School Board Meeting - 2/20/25

001e e e this February 20th 2025 regular board meeting of the uh of Education uh please rise for the pledge to the flag I pledge Al to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with libery and justice for all may I have a roll call Elizabeth do here Mary Lee Hall here Samantha Hall here William Hall here Jeremy hash here Jennifer hankle here Nathan hankle here James Holly here Joseph Wilson here thank you all right need to announce a couple of uh executive sessions that we've had um we had one on Tuesday concerning uh superintendent evaluation um and then one immediately prior to this meeting uh concerning legal special education and act 93 uh matters and then we are will be

002having one just following this meeting meeting uh another uh legal concerning District property um all right moving on to item 2.01 I'll entertain a motion to approve the agenda as presented so moved second a motion in a second uh do I have any discussion any a or abstentions hearing none that motion carries uh I'll entertain a motion to approve uh unless someone wants to split them out we'll approve the minutes for the uh January 16th board meeting as well as the uh personnel and policy committee meeting minutes um I'll entertain a motion to approve both of those so moved do I have a second second any discussion any n or abstentions hearing none that motion carries moving on to item four our student representative report thank you sorry I'm a little congested yet again everybody

003so everybody is that season so try to keep it a little bit brief so last night was the Battle of the buildings and I'd like to give congratulations to the high school student team for taking home the win and then on February 25th we have the districtwide orchestra concert I was previously an orchestra that was always my favorite concert it's always great to see how the skill levels progress from the little third graders up to the big high schoolers then February 28th is the swing dance put on by the high school band at 6 p.m. March 3rd spring Sports begin March 5th is the shs College and Career Fair at 5:30 p.m. then on March 8th we will be hosting the SAT not excited for that the chamber orchestra concert will be at 7:00 p.m.

004on March 11th March 13th is meet the teams night for our spring Sports and sorry there's one more March 26th is the counseling dual enrollment night at 5:30 p.m. and then just some other notes the first ever Winter Carnival was very well attended I'm very proud of everyone who showed up very happy that everyone came um the one act play following that is also phenomenal they always do a very good job we're also going to have the theater Department performance of bye-bye birdie which is going to be March 21st 22nd and 23rd so I'm very excited for that and I think that's it thank you thank you all right moving on to item 5.01 educational updates by Dr Rep thank you president hle School Board good evening uh happy lady Valentine's Day to everyone also

005I guess punks Tony Phil was correct uh maybe it won't last all full weeks you know that's the only thing we can hope for uh but to stay within my theme of safe supportive and collaborative uh culture as you know safety is our number one priority with learned our school district as our district continues to do whatever it takes to make Southern York County School District safe uh supportive and collaborative environment with that in mind want to take a moment to celebrate a belated day of recognition for two very important individuals in our district so could school resource officer Sergeant Daryl smuck and DL Mendes please come in the boardroom at this time and stand at the podium oh they're here yes no no you can come up a little bit uh you know this

006time time you know I just wanted to say that you know on Monday as a time set aside to recognize school resource officers and you know Sergeant smuck has been with us for a few months and made some tremendous impact thus far uh s uh Sergeant SMU has been with Southern Regional Police Department for over 20 years and immediately was able to transition into his role and making his presence known you know throughout all the buildings um even at the events um as he was there last night at Battle of the building uh but also I'd like to thank Dio Mendes you know being our school safety officer he's been with us well over 20 years continues to make an impact on the lives of our students and we're very fortunate to have these two

007dedicated individuals uh with focusing on one thing the safety of our school and school Community gentlemen thank you for all you do and we appreciate you [Applause] speech spech U I mean I'll just say something quick I uh so as Dr rard said I've been I've been with the police department just coming well this may will be 25 years uh so this transition is kind of uh if you would told me I would have been doing this a couple years ago I would have said you're crazy but uh uh we needed to fill the position I told the chief I'd give it a shot till December and see how it goes and like the first day in I fell in love with it so I went to SRO School in December and got that certification

008and uh everybody's been the teachers the administration everybody's been warm and welcoming and students are awesome and uh so uh I just appreciate the opportunity to be here and I'll leave it at that do anything thank you gentlemen than y under uh supportive you know now that we're back from the winter break you know my school visits have really picked up U to at least getting into the classrooms in the schools about three times a week very grateful for our awesome teachers that we have within our district uh the level of student engagement content focused discussion is superb and that's all goes back to the lesson uh development of our teachers I really appreciated the high level of questioning uh during the visits that I had specifically this week our teachers continue to focus on

009the 21st century skills of communic communication collaborations critical thinking as well as creativity and helping our students prepare themselves to be more successful in life so for all the teachers and staff out there keep up the great work I appreciate you I also want to take a moment to congratulate several of our students who had entered their artwork in the York College of Pennsylvania's annual York Community Art Scholars exhibition we have 10 students in our district that have been selected uh to have their pieces on display as finalists for next Thursday February 27th in York so congratulations goes out to the following students Abigail abgar Alison Bergman Bella brokop Eliana Burley jilliana uh Jillian dance Emily Marcus Kristen Martin Ava mosus Scarlett penin Pennington Lindley and Janessa Pinkney uh for the collaborative collabor collaborative culture

010uh Caleb hit on this battle the buildings last night was awesome just to see that liveliness the excitement within the the buildings uh coming to the uh come to the gymnasium I know Caleb threw a shout out to the high school uh Team uh but I will say everybody was winners uh Shrewsbury Elementary did win for the Elementary uh bracket uh but it was just an awesome event uh just a couple reminders Caleb you hit uh seven of my nine or seven of my 10 uh we do have a Makeup Session of a presentation that the district is H hosting an adult only presentation uh by the District Attorney's office on sextortion txting and cyber crimes on Wednesday March 5th at 7M information regarding that will go out from the district uh but that is

011rescheduled from uh the one that was cancelled during the parent conferences I we do we have an early dismissal on Friday March 7th and the last thing I have just to kind of go back to punks of Tony Phil let's have a warmer month of February or not well I guess the choice is not ours thank you all right uh moving on to item 6.01 public comment um I see we have two and they're both public comment veterans so um just remember to state your name in municipality and uh Val Dennis my name is Val Brown Dennis and I live in Shrewsberry Township and first something to thank our teachers um thank you also um Dr repert for sharing about the cell phones about the parents as I've said in the past we need to

012focus on cell phones and healthy parenting and respect above all I believe that will change education and we look at all these celebrations and we also look at the reality um of what does happen in our schools in our communities in our nation in our world there's a lot happening as we know so for our teachers um from Dr Brad Johnson education isn't broken because of teachers it is broken because we ask teachers to be counselors social workers parents and miracle workers while still demanding perfect test scores we fix the system not the people holding it together I will speaking today um about dual enrollment and recently a district nearby dropped their dual enrollment because it was not economically feasible soon we may be facing the potential destruction of the Department of Education in 1988

013the Secretary of Education was nominated with the intention to remove the Department of Education once he saw what the Department of Education was doing then he changed and advocated to keep it he wrote a book about that the 13th man a Reagan cabinet Memoir um as a librarian I often speak about books um and I hope some of you will also consider to take a look at another book called cast by Isabelle Wilkerson I believe that the history of this book helps us to understand all the divisions we have and the challenges we have with speaking to each other and working together to move forward so the federal government um those responsibilities that have been supported by the federal government will shift to the state and to our community drastically increasing school taxes if we

014are um entertaining the idea of possible Charter Schools down the road local school taxes would also soar higher to accommodate the DraStic change and the excessive financial and legal challenges beforehand and the aftermath that charter schools have created for decades in US communities I absolutely agree that we need school Improvement I've worked on school Improvement teams and led them for years I hope we can all work together to see what makes a difference for our students for their adult lives for each other and that's challenging right now the how and the who are challenging for us to work on um charter schools are often dividing rich and poor sadly we have a lot of that in our nation today our schools divide into those groups which is unfortunate because all deserve opportunities and resources in

015a way that is balanced sometimes we have schools that are one religion or not that um all religions are in the United States and will continue to do so so whether on the federal or local level remodeling a house or a school is always cheaper than Demolition and starting over from the foundation and back to dual enrollment it absolutely sounds like a wonderful idea on the surface and I've had many students who've worked with dual enrollment when we look a little deeper there are some challenges from an academic perspective students and parents are often unaware unaware that many colleges and universities do not accept dual enrollment credit or cours work it's important to continue to communicate that colleges and universities are businesses that want their seats filled and their budgets filled sometimes academic rigor is

016sacrificed in order to keep students and to cover costs and this is not okay on many occasions students had bragged to me that they took dual enrollment classes because they were so much easier than the AP classes at the high school we have strong AP teachers here and it's important to make sure we consider their work um as well as the decisions we make make for our students academic rigor has been tested by several decades of some parents who believe that learning should not be stressful or challenging one parent said to me high school is for socializing not for academics I'm still recovering from that one and most of all I wanted to be able to look at February um there's just so much happening I wanted to share a little bit of my thoughts

017with the dual enrollment piece um why do we need Black History Month I often hear that in February I shifted this week I heard a woman say in a local business thank God we got back our Warrior now if we can just get anima back a stereotype on pancake syrup we absolutely need black history month we have shared Humanity we have different experiences and since the lines between church and state are overlapping let us pray God of freedom and Justice forgive us for the times we have remained silent or pretended that racism doesn't exist anymore forgive us for the times we've remained silent in the face of Injustice rescue us from every form of fear hatred and Prejudice amen thank you uh Captain uh Jack Smith my name is Captain Jack Smith I am the

018commander of the VF WN New Freedom and also Shrewsbury Township resident um I'm here here um twofold this evening um the first being um I'd like to thank two susanah students for being employed at it at our facility in New Freedom and pardon me I don't know their last names I just know their first names one of them both of them work in their kitchen there um part-time um one of them is nam's Kayla Kayla and the other one's named Chloe Ryan I don't I'm sorry but I don't know which ones are which so but I would like to thank them they do an outstanding job um their service to the um to the post is is even though they're being paid it's one of these things where um it's something we're doing hopefully the

019community teach um in in the important things about having a job and being on time and everything else so I just thought I'd throw that in there my main reason this evening for coming was um as an employee of the school district um as game help um I come to the gym quite regularly and do the timing for the um basketball games um I also came over um this year and assisted in the folding of all the flags that are in what do you call that area is it the atrium what the common common common okay in the Commons um I worked with two of I can't think whose name was two of the teach a teacher who taught history their class came down and folded two of the flags the other flags were folded

020by Mrs Patty McGee and my wife and myself um the maintenance department did nowy job at putting them all up and everything else I have a little ritual I do every time I come here and every time I walk into the common area I stand in front of his flags at attention and 50% of the time I render military honors to this there's 23 flags up there for 20 three students um who gave their life in service of this nation um what I would like or ask and and I don't know if it's politically correct or anything else that in the morning um when you have your um announcement at school if they could include in that every morning a moment silence there is 23 people who gave made the ultimate sacrifice um for their

021Nation um they are the ones who guaranteed the fact that we can come here and we can speak we can hold meetings we can say pretty much what we want to say in this nation we can re go to whatever religious services or whatever but um if I could if I could do that I really appreciate it I I have one more thing um last year I brought a flag pole up here um I do provide flags for every one of the sports Fields here at ssma hanic in the spring um I would like to see him take that flag pole that I brought up and put it up on the track cuz that's the only place that doesn't have one so that's just a request and and it goes up there fine the other

022flag Pooles that are out there I think three of the fours that we we've put up um we put up by the VFW or members from the VFW so but uh if I could get that done this year I'm getting a little bit older it's pretty hard to get down there with the post hold Digger and dig dig a hole one I don't know exactly where they want to go with it but I really appreciate it and um we had a real good basketball season this year I was really pleased thank you very much thank you all right uh board discussion of public comment uh anyone have any discussion of anything that was said I love the idea of the moment of silence for those 23 students in those 23 Flags I think that's wonderful

023um and I appreciate those those thoughtful gestures of our past and soldiers you don't really get to see that every day especially in school so I think that's a great suggestion I love it thank you just had a quick question question the flag F you're speaking of that you it's out actually sitting right out in the equipment shed on on the football I brought it up last year where was it supposed to be for uh it supposed to be for the U um track that's the only field that I know of that doesn't have their own specific flagle that true because the baseball field has baseball the old softball field has one um they have between them the softball field down below Southern has one yeah um we did not put the flag up that's

024at the new baseball field behind Southern I believe you when when they did that field that was part of the budget for that field and then the main field was put that flight po was paid for by the American Legion of Glen Rock and New Freedom um BFW and uh this one I I had bought um I have like two or three at my house and flag and so so that one flag B I had bought I never got the chance to put it up so I brought it over here so they can do it it's a 20f footer it's not a real large but it has the base the whole n yard is in there and the track currently does not have one is that correct I don't know that the track team plays

025the national anthem before they start anyway so I don't know if they've ever like we've ever like struggled to look for one because of that it's they're not all age yeah but um I have filled in up track is gain help oh yeah I think it's a great idea official um and they do have a PA system there because they do announce whatever so they have a PA system there it's one one of the sticky things you put in the computer you can stick that thing in there and like they do the gym play the national yeah the problem is that they're not all together they're down below and stuff so I mean I'm not making excuses I think it's something they when they they all have to report the track all has to report

026to I believe Mrs Novak still doing it they all have to report to Mrs Noak mean somebody from the from each one of teams have to so it wouldn't be that hard before it starts you know the pull together and play cuz he do we do it for every other grp oh I agree I just thought the throwers were always down in the throwing field so I don't even think they're yeah they're not even up that's why I was saying that but I don't I'm not against putting a flag there I just was saying I think that's why no one's ever said anything like hey we need that I'm writing down sticky thing I don't know what that is but yeah I get it anything else thank you thank you very much thank you um

027all right I'm going to suggest that we move item 10 point uh out of uh respect for our guest's time move item 10.03 up uh to right now um so I'll hand it over to our personel and policy shair okay um item 10.03 is um the voting for our School Safety and Security coordinator um I did want to welcome Mr LEL here today thank you we're so happy to have you um and so with that I am going to uh make a motion to appoint Matthew lightell as the school safety and security coordinator at a salary of $95,000 effective March 17th 2025 do I have a second second any um discussion any Nam or abstentions okay that motion passes and we would love for to say a few words so when I first came in

028I had the opportunity to meet most of you and it happened really quick and I'm so happy that you are graciously posting your name tags in front of you so it'll help reinforce that for me for later times but be gracious with me as I I learn all of your names over the next few weeks um first I'd like to say thank you for the opportunity to be here um have you you ever been in in one of those situations or making a decision or you arrive at a location and you think to yourself it just feels right and that's the way I feel moving into this position for the past 30 years I've had numerous different education training and experiences that I think are going to build the foundation and provide the foundation that's

029going to truly allow me to excel in this position um I I do want to say that um your administrative team puts on a heck of a a process in their selection for a position like this um that they really put me through the ringer and and it wasn't an easy process and you should know that and I I want you to also know that as we went through that process and they were assessing me I was also assessing them and assessing this District as a whole and what I've learned through that process is you know I I heard Dr raer say a safe supportive and collaborative School environment and those aren't just buzz words around here you know I I've seen it in just the little bit of time that I'm here it's not

030just something that's being said it's something that's actually being lived in this district and your district and especially just from the folks that I've met so far your administrative team they take Safety and Security very very seriously and that was important to me as I was considering moving into this position because I'm not one of those guys that just checks the box that okay we did this we're good now we we met the criteria I truly want to ensure that we are making this place as safe as we possibly can while Main maintaining a a welcoming environment and I think we can all have a good time doing it and I'm just really excited to get started so thank you thank you you congratulations what does this smell all right um getting back to our

031regularly scheduled meeting uh I'll bring up item seven I'll entertain a motion to yes thank you you're welcome to stay but got a 4our drive yeah but I will be back thank you I'll entertain a motion to uh approve the consent agenda as presented so moved have a motion SEC a motion in a second uh any any discussion any nay or extensions hearing none uh that motion carries and we'll move on to item8 uh education and I'll turn it over to our education chair Mrs ankle um can we go ahead and defer to nine while Dr reford is out of the room oh yes that makes sense all right we will move nine up oh wait he's back all right going back we're back to education just kidding yes thank you all right 8.01 is

032quick data for high reliability schools um this is just information and you have attached the board briefing so 8.02 the guidance plan as mandated by Pennsylvania school code in chapter 339 I'm going to give that to Dr rert thank you Mr hankle uh Mrs ankle do you mind if I go back to 8.01 with HRS please you have my permission okay uh one thing for the the board and the community U I have shared you know some of the celebrations of our district uh as we embraced and you know went down the path of you know moving forward with our dedication with Marzano and high reliability schools and I wanted to share with the board this evening that we did receive in in front of my desk here is a uh a plaque that was

033provided to us from Marzano it says Morano resources High reliability schools level one certification safe supportive and collaborative Culture Your uh your Sunder County School District the importance of of this is we are the first district in the state of Pennsylvania to be certified in Marzano level one and as Matt had mentioned we're not just it's not just buzzwords that we're using we take safety import uh safety as high priority being supportive of one another a high priority and the collaborative piece so this will be on display here in the boardroom uh so anytime from this point forward that'll be there but a couple people I I did want to thank I'm not going to say individual names but Dr Hughes um who who was very instrumental and doing a lot of the leg work

034uh with with Morano and uh with with their Consultants as we're kind of moving through this process but more importantly our administrative team uh doing a lot of the work in the prepar ation uh within uh level one but this can't be done without the teachers without the students and without the parents uh that have participated in the survey so I did want to take a moment so Mrs hankle sorry I did not know that was coming up until it was sitting on my desk prior to the board meeting uh but I want to take a moment and say to the board thank you for supporting um our vision of admission with uh having consistency throughout our district common language throughout our district uh um and it's very helpful you know that that we've received

035this as a district so it's something as just we really need to be proud of so on that note sorry quick quick uh I just want to make sure everybody knows the smell you're smelling I won't name who but somebody burned toast and that's that's all it is we're all safe I want to find out who yeah anyone to worry because I was getting a little worried but but someone we won't name burn burn some toaster or something s so anyway back to the education report okay so 8.02 as uh Mrs anel talked about is the guidance plan chapter 339 uh this is a very comprehensive plan that is approved every 3 years and our district uh and I'm going to have two of my colleagues speak to it uh have gone through this plan

036and did an incredible alignment with our comprehensive plan so there's some common language and consistency as we're looking at the uh different plans so I want to turn it over to uh Dr Rogers and Dr Hughes to speak briefly about the process of what incurred with this because we are presenting it for information uh this evening and then in March it would have to be voted on so that we can uh send it off to pte as it is due in March so Dr hes so many um many years ago we went through our initial training with the chapter 339 with um many of our guidance counselors um school um counselors and one of the things that we started to see is that it started to change very slowly where they would put out new

037templates and have new information that needed to the chapter 339 is really a plan that tells us what our school counselors are doing to help support our students in career Readiness and getting them ready for the job market and life beyond high school so you'll notice when you go through the plan that there are several um mandatory pieces and one of the things that I have to give a lot of credit to Dr Rogers he really helped us go through and look at what original template was in the plan and then how we could realign that to the new templates that were coming out so as we went through um we had our school counselors sit down and kind of go through the plan and edit the what they're currently doing as Dr rert talked

038about this is a three-year plan so many of the items were from three years ago so we wanted to make it more of in alignment with what we're currently doing and where we're heading so we wanted to look at our comprehensive plan in the um actions that we're doing with high reliability schools and make sure that we're aligning getting our students the career ready and building the warrior so you'll see as you're going through some of the things that were in there in the past are no longer in there because they're not required anymore but you'll also notice that some of the language has changed because we're really looking and making sure that all of our components are really building toward that career awareness career readiness um so we also before I begin I also

039want to make sure that I am thanking the work that our counselors have done for the origination of the original plan as well as the work that we asked them to do at a quick period of time um to Reign things with this one as well too they um they were the ones that brought to our attention that they really wanted it to be a living breathing document something that they was very reflective of their work we thank them very much for all the work that they do each and every day for our kids but especially in working with this particular plan as well too so a as Dr Hughes had mentioned we um we we wanted to make sure that that this was reflective of the work we're doing for bringing awareness for career

040and education and work uh within that and building in all of our focuses for um HRS so we our our folks put together some goals that they wanted to about the safety and saf and reliable schools and and there's supportiveness within that so there there was a lot of pieces that were built on that that's one of the goals that we have focused in within that we also wanted to then have our uh curriculum for counseling and the work that our counselors are doing to also reflect that as well too and what we're doing with building the Warriors so there's alignment that we have that we put in there um for our building the Warriors and our F focuses for for that piece of our curriculum that we're doing and so that is that's reflective

041of our other goals that we put in there as well too so that is um that was a lot of work and a lot of stuff that that we aligned with when what our counselors have put together for us in in the curriculum that they have already but making sure that we're aligning it to where our focuses are for the building the warrior I don't have that memorized but can we can work for it but um it is all and then how does each and every one of those connect with our career the Career Education and work uh standards that are part of this chapter 339 one of the other things that you'll notice as you go through the plan is that they are required the the report out what do they they do every

042month that goes in alignment with career Readiness um the some of the different headings that you'll see in here are required from the state so as you go through once again a lot of the pieces that are in here are directly in alignment with what we have PA that provide the state to fulfill this requirement okay any questions thank you again for your leadership but also uh Dr Rogers uh I'd be remiss to say the work by our school counselors and their collaboration in putting this together was just absolutely phenomenal but thank you for your leadership with us thank you Dr Rogers and Dr Hughes all right that brings us to 8.03 which is the student handbook for the 2025 2026 school year this is also information and Dr rer I'm going to kick that

043back to you thank you Mrs hankle um I would like to go back to 8.02 I think I'm setting a trend here I do want to follow up uh there was a question that was brought to my uh brought to me about what other plans do does a district have to uh submit you know on a on a regular basis uh chapter 4 um specifies that there are School entities have to complete specific plans and I'm just going to kind of walk through and kind of name those and what they are um like our district uh is responsible for a uh professional development plan which is Act 48 that's done every three years that specifically talks about what specifically is done during the instuction plan with our teachers um well sorry the next one is

044our induction plan uh which is every six years that's for our new teacher uh we have a student services plan uh which focuses on the support that our students need beyond the school counseling uh so that's a plan that's submitted and it's done every six years uh we also have a special education plan uh which Dr Rogers uh assisted in authoring in uh in the last year that's done every three years as well as a gifted education plan uh which is done every six years and for several of the board members uh you sat on our district comprehensive plan that's done every three years uh so just to kind of have an idea there are these requirements that we need to put together and show what we're doing specifically as a district and you know

045how often that they are renewed okay so this all I'm actually going to pass that over to you thank okay so m ankle don't worry I won't go back anymore I think I'm back on track that now but regarding to student handbooks uh just for the board uh for information only I just wanted to share with you that our school district is going to a one handbook model um and the one handbook would include elementary middle and the high school within one handbook the purpose is for you know when I look at our parents that have students that are in multiple levels um I currently in another District have children in all three levels so I had to review the elementary the middle the high school sign off on each of those what this does

046now is for parents that have students at multiple levels will have one handbook that they're going to be able to go to and look at academics look at code of conduct look at uh rights of responsibilities look at cafeteria bus Transportation everything so it'll all be in one document and it'll be if there are specific things for elementary it'll be noted Elementary under a certain section same thing with the middle and the high school um other districts have gone to this and I know it was a challenge uh and an and an eye opener and jaw-dropper when I brought this up as an idea uh to not only administrator schools uh but they've embraced it and we're in a position that in March that we will bring that draft to the board for uh your

047know information only for approval then in April fantastic thank you so much uh 8.04 this is the agreement we have with Messiah going to go ahead and move to approve a memorandum of understanding with Messiah University for students to participate in dual enrollment courses at no cost to the district may I have a second please second is anybody have any questions Dr rert do you have anything that you wanted to add to this or no the other thing Mrs hle I'd like to add is for the board uh you have approved several of the Dual enrollments over the previous years um as our first uh speaker uh you know during public comment talked about these provide our students those opportunities uh so we're very fortunate that you know we have the ability to partnership with

048these universities and colleges and then provide these students the ability in order to take those courses and I'd also like to thank the uh High School admin and parents that make these opportunities possible sometimes we don't realize the opportunities that are there and we are given you know advanced notice through our admin and for parents to to go ahead and put in for some of these so thank you guys for that um do I have any Nays or abstentions for this all right that motion carries takes us to 8.05 which is the additions to the field trip for the 2024 2025 school year and I believe with this so this is an action item the the only thing that we have here is that the shrewbury elementary school Keystone Kids Place space rather um we're

049trying to make this consistent among schools and so we had those field trips with the other elementary schools we're adding that now so I'm going to go ahead and move to approve the additions to the field trips for the 2024 2025 school year as listed indicated on the uh agenda may I have a second please second does anybody have any questions any Nays or abstentions that motion carries that brings us to 8.06 speakers approved through the vetting process again this is just information and I would like to note for Mrs Green this is 1 through 8 nine is exempt from this um does anybody have any questions I'm moving on to 8.07 novel's textbook adoption I'm going to go ahead and move to approve the following novel textbooks as indicated in the agenda I'm not

050going to read their titles does anybody may I have a second please second does anybody have any questions how were they the one I am not an expert on at all and it looked good to me it's the test prep give me quizzes later I can answer all of your questions um the other one was a little bit more readable for me so any Nays or abstentions that motion carries um now we have 8.08 stage one Curriculum maps as districtwide Master Maps Dr rert thank you Mr tkel uh I'd like to turn this over to Dr Hughes she's going to speak briefly about uh the computer programming uh curriculum map so much like the Drone book that was approved as I was going through the computer prr programming there was lots of things about Raspberry

051Pi and I learned a lot about coding so this is a very interesting um course and I'm just very glad that we have the opportunity to bring these courses to our students such as the computer programming and the Drone course um so we're looking forward to continuing to expand our programs in addition to the computer program we have this evening um an engineering 7 an English 11 and an English 12 Latin one science and literature and our last one is Introduction to government and um economics we also have a US history so we have quite a few Maps coming through in the next couple months so um very very excited though at the hard work that's been going on I want to take a moment to thank the um schools the high school and the

052middle school and the elementaries have been a able to allow me the work with the teachers during parent conferences um if a teacher didn't have a time with a parent we were able to get online and work together to be able to complete some of the maps and go through them so I'm really excited about all the hard work that's been going on and how this is going to continue to help us get ready for going into HRS level three guaranteed viable curriculum fantastic thank you so much I'm going to go ahead and move to approve the stage one curriculum Maps as districtwide Master maps and Dr Hughes read through them so as indicated on the agenda may I have a second please second all righty any Nays or abstentions or any questions sorry guys

053any Nays or abstentions that motion carries that takes us to 8.09 which is our affiliation agreement between Holy Family University and our school district I'll go ahead and move to approve the affiliation agreement between Holy Family University and Southern York County School District for the 2024 2025 school year renewing annually uh unit mutually terminated and so uh may I have a second please second uh with this one this one is a little bit different it actually provides more opportunities for our medical staff and nursing staff so that's a little bit different than just the academic opportunities that we have with other agreements um does anybody else have any other questions any Nays or abstentions that motion carries to brings us to 8.10 I have no other items of business all right that'll bring us to

054our uh finance and budget alter over treasur thank you president hle uh 9.01 Financial reports here you will find treasures report tax collection report budget status report and the cafeteria report for January um quick rund down on the balances our general fund concentration account started the month with a 10 million uh the Investments account started the month with 39 million 77853 199 and ended the month at a balance of 34835 th000 sorry 34 m835 67 $4 right it's mouthful uh those reports are all there for your perusal 9.02 review of bills for payment going to make a motion to approve the bills for payment as presented so move all right we got we got a motion a second any questions on this any Nays or abstentions hear none motion passes 9.03 exonerations refunds we have

055none 9.04 budget transfers going to make a motion to approve the budget transfers as presented may I have a second second second any discussion on this any nay or abstentions none motion passes 9.05 I'm going to make a motion to approve the York County School of Technology 2025 to 2026 budget as presented here may have a second second thank you [Applause] sorry so uh this does represent an increase of about 3% year of a year um is there anything you want to add to this Mrs Green no I did review the budget inde detail um there are know new staff positions in the budget um there I thought was notable um they are adding four buses to reduce ride time so one of the things they really struggle with um is the ride time for

056the students uh going to York School of Technology and then they are also experiencing an increase in health insurance there's about 7 and a half% um based upon the the estimate um our district increase will be about 3.63% um but that is projecting 2 and a half more students than we currently have so I thought it was very reasonable okay uh any questions on this uh any Nays or extensions hearing none motion passes 9.06 this is the Lincoln Intermediate Unit 2025 2026 budget this is an action item as well uh I'm going to make a motion to approve the Lincoln Intermediate Unit 20252 26 budget may I have a second second um the overall effect on this is our contribution went down ever so slightly uh like $100 um any discussion on this any NES

057or abstentions hearing none motion passes 9.07 budget update and state budget information I'm going to turn it over to Mrs green thank you um so each month we talk about something um unique to the budget this month I want to talk about U the governor's um budget for this year um it is different than what we've seen recently um so if you remember to back to some of the presentations that I made uh in the fall on the budget from last year for this current year actually for 2425 um one of the things um we have new funding streams and I caution that that does make me a little nerv nervous when we're putting money into new funding streams versus basic Ed and special ed we're kind of continuing down that path with this budget

058um so one of the things um for this budget there are very small increases in the areas of basic education funding and special education funding so for southern our basic education funding um for this this proposal is only an addition of $49,000 or a half a percent in addition special education funding in while it's 2.83% it's only about $69,000 so for both basic Ed and special ed that's only $120,000 so very small in those areas where we are seeing potential money in in The Proposal is in the adequacy funding so there's about $520,000 under adequacy funding but again that one always makes me nervous because those streams tend to go away easier than basic Ed and special ed um we tend to We tend to hold basic Ed special ed and not really lower those

059um these other funding streams as I showed in the fall go up and down um and when they need to find money they find them there so that does make me nervous um the other thing I think I said in the fall when when spe uh we got money for Cyber Charter Schools about $136,000 so be careful because that one comes and goes um usually goes doesn't come um so that is not in the budget uh the governor's proposal so um that's a hit of about $136,000 what is in the budget um is to go to um a standard amount for Cyber Charter Schools for tuition that would be wonderful but that has probably been proposed for the last 15 years and we've made no movement on it so does make me very nervous stay

060tuned uh the one thing also last year pasbo so the association for school business officials said we feel pretty comfortable that you can budget some if not all of the money in the governor's budget they are not saying that this year they are basically saying to be very cautious so um as we head into the budget I think we have to really wrap our header in how much of this we are going to put in there um we tend to put in about 2% for basic education funding makes me nervous because we're not getting 2% so uh as we're working through it I think that's the one thing we really need to I'm going to continue to listen learn talk to people but um this proposal makes me a little nervous at at this at

061this point again the 529,000 $520,000 is great but where it is with strings attached makes me a little nervous so if you look at it overall um in comparison to our whole budget there's really not a whole lot here but we'll have to as I said we'll have to look and see now we going on the House and Senate see what they're going to say but we won't know that by the time we pass our budget I I'll be honest with you we've never known that in my 27 years when we pass the budget so there's probably not a chance we're going to know that by the time we have to pass ours okay so that's kind of where we are um but let me let me finish on a positive note because I really

062like to do that um you know as we're working through the budget when we present it in November of course we're we're kind of making sure we're um covering everything um do feel like we're going to be able March in March we bring the the detail budget to the board um in finance and budget um do you feel like the numbers are coming in better than we thought um that's what we want we never want them to come in worse than we thought so um as we're working through it um it's manageable so we'll be bringing that that detail to the board um on March 18th okay great thank you Mr screen 9.08 onetime purchase I'm going to make a motion to approve the onetime purchases totaling $4,525 and the associated transfer from regular education

063salary Surplus may I have a second second uh any discussion on this there is one item in here that um the flooring that's going to come uh later meeting so yeah there were two items um in the briefing um that we had talked briefly about at the last meeting that are not included in this 24529 um that would be um the uh fitness equipment at the middle school and the associated flooring in that space so we are going we are continuing to work to get that flooring number okay is that separate equipment than the treadmills and the ellipticals that are mentioned th those are not in this 24,000 they're they would become at a different time because we don't want to get the equipment before we would have the floor to put them on so

064yeah we need the floor to get the equipment so or chicken egg so this includes the other items that were listed there the vision screener uh the cameras and then the um format printer y y any discussion on this any Nam or extensions very none motion passes n 09 going to make a motion to approve the following agreements related to the e- rate mini bid for technology an agreement with e+ Technologies for 26 UPS battery backups 5-year firewall licensing and 5-year access point licensing at a total cost of $23,988 8888 and two in agreement with integral one for Network switches is at a cost of $596 24 May I have a second second any discussion on this uh any nams or extensions here none motion passes 9 point 10 I'm going to make a motion

065to approve the a list of qualifying applications for the volunteer firefighter and Emergency Services tax credit program totaling $41,000 now I have a second second thank you uh just want to touch on the numbers this actually is proven to if this program continues to grow uh first year we implemented this was 2022 and we had 55 participants qualify for it 2023 we had 70 qualifying applicants and this past year 2024 we have had 82 so it is growing and uh helping to support our local EMS and uh Emergency Services firefighters uh any discussion on this I do think it uh is probably worth noting that that rebate amount is $500 per individual so as you can see at 41,000 it affects a lot of people that are giving time and serving in our community um

066so although $41,000 is not a small number um it is um across a vast number of people who are uh serving our community so it's a it's a nice thank you for the time and energy that they put into our EMS yes okay okay uh any nay or extensions hear none motion passes 9.11 i' like to make a motion to advertise for bids for student Chromebooks for the Chromebook replacement plan for the 2025 2026 school year may I have a second second um any discussion on this first one went pretty quick so I'm sure that the community will look forward to snapping these up too uh this isn't for selling this is for putting out to bid to purchase or Replacements once we replace them then we'll have some some to it was a hot

067commodity I have to say there was some disappointment okay uh have a motion second uh any discussion any names or exensions hear none motion passes 9.12 going to make a motion to approve the York Adams Academy budget for 2025 2026 may I have a second second uh this is for one seat for us to have available to us uh for alternate placement um any discussion on this any Nays or extensions none motion passes brings us to 9.13 other items of business I have none so I'll return it to you president HK thank all right moving on to uh item 10 personnel and policy I will turn it over to our personnel and policy chair uh Mrs samanth Hall president hle item 10.01 we have the proposed 2025 2026 and 2026 2027 school year District calendars

068um and I just wanted to give um a little um just background on this so um a committee of 22 members including professional staff support staff administrative staff parents and students met several times to work through the process of developing District calendars for the next 2-year cycle and I thought it was interesting to note um because I didn't know how these things are made so thank you for including that information for us in the briefing but the 2526 and 2627 District calendars very much mirror the format of 2425 in terms of the first student day being on a Tuesday for grades K through n and then of course um the Wednesday for the grades 10 through 12 and ending in May which I know was always super exciting for um parents and students alike and

069probably teachers too um a Tuesday start date followed positive feedback on the back to school activities for elementary schools occurring the week prior to school starting so we're just continuing with that um regarding the specific 2526 this schedule ex is able to extend the winter break by one day to avoid returning to school on a Friday January 2nd 2026 which I don't think anybody would like so thank you the 2627 schedule extends the winter break by being closed on Wednesday December 23rd 2026 so that our last student day and graduation occurs on the last Friday in May um and then just a word about our um ins Services the number of full day and half day in services are the same and the only notable difference is that the one at the end of the

070year the full day in service is actually being moved back to um the beginning of the year so just a little background on that and thank you for the work on that um so I would like to make a motion to approve the 2025 2026 and 2026 2027 school year District calendars do I have a second second um any discussion um any Nays or abstentions okay that motion passes uh item 10.02 um the first reading um of the board policies so I'm not going to go into too much on this because we did have a policy meeting on Tuesday but as per our board policy process at the January School Board meeting the board distributed or the board received the policies that were presented and discussed on Tuesday at the February 18th personnel and policy

071meeting um tonight is the first reading of those policies the policies will be published for public review following um this meeting and then we will move to a second read in March with a board vote and upon passage of the vote the policies are final approved and effective so just in terms of grouping we had one new policy 11 updated policies three retired policies and three that are being merged as part of a project that we started in 2023 so again this is just for information only um 10.03 we already did um 10.04 we have um a resolution for America 250 PA and um I had heard of it but I just wanted to give a little brief description that um in 2018 there was a plan put together to um plan encourage develop and

072coordinate the commem ation of the 250th anniversary which is the semi quintal right did I get that right yeah um of the United States and specifically Pennsylvania's integral role in that event and the role of its people on the nation's past present and future um and if anybody's interested in this that more can be read about this initiative at America 250 pa.org so I would like to make a motion to approve the resolution supporting the Pennsylvania commission and York County Commission endorsing America 250 PA to educate preserve innovate and celebrate for the United States semi Quinn Centennial do I have a second second um any um discussion and just remember when they came to Southern Elementary that was Senator Phil Christen Phillips Hill she was here as well as some local authorities and the Keystone

073um mascot was here a lot of fun for the kids over at Southern yeah yes um very good initiative yes thank you um any Nays or abstentions all right then that motion carries and uh 10.05 other items of business I have none so I will turn it back over to you president hle thank you all right moving on to item 11 buildings and grounds I'll turn it over to our uh buildings and grounds chair Mr Hall thank you president hickl 11.01 buildings and grounds report for January 2025 Mr buffing yay Mr Buffington is back I'm back [Music] welcome I would dance but not quite yet we saw you dancing prior right right uh it's good yeah good to be back um so the monthly monthly report um certainly as we all know the snow has

074a cost you know January was a was a costly month um hopefully as I heard Dr reper say earlier about the groundhog hopefully the the um snow isn't too bad as we're continuing on through winter um any other note I I think I had with the month report U didn't note we're real close uh couple hours um we're going to have the baseball scoreboard hooked up so that that um should be ready to go for the spring Sports uh but certainly any questions on the on the report more for information okay thank you moving on to 11.02 uh the water test report for January 2025 that is there for our information mov on to 11.03 susano high school project financial report Mr Buffington yeah so kind of loop through um so with the financial report

075uh and particularly looking at the um as you can see the original budget um and remaining budget um just under $900,000 um as well as um if you flip to this to the second um we go through the the contingency and and the um change orders um contingency changes in in January um so you can see that uh and as we had talked you know for several months you know that the allowances now are are at zero um but certainly you know as the project um you know was completed and um they're working through the close out uh last I I spoke to the construction manager there's about 75 punch list items um and contractors are working hard to to finish that up with a project of this size um to be at that point

076um I'm pretty pleased you know with with that so we'll continue to to push forward with um getting getting the project closed out thank you moving on to 11.04 we have the proposed schedule uh for the feasibility study that's there for our information um do we do we does anyone have anything they want to discuss about that timeline any input so obviously um you know it's sort of building blocks one upon another um and you know as we move through the process um certainly there are benchmarks we're trying to reach um but also you know if if we're required um more attention or time uh is is needed um that may have ramifications on the summer that the project or the work would would get done in uh but I do think it's a a

077very um potentially very large expenditures that I think is uh going to need proper due diligence from the board um but I do think that there is um decent time built into the schedule and um Bing any you know major reconsiderations I think it's something that is achievable Mr Hall uh do we would do you anticipate that we would get um different options for the I'm just trying to understand I believe with the building project there were three options that were presented to the last board so is that what you anticipate okay and we had even discussed um multiple approaches to um whether it be greatest needs or which whichever way that it is but multiple approach is looking at uh U ways to you know achieve some of our um greatest needs objectives in

078in maybe more smaller bite-sized portions so to speak um and and I do think that there'll be flexibility in it for us to um at least have some maneuverability in in what we what we choose to do or not to do uh and and and of course then there there may be things that you know we we have to you know dig a Little Deeper on um that I think if there's anything that would consume some time it may be that you know uh digging deeper into um whatever the various greatest needs are uh so we can have adequate understanding and that would be at the May board meeting that we would potentially have some of those ideas of what those recommendations would be I just want to make sure I have it in my

079head straight yes they'll be they'll be presenting um right we would have a more time to think about it right okay thank you AB okay and then we have uh change orders approved on site um they received change Order MC 010 as a credit of $1,655 approved on site uh for the csic high school project so it's nice to see him the other direction we like credits uh although hate to break it I don't I can't promise any more credits at this point we'll take them over and get them yep um okay this next item 11.06 is an action item it is a motion to approve advertising for bids for the HVAC air filters for the district for the 25 26 school year do I have a second second so as uh in the past

080this is um a bid to purchase the necessary filters throughout the year uh and this is something that we handled in house the actual changing of the filter we handle in house any n or extensions hearing none motion passes moving on to 11.07 um an action item a motion to approve the purchase of a maintenance vehicle uh from whitmyer auto group of Mount Joy utilizing coastar pricing for the cost of $ 48,52 and dispose of the 20094 for F250 truck using municibid auction have a second second okay so if if I could open up the discussion um I think we all are aware of the potential budgetary shortfalls that you know may be coming um we don't you don't have a total handle on that yet you know moving forward um and unlike the other

081purchases that we just approved you know the vision screener and the security cameras and things of that nature which definitely have direct student impact um you know I think this is something that maybe we could hold off um see what things are looking like when we get on the other side of the budgetary process uh and then um make the decision um even if we were to end up in the next budget cycle when it was approved there is you know consideration for replacing of another vehicle basically we would be staggering one if we ended up getting into um the next budgetary cycle I'm just concerned um that we may be spending money on a maintenance vehicle that we could need to be sure we're giving everything we need to our students so that's my

082perspective what's the um I guess if if the question is replacing it now versus several months from now what's what's the rationale for doing it right now is there is there a compelling reason that to do this right at this moment if since we have these uncertainties is a compelling reason to do it this month rather than a few months from now the trucks available at the for purchase it's on the lot uh my understanding is trucks are and vehicles are still difficult to get um this vehicle the 2009 vehicle um has rushed um with it uh I was actually um underneath the truck today looking at it um and my personal recommendation would be that we uh do purchase a new uh vehicle um certainly understand the concerns that that were mentioned um this

083vehicle besides being um a vehicle that's used by the maintenance department also is um used by the band they'll be um uh Towing the trailer this Saturday uh with it um so certainly uh you know if you vehicles and rust and and things like that um it's significant you know uh its inspection is June um and we we'll see you know if it can get through inspection and what um if it can what that cost would be to um to to get it to inspection um I noted the um the bed rails um actually I would I didn't want to touch them because I could put put holes from the rust uh in it so uh the thought is that the value of the trade um is probably at the highest right now and will

084continue to decline it's my thought um you know so uh and we believe actually Mr kton did a great job with um putting the old van on the municip bid and received uh we got $3,000 for that um it wasn't inspected and it wasn't um couldn't get out of second gear um this truck would be a little different than that um but I still see decline but we do believe that we would get more than uh $3,000 for it um so uh certainly you know these vehicles that we have um there's four of them you know and obviously we know there's three campuses you know so we have um plows that that go on several of them so that at the same time we could be plowing snow plowing uh on the main campus and

085the two elementaries uh as well as salt spreaders uh now we all know that we have a contractor um that does that as well but but there's points where um if we get a uh a quick snow uh the contractor may not be able to get here and we've had that in the past so all of a sudden um our maintenance crew uh digs in and um you know I'm thinking of a one in particular a few years ago where um we had all those vehicles uh in operation because we needed to get the buses off the campuses um as well as besides this the snow the band and just um uh general maintenance um responding to to the buildings and things um you know so what what I just wanted to add to what

086you're saying um so we talked about it several years ago but if you were looking out the window at 2 o'clock today it was really snowing and it was actually laying in places so we were we were geared up to because we can't get our contractor out that fast obviously our buses take out go out of here at 250 every day um so we were gearing up to if it continues to now it stopped and we were okay and but we were out salting and our folks were out salting and everything um but that's the case where we just need to be have the equipment to to be able to get our buses off campus our kids home um so there are OPP there there's been a couple times this year where we've kind of

087been geared up luckily it's kind of not been heavy it's not been too bad but um we just need to be ready if that's occurring so we can get our kids home I would maybe like to see an option of a used option as well or what would the cost of repairs be to get this back to functional um is this gas or diesel gas gas um not high mileage at all um and obviously it's not going very far but for that you know obviously it is older I get that but I would I I would like to see some other options than just brand newu yeah one thing I would point out is it does go and um uh with the band so I know they haven't gone to Florida lately but uh it

088does go it it does go out of your county um you know so um but yeah the one of the challenges you know and we cly certainly can look at uh used vehicles um years ago because of um insurance with a uh vehicle that got was was wrecked um we did purchase a um a used vehicle but typically we haven't done that the um the pretty big discounts that we get um I'm not so sure that the um used vehicles we're going to get that discount the co-stars discount U which is significant um what are the um years of the for view so this one is a 200 9 MH and then the other three yeah two 2009 2010 2015 and 2017 so the thought is um because the 2009 um it's kind of right

089behind the 2000 the 2010 um has similar issues as the 2009 um but if we would purchase one in this budget year purchase one in next budget year uh um most likely it's at least five years until we would we would need to purchase another one right what's the reason for using the the oldest truck to pull the band trailer when they have competitions why would why wouldn't one of the newer trucks be used for that that one has a um covered cap um it's it's been one that's been used since it was new you know I believe um but certainly um some of the other trucks could be used uh for you know they do have toe packages packages on cover cap it's a ball hitch isn't it what's that it's a ball hitch

090isn't it on the trailer it's a ball hitch on the trailer correct yep so what does the cover cap have to do with it uh they store instruments and other things and in the back of the besides the trailer also storing stuff in in the in the truck as well the maintenance department you mean no for the band and the band yeah the band can use that as well yeah they put stuff in but would we be able just to just I it would be nice to know what a used vehicle with cost just just to see just to be able to answer the question well I'm I'm interested in knowing you know if this were look you know because we're just looking at it and saying there's some Rust under there I have a

091truck with some Rust under it um I'm not using it to pull the band trailer to another city so I I get that concern but but we do have newer vehicles that could that could be used for that so the question is for what it does is the rust to a point where it's where it's a problem and I I mean since we haven't had it inspected and we haven't looked at what it would cost to repair it I'd like to know that before before making a decision on a new truck like what what would be involved because you said you don't know the cost to repair it to if if it's if it's close to failing inspection failing inspection what is the cost of repair it if it's a couple thousand um maybe that's

092maybe that's the better way to go for the moment obviously you don't want to do that at a certain point those costs get to the point where you're better off buying new but yeah certainly you know um as we looked at that uh I believe it's going to would require um taking off the bed uh putting on new rails much likely like likely putting on a a new bed and do we know what the cost I can get those costs okay yeah I'd love to know that um because if that's the main thing that's wrong with it you know and we can do that since it's not high mileage it's 88 88,000 miles approximately that's not high mileage if if if there's one thing that's wrong with it and we can fix that rather than

093buying new yeah I would just point out the worst is the uh in in my opinion the bed rails MH but it's significant the the the other rust spots and things um we actually had uh if you can picture um we have steps there's a there's a a rail step on both sides uh there was rail step on both sides um one of our staff members stepped on the rail step on the driver's side to get into the vehicle and actually because of the rust broke off uh luckily they didn't end up like me with a a broken leg or a twisted ankle or something like that um today as I was looking um you know at the vehicle um I told our staff we're taking the other um uh step off the passenger side

094because I I see the same thing going to going to happen um you know so um yeah and certainly if anybody wants to see the vehicle um it's currently down in the down in the maintenance shop um and we can set up a a tour of of the vehicle I like to know the repair costs for the things that are like if if there are certain things that absolutely need to be repaired like the bed rails and and like you're saying the steps I'd like to know what the repair cost is for the the the things that are critical to repair uh before deciding that we we need to replace it with a new one because we do have several um that are newer than that so if if there are certain applications where we

095don't want to use an old an older truck we have options um but if if you know if what it's doing is just kind of Workhorse work around the campus I'd like to know at least what it would take to to just keep it in service as well as the certified you pre-owned options yeah yeah yeah is there a um cab or bed topper included in this because I is is that what you said this the current 2009 has it has a it does currently we don't have a a Topper on that um on the one coming in uh but we would look at options and potentially transfer the um cap from the one to the other but um yeah the current new one that we had um priced out did not um again one

096of the things you know as we pull together repair costs the other thing that's going to fluctuate is the um I believe would be the cost of of the of the truck you know um the new new vehicles they they are difficult to to get you know but certainly um you know we can come back uh and visit it later the uh the 2010 is that I mean is it the same make as the 2009 it's a uh Ford F250 they all for are they is is it expl is it I mean obviously if you're seeing rust on that one is this one also displaying the same rust Sim similar things are start are on on the 2010 um are the the 2015 and the 2017 are they as well Fords they are and the

097one we're looking at is also a Ford yeah I'm I'm just saying if if certain model is prone to these rust issues is there and again you're talking 14y old 15y old vehicle but still is there are some models more prone to rust in these areas than others yeah I mean certainly you know we have other um makes of a vehicle the the cargo van that we have is a a Chevrolet um the 1984 uh stake body truck is international you know so um we're not stuck on Ford you know um and uh one of the things as we were looking for um we didn't look for used vehicles uh but we did look for for other options we got a um one of the other options that that we had was a um leftover

098model um unfortunately it got sold um you know so uh for a few thousand dollars less we could have got a um Chevrolet um one year older but not used um but uh as we were putting the board briefing together I got the call from the dealership that it was sold uh so that unfortunately not not an option that we had um we had looked at uh Vehicles over the last year uh and looked at different dealerships and they're difficult difficult to get so do we plow and spread salt with all four trucks there's a mixture this one um would uh would use for spreading um but uh did not uh have the plow package on it um the other three we have have plow packages on so um we can plow with with three

099and spread salt with three so the the thought behind that is to make sure um we have one on each campus uh so at the same time we could be um responding to to all three campuses do we um what do we do any preventive maintenance to try to um prevent rust like absolutely um one of the things we do um is wash wash wash the underside I actually need to do that at my so if anybody hasn't done that for your own vehicle I'd encourage it to do it but yes we actually set up uh and wash the underside um they're not always in kept in the garage um you know uh with the number of vehicles that we have and things um they do sit outside but yes we do uh prevented maintenance

100with um washing the underneath and uh you know taking care taking care with that including um with salt spreaders and and uh you know rinsing them out and uh and things to to try to prevent the um corrosion from the salt I think I heard a couple of different options that the board would like to maybe see looked into do we do we want uh to potentially table this I mean that if that's what the board wants we table it okay I mean I already have it under motion do I need to resend it or can we just table it we can motion to table we can we can move to table it uh while it's on the yeah well it's on the floor um all right I'll move to to table item 11.07 do

101I have a second second all right any discussion on tabling it any nay or extensions nay I'm going to say nay also all right two um then that that motion to table carries okay moving on to 11.08 replacement of Select Gres at the main campus uh I have a motion to award the base bid in the amount of $2 Milli 441,000 and reject alternates number one and two to JM young of Belleville PA to replace select roofs at the main campus which includes roof work at Southern Middle School susic high school and Southern Elementary School do I have a second second so this with the rejection of the alternates this would do all of the Roes here um that need to be done here on the main campus correct yes do we have any discussion

102we already talked about the grant money that was received to help with these so I expected it so I don't have any question close to a million yes dollar Grant so we'll never we'll never get it better than this well and uh this this company has done work for us in the past with success yeah all four all four companies that we received bids have done very good work for us um yeah we were we were pleased with the bids any needs or abstentions hearing none Mo motion passes moving on to 11.09 this is also an action item a motion to approve assumption an assignment agreement with the Fairfield company and Fairfield acquisition company so this do I have a second second so this is in regards and Susan you can correct me if I'm

103wrong with that um the company that did the electric work here at the school is essentially being bought out and this is an agreement that protects the school for the warranties going forward um that we will still our interest will still be [Applause] covered yeah I just I tweak just slightly they're they're actually selling to one of the owners so um it's basically moving from one owner to another owner um and I just want to make sure we have it correct for the minutes and everything it's farfield the farfield company thank you any more discussion any n or extensions hearing none motion passes moving on to 11.10 we have here for our information use of facilities as you can see moving on to 11.11 other items of business which I have none Mr President all

104right for uh item 12 I'll T it over to our transportation health and safety chair Mr hash thank you president hle um 12.01 student transportation report for January 2025 the report is there for your perusal uh 1202 memorandum of understanding um between Southern Regional Police Department and southern New York County School District for the next two-year period as required for per the existing agreement we are just re-upping our agreement um with this um do I have a second second second uh is there any questions or comments on this this is just an agreement that if we have an issue or emergency they are the ones to assist with our response okay uh any other comments any NZ or abstentions that motion passes moving on to 123 second quarter discipline data I'm going to turn over

105to Dr rert thank you Mr hash uh so for the board uh just wanted to share just an update regarding our second marking period uh discipline as we take a look at the columns for the first and second marking period uh just couple items you know that I've focused in on previously U number 15 racial ethnic intimidation um we had three additional incidents for that third uh for the second marking period um as well as all other forms of harassment we did one incident uh and the reason why I bring those up specifically is anytime we do have a title 9 which is either sex based or discrimination harassment other forms of harassment um there's more involved to it so as we talked previously uh when I've reported discipline the board has asked us to

106come back and revisit those those specific areas uh the other one I wanted I did want to point out uh which is the 22 threatening school officials or students uh we had we had six so we did have an increase so we have 10 for the year uh to this point and just another uh for your awareness with our threat assessment process uh whenever the threat are made it could be something very minor to you know a direct threat that is made to an individual we go through an entire process to determine the seriousness of those threats uh that are made some may be considered transient where the student you know made the comment but you know recants it feels bad about it you know tries to make amends but also to the point where

107some may have made a threat out of true anger and then we have to take a look at what supportive measur me we need to put in place not only supportive measures for the uh complaintant uh but also for the respondant the student that made made the comments along with consequences that may be issued with that um and then if you flip over to the backside cat if you can scroll down this is just a comparison uh between second Market period from last year to this year uh a couple that I did want to make note with uh going similar to our last page on the other side under the racial ethic intimidation um in the market period last year of 2023 24 second Market period we had six uh we had three this uh

108this year during that market period but I will say that I attribute a lot of that to the uh continued education from our administrators going in classrooms reviewing the hand books talking about you know what's acceptable what's not acceptable and then also when there are violations with that you know the supportive measures are the consequences that that go along with that so uh altercations we did see an uh an increase from last year at this time uh to this year uh regarding altercations but please keep in mind altercations could be a uh simple we have there's a disagreement uh similar similar if you're looking at the the fighting but we're looking at something minor that occurred between individuals that didn't result in the physical altercation I would say the fists or even law enforcement getting

109involved because in many cases at the secondary level when there is altercations that occur between students or the fighting we do get Southern Regional or Sergeant smuck does get involved in those to determine whether or not um additional charges would need to be filed based on their cont up within the school so that's just a summary of the uh second marking period discipline report any questions Dr rappert thank you so much for the report and I appreciate all that you give in additional information thank you um I do have some questions about cell phone infractions with this year's new policy wondering how that's going because there's other opportunities for the board to support staff to be able to teach the children without having their cell phones with the canvas bags that they can put them

110and the magnetizing equipment that we can get grants for to help inhibit use of the cell phone when we're not supposed to be using that cell phone so right we're here to learn and engage in class uh so I just wondered how that's going with the staff how students are responding respectfully to those rules in the handbook not to use that cell phone and not be tempted by it while they were learning in class so I just wondered if you had any information about that in general Mrs Hall if if if it would be okay with you and the board I would like to gather some specific data um from the from the beginning of the school year because that is not something that we have here as a state reportable uh but then I

111can not only speak with each of the buildings um how that process is going but also the number of incidents or concerns that we have and I can bring that back to the uh March board meeting if that's if that's okay with everyone so I like to be able to share the actual data um because I'm not you know I wouldn't say privy to but you know specifically when we look at state reportable that didn't fall within there in that category if that's okay with the board that' be great yeah it'd be good to have both the you know Quant quantitative data is great but also it'd be great to have Impressions okay from staff because it's it's it's going to be the sort of thing where they're not going to be able to say

112oh I had this many times that I told a child to put their cell phone away but they're going to have an impression it's you know they're less distracted now or or you know it's less of a problem or it's more of a problem you know um so qualitative feedback would be good I mean the one that I could share and I want to put Dr Bryson on the spot too because we're in classrooms because we're in the buildings don't see the cell phones out much high school they do have the opportunity between classes sure you know and and in the cafeteria um but in classrooms I have not seen students with the devices out and the thing is with and I know Dr does the same thing we don't just go and S the

113class we're interacting with the students and you know seeing you know what's going on you know during the instruction so I haven't seen like the misuse or the I would say even more so the abuse as we had prior to putting in more strict uh you know expectations regarding when students can use and not Dr Bryson yeah K8 I don't see them at all I mean the we K8 they're not to be out in the bags or lockers wonderful they're gone um not to say there aren't incidents where the kid has it in their bag and it comes out but I'm not seeing it that much um yeah I think as Dr raer indic kid they're out I mean high school kids have them on their desk or whatever they walk in and put it

114on I don't know that it's a battle between cell phone teacher and student Caleb I I mean I haven't seen it but you're the on a basis I mean I'm only ever in a few rooms a day but I don't ever [Music] see like extensive usage and if someone is like caught they just immediately put it away it's never like a a fight of sorts so I think it's definitely improved since last year though I've noticed a lot less usage that's good I don't think anyone on the board really wants to take them away from students per se you know and have that autonomy of your own items but I think it's important to know that those rules are being followed and there's something else the board can do if it's not well and I

115I would like to thank the high school administration specifically um as Dr rer pointed out some of the informational stuff we do at the beginning of the year which I know they follow up with uh throughout the year when they start to see it as you know something like that escate with and now we're using it more um but I think the message went out that like you know take a look across the across the US where districts are Banning them or locking them in bags and you create this whole like system around the cell phone um and really sent the message that hey we don't want to have to do that so definitely this is what you know we all need to contribute to not forcing us into this situation where we're locking them

116in bags or something but definitely want to support the staff if it's an issue you know at least there's something we can do and another anecdote the times that I've been here for lunch in the cafeteria you know you know you you hear so much it's like okay you go to the cafeteria all the kids are sitting there on their phone eating but that's not what we have here it was it was very and heartening right it was very heartening to see you know like tables of kids just sitting and talking it was like it was there was volume in there not tap tap tap which is really good that's better than most adults yeah yeah go to a restaurant being with the people they well that's right that's really good yes any other questions

117yes sir I will come for the March meeting I I'll come back for an update so Jeremy we'll just put that as other business there and you're okay with that I'm good with it all right thank you Dr rert any other items of business all right back to you president ankle all right I'll turn it over for item 13 our athletic report to uh our athletic chair Mr ubberman thank you um item number 131 the athletic report um The Warriors had another strong winter season as we enter the postseason here are the current highlights girls basketball Warrior girls basketball finished the Reg season third in the yai AA division 2 The Warriors qualified for both the yai daa championships as well as the PIAA division 3 championships with the win over lamp Peter strawberg on

118February 17th the warrior girls basketball team qualified for PIAA state championships which begin March 8th their next game will be on February 24th at West York High School at 700 p.m. for the PIAA District 3 quarterfinals um the warrior wrestlers um finish the regular season ya AI daa division 2 runnerup with a league record of 4 to one on February 14th and 15th the Warriors competed in a PIAA District 3 sectional wrestling tournaments congratulations to the following sectional Place winners Hunter Anderson sixth place Dawson zorbach sixth place Jaden buckolz sixth place and Al Jones sixth place um for swimming both the Warriors boys and girls swim team finished the regular season in third place in the yai daa division 2 on February 7th and 8th the warrior swimmers competed in the yai daa championships congratulations

119to the following medal win ERS in the 200 medal relay they got seventh place that was Tommy manasse Chase Wright Jack Hammond and Ben Hull the 200 freestyle relay Seventh Place um went to KO wi Tommy manessi Elliot Jackson and Jackson and Jack Hammond um Ben holop got SE sixth place in the 500 freestyle and the 400 freestyle relay they plac seventh um that was with um Kato win Elliot Jackson Ben Hull and Jack H Hammond on February 28th and March 1st the warrior boys and girls swim team will compete at the PIAA District 3 championships at Cumberland Valley High School and that's everything I have unless anybody has any new business all right thank you all right all right item 14 committee report other business I have none moving on to 15.01 legislative Council

120I'll turn it over to Mrs Marlee Hall thank you uh so in federal legislation president trumed executive orders providing school choice to families and supporting Governor Shapiro's intended Lifeline scholarship program as well as a clear directive for male and female sports moving forward at the state level as Mrs Green was kindly letting us know about today uh state level Governor Shiro proposed the 2025 2026 budget earlier this month outlining continued investment in public education and Cyber Charter School Reform so the budget would establish a flat Statewide based Cyber Charter tuition rate of $88,000 for non-sp special education students and a tiered formula for special education students that is aligned with the actual cost of providing online instruction so potentially across the Commonwealth saving districts uh an estimated 378 million annually basic education funding would increase

121by 75 million School faculty or excuse me school facility Improvement funding by 25 million special education funding by 40 million and a continuation of the free Universal School breakfast so of course this is very early in the process and after appropriation hearings it'll be up to lawmakers to decide the final budget um but there's mixed feelings in Harrisburg um as the budget is very generous and covers all bases and satisfies all needs the proposal is far-reaching outside of revenues generated by the state of Pennsylvania so unless energy productivity restrictions are lifted the amount needed to um further the budget is is not sustainable without raising taxes for all pennsylvanians so it's proposing an $800 million tax uh carbon tax increase and relying on tax revenue for goods that are not even approved uh to use

122in our state so I'm sure in the weeks to come there will be much debate and details unfolding during budget hearings that began Tuesday this week and they'll conclude March 6th so the Department of Education is scheduled for Budget hearings February 24th and the house in the house and the February 26th in the Senate and that concludes my report so you could be glued to that you can see all those hearings online if you want to excited step uh York County School of Technology um I have two things to report um March 21st to the 23rd they would be ploting on their musical the Westside Story and then also um at our last meeting we had a presentation from the hot roders of tomorrow and I got to be honest if you guys have never

123heard of it look it up um I forgot to write down the time that they did um but they rip apart an engine well they take it apart nicely um and then they they put it back together and I got to be honest they are rocking it and they are placing really high in Nationals um one of our Southern students was on the team and I never got his name but um he was on the team that plays second in Nationals and it was pretty cool I went on Facebook and I watched a few of the the like competitions it was pretty cool look I was like impressed and it's girls and it's boys and it's it's pretty neat to see the girls out there taking part stuff and putting it back together and and

124then working as a team and it's just and they replace a truck bed and truck rails I was thinking that F50 do they accept donations to further their cause do you know I'm sure they accept donations cuz they travel a lot of places um they do a lot of fundraising and I mean it's just such a neat they get up once a year and talk about this and they're so into it and it's just so neat to see them so into something like that loving it and traveling getting to see places and and work as a team like I said they're divided into four or five different teams and and they're all ranking pretty high in Nationals which is pretty cool yeah it is so anyway that's all I have thank you liu2 I have

125nothing to report all right York Adams tax Bureau nothing to report southern New York County School District Foundation all right so the southern New York County District at school district District Foundation has been really busy with many applications for scholarships and so excited for all who submitted and the good things to come can't wait for May great night Battle of the buildings of course was held last night and was amazingly full of Community Support tremendous thank you to the community for coming out and it was really chilly so it took a lot to come out last night uh so thank you the foundation will meet again on Tuesday March 11th and I'll have more for you on our March 20th meeting and that's it thank you 15.06 other items of business I hear none 16.01

126the Student Activities report for January 2025 is attached for your information uh we have uh 16.02 we have three uh resignations and retirements looks like they're all uh resignations um 16.03 other items of business I have none moving on to 17.01 I'll turn it over to Dr rer for this one thank you president ankle as taking a look at the current enrollment numbers uh home education uh we maintain a 218 from last month uh outside cyber at 83 um our Southern Digital Academy is currently at still at two and as remember at the end of this school year uh we'll no longer have students in our uh digital academy uh and those uh students from that point on uh would uh be enrolled in the Lincoln Edge cyber program through the IU which we currently

127have enrolled at 28 students thank you all right announcements by board president and superintendent um an education meeting uh immediately followed by a finance and budget committee meeting will be held on Tuesday March 18th 2025 in the Thomas R Hensley District administration Center beginning 5:30 p.m. and the next regularly scheduled meeting of the Board of Education will be held on March 20th 2025 in the Thomas R Hensley District administration Center beginning at 7 p.m. Dr Bryson thank you president hankle uh on January 30th student council organize first annual Winter Carnival which is kind of a followup to October fund Fest and hosted by the high school student council in addition um high schoolers also did a onea play which was mentioned in previous uh school board meeting beauty is a beast uh which was a

128really cool environment really uh directed produced the whole works by the students and done in the Commons area versus the auditorium so it was kind of a real quaint uh experience in a different envir environment for him um I want to also thank uh M Rupert's business classes where many of us or at least a couple of us sitting around the table uh participated in mock interviews with her students and what I took from that is we're going to be in very capable hands in the near future um also appreciation for all those involved with our recent uh parent teacher conferences while weather was not perfect we still were able to to have the opportunity to come together with the parent parents and and discuss all the good things that are going on with students

129throughout the district um also a big thank you already been mentioned multiple times tonight um in regards to last night's event Battle of the buildings uh we're already exploring ways to maybe up the or ramp up the hype prior to that event uh going into next year but regardless if you've ever never had the opportunity to be there it is a really cool kind of unite the community around uh an event like that and also uh students who have the opportunity to laugh at their teachers who um do and go above uh crazy to uh I don't know insane with some of the some of the activities that we do uh for fun so thank you to all the staff who participated it's one more night that they're giving giving up for a really good

130cause with the foundation uh I just Dr rard said seven out of nine of his were taken I'm I'm like that's it for me um they took all of mine by the end so good job fellas and other than that uh keep living your dream even though it may be a little colder than anticipated thank you all right item 18 new business anyone all right no new business so I'll move on to item 19 01 adjournment of the meeting I'll entertain a motion to adjourn so mov have a second second Motion in a second uh any Nays or abstentions hearing none we are adjourned