001okay that's what's gonna hope you can make that connection and good summer's coming up for them sorry go ahead he didn't die i did i used to yeah it's okay ugh um taking a while spinning spinning oh okay it looks like we're ready i'll call to order the april 4th 2022 meeting of the scranton school board please stand for the pledge of allegiance of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible ms cruz present ms fox president ms martin president mr holmes ms hume president mr mckendree president this is johnny present night president thank you okay um we need to amend the agenda this evening so may i have a motion to remove c3 so moved second okay on the question no i think i think there's two more
002that we need to remove from the agenda right about two more we've got two more people okay yeah the real estate we have to remove and e12 the gas utility contract okay so we're removing e12 okay e12 and it would be 1302 on the agenda the real estate assessment approval okay and what was the second one e12 the gas utility contract okay so e12 and then 1302. and then c3 with the donation okay so there's just two total no there's three there's three okay so i've got i've got e12 c3 yes and 13. 1302 on the agenda okay yeah we didn't have a number for it because we didn't quite have it ready so got it okay so we've then i'm going to ask for another motion um to remove all of those items so
003moved second okay on the question do we want an explanation of why those were removed or we're good i can answer the donation there's a form that needs to be completed okay we didn't have them very briefly mr rucker we were notified today by mr rucker that he is working on a possible solution moving forward that may end up hopefully end up saving the district money if if it works out so he needs to do a little bit more investigation on that before we move forward okay okay mr laffy would you like to briefly talk about the real estate certainly uh yeah as of friday afternoon we had we were still kind of working out some of the details related to this matter and um it just came to us at about uh right before
004quarter of six this evening so we weren't able to make it for the motion okay thank you okay so then i would ask um all in favor aye aye okay any opposed okay that motion passes okay mrs orr communications yes executive sessions were held on march 28 2022 march 29 2022 and this evening to discuss personnel litigation real estate and negotiations thank you okay uh attorney adi anything for our solicitors report no report this evening thank you superintendent mctiernan good evening everyone thank you president yani i do have some announcements this is the best part of the meeting in my opinion at john f kennedy elementary the lackawanna college softball team visited with students to read and discuss women's history month players also took the time to discuss the importance of education as it pertains
005to students futures thank you to the team as well as the scranton times for covering that students at john adams elementary partnered with saint vladimir's church of scranton to send non-perishable food first aid items and clothing to those suffering in the ukraine as a result of the russian invasion first grade teachers mrs telesco and mrs corbett also created a ukrainian flag painted student hand prints the hope is to send the flag to the people of the ukraine to show our support during this difficult time title one night was a big hit at prescott elementary held on tuesday march 8th the event was well attended by kindergarten parents to gain knowledge of the services the title 1 program provides attendees books and school supplies as gifts for stopping by local author and former educator arlene garrity
006visited robert morris elementary twice over the past two months to read and spend time with our students she has read her valentine's and st patrick's day books to the kids who absolutely love and look forward to her visits thank you to mrs garrity for her generosity in donating her time to the student body of robert moore's elementary students at john g whittier elementary had a shamrock and for respect contest during the week of march 14 through the 18th during the contest any student caught being respectful was giving a shamrock by the end of the week over 2 200 shamrocks were given out with the fourth grade being the top class in terms of exemplifying respect at mcnichols plaza third grade students katie montouro won the third and fourth grade color wheel art contest for this
007contest students were tasked with designing their own unique color wheel they mixed their own colors using only the primary colors and were responsible for all creative decisions involving their artwork congratulations to katie on a job well done isaac tripp elementary honored students who were caught being good this past quarter by holding an 80s theme blowout in the gym for all those eligible students and staff donned their best 80s gear and danced with glow sticks and black lights to celebrate the 120th day of school and their accomplishments mr schultes was lucky enough to pay the school a visit during the party and was super impressed he did not get the memo on his 80s attire however recently members of the district administration met with representatives from several colleges and universities to work toward the common goal
008of helping current and future teachers through a partnership with lackawanna college mary wood university wilkes university the group plans to help realign undergrad curriculum to better equip positive teachers for the challenges they will face in the workplace the schools have also offered their resources to aid in the training of current teachers within the district as needed on behalf of the ssd and i got to participate in that meeting it was great i would like to thank these schools for their assistance and willingness to engage in these conversations i think everybody in the community especially our local colleges realize that this city is only as successful as the school district is so i was really encouraged and i look forward to that partnership moving forward this is unbelievable congratulations to senior to our senior at scranton
009high school amy canniper we were notified today that she has been accepted into harvard university for the 22-23 school year amy we're so proud of you congratulations on this accomplishment and lastly just a couple of highlighted dates in the calendar april 14th is a professional development day for staff there is no school for students also april 15 through 18 the district will be closed for spring break and that is all i have for this evening and thank you and i i meant to say our two student reps are the best part of the night but this comes in second okay i would agree with that yes and since you've mentioned them um we now have jeannie rafferty and tyler michael from scranton high school in west granton high school good evening everyone throughout the month
010of march and continuing into april a number of exciting activities happen within our district at john adams students went above and beyond to collect goods for ukraine to be donated to saint vladimir church in scranton items collected were baby clothes first aid and toiletries at whittier students competed in a study island blue ribbon contest for the month of march the winning class wins a pizza party the 4th grade students have earned 314 blue ribbons which demonstrate academic achievement in math science and reading at mcnichols plaza the march theme was self-awareness each student was given a shamrock and wrote why i am lucky to be at the plaza creating one large shamrock displayed for all to see in the hallway the plaza has also been celebrating music in our school's month the music teacher miss sequel
011paid instruments throughout the building each day for students to find and learn about lastly at the plaza officer maid from the state police visited the esl classrooms as a former el he was able to share his experiences aspirations and successes with our students at south korean intermediate joseph bannell ingle ovls and emily atino competed in the pennsylvania junior academy of science competition and all received first place awards at northeast intermediate a parent engagement night was held on march 15th the theme of the evening was taco tuesday night where students and parents were offered a walking taco dinner free books motivational speakers arts and crafts activities basket raffles for the booster club performances by scranton high school's night rhythms and a book fair the evening was a great success with over 200 parents and students and
012over 25 northeast teachers volunteering their time to run the activities during the month of march at scranton high the show choir traveled to virginia to compete spring sports have also kicked off speech and drama teacher miss o'neill is conducting a donation drive for this women's resource center in april the student counseling office plans to host a future readiness week to celebrate seniors and their plans for after high school the trade and industry fair is april 27th and college signing day is april 29th the student council will be holding an easter egg hunt for the autistic support and life skills students on april 12th lastly student council and senior officers are collaborating to host a prom dress closet on april 26th and april 28th there are so many exciting things to look forward to in april
013thank you all for your time thank you so much tyler good evening students at isaac tripp kicked off autism awareness month by wearing be kind shirts on friday april 1st this week the gray wolves are celebrating autism awareness spirit week students will learn what autism is the characteristics of autism such as sensory sensitivities and incredibly focused passions for topics of interest and the beauty of in the diverse spectrum of the human mind the wolf pack knows love and appreciation of all goes a long way mrs rucker would like to thank two of her fantastic teachers mrs tripodi and mrs sosek for helping plan all of the activities for autism awareness month at west granton intermediate school sixth grader mckenna rudnicki was selected as march's scholar of the month for her achievement in reading sixth grade
014student tristan manzi was selected as march's student of the month for being courteous and cooperative in a concerted effort to help support ukrainian refugees the west grand high school excuse me in a concerted effort to help support ukrainian refugees with western high school western intermediate sold 400 t-shirts eighth grade students nina emiliani and catherine fahey spearheaded a food drive to support st patrick's food pantry over 300 canned goods were collected and 500 was donated sixth grader olivia murray's winning don't drink and drive artwork is currently on display on a billboard billboard on lackawanna avenue at west granton high school mr nat's art classes organized a terrific immersive art show that included our band strings and chorus it had a great turnout and everyone did enemies an outstanding job thank you to all that came and
015supported this event the sad slash the sad and safe clubs organized say something week last week which is a week of celebrating the importance of trusted adults and upstanders in our community as pre previously mentioned students at west granton high school are in the process of wrapping up a t-shirt fundraiser for the refugees of ukraine it's been a great success our goal was to sell 250 shirts and we surpassed that goal selling over thirteen hundred we are planning a gathering at west on the morning of april 13th where we will wear all of our shirts thank those who supported our efforts and reveal the amount of our donation which is already over six thousand dollars thank you for your time and i look forward to seeing you next month thank you tyler thank you i
016have to say uh the art show was unbelievable and the music was such a great time and it was such a cool experience so thank you mr nat and everybody who was involved for our psba report director fox sure so i just have two things this evening uh psba opposes house bill 2169 latest voucher plan moved by house education committee last week house education committee on a party-line vote pushed out house bill 2169 a voucher plan similar to legislation considered in previous sessions that would have established education savings accounts this latest iteration of vouchers creates lifeline scholarships a program that will siphon taxpayer resources away from public schools and send those resources to parents to use at private schools higher education institutions and entities that are not accountable to the public for their decisions or
017results we need to keep the pressure up to stop this bill from receiving further action in the house of representatives to tell your legislators to reject the significantly disruptive and expensive mandated voucher program the second thing i have is spring advocacy day this is just a reminder i think we've talked about this a few times that's coming up on april 25th there are options to participate either in person or virtually you can go to psba.org events to read more details this is important because it helps us advocate for key education issues such as the impact of state funding on our district including basic and special education and providing critical services for students as we navigate through this pandemic and the need for meaningful charter school funding reforms that reflect the actual cost to educate students
018and regular and special education programs i do know we have a member or so who will be there in person if others are able to join or virtually also please consider doing such thank you thank you director fox at this time we will move to public comment um each speaker will be allowed three minutes and union representatives will be allowed for we have mr tim schwartz to start yes please hi everybody i'm tim schwartz i'm the president of the john adams pta i want to tell you about the students well first tell you about the students at john adams um knowing about the struggles and the setbacks that happened during that pandemic uh the pta challenged the adam the students at john adams about 175 of them how to read 2022 books before the end
019of the school year we challenged them in january at this point of the year ten weeks later they've read thirteen hundred um that's seven or eight books a kid about a book a week for each kid which is i find amazing other great kids they do a great job they're going to reach their goal and as the president of pta we want to find a way to congratulate them affirm the work that they did and celebrate what they what they wanted to do and so as we've been talking as the pta we wanted to we're thinking about the end of the year um the last two weeks in june where our kids are going to be in school when everybody else is not in school um we thought it'd be good to take them to
020a park on a field trip the whole school say thank you for the work that you did in reading so much we have kids at school that have read 20 or 30 books already and so we started planning a field trip to mcdade park so the kids could have their field day in a field not in the plate in the parking lot next to the school because field days are meant to be in schools we had everything together the pta has worked for years to pay for busing and whatever logistics we need to in order to get the kids out of school so they can be kids and have a good education we found out in the last couple weeks that there's a policy in the school district that only fourth eighth and twelfth graders
021can go on field trips and so we can't do the field trip the way we want to do the field trip i'm coming here to ask you to consider that reconsider that policy and let the whole school or let all grades go on field trips because i think field trips are something kids look forward to especially in this crazy crazy year that we've been through the tough year that you know started with so many coping concerns had a strike in it my son went to school for three days because of the straight in november three days in november because of the strike and then uh covert concerns as well um it's been a tough year for kids and for parents and to be able to give kids something to look forward to at the end
022of the school year i think they deserve that so i want to ask you all to two things one to to find a way to acknowledge those kids at john adams elementary who are reading their tales off and number two can you please resi reconsider that field trip policy that is there i know there's a ton of questions and a ton of concerns that might be above my pay grade um but the kids need field trips and all kids need to go my kindergarten kid does the third grader in our school who has read 30 books that aren't those cardboard books that my kindergartner reads they're killing it john adams and i want to be sure that we can celebrate them and celebrate the work that they do and that they have field day in
023a field not a parking lot thank you thank you mr schwartz and thank you for all of your work on the pta um superintendent maternity could we address that um the field trips after we finish public comment sure okay thank you next we have jonathan nasco good evening as some of you may know i'm a freshman at west grant high school i'm here to happily address the music and education decisions five years it took as a fight and now we were at a step and a start of a new era as i will put it because now the kids will slowly start to begin the music and arts programs and getting to learn and have the fun we had when we had it but i do not think a 30-day cycle if that's correct please
024correct me if i'm wrong after this statement i'm asking you to please correct me on that is if it's the 30-day cycle i don't agree with that fourth and fifth grade yeah that would be amazing because then they learn the whole thing but at the same point of time you have to have years to feel your instrument and learn with that instrument specific ways tuning it and all the adjustments if something goes wrong and let's say your director is not there at the moment to help you then you could also learn how to help fix your instrument and i'm really happy to say the music arts is coming back into our schools well miss acura's statement i said last time was there was none which of course that's miss accurate there's basic music education at
025the same point of time i did want to bring up to you guys and wondering if maybe west grant high school's marching band and scranton high's marching in knights could come together the 2023rd marching band season and host the cavalcade for all marching bands since our marching bands are coming down to a low right now with 21 as of right now in west grand high school's marching band and i am not pretty sure with the marching knights right now and right now the 2024 season we lose approximately 18 of our members so maybe even if we can't keep our well we're going to keep our marching bands no doubt but if we can't keep them at the high numbers why not do one thing to make it big and show everybody in our town and
026our city that how much we love music arts thank you have an amazing weekend and week thank you for your input jonathan mrs rosemary bowland good evening directors first and foremost the federation would like to extend our thanks to all of our students for and school teachers and paraprofessionals and administrators in our buildings for all the hard work and achievement this week that we just heard that that's awesome i hope this continues and i'm particularly thrilled as you probably know at the achievement over at adams with the reading program and the fact that children are picking up books and reading them uh that's the best news we could hear tonight so i i want to applaud all of our elementary schools especially um i want to address an issue from our last school board meeting
027one of our school directors asked one of the members of the scranton federation of teachers a question normally when a teacher is asked a question they're allowed to answer the question and that teacher was not allowed to answer the question that was asked and the reason was given by our solicitor to public comment was over so my feeling is if a teacher is asked a question the school board certainly has the ability to ask any speaker a question and that speaker should be allowed to respond to that person asking the question that has always been done in the past and i saw no reason why a question was asked and it couldn't be answered we have nothing to hide around here so i i think if you want to engage a teacher and ask a
028question of that teacher it's only appropriate for the teacher to be allowed to ask the question and answer it vice versa flip it so in the future if the directors want to ask a question i'm sure you have that right under the law and i'm sure the teacher has the right to respond to your question otherwise don't ask it but if that question involves the scranton federation of teachers union uh and you want to ask that under public comment the scranton federation of teachers operates as a union certified as a union it's a local of the aft and aft pennsylvania and i'm just asking you to think about what you're saying before you do it sometimes you're not allowed to ask certain things of union people so it's uh just a cautionary note if you
029really want to know what happens in unions uh just give me a call i'd be glad to sit down with any of you and discuss how unions work thank you for your kind attention thank you miss poland okay we have breeda holmes hello my name is brita cronin-holmes i'm an english teacher at west granton intermediate school parent of two students within the district and proud member of the sft i'm here tonight to ask for help with the increasing violence within scranton middle schools i have no better way to put it last week was absolute hell i have had colleagues tell me they have maybe witnessed seven fights in 15 years on friday at my middle school alone we had three and i want to make it clear that our principal vice principal teachers secretaries hall
030monitors are working hard to do everything we can to stop that but i think one of the greatest disservices we can inflict on our kids is to shrug our shoulders and say it's happening everywhere when you're throwing yourself into the middle of a fight or racing down the hallway to the sound of screams not entirely sure what you are running toward all you know is that it is happening here it is happening now and it is happening to our students we can blame the pandemic but that too is another cop-out any teacher could have predicted this would happen well before the pandemic was even on the horizon hall duties were stripped of teachers on the middle school level years ago and our students and staff are suffering the repercussions of that incredibly foolish decision it
031is another failure on the part of the ssd because of the constant refusal to listen to teacher concerns so i am asking you to listen to me now we are experiencing an uptick in violent and inappropriate behavior that no one has seen before these issues go way beyond the old school playground tussle every single time we were forced into synchronous instruction with the exception of the last whether it be due to snow or due to our ceilings literally falling down our 6th grade virtual classrooms were hijacked 11 and 12 year olds were exposed to pornographic materials racist homophobic and anti-semitic slurs that literally sickened my colleagues and me teachers began taking sick days rather than hold synchronous classes in an effort to protect their students from having their classes bombed with pornography at one point
032i was an honest anonymously told over google classroom to kill myself that was the milder content and i am one of the teachers that they like this happened from september to february the last time we had synchronous instruction it did not happen not because our students were forced to change their passwords although that is what some members of admin would have you believe but because we teachers were absolutely relentless in finding out who the perpetrators were did anyone ask the teachers what they found out no did anyone from downtown ask no did anyone from i.t ask no is anything being done i have no idea because nobody will update us and the students who did it still sit among their peers with seemingly no repercus repercussions we need to move faster when a student holds
033the hateful thoughts that were posted on google classroom those thoughts don't just go away because the passwords are changed the deranged thinking still exists and can lead to far more than a locker room fight these behaviors are not something that we can be can be swept under the rug one thing we do not have with situations like this is the luxury of time reinstate duties stop enabling bad behavior thank you thank you mrs holmes we also have the onan family that wanted to speak good evening my name is nathan ahn and i'm new to this district i would like more than three minutes i don't know if you can offer it but i have a lot that i would like to say my kids have just got enrolled in this district the beginning of march
034actually i think it was the second week of march that they actually went to school since they've been in school my kids are have been subjected to bullying i'm a piggy back off of what she said my kids are subjected to bullying now my daughter was physically beat up on the bus beat up as the bus driver is driving down the road i don't know what was done but i have now involved the police because i'm not getting answers from the school when my kids were bullied the principal at john adams decided to punish my kids and move my kids to the front of the bus while the older kids who were calling my kids my three kids are sitting right back here i brought them for you guys to meet malachi and his twin
035sister mackenzie and my younger one is mckinley my kids were called fat ass they didn't belong there and i told the principal at john adams that she suggested to move my kids to the front and she was going to send out a one call she did the following day my kids were called snitches i called the principal that day you know what her response to me was what do you want me to do that's not my job that's her job and she told me that she's a professional i don't see anywhere of her being professional my kids are still being bullied to this day turning to the 29th when my daughter was beat up the principal decided to once again like i said punish my kids and move them to the front of the bus
036and there was another little girl that was sitting in the seat behind the bus driver they moved her and put my daughter sitting there and my two boys was sitting directly across as soon as the bus left the school this girl jumps over the seat to where she's between her brother and my daughter shoves my daughter into the middle aisle and starts wailing on my daughter as the bus driver is driving down the road putting my daughter in harm's way and then not only does he not stop the bus to get two girl to get two girls from fighting the only thing he says to the uh the girl stop fighting as he's still driving still putting my daughter in risk and then i go to the school i take my kids if any of
037you guys would like to see the pictures of my daughters of my daughter red marked up face i will be happy to email them to any one of you so i go to the school i show the principal what happened i told her what happened and she's seen the marks you know what she's asked me if i would like to have my kids removed from the bus and me physically take them to school and pick them up and that the school district or the school would reimburse me mileage how is that possible mr owning can we make arrangements for you to speak to our our administrator who's that well we have mr schultz here um he would be the appropriate administrator could we make arrangements for you to speak with him regarding this and i
038appreciate you bringing it to the board's attention well the only reason why i'm bringing it to your attention is because i'm not getting in anywhere on the school level but then i get this and now i feel that my kids and myself are being retaliated against because according to the principle there's been according to her my son has been being defiant on multiple occasions well if that was the case the first time he was defiant i should have been notified correct okay she waits until after i have it out with her and the bus driver to tell me about this and after i tell her that i have got the police involved because she still doesn't even want to ask to review the uh footage from the bus because apparently there's cameras on the bus
039and and i i will i will ask mr schultz to work with you on that and and get with you what i'm saying is is that my son malachi was rolled up three times all on one day three times and the in the one time was for a fight that another kid put his hands on my son started shaking him all over my son defended himself because he's not getting it from the school and you write him up and you give him a detention but yet the little girl that beat up my daughter on y'all bus was still in school and the only thing that happened to her was she was taken off the bus that was it but yeah she's still in school thank you mr owner i'm going to ask mr schultz is
040here and i'm going to ask him to to get with you and give you his information thank you is there anything that you'd like to address at this time superintendent mctiernan sure uh mr schwartz um thank you for coming tonight and congratulat all of that information you gave was great um that's partially inaccurate information that you're getting regarding field trips and us only allowing fourth grade eighth grade and twelfth grade to go uh basically what we're doing at this time is um we are allowing field trips and if there is no uh nurse that is needed then they're all being approved if there are nurses that are needed as you can imagine in june there are a lot of field trips so if we have more than one field trip to field trips where we
041cannot accommodate a nurse then we are prioritizing 4th grade 8th grade or 12th grade so i'm not sure if whoever was submitting that field trip request form if it went over and if a nurse was available so i i just want to make sure that we're following the proper you know i i don't know who who submitted that field trip request form did they submit it at the school okay again it all depends on i'm i'm imagining so but i don't want to just say yes to something that i don't know the whole situation or if there are other events on that day so would the nurse be able to go from that from that school if the whole school is going it sounds reasonable but again i don't know what else is going on
042so i don't want to generalize the have you spoken to the principal about this okay all right so what i'm going to do is i'm going to have our administration contact the principal to see exactly what it is or if we can accommodate or if there's a conflict then give you that answer okay all right you're welcome and sir um mr schultes will give you his number okay so we can try to come to a solution sir okay thank you well they tasked the administration with taking care of that so now this would move you obviously went to the first step i appreciate that you went to the school and and now you're looking for more support so our our central administration would get involved right now okay the understood well at this time mr
043schultes will be contacting you to set up a meeting as we move forward to try to solve this our elementary schools do not have sros we only have them in the secondary schools that's a fact understood we and again sir let mr schultes will i appreciate you coming here and letting us know mr schultes will contact you i can't answer for the police department they don't fall under my you know mr schultes will be contacting you and i believe he already walked over to you today okay thank you understand thank you for bringing it to our attention okay we will now move on to the consent agenda may i have a motion to approve the consent agenda so moved second okay um on the question okay all in favor all right oh no i need
044to do a roll call roll call please mrs orr mrs chesick yes mrs cleary yes ms cruz yes miss fox yes ms martin yes mr holmes yes ms hume yes mr mckandra yes this is johnny yes nine affirmative okay and then we will move on to budget and finance director gil martin a motion to approve the sale of the 2021 delinquent real estate taxes to municipal revenue services in the amount of 4 million hundred and thirty one thousand three hundred and ninety five dollars fees not to exceed two hundred and fifty thousand dollars second on the question roll call please mrs cleary yes ms cruz yes ms fox yes ms good martin yes mr holmes yes ms hume yes mr mckandra yes this is chesser yes this is johnny yes under firm okay we don't
045have any items under community relations so we will move on to education director cruz we will have a motion to approve the transition of the scranton school district cyber academy from using the current apex learning asynchronous platform to using the pearson synchronous platform for the 7th and 8th grade students for the start of the 22-23 school year on the question roll call please ms cruz yes ms fox yes ms good martin yes mr holmes yes ms hume yes mr mckander yes this is chesak yes this is cleary yes this is gianni yes knight affirmative we will have a motion to approve the return of band strings and course to west granton intermediate school north scranton intermediate school and south scrinton intermediate school for students in grades five through eighth beginning in the fall of 22.
046second on the question i just like to thank mrs gravek for all the work that she um put into this as well as um mr dougherty uh while he was here and mr schultz who took up where he left off i'm very excited for this and i'm sure everyone else is too her students i agree roll call please ms fox yes ms good martin yes mr holmes yes ms hume yes mr mckander yes this is chessy yes this is cleary yes ms cruz yes mrs gianni yes uh moving on to operations uh director home address um we'll have a motion to approve the district-wide atc upgrades the district has received approval of federal funding through the american rescue plan and the elementary and secondary school emergency relief fund for this project the motion is to
047approve the authorisation to approve with design and bidding for the 2022 district-wide atc upgrades project a copy of the updated project scope and budget is attached for reference the financial impact is two million six hundred and ninety three thousand six hundred dollars of construction costs will be funded with arp and essa three million four hundred and sixty seven thousand six hundred and seventy two dollars of the estimated total is the i'm sorry i apologize three million four hundred and sixty seven thousand six hundred and seventy two dollars is the total estimated project costs do we have a second second on the question roll call please listen martin yes mr holmes yes ms hugh yes mr mckandra yes this is chessy yes this is cleary yes ms cruz yes ms fox yes this is gianni yes
048knight affirmative next we have a motion to approve the district-wide hvac upgrades pending essa ii approval the district is seeking approval of federal funding through the elementary and secondary school emergency relief fund essa to allow the project this project is to show to allow the project design to continue while the district waits for the status of the project funding the motion is to approve the authorization to proceed with design for the 2022 district-wide hvac improvements project the projects will not be bid unless approval of essa funding is received a copy of the updated project budget is attached for reference the financial impact is 14 million a hundred and forty nine thousand six hundred and sixty five dollars with the estimated total project costs the projected source funding is essa two seven million one hundred and
049seventy three thousand eight hundred and forty eight dollars the capital fund six million nine hundred and seventy five thousand eight hundred and seventeen dollars do we have a second second on the question roll call please mr holmes yes ms hume yes mr mckander yes this is chesak yes mrs cleary yes liz cruz yes miss fox yes ms martin yes this is johnny yes next we have a motion to approve the purchase of new bleachers for west scranton high school the current bleachers are well beyond their usable life and are in need of replacement the financial impact will be one hundred thousand five hundred and sixty five dollars through a co-stars contract per the attached second on the question roll call miss you yes mr mckandra yes mrs cheswick yes this is cleary yes liz cruz
050yes miss fox yes msg martin yes mr holmes yes this is gianni yes herman next we have a motion to reject the scranton high school fire suppression system bid and authorize to rebuild the granton high school fire suppression system project um no financial impact at this time second on the question roll call please mr mcandrew yes this is chesak yes miss cleary yes ms cruz yes ms fox yes miska martin yes mr holmes yes miss yoon yes mrs gianni yes united affirmative next we have a motion to award the construction contract for the exterior stair replacement projects at mcnichols plaza and south intermediate to pioneer construction incorporated at a cost not to exceed sixty five thousand ninety five dollars subject to proper execution of the contract insurance and bonding as required in the contract documents
051the bid tab and budget summary is attached the financial impact is three hundred and sixty five thousand dollars and ninety and ninety five dollars second on the question roll call please mrs cheswig yes this is cleary yes ms cruz yes miss fox yes ms martin yes mr holmes yes ms hume yes mr mckandra yes this is johnny yes i have a motion to award the construction contract for the 2022 district-wide environmental abatement to datum products incorporated at a cost not to exceed 138 subject to proper execution of the contract insurance and bonding as required in the contract documents budget summary and bid tab are attached second and the question roll call please mrs cleary yes ms cruz yes ms fox yes ms good martin yes mr holmes yes ms hume yes mr mcandrew yes mrs
052chessy yes this is gianni yes nine affirmatives we have a motion to approve the updated west grant and intermediate renovations project budget operation 2 plus as detailed in the attached the financial impact of option two plus budget is five million nine hundred and five thousand eight hundred and forty six dollars the option two plus budget with select upgrades is twelve million two hundred and seventy three thousand five hundred and ninety four dollars second on the question um yes mr luffy i'm a little confused here we are the we are actually putting on two budget figures here and i'm a little confused as to how and why the option two plus budget with select upgrades includes uh off the top of my head i don't have the itemized part in front of me but some of
053them include i believe updated ceiling tiles carpeting um i believe the fire alarm system uh and few other items that if the bids come in uh at a price that's uh we feel that the capital projects funds can warrant it we would have the option to award that as well thank you very much indeed that clarifies it for me anything else on the question roll call please ms cruz yes mrs fox yes ms gilmore yes mr holmes yes miss you yes mr mckandra yes this is chessy yes thank you cleary yes mrs yes next we have a motion to approve the change order mc hyphen c o hyphen zero zero one for the arm striking hvac renovations as indicated in the attached the financial impact the original contract price was four million eighty seven thousand
054six hundred and twenty seven dollars the increase of change order is eighty two thousand seven hundred and thirty seven dollars the contract price incorporating the change order is now four million one hundred and seventy thousand three hundred and sixty four dollars second on the question roll call please miss fox yes liz good morning yes mr holm yes miss you yes mr mckander yes this is chesak yes this is cleary yes yes and um i have another motion to approve change order gc hyphen co hyphen 0 0 1 for the armstrong hvac renovations as indicated in the attached the financial impact is the original contract price was two million eight hundred and eighty seven thousand dollars the increase of the change order is eighty one thousand six hundred and eighteen dollars and seventy five cents the
055contract price incorporating the change order is two million nine hundred and sixty eight thousand six hundred and eighteen dollars and seventy five cents second and the question um just to clarify these two change orders are as per our usual custom the permit costs which are not included in the bids they're not increases in the contract they are anticipated expenditure for the permit costs uh yes i believe that is correct mr rucker can we confirm that please uh it's in the it's on the back i read them both okay anything else on the questions okay roll call please yes mr holmes yes yes this is cleary yes yes yes this is young yes we have a motion to approve change order number one for the scranton high chiller replacement as indicated in the attached the original
056contract price was nine hundred and eighty seven thousand seven hundred and seven dollars the increase of the change order is twenty two thousand two hundred and seventy nine dollars and fifty cents so the total contract price incorporating the change order is one million nine thousand nine hundred and eighty six dollars and fifty cents and again this is permit costs on the question roll call please mr holmes yes miss you yes mr mckandra yes this is chad yes yes yes listen martin yes mr johnny yes we have a motion to award the custodial janitorial supplies service contract to centers this contract will be awarded under the amino cooperative purchasing agreement effective april 3 2022 for a period of five years ending april to 2027 per the attack second second on the question roll call please miss
057hume yes mr kandra yes this yes this is clear yes yes now we have a motion to award the plumbing contract to scranton electric heating and cooling services effective april 3 2022 through april 2 2025 there were two bidders and scranton electric was the lowest responsible bidder we have a second second on the question uh yeah on the question i know this is like a third time putting this out to bid so i still have a few more questions regarding what changed in the bids the last two times uh so i want to make a motion to table list for further discussion my second type motion okay so on the question of tabling the motion roll call please on that mr mckandra yes this is chessy yes mrs cleary yes mitch cruz yes miss fox
058yes listen martin no mr holmes yes miss you yes mrs johnny yes um and we have a motion to approve the west intermediate temporary modular classroom installation change order gc hyphen co hyphen 002 the modifications to project insurance requirements and indemnifications so moved second on the question i'm sorry i didn't quite finish sorry um these changes include the addition of an indemnification clause related to the ssd use of the modulus and the addition of the contractor as an additional insured on the project's builders risks policy and owners general liability policy as required by the lease the financial impact has no changes the contract price prior to the change order is one million eight hundred and nineteen thousand eight hundred and thirty six dollars the contract price incorporating the change order is one hundred and one
059million eight hundred and nineteen thousand eight hundred and thirty six dollars sorry second so on the question of that roll call please mrs keswick yes mrs cleary yes ms cruz yes ms stock yes whiskey martin yes mr holm yes yes you yes mr k mr mckander yes mr gianni yes thanks thank you director newman um moving on to personnel uh we do just need to make one correction to the personnel report is that something that we can just announce there mrs orr um there was a misspelling okay so we are correcting uh the spelling of the last name of your u-h-e-r to u-l-t-e-r no from u-l-t-e-r to u-h-e okay so the correct name is u-h-e-r okay okay so then i'll turn over you director mcandrew sure so we have f1 motion to approve personal report
060as attached second on the question roll call please this is cleary yes ms cruz yes ms fox yes listen martin yes mr holmes yes ms hume yes mr mckandra yes this is chessy yes this is gianni yes okay uh so we have f2 motion to approve the attached adjudication of hearing officer shovelin on the paraprofessional furloughs which became effective october 9 2020 and make such an order of final and binding on the question roll call please liz cruz yes miss fox yes mister martin yes mr holmes no ms hume yes mr this mckandra chessy no mrs cleary yes this is gianni yes seven affirmative two negative motion passes okay under policy uh director fox are you comfortable reading the motion i was wondering if i should or not i will be happy to why don't
061you go ahead we will have a motion to approve director catherine fox as the pennsylvania school boards association representative for the scranton school board second on the question roll call please ms clark you have every right to vote for yourself okay thank you yes i understand your confusion yes mr holmes yes is this you yes mr mckandra yes this is chez yes mrs cleary yes liz cruz yes mrs yes and thank you director fox for taking on all the work that goes along with that role vendor relations we have uh director clary i'm sorry uh motion to approve the purchase of lockers for the stem academy to corporate environments as attached pricing is based on co-stars contract number 035-068 at a cost not to exceed 29 418 and 91 cents and subject to proper execution
062of the contract this information was reviewed the board at the march 28 2022 board work session financial impact is 29 418. and 91 cents this amount is less than previously approved uh construction budget line item do you have a second second on the question roll call please mr martin yes mr holmes no yes mr mckinnon yes this is chelsea yes mrs cleary yes ms cruz yes yes i just want to read the next one motion to approve the purchase of carpet for the stem academy to show industries incorporated as attached pricing is based on kpn contract number 202012-04 at a cost not to exceed five hundred and 23 dollars and thirty cents and subject to proper execution of the contract this information was reviewed with the board at the march 28 2022 board work session
063the financial impact is 23 and 30 510.30 this amount is less than the previously approved construction budget line item on the question roll call please mr holmes no yes just from kander yes this is chesser yes this is clear yes that's cruz yes fox yes listen martin yes does any anyone have anything they'd like to discuss for new business you know we have good news at ctc we've appointed our new director uh dr carla carlucci so congratulations to dr carlo jean i'm sure she'll be here to introduce herself at at some point in the future i look forward to that anything else okay then i'll entertain a motion to adjourn all in favor all right thank you all very much thank you everyone