Mm hmm.
Yeah.
It should be up to the.
I'd like to.
Call the April
25th, 2022 meeting of the Derry Township School District Board of Directors
to order and announce that this meeting is being livestreamed and audio recorded.
This meeting is being conducted both in-person and virtually,
and I would like to request
four board members to please state your name when speaking Mrs.
AG Rollcall.
Mr. Bennett.
President, Dr. Cronan here.
Ms.. Drew Present.
Mrs. Many.
Here, Mr.
Rizzo. Here.
Ms.. Schmidt.
Mrs. Seger here.
Mr. Singer. Here.
Seven present, one absent.
Thank you.
Please rise, if able, and join me for Pledge
of Allegiance.
Allegiance to the flag.
Of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it.
Stands.
One nation under God, indivisible, with.
Liberty and justice for all.
May I please have a motion to
approve the April 25th, 2022 Board of Directors agenda.
So moved Maria Mimi.
Second Cathy Sticker.
Is there any discussion?
This is a standard voice vote.
All those in favor, please say.
I. Any opposed
agenda is approved.
Student of the Month recognition.
Ms.. Schmitt
Good evening.
Members of the School.
Board, Administration, teachers, community members and students.
My name is Lindsey Schmitt, principal of Hershey High School.
It is a privilege to stand before you
this evening and introduce our April students of the Month.
We would like to thank our community partners.
The Federated Women's Club of. Hershey.
And the Hershey.
Rotary Club, for taking time to honor these very deserving.
Students.
It is my pleasure to. Introduce Lisa Wang.
Hello, I'm Lisa Wong and I'm very honored
and beyond grateful to be recognized as Hershey High School's April student.
At the moment, I would first like to thank my parents for their unconditional love
and support my peers, the faculty, staff and administration at HHS.
We have all made an impact on the person I am today.
I would also like to thank the Hershey Rotary Club and the Federated Women's
Club of Hershey for this tremendous recognition.
In my past four years at Hershey,
I have been involved in various activities for all four years.
I have been a part of the science fair program,
where I have been developing and refining a wearable device
that harvests renewable energy from human motion and stores it
in rechargeable batteries capable of powering spintronics.
For this research, I have been honored to received
a first place award at the Pennsylvania Junior Academy of Science Competition
and named a Grand Champion finalist
at the Capital Area Science and Engineering Fair last year.
Recently, I have again qualified for the Pennsylvania Junior Academy of Science.
State. Competition.
I'm also the co-president of the Computer Fit Club, where
this is a club that I have been involved in since eighth grade.
And each year my friend and I would create either an educational or story
animated short film and compete in the AP media and design competition.
We received a third place award at the state competition
for an animation about cystic fibrosis last year.
In addition, my involvement in the school year
book club as the editor in chief has allowed me to be awarded with
the Trojan ten Award for Positive Impact on Community
and Community Service Prize.
I have volunteered for Spring Creek Rehabilitation
and Health Care Center, where I have
made weekly trivia and activities for the others.
I have volunteered at the Hershey Public Library, where I have shot books
and prepared materials for local library programs.
I'm also a dedicated member of the National Honor Society,
where I am a tutor in various science and math subjects.
My favorite service project would be helping
to organize the science for all clubs,
teach a three science immersion event
at the Hershey Public Library
as the co-president of the club, I work with our members
to plan meetings, experiments,
program fliers and material for the monthly immersion event,
and it has also been such a fantastic experience teaching the kids
and really supporting and enriching their interest in science.
And additionally, I do really much enjoy
studying and drawing birds in my free time, and recently
I have been trying to raise awareness of the endangered bird species
through posting my artwork of this endangered species
and their conservation status on social media.
And lastly, in the future, I would like to pursue
a career in medicine and in the upcoming fall
I will be attending the Penn C Schreyer Honors College,
majoring in biology on a Fulbright Scholarship.
Thank you
so much again for this recognition and for listening.
Have a wonderful day.
And before I introduce our next student, I did just want to say thank you
to all of you for allowing us this platform
to recognize these students for their accomplishment as this is our.
Last student of the month.
For the 2122 school year.
So let me introduce Nicholas Monique.
How everyone.
My name is Nicholas Maniac, and it's an honor
to be selected as student
this month for April.
I'd like to extend my thanks to my wonderful parents, Jamie and Steven
Maniacs.
An incredible amount of work they do every day to help me succeed.
I'd also like to thank the teachers and administration at Hershey High School
for the exceptional education I've been afforded.
Lastly, I'm honored to accept this award from the Hershey Rotary Club,
and I thank them for all the hard work in our Hershey community.
During my time in Hershey, I've been fortunate enough
to participate in a variety of extracurricular activities.
One such activity is our very own tennis team.
Through my four years on team, I've met some truly wonderful individuals
to my coaches and teammates have my back means the world to me.
Another program that holds a special place in my heart
is the Science Olympiad Club.
As a senior leader in this club,
I learn not only about science but teamwork and leadership.
Look forward to when our team competes at the state level this month.
Additional clubs I'm involved in include the Hershey High School
E-sports Club and U.S.
government in regards to awards, I have been recognized as an AP scholar
and have been on the Hershey High School Distinguished
Honor Roll every year by high school career outside of school.
Andrew Rock climbing and hanging out with my friends.
My favorite way to give back to the community has to be through
tutoring fellow students.
Seeing all that hard work pay offs in a good grade never gets old to me
post-graduation.
I hope to attend college for four years
and find a job in the science related field.
Once again, I'm humbled to accept this award and I thank you for your time.
Thank you, Mr.
Schmidt, and congratulations to both.
I would like to announce that the board met in executive session
prior to this meeting to discuss matters of personnel, information and safety.
And I would also like to announce that the board will hold a special meeting
on Monday, May 2nd, 2022, at 6:00 pm here in the boardroom
to appoint a new board member to fill the current currently vacant position.
Individuals who submitted their application
will be receiving additional information via email tomorrow.
The board will also meet on Thursday, May 12th, from 6 to 8 p.m.
and special executive session for a springboard retreat,
which is required by the Pennsylvania School Code.
Moving on to recognition of citizens for agenda items.
This is an opportunity for residents and taxpayers
to address the board on matters related to the agenda.
Citizens wishing to speak
should come to the microphone or raise their virtual hand.
If attending virtual virtually, you must have registered
individually with your first and last name to be recognized once.
Recognize you're unmuted, please state your full name and address.
For the record, this is a reminder that public comment is not a forum
for personal attacks, antagonistic behavior or harassment.
And please be advised that you are accountable
for any potential legal ramifications and liability
which may result from statements misrepresenting the truth,
defaming individuals or disclosing personal information.
Not a public concern to provide other residents with an opportunity to speak.
Each speaker during the public
comment portion is limited to 5 minutes of speaking time once recognized
and limited
to one opportunity to address the board during each of the public comment periods.
If necessary,
the board may set a maximum time for public comment portion of any meeting.
I will ask the board Treasurer, Mrs.
Sikka, to please keep time.
Are there any residents or taxpayers who would like to comment
at this time on agenda items?
I will first.
Open it up to the in-person audience and then the virtual one.
Getting head nods.
Is there anyone participating?
Virtually, who would like to participate in public comment at this time?
Seeing no hands raised,
we'll move on to the standing committee meeting, reports The Communications
and Community Engagement and Finance Committees met today.
Mr. Rizzo, do you have a communications report, please?
Yes. Yes.
So today
the Communications report was really,
for the most part, an informational meeting to allow Ms..
Capell to be able to explain to the community
and also to citizen advisors of her intentions
for communications and engagement for the community.
So couple of things that that did come up from that meeting.
She did give me an update on the selected software
that the board had approved several weeks back
and really just providing some
a little bit lower level detail on what the software would do
as far as accessibility for individuals with disabilities or
with individuals that have issues.
Reading electronic communications,
there was a very good discussion from the citizen advisors,
as you could tell, that there was definitely some knowledge
behind this type of software being able to
be pulled up and help the district maintain
its accessibility requirements.
The second thing is we talked about an emergency important,
important communication process and what Ms..
Karpel would like to do is send out a survey
and one of the comments was don't send it out in July and let's
try and get this out before the end of the school year,
before the summer and vacations begin so that the
parents and community members have an opportunity to reply in.
And what her her
what she's looking for is feedback on how best to communicate in what order
and be able
to get that information out when we have critical, critical issues.
And I think she's also going to explain the process of how those things occur
so that everybody is aware that what takes the most time
and it also comes down to the time of day in the system that you're on.
So and then we went into the one called Massive Location.
We're looking at an opportunity to maybe move to another platform.
She's evaluating that right now.
This would be Blackboard Messenger, which is currently
had already been activated.
It was just a matter of there was a transition when Ms..
Karpel came in and. Right.
And she's looking at getting that moving forward and making sure
that everybody is updated in the processes.
And then we also
are going to add an additional meeting
in June 13th at 5 p.m..
And at that time we will talk about plans for the summer
and back to school so that
we have an opportunity to set plan
and and some type of a structure going forward so that we
we know we're meeting the goals that we need to hit for back to school.
And I think a key point of that coming out of that
meeting was looking at a kind of a toolkit for back to school.
So everything's in one area for parents with kids
coming back to schools, new students coming into the elementary school
and being able to go to one stop, have all the forms and everything's
highlighted and ready to go.
So overall, good, good meeting and good
participation from the citizen advisors.
Thank you. I would just add on to that and
I've been on that committee since I joined the board
and today was probably the most robust collaborative conversation
that we've had the opportunity to have.
And so I just think it was really productive
and appreciate the citizen advisors being so prepared as well for the conversation.
So a negative, Ms.
Karpel for being open to the collaboration.
Thanks. Mr. Izzo.
Did you also include that you were reelected?
Chair Yes, I forgot that I was reelected chair of the committee
today.
Thank you very much for the opportunity.
Thank you. Finance also met with the SEC.
I do have a finance report. Please. I do. Thank you.
We had Sherry Leo,
come to give us a quarterly update on the Milton Hershey Trust Fund.
The trust.
The trust to value on March 31st, after the first quarter
was 51,902,000.
It is down 4.31% for the first quarter of 2022.
These periods are short term
in nature, so we really just look at the long term return on that.
On the trust,
what was noted is that the equities in the fixed income
within the trust were both down for the first quarter.
We had an update on the food service department,
which is one of our quarterly goals.
The two years of federal subsidy free meals is ending at the end of this school
year, which will have an impact on the food service budget for next year.
We will have to decide on a meal price.
But despite the current challenges of supply chain issues, cost
increases and staffing, the food service is in the black right now.
We also had a monthly review of our 2021
2222 general fund revenue and expenses,
and we reviewed the 2022 2023 proposed final budget.
The Finance Committee did approve the proposed
final budget to be voted on at the full board on May 9th.
And just to give the board an idea of the timeline,
the committee recommended the proposed budget to go to the board May 9th.
We will have a presentation by Cheryl Purcell, our financial manager,
on May 9th, about that. You'll vote on it.
And we do have until June 13th to make any changes if necessary,
because June 13 is when we vote on the final, final budget.
So I would like to
give you a review of the proposed final budget.
It is a 71,375,080
$841.
So $71 million budget.
It does build in a 3.4 tax increase,
which is going up to the index.
The budget accounts for no pilot payment from the giant center,
which is therefore missing $700,000
that we typically do get.
It is accounting for a 5% draw on the trust,
which gives us an extra $450,000.
If you remember, we did a larger draw last year as a one time
we'll do a 5% this year and then we will go back to 4%,
which is the recommended draw after this year.
It does note that medical
benefits based on usage is up 12%.
So we built that into the budget
tuition to cyber charter schools is up over budget.
Last year, $758,000.
The committee had a
robust discussion on the need for a funding formula
change for cyber charter because it is flawed and needs reform.
We currently pay $13,000 per student to go to cyber charter and 17,000
per student for special education students.
27,000.
Oh, I'm sorry I wrote that down wrong.
So 13,000 for a general education
and 27 for a special education.
The budget also does note that all three salary contracts
with employment have a 4% increase.
And just a reminder that our fund balance is still down
1.2 million from last year when we took money out the fund balance.
We don't have a plan right now for that.
And in general, you know, we're balancing everything to keep
a good bond rating for any future need we might have in the district.
So if you do have any further
questions about that, you could always reach out to me or Mrs.
Purcell, But we will have a presentation to go over those issues
and get any board comment at the next the May 9th meeting.
And we also reviewed the contract said Finance.
That concludes my report.
Thank you, Mrs. Dicker.
And I would just encourage the board members
who were not part of the Finance Committee meeting today in preparation for this.
I will do a full presentation at that next meeting,
but I think it would be helpful if you have the opportunity to listen
to the recording of today's meeting
in preparation for that conversation.
Student Representative report.
Good evening, everyone.
Information for the Student School Board Representative positions
for next year have been distributed to parents and students.
Next year, positions will be chosen once again
to serve for the school year and the selection process will be underway
this Saturday.
HHS will be hosting the sophomore junior Prom.
Prom runs from 7 to 10 and tickets are $20.
Spring concerts are also on underway.
Are HHS Choir concert.
It will be May 2nd at 7:30 p.m.
and our HHS Orchestra concert will be May 11th at 7:30 p.m.
as well.
For Earth Day.
Last week, the high school social studies teacher, Dr.
Angela. Grabby laughed at.
Students to plant flowers and mulch the front garden area
of the high school outside the front office to celebrate.
She also did art projects and activities in the classroom
as well to bring awareness to earth preservation.
Over the weekend, the HHS Youth and Government Club
traveled to the Harrisburg Capital for the annual Model convention.
The state Governor, Owen Moise, this year
spoke on his term as governor and gave his remarks ending a year
over the weekend.
There were many proposed bills and presentations from students
across the state on a variety of political issues.
The student body really grasped the chance to be able to address issues
and put themselves in the shoes of lawmakers.
We also would like to congratulate HHS
freshman Valerie Nath Nagel
for being awarded the winner of the 2021 2022
District 7390 Four-way Test essay contest
from the Rotary International District.
This is a very large honor
and she will be recognized in May at an annual conference.
And that is all ahead. Thank you very much.
Thank you. Mr. POCHOWSKI.
The items listed in the agenda are on the anticipated
May 9th, 2022, Board of Directors Meeting Agenda.
There is no unfinished business, so moving on to consent agenda items.
The consent agenda contains routinely adopted items and items
which normally do not require public deliberations on the part of the board.
A board member may pull items which will then be discussed and voted on separately.
May I please have a motion to approve the consent agenda items as listed so moved.
Ramey seconded. CRONAN
Is there any discussion?
This is a standard voice vote.
All those in favor. Please stay. I.
I opposed the consent agenda.
It's approved.
Moving on to new business
approval of the affiliation agreement. Dr.
Winslow, The administration. Recommends.
The board approve the affiliation.
Agreement with Derry Township School District and Grand Canyon University.
Effective April 26, 2022.
Thank you.
May I please have a motion
to approve the affiliation agreement with Grand Canyon University?
So moratorium I May 2nd.
Mike Rizzo. Is there any discussion?
This is a standard voice vote.
All those in favor, please say I, I any opposed
item passes
approval of a memorandum of understanding.
Dr. Winslow.
The administration recommends the approval of a memorandum of understanding
for a workshop addition starting the 2022 23 school year.
If I may just give this a little bit of context.
This is not new.
Just when we did the early bird contract.
This was not in the previous contract.
It was an IOU. So this is an MOU.
You to continue the memo, you to be able to continue to have that day.
Thank you.
May I please have a motion to approve the memorandum of understanding.
So moved for him on May.
Second? Mike Rizzo.
Is there any discussion?
This is standard voice vote.
All those in favor, please say I.
I. Any opposed
our Phelps architects contract. Dr.
Winslow, The administration recommends the board approve the contract
with our LPs architects to.
Perform a facility study
and provide recommendations for the elementary school facilities.
The cost of this agreement is $9,500.
Thank you.
May I please have a motion to approve the Phelps architect's contract?
So move Mike Rizzo second. Donna Cronan.
Is there any discussion?
This is a standard voice vote.
All those in favor, please say I any opposed
personnel resignations. Dr.
Winslow, The administration recommends the approval of the personnel resignations.
May I
please have a motion to approve personnel resignations?
So move.
Donna Cronan.
Second. Mike Rizzo.
Is there any discussion?
This is standard voice vote.
All those in favor, please say I, I any opposed
approved personnel.
General Dr.
Winslow, The administration recommends
the approval of the list of personnel and recognition of any list of transfers.
Thank you.
May I please have a motion to approved
the listed personnel and recognition of any listed transfers?
So move my resume.
Second o second. Maria. Mimi.
Is there any discussion?
This is standard voice vote.
All those in favor.
Please say I any opposed personnel General is approved.
That concludes new business Delegate reports
the Dauphin County Technical School report.
Mrs. Seger. Yes.
Thank you.
I just wanted to remind the board that Mr.
Rizzo and I attended the
joint
committee meeting last in the middle of April,
and you were emailed a ballot to fill out,
and the ballot is due this Wednesday.
We both already voted to approve all of that at the meeting.
But since the there's two committees at the Advocate Tech school,
one is the Joint Operating Committee, which is two members from each district
and the other is the Joint Board, which is all of you.
So you do have to vote on this ballot.
The email came from Michelle Agee
on April 20th, and one of the attachments is a ballot.
Mike and I would recommend that you approve everything on here,
including election
of the Treasurer, appointment of the superintendent of record approval
of the Budget resolution to receive grant and resolution to receive entitlements.
And also we still have to
do it as well, even though we voted publicly.
And I'd also just like to continue
to report that as one of the delegates on the Dauphin County Tax School,
I do continue to participate in the teacher union negotiations
as well as the support staff union negotiations.
I've been doing that for a couple of months now in the negotiating committee.
We haven't tied up the contracts yet, but it's going well
and then also I chair an ad hoc committee at the Jordan County Tech School.
We are reviewing the admission policy.
We had another meeting today.
We have representatives from all seven school districts and I'm
very pleased that we will be recommending
a new admission policy to the JSC at the next board meeting.
I think what
what I love about this committee is that we really took a deep dive into
how the students get admitted
because they use an application process and a grading rubric.
And we've decided what factors and qualifications should be on the rubric.
And then we did an analysis
of each of the school districts and their racial demographics and their
whether there are says you're not economically disadvantaged.
And then we did weighted the averages and compared to what are the averages
at the school district for racial distribution
and economically disadvantaged.
And then we created a policy that would be equitable in the admission of students.
And the committee was unanimously supportive of the weights on the rubric
and the way we will be admitting students to the district.
So it was a really great collaborative committee with all the studying,
all the sending school districts participating.
So that concludes my report.
Thank you. Mr. Seger.
Can I just answer a question? Sure.
Thank you for the report.
How many students apply and how many are not
accepted in a given year?
Okay, I don't have my notes with me,
but the freshman class.
I'm going to have to get you this.
I was just curious.
I mean, obviously not everyone who applies. Right.
There is a significant amount of students who get declined.
I mean, I'm
I Mike, I can't even remember.
Is it like 330 are in the freshman class and maybe 600 or 700 apply.
I I'm, I'm.
Guessing I think that's the number.
So yeah.
It was about a 40 to 50% decline.
A rejection. Yeah. Rejection.
Yeah. Okay.
Thank you.
I was just curious what the demand was, and it seems like it's pretty high.
It is. It is. It's. There's a high demand. Yeah.
Now, I would say that Derry Township does not have, is not well-represented.
That's the one thing I would like to see more.
I know that we do share the Dauphin County Career and Technical School
within six and seven and then you apply in eighth grade
and we are one of the school districts that takes our students on a field
trip to the school, which is awesome because not all schools do that.
I do wish more students
would pick the tech school as an option because it's fabulous.
And it it
it can give you a career or it can launch you into a four year university.
It does everything.
I mean, they have great academics and great skills.
So. Yeah.
And just to point out that Derry Township has the highest number of attended
individuals going through the school to to view the school,
but probably the lowest attendance at the school.
That's an interesting fact.
It's not the tech school, you know.
From. The eighties. It's different.
It's it's a career and technical school now.
It's not the vo tech from before.
So I just wish we could get more kids to go there.
And then when I first joined the board, we had the opportunity
to go through and do a tour.
And if any of the newer board members have not had that opportunity,
I wonder if that's something we could do because it was fascinating to me
just to see the difference from when I as a student,
you know, went on the tour and seeing so many of the
different programs and opportunities, like even just like Veterinary
I now program is just really a fascinating opportunity and
I don't think
enough people know about it or, you know, have really understood
the advancements and what is there.
And well.
I know it can launch you into a career, but one of the students
a couple of years ago did the veterinary
track and then went on to Cornell and he's in pre veterinary at Cornell.
So it's it launches you to the Ivy Leagues or it launches you into a career.
It has it. All right.
Maybe there's some way with our community
communications committee that we had today.
I mean, Sarah's
like lighting that world on fire, so maybe she could fold in some biotech
things, too, just like it'd just be another great avenue, too.
Yeah, they they did recently make new videos at the school,
and they're on the website.
So if a student doesn't have to go there
live to see all the programs in like movie format. So
we talked today at the committee about making sure
even fifth graders start thinking about this
and watching the videos if they can't get there in person.
So you start, you know, thinking because
and also just introducing the application process to them.
You know, there's a student essay, there's grades, there's attendance
and the teacher recommendations, all of those go into a grading rubric.
So, you know, disciplinary things can hurt you
in sixth and seventh grade if you want to apply in eighth grade.
I mean, they can hurt you minimally because there's other things factored in.
But I'd like to know.
Why, like why we're not that Well, Representative, is it a stigma?
Is it because we just have a demographic of kids
that just really aren't leaning in that direction?
Like, it would be nice to have some more data on it.
I don't know how we collect it, but.
I bet we could talk to the middle.
School counselors.
I recall that there was also a really high
percentage of students, again with kind of removing that stigma.
High number of graduates of Dauphin County Technical School who do go on
to a four year school afterwards.
And so I think that there's just a lot of misunderstanding out there.
One of the projects that just keeps standing out to me,
and I've seen a number of updates on maybe via social media
is the project in Harrisburg they were building? Yes.
The renovation and how all of the different trade
line, you know, trade classes were able to go
have that like hands on opportunity at renovating building.
That's on you can follow them on Facebook.
We bought a town that's in Hershey and the students are engaged in it.
I'm sorry, Harrisburg.
They and they've gutted it and they've framed the inside of it.
And now they're starting to like, do the.
Finishes like plumbing, electricity, all of them ever having objects.
It's just really fascinating, man.
And Dr.
Winslow, K-through-12 schools like ours, we have workforce readiness standards
that are or activities
that we begin to expose our students to at a certain grade level
that I think the technical school helps contribute to developing.
Maybe. I'm not sure. Absolutely.
Okay. Yeah, they
they don't necessarily
help with what we're doing on our campus.
But if you go there, you obviously get them all covered pretty easily.
Mr. Secretary, you have a question about that.
So I was listening about trying to get more golf in Derry Township.
Kids there needs they speak about this new rubric.
Is that going to impact our students like chances
or qualifications going into the school with the I guess it was.
You know, in the rubric.
I don't believe it.
Well, we looked at three different the rubric, actually.
No, whatever the then the method of pulling students in.
No, we actually decided on no quotas for the admission of students
and we decided either that or average daily enrollment
at each district versus average daily enrollment within the school.
And is interesting because when I first went into this committee,
I was a fan of average daily enrollment at the school.
But after we ran the numbers and I saw how it
there was equity without that and just using the rubric,
we were all okay with no quotas for each school district.
So the other way, average daily enrollment of school district would have helped us.
We would have gotten more spots.
The enrollment of average daily enrollment of the kids there,
we would have been the same. And with no quotas.
It's really just whoever scores the highest gets in,
you know, and you can we can pull our numbers.
We do have students who get rejected, who don't meet the certain
like they maybe they pick a 70% and higher for those 330 students.
We do get rejections as well.
So I don't think it's going to hurt us.
It's more just up to the
individual student and how they score on the rubric.
Okay. Thank you.
Thank you for that report.
The SBA report is attached to Dr.
Cronan. Do you have anything you would like that?
Just a couple of things.
If you're interested, you can peruse it, but there's two that I thought
were interesting was SBA legislation to help
address girls mental health in schools as well as PSB is taking.
PSB has taken a stance to oppose the latest bout voucher plan.
So just something to take a look at in your spare time.
As we have the applications
for the SBA legislative platform opened up.
Yet, I think it's usually around this time that starts looking to see if.
I have that on here
was not
announced on this this one this is always a week late.
Okay. Because it actually the one.
Like one just came. Out today, so I couldn't get it on today.
So this is actually from two weeks ago. Okay.
So I did not look at today's the one I just came out today.
Thank you. And I'll.
Look and check your message if it does. Fit
Board member reports.
Are there any board members who would like to give a report?
Dr. Winslow, do you have a superintendents report?
I do.
Thank you.
This morning I did participate in Advocacy Day.
That was run by Parsa and BCA.
At the Capitol.
It's the first time in person in two years.
So that was exciting.
I did meet with.
Senator de Santos,
chief of staff, along with another group of.
Board members and superintendents from our area,
as well as Representative Mahaffey
met with him, also.
Really focused on
cyber charter funding reform, as well as.
Support for special education funding and talking.
About what.
What we really need is a district.
For for support.
And there were a lot of really good
questions asked and really good discussion
that was shared through those.
And I'm very. Glad that I went.
I'm not sure if I feel disheartened or.
Hopeful having walked away.
From it, but I do appreciate the opportunity to be heard.
And to advocate for a public school districts.
But did you also share publicly?
I shared with with board members,
I think a week or so ago, a few board meetings ago,
we had approved summer workshop with Katie Swalwell, and there were parents.
Who had expressed interest in attending that unfortunately missed all Swalwell's.
Had a parent who just received.
Really dire medical diagnosis and she has had to cancel all of her.
Summer engagements, so she will not be here with us.
So I wanted to let people know that who may have been.
Interested in attending that, that.
We will not be holding that session due.
To that unfortunate.
Medical issue.
And also wanted to remind everyone that we will be
holding our six month pandemic team meeting in June.
That is a six month required review of the health and safety plan.
Regardless of whether or not there are any new.
Guidelines that come out.
From either PD or the CDC, we are.
We have to meet and will continue to have.
Those six month reviews
through September of 2024, as required by federal and state mandate.
And then, of course, if anything would change and hopefully it will not.
But if
anything would change, we would of course, pull that group back together
as needed, but will not be for people to gather
when there are really no decisions to be made. Is the.
Current plan is working to.
Sign.
We put my calendar.
I believe it is the sixth.
That's usually the first Monday.
No, I don't see it there.
It should be. I'm sorry. It's not.
It doesn't look like it's on my calendar, but it should be on the sixth.
I'll make sure that that gets sent out.
Many other questions.
Okay.
Thank you.
Thank you, Doctor.
Renzo or President's report?
I don't have anything other
than just to thank the individuals who applied for the vacancy appointment.
Look forward to hearing from all of them next week.
Moving on to recognition of citizens.
This is an opportunity for residents
and taxpayers to address the board on matters related to the agenda
or matters of district governance that were not on the agenda.
Those who speak are asked to follow the same guidelines outlined
at the initial public comment portion of our meeting, and I'll once again
ask Mrs.
Seger, our ward treasurer, to please keep time.
Are there any residents or taxpayers who would like to comment at this time?
We'll start with the in person audience
getting the same had nots.
All right.
Let's meet virtually.
Are there any virtual attendees who would like to participate
in public comment?
Okay, we have none on there as well.
Is there anything else for the good of the order?
Okay.
The next public board of directors
meeting will be held on May 9th, 2022, beginning at 7 p.m..
Please refer to the district website to register as the meeting.
Draw closer for virtual attendance.
Also just a reminder, as announced,
the board will hold a special meeting on Monday, May 2nd, 2022 at 6 p.m.
here at the District Office for the Board of Directors.
Vacancy appointment
and all candidates who have applied will hear from us tomorrow via email.
May I please have a motion to adjourn this meeting?
So moved Maria by my.
Second Mike Rizzo.
On favor say I
and he opposed the meeting is adjourned at 7:42 p.m..