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Dr. Maguire. Present. Mr. Martin. Here. Mr. Sedowsky. Here. Eight members present. Thank you. Can we please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance? I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. For announcements, we had executive session for personnel reasons before the meeting. Dr. Gubler. Thank you, Mrs. Crossan, and good evening, everyone. Um I want to start tonight by recognizing and and saying a few words about our exceptional music teachers, many of whom are are out there in the audience, and I'll I'll just tell you all just so the board knows and the public knows, they they've been a very busy group. In fact, I I feel somewhat guilty, but I'm glad many of you were here tonight because you've been out a lot over the past month. Uh we as you know, Centennial is on an 8-year but it it had been 8 years since we hosted the Bucks County Music Educators Association Festival, which was a tremendous amount of work for this group to do. And then right on the heels of that was the Fine Arts Festival, but I I I just want to thank them for their leadership and dedication in making the Centennial School District Fine Arts Festival the the success it was. I was told coming in, "Get ready for this. It's really, really special." Um And apparently we're going to hear about how special right now. We're just going to see some footage and then I'll keep talking. So. >> [music] >> You Go ahead and play it. It's fine. Go ahead. >> [music] >> There was supposed to be a soundtrack coming with this. >> [music] >> Of your music, but You don't hear it. >> [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music and bell] [music] [music] [applause] >> So, the the the the pictures and the the the the sound doesn't really do this justice. For 47 years, this festival has stood as a hallmark of pride in our district, bringing together our elementary, middle, and high school students for four consecutive evenings of outstanding performances in orchestra, jazz, choir, and concert band. And the performances are incredibly inspiring, but what makes the evening so much more remarkable is just all the work that goes on behind the scenes by this group of men and women. Our music teachers are the driving force behind this 47-year tradition. They not only cultivate the musical talents of our students each day, but also invest countless additional hours planning, coordinating, and collaborating to bring the showcase to life. Their leadership ensures a seamless progression of excellence across all grade levels, and their passion creates opportunities for students to shine in meaningful and memorable ways musically. This festival is more than a series of concerts. It's a reflection of their commitment, their expertise, and their belief in the power of the arts to enrich our schools and our community. So, on behalf of our school board and our district, thank you to all of our music staff for your extraordinary contributions and for sustaining a tradition that inspires all of us. And I always like watching the audience during performances. You know, you watch the performance, but you look around, and the pride, the smiles, the joy, it was an amazing week. I know you were probably exhausted, and you're going into concert season now coming up. Um so, if you don't mind coming up, just want to have some certificates for you. We'll grab a quick picture as well. Um and if anybody wants to come up and join for the picture, too. But, just thank you so much. So, I'll um have you come up here. SWITCH OVER TO THE >> [applause] [applause] >> SO, UM I'M I'M GOING TO UH JUST START TO HAND these out. So, just come on up. Uh Cara Tyson. >> [applause] >> All right. My eyes FOR GINA SARAMBA. >> [applause] >> AND THEY'RE WEARING OTHER EXCELLENT UM C C S E music swag as well. UH NICK CYPHER >> [applause] >> MICHAEL RIGASH >> [applause] >> BRIDGET SALZBERG >> [applause] >> OH, THANK THANK YOU. CARA MURR >> [applause] >> KATHLEEN DIVINE MCCAFFREY >> [applause] >> GINA LENNOX >> [applause] >> WHO PLAYED A HUGE ROLE IN THE organization and and overall leadership of That was your officially the title of coordinating. So, this is the the the the >> [applause] >> THE LEADERSHIP BEHIND CHRISTOPHER GOPPOLD >> [applause] >> AND THEN UH MR. BARLEY COULD NOT BE here tonight. Um but um he sent his regrets and and also it was wonderful because the last the the last choral number during choral night um it was a combination of elementary middle high school. It was great. If you've ever seen Mr. Barley conduct, he brings a certain flair to conducting that you is not uh it's wonderful. It really is. Um and then they they they recognized him because he is retiring this year and so they they recognized him in a really special way. It was just a touching night. If you weren't moved by the whole thing, then I I I wonder if you're human. [laughter] You need to We need to talk because it it was a beautiful thing. So, um thank you so much. Oh, if you want to hand that off, thank you. You'll see him in Willowdale. Thank you. Um, oh, and Keith, oh, here I am talking prematurely and I forgot our choir director and and he's not able to be here either, but Mr. Keith Abrahamson, which was one of the best choral concerts I've ever seen in my scholastic life. So, it was a wonderful job, too. So, what You're going to give that to him and thank you. Thank you. So, if we can get you to come on over here for a photo, if anybody wants to join in, you're welcome to do so. >> [laughter] [clears throat] [applause] >> And you all, we we won't You are welcome to stay, but you we will not consider you rude. Given all the time, you're welcome to leave. >> [laughter] >> You don't have to sneak out. So, thank you so much. Have a good night. So, speaking of points of pride for our district, um, another another point of pride that we want to highlight tonight is our district is the revitalization of the Betty Huff Planetarium at William Tennent High School. And over the past year, Dr. Kristen Harman has played a pivotal role in convening and leading a dedicated task force um and some of our our members of the board are also a part of that >> [clears throat] >> to establish a clear mission, vision, and strategic pathway for maximizing the impact of this exceptional community resource. And at this time, um pleased to invite Dr. Harman to provide the board with an update on this important work. Dr. Harman, thank you. Thank you. Um so, I'm here in front of you after a full year. I think it was a year ago last April um that it was actually Mr. Gabriel stood in front and was begging for funding for the Betty Huff Planetarium, which the board graciously provided. And so, now I can share what's happened in the last [clears throat] year thanks to that generous funding. Um so, a quick timeline, um again, so at the end of last year, we funded kind of the first stage of the Betty Huff Planetarium revitalization project, which was getting our computer back online. We were running Windows 7, um which was a network risk, a security risk. We could not no longer connect to the internet or keep our planetarium secure. And I have heard that when the dome to a planetarium is open to viruses, anything at all can appear up there. So, that was a a danger that we were lucky to avoid. Um >> [laughter] >> uh after that funding came through, we brought our partners from Cosmo out of Chadds Ford. They're the ones who equip our planetarium. They came out and they kind of gave us some specs, and they said, "You know, this is like a a classic car. You've got something that's that's pretty old, but there's still some good miles here that we can use on this planetarium while we're working through some of the other stages of the project." And so, that was great to hear. It's a resource that we have then tried to leverage throughout the year, not just sitting and waiting till kind of all phases of our project are done. At this point, all of our third grade classes have been over for field trips to the planetarium. That's part of their Wit & Wisdom curriculum. Um we've also had one second grade class be able to come over and we've had two meetings of our planetarium task force, which is comprised of school board members, external partners, parents, students, and administration. Our StarLab is our classroom adjacent to the planetarium where we can teach lessons. So, for our vision for future field trips both internally and externally, we would bring groups of students over in maybe two to three to four classes at a time. One to two classes watch a planetarium show while one to two classes are doing a related lesson in a classroom and then we flip-flop. And so, we're getting both kind of a star show and a lesson at the same time. We've been exploring some additional grant funding, which I'll talk through as we get through our slides. Just 2 weeks ago, our hardware got put in. So, that funding that you approved last June got put in 2 weeks ago. That's turnaround time for a planetarium. [laughter] Um and these last yesterday afternoon, this afternoon, and tomorrow afternoon, we're doing turnaround training. So, I've been doing some some star scripting over in the planetarium. I was bragging to Dr. Lucabaugh I got to fly into a sunspot today. Um so, it's been it's been pretty exciting. Um and then things our our coming attractions I'll hit kind of in our slides here. So, quickly, I mean I I want the faces of our children to say it all, but I'd be remiss to not celebrate some of the other folks who are part of the team. We've got Miss Down Miller from the high school here. We've got uh Miss Linville and Mr. DeAndrea, our instructional coaches. This is our StarLab classroom. This is our planetarium. It's really difficult for me to get pictures of the planetarium, pictures of the dome, and do it justice. So, please come visit us. We'll be telling you guys kind of when we have events. We want you to come out. We want you to see it in action. But, these are our two spaces that we have for teaching and learning. Here are some of our young third graders in the planetarium themselves. Some of our third graders in the star lab, some of our second graders doing a molecule lab in this molecule lab in the star lab. And a happy third grade class. Our task force I had mentioned, we do have diverse representation. As I said, we're using both internal and external partners and I will highlight just our external partners, the Centennial Education Foundation, Bucks County Community College, Bucks County Intermediate Unit, Johnsville Center for Fusion Science Museum, and the Rittenhouse Astronomical Society. So, we're trying to bring together a very diverse group of stakeholders as we plan for future events at the planetarium. This task force is directly responsible for helping us develop the mission, vision, and my favorite t-shirt tagline ever of the the Bedminster Planetarium. Uh we don't have t-shirts printed yet, but they are coming. This idea that we're bringing the universe to our community is really kind of our our guiding North Star. Uh a couple more pictures here. So, we talked about potential funding sources. The phase two that we need for the planetarium is to fix our projector. So, we fixed our computer, our projector is the next thing to go. As Cosm came out, they said it's Again, there's some mileage here, but for a dome of our size, it was never the right projector to have. We actually need a larger projector. As you've been going through the turnaround training, we can see the resolution start to fade as we start to move to various terrains as we move to different kind of star clusters. Um so, we have actually been um reached out to by State Representative Brian Monroe, who is such a friend of the district. He's working with some of his congressional colleagues to see if we can get that cove mounted projector project fully grant funded, which would be amazing. Our Centennial Education Foundation, one of our external partners, is working on some Amazon funding that would allow us to rent community programming. So, not just star shows for our third graders, but actual kind of full length features. Mars Attacks for October, Christmas programming, Earth Day programming that we can then sell tickets and invite the community into for events. And we're also looking at a Pennsylvania Department DEP environmental literacy grant that could help us with additional programming and staffing for the planetarium. So these are some pictures of Representative Monroe with the task force adults. I think he looks more engaging with the children personally, but you know. >> [laughter] >> Who is it? We've done some event planning with the task force, so we are kind of trying to slate all full year of events um with the idea of raising money for the planetarium so that it can be self-sufficient going forward. This is a picture of your board investment. I know it I had a new computer is not the most exciting picture, but again, I just can't speak enough. I think the aha moment I had is that when we when we hooked up that computer again, what you really gave us access to was the internet. Um I just think of the power of that. I mean, the internet is such a part of our lives, I think we sometimes forget that the things we can do now, we can fly to Everest, we can download um clips from NASA, from ESM. We can see art We watched an Artemis 2 video the morning that the Artemis 2 astronauts filmed it because we were able to get back online. And we're going to be able to do all of that for our students. Um so I know that Oh, look, it's a computer. But it really it means so much that you were able to invest in that to kind of get us back up and running. So nothing tonight, but don't be surprised when I'm standing in front of you again um as we continue to look at future projects of the planetarium. We already have interest. The Bucks County Workforce Development had their breakfast there last week. We've had interest from various scouting troops in the district. We'll need to put together a pricing structure for the planetarium rental, so I'll need the board support on that. We'll want ongoing investment in quality programming. Grant funding is supporting us now, but as we look at aligning shows and licenses to various portions of our curriculum, shows run about two to three thousand dollars each. So, we've got to look at what can we script internally? What do we need to buy to really support our students? Staffing is going to be huge for us. Um we've had our instructional coaches, you know, kind of pulling them from other duties throughout the year to pilot, but that's not sustainable. We'll need provision for both in-school and evening or weekend tech support and content knowledge cuz we've got a classroom there. Um and then the phase three of the planetarium um would be a 5K sound system, but I am I am a patient person and I can wait on a 5K sound system if we can get our projectors back up and running. Thank you so much. >> Thank you. Very good. Uh it's so exciting to see it back and running again. I I was just about to say, Patty, when we were at the Is this the pancake breakfast with Santa back in December? That was the first time we had been back in the functional planetarium. >> Yeah. And both times I've been in the most recent task force meeting in that, when you see the when you see kids in the room >> Yeah. They're like they they don't move. I I I mean, the [laughter] parents do. They they were watching a holiday film while we were there. They said, "You want to go back to the you know, the the event?" They're like, "No." Pancakes. You had pancakes and they picked planetarium. They just wanted to sit there and watch. They it's really engaging and they the third graders who were there that day were just loved every moment of it. So, it's really exciting that this resource is back and it's great to see kids in there again learning and enjoying it. Thank you for your work. >> [clears throat] >> Mr. Hartline? All right. So, showcase night is coming up. Yep. Can we open the planetarium up for tours as well as having some of the ideas of the race and possible mock-ups of t-shirts and QR codes for them to scan to be able to do stuff to try to market this and let the community know what's coming because we get students and adults from kindergarten through 12th grade and all of their parents and grandparents as well as some elected officials show up. So, if we could open it up for showcase night also, We do have a QR code already ready to go that we can post for people at that showcase night and I I don't see a reason why we couldn't get something up on the dome for them for that evening. Fantastic. Thank you, Dr. Herman. And then finally, I just want to recognize today is National School Bus Driver Appreciation Day and so we had our drivers over here today for a training in between runs and just want to say thank you to all of them for safely transporting our district's children to and from school. It is an important job. It is a job not for the faint of heart to drive a bus. And they do it with um much care and professionalism every day and so just thank to all of our fleet of drivers for the safe transport and all their work and care for our students. And that is it. Thank you, Mrs. Clawson. Thank you. Public comments, I don't believe we have any. Moving right along, Mr. Sedlitsky. Approval of the agenda. Be it resolved that the Centennial School District Board of School Directors 2.1 approves the April 28th, 2026 Committee of the Whole agenda as per the attached. Are there any corrections that need to be made that are allowed by Pennsylvania law? Second. Discussion on that? Seeing none, all in favor? Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Any abstentions? Passes. And moving on to new business. Would anyone like anything pulled before I move through? Yes. Discussion [clears throat] on this? Okay, so I can go through no problem. All right. I will go through the entire agenda as is then. Be it resolved that the Centennial School District Board of School Directors 3.1 approves the personnel agenda including in-service passing, termination, resentment of employment, retirements, resignations, end of assignment, authorization to employ, leaves of absence, rescinded leave of absence, change of status, and co-curricular clubs activities per the attached. 3.2 approves the retirement incentive memorandum memorandum of understanding between the Centennial School District and the Centennial Education Association. No cost to the district. 3.3 adopts a resolution calling for increased state funding by the Board of Directors of the Centennial School District as per the attached. 3.4 approves the transportation specialist job description effective immediately. 3.5 approves the agreement with Source 4 Nurses for substitute services for RN and LPN nurses effective July 1st, 2026 through June 30th, 2027. 3.6 approves the addendum agreement with [clears throat] GHR Education for substitute services for professional and support staff effective July 1st, 2026 through June 30th, 2027. GHR will be used for positions that Kelly Educational Services cannot fill such as school counselors, behavior specialists, and paraprofessionals. 3.7 approves the contract with Clear ProFlex Residency Verification for 2 years. District costs to be paid using PCCD grants uh grant funds not to exceed $74,089.32. 3.8 approves the attendance excusal for student 18-7 under the mental illness exception of the compulsory school law. By approval of the attendance excusal, the Board also approves the the of a free appropriate public education FAPE under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act IDEA provisionally until the student's 22nd birthday at no cost to the district. 3.9 approves the William Tennent High School speech and debate team to compete in the National Catholic Forensic League Grand National Tournament from May 22nd to May 24th, 2026 in Washington, D.C. District cost not to exceed $4,009.32. 3.10 approves the affiliation agreement for student teaching between Gwynedd Mercy University and Centennial School District and the affiliation agreement for nursing practicums between Walden University and Centennial School District. 3.11 approves the memorandum of understanding for use of facilities in the event of an evacuation to a secondary site between Bucks County Intermediate Unit 22 and the Centennial School District. 3.12 awards bid 2026-10 family consumer science renovations for Klinger and Log Middle Schools to Magnum Incorporated in the amount of $526,300. 3.13 appoints three directors to be named as the Centennial School District's voting delegates for the PSBA Delegate Assembly on Saturday, November 7th, 2026 in person at Cumberland Valley Schools School District's Mountain View Auditorium, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania as per the attached Do I have a second? Second. Discussion. I have a question. Yes. So, 3.4 Microphone. Microphone. Um reading the job description, that's not a new position. That somebody had this before. It says vacancy or just a title change? So, it was it was an existing vacancy. It was not a new position and in order to make sure that the vacancy was properly staffed, we just did a revision of the job description for it so that that that it matched up with the requirements of the job. So then this will since if it's approved tonight this evening the job will be posted. Mhm. >> [clears throat] >> All right. Um I'm sorry. Say that Say that again. Will the job be be posted then if we approve description or It approves the transportation specialist job description, right. And did I see that they have if possible they would have to drive a or if needed they would have to drive a bus? >> Yes. Okay. All right. Good. Thanks. 3.5 I've been working in the school nurse's office for 29 years. These nurses substitute Do they get any training on um Centennial um policies, health policies or using the health information system? Or do they just come walk in and that's it? So my understanding is that there is an onboarding process, but I will do some additional information I'll dig I'll get that information and verify that we do meet and onboard them so that when they are called upon they have access, they know how to use our systems and and access that information. >> Cuz the system's probably used in many different places so I just was curious of that. Okay, great. Thank you. I have a question for 313. Can we have three volunteers? FLEMING. >> [laughter] >> AND IT'S PROBABLY NIGHT TIME SO HE'S ALREADY IN BED over there. >> [laughter] >> So should I ask you would you like to do it? >> I would be very happy to do it. >> And and I'll go I'll also go. We need one more. Okay. This is DePaulo. That's the three of us. I have a question about 3.12. The and uh award, does that not include the appliances because in the ops meeting, we talked about them going to potentially Restaurant Depot and they came back and said Restaurant Depot only has commercial and the teachers requested so is there cost over and above the 526 to buy appliances or are they included in here? No, that's just the bid to rehab the rooms. We held the appliances, the asbestos abatement, some of the electrical work so we didn't have to pay an oversight on that. We are going to buy those through whichever company come up with the best price. We're still researching that so we can have them delivered and install them ourselves so we don't have to pay that additional fee. So this is the tearing apart of the room and putting everything back together so it's ready to go so we can install appliances and have it ready to go. >> know what the what we think the the rest of the cost will be? So So I'm working through some of that. What we did is we reached out to Restaurant Depot restaurant store only have commercial and the the teachers don't want to teach on commercial equipment cuz it's not what the students will have in their home. They want to teach on home-based stuff which honestly is like a third cheaper on anyway. We reached out to Home Depot. We were connected our contact with the manager at Warrington who connected us a back to corporate. At the moment the price that I came up with was 25 and that was before they worked on it and we're we're down over three grand now on that and that's before corporate came back so we're expecting I'm expecting that to come back four to five thousand dollars cheaper. So I've worked that. We had some initial asbestos abatement and air quality testing notes and I went through the first couple then I reached out to some other people. They initially just the air testing per room was initially almost $10,000. I've got it down to $3,600 per room with a qualified company to do that. We looked at the scope and how we were going to do it differently and do them at the same time so they're basically only they're testing two rooms but they're testing at one time instead of doing but they have to test that every day prior after they have to have testing going on so we know that nothing has been released into the school. So that's another one we're working down. When we get to the end when I get it all out above everything including what we paid Berry Izsak which was already approved the $80,000 last year. Um it's 664 820 with everything at the moment. And that's coming from the reserve? Yes and that's this year's budget the reserve. That is this year's budget not next year's. >> And it will be done by September? It'll be done second week of August. We'll be moving in and ready for school. I see. So all of the asbestos work there'll be no students in the building. Correct. What about um does the Y still use Log College for its summer program? They're outside. They're out They're They're not inside at all? Yeah. Okay. >> And they will totally met this whole area will be quarantined and I remember they they block everything off and then we've been through it before but And that's the reason they do that and they test internal external of it and to if there was ever anything they noticed each day that was escaped we'd obviously have nobody in the building at that point so. Will Magnum be the um the group that's going to do the asbestos abatement or [clears throat] our people can do that or are they certified? >> I bring in another company that outsource that but instead of having our engineer of record manage that process and pay us a management fee, that's something we're doing in house, so we're not paying him a 20% overage. We can do that in house. We're going to do that the first 2 weeks after school is out to have those two rooms ready, and that's on our schedule already scheduled in, and then we'll go right into construction. Okay. Great. Essentially, we're being a GC on that. Yes. Same way with some of the electrical service. We're doing electrical service as they needed all new services cuz we're do going away from gas and going all electric. Okay. They needed all new electric services to both rooms. We're going to do the service to the room internally with our electrician, then their contractors will hook the stove wires up to the service while they're doing it. So, we're going to save it. That's probably going to save us it That would have been a $15 or $18,000 grab >> Right. on top. >> Easily. Yeah. Mr. Goldra said this is the one thing he wanted for law college. So, he's going to be thrilled. I talked to the FCS teachers recently, too. They were on the board back when I was a couple of those things. They're very, very excited. I I hopefully didn't joke, but joked at our most recent operations committee that whatever we do has to last for 60 years, apparently, because that's the timeline >> [laughter] >> This is a This is a good quality renovation. We're putting [laughter] new stuff in there that it's going to last. >> Oh, I It reminded me when I went to see them, it reminded me of the rooms that I was in home ec in 1968. Yeah, that's it for you. >> [laughter] >> I mean, some of that equipment might have some antique value to it. >> That's right. You know what I [laughter] mean? Having Having I You bring it to the American Treasures Museum. first got onto the board, and this has been a topic of conversation the entire time. So, to see it get this close to the finish line and us having a vote on it tonight is really, really exciting. So, thank you. >> Thank Mr. Workman. We've worked on this over the past few years and so this is good to achieve. I thank you uh for your support and I'm sure the teachers will be extremely excited to hear this is coming. So, thank you. >> Uh Mr. Sodaski, I did have a question about 311. Um and I did read the information about it. I'm just not really clear on on the the situation. So, if I can I can speak to that. >> Yeah, thank you. Sure, thank you. So, um we received a call from the IU. They're opening up a a new um early education center right across the street. And their primary evacuation site, so in the case of emergency, if ever they would need to evacuate, they have a primary um site of Anne's choice. But if for some reason, circumstances [snorts and clears throat] would dictate that their first choice of evacuation site would not be available for whatever reason, they asked if they could have uh and it's not a large facility. They have a total, I believe, of 160 people. And we talked with them and said, "Okay, well, what would you need?" Just need a place to sit, to come over until we could arrange transportation and pick up. And so, they would use this facility right here in the event as a secondary option. Can we charge them? No. >> [laughter] >> Well, Good thought, but no. No, we're not going to capitalize on an emergency. >> [laughter] >> You know what? They must be a donation. We are in a deficit. It's a valid question, Carol. I like where your head is, Mrs. Seger. Well, we're taking all this money away from them, so it's it's more soul to it. Can we Can we reread 313 with the names in it? Of course. Thank you. Uh 3.13 appoints uh Patty Crosson, Tony Sodaski, and Chris DePaulo as the Centennial School District's voting delegates for the PSBA's Delegate Assembly on Saturday, November 7th, 2026 in person at Cumberland Valley School District's Mountain View Auditorium, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, as per the attached. Second. Second. All right. Um, any other discussion on any of these items? Seeing none. All in favor. Aye. Any opposed? Any abstentions? Yeses 8-0. Uh, Mrs. DePaulo, education committee? Thank you, Mrs. Crosson. So, uh, education committee update. We met on April 15th. Um, and some of the information has already been shared. I'll share it again. Um, this is Rose Miele from the office of teaching and learning presented a professional learning plan for our secondary English teachers, grades 6 to 12. The plan will focus on, and this is, uh, right from her presentation, equipping teachers with the knowledge and strategies needed to deliver rigorous, standards-aligned English instruction through the study of whole texts, ensuring all students are prepared for advanced coursework. The development, the professional development will be provided by Carol Jago. I think that's correct, Jago. Right, correct. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Lutz. Uh, she's a consultant. She's also the former president of the National Council of Teachers in English, and she has served as an advisor to the College Board, um, for the AP Literature. She also has 30 years of classroom experience and is a national expert in teaching complex texts, rigor, and equitable access to grade-level literature. Um, and I know we're already working on that professional development in the district. So, thank you for Mrs. to Mrs. Miele for presenting that. Uh, as you heard, Dr. Herman had her wonderful presentation with the updates for the planetarium. We also talked about the PCCD school safety and mental health grant. Um, we reviewed that agreement. The grant agreement outlines an expansion of behavioral health supports for the 2026-2027 school year. The grant will fund these services for for the next school year. Is that okay? We also talked about which are up for approval tonight recommendations for the PBCC contract agreement, Locke College Middle School library books, Davis Elementary School library books, William Tenent library books, donated books by a district employee, and then we also discussed quotes for the databases for the database licenses, software renewals, and consumable purchases for the district. And our next education student services committee meeting will be held on May 13th at 4:45 p.m. Any questions about that? No questions, okay. Thank you. All right. Moving right along, finance, Mrs. Krieger. We held the finance committee meeting on April 16th. The initial discussion was on the financials through March of 2026 where revenues collected are at 79.9% while expenses paid are at 65%. The year-end projection is that revenue is largely in line with the budget and expenses have a small yet growing surplus. The bad news is the deficit is going to continue to grow, but we're aligned in terms of what the budget for this year was. We largely focused on the initiatives that were in progress. The school district is at work focusing on balancing the budget over the next 3 years. The first steps are being taken around people, policy, and processes to deliver responsible fiscal management. We are talking about 3.2 million for the five levers that we're working on. In addition, Dr. Lukuba and the finance committee issued a letter to the community providing an understanding of each of the initiatives in the fiscal impact in year one. Copies have been given to Brian Monroe's office, Nicole Renier's office, Ivy Land's office. Going to go through the Villas of Five Ponds and their newsletter. Dr. Luca is going to be speaking at the Home and School Association monthly meetings. A session is being set up with Centennial Station. And we're hoping to leave a copy of the letter with Kristen Marcel's office to be distributed to Upper Southampton residents. And she's having a real estate tax information session in May. It's also been posted in on Facebook in the Warminster community page and on the Centennial uh school district website. And there was an article in the Patch today that also talked about what we were doing. Secondly, we discussed the Centennial financial dashboard which has been constructed by Mr. Greenwood. And one of the most telling metrics is what it costs to educate um you know, special ed students versus non-special with 5,344 students in the district and approximately 1,321 special ed students, we're talking about a differential of $22,888 per student between the 19,370 versus the 42,258. If you take that 22,888 and times it by the 1,321 students, we're talking about a cost a nut that we have to crack of $30,235 a year that's associated to unfunded but mandated spend. This is clearly not sustainable and will be a justification for a 26-27 uh tax increase. Um Finally, if all of these initiatives, which are really test cases, are successful, there's a greater opportunity within these existing initiatives to yield even greater returns. Um that's [clears throat] it. Good. All right, thank you. Mr. Sedlosky, operations. Thank you very much. Well, [clears throat] on our April 17th meeting, uh we looked at the items on the agenda tonight for approval in section seven. Got a quick update which we expanded on tonight for the FCS classrooms with numbers that were provided to us later in which we all saw this evening and just voted on. So, that was really it. We've we've already discussed the major points and the other items will be up. Our next meeting is on Friday, May 15th at 11:00 a.m. in the old tax office down the hall next time. So, come join us. It's always a good time. Great opportunity to hang out with Mr. Martin, Mr. Krieger, and myself. All these wonderful folks over at the table over there. So, hope to see you. Serving lunch? >> [laughter] >> All right, moving forward. Education and student services. It is. It only takes a half hour. >> [laughter] >> We like efficient meetings. I'm sure they are. This is the public. Yes, thank you. Item 5.1, items presented for information. 5.1a presenting the professional learning plan for the pre-AP English one and two. That's what I was talking about on Mrs. Mealy's presentation at our last Ed Committee meeting. And then items in 5.2, presented for approval tonight. Before I start, does anybody want anything pulled? Any discussion? No, okay. So, I'll just go ahead and read all those items. Item 5.2a approves the PCCD contract agreement for the 2026-2027 school year with GHR Education for a total cost of $123,910.71 that will be fully funded by the approved PCCD school safety and mental health grant for the 2026-2027 school year. And 5.2b approves the addition of the donated books for the summer reading send off initiative for students in grades K-2. 5.2c approves the professional learning plan for pre-AP English 1 and 2 teachers. The district cost not to exceed $5,000. 5.2d approves the purchase of additional Canvas licenses for the remainder of the 2025-2026 school year. District cost not to exceed $6,234.48. 5.2e approves the purchase of consumables, databases, licenses, and software renewals for the 2026-2027 school year. District cost not to exceed $378,591.64. 5.2f approves the purchase of library books for the Davis Elementary School library. District cost not to exceed $2,091.59. 5.2g approves the purchase of library books for the Log College Middle School library. District cost not to exceed $29.22. 5.2h approves the purchase of library books for the William Tennent High School library. District cost not to exceed $2,276.42. Second. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Aye. Okay. Any opposed? Motion passes 8-0. Thank you. Okay, moving right along. Mrs. Krieger? Uh 6.1 items presented for information. 6.1a PA Department of Education single audit review 2025. 6.1b final Centennial School District audit 2025 and 6.1c monthly PSDLAF reports. So, the uh Pennsylvania Department of Education single audit review, the scope of this review covers financial data and the schedule of expenditure of federal awards. The Pennsylvania single audit is a financial compliance check for organizations that receive over $750,000 in federal grants. Payments were made by the Pennsylvania Department of Education to the district with respect to the federal financial assistance program funded by the supply and equipment food service alliance for the fiscal year ended June 30th, 2025. It was approved as being substantially in compliance with 2 CFR part 200 subpart F and other relevant federal and Commonwealth policies. Um, the final Centennial School District audit, the audit of the financial statements associated to the government activities, the business type activities, each major fund, the related notes to the financial statements, and the aggregate remaining fund information of Centennial School District for the year ended June 30th, 2025 has been presented fairly in all material respects, including the respective changes in financial position and where applicable the cash flows in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. Um, with respect to the monthly PSDLAF, um, it's sort of flat. The daily rate is 3.47 with the 7-day average rate 3.46. Next, uh, 6.2. Be it resolved that the Centennial School District Board of Directors accepts the 2025-2026 school safety and mental health grant award from the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency in the amount of 198,319. Second. Uh, um Oh, I was going to tell you a little bit about it. I forgot >> to read No. We're all in favor of it. We're all in favor of it. >> [laughter] >> Um the, uh, the objective of the 2025-26 school safety and mental health grant solicitation is to offer an opportunity for school entities to use funding to address school safety needs to assist schools in guiding decisions about their behavioral health and physical security needs. Experts across Pennsylvania convened to develop baseline criteria standards to organize policies, programs, activities, equipment, and training into a multi-level chart from level one, which are the most basic elements a school entity should have in place to level three, which are the most advanced. Our priority focus is to ensure that all school entities at a minimum meet a basic level one standard of safety for students and staff. The grant is going to allow our district to expand behavioral health capacity by training registered behavior technicians, providing structured supervision and professional development, as well as implementing clear investigative services to strengthen threat assessment, emergency response, and student safety. Anybody want any discussion? What? Oh, we did. No, it's discussion. All in All in favor? Aye. Any objections? Any abstentions? The pencil's eight nothing. Thank you. >> Thank you. Mr. Sedlosky. Section seven, 7.1 items presented for information, none. 7.2 items presented for approval tonight. Anyone want to be pulled? If not, I will read all three. Be it resolved that the Centennial School District Board of School Directors 7.2A awards the installation of an additional camera at Willow Dale Elementary School to Minute Man Security District cost not to exceed $2,361.76. 7.2B approves the use of 15 Centennial School District buses, 15 drivers, one truck, and one mechanic to support transportation for Southampton Days on July 4th, 2026. District cost not to exceed $4,350. 7.2C approves the computers carts servers RFP 2026-09 to Dell. District cost through Co-Stars is not to exceed $180,705.12. Second, any discussion on any of these items? Seeing none, all in favor. Aye. Aye. Any Any opposed? Abstentions? Two. This is 8-0. Okay. Board comments, anybody have anything they want to share? Dr. Maguire? Mr. Mayor. Did you have something to No, after you, of course. >> [laughter] >> All right. I just thought um M.B.I.T. letters of acceptance should or did non-acceptance will be coming out this week. Um there was 700 applications and um there will be 425 seats available, which isn't um all of ours. It's done by a lottery and percentages, etc. So, um they will be opening up a new health um class um because of the uh the um I amount of nurses, a shortage of staff, etc. for that, as well. So, cosmetologist still number one, but the health program um is booming, as well. Also, I just want to share a community item. Uh someone asked me to share this with you that um I'm sharing information about the Flags for Forgotten Soldiers Memorial Initiative, which aims to raise awareness about the tragic and ongoing issue of veteran suicide. It was founded by Howard Berry after the loss of his son, U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Joshua Berry, a Purple Heart recipient who struggled with PTSD following the 2009 Fort Hood shooting. An initiative initiative highlights the fact that approximately 660 veterans die by suicide each month in the United States. To honor these lives and bring attention to the invisible wounds many veterans face, volunteers will be placing 600 American flags in public places and usually around Memorial Day weekend. So, this um powerful display not only commemorates those lost, but also supports families who may not qualify for traditional burial services. So, the Upper House Southampton Veterans Advisory Committee is organizing a flag planting event at Veterans Field on Street Road, and they're requesting um assistance or volunteers, especially students or adults to help plant 660 flags on June 3rd at approximately 10:30 a.m. That is a half a day, I believe, for students. If you are interested, please contact uh myself at maguk1@centennial.org. So, if you or a veteran you know is struggling, help is available by calling the Veterans Suicide Hotline at 988. This initiative is an important opportunity for our school community to show support, raise awareness, and honor those who have served our country. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Oh. Mr. Martin first. >> Okay. Thank you, sir. I'd like to be last. We can Oh, we can wait. We can wait. Save the best. >> Mr. Hartline. All right, I have two things. One, tomorrow night is Behind the Lens Film Festival, 7:00 in the auditorium at the high school. Um really a fantastic event. Um come out and and see the wonderful work that the students in our district and in our area Yeah, it really is quite remarkable. Um my other question is is when is our next finance meeting? Because we did have you know, I have conflicts on Thursday nights. And we were going to be talking about changing the date or the time so that all three of us could attend. The 14th is what I thought. And but again, that was a Thursday night that I have a conflict those nights. Okay. And we had changed it to accommodate earlier. Right. So, it would be nice if we could accommodate all three of us. Okay, so we won't resolve it right now, but we'll we'll reach out to you and then we'll find Is there a better evening? Tuesdays are generally I mean it's and not to try to beat a dead horse here, but the whole purpose of committee of the whole was actually to have the committee meetings all on one night in one setting. Um and then you didn't really vote on anything other than the stuff at the top of the agenda like we normally would do. Um >> [clears throat] >> but yeah, if we could kind of do a save the date type of thing so that all three of us could participate. Okay. Thank you. Um I wanted to mention that the senior prom is Friday night. So, everyone have fun and be safe. And uh the art showcase night is coming up on Friday, May 8th at 7:00 [snorts] p.m. as referenced earlier. Uh after you've checked out all the artwork on display, which is always fantastic, you may be able to take a look at the Huff Planetarium. So, make sure you stop by. And Mr. Martin has Uh I do have a comment. >> [laughter] >> I do have a comment, but I'll let I'll I'll go quick. I'll be quick. Then I want to go cuz if Mr. Martin's going to be last, you [laughter] saved the best for last. I honor his wishes. Yes. Just wanted to offer a huge thank you to the um the staff that assisted 127 of our seniors to Disney last week. From Tuesday to Saturday. Evidently, the kids did great and I I know we said to the kids, "Don't mess it up for the juniors next year." So, sounds like all the kids did great and it was a great trip. What did the teachers do? They did great. I talked to a few already. Very well behaved. >> [laughter] >> Sounds like they were very well behaved, too. I'm sure. I was, too, picking them up at >> [laughter] >> that night. And the bus never comes back on time. It didn't. It was close, but yeah, it was a little late. It was the weather. Um this weekend also we had current and alumni from Wellington High School participate in the Penn Relays. Very exciting. Um Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. So, we got to see some alumni and, you know, some of our current students um race, [clears throat] which was wonderful. Um on this Thursday, we have the Montgomery Memorial Meet, the annual one. It's number It's year 68, I think. Um and it's a huge track and field event um that will take place starting at 3:30. So, that's always a great event. And then, uh >> [clears throat] >> we covered prom, we covered showcase night. On May 9th, Saturday, from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., we have our annual marching band food truck festival, if anybody's interested. We have music, vendors, raffles, and plenty of food. When is that May 9th? May 9th, 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., rain or shine. It'll be inside if it's raining. I've been there for both of those weather events, so. Yeah. It's a great event and a big fundraiser for marching band. Is Is the uh soda truck going to be there this year? They backed out again. I know. So, if you have your little soda I know. They backed out again. Uh that's >> Having some flow problems there. >> Is there a um clothing drive that same day? There is Thank you. There is a clothing drive that same day. So, clean out your closets. What time is that? That's same time as the food truck. Runs concurrent, yeah. >> Yeah. And if you know where the band door is on the side of the building, you can drop off all your donations in that area. Okay. Thank you. Okay. So, I just wanted to share um first of all, CEF did an amazing job with the um Paulson pets. Now, Fiona and Mary Jane are in the calendar again. And it's just I smell a fix. >> [laughter] >> No, the first place was uh it was really good. It was They started with 325 pets, um 78,000 little over 78,000 votes, and they raised 12,700 dollars, which is really good, right? For our students. Um Um the first place was Hank, adorable one. They had different color eyes, one was blue, one was and it I missed the other color, but the blue one stuck right out. Um Lucy and Ewok second and third place and Fiona and Mary Jane were ninth, we'll take it. We'll take it. But yeah, they did a great job and it's all for our students. And it's a fun thing to do. So shout out to CEF for that. Mr. Martin, best for last? I know, one more thing. No, I'M KIDDING. >> [laughter] >> BUT ONE IS VERY SHORT. I'M KIDDING. I'm kidding. I was wondering if there was a way but Mrs. Bouvier was commenting on that Bedford suicide is really a serious issue and I I think it's one that's certainly non-controversial and if it was other ways that it could be promoted within the school. They were looking for students. I think they got to put up a bunch of flags on the field for an event. Uh maybe use the word through some other method to any students who would like to help maybe. I would even give them extra credit if they went to do this, but I'm not a teacher, but I think they should get Did you say it was They might want to help do something >> graduation. That's graduation day. Just And I don't know how much publicity they'll get by people watching our meetings. So if we could do it some other ways, I think I would just I would encourage that maybe the schools could Dr. Lubow, if we could offer it something to the students. Yes. Yeah, ab- absolutely. We will We will look to see how we can support awareness and participation. And my second one is just another uh I'm I'm a little curious. Uh I've been getting I guess we all did. I got several several meaning fewer than 10, but uh emails regarding again, as I have similar to last year, with the day of silence. Quite honestly, I after last year I didn't know we were going to continue with that, but I guess we did. Um and it and it just of some of these comments were largely um that students who chose not or the parents chose for them not to go to school that day because there was going to be some controversial things perhaps happening back and forth, which I understand because when you tell people wear a certain color thing and some other kid wears a different color names can go back and forth and so forth and so on. Uh and then they were going to not be be not excused from an absence that day. I think anytime for something really that could be deemed controversial similar to what happened with the ice thing. Um that I don't know as they should be punished by not parents choose to not send their child to school that day to avoid this. I I personally don't see a problem for that. Secondly, um I I kind of view this event, little bit I know about it, as as somewhat divisive where certain people are urged to wear certain colors and not do things and then that generates perhaps comments back and forth and it's not conducive to everybody getting along and working together for the general good. Uh lastly, it seems and this happened last year as well, that most of the letters comments I get are from one school. Uh Clinger as a matter of fact. I don't get any comments, at least I didn't get any, from any other school about what may go on or not go on that particular day. And I was just curious why that might be. A couple of the um folks that wrote, I don't know, uh indicated that there may be some participation by teachers at particularly that one school. I don't know if that's true or not, but I would just ask perhaps that the superintendent could just look into this a little bit. I just give us some additional information. Most importantly, why this seems to be occurring these based on the information at one school and not not others. And what generally goes on that day and whether or not they can reconsider the absences of children and parents who choose not to attend and be subject to comments either way. Okay. I'm not taking a side one or the other. It just seems to be more divisive than helpful. Okay. Mrs. DePaulo? Can I just ask a point of clarification? I don't really know what happens at these Does anybody know, maybe Dr. Lucabaugh, what happens What is the moment of silence? I'm not familiar with it. I'm just having my my daughter was GSA while in middle school was involved in that she was there. Uh it is organized by the sanctioned student group. Okay. Uh it is a day each year uh where students have the option. It's not enforced. It's not pushed. It's not mandatory. Okay. >> You wear black [clears throat] and remain silent that day uh to support LGBT students who feel silenced or have been felt threatened, felt bullied into not speaking up, being themselves. Um as we know there has been a lot you know, of bigotry in that world for many many many years. This is not new. And also a lot of self-harm and suicide in that community because of the reaction they get and feeling like they're not allowed to be themselves. So, that's the intent of the day. And it is voluntary. >> right? It's all that Absolutely voluntary. Some teachers may choose on their own to wear, you know, a shirt that that the group sells that the kids will you know, prints out that the kids can wear those days uh from my previous years event if they are so supportive. Some of them do, not all of them do. Um Yeah, that's really what it's about. And some kids I mean but to be fair while my daughter was there every year, there are some kids who decide to wear white that day and have their own protest against tolerance, whatever it is. And um yeah, so that's uh that's in a nutshell what Thank you. it is. And and last year I think the some of the controversy that came up last year was if I'm not mistaken surrounding students who felt they were being punished for for not supporting it. And the reality was those students were defacing the signs that were in the hallway, which you're not allowed to do. Even if you don't agree with the day you can't do that. So. All right, thank you. Anybody else want to share? We're having a moment. No? All right, let's move right along. Um the next meeting of the Committee of the Whole will be held on Tuesday, May 26th, 2026. Can I get a motion to adjourn? A motion. Second. All right, everybody have a good evening. Aye. All in favor, aye. >> [laughter]