excellent and academic peter soundscapes youngest history in these years made their presence known in their regional competition of the national history day contests twenty eight students from peter sound of high school and middle school were among the more than five hundred contestants who gathered at the heinz history center for th if our health celebrated the birthday of dr seuss this week with a visit from some very special readers a national honor society students from the high school the n h s students read a selection of books supporting our health care account seems and the school wide two thousand thirteen scenes of express yourself and now for excellence in the ar second graders next hour hill have shared their love of music and their knowledge of dinosaurs through their annual musical diamond stars the show was the culmination of their study of dinosaurs and features the collaboration between the regular classroom our class and these throughout the day students are being recognized for their artistic endeavors in the p t a reflections are contests on many will recognize at the building and local levels so you can't get both twenty four winners at the regional level and for students who finish the saunders library hosted the annual gallery of his slaves to the photography this year's event features the work of more than one hundred students from the photography classes and the productive the club at the high school moving on to excellen in case you missed this the first time you can still watch the high school dance team's performance at the national championship on e s p n too it will air for the final time on sunday april fourteenth from one to two  mcmurry teacher we're back to where bridge has earned five hundred dollars scholarship for her classroom from east school e u the district's website provider reports demonstrated a creative uses of web technology in education as a classroom website that simulates student learning and engage parents in the process peter sounds of high school executive council has established a network of student leaders with surrounding school districts called the pennsylvania student leadership consortium to kick start the efforts to high school hosted a student leadership conference on february twenty eighth at the school a conference focused on building relationships sharing ideas and working toward collective collaborative action between school districts moving on to excellence  to fill an entire storage room at the school last week many members of our community in our school employees took conferences that in focus groups that will help narrow the search for the new superintendent of schools if you were not able to take part in the session your voice may still be heard by using the e mails or phone number and no additional comments except a group of the students i believe from the very elementary school brought us over notes that they had written to their bus drivers about the importance of safety and how much they appreciate the drivers getting that to and from school safely and so we did a little mock up of the school bus with their letters attash dip it would like to read that we were very proud of that lot of wonderful activities are out there in the audience tonight i appreciate their coming in two thousand and ten two thousand and eleven the district underwent a complete enrollment in facilities assessment and evaluated the needs of both current and future students given our curriculum goals and expectations of students as they go on to post secondary education of facilities and enroll my committee was formed to recommend improvements and modifications to each of the school buildings as well as the athletics complexes the high school campus was listed as one of the top priorities along with other needs such as the pv athletic complex then at that worry fifteenth two thousand and eleven special meeting of the border school directors the importance of improving the high school complex was discussed a statement was read into the minutes that stated as one might imagine the task of analyzing the high school campus and preparing an improvement plan is an honor it's one the administration and teachers have held numerous meetings to discuss modifying the high school campus to deal with enrollment increases both now and in the future and tune in to address twenty first century learning environments a construction plan of this size is not something that happens every few years therefore any modifications to the high school campus must address our needs for many years to come i want to assure you that the administration and our committee are continuing to commit the resources necessary to develop the high school campus improvement plan and hope to present it to you in the near future at the same meeting in february of two thousand and eleven the board voted to move forward on plans to improve the p v fields once the fields were completed many in the community waited for needs at the high school to be addressed in the fall of two thousand and eleven the district circulated a survey concerning a possible renovation of p t h s and the potential tax increase that might be necessary no surprise the majority said no based on feedback from p t a membership every council has been gently nudged to address this issue the p t a s concern is that the community never understood why the high school is insufficient to meet our current and future educational needs p t a area council then voted to proceed on a campaign to inform parents and community members about the issues with the facility in its impact on curriculum safety and security we have produced a brochure with top line issues with the facilities as well as the fact sheet with more detailed information both mailable and the p t a area council website we have copies for members of the audience has them if anybody wants any i have done some research on our community and how it compares to the surrounding communities on the pennsylvania department of education website of the school districts in washington county we have the second lowest military only california school district is lower i also looked at total adjusted personal income for twenty ten which the latest year that they had available peters township has the highest total personal income of any school district in washington county and it's only a bit lower than that in upper st clair and mount lebanon i also looked at market value which was available for two thousand and nine peters township had the second highest market value just behind canon back in our numbers were comparable to those in opera st clair and mount lebanon it can be argued that our district has the ability to put itself in a position to afford the necessary improvements to the high school the question is do we have the will and so that p t s call to action for the public is to sign our petition so that we can present to the school board a block of support age you in making the difficult decisions involved in such a project as a high school renovation while we are in the process of gathering this court we ask that before any smaller capital improvements to the high school campus are voted on that a long range plan be made for what needs to be done at the high school in fact at a recent building and grounds committee meeting earlier this year mr macmurray made the point that there are many needs in this district for which plans need to be made we sincerely hope that the board construct a long range vision for capital improvements in this district before any short range plans are made thank you hi good evening i'm joanne bates and i'm here to support the efforts as well as the area p t a council informing the community on the issues with the high school facility and i just wanted to share with you some of the safety and facilities issues that were just readily apparent to me having a high school student and being relatively new to the district overcrowding anyone who's been through the high school knows that there is an overcrowding situation if you try to get in the hallways or the stairwells during change of class time i mean it's very apparent there are classrooms that are overcrowded one that was brought to my attention specifically is the foreign language classroom where the students actually have to push deaths to one side to get into the  room many of the classrooms have no windows and that was we all know what happened during the recent power outage with the kids not having to sit in the dark but this also creates a safety issue should there be a fire or any reason that the kids need to get out of the room there is no secondary eat grass i was also made aware of some special ed issues in the special ed classes shared with the staff which is never a good idea i mean there are special it staff should have the ability to have confidential conversations and that can happen these are just some of the items that were apparent to me so i support the p t s position before we move forward and improving any bit to move forward with the high school football field that we have a plan on what we're going to do with that building thank you thank you thank you oh yes i'm sorry i just i just assumed anybody else anything will come up plaistow i followed as i didn't realize i should have signed up i had a time you don't you don't have to sign up ok great my name is barry mcluckie and i'm a resident in the township i'm here we're actually wearing two hats i am the president of the boosters organization for the high school soccer teams and i'm also a professional and after returning a sports medicine  for the past twenty plus years and been a college professor and taught a lot of course is regarding liability with regard to sports medicine and that type of thing so i'm here in support of the suggestion and the recommendation for a new high school stadium turf replacement and i think it's very vital that we look into that i know it's on the agenda tonight our membership of the soccer boosters is very much in support from what i understand many other booster organizations are also in high support of this this agenda item and from the sports medicine side of things a lot bill is a really the hot issues in sports medicine and if you've watched v at all our concussions he donates and facility maintenance and this is off obviously a facility maintenance issue and if you've been on the field i don't know how many of you have but it's certainly run its course as far as the lifespan of the turf and we feel strongly that it should be replaced and we would look for your support for that on that issue so thank you very much my name is barry b a r r support of the of replacing the turf of high school field i don't have the background in sports training and liability that very goes but i can tell you that from our from our perspective if you've been to the high school field the turf is useful life and it is full of trip hazards and quite frankly is an accident waiting to happen so we supported the effort as well thank you very much evening i have something that may be considered old business i notice of the board received a letter in our packet from mike sylvestris and i wanted to know joe if you any follow up on when that meeting that joint meeting between the two governing  think i have something under all business policy twelve sixteen i'm just it's not a lot of discussion just wanted to say to the board that we've passed this policy in september of two thousand and ten it is our partnership and advertise thing policy and it was about ten pages so i have anybody can look at it at their leisure but what i would like to have the board consider is some draft letters that can actually go out to some of these businesses so we can actually put our policy into and do use maybe see if we can generate some of this partnerships and advertising in our community especially with a lot of these expenses we have have i mean up the shortage of the money that we have the funding we have coming in so the board would consider doctored imperio or that or his designee possibly drafting some letters for us we could take a look and maybe start to make something happen and these letters out new business yes i have some new business as we all know our school district operates with character counts and i'm on your character counts committee i wanted to mention that the character counts  under character in the wanted to make sure you know what time did you say it was on the twenty third i'm sorry it's on the twenty third at seven o'clock here's township coun you sandy we have any other new business this is office for this is ranch style from thorpe read by counsel to sell the bonds to the general public of the board to show mt and pass it out to you a summary page of nine million seventy thousand dollars that included six million seventy thousand for the refunding of the series of two thousand eight issue which resulted in a saving some police report of three hundred sixty five thousand dollars that will be available to the school district at the closing of the bond issue which is april on april twenty third and also provided three million for various capital projects the and then all the bonds sold very well today i think i left subway to rating in the bond market is always well received and we never have trouble finding investor interest and that results in lower interest rates the third page so i'll show you a sort of a bar chart and that again this refinancing and the barring of the new money still needs in fact that new structure the board came up with last year to lower the debt burden and you can see that really this financing with the three million new money really just sort of adds to about an extra year a little more new year and a half on twenty twenty eight twenty twenty nine that's sort of that wrap around approach keep stan you impact on this very very low for the board and still well below what the previous thresholds were which for over five million dollars so we're very very happy with the refunding we started out a quite a while ago and take up or two as we try to wait for the market to recover but the target was two hundred eighty five and if and i'm sure there will over the span of fifteen years at the debts outstanding as a start to pay down in twelve or thirteen years new borrowings that are will be a necessity for any type of building improvements your world situated because what districts have it's real it's that if the calculation is you take the average of your last three years revenues so in and then you take that number times two hundred twenty five percent and then you subtract from that the debt you have outstanding can seen situations where you can have your fun balance allowed to have give you more capacity if you're willing to pledge a certain portion of it to future debt they will dollar for dollar let you  statement the other day i'll see if i can find it here blackberry maybe get that capacity number too f right now tom about how much principal that we pay off the year given our new financing is this part are just friends of ours of principle plus interest it's up principal plus interest so we pay all something less than three and a half million dollars a year in principle seating and approve the execution of a bond purchase agreement then it would be appropriate to adopt this pont resolution this evening and once it's adopted changing market rates will impact you that are locked in as i said it also authorizes the issuance of the bonds of nine million seventy thousand dollars to series and we have to submit the proceedings to the apartment of communicant amik development and the bond resolution authorizes us to do that is your bond counsel it sets forth probably it eight or nine pages of the actual form of the baud which will be approved and finalized april twenty third so we sent copies your solicitor i'll be pleased to answer any questions that would be appropriate to submit this to the board and usually by rule called the end does our idea resolution ok so by the board approving item number five the recommendation but i would point out i think it was pointed out to me that it says unlimited tax power but as we all know there is fact one  italy scheduled for april twenty second personnel if needed with the option of adding more staff based on the student numbers for the remainder of the two thousand and twelve thirteen school year the estimated cost for the after school tutoring program is approximately sixteen hundred dollars there would be three teachers at the high school for eligible one two for biology and one for literature all of this is part of the preparation and remediation for the keystone exams the collective bargaining agreement between the district and the teachers union for the two thousand and twelve thirteen car track and the detail is in the agenda but the gist of it is the retirement age will be reduced from sixty to  sixty and the minimum years of service will be reduced from thirty three to thirty and also the employer must give those to the district of retirement by may first two thousand  have a second is there any discussion it was ever the way jade i'm sorry is this exactly what we offered last year to the best of my knowledge aside from the date there there were other provisions things in it i can't imagine that we would send out a bid you know have the architect repair the bit for turf replacement at the high school at the same time we would have the f letter director getting beards and yeah that's the question i was going to ask as a follow up on if we actually then do the project he'll put his fees onto the project cost if we decide not to do the project how much is he charged just to get the bit a couple thousand dollars or when they were doing almost all that for free but i think we had an excessive amount of time they attended all of the high school meetings with the teachers on the renovation they came to several them voting on if we have no idea how much it's going to i believe that we do have an agreement because he has done this for the past i just can't tell you what the number is only because i worked with him as buildings and grounds chair before so do you have a copy of that to our table this for a little later until we get the answer think you mean table for later this evening yeah well i'd like to discuss it because the timing later if we could just table it for now and wait to see if he can get an answer for us yes and the part you finish mrs smith you think the only other comment that i want to make is following up on ron's this has been included as part of the capital projects in our finance committee meetings only it was a huge number because it included everything from doing the work on the scoreboard in the press box in the visitor stands this is specifically to get us and estimate of placing the turf or repairing in rehabilitat doesn't mean we're going to spend the money i mean this is to get us data to more appropriately review what's in the capital budget the finance committee meeting so i just don't want people to think that if we go out to bid that means we're going to do the project we haven't voted on it yet i made maybe you can help me with this because i've been game quite a few calls over the week about this confusion with the bond that it can be healed my understanding is yes it's just been a lot of questions coming through my phone about this and i'm trying to understand on this relates to the on the down ok the money is maybe a little bit more layman's terms because we borrow that money that five million before and we said we're going to use it for t v fields and we're going to put money in reserve in case we have to make merry pyrite fix because at the time that was estimated to be like two and a half million dollars three million we bar that extra money to keep it you have to spend it within a certain period of time we're coming up on that amount of time that we will have to spend that money we don't have to spend on the merry pyrite we can spend it to make the renovations to the and windows it mcmurry and do all that kind of stuff then when we borrowed the three million that we just approved tonight that money goes into the general fund and then as we do our budget we decide what projects we want to spend that money on if this is part of our budget process doesn't get approved that it won't be spent on the field with little be spent on other items and we have three years three years to spend the three million dollars that we borrowed tonight and on and on capital projects and capital specifically asked that because my concern was graduation wasn't to like the a for the ninth and then football starts in august but i believe mr geir told us the first football game be scouted as an away game so that we could get the entire month of august but you're right i mean we go out bedwetting takes thirty days we wouldn't be able to discuss it until a meeting and then you would actually have to go out if we approve it and get stuff done and i'm assuming that it's on here tonight because we're trying to hit june if we can't get junior right i mean we're going to do we for you mean yeah i actually i want to bring this up in public but i did check with dr barry on this earlier to give him a sense of what i was thinking but that i want to i want to know what can we do as far as the safety issues if we do have to wait another year or two or what's our plane and get in because i don't have any idea either and also i would like to see a breakdown of these outcomes from the center from the trap so we all know what we're looking at when we start with this together and get these prices in his said mr camp as suggested he does have a standard contract with this and his fees are six percent fee or a total project and i said to him and with this motion the board could take a look at this and  stuff so if he does the design work what you're saying is that when you do with this year if we don't do it this year we didn't lose forty thousand that works already done for next so i have a question do we have to have the architects do the design work before our athletic director goes out and gets bids for repairing things i think they can work simultaneously that's a different thing well that's that's my question the way back to the very beginning this seems like two different things to me one of these could cost us forty thousand dollars and the other one is the athletic director making calls to suppliers to make patches or something which does that cost his celery that's right but another maybe this is two different motions with the motion to talks about preparing the bid specification that's different than getting the design and then what he's going to play here or give me no the bits have to be based on a design donnelly be sent the same thing and we would have had that design in place we'd put it off until the you know say the next year so i don't know a lot about architecture did h h s t r do the design for the current discussion in that place so so but back to to your point so that we would be spending this kind of money this is not something that it's just my opinion that we really have an option or at some point we needed to design at some point whether we can plan it well i don't know what they're going to say or they're going to say we can rebuild like a different year in the board decides on that gone to several people not one person as look at that field has said yes you cannot do your editing you are at the bully grounds meetings you know we had a couple people here john carley spoke he actually had somebody from new jersey that came a look at the field with him and ron got that day and they've all come up the same conclusion that the field has lived its life to expect expectancy it was supposed to be an eight year field it's at ten right now so we're just kicking the can down the road if we don't fix it back now and i'm not saying th organization to do the line now we're going to another organization to build this much more toss the fact you know one company and do it themselves well actually at the building grounds meeting he had brought up that subject this forced them teaming up with somebody and coming under the question of doing it i mean it's still a possibility that that they could go in joint venture with somebody and do this project so i think mr merrill my understanding of this is if we were to use the architect they w prepared the designs and go out for bed to say it was going to pair the turf in the track as we discussed at the meeting and if we went forward that they were doing it i saw the athletic director part of this as being a backup that if we don't go forward with the whole project we've got to fix something because there's turf that's coming up when kids are running on the field and you know we heard during the meeting that games are being stopped so they can attack the turf back down if we decide not to go the i think that's it that's the point was the square we just as you said if the bits coming in and the board doesn't wish to go ahead with the stadium now there's something that we need to look at in terms of trying to rehabilitate by law to competitively bid the project of this size and that it had to intrude so everyone has to be on the same playing field so we have they're going to ask us for the specs of the solicitor if you don't mind i mean you've been sitting here me that they did have a company once come out and they do like a commie get the turk and try to repair it i don't recall exactly when that was done to dick a few years ago years go by two years ago when i was involved in that yes talked about he brought in samples of the turf and what happens when you come in the blades keep splitting and they were afraid so it's been it's been so back to your question about having a  specifications one set of plans not having three different companies coming in with all all of them doing their separate plans even if they charge us last it's still three or maybe even more i don't know how many that we have to get at for the design work and then we decide to renovate the high school and we build on that field or portion of that field then this forty thousand is gone because the design for instance if we the design would have to be redone for a new location right if you're doing drainage work and all that the different spot in the different yard would be different i asked the architect about that because it was the same architect to take a look at the renovation of the building or doing additions and he said that and the different options that he was drawing could considering there was no option where they were considering putting a new building or parts of the new building up on the field so that would pretty much remain as it is for the or if we did a even if we did a read renovation that would not affect the president at the present complex  on the drawings that we've had already know and based on the options and one of the options was a new building and the way greer explained it was one of the options was to move the building where the parking lot is know and then yes and then if we did a totally new build and then after the tear down at the existing building and that would be parking behind behind the new building so so in all of the different options whether it was additions whether it was renovation whether it was a totally new building the present stadium was not considered as a location for a building and i'm just going to run down just a few were the highlights because dr cardin because it's going to give us an update on one of the items we discussed the high school keystone exams and as you see as a result of our discussion we had the personal recommendation from m for tutoring i had an update on the graduation project we had an update on special education transition planning at the middle school and the high school and a small discussion about gifted education  graders at the high school and discussed also allowing the eleventh graders who were going to take the p s a t test on their own to potentially take it on the same day that the tenth graders were scheduled to take it so that they could all do it same time within the district and dr cardin because she got an update from the college board on the dates for providing p october sixteenth for our tenth graders to take it if our eleventh graders or anyone else wanted to take it they would have to take it that day as well they can't then we can't then offered on a saturday so if they want to take it on a saturday they would have to go to a neighboring district if the eleventh graders took the test to be responsible for their cost that's what we did and also my question was just thinking down the road if a tenth grader is absent due to illness doctors a two hundred and mrs smith we discussed at the meeting that we all wanted to move forward to to get that information but we would then there was a consensus to put it into the budget for next year so we have to prove this yet but it's going to go into the budget process for next year since this is not october date so we will have it in our budget and it'll get approved as part of the budget for next year so we're not going to approve this as a separate item on an agenda no not that i'm not that i'm aware we decided to put it in the budget for next year since it was a next year cost ok now the only question i do have is if we're going to make it a requirement for all the tenth graders to take it i think i asked that question too and it was an operation issue because testing with p s essays and other things are all part of district operation so i don't believe that the school board has to actually do anything to have to prove it prove it only the expenditure of funds in the budget ok and i'm assuming that the high school will be issued instructions that there will be no homework for anyone on that tuesday night the night before so they're not there would be helpful to do in five hours of homework while there were i was i forgot to bring my notes on the updates from p s p a on the email that i sent around to the border earlier this week on the ups update on the keystone exams in chapter four so we can do that next  a discussion on twelve already on one one yes cindy since you were the policy chair i'd be really interested to hear your comments on the well i  working to getting that online if so do you want yes i will that policy is an existing policy and we're going to change some of the language in that to go along with the new policy proof of residency which will be a separate registration for new students in the district and the proof for presidency will outline where all new residents to the district will need as proof that their residence at the peters township school district to be able to school district i think it says india have another question then are we not now considering this proof of residency for first reading because you didn't mention that you only mention twelve forty and five once it is yes it is al comments on a brand new poll say yes because usually i mean my memory is we always used to have policy committee meetings where the board would sit down and not take a lot of time and a business meeting to go through and have a discussion yes the reason why are even though we have or are new for the presidency is for a straight forward we still have next month we can still walk at these is because we have so many meetings that we just if we can do any of this now and get these pol out there you can still take a look at him we still have a second reading on all that's can still be done without trying to call a separate policy meeting we are permitted to do them in a regular meeting and as always we can do some of these the whole nine thousand series to go on record as saying that i would really like to have a policy committee meetings in the future so i went back and looked the last policy committee meeting we had was may seventh of last year and i just think since policy is one of the most important things that the board does that it's hard to have an in depth conversation at a business meeting i think i plan on having policy meetings this week for example we had this meeting scheduled one policy and it's something without a lot of changes i'm not opposed to doing it here but when it becomes a hand for more policies i'd like to have a policy committee meeting and i know you said you know that the one thousand series is is waiting to be done  i would like to do that some time when we can i mean the april meetings got pushed back for finance let's look at arced schedule for something and try to have one because i do think those are very important policies about border operations that we are take a look at when mrs mccain was here was nice because she was taken chunks at a time when we did all the four thousand series and some of the five that we really haven't gotten to some of the other ones so i'd like to have one of the near  talk about the one thousand series well i went back in november seem to be you said you would schedule policy committee meeting after the beginning of the year because november december is really busy the holidays and everything and so that's why i thought we would be seen one especially for ok well i have some specific suggestions on the proof of residence see bottom of the first page is a paragraph there that let me just interrupt for one second i do nothing to do with what the detail that you're doing some operations there are i mean i find assumed that we were not getting one thousand from them because that's not airport operations are necessary really mandated by the state some of them are but the amount of time we give people to speak on that kind of stuff i mean that's just ours  yes ok but so wait to hear from them but can i go into my specific comments on these policies now on the bottom of proof of residence page one there's a paragraph that says i'm going to read it because it's hard to pick up in the middle mortgage and lease agreements are temporary proofs of residence only after thirty days a resident must have bit three of their proofs but at the top paragraph you say they have to present three exceptions so is this going to be a total of six proof or does this sentence really mean a resident must submit one of their proof of residence after they if they get thirty days and they don't have their mortgage  ok on the next page top two paragraphs it says a family second line the family fully resides within the boundaries of the school district in order to be eligible for school privileges and  wondering what the definition of of fully reside the is and my question is is that spelled out in the second paragraph section thirteen no two of the ph school code is there a description of what fully reside means there were other statements within this policy for back to that they said you have to live differently when i or year right right and that's that's just what i needed to know and the last thing is down towards the end of the page under the one two three four in number one it says that there is a form that is going to be a r one and have you written that already is that something the board thing get a copy of so if you if you could fix that so otherwise it ends up that requiring them to submit six proof of residency and i'm sure that's not what you meant you have to accept all six no just three well i read it but first a says three and then blow right after it next one down five one one e in the in the paragraph that's being changed on that page i mean this is just niggling little stuff but the word should be including and not included in the second line not limited to just a typo i'm sure and then the second change that i have is on page three in the section that's written in red it says in the policy refer to affidavit of residence support of free school privileges for nonresident child but it doesn't say where we a person would find that what is that is that ph colder i have no idea what that is ok so then maybe we just add some language that would say refer to after david preschool privileges available in the business office or something like that just so it's clear where people would get it ok and my last one on this other new one the electronic records signatures i don't know maybe i missed the meeting with this list discussed but can you tell me who wrote this we think the s b a wrote it your so you think doctors said he wrote it but he and then can you give an example of when this would be used to say i read this and i thought this doesn't say anything to me i don't understand what it wants there parlor you want to give us example  and i and i think we're actually required to have the ability to do that huge and we need to have a policy to cover the use of that without specifying when we're going to use it ok so my specific question then is in paragraph three on the first beginning electronic signature ok i can understand a signature that's pretty straightforward but it says an electronic sound symbol or process attached to or logically i see it with a record so is there some sort of sound or some sort of symbols that go on only talking about a signature because this is what confused me so much mike i don't know this was this was a policy i did not america on thursday evening that i've signed up to attend and p s p a representatives can go half hour early to have some discussions and since we don't have a formal representative i had signed up to go unless the board doesn't mind if i say they had a dinner on march seventh and the reason i wanted to mention it is just because i had a dinner and i always like to mention students from western area and the senior chef there was evan as more and  was a student at here's my school he's a senior and we also another chef that night was also a peter's resident her name is be on a lawyer who will be an incoming senior at yes i just had one quick question darted imperial i notice an item number six where approving summer secretaries for the elementary buildings i'm assuming the secretaries at middle school and high school will come at a later time  i just want to say congratulations to the no two left behind band for being invited to perform at the national character education several years in a row while they are there apparently if you read the documentation in the yes i had two questions a number one the contract says that it's going to be between us and national red cross but it doesn't list who's going to teach it there's no you know  ok great and my second question is number four i'm thrilled that we're going to have risen files for the phone systems i think that'll be great how many two questions actually twenty two dollars and eight cents a question and answer period on agenda items only advocating for optimal class sizes at the elementary level as you go through the budgeting process your first question is on the bond you share the p and c gentlemen stated that this frees up three point two million dollars for capital projects and three hundred sixty five thousand dollars is that money that can go into the general fund mr macmurray the three sixty five year old ok tom are you sure about that i thought that bond was the to pleasant valley in the fall for her budget discussion i asked a question if she anticipated at that point in time that we would also do a similar program this year to encourage early retirement for teachers and that she said that she did not forsee it at that point in time because we did not feel that we're going to have as much pressure on the budget situation because of the funding from harrisburg can you speak to and put this in any kind of context is this something you know why or why is this occurring this year is this something that's go kind of ongoing for the next several years i was just surprised that it was i do i realize that you can save money in two ways you can have a teacher retire at a high salary and replace them with a lower salary you also cannot replace them with two options for your consideration so ok last year and if i don't have the numbers correct i thought the numbers where we had about eleven teachers were tire and about four of those were not replaced two that i recall because it changed the physical education program  k not teachers teaching positions because i know we went down to a pleasant valley in teaching positions and i thought the other two were i'm not sure where exactly they were ok i just wanted to know the context ok thank you very much actress three twenty three snow very circle i'm sorry i missed the beginning i was in a meeting across the street at the library where forty seven people were very enthusiastic about curriculum but that about the agenda here is about the new turf and i understand you're doing it for safety reasons i just want to since you are so concerned about safety i do want to bring it to your attention when we talk about the new school when we do the weather drill like in the spanish hallways the kids there's not even enough room for them to all sit down and have their backs against the halls they're standing in the middle of the halls it's so crowded they can't do the weather drawl also the stairways when we do our fire drills they're just unbelievable how crowded all the stairwells are big safety issues and in the physics room it's so crowded with thirty five students a lot of kids sit on the floor to sit up closer and they can't change the classroom because a lot of tables so i mean i know there's only so much money i know we're talking about safety but these three things well maybe not the physics room because everyone doesn't take physics but the weather drills and fire drills i mean that is impacting all of the students in the high school and so when you're looking at safety issues i mean you know my kids play sports too i just want you to really look at those to thank you thank you ok any other comments questions or comments from the f allowing me to address you i was not here earlier because i was at a basketball game which got a little bit of teasing in the audience for but i am part of the area council p t a committee which is  trying to make our community aware of the building safe building and safety issues at our high school i'm very encouraged by petition that we have on many of you and i think that there's copies of the brochure here so those were delivered to each family in the district last thursday and since that time we currently have two hundred forty eight signatures are two hundred forty eight signatures and the comments actually are very telling and i think can be useful to the board to go in and even see what the community feels about  our high school facility and the needs that are there now we have issues of overcrowding those are safety concerns we have issues of security with the way that the  entire front of that building is set up we know that and i know that this board many times has discussed the high school campus and the needs that are there at prior buildings and grounds meetings dating many many years so anyway i just wanted to read a few of the comments that we are getting on the petition if i could i let's keep kids education a top priority not athletics not extracurriculars curriculum and what facilities we need to deliver a good curriculum extracurriculars and athletics are second and third but not first one of the persons  i'm not going to read many of these you guys can go in and read all the comments at your leisure but one one of the comments i did want to bring up is a gentleman who does not have anyone in our school district fifty nine years old he joined the petition and put a lengthy comment in there about why they chose to build in peter's township and also the need to keep up our schools in order to keep up our don't have to sign the petition to view all the signatures that are currently there so if you click at the very top where the signatures are it will it will bring up right now there's five different pages of signatures because we have two hundred forty eight and i'm checking it all the time people are signing as we speak this is just the beginning you know we just started the campaign by sending out the brochure thursday i'm really hoping that by your next school board meeting on april fifteenth we'll have more to report to you but you know this isn't a petition isn't designed to you know give you all the answers it's just to show you that that there are s that there is support in our community for whatever you decide to do and you know it's i think interesting to read the comments and hear what people are saying and so many of these people i don't know and so whenever i go on and i see a name that i don't recognize and see that somebody's spent the time to write a paragraph or two about their thoughts i think that's really important for us school board members to hear what the community is saying about these issues