bandcamp california university also a new band director and also approved the bids for the uniforms and i hope everybody got a chance to look at them they're quite lovely that's all that dr fried also on behalf of the peters township ministerial which i'm blessed to be a part of as well as the school board who would like to also recognize you as well rather it's been a pleasure to work with you to have my children the servant of you thank you very you don't mind i know it's warm you let this pass without making a few knowledge ments and express some appreciation of my own so thank you all for being here and indulging me for a few minutes i have certainly some some very heartfelt thank you secure for one my family's here tonight  except for my daughter she's working which i think is a great excuse for my son brandon and my wife laurie are here also just want to thank them for all their support over the years moving on with thanks to the entire community over the course of the past several weeks just so gracious to me and expressing appreciation for my service well beyond any major this does receive many cards many nice comments many nice acknowledgements and tonight is certainly overwhelming so my my cup overflows with gratitude this is certainly more than i deserve so i'm very fortunate to be a part of this community well thank the school board president and the school boards passed for their support over the years and i'll acknowledge a couple of reasons why as i get into a little bit further my remarks they have to do with just really giving a young man a chance  is a young man out of a small school district not widely known and the school district gave me a chance for my way through the ranks of assistant principal at the high school two principal a big murray elementary school and then on to the middle school and every way i was blessed along the way to work with some of the best educators around and some of the best students and best best families around i like think i've always been grateful for that but in looking back i'm not sure that i've ever appreciated it enough so i wanted to share a couple thoughts with you to our faculty and staff please take some time and appreciate the community that you have here is supported education to a fault and that doesn't happen everywhere to the community i want to tell you you have an excellent and dedicated teaching and faculty and support staff here and that doesn't happen everywhere so this take some time to be grateful for that in terms of my my time  here was also supported by the school boards willingness to support educators continuing their education so with the financial support of the school district i was able to go to graduate school and finish my doctorate and that's when i was able to focus on the area of passion of mine that's character education and complete my dissertation on that topic and then from there i was even able to share that vision with the community and that message fill on fertile ground from that time other leaders emerge throughout the community and character counts was born character counts today after fifteen years truly belongs to peter's township and it's been recognised on a national level and is something that's unique to communities around the country i'm also thankful that  right i've been able to really work in an environment where people share my vision and my passion things like where people matter more than the paper and the students matter much more than just their test scores and clearly even in the state of high stakes high stakes testing we work an environment where in peter's township we realize that everything that matters isn't easily measured and that's something that we really need to hold on to in  also want to conclude with just letting everybody know that i really feel like i've been blessed here over the course of my career again beyond measure i still even have another great opportunity in front of me and that's t work serving the lord at the bible chapel and i'll still be a part of this community and i look forward to continue to work with you in some capacity and seeing you in and around the places that we go plan to still be of all with character counts and be a supportive community member and i'd like to just leave you with thoughts that have been renamed my head over the course of the past few months i've pondered what i should do with the rest of my career and that comes from the book of wisdom the proverbs and the proverbs tells us in his mind a man plans his ways but the lord directs us steps god bless you all and thank you from the bottom of my evening thanks for letting me speak tonight appreciate it i have to say that dr freighters speech was really good and i have to agree with him that i feel that the students are the most important thing as well and that's why i'm here all potentially questionable material should be identified when a new novel is being suggested to be taught in the school districts and since two thousand and nine i have just found out that the textbook adoption forms do not correlate with that policy so this policy has not been in force since two thousand and nine and i want to i just don't understand why how can that have slipped how can that have let it have been l my other concern is that along with books not having the potentially questionable material that a fide parents have no way of knowing what's in a book and less unless they're inquiring themselves there is a text there is a unapproved novel list that's now been put on the core body of knowledge and as president we can go on there and see what the what books are being read in the classrooms for literature but a lot of parents don't even know it exists a lot of parents rely on that list to be accurate i don't think it is accurate i just found forty novels on the sixth grade this an email mr markowitz there were forty books that i did not see on the core body of knowledge proved to be protected approved novelist so that concerns me why aren't these books on this list that is supposed to be one list that i could look at and i would have was brought up that the policy sixty one sixty one was not being there was a violation of this the question material is not being identified i did get a response back from the board saying that the  votes it's been voted in and that he was giving a justification for it for the violation and i just think that's a poor excuse either policies are abided by or they're not if one policy can be broken then why can't all polic broken and actually mr hardy dr hardy had actually said that at the last policy meeting he keeps talking about the importance of forcing policies and it is very important because if we don't it's total lawlessness so an example of this being dangerous is there is a grade advanced placement book that has been in the school district being used since two thousand  i want to read the content of the questionable a potentially question will contest in the book i wanted to come here tonight so i have it here i want to read it but now i can't because there's kids in this room it's graphic sex it's like soft porn the f word is used there's other cuss words used why parents don't even know about this stuff it's sickening that book should trigger a parental consent form why hasn't i  would be disgusted if i knew my child read that book i would be second because my kids don't like that i don't allow them to do behind my back then god but i don't allow them so unfortunately i can't read what isn't super tonight because there are kids here i respect the parents that are here and i respect the kids that are here and i care about everyone's kids not just my own so i sent you my thirteen twelve complaint to the board i have asked you to flag the novels on the approved protected novelist on the website if asked to do that and i got back that it's just ok thank you mrs lovell that if your suggestion we can't we can't remove because it's too much time and expense seriously i have a lot more to say but i'm done thank you before you sit down and i just respond to you from a policy perspective as the policy chairperson and that response i let you know that we are reviewing all of our policies all of the board and the superintendent and all the administrators believe it's very important to follow policy we are going to start reviewing those sections of the to your complaints so i wanted to let you know that we aren't short stripping shifting your response or anything we take it very seriously and i think as  anderson i spent five hours here drafting the response to you we did a tremendous amount of research as you know because you receive the email from the board the the books has been part of the college board's a p recommended list for a number of years and it has been used on the actual a p exams five years over the last ten years so even though you may find it objectionable this is the difficulty with things that are potentially objectionable is that what one person finds objectionable other people find as highly as now question number three on the two thousand a p english literature and composition exam allows the students to choose to write an essay from a list of about fifty books so it just happens to be one of those books on the list the exam six times since one thousand seventy one there's lots of books on the lists that appear on the exam each year the kids get to choose which book they want to write about for their essays so our students don't need to read  i think my point is that no one person should be directing what all of the students read if it is a book that's on the approved list by the college board for the a p remember a classes are college level classes so no student in the stick district is required to take an eleventh graders they're minors they have their parents choose to take  that those are college levison if you don't mind i've read the excerpts that you might be referring to and while i certainly do not endorse them in any way before you think you might want to hear what i have to say don't endorse them anyway i have three children and i also believe that a parent's job is not to protect their kids from every evil in the world it's to give them the understanding of how to protect themselves when they leave the house you will not always be there for your children and it's a whole lot better to have your children read a book like that and you point out to them what's appropriate what's inappropriate that those kind of relationship should be had within a marriage relationship and not just promiscuously that kind of language is not right you can talk to my six year old daughter she hears me say bad talk every time someone in the television uses fall language so your point i hear many different things with what you're trying to state the one thing that resonates with me as you've already said is i am one that wants us to follow policy but i don't think that you using the definition that the book has in appropriate language in it as the sole reason for us to the school board mrs smith has articulated to you the importance at the a p level and i happen to agree with that reality the language part yeah i don't support that but we've got to take this into context with what it is and i just want to reemphasize that as a parent you know if your child is taking that a p course and you do read that i would encourage you to have that conversation with them because it's important to teach our children the boundaries and limitations and how to be good citizens rather than try to shield them from every evil that's in this world because the reality is it's just not going to have i agree with you on that ideal but that's your opinion on how you what books you what what as far as you want to go with your children and what you want to allow them to read and then teach them that's up to the end of it all parent what i'm all i'm saying as flag the book trigger prints a consent form so that you or someone else or myself can decide whether we want to allow our child to read it that's all i'm asking that you're not going to be exposed to this because i'm your parent on that when you read this listen i coach wrestling in this district and i tell you the language that these kids in the district use is inappropriate and i correct them every time i came but i'm not running around with my kid every time saying you're not allowed to go out with someone so because of it and i do think mrs smith this point is right i will be one that will always defend the sanctity of people's lives and of their right to be able to choose but the fact is that we're talking about an a p course you're not talking a required course and as mrs anderson has told you this book is up for i believe you next year again and so the process we you quoted our letter saying that we're not going do it because the cost the reason that that's the case is because next year is coming up in rotation and we will re evaluate so thank god for that price otherwise i'm a step beyond anything money and going through the process of time now when it's coming up next year that's a good thing but my whole point is is that we all differ on what we think and more all we all differ on what we want our kids to read and not raid and what we choose to expose them to and talk about or what we choose to not expose them to at all we all have that freedom and all i'm saying as don't hide it from parents let them know they can't talk about their kids if they don't even other kids are reading it and they don't now because policy hasn't been enforced and there's no parental consent form going out thank you i'm here to talk on behalf of a number of parents taxpayers about music program we appreciate the comments at the start of the meeting about the three items that are on the agenda we certainly appreciate that the approval for the uniforms is on the agenda but i want to get to the other two items and just briefly address them hopefully in a way that summarizes for the other parents here keep the commentary relatively short hopefully i can speak in a that that covers a we're glad to say that there are candidates on for the position for marching band director and the other step is ition for the marching band and we want you to know that as band parents we will fully put ourselves behind those people and support them in the work they do and do whatever we can do to make them successful in the work they do and the responsibilities they have so we appreciate that the positions are going to be filled and  that we'll be right behind them and helping them out of this in any way that we can do so in terms of the marching band the away camp i'm sure you have heard from various sources how important that is to the students who participate in it i three students go through it all of them were very concerned to hear that there wasn't go that might not be in a way band camp i remember my oldest son he went as an eighth grader and wasn't sure he wanted to be in marching band and hadn't found an activity he truly loved and when i went to pick him up he was very private of course he's appreciating up talking about this on t v a but he was always very private and then wouldn't have phone conversations and earshot of me but as soon as he got the cell phone back in his hand you know he was on the phone talking to a buddy saying you have got a tryout for marching band this is so much fun and this band camp is a chance for those kids to really not just work on the music they spend a ton of time working on that but it time to get to know each other and build the bonds of become the family that they are as a marching band that's when they become the marching and you know i don't recall if i look at  you know the shirts it says you know with great music comes great responsibility what a great slogan that was and it's true these kids shine but they built that through the teamwork and the teamwork is built you know in that camp when they have the chance really just to work on their relationships with each other and work in their individual units and learn their parts and really learn to function so you know we hope that you do appreciate that and again as the band but you know when you walk down the hallway you see the senior leadership they leave messages of support for the new kids they leave little can't these and toys and they're they have low inside jokes you know there's a kazoo for a kid you know maybe you should learn to play the you know you could add the sod all these different things it's so it's so fun and so building is so nurturing so it's it's my hope it's the hope of the parents here that this continues and continues for this year camp is what makes band band away band camp is my favorite time of the band season it's full of new music new drill new friends and new beginnings we practice hours a day with only with not only our directors but with other professionals who help us with the music and allowed us to show our final product that you see at the football games we learn our drill find our place and memorize our music but that's not all we get out of band camp this is where we become a family and meet our old and new friends again this is what makes marching band worth it and the burning hot sun in the summer games or in the freezing cold in the winter games it's what makes marching in the saturday band festivals and giving up our time with our friends and what in this is what is makes it worth it when we give up one third of our summer pretty much all of august to go to band camp do festivals play pirate games and you know all the fun things we get to do i would now like to read another letter that is false the same one of our trauma just next year  my first year at home camp i was in the band and i was felt like a book i wasn't always sure if i was i'm marching right and i barely knew my section after way camp i was confident in my playing and marching i felt part of my section and i wasn't a rookie anymore i was a first year member might cry we practice nine hours a day and away band camp and our whole show comes together in one week we are motivated excited and focused spending all these hours with my section in the band in silly me me  everyone rookie feel included also members of the band from every grade leave notes and inspirational message messages as mr mitchell ski said and gives outside our doors each morning again including everyone in uniting the whole band after the sibling reveal a new a secret edition that every member bonds over and that can be performed only i tell you happens i became a first year band member feeling like an official member of the band that night i didn't know just my section i knew the entire band even the seniors who are five years older than me but she's saying that every band member says i joined band i made one hundred fifty new friends actually come straight away back in the band simply can't accomplish all the work unite as a band and maintain over forty years of tradition value the life lessons associated with teamwork and playing on a team and being part of a group that's bigger than just one individual in fact as we when we decided to be parents we all said mandatory requirement for our children will be being involved in a team activity as a business owner an employer when i look to hire people i look to see what type of team activities they've done back in my military days serving in the navy we learned what the power of teamwork is all about my son didn't choose all sport my son actually competes higher levels outside of school in other sports but he chose ben you got to be involved in band in eighth grade and my wife and i we got to see what the band was all about and again i  competitively at my leg in high school my wife played it still valley and penn state we know what it's like to be on competitive teams never have i seen in organizations so nurturing of the kids and bringing people together to be able to accomplish much more than some parts we believe that our child being involved in the marching band creates the same level of timor and camaraderie that playing sports does which both i believe  necessary requirements to survive and to be hireable and be and have marketable skills in the professional world now during your slack show the see this evening i noticed there was a slide that showed the graduates from last year that went on to play collegiate sports and i said i know some of those kids and i think that's wonderful i'd like to see a sly that shows how many kids from i'd like to it be nice to be able to follow up and see how many of those kids that music still plays a part of their lives long after college is over another interesting statistic i think would be the kids to chose to go to follow engineering and mathematics how many of those kids are also musicians in the professional world i have found that a number of them use people that are musicians are also mathematicians  engineers and it's important they teach our kids how to work together to get ready for the real world i'd like to see the school value the band as much as they value  team sports because it is that valuable thank you not know we've been trying to find our policies and one of the changes we're making is to a lot of the public more opportunity to comment so during the committee meetings before any motion there'll be finance allocated for attention beforehand but one thing that may be missing from this list we had in our agenda packet the minutes from the special meeting that were on monday june sixteenth and that is ninety three tournaments trainers made a point salary increase at one hundred twenty five percent of applicable teacher salary increase for the school year two thousand and fifteen in accordance with the district act ninety three and individual contracts based on superintendents recommendation second is there a discussion this is what i move to amend i move to amend the percentage of one hundred twenty five percent to two hundred fifty percent i ask that for a friendly amendment recommendations approve a salary increase of six thousand five hundred dollars for tracy by dolly assistant superintendent buildings ground transportation effect of the allied first two thousand and fourteen based on the recommendation of superintendent  consistent with article sixty of her of her june twenty fourth two thousand and thirteen employment agreement salary change will increase her salary from forty five thousand and fifty one thousand five hundred  recommendation consider a motion to approve the salary adjustment for the confidential secretary payroll specialist independently contract employees and at the will employees he attache yes i want to make an additional statement about this the staff are ninety three staff administrators all worked with us and they've taken a significant increase in their contributions to their own health care in light of the challenges that we see ahead of us as a team with the board in a team our goal is to keep the finances as close to the classroom as possible and  again i want to just acknowledge that our team has made considerable efforts were to reducing for example each arm and met their goal of ten percent reduction in their discretionary spending in their schools in addition to and materials for adoption i am not going to read them all they take up bottom of page three page four all on page five and the top half of page six these are recommendations for all of the buildings for all of the subjects that are listed i would just like to call your attention to page five the new mathematics tax the invision math which will be purchased for k through six which is the largest amount of this budget video that's on there about the envisions program and i wanted to thank the administrators and teachers and everyone it took to get information because i think it's very valuable to parents to know why it is going on with the math program and what their kids will see on a day to day basis and i think it's a great way that our district is communicating in that fashion because i this is finance mr hardy finance committee meeting was held on june ninth with the following recommendations and mr chair if you don't mind since many of these are repeats i'd like to take them as a whole instead of each one individually if that's acceptable and just do it right i mean the committee moves recommend the recommendation is to move numbers five through thirteen for the only thing else that the finance committee has i would point both the board and the audience to page twenty four of the agenda under item number twenty nine for various reasons the number of seven million dollar not to exceed number we are amending that to be ten million dollars not to exceed ten million dollars that will come for a vote later but that's part of the finance recommendation series of policies went through a committee meeting and now i know one through nine eighteen on the agenda are up for first reading having said that there are some different policies that i'd like to bring with proposed changes from the committee level to the first three level and so i wanted to read those into the record and if anybody has any problems with that or approved three public participation in a board meeting we need to discuss this one just briefly because at the last committee meeting we were trying to come up with language  you will while we have been doing on a month to month basis recently and mr macmurray said they were offering the opportunity for the public to speak after at the committee level before we during the board committee section there is a language all the way to the word in the language that i have come up with to accomplish the objective d so i'm recommending that language and if that occur the language that is struck at the end of that treats near the end of the meeting after the board concludes voting on agenda item comment will be accepted on agenda items only i would like to keep that because we still intend to let allow people to comment at the end of the meeting just as they always were so that would be a new paragraph and then when you look at the current paragraph number three you see some strike groups and some hundred lines and what i'm proposing is at the committee level dr murphy was trying to accomplish everybody's changing and i think the impression that i got when we lapped that meeting was that the three should stand as it normally should so that strike out language should remain and so the recommendation then is to leave that as it was so we agree during the meeting if the by the sunshine law to give the opportunity for the public to speak on items that were not originally listed on the agenda but that were brought up at their regular meeting so my proposal for nine  is to have four paragraphs instead of three in that section so i'd like to ask the forward if they had any comments on just bad section and there's a couple other minor changes by does everybody agree with that no with respect to the new item three which would be the breakdown of what's known as deleted languages or better yet because we are already permitting public comment or any probably be proposed as item number four on i believe to be completely extraneous but in the interest of documenting our full compliance with sunshine law it's fine  i'd like to take a break right now please everyone don't leave to strike that language that gives the ability to comment on the agenda items only and yes yes i agree with that since we've already given them the right to speak at the time that they're brought up ok so and paragraph number two there that's just a risk you know sunshine law that i don't know and maybe that's a list for question and it's always been my understanding that you have to give the public the opportunity at and then if that happened we were just called the orders of the day and we would move on to the next agenda item so there is a way to handle that issue without putting in a policy under robert's rules of order we just a got the time to gender so we'd say from seven ten to seven twenty five is public comment if it goes past seven twenty five board member calls for the orders of the day we move on so there's a way to handle it without having a policy which i think frees us up to allow it if it's a substantial issue or to call it from day so there is a lot because there a sentence beginning with at the time that contact with the office is may the word president should be added to the list of participants because right now we're saying when they come to speak they have to say whether they're attacked their employee or student but our president also has the ability to speak so we need to add resident to ensure that it is compliant with the about the only open question there was the gold card there was a question mark as to the age of the purchase and we could either remove it or add age sixty two or sixty five this week or do we could just refer to a well i've heard sixty two and i've heard sixty five so when we do when actually this comes up or i can read we are asking that he administration and ministry of regulations that comply with it so if week the category is titled classroom observation we refer to a class visitation and i'd like to change the word visitation to observations so complies with the title heading anybody have any thing else i know they are nine zero nine nine ten i don't have anything on nine twelve language i was under the understanding that the language at the end of the first paragraph provided a group three refer to educational purposes or student related notices would not be added to the policy can be felt it already says student related and we talked about the exclusion of some material if it only related to educational like if it was  know the chamber raised that is an educational but it raises money for a student scholarship so i dialed our green meant was to now i include that language or not and that language because it wasn't in the original my recommendation would be to strike that language because it's not in the current policy a lot of our discussion centered about the would just stick to the possibility that figured out that everybody agree with ninety nine thirteen point one and nine me i don't have any further changes on now for our first read when we asked for  this contract we get to put up a sign saying that you're using our service and the question came up should we allow that type of provision in our contract or shouldn't we i think if we allow it and we  say it would be governed by nine thirteen point wine if they we do allow the advertisement that's the language we should put it and the contract and that's a contractual in our policy wise and it all on day one of us or and then have it changed throughout this year so this is the first read of the nine hundred but they won't come up for a long time to add to that if you have a question you can approach the podium it would be great permission of the school to do so it's more to get my understanding is that the local police department teach permission or needs to be requested by the school to be able to police caving came in gave a presentation and it's centered around drinking alcoholic beverages at the track facilities and the police chief made the comment that they are allowed to go in and or not because there is a natural statute that says you cannot i'm ordinance or local law that says you cannot have alcohol at the bridges in our parks so they will enforce that but because there is no state laws saying that you cannot have alcoholic beverages on school property they would only be able to enforce your policy so maybe that's what you're asking if we have a policy that there is no state law parallel would we have police officers a enforce our policy that i wouldn't i was not asking whether or not the police would enforce policy nor would i expect that but if a law was being broken does to the police have jurisdiction to come on to school property in a force the law or does someone from the school have to a request there it depends i mean it really depends on the i'm trying to understand what is the policy around the police