001Call this meeting to order. Would everyone please rise for a moment of silence? Pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which stands one nation under God, indivisible, liberty for all. I'd like to thank everyone for coming this evening. Uh there is a log in the front of the room over here. If you haven't done so, uh please sign in. If you have anything in particular you would like to bring to the board's attention, please also write that down. If at any time during the meeting you would like to mention something on an agenda item, please raise your hand to be recognized. After normal business, there's also time for public comment where you can bring up additional issues. This meeting is being reported.
002I also want to announce that there was a executive session conducted prior to the meeting to discuss personnel matters and we also had a board retreat at the middle school on the evening of March 24th uh for educational purposes. with that. Can we get a roll call? Yes, roll call. This rest is okay. Okay. Um, last time I did this, I went out of order and was bothered. So, um, let's let's get a roll call. Mr. Dishes, here. Sloppy here. Miss Holt here. Mrs. Engel here. Mr. Cook here. Mr. Light here. Mr. Whismer here. Miss Sigler here and Mr. Hazard. Thank you. Uh the first item on the agenda is the approval of minutes. We have two listed there. March 17, 2025 school board meeting and the March 24, 2025 budget and finance committee meeting.
003I'd be looking for a motion to approve um the minutes for both meetings. for second. Have a motion and a second. Any questions or comments on these meeting minutes? Roll call, please. Mr. Dishes here. I'm sorry. I fell asleep in the Yes. Moffman. Yes. Soul. Yeah. Zangle. Yes. Mr. Light. Yes. Sir Whismer. Yes. And Mr. Cigler. Miss Sigler. I'm sorry. Yes. Mr. Ben and Yes. Um motion carries. The minutes are approved. Um and then uh next on the agenda is communications and reports. We will start with the ML company presentation on the potential fit center area middle school summary track project. Yeah, thank you for joining us again. This is a continuation of just a few weeks ago. Um but the presentation here is just isolated to the middle school and what could potentially be
004done with some. Yep. So, thank you for having me again. Uh we were here a couple weeks ago with some budgetary numbers for some scope of work that we were looking at potentially doing this summer. We're coming back today with finalized numbers for all of that scope. So this presentation is probably going to look somewhat similar to what you saw previously. Um with me, by the way, my name is Mark Alex with with me is Alyssa Lefield, who's probably a familiar face to all of you at this point. Uh so we're going to go through this presentation. Please feel free to ask questions. I know there's some questions um that I've already seen. So, we'll we'll certainly be happy to answer those as we go. So, a little bit about us. We were founded in
0051953. The work that we do is under the Guaranteed Energy Savings Act in Pennsylvania. Um that construction model is essentially a construction manager at risk uh method. So, essentially we are designing and building the project and we are the sole responsible party to make sure everything is done in a timely manner. Uh some benefits to the to the procurement method is the costs are guaranteed guaranteed to be change order free um and that you get full um input into all the different scopes as well as everything that goes into our projects. We're going to jump right into the to the uh items that we looked at. The first one and the biggest one that we looked at was actually the HBAC at the middle school. Um there's been some work done to the middle school
006over the years. We tried to keep all of those capital investments that are still appropriate to keep and only address some of the older items that that needed to be addressed. Um, so the rooftop units, for example, were replaced in 2021. They will remain because they still have plenty of life left in them. Chilled water system was also replaced in 2021. We're going to leave that alone. Not going to touch that. The boilers were replaced as well. However, the pumps for that system were not replaced. So, those are still an older piece of equipment. We're going to go through and replace those. We're going to upgrade the terminal HVAC units. Um those are the classroom units largely with what we call tall vertical unit ventilator. A lot of benefits to those. They do things like
007dehumidification. So they provide a very comfortable learning environment for the kids. Um we're going to look at replacing the air handlers in the classrooms or excuse me in the offices and a couple of larger classrooms. We're going to do the HVAC in the band room. They're going to be replaced with uh what we call DX hot water units. So that's a direct expansion refrigeration unit. Those are all represented by those colors on the floor plan. And if your eyes aren't quite good enough, I did include larger versions of those behind the blue paper. So you can kind of reference those if you'd like in the handouts that we created. Uh we're also looking at replacing the ERV that serves the kitchen area. Um as we dug into this a little more, we are offering two
008alternates for this. show on your control system, the system that actually tells the HVAC what to do. They have what's called a network engine. It is essentially a small computer that actually talks to all of your terminal controls. That is it's very similar to a computer and over time it needs to be upgraded similar to a computer would need. So, we did include an option for you to upgrade that that unit as well. Um that's broken out. All these prices are broken out for you to evaluate. The other thing we looked at doing is adding cooling to the kitchen. Um, so there is uh typically those kitchen areas are a little bit warm. This will help temper that space, provide a little better uh space in the kitchens for the staff there. Any questions in
009the HVAC? Next thing we looked at looked at and this was lumped together uh when we were here last month. So what we broke this out again kind of be a little more transparent for for uh for you to see. We looked at upgrading the fire alarm panel. So, this is largely a panel upgrade to a an intelligent system. Uh what that means is it actually will let you know the individual zones that go into alarm. Um in there is we have it broken out in all the actual field devices that we're replacing along with this panel, but it's largely a panel right to get you prepared for this uh new NFPA rules. Next is the library renovation. The scope didn't really change. Uh it's similar to what we showed in the last um the
010last time we were here. We did upgrade the floor plan somewhat. Bruce from EI is here if you do have any questions on that particular layout of the of the space. Uh additionally, we offered an furniture, furnishings, and equipment um money for you to fit out that space at the end. Um that can be held by the owner, by us, either way. We we put in an aotment about $40,000 to fit out the spaces with the furniture, what we call epony furniture in it. The next item we looked at is the uh skin of the building. So the building envelope when we were originally here, number four was was essentially what we looked at. It was shot blast and some concrete blocks that was that needed to be done. As we dug further into the
011building envelope, some additional repairs were were identified that needed to be done. What we did here is we created a floor plan with which references all of those numbers on the on the right. So, we have repointing and brick repair. We have some vertical cracking that's happening in your bricking. So, that's basically cutting out brick and uh putting new brick in and repointing. And then 4C is actually a section, a patio section of concrete that looks like there's getting some water infiltration into a lower level classroom. So, we were actually going to go in and recawk and seal that concrete pad and as well as as fix the wall in the in the classroom that has some paint peeling off it. So, that's what 4C is. Any questions on the envelope? So, the next slide
012is essentially where RO hits the road. So, what we did is we created three different programs just for illustration purposes. The first one on the left, the middle school full library and envelope upgrades. It's kind of everything that you saw there that essentially would address all of those items. The middle one is the middle school with minimal library and envelope upgrades. So that's kind of a middle of the road option. And then on the white on the right is the middle school largely HVAC and envelope minimal envelope. So that's kind of the low end of of the scope. Again, the the HVAC was largely the focus in this program. So that is still included in all three scopes. Um the right hand the minimal scope did include the network engine upgrade as well for the
013controls. So I will be happy to answer questions now that you may have for this program. Yeah. Again, you know, kind of clarifying some of this there, you know, any project there are levels at which we could do the work where we entered this with HVAC as a need. It's a need whether it's a need today, tomorrow, in the immediate future. Um, that's kind of what brought us here looking at this summer. Um, with that, the fire alarm upgrade has always been in that rank one through three, pardon me, for the middle school and part of the feasibility. At one time there's a much larger number, but that was related to doing everything for the fire alarm upgrades. Going into the classrooms, you know, flashing lights, everything. This upgrades, our panel would get us up
014to code again. Um, does it need to be done today? Not necessarily, but it needs to be done sometime in the relatively near future to be up to code. So, and um I'm going to go down and then back up, you know. So when you look at the building envelope, I think envelope work, it's pretty essential, you know, and it's pressing if we're doing the other work. So if we're going to be pulling out the air handlers, you know, looking at the um the exterior of the building on, you know, that block that exposed, it's kind of essential. So when you go all the way to the right um in the right column, what's titled middle school without library, that's I think that's under needs. need today or need in the next five years is
015probably what you're really talking about. Um you know and then you can kind of go back to left looking for additions that are potentially there. Um the library project as we discussed last time just a reminder you know I do believe there will be a day you know down in the future where where we will say you know we wish we could use this space in a few different ways. I mean we are kind of doing that to some extent now. Um I think that's more in the want list than a than a need list. I mean there's no you know there's no um malfunctioning you know to the extent that we have with the HVAC and everything else. So um you kind of see that whole piece. The kitchen um cooling upgrade you know
016I think the question I had initially which I think is one others might have is do we have cooling dedicated cooling in all of our kitchens? The answer is no we don't. Um the high school does but you know if you're not familiar with that space that's a much more expansive space. It has an office. It has um it goes, you know, it extends it to the loading dock. The elementary kitchens do not, but they're smaller spaces, smaller buildings. They don't have the same um pooling needs necessarily as the middle school kitchen. So again, that's that's why you'll see that as more of a want than a need. It's it's we can we cannot have that um addition and it still kind of the standard of what we have in our spaces. So, um, you
017know, and obviously getting down into fixtures and furniture, you know, big question was, should we put that on there? Well, you know, we're looking at this as the full range of our products. Why not put it on there? At least to show what that would be, but it's that's why you see this wide range from the middle school with full library envelope upgrades to middle school without even addition options. So, if I'm looking at this picture right, the white is what is the library and now that will be classrooms. That's what that's that's correct. That white space would be able to be a classroom, full classroom again. You know, I I'm very open. We have plenty of classroom space in the middle school now. we actually have a little bit of extra, but it's just
018that the idea is if we're in there, do we make it a better, you know, potential use into the future? Um, that's that's where it's on that piece. And the gray is still library. The gray is still library. Everything to the right of the line that's gray remains library as it is today. Because I've been getting mixed signals from community uh members asking me if we're getting rid of the library. Yeah, I think that's, you know, there's two components there. We did have in the budget presentation, you know, um a conversation about the position in the library. Um you know, where um if we go further down that path and and even as soon as this curriculum meeting coming up on Monday, we'll give some explanation as to what we envision in that space if
019we make those changes. Um but the library will remain and you know this although there's been another version or two maybe out there at times this has always included maintaining that majority of library space to the right what is there a wall to circulation excuse me if you eliminate the position you have a book museum you don't have a library it's just going to be a room where kids will sit for studying be home. There will never be new materials. The materials that are there will eventually get stolen and walk away and you will not have a library. You'll have a book museum. I guess my only question, are you leaning towards a recommended column here at this point? you know, it's like everything. I wish we could do it all, right? like and you
020know so that's um my my gut with our current situation related to budget and unknowns about what we will want to do with the needs that we have into the future is it's it's probably best in my recommendation to state the minimal needs because they're things that we are going I mean when we when the board decided when we made the recommendation to borrow money last summer because it there was had advantages to what we could do with that in earning. It was under the guise of right now we're going to need this no matter what at some time in the near future and we still have some additional decisions to make. So we're no decisions have been made further other than what we need. So my recommendation at this time would be you know
021call them to the right the need options right now what I consider needs. Again the I think I guess there's an alternative without the envelope upgrades but I think that would be I think we want the outside of the building to look, you know, similar to what it does today after after alterations. So envelope work would then be essential. The last thing was a timeline actually. No, it didn't. So in in the uh we can so the the the idea and we talked about this last time was that it have some kind of direction by the 21st so that we can get everything ordered and installed this summer. We still have some time and availability to do this work this summer. There you go. On your your cost chart here you have the 20-year energy
022and operational savings. Is that a one-time cost or is that every 20 years or every year? That's that 30,000 is that's just the total for the the 20 years. Yeah. Yeah. Yep. And how many local contractors are being asked to work on this? So, um inside of our projects, we we solicit multiple prices for what we call micro packages. So, we don't bid out a mechanical project scope. What we do is we bid out the pieces of those scopes. So like air handlers, piping, things like that. Um similarly, when we get into subcontracting work, uh we tend to lean on because of our tight window that we do these projects in. Usually over the summer months, it's pretty condensed window. We usually lean on contractors we know that can keep up with the scope of
023the work. With that said, if there's local contractors that you would prefer to see work on your projects, that is ab absolutely allowed under this legislation. Um, if there are those contractors that you would like to take a look at some of these scopes, we're happy to to to talk to them, get pricing from them. If they would be a lower price than what we currently carry in there, we're happy to give a credit back for for those uh those particular scopes of work. And this is all prevailing wages. One thing just related to and others will probably speak to better than that can going back to your previous question about the energy operation savings. Some of the reason why that's always lower is because previous, you know, the air handler project that was done
024previously, you know, that there was energy savings associated with that. They're not associated with this. So, there's some previous work um anything that's done other whether it's Giza or any energy savings projects um that's already been done can't be calculated into this. Yeah, your boilers and chillers are already operated and that's where you get a good piece of that savings. Thank you very much for your time. So I mean just again to that timeline for the April 21st meeting we we'll need to have something on the agenda for a vote. Yes or no? um you know I guess is there any discussion as to what version you know Mr. was just asking my recommendation at that point, but is there any other discussions to that? Well, I think some of this work like the building
025envelope work and maybe alarm system maybe we should look at talking to some of our vendors, contractors about, you know, just having them perform that work since it's not really a need at this point in time. It's more of a want. One thing that I do have a little concern about is just sealing the where the water is possibly getting into the lower level classroom. I don't know if sealing that without doing proper drainage is the way to go with that one. If Richard has any the truss is rusted down there, it was prior to the concrete that we just recently didn't. There was a garden to be eliminated that garden, but that garden allowed that water damage. some of that stuff like concrete ceiling and stuff. There's no reason why we can't some of
026that ourselves or have somebody local take care of it at a much lower cost than prevailing wage too. We consider like a maintenance item. Mr. Light, you're recommending that we look at removing one B and four column on the left looking at this picture. No, two. Two is the alarm. Two, right? Two. Two hit four pretty much all of it excluding what needs to be done for the HVAC replacement because some of those girls go through the wall. I mean, if it's feasible for us to think no less, I think it's not urgent. That makes sense. And the other thing I'm thinking of is, do we really need to do library change? I I think right now we have an abundance of space and it's kind of hard to ask taxpayers to pay more for
027something that we necessarily don't need right now. I think we pull that out of the project, too. That's not included within the third column. That's number three. Yeah, it's just it's not in that third column of middle school without library. It's so basically we be under Mr. Lights ideas. We would just be doing one and 1. Well, that's Yeah, the HVAC upgrades. Yeah. And boiler boiler pump upgrades that that type of stuff. I would support Mr. Light's idea if there is feasible way for us to do other work on our own or with cheaper contractors that can do quality work. You know what is also possible just from preparing an agenda standpoint as long as it's listed there can be multiple options there that are then discussed at that point someone makes a motion to
028you know just to think what gets us to an agenda you know full consultation um as long as you know we're meeting our sunshine act as long as all the information is listed they can make any motion they want so Just so I understand it clearly, you're talking about like a different breakout than this column three. Yeah. Well, it's more along with that column three, but it's pulling some of the other stuff out of like the fire alarm upgrade is still included in that. You're Yeah, you're saying column three minus the fire alarm and minus the the building envelope upgrade. Would you like the kitchen cooling upgrade? We talk about it. Yeah. Um, let's speak. Can we get a what exactly is in that [Music] 4,5001,200 currently? Sure. Obvious the one piece that we would
029have to figure out. It's completely doable is the rebreing of the leadership. So that's one one a one B. One B is the indication. Yep. So that's in that number. Is two in there? Yeah. Anything that has the blue the blue anything has the blue scale is included in Yeah. Two is in there. Yeah. Sorry that that version back page. What about the HVAC upgrade for the library? That's not in the third one. So the HVAC upgrade for library was specific that would not be necessary if we're not doing the renovations to the library. That is to give dedicated um to those Yeah. to each of those spaces. So if you don't you're not doing the modification or the upgrade and none of that was necessary. to compare it to or some local some local
030costs, right? We could try. Well, no, that's that's if there's a commitment on the HVAC upgrades um and a decision is made at a later date than two weeks from now on the fire alarm. How difficult would that be to add inland? Not difficult. That would be fine. So, I think that sounds like we can do more research on that on that option without causing too much of a wall. So, for as of right now for April 21st, we're going to make sure we have an option on there for one and one. Anything else? Certainly for one May and I imagine that the building on the upgrades are going to be done after anyway. So again if time issues I wouldn't imagine. So yes, I got away. Anybody else want to see any other options
031currently? Is that sufficient for agenda? Question. Yeah, I mean it's that point where there's if if somebody feels strongly about adding something to the agenda, you could ask and just communicate to the board that it'll be on the agenda. It's not it's not deliberate. It's not voted on. It just needs to be on there. So, if anybody feels strongly about adding something to the agenda, it'll be a second option and we can do that. But right now, we all know that one of 1A will be on the agenda on April 21st. And it seems like those are the integral parts. Yes. Time. Yep. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Superintendent report. A few items want to share. There's always lots of good news, but just a few to share this evening. And I think there might
032be some people with better information in the room on some of it as well. So, be happy to hand that off. But uh just just some exciting things. Uh first, our Coast Center Middle School annually participates in the what's so cool about manufacturing and this year the team so the team creates anformational engaging informational video about um a local business. Um, this year our team won the award for best career and technical education story and that team included Will Ziggler, Ellie Peters, uh, Carrie Bosler, Olivia Wright, Connor Christ, Fina Erdman, Daniel Hench, Gange, Andre, Leo Johnson, and the adviser who has been the adviser I think maybe for every year, every year I've known for what's so cold manufacturing, uh, was Mr. Ashman. Congratulations to that team on the best career in technical education story.
033Um, and what's so cool about manufacturing? Next, um, the the high school jazz uh, jazz band excels at weekend festivals. I I laugh because they excel everywhere they go. And uh when I was when the list was sent about all of the awards that they had won, um I did say that I had a limited amount of time here in the Superman attendance report. It would be a lot shorter to announce the awards they did not win than the awards they did win. Specifically at the Jazz F uh the Wilson Jazz Festival. Um both of these occurred this weekend. I think Muenberg was on Friday and jazz was on Saturday at the Muenberg Jazz Festival. Won the best rhythm section and the best saxophone section. And there were soloist awards to Isaac Birchock and Reed
034Justin. Congratulations to the jazz band and to both Isaac and Reed. And then at the Wilson Wilson Jazz Festival, there was best rhythm section, best trombone section, best trumpet section, best saxophone section. I think that's a sweep of sections. And um and then best solist to both Reed Justice and Mary Hess. Just incredible performance continues. um you know there's uh if it was a sports team we'd call it a dynasty because I think every year they perform similarly you know so congratulations to um all of the students you know especially our soloist winners in in Isaac Reed twice and Mary Mr. Sh whose leadership of the jazz band music program is just phenomenal. But it's really a um community award. I think you know each time we have these phenomenal accomplishments by our uh student
035performers in music. It truly is a community you know kasma is such a powerful engine behind with parent and community support. It's families and it's and it's our teachers from the elementary through the high school. Um Mr. Sher kind of caps off and gets to take the cool pictures with the students but Um, it really is a community event. So, congratulations to the last one this evening is the Odyssey of the Mind team at the high school. Um, I don't know, Jos, do you want to take this? Yeah, I can take it. Yeah, I mean, I mentioned Owen the last time I was here, but we did have our state competition this past Saturday where we had four teams from Christown that attended. Um there's two elementary teams which like always get the strong showing
036because I mean honestly last such a stressful day so they did great for they um the middle school team did really amazing too. They came in third place so they were just shy of making um world finals. They were all very confident in the future that they will be getting there. And then the high school um which is my team did come in second place. So we will be advancing to world and there's all our team members. So me, my sister Jillian Rager, Andrew, Thomas Han, and Vivian. Um, and world finals will be at Michigan State University, which is the 21st to 24th, which um it is expensive. So like we're going to do after we get all our fundraisers and stuff approved, we'll probably will have like a GoFundMe for it. Um, and when
037we have like t-shirts of sponsors, kind of like the one I'm wearing, there's like a a whole bunch of sponsors on the back because it's like a net cost of 10,000 and registration itself is just 6,000, but um, not including the 10,000 is like obviously the shirts um that will be representing Cuttown. And then the one of the biggest cultural aspects of Odyssey mine is pin trading where all these teams in the states will actually all come up with like their own pins and go trade in. You can get ones from different states and from like different um countries like we we have our little demo here because they're really excited about it. But I mean yeah it's exciting to have another team to go especially since it's the only third one. And it's interesting
038because when you go to the world you attend as like a PA delegation. So you're you're representing PA with the teams you just competed against, but also still representing Chris Town at a smaller level. So yeah, that's I had my own it. Congratulations. That's fantastic. I just want to say you did you read everybody's name except for the coach. Oh yeah. Just want to point that out. So thank you to Mr. Denimbaugh for coaching coaching the team as well. Congratulations. uh just phenomenal uh by all by all accounts those worlds experiences both you know since I've been here and in previous experience had had teams go and it's just you know it's an incredible experience as as you know so congratulations thank you that's my good news great thank you congratulations to every all all
039our students um and Jocelyn do you want to keep going with the student representative report you're on fire over there that was really what I had so we were all excited about You have anything? I don't have anything new. Okay. Thank you both. Um the five then is public comment on agenda items. No one else. Dr. Myers, is there anyone online? It's not. Then right into new business. Uh starting with a personnel. Be looking for a motion to approve personnel. It is a recommendation of the administration that the board of school directors approve the following personnel items uh one through four. Well, we want to take one separately. Yes, let's do that. Be looking for a motion to to uh take one. The acceptance with regret for the resignation due to the retirement of Jeffrey
040Albert, librarian for the Ktown Area Middle School effective July 26, 2025. Do we have a motion? So moved. Second condition. Motion in your second. Um, sure. Somebody has some comments to make. Please don't because we all know I don't really want to retire, but with the threat of the elimination of the position, I'm not the guy to bump some kid out of their position. Well, that's your comments about it. I'm going to make my comments about it. I think um I just, you know, Mr. effort for you know four years of of dedication to center area school district. I think you know he has an opportunity in his position to interact with every student that comes through middle school and has you know for that entire time um you know personally I consider Mr. Hopper,
041a friend and an adviser at times. Um, and appreciate that. you know, appreciate always having the opportunity to collaborate with you and, you know, discuss um things of all nature, but everything things of all nature and and especially what's you know, what's um best for the district um and for our students and you know, just grateful for your dedication to your students and you know, days like it's a coincidence, but we had career day, you know, and career day was wonderful for our students as I I think I said talking about it here a few weeks ago. It was also wonderful for the adults to come back through the building and that's when you see the impact of Mr. Huffford is when you have these adults coming back to the building and interacting with him
042talking about the experience they had in middle school. Um and uh just grateful you know grateful for all those pieces your impact on the students at Quitztown um your your impact on the community here in center school district and again to be a personal adviser and friend. Thank you Mr. Cuck. I'm sorry I didn't pass you in seventh grade library. Sorry you didn't pass me. Yeah. Oh, you should have had an A, but did we get grades back then in the library that were I think you had a library. I think it was before the state required. Yeah. Yeah, of course. All right. Well, then looking for that you will not teach the last Hoffman. You know, you taught my husband and our first three and summer, you know. pointing to I'm an old man.
043There's nothing stopping him from being here quite a bit. Yeah, you can be able to stay away. Anybody else have a roll call then please? Yes. Roll call. Uh Sen. Yes. Miss I will symbolically vote now. Mrs. Engel. Yes. Mr. Light. Yes. Mr. Whisper. Yes. Mrs. Ziggler. Yes. Mr. Mr. Yes. Mr. Mr. You didn't go back to the top. Mr. Wasn't my fault. All right. Then I'll be looking for a uh motion on the remaining items two through four. Puffman second. Thank you. Motion second. Any questions on those items? All right. Then call again this time. Miss Hold. Yes. Mrs. Engel. Yes. Mr. Light. Yes. Mr. Whismer. Yes. Ziggler. Yes. Mr. Yes. Mrs. Hoffman. Yes, Mr. C. Yes. Motion carries. All personnel is approved pending receipt of all mandated credentials. B is policy maintenance. It
044is recommendation of the policy and curriculum committee that the board of school directors approve the second reading uh and approval approval of policy 2011 admission of students. We have a motion. [Music] Second motion second. Any questions or comments on the policy? Yeah, I mean just the only change that we had in there because this goes back a little while was that we were removing the early admission process if it's eligible for kindergarten. Give a little about a month um for a further evaluation and it was determined that that would remain in place for the 2526 school year but then it would be removed for the 2627 school year in case any families were planning. Okay, we have a roll call, please. Mr. Engel, yes. Mr. Light, yes. Mr. Whisman, yes. Sigler, yes. Mr. Udishious. Yes.
045Sen, yes. And M. Yes. Mr. Yes. Motion carries. C is the ESS addendum. It is the recommendation of the administration that the board of school directors approve the addendum between KASD and ESS Northeast LLC for substitute nursing homebound instruction teacher coverage per attached motion second motion second any questions on ESS hearing none then chat please Mr. Yes, Mr. Whisper. Yes, Mrs. Ziggler. Yes, Mr. Judicious. Yes, Mrs. Hoffman. Yes, Miss Holt. Yes, Mrs. Engel. Yes. And Mr. Yes. Mr. Carries. D is an Echelon bus van driver. It is the recommendation of the administration that the board of school directors approve Courtney Bel. Zelner as Ushelman bus company boss van driver for Ken area school district for the 2024 2025 school year. We have a motion move second. Any questions or comments on the addition of the
046echelon bus driver right hearing? None then roll please. Mr. Whismer. Yes. Mr. Ziggler. Yes. Mr. Udishious. Yes, Mrs. Hoffman. Yes, M. Yes, Mrs. Engel. Yes, Mr. Light. Yes, and Mr. Yes. Motion carries. E is Vanco Payment Solutions. It is the recommendation of the administration that the board of school directors approve the agreement with Vanco Payment Solutions to provide online payment processing at a fee of 4.3% per transaction with no cost to KSD. Uh, do we have a motion? So move. I move second motion in a second. Remind us a brief uh this would give the district the opportunity to take online payments from from parents. Um you know as as has been common you know in school districts and any organization. The ability to take an online payment provides a convenience to subfamilies who choose
047that. Obviously that convenience comes with the reference of a convenience fee. Uh that convenience fee which is passed on to um the person who chooses to pay online. We would still take cash and check payments, but if it's more convenient for families, we would be able to take online payments. Um this vendor was selected, there's many vendors out there. This one was selected because it partners well with data in powers school which will just which is our student information system that'll allow for some ease of use on the text. Okay. Thank you for any questions from anyone please. Mr. Ziggler. Yes. Mr. Dishes. Yes. Mr. Hen. Yes. Salt. Yes. Mrs. Engle. Yes. Mr. Light. Yes. Mr. Whisper. Yes. And Mr. Yes. Motion carries. F is is the PCIU mandated services budget for 25 2025 and
0482026. is the recommendation of the administration that the board of school directors authorize the expenditures of the Burks County Intermediate Units mandated services budget for the 2025 2026 school year at a district cost of $28,489.34 as set forth herein. Proposed budget reflects a 1.18% increase from the previous year. Do we have a motion? I'll move second. Thank you. a second. Any questions or comments? Yeah, I mean we we talk about BCIU here pretty frequently without discussing why the intermediate units exist um and then services that they offer. But the intermediate units are clustered by county, sometimes have multiple counties depending on size and they are designed to provide services at um at scale to districts within the county that districts might not be able to provide for themselves. Uh sometimes they offer additional services that
049districts request and seek. Um but there are mandated services that are run from the state through um BCIU including some curriculum, special education and support services. So BCIU always has the mandate service portion separate from any of the other services that they have. And um I think they do a great job of supporting us and also um trying to maintain the increased cost. I mean with that 1.8% 8% you can anything you can keep under 3% these days I think is you know is is doing your best because of increased costs. So um this would all member districts throughout Burton County will be moving similar u agreement scale to their district. Okay thank you any questions or comments then roll call please Mr. Yes. Yes. Salt. Yes. Mr. D. Yes. Mr. Light. Yes. Mr. Whismer.
050Yes. Mr. Ziggler. Yes. And Mr. C. Yes. Motion carries. G is the CSIU computer services. It is the recommendation of the administration that the board of school directors approve the central Suscoana intermediate unit computer service rates for the 2025 2026 school year at an estimated cost of $18,455 representing a 2% increase over the previous year. Do we have a motion? So second motion second whatever I had I miss first second um CSIU is our platform that manages all of our financials and payroll information. So it's an essential program for us uh to administer all of our um employment programs. They've been a good partner with us and again you know that 2% increase. Very good. Anybody else? Any questions? Very roll call, please. Mrs. Hoffman. Yes. Soul. Yes. Mr. Angel. Yes. Mr. White. Yes. Mr.
051Whismer. Yes. M. Sigler. Yes. Mr. Dishious. Yes. and Mr. Yes. motion carries. H is student device buyback program. It is the recommendation of the administration that the board of school directors approve the student device buyback program which allows seniors to purchase the outgoing device assigned to them at $300 per device. We have a motion. Second, thank you. This one seems pretty self-explanatory. That's good use of the program. Yeah, we have I don't know if Dr. Mars given the numbers um typically, but you know this where the dollar figure comes from is Mr. Hoffman works with the vendors to identify what the district would get back um for a resale and then you know try to keep a round number right around that number where students families have an opportunity to purchase the device that they've
052had for four years and they know if they want. So yeah, as far as the numbers, every year is that the majority of students do not buy the device, but there are some that do. And so appreciate the opportunity college to have that device. There's no downside to the district, right? If they do not purchase it, we still sell it back to the vendor. Sounds sounds like a good opportunity for the students if they you wish to use it. So excellent. Anybody else have any questions? Right. Then roll call, please. Mr. Holt, yes. Mr. Ziggler, yes. Mr. Light, yes. Mr. Whismer, yes. Ziggler, yes. Mr. Dishious, yes. Soften, yes. And Mr. Yes. Motion carries. I is donations. It is recommendation of the administration that the board of school directors accept with gratitude the following uh
053generous donations one through three are listed there. Do we have a motion? So move second motion in a second. Any questions or comments? All right. Hearing none then roll calls. Mrs. Engel. Yes. Mr. Light abstain. Mr. Whismer. Yes. Migler. Yes. Mr. Udishious. Yes. Mr. Hoffman. Yeah. Salt. Yeah. And Mr. I'll abstain as well. Um and then Jay's introduction motion passes. Uh Jay's introduction of new business by board members to say we'd like to thank all for our donations including Mr. Light, Mr. Cup, the Mr. and Mr. CCH. Um the flags at all four schools are in the process of being replaced and they're working with the um Boy Scouts for proper retirement in the school. been there been significant community interest and um excited about the approach to Okay, good. Great. Thank you. Jay is
054introduction of new business by board members. Does anybody have new new business this evening? All right. Then uh seven is public comment on non-aggenda items. Has anybody signed up? Dr. Meyer is online. Uh no comments. Okay. Eight isformational items. A I didn't sign up. So I just wanted to see if anything was brought up. I was I was just wondering if there's any update on the redevelopment assistance capital program grant. No, it hasn't. The next round has not been open yet. So nothing nothing from the state on that yet. When do you expect it to be open? We haven't been given a definitive timeline. Um typically it's it's here end of spring, you know. um with the time typically it opens up end of spring and I say that but it's always been different times.
055What we've been told on this round is that um to look for spring we have the summer for application and then world boarding um early in the fall what we've been told but nothing's new. Okay. Thank you. All right. Then eight isformational items. A through E are listed there for you to review. I just want to call out the facilities and the okay nine upcoming public meetings and informative dates. Our next set of meetings is a week from today, April 14th. We will only be having the PNC committee meeting uh 6 p.m. here in the high school and by Zoom. And that is scheduled for an hour and a half. We have a limit to Yeah, an hour and a half. Typically the committees are limited to an hour but um we've had you know
056over the course of the last few months we'd have a lot of curriculum items um and haven't been able to dedicate as much time to policy. We have not had we don't have anything on the agenda for facilities and ECC. So we want to extend a little time for policies and curriculum but still put a reasonable end time. So then PNC will be 6:00 to 7:30 facilities and ECC meeting is canceled as noted. The 21st is our next school board monthly meeting here in the high school library and by Zoom at 7:30. And then April 28th is our budget and finance committee meeting uh 7 o'clock in the middle school commons and by Zoom. Uh with that, I'd be looking for a motion to adjurnn. Second. All in favor? We're journ