want to thank you folks for recognizing us and i know the boys especially they are fantastic and your work very very hard i don't think a lot of people realize how hard these guys work not only they're playing for their high school team they're also playing for amateur teams  through the year then on the weekends traveling late night practices plenty of homework more than one more than one time of i seen these boys doing homework on their way to practices on the way home from practices and keeping up with their schoolwork  championship out in at penn state we're going to want to get to the south prep i school for the state championship again these guys work eight months a year basically at their spore were you know a lot of sports are two three months and sometimes they start in august they start early in august working out and practicing in the season it still isn't over as you can see some of these guys are here tonight there are tryouts for next year so about half the team is the traps and they apologize for their a kids it's it's a transportation service in and out of rinks all over the country for these guys all year long so not to mention the checks they write to get these kids equipped and traveling so they do a great job so let me introduce the team to you senior goalie jesse born sport throughout the year and please next year when you guys are playing come on game it's a lot of fun for everybody so thank you very much for having  saying then moving on to president's comments i want to comment that we did have an executive session prior to this meeting we had several topics regarding litigation and some contracts we were discussing  we operate and in thinking about transparency and giving the public as much opportunity as possible to address a board of commons or through any motions or anything else that would like to be said rather than just  the coping caps the roof capped block there what i had asked for was an additional unit cost of just in case there is some additional work needs to be done in the same applies for a brick pointing in a damaged brick i asked for five hundred feet square feet of reporting of the masonry brick and an additional one hundred square foot brick on the chumley and other areas and if it exceeds that we have a cost per square foot just so that i can guarantee that this project doesn't run wild and i can shut it off right at as as i would come back to you if needed well i would ask if it would be appropriate to put them not to exceed number maybe a percentage i have a specific one in my head right this moment but i am just concerned about that language well this one my assumption is that this one would be in preparation for the actual budget to be presented at the main meeting which is why for the next meeting and then if we certainly need another do we need to since we are ready  get to at that meeting and i'll be asking this another whine to get through those and some of the materials or subject matter of those policies are distribution of materials from the district  for non school groups partnerships and advertising group policy and a policy on volunteers and with respect to the out one if you do volunteer in the schools  i recommend that you read the proposed draft i don't know what it will and not apply at the end of the policy committee meeting by their recommendation is to change the  requirements for people who are volunteering in the schools who might need clearances so those will be discussed at a future policy meeting that concludes my report was reviewing the booster group policy i did contact mr guy or because my idea was to put as much in the policy as i could and i did get a list were five of our requirements that they're currently using and it incorporated into that booster policy or that proposed draft so if you do go and pull that up and hopefully  if you do that and live on that it will be what he said they're currently using was incorporated into their policy so if you wanted to do that you could also look at that policy too because that is supposed to reflect what is policy or whether you like to pull it out or and they are and either way is fine with me i just included in everything in there that i could and i felt like it would be easier to break merrett i think where that will come in is actually with the policy because i did talk to mr geier also about that legislation because there was some issue as to whether the portion next year there requires booster group money to be included in our reporting whether that was going to be eliminated or not and so i had forwarded him some information that we got from p a saying dad implying that it might not be a limit needed so that obligation and would still current and that for the two thousand and thirteen fourteen year our school district would have to report to the why we received from booster groups that benefited our programs in the form of equipment and that type of financial support and he did say that they have it covered that there are obligations at the end of each year he's going to ask each booster group to provide that information to him so he has the ability to report it and those obligations in the proposed policy of the new booster group policy also require the same thing it's not a new requirement their idea with the proposed policy is just to include everything that mr guy or requires now of booster groups to be in there but one of which is at the end of your season or by the end of the year the booster groups have to provide financial information  title nine this is a serious thing how you treat your clubs to the mailings that you put al are serious and i'm afraid there are clubs don't take them serious yes we can suspend them from using our policy to say that we have the authority to do that and that's under recognizing them as a booster group announce it just so happens the proposed new policy and i cannot recall off the top of my head what the old policy says but the proposed new policy does have teeth in it that says it these are your requirements and if you don't do that you run the risk of being removed as a school recognized booster group i agree with mrs aaron burr though they i think you would have to look at our current policy and or what mr geier has given them in form of handbook to say are policy works won't be dependent on why we but you know discuss at the meeting but the way it is proposed is that you recognize a booster group  school recognizes the booster groups that gives them a lot of ability to use our facilities to have good information about all the players and parent group you know even though most of the booster groups have that information sessions to run concessions but also they want to become recognized you fall under our insurance policy too so those things you know are both you know good and i bet you there's pluses and minuses i think being recognized is of benefit for everyone to work together and you just tack there's that continuum of what you you don't want your hand and that's their source of revenue and so i think by letting them know that the consequence of them not meeting this deadline is going to be in effect if freezing up their ability to raise assets that probably will motivate them so  i said you're too nice we're taking over think june thirtieth might be better for i mean i just think logistically and i agree that the time has been so if you have members and you have to get through you know you you have to give notice if you're think you're i get the point i respect the point i think the problem here is with the june thirtieth deadline it doesn't give us as aborting a chance to act in june to begin a new fiscal year july first that was my point in choosing me so that we have another meeting in june as a board we're there thirty day deadline and they can get their points back and that's perhaps setting them a deadline me activate them and they can start setting that thirty day well that's another question to do you have to have them voted on before you get them because then you would trial them that they have to make an amendment to them is that how it's been going in the past they're voted on and so they come in as an official it's already done by the right and they come in as official and then if we have them change anything then they have to go back and do it and that's where we are now they for a second time since you did a good job the first time but the board looked at your your files and we want more revisions and so if we need again and don't like the revisions and we come up with more revisions and we're slightly right back the waterfront at the allegheny intermediate union unit there is a three hour seminar about important legal cases in the past year that affect schools and students and i am attending now so if anyone would like to write down with me you can and then also may fifth at ten am there is going to be a webcast discussion with current state representatives and senators about pension reform and that's one of the read cast that you could get individually on your own computer if you don't have to come into the district to get that and again that's on may fifth at ten am and then also i just wanted to highlight something that we also got from our p s via emails about keystone exams which i thought was very interesting and we all know that right now pennsylvania has funded and our district is required to minister three keystone exams they are algebra english literature and biology and pennsylvania law does allow for seven there are additional keystone exams to be developed but the acting secretary of education recently wrote a letter to the development of those additional seven keystone exams is subject to adequate funding to develop their own that the current funding line item is being spent on something else there is no additional resources to move forward and then in her tenure she does not anticipate any actions to develop  the their keystone exams she made it clear that she doesn't know what any future acting secretary of education would do but i thought that that was interesting because i had never heard it you know sad in that way so that's my report and forth and he gave me some dates and i have not gone back to him yes there is a new p s p a and i don't know exactly what title he has but n l ally is on who would like to speak to the board or myself and the administration and anyone from the board who wants to attend about what p s p a camp has to offer us they're doing a lot of outreach about trying to get school districts to take advantage of their program and i was trying to set up time to meet with him and then i would let everybody know and see who else would be willing and able to come and if not then i'll just report back to you as to what section that there are a lot of wonderful teachers for tiring and i am very sad to see some of them go happy that my children were lucky enough to have some of them so i wanted to send a special thank you to their sorrow for their service action on professional conferences and no items at this time requesting action on educational programs and student activities i don't number one to are conflicting ok one of them states that we don't pay one of the states that we we do and what we've decided until we can clean them up and we thought that we would wait and because these are the rules people been operating and we're going to go it pas practice so we're looking at what past practice was in these cases into a clean up be ours will be doing that for the start of next year we don't want to change expectations the money's already been budgeted in high school account for this activity and it guideline student dreams because there was a bit confusing and that's what you do and that's not publish we wouldn't be printed out unless we knew that that example this is what happens here when someone is going through them and someone does go through every single one this senior trip to cedar point where paying for the chaperones and turns to the car or those parent chaperones or teacher chaperone still happening now i believe that they are teachers chaperones and i believe last year was approved and then they didn't go because that was another question i wondered i had not seen this trip on a hard list of trips to approve and we might have been i might just be forgetting it was approved it and i think the point was even crew when they look for interest there wasn't enough interest last year to have the trip and so again this is another one where the students really are very the cost of the activity so there's not a lot of interest and to this and in the future i'm gassing we are going to be asked to sad activity fees want one of the things that i walked out when i've seen some activity spec come through there are a sizable expanse to district and i'm not judging to say that as you know i mean i think there's very valuable by dango the look and say that every activity we charge ten dollars per student for and i i personally would like some data for when work going to be asked which i'm guessing it's going to be soon to set athletic fees inactivity fees it would be helpful to me to see how much money and are there certain activities where we are actually expanding a lot of money but not getting a lot of revenue in from the ten dollars i'm just wondering if there are certain activities that exist that you might get on a charge more than ten dollars and i'm not prejudging and i'm just wondering if that information could be provided some data about how much we come in when we're asked to set those speeds which i'm guessing you do before the budget right it would be talking for a car that they're british and what i'm really getting at here is i'm concerned actually about safety and if you've been around when those young people are up there with their signs there's a large number of students who do that i just i would time i drive by there always worry about that because they're always out there you know and i just i don't know what can be done about it but i see this come up often on here i'm not against fundraiser i'm not against it but i just it concerns me i don't like it when the penn state kids are out there hocking fact my kids love it because every time we go by that i stop and say let's be honest you kids are just collecting for beer right i mean really you know and they'll get a big chunk of it but they're standing right only on a hand and never buy the system if the intention is to buy the system i guess i'm interpreting the gift we can hold it in a fund designated for timing system for track and field and when we are ready to buy that system yes but my point is  buy a ten dollar system by taking the donation out on the board that we still have to agree or decide at such time a place to buy system no time with you this isn't forcing us to do this or that i guess that's but the question would be is that would that be something that you know the only point i want to make on this and i've been watching from afar over the years and now on this board i think there's a precedent that's being set with this kind of action we boost are groups where when they want a large expenditure their way of getting it is to offer up a donation of half the value and i just want to make it very clear that this action sets no precedent and no way gives any future booster group the sense that because they provide a donation for half the cost of whatever they're seeking to get at the school district and or the board is going to automatically be amenable to because i just see this as a method of booster groups getting what they want or need i don't want to say they don't need it by just saying we're going to provide half the money i mean i want to applaud the track and field for doing now because i mean that is a lot of money and our district does benefit a lot of law by  i will say with respect to our p t a s when i was involved we did starting courage ing p t a s to when they make a donation and couple it with a ladder saying this is to be used for x and if it's not you know we would like it returned so i don't know who's doing the same with their money but i do know that as p t a s we've encouraged our unit p t a s to do that and are all of the camera i'm guessing coming with the ability to record the audio and it's going to be high tech will be an opportunity for question and answer period on agenda i would you be prepared next monday and everything is been prepared for the last two meetings because we try to get the same policies don so i think we should just keep the same lines because i don't i can't foresee us getting i think there's at least six more to go through and one of them is boosters fall in tears and distribution of materials for nine groups the only thing is that the academic team who typically supports the  types really quickly when we make 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