK Counts as being so so instrumental and, you know, laying the foundation for getting these kids and families connected with the services that they need. Um, in addition to that, I really think it's important to have a connection to the home. Um, and I know there's a lot that happens within the schools to invite parents in. And I know that that's a big challenge. Um, even working in the Head Start programs and at Secore where we're trying to get more parents involved, we see that that's
039a huge challenge. But anytime that you can reach a family and you can get them on board and you can really get them to buy into what you're doing, I think that that's tremendously helpful. Um, so you know, there there was a teacher who had called me, I don't know, maybe last year, and he said, you know, I just want to check in. nothing bad. I just wanted to call and share a positive about your son. And that really opened the door, you know, that really opened that door of communication. So, I think just, you know, reaching out to families, to parents, um that's huge. What do you think should be future priorities for our school district? You know, again, it goes back to like looking at these kids who are entering college, and I
040I had an undergraduate once. She said, "I I promise I'm not a dumb millennial." I think that's a word that she used. She said, "But where do I put the return address label?" And to me, I just I thought like some of the basic things, you know, we're we're just not getting those things across. we're not focusing on things that maybe we should be. And I don't want to say it's the school districts that's failing the kids. I don't want to say that it's the parents, but I just see there's so many opportunities to do better. Um just basic life skills, you know, like let's teach our kids how to write a check. Um how to look at interest rates, how to know how those interest rates are really going to affect them in 5
041years. It's just um it's just basic stuff that these kids are coming out and you know they they might have um a really strong background. They might have been like a 4.0 student, but that's not what sticks out to you whenever you're meeting these kids for the first time. What is a priority or concern you may have regarding the district that has not been raised? I would have to think more about that. I I really would. I'm not sure that I have an answer for that one. That's fine. That's fine. Okay, last question. What is your vision for the school district? Well, um, again, being out of I I think it's eight different school districts, I see so much potential, um, for things that we could be incorporating here, you know, things like having a
042debate club. Um, my 17-year-old, we he and I, we have some mean debates, and I think, "Oh, buddy, you know, like, if we could just have a debate club, you would be so successful at that." Um, I see things like wonderful things happening with um, PBIS across different school districts. Um, and not just different school districts, but also at the preschool level. Um, I see some really wonderful things happening with just sustainable materials. Um, I walk into the Midwest High School and their flooring, it's just beautiful and it's just this glass flooring and it's it's all recyclable materials, you know, and I see that, you know, maybe even as a community, as a school district, we could do better with that. Um, it was kind of interesting cuz I came in tonight and I thought,
043I wonder what initiatives are being taken and then we heard about the trees are being planted and the trip to Cool's Dream. And I think more of those kinds of things need to happen. Um, just getting kids out, connecting them to nature, connecting them to their community. Um, I would say for sure more volunteer service. Um, I think that that's huge. Thank you, Mr. Wood or Dr. Patricia, do you have anything to add? agenda. Thank you. Thank you. Entertain a motion to approve Amber Vineski as a member of the Philsburg Board of Education representing District 1, Philsburg Burough First Precinct number 10 effective through December 2025. Motion. Can I have a second and a roll call, please? Mrs. Bainy Shaw. Dr. Pomeary. Yes. Mrs. Bush. Yes. Mr. Jeff. Yes. Mrs. Lamb. N. Yes. Mr. Manaric.
044Mr. Bankis. Yes. And Mr. Wood. Yes. Well, congratulations. I think Thank you. Seat on the end. I already get a seat. You can already get a seat. And if you don't have an agenda, we'll make sure you have one. Did you say now? Before you get too comfortable, you're going to have to stand back up and get started in That's got to be the easy part. You want me to do it or you got Go ahead. You can do it. All right. You're going to need to repeat after me. I state your name. I, Amber Basneski, do solemnly swear or affirm do solemnly solemnly do solemnly swear or affirm that I will support, obey, and defend the Constitution of the United States and Constitution of this Commonwealth and the Constitution of this Commonwealth. And that
045I will discharge the duties of my office. And I will discharge the duties of this office with fidelity. With fidelity sign that memorize it. [Music] I'll go through [Music] you sit right here. I'm not going to interrupt the screen. However, from here on out, things will move pretty quick. Uh you're welcome to abstain on anything because it's all going to be new. We had a committee meeting early in the month. Uh and all this stuff was discussed. If you have any questions, you feel free to ask, but sometimes it becomes, you know, we can't do personnel questions and stuff. Okay. All right. Thank you. Okay. We're going to go to the consent [Music] agenda. As you know, this is consent agenda. And what we do is we go through the whole agenda in one vote.
046Once something is pulled, we're on consent 8 through I. would like to table I2 for action at the next voting meeting. If I have a motion, please to table I2. Move second. Second. All in favor of tableabling. I two. I opposed. I2 is tabled. Back to the consent agenda on A through I. Would anybody like anything old? G12. What number did they get? G12. Letter G. Yes. Consent agenda will be A through I except for G12. G12 will not be part of the action. Can I have a motion, please? A second. Second. Roll call vote, please. Mrs. Banny Shaw. Dr. Bluman. Yes. Mrs. Bush. Yes. Mr. Jeff. Yes. Mrs. Lamb. Yes. Mr. Manic. Mr. Venus. Yes. Ms. Vaneski. Vesneski. I'm going to You're going to abstain? Yes. Okay. And Mr. Wood. Yes. Motion carried. Uh,
047do you want to go to your We can do that. We got to finish the consent. We only did up to so many. Back to the consent agenda. A through I we pull G12 for separate vote. I have a motion to approve the agenda polling after G12. So move. Second. Second. This is a motion to approve the whole agenda except for G12. All in favor say I. I. We need a roll call. Roll call. Mrs. Bainy Shaw. Dr. Bary. Yes, Mrs. Bush. Yes, Mr. Jeff. Yes, Mrs. Lamb. Yes, Mr. Manaric. Mr. Vancis. Yes, Miss Vesneski. Yes. And Mr. Wood. Yes. G12. [Music] Yes, I did. Where you at? A motion to um on an unpaid day for an employee. I make a motion to um table this motion. Let's go back to I12. I'm sorry.
048Okay. What am I supposed to be doing? Is that what you just said? Yeah. Did we have to motion G12? G12. Okay. So, the motion to correct. Correct. So you're going to make a motion as people will have to vote yes or no it's a table. Oh okay. Okay. Do it. No I got it. Okay. It's just motion to approve a request for unpaid days for March 26, 2025 and April 16th, 2025 due exhausting all sick and personal days. So you want the table. Okay. The first we vote we voted accidentally to do the uh pull it for separate consideration instead of uh so we're going to Yeah. So now we're We have a motion. We need a second. Second. Second. I need a roll call vote. Wait. Who made the motion? Right. I did.
049I read. She did. What? She read it. Okay. I We didn't take that. Correct. So, that was a vote to pull it. It shouldn't have been a roll call vote to pull it, but it ended up being that. So, we have Linda with a motion. We have whoever the second it was Mr. Jeff. It now needs to go to W. Mrs. Bshaw. Dr. Bary. No. Mrs. Bush. No. Mr. Jeff. No. Mrs. Lamb. No. Mr. Manaric. Mr. Vanas. No. Miss Bneski, no. And Mr. Wood, no. That should take care of the consent. Go to the consent agenda. [Music] So, we're on to letter M at this point at the add aendum. Just going to get down through the electrical. Uh number one, an electrical supply agreement with AAP Energy. Number two, gas supply agreement with UGI
050Energy Services. Number three, bid to Clearfield Tax Claim Bureau. Item four, appraisal agreement, appraisal marketing associates. Item five, Mari, Pennsylvania agreement. Item six, a dual credit agreement, Pennsylvania Highlands Community College. Item seven, clinical psychology intern approval. Number eight, occupational therapy student for uh for a student shadow pen from pen highlands. Item nine, a memorandum of understanding with um between the district and the union over an administrative assistant um access building and special education secretary position. Item 10, a 5.5 hour special education instructional assistant. 11, hire a 4.5 hour kitchen helper. 12, hire a 5.0 hour district-wide custodian. Item 13 is for approval for an update day. Item 14 is our extracurricular for 2526 school year. Um, item 15, position volunteers for the 2425 school year. 16, team event schedules. Um, I will touch on this
051one just real quick. This was something we are we are beginning that's new that Dr. Reese and I have been working on and um Mr. Martin with insurance of basically identifying what is a school uh function and what are the dates and events on those on that those calendars. Item 17, facility use agreement, um, Pennsylvania West soccer. 18, a facility use agreement with UFC United, uh, FC. 19, facility use agreement, Tim Blake, girls baseball association. Item 20, facility use agreement, um, Central Pennsylvania Lions. 21, facility use agreement, varsity basketball. 22, facility use agreement, summer elementary 3 through six. Item 23, facility use agreement, junior high league boys basketball, grades seventh and eth. 24, facility use agreement, PO basketball, grades 3 to 12. 25, facility use agreement, county league baseball. Item 26, facility use agreement, DJ
052baseball. 27, facility use agreement, PO little league baseball. Item 28, facility use agreement, PO J softball. Item 29 use agreement YMCA. Any questions? So if you can take them all, you can take one through 29. 29 addendum. So I need a motion to approve one through 29 on the agenda. Motion. I need a second. Second. You need a roll call. Mrs. B Shaw. Dr. Bumary, yes. Mrs. Bush, yes. Mr. Jeff, yes. Mrs. Lamb, yes. Mr. Manarchic, Mr. Vanis, yes. M Miss Vesneski, same. And Mr. Wood, yes. Motion carried. Anything else to come before the board? Yes. I just want to just acknowledge um it's administrative professionals day. So throughout our school district, uh we have many administrative professionals at each of our buildings. Um that I think our administrative team can attest to that uh
053from a daily help uh from the daily functions going on within those buildings and often times uh when our administrators need to leave or go to another building, it's those administrative professionals that are holding down the fort till the administrators get back and and that's just from an administrative standpoint. Then there's the whole teacher para standpoint that they help on a daily basis and all of us couldn't do our jobs if it wasn't for administrative professionals. So we just want to recognize and uh just show our appreciation for all of them. I know for myself uh Veronica plays an instrumental role in what I do on a daily basis and very motion to return please. Motion second. All in favor I There's our papers on our