001Yes. >> Can you go down? >> Good evening. I call order school board meeting for Scrant School District, Monday, September 8th. Please rise for the pledge of allegiance. >> I 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. >> Roll call. >> Mr. Bick, >> here. >> Mr. Casey. >> Mrs. Chzik, >> present. >> Miss Fox, >> present. >> Mr. McCandrew, >> present. >> Miss Merkel, >> present. Mr. Trosky >> present. >> Mrs. Yianni >> present. Mr. Holmes >> present. >> Eight present, one absent. >> Can I have a motion to approve the agenda? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Roll call. >> Uh, Mrs. Chzik, >> yes. >> Miss Fox, >> yes. >>
002Mr. McCander, >> yes. >> Miss Merkel, >> yes. >> Mr. Zleki, >> yes. >> Mrs. Yanni, >> yes. >> Mr. Borthwick, >> yes. >> Mr. Holmes, >> present. for the agenda. Yes. Accept the agenda. >> Yes. >> Okay. Thank you. Eight affirmments. >> Oh, you know what? I'm I wanted to to just pull something. Should I have done it there? >> I think I should have. >> We could still do it. >> May I still do that? >> She can. Yes. >> Okay. I just wanted to pull the um I'm sorry, the bill list and the exception bill list. >> Well, B1 and B2. >> B1 and B2. Yes, please. >> Okay. I'm making a motion to accept the agenda with the two removals. >> So move >> on the question. Roll call. >> Miss
003Fox, >> yes. >> Mr. McCander, >> yes. >> Miss Merkel, >> yes. >> Mr. Zleki, >> yes. >> Mrs. Yianni, >> yes. >> Mr. Borswick, >> yes. >> Mrs. Chzik, >> yes. >> Mr. Holmes, >> yes. >> Eight affirmative. >> Okay. >> Um, I'm sorry. Executive sessions were held on August 25th, 2025 and this evening to discuss personnel, real estate, litigation, negotiations, and safety and security. >> Thank you. Solicitor's report. >> Yeah. Let me take a moment on uh there's an agenda item tonight uh uh potentially to hire a district architect. Um that would be that that's incident to a a competitive procurement process that administration oversaw this summer. Um there was uh an effort made um to submit uh through our open gov.com or open gov procurement portal um all all submissions and one
004one potential vendor uh was unable to submit through our required open gov.com procurement portal. Um, the reason I'm talking about this now is, uh, I was asked to provide advice uh, early on in this process as to whether that was a technicality that could be waved. And, um, under the facts that were known to me, I advised the board that they can take what's called consensus and see if there was at least a majority of the board that wanted to wave a technicality in the way that the, um, the the bidder submitted its proposal. uh upon review and a deeper dive into the law in Pennsylvania, uh that is that that was not a waveable defect is essentially uh what what what we learned. Um because of the facts and the circumstances that would have
005lended to uh unfairness to some of the other biders, uh it was my law firm's recommendation that that late submission be disqualified. Uh so uh on that basis, I think there was some discussion last week at the work session. I wasn't there. I was asked by a director to comment on that tonight. So, I'm doing my best to try to summarize uh some discussion that I wasn't here for. But the reason uh that uh one vendor was disqualified is because their failure to submit through the open gov uh procurement portal uh was uh under Pennsylvania law not waveable. So even though we have uh language in our bidsp specs that allows the board to wave certain technicalities, that is not one of them. Uh therefore the law required us to disqualify uh that submission. >>
006Thank you, Superintendent. >> Thank you, President Holmes. I'd like to take a moment to welcome everyone back to school and say that we had a very successful opening to this school year. I'd like to personally thank our teachers, administrators, and staff members for ensuring that that first week of school and into last week ran smoothly. I'd also specifically like to thank our maintenance crews for working nonstop to ensure our buildings were clean and ready for opening as well as central registration teams for working round the clock to register students for school. I'd also like to take a moment to highlight some of the positive things we have happening in our district. The district recently received a grant from the Scranton Area Foundation to purchase an AED. The grant was from the Community Needs Grant Fund.
007Thank you to both the Scranton Area Foundation for considering us for this grant and to Bert Geneala who worked on the grant. The SATs will be held at Scranton High on September 13th and October 4th. It's very important to tell all parents of senior students that the federal government has issued guidance that any student who will be college age in the 2627 year should apply for the FASA as soon as possible and expedite the process. Guidance counselors and high schools will be getting that information out. But I also wanted to cover that there will be an immunization clinic in partnership with Hometown Health on September 13th from 10:00 a.m. until 1 p.m. Due to the limited number of vaccines, we're asking that families register online. You can find the link on our social media page
008as well as our website. On October 2nd, director of curriculum and Griebeck will be hosting refreshable virtual office hours for K5 impact social studies, which are curricular materials. Mrs. Griebach is also planning a profession professional development for seasoned teachers and more in-depth professional development for new teachers on tier 1 and tier 2 math programming and tools. She will host professional development for principles prior to these teacher dates. A survey will be shared with teachers to help plan what specific needs there are. Tonight was the first meeting of the math action planning committee comprised of teachers and administrators from all levels. The purpose of this committee is to use our data to create district-wide goals and to look at an increase in math achievement. Updates will be shared as they become available. I'm also excited to
009announce that this Friday is the bell game um at Scranton Veteran Memorial Stadium. Kickoff is at 5:00 pm and the best of luck to the invaders and the knights. This month is National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month. I would like to just take time um and say that anyone who may be struggling, you matter. Your life matters and we are here to help you. We have countless resources throughout the district along with community resources to help you if you need it. If anyone is ever having problems, please use the suicide hotline at 988 which is available at all times. Today is International Literacy Day. I continue to highlight the importance of literacy in the district and it's one of my main goals during my tenure here as superintendent of the Scranton School District. The ability to
010be able to read and write and comprehend are skills that are needed for everyone for success beyond high school. I hope everyone takes a moment to read something for enjoyment today and to celebrate International Literacy Day. Thank you very much, President Holmes. And again, everyone, welcome back to school. >> Thank you, Chris Suma. Go, go, go, go, go. Everybody, um, I brought with me some of our interns. I know it was asked uh at the last meeting if we would have some of them come to speak. They are petrified looking at all the microphones that are in front of them. So, I do believe that one will be speaking on behalf of all, but um we have a little bit of a a crack staff here today. Some of them are sick. Uh there's one
011playing on the volleyball team for Scranton High right now. So, you know, as we got out of the summer months and all the work that they did, obviously their student activities are taking over. So, um we'll see some of them come back as the year moves along. But if you have any questions, um I can say this much. It was it's as I stated at the last meeting, it was nice to see them grow from kind of where they were at as the summer grew uh into some friends and they've been giggling and chatting about Hamilton, which I didn't know that they were all fans of. So, that was happy for me to know because I'm a Hamilton buff. So, um but it was uh again, it's just nice to see their friendships flourish. So,
012if you have any questions for them, I'm pretty sure Monoa is going to speak on behalf of all of them, but please feel free. Thanks, Go ahead. >> Hi. >> Hello. >> Good evening. >> Oh, my name is Manoa Cassus. I'm a junior at Grand High. >> Well, I just want to say thank you all for your hard work. I heard you guys did a great job this summer. We really appreciate it and we look forward to working with you guys again if you want to come back. And I hope you guys all have a great school year. What grades are you guys? What grade are you in now? >> They want us. >> Oh, me and Pua are both in 12th grade. >> 12th. Okay. >> Oh, Taylor Swift. >> Oh, >> and I'm
013Puja >> Ryan. So, these are just little thank you for Mr. Mr. Laffy and I And then we'll give the other three to Mr. Thank you very much. >> And you are inaugural group of IT interns. So it's very special. >> Thank you ladies. >> Thank you for coming tonight. >> Okay. Dr. Stunning >> here. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. My name is Peg Foster. I'm a regional service specialist for the Pennsylvania Principles Association. And on behalf of the Pennsylvania Principles Association, we're here this evening with one of our corporate sponsors. Uh Cades Margolus is the corporation and Scott is here with us this evening to present a grant check to Dr. Arnestandandy for her work in her school to provide funding for their student government in fourth grade so that those students can learn
014and grow as leaders as well as to give them a voice within their school. So let's present a check for $1,000. You need to know. The Principal Association is proud to continue the the ongoing good work that that your school district is doing to support your children as well as to support your leaders within our schools. Thank you very much. >> Thank you so very much. And thank you Dr. Aristani. You ran away. We were going to give you the mic. If you wanted to speak, you had a chance. >> Trust me, we have a beeper. >> No, I am grateful for this opportunity. I I apply for this grant every year. So, I'm glad that we were the ones selected. We are starting a new student government with our fourth graders. So, they will
015have an opportunity to be part of our PBIS andCAL team and use this money to make decisions on behalf of their student body. So, we're very excited and very grateful. And thank you for having us this evening as well. >> Congratulations. >> Thank you, Dr. Sailor. >> Thank you, President Holmes. It's kind of hard to follow a thousand check, but I wanted to make sure that no one missed the very clean audit that the district was given. It was exceptional. I was thinking about it. I've been in seven different districts. This is the cleanest audit I have ever seen. A lot of credit goes to Mr. Laffy and Mr. Wolf for the records that they are keeping. Congratulations. >> Great job. Thank you. And now we will hear from our student representatives. First is Max
016Hoffner. And I do apologize if I butcher your names. And welcome as you take over and will be the ones that keep us informed for the year. We are looking forward to it. This is the best part of the meeting by the way. >> Setting you up. Can I just like adjust this? Okay. Good evening. My name is Max Hoffner. I'm a junior at Scranton High School and I'm very excited to share the happenings and events of Scranton of Scranton High School. We've had an amazing first few weeks back at the castle. First, I'd like to thank our administrators, faculty, and staff for a great start to the school year. Our fall sports teams have had an amazing start, and we wish them the best of luck the rest of the season. Our clubs and
017extracurricular activities have also started up. On Thursday, September 18th, we will have our fourth annual club fair sponsored by the night ambassadors. Here, new and returning students can learn about the different clubs and sports we offer. On Thursday, September 11th, there will be a junior senior kickball game during bell week. We are also having a pep rally this Friday to celebrate the bell game. Go Nights. College visits will begin on September 15th in the F FRC for any senior who is interested in applying. This week is suicide prevention week. Avidam Sad and the night ambassadors will chalk the walk with positive messages and hand out awareness ribbons at lunch this Wednesday. I'd like to thank everyone for this opportunity and I'd like to wish everybody a good year and success this school year. Thank you.
018>> Thank you so very much. Again, welcome. I do apologize if I butchered your first name. Shista >> Chery Chie >> Donnagle. Sorry. I will have it my next time. Thank you. >> Um, good morning. I'm Tristy Dingal, a senior at West High School. Um, I would like to start off the night with all the positivity spreading around Westgran High School. Invader pride and school spirit is the foundation for Invader football. The bell game is the most important game on our schedule this year. and invaders and night rivalry has rippled through many generations. To honor this, we're hosting a bellgame pep rally on Wednesday to get our students ready for the big game. This will be hosted on September 10th from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. at West Grand Little League on Oxford Street. We would
019like to thank the Little League for sponsoring this event. There will be games, performances, and music. The bell game preparation continues on Friday, September 10th, as we have our annual bell game pep rally with performances from the West Grand Varsity Cheer Band and Color Guard. The pep rally is bound to get engage our student body with enriching football culture. The bell game will take place that night at 5:00 p.m. The Invader football program is off to a great start and has high projected growth for their upcoming games. Diving further into Invader athletics, cross country has also had the most members on their roster since 2016. Sheamus Wallace is the first ever West Grant cross country boy athlete to run a sub 17minute 5K since Colin Kelly in 2016. Sheamus has run a 16.365K this season.
020Our girls varsity soccer team also welcomed new players and have quickly made an impact on the field such as Alexandra Kasiski, Angie Nuda, and Jasmine Beck. These players are freshman but have had significant impacts in their first few varsity games. Some returning players have also stepped up as leaders on the field. Might have included as well as seniors Elani Nunes, Carlo Alonzo, Aaliyah Roman, and Natalie Lopez. um their tough teamwork and communication has grown their skills on the field. We recently celebrated our first goal this season against Blue Ridge scored by Leah Roman and many more are to come. Wester Intermediate School also had a great back to school. They started off with a successful um school fair on on the 5th and new student orientation on August 19th. They would like to take a
021minute and thank all the community partners for participating and donating their time. Back to school night for Wester Intermediate will be on Wednesday, September 10th from 5:00 to 6:30. Students will be filling out their schedules for parents and that will be available in students home rooms. Also, a warm shout out to seventh and eighth grade fall sport athletes. They're off to a great start as well. The Willard The Willard Wildcats are also starting off strong. They made new friends and learned the rules and expectations of school. Last Friday, the students were even rewarded with ice cream for making great choices and following the Willard way. Keep up the great work, Wildcats. With a school school year on the way, I'm beyond excited to see every student grow. Thank you for your time and this opportunity.
022>> Thank you and welcome. >> PSBA. >> Uh no update this. >> At this time, we we will entertain public comment. Each speaker has three minutes. Union heads have four minutes. Colin Manley is first. Kaitlyn, I said it wrong. Kaitlyn, sorry. Good evening, board members and community members. My name is Kayn Manley and I a sophomore at Westgran High School. I was invited here this evening to tell you about my experience this summer at Georgetown University. This past summer, I was nominated to go to Georgetown University in Washington, DC to attend the National Youth Leadership Forum on National Security. I was one out of 150 high school students to attend the National Forum. These students were from all over the country, some even being from outside of the United States. I was assigned a roommate,
023stayed in the dorms, and ate at the dining hall on campus at least once a day. During my time at Georgetown, I got the opportunity to work handinhand with these students and form lasting relationships with them. We learned about navigating conflicts, national interests and power, foreign policy, defense and diplomacy, and public speaking. The instruction varied between lectures, hands-on activities, and simulations where we were assigned roles to problem solve real life national security conflicts. We also had the privilege of listening to various guest speakers on topics such as defense, diplomacy, and my favorite, the wounded warrior project. We had a jam-packed schedule from 8:00 in the morning to 9:00 at night. We also had travel days where we visited places significant to the content we were learning about. We visited the State Department, the Pentagon, the
024Korean Embassy, the US Naval Academy, and Arlington National Cemetery to witness the changing of the Guard for the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. One evening, we had the chance to explore the National Mall with memorials like the Lincoln Memorial, the World War II Memorial, and in the evenings, the group participated in team building activities such as board games, trivia, and best of all, a scavenger hunt on the campus of Georgetown. Overall, I am truly appreciative of the opportunity to be able to represent Westgran High School at the National Youth Leadership Forum. Thank you to the numerous community members who invested financially to help offset the cost of my trip. My attendance wouldn't have been possible without your support. In addition, thank you to the anonymous person who nominated me to participate this summer. Thank you
025for allowing me to share my experiences with you all. Have a great night. >> Congratulations. Marissa Harris. Good evening, members of the board, and thank you for the opportunity to speak. My name is Marissa Harris, and I'm a proud member of the SFT and a graduate of Scranton High School, class of 2011. I'm here tonight to raise serious concerns about inequity in athletic funding at Scranton High School. Let me be clear. I am not here tonight to criticize any of our student athletes. They all deserve our full support. As a student athlete in 2011, girls programs were supported with proper uniforms, warm-ups, and banquetss. When I returned as head coach in 2023, I inherited a gutted and forgotten program, mismatched uniforms, worn out equipment, and despite student interests, no no JV team. So, I asked
026myself, are female athletes receiving an equitable share of resources? The quick answer is no. According to my right to know findings, last season, football received $161,000 while girls soccer received less than 10. Baseball received $40,300 while softball received less than 10. Boys basketball received 28,000 while girls basketball only received 13,000. Oddly enough, cheerleading, not a core title n sport, received 10,000, more than softball, more than track, more than soccer, and at times even equal to girls basketball. Since 2019 2020, excuse me, since the 2019 2020 season, Scranton High football has received $1.1 million. What is the justification for this obvious gender disparity? As a union member, I understand stipens are set by contract, but the reality is the current system revi violates Title 9, which requires equity across all sports. This includes coach pay. Oversight
027is missing, and it's most important to note that these inequities are not accidents. They are deliberate choices. When I spoke up, I faced bullying and pressure from administration. Due to the lack of support, I ultimately resigned as head coach. Although I no longer hold a coaching position, I will continue to confront the inequities in place for the betterment betterment of our programs. Our female athletes deserve fair treatment and resources right now. I urge this board to to investigate and correct this. I've provided you all with packets with my findings, experiences, and follow-up questions. >> Thank you. >> Dr. Kading, is this something that we can further investigate and report back to the board? >> Yep. >> Thank you. Thank you, >> President Jen Tlesco. Good evening. Um, Jennifer Tlesco, President SFT, uh, I'd like to
028echo Dr. Keading's, welcome back to a new year. Our pair of professionals and professional teachers in the district, welcome back. Um, a huge enrollment of students this year. And I'd like to say that the SFT has been kept busy with a numerous activities and things going on in the office all summer. One of which was working with the district. Um, and I needed a point of clarification for something in the packet tonight with the MO. It should be an MOA between the district and the Scrant Federation of Teachers for the Cyber Academy. Um, on the documented listed as MOA, but on the motion it's listed as an MOU. So, I just wanted to point that out for a point of clarification. Um, that MOA was to directly deal with the enrollment and the building capacities
029that we've reached in the district and having an opportunity to work with the district to find a place for our cyber academy teachers to um accommodate them and accommodate our increasing or everinccreasing on a daily basis student enrollment. We've also been working since the first day of school. Today's the eighth day um with the district about class overages. Most if not all of our buildings are at maximum capacity. Our enrollment continues to grow despite what any projected enrollment studies that we've have seen over the years. First one is wrong. The second one is wrong. Um, numerous people have come up over the years with some members on this board, other pre past members of the board to not to close Bankfra Elementary and that the projected enrollment studies were wrong. I wish I could stand
030up here and not claim this as I told you so moment, but it is an I told you so moment. Um, and we are working with the district to find shortterm solutions for some very long-term problems and issues that we have in the district. Um, so I I put this at the uh helm of the board to tell us the direction that you're headed in to solve the overcrowded in our schools. Our enrollment having an increase in enrollment is not a bad thing. We don't look at us that way. But none of us want to see our classes overcrowded or any of our professional teachers losing their teaching spaces because of our classes that need to be split. But we need to come to a solution. Um, I can't help but mention that as a
031taxpayer and as the SFT president, you still have Bankraftoft and it should be a viable solution. I know it's going to be said that it's going to take millions of dollars to invest in that building, but you really don't have any other choices and to go out and to tell us um to reason with the public and us to say that you're going to rent other spaces or purchase other spaces only to renovate them and put the money in there. um it doesn't seem as feasible as investing in the building and the location that you already have. Um so I am looking to the board to coming up with some some long-term solutions for our very long-term and urgent problems that we have. Thank you. >> Thank you, >> Dr. Kading. Could we get that
032information also in our packet regarding bankrupt and what the cost would be to um look at reopening that? Yeah, in one of the um I think it was the amended >> reconfiguration plan, there is a snippet of information already presented to you there. Okay. >> So, that does exist if you want to access that. >> Is that in the drive? >> It should be in the drive. I think I have both in the drive. Okay. However, Mr. Rucker, who I can't see. Oh, there he is. You did do an extensive cost out too. I think I still have that in my email of the issues that would need to be addressed. Um, so I can do that for a memo for Friday. >> Great. Thank you, >> Rosemary Bolan. >> Good evening, directors. First of
033all, I would like to share with you the fact that a former principal and teacher in our district, Tom Jordan, passed away. Tom and his wife Barbara uh worked their careers in this district and uh it's a loss just to our community that Tom died. Tom and Barbara have two wonderful sons, one of whom is a doctor and the other one is a doctor of education and they were uh wonderful boys. they went to our schools and I would like you to know that that we did lose a member of our community and he will be sorely missed not just by his family but by all of his friends. Um my main purpose in coming here this evening is a $95,000 bill. This Graten School Board hired a firm, the Mckistic firm, to do an
034analysis of our schools. The SFT was asked to place on that committee a teacher, which I did. Fran Regan was on that committee, served on that committee, and that committee uh when they met, they videoed and audioed the meetings. Fran told them time after time after time they were wrong about their numbers. They were wrong. And this isn't the first time McKisik was wrong when it comes to dealing with the Scranton School District. They were wrong in 2008. They said we were loaded with space. Last year at Scranton South Scranton Intermediate School, the math program to help the kids with additional math was taught on the stage at Scranton or South Scranton Intermediate on the stage. Teachers in that building, I know for a fact, looked around for closet space so teachers could go in
035and have a space at least to put down their gear. Now, if we were so loaded with space, we wouldn't be hunting every day with the administration to try and find space in our schools. We were all over the buildings last week trying to find any kind of space. I want that $95,000 back. I'm a taxpayer in the city of Scranton now. I get to say that. And I am the former president of this union. This is wrong. They were wrong in '08. They wanted us to close schools. If we had if if the current administration were not present, if the former administration were here, we may have closed five buildings. Where would we be teaching our students at the Memorial Stadium with a dome on it? We can't do this anymore. If people don't
036know how to do basic math, let's find somebody that does because time and time again, most of you, including myself, watch them put little houses on papers and move them around and tell us we could close all the schools. South Scranton, Northeast, Intermediate, where are the kids going? Where are we putting close to 2,000 kids if we had done that? So, I'm going to continue on this binge of mine. $95,000 is a lot of money. We could hire a lot of Paris. We could buy extra books. We could get some books in libraries for that kind of money. And I'm asking this board to do its due diligence. I need your you to ask your attorney to file a suit and get that money back. >> Thank you. >> Because they deserve what we do
037to them. Thank you. >> Thank you. Jennifer Davis. >> Hi, good evening. I'll be brief tonight. I just wanted to introduce myself. I'm Jennifer Davis. Um, I'm a resident of the city of Scranton. I'm here representing Boil Construction. Uh, on Friday, we submitted a proposal for construction management services to the district. Um we really appreciate the opportunity and um and thank you in advance for your consideration. Um I'm a graduate of the Scranton School District um Central High School, class of 1991 and my children have both attended schools within the district as well. So thank you very much. >> Thank you. >> Okay. >> Motion to approve the minute meetings from June 2nd. So moved. Second. >> All in favor? >> I >> motion to approve the consent agenda. >> So move. >> Second. >>
038On the question. >> Roll call. >> Um Mr. Mccandra. >> Yes. >> Miss Merkel. >> Yes. >> Mr. Zki. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Yanni. >> Uh yes. With the B1 and B2 p. Y. >> Right. >> Mr. Borthwick. >> Yes. >> Mr. Casey. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Miss Chzik, >> yes. >> Miss Fox, >> yes. >> Mr. Holmes, >> yes. >> Nine. Affirmative. >> Athletics. >> Okay. We will have a motion to approve the purchase of replacement weight room equipment and wrestling room mats that were damaged and disposed of due to water damage at West Scranton High School. The purchase will be submitted to the insurance for coverage or partial coverage. The breakdown is as follows. uh $79,13047 to Resolite Sports Products, $148,46 to Webster Fitness for a total of $227,53647. >> Second >> on
039the question. >> Roll call. >> Miss Merkel, >> yes. >> Mr. Leky, >> yes. >> Mrs. Yianni, >> yes. >> Mr. Borthwick, >> yes. >> Mr. Casey, >> yes. >> Mrs. Chzik, >> yes. Miss Fox, >> yes. >> Mr. McCander, >> yes. >> Mr. Holmes, >> yes. >> N affirmative. >> Okay, sorry about that. We have A2 as well. >> A1. Okay. Okay, we will have a motion to approve the weekly rate of $75 per event for the game clock, play clock, producer, and announcer at home football games for both high schools. >> Second >> on the question. >> Roll call. >> Mr. Zky, >> yes. >> Mrs. Yanni, >> yes. >> Mr. Borthwick, >> yes. >> Mr. Casey, >> yes. >> Mrs. Chzik, >> yes. >> Miss Fox, >> yes. >> Mr. McCandrew, >>
040yes. >> Mrs. Merkel, >> yes. >> Mr. Holmes, >> yes. >> Nine. Affirmative. budget and finance starting with B1. >> Thank you, Mrs. Ore, for keeping me on track. I apologize, President Holmes, for missing A1. >> All right, we will have a motion um to approve a list of bill payments of $464,78.94, which is also the financial impact. Respectfully submitted. >> Second. >> On a question. >> I just have a couple questions. Um and I don't know if they're on the bill list or the exception bill list, so I I'll ask all my questions on this um motion. When I was going through the bills, we have Raptor's fees on there for $695 charges, but I can't tell if they're on, off, on, off, or if they're just all on. Are we still using Raptor?
041>> We are still using Raptor. And that the 695 is most likely the visitor management software that gets >> Okay. So, is that monthly then we're paying that? >> That's the annual. Okay. So, that was all of our buildings annual, right? Okay. For the 695. Okay. Just wanted to understand that. Um, my second question was regarding um the the charges that we paid to Scranton Electric for the the chiller and I don't Is that the chiller at McNichols Plaza that we're still renting? >> That is correct. >> So, in looking back at our our information on this, we did have a memo from Mr. Ruter that recommended purchasing a chiller. That was back in April of 2025. Have we done anything with that? And my other question is, are we paying 11,000 a month for
042the chiller or 54,000? Because the total charge to Grant Electrics was 54,000. >> Give me one second here. >> The rental fee on the chiller is actually 9550. That's the monthly rental fee. >> Okay. >> And that is on bill list B1. >> Okay. So, the other charges were there maintenance fees related to that? >> I'll have to drill in and look. Okay. >> But the monthly rental quote is $9550. >> Okay. So, is that something that we need to revisit? >> Yes, we do because we're getting to a situ like we're coming Mr. Rucker is if he wants to contribute, but we're coming to the end of the cooling season. Obviously, we will be turning it off, but we will need something in place come April of next year. >> Okay. So, >> and
043we'll make sure to drain it this time. >> I'm sorry. >> Didn't it freeze last year and cause damage? >> Uh, yes it did. So, can we make sure that we have preventative measures in place? We're not going to do that. >> We have plans in place to show that doesn't occur. >> Thank you. >> Okay. >> We could add that to the October work session. >> Sure. Thank you. >> That's all I had. >> Pat, I believe when this uh and that's a good question, Tara. Um, I believe when this was first brought up, uh, the district was all ready to put it up for bid to buy a new, uh, chiller. And then what happened was I was looking over the proposal and I saw that there was a $64,000 design fee. And
044um um I know I said this before, but I do have some experience in purchasing. And um first of all, I don't know why we needed to have a design fee where all we had to do is put out a spec with the uh make the model number and um uh some light language to cover any other uh things such as setting it in place and turnkey. Um, and uh I don't know why that will I mean when I spoke that night I was under the impression that's what our administration was going to do and um uh I expected this to already be taken care of and bid the way that it should be. >> Yeah. And the city doesn't require designs for replacement. So there would be no reason to pay a design fee
045for something that doesn't need to be designed. >> Agreed. And I think part of what we've been debating internally is is if we're going to redo a full replacement of the chiller, we want to make sure that the format of the layout of the school is how we intend it to be for the next future years of of for for use. So that's one, I think, area of concern that we didn't want to install a chiller in a certain way as the layout is now and then want to change the format of the school and change the whole layout of the air conditioning system. Is this something we can number one get more information and have an operations meeting where we can dive into this deeper and get more information >> to actually go into
046this and get this resolved long term. >> So upon director Yanni's request on I I have my to-do list here that we'll have an updated memo in on the chiller plaza. Correct. >> But I think we should also have an operations meeting where we can dive into this. Right now we're on a motion but where we can speak about this more. you would provide information Q&A >> and maybe get to a solution to this finally. >> That makes sense. >> Director Y, >> are we planning on putting on an addition or knocking maybe a room off over there to change the configuration? >> We have no plans at this time. No. >> Then I don't understand your logic, >> gentlemen. Are we This is getting off the merits of the motion. That's why I said
047we should refer this to deeper to an operations meeting where we can dive deeper into this. I agree with you. We should be having this conversation, but right now we're voting on the bill list. >> I can set up an operation. >> Well, I'd like to thank uh Director Yanni for bringing this back up. >> And Director McAndrew said he will work with you to set up an operations meeting so we can discuss this. Director, just to answer your question a little further, you mentioned 54,000. That's the total on that one individual check payment, but there was multiple different repairs and purposes on there. There's cooling tower repairs, services of other chillers in the district, the rental of the current chiller, a repair of a condenser uh coil. Okay. As well. So, okay. >> Okay.
048Thank you. >> You're welcome. One. >> Roll call. >> Uh, Mrs. Yiani. >> No. >> Uh, Mr. Borthwick? >> Yes. >> Mr. Casey? Yes, >> Mrs. Chzik. >> Yes, >> Miss Fox. >> Yes, >> Mr. McCandrew. >> Yes, >> Miss Merkel. >> Yes, >> Mr. Zleki. >> Yes, >> Mr. Holmes. >> Yes. >> Eight affirmative, one negative. Motion passes. >> I have a motion for the exception bill list. Bill payments made July 31st, August 14th, August 31st, and September 5th, 2025. Total 11,463,9742. >> Second. >> Another question. >> Roll call. Mr. Borthwick, >> yes. >> Mr. Casey, >> yes. >> Mrs. Chzik, >> yes. >> Miss Fox, >> yes. >> Mr. McCandrew, >> yes. >> Miss Merkel, >> yes. >> Mr. Leki, >> yes. >> Mrs. Yanni, >> no. >> Mr. Holmes, >> yes. >>
049Eight affirmative, one negative. Motion passes. >> Education. >> Uh, I have one more. >> Sorry. >> It's okay. Um, so I have a motion to approve the sale of property pin number 145062016. Um, which for reference is the old Samuel Morris school lot on the corner of Far Street and North Sun Avenue. Um, >> second >> on the question. >> Roll call. >> Mr. Casey, >> yes. >> Mrs. Chzik, >> yes. >> Miss Fox, >> yes. >> Mr. McCandrew, >> yes. >> Miss Merkel, >> yes. >> Mr. Lexi, >> yes. >> Mrs. Yianni, >> yes. >> Mr. Borthwick, >> yes. >> Mr. Holmes, >> yes. >> Night affirmative. education. >> Oh, that's me. Sorry. We'll have a motion to approve special education settlement agreements following legal review and negotiation. Settlement summaries previously provided to the
050board for review. 306288 KV 30002397BS LR and 303867 BS >> second >> on the question roll call >> Mrs. Chzik >> yes >> Miss Fox >> yes >> Mr. McCandrew >> yes >> Miss Merkel >> yes >> Mr. Trosky >> yes >> Mrs. Yanni >> yes >> uh Mr. Borwick. >> No. >> Mr. Casey. >> No. >> Mr. Holmes. >> Yes. >> Seven affirmative, two negative. Motion passes. >> Uh, do I need to read this as MOA? MO. Does it MOA? >> MOA. >> Okay. We will have a motion to approve the memorandum of agreement between the Scranton School District and the Scranton Federation of Teachers for the District's Cyber Academy split schedule as outlined in the attachment for the 2025 2026 school year. >> Second >> on the question. >> Roll call. >> Miss
051Fox, >> yes. >> Mr. McCander, >> yes. >> Miss Merkel, >> yes. >> Mr. Lucky? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Yanni? >> Yes. >> Mr. Borthwick? >> Yes. Yes. >> Mr. Casey, >> yes. >> Mrs. Chzik, >> yes. >> Mr. Holmes, >> yes. >> N affirmative. >> Operation. >> All right. So, first we will have E1 motion to move or sorry, motion to award the design study for the West Scrant High School gymnasium to Studio KP and CHA for design work at both the high school location and the Isaac Trip Elementary location at a total cost of $4,000. >> Second >> on the question. Uh on the question, do we know how long it it might take do they say to get something back to us? >> No, but now that we're this passed through, I
052could ask. >> Perfect. Thank you. >> Um just on the question, uh I know we've had multiple discussions about this. I just personally don't feel comfortable at this time, especially with no state budget. We know we don't have the money for it right now. I would personally prefer to wait a little bit until we're in a more comfortable position uh to start looking at this um so that we don't do the same thing as last time and have it done and then have to do it again. Um, so just at this time I would be a no. >> Thank you. >> Roll call. >> Mr. McCandrew? >> Yes. >> Miss Merkel? >> Yes. >> Mr. Leky? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Johnny? >> Yes. >> Uh, Mr. Borthwick? >> Yes. >> Mr. Casey? >> Yes. >>
053Mrs. Chzik? >> Yes. >> Miss Fox? >> No. >> Mr. Holmes? >> Yes. >> Eight affirmative, one negative. Motion passes. >> All right. We have E2. Uh motion to approve change order RFCO number 061-23-015 West Grand Intermediate additional carpeting course to at cost of $32,1485 >> second >> on the question Pat was there any uh design fees included in this >> there will be yes >> yeah I think I I believe I'm trying to remember it in front of me right now I wrote this memo >> there. There will be the standard fees associ are you asking for the uh for CHA? >> Yes. >> Yeah. This the standard fee agreements that they would have in place would would be tacked on to this. I do not believe they're included in that number. There is
054some markup from the uh from the contractor lowbar, but the design is not included in the 32. >> So that carpet tile, they're going to get a design fee on it. Just a simple installation of carpet tile. >> Not going to be in the change order. >> It's not going to be I don't think it will be >> like what what design is there for putting carpet in. >> Son's here. >> Hey everybody, my name is Sean McNamera. I'm from CHA. Um, in regards to this specific item, I can get you that information and report back to you tomorrow. Uh, I'm not familiar with this specific change order. Um, but I can get that information. >> Yeah. And I'm I'm just going to say if your firm is charging us for additional carpet installation, a
055design fee, there is no design. So, that doesn't make any sense to me. I don't know if that's the case or not. I'm just throwing that out there. >> Thank you. >> This should have been >> Would you please stay? There's additional question. Sean, I can still do this if this was tabled right now. I still I can still do this. Correct. If it was vote it in October >> for this specific change order. >> Yeah. >> Uh yes. >> Because you're saying you're going to give us information tomorrow, but we're supposed to vote right now. So that would do us no good. So there's a thought process right now. If you're going to provide us with information, we table this and we can take consensus based off the information and then ratify it in
056October. >> Okay. >> See what I mean? >> I understand what you're saying. Yes. I'll make the motion at table >> and I'll second that >> on the question. >> There's no on the question. >> No on question. >> On the on the question, I would say that this is information that we should have before we vote >> on your table. There's no on the question. >> Oh, I'm sorry. >> Roll call. >> U Miss Merkel. >> Yes. >> Miss Drosky? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Yanni? >> No. >> Mr. Borthwick? >> Yes. >> Mr. Casey? >> No. >> Mrs. Chzik? >> Yes. >> Miss Fox? >> Yes. >> Mr. McCandrew? >> Yes. Miss um hold on. >> She's still doing roll call. >> I know, but I need to change my vote. >> The last
057time I said it after it was announced, I was said that I couldn't do it. >> I'd like to change my vote >> to yes. >> Correct. >> Uh Mr. McCandrew, >> yes. >> Mr. Holmes, >> yes. >> Eight affirmative, one negative. Motion passes. >> Well, now it's stable. >> Now it's stable. Correct. >> Thank you for getting an SOS tomorrow. first priority first thing in the morning. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> All right. So, now we have E3 motion to award >> and there's no name here. Blank as architect and engineering firm. >> Second. >> So, I'm sorry. Is there on on the question? >> I'm sorry. I'm going to wait for you to ask on the question. >> On the question. >> Okay. So, I I would just like to speak to
058this. Director Mckender, can you read that motion again? >> Absolutely. It says right here motion to award and there's a blank as architect/engineering firm. >> So I'm a little concerned because at the work session two weeks ago, Director McCander, you spoke at length about the importance of hiring an architect and engineer to bring in here. Um, Director Casey spoke at length about, you know, delays, um, obstructing progress. And so we agreed that we were going to move forward and fill this architect and engineer position so that we could then have them advise us with the construction manager process. Everybody was good with that. And then I directly asked Dr. heating um if she wanted an outside consultant to which she replied, "I think if we cost this out and I can see it, then we
059can move forward with what I thought was going to be a recommendation." So, as a board member to receive in our board packet a motion that has blank in it, no explanation from administration, no documentation other than a cost out that I didn't see it when I looked Friday. I just happened to pull it up Sunday to go over it to get ready for the meeting and then I found it. So, I've got real concern there for the disrespect for these vendors um that that we are showing. We we have vendors who followed our process that we outlined for them in good faith. Um we have a deadline where we either have to award this or we have to um put it back out. So, I guess I have to ask why. If you had
060everything July 16th and I guess this is directed at you, Mr. Laffy and Dr. Keading, why are we now here and and we we we got nothing? We got no recommendation, no research. We got a motion with a blank name in it, especially after our work session two weeks ago where we I think everybody made it very clear that we wanted to fill this position. I I think that's what came out of that work session. So, that's that's concerning to me. I I have no problem speaking to it publicly and I will openly say I thought that the cost out would have given me light to be able to understand this. When they came in uh the people who were there when we looked over these the first words out of my mouth were this
061didn't help me at all. I'm still confused. I'm out of my lane. I admit when I'm out of my lane. I admit when I'm in over my head for me to make a recommendation um beyond what cost is. I I don't feel comfortable um without engaging someone who could sit and explain it to me. I have no problem owning that and I will I will take responsibility for not being able to understand that. >> And I just want to clarify what I said. Give me one second. Um yes, I did say if we hire this, we can use them as um like a reference or or expert just because you know, Director Fox made the comment that she talked to legal and they said it'd be best if we staggered it. And we had two
062motions at the time. we had award a bunch of projects and um award this. So that's why my recommendation was okay if we award this and they can help us with the other two RFPs. The problem is is what we've got. Yes, we could hire we could add this um late submitt RFP and uh no, we can't. You know, it's back and forth. There's a lot of red flags from what we you know, we we've been seeing the last couple days and what the information we got, you know, today and in and in our packet. Why is it not there? Why? I mean the administration did not make a recommendation I understand why you didn't make a recommendation because you don't feel that it's your expertise and if we were going to have the committee
063like they did there was a discussion to have an expert on there. Was there an expert on there? >> So there wasn't even an expert. There was just a cost out and I I don't know if that's enough information just going by cost with no experts who has expertise in this to have anything on this motion to recommend. Is that correct? Again, I I I am openly publicly saying that I do not have the qualifications to make a comprehensive recommendation beyond who was the lowest price. that that is what I'm capable of telling you beyond that to make a recommendation and then have some hidden fee or hidden cost jump out where I'm sitting on this stage and then being called to task because I made a recommendation and I didn't understand something is wrong
064of me to do. I am stating I am out of my lane. That is why that is blank. Nobody called me over the weekend to ask me why it was blank. I didn't put something in the memo. if I didn't I didn't even realize that the cost out wasn't uploaded till someone emailed it to me >> and and I um I appreciate that but I'm I'm not sure why we didn't get that in my my my point is going forward I would hope that over the weekend there would be some sort of an explanation. I I hesitate to reach out to you on the weekend. I don't want to bother you on the weekend. So I I certainly don't want to you know cause any uh disruption to your personal time. So that is why
065I did not reach out to you over the weekend. Um but yeah, I I think I I do need that. I at least need would have liked that explanation from you um as to why you would present your board of directors with a motion that's blank after the work session that we had. >> At this time, I'd like to make a motion to reject all bids. >> I'll second that. >> On a question. >> Yeah. Is there on the question of that? >> No, not on a an amendment. according to Robert's rules, you're perfectly uh eligible to call for >> we can have on the qu there's a new motion. It's a motion to reject all the proposals submitted to be the the district architect and engineer >> and >> there was a second. We
066can have it on the question. Yes. >> Okay. On the question. >> Yes. On the question. I would just like to briefly review the um timeline that we have here just so that we can as was stated there was lengthy discussion last meeting. I think there was a lot of confusion out there. Um I know questions have been asked um and now people aren't really understanding and now we have a motion in front of us to reject all bids. So the architect and engineer services RFP went out June 11th. It had a due date of July 16th at 10:30. The bid opening was um at 11:00 a.m. that day. Uh July 17th, we received a memo with the one, two, three, four, five, six, seven people who um submitted um through the website and it
067said commencing next week. We'll begin reviewing proposals and preparing for a summary to be shared with the board. So, as I said before, I know the summer was busy and to just the points of being kind and nice of in the future um when we know this is coming and such, if we could have these conversations sooner about when we need a consultant or such um July, we could have had that would have we wouldn't be in this place um right now. Um if we were able to work on that a little sooner. So then again, we got that memo on July 17th stating the seven vendors who submitted. July 24th, we got a memo that on July on July 21st, a vendor emailed the district saying that their response wasn't received. Um, we were
068told that we should be able to wave this because of technicalities which were stated in the RFP. Um on 72425 in the legal bills, we were charged $500 to review the issue of the late submission by prospective district architect vendor, conduct review of RFP responses received by the board, discuss facts with blank, review emails and findings from openbid.gov, and provide a low a formal legal opinion. So again, that was from 72425, $500 to review and give a legal opinion. 7:24 7:29 um we received at 1:14 p.m. an email asking for consensus um saying do we want to accept this um bid or not um due to an IT issue um it issue or proceed with the five timely submissions which it was seven um this instance would qualify as such a technicality since the six
069was not submitted through the site would the board like to wave this technicality and allow the six to be considered um if you have any questions or if you have any questions comments or concerns please submit them directly to the solicitor NCC both myself and the VP. I responded July 29th at 1:31 p.m. and I said, "I am concerned that the full board is taking consensus without full- I'm concerned that the board is taking consensus without full information." I questioned at this time that not only was the response not put through the website, but it was submitted on the 21st when the bids closed on the 16th. Um, our solicitor at that time did respond and he said, "Let's see how the yays and nays come back and determine if further discussion is warranted." I
070would like to clarify at this time that I sent my questions and my concerns as I was asked to on July 29th and it was said that was the response and I I I did put both the president, vice president, solicitor and superintendent on this. So I had my concerns that we were taking consensus without full information on July 29th just to clarify that. Um we met July 28th. consensus was taken the day after we met because it was forgot to brought be brought up that time. Um it was forgot to be brought up. Um let's see let's see how uh this comes back and then we'll have further discussion. July 30th at 12:48 um per your request board um consensus was reached um to accept this bid um to to put into a summary
071um and then so that was I apologize July 30th. So then we go to August 29th which was our last meeting or after our last meeting and then we got the memo um saying it was the followup from the meeting that we just had because questions were raised on if this could be received or not. Um so I did send an email asking for the um cost comparison on sorry I don't know when I asked Saturday maybe. Um and you said because the day was busy it didn't get uploaded. I said no problem. Um, and I almost did call you for a second, but I didn't want to bother you because I saw the blank um I did see the blank um document in front of us and I was like, let me just see
072what happens because we did get the cost out. I also saw it uploaded in that drive that you created which I do appreciate. Um so then now are are we discussing at this point why we are putting on the table to deny all bids? Um, I mean, this is I I assume that we are discussing the public policy of why we're we're now at this place and why we're we're using this. >> I'm gonna just speak and answer some of your questions just because I think it's necessary. And then I think what we're going to do is continue with the vote. >> Okay. Just to remind everybody where we're at. >> Um, you're absolutely right. Thank you for that timeline because that's consistent with what I was what I started to say on July 24th.
073If you saw uh entries for for a legal bill, that was around the time that Pat and I were discussing this issue. And a lot of that time that day was spent with open gov.com >> trying to get an understanding. They reviewed metadata. They interacted with us. They they they they were we were trying to confirm whether the vendor actually had an IT issue. That's kind of narrowly what we looked at. And I'm going to admit it because I admitted it to other people. I found out that they submitted it five days late when you sent that email. That's when I knew that you said, "Hey, doesn't isn't it relevant that this came in five days later? I'm I'm afraid the board is taking consensus without all the facts." And that was one of them
074because I didn't know that. So, what I said in the beginning was also true. I said more in the executive session with more facts. We did a fuller analysis after the work session last week or two weeks ago and that's what produced that memo. Okay. I did uh request consensus and I shouldn't have because that was not a waveable defect. I called President Holmes on the information that I had after spending some time with assistant superintendent Laffy and the open go people believing that it was a technicality as such was contemplated under the bidsp specs and I asked uh President Holmes to take consensus on that and then when we did the full analysis I shouldn't have it's not waveable so I should not have even asked for that consensus. So that's my error just
075like uh Dr. Keing was saying she's out of her lane. That's what I said. I'm going to own that confusion that resulted. But in the end, we got it right. We gave you the analysis, which is to reject that submission because it's unlawful. And what you have right now is the choice to hire from the field. I think what I'm hearing is because of the confusion, because of potential prejudice to the disqualified vendor, maybe whatever it is, whatever the province is, you absolutely have the right to act as a majority to reject all the proposals if that's what you want to do as well too. And that is what the current motion is and the reason why that motion was made. But >> I also want to just speak on what the the reason I
076don't know what the reason why it was blank. But I was asked about that as part of the administration. I was asked uh if it was okay for administration to send the board a proposed agenda that had a blank and I said absolutely because it is their job. I said it is the administration's job to run the day-to-day aspects of the school. It is not your job to be a competent uh qualified professional to ascertain the best engineer or or construction manager or lawyer for that matter. It is almost exclusively what the board is elected to do. The board hires the board has that decision and the board can make that determination and you can absolutely leave that blank. So I'll I'll own that as well too. >> Okay. And could I continue speaking on
077the question? >> Yes. >> Okay. So, are we doing anything illegal tonight if we were to move ahead, take the seven vendors that submitted timely in good faith, review their proposals, and select one this evening? >> But before you answer that, shouldn't we vote on the current one? Right now, >> there's a motion now, >> right? But this is I'm asking on the question of your motion, would we be doing anything illegal if we were to do that tonight? If this motion fails and you want to then raise a motion to hire from that field and >> well we have that motion. >> Okay. I'm saying right now there's a motion on the table to reject the proposal. If that motion carries, there won't be anything to award. >> And there's nothing wrong with saying
078that we've all made a mistake in this process. It's very confusing and we're going to take a step back, re-evaluate and restart. >> That's the proposal for >> and that's the thing. There's no recommendation. There's I mean the board I don't we we didn't even discuss like the options because we thought maybe it would become a recommendation because they were going to use um uh an expert. So how do we pick from the seven at this point right now tonight? I know there's a time frame on it. We have to do it by 60 days and we're running into that. I just think Kath Katherine your timeline that you you publicly stated which I appreciate you did. I think the public can hear how crazy and confusing it was. Yes, we can accept it. No,
079we can't accept it and this and that. Now there's no recommendation. though. That's where I'm at. I I never want to vote on anything that causes that has so many red flags on it, especially with dealing with RFPs in the past that didn't go the way we thought it was going to go with with advice from the state and our other leg legal law firm. We went wound up in court. So, I'm always going to be hesitant when there's so many red flags to vote on anything. And just like Mrs. Bolan said, like there's a lot of money here like when we hire these firms. So I don't want to make a decision until we have, you know, more concrete and less red flags around. >> Yeah. And I and since I work on this
080in this space, I can speak to it a little bit. I mean, um, I'll use since he's in the news all the time, John Basilica as an example. He uses different architects and engineers for every job. Some firms are going to be good at building schools. Some are going to be good at maybe just the STEM academy. We can I mean, if we bid out each individual job, that that'll just save us money. So, as long as we just, and I've said this on the floor a couple times, as long as we get our own CM who knows construction, and then at the very least, as long as we have either bids or proposals or whatever because it is a professional service, we can save money and get a better product for the Scranton School
081District. So, I'm in favor of of rejecting these. I I don't think it's detrimental to the district. I in fact, I think this is the safe play right now. >> Could we have an operation meeting to talk about that? >> To Dr. Kadine, just thank you. I know this has been very stressful on you, but I appreciate your transparency, your accountability. I know how busy you have been with with everything going on with enrollment right now. So, I do appreciate everything you have done and coming to the board tonight and saying what transpired. But with that, um this board has done a lot of good um the last couple of years. Um I I tried to stay focused on the positive and for me, I'm voting no tonight. I I I want to reject the
082bids and start over here. Just a lot of confusion, some red flags. I don't want us to end up on the front page of the newspaper. I want us to do the right thing. So for me, I like I said, I will be uh in support of rejecting the bids um because of that. >> Roll call. >> Mr. Leki? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Johnny? >> No. >> Mr. Borthwick? >> Yes. >> Mr. Casey? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Chzik? >> Yes. >> Ms. Fox? >> No. >> Mr. McCandrew? Yes, >> Miss Merkel. >> Yes, >> Mr. Holmes. >> Yes. >> Seven affirmative, two negative motion. >> And again, Sean, you can work with Pat and we can schedule this for all so that operations meeting to discuss this further. >> Absolutely. >> Personnel. >> Okay. Um,
083sorry, let me get my stuff here. So, F1, we will have a motion to approve the personnel report as attached. All hires are contingent upon all background checks and clearances. >> Second. on the question. >> Roll call. >> Mrs. Yianni, >> yes. >> Mr. Borthwick, >> yes. >> Mr. Casey, >> yes. >> Mrs. Chzik, >> yes. >> Miss Fox, >> yes. >> Mr. McCandrew, >> yes. >> Miss Merkel, >> yes. >> Mr. Leki, >> yes. >> Mr. Holmes, >> yes. >> Nine affirmative. F2 approve uncompensated leave of absence request for licensed practical nurse LPN employee number 4176 for the 2025 2026 school year pursuant to board policy 339 >> second >> on the question roll call >> Mr. Borthwick >> yes >> Mr. Casey >> yes >> Mrs. Chesig >> yes >> Miss Fox >>
084yes >> Mr. McCandrew >> yes >> Miss Merkel >> yes >> Mrs. Zky >> yes >> Mrs. Yiani >> yes >> Mr. Mr. Holmes. >> Yes. >> Nine. >> Affirmative. >> F3. Approve uncompensated leave of absence request for personal care assistant PCA employee number 4421 for the 2025 2026 school year pursuant to board policy 339. >> Second. >> On the question. >> Roll call. >> Mr. Casey. >> Yes. >> Mr. Chzik. >> Yes. >> Miss Fox. >> Yes. >> Mr. McCandrew? >> Yes. >> M. Merkel? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Leky? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Yianni? Yes, >> Mr. Borthwick. >> Yes, >> Mr. Holmes. >> Yes. >> Nine. Affirmative. >> Four. Motion to approve interns for the following departments. Technology department, business office, and human resources department. Financial impact hourly rate of $12.50 as consistent
085with intern pay rate. >> Second. >> On the question. >> Roll call. >> Mrs. Chess. >> Yes. >> Miss Fox. >> Yes. >> Mr. McCandrew? >> Yes. >> Miss Merkel? Yes, >> Mr. Zky. >> Yes, >> Mrs. Young. >> Yes, >> Mr. Borthwick. >> Yes, >> Mr. Casey. >> Yes, >> Mr. Holmes. >> Yes. >> Affirmative. >> Policy. >> Um, a motion to approve policy 904, attendance at school events. >> Second. >> On the question. >> Roll call. >> Miss Fox. >> Yes. >> Mr. McCandrew? >> Yes. >> Miss Merkel? >> Yes. >> Mr. Leki? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Johnny, >> yes. >> Mr. Borthwick, >> yes. >> Mr. Casey, >> yes. >> Mrs. Chzik, >> yes. >> Mr. Holmes, >> yes. >> Nine. Affirmative. >> Pender relations. >> Thank you. >> Motion to approve
086parking agreement for Willlet Elementary with Gity Supermarket. I so move. >> Second >> on the question. >> Roll call. >> Mr. McCander? >> Yes. >> Miss Merkel? >> Yes. >> Mr. Zky? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Yanni? >> Yes. >> Mr. Borthwick? >> Yes. >> Mr. Casey? >> Yes. Mrs. Chzik, >> yes. >> Miss Fox, >> yes. Mr. Holmes, >> yes. >> N affirmative. >> Next one is motion to approve utility rate and rebate audit. I so move. >> Second. >> On the question. >> So Pat, this is something I brought up at a budget and finance committee meeting. There is a group that will do this for zero dollars. Why are we paying somebody to do this? So the group that will do it for zero I believe does have a percentage of fee of
087the savings against it. >> No that the utility companies reward them like basically we it costs us nothing and they do the analysis for free and I brought that up at the budget finance meeting months ago and so then we're getting Patriot Energy Consulting Group. I don't understand that if we have somebody who will do a free analysis, why aren't we taking that? And and I there are multiple companies that do this. And just so everybody knows, so I do it. Um I was I'm familiar like uh Scranton Prep does it with they do a utility check and they lock in low rates for things like gas, electric, or analyze um internet costs, things like that. But the analysis is free. This is an annual consulting cost. >> It's a one-year. Yeah. one year. >>
088Well, and it says annual, so presumably potentially renewed. But like what are they going to consult on? >> They're going to review the current contracts that we have when we go out to bid for future utility rates. They're going to look at potentially rebates on improvements that we've already done within some of our capital improvements to go and apply for potential rebates with the utility company. Um the gentleman has extensive experience in the utility industry and in various industries. uh that that he he's worked in. >> Why why didn't we go with the one who said they do the analysis for free? >> Well, I believe that group has does a much wider scope of not just utilities but >> uh general supplies and that's going to that's going to be >> an RFP that
089we put out soon. I believe >> this was a nominal cost of $9,600. I I was under the impression that the savings that the individuals would save, we would pay off of future utility savings that we would receive. >> Yeah. So like the utility rate savings is literally with this other group and there are multiple ones of them also that they do the same thing. So I don't get why >> director should we table this and then get more ask for more information regarding >> I like to may make a motion that we table it >> and collect that additional information that director Borick is referring to. I'll second that. There's a motion to table. Roll call. >> Miss Merkel. >> Yes. >> Miss Leki? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Yianni? >> Yes. >> Mr. Borthwick?
090>> Yes. >> Mr. Casey? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Chzik? >> Yes. >> Miss Fox? >> Yes. >> Mr. McCandrew? >> Yes. >> Mr. Holmes? >> Yes. >> 9 minutes. >> The next one is motion to approve Thomas residency verification program. >> I so move. >> Second >> on the question. Roll call. >> Mr. Leki? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Yianni? >> Yes. >> Mr. Borthwick? >> Yes. >> Mr. Casey? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Chzik? >> Yes. >> Miss Fox? >> Yes. >> Mr. McCandrew? >> Yes. >> Miss Merkel? >> Yes. >> Mr. Holmes? >> Yes. >> Nine. >> Affirmative. >> Motion to adjurnn. >> Second. I'm going to motion to stand. >> Oh, >> thank you. >> No, no, we're