Four of the nine directors were absent from Thursday evening's Pleasant Valley School Board meeting. President Russell Gould and directors Sue Kresge and Dan Wunder were attending an awards ceremony in Allentown. Director Steve Borger was absent as well.

During the meeting the board heard presentations of the grade five Math Daily 3 program by Shavonne Liddic, Paige Corra and Evelyn Beautz. The teachers explained how the program engages the students by having them move through a number of steps throughout the lesson as opposed to the teacher doing all of the teaching.Students Brynn Bogli, Cecilia Cordova, Riley Green, Katelyn Honadel, Amanda Lombardo, Bailey O'Keefe and Madeline Sheard were present and demonstrated the different activities.Also present were board members of the Eldred Township Community Center. Eldred Township took ownership of the Eldred Elementary School from the district in 2014 and turned it into a community center.Linda Kile and Dora Tartar showed a slide presentation to the directors giving them a view into what the township has been doing with the center since it was reopened. The building is open to the public to rent for activities, classes and parties as well as for use by youth groups, scouts and sports organizations.The ongoing uses are as an office for the constable, a children's reading room and a community thrift store that raises money for the upkeep of the building. The building is also the home of the West End Food Pantry.Director Linda Micklos suggested that when the district completes its inventory that there might be some unused items that could be donated to the community center.The board conducted regular business including approving checks in the amount of $811,951.46. Of that amount approximately $380,000 was spent on charter, cyber, intermediate unit, behavioral and other out-of-district tuition costs.The board also approved the renewal of the Accelerated Math, Star Math and Star Reading subscriptions with Renaissance for the period of July 1, 2017, to June 30, 2018, at a cost of $14,549.93 and the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Go Math program for kindergarten through sixth grade at a cost of $47,333.78 through June of 2020.