I don't think they're running. Good evening everyone and uh welcome to our school board uh general business meeting. And uh before we begin, I just always like to uh thank everyone for being here this evening and um just
always keep in mind that uh we foster respect here at the district and for our board. So as for our board members, our our administrator and also our community here and ones that may be watching
virtually and our students that uh we respect each other. So if someone is, you know, making either a public comment or if we're going through the agenda, I always ask that we respect each other and not um use any foul language or anything that is inappropriate um as we
have our business meeting. So, with that being said, it is now 6:14 and I call to order the February 24th, 2026 general business meeting of the Harrisburg City School District Board of School Directors. If we can please rise for the pledge of
>> allegiance. Colors. Ready. Cut forward. March. Colors. Hulk.
Left face. Present colors. May everyone join me as we recite the pledge of allegiance. I pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, to the
republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Ready, cut, left, face. And thank you to our um NJOTC from John
Harris High School. And um now we'll move to our announcements for the executive session. So, the school board met virtually in the executive session on February 16th, 2026 from 7:30 p.m. to
9:15 to confer with the district solicitor regarding uh legal issues surrounding the options pertaining to disposition of the William Penn High School facility and property. Uh the school board also met this evening for the executive session on
February 24th, 2026 at 5:00 p.m. to confer with special counsel and identifiable litigation options with respect to the renewal and potential extension of a charter school in the district and to discuss a student and
disciplinary matter. Um madame secretary, we are now ready to uh call our role for this evening. If you can please do a roll call vote. Roll call. >> Thank you, Madam President. Miss Copelan, >> present. >> Miss Anderson,
>> present. >> Mr. Carter, >> present. >> Miss Hughes, >> present. >> Miss Johnson, >> present. >> Miss Radcliffe, >> present. >> Miss Robinson. >> Mr. Roy, >> here.
>> Mr. Thompson Leader, >> present. >> Dr. Suski >> present. Thank you. We have a quorum. >> Thank you, Madam Secretary. We will now move to our approval and minutes for our agenda. So, is there a motion to approve
the minutes of the February 10th, 2026 committee of the whole meeting? >> So moved. Anderson. >> Is there a second? >> Second. Hughes. >> Madam sec uh Madam Secretary, can I have a roll call vote, please? Miss Anderson.
>> Yes. Mr. Carter, >> yes. >> Miss Copelan, >> yes. >> Miss Hughes, >> yes. >> Miss Johnson, >> yes. >> Miss Radcliffe, >> yes. >> Mr. Roy, >> yes. >> Mr. Thompson Leader.
>> Yes. >> Eight. Yes. Zero no zero abstain. >> Uh, thank you, Madam Secretary. Hearing majority of yeses, so that motion will carry. And before we begin, uh, Dr. Henry, I thank you. Yes. Uh before we approve the consent agenda, uh we do have one item
that we do need to remove. Uh item 8.3 under the human resource and we will be removing that and bringing that back to the board at a later time. >> Thank you. So may I have a motion to approve the agenda for the February 24th, 2026
school board general business meeting as presented in board docs with that removal of the 8.3 and that was in academics. >> No um HR >> in the HR and the human resources. >> So moved Anderson.
>> Is there a second? Second, Hughes. >> Thank you, Madam Secretary. Can I have a roll call vote, please? >> Miss Anderson? >> Yes. >> Mr. Carter? >> Yes. >> Miss Copelan? >> Yes. >> Miss Hughes? >> Yes. >> Miss Johnson? >> Yes.
>> Miss Radcliffe? >> Yes. >> Mr. Roy? >> Yes. >> Mr. Thompson Leader? >> Yes. >> Eight. Yes. Zero. No. Zero abstain. >> Thank you, Madam Secretary. So hearing majority of yeses that motion will carry
and we are now moving to our presentations for this evening. So Dr. Henry do we have any presentations this evening? >> Yes. Um Madame President we do have one presentation. Uh Dr. Stacy Noho who is our director of school counseling and social work will be presenting our K12
guidance plan. Good evening everyone. >> Well, good evening. >> I'd like to start by thanking you for this opportunity to give a brief overview of our comprehensive school counseling plan. Um, this plan has often
been called either a 339 plan or a K to2 guidance plan. So, those terms are rather used synonymously. Um, so tonight I'm going to refer to it as the comprehensive school counseling plan. One of the things that has been very important to me moving into my
position is that we align our plan with the national model which is known as the ASKA model and we'll talk more about what that means in an upcom upcoming slide. Um, but I wanted to start with this picture. So, most of you know that I spent about 20 years as a school
counselor in our district. And I think that this picture does a good job of describing what it was like for me um in that position. And so, you see me there in the office. I do have my coffee. Um everything is on fire, but I'm fine. I'm
saying I'm fine. Um and I know that you've probably seen this meme um post pandemic became quite popular. And one of the things that I know for sure that I did well and a lot of our school counselors and school social workers do well is managing that chaos and that
day-to-day stress. But what I did not do well um is understanding that what I was doing in my individual building tied to something bigger to a bigger guiding framework. And so that's really the purpose of having a K- to2 guidance
plan. All right. So when we look at why it matters to have this plan, um we can look at we want to shift from the individual school counselors and school social workers doing work in their buildings to looking at a more
coordinated effort at a district level with a unified purpose and direction. Um what that provides is a sense of accountability. So it it makes things more measurable because we're understanding what we are trying to
achieve. So therefore you can measure if you're achieving it or not. And it also creates a plan where students regardless to the campus that they're are enrolled at are receiving similar um similar services from the school counselor or
school social worker. So it creates that equity. So if we look a little closer at what the ASCA model actually is, it is considered the gold standard. It is the nationally recognized model. Um and it is broken into these four parts. So you
want to define what we think our roles are in our buildings. You want to manage our services. So you're looking at how you allocate your time and how you organize your services and your resources. Look at how you're delivering uh those services to the students. So
looking at the counseling, the instruction, the collaboration, and then you're able to assess at the end, are you are you measuring and reporting the outcomes that you wanted to measure and and report on. So that's the four the
four branches of the ASCA model. So when we look specifically at our K to2 guidance plan, it covers six different areas. Um so there is a section of the mission and vision and we'll see that in this upcoming slide section of the goals the K to2
curriculum that's being delivered um how the services are being delivered and then the use of the calendar and the annual goals and the overall assessment of your program. So I'm going to read you specifically our mission and vision. So our mission
is the mission of the Harrisburg school district counseling program is to provide a comprehensive program that will assist all students in acquiring and you look at that vision that sits down below there. We want to celebrate our individual uniqueness.
We want to connect all the stakeholders in the school and the school community and we want to address the personal, social, academic and career needs. Remember earlier when I I said that the 339 was sort of the same thing but the language was changing. That's because of
that addressing part at the end. 339 is often just thought of the college and career piece. So now it's important that we're adding in these other parts the personal social and the academic as well. We want to look at the goals that we are
working toward. um you can see that they are um separated into those same three domains that we just talked about. So some examples of academic goals might be teaching students how to monitor their grades so that they understand um where they are academically. It's important to
teach high school students about the credits um and how they need to obtain credits and what that credit obtainment actually is working toward. Um it's important that our counselors are connecting what our students need by looking at data. So that's the other
piece of it. Um, in terms of ensuring that every student has a clear path forward in career, we want to be looking at things like the exploration, um, developing of a portfolio, all of the planning that goes into postsecary, whether that's college or,
uh, trade school or starting out in into a career directly. And then last, the social emotional piece. We want to make sure that our students have the skills that they need to thrive. Um, and some of those are self-awareness or learning coping
skills, teamwork, things like that. Things that aren't always easily taught in a regular classroom. Okay. So, why the ASKA model? Why would we want to go with that one? So, that one is the national gold standard. As I pointed out earlier, it is what PTE
recommends for school counseling programs. um and it has been used and endorsed by PTE. It is already aligned with the 339. Uh we know that it's researchbased and so there are there are years of research
that go into that. Um it is measurable. And what I'm most excited about is number three. So there is a program and we are not at this place yet but it is my hope that at some point we will be. There's something called the ramp program. So, um, school counseling
programs that are meeting the criteria that ASCA is laying out can then apply, um, to be recognized as a RAMP program, which is saying that you are following these guidelines with fidelity, um, and that you're able to call
yourself a RAMP program. So, that is something that um, I would like to look at for our program later. And the most important part of any plan obviously is how it impacts our students. So that's why this slide looks at what do the students gain by us
having this unified plan. Um so you can see here that every student is served in this plan. So it's not it's not just the students at either end. Um it's students in the middle as well. The program is measurable because it's a framework
aligned program. So, it's not just that separate um collection of services that I spoke about before. It's all working toward a greater good. Um the standards are very clear because they're written out um and they're available so we know what those are. And it focuses on the
the whole child. So, it's not just looking at the career piece that the 339 was looking at, but it's also adding in those other parts with the social, emotional, and the personal. All right. So currently where are we? So this is our year of implementation. Um
and one of the things that we do we do frequently is that we decide to roll something out and then we roll it out and we hit roadblocks and we become frustrated and we kind of just throw out the entire plan and we start with something else. So, um, because of that
and knowing that that is how things are, it makes sense to sort of start rolling it out and we're rolling it out this year, but looking at what are some of the barriers that need to be addressed so that we have complete roll out next school year. And those can often be
simple things um like identifying which classroom you might be utilizing for the lessons or the technology or even making sure everyone's trained. um have building that that language. You'll see this on the next slide as well. Um so
year one is intentional and then year two is seamless. So I'd like to think right um so for this year then the things that we're doing as a department to get ready for next year are we are talking about
the shared language. Um, we're collecting feedback from the people in the buildings who are facing any sort of barrier so that they can let us know how it is going. We're documenting the gaps between the current practice and what the expectations are for the plan. Um, and we are identifying any personal
development needs that might be in the way of a full implementation. Well, that was my timer alarm. All right. So if anyone has any questions? Yes.
>> Um thank you for the presentation. So so far with year one, what has been implemented so far with year one especially pertaining to the high school level? >> Yeah. So um we've talked before about the choices 360 program um and utilizing
that for the career artifacts. So that is something all of the teachers have been trained to use that and they've started using that this school year. >> Okay. So in regards to um in regards to
seeking higher education, have we um in regards to working with our students, have we um matter of fact, I I'll wait to go to the next question. Okay. All right. Any
other question from the board? It's not Dr. No. >> All right. I'm going to stay here. So, >> okay. Thank you, Dr. No. Okay. Thank you. Thank you for your presentation. >> There was another question I had. So um
also when a student is feloning um what systems do we use to catch the scene matter of fact no um I know we spoke about credits how soon do we catch students when we know that they are not um that they are possibly feloning and
might not receive the credit when do we start to reach those students and and have that intervention with them in >> that's how I answer that >> so the expectation is at the end of a quarter so the at the end of every quarter if you are failing a course your school counselor is meeting with you and you're talking about why that happened
and what you can do to remedy that. So that happens each quarter. >> Thank you. >> Any additional questions to Dr. No. All right. Thank you. >> So thank you uh Dr. nor hope for the uh
presentation and um now we'll move to our public comment period >> recognition. >> Oh, there's recognition. Excuse me. Uh Dr. Henry, do we we're going to move to the recognitions portion for this evening? Do we have any recognitions,
Dr. Henry? >> Yes, Miss Keys is coming to the podium to uh do her recognition for tonight. >> Well, good evening everyone. To our school board of directors, uh to our superintendent, Dr. Susky, our chief recovery officer to Mr. Sultanic, our
administration and our community and our staff that are out this evening. Uh I bid you good evening. So we have a few highlights uh this evening. Uh we had quite a few on February 10th. So this report will be a little bit abbreviated.
So first up, we hosted a national signing day for three amazing athletes. Uh and I'm going to share briefly. The first is Hussein Althi. And we can go to the next slide. And Hussein will be uh attending West
Liberty University uh where he will be uh playing for the Hill Toppers. Uh can we give it up for Hussein Alth? Next up we have Derell Dixon. Derell signed with Bloomsburg University.
And the last one is Tavon Williamson. He also signed to Bloomsburg University. Uh so can we give all of these athletes a round of applause? The event was awesome. It was attended by our athletics director, uh Calvin
Everett, uh Dr. Craig, and various principles from Scitec, John Harris campus, uh Cougar Academy, HVLA. we were all there to uh cheer these athletes on as they go on to pursue higher education in addition to their family, friends, and many, many, many community members.
So, congratulations to those three outstanding young men. And uh this past weekend, I had the opportunity to support uh the Harrisburg Public Schools Foundation uh and the Highark Caring Place. Uh we know that
the Highark Caring Place provides uh grief support for children who may have lost a loved one. Uh and then what can we say about our incredible Harrisburg Public Schools Foundation? Are they always there for us? Yes, they are. So,
let's give it up for Chris Baldridge. Harrisburg Public Schools Foundation. You can go to the next slide. I've never been to a masquerade uh event. There you see uh Chris Baldridge on the far side in the gold jacket. You see there uh Mr.
Mike uh is it Wilson? I want to say Wilson with Members First Federal Credit Union. He's the president and CEO of that amazing institution and myself there in some Marty GR gear. Uh you also see a couple of retired teachers from
the Harrisburg School District. Uh Miss Maren Dunar and Miss Deborah Slater Wire. And then um the Alexanders, Mr. and Mrs. Alexander. They have uh long been philanthropists uh for this community and it was so great to spend
the evening with all of those who were there to raise funds for the foundation and the caring place and it was a pleasure to represent the Harrisburg school district there. Also this month we had a winter concert at Lincoln Elementary School under the
direction of the classically trained musician and music teacher Mr. Uriah Moore. Uh, Mr. Nornhold, will you hit that video? We just have a snippet for you to enjoy. I'm Mr. Moore from Lincoln Elementary
School and we are prepared to give you an excellent show for winter 2026. It is wonderful to come together and share all that we work on throughout the year, especially during the winter time, winter 2026. Thank you for tuning in.
Heat. Heat. Oh, I'm done hiding. I'm shining like I'm born to be. Oh, I know. >> Oh, I thought we were going to get the solo. I guess you'll have to go online
to our Facebook page to hear that wonderful young lady uh just sing from the depths of her soul. It was a wonderful concert. So, can we give our Lincoln students and Mr. Uriah Moore a round of applause? And this isn't in my presentation tonight, but I hope that all of you will
join us at the uh celebration of the arts. That will be uh towards the end of March. Again, that is sponsored by the Harrisburg Public Schools Foundation. And we will have various elementary, middle, and high school uh music performances right there in the atrium
of Strawberry Square. So check our website, check our Facebook page for more information. The Harrisburg School District is proud to be a part of the giant feeding school kids initiative. From now through March 31st, our entire school community can
round up at the register to support our school district's efforts to eliminate childhood hunger. Through this initiative, school districts can use funds to support meal programs to expand food distribution programs, supply weekend meals for homeless and or
displaced students, and more. Join us as we round up to fight hunger within the Harrisburg School District. That information is also available on our Facebook page. The Harrisburg School District is pleased and proud to celebrate Black
History Month. We are coming to the end of a wonderful month of celebration and education in all of our schools. Our schools have been hosting uh daily trivia in black history educating our students about the significant contributions of African-Americans in
the United States and around the world. We're also going to have culminating events this week at Cougar Academy. Uh we'll have another event at Ben Franklin. uh another event at Harrisburg High School John Harris campus. Uh another event at the Marshall Math
Science Academy. It will be their fourth annual Black Excellence Showcase. And we also have a wonderful event at Downey School that Mrs. Holland is a part of with the William Howard Day alumni from Downey Elementary School. Uh those
alumni have adopted all 20 classrooms at Downey. So, it will be a full week of celebration as we uh bring Black History Month to a close. At this time, I'd like to bring forth Lieutenant Commander Matthew Parr from our NJRLTC program. He
has a few highlights he'd like to share with you about our program. And then he'll be followed by the esteemed principal of Marshall Math Science Academy, Mr. Ryan Jones and Miss Brittany Holton uh who serves I think you're in IT now but she used to serve
as the family engagement at that campus and they do amazing work there with our students. So thank you for your time and hear ye them. >> Uh thank you for having me here. Um, I always like an opportunity to uh talk about the good things of course that I'm
doing and the good things that our cadets are doing every single uh day in ROC. Um, to give you background on me uh if anybody doesn't know, I was an alumni of John Harris and the NJOTC program. Thank you.
I did four years class of 2001 and uh being in the ROC unit allowed me to get a sorry being in the junior ROC unit allowed me to get an ROC scholarship to Penn State. I did four and a half years there and graduated
with my bachelor's in science and then I was commissioned as a nen in the United States Navy and just recently retired after 20 years. So I talked to the cadetses before in ninth grade after talking to my instructor as I made a decision. I
wanted to sit behind that desk one day. I wanted to be an officer. I wanted to do 20 years. I wanted to definitely get that pension for the rest of my life. And then I wanted to come back and give other people the same opportunities that I have now. Over 25 years the unit has
changed a little bit. Um the demographic of the school has changed. So that has uh had an impact on the uh unit. But everyone there is just as motivated and uh eager um to succeed as I remember people being back when I was in when I
was going through I had a senior class uh an ROC of uh only seven people. Now we have 29 seniors in our ROC class. Several Yep. Thank you. 16 of whom have lasted all four years
since ninth grade. Um we have our drill team commander, our uh color guard commander, our academic and our drone team commander. We have done so many more things than when I was here. Uh we just basically did drill. Now we have a
marksmanship team with high-powered air rifles. Uh we have several drones of different uh sizes and they have been uh competing all over area 3 which is uh Maryland uh Pennsylvania, Delaware and uh related areas. Uh we have our
upcoming annual military inspection on March 10th where we're hoping to show off everything including our unarmed drill, armed drill um and uh drones as well. Um right now they're putting together a routine, something a little flashy. Um, some of the things that I
would like to do over the next uh couple of years is uh bring back uh some of the higher forms of discipline. We have probably the most disciplined uh cadet or students at John Harris. We have we have that expectation uh that they
always uh cord themselves properly. Um but I want to see that level of discipline increase. And I told them them I'm treating them like uh the frog in the boiling water. slowly turn up the heat and start to create um even better versions of themselves. Um we have
several people already that are planning to join the military. Um but if you see uh some of our they don't look like Marines uh particularly around the hair. Some people will choose not to shave. um we have uh we have um kind of relaxed
those standards because we think it is more important uh to reach a larger number of the student body uh than it is for us to train everybody to go into the military. Um my goal is to every sing is every single senior that
graduates from the ROC program is not going to go out and get a job. They're going to have a career. They're going to join the military. They're going to go to college. I have one that wants to start her own business right out of high school, votes, and we want to give them
the ability and uh the confidence to pursue that right off the bat. Um with that, we've also uh brought in guest speakers more so than when I was in. In fact, tomorrow we have two special agents from the FBI, uh, a
forensic team coming in to talk to us about forensic science, what they do, law enforcement, criminal investigations, and the things that they need to uh that the students need to do in order to be qualified for those jobs. Um, later on this year, we uh, sorry,
earlier this year, uh, we hosted our first drill competition at John Harris. We had uh several schools uh come all the way from Maryland, uh Delaware, um western Pennsylvania just to come uh be a part of that. Uh we are hosting a
drone competition and an athletic competition later on in the year. And um my ultimate goal as we're uh moving on uh is to also reinstate uh the many boot camps that we did when I was in. We'd
have a week and we'd go down and stay with Marines in uh Virginia Beach at uh Joint Expeditionary Baits uh Little Creek. Uh I'd wake up at five o'clock, do PT, get ready for the day, and then we'd go out on ships, we'd go out on amphibious uh assault vehicles, and uh
basically live a day in the life of uh active duty Navy. Um thank you very much for your time. Um is there any questions? Not a question, but just a comment. Thank you uh for all you're doing and for coming back and um showing our
students that you know doesn't matter where you start is where you finish. So we appreciate you coming back and all of our students continue to grow and go. So thank you. >> Oh, I do have one more thing. I want to
recognize uh Cadet Enson Wier Anderson as uh he was nominated and received the Martin Luther King Jr. Drum Major for Justice Award. >> Congratulations. >> He's only been in for a year and a half and he's already commanding two teams.
>> Dr. Henry, they'd like to get a photo with you now that he has on his uniform. >> I got Anderson. So, we'll do it right here. Mr. Aliver, I'll let you come over as well. >> So, I just also wanted to share with the
board um he talked about 29 students um in the program, but we actually have around we actually confirmed 165 students in the entire program 9 through 12. Everybody >> more than
>> Y can go on the other side of the superintendent. He doesn't always the other one. >> Yeah. >> You know, I just want to mention this while you're doing photo ops. Um, call
it a public service announcement, but we are going to be looking for another NJOT NJOTC instructor for next year with the retirement of Kayla Orange. So, if you know of anybody, feel free to have them
apply. Thank you for sharing that information with us and I'm excited to hear that we'll continue to grow with that program. There you go. >> Uh it and this is our IT specialist from Marsh Science Academy. I'll let her introduce herself.
>> Hi, good evening. My name is Brady Holton. I've been an employee with the school district for 20 years. I've wore several hats in the district and currently I'm serving as our building IT specialist. So many Miss Holton helped us put on our last uh
event that we had there that we're going to uh showcase here, but um we're going to showcase I'm not doing anything. Okay. >> There we go. >> All right. >> There you go. All right.
So, all the events that we're having uh this month, um but we use our events that are really high engaging for students to connect to our communities. So, I'll let uh Britney talk about our sweetheart dance. >> So, we've been doing our sweetheart
dance for Dr. Craig, how long? Because you were there when we did we'll say like Yeah, about 17 years. And every year we try to make it a little bit better for our students. and also increase our parent attendance. So, for the last few years, we've linked
it with our Let's Chat. Mr. Jones will dig deeper into that shortly, but this year, we had just shy of 300 parents come out to the event. >> Thank you. We've also had community partners such as the Harrisburg CSAs. As
you can see, some of them, they'll be in our videos dancing with the kids. So, we definitely try to le link our school with the community. And the kids just had a really good time. They were able to win awesome prizes from Urban Air, Laser Dome, places like that. And it's one of the events that our students look
forward to the most. >> Those were CSAs dancing with our students. It was a st like a staff versus students dance. So it was like four rounds. I think the kids actually took it when it was done. I mean, they're a little bit better dancers than
us to this new music, but if it was old school, we would have took it. I used to think that I wasn't enough. I used to think that I wasn't wild enough. Give it up like the beat like the beat like
I be cutting it up like shake it up. Shake it up. Shake it up. >> So, our students had a great time. So, here's our secret. But what we really were doing is connecting with our parents and connecting with like our
community members. So kids will bring the adults. When we started the less chats, we would have these really orchestrated um presentations to like five people that kept showing up. Um and
we had some good information, but I was only giving it to five people. And maybe I spoke about like stuff that maybe three people were interested in. Now when we have these events, we connect with up to like 300 parents
because how we do it is to attend parents have to sign their students in. So parents have to come. Um at the signin there's an agenda for suggested topics that you can talk to me about. Um, and we have things like our like our
title one survey. That's how we get our parents to engage like in our surveys. They sign in their kid. There's a survey right there. Uh, parents, CSAs, and MMSA staff, they were invited to volunteer. We had tons of volunteers. Um, one of
our parents even donated like sweet treats for our students. They had a whole hot chocolate bar that a parent brought. um when you open it up to our community and our parents, they're wonderful and they make everything like special. Um
topics covered at the event with parents were our title one parent survey. We talked about student data and our progress uh with our school improvement plan. Did I talk to all 300 parents there? I did not. I said hi to a lot of
them and not all of them wanted to talk about um what I wanted to talk about like their student data and how we're doing with like our school improvement plan. However, we created opportunity and we did have really meaningful conversations with a lot of families but
they'll keep coming and we have them once a month usually. We have an event like every month and we repeat ourselves a lot because while you might not wanted to talk to me about your student data at the sweetheart dance, maybe at our Black History Excellence Showcase, you might
and I'll be there or uh our assistant principal will be there or staff will be there and they'll talk to you about it. We also created other opportunities for the parents to be able to the ones that didn't want to engage with us. Like if they wanted to do the title one survey,
we also had the QR codes easily available for them to scan and take at their own time. So, another event that we had this month was the NCTTE, the National uh Council of Teachers of English, uh the African-American Readin, where we invite
district staff and community members to volunteer to read a variety of texts about black legacy to our MMSA students. Um I think that's a picture she got she kind of got cut off that Dr. Grant Spencer came and read to our students. She was there. Um, and then our students
engage in responsive activity and we display it in our Black Excellence Showcase. Um, and you'll hear from her at the end, but this was uh an initiative that's spearheaded by our eighth grade ELA teacher, Haley Kenir. So, speaking of our Black Excellence
Showcase, that'll be this Friday. Um, for anybody that would like to come out, um, we invite our community members, uh, former students come as vendors. Um, our home rooms display their Black History Month projects and we have current
students and MMSA alum that come back and just perform. They read poetry. Uh, they play instruments, they sing, they dance, and it's just an honor of black excellence. Oh, yeah. So, our last thing you asked me to talk about is our National History
Day. So, we have a busy weekend. So, our students are going to be competing um at regionals at Messiah College uh this Saturday. Uh this year's theme for National History Day is revolution, reaction, and reform. Our students can
choose um anything from history that has to do with that theme. And they can choose a variety of ways to uh show um what they've learned. So, these are museum exhibits. Um we have students that write and create plays. We
have students that build websites that do essays and they perform. Um they go and compete. This is our one we do inhouse. And again we invite parents, community members to come and hear it and give feedback. Um and then the ones
that um kind of are the best, most prepared, we work with them to prepare them for the regionals. We send a few in the states every year. We've only had one go to nationals. Hopefully, this is our year again. Um, so wish us luck.
We'll be competing this Saturday. >> Thanks. Hello and welcome to Marshall Math Science Academy. My name is Miss Keenir. I'm an eighth grade ELA teacher here. And here at MMSA, we do it big for Black History Month. We have been spending the entire month celebrating Black History
and Black Legacy. 2026 is the 100th anniversary of Black History Month. So, for the last 100 years, we have officially been celebrating Black History both in Harrisburg, nationally, and globally. But we all know Black History has been happening much, much
longer than that. So, here at MMSA, for our celebration, we do a couple really cool things. This is our fourth year participating in the National African-American Readin where we have local leaders, entrepreneurs, business people come into our building from the community and read to our children about
black history. The kids have the opportunity to respond to that reading through various activities that we then collect and showcase as part of our Black Excellence Showcase. This is also our fourth annual Black Excellence Showcase taking place right here at Marshall Mass Science Academy on Friday,
February 27th from 5:00 to 7:00 pm. We invite local blackowned businesses to come in as vendors. We invite community partners to come in and partner with our community. We have student performances, student work. It is a celebration you don't want to miss. We love Black
History Month here at MMSA. It is important to our kids. It is important to our community and is important to our world that we celebrate Black History. We hope you can join us. And from our family to yours, happy Black History Month. >> Hello, Harrisburg. Here's a little known
Black History fact. 100 years ago, Dr. Carter G. Woodson founded a wonderful celebration of Negro Life, and it was entitled Negro History Week. Now, a century later, the Harrisburg School District and Marshall Math Science
Academy are PROUD TO CELEBRATE BLACK HISTORY MONTH. RIGHT. Thank you again. And now we will move to our public comment period for this evening. So, Madam Secretary, we are ready to begin the public comment period of the agenda for agenda items
only. >> Thank you, Madame President. We have three public comments this evening. The first one up is Miss Melanie Cook. And just a quick reminder, you are allotted three minutes. Thank you. >> Good evening. My name is Melanie Cook. I
am a long-term resident and property owner in the city of Harrisburg. I also served on the William Penn task force and currently serve on the Act 141 advisory board. I am here to say we see you. We see the actions that you take
with respect to our students. We see that you are circling back to a proposal to demolish a building that the Harrisburg Preservation Society has placed number one on its list of preservation. We see your failure to
take into account the recommendations that were made by a task force that was comprised of the creme de la creme of the city of Harrisburg. engineers, lawyers, community activists, urban planners, urban farmers got together for
over a year and put together a proposal. We solicited public comment. We solicited comments from the very students we see you every other week say that you are here to serve. those students, that task force made a
recommendation that that building be preserved to the greatest extent possible and adaptively reused to create opportunities for our students. Opportunities that open the doors for them to be the urban farmers. Opportunities that open the door for
them to be those individuals who can put together a piece like this. We see you honor the Harrisburg uh school district foundation, the very foundation that came into existence and stop this
district from ending full day kindergarten and eliminating the athletic programs. You will stand here or sit here and acknowledge the athletes who only have an opportunity to play because of a public private partnership
that went out on the limb and saved their ability to have athletic programs. We see you say, use as a feeble excuse, we need athletic fields when you fail to work with the city of Harrisburg, which is spending millions of dollars to
upgrade fields that are no farther than a quarter of a mile from where these fields are proposed to be. We see you fail to take into consideration that 26 acres of athletic fields in the middle of a residential community is
inconsiderate to those of us who live there. and also ridiculous. If every student in the city of Harrisburg was a division one athlete, they would not need 24 acres of athletic fields. We see you. We know that this is just about
demolishing that building and that the same mistake that was made when the middle school was demolished and this very board under this very receiverhip did nothing with the land other than sell it to a neighboring district. We
see you. >> Thank you, Miss Melanie Cook. >> Next, we have Brett Peters. And just a quick reminder, you are limited to three minutes. Thank you. >> Hi, thank you for listening to my comments. Um,
uh, William Penn High School is an irreplaceable cultural asset for the city. Um, we have proposed to you um an approach to pay for its its full restoration to its original form and reuse. Um, I understand that a building
like this seems like a a large struggle to a a group like this. You're not most of you aren't familiar with dealing with this uh kind of project. Uh, over the 10 years since 2015 that this has been vacant. I've been involved in a $160 million
uh project for Penn State, the Dickson Law School, where we took the Dickinson buildings in Carlilele and tore some of them down and built new components to them and restored them and repurposed them. Built a brand new law school up at Penn State. Uh been involved in the over
$200 million GSA federal courthouse here, which we've been involved in since uh 2006 to uh just recently when it was opened. So I'm familiar with how long these projects take and how to fund them. Uh we have proposed as as I mentioned the funding when it was asked
for and we've got had that term sheet extended when that was asked for. Um we've shown proof of of insurability. Um so uh I'm I'm open to doing whatever the school district requires to keep that building uh up and running and and
using and and for the exact same purpose that Miss Cook is is discussing. Um we we also have have uh demonstrated that we have tenets for that. Um I would ask that you table uh 6.1 6.2 and 6.3
uh at this meeting uh while we have an opportunity to dis while we have an opportunity to directly discuss uh with the school board the details of this. I don't believe the finding of fact that you you have in 6.1 is a finding of fact. I think a lot of the information that we could discuss with you uh is not
in that document. I think the rejection of the public private partnership is not properly stated. We have not uh proposed a public private partnership. We proposed a land lease um which is very different than a public private partnership. And uh last I don't think
you should demolish the building for 6.3. So, um, I would appreciate the opportunity to directly communicate with the school board about the details of our proposal and craft something that is acceptable to you to maintain this in incredibly important historic asset for
the city. Uh, its loss would um just continue the downward motion uh in many aspects of um of our our city which we don't need right now. Thank you very much for your time. Um, >> thank you, Mr. Brett Peters.
We have uh Mr. Steel Andrews next. He is a general item, so do we have enough time? Okay. And just a quick reminder, if you could state your name and address for the record and um you're allowed three minutes. >> Sure. Thanks. I'm Steel Andrews. I live
here in Harrisburg, 16th Street on the south side of 83. Um I'm late to the party. I apologize. I've only been here for two years and so I don't know the extent of the history here but um when I came here was the
first time I heard they were going to take down the way Ben and it was just after I had seen the building around Italian lake and the monument. It's a beautiful area and it would be heartbreaking to lose it. I understand that this board needs to focus on education and then next they need to
focus on the sacred funds that are put up to this from the taxpayers. So those are your priorities and it may be that the school has to come down. The $5 million as I understand to demolish the building
um in 18 I guess they tried to sell it for three million which they couldn't. Um, if you put it up for auction and you sold it for a dollar, you'd be five million ahead. If you just if we're going to lose the building, maybe just give it one more shot with an
auction. Uh, they they I've heard they want to hold the land for potential use by the school district. Um, if the numbers are are declining as it's shown in the past,
maybe that won't be necessary. maybe would be sitting on a very beautiful piece of property for no reason. I I have spoken to Mr. Peters and maybe there's people out there like him that have that can establish funding that can
purchase the building. I just wonder if there'd just be one more shot just to try to you have to focus on education. Maybe just one more shot at it. Thank you for your time.
>> Uh, thank you, Mr. Is it still Andrews? >> That concludes the public comment section of the agenda. >> All right. So, we will now move to our um to the old business uh related to the William Penn.
And it looks like we have immediate action item. here. >> Okay. All right. For immediate uh action in front of you all, you have folded with the uh finding of facts. So, the administration is recommending that the
board of school director of the Harrisburg School District hereby accept and adopt the finding of fact regarding the options for the William Penn property as presented to the board by administration. >> Thank you. So, do I have a motion to approve the acceptance and adoption of
the findings of facts regarding the options for the William Pin property as presented to the board by the administration as an immediate action item? >> So moved. >> Is there a second?
>> Seconded. Thompson leader. >> Thank you. The motion has been properly moved and seconded. Is there any discussion on the motion? Miss Anderson, >> thank you. Um, so I wanted to look at the introduction and purpose section of
the findings of fact. Um, I don't know if it would require making an update to this document or at least just stating for the public record. Um, it talks about it basically only documents or implies that um, this findings effect
happened be after and because of the November 13th meeting. um in 2025 as well as the recent board meeting where we had Dr. Henry providing um recommendations to the board which we did ask him to do and put together an analysis and I do think that uh it's
really important that we document and say on public record that the task force findings were absolutely a critical part um and input into this um as well as other community input over the last two years. This has been a really long process. Um we had presentations last
spring I think in both April and May of the different uh proposals. So this was not the first time that we had received this information. Um and this was not the beginning of the process. So I just want to state for the public record that um this process extended beyond just
that November and uh February meetings. Thank you. >> Thank you Miss Anderson. Is there any further discussion on the motion? >> Um, say something. >> Oh, Miss Hughes,
>> I guess I didn't have that I guess I didn't have that confusion. Um, because the administrative actions task force is mentioned in section B. So, I don't know if that affects affects your interpretation, Miss Anderson, or not. No, it talks about it
later on, but in the purpose and introduction where it sort of like outlines kind of like it implies that these were just sort of like the main reasons why this document was created. And I just wanted to state that um there was a much longer process that occurred
to impact this. >> Is there any further discussion on the motion? And um I would just add to uh the motion just indicating that um we did um as a board we definitely took in consideration the the fact findings and
that the educational component um is what the what we want to see as a board. So this factf finding is just or this motion per se. This motion is just uh pretty much indicating that we had them do the additional factf finding doesn't you know necessarily what's going to
determine on the vote but I do want to take in consideration we asked u multiple you know questions as a board president asked multiple different questions and wanted a lot of feedback from from the uh task force from every option which again
um some I may have agreed and some I may have disagreed so I just want to um make that public for the record that everything was considered. So um with that u madam secretary also wanted to make
statement just wanted to make a comment too and also in regards to the finance let's not I sat on the task force as well too. So let's not forget the input from our students too and what they wanted as well to incorporate in the decisions that we make sitting here at the table tonight.
>> Thank you Mr. Carter. And is there any further discussion on the motion? All right. So, hearing no further discussion on the motion, Madam Secretary, can I have a roll call vote, please?
>> Miss Anderson, >> yes. >> Mr. Carter, >> yes. >> Miss Copelan, >> yes. >> Miss Hughes, >> yes. >> Miss Johnson, >> yes. >> Miss Radcliffe, >> yes.
>> Mr. Roy >> yes >> Mr. Mr. Thompson leader. >> Yes. >> Eight yes, zero no, zero abstain. >> Thank you, Madam Secretary. So hearing majority of yeses, that motion will
carry. Um the next item >> based upon the final facts adopted by the board and the recommendation of administration, the board of school director of the Harber School District hereby declined to enter into a private public partnership with respect to
option six, the bridge Gary Gillian proposal. Option seven, PA social equity investment fund Brett Peters proposal and option eight capital rebirth male Simpson and Leseawn McCor proposal as they pertain to development, renovation
and disposition of the William Penn property. >> Thank you. So do have a motion to approve the Excuse me. I think I jumped up for a second. Excuse me. So, do I have a motion to
reject the public private partnership options for the William Penn property with respect to option six, the uh the bridge uh Gary Gilliam proposal, option seven, the PA social equity investment funds with bre Peters proposal and option eight, the capital
rebirth with Mel Simpson and Leseawn McCoy proposal as they pertain to the development, renovations or dispositions of the William Pin property as an immediate action. So moved. >> Is there a second? >> Second.
>> Who who was second? >> Hughes. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. The um motion has been properly moved and seconded. Is there any discussion on the motion? >> Miss Anderson. >> Um thank you. Um Mr. Mr. Sultanic, based
on the public comment that we received this evening. Could you please confirm if the language in the motion is accurate or not? Uh there was a question around whether or not um all three options are private public partnerships.
Um there was a dispute on that. So before we vote on it, >> uh technically uh two of the options were E3 or public private partnerships. the PSCIF
uh proposal uh I was a form of a land lease in question. Uh so I do agree that that clarification could be made to the motion itself. So you you can reject the public private
partnerships as well as the we could just say simply the PSIF proposal as presented. Thank you. So is there any >> whoever made the motion if that's a clarif >> Okay. Was there a motion yet?
>> No, it was immediate action. >> She just Okay. >> No, the motion. >> No, we did. There was a motion motion to put the item on the floor. >> Okay. Who made the Who made the motion? Miss Anderson. >> No, it was Miss Johnson and then Carter seconded.
>> Okay. >> Oh. Oh, I'm sorry. >> Okay. Whoever made the motion and whoever made the second, if they agreed to that modification, >> do you all agree to the modification of the motion?
>> Well, it sounds like it's a little bit different, isn't it? Um the right now it reads as it's declining p private public partnership which applies to two of three. Correct. So, I'm suggesting that whoever
made the motion, whoever made the um uh the second, we could say that it is a motion to decline the public private partnership as well as separately the PSI
proposal as presented. >> Uh Mr. Sultanic, could you explain why they're categorized together, all three? I think um we should have in retrospect I'm glad that this was brought up and we appreciate Mr. Peters bringing that
issue to our attention. It should not have been categorized in the motion as purely a P3 partnership though it is a form of partnership with the district's operation but it should not have been characterized in
retrospect as a P3 partnership. >> Can I clarify what our options are with this motion? Um, is it possible to amend the the motion um to break this out into two votes? >> You could do it in two votes or you
could uh theoretically you could do it in two votes if you wish. >> Okay. Or you could do it as I stated, lump the two private partnerships together as
well as the um PSIF land lease type of proposal. Now this is designated in the findings of fact they are that option was treated differently and
would be supported by doing it in this fashion. I think what's meaningful for this vote and and for this board is understanding um the basis upon which um these were proposed I guess positioned to be
rejected. Right. Um so the public private partnership had some you know some issues for the district. Um so can you please clarify um you know why if we were to vote on all three why
these are similar enough to to vote on all three together? >> The rationale. >> Okay. The rationale um is that option seven is the Pennsylvania social equity investment
fund proposal and in the findings itself it addresses the rationale for that and it distinguished the review in question. So the rationale that was explained in the findings are
that the board closely reviewed the PSCIF proposal and finds that it presented elevated and unmanageable risks. The board also found that the P3 partnerships also had unmanageable risks
in question in looking at this particular uh situation. So in the findings it indicates that the PSCIF proposal has high risks uh until the USDA senior debt and tax credits are
firmed and uh provided with appropriate district protections. And um there was a question with respect to the PSIF proposal where the option relies on a heavily leveraged property
without sufficient rental income to support the construction of a facility with the magnitude contemplated. As distinguished from that, the P3 partnerships, however, presented um additional and different kinds of
risk. First of all, the P3 concept is not statutoily recognized in Pennsylvania. We would be breaking uh legal ground on that particular issue. And as stated that the P3 concept
presents elevated and presented unmanageable risks that outweigh the benefits. The proposal relies on leveraged capital with unresolved sources and uses. uh
uh until dated time sheets in a full documented capital stack are produced and vetted, the district faces the risk that defaults or underperformance could trigger creditor remedies against the district land or improvements. Different sets of unmanageable risks, but they are
technically addressed in the findings. We could also do the motion by saying that the board um specifically rejects My screen went down. Uh that the post uh that the board
explicitly rejects the uh options six, 7 and 8 for the reasons set forth in the findings document which more thoroughly addresses the uh distinction. So we
could do it in that fashion if that makes everybody more comfortable. >> U thanks Mr. Sutinik. So it sounds like these three were um being considered together because they all uh present unmanageable high risk to the district and especially given um our financial
situation uh and not because they were all considered all of them P3 um per se. >> That is correct. >> Okay. Um I can I can suggest a revision then to the motion um basically uh removing the the language declines to
enter um into an agreement. Would that be correct? Or um >> well what >> the the the board is rejecting the simply the proposals that were articulated in options six seven and 8.
>> Okay. >> Or the reasons stated in the findings. So, we would then the motion would be do I have a motion to >> we we we could do it through a motion to mend or we could do it easier by having
the person who made the motion agree to the modification and the person who made the second agree to the modification. >> Could you please restate the modification one more time? >> I'm going to try. Okay. Okay. that uh
the the board uh um makes a motion to reject the reject options 6, 7, and 8 for the reasons set
forth in the findings of fact approved by the school board. Yes, I agree. >> And I'll second. I agree. >> Thank you. So, the motion >> the motion's been modified. So the
motion's been modified to reject the option 678 for the reason set forth by the findings of the board of the school board. So is there a do that needs to be moved
>> for a second or >> I suggested we could do a motion to amend or uh who made the motion originally? I I couldn't. >> Miss Johnson, she made the motion to amend it. If do you agree to the modification to the motion?
>> Yes, I agree. >> And who made the second? >> That's me and I agree. >> Okay. And she agrees also. So right now that is the motion that is pending before the board as distinguished from what you have in writing before you.
So you can do a uh a vote or a discussion or vote. >> Is there any discussion on the amended motion? Miss uh Anderson. Uh thank you, President Copelan. So, I just want to
say that I really appreciate and I'm grateful for the folks in the community that stepped forward to put these proposals forward. Um takes a lot of time. It was very timeconuming. This has been a very long, arduous, I'm sure frustrating process. Um, I think at least for me personally, at the end of
the day, I feel that I have to make a decision that is best for the students. Um, and being in a school district that just came out of receiverhip that has had financial struggles in the past, I feel that it's my responsibility as a
schoolboard director to go with the option that is least risky for the school district. Um, now that doesn't necessarily align with maybe what I would want to see done with it personally, especially as a community member, especially as someone who has a
background in urban planning. Um, and would love to see the building renov I actually had an opportunity to tour the building recently. It's beautiful. And I mean, it's terrible, right? I mean, the conditions are terrible. The I mean, there's water coming in everywhere. Um, but there are a lot of there's it has
really good bones to it. Um, so I know that this is hard. Uh, this is a hard decision, but at the end of the day, I'm making a decision as a school board director. And at the end of the day, for me personally, I have to put the school
district students first. Um, and so that comes down to making good financial and responsible decisions for them and taking making decisions that have the least risk. So, thank you. >> Thank you. Is there any further
discussion? And I'll just make my final uh again uh thank you to all of the uh community members who stepped up. But um I'm not far from it. So um I would like to see
some type of uh partnership on that land. So the hope is um our administration does you know reconsider somewhere you know down the road that we uh consider understand financially we may not be there but if we have someone
coming to the table uh to take that into consideration when we come about to make a a final uh decision from the administration just like uh what just happened here um openly to know that we amended a motion regardless to from a
private um perspective to now saying a you know to a P3 to so we need to make sure that as an administration like from a board president perspective that needs to be um cleared and um leveled out before we come here in this type of
setting. So with that, um, we will now, Madam Secretary. Oh, go ahead, Miss Hughes. >> I just also want to reiterate what's been said. Um, just the tremendous amount of, um, you know, effort that's been placed in in this process by not only district, but obviously the community. Um, we also, one thing to
think about is the factor of time. If this had been 15 years ago, this would have been a different context. We' we we'd be dealing with different different situation. and there'll be different options on the table that aren't on the on the table really viably right now because it's been 15 years. So, um I
have some feelings about the process, how this rolled out. I feel like some people probably didn't get a fair um you know, treatment with having to wait uh this long. Um but I um just want to reiterate our our thanks.
Thank you, Miss Hughes. Is there no one online? I don't know if we have anybody. Okay. All right. So, Madam Secretary, hearing no further discussion, u may I have a roll call vote, please? Miss Anderson. >> Yes, >> Mr. Carter.
>> Uh, just for clarity, we are voting on the amended the rejection of the partnership. >> Yes. >> No, >> Miss Copelan. >> No, Miss Hughes. Yes, >> Miss Johnson.
Yes, >> Miss Radcliffe. >> No, >> Mr. Roy. >> Yes, >> Mr. Thompson leader. >> Yes. >> Five yes, three no and zer abstain.
>> Thank you, Madam Secretary. So, hearing majority of the yeses. So that motion will carry. Uh Dr. Henry, next item. >> The administration recommend the board of the school of director of Harrisburg School District upon consideration of administration recommendation and adopt
the find of fact hereby authorize the direct the demolish of the William Penn building to allow for the use of improvement of the land in a manner consistent with the educational mission of the district. The administration is hereby authorized to complete a final
abatement, obtain necessary permit, and procure demolish dem demolition services in accordance to applicable laws and their district policy. Thank you. So, do I have a motion to approve the demolition of the William
Penn building to allow for the use and improvement of the land in a manner consist consistent with the education mission of the district and an immediate action item? >> So, move >> seconded Thompson leader.
>> Thank you. The motion has been properly moved and seconded. Is there any discussion on the motion? Miss uh Anderson, >> guess I'm very talkative tonight. Um so since this does talk about the um
educational mission of the district, I do want to point out that the task force um I think one of the main things that has come out of this process is the importance of additional CTC um programming. So that was a main recommendation of the task force. Several of the proposals had that in
there as well. Um, and Dr. Henry, I believe you started to sort of think about that, but I think it would be helpful, um, you know, if you could maybe come back and provide a report to the board or start to put together a plan. I don't know if you have thoughts on that, but I think having additional, um, CTC programming somewhere in the
district seems to be needed. So, I don't know if you have thoughts on that. >> Yes, if you recall in last spring, we did bring forth ideal a concept about bringing that type of work to John Harris and that's something that we continue to work towards. Thank you, Miss Anderson. Is there any
further discussion on the motion? Um, Mr. Carter, >> more so just like a comment. So, regardless of how this decision pan out, whether if we decide to demolish William Penn or not, just uh make sure that the board stay consistent with putting something on that land that's silent and something that's going to be geared
towards our children and not just towards athletics. Our kids need to be pushed academically. And even if we decide to tear that building down, from my personal perspective, something needs to be set in stone to where we can build something up, whether if we build another school or whatever that looks like to make sure that we stick to
academics as well. Every student in the district is not an athlete. >> Thank you, Mr. Carter. Is there any further discussion on the motion? And um I'll make the final if no other
uh discussion. So again, um first uh with the respect to uh the sentiments of the William Penn because I actually did attend uh William Penn uh years of years years ago when it they did have the co-op. So I understand um to our um
community how uh this decision was not a you know it has not yet been made but once that decision uh goes forth I know the sentiments u that the community um has uh related to the William Penn which also would also um affect me as well.
So, um the hope is to see um even with um us coming to some type of uh next uh action on this. I definitely want to see more than um or bring back to the board something that leads more to not just um
athletics or whatever else, but I would love to see um a rebuilding of a school or at least if we can talk about some sentiments to um showing um a portion of what we can save to, you know, to really
have some type of memorable moment for our community um prior to the, you know, the decision that is made today cuz so uh the hope for me is to see that we rebuild on it and again um
that's pretty much my um sentiment is just saying um it's not easy but um the best decision is we got to think about it um from an overall perspective um our children are not in this building so they're not learning um the building has been setting for
quite some time and we're paying more money in towards um insurance and security for no one who's actually in this building. And we we have heard and you see it on the news where we have a lot of vandalism. There's a lot of things that are happening just to keep
this up. So with whatever the decision is, the hope is to see that you come back to us, you know, soon with some type of next steps if that is the case. So I just wanted to put that on
the public record. Yep. And with that, Madame Secretary, and can I have a roll call vote, please? >> Miss Anderson? >> Yes. >> Mr. Carter? >> No. >> Miss Copeland? >> Yes. >> Miss Hughes? >> Yes.
>> Miss Johnson? >> Yes. >> Miss Radcliffe? >> Yes. >> Mr. Roy? >> Yes. >> Mr. Thompson leader. >> Yes. >> Seven yes, one no, zero abstain.
>> Thank you, Madam Secretary. Hear maj majority of yeses. So that motion will carry. And Mr. Carter, you have a >> um before we move forward, Madam President, I just wanted to see if I can resend my vote for uh action item 6.1 or 6.1
for the findings. So you're we've already at this time we've already made that. Let me >> how would he >> We have already voted on that. >> Yes, I understand we already voted on
it. There were some things that I kind of was concerned with in the draft that uh kind of is kind of edging at me. So, I just wanted to see if it was possible to resend my vote. And if that's possible, what does that look like? >> What to resend your vote? I think you can verbally mention it, but
the vote has already been taken. You can verbally note that we can include in the minutes that uh you are expressing uh your concerns about that vote, but it doesn't really change the overall vote because I believe the board voted 8 to
zero if my recollection serves me correct on that. And but you can we can note that in the minutes. >> Okay. All right. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> All right. So again, now we're moving to
the unfinished business items for this evening. Oh, okay. For the William P. Okay. All right. And um before we move, the school uh the board of school directors of the Harrisburg School District hereby directs the administration to consider
next steps for William Penn property in due course, bringing forth any proposals for the use of the property, which aligns with fiduciary goals and responsibilities of the district under the amended recovery plan and capital improvement plan and to reflect the
district's core missions of the advancing education education opportunities for K12 K through2 students. Uh the administration may take the reasonable and necessary time to consider and develop proposals for
board's consideration. All right. So now we can we will move to our unfinished business for the office of academics. And again, we um these items were moved
to the unfinished business where items beginning with the office of academics. So again, these items were listed, excuse me, under the office of academics were properly vetted two weeks ago at the committee of the whole meeting and moved to the consent agenda for approval. Uh does the board wish to remove anything from the consent agenda
to be voted on separately? All right. Hearing no. So, do I have a motion to approve the items listed under the consent agenda for the office of academics? >> So, move to use. >> Is there a second? >> Second, Anderson.
>> Thank you. The motion has been properly moved and seconded. Is there any discussion on the motion? >> All right. Hearing no further discussion on the motion motion. Madam Secretary, can I have a roll call vote, please? >> Miss Anderson? >> Yes. Mr. Carter? >> Yes. >> Miss Copelan? Yes,
>> Miss Hughes. >> Yes, >> Miss Johnson. >> Yes, >> Miss Radcliffe. >> Yes, >> Mr. Roy. >> Yes, >> Mr. Thompson. Leader, >> yes. >> Eight yes, zero no zero abstain.
>> Thank you, Madam Secretary. Hearing majority of yeses. So, that motion will carry for approval. Uh we are now ready to move to the unfinished business business items. Uh beginning with the office of human resource. So again, these items were listed under the office of human resource were properly vetted
two weeks ago at the committee of the whole meeting and moved to the consent agenda for approval. Does the board wish to remove anything from the consent agenda to be voted on separately? Okay. So hearing no, do I have a motion to approve the items listed under the
consent agenda for the office of human resource? >> So moved. Anderson. >> Is there a second? Second in Thompson leader. >> Thank you. The motion has been properly moved and seconded. Is there any discussion on the motion?
All right. So here and this is the one. Is this the one where you moved it? Okay. So So that'll be noted. >> Yeah. Correction. Okay. Yeah. Item 8.3. >> Thank you. I just want to make sure we have that for the record. Awesome. Okay. So hearing
I think we're taking a vote. He hearing no further discussion on that motion. Madam Secretary, can I have a roll call vote, please? >> Miss Anderson? >> Yes. >> Mr. Carter? >> Yes. >> Miss Copelan? >> Yes. >> Miss Hughes? >> Yes. >> Miss Johnson? >> Yes. >> Miss Radcliffe?
>> Yes. >> Mr. Roy? >> Yes. >> Mr. Thompson Leader. >> Yes. >> Eight. Yes. Zero. No. Zero. Abstain. >> Thank you, Madam Secretary. So, hearing majority of yeses, that motion will carry. So, we'll now move to the
unfinished business items be with the office of operations. Again, these items were listed under the office of operations were properly vetted two weeks ago at the committee of the whole meeting and moved to the consent agenda for approval. Uh, does the board wish to remove anything from the consent agenda
to be voted on separately? Okay. Hearing no removal. So do I have a motion to approve the items listed under the consent agenda for the office of operations? >> So moved. Thompson leader. >> Is there a second?
>> Second. Anderson. >> Thank you. The motion has been properly moved and seconded. Is there any discussion on the motion? >> All right. Hearing no further discussion on the motion. Madam Secretary, can I have a roll call vote, please? >> Miss Anderson? >> Yes. Mr. Carter, >> yes.
>> Miss Copelan, >> yes. >> Miss Hughes, >> yes. >> Miss Johnson, >> yes. >> Miss Radcliffe, >> yes. >> Mr. Roy, >> yes. >> Mr. Thompson Leader, >> yes. >> Eight yes. Zero no, zero abstain.
>> Thank you, Madam Secretary. Hear majority of yeses. So that motion will carry for approval. Uh we'll now move to the office of business services. Again, these items were listed under the Office of Business Services, were properly vetted two weeks ago at the committee of the whole meeting, and moved to the
consent agenda for approval. Does the board wish to remove anything from the consent agenda to be voted on separately? All right, hearing no. So, do I have a motion to approve the items listed under the consent agenda for the Office of Business Services?
>> So, move Thompson Leader. Is there a second? >> Second. Sorry. >> Yeah, sure. >> Thank you. The motion has been properly moved and seconded. Is there any discussion on the motion? >> All right. Hearing no further discussion
on the motion. Madam Secretary, can I have a roll call vote, please? >> Miss Anderson? >> Yes. >> Mr. Carter? >> Yes. >> Miss Copelan? >> Yes. >> Miss Hughes? >> Yes. >> Miss Johnson? >> Yes. Miss Radcliffe,
>> yes. >> Mr. Roy, >> yes. >> Mr. Thompson Leader, >> yes. >> Eight yes. Zero no. Zero Epstein. >> Thank you, Madam Secretary. So, hearing majority of yeses, that motion will carry for approval. Uh we are now ready
to move to the um unfinished business for the office of superintendent. Sorry, here I come. So again, these items were listed for um under the office of superintendent were properly vetted two weeks ago at the committee of the whole meeting and moved to the consent agenda for approval. Uh
does the board wish to remove anything from the consent agenda to be voted on separately? Okay, hearing none. So do I have a motion to approve the items listed under the consent agenda for the office of superintendent? So move Thompson leader.
Is there a second? >> Second. >> I have Johnson. >> All right. Thank you. The motion has been properly moved and seconded. Is there any discussion on the motion? >> President. >> Miss uh Anderson.
>> Thank you. Oh, you didn't even have to look. >> You knew. Um yes. So I just wanted to request Dr. Henry, I know you've provided us some updates on this. Uh, I would just ask that as you continue to move through the restructuring that you
provide the board updates. Um, I think we talked about this a little bit previously, but just making sure that we're sort of in involved in the process as much as it is appropriate to involve us and providing us updates on how things are being restructured so that we can yeah, make sure that we're aligned
with you on that. Thank you. >> Thank you, Miss Anderson. Is there any further discussion on the motion? Okay. Hearing no further discussion on the motion. U Madam Secretary, could I have a roll call vote, please? >> Miss Anderson? >> Yes. >> Mr. Carter? >> Yes.
>> Miss Copelan? >> Yes. >> Miss Hughes? >> Yes. >> Miss Johnson? >> Yes. >> Miss Radcliffe? >> Yes. >> Mr. Roy? >> Yes. >> Mr. Thompson Leader? >> Yes. >> Eight. Yes. Zero. No. Zero abstain.
>> Thank you, Madam Secretary. are hearing majority of yeses. So that motion will carry for approval. Uh we're now moving to our new business. So Dr. Henry, uh first item, >> the administration has recommend approval of the attached 2025 2026
spring coaches as immediate action item. >> Thank you. Do you have a motion to approve the 2025 2026 spring coaches as attached as an immediate action item? >> So move Ellis Roy >> seconded Thompson Leader. >> Thank you. The motion has been properly
moved and seconded. Is there any discussion on the motion? Hearing no further discussion on the motion. Madam Secretary, can I have a roll call vote, please? >> Miss Anderson? >> Yes. >> Mr. Carter? >> Yes. >> Miss Copelan? >> Yes. >> Miss Hughes? >> Yes.
>> Miss Johnson? >> Yes. >> Miss Radcliffe? >> Yes. >> Mr. Roy? Yes, >> Mr. Thompson leader. >> Yes. >> Eight. Yes. Zero no. Zero abstain. >> Thank you, Madam Secretary. Hear majority of yeses. So that motion will
carry for approval. Uh Dr. Henry, next item. >> The administration has recommended approval of the attached February 24th, 2026 personnel agenda as an immediate action item. >> Thank you. Do I have a motion to approve the personnel agenda as an attached as
an immediate action item? So move Thompson leader. >> Is there a second? >> Second. Anderson. >> Thank you. The motion has been properly moved and seconded. Is there any discussion on the motion? >> All right. Hearing no discussion on the motion. Madam Secretary, can I have a
roll call vote, please? >> Miss Anderson? >> Yes. >> Mr. Carter? >> Yes. >> Miss Copelan? >> Yes. >> Miss Hughes? >> Yes. >> Miss Johnson? >> Yes. >> Miss Ratcliffe? >> Yes. >> Mr. Roy >> yes
>> Mr. Thompson leader >> yes >> eight yes zero no zero abstain >> thank you madam secretary here majority of yes yeses so that motion will carry Dr. Henry, next item. >> And before we jump to the next item, is it okay if I introduce a new Act 93 administrator? Um, she's actually been
here for a couple months, but thanks to inclement weather and some other events, she is finally here in front of you today for our February meeting. Um, if you could stand up. This is um, Miss Lindseay Sanguanito. She is my newest member of the human resources team. She
was hired in December by this board. Um, like I said, it was a while. Um, so she has been with us since uh early December. And Miss Sanguanito is the new labor and employment relations manager supporting my work in the office with the department.
So before we go into all that, I'm going to go into the biography. I know I always do one for everybody. All right. So Lindsay, as I said, she just started in December. She does have over 15 years of experience. It's primarily in health
care and logistics or supply chain industries. She comes from a family with many retired um public school teachers and she does have a great respect and passion for education. She's a bachelor's degree in business
administration and um and a degree in management. She has a degree from Madison University. That's her MBA. Um um also from Eastern University. In her personal time, she has a family, a total of four, and um she has two dogs.
>> Thank you. Uh it's really nice to be here and join the team. Um thank you for all of the work that everyone here does and um dedicates to the students and the community. >> Now, part of our tradition, we try to give clothes, some swag. So, here you
go. You hopefully it fit. Thank you so much. >> She's very good. >> Yeah, that has to improve. >> Thank you. Next one.
>> All right, we're moving on to 12.3. The administration has recommended approval of the waiver exposure hearing agreement for the following student as a media action item. >> Thank you. And so do I have a motion to excuse me.
Do I have a motion to approve the waiver of extortion as an immediate action item? >> So moved to use. >> Is there a second? >> Seconded. Thompson leader. >> Thank you. The motion has been properly moved and seconded. Is there any discussion on the motion?
>> Hearing no discussion on the motion. Madame Secretary, may I have a roll call vote, please? >> Miss Anderson? Yes. Mr. Carter? >> Yes. Miss Copelan, >> yes. >> Miss Hughes, >> yes. >> Miss Johnson, >> yes. >> Miss Radcliffe, >> yes.
>> Mr. Roy, >> yes. >> Mr. Thompson, Leader, >> yes. >> Eight. Yes. Zero. No, zero abstain. >> Thank you, Madam Secretary. Hear majority of yeses. That motion will carry for approval.
Uh we are now moving to the policy updates. U Madam President, if I can just share before you present for a vote, I just wanted to share that all policies were vetted by our solicitor. There are no changes to what was presented uh during
uh the meeting, the committee of the whole meeting on February 10th. >> Thank you for that because that was going to be one of my questions. So the following pol policies were presented for the first reading on February 10th, 2026 and are now recommended for
adoption. May I have a motion to approve the policies as listed on the agenda? >> So move. >> Is there a second? >> Second, Anderson. >> Thank you. The motion has been properly moved and seconded. Is there any
discussion on the motion? No. Hearing no further discussion on the motion. Madam Secretary, can I have a roll call vote, please? >> Miss Anderson? >> Yes. >> Mr. Carter? >> Yes. >> Miss Copelan? >> Yes.
>> Miss Hughes? >> Yes. >> Miss Johnson? >> Yes. >> Miss Radcliffe? >> Yes. >> Mr. Roy? >> Yes. Mr. Thompson leader >> yes >> eight yes zero no zero abstain
>> thank you madam secretary hearing majority of yes yeses so that motion will carry for approval uh we are now ready to move to our board committee representative reports for this evening and we will start with the capital area IU updates from Miss Jamie Johnson
>> yes I don't have a current update um from the last meeting we have our meeting this Thursday morning Thank you. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> All right. Thank you, Miss Johnson. Uh the next one will be Dolphin County Technical School joint operating committee. Either Miss Robinson, which
is not here, so Miss Hughes or Sure. Um yes, thank you. Uh so yes, I attended the joint operating committee meeting on February 11th. Um I kind of have a lot to share. Um and I I think the board will find it interesting. So the first thing is that um I received a a booklet
um a student admission process and enrollment trends booklet and this has five years of enrollment data in it. So um for the sake of transparency I thought I'd share what's relevant to Harrisburg. Shouldn't take too long, but um over 5 years uh Harrisburg districts
um has had 85 applications to um Duffin County Technical School um acceptance of 414 students, 82 weight listed and 584 uh denied. Um and then yearbyear for more granularity um from the 20
202122 um school year Harrisburg had 159 applications uh 94 were accepted. So that's an acceptance rates of 59.12%. I guess if you want to put this in context that might help. Um, you know,
the five-year data that I just mentioned, uh, we have the highest number of applications and acceptance rate except for central Dolphin is the is is the um, uh, higher than us. Um, but the rest of them, Derry Township, Halifax, Lower Dolphin, Middletown, and Susana Township have fewer, much fewer.
Um, okay. So, back year by year. So, 2021 to 22, I mentioned 159 applications, 94 accepted. um the next year 2022 23 200 applications 103 accepted um the acceptance rates um
range from you know 50 40% uh for Dair Township all the way up to 72% for Sescuana Township the average is about 51 so we're kind of on track there um for acceptance rates uh for the year 2023 24 Harrisburg had 283 applications
uh 70 accepted and 20 202425 Harrisburg had 202 applications 83 accepted and 2526 Harrisburg had 241 applications and 64 accepted and I think that's the last well yeah that would be the last year.
Um so once again uh for the last 5 years uh 1 185 applications and 414 accepted. Um if you have more question the board has more questions about that data I'm happy to provide more information. Um a lot of student recognition in the last
meeting. Um there were number of uh Harrisburg students that were recognized. Um students of the month. Those are nominated by teachers and uh there were there was one student um from Harrisburg um and that was JD Ellis uh
Taurus Taus. Um she's a 10th grader and she's in the cosmetology program there and she was nominated by her teacher as student of the month. So congratulations to her. Um there uh is a a competition called Skills USA. Um we had a number of
Harrisburg students who participated and and were winners uh first place winners and they will advance to the state level competitions that'll take place in Hershey on April 8th or 10th. I'm just going to call out these people. So um Jennifer Hernandez, uh architectural
drafting. Um Hector Lazardo Alvarez, automotive refinishing technology. both Harrisburg students. Um, and then we had a couple other uh folks who placed um Antonio Delgado in exercise and sports science
uh also a Harrisburg student and Ahmmed Ibraham in collision repair and technology. And I think that was it. So a huge congratulations to our students. Oh, I'm sorry. There are two more. Alina Rodriguez Rodriguez in masonry and Malik Abdu in electrical construction and
maintenance. very proud to um to have those students uh recognized. Um and then lastly, there's a 2026 27 preliminary budget um that was put on the table that the next step will be the final budget that's presented in April 2026. Um contributions from Harrisburg
um in the 2627 year is 4.067 million and um last year 2526 is 3.5 uh million. So there's a bit of a change there and that has to do with not just with um there's has a factor of ADM change uh there. So
um there are any other questions? I'd be happy to answer those. Thanks. >> Thank you, Miss Hughes, for that. And I really appreciate that feedback because I know we get a lot of uh community feedback when we speak to Dolphin County uh tech and a lot of the application the
process and what that looks like. So that feedback I would love to if you can share that uh just when we are out to have that information but thank you for that report. Um and now we'll move to the uh Pennsylvania School Board Association and I know Miss Robinson is
not here. Um she's not here this evening. So, we're going to move that to uh we'll move and we'll follow up with her with that report due to her absence and there's no um alternative for that
report. So, we'll move to the act uh 141 advisory committee for I think Mr. Doug Thompson leader or Miss Autumn Anderson or Mr. Alternative Mr. Brian Carter. Um yes, I was in attendance for this
meeting and we at the advisory committee got to discuss what we are um refer to as pillar 2, the financial management of the district. And we had another very comprehensive, very clear presentation provided to us on the financial status
of this district and the um just the lack of funds coming to us that really should be coming to us. But um yeah, Dr. Stokes was able to give a a very comprehensive financial
um picture of where Harrisburg is at this very moment. what we're facing, where the state is, what the options are with what the governor has put forward and likelihood of that coming through so
we can continue to discuss the other important pillars in future and upcoming meetings. >> Um, and I would like to build on uh what Mr. um Thompson leader stated. Just want to put on the public record because I
think this number has come up several times in several different executive sessions. I don't recall if we talked about this publicly or not, but in Harrisburg with our school district, we're in a very unique situation because a lot of the properties are taxexempt. And so our school district ends up
missing out on a lot of tax revenue every year, which ends up putting more of a tax burden on the residents. So, um, Dr. Stokes provided us with an estimate um that at the current mill rate, our school district is missing out
on roughly $49,36,890 a year on tax revenue that we could be collecting that we are not collecting because we have so many taxexempt properties in the city. So, I just wanted to put that on the record because there has there have also
been community concerns and folks that have um asked about that. So, thank you. >> Thank you for um that feedback both uh Mr. Tom Douglas to the Thompson leader and Miss Anderson for that. And now
we'll move to the report for hack uh Mr. Brian Carter. >> Uh we still haven't met yet. Um, I am still waiting to hear about a date when we will meet and to possibly see if we have an agenda that I can go over in that time frame.
>> Thank you for that. And the last report will be for the Dolphin County Tax Collection Committee. Uh, Dr. Marcia Stokes. >> I have no report. Our next meeting is not until May 20th. Thank you. >> Thank you for that, Miss Stokes. So now
we will move Well, there's no uh public comment. >> Yeah. >> So we're going to the superintendent report. >> Yes. I have a couple of announcements for the community. Our next upcoming board meeting will be here at 10:10 7th
Street on March 10th at 6:00 p.m. Also, our kindergarten registration is open for the 2627 school year. Please visit our school web our district website for registration. Families are welcome to attend our upcoming in-person registration event at location across
the district. Information will be posted on our social media page and as well as the district website. The next one I will mention is our high school spring musical. Um, our high Harrisburg High School will be producing our next musical, Once Upon This Allen
performance will be held at the high school, Harrisburg High School on March 27th at 7:00 p.m. Um, Saturday, March 28 at 7:00 p.m. and Sunday, March 29th at 2:00 p.m. Ticket information will be
coming soon. And finally, tomorrow we will be hosting a joint job fair event with Kelly Services Education, uh, who's partnered with the school district. This event will take place here at the district office from 11 to 4:00, um,
here at 10:10 North 7th Street. And that's all my announcement for today. >> Thank you for that information and feedback. So we will now move to the announcement um regarding our executive session. So at this time we would like
to announce that the school board will adjourn to an executive session to the district uh to discuss the contract negotiation and legal matters with the district solicitor. So now we'll move to adjourning the meeting. Is there a
motion to adjourn the meeting? So move. >> So movey >> second Johnson. >> All right. All in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> I. >> Those opposed. We will now adjourn the meeting into executive session.