001Call this meeting to order. Would everyone please rise for a moment of time? >> Pledge of Allegiance. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, liberty and justice for all. >> Like to thank everyone for coming this evening. There's a log in the front of the item on so please sign in. You have anything particular you'd like to bring to the board's attention. Please also write that down. At any time during the meeting you would like to mention something on an agenda item, please raise your hand and be recognized after the normal business. There's also time for public comment where you can bring up additional issues. This meeting is being recorded and there was an executive session prior to
002this meeting to discuss personal matters. Mr. Rescue of the local Aaron Angel here >> here. >> Cecilia >> here. >> Jason Cup here. >> Jeremiah Lake >> here. Dennis Dishes >> here. Daniel Whismer >> here. Laurel Ziggler >> here. >> Olivia Boss >> here. >> Lindsay Schmeck. Okay. >> Thank you, Mr. be looking for a motion to approve the minutes from our September 22nd, 2025 school board meeting. >> Hoffman second pass. >> Questions or comments? Roll call, please. Michael H. Yes. Rea Hoffman, >> yes. >> Cecilia Holt, >> yes. >> Jeremiah Lake, >> yes. >> Dennis Bishious, >> yes. >> Daniel Whismer, >> yes. >> Laurel Ziggler, >> yes. >> Jason C, >> yes. Motion carries. Four is communications and reports. chat right down this report. Dr. Mars, super superintendent report for this evening. Lots
003of good news. Uh, a lot of it around athletics here this time of the year. Um, first up, like to congratulate Daniel Gir for qualifying for the District Three Golf Championships. Uh Daniel uh competed last Friday and placed 25th in the districts, including a good season to both the team and for Daniel. Uh congratulations. Would also like to congratulate our students at BCTC who are being inducted into the National Technical Honor Society. Uh students listed to the right of Laura Womaker for advertising art and design technology. Ethan Pilgurt and Jesse Gruber for electrical occupations. Emily Crick for health occupations. Elizabeth Zimmerman for cosmetology. Natalie Hullman for culinary arts. Felicia Holt for sports medicine and rehabilit re rehabilitative therapy. And Emmy Sanders for sports medicine and rehabilitative therapy. Congratulations to all of our students who will
004be inducted into the National Technical Honor Society. Variety of senior nights were hosted over the course of the past week or so. Uh first up is our girls soccer senior day picture. So our seniors along with their families. Uh we have Luna Clinton. Is that my pronouncing correct? >> Close enough. >> Yeah. Jaden Garris, Carter Deal, Cassia Cherry, uh Emily Boyer, and AJ Blank. Congratulations to those girls for four years of soccer. The girls soccer season comes to a conclusion on Wednesday evening. Next up is not a senior night, but high school girls tennis. Our girls tennis team had some success throughout the season, including the postseason. as a team. They qualified for the BCIAAS and beat Governor Mifflin four to one in the quarterfinals before losing to Wilson 3 to zero in the semifinals.
005And then qualify for District 3 and we will host Lancaster Menite tomorrow 4 pm in the first round of the District 3 2A team tournament. So congratulations to the high school girls team for a fantastic season and good luck in the district 320. >> And a really cool night. Yeah. Isn't that >> Well, I and I we have a folder, a Google folder with some photos of fall sports. So, I you know, I was looking for high school girls tennis. I clicked fall sports, high school girls tennis, and it said fun photo number one. And I click on it and they're all like meme mugging the camera. It just felt fun. But they it is it's a very cool perspective for their media team. So, congratulations to the girls. Also sticking with girls tennis, uh
006we have the BCIAA doubles flight silver medalist team of Clara Engel and Maline M. So congratulations to Clara and Maline on a fantastic season BCIA doubles flight silver medal across the county. So fantastic, fantastic season. We have our boys soccer. Uh boys soccer, they are the BCIA Division 4 champs for the third straight year. Um, boys continued to have a successful run. This picture is from their senior day. Seniors for this year's team include James Smith, Chase Scheler, Dan Ralph, Robbie, Kito, Rodie, Furlong, Ken Chichion, Zayn Cherry, Ashton Bitner, and Joseph Augusta. The congratulations to the boys. They're expecting to have a have a run here both within counties and districts over the course of the next few weeks. On Saturday night, it was homecoming here in Kutztown. Uh it was a very busy day.
007Both boys and girls soccer teams had games. Then the high school football game took place in our stadium followed by the homecoming dance. At the football games recognized was our homecoming court. Homecoming court included Anna Stump, Olivia Boss, Paige Konopski, Maline Mley, Emmy Sanders, Chris Bergstrom, Jeremy Bridges, Tyler Gallagher, Elliot Johnson, and Kate Lceto. The king was Tyler Gallagher and the queen was Paige Kaplson. Congratulations to all members of our homecoming court. Hope you had a good time and we hope that our students had a great time throughout the day and at the dance that evening. So, we had a really strong turnout this this year at the dance. Um on Friday they told me 155 was was the number of students that were signed up to go which is really strong. Uh we've seen
008a growth that research. So I I don't know what the final number was but 155 on Friday is a very very strong >> because they changed the date. I think that had a huge impact. Uh yeah, I know there was a lot of conflicting conversation because excuse me, sorry. Um uh the football game being on the same night as the dance kind of conflicted with people in cheer football band. They can't wait till the game is entirely finished, especially football. I know they have to go in the locker room afterwards. Um I was under the impression that it was going to be a Friday night dance and then a Saturday night game. I think the way to have more people go to the dance would be to have two two separate days to be recognized
009during the game. Um, obviously like as normal, but then a dance will be on a separate day just so everyone has time for like photos. I know people are upset they didn't get their proper photos because my cheer team were. Um, so I think that would be a good way to fix that. >> I know Dr. Flicker is planning to meet with student council to kind of get some feedback and reflect on it. This year because it was Burks Catholic was a homecoming game and the game was on Saturday and they have Burks has an event in which they don't participate in any events on Friday night. Um you know so that won't be an issue next year you know for sure but overall feedback Dr. Pepper was scheduling a meeting with student council to
010get feedback from them you know how that series of events could go. As far as the increase in number of students participating, I can't speak specifically to Kutztown on that, but speaking to other school districts, all of their numbers are up in homecoming. I think universities numbers are up in homecoming. There's something about young people, you know, that are coming up right now, you know, versus a couple years ago that they're enjoying those school events. I think some of it is the way that they can get dressed up together and take pictures and, you know, promote that. But the the popularity of school events like homecoming dance is just on the rise across schools everywhere gather. So that's a good thing, right? School pride come to your school events and we're excited that there was
011maybe not 155 but something close to that year. That's our good news for this evening. And Olivia, did you have anything else to just inter >> um just one more thing about like the senior parking spots? Um, I'm not entirely sure where we're at. I know uh Mr. Levenstein wasn't entirely supportive of my idea um because of the repainting during the year. I think that was the thing he >> and we laughed because we appreciate how much he cares about our properties and you know of course and this discussing things like that. So just where we stand this morning Dr. Flicker had sent an email. Um he said, "I think we're ready to send out information to students to start gathering numbers." And I said, "Let's just The only thing I wanted to look at
012one more time is how we can I would really like to see the district purchase the paint, build that into the cost for the students versus the students purchasing the paint just for consistency." That seemed to be in detail links up. So, I think there'll be some information out to students this week. >> Okay. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Great. Thank you. Uh the next is public comment on agenda items. Dr. Myers, is there anyone online? >> No, there is not. >> Then I guess we will move into new business. Starting with personnel. Is a recommendation of the administration that the board of school directors approve the following personnel items. One and two are listed there. be looking for a motion to approve. >> So move pass. >> Second. >> Any questions or comments? >>
013Cecilia. >> Yes. >> Mr. H. Roll call when you're ready. >> Hoffman. >> Yes. >> Cecilia hold. >> Yes. >> Jeremia Lake. >> Yes. >> Dennis. >> Yes. >> Daniel Whisperer. >> Yes. Laurel Ziggler. >> Yes. >> Michael Hess. Yes. Jason C. >> Yes. Motion carries. Personnel is approved. Penny receipt of all mandated credentials. Second item is policy maintenance. Uh we can take the new policies separate from the revol policies. So it is the recommendation of the administration that the board of school directors approve the following policies for second reading and adoption. Uh one has new policies listed there one and two. I'd be looking for a motion to approve those. So we may second >> any questions or comments? Roll call please. Mr. >> Sold. >> Yes. >> Jeremiah, >> yes. >> Dennis Dishes,
014>> yes. >> Daniel Whismer, >> yes. >> Laurel Ziggler, >> yes. >> Michael Hess, >> yes. Hoffman, >> yes. >> Jason C, >> yes. Motion carries. Um, and then I'd be looking for a motion to approve the second reading and adoption of the revised policies. One through five are listed out. Do we have a motion? So move. Coffman. Second has questions or comments. Roll call, please. Mr. [Music] Ser, >> yes. >> Jeremiah, >> yes. >> Dennis Dish, >> yes. >> Daniel Whisperer, >> yes. >> Laurel Ziggler, >> yes. >> Michael Hess, yes. >> Yes. >> Jason Cuck, >> yes. Motion carries. Then we can move on to C which is the U think >> A B that should be C. >> We're going to call second D. KD sponsorship booster club revenue sharing. It is
015recommendation of the extracurricular committee that the board of school directors approve the KASD sponsorship booster club revenue sharing agreement for the attached. Do we have a motion? So move by second. Yes. Uh questions, comments on the booster club revenue sharing coming from the ECC committee. This is mechanism for our booster clubs to generate some revenue for themselves while leveraging the current sponsorship agreement that's in place. Um so if any of our booster clubs go out and secure sponsorships for that agreement, they will be entitled to a percentage depending on what category for their organization. >> Excellent. Thank you. And this will be communicated out. >> This will be communicated out this week to all coaches and constructors. >> Great. Thank you, >> Mr. Jeremite. >> Yes. >> Danny Dishes, >> yes. >> Daniel Whismer, >>
016yes. >> Laurel Ziggler, >> yes. >> Michael Hess, yes. Rea Hoffman, >> yes. >> Cecilia Hull, >> yes. >> Jason Kai, >> yes. Motion carries. C is donation. It is the recommendation of the administration that the board of school directors accept with gratitude a donation from the Ktown Area High School Hall of Fame to be distributed among the varsity programs of the Goodtown Athletic Department in the amount of $1,848.89. We have a motion pass. >> Second and >> questions or comments? Just like I thank the hall of fame committee for their commitment to the district both through the donation and the annual recognition of center area high school athletes and when that date comes out normally sometime in December and the public we have a a roll call please Dennis. >> Yes. >> Daniel Wisner.
017>> Yes. >> Sorry I tongue tied your last name there. Dennis Laurel Ziggler. >> Yes. >> Michael H. Yes. Rea Hoffman. >> Yes. >> Ciao. Yes. >> Jeremite. >> Yes. Jason Cage. >> Yes. Motion carries. Uh D is introduction of new business by board members. Is there any new business to be introduced tonight? Okay. Seven is public comment on non-aggenda items. Dr. Myers, is there anyone on that? No, there is. Okay. Thank you. Eight isformational items. You can review those at your leisure. through F. Nine are our upcoming public meetings and informative dates. The 13th we have the policy and curriculum committee meeting followed by the facilities and extracurricular committee meeting at 6 o'clock and 7 o'clock in the library and by Zoom. The 20th will be our monthly meeting at 7:30 here in the
018high school and by Zoom. November 3rd is our next workshop meeting. 7:30 here in the high school and by Zoom. With that, I'd be looking for a motion to adjurnn. So move. Fix.