students or two students here tonight from that ross wick lynn are you here today kay katherine lot in there i know she had to work tonight and catherine lucy is actually here do you mind staying up alone what i want why i wanted to bring these students forward is because i myself was impressed with what you have to achieve in order to get into the national technical honor society from western area you have to have a three point  o grade point average from your home district you have to have straight a's from western area and you can't miss ten days of school and along with that go a lot of scholarship opportunities for the future for your job and katherine is here and she is in child care services and only in tenth grade and got into the national technical slot size so that's quite an accomplishment so i thank you for coming tonight and your parents are here to thank you gradua to business office we have a motion second it's been moved and seconded to approve the motion to present business office recommendations is there a discussion some recommendations to read the first one is recommendation consider a motion to prove the reappointment events and bell sick as district business administrator for the term of july first two thousand and fifteen through june thirtieth two thousand and seventeen pursuant to the term of his may twenty first two thousand and twelve contract for employment second it's been moved and seconded is there any discussion any public  suspension for employee number zero four one four one five second it's been moved to second it is very discussion as this is a personal might have been will be not having public comment on this any other discussion on favorite and oppose no motion caird three recommendation consider motion to create three division math team leader positions one per building for grades k through six this is a one year supplemental contract position the stipend for this position will be three thousand dollars second it's been  of a question it says the stipend for this position will be three thousand is that three thousand total or three thousand times three teachers three thousand times three so that for the position will be three thousand and if total will be nine yes if we fill all three will be a total of nine is it into supported that this is a long term situation or is this an implementation periodic position it's an implementation recall of last year we can't remember the exact number the first two for this school year this is a reduction now it's down to one per building and the next year we phasing it out only to support the implementation taking any other responsible bitter at a total cost of two million two hundred thirty four thousand five hundred forty four dollars including trade in allowance of nine thousand five hundred ninety five dollars other bids were received from mars and bluebird this purchase is funded by the capital projects   running and receiving reimbursement from the state they can't be older than ten years old ok in the past the district has averaged two buses per year on a purchase we have now heading in i believe mister belcher can support this i'm so ken mr gault we have about nine buses which is now gone or will be going out of reimbursement because we haven't been taking the ten percent of buses per year and refurbished are buying new ones so you know who even though we're purchasing three this year which is more than we purchased every year for the past fourteen years years it still doesn't meet the requirements so we'll be looking at  three or more buses in the future to in fact make up so we can receive the state reimbursement mr merrill when you say in order to get reimbursement what does that mean the buses the state will reimburse you for again we are running about or we will be running at the end of this year but between seven to nine busses which we do not receive reimbursement any other discussion do you know like the reimbursement i mean is it significant mr belcher is going to be looking that up for us once again i know it's large in the beginning and then goes down as the buses get older but the specifics amount i do not know this is if i may mr murray this was a part of long range vision planning when we did our bond issue for having the money available in capital projects so for the public's knowledge this isn't just something that crept up on us this is a part of our long range planning and the money is there for this purchase and i can add that we are the between the transportation department of finance office are going to be running an analysis of that between the analysis of when is the best time to purchase looking at the the loss of the reimbursement versus the cost of the new purchase to find out the exact amount so when we come to next year we'll have all of that  number six recommendation consider a motion to approve the change ordered number one a at a cost of seventy eight thousand nine hundred thirty six dollars ninety five cents for miscellaneous a fact improvements at the high school this is for the purchas our system control wiring condensing unit ceiling work test and balancing refrigerant piping and insulation this purchase is funded by the capital project fun we have a second it's been moved and seconded to have more discussion mr mcrae i had asked mr gall to come up and just give a really short synopsis on why whenever we did our bid these items these next two items were not in fact during part of that they composed together  timeframe and provided these two three actually three change orders one for children unit that fit that was a no brainer it had to be replaced because it was for a very very f system that has a split room and the other one better change orders for the bounce that's the one everyone being on i like just say i'm in favor of this and we've gone quite a while mr merrill with the having a problem with the air conditioning down there and initially there were some prices that mr gold had gotten changed system out one for one as it was the fact that there had been a lighting from the high discharge lights that created a lot of heat and we switched over to compact fluorescents which were cool it kind of changed the whole heating and cooling for that area so it's almost the timing is almost you know a blessing because we had to be able to use the instrument of a change order and if you look on it on this change order to actually it's keeping the contractor to five percent overhead on their markup and keeping them to ten percent profit wasn't here so i didn't have that information so i questioned it and mr golden mr ed in fact talked to me today and explained exactly what was going on with that last week i had a program up there at the high school with one of the commissioner candidates and our microphones actually blew up because of the heat so i you know he said it it definitely does make a difference for sure so they said but i agree with you it should not fact be done ok thank you recommendation number seven consider a motion to approve change order number one be at a cost of eighty three thousand ninety seven dollars and sixty seven cents for the muslim is h back improvements of the high school this order is for the purchase and installation of a  chilled water piping for the purpose of cooling the studio located in the basement area of the high school this purchase is funded by the capital projects fund and a second second mooted second at any board discussion the minute that you eat balancing incorporated for additional work being performed at the high school each fact improvements due to a change reduced number one a and number one b this purchase is funded by the capital projects  solicitor proposals to replace the high school front entrance doors and associated hardware this purchase would be funded by the two thousand and fifteen two thousand and sixteen capital projects fund two second from those who i'm sorry enter the high school the doors to hardware that were installed in in the one nine hundred ninety nine two thousand renovation is simply just worn out bait the propping up of the doers the misuse of the the man of the red color doors were my place to harbor all the pain mechanisms all the reds are all in very poor condition and need to be they've been tendered to have been adjusted there's been professionals to come look at them and they all tell me that's time that we have to move on i realize it is much more actually just listening proposal yes that's all i'm asking for i would really like to solicit a proposal to have a man trap door there so whether we have to have another set of doors in front of those doors if they have to put a facade in that just it was tabled we haven't moved ahead with that it would be appropriate to do that this time will be able to and in addition to getting just a price to fix a regular doors possibly look at a proposal to put a man trap i can certainly do that if permitted i think that would be an appropriate alternate you know thing that concerns me and i know mr dunn levy has has raised this several times about getting a five year plan going for the high school is the thing when this comes back to me is that when you spend money at the high school you always want to ensure that obviously if there's safety issues if you're spending a of man hours those have to to fix them that definitely has to be considered but you also have to consider what money are we spending now that is wasteful to the extent that you move the front entrance to the side or you do something different there and that's the only thing that concerns me as a fourth members i don't want to spend money today if it's not necessary that you know five years down the law and it's going to be for not that's that's a thing that will concern me depending on how costly it is which i'm guessing it would probably pee pretty costly and that's something i struggle with all the time right high screen of words to make thing were to cut it off but i feel that the security of the  missing work and i just to remind my fellow board members that this is only a request for seeking proposals and while i think the discussion is healthy i think it should be held off to the time in which we have a proposal on our table to actually vote on because we're going to take up time you know discussing recommendation number ten consider a motion to solicit bozos to replace the high school tractor with an all terrain vehicle a t v with salt spreader employed all this purchase will be funded by the two thousand and fifteen two thousand and sixteen capital projects  thousand and fifteen number eleven recommendation consider a motion to approve entering into a memorandum of understanding with the national math and science initiative names on terms and conditions set forth in the attach care recommendation consider a motion to approve the following text books for initial presentation i am not going to read through all the detail here but page four page  five the books are represented over here behind me on the table anyone who's interested in looking at them they will be there correct me if i'm wrong dr french for a month correct ok so and there are signs that say please don't take them away if you want to look at them you need to let the administration know that you are doing her second degree murder second any board discussion i have a question about the six year license is that the expected life of the book is the expected life of a of a foreign language book because most of these are foreign language books it's just the online version in that i understand that right person what's the expected life of a physical version of a book until it falls apart so in our foreign language should know i'm teasing our foreign language books or are approximately about ten years old now so it depends on when it's time to update based on culture and vocabulary for the books our current books have walk mans and boom boxes as the for the vocabulary learning thank you so do you ever i guess going along with mrs bowman's questioning do you ever have the ability to negotiate a longer of lies for the same amount of money to the extent we keep using your book i guess we can try we were able to get six years and we've gone back and forth quite a bit with this company that's why we're not purchasing the french four books because   i will read through these quickly middle school b c i t which is business computers in information technology yes computer applications eight an english language arts critical analysis of text seven the high school art department will be two new ceramics classes and building in will throwing each of the most semester english department project based assessment for literature keystone exam this is in case there is any student who needs to take this class we don't know yet whether there will be same thing for the math department project basis assman for algebra one keystone media department media one mass communications media basic editing in design media on air talent physical education department the partners physical education the science department project basis essman for biology keystone that falls into the same category as the one for english and math technology education theater and exhibit designed world language department global outlooks all those  partners in the we presented it education committee and called it adapted fiz ad and when we went back to the high school it's a course for students that can't take physics with the general population and it's an opportunity for students interested in potentially majoring in physical therapy or education to take it alongside students they can't take a general p e class partner's p e s a nationally known title or quote for a course name through spark ok thank you number fourteen recommendation consider a motion to approve the following course name changes for the two thousand and fifteen two thousand and sixteen school year if i understand these correctly these are all classes that we currently have and the names are being changed to reflect more precisely what is the content is that correct yes and then the a p changes are all mandated by the college board ok one does i think they just is going to names it class plus not computer any other board discussion any public comment i don't favor a number fourteen play say i i if you have anything else mrs smith no thank you ok thank you dr already finance finance committee meeting is scheduled for monday june the eighth the first recommendation we have is to consider a motion to adopt the proposed final general fund budget for the two thousand and fifteen sixteen school year in the amount of fifty nine million six hundred eighty seven thousand four hundred three dollars the polygamy budget was adopted in february and that public because i called this afternoon and say why are we voting on the final budget today when it's not due until the end of june and i know that there's going to be changes and so i wanted to raise the fact when you see the word proposed final you could use the word tentative too so this really isn't the final budget is the proposed final so it's almost like a draft final so i just wanted to raise that because it's not intuitive nineteen thousand three hundred eighty four dollars this excludes salary and benefits so it has been moved and seconded any for discussion and a public discussion  and sixteen place a i n i n oppose no motion carried the third recommendation is to consider a motion to adopt the tentative curriculum budget in the amount of four hundred thirty one thousand five hundred forty dollars final recommendation is to consider a motion to adopt the capital projects budget for two thousand and fifteen sixteen school year in the amount of seven million three hundred seven thousand three hundred fifty three dollars second i was just looking at that we don't have a tentative earning on that so it's we're still ok with that so i'm assuming based on what i've been told that's our number you know we should say tentative i had a question i had called today and is mrs belcher still here because i was asking what the visual alert system was and i didn't know i was told maybe that was a security thing that you were asking my i just wanted to point out from the finance committee i thought last board meeting we approved the position of assistant athletic director and while we have had retirements that have helped us reduce the deficit between our budget and our income at this time it is simply not financially feasible for us to actually fill that position although it remains as an approved position for the district we will seek to continue to shrink the deficit between our contractual obligations and our income to present hopefully a balanced budget coming up and those services that would be included underneath that job posting will be spread out throughout other staff to cover those positions those put those those positions are vitally important and the issues for why the board decided to approve that position still stands but at this time because of financial shortfalls we are going to not feel that at this time ok thank you i just got a general public interest have you heard anything out of harrisburg as far as any progress or no on progress or any might be if i got i hear out of harrisburg is complete confusion but i i have not personally seen anything that i will speak to unless you've seen things i have not i have not i thought maybe you saw some no i've been looking paying attention but if i could move further with one other comment we are and this is for the public's knowledge we are conducting a sweep of eight of our services and our contracts will obligations regarding services and any other vendors that we used to see if there's any savings mr boucher can i met today with  a local bank for a proposal for our banking services to just make sure that we're achieving the greatest savings there as well and so this is happening across the board with all of our services and in all of our service lines and so for the public's  up with p s p a on my frustration and i do you know i believe that there are separate proposals one by republicans and one by the democrats on pension reform doing a little bit different things and  you know i think one passed the house and one in the senate so nothing has passed both houses and then there's also legislation moving forward with respect to the property tax reduction as well as the income tax increase which is supposed to you know bring more money our way which will not happen for our district but there is legislation going through there too but the thing from p s p a this morning said that i think maybe there's a recess until june first and that's when they're going to start talking about the budget june first for the public's sake may i just add to this is anderson's comments those reductions in property taxes would only be met with increasing taxation in other places in so while  the public would see a savings in their property tax the analysis has been done by many that it would actually increase in other areas and so i would encourage the public to be very very careful at reading these reports because there's way more to it than simply this headline that says your property taxes are going to be reduced because that means your wallet will be lighter in other places for other reasons so i just put that out there so people pay attention to that well i would love to see that happen property tax reduction i do not want to see that happen with increases in other areas that they mask it in in terms of you don't know that it's there and you're still paying more for those other services and so it needs to be thoroughly thought out and by the way it did separate bills to pass through different respective branches of government but i know one bill was will thank you mr sanderson passed the committee yes a policy committee meeting was held on monday april twenty seventh two thousand and fifteen this agenda includes the first reading of the following policies that  listed except i do at this time want to remove policy eight nineteen from the first read the explanation is that there was a state law passed that required by the beginning of next school year for every school district to have a suicide awareness prevention and response policy and the statute required pennsylvania department of education to draft a model policy they have not finished doing so p s p a knowing that a lot of school districts have to have this in plays drafted their model tala see and provided it to all of the districts who subscribe to their policy service so initially we were going to propose so we want the opportunity to compare the two policies and it's my understanding that there will still be a possibility to have it go through a first read in a second read so that it is available at the start of the school year but  policy language change we will get a model policy from them and that's what this current nineteen was supposed to do but we would like the opportunity to review it against the department of education's model so having removed eight nineteen i just wanted to raise one other issue and that if you would look at your policy number three three two it's a very minor change and it deals with working periods and it talks about employees filling out daily work hour time sheets and that's only required for not nonexempt employee meaning employees that are entitled to overtime pay so if you turn over to the very fact after page that paragraph there without prior approval of the supervisor as authorized by the superintendent no employee shall start work before his or her regular scheduled starting time that only applies to nonexempt employees because salaried employees certainly start before their normal regularly scheduled time so before the word no in the second law we should insert my suggestion is to insert the word nonexempt so that it's just limited to nonexempt employees and you'll see that in the prior two paragraphs the same terminology or adjective would describe the employees so does anybody have a problem with adding nonexempt they're ok so we'll make that change as any other board member have any issues to raise with policies mr henderson i don't have any issues but i would like to let the public know that you have spent amount of time on these policies and being on the committee with you i have had the opportunity to watch you go into depth on what two hundred seventy different policies since we've started this last year and i just want to thank you very much for your involvement in this person i have a comment it's not anything about policies i would like to take a special look at nine o four in terms of communicating this policy to the public and to our security personnel to make sure that people understand that with the effective date of this policy there will be no smoking by any human on school premises and that includes an athletic events et public that this is a change and it will be effective and it will be enforced and i know too that i will say at the p t s a meeting officer steve exposed to the parents in attendance at that meeting and he actually commented on the fact that the signage that the superintendent arranged to have about now call it bad bridges and that type of thing really did help them in force that policy last year during the football games things like that are helpful and i also say that while i'm fully in favor of this and i'm very happy we're doing this i think this does create a nightmare for  our law enforcement in our in for service let's just say at these events i can speak only my experience but being at some of these events and watching the officers have to inject people who were last year drinking and whatnot again i'm all for the policy but it's going to create a nightmare and you know running around trying to catch every single person who's got one of these little things in their hand in there puffing away well actually that wasn't a change in the policy the policy always because there are too many places but i think we should communicate with the public that this is how it is  k are there any comments from the public on any of the particular policies out for first three ok so the next is a recommendation consider a motion to suspend policy nine three four at the june twenty ninth two thousand and fifteen voting meaning to the stant that it requires copies of all policies to be adopted or modified to be attached to the agenda policy rewrite we have gone through every policy that we have in the district and it as of tonight they have all gone through a first read except this eight nineteen so when we go to a second read there will be about two hundred twenty policies on for that evening the current policy requires us to attach copies of those to the agenda we have provided copies at every meeting including tonight of all the first copies of all of them and so what i am asking by this motion is that they will be posted to the meeting website but that to copy two hundred fifty pages i mean actually two hundred fifty policies would just be unwieldy so that's the purpose of that this is anderson can make can i ask you for the second reading if we can still make changes correct yes you could still make changes so there's going to be the opportunity just like tonight to make any comments or anything it's just that copies will not be provided ok thanks to the miller board discussion in a public discussion on the side or in favor now you thank you and if you want to continue on with e s p n yes the only thing usually i bring up some can some educational stehman ours that are coming up and i just wanted to the board know that there's an all day school last symposium on wednesday june seventeenth and i believe our solicitor might be making a presentation during that day it's downtown it's like an all day if you want continuing legal education credit you can get it so i'm planning on going so if anybody wants to tag along just let me know but there is a june seventeenth it's the sam francis it's a pit in oakland and it's every year it's an end you will symposium and it's really great to have all different subjects but i think the one that will be talking about some employ misconduct and also be presenting on special education as well so we can thank that make you lose my report  area on may twelfth we had the western area graduation ceremonies and i would like because i always think it's important to mention students names at these meetings and like to congratulate our students who are in the certificates for their graduation ceremony and they were stephen barr from emergency in protective services daniel yost emergency protective services luke mcreynolds machine shop kenneth dodson mechatronics and jacob o'donnell networking congratulations basically a theme this year was called courage to succeed they had a young lady that spoke their sarap visit that actually is it an author of a book she had went through public school in buffalo park she went on to college right state university she has a physical physical handicap and i have to tell you i will never look again at somebody with physical handicap the same way after coming in contact with this woman it was just an incredible mind she was able to communicate through a vibe a vibe box it was a device of ox she has actually sang the national anthem at a pittsburgh pirate game and in cleveland indians game she also spoke to pledge allegiance at the republican national convention in two thousand and four but it was just incredible you could ask her questions and she would respond to him using a little switch up by her head that she would actually filter through words and put an answer together and it was just incredible our sense of humor and i think it's just wonderful statement that she went to a public school and went ahead to college or got a degree and has a job