questions and comments from the floor any parent guardian resident or community group should have the right to present a request suggestion or complaint concerning disturbing our so now programs are operations of the district at the same time the board has a duty to protect its staff from harassment consequently the board does not and will not condone personal attacks directed toward district personality it is the board's intent to provide a fair and impartial manner for seeking appropriate remedies and  or complaints directed to individual board members or the board shall be referred to the superintendent or appropriate administrator for consideration an action personal compliance directed toward an individual or individuals are not subject for discussion or review at a public meeting of the board of school director part of the national all american ball game for five thousand dollars amelia which is also a third grade student pleasant valley and they are here in honor of you all serving every child every day we would like to serve you now so they are going to come and serve thank you to you  again thank you for all you do hill students would like to also thank you tonight i have alexander karts onis in second grade and gemma walker in first grade the fifth leaders at mcmurray elementary school wanted to say our to our school board sums up for a great job each has a great student help to make this pressure by using their thumbprint in writing their name we thank you for all you do sums up to his great school board good evening on behalf of the middle school like to take this opportunity to introduce you to one of our outstanding students mckenzie mendenhall make a presentation for you they volunteer a great deal of their time for free in order to meet was community members listen to suggestions and further improve our township they're faced with a number of tough decisions and they must take into account the wide variety of students we have in order to our township functions well because we are fortunate enough to have a supportive supportive and hardworking school board thank you again for se good evening everyone the half of the high school we have representatives of our executive council here and i don't know we're taking a poll and we think they're pretty cute to back up plans for next year for cuteness but i'm going to allow them to each introduce themselves their grade level and what they do as a student leader in our building  hi i'm seen as swearing i'm a sophomore in sophomore vice president thank you school board for what you do for us thank you thank  you freshman class president just kind of learning what we do these guys are great and they help me to do this and you guys support them so thank you support we are warm and i'm president of the senior class and on behalf of all the student leaders i want to thank you for all of your support and your dedication to not only us but all the other schools and we've presented you with a gift tonight and i'm going to let i'm sean harris and i'm the saw for class treasure and the other part of the gift is a t shirt that says he was down to pride is coming alive is alive and that's because it is coming alive and we couldn't do what we do without you guys doing what you do so thank you for all the students at the high school have the entire school and the teachers and the staff we truly do appreciate all of the support you give us our student leaders have done incredible things this year and they continue to amaze me with the ideas that they came come up with and as you c by the video at the beginning there is a lot going on at the high school and it's a lot to keep track of and i'm struggling to keep up with them because they are phenomenal and what they do and that's because of your continued support and your faith  us and so we truly do appreciate that thank you thank you teachers i would think each of you through time and dedication to our district you recognize the time and effort one dedicates each day week and month while holding the title school board director we recognize numerous e mails phone calls and conversations that finally we appreciate you for being the members of the peter subject school board thank you enjoy the spotli represent including the secretaries paraprofessionals clerical aides monitors and our newest members the bus drivers i thank each and every one of you for your vision your compassion effort in the time that it takes to be a school board member as a president of the american federation of teachers clerical and support unit ply understand the hard work dedication and toll it takes volunteering to do such a monumental task i also want to express my appreciation for continuing to provide high quality educational opportunities for our children thus making our schools an excellent place to educate our youth the employees that i represent play an integral part in the student's education including special education we help to create and maintain a pleasant safe and successful learning environment for the children of this district we will continue to work side by side with teachers administrators and board to help our students hire an academic excellence again i thank you for the time and continued effort you put into building and maintaining the success of the peters township school district thank you very much hi i'm lisa rico on p t a eric council president this year once again this year p t a has donated books to each of the school libraries many of them are on display over there against the wall i encourage you to take a look at the excellent selections our school librarians have made this year we make the star nation of books to express our appreciation for the many many hours that you devote to ensure quality education for our children as members of the school board the decisions you make have tremendous impact on our children's future and the quality of life here in pierce township on behalf of the peters township p t a area council i think each of you for your dedication to the education needs of our children we hope to continue to work with you towards a common goal of having a save quality environment in which our children can continue to receive the exceptional education they're receiving  men and women sit around these tables advocate for and promote public education thing gauger community stakeholders by seeking input building support networks generating action by allocating resources in a manner designed to facilitate student achievement consistent with our school district goals mission and vision these individuals stay current with the dynamic needs of our school system by renewing reviewing educational literature attending professional development opportunities prior to and during their school work service  only considering the immediate needs presented to them but also the ramifications of the decisions that they make on the short term and long term goals and welfare of our students district and community these are challenging times for public education this certainly includes the work of school board directors and thus we would like to take this opportunity to recognize what you do as vitally important to our students future and ensuring the future of our nation we thank you for your service to our students district and community  so much for coming out this evening on which i think is the coldest night of the gear so far and in my memory that i've ever felt it's a coldest night ever and the board so appreciate you taking the time to shed some light on us and thank us for our time in our involvement but we realize it's a team effort and we're well aware that although as dr period said some people may feel that says a leader is in the district leadership is everywhere from the bottom up from the top down throughout th down we know that so we thank all of you for making us look good especially our students and of course our fabulous administrators and all of our staff so thank you president's comments and i have anything to add this evening all business news business it includes one through nine so when i would you like to bring up for th if i understand it correctly now i will confirm that but i believe this was for the cameras that are up at the p b s lady field to be connected wirelessly down to the high school and there was some work that had to be involved with  adjusting some of the cameras but i will check to confirm that for sure yes yes first actually there are two things and you've got a copy of the first one in your package it's a motion to approve the attached memorandum of understanding with the f t secretarial second and then we have a second is there any discussion all in favor  and the second motion is to appoint rebecca myer satsumas acting assistant supervisor of buildings grounds and transportation at a stipend of fifty dollars per day second it's been moved we have a second is there any discussion all in favor of the future to coincide with the low amount of electricity that we're generating with the new lights the stage lighting the lights have been are in the district we have a meeting tomorrow with pittsburgh they sound to look at wiring everything up so we can put the stage lighting on and also have the complaints from fleet soon and the sound system i know the speakers are in and we're looking at wiring that as well and that should be all three projects the two projects that are still outstanding the sound and the stage lighting should be completed very soon before i get started i just want to make a couple comments we did have our education committee meeting last week and before we get into all the motions to approve the courses i just wanted to mention that the board had decided to approve these most of course add additional subject to final review during the budgeting process and that the courses are not guaranteed to run either because there aren't enough students to sign up for  not be enough to stay in the budget has not yet been approved and the books and technology such as i cats are not yet approved and they're also subject to the budgeting process but we decided to go ahead and approve these courses to put them in the course book to allow them to be part of the scheduling process that starts in february and so now consider motion to approve the following new courses in the peters township high school mathematics department financial literacy semester course linear algebra honors a year long course and core math online a semesters course  it's been moved away the second is around a discussion all in favor of i opposed motion passes muster thank you next consider motion to approve the following new courses in the future township high school social studies department a p economics your long course introduction to psychology semester course and philosophy semester course  good good great thank you is there any other discussion all in favor i opposed the motion passes just about to consider a motion approve the following new courses in the futures township high school technology education department architecture in engineering to a semester course and introduction to stem a semester course it's been moved away the second is there any discussion all in favor of it opposed motion passes mister consider most to prove the following new courses in the peters township high school theater arts department introduction to directing and stage management semester course musical theater semester course in portfolio workshops semester course it's been moved away the second is there any discussion all in favor i opposed motion you consider most of the following new courses in the peters township high school english department core english online semester course it's been moved and we have two seconds is there any discussion all in favor i opposed the motion passes mr bell so now for course name changes consider most to prove the following course name change in the  mathematics department how to foundations replacing the rest of integrated essential story an integrated essential for out of her two academic replacing integrated three academic and algebra two honors replacing integrated three honors it's been moved away the second is there any discussion mrs corvo would you comment just a little bit this is getting to be the end of the integrated is this the favor i opposed the motion passes like consider most to prove the following course name change in the piers township high school physical education department p e three grades eleven and twelve replaces for grades township high school technology education department architectural process it's going to be placing architectural processes it's been moved away the second this or any discussion all in favor i oppose motion passed as mister consider a motion to approve the following course name change in the peters township high school music department digital audio production one and digital audio production two replacing computer music production one  computer music production two it's been moved with a second is there any discussion all in favor i opposed the motion passes mr vice like consider most to prove the following course name change in the peters it's been moved and we have a second is there any discussion all in favor i opposed motion passes muster two more course time frame changes consider a motion to approve the following change and the peters township high school social studies department a p u s government politics is change from a semester course to a year long course so it's been moved away the second this or any discussion yes reviews and worksheets you know have the students ready for the like would you like that anything to that that that since you're here if you would like to i don't want to put you on the spot either but you're probably used to that  now thank you but the course is designed by the college board really to be a four year course so the curriculum is supposed to be taught over the course of a year the college board will allow districts to do it and a half a year but the students struggle with it because it's a lot of content and so you can't go into depth and one of the things we're looking for is its depth it's also hampers the students in scheduling they are more likely to pass over a semester a p course of this intensity for another maybe four year course and so we're hoping to increase that also with the new social studies lineup that we are proposing this four year course would be in place of the eleventh grade government course so students would be able to take that as an option in place of its own and is elected to be their course holidays for them so it will be an option under the old system it would not be an option because it would just be a semester long course to a semester course it's been moved to me the second is there any discussion i would like to comment the reason it was changing is because of the other theatre arts courses that we're adding that are going to  advance the theater arts program operation and so that now this becomes a semester we could fill in with all these other semester courses so that the kids can advance from year to year in the future arts department there are some prerequisites with this one know which order yet we'll be talking about gifted education and special education that's wonderful and it gets give the public an idea to if they want to plan on what you what's coming up in some of your meetings to go and we also want to try to get all of these in prior to the budgeting meetings that will start taking place in march or april may something like that so they're issues that we have to discuss like textbook purchases technology virtuous is staff requirements special education needs will have met discussed all those things by the time they reach us on the budgeting process ok thank you finance mr mcmurray thank you had a point to so mr bell sick you checked him we're point three point three ok thank you is there any so that's my consideration does anybody want to second that we wan you well because that was that was correct that that i mean i made a call but it just it just didn't make that yeah that we're dealing with they will implement and make sure that those changes and so then we're coming to the end of the need for this committee and this is a back so it's not going to be an intermediate step of the first set of guidelines that we gave them a lot of the groups didn't meet those as we discussed in the meeting we're not going to get another version of those until you go back with this yes it did i got there know i think no i was saying we're coming nearer to the point where we should we should be have facilitated all these things and should be getting i honestly don't think  yeah they have to turn in all their stuff by august again to the high school i was just hoping that we would have all of our process done so that when they turn in their new stuff for august that it's the right stuff it's the right stuff where we were you have maybe it'll be a list of eleven things instead of eight things or you know i can't talk i have remember but then you will pass that list on or or mrs pavlik mr guy will pass on on and then they need to implemented at least those things item three certificate is a certified person now consider a motion to approve certify personal recommendations one through has followed in the past concerning leave the baps and says we will now because of confidentiality and to protect confidentiality of our employees and also the rights of employees that we're we are going to list them by employee number and the dates of the leave of absence is only and once again that's to protect our employees confidentiality and their rights concerning those issues change because of certain issues primarily concerning hipaa and rights of employees in that regard and many school districts are starting to use that so you don't specifically identify the professional employee that could lead to information concerning their rights under if she so that's the basic reason for the change and i'm sure that the board if there  is other issues concerning the parents and the substitute teachers that we used to and those leaves of absence is occur that the administration will try to make sure that notification goes to the parents of the children in those classes in plenty of time so that they know that there would be a change in the professional employee in that classroom a through under item seven educational program student activities considering motion to improve the educational programs and student activities as follows items one and two or  how the state leadership yes and thanks for mentioning that mrs smith the idea when we looked at the calendar was and i talked this over with several superintendents and other districts too we would have been in a position where we were bringing families out and together for one day so even though it's a full week it just didn't seem to make sense to have that whole holiday weekend begin and then have students staff and families commit to one more day of school so it i of we got but my question is to mention that something was changed then that shortens easter eggs that because you made that change we did it and then we made the date another change change and the only other everyone gets a copy of that and the meatballs music whatever i can get my grandson out of the plays you know is success so but if we stayed there for about three hours he just enjoyed the music and all the activities so those wonderful and how all of those basket here i think if i'm moving back far enough with the staff we can probably have something ready for work i'm sorry could you guys hear him largely void of the fourth