Good evening. I call this April 14th board meeting to order. Mrs. McConnell, will you please take role? >> Mrs. Bingaman, >> here. >> Mrs. Cavoli, >> here. >> Mr. Dornan, >> here. >> Mr. Mr. Epstein >> here.
>> Mr. Garlic >> here. >> Mr. Gordon >> here. >> Mrs. Hanford >> here. >> Mr. Jacobs >> here. >> Mrs. Webster >> here. >> There are nine board members present.
>> Would everyone in attendance that is able to please stand for the pledge? I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and
justice for all. Do any board members have any additions, deletions, or modifications to make to the agenda? Okay. Having no objections, additions or deletions, um we will move to 501,
approval of the March 24th, 2026 meeting minutes. May I have a motion to approve the recommendation? >> So moved. >> Second. Is there any discussion? All in favor? >> I. >> Anyone opposed?
>> Motion carries. Under 601, I would like to report that prior to this meeting, an executive session was held to discuss personnel and legal issues. This brings us to 602, our student speaker. I am pleased to introduce our
student speakers from Central Dolphin East High School. Please welcome Breland Morales and Ralph Cab Kibunari. I'm sorry, I tried. >> Good evening. It's different to have two board speakers at a meeting, but we both
said yes. So, here we are. We will both like to thank the administration of Central Dolphin School District for giving us the opportunity to speak this evening on behalf on behalf of our school, Central Dolphin East High School. My name is Rahul Kim Muggger and I'm a senior at Central Dolphin East High School. I've been a
part of this district since I first immigrated to America and I've attended EH Phillips East Middle School and in less than two months I will soon graduate East High School with multitudes of honors. It'll be sad to say goodbye, but it's worth it because this district has helped me become who I am through it diversity, community, and
overall support. In the fall, I'll be attending Penn State University of Harrisburg campus and studying mechanical engineering for two years and then I'll finish my last two years at the main campus. >> My name is Braya Morales and I'm currently a senior. I've been with CD
school since kindergarten from Lton Elementary to Satara Middle and now also East High. With graduation right around the corner, I find myself with mixed emotions. I'm ready to begin a new chapter, yet also deeply sentimental about leaving behind a community that that has played a significant role in my life. Over the years, this district has
provided me with not only an education, but also lasting friendship, meaningful experiences, and and valuable lessons I will carry with me in my future. This year, I had the opportunity to intern at Lawn Elementary as a teacher's assistant in kindergarten. This has helped to solidify my plans for the future, which
include attending Arcadia University to study early childhood education. Okay, so we have a busy time upcoming at East High. Spring sports are soon wrapping up along with celebrating many senior nights. In May, there will be AP testing along with Keystone testing.
We're not really looking forward to that, but we will be so relieved when it's over. On May 8th, prom will be held at the Best Western premiere and at the beginning of June, seniors will look forward to their senior cookout. The whole school looks forward to Mayday, which is our end of year pep rally and
celebration. We're happy to report some of the highlights at East High from the last two months or so that have been submitted by our faculty and staff. We would like to congratulate the cast, pit, and crew of Shrek the Musical, which was performed in March. Students did an outstanding job with this fun and
engaging performance. The East High Art Department would like to invite everyone to the art show being held at East at Sidi Middle on April 23rd from 6:00 to 7:30. The The show will feature students works from both high schools and all four middle schools. In addition, they would like to
congratulate junior Moira Goffnau who has an installation at Wildwood Park for the 2026 Art in the Wild exhibition. Fraweiser reports that on April 8th, 21 students traveled to Penn State in and state college to compete with students from across the state at German student
day. Students completed on the theme German on the state in poetry rec recitation, the spelling be 2D and 3D art, graphic design took part in some in sample college classes and some students participated in a college campus tour. In April, select German students will
take in level one will take part in the German national exam in which students complete nationally for ranking and prizes. >> Also, the science department nom nominated 10 student scholars for outstanding acade academic performance for the month of March. Our STEM
students received a donor our STEM students received a donor's choose that funded additional STEM projects. Dr. Sprunk reports that 18 East High Latin students took the national Latin exam and the following students won awards. Silver medal was won by Quentyn Hang. Bronze medal was won by Pachchan Baznet
and honorable mentions were Nicholas Gonzalez, Namsah Ry and Kum Lud. In addition, many students won awards at the 2026 Capital Area Classics Competition at Dickinson College on April 13th. In March, members of the Central Dolphin East chapter of HOSA
attended a leadership conference at the Hershey Lodge. This conference allowed our students to network and investigate career paths at a career fair. The fair contained many medical pathways and also included a variety of medical equipment related to those pathways. Students could students could interview
professionals and experiment with the equipment. The entire experience allowed our chapter members to prepare for future service projects in competition within the HOSA framework. We look forward to expanding our chapter's reach in the 2026 to 2027 school year.
On March 27th, a cultural diversity, a cultural diversity celebration took place at East High for students and staff. Over 86 students participated in the flag ceremony to represent one of 28 countries of origin for our student population. 22 students volunteered show
volunteers showcased their dancing and singing skills of traditional music from their native country. Thank you to those who enable the equity and diversity that makes East High a special place to be celebrated. Coach Worley reports that the boys volleyball team placed second in their
reading tournament on March 28th. Mrs. Jay organized another successful blood drive with the Red Cross club. We collected 40 pints of blood during our last school drive for the school year. These 40 pints will help save at least 120 lives. We're looking forward to seeing all of you on the stage at Landis
Field on Monday, June 8th for our commencement commencement ceremony. Thank you again for your support of all of the students and the teachers of East High. >> Can I ask you guys one question? You said there there were 18 Latin students that compete competed. So it sounds like
the number of students taking Latin has increased. I don't know if you can answer that or um >> I don't know much about but I know I have friends that are in Latin. >> All right, that sounds good. By the way, what's HOSA? >> HOSA? I I can't remember the abbreviation. >> All right, I'm gonna stop asking
question. >> It's Health Occupation Students of America. >> What is it? >> Health and Occupation Students of America. >> That's what I thought. >> Good. >> Yeah, I'm good. >> All right. This brings us to 603 public
speakers for agenda items. This is for agenda items only. At this time we do not have anybody signed up for to speak. 604 superintendent spotlight. Mr. Turman. >> All right. We have two groups that we are going to highlight this evening. Uh
Mrs. Live is going to come down and we are going to start off with Paxona Eleonia Elementary School. Um we're going to honor the staff and the students at Paxonia for the amount of money that they raised for the American Heart Association. Shannon,
>> good evening. Madame Vice President Bingaman, members of the board of directors, superintendent Turman, central administration leadership, audience members in attendance, and those watching online. My name is Shannon Live, and I'm the director of communications and community engagement. It is my honor as part of the
superintendent spotlight to highlight students and staff from two of our schools this evening. I would like to invite Mr. James Figus of Paxtonia Elementary School, Molly Emmer from the American Heart Association, and our top fundraising students respended in their
Life Savers t-shirts tonight. Molly, come forward. Ponia Elementary raised an an amazing 58,594 this year and placed second in Pennsylvania out of 779 participating schools. They also earned second place
in the 13 state region of the country, which includes the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic region. Since Mr. Ficus has taken over the program for the past 5 years, the school has raised more than $220,000. The students joining us this evening.
Cecilia Hayward from first grade was in first place at Paxonia and second place in the entire state of Pennsylvania. She raised $3,450. Gigi Patrick in kindergarten raised $2,729.
She placed second at Paxonia and sixth place in Pennsylvania. Rowan Ficus in second grade raised $1,980 placing third at Paxonia. And Stella Hubler in third grade raised
$1,60 placing fifth at Paxtonia. I would like to invite Molly Emerick to the mic to say a few words. Of course, I'm a shorty. Sorry, I'm going to take this. All right. Thank you all. Thank you all to the board. Thank you for all us
having us tonight. Um for allowing me to be here to support Jim and the Paxonian community. Um uh for those of you that don't know, I'm the your local representative for the American Heart Association. I am based locally in Lancaster County, but I cover six counties, which covers our Dolphin
County here. Um, and been doing this for 11 plus years and have been making very amazing relationships, including ones like Jim. Um, very honored, thankful to be here tonight, um, to support the Paxonia community and our top fundraisers tonight. Can we give them
one more big round of applause? because of their passion and support of the American Heart Association and Kids Heart Challenge. It's been nothing short of incredible the past few years. So, I just also want to thank Can we give a big thanks for their parents as well?
YEAH. SO, I want to add to that total here, Shannon. um with those that phenomenal amount that was raised this year. Um it does place Paxonia second in Pennsylvania and second in our 13 year our 13 state region which I'm so
incredibly proud of. But this actually brings their life saving total up to $38,776.68 which I know is going to only increase over these years because Jim has big goals and I know he's incompetitive and we are definitely going to be moving towards all that all that amazing things. So, a big portion of that
support is represented tonight again with our top survivors here. One including our survivor, but also our uh celebrating our top um fundraisers that are raising a thousand plus dollars. We can't do what we do without the support of our community members, without our
families, without the reason why we have our why like Gigi and we have CeCe and we have Stella and we have Rowan tonight and we're mixing m uh missing Ryan, right? Ryan Pritchard. Okay? Because we can't continually do what we do without
these families support. So for this specific year, 266 students with Paxonia were involved with Kids Heart Challenge. This year, 113 families completed Finn's mission, walking away knowing the h the life-saving skills of hands only CPR.
And I just want to give a little quick shout out to not just Jim, but also his wife Tina here that's here tonight because Rowan wouldn't be a part of this community um without the support of her parents and for them stepping up and leading um you know comm community
efforts within this district. So Jim being passionate about Kids Heart Challenge, Tina being so passionate about Thawn. So, I just wanted to give them a nice quick kudos for just allowing them to be so supportive of everything in this district and going above and beyond their role in general.
And the last thing I will mention, uh, yeah, no, no, no. I actually we we we were able to cover everything. Again, I'm so um excited to see where Paxton falls nationally this year. Um, I will definitely be keeping Jim updated, but
again, from the bottom of my heart, for being your local representative, for you all being um, bought into our mission and wanting to make your communities a better and safer place to be able to celebrate these little ones tonight and their families, for just doing all the wonderful things for the American Heart
Association. So, thank you so much. Thank you. We appreciate that. Thank you. >> I just wanted to say that um I'm a little upset that we didn't get a picture of the beard and the hair color. That I think is what motivates a large a
large portion of your population because I think they love to see how wild you go each year. >> It was something that's >> Shannon. He has plenty of pictures, so just ask him for it. >> I think I may have seen >> and we got a video of it. We got the
video reveal. >> It's still there if you want. >> All right. Thank you very much. >> Next up, I'd like to ask Mr. Norberry and Vadikica Berman to come to the podium. Vadika is a sixth grader from Central
Dolphin Middle School who recently won the 2026 WITF Pennan Education Central Pennsylvania Spelling Bee. Vidika secured the title in the 16th round by correctly spelling patriotism and will advance to the 2026 Scripts National
Spelling Bee in Washington DC. In 2024, she was also recognized as a top 10 spellar in the same regional competition while attending Paxtonia Elementary School. There seems to be a theme here with Paxtonia. Mr. Norberry, would you like to say a few words?
So, we are very proud of Vadika. Not only is she the spelling be champion, but she's part of our um sixth grade math 24 team that won the district level competition. uh she was selected for county orchestra string fest and she was also represented at our last character
breakfast. So she's all around a a wonderful student and uh we're very proud of her at CB Middle. >> Before you go, Vidica, can I ask you a question? How do you practice? >> Um I basically just practice. So, we have a word list and by going to it
repeatedly, that's what comes up at the regionals. Um, but on the national level, we're going to have to go a bit further and um just it's just a whole dictionary. They don't have a study list, so it's going to be a lot of work to do. >> Very impressive. >> Thank you. Thank you.
>> Thank you, madam vice chair. That concludes my superintendent spotlight. Thank you. >> Thank you. All right, we are now in unfinished business. 701 treasures report for the month ending February 28th.
Is this what you're doing? >> Okay. I'm sorry. >> Yes, sir. >> All right. So, under unfinished business, we have the ability to do a consent agenda. Is there any discussion on any of the items 701 through 704?
>> Yeah, I do have a question on 702, the resolution to support the House bill. Who is sponsoring that? When I looked at it, there was no uh affiliation. >> So, that's a good question, Eric. Um, we've received information from I I
don't remember the school district that kind of started this bill. Um but they did reach out to all school districts to see uh to garner support for for for the house bill. Um there have been several school districts when in our region who have jumped on board. Uh Cumberland Valley was one. Uh there was one or two
others who are supporting the bill. Uh but all it is is really separating out your your those who have an attendance from from a standpoint in terms of where you attend compared to your private schools where there's really no boundaries. So, it started from one school district and kind of went across
the Commonwealth, obviously. >> Yeah. I'd like to know who the school district is, but I noted uh act 219 was amended in 72 and it dealt with private schools and the city of Pittsburgh. And the goal, I think we all look for the
same goal. You want a competitive um formula. I I my concern is in order to get this changed uh it would have to amend the constitution. So, uh, if we could break this out, I and I'm sorry, I should have said something, uh, earlier.
Yeah, I'm just not comfortable supporting a motion with, uh, no sponsor, >> Eric. The sponsor and the legislator is Conklin. Scott Conklin. >> Yeah, I know Scott, but he should put his He's from, uh, State College. >> Yeah. Center County, >> right? So, that's the sponsor for the
legislation. >> Yes. And so, do we know who signed on with him or that he's In other words, I I want to make sure this is a real exercise and not one by just one House member. Um, are there any other co-sponsors? >> Uh, I'm on it right now. Hang on one
second. I'm on I'm on the the states website right now. >> No, it's a state website. It'll take a while. No, it's uh >> it'll be back up in >> Yeah, there is there is um Conklin Sanchez, Hill Evans, Warner, and Harkkins.
>> There's five members on it. >> All right. So, we're going to separate that one. >> Yeah. And I just just make it aware I'm I'm going to abstain from the 702 vote. >> There some conflicts. >> All right. So, is everybody okay with
combining 701, 703, and 704? May I have a motion to approve items 701, 703, and 704? >> Motion. >> A second. >> Second. Second. >> Any I guess we're not having any
discussion. All in favor? >> I >> I >> I. >> Anyone oppose? Motion carries. Okay, we'll go back to 702 resolution to support House Bill 41.
Mr. Turman, the administration recommending approval of a resolution to support House Bill 41. This legislation seeks to create separate private and public school playoffs for intercolastic competition. This item was reviewed um
at the March 24th, 2026 board meeting. May I have a motion to approve the recommendation? >> Motion. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> Okay. Any discussion? >> I I just think this is a long time
coming, so I I'm okay with this. Anyone else? Okay. All in favor? >> I >> I >> Anyone oppose? I am opposing.
>> Okay. So, we have >> seven >> and one abstain. >> You're good. >> All right. Now, we're moving to new business. 801 personnel report. Mr. Turman, >> the administration is recommending approval of the personnel report as
discussed in executive session. May I have a motion to approve the recommendation? >> Second. Second. >> Any discussion? Anybody here? All right. All in favor? >> I I
>> I Okay. All right. Sorry. All in favor? >> I. >> Anyone opposed? >> I >> Okay. Motion carries. 802 overnight trip approval. Mr. Turman. >> The administration recommending approval of the following overnight trips.
Central Dolphin High School indoor drum line to travel to Dayton, Ohio, April 15, 2026 through April 18th, 2026 for the WGI World Championships. Um, unfortunately, we just received this probably about a week, week and a half ago. So, um, we're going to have to have
this on for approval this evening. >> May I have a motion to approve the recommendation? >> Motion. >> Second. >> Second. >> Any discussion? >> Yeah. What accounted for the delay? because apparently they're leaving tomorrow. I
>> I can't I don't know if Sarah this just came in probably what two Mondays ago. >> Correct. It it just got to us. I do know that they just um recently received word that they had uh had qualified to attend. We are working on a process next year where we are ensuring that these
are pre-approved much earlier than than this one. >> Thank you. >> All in favor? Well, could I ask a question real quick? I just need to know my my granddaughter's going to this. I'm okay with voting for this or >> for this trip?
>> Yeah, it's I don't think it's no money involved. >> It's fine. Okay. I just want to make sure. >> Boy, that'd be interesting if you voted no. >> I might just do that. >> All in favor? >> I >> I >> I. >> Anyone opposed?
>> I opposed. >> Eric. Yep. Motion. >> Motion carries. >> Sorry. >> All right. 803 adjudication of student cases 131 1349 and 1351.
>> The administration recommending approval of the adjudication of student cases 1349 and 1351 as discussed in executive session. >> May I have a motion to approve the recommendation? >> Motion.
>> Second. Any discussion? All in favor? >> I I oppose. Motion carries. 804. Commitment of funds to the Neutri Pax project. Mr. Turman.
>> Oh, sorry. Okay. It's me. The board is recommending approval of the commitment of funds for the installation of a water line and electric panel to the building currently referred to as the cheer barn at an estimated cost of $124,160.
This commitment is in support of the relocation of the neutropack programs to this building and the accessibility of restrooms for the cheerleaders. This item was reviewed at the April 9th, 2026 building and grounds committee meeting.
May I have a motion to approve this recommendation? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Any discussion? >> I just want to say this is a really good thing. Uh our neutral practice right almost 10% of our kids have that program. So giving them this proper space they need. Um it's still close to CD Middle so they can do the volunteer
work. Great benefit for the cheerleaders as well. So I think it's a really good thing for the district. >> Also Panther Ram is going to make a donation you know either through inind labor or fundraising. So, um it's a joint project and u hopefully it'll be
done. What are we looking for? 2027 school year. >> 2728. >> I'm a year off. >> Just just to throw in also that it's it it helps uh with neutropacks which is a great program. It helps with the cheerleaders and it helps with the overcrowding. So,
we're taking care of three different items. >> Anyone else? >> All right. All in favor? I >> I >> I >> Anyone oppose? Motion carries. >> 805 irrevocable letter of credit. Mr.
The administration is recommending the designation of Midpen Bank as a depository bank and authorizing Midpen to issue a revoc a revocical letter of credit for the district to deposit security with Sutire Township for Executive Park Drive improvements in the
amount of $2,529,60. >> May I have a motion to approve the recommendation? >> So move. >> Second. >> Any discussion? I want to compliment Mr. Bard and our attorney guy uh for Mike. Sorry, I forgot your name. Uh for
working on this. This is a big deal. And I think Peter, correct me if I'm wrong, we're actually going to save some money. >> Correct. The initial letter of credit from Fulton Bank was a 1.5% uh annual fee. And this annual fee is a 0.5% annual fee.
>> Okay. Anyone else? All right. All in favor? >> I >> I. >> Anyone oppose? Motion carries. >> 806. Job description revisions.
>> The administration recommending approval of the revisions to the following job descriptions. Secretary 1210 middle and senior high school. Secretary 1210 that 210 that will be at the elementary level. Secretary 1210 counseling office middle and senior high school. Secretary
1240, middle and senior high school. Secretary 2210, that would be at the elementary level. Secretary 2240, central registration, autistic and emotional support internal coach, special education teachers, par profofessional multi multi-isability
support, paraprofessional life skills support, par profofessional autistic support. The items, these items were reviewed at the March 25th, 2026 personnel committee meeting. They will appear on the April 28th, 2026 board agenda for approval. Um this was nothing
more than um Dr. Beaston started to work with all of the individuals to look at job descriptions to make sure that the role they were doing was actually what was in their job description. So there's nothing more than kind of right sizing job descriptions. There's no additional uh positions or anything that's put in
the budget. Uh so if you have any specific questions on the job description, please reach out to me or Dr. Beaston and we can be able to provide that for you. >> 807 first reading of board policy. Mr. Turman, >> the administration recommending the first reading of board policy 206
assignment within the district. This item was reviewed at the March 25th, 2026 policy committee meeting. This item will appear on the April 28th, 2026 board agenda for approval. Um, this policy is nothing more than dealing with some of these students in the Prince Brook area and then also making sure the
parents actually know exactly uh what elementary school or what what elementary school and also kindergarten center their child will attend next year. >> Okay. Uh 808 math resource recommendation. Mr. determine it.
>> The administration is recommending approval of the new K5 math resource Eureka Math squared at a cost of $235,427.78 per year for 5 years for a total of 1 million1777,1385. This item was reviewed at the March
25th, 2026 academic committee meeting. This item will appear on the April 28th, 2026 reporter agenda for approval. Um there was an extensive process uh that the academic office uh used in terms of getting to Eureka math. Um they had an
opportunity to uh work with teachers across the district. Every teacher had an opportunity to participate. Uh any that wanted to and opted to could be part of the pilot program. Um we actually at the academic meeting had two teachers who came and spoke to the
committee uh about why Eureka math and they were very positive about that. Um, I'm very happy in terms of the process the academic team used uh to get to this resource. Everything that the board has asked for in terms of getting teacher input was definitely done to get to a
point where we are today. >> Okay. >> I just had a question on that because I had to leave early before the academic committee meeting was open. Did they have all grades also piloted or just certain grades piloted? all grades from kindergarten through fifth grade and some grades had more than one teacher
who was participating. Okay. Yeah. It all and it went all teachers received an email invitation to participate in the pilot and every single one that um responded was able to participate. Uh and we had we also represented 10 schools across the district. >> So I know there you said there was two that presented but the feedback across
the board including those that piloted that weren't there also had >> favorable. >> Correct. So what we did um there was it was two-part. One part of it was um a rubric that was researchbased that looked at I can tell you right now looked at um three different categories specific looked at accessibility for
students, usability for teachers and impact on learning. Um so that rubric was scored in Eureka Square did um come out much higher than um the the other uh math resource. Um, additionally, there were multiple meetings where the all the teachers involved met um to discuss
qualitative data and what their findings and feelings were about um the the information. Everything from the communication with families and how it impacted that to what they were seeing um and the engagement the students that they were seeing in the classroom. So it was a pretty extensive process that
involved uh both a rubric and and compiling quantitative data as well as qualitative data in the form of um interviews and and communication conversations. >> And the three schools that did not participate was not because we told them they couldn't. It's because they didn't
have anybody at those schools who opted to pilot. >> Correct. And even um student or teachers who were not able who or who who chose not to pilot, all of the materials were available in all of the buildings. um for actually since last spring for teachers to all review. The first step
of the process was providing an opportunity for all teachers to review and provide any feedback or suggestions, recommendations prior to the pilot even beginning. So all teachers had multiple opportunities to um to participate in the selection um from in a variety of
ways whether it's piloting or reviewing resources or providing feedback. >> Thank you. that also included special education and other teachers who are not typical um regular education classroom teachers were involved in the process. >> I have a couple questions.
What other math curriculums were looked at and reviewed? >> So when whenever we were starting and we narrowed it down to three um and then we had to pause because of budgetary constraints that was the during the 2425 school year. The three that were narrowed down were Eureka Squared,
Reveal, and Bridges. When we came back together and took feedback from individuals who had reviewed those three programs, then we narrowed it down to Reveal and Eureka Squared. >> And correct me if I'm wrong, but we use Reveal in our middle schools.
>> Correct. >> So, we're getting away from that. for >> we are using so your your reveal re review reveal will continue to be used in the 6th through 8th grade setting. We found that through the um the pilot process the feedback that the resources
and program available for kindergarten through fifth grade met our needs in a in a much greater way. Um we have had discussions and we're beginning the process of what that transition spec specifically from fifth grade to sixth grade looks like. How we can ensure students have what they need in order to be successful at the middle school
level. Okay. The the other question I had was what is the biggest concern they had with Eureka and what's the um
what are we going to do to remedy that? The biggest concern with Eureka um I would say you know when they when they took a look at it one thing that was mentioned was that it is um the the time it is a large a large block of time that is utilized for instruction um and it was seen both as a positive and a
negative. Negative because it is something where they recognize that it um we make sure that we are providing the time available to go through it. The positive was that they said that even though it was a lengthy um lessons that the students were fully engaged and excited about the math process and they felt that the students were getting a
solid understanding not just that wrote memorization but truly understanding the process and such behind the math that they were doing. A lot of real world examples and such pulled into it. One of the things that we are um working through right now is ensuring that we have the um the interactive panels
available for all of the elementary classrooms because that is one piece that there is a technology piece not a onetoone where they're going to be working on on laptops or Chromebooks or iPads but more of a um for the teacher to be able to project and and demonstrate and such. So that's one of the things that I know that was a
concern because we wanted to make sure that we have resources that are able to handle that. >> Okay. Okay. And then the other question I have is from a a parents perspective. When we went to everyday math, it was far from everyday math. Um when we went
to um adding, subtracting, they created these graphs that, you know, parents couldn't even understand how to help their kids um get to the actual answers. you would have to the answer would not be correct unless
you went through that methodology and that um way of doing things. >> So is that going to continue with this? >> No, one of one of the things that was um a positive that was communicated over and over again was the feedback they had
from communication from home. Each of the lessons has um descriptions and and uh information to go home to demonstrate how the students are to participate. um both on the the pages they're doing, but also there are videos to go through the process and they are not locked into
having to use one algorithm, but instead taught how to um go through the process, make sure they're that they're understanding what they're learning, how they're and they're how they're going through that. So, the home communication specifically for Eureka squared is one of the reasons that um that scored
higher than the other resource. Okay, thank you. I I'm sorry I missed that meeting and I wish I didn't because I could have asked you those questions earlier, but I did go out and I found that there's a school district that actually puts each module from K through
five out on their website. And if anyone wants to see what the kids will be doing um per module um I'll send a link to the board members that you can actually go and and look at them.
I thought it was very interesting and very good. Thank you. >> All right. Next we have 809 curriculum services proposal. The administration recommending approval of the curriculum service pro proposal with the CCIU at a cost of $35,000.
This item was reviewed at the March 25th, 2026 academic committee meeting. This item will appear on the April 28th, 2026 board agenda for approval. Um, this will allow the academic office and Dr. Box to take the audit and be able to now start to get a level of consistency in
curriculum across the district. And this also is will be added to the budget for next school year in her department. >> Okay. 810 approval of the launch program at our high schools. Mr. Turman, >> the administration recommending approval
of the addition of the launch program at East High School and Central Dolphin High School. The cost per school is $210,000 for a total cost of $420,000. This item will appear was reviewed at the March 25th, 2026 academic committee meeting. This will appear on the April
28th, 2026 board agenda for approval. So this will give an opportunity for us to have internal support for students and also for staff dealing with students who need another level of support. Um this is something where the the team had an opportunity to go see this program at
another school district. Came back and thought this was something that be definitely be beneficial for our school district. how we are paying for this for next school year as we have decreased the number of paid slots at some of our other alternative ed locations. >> So this is budget neutral. Correct.
>> Correct. >> All right. We can follow up on that next year. Thank you. The question I had is with this program are the students integrated into the rest of the school or are they isolated? >> Micah and Joe, if you can come up and speak uh to the launch program.
>> Yes. So, uh, the school district that we visited, it was Spring Grove, and that's the district I currently, uh, came from. And, uh, this was, uh, a program that was tremendously successful for us. Um, so basically what happens is you have up
to 12 students that you can place in there. It's not a formalized approved uh, PD uh, aled program that allows us to get flexibility of moving students in and out. So the structure in which we are envisioning this is a student would
be placed in this program here to start. We provide that student smart goals and if that individual meets those smart goals then eventually we allow that person to be out maybe for a period. So for example they'll be into a room um
with you know a behavior manager, a counselor. They'll be receiving instruction through CD cyber uh academy and they meet their goals. will say, "Okay, fourth period. Let's see how you do in math class." So, that individual goes out in math class. Oh, you're doing great. Let's try lunch now. Um, that
person messes up, not handling it well. We could bring that person back in. It provides us a lot of flexibility. Um, and it's been successful in my previous district and I think it'd be great here. So the question is so there are portions of the day when they would be integrated
with the population >> whenever they earn that uh that right to to do that. Yes. >> Okay. So I guess I'm just postulating here they you said it's not approved by PTE but can we send them as an alternative
education option if there's a disciplinary issue? >> Absolutely. Yes. We that's all on the table. This program isn't something that I would say, okay, you're going to be in there for four years or anything like that. What we use that for is let's say students even transitioning back into
the school from expulsion um for them to help with that transition. We could bring them through that program uh and then you know allow them once they meet their goals to be out uh in general. So it's really a wide variety of things that we could use this program for. It costs includes then staffing that's
supplied by another entity. Correct. >> By Yes. By River Rock Academy. So we would be expanding our partnership with them to provide this inhouse programming then. >> Okay. So the cost actually to River Rock would actually increase over the year
but would be made up by other placements. >> Yes, we have um other prepaid slots that we purchase with other programs. Um we were able to look at those numbers uh pretty closely with child accounting and see what our trends have been over years
and were able to identify um some areas that we would be able to decrease our pre-purchase slots with our out of district programs to cover the cost of this program. >> We were we transporting kids in the past. In other words, these kids if they were went to a placement, we'd have to provide the transportation. >> Yes.
>> Okay. Y thank you. Yeah. >> Again, you you probably said this before and I'm I'm sure you did, but just clarification, they're isolated >> in a different part of the bill. I mean, I know they would be during the class, >> but but during the during the day, they would be then separated >> like they would eat lunch.
>> They would primarily be in this classroom um for the duration of the day. Okay. They would also get their own transportation to and from school. Um so but they would be in the school with the rest of the kids and then as they're working toward their goals like Dr.
Anduri kind of highlighted we can then do a trial period where they're going out see how they're doing and add >> complete isolation except for maybe sight that you could see somebody. >> Oh no they I mean they'll be in the hallway like they'll be like the classroom will be in the hallway with
other students. They won't be isolated. No. >> Okay. No. And it could be that they would leave at a different time. Like I mean we've had kids leave 5 minutes before or 5 minutes after the bell. >> We can make something. You can do that. >> So you mean like arrival and dismissal time? >> Well, like when you would leave the classroom. I mean in the past we've had
kids that we would wait until the bell would ring to let them leave because of disruptions in the in the hallway. >> Absolutely. If you're moving the whole group, you do it whenever there's not an actual class change throughout the whole building. Um >> but if needed, you could >> What's that? If needed, you could move
an individual. >> Well, you or you're not really moving the kids really, right? They're staying in the same room. >> They're staying in the same room. Yeah. I mean, the times that they'll go um you know, again, we got to work through some of these, but in my past programs, uh they would leave together and go to the
cafeteria to receive their food before lunches actually begin or in between lunches, they would then go and bring that food down to that classroom. Um I have a really good space that I was able to to get in the old G. if you're familiar with the east high uh hallway
in which there's several other breakout like rooms on those little offices that will be good um for the River Rock staff if they have to individually counsel those students. The other time too we'd have to just see availability is a PE class if we want to offer that to them um which you know then they would use
the gymnasium but we would ensure that there weren't other PE classes in that area. >> So what grades are we talking about 6 through 12? nine >> for right for right now what we're proposing this would be at each of the high schools so there would be a classroom at CD high and a classroom at East High
>> I get you but you could have within the classroom kids from 9th 10th 11th and 12th grade >> yep >> okay so if they if the kids are enrolled in this program are they eligible to participate in extracurricular activities >> yes they are
>> okay and typically to be honest with you we find whenever they participate in extracurricular activities ities that is a good connection to the school and they're more successful whenever they do those type of things. >> And just again I think you answered this
before but clarification on discipline the principal would still be basically in charge of disciplining or is that more of a it's more >> no >> comes out of the classroom it is more of a classroom situation for discipline and then you might you might have to be involved.
>> Yeah. So what happens is they handle a lot of it in internally. So, um they're able to do a lot of um certain big things it could get to us. However, they do steps one, two, and three before it gets to us for um and
that's something that River Rock is pretty good at. Uh and that they institute it in these type of programs. Um the actual person who ran our program at Spring Grove has now because these this program has become more popular, a lot of school districts came and visited
us. um that individual now who ran our Spring Grow program now oversees all these type of programs that River Rock has to offer. So just talking with him, you know, I know what that kind of looks like. Uh you know, I I'll work with that River Rock employee or employees uh as I
know he works with them as well. >> I just had one question because in my mind I'm having a hard time. Um, so are these students that would otherwise be in the River Rock program or are these in addition to that maybe we're casting a wider net of whom could benefit from
this? >> Yeah. Yep. So essentially if you're familiar with how we provide support throughout the district academically, socially, you know, social, emotionally, behaviorally, we provide that on a continuum. So tier one, you know, everybody gets this intervention. Tier
two, small group. Tier three is for the kids that we might be talking about for this intervention. That is a small number of students, but if you're looking at discipline, they have, you know, quite a a long list of behavior and discipline referrals. And right now, as we've been looking over our data
across the district, you know, at our high schools, we can see that we aren't necessarily meeting the needs of those tier three kids because we don't have an intervention like this that can be um, you know, offer that structure that students would really benefit from and
the support that they would really benefit from both academically and behaviorally um without, you know, getting to the point of an expulsion which we don't really, you know, want to have to go down that road. So before, you know, our hope is that before we would have to get to that that a student
were, you know, a student is up for expulsion, we're able to actually provide supports and interventions at each of the high schools before it would get to that point. Um, but then also as Dr. and Sherry highlighted this would also be very helpful for students who are returning from an expulsion that
they're going from a very structured environment and sometimes you know they're just going right back into the high school and it's not necessarily a a continuum of support program. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Thank you. that. So the idea, sorry, I hate to go back to the budget,
but the the idea that it's budget neutral is because you're assuming that because of this program, you will essentially keep them from reaching the level of expulsion and therefore needing a slot outside the district. Is that correct? >> I mean, we we don't anticipate that
expulsions are going to go away. Um but we do you know we were besides this we were able to kind of see all right our trends with placements over the past few years we were able to identify where we could um cut some of those prepaid slots
and then in doing so we thought what would we really want to do to be able to provide still a level of support for our students. we would be able to put that funding into this instead of waiting to for the need for them to go, you know, go out. >> And I can provide an example just from
my experience here. You know, at Spring Grove at the high school, we had the launch program. Um, I was assistant principal there. It was very successful established. I then became principal at the middle school. The first year I I didn't have a launched style program and
there were five students in which uh we had to place a river rock for one thing for one thing or another. That second year I established a launch style program at the middle school and we didn't have one student in Aedy. Now the third year we had I think two policy
violators in which we had to expel and then they had to go you know to an outside placement. But I saw in the four years, well it from the first year I was a head high uh middle school principal for four years. Year one I saw how many uh kids we placed at RiverRock and then
I saw a reduction the other three years. >> Sorry for all the questions. I wasn't able to attend the uh academic. So, if you um were going to the more traditional River Rock or more traditional placement, would the child be in a grade just one grade or would he
be in a class with students from 9, 10, 11, and 12? >> Yes, the students actually in AEDY programs um they they can be placed they can be placed with students in 6th to 12th grade actually depending on the size of the program. Um so yeah it would
be typical depending we have we have a partnership with them for special education placements and also for alternative ed placements. So um they are typically placed in you know within a couple year age span of their peers at either one of those programs.
>> So a couple grades. >> Yeah. Depending on Yeah. Depending on the class sizes. Yeah. So, and we didn't we didn't really highlight this part of it too. And Dr. Martin, I don't know if you want to come up, but we did um the way that we are
going to provide academic support if that's where you know in kind of looking at the need here, we would be utilizing our CD cyber program and um I know Dr. Martin might be able to talk a little bit more about that that um if you you know to to kind of highlight their
different grades and what they would be able to receive from the asynchronous programming from the curriculum standpoint um to try to keep them as less disruption in their um in their coursework. We're going to put them in the blended CDSD um cyber program. A lot
of those core classes do align with what our students receive in the typical um brick and mortar both of high schools. So this will be an easy transition. We just would just do a little logistics in the back end. Um but then that would provide the same um curriculum for that
student. So if at in November they are able to transition back for a math class, they should be right on pace. There should not be a divide. And we were very strategic with including our blended program. Um so there is no no divide in the curriculum. >> So I mean that seems pretty optimistic.
I got to be honest with you that you're transitioning out of this program and then you can pick up with your classmates and and other programs. >> But I I gotta tell you, I was not aware that when we sent our kids to placement that they were put in classes with kids
from 6th to 12th grade. I mean, it just seems to me to be a challenge. I mean, you're talking about kids that had challenges and then you're putting together 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th, if I think I heard you right, for these uh
two projects. >> So, real fast, going back to the academics, from my experience, again, I could just speak from that. Um, let's say they do go out for a class, period. You know, they're getting so much more individual support. So, even, okay, they
go out for that class, period, math, and that student then goes back into the launch room and needs additional help. Well, we got two staff members uh and no more than 12 students to provide still some individual support. So, I've seen we typ we didn't put students in this
program for academic reasons. Uh but I would say 85 90% of the students grades improved, you know, uh from being >> That's actually not the point I was making. The point was the socialization of having sixth graders in the same class as 12th graders. >> Just 9 through 12. Sixth grade, not
sixth grade. talking about at River Rock like when we send them out. >> Yeah. I I was not aware of that. >> Yes. >> I think there's a from experience, not from personal experience, but from academic experience, I think that there are a lot of like stipulations put into
place. Like I am aware I I know that they can't even be on a B like if it's a male and a female going, they can't even be on the same transportation to the location. So, I think that there is definitely more than what we're I'd be interested to know, too, because that
was the first I've heard of that as well. >> Yeah. And when we went to we went to visit River Rock, I think that was last year. Um, within the classroom, um, there may have been like two or three classrooms adjacent close to each other. Like they had the kids separated to a
certain degree um, during their academic portion. So, it wasn't like it was a room this size and there was 15 kids in that room. So, we saw a middle school program. We saw a high school program while we were there. I think we were at uh what district was that at uh Mike, where we went to visit. I can't
remember. >> It wasn't Springrove. >> No. No. Last year. Last year. Last year when we went to see River, it was me. >> Carile. >> Carile. There >> is probably most closely aligned with our demographic. >> Carile. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. So, Carlilele had to give us an
opportunity to go out there and visit the River Rock program. So um the kids actor were actually doing very very well in the program and you were able to identify I think we had maybe one or two kids who were there um at the program. >> Thank you.
>> All right. 811 Central Dolphin School District sports summer camps. Mr. Turman, >> the administration is recommending >> I'm sorry. Can Can we just go back? I only had one question and I couldn't find the speak button on here. So, my apologies for the interruption, but can
you tell me it's going to cost us approximately $24,000 per student to have these kids in this program. What do we pay for placement at River Rock? Now, >> the cost is not per student for this
program. It's a total of $420,000 for the two classrooms, one in each high school. So, and the the cost for a student to attend River right now is per student and it varies based off of their special education or alternative ed
needs. >> Can you give us a range of what that >> um off the top of my head, which everybody knows how I am with numbers if I don't have a >> get back to me with that. >> Okay, let me get back to you with that. Thank you. Okay. Thank you.
Do I do I >> can I go now? >> Yeah. >> Okay. The administration recommending approval of the following Central Dolphin School District sports summer camps. This item will appear on the April 28th, 2026 board agenda for approval. CD girls volleyball June 2nd
to the 5th. CD boys soccer June 15th to the 19th. CD girls soccer June 15th to the 19th and CD boys and girls tennis June 26th to June 22nd to the 26th and then also August 3rd to the 7th. A note
all of these camps are open to all Central Dolphin students. >> Yeah, we were talking about eligibility. Are they open to all students within the Central Dolphin school district? >> No. The clarification we got from Mr.
Hunter today is this is just for Central Dolphin School District students only. >> Okay. >> 812 job corpse partnership agreement. Mr. Turman, >> the administration recommending approval of the partnership agreement between Adams and Associates of Nevada through Keystone and Red Rock JobCore Centers
and the Central Dolphin School District to expand the education and training opportunities for eligible students. There's no cost to the district. This item will appear on the April 28th, 2026 board agenda for approval. Uh this is just a standard agreement for our kids who uh may be low on credits or
potential dropouts uh for them to be able to go to Keystone and be able to potentially get their their uh either their high school diploma or be able to get into some type of skill um while they attend there. Do >> we have to renew this every year? >> We do. Um this may not be something that
we have to bring here every year. We had it on the agenda last year, I believe, for the first time. So, uh, it's just the the same agreement as last year. >> Okay. >> 813. Intercom system and clock replacement projects. >> The administration is recommending
approval of the intercom system and clock replacements projects at Paxton and EH Phillips Elementary Schools. This item was reviewed at the March 23rd, 2026 building and grounds committee meeting. This item will appear on the April 28th, 2026 board agenda for
approval. We got Paxonia Elementary, $271,694.54. We have VH Phillips Elementary, $254,100. Both of those uh will be coming out of the borrowing for that we are doing for both schools.
>> 8:14 bid award for replacement dishwasher. Mr. Determined >> the administration recommending the bid award for the replacement dishwasher for Central Dolphin Middle School to Douglas Equipment in the amount of $45,99.92.
Cafeteria funds will be used for this purchase. This item will appear on the April 28th, 2026 board agenda for approval. >> So, this is different obviously than I thought we were looking also at a washing machine. >> Correct. >> For Okay.
>> Yeah, this is a little bit different than that. >> Okay. This is a dishwasher for the cafeteria. Correct. The washer machine was what we discussed at I think that was building a ground where you wanted me to go with that. >> Dishwasher, man. >> Multi-purpose.
>> Yes. This is a very expensive dishwasher. I looked at >> I don't think we'll be washing any clothes, but it's >> looked at. >> I thought you guys said it was multi-purpose.
>> We can try it, but we can try. >> Okay, this brings us to 8:15 public speakers for non-aggenda items. We have three people signed up to speak this evening. You will have five minutes to speak. First up is Rose Hubert.
Hello. It's been a long time. Uh my name is Rose Hubert. I have a senior at East High. I have a freshman East High and I have a stepson that is in seventh grade at Linglestown Middle. Um so I just have some general concerns. My experience is related to East High, but I don't think this is specific to just East High. So
earlier this school year, um there was a smoke event and there were fire alarms. Um it was in September, September 16th to be specific. Um my daughter texted me, well, my son texted me first. My daughter texted me at 7:37. They were sent to East Middle. They said stuff
would be sent to the parents. We didn't get a call till 7:48 as parents. It was a very generic call telling us almost nothing. Again, I'm not blaming East High for this. I think there's just communication concerns. At 8:08, we got the call that everything was cleared. The students were sent back there. In
between all of this, I'm also getting texts from my son that he is literally scared to go back. He's afraid he's going to die. I get that that's very dramatic, but he's a 14-year-old boy, and these were the thoughts in his head at that time. So, I opted to send my husband to go get him. He came home. He
did get excused for the day. Um, but so that all happened in September. Fast forward to March 31st, and there's a gas leak. Okay. My daughter is a nerd. She goes to school early. She gets there early. She parks. She's sent to East Middle because all this is going on. My
son is not a nerd. I take him to school because he always waits till the last minute. We get turned away by the firemen. I get all this. I'm not complaining about that. My problem is there were a lot of kids turned away that day. Kids that drive, kids that walk, parents that drive them. There was no communication to any parents about
those children being turned away from the school district or the school. I understand that it was the firemen doing it. However, these kids were not accounted for. There were a lot of parents who, if these kids didn't tell them, wouldn't know anything. And if our kids didn't have cell phones that day,
we would have known almost nothing because at 7:25, my daughter told me, and we didn't get a call till 7:44. And then we got the all clear at 8:52, the call, but there was no call saying what these kids that were sent home were supposed to do. And by 9:13, all doors
to that building were locked. So, they all had to go in through the office. I don't know how to tell you to handle this better, but I know that it needs handled better because there was a lot a lot going on that day. We have a lot of kids who are just learning to drive who
are sent away in that traffic jam that is already union deposit. And then nobody knows what to do. I will say kudos to Dr. Andre because I did email him about making sure my son was marked excused because I didn't have time to take him back. I had to get to work and
I understand he could have ridden the bus. He could have already been at East Middle, but it probably would have been a whole situation like had happened in September. Also, while they were at East Middle, there were at least two, if not three fights because we're sticking all of these children with some of them with
anxiety, probably undiagnosed into this auditorium. There's not enough room for all the teachers who were, by the way, mostly standing outside on the park on the sidewalk. I could see them. What are we telling these kids when they're being sent away by the firemen? And again, I understand it wasn't the school, but as
parents, we're trusting that when they get there, they're safe and we know what's going on with them. And in this moment, we didn't. There was very little communication. And I don't know how if these kids went home from 8:52 to 9:13 in 21 minutes, they were all going to be back there and
in their classes where they were supposed to be. I don't live that far away and it would have taken me longer. Also, side note, I don't know if it's just he's high, but the missed periods thing, it's not working the way it's supposed to. I get calls every day that
my daughter's present for the day and missing classes. Yesterday, it's because she was at the Latin festival. Today, it's because she was giving eighth graders a tour. I'm almost positive these lists are being communicated to teachers and it is they're still being marked absent. And now I'm getting calls, but I'm getting these calls at
3:30 in the afternoon when I can't call and talk to anyone. So, I don't I don't understand why it's not being communicated properly or if it is, it's not being acted on properly. But as a parent, I want to help and I can't if I
don't have people helping me help. So, all thank you. >> Thank you. Next is Jessica Snider. I have a little bit of um I'm heart of hearing and I have a speech impediment. So I have some papers if anybody wants
to read them if they don't understand what I'm saying correctly. I don't know. I didn't put out enough. So, Okay. So, my husband and I are parents of first grade student in the school district at West Hanover Elementary. I'm
here today because we're concerned about the safety and the learning environment in her classroom. Our daughter has been stating facts about disruptive incidents and behaviors. The repeated incident I believe started
sometime in January. This one child is running out of classrooms, throwing his desk, throwing his chairs, papers, cusses, physical aggression towards the staff, and the
finest star was she told me that she witnessed the student stab the teacher with a pencil. When these incidents happen, she stayed at the classroom or leave the room and sit in the hallways or walk upstairs and
sometimes go into other classrooms. Our concern is not about the one child getting help as he should. The current approach is negatively impacting every student in that classroom.
This is not an isolated incident. It is ongoing and there has been no approvement. I'm here tonight because how is my child and the other students learning these actions? These actions are disrupted and quite
frankly traumatic for the entire classroom to witness on a regular basis. The students are being removed from class. There's physical aggression and learning time is consistently being disrupted.
This is not a safe and appropriate learning environment. What is the plan to ensure my child receives uninterrupted instruction? What happens if another child or staff member gets hurt?
I do feel the school administration should be notifying the parents of the situation and the behavior that the classroom is experiencing on a regular basis. We pay a lot of taxes for the school district to provide a safe and a
great learning experiences and education. That's not happening in this particular classroom. My kids are a wildcat at West Hanover Elementary and they are proudly to say the Wildcat War pledge every day.
We are respectful to everyone. We take ownership for our decision. We are honest reporters. We always do our best and help others do their best and their schoolwork and behavior. We are responsible broadcast. Thank you for
allowing me to speak on this matter and hope to resolve this soon. Thank you. Just um I did we did were told this evening that you will be meeting with Mr. Turman on Thursday. >> Um I will have to need to reschedule my
meeting on Thursday because my husband is actually out of town. So he won't be back until next week. Okay. Father's going to call tomorrow to reschedule. Okay. >> Okay. >> All right. And our last speaker for this
evening is Angela Rogers. Hello again. How is everybody? >> Um, just a couple things. I was here back in November to talk about my daughter Rosie about the special ed situation at East Middle School. I just wanted to give you an update on her.
She's I mean, we've figured it out. It took us a while, but we finally got her where she needs to be. Um, I think that there's room to grow when it comes to um special education
um accountability at East Middle, but I think that um I think that it's achievable and I've always wanted to be a part of the solution. So, I've offered that to Mr. pale and um the administration there just just you know
in case they they needed any parent input. Um one other thing that I wanted to talk about was I get a lot of questions from parents. I don't know why. Maybe because I come to the board meetings. I don't know. I get a lot of questions. Um and
some of them when we go to try to research the questions we don't have the appropriate resources. So, a lot of it I'm wondering if we knew what was going on in like the other like the executive
sessions and stuff like that, maybe with recordings or something like that, then we would know where we would go to address we should go to get our our opinions addressed or our questions addressed. Um, so and I looked on our
website, looked at the board docs and we don't have we only have this meeting recorded. Um, we don't have any of the other ones. Um, I looked at West Shore School District. Now listen, I know I just was just nosing around a little bit, not really comparing, but they had
all of theirs recorded. So, um I also think if you recorded them, you would get a lot more input because people would understand where the money is going, what is happening. People would know like what to listen to um or to
watch if they had questions. I mean, it's almost like did anybody see Hamilton? Did anybody see that? That that that Okay. The room where it happens. I feel like that your committee meetings are the room where it happens and we don't know anything about what's
going on in there as parents, as teachers, as all of the stakeholders in the school district. Also, um that's I have a third thing that is not even related to the other two things. Um the volleyball camp we were just noticing up
there is is scheduled for June 2nd through the 5th, I believe. the volleyball camp. We're not out of school yet. >> It's held in the evenings. >> Oh, okay. Okay. That's that's interesting. That's good to know. But,
um, there we go. We know now. So, um, that's all I have. Any questions? I know it was random. I just had several different things in my head. >> So, all of our committee meetings are open to the public and we would really
love to have more people attend committee meetings. We've tried to group them together. >> So, >> what time are they? >> Um, well, next I know there's one Thursday. >> We have a finance meeting at 4:30. So, they're usually stacked. >> Okay.
>> But there's also minutes of the meeting and we are working to have those televised as well. Okay. So, we're aware of that. >> And that's great. That's awesome. Um, 4:30 in the afternoon. Not many people are going to come. >> Yeah. I I you know what? No matter what
time we pick, that'll be the problem. >> I mean, so I mean, I get it. I get it. It's just that for me personally, and you see me here almost at every every board meeting. >> I can't get there at 4:30 and I can't
go. I mean, I would love to make a playlist and when I'm mowing the lawn, just listen to the meeting. Listen to the meeting. You know what I mean? >> If you'd really want to do that. >> No. Like, no. I know I'm weird that way. I'm sorry. It's just, you know, but I also read the users manuals when I buy something. >> Well, you have, so you have the minutes
that you have access to and you have the ability the finance the chairman are all identified. You have the ability to send an email saying what is happening here or why did that happen? Certainly, we can't share executive session because that's confidential. >> Okay. And that's fine.
>> Okay. >> Um, financial, I would think you would be able to. Buildings and grounds, I would think you would be able to. >> It's in the minutes. There's nobody's >> hiding in the minutes. They're fine, but that the minutes don't tell you everything. I went to a pack meeting and the minutes that I got didn't include everything.
>> So, I've had the uh interesting experience of having everything in the minutes. It's a transcript. It's expensive. If you're willing to pay for it, it would be about 20 or 25 pages. So, what we try to do is compress it into two or three minutes.
Well, two or three pages, not two or three minutes. >> Okay. That and I I appreciate that. I appreciate that. Also for finance, if you go on the web, you'll see all our budget presentations. Everyone is on the web. >> Is on the web. >> Yes, ma'am. >> I understand that as well, cuz I've
looked at them and I've I've reviewed them. Um, >> send me a question. I respond within 24 hours to everybody. I've done that for the last 11 years. >> I don't think that that's what it is. I don't think people they I don't know if
they know who to talk to. I don't think they know who what the policy is on certain things. I get a lot of questions about is this the way it's supposed to work? I'm like, well, I guess we got to go look at the policy. I I mean, or go to the policy meeting that's held at what 4:30 in the
afternoon. >> And if we had it at 7, 8 or 9, people would say it's too late. And if we had it before then, then our teachers couldn't attend. >> But at least you could say that it was in a time frame that people could actually make it. >> I think 4:30 is reasonable.
for retired people. >> Not for retired people. We We have a lot of people who attend who aren't retired, but I don't want to go back and forth. If you think that it's not >> accessessible for you, I certainly get that. >> My point is that the transparency is not
there. >> Is there? >> But it's not. >> No, it's not. It's not convenient. I I get that. Look, when I first came on the board, you had to sign up on Friday. Now you can walk in and sign up. We had no video. We introduced that. We have
archives for every meeting. So when you say it's not transparent, I have a hard time with that. We sit I'm on the finance committee. So we have 14 to 16 meetings a year. Then it's a slo. If you have questions, you can email me. I will
get back to you within 24 hours. So I don't know how that's not transparent. >> I've had people all the time email me, get right back to them. And that's and I'm not saying you don't. >> I do. >> I'm not saying that you don't. I'm saying that I'm saying that if you would
like more people to be involved that there should be more direction. That's all I'm saying. And there should be more. And I think that starting with a recording of these sessions that are happening behind closed doors. >> What sessions are happening behind
closed doors? >> Buildings and grounds. >> They're not behind closed doors. >> I'm ahead of buildings and ground. It's right. It's right after finance. >> They're public, too, right? They're all public. But this is what I'm saying, guys. This is not what I'm talking about. I am talking about the
people that want to be involved. Can't be. That's what I'm saying. >> I'm not going to argue back and forth, but I don't agree. I've seen a lot of change in 10 11 years I've been on here. There's always room for improvement, but
I can't make people >> reach out and call or email, which they're welcome to do. >> And I'm not saying that they should. I'm not saying nor should you. I'm just saying that this is something that I see as a possible improvement that a lot of
parents would appreciate so we would have extra resources to understand how the school district is run. That's all I'm saying. Uh the information is there. It may not be in the format that you would like. And certainly we've been working with tech
to have all the committee meetings. We we have we have six committees or five I >> five I think we're >> every board member here also is represented in an external body at which sometimes those meetings begin at 8 a.m. >> So you know we have this cavalcade of
requirements necessities that we have to address. I don't think most people are aware of that. >> And how would how are that we supposed to let them know? >> Well, if you look and see where we have an agenda, or rather we have our calendar for a year ahead of time.
>> All right. We advertise all the meetings. We have a list of committee meetings. I don't know what more we can do. >> That's where I'm saying. >> Yeah. I'm not going to go back and forth with different opinions. >> I am just Yes. Let's agree to disagree.
I am just saying that this is where these are things that I'm hearing from other people. I'm I'm the messenger. So, please don't shoot the messenger. >> Thank you for being the messenger. I really do appreciate it. And I I actually enjoy when members of the public come and and voice their concerns. So, I think that is good government and I appreciate your
involvement in all of it. And I do hear what you're saying and I also understand that as a person who is busy, it may be difficult to attend. I also understand that the meeting minutes sometimes don't include the granular level of information that you may want to see. And I think that we um now that we have
arranged our committee structure to be multiple meetings stacked, it may be something that we could look to recording them in the future because it may be more or less cost prohibitive because we would be recording like three meetings at a time as opposed to one on Tuesday, one on Thursday, one on
Tuesday, you know. So, I think that um that's something that we should definitely hear you and maybe look into as something that we could do in the future. So, thank you. >> Okay. Thank you. >> All right. 8:16 is board representative reports. Do I have any?
8:17 board committee reports. We have a finance committee meeting 4:30 on Thursday and I Dave I'm looking at you are building and grounds following that. I think this is a standalone >> country. >> Yeah because when you get into April
it's really um where the rubber starts to hit the road when it comes to financial planning and the budget. So my assumption would be it's 4:30 it's here. It'll probably run more than an hour. It'll probably be about a 90 minute investment. And um and then we have I
think one meeting in May and one meeting in June uh to finish it out, but feel free to email or call if you have any questions about the budget. Happy to answer them. >> Next Wednesday, is that the 22nd, 4:22, we will have
personnel at 4:00, board policy at 4:30, and academic committee at 5. >> And they are extremely exciting meetings then. >> No, they're really not. I mean, but they're necessary.
>> Okay. >> Before we do these sympathy resolutions, uh, also note that um, a teacher from TRIC and I will be on PA Good Day America tomorrow at 9 with 9:15. I think we start at 10:00. And uh, we are going
to talk uh, Mrs. Par, how do you say her name? Parco >> Porco. Um, we're going to go talk about full day kindergarten uh next year. So, that'll be at 10:00. >> Okay. Brings us to 8:18. Sympathy resolutions. Mr. Turman.
>> Sympathies are extended to the family of Deborah McKenzie, golf coach at Central Dolphin High School, on her passing. Sympathies are extended to Rebecca Boop, teacher at Central Dolphin Middle School, and the passing of her mother, Karen Boop. >> Okay, that brings us to 901 adjournment.
May I ask Second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> Anyone oppose? >> Okay. I call this meeting closed.