001[Music] 711. Uh we will call the meeting to order. Uh would everybody please rise for the pledge of allegiance and a moment of silence. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, liberty and justice for all. Thank you. You may be seated. How cute was that? All right. Can we have a roll call, please? Mrs. Krauss, here. M. Jal, here. Mrs. Hollow, here. Mr. Lady, excuse. Mr. Mr. Lustik here. Mrs. Plank here. Mr. Walmer here. Miss Youngr here. Mr. Wigel here. Thank you. All right. We did have an an executive session on April 7th, 2025 and April 15th, 2025 for personnel and superintendent search. Uh do we have a motion and approval for the agenda uh for tonight's meeting? So
002moved. Second. We have roll call. Mrs. Krauss. Yes. M. Jal? Yes. Mrs. Halibal? Yes. Mr. Lustik? Yes. Mrs. Plank? Yes. Mr. Walmer? Yes. Miss Young? Yes. Mr. Wigle? Yes. Thank you. All right. Can we have approval of the minutes for the board meeting on 318 2025 per the attached document? Curriculum extracurricular committee meeting on 412025 uh per the attached document. Um business operations committee meeting on 41 2025 for the attached and also the policy committee meeting on 43 2025. So moved. Second roll call. Miss Jal, yes. Mrs. Hollow, yes. Mr. Lustik, yes. Mrs. Plank, yes. Mr. Walmer, yes. Miss Young, yes. Mrs. Krauss, yes. Mr. Wigle, yes. Thank you. All right. At this time, we'd like to recognize the delegation. Uh, the student representative report. Um, it is available. as an attachment on agenda manager.
003And if there are any questions, uh you may reach out to uh Mrs. Graham. And at this time, I would like to call Mr. Kurtstellar uh to introduce the third grade art club. Good evening. Um, we're very fortunate to have some great teachers at Big Elementary who are always looking for ways to inspire kids and to give them opportunities to do things beyond just a school day. Um, over a year ago, Mrs. Mcclelay, our art teacher at Bigville, came to me and with an idea for having an art club and she asked, "Can I write a grant to try to get some funds to run an art club after school?" And I said, "Tell me about what you're thinking about." And she shared with me and turns out she got the grant. Um, and this
004year we are running an art club for third graders. I'm g let her talk about that to you. And she's brought some of our wonderful third graders with her. So, I'm g turn over Mrs. McLean just about the third grade art club. Hey, got it up on the really big screen. We're very excited about that. So, he did introduce me. So, I am I'm Mrs. Mcclelay. Sarah Mcclelay. I'm the art teacher at Bigville Elementary. This is going to be the end of my second full year here and my 17th as an educator, an art educator. I hate to say like my 30th as an artist. So, I've been in the game for a while making art and doing creative things, which I love to do. And I really love doing it with other people. And
005so, it makes it really joyful to be able to have the opportunity to spend extra time being creative with some very creative kids. So that's about me. And I found out today, and I'm really happy about this, that it's actually World Art Day. So I thought, well, it's just a serendipitous sort of happening that today is World Art Day, April 15th. It's an international celebration promoting the arts and creative activities worldwide. And the theme today, which I thought was very fitting as well, is I love this. It's called Garden of Expression: Cultivating Community Through Art. I was like, that's a great thing to bring forward while we're talking about this wonderful community of young artists at Berville Elementary. So, just for a little bit, I'll show you some pictures up here, too. A little bit
006about my philosophy and working with these young artists. Um, the studio habits of mind are something I use to guide us in our classroom, in the art studio all the time. And I just like to say that when I talk to kids or anybody, it's not our art classroom. It's their studio. This is our space. It's our creative space together. So I really loved that we could have this opportunity to spend more time and I call it studio time where they get to do things like explore the creative process. So what do artists do and how do artists work? We have ideas. They've got plenty of them. We make plans, which is a smart thing to do. plan what you're going to do, then we make and create, and then we have time to share
007and reflect. So, I'm so grateful that we get this. This is a great time to share and reflect is to have them come up and show you some of the things that they've done. So, during our eight weeks, we had eight sessions for an hour and a half, so 4:30, 4ish to 5:30 for those sessions. We got to spend a lot of time digging into new things that they're going to share with you. But the studio habits of mind have a couple things that I just love. One of them is stretch and explore. So being able to stretch your understanding and explore new ways of making art, ways of thinking. And then I love the one engage and persist. These kids know how to engage and persist because not everything works out perfect the first
008time and there's a lot of mistakes and we always try to look at them in the art studio as opportunities. So we all make mistakes. What are you going to do with that? How are you going to grow from it? And they did some really cool things. So, I should let them talk because I keep going about that stuff. But exploring and creating, these are just some of the things we did. Explored the creative process. We did print making, book making, clay, painting, and then we had a really nice chunk of open studio time where they drive their understanding and learning through their own interests, which is something I love to see. And I love to spend time understanding where their mind's at. so that they can dig into the things that really interest them
009and they did it too. So I think that's awesome. The next section is going to be taken over to talk about exploring and creating by our first young artist, Ken Pelp, who would love to share with you some of the things that he did in the art club. They have all written speeches. That was a wonderful lunch today. Just lunch. Hi, my name is Callen Phelp from Mrs. Long's third grade class. I want to share my appreciation for art club, Miss McCle, and the people who donated money for the art club opportunity. My favorite thing was painting with acrylic paint and canvas. I made a rainbow with colors fading into each other. We also did artist trading cards and learned new techniques. For example, I didn't know that you could use gel plates instead of
010styrofoam and ink for printing. I thank you all for being here and everyone who made art club possible. And a huge thanks to Miss McQuay for teaching us about about art because without art, earth is just e. And thank you, mom, for helping me spell this right. I hope you can do it again so when my sister goes to third grade, she can do it, too. have a good night and thank you. Oh, awesome. [Applause] And next on our little agenda of speakers is Mr. Harrison Muggle. Hello, my name is Harrison Marle. After school art club was a great experience because it gave kids an opportunity to flex creative muscle they couldn't have in regular art class. We got to experiment with new materials like jelly paint. My favorite projects were painting with frosting and
011making clay figures. It was like extra credit you do for fun. Thank you to Mrs. Mccclelay and thank you for having me here tonight. Those are some of Harrison's clay figures he made that he really wanted everybody to see. So, I made sure it's on that picture for you. The bright colored things. The bright colored things. And next we have Miss Lily Nouse. We'd like to share some information about what she did. Hello, I'm Lily Nouse from Mr. Kissner's third grade class. This year, I took part in the art club and learned new art techniques. But most important, I had a great time. I learned a lot and was able to make new friends and this painting. Thank you for support and allowing us to grow our art minds. I hope art club is able
012to happen in the future. I'm going to butt in for just a second. There is a picture right here of Lily in the Adams County Arts Council showing off her fine painting. We happen to have this coincide with youth art month where we had a district-wide art show and several of the pieces that the students at the art club made were in that art show. So, I just wanted to share with you that she got to really show it off to a there were 250 people who attended that evening and we were very happy for that. Good job, Lily. And now for Miss Hazel Hanky. Hello, my name is Hazel Hanky and I am Mrs. Long in Mrs. Long's third grade class. And I will be showing you three things I made in art class.
013And we do it again. Yeah. And now for Miss Hazel. Hanky. Hello. My name is Hazel Hickey and I'm in Mrs. Mom's third grade class. These are here are three things I made in art class. In art club, all the things we do in art club are so so so fun. And you get to show your creativity. And Mrs. Mcclelay makes art club 10 times better. That's why I love art club so so much. And one day I hope my two brothers get to do art. Now here are the three things I made. Oh, good job. [Applause] I have to show off one of her pieces. I think it's so cute. We did bookm I think is a really fun thing to do with any age person that wants to make books. It's a fascinating
014like art form to study. So we did accordion fold books and hers winds up being how to draw a V. So an accordion fold opens like an accordion and she starts with how to do it and then ends with the finished product. I just thought it was really clever. And our last speaker tonight is Jackson Seville. Hi, my name is Jackson Seville. I would like to thank everyone who made art club possible. I would like to talk about my favorite thing I did in art club. We used clay to make whistles and rattles. I made a rattle. The beads that were put inside I made out of clay and wrapped in paper towels so when it hardened it would make the rattling sound. I also learned a lot of other things about art. I als
015I want to thank Miss McCle for helping to teach us all about all the different things we learned during art club. Thank you everyone for coming and have a great night. [Applause] I didn't give them extra credit for thanking me so many times. He knows that very grateful that they added me into their speeches. So, yes, thank you everybody. I did put on here, let me just some shout outs I didn't want to forget to make. So, we're so very grateful to the Daughters of the American Revolution for giving us the grant and it funded our endeavors this year. Um, Mr. Setter, thank you so much for the support and approval of our plan. Also to the wonderful parents and families that cheered us on cuz there were some days I came out and I
016think they knew it was a rough one cuz I was usually covered with clay or paint and they're like, "Yay, it was fun." So, thank you so much. And they also gave us snacks so we didn't have starving artists on our hands, which is never a good thing, you know, support local artists. Um, the third grade team, I'd like to thank them as well because they really helped with running the logistics, just making sure I got the communications out to the right people. And then most importantly, I would like to thank the amazing young artists that brought their enthusiasm, creativity, and I think more than anything, their sense of wonder. Have any questions or anything? Thank you for coming. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thanks. Have a great rest of your evening. I hear
017we get to leave now. So, thank you all to the very young and talented artists. I can barely draw a stick figure. So, I am very jealous of your talents. The more you do it, the better you get. Tell them all the time. Thank you. We forgot something. We have something from you all from Thank you, Callen. [Music] Thank you. Thank you. Way to go. Thanks. Thank you, Calvin. You're the best. Thank you. So, we can move to the boardroom. So, move. That was not supposed to be heard. Just kidding. All right, moving on to uh to public comment. 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 and the individual should state his her name, confirm that
018they 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 of no longer than 5 minutes. No participant may speak more than once in the on the same topic unless all others who wish to speak on that topic have been heard. Questions posed on citizen comment will not be addressed during the meeting. The question requires followup. The board president or superintendent will follow up individually. The board requests that neither complaints concerning job performance nor allegations of misconduct relating to specific employees or students be raised at 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
019board and other meeting attendees at the discretion of the board president. 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. Our first speaker, Mr. Phil Wagner. My name is Phil Wagner. I'd like to speak twice. First, as the executive director of the Upper Adams food pantry, you always hear bad things. And when you're on the school board, I want to let you know that this food pantry has been in Bigville Burough for 33 years. And it's been so well supported by the community. Not the least of which is the young men and women of this school district. I love it to death. The Apple City FFA, the football team, the wrestling team, the booster clubs, and I'm sure
020I miss some. These are young men and women that are supporting their community before they're even out of high school. They care. It is evident. It's just thank you to all the parents and stuff here and yeah, everybody that knows me. I care about Bakerville. I care about my community and I want the school board to know in spite of all the stuff you have to deal with, there's a bunch of good kids here. Now, let me put on my mayor hat. Mayor Bigville, this good news way ahead, I know, but I got to get started. Flag day, flag ceremony. June the 14th, 2026, there's going to be a huge upper Adams communities celebrating America's 250th birthday. All the small communities north of Gettysburg are going to be involved. We're going to start at the
021school here. Go down Main Street. Get down Handover Street. Go to Oakside where there will be a car show. There will be tractor show. There will be bands on the stage from 3 to 4, 4 to 6. And at 6:00 we move to the Legion for the official flag burning ceremony that always happens on a Sunday afternoon. I just wanted to address the board so that you get in on the groundwork and know what's happening. You have any questions? Fine. I apologize for being emotional. That's me. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Phil. Thank you. And I draw great stick figures. They must run in the family. Yeah. All right. Uh, next, uh, Miss Deb Stckler. My name is Deb Steckler and tonight I'm coming to you as a taxpayer of Upper Island School District.
022During the budget discussion of the meeting that took place on April 1st, there was a lot of talk about the Homestead Farmstead Act. Mrs. Hobs did a great job putting together charts showing the historical data over the past 5 years depicting the correlation of when the state's budget to school increases, the reduction passed along to taxpayers also increases. Over the past five years, the state budget increased by 52.74% and the taxpayer deduction increased by 53.65%. Because of the Homestead Farmstead Act, even when there was a tax increase in the 2122 tax year, taxpayers saw a reduction in their tax bill. This all sounds great, and I highly encourage anyone who qualifies as an owner of a primary residence to sign up. Who wouldn't want to save money on their taxes? However, as I listened to
023the presentation, Dr. Bell commented, "You may increase taxes, but they referring to the taxpayers may not see a tax increase if they are in the Homestead Farmstead Act." Later on, he stated, "A tax increase is not an increase. It's actually a reduction." No matter how you look at it, an increase is always an increase. The Homestead Farmstead reduces what the taxpayer ends up paying. It does not change the tax rate that is set by the board. The Homestead Farmstead Reduction Act is part of the taxpayer relief act that is funded by the state's gaining revenue. It is supposed to be a benefit especially to senior citizens to ease the financial burdens of home ownership and lower property taxes. It is not supposed to be a way for the board to try to sneak tax increases
024upon its citizens by washing out the deduction as implied by Dr. Bell's comments. The property tax relief amount varies from district to district with the state sending the most resources to the communities with the greatest tax burden and least local wealth. In Adams County, Upper Adams received the most money for taxpayer by about $100 more than the next district. And we had the second highest school district tax mill rate in the county. At the time presented, there was a projected shortfall in the budget, but a 0% tax increase. Mrs. top shared how using some assigned and unassigned funds could offset that shortfall, but the board will decide on that at a later date. Hopefully, the state passes their budget on time this year, so our board knows what they may be working with when trying
025to balance their own budget. I understand that sometimes raising taxes is a necessity to cover a budget to maintain the quality of education that our district is known for. The school has the same raising costs due to economic uncertainty that we all are seeing in our household budgets. Whatever the board decision makes, please do so in a transparent manner and not mask it by counterbalancing with the homestead farmstead reduction. Thank you for your time. Thank you. Moving on to uh reports uh LIU Dr. Bell uh you have at your uh connected to your your uh agenda the IU report highlights from the board meeting. Probably one of the most significant things I call your attention to is they completed their collective bargaining agreement uh for their uh education association. that runs from July this July
02625 for 5 years to uh 2030. So that's a good very good thing. They they've got a new uh executive director. Now they have a new contract that's in place. Um so that's probably the biggest highlight that they would have had at the last meeting. The next meeting they'll be talking about their special education budget and that next meeting will be May 6th. And that's the report unless there's any questions. Any questions? All right. Uh, Mr. Alban, uh, federal programs. Yes. Good evening, everyone. Just two items this evening. Uh, the first day after school program that we hold every year has been completed. Had about 40 students this year at Bigville Elementary. So, many thanks to Mr. Kirster and my, uh, wonderful team of reading specialists who coordinate that every year. uh very excited to
027keep that going uh every March for the that particular population. Uh the second item is I'll be attending the federal programs coordinator conference uh Sunday May 11th through uh Wednesday May 14th. The big item there is always how much money are we going to get next year. So that's why you go there. You get the updates for the new grant season and also find out what the projected funding is which should be very interesting this year considering what's going on at the federal level. So, I'll be looking forward to sharing with you the updates I get at that conference and see where we stand for next year. Thank you. All right. Uh, moving on to Cumberland Perry. Uh, Miss Cross, um, just a a quick note that Cumberland Perry will be offering the middle school
028camps this summer again. um two days the week of June 9 and 10 and also June 16 and 17. Um there will be more information coming as soon as Cumberland and Perry post it. But we have been fortunate in the past to have at least a van available to take students up to those camps. That's it. Thank you. Uh fund advisory board. Miss Haval. Uh, no report tonight. No report. Moving on to administrative reports. Uh, any uh comments or any questions for the administration? Well, I just wanted to um I thought it was really cool the uh with the uh kids with the um escape thing and the field trip and at the beyond the battlefield thing. I was reading that. I thought that would sound like a lot of fun. So, I just wanted
029to point that out. I was kind of jealous actually when I was reading that because it sounded like it was a a fun field trip. So, if you haven't been down to the experiences, yeah, you're welcome. It looked like it was a it would have been a good time. So, as well as the uh making your own candy bar, but I should not go on that field trip. I thought the 93% parent teacher was good from usually. Um, the Pirates program was phenomenal. The second graders, right? Unbelievable. Kudos to your music teacher, and I'm sorry I can't say her name. Miss Carter. Miss Carter. Yes. And, uh, Nikki Kelly. Uh, it was fantastic. Um Beth Graham, I just I have to share a point of levity. Um I have helped with the real life program
030for quite a few years now and I helped again this year and I helped with budgeting and these were 11th and 12th graders budgeting and they were given a scenario a real life scenario that you know this is your profession you're married or you're not married you have three kids you have no kids whatever and they have to put a budget together and make it work. And I had a young man at my table who wanted a BMW and I said to him and he was he he did not have a college degree. I mean some of them were physical therapists. I forget what he was but I knew he wasn't going to be able to afford a BMW but he wanted it. So we talked about needs and wants and anyway I said okay
031well let's do the BMW and we'll see how it works out with your budget. So he works on down through and all of a sudden he smacks his head. He said oh my gosh. And I said what's wrong? He said, "I forgot I have a kid." He said, I said, "You see the whole BMW thing?" And he said, "I'll just put the kid in the front seat." I said, "Well, that's illegal." It is I just love that program. Those kids, they took so much away from that. It's a great great program. It's really an excellent day. And I would love like to take a minute to thank all of our volunteers. Without volunteers, that day wouldn't happen. And it really It's hands-on experiences, that real life budgeting experience. I think they learn it in the
032classroom, so it pairs very nicely with the semester of financial literacy that we do. Yeah, it's a good program. Thank you for making it all work. Thank you. Anybody have any other comments? I just have two comments. Uh, one for Mr. Brewer. Two words jumped out, actually three words jumped out in your report. well behaved and they respectfully I think listened I think it was in there. So middle school students that's an achievement. So great job uh on that one. Uh the other one is Miss Buckley. Um I was glad to see and always excited to see color is May 9th. Um I still have great memories of color and I may still have she had my ribbons maybe somewhere but um it's a great memory that they will always have. So glad to see
033that still it's still in there. So May 9th is color. Sorry, I have one more. Sure. Dr. Booer, what is um annual family night out? Uh the health department hosted. We typically have this year to do that. We're going to pull it on here. So, it's 4 to 7. We will have some beverages and drinks there. Okay. But yeah, you all welcome. Okay. All right. Thank you. Any other questions or comments for Oh, I have another one. I'm so sorry. I was so excited to for the night. I'm so sorry. I was so excited about this one. Um the the Bigville Elementary School sign was cleaned. Notice that, too. It looks fantastic to wash. Good restoration. That was great. Thank you. That's Hats off to Anthony. Yeah. Yeah, that was great. Okay, I'm done. Any
034other I'm afraid to ask. So, I'm finished. Look. I'm gonna look to my right. Any other questions? Was the sign refurbished or just cleaned? I know there was It was just power washed. Okay. There was some bricks coming off of it. Well, there's still a few there. Okay. So, it's an ongoing restoration. It's not done. Good. Mr. Eert would be happy that it got pressure washed. He probably knows it got done, but Yeah. Looks really nice. All right. Uh, superintendent report. Dr. Bell. Well, if you ever have a day that you're, you know, want to be cheered up a little bit, just go into one of the elementary schools and listen to the pledge. How about it? Love their voice. And yeah. Oh, yeah. It's just awesome. Um, I I've had the opportunity to uh
035go to student forums that were set up prior to me coming here and I think they're just a great thing. Uh, all the forms, but the student form where uh it's just a continuation of the past meetings and the students come in 7 through 12, get to meet and talk with them. Um the the Chartwells does a spectacular buffet lunch for them. Great desserts. Must have found out I love Boston cream pie because that was there. It was great. Um but the la but we ended it. It was the it's the last time for the year and had several discussions of what did you like best about the year? What what sticks out to you? There was extracurricular co-curricular curricular. I mean, it just went across the board and pretty much solidified what we've seen
036in the Gettsburg Times, what we've seen in Commonwealth or in the not Commonwealth, sorry, Gettsburg Connections, the the articles that have been put out. It's just an excellent place to be and the kids are really the reason behind it. Uh, and it just really gives everybody uh that I talk to a level of excitement to deal with that and to listen to them. I'm sad that it's the last one that I get to go through. Uh, but it was great to listen to what they wanted to do. Uh, also then for their summer. Uh, some were traveling. Some said about traveling certain places and and Mr. Brewer and I were like, I'm going with you. uh is some obviously working uh playing uh fishing different things that I mean they they're they're thinking about it.
037It's it's coming. It's it's right around the corner for them. But it was really neat to listen to them do that. Again, hats off to Chartwells for putting together that lunchon every time. Sometimes they put something new that they want to put on the menu. Uh so it's a good little trial and error piece that they get to have. Uh and they get to finalize things that way. also have forms with the individual teachers at different uh levels. Uh it was it was also um you know a quiet time because end of the year. Uh everybody's uh put in pretty much a full year and uh they're they're wearing down too. Uh but they they they all had a very good year. So it was good to hear that. They were very excited about things
038coming to a close and what we could do in the future uh in the district. So, it was really neat to see that all the way through and uh it kind of just puts, you know, uh solidifies everything that you guys vote on, you guys approve, you guys put in place. They're the ones that get to live it and uh you know, some of us really get to enjoy it. So, thank you for that as well. And then finally, we began to plan the end of the year breakfast. Uh Shel's doing a good job with getting some sponsors for breakfast. Uh and we'll be able to do that then in the uh cafeteria up here. We'll be able to recognize the retirees as the year ends and bring some culmination to that. Then send people
039back to their buildings so that they can really um get ready to be refreshed throughout the the summer months and and do their research and things that they want to put in place for next year. And finally, I just want to wish everybody a very blessed Easter. And that concludes my report unless there's any questions. Any questions? Thank you, Dr. Bell. Uh, Mr. Walmer, uh, treasures report. Thank you. I'm going to combine the three items as I usually do. Items 12.1, 12.2, and 12.3. Uh it's going to be the financial report, the condensed board board summary report, food service fund statement of operations, and the student activity fund. All ending March 31st, 2025. So I'll make a motion to approve those items. Second. Any questions or comments on the uh on those items, charge report?
040All right. Roll call, please. Mrs. Hollow, yes. Mr. Lustik, yes. Mrs. Plank, yes. Mr. Wmer, yes. Miss Young, yes. Mrs. Krauss, yes. Miss Jalongal, yes. Mr. Wel, yes. Thank you. All right, the consent agenda items. Does anyone want anything pulled out um from the consent items? All right, do we have a motion? So moved. Second. All right. Roll call. Mr. Lustik. Yes. Mrs. Plank. Yes. Mr. Wmer. Yes. Miss Young Cover. Yes. Mrs. Krauss. Yes. Miss Jal. Yes. Mrs. Holiday. Yes. Mr. Widel. Yes. Thank you. All right, moving on to uh the committee reports. Uh finance, Mr. Walner. Okay, we'll start out with the first item. This is uh for the approval of the food service management company. Uh it's the renewal year cost reimbursement contract for the school district. The term of the contract is
041July 1st, 2025 to June 30th, 2026 between Upper Adam School District and Compass Group USA. And um it's through their Chartwells division. And the uh the document the contract is attached Second. Any comments or questions on the contract? All right. Okay. Uh, we'll go to Mrs. Hobbs for a budget update. She has a one pager that I think he's going to vote. Are you Mr. W? Are you combining everything together? Because I already have a second. Uh, what do you mean everything? Are we voting on each item separately? Sure. Roll call, please. Mrs. Plank, yes. Mr. Walmer, yes. Miss Young Cobber, yes. Mrs. Krauss, yes. Miss Jalal, yes. Mrs. Hollowal, yes. Mr. Yes. Mr. Wel, yes. Thanks. Sorry. Okay, we'll go back to you, Mrs. Hobs. You have a budget update for us. Nice and
042brief, a one pager. Yeah. So, what's attached in the agenda manager is just a summary of the information that I have shared over the last several weeks in March and April, just stating what our local, state, and federal revenues um are projected to be. Once again, this is all work in progress. So local revenue being a little bit over $36 million. Total expenses as I shared back probably in March about $ 38 million with a variance of $2 million. Um this information I'm presenting tonight because come May 6, we are going to have to have a special voting meeting to uh approve the preliminary budget. So it is public for the 30 days. If we wait, um, we're just shy a little bit on those 30 days needed for the final budget adoption in June.
043Once again, our preliminary budget that I will present here in May will be higher most likely than what the board adopts in June. Once again, we're still waiting to see if any of the additional information comes from the state that can be factored into that final budget um, come June 17th. Once again, the uh expenses do include some of the asks that were talked about early on, which is our summer enrichment program, district translators, adding into the budget the speech pathologist from a contractor to a UASD employee, additional assistant coaches, girls wrestling, security upgrades, and crossing guards. So, all that is being factored into those expenses that I have projected. Once again, it'll be the board decision of how we make up that variance in the end while using a combination of assigned or unassigned
044funds. Okay. Any comments on that from the board? Look forward to the main meeting and we'll get some uh clear numbers at that point. They get clearer and clear as we get towards the end of the fiscal year. Uh but I will say we're in good shape as a school district financially. Okay, the last item I had and I'll make a motion to approve the Lincoln Intermediate Joint Purchasing uh Board Electric Participation Agreement. This is to run uh for a 2-year period from January 1st, 2028 to uh January 1st, 2030. And this is a yearly approval that we do for this uh the electric rates for the school. Second. Any comments or questions on the agreement? All right. Roll call. Miss Shan Cover. Yes. Mrs. Krauss. Yes. Miss Jal? Yes. Mrs. Hollow? Yes. Mr. Lustik?
045Yes. Mrs. Plank? Yes. Mr. Walmer? Yes. Mr. Wyel? Yes. Thank you. Okay, that's all I had. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Walmer. Uh, moving on to uh personnel. Mr. Lustik. Yes. Thank you, Mr. President. Uh, as uh uh the um the normal procedure here, I will um draw your attention to the various uh items that have uh information for us. And if there is a question or comment, uh I'll pause and we'll take those. Otherwise, uh if there is a a vote required, it'll be at the end of the report. Uh turning our attention to 14.2.2.1 retirement. You'll notice uh one person who is retiring. Uh I honor her uh for her 18 years of service. I would echo that. That's with big regrets. That's a She's a great teacher. Thank you. 14.2.2 uh new
046hire. Uh you'll notice information there. Next one is 14.2.4.1. And notice this is supplemental contracts, athletics and information regarding one um individual varsity track volunteer. Okay. Our next one is supplemental contracts educational. Uh that would be um 14.2.4.2 two and you see the information there uh along with cost for services. Our next one is volunteer services 14.2.5. Uh I've been doing these reports for uh a couple of months and I'm always very uh appreciative of the fact that we have a strong um cadre of volunteers in our school system. So I really honor that. Uh and you'll see um the uh people who are uh have added their names to uh to that overall list. Okay. The next one is uh 14.2.6.1 uh other contracted services uh ARMAC [Music] The next one is 14.2.6.6.1 Kelly
047Education Educ, excuse me, Kelly Education Teacher Substitutes. And our final uh item that has information is 14.2.6.6.2 Kelly Education Support Staff Substitutes. And that concludes my report. a second. Any comments or any questions uh on those? I would just say u congratulations to Miss Long and thank you for the 18 years of service and the retirement at the end of the year and uh welcome to Carter Klein as the next sixth grade teacher at Upper Adams. We have roll call. Mrs. Cross. Yes. Miss Jalal, yes. Mrs. Hollow, yes. Mr. Lustik, yes. Mrs. Plank, yes. Mr. Wmer, yes. Miss Young Cobber, yes. Mr. Wel, yes. Thank you. All right. We have nothing under property or uh transportation. So, moving on to committee reports. Um we have nothing under curriculum or athletics or other student activities. Um
048so policy committee Miss Krauss. Thank you. Um there are no first read policies tonight. Um so moving to second uh read I recommend approval of the following second read policies. Number 610, purchases subject to bid and number 706.1, a new policy regarding the disposal of surplus property, obsolute equipment, and real estate. Second. Any comments or questions uh for Miss Krauss? All right. Roll call. Mrs. Plank. Yes. Mr. Wmer. Yes, Miss Young Cover. Yes, Mrs. Cross. Yes, Miss Jal. Yes, Mrs. Hollow. Yes, Mr. Leic. Yes, Mr. Wel. Yes. Thank you. All right. Nothing under miscellaneous agenda items. Moving on to payment of bills. Do we have a motion to pay the bills? So moved. Second. Do we have any questions on the bills? Comments on the bills. All right. Roll call. Mr. Walmer? Yes. Miss Young?
049Yes. Mrs. Krauss? Yes. Miss Jal? Yes. Mrs. Hollow? Yes. Mr. Lustik? Yes. Mrs. Plank? Yes. Mr. Wigel? Yes. Thank you. All right. Nothing under old business. New business. We do have an announcement. Um, buses may be delayed due to railroad construction taking place within the district. Uh, specifically on East York Street from April 22nd to 24th. Uh, details will be posted by PennDOT and we will communicate as needed as a district as well. Um the other item is um Yep. The other other item is from the executive session. There will be a special uh board meeting next Tuesday, April 22nd at 2025 at 700 p.m. uh here in the auditorium. And items for general information. The next school board committee meetings uh the curriculum and extracurricular committee meeting will be on 56 2025 at 6:30.
050Business and operations committee also on 56 2025 upon completion of the curriculum extracurricular activity or committee meeting policy committee meeting on 512025 at 9:00 a.m. All those will be in the boardroom and the next regular schoolboard meeting uh will be 520 2025 at 700 p.m. Any other comments, [Music] questions? All right. Do we have a motion to adjourn? So move. Second. Thank you all for coming.