001One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Roll call. Mr. Zipper here. Mr. Yutsi is absent. Dr. F here. Mr. Fund here. Mrs. Guyer here. Mr. Graia here. Mrs. Oier here. Mr. Olsen here. Mr. Shipley here. Um, Mr. He let us know that he would be late to this meeting. So, he will be here. Wasn't he? Oh, no. Okay. But don't worry. It's like he's coming back. Okay. Oh, don't do this. Didn't pay the bill. Um, I just want to let the public know that we had uh executive sessions uh May 15th at 6:45 p.m. May 22nd at 5:30 p.m. for uh personnel and collective bargaining. And collective bargaining. Thank you. Uh citizens comments agenda items only. Um there weren't anybody signed up? Nope. Nobody signed up. Thank you. Okay, next section
002is reports, superintendent information. Okay, got a couple things today. First and foremost, um seems like the past couple Scotty spotlights have really focused on how well our students and staff are giving back um in the community. So, I kind of wanted to follow along with that path uh tonight for two things. Um, first of all, Tuesday, two days ago, was our first ever senior day of caring in the community. So, we had over half of our graduating class um go around all parts of the district and do certain volunteering activities, uh, landscaping, garbage pickup, uh, some painting, some cleaning. Uh, we have litter crew, um, that was along Water Street. I remember, uh, stopping down and seeing them. But anyways, uh over 70 of our kids. We even had some at the polling stations, which
003was great. But um many of our students worked with um members of our community, worked with leadership of our Scottdale Rotary, uh to do certain things around the community. They had nothing but nice things to say about the work that our kids did. Uh you see some pictures of some uh shrub trimming here at a local church. Um I stopped down and saw probably half of the different stations and saw the work that these students were doing. And uh once again, it it makes me happy whenever we can talk more about uh just things that are happening in the classroom, but when we can inspire uh and model our students in terms of serving and giving back to the community that uh gave so much to them as they came through our our walls and
004our halls. So, um kudos to the class of 2025 and Miss Cobbang for making that happen. It was really great to see all the kids working so hard that day. And then last but not least in terms of giving back, I just want to let the board and the community know that South Morland High School um which was led by our Interact Club won the 2025 kindness games uh which was a national contest of schools. There were over 165 schools that participated in this contest. Um, and I know our students uh did certain things in terms of uh celebrating mental health awareness and creating a kindness task force and recognizing unsung acts of kindness throughout the way. So, uh, their work in that competition earned them a $5,000 grant for the high school. So, um,
005kudos to Miss Dixon and the Interact Club and all of those students who worked so hard um, and so nice to make that happen. But, um, that's all I have for today. All right. Actually, no, I lied. I lied. I have one more thing. I'm going to call Mr. Malivite up to go over some uh summer food programming information. Mr. Malite, could you come up, please? Uh thank you, Dr. Boon. Uh thank you very much uh members of the board for giving me this time to speak this evening. As as you all know, uh every year annually, we um serve uh community meals uh during the summer months whenever we're closed uh at some of the parks in the in the surrounding district area. I just wanted an opportunity this evening to go over uh
006the schedule for you uh this evening uh as it's going to be going out to the public here shortly and and um just kind of explain what we're planning on doing. Uh so we're going to be using our elementary um kitchen production area uh this year. We'll be uh moving items from all of our buildings um from inventory and things like that as we uh draw down. Um our sites this year have changed slightly. Um aside from what you don't see on the document that's being uh shown currently right now, we have a couple closed sites this year. As always, we're uh providing the ESY program uh with breakfast in the morning when they arrive for their ESY instructions for those 16 days of service throughout the summer that they're they're attending. We also have
007a uh switched our YMCA site this year for their summer camp program to a closed enrolled site for those summer camp students. Uh provides us a little more flexibility with service um and how we operate that site with some flexibility. Um in addition to that, we also do band camp as always, which is our last two weeks of the program. Um we'll be serving breakfast and lunch to those students during those days. Um the sites in front of you on the document are our open sites to the community. So any child 18 years or under uh can come to any of these sites and receive a lunch at uh no cost to them. Um the uh LS Park is our largest site as always. That'll be operating uh as normal. Uh we've extended it to
008an hour and a half this year. Um we also are still doing Everson Centennial Park uh which is across uh in our FET County section. Um it's great great little park. We get a pretty good turnout in that area. We like to keep that running. Uh, one of the new sites you'll see this year is Bararklay Park, also known as West Park. Um, we used to do Frick. We've pulled back on that site just due to some circumstantial um, things between participation and some things like that that happened uh, with cost and whatnot. Um, efficiency in the site. Not to say we won't ever go back there. Uh, but we did add another Scottdale site. Um, so we kind of have like a little triangle effect kind of happening between LAS, Barkley, and Everson. Uh
009so those sites will be operating uh June 16th through August 1st. Uh we will be closed uh for service on August 27th. I'm sorry, June 27th. That's the Ottawa Wild School picnic. And then July 3rd and 4th uh will be closed for the holiday break. Uh aside from that, Monday through Friday at those times designated uh LS Park will be running 11:45 to 1:15, Barkley Park noon to 12:45, and Everson Park 12:15 to 1 in addition to all those other closed sites you see. So, if there's any questions, um, happy to fill you in now, but, um, just wanted to make sure we had an opportunity to present to the community exactly what's happening. This information will be on the food service website, and there will be a robocall near the end of the year,
010uh, coming out as well as, uh, postings at all the parks um, for what's available. Is there I have I have a question. Um, is there any way that maybe we could get like say East Huntington Township involved to provide a place somewhere out there to reach more of the rural kids? Yeah. So, there are opportunities within the program. Uh, the application's been submitted already through to PTE, but once it comes back approved, it can be revised and added in. Uh, we have the opportunity since we're one of the like a production site. Um it's it's there's two different ways that the program can be run through SFSB. One is as a sponsor and one is as like a production sponsor. So sometimes there's just sponsors that just serve meals, but they get those meals
011from somebody else. So for instance, churches, fire departments, libraries, things like that. If they don't have the capability of producing their own food, they can enlist a vendor and and there's a lot of different options for that. In our instance, we are the vendor and sponsor one of the same. Okay. Um, so we do pull the the community every year. This year we didn't send the survey out as we normally would, but typically out in that particular area, we only have maybe about 10 families that respond over about 150 responses when it goes out about the availability of and of those that do respond, typically about half of them say that they'll travel for meals. Oh, okay. So, it's not like we're avoiding it. However, there are options in the program for non- congregate if
012you can apply for some waiverss. Unfortunately, the mapping uh is set through with USDA for the way this program is set up on what is constituted as a rural and an urban service area. And we actually are the majority of what we offer is through um is through urban. So, we don't have that option for non- congregate as readily available um as what we could, but it's it's definitely an option that we've I have looked into. um I haven't looked into extremely deep, but trying to find maybe another uh area or a sponsor somewhere that would just want to receive the meals and do distribution on our behalf. That's kind of what we did with the Y this year, making that a closed enrolled site. We're able to produce the food and take it to
013that site, in which case then they do the distribution for the students that are involved in that program. So that's kind of the model that we're doing there. So if that works well, then we can look at next year to see how maybe we can expand that to a little further out into the areas that we don't typically get those kids coming into the downtown Scottdale area. Okay. All right. Great. Good. I don't have anything else then. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Malvet. And now that's all I have. All right. Thank you. Um solicitor's information. Thank you, Mr. President. Uh, I was asked by um by a majority of the board to calculate and provide information concerning the amount of legal fees our office has charged attributable to right to know requests that have originated
014from this uh board. and I contributed our information to an analysis that was put together to essentially take all the different groups of uh district employees and then our office and break down by their hourly rates and then by obviously our legal fee invoices the amount of uh money that's been spent on those legal those right to know requests and appeals over this school year and the last school year. And um I can't speak to the other categories, but I I do know that we looked at our invoices and our fees for these right to know requests and appeals uh totals 6,400 600 6,396.75. the total cost. And again, I my understanding is that each of those employee employees or employee groups estimated the number of hours they spent responding to those right to know
015requests times their hourly rate or an hourly rate derived from their salary and then came up with those figures which total $10,183.84. So roughly um $3,800 of district employee productivity aside from legal fees. So the public is aware um the board members that request these right to know requests do have an avenue to get them um without racking up these exorbitant costs. Um but they just choose not to go that route. Um myself as the president, I've received zero requests for this information. Um they just go straight to weaponizing the RTK um to get this info. So, so I will just add the the typical procedure is if if a board member wants information that's not already been provided by administration to ask either administration or the uh board president or leadership to provide that
016information or or authorize it. And typically um the model that's uh in place in in our client districts is if five people on the board agree that that information should be made available either to the individual board member or to the entire board as people elect then the information's provided. Now, obviously, there are times when information um would contain either privileged information or otherwise. Perhaps um we would advise that it not be released for one reason or another, but typically that's a decision that the board would make. So, what is the procedure when you ask for something and you don't get an answer? Well, so one of two things. I mean, obviously, you can go and file a right to know request or you can accept the decision of the board if the board believes
017that it's something that would be improper for you to receive. Um, and I mean, I will note that I believe that all of the instances where an appeal has been filed to the office of open records because the district has taken the position that it's not a public record. I believe, and I will double check this, but I don't think that we've been found to be in the wrong yet on any of those appeals. I don't understand if the president said that nothing's been requested, though. How you were requesting things and not receiving them? Every time. But he said he's never received any requests. Who? Dwayne. Yes. That'll be the day I ask him for something. He just said that I asked the administration for something. That's exact. I ask the administration and obviously it
018could go either way. It could either go to Dwayne and Dwayne could essentially pull the board or it could go to Dr. Boon who could then ask, you know, Mr. Fendo to to pull the board. So, it's essentially um the same process. It's just a matter of where it starts. Mr. Lucas, can you tell the public who is allowed to fill out a right to know form? Who's allowed to ask for information on Absolutely. anyone can anybody at all anyone at all. But what I've suggested is that some of the information that you're requesting that is provided to you could be provided without necessarily using this this process and running up additional fees for the district. Can I give you an example? $10,000 over two years. Can I give you an example? Come on. Sam
019and I ask questions about this coffee shop student union thing and I get this paper in response to that request. Okay. It shows that this coffee shop is open every period and obviously every day. That's not true. That's correct. Why isn't that on the paper? This is false information. I've shown it to many people. Correct. I when I heard that you were right to knowing that I asked my children who actually go to school every day in that building and it is not open all day every day. Why did I get this paper Stephanie? I can't see that paper from over there so I don't know what it is. Eight periods. Scott, I can say eight. Nobody knows what you're waving around. Do you want me to bring it over and show it to you?
020If you would, I would appreciate that. Yes, very much. Thank you. This is just one example of many. Yes. Showing me. Yeah. Again, the the rest of the board wasn't provided whatever right to know information. So, I don't know what you were provided. Okay. There you go. Okay. So, this is a study hall. This doesn't say that that's when it's open. Student union. Okay. Yeah. So, there's a study hall in here. This doesn't say that this is when the study shop is open. Right here. Period. One. Student union. This is who proctors it. These are the for a study hall, not a coffee shop. No, these are the study halls. No, this is coverage for the cafeteria if there is an AM delay for CTC students. This is study halls. I can let the board
021know that those are study halls and not coffee shop. Those are study halls. This is not Why does it say student union? Because that's where the study hall is. That's where the coffee shop is. Well, they happen to be in the same building. That's a coincidence. It has nothing to do with that. That's a coffee shop. That's a study hall. Can Mrs. Cobank clarify when the coffee shop is open? because it's my understanding that it is once every sixth day during SSP or whatever it's officially called now. Actually, we could just ask the actual students that we have with us. It's only open day four. Day four, which is every sixth day for one period during six of the days. So, 30 days a year SS. I'm not I'm I have no interest. I also
022I also responded to the board in my weekly board report with that information. Oh, that specifically said wasn't there day four. Okay. Well, let me tell you what the questions were that we asked him. We asked him, "Who runs the coffee shop?" Why were you asking this question about the coffee shop? Who operates it and supervises it? Who runs it daily? When is it open? How are students permitted to go there? How many frequent it? Who handles finances? And this is what I got. This was the answer. This is not the point of this. This is the answer. And this is what you get when you ask for information. So, you have to fill out a right to $10,000 over two years. That's why request Michael managing the school district again. And how does how
023does that make sure you put Mr. Greyak's comments in the minutes every time now? I want all of his comments in the minutes. I want to document it in regard to your right to know about the coffee shop. I don't understand why. Like how does that benefit students that you're angry at the coffee shop? Because we are concerned about student achievement and time on task in classrooms. So one period every six days. So what if the coffee shop is tied into some of the students achievement at school? It is they're not in class. It's volunt. What is it? What period does it run during Lauren? Students SSP which is their like extra period. Let me tell you what the coffee shop income generates. Let me show you. We're not worried about the coffee shop. Caps
024and gowns, winter coats. That all sounds like uniforms and boots, funds for field trip expenses for both the high school and the CDC, picnic tables and umbrellas. Fantastic. That's great. That's how much money it makes. Good. Okay. Why did I get to raise taxes? Why did I get this in response to the answers? I have no idea what that is. I gave all of my answers to that question that I provided the entire board within my week. And it's right here, too. I I This is what he sent me speaking. This is what he sent me. I would like to finish speaking, please. Thank you, Dr. Boon. Go ahead. Um, all the answers to that to those questions were provided in my weekly board report that every board member got that answered every one of
025those questions. All right. Thank you. Um, $10,000 over two school years. Thank you. Business manager, transportation director information. Thank you. Um, first we'll go over the information which typically I give you the cyber charter information each each board meeting. Um, this is only through March 2025. At that time we were at 1.446 million. I can tell you that as of today and this is one of the reasons why Dr. Boon and myself um took two separate weeks went out to Harrisburg to um be an advocate for cyber charter reform. As of today, I had my accounts payable admin assistant pay make payments to our vendors and as of today we have spent 1,800,43353 in cyber charter funding. um that is over our budget of $430,000. So that's why I'm going to be asking you later
026today to um to do a a fund balance transfer uh to cover some of those overages. And as I had stated in the budget meeting last last week, um Dr. Boon and I have asked you guys to advocate advocate advocate. And that's something that we're trying to lead by example to do. So that's why we both took the time out of our schedules to go out to Harrisburg, meet with some representatives, meet with some senators, leave some information in their offices if they weren't available to meet with us. Okay. In addition, you will also see um the primary center, elementary center, middle school, high school um the activity funds which you typically get each month. And then we're going to go to the budget one pager. So, as we discussed last week, um right now
027there is a $559,000 increase in personnel and salary related benefits. Um we did have a increase of 9.8% in health insurance for the 2526 year. We have three new grant-f funed positions as well as four new employees for an emotional support program. Um, we did have we are in the second year of our 7-year contract for transportation. We have a $214,000 increase in that and that is mostly because um we had to add some additional vans um to transport some of our kids to outplaced facilities. Uh we have additional $990,000 in educational impact due to the lack of curriculum that was um here in prior years and to keep our technology up to date. We currently had $450,000 in the general fund budget, we upped it this year with an additional $90,000. um our Giza
028project which we've talked about and um should be receiving the funds and working on the closing of on May 29th this fiscal year. Um then we'll get all the paperwork associated with that. We will have an increase of debt service of $635,000. However, we are projected actually guaranteed to save $374,000 in energy savings once the Giza project has been completed. Cyber charter school impact. Now, now these are numbers that came from the states. The numbers that I'm giving you today are that I provided you in the printouts today are all actual numbers from our district as of today, but the charter school impact from the state said it was 1.272 272 um million over the past 10 years. It's going to obviously surpass that by quite a bit being that we're at $1.8 million right
029now because they did make some changing changes to the PTE 363 last year. Unfunded mandates and requirements over $2.4 million and that's in the past 10 years and that data also came from the state. Um, we can tell you we're looking at our projected expenditures and I have them written down on a because that's a little bit tiny. So, we are the fourth lowest increase in expenditures over this over the past 10 years in our county. And one thing that I can tell you is except for um two discretionary line items which is um the high school because they added some additional classes and athletics because they also addition added an additional sport. Everyone else's discretionary spending has been held flat by me for four years. I trust me that doesn't make me very popular
030but I know that it is something that needed to be done. So, that's where we are with that. Um, as you can see, um, salaries are 37, I believe that's five or six% of of our budget. Benefits are 27.7. Um, the next highest is other purchase services and obviously debt service at 6.9%. In regard to our projected revenues, uh, we have, oh, and one other thing I did want to mention, we have the five fifth lowest per pupil expenditure in West Morland County. We're 8% lower than the county average. And I think that takes takes worth noting. Um, our projected revenues, we are more heavily funded via state revenues, which is one of the reasons why once again we are in touch with our with our local representatives to try to get their ear and
031get some more funds for our district. Uh, we are funded 55.2% via state, local is 42.7, and federal is now down to 2.1. That was higher in the past several years, but now the Esser's funding is now gone. budget fast facts. Uh what the budget that we are presenting tonight for your consideration is a balanced budget and the expended budgeted expenses is $37,14,53052 as well as the revenues. Like I said, it is a balanced budget. And the part of the reason why it went up um from the last month is because we looked um in talking with some of the legislators in Harrisburg felt a little more confident that we could put some additional adequacy funding into the budget. So therefore, some of the things that we had taken out before that we that we
032thought we were could have cut, you know, we put them back in because they were truly needed. We were just cutting out of dire necessity to be quite honest. Um the So with that being said, that would be a maximum tax that would be a tax increase of 1.99 mills for West Morland County and that would be a tax increase of 0.6587 mills in Fyet County, which yields us an additional $270,000 in revenue. Um, like I said, this is basically the same information that I provided last week to the board and to other members that had joined us that evening. Um, that's basically where I am with that. Thank you. You're welcome. All right. How much money they take out of the fund balance? And I believe that's it for my report. All right, Pam.
033Thank you. You're welcome. Uh CWCTC report. It's Mr. Yutsy, right? Yeah, it's Mr. Yots. Yep. He's not here. Uh Wu report. The last meeting held at the IU was on 4225. There were 13 members present and four absent. Uh the audit was done by the same people who do ours, the attorneyly Robertson Associates. Uh the fund balance is $4,598,640 and it has literally gone unchanged since 2019. Back then it was $4,76713. So that fund balance has not been used for any of these expenses. There was a $50ome,000 deficit. Uh but they have they look into their regular budget and cover those issues. Um, Dr. Conway's evaluation is due and the way the IU does it, they mail out evaluation forms with a self-ress stamped envelope for the board to complete and return. Another issue that
034was brought up and it had been brought up many many many times was that the board do a self- evvaluation. So there is a PSBA self- evvaluation tool called principles for governance and leadership. So this summer we are going to I think it comes we're going to get it in July and we're going to use this self this board self- evaluation. They want to know if the board leads responsibly, acts ethically, plans thoughtfully, evaluates continuously, communicates clearly, advocates earnestly, and governs effectively. So when that comes in, that that will be a self-evaluation done by the board, how we function as a board. Um, now the the total budget for the IU is $41,899,524 and it is $55,000 uh short. At the IU all funds come from the government. No taxes are no taxes are levied.
035Funds uh are the four funds are the general fund operations, the special ed fund, transportation fund, and early intervention. And we talked before there are going to be some changes in the early intervention. They introduced the uh Ron Lawson the buildings and ground supervisor and he reviewed physical needs for the IU facilities and they also introduced two inductees introduced uh to the to the board and to the public. The IU has developed a very extensive formal induction board, induction program for new teachers and they discussed how it is being handled and and uh who is doing it and introduce some of the people that that were participating. Thank you. Is that all? Yes. Thank you. Committee reports. Um, we haven't had a buildings and grounds meeting. Uh, the next meeting is June 16th. Um, finance,
036district operations, and transportation. Mrs. Guyire. Um, we have met since the last meeting. We went over the one page last week. Yeah. Last week before last week's meeting. Oh, yeah. That's right. Um, and we went over that budget onepage overview that Pam reviewed. I think she covered it. Yeah, good. Thank you. Personnel policy and academics. Uh the last meeting was April 29th. Dr. Fe, I'm sorry, but I'm not allowed to give this report. Who's not? I asked you last month or last meeting. I said, can you please tell me why we were we were not updated on the um the contracts and so forth and negotiations? And four times you screamed at me. I didn't serve. Were you on the committee? Were you on the committee? You were on a committee. You weren't on a
037committee. So if a committee person is not allowed if you So if someone's not allowed to get information because they're not on a committee, I can't give out this information because none of you are on this committee. Number one, was there for a half an hour and he left and I was the only one there. I'm a dump. Number one, I'm not going to disobey your rules, board president. I'm not going to disobey your rules. Okay. I didn't scream at you. Number one. Number two, we have a negotiating committee that handles those contracts. Um, in the past, when you have been privy to that information, it has actually made it out to the public. So, you know, in good faith to those bargaining units, um, you did not in fact receive that information. Quote what
038you said to me when I asked that question. No. Um, okay. So, personnel, policy, academics. Anybody else want to fill us in? Anybody was there? That was a long time ago. I can pull up the agenda real quick. Yeah, if you don't mind. So, Dr. F, what you're saying is you're not going to give the I'm not allowed. You establish the rules. You told me if I was not on the committee, I could not have information from the committee. Period. Four times four times. What about you? These meetings are recorded. You want us to bring it back and play it? What about um policy and academics? Anything from that? I'm not allowed to report on it. Were you there? Did you? I was. I don't think anybody told you you weren't allowed to report on
039that. I think four times. Four times, Stephanie. Four times. That was about the negotiation. I asked a question and that was the answer. Four times. Dr. Do you want to review? Oh, the the the chair of the committee does not have a report. We'll just go with that. Non-academic athletics and extracurricular. Mr. Shipley, a few updates. Timeline of the projects at the stadium. The artificial turf at the stadium scheduled June 16th to July 3rd. The lights July 14th through July 20th. The scoreboard first week of June. The stone wall at the stadium completed by June 15th. The girls locker room and pole building is not starting construction till after the last home event. Uh, congratulations to the high school girls softball team who advanced to the quarterfinals of the WPIAL playoffs and congratulations to Megan
040Mihal who finished fourth at the state championship in will be in the state championships this weekend. Awesome. Yep. That's all I have. Thank you. Uh, PSBA liaison is Mr. Yutsi. He is not here. Uh, school safety and security is also Mr. Y. Um, Mr. Olsen, you fill us in. I was there, too, but I I again I can't remember. Um, I believe other than discussing the radios, um, we're getting new radios. Um, there was some other other items were mentioned, but I did not record them, I don't believe. Let me [Music] look. Uh, Mr. Kefir basically updated the group about uh school district training requirements that we are um required to uphold uh for all levels of employees. Talked about some upcoming trainings that are happening and um the upcoming district events like graduation that
041he's he has everybody covered for. Uh and then we talked about the PCCD 2025 school safety and security preparedness survey that we needed to turn back into the state. Um and basically this survey uh basically identified what the state's priorities are uh in terms of their funding as well as it highlighted the fact that there are certain areas that they're looking for specifically um with mental health and safety where we are understaffed as a district. Uh and it basically um outlined that. It actually spoke about the pay survey and whether or not we do the pay survey here in the district which we don't. and and I'll tell you that um by not doing the pay survey is something that uh puts us in a bad light in terms of applying for other grants. So
042if it's something that we want to think about doing in the future, it may not be a bad idea because we are eligible for more grant money if we do do that survey as a district. U I would to do that but that's that's all Mr. Olson. All right. Next meeting is June 9th of school safety and security. Um, student reports. Congratulations to the Scotty Scholar for May, James Carson. And congratulations to the Scotty Spirit Award winner for May, Elliot Primis. Our student council just had their elections actually today. So for the student like the actual student council for 2526 is President Audrey Miller, Vice President Zoe Welling, Secretary Isabella Graia, treasurer Matt Madison Luchia, and historian Alexa Pandulo. But we also had class elections this past week. So for the class of 2026, we
043have President Jack Smith, Vice President Megan Mihal, Secretary Isabella Graia, and historian Alexa Pandolo. And then for class of 27, we have President Kira Bryson, Vice President Leila Thomas, Secretary Cassie Loop, Treasurer Lamb Smith, and historian Gia Van Djk. For the class of 28, we have President Luke Stinette, vice president Jarn Rubball, secretary Isabella Sloan, treasurer Kaylee Lightner, and historian Aiden Watkins. And additionally, there were 17 student council representatives added to that. Wow. The senior day of caring took place on May 20th with over 70 seniors as students helping the community with various tasks from churches to the library to West Everton. Seniors worked hard to offer helping hands in various ways within our community. and our student council would like to extend a thank you to the school board for including us in your
044meetings and ensuring our students have a voice within our school district and like from us personally. Thank you. Thank you very much. Uh so tonight is their last board meeting as student representatives. I just want to tell you thank you. Um it's been it's been fun. Yeah, I'm sure that's a good word to choose, Lauren. Thank you guys. It's always good to hear from the students who are actually in the buildings living this out. So, thank you. You see what go on dayto day. Yeah. Yeah. As always, if you want to exit, you may. Thank you. Welcome. Thank you. And best of luck after graduation. Yes. Good luck. Good luck. Absolutely. Yeah. I guess we'll see them next week, huh? Pretty exciting. Graduation is next Friday. Crazy. Uh our next section is school board meeting
045minutes. The board has asked to approve the following meeting minutes. April 15, 2025 discussion voting. So do second. Discussion. Yes. I am specifically requesting that all the ugly comments that are made towards me by Mr. Grabia, Mrs. Aar, and Mrs. Guyire be documented in the minutes. I would like it to be documented, but I don't I want them documented in the minutes. I have a right to that. All right, the vote. All those in favor? I opposed. Go for it. Election of board treasurer. The board is asked. Oh, wait. We have to do nominations. Yes. Okay. So, you need a motion to open nominations for board treasurer. I need a motion to open nominations for moved. Need a second. Second. We do discussion. Yeah, just well discussion on opening the no nominations I mean actually
046so we got a second right all in favor all in favor I so now nominations can be made I nominate Pam Mundock I'll second that. Any other nominations? If none then a motion to close nominations would be in order. Okay. Need a motion to close nominations. Motion. Second. All those in favor? I I Okay. Now, a motion to elect Mrs. Mondock as the board treasurer. Uh the board has asked to appoint Pam Mondock to the position of board treasurer for the term from July 1, 2025 to June 30th, 2026. Need a motion. So moved. Second discussion. What is it? What's the difference between board treasure and school treasure? What what's what what's the difference? It's actually the same. I think for whatever reason it's listed as board treasurer here and it's it's really the school
047treasurer. Okay. Yeah. I mean there's there's if we said no, we'd be in trouble trying to find a new school treasure, right? Fast enough. No, I mean so there's Yeah. school treasurer and board secretary, but you know, I think if you called it the board treasurer, it's kind of interchangeable. Okay. Okay. To the vote. All those in favor? I opposed. Uh PAR's renewal. The board has asked to approve the 2025 2026 renewal with the Pennsylvania Association of Rural and Small Schools for a cost of $975. So do second discussion. This this is a fee of almost $1,000 to belong to this organization. Aside from emails and I guess you get some literature, can you tell me how South Morland directly benefits from this membership? Yeah, absolutely. I I I feel like this is the third
048time I've answered this question over the years. Um, but we directly I can tell you we directly benefited from this membership this past year because one of our student uh one of our teachers earned a $3,000 grant for supplies. So, if that's not direct benefit, I don't know what else is. Well, this is $1,000 to get that $2,000, right? We're still plus two at that point. Yes. But anyways, um this organization does send us more than literature, but it it works with us in terms of advocacy. Um if it wasn't for some of the trainings, webinars that I've attended through them, I wouldn't have made connections with the other superintendent of these schools to meet with some of our senators and representatives and um gotten some of the data and talking points that we got.
049So um if you're asking for my opinion, I believe this 975 is well worth it in terms of uh the connections this district has made at the state level. How does this differ from PSBA? two different they're a they're two different organizations with two different um philosophies and missions. They have a different philosophy than PSBA. Yeah, that's PSBA is the Pennsylvania School Board Association. PARS is essentially just a group um that helps advocate and work with uh rural and small schools. What benefits have you uh personally seen accomplished as a result of their actions? I I thought I just answered that. Yes, you did. Yeah. What was the answer? You had already answered that question. in terms of professional development for myself and other people in the district as well as advocacy across the state
050level. Um this is also the group that um work closely uh with the group that help to change school funding and say that there is a um funding gap across the Commonwealth that is leading to more money directly. If we stopped weaponizing right to nose, we could pay for this for 10 years. All those in favor? I I opposed. No. PSBA membership renewal. The board has asked to approve the 2025 2026 PSBA membership renewal at a cost for the all access package at a cost of $13,3928. So do second. Discussion. All those in favor? I opposed. No. No. Roll call, please. On policy on PSBA. Mr. Zipper. No. Mr. Yutsy is absent. Dr. Fle. No. Mr. Friend. Yes. Mrs. Guyer. Yes. Mr. Graiac. Yes. Mrs. Oier. Yes. Mr. Olsen? No, Mr. Shipley. Yes. Okay. 7
051to three. Wait. 53. 53. Sorry about that. Next section is policies. Retire policy 832. The board is asked to repi retire policy 832, educational equity. So do second. Discussion. All those in favor? I. There's a disc. You have a discussion. What's that? I think Dr. Are you doing the policy updates first read? Yes. No. Retire policy 832. Oh, just Oh, this is a retire the policy. Okay. We got the vote. Well, I don't know what's going I think so item one was the policy updates first read. Okay. I don't know that that was voted on specifically. I think that's a separate motion. Mine looks different than this one. And our computers are freezing. So I don't know if it's So the first going on. Yeah. The first read or on the on the computer policy
052first read is there right? We're not following. Which one? Let's do policy first. What popped up on mine was retire policy. That was weird. So we're going to go um we'll go to policy updates first read first. Okay. So that's what was printed because that's what was printed. So that's number one. If you're on your computer, it's number two. So, um, E2 is policy updates first read. The board is asked to post the following policies for 30 days. So, do second discussion. Yes. I have a question um on policy number 718, service animals in school. You're going to adopt this. I think you better read it very carefully. This allows students to have small horses come to school with them. And when a parent or student wants has submits a request for the student to
053bring this horse into the school, the team quote the team shall gather necessary information and evaluate the request. Then it goes on to say the district may not request documentation of the need, request documentation regarding training of the animal. They cannot request a demonstration of the animal's abilities and they may not inquire about the nature of the individual's disability. So I'll just say that correct. That's state law. Well, this is consistent with the federal regulations regarding the um Americans with Disabilities Act and specifically the use of service animals. So, all of that is is from the federal government and has has not currently been repealed. A lot of the other policies that that have been amended relate to specific changes in emphasis at the federal government level, but they have not changed anything with regard
054to those ADA regs. I will say that there won't be any small horses unless an IEP team determines that that's a um piece that's necessary for a student to be able to receive the benefits of education. So there are um there are obviously some some growing pains I think for some entities with regard to these ADA regulations concerning service animals. I will say though at the same time that if a particular animal is brought onto school premises in accordance with this policy and the regulations and is either untrained um and and demonstrates that it's untrained or otherwise unsafe that it can be excluded um and and frankly should be excluded from school grounds. In this policy, all of the page all of the page applies to admission of all service animals to school. That is
055where the team shall gather the information, but you cannot ask you, you can ask if the service animal is required due to a disability and what work or tasks the service animal is trained. You may not request documentation. You must not you must not ask regarding the training of the service animal. Up above it says you can you have to request it. You cannot request a demonstration inquire about the nobility. However, the district shall consider the following factors to determine what modifications are made and this is in particular to the horse. Type, size, and weight of the horse. Can the facility accommodate it? Does the handler have sufficient control of the horse? Is it housebroken? And whether the miniature horse's president is in a specific facility compromises legitimate safety requirements necessary for safe operation. I
056mean, but everything about that applies to all animals, whether it's a dog, a cat, a squirrel, or whatever. It says it's the admission of you may not I haven't seen anybody use a squirrel yet, but request you can say if it's required, you cannot ask you cannot ask those questions. And again, your your beef is with the federal government because those are the regulations that they have promulgated and right now they they they're currently in effect. And so this policy is a PSBA model that's been sent to all 500 school districts in Pennsylvania that are subscribers because it it is modeled on and compliant with the federal regulations. All right. Thank you. It further goes on to say that the district the district must can exclude a service animal if a presence of the animal
057poses a direct threat to the health and safety of others and the owner or handler is unable to control the animal and if the animal is not housebroken or the presence of the animal would require a fundamental alteration to the program. So while they're telling you what you can't do then they want to tell you what your response is question here and it's one after the other. I don't know. Okay, thank you. Um, all those in favor of posting the following policies for 30 days. I opposed. No. Opposed? That's just for posting them, not for approving them. Okay. Now we'll go to uh retire policy 832. The board has asked to retire policy 832, educational equity. So do need a second. Second discussion. All those in favor I there's a question on the floor. This
058request was made when PSBA made a statement saying they don't even want to deal with it anymore and they're not going to deal with it anymore. PSBA said they don't want to talk about this policy and they're not going to deal with it. So the the question is if they're not going to deal with it, are we going to keep it? And I asked Lori about it and she said in the past they retire them. She said that's how they've handled them when she's dealt with this in the past. But PSBA itself, the great communist organization in the sky doesn't even want to deal with 8:30 with this three whatever it is. So that's why this issue came up. Huh. All right. All those in favor? I I opposed. Great. My understanding it's already at
059the federal government. Okay. Okay. Next section is personnel. Personnel log. The board has asked to approve the personnel log for May 22nd, 2025 is attached. All salaries are included and all clearances are current and on file with the administration. So do second. Discussion. All those in favor? I opposed. Personnel changes. The board has asked to approve the following administrative assignment changes effective July 1, 2025. Ron Hechu will be SPC principal, district assessment coordinator K to8, sorry, district assessment coord coordinator and K to8 online learning. Dan Croftche will be SCES grades two through five principal. Go to second discussion. I asked the superintendent if he had job descriptions that were specific and he assured me that he did. He assured, didn't you? Yeah, they're posted. Yeah, they're posted. You assured me that they have in writing
060what they Yeah, they're post going to do. Yeah, I saw them. Yeah. All right, perfect. All those in favor? I opposed. SEIU contract. The board has asked to approve the SEIU contract for the time period from July 1, 2025 through June 30th, 2028. So do I think they second discussion? All those in favor? I opposed. I'm voting present. What's that? I'm voting present. I'm staying from the vote. Okay. Thank you. Su PAR professional agreement. The board has asked to approve the pair pair professional agreement for the time period from July 1, 2025 through June 30th, 2027. So moved. Second discussion. I am not going to vote on this. Um again once again in the entire process was never g no information was ever given to the board any updates or anything. We were just simply
061handed a finished contract and said here it is. And secondly it's my understanding this contract has already been voted on by the union ratified. You're talking about the pair professionals don't have a union. SEIU does. We're on the pair of professionals plan. Yeah. SEIU. No, we just did that. We're on par professional now. All right. All those in favor? I opposed. My agenda must not be correct. Create teaching position. The board is asked to approve the creation of new professional teaching positions starting in the 2025 2026 school year per seba agreement pending adequacy grant funding. Special Education Learning Support SCES. Some moved. Second. Discussion. All those in. What's usually the grant? I'm sorry. What was that? Which is usually the grant for? This is um this is coming from PTE. Um estimated to be around
062$536,000. 536. Yep. All those in favor? I I opposed. Temporary summer work positions. The board has asked to approve the summer work program for the maintenance and technology department with an hourly wage of 1250 an hour. So do second discussion. How many positions will there be? Two positions to help buildings and grounds. Two. One position to help technology. So three total. Three. Yes, it's listed there. All those in favor? I opposed internships. Come on. Is there a glitch in the matrix? The board has asked to approve the following internship opportunity. Uh Satan Hill University nutrition and diet Oh, diet. What's that? Dietetics. Dietetics. Dietetics. Dietetics. Dietetics. All right. Need a motion. Second. Discussion. Is this paid or unpaid? Unpaid. Not paid. Unpaid. All those in favor? I I opposed. Next section is education, student service
063agreements. The board is asked to approve the following annual student service agreements. Adelfi Education, Inc., Camco Physical and Occupational Therapy LLC. So do second discussion. Have we used CAM code before? Okay. Yes. All those in favor? I opposed. WIU Master Services Agreement. The board is asked to approve the following annual West Morland intermediate unit master services agreement for the 2025 2026 school year as attached. Need the motion. So move. Need a second. Second. Discussion. All those in favor? Opposed. Okay. And next section is finance. Monthly financial reports. The board is asked to approve the following monthly financial reports all attached. One, treasures report. Two, general fund board summary report. Three, fund accounting capital fund and food service check summary listing. So do second discussion. I do have a question from what Pam handed out to
064us um regarding cyber charter. Will that be put on here for the public? I certainly can. Okay. I just want to make sure that they they are able to see it as well. I certainly I certainly can do that. That's not a problem. Okay. I'll add it. Um what I'll do is I'll add it to the item number five under finance. Okay. Can is there a way that somehow we can show that whenever we um let me see what is it coming up? I'll make it happen. Okay. I just I want to do it before we go to vote. Show you how to I got it. Okay. Thank you. You got it. Are we hitting the pause button here a second? You guys go. All those in favor? I opposed. Don't slow here. Come on.
065It is really slow. Come on. I think it locked up. Remove from the table finance item number H3 from April 15, 2025. Oh, so we got a So move. Second. All those in favor? Does this or sorry discussion? So, and this is just to take it from the table. Then you have to approve the mo motion. I'm sorry. Is this the motion to approve the WIU budget? Yes. No CW CWTC it appears Mr. Lis it appears on both the subject on two and three CWCTC was tabled last meeting. Okay. We have to remove it from the table and then we have to So this vote is to remove it from the table. So in the printed copy it's items two and three. So two would be to take it from the table. So what are
066we voting on? Two or two and three? Two. Just just to just to remove it from the table. And then we'll do three. Yes. All those in favor of removing it from the table. I I opposed. Good. CWCTC 2526 budget. The board has asked to approve the 2025 2026 CWCTC budget. Need a motion. So moved. Second. Discussion. Okay, we're members, right? And apparently there are nine members and one non-member. the members are going the member funding which is what we're going to pay is going to increase by $550,000 right where we at but then when it says on the next page page three or four it says actual the cost for ADM would that be per student average daily membership average daily that means average daily membership okay It says it goes from $10,52 to
0679,000. Last year it was last year was 9,677. This year is 657. What's the $550,000 increase? If if the actual cost of of educating a student hasn't changed changed by 20 bucks, you have more kids. Yeah. More kids are going. So, it's formula driven. The the cost per student stays the same. But if you have more students who enroll in the CTC's programs, that increases the the uh budget item. But it says that's for 2526. It says there's no change. Up at the top, it says the budget 20 2526. And then down below it says no, there's no change between 20 202425, which we're in now, and for next year, there's an increase of $20. But they're saying that we have to due to additional salary and benefits. Um, but isn't salary and benefits included
068in the ADM calculation? It doesn't look the same because it's all it's what we pay. It is here. I don't It didn't look the same. But is that 550,000? That's an overall that doesn't comes directly from us. No. Oh, okay. That's the entire consortium. All right. And if you look at the number of of kids, uh, they budgeted 1,400 for 2526 and only 1330 for this fiscal year. So, there has been a dramatic increase. They're full to the brim. I think just a couple years ago it was at 900. Yeah. And maybe two years ago. I've been there and tooured it. I mean, it's a great facility. They're doing a lot of wonderful things with our kids. Yeah. And Jason Luchi is doing a great job along with everyone else. All right. To the vote.
069Uh, all those No, no, no, no. I'm I didn't get an answer because on page five it says that the revenue the budget for that year was 11 million some dollar like 12 million. Now it's 13,520 520,233. But that's again this is the CWCTC budget. So asking anybody at this table effective way to get an answer. What is your question? And if you look at the expenses they give a balanced budget 13520 13520 233. I just I just wonder where the 550,000 comes in because that's what we're going to pay. We're going to pay that. This is this is going to pay all that. Yeah, that's that's No, no, no, no, no, no. We'll pay our share. We'll pay We'll pay our share of that, right? But oh, the districts complain bitterly about shares at
070the IU and shares here and shares there. Oh, no, no, no. I hear that all the time. Um, well, this directly affects students. So, yeah. All right. On to the vote. All those in favor? I opposed. No. Proposed final budget. The board has asked to approve the 2025 2026 proposed final budget with revenues in the the amount of $37,14,531 and expenditures of 37,14,530 which includes a tax increase of 1.99 mills for West Morland County and 0.6587 mills for Faget County. No, this is just approving the proposed budget. It could change between now and June. Correct. Correct. Okay. So, why do we vote? So, do second. Second. Thank you. Discussion. Why wouldn't we do the transfer the unassigned first before we do the budget? The unassigned. What would you approve? Why would you approve? The unassigned
071is something that we're going to be doing this year. Mr. Oiper, the proposed final budget is for next year. Signed budgets for this year to transfer the UN. Yes, I'm going to be doing the because as I showed you and we'll be showing you um in a few moments the report that I ran. Currently, we have $400,000 deficit for Correct. Correct. And of the current assigned fund balance for cyber t cyber school tuition, we have $510,000 $5108 $87 in there. If you subtract that, if we need to subtract the total amount of the overage right now, that would only leave us $80,000 in that assigned fund balance for cyber school tuition. So, we're going to transfer next to money, but nothing goes to next year's budget just for this. So, we're taking out our savings
072now to pay this year's and we're going to take out of our savings to pay next year's, right? Well, we're, as I stated earlier, Dr. uh Boon and I both have went to Harrisburg to advocate for cyber charter reform. At this point in time, I know I'm going to a meeting the beginning of next month with my PASBO group to see um what news they have for us on state funding. Um un it is very unfortunate and this is one of the things that we talked about when I was at Harrisburg because there were some other business managers there with me that we typically always have to pass our budgets and our proposed budgets in the school district level even though the state is supposed to have theirs passed by June 30th as well. That
073rarely ever happens. So, you know, yes, this is what we're trying to do to protect ourselves, to set some money aside because obviously we know that this year because of the PTE 363 changes and how things were were calculated this year, um we are now at $1.8 million for cyber charter and we're not even done with the fiscal year. So, that's why we're trying to do that. But once again, the question was um the cyber charter fund balance question relates to this current year. Absolutely. The proposed final budget relates to next year. That is correct. Yes. Okay. That is correct. Um any other discussion? All those in favor? Wait a minute. Are you talking about what are you talking about? Proposed final budget. Proposed final budget. I have something I want to talk about. Yeah.
074Okay. Go ahead. Now will be the time. Okay. Okay, what I have here in my hands is all the materials that we've been given in the development of this new budget. We had presentation number one, not that one. And then when we got presentation number two, they said number one was wrong. The numbers were wrong. Then we got presentation number three and they said that number two was wrong. Well, these things actually develop over time and they said that was wrong. Nobody said anything was wrong. And then we got presentation number. It evolves as as it goes on and that's something that was said in the very beginning whenever we started the actual meeting for the budget. No, it it you shouldn't be lying to the public. Here it is. I don't care what your
075anything is. Like you can keep all the papers you want. Okay. But what you just said is a lie. These came from the business manager and no and she never said that when she gave out the second paper that the first paper was wrong. She never said that. He changed the numbers because it evolves. It's No, no, it didn't. Well, I'm not I have one last thing I want to say. Welcome to the Dr. Fees show. There is one number, Mrs. Oer. That never changed from the beginning to the end. And that is the $37 million budget. Okay? It went up, it went down, it went sideways, it went crossways. That number never changed. And that's really funny for me when I'm looking at five documents that I'm told, oh, it's it's evolving and all
076that. That budget number never once evolved. I misspoke. Actually, I meant to say revolving. Yeah. Roll call, please. And it did change. The the total did change each time. That doesn't mean you said that it was wrong. Cuz you never said that. You never said that the first paper you gave out was wrong when you gave out the second. What happens with budgeting? That's the lie. as you continue your process, you meet I meet with members of administration um due to certain things that we need to look at. Um obviously there are changes that are made. There are changes that are made to personnel. There are changes that um were made to health care costs. All of those type things that the majority of us understand that. Yeah. The consortium comes in and like I
077mean we're not expecting it. We're just budgeting for it. All right. Um roll call vote, please. Mr. Yutsy. Yes. Dr. F. Did you call my name? Yes. No. Mr. Fund? Yes. Mrs. Guyire? Yes. Mr. Graiac? Yes. Mrs. Oier? Yes. Mr. Olsen? No. Mr. Shipley? Yes. Mr. No. Six to three. Transfer unassigned fund balance to assigned fund balance. The board has asked to approve a transfer of $350,000 from unassigned fund balance to assigned fund balance for cyber charter tuition costs. So, wait a minute. She just gave us a paper that had a different number on it. That is the one that I gave you this evening. Was 453,000. She said that was current through today. That is the number that I gave you this evening. I printed out the report. Okay. 430,000. But you're you're asking
078for a uh It's 430, not 350. Yeah, it's 4 It's 430. Okay. The board has asked to approve. Oh, yeah. But but I only want to transfer 350. Okay. Done. Right. That's good. Thank you. We're okay. All right. Did I get a motion on that or Yeah. Did I Somebody make a motion? Not yet. I think you did. I'll second that. But I'm going to ask to amend that to No, we don't have to. It's right. 350 is right. Yes. So, what are we voting on? This number says 430. She's only asking to transfer 350. Correct. Sorry. Okay. Yeah. She's not asking. I think when you said that, I heard it wrong then. Yeah. All right. Time out. Rich. Rich, did you make a motion for that? You made the motion for that. Okay. Thank
079you. And then I second. Okay. Can you reread the motion, though, just so we're everyone's clear? The board has asked to approve a transfer of $350,000 from unassigned fund balance to assigned fund balance for cyber charter tuition costs. Okay, we have a motion. We have a second. We discussed it. All those in favor? Wait, wait, wait, wait. So, we're She's asking for 350,000, but she gave us a paper saying it's 400. Correct. There is still There is still funds left in the assigned fund balance as we currently speak. So therefore, I didn't want to transfer the total amount of $430,000. And to be honest, I didn't know that 430 amount until today because as you can see, it is dated 522. My accounts payable administrative assistant ran checks today. So, as of last on 516,
080we were only a at an overage of 271,966.84. We had some additional payments that were made today, which takes us to 430. You should have never gave 43353. I confused it. So, therefore, what is the real deficit? I just want to know what is the real deficit. 430. The real deficit is what I showed you today. What is up there right now as of today? That is what your deficit is. Well, where are you going to get the other money? There is still funds available in the current assigned for cyber charter school tuition of if the funds are available then that's not the deficit because you would subtract the available funds from correct and I already explained that um last week when we had this when we talked initially about this cuz at that point
081in time I had said we had $510,87 At that time we only had an overage of 27196684 which left us a balance of 238 paying attention. I know they're not I know they're not paying attention of $84016 this week because we had some rather large invoices that came in. We are now at when you take the 510 807 subtract the 430 43353 we have a balance of 80,37347 in there. Like I said I had asked last week to transfer 350,000. I did not want to change that figure because that is what I had told you last week but I did want to make you aware of where we are sitting as of today. Okay, that makes sense. Thank you. Thank you. Roll call vote. Can I ask a solister a question? Hypothetical. If a board
082member has cyber charter school kids, can they vote on this transfer legally? Yes. Um because there's no direct conflict of interest. Okay. I just My child's in Sola. That's not me. Did I mention your name? We all know you're talking about asking a question. I didn't let It's not hypothetical when you're talking about me. I have a child in solo because of whatever reason. It's I never I just asked him a hypothetical question. That's all I ask. Okay. Hey, we're going to start with Dr. Frank. Just to be clear, my child's solo is not in this budget. No, it's paid out of a different fun. I think when you start transferring money out of the school out of the savings account, I think that's a crime against the school district. when you start paying our
083bills with money that we have worked hard to save and we don't know what's coming in the future. We don't know how much of that fund balance we're going to need and now we're already transferring money out of there to pay bills that we ran up. So what do you suggest in the alternative then not pay the bill? Crime against the district. So it okay like literally if you vote no that means we don't pay the bill. And I would also like to say that I think it's extremely rude to call people out on their children's own business. You have no idea why my child Did I mention your name? Did I mention your name? No, but everybody here knows who you're talking about. Can I ask him a question? Very disrespectful. All right, roll
084call. Thank you. Dr. Fe, no. Mr. Friend, yes. Mrs. Guyer, yes. Mr. Graiac, yes. Mrs. Oier, yes. Mr. Olsen, yes. Mr. Shipley, yes. Mr. No. Mr. Yi. Yes. 7 to2. Thank you. Always got to be personal attached. I know. I don't understand. Leave my child out of this. Awarding of multi-purpose paper bid. The board has asked to approve the awarding of the bid. With the WIU joint purchasing consortium for multi-purpose paper from contract paper. So do second. Discussion. All those in favor? I opposed. Milk and beverage RFQ. The board has asked to authorize an RFQ for milk and beverage for the 2526 school year. Some moved. Second. Discussion. All those in favor? I. Okay. Uh so we're going to remove this from the table first. Um, so I need uh the board has asked to
085remove from the table finance item H5 from April 15, 2025 meeting. So moved. Second. All those in favor? I I Okay. Um, so now the board has asked to approve the following monthly life insurance rates for the 2526 school year. So do second. Discussion. So can go ahead. No, no, no. Go ahead, Miss Jesse. Just reading through this. So this they're holding the rates guaranteed through 28, but this is only for a one year. Correct. That is correct. And the reason we had tabled it last time was we had a gentleman that was a graduate of the school district reach out to some board members and ask us to um do a basically provide us with a quote. We provided him with the documentation that um he asked for and we did receive the um
086quote I believe it was on Tuesday after I emailed him again and asked him for it. he came in higher. So therefore, we opted to go with this just to give you guys all the history as to why it was tabled and why it's now back on the on the board agenda. Yep. Thank you. That was going to be my discussion. I wanted you to say why. Yeah. And is there any reason we don't want to lock this in for three three years? Um, I certainly think we could I think I think that would be to our benefit for sure because looking at the gentleman that bid um his actually came in um higher at this now and it's for the 2526. So it would behoove us to do that. Yeah. And it even I
087mean it says on there too, it's a guaranteed rate till June 30 of 2028. Yeah. And they'll they'll just and actually what they'll do and they've done this in the past, they'll just hold the rate. So next year they'll send us the same thing because they're basically saying they're pleased to inform us that they're going to rate hold it and next year whenever they give us the um proposal again, it'll be the very same rate and it'll be that through 2028. Okay. So I need somebody to amend the motion. um to say 2025 through 2028 then. Yeah, you can do it that way. Yeah. Okay. I make the motion to amend the current motion to state for the what it says on there. Let me get this pulled back up. 25 26 through 2728. Yes.
088Yes. Is there a second? Second. All those in favor of the amendment. The amendment. I I Okay. Um so now the motion that we'll be voting on is the board has asked to approve the following monthly life insurance rates for the 2025 2026 through 2728 school years. So moved. Second. Discussion. All those in favor? I opposed. Okay, next section is building ground. Never mind. Okay, we got that. Never mind. Okay, next section is building grounds and security. Purchase of right mower. The board has asked to approve the purchase of a right 72in deck lawn mower with a Vanguard engine for $15,885 from Burough Hart Ace Hardware. I have a do second discussion. Yes. Okay. Go ahead. This is an item that doesn't need put out for bid. Correct. It's under the threshold, right? That's correct.
089Right. But we still did get What is the threshold? 20 25 uh 238. 238 238. But we did get we did get three prices just to make sure that we were indeed getting the the best price. And one thing that Brohart was able to do for us and we greatly appreciate because um our budget through buildings and grounds is exhausted this year. So, they were willing to um hold the billing for that through July 2025, which means we'll pay for it in next fiscal year's fund. I just was I want to make sure the thresharts greatly appreciate it. And will they be taking care of any maintenance? Will it be done there or That is a better question for Mr. Trader because he actually dealt with them on getting the quotes. Yes. So they will
090take care of all maintenance. The first two years the warranty is unlimited hours. Uh Brewart of course sells laser uh Xark as well as a right. So when I started looking at these I've been keeping my eye on them. The price has finally come down a little bit actually. I got some comparisons I can read to you. The right mower both both decks are 72 in. However, the X mark is a 10 gauge deck with the right mower being a seven gauge deck. The weight of the laser is a 134 lb. The right is 1551. So, it's a heavier mower. The frame on the laser is a uni-body tubular frame. The frame on the right is a 2x3 box frame, 3/16, 7 gauge, and 1/4 in plate rectangular frame. Gas capacity is much bigger on
091the right than it is the laser. The engine's a 40 horsepower on the right compared to a 37 on the X mark. Warranty is basically the same. The big difference is the right will cut 9 almost 9 12 acres per hour versus 6 12 for the X mark with the difference in price being the laser is $20,000 compared to 158. cleaner to move. That's why I went that direction. Appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks, Calvin. I never heard so many words about lawnmowers. You just didn't know it was out there. And I didn't know. Wow. All right. All those in favor? I I oppose. Real quick question though. Um to Mr. Trader, is this like the normal size deck that we normally have? Okay. All right. Uh, next section is athletic activities. No items
092for this month. Last section is closing exercises. Citizens comments. I have a citizens comment. Can I make it from the board? It's a question that I have for the business manager. Make it from the board. Well, uh, sent out a letter. She sent out a letter to everybody on the board. And nowhere on the agenda did I see a place you could question, talk about it. a letter. That's not what's called I mean it seems have been a better executive session probably. Well about money. This is about money. You can just I mean it should have been asked during the business manager's report but I would say why don't why don't you just let her ask because if I can ask a question because it's not on the agenda. Ask it now. It should have
093probably been asked during the business manager report but go ahead Dr. F. If can I what did Mr. Front say? Oh absolutely. Okay. You sent I um I I had asked for it the amortization and I was you sent out a letter saying you don't have it. Can you explain to me why? Yes. As I had stated earlier, um the bond isn't actually closing until May 29th. I will not have all of those official documents until that happens. In fact, there are some documentation that was sent to us by the bond council this evening for for Mr. Friend's um signature this evening. If you want to look on those, you can see that it's dated specifically May 29th. So, I will receive the amortization schedule after that point in time and I will gladly get
094you a copy of it. You're saying you can't get that until after. Correct. Because things are not indeed. Real problem. We got one in March. So, that was a bond. I'm sorry. That was a bond. That that was all of a um that was a debt debt load uh paperwork and that was provided by PNC and that was an estimate only. This will be the official one that we do receive and that is the one that I want to give you. The one that is official. Don't you want to see the give you the amortization schedule yet, Dr. Fe? Because they haven't sold the bonds. They're going to sell the bonds on May 29th. So if they gave you a schedule, an amortization schedule that lists all our from series 2021 2021. So they can
095give you a schedule that has your existing debt and they can give you an estimate, but it's not going to be accurate until they sell the bond, but it does specifically list every loan we have. It can list the existing provides a sample amortization, right? And that is merely a estimate. I want to give you the final one so that you have the actual one that we will be paying. They did this one at 6%. Okay. And you sold the bonds at 4.13 or something like that. Yes. So you will you will see that once we get the final documentation, but tonight you voted on a budget of $37 million because it is a proposed budget. This this schedule shows interest of $9,275,000. Well, that's on six. So, if it's you take it down to
096four, that's one/ird. So, obviously the the interest rate is going to be the interest amount is going to be 6 million some dollars that's going to be added to the loan because the loan and the loan amount and the interest, right? You have to pay you have to pay the So, this amortization schedule shows how they were going to approach it with hardly no payments at the first couple years. First couple first year the first couple years because what we did Dr. FIC is we we did what is called a wraparound loan. So what that does is it keeps your debt service fairly level so that it doesn't impact your budget negatively. That is what my intent was. That is what I worked with my bond folks in which to do so that it isn't
097something that is going to detrimentally the the district. That is not our intent. We wanted to wrap it around. So that is why we were able to do so. And being that I I know you think this is a long debt cycle, I can tell you for school districts, our debt cycle actually isn't all that long. There are many school districts that have a much longer debt cycle. But like I said, what I wanted to do was in working with my bond team, who I have the greatest confidence in, they were able to accommodate that to us. And I've had that in many other districts where you wrap around your debt so that you keep your debt level fairly consistent. Well, consistent, remember I brought that up. It goes from 2 million to 3 million.
098That's not consist. But what you were looking at on that paperwork, if I remember correctly, and that was several months ago, you were looking at local effort versus actual payment. that factored into it the um plancon funding which will be over. So like I said yes you will have higher but whenever you net it down after your debt payment minus your plan con funds it's basically a consistent debt schedule. We have this board has agreed to a loan that you don't even know how is going to be paid back until afterward. I mean when I bought a house they showed me that before. This is a little bit different. Yeah. A lot different. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Any other citizens comments? I just want to say I think it's a sad day whenever I'm sorry
099that I lost my patience about this cyber charter thing in my child, but I think it's a sad day when we can't look at students and their individual needs and all we see are dollar signs because all of these students that are in cyber school probably are in there for very different reasons. Some of them are very personal and I won't share why my child is in cyber school but or sola or sola. She's actually not even coming out of this budget again. She's in sola but I won't share the reason because that's her personal business. I think that when we're looking at children we need to stop looking at dollar signs and look at what best meets their educational needs. I mean nothing but I I abstain from the SEIU contract and I just
100if you wanted to call my child out, you could have done it an executive instead of doing this. This is because of the primaries and now you're going to personally attack her. So, it's fine, but don't bring my child into it. She doesn't deserve that. A loaded question, obviously. Whatever. Yes, it was. It was not a hypothetical question. It was pointed. Look at it this way. That's why we have such excess cyber school costs. Uh yeah, because students have individual needs that need addressed in different ways. Every child is different. They're not dollar signs. We address your needs by sending you out paper copies of everything. All right, guys. Thank you. Imagine that. At least we can read. I need a motion to adjurnn. Good. My student at least they can read. They said our
101students. They can't spell on Facebook. I need a second. Second. Let's do it. Everybody in favor of adjournment, put that in. I I thank you.