001e e e here M Jalal she excuse Mrs Halal here Mr lady present Mr letic here Mrs [Music] plank Mr Walmer miss janover here Mrs plank here Mr wo here Mr [Music] Walmer he's on but we can't hear him thank you all right we uh we did have a uh executive session tonight regarding the superintendent search uh before tonight's meeting Mr Walmer are you there I'm here Mr President all right thank you all right um Athletics uh nothing under Athletics uh moving on to other Student Activities Miss H um yes we had a caner funds board meeting last week and agreed to establish a new fund under um Shell's capable watch and I'm going to ask her to explain the Russ now for that thank you Mrs Halal so the caner funds when we received
002the money from Adams County Community Foundation is currently being held in our general fund account and we're looking to move that to Student Activities number one so we can attribute interest to the caner funds funds that are received by the district also it's going to be easier for tracking reporting with caner funds and there's some opportunities that the caner fund's exploring as well that will be easier to track in the future for them so once again it's moving the funds out of general fund into their own Student Activities account thank you Shelly and I am recommending approval of that action any questions on the on the account the remove of the account thank you Miss h all right moving on to curriculum uh Mr Alber thank you very much good evening everyone uh this evening
003we have a special treat for you uh Mrs Miller is here as well and we are going to talk a little bit about the agricultural program this evening so we're going to make you Green With Envy tonight so uh the reason for this uh particular topic is we had a board member expressed some interest in knowing a little bit more about what we do with our agricultural program and in particular one of our our efforts down with the elementary level to then generate some more interest in agriculture so by the time they get to the secondary level they're able to participate a little bit more of the classes that we offer and are interested in some of the courses at that level uh if you have a genda manager in front of you there is
004a cation you're welcome to open up uh it is also uh displayed up here so I'm just going to give you a little background uh before Mrs Miller uh comes up and shares her information so last spring we finally finished the project the greenhouse project and several of you were able to tour the greenhouse uh that evening made all tomatoes that were growing in there some herbs um as well as hanging baskets as spring uh continued on U we use that structure for that some Small Animal Care habitats uh were in there at the time as well so um very very appreciative of the community of the donations Bill Wagner the mayor bville was a big proponent of that uh and it really is he he named stateof the-art Greenhouse it is stateof the-art greenhouse
005if you go out there look at some of the technology in there is it's mindblowing so our kids are very very fortunate to have uh such a resource at their hands um to participate uh in those types of courses so we have of course up here we have the greenhouse but now we want to focus our attention to what what does it look like down at the intermediate and Elementary level how are we generating some interest down there what are some things we're currently doing and then Mrs Miller is going to talk about some plans that she has in place as well to generate some interest uh in that those areas so at the Intermediate School of course we have the environmental Ed Camp okay you've seen donations almost every war minute would get donations
006for that particular uh experience for the students and I will tell you from my experience talking with students or if they're sitting in interviews for scholarships or or just uh reflection reflecting on their time here uh at Upper Adams they are most excited about the environmental egg Camp even when they're seniors that's one of their favorite memories they talk about it I've heard them talk about a graduation before with some speakers so that is a big um piece out of Camp Nuka uh we administrators even go out there uh spend two days two mornings out there and cook breakfast for all the campers make sure they're fed for the day and it is an all Hands-On deck experience so uh we're making Mickey Mouse pancakes and sausage and bacon all all that good stuff to
007feed those hungry campers uh the AG laab also visits our Intermediate School uh once a year so they go out to the AG lab if you're not familiar with that uh it is a basically like a camper or vanand that comes down and they do a lot of different activities and and experim expent and so forth in that related to Agriculture and they visit various school districts throughout the state but we do uh take advantage of that one unique experience you might not know of is the gardening club that the intermediate has so what they do in the fall and winter they start growing seeds uh in their classrooms and then they transfer them to six plant beds in the courtyard and they grow vegetables they grow flowers uh they do it twice a year
008uh and laan uh provides the soil so shout out to her for the for the the beds that are being used and a neat thing about that was talking to Mrs Buckley today you could they actually sell those vegetables that they're harvesting to the faculty and they use those proceeds then to buy the supplies they need for the following cycle when they go through with it growing again um they also do a farm table is type of program so one of the board members was curious about a true Farm to Table experience can we do that here at up R what would that take uh there are some legal obstacles that are are in place and and might prevent us from going a full route with that one is we have to have USDA inspectors
009so we have to find a way to get that food inspected because of our food service that we have here we can't provide that uh reimbursable lunch and running through the the lunch program without having that inspection done the second is liability and that's obviously very costly and you have to find someone to actually do that so if we're bring our own food if someone would get sick someone would have an allergic reaction we would have to have that liability piece so a true Farm to Table uh don't know that's necessarily in the cards for us uh for those reasons but there are things we can do so those vegetables uh those that we don't sell to The Faculty they are placed for students to take if they choose to so I liken that as
010like a birthday treat you know they bring in cupcakes for their birthday and hand out the cupcakes it's very similar we have extra vegetables that we've grown at the Intermediate School put them on the table or uh otherwise distribute them and if they would like to partake in them they certainly can do so so they are benefiting from what we're growing uh they just don't purchase it from us and we don't have that liability uh piece in place so and that continues to grow they hope to to do more of that so I would say it's like a farm to table is option at the Intermediate School at the elementary school of course we had the big environmental Edge Center down there the classroom Outdoor Classroom was just redone I say within the last year
011or so uh Jenny Nelson her son I believe it was a was a Scout project for him and that was redone uh so they can go out and sit on those benches and participate in lessons and they have trails that go back in there we also have Courtyards as well at the elementary level now they're not growing necessarily vegetable gardens and so forth like at the intermediate but they do have uh some vegetation that they take care of out there and they can sit some flowers and do some um lowle things at at that particular level uh of course the science lessons at that level are more inquiry based so they're doing the a lot of the the growing um education so you know the Dixie cups with the soil and you put the seed
012in and the great that kind of thing uh talk about photosynthesis getting all that foundation in place so as they move up we can get into more complex uh topics regards environmental literacy uh each all the schools do uh a variety of field trips and also advancing science is a is a piece as well so Gettysburg College has a program called advancing science many of you know about it if you don't it's an offshoot of Gettysburg College a segment of it and they provide districts in Adams count with equipment and lessons um to handle science topics to so to offset costs for us for specialized equipment so say we need 15 microscopes for a project uh or a lesson they can supply those for us they will also come out and team teach different curriculum
013top topics to us uh as well they provide professional development for teachers and they provide activities and experimental um grants for the students as well in the classroom so they are a big partner have been for my 11 years here and I know uh Dr doll was involved uh probably five six years before that with advancing science so they've done a great service to the county um and last but not least is exposing students to technology you might not think of Agriculture is that's all about soil plants but talk to Ashley wenson and she talks about her husband when he goes out to the field he has an iPad and he I mean there's technology involved in everything that's agricultural now as well so they're starting to incorporate a lot of those components into their
014curriculum as well so but tonight we're going to focus on a segment of Agriculture called Hydroponics and it's been a buzzword for a while it's gain much more attaction so anyone know what Hydroponics is I do so I tried to find a real basic definition so B it's Hydroponics is you're growing plants using a water based Solution that's nutrient rich instead of soil so it's a different way of growing you can get higher higher yields that way in a cleaner product in the end but it does uh tend to be more expensive in the in the long run um but we're embracing that technology I think it's only going to increase and it's going to be more the future where our kids are going to go with that so at this point I want to
015turn it over to Mrs Miller she's going to share with you some of the things that are currently in place and talk about uh the Hydroponics uh initiatives at the elementary thank you so I thought I would start you out um with taking you from our largest unit down to our smallest unit so we can end with where we want to be at the elementary and the intermediate schol however starting with the largest unit uh brings it to before we even had our Greenhouse built and we were soliciting funds um we had the opportunity to take some FFA kids down and do a presentation to the Garden Club uh Biglerville Garden Club and they were very interested in what we were going to be doing and wanted to see it perpetuate so before we even
016had our Greenhouse up they gave us $1,000 to um take it down to the elementary because we proposed and the kids had the idea three years years ago that once we get this up and running at the high school level we need to make sure that they see it at all different levels if they can so their goal three years ago was to find a small tabletop counter size unit that the kids could have in the classroom the teachers could maintain it wouldn't be as involved and detailed as the things that we do at the high school but yet it would still be um providing them the opportunity to grow something and have that experience and Foster that care and nurturing if that was what that child chose to do so they could see a
017plan as they went up through the grade levels to explore even more once they got to the high school level so when we built the greenhouse um the goal that we had was to not make it a production Center of what is current right now but to make it a lab experience that if the students chose to take some of this home and experiment with it as an individual homeowner they could do it uh we have a lot of our students are going into markets says Mrs Halal can attest to a lot of our Orchard people are finding a supplemental income by going to DC Baltimore wherever they Philadelphia every weekend so we are want to expose them to the smallest units that they could use to add to their income as well as the
018larger units at the high school unit so or at the high school level so when we developed the greenhouse that was our goal so this first Beast that you're looking at right now unfortunately is sitting empty at the moment because we have ulture class in the fall but this is a $20,000 unit it's a four tier I have the details on the top there last year we produced over 100 pounds of lettuce kale spinach and we gave ouru to the faculty and big guys and they were very excited very disappointed we're not running the year round but excited to have it um when we offered it to them very excellent very minimal care the kids are pretty surprised at how that works hydroponic can be as complicated as you want to make it or as
019simple as you want to make it so actually in the High School uh when I start my kids out we start with they have to design their own project and most of them use 2 L bottles and just create a growing medium that way and we expand to this one so that is our largest unit that we have um I don't know how much research you've done with Hydroponics or if that's your Niche or not but a lot of the Cities a lot of the trends now are to grow uh food where the Lo the people are located or the markets are located so a lot of the cities are are retrofitting warehouses and doing all indoor growing so if you take a close look those things that are growing opposite the horizontals uh from
020front to back versus left to right those are all growing lights and what you don't see but you kind of see the white cords is there's a set of growing lights underneath every single one of those rows of growing units so when Joe said it is a little more expensive that's why it becomes more expensive uh the pump isn't much to run to circulate all that water but keeping those lights on when you need them if you drove in in the winter time and saw lights so we had some kids doing some smaller experiments so I always like to make sure they're turned on at 6:00 a.m. so people get what's go see that we're actually using it but yeah the growing is a major expense there in that unit so that's our largest one
021that we have um utiliz in the horiculture curriculum May me also preferences by saying I have talked at every single science teacher at the middle school and high school level and said let me know if you want to incorporate something in here we have plenty of room we build it supposed to be learning lab the more kids that get to use it that's great so haven't had anybody take me up on that yet but again I put that out there every year for those guys so yeah we we're not just limited to the horiculture class if anybody wants to come in and do anything we're totally open to it number two Joe are youpp orh okay okay so you want me to you want me to use your okay good deal the other um we
022did as long uh along with the commercial is we went with the towers um both of my kids were in college at the time that we were planning us out um both of my kids chose to eat in a dining hall for at least one year um of course my son stayed longer but my daughter not so much but a lot of the dining Halls actually have pick your own herbs to season your stuff with um at their colleges anyway University of Delaware and Virginia Tech and so I went with some of these towers and for us the biggest challenge with hour um were to keep the water temperature warm enough because it circulates from that bottom base so while you put a heater in there uh pumps up through the center goes to the
023top and then trickles down through all those other little cups and it was cooling off pretty quick for us so we had better success when our Greenhouse air temperature was warmer um but we did have we grew uh basil orano parsley I don't like cilantro so we didn't C that um and I think the kids did put we did some spinach in there just to compare it with the other to see how the growth was and and what the productivity was so that's what we do with our Towers those are you can make your own that's my end goal uh with the kids once we get a shop teacher in place that stays longer than Maring period um you can actually take the uh 4 in or 6 in pipes that you can buy at
024loing Home Depot and you can get creative with some torches and bend those cups out um if you went up along Route 15 pre-co um right by theburg exit there was a gentleman that rented a space and you saw STW plants all year long in about 10t um Towers like that was pretty neat so yeah that's that would be the ultimate goal would be to get the strawberries that's the tomatoes were first and now the strawberries so the other thing that you might not be familiar with is Pennsylvania Hydroponics I've been going to them for a long time they're just a little place when you drive up to this uh rental outside of a small Mort building right outside York Springs but they shift all up and down the East Coast because they got to
025it early and it's just blossomed and a major supplier for a lot of uh the hydroponic things that you need um I decided to purchase a bucket system from them um if you're familiar with Twin Valley if are one of our elementary teachers we won't mention your name oh wait this king that's right um her husband's whole family grows this did I get it right twin spring twin spring sorry I always call them Twin Valley because of the high school of the ey Department um yeah twin spring so they have a lot of um cucumbers and tomatoes and things that we visited prior to building the greenhouse to look at different methods to get the designs so the way that we can replicate that at Biglerville is we can put it in buckets and keep
026it contained they have raised beds that they propagate as well with so they get their cucumbers up over 8 feet um last year we were able to grow our tomatoes to up over six feet it was kind of fun and got to bloom and hey we do have h two blossoms on that tomato plant in my fasher today was so excited to see those guys come out that's always the goal a lighting issue with tomatoes but kids are very excited about it um do please take a note of my small small uh little cab out there that that's made us look a lot healthier till we cut the nutrients off so we could get them out of the buckets as you can see those root systems get pretty extensive Caleb was just excited because the
027whole plant was taller than he was so heed P that or Cen excuse me you're going to have to talk to him when you see him next time ask him about his tomato experience um this is the tabletop unit that I have in my classroom in front of my windows right now I use this for the a science kids not only do they design design their own smaller unit then we put these up so they can kind of get an idea of production uh we've had these guys for almost 10 years now um just had to Mr D 3D printed some things that we had to replace some plastic pieces that were getting a little brittle but other than that with enough uh cocking and duct tape you can keep it from leak not leaking
028on my counters and and it's they're pretty self-sufficient I mean they as long as you maintain them and keep them clean they give you a nice Harvest like it's it's well invested so um yeah that's what we have uh we produced that's what we've been doing before we got into the greenhouse and about the larger hydroponic unit and again like I said mostly add science we did think about this for the elementary kids but the um high school kids just felt this was a little bit too big for them um and it's really tall and it takes up a lot of space so I don't teach elementary but I do know those kids like to move around a lot and my high school kids don't bump into that as much as I think the elementary
029kids might and that might kind of have a slight issue with this model but it works really well for us at the high school so then what we went to is last year uh with our Hydroponics um donation from the bgo Garden Club we it's really hard to see but you can because of the crow light but it's in my classroom you can swing by anytime but we grab this guy off the internet um he's a little over $200 he did not come with the grow light or the aquarium there's actually aquarium underneath there I didn't realize that was this looks lighter than the sorry about that so you can probably hit on that um picture and lighten it up a little bit if you're computer savvy uh what that is is it's pretty basic
030there's actually a a fish tank underneath they wanted to sell us a 40 gallon fish tank for an exorbitant amount of money I don't know what's at your house but I do know a lot of Elementary fames start there's goldfish and then they go away but the fish tanks seem to stay there forever because no one wants to throw them away so I figured our elementary people and our intermediate people could find a fish tank um it came with the pump it came with the tubes needed um it came with the little beads that hold the plants in place so the roots don't move um like I said we had to put the grow light on it did come with the brackets uh you can get the grow light from PA hydrop for $50 and
031this unit like I said cost about 240 something Shi here so it's around 300 um the goal this year thinking I would have a full-time shop teacher all year long was to actually build those wooden units but um since uh we did it I turned around and wrote another grant to get an additional ,000 so we can buy the pre-made units and get them out there into the elementaries and intermediate so I did ask for folks um to volunteer if they were interested teachers um at the elementary in intermediate I introduced the idea two years ago brought it back up this year as a email so I do have currently eight teachers that are interested um so my goal to follow this through next would be to get a zoom meeting with them because our
032time schedules are different and they're in their classrooms at the end of the day so maybe we can all do a joint meeting and then see who is interested who wants to come over and visit it see what you want to do you can put anything in these units that you want to they could put lettuce in there they could put flowers in there um some people grow pumpkins cucumbers we put tomatoes because we like to up the wall they can go that was fun last year and this year see if we can get tomato on them and um yeah it's pretty open to whatever so if they want to do food products if they just want to have something nice in their classroom at all times um down in Fairfield they have a little
033bit bigger unit they grow banana trees I'm not quite that overzealous I take care of bana tree all summer but um the other nice feature of this one is if the teacher in the classroom wants to introduce aquaculture you can do that in the aquarium below right now we're just using Mir grow experiment with that last year so as soon as the tomatoes start flowering we just add Miracle Grow and that keeps them going so if the teacher doesn't want the um the extra care needed to keep the fish going uh they don't have to do that but if they're in an older group they could because that introduces a whole another set of signs that you can do in terms of all the testing um we're very fortunate in the a department to also
034have a family that donates money every year to us through the caner funds um they donate in the fall so this year year we bought all the necessary equipment to check out the different types of solubility levels in the water because that definitely we learned that last year um the kids hear cat cats and ions and positive and negatives but they don't quite understand how that's involved in PL absorption of nutrients so we've been doing a lot of testing with that the kids have been getting a real ey opener it's pretty good good deal this smaller unit you can just get strips so the intermediate and Elementary School teachers have to go as detailed as we do but you can get test strips that you just dip in the water it gives you a pretty
035quick reading and then you could adjust your fertility or your fish filter if they're being overfed or underfed because the fish would provide the fertilizer if they want to choose to go that rout but if you want to do Miracle Grow I love that stuff is great for us it worked really well so that's our goal in terms of um what we have and what we have to offer for our lower levels of the school and our goal of course would be like said at the beginning to harvest the interest in it so when they get to our level they can go in any direction they want to go with it the FFA provides a lot of opportunity for the kids uh there's Agro science component uh we also have uh Hydroponics Believe It or
036Not contest in there now that's starting to start the national they're just projecting it like planning it out to see if it's going to work or not um there's already a Horticulture contest that they're bringing hydroponics in as a component so the kids are having to run a bunch of those I talked about earlier um as well as troubleshoot some different you know plan IDs some nutrient requirements in terms of what the leaves look like what's happening the plan that kind of thing so there's all kinds of different directions this could go if if a student wanted to take it we offer independent study in the a program once they take my intro horiculture and do that level then they're welcome to come in uh they just have to develop their own plan actually of
037what they want to do I help them out because you know kids in independent study sometimes they get a little tired but yeah we get a plan together they have to follow it and it takes all different directions doesn't always stay the task because sometimes they discover different things that they want to go down a different pathway with it but lots of opportunity if they want to take it so do you have any questions for me how many kids do you usually have participating in this program in the waterer program um last year we had 18 this year I had 17 and then um like I said my science kids so I have 18 kids in that this year and then I have three kids that R study the other thing um that we don't
038have pictured here because this was Hydroponics is we do the raised beds outside so they'll start planning like their root crops in there in about two weeks once we get past like March 17th and then we'll hoop them a lot of the guys that quicker you get stuff under plastic and get to the consumer the higher price you can get for it so we go that route as well with the high school kids I Michelle do you have a wish list of things you would love to have or see in your department I always have a wish list I um the intag system that you saw at the first slide me let me try and use Jo's computer this little guy um I don't know if you're familiar with JC SCH I hope he doesn't
039hurt me if somebody hears his name and calls in tonight but um he's a really tall kid so uh when we first operated this last year for the first time um while that's a commercial unit and that's how they look like when they put in warehouses sometimes they go up six high they have those nice lows ladders and slide them on the concrete so we have this in stone for a reason um so we we're thinking about doing a deck but then if we did a deck so they could like polish you know get those top two levels then we have to do handicap access so that would take up half our Greenhouse so my wish list would be the components to make that a two tier system instead of a four tier because there's
040enough room what you can't see right now is we actually have beds all our tables are covered with either plants that we kept from the fall that we brought in right now or the kids have been planting bedding plants since the middle of January and working with those so like our cucumbers or watermelon everything's just starting to pop up now it's kind of nice Peppers marold the whole n yards but um so we were talking about uh one of my students and I were talking about because he um was like in head of that JC last year I said JC this is great you reach the top layer but those of us that are 55 or maybe a little shorter can't so it would just take an additional set of legs and some really creative
041Welding which I kind of have the ability to do and have students that also have the ability to do to turn that into uh two two tier things so the kids have better access to it that's my wish list right now for that thank you thank you for a very fascinating report I really appreciate all that you're doing uh I do have a question but it's actually uh for Mr Albin so is that allowed though right Mr Albin uh thank you for your report regarding uh that included Camp nakaka uh when I first came into this community a number of years ago it already existed uh so I'm not familiar with when how many years uh upper Adam school district has uh has sponsored the Environmental educa Education Camp can you provide that information yeah
042I I would say yeah 15 20 years I went in fifth grade and I've been out of school for 35 years so yeah but the funding has changed so you would have to take a look at that yeah used to be funded by the district and then when the uh field trips went out of the District budget I believe it was started becoming self thank you probably have the same C beds up there that you you do are there any more questions for me you guys enjoy your meeting I'm going home thanks Michelle thank you both I'd like to thank Michelle for her passion when I went to her and said can you come speak tonight without hesitation she said absolutely and just thrilled to have someone with her expertise and her passion for what
043she does so thank you so much we were very fortunate to get $119,000 160 of it donated 160,000 from the community for that facility so very important thank you and as you know we have the steals curriculum uh getting ready to be implemented next year you're going to hear about the resources we need for that program in April but that part of that schills is environmental literacy which is what all this is about so uh it all ties together and we're excited to continue creating energy around the Agriculture and as vag says we're growing any questions all right also uh next will be the school climate survey Mr Alin again hopefully you're not tired of me yet try sweep so tonight I'm going to go through the school climate uh survey results this happens every
044other year so we gave the school climate survey to our students Community parents and staff back in November around parent conference time so if you are on agenda manager you can uh pull up the presentation and and follow along uh we are going to nerd out here with some numbers so uh you can come along with me and we'll see how far in the week we can get we won't get too far the first time we did this was right before uh the pandemic the co error and that was our Baseline year so we collected that data just so we could have some comparison uh we had some actionable data but the real data came in Winter of 2022 that was when we expanded it districtwide instead of one building and we were able to
045have that that data to compare it with now so some of the information uh this evening you're going to see we're going to compare winter 22 to fall of 24 and see how how we're going there we won't compare it to the Baseline again that was just so we can start building our numbers on that so what does the survey look like and some of you probably took it I I shared it with uh all the board members and we'll talk about community and and what that entails uh with the survey participants but if you don't remember we had three main areas we had student support we had social and emotional learning and safe and respectful climate those were the the uh three categories the questions were related around except for parents parents did not
046have these broken out they may have had some that crossed over but the way the uh survey was designed was a holistic survey for for them and you'll see the results reflect that as well but everyone else um the survey is designed in pieces and and every question can be connected back to one of these particular categories how is it scored hey we have it's scored out of four points so just like when I give you pssa data and Keystone data we have colors we have names we have numbers and that's exactly the same with the this particular survey results so we have one to four four being the highest one being the lowest of course we have colors red black and green so black would be your neutral which is the the term uh
047red would be unfavorable which is um the term for that and favorable would be green and if you're looking for precise numbers uh you're looking at 3.4 and higher for 3.4 to 4 would be the max for the range for favorable 2.5 to 3.4 for uh black and 2.5 and under red so how did we do here's where we're going to kind of nerd out so just bear with so this is perceptional data so there's not a right or wrong answer to the questions on the survey it's how you feel how does the building make you feel how do the teachers make you feel how for the students how does the environment if you feel do you feel safe do you feel supported so it's not uh we don't have a correct answer per se
048uh but we have perceptional data so that's important to understand when you're when you're looking at this so we're going to show you three screens this evening so this first screen is for the elementary and if you look at the numbers let's look at the numbers in columns so you see four columns up here we'll start looking at it that way on all three of the charts here the staff the parents and the community are all going to be the same on all three charts because they're not broken out by grade this the the surveys are at a district level so that's why the numbers are going to be the same in every sing uh slide however it's important to have those numbers on each slide so you can compare them to the student data
049that's there the categories on the left you can see the top row is an average so that's the overall score a total average so you have a fall 2024 score and a winter 2022 score and then seal will be your social emotional learning section your student support section would be the next row and the last row would be your safe schools so we what we do is we take a look and one of the ways we can look at this data is compare look at 2022 and 2024 right that' be kind of where your eye gets drawn here so if we look at the staff for the elementary um it's important that all the staff in the elementary K to 6 actually gets survey however at the student level we don't survey students under third
050grade so we started third grade fourth fifth and sixth just because of the way the survey is designed the terms the vocabulary the developmentally appropriateness of the survey it's not designed for the K2 uh crowd for the students however the parents of case two can certainly take it so for in the the staff column one of the things we can do is take a look and compare and if you go down just go down that uh column there you can you can see we Rose every in every category for staff member so this is every adult in the building took this survey whether you're an IIA a teacher a principal superintendent whoever you were you took a survey and these were the results and you can see we rows uh in every category for that
051now when you're looking at these numbers and you're wondering is it how do you determine if it's significant if anybody's ever done research out there 05 is the magic number that is uh significantly excuse me statistically significant if it's 05 and higher so you look at these it's very easy do the math if you get a difference of 05 or greater you're going to that means it's significant and you might want to take a look at that if it's less than that 1 2 3 4 You know you take it you look at it but it's not necessarily uh statistically significant so we Rose in all those particular areas we look at the elementary we actually hit a green on social emotional learning and one of the things you want to take in context especially
052as we go through the different grade levels is are the students and where they're at in their lifetime okay elementary students they don't have necessarily a wealth of experience to compare what they're experiencing to you know you think about where they're at developmentally uh the age maturity all that what they feel was mean or what they perceive it's a perception data so you have to take in account their age level their developmental level and so forth uh when you look at these numbers so typically we see at the elementary level pretty high numbers just because it's developmentally appropriate U area as we go into the middle school you're going to see a little bit difference and I I'll share with you U those numbers so if we look at the elementary we have uh the
053first called the overall average is a 01 difference yeah okay you know I wouldn't get too worked up about that and a 02.02 difference down for safe schools emry Rose um in the middle here for social and emotional learning and student supports according to the student survey from last month another area where you want to think about when the students are responding they're with one teacher all day a lot of them they have recess High School doesn't you know so it's just different experiences different uh ways they're looking at at this particular survey when to answer the questions parents as I shared earlier they don't have their survey does not necessarily break those questions out they have more of a holistic survey when they um because the questions that they asked so you you can
054uh see there we had some real good results uh and this is District wide this is going to stay the same on every slide uh .12 was the difference so you can see we we hit green there uh in that particular area so that was very fa favorable we haven't had any Reds uh we solid into neutral area and if you think back to the comprehensive plan some of you might say hey I've read this before yeah goal number two School uh climate survey our goal is 3.4 or higher we want to make make a ambitious goal for ourselves and that is in the favorable category um so part of the comprehensive plan is we look at this data now we act on this data next year and then we will take the survey again
055in Fall 26 get that result and then analyze that data for the next comprehensive plan so you can kind of see how that process uh works the community so if you look at the community and this stays the same for all all uh all the slides uh we did have a little bit of a dip here uh and it was uh statistically significant um I would say 0.14 for the first two rows 0.13 for the third for student support and .15 uh for safe schools now if I was in your she I'll be asking what do Joe what do you think the what's the the deal with that well the cont for this and the best I can tell you because I've heard the questions from when I uh sent this out and let's define
056Community First Community is not just everyone that lives here that's what I first when we first started doing this that's what I thought community means anyone that has a relationship with the district that's not an employee that's the best way to describe it so vendors Schoolboard members Chartwells AAR bus drivers the Apple guy that comes in and presents and helps us out with professional development GDC uh anybody that has a relationship with us in the community it could be M you know we buy pizza from them that would be a relationship uh and so forth but it's not necessarily every single uh um like a person that doesn't have a student in the school we wouldn't necessarily go and just give a community survey blind take the area that's not what this is for they
057have to have some connection to the school district in order to take that survey to be considered community if you will so out of that group I got questions and feedback over and over and over again and I will just uh share this with you I believe this is is is impacted the most because of their confusion with the survey and its intention I think the survey was a little bit compromised for this particular group um because as everyone knows you had uh uh some challenges last year and there were a lot of stakeholders in this community group that took the survey that wanted strongly to express their opinions on what they felt or didn't feel about or action to be honest so and I stressed over and over again this is not evaluating board
058action it's not evaluating anything with the board anything at all it's about how you feel when you're into the school how you feel when you drive the the bus and you're interacting with the kids how do you feel when you're fixing computers how do you feel when you're uh you know doing custodial work that type of thing uh but there was a very overwhelming sense of wanting to share opinions about one way or the other what they what they felt or uh what they want to get off their chest or whatnot over the past uh year so I think that and I can tell you I got a lot of feedback um when that survey was out and I kept clarifying and clarifying and clarifying this is not specific to for at all this is
059for district uh but I think some people were confused in that regard so um I'm not saying that's the only reason uh but I know that was uh quite a bit of a a talking point out there for so if we go on to the middle school next slide again you're looking at the First Column there in staff that's the same as you just saw parents the same Community is the same so you look at that that middle school and here's where you start to see uh the differences okay they got more background experiences but their whole world is them remember being in Middle School your whole world is yourself you're all about your social world everything uh is that's the most important schools about third or fourth on your list everything else is is
060much more important uh and maturity level developmental level you uh definitely I think uh has an impact in how they perceive the question how they perceive what the question is asking um and if they're taking it seriously or not at this level too um so you can take a look at the scores there there is not none of the scores are uh statistically significant um we did have uh the second row there social mercial learning actually went up uh so we thinking some of the programs that we do for like Rachel's Challenge and so forth had an impact there uh we did take a little bit of a dip uh on the vonal average as well as student supports and safe schools and then we'll go on to the high school and this if you
061want to think about as much the if you think about validity this group has the most validity I believe they have the experience they've been in a lot of them most of them have been in the school district K12 they know their classmates they know the programs the schools run they know the community they they have a lot of experience they're setting goals for themselves looking into College and Career and Military perhaps what they want to do outside of High School uh they've had maybe uh some more significant relationships with other students all of those types of things feed into to uh the questions here and you can take a look at that we Rose in every category um social emotional learning and safe schools was statistically significant uh the overall average and student support
062uh not so much so it was 004 for the total average and 01 only for the student support again staff the parents and Community were were all the same so what do we do with the data we can look at this a bunch of different ways so what we just did here we compared 2022 to 2024 obviously that's an easy way to look at it right we also look at okay let's look at staff and students side by side right look down safe schools for instance safe schools fall 2024 3.43 hey teacher think hey we're pretty safe everything you know going well we're in the green 2.89 students why the discrepancy is it statistically significant yes so why the discrepancy that's for the Committees to figure out every building has a school climate uh committee
063or positive behavior something along those lines where they'll look at this data and then take a look and that's going to be an area they look at why do our teachers think it's going very very well but maybe our students aren't quite there yet do we need to have more discussions do we know why you know that those types of discussions are going to happen uh whether it's teachers uh working with students in their home rooms getting more information maybe they need to take a deeper deeper dive into that you can also then look at okay we know what the staff and students think is that aligned to what parents think is that aligned to what community thinks and you can compare horizontally as well as vertically so there's lots of different ways you can
064look at this data and we look at this data we make programming changes uh if if we need like I mentioned Rachel's Challenge is Rachel's Challenge working let's take a look what does what does Rachel's Challenge hit what does that program do we need to beef up certain areas do we need to pull back certain areas do we need to change all together it's not giving us a return on investment those are discussions that uh buildings have and those committees have we also look at safety initiatives obviously safe schools uh is one is is are is safety an issue do we if it is is it is it bulling is it the environment is it relationships you know what what about safe safety what makes you feel not uh you know 2.89 instead of 3.43
065why what's holding you back what part of this what part of um the high school you know needs to be improved and they'll have those discussions whether that's with student council a focus group T that's up to the high school to decide how they want to handle that uh but that we take a look at that data and then make some actionable steps with that and again this all feeds into the comprehensive plan Cod number two and that'll be worked on for the next three years as well I did a lot of talking you have any questions anybody have any questions thank you Mr Alvin thank you you're up again professional development planning calendar for 25 26 I got two more things and I'll be on your all right if you uh pull up this
066document in agenda manager this is an annual approval that we uh provide you all you believe have been on the board over a year now so you probably saw this last year you may or may not remember it comes around every March or April and this just outlines the professional development days for the year uh it's a very high level uh calendar it's mainly to help uh principles kind of outline their Year let teachers know the days that we're going to use not necessarily the agendas for each one but um just overall and Main topics and so they can outline their year um as well so we're asking Disc Go for approval for and then next up the academic calendar as well and last but not least is the academic calendar for 2526 we have
067uh looked at this calendar extensively until Mrs Hops and I were crosseyed but we we made it through and uh cross check we also shared it with uh support staff uh all the teaching staff uh got feedback from principles as well so we think this is a our final draft we' like to present to you for approval our first teacher day is August 18th which is a Monday our first student day is August 20th which is the is the Wednesday and that follows what we have done in the past our last day of school is May 29th and excuse uh May 28th for students May 29th for teachers we do have three built-in uh snow days as we have in the past professional development days are September October December January March and May and you
068can find out more information about those on that green and white sheet I just shared with you graduation will be May 27th with with a rain date of May 28th and we have 181 student days and 188 teacher days um there has been discussion you I'm sure you read about it in the news and if you talk to folks in other districts hours versus days so that's getting much more traction now uh per school code we have to have 180 days or the elementary has to have 900 hours in has to have 990 hours uh we're well over that so we do have some cushion there for hours and the state has said we could use days or hours now where that comes into play Snow right so if we don't if we don't uh
069have if we don't want to make up snow days and there were some districts that did that and we don't want to have virtual days either we simply could have okay we have a snow day we have a snow day we were off we don't have to make it up because we would count just the hours not the days where it becomes problematic for upper atoms is in the collective bargaining agreement as it stands right now uh the language is days and right now we would want to follow that has nothing in there referencing hours it doesn't give that option for hours uh to do so we would do have to do an mou and the contract's actually up next year so the timing is actually right so we're going to um as we negotiate
070that contract with the teachers um that would be an item for discussion whether we want to go down that road or not but at this point we're sticking with 180 days um it's actually days U for us uh we're not um exploring the hour option right now but if we get a ratified contract and that's something that is included it's an option we consider in the future and worked on the calendar with me I if she wants to share any addition is done AR um that also came up that also came up at C Perry in a discussion and part of the problem there you to go to hours or days some of the school districts start around August 20 some of the other sending districts don't start until after Labor Day so it's it's
071difficult for them to go hours because then the students from various districts don't get the days they're entitled to so it was left days yeah it's going to be it's going to be interesting because I think a lot of a lot of districts are hopping on hour bandwagon because it's easier to manage I believe and you don't inconvenience as many people that way um but then you have the philosophical discussions as well in educational commitments I will just add one thing Mr Alin that if looking at hours it could impact support staff and their hours with peers and how that is reported that they may not gain a year of service which in the end could impact their retirement so there is a lot of other items that we need to look at if the
072distri in the future would look at ours it Al could also could impact FMLA leaves because of federal requirements thank you very much all right we have nothing under uh other so this would will conclude the curriculum committee meeting we are jour [Music] all right we're going to move on to business and operations uh committee meeting um there's nothing under properly um we're going to move on to transportation and Mr Mr lady yes uh recommend approval to uh the two drivers listed in your agenda manager for Jacob's Transportation thank you any questions on those all right uh moving on finance uh Mr Walmer thank you Mr President sorry I couldn't be there tonight but uh I have six items we're going to go through tonight and I'll start out with the donations we got two
073generous donations one for 3,000 from the American Legion Post 262 and 5200 from the Upper Adams JC uh next for the fifth grade environmental Camp so uh two very generous donations there and it's highly appreciated uh two other donations from uh a mysterious Anonymous donor who uh actually two of them I'm not we don't know if it's the same donor or not but two separate donations for the girl basketball charter bus one for $500 and one for 250 uh so those are very generous as I say and much appreciated um the next item is uh for transfinder software this is an update to um M hob bus routes that that she oversees um so I I'll go through these and if anybody has any questions then then I'll open it up for questions and comments
074but I'll go through these and we will leave Mrs hobb's budget updates to the end here um so I'll move on to the rlps window replacement uh this is a quote from our Architects they have a they have kind of an estimate in there what it'll cost that estimates $392,450 for construction cost and a lum Stone key to the architect who I should mention is rops um a lump sum for their services of $29,500 now the next step on this is to uh send this project out for bids so we'll get bids and then we'll reconvene and go over the bids and make a final decision in in an upcoming meeting uh item 4.4 is in agreement with The Meadows this is to uh s Psychiatric Services for students when needed item 4.6 is Raptor
075technology and Mrs hop this this this new program will combine two pro two current software programs can you speak to that just briefly yes so currently it's going to take navigate 360 that the board usually approves in June um paid for through title 4 for Safety and Security it would take that in Aden which is our visitor management system and that ends here in the fall looking to move away from those two vendors and move forward with raptor to take care of both of those needs so just just combining two into one and it sounds like it's a better software program it'll suit the school's needs so the district's needs so um we look forward to potentially approving that uh the last item before we go to miss cops for a budget update is the
076chef contract um this is going to be um this is going to be with uh Mrs Miss feder and she's going to provide some uh colonary tips and tricks for the school and um uh we look forward to her culinary expertise uh if there's no questions or if there's comments we can we can do that but if there's none we can go to Mrs tops for a budget update I I have a question question where will she be working is she going to be working in the classroom with students yes this is mainly with her transitional students okay um so she does come in in fact she has been doing that for this school year the board approved a contract for the 2425 and this is just renewing that going forward okay [Music] thanks okay
077you have any other questions before budget okay all right Mrs CS the floor is yours thank you Mr Walmer and like Mr Alin I'm going to have lots of numbers for you this evening all this information is also in agenda manager but I did print out two of the slides for you I did not print the whole presentation it's on yellow paper because for me that means it's a work in progress this is not the final you know we're still proceeding you know just as you're approaching those traffic lights um so once again this is a work in progress looking for final approval when we get closer into June um if you're looking at the PowerPoint online and you try to say you know how does all this line up pde will realign accounts each
078year so it's going to be really hard if you try to take all this and mesh it together and say well why this um so each year we do go through looking at how pde is accounting for items and you may see things that are changing I did try to make notes um when the PowerPoint that is attached of where things may have moved things that have been taken out things that have been added um so we can track that as we go through so this evening I just wanted to give a very quick update of our budgeting process review the impacts that was talked about a few weeks ago by our building administrators once again talk about some proposed expenditures and once again this is not final and then just reminding um everyone of
079the timeline as we move through the next several months once again we always start with looking at updating salary and benefits this is ongoing um throughout our hiring season and into June when um final evaluations are completed we always continue to look at student enrollment especially with kindergarten registration that is happening next week and how does that impact our elementary buildings the building administers have already completed their request for the 2526 budget actually their process is um wraps up right around Thanksgiving and you heard some of their requests a few weeks ago special education this is on ongoing conversation between Dr Bo and myself because we have students that are moving in and out of special education Consortium enrollments placements some of the placement information we won't get until April and May so those are
080some of the moving targets as we look at that information also just making sure that any of our operating contracts that we have that the information is updated in the budget from custodial and grounds to GDC Apple I always look at our bond payments to make sure we have all the principal and interest payments that are due for the upcoming year and as I mentioned this is a continuous review from now through June back on February 4th uh governor shakiro gave a his governor's address for the 2526 school year these are just some basic highlights that I pulled out um um of his budget and I'm not going to read each item but I will just mention um the basic education increase and the special education increase for us specifically is a very small increase
081um as we are looking at what could be proposed and maybe into a final budget so those amounts are small for us um so in previous years I might have included a Baseline and thinking oh we may get you know 200,000 that will not be the case I will not be building that into the revenue side this year they're still talking about some pccd grants um that's are Safety and Security and mental health um how that may roll out we just don't know continue the universal free breakfast which is currently um in place and the biggest win if this could come through would be the Charter School tuition where it could be an $88,000 cap per student once again that would be a huge win for all school districts not only us as I've mentioned
082before school budgeting is very unique um we talk about fund function and object and I try to reiterate that each year what we're talking about tonight is the general fund which is code number 10 and you see that when we um provide the bills for you for approvement um to approve at each school board meeting if you see anything that begins with an 10 that means it's coming out of the general fund which is what you'll approve each year then we have the function codee which is the four-digit number and that's broken down by instructional support services and then we have the object code salary and benefits so once again I try to keep the slides cons consistent U moving forward and trying to put those notes in for you as well as we talked
083about a few weeks ago we talked about the fiscal 26 budget impact items that were presented by the different administrators that they include the enrichment program down at bville elementary um for 25,000 an increase to uh per hour for the district translators moving the speech panology from a contractor position to a uas employee adding assistant coaches adding girls wrestling security upgrades and crossing guards so all those total just shy of $135,000 as we move through the next probably 20 slides I'm only going to highlight items um because it is there is a lot of detail and I don't think you want to be here till midnight um but once again just the the differences um that you could see the variance and why the variance I made notes for an example as you're looking at
084this function code 1100 we're talking about regular education programs um and title programs that Mr alen refers to each month in his reports I have what the historical information has been for that function so going back to fiscal year 23 and 24 what we had budgeted and what the board approved for fiscal year 25 what we're currently in and what's being proposed for fiscal year 26 along to the right of the variance of the dollar so if you then if you look at the chart below you're going to see the difference where the Varian is is made up from a lot of these you're always going to see an increase in Sal and benefits because that's for our CBA um for evaluations coming through Etc and the benefits includes Healthcare keaser Social Security Etc uh
085contracted Services that's like when we contract with Kelly education the IU for services um so once again we have all those listed and I try to make notes on the bottom of the slide if there's things that are in here that the board already talked about and are approved and I S of linked it in so if you had specific questions did we really talk about that or when did that happen if you click on the Blue Link it should take you to those items as well to the agenda manager I will note here in function 1100 and you're going to see it when we talk about near the end for the object codes uh one thing that is included in this budget is a 5% Health Care increase for our employees paying their for
086their premum that is included we haven't had a rate increase in our healthare cost to the LBT probably in the last five plus years it also includes um out of the assigned fund that we talk about there's $350,000 in there for medical but the district canting and using 125,000 for that for future claims because we have had some um claims in the past in the past year or so that have been high claims so if we do this now hopefully to even out we don't have have a 10% increase in the future for healthcare Premium cost so that is included in this 1100 function even though it does impact employees through all the functions in this particular function as well you will see in the 600s the increase for the iPads of the 743 th000
087that is something that has been approved has been ordered um as noted it was approved back in November of 2024 but this also does take account in moving the caner funds money that's currently in the general fund and taking that out to put in the Student Activities and I made that note here at the bottom as well so that's already factored in hoping that you were going to approve the Student Activities account so there are some assumptions built in in the 1200s um you're going to see this is our special education this is the one that we are still waiting on a lot of data from um because this is where we if we have contracts with River Rock um yellow breaches news story this is the function that it come out of and we
088don't get those contracts for the upcoming school year till about the April or May time frame so there is an increase already factored in hoping that it comes in lower and you will also see on that line for the 500s um and it was even noted on the previous Slide the increase for Charter Schools and cyber schools as I mentioned before our enrollment has increased even our special education enrollment has increased about it's about 30% of any student that is going to the Charter Schools it's about 30% of those students so once again as I mentioned previously if we get the $88,000 as the cap for Charter Schools it could save the district between two and $300,000 once again we just don't know that information at this point the 1300s um you will see a
089large negative number in there that was because we had the money put in for the 2425 budget for Cumberland Perry for the renovations since that will be paid for out of the 2425 school year that has come out of the 2526 budget once again 1,400 is just salary and benefits 1800 this is this is our prek this is our pass through funds so whatever is approved by the state for our prek accounts we are our pass through with Head Start so once again that's just a flat number that could change but I kept the same amount in there that we currently have for the year 2100 this is support services for students um you're going to save a wi salary and benefits increase about $169,000 as staff are moved around so do their salary and
090benefits from one function to the other so once again we're not adding staff this is just how they're placed within the district for the needs of the current students 2200 instructional staff Administration for um Support Services um um nursing which is 2400 2500 which is fiscal Services meaning the business office 2600 you're going to see a lot of movement as well um we have the Safety and Security for the SSO for GeForce that gets paid out of this account that's also reimbursed through pccd so I have that noted here for you on that on that slide aark our contract with them in insurance I'm not sure where our insurance may come to for this school year for the 25 26 this would be like our automobile insurance are property and liability once again I have
091placeholders in for that is a is a 10% increase pretty typical from what I'm hearing right now it's ranging anywhere from like 7 to 15% so I chose 10 to sort of go in the middle most other districts really yeah thank thank you it does have included in here about Raptor that we just talked about which is taking you know replacing our navigate 360 and our identi kid and this function also had the fencing that we originally had for the pccd so that came out because that project was completed and um that was back at the 2425 school year 2700 this is a transportation um Mr Alin mentioned about we look at calendars we also look at calendars of neighboring school districts and with us transporting students to the Charter Schools we had to take
092in account to their calendars um I will share we have one charter school that is now having early dismissals once a month on Wednesdays so we have to do a midday run to transport those students which is an additional Transportation cost for us so so some of these things are beyond our control we have to provide those Services though 2800 which is human resources our IU payment um 3200 which is Student Activities um Athletics that includes band course as well um so we talked about the girls wrestling and it also does includ 2.5% increase for all coaches um last year on the supplemental chart that was approved by the board we did not increase coaching sens last year so this year this does include a 2.5 and I think uh this may go back to
093a question that Mrs plank had when we were talking about the impact items that we thought the salaries that already included at 2.5 5100 is our bond payments like I mentioned so this is the function slide which is the pink hand out or I'm sorry the yellow hand out I gave you this is taking all the slides that I just talked about and putting it all together for you so what does it look like as a snapshot um it I provided the 25 the 26 the variance and the percent of the variance but most importantly is that middle column the of the overall budget you know of that how much of the overall budget is it so once again if you look at it you can see regular education is 41% of our budget and
094special education is 177% so about 50% of our Budget break between regular Edge and special Edge it is and then we add in some of the other functions of how it directly supports our students you are about 90% of our budget everything in here is in our students and once again of the budget we can only really tweak maybe about 5 to 7% of that because a lot of it is contractual driven and if you would like to see how that is p you know as a pie chart I have provided that for you as well because I think that speaks [Music] volumes and then if you look at all those object codes that we t talked about I provided all that information on a summary slide as well once again salary benefits are about
09560% of anyone's budget when you're looking at an organization and that is just the same case as it is here um within the district and then our next highest one would be our other purchase services but that includes our Charter Schools our transportation you know things that are directly related to students as well and once again I provided just a picture for you so right now with the proposed expenditures you're looking overall at a 5% increase from 2425 budget to to the 2526 budget and once again it does include all those impact items once again I think this is the worst case scenario I did as I mentioned put placeholders in not knowing some of the expenses that we have at this this point coming in for the 25 26 school year so right now
096projected expenses are a little bit over 38 million now you're going to say what does that mean for revenues we are going to talk about that in April um so once again what I'm seeing on the revenue side locals remaining steady I don't see any concerns on the local very little change in the state as I mentioned earlier so once again you know how does that play out in the end we will talk more about that in April as we start hearing hopefully more from the governor's office so in April you're probably going to hear from me on April fools day and that is not a joke um and again probably on the 15th because I think at that point it's really you know by April 15th we really need to be looking at the
097whole picture by may we need to be looking at how does that preliminary budget look looking to approve the the plinary budget by the end of May at our May 20th meeting and then obviously by our June 17th meeting we need to approve the 2526 budget so I did go through that quickly um the information is there I would ask you to digest it all if you have any questions I would ask you to reach out to Jerry and myself and we can get those responses to you um but at this time does anyone have any questions I have one the summer enrichment in the previous years wasn't it paid by Esser funds that was paid through Esser funds that is correct and we actually can fund that this year for the 25 26 year
098with ready to learn funds that we have so that would cover this 20 25,000 any other questions Mrs HS I have a question did I hear you correctly are you estimating that if the Governor's uh budget request goes through in the state level with regards to Charter Schools and capping the tuition cost at 8,000 is your estimate that it could save the district to $200 to $300,000 did I hear you correctly on that that is correct do you have any gauge on do you have any idea what the the Charter School per pupil cost is now and I guess that would probably include Cyber Charter at cyber school do you have engage on that yes so per month per student for a regular education student at a Cyber Charter School its regular Ed is a
099little bit over [Music] 14,000 per student and that's for the year and then for a special education student if they attend a cyber school we're looking at about 33,000 because from the state budget for the 2425 school year they did a blended rate so we paid one rate from July through December and then a new rate came in effect for the Cyber special education in January and there was a reduced fee and that is like 33,000 but students that are special education attending a charter school is a little bit over 35,000 and I will also add in this year's budget in the 425 we reive State funding reimbursement for Charter students of about $70,000 that is not in the proposed budget for 2526 from the governor's office interesting yeah it wouldn't need to be there
100they wouldn't need it okay well that's interesting that's a substantial decrease to the charter schools and a substantial increase to our school district District as that goes through so we'll keep an eye on that it's the the budget picture is starting to be drawn we have a circle and we have some ears on it and a couple eyes and and a nose almost so over the next few months we'll put in the rest of the detail I appreciate your work on this it is a lot of numbers but uh we'll we'll get through it and and great work I appreciate it thank you thank you shy there's no other questions then that's all I had Mr President thank you Mr wmer all right moving on to uh Personnel uh Mr rustic yes thank you Mr
101President uh I'm going to be uh reading uh the information that we see before us here uh and also pausing after each um sort of line item uh in case there are questions or comments uh from the board so turning our attention to 5.1.1 job description uh notice that the uh the item relates to the assistant superintendent job description uh there's an attachment with additional information and we recommend [Music] approval turning our attention to transfer 5.1.2 uh item transfer Joseph Alber to the to the position of assistant superintendent from director of curriculum instruction and assessment recommend the board president be authorized to execute the employment contract on behalf of the board of school directors recommend [Music] approval some of these line items we don't have anything to report for example a Personnel cabinet uh 5.3
102however 5.31 uh resignation we uh have a cabinet resignation uh buying little Administration Assistant business administrator effective 314 2025 turning our attention to 5.3.2 post and advertise uh you'll notice uh the item uh cabinet post and advertised assistant business administrator recommended [Music] approval turning our attention to 5.5.1 uh supplemental contracts Athletics uh This concerns supplemental contracts Athletics as per the attached uh document you'll notice the attachment there uh before you and recommended approval [Music] turn your attention for 5.6 volunteer services notice the uh the um information there before you add the following to the voluntary listing Gregory harbal retroactive to 219 2025 Tammy harbal retroactive to 219 2025 Janet Mendes retroactive to 22425 Sarah little retroactive to 22525 Ryan little retroactive to 22525 Megan lepo retroactive to 22525 Paul SP spino retroactive to 22625 John
103Jeffco retroactive to 22825 Haley suo retroactive the 332 25 Kathleen butcher retroactive to 33 2025 recommended [Music] approval turning our attention now to 5.7.5 other contracted Services Kelly education permanent staff uh notice Jennifer Beaver remove effective 310 2025 turning our attention to 5.76 one Kelly education teacher substitute please note the following Deanna Boer remove effective 22625 Zeb eer remove effective 22625 Jessica Jackson remove effective 22625 Lewis lasowski remove effective 22625 Marilyn Lopez remove effective 22625 Lance wbite remove 226 625 uh Armando Torres Jr uh is uh does not have any additional information but we recommend [Music] approval turn our attention to 5.7.2 Kell a education support staff substitute notice uh Theresa Collins remove effective 22625 Tara omler remove effective 22625 Randy Sher remove effective 22625 recommended approval and I believe that concludes my report do
104we have any questions for Mr ltic for [Music] personnel all right nothing other cont moving on to other um we do have two quick announcements before we adjourn um on this Thursday March 6 2025 the policy meeting will be held in the boardroom uh starting at 9:00 a.m. uh on Thursday so we are back into the boardroom on on Thursday um also uh want to remind the board members that the spring musical uh Foot Loose will be taking place next Friday March 14th at 700 p.m. Saturday March 15th at 700 p.m. and Sunday March 16th at 2: p.m. uh so foot those uh with the uh spring Musical do we have anything else to add or discuss right we areed thanks Jerry [Music]