001e e e welcome to the vendor relation meeting for March the 3rd call order of the meeting please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance pledge of aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all roll call director Bor here director Cas here director chz present director Fox pres director present director Merkel present director mandra present director Yanni she's on the phone she said she director Yanni drani can you hear me does she know that we're back I did text her that we were on the stage let me call her just to make sure she is she is can you oh you can't okay all right we can see your picture that's the only reason okay she
002is there she's gonna call in right now dran you present director Holmes presid a president one currently absent thank you all right are we waiting for her you have the ability to get to her we moving forward relation not voting am I okay at this time I will turn over to the vendor relations chair director Casey thank you president Holmes I call this uh meeting because we have U solicited bids for legal services and uh instead of having just the three members of the committee review uh I'd rather have the entire board participate in an open transparent manner um and I called this meeting so we could develop a process uh I'd like to propose and I'm open for comments uh that we have the this meeting tonight um we do by consensus hire a
003outside firm um and whoever we hire would be um basically running everything he'd be setting up the interviews uh at that time in the interviews um any board member who has any questions would then be allowed to ask the questions uh I know that director Yanni is not present with us and she's okay um but um Dr keting if you would instruct the new or the interim attorney for this not to set up any interviews until all nine members could make it uh at that point after the interview uh I suggest that the board meets and um have discussion about who the uh vendor will be uh I also suggest that the meeting because it's sort of like a personel meeting that the conversation on who decide or how we want to go proceed with
004this would be done in executive session I'm open for any questions or if anybody would like to disagree with me director director Casey Mr odonnell does have a memo that was passed out to the board uh that aligns with our bog o5 uh o5 bog3 Mr Odon I'm going to kick it over to you yes uh we follow the policy as Dr ke stated we uh we the request the RFP was initiated uh this was drafted by the administration for the policy the RFP was advertised in the Scranton Times the citizen voice and open gov like we do for all other rfps uh there were some requirements for the RFP in terms of uh experience in educational law history revising school districts uh all those that that bid on it had to have a fee
005structure in previous uh charges to other districts the resumés of all the attorneys were provided uh uh they were sent to the board for review uh they were put in your packets uh a summary sheet was added to your packet last Friday a comparison side by-side comparison uh any clarifications on questions have been sent to the to the board uh The Next Step would be an evaluation and interview of the candidates the board or the designated committee along with selected administrators review the proposals the top candidates would then be selected for interviews interviews would be uh scheduled uh and the last thing was to approve a legal counsel the board for would formally vote on the selection of a solicitor at a public meeting a written agreement or engagement letter is drafted to define the
006scope of services and expectations and fees uh in addition to all these steps we did request an independent legal counsel to guide us throughout this process uh the superintendant Dr keing solicited uh a legal counsel based on the names given by the board and at that point that's all I have director Casey well I think you what you just said and what I said prior to that all coincides uh does anybody have a problem with this process that we're trying to set up no I think it's a good process and I thank alen Aaron for putting it together so everybody's in agreement with what I just said yes yes if so H hi this is Cara I'm not sure if you can hear me um will we be permitting I guess I would ask the
007vendor Relations Committee or you director Casey's chair will we be um reaching out to any vendors who missed anything in the RFP to give them the opportunity to provide any information that was missing per Mr O'Donnell's analysis so uh director Yanni it's it's Dr keing um one of the things normally we would we would move quickly but we would check with the solicitor before we did that as the solicitor right now is a party that is involved in um applying um we were waiting before we did anything like that to speak to Independent counsel to make sure that everything that we do from an administrative level is documented and is correct Aon I couldn't understand or what was the question if anyone is missing anything are we reaching out to them for those things normally
008in a in a proposal like this we would just say in a legal meeting hey John can we do that but since John's one of the parties we're waiting for the board to appoint who they would like as independent counsel and then we want to as ad ministrators vet all our steps to make sure that we're doing things correctly well that's why I'm turning everything over to whoever the legal council is so that it isn't a director here calling the shots we're doing everything uh strictly legal and open um I guess my only thoughts would be um when you said um the conversation in executive session if we could just schedule or think about scheduling a public vendor relations meeting prior to the vote so um that was part of the issue I believe when
009we had the busing issues that we didn't have a vendor relations meeting um prior so just a thought um I would prefer it an executive session only because you do have professionals and there may be some questions that uh you want to answer uh when we hire people um and we interview most of the time it is an executive session um it would be my prefer reference to do it in executive session uh but that would also be one of the questions that we have to talk to whoever the legal councel is I'm trying to make this as open and transparent as a process that I possibly can being chairman I could have just had it go to three members but I figured uh legal counsel is for all the board and I feel that
010each and every one of us should have a say and each and every one of us should ask ever questions uh I don't want to make this a dog and pony show I want to do it professionally and I want to respect the rights of all of the vendors who applied okay maybe that's a question we can ask as we pardon me I said okay maybe as you said maybe that's a question we can ask as we proceed see well it's something that we could talk about right yeah I'm not looking for a decision this moment but because you are going to be asking questions and um normally it's a Personnel matter and a vendor relations matter uh I don't want to embarrass any of the candidates with somebody uh throwing uh an unfair question
011I mean for this meeting now are we allowed to explain how many bids we got who were they because I think that was the one question that's public that's right maybe we should announce that tonight because so there's two that apply for General legal services and three for special education legal services so that's that's public that's not the applications came in through opengov tocom as part of the process um as a superintendent as senior administrators um usually you double check all your steps a question like what director Fox just asked should we do it this way you would double check all your steps through an attorney so part of this right now is also sitting on the appointment of independent counsel to walk us through this Aon that's the whole reason I'm taking it out
012of the board's hand and putting everything basically in the hands of independent councel so at this point um we'll you have the the memo with the steps drafted there from Mr odonnell and I um we'll wait on Independent Council and then we'll move forward from there I'll continue to to communicate with the full board on any kind of memos or updates Aon it's imperative that whenever interviews are scheduled is that all nine board members can attend and and I'll I'll make sure through my office and through um my assistant that we take care of that if anybody has no more questions um I'd recommend that we uh proceed as we just spoke last week at the work session we had already took a consensus to actually do that am I correct so we actually took
013the consensus and we pass to do exactly what you just described do we have to do we have to take another one I think right now you need to appoint independent Council I understand that but I wanted to say it out here so that we we're 100% transparent next item the okay we have uh the next uh item is the discussion of the um labor agreement responsible contract ordinance Dr keing would you like to speak on this matter sure sure so doc so solicitor Fon and I'll allow him to speak because I I I don't want to speak for him but multiple times on stage that said has says to said to us that a pla is something that could be explored in an emergency situation or under specific confines where you would look at
014the particular scope of work um and the job itself and you can look to apply that uh the city of Scranton has a responsible contractor ordinance um and I'll let attorney Frey speak um to explain more but what I'm recommending to the board if the board wishes to move forward with this is attorney Frey using the city's language has has uh drafted policy language for us about using responsible contractors um and and this mimics what we are using um with ordinance to the city and we would be we would have to follow by this because this is our policy it's also important to note and and I'm gonna say numbers and Pat's going to correct me in a second that using the city's policy 80% of our work right now 70% of our work right
015now is following Union shops Mr lafy I don't know if there's anything you want to add there no just of approximately 80 million that's been of contracts that have been awarded approximately 56 million have been to um to Union shops and approximately 24 to to nine Union shops and solicitor for I don't if there's anything you want to add there well I uh I hope that uh the board members got a chance to look at uh some of the memoranda that we produced on this uh particularly with regard to the um proposed pla uh submitted by the um uh the labor groups uh there's several things that uh I think are problematic that would not recommend it one is that it is a an agreement that would apply to all projects and as um Dr
016King just reminded you uh the law here whether you agree with it or not is that plas are appropriate where you have an extraordinary circumstance and the reason for that is that essentially they're counter um competitive um aspect of of of procurement um the other problem with uh the pla in my opinion is that uh it it favors Union contractors and um as Dr Keening just pointed out I think 70 to 80% of the uh contractors on the job are in fact Union so what what that means is a couple of things uh number one uh the uh the strictness of the requirements uh May uh in fact you know discourage you know more people from or more contractors from bidding and and in fact if if you if you read the um if you
017read my memo um there's a um there there there's a a matrix there that has a pros and cons these are not pros and cons that I made up these are pros and cons I took from the literature um so I mean there plas are a little bit controversial however um if the board uh feels that um something in the nature of a pla is necessary uh they're much better off uh with a policy and that policy that uh I drafted again it certainly can be amended it's not not not necessarily perfect but with regard to uh the the requirements for Quality um Quality workmen they're all in the the policy and the policy also incorporates uh the city um the city ordinance for responsible contractor so the way that would work is that uh
018when appropriate you we simply insert in the specifications that the uh uh that the contractors would have to comply with all aspects of the policy uh I've been advised that uh uh you know from uh dwey or guess cha now that uh in fact the contractors have been following the uh the ordinance uh and so that you know raises questions as to how much more uh protection you need but if the board feels that it's uh they want to go in this direction uh in my opinion they're much better off uh with a policy uh that would uh or could be incorporated with the specifications and when that's accepted that becomes a contract um I think it's uh entirely defensible I'm not certain of the defensibility of the uh pla policy for the reasons I
019mentioned I'm not sure that I'm not sure that the two criteria one being exceptionality and the other being non-discrimination uh are necessarily defensible so our recommendation would be to go with the uh with the policy and again I think it serves pretty much the same purpose of ensuring uh a higher quality trades person all right so an rco you're stating gets us to the end product of Highly qualified it does Tom okay so you're recommending that we go with the yeah yeah if the board deems it necessary yeah I mean they already have to conform to the um to the city ordinance so and the county I believe correct uh and the county yeah I was going confirm the county and the city has a responsible contract so yeah I think you'd be better off
020with uh with a policy which gives pretty much the same protection so you're saying going go with go with the responsible contractor policy if that's the the board wants to well we the board can make a decision but how do we get that on an agenda so you would have to direct president Holmes would tell me to add that for a first read um for the April agenda does anybody have an objection with going that route um by having uh president Holmes put it on for first read if so K I actually already directed Dr keing and solicitor just to come up with motions correct so you can just share that out the ones that you did come up with correct Y and that's the you have the draft policy in front of you I'd
021obviously have uh solic ref and I go through it again remove the draft and then it would be added to the actual agenda yeah and again you know U my craftsmanship is not is not um uh impervious to any kind of criticism so if you see something in there you think needs to be addressed could address are there any objections to going in that away for the next meeting if not doctor follow through hi this is sorry again could I just know um Dr keing is it your recommendation that we move forward with this policy yeah if the board chooses what I said before uh director Yanni is if the board chooses that they want to put something like this in place as we've talked about PLA and policies and and ordinances my recommendation would
022be to do the policy is drafted by John Frey if you so wish to have something in place once again I'm going to ask doct like this this policy in place well the I think that the policy aligns to the city uh the city ordinance which puts us there I think again I I think aligning with that is is fine I don't have an issue with it because it's already something that sits within the city I think what we have to do though is if the city changes anything it's going to have to be watched closely and brought to the board so amendments can be made so they stay in sync director Yanni I think the basically we're already following responsible contractor ordinance because any workin the city has to follow the city's ordinance correct
023right we now have policy language that allows us to conform to that okay thank you once again I'm going to ask does anybody have any problems with this well I think that I think that if you put it on for a first read you also have people have time to digest it and then make public comments we got to get to the first read and I'm asking for any objections for us to follow this process if not get it on the agenda for first read there's no objections that I hear with that I'd like to uh uh ask for an adjournment of the vend relations meeting motion to adjourn that's presid motion to adjourn oh sorry second all in favor I we will go right into the board meeting so I call the order the
024board meeting for March the 3D roll call director por here director Casey here director chz present director Fox present director Gil Martin present director Merkel pres director mcandrew pres director Yanni present director Holmes present nine nine present okay have a motion to approve the agenda I move to approve the agenda second yeah so um I would like to pull um I would like to make a motion to pull B6 motion to approve real estate assessment approvals second all in favor okay so I need to make a motion to approve the agenda with the modification I move second all in favor L tar tar do you approve the amended agenda by pulling motion B6 yes thank you okay Dr ke communic to the board executive sessions were held on February 24th and this evening to discuss
025Personnel litigation and real estate negotiations and safety solicitor's report um no report other than what I said on the um PL okay superintendent report okay there's a lot of names in this and if I say any name wrong I will come to you and personally apologize um before I begin I would like to congratulate one of our West Granton students Elena Lee Elena is painting the two Le will be on display in the PA capital retunda for the month of March her painting was chosen to represent the best artwork from nor eastern Pennsylvania for the 2025 youth art month Expos Exposition hosted by the Pennsylvania art Education Association a link to the virtual reception and awards ceremonies can be found on the west Granton High School Facebook page and in the post that the District
026page shared once again congratulations Elena we're very proud of you Scranton High also saw a number of Scholastic art gold key and silver key winners congratulations to the two art gold key winners Desiree grosner who won two key Awards and violet Martin who won one ARX Fernandez won the writing gold key and was also the American voices nominee the first in Scranton High history Emil caco won two writing silver key Awards Violet Martin poosari Alvarez and Janes Schwarz all won silver art silver key Awards Scranton High also had 13 honorable mentions there were seven for writing Matthew Hill mibs Bailey yarel Felician Alicia Jackson Isabella liel Roco ciano and Courtney Straus there were six for art relle Rios VIIs Martin uh Mara germano Jessica zalinski and Dakota heflinger west Granton High School had two silver
027key winners Elena Lee and jenish parjapati congratulations to all of our Scholastic art and writing Award winners [Applause] our winter sports were also very successful this season both the Scranton High Knights and lady Knights basketball teams made it to the district 2 Championship Scranton High Knights were the first place Champions while the lady Knights were the second place runner up both teams have qualified for the PIAA state tournament which will begin later this week West Granton had three wrestlers Santino Anisa Connor legari and Michael Tory complete at the PIAA triaa regionals and Scranton had two wrestlers Daniel Gonzalez and Drew lonari compete as well Michael T was the 145 pound weight class champion and Conor legary placed third in the 114 PB weight class both qualified for the PIAA Triple A State Wrestling Championships this
028weekend in Hershey Scranton High wrestler Drew lonari play six at the wrestling regionals PIAA District 2 AAA swim and Diving championships were also this weekend West Granton swimmer Royale aliia won the silver medal in the 200 yard am and the 100 yard breast stroke Scranton swimmer Ryan poro hanaya Longworth Michael bosi and Greg Somali all received sixth place medals for the 400 free Relay Team congratulations to all of our winner sports for an outstanding season the parent advisory committee met on February 25th at the STEM Academy District Attorney Brian Gallagher spoke with parents about restorative practices and the juvenile justice system the student advisory committee met February 27th at the STEM Academy students spoke with assistant DA Christina frell a representative from the office she talked about her job as well as the Juvenile Justice
029System students also talked about things they would like to see in the district as well as what they think is going well the pjas regional competition was held this weekend at wils University the Scranton School District had the largest participant group with 56 students from all three intermediate schools West Scranton high school and Scranton high school there were two excellent awards given out in computer science and math Six perfect scores 31 first place Awards 17 second place Awards and one third award at this time I would like to give a very special congratulations to Kennedy teacher Kim Tes she was selected to serve as a member of the Pennsylvania Reading literac L Leadership Council her position on the council will be in an advisory role offering input and perspective as the committee Works towards sharing
030the literacy initiatives that will positively impact students and Educators and their broader School communities across the Commonwealth this week is read Across America week I had a very busy day today I read at John F Kennedy William Prescott and John Adams Elementary School I'm super excited to be out and about in all of our elementary schools reading to our students as an FYI my favorite book in the whole world to read to kindergarten in first grade is Mr Brown Can Move can you and we make all the noises every single one reading is an in is integral to a child's development and being able to promote literacy and the joy of reading in this environment is a great gift to all of the volunteers including members of the board on stage senior administrators community members
031elected officials who give up their time to come in this week we appreciate that so much because this is such a wonderful cause thank you very much for giving us that gift this week is also School social worker week thank you so much to all of our school social workers for all of their hard work and dedication you are an integral part of our school community and we're so grateful for all that you do thank you very much president Holmes and again if I killed your name email me I will come out and apologize to you personally thank you Dr keting chief chief uh recovery officer report no report thank you so much thank you we will now have the student Representatives up first is Maddie Martin from West Granton High School all right good
032evening members of the board I'm pleased to give you all a brief analysis of the month of February from West Granton and the surrounding Elementary School students at West the wrestling members are unstoppable this year congratulations to Michael tur and Connor logier who both just qualified for States this last weekend after competing at regionals Michael is a three-time state qualifier and he is also the fourth student in school history to win regionals the last being Cameron bucka in 2021 Connor is a two-time state qual qualifier at the recent swim meet Roy aala is making moves by beating two school records the first being the 100 best stroke at 59.7 seconds and the 200 individual meters at a minute 5753 seconds keep up the great work Roy and the W of the West swims team this
033past Saturday seven students from West competed at the wils University and the Pennsylvania Junior Academy of Science or PJ at the regional competition the following students students have received a first award and will be moving on to States held in May at Penn State University senior Mandy Martin Junior stry dungle Abigail Van Wart and Angel olis and sophomore Natasha jimz congrats and best of luck our sads saave Club is having their say something week in honor of Sandy Hook promise Sandy Hook promise is a nonprofit organization which was established in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in order to work for gun violent gun violence prevention programs and policymaking students today sign posters and Wednesday will wear green to show their support in ending violence and keeping the Sandy Hook promise alive
034West will have their spirit week March 17th through the 21st the themes go as follows Monday wear green or St Patrick's Day attire Tuesday country versus Country Club Wednesday cultural day Thursday teachers dress up as students and students dress up as teachers and Friday anything goes games where grades participate in a friendly competition against one another to earn their class points but as always seniors win and lastly I was going to congratulate Elena Lee on her accomplishments with her piece with the two Lees however Dr King already did a great job I couldn't beat that for Charles suner Charles suner preschool is doing so well the students are learning their letters and working in centers each day 60 students from preol from prek to fourth grade had perfect attendance for February there were 11 students
035who were titled as suar stars for the month of February these students are picked out from the rest who displayed respect responsibility and Readiness to learn here at the Intermediate School congratulations to J Lee Solace grade 8 on her selection as scholar of the month for February the subject area was life arts and fitness congratulations to Paloma Villa Sanchez grade six on her selection as student of the month the characteristic was citizenship fifth and sixth grade enjoyed the red carpet dance on February 20th admission dancing and refreshments were totally free for students thanks to officer Paris and all of the teachers staff and community members who donated also a special thanks to Kevin Kerney for dejing the event during the month of February for Kennedy Cadets we're focused on honesty being truthful in what you
036say and do Kennedy cadetes participated in the exact path competition to collect trophies The Home Room which earned the most trophies was rewarded with a candy making event through aark congratulations to Mrs prisp paleski and Mrs con's classroom for tying and earning the most trophies they celebrated World read aloud day on Wednesday February 5th with grade level's reading of the true stories of The Three Little Pigs and highly recommend it Miss Miss gooski's kindergarten class earned a nacho and Cheese party for submitting the most family read alloud logs for the week many of the students artwork was selected to be displayed at the AFA Gallery Elementary art show opening on February and Friday February 7th the Kennedy caring Cadets during lunch created tote bags which were gifted to Our Guest readers today as part of
037a read Across America event February the swpbis schoolwide reward got the cadet's hearts pumping with zoom compliments to Miss Jazz the Francis Willard Elementary had a busy February the wild cats kicked off the month with a big surprise announcement of receiving a new playground the city of Scranton Trust for Public land and Valley in motion chose Francis Willard to be the recipient of the newest playground across the city Mrs Martinelli's third grade students with the help of the entire school will Design the playground the wild cats are very grateful to be Chosen and very excited for this new project the first grade had a visit from Wells Fargo and learned about money Concepts budgeting and the value of money Mr Matt's life skills class in the autistic Support classes had the grand opening ribbon cutting
038ceremony of the new W Willard Wildcat snack store students in Mr Matt's life skills class and the autistic Support classes will be running the new store there they will learn to practice social skills and money management for their February blowout the wild cats painted and glowed crazy jamming with the fabulous art teacher Miss Jenny 345 students made great choices in school and inspired their classmates this month Mrs Rucker is very proud of you wild cats keep up and following the wild cat weight the title reading teacher Mrs Chum kicked off a read Across America literary event with a book genre exploration activity for third and fourth graders they took a bite out of several book genres the wild cats ended the month by showing love and appreciation to their fantastic fa faculty and staff at
039Francis Willard all staff were asked to submit their favorite drink and snack choices and received a VIP room service delivery we are very grateful for their hard work and dedication and lucky to have the best in SSD for BC Nichols Plaza in first grade Penn State Master Gardeners visited and assisted their students with winter sewing for the plaza Garden they hosted a parent and family night kickoff read Across America week the theme was Curious George and Dr keing was their guest reader students and their families took home books created first aid kits and enjoyed a banana split bar took home games and clothing and were able to tour an ambulance thank you Mr boet from PA ambulance it was a great night and a turnout the PTA held their annual Scholastic Book Fair every child
040was able to purchase a book with money they brought from home or with their school currency feathers Miss Hinkles after school program Kos entered the lacana county arts and culturals Department Festival of trees contest and won first place there were 12 students in total from McNichols Plaza who had perfect attendance for the first 100 days of school Senator Rosemary Brown had made a visit to McNichols Plaza the PTA hosted a fourth grade Valentine's dance fourth grade also recently competed upcycling projects and had Rangers to prepare them forther field trip in May the trip was hosted by the lacana Heritage Valley NA national and state Heritage area in conjunction with the National Park Service Steamtown National Historic Site along with the lacana Historical Society their teachers took mindfulness classes after school on Tuesday with Phil salavan
041as it's important to practice self-care they also learned about spirituals and africanamerican game songs in music class even though February is the shortest month of the year all of these schools mention made everyday count keep a lookout for more exciting news during the month of March and in two weeks don't forget to leave some chocolate coins for the leprechaun thank you and have a good night thank you thank you that's awesome great job Mandy up next is Dean morren good evening February was a great month within the district and March is looking to follow as Dr keing mentioned this Grant and boys and girls basketball teams will advance the state championships good luck like to them both it is alumni career week at Scranton high and six HSS alumni are talking to students about their
042career pass After High School the American Red Cross is coming to talk to night ambassadors and other student groups to discuss the impact of blood donations on this Thursday March 6th the school counseling 9th Annual trade and Industry Fair will be held March 13th where students can learn about several career paths available to them this Wednesday several Scranton students will be visiting elementary schools to participate in read Across America on March 18th Scranton has class officer elections for the class of 2026 students began picking up information packets to run today best of luck to all shs including the STEM Academy had 46 students compete in the Pennsylvania Junior Academy of Science competition on Saturday the Scranton School District had the largest number of students competing this year out of the 36 districts of region two
043out of the 46 students 31 are now eligible to compete at a state level competition in May Scranton High had two excellence awards Megan Hartman senior excellence in math and Aiden CIS Junior excellence in computer science they also had five perfect scores 26 first awards 14 second Awards and one third award congratulations to everyone who competed in best of luck at States also in s six teams of girls will compete in a girls and stem competition at the end of April and 10 stem students will compete in the Neu reading contest tomorrow the Scranton High mock trial competed at the federal and County cour houses in February the shs prosecution team was defeated by North Pocono however Sylvia fahe was awarded best attorney while Kimberly garez was awarded best witness in the second round Scranton
044high was the defense team in defeated Valley View Caitlyn D Santos won best attorney and Samara hassanan won best witness the team finished in the top five in the league just missing the semifinals congratulations on a great year freshman samai will be held on April 4th at the Greenridge club and a Red Cross blood drive will be held on the same day overall March is shaping up to be a great month in the district thank you for your time thank you good job both of you thank you now we'll move on to the psba report that's always hard to follow up so um we we have uh save the date advocacy day is May 13th um so if you want to join them I believe they're having um some registrations for that um we also
045have earn your certificate in school safety preparedness um there's a summer summer and fall um cohorts there's um webinar sessions that you can sign up for and the budget webinar that was um done on the 4th is recorded and it's up so you can go see it if anybody wants to see it and there's some gr seeking guidance um that we can look into um over the next few months so maybe Pat you want to take a look at that and that's everything thank you approval of the minutes from 992 24 107 24 114 public comment oh I'm sorry I'm sorry at this time we will entertain board up public comments each member's authorized three minutes Union presidents will have four minutes first up is Daniel strawberg good evening to members of the board my
046name is Dr Don strawberg I have been practicing integrative mindbody medicine for over 27 years according to the CDC stress costs American businesses $225 billion a year or $685 per employee in Lost productivity and revenue due to presenteeism and absenteeism related to sickness injury and doctor's visits now when thinking about stress think about policy changes politics Staffing the relationships we have with each other workload with teachers managing student behavior and their life situations and safety issues 83% of us workers suffer from work-related stress 25% say their job is the number one stress in their lives 1 million American workers miss work each day because of stress and 76% of us workers report workplace stress affects their personal relationships now before we blame all of this on work it is our response to life situations that
047can make the difference integrative mindbody medicine has been and is currently being researched through and where I've also studied at Thomas Jefferson University with groundbreaking results due to the engagement of multiple areas of the brain with stress processing results have shown clinically and statistically significant changes in several key areas of the brain in response to stress being studied having grown up in Scranton it is my joyful request to offer a volunteer day partnering together to help reduce the stress experienced by the teaching staff Administration and security staff in the school district thank you for your time and attention to this important matter thank you so Dr and Matt outside on the fire drill we've already exchanged numbers and we'll connect there you go thank you thank you Rosemary bowling good evening directors uh first I
048would like to Echo what all have said so far about re Across America uh I was myself this morning at John Kennedy School and I had the pleasure of reading to the third in fourth grade autistic class and I had such a good time with those kids Wednesday I will be at John Adams and on Friday I'll be at myma moer John wooder I want to thank all the adults who participate in this project it is vitally important especially for our very young students to hear adults read and how adults read that makes a world of difference in the comprehension of our students so please if you've done it thank you if please just continue doing this if you have never done it please go to what your nearest school and volunteer it's it's a
049vitally important thing second tomorrow is March 4th and tomorrow the Scranton Federation of teachers along with anybody in our community and we ask anybody in our community to join with us tomorrow at 4 pm we will leave gather rather at the administration building and we will walk downtown to the statue of John Mitchell and we will protest the government cuts to education and in particular the cruel cuts that are being made in cutting the department of Ed these Cuts will seriously and severely impact our students in this district and that those cuts will also impact all the kids across the United States of America this is a cruel cruel time in American history and the president of the United States has decided to punish the children in the United States because of some silliness on
050his part the woman he proposed to head the Department of Education has no background in education at all she's a fake and she should not be in charge of the Department of education no such person should be in charge of anything to do with education she wants to decimate it because the president of the United States wants to decimate if he has his way children will be not inoculated you see the outbreak already in measles down in Texas one child died and you see the outbreak in our own state it is a serious virus and it's Airborne so if we start to have students in our district come down with measles which should have been eradicated were it was eradicated in around 2000 this is another obscenity from the Department of Health in Washington Robert
051F Kennedy Jr has just decided that maybe it's a good idea to inoculate the students well isn't he brilliant something that we took care of years ago he his company has told parents not to inoculate their kids because of all kinds of problems he made up he should hang his head in shame and I'm sure his father is rolling over in his grave so please join us we're going to make a lot of good noise a lot of good trouble in the name of John we'll do that uh I think you know John Lewis uh that will make a lot of good noise and the third thing is the point of personal privilege you heard from Dr kading tonight and I heard from the parent uh student Missle from uh West High School went to
052this Intermediate School and my brother uh we have established an award for my in my brother's name thanks to Paul D um we have an art award here for serious art students in this school we've done that since Paul dhy was the principal here and uh Miss Lee won that award my brother never taught her he never got to meet her but her mother and I have become friends on the playground in the morning at wer Elementary so I want to express my congratulations to her and to her entire family that is quite an accomplishment for her and I'm hoping she is uh going to get a I hope a lot of good scholarships to continue her art studies uh this is quite an honor and I'm so happy for her and her entire family
053so thank you uh board of directors and I hope to see every single one of you tomorrow walking with this and uh let's make some noise thank you thank you gentilesco good evening gent Tesco um I feel like I'll sound like a broken record but um I'm a parent teacher at John Adams sft member um we're celebrating reading uh Across America all week in all of our elementary schools um particularly I want to speak for John Adams um I'd like to thank all of our special guest readers that we've had so far including those Central administrators and the school board directors who have found time out of your busy schedules to visit our school either today or throughout the rest of the week as you've heard prior literacy is the foundation to all of our
054future successes and there's no better way to foster a child's love for reading than to get involved to get on their level literally um and read a good book share a good book together fostering their love for reading um and I could also attest for Dr King's um making all the noises in the book yes I got to listen to it twice so that in fact is true um I'd also hope that as you continue your visits throughout the district this week that Central Administration and Schoolboard directors will take a moment to realize the uniqueness and value that each of our elementary schools have and the vital roles that they play in their respective neighborhoods our schools are a safe Zone where everyone knows your name our students look to us for so much more
055than the traditional academics um the value and the need for our small neighborhood schools is clearly evident and perhaps now more than ever and the second thing I'm just going to reiterate is I hope to see everyone at our March tomorrow for Education that Rosemary spoke to it's 4M starting at the ad building I implore you to join us as we March for um education and rally for our students thank you thank you Holly me hello um I teach 9th through 12th grade special education learning support students many who have a learning disability in reading or math but attend the majority of regular education classes I would like to tell you a story about one of my students Jackie that is not her real name Jackie has been my student for two years she is
056a current sophomore she never really loves school she would often ask why she need to complete specific assignments and ask questions as do I really need to do this when it was a time to when it was time to apply to CT PC I explained to her that it might be something she could try she applied to the culinary arts program and was accepted fast forward 7 months and Jackie is flourishing at CTC every day she has a smile on her face and is rarely absent she stops by daily to tell me what recipe she's made that day and how she would change it or keep it the same she is a model student at CTC and is a leader among her peers She was recently featured on the CTC Facebook page and for her
057work on various Community projects I cannot thank the teachers at CTC for giving her enough for giving her this awesome training and providing her with a path to Career employment After High School she now knows what she wants to do with her life and has many many many mentors to help her succeed as many of you know rumors are circulating about all the cuts coming from the Department of Education including cutting funding to many Career and Technical programs programs like CTC provide my students with the Hands-On Project based learning they need to thrive in society After High School students like Jackie and many others would be devastated if our CTC funding was lost tomorrow the sft in conjunction with aft will march across different places nationally we'll be marching from the admin building to Courthouse
058Square at 4m. we are all going to be wearing red for Ed and protesting these egregious cuts to public education I want to invite all of you to March along with us no matter where you stand politically cutting funding for students like Jackie is just wrong and you all know it looking forward to seeing you tomorrow including all of you parents students Schoolboard members administrators teachers Paras nurses bus drivers maintenance worker clerical workers and even our most important resource officers all of us are part of this big Community Family called public education and we should all be there tomorrow to stand up for students like Jackie paully I'm so sorry can you stay there for a second I don't even know if you know this yet okay but you are featured in The Essential bulletin
059for educators this month from the Bureau of special education there's a teacher Spotlight for the Scranton school district and it is for you and Andrea gross and the work that you've done thank you so I didn't get to send that out to everyone yet but while you're thank you I did not hear that thank you so much thank you Ryan n a little short uh good evening board Ryan Nat uh art educator West Grant High School uh Scranton resident taxpayer whatnot whatnot um I want to start with a couple things uh and I made a big list but I'm still working through as it changes I want to thank Dr keing Miss grebeck for helping us to have the first our educator PD day in a while we reviewed outstanding Visual Arts Community award during
060this meeting uh our district has some uh work that we have to do to meet the grade um hopefully we'll further this discussion and then in the month of May we're going to organize a meeting with the leadership of the art teachers and administration to hopefully uh apply for the award and uh have our district be considered outstanding Visual Arts Community now with that uh obviously tonight Dr ke stole some of my thunder Elena Lee who's my student fantastic I hope the world she is applying for a very prestigious program I don't want to mention it yet if she applies we're going to have a celebration because only 15 people in the country can be accepted uh she has immense talent and she is the kickoff of a whole lot of art stuff happening at
061West Grand uh in the next month in the month of April uh students from West Grant and scant high school will have their art on display in City Hall as you enter in City Hall is a program with the mayor last year was students who had artwork in the hallway there now now we're turning that over and we have new things celebrating people from Scranton and uh we chose some very interesting people from a mother who works a small business to people such as James T Farrell who has been aam for a history books of scran uh besides that I would like you to mark your calendar ail April 10th is West Granton Spring Concert uh we are also opening uh the West Grant High School's art show that evening there's going to be about
062300 to 400 works of art done by students from West Grant High School uh from three art teachers there this year and then the spring concert takes place that night as well the art show opens at 6 PM the concert starts at 700 p.m. uh it goes to about 8 8:30 and all are welcome and this is free and open to the public um for the art show the concert there's a little donation that we we ask for attendance the next same weekend April 12th we are posting the first ever West art fair we have 20 vendors professional Artisans and craft workers who are displaying their art for sale in our girls gymnasium the art show will be open to the public as well we're going to be kicking this event off at 11:00 a.m.
063with the Easter egg hunt that is going to be available for any of our youth students to come and attend more information is coming out uh about that re um uh middle of March we're still working out some of the details that vendor event is going to be from 11:00 am to 4m and I think that's my timer Ryan could you please put this in an email send it to Central Administration so they can share it out with everyone we'll do and we're trying to get the marketing all together I'm just putting on the radar we'll be back here in April I'm having some of our students and this entire event is being put together and ran I'm the mentor by our national our Honor Society students they're taking the leadership roles and Elena Lee
064is actually our event manager so she's learning so much and there's just so much going on at West for the Arts thank you um I think that's it thank you for your time Dr keing I know the uh Ryan was saying that there's um the city does display as our kids AR is that something we can do maybe at the administration building yeah we have some up on the on the top floor but we can put more out down throughout the rest of the building cool I I love it I have student that I've collected over the years hang in my office if you ever stop by and about the kids whoop on the walls yeah maybe we could uh figure out a way to reimburse students for the artwork too sure uh that would
065be a fantastic thing if we can that's what the art fair is actually about we're actually teaching students about the sales of artwork how vendors do that and that's the next step because there's still a big disconnect between uh the schools and our public Arts thank you much Dr Keen do you have anything you'd like to address during public comment uh no uh just I I definitely will touch base with ran and uh with Jen with Ros Mary and congratulations to Holly and Andrea and I'll follow up with everyone thank you motion to approve meetings from 9924 10724 11424 1232 24 make motion the question roll call director borwick yes director Casey yes director chz yes director Fox yes director Gil Martin no director Merkel yes director mcandrew yes director Yanni yes I'm sorry director
066Yanni I couldn't hear you yes thank you d uh president Holmes yes eight affirmative one negative motion passes motion to approve the consent agenda with motion 15-10 removed second on the question would you 151 is is on nonconsent already so that's been pulled from the meeting okay would you would youe please pull B1 and B2 from the consent agenda thank you okay motion to approve the consent agenda with B1 and B2 removed second on the question roll call director Casey yes director chz yes director Fox yes director Gil Martin yes director Merkel yes director mcandrew yes director Yanni yes director Bor yes director Holmes yes nine affirmative motion passes okay non consent agenda we move down to budget and finance okay that's the first right so B1 and B2 are the first y so we
067have a motion the executive summary is a list of bill payments for $759,900 notice a payment to I I believe it was on the bill list not the exception Bill list but to a firm with whom I have a lease and for that reason and because of the volume of information I will obain thank you anyone else roll call director chz yes director Fox no director gilar director Merkel yes director mcandrew yes director Yanni no director borwick yes director Casey yes director Holmes yes six affirmative two negative one extens one extension motion passes okay um agenda item B2 um have the exception Bill list uh bill payments February 14 2024 um should that be 2025 is that a typo um okay actually it's correct under payrolls um so February 14 2025 3, 92698 67 February
06828th 2025 2 milon 25277 194 for a total of 6,132 25861 uh the financial impact is that amount 6,132 25861 uh P roll for the financial uh impact is 6,437 n261 payroll is February 14th 2025 are 3, 248851 30 February 28 2025 3,189 5131 for that total of 6,437 n261 respectfully submitted second on the question can you maybe remind me because I guess I should what are the all the charges for uh lak Scranton Urgent Care it would Mo yeah it would most likely be a health care U cost oh like an employee employee okay at like a dollar for all of them in 75 cents that's it most likely is a reimburse a re okay makes sense okay oh well let me let me take this back it is a if you add up
069all those smaller so the healthcare bills are CR rated based of the department budgets so if for example if you know uh instruction is 50% of your cost and the bill is a dollar 50 cents are going to be in charge of that but then so when you you would have to add up all those allocations to determine what the total check actually was okay thank you one else roll call director Fox yes director gartin director Merkel yes director mcandrew yes director Yanni no director borwick yes director Casey yes director chz yes director Holmes yes seven affirmative one negative one exstension motion passes okay all right agenda item B7 uh to approve the budget transfer per the attached request Financial impact um was prepared by P lafy the assistant superintendent respectfully submitted second on a
070question um P there something you want to add about yes so um the the attachments to the budget transfer obviously the the motion is is a net impact of zero because all it is is a shift from one expenditure line atem to the next however the attachments we would like to make an amendment to the attach for scanon high school currently right now the budgetary transfer request for $15,750 we would like to increase that to 25,500 um these transfers are specifically to um principal coil Fields he has potentially excess funds and his instructional budget but has needs in his Student Activities budgets related to uh some scoreboards uh both the scoreboard at the baseball field and the softball field are in need of repair or replacement um the uh the additional uh request for Budget
071transfer would be to replace the softball field this year as well okay so it would be softball baseball at Scranton and then what about West is there is one the there's an attachment here for West as well Mr bucka and Mrs Stevens um is are transferring $4,500 for a scoreboard for the taga field um which again is not owned by the school district but it is maintained in partnership with the city uh by the school district you may recall I believe last year a year prior there was some vandalization at at the school are they aware putting scoreboard there um not not that I'm aware of at this moment but prior to before Ena anything we'll be sure that we communicate that so everything in here is included for all three there's nothing we have
072to do to if we adjust that if you adjust if youjust so we approve this then it'll get all three yeah got it so what would the if I was going to make a motion to to amend H how would that read uh just we'll amend the attachment for Scranton High School's budget transfer from 15,750 to 25,500 okay so um I'd like to propose an amendment to so basically amend the attachment for those dollar amounts y second roll call okay so we are going to start with um director Gil Martin yes director Merkel yes director mcandrew yes director Yanni yes director borwick yes director yes director chz yes director Fox yes director Holmes yes nine affirmative motion passes on the amendment okay so uh when I'm rereading this I don't actually have to note the
073this is on the attachment I I will modify the attachment and we'll work with Mrs or to reflect the the board docks with the correct NE okay so I'll just reread it as it's that all right so um this is a motion to approve budget transfer per the attached request which have been amended Financial impact is zero respectfully submitted second on the motion I mean on the question roll call director Merkel yes director mcandrew yes director Yanni yes director borwick yes director Casey yes director chz yes director Fox yes treor goar yes treor Holmes yes nine affirmative education we will have a motion to approve permissions to attend meetings and conferences second on the question um yes on the question um I just have two things and um one I'd like to schedule a meeting
074maybe with alongside policy um just so we can discuss um the inservice education that is currently in policy um for the board um policy is what we set so if we want to change it we can do that but we need a schedule of meeting to to do so um the board in conjunction with the superintendent shall plan specific in service education programs and activities designed to assist School directors to improve their skills as policy makers expand their knowledge um and initiatives affecting the district's educational programs um it says that the board shall annu annually budget funds to support its planned program of inservice Education and Training and um we shall identify annual issues objectives and cost benefits that could be ascribed to participation by school directors and the board shall periodically decide which meetings
075appear to offer the most direct and indirect benefits to the district um I just want to before we continue um on this path is reflect go back to the policy talk about it see if there are any changes we would like to make um just because as of this moment we're not following it um and then the second question that I would have would be um towards our solicitor I suppose um I was just reading um school code the section 51 6.1 and I need you to tell me if I'm reading this correctly or not um it says that the board can authorize the attendance of any such persons at such meeting within the Commonwealth and at the annual nsba conference wherever held not exceeding two meetings in any one school year so the way
076I read this is I'm not sure if it's the board or individual members where it can't exceed two meetings in one school year and then the other way I read this is that aside from the annual convention we're only supposed to attend them in the Commonwealth am I reading that incorrectly yeah I think so I mean it typically is um read as um two meetings per person per member so just so this is important because with the approval of tonights that's two for one board director but then my other question is the one that was the other one that is now on this agenda but already happened that was outside of the Commonwealth so was that not one that should have occurred because it was out of the state no no because the uh national
077conventions are always out of no no no this says um it says at such meeting within the Commonwealth but then it says wherever the nsba conference is held because it it says wherever that is held but for the two one can be the National Conference but the second one is supposed to be within the Commonwealth that be the same for our administrators it really applies to board members got it pretty much can you possibly research this and put this in writing to the board so that I will EAS I think it's easier if you put it in writing put in a Friday packet while you're looking into that John I do think there's another issue I scrolled down a little further in the policy here and it states no school director shall be reimbursed for
078more than two two out of state meetings in one school year so it seems that school code and this policy are not exactly aligned course and I I have imagine um but I I also I'm glad that director Fox raised this because it does speak to the concerns I shared with President Holmes when we took consensus on this matter a few weeks ago I very much in favor of professional development for board members but I I did not even realize that this was spelled out to to this extent in the uh 004 policy but this is exactly the conversation that I think needs to take place what opportunities are available who is best suited how are we maximizing our dollars you know we may have a situation where one experience comes at a a high
079ticket and we can have another we can send four people to for the same price so I just I think it's important that we incorporate that into our annual plan yeah let me take a look at let me just say Katie that um since uh that was no doubt written um 20 30 years ago uh the um uh the the the options and the the the opportunities for professional development have just you know sure you mean the school code written 20 or 30 years ago 49 yeah right a little longer than 20 or 30 before that that's based on on 1911 so solicitor for would I mean if the board just took a majority vote wouldn't wouldn't that be enough just just if if someone's going to go just like we do for you know
080this like this list for administrators to go I imagine it would be the same with the board it would just be like a separate vote I think I think so I mean you know but I think it's appropriate to take a look at what's in the code and in the policy uh I also think that the board has the ability to send people to meetings where the board believes it's in the best interest so it should be on a case-by Case basis based on the value that we believe that okay you get to like I said put this together and put it in the packet so that I know that you're you're speaking knowled but I think if it's in writing it benefits us all I thank you anyone else roll call director mcandrew yes
081director Yanni no director borwick yes director Casey yes director chesik yes director Fox no director G Martin no director Merkel yes director Holmes yes six affirmative three negative motion passes we will have a motion to um approve the 2025 2026 neu1 19 General operating budget second one the question roll call director Yanni yes director borck yes director Casey yes director chz yes director Fox yes director go Martin yes director Merkel yes director mcandrew yes director Holmes yes nine affirmative motion passes operations all right we have E1 motion to authorize the lease agreement with scant electric heaing and cooling services to provide a rental Chiller from my Nicholas Plaza monthly rental basis of 9,550 per month for eight months total of $76,500 for the monthly rental plus uh demobilization charge on a time and material basis
082not to exceed $7,500 approval is subject to the proper administrative review of the lease agreement Financial impact is $83,900 second on the question roll call director borwick yes director Casey yes director chz yes director Fox yes director gartin yes director Merkel yes director mcandrew yes director Yanni yes director Holmes yes nine affirmative motion passes all right we have E2 motion to authorize cha to proceed with the requir in ation study and design for the required slab repairs at Neil Armstrong Elementary School on a time and material basis not to exceed $2,000 until the exact scope is defined by the geotechnical study Financial impact not to exceed 20 on a question roll call treor Casey yes treor chz yes director Fox yes director gilar yes director Merkel yes director mcandrew yes director Yanni yes director borwick
083yes director Holmes yes n affirmative motion passes all right so E3 motion to reject the West scr Intermediate School appr proxy floor installation bid due to the lack of competitive bids and authorized Administration to rebid the contract second on the question roll call director chz yes director Fox yes director gartin yes director Merkel yes director mcandrew yes director Yanni yes director borwick yes director Casey yes director Holmes yes nine affirmative motion passes all right you four motion to award West High stero fire doors and to D&M construction this project was competitively solicited via the open go platform the initiative involves replacing the outdated stairway stairwell fire doors throughout the building to ensure compliance with current fire codes the administrations awarding this contract fin 89,000 second on the question roll call director Fox yes dor gartin
084yes director merkl yes director mcandrew yes director Yanni yes director borwick yes director Casey yes director chz yes director holes yes n affirmative motion passes all right last one E5 award proposal for verata Phase 2 camera installation to Harris technology Services District administration proposes to move forward with the proposal for first shift work with the ability to move to second shift if school events or disruption uh inates the change uh Financial impact below illustrates the range between first and second shift proposal first shift Financial impact is 3,188 31213 second shift 3,357 3357 4598 second on the question can someone just is there someone who could I have one thing on the question I just want to confirm that um if we move ahead with this phase of the camera system if at any time during
085building reconfiguration the cameras aren't necessary in a building that we can move them and still use them is that correct correct they can be moved they can be if a building was even closed for an emergency purpose the cameras can be moved to another building thank you um fo my question is just um about the intercoms so I see it says optional and it says two at each School eight schools which does it can you just can you touch on the intercoms at all or no sure yeah um right now it's in addition to uh we have cameras at every all the buildings exterior cameras and in some of the instances we're still working on the old intercom system where it actually would put people outside of the view the perview of the of the
086verata camera that we put in place um so this would in would again put us all under one umbrella for the the hardware that we have so that the failing items that we have plus now putting everything management wise under one umbrella this would allow us to do that and the intercoms are at the front door correct and back doors too yeah so the the eight buildings are are the only buildings remaining that don't have these intercoms okay and then so um in June or the last time we approved the ones for West intermediate and Robert Morris those ones said one intercom license and do those how come do those only have one and these ones all have two what is every verado device needs a license and this this goes to how the information
087is recorded no I understand that but when we approved they have a second door that's that's what so they don't all have a they don't all need those buildings have two cameras and I I don't know that off the top of my head go sorry I'm I'm gonna jump in tag in for Chris here for a second so the buildings here and I'm I'm not sure I didn't see the the latest quote that he put in there but a lot of the buildings that we're identifying to have two would have a dedicated loading dock or shipping receiving area into the rear and that would allow for any packages any type of deliveries coming in be it uh UPS FedEx or even our own District Personnel to be able to notify the building that someone's there
088so that's why you would have one in the front and one in the rear but I think the question is do they exist in the buildings we've already approved like does West intermediate and Robert Morris have those do we need to add those is that I guess I just don't understand why yes we approved for West intermediate and Robert Morris last time but it only has one intercom license for both not two but this one is two for each I'll eight got it so in the buildings that are under the construction you identified Robert Morris and Western media yes the other buildings no yes what I'm sorry yes that they have the p uh the intercom this building does not currently have it yet it is to be installed Robert Morris does have an active
089here's a question I'm sorry I don't have it in front of me and I didn't no no you're fine that's think we're just trying to understand C's question is right now on the proposal are are we quoting two per two per building for eight buildings and the last time we approved ricot for West intermediate and Robert Morris they each only had one and I'm wondering Robin maybe this is the answer is because West and Robert Morris were a Construction contract that included verata as a sub of our electrical did that already include one with the Construction contract and then we added an additional could that be potentially what it is that is possible I'd have to look into it and find it I put that into your board packet if that's the case we can
090table the motion while you research that so that we're not approving something without knowing for sure we can always we can always I would rather if we can approve this to get this moving for Safety and Security and if we need to add I come back and say we need to add and we clarify in that memo what the information director Fox is looking for correct I I would agree yeah I think that's fine and hearing you say about the two um in general when looking at the like Pennsylvania um State Police safety and such they say that um in take is a huge um area that schools lack in sometimes in regards to like bringing in packages and things and security because you don't think about it as much as you think about all
091of the other places so I do think that at first I'm like why is there two and it makes a lot of sense and I would be glad to hear us focusing on that as well because it seems like a lot of places don't yeah because that's that's one of the key areas that aren't typically viewed always your front doors almost always has somebody there but maybe not your loading dock any other questions sorry roll call okay director Gil Martin yes director Merkel yes director mcandrew yes director Yanni what director borwick yes director Casey not here nope not here okay uh director chz yes director Fox yes director Holmes yes affirmative motion passes Personnel all right so F1 motion to approve Personnel report as attached all hires are contingent upon background checks in clearances second
092a question yes I would like to speak on the question I was absent for the February meeting and a long-term employee of our district retired Kathy Del PRI who started in October 31st 1988 she was a confidential Secret AR and purchasing agent in the business office and she is described by many people in the district as probably one of the kindest people in the district with the biggest heart very genuine and loyal friend and I just felt she should be recognized thank you thank [Applause] you roll call roll call director Merkel yes director mcandrew yes director Yanni yes director borwick yes director Casey is absent uh director chz yes director Fox yes director Gil Martin yes director Holmes yes that's eight affirmative motion passes okay um F2 approve employee number 993 workman's comp settlement agreement
093second the question roll call roll call director mcandrew yes director Yanni director borwick yes director Casey's absent uh director chz yes director Fox yes director Gil Martin yes director Merkel yes director Holmes yes eight affirmative motion passes okay we move down to new business do anyone have new business they'd like to discuss no I just have I was going to send an email but why I'm here somebody approached me over the weekend um about scr and high I'm going to go to the game on Friday so I'll look for myself but the awards aren't being updated that's so they say like somebody who might have W to award the plaques like the names I have no idea yeah so if we can look into that because a lot of people I think are going back
094to games and visiting the school and not seeing their names there and they're big accomplishments for them so we can look into that that's true else just that as I said in the work session I'll be attending National pta's legislative conference On th Wednesday virtually in Washington and we will be advocating for um things like care for student mental health act sponsoring Ethan's law sponsoring kids online safety and Privacy Act safe schools act the PCT act which is set to which is to fully fund idea oppose the educational choice for children act and co-sponsor Pay Teachers American teachers act which addresses the teacher shortage we do have meetings scheduled from Pennsylvania with both of our Senators offices and for Representatives across the state one including one of ours good luck and thank you for going
095thank you motion to adjourn all those in favor