Northwestern Lehigh October Board meeting

ALL DAY KINDERGARTEN, VOTES ON BUILDING PROJECT

A presentation concerning all day Kindergarten was presented at the October meeting of the Northwestern Lehigh school board. It appears that this will eventually become reality for Northwestern Lehigh, but not until the 2018-2019 school year. It seems that all research concludes that this approach has many positive effects on early learning. It will take time to do more research, and eventually a vote by the board, and then implementation.

Zoning variance was approved for the building project by the Heidelberg Township zoning board.

D'HUY Engineering Inc. was approved to be the construction manager for the new building project. It was a 5-4 vote. Voting for was Willard Dellicker, John Casciano, Todd Hernandez, Todd Leiser and Joe Fatzinger.  Voting Against was Paul Fisher, Phillip Toll, Charlene Rauscher and Darryl Schafer. This contract cost is $339,000.

The vote to approve the design by KCBA of the New building project was also a 5-4 vote.  Voting for was Willard Dellicker, John Casciano, Todd Hernandez, Todd Leiser and Joe Fatzinger.  Voting Against was Paul Fisher, Phillip Toll, Charlene Rauscher and Darryl Schafer.

Board member Phillip Toll was concerned that the building project was expanded to include a driveway renovation, which added to the cost, without bringing it to the board for review and approval. No one could answer who made this decision.

Former board member Joe Reiter commented that all day kindergarten has much support in the district, also he pointed out that the senior citizens rebate should be tied to the Act 1 index to protect the poor and senior citizens from future tax increases.

Workshop meetings are the 1st. wed. of each month. Board meetings are the 3rd. Wed. of the month. All meetings are open to the public and also viewable on the school website.