001um I'd like to call to order this a denal School District School Board Committee of the whole meeting Tuesday February 25th 2025 I'm sorry I feel good um 7 p.m. um Mrs rou could we do a roll call please Mrs banado here Mrs cson present Mr gindhart here Mr godon present Mr Harline present Mrs Lynch Dr Maguire here Mr Martin here Mr doski here nine members present thank you can we stand for the Pledge of Allegiance please and if we could remain standing for a moment of silence for uh Mr Ken Castle um a former William tenant principal who passed awayk United States thank you thank you announcements um I don't have any uh sorry presentation Dr caracappa are you here I am here okay good evening good evening it's my pleasure to bring to
002you a special treat tonight as you know we have our spring Musical coming up so we asked that some of the Ensemble uh come and give you a preview of what's to come in the musical that's coming up so without further Ado I'm going to hand it over mcaffrey thank you I will get who you're here for yeah good see just sing and dance Dr got mov join us [Music] You Can Dance you can die see that girl watch that se the dancing queen night and the I looking out for a place to go music in anybody could be God the music you you are the dancing only 17 Dancing Queen feel the be from the You Can Dance you can die time see that girl watch that se in the dancing queen in the
003dancing queen see that girl watch that seed in the dancing woo I was cheated by you and I think you know when so I made up my mind it just come to an end Look At Me Now will I ever learn I don't know how but I suddenly lose control there's a fire within my soul Just One Look I can hear one more look I everything W here I again byee how can I resist does it show again my my just how much I missed you yes I've been broken hearted Lo since the day we parted why why did I ever let you go not hi everyone thank you so much for having us tonight we are so so happy to be here to perform for you um I'm just going to introduce myself my
004name is Leah St and I play Donna Sheridan in tennis musical production of Mama and I'm Maddie p and I play sop oh so we thought we're so happy that you guys seem to like our performance um we hope you L it so we perform on March 14th at 700 p.m. and March 15th at 1:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. we would love if you guys can come we have been working so incredibly hard on the show and we canot per for everybody see you guys there very good good show recognize make some public comments maybe okay very good very nice very nice okay Dr B you're up yes I'm like I don't want to go after that girl but I do have good news very good news so this uh past week you all received
005information that we shared about how we spend our money we actually were approached by the former uh Deputy State superintendent Secretary of Ed excuse me for PA and asked to run an analysis on our data again uh it came out pretty uh astonishing uh next slide but today we had a conversation with him uh regarding and they were showing a little bit of their software where they looked at our pssa state assessment aggregate trans from 2017 to 2024 next slide we're in the green uh piu 22 obviously is we ask him to show comparison to the county uh that big dip in 2021 was coming off of pandemic as you can see 2019 was the last date we didn't have any uh data from uh 2020 because there's no State assessment but you see everybody
006plummeted but what they noticed again why we were invited also to come to uh testify before the house education committee that our performance over the past few years has been escalating and skyrocketing as you can see by the Steep angle uh in green that we are closed the Gap even on the county which also Niche reported where where we went from 12th in the county to tied for I think fourth in the county uh in performance um so I just thought I share the good news it will be out in this week's CSD weekly celebrating uh CSD but in honor we should have put uh the uh Mr goison slope on that green in honor of him always asking about when are we going to still see the results when are we going to still
007see the results and what's that favorite saying you like to say Joe uh growth growth before achievement growth before achiev we kept saying wait wait and there it is and you see it coming and that's a testament to the students faculty and staff um operating within the goals and guard worlds and alignment and the changes that we've made over the past few years next slide yep thing money Mr the heart Line's favorite topic right yeah you this is the one you actually did receive and they did an analysis the one they actually did next slide showing how we spend our taxpayers dollars and guess what we spend more money on instruction and anybody in the Southeast that they compared us against our money goes towards instruction we also has the lowest amount of money spent
008on School administration and general Administration we don't spend a lot of money on our administrator we put it in instruction is what it showed next slide overall those were the numbers as you can see a lot of red where we were below a lot of the people in essence the summary that we shared was that what you find in this is that we have a strong investment uh in instruction uh we dedicate uh roughly uh $1,499 per pupil uh for our basic programs and then an additional 15,33 per pupil for our um added needs and adult continuing education we don't do adult But continuing education we also long-term Investments uh $2,061 per pupil dedicated to long-term debt that is a good and a and a negative at the same time it means we've finally been
009investing as you know we have been in in trying to address infrastructure and other things the negative is we had to borrow money to do it that can come back to bite you later so the ideal thing would be have Reserve funds to pay it outright and not have to borrow money so that's an indicative of we have to pay back loans um but we are allocating money It also says we have a focus on student support that is exceeding our peers we allocate just over $1600 per student towards our pupil Services um which is our unwavering support to educating the whole student in a h holistic manner um it shows we have efficient Resource Management I already talked about it only 675 per of the total per pupil spending goes towards General Administration less
010than 1% of the per pupil and then we also strategically at the building 4.9% uh goes towards um our school administration uh in transportation good and bad uh we spend uh more than our peers on transporting our students about $1,255 if you haven't noticed out of about 5,300 students we transport over 4,000 of them now that's a choice you don't have to so that's a costly thing but it also means we're closing a gap on maybe some services that if people couldn't get to school that we're providing for them to get school so that's my celebration and woohoo thank you thank you Dr Ben um holy moly uh public comments we have one miss magnar good evening thank you for having me tonight my name is Katherine mcnamer and I wanted to share my thoughts
011um as a special education mom um as a member of the Centennial community and uh with my perspective as a Pennsylvania uh licensed social worker um as the board members know I started um in the middle of February a petition on change.org requesting that we consider hiring an outside consultant to look at the culture and administrative actions surrounding the recent incidents in our kindergarten autism support classroom at Davis and what next steps for healing and corrective action need to be made I want to make sure that Centennial is doing everything it can to prevent these incidents in the future at this time our petition has 84 signatures um when I'm done talking I will hand that out to you and it has the zip code of the person who s signed it so you can
012see that that that most of them are your constituents um tonight I mainly want to talk to you about mandated reporting and my concerns according to research kids are with disabilities are twice as likely to be used which really makes me not want to let my son TJ ever leave the house but the truth is we need his light in the world so here I am speaking to you um everyone working in our schools is a mandated reporter as you all know and they all have requirements of continuing education two hours every year that they have to to take I've completed that training as a social worker and what I want to tell you is that nowhere in that continuing education it's thorough it's two hours but no do they talk about the challenges and
013the complications of mandated reporting within your own system maybe of your own coworker with the same system that you pour your heart into I have serious concerns for our school community and the climate in the building in the wake of these events I am confident that we have capable professional staff who care about our kids but this I know kids are twice as likely with disabilities to be abused and abuse most most likely takes place at the hands of someone that the kids know so throughout your career as an educator it is very likely that you will need to make a mandated report of somebody that you work with as I mentioned the training doesn't cover the pain the feelings of denial or betrayal or confusion when someone in your own School family community of
014fellow Educators has made a report on one of your own I don't have children at Davis Elementary but I can imagine that this incident has rocked them let me make this point very clear the person who made this report I don't know that person but they did not need to interpret the actions of the teacher they did not need to know what the child did beforehand or what the behaviors were they didn't need to perceive what happened if they observed something physical they were mandated to make a report and they did the right thing I'm not sure if everybody else agrees or if there are other people in our community that agree um she would have been liable if she hadn't reported it in fact a mandated reporter who willfully fails to make a report
015could face legal penalties and fines um so this is where leadership comes in my biggest fear is if we don't address the community currently give them the truth healing and corrective actions and training our community will shut tighter when it comes to reporting dangers that happen that may happen to our kids so my questions throughout training and education of our leadership and building administrators do they know how to move their staff through this we now know from one of the articles that was in the news that law enforcement had found that previous incidents from the same educator were not reported to the right entities now I don't have the power or the desire to revisit or rehash those incidents but I'm concerned if those incidents were resolved internally that means that it there was a
016bias there and the proper authorities have the power and the means to do an unbiased investigation and that should have happened years ago the law that mandates mandated reporting isn't so new that 10 years 20 years ago we the mandated reporting didn't exist it exist did back then and we didn't do it I believe again that without the truth and treatment for this Collective trauma our school has and good leadership there's a real potential that this closes even further the process we have to protect our kids I am requesting an unbiased outside entity to look at that system the history of what was done and what was not done the current culture and staff takeaways we need specialized training and resources to understand the the unique challenges of a report with than our school and
017subsequent consequences for that employee on the safety and success of our schools um I can just recommend very briefly patan or Patton the Pennsylvania training and technical assistance network does a lot of great training um but the questions I want answered are what is happening in our special ed classrooms what supervision and support are our teachers getting to navigate a challenging job how to staff identify and address burnout within themselves and their colleagues Excuse Me Miss mcar I'm sorry that's okay thank you just to I'm sorry thank you to sum up I I read a quote that protecting Pennsylvania's children from abuse and neglect is a shared responsibility it does not solely rest with child protective services it requires the collective collaboration of Our Community Partners thank you thank you Mr godon that would be
018you all right moving on to the approval of the agenda be resoled that the Centennial School District Board of school directors 2.1 approves the February 25th 2025 Committee of the whole agenda as per attached are there any corrections that are need to be made that are allowed by PA Law second second by Mrs cson yeah no discussions all in favor I any opposed any exensions is passing 9 nothing moving right on to three new business we have four items there do we want to move them together do we want to move them separately just vote on 3.2 separately surely Mr goison you need to do 3.4 cuz I need to point out another uh correction to 3.4 shouldn't we just go ahead and do them one at a time be it res that the centenal
019School District Board of school directors approves the Personnel agenda including retirements resignations authorization to employ to employ leaves of absence change of status mentors and co-curriculars clubs activities as per attached second second by Mr ginard any discussion [Music] seeing none all in favor I any opposed any extensions passes N9 nothing moving on to 3.2 approves the addendum to the contract for Dr Brian Wilson as a result of the board action on August 20th 2024 and per legal council's guidance to ensure the job title accurately reflect reflects and aligns with the current contract as per attached second second by Mr sadasi was you V we're voting on each one separately yeah so any discussion on 3.2 I I do want to point out though from my side um I voted no back in August and I
020will have the same um int tonight um we agreed back in the spring or in the summer that we would only have one assistant to the superintendent this leaves us with two Mr gercken that decision has been made already as you know correct just letting my intentions be known any further discussion all right um let's vote on this all in favor hi no I'm moting no on this one so it's passing 72 okay moving on to 3.3 approves the request for the William tenant High School future Business Leaders of America FBLA students to participate in the fbl state leadership competition in in Hershey Pennsylvania Monday April 7th 2025 through Wednesday April 9th 2025 District cost not to exceed $1 19,683 second second second by Mr heartline any discussion seeing none all in favor I I
021any opposed any extensions pass is n nothing last item on the new business approves the policy 626 Federal fiscal fiscal compliance and the administrative regulations as per attached and Mr Pon Dr Pon okay second by Mr ginard as you all received the main correction what I didn't tell you there's an aster on number U 626- a-4 on page one that says at the bottom of that chart that please review the procurement attachment annually and update amounts accordingly it really should be a more definitive statement that says we will review and update annually so that it doesn't it just complies with the thresholds given to us by the government and we just need to make it clear that it doesn't say review sounds like we're just going to review it but we need to be definitive
022that we will always update that chart in it and it doesn't have to come to the board because it's triggered by the thresholds from the government okay thank you okay any further discussion seeing none all in favor I any opposed any extensions is passing N9 nothing moving on to presentations education committee presentation local assessment data uh Mr rutz my apologies I couldn't get Dancing Queen out of my head over there it's getting distracted here okay just waiting for that to pop up here there we go good evening everyone it's good to see everybody um it's also nice to uh not have to wear an Overcoat today for the first time it feels like forever um thanks for enlarging that team thank you um tonight's presentation is looking at our winter growth think of this as
023uh the third I think in a series of presentations that the office of teaching learning has given this year we started the year off with our fall uh local data presentation we shared our state uh pres uh data assessment data presentation for pssas and keystones and this is a snapshot of where we are now um middle of the year um from fall to winter standard items I do want to lean into this are building blocks remember that um building block number four four uh high levels of collaboration and communication sharing out with all stakeholders um where we are uh building block five uh curriculum instruction assessment aligned with standards uh using evidence-based strategies in the classroom and ensuring that our curriculum is aligned to academic standards and building block six uh which we do a
024lot frequent monitoring of learning and teaching uh reviewing assessments to identify positive student outcomes what we're going to review to the winner local assessment data uh with three of our assessment platforms uh dibles in K3 uh I ready in both reading and language arts for K8 and I Exel which we use at the high school in grades 9 through 11 for both English and math let me first share the uh dibles composite score summary uh what you see here in the light blue um are the fall scores in the dark blue to the right of the light blue bar is the winner assessment data um the green Arrow at the top of each dark blue bar is the growth um from fall to winter and what you see there with the gold bar is the
025middle of the Year Benchmark so you can see in grades K through three how much uh we outpaced uh the national middle of the Year benchmarks for dibles K3 all grades K3 sored above the middle of the Year National Benchmark in dibl uh we've seen this uh mtss tier uh for years now um where need to be with tier three which is two or more grade levels below General parameters 5 to 10% of our students tier two one grade level below 15 to 20% of our students and our goal to get as many students as we can in tier one at or above grade level 75 to 80% of our students this is the winter assessment a diagnostic assessment for K8 reading we had an 8% decrease uh from tier three an 8% decrease in
026tier 2 for a total of 16% increase moving students from fall to winter on the IR ready into tier one this shows that 16% of our students moved from tiers two and three into tier one based on their growth on the winter diagnostic assessment and just to put this in perspective this is almost 600 students which equates to about 23 class rooms worth of students moved into tier one from the fall to the winter assessment for Ka reading we look at this every year um I talk about this as a bucket of growth if you think about having 100% growth you want students to be in from the beginning of the year in Fall to Spring um at the end of the year the national Norm at this point of the year for I ready
027reading is 55% of growth uh Centennial we have hit 83% of our growth already this year uh last year winter at 2024 we were at sitting at about 81% uh with math you can see that we've move had 177% of our students uh in K8 moved from tiers two and three into tier one based on their winter Diagnostic in math uh this represents over 600 students again about 23 classrooms uh moved into tier one from the fall to winter assessments just to put that in perspective too I believe Clinger as a building has about 605 students in it we're making really good progress here really good growth um in mathematics we're sitting at about 58% of our growth so far this year uh the national Norm is 52% we're a little um little behind last
028year a little off um but we're in that ballpark so I'm happy with that growth Mr Russ yes sorry to interrupt got your groove going here but two slides back you you explained it to us in education committee very well but on the the uh the last slide were the 10 and the8 but we only have a 17% so people will look at those numbers and know why that's oh yes okay thank you Mr ginart we've had this Bugaboo for a couple years with I ready it's all about rounding uh the way I already will round up sometimes with the decimal um and it's funny that it happens with math of all subjects um is that the number looks a little off it's always a percentage moving usually into tier one um but that's why
029I was a high school English teacher but um that doesn't excuse this there you go so I've got got a matth teacher help me out back there thank you Mr Gart uh this ISL diagnostic that we use for reading uh that we use in grades 9 through 11 I'm sorry at the high school this is a composite of reading in four categories reading strategies vocab writing and grammar mechanics this is a composite score that you see for grades 9 through 11 puts it all together so I wanted to share these scores first and show you the growth again the light blue bar is fall the dark blue bar is winter this is the growth from fall to winter using iel we broke this out um at the request of the education committee so we could
030look at grades 9 10 and 11 same four categories and you can see the growth in reading strategies vocab writing and grammar mechanics you can see that this uh student scores increased uh for 9th grade across all reading categories in the middle of the year snapshot assessment so from fall to winter again we're seeing growth across the board uh for 10th grade reading uh same thing the four categories uh scores did increase in all four categories for grade 10 in reading and for grade 11 we saw uh again growth across the board in all three in all four categories in all three grades um for math this is a composite score uh pulling together all of algebraic thinking growth uh for n grades 9 and 11 generally and uh geometry growth which is mainly 10th
031grade but I'll break that out as well in a moment you can see the great growth that we've had uh in math scores increased in both categories Mo both math categories from the fall to the winter and I Exel uh for grade nine really good really strong growth in algebraic thinking from the fall to the winter um and uh ninth grade also had some growth in Geometry some pretty good growth so I'm happy to see that again remember that the main focus of grade n math is algebra not so much geometry in grade n um in 10th Grade it's a little bit flipped um still had good growth uh in 10th Grade algebraic thinking was up um and then the greatest gains was in grade 10 geometry which is the focus of math um in
032grade 10 Again scores increase in both math categories there and in grade 11 very strong growth in algebraic thinking um that is the focus of Algebra 2 um in 11th grade slight decrease in geometry um 4% um 4/10 of a percent there uh so we had an increase in algebraic thinking and a slight decrease in Geometry um in the middle of the Year snapshot diagnostic inl um don't want to read at you with this but there we continue to move forward with aligning assessments uh uh standards uh curriculum tier one um I do want to lean in again and make sure I mention that um one of our areas of strength here as a district is our our systems approach this work doesn't happen without our Specialists and our instructional coaches our teachers our building
033level support and our district level support both in the offices of teaching and learning and student services it's all Hands-On deck approach and that's why we're seeing the growth that we are again this is many four years in a row now we're seeing great growth and as Dr Bon mentioned earlier and when we shared out earlier in the fall with the pssa and Keystone data that growth is starting to pop a little bit into achievement thank you and just to let you know I appreciate you broke it down by grade no I think it was a great great request I appreciate it thank you any other questions for Mr ruts such good news thank you thank you thank you I I'm no mathematician myself but I understand line go up and uh most of that
034and what we've seen tonight and then for the past four years has been line go up and that is again a testament to the focus from the top and then the work from the bottom up everybody's doing a great job and going the right direction so I love seeing it when you when you keep the main thing the main thing this is what happens exactly it thank you surely well moving on to the presentations and I happen to be first there on the education committee um and again you know uh we spent you know the majority of the time discussing this particular report um we also looked at the calendar we had two meetings prior to uh our um education committee meeting uh on February 12th and cancelled the third one due to the weather
035uh but I agreed that the um calendar you know was you know approved or should be approved which we're doing tonight from the survey information that we gathered um Dr Ross presented an RFP for relas services and we talked a little bit about the early intervention uh we have you know a large group of you know preschoolers potentially coming into the district uh this coming fall um I remember the number 83 coming in to to begin with and that's a you know sizable group of preschoolers um our next meeting is on March the 12th thank you can I ask a question about earlier invention is that are they you're saying 83 students 83 is what we have now on and I'm sure that's not necessarily the end [Music] result I have to press a button
036okay yes 83 is the current number that is what comes through transition normally that is a standard number that we've had somewhere between the high 70s low 80s what does happen is from now and through the summertime students are still being identified so that number will reach upwards of 100 potentially but right now we're at 83 and they're from our district specifically well there are students attending the Intermediate Unit but they are residents of our district okay thank you all right um finance committee met on the 13th uh there are a few items that have been brought forward tonight for um our consideration we reviewed the Pennsylvania School District's liquid asset funds um we're continuing to get a um what we'll call a robust return on our investment income thanks to Mr Greenwood and his
037uh his staff for doing long-term Investments and and planning things out as best as possible um hopefully interest rates you know it's a a positive and negative hopefully you know we'll continue to get the returns for next year however you everybody kind of wants to see interest rates come down for other reasons so it's a a good and a bad kind of thing uh we did have a discussion surrounding the Bucks County Intermediate units um programs and services budget they managed to deliver a decrease this year of 8.54 per. the number that you see is us approving the entire budget for all 13 school districts in Bucks County so that $2 million is not what we are responsible for so make sure everybody understands that um just sing it is only the program and services
038budget that we approving correct it is not additional services that the IU May provide for the school districts for inplace services for outplacement for other requirements that our special education students may need or help and services that our students may need from the IU such as speech therapy or whatever have you so that is strictly a separate budget we did have a brief conversation regarding mb's budget we're still waiting on information surrounding that um and what we can expect from the um from the uh middleb so that will be forthcoming hopefully next month and that is also a key component of our finance and budgeting process we do have a budgeting meeting two nights from tonight so we're going to miss pool night I'm sorry folks um for black and white but we do have
039a budgeting meeting here on Thursday at 7 p.m. um there are two other items on here or three other items on here that um if we have any questions we can pull them at the time thank you yep uh last but not least the operations committee met on Friday February 14th it was a very romantic day for a meeting um we got a quick update on ongoing and upcoming Capital project priorities looking ahead at continuing to fix up our district parking lots in a methodical and costeffective way uh continuing toward a much needed revamp of our Middle School family and consumer science classrooms very excited about that and uh main topics of discussion were the NRG power pay response program and progress toward resurfacing the William tenant tennis courts those items are up for a
040vote later tonight on the agenda our next operations meeting is Friday March 14th at 11: a.m. thanks Tony of course all right we back to the point six education student services committee um we just had the presentation by Mr rutz and that is the only presentation we have we have six items for uh approval can we move all of them together take out F Please Mr goix I will save F you know that's the last one so it'll be easy we'll move the uh other five items together it resoled that the centeno school board School Board uh and um School Board of Directors will approve the attendance of of the assistant to the superintendent for the academics and the assistant director of teaching and learning at the education yeah no I did not I let
041me go back I got a bad start here so be resolved that the Centennial School distri District Board of school directors 6.2a approves the 2025 2026 school year academic calendar 6.2 B approves the attendance of the assistant to the superintendent of academics and the assistant director of super teaching and learning and the education as a public good teaching jeez design you know what am I doing here um as a public good Design Lab conference March 12th through the 14th 2025 in Washington DC no cost to the district 6.2 C approves the superintendent the supplemental reading selection for the in introduction to Spanish cultures course at Log College Middle School District cost not to exceed $159 43 6.2 D approves approves the purchase of library books orders for Dave's Elementary School District cost not to exceed
042$1,454 37 6.2 e approves the purchase of library book orders for Wale Elementary District cost not to exceed $2,836 sense second second it by Mrs cson any discussion see none all in favor I any opposed any extensions passes nine nothing and then we have 6.2 F approve approves the purchase of science kits and to conduct a pilot of two steel steals standard alignment K8 science curriculum uh the two options are the false science and the Carolina open science Ed District cost not to exceed 33,000 second second by Mrs Cen just a couple of questions if I'm right please Mr gsen um trying to Wade through the educational easte that is connected to this resolution it sounds to me like we have to make a choice between two competing um companies as to which we're going
043to choose and looking at the contract what was given to us one shows $10,000 the other shows $9,000 that's $1 19,000 the amount we're being charged is 33,000 on the one which happens to be Carolina biological Supply Company on point three all pilot materials are the exclusive property of Carolina biological supply company and will either be returned or purchased here their pile of time frame at the expense of the school district I might add uh and then they very generous discount if we choose that one is 10% it seems like most companies that want to make a sale first of all they give you the materials to look at so you can choose which one you want rather than make you pay for them two if we pay for them they shouldn't still be their
044property and three I don't know why it's that difficult to make a decision between the two given the expertise of our staff and other uh experiences these companies have had at other um school districts perhaps it just seems like that particular one uh is kind of not being made in the favorable of the school district Mr Ro do you want to respond uh open SED is new so to your comment uh that it they have experienced in other districts um it's a newer curriculum so we don't have that track record uh to this point most of the items that we are getting from Carolina specifically to your question are going to be consumables because they're test drive kits um we did not purch purchase um any um printed materials most of it are digital licenses
045um I share your frustration uh with there being any cost uh to soft launch or Pilot uh from companies but we are uh in a different environment the last few years uh we experienced this going back four years with uh great minds uh with wit and wisdom uh we experienced this I think lesser to a degree with some College Board materials uh Mr Martin I I don't have a better answer for you that then uh Publishers in this day and age are not uh giving away free materials um we are actually experiencing some challenges right now uh due to um impending tariffs and uh imported materials uh from uh companies I guess that the Publishers are having difficulty getting us materials we do need uh as far as to yeah chime into and piggyback on
046part of the switch that we're seeing with most goods and services is everything is skyrocketed as a result of inflation and the result of supply and demand so they have unfortunately how should I say they not they don't give as much as they used to that we are all like most purchasing products have gone up so they're not being as generous I think you should speak to the choice process of how we do this with our teachers to his concern about why is it so difficult from the larger K12 science task force that we formed last year uh after the Handover K12 Science Program evaluation a smaller cohort of science curriculum cohort uh looking at the uh new steel standards was formed um that group uh I think it's pushing probably 24 27 teachers um
047that group started with a um 10 I believe uh 10 curricula that they were looking at previewing they got that list down to six then down to four and now down to a final two it's a process we've used with uh for years now uh with much of our curriculum with it being teacher driven and at this point uh the cohort uh curriculum cohort asked to um test drive pilot soft launch uh these two final curriculum F were using currently we've been using F since before I was here uh for K5 um Middle School's is test driving F at the middle school level and all K8 will be uh looking at uh open Sayad it's a group of about 12 to 14 um teachers and that is the process that we uh have been using
048uh in OTL uh in order to have teacher agency and voice in the process last question looking at the contract that we have here one of them shows $10,000 some dollars the other shows $9,000 some dollar where's the other $144,000 I'd have to uh review that again it I I have my own Doge going on here where's the other 14,000 I'll have to look at that I know it came to 30 I wouldn't be surprised if this is some of the materials that we are getting and we will be keeping you know as as as connected to it we do get we do get a um a credit from Carolina if we were to go forward with open SED um with that and I don't I I you cited one of the um subcategories Mr
049Martin good catch on your part um I don't anticipate we're going to be shipping anything back as I said we've most of the uh test drive kits um are filled with uh consumables so they'll be used up during the science unit um the good thing is because both opsed um and F are standards aligned um any items that we don't use as of the um opened kits we can repurpose for what we do on a yearly basis in our current science this what we have in front of us shows Delta $9,995 in Carolina uh similarly is uh what are they final about 10,000 something dollars 10,000 there's 14,000 I don't see in that in that I'll have to review the paperwork I know that it came to like 32 and change I only knew that
050cuz I had a haggle that number down am I correct we already started the piloting uh for f we have for f we have is it possible that we need twice as many of one of the two kits uh no we we actually looked uh Mr heartline with open Sayed specifically we looked to double up to be able to share kits to save money I'm just looking to make up the $10,000 I'll to that that I know do again um I have to review that paperwork I I know if the top of my head it came to 32 and change this here yeah that's it's a different number yeah that is a different number I will need to review that um I would move the table this since we don't have numbers and we got
05114,000 missing dollars here I will second that thank you I think there I think there Mr br will that have any impact on deposit uh no because we're okay moving forward with what we have with f and um open seds coming in later in mid-march so so we have another meeting Mr Martin proposed that we table this and it's seconded by Mr heartline yeah any discussion on this I'd like to ask someone to make a slight tweak to Mr Martin's motion and give a specific date of when it's going to come back because because of what he said about March so just need to mention the next whatever the next board meeting is March 11th okay could you do it Thursday at the budget meeting it wasn't announc as a item advertise so right Mr
052do you want to you want to tweak that till till the next U the next board meeting that's fine if you say all the numbers are there and add up yes all right yep all in favor I I I you guys undressed dang you started it a post any opposed any extensions is passing 9 nothing to table item 6.2 F good catch there Mr Martin finance committee all right um so this evening there are two items for information purposes the liquid asset fund and the PMA market update um and then we have four items for approval does anybody have any questions on the information items yeah all right Mrs Lynch yes please I'd like to pull 7.2 B so we want to pull 7.2 B separate yes okay do you have any questions on the
053first two information items information items of course not okay wonderful anybody else wish to have anything else pulled quick question Mr line on C that reduction of assessment how who who made the decision to reduce was that a court matter or was that some other agreement that was made Mr gwood final finalized by the court Mr gwood you need so the court the court did that yes the agreement was finalized by the court yeah g One n there will be more coming forward later that may be to our benefit okay good okay yep all right so we're pulling 7.2 B anything else wish to be pulled all right seeing none be it resolved that Theo School District Board of school directors 7.2a approves the Bucks County Intermediate units 2025 2026 program and services and instructional
054materials and research service budget in the amount of $2,997 31 a decrease of $25,200 7.2 C approves the management and cons consult to complete and Council to complete the stipulations as provided by the board regarding civil action number 202-6502 D approves the one-time increase to the existing retirement service pay and collective bargaining agreement for for payouts of accurate accured sick days from $40 per unpaid unused sick day to $55 per unus sick day to a maximum of $115,000 for teachers with 10 years or more service and who provide notice of retirement by March 14th 2025 second second by Mr goix all in favor I I I opposed abstention motion passes 90 0 beard resolve that the Centennial School District Board of School director ctor 7.2 B approves the Centennial School District property tax and rent
055rebate resolution previously approved by the board on June 11th 2024 District cost estimated to be $86,000 second please second seconded by Mr Sadowski Miss Lynch thank you yes I read the agenda item in its entirety and it states everything including forms of what someone who fits into these classifications could receive the rebate um the one thing in it and I know it was previously approved which is is a good thing for people who are in need is that there's one person who has the approval I'm not too happy with one person only having approval of any rebate number one that's number one number two through all the paperwork what is it like 10 pages it doesn't say how a taxpayer who would want to receive who qualifies for this rebate would receive it now it
056states constantly throughout [Music] this memo that you would go to Mr Greenwood now how would John Q public know about [Music] this what would be the way to inform people that it could be done what is the distribution plan so that people would know about it would it mean that they would have to go into the administration building talk to someone in the finance office to get the form what is the vehicle for distribution say Mr gwood um the application does say where to file it which is the CSD Administration says where to file absolutely says that right um and uh we will post it when approved we'll post it on on our website uh under the business office and uh and provide that instruction so the vehicle for distribution will be on our website
057correct now there's a certain element of seniors who are not computer literate mhm um they don't use their computer for notification in that case how would they know we could leave a copy of that application form which is the form you need uh and the instructions at the front desk here I can include that on okay so they would physically have to come in to the building to receive it yes or they could have it emailed to them or I couldn't there is a way the whole whole thing could be emailed to an individual and if they can't do it they're one of their children can sure and the the documents are will be posted you know they're online now as you've read through them um they'll be online uh as well on our website
058thank you and Mr greenw you just said that you would be able if they could call you would and they request the form their computer illiterate you would mail it out to them correct isn't that what you just said their computer yes I mean if they send us a message and ask for the form we could email the form right but the form if their computer literate will be on the website and can be downloaded uh and and completed I would uh ask you to for the notice piece have the it put it on the cable channel on excuse me cable channel okay yeah the public access very good idea yes yeah yes thank you Mr any other questions isn't this as I recall only valid if there is a budget surplus at the end
059of the year yes and I believe we did go over that that there will be a surplus this year not substantial but a I wouldn't give their chances for next year very good at this point no at this point I would not but the program is going to lag a year right so we had a surplus last year which is funding the general fund uh and we expected that last year when we voted on this right so it will lag and we'll continually be in that position Mr Harley yes when we did this it was based I believe if I'm incorrect please notify me that it was only if there is a surplus correct so people if they're watching it tonight it might not really happen well as Mr Greenwood said so Surplus last we
060had a surplus last year that was fund this year so if we finish this year with a surplus then next year it would fund next year's so just for everyone to be clear that's watching it isn't active right now because of we ended last year it's always you're filing this year to get it because of correct it mentions 23 24 25 yes so individuals are filing their 2023 correct report to get this rebate in this in this year right so we we did that so it lags behind that year and when we approved it it was when we had a we had a Surplus uh to end the year and we anticipated that reason I'm asking these questions is I want people to know what's going on they're not going to sit there and read
061this uh but now I feel better cing Dr McGuire mentioned mailing it out or putting it on the cable coming into the building email so they are vehicles that people will be able to get the form to do this if they qualify thank you and and similarly that for them to qualify they're going to have to fill out State forms follow similar process have to have already done that right exactly so they'll be somewhat familiar with process those who filed the the PA 1000 right for 2023 that would come back to be reported in this year on the rebate program it lags that thank you okay all right any more discussion thank seeing none all in favor I no I say opposed Mr Martin any other opposition any extensions motion passes 810 thank you Mr
062ghard please all right moving on to operations we have no items for information two items for approval does anybody want either pulled uh you don't have to pull but I do have one question Mr ghard if I might on 8A what's different about Davis school that it doesn't fall in the category with the other five Mr wman would you be able to answer that no I don't it should be any there's a list of five schools Clinger Log College McDonald William tenant Willowdale I do not see on this list from NRG Davis school and I was wondering why a Miss because it's on the original paperwork Well's not on this I'll have to look into that is it possible that it's different because Davis is located in Southampton versus the other five in Warminster in
063Southampton he's on the list clingers clingers in Southampton be on on the thing so I will have to look into that again I moved the table this because of incomplete information I will say if we don't get into the program by mid-march again that we won't be eligible for it they're looking for the paperwork now so that's just something I want to put out there um but I will look into that and get get the answer for you it's not I mean if you you show me David school I'll go along here the numbers don't include Davis school so let me is someone able to they go on to the rest of the agenda is there can you go bring it up and we just come back to it so we don't miss the deadline
064say if our next meeting is March 11 so we won't miss the deadline so the other option is is that we can approve these five and then approve Davis as an independent next time then the number would be higher the number should be higher then correct yes it should be higher so the thing is it accurate Mr Martin are you tabling I I made that motion but then we've had discussion since then but you want to say it one more time and then we'll see if oh yeah I would just because of complete information so we can move on with the meeting I would make a motion we table this till we get the the accurate information well Mr Wartman is is apparently checking right now so can we do 8 2B give him a
065minute yeah to see has keep going and then come back and it's important to notice this is numbers that's in our favor versus something that we're paying out yeah this is a savings it's going to be more with we're going to do we're going to do and come back I'm in favor thank you sure okay 8 point 2B be resolved the Centennial School District Board of school directors Awards the the tennis court prair bid 2025-the as soon as the weather roll now you said with nice weather from there was asking when will it be done when will be done the tennis courts it'll be done in June after thank you is Mr wber gonna be back in a minute or two that we can can we do board comments and then come back to him
066we could do that I I think as Mr Martin pointed out right and as I looked up and I just shared with Jim right it's it's that way it only has the five schools in the contract um so it's not just in in the written document it's the documents we received from NRG Jim's going to reach out they're going to get it they'll get it corrected he'll leave them a message tonight but he's not going to be able to run into someone today uh so I don't know if we are able to approve it with six schools um then we will uh be back at it on the 11th Mr okay Mr Martin you made a motion to table I'll make it for the third time I make a motion to table this because we
067don't have complete information second next meeting to march to early March meeting so next meeting yes ma'am second by Mr crwon all all in favor I opposed exension carries 90 thank you are there any additional board comments Mrs cson thanks so I just wanted to remind our seniors and our senior adult Guardians and parents par who's ever helping our seniors um the student leadership scholarship accepting applications it's coming up to a deadline um the psba announced as we talked as we discussed the last meeting the opening of the 2025 student leadership scholarship series of scholarships that recognizes outstanding students they have been established to provide a one-time Award of up to $5,000 to graduating seniors from psba Member districts who have demonstrated ongoing leadership and meet the criteria for one of the four available scholarships
068that's four $5,000 scholarships so our seniors and our seniors adults their Guardians their parents you have until March 14th to get this taken care of you can go on PSB trust.org thank you thank you anybody else yes please Mr Sadowski I'm sorry I'll y to Mrs Lynch Mrs Lynch thank you I just want to mention that uh James Garvin a 22-year employee of Centennial School District passed away I just wanted to acknowledge that uh he was assistant principal of William ton high school and also L College middle school thank you mrki a very quick uh Friday night and then again on Saturday is frozen junr Clinger so be sure to check that out three shows one one one more quick one yes I'd just like to pass a compliment out to uh Mrs Alia tomson
069supervisor of teaching and learning um in our board update we were given information that she uh shared tips with staff about working with an interpreter to engage um families with English language as as a seg language um seems like a small thing but it's a big thing because when you're dealing with interpreters and and especially when you're um you know you want to get something done you're in a push to get something done it's easy to just kind of push through to want to get it done so um putting these bullet points out to let people know how to be the most effective with a translator so the job gets done quickly and efficiently it's one of those things that you don't think about it and then when you do it it's a great idea
070and make sense so I just want to compliment her on it thank you Mr ginart can I get a Kath oh Kathleen I'm sorry go ahead I want to thank um Miss mcnamer for her comments on mandated reporting as a man data reporter of myself for over 20 years I understand um your concern Etc and I just want to remind everyone that you don't need permission to call in a report you don't need permission from Administration you don't need it from uh school security you don't need it from uh assistant principal you don't need it from anyone else if you suspect that there's a a case of child abuse or neglect you make the call you don't decide no one else decides whether it's true or not DHS has said to me many times that
071you don't make that decision we will we will investigate it and we will say whether or not it's it's um warranted or not so I appreciate anyone who follows the guidelines and I also have to take the child line courses for my license and so does all the School nurses and as a person who's called to line many times again I'm going to tell it that you don't need anybody's permission if you suspect that there is some kind of abuse or neglect you make the call thank you thank you m m Dr Maguire um can I make a motion to adjourn motion to adjourn have a good night