001to the flag, of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Please uh stay standing. Uh >> [clears throat] >> We need a moment of silence for uh Peggy Benarcik. She was on the member of the school board from 1983 to 1991. She passed away on April the 3rd. And Melissa uh Melissa Marufka uh was our elementary library aide for 15 years who passed away on March 25th. So, moment of silence, please. Thank you. Uh Roll call. President, Mr. Persing. Here. Vice President, Mr. Griffith. Here. Secretary, Mr. Anderson. Here. Treasurer, Mr. Cook. Here. Mr. Shue. Okay, meeting announcement. The next uh uh uh we rescheduled the meeting uh for next month. Okay. Yeah, we'll have Mr. Rock do roll
002call. Okay, yep. PSSA's underway. Uh ELA and math Uh we also held our talent show this past month, and a big thank you to Mr. Rock and Mr. Rodriguez who put this all together. Congratulations to the students that won awards. We have AP testing coming up the next 2 weeks. Uh our prom will be May 5th, the promenade starting at 5:30 in the auditorium. We also have Keystone testing coming up. Senior finals. Uh and the main thing with senior final or graduation, the practices the week of May 26th. So, just a reminder, you got to be in the auditorium by 8:00 a.m. on practice days. Uh the alumni banquet's quickly approaching. Uh we also have awards night baccalaureate coming up on May 27th, starting at 5:30. Graduation ceremony will take place on Friday, May 29th.
003Uh all this will be posted on our website. And I actually do have this written down here, not just cuz you're sitting here, but I wanted to say thank you to nutrition and especially you, Sherry, uh for everything you do. It was a great year, and we absolutely love working with you. So, thank you. That's all I have. Awesome, thank you, Mr. Rock. Mr. Griffith, Mrs. Neri. I have this um student council things coming up. We'll be having our talent show it's actually this Friday um in the auditorium at 5:30. Um I think we have about 23 acts this year. After that, daddy-daughter dance is Saturday, May 30th. Um our musical art science nights are scheduled for May 21st and the 22nd. On on those nights, the doors will open at 5:30. We're also uh
004wrapping up PSSA testing. All of our math and ELA is completed, so our fifth graders in our building have their science testing. This year, grades three through six uh will be continuing to go to Knobels. Um we have our fifth graders um heading to Camp Victory um at the beginning of May. Um we also will have our track and field days for grades four, five, and six on May 13th and 14th. And then, our most exciting day of the year, our carnival day, um is on May 15th. And our kindergarten graduation, uh May 30th or May 21st, um our theme this year is officially graduating kindergarten and under the sea. All right, very good. Thanks. Thanks, Mrs. Neri. Great job. Good. No student accomplishments. So, we're done with that. Now, citizen comments. Does anybody have
005anything to say? No. Work session. We're good? We're good. Wow. Okay, let's start the meeting. We're going to old business. Need a motion to approve the board meeting minutes. Motion. Second. On the question. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Those opposed? Passes. The ayes have it. I need a motion to accept the treasurer's report. Motion. Second. On the question. All those in favor? Aye. Those opposed? Ayes have it. Need a motion authorize the payment of bills. Motion. Second. On the question. Roll call. Mr. Anderson. Yes. Mr. Cook. Yes. Mr. Griffith. Yes. Mr. Cashner. Yes. Mr. Krieger. Yes. Mrs. Miller. Yes. Mr. Persing. Yes. Mrs. Rose. Yes. Okay, we're going to new business. I need a motion acknowledge student and or staff accomplishments. So moved. Second. Uh on the question. Uh congratulations all cast members, staging
006crew, and staff for an excellent production of this year's school musical, Hunchback of Notre Dame. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Those opposed? Ayes have it. Need a motion approve the special education plan. So moved. Second. On the question. Roll call. Mr. Cook. Yes. Mr. Griffith. Yes. Mr. Cashner. Yes. Mr. Krieger. Yes. Mrs. Miller. Yes. Mr. Persing. Yes. Mrs. Rose. Yes. Mr. Anderson. Yes. Need a motion approve the middle and high school program of studies. Motion. Second. On the question. Roll call. Mr. Griffith. Yes. Mr. Cashner. Yes. Mr. Krieger. Yes. Mrs. Miller. Yes. Mr. Persing. Yes. Mrs. Rose. Yes. Mr. Anderson. Yes. Mr. Cook. Yes. Need a motion approve 7.04. Motion. Second. On the question. Roll call. Mr. Cashner. Yes. Mr. Krieger. Yes. Mrs. Miller. Yes. Mr. Persing. Yes. Mrs. Rose. Yes. Mr. Anderson. Yes.
007Mr. Cook. Yes. Mr. Griffith. Yes. Griffith, did you catch that? Yeah. I slipped it by him, see? He's sleeping. Need a motion approve the contracts and agreements. So you can say it. Say it. Motion. So moved. Second. Uh on the question. Roll call. Mr. Krieger. Yes. Mrs. Miller. Yes. Mr. Persing. Yes. Mrs. Rose. Yes. Mr. Anderson. Yes. Mr. Cook. Yes. Mr. Griffith. Yes. Mr. Cashner. Yes. I need a motion approve the 2026 summer compressed work schedule. Motion. Second. On the question. Roll call. Mrs. Miller. Yes. Mr. Persing. Yes. Mrs. Rose. Yes. Mr. Anderson. Yes. Mr. Cook. Yes. Mr. Griffith. Yes. Mr. Cashner. Yes. And Mr. Krieger. Yes. Need a motion to ratify the sponsorship agreement. Motion. Second. On the question. Roll call. Mr. Persing. Yes. Mrs. Rose. Yes. Mr. Anderson. Yes. Mr. Cook. Yes. Mr.
008Griffith. Yes. Mr. Cashner. Yes. Mr. Krieger. Yes. And Mrs. Miller. Yes. Need a motion adopt the Smockin Area Facility Improvement Grant Resolution. Motion. Second. On the question. Roll call. Mrs. Rose. Yes. Mr. Anderson. Yes. Mr. Cook. Yes. Mr. Griffith. Yes. Mr. Cashner. Yes. Mr. Krieger. Yes. Mrs. Miller. Yes. And Mr. Persing. Yes. I need a motion to approve or disapprove transportation services and waive charges. Make a motion to approve. Second. There's two parts to it. To approve and waive. And waive. Where's that at? It's on the second side. I second. Yeah, okay. Well, it's not going to get did anyway, so. We have a motion to approve. We have a motion, we have a second. Right? On the question. Roll call. Mr. Anderson. Yes. Mr. Cook. Yes. Mr. Griffith. Yes. Mr. Cashner. Yes. Mr. Krieger.
009No. Mrs. Miller. Yes. Mr. Persing. Yes. Mrs. Rose. Yes. Need a motion to approve the assignment of student teachers. Motion. Second. On the question. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Those opposed? Ayes have it. Okay, we're going to personnel agenda. Uh just one little change on personnel agenda. Uh Mary Lavati should be removed from item 8.14. So, she'll just be Stacy Traynor. Okay. I need a motion to all personal items and motions 8.01 to 8.16 as listed. Motion. Second. On the question. Roll call. Mr. Green? Yes. Mr. Griffith? Yes. Mr. Cashman? Yes. Mr. Gregor? Yes. Mrs. Miller? Yes. Mr. Gressley? Yes. Mrs. Rose? Yes. Mr. Anderson? Yes. Okay. Board members reports. Danny. Look like you want to say something. >> Yeah. Thanks, Mr. Hawk and Rob for helping with Daryl Strawberry. It was a really
010good event. And I don't know the AV guy. His name was Ryan. Ryan? Ryan Shinsky. Uh also helped out and really thank you for that because Pastor Rudy for bringing him here because it was a really cool event and it was nice for the community. It was really good. So, thank you for that. I'd like to thank the nice singer for their donation to the soccer field and yeah. With the banners going up. Think it's a great great thing for the community to support our students and support our athletes. I just want to commend the the music programs here. I was seeing the musical, seeing the kids support other schools as well because we went to a lot of local musicals and it was nice to see our kids supporting other schools and then those
011other schools were supporting ours. Uh and top of that, all of our PMEA, you know, award winners and going up through the ranks of districts and states. It's uh our program's doing fantastic. Thank you. Anybody else? Yep. Let's give a shout out to McKenna and let her just know that, you know, the district's thinking about her. Anybody else? Anybody good? Okay. Executive session was held for personnel issues on Tuesday, April 28th, 2026 from 5:00