001I'd like to call this meeting to order. Would everyone please rise for a moment of silence? 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, with liberty and justice for all. Like to thank everyone for coming this evening. Uh there's a log in the front. If you haven't signed in, please do so. If you have anything particular you would like to bring to the board's attention, please write that down. If 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. There was an executive session
002conducted prior to the meeting to discuss personnel matters. And with that, Mr. Please. Aaron Angel here. Michael Hess here. Rea Hoffman here. Cecilia Hull here. Jason C here. Jeremiah Light here. Dennis Udishious here. Daniel Whismer here. Laurel Ziggler here. Lucas Hoffman here. Justin here. All right. Thank you. We'll start with uh three approval of minutes. Uh I'd like a I have a motion for the to approve the minutes from April 7th, 2025 school board meeting. Second. Motion. A second. Does anybody have any questions or comments on those uh meeting minutes? All right. Hearing none, then uh Miss Russ, please. Aaron Agel, yes. Michael Hess, yes. Reba Hoffman, yes. Cecilia Holt, yes. Jeremiah Light, yes. Dennis Udishious, yes. Daniel Whismer, yes. Laurel Z, yes. Jason C, yes. Motion carries. We can take items four and five
003together. So items four is the treasures report. A through H are listed are listed out and five is the approval of bills for payment with A through G listed. Do we have a motion to approve? Second by motion and second. Uh does anybody have questions or comments on those? Mr. Hel. Michael Hes. Yes. Reba Hoffman. Yes. Cecilia Holt. Yes. Jeremiah Light. Yes. Dennis Dishious. Yes. Daniel Whismer. Yes. Laurel Ziggler. Yes. Aaron Angel. Yes. Jason C. Yes. Motion carries. So we can go right into the superintendent report. Mr. Dr. Myers from Report. Just few items to share today. Um here on April 21st, not April 7th. I think it's still the right. No, go ahead. I think you're good. Go ahead. Yeah. So, uh, reporting back on our incredible group of national national history day students
004who, uh, last month reported that they had won first place in the regionals and went wild to states. And just recently, they competed at states and placed first place once again. Giana Pisilante, Lucas Pisilante, and Ray Ziggler with their documentary titled Out of the Ashes, a city, a movement, and the children they failed. There, the video is incredible. the details of this historical event um from Philadelphia in 1985 and uh they they did a fantastic job to win first place in Pennsylvania. They move on to nationals for the second year in a row where they will compete at the University of Maryland June 8th through June 12th. Um just have had the good fortune just to walk down to Mr. Ashman's room at the right time a couple times now to see them continuing to
005uh try to do a little bit more research a few that was maybe about a month ago few weeks ago um and then today during lunch discussing the ways that they're going to improve um their video from the fantastic version that is today um so they can compete at nationals just they did an incredible job and you know they they get it's like so many things but I think because it happens once annually how much improve improvement they show from year to year and the details and the performance of it I believe. Um so just an incredible job. Congratulations to all three students. Congratulations to their parents and congratulations to you know Mr. Ashen as well who was a key um advisor to say and good luck at nationals. Uh today the tennis team um
006some some members of the boys tennis team were competing in the counties and in the singles David Nwander, AJ Muller, Andrew Nwander, Brody Ferong, Ashton Bitner and in doubles AJ Muller and Ashton Bitner, David and Andrew Nwander and Brody Ferong and Isaac Wood were all competing in counties today. Um fortunately the doubles teams lost. Uh, Andrew Nwander made it to tomorrow in the flight B single, so he survives. And Ashton Bitner made it to tomorrow in the flight five singles. Uh, congratulations to all members of the team for competing in counties. And best wishes to Andrew and to Ashton as they continue to compete. This is a short report this evening. Um, just looking at, you know, just a few few uh events looking at our students succeeding in a variety of different avenues. Uh
007tomorrow is an exciting day in our schools um in grades three through eight, PSSA start tomorrow. Um you know it's while we we are very confident that our students will perform their best and you know hope that it's not a stressful event for them or for their teachers they are prepared and long as they show up and do their best we'll see great results from our students across all grade levels. That's our good news. All right. Thank you. moving to the board committee reports. Uh we start with VC TC Miss just a couple exciting things that are happening. Um they're going to be incorporating a future program for vet assistance program. They're going to be partnering with Silva Hopkins. Um really exciting to hear about that because there are not many of those around. Um,
008I personally got to go to the skills competition awards which was really cool to see all the, you know, the school I'm a little disappointed that our school didn't win more and that they were not so excited when they did win. Yeah, there were some schools that were like so hyped and ours was like got to talk to them about that. Um, they have decision day coming up May 1st, which is sort of like a a signing day, like where you guys get you the kids get to tell everybody what they're doing for the future, which is really cool to to you know, know what these kids are up to. Um, yeah, and then the rest is out of the the race. Thank you. Just to follow up, according to my notes, uh, at Skills
009USA, Devin Ralph in 12th grade, um, placed third in computerized machining technology. Congratulations today. Excellent. Thank you. Uh, lecture report is BCIU, Mr. Whisman. Thank you, Mr. Cuck. Um, one item, uh, they opened the electronic ballot for the BCIU board election. Um, and they encourage all board members to participate in that one. It's open till Friday, June 6th. And I believe that comes from you. Okay. So, you guys can look for an email from I think she I think she sent it last. Okay. And then that's it for PCIU. All right. Thank you. Um Burks tax collection committee was signed. Yes. Um the uh the end of March um reviewed the financials and um back now, but they uh they were gearing up for the end of tax season for the April 15th deadline for
010tax collection. We'll see how we'll we'll start the benefits of those. All right. Excellent. Thank you. Um ESBA miss. Thank you, Mr. Hook. I have a couple of things. Um one is that May 13th is advocacy day. So that is um where PSBA helps facilitate meetings um between board members and their legislators or legislative staff. um so that there's the opportunity to talk to them about um the particular needs of our district. If anybody's interested in that, you just sign up at PSTA and they'll connect you with the legislator. Um then the other thing I wanted to mention is that this comes up annually as well is that if there are any uh proposed changes to the PSBA bylaws that this board is interested in submitting, we would do that by May 15. Okay. Thank
011you very much. Uh the extracurricular and facilities committee, Mr. Lee, we did not did not meet. So policy and curriculum committee um Mr. um we gave the green light for further conversations and development of the middle school program and schedule for the the multi-tiered supports. Um and then we have some policies for tonight that are on the agenda. Okay. Thank you. Uh next is the student representatives report. More Mr. Whoever would like to start. I don't have anything for this week. Okay. I just came from a break. So, yeah. Did you enjoy it? That's very good. Yeah. Very good. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Everybody happy to be back. Probably not. Reactions. Reactions. All right. Thank you both. Uh, next is public comment on agenda items. No one signed up. Dr. Meyer, is anyone online? No, there
012was not. We can move right into new business. A is personnel. It is the recommendation of the administration that the board of school directors approve the following personnel items. One through four are listed there. Do we have a motion? So move. Yes. Second. Hoffman. Motion. They second. Does anybody have any questions? All right then. Mr. H, will you please have a roll call? Reba Hoffman? Yes. Cecilia Hull? Yes. Jeremiah White? Yes. Danny Sudishious? Yes. Daniel Whismer? Yes. Laurel Ziggler? Yes. Aaron Angel. Yes. Michael Hes. Yes. Jason. Yes. Motion carries. All personnel are approved pending receipt of all mandated credentials. B is policy maintenance. I believe that we can take 1, three, and seven together. And does anybody have any objections to that? No. It is the recommendation of the policy and curriculum committee that the
013board of school directors approve the following policies for first reading one through seven are listed there. Do you have a motion? Second angle. Motion and a second. Um any questions or comments on any of those? Susp. Cecilia. Yes. Jeremiah like yes. Dennis Dishious. Yes. Daniel Whismer. Yes. Laurel Ziggler. Yes. Aaron Angel, yes. Michael Best, yes. Rea Hoffman, yes. Jason Cup, yes. Motion carries. C is the Goodtown Area Middle School HVAC. It is the recommendation of the administration that the board of school directors approve the McLar Company to perform guaranteed energy savings agreements for HVAC and network engine upgrades, items one and 1A for the attached at a total project cost of $4,773,298. Do we have a motion? So move second. Motion a second. Any questions or comments on the HVAC project? Oh, I said the
014presentation is linked, you know, from our last meeting uh with um the core and um you know, if you went anyone following along at home, if you went to slide seven, this only includes one and one A. If you're following from the column all the way to the left, that's where where we landed from that meeting as far as what this item would include. One A just include the HVAC updates and the network engine upgrades. And I also just want to point out Mr. Gallup from Mccclure is on the Zoom if anybody has any questions for him. Sorry, Mr. S. Oh, that's okay. Um, just one comment. Um, while I um agree that we need these um fixes for HVAC and the middle school, I won't be voting in affirmative for um this motion. Um,
015we're going to be pulling the money from uh a bond that we took out and we are investing to try to make um some money on that investment. Um, I think it's not in the long-term health of the district to pull that money out while we're still making money on it. Um, so I would have been um in uh approval of this if we would have taken out new loans because we know that we're going to have to do additional work um at Kutztown Elementary and at Green Witch um or both uh in the near future. Um so I just think taking that money out prematurely um actually hurts the amount of interest that we'll be making off of that money. So that's why my vote will be done for this motion. Questions roll please.
016Jeremiah Light. Yes. Dennis Dishious. Yes. Daniel Whisner. Yes. Laurel Ziggler. Yes. Aaron Angel. Yes. Michael Hes. No. Ra Hoffman. Yes. Cecilia Hull. Yes. Jason C. Yes. Motion carries. Just following up on the previous presentation. Then we will continue some conversations related to firearm fire alarm and then building envelope. Um we'll talk about that committee first before we bring it back to the board. That was just the term we separate those pieces and make later decision. Thank you, Mr. Fan. and the um issue Mr. S product that will actually be very long meaning the bond issuance will be rated. Yes. So when we borrowed the $15 million for these projects there was a planned restructure for this summer all along no matter if we borrowed five any any amount additional money or um just from the
017money that we had we had borrowed for this this bond issue here um to formalize that path forward. It'll be on the May 5th agenda which would essentially be granting the represent from Raymond James to proceed with the next. Okay. Thank you. E is the or I'm sorry, we're on um the Eastern University. It is recommendation of the administration of the board of school directors approve the agreement to student teachers currently attached. Do we have a motion? Second. Motion in a second. Does anybody have any questions or comments on that? This just adds Eastern University as a potential partner for the host of student teacher. Um, this request specifically comes from someone who has worked with the district closely and has is currently attending Eastern University and wants to student teach. It's a good situation
018for us. So, um, typically could university is our partner. This just makes it possible for us to support one of our current partners. Very good. Any other questions, comments? Mr. Rose call, please. Dennis Dishious. Yes. Daniel Wizmer, yes. Laurel Ziggler, yes. Aaron Angel, yes. Michael Hes, yes. Rea Hoffman, yes. Cecilia Hull, yes. Jeremiah Light, yes. Jason C, yes. Motion carries. E is the bus van driver. It is the recommendation of the administration that the board of school directors approve Kimberly Santoro as a bus company bus van driver for the code center school district for the 2024 2025 school year. Do we have a motion? Second. Yes. A second. Uh any questions or comments? Roll, please. Daniel Whismer, yes. Laurel Ziggler, yes. Aaron Angel, yes. Michael Pess, yes. Reba Hoffman, yes. Cecilia Hull. Yes. Jeremiah Light,
019yes. Dennis Udishious, yes. Jason Cuck, yes. Motion carries. F is a conference request. It is recommendation of the administration that the board of school directors approve the following conference request. Now, item one is listed um there for your review. Do we have a motion? I move. Secondly, motion a second. Does anybody have any questions or comments on the comments request? The advanced placement summer institute allows one additional teacher here at the high school to teach an AP any of our teachers who will be teaching AP course participate in the summer institute. This is new course for new teachers. Any other questions? Roll call in please. Laurel Ziggler. Yes. Aaron Angel. Yes. Michael Hes. Yes. Hoffman. Yes. Cecilia, yes. Jeremiah Lake, yes. Dennis Udishious, yes. Daniel Whisner, yes. Jason C, yes. Motion carries. G is employee
020vision insurance. It is recommendation of the administration that the board of school directors approve the agreement with Capital Blue Cross to provide vision insurance for district employees for the 25 2025 2026 school year at no rate increase. Do we have a motion? Second. document. Thank you. Any questions or comments on the vision insurance? Who was that first? Thank you. And I'll just make the blanket comment about G through J. These are all continuations of our current insurance. They're just updates that happen. You know, some on varying different schedules all came up at the same time. Any other questions? Mr. poll, please. Aaron Angel, yes. Michael Hes, yes. Rea, yes. Cecilia Holt, yes. Jeremiah Lake, yes. Dennisy Dishes, yes. Daniel Whismer, yes. Laurel Ziggler, yes. Jason Coch, yes. Motion carries. H is employee dental insurance rate
021renewal. Is the recommendation of the administration of the board of school directors approve the Delta dental rate agreement for a two-year two-year period beginning July 1st, 2025 at the existing rates. Do we have a motion? So move motion a second. Any questions or comments on this agenda item? Focus. Michael Hes. Yes. Eva Hoffman. Yes. Cecilia Hull. Yes. Jeremiah White. Yes. Dennis Dishious. Yes. Daniel Whismer. Yes. Laurel Ziggler. Yes. Aaron Angel. Yes. Jason Cup. Yes. Motion carries. I is a disability insurance renewal. It is the recommendation of the administration that the board of school directors approve the renewal of the life insurance package from National Insurance Services for a two-year period beginning July 1st, 2025. The rates reflect a 5% decrease from the expiry contract. Do we have a motion? So move second. Motion second. Any
022questions or comments on the disability insurance? Um uh I see that we're we're doing option one which is two year. Um could we do option two which is three year and lock it in for three years? Um it's a slightly assuming no change to the current structure. You said so this one is the lower rate. This is the one. Okay. Thank you. Any other questions? Makes sense. Yeah. Yeah. I thought it was the same rate for if you do it for two or three years. All right. Thank you for asking that question. U roll call please. M Rea, yes. Cecilia Holt. Yes. Jeremiah Light. Yes. Dennis Dishes? Yes. Daniel Wisner? Yes. Laurel Ziggler? Yes. Aaron Angel, yes. Michael Pes, yes. Jason Cut, yes. Motion carries. J is life insurance renewal. It is a recommendation of
023the administration of the board of school directors approve the renewal of life insurance package from CM Regent Insurance for a three-year period beginning July 1st, 2025 at the existing rates. We have a motion. So moved. Second Whismer. Motion second. Any questions or comments there? Hearing none, Mr. Cecilia, yes. Jeremiah Light, yes. Dennis Dishes, yes. Daniel Whisper, yes. Laurel Ziggler, yes. Aaron Angel, yes. Michael Hess, yes. Hoffman, yes. Jason Cut, yes. Motion carries. Today's introduction of new business by board members. Do we have any uh new business that needs to be introduced this year? Okay. Uh, nine is public comment on non-aggenda items. No one signed up up here, Dr. Myers. No, no one's on. 10 isformational items. A and B are listed there, the BCPC briefs and minutes. And then 11 is our upcoming public
024meeting and informative dates. April 28th, we'll have the budget and finance committee meeting um in the middle school commons and by Zoom. That's at 7 o'clock next Monday. Uh the 5th we will have of the 5th of May we'll have a schoolboard workshop meeting 7:30m here in the high school library and by Zoom. May 12th we have a policy and curriculum committee meeting followed by facilities and extracurricular committee meeting uh 6:00 and 7 o'clock respectively here in the high school library and by Zoom. Um I want to highlight the change in the month schoolboard monthly meeting date. Um, it has been postponed from the 19th, canceled from the 19th, and we have it rescheduled for May the 21st, Wednesday, at 7:30 p.m. here in the high school library and by Zoom. And then May 27th,
025which is a Tuesday, we will have our budget finance committee meeting um again in the middle school comments at 7 o'clock and by Zoom for the May 19th switch to 21st. Um at that meeting we have a requirement 30 uh 30 days before a budget is to be approved we must post the proposed final budget which is nonbinding um but has to you know have a rationale and in where we are the direction that we are heading with our budget and with uh the referendum question on the May 20th election it makes more sense to have a meeting after that 20th than before that date so that we can have a proposed final budget with an answer to that referendum question posted for 30 days before final and thank you for the explanation. Uh with
026that if you're looking for a motion for adjournment.