001for the Penn State Four Diamonds Fund to Fight Childhood Cancer. Our miniathon will be on March 27th and we plan to have a milkshake fundraiser in February to help support that. Thank you for your time and have a great night. It is schoolboard recognition recognition [clears throat] month and I really would like to thank Mrs. Fritz's culinary students for the wonderful treats. It really came in handy with our long meeting. [laughter] >> Yes. So if you want more, you guys go ahead and please help yourself. So with that being said, I'm going to ask Jimmy and Mark if you guys have those videos ready for us to share. We were gonna we're going to kick off with with sharing a couple videos. As most of you guys know, we had done a video project uh
002that was actually sponsored uh by uh the Caner Foundation. So, we thank Mr. Wilson and the Canor Foundation and the gentleman uh that's uh did the video project. He's actually in the room with us here tonight. Ch, [snorts] you want to you want to stand up here? And uh uh so we we this gentleman here, he actually is alumni of uh the of the district uh and he lives in in the community. So we we were able we're just really glad that he was able to to do that. So thank you Mr. Roby. We appreciate Roby Associates is uh his uh video project. I think you're working on the aren't you working on the Gettysburg movie a little bit now? This is something better. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So very much. So hey, so before
003Jimmy plays this um well well go ahead and play them Jimmy. We we have three they're two minutes each and then I'm going to tell you why we're showing them to you right now for schoolboard appreciation. But go ahead. I'm Jamie Kirsten. I'm the principal here at Begwood Elementary School. It feels like a family here at Beglerville. Whether it's, you know, here in the building with the staff or just the community in general. We really do try to keep kids at the center of everything we do. We want them to be successful. [music] Everybody knows each other. We're friendly and it's all about the kids. We're trying to make sure that they're happy, that they're learning every day, so that they know when they leave Operata School District that they can be anything they would
004like to be. And that's our goal. >> It's my second home. I truly enjoy creating a little family with my class each year. And I love how willing everyone in the building is to help each other. I love hearing about how excited people get for student success, no matter how big or small. You should know that we work hard not just in academics but also at forming great relationships with students and their families so they can have a positive experience in their earliest years of school. >> I really enjoy like lunch and recess cuz you get to eat and you get to play. >> What I love about Bivville the kids. I absolutely love working with the kids. I love watching them grow not just as learners but as people too. I love helping students
005meet their potential and be successful. [music] And for anybody who wants to join our community, it will be one of the best decisions you'll ever make. >> Every day I can be with my friends and learn new things. It's really fun. >> I playing with my friends at retest and um doing all a bunch of fun field trips every year. >> Bigville Elementary, it's a special place. I genuinely enjoy coming to work each and every day. We're very supportive. Baylorville is just one big community. Watching them grow throughout the year, it just fuels my passion. It's so great. And they're so sweet and I just I love my job. So that's my passion. So that's Bigville Elementary School. Now moving on up to the uh uh intermediate school at Orangeville or Orangeville Elementary School. Hello
006and welcome to the Upper Adams Intermediate School. [music] I'm Sonia Buckley, the proud principal of this incredible school where learning, curiosity, and community come together every day. Our [music] students have countless opportunities to develop new skills, build friendships, and express their creativity. We believe in creating CONFIDENCE impact Heat. Heat. Heat. I think what makes UIS special is we all Thank you for every child's potential is. And last but not least is our middle school and our high school. Hi, I'm Beth Graham, principal of Biglerville High School. Here at BHS, we're proud to be part of a community that believes every student has great potential. And we work every day to help them discover it. We're not just preparing students for graduation. We're preparing them for life. >> At Upper Adams, everything we do is guided
007by our core values: respect, responsibility, and excellence. We teach our students to respect themselves, each other, and the world around them. >> The thing I like most about teaching at Biglerville is definitely the community. Um, it's a place where little things make a big difference. This is such a tight-knit community. You know, the the way that students talk to each other, the way that teachers talk to each other, the way that the students talk to the teachers, you know, there's really a place for everyone at Bigville. I [music] like that our school is very respectful and that we get a lot of um like hands-on work and one-on-one work with the teachers. >> I think the kids are wonderful here. I think the people who I work with are great. We we have a a
008good environment here. >> School is great. Everybody's nice to you. Teachers are awesome. >> We're one united team. There's something at the school for everyone. >> We have great students at BHS. Our students care [music] about their school community. They care about their teachers. Teachers truly get to know all of their students. >> They are open to [music] new experiences and being challenged in the classroom. The surrounding community is strong and supportive. >> My favorite thing about is probably the diverse atmosphere we have here. >> I've had some like tremendous opportunities [music] here that I don't think I would have anywhere else. >> I would describe Bingville as very spirited and I like [music] to work with people that care about their students just as much as I do. teaches really good here and it's
009just definitely like the tight-knit community. There's always help from teachers, students. That's where we're growing up. Help them [music] learn unique in different ways. We're just a family. >> We're proud of our students, our staff, and our families. And we're excited for what the future holds. >> Thank you for being part of what makes Bigo such a special place. >> So, everybody bored. I believe this is why we're here. This is why we sit at this table to do business for this year. The stuff that goes on our classrooms and the student presentations about to come up here. And I want to say because of that, we appreciate you because you help all to make these things happen. So, thank you very much. You all get a certificate that reads this. Thank you for your
010service and volunteering many hours and evenings each month to the Upper Adam School District. Your commitment to our students and community is valuable and appreciated. Your dedicated leadership is to serve on the Your dedicated leadership to serve on the school board is crucial to our district mission and the vision of preparing all of our students to be college and career ready. Thank you for leading responsibly, acting ethically, governing effectively, communicating clearly, and evaluating continuously. So, Mr. Mr. Alman, if I could have you come up here and help me here. We're going to uh So, guys, um first of all, this is like the Oprah show. Everybody gets one, not a new car. Now, um Mr. Al is going to pass out the certificates, but here, hold on one second here. We got to show this
011here. U Mrs. McCle, we want to we do want to thank everybody for making the treats. Yes. >> But we also want to thank uh Mrs. Mccclelay and the third graders uh at the intermediate school. uh you'll each receive one of these and uh in this envelope now we're going to you guys can kind of show them off a little bit here but uh students uh were working on u I said could you maybe like do a little card and maybe do a little portrait you know of of the board member [laughter] you know some of this is very interpretive and and some of it's very realistic too there's some realism here okay uh I I would say you know >> do not use mine to show [laughter] >> that's that's not Too bad, you
012know. So, that's a good one. I'm not going to show them all. That's pretty good. That's pretty good. So, [laughter] um there's a couple there's a couple other ones that maybe are a little bit more interpretive, you know. So, but we'll go. So, you guys get one of these. Uh Mr. If you could pass these out. Sure. Appreciate that. Great. >> And then so uh and then we also want to thank Mrs. Wr. She is our uh middle school new new to the district this year. Um she makes these fabulous mugs. And and the mugs look like this. >> Aren't they nice? you know. So, I'm I'm not going to they're not in any particular order. Okay. So, after the after the show or after the the business tonight, you guys can um you you
013guys can uh like trade or you know, barter or whatever. So, like So, but I'm just going to go around and we're going to >> Mr. Fog, you don't get one yet. So, >> yeah, Mr. >> Thank you, sir. >> You got one. >> Thank you. barter. [laughter] >> You get one with a home. >> I've been learning some really good negotiating skills with John. So, [laughter] Does anybody want to show any of their pictures? You want to hold up a favorite or you know, you can certainly do. >> You already showed mine, so somebody else needs to volunteer. It >> was very good. >> It was very good. Oh, thank you. >> So there again, we appreciate you guys all some of it. Some of like I said, Miss Andrew is a little bit
014more interpretive and some realism there. I did take a peek at pretty much most of them. I think everyone has a has a a pretty good likeness and then there's a couple other ones that are a bit more interpretive. So, but but hey, really thank you guys for all you do. We really appreciate it. And again, I want to thank Mrs. words uh from the inner uh our one of our art teacher, Miss McCle, and then obviously our bakers making the cookies and uh Mr. Roby, we want to thank you very much and uh uh for the wonderful videos and then Mr. Wilson and Caner Foundation, we want to thank you guys too. So greatly appreciate that. >> Thank you. >> We have an additional presentation at the middle school. >> Yes. >> All right.
015So, just so you guys know, I think I shared with you in an email. So, each month starting now, we're going to have a presentation from each school and each level uh at each board meeting. And uh tonight is uh our our our middle school. So, um please welcome our middle school here. Come. Yeah. Good evening everyone. Um, as you can see, we we have quite a quite a nice group here um, representing the middle school tonight. Uh, I don't want to steal their thunder, so I'm just going to give a brief introduction. We have our students who [music] are participating in what's so cool about manufacturing group. Uh you can see on display uh they recently took a trip and we'll let them talk a little bit more about that. But uh I want
016to introduce Mr. Ramsey, our eighth grade ELA teacher and Mrs. Bowen, our school counselor who have taken this on and have provided these kids with some opportunity to stay normally. So I'm going to turn the show over to them and just thank you all for coming. >> I'm not sure there's much of a show. Um So Mrs. Bet I head up the what's so cool about manufacturing program. Um essentially we u make a connection through Mante with a business. This time it was MP machine. Um and we get a chance to go out and tour the facility. We got some of the funds this year through grants which was really helpful. It helps with the travel helps with just some of the equipment that so that was very helpful. So I think what I appreciate
017about the what's about manufacturing project is it's not just for students who are interesting interested in manufacturing but also there's different ways for them to explore their interest such as interviewing different people together in some graphics. background musically that they compile. So it's not just to see what manufacturing was like but also to you guys want to say anything about your experience. They last week um we got a chance to go over I don't know if you want to tell a little bit about your experience going >> um I thought it was really cool. I'm specifically interested in videos and I had this program that I just want to start off by thanking you all for letting us join. And honestly, one thing that's really cool is that manufacturing is what makes the world go.
018I mean, it's a program that connects students like me to the people and businesses that help our community grow. This program showed me that manufacturing isn't just about making products. It's about supporting our local economy, creating jobs, and most importantly, building a stronger future right here at home. Through this program, I actually had a opportunity to work with a real manufacturing company. We rarely see our parts are created from start to finish using everyday skills that we are learning right in the classroom such as engineering, math, and science. These are skills like a bar. Manufacturing also shows that students there are many paths to success. Not everyone's future looks the same, and that's just fine. Some careers involve hands-on work, technology, engineering, skilled trades, and many of those opportunities exist right here in our own
019community. Seeing that makes the future feel possible and more local. Supporting manufacturing education, our schools are helping students be more confident about their strengthening the connection between schools and the community we live in. When students succeed, our community succeeds, too. And that is what [laughter] >> I have. I have a question for the for the student >> as an example of what M&V, the company that we went to in specific might make some of the souvenirs they let us bring back, which fun thing is they don't actually know what the part they're making is used for. Like this, they said that they just call it a tuning fork because it looks like that. But they really don't know where it's going to be used. Like they can speculate, but they really just don't know. >>
020One of the conversations that we end up having each year that we do this, this is our fifth year participating, um is a lot of times students don't realize when they look at, you know, the aluminum that goes into the top of the the chalkboards or maybe the bracket that's holding something. Everything around the room is something that someone had to go through a process of making and create and having students go through and see, wow, everything comes from somewhere or something was used to make the machine that makes the thing or whatever the case is. It's it's always neat to see them kind of witness. We do have a video um this is from 2020 um when we went to a different we don't have our currently edited one. We're still working on that
021one but this is when we went to PEX room. So, this is an idea of what the video will look like once it's finished. >> What's so cool about manufacturing? [music] >> My name is Mark. president of 10X for this job. See, um 10X is a is a manufacturing facility and so we make uh aluminum extrusions. You know, we make parts that go into Tesla cars to vans that go into deliver packages from Amazon and others, furniture that goes outdoors. And so, I mean, we do a lot of different stuff, and it's all kind of neat and exciting to see. NX is an aluminum extrusion facility in Wellsville, PA. The process begins with 80,000 lbs of aluminum being melted in the kit. After it is melted, it is then molded into huge logs. These huge
022logs are then tested for elements that need to be added or need to be taken out. The aluminum is extruded into the shape and size through the die. If parts need to be painted, they are sent to a different facility and then brought back. Finally, the product is carefully packaged and shipped to the customer. >> We actually bought the company from Penn State Aluminum 30, 40 years ago. It was mid to late 90s. We bought Press B to expand. And then just a few years ago, we bought another facility out in Ohio to expand to our capabilities. >> It's a challenging job. I think it's a fun job and uh you know, I've done it for many years. I've done this for over 30 years and it's you know, it's rewarding. coming to work every
023day going home. >> You can see a product that you use every day and you don't realize all the different things that go into making it happen. >> I feel proud. I feel proud when we can take, you know, the scrap that you see out there in the yard that's laying on the ground that has absolutely no use the way it is and producing something that's useful to, you know, everybody, home use or highway use, but turning it into Whoever invented this tool deserves the race. >> That's not us. [laughter] >> So they'll they'll take all of the the footage that they shot. They got all of the footage for the collected interviews, ask the questions. They'll edit all of it down at first a regional level and then a couple of >> Oh, actually,
024so that's interesting. Um, they actually have a more difficult time than most of our students in the past. Um, this just something that they're doing outside of their classes. So, um we don't have a particular video processing class. Um in the middle school, it's their intervention, which is their intervention time. It's also have and they're still carving out time. It's just something amazing. >> [laughter] >> question. >> I was just wondering how um kids know about like how do you put the idea out that this is something that uh they can participate in. >> So I usually have at the start of this year. [snorts] [clears throat] So if we know of student whether or not I'm particularly excited about next year also because this entire group, they're all seventh graders and usually we get
025an eighth grade group who wants to jump in and do, but this year we didn't have a lot of eighth grade volunteers and we had quite a few seventh graders who were interested. So I I presume we'll get some of you back next year. they'll be able to already know the process and know what's going to happen and they'll be able to take the video instead of being just the learning part of it. They'll be able to take that something >> jumping on to that uh and really I say this to you for students. Uh I was a senior in high school the first time I came and spoke in front of the upper Adams board many years ago. Obviously it is really neat to see seventh graders. You all are younger than I was
026when I spoke in front of the board. It is neat to see seventh graders who are interested in something so practical and are able to get in front of a group of people and speak so articulately and intelligently and I really am very impressed. I agree. And teachers, I'm sure you had to deal with that as well. Don't want to take away from that. >> Hey, thank you guys so much. Really appreciate fantastic job, guys. outstanding. [applause] >> I don't see any public comment. >> There's no correspondence. So, we are to reports. Dr. Deshawn, you have an LIU report. >> Yeah. Everyone, just to touch base real quick. So, for the new folks too, like every month there's an LIU report. It's kind of like a summarization of the minutes of their kind of board
027meeting and it's attached every month for you all to read just it's it's just kind of general business resignations, hiring [music] new folks, some new job descriptions, action items they take. But if anybody has any questions about that and we do appreciate the LIU, we actually utilize them as well as many of the other districts in our LIU for different services for professional learning. Mr. We had somebody here I think just uh yesterday on doing some stuff with some of our ESL or >> Yeah. English language learners. >> Yeah. Yeah. So >> So yeah, like I said, if anybody's have any questions regarding LIU or anything, just let us know. Thank you very much. >> Federal programs, Mr. Albin. >> Yeah. >> Uh good evening everyone. Uh uh big uh announcement for tomorrow. I'll be
028at St. Francis conducting the annual audit there. So that's the the big event happening right now on federal programs as you recall from my previous this presentation. I have to go out once a year, make sure they're checking off and make sure they're doing a good job for uh our kids. They're still our kids. They go there, but if they would come back, they would be uh attending the elementary. So, that'll be tomorrow morning. For me, uh outside of that, uh coming up in February, March will be the funding adjustments. So, we we have right now we have the the estimated best guess numbers, and I'll get the hard numbers here hopefully by early to mid March. >> Thank you. Mr. Lustig, do you have a Cumberland Perry report for us? >> I do indeed.
029Thank you, Madam President. Uh, I was extremely pleased to be uh given the opportunity to represent Upper Adams School District at Cumberland Perry uh Votech uh school. Uh I uh attended the reorganization meeting there on site December 8th and it was uh wonderful to meet um my counterparts, representatives from the other schools and compare uh what what's happening and I learned something at that meeting that I wanted to announce. Uh I believe it's an annual event that occurs in the autumn. I have to I have to dig out the dates for the uh the upcoming event which would be about six months away. But uh they open Cumberland Perry. Uh the classrooms uh the teachers are there and any person of any age can attend uh these two evenings of open house. And I was
030uh delighted to uh hear that almost 1,900 people of all ages came to Cumberland Barry. And uh I thought I wonder if um people from Upper Adam school district might want to do that next year. So I will try to make sure that uh that I announce that when it's coming up. Uh there was also information about some interesting uh competitions among the students. uh and I have three examples. Uh of course there are a number of different programs. So it's [music] uh these are just three examples. Students from the horiculture and landscaping program entered a competition uh in landscaping and floral arrangements and this occurred at the Pennsylvania Farm Show. Likewise, uh students from Cumberland Perry's culinary arts program uh competed in a cooking uh uh presentation at the farm show. And then there
031was an an internal competition that that I found to be very interesting among the welding students. they could fabricate uh anything that they liked, they wanted to fabricate and then they asked the uh students and the staff to actually vote on uh you know the the ones that uh they thought would be their favorites. Some examples of what they created included a steam locomotive. Now that's a job for a student to create through the welding process. I thought that was pretty amazing. The second one that I took note of was a Christmas tree. The third was a motorcycle >> also would be quite a job. >> And I was I was especially interested to see the fourth one, a hunter in a treeand >> and you know that these are these are just examples of
032really wonderful education [music] among uh that that occurs there with very interested and uh dedicated and uh involved students. So, I'm I'm very pleased to be able to provide that report. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Can our foundation board report, Mrs. Hollow? >> Um, yes. Thank you, Mrs. Clank. I'll try to be as enthusiastic as Lauren and I believe I can be. Um, I feel tonight like this was the Caner Foundation pep rally. Um, we saw the videos and the Caner Foundation underwrote those videos and Mrs. class. The Caner Foundation also underwrote that class. So, the Caner Foundation plays a very pivotal role in things that simply are not in our budget to allow our students to do. Um I uh this year the giving spree resulted in $19,53 in today money and 3,000
033in forever funds. Um unfortunately last year um we had requests for $35,000 from our from our faculty and we were only able to um fund 16,000. We simply didn't have enough money. So, you'll recall um many times over the years I have encouraged folks to try to dig deep and philanthropically perhaps give to the giving spree for the Caner Foundation. Um, and I I'm going to ask again um to uh please consider it because we all know what our budget is. We simply cannot underwrite all these amazing things that our that our teachers are asking us to do. So I'm I'm just really very tickled to sit here tonight and see those videos and hear from Mrs. Baldman. I've talked to Dr. Desong and I believe we're going to try to bring Mr. Lusty who
034had said about interesting to see the young people here. We're going to try to some of those fun grants, some of the students who were recipients and have them come and present to the full board so you all can see just exactly what the Caner Foundation does for our district. That's my report. >> Thank you. >> All right, administrative reports. We do have administrator reports attached. Do any of the administrators want to add anything? Do we have any questions for the administrators? I have some comments, but I don't know if any of them want to to speak first or or not. Um, should I go ahead? >> Sure. >> They're not speaking up. You go ahead. >> Okay. Well, I'm going to put a couple of them on the spot here, maybe. Um, Mrs. Buckley,
035um, I was I was really tickled to see the replay as that continues to go on and although it's in our agendas and miss anyone, please tell me. I would just like to single out people who make that trip possible because I think it's so incredibly important. Mr. Park, the American Legion, the battle museum, the job news organization, the auxiliary from the Alliance Foundation. [snorts] They underwor Christmas was a packed house. Holy moly. I don't know if you could have gotten anyone else in there. It was fantastic. Um would you speak to um I don't have your report in front of me but I mean the upcoming events fifth grade drug start drug smart and sixth grade but would you just speak what they are exactly? So there are three programs we offer to students.
036So the the drug smart program is for our fifth grade. It basically talks about how the effects of drug on body. There's several stations that they the students through to um talk about choices and how you can um refuse and how you can respectfully refuse when people are asking you kind of pressure. Um so that's like the drug smart program for our fifth graders. We also have the children's advocacy center comes and presents two different programs. One is the teen safety matters for sixth graders and the child safety matters for death. They're very similar. Um they talk about identifying and responding to bullying and cyber bullying. They talk about healthy choices. Um relationships a little bit about relationships particularly when you get into the sixth grade. Um and importance of digital dangers and the digital
037dangers that are out there and how to keep themselves safe. But one thing that I really love about the program is it asks them to identify safe adults and they it's kind of an honor actually think they give out um they pick two two adults and could be at home or it could be at school and they give them uh like a bookmark and basically I choose you to be my safe adult that we're agreeing that you can come to us with any problems any concerns you need help. And so it's kind of an honor when you get one of the bookmarks from the child to think that, oh my gosh, they want me to be their safe adult. Um, so they're they're encouraged to hand out those um cards throughout the school or at
038home. I think that's really valuable part of the program. So thanks for asking. >> How long? We've been doing this for at least five years. >> Great. Thank you for sharing. Um Mr. He is Mr. >> Oh, Mr. Brewer is out in the hall. There he is. Um it's just the same thing I say every year to you about the Rachel's challenge and the um I just really really like that program. Can you just for the benefit of new board members what that is? >> Sure. It is um they um they labeled themselves as a prokindness campaign and it's an organization that stem from a tragedy um in the coline incident and Rachel Rachel Scott and she was the first casualty of that incident. So from that um the parents have created Rachel's challenge. Um,
039and through talking to friends and peers, I found out what kind of friend and person Rachel was and she did a lot of good in her school um, with helping others and being kind to others. Um, just making people feel wanted and a part of that school community. So, uh, we've been fortunate enough to have Rachel's challenge come into our school, work with our kids two years now, and we have an agreement with two more. So, every middle school student in this year should have Whe Rachel's challenge or Rachel's legacy for those who have already seen Rachel's challenge and also out of that we have high school students that join us. This year was n students because they hadn't seen it. Uh we have the the whole club so it's friends of Rachel's club and
040that is a kindest um club that does just um nice things for people during during the school year. recent um thing that they working on was right before Christmas from all [snorts] comfortable. Thank you very much. You're welcome. >> Thank you. >> And um this is um yay on the So exciting. So exciting. And um and congratulations to the FFA students. Yes. Um, and finally, just a kudos to Kirsten. We always talk about our athletes, but she represents very well. >> I think that's all I have. >> You sure? >> I'm sure. >> Thank you. >> Anybody else? >> No. Superend everything. superintendent report. Dr. Don, >> good evening. Nice to see everyone. We greatly appreciate the presentation from our middle school and what's so great about manufacturing. So, we appreciate them. Uh we, as
041I said, have we'll have other schools presenting over the next three months, as well as the teachers who received grants from the Caner Foundation to talk about the work they are doing as a result of those grants. I again want to extend a big thanks to Mr. Roby, Mr. Chandler Robby who left for the outstanding job he did in representing our district and his alma mater. I also greatly appreciate our teachers, administrators, and students who helped prepare for the filming sessions that uh took place in the fall. Furthermore, we want to again express our deep appreciation to the Caner Foundation for picking up the cost of the video project that truly captures the essence of UASD and all the things that make our district a wonderful place to be. Also, a big kudos to all
042of the teachers who seamlessly transitioned right into 2026 from the holiday break. Uh the transition was smooth and it was due to their planning and preparation. Um, today was not a good day to have boiler issues. Uh, Mr. Graham called me early this morning and reported about potentially having a heating problem. Uh, and it was cold out. Uh, thank you, Mr. Graham, for your quick work alongside the Aramark team and getting things fixed. Speaking of Aramark, Mr. Graham and I had the opportunity to sit down with Mr. Craig Proffin, Aramark's USAD site director to go over the client business review. Mr. Prof goes over all the work they have done since our last quarterly meeting. We appreciate our mark and their employees and partnership in keeping our schools looking good on the outside and the
043inside. Uh providing our course guide uh gets approved this evening. We are excited about the exploratory internship possibilities for our seniors in education and culinary. Uh I'm also excited about moving into other opportunities just like our uh middle school presented uh tonight too. I want to thank Mr. Mike Costik from Chartwells who has been great to work alongside and providing this opportunity. Culinarily speak culinarily. I don't know if is that a word culinary speaking. Uh [laughter] and speaking of opportunities, I'll keep the board informed regarding a chance to visit the Cumberland Perry CTC. Uh Mr. Les, I'm not sure, but Mr. Wolf is to provide an evening open house for all board members. Uh uh for their sending districts. So once I get that date, we'll let you know. Um this is actually a good
044time for everyone, whether you've been there or not, to uh see the new construction in action. Uh we will be holding our first district artificial intelligence meeting tomorrow afternoon [snorts] and we want to thank the teachers who volunteered to join as well as the parents, community members, administrators and four BHS students um who will be on our team. Our why behind this team is to inform the district's thinking and decisions moving forward with artificial intelligence. If anyone on the board would like to join, please let me know. Uh also on our team is Mr. Mark Douglas. Uh Mr. Douglas, right there he is. Uh, give a little wave, Mr. Douglas. Uh, he's prepared a 15minute speech. Uh, he is No, no, this I'm only serious, Mr. Douglas. No, he is our new tech director from
045GDC. So, welcome, Mr. Douglas. We're glad you're here, sir. Uh, we also want to give a shout out to all of our students participating in extracurricular activities from band and chorus, drama, and sports. I had the pleasure of enjoying our student perform a Charlie Brown Christmas and our most recent band and chorus concert where numerous inspirational pieces were performed in some. Thank you, Miss Mr. Mason, Mr. Philippi, and Miss Kelly. I also have the chance to catch up a little a little basketball and wrestling. The other week, I was here for an evening of wrestling, and I have to admit, I'm total agreement. I I was completely impressed. I I for this being their first year, um I wouldn't have known it was their first year. Um they really seem to hold their own. And
046that's a kudos to the coaches, uh all the board members, uh and Mr. Graham for our winter sports happening. And I want to piggyback too on a big shout out to our FFA folks. Uh I don't know if you guys know and I'm hoping we do get to hear presentation because to receive a Keystone degree is actually a really big deal. Um and I just a shout out to Connor Smith and Tai Showers for obtaining their Keystone degree. That that's there's a lot of work and effort that goes into that. And there's 16 students who also receive their jackets. Um um so that's that's that's kind of a big thing too. I've been trying to work on getting a jacket, but I don't know if I can get like a >> you need to meet
047the requirements. >> Yeah. Yeah, you're right. [laughter] I think I'm g have to I'm g have to jump in. So yeah, there are so many great things going on on on at Upper Adams and that's because of all the collaborative efforts of the faculty, staff, administration, board members, families, and the communities. Thank you, Miss Flynn. >> Thank you. Right. Treasurer's report. Mr. Wagle. >> Thank you. U before I get started, you will notice there are several reports under each one. We did not have a voting meeting in December. So, we're voting on November and December financial the financial report for the new board members that is the cash balances that the school has currently. So, when you look at those financial reports, the treasuries report, they have the cash balances. Um so I'd like to
048recommend approval um to the financial report ending 11:30 2025 and 1231 2025 and board sum report for 11 2025 and 1225 as well as the food service fund statement of operations uh for 11:30 2025 and 1231 2025 as well as the student activity fund ending 11:301 and all of these are attached. >> Got a second. >> Second. Is there any discussion? Any questions? >> Have a roll call, please. >> Miss Javal. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Hollow. >> Yes. >> Mr. Lynon Lmer. >> Yes. >> Mr. Lauren Lustik. Yes, >> Mr. Matthew. >> Yes, >> Mr. W. >> Yes, >> Miss Young. >> Yes, >> Miss Anders. >> Yes, >> Mrs. Plank. >> Yes. >> Thank you. >> All right, moving on to consent agenda items. Uh, is there anything that anyone would like to pull
049out of the consent agenda? Just for those of you who may be unaware, Melissa John, these are things that we would have discussed at a prior meeting. All right. I guess can I get a motion to pres to uh approve the consent agend >> Mr. Lauren Lustik? >> Yes. >> Miss Anders? >> Yes. >> Miss Jalal? >> Yes. >> Miss Young? >> Yes. >> Mr. Wyel? >> Yes. >> Mr. Matthew Lustik? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Hollow. >> Yes. Mr. Lindon. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Plank. >> Yes. >> Thank you. >> Committee reports. Uh, finance. Mr. Wel. >> All right. We will start [snorts] off with, uh, Mrs. Hobs and the 2025 2026 budget. So what I wanted to do this evening um was just to give a brief update where we are with the current
050budget 2526 because starting in February we are going to start talking about the 2627. So what you already approved was just the audit during underneath the consent. So we're done with 2425 looking at 2526 and then moving forward into 2627 upcoming in February. So, just some budget development reminders to share with everyone and the new board members. We actually start our budget development in October. So, we started the fiscal year 26, the one that we're currently in back in October of 2024. The board approved the budget, our UASD budget on June 17, 2025. We did have a variance and we did it with a zero tax increase, but we're using funds that we have in our assigned funds and our unassigned funds. And I know new new board members say what may be assigned fund
051and unassigned fund. Assigned fund is basically you have the money set aside for that specific project and we have some of those set up and we will talk more about this as we do the budget development. And then our unassigned is basically if you're relating it to your own home finances, your own savings account. So the district and the board approved to use those funds to cover that variance. And then we all know what happened. The state did not approve their budget until November 12th of 2025. So once again, some of the information that was um shared underneath the treasures report when you look at the condensed revenues and expenditures. I pulled some of that information out just to give a historical information and to um provide some education to the new board members. Our
052local revenue is made up of a series of items and we will cover this series of items in upcoming meetings. Um but what I did was I just provided some historical information of our actual local revenue and where we are year to date. So, we are about 83% of our local revenue, which is where we would expect to be because your local revenue is basically a lot of your tax revenue. Um, revenue that comes in from admissions from when you're paying gate receipts to attend the football games or the basketball games, those sort of things. That also is our um interest investments. And at this time I start looking to see where I think we may end come June 30th because this is going to be play an important part as we start looking at
053the 26 27 budget. So one thing I did note already that what I had budgeted for our interest on investments we are going to be over that projected amount. That's a good thing. You know once again I budget very conservatively. I'd rather come in higher on the revenue side. Also by this point in past years we would have information regarding IDA which is individuals with disabilities education act funding and we get that [snorts] from the IU. With the state budget being delayed they don't have that information yet. So once we get that information that will you know help get us closer to probably that 85 90%. Um but once again that will come to the board and that will be something that you will be approving. So you will see that in future months. When
054we look at the state revenue, this is currently what we have budgeted. So for the fiscal year 26, we have about $18 million budgeted. We have received almost half of that. So any of the back payments that were due to us from the state, we have received. So now we will be on the regular cycle of receiving those updated subsidies with the fiscal year 26 budget of that 18 million. It does not encode the addition items that were approved back in November for the state budget and I have those listed out here. So, with [music] that state money, we're receiving an additional $104,000 in basic education money than what I had budgeted, an additional $16,000 in special education. We also received and all districts and charter schools received a PCCD grant and that is good
055through June 30th of 2027. Now, you have heard us talk about a PCC PCCD grant in the past and that was used to offset the salary and benefits for our social worker and that's what this will continue to do. So, we have it broken down what will cover fiscal year 26 is it started with where we picked up for um the salary and benefits here in January and then we have funds that will cover us into fiscal year 27. And then we have the ready tole learn funds and we're receiving an additional $841,000. Now with that there are things that are tied to it that we can only spend those funds on. So as I mentioned we had a variance but we cannot use that 87,000 all [clears throat] towards that variance because they are
056very specific in what those funds may be used for and we have to submit everything for that um by February [music] 5th. So Mr. Mr. Alvin and I are currently working on that right now. Um along with Dr. Deshawn and Mr. Gerber or whoever else we need to pull into the team for those conversations on the federal side. Mr. Alvin shared that report with you or th that information with you two weeks ago. We have budgeted 411,000 and we have received also about half of those funds. Once again, that may change with the funding invest or the funding adjustments that happened between uh February and March. So on the revenue side, we are tracking really good. I don't have any concerns right now. Um so I just sort of put all that summary together for
057you all one slide. I'm not going to go down and read through [snorts] those numbers again, but as of right now, we have about 23,000 or $23 million that we received out of our 36 million that we had budgeted. As we look at expenditures, now this is as of December 31st. Um, salary and benefits, you can see what was budgeted and where we are. And you're going to say, what's the numbers behind like salaries? I have 100. We're going to get into that in a few weeks, so don't fret. Those that have been around, they know how this process works. And then anything that begins with a 300 and and um ladder going into the 900s, that represents expenditures basically up until November because those expenditures we get the bills say for in January for
058the services that were done in December. So that is not going to be included in some of those items listed from the 300s up to the 900s. So once again at this point I'm not seeing any concerns on the expenditure side. Granted this is accounting only for about five to six months of the expenditures. Once again something that I do um track as we are also developing the budget the upcoming budget. If you did not take notice into in my admin report, I will point out that there through the state budget process that was approved in November, we do have a different um funding rate that we pay this cyber and the charter schools. So, if you did not take notice of those rates, I encourage you to go back and look at my admin
059report because there is a significant difference of what we are paying um compared to even what it was last year. For an example, um what we pay tuition for a cyber school in regular tuition is I want to say about 12,000 and what we're paying for special ed for a student at a cyber school is I want to say 23,000 where last year it [music] was about 30ome,000. So once again, that was all because of the state funding and what happened through that state budget process. So once again, please take notice to that if you did not catch that on my admin report. So altogether I just did a summary slide once again when the budget was approved in June by the board we had a 1.8 million variance. Once again some of that is
060covered with the additional revenue that we are receiving [snorts] on the state side between the basic education and the special education funding. Some of it may or may not be offset by that 841 from the ready to learn. So, I will keep you updated on that as well. As we look forward, um, February 3rd, you'll actually hear the governor's address for the fiscal year 27. Once again, when you hear that, please take that with a grain of salt because we don't budget for that, what he may be predicting at that point. Um, I'll also start giving you some information regarding the 27 budget and then we will continue to work through that monthly. Sometimes you may hear from me twice a month. Um, and in May, the board will need to approve a preliminary budget
061for fiscal year 27. And by June 16, 2026, the board will need to approve the fiscal year 27 budget. Any questions on those highlighted items for fiscal [clears throat] year 26? >> Any questions? I have a question and a comment. Um comment I just always appreciate your budgeting very conservatively. [snorts] It usually helps us at the end of the year and I appreciate that very much. Um and I was all set with a question regarding your admin report and the the cyber school and the charter and you answered it in your presentation. So thank you. I thought maybe that's what it was. So thank you very much. >> Any questions for this? >> All right. So, I'm going to recommend approval for the following items. $600 donation from PARS grant for Marin Bass for field
062trip to NASA GDARD Space Flight Center in Maryland. $1,000 from the Friends on Bear Mountain for the UIS fine arts team. Uh, Hoffman Academy agreement as per the attached document through 73126 and Mr. Justin Pier, business manager from Virginia Springs School District as an alternate representative for the York Adams Tax Bureau. Uh note, Mr. [snorts] Pier will serve as an alternate and Mrs. Hobs is unavailable to represent school district 12 general operating budget for 2026 27 school year. This is a decrease of $1,952.80 uh to the budget as noted on page 20. uh Cumberland Perry 2026 27 budget. This is an increase of 5,112 for the 2526 school year. And then recently added a contract with turf track and court which is attached to proceed with the bidding RFP administration which will be the infrastructure
063and turf in the amount of $4,250 as per the attached document. Um just a note on that um you remember previous board I think we voted and approved $125,000 for the capital budget. We have spent 74,000 of that so far. that >> we need a second. >> All right. Is there any discussion? >> No. >> Um, actually, I did have with the turf thing. I thought I saw Maybe I was looking at something else, but I saw I thought I saw Oh, yeah. Here it is. A total of um 43 something. Does that come out of that 120? Like what was that compared to the 4,000 contract? >> 48 is would be a total contract if you decide to go with everything that was proposed. At the moment, we are only uh going with the
064FRP FP process. Okay. >> So, we're not doing the other three items. >> Okay. I got Thank you. >> Any other questions? I have a roll call, please. >> Mr. Lindon Motor. Yes. >> Mr. Matthew Lustik. >> Yes. >> Miss Jal. >> Yes. Mrs. Anders, >> yes. >> Mr. Lauren Lustik, >> yes. >> Mrs. Hollow, >> yes. >> Mr. Widel, >> yes. >> Miss Young, >> yes. >> Mrs. Plank, >> yes. >> Thank you. >> Moving on to Yep. That concludes my >> Sorry. [laughter] Moving on to personnel. [snorts] Mr. Lee, >> yes. Thank you. Turning our attention to 14.2, which is personnel. Recommend approval of the following uh items. uh 1A as you can see on your computer uh under administration the superintendent job description as per the attached document and moving down to
065five A and B notice supplemental contracts uh two listed there uh Lee Smith as an induction mentor and Corey junior high football volunteer. Moving down to other contracts and volunteer services which is listed under six uh 6B1 uh relates to the uh Kelly education listings teacher substitutes. You see uh four people listed there Josiah Long, Morgan Martin, Kirk Sailor, and Caitlyn Klene. Uh further down on the on the sheet under uh permanent staff um under 3A from Madison Reinard retroactive to 1A 2026. Also, please note uh under um item C, recommend approval of the following air individual uh Neil Mikley and under uh E recommend approval of the following GDC individuals. Uh Mike Garza removed status and Mark Douglas, director of technology. That concludes my report. Have a second. >> Second. Any discussion? >> Roll
066call, please. >> Mr. Wel, >> yes. >> Miss Young, >> yes. >> Miss Anders, >> yes. >> Miss Jal, >> yes. >> Mrs. Hollow. >> Yes. >> Mr. Lynon Moulder. >> Yes. >> Mr. Lauren Lustik. >> Yes. >> Mr. Matthew Lustik. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Plank. >> Yes. Thank you. >> Property. I don't see anything. Transportation, Miss Anders. >> Recommended approval for the following drivers. Jessica Davis, Rolling Hills, John Davis, Jacob's um Christine Cox. >> We have a second >> second. >> Any discussion? All in favor? >> Any opposed? a little bit. I don't see anything under curriculum or athletics or student activities. So, we are on to policy review committee. The other Mr. Listic. >> Okay. Uh first of all, I want to [snorts] uh mention and [music] I hope this is in order.
067I spent quite a bit of time reviewing the October and November uh policy committee meetings and I am indebted to the uh superb job that my predecessor as chair of the policy committee did. Uh Mrs. Sucra uh she ran clear, kind, [snorts] courteous, and thorough meetings. I have no idea whether she's listening, but our community uh owes her a debt for her service. I recommend approval and I'm going to take these um not as a clump. So I'd like us to turn our attention to policy 803 and I recommend approval for policy 803 [snorts] to move to to move to second read. >> A second. Any discussion? All in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? >> Okay. Moving to policies 801 and 805.2. >> You mean 803? Because we just did 801. >> You did
068803. >> We just did 80. Sorry. Yeah. Moving to policy 801 and 805.2. I recommend approval with certain edits. >> Okay. Now, I'm not sure procedurally. Do I say the recommended edits before a second? I think I need to wait until a second is given. >> I think so. >> Yes. I would I would agree with that. >> Yes. Have a second, please. Sorry. All right. Discussion. >> Okay. I I'll start out uh on policy 801. Does everyone have that pulled up? >> I just have two recommended edits. One is uh fairly insignificant on page six under the red, which I believe is text that we got from PSBA. Give everybody a moment to get to that. The first sentence talks about the open records officer shall provide notice to third policy a third party
069within seven business days of any appeal relating to records requested which affect the legal or security interest of an employee contained or constitute proprietary confidential or trademark records of a third party or are held by a third party contractor or vendor. I assume that PSBA should have ended that sentence there [music] and started a new sentence. >> That would be my first recommended edit. >> I would agree with that. >> If I may, I think that would clean up >> a very long sentence. Otherwise, I think it I think you're correct. They should have ended that sentence after vendor. >> Okay. >> Yes. on page three, at the bottom of page three, I'll give everybody a moment, the second to the last paragraph. So, this is the last paragraph under fees says the superintendent or
070designate may wave duplication fees. This is talking about uh records requests. duplication fees when the requesttor duplicate uh requesttor duplicates the record or the superintendent or design deems it is in the public interest to do so. Uh PA statute 65 does give which is the reference statute does give agencies governmental agencies the right to wave fees. Uh I would put forward that first of all uh I know it's a drop in the bucket but every bit helps. Uh if there's an open records request. Uh I would put forward that in the interest of the taxpayers uh perhaps everyone should pay the same fee. Uh I would also put forward that um I would be concerned that if the fee is waved for one individual or organization [snorts] but not for another that that would give
071the potential at least for criticism of our superintendent for impartiality which I don't think would be fair and I also would be concerned about. PA statute said uh 65 says we can wave fees but it does not say that we will and I would recommend that that paragraph be struck from the policy. Madam President, shall I go on to 805.2? Yeah. Okay. >> Okay. 805.2 On page two, third paragraph down, says one, oversee all school resource officers. Give everybody a moment. >> I'm sorry. >> Where are you? >> Yeah, sorry. Page two. >> Third paragraph down. Item one, over school. See all school resource resource officers, school police officers. I assume there should be either end or depending on which it is endor [music] security guards. And on page six, I'll give everyone a moment.
072The third paragraph might be the fourth paragraph up right above the title school resource officer. I need more time there. There's a duplicate title two uh paragraphs up. There's school resource officer, same title, not bolded. And then what I consider to be a very confusing sentence and again I I assume this came out of PSBA. Uh I assume that no one in our district drafted this, but it says the district shall establish an agreement with blank. Maybe PSBA intended us to put a title in there in accordance with the provisions of of law for the assignment of school resource officers to specified district schools. Maybe that's intentional. And if so, I can retract my recommendation that it be cleaned up. But if I was a citizen reading this policy, I would be extremely confused by
073that paragraph. Do you I I want to say I want to suggest uh Mr. Lostig that I think they put it there for a reason. I and I think it's an agreement either with I don't know if it would be an agreement with uh like GeForce or another like um there's other things we have agreements with like we have an agreement with our burrow like a memorandum of understanding with our burrow the state police and so forth. So I would and I don't know uh Mr. Balka if you have um any thoughts on that. This would not apply to every school district, but if applicable, this would be where we would fill in the name of the U municipality with which we contract for a school resource officer. Uh, and that's I'm sure that's why
074PSPA left a blank for the district to plug in the name Gettysburg Burrow, whatever, you know, municipality if we have a contracted school resource offic. >> So, we would put GDC. Is that what you're suggesting or should >> That's a separate They're not school resource officers. They SRO's are just um municipal police officers under contract with the school district. >> Correct. Yeah. So, SRO's, SSOs, and then school police officers. We just kept the language all in there in case something were to change down the road. Uh because again, SR like Mr. Chicago said is a an agreement with the bureau that where we're like using a police officer that they have we have an SSO so we have a school security officer with GDC and then there's like a school police officer where we actually
075hire a school police officer so an SPO so that the l that's where the distinction between the three are at in here and again we didn't we just we decided I think my recollection is in case down the road if something were to change we wouldn't it would be [snorts] in there. So that that's my that's my recollection, Mr. Lost. >> Okay. Then I would based upon your uh expertise, Dr. Chong, I would retract that recommend that uh specific editing and recommend approval with the prior three edits that I mentioned. Is the uh I don't recall who seconded the motion. Is the second comfortable with the revisions as outlined? Was that Mrs. Young Cobber? >> Yes. >> Um, yes, I feel comfortable with those revisions. >> This >> So, this was just a first read
076tonight. It'll come back to the board with the revisions as outlined and then you'll have another another opportunity to look at it again and make a final vote. So, it's just a first read tonight. So with a motion and a second, we can vote on that and they can move forward with those corrections as outlined. >> All right. All in favor? >> I. >> All opposed? >> I need to wait on that delay. >> Mrs. Blanks, I just ask a question. [snorts] I don't know if this is appropriate or not. Going forward, u Mr. Leic, would it be Mr. Matthew Leic, would it be your plan to do things such as this at our polic I would certainly hope so. >> Okay. >> Yes. Yes. I think that's very good in recogniz. >> Sure. Okay.
077I think that's very well. >> He wasn't here for those right. Right. Certainly. Yep. Thank you. >> Okay. Turning our attention. Mr. >> Yes, ma'am. >> Um, could I have you send those to me so I can make sure that we get those policies updated correctly? >> Certainly. Yeah. Yeah. Can I give you physical copies at the end of the meeting? Okay. Thank you. >> Uh, let's turn our attention to 218.1. Still a first read. I would recommend I recommend that this policy be returned to the policy committee for further consideration and clarification. All right. Do we have a second >> second >> discussion? Is there a particular reason that you have some changes you'd like to make? >> Yes. Yes. I'd be glad to clarify uh if I would leave that to you. Your
078uh judgment. Should I? >> Sure. This is a time frame discussion. >> Okay. Uh on page one, the definition of weapons is taken right out of right out of state code, which I really appreciate. But state code also state code also gives the three exceptions that are outlined but struck out on this version. Now I think we can all agree that that that exception B which has to do with traversing school property for the purposes of obtaining access to public or private lands for lawful hunting. that is not relevant in our district and I don't think we would necessarily want it to begin with. However, again, state code has uh exceptions. Well, they have all three. Uh and I have concerns about striking out A and C. uh a because I would I would assume
079that there are some legitimate programs and and I just want to state keeping weapons out of schools is something we all take very seriously. Having said that, [music] there are certainly uh family and consumer science uh programs that might use knives, right? Uh I don't know if this is any longer the case, but there used to be an archery program in the uh fizzed. Um that would certainly involve, you know, wells supervised use of what could be considered weapons. Uh, and C I thought was so so um if we strike that out now I understand that no administrator in the district would do this but if we stuck that out and of course we want to write policies that can be implemented as they are. If we strike out C, then there are all sorts
080[snorts] of everyday items that according to our policy would suddenly count as as weapons. Um, no matter that they weren't used in a threatening manner, they would still technically fall under this policy. Uh and again I that is not in any way a doubt of how this policy would be implemented but I do think it's important that we draft policy in a way that it can be implemented as drafted. Um on page two, my most important edit on page two, proposed edit, sorry, would be uh the fourth paragraph from the bottom says in arriving at such it's a little bit hard to read through the through the crossout, but in arriving at such a recommendation, the superintendent or designate shall weigh among other related factors the age of the student, the actions of the student.
081I I think there was supposed to be some language between age, the actions of the student, and intent, the nature of the weapon, and the degree of threat the weapon posed or may pose to the safety or sense of bodily well-being of others. And then it goes on. Um, it seems to me that we would want, and this was actually spoken to in the policy committee meeting where this went to first read, we would want our administrators considering exactly those things. Keeping all weapons out of school is a strong priority, I would assume, for everyone in this room. Having said that, there is a difference between a first grader [snorts] bringing a hunting knife to school. He shouldn't do that. He should be talked to. But there is a difference between that and a senior
082in high school who's heard this policy many times. You know, there are there are nuances there that I would think we would want our administration to consider. Uh this is only for clarity but the last par the last paragraph still on that page says in the case of a student with disabilities I believe we I believe we should change that to a student with one or more disabilities. Clearly the law would come into effect even if a student only had one disability. It wouldn't need to be plural. Moving to page three right under guidelines I have a minor and then I think more significant uh the second paragraph under guidelines says the superintendent or designate shall notify the parent/guardian [snorts] of any student directly involved in an incident involving weapons as as a victim or
083suspect immediately as soon as practicable. Just as a note, those are two different things. Immediately and as soon as practicable are not the same thing. So I suggest we choose one in the in the interest of all administrators. I would say we should choose as soon as practicable. >> Uh moving up to the first paragraph under guidelines. The first paragraph says that the superintendent shall immediately report incidents involving weapons on school property. But then the second sentence of the second paragraph. So again the first paragraph under guidelines says that we will report it. In other words, [snorts] in all instances, the second paragraph of that section, second sentence, says the superintendent or designate shall inform the parent/guardian whether or not law enforcement that has jurisdiction over the school property has been or may be notified
084of the incident. And I think it's confusing to say in one paragraph that we will in all circumstances and then then in the following following paragraphs say that we may or may not. So, Mr. Yes, sir. Yeah, I I I agree. I think we should take this back also and I I know I just recently too and I don't I don't I don't know we don't need to do a lesson on act it 44. >> Yes. >> So, act 44 is just a recent legislation that has come out regarding some of these things. So, um I would agree that it would be a good idea to probably bring this back to have discussions around >> we can further talk then about act 44 too. And I I think I sent anformational uh email out about
085it um to everyone. >> Is there any other questions? All right. >> So, all in favor of taking this policy back to committee say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? >> All right. >> And I apologize for the length of this. >> Oh, no. Um, the last first street read policy to consider, policy 146.1, uh, traumainformed approach. I recommend that likewise that be returned to the policy committee for clarification and reconsideration. >> Second. I'll second >> any discussion. >> I'll open discussion and I hope it's okay for me to uh praise an administrator uh by name in the room. I assume there's no policy against that. Uh this is personal information, but it is relevant and um and it's not private. It's not something that is a secret. Uh about five years ago, um my
086youngest daughter was in the intermediate school when my wife was hospitalized for approximately 3 months and almost died twice. Almost died. Uh my youngest daughter uh was obviously significantly impacted by this. [snorts] Um Mrs. Buckley and her staff were incredibly kind to my daughter and I am forever grateful. Um, Mrs. Buckley was extraordinary quite frankly. Now, it happened each individual student is different. My daughter mostly wanted a smiling face and uh, you know, time to say hi to adults who she admired. She didn't necessarily really want some of the supports that some other students might want. Okay, each individual student's different. My daughter wanted family support. Okay. Um, but it was available and I really appreciate it. I also appreciated Mr. Brewer today who uh referred to Rachel's challenge and kindness programs. I don't know
087if Mr. Brewer is still here. Those are wonderful things to hear about quite frankly. Uh my reasons for recommending this policy go back to uh the policy committee for reconsideration. I did quite a bit of of reading the scientific literature on what are called iatrogenic harms which is when the healer can can inadvertently cause harm when the intended health can cause harm. uh and those are really well documented in regards to uh professional counseling which is not our subject for today obviously. Um but there's also some documentation in the in the literature on concerns with some forms of of mental health interventions that are that are offered in some schools. Now those may not be mental health interventions that are happening in upperams. Uh but the literature does support the idea that some mental health
088interventions are not actually helping students. Uh, on page two of the policy, there's a really large section in red, and I'm sure that this is language from PSBA, but it implies, or maybe doesn't imply, maybe directly um, states pretty sweeping, what I would characterize as pretty sweeping changes um, that could impact our budget, that could impact our curriculum. Um for it just as an example uh item three says curriculum and planned instruction that embeds social and emotional learning. Now there may be a case for that but um I think a lot of residents might want uh math class for instance to really focus on math and maybe that is the intention maybe that is how it's being implemented but I'd like to have the opportunity to clarify that. Um on page three it talks about
089screening. So on page three, it talks about screening. I think there could be a concern, and again, I I'm I'm not proposing that it be sent back to policy committee because I disagree, but because I'd like to have some things clarified. There could be a concern that screening on certain topics could be negative for students. For instance, if screening is normalizing the ideas of suicide uh or self harm, that possibly that could put those ideas into students minds or make students think that those are widespread things. I think there could be a really strong case that no, we want to identify students who are doing this, but I believe that federal law actually says that those sort of widespread screening tools are anonymous. [snorts] So they wouldn't really be as I understand for the purpose
090of identifying students who need help. Um so I I think there could be a concern there. And I don't want to go too far down this road, but last but not least, social and emotional learning is uh what one study called a catch all term. And I think there are wonderful things that that happen in some forms of social and emotional learning. Teaching students about kindness, going back to what we heard earlier today, uh teaching students about um bullying awareness and bullying prevention. There can be wonderful things that happen in that catchall term of of social emotional learning. I think there can also be some things that are questionable and um sometimes social emotional learning introduces things that are fairly questionable without the parents knowledge. I have no reason to believe that's happening at Upper
091Adams. I I would hope and suspect that it's not, but again, I'd like to move that back to policy committee for further consideration. >> Is there any other discussion? All right. So, the motion is to move this back to policy [snorts] committee. All those in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? >> I. >> Okay. Turning our attention to second read policies. I recommend approval of 805 emergency preparedness and 805.1 relations with law enforcement agencies. >> Second. Any discussion? All in favor? >> Any opposed? >> Uh policies. I recommend approval with edits of 218.2 terroristic threats and 904 public attendance at school events >> discussion. >> Let's take 218.2 first. Okay. This is probably my most significant um concern among the second read policies. Uh on page one of 218.2 under definitions, definition of communicate. Communicate
092shall mean to convey in person or by writing or electronic means. I thought to myself, we would all like to think that will never be terroristic threats and updatives. Uh I would like to think that that will not come here. However, in point of fact, there can be communication of threats in other than in person or written or electronic means. For instance, one could use a photograph or a drawing, neither of which would technically be written, um to convey a threat. Um And I'd like to suggest that we might want to clear that language up in case there ever is such a thing. I wouldn't want any weakness in the policy to be used um to get out of a repercussion. I guess I'd say still on 218.2 uh at the second to last paragraph.
093I have exactly the same comment I said before about immediately as soon as practical. So I won't belver that point. on policy 904 definitions says for the purpose of of excuse me 904 second paragraph definitions says for the purposes of this policy I believe it should be tobacco products and on page three next to the last paragraph. So at the top of page three, um it says in accordance with state law and regulations, I believe it should be end the procedures set forth. And at the end of that section, so [snorts] the last sentence of that section, it says, I'll start at the beginning of the line. It says that are owned, leased, or controlled by the school district or on any property owned, it should be owned, comma, leased or controlled by the school
094district. There are also two other punctuation errors in that paragraph that I don't want to take the board's time with. questions. >> All right. So, we're going to take a vote to approve these with >> with amendments >> because they are not substantive changes to the policy. I in my opinion, they're minor uh edits and cleanup edits. I don't feel they need to go back to first read. Disagree, someone could make that motion. Otherwise, I think given the edit the nature of the edits, they're they're relatively minor. I think we can approve them as a second read with the edits as outlined. >> Okay. All in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? Great. >> Okay. And moving our attention to policy 909, municipal government relations. I should have lumped this with the last one. I
095apologize. On behalf of the board's time, I recommend that we um that we approve this with one edit. >> Have a second. >> Okay. >> On page one under authority, last paragraph, last paragraph, not of page one, but of the authority section. I'm certain that this was an uh a mistake, but it says the board advocates joint expenditures of district and municipal or county funds to provide facilities from which the entire community I'm sure we meant d may derive benefits, not may drive benefits. >> Great questions. That was it. >> That was it. All right. All All um all in favor >> I >> Any opposed. All right. Is that all? >> That's it. >> All right. Thank you. All right. Moving on to miscellaneous agenda items. I recommend approval to enter into a written
096agreement with the parents of student number 4098, the student, and to expel the student on the terms and conditions of the agreement and to authorize the superintendent to execute and deliver the agreement on behalf of the school district. In addition, I recommend approval to enter into a written agreement with the parents of student number 8568, the student, and to expel the student on the terms and conditions of the agreement and to authorize the superintendent to execute and deliver the agreement on behalf of the school district. >> A second. I'm going to assume there's no discussion related to these. Have a roll call, please. >> Miss Jal, >> yes. >> Miss Anders, >> yes. >> Mr. Lynon Muller, >> yes. [music] >> Mrs. Hollow, >> yes. >> Mr. Matthew Lustik, >> yes. >> Mr. Lauren Lustik,
097>> yes. >> Miss Young Cobber, >> yes. >> Mr. Wiggle, >> yes. >> Mrs. Plank, >> yes. >> Thank you. I'm going to recommend approval that we pay the bills as per the attached documents. Second, any questions, discussion on bills? No. >> Roll call, please. >> Mr. Wel, >> yes. >> Mr. Lauren Lustik, >> yes. >> Miss Anders, >> yes. >> Miss Young, >> yes. >> Miss Jal, >> yes. >> Mr. Lynon Muller, >> yes. >> Mrs. Palawa. >> Yes. >> Mr. Matthew Lustik. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Plank. >> Yes. >> Thank you. >> I don't see anything under old business. Do we have any new business? >> All right. Some information. The next policy committee meeting will be February 3rd at 5:00 p.m. The next curriculum extracurricular committee will be also be February 3rd
098at 6:30. and the business and operations committee meeting will follow upon completion of the curricular and extracurricular committee meeting. We also have a regular school board meeting scheduled for February 17th at 7 p.m. I have a motion to adjourn. >> So move. >> Hey, before you guys go, >> you can't do that. >> No, no. Can you can [laughter] you can you line up with your mug and maybe just one one real quick picture? I want to get a picture. Okay, I'm going to get a picture just real just real quick. I don't want to keep everybody. I know it's a little longer tonight.