001is 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. The kingdom, the power, and the 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. Ping >> here. >> Vice President Mr. Kger >> here. >> Secretary Mr. Anderson >> here. >> Treasurer Mr. Cook. >> Mr. Griffiths >> here. >> Mr. Kashner >> here. >> Mrs. Miller >> here. >> Mrs. Rhodess >> here. Mr. Shuy >> here. >> Meeting announcement. The next scheduled meeting of the board of directors is set for October
00221st, 2025, beginning at 7:30 p.m. in this board conference room. Student recognition talk. >> Okay. Uh Mr. Mr. Hawken Brock, we have some students here this evening. If you want to introduce them. >> We do. We do. Uh, we're going to start with middle school. Our middle school student of the month is Ian. If you come up to the mic. >> Hello. My name is Ian Kosmik. Um, you guys might know me as the sunote of the month. I just got nominated for I'm sons of Erica and Aaron Cosmic. Um, my brother is Andrew Kosmeck, number 88 for the football team. Um, the sports that I do are football, track, basketball, and my hobbies are golf, football, and video games and all that. And in my meantime, I just play golf my backyard. Swing a
003whole bunch of balls in yard sometimes. And >> yeah, [Music] >> Oh, and I got a good touchdown um at the junior high game. >> Yep. >> We won 48 to8. >> Wow. >> Yeah. Against the Jersey Shore Bulldogs. But I don't know what happened against them. >> Who's your favorite teacher? Favorite teacher? Uh, Mrs. Alonzo. >> Mrs. Alonzo. Good. >> Yep. Yeah. >> Who's your favorite principal? >> Favorite principal? Probably you. >> Really good choice. That was a great choice. >> Yeah. >> He wins next month, too. >> All right. Nice meeting you guys. >> Great job. [Applause] Okay. And our high school student of the month is Nile Cruz. >> Yeah, they told me to come prepared, so I got a whole paper. >> Good. >> I want to say thank you to
004the board members and my principal for giving me the opportunity to come and speak and for giving me the role of student of the month. My name is Naise Cruz and I live in Shimokin where I spent most of my whole life and I love the great opportunities Shimokin has given me like being able to join clubs. I'm in Spanish club, fishing club and files club. I also have some achievements like joining the National Honor Society for good grades. I'm also a cheerleader for Shimokin's varsity cheer team. I want to say thank you to my parents for giving me the best achievement of being a sister. And now that I'm a senior, I'm striving to be the best role model for my brothers. [Applause] >> Who's your favorite teacher? >> Well, I have two cuz
005our teachers are great. Um, Mr. Candalora and Mr. H. >> And who's your favorite principal? >> Mr. Hawking. >> All right, there you go. Okay. Uh to give my report here quick, Ian, first thing in the morning, I want you in my office. Um so this Friday is uh busy for us. We're going to have our second coffee with the counselors at 1:00 and this is for middle school parents. Uh we have had our senior coffee with the counselors already. It was our largest attended one to date. So thank you to all senior parents who came out to meet with the guidance counselors. And then also on Friday, we've our annual club sign up day. Uh so you know our staff and all our club adviserss will be in the gymnasium. All the students will
006get to go through and uh you know enjoy and sign up for clubs. Quick note, the homecoming dance for grades 9 through 12 will be Saturday, September 27th following another victory of the Indians, of course. And we will be having a college fair on Tuesday, October 14th with I I don't know how many colleges we have now. The number keeps growing. do an awesome job. And then we're going to have our career fair on Friday, November 14th. And not only do we have uh military colleges, we we're doing a good job of bringing in construction workers and different things like that for all different types of fields for our kids to get exposure to. Uh other than that, another solid month at the school. Thank you everybody for allowing us to continue to have good
007days. So, thank you. >> Thanks Mr. Hawkenrock. Great job. Mrs. Ner, you're up. >> U so for us at the elementary school, coming up in October. Um we are doing it's going to be called refresh recess. It's similar to the track last year where we raised funds for um the track. Uh except this time we are going to raise our funds for recess playground equipment and to um you know get new things for that. Um and I'd like to thank uh the wellness committee uh for planning and preparing for that. So we'll have that for two days in October. Uh we also have at the beginning of October the BMX bike assembly um that PTA purchased for us. It's an anti-bullying stunt show um where they bring the BMX bikes. I think it's going to
008be really interesting. I think the kids are going to really like that. Uh we have things for teachers coming up. Um we have effective school solutions uh coaching. Um so um people will be coming from the effective school solutions and they will be coming into teachers classrooms oneon one being able to coach them on, you know, managing some student behavior. Um, so I think that'll be a really good experience to have that person just one-on-one with you um in the classroom giving you feedback um right away. Um and we are having our MClass Dibbles training on Friday. Uh we are moving from the cadence back to Dibbles again for our literacy assessment. Um so we have that training this Friday. Um, next week we have the Schmok and Rotary is coming for our third grade
009classrooms to distribute dictionaries. Um, Jared Scandal has offered to do uh some Halloween uh safety classes with our kindergarten through third grade classes this year. So, that'll be something new for us that we didn't have before. We also have um opportunities with evangelical and transitions of PA. They are all willing to come and give us um K through six free programs ranging from you know living a healthy lifestyle, stressless, cyber safety, um being nicotine free, respecting boundaries, digital citizenship. I mean there's so many um opportunities that we're going to get for our kids um from those places. Um and I'm really excited because it's for all grades. They adapt uh to all of them for us. Um and I would just like to thank uh the team. Uh cheerleaders for coming to the elementary school.
010Uh they love, you know, walking into the building, our kids, and they have the the Lion football players and the cheerleaders and they're all, you know, giving them high fives and things like that. They just really enjoy it. Um and they enjoy the tattoos. So, I was just happy to continue um doing that this year with them. That's all I have. >> Thanks, Mrs. N. Great job. Yep. >> All right. >> You can you can leave if you want. >> More than welcome to stay. >> Stay if you want, but it's really boring. >> Ian, stop down. I have a gift for you tomorrow. >> Okay. Well, citizens comments. We got nobody here. Work session. Chris. >> Nothing. Okay. Well, going to old business. I need a motion to approve the board meeting minutes. >>
011Need a second. >> Second. >> On a question. All those in favor? >> I. Those opposed. I have it. Need a motion to accept the treasures report. Motion. >> Second. >> On a question. All those in favor? >> I. Those opposed. I have it. >> Uh, need a motion authorize the payment of bills. >> Motion. >> Second. on a question. Roll call, please. >> Mr. Kger, >> yes. >> Mrs. Miller, >> yes. >> Mr. Ping, >> yes. >> Mrs. Rhodess, >> yes to everything except for $9,1484 to um David Petrovich uh health reimbursement. Mr. Shy, >> yes. >> Mr. Anderson, >> yes. >> Mr. Griffiths, >> yes. >> Mr. Kashner, >> yes. >> So, business uh need a motion to acknowledge the student and or staff accomplishments. Motion >> on a question. All those in
012favor? >> I those opposed? >> Need a motion to approve all the fundraisers? Motion >> second. >> On a question. Roll call, please. >> Mrs. Miller, >> yes. >> Mr. Crus, >> yes. >> Mrs. Rhodess, >> yes. >> Mr. Shuy, >> yes. >> Mr. Anderson, >> yes. >> Mr. Griffiths, >> yes. >> Mr. Kashner, >> yes. >> Mr. Kger, >> yes. >> Need a motion to approve the elementary PTA student field trips. >> Motion. >> Second. A question. Roll call. >> Mr. Pink. >> Yes. Mrs. Roads. >> Yes. >> Mr. Shuy, >> yes. >> Mr. Anderson, >> yes. >> Mr. Griffiths, >> yes. >> Mr. Kashner, >> yes. >> Mr. Kger, >> yes. >> Mrs. Miller, >> yes. >> I need a motion to approve all the contracts and agreements for services. >> Motion. >>
013Second. One question. Roll call. >> Mrs. Rhodess. >> Yes. >> Mr. Shuy. >> Yes. >> Mr. Anderson. >> Yes. >> Mr. Griffith. >> Yes. >> Mr. Kasher. >> Yes. >> Mr. Kriger. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Miller. >> Yes. Mr. Pink. >> Yes. >> I need a motion to approve the student transfer. >> Motion. >> Second. >> On a question. >> Roll call, please. >> Mr. Shuy. >> Yes. >> Mr. Anderson. >> Yes. >> Mr. Griffith. >> Yes. >> Mr. Kashner. >> Yes. >> Mr. Kger. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Miller. >> Yes. Mr. P. >> Yes. Mrs. RHS. Yes. >> I need a motion to approve the veterans exemption request. >> Second. >> Question. Roll call. >> Mr. Anderson. >> Yes. >> Mr. Griffith. >> Yes. >> Mr. Ker. >> Yes. >> Mr. Kger. >> Yes.
014>> Mrs. Miller. >> Yes. >> Mr. Ping. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Rhodess. >> Yes. >> Mr. Shuy. >> Yes. Need a motion to approve the exoneration request. >> Motion. >> Second. >> Question. Roll call. >> Mr. Griffith. >> Mr. Kashner. >> Yes. >> Mr. Kger. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Miller. >> Yes. >> Mr. Ping. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Rhodess. Yes. Mr. Shuy. >> Yes. >> Mr. Anderson. >> Yes. Okay, we'll go into the personnel >> uh item 8.12. We're going to table that 8.12. Okay, I need a motion to approve all the personnel items in 8.01 to 8.16 as listed except for the one that we're going to second. >> Question roll call. Mr. Casher, >> yes. >> Mr. Kger, >> yes. >> Mrs. Miller, >> yes. >> Mr. Pink, >> yes. >> Mrs. Rhodess,
015>> yes. >> Mr. Anderson, >> yes. >> Mr. Griffith, >> yes. >> Okay. Board members reports. I'll start this one. Uh, just want to congratulate the volleyball team. Won the North Skookul Invitational on September the 6th. There was eight teams in the field. Schmoking finished 8 and0. They beat North Spoon in the championship game. So, congratulations to the girls volleyball team. I just want to commend the um staff administration getting the school year. I've heard nothing but good things from uh teachers and students in the school year. Facilities were ready to go and it seems like everybody was ready for a new school year. So kudos to all you. Anybody else? Okay. An executive session was held for personnel issues on Tuesday, September 16th, 2025 from 5:30 p.m. to 7:25 prior to the regular monthly
016board meeting. If we didn't have any citizens con comments, I need a motion for adjournment. >> Motion. We're ajourned. Thank you.