[0:18] Good evening, everyone. We're going to go ahead and lock the meeting. So, Mr. Kelly, will you please go ahead and lock the meeting? We have several participants here with us tonight. This is our first attempt at a virtual award meeting. So please bear with us as we take time to sort through these items. We are going to start with a pledge. I'm going to actually, I'm going to have Mr. Kurcher start the meeting.

[0:45] and then we'll go from there.

[0:47] Yes, thank you.

[0:48] I would like to call to order

[0:51] the Combined Agenda Planning

[0:52] and General Purpose Meeting

[0:54] for the School District of the Barrel of Wreckwood

[0:57] for the date of April of 2020.

[1:02] And Mrs. Warriner, could I have a roll call please?

[1:07] Sure can.

[1:09] Mr. Warriner.

[1:09] here. Mr. Reiner. Here.

[1:17] Mr. Scott. Here. Mr. Ray. Here.

[1:25] Mr. Jolowski. Here in person.

[1:28] Mrs. Warner is here and Mr. Kirkcher. He is here. Not a director's person and no one is absent.

[1:36] Okay, Mrs. Warner, can you look at the screen and let me know if you see the American flag?

[1:42] Yes, I do.

[1:44] Fantastic.

[1:45] We're going to rise to the Pledge of Allegiance.

[1:48] I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands

[1:55] one nation under God in either as all with liberty and justice for all.

[2:07] Thank you Mrs. Warner the Secretary's report

[2:17] okay see if the work helps

[2:42] the office meeting, the minutes are in our board candidates.

[2:46] Jerry Kapilowski's second.

[2:49] There has been a motion by Mrs. Warner,

[2:52] and seconded by Mr. Kapilowski,

[2:54] or any questions on that motion.

[2:58] Then could I get a roll call, though, Mrs. Warner?

[3:02] Mr. Kapil, my hand.

[3:04] Yes.

[3:05] Mr. Warner.

[3:07] Yes.

[3:08] Mrs. Kradow.

[3:10] Yes.

[3:12] Mr. Kapil.

[3:13] Yes.

[3:13] Yes. Mr. Ray. Yes. This is Hayden. Yes. Mr. Topelowski. Yes.

[3:25] I'm sorry. Mr. Topelowski. Yes.

[3:29] This is Warner. Yes. Mr. Karcher. Yes.

[3:33] 9 yes. You are now emotional carries and that concludes my report for the signal.

[3:40] Thank you. At this time we could have recognition of public comments

[3:45] or items on the agenda. Anyone with anything to ask or comment on?

[3:50] So this is the first part of the meeting where we open it up to the public.

[3:55] So we will unmute the public at this point in time. If anybody has any agenda items that they would like to speak about,

[4:01] now is your opportunity. I will wait for a few seconds to incase there's someone that would like to speak.

[4:15] Hearing no, everyone can except for the board members here.

[4:20] and we're going to continue on with our meeting.

[4:25] Okay, the superintendent is recommending discussion and approval

[4:29] the following items of business.

[4:31] All right, I think we're good.

[4:32] We're going to start over.

[4:33] Mrs. Crider, go ahead and read that motion again.

[4:38] Sean, Christy Crider would like to discuss

[4:40] and make a motion to approve the statement of cash receipt,

[4:43] disbursement, and cash balances for the period

[4:46] and make March 31, 2020.

[4:49] Jerry Cavalassi's second.

[4:52] That motion was made by Mrs. Cryer and seconded by Mr. Topoloski or any questions.

[4:59] And Mrs. Warner, roll up.

[5:19] Mr. Scott.

[5:21] Yes.

[5:22] Mr. Ray.

[5:23] Yes.

[5:25] Mr. Skater.

[5:27] Yes.

[5:28] Mr. Topoloski.

[5:29] Yes.

[5:30] Oh.

[5:31] Yes.

[5:32] Oh.

[5:33] Yes.

[5:35] Oh.

[5:36] Yes.

[5:54] The motion was made by Mr. or Mrs. Criter and then seconded by Mrs. Hayden or any questions.

[6:05] Mrs. Warner, could I have a roll call vote?

[6:07] Yes. Mr. Lawyer. Yes. Mr. Reiner. Yes. Yes. Mr. Criter. Yes. Mr. Scott. Yes. Mr. Ray. Yes.

[6:23] Mrs. Hayden. Yes. Mr. Tobalowski. Yes. Mrs. Warner. Yes. Mr. Kircher. Yes.

[6:49] So at this point we don't need a second but give me a moment I am going to switch over

[6:54] to the budget presentation Mrs. Paseca is on the line and we are going to go over revenue

[7:02] where it stood before and what we think it's going to look like for next year.

[7:06] So please give me a moment to transition.

[7:55] This is to thank you. Can you now see the proposed revenue discussion slide?

[8:01] Yes, it's up.

[8:02] Okay, go ahead.

[8:04] Okay, good evening, everybody.

[8:06] The proposed budget for 2021 has been difficult to envision with term events over the past month.

[8:13] and all organizations have been putting light on the recession of 2008 as they

[8:20] went towards their revenue portion of their budget and the district is

[8:24] proceeding with extreme caution in the budgetary process as we look back in 2008.

[8:33] So let's take a walk through the timeline of historical real estate

[8:38] collections, and we're going to look at the time period from 2008, going forward.

[8:46] The recession of 2008 brought about a 7.6% decrease in collections, and then

[8:53] continued with all those milled rows until 2014. The district did not raise

[8:59] taxes during the recession and had their milled rate at 28.27 mills until 2013 when

[9:07] and they had to lower age knowledge rate

[9:09] with the county-wide assessments at that point in time.

[9:13] And because we did not raise taxes from 2008 to 2012,

[9:17] not enough money was generated to keep up

[9:19] with the increases in expenditures such as salaries,

[9:23] p-series, employer percentages, health insurance raises,

[9:28] and other benefit increases.

[9:32] Because of this time,

[9:34] and because of this no-millage tax rate increase

[9:36] and with the constraints of only the Act 1 index,

[9:40] the district is still trying to catch up

[9:41] with the last revenue and CE between 2008 and 2012.

[9:46] We then saw another round of assessments in 2015

[9:50] and the district's assessed values dropped during that time.

[9:55] For 2020, we are not certain of how to proceed

[9:59] and by the end of this presentation,

[10:00] we are going to ask for the board's guidance

[10:03] from where we should set our knowledge rate

[10:07] This is the same thing before you move on. Do any of the board members have any questions

[10:11] so far before we go to the next slide?

[10:16] Hearing none, go ahead, Mr. Sangha, and continue.

[10:19] Okay, now this slide compares the impact of the 2008 recession to how we are proposing

[10:24] to budget for our local tax revenue in 2020. You will note the one area that did not grow

[10:32] EIT collections and I'm not really certain when I go back to looking at that period of time since I was not here at that time as to why that happened.

[10:45] We are not recommending that we June that in the 2020 budget. As you already know, we have very high unemployment figures here in Pennsylvania.

[10:53] We are going to already start to see with our April and our May and our June collections

[10:59] in the current budget as employers are not reporting those taxes and turning them over

[11:06] to the local tax collector.

[11:07] So we're going to start to see that EIT come down as well.

[11:12] So for the current tax in 2008, we saw a 9% decrease showing on the right hand side that

[11:20] to be dropped our budget accordingly in 2020.

[11:24] EMS decreased by 2.7%, so we would like to take that

[11:28] from 9,000 down to 8,755.

[11:32] EIT, as I spoke about, it did see a growth during the recession.

[11:36] I'd like to bring ours down to a little above $1 million.

[11:41] Real estate transfer tax in the recession, so 45% decrease.

[11:45] I suggest we take ours from 120,000 down to 91,135.

[11:51] Delinquent real estate saw an 8% decrease.

[11:55] We are suggesting that it comes from 25,000 down to 575,000.

[12:00] Delinquent EIT also saw an increase of this time of 17%.

[12:06] Right now, our Delinquent EIT collections have been flat.

[12:09] and this is because of back in 2013 when employers had to were mandated to collect her income tax.

[12:18] We have actually seen our delinquent EIT decrease from that period of time

[12:24] and we are actually seeing more revenues or more refunds from that more than anything.

[12:30] So I suggest just keeping that in place.

[12:36] So next we'd like to move on to the state funding.

[12:39] nothing really has come out of Harrisburg yet so we are very uncertain as to

[12:43] the funding for next school here. We, Dr. Virgin, I have elected to budget our

[12:49] basic education and special education as Black funding, so what it was in 2019

[12:54] here may continue at the same for 2020. Transportation, we have not transported our

[13:01] students for about three months and therefore we will lose about 25% of our

[13:05] funding of transportation, transportation funding is based upon several factors

[13:10] such as our number of students, mouse driven, age of the vehicles, number of days

[13:14] transported, and the amounts getting to our contractors. Today, in the current

[13:19] school year, we have came more to our contractors than we had at this point in

[13:24] time last school year. And no guidance has allowed from

[13:28] CareSport yet as to will the poor ability and trustee to take into consideration

[13:33] and recently 120 days being a school year revenue is intact for the 2021 pool year as

[13:45] it has already been certified at that level. However, the slot revenue fund itself at

[13:50] the state level has a balance in it, really forward that balance and how it would be needed

[13:57] to use for other areas of that particular fund and we

[14:00] not be certain that we will get those fundings.

[14:05] Jennifer, how much is the slot revenue in terms of our budget?

[14:11] We get about 628,000.

[14:19] Other questions before we move on.

[14:23] And it's Richard, for our area. I had a question for the transportation. Are we paying

[14:30] companies even when they're out picking roads? Right now we are not paying our

[14:35] transportation companies. We've paid them up through March 13th.

[14:39] We've had a couple of phone calls and emails I've talked to them.

[14:45] Somehow layoff employees, I'll say the majority of layoff one company does not.

[14:52] Most school districts around us pretty much all of them have not paid past that point because

[14:57] in this, um...

[15:00] We need to rule on how many days will they count when I go into their subsidy? If they say that we have to keep the school year at 180 days, and I put in that we transferred 120, it would lower how much we get on that particular run. If they would come back and say no, the number of days for this school year would be 120, we would have met the full school year and we will see a reduction. So that is a big part that's still up in the air in terms

[15:30] in that calculation right now.

[15:32] So it's like just building a matter of what we were for as long as.

[15:38] What we were for as long as so wouldn't it be worth it to, you know,

[15:43] renegotiate with our contractors to pay them something or not benefit us at all

[15:49] or not pay them anything more at this point?

[15:52] And Mr. Breiner, this is Dr. Birchkin.

[15:54] You will see later on on the agenda that we are going to ask for the

[15:59] board to authorize us as being the administration to work with Mr. Vogel and the transportation

[16:05] companies to discuss whether or not it would be worth renegotiating those contracts.

[16:11] Excellent, thank you. Are you ready for me to move on, Mrs. DeSanca?

[16:16] I am.

[16:20] So as I stated, we are based in our revenue projections based on what happened in

[16:25] the recession in 2008. From here we will be getting the board an entire proposed budget, including

[16:30] expenditures for the on May 8 before their next meeting presentation will be

[16:36] given at the May 11 meeting including expenditures and you will have to vote

[16:41] on that time to make the proposed budget available for the public. Now it

[16:46] likes to move on to the military so a decision can be made on how we proceed

[16:51] with budget discussions here internally.

[16:57] So this slide shows our collections at

[16:59] at the very beginning for 1920 school year.

[17:03] And we have a collection rate of 94.69%.

[17:09] I went back and I took a look at our historical collection rates.

[17:14] And from just the prior three years,

[17:16] we have a collection rate of 91.56%.

[17:21] However, I did go back to look at what happened during the recession

[17:24] and it did drop two times after the recession

[17:28] for a drop twice, no time, so I'm 1.7%.

[17:34] So the first part of this is I am looking at the collection rate

[17:39] and I would suggest that we drop our collection rate

[17:42] to a collection rate of 89% for that 1.7%.

[17:47] I took out, so that you might understand,

[17:50] I took out the 1920 school year.

[17:52] It really did spike in our collection rate.

[17:55] so I took that out of my average and I looked at 2006 or 2008 then

[18:06] I liked to

[18:07] look at the two scenarios underneath that which is for the 2020-2021 school year.

[18:13] Our assessment valuation has gone up slightly. I did it one where there is no

[18:17] military increase at that 89% collection rate and it would generate a loss for

[18:26] the school district of $166,189.

[18:30] Excuse me, I think you meant $69?

[18:35] Yes.

[18:37] Then I took a look at raising our taxes to the index,

[18:41] which would be an increase of 1.1671 mills

[18:45] in order to offset that collection rate.

[18:48] And we will still see a loss to the school district

[18:50] of a little over $106,000.

[18:56] After Birch and I are recommending to increase

[18:58] to the index at this time, if you recall

[19:00] when the district did not raise taxes and during the period after the 2008 recession,

[19:05] it had continued to pay contractual expenses and the district is still trying to catch up

[19:10] from not raising taxes at that time. By the limits of act one, the district did not raise taxes

[19:16] to a certain amount each school year because the pandemic act one index is expected to decrease

[19:22] over the next several years. It may not occur next school year because for the school year after

[19:28] In 2021-22, because of some of the factors that go into Act 1,

[19:33] they may be certainly re-adjusted for the fall-in school year.

[19:37] This will mean that the tax increases will never allow us to make people

[19:40] who we have lost on our tax burden.

[19:44] The next slide shows how the military impact would affect the

[19:48] median household property value here in Brooklyn.

[19:50] The median property value is $83,900.

[19:53] at the index level, you would pay $98 more for next year.

[20:02] And for members of the board, you may recall that when we started talking about charting the course

[20:08] that we had renovations planned for the next several years.

[20:12] And part of that plan was to incrementally increase the property tax in order to assist in paying for our obligations.

[20:22] At this time, we'd like to hear some feedback from board members about where you stand and how you would like to hold us the same hand and myself to proceed.

[20:34] David Scott speaking, I would suggest that we do raise the revenue to the index for a couple of reasons.

[20:43] One, it was very clear in the last recession that we were not able to recruit the monies in fact further behind

[20:51] by not having a small incremental increase.

[20:56] This is another reason that we have to take into consideration at this time as we're looking to borrow money.

[21:02] And one of the big things that the bond issuers look at for the rating of our district

[21:10] is both the ability to pay by the revenues that are being presented that are being received

[21:18] and the responsibility of the borer in maintaining is close to a balanced budget as possible with the increase in peasors,

[21:31] with barely going to the index and keep up with the increase in peasors.

[21:37] And yet we still don't have increased expenses in payroll, in all our utilities and many other things,

[21:44] the discussion of renovations and that impact on our budget.

[21:50] So I think as a matter going forward in what we had talked about when we committed to

[21:55] doing the renovations over the next 70 years is that we had to at least maintain

[22:01] to the index level so that we could meet as solvent as possible and give

[22:10] ourselves as much flexibility going forward.

[22:16] Bob Kircher, I agree with Mr. Scott, Paul Hartley.

[22:21] If this is Roger Nguyen, I agree as well.

[22:24] I don't like seeing our village separate as it's not

[22:26] that pretty high.

[22:28] And again, because I've just been here responsible

[22:30] on not taking it up and kind of cover ourselves

[22:33] or losing money from every angle we can.

[22:39] Jerry Topolowski, when I do the math and see that,

[22:44] thank you again for Jennifer for the slides,

[22:45] but the workshop to me is less than $10 a month of an increase on the average household

[22:53] for the 1.137 so that is a very doable figure for the average citizen. I know it's an increase

[23:02] but still it's less than $100 for the year.

[23:19] The modest increase and if we are honest with ourselves I think that a lot of people are going to

[23:26] be in dire straits when they go to pay some other taxes. So the percentage of actual

[23:33] collections I think would go down, because I think we have to do this to even try to

[23:38] stay human.

[23:43] This is our water.

[23:46] I hate to say this because I'm usually not in support of this, but I

[23:53] I think at this point,

[23:56] I would probably have to agree

[23:58] that this probably is the right thing to do.

[24:01] Although, I don't know where this meeting

[24:03] proper value thing here is coming from,

[24:06] and I would disagree with that.

[24:07] I think it's a little bit higher than what it's listed here,

[24:12] at least in recent times.

[24:15] I think it's a little closer to $90.

[24:20] But I don't think all the numbers are in debt for the year.

[24:23] So, I would also re-lock that way up the road.

[24:33] It's Richard Breiner, Jennifer.

[24:35] Where does that media property value value come from?

[24:39] I think that's from the county.

[24:41] What day is that from?

[24:46] Honestly, I can't think because it doesn't have a date next to that.

[24:49] The only date they have on this site when I'm out there

[24:52] is for the assessment values?

[24:57] Because the median sale has property in this borough has increased a lot in the past year

[25:07] or two.

[25:08] So I agree with that well right now.

[25:13] I don't know, but I don't know.

[25:16] So I'm just trying to move on to the computer and the power.

[25:21] So that is the number that's been published by County and County.

[25:26] And how they get that number, I'm not sure about, you know,

[25:30] what took into their calculations.

[25:32] But the number that they have there is just enough as the meeting can be

[25:36] 80,000 by 100 as well.

[25:38] Well, I'm not disputing that. I'm just saying I don't know what those numbers are, what

[25:44] time frame those numbers are going to be. And this is where we will continue to go back

[25:51] out to the site and update those figures as often as possible.

[25:58] I can tell you that has increased from the last school year when I did this presentation.

[26:06] And there wasn't a lot, but they have increased it.

[26:23] I think we need to make a move, I don't like to do it in time like this, but I think it's the right thing to do and I also agree with Mr. Reiner that I think the collection rates are probably going to be down a little bit more than what we anticipate here.

[26:41] I mean everybody's already set it under agreement. It's a tough time, but we need to have the long plan in line for a very nice time.

[26:57] Is there a different collection range of the board wishes that I budget under?

[27:03] I think a 5% drop as you budget it over 5% but I guess it's a little over 5% from last year is pretty significant.

[27:14] I think that is probably pretty accurate at this point.

[27:19] And being totally transparent, forgive me if Jennifer said this and I didn't hear it.

[27:24] again we are budgeting our revenue for the upcoming year we know that the

[27:30] Allegheny Hospital did open up we did not include those figures into the

[27:37] revenue so that is one area that we could potentially see an increase there

[27:42] we just don't know how much yet and for the reason we elected not to put that in

[27:48] there is we expect that there will be people who are having a hard time go out

[27:53] maybe appeal their property assessment.

[28:00] Mr. Norwood, do you come on the idea of what

[28:03] when that property valuation will be completed?

[28:10] Well, I mean, for the hospital, that's really

[28:13] more of a little bit of the borrow

[28:16] that you can do to the building permit,

[28:17] pay what you should y'all get this requirement.

[28:20] And it hits in there, of course, you do that.

[28:25] And when that is, I think, I don't know.

[28:28] So I think sometimes it had to be broad, it was like the longer.

[28:33] They really, they might only be the one who closed it for business.

[28:39] It should be a short date on the number for business now.

[28:43] Yes, it is.

[28:44] It opened three weeks early, actually.

[28:48] A week ago.

[28:51] No, I think more like three.

[28:53] Really?

[28:54] Yes.

[28:57] Well, I mean, I don't contact, I think it's a lot less of any, you know, what we'll think

[29:04] with all the boxes is that we need to figure out whether everything is going to work

[29:08] as downtown and I think we'll get to see if there's going to be any investors out there

[29:13] to put a value on.

[29:15] What do they do that they go to a restaurant actively to, you know, three weeks ago or, you know,

[29:21] they're going to do a restaurant where I can see where we're beginning of the table.

[29:23] and we do the beginning of April, so we'll be back to the end for a moment there.

[29:30] I will say a bit about the next two things, a lot of these ones.

[29:36] From the assessment, the only major commercial property that has

[29:43] was a deal was the beginning product.

[29:48] Because closed, I think it did the sales, so there's a deal back.

[29:52] But that's the only one out of the major commercial properties

[29:55] However, there's always talking and stuff

[30:00] We're going to have to have, you know, be filled in line.

[30:14] It's not in line to do that yet, but they answer to the county executive and people as what time they remember just where someone is going to take a lot of probably a deal.

[30:26] of the 1990s. So, you'll see how that goes. Also, I would say much towards your collection.

[30:35] At this point are, in this virtual chain, one thing gets a little back normal.

[30:41] They are there and they have spotted their frags potentially.

[30:44] People who've made agreement are still making payment.

[30:47] People who want to pay for your payment are working over.

[30:51] We're doing taking that and you're not doing that.

[30:52] The difficult thing is that at this point, the courts are closed, you tend to have someone

[30:59] to pay for themselves to put a deal too long.

[31:03] That's what the next act is going to happen.

[31:08] And if someone puts a deal with the pay, that's things like that.

[31:12] We literally can't get in court now because they're all right.

[31:15] We're going to execute all we're going to do to do these things.

[31:17] We don't have an hammer anymore.

[31:19] And you can put a short term in by printing the course of open, I say to anybody in this

[31:26] lecture would have a very simple thing.

[31:29] You know, we have a very simple thing here for the judge here.

[31:32] So I'm just giving that again.

[31:34] It's more decisional about the military, but I'm just saying on certain factors that I didn't

[31:38] wear off all the vacancies in exactly the section.

[31:41] This is what I did the other way.

[31:48] Any other questions or comments before we wrap up this section?

[31:54] Okay,

[31:57] I did tally as the board members spoke and I believe that Mr. DeSanca and I have been authorized to go ahead with the increase to the index.

[32:07] We will continue with the budget preparation process and the board will have the updated budget fully intact by May 8th for presentation on the 11th.

[32:17] I am going to stop sharing this screen so again bear with me for just a moment while I switch back to the agenda.

[32:22] Sorry.

[32:52] Having a little bit of trouble here.

[32:53] Hold on one more moment.

[33:08] I do believe that it is back up now.

[33:11] Mrs. Ryder, if you want to pick up with item number four under budget and finance.

[33:16] Sure.

[33:17] My last final for this evening are going to acknowledge receipt of the bank letter.

[33:21] That will include budget finance.

[33:24] Thank you, Mrs. Ryder.

[33:26] We'll move to policy and planning.

[33:27] Mrs. Hayden, any action tonight?

[33:30] This is David Hayden. No, there's no report to see.

[33:34] Okay. Community service. Mrs. Murrer.

[33:38] Now report to see him.

[33:40] Public relations, Mr. Scott.

[33:43] This is David Scott. No report on public relations tonight.

[33:47] Thank you.

[33:48] Billings and grounds, Mr. Gohman.

[33:52] There will be two items today.

[33:54] Roger Gohman makes there's like a discussion.

[33:56] Make a motion to authorize the school of STEM printers.

[33:58] As for the request of Mr. Jeff George is listed below, the senator is no longer operating if we are unable to take part in straight care of them.

[34:06] Are these permits already in design yet?

[34:09] A U.S. Hunter and an AP design jet fire partner.

[34:13] Jerry Tapulowski, second.

[34:15] A motion by Mr. Gahan that was then seconded by Mr. Tapulowski, any questions?

[34:21] Mrs. Mariner, could I have a roll call?

[34:24] Mr. Gahan.

[34:25] Yes.

[34:27] Mr. Breiner.

[34:32] Mr.

[34:35] Rae.

[34:36] Yes.

[34:37] Mrs. Hayden?

[34:39] Yes.

[34:40] Mr. Kevlesky?

[34:41] Yes.

[34:42] Mrs. Warner, yes, Mr. Courager?

[34:44] Yes.

[34:46] Mr. Renow, motion carries.

[34:48] Our next item, Mr. Rine, let me discuss in legal motion, approve an interim between the

[34:53] to be in response program through the K-Lite Company as presented in our packets.

[34:58] Terry, top velocity second.

[35:00] Motion by Mr. Gahan, that was second by Mr. Papalosky.

[35:03] Are there any questions or comments on that motion?

[35:06] Yes, I'd just like to provide some information about this program.

[35:09] We currently are enrolled in an NRG program where over the several times

[35:14] we are able to shut down operations early.

[35:18] And then we read the benefits of that through a monetary kick-back.

[35:21] This Ducane Light Program is in addition to that NRG program.

[35:28] Again, they're asking us to hold four outages over the summertime,

[35:32] which could bring back about $4,500.

[35:35] However, if it's just not possible to have the four outages over the summertime,

[35:39] there are no negative consequences or ramifications to the district.

[35:43] So this is a win-win, it's voluntary.

[35:46] We can stop at any time.

[35:51] Thank you.

[35:52] any other questions? And Mrs. Warner, kind of a roll call, please.

[36:02] Mrs. Warner,

[36:06] you're

[36:06] muted. So, Maria, I saw that. I didn't think I was. Mr. Gohan. Yes. Mr. Reiner. Yes.

[36:14] Mrs. Crainer. Yes. Mr. Stubb. Yes. Mr. Reiner. Yes. Mrs. Hayden.

[36:25] Yes.

[36:28] Mr. Gohan. Yes.

[36:30] Yes.

[36:31] Mrs. Warner, yes.

[36:32] Mr. Croucher.

[36:33] Yes.

[36:35] No, I guess.

[36:36] Zero, no.

[36:36] I'm wishing you guys.

[36:38] I never conclude voting in grounds.

[36:41] Thank you, Mr. Graham.

[36:42] Frickman, technology, Mr. Scott.

[36:45] Yes.

[36:46] Actually, I had a question on billings in grounds.

[36:48] Sure.

[36:48] I mean, gone if I could.

[36:50] Is there a status on the current projects going on at the middle high school and at more?

[36:57] Yes, so the district reached out to each of the construction companies that we are currently

[37:04] working with and authorized them to continue working as long as they could abide by Governor

[37:10] Wolf's social distancing policies. We did receive one response back from the roofing company

[37:16] saying that they were unable to meet those requirements. Therefore, they will not proceed until

[37:22] we restrictions have been lifted. We are in talks with the other companies that

[37:27] would be Yardboro and independent enterprises for the drainage project in

[37:34] the back by the gym and the fire slash phone system completion here in front

[37:40] of the admin building. As of right now though again we're hearing that they're

[37:45] either working on hospital projects or that they just don't have enough

[37:48] orders to come back. So we are in constant communication, but we have no end date at this

[37:53] time given the pandemic. Okay, thank you. Under curriculum and technology, I don't have

[38:01] any items, but I think it would be a good time to get an update for the board on where we are

[38:07] with the distance learning with our district, Dr. Birch. Absolutely. So we are actually entering

[38:13] our six-week of the closure believe it or not and this board is not meant

[38:17] since March 23rd. I just wanted to give a very brief update by week so we

[38:22] know week one which was March 16th or March 20th. We focused on making sure

[38:27] that our families were going to be fed. We also offered some enrichment and

[38:31] review opportunities. Week two was March 23rd through March 27th. This is when the

[38:36] administration began to meet with the BEA and the ESBA to outline our

[38:41] transition to remote learning. The technology department focused on prepping

[38:45] devices. The enrichment and review opportunities continued. We set a survey on

[38:50] the families to find out how many devices we were going to have to share. We

[38:55] took this into March 30th through April 3rd. Teachers began to prep for remote

[38:59] instruction grade level meetings for being held and devices were distributed to

[39:04] students. Week 4 of the closure was April 6th to the 9th. This was the first week

[39:10] of remote instruction with new learning objectives

[39:12] as outlined in our continuity of education plan.

[39:16] Week five was the closure of the closure was April 13th

[39:20] through the 17th.

[39:22] This was our second week of remote instruction.

[39:24] We continue to distribute devices right now.

[39:27] We are over 200 devices that have been distributed

[39:30] to our families.

[39:32] This, the formula that we used for this was one device

[39:36] for every four students and a family.

[39:38] since then we've had some families reach out and ask us for additional assistance

[39:42] and we are currently addressing those on a daily basis. A senior survey was

[39:48] distributed together information about prom and commencement. That survey is

[39:53] due that's on Friday, April 24th. Last week I also submitted an equity grant

[39:58] outlining the district's plan for remote and learning. The maximum amount that we

[40:03] were allowed to apply for was $61,750.

[40:07] This was a formula that was built into the grant.

[40:10] I can officially give you word on Wednesday

[40:12] about the status of that grant, so hold on.

[40:16] Week six of the closure, if we are in right now,

[40:19] we're starting today.

[40:20] There are still a handful of families that are still

[40:22] with, we're still unable to reach.

[40:24] I will tell you that teachers started.

[40:27] Administrators are following up.

[40:29] It is literally all hands on deck.

[40:30] I want to give a shout out to our Secretary-O Department as well because they are reaching out to families.

[40:36] Our technology department has been phenomenal in getting devices to students, administrators, and teachers again,

[40:43] phenomenal job of communicating with each other.

[40:46] Our paraprofessional school nurse, school counselors are all playing an active role right now.

[40:52] And last but not least, I really need to recognize our custodians and maintenance crew who have been here every day to support us

[40:59] and make sure that we have a clean work environment to come back to.

[41:04] Lastly, I want to recognize Dr. Winorsky.

[41:06] She is continuing to hold all necessary IPPs,

[41:10] GIEPs, 504 meetings with parents, staff and families.

[41:15] She's also assisting our ESL teachers

[41:18] to reach out to our English language learners.

[41:20] We have recognized that this is definitely proven to be a challenge

[41:24] and something we are going to have to do a better job at.

[41:27] Lastly, we are providing daily updates on the district website under the COVID-19 news section.

[41:34] So I would just like to remind the public as well that it's not always the most earth-shaking news,

[41:39] but sometimes we have some important details that we need to get out.

[41:42] We try to couple that with phone messages.

[41:44] So that is a brief outline of what we've been doing over the last six weeks.

[41:49] This is David Scott again. Thank you Dr. Birch. One thing I had read nationally for some

[41:56] of the districts that have up to 25% where they've not even been able to link connections

[42:02] with the family. So I commend your administration and the secretary's efforts, even in touch

[42:09] to being able to make that work. We didn't have a backlog of computers. In fact, that was

[42:17] something I was concerned about and it turned out the district basically

[42:21] disassembled all the carts that we have they go from move to room and reconfigured

[42:26] them to make them available for use at home so it was a big product and we're

[42:33] doing a very short amount of time so I thank you for that work that would

[42:37] conclude critically on the technology. Thank you. Thank you Mr. Scott. Mr. Gahan

[42:43] and renovation and construction.

[42:46] Yes, three items, first, and Mr. Goddard discussed

[42:49] and make a motion to approve.

[42:51] Prozen from bond floor to replace the floor

[42:54] in the nurses office at Elroy, Elif Freeford,

[42:56] total cost of $2,500,000.

[43:00] Dairy tapalowski's second.

[43:02] Motion was made by Mr. Goddard,

[43:03] and then it was secondly by Mr. Tapalowski.

[43:06] Any questions on the motion?

[43:09] We'll call Mrs. Warrant.

[43:15] Mrs. Warrant.

[43:15] I keep forgetting to take that button. Mr. Wahem. Yes. Mr. Reyer. Yes. Mr. Square. Yes. Mr.

[43:28] Scott. Yes. Mr. Ray. Yes. Mrs. Hittingon. Yes. Mr. Tom Blosky. Yes.

[43:39] Mr. Carey. And Mr.

[43:42] Yes.

[43:44] Now, yes, you are not a much of a carries.

[43:47] Mr. Tom Lasky, can you speak up a little more?

[43:50] I can barely hear you.

[43:52] We'll drive.

[43:54] Second item.

[43:55] Dr. Gawain, discuss a big motion to ratify the additional geotechnical testing necessary

[44:01] by PSI at the Little Weiss School at a cost of $1,50.

[44:05] Jerry Tom Lasky, second.

[44:07] Now, motion was made by Mr. Gawain.

[44:09] And then in a second, I must recall a lot of any questions.

[44:12] I would just like to point out that this was an additional test that PSI needed to do.

[44:17] In March, the board did approve a motion in a different amount, but after they began,

[44:22] they realized they needed to do this test as well.

[44:25] I do have the final report that I will get you to renovation and construction committee meeting

[44:30] tomorrow morning for your review, and then we can discuss moving forward with that.

[44:37] Any other questions?

[44:38] comments Mrs. Warner, roll call.

[44:43] Mr. Ryan.

[44:45] Yes.

[44:45] Mr. Ryder.

[44:47] Yes.

[44:47] Mr. Scott.

[44:52] Yes.

[44:53] Mr. Ray.

[44:54] Yes.

[44:55] Mrs. Hagen.

[44:57] Yes.

[44:58] Mr. Ray.

[45:00] Yes.

[45:02] Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. And final item. I discuss and would like to wish to authorize the district, just to make it King Light program to replace all district 32, arrest, all 12, what? There is no cost for the ball. The average savings per ball is $4 per year per ball at 2,000 hours and 10 sets of bill.

[45:29] Well, Jerry Katmolowski second motion by mr. Gahan that was seconded by

[45:35] mr. Popolowski any questions I would just like to point out that this is a

[45:39] different program than the one that the board just approved a few minutes ago

[45:44] this will enable us to change out all of the Bob's district wide our own crew will

[45:50] handle the replacement again it was a voluntary process but the district will see

[45:55] a return on our investment very quickly.

[46:01] Thank you. Any other questions?

[46:04] And Mrs. Werner, could I have a roll call, please?

[46:06] Mr. Bowman.

[46:08] Yes.

[46:09] Mr. Breiner.

[46:10] Yes.

[46:11] Mrs. Carter.

[46:13] Yes.

[46:15] Mr. Scott.

[46:17] Yes.

[46:17] Mr. Gray.

[46:19] Yes.

[46:20] Mrs. Hayden.

[46:21] Yes.

[46:22] Mr. Werner, yes, Mr. Coacher.

[46:25] Yes.

[46:25] Yes Mr. Topel-Hasky yes too.

[46:28] Mr. Topel-Hasky, say I have to bother you but I can't do it.

[46:32] Now I'm just hearing your motion carries.

[46:37] In that we conclude the Registration Construction.

[46:41] Thank you Mr. Diane.

[46:42] How safe the Transportation Mr. Breiner.

[46:45] At the risk of saying anything and breaking our sterile partner in relative with help

[46:53] in the program.

[46:55] No report.

[46:56] Thank you sir.

[46:57] our special and private schools, Mr. Scott?

[47:02] No items for action tonight.

[47:05] There was no equal meeting

[47:07] without the Steel Center and Bob Bell boards

[47:11] because of the difficulty in setting that up

[47:14] in short notice.

[47:16] There was an executive session held

[47:18] and there will be a meeting in May.

[47:22] The budgets are being prepared

[47:24] that we will hopefully improve next month.

[47:29] The Steel Center is also in its continuity and education programs.

[47:35] So they are right now distance learning for all the career tech,

[47:41] which clearly is something that's more difficult in a lot of ways

[47:45] than regular education because of the typical hands-on learning

[47:49] that happens in our facility.

[47:51] So, it's been a challenge for them but they are in their fourth week and it seems to be going well.

[48:00] One of the unfortunate results from the pandemic is that at this point, it looks like we're going to post-owned implementation of the programs.

[48:11] We're all going to begin in September just because of the difficulty and uncertainty both with budgets

[48:20] throughout the region and also the

[48:24] ability of staff to be able to get places ready and do all the work necessary before or that happens. So

[48:33] That's an unfortunate result. We have right now, but the plan is at this point you continue to go ahead with that in

[48:47] So that we can look forward at that point, that we conclude my report.

[48:52] Thank you, Mr. Scott. Athletics, Mr. Gaughan.

[48:55] On no report from our place.

[48:57] Thank you, sir.

[48:58] Personnel, Mr. Topoloski.

[49:00] Fellow board members, please advise me if you can't hear me.

[49:03] I'm going to make the folks in this room death, however.

[49:06] First item is, I'm going to discuss Carrie Topoloski.

[49:08] We discuss and make a motion authorizing the superintendent to accept student teachers,

[49:13] student observers, and nursing student receptors, receptorships in the Brentwood Barrow School

[49:19] District during the 2021 school year from neighboring colleges and universities.

[49:24] I'll be the second.

[49:27] I'll be the second.

[49:29] That motion was made by Mr. Topolowski.

[49:31] That's seconded by Mr. Breiner.

[49:33] Any questions?

[49:35] A roll call.

[49:36] Mrs. Warner.

[49:39] Yes.

[49:39] Yes. Mr. Warren. Yes. Mr. Carter. Yes. Mr. Scott. Yes. Mr. Warren. Yes. Mr. Hayden. Yes.

[49:53] Mr. Tom Lasky. Yes. Mr. Carter. Yes. Mr. Warren. Yes. Mr. Carter. Yes.

[50:00] Warren. Yes. Your turn on motion carries. Your top Alaska. I have a motion to accept with regret

[50:05] at the resignation of Mrs. Jennifer Woods

[50:07] for the purpose of retirement.

[50:09] Effective June 19, 2020,

[50:11] and authorize the superintendent

[50:12] to pose that position.

[50:14] I'll leave a second.

[50:17] Director for other seconds.

[50:21] That motion was made by Mr. Toplowski Second

[50:23] by Mr. Breiner.

[50:25] Any questions on that motion?

[50:27] I would just like to say that Mrs. Woods

[50:29] has been with us for 14 years.

[50:31] We're very sad to see her go,

[50:33] but as she expressed to us,

[50:35] she's thoroughly enjoyed her time here.

[50:37] It feels like it's her time to go out and accept new challenges, so we do wish her all the best and her future endeavors.

[50:46] I had her comments, questions.

[50:50] Roll call, Mr. Werner.

[50:53] Mr. Warnier.

[50:54] Yes.

[50:55] Mr. Warnier.

[50:57] Yes.

[50:58] Mrs. Warnier.

[51:00] Yes.

[51:01] Mr. Scott.

[51:03] Yes.

[51:04] Mr. Warnier.

[51:05] Yes.

[51:06] Mrs. Hayden.

[51:21] I would like to discuss and make a motion to approve hiring Mrs. Don Ziegler as the fifth grade level leader for the remainder of the 2019-2020 school year.

[51:31] I'll leave a second.

[51:32] Sorry in second. Emotion was made by Mr. Pavlovsky that was then seconded by Mr. God any questions on that motion

[51:41] I would just like to clarify this should have been taken care of in March

[51:44] That was my air and not putting it on the agenda

[51:47] So this will date back to that time period

[51:50] It might seem a little palma productive considering that the school year is quote-unquote ended however

[51:55] We are still in discussions about how we're wanting to handle all extracurricular activities in stipend so we are going to move forward with

[52:02] this approval and then we'll continue to engage in those discussions.

[52:07] Thank you. Any other questions?

[52:09] A little call, Mr. Warner.

[52:12] Mr. Bonyer.

[52:13] Yes.

[52:15] Mr. Bonyer.

[52:16] Yes.

[52:17] Yes.

[52:18] Mr. Bonyer.

[52:19] Yes.

[52:20] Mr. Scott.

[52:22] Yes.

[52:23] Mr. Ray.

[52:24] Yes.

[52:25] Mrs. Hayden.

[52:27] Yes.

[52:28] Mr. Troublesky.

[52:29] Yes.

[52:30] Yes.

[52:31] Yes.

[52:32] Mr. Courtshire.

[52:33] Yes.

[52:34] No, yes.

[52:35] There are not much carries.

[52:36] Jerry Tapalasi.

[52:37] That concludes personnel for tonight.

[52:40] Thank you, Mr. Tapalasi.

[52:41] Under negotiations, sir.

[52:43] Thank you, sir.

[52:44] I will have items on executive session following the meeting, but nothing for the public right now.

[52:49] I thank you.

[52:50] Legislative, Mr. Scott.

[52:52] No items for action tonight.

[52:54] A couple of things go for informational purposes.

[52:57] One thing I do hope you've contacted our legislators on four of the House

[53:06] representatives is a school tax freeze that's been proposed and it's all along

[53:13] the party lines and it's important that clearly as you can see from our

[53:18] budget preparations the inability to raise taxes will put us further and

[53:24] further behind and the instability of the state contribution and the fact that it is

[53:34] risen at a very small amount and barely back to levels pre-corded. We have to make

[53:43] sure that we get ourselves a flexibility. We are the community leaders and we're likely

[53:47] to make these decisions and the state legislature should not take that away from us.

[53:53] So if you have not already contacted your legislators, I ask that you do.

[53:58] I have done so of gotten a acknowledgement that it was received, no response from legislators

[54:05] themselves. But I know that both of our Senate representative and our House representative

[54:12] are both very much in support of public education and we not vote for the amendment.

[54:23] One thing going on that will affect us, the legislation as I understand that it was passed allows for discounted real estate payments until 12-30 of this year, only that ends several months earlier.

[54:37] I think that is something that might well affect our cash flow going forward, which makes it more and more tenuous for us.

[54:48] other concerns are distance career vocational trainings like said with

[54:55] their special and private schools the it's a difficult thing to do vocational

[55:01] and to career train when you don't have hands-on experience the other big

[55:08] challenge both for our district and all the districts in the Commonwealth are

[55:12] distance education for special needs we are the centers aren't open the placements

[55:18] have for people with exceptional, for our children with exceptional needs, are not available for that at this point, so it is a real challenge for us going forward.

[55:30] I know that the administration has been very careful in tracking costs related to the closure and making sure that we have track of what's going on, that there's possibility.

[55:42] There are some funds that have been appropriated, but the Secretary of Education has said that the states will have wide latitude and what they will use for funding for.

[55:54] But it hasn't been said exactly how that will happen in the state.

[56:00] Both the state government and the school district are having a great number of additional expenses that were not calculated in our budget.

[56:11] based on a pandemic occurring during the school year.

[56:16] So it's something we're gonna have to be very careful about.

[56:19] Now, they seem to be meeting about one day a week,

[56:22] which is actually pretty good for our legislature.

[56:26] But both federally and in the state

[56:30] is difficult doing things at a distance

[56:34] when it's never been done before.

[56:37] So just as we're doing a Zoom,

[56:39] our first Zoom official meeting there are there both at the federal level and the state level

[56:45] they're trying to figure out those things as well which means it takes a lot longer for everything to

[56:50] happen. So we're hopeful that there will be some legislation and funding coming from the state

[56:58] that will allow us to recoup some of the cost, the extraordinary cost we've had by moving to

[57:06] distance learning, and it would cost that they're still to come.

[57:12] I think from my point of view, one of the most important things coming forward is making

[57:19] sure that our students do not fall behind, especially at the lower elementary level.

[57:24] It's so important that students have been into a strong reading, the ability before they

[57:33] move on, and if they aren't by third grade, then there's a point that they're not lost,

[57:41] but they are so far behind for the rest of their school group.

[57:44] Then I think they're going to have to be in issues that are both in our district and

[57:49] others that address that in some ways and how that happens.

[57:53] We aren't sure, but we have to be open to do that and do whatever it takes to make sure

[58:00] that our students will fall behind, hopefully that will be supported by funding through the state

[58:07] to federal government, but that's yet to be seen.

[58:11] That would be through my report on your seeing legislative.

[58:17] Thank you, Mr. Scott.

[58:18] So, this is John.

[58:24] On the legislation that just passed, they now both have been paying.

[58:29] There's a little bit of a dispute of whether the extension for timeline of the paper tax was applied to school members.

[58:40] The alleged play you talked about, they said we'll attack the district and do that, and they let down the soldiers for some of that decadention.

[58:48] First, I'm making some of the plays that they still like the soldiers, but I don't know if they come clear in the next couple of days, but overall, the alleged play that they protect payments deadline for 20-20.

[59:02] They're not here to appeal to us.

[59:03] They're not here to apply the soldiers.

[59:07] Thank you for that clarification.

[59:10] Thank you.

[59:11] Any other questions?

[59:15] Then we will move to executive.

[59:17] And Mr. Cartier would like to discuss and ask for a motion to adopt the Allegheny Intermediate

[59:23] Units policies and procedures under the federal requirements of number 34 CFR 300 as part of the

[59:41] And sorry, I have a motion by Mr. Breiner to ask any questions.

[59:51] Roll call, Mrs. Horner.

[59:55] Mr. Breiner.

[59:56] Yes.

[59:57] Mr. Breiner.

[59:58] Yes.

[1:00:00] Mr. Carter. Mr. Scott. Yes. Mr. Ray. Yes. Mr. Hayden. Yes. Mr. Tullosky. Yes. Mr. Cotron. Yes.

[1:00:19] The second item I have tonight is to discuss and make a motion to approve the IDEA Part B use of funds agreement for the 2020-2021 school year.

[1:00:31] Could you stand by?

[1:00:32] Go ahead.

[1:00:33] So moved.

[1:00:34] Daryl Richard-Dryer, so-

[1:00:36] Daryl Tapulowski's second.

[1:00:37] Emotion by Mr. Bryner, who was spend seconded by Mr. Tapul

[1:00:41] Lascai in questions.

[1:00:43] Rule, please.

[1:00:45] Mr. Gorn�?

[1:00:46] Yes.

[1:00:47] Mr. Bryner.

[1:00:49] Yes.

[1:00:50] This is Crayon Anne.

[1:00:51] Yeah.

[1:00:52] Mr. Stop?

[1:00:54] Yes.

[1:00:55] Mr. Ray.

[1:00:58] Yes.

[1:01:00] Mrs. Hayden?

[1:01:02] Yes.

[1:01:02] Mr. Dopoulos. Yes.

[1:01:06] Yes. Yes.

[1:01:10] Yes. Yes.

[1:01:16] The third item I have tonight is I would

[1:01:19] like to discuss and make a motion to ratify a memorandum of understanding between the B-E-S-P-A

[1:01:27] and a district concerning the COVID-19 pandemic.

[1:01:33] Brought away a solution.

[1:01:35] Jerry Tapalowski, second.

[1:01:37] That motion was made by Mr. Breiner.

[1:01:39] Then it was seconded by Mr. Toppilowski.

[1:01:41] Any questions on that motion?

[1:01:45] A roll call, this is Warner.

[1:01:47] Mr. Klaunin.

[1:01:49] Yes.

[1:01:50] Mr. Reiner.

[1:01:51] Yes.

[1:01:52] Mr. Klaunin.

[1:01:54] Yes.

[1:01:55] Mr. Scott.

[1:01:57] Yes.

[1:01:58] Mr. Ray.

[1:01:59] Yes.

[1:02:00] Mrs. Payton.

[1:02:01] Yes.

[1:02:03] Mr. Todd Lawsby.

[1:02:04] Yes.

[1:02:06] Ms. Warner, yes.

[1:02:07] Mr. Courtshire.

[1:02:08] Yes.

[1:02:10] And yes, your now motion carries.

[1:02:12] The fourth item I have tonight is to discuss and make a motion authorizing B. Law, Attorney,

[1:02:20] and Coon to perform the financial audit for the year ending June 30, 2020.

[1:02:26] fees are not to exceed $18,200, which last year the fees were $17,500.

[1:02:37] Prior to execution.

[1:02:39] Jerry Topolowski, second.

[1:02:41] Motion by Mr. Breiner.

[1:02:43] That was then seconded by Mr. Topolowski.

[1:02:45] Any questions on that motion?

[1:02:48] Roll call please.

[1:02:50] Mr. Bonnion.

[1:02:51] Yes.

[1:02:52] Mr. Breiner.

[1:02:53] Yes.

[1:02:54] Mr. Carter.

[1:02:55] Yes.

[1:02:57] Mr. Scott.

[1:02:58] Yes.

[1:02:59] Yes. Mr. Ray. Yes. Mrs. Hayden. Yes. Ms. Warner. Yes. Mr. Carter. Yes. Mr. Toppillanski. Yes.

[1:03:10] As well. Sorry.

[1:03:14] I'm not sure. I don't number five that I have tonight is to discuss

[1:03:20] and make a motion to enter into an agreement with the waste management as presented pending

[1:03:26] the solicitor's final review.

[1:03:29] Richard Brenner makes a motion.

[1:03:35] I have a motion by Mr. Topelowski.

[1:03:38] That was that seconded by Mr. Topelowski.

[1:03:41] Are there any questions on that motion?

[1:03:44] I would just like to point out that this is a new contract for us.

[1:03:47] We were using Fayette Waste.

[1:03:49] Mr. George did seek proposals from various vendors.

[1:03:53] He came back with a recommendation through Waste Management.

[1:03:57] Mr. Vogel has had an opportunity

[1:03:58] needed to look at the contract. We did reach back out to Waste Management asking them if

[1:04:03] they would be willing to create a less frequent schedule for May and June since the schools

[1:04:09] are closed and the demand will not be as high for the original beginning of the contract.

[1:04:14] Waste Management has agreed to honor our request.

[1:04:19] Thank you. Any other questions on that motion?

[1:04:25] in terms of the construction activities that will be going on throughout the summer.

[1:04:31] Are the contractors responsible for removal always or will this be duplicate?

[1:04:37] Yes, in those contracts that go out with the various vendors for construction projects

[1:04:43] or renovation projects, we do build in there that they are responsible for removal.

[1:04:48] Thank you. Any other questions? This is Warner, another roll call, please. Mr.

[1:04:55] Marnian. Yes. Mr. Marnian. Yes. Mr. Skarton. Yes. Mr. Scott. Yes. Mr.

[1:05:05] Mareg. Yes. Mrs. Hayden. Yes. Mr. Charles Lesby. Yes. Mr. Marnian. Yes. Mr.

[1:05:19] and the final item that I have tonight is to discuss and make a motion to

[1:05:24] authorize the administration to adjust transportation contracts for federal

[1:05:30] and state legislation for

[1:05:36] our next motion. Jerry Topolowski second motion by

[1:05:40] Mr. Bryant or seconded by Mr. Topolowski questions comments. This is the motion

[1:05:45] that I referred to earlier you heard through our discussion tonight that there

[1:05:49] There may be an opportunity to renegotiate contracts with our busing companies.

[1:05:56] We do have several companies that we work with even though we are a walking district.

[1:06:00] And those are students that are bus to public or private schools outside of the district based

[1:06:06] on need.

[1:06:09] Thank you.

[1:06:09] I have a question.

[1:06:11] Mrs. Martiner.

[1:06:13] Roll call please.

[1:06:14] Mr. Martiner.

[1:06:16] Yes.

[1:06:16] Mr. Breyer.

[1:06:18] Yes.

[1:06:19] Mr. Breyer.

[1:06:22] Mr. Scarlett?

[1:06:24] Yes.

[1:06:25] Mr. Ray?

[1:06:26] Yes.

[1:06:27] Mrs. Aydin?

[1:06:29] Yes.

[1:06:30] Mr. John Lasky?

[1:06:31] Yes.

[1:06:35] Mrs. Warner, yes.

[1:06:36] Mr. Kerchard?

[1:06:37] Yes.

[1:06:39] Mr. Kerchard?

[1:06:40] Now, yes.

[1:06:40] You've seen her not a lot of carries.

[1:06:42] And that concludes Mr. Kerchard's executive report.

[1:06:46] Other items for discussion and approval from Dr. Merchard?

[1:06:49] Thank you.

[1:06:50] So, we take our direction from the Pennsylvania Department of Education, often referred to as PVE.

[1:06:57] And they have been sending out frequently asked questions and guidance.

[1:07:02] They love to do it on a Friday after four o'clock to make sure that they haven't started our happy hour early.

[1:07:08] So, the latest guidance that we've received is about graduation requirements.

[1:07:13] It's a 13 page document and Dr. Alexa and I are working through it with some other administrators, so I am requesting that the board grant us the opportunity to make the necessary adjustments to our graduation requirements due to COVID-19.

[1:07:34] There makes that motion.

[1:07:35] Daryl Topolowski, second.

[1:07:37] Thank you. I have a motion by Mr. Breiner. This was then seconded by Mr. Topolowski, questions, comments on that motion.

[1:07:46] Roll call, please.

[1:08:16] at 19 pandemic. We are in discussions right now and it's just about finalized what we'd

[1:08:22] like to recommend as far as the grading scale is considered for the 4th, 9 weeks and

[1:08:26] the impact that that would have on our students. So I'm requesting the board's approval or

[1:08:32] authorization to go ahead finalize those discussions with administration and then share that information

[1:08:37] with our parents so that they understand how the 4th, 9 weeks is going to be graded and

[1:08:42] any overall impact on GPAs for our seniors.

[1:08:51] Very top of a last few seconds.

[1:08:53] Thank you, Mr. Breyer has made that motion

[1:08:55] and Mr. Toppilowski seconded or any questions.

[1:09:00] Mrs. Werner at our roll call, please.

[1:09:03] Mr. Warren.

[1:09:04] Yes.

[1:09:05] Mr. Breyer.

[1:09:06] Yes.

[1:09:07] Mrs. Breyer.

[1:09:09] Yes. Mr. Spada.

[1:09:12] Yes.

[1:09:14] Mr. Red?

[1:09:15] Yes.

[1:09:16] Yes.

[1:09:16] This is Hayden.

[1:09:18] Yes.

[1:09:19] Mr. Chowlowski.

[1:09:20] Yes.

[1:09:22] Ms. Hornay-S.

[1:09:23] Mr. Breiner.

[1:09:24] Mr. Kercherman.

[1:09:25] Say yes.

[1:09:26] Mr. Kercherman.

[1:09:27] Yes.

[1:09:28] Sorry.

[1:09:29] That's fine.

[1:09:30] Okay.

[1:09:32] 9.

[1:09:32] Yes.

[1:09:32] Senator Bush cares.

[1:09:34] My last item is not listed on the agenda because it's not for approval.

[1:09:38] It's more for information.

[1:09:40] Mrs. Walden passed along this information and asked for me to share it with the board and

[1:09:44] public. It says although there is much uncertainty about the future right now, one thing we do

[1:09:50] not want to be uncertain for our students is will I have food for breakfast and lunch today.

[1:09:55] Our staff has been working hard to make sure that not only are students but any student 18 years

[1:10:00] or younger is able to stop by the Brentwood High School middle school for a nutritious bag meal.

[1:10:06] There have been days where it certainly takes a village and for that I need to thank the administrative

[1:10:16] We are on average being roughly 215 families per day, providing meals, 7 days a week.

[1:10:23] We are distributing meals on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.

[1:10:26] Each bag contains enough meals until the next distribution day.

[1:10:30] We are serving items like deli sandwiches, hot dogs, homemade meatloaf, roasted turkey,

[1:10:35] nachos, macaroni and cheese, pizza, and pasta with meatballs.

[1:10:38] every day is different. This is a time where creativity really comes into play with

[1:10:43] what to serve and how to package it. For instance,

[1:10:46] cupping ham fruit and freezing it to ensure it won't leak in the bag.

[1:10:50] Our goal is to continue to feed as many students as possible during the pandemic.

[1:10:54] We are looking forward to when we can see our students smiling faces again in the

[1:10:58] cafeteria until then stay safe and healthy and that will conclude my report.

[1:11:04] All right. Well, I thank you, Dr. Kerch. I want to share the update.

[1:11:11] I don't know much to report, other than this great conference scheduled for maybe a second has been canceled.

[1:11:21] Thank you for that report. Thank you for that report, Mr. Werner. So, this is our report, Mr. Mogul.

[1:11:33] Thank you, sir. At this time, I have public comments on any questions or comments to the board.

[1:11:44] We would request that you say your first last name and your address for the record if you have any comments.

[1:11:50] This

[1:11:54] is David Scott, the director.

[1:11:56] I do have a question before we conclude this meeting.

[1:12:01] I noticed that we have just about a million dollars

[1:12:04] in our construction fund.

[1:12:07] And we had planned to go out for a bond issue this spring.

[1:12:14] And we talked about projects that needed to be done including

[1:12:17] taving and concrete work.

[1:12:19] And I'm not sure that that would be covered under what we have there.

[1:12:22] Is there any planning at this point on another bond issue going forward?

[1:12:29] That is definitely something we will need to discuss.

[1:12:32] We've been at a standstill because HHSDR who is our architect that we are working with

[1:12:37] is also enduring furloughs right now and laying off employees.

[1:12:42] So they are not operating with full staff.

[1:12:45] Therefore, this is put us behind significantly.

[1:12:48] We need to discuss how much those projects, once they are, the plans are finished, how much

[1:12:55] that would cost us, and then we would need to move forward with another bond issue into

[1:13:00] that point.

[1:13:02] Thank you.

[1:13:04] Any other questions or comments from anyone?

[1:13:10] Will there be no questions or comments?

[1:13:13] Mr. Scott, on the need of a motion to adjourn.

[1:13:18] I have that motion by Mr. Spout that was seconded by Mr. Popoloski to adjourn all in favor say aye.

[1:13:25] We are adjourned and we will have an executive session following this public meeting to discuss negotiations and some legal matters.

[1:13:33] I thank you all for sharing this evening with us.

[1:13:36] I

[1:13:39] was going to rely on our technology specialists with Mr. Kelly to go ahead and start having people exit the meantime

[1:13:46] We request that board members stay on as well as Mrs. Basenga and Mr. Vogel. Everyone else is experienced. Have a great night

[1:14:17] The thing that kills me, though, is when I was sitting in my desk, she could hear me through the thing.

[1:14:23] Okay.

[1:14:24] Okay.

[1:14:25] It was the computer.

[1:14:27] Oh my.

[1:14:28] I must have really learned a lot.

[1:14:30] Does that have my voice clarity?

[1:14:32] Do you ever need it at our house?

[1:14:33] Yeah.

[1:14:34] Okay.

[1:14:35] There's a lot bigger in this.

[1:14:36] Three of you is the trio.

[1:14:38] All right.

[1:14:41] Almost out of your sight.

[1:14:42] Thank you very much.

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