001Let's stand for the Lord's Prayer and a pledge of allegiance. Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, the power and glory forever. Amen. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Roll call, please. President, Mr. Pursel. Here. Vice President, Mr. Krieger. Here. Secretary, Mr. Anderson. Here. Treasurer, Mr. Cook. Here. Mr. Griffiths. Here. Mr. Cashner. Here. Mrs. Miller. Here. Mrs. Rhodes. Here.
002Mr. Shuey. Here. Okay, uh we have a meeting announcement. The next scheduled meeting of the Board of Directors is set for April 28th, 2026 beginning at 7:30 in this room. Uh student accomplishments, Chris. Okay, we have uh Mr. Carnuccio and Mr. Zimmerman here tonight. We'll start with Mr. Zimmerman. Elementary. So, the student council updates, we have spring events coming up. Uh talent show and the daddy-daughter dance later in May. Um we have a musical arts exhibit, science fair, art, music, science night. Um that is at the end of May, May 21st and May 22nd. Um we'll be showing Seussical the Musical. The art will be displayed in the in the upper floor and the fifth and sixth grade science fair will take place at that point. PSSA testing begins April 20th. Our ELA testing is
003April 20th, 21st, 22nd. Math testing is the 27th and 28th and then the science testing is April 29th and 30th. Big week with the tests or big month with the tests coming up. Uh RIF April 8th and 9th. Uh we want to thank you to the PTA sponsors um that are helping out with this event. And then we just had our family involved had our title one family involvement night. It included all the PSSA important information envision math parent components dibbles home connection information. Students can play in science activities while parents were participating. They pizza as a light snack and just wanted to you know thank Mrs. Cycleburger for helping helping us out. Okay. Thanks Mr. Zimra. Mr. Carnuccio you're up. Our students of the month aren't here this this tonight but the high school
004student Bobby Whitmer and the middle school student seventh grader Cayden White. So um I won't go into detail because they're not here. So some of the things that are going on or have happened first I'd like to thank the uh the education foundation for the breakfast yesterday morning for our staff was very well appreciated. Um we're gearing up again also for PSSA April 20th to the 30th we'll be doing PSSA testing here in the middle high middle school building um to get the kids ready maybe excited for it hopefully take it more serious. We're doing a PSSA middle school pep rally April 1st. It's going to be eighth period in our gymnasium. Um our middle school teachers wanted to do it and they're putting it all together so um that'll be first. Scheduling for students
005is completed so if any students out there is listening or paying attention to the um if you have not scheduled yet please make sure to stop and see guidance so we can get them scheduled. Uh was held on April 20th I'm sorry February 25th. Um so we had the results for that. Um I think we had 49 students um take the alumni exam and I wish more would take it because it's not always our top students that do well on that test. Um you'd be surprised over the years some of the students who have done extremely well, who maybe aren't in our top 20-25 students. Um So, our guidance staff has also participated and completed in threat assessment training as well as safe schools training. So, they went and got safe uh threat assessment trained.
006We also had on Friday our final AI training for our faculty, um which went over very well. Our musical preview for our students here at the middle high school will be April 8th. And then our musical this year um will be April 10th and 11th. So, hopefully all of you can get out to see it. They do an awesome awesome job. Mr. Steiger and staff and the students just do a great job with it every year. That's it. Okay. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Kreiger. Citizens comments. I guess nobody here. Work session. We're good. We're good here. Okay. We'll end the meeting. Old business. I need a motion to approve the board meeting minutes. Motion. Second. On a question. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Those opposed? Ayes have it. I need a motion to accept
007the treasurer's report. Motion. Second. On a question. All those in favor? Aye. Those opposed? Ayes have it. Uh I need a motion to authorize the payment of bills. Motion. Second. On a question. Roll call. Mr. Kreiger. Yes. Mrs. Miller. Yes. Mr. Persing. Yes. Mrs. Rhodes. Yes. Mr. Showers. Yes. Mr. Anderson. Yes. Mr. Cook. Yes. Mr. Griffiths. Yes. Mr. Cashner. Yes. Uh I need a motion to acknowledge student and our staff accomplishment uh middle high school Caden White uh high school Robert Whitmer elementary school All of the month for January. Third grade Cash Clark, fourth grade Barrett Kowalchuk, fifth grade Beckham Cavanaugh, sixth grade Levi Wood, elementary school students of the month for February. Uh third grade Lexi Zanner, uh fourth grade Amaya Verducci, uh fifth grade Kason Klein, sixth grade Lucas Etzel. So, I'd like
008a motion to approve all that. Motion. Second. On the question. All those in favor? Aye. Those opposed? Eyes have it. Uh I need a motion to approve the revised elementary uh PTA student field trips. Motion. Second. On the question. Roll call. Mrs. Miller. Yes. Mr. Persing. Yes. Mrs. Rhodes. Yes. Mr. Shewy. Yes. Mr. Anderson. Yes. Mr. Cook. Yes. Mr. Griffiths. Yes. Mr. Cashner. Yes. Mr. Krieger. Yes. Uh I need a motion to accept the receipt of audit report from Clay Six and Associates. Motion. Second. On the question. Roll call. Mr. Persing. >> Yes. Mrs. Rhodes. Yes. Mr. Shewy. Yes. Mr. Anderson. Yes. Mr. Cook. Yes. Mr. Griffiths. Yes. Mr. Cashner. Yes. Mr. Krieger. Yes. Mrs. Miller. Yes. I need a motion to approve the May board meeting date. Um we're going to move the meeting
009move the rescheduled elementary meeting May board meeting to May 21st, 2026. And I believe that's because of the budget, right? >> 30 days. 30 days from the budget. So, need a motion. Motion. Second. All those in on the question. Roll or all those in favor? Aye. Aye. Those opposed? Uh all right, here we go. Uh No word from Need a motion to approve 705. Griffith get me on this one again. >> So moved. Second. On the question, roll call. Mrs. Rhodes. Yes. Mr. Shewy. Yes. Mr. Anderson. Yes. Mr. Cook. Yes. Mr. Griffith. Yes. Mr. Cashner. Yes. Mr. Kreger. Yes. Mrs. Miller. Yes. Mr. Persing. Yes. That could be the first brick in the wall. I need a motion to approve the school handbooks. Motion. Second. On the question, roll call. Mr. Shewy. Yes. Mr. Anderson.
010Yes. Mr. Cook. Yes. Mr. Griffith. Yes. Mr. Cashner. Yes. Mr. Kreger. Yes. Mrs. Miller. Yes. Mr. Persing. Yes. Mrs. Rhodes. Yes. I need a motion to approve the contracts and agreements. Motion. Second. On the question, roll call. Mr. Anderson. Yes. Mr. Cook. Yes. Mr. Griffith. Yes. Mr. Cashner. Yes. Mr. Kreger. Yes. Mrs. Miller. Yes. Mr. Persing. Yes. Mrs. Rhodes. Yes. Mr. Shewy. Yes. All right. Need a motion to approve the appraisal agreement, and this is only to get an idea of what the annex is worth. That's all. Just to see what the value was at the annex. Motion. Second. On the question, roll call. Mr. Cook. Yes. Mr. Griffith. Yes. Mr. Cashner. Yes. Mr. Kreger. Yes. Mrs. Miller. Yes. Mr. Persing. >> Yes. Mrs. Rhodes. Yes. Mr. Shewy. Yes. Mr. Anderson. >> Yes. I need
011a motion to accept the settlement agreement and release. So moved. Second. On the question. Roll call. Mr. Griffiths Yes. Mr. Cashner Yes. Mr. Krieger Yes. Mrs. Miller Yes. Mr. Pursing >> Yes. Mrs. Rhodes Yes. Mr. Shuey No. Mr. Anderson Yes. Mr. Cook No. Yes. Okay, personnel agenda. I need a motion to approve all personnel items in 8.01 through 8.17 as listed. So moved. Second. On the question. Roll call. Mr. Cashner Mr. Krieger Yes. Mrs. Miller Yes. Mr. Pursing Yes. Mrs. Rhodes Yes. Mr. Shuey Mr. Anderson Yes. Mr. Cook Yes. Mr. Griffiths Yes. Okay, board member reports. Who wants to start? Eric? I know I'm excited to see the musical coming up. I've been hearing great things about it. We've been seeing other shows at other schools and um everyone I've gone to said ours is
012going to definitely top all that, so I'm excited to see that. Um also really happy with the way basketball season went. I know freshman my kid went out and he he had a great time. He had fun, he said. It There a good camaraderie and he enjoyed doing that. He wishes he would have done that in the past. Anybody else? Well, Yeah, I would like to just say for the settlement agreement, um, I don't agree with it. Um, it's highway robbery what some of these parents are able to do to, um, public school districts. And unfortunately, we don't have much, uh, defense against it. It's cheaper to settle than it is to to fight these people in court and lose. Um, or even if we win, we're still spending more than it is for the
013settlement, so it's it's ridiculous what this world has come to and what these lawyers and some parents get away with. Of course, there's I'm sure there's cases out there where, um, parents and children have, uh, legitimate cases, but there's far too many that are bull. Just echo those thoughts. Almost like it's it's predatory behavior. Like it's it's they come back and they know there's there's blood in the water, so they just make up things and make up cases and I think it you'd love to fight it and to your point, it's just cost prohibitive to fight it sometimes just because it's just cheaper to settle and that's that's unfortunate because the lawyers and the parents know that. Personally, I would rather take this to court with, uh, potential losing than to just roll over and
014pay the settlement. To me, it's a form of extortion. Yeah, to add to that, I think taxpayers should be irate at this type of behavior because it's taking away their money and and their hard-earned tax money that's going to the school district that's being wasted away on frivolous lawsuits like this. And and I like to say I I agree with what Charlie said, and I I voted out of principle. Um I'm not everybody's saying it could cost us more, but I'd rather set a uh like I said, an example um to try to get the situation out of control, or it's already out of control, so we just like to make a stand sooner or later, and I think it's time. So. Thank you. And And I also like to say I don't know if
015we mentioned the which is the the diving championship. Did we mention that at all? Did I miss anything? Congratulations. Shall I read it? Do you want me to read it? Congratulations to Ryan Hinds who won the PIAA District 4 2A diving championships for the third year in a row, and Aiden Fitze, who claimed silver this year for uh districts, and they also placed sixth and 11th respectively at the PIAA State Diving Championships, which were held at Bucknell, which is awesome. Sorry, I missed that. That's okay. Yeah. Chris, is that the highest diving placement No, I believe Quinn Rollman several years ago did a little better. Good Good job to the coaches. Yeah. You know. >> Yep. Anybody else? Okay, an executive session was held for personnel issues on Tuesday, and our solicitor caught the date
016mistake by a year. March 24th, 2026 from 5:30 p.m. to 7:26 p.m. prior to the monthly meeting. We had nothing from citizens' comment. At this time, I'll need a motion for adjournment. Motion. We are adjourned. Time for