001All right, it's 7 o'clock. I would like to call the meeting to order. Uh we please stand for the pledge of allegiance and a moment of silence to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands. One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. You may be seated. All right, we have a roll call, please. >> Mrs. Krauss, >> here. >> Miss Jal, >> excused. Mrs. Hollow >> excused. >> Mr. Lady >> excused. >> Mr. Lustik >> here. >> Mrs. Plank >> here. >> Mr. Wmer >> here. >> Miss Young >> here. >> Mr. Wy >> here. >> Thank you. >> All right. We did have an executive session uh before the meeting on safety and security and uh and personnel. So, can I
002have a recommendation of approval for tonight's agenda? Some move. Second. We have roll call. >> Mrs. Krauss, >> yes. >> Mr. Lustik, >> yes. >> Mrs. Plank, >> yes. >> Mr. Wmer, >> yes. >> Miss Young Cobber, >> yes. >> Mr. Wiggle, >> yes. >> Thank you. >> I recommend approval of the following um minutes. Uh the board meeting on 6:17 2025 curriculum and extracurricular committee meeting, new meeting in June, new meeting for business operations um and policy. So um >> it should say July, correct? Um so board meeting on uh 617 2025. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Roll call. >> Mr. Leic? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Plank? >> Yes. >> Mr. Walmer? >> Yes. >> Miss Young Cobber? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Krauss? >> Yes. >> Mr. Wel? >> Yes. >> Thank you.
003All right. Um, recognition of delegation, >> nothing tonight. Uh, public comment. I get to read this again. Uh, the board of school directors encourages comments from community members during the citizen comment section of the agenda. Upon being recognized by the board president, an individual should state his or her name, confirm that they are either a parent, guardian, resident, taxpayer, district employee, district student, or anyone representing a group or firm in the community, and may speak to the board for a period no longer than 5 minutes. No participant may speak more than once on the same topic unless all others who wish to speak on that topic have been heard. Questions posed on citizen comment would not be addressed during the meeting. The question requires followup. The board president or superintendent will follow up individually. The
004board requests that neither complaints concerning job performance nor allegations of misconduct relating to a specific employees or students be raised at a public meeting. Such concerns should be referred directly to the superintendent. The board will conduct this meeting civily and respectfully. All citizen comments deserve that same respect from both the board and other meeting attendees at the discretion of the board president. If verbal disruptions, commotion, or other disrespectful comments, behaviors may result in a verbal warning, termination of the comment, board recess, or termination of all citizen comments. Rachel Elliot. >> Thank you. >> Hello, my name is Rachel Elliot. I am a resident of Upper Adams and have two children attending school here in the district. First, I would like to welcome Dr. Strong to the district. I hope that you feel welcome here. Secondly,
005I would like to thank the board for pushing back policy 109 for further review and discussion. I appreciate that you want to take the time to go over the teachers concerns with the policy. I would also like to say that I personally do not want porn in schools and that there is no porn in our schools. There were some rumors spread and I wanted to set the record straight. I and the other people running for the school board on the yellow sign trust teachers and administration and choosing age appropriate materials for our children to learn from. I am speaking today because I have questions for the board in regards to the school's budget. In March, the USDA made cuts to their food to school programs. In recent weeks, the current administration has decided to withhold
006six billion from school funding. Just yesterday, the Supreme Court decided that the Department of Education can go ahead with its firing of almost 40% of its workforce, clearing the way for the Department of Education to be dismantled. And lastly, the state budget has yet to be approved. With all of this change, things appear to be in limbo, and you may not be able to answer the questions I have because of this. But I need to know, what are the contingencies in place for the loss of this kind of funding? I do want to thank Mr. Alban and Mrs. for putting together the report showing the direct cuts of titles two, three, and four. Mr. Elden, maybe you can give us a refresher as to what these titles cover and the importance that they have for
007our school district. Over the past year, the board has discussed issues with lunch debt. What is the plan going forward as USDA pulls all funding from its school lunch program? Our district has a poverty rate of 53%. Budget cuts like these have a tendency to worsen inequities, disproportionately affecting rural, lowincome schools like our own. How can we counteract these cuts to provide for our students in the best ways possible? At the last meeting, Mrs. Plank raised concerns over the dental services used by the school district and the money spent on these services. I'm not against reviewing any services for cost as long as they don't infringe upon the services provided. As we all know, cheapest is not always the best. A provider that we have worked with and have has a long-standing relationship with our
008students and their families needs to not be judged on the cost alone. Many members of this school board had run on transparency, something I completely agree with, but have not really seen. In honor of transparency, I want the community to know that over $24,000 has been spent by our district in legal fees pertaining to the Plank family over the last year and a half. This information was received through a right to know by another community member who passed this on to me. Disclosures like this are important so that the community understands how its tax dollars are being spent. Recently, I discovered the school's districts state of the district pamphlet which gives an overview of the school year and costs and breaks down everything very nicely for everyone to understand demographics of the school district and
009the costs involved. I hope that this kind of reporting continues. The latest report available was the 20 23 24 report and it broke down the costs involving cyber and charter schools. I want to thank Mr. Lady for reminding us of how much we spend on these services every month. In summary, we are spending close to $2 million a year with an average of almost $50,000 per student. 90% of these costs fall on Upper tax count taxpayers. Currently, there is legislation that may be passed in the state legislature that would reduce that cost to 8 to $10,000 per student, which would save our district a lot of money. Unfortunately, we cannot depend on that happening. Have you thought of reaching out to the students and their families about returning to school, finding out why they left,
010possibly run a survey similar to what Mrs. Deal did last year for homeschooled students? Having homeschooled my own children for a time, I understand the importance of choice. But I find these costs to be outrageous. Outreach to parents can be a crucial turning point. I know that when I brought my children to school, Mr. Kursed and the teachers were welcoming, helpful, and made the transition so much easier. Right now, public schools are facing a time of uncertainty. We need to stay strong and think creatively on how we can best serve our district. Thank you all very much for your time. All right. Thank you. Uh we have nothing under uh correspondence, but I will take uh this time and just a few minutes to welcome uh Dr. Deshawn to the very first uh board meeting
011together. Um looking forward to uh many more. So welcome to Upper Adams. >> Thank you very much. I appreciate it. Good to be here. >> Reports. Uh nothing for LIU. Uh we do have federal programs. Mr. All >> right. Good evening everyone. Well, I learned over the past month, never say seen at all because, uh, I've been doing this for 20 years now, specifically federal programs for 20 years, uh, entering my 20th year, and this has been, uh, quite unusual, uh, for federal programs. Usually I'm the boring guy that gives you the updates every month for federal programs. And this time of year I really don't even have a report for July because I we closed out the one grant, resubmitted the other grant. Things are moving ahead and we really haven't implemented that new
012grant yet until August. However, uh came back from vacation and uh started going through emails. Everything looked okay. And then I went into the grant because we needed to electronically sign that and it started and it looked like title two for some reason was pulled out of my application and it said title two cancelled. I never ever have seen that. What's going on? So start my texted some of my colleagues in the county went and looked at it again. Title three or title title yeah title three cancelled. So, two and three were pulled out of my application. Like, what is going on? Looked at my phone. It was down 5% in battery. So, I was like, well, my phone's dying or something's going on. I looked and I had like 15 texts. So, everyone in
013the county was having the same panic attack. So, we're we're communicating. We're trying to figure out what's going on. We had no communication from the Pennsylvania Department of Education at that time. We're all looking at our grants going away without any knowledge as what was going on. Thought it's a systems glitch. Let's open. And then the final blow came the following day. Title four cancelled. So if you pull up my report here, you'll see the the particulars. After title 4 was cancelled. Uh that's their wording. We got a message from the Pennsylvania Department of Education that said they received information from the federal government on June 30th, and that date's significant. I'll tell you that why in a minute. on June 30th that the funds were being paused. That's the I think the word that
014was emphasized. Uh but there was no timeline, no guarantee, no uh guidance going forward other than the funds are paused and basically you need to come up with contingency plans on what to do moving forward until they're unpaused if they're going to be unpaused. Came out June 30th. July 1st starts the new grant year. So typically during that last week of June every year, I'm finalizing the grant. I submit it. We electronically sign it. Good to go. It's submitted, you know, no brain. It's very low-key. Uh no mess. This year, uh July 30th came, the submit button was was not enabled. So that should have been my first clue something was up. But I thought, well, maybe they're just waiting. Wasn't enabled. What? Couldn't have submitted. Couldn't submit it. So then we started seeing these
015cancellations. July 1st comes around. Everything's canceled but title one and then we get the email from PTE. So if you uh look here on my report, you'll know and just as a refresher, we get four titles. And we talked about what a title is. You can think of it a title as a a chapter in a book. So it's a book on federal funding. Each chapter you can the government calls a title. So, title one is for reading and math support and we use title one funds at Biglerville Elementary for salaries and benefits for some supplies and to some to send our teachers to conferences or reading specialists up to KS uh LA I believe it's called now up in Hershey uh each year if they choose to attend. And we received $316,395 uh for
016title one this year. Title two, we use what they call class size reduction. There are a couple things you can use title two for, but the district has always chosen to use it for class size reduction. What that allows us to do is pay for the salary and benefits of a kindergarten teacher. So, we're paying for an extra kindergarten teacher in essence to lower the class sizes as a whole for the entire kindergarten class because we do believe that early childhood education, the lower the class sizes, uh, the better environment for the students. and that was $48,893 is what we were projected to get. That's now paused for title 2. Title three has to do with ESL services. So ESL it, as you remember, is English as a second language. Uh there's some other acronyms
017um that other districts may use that mean that similar things. We use the term ESL here. And we received $24,366. We use that fund for to pay some translations for for translation fees for ESL supplies and for conferences for those ESL teachers if they choose to attend. And last but not least is Title 4. And if you go if you've been on the board for a while or you can think back, uh, Title 4 was fairly new in I think it was 2016 2017. They took a bunch of uh block grants and some other grants kind of combined them all into one and became title 4. Uh and that is for school safety. It can be for the wellness of students. It can be for some technology needs as needed. There's a kind of periphery
018of items. uh we use it to fund our smart futures uh application which is a software application that we use to uh meet the state mandated uh compliance measure for career readiness for our students and it's used K12 by our school counselors and we also u have in there we're going to use it this year for safe schools for the raptor licensing and that came out for a total of $21,813 and that is now paused as So, if you add all those three up, put them all in red, uh, that shorts us about $95,72. Um, M. Hobs and I are working every day collaboratively. Um, we have some a ready tolearn grant that may be coming our way that we have to see what we can and can't use that for. We got some line
019items in the budget for school safety that were kind of designated for something else, but we can maybe allocate uh something. I don't want to steal your thunder. Mrs. Hobby can share the nitty-g gritties and all of that, but and what we're saying is we think we can maintain these programs. Uh not to say that we we do this because we have excessive. We're doing it in spite of some others. So there's going to be other programs that we had planned for that we will need to probably shift some funds around. So, it's not uh that we have the extra funds, but we're being creative in how we're managing and some things that we're planning for may have to wait until next year until we can uh get some more funding. If they become unpaused,
020great. And I'll be here with a big smile on my face and we'll do a cheer together. Uh but at this point, uh two, three, and four are all uh currently paused. And uh that's there's been no further guidance from either the federal government or the state level at this point. Any questions I can answer for anybody. >> Thank you, Mr. Alan. >> Come on Perry. Miss Krauss. >> Hi. Good evening. Um, Cumberland Perry does not meet in July, so I have no report tonight. >> Thank you. Uh, no administrative reports for tonight and we do not have a fun advisory board report either. So, uh, superintendent report. >> Hey, good evening everyone. Glad to be here. Thank you very much for the welcome. I'm Mr. Wagel. uh I had the opportunity back um in
021May actually the very last day of school to uh kind of meet and greet all the faculty and staff and the whole district and uh it was just uh just very just pleased everybody was very welcoming and it was just a great time to interact with folks. So I was appreciative of that. So, um, looking forward to meeting all of you, uh, board members individually, discuss our mission, vision, and values and talk about the great things going on within the district and, uh, the potential challenges ahead. Uh, our admin team, uh, we're looking at, uh, the staffing for the upcoming school year and we're looking pretty good overall for our professional, uh, teaching positions. Uh we are in the process of looking at a French and for French and Spanish position as well as a
022few coaching slots, assistant uh um for field hockey and uh football junior high uh an administrative assistant and some instructional uh uh pos aid positions and a building sub. So u had an opportunity to meet with Mr. Baka. Uh he and I got together and productive meeting and conversation around legal matters and procedures. Met with Mr. uh and regarding athletics and building and grounds. And I'm even feeling very official now because he actually gave me two golf type shirts, collars with the official Upper Adams logo, which I plan on wearing, one tomorrow and one on Thursday. So, looking forward to that. Um Mr. Alvin and I had some time together to look over some curriculum instruction. Um the Keystone scores are in and our raw data is looking pretty good for our high school and
023Mr. Stroin will be doing a presentation later on the fall when everything comes in and we're able to segregate that all out. Um I had the opportunity to meet with Mr. Proffin and Mr. Costik uh with Armach excuse me Armark and Chartwells get an update on the state of affairs with cleaning and food service. All things are going in those areas and we appreciate what they're doing and the flexibility and making some adjustments uh with the hallway cleaning uh and the support uh staffing. Um, I also the this morning had the pleasure of meeting uh Mayor Phil Wagner and talking about our partnership and uh I really appreciate his heart uh for the district and the kids in the community. Um in the works are meetings with the burough police and local churches to discuss
024our rules and shared responsibilities with our community and students. U that's coming up here at the end of the um month, beginning of August. Um, we're also doing some final planning uh for our administrative team at the end of the month for two days to spend some time together to learn and grow together uh surrounding our gloves and groves and goals moving forward in the district and at the uh respective building levels. And uh to top it off and last but not least, I had a chance to run with coach Schwam and Gardner and our cross country team members this uh last week and I can tell you they gave me a good workout. So, thank you very much Mr. Wagon. Thank you, Dr. Moving on to Treasur's report. Uh, Mr. Walmer. >> All right.
025Thank you, Mr. Wigle. Make a motion for the approval of three reports here. The financial report, food service fund statement of operation, and the student activity fund. All three ending on 6:3025. Some moved. Any comments, questions for Mr. Walmart? All right, can we have roll call? >> Mrs. Plank? >> Yes. >> Mr. Wmer? >> Yes. >> Miss Youngr? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Krauss? >> Yes. >> Mr. Lustik? >> Yes. >> Mr. Wiggle? >> Yes. >> Thank you. >> All right. Committee reports. Uh, you're up again, Mr. Walmer. >> All right. Thanks again, Mr. Wel. We'll go to Mr. Wilson for a Caner fund update. Need a full report. Mr. Wilson, >> thank you. >> I brought uh Mrs. Marle along who is the brains of the outfit and when I say something wrong, she reaches
026out and slaps. Good evening everyone. Uh my name is Tom Wilson if you don't recall and uh I came and uh talked to you in May and the reason I'm here again tonight is to just give you an update as to what's changed as uh the process here is going from Caner funds to Caner Foundation. So uh let me join everyone else by the way to uh welcome you Dr. Dong to the district. Um, next slide, please. I want to start out by thanking the board for their generosity uh of the $750 uh which was a fee that we uh owed to a company in Florida named Renosi who has been walking us through this process and it's money well spent. They've they were well on top of everything and so far everything is happening
027the way it was supposed to have happened. Um since that uh influx of money, we the Canor Funds has also expended about well not about exactly $400 in filing fees with the Commonwealth and the federal government u for uh various filings that we have to make. Slide, please. I just wanted to quickly review with you u Amanda and I uh of why we're doing this. Uh as you can see on these slides, uh we the the for first thing is we gain e we are exempt from federal income tax on donations foundations uh make to the upper school district teachers, students and programs. Um additionally, and we'll talk about that in a second, we we get a break on PA sales tax. Currently people that make donations to Caner funds they're actually making their donation
028to the Adams County Community Foundation and the Caner funds is simply a pass through then we distribute the money. So if we become a foundation uh we want to make sure that those donors still have that that when we make when we disperse donations that it's done on a tax-free basis. um providing tax on that same topic tax exemption to the donors. When the donors now make uh donations to Caner funds again they're making them to Abage County Community Foundation. When we become a foundation we want them to continue to have the benefit of a tax exemption when they donate to us. So that's the second uh feature in taxes. uh when you become a uh foundation you are signaling to the public uh that we are a well- reggulated transparent missiondriven organization. That's not
029to say that Caner funds is not that now, but when we no longer uh have just a pass through status from the community foundation, uh we want to maintain that integrity with the public. Uh I have been asked, well, does this mean we're divorcing ourselves from the community foundation? Absolutely not. We this is this will be a parallel path. We are still very much into the giving spree each year. But if we can entice grants in the future for things that uh we would like to do for the school district, the students, the teachers, what have you. Um we would like to do that rather whenever the money is available rather than just in November and then have the money come to us later on. So, uh, uh, the next slide, please. >> Good evening.
030Thank you so much for having us back here to do this, uh, update for you and welcome Dr. Dong. We will work on getting you a Caner from Polo shirt very shortly. Um, so just to reiterate, and I know we spoke with you about this last time, but a few more reasons why we're pursuing this path for Caner funds. access to grants. There is money out there that we do not have access to right now. By becoming a 501c3 nonprofit organization, it opens up a world of opportunities for us. We're very fortunate to have members of the current board that have grant writing experience that are willing to put the time and effort into this. So, it opens us up to a lot more funding that currently we can't go after. um it limits the
031liability of our board members as we hopefully increase our fundraising and are working with more money. That's of course an important um issue. And then the formal go the formal governance structure. Um again, kind of like Tom was saying before, this is just a really a way for us to show that we are crossing our tees and dotting our eyes. If we are going to be asking people for the money, we need to make sure that we're being responsible and good stewards of that. We want to make sure that we are being transparent and we want to make sure that our board structure reflects everything that we are working towards. So all of these reasons, it's going to allow us to be a better partner to the district. It's going to open us up up
032to a lot more opportunities. Um and it's going to help us kind of form our plan for the future about who do we need to recruit to come on the Caner Fund board. um who do we need to work with within the district? And hopefully since we know funding is never guaranteed and things that are unexpected happen, Caner Funds really wants to be a partner to the district and help to take a little bit of that pressure off everyone else who's already working so hard to secure these funding for our students and teachers. Uh the final two items of why we're doing this uh the mission being formally stated uh is important uh because it tells the public that we understand that we are liable to the government for spending their money in the way
033that they have directed it be spent. So by coming becoming a 501c3, we we are on the hook once a year to uh validate that we've done things correctly. And this should uh make the the donors give them a sense of security that we're not just taking their money and doing strange things with it. Um, the final item is uh an issue that uh I I heard about this several years ago, but I've never had any personal experience with it, and that is the Pennsylvania's Educational Improvement Tax Credit. Uh, I want to take just a couple of seconds to let let you know what that is. Uh it's it's abbreviated EITC, not to be confused with the earned income tax credit from the federal government. Uh what this program does is in in a nutshell,
034the uh general assembly uh puts a certain amount of money into this fund once a year. Um we'll see how that works this year. and then businesses and individuals who qualify and and I'm not here to tell you what the qualifications are. I'm sure there's a website that'll tell you that. But when they calculate their tax requirement for the year, it allows them to send a portion of their tax liability directly to Caner Foundation. So, boiling it all down, if you owed $1,000 in taxes, you could make a donation, you know, $500 to Caner Foundation and send the other 500 up to uh Harrisburg. Um, so you're going to spend $1,000 anyway, and uh this is a way that it can be spent to help the school district and uh the Caner Foundation as we
035go along. very important. Um I have a an email with you know some eye watering details on EITC more in the future when I've managed to plow through that. Uh next slide please. So what have we done to date? Well, you can see on the slide we have uh we've approved new bylaws for the foundation. We've elected a president and a treasurer and a secretary. Uh those president and treasurers are important because um in order to have a bank account you have to have those two and once right now Caner funds is essentially being dispersed through uh Mrs. Hobbs. She's doing a great job but uh we we will establish our own uh fiscal accountability and and a bank account for that. Uh we've gained designation as a nonprofit in the commonwealth by uh having
036filing our articles of of uh what of whatation? >> Incorporation. Thank you. Not articles of confederation. It's the only I can think of. Uh we received a fed a federal EIN and we have filed for a 501c3. The uh next slide please. And final slide too. Uh the the 501c3 we've been advised takes 3 to 6 months. So I'm betting on the six months. Uh there's no reason at all to think that it won't be approved. It's just a question of taking time to get to that point. But once we have uh done that then we will apply for a PA charity designation so that we can then start collecting things on our own. Uh what we intend to do in the once summer's over and people come back and before we get the 501c3
037designation is have the Caner Foundation board start uh thinking their way through what we're going to do with this newfound foundation status. Um, where where might we go to find grants and donations and whatnot? What I don't want to do is wait 6 months to get 501c3 and then start thinking about what we're going to do with it once we get it. Um, Amanda didn't mention it, but she has a professional background in fundraising. So uh you know we will rely heavily on her experience to to guide us and and you know work this thing together. But uh I also hope that uh during the uh fall when people are back that we will have the opportunity to talk with teachers, building principles, Dr. Dash to see what it is that the district would like
038to do that uh they can't currently do because of funding restrictions and uh start building a a repertoire of projects to consider if we were to come up with funding in the future. Uh, in other words, I' I' I'd really rather spend six months waiting for the status to plan rather than six months waiting for something and then start planning. So, that's uh what I have to uh brief you on this evening. And if they have any questions, we'll be happy to entertain them. >> Thank you, Mr. Wilson. That was a great report. This process has gone very fast. It's been like two months since you you spoke to us. So that's impressive. It's great. >> This company in Florida, Renosi is their name. This is what they do. >> Yeah. >> And uh they
039have a website and the log, you know, you got to log. Okay. Here I'll log in. And then I started getting emails from them saying, "How come you haven't, you know, done? Maybe I'll go back and look at that website." You know, I did it two days ago and I go back there and I got a to-do list. So, I mean, >> can't argue with that. >> It was worth it was worth the $750. >> Do we have names for the president, the treasur, and the secretary who are named in >> Yes. Is it June? >> Yeah. I'm I'm the president. >> Okay. >> Mrs. Markle is the treasurer. And Deborah, >> Reed, thank you, is the TRA is the secretary. >> That's great. Well, thanks a lot and thanks for all the work you're
040doing on this. It's exciting and sounds like it's going good. >> Thank you. >> Okay, we're still with me. So, I've got a list here of um five items. Uh so, what I'll do is I'll uh give you a brief uh synopsis of what they are and then uh make a motion for approval and then discussion and then a vote. Uh so the second item is for the uh breakfast and lunch prices for next fiscal year and the plan is to keep them static. 295 for the elementary school, 295 for the intermediate school and 320 for the middle school and the high school next year. So uh those prices are going to remain unchanged for school breakfast and lunches. The next item is the uh water treatment renewal. This is a year-over-year approval that that's
041on the on board agenda for tonight. Uh there's no price increase on that item. Uh the third item is for additional services to conduct infil infiltration uh testing. Um these are for the core samples that uh are related to the uh potential project of the turf field. So there's an additional cost involved there and it's outlined uh in the attached item in your agenda. The fourth item is for Resolite. This is Co-Stars pricing and it's for the wrestling mats and the in the wrestling room. The youth organization is going to pick up $11,000 of the tab. There's $1,100 left which will come out of the capital reserve funds for the school district. And the final item is the memorand memorandum of understanding with Schroeder family dentistry. And this is just uh no no money is
042exchanged here. This is a consulting service that Schroeder dentist Dentistry graciously gives to the school on an as needed basis. So those are my four items. I'll make a motion for approval on those. >> Second. >> All right. Any comments or questions before we vote? >> Mr. W may make one comment for the lunch and the breakfast for 2526. Just a reminder, breakfast is free again this upcoming school year. So, I would just like to highlight that. And the free and reduced applications are now available on our website as well. >> Thanks, Mrs. Hobs. And that's all I had, Mr. President. >> Roll call, please. Miss Junkov, >> yes. >> Mrs. Krauss, >> yes. >> Mr. Lustik, >> yes. >> Mrs. Plank, >> yes. >> Mr. Walmer, >> yes. >> Mr. Wel, >> yes. >>
043Thank you. >> All right. Thank you, Mr. Walmer. Uh, moving on to personnel. Mr. Lostik. >> Yes. Thank you, Mr. President. Uh, moving our attention to 13.2 personnel. uh the uh school directors who are uh looking at their computers will realize or see that that this new format makes um the information very clear and uh concise and so I'm really happy about that. Uh but we'll work our way down through this um starting with 1A uh notice um recommended approval. Uh I would like to table that one item 1A uh because we're missing several of our school directors to uh the the August meeting. So I would make that motion at this point. >> I'll second that. Any comments, questions? >> Roll call. >> Mrs. Cross. >> Yes. >> Mr. Leic? >> Yes. >> Mrs.
044Plank? >> Yes. >> Mr. Mr. Wmer. >> Yes. >> Miss Youngr, >> yes. >> Mr. Wyel, >> yes. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Thank you. Then uh looking uh at item number two, it's 2A uh-1 uh relating to tenure for for five of our teachers and you see uh their names there. Moving to 2B and C. This relates to nonrenewal of an emergency permit. and you see information um uh there relating to that that matter. 2D uh relates to um uh a request to post an advertise for a math teacher for Upper Adams Middle School. 2E and F relates to uh approval to hire uh two teachers. uh the first an ELA teacher and the second a mathematics teacher for Upper Adams Middle School. Uh by the way, uh we'll soon be looking at some
045of the attachments that are available at the bottom of the uh page and so I'll be referring to those. Moving to 5A to 5F supplemental contracts. you you can see the information for six people there under um those those categories 5 A to 5F 5G relates to uh fall coaches uh per the attachment below and uh I just wanted to uh say on a personal basis I really appreciate uh seeing the the coaches that have stepped forward we have a strong athletic program and I'm very happy that uh I can endorse their uh skills and directives uh for our young athletes. So uh you'll see that information in the attachment. 5H, I and J are other hires. As you can see, 5K relates to and notice you'll need to look at the attachment. 5K relates
046to a job description for the National Honor Society Advisor. I was very happy to to read that and uh it took me back to my high school years. I'm uh of course the only school director born in the 1940s and so in 1966 already the National Honor Society was established. Uh I did not take the time to look up when it first became established but I was pleased to see that it is still a uh a functioning organization to encourage our students. So that's relates to 5A. Item six relates to other contracted and volunteer services. And so we should look at uh the attachment listed at the bottom of the page for 6C relating to Aramark. Uh that of course is our contractual organization relating to custodial and grounds maintenance. 6D uh relates to Chartwell
047Food Services and again the attachment uh provides a clear uh a summary of uh the information that that we uh have uh before us. Uh as such I make a motion to approve 2A through 6D as listed. >> Sorry. >> All right. That was a lot information. Any comments or questions? Uh for Mr. Lustik. >> Okay. Roll call, please. >> Miss Shankov, >> yes. >> Mrs. Krauss, >> yes. >> Mr. Lustik, >> yes. >> Mrs. Plank, >> yes. >> Mr. Wmer, >> yes. >> Mr. Wel, >> yes. >> Thank you. All right. Thank you, Mr. Lustig. Uh properly, uh Miss Young Cover, we have nothing under property. Uh transportation, uh recommend approval, uh for the following drivers for Jacobe, uh Kristen Wilt, and Sherman Yanks. Uh motion to approve. >> Do you have a second?
048Second roll. >> Mrs. Krauss. >> Yes. >> Mr. Leic? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Plank? >> Yes. >> Mr. Walmer? >> Yes. >> Miss Youngber? >> Yes. >> Mr. Wigle? >> Yes. >> Thank you. >> All right. Uh, committee reports. Um, we do not have anything for curriculum. Actually, I'm sorry. We do have >> do we have a motion for approval um under 14.11 for the student handbooks. >> I'll make that motion. >> You have a second. >> Okay. Sorry. Um and then also before we get to the motion uhformational only um acknowledgement of Perry Smith uh and Michael Schieler and of course goes test instructor certification u alsoformational only high school regarding the foreign following foreign exchange students. Bruno Gazaric will be an 11th grader from Slovakia. Fernanda Salazar Salazano Pizaro will be a 10th
049grader from Mexico and both will be hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Uh moment. So we have a motion for approval. Do we have a second? >> Second. >> All right. Any comments, questions on the handbooks? >> I do have some questions on the handbooks. Uh, one of them relates to the additional language that was added the additional language that was added to the Biglerville High School handbook related to racism and hate speech. I'm wondering um what prompted us to add this language. I feel like we already have this covered in our bullying and harassment policies. I'm not sure why it's why it's needed here. >> So, Mrs. Plank, I spoke with uh Mr. Graham this afternoon about those items and uh from what she shared with me, it was per a uh um an OCR
050situation that occurred with one of the sports teams that uh uh that that's why it was put in there due to those circumstances. I mean, I think maybe I would ask um Gareth, you know, uh defining hate speech and things like that. I mean, I'm obviously not an attorney, but I think there's some complexities related to First Amendment and whether or not you're comfortable with this language. >> Yeah, Mrs. Plank, I was was not involved in the uh additions to the uh handbook. I do recall there was a prior matter with the office for civil rights uh some time ago. I can't at the moment speak to the connection between that and adding this language. You are correct that um there's already existing policy in the 100s uh section that would prohibit any discriminatory behavior
051that um without looking at this further it may overlap to some extent with the additions. I'm I'm seeing here on my screen. Um, again, already covered in other existing schoolboard policies, but I would I would need to speak further to Mrs. Graham and administration to fully understand the rationale for um the revision here that I'm seeing. >> I mean, I think my other concern is that it's not consistent across the middle school or and high school. Um, from what I can tell in the middle school handbook, they don't have this langage. They simply added racial slurs to um obscene language which looks like a category 2 offense but at the high school this is a whole new category and it's category 3 offense. So there's no consistency there. I mean is it based on age
052whether you know a racial slur is considered a category 2 versus category three. Um so there there's no consistency there. So, I mean, I would propose that either this be tabled to have further discussion about these items or they be taken out because it's already covered in all the policies. >> If there's a need to add the references, I would agree that they should be the terminology should be as consistent as possible between the middle and the high school. >> Mrs. Blank, did you make a motion to that effect? Did I hear you correctly? I I would I would like to make a motion that e either I mean either or it be tabled until there's further discussion or it be taken out if they need to move forward with these student hand. >> I
053I agree with what Mrs. Plank has said and I would second that motion. I, by the way, I personally prefer the tabled uh option uh so we can gather more information and study the issue ourselves. Um but that but I would support uh the both options as uh moved by Mrs. blank. >> There still would be another board meeting prior to the start of the school year. Correct. That any >> adjustments could come back in front of the board in August. >> That is correct. >> And we can do that, Mr. Lustig. We'll we'll further uh look into the matter and see more further clarity on that in the between the two, Mrs. Plank, between the middle school and the high school and where the overlap lies. And I I'll work with uh Gula. We
054have a motion on the table to table the handbooks. Correct. >> And we have a second from Mr. Rustic. >> Okay. Do we have any other comments on this? Are we tableing all or just the high school, middle school? Just for clarity. >> Which handbooks? those the ones that have this new information are simply related to the middle school and high school. So I I don't see a need to table the elementary and intermediate. So just middle school, high school. >> Okay. All right. So the motion is to table the middle school and high school and we have a second for those. >> Okay. Do you have a roll call, please? >> Mrs. Plank? >> Yes. >> Mr. Lustik? >> Yes. Miss Young, >> yes. >> Mr. Wmer, >> yes. >> Mr. Mrs. Cross, >>
055yes. >> And Mr. Wel, >> yes. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Then we will make a recommendation for approval. A motion for to approve the Baywell Elementary's intermediate student handbooks. We have a second. Second. Any questions on those two handbooks? Roll >> call, please. >> Miss Young, >> yes. >> Mr. Walmer, >> yes. >> Mr. Lustik, >> yes. >> Mrs. Krauss, >> yes. >> Mrs. Plank, >> yes. >> And Mr. Wyel, >> yes. >> Thank you. >> All right. We have nothing under athletics, other student activities, new report. Moving on to policy, Miss Krauss. >> Okay, thank you. Um, we do not have any first read policies because we sent policy 109 back to committee for the August meeting. Um, I would like to make a motion to approve the following second read policy of
056number 802 school school organization. >> Second. >> Any comments or questions on 802? Roll call, please. >> Mrs. Plank, >> yes. >> Mr. Wmer, >> yes. >> Miss Young, >> yes. >> Mrs. Krauss, >> yes. >> Mr. Mr. Lustik. >> Yes. >> Mr. Wiggle. >> Yes. >> Thank you. >> All right. Thank you, Miss Krauss. U moving on to miscellaneous agenda items. Um the school board calendar. I would like to uh consider the board to consider um not holding a July meeting uh in 2026 u but instead having a committee meeting and a boarding meeting in August of August 4th of 2026. So we almost did not have a quorum tonight due to vacation. So I think uh we also need a break as a board sometime. So I think not having one in July
057would uh would be good. So um I recommend approval. I would make a motion to approve the uh schoolboard calendar uh to not and also removing the July uh meeting. >> Second that motion, Mr. Wagle. >> Any comments? Any questions? All right. Roll call. >> Mrs. Krauss? >> Yes. >> Mr. Leustic? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Plank? >> Yes. >> Mr. Walmer? >> Yes. >> Miss Young? >> Yes. >> Mr. Wiggle? >> Yes. >> Thank you. All right. Do we uh have a a motion to recommend approval of payment of the bills? >> So moved. >> Do we have a second? >> Second. >> Any comments or questions on the bills before we vote to approve? >> I just have two questions quick. Um, there was a a separate uh amount paid to Aramark and it
058just said services for $7,85. I was just curious what that was since we had our regular monthly payment to them. >> Yeah, that was a list of supplies that they bought that we needed to reimburse them for. >> So, that was um probably five or six total invoices that were above and beyond that contract amount. And then my other question was, it's abbreviated on here, but it says HSLC and it says library support. I was just curious what that was. >> Are you >> I would have to look to see exactly what the acron means. Um and I can let you know. >> Okay. >> If that's fine. >> Yeah, I was just curious. >> And can that was HL. >> It's HSLC and it says library support. >> Sure. >> I will follow up
059with you tomorrow. >> Okay. Thank you. Any other comments? All right, roll call. >> Mr. Wmer, >> yes. >> Miss Youngr, >> yes. >> Mrs. Krauss, >> yes. >> Mr. Leic, >> yes. >> Mrs. Plank, >> yes. >> Mr. Wel, >> yes. >> Thank you. >> All right. We have no old business or new business. Uh so items of general information uh schoolboard committee meetings curriculum and extracurricular committee meeting will be on 85 2025 at 6:30. Uh, business and operations will be upon the completion of the curriculum extracurricular committee meeting. And the policy committee meeting will be 87 2025 at 9:00 a.m. And our next regular schoolboard meeting will be uh 8/19 2025 um at 700 p.m. So we have a motion to adjourn. >> So move. >> Second. >> Thank you all. And uh
060again, thank you Dr. Dashan and welcome. >> Thank you very much. [Music]