001e e e but we're in a position now all right 7:00 meeting is called to order um do have one quick announcement so uh board members when you speak please speak into the mic so that everybody online can hear hear us um we please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance and move silence United States Amica One Nation indivisible andice for all thank you may be seated I have a roll call please Mrs Krauss here M Jalal excuse Mrs Halal here Mr lady here Mr lustic here Mrs plank here Mr Walmer here M Young cover here Mr Wile here thank you all right on Wednesday uh March 12th 2025 we did have an executive session regarding the superintendent uh search can I have uh moving on to agenda kind of a recommend approval of the agenda
002for the meeting for this evening so moved second roll call Mrs cruss yes Mrs Halal yes Mr lady yes Mr lustic yes Mrs plank yes Mr Walmer yes Miss joh cover yes Mr Wile yes thank you all right can I have a motion to approve the uh board meeting minutes on 2025 the minutes for the curriculum extracurricular committee meeting on 34 2025 business operations committee meeting on 34 2025 and the policy committee meeting on 36 2025 so moved second roll call Miss John cover yes Mr Walmer yes Mrs plain yes Mr letic yes Mr lady I Mrs Halal yes Mrs cross yes Mr wle yes thank you all right moving on Rec recognition of Delegation uh student representative report I don't think we have one this evening uh com Perry um do we have a
003presentation Mr Tom Wolf here for the presentation for coming and Perry good evening and thank you very much for the time to be here this evening we appreciate your continued support of C per uh I am fortunate enough to have two of our shared students accompaning me tonight I'm going to introduce them and allow them to tell you a little bit about their experiences at Cumberland Perry and then following that I I will make uh a few comments about the information that you have in front of you I'm sure you would much rather hear from them than from me uh anyway uh first is Vanessa Perez Peralta good afternoon U my name is Vanessa pra and I want to thank you um all first for giving me the opportunity to speak about myself and about
004CPA CPC um so I'm a level three student and I'm in the program of healthcare Pathways over the course of the 3 years of being there I have taken in healthare anatomy and physiology CNA lobotomy Pharmacy and on currently taking office procedures there's there are many reasons why I pick this program but I'll keep it short and simple I pick this Pro program so that I'm able to help everyone that I can and make them feel better working in the healthcare area has always been a dream of mine I am so glad that being at CPA CTC has given me the opportunity to gain the knowledge and experience of many things regarding the healthcare area there are many interesting things about Heth Pathways our school recently got a table which is a touch screen and
005has many cool things on it from the human or body to the organs and everything the body has overall CPA CTC has been a great experience and has been great to me I am involved in Osa and National Technical Honor Society in Tech outside of tech I'm involved in National Honor Society National Art Honor Society and track and field once I graduate I plan to attend college and continue my education to gain my knowled I'm going to I'm going to get my BSN RN and proceed with my career from there once again I want to thank you all for giving me the opportunity to speak about myself and about PH does anybody have any question what's your favorite thing that you've been learning um like overall like course uh probably photomy and CNA so photomy
006is right like explain so bottomy is like when you drop blood you like that you like like that you like to poke people with okay you're my least favorite person that n so when when you finish up this year what what noctis will you take or what certifications will you to end I'll be taking NOC next yeah and then I'll be taking office procedure certification are are any of your courses uh tied with any of the local colleges in your program um well we have a program emerging Healthcare um they have they're connected with um p pentech and there's another one I know there's I think so you'll end up with some credits to college that's what I meant good thank you thank [Music] you thank you Vanessa our second student is Caleb trimmer Caleb
007good afternoon allow me to introduce myself my name is Caleb trimmer I a senior here at bville high school and I'm also par I am enrolled in the criminal justice program per um I have been there for 3 years like I said as a third year student um I entered there my first year not knowing exactly what I wanted to do with my life I wasn't sure whether or not I wanted to go straight in the workfield be a wer or join the public servants so I decided to join criminal justice and I've stuck with it ever since um my first year was very rough we went through a plethora of teachers my first teacher Mr Shannon he was great he left to go back to be a full-time patrol officer pursuing his career that
008he loved um our second teacher was unfortunately fired and then our third teacher which we have now Mr weary he is amazing he has so much background in law enforcement he's a sergeant at the Carl State Police Barracks Maan hler so everything that he teaches us he has done countless times um specific things we do in the program are fingerprinting we are fingerprinting traffic stops handcuffing um evidence collection crime scene management anything just about you can think of this year we are currently on the corrections year so jails prisons pro pro probation all that um there is the criminal year which is all your criminal law and all that boring stuff that that year and then the traffic here was even worse that was even more annoying going through the title of traffic law memorizing
009and taking tests on it was not fun um very interesting equipment we have we have a fingerprinting machine that uses iodine that will pull out the fingerprints um we have latent fingerprinting dust we have a simulator which we have not used at all this year but we will I'm sure the simulator um has simulations of Live And realistic simulations of traffic stops incidents AC shooters and speaking of after shooter situations we had a simulation yesterday at Mountain View Middle School we were brought to it by the Cumberland Valley Police Department to be actors in The simulation we were there at 7:00 yesterday morning for an active shooter simulation and the state police and all of them came and extracted us and did their training as normal they have an after actions report on the 31st
010of March and hopefully they will release the body cam footage to us which would be very beneficial to the people in our class who are not able to participate inot Tech I have earned the award of the National Honor Society techn Society um my grades are pretty good I like to thank um here I am in the National Honor Society um I used to participate in track and field this year I did not because I working trying to make money to pay for college I plan to attend hack and Harrisburg to pursue their Wildlife fishery science um I want to become a game Game Commission it's one of the main reasons I joined the class outside of here I volunteer for Camp noaca which I did get accepted for again this year that is a
011very fun time for not only me but the fifth graders it's very rewarding to see the fifth graders we now seventh graders every single day come and thank me for what I taught them and how impactful I was on their lives back when they were young they still are yeah future plans like I said I plan to attend Harrisburg University or hack in Harrisburg sorry and get my degree I only need a 2-year and then I plan to take a year of work and then apply for the pyvan Game Commission the training for that is 56 weeks so it is a year long is 26 weeks longer than the state police but it will be wor um like Vanessa said the knock is on April 25th of next month I will be tested on a
012few different fields um DUI sobriety tests I will be performing those on off duty police officers that are not in the school um I will be tested on the crime scene management memory tests and handcuffing um that's about all I have anyone have any questions Cale I I think I remember hearing um don't the criminal justice students help to organize your safety day I'll talk about saf can you talk about what you guys do for that I don't want to get myself in trouble for this morning an English class supposed to be paying attention but I was sending emails for safety day so I don't have my laptop on me but we have I think 30 agencies already confirmed to attend safety day our safety Day event is a event where we invite a plethora
013of agencies whether it be Advocate Services it be law enforcement EMS fire departments anything that might be related to the students in K and Perry to attend for their future careers they come in and just talk about what they do and how they work it and possibly how to enjoy and enter that career Fields um I am not supposed to be running the safety Day this year I did down to the second years two of them but they have not done anything so I took it back over and put it back in my hands because I don't want to see it go downhill okay thank you thank you very much for a very very interesting uh presentation uh I've been thinking about the various law enforcement options that you might consider as you uh uh
014think about the Game Commission uh also in Pennsylvania is the fishing boat commission which also has wco's water waste conservation officers uh and the dcnr Rangers uh that take care of State Forest and state parks uh out of federal level uh the fish and wildlife service would have uh law enforcement Personnel likewise so i' I'd really encourage you I think it's a a fascinating field and uh would want the the very best for you as you uh proceed with it I have looked into most of those agencies as a career field that I um they're they're all on the back of my head but the Game Commission is my my number one choice right now just because I'm more involved with animals on land than I am fish like I do love fishing and hunting
015both but I'm more of a hunter than I am a Fisher so I have I don't want to say more respect for land animals but I know more about them than I do fish I did attend a wildlife Leadership Academy last July in Lock Haven and it was a 5-day field Camp I stayed overnight um I did did take the brook trout Camp they have five different field schools it's the brook trout the Bears white tail turkey and there's another um I did the brookies one about Brook Trout because I wanted to educate myself more on the brook trap rather than the white tail cuz I already think I knew everything I did not I promise oh goodness any other questions you guys partip at in any studies like um the waste in the wasting
016disease and deer and that kind of stuff yes um I personally have shot a couple of deer chronic wasting disease and I always turn them into the game commission for them to study them they pull the spine off their back and the skull and they test them for the disease I do ask to keep notified of what they find so I can keep that in my mind to help me later on so I don't have to learn it later um yeah it's it's very sad to see an animal have that kind of disease because it just keeps them alive [Music] literally the deer that you referring to were taken here in Adams County is that correct here in Adams County right right off of uh aspers bra aspers I'm surprised they weren't on this Hall
017of's property they're pretty close keep them and ask Caleb do you also weld I do wow I uh you just do it all I should have spoken about my certifications I got so I'll start with my certifications that I got myself um I went to a wedding School in Harrisburg somewhere I forget the name of it was a couple years ago I got certified in my um Mig and stick welding I do not like T it's very difficult don't ever try um I got those because I wanted something to fall back on it was either that or I was going to be a CDL driver which I might pursue and get my CDL just in case um my brother is a CDL driver so anything I need to ask I can ask him um and
018then certifications I get from colon Perry I have four Nim certifications which is the national Incident Management System from fima that is a federal company um I was required to take that and then I also have a career safe curriculum that I was required to take by my instruct and I believe the school I don't remember yes yes okay there and I took I think it was 12 courses which is well over I think 15 hours of courses online which is is not fun I [Music] promise I like questions keep going like that's it thank you very much thank you thank you a thank you very much Caleb I think it is always great to hear from the students about the positive experiences they're having in their programs at the CTC um I I would
019like to call your attention to the two sheets that were left uh on the table for you meeting the white sheet has some information specifically about uh upper school district and the students that they send to Cumberland Perry uh currently for the 2425 school year we have 30 students that are spread out across about 14 of our programs and uh the highest number is we have five students in the decent Technology Program I'm not quite sure what led to that dip and enrollment for this year uh Mrs Krauss and I were talking about that a little bit prior to the meeting my guess is you probably had a number of students apply to programs that were already filled um I was also asked to provide a little bit of information about the quota information that
020is included there the quota is determined by taking like to determine our quotas for next school year we take the enrollment of all of our sending school districts in grades 9 10 and 11 that is reported to PBE in October of the school year once we have that that total then the number of students like in in in this case in upper Adam School District the total number of students in grades 9 10 and 11 are divided by the total number of the students to get a percentage that percentage is then multiplied times the total population of all the districts and that that is how we arrive at the quota there's a little bit more detail goes into it once you get down into the program level but I I think that kind of gives
021you an idea of how we arrive at those numbers and where that comes from um I would like to point out that from 20 the 15 16 school year until this school year the the participation from Upper Adams has consistently increased up until to really just this year there was a couple years that had dropped by one or two maybe three people but that does not happen without the encouragement of all of you as board members the administration in the high school the counselors the teachers and I I think that encouragement for students to pursue a career in technical education I think is great advice right now I don't think there has ever been a time that there was more Value Place on on that Career and Technical Training that we were able to provide
022so for your continued support I really would like to thank all of you um on this color sheet there there's a lot of numbers on here and a lot of facts there's a couple things that uh right now if you look at our enrollment in the 20 in 20 24 it is up 44% from uh 13 years ago that I I think is somewhat remarkable I think if you look at the stars here at the bottom the numbers that are in there the first one there 1,700 that is the number of Industry credentials that were earned by our students last year that number is somewhat impressive on its own as it is more than one credential per student but I think we have to look individually at what these credentials provide for the student and
023I going to just use two examples one is the CNA certification that the students are able to earn a student who gets that credential is looking at somewhere between probably an additional $4 and $7 per hour when they go out to work in a long-term care facility for many of our students that enables them to make a wage that they're able to support themselves as they continue their education after they graduate from high school or to Simply join the workforce fulltime and be able to support themselves so I think that that is important another credential in one of in our more industrial programs is in the automotive technology and Diesel technology programs those students have the opportunity to earn their their pend do emissions and safety inspection certification for many of those students that would
024mean an increase in somewhere between $2 and $6 an hour in what they can earn um and I I think you can see there's a lot of these credentials that really help the students out on a personal level uh the next thing is 723 college credits that are offered to our students uh throughout the school year again I think some of our programs we have students that can earn up to 12 credits through dual enrollment that can mean that it makes that transition into their postsecondary education easier because they do not have to take as heavy of a loan the first semester or two for some students it means that they can completely eliminate a semester of of college and for other ones it just they they are entering into that college level cours workk
025while they still have the support of a high school teacher that is helping them supporting them and helping them to be successful in that transition I think any of those things on their own make it worthwhile to to pursue those dual enrollment credits uh last year we had 129 students participate in our Cooperative education program currently we are around 115 students for this school year we continue to have students that are applying for jobs and and that are looking to move into the workforce I am guessing that we will probably end up at about that same level by the end of the school year again this year and I think it is very important to look at what that means for many of those students it's not just that they have gotten a job and
026are working while they're in school for many of them that is that is helping them to make that transition into the workforce and they will be offered a full-time job upon graduation that will allow them to to make a family sustaining wage um and to that end we have the cooperation of over 400 business and industry Representatives that employ our students through the co-op program or participate in our occupational advisory committees for each of our programs uh I am very passionate about Career and Technical education I do not know if uh any of you heard what I I was talking a little bit before the meeting I was a teacher at Cumberland Perry for 16 years uh I had been gone for between eight and N years in an admin at another CTC and a
027variety of administrative positions and when I had the opportunity to come back as the leader of Kum Perry I I felt that that was a great opportunity and I if I could have picked any position in the state where I would have wanted to be this is it so I would be Happ happy to answer any of your questions um or provide you with any information that I can I would like to encourage each or all of you to reach out to me and come and schedule a tour of the school and go through it and let us show you what your students are doing while they were there Mr Wolf yes um could you just briefly I know the bids were open today and I know you can't really discuss those but can you
028give a short summary of the next few months in terms of the construction plans or the goal is to break ground in June and I believe that we are on track for that unless we get hung up in a permitting issue but we have the one phase of the project is that some of the work will be done this summer in some of the areas inside of the existing building so that next summer that can be completed so that those areas will we can move into them for the start of the 26 27 school year we will prior to school closing we will probably have some contractors uh you know assuming everything stays on schedule that we'll begin to to bring in the supplies and stuff to set up the construction site and the construction
029will be going full board this summer and then there are some things that we will have to put some temporary things in place uh at the middle of August for the start of the school year um for any of you that are not familiar the the the Expansion Project will add when everything is completed both the expansion and the renovations inside the existing building it will add 270 students to the school 135 in each session I can I can keep talking that's good that's good thanks and and just a predicted completion the we are on scheduled to our plan is to be in the new building at the start of the 206 27 school year thank you yes I just have a comment um our family owns an agricultural business in the district and for
030whatever reason we're seeing a a nice swell of young people interested in horiculture and egg business what we're not seeing a swell in is in and welders and diesel mechanics and all the people who allow our business to keep running so I'm just really grateful for your program and our students who are um following those Pathways because there are careers right here in Adams County um in the agricultural sector so thank you you're are welcome thank you for your support I will tell you that one of the programs that that was a strong consideration in this Expansion Project was we had had had a weight list each year for our welding program that we had far more students wanting in it than we could serve and that is one of the things that's being addressed
031by this this construction good thank you when I became a member of of the school board uh we were given an opportunity to visit Cumberland Perry and uh I uh took advantage of that visit and had a just an outstanding time I was really impressed and so I called the administration and said well if there's an open seat for a second visit I want to be uh you know on that bus uh I I was very very impressed with uh the diligent learning that I saw among uh students in all kinds of different studies uh so um you know I think that it's a very very valuable program and I'm glad that that upper Adam school district is part of it thank you very much we we are glad to partner with you and I
032I can I can assure you that we take the responsibility um serving all of our students very seriously and we want to provide the best opportunities for them that we can thank you very much for your time and for your continued support thank you thank you Tom thank you Tom thank you great to hear your story so thank you all right uh moving on to a public comment uh the board of school directors encourages comments from community members during the S and comment section of the agenda upon being recognized by the board president an individual should State his 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 of no
033longer than 5 minutes no participant may speak more than once on the same topic unless all others who wish to speak on a topic have been heard questions posed dur in CZ and comment will not be addressed during the meeting if a question requires followup the board president or superintendent will follow up individually the board requested neither complaints concerning job performance nor allegations of misconduct relating to 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 civil and respectfully all citizen comments deserve that same respect from both the board 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
034or termination of all citizen comments um speaker uh Leslie Callan uh good evening my name is LESA Callahan and I am a district resident there are many many uh issues I'd like to discuss or talk with this board about but I'm going to limit myself to one issue tonight and that is an issue that has a community talking and we're talking about a board member attendance um the uh members of this board have been very interested in policy but what does the current policy have to say about members being present at board meetings so the current policy says when a School director shall cease to be a resident of the upper Adam School District or the region she he represents ility to serve on the board shall cease if a School director shall neglect or
035refuse to attend two successive regular meetings of the board unless detained by sickness or prevented by necessary absence from the district or if an attendance at any meeting he she shall neglect to refuse to act in effici capacity as a School director the remaining members of the board May declare such office vacant on the affirmative vote of the majority of the remaining members of the board a frequently absent School Board member recently expressed concern that community members feel disregarded coincide Co coincidentally this member has not been in attendance at board meetings um nor in the community to be able to have any interactions at all with the community um as a public servant members need to be present in the community to interact to um look the the constituents in the eye um in a
036at a meeting or in public and to listen to what they are saying um they need to be able to see and experience what is going on here with the wonderful things the school the teachers and the students are doing here such as um the girls basketball team making the playoffs and the wonderful job the kids did with the musical this past weekend um agriculture in the classroom led by Miss T um drive your tracker to school add Olympics soul sisters who were here at the last meeting um the alal that the kids did at the um farm show that members need to be here and see and hear all these things um we that we need them to be present we need them to know what's going on um illness or occasional travel May
037prevent members from attending every meeting and we certainly should have some except exceptions and use technology to connect us when being fully present isn't feasible however abuse of this policy of this exception should not be tolerated we deserve to be represented by someone who actually is in the community who engages with our community maybe it's time for the board to look at revising this policy to help yourselves also thank you right thank you uh moving on to a correspondence uh we do have one correspondence that we would like to enter into public record and I will go ahead and read this correspondence uh dear board of directors let me back up it is from the Adams County Fruit Growers Association dear board of directors we the board of directors of Adams County Fruit Growers Association
038would like to thank you for the use of the Big R High School to hold our annual grower Education meeting on February 17th 2025 we greatly appreciate your staff meeting our needs by providing equipment supervision and a terrific meal for almost 200 attendees we invited Franklin County fruit GRS to join us again this year they were very pleased and will probably be joining us next year Anthony Graham Greg profen and Mike kic were all very helpful in preparing for an executing our educational meeting we value value your continuing support sincerely NY bream AMS County free cour association president uh this will be entered into public record after the meeting all right reports uh Dr Bell Liu board report sure uh you have an attachment that has the uh updates or highlights from the Liu board
039meeting also highlights the next meeting will be April 1st uh I want to call your attention though you should have a ballot at your place and as a reminder even though uh our representative is not on that ballot we would like you to vote and uh if you're able to do that tonight please uh hand that to Shelly and we'll make sure that that gets it the appropriate spot so there'll be U five areas there does not include us but you still are asked to vote and that's all I have thank you thank you Dr B any questions on the report all right uh Federal programs Mr Alvin right good evening everyone uh as I Was preparing this report I'm uploading uh documents and so forth for uh our monitoring audit that we're going through
040and I discovered with the auditor I this is year number 19 for federal programs and I've been working with Federal programs so not quite sure if I should celebrate that or if it's just sad but uh I don't think anyone's career goal is to be a federal programs coordinator for 19 years but uh my transition into that in my 19 years I've seen uh funding adjustments all over the place so just a refresher we get estimates from the federal government in June or through the state in June and then we get the final numbers this time of year so I do have those final numbers for you if you pull up the reports uh my report you'll be able to to see them I've seen some really bad years where we're thousands tens of thousands
041off I've seen some really good years where we get a lot more um I haven't seen those for a while but they they have happened in the past they actually did a great job this year uh so if you look at the report uh that they estimated amount they were only all $341 in title one and and we lost $221 in title 2 so as a refresher Title One covers specialist supplies Reading remediation active big Li Elementary School uh for our Title One program it's a remedial reading those types of activities title two is we use that money to fund an additional kindergarten teacher at Big Elementary title three Remains the Same no change and title four Remains the Same no change so kudos to the state they uh really did a nice job this
042year trying to really uh pinpoint exactly where we we are so those are the amounts uh finalized amounts um Mrs Hobs and I will be getting together this week to make sure her budget matches my budget and we're good to go and then we'll send it off to Dr Bell for Signature and get that up to the state for the funding adjustments so that's uh a big happening right now other than uh finishing up monitoring uh all those items will be uploaded to the state uh by no later than March 28th so next Friday um and then our monitor will review them and let us know how we did and if there's any adjustments that we need to to do and finally I put in here we are conducting our annual title one after school
043program at Biglerville Elementary I don't want to steal too much of Mr CAD or thunder I'm sure he's put some things maybe in his report or will be putting some things in the report um we typically we have about 40 students in that program and they meet several times a week after school with some teachers and we work on reading strategies strategies comprehension uh and focus on that title one population and Title One funds PID for this uh particular program any questions for Mr robt thank Youk all right Cumberland Perry Miss cruss I think Mr Wolf took care of anything I needed to say Thank you Mr Wolf all right right uh fund Advisory Board Miss Al we meet next week that report tonight meeting next week all right moving on to administrative report so
044I'm a little more composed tonight so Mr K I will not put you on the spot in the in the reports no basketball game or anything before the meeting um but thank you to all the administrators for turning their report so do we have any questions or any comments for the admin Administration um I just have one comment I guess to Mrs Graham and that is kudos to the foot Loop crew um it it was just an awesome performance and it was very obvious that they spent a ton of time working on that please pass along it was it was great a couple things uh Mr Kad uh The Habit show sorry the Habit show habitat the habitat show yeah that looked interesting very was super cool RTO it again and I mean they brought
045their Triceratops his name is MRX and the kids are just like Jaws on the floor it's so cool and and they talk about how habitats change through time so they find these in the doas and they find fish skeletons and fossils and you know is there an in right now no so well there used to be ands it's really amazing cafer seat aw I want Mrs she's the one who started this we've been doing it almost every year second grade okay the kids do a lot one hour come observe looks interesting um Mrs Buckley uh just uh congratulations to uh Camden W uh he placed what fourth out of 990 students yes again comp a different comp I think he byou good him congratulations to the three students that uh participated in in the par
046essay that was great ible to attend doog for them as well their and they recognized money was girl ni what was the topic what did they have to write on um they had to portray a f theod great thank you uh Mrs Graham it looks like uh you've got world work day coming up in two days yes looks interest very interesting yes yes very good for the seniors some companies that in um and then also different for the kids to go to to work on interview skills help res and different activities and then I'd like to just say congrats too for the indoor drum line and color guard for their their uh first and second place good for them yeah uh Mr Brewer is not here but I see 70 students uh received awards for
047their midterms pretty good and then I guess several students participated in the youth art show I guess and I guess their art is going to be on display here at the school did I read that right after the art show yeah okay um and Mr Graham just I just wanted to say again congrats to the girls basketball team when they're finished for the season and congrats to all the wrestlers for their postseason success I anybody else have any comments or questions thank you all for your reports all right um the next uh superintendent report Dr Bell sure uh I'm going to start by asking Gareth to provide you with a little bit of an update on uh a small change not him uh but but the firm in G yeah about thank you Dr B
048about uh two weeks ago or so we were excited to announce that um effective April 1st our whole team is joining a Lancaster based firm called Saxton and stump um we're actually staying in our same office our team is staying together and we'll be working together uh but we'll retire the stock and leader name and essentially merge under the uh umbrella of the larger firm that is currently known as sax and it's stum um will give us access to some additional um res Resources Personnel be able to streamline some uh functions to consolidate with that firm we're excited about it um I'm not going anywhere our our team will be continuing to work together there you will see an updated engagement letter uh next month that will um cover the rest of this uh fiscal
049year and next year we typically send around this time rather than do do that twice um we're going to combine that in one letter you'll see that next month please reach out uh if you have any questions please reach out to Dr Bell be happy to provide any other information for you going to give you a heads up on that thank you thanks I want to follow up uh on some things obviously you're getting to see a lot of our students and the successes that they have and U the uh really the excellent programs that are out there that we offer here as well as a variety of other places and um I I mentioned to Jerry I was going to steal a little bit of his Thunder uh but I I think it's important
050to note you're going to have in the consensus agenda and then further down in business and operations Committee in the for section 14 uh significant number of donations uh totaling a little over $14,000 that is a huge amount of money and I think it's very important I talked to you last time about the excellent atmosphere that you guys have here and uh this really shows that there's a large group of people not just me uh not just internally but externally in the community who also believe that we have excellent programs and uh to borrow the phrase have put their money or their mouth is and that is significant in my mind and something that you should be extremely proud of of for the support of the students as well as the support of the programs
051and when you look at those and you look at the programs that they're supporting they're curricular co-curricular and extracurricular it is from A to Z it is something that you need to be extremely proud of and something that obviously this group of people and Beyond are extremely proud of of the excellent staff students and programs that you have in place so uh hats off to you thank you for letting me steal that a little bit but I think it's very important for uh uh that to be recognized and to show you that it isn't just an internal uh Focus it's also an external focus and that concludes my report unless there's any questions any questions for Dr B all right thank you for the reports uh treasur report uh Mr Walmer thank you Mr President
052um we'll do items 12.1 2 and three here in one motion it's a financial report Food Service fund statement of operation and the student activity report all ending 22825 and I'll make a motion to approve those three reports second any questions comments on the reports all right roll call please Mrs Halo yes Mr lady I Mr letic yes Mrs plank yes Mr Walmer yes missan cover yes Mrs Krauss yes Mr Wile yes thank you all right that's it for the uh treasur report uh moving on to the consent agenda items uh do we have a motion to accept the consent um cons agenda items so moved do have a second second any comments or questions on the consent agenda actually I do have um I think I have a comment about the 13.2.1 um and
053it kind of ties in with 14 uh 2.1.1 14.2.1 point2 so I didn't know if we could do them as a group or um one at a time so okay so you're asking to pull out the job description yes I had someone in the community actually over the actually yesterday I was attending a funeral had questions about that that I really couldn't answer so wanted to bring it up they're probably actually watching so I just was okay so the 13.2.1 point1 is the job description we're going to pull that out to discuss okay is that any other questions or comments we'll pull that out of the uh of the motion okay any uh anything else all right uh roll call on that and then we will come back to the uh the Personnel Mr lustic
054yes Mrs plank yes Mr Walmer yes yes Miss Shan cover yes Mrs Krauss yes Mrs Halo yes Mr lady I Mr Wile yes thank you okay uh to the 13.2 u under personnel go yeah so um I was actually attending a funeral yesterday and actually I was shocked that someone was asking me about an agenda item because they had read the agenda and they were con they had concerns about adding this position that how it would affect the tax rate because it ties in to the salary that was attached to it which is in 14 uh I think it's 14 2.1.2 um so I wasn't exactly sure how to answer that so that's why I'm bringing that up um they were mostly concerned with a lot of the positions that we have been adding over
055the course of the year and the amount of money it seems like we've been you know uh creating new positions and um of course this turned into a group uh conversation and I wasn't exactly sure how to answer it they were concerned with the attached salary that they were wondering are there extra monies attach is like that salary that's based on that position um is there monies above that salary that aren't um that that person or individual would be um acquiring throughout the year that aren't necessarily uh portrayed in that particular salary and they were just concerned about the positions we've been adding and so I just didn't know like how that would actually affects affect tax rates and such and such so those will be my questions uh well I can address those for
056you um but before we start though you're always welcome if you ever get yourself in that situation tell them to contact me okay as a matter of fact you have a board policy that if you receive any comments or complaints or questions or concerns you are to direct of to the superintendent so that'll help you so you don't get yourself in a spot like you were identifying you were in okay so that'll that's for the future though okay as of now uh from the tax rate perspective we're I'm assuming the question then is will we increase taxes yes as a result of this no okay there is no tax increase tied with that you have you currently have a director position uh that director position is this is instead of not in addition to okay
057so they weren't ass sure like I guess what they were trying to get at is if we keep um creating these positions and the monies get bigger with each position eventually that's I guess going to cut into funds and then if funds run out then taxes go up is that that's what they were kind of trying to present to me and so they were concerned about all of these like and it's not just this one particular but there's been several throughout the year that have been kind of added on sure and then so they I guess they're concerned about seeing this like Trend if you will and so I you know cuz yeah this one particular may not affect the tax rate but what about the next one and the next one and the next
058one or if they're you know um they weren't sure if and I wasn't exactly actually probably shell is the person I'm not a number person at all but you know like yeah it's a starting salary of you know of 150 which we look at in the next um position but what else is tied to that monetarily you know I couldn't you know obviously you know I have I'm sure actually Shelly has explained that to us but like I was like Caleb not really paying attention maybe sending an email somewhere I shouldn't have been but anyway so I you know like I'm just uh trying to since they asked me it was yesterday and I'm sure they're watching because they actually read the agenda which was shocking to me uh and that alone so um you
059know I just want to bring that out there that maybe you know I don't know I'm just bringing it out there that there is concern about what they have been seeing as a trend it wasn't just them there was several people too don't know that I can address the trend uh because as sometimes I say I've actually come late to the party and I'm leaving early so I can't necessarily tell you about a trend that would have been in the past or or moving forward uh all I can tell you is in relationship to this this one specifically this is an instead of not in addition to but and just to add to your point I would think a concern should be as a concern that I have is that the contract is not attached
060later on so you don't see all of the terms Maybe okay the uh you I believe the board should have seen them uh the actual contract I'm just they're not attached to this agenda the p uh public has the right to any uh contract once it's approved okay yeah it's a public document okay every contracted position or things that are like that you can go ahead and slap me if I'm wrong uh but uh they're they're all public knowledge so anybody can make a request and that would be given to them okay okay that was but yes and if they have follow-up questions I uh encourage you to have them talk to me uh or send something to me and I would always include you as a board member in it or and the board
061in general in my response okay okay okay [Music] okay sorry so this vote here is to create this position that we're voting on right now the job description the job description the do the job description itself you the district already has a job description for assistant superintendent okay you already have one in place this is not a new job description or not not a new job it is actually a new job description okay okay so I'm understanding yep you're good and could I just add a little bit of clarity to this in case the in case it's unclear to anybody uh what we're doing here is combining two positions essentially um this is combining the uh director of curriculum position and putting on a title of assistant superintendent so the assistant superintendent will assume all
062the roles of the director of curriculum so if that clarifies it a little bit with a slight increase for the added roles that supervisory over supervisory roles that is correct okay so we're not creating a new position we're essentially combining an old position and with a new position and adding a title to it so I hope hope that adds some clarity maybe it made it muddier but I hope it's more clear now clear as much all right thank you so I do need a motion and in the in the second for the for personnel 13.2.1 point1 on the job description I'll make a motion to approve item 13. 2.1.1 I'll second it all right we just had discussions and comments we should now but uh do we have a roll call please Mr lady I
063Mr ltic yes Mrs plank yes Mr Walmer yes Miss youngan cover yes yes Mrs Krauss yes Mrs Halal yes Mr wi yes thank you all right uh moving on to committee reports and action items uh up again for finance uh Mr Walmer okay thank you Mr President um this I'll go into some more details uh from Dr Bell on the very generous donation list that we uh received uh over the last few weeks I'll start out with um from the PA FFA Foundation uh $200 from the artsville Lions Club for the artist and residents for the Intermediate School $500 from The artsville Lion Lions Club for General use at the Intermediate School $1,000 from the artsville Lions Club uh for the fifth grade environmental Camp okay I'll go down to uh this list is for
064the uh charter bus for the girls basketball team which I think is a great thing Dr Bell and I were talking about it before the meeting this you know is sort of a reward and maybe a tradition that starts here you know I understand that it's been done in past years intermittently uh but I think it's a neat thing a reward for the teams who succeed to get on a charter bus to go to schools far away and majority of the cost has been covered by the following donations $250 from Montgomery and Wile Insurance 250 from the Ethan slay Ball Memorial Foundation 100 bucks from an anonymous donor 200 200 from from the Biglerville athletic booster Association $500 from Dave and Sher Campbell $400 from the American Legion auxiliary unit 6262 $200 from hball Brothers
065$50 from an anonymous donor another 360 from an anonymous donor and $50 from Brian and Phyllis na so again it's very much appreciated it's a a team effort that's it's great to see these donations come in so thanks to all the [Music] donors okay move on to the next item which is summer interns uh we're looking to potentially get uh three interns over the summer uh for the technology department the pay rate will be $10 per hour not to exceed $5,000 and then one intern for the um a summer intern for the business office at $10 per hour not to exceed $2,000 and I'll make a motion to approve that second second could could I ask about the business office intern that's new it's interesting this is new and with the transition of being um
066um with a vacant business assistant business administrator this will give some assistance as we start looking at transportation and looking at getting the kindergarteners entered in for the routes for next year so it's more of a data entry coming in and looking help in that way I hope you have lots of people who apply for it I know you need the help I like internship programs too I think it's a great opportunity for students I hope the the choosing of the interns is done Fair you know there's a an application process and then you know have to be in good academic standing good Community standing and then you know pick the best of the applicants for both for the technology and uh the business office uh was there two interns last year for technology we're
067moving to three or was it three there were three oh you're over there three yeah were three behind typically just to give you a background this is the third year that we're hoping to do this um we typically like to look at sophomores coming up into their junior year so we can get like two to three years potentially we like to bring back the seniors that graduate for their one last HRA if they're going into you know some type of Technology field so um this will we had three last year and hopefully we can get three again this year I think it's a great opportunity keep them busy make a little money learn some things it's a great thing those are my comments any other comments roll call please Mrs plank yes Mr Walmer yes
068Miss youngan cover yes Mrs cruss yes Mrs Halal yes Mr lady hi Mr lustic yes Mr wle yes thank you okay 14.1 point3 I'll make a motion to renew the three-year Google edu uh to Renewal uh for three years uh additional savings are going to amount to $2,662 uh next fiscal year and this is a Google workspace for Education second any questions all right roll call Miss yes Mrs Krauss yes Mrs Halal yes Mr lady I Mr lustic yes Mrs plank yes Mr Walmer yes Mr wigel yes thank you okay I'll recommend approval of the updated Kelly education uh exhibit a to include long-term a long-term substitute position as guidance counselor uh $20 per hour 150 per day and the details are attached this position was filled pre previously as needed um but now it's
069going to be a long-term more permanent position second any questions comments roll call Mr lady I Mrs Krauss yes Mrs Halal yes Miss cover yes Mr letic yes Mrs plank yes Mr Walmer yes Mr wle yes thank you okay that's all I have Mr President thank than you Mr Walmer uh moving on to Personnel Mr LK yes thank you very much Mr President uh as we turn our attention to uh uh 14.2 uh in the various items uh under consideration uh I'm going to uh refrain from reading all this uh in the interest of time but I know that the board members have their computers and they can they can follow along uh the first issue under Personnel to to concern oursel with is uh 14.2.1 point1 a transfer and 14.2.1 point2 um relating to
070the Director of Business operations any questions or concerns about that second that was not that was not that was a question not not so there was not a motion okay under uh items under professional uh and you'll notice as if you click on everything here some of the some of these will be blank and so I'm going to go right straight to the ones that that are not blank items under professional 14.2.2 point1 relating to retirement notice that 14.2.2 point2 relating to transfer and 14.2.2 point4 relating to uncompensated leave is there any questions or concerns about any of that Mr letic there is information under 14.2.2 point2 for transfer or I'm sorry for post and advertise that was 14.2.2 point3 post and advertise yes and I see that my mistake on that one thank you
071for that correction okay turning our attention to supplemental contracts uh please note uh two of of um those items 14.2.1 relates to Athletics and 14.2.2 relates to educational any concerns there likewise under volunteer services uh always appreciate seeing a whole uh list of names of people interested in volunteering uh with the school system I think that's a very good thing and you'll see that list under 14.2.1 volunteer services then as we turn our attention to other contracted Services uh we just have two items uh with information on them uh first one is 14.2.1 uh the RAR um contract relating to custodial maintenance and grounds and 14.2.2 6.1 uh the Kelly education teacher substitute uh issues any concerns about any of those so I think you need make a recommendation to approve all Personnel that is
072correct yes we can make that motion now sir and I and I indeed will make that okay I'll second all right any questions or any comments on Personnel could I make a motion to um pull items out sure I'd like to pull out 14.2.1 1.1 and 14.2.1 point2 okay any other question or comments I don't know if this is the appropriate time to do it but the retirement of Laura Ruck um with regrets that's unfortunate okay so we have a motion of 14.2.1 point1 and. 2.1.2 uh do we have a second for that motion oh I'll second that okay U we will need a I guess a roll call right can you can pass the big ones first and then we'll go ahead and pass the big ones first and then we will come back
073to 14. 2.1.1 and2 any questions on the larger uh motion all right roll call Mrs Krauss yes Mrs Hala yes Mr lady hi Mr letic yes Mrs plank yes Mr Walmer yes M cob yes Mr Wile yes thank you all right so back to the motion um and the second for uh the transfer and Director of Business operations discussion so uh discussion I mean ideally I you know I think I voiced some concern prior to this about some contract items that I didn't feel we really discussed so I I mean if if I would prefer to table it so that we could have further discussion an executive session yes the the other thing I would mention is uh as a second uh to that um that request uh we're hiring a new superintendent and I
074wanted to um consider the possibility that that superintendent would have um recommendations uh that we should uh we should hear in other words it wouldn't be a concluded fact already upon that person's um acceptance of the position and so um there in are some of my concerns I mean I Echo that too I think I had voiced that before you know I felt like we were we were pushing something through when we had initially decided that we were going to wait and so I'm not I'm still not entirely sure why we've decided to do that but my preference again would be to table both of those items I I look at the these two positions as an opportunity to continue with what we have in the district that the employees and the community sees that
075we have individuals that are here for the long term our business manager and and you know switching Mr Alin into an assistant superintendent position it is mostly the same role that he has but I I just think voting on on these and ensuring that we have these two individuals will do everything to help our next superintendent if I may I feel like I've actually been mulling this over a lot over the last week um especially after reading the questions you know for the potential applicants because there were a lot of questions there dealing with them interacting and you know working with the administrative team and I was I was trying to put myself in a position of a new superintendent that's getting hired in and I think I would like to have the ability to
076come in and get to know who I was working with and get to kind of embrace the team that is there and then be able to have input on that and so I do kind of agree I think with what Lauren and Trisha are saying that would it be really a big deal just to wait a little bit and then let that superintendent come in and kind of get their feet wet and then bring this back because I feel like obviously Mr Alin and Shelly are miss m hob sorry um do an amazing job and most of I bet all of us here would agree on that but I just think that I feel like it would be more fair to the new superintendent coming in to also have input on these kind of decisions
077since it's his team that he would be building that's just my kind of take on it I've been thinking about a lot don't smoke and everything well and that's the thing you know it I mean we clearly got this to the table relatively quickly so by the time we see the new superintendent it's not like it should be drugg out if that's the position yeah I don't think it's going to be months and months and months I think it would just be you know a matter of you know letting them come in and get some uh get their feet wet so to speak um and be able to give us input on what they would you know what they're thinking as far as how they want their team to be you know set up I
078guess my take on this is based somewhat on um some of the the leads that we have gotten from uh Dr Albert who is helping us with the superintendent search and he has shared that um it will look much better to a new superintendent if there is assistant an assistant superintendent in place um and I I can't imagine um a person more fitting for that role than Joe Alvin um he has gotten um very very strong support from our district from from all branches I don't know of anyone who um doesn't like Mr Albin and the roles that he plays for our B for our district are already and I would think that that would be a very appealing um addition for a superintendent who is looking at us um and as far as Mrs
079Hobbs I I I would like to be in her brain for 24 hours um and then I'll be happy to give it back but I I just can't imagine I don't understand um why we wouldn't extend her contract I can't imagine running this District without her well and I'm not saying to be clear she has a contract she has a three-year contct yeah and I'm not saying that that wouldn't happen I I was my I guess my my viewpoint would be that coming in you know I don't know you I don't I'm I'm not saying that that we're not going to extend shell Mrs Hobs contract or Mr albin's you know transfer or any of that I'm just saying would it really hurt to take a take a pause and take a breath and let
080the new superintendent come in and get sort of established and you know get a feel for things and then and then take this vote and to be clear it was mentioned that it was in process so we're not saying that it's not still going to be in process I believe that's what some of the candidates were told that it is in process I agree with everything Mrs uh Hall said and and I I'm going to take the take on it that I I believe having those two people in place and their contracts secured would make a superintendent a new person coming in here it's job a lot easier they got people to lean on that have their tenure here that have the experience and knowing that they're going to be here so after listening to
081all the comments and everything I'm going to go ahead and make a motion that we approve 14.2.1 point1 and 14.2.1 point2 so moved second if I may just jump in here there's been a number of motions and a couple different directions Mrs Plank and I think Mr Lusk made a motion to table uh these two items is that correct yes that occurred first so I would recommend if it's okay with you Mr President that we actually vote on the motion to table first if that motion fails then we'll proceed to vote on the original uh recommendation as outlined in the agenda but first you're voting on the motion to table as set forth by Mrs Plank and Mr letic okay so we have a motion in a second to table um the approvals for Mr
082Alvin and Miss Mrs hops so do we have a roll call please Mrs Krauss no Mrs Halo okay I'm sorry I I do not want to table it so I so I am voting no no Mr lady no Mr letic yes Mrs plank yes Mr Walmer no Miss Johan cover um yes Mr wiel no so the motion fails and now we'll proceed to vote on the original uh two recommendations as outlined Mr lady made a motion was there a second I I don't Mrs Krauss seconded all right uh roll call for the uh for the motion for the approval Mrs Krauss this is a motion to approve this a motion to approve yes yes the transfer and the Director of Business yes Mrs Halal yes Miss youngan cover yes because I do feel both candidates
083are very qualified I would have preferred to have waited but yes Mr wmer yes Mrs plank no Mr ALK uh I agree with uh my colleague from the other end of the table and so I'm going to uh vote Yes likewise Mr lady yes Mr Wile yes thank you motion [Music] carries all right moving on to uh 14.3 property so there is uh some Surplus items I recommend approval to declare for Surplus there is a list there on the attached document should I read that or is that okay so I just make a motion to approve those items for Surplus second any questions on the Surplus roll call Mr lady hi Mr lustic yes Mrs plank yes Mr Walmer yes Miss youngan cover yes Mrs Krauss yes Mrs Halal yes Mr Wile yes thank you
084thank you Miss Young cover uh moving on to Transportation Mr lady yeah Mr President uh one addition to the Joby drivers list uh as seen in your listing there uh recommend approval second any questions roll call missan cover yes Mrs Krauss yes Mr wmer yes Mrs Hal yes M Mrs plank yes Mr letic yes Mr lady I Mr Wile yes thank you right thank you Mr lady moving on to committee reports and action items u under curriculum the 2025 2028 comprehensive plan um make a motion to approve I believe do we have do we have a second second any comments any questions all right uh roll call Mr letic yes Mrs plank yes Miss Young cover yes Mr Walmer yes Mrs Krauss yes Mrs Halal yes Mr lady I Mr Wile yes thank you all
085right other Student Activities I don't see anything under with Miss Hol U moving on to uh 16.1 policy Miss cross oh thank you um recommend approval of the following first read policies number 610 purchases subject to bid and number 76.1 a new policy on the use and disposal of surplus property obsolute equipment and real estate second two second any questions on policy 610 76.1 I have a question about the Surplus one I was just wondering I and I read through this a couple days ago so I might have missed it is there anything in here I was wondering about Surplus like the items that were just declared here is there an endof year report that would show where those items went like if they were donated or sold and if they were sold how much
086and like just an end of your report on those items um cuz it seems like we just declare them Surplus and then they're just kind of gone so I was just wondering if there was any kind of a data you know or a sheet at the end of the year just like an inventory sheet that would State what happened to those items good question I thought that might be a good thing to put we don't have anything that exists now now if a majority of the board wants the administration to uh try to put a report like that together uh we could possibly do that and present it at some point in time if you're looking at a specific year end or whatever yeah I just feel like that would be maybe good for the
087public to see that you know they're being disposed of properly or you know I don't know it was just because it just seems they sort of just Lally go away I was just you know thinking that maybe it would be a good thing to have some sort of a year-end report saying exactly where they went how much they brought if they were donated if they were scrapped if they were thrown out you know just anything like that yeah that's something I guess we'll discuss at the next committee next committee meeting next policy meeting we can discuss that uh regarding in the 76.1 okay roll call roll call Mrs cross uh yes Mrs Halal yes Miss youngan cover yes Mr lady I Mr letic yes Mrs plank yes Mr Walmer yes Mr Wile yes thank you
088agree okay all right and they that's everything for uh for policy um 17.1 Liu Board election uh we do have the ballots uh for the board of directors um so tonight uh board members before you leave please turn in your ballots uh for the vote uh to Mrs hops payment of the bills do we have a recommend or do we have a motion for approval uh for the payment of the bills so moved second any comments any questions on the bills before we approve them to pay uh just my usual Charter School payments uh anybody was paying attention uh this last pay cycle was not exact but a little over $300,000 in payments to Charter so just out there any other questions comments thank you for bringing that back up I you to do that
089the last couple mon I have not carried on that tradition all right do we have a roll call please Mrs plank yes Mr Walmer yes Michelle cover yes Mrs Krauss yes yes Mrs Halal yes Mr lady I Mr letic yes Mr WID yes thank you all right uh nothing under old business uh nothing under new business um items of general information uh the next curriculum and extracurricular committee meeting will be on 41 2025 at 6:30 uh in the boardroom and the business operations committee meeting will also be 41 2025 upon completion of the curriculum and extracurricular committee meeting also in the boardroom uh the policy committee meeting will be on 4:3 2025 at 9:00 a.m. uh in the boardroom and uh on regular school board meeting will be 4:15 2025 at 700 p.m. anything else
090before we adjourn all right meeting the jour