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School Board Meeting - 9/16/25

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2025-09-17
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Adams County, PA
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2026-06-10

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001All right, good evening. At 7:00, we'll call the meeting to order. Will everybody 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 it stands one nation indivisible for Thank you. >> All right. Roll call, please. >> Mrs. Krauss, here. Miss Jalo >> here. >> Mrs. Hollow >> here. >> Mr. Lady >> here. >> Mr. Lustik >> here. >> Mrs. Plank >> here. >> Mr. Walmer >> here. >> Miss Young >> here. >> Mr. Wel >> here. >> Thank you. >> All right. Can we have somebody uh recommend approval for tonight's agenda? >> So move. >> Second. >> All right. Roll call, please. >> Mrs. Krauss. >> Yes. >> Miss Jal. Yes, >> Miss Young. >> Yes, >>

002Mrs. Hollow. >> Yes, >> Mr. Walmer. >> Yes, >> Mr. Lady. >> Hi, >> Mr. Leic. >> Yes, >> Mrs. Plank. >> Yes, >> Mr. Wel. >> Yes. >> Thank you. >> All right. Can we have a recommend recommended approval for the following minutes? The board meeting on 8:19 2025. Curriculum and extracurricular committee meeting on 92 2025. Business and operations on 92 2025. Board meeting from 9 to 2025 and policy committee meeting on 9:05. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Roll call. >> Mr. Lady. >> Hi. >> Mrs. Hollow. >> Yes. >> Miss Jal. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Krauss. >> Yes. >> Miss Young. >> Yes. >> Mr. Walmer. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Plank. >> Yes. >> Mr. Leic. >> Yes. >> Mr. Wigel. >> Yes. >> Thank you. All right, recognition of our delegation.

003Uh, first up is introduction of new teachers and the uh, school safety officer. Good evening everyone. Uh, as I say every year, this is one of my favorite nights of the year. I get to bring to you our new crew of employees here. And once again, they are a fantastic and fabulous group. They are the cream of the crop. They went through an extensive uh interview process through um all of our levels, whichever position that they were applying for, and we are very proud to honor them here tonight. Welcome them officially to the Caner family. It's hard to believe it's been a month now since you guys were over at Bermudeian Spring School District for county induction and also we were here in the learning comments for the orientation session on August 4th. So, uh

004time flies. I said your first year is going to be over and done with before you know it. So, we are pleased to have you here. I wanted to introduce them to you uh for those in the public. Uh we had a wonderful reception uh before the meeting here that allowed the board members and the new folks to uh mingle and get to know each other a little better. That's always a positive event that we like to have here uh in the district. So, again, I'd like to uh introduce each one of these uh fine folks to you. We have Gabby Barnes, third grade teacher at Bigville Elementary. We have uh Vincent Boet, math teacher at the middle school. Steve Bravo, Spanish teacher at Fleville High School and Middle School. Ty Bson, English teacher at

005the middle school. Thomas Eie is uh technology education at the high school. Kayla, excuse me, Kayla Esque, Es Esqueivo, uh, Esquivo, there we go. Second grade teacher at Picklerville Elementary. Lydia Garfinkle, special education teacher at an intermediate school. Grace Green, life skills support, Biglerville Elementary. Anna Jawanovich, English language learner teacher at the intermediate school. How am I doing with these names, guys? Here's another one. Abby Christ. >> Killed it. Joe, >> yes. School counselor at the Big Elementary School. Uh Juliana Ro Roman, a French teacher at the high school. Maggie Rukowski, speech and language pathologist at the high school and middle school. Ashley Saunders, uh, school counselor at the intermediate school. Emily Scabido, speech and language pathologist at the intermediate school. Summer Slusser, English teacher at the high school. Erica Werz, an art teacher at

006the high school and middle school. Justin Groover, sixth grade teacher at the intermediate school. And last, but certainly not least, not a professional staff member as far as teaching, but uh a new face to the Upper Adams community this year, we have our school security officer, Brent Hayes. We wanted to uh bring him in front of you this evening and welcome him as well. So again, these folks come from many different uh walks of life. Some are right out of college, some come to us with experience, some come to us from out of state. Uh so with wealth of different experience, so we welcome them here to Caner Country and are very pleased to to have you with us. Um at this time, I think I'm going to turn over to uh Mr. Wilson uh

007to make a small presentation. Good evening, board. Ladies and gentlemen, new teachers. Uh my name is Tom Wilson and I am the president of the Canor Foundation. So I want to take just a couple of minutes to let you know what the Caner Foundation is and then I have a little something for you. The Caner Educational Fund was started in uh March of 2010 and the seed money about uh 23 $24,000 came from the administrators of our fine school district and it was invested through the Adams County Community Foundation and that fund now sits at around $178,000. So that throws off in form of distribution somewhere between four and six or $8,000 each year which the Caner Foundation can then use with other sources of our income to help the school district, help the teachers,

008help the students, help wherever we think we can help out. One of the some of the things that we do that are are things that you might be very interested in is uh each year we have classroom grants. That's somewhere in the neighborhood of $16,000 worth of grants that teachers apply for and and uh we have a vetting process. We also uh for those of you in the intermediate school, we sponsor the color day each year in the spring. Um we sponsor the annual teachers breakfast which you may have gone to uh here recently and we have a small scholarship that we that we um sponsor and and uh go through the uh vetting process with the district. But the reason I'm standing up here you today in addition to just giving you a quick

009thumbnail of what the Caner Foundation is is we we're really happy that you're here. We we know, you know, just like the pilot, you know, says, we know you had your choices in airlines, we know you had your choices in school districts, and we're very happy that you've chosen ours. We also recognize that each of you when you set up your classroom, um, you probably reached into your pocket to, uh, come up with some money for things that you needed to do that, you know, you just needed to do. So, I have um a gift certificate in this these envelopes that I wanted to present to you. Um it's a small token of our appreciation for what you uh what you've done in terms of selecting this school district to work in and also uh

010to encourage you to stay with us. We're we're we're a family here. So, uh I won't even attempt the names. I will just walk down the list and hopefully be able to find you. So, uh, Gabrielle, >> am I getting paid to be official photographer or is this a parttime day? >> This is both >> volunteer. >> Just couple of pictures we want. The board the board said I could do this, but they they wanted photographic evidence that I actually Steve Bravo Uh, Tyson, Tyrone, I'm sorry. You're quite welcome. Uh, Thomas eBay, >> Kayla Esqueal, Lydia, uh, Grace Green, >> Justin Groover, sorry, Anna, I'm not going to try. Abigail also not going to try. >> Thank you very much. >> Juliana. >> Oh, sorry. >> Thank you, >> Maggie. I know there are Ashley

011>> Emilia. Emily, >> Emily, sorry, Summer and Erica. >> There you are. >> Thank you. I'm glad we could help you out in some small way. [Applause] >> Say cheese everybody. >> I will. So I know you all are waiting for this moment to go home. So thank you for being here for being a long day. So, um I will keep my words kind of short, but just thank you for for what you all do uh every day with the students. Um somebody said you will love it here. You will love it here. Um it's a great district and you know teachers will be supported. So, thank you for coming here. >> Thank you for picking us. Anybody else want to say any words before they go home? >> Thanks for coming. Thanks for being

012here. You're going to do great and you have a supportive board here. So do good. You will. >> You're now a caner. >> Go caner. >> Thank you all. >> Thank you very much. >> Thank you. >> Oh gosh. Sorry. I just had >> See you. >> I didn't get to talk. All right. I don't see a student representative report. Oh, we do have one. Okay. >> A student representative report. Uh, Miss Park. [Music] >> Hello, schoolboard members. My name is Payton and I'm here on behalf of Isabelle High School Student Council. We have a few important dates coming up mainly involving our homecoming weekend. Um October 3rd we have our homecoming football game and our annual homecoming parade which starts at 6:00. This will start at the biblical fire hall and end at the

013Muscleman Stadium. On October 4th we have our homecoming dance from 7 till 10:00 p.m. And then we also have a blood drive on November 5th which is sponsored by American Red Cross. We're also planning a powder puff football game but homecoming is taking up most of our focus right now. But we're working very hard to get everything done and ready to make this homecoming a memorable one. >> Thank you. >> All right. Uh no public comment. Um no correspondence. Moving on to reports. U LU. Dr. Desan. >> I actually don't have an LIU report, Mr. a while. I do have a CTC report. I can give you that. Um, let let me do that for you. Uh, come on Perry CTC report. I know uh, Mrs. Krauss probably could jump in here on this two

014week. We had our pack meeting here just in September 8th. Uh, discussion items for construction. The endgame as far as when the project was slated to be completed. I guess you're shooting for December 2026. Obviously, you know, they're working through timelines and so forth. uh discussions around program challenges as far as which one uh program challenges as far as which ones has more uh of a weight list and which ones still have available seats. Uh two ones that still had some available seating as of a few weeks ago is warehouse management and horiculture landscaping. Uh they're looking at seeing how they can revamp or relook at that. I was talking to Mrs. classic welding and I think some of the automotive programs and these are some of the things are going to be expanded uh

015when they they do the renovation and the new building projects up there. Um admission timelines and in uh the eighth grade tours are scheduled I believe up at Upper Adams is scheduled for October 23rd. I don't know if that's that right. I believe it's October 23rd. Um we reviewed the 2627 budget timeline. Uh AM and PM times were also looked at as far as folks coming in the AM or PM. Uh you know, obviously a lot of folks prefer the AM. It was a discussion. Nothing to actually no action or anything was taken at the time. Uh we also reviewed the common Perry uh CTC strategic vision for the future that was completed in 2018, but most folks at the table uh were not around to give input on that strategic uh vision. Uh so

016uh everyone's kind of previewing it and uh knowing that new path is ahead with all the new construction. Um and then uh there's also some potential uh for an AI initiative and upcoming PA smart grant opportunity. And it was agreed upon by everyone that uh Mr. Wolf would continue to pursue the options and funding for this uh potential program. >> Thank you. Uh federal programs, Mr. Good evening again everyone. Uh two items tonight. One exciting one maybe not so exciting. Uh we'll start with the unexciting one is title one and py. So I've been working with Ryan spec from the pimp's people uh and to complete the title one report and that's amount that goes back to last school year looking at the roster of the kids that were in title one and it's a

017lot of demographic information and where they started where they ended and some of some basic demographic information. We have to make sure all that's correct and uploaded and into the pimp system for the state. So, that has been completed. Um, the second one is kind of exciting. I think screenings for title one are just about complete and I talked to Mr. Kursetter this evening and we should be able to begin title one services hopefully uh next week sometime. So, that's exciting news. We're getting rolling uh with that, have all the initial assessments done and we can uh begin our program. >> Thank you, Mr. All right. Um, Cameron Perry, Dr. Deshan, cover, do you have anything else to add, Miss? >> Just a a note that August 25th was the groundbreaking for the building project.

018Um, I believe there were 13 or 14 of the 18 JC members there along with four superintendent including Dr. I'm looking forward to seeing what ground has broken in the last month when we go out next week. >> And I might add, Mr. Wel, Mrs. Krauss looked fantastic in her hard hat and the shovel is throwing dirt. I mean, she I we have those pictures. We'll put them up at the next board meeting. >> I was really hoping you forgot about that. >> I'm a little disappointed that it's not flashing up here right now. >> Next month. Next month. >> Next month. Note to self, I'll go out for next week. Next month, >> we'll add it to the agenda so it's uh it's public. >> Thank you, Miss Cross. Uh Caner Foundation, Miss Hollow.

019>> Um just to follow up on Mr. Wilson's presentation. Uh the foundation board was really really happy to have been able to um gift the teachers with just just a small token of um our appreciation for what they do um as they're coming on board here to our district. Um, the giving spree is coming up in November and I encourage all board members, anybody in the audience, um, to continue or to consider donating to the Caner Foundation board. It's all money that comes right back to our district. That's all I have, Mr. Waggle. >> Thank you. U, moving on to administrative reports. Um, any comments, any questions for our administration? >> Well, I'll start. >> I thought you all got off easy tonight, but okay, Mr. Roll. >> Well, they're getting off easy so far.

020This is for Mrs. Hobbs. Uh, we have an issue. It's a reoccurring issue with school lunch debt um which is just under $50,000 at this point. Um Mrs. Hobbs uh mentions in her report about sending out notices within in the next few weeks uh for those families who might qualify for free or reduced lunch. Um you know, we've been through this a few times in the past. This board decided that we were going to send a select 10 individuals to collections to hopefully send the message that these lunches need to be paid. I think we should continue that. Maybe we should bump it up a little bit like the top 33 send uh send them to collections. And I just want I'm saying these things. This is my opinion. I'd like to have a board

021discussion about this, but that's a lot of lunches at $50,000. I don't put this on the kids. I put it on on the parents. They need to pay for their lunches. So, I'm opening up to a discussion here. >> What was the result of the last um collections that we sent? >> We did not receive a lot of um funds coming back from JP Harris. We did have in working with the seniors with the 2425 class that all the seniors did pay off that debt and that goes to uh Miss Roberts and Miss Class and Mrs. Graham and her staff in contacting with those seniors so they would pay prior to graduation. >> Is that typical that that that outreach happens to seniors and that they do indeed pay then or is that atypical? That

022is typical process that we have and we've actually started that process with some of our current seniors because of the debt that they already have going into this school year, >> but we're saying this needs to be paid. >> It'll come out general funds money. >> But, you know, this is not a this is it's good that the seniors pay for their lunches in order to graduate, but it's not we're not running a credit system here for lunches. You know, this is not a crew a giant debt from seventh grade until you're a senior and then paid off at once. It needs to be paid as you go. And you know, for a 137 letters to be sent, that's a little bit of money that we're spending. And these are follow-up letters, right, Mrs. Hobs?

023I appreciate what you're doing on this, but maybe we need to take it a little bit further and further on the JP Harris front. >> But what would that look like? I mean, other than sending it to collections, what does that look like? >> I can pull some numbers together for our business and operations meeting, trying to break it down by what that would look like with these students per grade level or give you more of a accurate look at that if you would like you to for the next business and op meeting in October. >> Would that be suitable? >> Yes, because I feel like we're pretty limited, right? I mean, we've we've kicked this around before of what our options are to collect this debt. >> And I will share I have a

024regional business managers meeting tomorrow and that is being discussed as well with other business managers from across York, Franklin, and Adams County. So, >> so you could report back maybe some information. >> So, do we have data available? I just was thinking about this. the basic lunch includes whatever that might be. But do we have data available that some of this lunch also includes five bags of chips and two ice cream on top of their normal lunch? Is that available? Like could we just provide just a basic lunch until you pay off the debt? I don't know. >> If they have a negative balance, they are unable to purchase allevocart items. >> Okay. [Music] Is it is it still prudent to send out the 137 letters for free lunches? >> We still do. So, we

025have that audit trail that we have made those attempts. Um, because some of those we're also finding with people that had benefits like during COVID, those have dropped off and some of them are thinking that they're automatically renewing when they do not automatically renew because that process has stopped. >> But they've already received letters. >> Correct. >> And they've ignored them. >> And I'm assuming we've done more than letters. I mean, we're putting it in on the website, >> newsletters, yes, whatever the case may be. >> And this is when we send out the letters of the negative balances. That is following our policy guidelines as well. >> Maybe we need to publish names. Is that is that legal, Gary? >> No, it's not. Um policy 808 does address all of these efforts. Uh there's

026a section dealing with uh basically collection. Your policy is pretty much consistent with all the other districts. It's governed by state law. One thing that we're prohibited from doing is a publicly identifying you know the students um even indirectly we would publish parents names obviously that would be problematic. Your options are limited. Um, some districts work with collections agencies to varying degrees of success. There's cost and money associated with that. Some that have very high balance, frequent flyers um have taken those individuals to small claims court and got judgments against them. Again, there's time and money involved in that, too. How much are you willing, you know, to invest time and moneywise? But options are limited. what I'm hearing Hobbs describes pretty well consistent with other districts and this is a problem everywhere to some

027degree or another. >> There is an important message that we're sending to students whe whether we realize it or not uh you know the the responsibility for uh paying your debts or um the opposite message you can just ignore debts because they sooner or later go away. So, I'd like to I'd like to to encourage the first lesson because it's an important lifetime lesson. Okay. So, do we have a direction forward here? Sounds like Mrs. Hobs is going to get us some statistics for the next meeting. And then are we still sending the Sounds like the 137 letters are still going out. >> Okay. Well, maybe. Yeah. Okay. All right. Gotta pay your lunch debt. Got to pay for the meals. >> Well, I think I think we all struggle because I look out in

028the audience and coach Newberry, Coach M. Mitchell, we're going to be voting on girl potential girls wrestling, which is going to be 15 and 20 grand, I think, potentially. And we can't get our lunch debt paid. That's that's where I struggle. That's the frustrating part. Sorry, we got to do something. >> Um, can I just ask the question? >> Um, >> sure. >> What What is the policy for lunches to um about charging or providing the peanut butter and jelly sandwiches that Mr. Walmer talked about before? What what are the options in terms of not having a charge account? >> By our policy, Miss Jal, we do have to provide a standard lunch to students. It cannot be an alternative lunch. So, they do receive a standard lunch. >> Thank you. Is there any um

029general fund >> limit on any extracurricular activity students might be involved on if they have a debt to the school? >> There is not. >> Is that something that can be done or is that not um possible? Like if they're involved in any extracurricular activities and they owe debt, like there would be a limit to that or I wasn't I'm not sure. I'm just throwing that out there. I'm not sure that that isn't allowable because that would be considered almost like a lunch shaming and we are not allowed to do lunch shaming. >> Yeah, >> that would be punishing the child but it's the parent that >> right is the has a responsibility >> I'm sorry Mrs. Plank were you saying something? >> No, I was just um confirming with Mr. Walmer that it's not

030something that we budget for either. So that's over and above So if I could just suggest I know Mrs. Hobs is going to attend the area business uh meeting with other uh business managers. Uh we can collect information from them what they're doing. I think Gareth mentioned to it, unfortunately, it isn't just an upper atoms uh problem. Uh but yes, I think we need to look for solutions as to uh um to to solve that problem. I I I wanted to say too, and I don't know, Mrs. Graham, if you know this or not, you know, like our seniors obviously there's kind of a like you in order to graduate, you know, you got to like I don't know if that can be a collective thing that adds up, you know, as a freshman to

031a sophomore. I mean, that that that would be a big pill uh till the time he got to it, but I don't know if that's something that we could uh discuss or consider either. Uh but uh but you start as a freshman or a sophomore, that's going to add up by your senior year for sure. But uh but I know that we can investigate other options here, what other folks are doing in the other districts. Any other comments for administrative reports? >> On a on a brighter note, um I just wanted to mention to um Mrs. Buckley, I was intrigued by the long list of clubs um that are offered at the intermediate level. Um I think we're we all see it as adults. It's harder and harder to get people involved in clubs, donating

032time, volunteering, what have you. And I really like planting this seed at such a young age. I know it happens in the high school, but I like, you know, that it's offered at your level um that they start thinking about things other than themselves. So, thank you. >> Anybody else? >> Seems like it was a pretty good start to the school year. >> I would I will say for Mr. Brew, I was surprised to see 90% seventh grade parents and 80 80 some% on eighth grade, I think, or almost 80%. >> That's great. >> Sorry. Good job. >> Any else? All right. Uh we will move on to uh superintendent report Dr. Bishop. Good evening everyone. Uh thank you very much uh principles uh for uh your reports and uh noting all the great things

033happening going on in our buildings. Speaking of that, um in some discussions that our administrative team has had, we've talked about a Japanese term that I want to share with everybody. Uh Genchi Gabutsu. Say that five times really fast. Mr. Wagle Geni Gabutsu. Uh do we know what that means? Does anybody Please don't let me down. What does that mean? What' you say, Mr. Brew? Come on. Don't let me down. Sausage made. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Go see. Yeah. So, yeah. Japanese uh the translation is go and see for yourself or go see where the sausage is made. But go and see for yourself. So, we've had a fantastic story to our teachers, administrators, and support staff. Uh and we're in the midsepptember already. We are discussing the importance of getting out and about

034in our buildings and classrooms to go and see for ourselves uh where the learning engagement and grows and glows are. I've been able to get out and start visiting some classrooms myself and have seen and heard some engaging lessons from doing some close reading and critical thinking around comparing and contrasting song lyrics toformational pieces of text, giving voice and choice to students and selecting social dilemmas to refute or support and active engagement in learning tenses of language in French class. In a conversation with Miss Peter, uh, one of our Spanish teachers, she was very pleased to report the following that nine students in AP Spanish language and culture class took the ACTFL, which is the American Council on the Teacher of Foreign Languages global civil test last week. Two scored advanced, which qualifies them for

035the working level global civil and the PAL biiteracy. five scored at the intermediate to to advanced level which qualifies them for the functional level global skill and a non-native student scored uh five at the reading level and this is the highest level for intermediate. Um so as I was talking to Peter she was telling me about there's the the the verbal piece the receptive language there's the written piece and then there's the spoken piece and all these kind of tie in together. Um, she mentions that learners are uh beginning studies for the AP Spanish language and culture exam in May and she is very hopeful and she also want to thank Mrs. Graham uh for her encouragement and support for her vision with the heritage classes. So, as you can see, there's a lot of

036good things going on in our classrooms. Furthermore, to capture all the great things going on in our district, we are working uh with Roby Studios, Mr. Chandler Roby. He is a Bicklerville graduate uh and community member, lives in the community uh to put together some short videos to highlight the positives going on around the district. We're very excited about this and are appreciative of the Caner Foundation for funding the project. Yesterday, our administrative team had the chance to meet Chandler and discuss uh moving forward with the project. I'm also pleased to note how well our transition is going with our new student service director, Mr. Ryan Gerber uh and uh his ex his his uh assistant secretary to the position. Also uh administrative assistant, Miss Crystal Richie. Uh we appreciate the board's support and helping

037to make this transition a success. Uh a big kudos also to Mr. Josh Cantrell who has been our tech director here at the Upper Adam School District for three years uh uh through GDC. I believe I can say unequivocally from all of us here at the table, everyone sitting out here in the audience and all of our teachers uh that he has been a tremendous asset to all of us in whatever role we fulfill here in the district. Thank you Mr. Canantrell for not only being a stellar computer technician uh and expert but also just being a great person and that's more that counts a lot more just being a great person. I know you will be with us a little while yet and we wish you the best in your transition and new rule

038at GDC. Sir, I know they left, but I'll go ahead and say it anyhow. I was going to say when you said something, Mr. Wel, we also want to welcome our brand new teachers and new to the district teachers. Uh we are glad that you are here at UASD and that you chose us seems to be a theme, but also that we chosen we've chosen you. You're in a wonderful place with caring colleagues and administrators, good students, and a supportive community. Always put learners first, collaborate, be passionate about the profession, and have a growth mindset, and you will succeed. Thank you, Mr. W. >> Thank you, Dr. Lashon. Treasurer report, Mr. Walder. >> Uh, thank you, Mr. Wy. I'd like to make a motion to approve the financial report ending 8:3125, the condensed board summary

039report ending 83125, the food service fund statement ending 83125, and the student activity fund ending 83125. >> Second. >> Any comments, any questions uh before the vote? All right. Roll call, please. >> Miss Young, >> yes. >> Mr. Walmer, >> yes. >> Mrs. Plank, >> yes. >> Mr. Luster, >> yes. >> Mr. Lady, >> hi. >> Mrs. Hollow, >> yes. >> Miss Jal, >> yes. >> Mrs. Cross, >> yes. >> Mr. Wagle, >> yes. >> Thank you. >> That's all. Mr. Waggle, Mr. Rober. All right. consent agenda items. Is there anything that we would like to have pulled from the consent agenda? >> Okay. Can we have a first and a second? I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda. >> Second roll call. >> Mrs. Hollow. >> Yes. >> Mr. Lady. >> I.

040>> Mr. Lustik. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Plank. Yes, >> Mr. Walmer. >> Yes, >> Miss Young. >> Yes, >> Mrs. Cross. >> Yes, >> Mr. Jal. >> Yes, >> Mr. Wiggle. >> Yes. >> Thank you. >> All right. Committee reports, business and operations of Mr. Walmart Finance. >> Okay. Thank you, Mr. Wy. We have a few items tonight in finance, personnel, property, and transportation. And I'll start out with uh finance. Uh we've got we received an anom anonymous donation in the amount of $1,149,421. This is going to be placed in the PSDLAF athletic improvement fund for uh turf fields, turf football fields. uh second item and u maybe what we could do here is is I'll combine items two through five and request approval for those items. Uh but the second item is the budget

041timeline. The uh schedule is attached in your agenda. Third item is the agreement with GeForce on an as needed basis for investigations in the school district. And then four and five relate to the wheelchair lift replacement and a deduction or a credit of $4,800. Item number five is is related to the wheelchair lift as well. So if there's any discussion on those items, have it now and then take a vote or second. >> Second. >> Okay. Any uh comments, any questions on those five items? I think it's good that we went back to uh the wheelchair lift folks and and got the $4,800 credit for design. That's glad the board made that decision. I think they made the right decision as well. So happy to report and talk about that. >> Thank you. I will

042say um thank you for the uh the very very generous donation to the school for the turf field. Um as I was driving in tonight and I saw soccer getting ready to play in the pouring down rain. Um made me realize how much we actually really do need the turf field out there. Um so I'm excited to get this started and see where we are come next spring summer. Okay. >> Do we need to take a vote on on those items? We do. >> Okay. >> Sorry. >> We'll just need a second then. >> We have a second. >> Do we got a second? Okay. Roll call, please. >> Mr. Leic? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Plank? >> Yes. >> Mr. Walmer? >> Yes. >> Miss Young? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Cross? >> Yes. >> Miss

043Jal? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Hollow? >> Yes. >> Mr. Lady? >> I. >> Mr. Wyel. >> Yes. >> Thank you. >> Okay. The next item is 14.1.1 and this relates to girls wrestling. Uh $35,000 has been budgeted for fiscal year 26 in the upper Adams budget. Um but I'm not sure has it been approved. We're going to discuss it. Where are we where are we sitting with this? This is up for discussion tonight. >> We need a we need a second before we can discuss, I believe. Second. >> Okay. All right. Now we can discuss. I believe the 35 has already been approved in this year's budget for wrestling. >> So it's already in in this year's budget. >> That is correct. So when the 2526 budget was approved in June, it was approved the

044the general fund budget and it was asked that we bring the girls wrestling back for a separate vote. So, what we're voting on here is to approve the start of the girls wrestling program. >> That is correct. >> The money's approved. Now, we're approving to start the program. >> Okay. My my vote's going to be no on this. I think um uh you know, we have very limited interest in this program. Uh it's probably I don't know for sure, but 20 or more years since a new program has been brought to the school. uh four girls are interested in it or you know somewhere in that neighborhood. I think especially given the school lunch debt issue at this time it wouldn't be pr prudent to approve this. Um you know in a sense it sort

045of sets a precedent. And if four boys come and say they want to start a a field hockey team, they're going to say, "Well, you know, you approved the girls for wrestling, they can already wrestle." Um so, um my vote's going to be no. And and that's my way of opening up to anybody else who wants to give some input on it. >> I would ask regarding the uh $35,000 that uh has been approved for this year. Would that amount be expected in subsequent years or would the amount actually increase or decrease? >> I think how Mr. Graham um explained it two weeks ago. The first year will probably be more especially with uniforms and getting them outfitted and then you may see a decrease going forward. But once again, it's the startup for at

046least the first year. And then the only thing that may increase, you know, would be transportation costs as they increase as they do with all athletics and if there's approval for any supplemental increases to the supplemental contracts. Thank you. >> Well, and I would say that I think we've seen a change. I mean, I think there are other schools that are coming up with girls wrestling program. I mean, I don't think we've had that issue necessarily with other sports. And I don't know that you can necessarily gauge the interest now because a lot of those girls probably assume they'd be wrestling boys. So, now that they would have the opportunity to wrestle girls, I mean, we may actually get more um girls to come out for the program. And I think this is something in

047particular that you could see the benefit. I mean, I'm not sure. I thought she was here earlier, but I mean, we can actually measure the benefit to those girls. I mean, we had someone who came and spoke already. Um, and I think I I made the comment there that obviously I have a soft spot for girls sports and I think if there are girls who want to do that and we have the ability to offer that, we should be doing that. >> Um, I would agree with Mrs. plank. Um I it is growing in our county. We have had girls come forward and express an interest and I agree that I think if girls know they'll be wrestling girls, perhaps more will sign on. Um I also I mean it's been a long time since

048we've had a new sport, but you could have said that about soccer however many years ago when we started soccer. We didn't know what we'd have and look at the soccer program that we have today. Um I also don't agree. Sorry, Mr. Walmart. Um, I don't agree with tying the school lunch debt to the girls wrestling program. Um, that the school debt to me has nothing to do with the benefits that these girls might receive. I feel like you're you're penalizing these girls for something over which they have no control, the school debt. I do get the money into things. I mean, it's yet the next 35,000, but um, my vote will be in favor. I have to say ditto to what Mrs. Hollow and Mrs. Plank said. I it troubles me to try to

049draw a connection between the lunch debt and starting a girl sports team because there could be no common single person on that list, you know. And um I I do think we have to deal with the lunch debt. It it is outrageous. Um, but I also feel I was one who spent years grading papers at Penn State wrestling before I finally got hooked on it. That, you know, I'm pretty fervent about it, but I can see where girls have an opportunity. Um, and I think I recall hearing that the only sport options for girls in the winter are cheerleading and basketball. And I I think this would give another opportunity. And you know, basketball, you know, there are five girls on the court. Wrestling, if we could draw a team, you know, it's an individual

050sport as well as a team sport, but there would be opportunities for many girls just to compete on her own, their own against other competitors from other schools. So, um, in this case too, Mr. Blommer, I'm sorry, but I'm going with the ladies this time. Well, you know, everybody's entitled to their painting. Obviously, we have different opinions up here. I just don't think there's enough interest in the program at this time. And my, you know, in Mrs. Hollow said this, my only uh the only reason that I I tied it to the school lunch debt is that, you know, that debt's going to have to be if if unsatisfied is going to have to come out of the general fund. Girls wrestling comes out of the general fund. So only from a financial standpoint is

051why I mentioned that. Um but I you know I just don't see that there's enough interest and you know if a small group of boys or girls comes to the board and wants to start a a croquet team then then you know the precedent has has been set. So that's all I'll say about that. But I I I understand your your views and that's fine with me. So, I guess as president, I would like to ask uh Coach Lebury, Coach Mitchell, if you would like to address or send anything to the board before the vote. Um, if you'd like to come to the podium, you can. I guess my question would be, um, if we only get four or five, if we do approve it and we get four or five girls, what's what's the

052plan? I don't think we're ever given what the plan was. Um, >> Mr. Graham explained it that if we only get four or five girls, then we're only going tournaments for the girls. We won't have a full team. >> Okay. >> We'd only be competing into on the weekends for a girls tournament. So, they'll be eligible for a section. You got to realize this is the number one fastest growing sport for girls right now in the country. And Pennsylvania is the number one state in the country is for wrestling. Right. We had four championships this weekend and one big boy just took senior worlds silver medals that leave my hands here. That's pretty good. Okay, Bill is wrestling. You have to figure that out. It's number one sport in this school. I've been here since

0532004. number one sport to be able to go wrestle and win a lot of titles as a team. You cannot turn away these girls that want to compete. It's the number one sport. I understand where you're coming from, sir, that you don't think there's enough interest, but I'm tell you, we have a lot of girls come in wrestling, want to work out, but they're afraid to wrestle with boys. What what other sports what other girls sports is wrestling competing against in terms of the fastest growing? Are there other female sports that >> basketball? >> Okay. >> Basketball, volleyball, >> which we don't have here for girls. >> Those are pretty well established sports though. So it's not really there's not a not a >> right. So wrestling female girls wrestling is competing at the world

054level right now. Competing at the world level. USA wrestling is the number one sport and right now growing in youth junior high and varsity it's number one sport for females right now over soccer basketball and a growing sport that's girls are competing we have a big tournament coming up in October it's called super 32 I don't know if you're familiar with it you can look it up it's girls freestyle so there will be thousands of girls into that tournament for scholarship and wild. I'm just you got to give an opportunity to these girls. I believe that we also called and we had elementary, middle school, high school and girls high school taking down Virginia Beach go to national tourn And the first team to sign up that had a full roster was our girls program

055for the team. And I'm not saying all girls. So that's what we're looking at. >> But like you said, I think Mr. limited schedule. We only had four girls, four or five girls, but I have to talk to Mr. >> So, coach, Mr. W, do do you need a certain amount for a team, Coach Newberry? >> Well, we're not even trying to run a full dual team right now. We're just trying to provide an opportunity for these girls to be able to compete because right now they cannot compete during the regular season because the points a lot for our team. So we are already at full point schedule as it is. So we a girl goes to a tournament that gets penalized that uses up our points right throughout them. We're going to give them

056the opportunity to compete at right now. That's so we're not asking for a full go where we run boys and girls every single meet against regular union all that. We're not in the stage yet. Maybe one day we will get to that point, but we're not at that stage yet right now. to send these girls to compete on. >> So if we have six girls, we would only buy six uniforms, which means we wouldn't be spending 35 grand. I mean, we'd only be it would be so we wouldn't actually necessarily be spending this 35 grand, but just for the six uniforms. Is that >> I believe that's Mr. Graham said 15 to 20,000 depending on the amount of girls that we come out. So if he gets approved tonight, obviously we're going to put out

057seasoners early sign up for wrestling. We're going have to get started right away. Season couple weeks away month and a half get prepared. Obviously a lot of new girls today. If we do get 15 girls, 16 girls, yeah, we'll have to compete in a season because of competition. But the main thing is if we have four or six girls and we don't have a team, these girls will be in position like we were with Tori. Last year we had to fight that Mr. Graham had to make phone calls to get her in the girls side of this tournament postseason. So she was able to wrestle with that. He got her in the last seat, very last season. Should have been seated because she won York Academy. She should have been seated. top five for post

058that's the other thing that >> so just like for basketball power rankings and stuff like that how that articulates going into the postseason same sort of thing happens for girls but the top 16 get in so our girls not having any points whatsoever they could be >> so I I have a question say you got 16 girls, but how many weight classes are there? First of all, that's one question we have. >> 14. So, it it's possible though that even with 16 girls, some of them wouldn't fill weight classes, right? >> To answer your question, 35,000. I don't think that's going to be if we have if we have five or six girls obviously isn't going to be that much. All right. Did they answer your questions, Mr. Wag? >> I think so. >> All

059right. Thanks for your input. Appreciate it. >> Thank you. Thank you both. >> Uh, so I don't have anything else. Anybody else? >> Okay. So, we can send it to a vote, >> I guess. Let's go. Roll call, please. >> Mrs. Plank, >> yes. >> Mr. Walmer, >> no. Miss Young, >> yes. >> Mrs. Krauss, >> yes. >> Miss Jal, >> yes. >> Mrs. Hollow, >> yes. >> Mr. Lady, >> yes. >> Mr. Leustic, >> yes. >> Mr. Wel, >> no. >> Thank you. Motion does carry. >> All right. Thank you for that. In five years, maybe I'll be proved wrong. All right. >> Congratulations and good luck. >> Thank you. Yeah. All right, we'll move to personnel now. Mr. Lustik. >> Yes, thank you. Uh, as we turn our attention to 14.2 personnel, uh,

060many of you are looking at the same screen I am. Uh, notice uh, the first item relates to 4A post and advertise administrative assistant for Biglerville Elementary. Then as we look toward uh five A through D notice supplemental contracts and you see the information there and the responsibilities uh that uh these people will be uh undertaking. Uh then as we move to uh number six uh a volunteers and I'm I'm always really pleased to report about volunteers because they are uh an essential part of our program. So here we have uh 13 uh total people willing to step forward and assist us and I'm really pleased to be able to report that and you see their their names listed right there. Then as we uh scan down through um the remaining information, we get to

061uh the GDC uh item uh F1. And you'll notice Mike Garza, director of technology. And that concludes my report. >> Second. >> Any comments? Any questions? >> And Mr. Garza will be taken over in about well starting on Monday. And there'll be an overlap for a few weeks, >> few months. >> I do have one question that kind of jumped out under 5C uh with the mentor for Miss Richie for the I think that's the student services. >> Um I see it says as needed through June 30th. So we capped at any hours on that or is that just an unlimited Um, also what jumped out was the $40 an hour as a mentor. I think Miss Richie is at 19 or 20. So, and I guess I'm wondering where we come up with that

062$40 an hour for a mentor. It's twice as much as what we're actually paying the person to uh do that position. The mentor rate is per this the collective bargaining agreement and that is the rate that we would have to pay Miss Coons. um for the time period going to June 30th of 2026 knowing there are eb and flows within the student services department and due dates um the most important one first is the act 16 report that will be due and then the December 1 report and then as we are then it'll probably tail off a little bit and then heading in and closing out the the school year of 2526 for the child accounting piece for the student services maybe hours per week that we might expect. >> It'll be whatever works with

063her current schedule. >> And and Mr. W, if I could add. So, we're working on this with Buckley also. So, um when when we can, we want to try to utilize I know we're building substitutes. So, if we're able to like maybe for an hour in the AM or an hour at the towards the end of the day during the workday, if we're able to cover her class here and there, we wouldn't have to do that. It's just part of that that day job. And Mr. Coons was open to doing that when when again feasible and when we're able to cover that. So, we wouldn't always necessarily be paying the the curriculum rate uh for for her. Um, so we we would try to utilize as much in the daytime when possible. >> 40 is

064the collective bargaining. >> That is correct. >> Okay. Mr. Leig, do I see one more item? 14.2.1. >> We have a recommendation. Second. >> I have a second. We just vote for >> that. So roll call. >> Miss Jal, >> yes. >> Mrs. Hollow, >> yes. >> Mrs. Cross, >> yes. >> Mr. Lady, >> yes. >> Mrs. Plank, >> yes. >> Mr. Leustic, >> yes. >> Mr. Walmer, >> yes. >> Miss Young, >> yes. >> Mr. Wel, >> yes. >> Thank you. Now Mr. Leic. >> All right. You are correct, sir. 14.2.1 administration. Recommend approval to rec to reorganize and strengthen current administrative staff position. Eliminate the 7 to 12 dean of students position and replace it with a 7 to2 assistant principal position. Second. All right. Any comments, any questions uh before we go

065to roll call? >> I think we had a pretty good discussion of this at the committee meeting. >> So I I do have one that might be for maybe Dr. Deshawn maybe and and Mr. Albin. Do we have a plan for any metrics in place for this a this position if it is voted on? like what what are the goals for the AP that we can that we can I guess see that we're getting what we're paying for in that position. Do we have something >> outlined? I guess >> I can I work with all the principles and assistant principles on setting goals for the year and that's based on building need and what the buildings are focused on. For this position, we would have the cyber goal as well. reaching out and set for

066that to I think in the committee meeting we discussed metrics related to discipline and it seemed like got some head nods on that so maybe that can be included as well [Music] and I guess do we have a timeline line on these metrics. Are we, you know, typically, you know, 3 months out, 6 months out, nine months out? What, you know, do we have a timeline set for what that might look like? >> Typical rotation is I've already met with the principles and assistant principles at the beginning of the year. I touch base in the middle. I'll plan to touch base in the middle of the year. Then at the end of the year, we follow up to see if they met their goals. If they're not, how much, by how much, and have those

067discussions. >> Okay. >> So, what are you looking at for the metric? I mean, if you approve the position and then you look at the metrics, okay, let's say we don't I mean, what exactly are you looking to find? Are you going to make a argument then that you wouldn't have needed a position that you approved based on these metrics? >> Uh, no. I mean, if if we're going and looking at some cyber schools and we have not uh brought anybody back to the district, then I don't think that position may have been worth it, you know? >> But what could you do about it then? You know what I mean? Like if the metrics aren't met, if the metrics are put out after the position is filled, there's no consequence for the metrics not

068being met. If I'm understanding correctly, >> if I could just chime in like so every job has a job description that goes along with with each of our jobs. So in that job descriptions are a list of duties that everyone does and as Mr. all been mentioned. All of us then have goal setting uh activities that we set up uh at the beginning of the year, you know, and then that we work through or towards. So that would be no different to this job from any of the jobs or roles that we're fulfilling right now, you know, within the district. >> I still haven't heard a really good argument for another administrative position. I think I made my arguments clear last time that I still struggle with the fact that we have other districts comparable

069in size but with higher student enrollment that are doing it with six, I cannot make sense that we need to do it with eight with the size of our district and our enrollment and given the fact that our middle school is only seventh and eighth grade with 239 students. Well, I'll just remind the board, which they already know, but anybody else listening, we're not we're not adding a position. We're retitling a position. In this case, >> you're taking it from a position that is not administrative to a position that is, which is very different because when you look at the administrative agreement, you're talking about merit increases every year in addition to a cost of living adjustment every year. So, that salary is going to go up. a lot quicker. >> Well, under the collective

070bargaining agreement, they also get a salary and cola and increases every year. So, would you be okay with a dean of students? Is that your preference on this? >> No. >> Okay. >> I mean, it would obviously be less costly to the budget. I mean, I realize like we always say, >> you know, it's in the budget. Okay. Just because it's in the budget obviously doesn't mean we have to spend it. You know, I go shopping, I save 30%. What am I going to tell my husband? I saved $30. Well, no, he's going to say he spent 70. So, just because it's in the budget doesn't mean we have to spend it. You know, I would have really liked to have seen some other options besides either an assistant principal position or dean students position,

071but we weren't given any other options. I think Heather had some, you know, other suggestions, too, but I just I I don't see it. You know, obviously other districts can do it. I'm not sure why we can't why we can't. We already have seven. So we have seven plus we have the Dina students position. I personally would love to see those funds being used to start more like the girls wrestling things, you know, things that benefit the students or or tutoring options available or if discipline is an issue, maybe a another security officer that could be full-time in the high school or the middle building or middle school buildings, you know, instead of rotated around. I mean, I understand that doesn't fit into the program necessarily for this, but I feel like I personally think

072that would be a better use of that money. Well, aside from teacher evaluations, discipline is a major role of this position. And I'm of the opinion that stern discipline will vastly help other students, especially in the classroom. Um, I think probably less so with girls wrestling, but given that that a major part of this position is discipline, if that's handled, then students who want to come to class and want to work hard are able to because there's fewer disruptions in the class. So, I think this will directly benefit students. >> How is adding another administrator going to address discipline? I specifically asked if discipline is a constant problem that we keep hearing about. >> Mrs. blank. We are not adding another administrator. You can it can be in name only. You're going from dean of

073students and now a vice principal, but we're not adding another administrator. >> This is a retitling of a position. And the and the and the cost increase is marginal. It's virtually a wash to the taxpayers. >> But how does how does creating this position help discipline? I mean, why don't we look at what the discipline problem is? I mean, if we're constantly addressing discipline, there's clearly something going on. What is it? >> So, let me remind the board also like with an AP position, if I remember correctly, they are available for after school events to cover those events as well as the dean is not available. Um, a dean at the end of the day at 3:30 goes home. The assistant principal covers football, covers wrestling, covers basketball, and other events including I guess prom.

074um they were also contracted to do that. >> I've been thinking a lot about this position and uh pondering the implications thereof. Uh I'm concerned that uh this board may have to grapple uh fairly soon with a t a proposed tax increase and as such I want to uh be able to demonstrate fiscal uh conservative uh uh considerations. And so my own personal uh uh thought would be I I would be interested in the idea of tableabling this decision for a year and seeing what the the implications of that would be. If we tabled it, we would save $100,000. uh and perhaps we would have better information to make a wiser decision uh uh subsequently uh after receiving that information. >> Um although I I try to appreciate that comment um I I if I

075put it in my world um I'm not going to pick any apples this year and just hope that next year's a better year and let the chips fall. Although the analogy is wacky in my head, it's not so wacky. I think putting this on hold for an entire year, we've already lost our dean. Um, we are not going to give our administrative team another body. We're just going to let the chips fall where they may. I think I just disagree with that approach. And as far as the some of the peace meal suggestions, um, Mrs. Junk cover. Although I appreciate them. I appreciate your the thought you have put into that. I to me that's just putting a a band-aid on a big gash. Um I think the need is much greater than putting someone

076in the cafeteria to help cover lunch. The need is much greater. >> Well, if it's a fiscal issue, we just voted to approve a new girls wrestling program for $35,000. So, I don't see that it's a fiscal issue. >> It is a fiscal issue when you compare it to other districts who don't have eight administrators. >> They have lead teachers. Is that correct? >> I'd like to see that compar. >> I don't know. We didn't get that information. >> I think we I think we were told that other other districts do have lead teachers. >> So, I don't think you can compare Upper Adams to other schools. >> Sure. >> We shouldn't compare our district to other districts. That's exactly what we were provided when we were given that information. You were comparing it to

077other districts. I didn't start that comparison. That's what we were provided. I I I spoke up at the last meeting. You know, this whole opportunity came about because our dean moved into a teaching position and I'm thrilled for that. But that happened late spring, I guess. And and what I said at the last meeting, you know, to discuss not filling this position at all, I said it should have happened, it should happen in January. And what I meant was if you want to eliminate or dis discuss losing a position, you know, you look at it in January moving forward to the next budget, you know, you can't expect we had a dean of students who did help and I know the word discipline comes up, but I know he did a lot more than that.

078He he was there when needed to cover classes to um you know cover multiple classes in the auditorium when substitutes didn't show up or whatever. But it troubles me that we could sit here and say well let's table it and not do anything till next year. Those are the people that are going to take the brunt of that decision. So, I'm asking, you know, if if you want to table, maybe we should go back to looking at replacing the dean of students. But, you know, let's look at some options before you decide table it. Don't fill it till next year. That's all I'm asking. >> I would have loved to have had more options than what we were given, but we weren't given those. >> But we can't I just don't think it's fair to

079pull a position. You know, again, too, if if there had been time, this discussion, to my m knowledge, didn't come up till, you know, late summer, but you know, they've made plans all all summer. You you know, you change policy, you come up with new procedures, and to decide in September, we're not going to fill it, I think is harmful to the administrators that we have. I think it's time to get a vote. You know, there's a term I like to use paralysis by analysis. I think that's where we're trying to over analyze it. We're paralyzed. So, um, >> Miss John Culver, >> no. >> Mrs. Krauss, >> yes. Miss Jal, >> no. >> Mr. Walmer, >> yes. Mrs. Plank? >> No. >> Mr. Lustik, >> no. >> Mr. Lady, >> yes. >> Mrs. Hollow.

080>> Yes. >> Mr. Wel, >> yes. >> All right. Thank you, Miss Sabs. Uh, we'll go on to the next item. Uh, uh, Mrs. Young Cover. Nothing under property. So, we'll move to Mr. Lady in Transportation. >> Yes. Give me a second here. >> Uh, yes. Recommend the following to your Jacobe drivers list uh listed listed there in front of you. >> Recommend approval. >> Second. >> Any comments, questions? Roll call. >> Mrs. Cross. >> Yes. >> Mr. Jal, >> yes. Mrs. Hollow. >> Yes. >> Mr. Lady, >> yes. >> Mr. Lustik, >> yes. >> Mrs. Plank, >> yes. >> Mr. Walmer, >> yes. >> Miss John Cobber, >> yes. >> Mr. Wiggle, >> yes. >> Thank you. >> Okay, Mr. President, that's all I had for business and operations. >> Thank you, Mr. Walmer.

081Uh, moving on to curricular and extracurricular. Miss Hol. Um I'm recommending approval of the following and these are um standard um approvals that we give for the agreement with the Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania as per the do- attached document, agreement with Millersville as per the attached document and agreement with Harrisburg University of Science and Technology as per the attached document. >> Second. >> Any comments? Any questions? Okay, >> Mr. Lustik, >> yes. >> Mrs. Plank, >> yes. >> Mr. Walmer, >> yes. >> Miss Youngr, >> yes. >> Mrs. Krauss, >> yes. >> Mr. Jal, >> yes. >> Mrs. Hollow, >> yes. >> Mr. Lady, >> hi. >> Mr. Wigle, >> yes. >> Thank you. >> I think that's it. Is that right? All right. Thank you, Miss Hollow. Moving on to policy, Miss Grouse. >>

082Oh, thank you. Um before we look at the items under first and second read, um I wanted to ask Mr. Pala to uh make a few comments. Um at the last board, at the last policy meeting, we started to review policy number 827, which involves conflict of interest. And as I read through that, um, there were a couple sections that mentioned, um, some instructions basically for members, candidates, and nominees for board positions. So, as I read that, I know there's a an election coming up soon, and I was hopeful that we could draw attention to this policy that anyone who is planning to run would be able to review it to make sure that, you know, they're knowledgeable about what's in the policy. So, u Mr. Beha, if you could just address a few of

083those things. >> Yeah, just >> Thank you, Mrs. Crouch. Just very briefly, um this is not a new policy. Uh the ethics act, uh is is based on uh policy 827, conflict of interest. This is where you get your annual financial statements. We all do, including me. Um this is where uh it outlines procedures for entering into contracts uh with the district. uh abstensions from votes, all of that comes from uh 827 and the ethics act. Um as Mrs. Cross pointed out um this also addresses candidates in in addition to current board members and there's a section uh titled in the current policy improper influence and uh that talks about not offering to candidates anything of any value to influence how they may vote in the future. And it also prohibits candidates from accepting anything

084of value uh in exchange for influence on future future uh uh decision making. So, uh just remind everybody of that given that uh uh this is in policy committee and it's an election year uh covered existing board members and candidates in a pretty thorough um policy almost all of which ties back to the uh uh the state ethics act itself. Anything you want me to add, Mrs. Krauss? >> No, that's it. Thank you. >> Thanks. >> Um we have two policies under first read. um the recommend approval of the following first read policies. Policy number 343P holidays which I believe is for the support staff and policy number 702.2 naming opportunities related to naming various parts of the district buildings and facilities. Second. >> Any comments? Any questions? >> Right. Roll call, please. >> Mrs.

085Plank, >> yes. >> Mrs. Krauss, >> yes. >> Miss Young, >> yes. >> Miss Jal, >> yes. >> Mr. Walmer, >> yes. >> Mrs. Hollow, >> yes. >> Mr. Lustik, >> yes. >> Mr. Ley, >> hi. >> Mr. Wiggle. >> Yes. >> Thank you, Miss Cross. All right. Uh, moving on. Miscellaneous payment of bills. We have a motion in a second. >> Some moved. >> Second. >> Any comments? Any questions for the bill this evening? >> Roll call. >> Miss John Cobber. >> Yes. >> Mr. Walmer. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Plank. >> Yes. >> Mr. Lustik. >> Yes. >> Mr. Lady. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Hollow. >> Yes. >> M. Jal. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Cross. >> Yes. >> Mr. Wy. >> Yes. >> Thank you. >> Nothing. Other old business. Business. We have to

086vote on election for officer election and vote for the attached >> nominations. I guess >> I make a motion that we cast a unanimous vote for the candidates listed. >> Second. >> Roll call. >> Mrs. Cross. >> Yes. Miss Junko, >> yes. >> Mrs. Hollow, >> yes. >> Miss Jalal, >> yes. >> Mr. Lady, >> hi. >> Mrs. Plank, >> yes. >> Mr. Walmer, >> yes. >> Mr. Lustik, >> yes. >> Mr. Wel, >> yes. >> Thank you. >> All right. Uh, moving on to items of general information. Let me get this here real quick. Uh, schoolboard committee meetings, uh, curriculum and extraction curricular committee will be on 10:7 at 6:30. Business and operations committee will be on 107 upon the completion of the curriculum action curricular committee meeting. And the policy committee meeting will

087be on 102 at 9:00 a.m. And then the regular school board meeting will be on uh 10:21 at 700 p.m. >> Do we have a motion to adjourn? >> So move second. Enjoy the evening. Bye everyone.

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