6/9/25 SGASD School Board Meeting Livestream

001Yeah, like some kind of like test one. Now look at Joe's brain. always take a lot of contact, but It's like so. So that's why I wanted to ask you this. So can we start early? Probably should. We should probably should not but yes, but I'm just gray area there. What's Chris about? Well, that was usually personel wide open. Yeah. I mean, it was just in fact, I just saw I'm not going to read that. I say it's crazy. Good evening. order. Please stand for the pledge of Ice to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Marshinger Bomb here. Ramsey. Ritz here. Rova here. Sheer here. Stein here. White here. Wilson here. Right. Barner and

002Ramsay are out for personal reasons. Uh we did meet in executive session this evening for personnel and will reconvene in um executive session for personnel uh immediately following tonight's meeting. Anyone in the audience that would like to address the board at this time? Okay, seeing none. Um there are district uh departmental reports uh business department. I'll hand over to Mr. Zap. Thank you, Mr. Revol. So, I just have a few brief highlights for the night and I know you all have a copy of the report uh that myself and Mr. Lou has provided for you and you can read it at your end. So, what I'm going to do is just again give you a couple key highlights of it. Um so as we close out the 24 to 25 year uh some of some

003um items I do want to go over are um some of the key goals that the business had this year. Number one as you um as you read in the memo uh the report that we provided was our skyward financial and behavioral system. Um this was one of our our key tasks this year. um not only from the uh financial um savings for the district but also for consolidation of of information and um um and it was one of the things that uh we we spent approximately 194 hours of training in doing the system implemented this year. We feel really comfortable with the payroll and financial structure of the system. Now um we had a current system with CSIU for approximately 30 years um that the district has a lot of information um and a

004lot of culture that we had to change in people's habits. So a lot of uh a lot of u training and support went into that skyward roll out. Um another one of our um goals this year was to continue to um to take a look at our our budgeting process and refine that and I that we had a lot of budget and finance committee meetings and they were really good meetings and I they were challenging so I I throw that in as one of our challenges but they were also I think uh they brought up uh you know challenges to us brought a lot of questions I know that they're from around the board here we were poised with a lot of questions that were never asked before and I and we really like that

005um and I think it um gave us a a strength that um that caring from the board facility. Um, the third thing I want to talk about is our our close out and report of our ESSER grants. As you know, the September we were officially to close out our ESR grants uh fourth um and our last poll for the business department was the transition of a few leadership roles in the district. We knew uh at the beginning of the fiscal year that we're going to have the transportation coordinator and the food service director positions uh to be chie um and you're going to be uh needing a lot of support from from not only the business office but the entire leadership team about partway through the year then transitioning through the new director of human

006resources. Uh so there was a lot of um you know uh support that this transition uh employed us with. Uh we saw a lot of uh challenges with that. You know you'll go from some key individuals um like Mrs. Cine after 26 years and having a new employee come into uh the district and do it the same way as what she did. So, um there was a lot of um challenges like I said that had to do with uh navigating and uh supporting those positions. Um I think that um as we continue to next year, one of the things and we attached uh two of the uh examples for you and they're in color in your book. But two of the things that uh I wanted to show you tonight were the the attachments that

007you had and I think that where they came out of what I would call challenges. we found out that um we need to do a better job communicating our budget and our finances to not only the board here but also to our community members. And so what I'm going to last leave you with is um you know one of our goals and um and ongoing challenges for next year is we're looking at easier to read information and and easier to understand information for our community to be able to uh see the information. And you can clearly see on this one that I showed you, it does a quick snapshot of, you know, of a fiveyear book back, but also um we're also talking about um a fiveyear plan for one of our goals for next

008year as well. So, we're going to be able to use a lot of these easier uh to use and easier to read graphs to be able to communicate our message out to our stakeholders. So with that, um, if there's any questions to the report that I provide or anything that I can answer, you have to. Thank you. Um, the athletic department report is attached. Um, there's a lot that's covered with this. Um, unfortunately Jeff is on vacation this week. Um if anyone has any questions or would like some followup on um the athletic department report uh feel free to reach out u to Mr. LS and ask away um curriculum meeting did you want to go from anybody on that report immediately. Okay. All right. Moving on. uh curriculum committee meetings and building and ground

009committee meetings are uh those minutes are attached uh for your reference um within the packet correspondence. Um I did spend Friday afternoon at the YAA leadership athletic leadership summit that we hosted. Um, I just want to give kudos to um the teachers that volunteered their time, to our staff who helped produce an amazing event for all of York County schools to be hosted here. Um, it was amazing to hear the um the message that was being drilled into um our athletic leaders across the county um that they're more than athletes. They're people. They're human. Um and that was there was a lot of empowerment, there was a lot of um really good communication from our students. Um so it was a lot of pride as well from um hearing from our from our leaders and

010our district. So, I wanted to mention that I also received um two thank you cards from uh recent retirees, which this in my four years of being president, I have never received a thank you card for a retirement gift and some appreciation. So, if anybody would like to see those, they are here. That is all from my correspondence. Um for the action voting meeting, we will move into uh budget and finance with Mr. White. This is my machine. There's a room. Yeah. Tasking. One, two, three. Good evening. Budget and Finance Board actions requested. A district waste management services approval to enter into a three-year contract with KBS Waste Solutions for Districtwide Trash and Recycling Services according to the terms, conditions, and pricing schedule outlined in the advanced service agreement effective July 1st, 2025. Homestead farmstead

011exemptions approval of a homestead assessment exemption of $8,745 and a farmstead assess assessment exemption of approximately 87.45 45 for the school year beginning July 1st, 2025 under the provisions of the Homestead Property Exclusion Program Act, part of act 50 of 1998 and taxpayer relief act of one of 2006. So moves budget and findings. Second. Second. Any discussion? April, could Mark just give us a little summary how we arrived at the KBS? just little chip background, you know. Yeah. People are having to be hand. Well, Scott Wer sold 10 ways. He owns KPS. So, now he's starting waste calling again. Right. So, what um so what Mr. SH and myself did is um we did request for uh for quotes for trash removal services uh a number of months ago maybe even closer to um a

012half a year ago and um and there was some delay in because of course it went through RFPs or RFQS there was questions that come back to make up a very long story short we were able to receive them back um last um at that the last meeting um We had an outline of the services of the of the the pricing structure that came back for all the buildings. We we have approximately uh two to three recyclable basically like containers or bins. We pack each location. So, um, having them bid out, uh, we had multiple vendors get them out and then Bill and I, um, had a bunch of questions for who we who ultimately came in as the low bidder, which was key. Yes. So, they all built they all quoted to the same

013spec, correct? And then we just picked the low bidder. Yeah. And Okay. Sure. Yeah. the amendment that we did last month sort of outlined that. But um one other thing um you know to um just to mention is that there is a a decent uh savings and I believe it's approximately $11,000 for for next year. Um the other thing that we didn't include in that though is that the other vendors have an increase into a lot of higher increase into next year. So um the following year would even be even more unforgiving. So it was a win for the district. So is his no up? I would say his no question but it is that was explained early on the process that it was up and then they bought a dump truck and a bunch

014of cans and um they're pretty active with school districts right now. um trying to get their business too. Great. Ready? Roll call. Roll call vote on budget and finance. Sheer, yes. Wilson, yes. Ritz, yes. Bomb, yes. We Yes. Stein, yes. Ro, yes. Right. Moving on to personnel, Mr. Stein. Personnel board actions requested. Item A, resignations. Second of the following resignations as listed. Item B, appointments, approval of following appointments as listed. Item C, appointments. Uh, teaching staff approval of the following appointments as listed. IMD, summer school program approval of following instruction staff to teach during the 2020 summer school program as listed. IM temporary summer support approval of following individuals as listed. So move on personnel. Second. Second. Any discussion? Roll call. Vote on personnel. Wilson, yes. Bomb, yes. Shear, yes. White, yes. Ritz, Stein, yes.

015Roarball, yes. And I know that some are in attendance and I'll turn it over to you. Yeah. Thank you, President Ro. It's my honor to welcome our newest members of the Rocket family. Um, and I I think I I know was here. So, I'll start with uh Jasmine uh Dogwin. Jasmine earned a bachelor's degree in early elementary education child family constellation concentration from York College of Pennsylvania. Uh she has professional certificate instructional one for grade PK4. She recently was employed as a long-term sub at a neighboring uh district and uh she served there through the end of the year. She's still in position resulting in a retirement in our district. We look forward to her. And Jasmine, if you please stand and be recognized, we appreciate it. Melissa Schlice is a recent graduate of Millersville

016sharing her masters of education school counseling. She finished her internship at Pen Manor High School where she completed SAP training and was a SAP team member prior to earning her credentials as a school counselor. Melissa works as a full-time youth minister. She is filming tradition previously occupied by Carrie Schmooer. And we welcome Melissa and can still please stand and recognize. Lastly, John Brown earned a bachelor's degree in secondary education social studies from Grove City College and a master's degree in teaching and curriculum from Penn State. He recently earned a second master's degree in special education from Point Park University. has more than 10 years of teaching experience teaching social studies and history in public and private schools. Uh we look forward to him serving position resulting in transfer uh to Spring Grove Elementary. And we

017welcome John Brown. Thank you all and I can uh attest to the process that they went through is is intense. Um, however, we think that our process allows us to receive the best candidate in all every case. Uh, we know that we've done that and the the candidate pool was deep and we know that we were fortunate to receive the candidates we did. Thank you all. Welcome to Spring Drive. Thank you. Motion to adjourn the action voting meeting. Second. Second. All in favor? Five. Right. We will be calling to order our director study forum. Seeing board members stay in attendance for this meeting. Anyone in the audience that would like to address the board at this time? Right. Seeing none, uh we will move right into business and finance uh with Mr. We Mr. W.

018Okay, thank you. Okay, so uh first item we have is the uh budgetary transfers. So as customary we do at this time of year and also as required by PD we have the quarterly budgetary transfers for review the amounts and the descriptions of each transfer there in the attachment. I'll continue to move on. Second, we have a proposed agreement with River Rocket Academy for a launch program. This launch program is one that we currently house at ours high school. Details of that the agreement um you have there shared with you um as you can see across the district is $121,931 for the 256 year and um Dr. Brook is available tonight to answer any questions that you may have concerning Mr. Question on that. So, does that mean we're removing the launch program from the

019high school? It means it's staying there, but being run by River. It's always been run by River. Got it. Okay. Thank you for the clarification. Just Mr. Mr. Craig is a River Rock employee. Got it. Thank you. You're welcome. All right. I was That's I remember that now. Thank you. Okay. And then um impressions. So last the u the federal straight federal state and grant program application authorization customary as we do this time of the year. The board is asked to approve um all those uh the necessary agreements that the superintendent um is asked to um to participate in the programs and grants for the subsequent year. So we're talking the 25 26 year here. you have those um you have those programs and grants in front of you and the attached chart shows the

020title one through the title program um that that we'll be asking for your uh approval on we financially the business office track these uh and then last um to Dr. a lot of work for the uh annual school physician. Well, thank you. Um, so we're asking their permission to move forward. Every year we have to um appoint a physician approval agreement. Last year, if you remember, we moved to the Wellspan Berlin office position there. So, we asking to continue on with Dr. Stephanie Elwood for the next school year for the 256 school. Dr. Lovely. Just so for number two, so the proposed river rocker agreement is really a renewable goal. Yes ma'am. Okay. We have to renew it every day. Yes. Okay. Thank you. Moving on to buildings and grounds with Mr. Ricks. I'll turn

021it over to Mark and Billings one through four. Thank you, Mr. Ritz. So, as um Mr. Sh makes his way to the microphone, um I'll get started here. So, we have three memos for you tonight uh following the voting and grounds committee meeting. Um and I'll go into a brief overview of each one. Mr. Still a little bit more on the specifics. Uh the first one outlines the optional features uh of the approve the approved the already approved springboard access road. So, what we're looking at is tonight we're just looking at these optional features um in in addition to what has already been approved for the SGE access road. Um the second amendment there is u what we're looking for is looking for for the placement of that secondary access road as well as in

022the list of optional features with the placement of the secondary access behind the high school. Um and then the third amendment which does outlines um the location of the walk-in cooler and the walk-in freezer um either at the u either at the future maintenance facility and that spot and location has to be determined as well as the building has yet to be determined. But what we're looking for is either the location for the walk and coolers should be at the the maintenance facility inside the maintenance facility or at the rear of the high school. So um with that, Mr. Styles, I just turn it over to you for a few more specific. Thanks Mark. So we'll start with the elementary access road. what was approved back in March 27th uh was for five solar powered

023lights and two manual gates. And the option adders that are down at the bottom to consider is we'd like to recommend um moving forward with one electric with a B with a battery backup included. um one commercial operating gate to be placed on the road closer to Spring Elementary so cars can accumulate during parent drop off student drop off and student pickup uh for an additional 875 hours. And then also we'd like to upgrade the solar powered lights to electric lights that we can run the same chase, same wire as the um electric gate and that's an additional $500. So um we we'd like to consider those two option adders for additional $1375. There's no questions here. We'll move to the to the high school road. I just had a question that's not about the

024electric lights or the gate. Are we responsible for the stop signs, things like that on campus? Yes. Yes. Okay. How much does a stop sign cost? Do you have any idea? Just bought some. What? They're cheap. Cheap. Okay. Yeah. Less than 100 bucks. Oh, okay. demo cheap. Is that who you between$25 and $40? So we would have one like at the bottom of the hill and maybe one as we at the top or whatever. I don't know how many would we need. This is this is the road from high school to the elementary school. Yes. Um so we would have signs like coming from the elementary school do not enter because it's going to be one way from the high school over. Okay. Um and then there would be stop signs or or staging areas

025for parent pickup. Okay. Okay. I do have one question. I do have one question on we're getting a battery back up for the for the gate. I thought this was all going to be hooked up to our generator also. Don't we have to have electric going out to lights and stuff? Will that not be hooked up? The generator is not hooked up to um outside sight. Okay, thank you. I would move on to the next high school access road. We have a a base base price that includes seven solar lights um and electrical engineering permitting which which is going to have to be done regardless. Um that cost was $1,125,561. Um none of this has been approved yet on on on this. Uh the the optional adders up for discussion is upgrading the solar work

026to electric and then while the uh excavating equipment is on site is uh excavate the additional site work for a walking path next to that road for an additional $15,200. And then it has the various upgrades of that walking path being a grass seated path, a stone dust path, a subpace um path with made made out of Mac and then a concrete sidewall. Um, moving forward, I'd like to uh the board to consider upgrading the solar lights to electrical lights. Move forward with the excavating work and then to be consistent and with the flow of of the of the uh of the campus area is consider the the pave to walkway path. um just like we are of again over campus um from the intermediate school to Spring River Elementary and over to the high

027school uh state. The the P uh path would be easier to maintain for snow removal uh versus the the stone dust path and and obviously with this grass seated we would not be removing snow at all. question. Yeah. Well, I I still don't understand why we need lace back here. The spare lane doesn't have lights on it. So, I don't know why we would be even close to being interested in spending, you know, 30 34,000 almost $35,000 for lakes, but I don't think it's necessary. And as for the the path down along there, what we're doing, I I don't I'm not sure these figures are accurate, but even if they are accurate, I don't understand why where they're going to go. They It's no sidewalk leading to that sidewalk. There will be no sidewalk leading

028after that sidewalk. It's going to dump them out on Spirit Lane. So, I just don't think I just don't it's not a place where I I think we should encourage people to walk to begin with because of that. And I just it's a pile of extra money. It's just $50,000 a lot of extra money to get that down through there. So I'm I'm definitely dead against both of them options. Is there a possibility? So I've been seeing I I can't remember if it was like a 60 minutes or like one of those shows saying like in college campuses they're not putting paths because they want to see where the students walk. And then like a year after creating like this new landscape essentially they're putting in paths because they want to see the path that

029the students or whomever is walking is walking. Is that an option for us to like put that in timeout and say let's evaluate if if people are actually walking it and then I mean is is that would it cost more to put that in timeout or is this kind of inclusive of the package? It's the moization of the equipment. Correct. So once they're on site, mobilized. Correct. And I I agree with you. I think that uh in some circumstances and we've done that in the past uh whenever we're doing building the projects. Um wait to see where the students walk, wait to see where the staff walks. I think uh and actually Mr. Sheer brought up a good point in our last buildings and grounds committee meeting is where the path is going to be

030located will be on the upper side of that of that burrow. So basically the steeper section. So we asked the contractor to to give us a price and he was reluctant to do it because of the amount of excavation and steepness of that grade there in order to put that in. It would be a tremendous savings to do it. In fact, if the board had any intention of putting the path in, it would make sense now to put it in. M. Thank you. Do we do we want to encourage walking? I mean, in terms of in terms of a sidewalk, I mean, I I don't know. I just I mean, and Rodney, you would probably have better insight into this than most, but a million over a million dollars for a road just seems like

031a lot to me. Am I enrolled? Um, and then now we're adding, you know, $100,000 at least. um on to this. So I just I don't know I raise my hand and say what do we want what do we need right in terms of lighting is there codes that um are consistent that we're forced to put lighting in uh to your point there's no lights on spirit lane um I mean the whole project is extremely expensive I understand we need it from a from a we don't we've never had them so um but I know from a safety perspective, it would be nice, but is there any way we can save money on this road is my is my question. I know we've been down this road a couple times now, but it just seems

032like a lot of money to me. Well, Nicole, you're absolutely right. You know, the whole the whole premise of this road was to put in there for evacuation and to have an access, you know, the sidewalk bikes and and I get it, you know, especially in winter and and and climate change and stuff, but why are we making an extravagant? Just let's put the road in, pave the road. I mean, if you if you do need one or two lights, especially at the corners, I I I respect that. But I don't think we need walking past this and that. And again, how many of us sitting here is going to walk up and down that hill? So steep. It's so steep. It's so steep. Should we not be walking up or down? We do have

033a lot of walkers on campus and campus. Oh yeah, exactly. standpoint, but the whole idea of the road and we've been going through this for how many years is to have a, you know, a safe and a road back there. I understand them to use, but again, keep it simple. Yeah, without a doubt, we need this road. I like 100% we need this road. A road. We need a road. We need a road like yesterday. Um, you know, I experience it dropping off my child. I get hit almost once a month. We have school buses. I know. I know. Thank you for reminding me. But, um, it is, um, leaving that parent drop off is quite dangerous at times. Um, I will say that, but um, we need a road. I don't love the price,

034but there's no price on safety. So, um I I want I just am questioning the lights. I I would not The path is not important to me right now. It's the weather. Yeah. Okay. So, um Mr. Zap and I have a meeting tomorrow. It was Jackson Township. We were run by them. um any zoning or or or subdivision ordinances that would force us to put lights on there, we we will bring that information back. But if if it's not um should we does does this need to be cleaned up with with uh with no lights um and and just the Mac? Can we can we do like we've done in the past like in the voting package have the option ready to go um what that looks like and then I have a question and

035maybe this might this predates probably you but Mark maybe knows like when we were building the high school why did we not put lights on market spirit is spirit so we do have lights on uh spirit okay lane u but they're not down they don't pass basically what I would consider the school district for land. So, um we have them where's I'm trying to think of where that last leg is. I was trying to look here, but we do have them down and around the stadium um you know and um as well as all of our other brides um that that lead either into any of our buildings. We have lighting because, you know, you have to think about I wanted to somebody mentioned safety. We're dealing with you know, 16 year old students here

036that are just beginning to drive. There's there's definitely a lot you know on on the back road behind the high school there. There it's going to be, you know, it's going to have a little bit of a grade. There's going to be weather issues. There's going to be, you know, there's definitely going to be deer standing on that road. I can tell you that every day we see deer. You know, I I'm up there every day at 5:15, 5:30, and there usually a deer standing in the road somewhere. So, you're going to have deer standing there. So, I think that one of these things that you have to think about is the safety of the kids, right? Um, I would also recommend that if if the board votes to not put lights in that we

037at least put uh the conduit in there so that the excavating of that isn't um if we do you know a year or two from now say we want to put lights in the the conduit is um is excavated and put in for the potential for future lights but just something that we can ask the contractor um to add if we decide not to um to install the lights. Well, I mean and turn your mic on so people So, if we just did the road, how many lights would we need? I mean, could you get away with like four lights? Cutting that in half. Yeah. Three of the lights are right at the parking lot. Well, I'm sure the parking lot's going to glow over that. Yeah, the parking lot, but you still got the

038wiring to run the whole way. All you're saving across the lights are not saving across the trenching or the the wire is still going to go the full 900 ft. Well, you the last light is right across from the high school's or football field's back lot. You could run your electric from there and catch just go up the hill. Two lights. You won't have to bring it all 900 foot. I just think we need to be careful. I just think we need to be careful about putting lights there. I kind of the neighbors where it's going to shine also. And I think that might be why are not happy with the lighting situation that we get from the football stadium. Yeah. And if we stick more lights in through there on that hill, that's going

039to do nothing but shine down towards their place. Will it shine on them? No. But it will it will light the area up. You know, our kids our kids leave that campus and drive on roads with no lights on. Vision hills don't have any lights and this roads are going to be steeper. They got deer on them. You know, you can only you can only protect these kids so much that they're they're responsible. We have responsible people in our schools and we you can't protect them all the time when it comes to putting in $100,000 of extra safety stuff in there. I just I just don't think it's necessary. I just positively do not I think it's a waste that something should be going into education. Yeah. And I think we need to consider too

040the amount of evening activities that would require the use of that road um compared to the daytoday if the kids are leaving at 220. So So but again I do want to remind you know we we had the conversation about safety of the grade of the road. This was the least steep. Correct. I just want to because it feels like we've been talking about this for 5,000 years. So I think I remember that conversation and this was the in regard to the grade and steepness. This was the most safe path. It's the it's the less steepest and and the longest because it has to get longer to to get less steep. Y So let me ask you this. Then why can't we monitor the road in bad conditions? So we we could save the lights

041and when the last students are out why why can't we gate it it for specific use like graduate overflow you know when would so you can you can open you can open it up at you know at the end end of school or or during the day but in the evenings you know I don't hate that idea we could certainly gate it off and and save the money by with no license You know what I mean? You use the road for a purpose and then during the day, you know, you're going to have stuff going up and back and forth, but that's not going to But if if the weather is bad, you can shut the road off, you know, and then they're they're going to divert traffic uh up in, you know, up to

042the front. I I just an idea there. Bill, just to clarify the three things that you said about the electric for the lights, the walking path, and and how do you pay that would total 51,000? Is that correct? I'm hearing 100,000, but I I think we're looking at 51. Yes, that that would be 31, but you'd have to add the 31 already up in the top for the Okay. Okay. Yeah. All right. Thank you. That's the red here. Yeah. Okay. Should we add gates to the to the um option menu for for next month? I think we should have it as an option and we'll I think I might might as well I I kind of like the idea. So, yeah. Well, since and since we're and since we're gating the other road, it makes

043sense that we do that one also. And I think maybe that'll prevent people from at night going up behind the high school there. Agreed. Without going up the regular path, the regular road. Yep. Agreed. Just so we can put it on the record, can we um explain how we came to having Lobar do this for us, Mark? Um given the fact that uh there was due diligence. Uh so can we put that on Dr. Ch in terms of process? Um correct. So uh um I want to say approximately a year ago I think we we talked about this at a buildings and grounds committee meeting. So there are different avenues that a school district basically could do a procurement method through. One of the um you know one of the avenues would be putting it

044out to bid um and and let you know contractors bid on the project. Um the second one would be what we call internally call a paperback program. So you have companies like Lobar Associates through um what the parent company would be known as Gordian. Um the Gordian company would go out and basically negotiate these contracts with other contractors and they would become um the lowest price bidder for certain work in certain areas of the state of PA. So, South Central PA um when you do a project like this, Lubar Associates would be um the approved lowest bidder through Gordian. Um so, we've used Gordian for a number of years. Um I want to say probably since about 2020, they really kicked off uh in in 2020 because of the COVID relief funds uh from the

045federal government. They were one of the only groups nationally where you could use your COVID relief funds um and legally be able to meet the federal but also the state requirements for procurement. So we we had the board group um the contract with Gordian group but there's a number of um piggyback programs. One of the ones that we use daily is probably through co-stars and that's a state system um that many are familiar with. So if there was a a For example, restroom um to toilet paper would get all the restroom toilet paper from company um that is the lowest bidder through you know something as as simple as coaster. So does that answer the question? Okay, I just like to add on that a little bit. The other the other thing about using people

046like this is it don't cost us any money until we sign a contract. Where when we were using we had a contractor in here earlier two years ago, we ended up spending over $300,000 for things that we didn't even want to use. So it it's it's going to save us a pile of money and we won't spend any money, but we know what we're doing. Correct. Yeah. So if you were to hire to your point, if we would hire an engineer or or or an architect to design something like this, there would be a fee prior to this. But currently um with this uh the way this model is is um we we do not see any fees. So same thing with the other piggyback programs. If a bill needs to quote for something, we

047can do that for for no charge. I think we're ready to move on. You're up again, Mark. Yeah. Which one are we on? Walking walking coolers and freezers. Okay. Place. Yeah. So, um the the third one outlines uh the location of walking coolers and freezers. And um before Mr. Sh gets into some of the specificities, I do want to remind the board that we are not uh voting on a maintenance location or not a maintenance building. What we're voting on is we want to vote on or we want this to work on the location. Um this is important because in a few weeks there'll schedule Mr. Sh is scheduling a meeting for us to to talk about the maintenance facilities and this is going to be one of those um options. if it is in

048the facility, the size, the electrical requirements, everything that has to do with the maintenance, I mean with a walk-in coolers and freezers, we're going to want to need to know that information is going to be necessary to be inside the building or if the board does move forward to say that's located um behind the high school. While there is an additional cost uh to that uh we can be moving forward with that uh in a couple weeks here um and be able to get that under construction while we're still talking about the uh the location and um and the the maintenance facility. So Mr. Styles with you. Thanks Mr. Z. As Mr. Z was saying on on June 30th, Monday June 30th is our next buildings and grounds committee meeting. Um that's that meeting is

049is to get into the nuts and bolts of what is really needed in our maintenance facility. Um and prior to that it uh we feel that it's it's good in front of the board and can give us direction and guidance of where the uh where the freezer and cooler at the dry storage um is really going to go. Is it going to go this maintenance building? Is it going to go behind behind the high school? Um the the price list is is is listed. um that did for that area to be in incorporated the maintenance facility, it would it would cost $100,000 at the new build time. Um to put those spaces behind the high school, it's going to be around $47,000. So, um, our thinking, my thinking is moving forward is not only the

050$37,000, um, savings on paper, um, to putting in the maintenance facility because that is our normal operations right now. That's what our our staff is used to um, and with the with the flow of of traffic and and product. Bill, if you could just touch uh and and educate me again on the $100,000 for the propane generator for the freezer cooler if that would be at both locations, one location. And to just go take a little bit deeper dive into those man hours expended, uh people hours expended. If if x amount of our goods from a walking pool are going to the high school, I think we've come up with different amounts. um let's say 60%. Um if 60% of our walk-in cooler or items have to be moved from the walk-in cooler of the

051outside of the high school if it were to go there into the interior into a walk-in or reaching in there that would be your maintenance workers. Um probably not the staff but the high school because they're busy doing their actual job job. a manh hour deep dive and again what we do right now is a central repository of goods and services delineated to the six buildings. So, if you could take two deep dives on the propane generator, freezer, cooler, $100,000, and then man hours, that would be neutral. More man hours at the at a offset a new maintenance building, less man hours if you take the P5 at least. Yes, of course. Uh I think we we we landed in the study and that it was just under 40% of of the u the dry

052goods, the freezer goods um and the refrigerated goods actually go to the high school. Thank you for clarifying. Yeah, it was just under four. Um with Yeah, regardless if if it's up at the high school, we would be having to go up there and and move that. Um, the nutrition staff is is is only there for a short period of time during the day. They're 98 hour people. Um, and they're pretty focused on their routine. Um, and and there's not much time for them to spend 25, 35, 40 minutes of of moving that product in in and out of that facility. And then um the other five buildings we would have to go up there to the high school and then transport those items to the other five buildings regardless. So we we would have

053to move all the product anyways. we would just have a shorter period of of wait, excuse me, a shorter um way to go with it at the high school versus um being down at the maintenance facility where we can get it out um in in a normal flow away from the back of the high school. We typically get um minimum of three deliveries a week when it during the school year for for free either frozen food, refrigerated food, or dry storage. Um and then it can get up as high as seven um on once a month or so. It's it's always three times three times a week. So that would be three times a week that again our maintenance staff, one or two people would have to go up and uh hustle that um product

054off of the trucks into into either the walk-in cooler, walk-in freezer, or the dry storage area. Um first is a centralized um facility and into the maintenance. If if located at the a new proposed maintenance building, would that uh first of all those trucks off trucks, 18-wheelers, both? Yeah. And we're from a red truck to to an 18. Would that eliminate the need for that turnar around at the high school that we've been that we spoke about at one point for um maneuverability of trucks in that back area or not? Well, presently we don't have one. But for a normal milk delivery, that would make it a lot easier for that 24 foot refrigerated box truck to to maneuver to to to make that curve and back straight up instead of going back there and

055doing the K turn. Thank you. Anyone? Anybody have comments, questions? I do. Okay, go ahead. First off, the $100,000 put it in the maintenance building. You're only going to be ded $100,000 off of the maintenance building, move it up there. That $100,000 is what the freezer and cool warm stuff is going to cost from what I'm understanding and and the price quotes here. But we're not deducting anything off with that building down there. a building right now that we're looking at is approximately $200 a square foot. We're not deducting any of that building at all for that that room if we're if we eliminate that out of there. And I thought it was understood that we didn't need a cool a generator, especially if we have the high school because we have a generator for

056we in our electrical system there. So that's another hund,000. Plus now at the maintenance building, if we don't have them trucks going in there, I didn't think we needed a loading dock from what I'm understanding. So that's another $30,000. Plus, if we decide to put it up at the high school right now, we could if we would get things done normal things get done. We can have that done by close to when school starts. We wouldn't need right now we would have to rent a freezer and a cool for at least probably a year to carry for trailers because we will start the maintenance window sometime next year at the end of next year. Well, no, beginning of next year. So, we're looking we're looking at six to eight months before we would ever be

057able to use it. We're going to rent them things for six or eight months. I don't know what the cost for that is. But I just again I don't like to say that people weren't but that $100,000 is not correct. It's not it's it's going to save us more than $100,000 by not putting down there. No, I put [Music] on there any way to confirm I'm sorry. Any way to take his numbers and confirm them? Do they or do you have the numbers? You're not sure about the cost for the rentals? That's one thing we need. We need to know there because I would have no idea either what it costs to rent for and you don't just rent one and sit it down. You got to level it on shore and hook up wires

058to it and all that kind of stuff as well. We do definitely work um on getting numbers for rental cooler and freezer. So we do have um there are some different options. One of the options that we did during CO was um we rented a um um a storage trailer so it didn't be that old ran off of diesel. So you know parked somewhere. So that's that's an option as as you know to your point Mr. We can definitely get numbers and have that presented for the next. The other thing that doc is one thing that I that brought up before we talked about if we have something else delivered to the maintenance building that's big, it probably isn't going to stay at maintenance building anyway. So why would you deliver it there anyway? you

059probably if you got a big big piece of equipment or something, you probably would drop it off whichever building it's going to go to because so the dock would be another deduction. But a bunch of our dry storage um when when the trucks come up would need a loading dock. I mean would I guess not need but would be beneficial to have a loading dock because the drivers are no touch drivers. they come up and our guys take over. Um, so can you comment on that at all, please? Well, if we have a loading valve, we would probably have a tow motor or a motorized pallet jack um to to expedite things. Um, right now we're doing it either off off grade um or putting a ramp down to a bread truck and running it

060down with a hand truck um in into our freezer and and walk and cool dry storage and breaking apart file it to you know six boxes at a time. Yep. Six boxes at a time rather than the pallet jack just taking everything in right on a pile. So are we still filling if we put the freezer and the cores up there at the high school the dry man is still no. Okay. Is the high school's generator capable of the additional draw or do we still need an additional generator? I I don't know what those numbers are. Uh, I know there's a lot more running off the generator to high school since it's a bigger building than in comparison to, you know, a ratio of a smaller building, but I I don't know what the capacity

061is there. Let's say if we need it or not. So it's up in So it's up in the air in terms of if if we put the razor um cooler in the maintenance building, you would need the B generator. If we don't and put it at the high school, then we may or may not need the generator. Correct. And what we'll do um is we'll first look at the the generator at the high school and see what the size is and currently what the load is um and if there's any capacity that's left um with that generator. We'll also have to get the we'll get a a contractor to give us that as well as um a price to run um you know you know definitely you're going to need some sort of feed from

062that generator to uh to the high school coolers and freezers because it would be quite a distance. So we'll do those two things. Um the the to answer your question as far as the the the generator at the maintenance facility um you know that's something that um you know I I don't know if we were looking having anything else installed onto that in the in the maintenance. I don't believe we were. No. And and we had we have six or seven small generators that if we needed to fire something up locally down there, if if if a generator wouldn't be there, we be self-sufficient for a while. So, yeah. So every time you get a delivery, one of you guys have to run up to the high school if it's up there. Correct. That's what

063you're saying. That's how Steve. And then you guys when you guys go move your stuff, do you go do it one time during the day? Like when you distribute or your guy goes up there, moves the stuff for the day that you're done? Every Thursday morning. One time a week. Okay. Good enough for me. Anybody else? Thank you so much for compiling all that. I know it's a lot and we've been talking about this for a long time. So hopefully we can come to a decision. Thank you so much, Billy and Mark. Thank you, Mr. Files. And then the last thing, the last one there um that we came out of and grass committee and I I want to make sure that everybody's clear about this that um the administration is neutral on this. Uh

064this was brought to our attention we brought in the buildings and baths committee uh for the possible leasing of district grounds for solar panels on the district campus. Uh the committee recommended that we bring this to the board's uh consideration is if we want to move it forward move it forward on it. Again the administration we're we're neutral on it. We'll bring the information to you. Um as Mr. I was mentioning we have a meeting with Jackson Township morning where we're going to get into a little bit more of the details, but we did find out that would be a clearance um for the solar panels on the on the district property. Um the um the township um administration there said that we would get a variance and that they would see that the surrounding

065neighbors would probably have um probably some issues with um with the solar panels. They couldn't say, you know, specifics, but they said they would see some feedback to the panels. Um, the company is interested in leasing as as much or having as many solar panels at least as possible on the district grounds. They would need a minimum of approximately 20 acres. They said 17.5, but approximately 20 acres of a minimum uh and a minimum of a thirdyear lease. So paradise. Do we have the exact location that they're looking at? No, they they they saw our campus um they saw the campus on a on a on a map on a Google map. Saw some available land. They're the largest solar company in the world and they're just basically putting out marketing and saying, "Hey, is

066are we interested in in uh earning some income here, having solar panels on the district property for a 30-year lease?" That's what we know for right now. nothing, you know, nothing's in seven. Um, they will need a minimum of of 17 and a half acres anywhere, you know, on the district campus or possibly at, you know, at Paradise Elementary School. But it's just something we wanted to bring to your attention. If you wanted to move forward with it, we can we can definitely move forward with it. And confirming, we would get a kickback when energy cost, right? We would do both energy and some sort of lease on the u on the panels for them as well. Well, you still have the maintenance because now you got a gated mower. Yeah. Any ideas, Mark, in

067terms of what they're thinking we could get in in return? So, I'm assuming we would be paid a certain amount for per per acre. Yeah. So, it would it I don't want to comment on that because they um they they're looking at it as much as possible. So, the I don't give a number because they were basically looking at approximately like 200 acres. Um, but if we're talking, I'm sure it's going to be different if they say we're only going to do 17 and a half acres, but there would be a, you know, a sizable difference on the amount that they would lease the land for, right? And we, again, we can um, as as those questions come up, we can look for um to bring the company back in and to do a proposal

068and uh, more of a presentation. We just want to see if there's no if there's if the board has no like not to see solar panels on our district on on on the properties for 30 years, then we're just going to move forward and say thank you. But if if there's any possibility, that's what we wanted to bring to the board's attention. So the vote will be to get a request like a a proposal basically. And we don't even have to have a vote. It's just to move it forward for the if if it dies here, that's fine. But if you want to move forward for a vote, I just um I got that. Go ahead. It was talked about building ground committee should work is that they should present that to the board and

069then the nine of us would would actually vote on it or at least give a straw shake on it and say yes, we're interested in looking at it and then they would give Mark and the building and ground committee meeting the okay to go ahead and look at it. you know that it's we just don't it's no you Mark doesn't spend a lot of time if there's already six of us on here and say we don't even want to look at them and things so that that's all we're trying to get yeah I was just look I just looked at what was written here I just wanted to make sure that we were what we were intending to vote on or give a head nod on at the next meeting so that's all I was

070confirming yep I I like the concept I think vote on just trying to move it forward for the buildings and grounds and and them and marking them to go ahead and do it without spending a lot, you know, without spend any money. So, in favor of that. Thank you. Yeah, I think we should just put on hold for now. U solar energy, I've looked at it in my house numerous times. There's a lot of options to look at. And there's a lot of people out there. And I I just think if we're ever going to do it, we have to look not just at solar, but maybe we should take some of our land and rent more of it out for farming even. And what Mark said about Paradise or the the township said people

071are going to come out. Uh there's just so many things to look at in a 30-year commitment. Uh, and the reason we a lot of the nicest pieces of land that we have like out of paradise, we bought that with the idea that if we need it in 10 or 15 years, if I had up for 30 years, wow. I mean, why did we even have it that you 30 years is so far out? Um, I just think there's a lot of things to look at the the perception to the community what's going to look like. I mean, I drive by the places out by BAE and I mean, I hurt you. You just see all that farmland full of solar panels. And I'm not saying I'm against solar, but I'm just not sure, you

072know, we're having enough trouble trying to take care of education here. Do we really want to take on this challenge and try to figure out solar? Well, I think at the end of the day, if there's cut big picture, if we could reduce cost of energy, we can have more poor education. I at the end of that's where my mind is. But again, I'm I I would like to hear more um rather than shutting it down right now because I I feel like I don't have enough information to say yes or no at this point. Love our campus. Would love that idea of like farming, you know, fleasing it out to farmers. I love that idea as well. But at the end of the day, you know, we just had a really tough negotiation on

073tax increase where we all agree that we want to grow the base of education in our district where we're giving opportunities. I want to hear more because that that savings could go to education. Well, if we're going to talk to somebody, we don't talk to one company. We talk to somebody who's a neutral person and find out where we're going to go. Uh I just don't think we go to one company and say you know what what are the options and let them drive the whole conversation. I think they can nuts. We have to have expertise from someone who's a neutral party. It it comes down to a little bit like our medical facility. I hear great things about it. We get great reports. But what I struggle with is that the person that gives

074us the reports is the person that owns the company. But, you know, we have a business office here, which is Mark and a couple other people. How are they going to evaluate a big solar system? We we we can't I don't think we can really evaluate it ourselves. We need to get if we're serious about this, we got to talk to somebody who's neutral who doesn't have money to be made in the evaluation. I agree. There are also districts that we could ask the rest of references and see how they've mined their data and how they've tabulated their savings or lack of savings. Yes. Or how they came to the decision to work with a particular company um in looking to invest in um solar companies. I found that a lot of them have gone

075belly up over the last couple years. um what happens if we go with a company that we don't know enough about and then we're stuck with those panels on our campus and have no way to get rid of them because that seems to be the problem. They haven't looked to the future far enough to be able to do what can we do to recycle them or to um just get rid of them. Yeah, that that's a concern that I have. 30 years is a long time. Yeah, I like the way that you're thinking because we're we're already forward thinking where the only way to get those questions answered is to have him do a presentation. Um I because I'm curious now. No, no, I don't want to see a presentation nor do I want to

076see it in our schools. So yeah, I I'm a no right off the bat. So go from there. Just to make sure something said about renting the farm ground out, we do rent the farm ground out now. Correct, Mark? Correct. So we we are making money off the farm ground. Thank you for that proper information. So you're implying that maybe there's some more that we could rent out. You know, I realize we do, but we might want to look into some other uh land like Paradise. I don't think there's a lot up there that's not being rented out. It's all rented out. The customer of ours farms. Yeah. Oh, is it? We have a majority of 26 acres. they're renting out. I would say that you know that the 8 10 acres that's close to

077the building there. We do not because from the ball fields and the you know um closer to the sewer farm I mean the sewer farm the sewer plant that we have there but the rest of it is I thought there was some to be added. All right. Okay. So, if you have any more questions on that, we will decide if we're moving forward the proposal to the next meeting that will be a vote or do you want that now? If if we get direction now of whether we're putting it on for a if we're moving it forward to to for a vote or if you want me to what you can do is I heard some options of maybe reaching out to uh school districts and um there's a firm down street uh sners as

078well as uh you know other businesses that are surrounded here. get some more information of possible solar farms and come to the board by more of a presentation if I can do that as well. I I would what I'm thinking I'm hearing is we should send it back to the committee to do research to report back to get the formal presentation so we get you know what we can walk walk away and say no but at least we have questions answered and we all learn something through this process. Um, I I think that that would be my recommendation is to send it back to committee um to do some research. Yeah, I don't I mean you dub why I don't like the idea. I don't like the look. It makes me nauseous just thinking about

079it. But if it can save us money and make us money but that we can deliver back to education um and do it, you know, maybe there's some negotiation to be had in terms of the 30-year concept. Um you know, things of that nature that we can talk about in terms of how much land do we have to give up, where does it have to be, can it be in a place where it's less unsightly? uh because I I have no idea what what we could potentially save slashmake um to help us offset our costs here because as we know right in terms of the tedious and difficult conversations we've had around the budget that it would be very helpful you know if it's a couple hundred grand that we could bring into the district

080um for you know um in a limited fashion then I'm for it right so just need to learn more. Yeah, I agree with you completely. Like we have to get creative and evolve into finding new sources of revenue and I need to close the book before we learn anything about it. That's that's really all I'm saying. I like to hear more. I hate solar panels, but we own a very large south facing hill that is useless for anything else. They're going to charge a little maybe not as good a money because they got a little harder in installation, but I'm getting to hear more. Yeah. Plus, we do have that hay field up there back behind the elementary that's all you can grow in because all and that would be surrounded by woods if I

081remember right. That would be out of sight pretty well. So, I don't have a problem with with investigating a little more also. So, we're sending it back. Are we voting on at the 23rd meeting to move it back to committee or are you saying now that I think we're able to move it back to committee and back to DSF when there's a presentation ready to be had? Yep. Cool. Thank you guys very much. All right. Moving on to management committee's policy with Mrs. B. All right, we're gonna start with the board survey results with Steph Kennedy. He'll probably put presentation in bold presentation for Mr. Don't Don't call me when you have presentation for solar panels. I'll be out there. Hey. Oh, do we have are we having a video? Yeah. Presentation. Did you see

082that? Slide. Good evening everyone. So tonight I'll be presenting the 2025 board survey results. Just give you a little bit of the history. We've been doing these surveys for four years now. Um which I absolutely love. I think it's great that we're getting feedback from our students, staff, and our parents, and guardians. Um, it's ways that can help us grow and improve, and it shows us things that we're doing well. Um, so it goes back all the way to 2022. Um, for 2025, the surveys were conducted March 3rd through the 16th, 2025. Um, because it seemed to be a really good date when we did that in 2024. It seemed to work really well, so we stuck with that for 2025. Um, as far as the questions, there have been no changes. So, we have

083that shows us consistent data um and can really give us a way to track trends and get some per um shifts in perceptions over the last four years. Um, and just in case anyone is interested, we do put the survey data. Um, we have 22, 23, and 24 on the website right now. So, if you would go to the about us section, um there's an annual board survey page where you can get all of the data on there. We also release that um annually in the Rocket Nation update, although this year now that we're doing the Rocket Report um I'm envisioning that going out in a rocket report. All right. So, this year I thought it would be good to provide a general guideline on the ratings. Um, full disclosure, I'm a very competitive person,

084so I want to eat the best. So, when I see ratings sometimes in the 70 to 79%, I'm like, "Oh my god, that's awful." Right? But it's really not. Um, it's in that good range. And so, this was when I did this research looking into these. Um, it was more even from my perspective to make sure that I was staying objective in looking at all these, but also to give everyone else some perspective into some ratings. Um, and these actually came from um, guidelines from thirdparty survey providers like K12 Insight, National School Climate Center, Hanover Research, um, not Hanover, Pennsylvania, it's in Virginia. Um, so having this framework um, is a way to help us interpret this data fairly inconsistently. So I just wanted to put this out there in advance. All right. So, we're

085going to start with our student survey first since they are the heart of everything we do here. So, we had 1,232 responses out of 2,360 students in grades 5 through 12. So, we do not survey K to 4, although that would be very interesting to hear some of their some of their ratings. Um, so in 2025, that comes out to a 52% um response rate for the students. So, as you can see, um that is an 80% increase from 2024. So, it's nice to see an increase. Um as far as looking at the numbers, I just broke it down by the building as well for you to see. High school pretty much maintained, middle school dropped slightly, but SGI increased their rate um over 30%. So, that's really great to see. So for them, they

086really have a very good base of data where if they wanted to use that to look at their glows and grows, um it would be a good one for them. Okay. So what I did here, and I'm not going to read every single one of these to you, um you would want to shle me. So what I did, similar to last year, is I gave the last three years status. So you can see 2023, 2024, and then this year's 2025. And then I put a column in there so you can see the percent change from 24 to 25. So anything that was positive, no matter what the number, it's in green. And the same thing with negative. If it's any negative number, it's in red. Um, just to kind of give that that perspective. Um,

087one of the things that I did want to note that I haven't noted in past years is that last question at the bottom. I've been a frequent target of bullying. Um, that is not a mistake with that negative in 5.8. So, because that question is worded um and agree or strongly disagree because it's like more of a negative, we actually want that strongly agree and agree to be lower. So, the lower the better on that question. we don't want people to feel are those students to feel that they're a frequent target of bullying. So I just wanted to point that yes lower number is good. So that has actually decreased um by almost 6% which is really great to see that our students are not um experiencing that as much as the in previous years.

088And it's interesting that the one above it is low like it's showing a decline because there's there could be a tie of comparison between those last two questions. Yeah. Between bullies. Yeah. I Well, and I think what's probably key in that question above is the background, race, or ethnicity. So, I think students may look at that a little bit differently than what they may see as your average bullying. And you know, our our school buildings do a really great job of helping students understand what bullying is, how to recognize it, hopefully how to prevent it, how to deal with it if you are unfortunately experiencing it. I think one of the areas personally that I think that that I see that we could grow is educating our families on what bullying is versus just maybe

089being picked on or you know um and ways on how to deal with that at home because I know I myself would struggle with that. You know that's that's kind of a painful thing your kids being bullied or or picked on. It's like how do you as a parent how can I help my child with that? What steps do I take? Do I contacted the teacher building principal? Those kinds of things. Maybe that's a topic for our parent partnership already in the works. Jennifer Dugan. All right. So, um the next set, again, these are all um within the student survey, this next set here. And as you can see, like there's really not much of a change between 24 to 25. It's pretty consistent. Um, the only one on this one that maybe is worth

090noting is school rules are applied equally to all students. That had a little over 4% increase, which I think that's um that's nice to see as well. Yeah, that definitely stands out. All right, so overall I am happy at my school. That saw a slight decrease from 24. So we have 75.8 strongly agree and agree with that statement. Well, makes sense. We're gonna we're gonna dig into that a little bit later. There, Mr. Sheer. Um, and then I also broke that down by building as well, just so you can kind of see from 24 to 25. But again, when you have a 96% response rate by school, I you know, that's for SI. Yeah. Yeah. That's a huge shout out to them. that if when they're having 90 some percent of their students complete the

091survey and 85.4 is strongly agree and disagree there's I imagine there would be some really happy students there. Uh yeah kudos to that my own daughter from experience had had a great experience there. So again, not to be biased. Um, the student section or the student survey did not have a comment section, right? So that is the only one that does not have a comment section. Again, I think that that might be a little interesting. Um, if we would move maybe to like a secondary or secondary survey, then it might be worth taking a look at, but um, I think that it's fine the way that is now. All right, so moving on to the parent guardian survey. So this survey has two sections. So we first ask them to rate um on the school

092that their child attends and then the second part is the district overall. Um so and then parents take the survey for each school their children attend. So, it's hard to come up with an overall percentage for response rate from this because you could have a family of five where maybe they have two kids in the same building and so they're like, well, I'm only going to take it once because they're in the same building and they're having about the same experience. Um, or they might take it for all five children or if you have a parent of or a student who's in a split family, they could have four parents um that could be taking in that survey. So, it's hard to come up with a response rate, but at least you can see the

093number of responses. Um, it was the same strategy as 2024. So, there were no changes other than um we did a popup on the student and families web page. So, anybody who visited that page for a certain amount of time um could get that popup to alert them to take the survey. Um so, we are down in responses for 2025, which is not what I like to see. And it's hard to say why. Um you know, is it survey fatigue? um do they feel maybe uh maybe they're not being heard? I'm not I'm not sure. Um but I just think it's important to note that that decrease. All right. So these first sets of questions are based on these building responses that their child is in. Okay. Um again, this didn't fluctuate much from 24

094to 25. Um, the only one that I would like to note on this page is staff that respects cultural diversity decreased by 8.1%. So, you're kind of seeing that a little bit with students when you pointed out that rating, Mr. Worbal. Um, it's kind of you're looking at that the same with the parent survey. The next set of questions, these are still building responses. Um, I think the only one on here that probably a negative 6.2 on our decrease was enforce the school rules and applies them equally for my child and all students. But that's true. Yep. It's one of my key takeaways I'm going to bring back. It's very interesting. Yeah. We can't tell where this is coming from. What building I can and I'm going to tell you. Well, not necessarily the particular

095building, but I'll I'll kind of give you a little bit more of a perspective. And then on the building response, um, overall I can recommend my child's school to others, 78.1 said yes, which is a slight decrease from 2024, but increase from 23. Right? So, you'll see in general 2024 we had some gains, right? and it didn't really fluctuate too much in 2025, but I think you're seeing some slight decreases in in some areas. And I again I'm going to go I have some key takeaways to point out with these um at the end. Okay. And then this is just the overall recommended child from school to others broken down by building. So you can see we have four out of our six buildings. um we're in that 80 plus range which is fantastic to

096see. All right, so moving on to the district response section of the parent survey. This is a little bit of a different story. Um we can see the rating dipped quite a bit for the majority of the questions. Um, it's hard to say why. I have I have my guesses and I'm sure some of you have your guesses as well. Um, the two that didn't really see much of a change was makes an effort to keep families informed and has an overall positive climate. Um, those two stayed fairly fairly, but otherwise we saw a pretty big dip um in 2025. [Music] But we're overall I would recommend the spring area school district to others 74.1% said yes you know so that is about a 7% decrease or 5% decrease sorry um but it's still in

097that good range right so here I am like oh I'm saying it was a decrease and I'm kind of like but it's still in that good range right not necessarily where we want to be we want to be very good you know we want to be in those 80s and 90s as much as we possibly again. Um, but it's still not still not awful. Um, in 2024, we were just we just about hit that very very good. Um, so the parent survey did have a comment question. It was just open-ended. Um, and it just said, you know, if you have any additional comments, you can provide them at that spot. So, we had out of 567 total survey responses, 106 uh comments were submitted. And so, what I did, and you'll see this when you

098get your um reports tomorrow, and I tried to be as transparent as possible with this, and again, some of this is my own opinion on ratings on questions. And so, if you disagree, let me know. Um, but I think you'll see I I tried to piece it out as as objectively as possible. And so I went through and I kind of gave each comment um either a sentiment of negative, positive, or neutral. And this you're going to notice that the tally is more than 100, right? Because we've had comments where they're like, "Oh my gosh, I love Paradise Elementary. It's so great. The teachers there are fantastic." but and then it goes into the negative of maybe something else, right? So, yes. So, so that would be an example of something that's both a positive

099and a negative comment. Um, neutral was sometimes if they just gave like a suggestion or if it if it just wasn't really um like just an okay. Yeah. Then I put it as neutral. And again, you guys in that doc if you guys have any questions of the documents you'll get um tomorrow, please let me know. Um it's all broken down there for you. So then I went through and I tried to give themes to the comments. Um again the there were 33 um out of the 36 who were overall were just very pleased whether it was with their child's teacher, the school building, the district. Um there wasn't necessarily like individual themes to those. It was just overall they were pleased. um the top negative comments and again I put um the number rating

100of each how many times it was mentioned. So school board and budget spending priorities each at 11 which we know that's been a hot topic. Um bullying at nine um bullying again has we've consistently seen over the four years that the topic that comes up. building administration and communication and not mentioned nine times and then um superintendent administration mentioned seven times and that's out of 567 parents that took the survey we got 11 11 I'm careful to say that I don't I don't want to minimize anyone's comments right because every comment is valid to that person and should be valid to us as well but when you're looking at it overall it is sort of a smaller amount Um, and I actually have um on the next slide here, I was very interested to know

101because if I see somebody who gives an overwhelmingly negative comment, I assume and wrongly in this case that they would say no, that they would not recommend their child school, they would not recommend the district. However, as you can see, I went through and I calculated out of those 16 negative comments or those ones that were negative in tone, um, you can see between the combination of they would recommend and maybe for their school, that's at 73%. And for they would still recommend the district or gave a maybe response, total of those two is 75%. So what that tells me is although they were very negative in their comment they're still trying to decide about this especially with those mies right so they may say yes I would still recommend the district but I'm really

102unhappy about this particular thing um and so I for I think that's important to note because I think sometimes when people look and read through the comments it's just like oh my gosh especially when when they're negative and it just kind of brings you down but when you look at it compared with the data It's really not as bad as you think. And if anything, that those parents giving us that negative feedback gives us a chance to do better, right? They're they're telling us maybe what they're not happy with, right? And it's a chance for us to listen and build that trust. Totally true. Thanks, Steph. All right, so moving on to the staff survey. Two 285 responses out of 506. So, we did see a drop in the response rate from 2024. And again,

103I'm not sure why we did the same strategy at 2024. Again, the popups, we did those on the staff web page. That was new. Um, we did the overall like if they if we reach 65% since we were since we got that last year, we could do, you know, district white district-wide jeans day. The only thing we didn't do was the individual um little giveaways um if we reached a certain percentage. Um but there's no way that small change would have an impact um between 65 and 56%. So um again it's not necessarily bad 56% but in my mind I'd like to see 60 plus to give us a range that's more representative of our entire staff. Um and I don't know if you guys want to know this or not. I kind of jotted

104this down here. Of that 285, 101 of those were support staff and 184 were faculty. All right. So, going through this was sectioned out just like the parent survey where they first um responded to statements in regard to their own building and then the second part was with the district. Um, so again, pretty much the same with the student and the parent guardian building sections. There wasn't significant gains or losses for the majority of the questions. Um, in this case in this set, um, one that's probably a little bit notable is the quality professional development opportunities that went up by 4.39%. Um, so that I noted. And then in this next set, the one that I felt was notable was the supervisor communicates effectively with staff at my building. That went up by 6.2%. If

105I get too fast with these, just let me know. But I know you have the presentations at your seats for the district responses. Again, this is a bit of a different story. Um, it's also notable decreases as you can see from 24 to 23. Um the only one that really that didn't see a decrease is the administration supports me as needed and appropriate when issues arise. Scott, so both administration and teachers, which is a little provoking, is saying our schools are dirty. Do we have a clean? Huh? I did notice we had a decrease on the teacher and the staff survey. Yeah. Yeah. Which is Should we give everyone a vacuum cleaner and some windows so they can help clean the buildings or what? But one thing that you will notice and a key takeaway

106is on the parent survey that was rated very highly. Now they're not in our buildings every day like our staff are, right? Um, so it's hard to say on that one. We have work to do and it only can go up from here on this slide. So I know I'm a I'm a half class school. Yep. So I think this provides some good opportunity. All right. So the last question they're asked is overall recommend school district to others for employment. 56.84 said yes. So that is a decrease, you know, a pretty decent one um from 2024. Um, moving on to the comments for the staff. So, there were 86 comments submitted out of 285 and out of 506 total staff at that time. So, that those 86 comments represent 17% of the total staff, right?

107Which is bit of a low number on those. So, again, not to say that the comments aren't worthy. We should pay attention to them. We should be looking at them. Um, but don't be completely disheartened by them. Support staff, there were 28 comments, faculty, 58. Again, I did the same thing with the parent guardian survey. Broke down the um the tallies for the sentiments and the overall themes. Again, for support staff and the faculty, one of the top thing was overall they're, you know, they're pleased with their job when it came to positive theme. What I thought was interesting on the faculty is that the number two top positive theme with eight responses was voting administration but the number one top negative with 11 was building administration. Um so there could be some uh differing

108opinions there. Um top negative you can see those between the support staff versus faculty. Um the communication I will tell you the support staff I've already talked with Mr. Styles a little bit about that. you know, our support staff, quite a few of them, they're not coming to work and sitting down at computers every day and the majority of our communication to staff is through email, through the website. um you know it's digital means and so if they are not having they're not sitting at a computer regularly like um some of our level you know level five other support staff administrative assistants faculty um they may not feel that they're communicated to as much because they just don't have that opportunity to to look at that as much. So we're we're looking at some different

109ways of how we can make sure we're getting them permission they need paper list isn't always the best. Yeah, I mean there's something to be said about a piece of paper that you read and you take home as a reminder. Yeah. And Mrs. B, one thing we discussed um outside of this clinic, you know, kind of in conjunction with this was the days of getting your paycheck with an envelope stuffer in there with information. I mean, that's one because direct deposit, but that was always a source of Yes. quality information, reminders, and it was just a stuffer in your envelope with your paycheck. So, that was always an opportunity that everybody got regardless of whether you're a teacher, a principal, a cleaner, you know, everybody got that. So, we're trying to be creative on, you

110know, physical bulletin boards, physical ways for that that uh capture that audience. All right. So again, I did the same thing with the parent sur or the parent guardian survey and I looked at the recommendations for the district support staff and faculty looking at those that gave a negative comment and you can see you know 85% of the support staff would give a yes or a maybe and 60% 60% of faculty would give a yes or a maybe. So even though the negative comments um may seem like oh you know we're doing awful this terrible it's actually just giving us an opening to be take some meaningful steps in the d right direction to listen you know to their perspective and see what we might be able to do about that. So it's not an

111it's not an outright rejection which I think is a good thing. All right. So, just some key takeaways. We put them into glows and grows. So, on the student survey, again, we kind of mentioned this already that SGI had a 92% response rate, which is fantastic. Um, the bullying, the rating question, um, dropped by nearly 6%. Always great to see that. And the perception of equal law enforcement rose by over 4%, which is great. So they feel like they're being um equally disciplined. Um safety related questions continue to receive consistently high ratings. So if you go through and you look at those for for the students generally it seems as though especially over each year the last four years. You know they feel safe in their buildings and at school which is a good thing.

112Um, another thing to not is questions about supportive teachers, caring schools, focus on learning consistently. All of those um different categories of statements were above 85%. So, that's great to see. And then the questions about class engagement um and challenge scored between 72 and 80 80%. Um, and at SGI, again, you noted this earlier, 85% of students reported being heavy at school. So with a 92% response rate that is excellent. The growth as we kind of brought up to the question on um the decrease in feeling respected regardless of background, race or ethnicity is maybe something to look into a little because that is not only low this year, it's been consistently low year-over-year. All right. for the parent guardian survey. Um, so this is where I wanted to point out 95% of response reported

113respondents report they feel that their child's school is clean and wellmaintained. Um, 14 out of 17 of the school related questions and the majority of them scored high ratings from parents in the 85% to 90% range. Um, so Mr. Rit, I think you might have made the comment or maybe it was Mrs. Shear like how are they how are we only getting 75% basically? I think was what you were saying when we have all these high ratings. Um, so again, 78% isn't bad. That is good and we're getting towards the very good range. Um, but I think there, you know, there are just some people who I'll take my father-in-law for example because we tickle pink that I am using him as an example. We'll be out to a meal at a restaurant. My gosh,

114this meal. It's the greatest meal I've ever had. It is delicious. Oh my god, I can eat here again. What would you rate it? a six, maybe seven. Like, and that happened actually with friends of ours this past weekend. We went to a restaurant. You know, our friend was was overwhelmingly like, "Oh my god, this is a great meal. He gave a seven." Like, wouldn't that be a nine or a 10? Really? Like so I think there's just some where some people who just again again again coming into my own little bias there but this don't want to give necessarily a very high rating even though in the majority of the question they're doing 85 to 90%. So I think that's just something to take into consideration as well. Um and then as far as

115on the district related, you know, we saw um some consistency within the communication and overall positive uh climate. Um on the growth for 2025, there was a decrease in the responses. Um again talking about that has a staff that respects cultural diversity. Um that decreased by 8%. So when we're seeing that on the student side and on the parent side, there could be something there that we may need to take a closer look at. This is the part, Mrs. Brawl, where I thought you'd be interested where we said enforce schools applies um it decreased by over 6% for parents and then for the students it increased by 4%. And so I looked at um just grades 5 through 12 with the parent guardian survey and it's actually even more of a decrease for parents by

1167%. So it's like you have their their kids who are saying yes I feel like I'm being equally disciplined but the parents are not and I think probably what that boils down to is fur above right. So, and I know from my own daughter, there are some things that she happens to know that just because kids talk, right? So, somebody got, oh, I got something in from school or I got this or I got that, you know, that they're friends, they're talking. Um whereas when the parent is talking with a principal, we can't divulge the discipline information, right? That would be against furba. Um so, they may not know as much um as maybe what a student might know. Um you know, Mrs. Dr. Lewig is going to we're going to have the um code

117of conduct coming up for the student parent handbook. My daughter knew more about this stuff or she thought she knew and I was just kind of starting to hear about it. I'm like, how do you know this already? Like these kids, they just they happen to know things. Um and then five of the seven district related questions scored lower, ranging from 49% to 61%. Um and so there it's a pretty significant decrease. when you're looking at those overall ratings, you know, not not so great at all. Um, and then the overall recommend um decreased by 5%. However, one thing to note is that shift and the response is lost in the positive, did not go right into the no, it went into the maybe, which to me is positive. So they're expressing, hey, I'm not

118happy right now, but I could be if we make the right changes in their minds, right? Um, so again, there's opportunity there. And then the staff survey, key takeaways. Um, the building has an overall positive climate increased by almost 5%. So I think that's great. As we're talking about staff morale, super my supervisor effectively communicates with staff. That increased by over 6%. Um, and I think that's that's notable because in the faculty comment analysis in 2024, I had noted that as being one of the most concerns from our faculty is not getting the communication from their supervisor. So, it was nice to see that we had an increase in that area. 90% of staff were proud to tell others that they work at their school and administration supports me as dated and appropriate. That was

119the highest rated district related question and that showed um a small increase to 74%. The growth um again 9% decrease in a staff survey. So what can we do to continue to get that 60% plus range eight of the 90 related questions scored lower. Again those were in the 33 to 68% range. Um and so we definitely have some some room to grow there. And then overall I'd recommend that school spring school district to others where employment decreased by 6.4%. And again this is the same as with the parent guardian that those that we lost in the positive didn't go right into the nose. They were in the 80s. Um and I also thought it was interesting that 90% of staff were proud to tell others that they work at their school but that only

12090% would recommend the district for employment. So, and I think when you look at some of the ratings, I mean, obviously this is interesting times right now, um, with everything going on with, you know, budget discussions. There's some really difficult everything going on with elections, those kinds of things. So, you know, it's bringing some tough questions to the service. Um, and then that I think is it any questions for me? First, I want to say thank you. Um, when these when we first started developing this, I think Karen, Nicole, and or board member Dave Treddle were heavily involved in working with you to get this off the ground. And what it's developed into is um something I think the entire district should be very proud of. give everyone a voice and it gives us valuable

121feedback because when we look at the staff survey key takeaways the glows that second one that you said grew it's proof that we take these seriously and that we work on making change so we have work to do but I think what something you said really can affect a survey like this I do surveys for a living with 40 different association clients and the environmental climate, not saying the weather, like uh the federal climate, the the things that we're discussing. You know, we were disc at that time that this survey was going on, we were having really challenging conversations that um could hypothetically could play into results of this. And I'm not diminishing the results by any means, but it take you have to take that into consideration, but at the end of the day,

122that that second bullet on the staff survey glows, it proves that we take these seriously and we work on them. So, like I said before while you were talking like the only way to go is up from here and we take all of these very seriously. So, I want to thank the the district, the students, the staff, the the parents who took this seriously as well because um these these things are um amazing for our district because not every district does these. So, um a big thank you to you and she but also the taxpayers staff. Thank you. All right, moving right along. Pose 256, code of conduct. Um, every year we bring section 23 student code of conduct to your attention um highlighting changes um which are that highlighting that can get a little

123goofy. So we also provided a memo and [Music] um we provided an additional memo that just over an overarching one place one-stop shop to highlight the changes. The biggest changeum is the cell phone proposed cell phone policy. not it's not a policy change but it's an implementation change. Um the elementary and intermediate are continuing on with their same policies or procedure they've always had which is students have their phones away. Um they don't use them during the day unless a teacher directs them um to use their iPad. But jumping in is the middle school and high school with some procedures as outlined um in the published changes in the student code of conduct. Is that the Hold on. Is that rain? No, Brandon, it's not raining, is it? Is that the mill? Okay. Sorry. What

124is that noise? I guess like I don't care. It's like a jet engine. Yeah. Terrible. It's better than the alternative if they don't release steam. I know. Anyway, I have a question. when we talk and I don't know if this is appropriate for code of conduct or chip maybe um speaking your language like when we talk about iPad usage on the elementary level like do you guys have like a standard of like K through two no iPad usage three four 20% of their day is iPad usage is there a standard no No, it's up to the teacher iPad usage. Okay. What's appropriate? Okay. And it used to go home, but that doesn't kind of keep it. But we we actually this year did try to take a stand. They wanted during the day. That's I

125think we see a lot of problems of our buildings. Yeah, I I would agree that. I I'm one of nine. I would love to see like almost a decrease on the elementary level of iPad usage. Again, we're starting a new curriculum for math that that may make some changes. I just think um and yeah, this is me personally. I would just really like to see decreased iPad usage. Again, they're not allowed cell phones. That's a whole different story. But that electronic devices, I think there's value to holding them back a little bit. Again, I'm one of nine, but just putting that out to the universal. Thank you. You're welcome. All right, we'll keep moving on. Proposed new revised policies. Um, we have four that are listed there, but various people if people have questions about

126them that they can answer. Thank you. Thank you, Suzanne, for the summary page. That makes it a lot easier for everyone. For number four, questions on policy. So, we have the reappoint. Um, Mrs. respond or thea county soon. Hopefully there are new questions. Anybody else want it? Anybody else want to go to a few more meetings? Thank you for that. U moving on to the program committee's uh curriculum with Mr. All right, we're moving on to curriculum. We have a list of textbooks and material lists. Now, Steve isn't here, but I'm sure that um Dr. Brad sort of questions about that. And then also, we'll just roll these into the proposed affiliation agreement for another university. And then we have the pass uh the pass overnight conference request. I'll start with number two. A2 proposed

127affiliation agreement with uh when Mercy University has come off um will not be there. They will contact us today and said they do not need that their place uh created on you basically um textbooks and materials find a list prepared by Dr. Guanino and his team and that was a you know team of not just Dr. one, you know, little features administrators um that prepared the items to be reviewed by the board. Um there are live links available um if you look electronically, but also we will have hard copies of the materials available at the ESC building for your review as well. There's any questions now or after you review the materials, please let us know. And then the Paso overnight conference I have request Mr. Styles if I want to attend the TASBO civil

128uh conference. It's a leadership conference and all expenses are covered by just a side note it's good to see that we're still buying textbooks. a lot of paper person. I mean it's a significant um you know cost to the earth that we find value that we're willing to you know spend good monies on it. I mean if you tally up just the hard copies there's a significant difference right. All right moving on to athletics and music um the leadership conference and the athletic director overnight conference both for Dr. Bradford. Correct. Yes. Thank you. The Leisure Conference is a student um conference that we are proud that we've had numerous students over the last three years attend in Indianapolis and all students that return report very good experience that not only good experience for them, but

129they're able to then share with our leadership teams here at the secondary level at Spring Grove and throughout York County. That was one of the offshoots of the experience that we had here on campus recently with the York County leadership um efforts. Um with that said, then we have two chaperones that have been asked to attend and they apply and they're chosen. Um so that's Chad and Michaela I believe. Yeah. So those two asked to attend that as well. And then I also rise to support um Jeff's request as athletic director for his overhead conference and that is in the Bolsburg it's in Penn State that's Penn State state college so I rise to to support that and I know he brings specific information back from Pasta um to apply here at Sprint Road and

130I see on the student leadership the only cost to the district is the transportation cost for the bank. Yeah. And Dr. Dietrich has volunteered to drive them to the airport in one of our van. So it's mileage obviously some gas involved. When is that? July. I want to say July. July 14th at 7. Thank you. And it can't drive himself and to Indianapolis. They're in the students. all the top notes. It's two students and two chats but for the whole organization our students. All right. I know we have planning listed but you wanted to make a comment before we do that. Correct. I just wanted to uh give one last farewell to the class of 2025. Um and larger comment is on the ceremony that Spring Grove ordinates and puts together for those students. It's,

131you know, there's a classical element to it and there's class involved, but there's no doubt that it's fun and there's a celebration that takes place. Um, you know, I recently attended my twin graduation two weeks or a week and a half later. And, you know, I can't help but compare competitive. I'm competitive and ours was better. I mean, hands down, ours is better. It's, you know, my school, but ours was better. Um, and it takes a lot of hands to make sure that it is better. And the organization starts the day after the last graduation. So debrief and planning and what can we do better? What can we do differently? I know the move inside was not um you know people were upset and it it's disappointing but with that disappointment people saw opportunities and

132I think the individuals that went into the overflow had an experience. They I think some of them did not know that the graduates would be coming through and when they go out to see their loved one they were they were they were glad and they were cheering me and that was a little more boisterous going through that room which was was cool for laughing about what we're doing. Lastly, I just want to thank the community once again. I did publicly at graduation for my oneyear anniversary and uh everyone has been very welcome to me and this is a great place to be as evidenced by our new employees and our employees that stayed for 36 years. Thank you. I for one can say you made the right decision hearing that rain. I remember you looked

133at me. You're like, "Yeah, I know." Yeah. Uh I to echo it was a great ceremony. The speeches were phenomenal by our students and our staff and um everybody was well behaved. The the um parents were well behaved. Everything was was beautiful. So thank you to our staff who produces that. Uh it is a one-of-a-kind kind experience. Even though graduation is graduation, we produce a great show. Um looking at planning, anyone have any topics that they would like to add to a future agenda? All right. Just a reminder, we do have executive session for personnel immediately following. What do you want to say there? I want to go home. Okay. So, we're going to motion to adjurnn. So, move. Second. Second. All in favor? Thank you.