I'd like to call the February 27, 2019 meeting of the Derry Township
School District
Board of Directors to order and announce that this meeting is being audio recorded.
Mr. Friends Roll Call.
Mr. Abel Here.
Dr. Cronin. Here is Drew.
Miss, have a stick here.
My memory.
Here. Dr. Shah Here.
Mishka Here. Mr. Singer.
Here was Ms.. Steiner. Here.
Nine present. Zero absent.
Please rise, if able.
And join me for the Pledge of Allegiance.
Pledge of allegiance.
To the flag of the United States of America.
To the Republic for which it says One nation under God,
indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
May I have a motion to approve the February
25th, 2019 Board of Directors agenda.
So moved.
Second, Marianne Lindsey, is there any discussion?
It's the standard voice vote.
All those in favor say I, I.
All those opposed say no.
The agenda is approved.
Mr. Smith, Students of the Month.
Good evening.
Members of the school board, students, Parents Administration.
So it's it's always an honor to stand here as a representative of Hershey
High School.
And it's it's an absolute pleasure to be able to introduce
these two young adults tonight.
Earlier today, we were honored.
They were honored at the Hershey Rotary luncheon.
And so not only our two students,
but also two students from Milton Hershey and from Middletown High School.
And it's just amazing to hear some of these accomplishments
of these young people and what their future plans are.
So it's a fabulous pleasure to be able to introduce Miss Madeline Bartow.
Hello.
Thank you for recognizing me today at your meeting.
And I would like to thank my parents for all their support throughout high school.
And I'd also like to congratulate Lavant for also being recognized
as Student of the Month.
So as my senior year is coming to an end, I realized how much I'm going
to miss all the activities I've had an opportunity to be a part of.
I've been in Girl Scouts since elementary school.
I earned my bronze and silver award, as well as a few community service awards.
I'm a hurdler for the indoor and outdoor track teams.
This year I'm captain for the hurdling team
and a stretching line leader for the outdoor team and indoor team.
And I've been a part of other activities like the Mentor program,
the National Honor Society and MU Alpha Theta, which is the Math Honor Society.
And then just last week I was named a National Merit
finalist for my performance on the PSAT junior year.
So next year I'm going to major in aerospace engineering.
I'm not sure where yet either.
At Fryer's, at Penn State or at Case Western Reserve University.
So thank you again for your recognition tonight.
And now I'd like to introduce Mr.
Levant, Pataki.
Hello.
I'd like to thank the board
for this recognition, and it's really an honor to be here.
And so I'd just like to say that Hershey is an amazing place to grow up.
I really could not have asked for a better town to grow up in.
And I think the high school really made me realize that.
So over the last four years,
I've been able to learn and even give back really to my fullest.
And what I'm most proud of is probably creating all that math.
So as a sophomore, when I was taking D.C.
calculus, I realized that my peers had really begun to struggle because it's B.S.
calculus, and it's not very easy, right?
So to fix this issue,
I decided to create a website on which I would post thorough solutions
to the in class review sheets, and my website boomed with popularity.
Thankfully, Mr.
Walser endorsed it, put it on his canvas homepage, and the first full year
that it was out my junior year, I continued to maintain it.
The B.S.
Calculus classes achieved an average A.P.
score of 4.6, shattering the previous school record of 4.2,
which is, of course, good news.
So but I'm also very prideful about my personal academic achievements.
Over my sophomore and junior year, I received eight academic
achievement awards, each of which signified that I had the highest grade.
Out of all the students enrolled in a given course.
Four of these four were for AP classes,
two of them were for advanced classes and two were for regular classes.
Additionally, I was also recently chosen as a national Merit
finalist due to my PSAT performance.
In terms of clubs, I'm part of the National Honor Society also,
and I'm the vice president of TMU, Alpha Theta,
both of which I take very seriously.
And outside of school, I also spend a fair amount of time with mathematics.
Recently, I think last November, one of my solutions was published in the Pine U.
Epsilon Journal, which is a nationwide undergraduate mathematics journal.
College level
and my post-secondary plans have yet to become certain.
But tentatively,
I plan to attend Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.
At case I will definitely be majoring in both mathematics and computer science,
and depending on how my schedule pans out, I might also write
electrical engineering.
In conclusion, I would
like to thank everyone here today for recognizing me and my achievements.
And now that I'm hearing my graduation, I think I can say with utter conviction
that I could not have asked for a better time to grow up in.
And for this, I'm truly grateful.
Thank you.
Levant
I think there's a future there at Pataki Academy.
I think there's You got something going there.
Madeline.
Can you.
Can you guys come back in?
You have
some questions
there. Questions asks?
Curious.
Are you going to get your full license?
Well, right now I have an introductory flight I got for a Christmas gift.
So we will see. Hopefully.
Yes, that is the plan.
So thank you for coming and congratulations to you.
Both are so impressive
and I love her.
Mom and dad are back there beaming.
It's such a great holiday here.
I couldn't help but smile because you guys are so impressive.
But watching the reactions of
mom and dad in the audience, it just makes it even better.
Thank you for your commitment to them and Levant Real quickly, I have a student
who benefited from your AP account B.S.
website, and I know there are a lot of Hershey students that you are
that you are tutoring in math and various subjects that that are going to miss you
greatly when you leave.
Okay.
I would like to announce the board met in executive session
prior to this meeting to discuss matters of personnel.
This is recognition of citizens.
This is an opportunity for residents and taxpayers to address the board
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Are there any citizens or taxpayers who would like to come forward at this time?
Okay.
See none standing Committee Meeting Report.
The Curriculum Council met on February 18, 2019.
We elected a chair,
which I was elected as chair again.
We had three informational items.
We had a full day kindergarten update by Ms..
Schmidt.
If I think I'm going to preface this by saying that if you want
to hear the whole detail thing, please listen to the the board audio.
But she talked a lot about the program
and what they're seeing in the children, and it's going very well.
One item of interest for the board is that we approved it
with a waiver last year and there were 14 waivers.
Now we're down to seven.
So those are the kids who go half day but over that with the waiver.
But I've elected to now go full day.
We had a high school grading update by Mr.
Smith.
They hope to implement a change starting with the class of 2023,
but they'll have a final decision in April and bring that back
to the curriculum Council.
They will do a lot of messaging related to that and the grading scale
changes related to how transcripts, transcripts report our 4.0 scale.
There was also information
items related to high school credits for middle school students.
We're going to be changing
our administrative guidelines that some of our students who are advanced
and perhaps maybe math in seventh or eighth grade do go up to high school
to take some classes, and they will now be getting high school credit for that
under new business.
We did a pilot approved two new textbooks.
We approved a new AP history textbook for a 30 day review.
Read and a human geography people place and culture textbook.
Both of those textbooks
are out in the hallway for your review, and they are on a 30 day review.
And that concludes my report.
The Finance Committee met today.
Mr. Singer, do you have a report?
Yes, thank you.
We had three items that we reviewed.
First of all, Mike presented to us
two 2019 revenue data,
20 1920 revenue data projections.
This is his effort to continue
to share information with us regarding the board's ultimate
responsibility to in April,
I believe the second meeting in April,
at which time will be
approving a preliminary final budget.
So the same information that
Mike shared with us today has been shared with all of the board.
So if you want to keep up with what he's been sharing,
you can take a look at that information.
It was very helpful and quite informative.
Second item, we had a presentation
regarding extending a contract that we have
for copy and print services for an additional five years.
There is a lot more involved
with copying and printing than than any
anyone could possibly know in terms of trying to compare apples to oranges.
But our staff has determined that
they've had good service for the past five years.
There were a couple of
pinpoint that they wanted to address in terms of
moving forward and
making it seem recommended, extending for an additional five years.
I believe the contract expires in June or July, extending the contract, the print
and service contract that we have now for an additional five years.
The committee approved that recommendation
and it will be brought before the full board
in April.
Okay, March. Okay. Thank you.
And the last item we didn't get to talk too much about was a vendor fair.
It's been something that's been on our agenda a couple of times.
The idea here is to help community companies
first and foremost understand what our procurement
and purchasing procedures are
so that they can learn how to position themselves to compete
for contracts, for goods and services that we purchase here in the district.
So we'll be working together as a committee to think about how that
vendor fair can
shape up and how information from
that can also appear on our website as as a continual source of information.
That is all I have to report.
If any other members would like to add anything, please do.
Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Singer.
We have the student representatives report. Mr.
Mangia and Ms.. Carrasco.
Good evening, Madam President, board members and public
help your staying warm With all the snow
and the chilly weather, that doesn't seem to end.
But we are good to be back in school.
Well, many of us appreciate the snow days.
We do have to understand that we have to continue going to school.
But regardless of this weather, there have been some impressive
performances and the students are working hard throughout all the schools.
Hi, everyone.
So to begin the report, we'd just like to give a shout out
to the people who signed for their letters of intent
to continue their college and academic careers.
So Adam Palmer for Lacrosse added course for Newport.
For Newport, Alexi King for soccer at Misericordia University.
Joey Allie Greenie for baseball at Gianna College.
Mark Zeigler for the Military Academy for Lacrosse, and Marcus Minsky
for the United States Naval Academy for Track.
And also we have Taylor Yan at Mercer University
for lacrosse and Elaina Joyner at.
What is it?
Rollins? ROLLINS That's what it is.
Rollins College.
Thank you. Thank you.
And we just like to congratulate Dan
because the students always put their best effort in class and
excuse me, and outside of class.
So we just want to say congrats to them and their future.
And we also wanted to give a general general report
for the upcoming spring Sports.
And the winter sports are reaching the postseason
and many of our teams are qualifying for Mid-penn district states.
So we just want to say congrats to them and best of luck and the spring,
the spring season
will officially be starting soon and we wish the teams the best of luck
in the next month.
Across the schools,
we've had some impressive
programs happening in regards
to raising money for charity and maintain and maintain is obviously an exciting
time for students to get involved with at the middle school and the high school.
Middle school had theirs on it last Friday.
They had a lot of students attend and they had a lot of different activities
like mini golfing, ping pong, volleyball and a lot more.
It was a lot of fun.
I heard the high school had their minutes on basketball game,
which was the rec all star sort of game that was student run,
and they raised about $1,000 and which will be all donated
and added to the total of minutes on.
And then the high school also had a coin store day.
So a lot of teachers participated in that.
While students may get that little time off
and it may seem like it's a little disruptive of class,
but it did help incentivize the kids to bring in a lot of money.
In fact, one class raised over $1,000 in just those coins.
So that was really impressive.
Quarters, not pennies. The
and the elementary school is also hosting a food drive to help children
battle hunger, and that's in conjunction with their Read Across America program.
So the students also get to dress up with that program as well.
Back to me
the this past weekend on Saturday, we had our Sally Hawkins
dance, which a lot of the girls attended, as you know.
So the organizers like the girls asking the guys, but it was really fine.
The deejay was amazing. The lights were amazing.
Like there's a lot of girls and guys there, whoever they asked
and a lot of the all the money went to certain organizations.
They had coca packs for senior tickets.
All the junior tickets went to the Hershey Food Bank, the sophomore tickets
went to Ryan McDonald and the freshman went to the Luke Foundation.
So that was really interesting to see where all that money went.
And the last thing that we have on here is that we're approaching March
in a couple of days,
and we do know that it's time for the musical coming up this weekend.
So we have Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Just to give you a little reminder, that's the first, second and third Friday
and Saturday.
There are shows at 730 and Sunday, we have a show at 1:00, I believe our 130
and students are working very hard to put on their best show that they can,
either practicing right now, which is where Patrick is at.
And so we wish them the best of luck and hopefully they perform really well.
I'm excited to see the show and we get a preview on Wednesday at the high school.
And so this wraps up our report.
And as always, if you have any questions, feel free to ask.
And thank you so much for your time.
When were you have many thought totals.
For the totals?
I'm not sure.
I know that the middle school is still working on getting those together.
I haven't heard anything, but the high school's minutes on will be in March,
so we're still going to wait for that. Yeah.
And the mini side, they had
Charlie Faculties in charge of arm mini sign for the high school
and they said that they don't have all
the money that they ever got from store Day
at the high school and stuff like that.
So we don't have them yet.
He would give us all the
$20,000, go for all middle school, high school for everything or.
So that the $20,000 goal, I believe, was just for the middle school money, so on.
And then for the high school, I believe we had a goal of $50,000.
So in total we have a goal across the district.
70,000. Dollars. Wow. Wow, wow.
Thank you so much for your report.
The listed items are on the
proposed March 11th, 2019 Board of Directors agenda.
If you'll just note that the update was moved from was at the last meeting.
We had the snow. Yeah.
So we moved it to this one.
And then the proposed 2019 2020 school calendar is on there.
That's a presentation.
I was also hoping that we would move to approve it
the calendar that night as well.
So I think you have gotten copies of that in your board brief.
So please forward questions ahead of time because we already delayed it
and we have a policy to approve the calendar in March.
But I know people are kind of chomping at the bit to find out
when school is next year.
You guys are too right. And
they don't care.
Concession Stand update
is our next mark.
Anderson Scott govern.
Do you want to come up to the podium
and is it Ted So is it V?
Doc Yeah.
Okay.
Good evening, people.
Nice to see you again.
This is something
we've been looking at for the last year and a half or so.
I didn't even know this, and I'm not sure if you guys realize this as well,
that the concession stand and restrooms
that we have at 322 were donated.
So the school wasn't responsible for funding it
and it was beautiful when I did it,
it was great that they did it and we appreciate that.
But the issue and the concern is
it's it's also about our storage and the current concession
stand is getting dry rotted because it's wooden material.
The restrooms and the storage area is blocked and
the restrooms are in there.
But the problem is
it's not there's no hot water heater, so it's not winterized.
So what happens is once we get to October, the end of October,
early November, we have to shut down the restrooms.
So our kids then have to run into the school.
And we do that because we have to winterizing,
because we don't have hot water here.
So we've been pursuing avenues as far as upgrading the facilities,
increasing our storage because we have other wooden sheds out there as well.
And they're also dry rotting.
So to increase our storage, to use hot water heaters,
we would need to upgrade our facilities.
And that also springs forth starts March 4th.
We're not going to have to utilize those restrooms until we get directed
that they're able to be used because the frost is done.
So sometimes we go like last year we went to April,
so our kids and then we have spectators and then we have other teams here.
We either have to rent Porta Johns or we have to
escort the people into the high school.
So tonight we're going to,
I guess, propose or talk about the concession
stand slash restroom slash storage facility, because that's
what needs to be upgraded on our 322 field.
So that's
why we've been taking the opportunity to look at this for a year and a half now.
We've done multiple tours with the board members and I'm
going to let Mark Anderson speak on behalf of the donations and things like that.
Okay. Good evening.
I have Ted Vidor with me this evening.
Ted, is with Hamel Associates out of Lancaster.
Ted did a site visit visit with us back in May.
I met, I think, with a few board members to look at what the needs were.
He came back and proposed three different options.
We looked at kind of utilize the existing
small footprint there as a concession area, and there were
there were drawbacks and that ultimately we looked at adding on to the building.
And it's
it's a very small footprint,
but it has multiple number of trades that are involved in the process.
The cost per square foot is high, but this is now, I think the third quote
that we've looked at
that puts us in the 200,000 plus range to do this concession stand.
I know there were some concerns when we reviewed this last week
that Ted's prepared to speak to regarding some options with the roof.
But if you have any direct questions about the plan, Ted's here
this evening is certainly willing to entertain
those questions to the degree that you can or we can.
A First, just because I've been in all these meetings
being on general service, I want to just make a quick point,
a clarification that we're not talking about a $200,000 concession stand.
We're talking about winterizing the building.
Right. I don't want this to be a.
That's a really great point because it is much more than that.
There is currently, for example, to Scott's point,
spring sports are on Monday.
We will not turn those bathrooms back on probably until late March.
And I think you mentioned, if I'm correct me if I'm wrong, that
and I didn't realize that your staff is pulling out the toilets and the sinks.
Well, we're not pulling them now.
What we're doing is we're disconnecting the plumbing.
Because.
Currently we have no heat in the building and
so we have no way.
I mean, this place would crack or the twins are crack where they are.
So we've we have traditionally winterize them in the sense
in that are shutting the water off.
But actually disconnecting these, allowing this to drain out.
I agree with Maria.
I think it really needs to be renamed in a way.
It's really a multipurpose facility that we're talking about now
because it's the bathrooms,
it's a storage area, and the concession stand is all tied to it.
But it's not just the concession stand as is what it sounds like.
And I think that's a misrepresentation of what we're talking about here.
And I don't want the public to get the wrong idea.
We're talking about something much bigger as far as the bathroom and the heat
that needs to be in pipes cracking and just the writing of buildings.
So it's more and more time.
I look at it more as a multi facility building that we're talking about
that needs to be renovated and fixed so that it's all one space
that can be used for the bathrooms and the storage and the concession stand.
So just to make it clear,
because otherwise it really makes it sound like we're talking about,
you know, building a plush concession stand.
And it's it's so much bigger than that.
That's just a small part of it that will be incorporated into it.
But the other things are a much bigger issue.
Mark,
from the concession stand portion of this, did
you look at modular construction
and if no, why not?
I'm going to ask Ted to kind of help with that a little bit.
We did not look at modular construction in large part
because we look to add on to the structure that we had with the 17 metal roof.
It does and the odd shape of it does create some challenges.
We really not looking going to modular because there was
a couple of things put forward in their request
as we looked at this was was to have a three bay sink have
individual storage areas having serving windows and sufficient electricity
to run a variety of an ultra crockpot at the growers, those things.
So we really did not examine that.
I think what we had there Nelson for is a pre prebuilt structure
and if we were going to add plumbing and hot water heating
and those kinds of things that would get that would get really kind of
difficult, frankly,
I had a factual question.
So the
can someone I apologize to this address in here, to what extent are we expanding
our restroom facilities that right can you were not expanding them.
We were we're simply adding hot water to the building
so we're not expanding the restroom facilities that are existing there now.
The restroom facility?
No, we're opening additional square footage for storage
for sports teams and for a concession area that is appropriately outfitted
and storage for the concession stand purposes.
Right.
It's not storage for another purpose.
For storage for programs pardon me?
Storage for the athletic programs being area.
There's an addition that's going on to the building
that's proposed to be about 500 square feet.
So a little bit more than half of that square
footage is going to be the concession stand.
The rest of that would be
dedicated storage for the athletic programs within that.
So. SCARBOROUGH
What are we still learning in that in our spot that the soccer equipment
that would be our soccer equipment and the cross equipment during the season.
Okay.
And actually, field hockey uses it as well.
Okay. All right. Thank you.
I don't want to jump ahead
if you're going to cover this, but are we going to discuss the recommended
procurement process for this or am I getting too
far ahead?
I think.
Mike, do you want to?
I think that's part of the discussion, Terry, But
I think it just is
is there sufficient support for the board to take it to that
next step?
Are we at the point of the conversation
that we need a motion to
approve or does anybody else have.
I don't want to run the meeting for Cathy.
I'm asking you,
is anyone have any further questions because the architect is here
to answer any questions.
I just did have a comment about the estimate that's attached.
There is 15% contingency built in, so
the true
cost of the project is probably more like 150,000.
Is that is that correct?
But you always add for contingency
in case something happens.
I mean, where we are with the project at this point is
we're we're at the end of what we would consider to be schematic design.
So we sort of flushed out the overall scope and the scale
and the preliminary materials that we're using.
But there's a lot of questions that we haven't answered.
You know, our engineering team hasn't really engaged, you know,
fully in their design of of those portions of the project.
There's still a lot of decisions to be made.
So you mean typically at this point in the project,
we're carrying a contingency of, you know, 15 to 20% to cover a variety
of different things, including decisions that have not been made yet,
which may affect the cost, some escalation of cost over time,
as well as some, you know, unforeseen conditions that, you know,
maybe we find some
you know, once we cut the asphalt, we find some unsuitable soils underneath there.
So, you know, typically the way we look at the contingency is that the further
we get along in the process, the smaller that contingency gets.
So we may be starting at ten or 15 or 20% at this point in the process.
We go further along, you know, we're maybe down to 10%, 5%, depending on the nature
of the project and the complexity of what we think we're getting into.
So so that number tends to shrink as we get further along.
But but you're right.
I mean, that's money we haven't spent yet.
That's money that's not earmarked for anything in particular.
It's there to, you know, help sort of establish
this order of magnitude costs that we're talking about here today.
I mean, this is an estimate that we had put together for the project,
certainly not a bid.
We're certainly not asking you to spend $214,000.
It's here.
I would look at that more of an order of magnitude costs for what this project is.
We're still early in the project.
There's still some things that we'd like to explore that can help
move the needle a little bit on the on the overall project.
But I think, you know, at the end of the day,
I mean, the order of magnitude, I think is really what we're talking about here.
I mean, as this you know,
this is a $200,000 project
or a 9190, you know, may be,
but I don't think it's a $30,000 project, I think is what I'm
trying to communicate here, what with the overall cost estimate.
And I think the question the question at this stage in the project
is at that order of magnitude, is there something that the board supports
and wants to pursue and take it to the next level?
And what we would do if we're if there's broad support for that, is we would
go through the rest of the design process, we would engage our engineers,
we would answer all of those questions,
you know, look at look at some options that are on the table for reducing cost
and simplifying the design and put together a set of billable documents.
At that point,
we would put it out to public bid, We would get competitive numbers for this.
And that is really what would show the true value of what
the cost is for the project.
Right.
But even
started somewhere in the presentation about the roof,
that there could be something done that would cut the costs with the roof.
Yeah, that's something Mark and I have been talking about.
You know, what you have out there
now is it's attractive, but it's rather complicated.
It's also, you know, a premium product in the
in the stands see metal roof panels that are on there.
I mean that's probably a 50 year lifespan
roof on there, attractive, durable, low maintenance.
It's a you know certainly a great selection.
But when you look at the project that we're trying to do here, you know,
how do you how do you add onto a a hip roof form?
It's it's rather complicated.
So that's some of what I think is reflected in the cost
is the complexity of both adding on to that and then trying to,
you know,
trying to not make this addition look like a sore thumb out there
and try to keep with some of the materials that are being used on the building.
So, you know, if this was a different building,
maybe we'd have painted concrete block
or we'd have, you know, cement, fiber siding or something like that on it.
But what you have out there now is a split phase.
BLOCK And we're trying to,
you know, at this point, we're trying to respect
that and try to stay with that quality of materials.
And the same thing with the roof
where, you know, we're doing an addition onto that.
You know, we didn't think it would look appropriate
or really save a whole lot of money to go with an asphalt
shingle roof or a flat, you know, epdm roof on the building.
So we're we're continuing with that metal roof.
I think there are some other
options with with the roof that we can explore.
And that's what we would be looking at as we went to the next stage in the project.
So if we move forward this, you could show us like all the areas
that we could cut back on the cost, I mean, based on what you recommend,
but also ways that the cost could be reduced, you'd be able to show us both.
Yes. Yeah, we would go through that process
and we would look at some alternatives for I mean, it's a fairly simple building.
There's not a million different options, but,
you know, there's certainly some different avenues
or some different things we could consider.
And there's a things that we would be exploring and bringing to the table.
You know.
Mike So go ahead, Donna.
Now, I was going to say, just trying to in trying to visualize,
because I've been in these facilities a lot, the
the floor plans obviously for the bathroom is staying the same.
But you say you're replacing
you're replacing all the toilets and the sinks.
Is that with the changes in the you know.
The work.
Change in the bathroom, the.
Work in the bathroom is is very minimal.
Yeah. The hot. Water.
Heating, the space conditions.
Okay.
Always that change within the outer surface.
Will. Change mildly.
I mean, what we're doing is we're taking the modular concession stand building.
It's out there right now and removing it and roughly.
Ready for demolition.
That in the roof, depending on where we go with the roof,
there's a substantial amount demolition on the roof.
Then once the
modular building is removed, we're enlarging the footprint somewhat.
But generally, you know, to visualize it in that same footprint where we are,
we would be building that new addition.
That's 16 foot by 30 foot and would extend that into the building.
You know, the front half to two thirds roughly, would be the concession
stand as it's facing the field.
And in the back would be the would be the storage for.
The piece requiring excavation where.
Right, Right.
And what is the square footage?
I just can't see that.
For the total building.
No, the square footage of the concession
stand currently versus what the new one is going to be.
I don't know what's written there, but.
200, 220 square feet is where we are right now.
And what is it going.
To 252 is what I'm going.
To just can't see that small. Thank you.
So it's not actually that big of a increase in space.
No, no.
The current concession stand is 160 square feet.
I thought says two.
Now 2.2 20 as the existing.
Two has gone from 222 to 52.
Right. Okay.
But there's running water in it.
There's running water, there's expanded electric and
all the infrastructure
there is more suited for the use.
And you're saying
that there's currently
on the current building of the
concession stand, did you say something?
Yes. That's dry, rotting. Okay.
When we have a good storm like we did last night, the water comes in.
So when you come in, the counters are saturated.
It's a shell.
It was built by a bunch of volunteers,
you know, in 2008 or something. It's
the same thing.
So essentially what we're doing is taking a shed
and making it a part of this building address
the things that are deteriorating
as part of our facilities and buildings
the way we would with any other facility owned by the district,
bringing that to a place that would be safe, compliant and in line
with all of the other buildings in the standard at which we operate our district.
Correct?
I think that's a good way to present it. Yeah.
I mean, we're we're we're bringing it up to that level of quality.
We're bringing it up to current code compliance,
we're bringing it up to accessibility standards, you know,
a lot of which are deficient in the existing existing facility.
So just to I mean, I
just to make sure because if obviously
if this was done, we wanted to do it once and done
this, this size dimension was, was the guidelines
that we gave in terms of the size you're using, the given footprint, but
expanding a little bit, what determined how much you had expanded versus
keeping it the way it was is the space that's available.
Was there consideration for expanding on the other side,
which is not where the people come in at dead space over there?
I'm just curious into what what were the parameters that you were given?
We were given
we were
given the the program for the concession stand, meaning
what the equipment was that was going to be in there, how many
people were going to be in there, what the storage needs were in the space.
And we were given square footage for storage space.
When we looked at the options, as Mark said, we presented three options
ultimately that led to this one being selected to develop.
We did consider the concession stand on the opposite side,
as you mentioned, but there was two issues with that.
First, you know, just from a retail perspective, we're hidden
on the far side where people aren't seeing the concession stand.
The other issue is that the electrical entrance is coming in to that side.
So that would have had to been relocated, which would have been significant
additional cost.
So we weren't on that side.
And the two other options that we had presented was the field
storage area that's shown in the middle between two restrooms.
We had looked at two other options relative to that.
One was just using that as the
the concession stand and doing another and
using that as the concession stand within the building
and then doing an addition in this in the location we're showing right now
for storage that have enlarged the storage would have consolidated the storage
and it would have brought the concession stand within the existing facility.
We saw some efficiencies there relative to proximity to the existing plumbing.
But at the end of the day, the footprint was too small.
We really couldn't make it work.
The second option we looked at kept the
kept the concession stand in that same location in between
the two bathrooms and did an addition off the front of the building to expand that.
Again, I think it worked a little bit better, but,
you know, now we're doing two additions.
We have two separate excavations.
Our costs are going up, not down.
And there wasn't really any significant benefit to it.
So that was kind of what led us to this option,
which was a little more consolidated.
It was one piece of construction and it was a fairly efficient way
to accomplish what we were looking to accomplish.
And it's a feeling that that concession size is adequate.
I mean, obviously relative to the football field, it's much smaller,
just, you know, just making sure that we don't come back, you know,
Now that is our wish. We made it would have made it bigger.
What is the cost implication as you increase square footage at $100
per square foot?
$10 per square foot says for 37, 24, 38.
Thank you.
That's the number I was looking for.
Okay.
Thank you.
Given given that this current building is dilapidated,
that it's a modular shed that was donated, I think it would be reasonable
to delay action on this for two weeks till March 11th.
Just to explore the feasibility of modular construction,
I had a chance to talk to some
some builders, and I know a guy
in the modular industry just to just see if it's feasible.
The builders were convinced that the price is very high
and it's related to the onsite labor costs.
So, I mean, I, I've been the general services.
I mean, I get the,
the totality of, of, of the project and that it is of significance.
But I think just to see if it's feasible
because there might be considerable cost savings
associated with it, just the thought.
I just think
we've been talking about this for so long, I just don't agree.
I think it should be done right the first time
and we need to fix the restrooms
and the storage all in one time.
I mean, I think the modular option
would certainly be less expensive than what we're talking about here.
So there was 28
was the date of the existing one.
Was that it was right around the time that my son started?
Yeah, 22,009.
The soccer team had nothing in the coach build it
and he'd be just build it himself with some volunteers.
So to throw so I think that's, you know.
So you're saying 2008 it's 2019,
you know that's the lifespan of something like that and maybe that's.
It that was it modular.
So so modular construction has changed quite a bit.
They put a modular house on Linden Avenue in the village.
So if you don't know which one it is, I'd suggest
you drive by there and see if you can tell which one of those houses is modular.
I mean, I agree with Kip in a way that I don't think
it would hurt to just see what that would be.
I mean, you're still going to fix we're not saying not to fix the water
and the heating problem and the storage and all that, but
I think we owe it just to the community to just do due diligence and just see what
are you
suggesting that a modular building like the original concession
concession stand that's theirs now gets ripped down
and then we park a modular building next to it?
I'm little bit confused now.
We know we know what we need to accomplish in terms of the water heater
and the air conditioning of the space in the in the existing restroom building.
And that really wouldn't change.
It would be just the replacement of the current shed that serves
the concession stand with a modular unit that would would integrate
with the bathrooms and the module unit would have all the specs
for the concession stand and the storage specs.
How would the roof tie in? Well, that would
that would be the question is see, that's why I said that's why.
Just check and see if it's feasible
because I'm not I'm not a construction guy.
This is also a reason why we don't get anywhere
with this project because everyone comes up with a new idea.
I know it's not.
I just feel like it's not our money to spend.
And I think it's important to just see what the different options are
so that we know that that is the best option.
Well, I can tell you a modular unit is not going to have
the same face or roof as the existing building.
So it's not going to match.
It's going to look I mean,
I mean, it's Kipper said they've changed out there.
We don't know for sure what they look like.
Like what? It's
I think what it comes down to is we've been taking this around for a year,
and I'll be quite honest, I don't know, other than being a taxpayer
and a school board member and all that.
I don't have a high school student in athletics.
I've never worked at concession stand.
I've never used the bathrooms in there, so I can't speak to it on that level.
But we've now been discussing this for a year.
It's been tabled, it's been brought back, we've gotten this estimate.
It's gone that way.
And at what point do we say this is what we've come to?
Yeah, I'm struggling with in turn to Joe
and asked and said, well, why have we never brought up modular?
And I guess what I'm asking from an architectural and professional
perspective is if that if knowing what we were looking for
and having the parameters out there
and taking it multiple times to, to look at
if modular construction was something that seemed like
a reasonable, viable option, why are why are we bringing it up?
And so unless I can hear something
to back that I you know, to back
that argument up, to me, it doesn't make any sense.
We have a we have a a structure on our building grounds
that is falling apart.
There's probably Title nine violations if we're being honest,
like looking at equity and the facilities and what fields are used for what
and where there are concession and appropriate restroom facilities
compared to the other side of our athletics, of our athletic fields.
And I think that we have to take a look at it not from how do we want this built.
Is a redone shed, is it a modular, is it an add on to the building?
But but trusting the professionals who are giving us the recommendation
and then seeing if we get comfortable with the total cost and the impact
that that brings.
But if we're going to keep
talking around and around about how we're going to do it, we won't.
This will never get done.
Can I interject something?
Just having been a part of this process from the beginning
and like to echo a little bit of what what Mr.
Drew said and possibly also identify with Dr.
Shah noted,
that's
a large portion of this, is identifying that it is the project
has a cost of somewhere in the $200,000 range.
Maybe it's as little as $150,000, maybe it's as much as 200
until the board gives the administration the authority
that they plan on spending that amount of money on something.
We are hampered in how we can get the best possible plan
because we've been doing what we've been doing without without charge
until this last group of plans which we determined to pay somebody
to provide and has come back in the same pricing level that we got two other times.
So as
administration, we're comfortable that we're in the ballpark,
until we have something that is approved
to actually work on, we can't determine that
any of this is going to save us any money or that we can cut any costs
until we determine this is what we're moving forward.
So if the if the school board is is
looking the the totality of this and it is not just the concession stand, it's
meeting other needs, what we would look for is that ability to move forward,
that there would be a commitment to spend that 150 to $200000
and then we can come back,
I don't know, with additional options,
but with something we believe will meet all of the needs.
And one of those, as we were going through this process, was to make
this look like it was not an add on or an addition.
So some of the need to incorporate the roofs or
to make it look like by the end of the day when this is all done,
that it was all intended to be there.
If we would just like another building sat next to the building,
we could go through the process and look what that that may be cheaper,
but it's also going to look how it's going to look.
It'll be sound construction.
It will be something that that only last ten years,
but it will look like we plop the building down next to another building.
And if that's okay, that's that's fine as well.
But we were charged with this to not make it look like that.
So that's why the program in the information you have is what you have.
If we're taking a step back from that, we can provide something else.
But the target has continue to move all those other things and we need
the school board to make a decision if they're going to commit
to somewhere in that 150 to $190000
for this building to be built, if that's approved,
we can definitely go work forward and bring you something that might be useful.
But otherwise we're just talking in estimations
and won't move this forward as we would like to.
So as our next step, then to move as a board
with a majority to proceed
with the path of a renovation
and addition to this structure
for a cost not to exceed a certain amount,
and then other things will come before the board after that.
But that's that's what you need to go forward.
That would provide us the best level of confidence
that when we put in the work to bring that to the board, that
then it will it will take the next step and go to fruition
to get it to a contract.
We've been focusing so much on this.
It is an estimation.
It is every time we've gone out, it's an estimate.
It is not a bid.
This gentleman guarantee, this is the price.
He's put us in the ballpark,
which is what we've asked him to do and what we've asked others to do.
If we had that do not to exceed number, we can definitely go back
and pull different plans together.
Now that would be for a certain way to procure it through
bidding that we would have to
contract with somebody to
come up with the plans to eventually provide the bids for that.
We also have the ability to
purchase this directly from
other contracts, as we have discussed before,
and that was one of the prices long ago that we brought forward,
that those are kind of the next two things, that
if the school board does not wish to incur any other costs in the planning,
we can look at the other procurement method that would include all planning,
but it be bid directly because it's already been done
through a cooperative purchasing.
That contractor has already been picked.
We would bring him on, show him what is needed.
He would give us a price.
And that price is all in
everything that we would need done permitting, the whole thing
would be included in that price and that contractor's responsibility.
And that will be brought before the board, before
that contractor would be.
Absolutely in any of those cases, we would have to come back to the.
Board just to move forward. Correct.
So is there a dollar figure associated
with this next step?
And it sounds like you have to approve it up to 200,000, but.
Right.
But I mean, to go get the bids and all of that,
because I know we paid money just to get this plan
so cooperative purchasing is no extra money.
Correct?
We could examine that process and bring that group of contractors
back in the last place we got on that is over a year old probably.
So we wouldn't they wouldn't stick with the price
that that low bar gave us way back.
I think, you know, to your point,
there's really two avenues you can go down at this point.
If you choose to proceed with the project, you could go down the road of
hiring myself or
someone like myself to take this and develop it to biddable documents.
At that point, what your commitment would be would be for the
for the the professional services to develop that set of documents,
not the 200,000 to to execute the project.
That would come as a second step once you produce the biddable documents,
once you receive the bids
before anyone spent any of that money on actual construction, never come back
before the board with the results of the competitive
bidding process for you to evaluate and avoid the bid.
The other avenue that you're referring to, you kind of skip over that that
design step and then procure directly with with with another firm who would handle
the design and construction of that piece and deliver that in total.
So it's it does it skips over that one step,
but it also sort of makes commitment
at this point in the process as opposed to a few months down the road.
Are we already far enough along to use these schematic designs
to go to cooperative purchasing?
I mean, we.
Know in my opinion, yes, because that the
the company we select for the cooperative purchasing would be responsible
then to do the deed to.
This is not enough to build this.
But would it be enough to provide them and say, can you
provide us a price on what it would cost to put this in place?
It would not cost anything to do that.
So that's correct.
Mindful of the overall total project dollar impact
and the cost to obtain billable documents is already inside this number.
So this number we're looking at on here would be reduced
because it would take out the money transmittable documents, correct?
Not correct.
Now, this estimate is strictly a.
Construction.
Strictly a construction. Budget.
So the additional costs for billable.
Would be added to what the number you see there.
Well, I mean, that's not the number
because it was thought to be bid, but we would have to pay.
I believe it.
The proposal given was paying another $15,000 to this firm.
Correct.
But if we go to the cooperative purchasing network, we would save
the money spent on billable documents and minimize
the total exposure on the entire project from start to finish.
That's correct,
because the other thing that that provides is when that number is provided,
that is the number we pay.
If they run into issues and need to change orders, that's the risk that that
company has taken.
We don't have change orders after the board
would approve that contract, whatever it may be.
That's what it would cost regardless of what happens.
And using what we have in front of us.
If we were to go to the cooperative purchasing network,
do we need a dollar figure set on our authorization from the board
to proceed to the cooperative purchasing that work?
I think for you, for the board to approve it, yes,
they're going to have to, because if if you as a board member are not
cannot sue you justifying,
you know, spending $150,000 on this, then then your vote should be no
to take it to the next step, but to at least have that amount of put
giving us the authority to go up to 200 would at least allow us to work in plan.
But saying that, like I said, the price we received over year ago
so that it will be different what was around that $155,000
different structure than than here because obviously we developed this,
but it is a step we can take to see
where that that may lead us.
I, I say we vote on that to see if it goes into if it doesn't go,
then you can.
In other words, the number that we're looking at, I would say up to 200,000.
And I would like to move that the board proceed with the
322 multipurpose facility
structure project at an amount
not to exceed 100.
And what did you just say?
I'm sorry to Hunter, who owned
up to $200,000 through the cooperative purchasing network.
So can you just clarify, is this paying the 15,000 or not
is not paying the 15,000.
This is bypassing the bidding process and the biddable documents
which carry a $15,000 price tag.
So my motion is to proceed with this
project up to $200,000 through the cooperative purchasing network
so that we can receive the full bid and quotes through the purchasing network
and to make a decision on that project and where it moves forward from.
And that I'm Maria seconded. So now we're in discussion.
So that means
we're not paying any further money and no money being spent right now.
So we still have the right to say no depending on what they come back with.
Yes, Correct.
I just wanted to clarify that we're this is a no money vote. Yes.
But we're proceeding with sees with this.
But it
just does it's it's a it also is a motion to move this
perhaps to the if would you would put it in the capital.
It would have to be funded through the capital
Capital Reserve fund of the capital plan.
There are sufficient dollars in there that
we regardless of when the work was started,
given the $200,000 mark, that money will be in there
and we would have those dollars over next two fiscal years to pay for that.
But if this was something we were able to get started earlier, we could do that,
funding it through the capital, the Capital Reserve Fund.
And the capital Reserve Fund, just to clarify, is for our buildings.
And that's correct. Okay.
Not taking away from other programs or anything else.
So for one time expenditures.
Got it.
And we would be able to determine at what point in the capital fund or where
that money would be dispersed from, at what time when we would receive the full
project contract.
That's correct. To move forward, Yes.
That would be handled right now.
This right now would just allow us to move forward. Yes.
With the understanding, though, that if we come back and are under
that 200,000 and everything works the way that it should,
we would assuming this passes,
we would assume the next contract or that that contract passes as well.
As long as we can prove that we're efficient
and those types of things, I don't want to.
That's not frivolously spent, correct? Correct.
So if we would move forward at this point, would that negate
or still allow for caps desire to have a modular option?
That's something we could actually question
about during this process to go back to the cooperative part.
So there's some really. Cool modular. Stuff, right?
So please, please don't please
don't misrepresent or misinterpret my my concern, my comments.
I certainly acknowledge the need for the project.
I, I understand the project.
My concern is what price cosmists.
I mean, are we going to spend 60 or $70,000
of other people's money just so it looks extra pretty?
Okay. I mean, this is about to my mind.
This is about function far more than form.
That's all it needs to be done, but function over form.
I agree.
And we can request that as we go through the process
so that we have the full option available so that we're not overspending
for esthetic value.
Mm hmm.
Everybody's comfortable, right? Yeah.
My I'm confused, though.
If you take this schematic design to the cooperative purchase purchasing
network, do you also say
give us some other options?
Well, I can't say give us other options.
I have to tell them exactly what I want.
What we would tell them is give them what we have now and say
we would like it to look that way or give us another freestanding building.
The roofs aren't tied into each other, however, we still want the electricity,
the heating, all those things run throughout the building.
You know, what would those cost be?
Let's be doing two
or just one.
2 to 2.
But there's no question I can't go to them.
I just want to be sure we're certain that I can't go to them
and say, I want this and then give me something else.
I will ask them for what we have plans for.
Then a freestanding building that the roofs
are not tied in together because that's one thing I hear here is
the thought of that were
because of the difficulty with tying the roof structures in together.
Is there a way to.
But I I'm confident in saying you can't have it both ways.
There won't be a modular classroom that ties the roof in that it's just
I mean, we're back to the dollars that are being spent here.
Those those are the things we can't get away from.
I can request that the
OR we can request that the prices be provided in those two separate ways.
But this will allow us to move forward with both ideas simultaneously without
delaying one to receive the other, and then coming back to the drawing board.
Starting Point one. Correct.
We move forward without any cost being incurred by the district to do so.
Correct. And I think it also provides them to the place
of allowing that to to move forward.
I think I mean, because Donna's right, there are some really attractive
modular units. I think it's worth it.
I see like going like, this is not what we set out to do tonight
and you can Google anything.
But my concern is we're going to have I mean, we're talking
how are how are you going to get heat and water to that mine?
Like all those things,
Like that's like a whole other that's like a whole other thing.
Now we're talking about.
But we're going to present both ideas.
This is something where we can get both ideas.
Like Mike said,
he can tell them both ideas and then we have something to choose from it.
With all due respect, I just need to say this.
Like, I totally respect that.
There's other ideas and we're Googling stuff
and we're finding stuff, but I don't think that really one person,
you know, should completely now we're going down this direction again.
I appreciate it.
We've been having this conversation for years.
You know, I'm on the General services Committee.
I took all of the people out there, the players involved.
I made an effort to take Scott and Mark onto that
the site and say, what do you guys want?
And now we're like, okay.
They came back and said, Here's what we want.
But now we're like throwing in this curveball.
I'm apologizing, I'm getting very frustrated,
but I just feel that this
this idea that is being laid on us right now should have happened a while ago
in the 50,000 other conference, but it didn't it did bring this up.
This is not the first.
But I also feel like it should be a majority who want that option.
I mean, we're here with this whole other vote now.
Do we to take a vote? No, it's not.
We want to look at a modular. There's just not.
There's actually there's a motion on table which has been second.
And I think if you took a vote, I think it'd be unanimous in favor
of that option or that motion is on the floor right now.
It's both.
So if there's you feel comfortable
with coming back with two options, I do.
And from the efficiency standpoint,
we bring that back in terms of a recommendation.
But for your information.
And so you have that ability to to make that determination
moving forward from there.
Okay.
Now, once again, I would anticipate that we come back
with those options that are vetted as being
the most efficient options, that if this motion passes here today,
that contract would also pass, that we're not sitting here discussing again
whether or not this should be a movable item.
That's kind of what you're we're not you're not committing
to anything here, but you're really sending a sign.
And I just want to thank the General Services Committee and Scott
and Mark
and all the teams that have put so much time into looking at this,
you know, so many different ways. I
appreciate. It.
Yeah, absolutely.
I'd like to second that because obviously,
I think you folks have put a lot of time into it.
I know your committee has put a lot time and in a lot of thought into this.
And I think I do think I agree.
I think the issue's
been appropriately framed and this is the time to call to a vote.
I remain opposed in principle.
So I will vote against it.
But I think I think
we know what the pros and the cons are and I think we move to a vote.
Yeah, I just have one question either from the podium
or Mike by go into the co-operative purchasing network.
Not doing billable documents are sort of a universe of folks
who can compete to do this
work would be more limited than if we did billable documents and opened it up.
Are you comfortable that that trade off will yield us?
You know, the best price that we can get?
I know I'm comfortable with that because we've already
but we've already received that information and
going through the architects in two different ways.
We got very similar pricing from two different architects.
We got a much lower price when we went through the proper purchasing.
And I think it just makes sense because of the small nature of this project.
I'm not a fan altogether of cooperative purchasing,
but it does serve its purposes, which is why it's there.
Okay, thank you.
All right, Mr.
Friends, you want to do a roll call that
Mr. Able? No.
Dr. CRONAN. Yes.
Mr. Drew. Yes.
Miss Average Tick. Yes.
Maybe. Yes.
Dr. Show. Yes.
Mishka Yes.
Mr. Singer. Yes.
Mr. Owner.
Yes. Yes. One. No.
Okay. Thank you. Motion carries.
Moving on.
Thank you very much for coming in. I appreciate it.
Thank you.
Moving on to the consent agenda,
adoption of items of routine nature and those that normally do not require
public deliberation on the part of the governing board.
A member may pull items which will then be discussed and voted on separately.
May I have a motion to approve the consent agenda items as listed?
So move to second prior.
That was that Maria and Tricia and Tricia, Is there any discussion?
I just would like to make a comment about the facility use.
I had emailed Mr.
McFarland today.
I may find it here about
he had the facility use and the Little League
and he did attach a memorandum of understanding from 2017
between the Hershey Little League and the Hershey Girls Softball Association.
My concern is that we are approving all of these fields,
basically that baseball takes up everything and what softball going to do.
But they do have a memorandum
understanding of when they work together as to organizations.
So I will I do believe we are going to be getting the softball facility use
at the next meeting because they have collaborated.
It's just my concern that we are equal between the two boys and girls sports.
So that is attached to the agenda.
If you want to read the memorandum of Understanding,
is there any other discussion?
Okay, this is a standard voice vote.
All those in favor say I all those opposed say no
to the consent agenda passes
under new business
approval of in-service workshop.
Speaker agreements. Mr. McFarland.
Thank you.
The administration recommends
the board approved the listed Speaker agreements for the listed workshops.
May I have a motion to approve the listed workshop?
Speaker Agreements. So move.
Second, Lindsay and Marino, Is there any discussion?
Yes, I have a question regarding
the first of the workshops and it's
going to be incorporating play pedagogy
as part of classroom curriculum.
Could
could create some somewhere for a little bit of detail on that.
I mean, you're going to teach people how to play.
I'm not I don't quite get that.
No, that's part of our kindergarten new kindergarten curriculum.
I'll ask we had
Marcia Neal on earlier for the kindergarten teachers.
And as they age, the kids age up to first grade.
I know she's been working with the primary teachers to address that,
but I'll let her speak a little bit more to that.
I don't know if you're on my own.
Okay. Yeah.
So last year we had
Marcia Nell come in as part of our kindergarten boot camp.
And what she works on is a concept called play into practice,
where teachers learn how to use structured play,
which is a fundamental part of early childhood learning
to help make sure that the kids have
opportunities to play with
some of the plays college, loose parts play, so it's children
have the opportunity to play independently, side by side and create
and then you take pictures of that creation and then come back to it
later and then they can do kid writing with that creation.
So there's lots of different pieces.
It's it's a pretty extensive piece, is big book on it.
If you'd like to look at the book,
it's not just about teaching kids to play.
It's a lot about executive function.
It's a lot about using imagination.
And as we see our students coming in
with more and more exposure to technology, what we are seeing
is that they need more and more exposure to play
without a technology component.
And that was a big part of what we were trying to do with kindergarten and
it's a very valuable teaching tool and we want to expand it into first grade.
And our first grade teachers
have seen the success of the kindergarten teachers are having with it,
and so have asked for that opportunity as well.
Thank you. You're welcome.
Any other discussion?
This is a standard vote.
All those in favor say I was opposed.
Say no.
Okay.
The motion carries approval to solicit bids.
Granada Property Project. Mr. McFarland.
Thank you.
The administration recommends the board approve the administration to work with
Warehouse LLC to solicit bids for the Granada Property Project.
May I have a motion to approve to solicit bids for the Granada Project?
So move to second.
Okay.
Is there any discussion?
This is a standard voice vote.
All those in favor say I.
Those opposed say no pay.
The motion carries
approval of
Primero Edge Cyber soft point of sale upgrade agreement.
Mr. McFarland.
Thank you.
The administration recommends the board approved the Primero Edge
Cyber soft point of sale upgrade agreement as attached.
May I have a motion to approve
the primo edge soft cyber soft point of sale agreement?
Upgrade agreement. So moved.
Donna second Lindsay, is there any discussion?
This is a standard voice vote.
All those in favor say i, I and all those opposed no to the motion carries.
May I have a motion to approve the listed resignations?
It's almost secondary.
And Lindsay, is there any discussion?
This is a standard voice vote.
All those in favor say I was opposed.
Say no.
Okay.
The motion carries personnel.
General McFarland, the.
Administration recommends the approval of the listed personnel.
May I have a motion to approve personnel, General?
So moved.
Second, Maria and Lindsay, Is there any discussion?
Kate is a standard voice vote.
All those in favor say aye. Aye.
All those opposed say no.
Okay.
The motion carries board member reports.
Are there any board members who would like to give a report?
I would just like to remind that the taste of Hershey with the Church
Foundation is on Sunday, March 10th, which will be before our next meeting.
And hopefully everyone will
be joining us.
And I just like to say Mr. Dillinger and Mr.
Sipe have been here for ever, and I think all of my children have gone
to high school and have have had them, and I'm just really sorry to see them go.
They were fantastic.
And not impression.
I did not make the agenda,
but I did want the public to know there was a Parks and Rec Advisory
Committee meeting on February 13, 2018,
in which Martin Mandia had talked the the plans for the upcoming
community center and wanted to let folks know there is an open house
on March 23rd from tending to refocus.
I learn more information about that. All right. Thank you.
And also regarding Dauphin County Technical School,
there is a training just for any board member
who would like to attend just to gather more information of how that school runs
and how there's differences and just a little bit
more about their policies and procedures.
It was it was excellent.
I attended it last year and she has extended
it really to any board member who would like to come.
It's this
Wednesday at 5 p.m.
and dinner is provided there.
Also, just something think about what was brought up at the last meeting is
at the end of the year a portion
of what the district contributes financially is
if it's not utilized this return to the district in this year,
they would like to consider keeping a portion of that which are which.
We are very budgeted for our students to be there and to be utilized to help
our students as well as all the students that attend there.
And so they're asking that we consider letting them keep a portion of that.
They keep small portion now,
and I think they just want to increase it by a little bit more.
So that's just something I don't have an exact number.
Mike, of of what that would be.
It was just something Maria discussed, at the last meeting.
So she could probably shed more light on what the percentages
that she's looking at.
But this is money that we've already budgeted to go to them.
Just so you know, it would help probably defray further increases in coming years.
This is a fairly common request as well.
It comes up every couple of years from the attack.
It would be for their cap for capital.
Right? Right.
Because they don't really have like a reserve fund, like we do type thing.
And I don't know if you have anything else to add.
No, I just wanted to mention another topic.
I just want to remind everybody about the SBA sectional meeting.
It was postponed because of the snow from last Wednesday.
So if you weren't able
to make it last Wednesday, you have another chance of going to it.
The rescheduled session, which is Wednesday, March 20th, from 6
to 8 with refreshments and registration beginning at 530 at the SBA office.
And they're going to review school safety and the Safe to Say Something program.
All right, Thank you.
Are there any other board member reports,
Mr. McFarland?
Do you have a superintendent report?
Just a few quick items. I do want to echo Dr.
Cronan and thank our four retirees.
We have three on this board meeting.
Mrs. McCully has been at the elementary school for a good number of years as well
in teaching learning support and Mrs.
Brown, you accepted her retirement at the previous board meeting.
Also, Mr.
Friends put ethics statements at your desk.
Please complete them and return to him,
preferably tonight if you haven't done, if not a.s.a.p by next board meeting.
I also want to remind everyone please come out and see the musical
if you love Tap.
It's a great show to see Cole Porter's
Anything Goes.
And then also on March 7th will be hosting Senator Santo here for a tour, brief
tour and time in our district to show him
what is happening in Derry Township.
Thank you. Port President's report.
I just wanted to remind you of the March 30th Bears game.
The invitation was in your board brief.
And also, if you're looking for something to do tonight, you should go to Klick
Lewis Arena to watch the Hershey Trojans play this year.
Cliff Cedar Crest to try to make it to the Bears Cup Friday night.
It's at 9:00.
The game's at 9:00 tonight.
And the Bears Cup is Friday night at the Hersheypark Arena.
If they make it a 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 are asked to come to the microphone
and follow the same guidelines
outlined in the initial public comment portion of our meeting.
Are there any residents or taxpayers who would like to come forward
at this time?
Okay.
I don't see any.
The next public board of Directors meeting will be held March 11th, 2019,
starting at 7:00 in the District Office Board Directors room.
May I have a motion to adjourn this meeting?
So moved second camera and then see all those in favor.
Say I all those posts now.
Okay. The meeting is adjourned at 820.