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DTSD Webinars: I'd like to call the June 20.

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DTSD Webinars: Let Dr. Recover get muted.

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DTSD Webinars: Not me or Jen. This is James

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DTSD Webinars: alright. We're gonna start this over.

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DTSD Webinars: I'd like to call the June 24, th 2024, 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 as well as being live, streamed and audio recorded. Board members. Please state your name prior to speaking Misses Ag. Roll call, please, Mister Bennett.

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DTSD Webinars: present Dr. Sisk. Here, Miss Drew, here, Dr. Mcarthur here Misses Rens, here Mister Rizzo, here, Miss Romberger, here, Mrs. Royer here Mrs. Schmidt here.

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DTSD Webinars: 9 present.

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DTSD Webinars: Thank you. I'd like to note for the record that Dr. Winslow is joining us virtually this evening, and I welcome Dr. Reif Snyder to the meeting here up at the front with us.

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DTSD Webinars: Please rise, if you are able, and join us for the pledge of allegiance.

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DTSD Webinars: I pledge allegiance to the lives of the United States of America, and to the republic for which he stands.

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

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DTSD Webinars: May I please have a motion to approve? The June 24, th 2,024 board of directors meeting agenda. So moved justice second, Jennifer Renz. Is there any discussion?

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

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DTSD Webinars: meeting agenda is approved.

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DTSD Webinars: I would like to announce that the Board met an executive session this evening prior to this meeting, to discuss the purchase or lease of real estate safety items and a safety and security update as required by school code as well as a legal update. We will also be adjourning to post-executive session. Following this meeting.

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DTSD Webinars: moving on to recognition of citizen for agenda items. This is the 1st public comment period which is an opportunity for residents and taxpayers to address the Board on matters related to the agenda. Citizens wishing to speak may do so either in person or electronically.

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DTSD Webinars: If in person, a registration form may be found on the sign in table which 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 are recognized, it is only necessary that you identify yourself 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.

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DTSD Webinars: Please be advised. You are accountable for any legal ramifications and liabilities resulting from statements which may misrepresent the truth, defame individuals, or disclose personal information, not of public concern to provide other residents with an opportunity to speak. Each speaker is limited to 1 5 min period of speaking. Time once recognized during each of the public comment periods. I will ask Board treasurer, Mr. Rizzo, to please keep time.

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DTSD Webinars: Misses Ag. Are there any residents or taxpayers who have registered to comment at this time. Yes, we have Lori Peterson.

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DTSD Webinars: Mrs. Peterson.

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DTSD Webinars: Welcome.

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DTSD Webinars: thank you.

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DTSD Webinars: Laurie Peterson.

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DTSD Webinars: I am here to speak about the proposed phone ban and subsequent implementation

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DTSD Webinars: in response to a parent concern. An email from Doctor Winslow stated. They, the High School Administration, are talking to students and listening to their concerns and ideas as well.

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DTSD Webinars: I have asked dozens of parents if their high school student was asked for input, and not a single one had been asked about their concerns or ideas or anything about the phone ban.

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DTSD Webinars: Neither my high school students, their friends, nor any other high schoolers with whom I have spoken have been asked their ideas, concerns, or opinions either.

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DTSD Webinars: and the vote is tonight so

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DTSD Webinars: moving on

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DTSD Webinars: at the Timestamp, 1440 of the May 6th School Board Policy Committee meeting mystery, stated that there is a lot of burden on the classroom teacher to police and administer a consequence for their in-class policy regarding phones.

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DTSD Webinars: How is that different from any other classroom policy. If it's clearly stated at the beginning of the year, and even posted for students to read. For example, if there is a no chewing gum. During class policy gum gets chewed, gum is taken away.

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DTSD Webinars: One parent shared that their child's teacher already has a very successful policy, that if you put your phone in the teacher's basket for the duration of the class each day, you get a 1% bonus point at the end of the marking period. Apparently it works great

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DTSD Webinars: and it's free.

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DTSD Webinars: Now, I'm not a huge fan of participation trophies.

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DTSD Webinars: but I'm even less of a fan of punishment with no crime.

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DTSD Webinars: These students have not yet operated under a policy of no phones in school, yet members of the committee are already suggesting the seizure and impounding of all cell phones, regardless of rule, breaking or not.

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DTSD Webinars: and at $30 per pouch per student. That's a $30,000 taxpayer-funded cell phone prison.

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DTSD Webinars: and over the dorch

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DTSD Webinars: an over-the-door 24 pout shoe organizer is $10 and holds 24 phones without locking their phones.

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DTSD Webinars: without locking away their phones in case of a medical or situational emergency.

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DTSD Webinars: Let's give the students a chance to take ownership of not using their phone in class without preemptively treating all of them as untrustworthy.

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DTSD Webinars: At Timestamp, 1530, of that same May 6th meeting

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DTSD Webinars: the Board members suggested, suggest that these storage pouches are likely to soon be mandated by the PA. State Government. Let's be clear how legislation works in Pennsylvania.

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DTSD Webinars: After passing the House, the bill goes to the Senate. Passing through the committee, the caucus, and 3 rounds on the Senate floor.

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DTSD Webinars: If even one word is changed over that process, it goes back to the house.

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DTSD Webinars: If they disagree, then it goes to Conference Committee to work out a compromise

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DTSD Webinars: at the end of the legislative session before the Legislature. Recess

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DTSD Webinars: bills that have not passed

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DTSD Webinars: will die, and have to be reintroduced in the next legislative session.

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DTSD Webinars: For example, in the past 20 years the State has passed 13 late budgets in 20 years 7 have been on time, including 4 impasses that went over a hundred days.

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DTSD Webinars: and the budget is constitutionally required. So basically spending over 30,000 taxpayer dollars on a draconian and radical measure to lock away students' phones. Because we think Harrisburg is going to implement something in the near future seems fiscally irresponsible.

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DTSD Webinars: An unsigned email to parents on May 28, stated.

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DTSD Webinars: if the Board approves the policy, the building principal and administrative team will establish the specific procedures for its implementation

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DTSD Webinars: that is very murky transparency

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DTSD Webinars: giving this board and administration carte blanche authority over implementation seems problematic.

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DTSD Webinars: At best.

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DTSD Webinars: It sounds not a lot like Nancy Pelosi's. We have to pass the bill to find out what's in the bill formula.

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DTSD Webinars: We know a majority on this board will pass this proposal.

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DTSD Webinars: but I hope you will amend the secretive way in which it is implemented, and I certainly hope you do. You do not choose to punish every student by treating them all like criminals, 30 seconds, and locking away their phones.

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DTSD Webinars: As Ronald Reagan said, we must reject the idea that every time a law is broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It's time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions. Thank you.

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DTSD Webinars: Thank you, Mrs. Peterson.

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DTSD Webinars: Is there anyone. No, there's no one else in person registered. So I will open it up to any online participants who would like to raise their virtual hand and participate in public comment at this time.

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DTSD Webinars: I see one hand so, Mr. Ella.

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DTSD Webinars: Yes, Lauren Faust, not you haven't. Nope. My hand has gone down

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DTSD Webinars: back up.

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DTSD Webinars: Lauren Foster, you have been given permission to speak

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DTSD Webinars: but.

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Lauren Fasnacht Golaszewski: Hi! Can I be heard.

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DTSD Webinars: Yeah, yes. Thank you.

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Lauren Fasnacht Golaszewski: Okay, so sorry. So some may know me as Lauren fault, or Lauren Guleski. During the end of my teaching time actually hadn't planned to speak. But I thought maybe I could offer some perspective. From the teachers approach because I did teach at Hershey High School. From 2012 to 20. Approximately I am stopped, and my daughter was born

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Lauren Fasnacht Golaszewski: and anyway. So I I thought that

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Lauren Fasnacht Golaszewski: I actually wanted to offer my very enthusiastic support for the revised policy on electronic devices. I I don't know how any of this was rolled out before I actually just really learned about this about a week ago. And I can say, without a doubt it offered a lot of benefits in the classroom. As a

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Lauren Fasnacht Golaszewski: language instructor, dual lingo. Flipgrid things like that were great. But I did see, you know, focus in the classroom really shifted when we went at the beginning of 20, maybe 2012 from a traditional instruction to tech based instruction. And I kind of had a front row seat to the erosion of focus and attention and empathy that followed. When students were permitted to have their personal devices on them all the time.

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Lauren Fasnacht Golaszewski: The policing of those devices is not as easy as it might sound again. This was like something I saw every day. You can be as charming, and you can be. You can have fascinating content. But it is. It is impossible to compete with those parallel universes of Snapchat and Twitter and Fortnite I had students who are apparently being bullied, and I had no clue. So a lot of really precious

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Lauren Fasnacht Golaszewski: energy that that teachers don't have much of, to begin with is going toward policing this. You know, policies that sometimes permitted phones were often just as challenging because these made students kind of sneaky and oppositional when they were asked to put phones away.

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Lauren Fasnacht Golaszewski: and you know my classroom experience, I will say, has radically shaped the way that I'm now parenting my own children, who are 4 and one and a half and the choices I make to limit their exposure to tech and screen time. They have developing brains. But so did the 1516 year old sitting in my classroom, and I think that few adults can focus with their phones vibrating all day like, why should we expect anything different from adolescence.

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Lauren Fasnacht Golaszewski: I used to think that teaching students how to responsibly handle tech was the best approach. You know, we kind of like to say, with the sort of amused sigh, like it's here to stay. But when I consider the kind of school environment I would like for my own children. It is one where personal devices are away.

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Lauren Fasnacht Golaszewski: And I tried many different approaches, including that hanging calculator thing, including a cell phone prison. It may work for some people, it did not work for me, and I was pretty devoted to finding a solution. As for the arguments about communication that I know people have, and I think they're certainly valid. I know that it's possible to attend Hershey High School without a phone on your person at all times, because I am an alumna, and I did it from 2,000 to 2,004,

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Lauren Fasnacht Golaszewski: and regarding the terrifying, those statistically unlikely event of an active shooter having a phone out. Actually, may make our students less safe if you think about it from a teacher's approach, like, I would love to jump on a phone in an emergency situation and let my husband know what's going on. But my 1st job is to keep those students safe and to, you know, implement the training I have. And those kids have a job, too. And it is not to, you know, have their phones going off

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Lauren Fasnacht Golaszewski: really not to have a phone in their hand if they're evacuating that could be dangerous.

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Lauren Fasnacht Golaszewski: I learned that from Bonnie many Alice trainings that I completed during my time with the district.

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Lauren Fasnacht Golaszewski: And I I really don't know that I have a whole lot else to offer but just thought that

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Lauren Fasnacht Golaszewski: mine might be a voice to hear, okay, thanks. So much.

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DTSD Webinars: Thank you.

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DTSD Webinars: Mr. Eller. There any other citizens who wish to speak virtually

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DTSD Webinars: there are no hands raised at this time.

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DTSD Webinars: Okay, thank you. We will close this 1st public comment period

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DTSD Webinars: and move on to the Standing Committee report. There were no committee meetings today as the Finance Standing Committee meeting was cancelled for today, because we did have an additional finance committee meeting in early June, prior to the Budget Approval Committee meetings will resume in August with the start of the new school year. I'd also like to take this opportunity to thank the citizen advisors whose terms are expiring on our standing committees.

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DTSD Webinars: We appreciate the time and effort of these individuals within our community and their contribution to the committee discussions. The application for appointment for citizen advisor vacancies will be available at the end of the summer beginning of the fall, and will come out through all of the district communication channels.

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DTSD Webinars: and

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DTSD Webinars: and both citizen advisors whose terms are expiring as well as new community members at large are welcome and encouraged to apply.

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DTSD Webinars: It's

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DTSD Webinars: on the screen. In just a moment we will see the anticipated agenda items for the next Board of Directors meeting on July 29.th

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DTSD Webinars: Thank you, Miss Hemer.

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DTSD Webinars: There is no unfinished business this evening, so we'll move on to the consent agenda, which contains routinely adopted items and items which normally do not require public deliberation on the part of the Board. A board member may pull an item 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, so moved. Second, Jennifer runs, is there any discussion?

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

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DTSD Webinars: The consent agenda is approved.

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DTSD Webinars: Moving on to new business. Our 1st item is the approval of depositories. Dr. Reifader. The Administration recommends the Board approve the list of depositories for the 2425 school year.

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DTSD Webinars: Thank you. May I please have a motion to approve the listed depositories for the 2425 school year.

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DTSD Webinars: So move. Jennifer rends second, Jessica. Is there any discussion?

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

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DTSD Webinars: Next item is year-end transfers and commitments of fund balances. Dr. Reif. Snyder.

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DTSD Webinars: the Administration recommends the approval of the June 30 to 2024 year end transfers and commitments of the fund balance.

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DTSD Webinars: Thank you. May I please have a motion to approve the June 30, th 2024 year end transfers and commitments of fund balances. So move Stuart Mcarver, second Jennifer runs, is there any discussion?

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DTSD Webinars: This is A. G. Can I have a roll call? Vote for this, please.

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DTSD Webinars: Mr. Bennett. Yes, Dr. Sissok. Yes.

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DTSD Webinars: Miss Drew. Yes, Doctor Mccarver. Yes, Mrs. Rens. Yes, Mr. Rizzo. Yes, Miss Romberger. Yes, Mrs. Royer. Yes, Mr. Schmidt, yes.

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DTSD Webinars: 9. Approved. Thank you.

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DTSD Webinars: Our next item is purchasing consortiums for the 2425 school year. Dr. Reifnyder. The Administration recommends the approval of the attached purchasing purchasing consortiums for the 2425 school year.

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DTSD Webinars: Thank you. May I please have a motion to approve these purchasing consortiums for the 2425 school year. So moved. Second, Jennifer runs, is there any discussion?

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

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DTSD Webinars: item. It's approved

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DTSD Webinars: moving on. The next item is the approval of the high mark, renewal agreement. Dr. Reif. Snyder. The Administration recommends the approval of the high mark renewal agreement to continue providing medical benefits to the district employees participating in the plan.

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DTSD Webinars: Thank you. May please have a motion to approve this high mark renewal agreement.

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DTSD Webinars: so moves to recover. Second, Jennifer runs

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DTSD Webinars: there any discussion?

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DTSD Webinars: Yes, this is Mike Rizzo. I just wanted to say thank you again to Miss Purcell and and Dr. Winslow for getting the the insurance teams together to explain to us what the the issues were and what we were facing with the decision. So it was. It was a little challenging upfront when we 1st heard the information, but as we talked through each individual piece, I think we came to a very good conclusion. So

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DTSD Webinars: I want to thank you for that work.

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DTSD Webinars: Thanks, Mr. Rizzo, and I would

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DTSD Webinars: second, that because I know when we 1st discussed it at our finance committee meeting there were a lot of questions, and

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DTSD Webinars: it was really something we needed some time to

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DTSD Webinars: dig into and understand. We were able to do that through our Hr. Committee meeting and representatives from our Benefits Management Group, and it was very productive and helped us to better understand the cost impacts for the district. So thank you.

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DTSD Webinars: there's no other discussion. This is a standard voice. Vote all those in favor, please say, aye, aye, any opposed? No

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DTSD Webinars: item is approved.

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DTSD Webinars: The next item of new business is the approval of the audit. Doctor Reifsnyder. The Administration recommends the Board approve the fiscal year 2023 audit report prepared by the firm of Boyer and Ritter, Llc. In acceptance of restated financial statements for 1st years, 2021 and 2022.

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DTSD Webinars: May I please have a motion to approve the fiscal year 23. Audit report and accept the restated financial statements for fiscal year 21 and 22 so moved. Second, Tracy Royal.

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DTSD Webinars: is there any discussion?

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DTSD Webinars: I would just like to clarify the restatement of the financial statements? That is here for fiscal years, 21 and 22. There is no material change to the

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DTSD Webinars: financial information or items that were on those reports. There was just a discrepancy in the reporting on the fund balance allocations, and so in working with the auditors we had that restated just so that all the documents were consistent and correct, and also

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DTSD Webinars: wanted to

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DTSD Webinars: just say Thank you again to the business office and, Mrs. Purcell, I know that the audit is an incredibly large undertaking, and

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DTSD Webinars: with challenges of staffing and many other things going on.

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DTSD Webinars: I appreciate all the work that you did for this.

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DTSD Webinars: and then this is my crystal. I also wanna thank you for the the work that you guys have done. With. A very, a very disruptive year in the business office. To come away with only one discrepancy is very

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DTSD Webinars: is very commendable. And basically the one that was the discrepancy had was just for the delay in the report. So there is opportunity right? There's always opportunity to to improve and get better, and I think that will, with a with a full business office. So

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DTSD Webinars: thanks again. For all the the work that you guys do day in and day out.

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DTSD Webinars: Great, I think it's important to highlight that the note of a discrepancy in the audit report was not a result of fiscal mismanagement or anything wrong with the data and reporting it was simply a timing issue. And we typically approve the audit

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DTSD Webinars: earlier in the year.

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DTSD Webinars: Is there any other discussion?

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

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DTSD Webinars: audit is approved.

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DTSD Webinars: The next item is the Western Governor's University clinical experience, renewal, Doctor Reifader. The Administration recommends the Board approve the clinical experience. Renewal with dairy, Township, school, District and Western Governors. University effective. June 24, th 2024.

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DTSD Webinars: Next item is the Pennsylvania Western Internship Agreement. Dr. Reifster. The Administration recommends the Board approve the internship agreement with Dairy Township School District and Pennsylvania Western University. Effective. June 24, th 2024.

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DTSD Webinars: Thank you. May I please have a motion to approve the Pennsylvania Western Internship agreement

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DTSD Webinars: This is a standard voice vote all those in favor, please say aye, aye, any opposed? No.

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DTSD Webinars: The next item is the approval of policy. 237 electronic devices. Doctor Reifer. The Administration recommends the approval of the list policy of the Dairy Township School District Manual which has been on public display for 30 days in the Hershey Public Library

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DTSD Webinars: Thank you. May I please have a motion to approve policy? 237 of the Dairy Township school district. So moved

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DTSD Webinars: adding in the word cellular for electronic devices.

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DTSD Webinars: is there to make sure that we're talking about personal cell phone use and not other personal devices that students may use for academic reasons, such as

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DTSD Webinars: We removed the buses and vehicles, language in there that was not highlighted previously as a change for this proposal that has been standard language in the use of electronic devices, policy that they were not to be used on there, and in our proposal of the policy modifications. That was an oversight there, because if there's no reference then for acceptable use.

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DTSD Webinars: And then we also removed the specific exceptions that were there, and provided the delegation of authority to building principles for those items to make sure that we were not being too specific to not allow for accommodations where they would need to be. The Board will have the opportunity and authority to request periodic updates for the list of exceptions

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DTSD Webinars: So those are the changes inside of the policy that is attached. There are 2 attachments on the agenda. One is the proposed that we approved 30 days ago. The second is the one with the proposed amendments.

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DTSD Webinars: In language to the policy.

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DTSD Webinars: and because that is not material in nature. To the intent of the policy.

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DTSD Webinars: we would be able to proceed with that this evening through an amendment to this motion.

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DTSD Webinars: This is Jennifer ends. I move to amend the motion by using the language in the attached approved amendment.

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DTSD Webinars: Second, Joshua.

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DTSD Webinars: thank you both

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DTSD Webinars: just to clarify. We are voting right now to amend the motion that's on the floor. Once that vote's completed, we'll be able to continue discussion before we have the final vote on the agenda. Item.

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DTSD Webinars: Okay, this is Erica Schmidt. I have a quick question about the laptop. Use.

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DTSD Webinars: Doctor Winslow or Bryce Snyder, if you're able to answer those questions.

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Stacy Winslow: Sure. Can I just clarify? Were you Mrs. Schmidt, were you asking if.

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Stacy Winslow: like, during the classes that specifically like for coding and those kinds of things. Is that what you're asking.

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Stacy Winslow: Yeah. So that would be something that the principal would work with the teacher on and and those particular students. But they would have to be connected to the school network like they are now.

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DTSD Webinars: Okay, then, this is a standard voice. Vote. All those in favor. Say, aye, aye, any opposed? No.

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DTSD Webinars: And so I also wanted just to add a few other comments. First, st I appreciate everyone that we've heard from over the last 30 days. We've heard from people who have concerns about the proposal, people who are in support of it, and it was really insightful to hear where everyone is coming from.

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DTSD Webinars: the potential for bullying mental health, academic disruption and improving the learning environment and also following with the calls that we're seeing from professionals across the country at all different levels

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DTSD Webinars: in both medical and educational space, recommending the removal of personal cellular devices from the classroom

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DTSD Webinars: while there was discussion about yonder pouches in proposed legislation, conversations, and news there.

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DTSD Webinars: and some talk about it at the committee level. The yonder pouches are not being considered at this time. That would have been something that would needed to have one been in the budget.

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DTSD Webinars: has been the intent to be as transparent as possible

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DTSD Webinars: from the policy process and procedure. The Board sets the policy which is the overarching directive and guidance.

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DTSD Webinars: The Administration is then delegated, the authority to to carry that out and implement it there.

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DTSD Webinars: The way that this will work is this, the Board is approving this at this time, and did that in line with our policy committee and that 30 day structure to be able to provide now through when the handbooks and

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DTSD Webinars: kind of framework is set for the start of the school year, and so I anticipate that there will be significant communication around that, and it will be detailed and itemized because this is not meant to be something punitive.

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DTSD Webinars: a lot of things inside of our school climate survey inside of data, personal experience, the amount of time that is taken up by the administration in addressing some of those cell phone related issues during the day which creates

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DTSD Webinars: someone saw my name on an order at a pizza place, and they're like, oh, wait! What do you think about this and got to have a dialogue with students. And what I really found is that change is hard, and we know that. And with all of the students that I spoke with, including my own, the initial response was against it.

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DTSD Webinars: But when we took time and had conversation, and were able to break down some of the reasons why some of the statistics that impact their peers.

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DTSD Webinars: you know, amongst the conversation, but as we dove a little bit deeper to it by the end, they're like, Okay, I understand this.

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DTSD Webinars: instructions inside of the handbooks as a board. Should that implementation not ultimately look like what

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DTSD Webinars: we, as a collective body would envision. Policy revision is always something that's able to be done. But I do have confidence in conversation that has taken place, and I know that the Administration has put a lot of thought and time into this leading up to the policy approval tonight to be able to move forward with that, and be ready for the school year and communicate it.

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DTSD Webinars: This is Erica Schmidt. I do have a just something quick to say, and

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DTSD Webinars: and I hear you, Mrs. Peterson. i i i am not one for any kind of overstep. I really am not, however, when it comes to this, and I have

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DTSD Webinars: absolutely love to recreate this without phones in the classroom, I think. Yes, I mean, and I have 3 children who

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DTSD Webinars: but I think it is going to be very liberating for the kids to be able to go into the classroom, not have to worry about if somebody is getting their picture or catching them off guard if they are sending them texts in the middle of the class, even though they're hidden under the under the desk

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DTSD Webinars: teachers can teach

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DTSD Webinars: and as a child of the eighties it can be done because we all did it.

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DTSD Webinars: I am very much in support of giving this to the children.

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DTSD Webinars: So that's all I have to say.

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DTSD Webinars: thanks, Mrs. Schmidt.

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DTSD Webinars: There any other Board members who would like to comment.

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DTSD Webinars: then, hearing none, we will move forward to a vote with to approve the motion that has been amended on the floor which encompasses all of the outlined items in the attachment to the agenda.

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DTSD Webinars: So move Jennifer Wrens.

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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: The revisions to policy 237 are approved.

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DTSD Webinars: Moving on to personnel resignations. Dr. Reif. Snyder.

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DTSD Webinars: the Administration recommends the approval of the personnel resignations.

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DTSD Webinars: May I please have a motion to approve the personal resignations so moved Tracy Royer.

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DTSD Webinars: Kind of a mess around Burger.

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

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DTSD Webinars: Our final item of new business this evening is Personnel General Doctor Reifer. The Administration recommends the approval of list personnel in recognition of any listed transfers. Thank you. May I please have a motion to approve the listed personnel in recognition of any listed transfers

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DTSD Webinars: so moved. Jennifer runs second Josh. Physic

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DTSD Webinars: for delegate reports this evening the Dauphin County Technical School Report is attached. Doctor Mcarthur, do you have anything to add? I do. Yes.

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DTSD Webinars: so the cooperative education program is a school to career opportunity that enables students to combine the academic instruction they receive at Delphi County Technical school

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DTSD Webinars: with career to technical instruction through on the job training. The Co-OP students receive school credit for their work.

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DTSD Webinars: no one else. I don't have to join the screen.

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DTSD Webinars: There we go. That shows the 3 students that participated in this program from Dairy Township this year. I encourage businesses in Dairy township to go to the Dauphin County technical school website that listed different skill sets that the students can bring to their on the job training. And if you have any other questions you can contact me

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DTSD Webinars: or Mr. Rizzo, who is also on the Dolphin County Tech School Board.

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DTSD Webinars: Thank you, Dr. Mccarver.

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DTSD Webinars: Board President's report. The only thing I wanted to say that I forgot to include in our discussion about the policy changes is that it's my understanding. Lockers will be utilized. So we're not using pouches. So lockers would be reassigned. I know that will be a change for students to be able to have access

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DTSD Webinars: over the last few years students in the high school have not been utilizing their lockers. And so I believe you know that that will go into that

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DTSD Webinars: And again, just wanted to say, thank you to this board.

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DTSD Webinars: Changing policy and taking initiative and doing things like this is

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DTSD Webinars: scrutiny, to more things being taken a look at. But I know that everyone here has taken a lot of time personally to look into this and arrive at your decision on how you feel about it, and I am proud that as a district and as a school board, that we could bring this forward and be able to do this.

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DTSD Webinars: you know. See how it goes. So this is just part one. But I look forward to seeing

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DTSD Webinars: how how things look once the school year gets started.

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DTSD Webinars: So we'll now hover our second recognition of Citizens Period. This is an opportunity for residents and taxpayers to address the Board on matters related to the agenda or matters of district governance that were not on the agenda this evening. Those who speak are asked to follow the same guidelines that were outlined at the initial public comment portion of our meeting. I will ask board treasurer, Mister Rizzo, to once again. Please keep time. There's no longer anyone in person in the audience, so I will open it up to any virtual participants who would like to comment. At this time

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DTSD Webinars: there are no virtual hands raised. Thank you, Mr. Ayala.

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DTSD Webinars: seeing none. We'll close this public comment period. Is there anything else for the good of the order

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DTSD Webinars: as a reminder. We'll be adjourning to post-executive session. The next Public Board of Directors meeting will be held on July 29, th 2024, beginning at 7 PM. Please refer to the district website to register for virtual attendance. As the meeting draws closer, may I please have a motion to adjourn this meeting. So moved Jennifer Wrens, second Joshua.

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DTSD Webinars: meeting is adjourned at 7, 48 PM.