001Start as soon as possible. calling the meeting to order. Please stand for the pledge and a moment of silence. Roll call. Marshinger. Bomb here. Ramsey here. Rips here. Robo here. Shear Stein here. White here. Wilson here. We did hold executive session since our last meeting um just this evening uh for school safety and negotiations. um inviting um our guests to speak to the board. Um when your name is called, just remember uh state your name and the municipality in which you reside. Uh we do have an older microphone tonight, so please speak directly into the microphone. The first person up is Brandon Offgle. Brandon Huffenegel, Jackson Township. Um, this is actually just a thank you looking at the board agenda and one of the items, something the community has been asking for is the recording
002of meetings. So, I'm thanking you in advance for bringing the policy and also for the motion that's on the agenda tonight for approval. Thank you. All right. Next on the list, I see Jake Miller. Hi, Jake Miller, Jackson Township. Um, I just uh have been impressed and and appreciate the job that the board has done in pointing out the impact that cyber charters have been having on our budget. Um, so on the website you can see it was $3.3 million of taxpayer money that went to the cyber charters, many of them private corporations. Um, that we don't have any choice over. Uh, it's going to be as as you guys have projected, $3.8 million next year. Um, and on the website, you guys have lots of information about this issue or asking us to contact
003our legislators. But, uh, here's the thing that's funny. Um, I've been getting some mail um with a Spring Grove logo on it. Um, and this is about the election, right? So, know who you're voting for. Um, and our slate with the incumbents includes uh being aligned with the pack that sponsor that's supporting them with parental rights and choice and education. Choice and education is usually code for cyber charter. If you go to the website for the pack, they have a nice little thing where they're talking about defending cyber charters um fighting bills that seek to cap cyber charter school funding. Um their take is that education dollars should follow the child, not the broken system. And they believe that cyber charters give families a choice and competition makes schools better, right? And so as as
004I've talked the last couple meetings, I'm sorry about that. Um but we need to compete, right? Right. And we need to invest in things that are going to be competitive, not just the core stuff. Um especially when we have folks who are being backed by people who are backing charters. And in fact, one of their other issues is stopping increases in state funding going to school. So that's kind of crazy. Um, and I think it's important that we do do this work, get cyber charters in line, keep that money here, and then we don't have to tax as much because we're going to spend the money here and make smart decisions and gain value for the our dollar. Thank you. Thank you. Next is Jessica Waltersdorf. Good evening, members of the board, administration, and community.
005My name is Jessica Watersdorf from Paradise Township. And first and foremost, I do want to thank you as well for all the work you do. It's a thankless role sometimes, a volunteer position. I'm a mom of three. I'm a leader in a bank. and my husband's family has been in Spring Grove their entire lives, uh, over 200 years. I've spent my career helping families and businesses make smart financial decisions. I believe our school district must do the same. Since 2019 and 2020, our district's budget has increased by over $18 million, 26% in just a few years. So, as the numbers grow, so does the burden on the taxpayers. I've spoken with families who want to buy a home here, but they simply can't afford all of the taxes. My family had an opportunity to buy
006a home that we could afford and fix up in the Pigeon Hills, but we couldn't afford all of the taxes, which were over $22,000 a year. That's just not right. We can't price people out of our own community, especially young families, who want to raise their kids here. I believe we have a responsibility to review the budget with fresh eyes and ask not what we can spend but what we should spend. One key area to look at as been mentioned is cyber charter schools. These programs are pulling local tax dollars from our district. And while these programs serve a purpose and need funding, it must be addressed. By addressing the cyber charter tuition and how it's calculating and advocating for reform at the state level, we could reduce the expense and use those funds over
007a million dollar to hire more teachers, more support staff, and not raise taxes. This one change could offset the entire need for a tax increase. It's common sense budgeting that puts students first while protecting our taxpayers. Imagine the other changes we can make to the budget that would have a material impact, which is a strength that I bring with a finance background. Our group has been endorsed by the York County GOP recommended because we believe in responsible governance, financial transparency, and accountability to the community. More than that, though, tonight I'm here as a parent and as a neighbor who wants to make sure our kids thrive without our families being taxed out of opportunity. We can do better. We must do better. For the sake of both education and transparency in the district, I'm asking
008you to reconsider a tax increase tonight. Thank you. Thank you, Becky Strauss. Um, Becky Strauss, Hideburg Township. Well, at the last meeting, unfortunately, I don't recall hearing any responses to statements brought up by our community members. I had been approached and asked to point out how even the smallest amount of spending that's being allowed to happen, right down to your drinks, as Mr. Shear has stated, every dollar needs accounted for. So I brought up that individual's concern about that. However, someone else feels that you guys are entitled to them. So therefore, it's minuscule compared to the way bigger picture. I can see both points of their views. However, when you guys are saying that it's only $10 per household that's going to save us, you are clearly stating that such a small amount can save
009us and make such a huge difference. My question is, if the budget can't be figured out now, holding every department responsible for their spending down to that dollar, what next year are you going to reach into the hardworking taxpayers's pockets again? Because for what you're afraid to hurt someone's feelings, or is something worse going on that just may come out? A community member stated raising taxes is the answer to be able to continue to hold our school up to the reputation it has. Unfortunately, I think he meant that it had. The fact of the matter is we're still struggling to build our reputation up from the last downfall that a blind eye was turned to. Even after the outpouring of our community, we cannot continue to be let down. The comment is made. It's only
010$10 a month. My question to you all, since that comment was made, have any of you made an effort to speak to how that would affect the members of our community? The springer of students on that backpack program, the elderly at our senior center, a retired veteran that served our country. As I stated the last time, we don't know anyone's situations. Until we do, for most, it would be eye opening to know what $10 a month may mean to some. Again, I pray that you never have to know that feeling. I'm just curious how it has gotten to this point. Why more bids aren't being heard, why all the spending is not being gone through with a fine tooth comb. Because quite frankly, what you have allowed to happen with the taxpayers's money is both
011reckless and irresponsible. and it's only teaching our children that someone else will bail them out. That's just downright a dangerous slippery slope that you all are creating. If this is allowed to continue, I'm I'm also just wondering why Baringer's 15 or 5-year plan is continually ignored. I think it would be a huge substantial help to figure out where we can be in five years or not be if this continues. Thank you. Thank you. Anyone else in the audience that audience that would like to address the board at this time? All right. Seeing none, we will proceed with the meeting. Um, tossing it to Dr. Bradley for the superintendent report. Thank you, President Ro, and thank you for the community for your attendance tonight. As we close out the school year is with pride and sincere
012gratitude that we recognize and congratulate our retirees who are joining us this evening. Uh this next number is pretty amazing to me. The collective total years of service to Springrove Area School District represented by these retirees is 254 years of experience, investment, dedication, and connections to each other, connections to the people they work with, connections to the students, and connections to the family. It's 254 years. I think that's amazing. Um, for those attending this evening, as I call your name, please come forward to receive a small gift to show our appreciation. In no particular order, Dale Anne Wright, four years of service at the high school as an administrative assistant in the counselor's office. Dale, thank you. Lisa Paradise, 18 years of service at Spring Grove Elementary as an elementary teacher. Lisa Baughn, 25 years
013of service at the elementary level as a certified school nurse. A lot of bloody noses and scraped knees and phone calls home. Eve Thor, 25 years of service districtwide as a school psychologist. A lot of years bumping from building to building to building to building to building. Thank you, Eve. Lucinda Peterson, four and a half years of service at the high school, making sure that that building shines in our custodial service department. Sue Gross, 35 years of service districtwide as a music teacher. Craig Celely, 29 years of service as the SGI assistant principal, then SGI principal, and just wrapping up as the New Salem Elementary principal, Craig Celely. Awesome. our last recognized retiree this evening. Um just a testament to this last retireese's uh work ethic. When we called her and asked her to attend,
014she was, you know, on the on the fence back and forth and she said, you know, what cake do I need to make tonight? You don't make a cake for your own retirey recognition. Um, with that said, Jeannie Adams, 39 and a half years of service to Spring Grove. I think it's a tossup, Jenny, between a peanut butter cake, too. The Yes. See, I I vote peanut butter. I vote Yeah. We are truly grateful to all of our all of our retirees for years of service to our students, families, and communities. And often that meant time away from their families, and we're very grateful for their service. We wish them good health and much happiness. Our district and community are a better place because of their contribution. Um, and then also to recognize Mr. Richard
015and his students in the pre-apprenticeship class for their fine craftsmanship on the cutting boards that were part of the gifts this evening. So, thank you to those students for their gifts. Another piece of recognition tonight before we introduce Maddie Little as our student representative for her final report. We'd like to say a few facts about Maddie. She has served as president of student council for the 2425 school year. Maddie has been secretary of the Renaissance team, a member of the National Honor Society, member of the Link Crew, Lighthouse, and Varsity Club. She's actively involved as an athlete on the soccer and lacrosse teams and served as a statistician manager for the boys wrestling team. Maddie will be graduating in two weeks and has been accepted to Lebanon Valley College where she plans to study early
016childhood education. With her degree, she hopes to become an elementary instructor. So, Dr. Guanino, be on the lookout. Uh, we hope to see an application in a couple quick years. Get back here as soon as you can. Her summer will include taking a cruise, spending time at the beach, and making memories with her friends and family. Uh, we have certainly enjoyed having Maddie as part of our board at the meetings. She provided important monthly updates and and really I know I I looked at her for a student perspective and, you know, she welcomed me to Springrove and and I really appreciate it, Maddie. Um, we wish her all the best to send her off with our thanks and a small gift appreciation. Thank you. And with that, I have my last report of the school
017year. At Spring Grove Elementary, they have had several grade level field trips throughout the month of May. The curriculum fair and student field day were also held in May. The end of the year kickball game is fourth grade verse teachers. The teacher meet and greet and picnic lunch are all scheduled for the last week of the month. And then the end of the year project team reward for students will take place on May 21st where students will be rewarded with Kona ice cones at New Salem. On May 8th, there was a New Salem curriculum fair. On May 16th, there was a P the PTO held Springfest. This has now been cancelled, but Splashfest was to be held on the 21st. May 17th was the 6th annual SGASD backpack program golf slinger and May 30th is
018teacher inservice day at Paradise. On May 25th, the Environ team will go to John Rudy Park. May 24th is the fourth grade field trip. On May 27th is the fourth grade wax museum from 1 to 2:00 p.m. On May 28th, the fourth grade graduation will be held from 6:00 to 8:00. 140 students had perfect attendance for the month of April and laps for learning took place on Friday, May 16th. On May 7th, the curriculum fair and book fair were held and food trucks were also present. On May 20th, first graders will be having popsicles on the playground. At the intermediate school, the bandon orchestra d the bandon orchestra had a trip field trip to Washington DC on May 9th. Student council held a PSSA reward on the track and field with a treat where they
019got to play minutes to win a games. On May 1st, project team reward day will be on May 28th. Fifth grade had a field day with events at Papermaker Stadium. They are planning a spirit week to wrap wrap up the end of the school year. SGI's inside scoop podcast team wrapped up season 1 with five published episodes. This year, there were end of the year math and ELAL assignments. Delaney Hopkins, a sixth grade student in Miss Sailor's class, received a first place winner award, the Hershey Story Contest for youth writers. On May 15th, SGI held a Scholastic Bookf Fair showcase, which was held from 6:00 to 7:30, and the PTO sponsored a book fair with Boot Trucks that same evening. Select middle school tours were held on May 8th for sixth graders to tour the
020middle school before next school year. And Miss Mauy took students to math 24 competition on May 8th and to Nick's competition on May 8th. The Environ competition was on May 14th with Miss Kaplan and Mr. Tanzis as the teacher assistants. There was nothing to report from the middle school. And at the high school, there will be a day of hope for students on May 27th. This is a day that will include food trucks, fun events, different companies tables, and treats for all students. The Spring Grove area scholarship fund dinner was May 13th where 76 kids received scholarships. Around $170,000 were handed out. Students received anywhere from $1,000 to $21,000. Finals will be held from May 20th to May 23rd. The seniors will have their senior walk at the elementary schools on Tuesday, May 27th. The
021sophomore class will be going to Hershey Park on May 28th. And the seniors will be having their class trip on May 28th to Pocono Valley. Thank you. Thank you, Maddie. and we wish you all the best because we know you're going to do great things. So, thank you for being a part of the board. Um there's no correspondence, but um Dr. Bradley did um treat us with a cake to um celebrate the retirees. So, anyone in the audience, please feel free to stick around afterwards um as we celebrate all of our retirees and their accomplishments. Um tossing it back to Dr. Bradley for the legislative update. Um, you know, my only update is, you know, I I I appreciate the public comment on cyber education and the efforts are working. You know, I can tell
022you that again I you know, I tout our website that, you know, Steph Kennedy did the yman's work on organizing that and putting the information out there. Uh, you know, with that said, this isn't a singular issue, uh, you know, in our legislature and Senator Kristen Phillips Hill is a big supporter of Spring Grove, no doubt. And you know it's not singular us versus one entity. It's changing the system so that they the cyber charter schools along with brick and mortar charter schools can exist. It's not about ending them. It's about them existing in a fair manner. um and us being able to offer what those families need and why they are finding either that brick and mortar charter school, whether they're finding that cyber charter school and what we can do here at Spring
023Grove to make sure those families feel heard and welcomed here for whatever that reason. And we're making efforts and and we're growing in that manner to to be able to do that. Uh to be able to have that unique offering, that specialized offering as a former uh administrator in a cyber charter school. I saw students over a decade ago that were, you know, had true school phobia, had unique schedules that I think in 10 years, we've evolved to allow those things to occur. We just need a better job. We need to do a better job. I need to do a better job making sure those families feel heard and welcomed here. Um, and that's part of the change. So, that's part of the change along with the legislative structure that we need support for. So,
024that's my legislative report. Thank you. Thank you. Uh, moving on to York County School of Technology with Mr. Ritz. Good evening. Uh, I was not able to attend the April meeting. Uh, Mr. Shear couldn't either. Uh, my next meeting is May 29th, next Thursday. On May 3rd, the students had their prom was a good time. Um, a former math teacher of mine, Mr. Balm, that is evidently just found out related to Mrs. Balm, brother-in-law, is retiring after 42 years. Um, a bunch of our students announced their future career plans. Um, you know, that they have learned to trade for, which is a great thing to see the students, uh, put their education to work. Um, it's about it. I'll fill you in the next one after 29th meeting. Awesome. Thank you. Moving on to York
025Adams Academy with Mrs. Bomb. Okay. on the York Adams Academy side. Um to date for this school year, we're up to 19 Springrove graduates. That means that we had 19 students who left here and were given a second chance to get their diploma and now they've succeeded. Graduation is May 29th at 700 p.m. at the York Learning Center and everyone's invited. It's a unique experience. You'll never forget it. Thank you for um being there and um taking part in that Karen. Oops, a little feedback. All right, we are going to move into special committee reports. Uh before we start, um the Spring Spring spring branch YMCA, uh the report is at your seat as well as the York Learning Center Joint Authority Board. So those are at your seats. I just want to make sure
026that you saw them. We'll start with the policy committee and Mrs. Balm. Okay. The policy committee met on May 12th at 400 PM and we were there until 5:35. Um board policy 006 uh which Dr. Huffagel refer uh referred to. Um the committee members were in favor of recording meetings and there is um in our policy tonight we will be discussing more of that policy 006.2 which has to do with the organization of committees. The consensus of the board was to direct the administration to seek legal counsel for a comparison of some existing language that we found in policy 005. So, we haven't gotten rid of it. We're just extending it and looking into more details. Um, and then on policy 146.1 um and 707 and 9004, they were all um referred for legal counsel
027for them to review and bring back to the full board. That's all I have to report. Thanks, Karen. Uh, Bill, did you want to do anything or the This is the report. Beautiful. Thank you. If anyone has questions, please see Bill. Um, Eric, anything from your curriculum committee that you wanted to note? Sure. I can just quickly share. Um, we're trying to work through how we can hear from uh the different departments throughout the district as well as building administrators to try to get a better idea of uh not only what's working but how we can support them and how we can create kind of plans as to what their long-term plans are. Nothing is set in stone now. I thought it was a really really great discussion. Um, so that's all I got. It
028was really great. Thank you for leading those efforts. All right, we are moving on with the meeting. Um, approval of the official minutes from April 28th regular voting meeting, May 5th voting meeting, May 5th director study forum for forum, May 12th policy committee. Uh, motion to approve those minutes. Second. All in favor. Treasures report. Uh motion to approve month end April 30th. Motion to Oh, it didn't have his name. Sorry, Mr. White. Did you want to run through that? Sorry, my miss. I'm so sorry. Um second roll call vote on treasures report. Stein Haringer. Yes. Bal Wilson. Yes. Ritz. Yes. Ramsey. Yes. Shear. White. Yes. Yes. All right. Now I'm going to send it over to my friend Mr. white uh for budget and finance. sent under act 511 C 2526 nutrition service fund budget
029approval of the nutrition service fund budget 2526 total revenue of 3.1 million total expenditures ES of 3.2 with a shortfall of 121,000 to be funded by the nutrition fund balance continuing with free breakfast program and recommending no increase to lunch meal pricing for 2526. River, excuse me, River Rock agreement for reservations of 2526 slots. Approval to contract with River Rock Academy for the reservations of 11 secondary student slots and three elementary student slots from River Rock Academy for 2526 school year in accordance with the terms and conditions outlined in act 48 program agreement for service and respective reduced perm rates as indicated in attached contract. E. Disposal of obsolete equipment as listed 1 through nine. F. School depositories. Appointment of the following to continue as district depositories for period or yeah July 1st 25 to
030June 30th 2026 as listed. Reappoint of school board treasure. Reappoint of Douglas White as board treasurer for the Spring Grove area school district for July 1st 25 through June 30th 2026. Local auditor approval to engage Kerr Smiser and Bird to conduct the audit of the district's financial statements and perform related functions for fiscal year ending June 30th, 2025 at a propo proposed fee not to exceed $13,150. So moves budget and finance. Second. Any discussion? Mr. SC, say a few words. Uh, understand nobody wants to pay more taxes, but it comes to that versus the students not having the classes and resources they need, then we need to do something. Our district is in a tight situation right now and something needs to be done to keep quality education and spring growth. I appreciate all the
031efforts and suggestions from the administration, staff, and community on how to reduce costs in the district. I want the district to continue to look for cost savings that will not reduce the educational standards for the students or increase long-term costs to get short shortterm cost reductions. Inflation has happened and the cost of just about everything has risen, but our district's revenue has not kept up. In addition, the district has drawn down its general fund or rainy day savings over recent years to pay for some ongoing expenses. Uh it's so low now that even the district's bond rating is reduced. This means the district has less wiggle room for future unseen financial needs and makes borrowing money more expensive for the district. Spring Grove already has the highest student toteer ratio of any York County school
032district as of the 232 24 school year statistics. Fortunately, most of the staffing cuts made in the ten of the budget have been reversed. It is the best it is in the best interest for the community to support Springrove students. Public education is a great equalizer. It gives children a much better chance to succeed regardless of their social economic backgrounds or family situations. School administrators and school board members need to advocate for the students. Thank you. Want to share something that's first that's not connected to that. This is really just a question or a suggestion to look for. Are you guys hearing that? Is that on still? Good. um in the accounts payable throughout the year. I keep I I notice regularly our HVAC expenses and I'm just curious if that's something if Bill or
033Mark you guys could look into whether it would be beneficial for us to hire an HVAC specialist um because of the amount of costs for labor. I don't know it maybe isn't worth it in the long run but I know that we I feel like it's every month it's a regular expense and we have so many systems So I will work work with uh Mr. Styles will come up with taking a look at you know going back a certain number of years and uh taking a look at you know what what expenses were paid out which weren't included in like esser funds or anything where we did upgrades and we can bring something back to the school board in the next couple of months um as far as either a recommendation or at least some
034information. Great. Thanks. Um, and then I just wanted to quickly throw out um whe um if you look over the last six years, it really ends up being a 1.2% average increase over six years. I know that we see the 3.9 as a big number, but with all of those freezes, it's really only about a 1.2, it's only a 1.2% 2% increase over the last uh six years which included the last time I I spoke on this it's like a 27 and a half increase in CPI which is our overall expenses. Um so it's much short of that. That's all. I um I am not going to win the battle tonight with what I believe is going to happen with the tax increase. I do not agree with some of the comments that were made
035respectfully. Um we went up $18 million, $18.1 million since the 1920 year. Um we creatively did uh keep ourselves from having some of the burden fall into the taxpayers by doing some debt restructure and some of those things. This um system with tax increases in school boards, I've always said, is designed to fail. We have to approve a budget before the state gives us our budget. Last year, we were told we were looking at a $3.776 million deficit and we came out with a $516,000 deficit. It was off by $3.2 million. Um, as Mr. Barner pointed out a couple meetings ago, there's also some things that have been done differently. We've gotten access to some more numbers, um, which I think everybody is appreciative of, and it has been an eye-opening experience to figure out
036how we're going to do this, but I do not believe, um, I will not vote for a 3.9% tax increase. Um, I understand that some of the components of the fund have, um, come down over a period of time, but I believe there's more creative ways that we can figure out how to prioritize uh or continue to prioritize and work on our education without having to increase the taxes. Anyone else discussion before we go into a vote? I guess I will. When we first come on board, we uh three years ago, we approved the 2122 budget. And because of all the extra millions of dollars we got from the government coming in and the way things were with with our taxpayers and things, we decided not to raise taxes at all. The following year for
037the 22 23 year, we our administration got some things together and as Mr. Ramsey said we re-evaluated and restructured our loans with the guarantee with what we were told was we won't have to raise taxes for 5 years by doing that. The very following year for the 22 20 or 23 year 24 year all of a sudden we got to raise taxes. So somewhere along the line, our old administration was was not very informative of us and did not keep us in board and we made some bad decisions apparently through that. That's all in the past. But again, I'm going to I'm going to I'm no way can I put this kind of increase because not only the school district had an increase cost of living, the taxpayers had a cost of living. I stated
038it before, I'm going to state it again. and I pay $700 a month at 71 years old for school taxes and that's just uncalled for there. There's definitely the new administration we got in here now and with the with him allowing the team to work on things with our financial people. They did an outstanding number with with job with the numbers and stuff with things the way we can do things some look at some things and uh I just I firmly believe that there's there's got to be another way around this thing. Uh you people know that I was never more excited than when we passed the thing for the curriculum for the math curriculum and this thing for the kids and that's what it is all about. But a lot of this money is
039not going towards education for our kids, the basic education for our kids. It's going for frivolous things that we need to cut out. So that's the reason I want to fight for this. Thank you. And just to add to that, I also cannot go along with a 3.9% tax increase um for the same reasons. uh we are taxed and taxed and taxed again. Um with this new new administration, we work very well together. Uh we exchange information and I feel like we're only getting started. So um to Rodney's point, we have to be much more efficient. We care for our teachers. We want um good teachers. We want be we want to be able to get the best teachers in the county and we have to get creative to do it so that we don't
040overburden the very families that we want to come here. Right. So, um, I will not be voting for the 3.9%. Is there a willing I know we've done this in the past, a willingness to have a conversation of like where if it's not 3.9, are we, you know, can we, we've done this before. We've amended this to get it passed. Do we want to have that conversation? Do like I I want to make sure that we are going into this acknowledging that this has has been crucial to us um getting to where we are. Last year we were anticipated to have a 3.2 deficit and it came in much lower. Um now we have a proposed deficit of $160,000. you know, again, we are set up to to fail to, you know, Mr. Ramsay's point
041earlier where I want to be um aware of the tax burden to our taxpayers, but also that we need to supply continue to supply top tier education to our students um so that it is a balancing act. Mr. Russian one comment, one question um comment is I think it's important to keep in mind and now we're tossing out the this is what the deficit was and then this is how much money we ended up getting. I mean we can go back through in all of our budget and finance meetings that we've had where Jen and Mark shared a bunch of information. Every year is a little different as to what we get in and what we don't get in. And so sometimes it's unknown as to the money we're going to get in. But one
042thing to uh Mr. Ramsay's point and Nicole's point is the work that the team has done pulling it in the Oh, Joe, what's the term spend? What's the historical spend? Yeah. So they regularly toss out this term of historical spend. Looking at our budget and trying to really figure out exactly how much money we really spend as opposed to, you know, here's a number and then we end up spending less than that and then there's this bumper number. So then when we come around and we see, oh, there's 3.5 million. It's it's not extra money that we have, it's just not money. We just didn't spend it. Um, and that we're getting much tighter. And so I don't want from sharing that I don't want the community to hear, oh they always just have a
043whole bunch of million dollars extra. Like that's not how this has worked. Um sometimes that budget number is different because of examples like a curriculum director which we had in our budget which we never we never hired for and so and that person's not been around. And so it's not as if we've found that money. We just didn't spend that money. And so I don't want the community here. we're gonna pass a budget and then they're just gonna find millions of dollars extra. It's really like we're just not gonna go into debt. We're not gonna spend it. So that's that's the comment I had. And then the question, and maybe this is just for Mark. Um if we were to just vote on the 3.9%, you don't have to write anything down. This is just
044your I'm using your brain. The 3.9% if we would vote on that and if it would fail, we're just I mean we can't go without a budget. And so if we would say if it would end up failing, we're just going to end up going back to the drawing board and then trying to figure out. So I'm I hear what you're trying to work on, Rachel. I'm kind of curious if we just ran it at 3.9% to see what the vote would end up being and then somebody makes another motion. Well, we're going to need another motion and then we go back forth. So, I would suggest us going around and trying to do the number that we currently have, seeing what happens, and then if we have to address the motion, then we adjust
045it. So, is that how that would work, Mark? I want I don't want to go out of order. No, you can do either way. You can, you know, my suggestion would be uh not take a vote, just do a a straw poll and see if you have enough. Or you can um you can uh if if the motion fails then we would have to um you know bring the set back up at at a at a later point or you can um you know we have numbers prepared that if you want to go um a different direction we can do that as well. So you have some options. Just point of order. I mean the the the vote that is on the table right now with a with a motion and we're in discussion and
046question right now. that vote can occur and if a if it fails or if it if it passes we move on. If it fails um you know a a a board member can because this is not a new topic. I mean it's the same topic. You can make a second motion on that topic. The public is is aware of what we're voting for. It's transparent. It's out there. It's on the agenda as a topic. So you can make it. Not you're not adding a new you're making an a you could either make an amendment right now if someone feels so inclined it would need to pass. Correct. Um or you can vote on the issue that stands. I think the part that I am personally struggling with is that in this is my eighth time
047voting for a tax increase or you know staying flat or at a zero. And eight times we've received way more money than we we uh even knew was coming in. And again, I go back to that we are always set up to fail because we don't know what we're getting. Um, but for eight times historically for that to happen, um, and maybe I'll eat crow and we, you know, I don't even want to think about that. But, um, that's the piece that I'm I'm struggling with is because that deficit is so low in compared to the eight the seven other times that I've voted on a budget where we're talking about millions of dollars of deficit. And this year we're talking about 168 160,000 uh which is the closest to a balanced budget that I
048have seen. So that that uncertainty is is what I'm struggling with because yes, I hear Mr. Stein 100% we need to rebuild our capital reserve. 100% agree with you. Um but um there there's a lot that I'm just not um 100% sold on a three. So to Mr. Baringer's point and I will explain my comment a little bit better. The not being set up for success is because we are being set up for failure is because we are asked to pass a budget before the state tells us what our allocation means. So I didn't explain that um this time in the first time. So when I say that it's uh designed to fail, it is because we are asked to effectively predict the future on what we are going to be given. And uh to
049Miss Roarb's point, that number um is not predictable. There's no consistent trend you can look at. It's all over the place. And um so that's what I meant when I said it's designed to fail. that we have to pick a number not knowing how much money we're going to be given. And um Mr. Ramsay and to Mr. Ber to your point, I will remind those that uh have attended our budget and finance committee meetings um uh the business office, myself and and Jen, we have you know we have done what the board has asked to get tighter to that historical spend as well as uh the reminder of the um the money from from the state. So basically the the BEF, the the uh SEF and as we talked a little bit a little bit
050a while ago um in executive session about the adequacy funding all those um all those um buckets of money from the state. We we over the past year have um have increased that amount and not going off of what um what like what was done years ago. So we are getting we are getting what or we we are budgeting exactly what is being proposed. So if there is an increase okay but to your point um um Mrs. Roarball uh in the past we haven't done that. So that's why you're going to see uh a huge swing in some of those dollar amounts. So, um, yes, um, I'm I'm cautiously, um, you know, optimistic that the state is going to come through, but I will tell you that, um, you know, the the state, DEF, SEF,
051as well as our historical spend, um, we've we've we've, um, knocked off a few million dollars off that. So, that's why you're not seeing those large deficits. So, just a reminder of those. And I know that's those that have attended the budget and finance, you have seen that. That's what was asked to for us to do and that's what we've done. Mark, do you have any in do you have any information on like our federal funding where we stand with that? Like our title one teachers since we have six or seven of those that are being paid with federal funds. Correct. right now um I don't have any additional information um other than um it's you know it's a daytoday thing um you know there's any possibility as we have told the board that if
052um if the federal administration decides to cut that then uh yes we would uh we would lose the funding for for that many teachers. So, but at this point, we still have it. Uh, no increase, but we still have it. And, um, you know, we're we're optimistic that we're going to uh to receive it for the 25 26 year. Mark or Jen, can you how many years in a row have we ended the year in a deficit? that worked to our favor because we didn't have to heat buildings or I mean a as as Mr. app and and others. You know, my comment, you know, as as this uh conversation takes place and and and I can see the, you know, the consternation on each of your faces as a board and the care the
053amount the amount that each of you care and you care about not only your constituents, but you care about the children. you care about the the staffs, the the number of staffs just, you know, I mean, we we focus, you know, sometimes on on our educators, sometimes on the people that clean our buildings, sometimes on, you know, administrators, but but I see that you care uh for all all the individuals that work here. Um, and the vast majority of the people work here and live here and and I think that's important and I think that's unique and I think it shows value that they, you know, individuals want to work where they live. Um, and they want to send their children here and they want to send their grandchildren here. um you know when we
054when we look at cutting the budget uh as close to the jib as we can so that the that historical spend you know but also we see it enacted every day and when we ask individuals to to take a look at things um differently and uniquely you know I can see you know everywhere from when Bill looks at any movement in his people whether it's someone resigning someone moving on you know we take a look at that and we analyze that um you know so there's not a lot of of uh you know fat to be trimmed Um but also you know I I I I go into classrooms. I I know Dr. Guanadino goes into classrooms. A lot of us go into classrooms and you know there are students engaged every day and they
055have the materials they need to engage every day. They have technology but they also have you know other tactile materials to be engaged every day and to to take uh part in the important learning process. Um you know I'll give you a quick example. You know, I know at ESC, our building, you know, obviously no students are there. Um, so we've gone down from, you know, someone just cleaning that building 5 days a week to two days a week. So, if I throw my, you know, my darn, you know, banana pill in in my garbage can and not walk it over to the kitchen garbage can, that's, you know, that's on me. But we've looked at staffing of that building and and what's the bare minimum we can get to, still feel safe and comfortable
056and clean, you know, hygienic and things like that. So, you know, that that's Bill saying to his people, you know, hey, hustle over there, take a part of your shift and clean that building. So, those decisions um are being made and and I need a community to know that as well is there there isn't, you know, a lot of um you know, areas that we haven't looked at. We've looked at every area and when a contract comes up, we'll look at that. We can't look at, you know, contracts early. for example, you know, transportation gets out there, you know, in the in the atmosphere, but the contract isn't into a place where we could bid for it. Um, and there's advantages sometimes to to looking at retaining relationships as well. Um, you know, our our
057garbage provider is another one. You know, we're looking at you have information before you tonight about how we're going to save $11,000 on on garbage services. Um, you know, so every avenue is looked at, every rock is unturned. you know, we're looking at, you know, just small amounts, looking at using some of our empty buildings in the evenings. Um, how can we look at different buildings differently, so I I I see it on your faces and I support the business department's proposal that they put forth tonight. I think that it is reasonable. Um, I understand, you know, you know, when I when I speak to my mom and she's 80 and she's a, you know, Navy vet and I I I know she's on a fixed income, a different community obviously, but I know that
058it's tight and and I respect that. So, I know it's not an easy decision and I thank for you each for all putting in the time to think about it. You know, you're not coming at this lightly. Thank you. Um, and just general awareness, if you look at the local news, we're not alone in this discussion at all. Everyone else is having the same conversations on the district level. Um, there was something else I was going to say and I totally slipped my mind, but we're not alone in this. Um I Mark did you mention a straw poll and just kind of going around to see where everybody's at before like we can do that. Can can Mark answer my question first? Sure. But did you get did you find the last uh 19 1920
059was um a 1.6 uh million to the to the positive. Um 2021 was a negative 422. 2122 was a negative 2.0, 2023 was 1.5, negative 1.5, and then the 2324 was a positive 1.031. Um, and the uh the the two outliers there are the the COVID was where that was that um 1920 where we were shut down for um for part of the school year. and then the um the refinancing u of our debt that was uh the 2324 and that's where we saw the um the positive fund balance. Um while I have the microphone on I did want to piggyback off of what Dr. Bradley said um and not to change the subject, but we did in your memo or in your packet there, you do have a memo. Mr. Styles and I did
060an RFQ a number of months ago and um and got the results back um in uh and and looking at rebidding our our our trash and recycling services. Um to make a very long story short, you have the memo in front of you, but we didn't have enough information uh for the May DSF to get it in front of you to to get the memo. Uh we had to go back to some of the contractors and find additional information. And so we found that information out, we're able to get that to you. We wanted to get that in front of you tonight in case there's any questions that that we have time um to get this turned around so that by June 30th we have a a potential new trash hauler um if we get
061the if we get the board's approval at the uh the next uh meeting. So that's what we were looking at trying to uh get this information to you tonight. Any information that we need to do u to get back to either any other contractors or that Bill myself can bring to you tonight. But you have the memo. If you have any questions, uh, let us know. It's linked. It is linked. It is linked to the into the agenda. And I I I am grateful for the amount of work that Bill and and Mark put into this because it it does not happen overnight. You know, those these bid process does not happen overnight. This is $11,98 a year just on our dumpsters and just on our trash. So, you know, I mean, that's significant. 11,000
062uh $12,000 basically for just by you know putting in the work to make sure this happens. So you know I recommend the board you know uh look at that cost comparison look at the conclusion and look at the recommendation from the administration on that option. Thank you. Just one uh note here we did pass a budget as a board for the uh York and Liu which was well over 3%. which affects all of us as taxpayers. So just keep that in mind. All right. So Suzanne, can we do a straw poll just to see um if we can kind of see where we're at and maybe compromise to get this approved tonight? So, one thing that we need to keep in mind, and I know that people keep talking about this idea of tightening our
063budget or tightening our belts. I I've been in all of these to to what Dr. Bradley has pointed out, what Mark have pointed out, I've been to all of these budget and finance meetings. We keep cutting. I mean, since I joined the board, all we have been doing is cutting. Um, we're to the point now where this budget in the budget finance uh meetings, we are going to be kicking down the road $430,000 that we have all I mean, from my understanding is these are things that we're going to have to spend. We need to buy these things. We're just gonna kick it down the road. We were going to pay for it this year, but we don't have the money for it. So, we're kicking it down the road. So, if we bring this
064lower, that number of $430,000 just goes up. Like, there are things that we actually that we really need. And I just keep thinking about I mean, how I run my own businesses and how I run my family like conservative budget and trying to be fiscally responsible. I just keep thinking however many years in a row we've settled at negative budgets like that doesn't feel fiscally responsible to me. Um and just lowering this number is just going to put us more in debt. So that next year we're going to show back up and we're going to go now we're seven out of eight years running a deficit and then we're going to say I don't know what we're going to say. Maybe it's going to be who knows what percentage and everyone's going to go that's
065too high. It's like some point the bill comes due and and and that's why we're here. So I can Mark what if I I mean again sorry Jen Mark I'm putting you on the spot and you guys I want to say thank you because you guys have done more than we have ever. You have given us more than we've ever received. Um so I want to say thank you first, but can you um if we would take this to 3.7 where what would that deficit look like? And I know we already have that. It's just not in front of me. We're we're laughing. Oh god. Just I just told Steve like I hope they don't pick 3.7. Sorry guys. Hey, so we have we have a we have a 3935327525, but we can we can
066calculate if we if we need to. 1% is $440,000. So to drop it down is $88,000 from 3.9 to 3.7. So again, I'm 88. Come on. Trying to um be the peacemaker. And um you're not doing a great job. I know I'm not and that's fine. Um, listen, we need to we need to find a number. We've been all of you have not been in a lot of these meetings. We have gone round and round and round, right? So, we need to come up with a five vote. Um, so Rachel, it's on you. I hate to say it. No pressure, but um, we have not been a not we've been we've argued, right? We've it's been ugly in here many many nights. So I think we just need to come to consensus in terms of
067what can we live with. Um I can promise you that 3.9 3.7 I'm still not voting for 3.7. Um so you know I'm just I'm just not comfortable. The only thing I would like to say is um the administration and the business office has done a a great job and I think that they came to us with this 3.9% because they didn't want to raise taxes either, but it's the only way they can have excellence in education and they're looking out for the kids and they know how much it costs and there are certain things that maybe we don't know about some of the costs um you know the big costs that they they've cut and they've given us all kinds of suggestions. We've taken some of their suggestions and I appreciate the work that
068they've done. But if they thought that we could get by in a year with less money, they were to propose that. That's all I'm going to say. I know there's big things that I personally want to see happen in this district. one being let's bring back the director of curriculum, you know, once we get to that healthy financial point because that is to me ultimately critical. [Music] Um, I'm struggling with 3.9 because it's high and I'm trying to be peacemaker and I I hear all of it. I hear my, you know, my grandmother telling, "Yeah, you're go. Um, but I'm going to point out that Mark and Joe and Jen have given us 3.9. To Karen's point, I'm going to vote no to less to less. I mean, they've all decided that that is the
069number in which we need I earlier it was tossed out. Why don't we go for a 4.2? And they're like, no, we don't need that much money. We don't need that. The 3.9 is the number to support us. Exactly. to that point to to that point it would just draw down you know you're just deficit spending you know more a and and you know when you know people say about your home budget the difference between a school budget and a home budget is yes I don't have to go on vacation and and we don't have to buy certain things but I also have an opportunity to go out and generate revenue I can go out and get a side job I can go out and get a part-time job I can do something on the
070weekends our school district we can't get a side hustle like we we can't know we can we can we can you know but hey unfortunately this isn't an open conver sir this is not a open public conversation thank you so much sir sir thank you you know with with that said you know it's the it's the board's appetite for going into your fund balance you know, it's it's the board's appetite for where does that where does that come from? Um, you know, and and and where can we how can we generate revenue. Um, we do look at every grant. We look at not only the the the grants that are entitlement grants that, you know, we kind of get by existing, we also look at the competitive grants that, you know, do take uh comparisons
071and and it's competitive and it puts us against another entry and how can that application look. So, you know, we we do look at every revenue stream. Um, and I want the board to be confident in that. It all comes back to the general fund, right? The general fund for all intents and purposes is a rainy day fund for the school, right? Have we been drawing down the general fund? We have, right? Because we we want to be good to our community. So, we're trying to make that balance. But I can tell you a lot of our community doesn't have have rainy day funds either. So, we need to be very respectful of that. our general fund. Right now though, we are we we we're mission critical at this point with our general fund where
072we're actually going to run out of a we're not going to have a rainy day balance. We're going to have to take out a loan called to cover our expenses. I that's not we're not there yet. We're not there yet. But we have as I as I have shown over the past number of years, we a number of years ago um you know we were at um I want to say approximately $17 million and that was um every year we we're drawing down whether it's a couple hundred,000 or or a million dollars we're drawing down every year. And again we're showing this year again even with the additional money that we put in for the state and the historical spend we're still showing a deficit of one point $160,000. So right now, uh, sitting out
073at around $10.7 million, it's just going to continue to draw down. Well, and and to your point, Mark, we have that number, but as everybody has seen, going to the grocery store and buying anything, the cost of everything has gone up. So all of our supplies and those things that we purchase from now until next year at this time are going to have an increased price. Mr. about I don't think anybody's convincing anybody of anything tonight and as contentious as this board can be. Um I uh feel like if there's a number that you're at and other people are amicable, let's start the process of doing that. Um there's I'm not going to keep going back and forth. Some of the things that have been said I don't agree with. I don't think some of
074them are just appropriate or accurate, but I'm not changing anybody's mind. So, let's pick a number. I'm we're at a point where I'm going to have to make a a tough decision regardless of where I go. So, let's move forward with a vote on B um and move forward. So if everybody is done discussion, uh we're going to move forward with um a separate vote on B and then we'll do A C through H al together as as presented. Correct. Um yeah. So roll call vote on B as presented with a 3.9. Ritz, no. Ramsey, no. Wilson, no. Vinger, yes. White, yes. Stein, yes. Balm, yes. Sheer, yes. letters A 3 um A C through H. All right, moving um buildings and grounds is for information only. Uh moving to transportation with Mr. Some more
075exciting news in the transportation department. We have item A, uh, Christ bus van drivers approval of the listed bus drivers for the 2425 school year. So move transportation second. Thank you. Any discussion? Roll call vote on transportation. Ritz, yes. White, yes. Sheer, yes. Baringer, yes. Stein, yes. Wilson, yes. Ramsey, yes. Bomb, yes. Yes. Moving on to management reports policy with Mrs. Balm. Policy board action requested letter A, the updatedou with local police. Approval of the attached updated agreement between Spring Grove School District and Northern York County Regional Police Department for the term of July 1, 2025 to June 30th, 2027 as required under Act 44, the Safe Schools Act. Letter B, recording public board meetings to maintain the integrity of the standard pro process for policy revisions. Authorization for the administration to record livereamed public
076board meetings beginning with the May 19th, 2025 regular voting meeting and publicized via YouTube in advance of proposing revisions to include the recording of meetings in policy 0006 anticipated for review and discussion at the June 9th director study forum. Letter C, reappointment of board secretary. Reappoint of M Mr. Mark Zap, director of business operations to continue as school board secretary for a 4-year term effective July 1. Letter D, donations, acknowledgement and/or acceptance of the following donations in accordance with board policy 702, gifts, grants, and donations. So moved on policy board action. Second. Thank you. Any discussion? When we talk about the recordings, just want to make sure I'm reading this right. Is it um public board meetings considered committee meetings as well that are outside of obviously negotiations or contractual things that you're not allowed
077to do that? Does that include committee meetings as well? Not saying that I have a problem with that. I'm just asking for clarification. I mean, the possibility exists. My recommendation is full board meetings because you have all nine members present and that's where public comment takes place. Um public is more than welcome to come to any committee meeting. It's it's more of a logistics situation that we may evolve into. Um but but right now um you know my recommendation is let's start with our board meetings and then go from there and make sure everyone's comfortable being able to access those. Um, you know, I I've lived with it for the last 10 years and it becomes a source of information for our community that can't make these board meetings. I do propose though that we
078um if we are not going to video them. If someone would like to record, they should at least announce the fact that they're recording. Um that way all all members know. Um so that um we ask that you not ask permission but just let us know that you're audio recording. I I I check with our uh policy guru. Um I believe that's the policy correct. Um Mrs. Shear, Mr. Sterner. Mrs. Sterner. Sorry. Sorry Suzanne. She didn't know that. Right. Isn't that right now? It's Sorry, Suzanne. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah. And I told you foles will happen and when it's recorded. Um Suzanne, the current policy says that if you're recording in the public, we ask you to tell us. Can somebody covertly do that? Absolutely. We went we you know we we you know
079I've seen people wear body cams and you don't know it's hidden on their body cam. Um Thanks for clarification. Any further discussion? All right, roll call vote on policy. Ramsey, yes. Sharer, yes. Yes. Moving before we go on at the bottom where we had information item about the signage. We had talked about this at um the policy meeting. I did have a question for Bill. Um I noticed that New Salem and Paradise don't have any signage at all. Is there a reason why? Did you physically see the Christmas? No, but according to this you were campus, right? Oh. Oh, and they you don't consider that campus. Okay, gotcha. Okay, thank you. All right, moving on to personnel with Mr. Stein. Personnel board actions requested. Item A, retirement, acceptance of the following retirement. Item one, Virginia
080Adams, head cook after 39 and a half years of service. Item B, resignations as listed. Item C, transfers as listed. And item D, authorization to post and advertise. Authorization to post and advertise for Springrove Area Intermediate School assistant principal vacancy resulting in transfer of Mr. Louie to the middle school assistant principal position. Item E, substitutes, approval of the following substitutes as listed. Item F, extended school year support staff approval of the following. Item one, Allison Adams, secondary life skills. So moved on personnel. Second. Any discussion? Roll call vote on personnel. Bal Ramsey. Yes. Ricks, no. Wilson, yes. Sheer, yes. White, yes. Baringer, yes. Stein, yes. Yes. Program reports, uh, going to curriculum with Mr. Baringer. Curriculum board actions requested a trip request approval for for Mrs. Hun to accompany eligible high school students to experience
081London in Paris. That's over the summer, uh, June 23rd to July 2nd. and B new and revised curricula approval of the following new and revised curricula as listed. So moved as curriculum second any discussion very briefly. Okay. hopefully um for the new and revised curricula. I'm not going to get on my high horse about the director of curriculum which I really think we need and I this really highlights it for me. Uh while looking through I actually read through all of the uh new courses proposed and there were a number of concerns that I saw in I don't know if it's an understanding of the teachers perspective. I don't know if it's just an oversight piece. Um but a lot of proposals had things written under assessments um schooly rubrics research work assignments discussions videos
082etc. Um and all of those are tools not assessments. This is like saying Google is a credible source. It's a collect. It searches sources but itself is not a source. Um, and so I had seen that and then just made me wonder how many teachers don't understand assessments or how to effectively use those or how many are we just kind of mailing in. So I'd like to have a little bit more of a or an improved procedure for the the new and revised curricula or you know just kind of looking at it. Um secondly for the each of these curricula the standards in which are currently being written underneath a unit. Um there are many many of these courses that have more than 10 standards that are to be covered in each unit. I actually
083found one that was supposed to cover 33 standards in one unit. Um, and when you write the standards that are be covering unit, you're now saying that an assessment is going you're going to assess a child on 33 different standards. And I' I'd love to look at that classroom to see how they accomplish that. That's like an incredible task. Um, most uh the research says three to five uh standards per per unit. Um, and and so I feel like all of this can kind of be tightened up. I think that director of curriculum position would help that. Um, and I think help think that this would help create that consistency and ensure that all of our kids are getting an effective education. Okay. I'm I'm kind of curious. I mean, why are we approving these
084things if they weren't set up the way we thought they should have been set up yet? That wasn't that the curricular meeting people dress at? They were written, these courses were written by the teachers, reviewed by the administrators, and then reviewed by me. So, they were written the way we want them to be written. Others might disagree, and every teacher, to Mr. Baringer's point, may have a different twist on what they think those words mean or what they think they're doing. But these courses were written by the our teachers and then reviewed by their teacher leaders and then reviewed by our administrators and then reviewed by me. Okay. Roll call vote on curriculum. White, yes. Ritz, yes. Balm, yes. Stein, yes. Shear, yes. Baringer, yes. Ramsey, yes. Wilson, yes. Roarball, yes. Um before adjournment, I
085do want to go back to personnel and um congratulate um principal movement and accomplishments um for the um administrators listed. Um I know Dr. Bradley wants to I'll speak to that as well. President Robo, thank you. To steal the um phrase from Jim Collins, good to great. I I know that we have the the right people um on the bus in this district uh as far as board, as far as teachers, and as far as administrators. And now we're putting the right people on the bus in the right seats. And these administrative moves allow us to do that. Uh you know, so starting at New Salem Elementary principal to uh fill for Craig Seel's retirement. Um and and Craig and and his team at New Salem really have that building running. uh swimmingly and it's
086a great environment when you walk into the building and we feel that the appointment of Dr. Dietrich from Spring Grove area high school principal to New Salem Elementary principal effective July 1st will allow that building to keep running and allow it to grow um in anticipation of some great things out there and we thank uh Dr. Dietrich and um we look forward to some good things out there, Dave. Um at Spring Grove High School, uh Christian Airheart will become the Spring Grove area high school principal. Um we have a great team at Springrove High School administrative. Um when you walk into that building, again, you feel great things. You can feel a climate and a culture in a building and you can feel it in that. And I know one of my first conversations with
087uh Christian was about the plants and and if you ever hear his I'm not going to steal his whole story, but um it it really is just an example of how great things are taking place in that building. The team with um with Alicia and with with D with Michael in that building will also, you know, pick up as well. So we look forward to some great things there. Um that leads us to Spring Grove Middle School. Um Mrs. Fallon, Miss Fallon Mallerie filling in for Joe Andre when he leaves to his other items. We congratulate Fallon and welcome her to this building and looking for great things taking place there. Um that left an opening in the middle school assistant principal ship um that Ben Louie reached out and said that he would like
088to uh throw his name into the ring for that a transfer from intermediate school to here. We sat down and looked at the pros and cons and the teamwork that will take place. Again, it's the right people on the right bus now putting them in the right seats. Uh, and you know, Ben Louie will be the assistant principal here that allows, you know, Mrs. Peak to, uh, be a part of forming her team and her leadership team at the intermediate school. Uh, we look forward for that process. Um, whether it comes from internally, we know there are great candidates in our teaching staff that may be interested. We look forward to that. There may be great candidates out there. uh throughout the area that we know are interested in working at Spring Grove. So, we
089look forward to Kelly being a part of uh naming her uh assistant and helping with that. Um and with the action that the board took tonight to continue with that metaphor, um we have the right people on the right bus going in the right direction and now you've given us the fuel to be able to do that with with the budget that you passed. So, we appreciate that. Um and the other component of those moves where we talk a lot about cyber education and and again there many prongs but one of those prongs is looking at um our model and what we can do and Dr. Dietrich will be charged in and lead those efforts. How can we continue with our legislative efforts? How can we look at our model rebrand? Make sure it's robust.
090Make sure it's rigorous. Make sure it's making connections and it's differentiated for our students. And then why the students leave and can we attract any of those students back? Those will be the three prongs that Dr. Dietrich is working on along with uh operating and managing and leading uh New Salem. Uh and I thank you and and thank you team. Many of you are out there tonight and we thank you and look forward to those uh administrative moves. Thank you. All right. Um a reminder to the board that we will have executive session for personnel. Motion to adjourn the meeting. Oh yeah, I apologize. Um, Thursday, May 22nd is York County School Technologies graduation at 5:00 PM at York Expo Center. Sorry, I missed that in my earlier Thank you so much. Motion to adjurnn.
091Second.