001e e e allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the rep for it stands one nation God indivisible withy and justice for all roll call Mr here M Mrs chz pres Miss Fox pres M good Martin Pres pres Mr Mander pres Mrs Johnny Mr holes pres pres one all right first up is Athletics student sport activities dirting on uh we will have a motion to approve a memorandum of understanding with the University of Scranton for the use of the Quinn field for Scranton and West high schools so this is standard um this is an agreement we have in place and we'll continue to have place for field usages I'm sorry okay budget and Finance on the consent agenda we'll have a motion to approve the bill list and exception Bill
002list motion to approve delinquent tax records motion to approve treasurers reports motion to approve repository sales motion to approve budget transfers motion to approve disposal of assets motion to approve budget purchases uh then there'll be a discussion possible motion Scranton Sewer Authority um Pennsylvania American water companies Scranton School District easement uh yes thank you um we were recently contacted uh by the solicor for the Strand Sewer Authority as you know that sale has been finalized a few a couple years back um I'm working with attorney wera on a on a approximately seven or eight um easements related to some of our properties that uh need to be finalized because of the sale um we hope that this will we will have a final resolution for this uh for the March meeting is likely that we
003may not so if it's not voted on at this meeting in March we will be presenting it in in April but I am coordinating with attorney wera and the solicitor for thean SE Authority on this matter and last lastly discussion motion real estate assessment approvals if any we will yes uh attorney wera today participated in two uh assessment settlement hearings I anticipate that we will be bringing that to the board for approval for this Monday night um we we have a full write up in summary in this weekend's packet okay and then we have um information on a contracts update contracts update uh we have I have two for you one of them is with cni sales as the vendor it's our Avic renewal um for amount 19372 th000 I'll defer to Mr Suma if
004there's specific questions related to that additionally we recently approved our power school contract for 2025 um which is our student information system as as well uh both purchases are are budgeted um out of the IT department budget and Mr Suma did review that with the board about going out for um for the student information management system so we would be doing a one-year extension any relations we will have a discussion on the financial advisory committee meetings so um I spoke with Dr sailor she couldn't be here with us tonight um there was a question on the financial advisory committee meetings and what was actually determined was because we've exited recovery those meetings are no longer required by PA code however back in September I put together a monthly agenda of topics aligned with the amended
005recovery plan that would be uh facilitated through August we will continue those meetings um as detailed in that memo and as scheduled through August Dr sailor's recommendation moving into the 2526 school year is to be transparent to have bimonthly meetings um where we would just give updates on how we were still progressing through the amended recovery plan and then in the 2627 school year those would move to quarterly and we would reassess after that point thank you eron I did take a look at the recovery section on the website and I think there are there is some information that needs to be updated okay in particular notice representative Tom wellby listed there and he's no longer in that role okay okay we will have a motion to approve donations from the American Lung Association to
006Scranton High School thing of note on that nothing thank you and anou between Big Brothers Big Sisters and the Neu so this is going to be a um a a trial or a pilot should we say at Northeast Intermediate School we are looking to bring in Big Brothers Big Sisters as mentors um we would like to roll it out with one school before we try to roll it out um in larger areas across the district but this will be the first step in a pilot project to hopefully integrate mentors for our students throughout the district thank you education we will have a motion to approve permissions to attend meetings or conferences um could we pull this from the consent agenda yes then we will have a motion to approve out of state field trips motion
007to approve sixth grade English and reading curriculums those were updates so those were the last two to be finished so that's why we're bringing those forward than you motion to approve SSD K through2 guidance plan so you actually already approved that once the state sent it back for Corrections so what we're doing right now is making those Corrections and bringing it back to you so that we can resubmit that and that is a Five-Year Plan okay motion to approve Pearson agreement for Scranton cyber Academy so this is also a one-year extension currently they use Pearson for K8 um the Cyber program is going to be moving we have we have Pearson in Apex sth and eth grade onto the Apex platform um in working with the Cyber teachers and the Cyber program the 78 apex
008program much better aligns with our um current curriculum here in the Scranton School District so you're actually going to see a reduction in cost because Pearson is going to be K six with seven and eight being picked up by Apex over the course of the 25 26 school year we would like to vet out other Elementary cyber programs to see if there is a more OPP platform for cyber engagement for our elementary based students okay we will have a motion to approve special education settlements if any and a motion motion to approve ne19 General operating budget yeah certainly um yes uh so for Monday evening the 2526 proposed and operating budget will be presented um I'm happy to report that our district contribution rate remains flat at our 24 five rate so there's no increase
009from the scanon school district so our contribution to the na9 will be $7,795 57 director homes may I add something none of the school districts are adding any more to the ne budget we were able to keep it the same being the ni good job M operations all right this is always the big one all right so first information discussion West intermediate ceiling and I guess I'll throw there to the windows right back to back so the westbr intermediate gym ceiling was brought up at the last board meeting in the approved scope of work the gym ceiling is a drop ceiling now I did gain information that the drop ceiling is more durable than the one that Mr borwick for Mel carton at when he was in school however um the discussion was would it
010be better got rid of the drop ceiling so in our do in our in our cha integration meeting we talked about it I just want to be very clear with the board that I'm bringing this information back to all of you however um this is an extensive project there's HVAC there's lighting there's electrical there's there's standard construction there is a lot that has to be done to remove the drop ceiling and to open that up so I don't want sticker shock when we bring back back a quote2 $250,000 or more because there's a lot more to this drop ceiling than just removing it and having an industrial based look but we will be bringing that information forward to you as for the windows we don't have information on that right now but um we when
011we get that I'll make sure it's in the packet and it's on for public discussion Dr ke yes on the draft ceiling is it an absolute necessary uh that do it it is not director Casey that's why I wanted to I wanted to kind of ease in with the sticker shock in the scope of work there is a more stable and durable drop ceiling that is part of that that would be there and we may choose to say we're not going to expend that money at the time and go with that option um the only thing I have to say is we all know that I went to a conference about two weeks ago and it was about different um uh things that are coming up in education and they made a very very good
012point and I'm only bringing it out because I think we all need to start thinking about this uh in 2019 we were all very very frugal with how we spent money from 20120 uh a lot of districts and a lot of governments received a lot of money money they didn't expect they made it a point to drive it home that we're now back in 2019 and if we're not thinking that way now maybe we should and if this isn't a necessary uh uh project then I say we just wait until we got the money and that's that's why I wanted to kind of go over that when I have the final information I'm going to bring It Forward word but I just wanted to be transparent as it was discussed in the last meeting what
013information I was able to gather since then I I understand that and I appreciate it but I just wanted to bring that little bit back from the conference that and maybe sort of get people to think about what they said we're not in 2025 we're actually back in 2019 where we're not going to be flushed with money and uh we're we're not going to be able to do the things that we wanted to do the last five years we have to start thinking as if we're broke I agree yeah I think that's I think you learned a lot from that conference I did I mean it it it probably was one of the best conferences that I ever attended um not only uh did I learn things in classes but I also learned things from
014talking to directors from um other other districts in um uh the whole country uh the one thing that surprised me and I don't mean to belabor this but uh I spoke to a director from the school district of New Orleans with 48,000 students and I said how many uh schools do you have she said I have one we have one school for New Orleans and I said what she said yes the rest are Charter Schools the other thing that they told us is that the number one enemy right now of public education is Charter Schools so I mean if somebody ever has an opportunity to go to a conference or talk to anybody I'd highly recommend it because the information that I received was very very Val valuable I think I heard there's a national
015one coming up right uh from what I understand there is a national one uh I think it's in Atlanta so and Pat you said we have a yearly budget for stuff like this correct for conferences yes yes we do well then that might not be a bad idea to have one of us go if we're going to be able to get that kind of information just at the local pspa One National especially with what schools are dealing with in the what's going to happen whatever's going to happen with the Department of Ed that might be something valuable for us to look at not just a board member but maybe someone in administration as well and again um you know in terms of the allocations in the line item perspective whether there's sufficient funding there or
016not at this point I don't know however at effect of April 1 or in the last nine months of any budgetary period a budget transfer can be created whether surpluses exist in other line items so if there's another line item that we don't anticipate spending the budgeted amount we can transfer that but that cannot occur until April 1st thank all right so next would be the scran high Auditorium lighting um so the scran high Auditorium lighting I put a memo in the packet a while back um that just an initial assessment and quote um that was given was between 600 and 800,000 to move that to LED lighting um I did ask under our owner rep for um cha to do the same thing and they came back with roughly about the same price I
017did give you something um on stage tonight that will be in the packet this week which is about $560,000 as a rough estimate which is again um you know pretty extensive I guess what I'm looking for at this point is because of the price there um I would like to go out to bid for the Scranton High School LED lighting upgrade okay um next we have the West Tha uh Auditorium budget so I I'm going to combine the next two director Mander if that's okay which is the auditoriums and the West Granton High School auditorium again uh to the board members there is there is a packet that I gave you from cha with basically a tentative outline of what Auditorium upgrades would cost and you have basically a base bid at about 1.28 million
018um then with soft costs in there about 1.6 million or you know the um the the Rockefeller Center of it which would take you to about $3.3 million um but the reason I brought this forward is we know all five of our secondary centers need Auditorium upgrades my recommendation to the board is that we focus right now on ensuring both high schools have functioning auditoriums and if I I mean I I saw it with the holiday concerts this year numerous schools utilized other auditoriums but at least we have those to where they need to be but again what would I would need from the board is the the information I put before you is a rough flush out I would need to either know are we going to use our owner's rep which does have
019the the fees that go along with it which have been a an issue before or do you want me to put this project out to bid um so that we can start getting um cost feasibility for what we need to do again Scranton High lighting that would be a bid westr in high school would be a full renovation um feasibility uh RFP that was going I would say why not bid it out because then we can compare and if CJ is able to get us the better Financial deal then that's fine and if they can't and we bid it out we save money there we we've bid things out before and seen savings um if we're going to engage in these massive capital projects you know hopefully we can get some competitive bids and save
020the district's money okay could I could I just put on my um my Student Activities um chair hat and just State how important I'm I'm very happy to see this on the agenda because I think these auditoriums are really they should be the focal points of our schools and I think investing them in these auditoriums is huge and something that has been needed for quite a while since I've been on the board is there any way and I know this is much smaller dollars but you know in talking to people in the West Grant Community we're going to be having or they're going to have their spring play I think you said it their RIS correct can we talk to any kind of um their director or the building principal there to see if maybe
021we could fund some um cost for to get students down there because there's a lot of students that walk to go to the show and that wouldn't have the ability to get down there um I don't know what kind of an expense that would be but I I want to see a full a full Auditorium for these kids that have put all this work into to it and if kids can't walk and get there they might not be able to attend yeah I'll add that the staff meeting tomorrow to see what we can do okay thank you uh Dr Keening yes um I was the one who brought up about the auditorium lighting and all this not being safe uh what have we done I'm under the impression that some work has been being done
022to uh make that the lighting and everything that's hanging above us right here fall on our head right so what we did was we basically went in and took down anything that was unsafe um so if you go into some of the schools right now it is literally just a blank box um because everything that could have been a safety issue has been removed and taken down what we need to do now is we need to reput the runners and the wing curtains and the lights and everything else up which is why you have this cha proposal in front of you rough budget that shows you what the cost of that would be which is why I said Northeast South West intermediate so the three middle schools the two high schools I think that you
023would need to start with let's get our high schools where they need to be and then gradually build in those other projects so that we would have those two focal centers that people can use and share out those resources on both sides but that is something that does need to be addressed and that was my question do I go with cha and do I go through their design process as our owner rep or do I go out to bid with a feasibility on the on the auditorium and director an you are right having been back in Old Forge seeing the finished product of their Auditorium it was really lovely to be back there that night Mr FL seeing that we need to get these uh stages up to par and we need it for and
024it's the safety issue is there any way that we can classify this as an emergency purchase and then have the people who have been coming down who's been working with us um come in and do the work so that we can get it done for basically our spring gr uh our spring uh whatever you call it uh plays and concerts and there might be a way U it might be a way director Casey um is there any safety component involved yeah the safety component is because they were falling down on people yeah well I I can tell you that um with regard to the um emergency um repairs procedure that the department has undergone significant changes in how that they do that so um in collaboration between um the contractor and the solicitor it might
025be possible we what they do is you used have to used to have to ask for permission Advance right now what you need is uh your lawyer to sign off and say that it it qualifies as an emergency so we need some information that U you know be a timing issue be a safety issue well maybe we could pursue this Avenue and it's not so much for the freshman in sophomore but it's it's for the seniors this is their last year this is what they're going to remember I I I would have to sit down and you know here so I canc if you could explore it I'd appreciate it absolutely thank you right anything else all right next we're going to have information discussion on Armstrong wall tile so can I combine the next
026two together to director going right there yep so a long time ago you guys asked us to go out and get information on the Armstrong wall tile which we do have a Cooperative quote and we have we have um the the cha uh proposal however at this time I'm going to recommend that you table that because our attention needs to go to remediation of the floor in the hallway um and then look at the wall tile after that um but what I like the auditorium what I would need is the um remediation for the crack that's in the floor I would need to know am I going with our owner's rep and having them do a design on that which does include the fees that have been covered in other board meetings or am I
027doing the same thing and am I putting that out to bid for the room remediation of that floor we do have the initial information from the structural engineer of what we think the um underlying causes are and what has to be done but there's a lot more work that has to be done there to be able to come up with a true scope of work on a remediation plan I'd say much like the the last discussion about bidding it out if CH is able to give us the best price great if not then we go with the company that does the proposal currently is they would coordinated design coordinated for a a study of the ground surface under time and materials not a fee structure time and materials at not to exceed $220,000 did we
028also do a an insurance claim yet have we done an insurance claim uh we have I don't let me I don't believe we have okay I think we can look at make them say no can you go back through that again so that maybe that will change the decision move forward certainly sorry I was wrong Pat is right getting better at operations kids but I have a degree in English literature that's why we have pther so we'd be looking at an off a motion to authorize cha to proceed with the required investigations study and design for the required slab repairs of North excuse me NE Armstrong Elementary School on a time and materials basis not to exceed 20,000 until the exact scope is from a geotechnical study are we comfortable with putting that motion on
029the agenda yes yes that's what we will do thank you um oh director I'm sorry so next um award West intermediate flooring I guess we could also talk about the interior painting for West intermediate too uh so there's actually one before that which is the West Fon High School stairwell fire doors so that was put out to bid the flooring was put out to bid and the pain was put out to bed so the fire doors will not be done until Wednesday we'll have that information in the packet this week fire doors are going to be open on February 27th believe that's Thursday okay uh the interior ping bids are due on February 26th which is Wednesday and the um inter West intermediate flooring was open today that it was a bid for an epoxy
030floor install here we did only receive one proposal so I've sent it to um attorneys Frey and wera to determine whether there's sufficient competition okay and then um Aron still painting yep um I know that when we first discussed this there was a question about a design fee are we going to be paying a design fee on this no this is put out the bed by us by the district so I wanted to know all right next is award The verata Phase 2 camera installation so uh the verata phase 2 would um update all the cameras in all buildings um and that will be brought to you for motion okay and finally discussion possible motion Nicholas Chiller I am going to turn this over to Mr laffy Okay so we've talked about this I think
031for a couple meetings now but a as you know the we are we've been currently leasing or excuse me renting a chiller uh at McNichols Plaza that current lease or rent excuse me I believe ended in in November we are approaching the cooling season um we need to look to engage another temporary rental Chiller uh for the school currently right now we've received at least two quotes and I believe we're working on a third stranton electric has provided a quote of 9,550 9,550 a month for an e Monon Chiller rental inclusive of a not to exceed amount of $7,500 at the end of the lease uh for de demobilization total comes to approximately $83,900 uh uh Ethan from cha was also able to get us a Cooperative quote from carrier rental that the lease or
032the rental component only would be approximately 76476 um that would not include any hookups or delivery or mobilization at at the site we believe that would be would require a separate bid that would most likely put that amount over the scant Electric quote um additionally in informal conversations which we will try to formalize with train they were estimating approximately $10,000 a month rental as as as as well so we would like to most likely bring forward to you a rental quote with Scranton electric for an eth month period um to have McNichols Plaza up and ready for the cooling season Additionally you know it's been determined that this Chiller will need a long-term permanent solution so similar to what superintendent keing was recently stating we would seek either a motion to authorize cha to begin
033with the design and bid of a chiller replacement or would the would the board prefer that the district try to coordinate that scope of work ourselves knowing that there's going to be some technical uh professional needs associated with it pat seeing that these are all rental quotes that you're getting in um what are we doing first of all refresh my mind what are we doing for a long-term Chiller that was the second part of the motion so obviously we don't want to be in the rent The Chiller rental business beyond the eight months that we are going to need it for so we will look to do some type of design and bid for that project okay um I have a couple different options um have you talked to these people about a option to
034buy at the end of the nine months I personally have not um I it's certainly something we can explore the actual Chiller itself I mean uh Ethan could you provide any assistance here so I I believe the question was does the rental company offer a lease to own option and they do not did did you ask yes here's my next question um I was reading through the quote last night at about 1 in the morning so if I seem a little tired I am um I read the quote from uh chha I imagine your if we go and we allow chha to do this project we're going to be spending approximately $664,000 in design ,000 for legal I made some phone calls because of my old purchasing experience and uh we already know the model
035we know what we need to have the children do it would be very easy to put out a bid with the model number uh let's say it's U um nucleus 123 is the model number in the manufacturer you prepare a specification eliminate cha and their $64,000 and you have a contractor bid on it but you advertise it uh nucleus 1234 or equal contractors will know what you what you're talking about they'll also know that when you give them the model number what type of uh Chiller to cover for the skull that you need by doing this we eliminate chha no offense but we're saving the taxpayers 64 $4,000 and then if we don't receive what we what we want to receive then you pursue other options but I'm saying it it's like a set in
036place all you need to do is give the model number the manufacturer and the two little words or equal and you'll get bids on it and you tell them that you wanted installed turn key and uh we'll be able to save quite a bit of money I think that was part of my second we wanted some direction from the board whether it's that just like the earlier contacts that um superintendent keing spoke about is that the direction the board would like us to going that that's the way I would go with it is to eliminate the architectural fees yeah of $64,000 the legal fees of $1,000 put an add in the paper and see who replies the main just of it right John is the model number serial number or equal am I correct what
037you're saying director Casey might work yeah it might work yeah okay P this is something we could put on our operations committee meeting Sur yeah and Pat just a quick note I mean in in business everything's negotiable and do they want us to purs engaging cha with the design the least we have to do the rental we have to do um and when it comes to to business everything's negotiable I I think Pat it might be it might be valuable to actually engage again with Scranton electric about possibly like this least to own I mean that's that's a matter of them changing their opinion and their specs um you know a lot of the work that's listed here would have been completed by scant Electric simply to install the rental that would be actually a
038pretty significant savings not only that but you're not getting the removable charges y we can certainly ask them thank you that's it that's all I got Personnel so under Personnel we will have a motion to approve the report and a motion to approve workman's comp settlement straightforward no comments on those policy a discussion on 006 bog2 exension conflict of interest memorandum so that is uh do solicitor Frey and he could expand put language into that specific thing uh with that specific policy which just would state that when making an exstension on stage you would abstain as director mcandrew did the last time saying I abstain with conflict and the conflict or I abstain without conflict just for clarity I don't know if you want to add anything solicitor for uh no I think I think
039that pretty much explains it um the the law requires Whenever there is a conflict U of Interest under the ethics law that two things happen one is that the member actually State what the conflict is and the second thing is that you file a memorandum of conf now if there's no conflict there's no legal requirement to State anything however I was approached with the question of well if somebody just abstains how do we know for sure do they have a conflict or don't they have a conflict so my suggestion was that simple fix which would only require uh anybody who's making a an exstension for a reason that might not be a conflict uh to Simply say I abstain no um coming up and I don't have the dates you could check your own email
040and your own phone but I believe psba is holding a seminar on ethics and it may be advisable for all of us to know uh what they're saying in it just to keep ourselves safe and out of trouble um the other thing as long as I mentioned in psba um can somebody tell me why psba separated from nsba there were a number of reasons um first uh there was a there was a philosophical U disagreement um between um nsba and a number of the a number of the state associations um and also there were um business issues uh that divide them I could get you more specific information I don't remember at the time I did know what the specific was but there were two things there was a difference in some uh policy positions
041and there was a difference on some business issues that caused not only psba but actually quite a number of the state associations to remove themselves from nsba uh in fact there's now a um know an alternative organization that's that's growing some steam you know to that kind of takes the place of nsba however the nsba is still a viable organization it's got less members but those were the reasons and I could get you more specific I can't remember exactly and I don't expect you to go into it I was just just a matter of calling somebody I just can't remember the specific issue there were two to me it was kind of surprising that there was separation as a former member of the executive committee I was surprised too but those were the two reasons
042business reasons are you in the executive board of psba I was a few years ago a few years ago I was but as someone who's always been involved with psba when I yeah I was surprised too so I inquired into the reasons and there were two of the business reasons and also um philosophical reasons about some of the policy positions that were being taken at that time a number of states pull no it just PE my curiosity when I found that out we will have a discussion on policy 8816 social media public comments so this was a request for um me to bring this up by a board member to look at reopening those Mr O'Donnell is ready to speak to that yes research on this and we also ask for legal advice uh the
043research on this is every school district in the area some allow for public comments others do not allow for Public public comments we right now do not allow for public comments and after speaking to our uh our lawyers they suggested that we keep it with no public comments because uh we are we don't know what people are going to say and then 247 if someone at 3:30 in the morning put a comment out there that was unsavable or unfavorable inappropriate we would not be able to get it maybe s or eight in the morning and we don't have a person that is trolls the social media of the Facebook account so some school districts do allow comments we do not as for our policy could we just get sorry could we just get a list
044of the on you looked into who don't versus who does just compare I I have a list of uh Carbondale is a nonpublic form which means they allow comments but you have to join the Facebook gr Abington Heights doesn't have a policy the high school allows comments the middle school does not Forest City they have no policy they allow comments Lakeland they have a policy they do not allow comments Western Wayne No policy they allow comments Pocono it's a public forum and they allow comments Wayne Highlands no policy they allow comments paw pack is a nonpublic forum no comments Blue Ridge nonpublic Forum no comments montro is public and they allow comments El Lake nonpublic they allow comments Mid Valley nonpublic they don't allow comments Valley View has no policy and they allow comments dun
045is a nonpublic forum they allow comments side and all Forge have no policies and allow comments Hazelton uh they have a standard psba policy no comments allowed uh WSB they don't have a policy but they do not allow comments Lac on the trail they do not allow comments uh we also talk to the reading School District they do allow comments but they delete entire posts if the if if the post is controversial uh their Communications advised and all the nothing policy in Allentown they also allow their comments on but with the stipulation that certain words are mut or filtered out swear words slurs are muted out muted out and what that means is if you wrote the comment with unacceptable language you could see it but no one else can see it the problem with
046allowing comments after talking to our sister is what I think is unacceptable someone else might think is acceptable so one person is making a decision on whether something's acceptable or not and what I think maybe is acceptable someone else might think is not acceptable and a person came up say well I thought my comment was acceptable and I didn't like this lady's comment but you didn't take hers down and you took mine down we are opening up a can of worms after talking to our legal dep we did some uh research on all the school districts and if we were to open up to public comment who Al Aon who who would you then assign that job to monitoring that making those decision nobody has the time to be assigned to it all day long
047I mean we all have other duties and responsibilities that that have to be looked after and that's that I said from the very beginning has always been my fear even though we have a Communications in a PR person that covering events and they're covering other things in the district and they're they're working on other things at the direction of superintendent so there's nobody that's going to be able to monitor that 24 hours a day yeah it's 247 because people will make comments at 3 in the morning 4 in the morning it's not that the comments are just open from from the work day from 8 to 4 anybody can make a comment at any time we don't have anyone to monor 247 are we finding that people are using the link they have questions yes
048there is a link there available if uh a Google form if anyone has a comment or a question they can use the Google form is that being utilized once once in a while not not every single no you know it's there it's it's available but it's not always utilized okay thank you thank you for the research to Mr O no problem commission attorney is there um is there I I've let president Holmes and and Dr k that I can't be here at next Monday's meeting is there a way that I could um vote absentee on something like that could I can you uh can you join electronically I can't no I'm I'm gonna be out of town um so I can so I didn't know if I could say you know I'm not comfortable with
049adding comments back on there so I would be a no to changing the policy I don't know if I can do that right now discussion right it is just a discussion but I'm I'm not here um I I was not allowed to vote so D director Yan there's no way that you can tune in electronically okay no I I don't think so no there's really no provision for that okay that's what I wondered thank you and I I believe the intent was to I believe that there was there was citizens who have every right to to wish that this feature was turned on but I believe the intent and the request was also to do what Mr odonnell did and gather that information to bring back to all of you as well we'll have a
050motion to app second read updates revisions of 611 purchases budgeted and 7181 therapy dogs very excited about that and we'll have a motion to approve first read updates revisions 209 Health examinations and screenings vendor relations okay first of all you have to excuse me I sort of lost my glasses and U having a hard time seeing but before I even get into relations uh I do have a couple other comments the first is I'd like to congratulate director chisik for uh standing up and being the leader in this community with her uh protest on Saturday to stop the elimination of jobs at um steam toown um she organiz she got people there and I don't believe that she got the proper recognition uh but the important part that we have to keep in the back
051of our mind and I understand team steam toown is very very important and I'm once again got this at this conference and you're going get SI a hear about it from me but steam town is now education is going to be next are really really soon and we have to realize like uh I think Mr lafy told me that if the cuts go through we tend to lose what 800,000 in our budget pet so the the news that we're hearing is is that potentially title two and title three could be uh could be impacted and yes between those those two sources approximately about $800,000 you we're also hearing um some uh reductions in Title One funding which we receive currently right now about $6 million so you know a 10% cut to that funding could
052be another 600,000 it goes back to what I said before we're in 2025 but we're actually in 2019 but I wanted to congratulate director CH chizik for taking the leadership in this community uh now on to the vendor relations mom and pop contracts if any U motion to approve upate a list of Transportation Drivers those are both just standard um Keystone Redrock job core and sasd partnership director agreement that is an opportunity to give students another venue to reach a high school diploma uh not everyone is a traditional student not everyone is a traditional learner the Partnerships with um Keystone Red Rock Job Corp allows another Avenue for students who may not be able to make it through a traditional four-year uh High School uh Pathway to be able to achieve their high school diploma
053and we'd like to move that forward Aaron I'm in favor of it anything that would help kids and matter of fact I SP I spoke to Liz tonight uh there's another thing that I'd like us to look into um Pat how many children do we have who are declared homeless now it doesn't mean they're homeless but it's a it's a label that's attached to them we have to under McKinny vento we have to file a monthly report so I would have to be able I pull that I could put that in a board memo well from what I understand it's quite a bit yeah I believe we're in just shy probably 200 we're probably in around the 170 excuse me about 170 about 170 but as Dr keing said we can conf to let you
054know what I I'd like to propose and I'd like to get us working on it is uh I've been to the school and I've also seen programs on it this weekend and I was quite impressed and I feel that maybe we should start looking into even more of trying to direct some of our children to the U Milton Hershey School in Hershey uh it's not for everybody but I believe that it might be able to save uh or change the lives of one or two children and if we do then it's worth it and now I'll go on to the next one motion to approve contracted occupation therapist services with apple tree education educational Associates LLC motion to approve U Mar Mary agreement that's just an out of District placement as I said I don't
055have my glasses uh the next one is motion to approve psychologist uh Services letter of agreements with Dore School District so you approved this a while back this is just formalizing that agreement and getting a signature on it um the next one is discussion uh motion to approve Ginger football physical services so our athletic Training Services are with gisinger um this is the first time that we're not going to have school Physician Services and athletic Training Services Under the same umbrella during the football season it is a requirement that you must have a physician on the field there was question raised that having a physician who wasn't associated with the same medical entity as the athletic Training Services could cause a conflict of interest or problem so we're bringing back an amendment to the athletic
056Training Services to have a geinger physician on the field with the geinger athletic trainers at a cost of $300 per football game Aon and I'll be brief I know I've been long window tonight but this is one of the um areas that if I can get our Medicaid Program that I spoke about at the last meeting if I could get it approved a lot of this we would receive partial um reimburse before I have been speaking to uh our legislators and they're all very interested in continuing the conversation I'll keep you informed as we go along and and just to add director Casey I know that you don't have your glasses so I apologize but there is a motion for the central Susana Intermediate Unit migrant education program agreement this is standard and something we
057have in place and also under vendor relation just so everyone knows we did Issue RFP for legal services and we are actively engaged in that process and moving forward with it thank you and you don't have to be sorry that I forgot my glasses Fair funding I will certainly um welcome any comments from those of you who were able to attend the meeting on February 13th President Holmes director Casey Mr lafy Dr keing thank you for representing the district I'm sorry I wasn't able to be there it conflicted with my my historical Architectural Review board meeting that evening and I was necessary for Quorum um we had there were presentations from Dan yurevic a lesburg from the education Law Center who I know has long been a champion of this issue I remember a presentation
058he gave at laana college with Senator Blake many many years ago so he's certainly been watching the progress with the Commonwealth Court ruling and it seems as budget is moving in the right direction but still does not meet the full requirements of that set of that ruling and Susan spika of Education voters of PA was also on hand I've heard Susan speak as well and she is really impactful and informed and informative uh she highlighted again that the Cyber tuition rates and cyber tuition reform remain a Paramount issue um I would encourage everyone to sign up for the education voters of PA mailing list if you're not already on there they they are proficient uh and prolific emailers and really uh get a lot of good information across and certainly I will keep an eye
059on that and communicate anything that perhaps we can share on our website if anybody has any other comments please yeah I just like to add you know one of the things that they mentioned was you know with the basic education funding commission one of the goals was not just you know adding new funding through the adequacy and Equity Equity supplements but also increasing your uh basic education funding each year I believe the commission recommended it was either 200 or $225 million annually uh the current budget right now only proposed to have an increase in the basic education funding for 75 million so again the bef is is a a funding source that benefits like all districts and one of the notes that they hit on is that by not maintaining uh200 million Target you know
060are we moving further away from from adequacy as you know inflation rates go up etc etc so one of the things that they mention is that as you continue to um advocate for districts you know to potentially look at advocating for additional funding to the the bef as well and then the only other thing to add to uh Susan sp's comments was that um the board meetings that occur for the uh the charter cyber schools often take via zoom and they're at 9 in the morning um unlike uh our agendas and and what we do which is extremely transparent there is not a lot of transparency um and she was encouraging people to log on and to listen to those meetings or ask the tough questions um and just request the bill lists there was
061um a uh psba I believe sent it out this weekend am I quoting the right people that showed the spending they did uh an executive summary was the auditor general yeah psba did send that to all of us it's something that I'd encourage all of you to read you can I add something else next week I am putting my PTA hat back on and attending National pta's legislative conference virtually in Washington we have four appointments set up on Wednesday with legislators and one of our Senators um and then if I can just briefly pennsylvanians for fair funing um had their meeting about two weeks ago and their current action item is letter letters to the editor if anybody is interested um it said um the project we are working on is a letter to the
062editor campaign a group along with other Advocates around the state will be submitting letters to the editor between now and finalizing of the state budget the key message is why public education matters this message is particularly important right now um and there are so many reasons and there's a few examples that already went out so if anyone's interested could jum not I do have a piece of information from Mr Casey if I could uh a quick Google reminded me of uh what the policy issue was uh and that was during during the covid situation apparently nsba petitioned the Biden Administration uh to have FBI and Homeland Security um task forces assigned to uh certain parent groups um that would other that and basically they would have to be classified as National terrorists organizations the psba
063took extreme uh objection uh to that and that was the STW that broke to camel's back but I was correct that there were other longstanding uh business uh issues part of that but it was that it was that petition for uh Federal intervention that okay thank you motion to adjourn motion little warm up here kids [Music]