001Right. >> We have a lot of diesel, too. >> Reset out here. All right, it's 7 o'clock. We'll call the meeting to order. Uh would you all please stand for the pledge of allegiance and moment of >> silence to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Seated. >> All right. Miss Hobs, can we have roll call, please? >> Mrs. Krauss, >> here. >> Miss Jal, >> here. >> Mrs. Hollow, >> here. >> Mr. Lady, >> here. >> Mr. Lustic, >> here. >> Mrs. Plank, >> here. >> Mr. Walmer >> here. Miss Young Cover >> here. >> Mr. Widel >> here. >> Thank you. >> All right. We did not have an executive session
002before the uh meeting. Um do we have a approval recommended approval for the agenda for tonight's meeting? >> So moved. >> Second. >> All right. Um all in favor? >> I all oppose. Um moving on to approval of meeting minutes uh for the board meeting on 10:21 2025, curriculum and extracurricular committee meeting on 114 2025. A business operations committee meeting on 114 2025 and the policy committee meeting on 116 2025. >> So move second. >> All right. Any comments, questions? >> All right. All in favor? I >> I all oppose. >> All right. Uh recognition of delegation student representative report. >> Good evening school board. I'm here on behalf of student council and I wanted to come and talk about our powder pup game last Friday. We had a great time and raised a lot
003of money and our next big event is mini fun which we have quite a few fundraisers planned for. Right. Thank you. Um the next delegation I will let uh Miss Krauss um do the introduction for this one. >> Oh, thank you. Um I am very happy to present Tom Wolf who is the director of Cumberland Perry and Career and Technical Center. um he has brought a couple of our students who are enrolled there to speak to us tonight. Um and I hope that he's able to share some exciting things about the CTC. Tom, thank you for the the kind introduction and thank you for all of your time to be here to talk to you about the CTC tonight. I'm gonna operate on the assumption that you would much rather hear from the students than
004hear from me. So at this time it's it's my pleasure to introduce Haley Orner and Leslie Drago who are both in our culinary arts program. They're they are students here at Upper Adam School District and attend the CTC app today. >> My name is Haley Her and I'm a level three student in the culinary arts program at at Cumberland Perry. Um, Cumberland Perry gives us a good experience with uh the instructors because they have real world experience. Our chef uh chef Bobby Miller has um lots of prior experience before maybe teaching us. And we also get hands-on experience with industry um level equipment such as our mixers, our buffalo choppers, our blenders, and then culinary. Um we also do a co-op program with Cumberland and that allows us to go out into the workplace during
005the time that we normally would be at Cumberland Perry and whenever we're not scheduled to work, we still can attend Cumberland Perry and continue our education. >> Um, hello. I'm Leslie Gomez. I am also a level three student of Cumberland Perry. Um, sorry. Our first years we learn we get our serve safe manager certificate that we study for all year and right around the end of the year we do a whole day of uh review and then we take our test. Our second years we work on career save and we start learning more about uh industry. We're also allowed to take field trips which allow us to go visit workplaces and colleges that we might want to be interested in um post high school. Um our third years were allowed to do co-op and we
006work towards our ni testing that we do. We do a written portion and we do a hands-on portion where we cook for a day. Um, sorry. >> Yeah, sorry. >> Forgetting one little part and you just can't remember, but it'll come. >> That's still a lot everything you said. >> Yeah. Um, we get a lot of hands-on work as she said. We do simulations which with our programs and a few of our elderly communities are allowed to come in on Fridays after we've started our restaurant where the all the levels are allowed to work in the kitchen and we serve customers that come in. Um we also do catering orders if someone calls in on us. We will do catering. We are working currently on one for snack shack. We have door order due tomorrow
007at 9:00 in the morning. >> Do you guys deliver here at operand or not? >> We can do we can definitely do catering here. >> So are all the levels participating in the the monthly dinners that you prepare for the JC? >> Yes, all the levels are assigned. We are split into groups which are called brigades and we all work together. Each group is assigned a different item. >> For those of you that don't know, um because of the 13 districts being so widespread, um every month the culinary arts group puts on dinner for us so that we have an opportunity to sit and at least speak to the other members of JooC and they do a wonderful job. I have tried things I would never have thought I'd tried and the the presentation is
008great. Their serving skills are great and it's it's been exciting to be up there to enjoy what you all are learning. >> You answered my question. Sue, when Brad had your role, when he was on the board, he would come home after one of the meals that you had prepared and just go on and on about what all he had had while I was home eating my peanut butter sandwich. He was having all this amazing food. So, I'm glad that continues. That's >> I missed I missed the steak dinner last month because I was in Philadelphia. Um one question um did you find the serve safe certification um the studying for that and the the manual was that difficult for you? >> Um it was not difficult but it was very like intensive just because
009of all of the new knowledge that you're getting. Yeah. >> So, and we also um half the day before the day that we take the test, uh chef brings in somebody that is very good and he um he studies with us for a few hours and then we take the test. >> Out of everyone that I know, only two people have failed. The rest of the class has like from each level has passed. >> Do you find yourself looking differently now when you go into restaurants? Are you scoping things out and Yeah. Right. >> I I checked to see if you're holding stuff, right? >> Yeah, exactly. >> Good. Thank you. >> What's your What's your plans after school? >> Um, I'm hopefully going to attend a college and work towards a career in baking
010and pastries. >> Real quick, Haley, do you want to join her? That way, she's not bombarded with all the questions. >> She's not on the spot by herself. >> I really appreciate the opportunity to hear from the students. Thank you very much for uh for what you have said. Uh it's exciting. Uh and and I think you're taking some wonderful steps that'll be helping you to really be ready for your careers. I do remember uh this same um opportunity uh several years ago when uh a student came from the law enforcement uh program. uh a student from from u this upper Adam school district and he gave a wonderful report and then we at some point learned that the gain commission had hired him for a summer sort of internship and I thought wow this
011is this is outstanding really really interesting and and very very um great to to see uh the uh the joys and the challenges as well as uh what lies ahead for Thank you very very much. >> Kelly, what's your plans after school? >> Looking to uh trade school for pastry. >> Trade school. Okay. Baking. Same. >> Thank you both of you for coming this evening and sharing. It's exciting. >> Thank you. >> And I'll say thanks for all those wonderful meals. >> Rub it in, Sue. Thank you ladies for taking the time to be here and sharing your experiences with everyone in hearing the students talk. One of the things that I think often gets lost on us as adults is the foresight and the commitment that these students have to make. It took me
012about 354 minutes to drive down here from the the CTC tonight. These students are signing up in 9th grade. They're looking at their future. They know what they want to do and they're making a choice to make a career in technical education program a part of their high school experience. They're doing that knowing that they're going to leave in many cases friends that they've gone to school with their entire life. They're going to go to a different environment, be with different people, and they're signing up for that bus ride every day, both ways for the next three years. I don't know about you, but I know when I was in nth grade in high school, I don't know that I had that level of foresight or commitment. They not only made the decision, which I
013think was wise in in both of these students cases, but they also then had the fortitude to see it through and stick with it. I'm sure they've had some challenging days here and there, but but they have seen it through. And I think sometimes as adults we forget the commitment that they make and what they go through to to realize their their goals and dreams. Um I mean a couple things I I the the two handouts that were placed in front of you. The white sheet is really just some numbers information. On the left hand side at the top is the historical enrollment for upper Adams uh students at the CTC. If you look over that period, I think the low year was 27 students and the high was 47. It has been pretty consistent
014right in that 25 to 35 range at most years. And I think that the students are doing well uh while they're there. One of the things that stuck out to me as I I was preparing tonight is I I looked last year of the third-year completers in their programs, 91% of the students from the Upper Adams School District that were tested scored competent or advanced on the on the NOKI test. 73% of them scored advanced. That those are very good percentages. And I would say that's probably that 73% puts you in one of the top as one of the top two two districts in terms of student percentages. Um last year we had uh two students from Upper Adams participate in the cooperative education program. This year at this point in the year we already
015have three students that are out uh working in co-op positions. Many times the things that the students seem to focus on with that is that they're continuing their education and getting experience but they're getting paid. That's the part that appeals to them. The the the thing that I think is very important to remember there is if you have a student that is struggling with something in the workplace, whether that is a technical skill that they're not doing very well or if it is have to navigate through a difficult situation with a co-orker or a supervisor, they're required to be back at the CTC at least two days each month. those days that they're back there, they have an opportunity to work with their program teacher, the co-op coordinator, our counselors, the administrative team to try
016to help figure out how to navigate through those situations successfully and effectively. And I think that takes our students from just being a young person with skills to putting them in a position to be a really good employee and valuable for for the company that they're they are working for. Um, the start of the school year at the CTC has gone well. Uh, I I always feel like once we get into October, things start rolling and and things happen at a a a much uh more brisk pace. During the month of October, we had eighth grade tours. Uh, we had 2,465 eighth graders from the districts come through our building. Uh, then on November 6th and 7th, we had our career exploration nights. During those two evenings, we had over 1,800 people come through our
017building. Some of them were prospective students who maybe saw something on the tour and then brought their parents or other family members back to see the program that they were thinking about applying to, maybe ask some questions of the instructor and gather more information. Uh, and th those are really positive nights. I would encourage you uh to to make a point of putting them on your calendar next year to try to to attend at least one of them if you're able. I think you you would see the excitement that our our prospective students have for the attending the CTC. This week, our Skills USA chapter is at the fall leadership conference and they have they are they're joining uh students from other CTC's in central Pennsylvania and also there are some uh comprehensive high schools
018that have a career and technical programs that also have Skills USA chapters that are attending there. Uh during these eighth grade tours and the career exploration nights, we are helped out by our student ambassadors. The student ambassadors are they they are typically students that are in their second or third year at the CTC. They know their way around. They know a little bit more about the school. And we use them to help talk to the groups of students that come through. I mean, obviously, I think in most cases, students would much rather hear from other young people than from adults. Uh, and they also are there on the care career exploration nights to help people find their their the programs they're looking for and answer any questions they may have about what it's like being
019a student at the CTC. These are great opportunities to help those students build leadership skills. Um, something else I I'm sure that there there are some questions about the building project. I I am a bit of a history buff. And this summer, right before the start of the school year, a friend of my dad's who happened to be a superintendent in one of the consortium districts back in the 60s when it was formed, found a brochure that was used to promote the school. And I found a really interesting quote in there. It said that CPAVTS dedicates itself to serving the young people of our participating districts. Those to whom we owe every opportunity to acquire technical skills and knowledge which will broaden their educational background so that they may function at the highest level of
020their capabilities. I think this expansion project that we're currently working through, I think shows that here more than 50 years later, Cumberland Perry is still committed to providing the best opportunities for the students that attend our consortium school districts and that elect to come and participate in a career and technical education program. That would not be possible without the support of you board members here at Upper Adams and the the board members in our other districts. So for that I would like to thank you. None of this all of these positive things that I mentioned happen because there's positive things happening here in this district. It starts with the board goes to the administrative team, counselors, teachers, all providing good advice to students on how to best reach their their goals for the future and
021their careers. CT CTE is not for everyone, but for those students who know what they want to do and who are who have a passion for something, it is a wonderful opportunity and I think that that your district is providing great advice to your students and I I thank you for that and for your on ongoing support. Um, Mrs. Krauss asked me to mention a little bit. I'm sure that uh most of you are aware that we had a rather expensive fuel leak issue at the CTC in October of 2023. We are now coming to the end of that where where it is it is about wrapped up. We have some ongoing testing going. There's well samples are to be drawn this month in February of 26 and then in May of 26 assuming that
022we get acceptable results on all of those tests. At that point there will then be a final report submitted uh by the agency who is manning that that uh mitigation to uh DP and our case will be closed. It has been a very expensive endeavor. Um but fortunately when this happened the reserves of the school were pretty good and we have been able to navigate that without any direct billing back to the districts. Um, but we are going to have to budgetarily look at, you know, how do we rebuild those reserves over the next couple years. So, I now have something that for me is is very bittersweet that I I need to do. I want to acknowledge Mrs. Krauss for her years of service to the CTC. She has been a member of our
023joint operating committee for eight years. She has served on our personnel finance and curriculum committee during that time. And these are just a couple small gifts of appreciation from our students and from the administrative team. We would like to thank you for your service. I can tell you for me personally, I have really enjoyed working with you and I will miss you. >> Well, thank you. Thank you very much. >> This is as good as the culinary arts stuff. You know, you get to make this stuff too and this. >> Thank you, Paul. >> You're welcome. And uh I I will say as much as I have enjoyed being on the board, I really have. But making the trip to Cumberland Perry all this time was really exciting just watching everything that comes about up
024there. So good luck and thank you girls for coming tonight. >> Any questions for me? >> I had some questions. Just a couple quick ones like >> Sure. How long is the wait list right now? And with the renovation, how much do you expect to re reduce that incoming year? >> When the renovation is complete, we will add 278 seats. Half in the morning, half in the afternoon. >> And what's the weight list now? >> Uh for I I cannot give you a number for the applications that we've received for next school year. For this school year, we had over 400 students on a wait list. So there were 400 and after the renovation it'll cut to two. >> Um my other question and then I know you have to go home. Um there are
02522 programs right now. Correct. >> Yes. >> After the renovations I know there's a plan to add a few more. Do you do you have an idea another number after the renovations >> of programs? >> Yes. We we're we are planning to add three comp three new programs. We're also planning on adding a teacher and another section of welding. Plus, the the new facility will allow us to add more students into the autoc collision and precision machining programs. Currently, uh the autoc collision program has been limited to either I think either 17 or 18 students in each session simply because of the size of that lab area and that will now go to 25 once once we're in the new facility. Uh and then we are planning on adding uh protective services or EMT. I
026haven't decided on the zip code there in addition to our criminal justice program. >> Okay. Well, thank you. Thank you very much. >> You're welcome. >> Thank you for coming. >> Thanks for being here, Mr. Wolf. Appreciate it. Thank you very much. >> You're welcome. Thank you for your time and for your ongoing support. All right. No uh public comment for tonight and I don't think there's any correspondence as well. So, moving on to reports. Uh LIU board reporter, Dr. Nash. >> Yes. By dawn's early light. That's the kind of the highlights of the LIU board meeting that took place on November 11, 2025. It's attached in the agenda manager. Few items. There was a general operating budget presentation along with numerous action items. approval uh from policy and contract renewals to numerous addendums and
027partnership agreements. In addition, there have been numerous resignations as well as newly hired folks that were approved. Next meeting is January 6, 2026 at 6 p.m. January 6, 2026, new year. That's all, Mr. Wy. >> Thank you, Dr. Nashan. Moving on to federal programs, Mr. Alban. >> Yes. Good evening, everyone. If you pull up your federal programs reporter or you have looked at it, it's a special have a picture in there for you. You know, I don't always get to put pictures when I do federal programs unless, you know, a picture of a dollar sign or something like that. But, uh, this is a picture of the two boxes that are outside front of Big Mail Elementary School. You'll see they're the kind of the old newspaper uh boxes. Uh, they've been repurposed. It's the
028Take a Book, a leave a book, and Parent Resources. We uh received these last year and uh they are filled with books. You're welcome to go down and take a look at them and our reading specialists continue to keep those up to date and replenished as uh the resources are taken from the folks. So, I'm really excited about uh continuing that opportunity down there. Uh second, uh tomorrow afternoon, I'll have uh the opportunity to meet with the Hannover Area uh Adams County Consortium for non-public uh schools in our area. For those that need a refresher, we do provide federal title one support to the non-public uh schools and for us that means St. Francis Xavier uh for the most part uh each year. So and that is a federal mandate. So if we have students
029that would that would attend Bigler Elementary but attend St. Francis Xavier, we do provide services to them. So we will be meeting uh we have to meet with them those folks twice a year to make sure they're happy with their services and we also monitor them and I'll do an audit of St. Francis probably January or February to make sure their programs are uh meeting the standards set out by the federal government. And last but not least, uh on Wednesday, November 5th, we had uh our Title One parent breakfast, annual parent breakfast. We had about uh 25 parents in attendance. Mr. Kirster was there, myself are my reading specialists. Uh as well as we had an interpreter there as well for some of the parents. It very well attended, went over uh extremely uh well
030with the with the participants. We outlined a title one program. uh kind of marketed the summer uh parent program held at Seven Springs and just gave a overview of the parent policy that we have in place which is mandated by federal law. >> Thank you, Mr. Alvin. Um before we move on to Cumber Perry and Miss Krauss, uh Mr. Wolf and uh fine young ladies, if you feel free to leave, you can. You don't have to stay for the the reports or administrative reports. So, if you feel uh like you need to go and go ahead. >> Thank you all for coming. >> Thank you. Thank you for coming. >> Have a nice night. >> You too. Thank you. >> All right. Uh Miss Krauss, come on. Perry, >> I think Mr. Wolf took care
031of anything I needed to include. So, >> thank you. Uh moving on to the fund advisory. Miss Hollow. >> Um the giving spree was we hope a wild success. Um it was wonderful to have so many of our students there. Um I think that really um touched a lot of people. I believe Upper Adams and Gettysburg were the only who had ones who had students there. Um the student forum different representatives of them were present. You're going to have to help me Dr. Desong. There were first grade >> Mrs. Great FFA kids. They were >> Yeah. Yeah. We Yeah. Miss Yeah. Yep. and some soccer players >> and some soccer players. It was great. It was just it was very well attended. We won't know until the big reveal um in December um how we
032did financially, but the giving spree itself was amazing and I was really proud of our our students being there representing our district. Um at our last um foundation meeting, uh Mr. Waggle came and um spoke to us regarding the uh turf field project and we're kind of in dialogue back and forth um how best to support that um in in a way that is good for all. Um the the foundation board um is a little concerned about having the right people on the board to best support the turf field. So, the dialogue is ongoing, but I'm optimistic that it'll it'll work out and we'll be able to keep supporting that. Um, I think that's it. >> Thank you to Miss Hollow. Moving on to administrative reports. Thank you for everybody for submitting. Do we have
033any comments or questions for the administrative staff? >> I do, but Mr. You always have reports and s or comments. So since this is your last meeting, I'll be quiet until you go. >> Are you sure? You always have comments and I don't want to rain on your parade. Okay. Um Mr. Kirststetter race for education. Holy cow. Is that a record? >> It's great. >> Unbelievable. >> That's awesome. Good for you. Um Mrs. Buckley, um a couple things. I I'm sorry I was out of town for the Veterans Day programs that happen throughout the district, but kudos to everyone for for having those programs. Um the Wazoo looked so fun. >> It was a good day. Yes, it was a good day. >> Yeah, that looked so so fun. And the A lab um that
034has been coming for many years. Donations are still strong for that. That that's still being supported. >> Correct. >> Yes. Okay. and we try to send out letters every couple years to continue to um ask for donations, things from farmers and things like that. Yes, we do have >> um pretty um constant donations coming from that. >> Good. Okay. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Um Mr. Brewer, all of the fall fest I'd like further explanation on the eyeball toss. So teachers get super creative with the games that the kids play and they have um their own their own spin on a lot of the the different games. Um trying to remember what the eyeball talks was. >> That one just screamed out of me. >> I think it was a ring game where they
035had a ring in the hooks and they were they were painted as different eyeballs. But yeah, they get they do a great job and they provide a really nice day for the kids. >> Okay, great. Thank you. Um, and I think that's all I had. >> Mrs. Haw pretty well hit everything I was going to say. >> See, I told you to go first. >> It's all good. >> I told you to go first. >> Thank you, administrators, for >> your support and uh, thanks for all the times I did put you on the spot. >> Any other? My report is not attached, but I do have a couple of things that I would like to share. Um, on Wednesday, November 6th, we inducted 28 students into the National Honor Society during um, a ceremony
036celebrating their achievements in scholarship, service, leadership, and character. And we'd like to thank Dr. Dash, who served as the guest speaker for an inspiring speech. Um, I would also like to congratulate the band um who placed second in their division in the Calvocative Advance competition and their show. Dreamwalk also won an award for the high visual and guard. So, congratulations to them for a very successful season. And I'd also like to thank our social studies department for hosting our Veterans Day program. Um, we invited veterans from the community to come in and participate in that celebration. And we also, um, Brett Hayes, our school resource officer, spoke to the students and that was very well received. >> Thank you. >> All right. Any other comments, questions? Right. Thank you, administrators. Moving on. Superintendent's report. Dr.
037Deshawn. >> Thanks, Mr. Wild. Good evening, everybody. Before I get started, I'd like to the part of mine before I start talking, I like to introduce uh Mrs. Peter and Jesus Sanchez Martinez. They're going to talk about the Spanish program. Every time I'm out and about and I visit Miss Peter, and I know Mrs. Graham talked a little bit about it, but every time I walk by and check in and say hello, all she has to do is tell me all the great things going on. And I said, "Hey, I'm going to have you come and have the you tell the board about all the great things you're doing and what's going on. I know I know Jesus is uh you're going to talk a little about the translating stuff over, but go ahead uh
038Miss Peter and and Hey Zeus. >> Good evening everybody. I'd like to thank Dr. Dash for having me here. Um I was here six years ago u asking for your assistance in establishing the heritage program. I don't know those of you who were here. I don't know if you remember me. For those of you who um are didn't know me, uh my name is Gina Peter and I have the privilege of teaching our heritage Spanish classes at Biglerville High School. This is my sixth year working with the heritage Spanish speakers. Um, heritage Spanish speakers are students who have grown up hearing the language at home and now they're developing their literacy, academic, and professional language language skills at school. Our heritage program was created to meet a very real need. Many bilingual students come to
039us with oral skills, speaking skills, uh, skills, but have never had the opportunity to develop the reading, writing or formal communication skills in their home. The classes allow students to remain to to reclaim and refine their Spanish, to see it not just as something spoken at home, but as a powerful academic and professional asset. In our classroom, we focus on literacy development, cultural identity, and bilingual confidence. In many ways, it mirrors the English language arts uh program at Biglerville, but it's completely in Spanish. We read literature, we write essays, analyze texts, and strengthen grammar and vocabulary. This approach not only builds academic Spanish Spanish skills but it also reinforces the same literacy skills that they need in English helping them to become stronger communicants in both languages. Our program has proudly awarded the global seal
040of biiteracy and the Pennsylvania seal of biiteracy to our students and as well as the interpreter and translation certification. The Pennsylvania Seal of Biiteracy is the state's own recognition that honors students who demonstrate high levels of proficiency in English and another language. Earning the seal is not easy. It requires advanced performance in reading, writing, listening, and speaking. Pennsylvania started awarding the awarding the Pennsylvania Seal in 2023. We were the first school in the district to be able to apply for it and was granted. So, and um we started in 2023. As of 2023, we're in 2025, we have given out no 18 our students have been awarded and earned 18 seals. In uh 2024, we began to offer the global seal of biiteracy. The global seal of biiteracy is an internationally recognized credential that certifies
041language proficiency in two or more languages. It allows students to show employers and universities that they are bilingual at a functional and or working level. Our students since 2024 have earned 36 global seals. This year we've already had students take the global seal the global test which is the actual test and two of the the students scored so high they went straight to advanced one which is the highest you can get that this automatically um qualifies them for the Pennsylvania seal of biiteracy and the global seal of biiteracy at the working level which is the highest they can attain at at a student level. This year we've also had students take um sorry in October I took four students who's one of them to the LIU12 workshop which is for adults but they were the
042only students in this room and this was to certify students to become translators and interpreters in an educational setting. All four of the students passed their oral and written exams and have received certification from the LIU. This means that they now have the opportunity to be hired by the LIU to translate and interpret in the tri community area schools. That's an incredible realworld outcome of classroom learning. Since 2020, we have also offered AP Spanish language and culture That was my first year here. Every year since then, our students have earned threes, fours, and fives. And each of those levels can the schools can guarant 6 9 12. I had a student who earned 15 credits, college credits because of her five in her AP exam. This this demonstrates that Heritage learners can achieve the highest
043academic levels when given the right support and opportunities. What makes this work so meaningful to me is watching my students grow in their bilingual identities and using Spanish not only to connect with family and culture, but also to open doors to college, career, and civic participation. They begin to see their bilingualism as a superpower, something to celebrate, not hide. And every seal earned, every AP score and every interpreter certification tells the story of pride, perseverance, and potential. In closing, in six years, I have seen the Herit Heritage Education program transform lives. Our students graduate not only bilingual but bi literate, culturally confident and career ready. This program does not just teach a language. It builds bridges between home and school, between culture and opportunity. I want to thank you for taking for supporting the heritage
044program, for giving me an opportunity six years ago when I came to you and asked you for an opportunity to do this and for supporting our heritage learners and celebrating the power of bilingualism at Baylorville High School. I have brought and I'm sorry I didn't make enough copies for everybody. We can pass it around. This is a list of all the global seals. These are the p faces of all the students. This is the seal of biiteracy recipients. And this is a certific these are copies of the certifications received by the students who passed their training interpreting and translating. I would like to introduce Jesus Sanchez Martinez. He has been with me since 9th grade. He has been awarded and is the recipient of the global seal at the working level. the PA seal of
045biiteracy, scored a five on the AP exam, and has his certification now from the LIU. >> Wow. >> Good evening. My name is Jesus Sanchez Martinez and I'm a senior at Puro High School. As Petra told us, um I started the Spanish program back in freshman year. Um I started at the second year thinking I was able to you know get early access to all my seals by 10th grade but I was totally wrong because um these two years of the Spanish heritage program they have taught I've come from a Spanish speaking household so I was I was I believe that was profession I was at a professional level but these two years have taught me cultural lessons of my aspects of where I come from more professional writing and grammar, reading and critical thinking
046which are used in um the AP exam. It's rigorous. It's rigorous writing, rigorous reading like it's time and it prepares you that these three years they prepare you for that and as I go on um I'm thankful to be um sealed globally and sealed nationally and it's a huge accomplishment for me as well. I got a five thanks to the hard work of these three years. It was hectic. It was It was It really was. Um I thought I was not going to get a five. I thought I was going to get the three at max, but thankfully I got a five. And this program has also taught me how to become more um how could I say this more confident with my bilingual um skills. And thankfully this year I got the opportunity for
047the Spanish program to go to the certification. also had another rigorous um test really really on point, really straightforward and I passed it with my other um students of my other members of the Spanish program as well. And thankfully this heritage program has opened me so much opportunities with school-wise opening becoming leaders of like the Latin X club which offer like helps other Latin X communities and Hispanic communities know these Spanish programs and to like get in these programs to help them learn their college run and also open my own um establish my own club at the school to help other students know where their heritage is from. So, um, I'm thankful that I'm able to receive these opportunities through the Spanish program. Thank you. >> Thank you. Does anybody have any questions? >> Um,
048I would just say, Jesus, you have a superpower. Um, you summed it up in those two words, superpower. In our business, when we have someone even close to you, they quickly climb the ladder. They're our go-to if we have questions or concerns because they can communicate in both languages. Hats off to you. Thank you for what you did and to Mrs. Patrick for all you have done in supporting these students. Remember, you have a superpower. >> You should. >> This is Maria chiming in. I would just like to thank you for the hard work and dedication and thank you for coming forward six years ago with this suggestion to start the heritage program of Spanish. I applaud your work and if there's anything that we can do as a board to support biiteracy and bilingualism,
049please don't hesitate to reach out and let us know what we can do to uh further support your wonderful work. >> Thank you. I do want to make one clarification. It was not my idea. It was all Mrs. Graham's idea. She's the one who came to me and suggested we have a heritage program. She was the visionary and has supported me every single step of the way. She allowed me to spread my wings and trusted me that I knew what I was doing. But really the person started all of this was Mrs. Graham. It was her was her idea. >> I thank you very very much for uh the opportunity to learn more about this program. It's a very exciting program. I took note that um there were aspects of the program that went beyond
050the bilingual uh uh opportunities uh in specific uh I think you mentioned culture which I thought was very exciting and uh I believe you mentioned critical thinking which is very uh important. So I appreciate the fact that it there's an expansion for the students uh to take advantage of those kinds of opportunities. Yeah, the global test that they take is from the ACT bowl. It's four hours long. It tests literacy, oral skills, writing skills, and auditory skills. The AP exam you it's it's the the name kind of mis misleads you to what it really is, right? is not about can you speak Spanish, can you there are six themes that the students have to know about which basically encompass all of life. Architecture, finance, politics, religion, infrastructure, arts, school structure, family life, linguistics, so many.
051And you have to be able to speak about those themes uh through the tasks presented to you. And the tasks include reading literature, reading um different texts and listening to audios and understanding. That's just one half of it. The other half is writing a professional email that you have no idea what they're going to write to you about. It can be on any of those themes and it has to be written in formal register. uh and you have to be able to be able to understand what they wrote and respond in a very formal professional manner. Then there is the dialogue which could be about natural medicine to pharmaceutical to anything in any part of Latin America and it has to be you have 20 seconds to respond to whatever they they tell you. And
052then there's a cultural comparison which you have to compare your community to a community in Latin America. And it could be on any of those themes. You have no idea what it's going to be. So these kids are preparing like to know about. So it's like history, AP hug, AP literature all together into one aspect. You have four minutes. Four minutes to write your presentation and two minutes to to to say it. And then of course is the uh argumentative essay. You are given three sources. You have to take a position on a a topic and you have 50 minutes to write your essay and it has to be done according to the rules the rubrics and it has to be they look for varied grammar, varied language. You can't use the same word twice.
053Um your adjectives have to be varied and advanced. Um, and so it is when I say that he got a five, it's it's it's amazing. And if you come into my room tomorrow, I have a wall of all the kids that have five. It's not as many because it is extremely difficult to get a five. >> Mrs. Grim, we got to make sure we hit this room tomorrow on the board visits. >> Um, so it's it's really it's been an honor for me to have students um who have taken opportunity to do this. When we started out, there weren't that it wasn't a big program, but with Mrs. Graham's um guidance and her support, >> I think I have something like 30 freshmen this year and that's just going to grow more because they want
054the SEALs, they want the B literacy because it helps them not only our motto is career and college ready and this does both. >> Miss Precious, thanks for bringing the W >> to UASD. Thank you. Hey Zeus, you you already have a resume. You I mean just hire this man. >> Thank you guys very much. We really appreciate you guys. Thank you so much. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> So you'll hear me echo a few things. I'll just continue here. Good evening again. I had the opportunity to meet with our faculty and staff on separate days over breakfast and lunch at each building since our last board meeting. Uh we talked about glows grows wonders and wows and just got to know each other a little bit a little bit uh and how we
055can continue to move the district forward. Uh we appreciate Mr. Costic and Chartwells for catering uh these meals for us and the teachers and and the faculty and staff. Uh we had the opportunity as Mrs. uh Halibal just shared uh for 20 about 20 students from USD to attend the giving spree on November 6th. Mr. Brew and I were able to take junior senior high students who are part of our student leadership forum. Mrs. Miller and Mr. Eie attended with two Boag students. Mrs. Pel was present with some elementary students and we also had Mrs. Nelson join with a few of our soccer team members. So, it's a wonderful and inspiring educational experience for our students to see and understand a little more about the over 100 nonprofits, organizations that were represented in Adams County
056and the work they do to support people, pets, education, the environment, the arts, and the history in our area. And speaking of the giving spree, we do not want to we do want to give a big shout out to the Canor Foundation who had their own table at the giving spree and we thank them for their continued support at Upper Adams. That same evening, as Mrs. Graham shared, I had the opportunity uh to uh speak uh to 28 newly inducted National Honor Society students. The NHS the NHS four pillars are scholarship, leadership, service, and character. I was able to connect the giving spree to service and how giving and volunteerism was a part of this pillar and I challenge everyone to live out each pillar through their words and actions each day. So congratulations to
057the newly inducted members. Continuing on with service, I had a meeting with Mrs. Jane Little who heads up the Upper Adams Lion Club and she talked to me about the way that the Lions Club helped support our learners within the district. So, I want to give a big thanks uh to the Upper Adams Lion Club for your service and your support. Furthering the service theme, as was mentioned, Veterans Day celebrations took place at each of our buildings on November 11th. And we appreciate everyone who put the time and energy into organizing these special events uh and uh who where we honored our veterans. And kudos also to Mr. Brent Hayes, an Army veteran who spoke to our high school students about this special day and the importance of service of our service men and women.
058Thanks to everyone who wore the uniform and for your service. Mrs. Buckley, Mr. Mr. Mummer, Mr. Alman, and I were able to attend the outstanding teacher recognition lunchon at Shippensburg University on November 12th where teachers from around the area uh extend our extended area celebrated. Congratulations to Mr. Heiser, Mrs. Tersog from our district for being selected for this special honor. We are also in the process of putting an AI team together who will begin meeting in the new year to represent our various elementary, middle, and high school levels and discussing ideas moving forward in learning, understanding, and using artificial intelligence as a as a support and learning tool for teachers and students. Mr. Garza, Mr. Auburn and I also participated in a Sax and a stump legal seminar this morning on artificial intelligence uh surrounding
059AI policy. And to close my service theme report, while I've only known Sue, Jerry, and Jim for a short time, I greatly appreciate their service to the district. I met them and all the board members late last winter, early spring, uh in this very room, and I believe I was sitting right here. Mr. Wagle wasn't here. He was down here somewhere, but I was just sitting right here. I think Mrs. Plank was right here. I do remember that when everybody was around the table here um where they peppered me with a plethora of questions on uh several different occasion or on a couple different occasions that eventually led to my appointment. Thank you for your confidence in me, but more so thank you for your your for your volunteerism, your service, heart, and care for
060supporting students, teachers, administrators in the community, and moving the district forward in such a positive direction during your tenure. Sue, thank you for bringing your educational background and expertise to the table in decisions made, as well as the time and energy that you committed to policy. Thank you for your reflective and thoughtful nature in advocating for the district. You have undoubtedly made a tremendous positive difference at UASD. Jerry, thank you for all your work on the finance committee. Your background in this area and insight has provided sound guidance on the district budget. When I met with Mr. Walmer in one of our one-on-one meetings shortly after I started, I realized what a thoughtful and reflective person he was. And I also thought this guy got to be cool to hang out with outside of school.
061Quite honestly, I also want to tell you, >> I truly appreciate uh also um our bleacher talks at the football games. You have undoubtedly made a tremendous positive difference at Upper Adam School District. And Mr. Lady Jim, thank you for always being such a gentleman. That's the first thing I think of you. uh just a gentleman and your consistent and calm demeanor in all of your work on the business and operations committee and overall work as a board member. And I got to add this after seeing you run last month's board meeting. This guy's a smooth operator, Mr. Wagle. I mean, I'm serious. You got to agree. >> You have undoubtedly made a tremendous positive difference at UASD. Thank you all for your service and dedic dedication to the district. And last but not least,
062we're looking forward to our building tours with board members who are able to be here tomorrow. I think we have three maybe four uh that will be attending. And we're changing our start place. We're going to start actually here uh because Mrs. Graham wants we're going to start down here. So we won't start in the be the um opening at the high school entrance. We'll start back here. Okay. So thank you everybody. Thanks Mr. W. >> All right. Thank you, uh, Dr. Desawn. Um, moving on to, uh, treasures report. Mr. Walber. >> Uh, thank you. I'd like to make a motion to approve the following reports. The financial report, the condensed board summary report, the food service fund statement, and of operations, and the student activity report. All ending 103125. >> Second. Right. Roll call.
063Any comments, questions? Comments, questions? Roll call, please. >> Mrs. Krauss, >> yes. >> Mr. Jal, >> yes. >> Mrs. Hollow, >> yes. >> Mr. Lady, >> hi. >> Mr. Lustik, >> yes. >> Mrs. Plank, >> yes. >> Mr. Walmer, >> yes. >> Miss Young, >> yes. >> Mr. Widel, >> yes. >> Thank you. All right. Thank you, uh, Mr. Walmer. >> Yeah, that's all I had. >> All right. Moving on to the consent agenda items. Is there anything that we would like to pull out before we vote for the consent agenda? All right. Do we have a motion to approve? >> So moved. >> Second. >> All right. Uh, all in favor say I. >> I. All >> oppose. >> All right. Uh, moving on to committee reports. Uh, again, Mr. Walmer, finance. >> Okay.
064Thank you again, Mr. Wigle. We have a just a short list tonight. We start out with donations. $50 donation from Carol Lobal in memory of Mary Couns. This is to go towards student lunch debt. Also, $100 from the National Apple Harvest Festival in memory of Mary Couns. this also to go to school to the student lunch debt and $50 from Halabolf brothers in memory of Mary Coons again to go towards student lunch debt. Uh I'll switch up the list here a little save the best for last. That's Shel's report. Uh so we'll move that to the end. But the next item is the agreement with Central Pen Education Associate Associates. It's on uh it's an as needed. It's going to be used on an as needed basis and this is for psychoeducational evaluation uh services.
065I'll I'll go through I'll make a a motion to approve these two items then we'll go to Shelly. The next item is the 20 fiscal year 27 budget resolution not to exceed the index of 4.9% and the document is attached in your agenda there. So means taxes cannot be increased more than 4.9%. So that's my motion for those those items. >> Second. >> All right. Any comments? Any questions on these items? >> All right. Can we have a roll call, please? >> Mr. Lady, >> I. >> Miss John? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Krauss? >> Yes. >> Mr. Wmer? >> Yes. >> Miss Jalal? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Hollowal? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Plank. >> Yes. >> Mr. Lustic. >> Yes. >> Mr. Wel. >> Yes. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Mrs. Hobs, it's on you
066now for budget update. >> So, I'm happy to report that we now have a state budget as of last Wednesday evening. Um, so a lot of this information is unpacking as we go through the next couple weeks. Um, but I do have some highlighted information I'm just going to share with you. So overall there was a over $und00 million for basic education. Our portion that was not budgeted was just a little bit over $100,000 that we will be receiving. So that's in addition to what was in the state revenue line for special education. $40 million was added to special education. Our portion is about 27,000. So right there we have about 127 130 when you look at the actual number. So that will be additional into the state budget line um of our current budget.
067Also some other items that were included in the budget um was the additional for $und00 million for safety and security or school safety and mental health grants known as like the PCCD grants. So that is something that was not budgeted but that will come along with some guidelines of how we need to spend those money. those funds, we will get at least a $100,000 plus additional depending on our student population. That information has not been released yet. It will be released within the next 45 days or so that we have to complete that information. The other big ticket item that it was added to the budget was the ready tolearn money and we already budgeted for that. We budgeted $841,000 already in the state line item, but we are getting an additional $841,000. Those are
068tied to specific guideline items that we have to spend it in certain areas. So once we get the true application and Mr. Alvin and Dr. Deshawn and I sit down, we'll be able to show how that's going to flush out. What we try to do is look to see if there's any current expenditures that we already have in our budget that can offset and then we look at some, you know, are there any renewals that we can renew this year that we would technically do next year since we have those funds now. So that will all be in the planning phases moving forward. So all good news. Mhm. >> Um, so overall when you look at the total pot of money that the district is receiving, it's about a million, just shy of a million
069dollar increase. Once again, you can't look at that variance, which was about $2 million and say, "Oh, a million dollars coming off." Remember that $841,000 has to be spent in a specific way. So, you can't look at it apples to apples. There's also some cyber charter reform that came through. There's going to be some um we complete a form of what we pay different charter schools and I know Mr. Ley highlights a lot of that of and that amount is set for the charter schools based upon a form we complete. That form is changing for the cyber schools those that are strictly online. So our tuition for those schools will probably be decreased than what we pay the charter schools which are brick and mortars. I don't know what that figure is yet. they haven't
070released that form. However, with the cyber charter, there's also some other information tied to the budget, meaning that the cyber charters have to prove their residency to the districts at least twice a year, November 1st and March 1st. So that way if students move, sometimes they don't tell the the cyber or charter schools and then the home district at that time is still paying for that student. So that is a good check and balance for um the cyber charters along with the districts. There are some other tiding lines tied with that as well. Also the cyber charters have to do some wellness checks meaning that they have to physically the cyber schools have to physically see the students online like once a week. Once again this is just some of the highlighted information. And there's
071also an attendance policy with cyber and charter schools. Um, >> did one not exist in the in the past? Is this a new policy? >> Do you know? >> It's probably not a new policy, but now it's tied to the law. So, I think they have to and it's actually more stringent. So, basically, we see a lot of the students that may leave UASD to go to a cyber school because of our attendance policies. Well, our attendance policies are now going to be the same basically as these cyber schools. So there's more of an accountability >> um which I think is going to be very much needed in my opinion. Also if there's a habit or a issue with the intruent and things like that it has to go to before a judge before a
072student can be transferred. So once again what does that look like? We don't know at this point. This is all fresh off the plates as of last week. Um, also flipping on the teacher certification, it's actually better for the teachers certification starting in July of 2028. Their certifications for they'll be known as primary. So it'll be like pre kindergarten through 6th grade and then secondary will go 7th through 12th. And now it's a little bit different. I think there was an elementary and intermediate school certification and then middle school. And so it's combining those. So it's going to be better in the end. >> Yes, that might that will very well probably help with teachers not to jump through all these hoops with those intermediate. So we we may see an increase. I know I
073know that we're pretty pleased. I think most administrators are pleased with that returning back to that certification. >> Some additional items, school safety. There's some additional reporting requirements regarding the school safety piece. Um that will include that year-end safety report that is given by our security coordinator. Also a piece regarding structured literacy um meaning that has to be evidence-based which we already do using our wonders program. So we are good there. Some next steps um PTE has started to distribute some funds. We are getting some funds this week and next week, but now they're saying it could take up to six weeks till we receive all the back funds. Once again, that's doesn't include any of the interest that we've missed since July. Um, the ready to learn application should be forthcoming along with the
074PCCD applications and we had to recalculate that cyber charter for like I was mentioning. So, that takes care of what we just settled with the 2526 budget. And they're already talking about the 2627 budget, um, which we are already working on as well, but the governor's address is scheduled for February 3rd of 2026. So, any questions that I can might be able to answer? >> Well, now that we know the budget's passed, I know there were some things that we weren't paying. Yes. >> Are we still going to wait until we've received all of the funds we were expecting or are we >> We're going to start seeing those. So, they are not included with the bills that you see this evening. >> I did. Yes, I didn't see them. That's why I asked. >>
075So, they will show up um with the reports that we do between December and January. >> All right. Thank you, Mrs. Hobs. Uh, this school district is in excellent fiscal shape and I hope it stays that way going forward. There hasn't been a tax increase in four years and I hope that that's projected forward for the next four years and great work with what you do. Shel's on top of all this. Um, so happy to report that. Thank you. And >> that's all I had unless you want me to take you take the group to Mr. Lustig from personnel. >> Sure. Yes, I hand it off to you. I need to sign it off, Mr. Walmer. That's it. >> Yes, >> it's a mic job for you. >> Thank you, Mr. Walmer, and thank you,
076Mr. President. Uh, as we turn our attention to personnel 14.2, you can follow along on your computer. Notice under 2A, uh, by the way, recommend approval of the following. 2A, uncompensated child rearing leave for Lydia Wansel Learning Support, Upper Adams Intermediate School. effective honor around 47206 through the end of the 2025 2026 school year. Uh there under 3A, you'll notice in your attachment uh uh and recommend approval of the revisions to the support employee handbook. And you can um see that in this in um in the attachment. As we turn our attention down to uh five uh supplemental contracts, uh there are three people listed here, although I see that one is a volunteer. And so uh I just like to uh take note of that. I always appreciate seeing uh volunteers coming forward. And
077um here we see Olivia Dexter House uh helping with our girls varsity basketball, which I'm very uh pleased about. But you also do see two other people listed uh as it related relates to um our sports programs. Moving down uh to 6 uh B, uh recommend approval of the following Kelly Education listings. Uh we have uh teacher substitutes, two listed there, Caitlyn Williams and Heidi Ormer. And then as we move down to six C, uh there are six uh changes there relating to RMR individuals and um take note of of that if you would please. And that concludes my report. >> Second. >> You have a second. All right. Any comments? Any questions uh regarding personnel? >> All right. Do we have any roll call, please? >> Mr. Wmer? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Krauss? >>
078Yes. >> Miss Jal? >> Yes. >> Mr. Lady? >> Hi. >> Mrs. Hollow. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Plank. >> Yes. >> Mr. Lustik. >> Yes. >> Miss Cover. >> Yes. >> Mr. Wiggle. >> Yes. >> Thank you. All right. Thank you, uh, Mr. Rustic. Uh, nothing under property. Moving on to transportation, Mr. Lady. Uh, >> yes. Um, have a few drivers as listed here. Your agenda manager, uh, couple new drivers for Jacobe and a couple new drivers for Rolling Hill. Recommend approval. >> Second. >> Any comments, questions? Um, all in favor say I. >> I. I. >> All oppose. >> I oppose. Nobody. All right. Moving on. Thank you, Mr. Lady. Um curriculum and extracurricular. Uh Miss Holl for quick. >> Uh you will recall that at our committee meetings um Mr. Jaw presented um
079a um a recommendation or a proposal to look at dual immersion for our district. and we tossed it around and Dr. Dashang offered to uh glean a little bit of information for us um from um the Avon. Is that how you say it? Avon. >> Aan. Aan. Um anyway, I'm going to toss it to Dr. Dashan just to go over his uh slides here that he has provided for us. >> Thank you, Sarah. Yeah, you guys all saw the presentation. I don't know if any it was requested to just present some information regarding Avon Gross process Avenross process and uh kind of what they went through a little bit and I spoke again with uh Dr. Dong uh de capital S ho NG uh uh Dr. McKazy, who is not the LIU director, former superintendent,
080and then also their current uh curriculum director. I mentioned they they were named there on on the sl one of the slides. I don't know if any of you have any questions pertaining any of their processes. They're not actually through it yet. They're they're only into third grade. So, they they started it took them about five years to get up and running. Now, that was during CO, but Dr. Marches said you would probably need at least three. Um, and uh, you know, where they're at right now, they're in third grade. Um, and they also didn't have to, I think I shared with you all regarding personnel, they had a lot of bilingual folks already in house, so they were able to maneuver and strategically put people in place uh, that they already had um, without
081having to hire bilingual folks. So, um, yeah, they're just they're just in third grade right now, so they're they're really still working through the process. I don't know if anybody had any questions or um that I could answer, you know, pertaining to the the slides I shared and my conversations uh that I had with the three folks from Avenue Grove. >> I mean, it sounds like quite an undertaking. And again, as you said, they're not even completely through it yet. >> They're not. I think my takeaway from the slides were that they had existing staff in place who were already bilingual, >> which we don't have. >> Correct. >> Well, one of the other things that I was going to say is, you know, while I appreciate that, you know, Maria brought it up and
082that you did did this work in in my opinion, I I can certainly see that there may be benefit to it, but and again, this is just my opinion. I feel like it's a nice to have. So, if we were in a position where we had maybe unlimited resources, I think that this would be something that maybe we look at. And I'm not saying that it should be off the table indefinitely. I just I'm not of the opinion that it's something that we can devote to now. I mean, I would like to see us use our resources to maybe improve our test scores, our achievement, things like that. You mentioned STEM, um, STEAM, things like that. Um, that's just my opinion. I I feel like it's it would be a huge undertaking and it seems
083like it would be an investment of of resources that I don't feel like we have currently. >> I really appreciated hearing from uh the uh Spanish bilingual uh program, the uh instructor and the student. I thought that was very very interesting and uh you know exciting information to to receive. Uh, I've always been uh curious about how uh being bilingual might have uh resulted for me personally when I graduated from college. I really wanted to work for the uh in conservation for the federal government and uh I remember filling out lots of forms. Uh and there there was a section there about tell us about your bilingual um skills and I think I checked off modest or something like that. But if if I had have been uh truly bilingual, it may have resulted in
084um me having an opportunity to work for the Forest Service or the Fish and Wildlife Service. So, I I've never forgotten that. And uh I'm I understand the concerns that I hear at the table, but I'm also really excited about the possibilities that may occur in the future to encourage uh that opportunity for our students. Thank you. >> I have to agree with Trish. Um the the money scares me. you know, we we haven't had a tax increase for four years, but you know, if we look at how many teachers we would have to add from K to six and find classroom space for them and resources, um we we don't really have a number on that. Another thing that concerns me and and I'll direct this first question to Mr. Brewer and uh Mr.
085Um, first are your students homogeneously or heterogeneously grouped in your classrooms. >> Or they're heterogeneous. >> They're heterogeneous. Okay. Heterogeneous. So, you know, the other thing that I saw in this, it said that for six years, you if we had one class per year, those students would be together from kindergarten to sixth grade, which, you know, it it's good for the Spanish part, but it goes against everything else that, you know, is going on in our school. And um you know it would be difficult if if they were students were committed to that bilingual class and and they weren't getting along with other people. I mean it's it's going to take some more creativity. But I I don't think I would be happy having the same kids for six or seven years myself. So I
086I think it's a wonderful idea listening to the presentation tonight. I I agree with Trish that we might put it on the burner, but I don't think today is the time to to move forward with it. >> I appreciate what um Mrs. Krauss just said. Uh and I do I do agree with that. Um, I uh am excited about the possibility of of considering that in the future, but uh now is probably not the right time as it relates to the various uh financial issues as well as um other kinds of things that we've uh discussed. >> Anyone else? I think from the heritage presentation, I think we're doing a pretty good job as a school >> giving those opportunities to those students who who want that and need that. So, I I would agree.
087I don't think now is the right time to to move forward. >> I I have to wonder too, not sure. I think I read somewhere we have 23 students that are in a Spanish immersion and I have to wonder what the tuition is we're paying there as opposed to doing a startup from K to six. You know, it would be interesting when this if this comes back to the table to have some numbers like that. Anyone else have anything they want to say? Um >> well I would just like to thank the I would like to thank Dr. Desawn for really looking into it and you know what whatever it truly is a huge undertaking and the benefits for literacy and it's not just being bilingual which is really really important but supporting uh you
088know onethird of our district who comes from Spanish-sp speakaking families that it seems kind of counterintuitive But when your literacy skills are strong in your home language, then those skills transfer over to learning English and then those academic achievement levels just go up when your literacy level is strong in your home language. So that was really the impetus for me bringing this forward. It really is a huge undertaking and I'm a homeowner too in in this district and I wouldn't want to see the taxes go up. However, I would like to continue the conversation on how we can maybe with smaller initiatives and building up and hear from the community, hear from the parents, hear from the families um you know what their thoughts about that and how we can support literacy in um in
089Spanish and in the home language at a younger level. There are different kinds of initiatives that might be available. And my purpose for bringing this forward just is just to open up awareness of that literacy connection with the home language and to explore all the opportunities that might be out there uh to support all of the students in our district. Thank you. >> Uh thank you, Mrs. Dh. We've had some um very uh cordial emails back and forth. I appreciate very much you're bringing this forward. I appreciate your understanding. I appreciate your communication back and forth. It's sounding like around the table at least for now. Um we're not interested in embarking on this. So unless someone has anything else they would like to bring forward, I'm going to recommend approval to discontinue pursuing andor
090investigating the dual immersion program. >> Second. >> All right. Any further comments, questions? All right. Roll call, please. >> Wait, could you just please read the motion to me again? So the recommendation is to not continue to discontinue pursuing the investigation >> going to discontin >> discontinue the investigation based on Dr. Dong's >> information presentation. So we are not going to move forward. >> There's a story but yes we're recommending approval >> to discontin. >> Can I have a I have a question though. if someone has more information because I know that once the board votes then you know you can't just keep on bringing it up and bringing it up but because it is such an important topic just literacy in general and supporting all of our students uh would it be possible would
091it still be allowable to you know add information or report on information moving forward um I don't know that I'm the right person to just say yes or no. I feel like it would need to come from our administrators or our faculty. If our if people are asking for this, if parents are asking for it, um I I am Am I right, Mr. Wel? Is that the right approach that >> I I believe it would it would need to come up in a curriculum committee meeting again if there was more information, but I don't know. the curriculum committee would then decide if it would come to a board to a board >> I guess but I just feel like there needs to be um some impetus from the administrators or faculty like hey people are
092really asking for this so that we don't just keep going over and over this I don't know I don't know if that's >> I think I would I think I would agree >> yeah well I just want to chime in and just share I mean and Mr. Oh, yeah. I really appreciate that. Certainly, it's something that, you know, we we always want to continue conversations about what's going to make our learners, you know, uh, grow stronger and critical thinkers and all that, but I guess just at least formally right now, we're not going to we just need to know we're not going to continue to pursue it right now to continue to investigate or set up school visits and go, you know, do that kind of thing or begin to try to, you know, fill
093curricular materials or anything like that. So I I I think that's kind of where we want to stop at this point right now. But, you know, certainly, you know, having conversations about how we can make our kids better in all kind of different areas moving forward. We certainly want to, you know, have those conversations. So, >> as I sit here and contemplate this a little bit more, it makes me think of Mrs. Graham and how Mrs. Petra said it came from you. Well, that idea must have come from somewhere, the biiteracy. So I I guess it's that reason that I feel it needs to come from our administrators or our faculty that you know this is something that's out there. Could we perhaps pursue this which is exactly what happened six years ago. So I
094guess you know to reiterate I just don't think we should just keep beating this. That's >> my opinion. I found it to be a very interesting and somewhat exciting um uh proposal and uh so uh I've been thinking about a lot about that. But what we heard tonight from the existing program really um is exciting also. And so, you know, perhaps we can keep this kind of information uh uh you know, uh in the back of our mind and see where we go in the future. And and now we know that these programs do exist and uh perhaps in at some point in the future um there will be opportunities for us to consider this again at the right time. >> Mr. Lus, I agree. M Jesus was impressive and he's just one of the
095of the many that are doing these things at this level. So, I mean that that's pretty neat. That is pretty neat to see. >> Correct. >> Sounds like we could have some bilingual teachers right >> right away. >> Four years, right? >> Yeah. >> All right. Uh do we have roll call please? So we are voting to not move forward. >> To discontin my >> to discontin to not move forward. >> All right. Roll call, please. >> Miss Cover. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Krauss. >> Yes. >> Mr. Wmer. >> Yes. >> Miss Jalal. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Plank. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Hollow. >> Yes. >> Mr. Lustik. Yes, >> Mr. Lady. >> Hi, >> Mr. Wiggle. >> Yes. >> Thank you. >> All right. Thank you, Miss Halo. >> Right. Good. >> Welcome. >>
096All right. Thank you. Uh, nothing under athletics uh or I don't think there's anything under student activities. Uh, so moving on to policy committee, Miss Krauss. >> Okay. Thank you. Um, tonight we have policies under both first read and second read. Um first I'll start with the recommend approval of the following first read policies number 218.2 2, Terroristic Threats. Number 805, Emergency Preparedness and Response. 805.1, Relationships with Law Enforcement Agencies. 904, Public Attendance at School Events, and 909, Municipal Government Relations. Second, second. We have a second. Sorry. He's already He's already on to the Okay, >> he's done. >> He's checked out. Um, all right. Any comments, questions? First read. >> All right. Roll call, please. >> Mr. Leic, >> yes. >> Mrs. Krauss, >> yes. >> Miss Young, >> yes. >> Mrs. Hollow, >>
097yes. >> Miss Jalal, >> yes. >> Mr. Walmer, >> yes. >> Mr. Lady, >> hi. >> Mrs. Plank, >> yes. >> Mr. Wy, >> yes. >> Thank you. >> Okay. And finally recommend approval of the following second read policies. 109 classroom resource material 626 federal fiscal compliance 626.1 travel reimbursement for federal programs and 827 conflict of interest. >> Second. >> Any comments on questions? >> All right. Roll call, please. Miss Jal, >> yes. >> Mrs. Plank, >> yes. >> Miss Youngr, >> yes. >> Mrs. Krauss, >> yes. >> Mrs. Hollow, >> yes. >> Mr. Lady, >> hi. >> Mr. Lustik, >> yes. >> Mr. Warmer, >> yes. >> Mr. Wel, >> yes. >> Miss Grass, are you signing off also? >> Oh, I'm sorry. Yes, I am. >> Okay. >> I was just so relieved
098those policies went through. >> That was all I wanted to do was get through those policies. >> But I will say thank you to everybody to get those policies over the last year. All the hard work from everybody from the committees to the administration. So >> I think there was a lot of consensus and a lot of um I guess giving on each side and I appreciate that. Thank you very much. Nothing under miscellaneous. Moving on to payment of bills. Do we have a recommendation for payment of bills? >> Make a motion to approve all the bills. >> Second. >> Any comments, questions on the payments. >> All right. Roll call, please. >> Mr. Lady, >> I. >> Mr. Leic? >> Yes. >> Mr. Wmer? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Krauss? >> Yes. Miss Jalal, >>
099yes. >> Mrs. Hollow, >> yes. >> Mrs. Plank, >> yes. >> Miss Young, >> yes. >> Mr. Wel, >> yes. >> Thank you. >> All right. Nothing under old business. Under new business. Um, I would just like to take a few moments to say uh thank you to the three board members who um will be leaving after tonight. Uh thank you to Miss Krauss for the last eight years, I believe. >> Yes. Yes. All your hard work on uh on policy and then Cumberland and Perry. Um I know you've enjoyed the meals up there. It sounds like >> I do. I just enjoyed the company too. >> We we appreciate your guidance and wisdom and you will be surely missed. It's a sad sad evening. So but enjoy the time with your family and your
100grandchild. It's will be exciting. >> Um Mr. lady, thank you for your service uh for your time uh as uh as past president. Um and like Dr. Dashang has said, for your guidance and wisdom. Um enjoy your evening's free. >> Um maybe I'll have a few last text messages or phone calls, but thank you for your service and your guidance. Um Mr. Walmer, uh thank you. Um I guess congratulations to the three of you for being done, but Mr. Walmer, thank you for your guidance. Uh we are in great financial shape um due to your work uh with with Shelly and your guidance. Um no tax increase is awesome. Um and hopefully we can carry on your uh your legacy I guess um over the next couple years. But again, thank you for your for
101your time and your service and enjoy the extra evening with your with your family as well. >> Thank you to all three of you. So I don't know if anybody else wants to add anything. I joked at the onset that I was going to bring a box of Kleenexes for each one of them. And right now, I feel like I'm the one that needs the Kleenexes. I will surely miss the three of you and your years of service and the wisdom you have brought. Thank you so much each one of you. Thank you. >> I'd just like to say thank you to the board members for your support and uh the new board members coming on. Good luck. I think there's only one here, Mr. Linder. Good luck to you. administrators. Thank you. Uh thanks
102for your support. Thanks for uh everything over the last six and a half years, I think. So, yeah. So, appreciate it. Made a lot of good friends. Still be here. Still be in the community. Just not sitting here. >> Mr. Dong, good luck to you. Dr. Dong, good luck to you. Thank you, sir. >> And board members, current and new, remember what it says up on that wall. That's why we're here. >> Thank you. And I just want to say thank you too to all of you and especially to the administrators. I've certainly enjoyed all my time as a caner here the last eight years. So thank you very much. I'll also miss everybody. >> Is Jerry gonna say it? >> Come on. >> Keep up the good work. Good luck in the future. It
103definitely be. There's good times to come. I'm sure that the new board's going to do great work and uh keep on keeping on. We we'll be watching from the sidelines here a little bit. >> That's all I have. >> All right. Thank you all. So, I'm going to do something a little bit different for items of general information. So, I'm going to switch chairs with Mr. Lady and as a past president, I'm going to let him take it out and close out the meeting. >> I'll have to switch chairs. >> Yeah, we're going to switch. >> Oh, jeez. You get the gem. All right. >> I don't even know what the dates are. >> Oh, it's on this sheet. >> All right. >> It's my cheat sheet. >> So, our next regular or the next
104regular board meeting will be on 122 and that will be your reorganization meeting. That'll be 122 2022 at 6:30 p.m. here in the boardroom. uh next school board meet and that will be your school board meeting at 7 and that's all there is December 2nd. Thank you all. Is there a motion to adjurnn? >> So move >> second. Nice. Nice touch, Neil.