Pennsylvania / School Districts / Dallastown Area SD
District staff demonstrated a Navigate360 wireless panic-button badge pilot that triangulates badge location on existing Wi‑Fi, alerts administrators and SROs, and will be considered for purchase from a School Safety and Mental Health grant at the July 10 meeting.
Pennsylvania / School Districts / Dallastown Area SD
The board approved a $124,600 site-design concept agreement to explore a second turf field on district property adjacent to the middle school. Two board members said they would vote against funding the study; vote passed 7–2.
Pennsylvania / School Districts / Dallastown Area SD
The Dallastown Area School Board on June 12 approved the final 2025-26 budget totaling $138,000,599 with no tax increase, approved updated Homestead/Farmstead exclusion amounts, and voted to transfer $4.4 million from the general fund into the capital reserve fund as part of a multi-year capital plan.
Pennsylvania / School Districts / Dallastown Area SD
After discussion and multiple roll-call votes, the Dallastown board amended and approved several recommendations to the Pennsylvania School Boards Association legislative platform and selected its PSBA voting delegates.
Pennsylvania / School Districts / Dallastown Area SD
Board received updates that Leader Heights project is 74% complete and on schedule for year-end delivery; York Township site work for a future elementary has started, and the board discussed but deferred a vote on an Abacus construction management contract to July.
Pennsylvania / School Districts / Dallastown Area SD
At the meeting’s public-comment period, a special education paraprofessional and a parent urged the board to improve compensation and staffing for special education; a parent urged the board not to lock funds into reserves that might be needed for educational services.
Pennsylvania / School Districts / Dallastown Area SD
At its March 20 meeting the Dallastown Area School Board approved the district's 2025–2028 PDE comprehensive plan, the York Adams Academy 2025 budget and a $66,925 pre-purchase of electrical switchgear for the York Township building project.
Pennsylvania / School Districts / Dallastown Area SD
The board received an update on the York County School of Technology feasibility study: recommendations include renovating about 93,000 square feet of existing space and potentially adding roughly 30,000 square feet of new space to address capacity and program demand, including plumbing, advanced manufacturing and Mediatronics.
Pennsylvania / School Districts / Dallastown Area SD
Several parents used public comment to urge the board and administration to improve special-education services, early-intervention kindergarten options and inclusion practices; speakers described individual experiences and called for timely access to full-day programming and supports.
Pennsylvania / School Districts / Dallastown Area SD
Administration presented an administrative regulation to add a seasonal rate and custodial/security requirements for Wildcat Stadium turf use, proposing a $3,000 seasonal fee plus custodial and overtime costs and to implement July 1 if the board raises no objections by March 28.