Announced that this meeting is being audio recorded.
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Present one absent.
Please rise.
Available and join me to the Pledge of Allegiance.
I pledge allegiance.
To the flag
of America and to religious stands.
Strong. Yes.
Madam President.
And fellow board members.
As you know, January is School Board Appreciation Month. And
as I said last month, we just have so much to thank you for
and the time and energy that goes into being a board member
and for those in the audience that haven't been with us before,
you see them and you know that they meet twice a month for a couple of hours.
What you don't see is the many, many, many, many hours of work
that goes on behind the scenes to read volumes of information.
Hundreds of pages of information every other week, attend committee meetings,
go to the IU the technical school, support the district in multiple places.
It is in many ways a thankless job
and an unseen job, but really helps
to move the district forward for our kids, which is what we're all about.
So this is just a small opportunity that we get to say thank you.
And tonight we have a thank you from the elementary, so I'll call Mrs.
Castleman.
Thank you. So.
It's all good once the technology's working.
Oh, there we go.
All right.
Good evening, Madam President.
Fellow colleagues, school board members, students.
We do want to thank you for the tireless hours
that you put into supporting us throughout the district.
We have a nice banner behind you, which was made by our students in our art club.
And this year, the theme, the universal theme was Planting Seeds for Success.
And I jumped at the chance to be here to say thank you, especially
for all of the work that you put in to us.
Getting to full day kindergarten,
all the work that put in we put into our elementary buildings.
So we have just a small token to thank you.
We thought about having the kindergartners
come on their tricycles and ride around for you to say thank you.
But 7:00 got to be a little late.
So we captured some of our kindergartners in a little video.
But first, what I want to say is, as all good
lessons start, we have to teach the students.
So what does the school board do?
And there was a wonderful little video here that we played for them.
And I wanted to just share this with you because it does set the stage
for them understanding what it is our school board does for us.
I'm sorry.
I was in high school
to get fired, but I didn't know what the board did.
So I asked.
I was ready to is to be on board.
He said, Well, they're kind of like parents.
This board.
They want good things for the students and staff.
If the grandparents aren't all around, we are best
to help you learn and grow.
Let me see if I can explain it in a way.
Think of the school board team as built a bridge
between the community and tools.
Your voice
board members listened to parents, community members, schools,
and even the students about their hopes and dreams for the schools.
They share these messages with the poor intended
and other leaders, and they advocate their school district.
By speaking up and with other officials, the community
Important Job Board is to provide direction
from the students, school board members who's a destination?
The district.
They might like the students to go to the campus across France
or even Paris, but they don't tell us how to get there.
They empower different tendencies, and students choose their path.
Would also make a lot of decision, like hiring your intended
the superintendent leader to make through the daily
operations of the school as well.
The superintendent helps determine the best routes on the map,
along with staff and students
pool, but also ensures that resources are in place
so the staff can complete their work and make sure students
reach their destinations.
See that the school, their students to be able to play a musical instrument.
If they fix or understand algebra, brother opportunity.
The Board make sure the school district has the staff
materials in the places at the right time to assure success.
The board and superintendent team help students complete their journey
in their local schools and prepare them for the future.
After Grandpa
Freddie had a much better understanding of what words do
they build a bridge to the community and the schools can communicate
and set destinations for schools, and I can reach my goal.
The school board looks out for me, just like my grandpa
and grandma do.
So that analogy of a grandma and grandpa,
my grandparents, Freddie and Betty Bear happened to be the top notch grandparents.
So don't let that part get you too upset.
It was just a really nice way for us to show the kids what a school board does.
So we have a kindergarten class who wants to share with you
how they've grown over the years.
Again, with the over this part of the year, with the theme being
planting seeds of success.
So the sentence stem
that they used was, Thanks for helping us to grow
or I grow when
I was not picking up the volume.
Now they're so cute.
Well, he's saying I grow when I learn.
This kind of thing.
Oh, he promised he would be my technical support,
I should say.
Like I like to play.
So while my technical support is helping them,
we do have another small token for everyone.
Are some things we have to show our appreciation
and to say thank you for all that you do to support us,
including those seeds of success.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
Hopefully this video will play super cute.
If it doesn't, I'll send it out there.
Okay. Thank you.
Thank you.
Thanks for being patient.
We're only taking.
It's one of those skills you're teaching the kindergartners.
Know flexibility and growth mindset
and who to call on when you're having troubles.
I grow when I do calendar
days of the week.
I go through.
I learned English.
I generally when I saw face,
I clouds.
When I have a lot to play,
I like to play
by the yard.
I grow When I.
Play with my friends.
So I rush.
So I'll play soon.
So of course I started my whole
oh, to keep you
on the phone Deal was worth the wait, wasn't it?
Yeah, it was worth the wait.
What was adorable.
They did the
writing from their sentence starter and they were bound and determined.
They wanted to memorize their lines, so it made it extra special for all of you.
So thank you.
Thank you, Mrs. Castleman.
Thank you for the video from the s.e.c.
And for the elementary school banner.
It's very nice. Thank you.
May I have a.
Motion to approve the January 28th, 2019 Board of Directors agenda.
So moved
to Lindsay.
Second seconded by tricia.
Is there any discussion?
This is a standard voice vote.
All those in favor say I oppose.
Say no. Okay. The motion carries.
We have a special presentation tonight. I see.
We have some guests in the audience.
We have
Mr. Ali
on the team.
Mr. Ali.
Matty, How you say it, Matty.
Okay. He is here to present the 2018
United States field hockey Coach of the Year award.
So go ahead.
Thank you, Madam President.
Members of the Board of Board.
Officially, the board of directors,
distinguished guests, and most
especially Coach Davis.
I got our first offers 13 years ago writing for top of the circle dot com.
As somebody who watched her
high school team play a nearly perfect state championship
final against Only Valley, the neighboring rival.
And they won for nothing that day
and it was some of the greatest interior passing that ever seen in my life.
A lot of it was
generated by Coach Price to her or her
classmates, Kelly Fitzpatrick, who's now in California.
But it was great seeing what teamwork can do.
And she took that teamwork
to the University of Maryland and also to a cup of coffee with the U.S.
Women's National Team just before the 2012 Olympics.
And now as head coach of Hershey
High School.
Hershey, of course, as many of you know,
had never won a state championship before this year.
And when I started my journey this year in terms of looking at
which high school teams would be really, really good, I wrote down on lists.
There could be seven
different winners of the Class Triple A championship in Pennsylvania.
It was that wide open.
And of course, two of the teams that I thought of made the championship
final, the two that were closest to each other in
not only rivalry but also in distance.
The pole is
the blue team down the street was won
at least four times, I believe at least.
And Hershey had not won once
until this year.
And that's why she's receiving this award from our website.
Top of the Circle dot com.
Coach the coach Davis.
Coach Price I should say. Yeah her friends.
I still know
United States coach of the year Wow.
Thank you.
I should like to take a step. Sure
I wish the team we're going to
do you know
Thank you.
And I'm probably wondering why were four colors
one of the one is for the blood.
The red is for the blood of those who have come before us.
The greatest for the youth culture, the dark blue is for the U.S.
national team and the white for FA for supporters of U.S.
National
Women's national team plays tomorrow at 9 a.m.
against Joy.
Check your Twitter
if you want to get the microphones.
Yeah.
I'll thank you for driving 2 hours to present this award.
We really appreciate it.
Thank you to Scott.
Governor, without his support, we wouldn't even be in the state tournament.
He supports us behind the scenes so much
and he's wonderful throughout the entire season.
Thank you to my assistant coaches.
I didn't really tell anybody tonight because I didn't
really want the whole team to be here and all that.
I don't like being the center of attention, so but thank you
to my assistants.
Without them, decisions wouldn't be made
the same way and we wouldn't be nearly as successful as we were.
And then last but not least, the players without them,
their hard work, their dedication, their commitment to her, she field hockey.
Without them, we wouldn't have won a state championship
and I would not have been awarded with this.
So it's all because of those ladies, not you guys, I'm sure,
see on a daily basis that there's a reason we were working with this word.
So thank you. Appreciate it.
Thank you for all that you do.
Thank you for
coming to ours to give us the award we owe.
It's not a problem.
And I return for
a return to control of the podium.
Back to the speaker. Thank you.
We love talking about our field hockey team
who won states against their local rival lowered offense.
So the more times we can say that, the better.
Okay.
I would like to announce the board met in executive session prior
to this meeting to discuss matters of personnel.
I would also like to say that the Human Resources Committee did meet as well.
Okay.
Recognition of citizens.
This is an opportunity for residents and taxpayers to address
the board on matters related to the agenda.
Those who speak are asked to come to the microphone
and state your name and address for the record
to provide other residents with an opportunity
to speak to each speaker during the public comment portion is limited to 5 minutes
of speaking.
Time once recognized and limited to one opportunity
to address the board during each of the public comment periods.
If necessary, the board may set a maximum time
for the public comment portion of any meeting
speakers are asked to review the protocol for addressing the board,
which can be found at the sign in table prior to speaking.
Those wishing to present private concerns or questions in a follow up
outside of the board meeting
are asked to fill out a comment card which can be found at the podium.
Completed cards may be turned into members of the administration
to facilitate a reply.
Are there any citizens or taxpayers who would like to come forward at this time?
Hey. Hey.
I don't see any citizens who are approaching the microphone.
Standing Committee Meeting report.
The Finance Committee met today.
Mr. Singer, do you have a report?
Yes. Yes. Thank you.
The Finance Committee met this afternoon at 4:00.
The primary item of agenda.
The primary agenda item was a
audit report from Boyer and Ritter
for the year 2017 2018.
And it basically took up the
the the one hour a lot of a lot of for the meeting
Joe McFarland
is handing out the full audit report
that was presented to us today.
There is a
presentation PowerPoint presentation
up on the
agenda manager website
which is attached to the Finance Committee
agenda for today.
And we received a clean bill.
Every aspect
that they evaluate and
Warren Ritter was extremely complimentary of
the work that he did on site here
with, with our staff and Mike and
we we made some improvements over last year in terms of the
the onsite I don't know what the right word is make the.
Adjustments. Adjustments.
Last year there were some adjustments they had to make on site and this year
they said there were very few if any of those.
So which means we were fully prepared.
We will be voting on approving
this audit at our next board meeting,
which will be the first board meeting in February.
And so if you have any, you can look at the report,
you can look at the PowerPoint
that's up on the website,
ask Mike any questions, and then we'll be
voting on at the first meeting in February.
So with that list, anybody else has any comments who was at the meeting?
That's the report.
Okay.
Student representatives report.
Mr. Abbasi and Mr. Mangia.
Good evening, Madam President.
Derry Township board members and public.
I'd just like to start off
by saying that Random Acts of Kindness club at our high school
would like to present you as a guest on behalf of School for recognition.
That's why this kisses around on your tables.
I'm sorry. I should have left a note or something explaining that.
So they weren't just random kisses on the table, but now you know.
Thank you.
They also
laminated this little poster, and we cut out shapes of schools.
And we had a lot of kids from all four grades.
Sign the poster, so I'll pass it around and let you look at that.
I can just thank you for all that you've done for us.
And we will have will pick that up with the elementary one.
All right.
And to begin our report, we'd just like to give a shout out
to a lot of the students
that got to go to the district levels of the band and orchestra.
The orchestra performed two weeks ago and the band went this last weekend
and a lot of students had a lot of fun performing with those talented musicians
across the district.
And they found it a very enriching activity to perform in.
And they really experienced tension with those other students
so that they could share their passions with them.
And from this level, select students were selected to go to the regional level
of the bands and orchestra and the regional orchestra students
were Kira Hiatt and JT Mullins and the regional band
students were Maddie meeting Abby Luke, Dr.
David Mailman, JT Mullins, Ethan Secor, Michelle Yoon and John Drake.
Over the past
two weeks there have been two exciting competitions
that our school has participated in over at the middle school.
There is A Geography B and while over 30 students competed for first place,
in turn, it was actually a sixth grader by the name of Brady Keller, who came out
victorious and will now be qualifying for the state competition for geography.
The geography B
Also over at the high school, we had the annual poetry outbound
competition, which actually took place at the Hershey
Theater just across the street.
And just a quick congrats to Jordan Lewis,
who plays for us, and to Elena Zang, who plays seconds.
Again, just a great example of how students in the high school
and the middle school
are getting to demonstrate their talents outside the classroom while also gaining
some street cred.
Another thing that
happened at the high school was an informational meeting for seniors.
We're all getting ready to graduate,
so we're looking forward to those events coming up.
I know it's five months away, but we're still getting pretty excited
with those events
coming up, such as senior prom, senior dinner and graduation in the end.
It's a nice little preview of the meeting to show us what we're expecting.
And it's a those events are a nice way to celebrate
our hard work and achievements that we've done throughout the 13 years.
And while January can be sort of a slower month for school activities,
I'd just like to highlight some stuff that's in preparation right now,
and that will be enthralling students later on.
So one thing is the brand new formal Sadie Hawkins dance,
which will be happening on February 23rd, which is a Saturday.
It's for high school students and it's a C.D.
Hawkins is a girl's ass, guys.
So we are encouraging all these girls in high school
to try and step outside the box and ask a friend
or ask a secret crush, you know, see what happens.
And also across the district, many students
are preparing to participate in the annual mini thon.
Now, this happens, I know definitely at the high school and the middle school.
I know the elementary school gets involved with some activities, too.
And it's just a great way that for students to support childhood
cancer and a lot of it is student led, especially at the high school.
We recently had an assembly, by the way, that showcased the new event Time,
which is now instead of overnight and during the day,
there's also going to be a basketball game played by Hershey High School students
and even rest by some Hershey High School students, which is really awesome.
And it's also awesome that we are the first high school to actually ever do
a mini thon and will be over 25 years now.
And lastly, I would also like to highlight the High School musical
with Anything Goes, which is just a month away.
But students are still very hard in preparing for this show.
And the show dates are March 1st, second and third for anyone wondering.
And is the show appropriate enough for the whole family?
Last thing that we want to mention was that for the past
few weeks, the Hershey Community Youth Alliance, which is a partnership
with the Milton Hershey School and our Hershey High School, are
the alliance has been promoting an event that is a soft drive.
So they've been promoting it throughout the community and the high school as well.
A lot of the English teachers had competitions inside of their classes
to see who would raise the most socks and donate them to the organization.
And there was also the basketball game on the 19th of January that was sponsored
by this alliance, and they were in total able to raise 1172
socks, which was donated to the downtown Daily Bread organization in Harrisburg.
So that wraps up pretty much our report.
And as always, thank you for your time.
And if you have any questions, feel free to ask.
When will tickets be on sale for the musical?
Good question.
I do not have an answer to that,
but I can get back to you maybe next week, I would assume sometime soon.
Thanks.
Mr. KALAZI, you started the Random Acts of Kindness Club, is that correct?
Yes. Me and my friend Nate Strum over the high school.
Yes. What are your membership numbers to date?
Um, it's been growing.
When we first started out, we had about ten kids, and now we're
up to about 2530 every meeting, which is pretty nice.
Just wondering, is it going to continue once you graduate?
Oh, yeah.
Okay. Yeah.
A lot of kids have actually asked me about, you know, helping out
and running the club next year, which is really awesome.
So thank you.
Thanks.
Thank you very much for your report.
The listed items
are on the proposed February 11, 2019,
Board of Directors Agenda.
There's
no unfinished business consent agenda items.
These are items that
do not require public deliberations,
but a member may pull them off to be discussed or voted on separately.
May I have a motion to approve the consent agenda items as listed.
Some moved second. Maria and Lindsay.
Is there any discussion?
All those in favor
say I hope all those opposed say no.
The motion carries
new business
approval of Dauphin County School Safety Task Force Memorandum of Understanding.
Mr. McFarland.
Thank you.
The administration recommends the board approve the Memorandum of Understanding
with the Dauphin County Joint School Safety Task Force.
The district's director of Safe and Supportive
Schools will be the designated voting representative
for the Dauphin County Joint School Safety Task Force Leadership Council.
May I have a motion to approve the Dauphin
County School Safety Task Force Memorandum of Understanding?
So moved.
Second.
Kevin Maria, is there any discussion?
So I just wanted to ask, is it do you anticipate that
most districts it'll be their director of safety or director?
Susan Support of schools, that will be the representative.
I would imagine it'll be whoever fills that role in their schools.
We're fortunate schools don't have.
What we do. Okay.
I just
want to ask you, it says in here that each member organization must commit
at least two individuals to serve as Dauphin County functional team member.
So will there be somebody else other than.
Yes. Yes. But that hasn't been determined yet.
Once we get into this,
then we'll work with Lisa to figure out who that other person is.
And it also happens that it doesn't need to be a necessarily
staff member and can be volunteer if doing that.
Do anticipate opening that up outside of.
I don't know yet till we look at it a little closer.
Okay. Thank you.
What do you know of somewhat a volunteer that might want to do it or.
No, I was just curious if it was going to be something that the community were.
You know, any volunteers or anyone that is, you know, not in
a role such as Lisa's, you know, would would be able to do it
just to learn more about the task force in general.
I can say something to her. Thanks.
Is there any further discussion?
Okay.
This is a standard voice vote.
All those in favor say I and all those opposed say no
Emotion carries approval of the age early retirement incentive.
Mr. McFarland.
Thank you.
The administration recommends the district offer a $5,000 early retirement
incentive to members of the bargaining unit,
provided the employee retires at the end of the 2018 2019 school year,
submits written notice of retirement on or before February 22nd, 2019,
and accepts retirement under the Peyser system.
May I have a motion to approve the early retirement incentive so moved.
Second.
Maria and Teri, is there any discussion?
This is a standard voice vote.
All those in favor say I was opposed.
Say no.
The motion carries.
May I have a motion to approve the listed resignation?
So moved.
Second is Marianne Lindsey.
Is there any discussion?
This is a standard voice vote.
All those in favor say I.
All those opposed say no. Well.
Motion is approved. And personnel.
General. Mr. McFarland, thank you.
The administration recommends the approval of the listed personnel.
May I have a motion to approve personnel, General?
So moved. Second.
That's Lindsay and Judy.
Is there any discussion?
This is a standard voice vote.
All those in favor say I.
I all those opposed say no.
Okay. The motion carries
delegate report.
Seeyou. Mrs.
Mimi, do you have a delegate report?
Nothing more than what's attached.
Thank you.
Dauphin County Tax Association.
Dr. Shore, do you have a report?
Nothing to add to what was in distributed in the packet.
Okay.
I have an
all things diversity delegate report.
We did have an all things diversity meeting last week and
I sit on the committee with a representative from H&R,
the Hershey Company, the Hershey Medical Center, the director of Diversity
and Derry Township, Susan Court Supervisors on it.
And I think you all know that they've been planning the all things diversity events
or how the Hershey story for the last three years.
So last week was a planning meeting for next year.
So they're planning to do the same thing again every other month
at 530, there's a diversity presentation and a free dinner at the Hershey story.
I'm still planning to continue.
It's been a success.
It's usually sold out at 150 people.
I think what we would like to do, I know there's the school district
is interested in doing more,
possibly if they live stream or videotape it and link it to YouTube,
possibly like we could get the high school teachers to log in and stuff like that.
So I did talk to Dr.
Winslow about that and some
things they're going to
be discussing next year in the sessions, addressing the socioeconomic
and poverty level of the community and how to be inclusive of this population
created an inclusive environment for the transgender community
addressing unconscious bias and microaggressions.
That was Dr. Paul Hate it.
He's a doctor at the Hershey Medical Center,
and he teaches unconscious bias to the medical students.
He was fantastic.
He actually has a son in our district
and then understanding the boundaries in the MeToo movement.
And then they're also throwing around the idea of doing a half day session
in collaboration with Culture Fest in 2020.
Next, like maybe May or June, kind of a half,
half day event of diversity and inclusion.
So if you have any questions about that,
Tricia and I went to the last weeks and it was fantastic.
It was on microaggressions. We had Dr. Ali Michael.
She teaches at Princeton in their Institute of
Diversity and Inclusion, and she was Jewish.
Great. I really enjoyed her presentation.
So I encourage all of you to sign up
if you like, and send those links out when they come to sign up.
Do you know how far in advance they are?
Because every time I've found out about it or checked my schedule,
it's already been sold out. So I know
they're just.
I don't know. I'm going.
I yeah, it's so it's open whenever they release the schedule
the beginning of the year in September, beginning of the recession
year, they had they list them all so you can sign up for all of them.
Then you can sign up for them like I've signed up for all of them.
And then if you can't go, you just call and release.
Yeah, because there's always a waiting list and they'll fill your spot.
Yeah.
Cathy Since it is so popular, is
was there any talk of maybe moving the venue to accommodate more people?
Since I know there's a lot of people that would like to go
and there is this problem that it sells out so fast, I don't know.
Is was there any discussion?
We talked about moving it, but they want to keep it at the Hershey story
for one more year because they provide an awesome dinner there for that cafe.
And then what they want to do is move it to the new community center,
which can probably seat over 300 because there's going to be,
I guess, a room in there where they have a room
that are divided into three or are made in to be one large room.
So one more year at the Hershey story, but possibly live streaming and linking
and video in it and linking it to YouTube may be coming next year.
So that would help if we could do that.
Okay. Thanks.
Okay.
Special reports, board members.
Are there any board members who would like to give a report?
I have some things to say. Okay.
Yeah, I just wanted to give a brief report on the Better Together Derry Township,
and it's still in the very beginning stages.
We're in the process of trying to form a steering committee.
So if you know anybody that's interested in being a part of this coalition, it's
it's going to have for action team focus areas, diversity, wellness,
physical wellness, nutritional wellness and mental health wellness.
And it's basically just to get members of the community involved.
And one coalition group to sort of put everyone's resources
together and figure out a platform to how to disseminate that information.
Best of people aren't duplicating efforts.
So if you know of anybody that's interested, please contact
Judy or I or Terri also sits on that coalition from Joy Sports.
So I also wanted to
note that I attended the All Things Diversity
series on microaggressions that was presented by Ali Michael, that
massacre noted, and I just wanted to know a few things.
She noted that 85% of teachers and administrators are white,
and she has a book called Raising Race Questions,
Whiteness and Inquiry and Education.
And she just talked about how it's really important to talk about race head
on, to not pretend that we live in a colorblind world,
that racism is not a people of color problem, it's a white people problem,
and that we must talk about it and stand up for each other
as she talked about Martin Luther King's
vision of building of a beloved community.
And so I do think it's really important that we continue to stress those ideas,
teach our kids about the genocide of indigenous people of North America,
the autonomy of the government that was built around the brutality of
slavery institutionalized racism, sexism, anti-Semitism,
and the Jim Crow laws that we continue to live with today.
So her message was to face all of those facts and information so that we can help
learn and be better educated so we can stand up for each other.
And I just lost my
note, too, because there is a few things that came out recently this month.
Yesterday was Holocaust Remembrance Day,
and I wanted to share information from the 2018 Anti-Defamation
League report on murder and extremism in the United States.
In 2018,
there was a 35% increase in extremist related killings.
Of those at least 50 murders in the past year,
there are 17 documented events.
78% of those were committed in the name of white supremacy.
The Anti-Defamation League cites
that the following information from the report on the shootings by the
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission,
which was also just released in the summer 2018,
that they found more information on the student shooter there,
that he had an interest in Hitler, Nazis
and the KKK, and was known to use phrases such as white power.
He drew swastikas on his personal belongings.
His cell phone contained numerous images related to Nazis and the KKK.
He even at swastikas
and in the ammunition magazines that he used in his shooting spree.
Although the school itself was not a likely white supremacist target,
nor did he seem to target his victims by race, religion or ethnicity,
he seemed to have a primal interest in causing death and destruction.
And I recommend everybody to go online and read the report in full at ADL dot org.
The ADL report recommends policy changes that include
an increase in federal funding to promote inclusive school climates,
anti-bias, education and hate crime prevention in schools.
And it goes on to read, quote, Every elementary and secondary school
should promote activities that celebrate our nation's diversity and inclusivity
and regularly integrate anti-bias and anti-hate content into the curriculum.
Also released this month was a study citing
more bullying in areas that voted for Trump was a particular
emphasis on race and to a lesser degree, sexual orientation.
The greater the margin of Trump support in the community,
the higher prevalence rates of bullying, even after adjusting for factors
like socioeconomic status and parental education,
the Trump effect is real.
With all that being said, I'm extremely proud that this board,
and with the support of the administration,
unanimously adopted our new nondiscrimination policy.
One of 3.2 diversity inclusion and equity at our last school board meeting
and as of today has been uploaded to our online policy manual.
So I just want our students and community to know that while our country
is struggling with hate and xenophobia, we are responding with love
and we want to do all that we can to make everyone in our community feel safe.
Welcome, valued, respected and empowered and empowered to speak up
and stand out for your fellow students and your fellow community members.
Thank you to any other board members.
Have a report.
Okay.
Superintendent's report.
Mr. Macfarlane, do you have a report?
I do. Thank you.
Vaping continues to be a growing concern and problem among today's youth.
Unfortunately, the vaping industry and the marketing ploy
supporting that industry have been misleading to our teens.
There's growing research and evidence
that shows the harmful effects of this quote, harmless habit.
All vaping products contain addictive nicotine as well as many harmful,
harmful chemicals such as formaldehyde and benzene,
which is a cancer known cancer causing chemical.
We all need to be educated on these truths.
And to that end, I want to thank and command our high school counseling
department, who has arranged an informational session
entitled Clearing the Air about vaping, dueling and other substance use.
It's part of their new Family Education Speaker series
that will be launched this spring, and they actually have
two other dates and topics set up April or three.
April 4th is improving your communication with your child.
May 2nd is the dangers of self-medication
for depression, anxiety and other mental mental illnesses.
I'm sorry, there are two others and the sessions will be 6
to 7 with a question and answer time, and that will be in Hershey High School.
LG Be watching for more information on that,
but I really encourage people to
to attend the first one especially.
And then I just want to congratulate our wrestling team,
as we found out today, that they qualified for team districts.
So they'll be heading
to Chambersburg tomorrow night and we wish them the very best.
That ends my report.
All right. Thank you.
Board Presidents Report.
I just wanted to thank Lindsey Drew for covering for me at the last meeting.
I appreciate that.
We do have a meeting, just an exact session on Monday, March 4th.
And that will also be our spring retreat.
So that I'll do two things.
You'll get an update about the today's H.R.
Human Resources meeting in exactly February 11.
So we didn't get to it today, but we can get to it at the next meeting.
And I'm Jo Ann. Mr.
McFarlane and I did attend luncheon
with Representative Tom Mahaffey last week at Devin.
It was with board presidents and superintendents from those
in our district, which was slaughtered often.
Middletown Central Dauphin, Dauphin
County Technical School was there,
so it. Was.
Okay and it was very good.
We about vaping.
He wanted to hear any of our biggest concerns
and possible legislation that he could introduce.
We did talk about vaping, charter school funding and
seeking grant money
and we got it.
Big areas.
Yeah. Okay.
So if anyone has any questions about that, you can just let me know.
Okay.
And we're on to recognition of citizens.
This is an opportunity for residents and taxpayers to address
the board on matters related to the agenda or matters of district governance.
It's not on the agenda.
Those who speak are asked to come to the microphone
and follow the same guidelines outlined
outlined at the initial public comment portion of the meeting.
Are there any resident and taxpayers who like to come forward?
I don't see any
shaking her head no.
Next, Public Board of Directors meeting will be held February 11th,
2019, starting at 7:00 and the District Office Board of Directors Room.
May I have a motion to adjourn this meeting?
So moved secondary.
And Lindsay all those in favor say I always opposed.
Say no. All right. We are adjourned at 748.