001order the work session for the Scranton School District for October 27th. Please rise for the pledge of allegiance. Pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, >> indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Mrs. Orur roll call. >> Mr. Borick >> here. >> Mr. Casey >> here. >> Mrs. Chzik, >> present. >> Miss Fox, Mr. McCander, >> present. >> Ms. Merkel. Mrs. Leky, >> present. >> Mr. Triano, >> present. >> Mr. homes. Uh, six present, three absent. >> Okay. So, we're going to begin this meeting by doing some recognitions. >> Um, is there a mic down on the floor? >> There is. Right. >> Okay. We're going to go down the floor. >> Thanks. >> You're in all the
002way here. Elementary. >> [laughter] >> Sean and Jenna, get down there. Oh, yeah. They're running for office. >> Okay. >> All right. So, first up for tonight's awards and recognitions, we have Mason the therapy dog and his owner, Mrs. Aaron Moore. >> Mason is a 4-year-old mini golden doodle. He received his K9 good citizenship certificate and his therapy certification through All American Dog Trainer. He joined the Compassionate Kines in June once he graduated. Mason and his owner, Aaron Moore, work with Compassionate Canines, taking Mason to different events where people can interact with the therapy dogs, such as community events, nursing homes, and schools. Due to Mrs. Moore's job, Mason will frequent Prescott Elementary School, providing some therapy dog time with the students there. Mason recently visited back in the beginning of October where he hung
003out with all of the students at Prescott. We are very grateful for Mrs. Moore for her being here tonight with Mason and for allowing the students at Prescott to share in the joy that Mason brings. [applause] Take a little picture of Mason. >> So, our our goal, just so everyone knows, is I would like to eventually have a puppy in every building. Um I love dogs. um and step down that path um to hopefully do that. We want to thank Mrs. Moore for doing that and for Mrs. He is [applause] hot out. Want to go say hi to everyone? >> Yeah. >> Go say hi to Yes. You are the most special boy here tonight. Yes, you are. >> Yes. >> I saw him. Hello. >> Thoughts make me happy. I don't get to do
004this fun stuff very often. >> Better than getting too. [laughter] >> How do you know deputy more? >> I know your dad. >> Well, my husband. >> I know your husband. >> Yeah. Thank you. >> Great work. This is nice. Bob just said it's way better than being yelled at. [laughter] Bob, I was asking on your dog how he knows you. >> Yeah. [laughter] >> Sit up here. >> You could vote on my behalf. >> We got the new director. >> There you go, Bob. >> Some people might think he's better than me. Anyway, [laughter] >> come right across here. Right across the front. Right across the front. Good. >> Come right across the front. >> I got a nice doggy at home. >> Oh. Oh. Oh. Back over here. Back over here. Back over
005here. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. >> The TV. There we go. There we go. All right, the floor is yours, everyone. Face the crowd. Here we go. >> Good boy. >> Right there. >> Back here. >> All right, so next we have the Whittier Road Runners, which is a a running club for students at John G. Whittier Elementary School. This weekend, the students at Whittier participated in Kella's Run for T1D, a fundraising walk/run for Breakthrough T1D, which is type 1 diabetes. Breakthrough Type 1 Diabetes is the leading global type 1 diabetes research and advocacy organization. We are so proud of our Whittier Roadrunners for participating in this weekend's fundraiser and are so grateful to have them here tonight. Thank you guys. [applause] WE HAVE A SPEAKER LADY. You're [cheering] my speaker. You got your speech ready? Hi,
006my name is Laney Coin and I'm a fourth grade student student at Whittier Elementary. This was our second session as radio as road runners and we are so lucky to have this club at Whittier. Thank you Mrs. King for taking the lead on this club with some help from Mrs. Base, Mrs. McGlin, and Mrs. Smeen. Your dictation to make this club successful is is appreciated. Whittier Road Runners helps build friendships, learn commitment, and staying active. Rittier Road Runners would like to thank the Electric City Runners for your encouragement and motivation during our races. We appreciate your support every step of the way. Thank you to parents and teachers at Whittier who cheer us on on who cheer us on each week and at every race. We are looking forward to our spring session. Come out
007and join US [applause] after school programs like this. What Mrs. King does um and and the other people help Mrs. to make this happen for kids. Really, these are the great moments um that are happening around the district. We're here with our wittier kids tonight. We've met our Mayers from Armstrong teachers who come forward to stay after school to help build these kind of awesome programs for our kids. So, this is just something that we want to make sure we're highlighting. And a huge thank everyone a to all of the um wittier road runners for all that you're doing. [applause] Everyone take a step back. Scrunch in here. Come on over here, guys. Come on over here. Come on over here, please. >> I will run for grants. >> I run for grants. So if
008you need I run for grants. You need runners. I'm in. >> [applause] >> Don't enter. I'd like Right. >> Great job, Al. Great job. Good. [laughter] >> The only good dog is a dead dog or a hot dog. [laughter] >> If we had better people >> St. Bernard, I vote for it. Big >> guy. Real big guy. All right. Athletics and student activities. Director Triano, we have a discussion for additional varsity assistant track coaches. >> Okay. So, sorry. Um, I sent you guys a memo to the new members. I don't know if you got the memo. We have a lot of kids. We just saw the interest at the elementary level and track running track. And it's to a point because the different events with throwing in one area and running in another area and
009hurdles in another area that we kind of really need to add staff on for safety and security. And I'm making that recommendation to the board that we do that. I don't want this to get lost. I want to keep this on the radar. Obviously, under the current budget situation, I can't bring that forward right now, but please make sure that this one is still in your mind because when we have money, I'm bringing it forward to you immediately. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> Budget and finance. >> So, on the consent agenda, we'll have motions to approve the bill list and exception bill list, delinquent tax reports, treasurers reports, repository sales, budget transfers, disposal of assets, budgeted purchases. And we'll have a discussion and motion for real estate approve assessment approvals if there are any.
010>> Uh there are none on for this evening. >> Okay. Uh and we have information on uh the budget update. P. >> Uh yes. So uh today marks I think believe it's approximately the 119th day since June 30th uh for the Pennsylvania state budget impass. So in front of you what I wanted to review was some of our uh cash flow uh that we've been monitoring. Um as you've heard the district or Dr. Keading note many many times we are a calendar year school district. So some of the options or some of the um revenue sources that are available to our fiscal year school districts, we don't have that option. So we are monitoring our cash to make it through uh December 31st. At that time, we anticipate issuing a tax revenue anticipation note to
011carry us forward and continue our operations through when our tax bills or tax revenue will begin to be received, which is approximately March. So in this scenario, we're we're assuming that the state budget impass and subsidies do not begin to flow until approximately April. So you'll notice that as of July 1st, we started the fiscal year at a with a pretty healthy cash fund balance of 56 million. Since then, you know, these next first these first few columns on page one are essentially almost like actual results, not as estimates, but we're anticipating ending the month of October in that bottom right hand corner with just under $21 million of cash available. Okay, that is general fund only as we do have other funds that are restricted for things like our food service operating account or
012our capital improvement account, but we're focusing on the general fund and that represents almost a $35 million decrease um in our available cash resources in that uh 4-month period or about 63%. [cough and clears throat] Moving on to page two where we continue to monitor as I mentioned just to get to December 31st. Again, we're estimating our our payrolls, any local revenues that would be received um in the months of November and December, and then obviously some uh expenses like the daily operating expenses that we need to continue to pay um just to keep the doors afloat. Under this scenario, we're estimating ending the year with only just over one $1 million of cash resources. So, that's how tight that is on a $225 million budget. So, one um one, you know, unfortunately, a large
013healthc care claim or uh a repair to a building that was unexpected could, you know, put us into a situation where we're cutting it very, very close to the end of the year. Moving into January and February, again, we do not anticipate too much in the form of local revenues. Um, and moving on to page three, you'll notice that at the end of March, we have a cumulative negative operating cash flow of just over 21 mill million. That cumulative amount as well as a reserve, we're looking at borrowing around $30 million for TR um effective January 2nd to close on that day so we can make a payroll obligation. Um, [clears throat] we anticipate bringing, we've been seeking proposals from local banks within the area, multiple. I believe there's been over eight or nine contacted.
014Uh, we hope to have a proposal for the board to consider at the November 12th meeting that's been scheduled for the budget for the proposed budget. And again, with the, uh, obligation that we close on January 2nd. So, again, it's been it's been a long couple months. Um, it's getting tighter and tighter each day. Um, but we continue just to, you know, hold firm on, you know, the purchasing freezes that we have. We are operating, you know, things to keep the doors open every single day. But it's it's been um it's been a difficult couple months for us. >> And and this again is keeping the doors open. This is the reduction of after school tutoring. This is the reduction of programs. This is the reduction of professional development. This is hurting kids and teachers.
015The political stalemate that we have right now is hurting kids and teachers. This is this is how we're going to survive to get to the end of the year and barely survive to get there. And I I'm going to use this term because it's truly how I feel now. We are victims in this situation. Um I I had heard uh one of the legislators talk about how school districts should be prepared and that's why you carry a fund balance. Well, I think carrying $56 million at the turn of the fiscal year was being very very well prepared. We would not have been able to survive this a few years ago. The work that Pat Lafy has done to be able to put us in this situation, we should be ending this year with a 27
016to30 million fund balance. And instead, we're looking at are we going to survive to get to New Year's Eve. It's just it's terrible situation. [clears throat] And there's no other word for it. We are victim to this situation and we are hurting kids and teachers. >> Well, I think too with the situation that I agree it's it's an awful situation and politics, you know, makes it even worse. But, you know, the fund balance carrying over, if our district and other districts who are not funded correctly, if they were funded correctly, we'd be in a lot better shape. So, we still are severely underfunded by the state. you know that that this will that'll show too here with our district and other districts. If we had the funds we need every year, we would be in
017a way better shape. We're in good shape now, but we'd be even in better shape if we got what was actually owed to us. So, I think that has to be also brought up because there's other districts that aren't as, you know, um prepared as us and they're suffering and yes, it does hurt kids and they they need to they need to get this done. So, thank you. >> Yeah, there's two really important things that I think the public should know. First of all, there's a lot of veterans of the fair funding fight up here. And when we started, um, Director Chzik and I in particular, uh, back in like 2019, it we were talking about uh, fund balance or excuse me, uh, reimbursement differences of like per student reimbursement from the state being 8,500
018per kid for York versus 4,500 for Scranton. Lowest funded urban school district in the state of Pennsylvania. It's an embarrassment. And the state lost a Supreme Court case that said we have to be funded. So there is a a legal requirement to give us money that we are owed. And even though that ruling was was what three years ago now, two years ago now, every budget that the state has introduced and the past two that they've that they've passed, we're still not reaching that fair funding amount. They're they're giving us money that we are owed incrementally. And guess who pays when the state doesn't? Local local property owners. We have to raise taxes here and we have to trim programs. I mean what's sad is Scranton has gone through a lot and we have come
019out of we have come out of the darkness and then we're being plunged back in and it's it's very sad because of the amount of hard work that people have put in and to turn around and see um like after school programs which we were bringing back preschool coming back you know we had a line item in the budget to bring uh library aids back so we could have kids in our elementary schools taking library books out again we have been turning the corner and for the state to just sit on this um is unconscionable and and as I agree with Dr. Keading, we are victims here and it's our kids who are victims because we had the resources as you could see from what what Mr. Laffy just said. $56 million we had in
020the bank in July and we're barely going to make it to the end of the year. That's money that we could be using to expand programs for our kids in a time where we need positive after school programs. I mean, we've been doing a lot of good work here and and the state is getting in the way. I I do also want to add that, you know, our state senator Marty Flynn um our reps uh Bridget Krosowski um and Kyle Dunner who they have been fighting effort tirelessly for us. So they they do a great job in fighting for us. I just think, you know, it's it's the other uh senators and state reps who really got to, you know, start getting this thing done. But because our reps are in our senator are excellent.
021So I really want I really always want to point that out that they go to bat for us and they fight for us and the public should know that. So >> absolutely. Um, Mr. Moran, it's my understanding that the federal government has already released approximately $8 million in title funds that are sitting in Harrisburg. It's also my understanding that it goes into the budget and they can't the money from the feds have already come down on the state level and it's not state tax money. It's federal tax money that's just sitting there. But because it goes into the budget, they can't release it. Is there any way that we could pursue legal matter or legal means to go and have them release this money seeing that it doesn't include uh state taxpayer money and it's
022already been allocated for us $8 million for title funds >> under the hypothetical that you just described. The answer is yes. Um, so I would have to actually internally confirm um that um because let's just take uh what actually did happen to us six months ago. Uh we got an email from uh the federal department of education that title two and t title three funding was suspended or canled. Uh when I first got hired I think in May like there was a little bit of panic because allocated ARPA money or I'm sorry Esser's money school districts uh was quote unquote clawed back. Uh I took the legal position then that I'll take right now that you know no way uh that's money that has been appropriated, it's been allocated. Uh there is no executive whether
023it's in the state branch or the federal branch that has the constitutional authority to unilaterally pull that back. Uh and I also maybe not in this setting but in back rooms predicted that any of our federal judges sitting in Scranton uh would love to have this case come before them. So I'd be the first lawyer to rush into court on that matter. >> Uh the answer is yes. But I what I have to understand is I first took the political route and I don't know if it was a month or two months ago I went to Congressman Breznahan and Congressman Breznahan didn't have the answer that day but within a couple weeks I have the email said it was his understanding that money has been released. So, our federal representatives, I think, would be surprised
024to hear what you just said, that the money has been released and it's parked in Harrisburg because their expectation was Harrisburg was a pass through and that PTE was going to then release the money to the districts. If that hasn't happened, rather than sue somebody, I think we'd be better off that we use our internal contacts uh and find out from PTE why that hasn't been released and what the mechanism would be to release it because I can't imagine that PTE is is is using that money for their benefit. I think it's just parked there. >> Okay. So, let's let's confirm that uh one director thinks it's parked there. Do we have any thoughts from uh from the business office of that that title funding? >> I can confirm that, you know, even with the
025government shutdown at the federal level. Other states or other districts in other states are receiving their federal revenue. We are not. It's being it's being held up. >> All right. So, that's 100% something we should look into impass at the state level. >> Why aren't we? If others are, why aren't we? >> We will. I think you're talking about other jurisdictions outside the >> not other not other school district news that he's seeing >> across the country other districts may receive it but in Pennsylvania districts are not receiving it because of our current state budget impact. >> To be clear if the Pennsylvania Department of Education is holding federal dollars earmarked with the Scranton School District, we'll we'll confirm that and we'll find out why they're holding it and when and if it could be
026released. >> Okay. The only reason that I know that we can get help is a couple weeks, and excuse me, and I apologize for all this. It's been a little controversial, but a couple weeks ago I ran into um Representative President and it was at a political party which I received a lot of criticism for but um it was at that point I had a discussion with Representative uh Breznahan and he said that he would look into these and he got back to me and he said I that he believes there's $8 million in federal ederal funds sitting there and that's how I know about this. Uh I wouldn't have known about it. Uh I feel kind of bad because I've received a lot of criticism over this and it was only through a conversation.
027Um but uh I'd like to thank uh Representative Breahan uh for looking into it for on our behalf. He said the money is already in Harrisburg. So just to expand on that, it's very consistent with what I was saying. So I started this months ago and I reached out to Congressman Breznahan, asked for a meeting and he granted it. The meeting was supposed to be on a Friday at 11:00 in his district office and he called me at 9:00 that morning to say, "Do you need to have the meeting?" Because my information is the money's been released and it's in Harrisburg. >> So we got the same but this was months and months ago. Uh, so I thought maybe it was my mistake that I just assumed that it had made its way to the
028district and it just has not. >> No, I I'm currently reviewing our uh, financial and accounting information system through the state and other than our property tax reduction allocation, some plan con bonds that were owed from previous years and our national school lunch program reimbursement. We not received any state or federal um, uh, funding. >> Okay, that's easy. We're going to go to PTE and and and tell them the truth that it's been it's been represented to us by our representative done that. Yes, we we've not received any federal funds since July 1st. >> Well, do we have to do as far as I'm concerned? >> Yeah, >> I do want to say um a thank you to uh Joyce Carney Moran and especially Mr. Moran. Um we got made aware that they were donating
029their some of their services uh in light of the budget issue. So, I think that needs to be, you know, the public should know that that that's such a great thing for you guys to do and I really appreciate that and just shows how much you actually care about our district. And so, thank you. Welcome. >> Okay, we have contracts update. >> So, uh, due to the impending budget p uh impass and our spending freeze, there is no update as of this tonight. >> Thank you. Community relations, we'll have two consent agenda items. The first one is a motion to approve donations um from Net Credit Union to both Scranton High School and West Grant High School for transportation costs to the community resource fair on October 24th and then a motion to approve a
030student expulsion >> standard practice. >> Okay. Education. >> All right. So, um we're going to have first on the non-consent um sorry, the consent agenda motion to approve permissions to attend meetings and conferences. Um, we're gonna have a on the non-consent motion to approve special education settlements. We're gonna have a discussion and motion to accept the all one foundation grant. And then we're also I missed this one. We're going to have a presentation for federal programs and the impact. So, so part of the proposed final budget when we get to November and go over that, um, we'll look at the unsubstantiated, shall I say, rumors that from the federal level, we will see the complete elimination of titles 2, three, and four and a 20% reduction of title one. For the board to understand the
031impact of those, Mrs. Griebeck is here this night. tonight, the director of curriculum and assessment and instruction um as well as uh Maggie Cosgrove Murphy who is the director of federal programs and they're going to summarize for you. There is a full presentation um basically what these titles cover so you have a better understanding of that when we go into the November 12th meeting. >> Good evening. Thank you very much for this opportunity. Uh the superintendent as she mentioned would like me and to present a brief overview of the various um title one uh programs that we offer and the allocations that are designated to each. This PowerPoint was shared electronically and you have a hard copy in front of you and it's on display for the public. >> [snorts] >> So if you look
032at slide two, this is an overview of ESSA federal funding, the Every Student Succeeds Act and it provides targeted federal support to ensure equitable access to highquality education and improve student outcomes. The total budget is over $8 million and there are five categories listed below. Title one is academic achievement. Title 1D is delinquent programs. Title two is educator quality. Title title three is English learners. And title four is student support. Combined one through four collectively advance academic equity, educator excellence, language development, and student well-being. I'm a little ahead on my presentation. Sorry. Slide three is going to be an overview of title one. The purpose is to improve achievement for disadvantaged students by funding resources to support at risk learners, providing extra funds for highnee schools, support tutoring and interventions, requiring family engagement. Schools must
033hold these and supporting our designated CSI and TSI improvement efforts. Slides five and six will show you a graph. On the left is the cost breakdown and on the right is the description. I just wanted to draw your attention to just in this particular category we have 41 title one uh specialists who receive their salaries and benefits under this particular title one um aotment and those uh teachers provide a valuable resource to our students each and every day. And there's also a section here for an amount that's designated to our non non-public title one which have to be um requ provide required services and obviously academic improvement funds. And title six is a continuation. On the left is the cost breakdown and on the right is a description of each of those amounts and what
034those amounts are used for. [clears throat] Title 7 is an overview of title 1D. The purpose is to support education for neglect, neglected, delinquent, and at at risk youth by helping them meet academic standards, supporting successful transitions from school to work, preventing dropouts, and providing re-entry support for continued education. Slide nine again outlines the cost breakdown on the left and on the right is a description of each of those cost aotments. Slide 10 is an overview of title two. The purpose of title two funds are to strengthen teacher and leader effectiveness through professional development and class size reduction teachers. The focus areas, just a few to name, are science of reading. That's an um incentive by the state that we're trying to roll out in a creative way since we really can't do it the
035way we did last year with after school. So, we're working on creative solutions to solve that. OGAP training which is a new innovative way of teaching mathematics our steels uh SAP and cell training curriculum writing and strategic planning committee meetings and data reviews in-house and external PD for example through the NIOU and hiring new teachers to reduce class size 12 again on this uh graph the cost breakdown is on the left and the descriptions are on the right the next one is an overview of title three. On slide 14, you'll see the purpose of title three is to provide language support to help English language learners gain English proficiency and succeed academically through instructional programs and staff support. Some key responsibilities are to assist families with registration and acquiring required documents to translate and interpret
036educational, legal, medical, and IEP records, maintain EL and migrant data, support schools during testing, provide interpretation for meetings, and facilitate communication and classroom access. Our L status, we have approximately 1,400 students speaking 64 languages. The top languages spoken in the Scranton school district are Spanish followed by Nepali and Swahili. Slide 15 again the same graph outlines the cost on the left and the description that each of those costs are attributed to on the right. Slide 16 is an overview of Title 4. The purpose of Title 4 is to expand access to well-rounded education, improve school safety, and enhance technology use. Some focus areas are to provide well-rounded education in the arts, STEM, civics, and health. To provide safe and healthy schools, mental health, drug prevention, and positive climates, and technology to increase and improve the
037digital literacy and classroom access. Again, slide 18 outlines the cost breakdown on the left and the description on the right and the salaries and benefits of the the faculty that are covered under this particular title 4 budget. Uh slide 19. This is in summary. The ne next three slides are in summary. The proposed fiscal year 26 budget is looking to cut 12 billion 12 billion from public education, reducing funding for research, student support, and key programs just as I've outlined. The impacts will be to eliminate services for our L students and migrant students, to cut college access programs for disadvantaged students, and reduce our K12 federal programs and support by 3.8 billion. Slide 20, fiscal year, the proposed budget. Key points, 18 programs are look are looking to be combined into one K12 simplified funding
038program. States will gain control over how funds are used. However, targeted support support for specific programs may be lost. affected areas, just to name a few. Afterchool and summer learning, arts and technology, education, mental health, safety, teacher training, and emergency preparedness. The funding cut again is looking at from 6.5 billion down to 2 billion, a 70% reduction. And finally, slide 21. The House bill proposed budget key points is looking to cut 12.1 billion which is a 15% reduction to the United States Department of Education. Title one reduced low-income student support. Titles 2, three, and four eliminated, which would include teacher training, English learners, well-rounded education, health, and safety, state assessment grants eliminated, and schools will no longer be required to give state assessments. And would you be able to get us um like a onepage
039fact sheet with the direct impacts to our district because there's a lot of there's a lot of positions [laughter] that are fedally funded. >> 53 53 positions. >> Yeah. So we're talking 53 jobs. These are these are teachers, pair professionals. These are people who live here, work here. This is their livelihood and they are people who um provide critical services to our kids. And um >> you're you're not only 53 position what you just said is about critical services. >> Yeah. So like a onepage fact sheet is probably not a bad idea so that we can get it out there and show people in a in a short sweet manner like hey this is what's about to happen to this grand school district. These are in >> jeopardy. Going back to what Aaron said that
040we're the victims the kids are the victims because they're not going to be receiving the services. >> But I do have one question um for you Pat. Um these are all title programs correct. >> That's correct. And we're just talking about five minutes ago about $8 million that are sitting into Harrisburg. I have to assume that we're paying now uh all these programs through our general fund until we get that money. >> Most of them are postponed. >> Pardon me. >> Most of them are stopped right now. >> No, I Director Case, you are correct. Um, all employees of the Scranton School District, whether they be funded with local and state dollars or federal dollars, have been um being paid on a bi-weekly basis uh out of our general fund. Correct. >> Okay. Now, when
041we receive this $8 million plus or whatever it may be, will we be able to um reimburse our uh general budget on it or is that basically loss money that you can't shift the title money into the general budget? >> Well, the federal budget is a component of our general fund. It's just the funding source. So, it those dollars will go back into our general operating account. So we won't lose I mean once we get funded we won't lose the money. >> We're losing interest on those dollars as we speak that you know I think there's some discussion as to whether people have asked will will the state reimburse districts for lost interest. Our understanding of that is is no. But yes once those federal dollars continue to flow they will come back and basically
042reimburse us for the wages and payrolls and benefits that we've uh fronted for the staff that are covered with federal grants. Thank you, Pat. >> So, a lot of doom and gloom tonight and we have a piece of happy news. I'm going to call this Hemp Hill up right now. Maggie Cosgrove Murphy on the positive side of things uh to share with you an incredible grant. Mrs. Egan will also be joining them um that we received from the All One Foundation. So, I'm going to turn it over to them. >> Hello. Good evening. Um we we are here with some good news tonight. Um, just to give you a little bit of background, about a year ago, September of 2024, you you may remember um led by Dr. Keading and and her idea to go
043to the All One Foundation. We went with 20 partner agencies, at least 20. Um, we were joined by Miss Boland at the time, um, on behalf of SFT, also all of our partner mental health agencies locally, the DA's office, um, juvenile probation, the juvenile court system, two of our local judges came with us and we presented to um, the All One Foundation an idea to introduce restorative practices to the Scranton School District, but also to train all of our partner agencies who all impact the lives of our students so that we all had shared philosophy, shared language and um all one said we we love this idea. Ours was a five-year plan to introduce this but they said currently we you know we're not able to fund fully for 5 years. So they came back
044to us um in August and said can you scale this back? Can you give us a one-year pilot and show us what you would do in one year with this idea? So we did that and so we asked um we we are very fortunate here in the Scranton school district. We have a treasurer who works among us um Miss Shelley Egan who is the principal at Prescott but who is also a nationally certified trainer in restorative practice who goes to other districts to train them to implement restorative practice and we have her right here. So what we asked to do um from all one was to give us some funding to be able to get a floating assistant principal so that we could free up Mrs. Egan to come and and train in our own
045district Kennedy Plaza Prescott and West Grant High School. And they have incredibly generously offered for the next 12 months to fund us with $350,000 to see what we can do with this money and what that looks like. And then the goal would be that in a year's time we would come back, show them some good data and information and then they hopefully will continue to fund the project little by little instead of one big lump sum. So we are thrilled and and we're ready. So we we knew this was potentially coming and we wanted to be ready to go. We are ready to go. We are completely ready. I'm going to let uh Mrs. Egan talk to you. She she will explain to you briefly what restorative practice means and what that will look like
046and why that will be such a positive impact on our district and then Miss Murphy will tell you about the money. She she she's the the wizard that can tell us how we're going to really implement um that $350,000. Two things I want to add. One, this is at no financial impact to the district at all. So, we're going to be able to do this without taking any financial hit whatsoever. And the other thing that we know from all one is that although we I know that we are straining in other areas, we cannot use these funds for anything [music] else. So we can't kind of mix and match or use it to patch something else. This is very specific and Mrs. Murphy will help us to make sure that we stay on track and
047do exactly what we're supposed to do with the money. So thank you first of all to Dr. Keing for coming up um with this idea and and bringing it to fruition into something that's real and tangible. And also, many of you may know, she's pretty tenacious. And so when we got a soft no, she just didn't accept that. And we just kept going and said, "Okay, well, if not that, how about this?" And so I'm I'm very grateful to her and to all of the board and to all the help um that we've had bringing this project forward. It's really exciting. Good evening. Um as the principal of Prescott, I'm very proud to be part of the Scranton School District. So I'm very proud that I get to take on this role within the district
048as well. For the past 11 years, um I have been a trainer for restorative practices. I hold the graduate certificate from the International Institute for Restorative Practices, which is located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, but globally serves all countries worldwide, training, uh, individuals in restorative practices, uh, both in educational communities, business communities, um, and just community agencies overall. Restorative practices is not a program. It is a social science um that seeks to build relationships um among individuals within communities within our school community um along with repairing any harm caused by negative behavior. The fundamental hypothesis behind restorative practices is that individuals are happier uh more positive, more cooperative, more willing to make changes in their behavior when people in positions of authority do things with them rather than to them or for them. and within a school
049community um the practices uh would be implemented. We would look to see a reduction um in negative student behavior, a reduction in the recid recidivism of student behavior. We would look to see that uh positive relationships are fostered among individuals um whether those be adults to other adults or um students to adults or students to students. Um so along the continuum of practices it would work together with the current systems in place um such as the positive behavior intervention uh and support program, social emotional learning program and it would align with um within the MTSS framework that we are implementing throughout the district um in looking to see how we can implement this one-year program and impact as many as we can throughout the the one year. Um we would set up uh hopefully four
050sets of trainings throughout the next coming months which would target the administrators, school counselors, mental health professionals um and teachers uh to take part in the two-day trainings. Uh we would work within the school calendar. Um and some of the funds would be used to support to uh the teachers if in doing afterchool trainings as well. Um so all those individuals would take part in two-day trainings. Um and in addition to that uh there would be coaching on my part. Uh we would look to see if there are any individuals that would want to take it a step further um and be and take part in a training of trainers program so that we can continue to kind of um expand and build our capital of employees that um can go go about and train
051other individuals within within the district in restorative practices. Um so we would look to do that along with collecting and analyzing the data and hopefully seeing the the outcomes of the reduced uh student recit recidivism and the building of positive relationships. Um and hopefully that would give us enough support that we can uh take the program even further and add on uh additional years and expansion. Thank you. >> You um Mrs. Mrs. Hensel and Miss Degan did a great job um providing an overview. I'll just do a quick rundown of the um background of the compliance of the federal fiscal aspect of the grant. Um all one as um Miss Hel said was is going to grant us $350,000 and they will provide us with half the $350,000 once the grant assign uh grant agreement
052is signed. And then halfway through the 12-month grant program, we will um provide them with a progress monitoring report and they then will provide us with the other half of the 350,000. So, it's very good because that's holds accountability on our part that we could share out the information that um we are how we're using the funds and all the great um professional training that we are providing with the funding. Um the funding will cover um as we said the cost of an assistant principal and then also with the trainings and materials and resources that will go along with the trainings. >> Thank you. >> This is wonderful. Um Dr. Keating, uh would it be possible I know we're taking some time to recognize positive things that are happening in the district and this is
053obviously one of them. Would it be possible to put letters of condemnation or Yeah, condemnation. Oh my god. Commenation. Opposite of what? Opposite of condemnation. >> Yeah, I know. pause rubbing off, but yeah, letters of combination in their file because this is excellent work and we just doomed and gloomed everybody with uh our our budget problems and this is an absolutely positive thing, you know, and it's it's nice to >> to see our workers going and bringing this money in. >> Uh Chisik, um maybe you can uh craft something for Superintendent uh Keading. >> I I will absolutely file >> take care of what was done. It was a lot of work and it's big stuff. uh to to get this kind of money given to the school. It's a big that's a big check.
054>> Yeah. Thank you for for your work. >> Thank you. >> Yep. >> This is great. >> Right. So, personnel, >> we'll have a motion to approve the personnel report, including assignments and appointments, retirements and resignations, and leave of absences. And we'll also have a motion to approve the decreased administrative fees with Kelly Services. >> I'll second it. >> Right. policy. >> Um, >> I guess it's there. There's an update to policy 610. Um, just because you're facilitating the meeting, um, which would be purchase services, bids, and quotes. It was written by our legal firm. This is a first read. >> Okay. Thank you. Uh, vendor relations. >> That's you. >> Thank you, Tom. I don't know what I'd do without you, Tammy. Okay. The first one is a motion for mom and pop contracts.
055Second is update list of transportation drivers if any uh discussion uh to approve new rate consulting firm and discussion for advertising partnership proposals and discussion for flexible spending account. >> So one of the things I just want you to know that I tked the central office to do was to come back with ways to save money. I'd like to thank Mr. Suma. The proposal that was in your board packet on -ate does that. It's a reduction in cost for this service. Um and he went out and solicited that and brought that forward. Um advertising, we're still working on partnerships. Mr. O'Donnell is covering that. We right now have one local and one national um perspective. We're gathering more information to bring to you on that. And flexible spending. >> Yeah. Uh very similar to advertising.
056We're we're discussing with a local provider, but also a statewide provider, and we're gathering more information to bring forth the for the board hopefully for the November 12th meeting. >> Okay. And uh fair funding. >> Um we'll have anformational update from on the superintendent's budget update and a motion to adopt a resolution to end the state budget impass. >> Move to the board meeting. All right. I call to order the board meeting for October 27th. Roll call. >> Mr. Bick >> here. >> Mr. Casey >> here. >> Mrs. Chzik >> present. >> Miss Fox. >> Mr. McCandrew. >> Present. >> Miss Merkel. Mr. Zleki. >> Present. >> Mr. Triano. >> Present. >> Mr. Holmes. Uh, three absent, six present. >> May I have a motion to approve the agenda? >> So moved. Second >> on
057the question. >> Roll call. >> Mr. Casey. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Chzik. >> Yes. >> It's Mr. McCandra. >> Yes. >> Mr. Zleki. >> Yes. >> Mr. Trio. >> Yes. >> Mr. Borthwick. >> Yes. >> Six. Affirmative. um the communications of the board and executive sessions were held this evening to discuss personnel, real estate, excuse [clears throat] me, lit litigation, negotiations, and safety and security. >> Okay. Solicitor's report. >> Uh it's been recently brought to our attention that uh $8 million of federal money uh has been released and it's in the possession of the Pennsylvania Department of Education. So, we'll be exploring all uh options, including legal uh to u get possession of money that we believe is rightfully ours. >> Okay. Thank you. Uh, superintendent report. >> Thank you, Vice President Chzik. A lot
058of talk about the budget. Really important that we we keep talking about it and the impact it has. Uh, but some for more some more good news. We'd like to congratulate Sheamus Wallace for placing first in the district cross country. Sheamus is the first district cross country champion from West Grant High School since Paul Fox in 1985, making him the second Westraton cross country champion. Sheamus will head to Hershey this weekend for states. Congratulations to Sheamus on this accomplishment and we know that he will make us proud and he runs like lightning. Oh my god, is he fast. Um, I'd also like to congratulate all of our fall sports seniors for an incredible season this year from Scranton High. Boys soccer, football, girls volleyball, and girls tennis each made it to districts. Scranton High also
059sent individual cross country runners and girls tennis players to districts this season. This year from West Grant High School, uh we had girls tennis, boys soccer, and girls volleyball all went to districts. We would like to congratulate the seventh and eighth grade football team who will appear in the championship game tomorrow night. Um I'd also like to take a moment to recognize President Ty Holmes, who is not here this evening because he is currently in Harrisburg receiving the Governor's Keystone Award. Um we'd like to congratulate President Holmes on this tremendous achievement. Uh the 2526 winter sports season officially the first day begins November 14th. Can't believe we're in winter sports season. Physicals for winter sports season will begin during the first week of November at Scranton High School in West Scranton Intermediate School at the
060school-based Wright Center uh uh medical clinic. 2025 immunization clinic sponsored by the Scranton School District in partnership with Hometown Health will be held on October 8th and October were held on October 8th and October 15th. 132 individuals with 202 vaccines were administered. Scranton High and West Scranton will host their annual open houses for 9th graders in November. West Scranton will host theirs on November 6th and Scranton will hold host theirs on November 19th. Just a reminder that next week we are closed Tuesday the 4th for election day and we'll also be closed for Veterans Day on Tuesday the 11th. Parent conferences will be held on the following days, November 12th and 13th for elementary schools, November 18th for intermediate schools. Um, with the budget, Griebec is planning creative ways to support teachers with ongoing professional
061development. These opportunities are voluntary and are offered virtually. They're asynchronous opportunities such as office hours as a way to provide feedback to any teacher or principal on curricular materials. We also have an update on our University of Virginia partnership. The six schools involved, Trip, Willard, Armstrong, and our three intermediate schools and the administrators involved are continuing to make progress and are actively engaged in the program. Dr. Sailor has been working with them. Each team is focused on strengthening tier one instruction using datadriven practices to improve student learning and building leadership to improve continuous improvement. We see momentous team collaboration and this really has been an oppos awesome opportunity for the school district. Um marking period ends this week. Happy Halloween to everyone celebrating. Got to John Adams to see the parade today. Um if you
062need an uplifting moment of your life, please get to one of the elementary Halloween parades because boy do they make you smile. Have a good day everyone. >> Thank you Dr. Kadine. Uh CRO report. Dr. Sailor. >> Yes. Thank you. I'd like to take this opportunity to respond to Director Fox's questions from our last meeting and to a subsequent email she sent me. Uh first, my apologies for not having the recovery plan easily accessible. I have it with me tonight. Uh I believe director Fox was re referencing the initiative P3 uh which speaks to continuing the cycle of soliciting RFPs for services. Uh it actually reads continue to execute the current cycle of soliciting requests for proposals for services provided to the district. Upon reaching the end begin the cycle again. Um, legal advice on
063this topic was provided by attorney Moran, which is exactly what PTE would have advised. Ask your attorney. Uh, PDE does not provide legal advice to school districts. The other question was regarding the monitoring phase. PTE's concern during the monitoring phase is to ensure and this is going to be real tough with the budget as it is right now uh to ensure the continued financial stability of the district uh because the questions were brought up publicly. I wanted to respond publicly. >> Thank you sailor. >> Thank you. Uh, next we'll have the report from our student representatives. Max Hoffner, Scrin High School. Get them, Max. has had a great October. We celebrated our our senior cheerleaders as well as our football players last Thursday during senior night. Congratulations, seniors. This Friday, the Scrant High football team
064will travel to Williamsport for a playoff game. Go Knights. Congratulations to Alessandro Sodto, Ammani Wulonia, and Jens Mugab for for being selected as all-stars for the Lacawana soccer league. Also, congratulations to Natalyia Arangelli for her 500 500th kill on the Screen High School volleyball team. # power at the net. Winter sports physicals will be held on at Scrin High School on November 3rd, 6th, 10th, 13th, and 17th from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. Our students have been very active within the community community lately. We had five SHs students represent Skirtton High School, the night ambassadors in Avidum at a mental health symposium. Our night ambassadors and penser students also volunteered at the annual transition fair held at Johnson College. Our penserf club also helped out at the Domar/Greamage soccer teams over the weekend. And on October
06510th, 15 students from Penser volunteered at the Steamtown Marathon pre-race expo. This week is Red Ribbon Week at Screen High School. We will be raising awareness through distributing materials, morning announcements, and spirit dress days. This Friday, we'll be hosting a minute to win it challenge throughout the day. And to celebrate with some spooky fun, we will be doing a Halloween trivia. We are finishing up the Common App workshop tomorrow, October 28th. Also, tomorrow through Thursday, we will have our class picture days. Throughout November, we will be doing a feed a friend fundraiser in a cold weather and coat cold weather coat and accessory drive for students at SHS. On November 7th, there will be an American Red Cross blood drive from 12:15 to 5:00 p.m. There will be an open house at Scranton High School
066on November 19th to all open to all students, including sixth graders interested in the STEM Academy and eighth graders exploring their high school options. The SHS semi- formal will be held on November 21st at the Hilton in downtown Scranton. Upcoming college visits this week are University of Rochester, Loyal University, Satan Hill University, University of Pittsburgh, Cedar Crest College, Arcada University, Fischer College, and Albreight College. And next week, Alvin University, University of Scranton, Lacawana College, and Wilson College. Thank you so much for your time tonight, and I look forward to meeting with you next month. I hope everyone has a great rest of of their October and a great November. Thank you. >> Thank you, buddy. >> Thank you. [applause] >> Our next student representative, Shristy Danielle. >> I don't I don't think she's here. >>
067Okay. Uh PSVA report. Director McAndrew. >> Nothing at the time. >> Thank you. At this time, the board welcomes public comment. Each speaker will be allowed three minutes to speak. Union presidents will be allowed four minutes. Our first speaker is Jen Tlesco. Good evening. Um Jennifer Tlesco, Scranton Federation of Teachers President. Um I may sound like a broken record, but I wanted to speak tonight about the good things that are happening within our district in relation to the dire situation that we're in with the budget. um our students that were here tonight from Whittier, uh the Whittier Wildcat Road Runners under the direction of Mrs. King and Mrs. Bice and the Armstrong runners who were here last time by um Mrs. Johnson are all examples of some of the good things that are happening in
068our elementary buildings. um giving our students great opportunities to meet new friends, um try something new, um be part of a team and to get out from behind a screen and to be active, which is something that all of us teachers and parents are really encouraging and uh are loving the fact that they have those opportunities. Um I think we've done some great work between the Scranton Federation of Teachers and the district with um our professional development and our literacy initiatives that we worked on together and guiding our new teachers and doing curriculum writing. Um but I mention all of these because the importance of all of those opportunities and I want to see them continue and more opportunities for our elementarymentaries to have perhaps some clubs because at the elementary level it's not something
069that is very existent. Um we focus a lot on our middle and high schools for clubs and I'd love to give those opportunities for our elementary students. [clears throat] Um but given the state budget impass that we're in right now, it's really hard and the district and Dr. Kading and I have had conversations to continue these um initiatives and these great things when we are are are waiting for the state um and our state legislators to do something to come together to meet at a table um negotiate and to compromise. and the immediate impact that we're having is affecting our students in the classroom in afterchool opportunities that they're not having at this point. Whether it's tutoring, um going on field trips, our teachers are lacking the ability to really involve in professional development opportunities
070at this point. And I applaud Dr. Keing and the district for being transparent with the union for exactly what financial situation we're in and how dire it is just to maintain payroll, our benefits, to keep our doors open and the lights on. Um, I've been trying to and the union has been trying to impress upon our members. But tonight, I want to impress upon the board, the public, all our family members how important it is to contact our elected legislators um, and ask them to come and do their job, to sit down and to meet and to compromise because the health of the district, the success of our students and our future relies upon that. But I don't also want us to be um distracted in the overall picture within the state that there are
071huge financial um impacts right around the corner with our federal funding that Mrs. Griebeck also spoke about earlier. Um the federal funding cuts and how detrimental they are going to be in um on our district, not only to our staff, but to our students and those programs that we need. Um, and that is something that I also am going to call upon everyone to get together and to continue to contact our legislators. Um, if we need to make a road trip to Harrisburg, um, we're always I'm game for a road trip. Um, we're more powerful. We've learned if nothing else um together, stronger together, and um, we can get through this. So, I I encourage everyone, whether it's schoolboard members, teachers, pair professionals, parents, even our students to contact our legislators and tell them to
072come sit down and do their job. Thank you. Thank you. Our next speaker, Rosemary Boland. Good evening, directors. I too want to encourage everybody, everybody in this Scranton school district, and that includes the parents, the grandparents, the relatives, everybody in our family community to pitch in with this. We cannot allow people in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania to violate the constitution of the state. And that's what they're doing. The court case was won and it was cited earlier. We haven't received our fair funding. They're violating the Constitution. Lately, however, in the United States of America, it seems that we've been violating a lot because of lying and lying and lying. So, for approximately 24 days, the House of Representatives in Washington has not gone to work. The Republican leader, Mr. Johnson, is sending people home. Those people are
073getting paid and they're getting their benefits paid and they're taking away our children's livelihood, their education. Once it's taken away, we can't make that up. Every day that they're not going to be in school because of this dire emergency that they've put us in, this mess our students are losing. They don't have that right. They don't. Yesterday, I was sick to my stomach when the White House was demolished to build some kind of freaky ballroom for 350 plus billion dollars. We're saying that maybe maybe Mr. Brnahand said there money is in Harrisburg someplace. Well, that's great. What Mr. Breahan's supposed to do is call down to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, to the Senate, which is a Republican controlled Senate, and get that $8 million here. That's his job that we pay him for. We pay those salaries.
074They work for us. And they don't get it. They do not get it. And nobody should apologize to them for not doing their job and not doing what they're supposed to do. I don't think they deserve praise. I too spoke with Mr. Bjahan a few Sundays ago when he couldn't answer one question I put to his face. On the contrary, his two aids came over to him to hustle him out. Mr. Brean can't answer fifth grade teacher questions. Shame on him and shame on the entire House of Representatives in Washington who have decimated the House, decimated the Department of Ed. They're taking away special needs children's funding. They're not going to fund that. And the parents of those kids will have no idea what's going to hit them. They won't. On November 1st, people are
075going to get their insurance bills and they're going to be killing themselves over them because they're so horrific. And you know what they care about? Nothing. Mr. Breahan has made a ton of money since he was elected making deals. Congratulations on that. I'm thrilled for him. Great. But he's not doing the job. He promised people he wouldn't destroy Social Security. He wouldn't touch Medicare and Medicaid. He voted with every Republican in Washington and he's destroying that. These are the people that we have out in our our community here. We can't let this go. We cannot sit and think about calling or writing letters or texting. We cannot do that. We can't sit on our hands. We're not doing what we're supposed to do. I listened to a program a couple weeks ago and one lady
076said,"What does it look like to live in an autocracy?" And the person answered her and said, "You are living in an autocracy." And I I understand the attorney would like to go to court to federal court. The AFT just went into federal court two weeks ago. We don't have an answer yet. Guess what? The president of the United States keeps getting taken to court and he keeps losing in court and he just doesn't care. And apparently the legislative body, the second uh the first actually in the in the country, the legislators, they're not doing their job at all. We have one man dictating to everybody in the 50 states. And shame on everybody and anybody who thinks this is a great idea. With that, I'm going to second the president of the federation, Mrs. Tlesco,
077and say, pick up the phones tomorrow morning and call this brushan's office. And by the way, you might want to call our our senator, our United States senator, who I've never seen in Pennsylvania in my life. And I don't live in Connecticut, so I'm not driving there to talk to him. But we should hold his feet to the fire, too. Thank you so much for listening and please help us out. All the public, write, text, get on social media and start blasting them by name so that everybody knows what good they're doing. No good at all. Thank you. >> Thank you. May I [clears throat] have a motion to approve the meeting minutes of September 8th, 2025, September 17th? second. >> 2025 and September 29th, 2025. >> Okay, we had a second. Um, >> yeah,
078I'll second. >> Okay, so uh on the question roll call. >> Uh, Mrs. I'm sorry, Mrs. Chzik. >> Yes. >> Mr. McCandrew, >> yes. >> Mr. Lucky, >> yes. >> Mr. Triana, >> yes. >> Mr. Borthwick, >> yes. >> Mr. Casey, >> yes. >> Six affirmative. >> Okay. Uh, may I have a motion to approve the consent agenda? >> So moved. Second >> on the question. >> Roll call. >> Mr. McCandrew. >> Yes. >> Mr. Slucky. >> Yes. >> Mr. Triano. >> Yes. >> Mr. Borthwick. >> Yes. >> Mr. Casey. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Chzik. >> Yes. >> Six. Affirmative. >> Okay. Uh, athletics and student activation. Thank you. >> Oh, sorry. That's me. Um, we have D3 motion to accept the All One Foundation grant in the amount of $350,000 to introduce um restorative
079practices to the Scranton School District. >> Second >> on the question. >> Roll call. >> Mr. Ducky? >> Yes. >> Mr. Trianna? >> Yes. >> Mr. Borthwick? >> Yes. >> Mr. Casey? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Chzik? >> Yes. >> Mr. McCandra? >> Yes. Six affirmative. >> All right. All right. And then we have D4. Approve special education settlement agreements follow following legal review and negotiations. Settlement summaries previously provided to the board for review. 30006312 K. Um and then 200811 a.m. >> Second >> on the question. >> Roll call. Mr. Trianu. >> Yes. >> Mr. Borthwick. >> Yes. >> Mr. Casey? >> Yes. Mrs. Chzik, >> yes. >> Mr. McCandrew, >> yes. >> Mr. Drosky, >> yes. >> Six. Affirmative. >> Personnel. >> We have a motion to approve the personnel report as attached. All hires
080are contingent upon all background checks and clearances. >> Second >> on the question. Roll call. Mr. Borthwick. >> Yes. >> Mr. Casey? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Chzik? >> Yes. >> Mr. McCander? >> Yes. >> Mr. Zky? >> Yes. >> Mr. Triano? >> Yes. Six. Affirmative. We have a motion to approve Kelly Educational Services substitute teacher administrative fee be decreased from a markup of 1.32 to 1.30 effective immediately as negotiated by administration. The financial financial impact substitute teacher daily rate with fees will decrease from $165 a day to $162.50 per substitute teacher per day. back >> on the question. >> Roll call. >> Mr. Casey? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Chzik? >> Yes. >> Mr. McCandrew? >> Yes. >> Mr. Isli? >> Yes. >> Mr. Triano? >> Yes. >> Mr. Borwick? >> Yes. >> Six. Affirmative. >>
081Vendor relations. >> Okay, I got it. >> No. Okay. >> Uh motion to approve consulting firm. >> Second. on the question. Roll call. >> Mrs. Chzik, >> yes. >> Mr. McCandrew, >> yes. >> Mr. Zky, >> yes. >> Mr. Triano, >> yes. >> Mr. Borthwick, >> yes. >> Mr. Casey, >> yes. >> Six affirmative. >> Fair funding. >> Oh, it's fair. I move that the Scranton School District board of directors adopt the following resolution entitled resolution urging the Pennsylvania General Assembly to enact a complete and responsible state budget which calls upon the governor and members of the general assembly to immediately resolve the ongoing 2025 2026 state budget impass fully fund public education and fulfill the Commonwealth's constitutional obligation to provide adequate and equitable funding to all school districts. Upon approval, the resolution shall be
082transmitted to the governor of Pennsylvania, the leadership of the Pennsylvania House and Senate, and the district elected state legislators as outlined in the resolution text. >> Second >> on the question. I think it's important to recognize that our local representatives who have been fighting hard on our behalf, um especially Senator Marty Flynn, um we s sincerely want to thank them for all of the advocacy and partnership that they have given us and that they continue to provide um during this time. >> Great. [snorts] >> Right. Roll call. >> Mr. McCandrew? >> Yes. >> Mr. Zleki? >> Yes. >> Mr. Triana? >> Yes. >> Mr. Borthwick? >> Yes. >> Mr. Casey? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Chzik, >> yes. Six. Affirmative. >> All right. New business. >> All right. Um, can I have a motion to adjurnn?
083>> So move. >> Second. >> Thanks everyone. Thank you. I think this is the first