Meeting roundup
Date: Sept. 28
Action: The board approved borrowing as much as $2 million from Washington Financial Bank at 1.38 percent interest to help it meet expenses while the state budget impasse continues.
The board also approved unassigning $1.3 million in Public School Employees’ Retirement System obligations and moving them to the general fund. That is so the district may use that sum before using the borrowed amount, according to business manager Jessica Drylie.
The board also approved setting regular board meetings to begin a half-hour earlier, at 7 p.m., beginning in January.
The board held an executive session to discuss litigation.
Next meeting: 7:30 p.m. Oct. 19 at the elementary center.
Date: Sept. 28
Action: Superintendent Roberta DiLorenzo presented the board with the after-school programs provided at the elementary and secondary levels and the number of teachers required to run them. High school and junior high programs include President’s Prep Homework Help, Prexie Power Tutoring Hour, LeMoyne Center Homework and More, and a credit recovery program.
At both the secondary and elementary level, the school has collaborated with Family Center to provide Linking, Educating and Renewing Neighborhoods, an enrichment program focusing on performance projects and activities. Washington Park Elementary School’s after-school program has grown to include more than 130 students.
The board approved adding Chaleece Trapuzzano and Shannon Longdon as teachers for the elementary school’s after-school tutoring program and adding Laura Dowiak, Brittany Jones and Courtney LeViere as substitutes for the program.
Discussion: District solicitor Ken Baker informed the board that Washington City Council is holding a meeting Oct. 8 to discuss renewing the Local Economic Revitalization Tax Assistance program. The school district’s LERTA agreement expired more than a year ago, and Baker said the city must determine the boundaries.
Under LERTA, the amount of an assessment increase on improvements made to residential or commercial property within a specified zone is exempt from tax for a period, typically three years.
Absent: Robert Wicker, Linda Clemons
Next meeting: 6:30 p.m. Oct. 12 at the high school