001okay all right and i have one other piece of business i forgot to take okay thank you uh for the minutes the executive session uh was a personal issue the contract uh negotiation issue so okay now we're we're all set hey tom yes um if i might ask for some clarification my understanding is that the trip to france and spain which was originally scheduled for the dates and the agenda was rescheduled for similar dates in 2023 has that just simply not been approved by the board yet but is going on and a reality in the background or so um bruce this is uh beth best friend i'm not sure if you can hear me there was an option for students to keep their money with the in their eclorica account um with the thinking that
002there could possibly be a trip but so i know that mrs bloomhorst and miss bream are working through kind of wrapping this and tying loose ends with this trip and there haven't been any um movement on a trip in 2023 at this point okay so that makes sense yeah so at this point there is no scheduled school district related trip uh foreign trip in 2023 but there may be yes that's correct okay got it thank you okay and now now we move on to curriculum and so it's a it's a delight to have um mr heiser and mrs fry and mr foster and mr bausch here to do a presentation under john's direction good evening everyone i hope everyone's holiday break was uh a good one and you're relaxed and ready to hear a lot
003about curriculum this evening and are as excited as i am and as excited as uh mrs jandik was when i shared the curriculum agenda with her so we got a pretty packed agenda lots of different topics so we'll get right to it uh the first item is going to be a brief presentation by our social studies department grades 6 through 12. we have in-house a high school teacher a social science teacher with mr west heiser uh mr rob bow and mr jim foster middle school is represented by mr chris berger and we have sixth grade represented by mrs sam schafer and miss amanda the reason sixth grade i i always include them when we talk about social studies because that's the way the state has their curriculum and standards laid out six seven and eight
004are a block so we always want to pull in that sixth grade even though they're at the elementary level elementary social studies is about the state of pennsylvania neighborhoods community helpers those types of curriculum topics we get into the more detailed at the secondary level and the reason for this presentation this evening is we heard a lot of discussion in the fall in regards to concerns around how we teach what we teach buzz words like critical race theory equity 1619 projects all those things you hear in the news there's been a lot of do we do that what what do we do what do we not do and we just wanted to come to the board as a department and say here's our approach this is how we do business with our students and answer
005any questions that you may have or any concerns you may have and try to instill confidence in the board with art with what we do here that we are providing an effective and equitable education to all of our students so mr heiser is going to do most of the speaking this evening representing the social studies department but they are all here for any questions you may have uh again 6th through 12th grade mr heiser thank you good evening thanks for having us here this evening uh what we're going to mainly focus on is our approach our philosophy of how we teach the students uh not as much on specific content that we teach in order to try to keep our discussion here a little bit concise but if any of you have specific questions please
006feel free to ask we'll do our best to field them and if we're not able to uh answer them this evening we'll certainly follow up with you subsequently uh so here at the operative school district we as a department try to focus on how we approach social studies so that we are delivering to the students a balanced approach and perspectives of social studies topics we're really focused on trying to encourage the students to think critically to be able to develop their own opinions their own thoughts about what we are presenting to provide them various perspectives to form really an opinion that reflects their own beliefs and experiences we encourage those students uh you know to really start to develop their own political thoughts you know without a significant amount of input from us besides essentially
007the factual nature of things that are occurring both in our nation and in the world today as well as in the past we always encourage our students to seek out a variety of sources to recognize and respect multiple viewpoints related to source materials we encourage an attempted model of civil discourse particularly i would say in jim foster's civics class that's a very important component in particular standing out from online from the activities that he engages in but certainly throughout the department we actively avoid influencing our students political beliefs it has become i will tell you increasingly difficult in the past several years you're trying to select for example current events just the nature of how the news is reported it's difficult sometimes to ensure that you're not influencing those types of police so sometimes we
008will do that through providing students a variety of sources and more directing them in places that will uh provide them numerous sources uh kind of a same venue um we do seek opportunities to recognize the positive contributions of americans foster patriotism and love of country and i can speak many of the courses not just of the united states as a whole but also here in our upper adams community right now i'm teaching the great war and um you know in addition to covering certain things with technology today our students were exposed to different individuals that have participated in those actions people that were involved in you know aircraft use in that war or chemical gas and things of that nature so this kind of outline our core belief system the curriculum here is grounded in
009essentially four main areas of study uh history geography economics and then civics and government the course offerings in the high school do include both domestic offerings in terms of american history and civics as well as more overseas offerings world history we have advanced placement force in that as well as human geography and also a standard course in global studies we certainly don't live in a vacuum you know we're aware of what goes on uh discussion wise both within our community and also in the uh the larger community whether that be our state or our country or the world um we do not teach critical race theory as said we do not use the 1619 project or its materials we do not teach in a way that is designed or or intended to make any student
010uh feel ashamed or negatively about themselves we find it very important that you know their students uh recognize what has occurred in the past but they maintain a good positive image and self-esteem while also being aware of everything that's going on in the history of the united states or the case of our world history course or global studies in the history of the world and um we do use a variety of resources in order to deliver our learning experiences that meet the board-approved curriculum and fulfill our state standards this is something that i during my tenure has changed kind of significantly there was kind of an error where you purchased a textbook and that was it as we've moved more to a technological age we do still purchase certain curricular materials as a package but
011i can tell you that more often than not we do rely on you know irreliable non-profit or government entities folks like the national park service the public broadcasting system you know there are certain um agencies that tend to develop less than plan based materials when i worked at the eisenhower site with the national park service that was one of the things that our historian there did okay so it doesn't have to be completely recreated by each individual we strive to provide that challenging uh and inspiring educational series of opportunities that we believe the board expects of us and our community speculative we always seek to empower each student to really be a responsible productive individual when we go through you know the development of a student from k to 12 in this case from 6
012to 12. you know our goal at the end game is that our students leave our school system prepared to engage responsibly in the world and to understand the world that they live in so i gladly take any questions that you may have and if i can answer now i'll follow up with you questions from the board it was a very concise and thorough presentation thank you also thank you for all the work that you do and uh the challenge of communicating this kind of material in an equitable way is is amazing and i just really appreciate your efforts and um i also as as a board wanted to recognize it some of the points you made on your page too um i understand from our my discussion with mr alden that you did take into
013consideration some of the public comments that were made and um really respect you for that thank you okay next on the agenda is the advanced placement human geography course curriculum again good evening uh tiffany fry cannot be here this evening she had an unexpected uh family uh situation occur uh so mrs graham and i are going to attempt here to share with you what the item is on the board agenda if you have any specific questions regarding the course or content we will certainly take this back to mrs fry and have her come back at the board meeting to provide this work with mrs brent so mrs graham's going to talk to you just briefly about the background of this course and then i will share uh walk you through the documents that you have
014in front again good evening um a.t human geography or as we often refer to it as ap hug um we are in our second year of offering the course and how when mrs elliott retired we were offering um western civilization and our enrollment is around about 20 kids um and in looking at ways to expand our offerings and what might be um other interesting curriculum for our students we through looking at college board data and our pvas system which pulls information over time through our pssa testing and keystone testing ap human geography was a course that our students were predicted to do well in so we offered it last year we had over 50 students enrolled in it and it has been a really nice pairing with mr mouse ap world history class so they
015kind of they cycle together um and it's been a good match and i did ask mrs frye to write up something for me um in her words to describe her ap human geography class ap hug is an introductory level human geography course that explores the why of where in the first half of the year we dive into maps population distribution and trends the distribution of languages religions border boundaries and the conflicts over territory the second semester is first focused on agriculture around the world and how we interact in our environment sustainable efforts to conserve rural land urban land use and city structures and how modern industry has changed the world it's engaging fast-paced and my students have said it's one of the most relevant courses they've taken in high school and she always tells her
016kids you can make ap hug connections anywhere in the world so the kids do relate to it um and it's been successful for us so very good i would assume that there's a almost a natural connection between this and and ap history is that accurate statements yes they funnel together very nicely yeah good it's been a very good addition uh for those who may not remember or didn't know our ap program only started four years and it has blossomed uh we now have well these two ap courses we just talked about and several others that i'm sure beth can can stop for us but i'm very very proud and happy of the accomplishments of the of you beth and your staff with putting this ap program together yeah and i'm very proud of the work
017that our teachers have done in the face of covid and it was a tough year and we had success on the ap exams last year our kids saw success with those and if students ap exams are scored on a scale of one to five and if they earn a three state colleges will accept that as a college credit and we have many of our kids scoring threes and above wonderful yeah thank you the document in front of you mrs fry wanted to update this curriculum get it in front of you so if you for those of you have been on the board for a while you know there are many three main parts to the curriculum that we present to you there's a scope and sequence which is kind of that's the first page and
018that's the map and what we teach when we teach topics outlines and the amount of time that we're going to spend on each unit the second section is what we call cut and cud stands for know understand and do and this is the section she has been working on and it is complete and available for your review on agenda manager and this is what we're bringing forward to you tonight for approval and then she will move into the student learning map and once they're complete we'll bring that to you for further again uh for the final piece but she has been working very hard on this she tried to outline all the topics all the specific tasks that students section if you have any questions again specifically we just want to take this back to
019her as this any questions on the content no but i want to take it i'd like to you know signed great so we do that might be challenging okay moving on the next item that we would be considering for approval is item 6.3 and this has to do with the new curriculum committee and if you would like to combine that with the curriculum chairperson job description so if you would like to follow along you may pull up the document in agenda manager a new curriculum committee framework we have had some challenges um covenant even before covid working to get a framework that could produce quality curriculum based on a lot of obstacles that we were facing in regards to substitutes fiscal responsibilities and just general schedules and i wanted to and i kept thinking we
020have to have a better way there's got to be a better system so i went out talked to other districts in adams county york county in our intermediate unit and a large majority of them have a curriculum council type of framework so that's what this document walks you through so the first section is what do we do now well what we do now is usually once a week on a wednesday because that's the day we can get the substitute most of the time we will pull a content area out of the classroom provide them with substitutes they come here in the boardroom and we worked with them on a curriculum task or curriculum priority prior to 2017 i did that with every single content area that we had and then we ran into some physical
021barriers and the substitute situation was growing increasingly worse so we backed that out to a two-year period so every other year i would meet with a curriculum area so within every two years i would meet with every curriculum area one time then code would hit so and that puts yet another barrier on top of it and a lot of times if there are no substitutes the teachers are coming here they're distracted sometimes they have to leave and go back to the building many times the building administrators have to cover their classes because there are no substitutes in the building or we have to cancel title 1 today so title 1 teachers can cover classes teachers that are over here it just it it keeps it's a broken system it's it we're not resolved we're not
022providing the best quality product so how can we fix it so we're going down to the third section where it's a new framework what we would like to try is for every curriculum area that we have curriculum committee we will identify one person as the curriculum chairperson and that person will lead the department in curriculum items the curriculum chair person from each committee will meet with me three times a year secure state updates to hear tasks um if you know sign standards are coming out in the next year or two so definitely i'm going to be presenting that to the curriculum council any new and approved cutting edge curriculum topics will be shared that i get from the intermediate so that's a benefit because i'll be meeting with them three times a year much more
023than i'm meeting now and that would be the heads of those curriculum committees the curriculum chairperson then takes those tasks and schedules meetings after school with their curriculum committee and works on those tasks and completes those tasks so they're taking the ownership they're taking the leadership and they're running their department uh especially at this more the secondary level that our department and taking that and have a much more high quality investment in my opinion there are risks to that one risk is will we get people to step up to be curriculum chair people and the other risk is how are we going to get these folks to stay after school to do curriculum work that our curriculum members curriculum chair folks working with mrs hobbs we will be providing them with a stipend and the
024stipend will be tiered there'll be four tiers to this so certain curriculum areas may be in tier one one year and tier three in another year tier one means they have the most work to do so if the science standards get released the new one bias is gonna have to do a rewrite they're gonna be in tier one driver's ed maybe tier four and in between of course two and three and we can shuffle those each year tier one would get paid the highest tier four would get paid above us because they have the least amount of work for responsibility or commitments after school how do we incentivize folks to stay after school that are not getting that stupid working with uh the administrative team we were brainstorming uh idea such as a additional comp
025day looking at obligations that are outside of the school day in the collective bargaining agreements to see if any of those can be met that way and throwing out some other ideas that were kind of brainstorming right now so there are options but yeah those are the two risks i see but i think they're healthy risks they're a good risk because i would like to try something um because right now it's it's not working the best and i want it to be i want us to have the best i want it to really uh function well so i'd like to try it and tweak it as we go along and see if we can uh build a better model for upper apps here a moment the uh the effectiveness of doing it that way the
026safe assumption that you and shelly have since you had to go to this because of fiscal constraints that the stipends etc will be affordable as opposed to what we were doing yeah what we we estimated about approximately a four thousand dollar savings actually going with this particular structure and now having satisfied that answer are we by doing it this way do you feel as though as the curriculum guru that we're going to be producing a quality product yeah i this model was or something like this model was in place at a former district i was at it worked well i know it's a place that conewago valley school is great i believe little sounds like something similar so this wasn't something that we invented out of the whole yeah yeah i did some research well
027i didn't think i wasn't implying that you were making this up as you go but there's this is a tried and true method thank you so um yep so i i just want to understand what i'm most interested is making sure that all the faculty involved in a particular um for a particular subject have input so like let's say mr heiser he's he always has something incredibly growing to say right always so if you haven't care you know um but mr burger also uh has something brewing to say so if he's not part of the committee how would he automatically would you automatically by default yeah that's the way we have it set up right now everyone is part of the committee that's one of the risks and we'll have to see how that played
028out with the faculty will all the committee members be willing to take that competitor or use that obligation for a time outside of the classroom to do that curriculum and we're going to work together as an admin team to try to resolve that issue it makes sense to just give it a try i think the only concern would be you know i i suppose this even happens now is when you have a dominant personality the the committees how do they work are they across grades schools um can you describe the community structure seven through twelfth is primarily by department so that's they naturally form their own committee that way so 7 through 12 english 7 through 12 math those types of committees are k-6 we we break it from into content areas as well but
029we will do perhaps for social studies k5 for social studies and then us sixth through twelfth and sixth grade standards are marked in with six seven eight for english language arts you may do a k-6 and then do a seven through twelve yeah math math relativity thing so sixth grade that pivotal sometimes those are with middle school sometimes they're with elementary and then we have a representative from each grade level uh on that particular committee so the english language arts elementary committee would have a kindergarten the first the second the third the fourth and the fifth and then with this model there would be a leader for that committee one of those folks would set up to be the chairperson i'm just curious if the teachers in the room have a have any response they'd
030like to share specifically what are the advantages one of them is greater teacher investment higher quality product do you you feel like this is a good plan i can speak to that for a minute um i did review all the documents that mr alvin had prepared for the past several years we have been without department chairs and while those were not curriculum centered it has caused things to be difficult at times some people sort of continued informally for a time mrs marge elliott was here as kind of the senior person she continued with that you know there is certainly a concern i think upon any individual's contribution but there there sort of does come a point where um beyond just the principal who has a lot of responsibility you do need a certain level of
031command and control to ensure that there's really just a coordination of what is taught when you know that you're you're setting up those building blocks in an ideal world we would down the road be looking at cross-curricular coordination when i taught the middle school many years ago everything that was done in at that time writing was a course reading was a separate course and history those we align those throughout the year consistently in the high school it's a bit more difficult because of the arrangement of who teaches blood and there's a lot of variety mr mouse teaches at least three different courses there's not many people that are set at a grade level i think there are significant advantages to this all the concerns have been expressed i think are valid concern it is it
032is a bit more to do in a larger system there are people that simply do this we are not in a system where we have the luxury of that thank you and the second component as mrs jandik shared when at her introduction is the curriculum chairperson job description not going through this with you in depth it's there for your review if you have questions about that please feel free to let me know it is very thorough i did have some folks in other districts take a look at it as well that have these positions just to make sure i'm not missing anything or whatever was over zealous what my expectations were so it's been uh pretty well vetted another question okay thank you and uh the next item is 6.5 the differentiated supervision handbook that
033has been updated time off over the holidays seriously uh in march 2020 the state pennsylvania department of ed and state government got together and made some changes to the educator effectiveness model among other things that were included in what they called act 13 when this happened this is why this document is presented to you this evening because this precip started off a chain of reaction with four and as you know any government entity loved their forms and they had to change just about every form that they they had for evaluation so before we march 2020 we had this model here this was what they call act 82 and 50 of what a teacher does in the classroom i'm sorry yeah 50 of what they do in the classroom was observation in practice was that number
034that the state gave us that school performance profile number based on a bunch of holistic factors was based on teacher-specific data which is how the kids did on growth or achievement and 20 was based on what they called a student learning objective which in all intense purposes was a goal they worked with the principal to set a goal and the principal monitors that throughout the year with the teacher act 13 kept all those components renamed them some of them and changed the percentages so now instead of 50 it went to 70 for what they do in the classroom school performance profile is no longer uh called that it's now called a building score they got rid of that term school performance profile they tried desperately i think to eliminate that entirely but the political winds
035were not aligned for that at least this time around teacher specific data is 10 and slo which is a student learning objective is now called spm student performance measure and that's ten percent so no none of the content has changed none of how we use how we evaluate teachers on what we're evaluating them on has changed the wording on the rubrics has changed slightly to be more inclusive based on how the political winds are are right now and they gave them a face left so they're prettier and easier to read and they're more user friendly and they reflect the new percentages for act 13. but when you look at this the front half of the book did not change again what we do and how we do it is not changing what you're proving this
036evening the changes are all dependencies so the rubrics are no longer the ugly black and white slanted uh rubrics of the past that the city put together for act 82 they're now color they're now much nicer formatted thanks to the allegheny intermediate unit that had this task we have a new form for our goal which is now called student performance measure same thing as student learning objective called it something different gave you a new form it's actually a lot nicer i think and a lot cleaner than the old form and i bet you didn't know there is a new code of professional practice out there it was approved in august and uh it was published in november and that is included on here so i knew that was up for uh review i did not
037know they moved that fast with it so i was excited to see that was actually complete and then the two forms the rating forms 82 1 and 82 2 are now 13 1 and 13 2 again same components same structure they just look different they're prettier and their landscape instead of portrait so this is being presented to us tonight for discussion and in two weeks for approval right yeah but it doesn't look like there's any option here i just want to make sure that i haven't missed something [Music] the principles are going to do it whether we approve it well it's also law so yeah got it okay so any questions on on this i just want to make sure you understood that nothing's it's changing but it's not is there no the way our
038practice has been um it's a 4-3-2 system so your very first year with us if you're non-tenured and you're a brand new teacher it's four second year three third year is two and then you move into more of a self-directed cycle and then every three years you get observed one time after that unless there are concerns or other issues out there and that's not checked yeah [Laughter] this is my god what's more fun than curriculum that's right okay thank you mr alvin before you finally lose your voice so we have one more uh 6.6 the heritage speakers course e textbook and um this inspector i believe that's she here and i'm ramping out um brochures that our language department created as our heritage course spanish for heritage speakers is also a new course we found
039a need this could mrs petra's in her second year of teaching the heritage course and it does focus on our students who come to us already speaking spanish i think we you know there's an assumption that the students are bilingual and after doing surveys talking with our spanish teachers um talking to some parents of our spanish speakers our students in fact are not um they could often speak the language but they can't read and write it um and in order to have all of our students college and career ready we felt like this heritage course would would bridge that gap chris i'd like to thank you from the bottom of my heart for allowing the heritage classes to to take place i cannot tell you how rewarding and how wonderful it is to see heritage
040speakers have a class that speaks to them that is molded and shaped for them specifically they don't have to sit in a class and learn how to say red blue green which they already know but a class is going to challenge them um within their limitations the heritage speakers that i have had for now for two years um they understand spanish and then there is a great deal of differentiation within those there are some that are very bilingual some that actually are esl students that have just come immigrated to america and take my class and for them this class is amazing because they are in the class where they know what's going on they feel confident um but also we were talking about curricular if you and i can't tell my students whether they're heritage
041speakers or not you are going to learn so much more english by coming to this class because when you're speaking of grammar and languages linguistically many of the concepts are reflected in english so a lot of the the syntax and all those concepts they have to learn so for students who are in esl but are taking my class when i talk to them about this is how you say it in english and this is how you say it in spanish they're learning english and it's helping them now the reason that i am advocating for this text for my curriculum um is because this book really enriches the heritage speaker curriculum a great deal heritage speaking heritage uh curriculums are not necessarily all in every place in america and every school district we're very fortunate that
042we have one here um but there is a not a wide range of authentic material that we can fish and find and this book really just puts it all together in a way that is a great resource my learners have diverse needs and this particular company and i looked at many other companies but this one really spoke to me because they have a really wonderful differentiation they acknowledge that not all heritage speakers are on the same level you have heritage and native speakers two different things so you can be a heritage a mexican american but not a native mexican american so my esl people that are coming students that are coming from mexico they're native speakers and they've had years of spanish education my heritage speakers their families are from uh different latin american countries
043primarily mexico but that doesn't mean have ever had one year one day of instructional spanish so this this particular textbook um both heritage one and heritage two really acknowledge that there is a need for differentiation um there's a wonderful balance in these books with grammar literature writing and culture and again there's a a unit that ties the connection to english and we were talking about critical thinking our heritage speaker class of supportive speakers classes are not just students to learn spanish it's so much more than just learning a language or learning their native language or cultural language it's about also teaching them to think critically all the reading strategies the listening strategies that i use with my ap spanish i introduce to my heritage wants and my heritage to class what this means is that
044they become better english learners english readers why because the reading strategies are the same for spanish as they are for english and so i'm teaching them how to think critically and for those students that might not be in advance english classes they're getting the strategies that advanced classes will get so it i i am just so overwhelmed with joy and just seeing how much my students are growing um the things that they are capable and that have they have produced so far it's just amazing um and i would just like to finish by saying that um i have a textbook uh that i use with my curriculum for ap spanish and the results of that have been now this is my third year teaching ap spanish my first year two students took the pcc exam
045one got a five and one got a three the five was the native speaker the three was a non-native speaker that was the first year 100 passing rate second year second second year yes last year i got another five and another three still a hundred percent fascinating and so really when it comes to heritage um classes the more access you have to authenticate spanish literature grammar media and audio the better quality of education you're going to give to your students and just to be able to say to my heritage speakers you are worth it the school board says you're worth it the school thinks you're worth it it's just such a wonderful wonderful experience so i thank you first for allowing me to teach heritage spanish ap um and just the last little thing i
046want to say my ap students that take spanish but also take hug they see how ap spanish is also a little bit of ap hub because we talk about some of the same issues but just in this if you think about latin america we're one half of the world right we're not just one little continent we are the whole western hemisphere so when we're learning about geography and spanish we're learning about one half of the world and so really it does all intertwine eventually um but anyway thank you so much and i appreciate your consideration no no nervy also huh i have a question though these two textbooks they appear to be textbooks um we have gone through a great effort over the last few years to get online materials and this seems to be
047a throwback going into textbooks is this material tell me more about the material the material is also online so everything that's on the textbook plus more is online so the way these companies that they realize that people don't just want to use a test they want to be very interactive so with this curriculum you're you're getting the textbook but mostly it's the information within the textbook and online that you have access to so we have access to videos authentic spanish videos where people are having authentic conversations about different parts of the latin american experience whether it's culture or um just connection so we have that that we can give to our students something that they can see and they can hear um there's also a pen pal uh program that you can have through this
048where you can have pen pals from different parts of the world latin american yields and some of the frustration for mr center has been because the course isn't something that everybody offers the materials aren't vetted and with this the literature what the students are being presented there's research behind it this is tried and true i i can tell you um from personal experience as the world's worst spanish student but i for a number of years was studying spanish with my tutor using something called destino's right right which was something similar what you're looking at here but it was generated by the university of indiana champlain i think and it had videos it had that's and each lesson was a different type of use of spanish and so uh it really was useful it didn't make
049the student any smarter how with some other student it might have worked so i i i it sounds from your description um it sounds similar to what well there's also an additional component to this program and that is i said differentiation so some of the students come in reading spanish some of them don't i teach them phonics i do a whole series on phonics so that they know how to read by the time we're done with it but this this particular program what they also will do is when we're doing reading comprehension for those that are still having problems reading we can listen to the audio so they have an audio component for those that are hesitant readers reluctant readers and the ones that know how to read well they can read along with it
050so i love that there is an audio component to this for to differentiate for those who cannot read no no no no this is not an ap this is the heritage one and the heritage two um what i'm saying with ap is that i'm teaching them this strategy because ultimately i would like to have these students take ap spanish and then by the time they get to ap spanish it's not a shock to them because ap spanish is very rigorous and so it's starting them early getting them used to the wording the technology the strategies really helps them one of the things that wasn't discussed maybe mrs graham can help is we haven't as i look through this thing i see subscription a big bold what's the cost of this we're looking at about eight
051thousand dollars for both the one and two for a year or six years and that that is what like how all of our textbooks that we did have to purchase for um ap and on a six-year cycle and what what are we using now like the resources just kind of cobbled together but we're going from sure yeah made up resources basically nothing no i wouldn't think made up i'm just uh the heritage spanish programs that are out there this is a relatively new movement and so to be able to find a curriculum with textbooks in a program that really at least has the focus that i would like to to fill in the gaps with um is very exciting a lot of the teachers um a lot of heritage teachers they really just pull from
052here for there but when you have a pizza here a piece of there it's not very cohesive and i was you know the continuity with this program is that you start with heritage one and you you keep going to get the heritage too and it's a wonderful walk to ap spanish it's just a wonderful introduction i would like to comment that you know it's our commitment to equity i i think it's fantastic that we're able to provide on some level a heritage curriculum that would do the job and you're such a fantastic teacher i just had one question and maybe it's nothing at all to be concerned about but it's a copyright of 2014. so do you expect it to have a new edition are we investing in something that's going to be this is
053wrong maybe copyright 2014 i just don't i really at least according to this i i don't know per se but i think for the next six years this will definitely be worth this money and wait okay it'll be current and okay yeah this parentage programs are very hard to put together so it's not like a typical spanish one or spanish too that maybe every five years or every six years because it's so diverse it's not your typical spanish program it's really like a spanish literature class i think so it's going to have a lot more longevity to it than your typical curriculum very good thank you so i just wanted to recap that if we in two weeks approve this this is a an add-on to the to the budget that cold [Laughter] in there
054that's just the reality of life i understand which is why i'm here well i i have no more questions if you should happen to question the future i'll just email me one of our board members on the phone question go ahead bruce yeah thank you um your enthusiasm is tangible and makes me excited for you to be excited teaching our kids uh our heritage speakers this uh this awesome curriculum um you mentioned a number of times about how well uh these two pieces prepare our kids for taking the ap spanish course that we offer um and i was just wondering if you might be able to speak i i know there is another spanish teacher uh in our building and i was just wondering if you might comment if you're able or willing on the
055relationship between the the preparation that goes into spanish speakers in the other line of curriculum if you will compared to the heritage uh students and uh if you two cross paths at all or overlap in any way yeah we work very closely together so she teaches uh non-native speakers or speak a heritage latinos but with no understanding of anything that is spanish so she's basically teaching non-spanish speakers so her curriculum is geared towards people who are learning spanish for the first time hearing it for the first time or they may hear that have no they don't know how to speak it at all um and so her world and my world are kind of uh they don't they don't collide too much except that to say that she does such a wonderful job preparing my
056spanish three students truly just an amazing job that she has done with kobit the essays that have been written by my spanish 3 students the stories that they've written in spanish just blow me away just incredible of talent and that speaks to her preparing them so well just really preparing them well um i have spanish former spanish three students this year that are ap spanish i just cannot get over how they have blown my my my mind multiple times just with they are actually reading the same information that the heritage speakers are reading for ap spanish same exact thing and it's just so wonderful to see how we are preparing the heritage speakers but also the non-heritage speakers to to reach the same level of understanding they are limited vocabulary wise because our spanish program
057is short compared to what i mean if they wanted to be very proficient in the vocabulary you have to start in sixth grade but with the the limited time that they have these students just amaze me every single day how well they write so we work together because i'm very dependent on her to produce students that are prepared for spanish three i have no problem at all she's just amazing and magnificent and if i feel that there's a spanish student a heritage student in my heritage class that i don't think should be in there i just send them back to her and they sit beautifully there so we work in communion with each other there's and we help each other out tremendous great thank you very much thank you any other question you are welcome
058to email me if you have any other questions thank you so much thank you okay and then finally under um other is um sorry i'm going ahead of myself 6.7 is the course selection guide thank you everyone thank you for for coming ladies and gentlemen okay um and i will say that there is a note here that the guidance department will begin the course election process in february there have been no new course submissions and you've updated the graduation requirements section to reflect the updates by act 150 provides pathways to graduation and mrs graham would you like to comment on any of it no unless you have any questions i just have one and that would be uh i'm sure to answer there are little red triangles in certain parts of this book and i'm
059wondering if that's where you're going to insert that's the college college courses oh yeah got it all righty that's awesome that's all i needed does anyone else have a question okay thank you very much mr alvin thank you just a few items under other um i know um kovig continues to be a conversation um throughout our school community state world at this time i wanted to just bring back four conversation i know that our plan was revisited back in november november 2nd 2021 we had approved some updates to our plan we tried to keep it as open as possible if you remember the masks were optional with a vote that we had earlier before the the beginning of school and then we had some state mandates that came down through and then we had some
060court decisions that kind of moved back and forth between wearing a mask not wearing a mask things of that nature we have been monitoring um the process the uh the numbers both within our county right now i think we're at 28.1 percent throughout adams county with the community transmission of covid that's um item under other 7.1 within our district we continue to post on our web page every thursday or friday how many quarantine and positive cases that we have for both students and adults throughout our our district right prior to us leaving at the end of december we were sitting at 33 coba covid cases in our district and 38 quarantine cases for both students and adults as of today and again i think we saw an increase in that because of i can only
061estimate a thought that that it may be because of the thanksgiving holidays and people getting together and the possibility of that transmission rate going up um since then um when we're back as of today we're sitting at 15 covid cases that we're aware of and 27 quarantines at this time so we will continue to monitor these numbers in the district i do still hold bi-weekly meetings with our nurses i will share that at this point we are seeing all types of winter sicknesses on top of covid so we're seeing the flu bug respiratory colds everything we're seeing it all so in an effort to try to keep everyone as safe as possible i did send home a communication right prior to the beginning one this past monday just to reiterate that if if students are
062sick and i i understand that it is challenging as a parent i know that sometimes you know keeping children at home is difficult and you have to create plans for that but keeping sick children at home is very very helpful for us continuing to keep education going in person here within our district we still do have some students that are being sent in with fevers and you know they're being sent to the nurse's office and in turn they are are being sent home per our protocols that we have in our standing orders um but again i can't plead enough that if if children are sick please please keep them home to try to avoid any spread that could be something as simple as you know the flu or you know you know colds things that
063that nature we do continue to monitor it we have talked administratively you know at what point would it need to get to for us to have to either close a school or possibly go remote and then some of those situations it's very dependent upon um one how quickly things are spreading and and two how many cases do we have um within either certain classrooms and or do we even have enough staff to cover you know classrooms covering a class at the elementary is much different than you know at the high school you know depending on how we can cover but i know that our principals and staff have been working very hard to cover when we can't get substitutes and that's that's an added complexity to this if we can't find substitutes for the number
064of people that are out sick that too can you know lead to a point where we may not be able to safely have school in session so we want to continue to monitor this you know very very closely so that we can continue to provide instruction and try to do that in a safe manner the plan is listed as the very last part and as i mentioned we last updated that on november the 2nd of 2021 um and you know as we see some changes that might be needed we will bring those changes to the board for them to consider and potentially approve or provide some additional input but we will continue to look at that right now the way it stands we did an informal look at how many students were currently wearing masks
065in our district and i would say district wide it's between 25 and 28 percent that are currently electing to wear a mask even though they are optional and um you know at this point i think we need to i know there were some recommendations that came out from the cdc about the number of days of quarantine and processes for allowing people to come back into schools even as of today i'm still hearing that there could be some changes to that so i think over the next week or two we want to continue to monitor some of the information that may be coming out as far as recommendations and then possibly coming back and revisiting this in the very near future but this isn't something that's just unique to our area obviously i'm sure other districts
066are you know working through challenges just like you know we are and this is not just happening in adams county it's happening throughout our state and throughout the nation so this isn't anything new but we will continue to monitor it and take any kind of recommendations that come to us and as i mentioned there were some new recommendations that came out from cdc and there could be some possible additions or changes to that from what we're hearing so i want to wait a little bit to see what that process might look like and what information might be coming to us so that's a quick update when where we're at currently with our our numbers in the district and our plan questions or comments for dr dalton okay we that that concludes the uh curriculum and
067extracurricular meeting we go on to the business and ops i know can i have to wait for you no sorry okay the first item is property bruce are you still there i'm still here can you hear me i can hear you all right uh so item 2.1 on uh the agenda uh recommend approval of orangeville burro bill number 17 as per the attached document looks like shelley and dr dahl may have input or commentary i think the same is true for item 2.2 as well okay we can combine the two yeah i think we're still in the same pattern at this point still working through an agreement as far as completing what we're being held accountable to through the borough at arnonville we're trying to come to an agreement and that is still being worked
068on even as of today i was on the phone trying to work out some of these details it's a little bit more complex than can be shared at this time um but at at this point we're still in the same type of pattern uh that we have been for the last several months for the last several months when this item has come up we have tabled these bills pending the negotiated settlement of the entire package and i would expect that we would do the same thing okay transportation is nothing so we go to finance sue okay the first item uh will be to discuss the adjustment of classified wages uh recommend the approval of adjusting classified wages by an average of a dollar 34 cents per hour over 35 employees as of january 1 2022
069to align with the county-wide classified salary study and as a step toward a possible future increase of minimum wage to 15 per hour now the current budget 2021-22 was built with a placeholder of 27 000 when it was anticipated that the pennsylvania minimum wage would increase to 12 dollars per hour in 2021 2022 kelly yes as it is stated um we did look at what the county was saying from our classified position and this is just bringing those in mind and um looking for additional approval to go ahead and allocate that to these employees effective january 1st and then it would be laid out probably by the end of the january um we are an employer just like any other business up and down main street is an employer and we want to make sure
070that we are adequately compensating our employees to stay and work with us because finding replacement employees number one we don't want to do that because we like the people we have but we also want to make sure that that we're treating them correctly and that's what this is principally based on this county-wide classified study that shelly and the company and her staff did any questions okay sue okay next item uh esther funding update and that would be mrs hobbs again yes as attached in agenda manager this is our monthly update of the user funds you'll see some of the lines that have changed would be the mental health along with edibility um that's really the the changes from november through december and once again these are points that we do need to send i have
071to submit a quarterly report and then we do receive the funds that back and you can see down below yes there are specific time periods that we need to send those funds and those areas that you might not see anything spun in that's because some of these functions happen over the summer but also mr alva and his doctor myself we do review this and we do have the ability to shift if we need to um based upon the need and to continue my broken record status if you look at these things the vast majority of these expenses are expenses we were going to have to pay anyway for various and sundry expenses this is not money that we have this is money that we reimbursed after we essentially show receipts for spending this so if
072you're looking around in the in the books trying to find uh 1.2 million or whatever the figure is it doesn't exist in that form it uh we will get the money after we have paid the bill and show the rece and again my broken record status i will ask the business administrator you're watching this closely correct on a on a bi-weekly basis you can expect me to ask am i monthly actually but any other questions i was just wondering shelly um under the apple there was a like is that um beyond the budget is that what i understand uh after ads are two and three so you know some of that could be um with the apple pieces that's noted below okay it just wasn't designated oh i see i think okay you know so
073it all was an invoice apple got it okay thank you that's all i had shelly which amount has been reimbursed to the school so far i can't uh nothing has been reimbursed at this point so the first quarterly reports are now due for any federal funding so any of the title accounts and um the extra funds so once we submit those because they don't allow us to do it quarterly in september or after september 30th so we would do it in october we have to wait till after december 31 fourth quarter okay the next item partnership with adams county treasurer's office for arnsville and aren't billboard the item is partnership with the adams county treasurer's office to collect the school district property tax for arnsville borough effective march 1 2022 to june 30 2024. yes
074this is a recommendation coming from the county as well along with arthur with the election that happened in november we did not have a tax collector that was elected for the borough for barnesville so in a conversation with the county they are actually lefting the county tax and the bur attacks so it was just a nice package to exclude this factor that whole process that way the residents are confused about where they need to send their school tax that they end up sending it to the county and then help the school get it so this will all all the information will go into the county they will be able to designate what is school district classes and then we will get that in a form of direct deposit just like we would be if we
075would be getting that information from a tax collector so this is going to make it easier for borough residents so it makes it easier for mortgage companies because usually they will send one long-term one-month check for county and schools and borrow taxes so it demonstrates a separation and who's spending what and then the this appropriation of fun throughout that whole process i was a little confused reading this is is the borough collecting the school tax or is the county collecting the school the county yes the adams county treasurer's office they're also doing this for another school district in addison county that does not have a tactical authority and all this is because there was nobody elected to be the tax collector any other questions okay okay the next item is uh to accept the following
076donation of one thousand dollars from the friends on bear mountain for the upper adam's intermediate schools art and music program generous donation that is a generous donation it's an annual yeah i think they annually give money um each year and they usually use it for cultural arts or some residence well when we when we do the consent agenda next time so if you could remind us all about this since it will be piled into the middle to specify in the minutes part our thanks to that for a donation i'd appreciate it okay i can do that um the next item is the 2022-23 budget update [Applause] so yes we have another powerpoint presentation this evening i'm not sure if mine may be as good and the crew that he had with him this evening i
077did want to start the process of the fiscal year 23 budget because we do start educating at this point actually tonight if i was at this point last year i'd be presenting more on salary and benefits and we would be having those conversations but as we're looking working through some contract negotiations we're gonna you know educate tonight hopefully be able to bring some more information forward as that becomes available i'm going to give a very quick update on where we are with this year monthly updates to you um usually during the voting meetings along with the treasurer's report some of the information i do have were budget year 23 once again that's very slim at this point and um so the budget year 23 will go from july 1 2022 through june 30th 2023 some
078challenges as we prepare the budget and just reminding the board of certain timelines that we need to adhere to this flight this evening about our fund balance it's just updating information that we talked about probably back in november when i had some preliminary audit information we are going to be bringing the formal audit to you for approval on the january 18th meeting so once again you'll see a lot of things with astrix because it is in that pending stage as well so i'm going to just highlight a couple areas if you look on your powerpoint that is attached to agenda manager or if you're looking on screen where we have the beginning date 71 2020 you're going to see um an increase of the fund balance of 49 000 that's what we came in over
079from last year's budget ending june 30th 2021. that did increase our unassigned fund balance to 2.283 million and then i did carry that forward to the next year so that will be our starting you know once we start looking at what we build out the budget and when the budget was approved in may for this fiscal year we meaning the board did vote to use fund balance at that time is 731 thousand dollars so once again it's all fluctuating it's changing but we will use that as our starting point as we start facilities this will be first pointed through this budget as we look at our revenues where we are for december 30th 2021 and where we were last year at this point we're right on par where we were so i don't see any
080concerns at this point once again over on the right it says unaudited revenues because um they have not brought the formal audit to the board for approval talking about expenses as well um we're right on par well you're going to see about a difference of 24 14 000 that could be due to some timing of invoices with the holidays also we're finding that the mail is a little bit slower right now so um i don't see anything alarming at this point but also at this point i do start projecting out where our system may end for june 30th so i do watch this on a monthly basis as well any questions on the revenues or expenses for fiscal year 21 where we currently are current fiscal i'll year the obvious question how much are we
081getting from the state this year for uh just in state revenue uh increase and so forth over last year i know the last years uh came late uh can we expect the same this year i don't know this place you're talking about fiscal 23 right right yeah and revenues for fiscal year obviously nothing from the state the governor doesn't even get his budget update till february so it's hard to say what could be in that me personally i'm a little concerned what we may see in state because of the federal dollar that we receive an additional federal dollar um that i'm going to talk about a little bit later and you know does that mean they may cut on somewhere else once again i had that thing concerning last year i believe their term is
082backfilling yes okay so as we start looking at fiscal year 23 and this is the next item as well that we're going to talk about on the agenda our index for this year is 4.8 meaning that the board cannot vote or they you can go up to the four point you can increase taxes 4.8 without needing to file for obsession if you would like to increase the taxes above that there are exceptions that do need to be filed so that's the one piece of information i do have at this point as i start working on the budget i plan on using state individual dollars being level until we start getting some of that information later on and as we move on to expenditures we build our budget on function codes and object codes there are
083two different things but we primarily as the board and the information i share to talk about the object so and those are specific areas so for example the 100 deal with salaries 200 benefits and i'm going to talk a little bit further and give more specifics on the next couple of slides so this is how we build our budget with object codes so as i mentioned salaries that's in the 100 object area that is anywhere from administrators to professionals to classified coaches anything that is done through our payroll system here at supper as a school district um as you can see our professional contract does end on 6 30 2022 and this is you know a big part of the salary portion within our budget so once i have some information going forward it will
084help build out the budget benefits are in our 200 so we have the health care and we are projecting a zero percent increase in health care because we do have a nice reserve balance with the lincoln benefit trust our claims experience has been low so we are able to offer our employees zero percent health companies for next year also within the benefits we have social security and teasers teasers is our retirement fund that we do have to pay into each table for all employees that get paid through the payroll system this rate was certified in december at 35.26 so they go up obviously for from our current fiscal year and i will explain that a little bit further so once again anything that we have paid for payroll we are paying 0.3526 now we get
085reimbursed about 55 to 60 percent of that but we don't get it back right away we get it back and we don't get it back in one lump sum it's spread over quarters and one of these quarters will actually be beyond the next fiscal year so we have to we have to budget for all of this and we get as i said 55 to 60 percent of it back but not right away it does show up as an expenditure and an increase yes so i mean we have to come up with some money right same is true with social security i think we get that back on a on a quarterly basis and our salaries and benefits make up about 65 to 70 percent of our budget so this is a big portion of our
086budget when we are building it and you know being very accurate in these numbers is the key so this is an area that yes it's reduced by two people so as we start building and start getting some more foundation about contract negotiations this will fill it out as well as i talked about teasers you can see that historical rate has really increased and changed over time from 12.36 back in 2012 13 to now 22-23 is at 35.26 percent so you can see in the early years meeting back in the 2013-14 area the rate of change was over four percent during those years and you can now see that starting to level out so from this current year except 34.9 so for what we're doing right now in this fiscal year that was endless various 2022
087and our increase to next year it was a 0.32 you know so we are starting to see that level off you can see that level off at a three-fold increase in 10 years so also you can start to see the dollars associated with that as mr wilson pointed out we do need to budget for that expense um so that has um obviously increased as well and what's up here for fiscal year 2122 is what is budgeted so you can see the rate of change once again changes from almost six hundred thousand dollars to looking closer to the 1920 to 21 a difference of 58 thousand any questions left okay please continue talking about um object codes we have the 300 series which is our professional services so that's um services that we may be getting
088from the iu also with our contractors support substantive services so that would be our daily substitutes that we have in the classroom our ias that we may have in the classroom and once again this contract is up on june 30th of 2022. um our fees had been received and we are reviewing those now and looking to uphold some interviews with some of the respondents um on january 17th so hopefully once again looking at a february time frame that maybe we can bring something to the board as well in the 400 series we have property services purchase property services that would be our agreement with aramark and that increased so that increase for next year is a little bit over ten thousand dollars which represents a one point seven five percent increase this week or twenty
089two and with the aramark contract currently we have two years so after the fiscal year 23 budget we will have one more 009 contract as well also in the 400 series we have repairs in the 500 series we have transportation cyber and starter school tuition and tuition to other lease our transportation contract is also going to be up on june 30th of 2022 and i'm currently working with the transportation contractors to finalize the contract and bring forward charter and cyber tuition that's tuition that we pay for if students are enrolled in an outside cyber charter program like asura and vita getting working on the source to get an idea and tuition to other lease we have some students that may be um at bermuda springs or id services or they may be in a placement
090so that would fall into this 500 series as well in our 600 series this would be supplied for the classroom energy natural gas um i can say that the building principles have completed their building projects and everything is as far as building budgets and their budgets are level from what they were of last year there are no increases that we've been working on so as we talk about some historical subscriber and charter expenses uh seeing an increase over the last several years and this is just a graph showing um on the left-hand side a visual graph but then showing the expense on the right hand side now you will see that there was a dip between 1920 to and that was because a lot of our students were in edge annuity using our in-home cyber
091program but now we are seeing them going back out to outside cyber programs and you can see we budgeted a little bit over 1.5 million at this point i'm estimating that our quotes may be a little over 1.8 million dollars you know so this is a monthly tracking also that i do as the invoices come in and we do that and verify that the students are our district residents before paying the visibility now the tuition that we do pay for fiverr and charter tuition is a formula that's done every year and there is a different rate that we pay for a student attending a charter cyber school whether they're a regular ed student or a special ed student so you can see those costs graphically have remained about steady um and this is just showing
092in more of a pictorial form of number showing the cost so you can see um the cost has increased as well over time the special edge from like 1718 to now has increased about 10 percent and our non-special ed cost our tuition rate has increased around 17 and this is driven by enrollment which is noted on the right hand side so you can see our enrollment and i use october 1st for each year because that's a key date that we use for a lot of our state reporting so by the end of the year the numbers could be higher or lower but this is just a good reference point as i look at data because of state reporting um that's a cumulative enrollment each year is different so uh so for 17 18 we have
093110 students but i mean that's that's special ed and non-specialist that is correct so do you have even just for 21 and 22 kind of an estimate of how many of those 136 are specialists about 10 on average is what we're looking at is what i'm seeing that are special ed students okay and with that then we do pay the higher tuition cost of over 24 000 per student and this the tuition cost is different for each school district so one of our neighboring school districts could be paying a different rate because it's based upon your budget so not every district pays the same rate okay and and what what she just said bears on a footnote about three power or three slides back which was ninety percent of the cost of cyber and charter
094education is born by the local taxpayer am i also correct in understanding special ed is special ed and it could be as something as simple as a speech uh console and so forth or it could be much more intensive but generally speaking the charter schools like to get something like speech to get that actually it's twice the cost that's right it doubles their uh cost double their income by getting something as simple as a speech iep i wish we could cash in on that yeah so when a student enrolled in an outside fiber the um laura dave vermont story just to name a few they have to share the enrollment form with us and if the student is a special ed student they just need to share the signature pages we do not one size
095fits all oh yes that's what special ed is all about it's like men's socks so as we continue looking at our object codes we have the 700 and 899 we're looking at new and replacement equipment and then also do these interests on blondes and principal components so the 800 series and the 900 series are very easy to calculate out because we do have that information on the bond what we say each year so as i went through the object code you're going to notice that there's a lot of information at this point that i don't have and so we are going to continue working on that process every day every month until we're ready to share a preliminary budget the key thing is working on finalizing a lot of those contracts as i've mentioned we
096have a professional contract the transportation contract or support services so we have a lot of key items outstanding them as well that could really impact the budget and we are going to continue to review federal funds and the requirements for specifically your 23 budget once again going back to earlier the art fund there are actually additional funds that we have to consider for fiscal year 23 that the state released additional set-asides that have strict requirements that we have to operate in for example we have an after school set aside which can only be used for after-school programs we have summer school and then we also have a specific one for a learning loan so with you know looking at those additional set-asides that they have that's an additional hundred and thirty thousand dollars that we
097have to plan for and be able to make sure that we have plans being able to implement that we can use these funds moving forward and mr alden dr dell and the rest of the minister team this is a constant conversation that we have at our advisory meeting you know how are we going to be implementing some of these things and make it a benefit to the students as we look at our timeline as i mentioned earlier the resolution index is a discussion item for this evening asking for the adoption of that at our next voting meeting which is january 18th continue to review the operational expenses and any other information i may have for the february 1st committee meeting in february as well as i mentioned uh governor wolf will give a budget address
098i haven't heard a final date on that and then being able to request on that and sharing the information i always have very long march first any other questions this evening or some of the information i do have purpose work in progress but thank you for the explanation of the various and sundry codes and where the money is lays in there okay the last item shelly already referenced it's um accelerated budget opt-out resolution certifying tax rate within the inflation index 2022-2023 school year what this document means if the board approves this in two weeks it means that we cannot raise taxes more than the act one index which in our case is four point eight percent it's it's irrevocable if we approve that there's no way we can come back later and ask for an
099exception i can't imagine that we would need to do that anyway but i i wanted to explain that this is pro forma each year we have to we have to approve this and in the six years i've been on the board we've only ever had to apply for an exemption once and i'm not as i say i don't anticipate that we will have to do that this year any questions on this document okay thanks sue um personnel james well i think it might be easiest just to lump these all together but we do have an item under um for unpaid flma 5.2.1 item for an unpaid leave of absence and i believe we have some but fighting for that after so i'll ask um shelley you're noted as a person responsible for you if there's
100any color you won't want to add uh no the the two asking for unpaid leave is just sort of the information that i can share we do have a supplemental contract as well under under other student activities for the indoor color guard along with some retro for volunteers and then a translator being retroactive till november is the translator a volunteer yeah that is a tape isn't it [Music] um i note that there's no reference the reason i ask is because there's no reference as to what the cost is for that board meeting in two weeks any questions or comments for james or anybody else on the personnel issues that that are lumped together here they look to be very pro-forma can you comment quickly on the interviews with the the for aramark i can um
101so we with the vacancy that we have through aramark for a director of facilities we have we have interviewed or had a conversation with one candidate that aramark had done a screening on and sent to us to consider we did have that conversation today and um i want to thank ron for being part of that conversation anthony graham shelly and i set in on it it was basically to see if one the person had the credentials that could do the work and two um would the person be a good fit for us here at upper adams and we we agreed that that would be the case so i did reach out to patrick gallagher who's been here before during the presentations of updates that chris mann had done over the years and shared with him
102that we would like to proceed with i think his name was craig profin and and he did accept so i think he may try to come up tomorrow just to check in here at the district but his name will be coming forward uh once we make sure that all the paperwork is in place and uh he comes to us with a number of um experiences overseeing much larger yeah facilities though basically doing this kind of work at mount st mary's and yeah um johns hopkins johns hopkins yeah he's really an impressive yeah there's been quite a few locations that he has been so we're excited to um to have someone come in obviously we've been trying to work through the loss of chris mcmahon we still mourn that loss we do miss you know working
103with him and um you know hopefully we can rebuild and pick up where chris has left off the candidate knows he's trying to fill pretty big shoes coming here to the district and um you know i i get the impression he wants to do the very best that he can to meet the mission and vision that i have behind me here on the wall right now he kept referring to students and wanting to do what's best for kids so looking forward to working with him okay great thank you anybody else have anything for the committee meeting this evening chris and bruce do you have anything on the phone uh no thank you nope i'm in good shape thank you well if no one else has anything i think we're adjourned thank you very much for
104your time [Applause] you