I'd like to call the October 26, 2020
meeting of the Derry Township School District Board of Directors to order
and announce that this meeting is being live streamed and audio recorded.
This meeting is being conducted both in-person
and virtually limiting our in-person attendance to ensure the ability
to social distance during the COVID 19 pandemic.
I'd also like to request that all board
members state your name when speaking.
Mrs. A.G. Rocca.
Mr. Ables.
Here. Dr. Cronan here, Mr.
Present, Mrs.. Her here.
Mrs. Manning here, Dr.
Shore here, Mrs.
Seger Here, Mr. Singer.
Here, Mrs. Steiner. Here.
Present. Zero absence. Thank you.
Please rise, if able, and join me for the Pledge of Allegiance
and vibration.
May I have a motion
to approve the October 26 Board of Directors agenda?
So moved. Maria Me second.
Lyndsey. Drew, is there any discussion?
This is a standard voice vote.
All those in favor say I.
I suppose.
Say now
the agenda is approved
to the tonight we have the students of the month recognition.
Mr. McFarland.
Thank you, Madam President.
As everything else is different
during the season of COVID, so is our student of the month.
So tonight we have virtual
presentations where each of the students of the month
have created a video, short video that they did for Rotary.
Since Rotary is also not meeting in person at this time.
So please enjoy and learn a little bit about our September Students.
Of the Month.
Hello, I'm Andrea Swinger, a senior at Hershey.
First Lady sincerely thank you for she Rotary Club Hershey Fiscal Administration.
The teachers for selecting the over 2020 student of the Month.
It's a privilege for me to be able to contribute, to receive it,
to serve my community, and I'm just happy to have the opportunity to do so
and to represent high school in this way.
At this school.
Although many of the calls have not yet begun this academic year due to COVID 19
and the ongoing number of people, random acts of kindness
here here include every student of National Honor Society, Spanish
National Ice
Psychology,
and the Boys Varsity Tennis team
have served as assistant
programs here at the 2022
program.
This person
was raised to prioritize being a good citizen,
and I enjoyed Cynthia McKinney.
One of my most.
Rewarding community service activities is volunteering with.
The elderly.
Which I started to develop Alzheimer's disease
at one local senior living facility
where I served as a volunteer since 2014, I regularly.
Play piano for residents.
Meetings with residents during the game to serve
as a chaperon
during the COVID 19 pandemic,
when residents were not permitted to leave the facility or receive visitors.
I wrote cards to the residents to let them know I was still thinking about them
and for to them again,
a very kind,
the most rewarding experience has been to serve as a church pianist,
insurance companies and local church, weekly services.
On Sunday mornings, everything Choir says.
I been serve
in the church in this capacity since 2018.
While the choirs activities have been suspended during the COVID
19 pandemic, I continue to serve as
Sunday morning streamed services.
I serve as a volunteer and research assistant
at the Penn State Health Medical Center and as a volunteer
at the Bethesda Mission in Harrisburg, the facility Playhouse
seating of our church and for nursing back.
With regards to my hobbies, I enjoy
competitiveness and playing both regional and national U.S.
tennis tournaments
and also enjoy playing here each of once.
As a concert artist,
I have always loved fitness and doing things
outdoors, running and bicycling as well as reading,
and currently in the process of looking
to pursue a career in health care,
I would like to again express my sincere appreciation to the Hershey Rotary Club
to pursue this goal ministry and teachers for thinking of me for this time,
especially given that many students
know that I will continue to do my best to make Hershey
Hershey really close and.
Hello, my name is Potter
and I am one of the Hershey High School October students.
First, I'd like to start off by thanking my parents for always
being supportive of me.
Secondly, I would like to thank
the Hershey Rotary Club for this amusing opportunity.
And thirdly, I would like to thank the sound and teachers of Hershey
High School for always being supportive and helping me be the person I am today.
Some activities I'm involved in for Youth in government,
where I served as the Lieutenant Governor, Jane Austen, from which I founded
Learning Commons Council National Honor Society, new Casino Fleet, Crewe
and Science Fair, where I became grand champions for my study and different
micro-plastics found in different food beverages such as coffee and tea
outside of school.
I've been a member of the Girl Scouts of America since the first grade.
I'm also an avid instructor where I teach young girls
how to code through the Girls Research program.
I teach different coding languages, such as transcripts each time out
and scratch in school.
My favorite subjects would have to be physics.
It's what inspires me to do what I do.
I just love the study of math and science.
Being a section of it, which I find is best exemplified in the study of physics.
My favorite service project
that I've ever completed would have to be the work I did in order to receive
the Girl
Scout Gold Award is the highest on any Girls County committee
and is a chance to kind of complete over 80 hours of community service.
I achieve this award just for my work establishing the Jane Austen Club.
After she asked what the Jane Austen Club strives to do is inspire
girls in order to help their communities make a difference
by inspiring them through the acts of different female
historical role models such as Jane Austen and others like Eleanor Roosevelt.
Every year, the Jane Austen Club is one large community service project.
Last year we raised over a thousand items of food
for communities in need during the pandemic.
So that had to be one of my favorite service projects I have ever done.
I also really enjoyed recycling
because it helps me inspire young girls to pursue a field
because Charlotte has one of the largest gender gap of any career.
It's important, at least for me, to try to do as much as I can
to minimize break up so girls can pursue with every career they want.
But post-secondary plans are to go to a four year college.
I'm not sure which one just yet to study electrical engineering and public policy.
After completing my degree, I hope to be able to find a job where
I help to develop new sustainable energy options that are more accessible
to more people to help make a more sustainable energy policy in this nation.
So in closing, I would just like to thank everyone who's helped me
get to where I am today, whether that was friends, family or teachers.
So thank you so much for this opportunity and I hope you all have a great night.
Congratulations.
I would like to announce that the board met in executive session
prior to this meeting to discuss matters of personnel
recognition of Citizens for Agenda items.
This is an opportunity for residents and taxpayers
to address the board on matters related to the agenda.
Those who speak, if present, are asked to come to the microphone
and state your name and address.
For the record,
those who are attending virtually are asked to raise your virtual hand.
In order to be recognized.
You must have your you must state your first and last name
or type your first and last name into the livestream registration.
Once recognized and unmuted, please state your name and address for the record
to provide other residents an opportunity to speak.
Each speaker during a 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, we may set a maximum time for each portion public comment portion.
Those
wishing to present private concerns or questions in an follow up
outside the board meeting are asked to go to the district website
and submit a community correspondence report.
Are there any residents or taxpayers who would like to comment
at this time?
Okay,
I don't see any hand and I don't see anybody coming to the podium.
A standing committee meeting report, the finance Committee met today.
Ms.. Drew, do you have a report?
Thank you, Madam President. Yes, I do.
The Finance Committee met today, and our first order of business
was to discuss a potential refinance thing with PFM on
various bonds that have been issued in previous years in order
to try to provide some relief from a cash flow perspective
for future years given the current rate environment.
We had heard about this at the last meeting and
came back with some more information today.
Also looking at whether or not we want to do a bank note or a bond
after
discussion and looking at the various scenarios, the committee has recommended
that we'll move forward with an RFP process for a bank loan
for the six year term
on I believe it's close to $5 million in bonds
debt to restructure that and recognize interest savings
while providing debt service relief to help meet any budget gaps
for the next several years.
So we will be looking at those results at the November 23rd
Finance Committee meeting and then would present to the full board
at the first meeting and at the meeting in December,
where we would decide whether or not to take action on that.
We also had a presentation from Fulton
Financial regarding the Milton Hershey Trust once again
to look at various scenarios inside of legislation that passed that
allows for these types of trusts to receive a larger distribution
during these economic times and anything COVID related.
We looked at a number of different scenarios in place.
We would be looking to do this for the 2122 budget
and look
at what the risk options were versus the distribution numbers.
So we'll be continuing to monitor that as our budget
process continues.
We also reviewed current revenue and COVID
related expenditures that are impacting the budget
and discussed the unaudited 2019
2020 summary of revenue and expenses prior to the audit release, which demonstrated
that our expenses were actually a bit higher than anticipated.
But we did end up pretty much at a at the balanced budget,
just not typical surplus that we've seen in past years,
and then began the process of discussing
the 2122 budget timeline.
We're at the point right now where Mr.
Friends will be working with all of the various departments
looking for ways that we are able to reduce expenses and save.
There are a number of different things
we'll go through as we move through the budget process.
But looking at being able to
craft a budget next year
without having, you know, obviously to look at raising taxes,
the scenarios that we're looking at, the ways that we believe
that we can reduce expenses and be able to
balance those budgets with,
you know, other various things, such as the trust, as we discussed before,
would eliminate the need for that property tax
that we'll be aiming for to not have to do any increases.
We'll continue those discussions at the next meeting as as we go through.
But the first part of it is really going to be looking at
how to provide relief for the debt service as we go forward
and see what we can realize as we face deficits for this year's budget.
Unless anyone else on the Finance Committee
has any other comments, that will conclude my report.
Okay.
Thank you.
Are student representatives Mr.
Parisi and Ms.. Lewis, do you have a report?
Yes, we do.
We would first like to mention our big essay today that we had on October
14, 123 seniors participated.
And as probably everyone knows, almost all test centers
have been closed throughout the region within the past months due to COVID 19.
So this was an amazing opportunity that Mr.
Rogers and Mr.
Hensel and so many other volunteers
who did a lot of work behind the scenes to provide us with this opportunity,
as a lot of us
are approaching these early deadlines coming up for college applications.
And so, yes, that was a really great opportunity.
We would also like to mention our modified homecoming event
that's coming up on November 12th.
We can obviously not have a dance this year, but we're looking
but we're planning an event that will take place on the turf field.
We put out the ballot for homecoming court and students
can vote up until our event where
we'll announce the homecoming king and queen.
It's a Disney theme this year, and each grade will be assigned a different movie.
And we'll have banners and a photo station, food trucks,
and it'll be a lot of fun.
Priority is given to seniors for admittance.
Obviously, we want to make sure we're staying safe,
but we'll see how that goes and hopefully more grades can be included.
This past Saturday,
pretty high school in Lower Dalton teamed up for a marching band exhibition.
Both bands played their respective shows and
all of honors, then came together for the national anthem.
And I am standing
as a member of the band.
I really enjoyed
not only integrating with the but both bands
as we have not seen another band
and a football game like we usually do,
but also the families of our communities
being able to integrate with one another and
possibly another
benefit to come out of this is that
excluding parades, the band has achieved in some fashion
every event that they planned for before
COVID struck.
So the exhibition
that we finally got a chance to put that into effect.
And then we also wanted to mention we are currently planning to have a fall
play which will take place Friday, November 20th and Saturday, the 21st.
It will be a Christmas Carol, which is really fun.
And due to COVID, it will be prerecorded and streamed
and people who are going to attend virtually can buy tickets to the event.
More information will come out soon.
In terms of fall sports, we have a number of teams
that have qualified and are projected to qualify
for the girls and
they were runner ups that had their districts
do you had two students, Kayla Corcoran and Sample,
which competed at District three doubles as well.
Both boys and girls, cross-country teams
have qualified for districts over the past weekend.
And finally, Boys
soccer are the seven early and should qualify for the postseason.
Lastly, we have heard some of your feedback
as to getting a deeper dive into the students opinion
on the policies put forth in this meeting, these meetings, and
I assure that
the three representatives in it, as well as Dr.
Smith, are working to come up with a solution to get you a better idea
of what they're thinking and what their opinions are right now.
A very broad word is going to our plan so far.
It's going to choose a topic
and kind of ask around the different communities of the high school.
Athletics are all for grades, etc.,
and try to get you as detailed a report as possible.
I think we're projecting to give one report a month of that nature.
If you have any questions or for this topic or any any anything
previously discussed, we'd be more than willing to answer that.
Thank you very much.
Appreciate the report.
The listed items are on the anticipated
November 9th, 2020 Board of Directors Agenda
Unfinished Business.
We have follow up discussions about the elementary
facility study and the chiller proposals.
Mr. Anderson.
Good evening.
I printed out what I wish you all received
so you have reference for proceeding.
When I spoke with the Panel Services
Committee two weeks ago, three weeks ago,
we discussed the status of the chiller at the elementary building and
that chiller and the cooling tower,
the system at the the elementary made a two part system.
Outside you have a cooling tower, which is water based,
and then inside you have the actual chiller,
which is not a little uncommon today.
But both of those pieces of equipment are 31 years old
and the cooling tower outside, it's clearly come to the end of its useful
life.
And we need to make a decision as to how we proceed.
So I was asked by the committee to look at three different options
or options to do this.
So the first was to surround the paper to rebuild the existing unit,
which is
possible, and the numbers are attached there to do it.
But there's clearly some downside to that.
One of the downsides to that is when it comes to air conditioning
in that building, you're only addressing half of the problem if you rebuild
the cooling tower because the chiller is still in the inside of the building.
And if if that was to go south, that would be another expense
of approximately 250 to $275000 to replace that.
That is also 31 years old.
And the other problem with the chiller on the inside is if you
today the free onto the cooler
use needs to be environmentally friendly
and for years and years it was R 22.
But this chiller has our 11 in it,
which means it's no longer manufactured here in the States.
So when we need to get it, we can it's imported, but it's imported
and it's both very expensive and not always readily available.
And with the windows in that building not really being able to open
and certainly no exhaust system, it'd be very difficult
to conduct classes without that that air conditioning in place.
And the other problem is because it's a two pipe system
in that building, we have to spend roughly a week transitioning
from heating to cooling and cooling to heating every year.
So I've laid out both options there
to rebuild.
It would probably bias anywhere from, I would say
5 to 7 years with the cooling tower.
The other option I've put out there is purchasing a new,
you know, like cooling tower, which most likely won't get you again.
The recommended life for those units is 18 to 20 years,
so I've listed that there also.
And then the other option
that I examined was looking at an air cooled chiller
and that would replace both pieces of equipment
and we would be able to get rid of the chiller and rid of the cooling tower
and put in a new, more energy efficient unit.
Very similar to what we put in down at the FCC about four years ago.
One of the problems with the existing chiller
is that the it's oversize, so we only run that chiller because of the
lack of capacity within the building and about 65%, 60, 65%.
You can't go above it.
So the other options with the
airport Cat chiller is that yes, it's the most expensive,
but you've entirely replaced your cooling system
and we would probably look to place this unit on the roof of the building.
So it's not anywhere near leaves or any any other situation.
And more importantly, although this unit is a little bit louder,
the stealth unit, we could be holding this meeting and the stealth unit
could be sitting in between us and you would not have a problem here.
The technology is such that it has sound canceling technology in it
and it's quite remarkable.
We would still recommend probably putting this on the roof
for two reasons.
One, it's up and out of sight, but there is also an oil tank
in the ground there by the existing water tower that has been there for some time.
And I'd sooner not disturb that at this point.
We've not had a problem with leaking.
We checked the air quality.
Well, we use that both for running the
the generators should power go off.
And we also have the ability should we have to get off natural gas.
We can go to oil, heat to heat the building.
So I was asked to make the recommendation, the administration's recommendation,
that we proceed with option three, which would be to purchase
and to move forward on the purchase
of a new air cooled chiller for elementary billing.
Any questions?
I can answer that.
Yes, this is cheating.
I was just regarding the noise.
If it's up on the roof, the fact that it really is, you.
Know what it will, it really wouldn't
actually be a problem if we put it in the ground, meet it again.
If you're familiar with what is a DCC, it's very close
to the elementary classrooms there in the sixth grade wing.
It was one of things
we're very concerned about, and we read that we wrote the bids back in such a way
that we put in some qualifiers and it had to meet certain sound operations levels.
And your reason really for putting, suggesting,
putting this on the roof is I'm not playing with that tank
because I did put about $40,000 into rid of it
and there's probably some money in there for contaminated soils.
But if there was more than that, it would really it would leave a mark,
if you will.
So that's what I'm suggesting, to put it on the roof and not address the oil tank.
And how long would the number
three take to get that done?
The if we go with the air cooled chiller,
if we can, I can probably if we move through the process,
I need to get the engineering specs cleared up and finalized.
And I used more engineering probably three and a half years ago
to do a study of that building to replace the two five to a four pipe system.
Right? So they're very fluid of all the data.
So I think moving forward to the two getting bid documents and getting out,
I feel very comfortable
we could be in place for the spring to have this up and ready to go.
Spring. Spring, next spring.
Okay. Yes. All right.
And then this oil tank that may need to be removed.
Can you elaborate on that?
So it's an oil tank that we need another oil tank if we if we take that one out.
Ultimately, if we were to remove the tank that's in the ground.
Right.
I would recommend putting an oil tank above ground for two reasons.
One is we do run the generators on that
when power to go off.
But the other thing is because we have interruptible
gas service with you guy, which is in a very cold stretch,
they can contact us and tell us to switch over.
I think Mike can verify that we also get a better gas rate for that.
Okay.
Now, in my time here in four years,
we've not been asked to switch,
but I wouldn't I just wouldn't go there.
I mean, unless But we do check the amount of oil in there.
We've not added oil in my time here.
We do not believe that it's leaking.
But again,
that's that's just not an issue I broach if I don't have to clarify.
You were saying we would not.
We would not we wouldn't touch a we would demo what's there now
and be done with it, but we would know nothing of removing the existing tank.
Okay. Mrs. Steiner, do you have a question?
I just wanted to know,
what would the lifespan be like for the new unit with regular maintenance?
I would say you're probably looking at 20, 25 years.
And the other thing about the air
cooled unit is should the board decide to move ahead either
with a renovation or a new building, this is a plug and play to a new building.
This could very much be moved along.
And the nice thing is then you've offset your asset, adjust replacement
by whatever timeframe.
But I think we've gotten 31 years out of the existing one,
and that's really a tribute to
being very diligent about patching what's there.
The water treatment is a big piece of it.
I mean, it's almost 80 $500 a year that we spend to treat
the water that flows through there, and you also deal with evaporation
and those kind of things. So, I mean,
the specs are
going to tell you 22, 24 I feel pretty comfortable.
I could say 30 and not not be too bad on that one.
So even though it's energy efficient, it doesn't give you a longer lifespan.
Well,
there's still a compressor in there,
which is which is going to at some point get tired.
But again, we only run that during the the summer months.
So that's why I'm pretty comfortable saying you're probably looking at 30 years
and it does have will be installed as part of this project
but they call variable speed variable frequency drives,
which when the unit comes on instead of it going on at 100%,
it will bring its way up slower, which is more energy efficient.
And it can it can modulate backwards as the building begins to cool.
It doesn't run at 100% and shut off.
It'll set back to 80, step back to 60, step back before and then shut down.
And that's part of the new drives and the motors
and the pumps that we would install as part of this project.
Are there any other questions?
So what we're going to do is prepare a motion
to go out to bid for the new air cooled chiller for the next meeting.
So that would be November the ninth.
Okay. Okay.
So now the questions come up. Please feel free to contact me.
I'm happy to answer them.
Thank you for the three options.
You're very welcome.
My pleasure. Thank you. That's Mark. Right.
Okay. Consent agenda.
The consent agenda contains routinely adopted items and items that normally
do not require public deliberations on the part of the board.
A board member may pull items
and then for them to be discussed and voted on separately.
May I have a motion to approve the consent agenda items?
So move.
Nancy Drew Second.
Maria Mimi, is there any discussion?
Okay.
All those in favor say hi.
I was a personal care.
The consent agenda is approved.
New business life, church lease renewal. Mr.
MacFarland, Thank you.
The administration recommends renewal of the Life Church Agreement
for the period of August 1st, 2020 through July 31st of 2024.
Retroactively.
May I have a motion to approve the Life Church agreement from August 1st, 2020
through July 31st, 2024.
So move. Lindsey Drew second.
Judy Harris.
Dick, is there any discussion,
all those in favor say I.
I see no care.
This is approved water cooler list, Mr.
McFarlane. Thank you, Madam President.
The administration recommends the board approved a 60 month lease agreement
with water logic for the lease of 16 water
coolers at a cost of $615 per month.
May I have a motion to approve the water cooler agreement with water
logic So moved on October 2nd?
Marry me. So any discussion?
Our water cooler still being used.
I've been to a number of institutions that have them.
And they're not.
They're deliberately being moved out of service.
So ours are not the bottle coolers.
They have a filter on them and it just is a filtration system for them.
That's the reason.
That those are the kind I've seen being taken out of service.
Oh, okay.
Aren't these the bottle refills for your own water bottle?
So these are not the bottle filling stations in the classrooms.
If you look in the the lunchroom up there, their devices have hot and cold, but
it's the water comes in through a filter and then comes out
the cooler.
Okay.
This is a standard voice vote.
All those in favor say I supposed say now, okay,
it's approved affiliation agreement.
University of Akron. Mr. McFarland.
The administration recommends the board
approve the affiliation agreement with Derry Township School District
and the University of Akron effective November 28th, 2020.
May I have a motion to approve
the affiliation Agreement with the University of Akron?
So moved Maria Maumee a second.
Donna Cronan Is there any discussion?
Okay.
All those in favor say I. I.
Suppose we know the agreement has approved board secretary stipend.
Mr. McFarland.
Thank you.
The administration recommends
the board approve the stipend of $3,000 for the board secretary.
May I have a motion to approve the board Secretary stipend?
So move.
Lindsey Drew second.
Maria. Mammy, is there any discussion?
Mrs. Ada, apologize that this is a
little late.
All those in favor say I.
I suppose they know.
Okay, It's approved.
Dauphin County Technical School Administration request
for the approval of the Lower Paxton Township offer.
Thank you.
The Dauphin County Technical School Administration requests
the approval for the Joint Board to accept the Lower Paxton Township
offer of $7,100 for the required right of way for the installation
of a traffic light at Locust Lane and Fairmont Drive intersection.
The funds will be placed
in the Dauphin County Technical Schools Capital Reserve Fund.
May I have a motion to approve the Dauphin County Technical School
request for approval of the Lower Paxton Township offer?
So move to Maria Mimi
Second, Julie Haverstock, Is there any discretion?
Hey, all those in favor say I suppose they know.
Okay, it's approved.
May I have a motion to approve personnel resignations?
So moved.
Maria Mimi Second, Donna Cronan Any discretion?
All those in favor say I was opposed.
Say no.
It's approved personnel.
General. Mr. MacFarland.
Thank you.
The administration recommends the approval of the listed personnel and recognition
of any listed transfers.
How may I have a motion
to approve the listed personnel on recognition of any listed transfers?
So move.
Lindsey Drew.
Sara maria.
Mimi, Is there any discussion?
I just had a question.
This is Terry Singer.
The limited service contract positions, are they
filling existing positions or new positions? So
the two department coordinators, Essential Arts and Gifted are new positions
and the other two are
a mentor for a new reading specialist.
And the assistant middle school basketball coach is.
Is that a new position for the basketball coach or just remain backfill?
No, it's just a filling of one.
Thank you.
Okay. All those in favor say I.
I suppose they know.
Okay, It's approved.
The CAIB report is attached.
Mrs. Steiner, do you have anything to add?
I did just want to highlight
because we had a special board spotlight on our meeting on cybersecurity.
October is Cybersecurity Awareness
Month and since COVID 19
there's been an even bigger impact on cybersecurity with more breaches.
And it was just it was really a great presentation.
I noticed that it wasn't linked on the highlights,
so I'd like to send the presentation to the rest of the board
because there are some interesting hyperlinks
in the PowerPoint that was presented to us with some of the
companies that the I.U.
uses as a and they use a consortium model,
so they're able to get, you know, better prices to to have better coverage
for all, you know, not just our district but other surrounding districts around us.
And at the time, they gave us a presentation.
It was 8:00 in the morning and
there were, you know, 103 attempts
that they had blocked in just the previous hour.
They had they had a tally of 771 just in the previous day.
So it's just it's it's really it's really insane.
The number of Spearphishing ransomware and denial of service attacks
that are coming in and really hitting school districts hard.
So just a warning to anybody that gets email,
you know, if it looks funny, if it sounds weird, you know,
trust your gut and don't open it because it really is coming in hard and heavy.
So I just wanted to highlight that.
And then also
another funding issue
that the IU is facing that might potentially come back
and have an effect on our school district and our public school districts as
is the early intervention funding which is expiring on November 30th.
This is something that the legislation didn't funds
a full flat rate like they did for general education.
They only put in a short time period for early intervention.
And right now there's been no movement
in Harrisburg until after the election.
So but I think that, you know, there is advocacy
that's starting to build and we really need to start
highlighting this to our legislators.
Doctors say at the IU and the other team there has implemented
Take Action link on their web page, which I'll send around to everybody.
I just got it today
and it has all the information about the early intervention program,
how the prevention of it saves us money because the more we can prepare kids
not only helps them obviously develop better
for for their future, but it also helps them come better prepared to school
so that it's less money, less services that they might need once they get here.
So it's a huge sort of like red
flag issue that's that's coming that's coming up.
And hopefully it will get funded by the end of November 30.
But I just want to put it on everybody's radar
to reach out to our legislators is to advocate for that.
Okay.
Thank you.
Dauphin County Technical School. I actually do not have a report.
Judy, do you have anything?
I'm yes, it is attached to your board reads.
But just wanted to add that on
November 14th, which is a Saturday,
the career and Technical Education Middle School Expo is going to be held.
It's going to be outside, but they will have tents
set up and you will be able to see the different programs that way.
And Derry Township actually has a set time for attendance, which is 10 a.m.
to 11 a.m.
But I encourage you all to get out there and check it out.
There's some wonderful programs there. Okay.
Thank you.
The SBA report is attached. Dr.
Cronan, do you have anything to add?
No, I don't think your board members are there any board members
who would like to give a report?
This is Tricia Steiner.
I just wanted to briefly touch on the equity summit
and the Plaza PBA annual Conference
for School Leaders that was hosted
about two weeks ago
and I attended was able to attend
both of those events and they were really wonderful.
I included as much information as I could
in the board brief, but it was so much information.
I wish I could share every little tidbit and nugget of
wisdom that I learned there.
These events are always really helpful.
The both the equity summit and the
the conference, you know, had a huge focus on equity, obviously at the summit,
but there's also a equity focus at the SBA conference as well, along with,
you know, COVID related issues that we're all facing as school districts.
But I just just wanted to shout out
to one of our sophomore students from Derry Township,
Hannah Goma, who was a student panelist at the Equity Summit,
which was the opening event for the equity summit.
And she, along with several other students from across the state,
you know, were able to have a opening panel discussion about their experiences
and perspectives and recommendations for how schools can build
more better anti-racist climates and their and their school districts.
So she did a wonderful job, and I'm just so proud of her. And
for her to use her voice
and that way in such an honest and thoughtful way, I just really want to
give her a shout out.
And then I was also had the privilege of being on the
the closing panel.
So Derry Township was represented well for the opening and closing
at the equity summit.
And I just wanted to,
you know, congratulate all of us
for the work that we're doing and continue in our equity.
Yes, Thank you for attending on our behalf.
Thank you.
Mr. McFarland.
Do you have a superintendent report?
I do not tonight, no. Okay.
You had a big report last meeting? Yes.
You take the night off
board Presidents report.
I do not have a report.
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, not on the agenda.
Those who speak or, if present, are asked to come to the microphone
and state your name and address.
For the record,
those who are attending virtually are asked to raise their virtual hand.
In order to be recognized, you must have your first
and last name typed into the livestream registration.
Once recognized and unmuted, Please state your name and address for the record
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 one opportunity at each of the public comment periods.
If necessary, we might set a maximum time for each of the public comment portions.
If you have private concerns or questions in follow up, please
go to the district website and submit a community court correspondence report.
Are there any residents and taxpayers who would like to come forward
at this time?
I see one virtual hand
and no one at the podium.
Nathan Leaf 11 1170.
Don't get on the stump here.
I would just like to
thank the school board
for their diligence during these hard times.
I thank you very much.
Appreciate it.
Okay.
I don't see any more hands.
Is there anything else for the good of the order?
Okay.
The next public board of directors meeting will be held November 9th, 2020,
starting at 7:00 in the District Office Board of Directors room.
May I have a motion to adjourn this meeting?
So move to Maria.
Mimi second. Lyndsey drew
all those in favor. Say hi.
I was first. Say no.
The meeting is adjourned at 745.