001order. If you stand als for Can I have check please here? Mrs. Good here. Mrs. IO here, >> Mr. Ka >> here, >> Dr. Coffman >> here, >> Mrs. Hanley here, Miss Holtz here, Mrs. Lowry >> here, Mr. Mccertie >> here. >> Thank you. [clears throat] Are there any additions to the agenda? If none, could I have a motion to approve >> and a second? >> All signify by saying I. >> I. All oppose. Motion carries. We had executive session on January 6 from 2025 from 6:00 until 6:30 to discuss personnel and consult with attorney. And we have executive session tonight from 6:15 to 6:30 to discuss um personnel and consultation with attorney. At this time um I'd like to make a motion to approve the board minutes. Do I have a second? >> Any
002questions on the motion? All in favor signify by saying I. >> All opposed. Motion carries. >> At this time, I'd like to call on Mrs. Petroski to review the board goals. >> Thank you, Sie. Um, RD will provide learning opportunities to meet the needs of a diverse population in a dynamic workforce. RD will continue to build transparent and trusted relationships with all stakeholders and R Um at this time um there's a call for public comment and I have none. So we will um move forward to student of the month and I'd like to call on Mr. Heindel. >> All right. Thank you, Miss Kevin. So it's a privilege to introduce our December and January students of the month. So December, obviously mother nature was not very good to us. So, we're going to start with
003our third grade students. So, first off, come on up, Avery. Third grader, Mr. Avery Ross. >> Okay. His teacher is Mrs. Amacher. Mrs. Samer said that he's an excellent model student who completes classroom work neatly and correctly, consistently follows classroom rules. He's always caring and willing to help others, polite, always says please and thank you, and has a positive attitude. Uh, when I got a chance to interview Avery, his favorite subjects was playing football, okay? Math, science, and enjoys being creative. What he likes the most about school is his teachers are nice. He shows kindness by picking up garbage and helping others. His advice for other students is to always try your best and to be good in school. His school inspiration is Gracie Fitch for being smart and also was a previous student of
004the month. His idea to improve school is nothing because he likes school the way that it is. His future goal is to be an NFL player for the Steelers. Okay. And his favorite memory this year so far has been the Halloween party. Mr. Avery Ross [applause] is not here. So Lena is not here. So we'll wait for her to see at the end. Second grade student is Miss Braggan Sha. Braggen is a second grade student of Mrs. Hoffman's class. Mrs. Hoffman said that she consistently models the elder expectations and leads by example. shows a strong enthusiasm for learning and always strives to do her best. Is kind, caring, and helpful, often assisting classmates without being asked, and encourage and supports her classmates every single day. When I had a chance to interview her, her said
005or excuse me, she said her favorite subject is art. The most that she likes about school is completing math work. Okay. Shows kindness. When people fall, she always helps them get up. Her advice for other students is always to look to help others. Her school inspiration is Harlon as he is funny. Her idea to improve the school is to make more awards for the school. Her future goal is to be a police officer in the officer truck. And her favorite memory this year is becoming student of the month, Miss Reagan Scha. [applause] Congratul >> [snorts] >> All right. And our last student that we have here is Mr. Wyatt Schlim. So Wyatt is a second grade student in Mrs. Knight's class. It says here, "Mrs. Nidus said that he joined her classroom as a new
006student this year and immediately exemplified the Elker expectations with a positive attitude and a smile each day. He works extremely hard and helps others. Leads by example, taking on each lesson with confidence and inter excuse me, determination. Shows a kind, polite, and caring nature. Always willing to help and remind others when good deeds deserve recognition. Wyatt brings joy to our classroom with his energy, humor, gaga bos gaga ball skills, dance moves, and heartfelt stories make him a valued and inspiring member of our classroom family. So when I interviewed Wyatt on Friday, his favorite subject is math. What he likes most about our school is gym class. He shows kindness by helping others read books. His advice for other students is to be good and always try your hardest. His school inspiration is Hayden as he
007helps him read books in class. His idea to improve the school is longer time for specials. We're working on that. Okay. His future goal [clears throat] is to be a doctor. And his favorite memory this year was attending elementary night for the high school football game. Mr. Wide Slid [applause] >> is not here. So we'll save her if that's okay. >> Okay. High school first. Dan videos. >> So, we have four Mr. Fodski is not here. So, we have four students from the high school. I'm not sure which one he's going to put up first. So, I'm just going to play this by ear to see which one comes up first. >> That's not it. >> Aaron, skip that one. Sorry. Go to the next one. Thank you. Sorry. >> Hello and welcome to this
008week's feature Friday. I'm Izzy here with Sophia and here are your weekly updates. Any high school student who's interested in participating in the high school play this spring, please send an email to Mrs. Carly so that you can >> Area students personally. >> This is announcements. >> Yeah. >> Yep. It is. All right. Sophia Fulham actually though is that's why I stopped. She is one of the December students of the month for extraordinary elkers. So Sophia's one of the 11th graders. Let's see what the next one is. >> I have Jack Fitch. >> Yes, he is a January. >> You want me to go ahead and play? >> Yes, please. >> Hi, I'm here with this most extraordinary elder Jack Fitch. He's the son of Kayn and Trisha Fitch who and he was nominated by
009Miss McCann for showing kindness to other students. How did you feel when you came? >> I was excited that I could get this achievement. >> Um, next. What are the activities you do? >> I just I remember my favorite baseball. >> That's cool. And who's your favorite teacher? >> Probably Mrs. Gross. >> What? >> Um, what? Well, we just got back from Christmas break. And what were you looking forward to most? >> Uh, seeing my friends. >> Yeah. And do you have any other advice for students? >> What you do, someone else or what you don't do, someone else will. >> Um, do you have future plans? Probably just go to the airport. >> Um, thank you, Jack. And congratulations. Jude >> Jude Bognar is a grade 8 January extraordinary elker. >> Hi, I'm here
010with this month's middle school extraordinary elker June Bart. He is the son of Luke and Alexander Ballard and he was elected by Mrs. Olay for helping put together a table. Um, first question. How did you feel when you received a short? I was very surprised. >> Um, what activities? >> I do football, baseball, and that's cool. And what do you do? >> Going to wrestling tournament. >> Um, who's your favorite teacher at the school? >> I probably have to say Minnesota. >> And what are your future plans that major? Thank you. Congratulations. So, the last one should be Colt Fitzgerald. >> I don't know what it is. It doesn't have a title. >> Colt Fitzgerald. >> Extraordinary Cole Fitzgerald. He is the son of Amber and Brad Fitzgerald. He won this award for being helpful
011and respectful to his classmates. So, what are some of your activities? >> Um, I like to wrestle. Um, I like to run too, but I can't really run anymore because it's cold, but that's about it. I'm into history, too. So, >> So, what weight do you plan to wrestle? >> Uh, 122. >> And then what are some of your like what's your favorite thing in history? >> Um, military history. I like to reenact and learn about it. >> So, how did you feel when you won this award? >> I was very surprised. I wasn't expecting to win something like this, but I am very happy about it. So, >> So, who's your favorite teacher? Um, I like all my teachers, but if I had to say it would probably be Mr. Ames, but he retired.
012>> So, for your other classmates, do you have any advice? >> Um, be respectful and receive the opportunity to help someone, do it. Even if you can't, just try your best, too. >> And then, do you have any future plans even though you're in middle school? >> Um, I plan on joining the military when I'm 18 and possibly doing a term, then joining Pennsylvania State Police. >> Thank you. >> [clears throat] >> And again, those were the the the four um extraordinary offers for the high school were Colt Fitzgerald, grade 8, and Sophia Fulham, grade 11 for December, and Jude Bobnar, grade eight, and Jack Fitch, grade nine, for January extraordinary hours. >> Well, we certainly are very proud of all of these students. And at this time, if the students that won an award
013could um come over, where would you like us? >> We'll do it [clears throat] in front of the the wall with the bears on it. >> Okay. If you want to stand in front of the bears, we'll get a picture. And then at that time, um you are welcome to um leave after our picture. >> [clears throat] >> It's okay. Come here. Um, if you'd like to just wait one more minute. I They asked if you could stay just another minute. [clears throat] So, at this time, um, we're going to have school director recognition. So, So my microphone died. [laughter] So tonight um every January is schoolboard recognition. Um from the time I was a school counselor, this has always been a really important piece for me. I always felt that the school board has
014done does a whole lot for the district and they don't get recognized a lot. As I reflect on my first six months as superintendent, I'm especially grateful for the guidance and support of our school board. Your willingness to ask thoughtful questions, engage in honest dialogue, and keep students at the center of every decision has made the transition both meaningful and rewarding. Your work is done without compensation and often requires long hours beyond regular meetings. Yet, you continue to serve with dedication and care. I [clears throat] appreciate the time, energy, and commitment you give to our district and value the collaboration we have built together. I am encouraged by our work to date and excited to see what we can accomplish together for the Ridgeway Area School District. In appreciation, I will also be sharing certificates
015of recognition for your dedication and thank you for your continued service to our students, staff, and community. Mr. Hank, are you just handing out everything? So, on behalf of FSG and the middle high building, uh, from the middle high, they gave you a piece of the flooring, uh, when they replaced the floor down at the middle high. >> And then each one of the kindergarteners wrote letters to you in each one of those, as well as big signs that were made for grades 1 through five. So, thank you for all that you do. >> Thank you very much. >> Congratulations. >> Bye. So, the high school also has a short video that they just want to play for you, and Erin's going to put that up here right now. [music] Heat. Heat. N. [music] Heat.
016Heat. Louise [music] down. [music] >> [music] [music] >> So, I'll be sure to share that with you because when you can read the words, it means more. So, I'll make sure I email that out to everybody tomorrow. >> Thank you very much. >> Thank you for all you do. >> Cool gift for us to get. That was very thoughtful. Thank you. Okay, at this time um we'll have the um technology presentation by Dan Rhyr and Aaron Simba. Good evening, guys. So, go ahead and give you guys an update on 2526 [clears throat] technology and kind of where things stand. It's uh definitely been an interesting couple of years in technology. More recently, there's a lot of things that we're navigating and we're going to get into some of that stuff with you guys. I'm going
017to go ahead and start on the first half of the presentation and then some of the rest of it we're going to go ahead and turn over to Dan. So cyber security continues to remain a hot topic. I'm sure as you guys all know every time you turn around somebody's getting a new bank account issued by the bank because of some some form of fraud or you're seeing on the news cyber attacks against healthc care agencies and all different kinds of financial sector and all that kind of stuff. So um public education remains, you know, in a good position to be an attractive cyber cyber attack target because they tend to be an environment where you can't afford to be down for long periods of time and in a lot of cases the ransoms are
018considered for payment. So it it continues to be something that we have to keep a a high priority on. Um AI is accelerating these attacks. I'm seeing firsthand very interesting situations that are being orchestrated against users, people, groups of people, etc. Whereas before one person would try to fish out a target and they would start working on them contextually and then in some cases unfortunately they could get financial gain out of that. Um, now AI is fueling it. So you basically have tons and tons of computers that are being used for good, but you also have computers that are being used for bad on the internet and they're getting into email accounts and they're harvesting stuff out of there and they're able to, you know, sift down through that and find social security numbers and
019EIN's and bank account information, HR stuff, god forbid if an HR person's account becomes compromised. So, we're going to get into a little bit of what we're doing and what we're going to continue doing to protect the email platform once Dan takes over. Um, but you know, this is this is some of the stuff that AI has brought to the table. Also, a lot of the types of attacks that are targeted towards just your perimeter firewall. You know, try to see if there's holes in your network that they can get in and trying to see if there's any kind of loopholes that they can leverage to orchestrate a deeper attack on the network. AI continues to fuel that stuff. Um, we continue to maintain strong firewall rules at the perimeter of the network. Um, because
020of the format of the meeting, there's a lot of specifics I won't get into, but if anybody has any additional questions outside of the public's eye, I would gladly go into any detail that you want. Um, we continue to use patch management and anti-malware solutions. Um, and they're monitored around the clock by by my team. So, we're keeping a close eye on all of that from an infrastructure standpoint. Um, >> [clears throat] >> All right. So, going to dwell a little bit on cyber security just because again I think that's probably the first hat that we have to wear. Um, our filtering policies are strong, sometimes too strong as we know. Um, Noel, I know sometimes you're the target of these filtering rules being too strong, but it's for good reason. Believe me, we do
021block stuff because we, you know, we're we're being proactive. Sometimes a little bit too proactive, but I'd rather it be that way. Um, we continue to maintain strict control over remote access as well. So, what I mean by that is we do have folks that have the ability to work from home and they do have the ability to connect into some of the resources that the district has. That process is vetted. Those people are sat down with. They're they're given some some agreements and some understanding that they have a level of access that's to be respected. And then, of course, we issue that access and we revoke that access. If somebody's off for a surgery, we issue that access. We revoke it when they come back. We don't want those holes wide open. It's not
022that we don't trust our people. It's that there's the possibility that if somebody is sniffing around and they find a hole, the less people that we have on the threat surface, the more secure our perimeter is. So that's the reasoning behind that. Um we're routinely, and that's on a 24-hour basis, deploying patches to all core server infrastructure. So this is basically going to be Windows server updates, any software that's on those servers, etc. It's all being scanned every 24 hours and those updates are being pulled down, applied and servers are being rebooted as needed. Um, we also continue to work closely with district administration and state levels. You know, we have a lot of reporting that comes out on a routine basis where the state makes us aware of situations that are being orchestrated against
023our peers, other schools in Pennsylvania, other schools federally, and that data is then made public. They give us IP addresses of servers on the internet that these attacks are originating from. And fortunately, a lot of our perimeter firewall equipment keeps up with those lists. So, it's already defined before it even gets to us because those guys specialize in that every single day and that's what we're subscribed to. Um, but we, you know, we jump in and we act as needed when it's needed. Um, and [clears throat] and some of that stuff is is interesting in context. It goes well beyond, you know, it brings up some of the telephone scams that could be coming through or some of the threats that are made. Some of that stuff is is very useful information beyond the scope
024of just what we would need that stuff for. Um, we also continue to receive alerts if users were to save something or download something that were malicious in nature and it were to be stored on the network. It's brought to our attention. It's usually quarantined instantaneously and then it's immediately brought to our attention so we can we can look at that. Um, we also continue and I'm really strong on this one. Some of you, I remember back before 2017, we went through some rough times here. Um, and that's that's a situation that I don't ever want to relive. It was it was a lot of work to get us out of that hole. Um, and as a result of that, this last bullet is one of the changes that we made and we continue to
025hold firm behind. When we need Johnson Controls in here for something, when we need, and again, I'll go into detail outside of forum if anybody would like that. Um, when we need to get somebody from Gardener in here for our HVAC controls, when we need to get somebody in here for our student information system, we're accommodating that access. We're not giving any vendors 24/7 access. Again, it's not that we don't trust our vendors. We have good partnerships with these companies. We have no idea what they're doing to secure their environments, and we've firsthand witnessed what the results of that can be. So, it's a little bit of a, you know, little bit of a slowdown sometimes when people want to get in and work on things, but I think that we're pretty quick to get,
026you know, our vendors in here and get situations addressed and taken care of relatively quickly. I know through the holiday there, we had, you know, a 4 or so hour power outage in Ridgeway. Our data center went offline 100%. We of course were made aware of it. You know, everything went on battery and then the whole boat needed to be shut down. We had to cold start. Um, we were in here through the holidays and we were getting HVAC systems back online, so temperature monitoring and rooms were warm and stuff like that. So, um, [clears throat] it's a little snippet of our firewall. I gave you guys this previous several times that we've met and it's just an interesting piece of information. I like to give you some data and I'll give you more data
027upon request. Um, but this basically gives kind of a breakdown of what we have. I don't want anybody to look at social networking or media streaming and immediately say, "Hey, what are you doing?" A lot of that stuff can still be educational content. There's tons of educational streaming stuff out there. Um, but this is a little bit of a breakdown. And our network currently scores as of the time that we created this slideshow, which was last week. Our network is currently sitting at a 1.6. I looked last year, we were at 1.8. you're actually doing 2% better as the time of taking this at least with the traffic that was in this snapshot at that time. Um, you know, we have a little bit of a breakdown of where that traffic is originating from on
028the internet. It's kind of eye opening when you understand just where things are actually going on the globe to get what you're looking for. Um, and this breaks it down. Does anybody have any questions on anything so far? Okay, so [clears throat] I talked a little bit in the beginning about patch management. Um, I wanted to break out on that a little bit too because this again is is is super incredibly important piece. Um, you know, and as we continue navigating AI, finding vulnerabilities in software and just navigating this uncertainty with AI, it couldn't be any more important. So, what the patch management software does is it scans the environment. It compares what we have to what the latest versions of the software are out on the internet and it automatically pulls those updates down
029and gets them applied. And it gives us a report. We get this report on a monthly basis, but we can go in and get it, you know, in real time anytime. And what this report does is it says, you know, what was the severity of those patches? Normally, none means that it's just fixes, you know, graphical improvements, feature updates. If something is important or moderate, it means that something's probably coming over the horizon and there's likely going to be a hole discovered in more of the public eye. And if something is considered critical, it's more than likely actively being exploited out there. There's probably cases of that hole being leveraged in an environment where they're already doing damage to a network or the damage could be done. Um, so it's good to have this data
030and I like having this data to present it to you guys so you can see how this utility or how this tool is working. Um, there's some interesting stats on there. Uh, I did look at last year uh the statistics show that 88% of data breaches can be attributed to poor patch management. Um, when we last met it was 57%. So again, you know, there's the battle outside is is not, you know, it's not getting any easier. It's It's only getting more difficult because it's not just human brains that are orchestrating this stuff anymore. It's really going to keep getting interesting. >> Erin, I just had a question. When it says um geodestination unknown or unoutable firewall, what does that mean? >> Yeah. So, the internet is a public place, right? And there's there's an
031organization on the internet called I call it Aaron. A r i n is what it stands for. They're basically responsible for issuing IP addresses legitimately on the internet. Um there are pieces of the internet that are just not classified. They haven't been properly registered, but they're still routable and they still can be a destination that traffic can get to. Um there's also some this can get really technical. There's boon networks. Sometimes internal traffic makes its way out to the internet and it can't be properly classified. So, it's a very small percentage of the traffic and there's there's a couple of, you know, more in-depth answers to that. Um, and that can be broken down. We can get that data and we can deep dive into that data. Chances are it's probably coming from a block
032on the internet that hasn't been appropriately registered or hasn't appropriately come kept up on its registration. Um, the internet is a public place. It's it's a free-for-all, but there are police on the internet that that validate and verify legitimacy and they do a really good job, but they can't get everything because we still have other countries that don't have the legislation and all of the stuff that we have that regulates the internet. And let's face it, I mean, the internet goes everywhere. So, there's a lot of pieces to it that aren't always, you know, decipherable as to where it comes from. But any case can be can be doven into and an explanation can be given. [clears throat] Um touch down on this a little bit too. Again I won't go into a whole lot
033of detail because of the sensitivity of it but we are continuing to perform well. I think that you know collectively we agree that the network is working well. Things are moving. You know we're not finding dead zones. We're not finding offices that are being nailed down by, you know, bottlenecks or anything like that. Um, and and again, I go back, this goes back to when we replaced all of our core network infrastructure. We upgraded our core to 10 gigs from all of our leafs to our core. And we also upgraded our communication between the high school and the elementary school to 2 gigs at that time. Um, so we have super amicable amount of bandwidth for anything that we throw at this network. Um, but we have talked about the Wi-Fi project a couple of
034times the last few times that we've met. And I'm pleased to say that the equipment is here. We're going to get into that a little bit as we progress through the slideshow. Um, at this time there's no immediate replacements needed on any of our networking hardware. Um, a reminder, all of our core network equipment does have lifetime warranties on it. Now, I don't like to take advantage of that and say, "Hey, we should drive it until it dies." There are going to be, you know, there is going to be a period where we say, "Hey, there's going to be some new features out there or just for the sake of keeping up with the times and taking advantage of funds when they become available, we may want to replace that stuff as a proactive move."
035Um, but that that next business day replacement is part of those lifetime warranties. So, that's a huge safety that's a huge security policy for us. Um, if we were to have a major component fail, we're continuing to perform on-site and off-site backups of of critical data. alerts are sent out to the appropriate people so they're able to see success and failures on a daily basis and we are retaining full images of our servers. So that gets me to the access point replacement. So the wireless access point system has been well overdue for replacement in this district, but it has been performing well. Um we're really not, unless you look at it through Dan and I's eyes, the users are really not seeing any kind of a an impact or a slowdown or a bottleneck. We
036understand what's out there. we understand what this can be. So that's why obviously we want to get ahead of this, but our equipment has been deemed end of life and as a result of that, this replacement is in motion. All the equipment is here. We're ready to rock and roll with it. Um right now it's a matter of juggling this with the school year and not creating any kind of a disruption to daytoday. Um we don't want to cause any problems or set the boat unstable. Um this replacement is going to bring us up to Wi-Fi 7. So, we are going to be moving, I believe, two generations ahead, maybe three. Um, and this will be more resilient to outside interference, which is big. Up here, we have a cell phone tower in our backyard.
037That cell phone tower has way more on it than just cell phone communication equipment. There's Wi-Fi equipment up there. There's back hall equipment up there, and we are absorbing interference in this building. And we're also absorbing interference down there as well. This newer generation hardware has a lot more resilience to, you know, crushing out that interference and reoptimizing its channels to be as optimal as possible. >> Do you want to take over on Bark or do you want me to touch down on Bark? >> Sure. >> Yep. >> We also go ahead and um we're also using Bark for schools. Once again, this kind of goes back to a little bit of the web filtering Aaron was talking about. It's just more on um more of a user level base within the Chromebooks. Um VAR
038continues to utilize and foster a safe cyber security environment for students. It's great because there is some websites where we can go and block for more like administration student or administration and teachers, but this keeps it blocked for students and we can block on the level of students that we deem may be inappropriate for them. And I think that's really good. mark alerts all the building uh principles and counselors immediately for review. If there's an issue that it deems sensitive, you know, if there's something that is inappropriate that a student is searching, it lets them know to review immediately and look through the data to see if it was just a false alarm. Um, we've been seeing a little bit more sometimes with some popups where the website is legitimate but the website gets hacked
039and so the popup will pop up and then bark actually stops that and makes that pretty much prevents any issues from occurring. >> And this is this is that multi-layered approach that we're taking. We have layers and this is where certain layers perform better than others and this is just what I would consider another layer. This is a vital layer and that's going to be for the last bullet points to you know prove I mean this is keeping our kids safe. >> Yes. Yeah. Bark alerts the around the clock. There's no contingent on devices necessary of being on premise. They will we will get alert even if the device is at home and the student is searching on it. So it's great all around. Um for severe situations, Horn will actually reach out um to
040the uh the counselors and the principles immediately through phone if they really deem it to be very severe. Um and obviously the appropriate um people in the buildings are notified of potential risks to students. And these are all the list of the things that it basically searches for. >> And this is a really good example of where AI is also being used for good. AI is able to say like, hey, we have a kiddo who is really showing signs of depression or worse, they're showing signs of suicide. And this allows the counselors to engage early on. And that's where AI is coming in and it's looking at the patterns of the information that they're searching, what they're typing into documents, what they might be typing to a friend in an email, stuff like that. It
041allows that context to be brought forth. Um, and there are cases where this has been super valuable. It's been invaluable. Let's put it that way. >> Yes, I agree. >> Um the next one is for the fish me implementation. Uh fish me um so we are looking into implementing fish me uh into the system this year. Uh fish me is a great tool because it allows us to test our users to determine how well they are at basically interacting with danger email signals. Um, this is great because it's a great tool to kind of help test people to see how much they are aware of fishes and things of that sort. Like um it it's great because if someone clicks on it, it's not real. There's no harm that will be done. Instead, it will
042actually give them material that will let them know things to look for so that they don't click on the same type of email again. uh the tools uh for sending emails and tempt to course users and and ask them for things such as passwords um you know banking information, phone numbers and emails and other information. uh along right now with a lot of the AI out there, we are seeing that a lot of these fishing emails are looking extremely realistic like anymore you could get an email that looks like it's from me, you know, and with the way the internet is, they can actually kind of spoof emails in a lot of cases. >> And just to add to that, you know, this is valuable for everybody to hear. One of the bigger things that
043we're seeing is sometimes I feel like we're doing a really good job at staying on top of things and then something happens and then we feel like we're really set back. And I'm not citing any situation that recently happened and it comes to turn out that somebody that let's say Jane Doe does business with under our organization is emailing back and forth and they've sent some HR paperwork etc. And then Jane Doe's account becomes compromised and now all the material that our organization has exchanged with them has been harvested and either a person or AI is going through it and you know they're they're they're harvesting that data and then you start to see something take place like bank account becomes compromised etc. um you know so it's it's a double-sided sword and you know
044this is again somebody gets into somebody else's email address and starts fishing for information it it's it's going to be important to know that and these tools allow us to safely help our help our users understand what's out there and organically deliver them material that helps them understand how they can do better at recognizing these types of things. >> Yes. Um the uh the next one is inter interactive additions to the environment. Uh we've had some budget constraints this year as everyone is well aware. Um so this has kind of hindered us from any mass upgrades uh to our environment. However, we were able to still proceed with being able to implement uh four interactive displays. Uh three at the elementary school here and one up at the middle school high school. Um, we were
045able to also still get three additional chrome or 31 additional Chromebooks as well for uh students as also um additional devices we may need um later this year uh depending on the budget. Um over the summer uh things went pretty smooth. uh I kind of did some things to kind of streamline things where I I created a few scripts that kind of automated a little bit of the summer process. So for example, like with card charts, I really tried to kind of ease that transition so we weren't going through Excel and rebuilding each one out and alphabetizing. I could just kind of run an application and it really kind of did a lot of the work for us. This helped kind of streamline a little bit of the process in the summer and also um
046scripts to be able to go and add user accounts in the Google app. Um what's next? Well, we're going to continue to navigate the good and bad challenges of AI and you know what it presents for the educational sector. Um we're going to continue to improve on the safety such as uh emergency communication systems. We're working, Noel and I are working on some things in this building in that regard. >> Uh we're going to begin planning uh several technology refreshes in the next two years or so uh including servers >> if we can get them. That's going to get us to the next point. >> Yes. Um RAM chip shortages are going to be a massive problem for us. uh we are seeing that due to AI that we are seeing that uh these data
047centers are popping up everywhere and they are utilizing so much of the RAM. On top of that, we are actually even seeing some companies no longer making RAM for >> consumer use. >> Yeah. Because they're just all making AI or making RAM just for AI data centers. companies that have been around for 30 years, 40 years, and have been the biggest players like like Crucial, which is basically a subsidiary of Micron. Um they've called it quits on their consumer division and and we're still consumers even though we're a business. We're education. We're still considered consumer buyers on this. A lot of organizations are betting the bow on AI. You know, they're they're betting that this is going to be the future and they have completely changed. Um, I read a headline today and I didn't
048get a chance to get too ind depth with it, but 2026 is going to be completely plagued with chip shortages for servers, too. Processors, Intel and AMD processors, um, which is going to be compounded with this. I mean, these data centers are putting insane amounts of one U rack mount servers under, you know, warehouse times 20iz buildings. And it it really is a wild rabbit hole to to crawl down. Good and bad. There's going to be good and bad that comes of it. You know, we just have to navigate it. >> Yeah. Lots of questions. >> Come on, guys. Give me some kind of a challenge. >> Curious the new server. >> Uh when we did the servers in 2018, do you remember where we were at? I want to say it was probably 12
049grand a server. It was probably about a $24,000 project. >> Um, you know, and that does get me to kind of a bonus thing I wanted to throw in there and I'll add that. >> It's probably going to be around $30,000 if I had to make a bet. But right now, the game is trying to find the stuff, trying to find it in stock. I mean, we're set up with Tech Data, Ingram Micro, and D&H Distributing. Those are the three core distributors in America. And if we need all three of those distributors as a small IT company, we're small, we're in rural Pennsylvania, we need all three of them in our back pocket to deliver solutions to our customer base. It it's it's wild. >> Do you have any idea when you're doing the Wi-Fi
050switch? >> Dan and I were just talking about this. I'm thinking probably summer. I think that's going to be the most comfortable for everybody. We we weighed out the pros and the cons. Um it's going to be a really quick shot, but I don't want to set anything unstable. So, that's that's the biggest thing right now for us. There's some engineering changes that are going to happen, too. We're going to be changing the way the Wi-Fi is the APs are controlled. So, I think there's more to come on that in the next three months. How's that? Come on, guys. Give me a challenge. >> I don't. >> Thank you guys. I appreciate you guys letting us have some time tonight. I know that this is kind of boring, but it's important. >> Yes. Thank you
051everyone. I appreciate it. >> Thank you very much. At this time, we're going to um move on to board business. Uh we have old business, PA Solar. Donna, do we have any So, they did send uh the flyer on the Pennsylvania rent program, which is a uh lending program that that offers funding to to low income or um nonprofit companies to install solar. You can borrow money through that through that farm, not borrow, but they actually will do the uh power purchase agreement which will allow you to function with a solar installation at zero cost to the district. Um that information is attached. We do not have layouts yet. They are working on those today. Um they're going to come back to us with a couple different options, but I don't have them tonight. So,
052get them to as soon as we as soon as we have them. >> Donna, I may be wrong, but I was just wondering when this when the budget got passed, was there something new on solar um rebating rebates or anything like that? >> So, there was nothing new. They did extend the PA solar for schools program. It's still in effect. So, that funding is available for districts to apply for funding to cover solar projects. They they had initially said that that was going to sunset but they didn't include it. So there is >> Do you know how how long we have to recapture that? >> I want to say it's the end of February and I'm just going off the top of my head if we are interested in that. That would be if we
053are interested in actually purchasing a system meaning purchasing. I think I guess I'm going to leave it up to PA Solar to come back with to to us with the information regarding what it would look like for us to own it versus what it would look like for us to enter into a power purchase agreement. Because if we own a system, we have to maintain it and operate it. and that potentially would require staff um because I don't believe we have people on staff that could could manage a plan of that size. So there's there's a lot of consideration there. So we hear from them are in February I mean can you tell them like you know there's a deadline if you want to go that option >> I can ask them to accelerate but
054I can't make that >> okay you know >> I honestly don't I don't think that a buyout is the way for us to go getting because I believe if you're going to own a solar system of the size that we would potentially need, you would have to have at at minimum one person, possibly two to maintain that system and keep it running. I I don't I don't know that we're in a position to actually staff to to have if we had somebody on site that was first in it. Yes, maybe. But um I I guess we'll let them back to us with some recommendations if they think that that's an option for us and think it's a viable option. We can pursue it. Um they've kind of recommended that we probably would be better off
055with the power purchase agreement just because there isn't a huge cash outflow and you still get the benefit of the solar power coming back. is Pennsylvania bright going to come and give us a presentation. >> PA Solar reached out to them and we need to hear back because they have to confirm that they're going to be working with us. >> Okay. >> So that's really the next step. >> Yes. >> Okay. um the cell phone discussion. Is there any update from last week? >> Um I just if you look at my board report at at the very end um I have the current text of the bill attached to that and also um the principles association position. It's um under the legislative updates on my board report. Just it's still it's still out there. That's
056still in discussion and I'm I am expecting that the text of that bill to change probably two or three more times before they but I'll just every time they send a new one I'll make sure that you are aware where we are with that. Okay. >> Thank you. Um the I9 meeting was held on December 15th and the minutes from the October 20th meeting are attached for your review. principal report. At this time, I'll call in Mr. Heindel. >> Thank you, Mr. Kelly. Um, in addition to the board report that's submitted online. Uh, just a couple highlights. The Elker cover is uh up and running here at FSG. If you're not familiar with that, the Elker Cover provides food and hygiene products to families that are in need. We currently have 41 students that are
057utilizing it. We had the middle high kids pack the bags, not realizing that they were elementary kids, so they're a little too heavy at first. Uh, but we got that worked out. And I want to give a big shout out to Pete Bulmer over Christmas break. Pete uh turned the back of the library into our own Elker cupboard. So starting next week, all that food will be transferred up here so we can pack our own bags so that the kids don't have to lift weights to take them home. Uh, but it's a great program. Second thing, just an update from December uh about the scheduling. Uh, in conjunction with the middle high uh Mrs. Hindel and obviously Mrs. Petroski, we put together a preliminary schedule for FSG to kind of change some things going into
058next year. Uh, one of the big highlights that I think you guys will all like is the fact that there's really no need to hire anybody at this time. It's more of sharing staff that we already have at the middle high to match with the staff that we currently have in place. Uh, we're going to give a dry run of it. Uh, talk to the teachers tomorrow just to kind of highlight where we're going with this. Obviously, there's room for change, but I think we made a lot of progress for the in the last two months. Um, and last but not least, uh, the elementary PTO, as I'm settling in, the work that these individuals do is just amazing. And I I just want to give a huge shout out to them. If you've ever
059had the opportunity to come up here for the Santa's workshop, to see the look on those kids' face is amazing. And all that is made possible by all of the volunteer parents that come up and do all that. Now that you're here for two days, you know what that was all about. Um there was wrapping paper, you name it, everywhere. But that is just one of the many projects that they do. And all that money is earmarked back towards the school district to save the board and the district money over time. So if you ever see any members of the PTO, please just thank them because it's a thankless job, but what they do for our kids and our staff is amazing. So any questions? >> Thank you, Mr. Hangle. Mr. Powski's report is attached.
060Office of Student Services, Mrs. Fangle. Yeah, I'm going to spend most of my time tonight um talking about the homeless because our drive has concluded and I'm going to go over some of the things and the donations that we got. Um just a few highlights on my numbers. Um special ed numbers went up about three four kids in the last um since November because in December my report was a I reported on numbers in a different way. Um, so we've had a couple newly eligible kids in a move in um 504 numbers have went up about three. Gifted hasn't changed. Um, we've re gotten two foster care students in our district since after Christmas break. And we do have a inmate down at the prison that we are now servicing. Um, one of our staff
061is going to be starting that up at the end of this week. So, she'll be going down to do that. Um, so those are just some highlights of of my numbers that I wanted to point out, but I didn't I made a list and I didn't put it on my board report because I didn't want to miss anybody. But I have um I just wanted to give you guys a visual on my lovely card. My secretary put this together for me because she refused to come and present this tonight. But the homeless drive was a complete success. I've never seen anything like this. The very first year, I know Megan brought me blankets. I gave every family a blanket. That's all. That's all I had. The next year I had like Bo bags and filled
062with things. This year I I I don't even know what to say about our community. I had It's not even just Ridgeway. I've had there's donations from St. Mary's for businesses over there. Um the Ridgeway Record donated first aid kits for every student. Um Julian at the Flower Bar. I can't say enough. If you didn't see her Facebook post, I think she got a lot of the businesses going. She was just so upset that we had students in our district that didn't have a place to to sleep every night in their own bed. Um, and she I I can't even She probably raised like $2,000 and she bought um in this box down here um actual CS for kids that I know didn't have a bed to sleep on. Um so I've already handed out
063two or three of those. Um, she gave these full-size flannel blankets. She got sheets with her money and she donated and did the pillows. She had asked for items that of course our students and our families bring in the little hygiene things, but you know, she brought got these more expensive items for us. Um, so I can't can't thank enough because the CS and the pillows is a nice thing to have to give to some of the students. Um, through that fundraising with her, she had a donation of $400 and Steve, of course, wonderful Steve Cleveland and Bo donated $400 in gift cards. So, we had $80 in 80 $800 in the Al County um gift cards. So, every kid is going to go home with one of one of these in their bag. Um,
064the class of 1977 donated $350. The good old girls, Mr. Cert's wife is part of it and they did these homemade >> quilts and they donated 29 of them, >> you know, for the kids that we had. So, you know, they're they're beautiful. And there was one little boy, it's a special ed student and he doesn't have enough either and he loves little puppies and we gave him one for Christmas and wrapped it up and it was the best Christmas present he'd ever gotten. That's what he said. [laughter] um from Pen Highland's lab. Um Emily Walker Ernsburgger had contacted us and they gave us five filled duffel bags of things. They gave us 20 fleece blankets and lots of toiletries. Um Dale Fox, a previous pairer for the district, she reached out and gave us
065a few hundred dollars of a monetary donation. Um the Lutheran Church gave us a monetary donation. South Street Botanical Designs gave us a monetary donation. Um, to Lulo's Deli gave us a case of Q-tips, and I'm talking like the big pack you would buy, a huge case of them, and numerous pairs of winter gloves. Michelle Beaki gave us a monetary donation. Um, two high school employees gave us $200 in Walmart gift cards. And Carol Jacobs, who is our custodian up here, would see Carrie and I getting all these donations, and she's like, "What can I do to help?" And I said, "We really don't have something to send all this stuff home in." So, her Elk County Ecumenical organization that she's with, they donated these duffel bags. And inside of the duffel bags, it's just
066packed. Kind of like Mark talking about the little kids. I don't know. Now, I got to figure out how we're going to get these home [laughter] because there's there's just they're just filled with all of the things that, you know, all the members of our community, you know, have brought in. There's beautiful towels that are in here, you know. these nice hats um that were hand knitted that we got another year. Here's the first aid kits I was talking about. Toothbrushes, you name it. So, I just wanted to show you what we've been working on. And I'm not going to talk about homeless for the rest of the year. This is a huge thing that we do through our office. Um and these will be going home this week to our families. Like I said,
067we do have 29 identified students and I have 36 bags. So, we'll be picking a few other students that are in need to send home with them as well. So, I just wanted to give a thanks to our community. >> Maybe maybe the press could tell us how to make donations to your homeless. >> I'm sorry. Who? How to >> the press? Is there is there a is there >> it's just to the school and you could say for the homeless because for these monetary donations. So, what I do with that is um if there's a house fire in Ridgeway and there are kids that are displaced, you know, that allows me to, you know, get a Walmart card, you know, or a sheets card or something that they're going to be able to utilize
068for that and to allow for a bigger a bigger purchase. >> Yeah. I have a homeless fund that Donna, she loves when I get donations [laughter] for the different funds, but then I have that that money if I ever have a specific need that we need to use something for. Yeah. But I I just can't thank them enough, you know. So, make sure you thank your wife. The blankets were the quilts were great. >> So, thank you. That's my report tonight. >> Thank you for your >> Yes. [laughter and clears throat] Thank you for your dedication. >> I don't get student I think that was fun for me. >> Yeah, that [laughter] was that was a heartfelt project for you. I could tell. So, thank you so much. >> At this time, um the business
069manager report. >> Thank you, Miss Kim. Um my report is attached as well as several other attachments that go along with it. Um I'll just give you a kind of a highlight. Um we already talked about the solar. Um our cash flow has now stabilized with the receipt of our state funding. Uh it was we we had catch up in December. So we are current with all the state funding that was due to us. Um the monthly budget to actual is attached uh for the end of December in board docs. We do have the draft audit from Mayor Doozel. The report is now management review and they will uh be presenting at the February work session. Um we have work on the 27 26 27 budget. The governor's address is on the 3rd of February.
070So hopefully we'll have a little more information after that. Um we do have an initial job conference for the uh middle high security entrance. It's scheduled for January 16th at 10 a.m. with the engineer and all of the contractors. Uh that's to prepare for the summer project. Um [clears throat] the nutrition P&Ls for December, November and December are attached as our December meeting was early. Um both showing positive operating balances. And I also have the um average breakfast average lunch served for those months. We average around 250 for breakfast, 550 for lunch. Um cyber enrollments are running at about 36 for the month of January. Rocket enrollments are at 16, placements are at three, and Jeff Tech is at five. And that concludes my report. >> Thank you, Mrs. Sling. Are there any questions? >>
071All right. Um, Mrs. Petroski. >> Um, so my my report is attached. Um, one of the things I did add um for my entry plan was to do a summary of um just kind of a synthesis of everything I've done through the fall and my impressions of that and that is attached if if you would like to read that on the board report. Um just want to touch base on some things that we've been working on here at the school. The planning of the swap day which we had talked about in um the workshop from May 29th. Um that information will be shared with what the teachers have to do in February. Also, um we in service now Monday, we have um the foundation is coming to speak with all of the teachers and talk
072to them about um the potential for donating and um doing that through payroll deduction if they would wish and just kind of break the the foundation out with the the teachers to let them know what their plan is. Um the CEC will also be coming on Monday to do a poverty simulation with all of our staff. Um where the staff will take on roles of families, maybe some homeless, and they will for three hours they will work on on what it's like to be in that role um as as someone in pottery. I also have been working on the calendar. I did add those two additions to the agenda the agenda tonight. Um, we had an open invitation earlier this fall to be on the calendar committee and then 12 members of our staff came
073to our calendar piece. So, they were there to help review the calendars as we brought the original calendar to you. And then I shared the um the the two additional drafts from the workshop that you had asked us to do. So, on the agenda there are those additional calendars. The one was moving the um the school year ahead full week. Um, one of the things that I had talked about was sometimes that the schedules are made because of where athletics fall and I did get some information that athletics will be starting a week later this year because um the um Labor Day is so late. So, we usually start on the 11th of August as the first official day of fall sports, but it's August 17th this year. Just so you're aware of that as
074you contemplate that calendar piece. Um, and then I did do that three, four, five day start where there would be three days for students. Then the next week would be four days and then five days and then we would hit the labor day. So it would be the original start day that we had talked about on the original calendar, but it would be a different wean into the length of the student days. Act just want to touch base on act 44 again because the AR is on the board agenda tonight. Um, we did share the letter with parents. I've asked the the principles with their next newsletter to again share that letter and the AR that will accompany um that from the board tonight just so the parents have both of that information so they're
075aware how they will be notified. Um and on the board also are the letters that we would share out if there was an an incident. The one thing I wanted to talk about too was there's a botchi winter fun day that is on a Sunday. Um, we approved to do that. It's at the It's They're doing like a ice bucket challenge to raise some money. Teachers are willing to uh be ice bucketed and on the day. I know. [laughter] I know. I volunteered. I'm sorry. Um it is on a Sunday and one of the reasons they did choose a Sunday is because all of those students are in Special Olympics and Special Olympics have a lot of Saturday events and so it would have it would have hindered how they do that which is why
076they wanted to do that on a Sunday. Um and then I did add the legislative updates. I added um four of the things to just to kind of keep on your radar. The one is um the Belltobell cell phone policy. That's state bill 1014. It's on there. And then again, I linked the current text and the principal association piece on there. And I also just added the other one I just want to bring highlights to is they're still contemplating that um SRO in every school building versus one per district. So ju I just just because of the budget piece I just want to keep that they haven't approved anything but that is what they're talking about. So we would have to hire another if they they followed through with that bill they would have to
077hire another SR SRO. So there would have to be one year and one at the high school. >> Um does anybody have any questions? >> Yeah. Could you check up the other school district and see if there policy? >> Sure. >> I mean we could >> policy or just in general like >> Yeah. that they're banning the south. >> Okay. >> We could wait for two years for this. >> I'm sorry. What? >> We could wait for two years for this legislation. >> Does anybody else have any other questions? >> Okay. >> Thank you, Mrs. At this time, I'd like to turn the meeting to Paul McCertie for buildings and grounds. >> There's nothing to report. [laughter] Thank you, Mr. >> Buildings are standing and the grounds are firm. >> Finance, Mrs. Holt. >> Um,
078I move that school board approve finances A 10 A to 10B. Do I have a second? >> Are there any questions on the motion? Roll call vote, please. Mrs. Good. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Alio, >> yes. >> Mr. Kow, >> yes. >> Dr. Kaufman, >> yes. >> Mrs. Hanley, >> yes. >> Miss Holtz, >> yes. >> Mrs. Lowry, >> yes. >> Mr. Mccertie, >> yes. >> M. >> Yes. Thank you, Mrs. Holtz. Um, policy. Mrs. Lowry. >> Information only. the policies at this time. Yes. Thank you, [clears throat] Mrs. Lowry. Um, personnel, Dr. Kaufman, I move to the Ridgeway Area School Board personnel items 12A 12. >> I I'll second it, but I have a couple questions. >> Okay, so the motion's in second. Any question on the motion? >> Yeah. What about the music?
079Um, >> field trip. >> Oh, that field trip is for district music. District band. >> Is this for district? >> Yes. >> Okay. Um, find out how many people are in the band in the >> So, there's 27 in the middle school, 26 in the middle school. The middle school band, 26 in the middle school choir. Goodness, let me get my classes up so I can give you the exact number. This would be concert band. And in high school, band has 13 and choir has 10. So 37 total band members. So um and they'll they overlap a little bit like obviously with marching band. Some of the middle schools are in the marching band. This is just concert choir. This is concert BML. >> Any other questions? >> Roll call vote, please. >> Mrs. Alio,
080>> yes. >> Mr. Kob, >> yes. >> Dr. Kaufman, >> yes. >> Mrs. Hanley, >> yes. >> Miss Boltz, >> yes. >> Mrs. Lowry, >> yes. >> Mr. McCertie, >> yes. >> Mrs. Good. >> Yes. >> Miss Kevin, >> yes. Um I think the next one is just >> Oh, okay. Um which calendar. >> Okay. So, I guess we'd have to move to make the motion that there's options. Mr. Dr. I move that the area school board approve personnel item 12 >> and we need to choose option A, B or C as listed. >> And we need to choose option A, B or C as >> do I have a second on that motion? >> Okay, so questions on the motion. Can you do explain about going through each one? >> Sure. Okay. So, the
081first one the the A is the very original calendar pretty much like um it has been in the years past. We start on the 17th that of Dece or of August and then it it filters through just like the regular school year. Option B is the start that one week later which is August 24th. That's a August 24th start. Calendar pretty much maintains the same. We start one week later and one week later. So graduation would then be that first week of June. Um calendar C starting will start on the 17th. Then you we will go um two three days that they'll go the 19th 20 21st the next week we go four days and so the 24th we would have an inservice or an act day and then the next week it would be
082a full week of five starting on the 31st of August. >> Did the calendar [clears throat] committee have any preference Ju the all the results that came back the only one they said is that I five people that responded to me and the response was from all five that they would like if they'd choose one the later start. >> Okay. But what about moving a um day to the following week for the teachers? Did they have any >> No. >> Like would that be well utilized? >> Well, it would be so we would do two days. We would start on a Tuesday. So it would it would just be instead of having those three days right at the beginning, we do two and then we would just whatever we did on that third day, it
083would be on that next Monday, >> right? >> So we already do that. It just wouldn't be back to that. >> Okay. Is there any um issue with delaying it, having [clears throat] the kids here for a few days and then having >> No, it don't think so. I think that it would be we would do so we usually do a building day right where the they they come into the building the building principles do their faculty meetings they're they're getting the teachers ready for school and then we probably have a classroom day on that second day which is what we usually do so the teachers can work in their classroom and then that next Monday we would do some of the other [clears throat] district level things that we do like um any any
084like the safety pieces and those kinds of things that would would come in at the very the beginning of the school year. [clears throat] >> Does any of the administration have any recommendations? >> Honestly, when I reached out to Miss Petroski, I think with Labor [clears throat] Day being late, I think it would be good to start on the 24th, but that is just my opinion. >> I agree with that. >> Yeah. My question was going to be do you think that the five that responded to the representation [clears throat] the teacher population and anybody administration can kind of answer that >> I I do I don't I don't think the starting a week later is really a starting a week later I just think the calendar so far off you look at the winter
085the winter sports the fall sports I don't know that I ever remember it not starting till the 17th you know so I just think that's very early for this staff to think about coming back. I mean, and really I think Noah when I looked at it was what June 2nd is graduation. That's that's not really, >> you know, think going into June. >> No, I I think that calendar is the mo >> is similar to what we've what we've had. >> And Memorial Day is on the 31st for that year. So really, it's the same thing just bumped up, >> right? >> Because if we did that one calendar, we wouldn't even be here when Memorial Day happened. >> Yeah. because we're done before Memorial Day. Memorial Day is late also. >> Um, it does
086look like it makes the most amount of sense to go this way. Cakes makes the most. >> No, that would be calendar B. >> Oh, I thought you were talking about C. is just this thing would come back three days of inservice. Kids would come for two days then we'd do five days and then we would have Labor Day would go to four days. we go the week into June, which I think um there was a lot of talk that that would be beneficial too, having the full week of summer in August and and then going that first week in June when it's usually less auspicious weather. >> Both of the other calendars besides that calendar B has us being done before Memorial Day. Yes, >> the calendar B we come back after Memorial Day
087first um the three days three days and the kids go back Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, go home half the day Thursday. [clears throat] >> So what we can do is I propose that we vote on calendar B with Oh, go ahead. >> Um I know we're not supposed to public comment, but and we do have the rat president over here. >> Oh, could we She wants to go after Labor Day. >> I feel like she was always if it would be my way be after Labor Day. But I and consensus speaking for the teachers. Calendar B is the best choice. >> A lot of things. Summer's good. June is, you know, the weather just, you know, a lot of teachers love to take their kids to college. You know, we start that early, you know, then
088they got to take a day off. um >> they're really looking forward to that extra week of nice summer weather. >> Thank you. >> Bye. >> So, um I'd like to propose calendar B. If that doesn't um make the vote, then we can propose another vote for a different calendar. >> Need a second or >> uh >> Okay. >> Mr. Kov. >> Yes. Dr. Kaufman. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Hanley. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Lowry. >> Skipped your >> I skipped you. That's okay. >> That's okay. Yes. >> I would have went back. >> Yes. >> Mr. Murray. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Good. >> Yes. Mrs. Alio. >> Yes. >> M. >> Yes. >> Motion carries. All right. Um, Mrs. Alio, extracurricular activities. >> I move that the Ridgeway Area School District approve the extracurricular activities
08913, items 13A and 13B as listed. >> Second. >> We have a motion and a second. Any questions on the motion? Roll call vote, please. Did we need a roll call vote for that one? >> Okay, go ahead. >> Dr. Kaufman, >> yes. >> Mrs. Hanley, >> yes. >> Miss Holtz, >> yes. >> Mrs. Lowry, >> yes. >> Mr. McCertie, >> yes. >> Mrs. Good. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Alio, >> yes. >> Mr. Koba, >> yes. >> Miss Kenn, >> yes. Motion carries. >> Okay. The end to see some reports are there for your review. Our next workshop is um is February 3rd and our regular board meeting is February 10th. Um, please note that we moved the ad hoc meeting to Thursday or Tuesday, February 10th, following the regular board meeting so that it
090could also be um televised to fulfill the board goal of transparent to our shareholders. And that way people have the opportunity, not just on this night, but across the week that it's posted to look and see for themselves what the state of our budget is. All right. Do I have a motion to close the meeting to adjourn? Jonathan, >> a second. >> Second. All in favor? >> All opposed. Motion carries. Thank you everybody.