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Votes and actions recorded during the meeting (as stated on the record):

- Minutes: The board approved the minutes from the March 25, 2025 school-board and receiver general business meeting \"as attached in BoardDocs.\" No roll-call vote tally was printed in the transcript.

- Agenda: The April 8 Committee of the Whole agenda was approved as presented.

- Consent/immediate approvals (approved at the April 8 meeting):
- The board approved the listed affiliation, professional development, learning-resource and park-permit items (agenda letters A–D) as presented for placement on the April 22 consent agenda (with one fee change noted for a park permit). The transcript records the chair saying these items \"are hereby approved\" for placement on April 22.
- Expulsion hearing waiver/agreement for student 2024-25-0027 was approved immediately as listed on the agenda.
- Ratification/approval of an addendum to the agreement with Floyd Stokes for the \"500 Men/Women Reading\" event in the amount of $5,000 was approved immediately.
- The board approved the immediate execution of an agreement with Ngozi and the Bridge Foundation to use the greenhouse on the William Penn property at no cost to the district; administration and the Bridge Foundation will continue fundraising efforts for associated operating costs (the transcript records immediate approval while noting fund-raising is ongoing).

- Items moved to April 22 for formal approval: multiple operational, transportation, HR and business-service items were moved en bloc to the April 22 general business meeting for vote, including: affiliation agreements, personnel items, professional-development approvals, learning-resource renewals, facility and maintenance contracts, Transfinder/Wayfinder transportation software items, contract renewals, and proposed construction and renovation contracts. The meeting chair repeatedly stated these sections would be presented as consent items at the April 22 meeting.

Notes on procedure: The transcript records approvals and motions by the chair but does not include recorded roll-call tallies for the routine approvals listed above. Several items were explicitly advanced to the April 22 agenda for board action rather than approved on April 8.
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Shannon Wade said her son, who attends the district's Google Academy, was accepted to Cheney but had ‘‘absolutely nothing’’ in scholarship resources and that district staff began outreach about scholarships only a few months before graduation. ‘‘One of the roles of guidance counselors is to monitor students' progress to all graduation requirements and work with those who face problems with sufficient credit,’’ Wade said. She added that much of the support her son received had been arranged by her or by outside programs, not the counselor.

Board members and the superintendent acknowledged the concern and described steps to improve supports. Superintendent Dr. Henry said administrators are assembling a plan for senior supports and for a college night that will clearly state dates and resources and that she will present a plan to the community. Board members noted prior partnerships — including visits from representatives of Penn State Harrisburg to help with applications — and urged the district to re-establish or expand those offerings.

Other board members suggested tapping proven community resources. A speaker at the meeting recommended revisiting a program run previously by Phoebe Stokes, who worked one-on-one with students and helped secure application-fee waivers and scholarships.

No formal board action was taken during public comment. Administration said it would follow up with the parent and provide a timeline for a plan to be presented to the community.
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Dr. Henry said the proposal — originally brought forward by a predecessor two years ago — was examined in recent months but will be held for now so the district can ‘‘responsibly fund such an initiative over a sustainable five-year period.’' She said the pause is not a retreat from prioritizing student safety but an opportunity to strengthen collaboration with safety monitors, school leaders and the community.

Receiver Dr. Suske told the board the district already maintains a memorandum of understanding with the Harrisburg Bureau of Police and said that state school code requires an MOU. He also cautioned that if the district moves to exit receivership, state rules could bar the district from entering new initiatives for five years after exit, making near-term large new programs impractical.

Board members and staff discussed alternative steps the district can take while the police proposal is paused: establish a community advisory or task force, refine the existing MOU to emphasize positive engagement instead of enforcement, and look at compensation or support for current safety monitors. Several board members said safety monitors have expressed concern about pay and stability, and urged the district to address those workforce issues before any new policing model is adopted.

A number of board members also urged wider community meetings to build trust with municipal police if the district later pursues closer collaboration, citing recent community events and distrust that could hinder such a plan. Administration said community-police partnerships and school-based community policing activities (for example, police reading programs) are already in place in some schools.

No formal vote was taken; the superintendent asked staff to develop a safety plan and to continue engagement with safety monitors and community stakeholders, and the board agreed to continue discussion in future meetings.
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Receiver Dr. Suske summarized the property's history and the legal context, telling the board that Initiative RO8 of the district's 2021 amended financial recovery plan originally called for sale of vacant district buildings but was later revised to prioritize retaining the land and exploring repurposing options. He said the initiative has been amended multiple times through filings with the Dauphin County Court of Common Pleas and that the district must close out RO8 as part of its amended recovery-plan obligations.

Why it matters: The William Penn site has been the subject of years of community debate, task-force review and consultant study. The district faces recurring costs tied to trespassing and security, lacks property insurance for the building in its current condition and must reconcile short-term costs with long-term needs for field space and instructional capacity.

Officials and administrators laid out three broad options: demolish the building; retain the land and undertake phased renovations or new athletic fields; or pursue a long-term lease to a private or nonprofit partner that would repurpose the campus. Superintendent Dr. Henry and chief operations administrator John Reedy described operational and programmatic uses the district has considered, including athletic fields and an expansion of Camp Curtin to accommodate shifting grade configurations.

From an operations perspective, Reedy said the building has extensive infrastructure failure: “the building...has no HVAC, has no electric. It's extremely large from a renovation perspective. It has a massively deteriorating roof, and the water is actually leaking onto the first floor,” and that consultants declined to inspect the roof because of safety concerns. From finance and risk, Dr. Stokes told the board the property is effectively uninsurable without basic life-safety work and that the district already spends substantial funds on round‑the‑clock security that do not stop trespassing: “security, as much as we try for 24/7, at a tune of over a half a million dollars a year is not successful.”

Community proposals have included a Bridge Foundation plan to lease the campus for an “eco village” and developer-driven concepts that contained housing components. The Bridge Foundation applied for an EPA community change grant; administrators said the grant must be led by a nonprofit and that federal grant guidance has been stalled since January, so the district cannot rely on that funding. Task-force results were mixed: the task force favored career-and-technical-education (CTE) uses and some adaptive reuses, but no single proposal gained broad consensus.

Board members pressed for clarity about costs and timelines. Several members said they want a single executive summary of viable options, with updated cost estimates, permit implications and revenue or operating assumptions. In response, district leadership agreed to compile an executive summary of the task-force proposals, the Bridge Foundation option (including any revised plan B without housing), and Crabtree Royal/Barn (Crabtree) study alternatives; Crabtree is scheduled to present options to the board at its May meeting.

Receiver Dr. Suske also reminded members that the district's status in receivership constrains new initiatives: if the district seeks to exit receivership, he said, state rules would bar the district from entering new initiatives for five years after exit, which in practice makes near‑term large projects more complicated. That constraint — and the continuing security, insurance and capital-reserve issues — weighed heavily in administrators' recommendations to favor either demolition or a phased district‑led reuse tied closely to demonstrable educational need.

The meeting yielded no final vote on William Penn. Instead the board directed administration to assemble detailed, comparable materials for the May presentation so elected members have time to digest options should local control be restored. Members and several community speakers urged that the district keep athletic fields in active use where feasible while long-term decisions are being developed.

Ending note: The district plans to post an executive summary and Crabtree's alternatives ahead of the May meeting to allow board members and the public time to review the options before a final recommendation or action.
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