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DTSD Webinars: I'd like to call the January 20, s, 2,024 meeting of the Dairy Township School District Board of Directors to order, and announce that this meeting is being conducted both in person and virtually, and is being live, streamed as well as audio recorded.

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DTSD Webinars: I would ask that board members. Please state your name when speaking. This is Ag. Could you please do a roll call?

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DTSD Webinars: Present

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DTSD Webinars: Dr. Cisco. Here.

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DTSD Webinars: Miss Drew, here, Dr. Mccarver, here. Mrs. Rens, here Mr. Rizzo, here.

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DTSD Webinars: Miss Romberger, here, Mrs. Royo here, Mrs. Schmidt, here 9 present one virtually.

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DTSD Webinars: Thank you just for the record. We'll note that Mr. Rizzo is participating electronically tonight. Please rise, if you are able, and join me for the pledge of allegiance

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you did

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DTSD Webinars: United States of America and to the Republican religious stands

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DTSD Webinars: coordination under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

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DTSD Webinars: May I please have a motion to approve the January 20, s, 2,024 board of Directors meeting agenda. so move justice

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DTSD Webinars: Second and Esther Hamburger. Is there any discussion? This is standard voice. Vote all those in favor, please say aye.

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DTSD Webinars: you perceive. No. the agenda is approved

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DTSD Webinars: this evening. Thank you for your patience as we got started a few minutes late. But we will welcome hershey, High School principal, Miss Schmidt, for student of the month. Recognition.

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DTSD Webinars: Good evening board members, administrators, students, and their families and members of this wonderful community. It's an honor and privilege to stand for you this evening before I get into students of the month. I do just want to thank the Board members for your service as it is National School Board Member Appreciation Month. So thank you for all you do. We appreciate it at the High School. We appreciate it administratively, and and really value working collaboratively with you. So thank you.

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DTSD Webinars: I do have the pleasure this evening of introducing 2 individuals that are without a doubt going to leave incredibly big shoes to fill at Hershey High School.

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DTSD Webinars: Both students are dedicated to their school work and show that in their academic honors and grades, but through rotary this year we are focusing more on service and celebrating service, and how meaningful service can be to an individual and to their community. So these 2 students are actually going to leave big shoes to fill, due to who they are as human beings and their heart their bracious attitude stand out even more than their incredible academic.

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DTSD Webinars: tonight. Our first student of the month is Ayman Callahan, and he is one of those students who can and will always volunteer his time and efforts for others. His teachers would call him a servant leader in the classroom and in our high school community, as he's always consistently and constantly focusing on others before himself, he strives to not only be the best he can be, but push others to be the best they can as well.

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Unfortunately, Eamon is not here this evening because he's pushing his teammates, as we hopefully beat Lower dolphin in the basketball game this evening. But please join me in congratulating Eamon as we watch his video.

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DTSD Webinars: Hello! My name is Eamon Callahan, and I'm honored to be chosen as a January student of the month.

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DTSD Webinars: I'd like to start by thanking the Rotary Club for recognizing me with this award

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DTSD Webinars: to thank the Hershey High School staff and administration for nominating me. I am grateful for every one of the teachers I've had over the last 4 years. They have served as great leaders in my life, and have not only made me a better student, but a better person outside of the classroom, and have set me up for success in the coming years.

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DTSD Webinars: Finally, I'd like to thank my parents for being incredibly supportive and always pushing me to be the best student in person that I could be at school. In addition to undertaking a rigorous course load, I try to be involved in our community as much as possible.

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DTSD Webinars: I have been elected as Student Council Representative for the past 2 years, as well as serving as the class secretary in my junior year.

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DTSD Webinars: Additionally, I am the Vice President of National Law Society, where I am responsible for organizing many community service activities with my fellow officers for members to participate in.

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DTSD Webinars: I'm a member of both Key Club and Care Club, which are 2 community service clubs in our school. Through these clubs I have taken part in many different donor drives and service activities. Most importantly, the walk for clean water that is held annually by Key Club

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DTSD Webinars: this year. I've had the opportunity as a link crew leader to help your freshman with their transition to high school through weekly visits to their home room and aiding them in activities and discussions throughout the year.

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DTSD Webinars: I'm a member of Trojan bodies where I've gotten to know my Buddy Elvin very well over a couple of activities and can't wait to spend more time with him

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DTSD Webinars: throughout the rest of the year.

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DTSD Webinars: Finally I was on the golf team for 3 years, as well as playing as much as I could during my free time.

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DTSD Webinars: I also played basketball for all 4 years of high school, and finally volleyball, which I have played for 4 years, in addition to playing some club and outdoor tournaments with my friends outside of school. These sports are a big part of my life, and are my favorite hobbies. In addition to fishing and skiing and just spending time outdoors.

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DTSD Webinars: One of my favorite service projects that I've helped in, organize and participate in was an activity day at the country matters, retirement home, me and a group of my peers led and participated in different activities, such as Cornhole Bowling, and several different minute to win games

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DTSD Webinars: with the seniors. After surprisingly a super competitive game day, which turned out to be loads of fun for us and the seniors, we joined them for a social hour, along with celebrating one of their birthdays. This had to be my favorite part of the day. Through talking to them we got to hear all their amazing stories and learned surprising things about them like one man played football for Penn state. So we watched that game with him, and we even got to hear one woman play her harmonica for us.

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DTSD Webinars: After I graduate from Hershey High School, I plan to attend college and study mechanical engineering.

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DTSD Webinars: Although I do not know the institution yet.

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DTSD Webinars: Finally, I would like to thank again the Rotary Club and the staff at Hershey High School for this award, and I'd like to congratulate my fellow students of the month.

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DTSD Webinars: Thank you.

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DTSD Webinars: Our second student of the month is one you may recognize, as she is often found on the stage at Hershey High School.

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DTSD Webinars: Priyanka, Nvr. Has become very accustomed to our stage, as she is an innately talented actor and singer, and you have most likely, if you've been to them, seen her on stage, in our musicals, in our plays, as well as also all of the other things that you do which we'll get to. But priyanka is a published author. In an incredible artist. However, she seems to strive more, to

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DTSD Webinars: leave with her heart and leave a lasting impact on her community. She's always looking for more ways to make a difference, not just locally, but around the world. And I would not be surprised if one day we have the opportunity to vote for her as President of the United States, or maybe see her make it to the Supreme Court, which I believe. Is the plan correct? Okay, so with that, please congratulate Priyanka. Nambr.

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Yes, public.

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DTSD Webinars: Hi, my name is Brianconamier, and I'm honored to be one of the January rotary student of the month at Hershey High School. I'd like to start out just by thanking a few people really quick first off. Thank you so much to the Rotary Club and the Hhs. Staff and administration for this recognition. I've been at Hershey for pretty much my entire life, and I can confidently say that I would not be anywhere near where I am today without the support, guidance, and encouragement of all my incredibly influential teachers. So a special shout out to them.

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DTSD Webinars: Finally, I would like to thank my parents and my sister for their unconditional support throughout my high school years. Now I'm involved in a variety of activities at Hershey High School. I currently serve as the delegation leader of youth in government class president and a student council representative President of the Helping People Period Club, a co-leader for young Democrats, and I'm also highly involved in Hhs Theatre in addition to this, as a part of the distinguished honor roll and a national merit semi finalist. I also highly value my academics.

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DTSD Webinars: I'm a member of the National Honor Society, Mu Alpha Theta, and Spanish Honor Society, and this year I'm an intern for the Dolphin County District attorney's office.

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DTSD Webinars: I participated in a variety of service projects and activities throughout high school. In fact, this past summer I was honored to take part of the Youth Ambassador Program. This was a 2 week Cultural Exchange internship in Ecuador, organized by the US. Department of State. The goal was to expand our knowledge regarding international relations and cultures as well as learning more about sustainable service, to apply to a project at our school or our local community.

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DTSD Webinars: Now, my project from this trip was expanding the programs in my club helping people period. I started my work with this club in my sophomore year of high school with one of my friends, and our goal was to provide free menstrual hygiene products to underprivileged people with periods, and work to destigmatize menstruation as a whole. Now you often hear about donating clothes, food, or other necessities, but period poverty is such an incredibly prevalent issue that often goes overlooked.

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DTSD Webinars: One of our main initiatives is providing free products to all the bathrooms at Hhs. For the students. We've had numerous donation drives working with Carnes, and raised thousands of individual products over the past few years to stock the bins. And at our weekly meetings our club members refill those bins with new products for the week.

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DTSD Webinars: This initiative has helped so many students in the Hhs community who may be silently struggling with period poverty. Additionally, we've made numerous donations to local organizations, such as Cocoopax, Lancaster, YWC. Harrisburg, YWC.

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DTSD Webinars: Ywca. And United way in order to expand our impact outside of our school and to our community this year we're in the process of creating an anonymous take home bag program that will allow students to take home bags of products for themselves and their families in order to utilize outside of school and over the weekends. When those bathroom bins at the high school might be unavailable to them.

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DTSD Webinars: After graduation I plan to attend university majoring in political science or government hopefully, on a pre-war track to attend law school once again, I'm incredibly grateful to have been granted this opportunity, and I look forward to continue making a positive impact on Hershey High School. So thank you once again.

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DTSD Webinars: Thank you.

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DTSD Webinars: Thank you. This is Erica Schmidt and I.

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I have to say something about both of these

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DTSD Webinars: kids because I've known them forever. I've known Priyanka since she was in Nursery School with my son like 3 years old, and they'd go bouncing, you know, into school together, so I am not surprised to see you up here at all.

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DTSD Webinars:  I bought your book.

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DTSD Webinars: and so you know congratulations. You've done amazing things, and I'm I'm sure you will just keep doing amazing things.

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DTSD Webinars: and then Amen is one of my son's best friends. So he's at my house

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DTSD Webinars: lot, and I just think he is not only an amazing student, but an amazing person as well. So

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DTSD Webinars: these were 2 very good picks.

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DTSD Webinars: Thank you. I just want to tag on to that and unfortunately, Mr. Kellyanne couldn't be with us this evening, but wanted to extend congratulations to him, but also Ms. Nambier, since you are here with us.

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I think that it has been difficult over the last number of years to be involved in anything.

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DTSD Webinars: It's not difficult. It's not uncommon to be involved in anything districtwide, whether school related or not, and not have your name come up. And so it's just incredibly impressive. I know that all of our students do are doing great things, but you are a very bright star, and and shine very brightly in this community, and I'm sure I can speak on behalf of all of us, that

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DTSD Webinars: as a future alumni of Jerry Township school district. We are proud that you've been here and a part of that journey for you, and wish you nothing but the best. So enjoy these next few months but congratulations, and I hope that you feel the support of the entire district behind you.

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DTSD Webinars: And I also want to say thank you to Miss Schmidt for always doing a really incredible job.

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DTSD Webinars: Sharing information above and beyond. It's really great to hear the perspective of these students in the work that they're doing in the schools. From your perspective. And I'm sure you get that input from others in the building. But

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DTSD Webinars: we have really incredible students. And they're always fully on display here. So congratulations.

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DTSD Webinars: Okay, next up, we have a presentation this evening that is in follow-up from a presentation in November to the Finance Committee regarding the Technology network upgrade project for the district office and the secondary building from our Director of Technology, Mr. Ayallah and Mr. Nicholson.

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DTSD Webinars: Good evening, everyone. So for some of you, you've already seen this presentation. So bear with me and Mr. Nicholson here. So this project, Sarah, if you don't mind switching, please. Thanks.

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DTSD Webinars: This project is to alleviate an issue we're having with our high school network and also enhancing our overall network infrastructure. So

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DTSD Webinars: so I'd like people to have a good understanding of the terminology. I'm gonna use cause I always hate when people use complex terms or abbreviations. And so I just wanna review a quick piece a quick few pieces of terminology and give you some background on our technology at the district.

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DTSD Webinars: one one incredibly essential

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DTSD Webinars: area of our district is something called the Network Operation Center. It's actually right behind all the bathrooms on the other side of that wall. But it is basically the living, breathing brain of our district. If that were to go down we would not have Internet in any building, we would not have it. Would we not have email, we wouldn't have anything it would do. It's it's a pretty crucial piece of infrastructure in our district.

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DTSD Webinars: so that is called the Knock and inside the knock is something called a core, which is kind of the

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DTSD Webinars: It's the highest functioning piece of equipment that deals with all of our networking equipment in in this area. Here. There are a core in each building. And they're called MDF or main distribution frames. So those are 2 super important things. There's a core in every building, and there is a main distribution or an MDF. Here as well, and that's also known as a core. So those 2 terms are kind of interchangeable.

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DTSD Webinars: There isn't something called an intermediate distribution frame, which they're called idf, and they are spread out throughout the building. So, for example, there are 5 of them in the high school. There are 6 or 7 in the middle school. They're spread out throughout buildings. And they basically provide Internet the rest of the building.

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DTSD Webinars: So I always acquit it to like your hand. So your fingers are idf in your palm as an MDF. And then your whole body is like that

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DTSD Webinars: network operation center. So that's kind of my analogy for that.

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So I'm sure you can all imagine what a bottleneck bottleneck is. If we all try to run through that door.

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DTSD Webinars: we can only get so many people through a door

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DTSD Webinars: at least safely bandwidth. I'm sure we all have emotional bandwidth that we have in a day, and we can only have deal with so much in a day. But our networks also have that kind of limit as well.

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DTSD Webinars: Fiber optic is actually glass. It travels the Internet, from the world to our

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DTSD Webinars: network operation center, to our core and out to the buildings. So it's how everything in this world travels.

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DTSD Webinars: access points. There are about a hundred or so in the high school.

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DTSD Webinars: They have there. It's right up there, this little box

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DTSD Webinars: that's an access point. You may have some at home. There are proper little square things, or

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DTSD Webinars: 2 more pieces of terminology here, and then I'll hopefully move on with some more exciting things. Megabyte. So photos are usually like megabytes, songs, or megabytes, Dvds or blu-rays. Those are like gigabytes. So just using those terms. And and amount of data.

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DTSD Webinars:  so our core switches here were last updated in 2012. I started in 2,013. So I actually had to research when they were installed because I wasn't even here then. All the buildings are connected with a 2 GB fiber optic connection to the district office. So there are multiple strands that go out to the buildings, and they all come back here.

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DTSD Webinars: So through the there used to be a 5 year capital plan from 2015 to 2020 during that time, and before that time the Wi-fi was replaced in 20 the high School Wi-fi was replaced in 2,012 and 2013. The high school data switches were replaced in 2,01620 17, and the middle school, Wi-fi was replaced, replaced in 2015, 2016.

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DTSD Webinars: All of these devices that I'm talking about, which are essential to everyday are past their usable life. We still have maintenance agreements. So if something were to happen, we can get some support. But

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DTSD Webinars: You know we can't. You can't go to a store, buy any of those.

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DTSD Webinars: what like school was like in 2013. So teachers generally had

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DTSD Webinars: a laptop. they may have their phone with them students would have laptop cart. So they didn't have ipads.

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DTSD Webinars: There were some computer labs in the building, and some of them would have personal phones. So now, looking at what technology is like in our landscape. Now.

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DTSD Webinars: every teacher has a laptop. Every teacher has an ipad. I would imagine everyone has a phone.

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DTSD Webinars: or other wearable technology

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DTSD Webinars: students. There are a few. There's still a few laptop carts and buildings that no, I'm not gonna pretend that doesn't exist there. It's around and there are some com. There are still some computer labs for our business and CAD programs.

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DTSD Webinars: every student has an ipad.

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DTSD Webinars: Some of them have watches, some of my phones. Some of them bring their own computers. So if you can imagine the amount of technology from 2,013 to now

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DTSD Webinars: a lot exponentially a lot

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DTSD Webinars:  and this chart shows it's a pretty funny chart that I found in some of our old documentation. So back in 2,007 and 2,008, our Internet.

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DTSD Webinars: we had 100 MB connection to our intermediate unit, and we, as a district used 8 of that. So 8 MB

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DTSD Webinars: that's not much. Now we have a 5,000 MB or 5 GB pipe to or connection to the intermediate unit, and we use about 2 to 3,000 of that

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DTSD Webinars: on a given day. And there's reasons why we don't go over. That is because of some of the problems that we're about to talk about. So Jared's going to talk about that

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DTSD Webinars: so you can see the red line is our maximum throughput coming from the high school and going to the district office core. If you take a close look, it shows the typical network traffic during a a high school day. You can see the dramatic increase as the students come in at around, you know, 70'clock

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DTSD Webinars: and then it starts to drop off. Obviously at 2 30, when majority of the students and staff leave the building.

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DTSD Webinars: During this time, you can see that we're pretty much entirely over the

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DTSD Webinars: the limit the entire time brought pretty much. It's it's just excuse me. It's exceptionally bad around lunchtime, where sometimes the Internet's

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DTSD Webinars: barely usable at the high school. We like to kind of do like an analogy. And to put it into perspective. You imagine trying to funnel 100,000 people into a football stadium. But you only have 2 doors open in our case. These 2 doors represent the 2 GB link that we have from the high school to the

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DTSD Webinars: district office.

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DTSD Webinars: It's slow and frustrating. And if we up that to say 10 doors, it would obviously make it go much smoother. So that's what we're trying to do.

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DTSD Webinars: And all this can. And all this can kind of

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result in like packet loss and things like slow download speeds, websites not loading, and staff and students getting kicked off the Wi-fi.

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DTSD Webinars: This is our middle school, right? Oops, oops, sorry

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DTSD Webinars: Oh, okay.

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DTSD Webinars: my bad. I'm sorry. So the middle school is kinda all a starting to hit the same problem. It's not as bad. We don't have as many students there, and they're not using it as hard as the high school students are. That's a future problem. But it's sort of the same thing. At this point we're more worried about the high school because it is capping every single day. So

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DTSD Webinars: so now I get to talk about a thrilling topic called Erate.

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DTSD Webinars: So erate is an annual as a federal program that provides it's annually.

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DTSD Webinars: It provides a a 20 to 90% discount on eligible services and equipment.

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DTSD Webinars: So this is run by the Fcc, it is not a taxpayer, a funded project. It's actually funded through telecommunication

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DTSD Webinars: sets of rules and regulations. It is. The program itself is highly deadline restrictive. So it we have to make sure that we are following specific deadlines and making sure we meet those requirements. So the application process starts around 3 months ago. Which is why we're talking to you now.

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DTSD Webinars: We have a discount matrix, and we actually fall within 50. So say, for example, we pay. We have a project that costs $300,000. Our E-rate discount is 50. We would pay $300,000 to the vendor, and then Erate would reimburse us $150,000.

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DTSD Webinars: So this means in 2,026, we will have close to $500,000 coming back in the budget. Does that make sense. I have a clarification to make on a previous statement.

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DTSD Webinars: So if you have a $300,000, project erate is 50%. We pay the vendor 300,000 eratum versus 150 of that

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DTSD Webinars: so earate subtracts the total cost of the project from the available funds. And so what that means is that if we were to do this project in the 2425 year 26, yeah, 2425, 2627. We would have $226,000 available to complete like the Middle School project.

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DTSD Webinars: year one costs that that we'd like to discuss. The amount that we're going to need is 300,000. The e rate discount is 50. It's a reoccurring theme here, and we would be reimbursed 150,000 of that 300,000.

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DTSD Webinars: and then next day I would work with the vendor to kind of submit the necessary information for erate and to make sure we follow those deadlines. The deadline for erate the submissions is the end of March, but we're doing a really good job talking about it now, and kind of going from there.

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DTSD Webinars: or sorry. They're slow, but that, you know, we use them. So the equipment that we would remove from the high school and middle school and district office would be repurposed for other things. So, for example, the elementary I'll bring that point up first. But the elementary school is not included in this and hopes that it would be included in building project or potential construction project.

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DTSD Webinars: And I can also. And I don't mean to speak. You could speak for me, but this is, we would like capital improvement like this would be hopefully becoming from capital improvement. And yeah, so I'll let her.

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DTSD Webinars: Well, and we kind of look at this as grant funding, like we did with the county grant. When we got the $250,000 that we plan on the capital project, we budget for the full amount. But then we also budget a revenue line item, knowing it's gonna it really will net the cost to to 50. So this would be an item that'll would come through Gen. Services as part of the capital plan we board approve it. Still the Board approved the contract.

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DTSD Webinars: reimbursement of the half of it back from the Federal Government in whatever timeline that looks like. But that's how that would work.

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Mike Rizzo: Yeah, and this is Mike Rizzo. I think one of the conversations we had in either general services or finance is that.

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Mike Rizzo: I believe, looking at those numbers from the high school. That's even with limitations placed on external electronics. Am I correct in saying so?

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DTSD Webinars: technology plan we pulled back into general fund. But this is something with all the wiring and things that really can be extending the useful life of a building that really does qualify for a capital plan. So as we build that long term capital plan, these are things that really will get on that plan in that 5, 10 year cycle, whatever it looks like, so that we're

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DTSD Webinars: Thank you for the information and presentation, and we'll look forward to that being on the next board agenda. Thank you for your support, and I appreciate the time. Thank you.

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DTSD Webinars: Okay, moving on. We have one more presentation this evening, which is always a highly anticipated one. But we have the preliminary calendar for the 2425 school year from Dr. Winslow. Thank you very much, Miss Drew.

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DTSD Webinars: So the thing that people always want to know is, when is school starting. So the first day of school for the 2425 school year will be August 20, sixth.

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DTSD Webinars: and graduation for 2025 will be June fourth. The last day of school for K. Through 11 will be June fifth.

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DTSD Webinars: And we were able to get it, and I had a small celebration in my office when that happened so very happy. Otherwise we would have been bringing teachers back on August fifth, and that was giving me serious heart palpitations.

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DTSD Webinars: These are faculty in service times, and I have gotten some anecdotal feedback that these are not popular. So I just wanted to revisit where they came from. In the past we did have early dismissal days.

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DTSD Webinars: far easier for teachers to engage with new learning information first thing in the morning, instead of after students have left for the day, and we also do not lose our coaching staff when we have 2 h late starts

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DTSD Webinars: when we had early dismissal days, we were often losing coaches who had away meets and games, or who had to be out for practices and and those sorts of things, and couldn't stay for the entire time, so they would lose some of the information.

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DTSD Webinars: which is the celebration at the end of Ramadan. and that will be an act 80 day, so it'll be an in-service day for staff. But students will have off.

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DTSD Webinars: where the holidays fall, so thanksgiving and spring break are each one day shorter than what you've maybe seen in the past Thanksgiving is also, it's just. It's a little bit of a weird year, just the way things fall that Thanksgiving is very late in November.

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DTSD Webinars: I don't like the way they look. It's not the way I'm used to them looking, but it's how they they played out.

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DTSD Webinars: There is new legislation that allows schools to have 180 days, or 900 900 900 h at the elementary 990 h of instruction at the secondary, instead of requiring both

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DTSD Webinars: We have had some discussion at the superintendents. Meetings at the Iu about whether or not people are going to do something different with their calendars. It's a very short window calendars have to be approved by March.

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DTSD Webinars: So it's a very short window to do something innovative, creative, and different with your hours or days. So most people are still just in conversation about it.

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DTSD Webinars: Nobody that I know of is actually doing anything differently next year yet. But it does open the door to conversation. We are in our last year of a 3 year flexible instructional day approval. We will reapply with the same plan that we currently have in place.

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DTSD Webinars: To this date. We have not had to use a fid day, but we will, if we have more snow or weather like Friday

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DTSD Webinars: that we had, but on our calendar for next year, April seventeenth, would be a snow makeup day, and any additional days would be fid days, assuming we get approved.

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DTSD Webinars: This is Jennifer ends. I have a comment. Yes, I was ecstatic when I saw this calendar. Okay, I did the math and notice. We have 2 more weeks of summer break for students next year, which means that the Dairy Township Community Center Outdoor Pool will probably be.

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DTSD Webinars: It will be open hopefully a little bit longer next summer than it was last year. So I love the calendar.

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DTSD Webinars: Thanks, Dr. And so I know that is, this is not an easy

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DTSD Webinars: under Dj. And a lot of things get taken into consideration. But I always appreciate the thoughtfulness that you put into that, and being considerate of the diversity within our community. And being able to to address those needs while also keeping educational absolutely.

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Mike Rizzo: Dr. Winslow. Quick question. On the day after Thanksgiving. I believe that's the first day of deer season. Have you seen

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DTSD Webinars: We traditionally did not have that day as a day off, did this past year, because it worked out nicely able to put it in there this year with thanksgiving, being so late.

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DTSD Webinars: so I did not in there. But II we don't traditionally see a ton of students taking that off to go hunting. We do see some administrators who like to take it off to go hunting, looking around back there wondering.

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DTSD Webinars: So this will be on the February twelfth board agenda. Then for approval. If there are any questions or comments or concerns. In the meantime.

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DTSD Webinars: Okay. Moving along. I'd like to announce that the Board met an executive session prior to this meeting to discuss informational items and matters of personnel. The Board will also meet on Wednesday, January 30, first in the evening for an Informational board workshop as part of our continuing schedule of learning opportunities for the Board as a whole, and our newly elected board members.

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DTSD Webinars: This first public comment period that will hold now for recognition of citizens will be an opportunity for residents and taxpayers to address the Board on matters related to the agenda.

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DTSD Webinars: Citizens wishing to speak may do so either in person or electronically. If in person, a registration form may be found on the sign in table, and should be completed and submitted to board. Secretary, Mrs. Ag. When your name is announced, please come to the microphone. If you're participating online, you must have registered individually with your full name and address to be recognized, and you may raise your virtual hand for recognition

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DTSD Webinars: for all speakers. Once you're recognized, it is only necessary that you identify yourself over by providing your full name

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DTSD Webinars: as a reminder. Public comment is not a forum for personal attacks, antagonistic behavior or harassment. Please be advised that you're accountable for any legal ramifications and liabilities resulting from statements that misrepresent the truth defame individuals or disclose personal information, not of public concern.

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DTSD Webinars: to provide other residents with an opportunity to speak. Each speaker is limited to 1 5 min time period of speaking time once recognized. Excuse me, during each of the public comment periods.

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DTSD Webinars: when necessary. The board may set a maximum time for the public comment portion of any meeting.

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DTSD Webinars: This is Ag. Are there any residents or taxpayers who have registered to speak in person. Yes, we have Jennifer Slavi

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DTSD Webinars: Dr. Sappy. Thank you. I brought my favorite chocolate bar tonight. I want to share.

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DTSD Webinars: So I saw the personnel resignations. I was really kind of bummed out. I saw Mrs. Spive and Miller is retiring.

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DTSD Webinars: I assume we're going to keep the same position and hire somebody new that we get, you know, really excellent leadership in that position, because even before the pandemic start. Our kids have mental health

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DTSD Webinars: so many kids with such severe problems, and the pandemic didn't help it. But it was happening before the pandemic, too. And the thing about it is is it's cuts across all demographics. So it's not like it's only kids from single parent houses. Or you know, kids with low income, or it can be anybody. It it's it just affects so many children today.

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DTSD Webinars:  so I think you know, something is changing nationally, this isn't a dairy township problem. It's an everywhere problem. So knowing that we really need to think, what should the role of the director of safe and supportive strolls have.

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DTSD Webinars: And you know, kids have feeling they need to belong, and when they need to feel like they're part of the community. So when we think of what should a director of safe and supportive schools be doing?

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DTSD Webinars: You know, professionals. They used to blame the mothers for autism. It was called refrigerator mother. This was through the seventies like, what's wrong with that kid. It's the mom's fault, I mean.

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DTSD Webinars: You know how to work with kids who are struggling behavior in school, even that guy, you know, he thinks he's all talking to educators. But there's actually quite a few parents in the room. And you know, he's like, yeah, well, it's not your fault what the kids experienced at home. But you know, like we parents, it's not always our fault.

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DTSD Webinars: during pandemic, when we go to the zoom, is extremely difficult for some kids. My kid had a very difficult time with this.

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DTSD Webinars: It caused him a lot of anxiety, and I tried to work with the school and be like like the zoom is just not working. He's not learning so much anxiety. And you know, I and my kid ended up getting Mac mark absent like 40 times. So when you're your kid misses 40 days of school in a year

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DTSD Webinars: like it creates some problems for you. You get like really nasty letters. So I think

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DTSD Webinars: maybe we could try a little bit harder to have a more collaborative relationship with parents. And so I think my time is about up. So thank you.

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DTSD Webinars: At this time there are no virtual hands raised.

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DTSD Webinars: the first or the close. The first public comment section and move on to Standing committee meeting reports

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DTSD Webinars: the General Services Committee reorganized this evening, and Ms. Renz is the new chair. So would you have a general services report for us and congratulations. Thank you. I do have a brief report, Mr.

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DTSD Webinars: Anthony Colstock, from Crabtree rubber associates. and gave us

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DTSD Webinars: some information on teacher's workshops that they had, and he's going to return in February to do a presentation to the public meeting.

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DTSD Webinars: There we had an update on the owners. Rep. We looked at several different

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DTSD Webinars: companies and it's been narrowed down, and at the February twelfth meeting they will give a presentation.

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DTSD Webinars: The concession stand update is, there have been some weather delays.

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DTSD Webinars: They are on track, but the day's been pushed back

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DTSD Webinars: to March first is when they're hoping for the concession stand to be open in time for spring sports.

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DTSD Webinars: and we had an update from the Dauphin County conservation. Rattu was working with them on some issues, and that was all we have.

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DTSD Webinars: Thank you very much.

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DTSD Webinars: The Finance Committee also met this evening, and I will provide the report as I sat in as chair for finance today with Mr. Rizzo participating virtually

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DTSD Webinars: first step. We had a update from Fulton, Financial Advisors on the Quarterly Update, from the Milton Hershey on the Milton Hershey trust. We end. They

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DTSD Webinars: gave a brief update that there was a strong 2,023. So, looking at the calendar end, which is obviously not the fiscal year end

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DTSD Webinars: but calendar year. There was a 17% return on the on the fund with approximately 1.7 or 1.7 million dollars in income.

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DTSD Webinars: Including a 2.2 million dollar distribution that we took this year. We still ended the calendar year with a 50 million dollars balance in

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DTSD Webinars: the Milton Hushi Trust. Since inception of Fulton financial's work with the Trust in 2,012 there's been an average of 7.7 9. So they come see us quarterly, and it's always great to be able to hear how those funds are doing, because that's a great part of our budget.

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DTSD Webinars: We also had some updates on Rfps. Regarding first, one was on our multifunction print

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DTSD Webinars: printers in the district. A Rfp. Was done and selected, analyzed. It will be on

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DTSD Webinars: our February Twelfth Board meeting agenda for approval. We've been with higher information group for the last 10 years. As a result of just doing our due diligence and making sure that we're putting vendor contracts out to bid for budgetary purposes and

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DTSD Webinars: to be, you know, fiscally responsible. The Administration is recommending that we move to Dosio as the vendor, so it will provide overall of 14 to $15,000 a year savings from a budget perspective. But there's also some other benefits inside of that.

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DTSD Webinars: That'll be beneficial for district operations. So you can look for

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DTSD Webinars: that contract to be there. We also discussed the owners rep, as Mrs. Rens provided from the general services update.

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DTSD Webinars: so nothing else to add. There we had regular contract updates, and just some informational items that Mr. Rizzo shared as a delegate of the Duffin County Tax Collection Association.

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DTSD Webinars: our next meeting will be at the end of February.

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DTSD Webinars: So that is report for finance. Anyone have any questions.

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DTSD Webinars: Okay, our next item is student representatives report. I see that Ms. Kolarasi is not with us tonight because she's could possibly still be in the pool or participating in the swim, meet so good luck to her. But Representatives Bardo and Sod are here with us. If you would like to give your report.

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DTSD Webinars: This is Sidasad, and I'd like to apologize for my obnoxiously loud coughing fit. I, personally am ready for the weather to be warm again.

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DTSD Webinars: Today was a busy day for Hershey sports boys and girls swimming just wrapped up their meet against Chambersburg, which is why Natalie isn't here. Boys and girls, basketball are currently playing against Ld, good job and good luck to our athletes.

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DTSD Webinars: There's a lot of news about Mini Thong. They're hosting a prom dress sale and are asking the community to donate any dresses they have. The sale is on February seventeenth, and all the proceeds will go to their fight against childhood cancer. They're also hosting coin wars at the elementary school for the next week with students bringing in a different type of coin to class each day, and they will be hosting Mini mini thong with the elementary students on February ninth, where they will host multiple activities in each classroom and invite the children to official mini Thon in March.

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DTSD Webinars: And lastly, they're hosting a panera fundraiser next Monday from 4 to 8 pm.

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DTSD Webinars: at the elementary school, junior achievement programs are being presented in the classrooms and the programs provide life skills through hands on activities that focus on an understanding of money, entrepreneurship and work readiness. These programs allow students to make a connection between what they learn in school and real word applications.

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DTSD Webinars: My little sister has been elected mayor of this town, and she forced me to say this to everybody at the meeting today. She's she's got her heels, and she's got a suit, and she's ready to go

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DTSD Webinars: alright. I'm Lucy Barto. I've also heard a lot about Bisttown in my fifth grade internship. They are very excited to go and I've been helping to prep some things for that. Hgs key Club is hosting a fundraiser tomorrow at the Homestown Panera, from 4 to 8 Pm. Proceeds, will go towards their goal of building wells in the kingdom of Esquatini

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DTSD Webinars: last Friday and Saturday, 15 dts. D students participated in the Pmea district. 7 Band festival at Boiling Springs. High school students were selected through an audition process in December, and they prepared a concert program in just 2 days, along with 110 peers from 38 other schools in 5 counties. At this festival 10 Hhs students auditioned for membership into the Pmea region. V. Band held February 20, s to 24 at Eastern York High School.

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DTSD Webinars: Pbs. Community fun night was a success with over 1,400 attendees from the community. There were activities such as face painting, craft, student performances and games, volunteer students and staff contributed their time to be able to put this event on

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DTSD Webinars: girls on the run is returning to Hershey elementary this spring. This provides girls the opportunity to be part of a group that gets some physical activity after their school day. Registration opens January twenty-twond, and their season runs from March twelfth through May eleventh. The team will meet Tuesdays and Thursdays, 3 45 to 5 15 at the elementary school. That's it.

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DTSD Webinars: Do you know where the prom dresses go? Because I have a closet? They need to get out of. Sarah shared something on the district social media earlier.

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DTSD Webinars: It is on the social media. But you can. They can be donated to Ms. Lacotta's classroom, or you can just donate them to the main office, and we can take them up there.

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DTSD Webinars: Such a great idea.

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DTSD Webinars: Thank you. Ms. And Ms. Barto. The items that will be appearing on the screen will be on the anticipated February twelfth, 2,024 Board of Directors meeting agenda.

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DTSD Webinars: Thank you. Ms. Carpel.

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DTSD Webinars: There is no unfinished business this evening, so we'll move into Consent agenda, which contains routinely adopted items and items that normally do not require public deliberation on the part of the board. A board member may pull items which will then be discussed and voted on separately.

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DTSD Webinars: May I please have a motion to approve the consent? Agenda items as listed

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DTSD Webinars: so moved Jennifer Rens, second Cheshire. Is there any discussion?

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DTSD Webinars: This is a standard voice. Vote all those in favor, please say aye, aye, any opposed say no

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DTSD Webinars: consent. Agenda items are approved moving on to new business. First item is personnel resignations. Dr. Winslow.

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DTSD Webinars: The Administration recommends the approval of the personnel resignations. Thank you, Mayor, please have a motion to approve personnel resignations. So moved Stuart Mccarthy.

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DTSD Webinars: Sorry? It's always hard. When people leave

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DTSD Webinars: But it is. It is true that having Mrs. Phoebe and Miller on here is

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DTSD Webinars: a big position to fill. She she does a lot in a lot of different ways, and we will miss her terribly.

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DTSD Webinars: who works in our business office. These are. These are 2 hit pretty hard. So just wanted to take a moment and thank both of them for their time and their service and their dedication to kids.

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DTSD Webinars: Thank you, Dr. Winslow. I would just like to echo that

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DTSD Webinars: a student is involved, regardless of the day or time. So she's been a great resource and has helped implement a lot of the programs that we've been able to bring to help students in a number of ways. So just wanted to extend the appreciation.

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DTSD Webinars: Because I know that while she's not leaving us until the end of the school year.

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DTSD Webinars: July first, until July first, July first. It will still be a big role to fill, and we appreciate all of her contributions, and also to Ms. White, who we've had the opportunity to really work with on the Finance Committee, and I know that she, as the business office, has

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DTSD Webinars: So moved Jennifer Rehn. Oh, I'm sorry we're actually in. I already did that. We're in discussion.

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DTSD Webinars: Then this is a standard voice. Vote all those in favor, please say aye.

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DTSD Webinars: Next item is personnel. General Dr. Windsor. The Administration recommends the approval of the list of personnel and recognition of any list of transfers.

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DTSD Webinars: May I please have a motion to approve the listed personnel and recognition of any listed transfers so moved. Jeff. Second Eric Schmidt. Is there any discussion?

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DTSD Webinars: This is standard voice vote all those in favor, please say aye, any of those say no

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DTSD Webinars: Moving on to delegate reports. The Psba report is attached. Dr. Sizzick. Do you have anything else you would like to add? I do not thank you. The Dauphin County tax collection report is also attached. Mr. Rizzo, do you have anything you would like to add?

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Mike Rizzo: Yeah, the the information that provided it, the finance committee? This is real, really informational for the team. But what we'll be looking forward to doing is ratifying the contract for Keystone.

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Mike Rizzo: Who does eit for Dolphin county, and this keystone is also the the keeper of the dairy township tax.

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Mike Rizzo: it's it's a good contract. Looking forward. They do a very nice job in keeping many of the tax

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DTSD Webinars: I'd like to add a quick something I was able to sub in on this. And it's these kids are pretty impressive because one senior is not only graduating and going to college, but he's also graduating with an associate's degree

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DTSD Webinars: I thought that was pretty impressive. Thanks and just clarifying. That's for Doffy County technical. Yeah.

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DTSD Webinars: Are there any Board members

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DTSD Webinars: superintendent's report, Dr. Winslow, do you have a report? I do, indeed.

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DTSD Webinars: acknowledge and celebrate that it is board Member Appreciation month.

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DTSD Webinars: Your gifts are your folios at your desks.

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DTSD Webinars: I hope that you like them. I think they're gorgeous, and I was a little jealous that I didn't get one for myself. I was tempted. I don't need that but I hope that you like them.

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DTSD Webinars: and we thank you for all that you do. The beautiful little charcuterie plates are from the elementary Pto. That is so lovely and so cute. I think they're adorable.

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DTSD Webinars: Don't put the crackers in the fridge. They'll get soggy. I learned that last year.

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DTSD Webinars: but they are delightful. Eat them tonight for your snack after beer.

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DTSD Webinars: so thank you for everything. You are very much appreciated. I don't think that people always understand the amount of time that goes into board work.

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DTSD Webinars: And hopefully, you're not sorry, and I do hope that you enjoy your time on the board, and we very much appreciate the ability to collaborate with you and to work together. And for all that you do to serve the district and the community, it's huge. So thank you.

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DTSD Webinars:  kindergarten registration information night is on January 30. First, that meeting is held on Zoom, and anybody who would like to attend can find the registration link on the district website

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DTSD Webinars: under enrollment. And this is for any dairy township parent whose child is going to be 5 by September first, 2,024.

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DTSD Webinars: I did want to give a reminder about our snow makeup day, and that days after this, if we have weather, let's hope we don't.

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DTSD Webinars: Will be fid days. So wanted to just give a quick overview of that. Our makeup day this year is March 20 seventh.

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DTSD Webinars: so we will have school on March 20, seventh.

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DTSD Webinars: Don't plan your family vacation over the 20 seventh.

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DTSD Webinars: Leave the 20, eighth.

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DTSD Webinars: okay? And then for the rest of the academic year, in case of weather, related closures or other unforeseen circumstances, we will implement our flexible instruction days. We have yet to need to implement one of those. But

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DTSD Webinars: this winner could be the winner that we have to do it.

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DTSD Webinars: During those days we offer virtual instruction to ensure uninterrupted learning. Even when the schools are physically closed.

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DTSD Webinars: We will let students know to take home their ipads and be prepared for a fid day. Should we anticipate one happening, and students will be provided. Zoom links via the for their classes, via seesaw or canvas depending on, if they are K. 5 or 6 through 12.

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DTSD Webinars: In the unlikely event that we have utilized all 5 of our fid days, or during a weather event that could cause widespread power outages, and we would lose another day because it's not reasonable to have a fid day. If we are anticipating widespread power outages like in an ice storm, or something like that.

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DTSD Webinars: Any of those additional days would then be made up at the end of the school year for students K. Through 11. Graduation will occur when graduation occurs, seniors will be done.

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DTSD Webinars: and then finally. did want to just little bit about how we determine a course of action during a weather event. It is probably one of the most difficult things that we have to do as an administration.

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DTSD Webinars: We do begin tracking days ahead of time. It's everybody's aware when a weather event is pending. Often the snow comes at

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DTSD Webinars: Arrival in particular is, is difficult to determine, and Mr. Bell, our director of transportation, gets up and drives the roads early. He communicates with the township to ensure that their ability to clear roads is is going to be able to happen. Like all

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DTSD Webinars: places of employment, they are oftentimes shorthanded.

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DTSD Webinars: and so things do not necessarily always happen as timely as they what they have in the past.

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DTSD Webinars: He also communicates with our contracted transportation provider, who takes our students to private schools, students in placements, students receiving special education services, who need specialized transportation for wheelchairs and such to make sure that they can get here. And then he calls me at 5 0 a. M.

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DTSD Webinars: So he's done all of that before 5 while I'm waiting I am pacing and looking out the windows and checking the weather and talking to the other superintendents.

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DTSD Webinars: I communicate with Dauphin County superintendents. We have a small group in Southern Dauphin County. We discuss our options and conditions in our various communities. We do try very hard to be on the same page with Middletown and Lower Dolphin at a minimum. But all of our communities are a little bit different and have different geographical

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DTSD Webinars: issues to combat. Last year there was a point where

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DTSD Webinars: Pen Dot put out an announcement that

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DTSD Webinars: buses weren't allowed on the highways and named certain highways.

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DTSD Webinars: Central Dauphin had to go virtual because they they run their buses on highways. We don't run buses on highways, so we did not have to do that. We were fine.

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DTSD Webinars:  so there's a lot of different things that go into that decision together. And then we make the best informed decision possible. Sometimes it means a 2 h delay to further assess conditions, and to allow buildings and grounds to clear up the campus to make sure that everybody can get here safely and in and out of the buildings.

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DTSD Webinars: and ultimately we are seeking to keep students safe.

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DTSD Webinars: To that end. I do want to remind everyone that if a student is assigned to a bus, regardless of whether or not they regularly ride that bus.

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DTSD Webinars: they can ride the bus and inclement weather. We do not take them off of the bus roster.

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DTSD Webinars: so if they're regularly driving, but they have a bus assignment, they can come on the bus. Our bus drivers are very well trained, and our buses are equipped with chains that can be put into place with a flick of a switch whenever they're needed.

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DTSD Webinars: We do understand that walkers may sometimes face unclear sidewalks, but we would encourage our less experienced drivers to find an alternative means to school

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DTSD Webinars: when it's snowy. just to be on the safe side.

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DTSD Webinars: So if anybody ever has questions about that. you can feel free to call me directly.

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DTSD Webinars: Thank you. That's the end of my report. Thanks, Dr. Windsor. It's always funny, you know. Kate's always

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DTSD Webinars: for calling and rooting for snow day, and we learned the hard way in my house because

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DTSD Webinars: my son was

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DTSD Webinars: all in for the snow day on Friday last week. And then today this weekend, I told him. Well, you know that means you're going to school on your birthday now, and he's like, Oh, no! So sometimes be careful what you wish for

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DTSD Webinars: so other than that I do not have a board President report other than to tag on on the snow part, and just say I was very impressed by our buildings and grounds team. Seeing all the sidewalks around town that were not yet clear, and as soon as you got to district property, they were completely clear, and I know that that was a huge undertaking to make sure that as kids enter district

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DTSD Webinars: property, whether by vehicle or by foot that they were safe, and so thank you to them for putting forward that time, because it's not fun for anyone to be out in

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DTSD Webinars: that weather and and

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DTSD Webinars: those implement weather days were especially challenging with timing this week last week. So thank you to them.

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DTSD Webinars: we'll move on to our final recognition of citizens period. This will be the opportunity for residents and taxpayers to adjust the board on matters related to the agenda or matters of district governance that were not on the agenda this evening. Those who speak are asked to follow the same guidelines outlined at the initial public comment portion of our meeting, and I will ask. Ms runs once more to please keep time.

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DTSD Webinars: Mrs. Ag. Are there any residents or taxpayers who would like to speak at this time? Not at this time. Okay. thank you, Mr. Ayella. Are there any residents online who wish to comment

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DTSD Webinars: at this time? There are no virtual hands raised?

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Okay.

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DTSD Webinars: thank you. Is there anything else for the good of the order?

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DTSD Webinars: Alright! The next public board of Directors meeting will be held on February twelfth, 2,024, beginning at 70'clock PM. Please refer to the district website to register for virtual attendance as the meetings draw closer. May I please have a motion to adjourn this meeting.

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DTSD Webinars: so move just as a second Jennifer Rehn's

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DTSD Webinars: all in favor. Say, aye, aye, do you oppose? Say no.

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DTSD Webinars: This meeting is adjourned at 8, 19 PM.