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Montoursville board approves routine contracts, field trips and personnel; schedules elementary-school town halls
Summary
The board approved lease and facility-use agreements, field trips and personnel stipends, and directed staff to advertise and set dates for town-hall meetings on elementary schools; staff will return with outreach details before November.
The Montoursville Area School District board approved a series of routine operational items — including a postage-meter lease renewal, facility-use requests, field trips and combined personnel items — and discussed plans for a series of town-hall meetings about elementary schools.
On the consent and business agenda, the board approved: a lease renewal for the district postage meter with Quadient; an amendment to the agreement with Crabtree Worbaugh and Associates to add mechanical, electrical and plumbing work and to move away from an escrow/site-logic approach; waiving admission fees for a Teddy Bear Toss event on Dec. 10, 2024; multiple professional-staff field trips (with staff confirming "expense to district" items are drawn from general funds); and facilities use requests including a Good News Club at Leiter Elementary. The board also combined personnel items 4.1–4.4 and approved a $2,600 stipend for Jocelyn Brock to run a volleyball club.
Community outreach and town halls: Board members debated whether to host multiple town halls across townships, as in the prior round, or to hold sessions at central school locations. The chair said traveling to neighborhoods could increase participation and stressed heavy advertising. Staff and board members discussed outreach options including postcards, phone calls and texts and noted postage-printing cost estimates; staff were asked to finalize dates and begin outreach so postcards and notices can be sent well ahead of planned November meetings.
Public comment and follow-up: During public comment, Ron Snell requested that staff follow up with him about whether the district had applied for the state Public School Improvement Grant program (he cited recent $600,000 awards to nearby districts and matching funds in those examples). The board agreed staff would follow up.
Next steps: Staff will provide cost estimates and firm dates for town halls before the November meeting and will respond to Ron Snell about the grant question. Routine business items approved at this meeting will be implemented per district procedures.
