Okay. So, good evening everyone and just uh welcome to our committee of the whole meeting this evening. And uh before we get started, I just wanted to make a few uh quick comments. So, one, uh, this is February, so this is Black History
Month. So, just in honor of Black History Month. And just a few quick, uh, housekeeping rules. Uh, I always think it's, uh, as a team, we all respect each other here. And, um, I value my board members as well as my administrative as
well as, uh, our community that's here and ones that may be aligned with us this evening. So just keeping that in mind whether uh when we're speaking when the agenda before we do get started whether it's a public comment section or agenda recognizing either presentation
or a uh recognition that we've been meaningful as we go through the agenda. Just uh understand that we respect everyone's perspective to each other. We all have our own perspectives and also uh we all have our own personal agreements. So with that being said, it
is now 6:13 and I call to order the February 10th, 2026 committee of the whole meeting of the Harrisburg City School Bo School District Board of School Directors. If we can please rise for the pledge of allegiance to my left, led by our
superintendent, Dr. Henry. Thank you. We'll now move to our announcements for this evening. So, the school board uh met in the executive session on Saturday, February 7th, 2026 from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. to discuss
contract negotiations, real estate, and legal matters with the district solicitor. Uh the school board also met this evening uh February 10th, 2026 at 5:00 pm to discuss student
personnel and legal matters. Well, Madam Secretary, we are now ready to begin the 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. >> And Dr. Susky >> present. We have a quorum. >> Thank you, Madam Secretary. Uh we are now uh ready to begin the approval of our minutes in the agenda for this evening. Um so is there a motion to
approve the minutes of the January 27th, 2026 school board general business meeting? >> So moved. Um Autumn Anderson. >> Thank you. Is there a second? >> Second, Hughes.
>> Thank you. The motion has been moved in. Excuse me. The motion, excuse me, has been properly moved and seconded. 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, >> here. >> Yes.
>> Mr. Mr. Thompson, leader. >> Yes. >> Eight yes, zero no, zero abstain. >> Uh, thank you, Madam Secretary. Hearing majority of yeses, so that motion will carry. U may I now have a motion to approve the agenda for the February 10th, 2026 committee of the whole
meeting as presented in board docs. >> So moved. >> Second, Johnson. >> Thank you. The motion has been properly moved and seconded. 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. again hear majority of the yeses. So that motion will carry. Uh we'll move to our presentations for this evening. Uh Dr. Henry, do we have any presentations this evening?
>> Yes. Uh Madam President, we do have two presentation. The first one will be coming from our super uh supervisor for mathematic and science uh Miss Jennifer Branson. She will be presenting some math resources. on we good.
>> Okay. Hello everyone. Um I'm going to walk you through first of all thank you for having me. I'm going to walk you through um what our committee did for the past few months um for looking at curriculum resources for our students in
kindergarten through 8th grade. Okay, >> it's like a delay. >> Got it. >> Thank you. Okay, so our math uh resource committee consisted of 23 members. We
had 19 teachers, two building admin, and two central admin that participated in eight 90minute meetings. 100% of our schools K through 8 were represented. The committee went through three phases.
Um phase one was winnowing. Phase two was resource review and publisher um presentations and then phase three is the final selection through the data analysis. Thank you. Okay. So for phase one, the goal for phase one
was for us to winnow down our selections to three or four resources for very deep review. That phase began by creating a rubric um as a team and then using uh that rubric, we were going to use it to to decide and
drive what we did. We reviewed all of the materials. We started with 12 initial resources and we used those um resources to decide what what what are our big uh focuses. We used uh reports and evidence for ESSA to drive if we
knew it was a quality resource with our students. After having those 12 resources and going through those, we um decided on three finalists, if you will. Eureka Math Squared by Great Minds, Illustrative Math by Imagine Learning,
and Reveal Math by McGraw Hill. Phase two led us to do the deep dive on those three resources using the rubric that we created specifically for Harrisburg students using the resource using the resources against the rubric. The rubrics focused
on standards alignment, classroom application, representation and equity, teaching, teacher resources and materials, explicit instruction and comprehensive review like a spiral review and family supports. Those materials went back with the
teachers. They did pilot pieces with the students and shared with their colleagues. The materials went to the buildings to be reviewed. There were QR codes that went to surveys that teachers from across the district in K to8 could share their feedback after they
reviewed. Also, there were um surveys for families to also review the materials and provide their feedback. The publishers came in for about 45 minute presentations. In that those times they um demonstrated the different
features of the program. They talked about, you know, the what was the the highlights of their materials. They provided digital and uh print materials for everyone in the committee to uh go through, answered questions. They often stayed a little bit longer to, you know,
clarify any different any nuances that set their programs apart. So, the comparison of the resources again, we had Eureka, Math Squared, Illustrative Math, and Reveal Math. All in all, they were very different programs with different components that
caught the attention of the committee. These are notes from the the committee from what they um gathered from their the the rubric and their actual use. Some pieces that really stood out were the spiral review was a really big part of this. What how available were these
resources and also how did these resources how would they be used with our novice teachers and our emergency certified teachers? We took into consideration the um what was available the ready-made materials and how evidence-based those components were.
Overall the Eureka math squared was really that uh strict co the strict coherence the story of units and that's something that was familiar. Illustrative math was the problem based and taskbased option. Reveal Math is the
blended approach really honing in on the student curiosity and the inquiry piece but also with a lot of scaffolded supports for our diverse student population. Okay, so phase three was the data-driven component here where all of the surveys,
all the data came together and for our final for our final decision. compiled the committee's rubric, the feedback from the staff, the feedback from the families, looked at the publishers quotes, decided on a recommendation for purchase, created a
professional development plan and resource roll out. So that that was already ready to go um with the um presentation and you can see Adam, if you want to click for me, reveal math was our our top contender.
There were a lot of different features that stood out to us. But with the reveal math, we know that we will get the write in student editions. We will be getting the digital licenses for students. Students have access to Alex Adventure, which is an online differentiation platform for math.
Allows them to have a pathway. Also, Alex is what it's called for 6th through 8th grade. The teachers have access to a very very rich resource package. They have digital licenses. Manipulative kits will be in the classrooms from K through 8. That includes the middle school
students. They have opportunities then to also have workstation kits. And professional development is pretty comprehensive. McGraw Hill, the um the staff that I've been working with said that we will receive free these
free materials and services almost $400,000. They're going to give us the K through8 teacher resource packages um at no cost. They're going to give us six years of digital access for teachers at no cost and giving us on-site and virtual prof professional development
for the first two years at no cost. Professional development is a really big consideration. This has been something that we know has um not been attended to like it needs to and things do not lift like we would want to. So, we were very specific as to what does this look like
for our staff, for our again novice teachers, our veteran teachers, and emergency certified. How do we support them? So, we're looking for a soft launch on May 19th. It's a Tuesday. It'll be a 2-hour soft launch. It's specific to each grade level, and then sixth, seventh, and eighth grade will be
together because they're a smaller group. they will have um on-site support to get their materials to do that first uh cursory look at what they have available. Then in August on August 19th, they're going to have a half-day deep dive again
on site with the trainers to help them learn about all the components and how to design lessons, all the different features, and how to bring those into the classroom. November 4th. The idea is that at this point we'll have an I we'll we'll know where our strengths and
weaknesses are and that topic will be decided based on data and what we need to address first. It could be use of manipulatives but also could be just other general pieces. looking to the spring for demo lessons, doing like a fishbowl where we would
have the trainers come in and actually um show how these different components work together and model those lessons and followed up by having then uh new teacher training that they also will provide because that's something else that's come up multiple times is how do
we support new teachers um to that extent also there's a train the trainer model that we'll be involved in which was for the instructional coaches, math interventionists, and ELD teachers and special education teachers who have been selected to participate.
The train the trainer model will allow us to sustain implementation with supporting our novice teachers that enter the district. So, they will always have an expert that will help them um understand the program and how to implement it.
Something else that McGraw Hills offering for us is a fall and spring ask an expert online session. So during those sessions, there will be a person that's live and they can ask any questions that they have um and share their experiences and express where they
they need a little bit more support. We're also going to have a 2hour uh building principal or building administrator training so they can see the components that Reveal Math has that will help with their evaluations and walkthroughs of the classrooms and know what they should be looking for to know
if the resource is being implemented. um with integrity. Additionally, I'm going to be providing summer sessions. So, we have some early adopters. We know there are a lot of teachers who are super excited about having this new resource after all this time. And they will want to come in and
work with me and we will uh design lessons, go through the resources, and really get them to feel confident, you know, over the summer if they choose to come in. So the recommendation is the approval of the McGraw Hill Reveal Math as our
curricular resource for for six years for K through 8. And with that, I just listed all the different pieces because it it's very um it's very robust all the different components from the student materials, the teacher supports for professional development, all those
components. Um some again at no cost and um others for that are over six years. Okay. All right. What questions can I answer for you? >> So uh what uh type of data will be taking to make sure that this is
effective for our students? >> Lots of data. That's one of my favorite things. >> Um so we'll look at implementation. So we do a lot of walkthroughs right now um with Dr. Henry. We do the instructional focus walks. We do those um in all the buildings. We look for implementation. We look for the standards alignment. So,
we'll be able to look and see that the resources are in front of the students. We've been doing that for a couple of years. Um, we'll also be monitoring com we'll be using some common assessments too. So, we'll be able to see how the students are performing on those different the different units as well.
Um, we're out and about a lot. So also with the coaches, um I supervise the coaches, the instructional coaches. So a lot of feedback I get from them as to their strengths and weaknesses and where we need to beef up some professional development. Um and all that will be
housing a lot of that data will be um in the we have a data dashboard that we look at. Also we'll be compiling data frequently on um just how the students are how they're receiving it and how it's changing some of the trajectories. I had a couple of questions. My daughter
is in 10th grade, so she's been through the entire Eureka math experience, which has its pros and cons. Um, I was interest I was intrigued that you chose to go with a different um program. My biggest frustration after working with it and talking to math teachers was
there's so much reading involved in Eureka math and if our kids aren't on grade level comprehension, that makes them struggle in math. Um, I'm hopeful that this addresses that kind of an issue. Um, as well, I also like that there's a digital licensing. One of the
weaknesses I also saw as a parent with Eureka Math is that there are actually a huge number of resources for parents from YouTube channels and I saw McGraw Hill has their own channels plus there's other math teachers. Can we make sure to give that information to parents, direct
links to those pages? um cuz I was passing them out like crazy for Eureka math, but I never got anything official from the district. So those kind of resources go a long way to having parents support. >> Absolutely. Right. So that's part of, you know, working with the family
engagement specialists on how to do the math nights a little bit differently and how we can put those pieces along with the reveal math to get families and that was one of the biggest considerations too was how can families access this because again Eureka is a heavily
there's a lot of reading components. Reveal gives us a lot of scaffolds. They give us scaffolds and supports for students but they also give us supports for families and that was really an essential piece. So, um, you know, working with the school, the engagement specialists, working with the coaches,
we can develop a nice plan for, um, rolling things out to the the families as well, >> Miss Hughes. >> Thank you. Um, thanks very much for the presentation. Um, kind of building on on the previous comment and, um, to clarify
how you made your decision. Um, I I definitely see the features there. They sound good. Um, I'm it would help me to link them back to the need. Um so you know and and kind of how you set up your criteria based on the student need or the teacher need or the family need. Can you can you provide a little more detail there for me >> for our rubric how we came Okay. So our
rubric came from a a combination of things from the meadow center from what works clearing house from equity review from ed reports. So we took all those features um and said what are the things that are really going to speak to the need and we know we have a lot of needs
but we had to prioritize and when we did that um first of all the standards alignment because um that is if we're not teaching to the standards and the grade level expectation then what are we doing right so that was the very first thing um that we said we have to make sure that we have these components and
they are evident that they're clear that the teachers can't decide that it they they will be able to follow the the procedures and protocols, right? Um we looked at the classroom application. So what does that really look like? Because what what I tr what I believe and what I
know in research, everything about how the brain learns math and I won't get into the brain stuff with you, but it is a really big passion of mine. Um there's components that we have been missing and they're embedded. So there are certain things we looked at accessibility features. We looked at universal design
for learning. Looked at representation of of concepts. We looked at how word problems were attacked, fluency activities, things like that. So the classroom application. We looked at what types of supports can we give families.
So what's the homeschool connection? We looked at how do we how's accessible for communication. We looked at how do we do gamebased learning. So if we're sending things home, how can we make sure that it's accessible for everyone at home to work with their child with? You know, so
games are a really great entry point to do that with um and we made sure that anything that we were asking was lowcost and accessible for all students. And um on this committee, and I want to let you know, um our ELD department, there was representation for our multilingual and
also our students with special education services. So we looked at this through a lens of a student and the student experience more than anything else. Um we also looked at the teacher materials and knowing again we have novice teachers, we have veteran teachers, we have emergency certified
teachers, we said how can they use these materials and not feel overwhelmed or they abandon them? How like what kind of supports are built in here? So we looked at what's the guidance, what's the instructional guidance, how do they get
extra supports if they don't understand the math concept, where is that access, is that there everything's, you know, that's was one of the pieces we also looked at, you know, do we have um is there any like bias in there? There's are there assumptions? How do we make sure that we're looking at prerequisite
skills and that we are providing differentiation when it's necessary? We also looked at the explicit instruction component which we know is our highest um has the highest effect size in math classrooms and what's the
review? How do we make sure we spiral back and go back over those different um components and that's included in our was included in our survey and that was all the components. Okay. Thanks. You're welcome Miss Anderson. Um, thank you and thank
you for the presentation um, and providing all of the follow-up information. Um, so quick question about the budget. I know you said it was about a million dollars for the next six years. Do we know what the difference is between what we're currently paying for for curriculum and what we would be
paying for under this? Maybe this is a question for the admin. Maybe you know it. >> No. So I can speak to this. Great. Um, so this Eureka math has been in the district and I've been here now a little over two years. has been um since it was published when the standards changed. So
2013 um originally there was a contract. They did receive materials which is typical. Um at some point the decision was made to no longer purchase um to to just purchase the workbooks. At one point I think there was just copies
being made then they were purchasing again. So that amount that we've been paying has just been for the student consumables. So that has been a smaller amount just because it's been the program is well over 10 years old. So that's what the
cost has been um minimal in the sense it's just been a workbook that they've been they haven't had access to the other features the digital the online components. >> Thank you. And then just a follow-up question um the and you might have said
this at the beginning but the reveal math is this a newer program or like are other schools using this like is this a best practice now or is this just like the next best thing? No, it's not the next best thing. And
interestingly, what I've been trying to have the teachers do since I came on board was mathematical practices um discourse to have um rich tasks and I've been putting them there to help supplement the the things that we don't have in the the Eureka materials. Um
this is a publication from 2022. I talked to McGraw Hill. I said, "Don't are you going to put something out in the next two years?" You know, where are you with this? cuz that feels a little bit it feels a tiny bit dated to me, but knowing brain science and how these components, it felt very good. And they said they are not trying to update this.
The middle school version though is has recently been updated for the better um where it really added more components that really pull in that student engagement piece. >> Great. And do we know if other school districts are implementing this?
>> Yes. >> Okay. >> Um yes, we do. But if we say that then maybe they'll get PD before us. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Uh thank you Miss Anderson. Is there any
further questions? Um I just have a few. I don't know if we can go back to the slide but there was uh some charts right here. Yeah. So when we uh refer to the overall like the rating resource the 200
>> the the numbers. So, so out of three. So, it's a 2.69, 2.52, and a 2.14. Those were out of three. Um, was our max for that. But also, I do have a data piece that's not displaying which
actually went through each of the components of the rubric. Um, I'm not sure why that's not coming up, but um, yeah. So, that was, you know, we we waited and ranked everything, all the feedback that we got. Okay.
So, do you have the actual numbers of like the participation when we speak to like the administrative like is this something the teachers say has been working like where's that feedback? >> So, that feedback came from the
committee. It came from the teachers who participated in the surveys at the buildings after they reviewed the materials. Okay. There. Thank you. Um and that that one is specific to our um was to from our committee uh also from the families that did participate that
was factored into that as well. >> Okay. And then my other uh followup will be uh regards to um what was I looking at? So we um we're seeing an uptick right with autistic
children. So as for this program, is there any program that aligns to assist with like the curriculum to be able to assess our via capital for them, you know, for children who may not learn >> the same
>> the same. Yeah. Because after going through some of the schools and seeing that majority of the classes, I mean either that or there's a misdiagnosis going on, but I don't want to, >> you know, openly say that without knowing the background. There's different levels of high intensity. So
just making sure that curriculum is just not based on the students who correct >> you don't need that additional support. >> Absolutely. So when we went through this um and even wrote the the rubric, we really truly had every student in our
minds. So the questions that we were asking and the thing the features we were looking for, we were thinking if you were multilingual, how would how would you be able to interact and engage? if you had special education services, how could you access the materials? And that was a huge
consideration. >> Awesome. And then I think my final would be to um what was my other Just trying to make sure I'm hitting the areas. I think that
it's pretty much yeah, all I have at this time. So I guess I'll probably just want to see some updates to see if it's working >> or not working on really the progress which we'll be able to get that from them. So thank you >> absolutely >> for the presentation. >> One more question. >> Oh and Mr. Carter
>> and uh it's not more so of a question but it's like a comment. So I know at one point you were saying you wanted to try to basically meet the students with correct. So, is there a possibility that we can do some type of networking with um the Boys and Girls Club or anywhere else to try to factor that in that math portion that program that you're trying
to implement to try to see if we can bring them on board to try to meet our students where they're at? >> Absolutely. >> You know, is it is that an initiative that we can take or something like that? >> I I would say with the online resources, the kids be able to access this at home. So, if they had the Boys and Girl Club, they could be able to access it. Um in
my previous district, we used Reveal. um some of the the the component with the fluency is really great. Um the online uh especially for the middle school, the uh the Alex is really good. A lot of built-in pieces. Uh but the part about it again with all the online features,
kids can access this at home and to be able to uh go to the boys and girls clubs, uh the YMCA, anywhere to access it. >> Thank you. Because I know a lot a lot of them have uh like little shops like Power Hour and you know Power Hour is where the kids come in when they come after school if they attend the Boys and Girls Club to get that academic component and whether if it's getting
assistance with homework or anything from that nature. So that would be a perfect opportunity for the kids to get on the computers and to access that uh information online. So that was pretty much my standpoint of network. >> So I just want to like add one more thing to that. Um so Dr. Champong she's working on a lot of the the partnerships
and after school pieces and often we train that whoever's going to implement we come and train them so that would work the same way we be able to we would whoever was interacting with the students I would have no problem helping them navigate the resources and know how to best use them
>> all right thank you um Miss Johnson Yes. >> Do you do you have a um question? >> Your hand was raised. Okay. >> No, I apologize. >> All right. Thank you. And I guess it it
did bring up my other question that I had that I could get out. So, it was a little bit about the materials cuz I seen there was over 400,000 u materials to the district. Is that anything that can be uh supported to the families as well? >> So, um >> the free materials that
>> Oh, so those were teacher materials. Those were teacher materials and teacher training. So they really just um gave us those different components um at no cost for the teachers the teacher piece >> but parents can access all online with the online resources. >> Okay. >> Which is going to be the part where we
you know like I said the family engagement specialist and how we can roll that information out so they get can get on and practice accessing those materials online. So, so what I would probably uh uh Miss Broski ask you to think about is how do we create a math night to educate our parents on these
math resources at every level so when they come in we can really engage with them so they can understand how to use it. >> So that'll be a >> it's on it's already on the board. >> It's a task. Okay. >> Thank you. >> Thank you so much. Yep.
presentation. >> All right, I am up next with the next presentation. I have a clicker. >> Okay. >> All right. So this evening what we wanted to do was um in November we had a meeting at John Harris where we talked
about the William Penn property. Um at that meeting that was aformational meeting that we was trying to gather information. So tonight we wanted to kind of go over some of the finding from that meetings and next step. So first off
I want to make sure everyone understand that this meeting is for the board to understand all the pros and con over all the proposed all the option that we've been reviewing. And so what we want to do is take you through all the options and kind of take you through some of the pros and cons. So again when you all get
ready to make this decision you have enough information to make a good decision. So our purpose tonight is to provide you the board with a comprehensive analysis that enable informed decision making. This is not just about a building. This
is not this is about student safety, fiscal responsibility and educational equality and again how we move the district forward. So the history so William Penn spann nearly a century. Uh it was built in
1926. Uh this building have served many generation in the Harrisburg community uh until it closed in 2010. Unfortunately, the building was not properly secure after closing which have led to criminal activity and the deterioration over the years, but I
wanted to also provide the timeline of where we've been with this building. So again, it was constructed in 1926. Um you can see over the years um that it's been a lot going on with this building especially with the fires in in 2023. Um before that we also had the creation of
our task force. I want to take a lot of time to talk about the work of our task force because that was our community. So some of the thing we're going to talk about before we talk about the task force is where we at currently with this piece of property. So we understand that this property this building is a safety
crisis. Um it we have a hard time with the insurance. Um we understand that every day that we have incident where we have unwanted people that goes in this building. Um quite often over the weekend we get a many phone calls about a lot of the visitor that go visit that
that building from time to time. So for us we have to understand that there's a lot of risk that we need to start thinking about so we can make the right decision and making sure that we are looking at our liability and our risk. Uh we are spending thousands of dollars every day on this building and one of the thing I keep saying is we have to
the educational benefits of the building right now. As of right now I always say when I walk that building the one thing I don't hear kids. So we need to talk about where do we go next. I have no idea what happened. Adam, you click click. I know you want me done.
Give me some time. Yeah. I think we're on. All right. All right. Perfect. So again, the task force was created in response to the concern in the community when the former administration brought forth a recommendation for this building. It was
outcry in the community and the former uh receiver created this task force and this task force was designed to provide a voice to the community and to us as a boy and to administration on what we should be doing with this particular building. So one of the thing that came
out of recommendation is that the the community and the recommendation of the task force was preserve the building and keep educational purpose. Now there's a lot of other purposes that they were looking at but they want us to really look at how can we bring certain CTE
components here in Harrisburg for our student. Um but it should be repurposed in this building. So with the help of our solicitor he developed a tool and which this tool we were going to use to evaluate each of the different option. The tool looked at
a few thing five dimension. One of the first thing was the K12 mission alignment. We wanted to make sure whatever we use this building for it had a purpose for the core of education. Okay. The next one was a risk level. We're going to look at uh legal,
financial, operational exposure, advantages, benefits and positive outcome, disadvantages, challenges and outcome and require followup. So at that meeting in November, one of the purpose of that meeting was to gather information so he could fill out this
chart. And so you're going to see the chart that we go on pros and cons based off the feedback that he was able to get from all the presenters. So the first one was CT programming. So CT programming was a recommendation that came out. If and I always say pie
in the sky. If everything line up perfect and we able to get surplus of money and we can bring CT program, how can we bring it back to John Harris in some capacity in some form in some way? And so that one of the thing that one of the the one of the first thing we looked at was if we were to bring that back
here, what would that look like? So in this option, one of the first thing we say, well, it align to our K12 mission, but the risk is high. The renovation costs range anywhere from 13 million all the way up nearly to 94 million for renovating that building. The building
condition mean extreme u asbestous as well as change of risk. We cannot be responsible for um the hundreds of million of dollars that we would need to take in order to rebuild that while we're in receiverhip. Again, one of the thing we understand that during this time we are not eligible to borrow any
additional funds. So for us to go out to do this, it will take a outside partner because right now currently we do not have the resources in order to bring that forward. The next option, option two. Option two looked at maintain the status quo. If we didn't do anything with the building, we
just continue to maintain what we've been doing over the past few years. If we do this, this does not align to our K12 mission and this carry high risk mainly because of the amount of money that we spend every year on this building. Roughly over $566,000 we spend
annually annually for security insurance and everything else that we able to do liability and but we also expose with liability again as we often know that we have people that goes in this building. We're liable if something happened to any of those people in that building that's on us. And so again that's
another thing that we need to continue to look at. Third option demolishing of the building and this is option three that means straight demolish. This is a neutral on the K12 alignment. It has low risk. We
eliminate the unmature liability and we stop security cost but this option does not add any student benefit. Okay. The next option option four is subdivide in sale. Again with this risk with this
option um this does not support the K12 mission and post medium risk. We will lose permanent control of of the land of most of the land. Um but it also would give us lose flexibility as we move forward. Again we understand that as a
school district we are continue to grow. If we sub sell part of the land, we would lose a lot of the leverage we have here. Harrisburg is landlocked. They don't have new land coming on the on the market. And so for us, we have to understand that the flexibility of having this land is very important for
us as we continue to move do this work. Option five, demolish and athletic field. Option five is the administration recommendation. This align with the K12 mission. It has a low to medium risk.
We'll eliminate the uninsured building, maintain 100% control, and create a facility that serves students daily while addressing our tit requirement. I'm going to provide some other information on this particular option, but I want to continue to go through all the options.
Option six. Option six, seven, and eight is what we call our public private partnership. As you all recall, we had several people that came in to the school district and pro provided presentation on possibility of what they could possibly do at William Penn. So
with this option, we kind of looked at that private uh public private partnership together. And what we looked at was saying that when we looked at that, we did not see our alignment to our K12 mission. It carried a very high risk due to the uncertainty of funding
uh the creditor threats to the district and the property uh the missing potention the unproven track record of this type of project with the different uh partnership that came to us. Um also one of the biggest part that I want to also look at is talk about is that with
this proposal is very risky to the school district because it again put us in a position where if they are not able to complete this project again it might be on the district to take care and pay for the the completion of this project. But here's the other part. The pros to
this is it will provide us opportunity to have a very unique uh uh community partnership with the school district. Also could tap into um additional revenue streams. So mentioned earlier that we were going as administration we recommended that
option five is one of the best option. The reason why we feel like option five is the best option. One, it address our title n compliance. It provide benefit to our student in multiple sports. As you understand, we are growing our athletic program in middle school and especially in our girls sports. We
brought on girls soccer. Uh we are looking to pilot uh flag football for our girls. Middle school sports are coming online as well next year. Um and again, this will get provide us the flexibility to offer multiple sports on this particular plot of land. And it will also provide benefit to all of our
students in the district. And as well, one of the biggest thing it provides also flexibility. As we continue to grow and continue to look at programming needs, if we have this piece of land still, we could be able to provide the flexibility we need to address our growing need in the
community. Why is um option five fiscally responsible? Because eliminate the uninsured risk. is stop security costs, provide a predictable maintenance cost for our budget and we can be able to understand each year what we need to budget for. Uh
it's not massive upfront borrowing. Um there's no credited risk, no financial uncertainty and there's no misuse of conflict. We understand what that property and that land will be used for. The administration recommendation is option five. This is the safest option
is eliminate major uh oh right I was looking at it wrong now I need my glasses I put this thing too small all right sustain uh it's a safer option eliminate major uninsured liability and for the most part it provide us flexibility again to do what
we need to do for our community and we keep and as a board we keep complete control of this property. So next, if the board is open to listening, could continue this conversation what we've been talking about around this recommendation. One of
the thing I'm going to ask for you all to do when we get to the session and the agenda is to adopt a motion where we are authorizing our solicitor to draft a finding conclusion document that we could use to make this decision for our public. I'm also going to ask the board
to direct administration to attain contract for the demolish and the field construction. Ask the board I mean administration to develop a plan to honor the legacy of the William Penn property and direct the administration to develop a multi-year development plan
for this site. So at this point we're going to turn it over to question to the board and I could go back to enter the slide so we can have a deeper discussion about you go. You go, >> Miss Anderson. >> Um, thank you. Thanks, Dr. Henry for that presentation. Um, so just kind of
starting backwards from what you just presented. So, you talked about having like um something some type of like legacy for the William Penn School. What would something like that look like? >> So, that would be one recommendation you all going to give to the administration for us to come up with a plan on what
that could look like. >> Okay. So if you all choose to go down this road then that's one of the recommendation I would ask you all to make to us to come back with a plan on how we could do about honoring that property. >> Mr. Carter. >> Um yes. So I know that you mentioned
that um I sat on the task force and also um sat through the uh meetings in the process of everything from the start of William pin from the demolition to um when that was first put on the table to now. And um just uh for clarity, is it possible
that we can see what type of grants just to be, you know, I'm I'm pretty much um on board with exhausting every effort. So, can we see like what type of grants were applied for throughout this process? Cuz we heard that there were grants to try to uh bring in money to
try to repair William P. I'm looking >> partners. >> Yeah. >> From us, >> like from us, from the district, just to make sure that we exhausted every effort. >> Okay. So, um that was one thing that we had yet to uh take a look at. I know we said that our grant writer has been looking at different grants, but we haven't seen what actual grants were
applied for. Also, um from an academic standpoint, I know you said that um you guys want to uh create a sports field, but can we actually see some type of direction in regards to academics to see what vision do we have put in place to make sure that academics are are also
included? If we do demolish William Penn, what does that look like from an academic standpoint? because academics should be put first as well as sports. >> Well, Mr. Carter, one of the thing I would say about the academic, one of the thing we take about academic is happening in our schools every day. And so regardless what happened with William Penn, the academics is work that we're
doing. Like >> no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I understand that. But what I'm saying is if we're going to tear down the school also, what else can we add? Can we put something in place so we can ensure that even throughout the years if we do demolish it that we can have something set in stone that we are going to rebuild a school or something there in pertaining
to academics? Because I know we talk about the sports field, but to be perfectly honest and I spoke about it before, we had all that land prior on the at the Saskahana old middle school. We sold that land and there's a lot that we could have done there before we sold it and that we had a dire need to put different things but it was a dire need for our students and we could have
utilized that land. So that's pretty much was my standpoint of where I'm coming from with that. >> Thank you. Um Miss Hughes, >> sure. Thank you very much for the presentation. Um can um so it it options six through eight were kind of grouped together. Can you comment more on why
those were grouped together and considered together? >> Well those are on our partnership the private and the public partnership. So we put them all together because when we looked at analysis we kind of looked at them all the together looking at the pros and cons from a financial responsibility um and
also looking at the needs and some of the proposal that they were providing. >> Okay. So the the PPP was the Okay. Got it. Thank you, >> Miss Anderson. >> Um, so with these options,
so if I recall, a few of them were looking at applying for grants as part of their financial model and then I think one of them was doing the investment. Um, so yeah, just want to clarify that like
so one very like happy that these groups wanted to invest in the school district. Um, but with the uncertainty that's essentially what you're saying is the ultimate risk and what makes this a high risk level versus if someone came in and
they had $100 million and they're just like philanthropically we're going to give $100 million to the school district, no strings attached. there wouldn't necessarily be a risk. But these models are they have to rely on other sources of funding that are uncertain. Number one, and number two,
even if they get those sources of funding, their model is based on making money. >> Yes. >> In order to pay off those debts that grants they're getting Okay. >> And to your point, prior to uh the new administration, a lot of people were
applying for grants. it was a lot easier to get those response. But now we understand that a lot of those grant opportunity is not the same that it used to be prior two years ago. Any additional questions? >> Um I I guess my question would be kind of
to follow up with uh Mr. Carter cuz you talked about the annual saving. I think it was like over 500. If you can go back a few slides >> the amount of money. >> Yeah, the five five up one please. Yeah, the 566k
because we talk about uh education components and I understand the field but if we're saving that annual cost has there been any thought towards what can be added for education component like I
would want to see more to that extent understand the field and the children you know do support that but I'm sure it doesn't uh clarify 566k >> well You remember last year, last spring, one of the thing I brought to the board is that we're going to work hard and diligently to bring CT light to
John Harris. And so we're still working on it. Uh we we kind of ran into a little a little snafu, but we are still moving forward with it because the goal is to bring those type of courses right at John Harris. So when kids leave out of our class, they'll be able to access those classes.
>> Okay. So yeah, that's pretty much probably my, you know, to see any additional uh availability besides, you know, and I appreciate, you know, all the work that everyone put in from the work task force to all the partners because I just keep in mind the fact is that um Harrisburg
School District, we already are um underfunded. Um we can't borrow to 2037 >> 36 >> 36. Thank you for the record. And we're only in 2020 what six. So we just have to keep the fact of the matter is our
children their education is important and uh a building I'm not saying that you would want to go that direction but even if we did come to that uh conclusion I would want to see um locally other you know contracts
involved if that's the step that we would have to go or not and even with the demo like to make sure it's local it's not just a specific you um contractor who's a part of it and making sure the community like the real input because I understand I who wants
to not go forward and doing cuz I would love to see a new school there right a lot but again it takes time effort and all so I thank you for this uh putting it together and again like I said a lot of thought to it and I have my own sentiments behind it because I know it
it plays a lot of history here in um Harrisburg and I did attend uh William Penn when they had the you know the co-op. So it brings the memories but definitely we just want to be clear that our children are the ones who will
suffer you know in the future. So that was just my added to that. Miss uh Anderson thank you. Um you mentioned doing some CTE programming at John Harris. Is that from the recommendation like that was that
directly from the recommendation of this task force? Is that why you started? >> So that based off the conversation that we had over the years when I got here and I know that was one of the recommendation was that they community wanted some type of CTE light programming and so that was way and I presented last year that we were going
to try to bring that forth at John Harris over the next few years a different program every year. Great. >> And then just one more question. Can you remind me what the multi-year phased amount would be for option five? What that cost would be?
>> We don't have a a cost on that yet. That's what you have to make a record. If you all agree to it, then you all would give us a directive to get those number for you all and bring it back at the next meet. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Okay. So, hearing no further discussion.
Is there anybody online hand raised? No one. All right. So, uh, thank you Dr. Henry for that presentation. I will now prepare to move to our recognitions for this evening.
>> Miss Keys I brought my glasses up so I'd be prepared. Doc, I understand where you're coming from. Well, good evening Harrisburg School Board of Directors, Superintendent Henry, to our cabinet, our administration, uh our chief recovery
officer, Dr. Suski, and uh Mrs. Collins to our uh school community that's gathered here this evening. Uh I do bring you greetings. It feels like forever since I've stood before you to share any recognitions, but we do have a few to share this evening and then we'll come back later this month with some
additional ones. Well, uh we are celebrating Black History Month. Uh it is an annual celebration of the achievements and a time for recognizing the central role and contributions of people of color, black people in the United States and world history. Therefore, the Harrisburg School
District is proud and honored to celebrate Black History Month. Mr. Alive and I, we kicked off Black History Month with a special video feature uh as recommended by Superintendent Henry to focus on different aspects of our community. We
highlighted two alumni of Harrisburg High School, uh Mr. Richard Brickus III and Mr. Richard Crumb. They are not only alumni of Harrisburg High School, uh, but Mr. Brickus is an alum of Morehouse
College and Richard Crum is an alum of Clark Atlanta University. Can we give it up for these amazing young men as we celebrate Black History and highlight educational brilliance? Earlier uh in January, we celebrated the
2026 MLK Day of Service. The school district has once again partnered with the Central Pennsylvania MLK 365 Planning Committee. Uh yours truly had the opportunity to serve on that committee to represent the district. And uh one of our students, NJRLTC cadet uh
Wir Anderson uh received the MLK drum major award for justice. Can we give Mr. Were Anderson. A big round of applause. I want to thank Dr. Henry for attending that ceremony uh back on January 19th uh
at the Goodwin Memorial Baptist Church. We actually had three locations that day doing community projects in the city. So, thank you Dr. Henry for attending and to our school community as well. This month from February 2nd to February
6th, the Harrisburg School District was proud to observe National School Counseling Week. Uh, every day our school counselors amplify student success by making meaningful impact in the lives, education, and futures of students across the Harrisburg School
District. So this month we highlighted and recognized and celebrated Miss Cara Balfanti, Melanie Walsh, Nicole Parese, Michaela Roberts, Don Ka, Danzelle Harvey, Christina Ward, Danielle Dennis,
Jane McCarter, Sheila Dietrich, Brena Tru Trukla, Rashidita Bailey, Deone Buckton, Tyiana Reed, Michael Coppel, Chris Anne Minam, Janine Selfridge, and Miss Nichollet. Snell, can we please
give it up for our school district counselors? We thank them for their service. Ben Franklin uh third grade students and autism support students enjoyed a wonderful educational field trip to see the West Shore Symphony Orchestra performing with students from Camp
Curtain Academy. Our students enjoyed a musically and thrilling, culturally enriching symphonic orchestra performance and an uplose and personal instrument demonstration with the opportunity to experience violin playing. And there you see our students
enjoying that wonderful opportunity. Southwest Food Service Excellence recently won the Business Champions Award for their collaboration and commitment to hire and train Harrisburg School District students, particularly those students living with and
succeeding with disabilities. Can we give a warm round of applause and congratulations to Southwest Food Service Excellent? and we'll have a very special video message for you at the end of my presentation.
Yesterday, we had the privilege and the honor to join the Rotary Club of Harrisburg uh for their monthly meeting, but also more importantly their quarterly uh recognition of Harrisburg School District students and teachers. Uh there you see in the picture on the
left uh all of the student participants, the president of the Rotary, uh Dr. Henry, uh Dr. Ayala, uh and our students who participated in the four-way speech contest sponsored by the Rotary. And then you also see Cougar Academy, Miss
Erica Baylor, uh she is the special education uh teacher for Cougar Academy and at Harrisburg High School Scitec campus. and Miss Jen Jenkins is her principal. And there you see Mr. Chris Baldridge who's a good friend through the um Rotary and the Harrisburg Public
Schools Foundation. As we continue with that recognition, you see Dr. Henry again with our student winners in the speech uh four-way speech contest, Karen, um Caroline and Promise. And then we have our additional uh winners there
and also the recognition of Mr. um Jonathan Everett and he is the physics engineering and robotics teacher at Harrisburg High School Scitec campus. Can we give them a warm round of applause and congratulations?
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. How many of you do that? all the time or occasionally, that's a good thing to do because those funds, whether it's a
couple of pennies or close to a dollar, all those funds help to benefit students who are homeless and or displaced in the Harrisburg School District. So, we have information available on our Facebook page. I'll be also emailing information to our school district this week, uh, as
well as posting on our website. This is a time where we like to take a moment to thank our community partners for their generosity towards the Harrisburg School District. In this slide, you see um the McKenna Vento program and our student services
department extend sincere thanks to a wonderful group of dedicated community volunteers for sponsoring the 2025 holiday party for our homeless and displaced students. The group has sponsored the holiday party for more than 15 years. Can we show them some
love with our applause and for their support of our homeless and displaced students? Harrisburg School District's family engagement coordinator, Mrs. Tiffany Lang along with Principal Will Hicks at Fouse School and Miss Jennifer Jenkins
at Cougar Academy uh extend sincere thanks and appreciation to LH terminals, Miss Zakiyia Lowry and Mr. Richard Utley for their thoughtfulness and generous coat donation for our students. As a school district, we are grateful for LH
terminals and other individuals, businesses, organizations, and community partners that contribute to the well-being and the warmth of our students, especially during blistering winter storms and frigid temperatures such as we have been experiencing uh
here in the Midstate. So, we say thank you to LH terminals and everyone uh Miss Carla Johnson for everyone who made that possible. Keeping the donations and thanks going, uh, Harrisburg uh, school district's McKenna Vento program and our student
services extend sincere thanks to the United Way of the Capitol Region for their generous donation of hygiene kits and shower kits again for our homeless and or displaced students and families across our district. Thank you so very much, the United Way of the Capitol
Region. And last but not least, let's go back to the Rotary Club of Harrisburg and President Shaun Ang. Uh the Rotary presented a check to Dr. Henry uh for the Harrisburg School District in the amount of 15. Is it 15 or 10,000? It's
10. Okay. I think in their post I saw 15. Uh so, but we will take 10 grand, right? To support students here in the Harrisburg School District. So, we say thank you to President Ang and to all of the Rotarians with the Harrisburg Rotary
Club. And in case you're wondering where these funds come from, this particular check donation comes from that delicious event that we do every October. That's right, the community pancake breakfast, which is part of our homecoming weekend. So, again, a wonderful investment in our
students and our school community. Senator Patty Kim recently convened a special recognition for Harrisburg School District's employee, Mr. Carlos Cedo, who is a dedicated safety monitor at Camp Curtain Academy and an ELD translator for our foreign speaking uh
students and families. Can you join me in congratulating Mr. Saledo. A welldeserved honor presented by Senator Patty Kim. And at this time we have a couple of highlights uh that we'd like to wrap up
with. I'd like to go to um the um student with SF the business champions award. If we could highlight that first. I've never been so proud that I've been kept kept kept work kept working
very so hard right here. No matter how like difficult it it is. I I I can't believe it's been like eight like eight years that I've been in this company right here.
Like my friend always say there we we nothing to prove. So we all we got to do is like stay in this together as sportsmanship team teamwork no matter no matter how we
get through get through it then we will we're still in this together. I cannot be thank good to have um those around around us do. We we already in this together.
>> There you have it. Southwest food service excellence supporting our students, all students, but particularly those with special needs. That was submitted uh by Miss Sherry Whis. She is our trans uh transition coordinator at Harrisburg High School John Harris campus working with our students with
special needs. and Kyne has been employed with SF for eight years and Jeffrey has been employed for four years. Can we please give it up for these amazing young men and for SF? The Harrisburg School District is
pleased to honor our school board of directors as we celebrate school director recognition month. Whereas the role of locally elected school officials has served the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and local communities in meeting the needs of public education
since the passage of the Free School Act in 1834. And whereas these local boards have discharged their responsibilities to public education in a manner in which has placed public education in the forefront of our educational systems.
And whereas locally elected officials have distinguished themselves and their communities in this non-paid volunteer public service commitment. And whereas the contributions of these men and women should be recognized and appreciated by
those who benefit from the workings of our public school system. Now therefore, be it resolved that the board of directors of the Pennsylvania School Boards Association hereby proclaims the month of January, 2026 as school
director Recognition Month in this Commonwealth and further resolve that this proclamation be communicated to all school districts, school officials, and local communities in a planned program
which brings visibility and awareness of the role of locally elected school officials to the citizenry of this commonwealth of Pennsylvania. >> Harrisburg school board members, happy
school board appreciation month. So on the days when it's feeling tough >> in it seems like we don't have enough. >> Let's be thankful for our friends but we
are grateful for everything we have today. Hey, let's be good to be passionate. Yeah, we got a lot to be thankful for. Yeah, >> that's a lot to be thankful for.
>> Harrisburg school board directors, we appreciate and thank you for your dedicated leadership and service to our school district. Happy schoolboard appreciation month to our school board of directors. Happy appreciation month. We appreciate you so
very much for your dedication and commitment. And can we give it up for the students at Marshall Math Science Academy and for our preK students with Dr. Grant Spencer and Miss Elizabeth Brooks at Ben Franklin Elementary School. >> Thank you so very much.
And one of the thing I will share with you um and one of your gifts inside is a special gift that some of our prek student made special for you all. So, and Downey, I'm sorry, Downey. So, hopefully you all enjoy everything
you have in your bag. And again, we all think from from me especially, I want to thank each one of you all for serving in this role. Uh again, we cannot do this work without the support of this board. So, again, thank you all for everything you are doing to help move our school district forward.
>> Wow. Well, thank you uh Miss Keys for that presentation and thank you all all to the board members. I mean, I'm I'm in inside trying to keep my tears because the children just do something to me. So, I I was just blessed to see that.
So, that's we're just thankful for that and so much >> vision and for Mr. Sean Alo. >> Thank you, Miss Grant Spender. Thank you, Miss Straighten. And also, who's that? Mr. Aloe Vera. Thank you for all
you guys do cuz we we can't do it without you. All right. So, we will now move to our public comments for this evening. So, Madam Secretary, we're ready to begin the public comment period um of the agenda for agenda items only. >> We have no public comments this evening.
>> All right. Thank you. So, now we will move to our um old business. Dr. Dr. Henry, do we have any old business this evening? >> Yes. For immediate action, the administration is recommended that the school board direct the district solicitor to prepare a written finding
and conclusion regarding the disposition of the William Penn structure in accordance with the presentation recommendations of the district administration presented to the board and the community on February 10th, 2026. >> Thank you. So, do I have a motion to
direct the district solicitor to prepare written findings and conclusions regarding the disposition of the William Penn structure in accordance with the presentation and recommendations of the district administration presented to the board and community
this evening? >> So moved. Anderson >> seconded to help the leader. >> Thank you. The motion has been properly moved and seconded. Is there any discussion on the motion? All right. So, hearing no further discussion on the motion, uh, Madam
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. So that motion will carry to be uh moved to our next school board meeting was that February I think it's 24th 26th.
>> I'm sorry. That's an immediate action. >> That's immediate action. Thank you. So that motion is carried for approval. Thank you, Mr. So now we'll move to our new business for this evening starting with the office of academics. Uh Dr. Henry, >> the administration recommend approval of
the agreement between the Harrisburg School District and Scrubberry Square for a limited license for the use of the entry at no cost to the district. This item will appear on the February 24th, 2026 board agenda for approval. >> Thank you. Is there any discussion on the motion?
All right. So hearing no further discussion on this motion, we'll move this forward to our February 24, 2026 meeting for the consent agenda for approval. Uh Dr. Henry, next item. >> The administration recommended approval of the agreement between the Harrisburg School District and the Strawberry
Square for a limited license for event use at no cost to the district. This item will appear on the February 24th, 2026 board agenda for approval. >> Thank you. Is there any discussion on the motion? All right. So, hearing no further discussion on the motion, we will move
this forward to the February 24, 2026 meeting for the consent agenda for approval. Dr. Henry, next item. >> The administration has recommended approval for of the printing of agreement between the Harrisburg School District and Varsity Yearbook in amount of 16,000. This item will appear on the February
24th, 2026 board of agenda for approval. >> Thank you. Is there any discussion on the motion? All right. So, hearing no further discussion on the motion, we'll move this forward to our February 24, 2026 meeting for the consent agenda for approval. Uh, Dr. Henry, next item.
>> The administration has recommended approval of the agreement between the Harrisburg School District and the Sharon Harrisburg Hershey Hotel for the senior prom at a minimum cost of $17,325. This item will appear on the February 24th, 2026 board agenda for approval.
>> Thank you. Is there any discussion on the motion? All right. Hearing I just would want to add I do know last year we had it at wasn't it at hack? >> Yes. >> Is there a reason why there was a like change? Was it with the uh students?
Okay. So requested by the students. All right. All right. So hearing no further discussion on this motion. We'll move this forward to our February 24th, 2026 meeting for the consent agenda for approval. Dr. Henry. Next item, >> the administration recommend approval of
the amendment number three to the ITON professional service agreement at no cost to the district. This item will appear on the February 24th, 2026 board agenda for approval. >> Thank you. Is there any discussion on this motion? All right, hearing no further discussion on the motion, we'll move this forward
to the February 24th, 2026 meeting for the consent agenda for approval. Dr. Henry, next item. The administration has recommended approval of the adoption of the McGraw Hill testbook reveal math at a cost of 1,ion56,528.39. This item will appear on the February
24th, 2026 board agenda for approval. >> Thank you. Is there any discussion on this motion? >> Miss Dr. Suski, >> I heard 528 instead of 588, just to be clear. Thank you. >> 588.
>> Thank you for that. All right. Is there any discussion on the motion? Uh, Miss Anderson, >> thank you. Um, just a quick question about the numbers. So, is it that the adoption of this would have cost around
1.4 million, but because we had that like $400,000 that was free, it's 1 million. I just wanted to clarify. I'm looking at that. That's what it look like on the actual um um document here is saying 1.3. I think then you can see
the reduction with the free material 396,000. >> Okay. Thank you. >> All right. Thank you. >> All right. Uh hearing no further discussion on the motion, we'll move this forward to our February 24th, 2026 meeting for the consent agenda for
approval. Uh Dr. Henry, next item. The administration recommend approval of the agreement between the Harrisburg School District and Indie Education Consulting LLC for the service at Donnie Elementary School an amount not to exceed $9,600
for the term ending June 30th, 2026. This item will appear on the February 24th, 2026 for agenda for approval. >> Thank you. Is there any discussion on this motion? Uh Miss Hughes. >> Um thank you. Uh is this um is this a new expense for I know this is um looks
like staff coaching and is that a a new service? >> From my understanding this is a professional development in regard to uh math that's been done at Downey and they're using some of their CSI funds. >> Okay. Thanks. >> Thank you Miss Hughes. And I think that was going to I was going to add to that
because uh so this actually been there's been a contract agreement because the contract agreement is saying January of 2025 pulling it up. Give me a second. >> Okay. We will take a look at because it's just been active now. So we will u pull this and make sure we adjust this
date on that contract. >> Okay. So, we'll make note of that. >> Thank you. >> All right. So, hearing no further discussion on the motion, we'll move that forward to our February 24, 2026 a meeting for the consent agenda for
approval. Uh, Dr. Henry, next item. >> The administration recommended approval of the agreement with Frenzy, Inc. to provide training and professional learning resources uh in support of character development practice for a nonpublic Harrisburg Catholic elementary
school in amount not to exceed $6,431.50 through June 3rd, 2026. This item will appear on the February 24th, 2026 board agenda for approval. >> Thank you. Is there any discussion on the motion? Um Mr. Doug Thompson, leader, >> um I have a question. And I see that
this is for a nonpublic school. However, it's us issuing the payment for a curriculum that is faith-based. I have some concerns about that. Again, I know it's going to a non-public school, but this is money that we have control over,
and we have a lot of different faiths in this school district, and I just think there should be some look into that, whether we should be doing that. you want it.
>> Thank you. Yeah, it it's out of title four funds and those funds are allocated to the non-pubs. So, we really can't dictate how they use those um because it's required by the federal government that a certain percentage is allocated to non-public schools and that's how they
>> Well, we're issuing the payment. I mean, if it was given to why don't we just give them the lump sum that they're entitled to? Why are we issuing a payment for a product that is faith-based? >> It is their allocation money though. It's the money that was allocated to
them. >> Why are we just voting to just give them the money and let them pay for it? >> I I I think that's an excellent question. Uh my experience in the past has been that whatever the non-pub allocation was that it was given directly to the dascese and then they handled the procurement of contracts.
Maybe something has changed. So, uh, Dr. Stokes, if you want to weigh in on that or our solicitor, Miss Young. >> So, uh, the the grant is awarded to us and, uh, we, uh, do the procurement for all of our nonpubs in relation to title
programs. So, therefore, that's why it's on the agenda. What I would like the solicitor to assist with is the fact that there are specific limitations that preclude us from using title funds for religious-based materials and supplies. So, I think we need to do some further
investigation if this is truly a faith faith-based uh material and supplies. >> I agree. I will take a look at that before the next meeting. Thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. Thompson. Leader, is there any further discussion on the
motion on this motion? >> All right. So, hearing no further discussion on the motion, we'll move this forward uh to our February 24th, 2026 commit. Actually, we uh Go ahead, Miss Anderson. >> So, I would prefer that we don't move it
forward to the 24th. Um, can we >> Well, it'll be majority of the board as majority. >> Can I put a motion on the table to table it? I >> Yeah. So, we can >> So, we
love it. Would this be tableabling it until we get more information? Is that what you mean? >> Yes. >> Sure. >> So, we just need to know what the will of the board is. >> So, would the motion be to table it? >> We don't have to take a motion. >> We don't have to. Yeah. So, we can just
at this time we just won't move it forward >> as we call that just to verify that >> do a stop just do a stop poll quickly. You don't have to make it too if Doesn't have to be fancy. >> If y'all want to table it to next time,
just raise your hand. >> Just raise your hands. Yep. >> And we have the majority. >> Okay. So, we will table that top. >> I'll research that in the meantime. >> Okay. >> Thank you. So, we'll table this to um for further discussion. So, we'll move
to our next item. Dr. Henry, next item. >> Recommend approval of the agreement. Tracy Sharp and St. 10,56. >> Dr. Henry, can you turn your mic on, please? >> That's part of my problem.
The amount to see $10,500 through June 1st, 2026. This item will appear on the February 24th, 2026 board of agenda for approval. Yeah, I was going to say, yeah, this would also fall into another similar,
>> but but the difference I think between this is this martial arts is >> Yeah, martial arts. >> The agenda does say 10 million. Is that's >> it? 10 million, right? >> There's a comma. >> Not sure what it mean.
>> Should be a decimal point and then there's a zero missing. Yeah, >> that's say that's a lot of marsh. >> So >> 10,000. So we need to make that correction. >> Should So it should be $10,56.
>> Thank you. So is there any discussion on that motion? Any further discussion? The uh Mr. Douglas Thompson leader, >> what academic um criteria is this contract supporting for the non-public
school? Like in what way is this helping them achieve the education a citizen? >> So I can add a little bit to this. This is um a grant that is beyond just the school day. So it's supporting the education of the whole child and after
school type uh support as well. Um so that's where this would come into uh meeting the needs meeting that grant criteria because it is beyond the school day and and looking beyond just academics.
>> M is there Miss Anderson? >> Yes. So just wanted to get clarity maybe for like future items that we're voting on and the process. So Dr. Suski and Doug had both brought up how these are like individualized items versus a lump
sum of money. So, I guess just in terms of like future process, is it is it that we will continue to vote on specific items for non-public schools or is the best practice to provide a lump sum of
their allocation and to vote on that? >> We are not permitted to just hand over the money to them. Um, for example, if they buy material, supplies or equipment, it actually remains the school board's property and should they, you know, try to dispose of it, it comes back um to us because we are the LEA
related to the title grant. One of the reasons that these um items are on the agenda is they they are an agreement or a contract. It requires a signature, which would be that of by the board president. So in order for the board present to execute any type of agreement, we place it on the board
agenda to ensure that the full board uh you know receives approval. So um as we see these grants the BSCA grant that was a competitive grant that we received um that grant ends on September 30th. So as they go through their non-public
applications, that grant will cease. However, you will continue to see title onebased services and other title grants. Title 4 that's not a BSCA because all of our non-pubs receive an allocation based on students for those
title funds. We are the entity receiving those funds. So we are the one responsible for ensuring the contract and exe proper execution of those. So even though they might diminish in numbers they will not completely go away as long as we continue to receive the
the the title monies. >> Thank you. Misses. >> Um, thank you for the um explanation. If um if the board's going to actually assess whether we choose to sign these or not, we're going to need the criteria for the grants. Um I I don't know, you
know, what's what's compliant, you know, how to assess whether a request is compliant or not. The school code stipulates what title 4A funds can be used for in Pennsylvania. a well-rounded education that includes music and arts as well as core academic subjects. And
healthy schools uh to improve school conditions and ensure a safe learning environment, effective use of technology that could be purchasing technology infrastructure, supporting professional development for teachers. So those are some of the examples uh that the
commonwealth provides as acceptable uh expenditures for title 4A funds. And is that information available like online or something? I believe it is. Okay. It is and we can get you something from from PTE. Perfect. Thanks. >> And I'll I'll try to include it this week to you all.
>> Thank you. And I think my only uh question will be towards is this a local um agreement because I know we've been dealing with um in a school with the behaviors of bullying and we've been trying to find
like some preventative services that are locally. Is this a local contract agreement with this martial arts? Is that the only like how was this vetted? Was there other >> this was this all would have went through their school. This would have been we would have reached out to them
to contact them this organization for them. >> So Tracy Sharp >> they would have been contacted by St. Steven they would have did the contact. We would have just vetted but we wouldn't have reached out to Tracy Sharp to provide that service to the school. >> Right. So who how is how did this
determination like how did we come up? So they contact us we going to contact them. We meet with them regularly and then and Dr. Thompson when she meet with them she talk about what they need to be spending in their account. >> So they have funds that they have to they have a lot every year and so they
have to spend down on their title funds. >> Correct. >> And so this is one of the the recommendation that they came back that they wanted to use their funds for for uh martial art to be done kind of during the day and after school. >> Okay. So, but that but that was the only
uh partner like were there other ones that like local or any other ones that's receiving this title um for uh was it funding? >> So, we receive title funding for 19 non-publiclix currently. So, State S
Stevens is just one of the 19 that participate um locally. This individual what we look at um is a does it meet the grant criteria? Does it fit within that? And then B, what is the procurement requirements? So, one of the things
about this is it is under the threshold that we would require multiple bids or quotes on and it's a professional service. So, part of our compliance measure is to ensure that it not only meets a grant criteria. So, that's what Dr. Thompson is. And then we ensure that
it meets the federal procurement requirements because we will be subject to audit on this to ensure that it meets both the grant requirements. When we get reviewed on those, uh, our auditors will be pulling these things because we are responsible to ensure it aligns with the grant and that it's properly procured.
>> Okay. >> Do all that before it even comes forward. >> Correct. >> Okay. And that's nothing that the board would have. So um just like any of the other purchases that we would make that we bring to your attention, it would be the
same process. It would be the administration ensuring that it's written in the grant criteria and then also that we're following proper procurement procedures when we are procuring those goods or services. The reason that these come to the attention as I stated is it's not like we're
buying an order of uh items from Amazon for them. If we're doing that, we're taking care of that administratively. So, we're ensuring that that order complies with the grant requirements and that it is properly procured. And we do have a federal uh pre-approval process
that we go through. So, anything that would be using federal money before it is even entered to be a green light for the procurement has to be reviewed by Dr. Thompson, our director of finance, and Miss Folks from an academic standpoint to ensure alignment. So,
we've added an extra step um that most school districts don't do just to ensure uh proper procurement and alignment with all of our grants. >> Yeah. Cuz I know some Yeah. Some procurements have a mandated like a percentage that goes towards it could be
like a small business um you know company that that that percentage should be passed down. So that's why I wanted to know how did we vet it? Did we just go according to what the administrator looked as the best um criteria to meet
that requirement versus who we have here locally that may you know them other 18 how that how we would play a part to say hey if it works but again with the expertise understand it but I know how some of the procurement procurements work um that there is a percentage that
should be down to like a small business locally so I guess that's where we where stating at this point. >> Yeah, we don't tell the nonpub you have to use this vendor. We ensure that that vendor um you know that agreement is
legal. So if you notice the agreement is using the Fox Roth style template. Um so we ensure that the agreement is legal and well written and protects the the district and then we ensure that they have met the proper procurement standards. So whether they need quotes,
bids or whatnot for that, but we don't tell the non-pub you have to use this vendor in order to they tell us this is this is what we want and we determine okay can we meet that from a legal and a financial standpoint of you know to ensure we're in compliance with the
grant. >> Okay, Madam President, I just want to correct my prior statement. I have title 4A on the brain because we were talking about that in a budget meeting in one of our schools today. This is actually title 4 BSCA which is the building
stronger connections grant and perhaps um Dr. Craig I believe who was part of writing that grant could explain I believe it's a bullying prevention violence prevention grant. Is that correct? >> Yes. This supported some of that work.
Okay. So, the martial arts I think would be akin to that building discipline um alternative ways to handle um situations with students. I'm assuming that's why they're going in that direction, but I just wanted to correct because uh again,
I was thinking of 4A based on a previous conversation today. I apologize. >> All right. Thank you, Dr. Suski. So hearing no further discussions on the motion, I will go ahead and move it forward to the February 24th, 2026
meeting for the consent agenda for approval. Uh Dr. Henry, next item. >> The administration recommend ratification and approval of the time away for work request for the professional development as attached to the agenda. This item will appear on the February 24th, 2026 board of agenda for
approval. >> Thank you. Is there any discussion on this motion? All right. Hearing no further discussion on the motion, we'll move this forward to our February 24, 2026 committee meeting for the cons consent agenda for approval. Dr. Henry, next item.
>> The administration has recommended approval of the Harrisburg School District calendar for the 26 27 and the 2728 as attached. These item will appear on the February 24th, 2026 board of agenda for approval. And I would like to say I want to thank Miss Faulk and her
team and the whole committee that worked on this uh calendar um to get this out for a two-year calendar for our community. >> Thank you, Miss Folks. Thank you. Uh is there any discussion on the motion? >> All right. Hearing no further discussion
on the motion, we'll move this forward to our February 24th, 2026 meeting for the consent agenda for approval. Uh Dr. Henry, next item. The administration recommend approval of the waiver of exposure and hearing agreement for the following student as an immediate action item.
>> Thank you, Dr. So, do I have a motion to approve the waiver of expulsion agreement as an immediate action item? >> So moved. Anderson >> seconded Thompson leader. >> 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? >> Yes. Miss Anderson? >> Yes. >> Mr. Carter? >> Yes. >> Miss Copelan? >> Yes. >> Miss Hughes? >> Yes. >> Miss Johnson?
>> We'll come back. Miss Radcliffe. >> Yes. >> Miss Robinson. Oh, she's not here. I'm sorry. She's not here. Mr. Roy. >> Yes. >> Mr. Thompson leader. >> Yes. >> And Miss Johnson,
>> seven yes, zero no, and zero abstain. >> Thank you, Madam Secretary. Hear majority of yeses. So that motion will carry for approval. Uh we'll now going to move to the new business for the office of operations. Dr. Henry, next item. >> Are we on?
>> Excuse me. Office of Human Resource. I'm ready to go. Um, sorry. Next item. >> The administration recommend approval of the February 10th, 2026 personnel agenda as immediate action item. >> Thank you. So, do I have a motion to
approve the February 10th, 2026 personnel agenda as attached in the immediate action item? >> 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. Madam Secretary, can have a roll call vote, please. >> Miss Anderson, >> yes. >> Mr. Carter, >> yes. >> Miss Copelan, >> yes. >> Miss Hughes, >> yes. >> Miss Johnson.
Miss Radcliffe. >> Yes. >> Mr. Roy, >> yes. >> Mr. Thompson Leader. >> Yes. >> Seven. Yes. Zero. No. Zer 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 memorandum of understanding between the Harrisburg School District and Harrisburg Educational Association regarding the NJ ROC as attached. This item will appear on the February 24th, 2026 board of
agenda for approval. >> Thank you. Is there any discussion on the motion? All right. Hearing no further discussion on the motion, we'll move this forward to our February 24, 2026 meeting for the consent agenda for approval. Dr. Henry, next item. >> The administration is recommending
approval of the client service agreement between the Harrisburg School District, Arthur J. Gallaer Risk Management Service LLC for work worker compensation, brokerage, and risk management service effective July 1st, 2026 as attached. This item will appear
on the February 24th, 2026 board of agenda for approval. >> Thank you. Is there any discussion on the motion? >> Question, >> Mr. Carter. >> Yeah. >> Listed on here. >> Mike, >> listed on here, it says that um it
establishes a one-year term with automatic renewal. Will we get to see u how effective it was before it before we get to that portion of renewal within that one year? We are actually set up to do monthly reviews with them which will be a change in practice because we we do want to
assess um the service they provide. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Miss Lane, what I would ask for then that those monthly update that you provided to me so I can provide that to the board. >> I can do that. I I should also mention this goes into effect in July. So I
would start it with >> at the beginning of the year. Go. >> Thank you. Is there any further discussion on the motion? All right. So, hearing no further discussion on the motion, we'll move this forward to our February 24, 2026 meeting for the consent agenda for
approval. Um, now we're ready for the office of operations. Uh, Dr. Henry, new business items. >> Okay, we got some information only for you. Uh, the first one is a result of the 2526 lead testing water for the Harrisburg school district as attached. There was no water source that showed
elevated level of leads. >> Great. Thank you. Is there any discussion on the motion? >> All right. Hearing no further discussion on this motion, we'll move this forward to our February 24th, 2026 meeting for the consent agenda for >> Madam President. This is strictly an
information item, so we don't need to move anything. Thank you. And this is the kidding. I was off the record. >> All right. >> Okay. So, next item is >> the next as well is aformational item.
This is a result of the mutual bid online auction um use of the food service and IT equipment attached. The district is in the process of collecting $12,75945. And I believe this is something that you just put out there, Mr. Rei, a couple of months ago.
That is correct. So, we're wrapping up the auction and these are the results. And normally these items would either be thrown away or or scrapped. So, we were able to get some money for them. >> Very nice. >> Yes. Thank you. I'll just make a comment. Thank you uh for that feedback because I was able to go through the
items listed and to see that that 12,000 revenue to return back into the district. So, that was uh thank you for that. And I know this isformational only. So, is there any other discussion? All right. So, Dr. Henry, next item, please. >> The administration has recommended
approval of agree agreement with TRAN that provide service to our HVAC control and provide preventive maintenance on all of our HVAC units. This agreement is from January 1st, 2026 until December 31st, 2026. Total cost
$147,852. >> Thank you. Is there any discussion on this motion? All right. Hearing no further discussion on the motion, we'll move this forward to our February 24th, 2026 meeting for the consent agenda for approval. Dr. Henry, next item. >> The administration recommended approval
of the listing of bus drive for craft that drive for the Harrisburg School District. This item will appear on the February 24th, 2026 board of agenda for approval. >> Thank you. So, is there any discussion on the motion? Um my only uh update was because I know
there was a few new uh drivers that were added. Um and I know there also we did a recent um increase uh regarding their uh pay. So is there any update like the protocol like the safety how's it uh been going thus far like the with a
monitor on the bus and can you just give us a little bit of update on that safety measures like how it's being done with craft? I'm just kind of looking more at the craft update. >> Are you referring to the the the the additional funds we provided craft with the bus driver and try to see are we
>> right and then when we see new hires I'm just interested like is there anything that changed or >> Mr. Reed have you have any update on hiring practice with craft since we've been able to provide that additional funding? Uh we still continue to see turnover within the driver ranks. Um but
it is getting a little bit stronger in which there's there's a little bit more length of service. Um however, you know, it is it is an area that continues to see turnover unfortunately. Um but um I I can get you something a little bit
more specific um in terms of that data if you'd like. >> Okay. Yep. Thank you. And hearing no further discussion on the motion, we'll move that forward to the February 24th, 2026 meeting for the consent agenda for approval. Uh Dr.
Henry, next item. >> The the administration recommend approval of the proposal from Johnson and Thompson JMT for the professionals design service for the site improvement at Melro Elementary School playground.
Total cost not to see 123,99300. Thank you. Is there any uh discussion on the motion? Uh Mr. Thompson, leader. >> Um just because I'm familiar with Melrose, my daughter having gone there, I know that there's two separate areas that are utilized for play with the
students. Does this encompass both of them? Cuz the behind Melrose description is kind of well rough. >> Yes, sure. In fact, I I have a little bit I can kind of talk you through the entire project. Uh so the focus of this
project really is twofold. The primary objective is to correct the water that flows in the back playground area. So there's a dirt gravel area in which it comes down a hill. Um unfortunately when there's heavy storms, the entire back
area can get completely washed out and full of mud and stones. So, aside from a mess in the playground area, it really also creates an unsafe play area for students. So, we identified some underground lines likely designed to control the water, but they are either
clogged or not large enough to manage the water effectively in that back area. So, we explored several ideas around the issue because we knew this would be a pretty intensive project. But really to do the do this right, we need to partner with a municipal engineer, which is
what's on the agenda tonight. Anytime you're dealing with the diversion of water, there's surveys, permits, and plans that need to be done. The other objective of this project is to improve the play conditions for the Melrose students. So, what that would have involved is placing new paving on the
basketball court as well as new inground hoops, uh, which would likely have to be done anyway because of the installation of the water pipes that that need to be done. Also adding a new grass area with sod to replace the gravel area that is
currently there. Now, uh, the current area is is really full of gravel and tree roots. Students play on it and it's just not a really great place for students to play. uh cleanout, removal of the tree and bush growth in the back area to our property line. Uh if you
look back there, it's really quite a mess um between the fence and the property line. So, the thought is to extend the fence back to the property line and pretty much clean out that whole back area and also adding new fencing and a small retaining wall. So
once all the plans are developed by the municipal engineer, we'll bring back a construction uh project with the costs um to move forward with all of that. Um I know just because my neighborhood is close by, the Capital Region Water has an entire water management system that
comes down through there. Um just kind of to mention because they've done a comprehensive look at that whole area to manage it, especially with the other creek much further away that does flood. um excited to hear about this um because I do know what the what it looks like,
but I've also seen what you've been able to do at our other schools for play areas for our students. So, I appreciate that. Thank you. >> Yeah. And anytime you're dealing with with water and the diversion of water, it you can't just put in a pipe and just do it yourself. You really have to go through the permitting process and really do it right, which is expensive,
but it's it's the only way to go. >> I just had a quick question. Um, I know previously back in 2018, we were supposed to had this work done before as far as uh fixing that the water issue and also clearing that back area out at Merles. So, pretty much what we're saying is that none of that work
was done. >> I I really can't comment on that. I wasn't here at that point. Uh, but I can tell you it is a problem back there. Um, and it's it's a mess that really needs to be corrected. So I I really can't >> cuz we paid Yeah, we paid for that in 2018 and have the majority of that stuff
removed, have that um issue fixed with the water. We approved that, I believe, in 2018. >> I can certainly try to research that and see what was done, but again, it's it's it's a problem back there that really needs to start over and be corrected.
>> Thank you. So hearing there hearing no further discussion on the motion, we'll go ahead and move that forward to our February 24, 2026 meeting for the consent agenda for approval. Uh Dr. Henry, next item. >> The administration has recommended approval of the letter of commitment to
the renewal our membership in the Capitol Area Intermediate Unit Regional War Consortium for the period of July 126 through June 30th, 31 with a 2-year extension. Total cost for the 2627
school year not to exceed $39,5144. Thank you. Is there uh any discussion on the motion? And I do see that um there was a savings. Uh, do we know how much uh we saved each year like prior to this
renewal for the contract? >> I'm not sure, but we could definitely get that information back to you. >> Okay. And is there a is there a typo or maybe it's just me on the the date 71 to 2026 or how many years is it through
6:30 2031 >> is a two-year deal Adam? >> That is correct. It's a fiveyear. We're we're approaching the end of our current fiveyear and the intent is to stay on with the consortium. >> All right. Thank you. And just a quick question just uh I know we're in the uh we're in the process of getting ready to
renew them. How was their services? Were their services? >> This is for and Adam I make sure I'm saying this right. This is more or less for our internet services and stuff like that for our local internets. >> Yes, internet services, firewall and content filtering. And apart from the one time the train crashed across the
river and took out our internet period it has been relatively stable. >> Yeah. >> Thank you. So hearing no further discussion on the motion, we'll move this forward to our February 24th, 2026 meeting for the consent agenda for approval. Uh Dr. Henry, next item.
>> The administration has recommended approval of attached use of facility. This item will appear on the February 24th, 2026 board agenda for approval. >> Is there any discussion on the motion? >> All right. So hearing no further
discussion on the motion, uh we'll move this forward to our uh February 24th, 2026 meeting for the consent agenda for um approval. I'm sorry. I think I got one
was the was this >> we already >> Okay. All right. So Dr. Henry, so we'll move now to our office of business services for new business. Uh Dr. memory. >> The administration recommend approval of the attached ready tole learn block
grant tax equity supplement resolution. This item will appear on the February 24th 206 board of agenda for approval. And Dr. So, you want to add any additional information on this one? >> Absolutely. So, we are one of the uh
districts that receive a tax equity supplement, which means that we are in the 90th percentile or higher of the tax burden on our local community. Um what we are waiting on is clarification from the Pennsylvania Department of Education. Uh the grant system in which
we apply this resolution and these funds um have doubled our allocation for this year. So, our normal allocation is a little over 721,000. The grant application has 1.4 million. So you will see that the resolution attached matches what the egrant system
has, but we have been questioning the Pennsylvania Department of Education and they are working to get us clarity. So before we actually take a vote on this, we will hopefully have the exact information to determine and make any updates to that resolution as deemed
necessary. Thank >> Thank you, uh, Dr. Stokes. And I think my only um adding to it is the hope that uh before we would take any votes that the correction um is done and hopefully before our next meeting or
how we will move forward. >> Yes. If we do not have clarity from the Pennsylvania Department of Education, we will table that motion until we receive clarity. >> Awesome. Thank you. All right. So, hearing no further discussion, we'll move this forward to our February 24th, 2026 meeting for the
consent agenda. Uh Dr. Henry. Next item. >> The administration has recommended approval for the interlocal cont contract interstate between the Harris County Department of Education Harrisburg School District for participation participation in the choice partner cooperative purchasing
network at no cost to the district. This will allow the district to take advantage of good and services from award vendors that meet the federal purchasing requirement. This item will appear on the February 24th, 2026 board agenda for approval.
>> Thank you. Is there any discussion on the motion? >> All right. I'm just trying to make sure because I know we did have an item on there uh under the Office of Academic. So, how does that
um cuz I know that the same people varsity >> I believe I know where you're going, President Copelan. >> Thank you. >> Yes. So, uh we are particularly interested in joining this cooperative
because varsity yearbooks is represented on the um on the cooperative. So, in order to meet the procurement requirements uh that are outlined in the attached quote for the varsity yearbook,
we have to join that cooperative in order to get that pricing. So, >> yeah, that's why I wanted to make sure cuz I'm like, wait a minute. I thought we had something up there earlier, but that makes sense to take time to it. All right. So, hearing Oh, Dr. Tom um Dr.
Well, no, Mr. Thompson leader. I do love when you do that every time. just speak it into existence. >> Yeah. Um actually based on your your comment there, isn't there another vendor we could go with? I mean, if we're going into this consortium purely
off of one vendor and not like our yearbooks have been overly fantastic in the past anyway, speaking as a parent who's never gotten one. So, did we look at other ones? Is this only for that one thing? And
just >> Dr. Heder, do you want me to address that? Yeah. So, our yearbook advisor did go out and obtain quotes from three different yearbook companies this year. Um, and uh based on his recommendation, we uh are wanting to continue our
relationship with varsity tutors. One of the reasons that we are joining this is to allow us to enter a multi-year contractual arrangement with varsity tutors for the yearbook. And because if we enter a multi-year, we're above our threshold for procurement. Um, it was our way to do that. Now, I'm not saying
we will only use choice partners for varsity because it does open up more vendors for us to use. It's just directly connected. In order to for us to approve the varsity yearbooks agreement, we need to be part of this cooperative to take advantage of pricing. However, we've joined TIPS,
we've joined by board, we've joined goodbye over the past few years and through our ESSER and our federal procurement requirements, those have been greatly beneficial to allowing us to ensure we're maintaining compliance with that. So, I would imagine in the future there'll be other opportunities
for us to uh use the contracts that have been procured for through choice partners. >> Thank you. Is there any further uh discussion on the motion. >> I just had a quick comment. So whichever I mean if we do decide to continue to stick around with them, can we just
ensure that the uh senior prom is included within the yearbook cuz I know in prior years um seniors have reached out to me and said that they never got I guess the uh portion of the prom portion of the yearbook. >> So my from my understanding I think that's the reason why they they give the
yearbook out so late to include the year the prom. Um, and that's a little unusual cuz mostly most school district you have your yearbook done prior to your prom. Um, and so I know we kind of add that in. Um, but normally you try to
get your yearbook out before prom, >> right? I know uh in in in previous years I know a few seniors had reached out and it might have been the class of 23 if I'm not mistaken. There was a few seniors that had reached out and said they never got the portion of the prom. I guess it goes in the book. I'm not
sure if they didn't receive that in that because I know we went through the same thing too. We never had our problem in our yearbook either. We're supposed to get the pamphlet to it, but we never received it. And however, the same issue was still going on years later. Um, seniors did reach out about it. >> We can look into the problem situation and how they go about adding those
additional uh pictures. >> Thank you. So hearing no further discussion on the motion, we'll move it forward to our February 24th, 2026 meeting for the consent agenda for approval. Uh Dr. Henry, next item. >> The administration is recommending
approval of the Treasury report for the period ending December 31st, 2025 in amount of 66,419,354. This item will appear on the February 24th, 2026 board agenda for approval. >> Thank you. Is there any discussion on
the motion? Okay. Hearing no further discussion on the motion, we'll move it forward to our February 24th, 2026 meeting for the consent agenda for approval. Uh Dr. Henry, next item. >> Administration has recommended ratification of the following checks register for January 26. These item will
appear on the February 24th, 2026 board of agenda for approval. >> Thank you. Is there any discussion on the motion? All right. Hearing no further discussion on the motion, we'll move it forward to our February 24, 2026 meeting for the
consent agenda for approval. Uh Dr. Henry, next item. >> The administration's recommend approval of the ratification of the following payroll total for January 2026. These item will appear on the February 24th, 2026 board agenda for approval.
>> Thank you. Is there any discussion on the motion? And I think my only um question I did see there was a ratification is that can you just give a little bit of a detail because I know there was I know it included
the January uh pay payroll. Madame President, ratifications are for items that have already occurred. So these people were already paid. So the board is ratifying because you approve it before it
happens. But in this case, they've already been paid. So that's what the ratification is. >> Thank you. That's why. So I was just trying to get understanding there. So thanks for explaining that cuz I'm like, okay, so that makes sense. But just want to make sure there's no other discrepancies. All right. So hearing no further
discussion on the motion, we'll move it forward to our February 24th, 2026 meeting for the consent agenda for approval. Uh Dr. Henry, next item. >> The administration has recommended approval for the following fundraiser for the 2025 2026 school year. This item
will appear on the February 24th, 2026 board agenda for approval. >> Thank you. Is there any discussion on the motion? All right. Hearing no further discussion on the motions, we'll move this forward the items forward to our February 24th, 2026
meeting for the consent agenda for approval. Dr. Henry, next item. >> The administration is recommend approval for the 2025 2026 budget transfer in amount of 674,594 82 cents. This item will appear on the
February 24th, 2026 board of approval. Thank you. Is there any discussion on the motion? All right. Hearing no further discussion on the motion, we'll move it forward to our February 24, 2026 meeting for the consent agenda for
approval. Dr. Henry, next item. The administration has recommended approval of zon rating of the real property tax of church of God and general conference on Green Street Church of God and from the obligation to pay real estate taxes for the property located at 1330 Green
Street and 1336 Green Street in Harrisburg, PA. identified by the parcel 06 023 02 0 0 0 and 06 023
00100 0 0 0 effective July 1st 2024th. This motion is based on a previous exemption history and subsequential resertification of exempt status effective January 1st, 2026. The Dolphin County Tax Clean Bureau is authorized to
strike off $4,255.32 in in 2024 taxes and $4,546.79 in the 2025 taxes. >> Thank you. Is there any discussion on the motion? >> Mine is uh just more so of a comment. I know um >> is it still like a possibility where we
can still network with these churches? I know we are exonerating the taxes, but in in regards to trying to get something from it, can we try to network with them in regards to after school programs, in regards to academics or anything like that? Is there any type of networking that we can do with them? >> We always open to network. I know we put
out a proposal over the summer where we did send out letters to try to gather some of these from some funds back from entities like this. Um, from understanding, we didn't get anything, did we? >> No, we're still sitting at zero. >> We're still sitting at zero. So we will continue to network and try to uh advocate to see if we can ret retrieve
funds back from entities like this. >> Okay. And also is there anything that we can do from a board's perspective to even to even try to push that notion as as far as the networking with them? Is it anything that we can do on our end? >> Yeah, we can always talk about how we can work with our community partners u to support the school district um in different facets.
>> Okay. Thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. Carter. Yeah, because I see it to an advantage like space-wise, but I don't know what that looks like, you know, behind the scene with the exemption if there's a space available for, you know, with everything that's
happening. Um, how could we, you know, get some supports to that? Not really just trying to get the money per se, but if there's an open space where they can ho, you know, um, host some of our children throughout locally, it it could be somewhat of a support of us um,
coming together. Thank you. And hearing no further discussion on that, so we'll move that forward to our February 24th, 2026 meeting for the consent agenda for approval. Uh Dr. Henry, next item. >> All right. The next item is a meeting action item. The administration has recommended approval for the following
fund balance transfer as a media action item. recommend the approval of the following transfer effective June 30, 2025 from the general fund unassigned fund balance to the capital reserve fund an amount of 10,378,497 from the general fund unassigned fund
balance to the general fund assigned fund balance for enrollment stabilization for $3,500. >> Thank you. Three 3 million >> 3 million getting old. 3,500
>> 5,000 500,000 >> 5,000. >> Thank you. So, do I have a motion? Make sure we got it correct there. >> Do I have a motion to approve the fund balance transfer as an immediate action item?
>> So moved, Anderson. >> Is there a second? Second, Hughes. >> The motion has been properly moved and seconded. Is there any discussion on the motion? So, hearing. Well, I do want to um acknowledge that um after getting a
little bit more um feedback into how these transfers are done to see that um we are growing in our um what is it? General funds. If you can just speak to that. Um Dr. Stokes. >> Absolutely. So we um are increasing our
fund balance in our general fund which is required through our monitoring plan with uh PTE and we are also continuing to fund our capital reserve fund so that we can continue improve our facilities for our students and our staff and also
address the uh concern with not being in the ability to any do any substantial borrowing for the next 10 years. So these transfers accomplish both of those uh means. >> Thank you Dr. Stokes. >> And Madam President, I think it should be noted that the transfers are required
to stay within the 8% threshold for this year's expenditures. Correct, Dr. Stokes? >> That is correct. We are limited to unassigned fund balance of 8% of the subsequent year's budget. So that is another driving force for making these
recommendations. Thank you, Dr. Suski. Thank you, Dr. Suski, because I know that is something that especially being under the monitoring state stage that we are um we are staying on track there. So, thank you um for that update. And
Madame Secretary, we are now ready to take a roll call vote. >> Miss Anderson, >> yes. >> Mr. Carter, >> yes. >> Miss Copelan, >> yes. >> Miss Hugh, >> yes. >> Yes. Miss Johnson, Miss Radcliffe.
>> Mr. Roy, >> yes. >> Mr. Thompson Leader, >> yes. >> And one more time, Miss Rycliffe. >> Six yes, zero no, zero abstain. >> Thank you, Madam Secretary. Hearing majority of yeses. So that motion will carry for approval. Uh Dr. Henry, next
item. >> The administration is recommending approval of the acceptment of the audit financial statement for the year ending June 30th, 2025 presented by the CLA LLP as a immediate action item.
>> Thank you. So do have a motion to approve the 2024 2025 audit financial statement 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. So, hearing my only uh question upon approval, I know um when we did have the audit done, I think from the federal um expenses, if you can just speak to that, please.
>> Sure. Absolutely. So, with the federal government shutdown, the uh annual compliance supplement was issued late. It was not issued until December. So, you'll notice in the audited financial statements that the single audit is not included. The single audit is currently being done and should be wrapped up by
the end of the month. We have our auditor on site on Thursday to do any in-person testing that's required. And then upon the completion of the single audit, we will bring that back to the board for uh review discussion and and subsequent approval.
>> Thank you. So with that being brought back, that wouldn't be that would that be prior to us cuz we're this is an immediate action item. So are we just >> Yeah, you're approving the audited financial statements with this one and then we'll bring back the single audit
results for subsequent approval. Yes. >> Okay. Great. All right. So, hearing no further discussion on the motion. U Madam Secretary, can I have a roll call vote, please? >> Miss Anderson? >> Yes. >> Mr. Carter? >> Yes. >> Miss Copelan? >> Yes. >> Miss Hughes? >> Yes.
>> Miss Johnson. >> Miss Radcliffe. >> Mr. Roy, >> yes. >> Mr. Thompson Leader. >> Yes. >> Six. Yes. Zero. No. and sir abstain. >> Uh thank you madam secretary. So hearing
majority of yeses. So that motion will carry for approval. Uh we're now ready to move to the office of superintendent for new business. Dr. Henry, >> the administration would recommend approval of the agreement with Mass Inside Harrisburg School District for the central office restructuring support
from February 26 through June uh June 2026 at the cost not to exceed $24,600. This item will appear on the February 24th, 2026 board agenda for approval. >> Thank you.
Is there any discussion on the motion? And um I I just want to add you this is the U Massite agreement. So this is a prior agreement that we've already had with >> we we worked with them previously and we be bringing them back to do some additional work in the district. Okay.
>> They've been in the district for a few years now. >> Madam President. >> Yes. >> If I can. Dr. Henry, I think it would be important to give the public a little bit of an understanding of what this is. I I know that I've already been contacted by some folks here in the
office asking what this is about. So, if you could just share, please. So as as a as a superintendent, one of the thing that I've been tasked with is to make sure that we are putting the best structure in place to make sure that as a a central office, we are operating at the most efficiently and effectively.
And so one of the thing that Mass Insight will be working with me on is continue to work on how do we make sure that our central office restructured in a way that is best for our student and moving our district uh ahead effectively.
>> Uh thank you u Mr. recorder. >> I just had a quick question. When we worked with Mass Insight before, they were actually uh in person. Correct me if I'm wrong. >> Not always. Uh they are a firm that is located in Boston. Uh and they have
consultants that are all over the country. They do occasionally come in and a lot of the meetings are also on Zoom. It's it's a hybrid model. >> I just want Yeah, I just wanted to see if there would be any difference from them coming in person to doing it virtually. Is there any difference in the test that they do or
>> the costs are different because obviously if they're not traveling it's less money for us. >> Thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. Carter. Yeah, that that was really pretty much my well, you already kind of asked the question because I just want to make sure if this
is something like um with the supports that you have currently this um mass insight, this is just an additional oversee to make sure >> they'll be working with me as we continue to try to make sure that we have a structure here at the central
office that is effective for our schools in the school district. >> Okay. Yeah. It it might be important, Madame President, for me to just refresh the board's memory. Um, this goes back, my goodness, I believe it was the beginning of 2025
where um I had a motion on the agenda when I was receiver and I had shared with you that the Department of Education um had agreed to fund the mass insight study to look at the administrative structuring in the district office. Those results were
provided to the school district uh late last spring. Uh Dr. Henry being not even a whole year into his tenure as superintendent wanted the ability to be able to kind of assess where his team is before moving forward with any of the
recommendations. So basically that report was tabled. uh the department you know keeps asking where we are with the study recommendations and uh we just believe we need to close the loop on that. So Dr. Henry is um going to be
working with Mass Insight to again re-evaluate and reassess based on his knowledge of his team uh at this point in time. >> Yeah. And I think that's pretty much like where I have concerns per se because if this is only done for what um
the agreements to February to June 2026 um once this is this contract agreement ends like how do we how do we know like >> because we'll have the right supports moving forward >> because at that time I will will be presenting a new updated plan to you all
based off of the work that I'm working with them on. So, um, as a board member, I would love to see, um, the progress monthto month because it doesn't look like it's too many months that they'll, you know, oversee it, but just to see the progress. Is it working? And I know
in the past it has, you know, they've been supportive with PTE, but just to make sure that we're keep in mind because we always talking about we always speak to um um funding and and savings, right? So, I
just would like to have some type of update for our board to make sure we're monitoring this closely and and see the improvements um as we move forward. Okay. So, hearing uh no further discussion on that motion, we'll move it forward to the February 24th, 2026
meeting for the consent agenda uh for approval. Dr. Henry, next item. >> All right. This is another one as a media action item and I'm going to read the motion and um Dr. Craig if you can provide some additional information to the public and to the board on this particular motion after I finish. The administration is recommending the
approval of the attachment resolution regarding the Harrisburg school district plan closure of Marshall Academy and Rolling Academy as an immediate action item. Dr. And I I just want before you move because you said it was another so the massing site that was an agreement that
wasn't an immediate action that's just going to be moved. So this >> move to the next one but the resolution of the closures is actually we're voting on that. Correct. >> Yes. >> Okay. >> That correct? >> Yes. Thank you. So yes, whenever we
close a school building, we have to request permission um and submit that request with PTE and there is school code that guides us in the closure of a school building. Um part of it is um approving the resolution um so that we
can move forward to set a public hearing um and and also we have to notify um I believe it's the planning committee and commissioners of the closing of the school. So we cannot move forward with any of those things until uh we have a approved resolution.
>> So Dr. Craig, can you also provide so I want to make sure the community understand in regard to Marshall Academy. I want them to understand that Marshall Academy and Marshall Math Science and the status of those two schools. >> Yes. So, uh, Marshall Academy and
Marshall or let me say Marshall Academy and Math Science Academy both coexist in the Marshall building location on Hail Street. Um, we um submitted a recommendation for the closure of
Marshall Academy. Um and uh in 24 sorry in 2425 Marshall math science um only included our application only students
um and I'm sure I'm not sure uh so Marshall Math Academy uh then we're we're moving forward to close that building that school not building but school >> and the students that's at Marshall Academy where those student be relocated to? Oh, the students were absorbed into
the math science program. So those students that were displaced, they just moved to the math science academy. >> And you provide some more background on the rolling academy. >> So rolling academy uh it was proposed to close that academy over a three-year
period in the phase out. And so this will be the last year of the phase out. We started with sixth grade, 7th grade, and eighth grade um in I believe it was 23 24. And so every move every year um we phased out a grade level. This is the
last year we only have eighth grade students currently at the Roland Academy. Those students will be moving to the high school which will leave no students um enrolled at Roland Academy. >> Uh thank you.
So do I have a motion to approve the resolution as presented as an immediate action item? So moved to Husk. >> Is there a second? >> Second. Anderson. >> Thank you. The motion has been properly
moved and seconded. Um is there any discussion on the motion? >> Yes. I just got a quick question. I know um the process of us phasing uh rolling out and sending all of our kids to Camp Curtain and possibly closing rolling. What were the next steps moving forward? Cuz correct me if I'm wrong, we still own the building, correct? >> A rolling.
>> Yeah. >> Yes. So what will we uh what will we do with that building moving forward after the closure? >> So right now there is where we have our River Rock program station and so right now they will still be in that building >> and they will continue to be utilizing that building. Correct me if I'm wrong? >> Yes.
>> Okay. No problem. >> Thank you. Is there any further discussion on the motion? And and that pretty much was going to be my added on question. So as for the River Rock now is are we already at capacity at that location? Remember we
have we have contracted seats and so we are at we are not at our limit with seats. Correct. >> Yeah. >> Okay. So all right. >> So again hearing >> madam Yes president I I just want to share because I did not hear this
mentioned and forgive me if it was mentioned but the closure of these buildings requires a public hearing. Sorry. >> Okay. And that hearing is scheduled per the resolution for March 31st at 6 o'clock PM here in the boardroom. So in
essence, approving the resolution tonight will enable us to get the appropriate advertising done to have the public hearing as scheduled on March 31st. And there is a specific PTE timeline to get all of this completed uh
as we close out the school year. >> Thank you. Thank you, Dr. >> Yes. And so once the resolution is approved, we'll advertise it. It has to be advertised by law for at least 15 days before the hearing starts.
>> Thank you. With that, so the date is not yet. >> The date is March. >> Date is okay. I just want to make sure that's clear. >> It's in the resolution. >> Awesome. All right. So, Madam Secretary, may I have a roll call vote, please? >> Missy Anderson. Yes, >> Mr. Carter.
>> No. >> Oh, >> Miss Copelan. >> Yes, >> Miss Hughes. >> Yes, >> Miss Johnson. >> Miss Radcliffe. >> Mr. Roy. >> Yes.
>> Mr. Thompson Leader. >> Yes. >> Five. Yes. One no, zero abstain. >> Thank you, Madam Secretary. Hear majority of yeses. So, that motion will carry for approval. Uh we will now move to our policy updates for this evening.
And these items listed on the agenda is for the first reading of the recommended policy updates this evening. We are presenting the following policies for the board's review. At this time, the first reading, no formal action will be taken tonight. Board members are
encouraged to review the policies and submit any questions to the administrative prior to the second reading. The policies will be brought back to the board or brought back to our February 2020 24th, 2026 board meeting
for possible adoption. Adoption. Are there any questions from the board this evening? Madam President, >> oh, I had one, but go ahead. Go ahead, Dr. >> Just for clarification, were these
policies already vetted by the district solicitor in the format that they exist on on the board docs? >> Thank you. That was going to be my question. >> They were brought to us through Psba. >> So, these are the PSBA recommended
changes, but none of these have been taken to the solicitor at this point. >> No, not yet. >> Okay. Thank you. So with that, just adding on, will that be um this will be vetted to the solicitor prior to us taking any approval or vote? And also, I did look
at a little and maybe you may not have all the answers this evening, but I did take a look at some of these uh policies and a lot of different updates and change. So I don't know what that looks like as been um as notifying parents. >> Yeah. Yeah. Changes. Okay. Um do you
want me to give you a quick summary of some of these? >> Sure. >> Okay. So, let me start with policy. There's eight um policies this evening for uh well for the board to review. Policy 123 is regarding our intercolastic
athletics um policy and that policy um had some updates that were related and to provide more clear and precise language around title 9 and participation requirements.
Um, policies 805, 8051, 8052 are all related to school safety and reflect updates that align to um, recent updates in the law specific to annual reporting and required trainings. Um policy 218.1
is our weapons policy and that was updated to reflect our new act 44 which um outlines the parent and staff notification requirements that are now in effect starting or they went into effect starting January 5th, 2026.
Uh 204 is our attendance policy and those updates include updated definitions um and also include updated language to be in compliance with act 47. Act 47 relates to um truent students not being eligible under this act to
transfer to cyber schools. Uh policy 610 is our purchases subject to bids and quotations. And that has updates um on procedures and thresholds to obtain bids and price quotations for product services where bids and
quotations are required by law. And then 810 is around transportation and that just provides some updated language on the district's responsibility to provide transportation for students in accordance with the law. So, those are pretty much the reviews
>> and uh thank you uh Dr. Craig for that because I think that's important especially with the attendance like we talk about our children getting to school and parents are aware um that there's some policy updates and changes that will happen that will affect them as parents to make sure our children are
in school or they're doing the appropriate um notifications when it comes to that um update. So again, I know it has to go through a solicitor's review at this time, but I think that was important to share that because I as a parent, I will want to know when
changes are happening. Um, so we're all in alignment and we're being transparent here. >> Absolutely. >> So, thank you for that. And then we will now move to >> I actually have a couple. Wait, I apologize. I didn't even Dr. No, I'm kidding. Mr. Mr. Doug Thompson leader um more uh
about the procedure and process of this. I kind of feel they should not have even been put on the agenda until they've been vetted by our solicitor because I do not know what changes our solicitor is going to make and having them out there now for the public to provide feedback however often that actually
happens and also the board to look at these. These are not what we're going to vote on in two weeks. So, it doesn't make sense to look at them. I just ask in the future that we only get the policies after they've been vetted. Understood. All right. Is there any further
discussion on the policies? And then keep in mind board members, we do get this uh prior to our meetings here. So, as a board president, I will make that clear that um we do get the agenda or too. So, we always ask to ask any
questions um before we actually come out here in the public. And with that, we're going to move to our public comment for general items. So, Madam Secretary, uh, do we have any public per um, excuse me, do we have any public comments that are on the
non-aggenda items this evening? >> No, we do not. >> All right. So, we will now adjourn the meeting. Is there a motion to adjourn the meeting? >> Is there a second? >> Second, Anderson. >> All in favor signify by saying I.
>> I. Those opposed meeting is adjourned.