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e e e okay we'll go ahead and call the meeting to order uh first item on the agenda is election of officers so I would nominations for president I nominate Tam do for president do you need a second any other nominations we go ahead and vote all those in favor of here as president say I I any time so now we will take nominations for vice president nominate Josh Harley nomination for second from Chad any other nominations for that you accept the nomination yeah so we'll go ahead and vote all those in favor of Josh Earley as vice president say I I I can oppose same sign and 60 for Josh for vice president all right moving on to approval of the agenda go ahead and entertain a motion to approve the agenda as presented motion by Allison second second by Josh all those in favor say I I any oppos motion passes and approve of the minutes from the meeting on 129 there and they've been there for you to peruse any questions comments changes motion by Kayla second second by Allison all those in favor say I I any oppose same sign motion passes approval of the treasures report has also been attached uploaded for you to review any questions or comments onone I would entertain a motion to approve the treasur report as motion by Alison second by Josh all those in favor say I I any oppos time motion passes 60 and then approval of the invoices are there any Mr Murphy that you would like to so on the second one that's on there um the two big ones are are that you're going to see on the second item are the flow through for our graduation Alliance for our virtual side the other big one is the flow through for our speci special education Cooperative so those were on there on one um everything else on there is is pretty normal so um we did have one question um one thing was coded wrong on there it was coded for the high school for the gas um it was coded actually for Wilson Elementary School for the gas and it should have been coded for the high school so there'll be one change on there that will switch around instead of being coded I think4 it was or 01 it was a coded 04 I think so um that was one change um that will will get situated on that side of it any other questions or comments hearing none I would entertain a motion to approve the invoices as presented Move Motion by Alon and second by Josh all those in favor say I I any oppos same sign motion passes and Reconciliation and cash balance report those should be part of your agenda packet and the ending cash balance matches the cash in the bank which also matches the treasures report so we are reconcil any questions oh she's KD okay we have Roberto Meer I us stand you can okay hi I'm Roberto Meyer um I live in Lincoln County uh when the original land transfer between 299 and 112 was being explored I signed a petition in favor as recommended by my county commissioner he said the tax revenue would serve the county and kids well um I would also like to address uh two agenda items tonight um number nine and number 11 on agenda number nine I personally feel um I hope I guess you'll consider reinstating the Board of Education meeting location rotations um I feel the better you know the facilities the communities and the students you serve the better you will be able to lead them being a board member is hard work um these small communities shine because of you and I'm kind of fighting the remnants of stuff that my for a week now my voice is in this way um these small communities shine because if your hard work have you ever wondered what makes you love your kids so much even though through those teenage years uh love them because we've known love given to people in these small tight-knit communities parents Aunts Uncles friends neighbors these communities oh gosh are loving families and the schools are their anchors uh larger districts try to replicate this so I hope uh in a way keep working um and uh I guess I'll move on to item number 11 um I've been kind of watching things because I'm a retired educator and I just can't leave kids out of my U Future I guess um I don't want to sub though don't add me I had a really good career and I don't want to go back to that uh but I I do still like helping kids and uh I I've volunteered some already this year um okay agenda item number number 11 the continuation of the discussion uh from the 123 board meeting overcrowding and expanding capacity at Hol Ro I just want to say one thing there is space available in Wilson um and then finally I'd like to um guess ask a question if the community of Wilson ascertain one or more districts for a land transfer would this board be willing to work in that direction um and you might say well why now why why why why um Wilson can help you with that uh with a land transfer to another District Wilson would be having a um a new future um you can vote however you want more freely so that's about all I have to say uh thanks again and January means the school year is half over so I don't know if you have any questions for me or okay well thank you for allowing me to speak and item number n resolution to establish the meeting dates Andes I will also uh emphasize what liberta said I think it's more rotating and allows us to be in the presence of each Community I think it's more of a community engagement rather than a ease of information availability anymore so I would I would recommend that we start alternating again my um feelings on that I guess so I don't I don't think it's a bad idea that we do go ahead and have um maybe some set times or one or two elsewhere but I I don't know about alternating every meting um again like we used to guess I felt like that was sometimes it's like okay where are we going again what's what's that and over the years of being on the board unless there's something going on that people really want to talk about they don't come especially now that we live stream it It's too convenient that they can watch it at a later time if they're not able to be there at the time of the meeting where they can just watch it from their homes how my thoughts on that I mean I do like you said like you said having maybe one each semester somewhere else or morning Wilson one hired in this Springtime or something but that's my thoughts are there certain months that make more sense to be that would be less of an information potential issues that no in Springtime it's always nice to be able to walk the facilities that you currently have kids in um so whenever you're having those conversations on Capital outlay items and things that you're going to do in the summer you can get your eyes on it and have some different perspectives on what it looks like um you know so I would recommend that if we're going to move them that we we look at in the springtime at least in the springtime once at least in Holly Roode once in Wilson and then whatever you guys decide after that that way when we're talking about a conditioning units or we're talking about um you know adding on things like that that we can get our eyes and then you guys can get your eyes on it as well and kind of help us make some um you know maybe some different ideas that maybe we haven't thought about so um spring time early spring February March that time would be good day good good um board meetings to to have them rotated just as long as we use that because the time I've been on the board uh even rotating every building's had issues every year um unless we specify time at the meeting to do that everybody's in a hurry to get here and there so 90% of the time you never have time to hey let's go take a look at this building while we're here right I almost felt like it was better with we did a tour separately like aside from a meeting when we could more easily engage like with the principal walking through and they can not even just talk about immediate needs but also kind of some of the longterm and you don't have the time pressure of okay but we still have to go to a meeting and sit down and do that so as far as that goes I think there is value in that absolutely but I think that we need to invest that time probably outside of a regular meeting yeah I might I just might comment that um in the past at the beginning when we first Consolidated that it was actually part of our meeting to tour in the minutes it simply States the board now took a tour of the facilities whether it was 10 minutes or 15 and then returned back into their seating arrangements and we continued on so it could be part of the meeting too you don't really have to make a special trip but you don't want to you don't have to adjourn take the tour come back reconvene you know what I mean yeah okay could you could do it during the meeting there's nothing wrong with that at all okay just that's what we did that's what we've done that in the past a couple of buildings that we've been in it's an agenda built into the board meeting that you're going to spend 20 minutes walking through the facility or 30 minutes do you do that every meeting or okay three times Well fre each building however many buildings yeah okay so I guess I would be in favor of if if we want to try that for this year scheduling a meeting in early spring to make it a practical TimeWise um and then just adding that to those agendas so that we make sure that we do what we're there to do as far as that goes looking back um [Music] we have the like the February March April agendas they typically one shorter [Music] longer the same think you just have your routine Stu and then like contracts will be coming up you know this Springs Administrative and then teachers class and then also we have our calendar committee that will have calendars to bring to you guys next Bo as well right any other thoughts fine that's what you guys said inch so guess I would entertain a motion to have February meeting and March meeting in Wilson and the remainder at Central PLS High School is there a second I'll second any other questions comments discussion okay all those in favor say I I any oppose same sign I motion passes 5 to one item number 10 are administrative reports St equals what we have in our activity account um this Thursday I'll take seven kids out to eat for earning 100 points in our reading program tapate McKenna Otto boder Dory R will R Harland zc Ali rush and Tucker worth um the second through sixth grade kids achieved the second nine weeks reading goal in prior to break we spent an hour with each grade level playing various games in the gym so our service project we challenge our students prior to Christmas break to fill a fairly large container of change to give to Karen Comfort dog who visits our school monthly um they could earn extra recess we had like 5 minute 10 minutes 15 all the way up to 30 minutes on the jar um so if they filled it they could earn 30 minutes well they filled it and we presented a check or we presented the money to them $757 25 to the caregivers and an assembl it was nice they came in and explained to the kids what they would use that money for and all so the kids did a great job and were pretty excited bringing that money in and filming the container one little guy kept finding wheat pennies so we had to trade out the wheat pennies he was collecting wheat pennies um January 16th third grade will visit the the commun CL and Community Center in the Hollywood Legion on the 20th we have our in service we plan to continue mapping our uh Ela curriculum um while my Elementary staff will meet to discuss our mtss reading groups look at our data and put our kids in groups to give them more support and as Mr Murphy said our calendar committee will also meet that day um our local spelling be will be January 21st and our gymnasium beginning at 9: uh fourth through sixth grade students can participate in that the 29th our third grade will take a field trip to the Hill Museum in Salena on the 31st the Cosmosphere will come back out and work with our third and fourth graders um and learn more about the solar system and February 7th we're already halfway through the 3 n weeks if you would like to know that so any questions thank you thank [Music] you first of all I want to start off playing congrat lady Allison and get a chance to say something to your dad I didn't see him so it it all go well inite of the weather in spite of the weather I wondered about it I'll have to give your dad nonsense okay so on our calendar events um the winter moratorium of course and then um January 3rd was our staff day um the 15th we have the Nights of Columbus freeth throw cont contest on January 2 we also have the teacher service we're going to be um working with Central Kansas Co-op education on a pration to help our teachers with handling some behavior management issues that we're struggling with in our classrooms and so they're going to come out and do the behavior component of matth training and so teachers will get an opportunity to take a look at that and um hopefully help them professionally be able to handle some of those behaviors that we're seeing more and more of and we'll also be having the calendar meeting and we'll have a site council meeting on the 20th of January also and then on February 2nd they'll have another Free Throw Contest through the nights of Columbus I just shared with you some pictures of some different things we had going on um with Christmas and the commons that was a lot of fun one of our students was um deadly our Dragon so that was a lot of fun and he sat and took pictures with kids and they really had a good time they got to decorate a cookie and and so that was really a a family oriented we had a really good turnout too I was really surprised I think we we made 55 bags and I think we gave out 38 of them so that's pretty good for us that's quite a few so lots of fun there copy in the comments um a preing jingle bells and then our third graders performed a skit and then fifth and sixth graders on our choir the ones that went to Hay they sang um cuckoo carol which is a traditional she um Christmas Carol so I went over pretty well um then on the 20th we had a staff party and this was kind of comical because one of our staff members is really creative and so she brought all of these circular signs and had teachers even Mr bookish was painting so it's pretty cool had a good time um they have a program um through the momies foundation called 15 plus momies and it's required that each student in order to participate read at least 15 minutes each day outside of the school hours for 10 weeks and um so we had three of our students of our special ed students that made it through the 15 plus momies foundation and so they got a certificate from Patrick Mahomes our character education that caught being good reward system is still going strong everybody's excited um our word for this month is respect and we started a pilot curriculum this mystal character strong we're piloting that um to take a look at it for social emotional learning um we have 21 students are enrolled in full and part-time in after school program our reading groups are still averaging about four per session our math groups are averaging about three per session um on the daycare we have no openings up this time we still have 13 that remain on the weit list um my room moment went up yay um we're up over 80 so we have 81 and I gave you kind of a breakdown of where we are so we had a couple join us in preap which is really great uh I do have one sad bit of information to share with you um a former uh student and also member Community member passed away over the weekend Darcy Phil Pat and um so we're very sad to lose her it could um I know I've had lots of Staff come to me and say that they would like to go do the funeral we're not we have not heard when the funeral will be so we'll have to maybe make some adjustments I do not have enough teachers substitute teachers to cover you know the amount of teachers that we'll probably be wanting to go so we'll have to take a look at what that will look like so other than that things are going along very nicely any questions all right um in my report this month um one of the things that is on my radar is looking at adding that Health Pathway to our CTE programs we currently have six programs um those just as a reminder they are the CTE through the state where if the student completes the program or is considered a completer they could essentially kind of CLEP out of some classes at the college level um we have a lot of students who are taking or have taken the CNA program um but we don't have a health pathway um so it's like one of the only ones that you can be a completer in because it has an industry recognized certification but we don't have the pathway that goes with that so I'd like to add that in there those applications are due March 1st um the teachers who are in charge of the CTE programs that we have now are the ones that submit their applications um so I'll be working on the health Pathway to get that up and going the teachers will submit their applications and um we have a little bit of work to do they have completely revamped the entire agriculture um Pathways which we have two of those we have to redo recode basically start over on those um there's lots of changes to the construction one as well so we have a lot of work ahead of us to kind of get that going um the other thing that's on my radar Mr Murphy's radar is their the state of Kansas is um coming out with a blue ribbon task force dealing with cell phone usage and and not just cell phone but just electronic devices in the school um so we're going to be creating a a group of students who can help us with some ideas for that um you know we try to keep the kids to not use them and and for the most part most of the kids do a pretty good job at lunchtime they're hardly ever if they're up and playing they're not on them the Junior High kids we don't they don't get them during lunchtime so um we're trying to keep them up it you know as much as I I do even for you it's hard to when it buzzes it's hard to not check and see what that buzzing was so um there's I just got an email thread of all the all the schools in the league trying to decide what everybody's cell phone policy was so it's it's kind of a big thing throughout the state that we'll be kind of monitoring um the athletic report the coach's evaluations are complete and Mr Murphy will share that information with you um we marked down some needs for this year and they're just busy with a lot of basketball happening right now um luckily we we have we only have a little bit of makeup to do after the whole snow thing hopefully we don't have to reschedule a whole lot more games um you know adding those extra games in for next year um it's just going to get even more difficult if we have to reschedule so um Scholars Bowl is in the middle of their season for high school the Junior High season will begin soon as soon as basketball is concluded uh counselors report the Juniors um are going to be either taking the act or the work keys assessment or they can elect to take both of them um those have been the students have been uploaded to their test and they will begin that test in February um I didn't I forgot to put this on here but our 8th grade and our 10th graders are going to be attending a reality U event in Hoisington in um a couple weeks so I'm excited to get to take them to that if you've never experienced reality you it is quite the deal they walk through they um I think they're 26 years old um they walk through they have to buy a house they have to buy a car they get a crying baby um and they get really overwhelmed and the baby is just like more than they can handle they're just like I can't do all this I can't focus on all these things and you know sometimes you worry about kids taking that kind of stuff seriously they are locked in because they understand that this is their future like they have to know how to do all this stuff um and they get it's pretty interesting to see they do a great job running it um we had a great experience with it so I'm excited to take the kids to that um and then our K Band students were supposed to go last weekend because of the weather was rescheduled this weekend so we have three students who are auditioning for K State band in Sala on Saturday all I have you guys have any questions for me thanks thank you at that oh my right on have done next if we would have wanted to just a second I'll get this up running so this gentleman's name is Lee burfield uh he met with Miss oer and myself a couple that's probably a month ago gave us a little bit of a presentation over kind of what they've done in the past and over there yeah so you guys might want to uh yeah that might be best might easier to see uh oh Mr Scott is push the advance then say go ahead says go ahead well uh yeah what do you want me to do sir you want me to exit out no we're not going to talk about that tonight maybe hope no we might have it nope you want try might might have loged you out you want me to exit out log out of log out of Google and loog back in not thatle go back in okay and then go up to ma us that one yeah yeah reload there something can i l in I've got to log back in under my name [Music] everything's two Factor authentication after this last week for is it doing the same thing e [Music] hey Mr Lee how are you I'm doing well how are you doing I'm good can you hear me and see me okay I hear you and see you okay well I have you here on the big screen with our uh Board of Education so they are kind of all listening and watching on a big screen even though you can't see them they are all here okay I feels like there's hundreds how many are there no there's we got we got our six board members there's only about 10 12 people here so all right greetings everyone okay do you got us I do okay all right yes we're ready for you to rock and roll okay well I think I'll start off with just a little quick introduction of box modular I know um Bobby yourself and some others have already kind of um been been uh through this but nonetheless um just just really quickly before we get into um a solution hopefully solution for for for the school district um box modular is liced Du business in almost all 50 states across the us we um we do some federal government work through our GSA schedule we're um a strong strong member of the maer building Institute along with other um associations that they're somewhat affiliated with the modular industry and uh on the purchasing side we have some affiliation with several purchasing cooperatives ncpa tips and sourcewell our bonding capacity for a single project is 35 million and 100 million total aggregate we build our buildings primarily offside in a manufacturing plant and a um you know completely weatherized plant environment and that in itself kind of cuts down on some weather delays while the building's being built we just kind of keep on cruising through in climate weather so this is a photo of some some modular units going down our line as with this one shows a little bit more of an open open wall before we put any any side siging on it's kind of Sly line type um building process Le can you sh can you share your screen we're not seeing any of that well well that makes sense let me just got a back up here all um I don't want to be redundant um let me go back and share my apology can you see it now yep now we got it okay got got it yeah this is just some basic qualifications yeah I I I I know you heard what I just said this is just the uh the text um photos that I was reading from so you can see multiple states where we're licensed to do business and this is what I was referencing the assembly line typ production with the modular units built inside of a manufacturing plant for the most part uh what you see here is um is a couple modules and probably about 80% completion on this project we'll install all the Finish exterior material it's it's uh she like it's going to have some on it that'll be side installed another photo of the assembly blly type process units going down the line through the plants a large manufacturing facility and it's just they're kind of one behind one behind the other as they come in the door they're just frames when they go out the door they're pretty much completed modules um there are some some of our projects to highlight these are just some various uh educational commercial uh we do some Bank projects as well as well as well as medical so um these are just some some general projects that gives you an idea of what our finished product is the one in the bottom right hand corner is a dialysis about 8,500 squ foot dialysis that I built in LC Texas about three or four years ago moving on to some other projects this this one in the bottom left is also another dialysis more of a residential um type look than the others this is kind of a typical modular Pier Foundation um this one is set with all the peers P level like you would por slab and we'll just cran set the modules right on top so they're level when we set them down on the piers modular construction compared to site buil is roughly 30 to 50% less time involved with a typical siteb built commercial project most of the time that we save is after the design and Engineering is accomplished and uh the site is being developed at the same time that the buildings are being built off site so we're able to do our site work put our foundations in and um site is ready to receive the modules once they they sh ship from our manufacturing facility this is uh you probably recognize the aerial view here of the elementary school in central plains this is the the building that we discussed BYOB the um where we would likely install a classroom modular alongside the just building so um I kind of plotted it on the side it's somewhat to scale the building on the left um with just the white footprint is the last modular layout that we discussed and I have it set about 25 ft from your existing building where we would likely build a um connecting Corridor between the existing building and the modular building this is Hospital in Marietta Oklahoma Mercy Hill they have hospitals in Missouri Kansas and Oklahoma um the bottom building is a modular Physical Therapy Building that we added directly onto the patient wing of the hospital setting roughly 25 ft back you can see the connecting four door between them so this is kind of an example of what um if you decide to go this route how we connect the two buildings the maer building to your existing building this is the further detail on the example that I just showed you the the colored part here is a sight built Corridor there's a door on either side you can see it above if you're able to read drawing there's a door on each side the um left side here is the existing Hospital wing and then the right side is the modra building that we built and this is uh the face of the hospital where we made the connection we we this was all glass initially we took their existing door out filled it in with some fire rate material and there's built Corridor up next to it this is the the building uh the patient Wing at the hospital we removed the canopy The Columns you see this is pretty much a glass storefront here and this is where we filled in to get the fire rating that we needed and this is what it looked like before we joined the building to it with the corridor and this is I think Bobby this is the only photo that I shared with you when we were on our last call but uh the left side is a modu building and the connecting Corridor between them and then you can barely see uh part of the wall the existing hospital so that gives you a good idea of what the finished product look like once we connected the buildings together so that that Corridor is finished out just like the the hospital building and the maer building that we built that joins to it a lot of glass it's conditioned hbac lighting and and um you know a comfortable finish and that's all I've got on the slides so um I could go back and answer any questions that I might you know that you might have had as I was going through there or can open the U open it up for questions we all kind of relay them to you in case you can't hear okay okay you guys have any questions off the top of your head on any of this so far all the Electrical Plumbing all down hook it up yeah so the electric and the plumbing that's in the in the building itself that you bring in is already is already done we just have to have the hookups going to it is that right that's that's right we we install a um electral panel in each module and all the circuitry within each module is run back to that panel we we we place the panel where it's uh the most convenient location where your side electrical may be coming from so uh everything the air conditioner heater the lights all the electrical circuits are wied back through a main circuit board within within the maer building with the um the water you have one point connection for the supply water and it's normally tied in where we have a water heater you know that's gener where a main tie in is for for Supply water the the waste lines um are just dropped down through the floor where we have to manifold each fixture below the building and tie to your to your site um sewer system so yes for the most part everything is the plumbing fixtures are in place everything's plumbed all the all the the Lines within the building are are are are plumed back to each fixture from where they they point is at the edge of the building thank you what what are the construction materials like what are what's the construction materials what's it made out of what are some of the the common um construction materials that you guys use on the building side of it well the materials that we use for the most part are the same that you would use with any other side bu building we more times than not build with primarily wood frame structures we do have the ability to build with steel it drives the cost up when we're putting in steel stud walls as opposed to wood stud walls but um we we have to go through the same building codes that you would with sight built building and by that I mean the international building code for your location in Kansas I don't know if it's 2018 or 2021 but but we uh we have to adhere to all the same structural codes mechanical electrical and energy codes we have to do a full um calculation on the energy package um before we go into construction and make sure that that we've met all the the local requirements for the uh energy package that's insulation windows and all all the things that make up a um energy efficient building thank you as far as like shelving and storage and stuff like in the classrooms do they do any of that or would it all have to be we can design that the question was like shelfing and storage and those kind of things in the classroom is that something modify the units with or is that something that we would need to do separately once they're placed well no we when when we design the building we'll put built-in storage u in each room we're starting with a fresh set of plans we're not really following following any kind of like standard product or standard floor plans I you know I um you know I try to build everything exactly the way the customer want it built with storage shelving uh when you get into things like marker boards tack boards uh those sort of things we we can Pride those as well things that you just hang on the wall clocks or whatever um but we'll we we'll finish Furnishing all your desk as well but you know to be honest with you when we get into that kind of Furnishing we're going to a national you know Supply Company a death supply company and buying from the same people you probably already have an account with but um the the shelving can and story can be size you want where you want it it sounds very similar to like my Warcraft home um our electrical actually runs under our house instead of up into the ceiling is that how they do their electrical or so the electrical does it run underneath the building and come up or does it come in like through an attic and then come down through the walls well you know that depends on your site um if if if you're coming off the power's on a pirate pole run overhead on the campus then then you know normally a a pole is set next to the building and the the electric B will will be um you know run to that pole and just drop down um um into like into the the side of the building but we normally we normally don't run any electrical under the building it all comes in pretty much at the uh at the side of the building the the power is coming from underground we'll put a an electrical panel on the outside of the building or on inside whichever is most convenient for the site and um you know so we we can set it up where the pyate can come from overhead or below but we're not really running any circuitry under the building it's through the walls and up above the ceiling primarily we do have under our buildings the only Power that we normally would have under the building would be some circuitry for a um um for your insulation um fire taping not fire taping you know insulation tape under the building or if you want to you know sometimes depending on the building you know it sometimes we we'll be asked to put some lighting there in case they to get under there so obviously there's some circuitry for that but um very little electrial has ever installed under the building so the heating and cooling that we've we've seen kind of on the side of some of your products does does it have like many splits on the side of it what does that look like from the heating and cooling side yeah what what what you saw up at that wood is kind of a a standard H unit for lease buildings and um they're they're installed on the end on the end of each module it has a uh Supply Air Duct at the top and return air just below that you know it's a fully ducted system but they're they're mounted on the ex exterior walls where the supply duct goes right into the ceiling cavity above the ceiling and below the uh the roof Raptor system so um when we get into more permanent buildings we we generally have rooftop units or you we can do some some package ground manag units very you we don't do a lot of the package ground man we'll often do a split system more like what you might have in your in your house with a condensing unit out on the out on the pad and the furnace in a closet I me that's you know that's that we do that occasionally but it's not really that common in a building the size um but we we we do try to Zone each classroom where they have their own independent thermostat for control um rather than just having you know one or two Waste Control the entire building where one classroom you know may complain about being cold the other one next to it complain about being warm so the teachers in each classroom will have the ability to control a heat and air in their own classroom through thermostat okay Mr burfield well I know as we are navigating through these different options and talking about them I know that we'll all have some more questions for you so what I'll do is I'll write those down and I'll just send those to you and that way I can share any any any information that needs to be passed to you for answers is that okay that's perfect I really appreciate the opportunity I I do have I do have one question that's my own where are you guys at like turnaround time like I mean is this like a two-year Endeavor down the line or how how long do these usually take to build if it took two years we wouldn't be in business you know the uh the main benefit of mod construction is the speed of speed of construction so on on average from the time we get a contract and going in the first phase is is produce our customer approval drawings and material selections you know color selections for floors walls exteriors whatever um that's the first phase and then we go into our engineering phase where we get the uh the Kansas P seal on all the drawings and just put together a complete package and um we procure the materials and build the product and that entire process the contract to completion is normally less than six months all right Mr burfield well I'm going to let you get the rest of your evening to yourself and I do appreciate you getting on with us tonight and we had a little technical difficulties getting on but thank you for waiting on us a little bit and uh we'll be in touch okay yeah thank you again and uh you guys enjoy the rest of your meeting I appreciate the opportunity to participate thank you bye now okay fine [Music] thank you for your any other discussions or questions or anything right now very much sound B that's some my house that we built Warcraft and it was built up in place very similar process sounds like something like that anybody thinks of any questions or anything make sure to let Mr Murphy know and I appreciate getting that set up on the item number 12 application for of Education okay so we do have an applicant for the next uh sorry for the number two um District application for the district number two um you guys have access to that on your um board packet uh name is I hope I'm saying this right Cherie ch cheriee um I did speak with her on the phone a little bit um I just need to know how you guys would like me to proceed with that um in the past when I've been involved in this we've had them come to the next board meeting and just speak a little bit on why they're interested in that position and things like that before the board you know ultimately you guys are the ones that are going to make the decision for that position so um if you guys you know whatever Direction you guys wanted to go with that um I just need some direction on what you guys would like me to do yeah go ahead and invite her to the next board meeting and we'll probably have that at the top of the agenda so that maybe she we decide to can we do that can she participate yeah you make a motion to approve her then I'll have Oath ready then she needs to sign the oath of office and I can I can prepare that ahead of time just in case so yeah not not a problem so that'll be added to our agenda in February [Applause] okay and board member for negotiations okay I nominate Chad we have to on yeah just a motion I move to point so move to appoint Chad Rogers as board representative for negotiations second from nton any other discussion all those in favor say I any oppos sign motion passes and then item number 14 first reads for policy updates so there's some langu updates on there as well and there's quite a few of them so I'm going to give you guys the opportunity the next month to to read over those before we um vote to update those in our board policy books so those are first reads so no motions necessary on there so we can discuss a little more in detail once you guys get a chance because like I said there's quite a few on there so Mr President I MO Bo going an executive session pursued to the Kansas open meeting act and discuss uned Personnel for the topic as certified staff and substitutes to protect the priv the privacy of the individuals to be discussed with Mr Murphy present and principal Jess Murphy to be on call we were returned in open session in this room uh 7:21 okay there is a motion second and second from Alison all those in favor say I same sign motion pass e e e okay we are back in Open Session I move to approve Karen Moore as the building principal at Wilson Elementary School to begin second semester for the 20242 25 school year motion by second second by Josh all those in favor say I I any opposed same sign motion passes 60 I move to approve Valerie Langston as a substitute cook and gayen schmidberger and Katherine Striker as substitute teachers second motion by Allison second by Josh all those in favor say I any oppos same time motion passes 60 MH Miss president I moveed that the board go in an executive session to discuss confidential student information pursuit to the exception relating to actions adversely and favorably affecting a student under the KO Ma and return to open session in this room uh at 7:32 with superintendent Murphy and principal Jess Jess Murphy to be on call second motion by second byon all those in favor say I any oppos same time motion passes e e e we are back in open I know to approve Devin Davidson sier Franson Weston Miller Garrett short and Liberty Warda for work study this semester I'll second motion by Alison second by Josh all those in favor say I I any opposed same sign motion pass number 17 superintendent reports okay um superintendent for daycare update um finishing room up this week uh we're hopeful we actually got a hold of kdh they are planning on being um at the facility Monday the 20th at 12:30 to hopefully do our final inspection when I got that email today it said that they had some more questions that they had to ask for direction from so I don't know what those are going to look like um but hopefully it's not much so we have 15 kids on our list right now um it sounds like we might be adding one or two babies at the next start of the school year and this kind of kind of includes the some of the full-time and part-time kids that we have right now so kind of an update on where we're at with that um okay so the next item I have had some community members a couple of community members from Wilson um visit with me about land transfer so I would just like some direction from you guys um what you're wanting me to do if you're wanting me just to sit patient and have other people reach out to us if they're interested that's what I'll do um if you if what you know I just want some direction from you guys as a board on what your perception is um where we're at with land transfer and what my answer is going to be whenever I'm asked about that personally I would sit tight I think it's a couple community members I don't think it's the whole Community right now and I I have a hard time thinking Silas is going to be responsive that's my own personal opinion though um was it two community members coule yeah yeah yeah I I don't know if it's the direction the community wants to go in right now okay I haven't been told otherwise anyways let's put it that way that would be my suggestion I mean we went that's kind of where we left it after everything happened cuz we went through the whole process with s Lucas and I mean it wasn't for lack of communication or meetings or I've never I've never been a fully supportive of the transfer to begin with I've always I have a different mindset against it I guess but um I mean I'm not opposed to it but I I'm not 100% for it either um my honest opinion would be to if Sven Lucas are interested let them come us and that's what I would probably maybe tell the community members too is you know if they are interested you know we'd be open to hear them but I think they need to come to us this time and I I guess that's what it's kind of how we left it after everything that happened because there was Communications with multiple different districts and it was never so for those community members it's not us shutting the doors to any to anybody we'll communicate with anybody but we're also not looking to the people out the door either School Board to school board the community members really shouldn't be involved yeah I quite bluntly I mean they shouldn't it should be their school board our school board I mean they can you know you know encourage but I mean it's going to have to be their school board sitting down with our school board I mean the community members can't really go and take anything to them one member talking to one School Board member right that yeah and that's kind of what it is I think they can encourage those Schoolboard members to you know open up you know say okay we want to schedule a meeting then we can talk about it but I think that's kind of where everything kind of went wrong in the very beginning was that the community members were spearheading it when it should have been the board spearheading it and I think that's kind of where everything got lost in translation so because there were numbers being thrown out and you know where do you get these numbers nobody knew anything so I think I I mean like I said I wouldn't be opposed to it but I think it would definitely have to go down the right Avenues this time not just the community members saying hey let's let's go talk to them you know it's going to have to be their board coming to our board so I guess that's kind of how it so when we left the ball was in their core so if they're interested they need to contact us are you guys good with that answer okay do you want that to be a consensus in the minut and that's not just for S Lucas that's for any of the bordering districts I'll put as far as that goes like I said I'm not post to it but I think it needs to be done the right way I don't think it was done right so I'm going to put in the minutes if this is okay if I can s the board agree to wait and have any bordering districts approach usd112 in regards to trans in regards to land transfer okay okay um okay so I just some direction on um heating and air conditioning at Wilson so when we left um our work session I told you I was going to look at some options on what we've done what I've kind of experienced with some window units and things like that um gave you guys some of that information weekly announcements last week so um gave you guys some of those numbers as well looking at the individual units for the room what those would look like did reach out to Russell a little bit um they did have make modifications they actually had their um custodial staff make modifications to the windows to be able to put those in the windows um spent a lot of time on this so I I guess I just need some direction from you guys is are the window units something that you're interested in me still moving forward with um to add to this you know we're going to be talking here pretty soon I'm hoping here fairly quickly about the other daycare room at Wilson with the grant that we have you know we're going to have to have a solid window unit or something for air conditioning for those components of that building to move forward with that so you know we talked about the numbers of what it would cost um for split units we talked about what it would cost for um a whole new unit whether it's outside whether it's up on top um I would I would love to be able you heard Lee burville talk about it today and I kind of started smiling about letting our teachers be able to control their thermostats in their classrooms I would love that the part about it is is if we're going to get to that point with the heating side of it we're going to have to change out that whole system and go away from EPM I I would love to do that for our teachers to have their own access to turn it up or turn it down or our custodial staff to be able to specifically do the heating in every room and not you know take an order of Congress to do that to be able to do that though we're going to have to go away from EPM and put a whole new control system in and it's going to be very very financially uh we're going to have to throw a lot of money at that if that's what we decide to do so if we go window units uh are we still able to use the big rooftop unit and just control into certain areas the rooftop unit until we get some drives they can figure out the thing the deal for the drives in it is not going to run anymore so whenever we talked about the split units the one way the the rooms we going to get the fresh air from the the split units is from that rooftop unit okay that won't run anymore unless those drives and I just talked to Jesse at train today um he said those drives are obsolete they can't find them whenever you talk to EPM though EPM tolds you anybody has them in their backyard laying on the ground somewhere so you got one side saying they can find them anywhere and then another side saying that they're completely Obsolete and they can't they can't is that the only train contact we have yeah it's the commercial train side of it for that unit that's the only one in around there's not another one not for the commercial side of it that I know of and that's out of witch that one's out of Witchita I believe yes and you figure there would be something Haze area or SL area when I called Jesse a train I called is which to office so so I guess I guess I just want some direction from you guys on which which way to go because we're going to have to have something um we're going to have to have something especially for the daycare rooms up there for the cooling side of it um well I I I feel that we need to go we need to look into more of the window units um I feel that that would be the fastest and easiest Simple Solution right now um and you come back to that scenario is that teacher could take care of that classroom we the call train yeah I think maybe some of our local guys you know great Ben liner or whatever is close to that area could take care of them units if we had an issue um and you know on on the window units it seems like we can uh go through multi of them compared to one big unit up on top again um just to be clear this this doesn't really solve any problem in the cafeteria kitchen or the office you know um I'd like to have a conversation with Larry and then about or do we have any options about like residential units on the top of the facility to be able to bring some cool air into those areas um and what that would look like on that side of it with the residential units commercial sales office in the Nexa say that one more time there's a commercial sales office in Mona for back to what but they might have some more information Well yeah if we can at least talk to them I know I've talked to other school districts that when they've gone through HB step they try to come up with different options just so that they don't have to deal with the commercial train stuff because it is is going to be much more expensive and challenging and challenging to have repairs and so we've already thrown so much money at the at that system up there it's kind of frustrating because we have and it wasn't that long ago that we just put for these window units oh yeah so you're saying soet is using this so in their High School in their High School area they they do the same thing there that we're talking about doing here they use their boiler system and then they buy these because they have a heating element so if you need a little more heat in the classroom you have the opportunity to do that with these units um and then quite honestly what they do is they'll buy you know a pallet of them every single year and have them that way if one goes bad and they can't fix it it's you know they just slide it in and take the other one out and then they have it on have it in there now have they ran this way for a couple years or just last year it's been it's been it's been a while okay and they're getting by with it when I talked to um the maintenance instructor there this past week in the last week um you know they ran the 220 box and had to do the whole same route that we're talking about you know on that side of it with the electrical side comparison um you know we got to do so many classrooms um is toet about that size about that size I would say not in that area so you got 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 12 classrooms not down that hallway there's not any they got they got about 12 classroom spaces that that's what they use that's what they use that for it was also in my office oh yeah so I've been 13 Hader I had one and and we're talking High School right so a lot more activity in and out in and out compared to a grade school situation um nice thing about it too was like I had a classroom and I only taught one hour of the day so then I could turn it off and it wasn't being used you know continuously yeah it didn't have to be heated if nobody was in there so I guess what I would like to do is I'd like to go ahead and get some hard nailed down numbers from some different bids from the electrical side of it what this would cost we're going to have to get some we'd have to get some bids from other companies that have these comparable units as well bring those to you guys not for your approval but just to talk about what those numbers look like and then if that's the route we decide to go March somewhere in there we go ahead and pull the trigger on that okay and and on these 20 units um is that a price now or have we seen a fluctuation or a decrease on it you know in in March are we going to look at I mean you know the longer you wait especially this time of year I'll tell you when I talked to Bob McMullan I think he said in in um October they went ahead and bought a pallet of them a pallet of them was nine of them just to have them mon you know because this was the price I think the regular price I think it said $870 Okay $868 I I can't remember so could possibly be looking at an additional $100 each and again I'm not so sure we'd need 20 units we might want to use 20 if that's the route we go to have some put back to use on hand if we need them um you know the big thing and I'll talk more about this is we got a lot of plans this summer and we're going to add more to it as I go through this so um you know I sat down and talked with Jess and talked with Tim today about some of these items that we're talking about doing this summer and it's starting to add up pretty quick so um I'll visit more about that that's why I get get through here so okay okay okay uh wait room Wilson so um one thing we did get a release form that they've been using I did include the email back from uh calura and um that email is attached do you guys have any direction or anything on ins side of it with the information that I was able to gather from um the legal side of it the the hard part that I have in any of them situations whether it's here there is they can sign all they want and how much is that 100% um you know and and that's in everything whether it's a school or a city situation um that's what I have difficult part on it so I know that um a part of the email says that we would have to have someone in there periodically to maintain make sure that they're in proper working order because if it's not when something happens we'd be liable so what if something happens while a Community member is using the weights not necessarily an injury or anything but they break one of the machines or a cable or a spring you know to hold the weight in place breaks and they don't report it to us and an accident happens then afterwards because that's been broke between the time that we would go in and do our periodic inspection still beable that's what it sounds like so right now outside we're not letting anybody use it outside of the school um is that where we want to leave it for now is there any other um conversation we want to have on it um Rec wise or anything else like that one thing I could ask is if if there was an option where we could um let the wreck rent that to be able to use that um I don't know if that would fall underneath that same category if they're the ones written it for I don't know a dollar a month I don't know I'm just going to throw a number out there if that would maybe reduce some of the liability on our side yes so are they you know if something happens maintaining it you have to transfer ownership that's what I would yeah you're right and if we're going to do that they might as well have a different places so we're not liable for somebody to come into our the school structure if you guys have any other Insight on that feel free to to let me know and I'll do what I can to look some of that information up so okay before I get to the power school deal I I do I'm going to jump around just a little bit on you guys um we did get 53 more Chromebooks from the adopt Grant uh they had some left over from from that K State Grant so we're able to get 53 more which is going to cover most of our need for this upcoming year for the kids that we have so that's good we might just need to add a couple here or there okay so this is new and I don't have this one on there so our e rate next year is our last year of our e rate cycle 25 and 26 okay e rate we work through Smoky Hills for our infrastructure for our school for technology side of it so two things here one they have included all of our virtual students now in our enrollment for the ER side of it bad side about that is our rebate went down from 70% rebate to 50% rebate but on the other side it bumped our number up for next year from $1,000 to $112,000 that we have to use next year we have to have that information into Smoky Hills by the end of this month so they can place it out to bid to use so you have to match that 50% the 50% is just the rebate that we get from using them for the E side of it there's no match included in that at all but what you're saying is if you spend the 112,000 you get reimbursed 50% of that no that's just the rebate that we get off of it correct yes yes yeah so it's not a reimbursal it's just when they take it out to bid there's a certain reimbursal rate that we don't have to pay because they're not reimbursal but yeah that we don't have to pay for that okay okay so that leads into this we Mr Mr Scott has to have all that into Smoky Hills by the end of this month so they can place it out the bit so we got a lot of work to do in what that's going to look like so one thing that we have talked about is changing out all the wiring in the schools Scott if I'm misspeaking we talked about this a lot it would partially be in this building we're looking at adding access points replacing all the switches uh routers upgrading our firewalls uh I've been compiling from Evan and Sherry for all the buildings how old some of our stuff is um still there's going to be there's some things that eate doesn't quite cover in terms of cyber security yet that all of us wish they did but they aren't yet so but uh you know it we're we're going to replace and update everything we can and if we do the if if we end up doing the cabling it's going to be the future proof we'll put in what they call Category 6 cable which is the next generation of cable over what we already have and that should future proof the building for the next 10 to 15 years all the buildings to where they would all be you know and adding additional Wi-Fi access points to where I mean we we we can study them and look at it now and we can always add a few and then we just turn down the power a little bit more to give us more flexibility in the future again it's I'm trying to do it to Future proof things as best we can so with that when's the best time to change the wiring out of the school back up so I'm saying as you see we got a lot of stuff that we're talking about in the summertime now we can't spend that 25 26 money until July because July to the end of June so technically we could do some of it at the end of June next year but we would have to move the tiles that we put in to do that um so Scott's going to visit with a couple of companies to see how long they think it would take I mean if we're only talking a couple days for them to come in and rewire one part of it while they're the panels are out and then once we have the air clearance and then come do the same thing on this side I think we can make that work if we're talking about a whole week and a half on one side and a week and a half on the another I don't I don't know how we would ever get that much are you just rewiring to the aps or are you rewiring to every classroom there'll be some classrooms we will you know like the business lab some of those mhm which is literally across the wall from my from my office anyway uh if if there's places that we deem that we need to redo the hard wire connection the thing is by replacing they can just pull you know take the old wire hook up to one end pull the new wire and and you're done unless we have kinks or something where it gets caught in the in the framing so that it can be done pretty quickly and stuff they have police and stuff they use yeah pretty one of the guys used to use literally out of train fet s so when we're talking about some of these things for summer project we got the ceiling pile mitigation putting all the ceiling piles back in we got the entryway mitigation putting new carpet in there and then we have things off the wall in the entryway so if things are off the wall then we might as well put a little bit of pain up in the entry ways um we're talking about um um at at our Wilson talking about the Wilson Community talking about the school and the AC side of it and that side of it there as well and then you know we got the wiring components as well with all the buildings if we decide to do that um and then also you know when they came in and redid the gym floor last year they told us it was time that that needed to be sanded down and redone before they were going to put another coat of wax on it we haven't had any more discussions about that besides what they told us but you see things so we had a discussion today like can we do this is this feasible for summer and calendar and everything else so we're talking about all these things and and and especially on the e- side of it having having you know some extra funds there um it's going to be a busy summer if that's what we you know decide to do moving forward I don't know if we've ever I asked Diane today if we've ever tried to tackle that much in the summertime and she said she can't really remember so I have some concerns there [Music] um um so I wanted to let you guys know about that and once we once we get to the point where we're talking more about that e here in the next couple weeks I'll I'll keep you guys in tune to where we're at with that so we do have to have it by the end of January to Smoky Hill for them to put out for bid on their side of it so okay um we've been talking to huddle some about nfhs we use that to do our live streaming for our games we did have quite a bit of trouble with it during football season um we already do quite a bit with huddle um and their communication's been kind of tough with nfhs um but we we we could potentially have a package with huddle where we have our own team site much like Russell does on the Huddle side of it where it's free for everybody you put it on your phone you put the app it's going to send you a message if there's ever any live streaming from either gym and whenever we went to that Russell tournament it worked really really smooth on the Huddle side they send you the two cameras with it one for this gym one for your one for your football field there's no other extra hookups with computers like we have out there right now so um we're going to talk about that some more and I'm going to give you guys some little more information about that at the board meeting as we go forward been a discussion for a couple years to move away from nfhs so yeah okay um how long is the term with huddle uh it's yearly okay it's just yearly yeah and we do a lot of our storage for our film our film breakdown all that sort of stuff on huddle already so you know I think it's another couple thousand doll for the streaming services to add that to our account which we already PID that or should have been paying that for nfhs so and then everybody to buy access yeah access so whenever I talked to we talked to the guy today from huddle he said that then it would really be up to the school whether they wanted to charge for access to that or not my recommendation would be no um they would have access to that page to get on and watch anything that we did in the gym or so say that again it can be stream also okay so the big item I have on here is the power school data breach here are all of the logs um that show if you guys want to look at it when our system was compromised at the different times so that's all in there and it's highlighted uh Scott did a great job of pulling that stuff up so feel free to pass that around um I did get an email today from our property insurance um that wanted to Circle back around he said we uh this is from our representative Caleb good um we had talked on the phone prior to kicks making the executive decision to um notify have anyone notified from power school to go ahead and file a c a claim with kicks just to be on the safe side so I went ahead and went through that today and filed that claim so we have that if it ever falls back that far on us um our hope is My Hope Is That Power School fixes what they did and goes back and figures out how they're going to make it right for everybody on your um packet your board packet there are some notes on there one a couple of them are from power school that they would like us to send out a couple of them from kasb um I did get an update today this evening that power school does have a frequently asked questions page now to be able to push out with that so tomorrow um as long as we're on the same page I'm going to push those letters out to give everybody a little more information to where we're at with that and also the frequently asked questions I anticipate like some other schools are are are an ipating as well we're going to get some calls on well what's going to happen with this and the answer is we don't know right now um you know we don't want it to be panic and maybe I'm overreacting to it but um you know on that side of it we just really fill all of the superintendents that I've talked to you know power schools got to make some sort of a statement to let everybody know what they're going to do to make this side of it right um we did on your board packet I also did uh put on their ksde recommendations that we are going to follow moving forward and we've talked about um making sure that we don't have any personally identified information on there for any of the students moving forward after this week once we make sure we have all that documentation in place in their in their files so um so my question answer because our online enrollment is that going to make it harder to continue with online en we going to have to go back to okay it's called e funds no no no not the online enrollment piece where they're paying their money is called our documents are requesting a social security number we need to go in and take that document all we have to do is change the document make sure that our new students when new students come to the district they come in and bring a copy of their which they need to do any so we just won't put it in school this has been this has been a Hot Topic this past week and we' put a lot of resources into making sure that we have all the information um so I'm just tring to make sure that you guys have all the information that we've talked to on the power school side of it um I did call in today to try to get somebody's voice to talk to me I had to put in a ticket for them to call me back and that was at 10:15 this morning and I haven't got a phone call back so that's the way it is um I don't know what this going to mean long term for power school I mean down the line we could be looking at another sis of student information system to use depending on what happens with power school from this so Mr Mr Scott did you get any more information this afternoon this evening from the Power School side I did get from our customer service manager a saying you know yes we recognize your data was breached and you know we're working on it uh I emailed bomber at KSP one of their lawers got a nice long email back from her ask I was asking about you know is the state going to do something from the state level and pretty much the answer was no uh they just aren't they just won't so and we can't force it so it's going to come down to individual schools the the scope of this is still unfolding I'll just say that okay so it's it's not over do you guys have any I know you have a lot of concerns but do you have any concerns about either one of those Power School letters we going to send one out to the teachers and our faculty and staff and then we're going to send one out um Facebook wise text wise um uh um web page wise as well you know to make sure that at least the knowledge is out there that this is what we know once we get some more information from Power School we're going to push that out and then also on the frequently asked questions so they can get on there and look at what those are so maybe that can answer some of their questions as well you guys have any concerns about us sending that out on the district side okay that was a lot I'm sorry guys that was was a long a long report but um we've got a lot of things going on [Music] so does it say anything about making it right um I mean if it's anything like the you know United what was the United healthc Care's breach not too long ago I that was huge and they came back and offered you a free year of credit monitoring and credit monitoring and it took a while for that to come out yeah well the before they even had another one got another one but I had one two or three years ago and it took I think about a year before we got the information on do a credit for using credit monit was that it was a [Music] while do you guys have any questions for me yeah I mean I applaud you for getting those records pull and kind of at least having an idea of what [Music] app we're probably going to be getting some more questions so just I mean we'll do the best we can to answer him but it might be at this time we don't know yeah unfortunately it seems okay any board member [Music] reports open Agenda items um I gu it's on items for next month's agenda the superintendent evaluation uh is everybody okay with kind of how we did it last time I'll get those sent out to you guys so you can fill them out and then we'll have that again for next month's agenda we probably should put on there a position two board member because I think we're have the final reading of those KB policy updates going over administrative contracts superintendent evaluation say 25 26 sorry anything else okay I would entertain motion to Second Mo by Alison second by Josh all those in favor say I any oppose same sign motion passes thank you everybody

Mr CER pres Mrs Olson here Mr Guri here Mr Rodriguez is pres Dr sotero here miss eron here and Miss Venezuela here all present okay we don't do the AC um you have a motion to adopt the agenda I'll make the in favor passes United States America indivisible so I got straight into the informational items the first of which is the approval of certified employment for perform teer Elizabeth Mr pres of Elizabeth has been interviewed for position for Teacher this Blanchard will not start at first until an approved ivp fingerprint card is received there is no board action necessary this is a study session any questions [Music] discussion so performing art she'll be doing um she'll be doing from what I comic music process is already established so they'll be presenting song or songs and then to slowly maybe integrate some theater performances for few but not extensive and the 7 to 12 will be more of the the production so like the Christmas yes programs that Christmas and other one and I guess kind on the same conversation but have EXC me but have we U bandwise that we may have been able to find anybody at all that no band teachers at all that's the work in progress right now I'm sorry to ask but I know the community is [Music] interested there's no more discussion on that we'll go to the next item which is the approval of the certified employment substitute teacher Gerard fernandz Mr President members of the board D fernandz has been for position as a substitute teacher there is no board action necessary this is a study session item only note for the board um this is positive this is great news we are up to now I believe eight substitute teachers I believe Mr MRIs Mary right Marissa Marissa Marissa yes mrz and Mr so now we have eight subtit looks like he's also working ctif and what subject is I believe it's a graphic design graphic design can marketing as well so this's more discussion question sir we had an issue with substitutes but this application dat May last year I saw that too so there there was for certifications or I think so when we ad we were looking for um when Mrs uh when Dr Connelly left and uh Professor Q left we had advertised for H open C position um so his application originally was for that one of those positions but we decided to bring in Mr Roo instead and then Mrs um uh burill I still keep wanting to call M um Mrs Romeo can teach some of the photo classes that um Dr Conelly was teaching so we kind of gathered that CTE that we were um that we were needing um and then so we had all four CTE classes kind of saved so then we didn't need uh Mr fern so when he put in for the substitute I already had his application for the C so he just sent that letter so he just sent the letter and then I just instead of making a whole new any further questions go on the next item which is approval of the recruitment St Mr President members of the board in May of 20124 the Govern board approved a recruitment and retention s for new teachers two monies teachers correctly certified are eligible in December and may of their first year after consultation between District administrators and the legal department Mr hord the administration is recommending misso an and receive half typen on pay period 15 which is 12825 and half on p period 2463 or 2567 you see in your information there uh the adjustment that might have to be made due to feary for so teachers get the performance P so that's just uh for your information there any questions or discussion on that if not we'll go on to D which is extra paid position Mr President members of the board we're very excited about this right here this item um many of you have have maybe have seen Mr voser about 6 to four walking around campus the last year or so uh we're very to come AC to cross paths with him he started last year as a substitute teacher he has quite an athletic background He has expressed interest in being the co-ed track coach in the 2025 season um just a little more background information on on Mr bosberg he was I believe an all city and All State quarterback he did uh college track I believe in 1970 he was an all citycity quarterback for South Catholic High School was in tuon high school had a state championship team on their whole right side of the line Center guard tight end running backs made the first team and he was the first team quarterback he also played some football college had some professional football trials exp to AC cross country running events all throughout Arizona he did the first ever November Thanksgiving Fun Run and the December Santa fun run here at the football field KS love him he he is he wants to do it so uh we're excited about this and for CAA I believe the track and field meets are on Saturdays so that will help us out so we're getting a sport started again that we haven't had for a while in we're very excited yep I'm all I'm excited about it a good guy he has a loud voice I'm sure I know who he is if you saw him okay yeah plus 6 white hair white hair yeah okay okay there's no further discussion on that next thing we have is the approval of disposal of cabinet sh linator Mr President M the board cabinet two Shel units a broken laminator and three sets of speakers are being recommended for disposal because each item has a fixed asset tag board approval a board approved disposal is necessary all the items are broken missing the necessary part or obsolete pictures of them are attached there is no board action necessary this is the study session I don't questions for discussion okay not next item is a report on midar testing Mr pres m board m w and Miss C our move on reading co-coordinators will make a report on M Benchmark testing I believe they have a link right there also for for you to see actually study session item only and I'll it over to okay so good evening everyone I am jle bz um together with Mrs with Miss C uh my co- mower coordinator we will the DBL assessment result for middle of the school year so just a quick pickup um what is DBL it is a literacy assessment collected by teachers interacting with students oneon-one it is administered three times per year so we're done with beginning of the school year and we had it last September middle of the school year we had it last December and the last one will be uh end of the school year and lastly libl is to identify reading difficulty monitor progress and inform instruction especially for struggling readers so let's move on to our data over here so let's start with kindergarten I am the kindergarten teacher so we have here um just a quick quick up about uh the colors that we have here so for the red one we have the well below yellow is the below Benchmark a green one is The Benchmark which is our goal and lastly we have the blue one which is above benchmark so I have here my Legend number one means uh okay so one here means beginning of the school year number two here means middle of the school year so let's start with our data here in well below so for well below in beginning of the school year we have five students now let's move on to uh middle of the school year three students were retained at well below two of them went to uh at Benchmark which is our goal so that's a very good um result now we have here for um below nine students at the beginning of this school year we have you so we have here nine students who are uh at Bel low Benchmark now we have uh in middle of the school year we have one student who went to welo and we were able to identify that student currently that student is undergo uh in my after school tutorial so hopefully we'll be able to support him with that one um for three students here that are retained in below Benchmark and five of those students went to uh Benchmark which is again our goal now let's go to uh Benchmark the green one in the beginning of the school year we have three students in middle of the school year um three of three of those students were retained at Benchmark and lastly for above Benchmark that one student was retained too okay so we have here our different subtests these are the different tests that we have for our students so we have there the letter names phonic awareness letter sounds decoding word reading vocabulary spelling rant and risk our risk indicator so for the test here all we got to all we want to see is that um more of the green and blue colors that means those are at Benchmark and of Benchmark so as you can see here uh the strength of the kindergarten students we have the decoding which is we have six students oh 15 students who are um at Benchmark and above Benchmark we also have word reading fluency so we have 15 students who are at Benchmark and above Benchmark and for their area of focus they have letter names and phonic awareness so that's what I mentioned earlier the area of focus is phonic awareness and letter sounds and for their um strengths we have the decoding and word reading fluency so just to compare the data of between beginning of the school year and uh middle of the school year as you can see we we want the red and yellow color which is our um well below Benchmark and Below Benchmark to be um deducted so let's say 28% from 28% we have it went down to um 9% 19% and then from 50% we we it went down to 19% so that's a a a good implication that we have a progress for our students who are at bench uh well below and Below Ben Benchmark now for our green and blue students we want them to have higher um percentage so we have here uh from 177% we have a 50 uh 57 uh percent and this one is just the same uh the reason why it went below is because um we have more students who were tested during middle of the school year compared to the beginning of the school year so there were students added to my class so this is what I've mentioned the strengths letter names word reading fluency and decoding for their area of focus um phonic awareness and letter sounds so do we have any questions about our data with um kindergarten class okay thank you now let's move on to first grade so we have here we've mentioned we have students who are under um SEI Structured English immersion so these are our El students they're part of it and these are our nonel students so this is for first grade so from beginning of the school year number one we have six students who are at well below now we have five students who are retained in well below and then one moved to below which is the yellow color here for our El students here one student was retained at well below Benchmark and the other one went to below Benchmark for our below Benchmark here four students at the beginning of the school year and then those four students from below Benchmark they went to Benchmark which is our goal so that's a good result we have here our Benchmark from seven students five of them retained at Benchmark and two of those students went to above Benchmark so this is our um different sub for nonel students again just to remind you we have to look at the green and blue colors because that's our um good result for our students so we have here their um strengths we have reading accuracy we have word reading fluency we also have decoding and for our Witnesses we have uh vocabulary and and letter name so this one is for our El students we have three El students who are under our Structured English immersion program so this one here are the different subtest the strengths of the Kinder I mean first grade students we have pmic awareness and word reading fluency they have to focus more on letter sounds and reading fluency so here um the comparison between beginning of the school year and middle of the school year we have here from 45% 45% um we it went down to 35% and from 20% it went down to 10% now for our goal for at Benchmark and above Benchmark so from 35 % it went up plus 10% to 45% and then from 0% now we have 10% of students who are at above Benchmark and these are their strengths reading accuracy word reading fluency decoding and letter names and their area of focus is reading fluency and phony make awareness so I think that's it for kindergarten and first grade now I have here miss C to present second grade and third grade vas all right so moving on to second grade so again her Legend number one is the beginning of the year this is it all the number one's beginning of the year and then number two would be middle of the year so all the number two so beginning of the year we have seven students nonel um and then middle of the year that's seven drop to six which is good and then one move to below and then for below we started the school year with six students um for the six students three moved to Green however three moved to well below we identifi these three students we know attendance is a factor we know we have a student we identified at almost had 20 absences in one semester um we the parent already had a conference with the teacher and problem solved some strategies on how we can solve those attendance concerns um we also identified um some CSD referral as well um for moving on for Benchmark we started the school year with four students and then we retained the number four there and then above Benchmark five and then retain the five for the El population now second grade is the class which has the biggest number of el English language Learners so for about 30 plus students 11 of them are e um the beginning of the year nine were tested and then it dropped middle of the year to eight and then one moved to Green which is is a benchmark which is really good and then for below we started with one student and that one student moved to Benchmark as well um Miss bagar mentioned earlier we want to focus on the green and the blue those are your areas of strength for this class for second grade you can see the long green there which is 91% um we could say that their class um for the non-el population their class strength would be the Rand which stands for rap optimized naming and then for areas to improve those are the red and the yellow if we combine this the red and the yellow here that would be letter samples that would be an areas to improve an area to improve for the non El population of second grade so for E we said 91% for spelling 91% for vocabulary that's an to improve as well all right this is the whole class because in other data you saw how we separated the E and the N so this is com combination for the whole class area of strength would be decoding at Benchmark and above Benchmark and then areas to improve would be letter sounds and basic comprehension um we always wanted the below Benchmark and the well below and the below to go up and The Benchmark and the above Benchmark um well we want this to go down and this one to go up reverse um but for this one I'm just going to highlight the positive which is at Benchmark um from 133% we went up to 30% so that's a 177% increase of student hitting the Benchmark areas of strength decoding and then area of focus would be letter sounds and reading comprehension so far do you have questions for second grade class third graders our testing grade level so beginning of the year we started with three students this is the non-el population again number one and then from there middle of the year it dropped to two and that one kid moved to Benchmark which is a good starter um for below we started eight students that eight students you know stayed and then for Benchmark we started with three one stay one went down below and then one um uh went to above Benchmark um we already identified the student and um was offered um uh other resources met with the parent above Benchmark we started with four students um three retained and then one moved back to Benchmark and then for E population one student started on green and then moved to above Benchmark which is good um area of strength for non-el population so it's steams we have a long line here of green that's a 95% for reading accuracy and then area of to improve we always include the the yellow because that's below and well below I'm going to say the decoded part would be the area to improve for this group of kids and then for E population the red would be reading comprehension and vocabulary areas to improve and then no that's okay and then for the whole class combination of everyone um strength would be worth reading for at Benchmark and above Benchmark and then errors to improve would be the letter sounds decoding reading fluency and basic comprehension um again this two we want this to go down and this one go up we could tell by looking that our third graders would need help um we identify those students who need help um there are several factors you might be wondering what happened to our third graders SC um you know we have a lot in place for them um after school shooing hopefully soon will begin this is the only class that did not have an after school shooter um hopefully we can recruit one um and then this is also the class that has the most number of special ed population there are five students in this class with IEPs I know one is in process of testing and there are several for CST CST is what this child study team so there were several red flags and so I know the teacher was able to to capture that and um yeah areas of strength reading accuracy word reading fluency and then area of focus would be letter sounds decoding reading fluency and reading comprehension so what are our next steps so here too um the teachers will strictly follow small group intervention according to D's results we have tier three students get a double dose of intervention on the seventh period meaning during morning time Center time they're already getting an intervention and then the seventh period is another allotted time frame for intervention that's why it's double dose of intervention and then after school tutorials um we will continue to invite more students who need help and hopefully recruit a teacher for third grade to do the after school tutoring and then SEI um we had SEI program I think about eight years ago and then this year we brought back um it's geared towards our English language Learners so Structured English immersion led by Miss leoa second grade teacher then cstd stands for child study team so we identified some students and some are already in the process of CST and then finally our teachers that we've been waiting for they arrive in December um Miss Mercy Colm TOA teacher on special assignments um started helping our students last December that last week before we hit the holiday break they were able to join the students in the classroom get to know the teacher get to know the students um and then I know this week they were able to collaborate with the teachers and Implement their their small work instructions and interventions and then for those with excessive absences that we identifi the teacher had a conference with the family problem solved strategies and then the next step if those strategies are not effective or not working the next step will be to meet with the principal and hopefully we can find more Avenues to help with those attendance concerns and then last Wednesday the teachers had a refresher course of learning a toz um grass kids this is both digital and physical products for tier two and tier three intervention as well as last Saturday the teacher had a Saturday Workshop from 95% um it's again this is AD both of these are ad approved evidencebased tier two and tier three intervention so so far that's what we have in place and hopefully it help us start that yes how many teachers were in the PD 12 teachers sir so that's 3kk first second third fourth fifth six together with special education teacher and the two teachers who just arrived Mr there still such thing of the TR officer yes yes there is do they ever get involved in the kids that have repetitive absences off well the thing is though is our school resource officer does yeah so there is thing as insury officer so no no cop that shows up your house of kids go to school I didn't say that but yes that can happen but this school needs to would have to uh request what we do have just like like she mentioned several times during the presentation I'm going ENT te our aware of it just the the attendance so great for some students and just the reaching out school office or Mr case he what they need to do so I've met with a couple of families together with the children and so far it's been has been effective um but if there's more I know so how many kids are Native American what percentage you think break it down only so I don't expect you give me an exact number but how many how many kids do you think you have in your classes that are are Native American Fair percentage just a few kids question yeah I think I only have like 10% but we do have J they all and they're all enrolled in that the ones who signed up yes so I'm sorry to ask these question but I feel like I'm kind um do you find that the younger Native American kids are having more issues than than non- Native American Kids with attendance I think we have a candidate with absences with issues regarding attendance yeah yeah one of the yeah attendance in [Music] certain I just just really concerned about those families huh and about those kids um they get behind now statistically I believe they will never catch up and so and I just wonder if a deputy showing up at their house wondering why the kids aren't in school might make a a difference I know they used to be right yeah they used to have the but that's that's trly is a last resort situation yeah yeah I mean first Resort would always be meeting with the parents you know the school meeting with the parents first but yeah yeah and again so far the the meetings I had is it's effective like I'm seeing like a family with five or six kids I believe and that that changed and another one but if we have more I know I have asked to schedule a few more but we can let others as well and the fourth grade is The Big Year for reading right you either thir then you don't get to go forth if you don't meet The Benchmark is that right there's there's certain um what I say it protection for e um for E if they're less than three years in the program they'll not be retained um if there's fed they're not retained if they're in the process cstd like what youve captured they won't be and then if ever you know they they don't pass the the assessment there's supp of offer there's extra support that we can provide them the summer uh June and July and then to show progress and then we'll continue the support will continue as they move on to something so actually hardly anybody gets detained as much as possible we don't okay but if it's really needed and that's still um I have a question about back to the absences how many of the students live in town like in AO the one that has issues yeah how many like is it an issue where they just can't get to school maybe like we can the in town school bus will pick them up that's a good question we can look into it sure there try to be more proactive yeah I know I know for some it's logistic and how how they prepare at home so brings nor for others like I know one family they don't have transportation so I mean at that point if they're living in town maybe we can make that arrangement for them the others they walk they're just very close walking right remember for the number of families that I've met with they are J kids you know um Mr hopin what I wanted to point out on the first grade slide where they have the bar graphs I don't know if this continue go back just and I'm just talking we met and talked about this over the last week and and just remembering I taught first grade for three years so it's really kind of uh really uh struck home with me the phic awareness percent at 76% at Benchmark or above Benchmark and the decoding at 71% is really if you guys go go back a little more to the to the bar to the bar gra right there um the phic awareness at 76% and the decoding that 71% and I know Mr barrigas will will attest to this they can have strong decoding skills that's so critical because that there's another term called chunky they can see the word inside of a word that that speaks to deing that's a very good um strength to have when you're learning how to read so just just that those two dags caught my attention that's all I it's true with the phth awareness and the decoding when you get a good foundation there you're going to see all the other bars start to improve so those are the Heavy Hitters so I think if you're going to focus on anything it's going to be those and the nice thing about the decoding it's nonsense words so they can't guess about you know what this word is it's a word that doesn't mean anything but they have to be able to um blend The Sounds together to make the word which is really nice um I had a question though on the double Joseph intervention on setup period is that a pullout model with Miss Vero oh the double do um it's part of our schedule so during centers we have a small group instruction that's um for the wellow and Below students now for the seventh period we have our intervention only for our well students so she um I think missano will focus on third grade students so on seventh period She will do um intervention for well below students for third grade and then it says um I guess for after school tutoral why can't we pull some of these um most at risk third graders and put them in another classroom that might be with their level because we have a lot of um intervention programs that they could be on to still be able to meet some of their needs I know the after school tutorials for Kinder first second and another group they're already big so to add maybe one more just for their class be even if it's on the computer I know we have said in the there are several computer-based intervention programs and to keep those kids for what an hour after school to meet some of those needs would be a huge hitter for these third graders especially if you know mo reading we we'll get a yes from the teachers that braing your lowest performing your most at risk student should be the ones we should really be focusing on and a lot of these intervention groups are based student needs right so to have a whole classroom with a bunch of different needs doesn't really hit you your you know the most right but if we have these intervention groups set where this group of students are working on pic works this group will working on I don't know fluency take these third graders and where can we plant them in with their need like centers exactly writing gu reading because I hate to I mean I hate seeing these third graders who need the intervention missing out because you me work in between teachers or that we don't have a teacher signed up we should still be able to incorporate them in other classes you guys know we really appreciate you right thank we appreciate everything that you do president M the board for the usfr uniform system of directors governing board members are required to attend training and F form for conflict of interest and Gifts War secretary will go over the attached bar point and the forms will be at your board tables there's no board action necessary this is a study session I don't ladies this prob be pretty boring yeah that's what I was just going to say took the words out of my mouth it's going to be a lot more boring than the than the par point just came through so bear with me but um when we were uh we get audited every year when we were audited for the 22 23 school year um one of the things that was a requirement that's brand new is C interest in gifts and benefits training for the board so like they ask me well when do you train your board like well staff that's what we're supposed to do um and now there's a rule that this ASR that we have to train the board for conflict and so as this requirement we told the Auditors that we would um work out every January since we have new board members that may be coming in or going out January just makes sense study session to do this kind training and then to get those for filled so that way if there's for members that are in August the whole thing in so every January board then we're GNA have and sign off for all of this and do the forums that we just filled up so like I said there's a lot of strict rules um the auditor general office ad and um our real um pushing down not pushing down but requiring that all districts of governing board members and any Administration um have to have these forms they have to go through this training even our coaches and our substitutes that are even parttime have to have this so that they can have them their file now um the statutes we can go over real quick um 38503 which is not education which is 38 is um anybody so it doesn't have to necessarily be education it can be um any kind of state individual any kind of state any kind of working individual so the 38 means encompassing anything having to do with the state or having to do with the state entity which we follow so uh a public officer or an employee of a public agency who has or whose relative has substantial interest in any contract sale purchase or service session to a public industry so um one of the examples I go into later on we had um a governing board member probably about 10 years ago who um owned the only um newspaper in town so we could not uh do business with the newspaper so all all decisions having to do with what we were putting in the newspaper had come to the board and he had to abstain from everything so that we weren't saying oh we'll just use this newspaper because uh this individual is on important so there's there's been rules like this before um but this is just kind of putting a spotlight on it so that we know what we're supposed to do what we're not supposed to do uh this is your other statute um that says substantial add in any decision so before the the slide before was anything having to do with the business um this kind of puts it out to any decision having to do um if we have something that has uh uh we had a principal not too long ago who's uh their wife was a teacher so we had to make sure to separate the principal couldn't um couldn't evaluate the wife then the superintendent ended up evaluating the wife and they had to um move everything to to that site so if she had a problem she wouldn't obviously go to her husband who princi she would go to the superintendent and the superintendent was their uh immediate supervisor so like I said this has been around we've we've done things like this before but this is just kind of pulling it to light making sure everybody knows what they're supposed to do and what not supposed to do so pretty basic stuff um definition of the word relative spouse child parent grandparent brother sister um Half Blood and us being Hispanic probably half siblings and all that kind of good stuff so uh the gift Parts um no employee 15 to3 DN no employees in the district will accept gifts or benefits from any person group or entity or Desiring to do business with the district so um I know we had a a spread um a spread audit last year and the um and we said oh yeah you know you can you know it's not not the most glamorous thing but you know well well the district will pay for you to go to the cafeteria not really thinking about it and then the people from ad were like no they could they could be considered a gift or a benefit and we kind of giggled but we're like well that's you know that's a gift eating at the cafeteria that you know we're um we should probably up our game just a little bit if that's going to be considered a gift so was kind of a joke at the time but they would even take a school lunch for 475 you know paid for because they had to seem like they weren't taking any sures or things like that so um we kind of laughed giggled about it but it's it's one of those things we have to to take seriously um policy could not be construed to redeem unacceptable inexpensive novelty advertising items or General Distribution I know asba comes when whenever they come sometimes give the little bags or the little to bags and stuff like that that's fine um policy saying those kind of things uh we we did those every once in a while we have a little U Gifts that we give out as long as it's a low monetary value then um ad and the AG's office doesn't really mind those things um again C8 5c3 uh 504c prohibits a public officer or employee for using their official position to secure anything of value or benefit for themselves that they would not ordinarily received as part of their official duties um this you know getting free lines to Starbucks um do you know who I am kind of thing that's kind of what this is implying um it's obviously it's not prevalent here but um probably sometimes in the valley you hear stories of you know this person on the governing board trying to get you know it to do this on the you know this or that or whatever so um ad just wants to make sure that we all take this training this awareness training um whether we're you knowed officers or employees are all the way down to coaches that are only here for couple so um scenario from the A's office a district vendor ABC Roofing invites you to a charity golf event in Scottdale and pays your fee that includes meals hotels and uh and golf for free so according to the J A's office Highly Questionable going to stay away from this as much as possible um a example of I threw these in here a board member owns a local newspaper all purchases must be brought to the board and boarded on with the owner board member AB um whether a example board member is an employee of the only electric company in town does board member financially gain or do their relance game so there's a difference between being the owner of a company and then being an employee of a comp so if you're an employee of the company if you work your 95 or you work your 84 whatever you do you don't financially gain if the school does business with the electric comp you're there to work regardless of whether you're essentially just like the school doing business at the flower shop right right you're you're not the owner of the flower shop so you're not financially gaining whether we we and then we also steep into what we call Soul Source vendors so um we don't have a choice of where we're going to get our water or we're going to get our gas our sewage if we were um if we were in the city they would be we could go and shop around and see who is best or not best um we don't have a choice of what telephone company that we use um we could scrap everything and get all Verizon but if we're doing land lines and TAA and internet service um there thing that we vote on every August or every July and it's a soul Source vender so there's one flower shop will not sues here anymore there's one flower shop so there's there's no we don't have a choice unless we have to drive to Bates or or somewhere two or three hours and then it costs me so um there's a push and pool that we can get for the soul source and then what we can get to are we only using this person because they're you know they're employed by you know SE Jud it's this is his brother sister's cousin and that's why we're using it so Us in the finance office have to justify spendings and and where we spend each each of the taxpayer steps like I said really boring sorry um refrain from no commenting no commenting uh no recommending no commenting no phone calls no emails uh no attendance meetings or even if just toist so um you know hey my uncle's brother sister's cousin you know works on pluming and I you know girl bathroom has a leak um we have to prare from stuff like that um that's a huge awful thing um I was born in R here so uh but we have to refer things like that when we can say um we still have to get the three quots we still have to be wise with what we're doing taxpayers money and we have to be what's the word we have to be cognant of of what it looks like from the outside perspective looking in if that makes sense so our employees every everyone every teacher administrator classified employee and board member will fill out the conflict of interest form uh for employees it's gbea A- e and for board members it's bc- e um each and every year these forms are from our governing board policy manual they're required by the usfr and the auditor journal's office and they're reviewed each year um that's um one of the things where I have a big file they've been doing the compli since I think 2020 2021 so I always have a big file of all the employees that all have their conflict of interest and then that's when they took me for a loop they said where's the board members and I was like a good question because I did not know I need to do that so it's relative relatively new sorry it's relatively new for the board fill out these files but we're it's required now so we're going to have to do it every every January going to have to sit through these um exciting slides I apologize they even want a signning sheet and I said well they're all on the board they're all going to be there but they still want a sign sheet so we had a sign sheet and we had form so um anybody because the the district is um a public entity every anybody can come in and make a open service request to look at these and say hey why didn't this person do this or why didn't this person do that and then we have to um we have to investigate why the form or the allegation of the form is not f up correctly just one of those things we have to do so you all fill those form you all listen to the very interesting PowerPoint and the um fill up form we keep them on file I have to send them to this year's auditor I send it to the auditor General's office and we have to upload all of that stuff so they can pick it apart and and look at everything we that we do so thank you for getting through this one question on sure I might be remembering wrong but it seem like at one point we were hiring B um as one of the coaches and then it was stated that well since he doesn't live in the same household it wasn't a of Interest has that changed Ian I know Lonnie's actually been abstaining from all of those anyways I know if that no changed the only the only uh way that I know that the two households can't live together is for board members so for employees it's it's relative but for board members you can't live in the same household so that's where uh before when we had um Mrs C was on the board and Mr C was on the board they're both related but because they didn't live in the same household then they can both be on the board or be an employee or VI for together um when we hired another board member the employee couldn't work for the district anymore because they lived in the same household so if they don't live in the same household they don't directly affect that it only applies to the board for so real quick I think we need to get a statute opinion on that because that's the first heard of two board members not live in the same house now employee board member that's a conflict but two board members living in the same house never heard of that statute so we're going to need to get an opinion on that no no no that if the the two the board member and the employee are living in the same house get that I'm talking about where you first said two board members cannot live together my back my back so when the only thing that I can think of is the board member the board member employee living in the same house yeah that's a yeah yeah I'm sorry I actually made sure I looked it up to see if there were a conflict with the girls coaching I'm sure and myself and if it was my spouse there'd be a conflict but since it's a child is not a conflict but I do as you just said I I Whenever there the vote I always withdraw from that vote right yes I just wanted because the way specific on relative I wanted to make sure that to make sure if that changed or not sounds like it has not no so the only question I have is is there anything in here that prevents the district from buying us dinner every four me as long as we put it in the budget then it's in the budget do that we vote to approve it from the budget so thank you for sending through our any okay there any further on that if not then I will ask for any agenda items for future meetings okay I will second all in favor well

here M here Dr here M Aaron M Valen here president and I will make the motion to ad the agenda second all in favor say I any [Music] opposed stes of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under godible first item on the agenda is discussion nomination and vote for governing board president for 2025 26 second one you need me to get you back in yeah there it is got it the okay so we're for discussion nomination and vote for governing board president are there any nomin um I would like to nominate uh Mr K for president the nomination can't get it open okay okay so all right so we'll go with the first nomination um let me get to the here there we go now okay so going with the first all right individual vote okay Miss Olson or for you yeah yes Mr Hopkins no Mr C i Mr Rodriguez next one Mr Hopkins is hson no Mr Hopkins Mr Curtis says no Mr Rodriguez yes Mr yes okay on to the next mission discussion nomination and vote for Gover cler I nominate Trish I nominate Gary I nominate okay so go with misson first Miss Olson uh yes Mr Hopkins no Mr K A yes Mr Rodriguez no Mr Guri no next up next me Miss olon yes Mr Hopkins no Mr C no M Rodriguez no Mr Guth who we for now yes okay all right next up M Rodriguez Miss Olson no Mr Hopkins yes Mr K yeah Mr Rodriguez yes Mr gri no we got you by the way I think you all would be great secretar by the way oh yes you know that okay then that concludes our meeting yeah oh

ready e something different tonight Good Start can we do a redo um welcome as I'm looking for Mr Livingston's Bell pieces uh Mr Livingston was kind enough to allow me to use his wife's Bell this is her retirement School Board Bell and I don't know if I just jinxed her Schoolboard retirement we're going to let it sit right there make it just like that welcome welcome to our drama all right with that um if you are able please join me in theed Al to flag of the United States of America and to the repu for it stands one nation under God indivisible liy and justice for all serious like I need to redo all right right again welcome I'm good now all right moving right along to item number four is the adoption of our agenda I will entertain a motion to adopt tonight's agenda and a second place Mara and all in favor hi number five is our call to the public M do we have any cards no all right seeing none we're going to move on to item number six which is the CVUSD board president and vice president election at this time um I'll entertain motions for Let's do I second all right all in favor I thank you very much vice president I also would like to renominate um our vice president Annie Morton I feel that the past year we've made a pretty good team and I think thank you all in favor I well that's done thank you I thank you for having the V confidence and keeping me on board for the next year all from item number seven information and discussion items item a is our safety update from Matt thank you I actually do have a voice um most of you probably already know me for the few that don't um Matt Matt with one te chronic um I spent a grand total of 25 years at the T Valley Police Department retired after 20 after 21 years did four more years as training officer variety of rols um now I'm the Safety and Security guy at delade um our regular activities for the four of us there's one of if you don't already know I'm just I know most of you know this but if you don't already um we have one of us assigned to each of the campuses full time um we're one of I think the only District in the area with that um and so our regular activities one of our biggest things is just building and maintaining relationships with the staff and the students that is being out there in the morning during drop offs we get to know the kids we get to see them coming in we get to know their mood so if they're kind of off on a given day a lot of times Dr Moody and I are out there they'll normally kind of we kind of look at each other and like he'll say I'm G to go have a chat and just you know kind of get a read for where they are so we do that for drop off we do that for pickup in the afternoon um at high school it's a little more fluid because you have coming and going all day long but for arrivals and departures and all that um one for just the general safety two you know I go out there we do a fist bump in the first thing in the morning I say good morning to every kid as they come in you've seen it numerous times um so it's just getting you know getting start on their day and and letting them know that this is a safe place and that we're not adversarial um the description that I always use is I'm like the family dog you know the kids can pull on my ears pull on my tail whatever but if somebody bad comes there you know then I'm there to stop that so um again our daily stuff and then patrol around the campuses during recesses lunches um I often go out with with baseball glubs during recess and play catch it's a j string recess I know Mike at at Tech has learned the Fine Art of opening milk cartons and tying shoes so he's become an expert at those things so those are just little things we do um once a month every campus we do either an evacuation or lock down drill of some kind um we don't call them fire drills anymore because the the evacuation drill covers so many other possibilities so we run those every month and then every month we also do a rotation so each month we rotate for one day to one of the other campuses so that all the staff at all the schools get to know all of this and we get to know all the kids and staff um mostly so that they we know we all know the campuses and so if on that bad day we have to respond to one of the other campuses they already know who these people are that are showing up we during this past year we had threat assessments done on all over campuses that was provided at no cost from the champ Police Department one of their guys trained in doing thread assessments um gives us an idea of where we have physical vulnerabilities on our campuses things we can improve as I fond of saying we're not trying to turn this into a prison or a Cell Block that's not what we want it's a school that's what we want it to be but there are physical vulnerabilities that we need to at least be aware of so that we know where our blind spots are and and what we can be doing better job with or what we need to keep an eye on so that again provide us guidance and recommendations on some physical security upgrades that are going to be an ongoing process we have some Active technology projects going on adding more cameras to all the campuses is a years long project because cameras are not cheap um it's all mostly you know common areas Li you know lobbies libraries the uh entrance to the building buildings things like that and we're working on getting more perimeter cameras it's not for us to sit and monitor the cameras I'm not a fan of that because we should be out interacting with kids that's that's where we actually do something of value but they are great for after the fact unfortunately we can't be everywhere all the time we have fights we have thefts we have vandalism things like that um and we had quite honestly at my campus we had a candy Thief and there were several different possibilities of who it was and finally one day we saw a little guy go running back into the room spend a minute in there and then come running out and hit for the buses so it's silly things like that but we were able to solve that based on that and then bring him in for a chat with Dr M so we're doing that the campus mapping is a huge one we're remapping all the buildings these buildings have all been modified at one time or another as you well know we're mapping every door every window every nook and CR again so on that worst day if we do have to do something we can give that to the First Responders the other First Responders and they can know every little corner every closet every utility cabinet on the campus and not miss anything if they had to respond and deal with something that ties into our share 911 that we're just getting up and rolling that will be a districtwide incident and instant response and management system it's a it's a fantastic app on your phone app on your desktop because everything's app anymore super simple anyone on the on any of the campuses can activate an incident um we've you know definitely they've empowered all the staff it's not a hey can I start something can I in you know can I in Institute a lock down or things like that so all the staff has will have the ability to just pull that app up and call a lock down or even a medical issue if they have a kid get hurt and they need to stay with them and they can't get the radio can't get the phone as long as they have their the wired phone as long as they have their cell phone with them they can actually in uh start an emergency response put in that it's medical and get a hold of someone and it'll be integrated with mutual link so that again can call 911 get the other First Responders on their way um assist with evacuations lockdowns reunification is a huge one every night our our student system will update all of the uh all the kids in the system so that we know who are current all the current kids at all the campuses are then when we do an evacuation currently we're getting on the radio saying hey do you have this kid well he was in this special he was over here and we're tracking people down they will actually be able to go in and just Mark okay I've got this kid oh and this kid's today and we'll be able to account for all of our our students literally just I can look at the phone or Dr Moody can go hey we know where every kid is without having to try and J YY back and forth we have to do an evacuation for reunifications it'll feed back into that same thing one of the other features that I personally as a safety person think is awesome is each campus will have a little QR code so when visitors come in they can scan that what that will do is that will put them into a text notification so if they're on campus and we have even a lockdown because of lightning they will actually get a text notification that we're in a lockdown so it will keep any visitors to the campus aware and then every night at midnight it purges those people app so even if they don't check out on the app they're checked out automatically it will also tie into all of our systems for putting out notifications to parents and families so that we can keep them updated on situations because as we all know with people don't have information they start making up information or they get on Facebook or whatever social media and then that starts roll so it'll be able to take care of that where we can ship those notifications out in real time with good information some of our outside the box safety issues you know we all are walking around carrying a gun for the obvious reason but some we have some real outside the box safety issues we have Highway 89 so if we have a Hazmat spill that's lockdown evacuation reunification type St even a car fire out there um if the officers make a high-risk traffic stop out there and there's guns being pointed all over things like that are kind of out of the box of what we normally think of but things that we need to be prepared to deal with Road one West where we have Del Rio and Heritage we have a nice gas main that runs down the front of both of those campuses so not if we out there digging but if somebody's out there digging and ruptures that line again we're back to possibly an evacuation or lock down or some kind of situation it can even be losing utilities we don't have heat or we don't have water and we're probably going to have to move everybody out we also have state trust plan that borders us so we get cool Wildlife um I know we've done some lockdowns for you know Havalina things of that nature so and as we've already had this year there are things that are completely out of the tments that have a direct effect on us we had a residential fire that shut down roads so we can't get kids home on the buses and we had a highway closure that shut down roads so we can't get kids home on the buses so we had to make some kind quick plans on how we take care of those kids until we can get them home and then of course our weather events and we had two lightning lock Downs this last year like that so I'm G to jinx that we're gonna have sorry a bunch of lightning lock probably we um some of our goals for this year to complete the mapping of all the campuses that's a labor intensive thing because there I've done this building and the nooks and crannies are amazing so it's it's a long project but it'll be I think very beneficial that will again tie into the share 911 so those maps are automatically shared to First respond ERS so they can find their way through the campus because obviously they don't know what and then other thing that we're really working on is to conduct at least one mock evacuation um where we will work our way up to having at least one class of students here on probably a Friday where we will actually do an evacuation put them on a bus take them to our site reunification and work through a reunification because until you do those things with real people and a real environment as best you can you don't know all the bits and pieces that that you need to cover those are the things that we're working on right now but again mostly it's just getting out and talking to the kids talking to to the parents talking to the staff it's great to me when the staff is comfortable enough to come to me and say hey this kid was talking about this I'm a little bit worried or this to me is a safety issue is it something we can deal with because that means that that they're comfortable with me being on the campus and and were an asset to that is the C Code system up and running now not not yet we're in the process so we're um in the process of getting all of the students into the system linking all the parents so it's like this multistep process I thought it was really cool I know you have two more questions but Matt tell us how you do Short Straw why are you the one standing here and not the other three people Matt's in charge the T questions um treny how involved in truy um that one's interesting so again if you know the pieces you don't know the pieces I'm going to cover it real quick two of us are ssos school safety officers two of us are SRO school resource officers the two School resource officers are full-time basically employees of the CH Valley Police Department they're active troll officers so they end up doing all the truy work because they're the ones that can file the reports it's easier for them to get a hold of of juvenile probation um so I don't really do that which is kind of nice because I just get to have fun with kids so we use the the two CER well I'm still certified but we use the two active Patrol officers for that so normally for me it would be officer Torres because he's right next to our so they're the two that really handled most of the issues my last one have you done a threat or a a safety assessment of the boardroom we did this was part of the yeah the threat assessment which is one reason we have Matt here being the family dog our meetings and I knew that I was throwing that out there and and really wanting to say thank you because as you can tell we like you at the back thank you is anyone else well I just wanted to just say that as a parent and a school board member I'm just so grateful for you and the other officers that are on the campus that just gives me that little bit of extra peace when I got my kid off of at school and I really love that you and Dr mood out just just that makes me feel like I'm you know dring my kid off to you guys I like that so and then I was just GNA have you add one more thing liit in school is what all right just making sure that everybody knows that it's I appreciate you taking time to play with the children that interaction oh absolutely to me children have had bad experiences with police officers like their parents have been taken away or they even taken have a home because of police office who came to their home and just have that interaction with them that you know you're there to protect them and to keep them safe more so than to do anything that you know would be harmful to them their eyes so I appreciate that absolutely and to me that's one of the most valuable if not the most valuable role on a day-to-day basis is that they don't see us as a threat that they see us as a protector i l your analogy about just so great that was a really good one well that's thing I'm not there to be a bad guy and and I did that for a long time so this is this is really an amazing thank you guys too because it really does feel good to know how many of the boys are children that you influ Us by your actions that be real important the other question I have that might be a St one is on this share 911 that like teachers like if they're having problems with the disciplinary problem with the student they could notify you it's not going to be for for just regular classroom discipline um if a kid's completely out of control they might use it for that um it's primarily going to be for for safety for major incidents um it can even be we had a huge you know that that HVAC Pro process going on and we had construction workers all over the campus coming and going and they're identifiable but you know if they if they were walking through with a piece of pipe and were carrying it like it was a rifle and one of the teachers saw it they they they have the wherewithal to go on their thing on their on that app and click that they need to go into a lock down because better that then they go H it's probably just a construction guy and it turns out it's it's that worst case will have be included in share 911 so you'll get the notifications as well where in the process of setting up the which like tiers of so like tier one will be you know all our contacts with like ycso CH PD administrative team security team and then we have like a parent group we'll have a board group so there are different groups that we're in the process of stying up to um to really help with that and I think one of the things Matt pointed out about that that is really phenomenal is even during a fire drill a lot of times kids at the nurse's office or they go to the library or whatever and you don't always know um where they are and that is so quick and easy because what happens on the radios it becomes a you know who's got this one where's that one and then there's cross talk and stepping on each other it becomes that shared an important piece of information I'll add you for our new board members um Matt's position um is Grant funded fromal safety Grant officer noden is at cbhs um while he is a cvpd employee we purchased his Services um during the months of the school year from Gino so he doesn't he's not called out on regular calls or anything like that because we're buying his Services during the school months he works for chopd in the off months officer Tores an officer not in his uniform and drives a Chino vehicle so you see that always parked in front of the high school unless out you know in between campuses or something officer Torres who is at Heritage Middle School is on Blown to us from Chino Valley PD he's their employee um we don't pay for his Services they just um place them at Heritage and he does get called out on calls and then at territorial we have cro who's a school safety officer and we it we shifted the fun we for many many years we had a security position at the high school and we just shifted that funding to Territorial and the reason that we don't pay for that position with a grant is because in order to use the grant for a school resource officer or a school safety officer um that officer has to be attached to a police department of some kind um Matt's retired he has a retired badge number and um or we have active duty officers who have an active duty badge and um safety officer K Gro is actually retired from court security and um the prison system so so that's a thanks for the fancier word I could think of it from Corrections um so that's how all of them are paid for so in order to help you understand if there's a burden to the district think the officers or not or how that looks I do have a question on that the grants do they only give you so many years of the grant the grants available for three years um everybody who is AFF fixed to the grant including administrators Who oversee the officers and the person at someone at the district office in this case it's me we all have to undergo mandatory annual training if we fail to do the training we will lose the grant as long as we continue to keep the Grant in good standing we have to reapply every three years but you're generally renewed and we also have a school safety Grant we have um two types really our other type pays for um counselors one at Territorial and one at Heritage Middle School to really help at the areas where students need need the most guidance learning how to be a good citizen in their in their school community so at territorial for kids just coming to school like you know Marsha mentioned kids come to school with trauma and um helping them learn how to be good citizens in the classroom and on their campus is really important at that early age and we find again not surprisingly that the Middle School tends to be where kids need a reminder so we also use Grant funds to pay for those two positions as well those are all part of the um governor's office from Governor juicy um Governor's Initiative for safe schools well thank you very much all right item 70 is our superintendent's report Miss Daniels oh you asked about the treny bit and um Miss Leanne wellard our student data management person she has reported that for the entire period of first semester our average daily attendance I want to remind everybody that Statewide is in like the 60% uh 93.48 wow wow that's our school with the lowest average daily attendance was Heritage at 92 which was awesome super awesome you might remember that we were running about 75% average daily attendance the last couple years that have been slowly improving over um the postco era but the last couple years we had sort of stagnated that about a quarter of the kids miss school every day and thanks to admin and staff and our school safety staff we have really made a huge impact on that I truthfully I'm Blown Away by how good it is this year super cool because kids can't learn if they're not in school so I want to share that with you some really good news and I want to welcome our new board members this evening we're happy to have you and we had a great um governing board work session on Friday that was super informative that was put on by the Arizona risk retention trust who ensures um the school district and by um the governing board's attorney Mr Jim lead better who um shared with the board ways to stay within the law and uh and then uh Miss uren from the trust shared with us about um like different roles and responsibilities for the board so I've heard a lot of really positive feedback from the day that it was super helpful um so with since we've been together last Cindy Marsha Inger and I were able to attend the Arizona School boards Association conference and we'll see if if I'll pause for a minute anyone who attendance you guys have something that sort of stood out to you or was helpful to you well I know that we um attended the same Brandy we did um breakout session sorry bra was dead and um I know that's something we've really been talking about the last six months or so and there were there were some really great ideas nothing extraordinary that you know just kind of oh yeah why aren't we doing that but at the same time just some so thinking one thing I do remember is um how we talk to people makes such an impact place what we say or words and um I've even you know made some changes in my own life as far as that goes so I just want to say you um kind of thinking for talk kind of so I did appreciate having that because sometimes you don't realize who we're talking to especially when it comes to children and parents that we can make a good impact by what we have to say we have to say something that's on the negative side but kind of turning around to the positive side so I really enjoyed just uh attending I thought we have a really good kot speaker but um probably breakout that was most informative for me was the one on special ed because it was um I know very little about it really and so they gave us a lot of information about the definitions and a lot of information about maybe some legal aspects to it and that I I learned a lot with that one I think I also wanted to point out that number one thank you to the district for allowing us to to go to things like that because there it's not always official I think as far as the content goes but just going and talking with colleagues and realizing that there's nothing that we're experiencing that's unique to us and it makes you feel like oh okay I'm not just being picked on so is everyone else so I I uh value the conference each year thank you I would agree I thought The Branding session was good I felt encouraged because there are quite a few things we're already doing um and they spoke at BL El put the session on and they spoke about things they've done particularly with their business community in terms with the revitalization of downtown Glendale and so that was something that I thought was very interesting with some of those business Partnerships that they had worked on um since we've together last we had lots of pre- holiday events at the school we had concerts we had parent nights and then during break our wrestling team hosted the mile high challenge again which was hugely successful I don't even know how cbhs yes ma'am uh Louie a senior he got a buckle which is a very coveted item our act program made the buckles they welded them and Lou stood on that Championship box was so excited I don't even know how I manag to pull it off every year it is so much work um other things winter sports are in full force I know Becky has printed for you um this list of all the upcoming events in the district between um tomorrow morning and the next board meeting so in case you think oh hey I'd like to catch this that or the other thing um you'll notice on there that we have Friday school starting up and you'll notice that there's a School holiday coming up one of the things that I thought might be of particular interest to you is on the 21st um it's called we have our it's called choose Chino night that's next Tuesday at the high school right right yeah next Tuesday don't want to get my phone and look up the calendar um and Cindy has the brochure there you could kind of wave that around it is where um especially people who have children in eth grade whether it's at um paon Elementary School whether it's at MinGa spring I took the invites out to the MinGa students this afternoon um our heritage students or anybody else who has an interest in having their kid attend Chino Valley High School that that night highlights all the things that are amazing about what our high school offers so if you even want to come and do a walkthr we serve dinner that culinary makes this year we're not because the kitchen's closed so Deo is catering because of the ageback so sedexo is doing it so we have that will we still have all the cupcakes shaped like a cougar head no but we will have we will have cupcakes oh okay we will have cupcakes we they are helping with dessert and they're serving so culinary is is very much a part of it but sedexo is frontloading a lot of the meal preparation the kitchen's been Clos for TR so Culinary Kitchen so anyway that is really a Showcase Event for people to come and learn about the high school and what we offer so I would encourage you next Tuesday night just to come and walk through Becky will do a soft Post in case three of you happened I'll be there at the same time so as you know we don't violate open meeting love and anyway it's a good opportunity to see all the things that we're doing wonderful opportunities for kids so as you look through there are lots of HS in the packet and those are from each of the Departments and what I wanted you to you can have a chance to ask whatever questions that you want about those um Miss Brandy Cox is not here to answer questions about territorial because her daughter had a baby yesterday in Texas so she's in Texas and but you know maybe Jenny she knows everything about territorial she might be able to just pipe right in um Nicole's here in case you have any questions about sped um Billy and Justine from the high school Caitlin from the middle school and Ed from Del Rio so those are all in there so we're in the process we're Communications is one of our big goals we're in the process of rolling out the new website that's more userfriendly more modern and it's mobile friendly which our current website is not very mobile friendly so and we really want that to accurately reflect the values of our brand which is really solidifying the safe together and prepared students so we're in the process you heard about share 911 and I want to let you know that cougar Country magazine came to an end I found that out after I submit a 900w article only to learn that they'd already had their last Edition they didn't tell us um but our articles will be on signals a website and of course uh I have a regular rotation I think four times a year for contribution to The Courier but Nancy Hudson W she's reporter for The Courier she watches all of our board meetings and usually calls me I should call me tomorrow to ask for clarification about things that we did so on our financial stability page um you'll see that John used the word deficit but this is what I'm going to tell you it doesn't mean we're underwater it means we've had to adjust our budget down by approximately 700,000 due to Lost revenue and our maintenance and operations John will be talking more tonight about what um about the the capital increase that we you'll be approving later in the meeting so I'll let him talk about that I have been around to every campus and met with the district office staff to talk about where we are with the budget um to share with them what we're doing to make sure that the district um stays in a robust and strong financial standing and then I'm moving back to HMS I think tomorrow afternoon or went getar afternoon to meet with the classified staff there specifically to talk about budget so that's coming up you're welcome to join in on that if you want 3:15 right Caitlyn tomorrow library in the library so I'll be there in the library talking about budget tomorrow afternoon um from about 3:15 to 3:45 if anybody is interested and here so you can hear the kinds of things that we share with staff um during break um Lieutenant Daniel Morales from ycso came and met me um in my office we talked about enhancing our communication loop with the sheriff's office for one really big reason most of our school district is in the county so districts roughly 400 square miles and the majority of that land mass if you can kind of Tuck this into your mind that far north end of County Springs is actually in our district the kids go to Humble um there is no Road from out there to Chino um we run most of the way to Mingus we Drake cement is in our school district boundaries and we go almost all the way to Williamson Valley Road north of otter loops south of otterloop we actually include like the granite Oak subdivision so there are places right on Williamson Valley Road that are actually in the district and the district includes the north Runway of the airport so deep well Ranch is not part of the district except one little part of it so just to kind of put that in your head that's far from one end to the other and one thing we learned and Matt talked about was when there were residential fires in palen because ycso was on site not choped we did not have the accurate information we needed for releasing buses so one of the things that ycso is doing they developed a new punch list with dispatch so if an emergency's called in the very first thing that happens is when they type in the address the County GIS pulls up the address and it says what school district that is in so one of their things is if it's something that they believe will impact the school district in any way including Transportation then they'll notify by us we're responding to an incident that we believe will impact operations at your schools and by the same token they'll be one of our first Loops in share 911 so they get immediate notification as well especially in systems where Mutual Aid will be required and then because um Lieutenant Morales is actually lives in based in Congress um he he is responsible for this side of the County from wienberg to slman um he has I think four or five sergeants 50 deputies something like that but he's through Chino at least once a day so I invited him whenever he feels like it he has deputies that live in Chino to just come on to campus hook up with our security guys walk the campuses so they get to know what our campuses are like to and have that familiarity if we had a day that Matt would call a very bad day if we had a very bad day then it's Chino PD will be tied up with the response and ycsl will take over a lot of our processes and systems like reunification we've met several times with County EMS um emergency management system their Department to go over that as well so that was one of the big things that was a hiccup in our communication Loop was having the right contact with ycso Channel PD is easy ycso is a little trickier so other things that you see um HR has some goals for hiring for the 26 school year in there and Heidi can answer questions about that um and just so you guys know those of you who are new about the normal sequence of events um the administrative and director team has already been reviewing our staffing needs for next year you'll see some staffing recommendations and positioning eliminations on tonight's agenda there will be more of those in February so we will be recommending positions because we are down 100 students we'll be recommending um some positioning Li elimination um those typically do not involve um reduction in staff we normally handle that through attrition when somebody leaves the district then we just leave the position empty um so in February all of those will be coming to you the district leadership team is meeting tomorrow to talk more about that we bring um we're in the process of budgeting for next year John is bringing us three budget scenarios in the morning a zero growth budget a 4% student decline which is what about what we've averaged since esas were made available to everybody and then a 10% reduction in in students which um we're hoping that hasn't been the case and we're hoping that won't be the case um but we'll be budgeting for the 4% reduction that's our goal and then at our March meeting we bring um to you recommendations or contracts for the next school year um because we need to get um we need to know ahead of time and quickly what teachers are planning on returning and which aren't so I just wanted to also highlight for you because you get a month at a glance but these are some super duper important days that involve the board um you all get to be on stage on um May 21 at Finley Event Center so and then Cindy 20th or 21st 21st the 21st you haven't bought your dress yet yes we have a lot ofo but you do assist in handing out the diploma covers and all that kind of stuff so that's that's an event for you 21st 21st um and we just ask that you arrive through the East service store at 6:30 um you can tell there's like a big roll up there like where the semi backs up and stuff and then strategic planning day is May 29th that's we're holding it again this year in the Family Center at Grace Church which is at the horsey roundabout we start at 7:30 and we go to about two and breakfast and lunch are included and we hold it there because believe it or not there is no room in the school district big enough to hold the board and all the leadership team and sit in adult chairs so we don't have a room big enough to put 30 adults in one room at grown-up siiz furniture and then our all staff orientation and kickoff event is Monday July 28th that's also at Grayson the main building because it is the only building in Chino Valley large enough to hold 350 staff members at tables so it's like a big open room if you haven't been there and we will be going in Sunday afternoon and getting it all set up for the Monday event we'll have the coffee trucks again the breakfast for the staff and we do all our onboarding training that day so I really um I I want you to know that you're welcome at all the events on the calendar you're not expected to be president all present all them but at least it helps you know um what's what's available for you so do you have any questions about all of the reports that were submitted by the buildings and the Departments um there's something that I would like to touch on just because I've had a lot of people ask me about it is the final exam exemption um I was reading about it but could you touch a little bit about it it is a little bit complicated um so what we ended up doing is we we we pitched the idea to some teachers because EHS does this something very similar um their parameters are a bit wider um we decided we wanted to try and reward kids who we wanted to catch the middle we do some pretty good extension activities for our kids to challenge them and we do a decent job of providing some um opportunities for kids to catch up but we don't really have anything for those middle kids and so we thought if we can push some of those bubble kids up that's where we start to see numbers shift it's not taking your highest kids and moving them higher so we do a pretty good job of catching the top and our lower-end students for this particular incentive it's geared towards attendance um there is a grade component so students are able in short they can get 10 absences in a school year however if they exceed that then they're out of denial of credit um and we experienced you know through there were several letters this poor man can tell you all the letters we gener generated for every kid who met the 357 and 10day threshold and for at the high school every kid that threshold exists for every course that they're enrolled in so it's not full day abs since it's every period and so we were really trying to think of ways to encourage kids to come to school and reward W them for those good habits and so we launched this final exam exemption um if a there's a few things the at a certain deadline for freshmen and for seniors seniors have a different final exam schedule because they have on the last day of school is graduation we have to run through a rehearsal so we kind of modify their exam schedule they have a deadline and then n9th 10th and 11th graders have a deadline and on that day we will PLL attendance kids can apply for the exemption if they have no more than five total absences that's excused and unexcused field trip and medical do not count against the student so it's excused or unexcused a total of five they have five or less then they can apply for this exemption so we have two exam days at the end of the school year it's a Tuesday and a Wednesday Tuesday we test in first second and third and on Wednesday we test in periods four five and six so if a student meets the the criteria they can apply for an exemption theoretically some students can apply for an exemption in all six classes this does not apply to any CED which is our CTE off-campus classes or our Yavapai College dual enrollment classes there are different rules for the college and different they're du on rule they're both through the college one is just CTE one is directly through the college um but everything else is up for for grabs if you will so a kid if they meet the the requirements for a first period exemption well they don't have to come to school until second period their parent will need to excuse them and they can do that in one email for whatever classes the kid may qualify for um they can come to school for the first period and attend second and third they can come to school for just first and second and maybe they qualify for an exemption for third and they have an early release so it's really oh the students have to have a projected end of the semester so that's the average of their quarter three and quarter four grade they have to have a projected ending grade of an 80% or higher so the attendance requirement plus the grade requirement and then we have that form that I included it's a draft it's it's pretty much solidified um I don't know if it's going to change all that much but I provided that to you to kind of explain a little bit more or to see some of those exemptions we've been talking about it I had a kid at 7:30 a.m.

looks like everyone will have their own microphone today just remember to unmute that so our folks online are able to hear you green on here having so few members I'm a little concerned about digging too deep into things H had IDE I was support everything Hilda comes up with so whatever gonna say I'm gonna say yes you suggesting have and I can share the redline ones oh yeah because we we had a and James I don't know if you want to call the meeting to order J I'm sorry my saes I got distracted there's so many to choose from like which one do I want a if you want to call the me oh oh right sorry go I'm ready we're ready everybody ready all right uh calling this uh meeting to order this is the governing board advisory committee to review policies um and uh welcome and uh so call in the meeting to work order and uh can I get a an approval of the agenda please oh wait do I have to do that approve the agenda can I get a motion to approve the agenda please all right motion and second I second all those in favor say I hi hi motion passes and then next agenda item is the call to the audience are there any calls to the audience people want to speak or anything from that no work Okie do so nothing for that the next agenda item is agenda item number four which is discussion on the policies and um we have that and then um agenda item number five afterwards possible discussion on board policy change and then meeting schedule and then obviously the motion to adjourn um so um I Mr Man you said that you had a recommendation on how to proceed yeah I mean I think you had mentioned um you know we it would be nice as we start to dig into more of the policies to to kind of have more of our team present um and so um I know one of the things that we have coming up and this was Miss Suarez's suggestion is that tomorrow night at the board meeting um the board will be reviewing the policies that have been recommended thus far so we may want to have a conversation about anyone who is planning to be in attendance at the board meeting in support of that um conversation tomorrow night and anything that any information they may want to bring with them in case there's questions um to the committee related to those items um and then the other piece would be to maybe do a little bit of the planning work for the up policies we're working with um so that way it would help U Miss Gibson mlan um and myself if there's any informational resource um requirements that the team has like if there's um policies that um Miss Gibson McLean needs to be reviewing for the statutory alignment like we've done in the past um and so maybe have a conversation about um which ones because I can't remember from our last meeting if we sort of ordered our next sequence of items that we're going to look at yeah so the the last meeting on the 16th uh we briefly reviewed uh jii we edited jic yeah um but there's a whole uh there there really was like a whole list of things that we were uh kind of lined up in the queue uh there's j k d a j i c c um jicg and jic those were the things I I mean we can I I we can add to that list or we can modify that list I guess um I don't know I guess it depends on how people want to perceive yeah but I think it would be it would just be because then that would allow us to kind of continue on that process that um Allen had originally kind of established for us where um you know we we get the feedback on what's statutorily required in the policy and then work with the portions that we have the ability to make adjustments too yeah that makes sense to me and I wanted to make a suggestion just because we weren't live at the time but just to introduce um our new member and that he's replacing right yeah okay um well let's start with that first should we like go around and introduce ourselves just to make sure that everybody's on the same page okay um so I'm J name is Das I'm the assistant principal of Gateway School and I'm the chair of the committee I'm Jay man I'm superintendent here at kraton school district and I'm not technically a member of the committee but I'm ex officio um here to support the committee my name is jez putam new member parent and volunteer at uh kraton Academy have two daughters that attend there my name is Johnson I'm the assistant principal at larcy Kennedy School to meet you and Tim canor substitute in the district and former teacher and parents as well oh no babe no homeowner homeowner homeowner got it okay we have online hi I'm Katie I'm on the school board and I'm also an ex officio member so I don't vote um and uh yeah that's it I don't know what else to say thank you and welcome I'm usually there in person I'm not always online Okay um so uh how does everybody feel about those suggestions that Mr Man came up with just kind of going over like stuff that reviewing for tomorrow's governing board meeting and uh uh uh possibly editing things for reviews so we can follow in the the the pattern that we've established with um with Allen before in the past and then what I would like to do is like if and I don't know maybe it's maybe it's too soon but at least schedule obviously the next meeting maybe the next two meetings just to give people an idea I'm a little apprehensive about doing that though if people aren't here to give their feedback but I don't know it's a suggestion we could um if the those present could determine some dates that work and maybe some alternates than if for some reason the folks who aren't present it doesn't work for them we can always adjust in between meetings so is everybody okay with that we only have one not present which is okay so we're really not got it okay um so I guess we can start off with the like uh do we have the presentation for the board tomorrow do we need that there's not a presentation it's just the um the policies and redlined with um the changes so one of the challenges we ran into is normally when we receive policies whoever is recommending the policy provides them to us in a format where we can see what's been removed what's been added and that's typically done either with um red text for the added items um or a black line through the removed items as this committee was doing its work initially um we weren't preparing the documents that way it appears like as we got towards the ladder stuff that we were doing we did start you know tracking it a little bit better um doing the revision tracking and so we owe a Deb of gratitude to miss Warez because she went in and did her best to reconstruct that um in those documents um we weren't really able to capture what had been removed as well because it was gone but we were able to identify what some of the new text was at least to make a little easier for the board to review you um so as we move forward you know it'd be helpful as we get into those new policies that we kind of keep track of what's being removed what's being added um what's being changed um so that way the the final document when we're done we can just go ahead and hand that off to the governing board um but it might not be a bad idea for us to take a look through it because as we've been looking at it um and Nicole actually had some feedback for us today you know we've noticed a few things where there's some Oddities that may have been either misses by the committee or misses in Translation as we've been you know kind of going through iterations of because we had multiple versions of these documents as we were making changes and the best example I can think of and I don't remember the policy number off the top of my head but there's a policy that also has a regulation and it looks like the committee recommended a change to the policy title but the regulation still has the old policy title on it so that that be a good example of where there may be like a hiccup um in the system and I was going to show it but you know my laptop it's hit or miss and it's not projecting so I'm gonna have to close everything down and restart it yeah because it's not letting me yeah so I think another big part of these J if I might add is um there were quite a few of these ones early on where we added um a lot of language that you know obviously viously didn't exist before and it had to be created and it was created a lot of it by um by us and so then that a lot of it had to be added after the fact I guess with some word smithing from what I remember and and it wasn't necessarily all agreed upon by the committee at the time it was just you know what I mean I don't know how to put it eloquently I think that makes sense Katie um there in our process changed a few times you know in the middle too like we we didn't have the open share drive and initially right so that kind of change we moved everything to the new share drive so there was a lot of adjustments that we were making as we went do I mean I'm I'm looking at the agenda for tomorrow do uh I guess my question is um what should we expect in terms of like the meeting I mean are they I'm assuming I mean I guess you never really know what questions will be asked um so you can't really plan for everything but is there I mean can you provide us guidance on what we can expect yeah I mean normally when we deal with policy um you know the the structure for policy work is that a recommendation comes in for a policy change through whatever the sources in this case the sources this committee which the board has asked for so what's a little bit unusual about this is typically we get get notified by some support body that there's been a change in legislation and we're recommending you make a change to your policies so like the most recent example of that that I can think of is there was um and this one's kind of been a yo-yo because there was a there was a change in Title 9 policy in the Biden Administration That was supposed to take effect and so we had received recommendations for policy changes that we needed to get in place in order to be federally compliant before they took effect but then there was like a a court Challenge and all these other things going on so because of all of that um you know the recommendations came forward they had been vetted by legal the board asked a few questions and that was and then they voted to implement the new policy in this case what's unusual is the board made a determination that they wanted changes to these policies and they had a committee convened to make the recommendations for those changes so I suspect there will be a little more conversation than there typically is because you know it's sort of like when trying to think of a good example when I think oh well I need to get a team working on how should we handle AI in our classrooms right and you you say hey this group's going to go off and be a working group and they're going to work on that and they come back to you sometimes you look at it and you go that's not exactly what I had in mind or yeah this is it you guys nailed it or somewhere in between right so I don't I don't we don't pull the board on vote so I don't I haven't heard anything from any board members that there were big concerns around the policies but as they're recommended but I don't know for sure whether there will be you know questions or concerns that come up um it feels to me like what's being recommended is very much in alignment with you know sort of what the the culture and and the the values of our community are that we're trying to make our conduct policies more restorative in nature more you know sort of student supportive in nature so I mean I I don't see any disconnects that I would expect there's gonna be a big firefight over policy on um there could I I agree I was just going to add to that like I also think that aside from just um making them more connected there was a lot of updating that needed to be done because some of these things were very outdated as well yes um and just from my sense I haven't had any conversations with actually anyone about any of this but um if I did I wouldn't break open meeting law but um in general I think that they at least two of the other board members are probably uh kind of kept up a little bit with what's been going on in the committee and would have voiced their concerns a long time ago if they thought we were going in a completely different direction than they had anticipated and so I'm confident that things should be pretty successful in terms of getting what we presented past and I'm happy to answer all of my colleagues questions and defend our work tomorrow when we have the chance yeah and that that helps a lot too having a having a board member and in our case we technically have two board members who were present for most of the work so I mean Katie's been with us since the beginning and I think I think Nicole joined us just a couple of meetings in so um so so I don't I don't anticipate any surprises typically it's it's more of a conversation than anything else like the the items are presented so they're they're in the documentation for the board meeting and then the board members you know will ask any questions they have raise any concerns they have if they have recommendations for changing anything they'll posit those recommendations to the board members present um and then usually what we try to seek is if there's any consensus around any adjustments or changes that need to be made in the intervening time period between the first read and the second raate so in this case we're very fortunate because we have one board meeting in January one in February so we have nearly a full month if there's anything that does need to be adjusted or changed or that the committee needs to look at again between the first and the second grade but if there's um you know substantive changes that may push us back to first read if there's just questions and you know considerations chances are we'll be in a position to make whatever minor adjustments and bring it back for second second read and typically second read comes back on the consent agenda unless a board member chooses to pull it because you know we theoretically between first and second read we've ironed out any issues or concerns that there are so it it just moves forward on the consent agenda and if I misrepresented any of that as far as please correct me so I mean my understanding from past agenda items is they're they're either like here it is thank you very much let's move on or there's some sort of slide deck that a companies H so you can give you know information on process and historical background and stuff like that but I mean and this committee did an update slide Deck with the board last spring if you'll recall right so you know just to update on the work since there wasn't policy to bring back for consideration yet so so I think most of what we might present in a slide Decker a presentation and the other thing that's important to remember is um we've also gone out to the community with most of the policies that are being recommended because it was brought to community council um there was a couple of other venues where where the work was shared so so it's not just the committee in a vacuum doing the work um there's been you know several sort of Outreach opportunities to get to different stakeholder groups to get feedback and input as well so I think I mean we should be in pretty good shape I think if committee members were present there really isn't a need for a presentation it may just be you know if for some reason the board wanted to ask committee members any question and as Miss gipson mlan so kindly offered since she's been here ex officio she probably can answer most of those questions okay um I mean seems like it's a pretty easy thing I mean is there anything else that we should be covering or looking at with this seems like um Jay um Nicole is watching live and she just wanted to say that j i and J i-r are the ones that the titles don't match oh perfect perfect yeah so that so that that's an example of where there may be some conversation around that tomorrow night because um what I couldn't recall was why the one I'm sure there was a reason why the one was changed and the other one probably should have been changed to match it um could you repeat which ones don't ji Says student wrs and EXP expectations so expectations is the new word I guess I should have put that one in red um and J is the original that said students rights and responsibilities oh and what's the concern behind that that they don't match and they they need a match so jir is the regulation for policy ji oh so typically the titles would be the same got it so my assumption would be that there would be conversation and then we would have to make a correction right got it and whether that correction would be to go back to responsibilities for the policy or whether it would be to correct the regulation to expectations and so someone might ask of the committee like because I think the original was student rights and responsibilities like what was the committee's rationale for the change from responsibilities expectation trying to remember that I don't think any of you were on the committee when we did that and I tried hard to remember and I failed so I'm try I I don't remember what sorry can you remind me the committee's rationale for changing rights and responsibilities to what now changing UH responsibilities to expectations do you recall was it just like a we were finding a lot of the language harsh or that's that sound right to me I just clear I can't remember if that was an Adriana or Alan thing or yeah and I unfortunately I know there were two meetings where I one I was remote and watching and one where I couldn't watch at all so um I not not making an excuse that it was the one I wasn't here it may have been one I was very much present for and don't recall anyway but um well I'm sure we were both there yeah H I don't really remember the rationale but I I would imagine if we just want to keep things consistent the only other thing I could think of was that Mr Lopez was pretty good at bringing up reasons why we used particular language if I recall so that might be another person but um yeah just like off the top of my head looking at the word responsibilities versus expectations I would guess the one thing I could say in an argument for that is that like no kid is like having to sign an agreement for this right simply by enrolling in the district these are going to be their expectations and so I would assume then responsibility probably connotates a little bit more of an agreement so maybe that's a good rationale doesn't ji have an exhibit that gets signed off I it should I think it does because I think it's in this I think it's in the um student parent hand look well something we can just discuss and whatever people feel we can just go do as whatever people wish and you know I think if it is really important Jessica probably would have made a note okay maybe within the language within the policy leaned more towards the word expectation than responsibility I don't know I feels like a messaging thing and you guys used it right here yeah I think that was where it was changed in the body and that's probably why it was changed in the title maybe make it more in alignment with the the body of the policy at Katon uh students and parents do actually sign policy agreements at the beginning of each school year yeah we um I believe the kraton academy and I think bmore Preparatory Academy as well well I think all the handbooks have some type of but isn't there an additional I thought there was like an additional agreement at those two schools no I don't know but I do I do know when we were um re I to describe it not I I'll call it reconstituting because I don't have a better word right now the kraton school as the kraton academy one of the things that was kind of part of the process because of the uniqueness of the school was that there would be an agreement that was signed off on I think it ties to like parent volunteer hours and a bunch of other things as well so um so and I I could I believe there's a similar thing at builtmore B but I can't remember 100% for certain so okay well I guess we'll see what happens tomorrow yep yeah at this point we can't make a change because we're past the 24hour window but the but the board can certainly make change or recommend it a change and then ask for that adjustment to be made prior to secondary so and a reg is easy change because it doesn't require second reading yes that actually is a good point because regulations so just an interesting distinction board policy requires first and second read unless the board suspends the second read um the regulations and Exhibits only require that the board be notified of the change and so um that could be done in a board meeting or even through a board update so um so if regulation is misaligned it doesn't create any problems for correction because we can just correct it and notify the board that the title's been corrected okay anything else question she's just like what do you mean all right I just want allow space for it uh at some point could I have the document shared with me it doesn't need to be right now but I need to add you to the Google Drive yeah yeah sorry about that um we need to make sure you have editor rights on the Google Drive so that will help immensely okay um so then the second part was uh to uh try to see if we wanted to uh alter or add to the order of policies uh so uh Miss Gibson McAn can go and look at it and make sure that we're ready to review and just so everybody's aware here I know that some of us are new here uh essentially our process has been we uh look for policies that are related to our our mission prioritize them and then uh we uh we have uh we try to look ahead to things so miss Gibson McAn can kind of look at the the legality of things put in notes and when she shares the drive with you she you can see how it works and then you just kind of look through the policy uh see after Miss Gibson McLean adds her notes and comments and stuff and then uh essentially you look through it and see what uh if you have questions about a policy or the wording of it or something that you feel needs to be highlighted or changed in some capacity and then uh when we come back to the next meeting we'll go through the policy and then one by one we kind of go through the comments and talk about you know what is this question that I have what is this change that I'm proposing and then as a committee we decide talk it out if that's something that we want to support as a committee or if we want to modify it or things like that that's kind of what we've been doing for past year and a half now um on that on those kind and throughout that process we've identified other policies that have popped up in that conversation um just to kind of um because they they in one way or another they've connected with different things too so that's just been kind of our our process for that and Mr putam I'm no um education law expert but what we found is that with very good one moment please um what we found is that a lot of these policies are heavily um near the criminal code and I'm a public defender at the county and so um that's kind of where my analysis is coming from obviously have like General legal analysis as well but then when we've gotten done with all of these we' we've had our um our legal council for the district sign off on them before we send them to the board yeah thank you for that clarification I appreciate it um there was something else I was going to mention and I can't think of it off the top of my head you'll come back to me okay um so the the the ones that we've review that we were the intention was to review was in 129 we had JK d a j i c c j i jic g and jic h e um uh we can keep that same list we can add to it the only thing that we kind of briefly went over was uh ji and we edited jic but I don't know did we actually I don't think we completed jic right or did we does anybody remember that that wasn't I wasn't here at the last meeting so I'm not sure were you here I don't remember wasn't here oh you weren't here me well you guys aren't going to be helpful James where's your where's that your priority list because is that different than the completed policy checklist that you're looking at um it was just notes that I took uh and Miss Warz emailed them out to you uh after that it looks like Adriana is the only one who went into it and said vitals check Clarity on it that's what she wrote oh okay and there's something that's has a strike through Under the Influence has a strike through is this GIC this is GIC drug and alcohol use by students seems like an important one yeah I would agree after today um yeah so we can we can kind of keep the same order it I I don't I mean I don't feel like we made a lot of progress with that anyway I just um shared the link with you thank you is is there a way to note on because I like that the completed policy checklist is there a way to note which ones are currently either currently being reviewed because I mean it's just either yes or pulled or Oh you mean like an in progress thing yeah or in progress or maybe maybe just kind of note the priority there so that's kind of where I can go and be like oh you know for example I don't want to look at JKD because we need the first read for JK to happen before I before we're moving on did create a 2425 policy edits folder in that folder yeah you're talking about like I see yeah I see the edits and that that one's good you're talking about having it all in one place I just just you know because you're Jame you're reading a priority list that you wrote yourself and I think it would just be helpful to have maybe the priority list somewhere that's shared between everybody yeah okay I don't know what the formatting would look like but if it could be included in this completed policy checklist page that would be very helpful maybe we could make it orange that seems to be the only color that's not represented or it could be you know it could be a separate thing just kind of down below where we just kind of keep track of the priority oh I see what you're saying it doesn't yeah we don't have to like keep adding more colors to this or anything but it would just be helpful because you keep rattling off J followed by letters and no I hear you say yeah I think we used to have a list somewhere but it was like in the middle of a policy or something so I think yeah something on that Central document would probably be helpful even if it's down at the bottom and I mean I can even type it out if you want to go back over that priority list yeah we can do that might as well you ready sure okay j k d a j i c e e c hold on give me one second I gotta take it down a page J okay read so JK d a j i c e c j i c h j i c g uh and uh j i c h e and then wait there's one more um jii because we reviewed ji but we didn't do much with it and then there's also ji R are we including that one we probably should see if it's under the I don't think it's on this list specifically but we yeah and it's not in that 20 2425 policy edit folder either but it's on it's on it's on this oh that means we we already did it it's it's showing where okay so I'll add ji and j i r okay so I mean me personally I feel like that's a lot right there and since we uh didn't really make a whole lot of progress on the last meeting um I don't I mean I don't really see any point in adding more to it do you no okay so um I I mean I guess I feel like the recommendation is just let's just keep what we got and uh that could give uh Miss Gibson and McLean an opportunity to kind of go through those and um provide her perspectives on it and then at the next meeting we can go and um uh be ready to uh with the comments that are on the these policies to go over it as a committee does that sound that sound okay okay um and uh just a reminder uh the edits that you make um because this is a uh governing board committee uh the public does have access to them um so anybody can go in and see and view those edits so just so you're aware of that um and um sorry James are we doing edits or just notes or comments well the what we've been doing is comments so like you highlight something and you have a comment about it either a question or a difference in a wording something some form of edit or review or observation on it basically the uh Google Docs are just viewable view only mode so they can see comments notes edits anything that's being done they just can't do anything themselves to the documents right and then that streamlines the conversation we come back so we can be work smarter not harder um okay um I feel like we're rushing through it but that's okay with me um the the next piece after this is to uh go and talk about um what is this possible discussion on board policy change recommendations oh that's we already talked about that right or did we I'm looking at the next agenda item discuss the policy change recommendations that the governing board will be given first reading at the January so we we we I think I think we flipped the sequence so okay I just want to make sure we didn't miss anything okay so then the the last one is uh item number six which is the meeting schedule um I I think it would be a good idea if we I my recommendation is that we can just for a convenience sake for scheduling at least schedule out the next two meetings and then maybe come up with some backups in case um they uh the that uh Miss abadaka is not able to attend that okay all right uh so we have looking at calendars um we usually try to do uh uh meeting uh twice in a month so the 13th and then the next logical one could be doesn't have to be but could be the week of the 27th um which would put it at I mean if we were if we were to stay consistent with the Mondays it would be January 27th or if people think that's too soon um we can push it into February too I'm okay January 27th Monday's work really good for me perfect that works for me oh okay all right well that's okay so January 27th is our is our uh and and Miss Wars will send out calendar invites too for people uh January 27th and then we have uh moving into the month of February um the next logical one would be on the 10th or the 17th 17th is the President's Day holiday oh so definitely not that um so the 17th the 10th you mean oh sorry I keep saying that and you keep reminding me the 10th I'm looking at the wrong one thank you the 10th oh do I have a basketball game oh man I probably have a basketball game too um that reminds me I should bring up that schedule too we have basketball season anybody want to throw one out sorry did you say the 10th I'm confused uh we suggested the 10th but uh uh uh not everybody's available for the 10th okay so we have a governing board meeting on the 18th and then um obviously the 17th is a holiday so other than that what February 11th or yeah I was going to say the not to mess up the theme of the uh Mondays but what about the 11th oh Monday tues do you have a basketball game that whole every day that week I don't know uh so the 13th is community council Council so we can't do it then well James do you have a basketball game on the 10th uh on the 10th you might not not all schools have games that's kind of the problem is that's true doesn't look like it no I mean if the majority of us could make it on the 10th then I think we should just go with majority most of the time it's going to be difficult yeah as long as uh madaka can make it totally if we have two out that would be no Quorum right no it looks like no it would still be Quorum because you only need three oh two were out we're still good okay and Adriana has been pretty good she's been pretty consistent about so she just had something come up today so she can probably make the 10 yeah and typically APS are the ones that supervise uh Sports yeah so and if she can't we can deal with it on January 27th okay so do we want to uh keep the 10th then okay so February 10th and then the next one is uh the 24th doesn't look like there's any basketball games unless somebody wins that works for me I hope somebody wins besides my school no just kidding just kidding oh no wait that's for makeup games never mind yeah so the 24th is available anybody have of the 24 look at that we're rocking and rolling so that's the 24 so that's like what how many is that that's four right there right no that's three three yes let's try one more well the only thing is now we're into March and then we have spring break and we're on a roll that other good stuff the last time we did this everybody had all these conflicts I think because of the holidays okay so let's try one more what was the next one after so March 3rd is the week after but then March 10th is the first day of spring break and then the following Monday is St Patrick's Day obviously that might only mean something to some people I have no idea are there religious connotations to St Patrick's Day I guess it depends on your religion I would like to I would like to join that religion if you end at 6:30 you can still go celebrate I mean you have a lot of time to celebrate if so that would be March 17th yes right um oh I'm looking at February wow okay March 17th all yeah that works sorry thank you okay I'm a little nervous about going further than that feel like it's GNA fall apart after that okay and so I'll send the calendar invites tomorrow morning perfect awesome okay um did you want to prioritize the priority list at all we've tried that before yeah I know I know you say that in Jess but we've tried that once or twice before in the past and it's or assign I mean a Committee Member to at least go through and add some comments just so that there's something there when we come back well the whole idea is that we collectively do it yeah yeah I we the only thing we usually wait for is uh for Miss Gibson McLean to do the legal stuff that from her perspective um and then uh then after that it's everybody yeah so yeah please feel free to because I mean that's the beauty of Google docs right you everybody can be going and editing on it and adding to it and it definitely when when you when we come back and we see and it's actually very helpful too for people because you'll see people editing it and it it always helps me out when I see the uh the comments off to the side because it starts to get me to think about oh okay I didn't think about that or like go back over another paragraph that I might have skipped over because I see two or three people making a comment on it so I would definitely uh uh recommend that as soon as Miss gipson McLean is um is done with her process that get in there as soon as possible and be brave you know you can always delete right I mean if there's something on there that you're like should I put this in there put it in there anyway um because it's just you know it's part of the brainstorming process and it really helps spark conversation um so no no there there are no no no stupid things so I don't know if that's the right way to say that that doesn't sound very nice there's no there's no ridiculous things that you can come up with so anything that anything that you think is like ah I'll throw that in there throw it in there anyway was Adriana the one that was making these the policy edits um she kind of was like the uh the the person who was I especially for this policy my understanding is she was the one that was like really kind of taking lead on it but it it's I I don't think that was her intention I think she's just like she's just awesome and going in and trying all these different things and stuff and because there's three on here J KDA j i CC and jic C G which do not have a Google doc created to make comments on oh okay I put little asteris in front of the ones that do not have anything to comment on at the moment okay so who did that before in the was that Adriana either Allan or Adriana yeah I think it was originally Allen and then Adriana took over after Allan pass so can I just get some clarification on exactly what I'm doing for the next meeting or have I already accomplished that you're you're doing all the work for us no I'm just kidding um no the uh the the policies that uh Mr canor put in the in the document that the completed policies checklist uh down at the bottom he added the policies the priority lists and if you uh take a look at that um and go through those and add your perspective on that that'll uh make it easier for us to follow suit okay great and are those in the order that we're going to address them in the meetings well that was Mr canor suggestion is do we sorry I had a little meltdown here not me my guess is for your sanity um that would probably be helpful for you right so you don't have you don't have to worry about like going through all of [Music] them yes that would be really helpful if we could just put them in order or or notate what we anticipate with the possible date of the meeting we anticipate to address it out and Katie currently there's only three of them which have a will doc to even put comments on right now oh yeah I usually make them myself so that's why oh so you're been been creating the Google Docs yeah it's me I'm the culprit that messes things up no not messes things up Oh I thought I put I always end up putting it in the wrong folder or something like that that's usually the the issue that's okay Katie the three in that priority list at the bottom of that completed policy checklist the ones that have asteris do not have a Google doc so if you okay okay I will take a look at all this then thank you so much I appreciate it is it in a folder yeah it's in the folder it's it's called completed policies checklist and so in the folder though because I don't see it I found it in the rout of the folder I thought no did you find it in the folder I thought I did hold it but then the folder disappeared on me so I'm gonna tell you I found it in your it is it's under archive it's in it's in the archive yeah if you go to if you go to the folder archive and then governing board policy and then it's the first file that at least pops up for me oh that should probably be moved out of the archive right because that's kind of a working document I had it bookmarked so it probably got moved into the archive when we went to like the final policy versions for the original set I'm not able to move it so maybe I'm gonna try to move it because maybe if somebody who has access can move it I was like I found it in an email from Hilda that was very helpful to be like oh here that's why I said I go I can't see it and I have power than you all the completed policies I don't have to look at anymore should I put it into the 2425 policy edits can you just put it into the the main governing board policy yeah just so it's a standalone document when you open is it called governing board the drive just because I'm already like in the thing where I can't see the the main folder is called governing board policy committee or is it a shared Drive might be a shared Drive I think it's a folder oh okay hold on current location it does say I think if you put it in that main folder governing board uh policy committee like right there along the folders um that would probably be the best place because it it's that's a working document that we'll use for that's kind of our Guiding Light in my opinion okay I'm going to move it for right now into the editing folder because it's not letting me move it anywhere else okay but let me see if it went in yeah if you put it in the 2425 policy edit yeah so it's now there I see it there and then the we sort of had a an order I mean because in 129 we were supposed to do ji and we only reviewed jii briefly so to me the priority moving forward is ji put it at the top of the priority list and then uh we edited jic but it definitely wasn't finished so I would say that would be second or first or one of those is first and one of those is second I feel like those two should be up at the top and then after that you know I feel like it's dealer's Choice there you go I reedited the priority list to mat your priority does any we prioritize the priority does anybody have a burning passion for the rest of the I could see moving the jicg because it's also related to the drug alcohol toac put that under the and the g is just is that a separate policy or is that a I think it should be dashy I think it's the exhibit it's the exhibit right because there's Dash e and then there is one more exhibit HR but I think when I was looking at the actual policy there's jic and Jr so do we not need to look at jic e we probably should look at both- e and r- r because jic is just in order to comply with Federal funding requirements the district shall and it's oh okay so maybe we don't need to look at uh we probably should it may be that Miss gipson mlan tells us we can't make any changes because it's a federal requirement but I think it's worth bringing back to the board so we at least acknowledge we're not changing it and the reason whyle mle M M M M she's on speaker you can ask I pronounced it like two or three different ways okay it's mlan like mlan Virginia oh I grew up in grew up in Temple Texas and there was mlan Industries but I think it's spelled differently yeah there's a lot of different ways to spell it but um what was I gonna say I don't on the tobacco is are we talking about the tobacco and alcohol one say tobacco use by students jicg oh yes I don't know that I read that through that yet but I may have I may have actually looked through it and thought what Mr Man said which was that there's really not much we can do here but I'll take one more look before the next meeting yeah the well uh Mr gor that don't have Google Docs so my guess is you probably reviewed all the other ones except for those bottom three no that makes sense okay yeah I know that makes sense yes okay that's probably a great assumption and I'm just and I think it's it's probably one we can't change because it's okay you're talking about the g e no that's GIC G oh gcg yeah and is it is it I'll ask the question this way is it inappropriate for like when she finishes her edits to like maybe she emails what she email you like is there a way that we can be notified hey she's done get in there do your thing that kind because that's what I'll be waiting for yeah I think if if she lets me know I I can let you guys know okay usually in the past she uh Hilda has definitely helped with doing that the problem has been me is usually the problem so um so I will try to make sure I get this D in a timely fashion you okay all right I think that's it unless there's anything else anybody else has okay all right look at that uh can I get a motion to adjourn motion to adjourn a second a second all those in favor I hi right meeting adjourned thanks everybody thanks y have a good night good night see some of you tomorrow three of us

e e e yep good all right we move back into Open Session can everyone please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge allegiance to the flag the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible liberty and justice for all all right does anybody have anything to add to the agenda can I please have a motion to approve the agenda second Ash and Joe yes yeser yes yes yes academic Spotlight Mr Gold all right I'm going to welcome up the elementary PE team Dr bian colana come on up okay good evening um this year in our physical education program we've made significant strides in promoting student health teamwork and lifelong Fitness habits our students have engaged in a variety of activities from traditional Sports to Innovative fitness challenges fostering um not only physical skills but also social connections and resilience um we emphasize the importance of mental health alongside physical fitness ensuring a comprehensive approach to student well-being primary objective of the program is to equip students with the necessary skills and confidence to independently navigate and resolve conflicts so Mr bab and Miss Miller are going to to share with you a little bit about the PE program and how they're expansive of uh curriculum uh will be incorporating more diverse activities such as outdoor adventure sports to cater to interests of all skill levels so I'll introduce Mr bab and Mrs Miller hi I'm Miss Miller this is Mr bab um there's just a couple of things that we've done so far in PE um we're bringing back some of the uh parachute old school stuff that we haven't done in a little while um some new things that Mr bab brought to us from his school where he came from in Wyoming um we have some Rhythm some drum fit on the bottom um cup stacking this year we've been doing this for several years now um we have our stack of pla event that we uh do one of our community events had a good turnout this year with a lot of uh lot of parents that came and stacked with the kids um we do that for about about a week in class and then um we'll bring it back again the kids stack for for time and um we have records so they come back for year to year and see how they improved um as years go on um's so right he what you're looking at is um it's called human Checkers kid in the red jersey is it and every time uh the tone beeps if you get in the same hoop as a kid you're out another thing we're working on are Cooperative games so the kids are working together to achieve uh directives here if you flip the cone and you land it upright you go steal a ball from another Kola hoop um working on cardiovascular endurance just having a lot of fun this one one of my favorite things is Invasion games so Invasion games would be like basketball hockey soccer games that are back and forth and so we're teaching here we're teaching our um third graders about um tactics and strategies for going down scoring on a goal and then also coming back and playing defense and the transition that happens in between we created something called the dubs wall so when kids win our in-class tournaments dubs stands for w or a win we take their team photo we're gonna hang them up in the hallway and this is just a way to kind of celebrate Excellence um kids are really excited this is from our cup stacking I had never done this before i' never cup stacked this is a big deal at Big Hollow I learned a lot I learned a lot this year about cup stack another invasion game so the kids were supposed to run around the circle and then they enter through the gate the child in the middle it's their job to defend uh the bucket and if anyone is able to take the item off of the bucket then they win if you get tagged with pool noodle you leave the arena and the next kids come in and then this one was new to me this year too this is called drum fit and so what it is it's kind of a synchronized lesson there's music and there's a video the kids have to move in tandem uh working on movement patterns cooperation um and it was neat it was fun part music class Part B that's us that's what we've been doing so some of our uh Department events so you said we have sack pla uh Family Fitness night coming up in February um we have a PE idea share coming up in February that's our uh next Institute day where we host I think it's over 50 teachers coming this year PE teachers from around the area and we get together and um share ideas things that we're uh that we were doing at our schools we're bringing back Field Day this year second through fourth grade uh third and fourth grade this year we're bringing on a bowling field trip after we do our in school um bowling unit um and this year we've had um several opportunities to host um after school programs open gyms things like that that we'll continue to do throughout the year I think they kind of they kind of skimmed over the idea share I want to let you know I've never talked to the board about this they they do really rk4 PE is a model program for the area and schools they get teachers coming from all over that come for a day and spend time in our gyms and they show them all the things that they do and there's some idea sharing happening but I think they're modeling after what those guys are doing so you're doing a great job sure very cool it's not listed in the slides do we have more okay it's not listed in the slides but one of the things that we're moving to is what's called The Weekend Warrior and it's going to be once a month once a quarter a host an event where we meet the kids at a location in the community on a Saturday for riding bikes or going on a hike or just trying to get them the Volo bog uh just some of the things that are available to us that we can include as part of our curriculum outside of the walls of our classroom it's awesome very cool thank you very much thank you accomplishment recognition Mr Gold think Miss mullen's G to come up and start us off thank you I'm excited to announce that our primary student of the month is Elena Elena can you come on up and Miss jany is g to come up as well [Applause] so I just wanted to share a few words about Miss Elena um she represents what it means to be a big Hollow star she comes to school each day with a big smile on her face and a positive attitude she's such a ray of sunshine um she works hard throughout the day and always puts forth her best effort Elena is a kind and caring friend to her peers her goal for the new year is to help someone every day I thought that was very sweet and so far she has been keeping up with that resolution um she is a trustworthy responsible and respectful student and I am very proud of her and so lucky to have her in my class this year so congratulations G to get a picture right here have you stand right look right there drul and Dr Bean colana okay well I am very excited to introduce Miss Ella ax who is our elementary student of the month so Ella kamana and then her teacher Mrs Lancaster who nominated [Applause] Ella I'm just gonna share a few words of why I nominated Miss Ella here um she is one of the most enthusiastic and positive Learners I have ever encountered at Big Hollow um she's got a great growth mindset she always wants to learn she's so brave and not worried about making a mistake because she knows she can learn from it um and she shares that with her peers by encouraging them and Al always supporting them um she shows respect in all parts of the day and she always reminds hers to do the same she's a great friend we had a new student who came in and Ella stepped up and became her friend and a go-to person and we chose one words for our 2025 resolutions this year one word that we were going to try to live for the year and Ella was very thoughtful and reflect reflective and said she chose the word practice and when I asked her why she said well I want to get better at everything I do and the only way I can do that is to practice and with football and math yes you did I thought you were did practice oh I made a mistake enthusiasm well same thing both but I thought we t talked about practicing all right well practice too yeah sometime sorry but she's also very enthusiastic and she's going to continue to be so and be a positive influence on her friends so that is Ella and I'm very honored to nominate her [Applause] Mr corma all right so we had a tie for our building for this month so we actually have two student of the month winners we have Arena trania and parvarti come on up H stay up I'm gonna embarrass you by saying all the nice things that your teachers had to say about you all right so about Arena this is what was written I Believe by Mrs swierski on behalf of the sixth grade team I would like to nominate Arena cha for student of the month arena is a true gem in our sixth grade class while she may be quiet in demeanor her positive attitude and dedication to learning are truly inspiring Arena consistently demonstrates a strong work ethic she is always prepared for class maintains a neat and organized workspace and consistently provides outstanding examples of her work arena is not only focused on her own success but is also a valuable asset to her peers she willingly assists classmates who are struggling with Concepts demonstrating kindness and patience Beyond her classroom work Arena consistently goes the extra mile she often completes extra work on her own time time driven by a genuine desire to deepen her understanding and expand her skills this dedication to learning sets a wonderful example for her classmates arena is a kind respectful and conscientious student who comes to school each day eager to learn she's a true role model for her peers and a valuable member of our class I highly recommend arena for District student of the month and this is what pva's teachers had to say about her parva is a role model for her peers she goes above and beyond the school expectations of being safe responsible and respectful she participates in class comes prepared and is willing to help other students she is a leader in class and takes ownership of her learning she often asks for more challenging assignments in her classes especially math she was elected seventh grade choir president this year and writes all of the scripts for each concert she is an active member of njhs and also a member of the principal Advisory Group and parva is a model student in the big Hall [Applause] community and Dr bian colana again so I'm really excited to be able to um announce Michelle Connelly as our employee of the month this is Michelle's second time um being honored as employee of the month so we'll also have Don Lucas come up who nominated her for this award and so both will need to come up [Applause] so I've had the honor of working with Michelle for many many many years um I've also had her son in my class before so I've known her for forever but uh Michelle goes above and beyond not only for her students but for her colleagues she puts her heart and soul into Big Hollow on a normal basis you will see here her here while before school starts and still here while after school is ended and a lot of times it's not for her to to work on her own stuff but to help others she naturally takes new teachers under her wing and is very realistic with them helping them helping to both encourage them and to give them constructive criticism in order to help them grow not only that but she notices when other teachers both new and seasoned are struggling here at school or in their own personal lives she takes the time to check in with them to make sure they're okay and to see if she can help in any way she is a natural leader Direct during school hours as well as our Union co-president she is fair realistic and honest when it comes to both I have watched students sore in her class and make a tremendous amount of growth she just knows what they need both academically and emotionally they know what her expectations are and how much she loves them her communication with parents is tap- Notch they are never surprised when it comes to report cards or conferences they know exactly where their student stands their strengths and their areas to improve upon I could honestly go on and on about Connelly but if you've ever had the pleasure of working with her or your child has ever been in her class then you know exactly what I'm talking about Michelle bleeds blue and white and always will [Applause] oh wait Michelle one more thing oh yeah that's right got the the traveling student of the month belt created by the tech department you have to wear it proud this month that's good all right got Kevin all right p member Court of conduct review Doug I will recognize that a board member has no legal Authority as an individual and that decisions can be made only by a majority vote at a board meeting all right thank you anybody any questions I can send oh in case you guys are wondering you can more than welcome to stay for the rest of the board being which by no means do you have to take care I would leave that's it all right does anybody have any question on the consent agenda no can I please have a motion to approve the consent agenda motion Second Joe and yes yes yes yes yes superintendent report Mr Gold okay I'm going to start with the uh item a is exhibit 7 the human X data that we uh we annually give this survey we do it in December um early on when we started with humanex we would do it first thing in the year but we found that data was uh not as reliable um we wanted to get teachers here for a while and staff here for a while before we were give them the survey so we've been giving it in December the last few years um and you have the full district report on exhibit 7 I'm just going to highlight a couple P three different spots you have that report to look at it goes through every question shows you how the questions were rated by the staff it's a one to five rating um with five being the highest rating for each one of those I'm going to point you to page 21 of the exhibit so Matt if you could oh I'm sorry it's okay uh page 21 of the exhibit um seven uh show what we call the dream box and you'll see a box with Nine Circles in it and uh the dream box is the top right that would be the percentage of Staff based on the survey results who have high engagement and high satisfaction with their work at Big Hollow and uh this year that number was at 79.9% and you look in the box there's a small box in there that says 79 .17 that's what the rating was last year so very similar to last year's rating and that's a very very strong number I think in education they tell me human X tells me that the average score in an education institution is usually 65% in the dream box so um this would tell me that we have staff that uh are really uh engaged and satisfied with their work here um the there are three black boxes that are around that red circle or I'm sorry black circles around that red circle those are the next three best spots to end up and you can see the the remainder of our staff are mostly in those three areas um if you look at the bottom left there's 1.03% that are in the uh bottom left that's low engagement low satisfaction that 1.03 would be two two or would be two individuals we don't know who those individuals are but there were 194 individuals that took the survey uh so 1 3% would be two individuals um right next to that is uh you know 1.55% that's three individuals are uh low satisfaction and mid engagement so that's kind of how we read that but um everybody else was inside the uh top right corner which was uh you know very good for us um the next page page um I think that's the right one yes this ranks the questions by order uh and uh the highest the highest ranking question or statement was I'm fully engaged in the work that I do and then the next was I feel great pride in the work I do the next is I'm committed to achieving my potential through learning and growing the next highest was I'm driven to contribute to the success of the organization and the next one is in my role I have the opportunity to do things that I both do well and enjoy so those are the top five and I think those are really five strong statements that I'm I'm glad to see our staff values here at Big Hollow um and then the next page I'm going to point you to is Page 27 which uh shows the bottom five questions actually it's about the bottom seven or eight on that page but the bottom five um and some of these have been repeated in the bottom five um there we've we do set goals around trying to improve in these areas even though these numbers are not bad a score of 3.8 is our lowest and that's the that states I've received meaningful recognition in the past 10 days and uh that's been consistently our lowest and what what human X shares with us too is that it's it's it's low in most organizations it's a hard thing for us to uh um to address but we you know we try so we're we're still working on it went up a little bit from last year but it's basically the same score um our organization selects the right people for the right job is the next one um that's gone it's been in our bottom five the last few years but it's slowly gone up from where it was um I am provided an opportunity to spend quality time with my supervisor the next one and then you can read the others come going up we do again they'll each building leadership team will set goals they'll pick a couple of these and set some goals to uh address them to see what they can uh do to try to make those go higher for next year but that's the data just doesn't go in a closet uh we do take this data and we try to um you know work on areas that that we see our deficient so but all in all I I have to give some credit to the building leadership for their work in the and and seeing such strong scores across the board there any questions on that no all right all right next item is our school calendar exhibit 8 um so this is developed I uh what I do is put out a draft uh to start the process and I pretty much just uh create account calendar that models what we had this year and then I take that to the administrators we kind of play around with it a little bit they throw their ideas in and then I take it to the union leadership as part of our contract we are to work with them on this as well and uh both uh actually both Don and Michelle um uh are who I talked to on this and we they had some great ideas and we threw those ideas in here and based on the feedback from all three groups we developed this calendar I also brought this up with our uh um one of our board committees I'm not sure which one human resource committee maybe okay yeah and uh kind of give them a heads up of some things we're thinking because there are some differences here the start date is the same corresponding week as this year which uh should line up with Gavin should line up with Lake Villa is a week behind Grant Fox Lake Fox Lake varies sometimes they'll go with this week sometimes they'll go with the week before so that's where those are at um the here's the big changes for this year that we've not done since I've been here one is uh we moved so we have two teachers in two to start the year kids come in on a Wednesday uh the the 20th so that's that's the same as what was this year the next teachers Institute day moved to October 10th and it's the same it's a Friday October 10th will be a teachers Institute that weekend will be a 4-day weekend for students because the Monday is a Columbus Day usually we've put that teachers in November um the reason we moved it out is because we did we are trying something this has kind of been a trend in schools right now um so we're going to give it a shot uh we moved our parent teacher conference to the MonDay of Thanksgiving week and then we uh so we our teachers will be here on Monday from 11: to 7: and then uh students and teachers will be off Wednesday Tuesday Wednesday and Friday so of that week so uh we won't have student attendance that week of Thanksgiving we'll have par teacher conference on Monday night and then that's pretty much it for like changes uh you know the next teachers Institute is Friday February 13th and that is follow also a long weekend with the president day on the following Monday uh the last day of school is in May uh May 29th Friday May 29th so it's the uh just the Friday after Memorial Day so that's the calendar if you aren't any questions then let Kevin take it over for approval anybody have any questions on the calendar okay I please have a motion to approve the uh 2025 2026 school calendar motion Second Joe and Doug all in favor I any POS ISAC all right the next one is the uh second reading of a board policy I just want to make a side note before Kevin takes over on this one uh we still have recommended recommendation in there of uh of not touching the title 9 policy or grievance procedure and and just just this last Friday the federal a federal judge struck down the title 9 so um all of the changes that press made are going to have to revert back possibly unless there's so I'm kind of glad we didn't do anything with that because it's already changing but uh so we haven't changed since the 2020 uh uh law uh right now the federal judge has uh taken 20 the 24 law down so I I don't know where it's going to go from here but we can just let the dust settle before we do anything so all right everybody have any questions on the uh press plus okay I please have a motion to approve on second reading the Press plus Bo board policy update second Tiffany and Vivian all in favor I any oppose I have and the last item I have is just a reminder of 8th grade graduation it's on the Wednesday May 28th if it's not on your calendar so all right uh anybody have any questions on the uh annual review of Clos session meeting minutes um the motion that we make is to keep all these closed meeting minutes and closed status so could please have a motion to uh keep all closed meeting minutes in closed status motion second Ash Joe all in favor I any oppose I have it security window film okay um I want to share a few things with this project this was written into the Federal grant the school violence uh prevention program Grant we received a half a million dollars for that Grant we also not knowing that we were going to receive the grant we also wrote These funds into our health Life Safety bond that we received so um but we will be paying for this out of our grant um the project itself is something I've been talking about for a couple years and one of the reasons it came to my attention was we were looking at replacing our door lock systems in our classrooms because we couldn't we can't lock the doors the inside and we were concerned about that we were looking at door lock systems and and uh one vendor said to me you know if you do buy new locks and somebody did have a weapon inside the school they're just going to break break the window that's next to the door reach in and unlock the door so that's a very good point so um and then that's when the the whole security window film discussion started for me and that was probably 3 years ago I'm going to jump to this presentation um real quick and this is uh National glazing Solutions assisted me with this presentation so this won't take long but I want to share a couple things with you um this this shows that uh you know where active shooter events are located uh Commerce School government worship Health you can see school is pretty much up there as number two um that's not a surprise to you uh the casualty you know weapons are handguns and rifles um is what we what they primarily see um this is something that I I want you to be aware of six out of 10 of the deadliest school shootings occur when a shooter was able to enter by shooting glass out so um specifically I think this picture might even be from the Nashville incident the one the most recent that I remember is Nashville Covenant School uh this the person came in shot the window walked right through and uh they did have police on site very soon because there it's in the middle of Nashville uh but the shooter still was able did kill a few students in that uh shooting but she got she walked right in just by blowing that window out um what I want to be really clear before you vote to approve this or not approve this um we're not putting Bulletproof window or uh film on Windows this just doesn't exist um what we are doing is we're going to be buying time um for somebody if they wanted to get into the school if they wanted to break into a classroom uh we're buying time and we will have police officers here uh in a matter of minutes and we're just buying time especially what a building that concerns me is the primary Elementary because we have Florida ceiling windows in the classrooms all around the building so we're putting in this is says tier 2 mitigation 14 to 15 mil we're putting in 15 mil uh window film on every interior and exterior window with the exception of second floor Middle School exterior we're not doing that obviously because nobody's going to climb in the window but all the windows that would would have access from ground level or when you're inside the building to get into a classroom all of those windows will have this window film on it um these are uh um institutions that recommended or reports that recommended security films Sandy Hook was one after their report they recommended the security film as a safety measure um the federal Commission on school safety in 2018 uh the the margerie stowman Douglas High School Public Safety commission the Texas educ ation agency you can see all of these uh um have recommended the move towards safety film I will say um so let me go on I guess we're choosing a product called Mano safety Shield 1500 that's a 15 mil product the product goes on the inside of the glass and then there's a glaze looks like a bead of COA that goes around the product that holds it that basically molds it to the window frame you won't even know that it's on the window you can see through it you'll be fine it won't even know it's there other than you'll see a little bead on the inside of the window that's what keeps the safety glass on the window or on the the attached the the frame so I'm going to show a uh video and in the video I'll explain it first there's going to be four different windows that a guy is going to shoot at one of them is going to be no window film at all and you'll see it just shatters and you walk right through and another one is going to be the next Laver up is going to take him a little time to get in a couple minutes but it's still that's not as thick as the window film we're putting on the next one is actually a little thicker than what we're putting on but it's more comparable so I'll let let Matt play this you can see it just takes three minutes yes [Music] so this is a window film with nothing on it can walk right in just kind of take your foot kick it out go in the building this one would be with a film that's about half as thick as what we're putting on he'll be able to get through it a little quicker than what they would here but you can see the bullets do go through so we're buying time we're not making it Bulletproof he's getting a little tired so again that was about half as thick as what uh the the stuff we are putting on and this next one is a little thicker than what we are putting on but I'd say it's probably more comparable for the time to breach it as you can see they bullets will go through it I mean it's actually sad that we're sitting at a board meeting and talking about this but it's real it he gives up but uh and then I think we could probably shut it off the last one is not really comparable to what we're having they're putting on both sides so so we can go ahead and turn that off sorry thanks Matt um myth number one is that this is bulletproof and you can see that it was not bulletproof so I don't want to anybody to think that's what we're putting in um they do leave behind a bullet hole in the glass uh myth number two is that it's impenetrable you can see there that they can gain access eventually it just takes some time I think if we were buying five minutes of time we're going to have a pretty significant police presence on campus within five minutes um I don't think they would just I think they'd be coming from wherever it's around here I'm assuming Kevin would you say yeah five minutes yeah um so this is just an I think what when I talked to MGS I said I just need to reiterate with people that we are not putting bulletproof windows on here I don't want people to think that and so they're just making a statement that it's it does not represent this doesn't stop the bullets we're buying time um and then this is just a statement from the Tennessee uh state legislator um there are some there are some uh vendors out there that are promoting their products as being bulletproof it's just doesn't exist we're using a company the recommendation is going to be a company called National glazing Solutions uh they've got some information here they've done a lot of work all over the country I think I saw 470 schools they've put in I will say that um 4 and 42 4 and 42 since 2019 primarily down in Texas um I will say when we went through this process um I've I've probably talked to four or five vendors myself but then three vendors came to bid the project um one of the vendors came from Las Vegas and flew up here and uh then their bid was the lowest bid you'll see it in the bid pack but they really did not instead of taking our architect we had our architect draw up design the project and so that we knew exactly how many windows how much square footage all that was on there and they chose to go off their own measurements and they messed up the bid so they were at $170,000 000 um if I could go to the next exhibit Matt sorry in the packet yeah I can go to the packet now sorry exhibit 11 um so the lowest bid was 170,000 but I did call them right away talked to their owner and I you know I said I think you need to double check your numbers um we could have could have held them to it and said you got to come here and do it for this but I'm afraid they'd be cutting Corners because they're going to lose money on the project so I don't want to done uh I want it done right I think we we all want to make sure of that so um and then they they did confirm that they had the wrong measurements because they went off their own measurements so um so I let them out of the bid and then uh I'm recommending to you that we take NGS which was the which was the second uh bid I anticipated the project to be about 3 350,000 and they came in at 276 so um under what we budgeted for it and then uh exhibit 12 is just going to be a so that's the that's the three bids 276 348 and 170 the 348 was actually the company we were working the most with thinking that they would probably get the bid and they were the highest but um then the exhibit 12 was just a letter of recommendation from our contract from our architect saying they recommend that we use NGS they vetted NGS as well and are confident that they can do the work and do it well so that's the that's the project any questions on that oh wow that's a way wrong date thank you good catch Warr there's no maintenance there's a uh like there's a just a one-ear um installation warranty and then that's just for their installation piece of it but uh there's a 10year like product warranty that it stays on the window it does you know there's 10 years for that so yeah yeah it will be on the inside of the window so it won't be but it will be exposed to the sunlight obviously but it won't be exposed to any elements yeah and I would guess the uh so you know like if a window breaks if you know the brak's going to look different now because it's just going to crack it and but we will have to have them come out and put a we'll have to replace the glass then have them come out and put a new one on yeah what's the longevity have they tested how long it holds its they gu do they guarantee it for a certain amount of time because yeah Sun breaks down everything yeah that's where they they said the 10e is what they gave me was a 10-year warranty on it so I'm not sure if it's been out much longer than that some of this product so then what do we do at 10 years well I don't know I don't know honestly I don't think it's going to peel off I think it's just um I can't can't imagine it would peel off CU it's going to have that glazing on it so I I really can't answer that um I me I wouldn't be surprised if it's discolor and stuff we have to do something okay yeah plastic yeah it could be I mean they did say that um every contractor said that most of what they do is at Main entrances and then uh so I and they said so they acted surprised like you're doing the inside too I go yeah but I said here's why I go should we not be doing the inside and he goes no you really should be but just people aren't doing that you know and it's usually you know financial reasons and I say well we wrote into a grant we got the Grant and I'm I'm concerned about somebody having a weapon inside the school and then you know at that point having that on the main entrance isn't going to help us so I was more concerned about the classroom safety for kids but so that's where this all came from anybody have any other questions all right can I please have a motion to approve uh the contract with NGS for the installation of security window film throughout each building uh of the bigall school district campus motion second Joan Vivian Sasa yes keer yes Lions yes Pon yes Bennett yes enters uh does anybody have any questions on the December employment recommendations with the addition okay I please have a motion to approve the December employment recommendations with the addition second Tiffany and Doug enters Pon yes Lions yes Bennett yes sesca yes and keer yes uh we didn't have any resignations for the month of December yay any public comment uh any questions on the fory your request any requ questions on the monthly reports for the board I did have one yes on the APAC U meeting it said that the district might is going to provide child care I want to know if we would do that for any of our other committees like CAC or anything else we oh so we are not actually it's on there I would just ask we remain consistent and our yep got it thank you anybody else have questions the next regular scheduled board meeting will take place on Monday February 10th 2025 with call session beginning at 6: PM I can I please have a motion to adjourn second Tiffany and Joe all in favor I I any oppos

e e e all right it's 6:30 uh Julia will you uh call the role please certainly Cara Caston here Ken Dawson here Chris Spinosa here Jenny hagstrom here Don Runner here rayan Hashim here and Jason tro here oh and Terry P thank you sorry all right having a quum let's stand for the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all right Hank I'll turn it over to you for student perspectives all right and I will turn it over to Lisa let go out of here good evening everybody good evening my name is Lisa Balo I'm the director of special services and um we are here tonight to do our t99 student perspectives um I have several students here with me and staff members and staff members sported a little bit of our t99 gear so we wanted to show that off um and one of our students chis has a d99 Hoops on um so tonight we're here to talk a little bit about our Hospitality class at uh transition 99 and we'll talk a little bit specifically more about that that's what everybody here is to do but I just wanted to introduce the folks that we have here tonight uh this is Carolina sh back our 1499 coordinator Jerry smolik one of our teachers Byron hajes one of our students Jack Amore hello one of our students and Chris con one of our students um and as you can see um by the presentation tonight that was created by Jack uh all of the slides and he invited his his colleagues um who participate in the CL class with him to get up and share a little bit about the class so I'll go ahead and turn it over to Carol thank you and Byron is rocking his t99 too um next so just a little bit about transition 99 and it was presented last year um but we are a building on Bernard Road right behind Mr Submarine we have students who are 18 to 21 all of them are young adults with disabilities so they've completed their four years either at D north or south or some are returning to their home program um from a itic day school and our focus is really preparing them for Life After High School postsecondary what will that look like um and a big piece is a vocational piece um trying to get students out in the community and either volunteering or employed if possible and we have great um staff we have full-time vocational coordinator and three job coaches that support them but one of our things that we do in house this year we started is our Hospitality class so we wanted to share a little bit about that and what Jerry share about class again I'm Jerry smik um and I am the teacher for this class this year and I'm going to let students really tell you a lot about the class and get their perspective that's what it is for um but I wanted to say like why we started this class uh we have a lot of great Community Partners and we have a lot of students that go out of the community ready to job train but we like to do stuff in House of how can we prepare them before they get there especially working in food service and hospitality and a restaurant there's a lot of different moving pieces and a lot of different jobs so we created this class so they could explore what are all those different pieces in Food Service see if they like it if they don't like it if it's something they can do or we can build those skills so that they are ready as soon as they get into um a job trading situation so I'm going to let them explain because they can tell all about the skills that they're working on better than I can so can we have Jack start us hello my name is Jackson what is this class about back back a slide thank you a Hospitality Food Service class teaches skills needed for jobs in the food industry for example cooking serving hosting invitation creation and more uh next slide uh what is the guest watch we originally designed the watches to give administrators a chance to visit our newly renovated building we then expanded to invite other District helpers in all departments and T9 students in a month who demonstrated respect responsibility and engagement the guest would receive an invite someone to what you see up there how do I sign up to attend I created a form that a guest will fill out and then based on that information we be expecting person or not the info we need from our guest includes full name and job title an email to keep an update and date in time if they're available on a given day and they have any outties or diary restrictions and go wrong with phone name and job title something very funny happened in our last lunch we had three people who came who filled out the form whose first name was Ryan so because of that we couldn't just say we had to actually ask them what like instead of saying we'd have to ask the last name because it like oh I have mine well which mine we got three of them all next one what does the menu look like the menu is different for each lunch however they do share commonalities such as drinks the drinks we have served in the past includ were not limited to iced tea coffee apple juice cider watering water and sparing water and you can go next SL what do students R this class oh yeah never mind fire my name is Byron in Hospitality class we learn about food learn food running and cooking and hosting are food Runners brain gu their food and drink PR practicing managing banners and serving now for cooking we get to pick the menu and look up recipes we use thermometers and other tools for health and safety now I will turn this over into the hands of my best friend Chris hi my name is Chris hosting our hosting greets guests and bring their seat Jack makes the name c for our Gest cleaning decorating the set we make decorating for our guest we dishwashers and play PL set for guest I'll hand it over to Jack um students are also working on a food handler certificate this will help students get a job in the hospitality food service industry that's great and then here's the invite for our next guest lunch as you can see it will take place on March 5th of this year and from 12:30 to 1:30 centrer Standard Time and then you will be getting the RSVP form shortly well not today not today byon not today Byron no not today we would like to invite as many board members as we can thank you any final questions for us uh yes what's the favorite food item you like to serve for well it varies from guest lunch to guest lunch like for the last two we had a ham but before that we served Burgers we served mac and cheese it just depends I one burgon likes the burgers yeah like burgers we like any other questions who put together the slide presentation oh that was Meo all right um so with the facility upgrade I would imagine that that makes this program a lot easier to facilitate right can you speak a little bit about that yeah so prior to this we had like one multi-purpose room if you will and it has several fridges for all the teachers and all of our students kind have met in that room so we really couldn't facilitate having additional people you saw the pictures like our nice new space it's very colorful and welcoming um and we have the double set of everything but actually now we have two in our the new part of the building and two in the old part so we have four stoves to use and lots of purges um five dishwashers so it's easier to accommodate definitely more welcoming so we enjoy hosting and having and and another reason the two kitchens of helpful is because like say you're making like different teams assign different food items right so you can have a team working on one side on one food item and and and the other one we're doing like the another food item right so there's that as well and we're still having school go on so our students are eating in the white kitchen well the blue kitchen is being set up for our lunches so we're able to accommodate our daily happenings in addition to the special event so and then one of the upcoming lunches that they're going to host is for our Community Partners who employ our students or they allow us to volunteer so we're going to have a little recognition so that's the first time we'll be doing that in house and we're looking forward to that one as well is it go ahead no you go ahead is is Food Service sort of one of the biggest opportunities for jobs and can you talk a little bit about like who some of the partners are and so it's more of like a entry position so everyone has to have their first job so one of our big Partners is the patio cver they do a really nice job letting us support students um and then we have like more one-offs I'm trying to think had us there for a while the Savory was we used to be there um yeah so whoever wants to post our Trisha broley is one of our is our vocational coordinator and she does a lot of connecting with businesses and seeing but cver in the patio have always been very loyal and the students stay competitively employed when after they graduate that's awesome fantastic and giving them a chance to do the food handlers license and go over the food safety kind of gives them that jump start they still have to do it with culbert they Culver is in the patio have their specific one they have to do but at least they've set right they can go through it quickly and um get the certification and be ready to go as soon as they are ready how's the Hoops team looking this year good good I know we got four of them but we see if anybody goes on State this weekend is the regional tournament okay we'll see what happens I got just another plug for that February 3rd is uh the pack the place the pack the place so all four teams are playing and um we'll also be recognizing our seniors so that'll be a really nice event that's cool for the whole Community starts at 5:20 that's up last year it was that last year regretfully we have a board all thank you very much thank you our students are welcome to stay for the remainder of the meeting but they're also welcome to head out if they all right Jason who's up first this month all right I can start off um sorry just all right so I'm not gonna have a lot for you this week because we just got back last week but uh we are starting it off strong with busting way access I'm not sure if you guys were familiar with it um it was started about 2 years ago or one year ago and this is my first year on it but we're coming back stronger than ever and uh last week so on Wednesdays we go deliver Mustang Way Rewards to people that have earned Mustang way um awards from their teachers and the seniors have just been getting more uplifting and more upbeat about it um on a side note we have heard some drawback and concerns from teachers and students today in the morning about the parking lot being a little bit messy from the snow not enough salt stuff like that um besides that we had senior superlatives we've just been working on getting our whole staff involved as well as staff superlative so just working on our community all together but yeah that's going to be about it for this week yeah um for me so happy New Year everyone um and I hope everyone had a great winter break same as him I'm not going to have a lot for you guys because since we just came back but um as for the students um overall relief to to see that they like pass the first semester and finals weeks and they're starting fresh in the new semester their new glasses so the first week went pretty smooth um as for seniors a big month for many major decisions so a lot of anxiety about that it's really apparent in the classrooms every lots of stress around that um and then uh on January 9th we had the theater Fest um and then another event that's coming up is the DECA sectional event this Friday the first big competition for the club so there's a lot of excitement around that because Deca is like the biggest Club at our school at at the moment um and at the end of the month we have the ilmea All State event where we get to see the best high school musicians so overall an exciting month so yeah that's it for me good thanks uh Julie on the first reception of visitors do we have any uh no sir okay and number five uh board Workshop um presentation from The District 99 Education Foundation welcome thank you for having us I I'm Julia Beckman I'm the current president of the foundation board and I just wanted to again thank thank the District 99 board of education for supporting the foundation for a little over 30 years now and we're very proud that we have donated close to a million dollars over the 30 years that we've been in existence so I just wanted to thank you again for your support we're happy to be back presenting our checks and these checks were actually earned a while back but because of the Christmas holiday and what have you we are now presenting them to Bo and to our people so I'd like to introduce as you you all know or Donna Dawson who is our Grant's chair and we also have with us Martha milles and Pam CIP who will be helping us present the checks hi everyone I'm Donna Dawson and as Julia mentioned I am the uh Grant chair and we have the honor this year to present our grants to our fall 2025 recipients I like to say that this year sorry 2 24 right so uh but I'd like to share with you that we're pretty excited because during the fall we um we granted nine recipients a total of 10,000 Grand so that was pretty good for us uh so this um Grant this particular for the fall we have a number of folks that we're going to ask to come up to the front of the room and we're going to present their um their their chck so first we're going to ask be Sor come up we're going to ask Stephen Z and we're g to ask Phil KY to come up the reason why we're having the three of them to come up is because they came up with this they didn't come up with it but what they did was they pilot pilot this really cool concept and you may be familiar with it called building thinking classrooms and it's a concept that allows the students to get up move around the classroom it helps them with their critical thinking and what drives it is the fact fact that they use whiteboards vertical whiteboards that are placed throughout the world and the students form into groups and they you know you guys ask questions or what have you whatever that exercise is and the students then go up to the white board as groups and they work on it together and I have actually had an opportunity to participate in one of the classrooms and I was peeping at on you today you were right next to me and it's really a cool concept to watch the students uh how they engage with one another you see who has great leadership skills and uh it's just a really great concept so uh what we did was we decided to grant them because their pilot was so successful that we we have we are awarding each uh group 2,000 for the science department and 2,000 for the math department to purchase additional vertical boards so [Applause] please get to take a picture um we just like to say thank you so much for the white boards they're now uh in my classroom and I'm very excited about that um we've seen everything you described it really well the students have been very engaged in problem solving moving past just mimicking um a step-by-step formulaic process to instead have to think critically collaboratively um as they use their knowledge of the concepts to solve the problems they've also told us that they feel more comfortable making mistakes now that they're on whiteboards and they can see everybody else's progress and mistakes around them so we've seen positive social emotional impacts from the work as well um so thank you for helping us continue all right uh just really really quickly I'd like to take a minute to uh thank both of these two fabulous teachers for uh engaging in this type uh of Activity one of the things that I wanted to just tell a quick story about a gentleman by the name of Jim Stang so Jim stangis taught physics in the state of Illinois for 42 years uh Mr zorga was his student teacher many many years ago and I had the privilege of working with Jim for 20 years and he taught us three things he taught us to have students make their thinking visible which is what white words are about he taught us to never ever make a kid feel bad about asking a question which is what we'll see if you go in their classroom and the last thing he taught us was since we're teaching science and as you know math is the purest of all Sciences [Laughter] yes he taught us to be scientists in our teaching which means try new things and so what we're trying now with this generation of students is having them get away from their desks have them stand up have them solve problems together and we can see their T and it it's working well in physics it's working in math thanks to these funds we have five 16 foot whiteboards in five different classrooms that are being used daily now more kids are standing and solving problems and this summer Mr zga and myself and mrin at North will be running a workshop a three-day workshop at at Morton High School Cicero about building thinking classrooms in physics chemistry and so we're very grateful for these funds the boards are getting used we might have to come back to ask ask for some [Laughter] more and thanks to CMG and Mike for helping put thank you guys thank you I do have one more surprise here because unfortunately we didn't have enough of our checks but we still because they are here we do want to go ahead and Rec recogniz our Colleen rean and Chris R their project is called you're not crazy your brain is just brain we might be crazy so we they requested for funding to support a guest speaker to pres dur to present during the mental health challenge week and and uh typically this um this program is directed towards the Juniors and the seniors but this uh school year they're going to expand it and offer it to freshmen and sophomores as well uh it's going to be implemented later on this year and uh we awarded them a $1,000 Grand if you would like to add a little bit more to sure so we have a senate concept so um I'm in physical education and health and Chris is in the library so we do collaborate together on a health project and so in the time we spent together in that I spend in the library with him and his colleagues there's always like hey what do you think about this you guys want to do this you could you add this in help and as you all know our state requirements are pretty stringent and time is of the essence and so it's always like okay how can we do this so I believe last year you saw this Kelly jenssen wonderful librarian author writer editor um and she's edited several books one of which was a uh one of the best of the year for the Washington Post called don't call me crazy which is a series of essays to like highlight the importance of mental health so we were like okay well how can we do it just help the the financial impation of just having them in the health classroom just didn't make sense right financially so we have done during PE week we have Wellness day and we do all sorts of different activities and our seniors have presentations on testicular and breast cancer our Juniors have on assaults um rate prevention those types of things and our freshman and sophomores just have like regular day and it's always been like why are the Freshman sophomores just having a regular day like why can't we come up with something so this author this speaker seem to make sense um you know we'll end up talking to I don't know probably 1, to 1300 kids I'm not sure how many freshmen and sophomores that we have total um but they'll all get to see her in April and um it's going to be great so I don't know if you have anything else to add yeah I mean thank you for the opportunity she um is being really generous with her time she's going to do all eight periods and we were like are you sure she's done it before so yeah go for it we may need some more money for like coffee treat figure that out thank you I had a question it was you're not crazy your brain is just I miss brain your V is just scening so this what you saw today were just three of the recipients or three of the teams that received were awarded grants this past school year at the next board meeting we will invite another group who will also uh we have the honor to uh present to the group okay thank you for your thank you for your ongoing support [Laughter] okay all right moving on so to to continue on uh with our meeting tonight we're going to talk about indicators and measures of high quality PD so um you just saw the importance of our teachers trying new things right and so when you think about our our core values specifically uh surrounding we prepare and we evolve that's what we're focused on when we talk about uh professional development what does that look like how do we help so when we look at our our strategic indicators and and different areas um you can see the monitoring team there uh these four G are here with us Omar uh Jake Keith and Ken and they're going to they're going to come up here in a second and do the vast majority of this presentation and talk about what we're doing uh in monitoring our highquality professional development um and specifically these areas are looking at uh what we're looking at monitoring uh what it is that we're doing with our our professional development what's the feedback that we're gathering with that one of my favorite quotes um Of All Times related to professional development is from uh this a gentleman named Roland bar and he said this I have yet to see a school where the learning curves of the adults were steep upward and those of the students were not teachers and students go hand inhand as Learners or they don't go at all so PD is an extremely important component of what we do and um we're we're trying to capture and and what that looks like so this again is from our our document and and different um things that I want to highlight here one when you look at our at our goal is that we're evaluating all of the different opportunities that we're presenting um and this is more you're going to see this is more than just our certified staff it's our support staff as well um and we we want those to either be rated as of high quality or use that feedback in future offerings so that we can get to that high quality measure right so th those are the areas that we're looking at um so we're going to talk about how that was constructed um Jake I'm going to hand it off to Jake next and he's going to talk about how we constructed this as well as then you're going to see some different components of where where we have gone through and monitored and what we just offered uh recently here in January as we came back I'll hand it over to you go ahead uh for those who don't remember I'm Jake Giblin I'm the associate principal for CRI instruction at down our South um one of the things that as we started this process um we're trying to create the right atmosphere for learning to Heaven that's what building thinking classrooms is about that's what all of this is about we're learning creatures we want to learn so how do we get the right conditions so that people can learn so some of this came from like feedback we had received personally um from previous uh Reflections we'd asked people to give us others from different things we look for to kind of articulate that learning best but this is how we we are trying to capture those conditions we want everything to be relevant and specific to each person's role who's receiving this PD um we would like it so that it equips staff to help all students it's not about helping the kids in just this particular class or this particular section of learning we want it to be places where people can practice reflect and learn just like in a classroom where you can make attempts at things and learn from it and we want it to be not one and done not check in a box saying we did PD but we want it to be something that is connected allows that growth to continue over a long time and ultimately a lot of that requires some choice to happen for our professional um Omar's going to come up and p through the next good evening everyone uh for those who don't know uh I'm Omar Davis I'm associate principal at South uh and I also have had the opportunity to work very closely with these these gentlemen um you know this has been a this has been a manye development um one of the the challenges that we one of the opportunities that we've been presented with is creating PD for a diverse group of individuals right uh so our CMG team uh is uh one of the most valuable teams in our in our buildings um in fact there's very little that we can do without our custodial maintenance and grounds team uh and one of the things that uh we need to we've always kept in mind is their ability to take on in the moment challenges right so in order to do that we have to prepare right we have to provide them with professional development opportunities uh so that they can be ready to meet the challenges that come with running a building uh with our CMG group that is a very large very vast uh set of skills uh so the lot of the PD that is geared to this group uh has to be compartmentalized uh a lot of the dates that you see in front of you uh will be topics specific to certain job groups uh our maintenance team may have uh individual sessions built around HVAC our custodio team may have uh sessions built around some of the the uh new cleaning equipment and products so so we had to be very uh very uh adaptable with this group uh in order to deliver the PD uh that we we feel is important to them uh it it increases their retention here in our building in our district it increases their want to stay with us as an organization when they're valued and their py is taken seriously and they're growing as as Learners right uh we we continue to grow as we uh as we work in in new jobs and new roles so I'm going to turn it over to Ken and talk a little bit more about that everybody I'm Ken senson at North High School um so these dates that we've outlined for you that Center column there for support staff um you can see the how we've broken that out in in three kind of categories but before I talk about those um in in a similar way that Omar shared about our CMG staff our support staff every year we have we celebrate our support staff during American Education week which is the I think it's the second week of November so um we take a day out of that week and we dedicate um recognizing our support staff is one of my favorite mornings of the year because we've got a collective group of people that we're celebrating and honoring um for the collective work that they do and every year when I'm with this group of people in this room I always have to identify the the number of skill sets represented in that room when we think about it um we've got Tech staff nursing staff pair of professionals instructional Aid specialists job coaches administrative assistants occupational therapists when you think of those Collective skills that a lot of people don't really realize um that we have in our buildings making sure all the other things that are taking place um and and being executed to the level that they're executing it really is integral to our success in this District so our CMG staff our support staff um are incredibly integral to how we operate as a school district and all three of our and all three of our buildings so it's really a fun opportunity we work closely with our support staff Association to honor them we give a really nice breakfast and and make sure that any new folks that we have they're introduced any people who are retiring at the end of the year we recognize them but just get together and really recognize the the role that they have in our schools which is really remarkable so the dates in that Cent are are the dates that we've identified this year to um make sure that we provide opportunities for professional development the three The Institute days those are the days the full days we have um all day we don't have kids in attendance so we have a really good opportunity all day to plan appropriate PD for all of these different skill sets the 130 dismissal days those are four Fridays so students are dismissed at 1:30 we've got a couple of hours that we can capture on those days to provide PD and then our 11:30 dismissal days those are the two days at the end of the semester so December 20th was right before break at the end of semester 1 and that was a great opportunity for us to reflect on that semester and then at the end of the year on May 23rd we'll reflect but we'll also celebrate because we just made it through a year and really celebrate all the contributions that they've made so um those are some all the ones with check marks obviously the ones we've already um completed so you can see those and then the ones we have upcoming so I'll turn it over to Kei out to talk about our certified staff sorry I'm forgetting the word he's trying to help me um that's sorry we work together right building my name is Keith PS I'm the API at north um Jake's counterpart which is he's the other half of my brain that's why I'm trying to help so um I just talk a little bit about certified staff we have the Institute days up there um and there are three three clusters of those throughout the course of the year and also building level days that we put on uh Thursdays and Wednesdays during the lunch periods or the resource periods where we meet with teachers so these are all the the days that are driven from the district or the building level we also and this is where I'm losing the the word and Rob is going to help me for those Choice days for teachers we have a fun word for that though like the we all we're all doing we're all we we're offering some Choice um some Choice like Drop in sessions for for teachers as well inovation Labs Innovation Labs thank you see it takes three of them we're also offering what we're calling Innovation Labs which are um targeted uh for really Innovative teachers who want to try things and talk about different things and how that's going and really bounce ideas off of um and those are Choice sessions for a half a day that teachers can drop in and sign up for which are awesome as well because it's that is really where you're choosing to be there that day around a bunch of people around a topic and you we get some really fantastic discussions on those days so those are um the certified options that we're going to start monitoring and starting to take the Baseline data I'll talk a little bit about the survey thank you Travis um so we wanted to make our survey Tool uh very simple and quick to fill out but we did want to get the right information back so over time we can take a look at that data in relations um from when we started and as we move forward so that we're really reacting to what we're seeing um so it's very simple to fill out not a lot of questions as Jake mentioned we really it's the relevance the effectiveness the collaboration and the connection are the key components of what we're asking those questions um repeat themselves and we also have an open-ended uh question as well if anybody wants to share specifically about a breakout session if it's on an Institute day or something else um we're also trying to make it we use some feedback from our first uh the first time we use this tool to make it even a little bit easier to fill out so we give a little bit more descriptive directions to at the beginning so the first question just asked you what session did you go to then from there we can really break down everything drops into the same spreadsheet so we can break down that data and see how we're doing Apples to Apples as we as we move forward um so just to reiterate working on that consistent analysis process um the data is going to be informally reviewed as part of our Innovation steering committee there are a number of members of that Committee in this room the four of us included of course um that all drive and support professional development and the planning of that professional development um throughout the course of the year for all of those groups so we want to make sure when we get together as a group that there's an Institute day that we're aligning our times throughout the day if there's anything big that we need to do as a as a building or as a district that we're we are accounting for that but also breakout sessions for the for the smaller groups but we're going to be taking a look at that data and also planning for upcoming professional development based on the information we have in that um committee and group beep um and finally um the Rob's going to talk about this right after I'm done here in uh 30 seconds the the U this uh last year we got some feedback which actually to Omar's Point like this has been evolving um and it was from our teachers that wanted to increase in our personalized professional learning Rob will talk a little bit about how that has been impacted this year uh we are of course looking at our Institute days we got some feedback this week of course our ready on our Institute day which was held uh last week and then um I already mentioned the rewording of the feedback uh form already to make it a little bit easier to use so we really um also I think my last Point here is that we want to reiterate and reinforce why we're doing things over time which is one of the reasons we want to keep the survey consistent right we want to continue to ask the same questions over time so we can like I said Apples to Apples um but also we want to share why we're doing want to make sure sure we're hitting that consistently as well we're doing uh things for a reason and we want to make sure we get that get that across and we're getting the right feedback so Rob I'll turn this over to you to talk a little about PPL yeah thanks I didn't even have to give a beep for that slide so thank you beep thanks um so Keith talked uh a little bit about uh personalized professional learning we just call it PPL in the district uh I just wanted to give you a little background on it some of the things that everyone's been talking about uh was designed with intention um before I joined District 99 I uh spent a little time in New Zealand as an academic researcher uh and another really well-known uh Global researcher his name is John Hattie uh he does these meta analyses across thousands and thousands of studies to try to help schools figure out what are some really high impact uh influences that you can put in your schools to really Drive student achievement uh the number one is this thing called uh Collective efficacy so the short definition is that when teachers exist in an environment where they are learning with each other and that they're learning from each other uh they have the confidence and the Trust In themselves and in their peers to be able to adapt instruction to any student um and so some characteristics of that is that it needs to be a very social experience for the teachers because you know for example I've got to know what Scott's working on and know that he's deep in the weed reads on some professional curiosity and he needs to know mine that builds the trust and then Scott's probably got some really cool uh ideas for me to help Advance my learning and the same that I could have with him uh so when uh I first joined the district uh one of the first things that Hank tasked me with was create a uh professional learning program that's adaptable to uh any students needs so that way teachers can get into do the learning that they need to do and uh do the application that they need to do so we put together a committee of teachers honestly I was just there to feed them research and guide them uh but this PPL thing it's a great example of it was designed by our teachers and it still continues to be led by our teachers um and it's uh it's one of their most favorite things so the group that you saw tonight around uh building thinking classrooms that's just one small group who's doing it there's another group at North High who's doing it uh but the experience that you had of learning about what they're doing and how they're adapting it that's what this program is built on uh so it's a year-long program they choose one topic they share with us what that topic is uh and then there's critical point points throughout the year where they're reflecting and they're sharing their learning with each other to build that efficacy that will drive student uh achievement so uh that's the background on it our teachers love it uh so we've built it into our schedule to make sure that they continue to engage in it and this year we decided uh to focus their choices onto those three categories that are there which is uh building relationships with students uh something around instruction or around uh student student future Focus so what are their plans uh post High School beep one of the uh the parts that I actually just sitting thinking listening to to Rob and Ken mention uh a lot of the Partnerships that have been formed uh from the work that we continue to do uh you'll see in the our next few slides the Partnerships that we've created with outside uh folks uh and uh you really utilizing our Our Community Partners in the work that we're currently doing uh our CMG group as I mentioned uh has a vast uh set of skills that they draw from uh and one of the most important uh is when they come to work we want them to work in a safe and efficient work environment uh CMG work uh is uh it could be challenging uh there are many uh hidden challenges that uh our CMG group uh responds to it involves equipment uh it involves hazardous materials uh so we really have to cross Trin that group to respond uh when the situation arises uh so we partnered with one of our insurance companies our insurance groups and they came in to uh roll out a training uh that that really uh again it really helped us uh really Empower that group of our CM CMG team to uh feel safe feel comfortable in responding to different situations uh there are many questions out there that uh we may not be able to answer uh and we may not be the experts so it's imperative that we reach out to our uh Community Resources that we have available uh to find the right training for our group uh this is one of the things that they requested they wanted more help with uh new cleaning uh materials new cleaning products uh they wanted assistance in uh learning how to uh to go about their daily duties and feeling safe so that was one of the things that we highlighted uh with uh the insurance group they came in and did a nice training for uh for that cmgt think I'm turn I'm leave my phone so we thought it'd be a great opportunity since we listed all of those dates that we've U planned for this entire year we just had one of those dates on January 6th so that was an inservice day that was that Monday before students returned on Tuesday so we thought we'd share some of the examples of professional development that we offered our staff um last week so campus security I don't know if I mentioned them when I talked about all the different skill sets but campus security um incredibly important role in our schools protecting our kids and keeping our building safe um we've had we've got a a large Cadre of um video of of cameras in in all of our schools in all three of our buildings and U we' relied on those and we continue to increase the number of those cameras over the years um which is good um but the effectiveness of those cameras is only as good as the software that you can use to manipulate those so we've had software um that we've used for years and we thought this would be a great year um to just take a look at the software we're using compare that to new technologies that are out there um especially with the advances in AI um just camera surveillance in general so this year um we're working with a company who's who's come in and allowed um us the opportunity to put their software to use their software on about 15 or 16 of our cameras in each of our buildings and so they came in and trained our security staff on how to use the software it's um the bells and whistles are incredible and and much more advanced than than we what we currently have so we're going to spend the next few weeks um they've been trained and so they're digging deep into all of the the bells and whistles of the software to see if this is something we should pursue and our attempt to make sure all of our surveillance cameras are up to dat and really serving the needs of our buildings and protecting us and and all that so that's um what they did uh on that day or part of that day um as you know we're going to be implementing a new student information system Infinite Campus so we're dedicating a lot of time this year for our administrative assistance in training them as we start to on board um people into that system so Colleen Daly here at the ASC has been integral in helping um train our staff so she's also learning too but she's incredibly resourceful and helpful to training our administrative assistant and onboarding them slowly but surely over the course of the year so they spend time doing that our technology team led by Phil Howard um it's a um an interesting opportunity for our our um technology staff because they really take advantage of those times when kids aren't in school and teachers aren't in the classrooms to get into those classrooms and do repairs and maintenance and all that so we want to make sure we've got time for them to do that but Phil this year has dedicated some time to make sure both campuses are working together and learning from each other so he spent time at the beginning of the year and spent time last week um from District perspective bring all of our Tech teams together to collaborate and kind of network with each other build relationships and compare how they operate on both sides of town so that's been really helpful um I'm going to turn it back to Omar but before I do that I just want to give him a shout out because um he was integral in in partnering with Sid this year really leveraging Sid for our pair of pros and our instructural a Specialists and job coaches in bringing that um into our buildings to train our staff um north south in 1999 so I just wanted to give him a shout out for kind of um getting that going with sassin Ken is uh being modest uh this is and I do appreciate his words um this has been a again very long developing evolving um topic uh in partnering with him over the years uh I think this is my 11th year in District 99 this is always a topic that uh we consistently worked on together so uh I want to give him as much thanks as I possibly can while I accept his uh his uh his appreciation and kind words uh so our support staff includes our PA professional group uh a group we like to call our in-classroom support professionals uh and again their needs are very diverse um our students that are in our classrooms day continue to change uh they continue to evolve and we have to equip our adults in the building with first class tools to be able to answer that that call for our students uh and our instructionally Specialists our par professionals and our job coaches are on the front lines in classrooms with students uh so again partnering with one of our U our partners sasset uh I know many of you are familiar with the cooperative sass it uh and specifically uh I'm sure she's watching Darcy Vance is the one of the administrator um one of the lead administrators with the sassa program she has been an important part of developing our par professional and in classroom support professional training uh and I can't thank her enough for the work that she's done guiding us through this process uh our pair of Professionals in classrooms uh really work uh in many cases one onone with students uh and many of them are new to the profession and so this is their opportunity to make decisions on is this for me right um is this a career that I'm interested in down the road uh many of our entry L PA professionals come to us very very new uh sasset training gives us the opportunity to arm them to to equip them with uh the best practices in education as it applies to uh trauma informed practices uh self self-care hygiene uh and also active supervision uh there individual work with students uh is Paramount to assist those teachers that they are shoulder-to-shoulder with in classroom uh in class so uh our partnership with sasset has been very strong and we're looking forward to uh Contin continuing the roll out professional development with uh SASS and there our group professionals all right uh lastly um want to talk about uh what certified staff just went through uh same day uh and connected a little bit to what Rob was talking about with PPL and how it is a communal experience and um part of what we did was to try to extend that experience um as Rob mentioned there are several kind of like critical points that occur throughout the year regarding this most of the time this year they've either been working in a small group or maybe with an instructional coach um for this first semester um what we wanted to do was make learning apparent to everybody uh and evident as to what everyone is doing with this experience um this past uh week and a half or two weeks ago and uh what we did is designed a a setup where the there was a session where people worked within interde departmental so math science English special services um Deans um were in different rooms sharing the work that they were doing in their individual groups and then when they left that they went and joined their departments to share out what they had learned from uh across the building uh the exciting thing for me and sometimes I think we have to do a better job of celebrating this um when you listen sometimes to what people are Desiring and you create those spaces you get really great results and sometimes just getting out of the way is the best way to do stuff and we created spaces where people could learn Lear what they were wanting to learn what they're passionate about which is helping kids but in ways that are specific to what they're trying to further and the best part about it was when we got to see each other come back to their departments we got to be in different spaces and you could see them celebrating the work that was happening across the building I was watching people make connections between things that the Deans were doing to the work they're doing in their classroom about interacting with students and building relationships and being excited that these things were occurring and had space to happen I was seeing people in the same Department who were in different ppls realized they were working on similar things and creating time to then bring those bigger groups or smaller groups together to talk about what they had learned individually in one big group so this part of it which we're going to repeat again at the end of this semester um with the ppls um is exciting to see is a real kind of uh celebration of some of the the small steps we've made in just this work um but it's also a celebration of the amazing um teachers certified uh support staff CMG who are in the building they want to learn they want to be there for kids and whatever their role is and I think we're we're starting to move in the right direction of creating those spaces where they can feel confident that that'll happen on a regular basis for them any questions that you have about any of our work just to kind of summarize our our main objective this year is to gather a baseline right uh we've been using informal feedback but we have a tool now that we're Gathering feedback we have over 900 responses to the survey between all the different things that you that you've seen um one of the challenges is that in order to get credit uh there's a ISB form uh for evaluations that that our staff complete this is a separate form that we're asking them to complete to give us feedback right so that's part of the the challenge that we can run across but um we're using that feedback we're looking at what are the best ways that we can sit down and digest all the feedback that we're receiving again to tailor and to make adjustments and what's going to be really important too is that we when we make adjustments we say hey this is as a result of the feedback that we heard these are the adjustments that we've made to the professionalized and personalized learning many of the times that we're looking at uh providing to our staff so any questions do you have of of any of us related to this work I'll add one thing go for it uh we forgot to mention is that um the administrators spent the day on January 6th facilitating those sessions that uh Jake talked about uh something that we did different this year is that when the teacher Institute day was done then we had our own learning uh after that so uh our research Partners EAB came in um and shared some some of their latest research around High performing schools uh Arwin shared with us the next day that she felt like it was great because we all got to do learning then um instead of just a day focused on facilitating the learning of others y it's a good point and I'll remind the board that uh in last week's communication there's a link to the video that opened the PPL activity with our staff so if you didn't get a chance to watch that yet I'd encourage you to to go look at that it has some of our teacher leaders highlighting their work in PPL and that'll give you an idea of those types of projects that are going on across the district all right thanks gentlemen for uh thank you yeah I I had one comment and a couple questions um you know as a community member uh I will often hear gosh darn it why do we need another Institute day why can't we just get out of school a little bit a couple days earlier uh why do we have early dismissals um I I wish our community could all be sitting in here and listen to the presentation that was just given um I always say that our number one asset of d99 are our teachers are and our staff and listening to you gentlemen present here tonight about um the importance and significance of reinvesting in our Personnel uh just reinforces the importance of those of that time um and I I think that cannot go uh unnoticed uh and not stressed enough so um I was super impressed by your presentation tonight thank you it's very evident how serious you take this uh and how structured your thinking is um and I'm really happy to see that you're really focused on developing um new survey tools to gather the feedback um so I'm really happy to see the direction that is headed um I've got two questions the first is uh PPL um does that um constitute the entirety of our certified staff um PD for the year or is that only part of their PD I can answer it uh uh Keith mentioned it a little bit yeah it's it's only a part of it so on the schedule uh for example on our Wednesdays and Thursdays those PD periods some of those throughout the year are dedicated to PPL and some of them are dedicated to PD that uh the building administrator teams uh need for their teachers to engage in so uh a little bit more of that is building directed um and then there's also opportunities that uh teachers can choose to sign up for to come here and do their learning so we have the orange frog The Happiness Advantage stuff uh we have the Innovation Labs that uh Keith had talked about we have restorative practices as an option um and then we have some other standard workshops that tend to go on a rotating basis so um PPL is designed to uh for every teacher to participate and the other ones are more opt-in models and is every teacher involved in some form of PPL every teacher yeah okay every administrator yeah great um Ken touched on it a little bit but um as we're moving forward with professional development I have to imagine that as we move year Beyond year that we're going to see more and more artificial intelligence move into our professional development Ken mentioned it in the context of security um are you starting to see any AI creep into PD for our certified staff stay tun next month next month bringing another cast of uh experts to the table to talk about yeah there's tools uh one of those Innovation Labs that we run is around AI tools that uh some are free tools some are tools that District 99 uh pays for okay thank you I I just want to add that I appreciate the way you highlighted a lot of the PD is kind of within the building but I really appreciate the effort you make to do a lot of cross District right because I know within these teams right it's just a bigger team if you can bring the whole District together so I'm sure it's more work um but I appreciate the efforts you're making to connect all those folks um you know equity across theck the district is really important to all of us and appreciate that we're trying to sort of spread the knowledge you know spread the relationships I completely agree I think we'd all agree that collaboration socialization is is a as you've all mentioned is a sort of huge part of this and it is always great I mean I love the way your team here is obviously cross district and it's just great to see how much you do to really kind of bring the whole District together so I just wanted to point out that I did notice that and appreciate those efforts yeah Ken mentioned it uh a few times is that when you look at uh every employee the teacher uh depending on the role that the teacher has our counselors our support staff a wide variety on there um designing an Institute day that uh listens to what it is that each person needs and then tries to make the experience uh relevant across a what it's it's like running a conference so the four of them run mult multiple conferences throughout the school year uh which is incredibly complicated um and they do a great job of it that's great does it tie into like do teachers have continuing education requirements that the state makes them fulfilled yeah I mean The Institute days uh they're long enough that we give enough professional development hours to the teachers so when they participate we do attendance and it's all logistical in the background but it's enough for for them to renew their license every 5 years I too would like to say I am so impressed the presentation was fantastic the investment we were making in all of our employees is fantastic and in result is in the success of our students and you guys are hitting it and you guys are doing a fantastic job keep up the great work I think I would like to add some as well um education like for the past 50 years or whatever have been has been scrutinized for you know not making enough Innovation compared to other types of Industries right and I think this is that main Innovation that education has always needed right you know trying to spread knowledge between other teachers and making sure that you know they're giving each other strategies to better um even you know for the thinking based learning type initiative me even for example throughout my four years of high school me being in those classrooms the results are different when I'm in those classrooms versus I'm in another classroom that's just a teacher speaking to me right I do better in those kind of scenarios so I think I can speak for a lot of students that you know those types of strategies and those types of you know different um kind of thinking that the the teachers have acquired in the past few years is having a real effect on students so yeah I think it's really important what you guys are doing I actually just thought of another point from the student perspective when we did our uh Master facility and our construction uh we we carved out a section of each Library where our instructional coaches are at uh and we were very intentional of making sure that uh we've got transparent Windows there because we wanted the students when they're in the libraries to be able to look through that window and see that their teachers are also Learners um so that way they you know it builds this culture of understanding my teacher as a lifelong learner learning is never going to end for me also that's why I love Roland Bar's comment right about that the the learning curves go both steep upwards it is so important thank you thank you much thank you gentlemen you're more than welcome to stay and listen to advertising but you are uh you are good to go if you'd like to oh it's online right it is thank you good night thank you guys thank you all right shifting gears to uh scoreboard advertising so if you remember throughout the the summer we've been working on uh trying to gather we put together a packet uh we went through a lot of different steps and this is what we've done up to this point right so to kind of go through that we created that uh we have a specific web page for this partnership um we have gone through and and shared advertising flight buers we''ve contacted you can see the the various number of vendors that we've contacted to try to to Garner some advertising um we followed up on any interest that we've received um multiple times and and tried to uh to Garner our our first um agreement but here I sit and we have no agreements that are in place so instead of sitting and and continuing to try to do the same thing um I started doing some invest tigating and and talking with some other districts and and what does that look like what are what are they doing so the general feedback that I got from the individuals that we contacted was that our our advertising pack packages as we had them set up weren't meeting the needs that they that they had either due to the the associated cost Andor the the way that it was structured with the the venue um where they had to select either all of the venues or one school one scoreboard but they were limited things so um taking that uh I was what are other districts doing so what I did is I reached out a lot of times uh other districts in every instance other districts are either using a third party uh to run this program or something along the lines of their boosters are running the program uh for them so really the pinch points uh that that I garnered from them and that we experienced as well just that following up and and being persistent we're we're not in the advertising business um so in going through that how do we stay on top of that along with everything else that we have on our on our plates um one creating the and secondly creating the artwork and managing the advertising right so going through um I I'd like to think that we did a good job with the the information that we got and presenting different things and putting them on and getting them on schedule and um I think it was a great idea at the start where we reached out to our our partners other districts uh Community Partners and said hey we'll throw up those advertisements for you to as placeholders so people can see what that looks like I don't think that was the The Challenge because I thought that they were well done they were well received um and then just having that broad enough reach for larger organizations um we we have the the local connections to organizations that are in our region at this local level that far Outreach uh this area right so for example larger entities they're not running their advertising out of this local branch they have a corporate office somewhere right and so knowing where that is who to contact all of those different things that that is beyond um our knowledge or or or skill set with that so in in looking at that I I started looking at this company uh called scoreboard media uh digital scoreboards is who we worked with they're the producers of our scoreboard boards they they have seen this actually one of the the school districts that I talked to were in a different state um and talking about how they utilize and this is I I garnered some of this information from them uh but score scoreboard media they're they have a national reach uh which is something that that we certainly don't have um really impressed with their Outlook in in my conversations with them uh from the time that they sent the first agreement to me pushing back on several things um that that can do attitude they are local so they're vested in what is that what is that look like they want to see uh success uh for us and also we have our our current software we have is score Vision they're they're used to that that software that's a big thing right so it's not like we have to change our software because our schools are already trained remember our schools are putting in uh their own material um and then this is running on top of that so that the it it creates that whole uh package couple other things I want to talk about uh six different areas related specifically to the agreement which by the way this is the everything that I'm talking about scoreboard media has uh agreed to as well as our attorneys have reviewed and looked at and said that that all the different pieces are um they agree with and and where we have this so scoreboard media would have the exclusive rights to sell advertising um they would be the ones that would be going out securing that working through having the contracts doing all of those different uh uh pieces and that would be played during any athletic events uh at any of our our facilities that have our digital scoreboards the revenue share is 5050 so when you look at the net um Revenue to the the district would get 50% uh they keep 50% for their uh fees and Associated costs and we have at any time detailed Financial records available uh to review show us what that looks like we can ask for that monthly we can ask for that every time that that that is uh that revenue is is shared can I ask question right now Y is that okay go for um exclusive media rights do we have a say in pricing and placement yes okay yep so they're they have the the exclusive rights in the fact of we can't on top of it go out and sell adver sell the third parties they are the only ones who going to sell the only ones that can that can do that that's what that and we we will still have um content approval as well yes okay so the same the policy that we passed earlier in the year they have that and they understand that and so if there's anything questionable they'll run it by us and we'll go through our regular process thank you you're welcome the term in Revenue the agreement is valid for five years and it renews upon Mutual written agreement it's not an automatic annual thing after that that the commitment is for five and then we have to revisit that uh with uh mutual agreement uh one of the areas that we talked about what happens at the end of that five years what does that look like so we we worked it into having a a declining percentage of Revenue where they've done the work if you will right so they get 30% in the first year of any of the agreements that are currently in place at the end of that 5 years down to 20% 10% and then everything after that is is strictly ours because at the end of five years we might say you know what we've got a firm grasp on this we feel like we can do it or we may say we want to continue with this but it gives us a an off-ramp uh if you will um just so you know we started off they they had 505050 um so lots of negotiation and and conversation surrounding that um to get that ramped uh down uh our responsibilities we're we're maintaining the ownership of the of the equipment making sure that it's it's upright and and everything is working appropriately um I will say one of the things I forgot to mention with the revenue sharing if we do any fundraising type of things related to the scoreboards we get 100% of that so for example if we were to sell something uh for per se graduation right if you want to have uh some recognition at this cost we would have 100% of that that's not uh they don't deem that as as advertising so we have that in the in the agreement as well additional scoreboard media responsibilities this is where they would schedule and create all of the artwork put it all in the system we're not touching uh that at all um and this is where Don they have while insuring compliance with our policies um and making sure that anything that's prohibited that that will not uh be included in those advertisings so we have the right of first refusal correct correct yep couple other things um one estimated revenue for this in years 1 to three between 50 to 75,000 that's our Revenue that's not that's after the the 50% split um and they project up to 175,000 um in future years um so again looking at that there there'll be some time as they as they build that up um and uh get creative with some different ways of of selling that that advertising so the next steps involved again we've gone through our attorneys have reviewed it we've gone through the process plan on bringing the the advertising agreement back to you for approval at our at our next meeting and um we'll go from there but I'll entertain any additional questions that you guys may have uh about this opportunity for us so do they feel that that uh what was it uh 50 to 75,000 a year is realistic since we've gone for a year without we haven't gone a year we've gone oh all right year but yes yes they do yeah okay they do and that's that's where their a little skeptical about that uh just sure that's where their corporate reach is is much different than than ours because they already have um agreements with other larger entities and and that are in this area and they can say hey there's new opportunity in this region um for another advertising are you interested right so they have those connections and those those Avenues are they going to work with maybe local type you know like Joe's Plumbing or you know something like that and give them maybe a little bit better deal than what we are yep and then that would encourage them to advertise yep so they they they'll have that flexibility with determining what that package looks like and they understand I I express and say yay you know what that works for us or it doesn't work for us okay all right oh I I just want to add I think it's a great idea to Outsource it U selling advertisement is not child St job so right right um you're putting it in the hands of professionals to take care of that um so I don't I don't feel like because if they know what they're doing the 50 to 75 can Out Of Reach I do have um question about the fiveyear agreement is there any kind of outa not to say anything's going to go wrong but if there's some controversial going on with that company or it's just not um working out do we do we need there are some out Clauses if there's okay but yeah I think it's a good idea to pursue it this way I think it's great that we're moving so rapidly and proactively in this direction cuz we gave it a good honest try to the best of our efforts for 6 months or one semester and if it's not moving doing this you know we can hopefully capture some Revenue in the second half of the Year versus nothing so I commend you for moving so quickly with this option yeah we figured you know we started with us kind of swinging big we reached out to some national companies that you know we thought you know we know have' done business with us in the past and locally um and followed the model that was recommended to us from the scoreboard company to begin with you know a couple of those if they would have hit would have been big WIS for us right and you know but Travis and I cold calling National companies you know who know you know you but until we tried we didn't know but you know TR to his credit was like all right we've we've tried this enough and we're not getting the results so let's try Plan B so I have two questions so is it really just splitting what comes in am I missing are there any other kind of outlays of cost so that's it okay and then my second question was just you know I went to Mosaic at the end of the year I'm always so impressed by like the light show the digital and I think and I know I know students now that have gone on for graduation and have majored in theer Tech and stuff like that so like I guess my long way of getting to my question is you know um create is I I think you said like this vendor would take care of all the graphics and everything that goes up on the scoreboard do we have the chance if student interest and ability to teach those classes around digital know making videos and what like yes this is one portion of what we show on the scoreboards though right this is just the advertising okay still plenty of opportunity for educational we still have so it's not we're we're not hands off with our scoreboards we would be hands off with the advertising that go up on all of the other stuff those hype videos all of that that's that's created by us a to get practice in school and we certainly want to get to that to that because there's more that we can do to create that interactive experience in our games um um so we do want to provide those opportunities for our students to gain those skills okay I guess thinking about the foundation you know if they decide to have uh Pizza Wars again and they want to advertise on the scoreboards is that are they going to have to go through this um company in order to do that so that that's something fiser type thing so we'd probably just decide if we're running that or not that would be that be be under the bucket of fundraiser the Travis all right I'm I'm I'm just clarifying because you know even our partner districts you know 58 does some things and they they might want to advertise on our so the the the way that it's set up if we're we can't sell advertising we can still use our boards right so so we could move it into the fundraising cing category yeah yep yeah okay I'm I'm just making sure uh I I think it was inevitable that this is how it was going to happen um none of us are for your confence in our advertising background said I said when we did this that I I was skeptical um so I I I just figured that this is where we would end up um and I don't want Travis and Hank spending their time calling companies trying to get our scoreboards I want them focused on academics um did you uh is this is this not a contract that requires like a RFP process it does not okay and is this company the only company you reached out to or were there other companies that you spoke to to get a competitive bid there there's one other um company that I'm aware of uh that does something like this but they also run use their software so this was the what I thought was the best with where we're currently at uh with the with the soft that we have in the way that they have the the model is set up so yes I did look at another at another company um I did you talk to any references about other school districts that are using this company yes so we they they are they don't have anything in this local area there's there's a a competition Clause because this company also does Billboards um so they again their reach is is bigger but they got an exception to be able to do uh business in this area for for it so there's no local but as I said I I did reach out to that other uh another District that does utilize and and garnered some positive feedback I mean I would think this is I mean you said you started at 50% you got down to less than that there's no additional cost is what I think that car ask which I was thinking the same thing so I I don't even know if there could be other companies that would do it this way but I don't see a loss for us the only thing like I say that comes to to mind for me and I'm not an attorney but is if we didn't want to do five years and you're saying there are some out there as well so so they're in charge of creating the graphics for each of the advertising spaces um when they come up with the I don't I don't know if you know this yet but when they come up with the advertisement itself are they accessing the board uh like virtually and then doing it themselves so it doesn't run through us at all go so they they actually yes they place it into so there's right now there's a a district level for the advertisements and I have the the username and password for that and I put I place those on the boards um and the way that it's set up is that percentage of the board runs off of that and then a percentage runs from what the schools put in um they would take over that entire aspect right so they get the advertisements they're they're doing the creation they're putting it on they're doing the scheduling and then it will automatically sync with what our schools are are putting in but you have the right to see it first correct and if there's any question and that's in our in our contract as well and we've we've shared with them our our policy if there's any question as they're reviewing it they say hey what about this one type of a thing okay well um potential um companies who want to advertise with us is are they still going to be going through our website or will they be now be directed to the third party our website will direct them to that to the scoreboard media and if so you're presenting this at the next meeting for approval if we do vote on approving this contract will that how quickly will the pricing structure change they're they know that we're having this conversation on their prepping for that I can't tell you definitively that it'll be the next day uh but they're they know it's to their benefit as well to to get going but I don't have a definitive okay good enough okay thank you all right this as Travis said we'll come to the next board meeting for approval thank you thank you thank you oh this is me this is you but there's we move into the resolution go ahead so I I wanted to give one more chance uh part of our submission to uh ISB for this work is um to include a resolution uh that you guys have seen I did the presentation last uh meeting on the the state of the conditions of our Paving and um at both schools so uh we need a resolution to include in that that that says yes you agree that this is uh it's not a good situation safety is is uh a concern so that is just want to give a an opportunity if you have any questions about any of the the work related to Paving either at North or at South Hearing none can I get a motion from the Board of Education to adopt the resolution determining the need for repairs to school sidewalks parking lots or School Bus turnarounds second mov and Ken seconds thank you cherl Fuller hi Ken Dawson hi CHR Espinosa hi Jenny hagstrom hi Trey pavich i k Caston I and Don rener I thank you motion carries item number seven uh Julie do we have any visitors in the second reception of visitors uh I would like to invite forward Bobby dado hello everyone hello again um I'm presenting here I do have it in a PDF form I don't have it for everyone so maybe if you give a you give us a copy here to Julie we'll get it outop can sh y all right you give Julie a copy digitize it and send it to the board yeah I yeah I have a p I have a I have it in PDF oh that'd be great if you send it to me I'll get it that's fine my language um thank you what you have here is a lit A literacy Improvement plan um I feel that it was no coincidence last month that I was here um the student leader meant and this has three points the first is cell phones to be enforced in the classroom because last time the student leader mentioned he advocated a cell phone off day because currently the students have the cell phones in their pocket during class I have a senior and a freshman one of my students in class which trying to learn and another student started recording him and he said can you stop recording me can you start paying attention by the time the other student turned off her cell phone he had missed the lesson so literacy will improve if students put their cell phone in the cell phone box the cell phone is distracting them all day literacy at dgs which is in here is at 36% State average is 39% % I looked at 15 other schools in DuPage County all had a higher literacy rate than dgs in the 40s 50s 70% dgs had the highest treny percent last year a third of students did not attend school at dgs this year a fourth of students do not attend school at dgs I asked my kids friends why don't you go to school they say the subject matter is so uncomfortable we don't go to class the second point which will improve literacy is to remove teaching material that has the F and the MF word I know everyone here can't see what I have here but students received books all books that have the F and the MF word excuse me and should be removed here's a book with 137 pages each page has the F and the MF word this page right here has the F and the MF word three times this page has the f word three times my ass and ass hold this other page has mother effer and f word this page has son of a beast this page has God I'm effing and then another effing an effing and then there's a another page here that says Fu and mother effer um students are very uncomfortable with this type of language this is not learning material for students um it also ad um says drink some more wine alcohol is not good to be promoted to students either if you keep turning through the pages my child received a book with nudity of naked women this is expired educational material I will make sure that I forward your information on to the board thank you thank you um please if everyone can have my email I would like your personal thoughts and comments I look forward to improving literacy at dgs thank you all very much thank you that was our only comments left okay all right item eight uh we'll be going to close session can I get a motion from the board of education for a the appointment employment compensation discipline performance or dismissal of specific employees specific individuals who serve as independent contractors in a park recreational or educational setting or specific volunteers of the district or legal council for the district including hearing testimony on a complaint lodged against an employee a specific individual who serves as an independent contractor in a park recreational or educational setting or a volunteer of the district or against legal counsel for the district to determine its validity and B Collective negotiating matters between the district and its employees or their representatives or deliberations concerning salary schedules for one or more classes of employees so moved a second moves in 10 seconds thank you Terry pavich I Ken dawon hi Christ Espinosa I charell fuller hi Jenny hagstrom I Cara Caston I and Don rener I motion carries and for the public uh we will be going into close session when we come back out the only action the board will be taking when it comes out will be to adjourn let's take a brief moment and then we'll uh get into close session thank you

January 13 2025 can I have a roll call please Mr Cerone here Mr G presid Miss Johnson Dr marel present Mr cler present Miss Simon present Miss venas president student board members hope here and K president Miss Johnson present please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all okay all right good evening Madam president president today's an exciting evening we've got a number of uh students and staff members we are thrilled to recognize and I'm going to now turn it over to uh our executive director of schools uh Mr Francis thank you Dr katti uh what a great night for us to celebrate first of all we are going to start with our student recognition first of all the asigo community Unit School District 308 board of education is proud to recognize our students efforts and accomplishments there are several students here with us tonight who have excelled in academics Athletics and extracurricular activities we have a lot to celebrate from this fall students as your name is called please come forward to be congratulated by the Board of Education and our superintendent Dr kelti first of all we have Ali wartell Ally is a freshman at asigo high school this fall she placed fourth in the class 2A girls ihsa State final golf tournament her score of 144 points secured her spot on the podium congratulations Ally at this time any administrators and coaches who are present to join Ally up front for a photo and athletic directors [Laughter] congratulations [Applause] Ally next we have two students from asigo East High School who achieved All State status at the girls swimming and Diving ihsa State final meet first Katie malm Katie Katie is a junior and Katie took first place in diving next and next we have Addie Miller Addie is a [Applause] sophomore allly scored second in the 100 meter breast stroke and placed fourth in the fifth and2 200 free congratulations Katie and Addie again any administrators coaches athletic directors come on up congratulations Katie and Addie [Applause] the last group of students that we would like to recognize tonight have amazed us with their artistic talents the Illinois art Education Association Statewide Student Art Show took place in October and the following students were named iaea Student Art ambassadors for Illinois's K12 art curriculum we have Caitlyn Russell Caitlyn was taught by Mrs steel Jenna Allen Jenna was taught by Aaron kley we have Cheyenne Beasley Shia love and last up Payton lustrup [Applause] we have if if Laura steel Aaron kley Michael scura Randy Craig and Heather stannish if you're here I see Mr skura is here he's got to get up for a [Applause] picture also one more time for our admin all right let's give one great big last round of applause for all of our students and faculty being [Applause] recognized and we would also like to recognize our January 2025 Pride winners tonight the Board of Education acknowledges our pride winners from Churchill Elementary Prairie Point Elementary South Bar South Berry Elementary and Murphy Jor high for the month of January Pride stands for proudly recognizing individuals demonstrating Excellence the Board of Education began the program nine years ago to recognize promote and celebrate the many contributions made by our teachers and employees across the district we thank our genous generous District Partners Chick-fil-A Culver's imagination Print and Design Huntington Learning Center serve bank and the scoop for helping to make this program successful we would also like to thank all those who nominated individuals for consideration awardees after your name is called and we share your nomination please come forward to be congratulated by the board and Dr katti and then please wait until the rest of the individuals from your school have been called up because we love our pictures with you first we have Church Hill Elementary School welcome Sarah Carson Sarah is a speech pathologist and behavior therapist Sarah strives to have a full understanding of her students unique communication needs whether through words actions devices or objects as shared by a nominator her unwavering dedication Innovative strategies and compassionate approach have transformed the lives of countless students empowering them to express themselves confidently Sarah also collaborates effectively with staff and families to ensure each student has what they need to succeed congratulations Sarah next we have Tom clayon physical education teacher [Laughter] Tom Works to make his classes enjoyable for all students Tom wants the best for all his students and maintains high expectations while also making his lessons fun and engaging with creativity and friendly demeanor he also makes a conscious effort to include students in the cross categorical program by giving them space to move and providing equipment that allows for their full participation congratulations Tom and finally unable to attend the meeting but we have Lexi slutter building nurse in her first year at Churchill Lesley has demonstrated an outstanding commitment to ensuring every student has access to a healthy learning environment as shared by her nominator she works to support both staff and students and her co-workers are grateful to have her on the district District nursing team congratulations [Applause] Lexi congratulations [Applause] Churchill our next Spotlight is Prairie Point Elementary School first up Jen Boozle [Applause] Jen is a physical education teacher who goes above and beyond to serve her students fellow staff members and the Prairie Point School Community she is dedicated to her work taking the time to grow and develop curriculum in her free time she is not only an amazing PE teacher she is a gracious and considerate person congratulations Jen next up we have Kira Ki Cara is a kindergarten teacher and is and is admired greatly by all of her students one parent shared that their child talks about her all the time after school they can see the impact she has on her students another nominator said she is willing to listen laugh and grow right alongside her students congratulations Carol and finally from Prairie Point teacher assistant Jen [Applause] hooks Jen carries a smile and a great sense of humor into her work her capacity to care for and serve both students and staff is appreciated by all Jen finds ways to help those in her building whenever possible she connects with students bringing positively positivity and fun to the building while maintaining high standards and expectations of student behavior in academics congratulations Jen as we give another round of applause please come on up Prairie Point [Applause] administrators one more round of applause Prairie Point next up southberry elementary school starting off with Sarah how kindergarten [Applause] teacher Sarah prioritizes building connections with students adapting to suit each of their different needs she has built collaborative relationships with her fellow staff members and those around her can see her passion for teaching every day we feel very fortunate to have her as our child's teacher one parent said Sarah's enthusiasm inspires a love for learning among all of her students congratulations [Applause] Sarah fourth grade teacher and NextGen Mentor Dr Megan Truax is [Applause] next Dr Trac strives to cultivate a safe classroom environment for all ensuring her students believe in themselves and accomplish what they're capable of she is supportive of other teachers and works hard to share her expertise as a NextGen residency Mentor her positive attitude and focus on relationships makes learning fun for her students her coaching support and true passion for her job inspire me to grow and learn every day one nominator shared congratulations Megan and we have loose deck teacher [Applause] assistant L is a Stars teacher assistant she is patient with students holding them to high expectations while supporting them with her warm smile and welcoming presence through her work she encourages all students to be successful as shared by her nominator she not only helps and supports her specific students but is also observant and supportive of all other students in our school congratulations [Applause] [Music] one more round of applause for South [Applause] fairy and for our final School of recognition today is Murphy Junior High School starting with social worker Sarah [Applause] null Sarah is an advocate for the social emotional needs of her students always available to lend a list listening ear and offer helpful advice she Bridges the gap between school and home working as a partner to students parents and staff a nominator said she is one of a kind it's apparent that she cares deeply for her students and fosters a safe environment for them Sarah's experience and positive attitude have impacted all of us congratulations [Applause] Sarah next up Erica Ric [Applause] ericeric is a sixth grade honors Ela teacher and collaborates well with her co-workers to ensure her students receive the best opportunities possible she is dedicated to helping students succeed both in and out of the classroom Eric is a strong advocate for what is best for students and staff alike a nominator said Erica is organized and those around her know that she cares congratulations Erica [Applause] and our final employee of the night is Michelle liberer dedicated building [Applause] sub Michelle has flourished in her role as a substitute special education teacher this year helping students excel in the classroom she rallies behind her students supporting them to be the best people they can be as highlighted by her nominator she leads by example congratulations Michelle [Applause] thank you all of our honores please proceed out into the Hall we will have one big group picture thank you for all of our students families and Community who are nominating our teachers for these Awards just want to thank uh Mr Francis Teresa and Brandon I'll wait till I w't B no oh Jared I didn't know I mean so cute no idea today I was looking forward to the M&M's and there are no M&M her award right put it on is it okay let me okay somebody spray light we're not going back session [Music] Sports all right okay are we ready yeah okay uh good evening board thank you again um next we want to invite uh Dr Paul we've got Megan man Tanya sharp and Dr Lasco who will be presenting an update on our high school English text selection I want to thank also um all the department chairs and school leaders who've been involved in this process I know that it's been a long uh process and I want to thank all those involved in advance of this presentation for their dedication and perseverance to the work that has been brought forward tonight so again uh thank you to your principls and you all for your leadership turn the good evening everyone um as you know I'm Dr Paul assistant superintendent of learning and Innovation for our district um I'm with uh several team members who are going to introduce themselves uh to you here in a moment um as we begin our presentation um we know that the work that we do is grounded in our foundational practices and really wanting to focus on our priority this year of a rigorous and ambitious instruction and um with me tonight I have several leaders who are going to be helping tell our story story um in our high school novel Tech selection that we'll be bringing to you today for information we've just moved our presentation up a little earlier uh to allow uh my colleagues to head out after this presentation uh so next um I'd like to uh give it to uh Dr alasco Who will introduce himself and then uh Miss sharp and Miss man thank you Dr Paul first of all um I've been promoted to doctor and I am not a doctor neither medical nor educational nor any other kind of doctor but I appreciate appreciate the nod of uh confidence I suppose that started with you Dr katti um but my name is Kurt loo I am assistant principal for curriculum and instruction at asgo East hi everyone I'm Tanya sharp I'm the assistant principal for curriculum and instruction at asgo high school hi everyone I'm Megan man I'm the director of humanities uh so uh what you can see in front of you right now are all of the individuals who are part of our high school novel Tech selection process um we have teachers representing both high schools as well as at Thompson junior high because one of our courses is taught at um the eighth grade level honors English one um so we had representation led by our two amazing Department chairs um you can see colen and Amy's name is noted there and this work actually started last year and has continued into this year and you're going to hear a little bit more about the timeline of uh the work that the uh committee has done as well as in case you're curious we did share with you in the board memo an explanation of each of the courses in case you'd like to kind of see a little bit more about what each course is so the need for this work began in October of 2023 after um the the schools and District received an email from the college board that they were sunsetting the springboard resource which has been the current resource for about the last decade um the College Board communicated that the sunsetting of the springboard resource was driven by a recognition that the College Board is at a juncture where considerable new investment would be necessary to ensure the relevance and quality of the springboard program in years to come the College Board then allowed one more year of springboard purchase which is the year that we are currently in right now um so that schools could have ample time to adopt an alternate high quality resource so the 2425 Academic Year uh the teams have been working through the current Resource as as College Board allows them to print student and teacher resources from springboard so that they can still utilize them we're relevant um they can access those PDF files within springboard digital but there is no new print material purchases springboard digital has also remained accessible for this year only uh but some features are not are not currently available so beginning in the 2526 Academic Year springboard and springboard digital will no longer be available with this the team got together and put uh action plan in place where they are continuing to use the resources this year however they noted that certain steps needed to be taken in order to make sure that we are prepared for the 2526 Academic Year so in the spring of last year spring of 2024 Ken kelvy and Amy Howton got a team of teachers together where they began to review and analyze um the vertical articulation of the course standards noting alignment gaps and and overlaps that are currently existing with that they also did a needs assessment where they found that there needs to be a better balance of reading and writing instruction where currently the springboard curriculum and the resource um is very writing heavy with that they also reviewed and analyzed all of their common assessments and the Common Assessment data they identified areas of strength and weaknesses and determined necessary revisions based on that data there was an immense amount of feedback that was provided by all of the team members and then um once all of that work was done uh Kurt and I were included in that along the way um and it resulted in a a few additional things one of those things is that they really wanted to create a story of the course so for example for English one what is the story of the course what is the purpose of these resources how are we assessing our students so in a very small example English one the the story of the course is coming of age um meaning that the overall literature exposure and development of those skills were in alignment with that quote unquote story or theme um in addition as they continued to review and analyze the planning and pacing guides they were they have also been adding in the seal and CRT standards um from there they have been the revising the the pacing guid as needed collecting the resources from springboard and continuing to determine gaps or areas for improvement on a uh in April 2023 that Institute day all of the course team Representatives presented to all of the English teachers across both buildings they provided uh an update on the work that has been done and opportunities for additional feedback as the work continued into this year um through that work also came the proposal of some novel text proposals to meet the needs of where those gaps are and then that is where I will hand it to Megan our timeline continues um this fall the teams continued to work specifically um working on vertical articulation with their writing rubrics it was an amazing process to see there were giant rubrics all over the room and they were working in um content teams working vertically um and it was great work they also continued revisions on their common Summit of writing um or reading assessments and planning and pacing guides in addition to the curriculum work the department chairs were busy reading novels and bringing forth 10 to continue in the process process throughout November and December the novels were reviewed by High School principles assistant principal of principles of curriculum instruction equity and engagement myself and Dr Paul the assistant superintendent of learning and Innovation we are proposing seven novels to move forward to be used in four of our English courses um these novels will be on public display for 30 days and then we would ask to vote for approval in February meanwhile the teams will continue to work on curriculum work throughout this semester working on continuing the planning and pacing guides scope and sequence Curriculum maps and um and then sharing that with their teams before I share with you and summarize the considerations that were weighed in assessing the novels that we're proposing tonight I want to take a moment to um really celebrate the leadership that Amy Howton at o and Colleen uh calie at OE provided as Department chairs of English at their respective schools uh and their teams that came together did a phenomenal job as well with a relatively accelerated timeline uh as you know it's very hard to find time to read uh let alone to read this many novels this thoughtfully and also um if you had a chance to review any of the uh summaries of the texts that that that were considered before proposing the seven that Megan alluded to a moment ago you can see how much not just individual thought but how much collaboration went into this process uh and in that sense um as well as others that I'll that I'll be um noting in a moment we um we really did a good job I believe in this process of adhering to the foundational practices on which uh the district is now focused uh that is of course high quality instruction effective systems and teams teams and equity and rightful presence um so on that note the considerations that um were specifically kept in mind throughout this process include from a curriculum and standards alignment perspective um how much these texts can be integrated into the English language arts curriculum Tanya spoke to that a moment ago so I won't belabor the point but U we needed to make sure these texts worked with our academic objectives and our instructional priorities um that also meant of course the the the the teams of teachers and the department chairs who led the work needed to consider text complexity quality on the literary merits of the books that were being um that were being read and reviewed of course um had a lot to do with which text they agreed to advance and um which would be appropriate for our students um we had to make sure that these texts connected to our summ of assessment standards and priorities and the course objectives um uh and by by the way I'll take another moment to step outside of this presentation to say I think our English departments are leading the way with respect to curriculum work in general if you're looking for a model for what good curriculum integration and good articulation looks like and what good collaboration looks like you look you need look no further than our English departments doing a phenomenal uh job um constantly tuning their curriculum making sure that it's relevant and rigorous and engaging for students um with respect to engagement we wanted to make sure that this the text met our social and emotional learning standards as well and the text that um the the about half of them I've been able to personally read um I can say very confidently that they are spoton with respect to addressing social and emotional concerns that are gerine to our students today going through the various things that are uh the members of our society are now facing um so um in addition to those social and emotional learning standards we also wanted to make sure these texts represented our culturally responsive teaching priorities um and so in these texts you'll see a diversity of perspectives and experiences represented author perspectives characters perspectives um represent uh a broad array of human experience in the United States um and even globally and I think the the staff members who are involved in vetting these books did a the defined job of making sure that we were um appreciating the diversity of our current student populations and making sure that these these books when read by our students would help reinforce the sense of rightful presence in our schools with with regard to literary merit alone we in addition to wanting diverse and cultural perspectives represented we also want want to make sure these books were were current contemporary relevant and so the publication date was also considered the reading level and student interest and um were weighed um heavily as well and we wanted to make sure these books were well reviewed and had um garnered attention from those who award um Publications because of course we want these books to stand the test of time because we don't want to do this year after year with books that may may miss the mark so these books have been have been considered with respect to how much they are in fact um um speaking to uh aspects of life in America today in doing it well from a literary perspective so in these courses um that Tanya uh described earlier in her in her uh words we have two types of text that we use in English one is a core text which of course serves all students in the class and the other is a choice text uh which allows for individuals to read um certain texts of their of their uh that are interest to them or perhaps a choice text may be read by many members if not all members of the class depending on how um the course is evolving over time so when you review the list of texts you'll see some are identified as core and some are identified as as Choice texts and um we're happy to present these seven titles to you I'm not going to read every detail on this uh slide here because you can do that for yourself but I just wanted to note that we are talking about text in u the Freshman English program English one um English two um which again serves sophomores English three for juniors um I'm sorry four levels english four for seniors one of our um courses Hors English one is also taught at the e8th grade level uh we at this point are not recommending a book yet for that level but that's work in progress as well uh so the um the various texts in front of you um again you can see from the publication date um are are texts that are highly relevant to students uh social experience today um and also um are wonderfully representative of number of different kinds of adolescent experiences um as uh we want to make sure our students can connect with these texts and we'll be interested in reading them not only for academic Merit for also for their own uh reading pleasure so to enhance um where these novels situate themselves um I just Dro your attention to the board memo uh we do have a chart provided for you where you can see the current core text uh the current Choice text the new proposed text and then the proposed text Choice use uh so that you can see where these novels kind of situate themselves in the courses you see um presented on the slide um we did want to give you an overview of the financial piece um one of the things that we want to highlight right away is that there is a onetime cost of um $770,000 um and we are going to be budgeting an annual uh budget replacement cost for 18,000 in the event that books need to be replaced um we did um consult with three different vendors uh per your request is to consider uh different vendors out there to see which one would best meet our needs the one that we're recommending is fallet um it is Library bound and warranteed for the lifetime of the book uh should the book need to be replaced uh the library bounding binding of the book allows it for durability for multiple student usage um you can see in your board packet we have the breakdown from the three different vendors as well as the cost with a projected uh student enrollment um we did include for your review as well as audio files as well and that is included in the onetime fee um in addition uh you can see that our annual fee for springboard was over 100 Grand and that was annually so this is a cost savings to our district by having this one-time fee with books that can be used uh to come and um we have some additional information we wanted to share with you because should the board approve these novels we are already in the works planning for some professional development coming up in the coming days in February and April and I'll turn it over to Tanya to share that with you thank you um so as you can see uh highlighted here here on this slide is stage two um so the team is currently in stage stage two of the curriculum develop renewal development um they're developing Equitable and sorry developing Equitable curriculum scope and sequence and they're identifying evidence-based instructional resources which they began doing last spring and they are and they have continued to do this fall um some of the requested professional learning based on the gaps that they have found and kind of renewing and reviewing their assessments and their resources is they um would like some more professional learning about reading skill assessment especially as they are going to start shifting from being so writing heavy in the last decade or so to being more balanced with the reading and writing uh additionally as part of some units uh more professional learning and speaking and listening skills um is also requested literature circles for high school students this is an important professional learning for the teachers as the students may be reading a text all together or students may be choosing which book that they would like to read and then thus a unit happening um more through a literature Circle um Additionally the English teams will continue to meet to continue to assess revise the planning and pacing guide um as well as assessments and rubrics and then of course english team time for novel review and planning for semester 2 specifically so for the SE the semester that we're in right now um they'll they'll continue to have that time with each other as the english team members and then we're looking for February 8th to have that professional learning from an outside provider um hopefully on literature circles and then we will continue the curriculum document review and novel planning in April and then in may we are looking to have both schools together to be able to roll out the revised and renewed curriculum um and the resources hopefully that they'll be using so that they can have um that time to prepare before August comes so as we conclude our presentation we really wanted to end with a professional development that we are planning for this year as we move into next year should these um books be approved by the board um we really want to make sure that we're continuing to provide that ongoing professional learning for our teachers um the department chairs as you heard have been preparing the team since last year they've been doing continual professional learning um the teachers are aware this is coming they're excited uh they're excited to hear um the outcome of uh bringing this to the board and they're ready to begin implementing um next year when we begin next school year so we want to turn it over to you to see if there are any questions questions yeah um I oh thank you so much for your presentation and I was just thinking about our students who are sitting here and just wondering was was there any involvement of our students in the process or do you see any involvement going forward for students in terms of the book the novels that you've proposed so that's an excellent question um I'm not aware of student involvement in the novel selection although that is something we could definitely take in consideration for the future might I add that I think in listening to the conversation I think this is an opportunity um there is a review process right now correct right so I think there is time still to to even do some uh temperature checks around the books and the novel's choices but I I will say that throughout the process I heard intentionality about the level of Engagement and approach students were always at the center of those conversations um and really drw the types of choices that were made um and because the educators are working with students every day that their knowledge of student voice was very important and I and I do know that in speaking with Dr Paul um a number of times that that was raised so but I do think as part of the review process There's an opportunity there to invite and we have a number of opportunities and student access that you can do that so yeah and um as part of the memo uh some of these novels do increase the number of student choices as uh Miss sharp mentioned um literary circles part of their proposal is to increase student Choice within the novel selection as part of the course so they're building uh additional opportunities for students with these resources um I have a couple comments well thank you again this is the second time I've heard the presentation so I I'll reiterate some comments that I did that was were said at um the equity and learning committee uh but I want to concur kind of what what Lata and Dr K or uh Dr katti were saying about student voice um I think when teachers read you know novels or a whole stack of novels uh thinking through the lens of their students they really know their students really well and they can probably guess after years of teaching what will resonate and what will not but that to be said if per chance when you go to the year 25 26 and 26 27 and there's a novel that's really not hitting right for lack of a better term I don't want us to um I would encourage the administration not let's not wait you know a decade to like replace it right or to think through through that again and that's where you can get some you know feedback from students about you know like or dislike or their engagement with those those um with those texts um I also want to say that you know there's no perfect book for a high school student to read you know um there's just so many books out there that would uh connect with our students um so there's no perfect book you know there were some on the list previous that I have Nostalgia for that I was like oh darn and there's others on this new list new list that I'm like oh that's great and then there's others that I've added to my reading list uh to to to you know to to for my own personal reading so uh I appreciate um um the due diligence with choosing the text and to re at something that Jared said at our meeting you know we really trust our fellow Educators to um bring recommendations to us uh about which novels uh would uh best fit the needs of our students so uh thank you for that thank you to the team um I know that the English Department chairs um well versed in curriculum and I know that I you know um not surprised that they could be a model for um other curriculum development pieces I had one question that popped into my mind that I didn't get to ask or that I didn't ask I heard you say that the English one honors at the e8th grade they're not going to be utilizing the English one texts that are here or they are so English one honors is currently there's not a novel proposed okay so they're not reading the English one text did they previously read the English one text if you look in your um board packet it has what the English one students are reading but not English one honors we can get that information to you not currently available that my question are are they going to propose a novel are is are they using springboard as well or so so what they've been doing this year has been pulling resources so short stories poems um novels that they currently have already been in use um they're going to continue moving forward um we had a conversation and with the English Department shares and right now we're not moving forward with proposing a text for um honors English one okay at the eth for eth graders thank you hello I I want to thank you again for bringing us to our ATT mention I knew like I know it's a lot of work so thank you again for all the work that you guys put into this my only question I know you guys already stated it but why did you guys choose to go for more recent novels cuz I know that one of the reasons was that you didn't want to be outdated but from a student perspective I feel it's important to go for more older or historic novels because I know in the past we did Animal Farm or L the Flies which really focused on like the war setting and really diving deep into how like a historic perspective so how would the change of more recent novels such as like 2020 2019 would it change like how history is getting taught in books or so you want to go ahead thanks that's a wonderful question I think EXC that's a wonderful question and so I really appreciate you g us a chance to talk to that point because I agree we need to make sure that we are also using this opportunity to teach students about uh historical uh epics and experiences and um uh important uh historical change that has affected our lives today and so there are many books in the curriculum that will remain in the curriculum that do have um these are not replacing necessarily some of your favorites yeah um but there so there will still be a lot of those kind of I guess I don't know for lack of a better word Classics or more more more familiar texts that have been in publication for decades um but that is a wonderful question because that's our one of our challenges as Educators is to be both honoring the past but also recognizing the present moment in helping to helping students to identify with their own place in history and it kind of goes back to that concept the rightful presence that I talked about it's one of our foundational practices it needs to be a sense that that you know um I as a student today um belong and I have a right to shape the future that I'm going to inhabit and I need both historical understanding in addition to contemporary awareness and a recognition also of some voices that have been underrepresented over the past uh couple of centuries unfortunately so we're trying to make improvements in that regard too but that's a wonderful question thank you uh thank you for your presentation tonight I just wanted to look at the projected implementation plan and understand that you feel this is a lot of enough time to implement this um I just want to make sure that our teachers are getting um the professional development that they need to make sure that our students are successful so can you just tell me within these five date or four dates if you will how you feel this is enough time so as we shared during the presentation our English Department chairs have been providing professional learning since last year to the teams um so they have not waited till this point in time um we continue to connect with our department chairs both assistant principes of cni and Megan director of humanities has frequent conversations um where at one point they might say we want this professional learning but where our staff is we're going to need more of this or less of this so we're willing to continue to support them even going into next year to make sure the professional learning continues um both department shairs and assistant principles are great advocates for the teachers to be able to let us know what you need or what they need and that's what we're already planning for to be able to provide this professional learning coming up in the coming months and the assessments and the rubrics um for these specific novels or this group of curricul are they being um are they coming from a curriculum company or are they coming from our our Educators T will answer but um I just want to say thank you for the question because that's something that we have been talking quite a bit in fact I think the last time the department chair spoke to this their words were we can't wait like we have to move on so we you're right I really appreciate your understanding there is a lot of work that has to go from go forward from the approval point to the implementation point so thank thank you so while springboard is sunsetting the resource we are still utilizing the curriculum the curriculum is not it's not an upheaval of the curriculum within the vertical articulation that took place and the needs assessment that's where they were finding out what needs to change what needs to adjust and that work has been happening since the spring of last year so by the end of this school year that's what those dates are for it will be fully completed thank you um I have something to add I want to first off say thank you so much for telling us about the plans that you guys have moving forward I would like to um talk a little bit about just involving as much student voice as possible when it comes to selecting and coming to select these books I think that a lot of students don't know what comes into picking the books like the relevancy and you guys actually taking time to read these books and go deep in them so I feel like just adding student voice as much as possible would help maintain a really healthy conversation between teachers and students in the classroom as well so I know that you guys said um how you collect your data so I feel like that's very important and I love the way you guys do that I think that's very smart and strategic um I would say that if you know you guys do use these books um to collect data from students the following years on whether they like the book if it was relevant enough to the things that are happening in our society and I would take that and use it for a next selection of books I you guys decide to do thank you hope that's a that's also an excellent point and one way that we um that we govern our feedback is is as teachers roll out a new text or any kind of new piece of curriculum they're constantly assessing students response and reaction to it and and they believe it or not they get together and talk about it so they in this case um there will be a lot of conversation about how these books go over you know for instance you know the there's a new text that we implemented a for a freshman English program called Everything sad is untrue you know I don't know if you've seen that title around the school um there's been lots of conversation after it was implemented about how did it suit our needs curricularly did it did it um resonate with children um is it well-liked the kids P want to turn the pages or just kind of going through the motions they have a lot of those conversations but I think what I'm hearing you and and uh uh President samilton says that we really need to make sure that we're structuring our own process of review so that that those voices and those perspectives are being incorporated into the next round of decision- making and one reason we did I I spoke to this really briefly one reason we wanted books that were well reviewed in awardwinning is because when books are well reviewed you there's an assumption that it's being reviewed relative to the readership it's aimed at right like if forance if you write a young adult novel you're not really so concerned about what the grown-ups you know middle-aged people like me think right um Miss bowy says I'm past middleaged but I don't know if that's true enough but but the point is not not so much concern about what I would think of just more what does a young readership think of it and if if if it's popular with that readership it's likely to gain an award so that's why we talked about award-winning well-reviewed books because of that very phenomenon um but that said we can do a better job going forward making sure that student voice is incorporated more structurally more methodically and intentionally into our process so again great Point how did some of the feedback um from the curriculum audit play into what this process look like did it change any of the process um did it affirm the process um if you could speak to that a little bit that would be helpful absolutely uh the curriculum audit talked a lot about planning and making sure we took the time to plan for the future and you can see that evident um in the timeline presented to you today um and the planning that took place last year as well as really looking at what our needs are and aligning our work to standards so several times tonight you heard um mention of um unpacking priority standards looking at uh student achieve ment data looking at um how we can align our work to not only um the the English standards but also social emotional learning standards and cultur responsive teaching standards um that's a big part of the planning process as well as having common curriculum map and scope and sequence so that students have similar experiences in the courses that they're taking um to create Equity within our system um that thoughtfulness with professional learning and articulation um as well as communication um with both high schools and our junior high as well thank you okay okay thank you all right thank you thank you team again for your leadership and uh presentation this evening we can give them a round of applause that's a lot of work well deserved okay uh next I want to invite um our uh our team to discuss some updates regarding our foundational practice I know the board has prioritized this year in following the our policy that's focused on equity and rightful presence to really make time to think about some of the learning and connections we're making between the policy and more importantly the practices that we're seeing in district and so I want to invite them to speak to that this evening uh Dr Paul Dr Waller and Dr dubiel good evening B good can you hear that oh it's a little evening is mine working hi there there we go mic check good evening Boris we're excited about tonight's presentation because it will highlight one of the most important stakeholders of our group and that students um tonight we're going to discuss how we use how we can use the curriculum to Elevate student agency and student advocacy and how we're using the student data achievement to really reinforce our foundational practices again of effective systems and teams high quality instruction equity and rifo presence so as you heard me just mention about the curriculum audit it's really important to us that we continue to identify areas where we can use data from our students to be able to inform our instructional practices and so this evening you're going to hear a little bit more about some data that we've collected um from our students grades 3 through 12 and how this data is helping inform our continual work um around school Improvement planning and supporting our students overall well-being in school so in transitioning to um this slide I think the timing is great with our young ladies asking the questions around student voice and student choice and so um tonight we wanted to lift student agency and student advocacy and recognizing that student advocacy is one of the rightful presence Pathways and so um as we share this information and we think about student agency as it pertains to curriculum we wanted to make sure that we discuss what it is and what it's not um and so we need to make sure that we're taking opportunities to validate and leverage our student voices providing them with options choices um background interest and and creating those spaces where we're actually receiving the information that they're giving us and then utilizing it and applying it um and so ultimately the the intention with student agency is that what it is not is disregarding any of the needs that the students have whether it be academic social emotional um understanding rightful presences is students need to have a sense of belonging and within student advocacy this gives our students a voice this teaches them how to utilize their voices in a way that would be effective and so that that they are received um this is creating opportunities for discourse this is understanding how to agree to disagree right um this is teaching them those skills so that they can actually make long-term meaningful skills um meaningful change within their own lives um and then we wanted to highlight what it is not right and so what it is not is adults speaking on behalf of students or not taking into their um their perspective in the conversations it is not exclusionary and most importantly it is not a one-time event it is something that has to happen consistently in order for us to actually understand what they need and and so that they even have the practice to share with us what they need because again um you give them an opportunity one time and you know they they do their best to share what they need but then we give them the opportunity to lead into practice and and that is what will impact the social emotional growth and learning that we know is needed so in addition um we wanted to Define what curriculum is and what it is not uh this is something that we are working towards creating common language in our district this year not only um what you just heard about student agency and student advocacy as well as what curriculum is and we know that curriculum is alignment with rigorous stand standards of learning um it is a map to uh provide guidance for our teachers of where to go and how to get there we know though that Curriculum maps is not a on siiz fits-all we really encourage our teachers to be reflective of the data that they're receiving both informally and formally from their students and using that information to really differentiate learning needs based on the data that they're receiving throughout the year so one of the things that we're going to highlight our social emotional Wellness terms and Dr Waller is going to explain what these are no problem you know we've been doing this I'm like well she's on a roll um but so we wanted to highlight the areas of focus whether with it being around self-management social awareness emotional regulation self-efficacy and then I know we have the social perspective taking and it's important to note that that is for our secondary um that is not for all students um so we wanted to make sure that we have these pieces here because we're going to dig into the data all right so the data you see before you is for our students that are grades three through five in our district the survey was administered in the fall uh we had over 3,000 students complete the survey and the social emotional Wellness competencies you see on the Le hand side are listed in percent favorable being the highest with the lowest uh percent favorable in the middle on the right hand side you can see where our district compared to others nationally uh the little bubbles kind of indicate where we are as a district um and again you can see it's in rank order uh self-management being the highest and self-efficacy being uh the area for uh potential growth you'll notice some patterns as I transition into the data for grades 6 through 12 you can see that we did have a higher participation number um of our grades six through 12 of over 8,000 students responding to the survey our highest category was self-management with 80% % favorable um and then you can see sequentially with our area for growth for self-efficacy you can see that this is parallel between grades 3 through 5 and 6 through 12 self- efficacy is an area for continual growth for our district um so areas to celebrate and areas to continue to um improve can you just step back just um one more one slide um because I wanted to Define self-efficacy while you were actually looking at this information and so self efficacy is how much students believe they can succeed in achieving the academic outcomes and then you'll see as we transition to the next slides the the questions that actually support um this definition yeah thank you for framing that up for us Dr wer um and so we wanted to provide for you um the highest responded questions for self-efficacy for grades three through five as well as six through 12 um you might notice that there are some patterns here um one of the things that we did do with our principals earlier this year is when when they completed their quarterly uh School Improvement reflection we asked them to look at the lens of their current action plans for equity and rightful presence high quality instruction and effective systems and teams and to consider this data set for their current action plans does this affirm where they're at in their plans for their school does this cause them to pause and to make some adjustments and tweaks um or is this um additional data that they might need um we are not presenting to you today our short answer responses for students grades 6 through 12 we are still unpacking those Trends um that we see but one parallel that we are making is that this data is not surprising us it's actually drawing us to some conclusions we've already made in the previous years um with the superintendent um advisory council with our students and the data sets they've been collecting along the way from their peers it's giving us indicators that we still have some work to do when it comes to self efficacy within our system these are the questions with the lowest responded favorable responses um for grades three through five as well as 6 through 12 um note that the question that is the 29% responded favorably for grades 6 through 12 uh how sure you that you will remember what you learned in your current classes next year is a data point we are aware of as a district and we are continuing to plan in our strategic um plan that is coming soon to you um and how we can continue to Pro provide opportunities for students to be making connections with what they're learning in the classroom to their future so we wanted to give you an opportunity it's a lot of data um to see if you had any questions um just as we conclude our presentation our students will complete the survey again in the spring uh the first Administration was allowing us to get a benchmark of where we currently are as a district and the second administration of the survey will be able to give us an idea of where we've grown where we still need to go and then how that can you to help inform our continual work around our Student Success in those schools can you give a little bit of detail I remember you talking about it in the um in a committee meeting but in regards to how this data informed the school Improvement plans or how it impacted it well so a piece of what we were saying was is that so we're in courted to reflection our school Improvement plans we know um support our effective teams they support our equity and rightful presence and our high quality instruction and So within the equity and rightful presence Lane that's where we're asking them to dig into the research from or excuse me the data from Panorama to make those connections as it pertains to equity and rightful presence um for example and I know the young ladies will share some work that they've been doing through ssac but we know our high schools have one trusted adult as their goal and so it is imperative that they look at this Panorama um data and information especially the the short answer pieces to really dig into um lifting that data to make adjustments to their school Improvement plans so that is the intention that they will um within the support from schools and from Kiana and and we do a lot of collaborating but that they're coming together and they're actually being intentional about what this is saying um because it's important data and we keep looking at and we're talking about it and we need to make sure that we're applying it so they're making shifts so that's and I remember some each school has a a focus based on and some of it was based on this data oh I'll let you finish no no you're right are I think you're so they each choose a pathway so the rifle presence has four Pathways um it is opportunity Gap the universal access student advocacy as well as cultural and relational responsiveness and so they've chosen a pathway and within that pathway is how we support through the pan room great thank you and to just to add on to that offer high quality instruction we have six elements of that rigor relevance engagement future focused learning social emotional learning and cultural responsiveness and um our schools um throughout our system have chosen either rigor relevance or engagement as an area to focus on for high quality instruction and again this data set kind of lets them know where their students are at how relevant is the learning from their perspective how engaging is it how rigorous is it and then what are we going to do about it how we're going to make some adjustments and shifts instructionally great and the timing of this is is perfect and I'm so glad that you lifted that because we we do so much collaborating where we are are um in the professional learning that we are going to to be providing um principles and assistant principles on these different areas where we're marrying both of our as well as as the systems and teams pieces so that all is is a collective piece and they can see it as a holistic view um but then giving them an opportunity to then have time to dig deep into the specific pathway that they chose um and then us providing examples of what that looks like since this is all very new what I think I appreciate about the school improvement process that we're engaging in now with those plans is that um we didn't have this data I don't think when they originally developed their plans and so now this our plans are like living documents right so if something pops up and you're like oh my gosh 10 they're at the 10% Mark you know we can adjust but we're still through that lens of those different Pathways in our um uh and what we're rooted in as a district I was really excited to hear because we saw this presentation also at Equity teaching and learning that um um the principles are using these at the building level I think it's really key because I heard that they can also like drill down grade level classroom level and that really gives them I think a good sense of their um of their um population and what they can do for that population although that's individualized I also heard at the uh committee meeting that there is um some consistency um among we're seeing all these respons respons responses in the aggregate but when disaggregated they remain consistent in regards to areas of strength areas of of growth um and so for me if everyone's struggling with self-efficacy all I can think about is collaboration like where are our third to fifth grade you know our primary grade principles if everyone's in self-efficacy you know building on our Collective efficacy uh with principles um where can we you know provide that time and space for them to do that uh and then I also love that we're doing that um the the the second data collection you know later on in the spring right um so they can see if those strategies that they collaborated on paid off and so um I think it's a really good cycle and it's really informing a lot of uh different aspects at the building level so thank you um I thought I had a question besides that but oh another thing I just wanted to point out is that self-efficacy or yes self efficacy obviously is the the lowest that we're seeing but I'm not super excited about us at the 50% Mark for you know emotional regulation like if only half of our students can emotionally regulate themselves and grades three to five that's a concern too although we're in that green percentile it's maybe speaking to some more you know societal concerns you know more broadly uh but I don't think it would negate a uh building principle making the case for I'd love to work on emotional regulation just because we're in you know in that 70th percentile or something like that those are just some comments thank you thank you I'm interested in this is a panorama survey or panor data collection management system or so Panorama Panorama is the name of the company um we presented both um our tier 1al Universal screener so all students grades 3 through 12 take this survey on those social emotional Wellness areas um that you see listed up here and it's the survey is brand new to our system um we shared this with you heard I think I heard um and what is the universe of users on when you're getting that percentile number the overall number nationally I'd have to look that up for you is is it widely used across the country yeah with the nation so I can get that data for you no I mean if it's if it's more than just Illinois oh yes most definitely I'm fine with that so if our selfefficacy is at 46 47% and that puts us at the bottom um what does I mean what what's average Nationwide if you know because because a lot of these other numbers like like emotional regulation for example puts us in 60 to percentile um yet it puts us at the bottom with self-efficacy I mean do kids generally believe in their ability to do their academic work and ours don't yeah well I think that that's a really great question we need to continue to do our data analysis this our first time administering the survey and that's an excellent point because when you look at percent favorable 47% is not that far off from 49 right above it but the percentile nationally is quite different uh so thank you for raising that question we'll definitely look into that it's like it's like night and day practically okay thank you so my question is around self-efficacy but in a sense that if this is about the belief of a student that says to me that there's got to be some kind of Paradigm Shift right and how are we going to do that for our students do we have a thought about that like what is the plan to shift the Paradigm of a student's mind to believe that they can succeed and do this and and achieve the outcomes that are expected of them you you know it's a great point it reminds me of some conversations we had this past weekend at our town halls and there were a number of students who came um actually they were graduates and one of the messages that they uh they're recent graduates from our district and um just thrilled to have them present because they had such fresh Reflections um on the district and one of the things that they wrote they spoke to was the the impact of Educators who had raised for them the value and the belief beyond the curriculum beyond the I should say the the taught resource and text but really in their capacity to design experiences that capture their minds and excitement and enthusiasm that's when I think of that concept of self ethicacy I think it's that it's not s a definition so I think uh those educator those Educators maybe future Educators um they're teaching now so I would say that for me and listening to them they they frankly felt that they just had not had enough Educators like that and I would argue as a district I have to look in the mirror we have to look in the mirror as a district is how are we as a district providing the kinds of experiences and learning and supports for our schools in order that they can experience that right so it's it's it's not a a simple answer I think it's a it's a collective answer that needs to be addressed and I think that it's the power of the principle in the building it's the power of how they're raising Educators voices and I and I frankly I think that the work that we're doing with the Union right now to ensure that educator voice is really well coordinated with the district will make a difference I would also add uh I you know we don't have to guess at how to do this there's tons of research right out there and Dr Kat you spoke to one of them you know like part of the research says that you know if you have Educators who believe and tell you that you can do things that you are more likely to achieve those things it seems simple uh but then you think about what that means in the classroom what does that look like in a classroom what does that look like at a building but that's that's one strategy um so all I'm saying is you know we don't have to guess how to do it people have already done the research we just have to pick the one the strategies that we think will best fit um our students I just I think this is um some very powerful data and I just want to thank the administration when I first started on the board we are responsible for approving School Improvement plans and frankly it was and this isn't a shot at anybody it's when you know better you do better um but it we have a ton when you sometimes you get into this place where you either have not enough data or you have too much data and you're just like kind of data paralysis if you will but how do we take the data that we do have and inform all of the other things that we have to Output with that data and this for me to see the full circle come back back to our school Improvement plans is such a an upgrade for our district is such a just I just want to say like a boss move like it it frankly when we were looking at school Improvement plans before it was just a shot in the dark and now to see this come full circle in the last two years is truly remarkable to me like I I actually have Goosebumps um because now it's all starting to make sense whereas before it was all this Spirit information it was like yeah it sounds good let's throw that against the wall but I just really want to give kudos to your team because to see this come full circle back to the student School Improvement plans and honestly I felt like a fraud sitting there approving them because I'm like yeah sure great you know but now the depth and the levels of which we are seeing the collaboration and the uh across the district and um the analysis of the data that we do have is is just really remarkable and I want to say one other thing and I don't know if um Dr Mario meant this but I loved the idea of collective aacy with vertical articulation meaning starting at the elementary schools and building on those those um skills that we need for our students I think you could really I think the levels could inform each other I think the high school could inform the junior high could inform Elementary so I don't know if that's what you meant but I really love that idea of putting those two things together so um just really Kudos obviously I obvious have can reiterate everything everybody here says but until we know what we're measuring we can't we can't start anywhere and the Baseline is where we start so um just really excited and proud of all the work here yes um Dr k k can you speak a little bit to the the impact of the direct of research and accountability in terms of the data absolutely as um Dr Waller mentioned there's been very intentional work not only through her department but also the schools Department in collaboration with both diverse Learners and uh learning Innovation about the review of the school Improvement the collaboration between district and school administrators um and then also as Dr katti mentioned our director of assessment accountability we're also entering a uh vendor review to provide a data warehouse and visualization um across the district so we've used we've taken steps over the last few years but we're at the point where we want to do a deeper dive and have more availability and accountability so we are um have started that process in December and are continuing uh that review and we'll hopefully have a recommendation for all of you in the next month or two I just power collaboration is pretty impressive I just wanted to add that this is an amazing job that you guys are doing and from a students's perspective I'm not even going to lie to you guys like being a student board member just gives you such a bird's eye view of what really goes into classroom work and all those different stuff and seeing self advocacy is that how you pronounce it advocacy seeing self advoc advocacy being at only 47% it just I don't know it makes me so sad that students can really walk into a classroom and truly believe that they cannot accomplish something like that just I don't know it's just it hurts me almost like I feel like if students were able to understand that the goals that they want to reach are achievable and that they can do it that also build such a great student and teacher relationship and I feel like because that self- advocacy is so low and they don't believe that they can do what the teacher either giving them or the tasks that are at hand that they don't even feel like okay let me build this relationship with my teacher let me have that trusted adult that I can go to because I myself don't believe in it so when you allow students to believe in themselves first then they can believe in what they're doing they can believe in that adult and I just think that it's just so I don't know so outrageous to me to see only 47% of students are like yes I can do it and that rest of the percentage are like I'm doubting myself and I don't think that should ever happen I feel like it's a conversation that needs to take place in the classroom I feel like all teachers should be able to see this and understand that hey half maybe some of half of your students that are walking this classroom don't believe that what you're about to give them that they can do it whether it's a test a homework assignment like they need to believe in themselves first and put themselves first so that they can have that person that they can run to that trusted adult that person for them I just that's just my only comment on this and I think you the two of you and your team behind you are at the Forefront of this I think what you're doing with the teacher student relationship is groundbreaking and I think that you advocating for this is actually going to be incredibly powerful um both previous comments are reminding me of like how cool to have this data like if I'm the high school principal I can look back and see my eighth grade class coming in and kind of figure out okay what what's this going to be like I have some data to help develop support so that ver articulation is well pointed out some additional data that we've looked at is five Essentials um and some of the most um struggling data is actually students seeing the connection of what they're doing in their classes to their future Beyond school and that's something that in conjunction with the work um of oural and our academic data that we're trying to kind of triangulate through the work of our College and Career Readiness so so not only looking at oural data but other data that we have available also as what's driving some of the um uh Pathways for change we've seen both principles in our student advisory groups really like just attack that data it's it's really cool to hear them and see them talk about it and how far they've drilled down and desegregated it and resegregated it and all that it is it's pretty impressive um to hear them talk about that and inform what's going on behind the scenes it's it's pretty it's very powerful this is the culture we've been trying to build is there um demographic data as well yes there is okay okay all right thank you thank thank you team and uh thank you board for your feedback and uh yes thank you very much do we have any public okay so we're moving on to 6.1 public comment oh boy we got a lot going on on behalf of the Board of Education I would like to thank the public for attending tonight's meeting we value the feedback we received from our members of the public and encourage enourage everyone to take an active interest in their Public School System res residents interested in speaking to the Board of Education this evening are asked to have completed a comment card and presented it to the secretary to the board when the secretary calls your name I ask that you come to the microphone state your name for the public record and provide your feedback please note that comments are limited to 5 minutes per person and no response to your questions are permitted comments should be addressed to the Board of Education will not I'm sorry the board of education will not address concerns against individual employees rather a complaint against an employee must be in writing and signed by the person who makes it and the Board of Education will refer any such complaint for appropriate review followup to your questions or concerns will be addressed by Administration through the contact information provided on the comment card Heen hello my name is Katie heyen a local member in the community and engaged in active parent in sd308 um I wanted to thank you for the warm welcome the last last two weeks from admin staff Educators and community members that's been truly enlightening uh I think tonight has been a really great discussion of what we talked about with student advocacy College and Career Readiness but we're missing something we're missing a whole another different path of Education different forms of path of Education from licensing exams and certific ation courses I think a lot of students can kind of get lost when it comes to student advocacy and feeling that success crossing over into the workforce because we're forgetting about those other paths for students how are we going to bridge those gaps when it comes to the workforce I personally know that when it comes to doing different Paths of Education if you're not sponsored by a ba or an employer students then have to take what is called an intellectual aptitude test and we when we have our Department of Education developing IEPs 504s and ohis for our students who is connecting that information to our union halls to our other forms of education and to the Department of Labor if the Department of Labor is setting up specific guidelines when you think about a real estate exam it's time there's a guidelines for insurance exams and the same goes for other Industries so if we really want to think about college readiness and success for students and advocacy we also need to be marketing those other paths so by saying College and Career Readiness we're already eliminating a whole group of students and when we highlight which I thought it was amazing tonight we had athletes in here we had artists in here and we were celebrating them for their achievements but we also need to be talking to these athletes artists musicians people who are in kinary and expressing to them about different forms of Education they could be a part of historical preservation projects you know within the city or within their local communities some of the tools that they use in these very classrooms go beyond and go into the workforce so I just ask that you consider to start marketing to the students a little bit differently than what we do with just the traditional path in the classroom and that we also think about moving forward how can we help bridge that Gap from education to the workforce can we start having those conversations with our unions now beyond the union um for educators your plumbers and pipe fitters your electricians your masonry unions you know go beyond to that start connecting with your baas and your representatives um and then I just wanted to give you some food for thought I know you guys may know me as the tri lady in our community because we talk about our trials and education efforts uh for our family this has been our symbol for three centuries of building tradition okay when one of our children graduates this year he'll be an eighth generational Mason but with all that strong history comes generations of struggles in education and for what feels like a traditional classroom that hasn't changed for decades and I think that's where we're really starting to lose some of our students and if we could Bridge those gaps I think we could tackle College remediation rates engagement in the classroom and success in the workforce thank you so much and I am Katie Heiden your number one choice on the ballot come April 1 hello thank you Tony GES hi I'd just like to my name is Tony Charles I just just like to first thank you for all the hard work that you do um to make us we to make School District 308 a great place to live learn and teach we really appreciate it um I just have um a couple thoughts for you um as you receive your uh calendar later on this evening I'm a member of the calendar committee um and so we've been looking at things and um I think there's a concern about when we start school that there's a lack of consistency um I look at schools around us school districts around us and uh sometimes people are talking about you know they're concerned with the end date but there's no consistency with the beginning date and so I looked at the school districts around us um and either all these districts either this year and or next year end after Memorial Day um to the West Yorkville 115 to the south of us planfield 202 uh to the east Indian Prairie 204 they end June 3rd nville 203 hensdale 86 to the north of us West aora 29 and East Aurora 131 they in June 2nd so a lot of school districts do end after Memorial Day um but I think we need consistency in when we start our day um so I think the real question comes is is the end of the school date about the education or the vacation U the survey that was given to teachers um asked about you know what is your preference with ending before after Memorial Day um and how important is that 46.7% % said that it's it is important to end before Memorial day but 53.57% said it's not important to them if we end before Memorial Day or not uh there's other factors I know uh to to take into consideration um one of which is a cost value as well um I know that in August it's always hot in May it's in May and June it's always going to be cooler um we have 20 plus buildings just elementary junior high and High School we have 20 of those um and I know we keep those at a comfortable level um during the summer and the first part of August as well but when you start adding hundreds and thousands of 98.7 degree bodies then there's a bigger tax on the um air conditioning system so I think that's one factor um I agree that graduation date is is highly important um but I think if we start an end days cause there to be an uneven um distribution of days per semester I know that was kind of one concern but this really only mainly affects High School teachers who teach semester classes um and I've been teaching in this district for 20 years I teach mostly all semester classes at the high school um I have I feel I have a diverse teaching style and practices um so the uneven school day uneven semesters has affected me every single year and we adapt you know there's many things that are going to go on that are going to cause uh us to need to adapt there's things like um seniors that'll be leaving early there's people who are testing for AP classes that are coming and going and so you adapt and you work and do the best that you can there so it's not something that you can't overcome um another concern is family vacations uh Memorial Day is a nice 3-day weekend but most family vacations are taken and finished up into August um not Memorial Day uh this is probably because there's a higher percentage of hotter weather and lack of rain at that time so I feel that we really need to be consistent in starting our school year with the third week of August and then it can end when it ends one of the other concerns is Thanksgiving um teachers were asked uh the importance of having Thanksgiving week off on the Monday and Tuesday being in school the importance was 45.7 six% whereas for having the Monday Tuesday off 54.2 four said they'd like to have that Monday Tuesday off um the your schedules that are going to be proposed to you today do half of what the teachers want for Thanksgiving and do none of what the teachers want for the start and end of the school year so I I have concerns and questions about that um so why another question is why is there a sip day on the Monday of Thanksgiving week um last year the calendar committee was told Thanksgiving week we want to have it off because it' be a nice fall break but we that was dismissed by the calendar committee because we said in another couple weeks we have two weeks off for a winter break um so students get the week off teachers have a sip day and then there's a rumor about that being an asynchronous day but that's confusing as well so that doesn't help teachers the only rationale that I Was Heard and given was that Thanksgiving week off other districts are doing it so so should we but isn't that the exact thing that we tell our children not to do and isn't that line of thinking the exact opposite of teaching our students to be independent thinkers I thank you for your time and consideration on these two ideas regarding the calendar and once again thank you for all your time and work you do thank you thank you that it that's it okay all right now we're moving on to 7.1 superintendent report I'd like to ask Dr katti to give us his superintendent report good evening board it's been such a rich evening already um I want to just take a few minutes to bring some highlights to you all um uh hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season board and uh had some time for rest and celebration with your families um we are ready for the second half of the school year I call it um time for us yes clap away uh time for us to integrate all the strong Foundation we've set in the first part of the school year um one of the things that's been a highlight is over the past several weeks I want to thank our leadership team um uh to and our staff uh for really rallying to really bring in the voices of our community um Educators uh parents uh community members Advocates uh to really think about the hopes and the experiences and the ideas for a brighter future um ultimately a strategic planning process is about figuring out what the best way is to make a plan that can come to reality and your voices have mattered through surveys discussions and polls we've received thousands thousands literally of feedback points from leaders in general Community from students alumni parents staff um business folks and just general parents or commun members who are um listening uh this feedback is shaping the next uh stage in our strategic plan and will help us and really realizing and actualizing a plan that can can make a difference and what I've shared with the team and what I will share publicly is that our goal is to really put pen to paper on a plan that will be something we can achieve and uh and and make do and make work and not something that's just uh the the moonshot although there's always room for the moonshot right but we've got to make a plan that can really stick um our students are counting on that and uh next meeting we'll have updates and some some of the trends for the board around the feedback we've received um and what the data has told us along with a draft draft version coming in February and with a recommendation formal recommendation uh for approval at the end of February and approval by the board or feedback from the board in March um related to this the work is continuing and so um I want to our and and this happens in a number of different ways and so our diverse Learners department has been working um to really think about the way we are thinking about our support for our multilingual Learners and special education programs for both of those programs and a task force uh has been developed for both of these programs and has brought together Educators and um our staff and our team to think about how we are developing these programs and so we are really looking at they're in a second phase of addressing the types of programs we have in our district um what are the kinds of services that we are we have in our district to best serve um the um get um the needs of our students best met and um we recognize that this is a long-term process but it has to get started you know we have programs uh we had a alignment around our program review our types of programs and I want to thank our Union partners for joining us in that effort um not last um and not least but I want to highlight uh a message I sent out last week regarding the power school breach um that was the very uh shocking and disappointed to hear about uh Power School is a online tool that we use and we know that this is a unfortunately a trend and it hit us um Power School is an external provider that we use to house our information um this this breach impacted thousands of districts Across the Nation and they brought that information to us and so the information again that um was breached may have included contact information for students staff and parents um our records as a good news if there is one in this did not include Social Security numbers or any kind of medical information we don't collect those Social Security numbers and so I think it's a highlight of like being Discerning of we have been as a district about the kind of data so there's a little bit of a silver lining there um we want to take uh this moment to really restate that we are tracking what we can around this situation and as we learn more information we will be telling the public and ourselves and our community about what's happened and what is available to us um to ensure that we are doing the best to to ensure that there are layers of security um and data remains safeguarded um last I want to also talk about um Dr King's holidays coming up it's a really important time to celebrate the legacy of Dr Martin Luther King Jr um we are reminded of his his mission and you know I I will say that many of us sometimes well I will say I'll speak for myself I have often wondered what it would have been like to stand with him to walk with him to walk behind behind him to follow his leadership to be alive during that period And I want to invite us to really reflect that the legacy of and the mission for justice that he called for is one that we can realize today we can walk with him in the way in which we commit we commit ourselves to act with Justice to act with truthfulness to act with courage to bring forward the core values that we have in our district that is what he championed and his belief was so profoundly strong that made he he was part of such a movement and I would argue that the movement we have in our district is to Champion these kinds of changes for our students and we have to keep going and keep doing this work um there are activities in our schools being planned I'm excited to hear about those there are moments there are reflections service opportunities this is a great time to to reflect on his it's not a day off it's a day of service is what I tell people about Dr King's holiday and anything we can do to reflect on that is a great thing for our students in our history on a somber notee I just want to acknowledge formerly the devastation experienced in California um in the Southern California area I think it's important uh We join in mourning the lives of those lost who th those who've lost their lives their homes it's hit me personally I have friends who've lost a friend who lost his home um and uh has three children in in that area and so it's it's a very hard thing and we want to also be we're grateful for our our First Responders who are risking their lives and going in there to help all these um folks who are in this time of great loss and challenge so our thoughts and our prayers and and I loved um our robotics team put a shout out on social media inviting action and saying to hey any robotics teams in California let us know how we can help and I thought that was such a great example of the steps we can take and also a great example for that robotics team for their focus on their priv prity so um and with that I want to turn over to the board for additional comments that we have we want to make collectively this Saturday the asigo Wolves hosted the asigo Panthers for the boys and girls cross town challenge basketball games congratulations to our sgo East boys and girls basketball teams for both completing a program sweep all right the team from asigo East has advanced in the 2020 2425 International public policy forum debate competition making them one of 32 teams to remain in the contest this International Tournament started off with 280 teams congratulations and best of luck for the next round and the next round I'm excited about this one so uh ASO e senior Cooper Carlile was cast in the Illinois High School All State musical the prom um I happen to have a senior in my house hold who was uh there to witness and watch and said could not stop laughing it was definitely the best uh of the Productions that they had down there in Champagne um even had another um student um in in my school who was also in the performance so uh shout out to say the least Cooper had the honor of Performing uh at the 49th annual Illinois High School uh theater Festival this past week it was uh great for all uh all students uh who went down uh and so congratulations Cooper and uh all those students who got the experience uh going down there yes congrats uh recently gifted education math students at Churchill and Homestead Elementary School celebrated the national hour of code uh two guests from festo Corporation visited class sharing their experience with math coding and Engineering in their careers students learned how coding is used with robots for the manufacturing and production of certain items students also got to see how code can fly a drone Robby Wilson ofo High School took third place in the Illinois high school art exhibition art Throwdown 25 pieces were submitted and over 1,000 votes were cast in this competition also thank you to Maurice stake and Dan Whipple two of our teachers for mentoring and supporting Robbie congratulations Robbie before winter break the berari Murphy and thomps some Junior High School bands hosted their first ever composer residency Laura Estes eses a composer and retired teacher from Georgia spent two days with the students from these schools each band played one of her pieces and received feedback from her students also got to learn about M Miss esd's inspiration and creative process so before I read mine I just want to add that uh you talked about the um basketball cross town challenge there's actually a wrestling on this Thursday at East so be there I will uh we received great feedback from families and other community members that will guide us as we develop our strategic plan we will continue the conversation surrounding our strategic Journey with a few remaining focus groups meeting virtually this week and next on special education gifted education and multilingual Learners please visit our website to sign up there's also a community service available if you haven't filled it out already on our website collecting input and ideas we do encourage you to participate and again this is one of those few opportunities where um you know the the the Slate is clean we want this to reflect the community as a whole and we can only do that if everybody participates so please do so thank you now we'll have our student board member reports hello so as many as you know our district is developing a a strategic plan and through this process emphasizing the importance of incorporating all perspectives to ensure is cohesive and Innovative our goal is in the planning process is to establish a roadmap for future successes as we transition out of the current phase we are now focusing on specific ideas and have watched Dr Dr K gu video introducing our strategic plan and at our last ssac meeting we discussed staff wellness and how teachers uplift one another through collaboration and support additionally we explored social emotional learning for adults furthermore we reviewed our youth participation action research or yarm initiative which aims to drive an Implement change we in the process of analyzing credible research articles that will help us determine next steps to better student teacher relationships so what's been really insightful about this experience is being able to learn more about our schools Improvement plan and it's focus on one trusted adult as a committee we have defined one trusted adult as someone who oh we worked very hard this took lots of time lot of nitpicking so for us to come down to this it took it took a while so Grand reveal drum roll please so someone who genuinely invests in students growth and well-being establishing a foundation of of mutual respect this adult actively seeks to connect with students by making themselves relatable and approachable ensuring that students feel valued and accepted they communicate high expectations for achievement and behavior offering guidance and accountability while maintaining a supportive non-judgmental environment that allows students to learn from their mistakes this person listens deeply follows up and follows through and offers helpful advice above all they advocate for their students are unwavering in their support and strive to be a reliable presence students can count on dedicated to fostering each student's learning and success Bravo Now that's how you improve student efficacy that is beautiful oh I also want to take some time to thank uh Mr B and Miss PRI which she's not here but they helped and contributed a lot to this beautiful now we have a trusted adult definition so very good bravo bravo a I love it very good all right 7.3 board committee reports equity and learning and Innovation who would like to start um at uh our committee meeting we saw the two presentations that were uh presented tonight and we were able to give impact or I'm sorry give feedback and um U have some discussions um and then those were on the novel recommendations as well as um the data Pro uh provided uh from uh the Panorama um uh assessment as well so um and then we also were able to give uh some have some discussion about some questions uh around our strategic plan uh so that's a quick summary thank you thank you you're welcome anyone else okay finance and Facilities would you like to speak on finance and Facilities take Mr I didn't summarize this um yeah we basically we went through the Strategic plan um academic academic Wellness safety um and self-directed learning uh as well as Master facility Plan update which I think you went through a little bit earlier um one not it's coming up look to the end you know we talked about um just our you know our thoughts it was it was kind of a similar to probably the exercise that you went through um talked about continuing to push for support of math and reading as you know obviously um for all students as well as early educ introduction of second language acquisition uh social emotional Wellness early and often uh suggested to introduce life skills courses like consumer ad coding digital literacy mental health investing finances Etc to better prepare our students for the future uh Beyond High School um we also we did talk about uh um career assistance you know um as something that we should look into um safety we did a you know quite a been on facility safety as well and then we talked about you know freedom from bullying um and being safe in the classroom having a trusted adult stuff like that so there's more in the report here I just don't want to read the whole thing that's perfectly fine thank you all right 7.4 board member comments any board member comments sure oh I got quite a few all right well um go ahead so uh you mentioned um MLK uh Martin Luther King Jr day and one of the things that I always um like to bring up is uh not alone and and the origin if you will of um of the American aspect of the nonviolence movement and so every MLK Day always remind us of byard Rustin right and so some of those other individuals that were are also involved that maybe we don't hear as much about right uh to your point about California I also wanted to weigh in um I just have seen some disturbing things out there and I just want to remind us that we can care about everybody um it's not an either or proposition um it's a little disturbing to to read some of the comments um you you can absolutely care about people in North Carolina and California at the same time uh I guess maybe that's good news for some out there um we also had the opportunity today to today to talk to Senator resen um about number of initiatives which I'm pretty excited about and there's definitely connections into many of the conversations we had in regards to um cell phone policies uh that districts are and cell phone issues that districts are facing um as well as uh The Vaping problem uh as well and um you know um we we many of us shared some of our our stories and we got to also listen to some things that are going on in Yorkville and Yorkville is doing something similar to what going on in my district um and it was interesting that some of the people that are pushing back the most are actually parents um and you know the issue that came up was safety for kids and um you know I I reiter reiterated one of the stories that comes out of our school uh and why we had to address this is we literally had students who unfortunately were texting each other and finding ways to to to to meet up in bathrooms and unfortunately there were times where where vaping was an issue and we had other students who did not feel safe using those facilities so it's a very layered and complex piece um and you can correct me where I'm wrong uh Dr katti but I don't think uh Senator resen is looking for some Statewide Universal piece but definitely looking for ways in which districts can be uh protected and and assisted with some of those policy pieces when it came to the vaping aspect that was there were definitely some eye openening things I I don't know if you felt the same way that I was not aware of and how um speaking of uh technology how we have companies out there that are targeting our young people uh specifically no using using AI while they're at school um and specifically for vaping and so um the the Health crisis that could evolve from some of those pieces as well was discussed and and um um I I applaud her for approaching us and uh I'm not going to say anything more but we may have some future opportunities to to make sure that we're talking to both sides of the aisle and multiple school districts to try and uh be a part of a Solutions so that our young people are healthy so yes that's all I have abely thank you you thank for joining um I attended a couple of the focus groups uh for special education as well as English Learners and the only reason I'm mentioning that is because it uh it was definitely an opportunity for the public to um give their perspectives there were definitely uh um you know more aha moments um uh you're not thinking about act and made with good points so these focus groups are are way to kind of uh drudge that up so please attend if you can anybody out there in the community listening today um or in the papers so than I just wanted to share that um the board we have we get a journal that comes in the mail to us from the Illinois School Board Association and I was particularly proud of um seeing a good portion of it um was a reflection on the the um what did we just go to Triple oh triple I triple I um and uh there's quite a few articles in it this month about uh student board represent represent ation and bringing students to the uh board table and I just wanted to say that um I did participate in a few sessions where um Lori Grant who is doing amazing work around this did not know I was there necessarily know I was there and wasn't saying it because I was there but really um used and highlighted as Wego and the work that we've done around student representation and I just wanted to say how proud I I was that I was able to hear that and um um have had so many different board members reach out um over the time um and ask for our phone numbers and I've constantly given them Dr Waller's number and what does it look like and how does it work and um sent people to our website to see our YouTube and see how our students advocate for themselves but I'm just really proud and grateful to see it and Lori continues to um say uh wonderful things and Advocate based on what asigo and Lockport has done so I just wanted to bring attention to that thank you board members for your comments and we'll move on to 8.1 our consent agenda can I have a motion to approve the consent agenda please make a motion to approve all items under consent including 8.1 minutes from the Board of Education meeting on December 9th 2024 open and close session 8.2 to acknowledge the foyer request received by the district and 8.3 to approve the field trips for overnight and or over 200 miles second are there any questions on the consent agenda just I I have one comment um you know I listen um foyers are foyers and and they're open to the public and that's fine I I I would just say hey if you you love our community and you want the information um stick around right um um don't don't don't leave and then decide you're going to to to be here right I mean we we're we're very welcoming Community stay here if you want to file foyers and and you care about school district it's awesome um be be in the state um be here and and you know like we we welcome all people I I don't understand the concept though of um having us from other states yeah I don't I don't understand the concept of us paying for for if I like that people are concerned and that's good that they're you know but we're all still fitting the bills for those and be great to stick around stick around next time if you want those right Foya is not free in other words it's not free and and I'm that's that you know um and I know that's going to get comments and that's fine I don't care uh I I mean at this point uh you know why not so Jared sometimes it's easier to look in somebody else's backyard than your own yeah I mean Hey listen um I I don't you know whatever people want to say I I like Illinois like honestly I i' I've been to 48 states and and and I'm not saying Illinois doesn't have a host of problems we do um and I and I get that um don't don't add to them I guess you know stick around be part of the solution I I don't I I love Illinois not fond of the winners but um with that being said my comment about this is that we I know that uh Dr katti you and your Administration um as the board requested are working on some just like policy and um more of not I'm sorry excuse me not policy but more of procedure and just um parim parameters around foas and how we share foas how long we share foas and that kind of stuff can you just give us an update on when we might review that stuff in public thank you you know December no no problem December was such a uh intense closed month so we have been working on so this is what I can say um we are we are not far off and I'm reviewing some of those procedures I like it to actually go to the policy committee so my recommendation would be before it came to the full board if it's okay I'd like to bring that those recommendations to policy committee for review regarding some of our practices we are doing there first of all just for anybody listening there is no plan to limit or reduce um people's access to their foyer rights those are not governed by us and so there's no such agenda it's really more about some procedural uh Pro steps that we are looking into and I I would recommend so the answer to that will be then I'm guessing then we have February so let's say the last board meeting of February we'll give that we'll bring those updates to the full board I just wanted to share that we had had some board discussions around it Freedom of Information is Freedom of Information no one's questioning that but there are ways in which public bodies have practice around how foas work and stuff there is one person that works on this and it takes an incredible amount of Manpower and so we just wanted to understand and make sure that we are consistent in our practices so uh I know that we had talked about that and I just wanted to make sure that we uh didn't forget about that and and I just want to reiterate like compared to some other school districts I can tell you we are far more transparent than they are and so I mean if if whatever listen I'm not saying there aren't criticisms out there but if that's one of them if you don't think school district is transparent with their foas challenge you 100% would love to show you some examples out there in fact I hey advertise those examples I would love that CU I can show you some and if you want to bring them to light I'll help you out I'll hold the door right open for you but um that's not one of the pieces and we have to understand though as a community there's a cost bless you there's a cost to being that trans parent which is we encourage it and and we do right um like I said just be around here and be part of the solution ready Mr Gatewood hi Dr Mario hi Miss Johnson hi Mr Cerone hi Miss similon hi Mr pler hi Miss vmou hi motion passes 7 zero okay uh first up we want to invite Dr zmy to speak speak to an update regarding the 2526 and 2627 school year calendar I know that I met with uh Union presidents uh co-presidents of faith scobby and Andrew godal regarding this and so I I will say that um I know it's been a very involved and collaborative effort and so I want to now turn over to Dr zmy well good evening board always a popular topic this time of the year to talk about when school is going to begin uh we are going to be bringing to you tonight for information a shared 2-year academic calendar encompassing 2526 and 2627 um I'd like to thank on our committee um Andrew God health and Faith scobby um with oea and the the the committee it's really a part of our collective bargaining agreement um we also sought out additional um uh information this year from other local associations um as well um as well as our secretaries in our building I'd also like to thank Dr Paul for co- facilitating and Dr cancade for attending as well too um it is always challenging to come up with a a calendar uh to fit everybody's needs but it's always collaborative and fits into our core values so in uh attached for you for 2526 is a proposal within our state guidelines and recommendations a few of the highlights in the memo that I'd like to bring your attention to is just that local comparison review um taking an opportunity to review other uh school districts uh especially those where uh many of our employees also um send their own children to had a chance to look at that with uh other HR directors uh beginning of the school year for 2526 would be August 11th 2627 would be uh August 17 those are the Institute days the first days for students or a couple days after uh professional development opportunities were also taken into account um a Thanksgiving week schedule uh break for students um and then a desire for additional School Improvement half days um under the guidance of our assistant superintendent of learning and Innovation and deput of schools uh they plan to request approval from the state for two additional half dayss perhaps um for more professional development I think we heard uh the desire for that a little bit more uh the next steps for the board is um to consider action on these proposed calendars uh we're requesting at at the January 27th uh meeting uh but certainly we encourage all stakeholders to review the attached proposals and provide any feedback prior to this date um I certainly would love to hear from our students as well too at the start time and uh end time of the school year and look forward to any discussion from our board that we can bring back to any stakeholders at this time thank you I do have a few things yes sir all right so let me start with um um I love the part portions I'll say portions um because I think we all end up arguing about calendars too but I do think we need to um really start paying attention to what's going on with our our climate and and and the Summers because if we start to start if we start to experience these Heat days more and more in August I do think we need to at least at the very least start having the conversation around that piece so that's number one um number two uh I'm always like cautious yes we should compare to other districts but we need to make sure we always look at the holistic um conversation so like if you bring in 204 I can tell you for a fact well 204 they the kids have the week off but the teachers are in conferences for that Monday and so like it's a long day it's a long arduous day and and I know for in 204 the last day of school is actually the Monday after Memorial Day and it's a teacher work day not exactly the most popular thing to do there as well so I you know I I'm like I deal with this in my own School District where where teachers will look at certain things from other districts it's it's important to look at the entire thing and I think there are AP teachers who want as much instruction time before those AP tests and and I totally get it the the one question I have when I looked at this um other than I thought there were some really good points brought in uh public comment especially centered around the August piece is there can you explain and may Hey listen maybe you had this conversation I'm looking at it from the wrong lens the 23rd and the 24th of October is there a reason why you didn't do that on the 30th and the 31st instead I I just like I don't know as a teacher hey if I can uh yes avoid a full day of Halloween I'm all about it um but I don't know maybe maybe I'm looking at this from the wrong lens I'm just asking like you know Dr Paul Dr King K do you recall that coming up it's an excellent point yeah it is an excellent point but I don't it didn't come up in the meeting this is an important part that this is a committee and and I think so I think some of the feedback tonight I would say that this should go back to committee sure for their review and and because it's brought for information and so the board's feedback is um going to be really helpful for the committee to review it and then we'll bring back next month those recommendations so thank you so much for raising that and just to say that the feedback tonight will be helpful for that committee to review it's a committee effort it's not the individual efforts so and and and I want to I'm talking about the individual public because what what the union president said to me is that it's literally if we're talking about the teachers opinions and we're talking about percentages that are very close we're not talking about a 6040 spread or whatever so I think it's really important to reflect on that and I think the more we can get that um feedback and I know that even last year I received comments from the board I mean from community members that said you know you should look at this District or that district and I said well we did and and you know with all the districts around there really there going to be so many oppos opposing some districts do it this way some do it that way and granted maybe Illinois should step and make it a Statewide calendar right but be careful what you ask for lot of other things so but well and I want to make sure I I reiterate that I I respect the committee and and and I absolutely but but I'm just I I looked at that and saw that and I to your point about talking to other areas I I hope part of that conversation can be hey let's really look at what's going on in August because that might not be and I think I think it's responsible from a truly a fiscal perspective I mean what it the the the the weight of whatever it might be on our systems and I mean like our HVAC systems and stuff like that our buses our drivers if we let's be honest I don't think it's getting cooler in the future and um I I I can just tell you from my community I hear a lot in my little neighborhood you know like every wants everybody wants to be at the pool through August because it's hot and so but in May it's still very chilly so you know just from a perspective of giving our kids a great summer is that something to look at but I also have a question in the past I mean we have such a great working relationship with the Union um in the past I used to kind of get some like Contraband information that somebody would pass along but I do know that they take these um surveys among their membership is it something that they're willing to share with the board so that we have I know it's been shared with maybe the calendar committee but I think having that information and I'm you're you're right 57 48 43 53 but I think having that information but also understanding the why behind it is very helpful for us to understand what we're approving I also just want to commend us on doing a two-year calendar it's um becoming quite um uh common for school district to do two-year calendars it really helps families prepare um and also if we could just have a little bit more I think understanding of like for J what Jared pointed out for those two days of why those days were picked um it would be very helpful because it is every year without doubt we approve the calendar and then we hear well did you know this day was this day and this day was that day and it's like okay well let's make sure we know that ahead of time the only other only other two comments that I have were were religious holidays review viewed so that we made sure that we didn't have anything and I would really love our student Advisory Board to have the opportunity to review the calendar and give actual um intentional feedback to the calendar committee so that we know that I you know parents are one thing but I would love kids I would love to know from our students what they feel about going back on August 15th versus like an August 29th or something how does that affect them um and their learning is it what do they feel like being in school when it's really really warm and hot and stuff like that so just having you know and I don't want to put the pressure on the two ladies up here but we have a whole you know student committee that could really give feedback into this I I was talking to Dr Waller earlier you know it's one thing to understand student advocacy um and student voice and it's another thing to actually be the the um Ally for that so we need to start making sure that we are getting their voices at the beginning of um these big um anything that comes to the board should include the student board so making sure that we're hearing from them prior to um having us approve anything they are the board just because their different age doesn't have anything to do with the fact if we do go with student voice one thing that I hope we think about are the students that have to work during the summer um especially like and listen I'm going to counter because there's the August piece and I agree with it on the flip side if you're a senior and you're ending the the quicker you can start working is going to be better off for what you're about to face so does that push us back into graduation and then them for college and stuff or I know a lot of students that travel during the summer because they're you know that's given as a gift or something like that but we need to hear from them you know so in in this community I would say that the the that may date is extremely important and it's a shift in culture that cannot be done very quick I would say that that that is a very important thing so do you mean ending in May the end date in May yes before memorial correct I think that is something that I in talking to folks when I got here um when I first entered the district so I think any attempt to shift that is not a quick shift it's it's it's it's going to take time I think these are important considerations but there are so many considerations and I don't want to lose track of some of the other considerations that are represented here a balance of semester one and semester to like a balance of all these other things like are you do families want to start later in August but does does that mean you know they have to go two more days over you know Christmas break is that palatable you know I'm not sure that I I don't know I don't think there are any easy answers um especi and I'm thinking about you know graduation and what that means for families if you go past certain times I believe we have we likely have graduation already scheduled several years out due to having to reserve an NIU right and so yes is that palatable to be letting you know having graduation for you know so there's just lots of cons considerations uh I don't know if we'll have a lot of so I want to keep those intact um as we talk about other you know things as well I do have two clarifying um things I want to clarify um in the Fridays in um the summer I'm just clarifying the district is closed but 12 administrators you all are working remotely is that the case on which states on in the Fridays in June Fridays in the summer it says district is closed I just want to clarify for the am I saying it right four 410 Dr marel the 410 what is that Monday through Thursday they're increasing their hours increase the hour four days a week for 10 hours a day and then they're closed oh I didn't know that I thought they were working you all were working remotely okay that's helpful um Dr Waller is suggesting you put that in The Ether for the summer and then uh my other question is just a clarifying question about the the the importance of the trimesters is that I see the trimesters indicated on the right hand side of the calendar is that that has to do with I think great um Elementary level assessment data is that right yeah okay just double check my understanding of that thank you and I think to your point though I think having like for instance in the memo that was provided to us all very important information but I think having the the a little bit more information of why they chose the dates they did to your point Dr Mario is a way for us to more defend you know the calendar when we're approving it is here's why we chose these dates here's why these dates are important here's the things that we can discuss and can't discuss but um you know one of the things that I just want to give a huge shout out to is um the Thanksgiving week and having some uh professional Improvement days in there such a huge move forward for us and I just think that it's better than having kids sit around doing a Thanksgiving Day you know puzzle or whatever for those days when they're already like checked out and letting teachers kind of unwind a little bit into the other work that they actually have to do so I just really appreciate that change from the calendar committee Dr could you ask for uh uh FAQ I think for some of these things let's put together FAQ from the committee of these points that are being raised that I think a Next Step would be helpful Dr Paul and Dr Z I'm concerned about how how many more committee meetings you would have to order to you know incorporate all these things this is an important feedback and this is why we have the information to action so we'll make sure that this comes prior to the board me of the board can review it so you're looking at January 27th yes yeah yeah we would not have to change the goal is not to change this schedule so well things can happen but no snow days all right Dr Mar I was gonna an fq was coming to my mind as well like a list of why are we doing this in in in Thanksgiving week why are we having a start date that's different in you know the second week versus third week of August things like that I think would help the board and the public understand as well to your point I completely agree like the the Thanksgiving week is nice but then are you willing not you but is the community or the calendar committee or teachers or unions you know they're willing to give that up to and to start earlier in August you know you have to have the day somewhere you know what I mean well and I know there's also been a lot of discussion about why start on Wednesday or Thursday I know we've vacillated between those two days so having that FAQ before we approve something I think just makes our decision a little bit more solidified and getting our students involved okay all right president okay thank you yep and next we have an operations um project update Mr oemi and Mr Queen good evening good evening good evening so wait before we go forward I just want to thank you for the lighting outside of the the boardroom it's like that yes wonderful to to have Clarity and see who's out there so I appreciate your we're going to continue with that to Dr K it all right so in this uh project update I wanted to provide you with an update on the projects that I'm developing for the summer work of this year um first and most importantly the Redevelopment of broka uh parking lot we have some safety concerns over there we need to address um and some parking issues so that is number number one on my list number two would be Grant Park in Murphy it's a resurfacing um this is just to peel it back and put it back so we got some new asphalt I got a couple areas I need to look at I got some water issues um that I want to develop and then Plank Road that's the road from the Waterworks building that leads all the way up to the entrance apron of os back parking lot next to the ball fields and the bus lane at here at uh East we lost there you go I could speak louder we have no no we need it for the record for the record got it all right so we we're hosting an RFP this Thursday at 71 Stone Hill at 8:45 following next Thursday we will hold our bid open where we will bring these contractors in open the bids that they provide for us and then after that we will follow up with FFC and then here for information moving on to approvals that's my project update for tonight okay thank you all right action item 10.1 approval of bills for payment can I have a motion please make a motion to authorize the payment of bills in the amount of 4,261 25839 as presented second Miss vmth hi Dr Maria hi Mr Cerone hi Miss Sim I Mr gwood hi M Johnson I Mr pler hi motion passes 70 action item 10.2 approval of board policies can I have a motion please make a motion to approve the following board policies section two School Board 2105 section 6 instructions 6 col 135 section 7 students 7 colon10 section 8 community relations 8 colon one0 second Miss vmou hi Mr Gatewood hi Miss Johnson hi Mr Cerone hi Miss similon I Dr marel I Mr pler hi motion passes 70 action item 10.3 approval of personnel report can I have a motion please make a motion to approve the Personnel report as presented second Mr gwood I Dr marel hi Miss Johnson hi Mr pler hi Miss Simon hi Mr Cerone hi Miss ven I motion passes 70 action item 11.1 can I have a motion to adjourn please make a motion to adjourn second all in favor I any opposed no

that's as Al to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for it stands one nation God indivisible withy and justice for all all right good evening everyone thanks for joining us on this geni first school board meeting at 2025 each school board meeting we like to revisit our mission vision and core values and just remind ourselves why we're here first uh vision is that bcse is the choice to learn work and play our mission is to develop expert Learners by partnering with our community to invest in people and our core values are that we all can rise to the challenge of high expectations that learning is most effective when we have Choice flexibility and see relevance that we Thrive when our physical social and psychological needs are met that our community and School District are stronger when we partner with one another that we flourish because of the diversity and variability in our community and last but certainly not least on this night swearing in our democracy and Democratic institutions are strengthened by Civic minded citizens well thank you Miss Wen as Dr Phillips noted tonight is a special night for us it is not only the first meeting of the year but it is the first meeting of this group of board members we have some folks who went through the election process in the fall and as part of taking office tonight we have to have you take your o of office so miss won Mr Blick and Miss Lloyd if you up in front we're going to go through the O's and have you take those I will read the oath if each of you raise your right hand do you solemnly swear that you will support the Constitution of the United States and the constitution of the state of Indiana and that you will Faithfully partially and D ly discharge the duties of the office of bartholomy Consolidated School Board according to law and to the best of your ability so help you got I to all right thank you congratulations to all of you I do have some forms that you have to sign and we will end up getting copies of these for you as well so I'm going to pass these down if you would sign and then pass them back to me and then at this point uh just for the benefit of the audience because this is the first uh first meeting of the year uh brief kind of summary uh Miss Welden as the ranking member from the prior board can call us to order this group will then elect a temporary chairperson who can lead us through the process of electing officers for the coming year and then that elected president for the group will take over and run the meeting in that point for you call the Mee we do have AUM so I'll call the meeting order believe I need a motion for a temporary chair I move that we appoint Nikki will as temporary chair I'll second all those in favor of myself serving as temporary chair please say I alos for a few okay because we are about to make a decision on future officer any public comments related to officer selection should take place now so I don't is making it way to don't know if there's anything Miss will since we have um votes on one specific item here depending the officers the selection of officers I prop that we take U public comment at this time specific to that one vote and then uh the regular portion of the agenda when we do the public comments folks signed up to speak um we will call for you at that point in time at this time since we have a vote pending ahead of us we're required to take by state law we're required to take public comment um before a vote occurs and so since we have this pending vote um at this time we would want to ask anyone in the audience who would like to uh submit a public comment come up and speak specific to the selection of the officer slate for calendar year 2025 at this time anyone from the audience feel free to come up to the podium and speak to the Slate of officers for 2025 okay thank you there will be reg the regular portion U later on the agenda when we have the folks who sign up speak um so I feel compelled to tell the audience that this is the meeting of all meetings okay we have a lot of um process to go through tonight um the process for us electing officers will move like this we will take nominations starting with President down to secretary so there's three officer positions are made we will vote every board member gets one vote of whatever slate of nominees is presented um majority rules and if we don't have majority on the first go ahead uh we'll continue to vote until we until we do so um at this point I believe we'll take nominations for school board pres Nom thank you we in for school board president like schs for school board president Nom all those in favor of um ni serving as BCS School Board please say I get one vote all in favor of school presid say I agree um next we will take nominations for school board vice president I would like to St as vice president I'll nominate Jason major for vice president any other nominations same as before you get one vote um all those in favor of Mr ands School Board vice president please say I I all there in favor of Jason maor School Board vice president please say hi for three Mr which our vice president do you conf m next is secretary any nominations yeah I'll nominate Tom I'd like to nominate Mr any other nominations all those in favor of Mr Tom School Board secretary please say I all those in favor of Mr secretary say congratulations so n president Rich vice president and Mr all secet before 2025 congratulations we're not going move seats congratulations yes we'll just I believe next on the agenda is United all right thank you members of the board um this is our annual um celebration of our longstanding relationship with United Way of bartholomy County every year in the fall both our students and our staff each do a campaign to raise money for one of the most important uh organizations in this community and we are proud of the fact that this year our um between our student campaign and our staff campaign that our uh we raised nearly $24,000 and I believe that we learned earlier today that the online contributions actually pushed higher is that right Mrs Christman that actually was the numbers from last year oh okay thank you so last year your numbers higher but we uh again you know we're proud that um we know that many of our families and bcsc as an organization benefits from the hard work that Sarah Davis and other folks at the United Way do for this community and so um this time we are excited to present this giant check to the United thank you very I would just like to say how thankful I am for the partnership that we have with bcse not just with the fundraising piece um but the student support line and all of the other things that we are able to partner with to help make um things happen for kids in our community um that would otherwise not have a resource to to make those things happens for them so we are super grateful for all of the Partnerships with the teachers and uh all of the staff that that support United Way and utilize us to help the kids that you're serving so thank you here we go this first first one of the Year scrunch we'll see how the height of the new board works out pictures yes you do good evening you know I didn't have to wait an hour and a half tonight this is awesome um each year in the month of January we're required to have a uh Board of Finance report to the board um this is a requirement from the state legislature we have three different pieces to this that we need to do we need to uh appoint our finance officers we need to discuss the investment policy that the school board has and then also talk about the distressed um unit appeals board or doab everyone's favorite uh phrase um as is typical for bcsc um we appoint the board president and board secretary to our Board of finances officer so congratulations mcole and Dale um I I know you're ready for this right looking at our investment policy we follow uh bcsc policy 6144 where we are able to invest uh School Corporation monies for up to two years or less in US treasury notes Bank CDs or in Money Market sweep accounts in 2024 um we had some of our um funding within the First Financial Bank with their money market sweep account uh for the first nine months of the year we had a a rate of 4.5% % the last 3 months it dropped to 4.25 but we were still able to receive a return of a little over $677,000 um new to bcsc this year we uh joined in the trust Indiana Investment Group um that's made up of municipal government facilities uh units throughout the state um we pull our money uh for the first nine months of the year we have an interest Return of 5.31% the last three months of the year did drop a little bit but maintained above 4.5% for the remainder of the year and in that we had a return of 2.6 million and finally uh within treasuries we invested our uh extracurricular activity reserves $950,000 of those dollars that annualized return of 4.3% which gave us a little over $38,000 for the year for the full year with those three investment areas that we used we had a return of 3.35 million which is a 10% growth over last year and if you look the eight preceding years that's more than double uh any year we'd had previously um of course interest rates across the board we all saw were great the last couple years and we were able benefit from that any questions on investments What's the total amount of invested principal I'll I'll look that up and get back with you and I'll get a to of you tomorrow morning and the final piece of our Board of Finance report is to discuss the distress unit appeals board uh the fiscal indicators um this was a legislation that took effect back in 2019 as a result of two separate Indiana communities that had school corporations that had serious Financial issues um they placed these uh doab indicators are at the website if you plug in doab into your Google it'll take you right to this site and will um show what the indicators are that gives them an idea of how School corporations are doing financially um unfortunately what's on the site lags a little bit um the majority of the numbers on there are from 2022 they have some 2023 numbers now loaded just in the last week but when I checked two weeks ago right after Christmas they still just had 2022 numbers so they do lag a little bit but that tells you about the complexity of school financing and how it is hard to get it all in one place and to gather it all together um but the board has very talented very well educated people in the finance field that um study these and can give a local education unit plenty of time to notice that there starting to slide into a distressed area they'll notify the board they'll work with the board to improve their financial standing and if we were ever in that case we would immediately report to the board if we had any situations like that um but as you can see from our investments we've had we are in very good shape and in the fourth quarter report that I'll give you at the next board meeting you'll see bcsc is in very good Financial standing any questions Dr bosan I think I said do have twice right thank you very much have any member reports I will start on any committees currently served that you met last meeting um yes I have an update with the council for Youth Development we met December 12th and um the big news there is that they are hoping to partner with the search Institute and three other cities Philadelphia San Antonio Texas and San Jose California on a three-year project called thriving in thriving cities thriving youth in thriving cities and the project will identify and Implement Community strategies to support opportunities for for Youth and identify and mob local leaders to help Implement and then we spent a good part of the meeting looking at local data and commenting on future strategies from that most of our future strategies were yeah the Hall of Fame committee met in December and selected it winner it is Carla she's a 40e educator Middle School um the social stud's chair um she's been involved in coordinating a lot of the DC trips for the past uh years and also several other extracurricular um activities and need that for the students so I just want to let everyone know that she has been selected and the re next it's okay uh I had a county Redevelopment meeting today um a couple of uh notable items there are two major facilities being built by The Interchange on 31 and and Highway 65 you see one starting to get walls um that's a Pickle Factory very exciting it's called it's part of an irresistible food group um conglomerate that is building several facilities here so they are due to open this 2025 150 jobs so this is very exciting bring money into the the community and then there's been a lot of press about Kings Hawaiian um you can see their concrete pad now so they don't have walls yet they're a little bit behind on the on the building project but they will open in 2026 another 150 jobs so um started seeing some some more work going on in that side of town um this this committee meets usually four to five times a year the next Mee until sometime in April so that will be the next meeting by April 15 add to that that the irresistible food group has um been very excited to partner with us as a district particularly the partner I elementary schools they reached out multiple times about they toured the building once and we be told them that we have a food c located inside of Taylorville Elementary they said taxville we can excited about that partnership Mr nothing Mr thank Mr nothing from past meetings this new I've got upcoming meetings heal trust for example is on Friday so okay cabinet reports M will before we jump into cabinet reports um I could just take a moment um to uh commiserate about snow um but more specifically uh just share some information uh and some Reflections on last week uh we had a little bit of everything last week and we had a teacher work day that turned into a virtual day we had a first day of school that turned into a snow day we had a second day of school that turned into a 2-hour delay and then we had a third day of school um that frankly uh we missed we swung and missed on Friday uh we you know we do the best that we can with the information that we have in front of us at the time um and the uh the decision not to cancel school on Friday um you know was frankly the wrong decision U there was ultimately my call we talk to lots of different folks uh we we C uh almost always talked to the city and the County Emergency Management our trans a department our operations Department U engage all of those folks in conversations about um you know what's the most likely situation what's the uh what's the um the best outcome for kids and for the district and uh but ultimately it's my at the end of the day someone has to make the decision and on early Friday morning um to make the decision to to go ahead and go to school we thought at the time I w't go into the details of it but um because of that I know that it put a lot of folks in a tough situation on Friday afternoon uh some some people I've talked to have said well it seemed you know it there's a lot of snow coming down but it didn't seem that bad and I said to some of those folks in the admin building you didn't hear the transportation radio if you would have heard the transportation radio you would have known how how bad it was so um of course I know we put you know our students and our families in a tough situation getting that day thankfully everyone arrived home safely um but we also put our bus drivers and our operations team in a really tough place on starting U you know Friday afternoon they were scrambling around not expecting snow to come down that quickly um so we had people exerting themselves physically on Friday afternoon trying to get that snow clear before the kids walked out of the building and then um you know well into the evening on a Friday evening we had our bus drivers and our transportation team out um you know both struggling to get kids home and then also struggling to get our buses back so um I want to take this opportunity to number one say thank you to those teams um who really uh did amazingly and got every single one of our kids home um unharmed and safely on Friday I also want to say thanks to those who contacted us directly I know some of you may be here tonight I didn't meet everyone before the meeting but I spoke to several of you on the phone and emailed to several of you um and every person you know heard back from us within 12 or 24 hours or so either via email or U via phone and had posit uh productive feedback from you and really good conversation so thanks to those who who reached out to us with their concerns on either Friday or all the way even through today um we also are grateful that we had three days of learning um but not at the expense of the safety of our students and staff I do want to point out there are a few things that we are doing as I reflected over the weekend and then had conversations with our leadership some of our leadership teams this morning um number one we're looking at our internal processes for examining all of the variables that are out there when you make a decision about whether or not it's safe for kids to come to school or not um the factor that was the biggest outlier for us um this year is that we've not had a situation where we had that much existing snow already on the ground now I don't know if that would have made a difference or not if it was no snow the snow was coming down pretty hard by Friday afternoon but um we already had 12 Ines of of snow on the ground prior to Friday afternoon um one of the other things that um we've always it was 2004 actually the spring of 2005 some of you may remember the last time this District had an early dismissal I think I Bale remember was up north of me um that was the last time we had had an early dismissal was an unexpected early dismissal looking out in the crowd that some of you were students at this time I think um uh it was an unexpected early dismissal due to flooding we had a lot of snow on the ground but then it rained on top of that and there snow melt and the county called us and said we're getting ready to close about half the streets in this community so you better get these kids on now and it took uh I want to say six or seven hours to get everybody home because it was unexpected one of the things that thank to Dr bman and actually of parents that I spoke to um an unexpected early dismissal is a bad thing and can be chaotic but we've had a uh a late uh arrival schedule in our place a two-hour delay schedule in place for years we've never had an early dismissal schedule in place and so we're going to work with our teams um first educationally but trans Transportation wise to build what a schedule would look like if we would have uh had that in place for Friday we certainly certainly would have considered let's just follow our early dismiss schedu go to school until noon at half in and then get the kids home so that's one of the things other things we're going to work on and then uh also there was a decision around canceling Eye Care that came very late in the afternoon that we're going to revisit that whole process because it it U disrupted um you know not only the situation but the staff as they were trying to figure out okay we have 20 minutes to get hold all these parents and figure out what to do with these students but then for parents we really put um parents of students that are in iare in a tough spot as they scram to figure out how to get to their students so those are just a handful of the page page and a half or so of items that we're working on um but I wanted to I know I know there's probably some folks here tonight that signed to speak um on this topic and please do so but I wanted to let you know that number one um we own the fact and I own the fact that it was a but a wrong decision on Friday and we're doing things to address to that well I was asked to just bring up two topics so one is maybe next year prior to Christmas kids take the Chromebooks home that way they're at least prepared in case the weather gets bad and um for some parents you mention uh early dismissal um but early decision is I think what a lot of the parents I've heard from really look for especially ones that have work that may not get cancelled even though school does so it it puts an extra burden on them to take a vacation day to take a lost day point or something so they really want to make sure that whatever you come up with um from an improvement that we can get the decision out efficiently effectively and quicker so that they can play in on what they what they do and how they manage their time with their kids in case kids have to get picked up or watched during the time they have to work let me speak to that just really briefly um the two things that we want to be sure and do is one we want to go to school for Camp um and so there's often times where we're waiting to see what the conditions are going to be at 5:00 because we're relying on a forecast frankly sometimes is incorrect and so we're waiting on that and the and so we're going to assume we're going to go to school until that happens now on uh Tuesday or Monday and Tuesday there was no indication whatsoever that the conditions were going to be meaningfully different between 9:00 the night before and 5:00 the next morning those conditions were bad so those were relatively easy to make that decision and put that information out by 9:00 often times though when it's a situation where it may warm up and turn to rain or it may turn to ice we're waiting to see what that'll look like the second thing that we want to avoid is making two different decisions and have families have to react twice so we never want to do a delay and then change that to a cancellation because we say delay and folks make PLS they say okay I got to figure out how to have somebody you know watch my child until 9:00 or whatever the time is and then if we change that to a cancellation we know that's incredbly disrup so those are the two things that as we think about the timing of of those announcements I know folks would like for us to sayable just say you're going to delay but we don't want to do that to then change it so we do like to make sure we uh make one call and make that would be too disruptive though to be able to say hey here's the game plan we're going to go with a two-hour delay with the potential of maybe cancellation that way parents can be planning and teachers and staff as well can plan ahead uh I to me knowing that there's a game plan and there's a stair step possibility there that's not as disruptive it's just a two hour away in the last minute cancellation um CU a lot of my feedback was why was there nothing communicated at all period and kind of what Jason put out but I don't know I think communicating the plan showing intent is way better than no communication and living and dying on the subance what was that last thing again last thing so showing intent and communicating a game plan even if it is going to change that communication is there and we as a community Corporation superintendent so on so forth if we're going to just live and die on assumptions there's going to be mass chaos so if we at least communicate a plan there and show that there's a intent to with the plan we can develop some plans at home as well I I think let me just make sure I understand what you're saying that when folks don't hear anything they're making assumptions and so by saying something and sharing what the plan is then folks can act based on that plan as oppos to assumptions is that right when you said on assumptions so people no idea what's going on and like you said we we are making the assumption that we're going to school so at least communicate a plan that we're going to go to school whether it be the decision The Cut Off plan is at 5 or six whichever it may be or hey we're going to go with a 2our la with the potential of closing school so just communicate prior to like we are the only school corporation in the area did not that did not communicate the plan even was our intent is to go to school that communicates to the community that there is a decision made that's what everybody's request because we're on the topic I was actually going to say for the end but one question I got and I got from several parents is were a county so County the city roads are off there my road unfortunately lives right on the city limit so the city doesn't claim it neither does the county apparently um so we got our first plow on Saturday um when a parent deems that their child is unable to get to school the standing order has always been that's an excused absence and I'm getting a lot of conflicted feedback across the district so I think that's one thing we need to make sure we clarify with the public because pars it's not safe for M get to the bus stop I mean at that point I don't know penalizing the child parent at that moment makes the most sense so that was one thing that I got feedback from i' say at least for us the having experienced absence situation and just uh just to be clear and I'll say it here and that's on YouTube so go back and record it put that there so if a if a parent keeps their child home because of U WEA or inability to get out of uh their driveway or down the street because of WEA as long as that student doesn't have a chronic treny issue um and they already AC you know in that 168 absence time frame it will be an excused absence the one thing that I do want to make sure is that we have all these technical terms as Mr rer shared earlier in the language in the world of Education that does not mean a non absence it doesn't mean that the student is counted present it just means that it's an excuse absence there's no punishment and the student can make up any work that's missed on that day is that right Miss is our Dr hack is that accurate description that is correct and thank you again for letting us go on that rant there share the work that we've been doing to get that to ensure that's communicated well is that in handbooks or is that in policy I I have to go back and look at the weather specifically the weather related one because the state has changed the codes around so much we take a look that might be good even if it's not in the handbook um that might be another thing for next year too is to just let people know through handbooks that this is the Weather policy you remind me of one more thing and I I apologize for on this point but I I do want to point out another thing that continuous Improvement um work that we're doing if school's supposed to start at 8:00 and you have a 2 hour delay what time do school start at 10:00 that's right but that doesn't mean that all the other things change in the same way and so thanks to Dr stong and her team um we've developed a two-hour delay schedule that will be on our website that shows if your um start time was this what is the start time and that's for every school uh even though you know you can make the assumption that it's always two hours right after that so that'll be posted on our website from now on as well we got a whole lot of phone FKS what time does start3 please I would be happy to thank you Mrs Wen thank you board members and Dr Phillips um we have a standing item on our uh board agenda for Envision 2030 updates and sometimes I'll give you updates and other times I will not uh just depending on the flow of work and things are um we we have a um most of our board meetings coming up are now monthly versus uh bonly so you may see a little more frequent update from me um and for the most part I'm going to reference the slide on the on the screen you all have copies at your seat and there are uh some available on the table there for members of the public that that uh maybe didn't grab one you're welcome to grab we take a look um so just as a reminder this is phase one of our Envision 2030 projects that we're working on I'll speak through these um briefly and answer any questions that you that you may have highlighted at the top is the the L Francis Smith Elementary renovation that project is currently finishing design development and moving into construction documents which basically means uh we are getting very close to guac bid for that project that's about a $20 million near full renovation of Smith ele um interesting item of of that work is we have been uh working with and Consulting with uh gentleman named Christen Johansson who is the son of the original architect and Chris and his dad actually um designed the additions on Smith Elementary in the early 90s so he's been working with us via Zoom he lives in Upstate New York uh very supportive of the work and a lot of fun uh to have those conversations with with Chris and learn about some of the history of that that building uh moving around counterclockwise I suppose the uh Richard o Johnson Early Education Center that phase one project is complete you have an approval item in your board packet tonight for contractor approval for phase two um phase one of those four classrooms on the south end are now occupied by students in their Childhood Program while be being work on the north end of that building uh continuing on Smith I spoke about already columus East High School is a project within the C4 Department upstairs on the second Flo floor that is a biom med uh two classroom biom Med and lab renovation to that space that will um you may recall our time in the past talking about our needs our extremely high demand in the C4 area with our students so that's helping address that need there at Columbus East I'll skip over to the bottom right hand corner Columbus North High School is is two classroom project um very small scope for biomed classrooms and lab work at Columbus North High School tool for the same purpose Mount Healthy Elementary um we we are starting that uh organization of that design team here this month so that's the latter of the phase one projects I'll show you a schedule on the next slide that will remind you of that timeline but just getting started with Mount Healthy um that's that's a building as you all know that needs to be addressed it's no concept building that creates U because of that design there's some learning environment challenges that we need to add my space moving up to Middle column Central Middle School that's uh another smaller project to do some work in the media center and then address repurposing space for wellness for those that are providing counseling services so they can be essentially located together to provide their service for families and students uh versus in random offices throughout the building Schmid Elementary has finished phase one and is now in phasee two phase one is the um completion of the main offer and relocated to the north end of the building along 27th Street Phase 2 um is the existing kindergarten wing and the addition of three classrooms in the West Courtyard if you drive by Schmid you'll see that the foundation is poured and the steel framing is up for that the new Elementary School number 12 which will not be the name of the school we'll get that named with your support here in the next few months hopefully by the end of this semester uh that with a lot of work from CSO and how and un out of Boston is coming along quite well um finishing up some decisions on the exterior facade of that building uh Howen Yun and that team were in town just last week working with the teacher design team to um address some some exterior and some interior finishes there um keep your ears open we will um here soon invite the community back out to the Westside Community Church for a full present a of that um of that building when we get a little bit further down the road and a little more confident with our construction drawings and budget and finally Northside Middle Schools you know um the larger of the projects up there outside of the new Elementary that's a $50 million near full renovation to Northside Middle School that is also exiting the design development phase into construction documents um that that project's had a lot of budget work done to it um but fortunately no major Halls to the teaching and learning environment and we will soon be ready to put that out um to bid and on the next slide this is the same schedule that you've seen before who has a clicker thank you um so just as a reminder these are most of these projects are under packages with construction managers so you see Norths side and North are combined together Smith and East uh as a reminder north side and Columbus North are with Meer AUM um Smith Elementary Clem High School of Maxwell construction the new Elementary is with Taylor brothers and pepper construction they're working together on that and the GC or general contract bids um at the bottom you see there so we are uh soon to go to bid here um first with um Smith and East will be bid together and then a month later we'll put Norths side and North out um on the street and open those bids and then finally the new Elementary for the top three packages there with that that is your vision 2030 update I Havey to answer any questions how's the team that Schmid holding up with all of the renovations uh they are doing well um the any of these projects as Parks side folks will tell you is there's always light at the end of the tunnel and there always tough to get there but um but SCH sm's in a good spot for sure so everything's on schedule and um even with some some weather challenges the past couple weeks obviously um we're still on schedule for things and uh not to get nerdy on things but they to get concrete poured when we had that really warm weather about two weeks ago and got the steel put up the next day and then the cold weather and snow hit and we're fortunate because that really want to set us back we we uh we were fortunate there so so far so good thank you um we talked a couple meetings ago about temporary classrooms at Schmidt is is that can you remind me is that is it still on schedule and is it for next August our goal is to get them in there by spring break that might be a little aggressive um but I I approved the the PO for it yesterday so we're we're moving in that direction still so yeah and again that is due to um increased enrollment of Schmid that we're seeing to um Rectify some some of those concerns all right we are going to skip ahead one as uh Mr Edwards is uh traveling and is still a little bit out um probably 20 more minutes out so we stick ahead to policy review that's okay so this is the third package of policies that were consolidating the existing old theola policies into uh more digestible and more friendly to the public it's much fewer policies I don't think I took a opportunity to point out last time but I could be wrong um so stop me if that's the case but probably more than a year ago Mr major made a suggestion that we have all of our policies U at least translated or able to be translated into Spanish the largest second language spoken in our community we're proud to say that all of the first round of policies the ones that probably three to four board meetings go those are all posted to uh board docs now and then at the bottom of them there is a Spanish version for all of those so we're sending those off it w easily able to be automatically so I believe we're part process to translate those documents for us and every one of these new policies will also be available in Spanish thank you thank you for the suggestion U so these next uh this next package of policies is 10 um policies that will replace all or part of 18 policies you might remember that U week ago when this agenda came out it was 11 and 31 or so something 11 new Poli 31 because of the new title 9 uh guidance ruling that just came down and the new uh Federal Department of Education Administration moving in this fall or I'm sorry this January um we made the decision to pull the anti-harassment and anti-discrimination policy leave the existing policy in place and we're uh we've been told that it's very likely that that new gu will come out from the new Administration within the next couple of months so we'll bring that back in front of you when that time happens in the meantime we have these uh 10 policies communicable diseases board authority and philosophy age ENT entrance age that's kindergarten first grade entrance age requirements test security provisions for assessments uh field trips board staff Communications college and early University programs purchasing procedures and capital assets use of credit cards and vehicle idling is the last one you'll notice um on the screen that after 8405 the Neil policy on vehicle idling says at a later date uh there parts of 8405 that need to stay in place until the the new policies catch up with them so 8405 will stay in place until even after you approve whenever you do approve g45 the vehicle iding policy uh 84 file will stay in place until that will place that whole thing uh come back we will uh we will try to note on that policy on the website that many those have been replaced by g245 so there's not conflicting policy on website just a reminder as we talked about I I get several pieces of feedback and questions from board members and we had some uh some email exchanges if there is an interest on the board um to schedule a board work session to discuss any of these policies in further depth between now in the next board meeting um it would just be a motion uh to pull one or more of these and then we would schedule that board work session on that policy and hopefully bring it back U at the sen meeting in February for a second reading even even with the changes as long as there are certain number of days between the the work session so any questions discussion or um desire the part of the board to pull any of these out and schedule have on d175 I did see responses come through from Dr Philips on those and that was the only policy that had more than one and it maybe wasn't tot straight forward which is why I wanted to make if you're comfortable with the respon current I had emailed several questions and Dr pH answered very promptly I I have some ongoing questions not about the policies but how we communicate the information in the policies to people that yeah I think the hardest one for me is a board staff Communications um I think at some point all of us will be in a situation where we were not supposed to talk to people about the problems they had but the problems will be brought to us we can redirect we can tell them to talk to other people but at some point they're talking to you because they don't know that they could probably trust talking to other people so they're looking for someone to talk to and I think um it's it's a difficult one because uh you know obviously we're not going to talk to people about the temperature in the room right is it it's it's said at 72 and I wanted it 68 I mean that's not stuff that we would talk about but I I can tell you that I've had and I know other people have had um some really interesting conversations about problems they have and uh try my best to redirect those where they can I I know uh before Christmas I spoke with a bunch of students at East that had some questions and and I redirected them to to the appropriate people and I know that uh Mr hack is going to take care of the concerns that there are um but I think sometimes there's going to be people that want to want to talk to someone else different it's not about undermining anybody it's just they don't for whatever reason feel safe or comfortable talking to the person that they would have to talk to next and so I think that one I struggle with because again it tells us we can't do that so that's why that's why I feel that one should have some flexibility uh especially when you know it's it's a a person that has a problem with their leader whatever level that may be that's one of the ones that I had it someone with and and my concern is that I have had a number of um staff members email me or text me and say they would like to talk to me about something but they're not sure they're allowed to talk to me and that's or I think it's that we need to communicate to staff what's an unofficial communication versus this says staff shall submit all official Communications in a certain way but sometimes it's just a conversation about school stuff but it's not necessarily something that needs to go to their um higher supervisor or sometimes just think they've already talked to their higher supervisor on they just want the board to be aware of the situation so so again it's not as much the policy as is how do we for me how do we communicate What specifically staff members um how can the approach I don't want that I don't want to be unapproachable and and also I mean I've also had staff members talk to me about things with their kids that's not about their position as a staff and and those same people they think they're not allowed to do that and I think part of that goes to a history several years ago that might as a staff member I thought it was true well and and I think from a standpoint of them talking to their about their kids not a problem and it's again going back to right before break I sent I summarized everything that I spoke with those kids about we had a I think there was a counselor in the room with us when I talked to the kids and and I sent all that to all the appropriate people so I think from that standpoint we need to have the ability to do that because that's where that's where they felt comfortable talking um I think we've all had other conversations that lead to a side conversation somewhere with another individual that says hey you might want to think about this because someone's frustrated right so I think it we should be able to be a additional conduit I don't think we're the leaning post for everybody's problems that's why we need to be able to redirect them to the appropriate areas and that's where if they don't feel comfortable doing that we should be able to listen at least I think I don't know if anybody feel we need to rewrite this I think there's a concern about how it's interpreted by the staff of bcsc and generally speaking every M probably be open to having that conversation with the staff but recognizing some of the things that we should redirect we don't want people to be afraid to to conver with us so maybe you could recommend how how this um could be communicated to staff in practice necessarily a policy change but just making sure that we um we don't have misconceptions that could be lingering from old ways of do am I summarizing appro for folks I I think the way it's written now to to allow those conversations you have to rewrite it it's not you can't rewrite it and say or you can't leave it where it says they can't talk to us about school things like that and then tell them off to the side go ahead and talk to them because now you've got conflicting things so if if we want to allow them to be able to have a conversation with us and we all understand that we have to follow a process and push them back towards the right people and give them good guidance then we would have to rewrite the policy so so let me add here I'm okay not rewriting it but if Mr major thinks that we need an executive or whatever kind of session Public Work session to work on that I would be happy to second that okay I can't make motions but other people can make motions I motion that we pull d175 for a public working session prior to the next I second that Mr maor um okay all those in favor polling d175 to be discussed in a public work session that will be scheduled and and shared um we website please say I all those post please say n public will be scheduled thank you any other questions on the other policies the only question I really came up with uh do we foresee any of these being challenged or potentially Furbish change Bas off incoming legislation uh heading the next couple weeks just the one that we pulled already a100 the anti-discrimination anti all the rest cons La not subject to F okay thank you all right all right we tried Charles he's he's just a handful of minutes out so we're go ahead we're going to go ahead and get started on this portion of presentation on our uh 2024 bcsc graduation rates uh we do have some guests here this evening from uh both North and Columbus North and Columbus East high schools from last year's senior cohort teams and so um at whatever slide you all are supposed to come up you come on up and I'll stop talking at that does that sound good thanks thanks L okay so um our graduation rate back in 2014 2015 even in 2016 was consistent pretty close to the to the state average um and right around that 90 that 90% uh graduation rate and um particularly at the time we were very proud of the number and the percentage of academic honors and Technical Honors diplomas that we had um as the State graduation r started to TI down bcs's also did so but actually had a faster clip U and the last two years with the graduation in 2022 of just over 81% and in 2023 just over 83% um we came to this board or or board look very similar to this and asked um to really make a pretty dramatic swing at um at a a new program that we thought could dramatically impact this and um he's not here yet but I'm going to give him credit when uh somebody I don't remember who it was on the board asked Mr Edwards during a meeting a while back how long do you think before we see results and I thought I cringed when when Dr Edward said immediately man he's really he's really he's really U you know swinging for the fence with this one um but we're excited to say that this cohort model uh immediately did have an impact with the very first cohort group that um worked with a team pause slowly make sure believe I and Lori don't stand up and get up here so um a reminder to those in the public and those on the board what we did was create grade specific uh list of Student Success teams here with each of the cohorts so there are eight teams four I say coverts as graduating coverts so there four teams at North four teams at East uh at Columbus East each of the teams has a an assistant principal a counselor and an academic coach and at Columbus North an assistant principal a counselor and two academic coaches because the cohort uh the number of students at North is much much higher than over at East and so uh through taking a large High School um that one of them has 12200 students in somewhere around the neighborhood of 2200 and making it a small smaller School experience surrounding each cohort with a group of adults that stays with them from year to year allows them to build relationships and give each one of those students a more personalized experience um we really felt like and after we looked at other schools that had implemented this model um that there was no way it could have a negative impact and we just really didn't know how immediately such a L impact and the cohort model is built on very simple principles get to know your students get to know their families and help C that's it now there are lots of things let's look at the team members of the cohorts that are sitting out there right now and there are so many things that they do to make this happen um the number of resources that they bring together the number of different programs that they know about and they get kids enroll with and they connect students with uh Social Service entities that meet help meet the needs of our students um this looks really simple these folks know how really complex uh the cohort model can be but I'd like to talk about and I had talked several times this year about clearing the path for folks um because when you're a public school I used to call it the walm martiz of public schools which means we're all things to all people and it's very easy to get caught up in wow we have students or we have 2200 students and we have this unlimited number of complexities and and problems that these students bring to us and stengths that they bring to us and um it can be really overwhelming to try to say we we have to meet all the needs of all these students all the time and by clearing the path and say Here's a team of adults you're assigned these students and you have one task help them graduate by building relationships um and the the results um speak for themselves here out here he's going to speak to the common sheet which is a really critical element of the cohort model um is using a Common Language and consistent across all eight of our teams in the two high schools about how we speak about the progress of each of these Team all right thanks for the opportunity to to come in here tonight and celebrate this we're really excited want to thank my team uh who who have done a great job getting us through this uh we have our I team and our special ed coordinator here with us and then also uh our cohort team and place academic coach and our guidance counsel academic coach may be here today and then so just want to give them a shout out thanks for taking time to be here um every Monday we get together as a group and we meet and have a conversation first thing in the morning 8:00 we like the the early time slot so we come in right away have a conversation we're using the common sheet using the common sheet sheet and going through very specific pieces of information U and that is going to look at demographics it's going to look at uh some of our data points that we analyze and go through on a weekly basis and what we're doing is we're trying to make sure we're capturing every individual that we can to uh help put supports in place to get them where they can be successful uh so every every every Monday we go around the horn and we talk about what we can do to support those individuals um those who may be credit deficient but also those who are doing well and what supports we may be able to do uh to continue to allow them to grow in in our building in our space and the common sheet is part of that part of that guide um as we work through that we also want to put a big emphasis on communicating with families and last year our goal was to make sure that each one of our cohorts was at a 100% communication with families uh and so we were striving to have that accomplished before graduation day which we were able to do at at North for all cohorts this year we challenged ourselves to uh move that up to have it done at the end of semester 1 which we were able to to accomplish here so a little extra challenge for us to make sure we could make a a contact before we went into winter break with every family which we we were able to to uh do and part of that is having conversations in those meetings uh what's going well we want to celebrate do the celebrate the little ones uh as well as uh the big ones and we want to make sure not all of our contacts are uh about issues we may be seen but we want to celebrate those those individuals as well so some of those conversations happen and passing we P we see people at Kroger and we can stop and and share a great conversation uh others are through parent square or emails or some phone calls but finding different ways to make those contacts um and be able to make those touches I'm Miss shamley uh Sant principal at East High School and I'd like to recognize my 2024 cohort team coach lber academic coach Callie axom special and Carrie Aba Administrative Assistant of the team and Brian Hansen who was a counselor last year but is not with us tonight um along with what Levi Simpson was talking about communication is a key component of the success of the team we really build relationships with the students we learn um their interests their talents things they struggle with whether it's academically or outside of the school setting we also learn about their families we build relationships with their parents we truly build a partnership with the families and really try to individualize an academic experience for their child not only leading in the next four years of success at school but also leading them in building a pathway or outside of the high school and what pathway they will take whether it's in college or a career um another thing to emphasize with the communication with families and students is when we are meeting with families we are um individualizing a plan of action for those students if we're meeting with a family where the child is struggling we really come together as a team and brainstorm possible outcomes possible solution solons that to help support that child so that they can be successful not sure if you pull yeah that' be fine so as we as we work through each cohort will have a common sheet and these are pieces that we're putting together together as we as we go through and one of the really interesting pieces on here uh is where we're able to identify some of our projections of where we're at but also the the groups that we're working with uh and some of these items that as we're trying to figure out which supports we want to put in place we'll look at uh those total numbers and be able to help help our students out that way uh if you scroll down a little bit Dr Phillips we see as we're we're tracking our parent contacts this is uh through quarter 3 something that's interesting to us as we as we look at what's in red on the right hand side is pre cohort model and then uh what you have uh so the 2223 is prec cohort model the 2324 is semester one where we left off and so we're looking at jumps along the way and as I had stated earlier we challenged ourselves this year after reflecting on our our processes last year and our successes last year we were reflecting on that to get to 100% before the end of semester one which we were able to do and then we're able to to look at breakdowns and have conversations with uh so I'm dropping in grades now to have conversations with uh department leaders and chairs and coordinators and then we also talk about our 50 to 55 or 50 to 59% and we talk about getting those students who we can gather and we and get them to that 60% or above and so we have a student who's sitting at a 59.1% we have a conversation with them and they may leave our office after sitting in our academic coaches uh space during their resource for 20 minutes they may leave and have three assignments done and all of a sudden they went from a 59.1 to a 65% based on what we were able to help them with and so we're able to identify that uh that student and the help that they need and give a little individualized uh attention to them that they may not have had before uh which is so much fun to see and so rewarding to see those successes uh and see them get excited about that uh because we don't think about a 59% or a 55% necessarily being a struggle for someone but they've just been struggling to get over over that hump right and we're we're able to give them that final push and and help them get there it's a very exciting if we can continue to yep um another thing to emphasize on the grades and how we have it broken down by subject U we are also keeping an eye on CDP students CSA and McDow so um while many of those students don't physically attend our particular campus we are communicating with the directors or leaders of those campuses as well as meeting with those students and keeping an eye on their progress um also the academic coaches position um I know coach hillenberg really works very hard in developing a partnership with classroom teachers he is an advocate for students but also a partner with the classroom teachers and he creates makeup days throughout the quarter pulling in students to help work with assignments or make up work they may be missing and a lot of that is coordinated through communication and partnership with those classroom teachers it is a crucial role in our function as a team but also the success of our students um in the first quarter beginning in into the second quarter we had a pretty large number of students that were failing classes but through the hard work and dedication of Jurg and working with our students and the academic coaches role we were able to significantly reduce the number of students that were faing that now pass the first semester and earned their credit so breaking down the progress of students really uh sheds light on where we need to focus our attentions and developing those Communications and Partnerships with teachers as well we can move on done I'm I'm going to be honest with you guys we live in this quite a bit so uh we can we can spend a lot of time talking through this so I won't I won't take us through each each piece uh individually per se uh but I will I will share with you as if we go down one thing we look at is uh our discipline pieces and we'll break them down through through quarters and semester same thing with attendance you know one thing that our academic coaches do tirelessly is work on making contacts attendance and working on raising our attendance rates uh which we've we've been able to do uh and building those relationships and and discipline but if we continue to to scroll down once again I don't want to eat up a ton of time on on this uh one piece that ties if we go to credit deficient students and maybe uh identifying students who may not be on Pace to get to graduation and we'll pull those individual uh students out and and allow us and the data and information that we have and the relationships that we're building to be able to make those connections uh and I know whenever we stepped into this uh into this spot we had several uh more that were quote unquote credit deficient so that means not on Pace to be at 40 credits at the end of their senior year 40 specific credits so we have to gain 10 specific credits each each school year uh we're able to p pull those individuals out and have a little even even more individualized approach on how we're going to uh tackle those situations and whether that's through our other programs or uh finding other unique ways to help them out we're able to have those conversations and and zoom in even more Levi this are these are 36 students that are credit efficient from last year's senior class in the third quarter is that correct going yeah going into the fourth quarter so this common sheet would have been done uh right at the start of fourth quarter and so it gives us a snapshot of the the final moments that final push that we're trying to make towards the stage U and then you know a large a large chunk of these we were able to get across going to ask two questions about it yep and and just believe Mr Simpson um about how many of those students did you get across the finish line and then to the communication piece uh how many times per week would you say someone from the team was touching base with the students at North it was 36 students this time and East was a different number but how many times per week would you say that a member of the team is touching Bas with these kids that are credit efficient on the credit deficient it's almost daily uh and a lot lot of times were double and triple quadruple dipping so guidance counselor may have a conversation that uh you know Miss fresh hour may have had a conversation at 9:00 a.m.

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e e e thank you Pastor Fields appreciate that um at this time we'll call our meeting to order um Mrs gry would you please uh do the roll call please Mr Allen here Mr mclen here Mr Melcher here Mr wall here Mrs Heim here Mr Carl here okay we do not have any um revisions of agenda uh for this evening so we'll go to B1 um this is uh the organizational reorganization part of our meeting this evening so School Board we're going to do now um is the following is that I will seek uh nominations uh for board president um there could be more than one name uh once we have done all of the names I'll ask to close uh ask for a motion to close um those this part of it and then we will vote accordingly so do I have uh any names for consideration for nominations for president of our school board Mr trout I'd nominate Tim Allen for president of the school board okay thank you Mr wall we have Tim Allen do we have any other nominations for board president okay hearing none uh I would take a motion to close the nominations for uh School Board president do I have that motion make a motion to close the nominations for board President we got a motion by Mr wall to close the nomination do we have a second second um any discussion before we do this okay we'll go ahead and place the vote all in favor of closing the vote signify by saying I or wait this is John old school sorry whoops I just got the look for Mrs Gray I am so sorry okay let's vote uh on the nominations to close the nominations my is as red as this mug right now Cindy uh close the nominations for board President we were just gonna roll with it John I know you were okay I'm sorry okay that motion passes 60 okay at this time now what we'll do is that uh we have a nomination on the floor for Tim Allen for consideration for board president um at this time uh we'll take a vote on that nomination okay I thought the motion was with the nomination but do I have a nomination to okay to make it work in board dos I understand do I have a nomination for do I have a a a motion thank you for Tim Allen to be president of the school board Tim you can't get up front here fast enough okay do I have a motion I make a motion that we uh uh approve Tim Allen as president for hdcc for the okay year 2025 20 year 2025 do I have a second second second by Mr melter do we have any discussion okay let's vote thank you Mr Allen I want to say congratulations to you how about a nice round of applause for Mr Tim Allen the new school board president congratulations to youat so term I I graciously turn the rest of the agenda over to you since I did such a swimming job on this part and so um you will start with agenda item um B3 B3 B B4 B4 thank you Mr trout thank you board let's get to work um B4 do we have any nominations for vice president I nominate Ryan Wall for vice president Mr wall for vice president thank you Mr Melcher any other nominations for vice president okay I can take a motion then to close do I need a motion nomination motion to close the nominations so moved thank you Mr meler can I get a second second sign so we've closed the nominations for vice president it's time to elect our vice president we got to vote on that too yes give us a chance here guys this should be this should be a good one got CL so we'll uh we'll vote on uh closing the nomination we got to think about screen lighting this process at some point passes 60 I will now take a motion for Ryan Wall as vice president I'll make a motion Ryan Wall for vice president thank you Mr meler a second for that second any discussion comments from the board okay let's vote on the motion the motion is five with one abstain congratulation Mr wall at this time we' uh move on to item B7 nominations for secretary do anyone like to make a nomination for someone for secretary I nominate Gary mclen for secretary Mr mclen anyone else all right I would like to anybody like to make a motion to close the nominations I will make a motion to close the nominations for secretary thank you Mr mure a second anyone second Mr wall thank you um any comments or questions hearing none let's vote on the unclosing the nomination that passes five with one abstain congratulations Mr mclen you gotta got vote now we gotta vote on it oh that's right I'm skipping um could anybody like to make a motion for Mr mclen as secretary I will make a motion Gary mclen for secretary thank you Mr meler anybody like to second second thank you Mr wall any comments or questions prior to voting we will vote on the motion vote is five1 for Mr mlen one abstaining thank you M M congratulations um I want to thank the three of you and the school board um a mark of a great School Board is great leadership and we are blessed uh this year uh to have the three of you in leadership positions and so I just want to publicly say uh thank you for your willingness to serve um what we'd like to do at this time is get a picture of all three of you um since you uh look so good in your suits and things today so what we'll do is is that if you guys could come up uh front uh Kenny is going to take your picture um so we can put that out into the community uh uh by by tomorrow okay all right moving on uh move on to item C1 core values uh the highlight of every school board meeting for me is when we have an opportunity to honor our students and our staff and tonight is no exception and so so um Mr mcglothin is going to lead us through this part um Chuck if you and a couple school board members could join us up front as we uh recognize these uh fine individuals we'll go through this part of our agenda so Pat I'll turn it over I'll turn it over to you thank you Mr trout tonight I'm honored to present this segment of the meeting highlighting how our core values of hunting County Community Schools are reflected in the remarkable achievements of our students within our district the first group that we will be representing tonight is the Crestview Middle School spell bow our commitment to student centered Excellence is exemplified by the outstanding performance of the Crestview Middle School spell Bowl team Guided by their dedicated coaches Mary muselman and Cheryl Sims the team earned the Regional Title at the area final held at Indian Springs on November the 6th before I share more about their success I'd like to invite the team members and their coaches to join us at the front for a photo opportunity as I read your name please come forward Aubry Adams Harper Bower Victoria Cox Moxy Henderson Avery klingenberger Julius Jimson Quinn Justice Gracie Maxwell LC Murphy Alissa somerlot Cadence Waldren Nolan Z and the Crest View spell bow coaches coach Mary muselman and Coach Cheryl Sims you par got a little bit more information about the spell bow Team Guided by their coaches the team earned a Regional Title at the area final at Indian Springs the team success was driven by remarkable performance by seventh grader Nolan Zar who led the team with an incredible achievement as only one of two perfect spellers at the match he accomplished that by spelling all nine words correctly Nolan's leadership and focus were instrumental in a team securing first place in class two and later placing an impressive 18th at State as we celebrate these achievements I extend my deepest congratulation to the Crestview Middle School spell bow Team their dedicated coaches thank you to all the family members who continued to support their students passions and interests together they embod the core values of Huntington County Community Schools reminding us of the incredible potential within every student congratulations now we have the Crestview Middle School robotics team it is always a privilege to recognize the outstanding accomplishments of our students and staff tonight I'm excited to highlight the achievements of the Crestview Middle School robotics team who have showcased remarkable Talent teamwork and Innovation this season before I share more about their success we'd like to invite the team members and their coaches to come forward for a photo opportunity when I read your name please come to the for to the front start with Emory Cox West Detmer dmer dmer Weston Weston dmer it's right there one on the bottom race ellot Gavin gof and Max Stout and we'd also like to invite their coaches to come up Coach Travis Bullinger John Baux lyanna Walter and Tom Stout this talented group group of students competed at their very first event of the Season at the J County competition in an extraordinary achievement they qualified for the Indiana State Vex robotics competition which will take place at Lucas soil Stadium on Saturday March 22nd their success is a testament to the dedication and hard work of the students as well as the leadership and support of their coaches together this team has exemplified the Innovative spirit and collaborative mindset that are the Hallmarks of excellence in Huntington County Community Schools robot robotics competitions demand a high level of problem solving technical skill and teamwork and this team has risen to the challenge their success not only reflects their talent but also highlights the growing opportunities in stem education within our district congratulations thank you Mr mclin we'll move on now to D1 items from visitors public comment this an opportunity for members of the community to address the board um we have one signed up right now Mr vanor can you hear me yes sir all right good evening super trout uh members of the board members of the administration welcome to 2025 um want to First extend uh good luck to Mr Carl uh looking forward to what he'll do for this board also want to thank Mr Ryan Wall for Having the courage to vote no on the r gets hire for the rest of you I feel like you guys guys rushed this higher I feel like he was the wrong choice I feel like his baggage from Huntington University showed that he is not the right candidate for this job you guys Rush this through you lost a board member in the process who resigned and District Two lost their voice tomorrow they are not represented in the election so I hope you guys take that to heart and understand your actions have consequences thank you I just want to say thank you to the students who attended and parents um if you would like to stay for the rest of the meeting you are more than welcome to stay However if you do not want to this would be a great opportunity uh to exit at this point in time so thank you for coming thank you to everyone else um we will move on now to item E1 School Board reor organization appointment of treasur at this time uh School Board I recommend to you that Alex eert uh would serve as our Corporation Treasurer Alex was also the treasur just uh for reference in school year 2024 thank you Mr trout would anyone like to make a motion reference the treasurer position I'll make a motion to have Alex eer serve as Corporation treasur for 2025 thank you Mr meler uh I have a second thank you Mr mclen any comments or questions before we vote hearing none let's vote on the motion for Alexandria eert to serve as Corporation treasurer that passes six to zero moving on to E2 board members compensation okay School Board um what you will find in your board packet uh for this evening is that what has been placed in there is uh guidelines as spelled out by the Indiana State Board Association under the board uh organization requirements paragraphs two states the following um board members may receive up to $2,000 per year for their service per DM that's in section Indiana code 20- 26-47 uh for those school boards that have adopted prum rates for attendance at Schoolboard meetings the maximum rate for 2025 uh continue to be $150 for regular meetings and those uh meetings are established by board by the board here and then $75 for other meetings such as special meetings executive sessions and committee meetings uh that you as board members may receive up to $2,000 per year for your service per DM $75 for other meetings as stated and so um last year I you know just so you can reference that from what we did last year is that you as a school board receive $2,000 for your services plus a pedum for $62 for all other meetings so you can see some of the slight changes for 2025 and I just as your making that decision about your compensation I just want to put all those details out in front of you just to add a little bit that that amount went up mid year last year and we chose not to change it at that correct you chose not to correct at that point in other words we were waiting to this meeting to make this decision for calendar year 25 but you are correct Mr wall before I take a motion is there any further comments or just discussion um anybody have any ideas what they'd like to say about it I'll take a motion um for compensation for next year for this year I make a motion that the board received 2,000 annually and $75 for all regular special and executive sessions for 2025 thank you Mr mure can I get a second second thank you Mr Mr wall any comments or discussion now that we've got that hearing none we will vote on the motion to move it to $2,000 annually and $75 per meeting motion passes 60 moving on to E3 appointment of legislative liaison um last year uh Mr wall served as liaz legislative liaison just so as you're making a decision as a board moving forward this year he was our representative last year and as much as it's been fun doing that with my other duties that I'm going to be working with isba I would really appreciate it if someone else one of the newer board members we usually typically handed that to one of the newer board members so um and I'll tell you the duties of the board lays on just so you know uh typically you would attend the isba State House day that is February 18th this year and then you are just the point person for any legislative action coming out of isba or if there any call to actions that you would just make sure that the rest of the board is aware of those actions uh you will also probably all of us will get an email from isba uh but it is something that can be done uh it doesn't take too much time other than the day down at the state house and it is a fun time down at the state house getting to know your legislators and hear what's going on with the legislation that's coming through thoughts you do need a representative so Carl I I do believe that the newest board member will be elected sometime later this week good point that's very good Aaron it is a shame that he's had that they have not been voted yet um and if no one wants to do it I don't mind continuing to do it but I would hope that maybe next year that we could have someone else do it it is it's a fun time I don't I enjoy doing it and I would probably still keep you all informed anyway of what's going on so if that is the case I could take it for one more year but I would gladly love to have maybe like a colay on at some point we appreciate that Mr wall my original motion was to have Ryan Wall be legislatively A's on so if he's gonna make com if that's your motion that is my can I have a second Mr mlen well done uh any questions or comments except for Mr wall sorry Ryan you got one more year thanks that's fine I almost made the motion to make it Tim so it's good no comments or questions we will vote on the motion motion passes 60 moving on to E4 appointment of bid opening committee yes I'm recommending that myself as a superintendent or my design and the corporation Treasurer serve on the bid opening committee for 2025 um this is the exact same Arrangement that we had in 2024 thank you Mr trout anybody like to make a motion on I make a motion that we appoint the superintendent or his design Corporation Trevor to serve in the big opening committee for the year calendar year 2025 thank you Mr wall anybody second second thank you Mr mlen Mr mclen I'm afraid you're quicker any comments or questions before we vote hearing none we'll vote on the motion vote is 60 in favor thank you Mr trout moving on to E5 yes this is the appointment of the common wage committee um I'm recommending that myself as a superintendent of my design um uh serve as the community representative on the common wage committee um name of business industry representative and coordinate the wage committee meetings as they become necessary um throughout 2025 this is the exact same arrangement we had in 2024 thank you Mr trout would anybody like to make a motion reference reference the common wage committee I make a motion the superintendent or designes serve on the common wage sorry serve on that Community representative on the common wage Community thank you Mr Melcher for 2025 for 202 thank you and a second second second than you sign any question do you need the rest does that include does that include naming a business industry represent name business industry and representative to coordinate the wage committee meetings as they become necessary throughout 2025 still second thank you both there is some question we have not had to do that during my tenure here um but in case it does become a necessity um we need to have this appointment made um I'm not anticipating it even in 2025 but just in case it does um legally we have to have this appointment made and just as if I remember correctly you may not know but that's only if we have a project that a construction project that meets certain threshold and dollar value correct correct that is absolutely correct any further comment or questions hearing none we'll vote on the motion those is unanimous 6 Z moving on to E6 appointment of Schoolboard attorney yes I am uh recommending this evening the reappointment of Mr Joseph Wy to continue as our Schoolboard attorney um I've appreciated Joe's uh continual support uh on this board for this board uh within that and so Joe next upcoming year would be how many years as 20 okay would be Joe's 20th year is serving uh in that um just so you remember that last year we adjusted the rate and it's $175 per hour so I'm recommending this for your approval this evening thank you Mr trout would anybody like to make a motion regarding uh appointment of the school attorney I make a motion that we reappoint uh Mr Joseph Wy to continue as school board attorney as presented at the current rate thank you Mr Sim and a second second thank you Mr wall any comments or questions prior to voting I just want to thank Mr Wy for his continued support uh that we've been using him a little bit lately and uh thank you for all your help any other comments let's vote on the motion motion passes passes 60 thank you Mr Wy congratulations I think thank you move on to the consent agenda item F yes items f one through five uh for your consideration this evening I'll draw attention to item number four which is the request to accept donations uh at this meeting we're accepting donations of $1,455 I continue to be grateful for all our Community Partners um as they uh come alongside and help us in so many ways in our community so thank you to them and so I am just uh seeking your approval of regular board meeting minutes from December 16th professional leave request profession uh personal person excuse me Personnel report request to accept donations and the accounts payable and payroll voucher registers thank you Mr trout would anyone like to make a motion on the consent agenda I make a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented thank you Mr mure in a second thank you Mr mclen would anyone like to remove anything from the consent agenda and vote on it separately or any questions or comments on the consent agenda hearing none we'll vote on the consent agenda motion pass class is 60 we will now close our regular meeting and open suspend we're suspend suspend I'm sorry suspend the regular meeting in an open meeting of the board of Finance yes let me um walk you through this this evening board um this uh section of our meeting as we suspend our regular meeting is the board of Finance meeting of the Huntington County uh Community School Corporation um this uh meets the requir of Indiana codee 5-1 13-7 local Boards of finance and so uh board this is what we're going to do this evening in this section of our agenda the first thing we're going to do uh first item we're going to do as you can see there under G1 is elect a president and Secretary of the board of Finance it's not uncommon that you could do this in one motion uh uh where you could have the same individuals holding these offices as we just elected this evening and so um there's you need to do two we could do it an all in one motion which would be a president and a secretary okay for the board of Finance the second uh part this evening you're going to do is receive and review the investment report required by section 7 of Indiana code 5-13 -7 the third item we're going to do is review the investment policy of the school district this is policy 6144 which was revised by the board on 3 uh 2320 um our treasur has reviewed the investment policy and would not recommend changes to this at this time and then we'll also number four then receive and discuss the report assessing the financial conditions of hccsc using the fiscal and qualitative indicators determined by Indiana code 20-1 19-7 D4 which is the duab report so uh the first item uh Mr Allen would be the election of the board officers as I mentioned previously which is to elect to elect a president and Secretary of the board of Finance which could be the same individuals that you uh approve this evening if you so choose all right um before we take the motion anybody have any questions about what Mr trout just L on okay um anybody like to make a motion on the uh election of the officers for the board Finance make a motion that we appoint Tim Allen as uh president of the board of finance and uh half Gary McCullen serve as Secretary of the board of Finance for the calendar year 2025 thank you Mr wall and a second second thank you Mr meler any comments or questions before we vote hearing none we'll vote on the motion for motion passes 60 M on to G2 okay um Mrs Smith called me um about 3:00 this afternoon and is quite ill so yours truly is going to to walk you through um this part of the board uh meeting today um let's do first things first let's look at the investment report that Mrs Gray is pulling up here um this evening so this is truly an overview um what I'm giving you this evening of where we are uh with regards to our our financial well-being as a district okay and so for 2024 uh the Huntington school corporation uh has no investments in CDs and so we've had this conversation before where this is a potential something that we may want to look at going into this year but as we sit here today we do not have any CDs some time to time I'm questioned about that in the community but it's just important to know that currently doesn't mean that we may not move that direction in the future but it's just where we stand currently um the money invested is from the total monies of deposit commonly referred to as to uh from the hccsc funds the interest the interest earned in 2024 um you can see that earnings on Corp bank accounts we earned an interest slightly over a million dollars uh their uh certificates of deposit as we' said is zero external construction accounts is uh a little over $340,000 for a grand total of 1374 million uh for this the cash balance um what people in our community may not understand um we are doing quite well the cash balance as of December 31st 2024 is slightly over $50 million um there at that time with five million with about 5.9 million as bonds held amount held by the US Bank and about $44 million plus with ever wise or TCU is what was commonly referred to the current interest rate uh at US Bank is 2.5 uh 2.45% and if you remember toward the fall of uh was it last year where we did a new agreement with ever wise we are at 4% currently on our interest rates with that um our bank activity um we Chang Banks I'm ask this a lot when did we actually change Banks we changed Banks back in 19 2019 and 20 U ever wise is now the primary bank for the district we are receiving customary interest rates on our all our accounts with everrise but we still could utilize trust Indiana or the Hooser fund which you I send you information about that from time to time just to keep you up to speed these two options are very liquid investment pools and would allow the district to move money in and out of these investment pools within one to two business days so as we continue to move forward forward we begin having discussions at the end of last year that our cash balance is just roughly a little over $50 million at this point in time so uh Mrs Smith and I have already have begun to have discussions about this to share with you in the near future and so we just want to make you privy to that information today um the fiscal condition of our school corporation based on the fiscal and qualitative indicators determined under Indiana code 20- 19-7 D4 which is the 2024 duab this is duab stands for distressed unit appeals board report okay um in your packet you have those seven indicators so they are for our district um the for the 2023 24 report there are seven fiscal indicators that our community can locate that have been developed they are our average daily membership which which we take twice a year in October and in um February um our def our demographics our fund balances our annual deficit and surpluses our fund balances as percentage of expenditures our Revenue by type and our operating referendum Revenue as a percent of total revenue which we all know what that number is it's zero within that what Becky has done uh here has given you a brief overview of all seven of those um as you know we've had and we've talked a lot about this over the years if you look at in total over the last nine years we've had some decline in enrollment which we are trying to address um we've had some recent um successes with that but if you look at it over a nine-year term we have had a declining enrollment with our average daily membership the demographics that there's a history of three areas free introduced lunch special education English language Learners um if you look at that report in there um you'll notice that our free numbers have increased greatly um while our other numbers remain stable we're just recently have seen quite an uptick with our elll numbers I believe and we do this report the next time you'll see a rather significant difference with that when Mr Peters and Mr brimberry come and talk to you about programming this spring El will be a focus of some of the things that we're going to have to look at uh little differently in in the very near future within that fund balances have increased over the last several years mostly due to the added funding with cares and essr grants um if you look at those reports within those fund balances that you can pull up I've got a copy here uh that that that's before me within that we're doing quite well in these areas um the annual deficit and surpluses uh this indicator is a graph showing if the district's fund balances are increasing or decreasing um year to year I think that what you will find is that you will be very happy um with those pieces with that and so um um and it's really confusing because sometimes these Esser Grant dollars can really throw some of these this data um away I mean not away but it can really dist distort the data just because of these Esra dollars that were there uh the fifth area of there is the fund balances and you'll see what we've highlighted there uh versus this percentage of expenditures um showing an increase over the last few years until major construction prog projects are completed and paid for um there are some significant construction projects that uh Mr mcglothan will be leading us through um this summer and then when we'll come back to this area number five here once we can get those uh completed Revenue by type um um again it shows an increase due to Esser grants through 2024 we'll stabilize after that and obviously we do not have uh any type of operating referendum okay um again you in your uh Schoolboard packet there have all of this information that's available to you um I am very happy with where we're currently at uh today but right now for the public to see if you go on this doab uh section this is what you will see okay um there's a there's a incredible amount of information there um you know there's much talk in our community for example about the net assess value and where we're at um we're just shy of 37,000 people uh here too and then if you scroll on down you'll see all of these things that I am talking about there's the nine-year plan the nine-year um ADM numbers along the way um and I'm not going to read all this to you but this is this is what you have access to what we put in your board packet as Cindy Scrolls on down there here are our demographics and I'm just so slightly touched on this but you can see that our recent uptick and free roduced num uh free in roduced lunch num um you can say we're pretty stagnant around that 17 18 sometimes we touch the 20 but you can see we're slightly over 20% with special education the gray bar down here doesn't look like much now but it is begun to increase um here quickly quickly by the month quite frankly and so that's what I mentioned that Mr Peters and Mr brimberry will come and talk to you about that later this spring uh fund balances um here this is is we could spend an enormous amount of time here but this gives you a little indication how physically responsible you have been as a board um especially if you look at the last uh two to three years in comparison within that and I appreciate your fiscal responsibility in those areas um but this is what's uh reported um and what our public can see okay um as we move on here um the annual deficit and surplus again it's pretty much self-explanatory with this uh chart and graph you can see the green is the revenues the blue is the expenditures the yellow is a deficit Surplus and the fund balances so we're doing we're doing very well within all of those in all those areas as we mark this month to month um I would like to go ahead Mr trout just want to call that out because it does look like we spent more money than we should in that but that was a plan that the board put together because if you look the part years we had a significant Surplus there so we're actually trying to burn down some of that Surplus so that was a conscious decision I think that everyone on the board and that was specifically I wanted to call out for Mr Carl but we chose to do that to keep our Surplus in line uh because you noticed four years prior to that we had significantly growing surpluses so we're trying to burn down some of that excess cash uh in the general funds so that's true thank you Mr Walt um uh fund balance by as a percent and again I I don't want to keep talking to all this but I appreciate um where we're at and what we're doing and how physically responsible we're going to be Mrs Smith and I spend a lot of time each month making sure that we are playing within the parameters that you have set out for us and we are doing that again the next uh slides and uh not to belabor this but Revenue by type um this is a pretty fascinating chart and graph as a whole it just lets you see where our um revenue streams are actually uh coming from and again we could spend hours on each just each one of these these charts along the way but as you as a board go ahead Cindy you as a board can see that all of this is there obviously we do not have an operating referendum fund um um you know we just don't we just don't have one and so we this is all this information so um I believe I have sufficed everything that we have there um you have in your board packet um two uh the two investment uh uh policies I want to just go through today um with for you is um if you'll notice um 01 51.1 which is the board of finance and the Huntington County Community School Corporation that was just updated last March okay so we work through um that process um with you uh back then so that's just recently been updated within the last the last year and then also the investment income piece um was done uh four years plus now December uh was last reviewed March 23rd of 2020 as when we have done that one and we'll be set to go through that one again here shortly so I am just bringing out in front of you this is the investment income piece um that I'll be working through with you coming up so at some point in time within this Ryan just kind of touched on this ever so briefly but we're going to have to put a few more details together for that so that's what I have and Becky had put together for you um this evening I'd be happy to entertain any questions at this point in time uh I would just like to commend Mrs Smith I think this is the best board of Finance report that we've had helps out thank you Ryan other comments questions be happy to answer some so hearing none Mr uh uh Allen I'm just uh we'll move on to G3 which is just Ajman of the board of Finance right we're going to adjourn the board of Finance meeting and reopen the regular meeting so I just need a motion in a second and a vote then please uh anybody make a motion to adjourn the board of Finance I'll make a motion that we adjourn the board of finance and a second second thank you Mr melter Mr wall any question or comments before we vote let's vote on the motion Aon you want to help him out motion passes 60 move on to re reopen the regular meeting and move on to H1 document scanning agreement between hccs and Von ozal and Farrar yes uh this evening we have uh Mr Mike Sumpter who is the director of Technology here who is going to present to you um and ask for your approval of a new document scanning agreement between us and varal doll far as I hope I said that right did I say that right you okay and so Mike thank you go over some of the particulars with us this evening so have a better understanding of what the board is voting on tonight absolutely um back in late 2023 when we school board made the decision to purchase Ready Med and make the move we had an opportunity to digitize all the boxes of paper that we've collected over all the years um so in the beginning of that process we wanted to inventory what we had and of course Student Records teacher some teacher documents were uh excuse me me student records were all being digitized anyway and then the teacher files were not that was paper and I believe we have papers going clear back uh 1800s probably back there in the back amazing some of the documentation that we have collected over the years um because of that though we chose to work with State Board of account or State uh records and retention and uh in doing that we had a little program we put together started going down the road of that stopping there we hired a consultant or worked with a consultant rather on who do we pick to help us with this initiative who do we work with what companies are out there to assist us and how soon can they get record scanned uh in working with that consultant we put out asking for quotes only two biders came back and the lowest bid was uh van asdal ferar in that directive back then we we wanted to take off and go stay with the same company we wouldn't have any uh procedural changes workflow changes and it just made sense to move forward with one vendor for the entire project what started out is only 91 records then turned into allow conversion which meant here's another opportunity to bring all those teacher documents all the teacher records anything teacher related administrator related we can stick that all into Lao and now we have all One-Stop shop all the data is there so that started phase two phase three will be the last remnants of what's in the back room at salamony and then hopefully that'll wipe out all of the documents that we have left everything will be digitized and moving forward anything that we have from a student record in the beginning when new students come in secretaries can scan it and it goes immediately into power school and now everything is digital from this point forward it'll take us maybe four or five years for all the grade level to get caught up with the scanning as we work on that um but that's something we'll work with with Administration so the quote that you see in front of you is for phase three that will be the remainder of the student records from last school year and then all of the records that we had in the back uh Vault going clear back to almost eight a little bit 1800 I think we found one document and so uh yeah so we're going to try to preserve as much as we can Within a financial reason though I mean we could have probably spent $500,000 but um it just isn't some of it we had to make some decisions on so so in your board packet board what you will see is a as a pricing estimate of $1 16,826 um what I wanted to draw your attention to is the project scope of our vault and storage room we're looking at a total of 423 small Banker boxes we have slightly over 1.1 almost 1.2 million dollar excuse me 1.2 million images that we're supposed to we're going to try to play catchup on here um this is um I appreciate Mike's work with the state and making sure that we're meeting all the requirements along the way but this is decades upon decades upon Decades of work um of records that we're going to try to bring up to speed for all of these so our recommendation to you um this evening is to accept um this quote thank you Mr trout uh Mr Sumpter quick question um how is all this that's being scanned I know you have it backed up several different ways so that and when being an old guy I think paper's always been around so right sure so you talk about getting rid of it you know right what's the what's the plan to make sure it's protected forever great question so when van ozdal provides us a link to their a secure FTP site and then we will download it from there we'll store it into Google Drive for right now uh the teacher records administrator records those will be immediately uploaded into Lao which is a system that we have on site that system is being backed up currently in three different places and so that's one of the really neat things in working with records the state of Indiana records and um retention they really were fascinated by what we're trying to store and how we're how we're storing it and um and so there is going to be three backups for anything that's in on Prem or here and then Google Drive of course that's the largest that's unlimited for us so for those Student Records at the moment we will keep those there but then once our power school is set up and we've worked with Administration secretaries rolled out everything it'll go right into that same backup as as the laow system so we will have three different areas that are being backed up constantly and we're protected in three different locations too so it make one of those being Cloud so it makes it really nice for us and we have we were required by law to keep paper copies depending upon um you know because there's different time frames we have to keep different documents for up to and including you know yeah it can vary depending upon what employee group we're talking about usually those around the five to seven year time uh frame within that when I first came on site what made me really nervous is that we didn't have this backed up anywhere um heaven forbid we ever have an issue where you know something would happened that we'd lose these fire who knows what um we have lost all that history uh and so in our community depends on that it's not uncommon for us to get phone calls every week asking for verification of still in the blank and so um I appreciated Mike's work with the state to ensure that we're we're going Way Beyond what we need to do for backup we're doing it actually two or three different places to ensure that that's it's safe thank you sure it's good answer any other questions or comments before we forward does anybody like to make a motion reference this request I'll make a motion to approve the document scanning agreement between hccsc and vano and far as presented and a second second thank you Mr melt M time any further questions or comments we'll go ahead and vote on the motion I know this probably isn't the right time to but while we were waiting on it while Mr sumpner is here I didn't know if you wanted to have him talk about the I saw it came out in the news media right about the data breach yes and how great we are and fortunate yep he Mike's actually going to come in on that during motion passes 60 go ahead SCH board okay very end Mike's gonna comment on that thank you Mr Suter yep aren't you Mike yes we'll move on to Age Two November 2024 Finance reports yes um pitch hitting for Mrs Smith here uh this evening we're going to walk through our four major budgeted funds which are uh the education fund of Debt Service fund the operations fund and the rainy day fund so we're going to start with the education fund um you should you're very familiar um with these uh charts and graphs that we do on a consistent basis at our board meetings this right now is for November of 2024 um we are working quickly on finishing out the fiscal year of 24 and we'll have in 20 in uh December 20 or excuse me January 27th meeting have those um reports for you also but in the education fund um you can see there that this report report shows that in November we were 91.5 3% through the year Revenue received was 90% and budget expenses was just shy there you can see of 76% um as um customary for us this fund is Right On Target uh for that time of the year so I'm very pleased with our budgeting and our expenditures and how we're working through um the year with that um next we have The Debt Service fund here uh this report doesn't show very much activity due to the main times it shows activity in basically in June and December when we do next months you will see that will obviously change there as we receive the majority of our property taxes during those time frames okay um the operations fund uh this report only shows about 50 excuse me 56% of the revenue received this is also because this is a property tax uh Revenue fund and the majority of the revenue comes in June and again December um however we were we are at about does it say 69% expended and so again we're right on track for where we should be um for this time um of year the next fund is the rainy day fund uh remember this fund was established from the excess fund trans transfers from other funds the 1.5 million budget is strictly for uh the new Administration office here in Huntington 81% has been expended from that budget which is right on target um as you can see um the it's there's a lot of activity going on there and um they are Chuck I believe scheduled to be done at the end of this month is that right uh pretty close to it pretty close to it uh there then so um we're anticipating a move in the latter part of February at this point in time we'll bring more information out to you hopefully at the next meeting next we have will'll review the following two customary funds um the first one is uh Food Service um and curricular materials here's go through Food Service why it's there um this is a fiscal year fund that runs July through June which is a little different than the rest uh the month of November does not show the federal reimbursement as we didn't get it until December um so please don't be alarmed by that other than that this fund is Right On Target and we want you to be aware of that it was important for you as a board that you wanted to see this food service fund and so I'm glad that you're keeping eyes on that next we have the curricular materials fund this fund continues to show a $2.3 million balance uh this is this is until the next adoption comes through now we're Becky's been talking to us about this so please understand this is going to be a change that another reminder that this fund uh that will be transferred to the education fund at the 2024 year end due to legislation so this is going to roll in um to the education fund and we just want to make sure that we're continuing to bring that um to your attention um next we're going to show the education and operations fund historical and so um this is the fiveyear um Becky and I like to do this so um Trends actually six um education fund so we've highlighted November here uh for you in order for you to see that the last six years in comparison of the same time of year the balance will go down in December after the education fund to the operation fund transfer of less than 15% approved by law takes place so I'm just bringing that to your attention but um becking I'd like to just compare months to months so in case we absolutely see anything out of order it will draw our attention to that um we have not uh found that up to this point and then the operations fund you will also notice that November is highlighted to see the comparison over the years December will be um more of a picture based on the property taxes that come in and after the add to operations transfer is completed uh just a reminder to you that the December financials um will be done here the next month or so when we do the year end presentation so um what I'm seeking for your approval of this evening um is the November 20204 board financial report I'd be happy to answer any questions thank you Mr trout do anybody like to make a motion regarding the November 2024 Finance reports recommend we approve the November 2024 Financial reports as presented thank you Mr wall any second thank you Mr mlen any questions or comments before we vote Mr trout you must have done really well well thank you hearing nothing we'll vote probably need to thank Mrs Smith for her good notes I do motion passes unanimously 6 to zero move on to H3 three temporary support between hccs and Huntington County EMA Huntington County highway department board Mr trout and our public this is an informational item uh we are temporarily partnering with the huntingon County highway department and the Huntington County EMA due to an issue they experienced over uh what would be our Christmas break with their fueling station uh billing has been set up with each of these entities and are being taken care of through our business department fuel supply is more than adequate for hccsc in our needs and I really want to commend Vanessa Fields our transportation director um for her communication with multiple entities due to their uh issue they experienced um it's worked out very well so far on a temporary basis and we are certainly uh proud to help uh from Huntington County Community Schools when asked to do so uh with both of these entities uh I will update you or Mr mlin will um at at meeting in the future uh when their fueling stations have been fixed remedied and ready to go back to them but did want just for informational item to let you know we are partnering with them um and making sure the billing is adequate uh proper and state board approved and all those things are in place thank you Mr Burberry I can I can tell you that this is the way communities are supposed to work um stepping up and helping when when there's trouble and I know this was certainly an unexpected expected thing that the county was dealing with so thank you and thank Mrs Fields and Mr trout for yeah I I would add Tim benessa uh put in some long hours very quickly uh in her Communications uh with multiple entities here including us to make sure this went as seamless as possible and I thank Mr trout um the board members and her for helping out in the community thank you Mr brimberry anybody have any questions or comments before we move on no I was just gonna also uh reiterate what timid said that I'm I'm proud of the the administration to be able to get this done and help them out as quickly as we did thank you Mr wall um we're going to move on uh i1 policies policy 6250 requiring ADM counts for the purpose of State funding and verification of residency for membership Mr trout yes this is Mr bberry no this is me uh this is just the first reading this evening I'm asking you um we will be bringing this back to you uh at the January 27th meeting for a second and final reading um this is just keeping up to dat uh on this topic of ADM counts for proposed of State funding and verification of residency so um we are paid by the pupil by the state of Indiana and this is just we're continuing constantly to update this policy to make sure that we're in line with all all state requirements so this is just a first reading only but I'd be happy to answer any questions you may have but we'll bring it back to the next meeting for final approval thank you Mr trout any questions for Mr trout um it you it says new policy for ADM counts is the state changed what is changed I guess you know well um I know it's loaded yeah it's it's just verif it's just verifying um even though students can go to any school district that they want to go to we still have to go through the verification process uh for each and every student and so this is just keeping us up to speed with those um requirements for State funding okay great thank you yep um move on then to I2 volume 34 number two policy packet yeah I just want to thank Cindy uh gray for continuing to help and assist and Lead me through this process quite frankly uh she's been awesome aome um we there is a series of school board policies there for first reading uh that covers a variety of topics okay and so um we are just bringing those out in front of you uh tonight this gives you a couple of weeks to ask us any questions uh offer any suggestions along the way but um we are upgrading that now um for Aaron who is new to the board you will see that these are in rough draft form we show you our markups we show you a lot of pieces with this when we come back with the second reading it'll be the cleaned up version okay but for the first readings um we will always show you um the adjustments we're making the markups the deletions um the ex all those uh pieces along the way this is a very tedious and timeconsuming task um we have as you know over the last few months updated several and we continue that process today so um I'll be happy to answer any questions but like many of you do in the P have done with me in the past you'll call me and say explain this one school board policy and this section and so don't be hesitant to do that as you um work your way through um these pieces okay thank you Mr Tri any questions for Mr TR or any comments hearing none we'll move on to item J discussion by board members J1 review of process of interview and election of District Two School Board seat you have a statement to read there regarding the selection of a new member of the hccs board of school trustees representing District two Mr Matt Roth sent his notice of resignation from the hccs board of school trustees to the clerk of the Huntington County Circuit Court on Thursday December 16th 2024 the 30-day timeline to fill the position started on that date soon thereafter the hccs board gave public notice of the member vacancy for district 2 and solicited applications from those persons interested in filling the remainder of Mr Ross's term ending December 31st 2026 a total of 13 community members applied for the open District 2 School Board seat the requirements to be eligible dur review for the open Schoolboard seat essentially are an adult residing within the designated Geographic boundaries of hccs District 2 five of the applicants did not meet that residency guidelines eight applicants met the residency guidelines however since the application deadline last Friday January 10th two candidates have withdrawn their names from consideration the remaining six qualified candidates will be interviewed by hccs board on Tuesday tomorrow January 14 2025 we'll begin at six o'clock here in this where we sit right now six candidates are Colin Davis James dmer Christopher hofman Cynthia kefir Deborah Miller and Henry Miller Hank Miller these interviews will be open to the are open to the public and will be live streamed the interview process and procedure this interview sequence will be determined by random draw by board Council Mr Wy 20 minutes will be allotted for each interview moderator Joe Wy will ask all candidates the same questions with followup Allowed by board members selection of a new member to represent District 2 happens like this at the conclusion of the interviews the board will have time to discuss their individual support of any candidate after all discussion is concluded the balloting will start Mrs Gray will make a roll call of each board member and the members will indicate who they support in the appointment the successful candidate must receive four affirmative votes in order to be appointed If no candidate receives a majority of four votes a second roll call will occur after additional discussion for the second and any subsequent balance ballots the order for the roll call will rotate essentially so the same person isn't leading every time the process for balloting will continue until a four vote majority is received If no candidate receives four affirmative votes votes after multiple ballots an impass will be declared and the selection will be turned over to the judge of the Huntington County Circuit Court our community is reminded this that this process and time frames for these procedures are governed by the governed by the Indiana code and hccs policy bylaws the new District 2 School Board member will be sworn in on January 14th or January 27th at the latest I think I can I'm going to speak for myself and maybe for the board too but we are looking forward to um the process um really encouraged and excited uh about the fact that we had 13 people um want to be a part of the board I hope the community Tunes in and and listens in to what happens tomorrow night and I'm sure we will find a very good candidate anyone else comments um Mike would you um I know we've been asked Mr meler asked me this evening here at the board meeting and I've got a couple other inquiries um there's been a lot of media attention uh drawn to uh the power school data breach uh recently do you just want to which you just talk to um where we as a district stand in that process and then we'll take any comments or questions from the board then okay absolutely uh the power school data breach was massive probably the largest U the largest I've ever known and probably will exceed the largest probably ever of the theft of student data right now they're looking at between 80 to 90 million Student Records that were confiscated um and that's only Student Records that doesn't include all the teacher information or other uh information that other districts keep in there as well um a very very large strategic move on those people the districts that were compromised the most uh were districts that um had Securities that maybe for a lack of better terms we're not as stringent as what I feel we have had traditionally um here at Huntington we were not affected now we have one thing going for us all of our data and Power School uh databases are on Prem they're right here in our Corporation the corporations that were compromised were in power schools Cloud which uh is very bad they are going through and trying to identify how much data was taken right now they're looking at near pedabytes of data that uh was taken over a 7day period of time the perpetrator uh for power school came in hung out for about seven days took what they wanted and they were the ones that notified Power School of what they were doing now this takes into question where are their Securities what are they doing how do they recover uh Power School has been very forthright very uh forward in the fact that they're taking steps to secure their environment more and uh trying to help every corporation they can to recover now as a rule of thumb as Tech directors in the state and Nationwide we are told trained you never pay for ransomware you take that money that you have and you invest it into your own infrastructure and you protect yourself and we started that Journey continued that Journey three years ago when I got here and so we've kept building upon what was done in the past and we've taken steps to block that and um and I feel that because of those steps we've taken we have protected ourselves and we've been lucky I by no means I really uh yeah we're just lucky I've had the fortunate or unfortunate opportunity to go through two ransomware attacks at another district and frankly I have no desire to go through number three especially a district this large that has so much data um so we're doing everything we can to double down power school is I don't know what their direction will be how they're going to recover from that I don't know what they'll do it does make me a little nervous on their future right here we have all of our initiatives and everything into power school and me being pessimistic I have to think well what's Plan B what do we do if they're not around one day um so uh hopefully it doesn't come to that but they have been very forward been very forthright letting us know we are fortunate many other districts were not there were social security numbers stolen there was all types of data that was taken from that theft and uh it's very unfortunate so but to reiterate um we were not affected by this attack we were not because just say it again I know we're repeating ourselves it's okay sure yep but just because right so three years ago we did a massive upgrade with all of our firewall and all of our uh Pol security policies and stuff we blocked Ukraine Russia China uh many countries outside uh the United United States uh the IP address or the attacker uh was from Ukraine and that's how he invaded Power School uh we block Ukraine so even if he tried to attempt to get in he wouldn't be able to um so we started there that was only the beginning with our firewall since then we've partnered with the state of Indiana where we've received probably close to $120,000 worth of free crowd strike software uh and we will take on that cost cost coming into this next budget year gladly which should come out to maybe about 15 20,000 a year state of Indiana worked with Department of Homeland Security for a grant to help every Federal program there is in the state of Indiana we were in group two uh that received those relatively early um so we have uh we've taken many many steps to prevent or to be as proactive as we can the last thing I ever want to do is sit back and have to come to you and say yep they got me they got us here's what they did no way I'm the other way I want to take it to them be proactive what can I do to see hear where is it coming from that way on the day that there is an attempt uh it's thwarted in minutes rather than weeks or days so we did not lose any student data no student data was lost no teacher data was lost nothing was lost okay um other questions comments sorry Mike go ahead no no no any other comments questions for Mr Sumpter in this area but I know a couple of you have asked me and that's why when Mike was here Ione didn't take an opportunity to tell you I I would I'd just like to say you said we were lucky um you know I've learned that you know the harder you work the luckier you get yeah you know um lucks preparation and opportunity you know so I appreciate your efforts and we're very thankful thanks and if we're being honest with you uh over the last year this wasn't the first time that we've had to deal with a significant attack and so so far so good with all of the implementation and all the things that we're doing um and I'm grateful for Mike your team and um what we're trying to do to stay ahead this is a constant battle it is a constant battle it's you get tired of it after a while it is for us in it you know protecting our our assets are Paramount and um there's nothing more valuable than the digital asset and I feel so for so many school districts and our colleagues who are having to address the situation right now so I just didn't want you to think that since we're not talking about it that we were not fully aware but um I hope this gives you a little bit better insight into this into this uh pretty prominent uh newsworthy issue at this point in time thank you thank you Mr Sumpter got thank you Mike any other comments or questions about that um move on to J2 items of discussion by board members anybody have something they'd like to add uh seeing as I got reelected as board leaz on I thought it'd be a great time to just bring up a couple conversations about uh State Legislature came back in a session I believe at the beginning of this week um some of the key priorities that have come out of the legislature uh or some key interesting bills that have come out um uh there is a bill out there to dissolve uh some school boards uh we are not going to meet that criteria I know one of them is I I IPS um but it's something to keep an eye on because if they're going to start where you know they're going to start with the large ones at some point that may come into us so it's something to keep an eye on the concept of partisan Schoolboard elections is back on the agenda that disappeared for a while but it's back on the plat uh and then also just property tax reform um we'll keep I'll keep you updated on that as stuff comes around so we I uh Indiana School Board Association as well uh but I would also call out that both Andy Zay and Lissa sweet have their constituent surveys out there right now I'd appreciate if all of you would take a few minutes to to go find them on their websites if I remember I'll try to forward you a link to both of those uh and take a few minutes to fill those out one of the many ways that we can give some signals to uh our state representatives about how we feel about it here in Huntington County and want to do that um and then just as a again a another reminder um I will be signing up and trying to attend the Indiana state house uh day on February 18th uh it's a good time if anybody else wants to go uh the board president and the legislative Le lezon are always invited to go down um it's no cost to us uh and they do provide us an opportunity to sit down and have lunch with some of the legislators um I have not yet been able to get either Mr Z or Mrs swe to to be able to join me for lunch but I continue to try to get that done and I'm working my way trying to make sure that happens so it's always fun and it's nice because we sit in um at the at the meeting we sit with other board members from our district that meets us so I've gotten to that's how I've gotten to know some of the board members from Whitley County and some other counties around us so it's a fun time it's a great opportunity to sit and talk to other school board members and listen to what's going on down at the state the first one he brought up I just sent that information to Mr brimberry and he in the near future is going to come and give you a report on uh Huntington County um it's also fascinating because you can not only look at us but uh surrounding districts and the percent of students that that live in their District that are not going to your school district I think that you will be very pleased of the comparison of how we compare against some of the school districts around us because um in some cases that's not the perception but I believe I just I just sent it to Chuck today to up in the near future is to give you um that that report the threshold that the legislators are currently working on is 50% that's those four or five districts I can't remember how many that are falling underneath um that category at this point in time um Ryan and I are going to be participating you want to talk about that just briefly Ryan as you're going down that road yeah sure so uh Saturday and this is one of the things that I would also so uh thank Mr Carl that was actually my next topic but thanks for the nice lead in uh is uh the local uh new board member uh orientation up in Fort Wayne I know Mr Carl can't attend that one he's gonna attend the virtual one but uh we've been reached out uh Mr trout and myself and two other board members will be sitting on a panel uh at the end of that session to talk about board and superintendent relationships and how that goes I look forward to that we're actually I believe it's Warsaw is the other one that we doing it um so it'll be a fun time to go up there I plan on actually going up in tending uh just a little bit early just to meet some of the new board members uh in my role as District three uh board director so it looks like a fun time and I will also point out uh the last little bit is uh I am going to apply and I hope Mr Allen takes the moment to apply that uh at the end of the month uh isba has a new uh board president uh certification process that they're rolling out out uh it's a a nice opportunity to learn how to be a board president and find out some of the stuff that's going on uh I know there's been some slow turnout but I'm hoping after everyone gets organized that that starts filling up as well it's just an opportunity to see what's going on and again an opportunity to network and see other meet other board members and board presidents around State and that's the isba update thank you Mr wall anyone else have anything for the board uh in the near future can we get a tour of the new family and consumer science yes uh we just brought that up today um we are going to be holding an open house uh for the areas of the high school which would include this area there are still some members of our community who have not been in this area even but this area the science rooms family consumer science and we will also the same at the exact same time doing an open house of the new central office so we're shooting for a March date uh to that to happen um there's going to be there I we also want to coordinate with the science teachers at the high school because Chuck you want to touch on the planetarium that we do some demonstration we want to make sure that uh during the open house not only is our community and our board and everybody able to see it but we want you to experience some of the Investments you've made in the planetarium and those areas so uh we're working with uh some of the teachers uh I just talked to them today in terms of what date in March might be available a couple of dates to send to Cindy and John and uh we are super excited I stopped by and saw uh Mr Villa NOA and uh he cannot wait to get our public and you and he even mentioned uh in the future I talked to Jay Peters about maybe um some of our elementary kids Touring that particular facility to get get them excited about science and so we are uh we're working on it hard and we're excited to have our public and you in there so be we as soon as we can get those dates set that date set we're going to do all of those areas at um at one time just a sidebar on that Kenny told me today that um some of the some of the things that he put together on the mural where he's been uh putting that out to the public has had over 40,000 views um um so the mural going around uh the science area has been uh very well received um along the way as a matter of fact is uh some of us haven't aged a bit and uh truth yeah and several decades I guess it' be the place but it it has been very well received as we have tried to honor the history um the great history of this school district in this in this High School along the way so I you haven't had a chance to do that I would encourage you to also go take a look at that um along the way and I to give credit where credit was do um that's almost entirely and I mean this entirely Terry thornsbury um Chuck finally told me to leave him alone because I was been quizzing him about what are we doing with the walls what are we doing with the walls and I kind of got chewed out by Chuck one day to say please leave Mr thornsberry alone I have seen parts of it and you're going to love it and so Chuck Surly he has been a quiet person behind the scenes but that's truly his gift it was literally his gift back to Huntington north um for his unbelievable experience here um there are more than 400 pictures uh on the mural and I would also tell you it took um I say hundreds of hours uh to put that together uh by Terry and there is uh I'm not aware of another high school that I personally or Pat or John or Jay have been in that has that history as you walk in so unbelievable gift from uh of the amount of hours it took from Terry to donate back to his high school and he said it I mean um donate so please understand he has quietly behind the scenes done that um which is Incredible Gift to us back from him the next time he's here um he probably will not forgive me for saying that publicly but he it was this was truly uh his gift uh to the high school so we're great very appreciative of Terry I know that it was built up that there was this big thing coming out there and and um it it it certainly was worth waiting for it it really looks nice anything else for the good of the group uh after I got done to the isba I just wanted to say on January 4th I attended the girls Holiday Tournament which happened to be Sue forgi and Bill for's last athletic event uh for Huntington North High School uh I truly want I thank them for myself for being that but uh they have spent a lot of time in athletics and within in the high school itself of all the work that they've done uh and I know Sue and Bill will both be missed uh but I wanted to make sure let you all know that they uh Sue is still gonna be around she's still gonna help us through graduation one last time she told me she's also coming back for a couple of uh State Testing things uh but uh I I think we're we're losing a a great employee uh but I wish them both well on their on their next Adventures very good thank you anything else I'll take a motion to adjourn moved second all those in favor we're adjourned

good evening you're welcome we'll call this meeting the Lo Corporation meeting to order please stand for the pled I pledge alance to the flag of the United States of America to the for it stands one nation God indivisible [Music] andice all right as a point of Interest we'll have the meeting we'll have like three separate meetings this evening we'll have the school board organizational meeting we'll then have the finance committee meeting and then we'll have the regular school meeting following that up all right so um first off we have the we are we are now opened up in the Schoolboard organizational meeting and the first thing we'll do is to approve the organizational meeting agenda and in that agenda tonight we'll have the election of officers board compensation organization of the Board of Trustees for 2025 the appointment of school board Representatives public comments and some signatures make a motion to approve the organizational meeting agenda we have a second second all right any further discussion all those in favor signify by sign of I I all those opposed same sign the motion passes okay move into elections officers do I have a nomination for president yes Mr mcord I would like to make a motion to um elect Mr Mike McCord as board president for the 94th straight year or the 95 are there any other names all right is there a second I'll second good all right any further discussion all those in favor Mike McCord's president please signify by sign of I I I all those opposed same sign the motion passes next to the position of Vice President I'd like to nominate Mr Bill cuppy any other names is there a second second all right any further discussion all those in favor of Mr Bill Cy as vice president please signify by sign of I I all those opposed same sign the motion passes next is the motion for secretary i' like to nominate Mr Milt Hess for board secretary get a second out this are there surely there's some other sque squeeze a second out nobody could fill these shoes I gu don't even try I don't see Chris here okay uh any discussion Chris no all right uh all those in favor signify by sign of I I all those opposed same sign the motion passes we will now move on to uh board compensation and uh this is our regular board meeting compensation per board meeting uh the recommendations for the board compensation to be set at $150 per regular meeting is there a second second any further discussion all those in favor signify by sign of I I all those oppos same sign the motion passes next is the executive session or special meetings compensation I'll make a motion that we accept the recommendation to compensation be set at $75 for an executive or Andor special meeting is there a second a second all right any further discussion all those in favor signify by sign of I I all those post same sign motion passes next next is board salary uh I'll make I'll make a recommendation for the board salary to set at $2,000 per year is there a second second any further discussion all those in favor signify by sign of I I I all those opposed same sign the motion passes next on the agenda is the organization of the board of school trustees year 20125 and some of these will be appointments and then some will be things we will vote on first is an appointment by the president uh of the school corporation treasur and assistant Treasures I recommend we appoint Greg correct as treasur and Molly Pearson and Lori Haney as co-assistant Treasures next is the establishment of the bond for the school corporation treasur and assistant Treasurer uh recommendations to establish a bond for the school corporation treasur and co-assistant treasures $100,000 bond for each is there a second second any further discussion all those in favor signify by sign of I I all those say sign motion passes next I'll make an appointment for the school corporation legal council for the year 2025 calendar year I recommend that we uh appoint Hillis and Hillis and Rosie as legal counsel Logan sport Community School Corporation for the year 2025 is there a second wait a minute that's an appointment sorry a second for that that's just an appointment now it comes to the I got this now we go to a one less it's actually Hillis Hillis Rosie Dean Dean d e n e d all right de yes so noted and so corrected thank you uh next for voting we establish for the retainer for thief for the School Corporation Council for the year 2025 calendar year the recommendation is the retainer fee of $66,000 for the School Corporation Council for the year 2025 calendar year is there a second second any further discussion all those in favor signify by sign of I I all those oppos say sign the motion passes next I'll appoint the corporation physician for the year 2025 calendar year I'm appointing Dr Dallas bich as the logosport Community School Corporation physician for the 2025 calendar year license we did weiz take pressure playing a lot of golf these days okay you'll see the retainer fees a little less than yeah you wait Happ we got you guys in establish the retainer for the school corporation physici for 2025 I'll make a motion to establish retainer fee of $500 for the school corporation physician for the 2025 calendar year is there a second a second any further discussion all those in favor signify by sign of I I all those post same sign motion passes I'll now make a appointment for the school corporation civil rights compliance officer I recommend we appoint Genie adir as the Logan sport committee School Corporation civil rights compliance officer um next we move into the appointment of of school corporations Representatives uh there will be appointments here um first as I make the appointment of the school corporation repres representative for the century career center Advisory Board I recommend we appoint Michelle starky into that position next is the appointment of the school corporation representating for the Parks Board I make a recommendation be appoint Mike mcord because he's an idiot uh into the school Parks this is being live broadcast professional M when I'm on my city things I always say things like that and I always regret it so that's my first regret of this evening all right mine is we voted you as president yeah exactly second thing all right uh next to the appointment of the school corporation represent to the bid committee my recommendation is to appoint mil Hess and Becky gr representatives for the bid committee next we have the appointment of the school corporation representative to the Indiana Association of public school superintendents uh we recommend to we appoint Michelle starky is the school Court representative to the Indiana Association of public superintendents y y next is the appointment of the school corporat representative to the legislative liazon to the Indian Indiana State School Board Association I recommend we appoint Becky gr as the school corporation legislative leaz on to the Indiana School Board Association Next is the appointment of the school corporation representative to the climbers Tiff board that's the county Tiff board uh our recommendation is to appoint Michelle starky as the logosport Community School Corporation representative to the climbers Tiff board county Tiff board uh next is the appointment of school corporate representatives to the ECA the extracurricular activities uh and there we recommend to appoint Becky gr and also the district one replacement for the ECA co-chairs the person that be taking Dave McClure's Place uh will be the also that be hard to F Dave she was for that position that that's that's a big one a lot of hours on that all right next the appointment of the school corporation representative to collect a bargaining I recommend that we appoint Mike McCord and Bill cuppy as the school corporate representatives for collective bargaining next appointment of the school corporation representatives to the investment committee this is a new one this year uh making the recommendation that to appoint the following investment committee board members Mike McCord and Bill cuppy administrat Michelle starky and Greg CCT and the Lea will have two members of their choice now it's time for any public comments before we end this session anybody want to say anything because it's on it's been live street right all right moving on to um we have the um we'll have some board signatures at the end for any of the conflict of interest statements but for now we'll adjourn this meeting all right now you'll Now open up the next meeting which is the finance meeting and stuff here hold on okay open up the finance meeting um is there we make a nomination for the president of the finance uh meeting Finance commission Board of Finance Board of Finance thank you very much if I could read it'd be helpful I make a nomination we we nominate Bill cuppy as president of the board of Finance is there a second I'll second any further discussion all those in favor signify by sign of I I all those same sign motion passes you run this meeting from here and out thank you now I can step this up a little bit inquality or speech for secretary is our nomin as our nomination for the office of Secretary of the board of Finance well I'll make a motion I'll make a motion to nominate u m house is secretary of the board of Finance is there a second second second who said second Mike mik Mike any further discussion boy it's been a while since all those in favor signify by son of I any opposed all right that's approved uh moving on to the board Finance report Mr CRA sure uh you've got a letter and some corresponding uh supporting information uh in your packet uh briefly I'll reference the policy which is policy 6144 uh as we review that policy there at this time there's no uh need for any adjustments to that policy it just references our our investment options and it's really driven by the state of Indiana certainly certificates of deposit where the principal is protected is the most risk they want to take so that's that's kind of how we have to operate so um ABS questions on the policy uh we have no changes for that this time around and uh it does meet current ADN code any questions from Mr CCT so addition um I'm required to supply you with uh interest income information per state of Indiana uh pretty solid year this year with rates uh remaining High uh coming off of calendar 2020 3 um in 2024 rates stayed High we even concluded the year still earning a little over 4% so uh it turned out that we brought in about $44,000 of interest income for calendar 24 uh signs are Corning that rates may dip a little bit here in 25 but we'll play the wait and see game and and let that happen as it does we've also got some history there from the past seven or eight years uh to look at and consider um so it's nice to have the little extra income in 24 and we'll hope that we land probably somewhere between 23's numbers and 24s in calendar 25 absent of questions about the report or in general uh you have my report for this item nothing further all right nothing further moving on to the finance yeah U we're going to have a quick couple slides for you we had some technical difficulties I'll just walk through the fiscal indicators for you uh the state of Indiana in terms of uh trying to provide the public with transparency with school corporation funding and and information from the school corporation uh where they have identified some indicators what they call fiscal indicators um enrollment happens to be one cash balances um tax rate uh circuit breaker things of that nature happy to report our enrollment since 2006 has remained very steady uh from 4100 to 4300 has been kind of our typical range for the better part of all those years so uh does make budgeting a little more simp simplified and it certainly helps us from having to build additional buildings when enrollment is steady and then conversely if it it would decrease we would have other things to consider but um happy to report enrollment continues to be nice and steady for us uh that's probably our most uh Cornerstone of of what we do and how it builds the the funding but uh additionally we have cash balances cash balances are continuing to improve over the last several years and uh happy to report that and lastly probably the one indicator that's noteworthy for the public would be our circuit breaker circuit breaker for for Logan sport schools continues to be uh the one kind of negative uh indicator uh not much we can do about it it's Indiana law that that caps property tax monies for the schools and cities and whatnot but uh to the tune of about $2 million is how it impacts our budget with those circuit breaker caps in place so U we'd certain like to have those dollars to help fund programs uh on the operations fund but uh at this time we we're averaging about 2 million in in dollars that we do not receive receive under the property tax cap holes absent of additional questions involving the indicators uh that's my report for indicators can you remind us where we can find this information certainly certainly so if you go to indiana.gov and simply search for Indiana Public Schools uh fiscal indicators uh all that information for all schools in Indiana is available simply select Logan Sports schools and you'll have a wide of data that you can U reference and uh dive into anything further no other topics no other comments the board of Finance meeting is adjourn think we need that all right we will now go to our third meeting this is now call to order the um regular school board meeting call that in order one of the fun things tonight we get to do is recognition app's teacher of the M it's allun it's all fun ask Mr lendy from logas for intermediate school to introduce the Applebee's teacher of the month who comes from the Intermediate School sure um thank m tury board um pleasure to be here tonight to um honor one of our uh teachers um Applebee's teacher of the month is an award that's been ongoing for quite a while um it's uh in our building um we put this out to the staff um the staff is the one that kind of drove this um they chose um somebody in our building who um they they think highly of um and so we collected um some surveys information they were able to make comments it was completely Anonymous um we did not collect their names or anything like that but one of the things that we did do is um anybody that was nominated we shared um what their colleagues had to say about them and why they nominated them even if they weren't chosen um as the Applebee's teacher of a month and and they were very appreciative of that um knowing that they were being recognized um and so that goes along kind of with a lot of our um staff employee morale that we're we're trying to implement and just building that culture there I'm just going to share one particular um response um in regards to our applebe teacher of the month Mrs Hayes um her family's here so says Ashley exemplifies the lead invest and serve every day she creates a supportive engaging classroom where students Thrive she goes above and beyond to meet their individual needs Ashley collaborates with colleagues sharing ideas and fostering a positive School culture often here students talk positively about Mrs Hayes and I have witnessed her positivity in the hallways with staff and students Ashley's passion and commitment Inspire everyone around her making her truly deserving of this recognition and so I'm not going to say anything else because that pretty much sums it up and so our Applebee's teacher of the month this is Ashley [Applause] Hayes congratulations Ashley thank you let's get a picture okay perfect thank you you come up and take one or you're good thank you I always offer that welcome I didn't hear what she teaches uh Ashley is sixth grade science teaches sixth grade science in team one for us so thank you very much all right now it's time for another opportunity to have public comments you can speak come up and talk about anything it's on the agenda this evening fakers Right Moving on the consent agenda items on the consent agenda this evening are the minutes of the December 9th 2024 regular Schoolboard meeting men the December 9th 2024 executive session Personnel recommendations field trip requests donation request Treasures report for November and claims I'll make a motion to me accept this is there a second second all right any further discussion I might mention we had nine different groups give uh in the donation request portion which is pretty impressive and we even had a uh Anonymous donation that was for $3600 $3600 to be used for the uh stem program and that's pretty impressive we also had some other donations um some other large donations and I say appreciate that and and uh we never know if people want to be recognized or not but I say to the people that have given this money for this stuff we've got uh $6,700 going for the uh intermediate schools robotics program um some people gave $500 for the the pantry $100 the gymnastics program $50 The Magpie $100 for the Columbia Elementary to purchase winter coats for kids um and another one a $2,000 for a variety of prizes for the PBIS program um so say very very thankful to individuals businesses uh government things all I've done that so I just want to recognize that because it's larger than normal um all those in favor signifi by sign of I I all those oppos same sign consent agenda passes next comes our most second favorite thing and that is the presentation tonight we have the loog sport Intermediate School presentation all right again good evening um wanted to take a moment um to first off welcome um new board member to um the presentation portion of the meetings um we we are excited to be able to share um a lot of things um that Logansport Intermediate School has been doing throughout the semester um we try to highlight uh some of the the key things for um our culture initiatives um some of the the programming that we have some new um curriculum programming that we're implementing and trying to continue to expand um and so I'm going to I'm going to go ahead and click through um here and then we also have some of our students here that I wanted to bring in and uhe they're going to do a presentation on um one of their it's essentially their child like they they developed this they created it they came up with the whole plan the idea and they have taken it and just and gone with it and it's super awesome um and I'll let them kind of share a little bit more along with that um the five Seas of success and this is kind of again continuing on from last year um compassion caring and supportive um Community um a sense of togetherness and pride that's something that we've really really tried to continue to focus on um throughout out um different activities um clubs extracurriculars classrooms um local community uh partners and agencies that come in um inviting them in to come in and see what we're doing collaboration of staff students and parents um always having an open door where they can come in to to talk with us to speak to us share um successes share concerns um and then commitment investing in initiatives um in each other and again when we talk about things like staff morale um we're also you know looking at you know building culture um in a building where you know last year it was the blending of of a whole group of new kids um and I think we were off to a really great start and we just wanted to continue uh to grow on that um and then our culture who we are and what we do um at Logan sport Intermediate School and and every single day um we end our pledge um or our announcements with um our Barry pledge which will come up on the next slide but again our theme and our vision again it's continuing with we had really good success last year um with our theme and vision and so we just wanted to continue on with that same theme um one team one family leading investing in and serving others and so you know using that as our our motto every day we finish up um our announcements with our very pledge again today a lead in a positive manner and in myself and serve others because we're proud to be loganp berries and so um it's not just something that we say it's something that we continue to um reinforce with all of the things that we do um incentivizing um Behavior incentivizing academics um and then rewarding students for for outstanding achievements so without further Ado I'm going to turn this over to group of students that we have here and they're going to share a few slides with you tonight so come on up all right okay you guys have the floor I'll just click the slides you guys can stand over there okay H hi my name's Ellie gr densborn my name's Bren mccardy my name's Sera PR and we are sixth graders in the anti- litter C I don't know how to why did you start the anti Club oh yeah uh we started the anti- litter Club because we felt that there was a lot of trash on the playground and we felt that we needed a change and so that there was less littering going on dumers um we made these like um cardboard boxes with trash bags in them for paper only because um there's lots of paper activities we do and they usually the paper just goes in the trash so we made a recycling bin to put the paper in instead of the trash can and then we in the morning we go every other Friday we go to the lunchroom and get the trash barrel and then we go to the classes and take the bag out and put it in the barrel and then we add a bag to it and then we dump it in the recycling okay uh you have to make sure that you can't put anything like staplers or pencils into the recycling bin video um because then the school gets sued wa right fine that fine you're fine keep going keep going you're goodine so fine same thing so this is I'll uh I'm going to play a quick video so this was their intro video that they created and and I want to I'm going to backstory this a little bit so these these three here along with a few others they emailed me and they said hey Mr Lundy we have an idea for a new club that we think that we would need at Lis and so I said absolutely come on in and we'll sit down and talk and so they came in they pitched their idea to me you know we sat down I asked them some questions that they may not have had the answers to at that moment but it was certainly something for them to think about they went back with their group um they talked about it they got some sponsors Mrs damer and Mrs Barts are are kind of helping uh guide them um and then they came up with a plan they came up with their um objectives their club's motto um their meeting schedules when they were going to meet how they were going to operate this and then it just kind of grew from there and so this was the video that they created to um kind of promote their Club um that we sent out to all of our impact teachers the impact teachers would play them during their impact class um and I think currently Mrs damer might be able to share how many members are we at we have about 16 students that are members and we have six teachers that um kind of watched them and helped them pick up trash during brain break we've picked up 20 bags of trash so far um also we are 20 we have 20 teachers that are recycling the paper right now and we have partnered with the parks department to do some picking up at the parks on the weekends and after school things like that also Earth Day we have a big program that we're doing that we're partnering with the what's it called truck there's a slide yeah we've got a slide I'll show I'll show the video this is their recruitment video hell I'm and I am this is the name of the club is the anti Club what we do is help the community by picking a trash and it also helps Mother Nature let's go talk to oh hi I didn't see you there my name is Ellie and I'm one of vice presid and this is what we [Music] do Ste and sof I pick up even the littlest pieces of trash don't why should people join the anti- litter Club girls because it helps the community and our school okay hope to see you there warm out all right so again first initiative starting small um really just focusing on the grounds around our school obviously you know we we're out in an area where it's pretty open and you know even things that aren't created or put there by us or our students end up there um and so they saw that and wanted to take that initiative to come up with an idea on how we could start to kind of clean up at least the areas that that we use and um frequent on a daily basis okay the second initiative that they were talking about and and Mrs Damon referenced um was our community cleanup dates if you guys want to talk a little bit about some of those that you've done already so talk them about where you've gone so far so I think we've only really done one yeah we've only done one and it was at uh Riv Riverside Park and we went down the path and we picked up trash in the paths too construction work okay and so some of the things that um they discussed as a group obviously is safety um so using the the proper PPE so they wear gloves they know not to pick up you know sharp objects um they have adults with them too so they can be alerted if there's you know things like needles or anything like that on the ground um but then just general pieces of trash picking that up um they reached out to the parks themselves as a group um the parks people were were all about it they they welcom them in they're they're happy um that we have a young group of of individuals in our community that are are so excited about doing this and again it's not anybody telling them like hey we've created this group now we need kids to be a part of it it's all them and and so that's that's awesome and then the third initiative that they talked about um and referenced is the recycling and this is something that's fairly new a new idea I think as the weather changes um they're coming up with other ways to implement um this program even within the school and so looking at trash consumption and uh paper consumption I know that uh they've sat down with me as well as I've had meetings with our administrative team on talking about what's acceptable what's not acceptable but to put into our recycling um and they've communicated that out to our teachers and they've gotten teachers on board so we're at about 20 um we're going to see how things go and as long as everything's working well I think it'll be kind of a building wide initiative um as we move forward so and then talk to us about the the Earth Day oh there it is okay so on Earth Day we're going to have a park truck event where um we all collect trash and we go and we what candy picking up it's like trick-or-treating yeah it's like trick-or-treating where you go and you have like it's like trun or treat actually it's kind of like trun or treat but that's what she said you get candy from okay look at oh well we get candy for picking up trash I guess um I uh so it's a free family event and it's from 11: to 12 I guess on April 20th on April 20th 2025 I was about to say on a Saturday the flyer from last year but the park truck is an event that um is put on each year on Earth Day um people can um bring bring in trash or they can go around and they'll they'll collect trash throughout the parks um there's other events um it's free um they have some special presentations by the Wildcat Creek Wildlife Center they'll come in and do some conservation talk things of that nature um but just overall raising awareness um for our environment and and cleaniness of our community and so um we're super excited about that I know they're nervous um but they did a phenomenal job and they continue to do a phenomenal job of leading um obviously by example um and creating the the the club and then investing in their Community um school and overall Community um and serving others by giving of their time and and um um helping to to make Logan sport a better place and so we are we're in awe of uh their work so far and we're very proud of them so congratulations guys good job if you want to stay you're more than welcome you don't have to if you have other things that you need to do but um so that's just one of the cool things that we have one of the things that uh we had obviously that was was unique and again Mrs gra is here because of that process is elections um we are our sixth grade social studies classes um they kind of implemented a uh an ele an election process electoral process through their curriculum also kind of collaborating and coordinating that with um student council elections um we had a pool of about seven candidates that kind of rose to the top that were finalists for school board president um those seven finalists set up times where they came in and presented to the electors which were essentially our administrative team along with a few other teachers um and impact class groups each of those groups got a certain number of electoral votes um and then based on their presentation their I ideas and things um they were elected as the student council or student body president for this year and um Jesus um Karis is our student council president um he had probably one of the the best political presentations I've I've witnessed um he understands how to make meaningful um campaign promises um through his uh through his initiative um some of the promises that he made to the students were things like um lowering the cost in the PBIS store by 10% which he has effectively done um he convinced the electorates to do it I I mean he's he's got to he's got to convince the Senate as well so um he also um came up with the idea for the Buddy benches for our playground that is something that on our playground specifically we don't really have an area where students that enjoy being outside they just don't get into the hustle and bustle of swinging on the swings or playing on the black top they just want to kind of sit and relax and talk to their friends um they didn't have an area to do that so um through some um donations from some of our Community Partners we were able to secure some funds to be able to buy some of those benches um they also wanted to um have kind of a an area we have our two Courtyards in our in our building um one on the fifth and sixth grade side um have an area where possibly students could earn incentives to have their lunch in those Courtyards um we didn't have any tables at the time but again um through that initiative and through those ideas and and collaborating with a student council and and securing those funds we're able to purchase uh three of the tables that you see there on the left plus one table that is uh ADA Compliant so it has a wheelchair access on one end as well um and you can essentially affect ly set about 30 students out there so it could be used as an outdoor learning lab um when it's not being utilized at like a lunchtime um so that's something that uh We've implemented as well and so I'm highlighting that it was kind of a fun process for them the students uh students did a great job of of doing their presentations um one of the other areas um that we have looked at this year um to try to continue to build and grow bigger Master stronger berries um is adding an advanced PE class um this is something that we did starting at the beginning of the year um it's a little bit different in its uh uniqueness to just a general PE class um they are focused more on strength and conditioning types of activities um it's not your high school weight room setting per se um but they're you they're working on Speed and Agility uh mainly um is what they're doing and I do have a video that I want to share this is a testimonial from one of our students um and this student um came to mind because one of uh I don't know if it was a parent or a coach um they came up to me and they said that they're they're really appreciative of the fact that we have this program and it was because he came to them I believe it might have been during football season um because he does play in our youth football league as a sixth grader and he made the comment after about a month of being in this class how he felt like he could run faster he felt like he could jump higher he felt like he had more stamina he could kind of go longer um because of the things that they were doing in this class um and again just uh some things that are a little bit more than just your general PE and so I'm going to I'm going to play a little quick video clip of him kind of talking to you about his experience hi my name is Kenny Gill and I just wanted to say how be has helped me with my sports and having more stamina and pretty much anything because before I could barely do a single pushup I could I didn't have enough stand on it to really do anything and then after spe I it really helped me with doing my push-ups with my stamina it really helped me with a lot of the sports that I needed okay um and and Kenny is a is a young man that I know and I've known for several years just in coaching um and when you talk about a kid that that has um sometimes self-esteem um issues he he he may struggle um you can just see the confidence in him as well um the confidence in not only Sports in his Athletics but also in academics in his ability to um to be to be more focus in the classroom and so those are those are some unique things and then obviously you know the pictures of of our cheer squad on the left um you know th doing those types of things that they're doing there um are not easy and it takes strength it takes uh coordination um to do and and we want to continue to offer that um for for our our young Barry athletes and and O open that up as an opportunity it is a class that is um it's recommended um so this year we based it off of it's sixth grade only at the at the current time um we based that off of recommendations from Mrs pomul from the fifth graders that took PE last year um who she felt um would benefit from this program um it not it isn't necessarily all athletes that are in the program but predominantly you'll find most of the students that are in that class would be participating in some sort of athletic contest whether it's cheerleading whether it's basketball whether it's swimming tennis you know they're probably going to be in that class um and so as they continue to progress into our Junior High and those programs that are available um you know we're just trying to offer them the best competitive advantage and again um some of the things on the next slide when we when we look at oops hi my name is when we look at the strengths that we have um in the program is that we do have a dedicated like Fitness room at the Intermediate School um it's been cleared out and we can start to utilize that space in more of of that fashion um we are having an increased number of students that are catching the wind of like here's what we're doing these are things that we want to do um and so they're coming to us and asking if they can be a part of that um we see improvements not only in their athletic abilities and their physical fitness but also um in academics um and then you know it supports the LCSC Athletics Mission um of trying to be as competitive as possible and building um well-rounded student athletes um some of the current limitations that we have we are on Limited schedule we can only offer it one period just because of our staffing we have one PE teacher um but we did have an availability for her to um do that for one class period the numbers are rather small just because of the space that's available as well um and then the equipment which is we're working on it it's a work in progress It's it's improving we're getting um Speed and Agility type of equipment we're not talking about you know 45 lb plates and and barbells and things like that but um we are are getting some of the equipment that we want and that Mrs pisol sees as a a necessity for for that group and and we're getting um I think right now we actually have a set of um Pio boxes that are being uh sent to us from the high school possibly so um they're uh they're willing to help us out too they they see some some uh need in that program and then opportunities again expanding curricular programming options for our kids um encouraging Health Fitness and participation um just getting kids active um and being involved in something um and then improving their self-esteem um as well and so we're seeing the benefits of that and to go along with the extracurriculars of sports um Academic Teams like math bull science bow spell bow Battle of the books and our honors choir you'll see there's the picture is our honors Choir they're actually getting ready to go to Fort Wayne this weekend um to participate in the honors choir so we're very proud of them um they tried out and those individuals six were chosen um from our IR region um to be able to represent not only Logan sport but Lis um the picture on the right is our student council um participating in the light up Logan sport parade I can say that it was the absolute coldest night of the year um and it took about 3 Days To Tha out over Thanksgiving break but it was fun um they represented us well they loved participating in that um and being a part of that um and representing our community and then our spell bow team is pictured there at the bottom at their spellow competition I had the the pleasure of being able to assist in helping judge um and score that competition so I got to see the the spell bow uh life and action um and it was fun and they did a great job um you can see them holding uh holding their ribbons there as well and we're in the midst of robotic season um and then we also will have our drama club um they did a presentation show last year they'll be gearing up to do that I think later on this semester um and then obviously our anti-litter club um there as well so lots of different things um on top of you know what we offer as far as Athletics um we offer every single sport um that's offered at the the Junior High in the high school level um five typically 5 through eight um the only the only group that uh doesn't necessarily participate in fifth grade at least in within the conference schools is wrestling um that's a conference rule that the fifth graders don't participate in the conference tournaments or conference meet for wrestling um but they can go to any other matches or anything that we have so um that's starting up now we have swimming starting up all that's really kind of taken off this week um our girls basketball is is just started and so then we look forward softball they've already started open gyms and things for those kiddos and and then track and golf um we finished up and round out this season our our fall Sports had a good um showing um soccer team did really well um our volleyball um gymnastics tennis and cross countryes teams um participation numbers were were really high um there's a lot of kids um that want to participate in those Sports and so sometimes it uh it becomes like yeah we got a lot of kids we we could use some more bodies but we make do and and we go with what we have and and we try to give them um as much support as possible so and then adding into um the the curricular side of things computer science again um we have a computer science General computer science class typically all of our students will take that um depending on their their course schedule um but one of the things that we did we started this last school year um and offered an advanced computer science in the spring um we we didn't offer it again this fall just simply because we we needed to um kind of be able to enhance the curriculum a little bit more than what they were already doing and so in order to do that we needed to find a way to um get some of the resources as far as equipment um curricular materials um and so thanks to Dr deal um she reached out with um an opportunity to apply for a grant through the Subaru um Corporation and so Mrs Whistler and myself uh we wrote that Grant up um and sent it in out of 368 applicants that s it in for the fall uh cycle I believe um we were one of 18 that were chosen and we were chosen 18 and they have three different categories of of groups that they'll give um money too um we fell into the education side um there were groups that represented um safety um so fire departments um like the Walton volunteer fire department was one that received some um grant money um along with um like family services or mental health um Services as well and so it was really really cool and unique to be able to go and see um where some of these um Grant dollars were going to but we're very very blessed and fortunate that they chose us um and so we've purchased um some 3D printers we've purchased a set of uh Vex robotics kits that those students will start working on more advanced coding um and some CAD design with uh 3D printing um even just this week and I've got some pictures on the next slide to show that they were uh taking apart um computers and looking at the different components of computers and then putting computers and things back together so uh they're they're already in the midst of going kind of above and beyond what just a general computer science program offers and so here in the middle just to highlight these are all of the things that since even like last week on what Tuesday that they've already started to design and build with the 3D printer there's like a robot here um there's some um I would call them kind of fidget things um I actually have one of these in my office on the desk it's like a spiral inside of a spiral and so you kind of push it up move it down um it's just something that kind of has some texture to it um that back left corner is a is a giant um egg and inside the egg is like a small like kind of like dragon that that it moves the tail and everything moves along with it um I'm going to see if uh Jessica has the the programming or or uh stuff to be able to make um one of those Air Raid Sirens um Mrs Nichols has one at her house and her husband made one for her 10-year-old son um and it was pretty impressive when she showed the video so I think that would be that would be kind of kind of fun to to have but um use it when the daycare kids are taking a nap I'll do that what am I doing to you now she knows um they Kim come in and take care of all those crime um but we also use some of the money there you can see here in this picture it's a little bit small but this is one of the um the tool kits that they would use to be able to take apart these computers and um these computers are either computers that are donated to us um you know or you know we could even work alongside the IT department if there's retired computers that are going to be going to recycling or things like that to utilize those as well um obviously they're not taking apart their own computers we already have we already have enough concerns with not having enough computers so we're not promoting that um absolutely not so these are all dead computers that no longer function they don't work um but uh they were they were super into it looking at all the different components and so their their interests are are certainly peaked and these are also students that are recommended um by their teacher either from this year or from last year um they are brought down we asked them if they would be interested in doing it we kind of explain what the class is like and then um the the parents are also kind of included in that and if they give us the go ahead and then we enroll them and and they're ready to go so um it's uh it's certainly fun and unique I was in there the other day watching kind of what they were doing they were talking about um some other stuff and I think they'll also probably uh Implement an AI component in that as well this this semester and talking about how AI works and the good the bad um parts of AI as well yeah exactly um I don't have the video but I would love to show you guys the video that Mrs Whistler came up with of herself doing all kinds of like different athletic um things that uh I don't I don't even understand I don't understand it so I wouldn't even attempt to to be able to do it but um our kids are are certainly enjoying that and then also we added General music um this is aside from choir and band um not something that we had uh in store last year but um looking at curricular needs of our students um this is something that we decided to implement for this year again through um some generous Community uh dollars um we were able to procure an entire classroom set of ukuleles um so the students are were learning to play ukuleles um along with the um JBE drums um the bottom right hand corner of the boom whackers it kind of sounds like the Blue Man Group um when you're in there and they're hitting the tubes um but then just also learning things about Rhythm um beat Tempo um just your general things and at least for you know our fifth and sixth graders possibly getting them interested in joining things like band or getting you know in the the mind frame of like they enjoy it so they want to join choir um as well so these students aren't necessarily in those classes um but the uh the overall and Mrs pancake is great um she was so excited um when we presented this to her as an idea of like hey would you be interested she's like absolutely um and so we worked extremely hard to to work on getting her the things that she needs um and she's doing a phenomenal job with them and recently and I don't I don't want to take away from the be preschool but we they did um bar preschool was doing the letter M and so they did an M for me music uh day where our preschoolers a couple of their classes came over and our Intermediate School students and the preschool students did kind of like a music lesson together um and so collaborating that way as well so that was I think that was super fun they seemed really excited when they got to leave the the choir room the choir uh music room so um just a across across the building collaboration um academically word flight um this is a program Tammy McMahon um had um presented to us as an option um and so we've implemented this year um it is a uh license-based um program so we have a specific number of licenses that we're able to use um I can say that we I think are completely um 100% utilization of the ones that are given to us um and when we look at students we we look at typically students that have been in OG uh whether it's through elementary school or even in like an OG lab last year um and they may they may not have made maybe the progress that we wanted them to make so we thought maybe this program would be um something a little bit different um they have lessons and then a lot of it is kind of self-driven but the lessons kind of uh kind of stack on top of each other I would say it's probably very similar to the my path um that we have with math um currently as well four different zones um as students are assessed they can fall into one of these zones Zone one is probably your most at high risk um because they have very insufficient decoding um knowledge and a any type of autonomy they don't recognize vowel sounds you know very basic um reading um and so zone two would be more of your moderate zone three is that sum and zone four would be proficient and so we want to work towards you know getting kids if their zones one two to get them into that three four range range because that's just going to benefit them in the long run um one thing that I do want to point out and and sometimes I think we we try to put CO as far in in our memory as possible um and and bury it there but our current sixth graders were first and second graders during the 19 to 21 school years and when you look at you know reading acquisition and language acquisition first and second grader kind of like those critical years um and they missed out and they lost out on a lot and so we're really really trying to do and find anything that we can um to try to help build that up um just to give you one example of a student the top data is taken from September um this is just on general knowledge and decoding um you can see extremely uh low across the board um in areas of um like single diagraph clusters um consonants vowels just basic simple things that we would take for granted um for many of us in this room of of just understanding and knowing to the middle of the Year data which was taken right before we went to Winter Break um so same student same same stuff um you can see went from very low um to doing very very well and so um we're still in the process of collecting a lot of the middle year data again it's kind of like a self-paced um driven things so they have to get to a certain point before they can take that kind of summative assessment per se for us to get a good picture of it um but Ashley and I were looking at some of the data uh today um and so it shows that almost all of our students are showing growth um in the areas that they're working on um some maybe a little bit smaller than others but some are showing showing some tremendous growth and so um we're super excited about that hope uh that can that program can continue um in the future going into kind of the culture of of Lis um you know I I have I I'll be I'm biased I have probably the best team in the corporation um in my corner um from Ashley to Mr Deon our our dean of students who's new um to Lis this year the dean's position um to M Mrs Nichols and Mr hul and and all of the people in our office um but they're the brainchild behind a lot of the crazy stuff that we tend to do out there if you look up here um if you've seen Tik Tok and the Tik Tock ideas of the inflatable races where you know people get in inflatable costumes and they race each other and all kinds of stuff um I got a text message about oh probably a week or so before school started and it was just a video of the inflatable races I knew exactly where it was going and so I said let's do it like why not like go big at the beginning of the year so we did um we had everything from inflatable ninja dinosaurs to um oxal to a handstanding clown um and we even had an inflatable that malfunctioned um which was mine I don't know um I did end up wearing it the rest of the day but it is a giant inflatable um bulldog or it looks like a pug a pug um and I do happen to have a pug at home so we wrote Frank on the collar um and so Frank made his debut and so we just had uh like our our PBIS kickoff we invited Felix to come over he uh he graced us with his presence he even participated in a in a Sprint Race Across the gym um with one of our staff members who was uh riding a parrot I believe um so that was kind of fun for the kids that we did a raffle um the kids were able to um earn prizes board games um different you know we had some sports balls and things like that that were that were offered and so PBIS has become a big part of of what we're doing and we we started it the spring of last year we continued it on to this year here to the right hand side we do um a weekly golden spatula award um cafeteria as if you were to ever come into either an elementary or pretty much any type of education setting at lunchtime it uh it is very loud um and can be somewhat messy um but we look for and encourage students to always be doing things the right way um cleaning up after themselves if they do make a spill or a mess um trying to keep the noise level levels down to a minimum and so um our cafeteria uh Advent team will go around and they'll kind of keep an eye on certain tables and groups and people throughout the week and whoever they felt like had done the best job of of following our expectations the cafeteria will get the golden spatula well they'll get to eat out and this is kind of in our um stem small group area there um and so as we get warmer um these students will have an opportunity to maybe eat L lunch out in that Courtyard area as well and so um just got pictures of them holding up the golden spatula um as they they won the award we usually pick two tables um per week um to do that so um and then other uh PB we actually did our own staff School climate survey um just so you guys are are aware this is what the results were um and so one of the areas that we saw was um staff feeling connected to the teachers at their school and um it's real you know especially when you get into um School environments where you might have departmentalized you have departments you have teams right you're you work really close with your team but you may not know who a lot of the other people are in the building because it's hard to get out and get around and to to see everybody um one of the things we promote is our staff staff and teachers going and watching other teachers um watching them teach picking up on Little Things um but we also just wanted to kind of um bring everybody together in fun ways and so um we do Fooda palooza which is essentially like the entire month of December before break um we have a calendar and and different groups will bring in food um we encourage everybody to gather in the the lounge um and share and and camaraderie there um the woot woot wagon which is essentially a cart that we decorated and Jazz up and it's got all kinds of goodies um we did a staff survey on all their favorite things um food Snack drink and we go out and we get it and we put it on the wagon and we just show up and Andy Nicholls found or was it Andy found the an old old metal train whistle and I had to go around and blow that thing and like walk into classrooms and the teachers were like kids were like yes snacks were like not for you and they're like really like and they were so excited um and then just you know being very intentional in the use of our PD time um making sure that we're kind of spreading people out if they're a part of different committees and subgroups and things like that where they have time to collaborate with one another um whether it's in their team whether it's in their content um and then just another across other building initiatives as well and then we did the team holiday card competition some of you may have seen um we did have a vote at our winter family night and I'm very disappointed that the staff one did not win um it was our essential and practical skills that people voted for which was the best one and they were like the elves on the shelf up on the top of their stockings um and so it was just a fun way for our staff to you know kind of come up with some silly and creative things we put it on our TV displays and the kids could walk around and see them and our families came in um during family night as well so and then our winter family night just to kind of wrap things up um started it last year it was something that uh our staff looks forward to um getting volunteers families come in we partner with the Barry preschool um to do that and so lots of participation um I mean we played bingo until the last second of the last hour um and it was fast and furious and and people went away and they had a lot of fun there were a lot of games and a lot of different activities um all across the build building and so we had hallway races around cones we had um you know hitting snowballs and trying to knock over cups um shooting marshmallows uh marshmallow Shooters um snow Shooters marshmallows um and then just uh different arts and crafts um areas as well and then you may be able to see some of the decorations um students um decorated our hallways um our stem and our art classes kind of did a collaboration where the stem kids used cardboard from all different shapes and sizes some of them built big huge cardboard houses and some of them built you know trees and cut out grinches and things like that and we kind of decorated the hallways and and U had a photo booth opportunity for him as well uh Mrs starky was able to come um and see that and that was that was awesome but that essentially it so I will stop there yeah anybody have any questions for all of that nice job mil's not here so I mean I guess I got off easy tonight right you to go broadcast to make a basketball game oh I got you and Brad had to go to par night senior night for uh swimming it's too early well again we we certainly appreciate you guys um taking the time to to hear us tonight and thank you starky and the board and and everybody for all you guys do for our school and our kids so make sure you thank the group that yeah absolutely off here and our our parents and our kiddos um they're the center of everything so they're the ones that are doing all the leg work so all right thank you alrighty now we go on to the exciting action items first one is the consideration of recommendation to approve memoranda of understanding regarding the reunification site which is the localport Intermediate School to the cast County Forge Fairgrounds this is very similar to what we've done with everybody else just yeah the why the LIF gate um I can't think of all of them on top of my head right now but assume every schol Ary God forbid we have has a place yes we are Colombia we are finalizing so okay motion to approve I'll second that any further discussion all those in favor signify by sign of I I I all those oppos same sign motion passes next is the consideration to of recommendation to award School Bus bids for 2025 anything new Mr GCT so yeah you've got a letter in your packet from Mr Moss we participated in the Central Indiana Educational Service Center uh bid program which allows us to keep a little bit better competitive pricing all the schools that participate help drive down the price of some and for this calendar year we're looking to uh purchase three school buses and U you've got a a little bit of $467,000 and some change that equates to about 155,00 000 per bus discount price dang got discount discount price the other bids were U let's just share that information how about about that $17,000 and $162,000 so that's where bids came in at this year all right make a motion we accept the uh suggest or the recommendation on the bus bids is there a second second any further discussion all those in favor signify by sign of i i i motion passes next is the consideration to exec members resignation from the board of school trustees and move forward with the process outlined by the Indiana Law and Bard policy find a replacement this is Mr McLure uh he was with us for 16 years and we thank him for his his service he turned in his resignation January 1 so we've got till the end of the month the fin a new board member we are in the process and have three candidates so far that have shown interest so we will be interviewing them soon and hopefully get a new candidate should have someone here filling that chair at the by the next uh next meeting um just just for clarity he he's technically resigning but he he he did not run another term no one ran against him in the IND law is if no one runs against you you therefore have to resign not bailing on he has to resign so he can fill the spot nobody ran against him so uh all right so uh I'll make a motion to accept his resignation is there a second I'll second any further discussion all those in favor signify by sign of I I all those o same sign motion passes uh this is the first reading I love these uh first reading consider to approve the following policy changes number 0164 01644 0165 017 172 2313 .01 1220 2230 1617 2623 3217 3220 .02 4217 5410 5460 5772 7217 754 0.03 and 8400 and I know normally mil mil has researched these and would have had some comments but he's not here so just move ahead I'll make a motion accept I guess this is just first reading so if anybody wants to review them they can they're more than happy to come up here Andra yes okay the nth one [Laughter] again all right moving on to Department comments uh Mr correct there's a couple notes um items for your benefit tonight uh we're wrapping up the 2024 uh bookwork for the calendar year and uh we'll be submitting that to the state over the next week or two and uh you'll have a a summary recap to you sometime this week on those numbers um secondly the calendar committee will be preparing a proposed budget for the 27 school year later this month and we'll hope to bring you a recommendation for your consideration at the February meeting um with the 25 2025 legislative session underway we'll be closely monitoring bills that may influence School business and uh try to keep you guys AB breast of the situation so that uh any inputs you guys can help us with as far as legislative goes uh we'll keep you informed um additionally and last uh this Friday I have a meeting with Mr Bic U approaching that time of year where we're looking at property liability and workers comp insurance coverage and premiums so be discussing that this Friday and uh keep the board up to date all in that meting outside of questions you may have that's my report for tonight questions thank you all right technology report Mr fall so the security Grant is coming along nicely we just have two buildings left fair viiew and Franklin are the ones that are left for the outside cameras and then the high school's access control system should be wrapping up here in the next couple weeks as well uh we also apply for an additional security grant that is 100% funded uh we applied for that for Landis Junior High in Columbia um they're each $200,000 a piece and then we'll find out about that in late April or May and then Mr do you want me to recap Powers so uh January 7th we received uh word from power school that there was a data breach that occurred um there using crowd strike and the FBI was also notified about that um they're still working on who um the bad actor was on that um we know of at least 54 schools that were affected and we happen to have been one of them um it was across the country it wasn't just Indiana so there were several schools uh the data was compromised was student and teacher data um we have Assurance from power school that the data was deleted and was not leaked on the dark web so they are going to be monitoring that and providing an updated um after action report at the end of January so that we will get a copy of that information um so at this time that's as much as we know um the type of breach that occurred has been identified and has been fixed so that it cannot occur again the breach happened because there was a um a portal that power school uses that was public facing that the tech support team used and it was not um fully secured so that has now been secured behind a firewall and behind the VPN so it's no longer open to the public so that's been fixed so um if you have any questions I'd be happy to answer those for you if I can no it's not here he has all the tech registration go through goes through Power School doesn't it does like all those questions would be potentially no data no no there's only certain data points within um what we call the student and teacher table um demographics and Bell schedules for the kids and um in in some instances grades but that was a very low-level um data point that wasn't really looked at it's mostly just demographics unfortunately and in some cases Social Security numbers world we live in all right thank you and I say the live broadcasting or whatever that's when's that going to start we're testing tonight um state law requires us to start in July okay we'll get up at the beat there it's kind of Wonder because the city city and county county like the schools get off all a sudden we got a a notice like there we go all right thank you uh curricul report Mrs Rose Dr deal thank you um so just a couple of things next week about 20 staff members will be heading to Lafayette for the reading textbook Caravan um this will kick off our discussions about textbook adoption so um we'll be adopting a new reading program in K to 6 um this is probably the most important adoption that I will ever see um it's a very big deal and so we'll start that process after next week um speaking of reading um Mrs starky Dr deal and I have met with the three elementaries over the last week um talking about uh reading data um and so one of the things that the elementaries are doing and they've gotten really good at is drilling down in specific pieces of data down to specific students they can see where each student is and from that okay how do we help these students get from point A to point B um that's part of our prep for I um I will be here in about seven weeks so this is we're in that point where we're giving one last big push to get our students from here to there um and so hopefully we'll have some success in that that's it all right first Mrs gra welcome we miss you in the classroom but I'm glad that you're serving in this capacity if you want to do like a section of finite that's right just okay um we have eighth grade transition night on Wednesday and we have sixth grade transition night on Thursday something exciting from Logan sport High School is that we have a junor junor Olivia Gibson who plays second in the regional tournament for girls wrestling and we'll be going to State and something that La just started this year is the state sendoff so at 3:00 on Thursday all the students go in the hallway they walk her through and it's the band is there it's something it's a really cool new tradition so she'll be sent off that way um from the junior high they are working hard they are doing I learn checkpoints this week and for all of our schools we have weda either starting today or it's right around the corner we love a good test and um we have four like Mr Lundy said about students going to the honors choir there are four junior high students who are also going to the All State honors choir so pretty exciting for them um with also something that Mr storm mentioned is that had a teacher email him a math teacher and it was Beth Smith basically talking about how with these iearn checkpoints you know they're making a big deal out of them because they want the students to do as well as possible but she just said that they were doing a review packet there were two students who have basically not participated the whole year and all of a sudden they came back from break and something clicked and at one point he the um that Smith had to tell one student that she was going to take his mic away and he started laughing about it and it said that the other student basically she has been fighting her all semester trying to keep her awake and whatnot and they were just totally engaged and this seventh grade regular class has been continuously outdoing even her honors in her academic sections in terms of just preparation so that was that was a big win for them uh speaking of big win the career center was awarded the Perkins Reserve grant for $110,000 so what that allows them to do is to complete the smart manufacturing pathway which they just started this year and then another good note in terms of PTEC I was just looking at the data today our current chapter ones which are freshmen they came in with a 2.1 average GPA and after semester 1 they ended with a 3.0 average so that's even higher than our first round in terms of improvements so super proud of them that's it questions comments fantastic thank you superintendent comments Mrs sty just a couple things one tonight we accepted Mrs Wolf's retirement letter um so thank you um she's not like she's leaving now so she'll be around for a while we also accepted Peggy Scott resignation retir she'll be back she'll be back see she comes back a she'll be back sheing us um that's just kind of the running joke um and then we are going to be meeting again I don't remember when the date is to talk about summer school um for those of you who don't know Summer School uh underwent a big change after we did summer school and when we got our funding notification in November we found out that the state only fully funded what we did for remediation for third graders and got about was it 60 60 60% funding for everything else we didn't know that was happening so um it used to be anything that you offered at the high school level that led to credit which Le leads to graduation would be funded um that's not the case anymore so anyway we're kind of dropping back and punting again if you will to try and figure out strategically what's it what's it really going to look like like for us um so I have enjoyed takes me back to my curriculum days doing the data meetings in the elementary schools I'm like ready to roll up my sleeves and like okay let's go let's do this and this and this so it's been kind of very interesting there's a lot of stress right now in the elementaries because if you don't remember if you don't pass I read this is the Year this is the cohort year if you don't pass you get retained automatically so for us uh as long as you've been in the United States for two years or more so anyway um many all of the elementaries right now are doing what they what most of them refer to as I read boot camp so it's amazing if you want to talk about data go talk to an elementary teacher they will talk to you about every single kid and where they're at in every single area it's it's very interesting and it's very hard work so anyway shout out to to uh all of them for for their hard work there and as I've gone on to say and they're going to hear me say this more and more this is not a third grade problem it's like the high school graduation rate is not a lowp high school problem this is an issue for all of us to work on so anyway we'll get there that's all I have just pray for no extreme wind chills this week because you know it never fails when we start weed testing it gets really cold and it snows so all right all right now's the time for our second chance of public comments no takers All Right Moving On board member comments Mrs gra uh I just want to say thank you to everybody for being so welcoming and I know enjoyed my first meeting and Mr Lundy and your staff enjoyed your presentation thank you very much yeah and I guess I also just want to say I do plan to try to visit every school and and meet all the teachers and the administrators and find out what's going on in the corporation because there's quite a few buildings I hav never been into so I'm looking forward to that Mr Cy congratulations to Mrs wolf for leading the elementary of 850 kids that's it's a very big task and the staff so think how many years total 26 26 congratulations enjoy your what you're going to do retirement sleep on um this month we have a process now that Dave has resigned um that we'll be having some public meetings and we have three candidates that have shown interest and we go through an interview process and and then we select them so that'll all happen in the next 10 to 12 days so that's okay uh congratulations again and to Becky gr we're ecstatic to have her here with us um she brings a well she brings a a new A New Perspective for the board having been a teacher here at logp and Pioneer and also dealt with some of the Union stuff there and that kind of stuff um it allows that to to be um it just it just gives a different a different set of eyes that we've had so I I'm we're glad to have you and welcome welcome you aboard um that's all I've got now it's time for board signatures start to

a [Music] [Applause] [Music] lasers [Music] all right welcome to week seven of the ihsen regular season this will be the first competitive week of the spring split today the bluon Cyber Tigers will be facing off against players from 26 other schools totaling 69 players throughout the game of tetrio in a Swiss style bracket players will attempt to win five best of five in One V one matches yes so winning three games in one match winning three games will win you a match very it works yes very excit this is ring look at this going on we're back in the vapor wave Dimension we thought we found a way out during winter break we did not we're back exactly my my honest opinion I've played these games before as they say stop you follow my lead I've played these games before these blocks in the back they have sensors they know they do all right looks like we got to start reading off our players so up first we got EMT AKA Lego Master he finished last he he finished last split in 12th Place overall good job EMT yes he did next up we got Owen AKA oh sheets he finished last split in 29th Place overall good job Owen next up we have Alex AKA Gail Lewis looking at the camera all lovingly like next up we got Baro okay AK X dark ninja all right and then we got Jordan he finished he finished third oh sorry anyway yeah okay so Jordan we got Jordan aka stricky X1 he finished last split in fourth place overall good job Jordan next up we got Hunter AKA lazy Soul AKA also sugar Lords with a z he finished last split in second place congratulations with a capital S and a capital l and a capital 2 next up we got clay AKA Firestorm he finished last split in seventh place overall good job clay that's a thing that he did he did a thing good he did the dude everybody at home clap your hands yeah do it do it now do it we know I you didn't I know for a fact that you didn't do it up first we got EMT against custo oo and there it is on screen EMT is on the left side of the screen starting off strong yes I believe uh every single game your cyber tiger is going to be on the left side of the screen except for when you're uh except for when you're watching Owen he's got a special setting that puts him straight in the middle but yeah on the left side of the screen EMT AKA Lego master let's see here he stacking up he's probably looking for a full Tetris line clear if you don't know what that means that means clearing four lines all at once there's two you saw it twice right there I saw it with me own eyes yes with heo and eyes look at him go yep he's just building down right now trying to get himself into a more favorable position perhaps looking to clear out that garbage garbage is the um there's a deg gray blocks on the bottom of both players boards they are sent whenever you whenever your opponent you know double or higher I think yeah double or higher or two singles in a row I believe and then anything beyond that will as well stack up yeah garbage is essentially how Tetris originally a single player puzzle game has turned into a battle multiplayer competitive format which is actually really interesting when you think about it yes when you think about it long and hard you know what else is long and hard the low taper fi I going have to stop you right there I'm sorry this this is a broadcast so I'm not going to finish the joke that I wanted to finish mhm that's what they all say well I mean what did I do I didn't finish it I didn't finish looks like Baro has oh sadly lost his first game against opai oh yeah Opie or I still don't know how it's efficiently pronounced no one does I don't know yeah yeah opai op whatever you want to call her she is one of the best competitors in the entire league no we got we got Jordan going strong getting some t-spins oh Jordan's going two and0 we can switch to Jordan look at that two and 0 on the left side of your screen we got Jordan aka stricky let's see oh oh my goodness let's see the setup let's see the setup perhaps looking I don't know what the setup is I'm not educated I don't play this game enough perhaps looking for a triple te- spin a triple t-pin is a te- spin that clears four not four three lines at once it's the most damaging move in the game and if you don't know what a t-pin is it's rather self-explanatory you take the purple t-shaped block and you spin it into a t-shaped hole and the double that you just saw right there does as much damage as a full four line clear insane yes and the triple does the most damage in the game it is massive you know what else is massive the low taper fade you don't get that joke yeah look it up yes you'll go down a rabbit hole that will never end yes how sad or maybe how fortunate I don't know maybe you had nothing better to do yourin a bit more here guys fade anyway that is looks like we got Hunter against Zane B I don't think I've uh seen him around before oh uh we'll do it later communication communication secret words on the other side all right see yeah now we have uh we got Hunter on the left side of your screen oh with the t- spin double he's going up against Zan Zan anyone but Zan oh no he's formidable trust he's an eldrich Horror oh yes whatever that means oh dang he's he know what to do that might do it yes it does he did not know what to do it went and done did the do he did the did did the thing and yeah that's a thing that he thing mhm as you can tell we are very good at our job yeah we know English really well guys yes you can trust us for all your English assignments yes you know what my grade in English is right now somehow an A+ congratulations thank you it doesn't mean that much since we're like one week into the term but like who cares there's a t-pin double coming through from Hunter we got Hunter oh I was I'm looking okay I'm looking elsewhere oh yeah he's he's on the left side of the screen oopsie the left side of the screen that's where your cyber tiger will always be unless it's Ellen because left is right and right you catch that one there guys it's not right because right isn't the Cyber tiger funny analogy yes very funny We Got Em going EMT going strong two and0 while Hunter gets a down Stacks yes this match up he's got he's got to use that eye piece There He Go oh there we go two full Tetris line clear that's what it's all about nice damage getting a double going through you see I've been playing a lot of ranked in this game and I get destroyed by people almost two ranks lower than me which is embarrassing how do you even get matched up against them though I don't know players of equal skill they said yes I love it how every single rank system in every video game ever is not it doesn't work yes anyway custo pretty high up on the board it's time for EMT he's got press he's got to show us let's see he's not really in position get right now he's got to get a little bit higher of a stack he's got to get in a better position oh he's he's surviving cust seems to be going yeah they're both kind of just living right now mhm oh there's a double a single oh he's blocked it off of the Quad all right will it go two and one not in the greatest position we've ever seen he could have saved that line block but he decides to put it downage this is how men fight to survive exactly I've never seen you know how like in old times or if you had a dispute you just like shot a gun at the air in the general vicinity of whoever your enemy was arer stri yes exactly they should have just done this if only Tetris was a Thing If Only Tetris had Flint locks yes no if only Tetris were a thing when Flint when Flint locks were like the most advanced technology in the world meanwhile EMT gets the victory there yes good job EMT very nice I believe that is all of our round on matches lots of cyber Tigers yes very a lot good win yes I was spaced out right there yes but they did really good so far we got the ranks up uh nothing interesting yes we're doing great we're getting our up we are grinding yes on that hustle never quits it never quits so will you quit on the grind no you shouldn't because the grind won't quit on you if you don't quit on the grind I'm so smart The Grind ation of words from Jaden here everybody yes all right should we explo explain the low taper fade to them I we got to it's it's a side quest we got to do I guess we explain the low taper F all right so here's the basis imagine if ninja got a low taper fade right that's not a good it's a haircut you got to look it up it doesn't make sense if you don't look it up all right but a better expl a better explanation of it is a twitch streamer who mostly streams fortnite his name is ninja and um you got to imagine when his when his popularity was dying out he used to be incredibly popular one of the most popular streamers on the planet um when his popularity started dying out uh he started making like memes one of which was imagine if ninja got a low taper fade which is just a change of a haircut and he continuously dragged that Meme out for like years and years so much so that massive yeah that it's so much so that the joke is him dragging it out more and more and that's why it's massive everybody that's why all right let's move our way into some sponsors here quick shout out to some sponsors huge shout out to our local internet provider Adams Wells TV Adams Wells internet Telecom and TV they are directly responsible for our Esports players to be able to compete because of their incredibly fast and reliable fire fiber internet service wow f internet fiber yes it's made of the Fabrics of reality yummy yes I eat it all the time yes if you are in the market for Internet TV or phone service check out adamswells.com that's adamswells.com thank you that thank you there we go that's we appreciate you anyway next up special thanks to The Moose for sponsoring us as well check out the garage here in town on Main Street it's a cafe slame room/ music venue for the Youth of blon to hang out for the young thank you moose all right we 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at this time we will call to order our um Board of Education work session the first item on our agenda is our swearing in ceremony of our newly elected and reelected members and I will call Miss Cara capy our attorney to the stage okay um let's call you down first yes are you ready to take the oath of office yes okay right repeat after me I Amy Norman I Amy Norman solemnly swear or affirm solemnly affirm that I will support the Constitution of the United States that I will um support the Constitution of the United States of America of America the constitution of the state of Indiana the constitution of the state of Indiana and the laws of the United States and the laws of the United States and the state of Indiana and the state of Indiana I will Faithfully execute I will Faithfully execute the duties of my office the duties of my office as a member of this governing body as a member of this governing body so help me God so help me God congratulations thank [Applause] [Music] you saring Crystal next will you raise your right hand okay will you repeat after me I I Crystal Pucket Crystal Pucket solemnly swear or affirm I solemnly swear or affirm that I will support that I will support the Constitution of the United States of America Constitution of the United States of America the constitution of the state of Indiana the constitution of the state of Indiana and the laws of the United States and the laws of the United States the state of Indiana and the state of Indiana I will Faithfully execute I will Faithfully execute the duties of my office the duties of my office as a member of this governing body as a member of this governing body so help me God so help me God congratulations and Shayla M Hollands my newest elected board member okay Shayla would you raise your right hand and repeat after me I I Shayla molland Shayla molland solemnly swear or affirm solemly swear that I will support the United stat the Constitution that I will support the Constitution of the United States of America of the United States of America the constitution of the state of Indiana and the laws of the United States and the laws of the United States and the state of Indiana and the state of Indiana I will Faithfully execute I will Faithfully execute the duties of my office the duties of my office as a member of this governing body as a member of this goding body so help me God so help me God [Applause] [Music] congratulations that's okay Dr Smith congratulations everybody and at this time I will ask each of our newly elected members to to stand and acknowledge your loved ones who are here with us so I will start with h Dr mahand Who did you bring with you today I would love to acknowledge my family here today Chris prises and Raymond Bodie and my parents Dr Keith and L M Holland my brothers Casey and Liam molland uh Casey they actually attended Craig um and my sister-in-law Christina my nieces emo and a and our our friend Rita holor and Emily [Applause] triet very good all right Miss Pucket would you like to acknowledge your loved ones here today yes I have quite a few people here I have my wonderful um uncle and Uncle Mike and Aunt Patrice they are my soft place to land in adulthood I have my lovely spousal unit Rob love you I have a few kiddos I have Robert my wonderful son right there who stayed just to see you get sworn name and hit the road to go back to school and then I have my best friend Alisia we were on the bser basketball team together and we were [Laughter] horrible oh oh and two uh where are the other two kids this is what happens when you have multiple kids you forget sometimes we have Abby and Addie where you at high honor rooll and honor rooll recipients thank you guys and I would like to acknowledge my husband Isaac Norman my children Jonah Norman he's a senior at Lawrence North Elizabeth Norman she's a freshman at Lawrence North and then Elanor or Ellie uh she comes to a lot of our board meetings she's a Castle fourth grade and then also I'm very honored to have my parents my mom and dad rich and Susie wle in the front row with us they came over from Illinois um biggest my biggest cheerleaders usually in sports but now they're here for governance and my mom was a big influence in me serving in this role she was a 33-year educator in the state of Illinois and she also served a term on the board so thank you guys for all coming [Applause] now board at this time we will per our policy 0154 uh we are annually required to reorganize um through our officers and our committees for the Board of Education all right and I I am a yellow belt at this to use martial arts terms I promise I will be a little bit smoother as we go on but I'm going to go ahead now and start the procedures so at this time we will start with the election of our officers I'm going to open up the floor for nomination for the office of board president I nominate anybody can nominate and any member can also self-nominate yes I nominate Amy Norman as president do I hear a second second second no a second yeah thank you okay thank you board are there any other nominations at this time for president of the Board of Education okay no nominations um no second nominations at this time I will move it to a vote board all in favor of myself Amy Norman as board president say I I and those um oppose say nay okay thank you board um and normally if it were someone else I would say do you accept this uh role and so I accept on behalf of the board um the role of president of our school board so thank you board um and now we will close the president role and I will open up election of vice president at this time so I'm opening up the floorboard for nominations for the role of Vice President I nominate Crystal Pucket second second okay so it's moved and sued are there any other nominations for the role of vice president on the school board okay at this time we will move to a vote board all in favor of Crystal Pucket for um vice president of the school board say I I or say I yeah yeah we we all get a vote on ourselves and then any oppos nay okay that has passed five to zero thank you board um Crystal Pucket do you accept the role of Vice President of the school board graciously accept thank you very much okay thank you all right board at this time we will move to the office of Secretary of the Board of Education I will um open up the floor now for nominations for secretary I nominate Jessica Dunn for secretary second I nominate Dr Shayla malland second okay so at this time board we have um a nomination and a second for both Miss Dunn and Dr shayon mahalet um at this time I will go ahead and take a vote so all in favor of Miss Dunn for board secretary say I I I and then all opposed say nay we have to do a vote so then it will be May okay okay may okay and then at this time okay that is a two to three vote two Nays three I's and then at this time um we will do a vote on Miss or Dr Shayla mahed for board secretary um all in favor say I I I all oppose say nay nay okay thank you board um Dr malled do you accept this nomination as board secretary yes okay all right thank you board for this um nomination and just a reminder to the public while we serve fouryear terms on the board of education our annual reorganization is done yearly and so I just wanted to remind the public of that I thank everyone for their input and I look forward to serving with each and every member of this board we all have an equal vote and equal input so thank you for that now oh goad oh yes and now at this time we're going to take a really short pause um Miss blankens ship will reorganize our seats I also wanted to make an announcement to to anybody we're going to start moving into the business portion of our meeting so for our loved ones who came you're welcome to stay for the riveting part of our business or if you'd like to slip out now this would probably be a good trans transition time so thank you all again for your support oh yeah oh yeah thank you while we're doing this too um one thing that U Miss Lawrence had said that we've done before is to do a quick family photo for all the new members or the really really recently reelected members so um while we're doing this Dr Mahal if you want to bring your family up and do a nice picture you can then we'll follow by Miss Pucket and then myself yes we're gonna bring everybody you guys are going to be front center we'll do we're going to have right here this is where be there she is oh come on and then I'll I want send with the logo so can all take two steps to your left little bit more little bit more one more step to your left you guys are good I'm gonna have you three take a just you three little bit more little bit more perfect perfect perfect that's perfect all right nice and high all right one two three I'm gonna take a few congratul thank you it's a big family many kids many wonderful he ready go okay all right take a couple steps to the left couple steps to the left couple steps one more one more big one there we go that's perfect all right one two three I'm take a couple congratulations and regle nor the rle Norman family would like to join me right seems to head this way I'm trying to Center you're at a great spot you're at a great spot people midd want some right here right here there we go PR good good oh was great all right one two three thank you thank you for that um anyone who's been in this role knows that our families are part of this journey with us and we we can't do it without their support and we all are parents so just um this was a good family event so thank you for that now we will move into the next portion of the session yes we got to do our appointment of our financial um officers at this time let me pull up my notes okay our next point of view our next point is the appointment of our financial leadership Dr Smith on your recommendation we will be appointing Mr Matt miles Chief Financial Officer the purchasing agent and treasurer of the district do you accept Mr miles yes I do okay thank you do have I wanted to Beal all right and secondly Renee Hull will be the um we appoint you as Deputy Treasurer is Renee here okay okay all right thank you all right so now we move on to our board appointed committee members these are definitely great community outreach committees that we do as a board with our different Lo organizations so at this time as acting president I appoint Miss Jessica Dunn or to the Lawrence Parks and Recreation board do you accept Miss Dunn yes ma'am thank you okay secondly I going to appoint Dr Shaya Mahal to the Lawrence Township Foundation board do you accept yes I do thank you and then finally the liaison to the Indiana School Board Association Miss Marta Lawrence do you accept yes thank you okay and now I'll move to Dr Smith for the um superintendent appointed uh committee memberships well as you know board each of you responsible for policy but taking the lead on that we're going to ask one of our senior board members and Crystal Pucket to serve this term and we thank Miss Dunn for doing her term it comes around quickly every year and so Crystal Pucket will serve in that capacity Madame President on the legislative side because of the uniqueness in our state the state legislature meets every year we're in a long session next year will be a short session it feels like we're always in session it requires the work of the entire Board of Education to serve in that so the community needs to know that your board of education is strongly connected to to our state legislators in and out of our community as we will work very hard on policies that will benefit our children in particular the finances that we need in order to run our school corporation so uh all of you board will be in meetings with your legislators thank you thank you Dr Smith we accept all right that is that's the end of that portion now and now we will move on to number four our information items Mr Roger Smith Blue Ribbon facility update Madame President Dr Smith members of the board uh okay uh Belzer Middle School uh we did uh demo the band room and that is going back together uh going on ground level for Ada compliancy uh the kitchen we uh completely demolished the kitchen over winter break and that'll be put back together this semester uh the next SL shows the two new serving lines that I've been showing you all along those are put back into use and using those as temporary serving lines with one in the cafeteria Fall Creek Valley hallways we continue on with there uh the main common area is really moving forward the ceiling's completed uh they're working on the walls and next then will be the flooring the auditorium we expect to turn that back over to uh the building the end of next week and the flooring going in Sound and Lighting will then uh finish the auditorium CA wall expansion we added a wall on the outside where the blue is there or purple and then the next slide shows you the inside that we will remove to expand the cafeteria new lecc brick work work uh if you notied a lot of plastic up around the building we're trying to keep it warm to continue on with the brick work exterior walls continue on the south end uh new roof actually they're up there last week and this week shoveling snow off so we can continue that work the second floor uh they're on the second floor building out the walls and me mechanical electrical Plumbing are contining all right thank you Mr Smith Bo do you have any questions or comments Miss done I have one quick question first of all outstanding work especially the LC is certainly coming along very rapidly they're doing a fantastic job just out of curiosity wondering how with the uh beler kitchen renovation how is food being prepared for students is that being um prepared in another site in yeah we satellite that in we always do this during Renovations because the summer months are too short uh so we usually start spring break in this case we have to start winter break to be done for the start of school all the food satellite is in from LC right across the street thank you very much yes go ahead Mr Smith um I've heard from several parents uh that some water fountains in Lawrence North are not operating and since I'm a La North parent now um I'm curious is there a formal mechanism by which parents can make make facilities aware of those sort of things or what's the best way for members of the public to um are experiencing really talk with the building principle in there we have a form in a process for them to submit and most of them are submitted in our work order system thank you so much thank you for the question board any other questions or comments okay I do have one question Mr Smith LCC is coming along great um and again just for the Public's knowledge the goal we're still on schedule for the administration and programs to move into the new lecc in the summer is that correct uh the plan is to first part of June to to move into uh the new La uh SE building and vacate this one for renovation in June as well okay thank you all right board we will move on to 4.2 requests for the bids of Crestville Crest View um Elementary plans and specifications Mr Roger Smith the next four items I have are uh projects that will be requesting the board approv plans and spec specifications that will allow us to go out to bid our first presentation is uh pressview elementary and in this uh classroom Edition we will we got a new addition of four room classro go back up to the previous one there on the left side is a new addition attached to the Western end of the building and it'll be four classrooms uh two office areas and a gang restroom going in that area and also we will be doing as you move on to the next slide it's about a 7,000 uh square foot uh building that we're going to add on and we also have some other areas within the building uh that we will be updating also a new playground hard surface area on the playground and new Ada uh compliant sidewalks to the playground thank you Mr Smith board are there any questions okay we will move on now Mr Smith to the request for for bids on Forest Glenn plans and specifications again it is a room uh addition going on uh Forest Glenn uh we are adding six classrooms you'll notice it on the lower right hand side and also the orange area and the green area is the playground and the soccer area that will be affecting the site uh and also the blue line in the middle is a little bit of Separation in the parking lot that will help us with traffic flow next slide uh again is a top aerial view we have a green space there on that southwest corner of the building which where the uh addition will go in and the next slide is a rendering of what that may look like when we're done thank you for that Mr Smith board any questions regarding Forest glint I do have a question what is uh the intent who will be in these classrooms uh the these here areas have been uh uh dedicated to the preschool and the uh kindergarten uh we can put uh equip it specifically for the uh preschool classes we got them all together they're coming in that side of the building so the logistics made it well uh for the building to kind of establish those being for pre and kindergarten that makes me think Dr Smith given that this face will be for the younger children has there been any conversation about potentially having like the lacc's have their own building leader since it's integrated into Forest Clen has there been any thought of having since it is Will bead's own space their own administrator for that small okay for any other questions I have I do have one other question uh Mr Smith will this eliminate the need for us to to have portables for students yes we'll take the comos away I hear often Dr Smith that's why I'm asking yes we will be able to remove uh the Portables uh upon completion of this addition great news thank you thank you for those questions board anyone else have questions regarding Forest gln um I do have a um a question slash comment Dr Smith Andor Mr Smith Maybe just for the public to give us a historical um lesson again about when we started bringing students in from preschool about how many years ago was that go ahead Miss leant because you are the expert of experts because she oversees that for us yes we are I think four to five years in there was a grant um that we received that allowed us to start immersion preschool and so we started at Forest Blen and at Sky's test it's been wildly popular thank you for that um historical background it's just helpful I know because a lot of people in the community many times know about the elc's and you the district does a great job of advertising but it's just helpful to know the expansion so thank you for that board if there are no more questions we will move on to 4.4 request for bids for the Mary Castle Elementary plans and specifications Mr Smith Mary Castle class four classroom expansion uh onto Mary Castle just a little history there too in 17 we added four classrooms within the four walls when we renovated and the growth has continued to expand and therefore the requests to uh add additional classrooms we just put on two uh Portables out back to help alleviate that for the next year and a half so uh there on the left we be on the southwest corner of the building on the front uh where the new addition will occur again a 5,000 ft addition going on uh with some uh attention within the building as well and also playground uh will be doing the hard surface resurfacing of their uh existing uh playground the other playground was new in 17 see the four classrooms it's similar to way the building was previously designed and set up to make another quad uh for that particular building again that shows you the lower left hand is where the addition goes the top uh gray Square uh gray square area uh is where we'll resurface for their Flor thank you Mr Smith board any questions regarding Mary Castle I do since this is a site where we are just beginning to add the Portables to I know that uh many of the families at Boris Glenn have asked me specifically about security and warmth and access and things to Portables so Mr Smith if you could just explain how we manage our portables for members of the public who may be interested or may have students in them for the first time we do keep them locked all day and they have uh access through their key system to to go in and out we also have our camera systems uh posted on both sides of the cameras so we do have full visibility uh both in the playground around the Portables in the building uh fire and uh uh PA system is also tied into the Portables as well Mr Smith due to the uniqueness of Mary Castle being a neighborhood school will you explain to the Board of Education the location and access to the community to the neighborhood because this is a unique school it is we do have a walking path as you see on the dish go back to that original one down down last one right there you see the new edition there's a walking path currently right there uh that goes into uh that addition and also splits and has an easement that goes off all the way into uh the sidewalks for the addition we do have walkers to this building and uh we may have to alter that for uh a little time through this renovation but then it will be rebuilt and established back for full access from that addition to the school thank you Mr Smith and um to go along you had already said it but I just wanted to re the Portables will be up for around one and a half years correct we're hoping just over a year if we start this summer then the next uh fall they should be ready to to move into so just a little over a year okay thank you board any other questions regarding Mary Castle okay we will move on now to the request for bids for the Craig um Phase 2 Renovations Mr Smith Again full renovation of the Craig internal uh building uh as you recall phase one we did a lot of external roof and site work uh in this building and now that uh Craig Academy is moving forward then renovating this building to put back for student use uh we do we are going to do some site where number one is uh we were going to make that lower level ADA Compliant right now it's just concrete steps going in there and that's a lower level that accesses uh both or actually all three gyms in the cafeteria and we want to make it ada8 accessible floor FL floor P plan you have seen this before but anyway lower level is laa uh we do has some uh special needs area leap area and then also the back half will be Community involvement in those locations we will be keeping the professional development area as well as this current board area this next level is the second level where the classrooms will all be renovated to accommodate student use and we'll also add a stairway in the middle for easier access down to the lower level uh to the cafeteria and then the the bottom level where the gyms and cafeteria we will be putting a brand new kitchen in there to accommodate the needs of the student in this building all right thank you oh sorry ahead I would like to kind of go back and just recognize we do have a team that's helping us do this uh going through each of our Renovations with cresview that is Schmid and Associates and then wish Smitt Associates uh on Crestville we have Davis uh for the CMC Gary Edmund's here and Scott seon that are helping us put that together uh Forest Glenn ratio is the architect again these are the Architects that did the previous uh renovation so bringing them back on uh uh with us as a partner to finish this out Scott Hunt's here and uh uh core and Garcia are the CMC and Remo mazetta is here with uh core and Garcia Mary Castle again Schmid and Associates uh Jen Carroll the architect and then powers and Suns uh M Powers is here with d and thomman uh will be overseeing the the buildout of that project uh Fanny and Hoy um Mike ship and Dennis Bane uh Architects for Fanny and hiy again powers and Suns will be helping us uh with that build out as a CMC with Mayon and Dustin present again so we want to thank them as a true partner working with us on these projects thank you for that acknowledgement and thank you everyone for your work um current and future Bo are there any questions regarding Craig I I do have some questions and Mr miles this may be a better question for you as it relates to Craig but also the other Renovations how is this paid for across fiscal years and where do expenses hit um as we don't plan to have students in in Craig until 2027 I'm curious how the financing works for each of these different renovations yes happy to answer those questions uh as far as the construction financing for Craig um that is part of our already approved pre-approved by the board um $90 million financing project that was approved in Fall of 2023 so as the construction uh moves into the next step uh we will be using uh taking future Bond dollars out uh for for those to finance those projects uh operational costs and things are there with they now um those will obviously change during the course of construction and then once we get going again um we'll have students in the building to support thank you Miss Lawrence on board are there any other questions regarding Craig okay we will move on now to the school resolution um Mr Matt miles thank you madam president Dr Smith members of the board uh our next item up for on the agenda tonight for info and then later for Action uh relates to the financing of several of the projects that Mr Smith was just referring to outside of the Craig project this this is referring to our elementary expansions as well as our guaranteed Energy savings contracts um which were both uh previously heard by the board and passed in our 1028 hearings um this past uh in late 2024 and this is a resolution uh for the Board of Education of the metropolitan school district of Lawrence Township taking actions regarding the proposed First Amendment to lease and approving the issuance of bonds by the school corporation building School building Corporation of Lawrence Township and matters related there to uh with me tonight here is Hannah clendenning and she is from Barnes and thornberg our legal Bond Council Hannah is here to answer any questions that I don't touch on or the board may want to hear additional information but uh the resolution mirrors the language that you saw and approved once again in the 1028 again it's for our 2025 through 27 elementary school expansion renovation and energy conservation projects in short um it is to uh Finance it's the next step in the financing process for Crestview Harrison Hill Indian Creek and Skyles test uh for our hbac um upgrades as well as Roofing projects and this step follows uh the 30-day petition and remonstrance uh waiting period that we did not get any U action taken by the community so we've passed that 30 days now we are ready uh to pass this resolution The Next Step would come in late February uh at a public hearing uh by the Board of Education and action as well by our building corporation uh to basically put approve the uh the bond issuance so we anticipate again that public Hearing in February this project would be tax St neutral um so that's always a key thing to share um as we move forward again with this construction and um hopefully I've touched on everything Hannah so if we if the board does have questions we'd be happy to answer those thank you Mr M board questions I do yes um what energy conservation measures are are being utilized and um how do we see these these Mr Smith would you like to touch on that on the guaranteed Energy savings side as a result of new equipment new controls uh we're going to have less labor and fix and repair costs and also the new parts going in are energy efficient so we will also have uh Energy savings uh savings on top of that thank you for that and then can you also just to remind the public on what it um can you Define tax Regal please I'm looking at Mr Smith and that's a question for me tax rate NE neutral in in short means that this is not going to be an increase to property taxes can you expand then on how that's being paid for just for members of the public please sure and Miss Glen Denning if I I'll take it and you can jump in if need be but um so again we will issue those bonds um this spring um we will go through a bond rating process uh prior to our last bonds that we sold uh occurred last fall um at a we were actually able to get a rate of 3.11% interest and those will be a maximum 20-year uh Bond and at a maximum rate in the uh the language says up to 6% uh we are extremely conservative in that and we expect to get a much better rate than that but since they are 20 years in nature it may be difficult if the tax for example if things were happening in the state legislator with our state legislators where perhaps the district is not getting as much funding there could be a tax increase not we're not anticipating it this year or the next year but there could be over the 20 years of the bonds potentially tax increases would that be safe to say our so our this would tie to our debt service tax rate um and once we pass that it is locked in um at that point and mising can certainly uh jump in if need be but um that should not as as it relates to this project it's kind of like um locking in your rate on your home you're you're locked in and the bond rate associated with it would be would be tied to that um if there future projects fall off our our our debt service rate um could have and flow over the years um you know based on debt either coming on or going off of off of our debt structure I'm not sure if that answer your right but there will never be a time when this when the district would need to go to taxpayers to pay for this is what you're saying correct correct sorry if I didn't answer that easier yeah correct thank you good questions board are there any other questions at this time thank you okay thank you Mr miles at this time we will move to our action items I will go to action item 5.1 approval of school resolation resolution of the board um on the proposed First Amendment to lease and approving the issuance of bonds uh Mr Matt miles thank you once again Madam president at this time I recommend that the board approve the resolution as presented so move second all right it has been moved and properly seconded all right board are we ready to vote all in favor say I I I all opposed the eyes have it are all right thank you Mr miles now we will move on to the approval request for bids for Crest Elementary plans and specifications Mr Roger Smith Madame President Dr Smith members of the board recommend the board approve the plans and specifications for cresview Elementary uh classroom addition project uh to go out to buit to go out to bid as present so moved second all right properly moved and seconded all right board all in favor say I I I all opposed all right we will move on now again Mr Smith to the approval of bids for Forest Glenn Elementary M president Dr Smith members of the board recommend the board approve the plans of specifications for Force Glenn Elementary classroom addition project as presented so move properly moved and seconded board at this time we'll go ahead and make a vote all in favor say I I I all right all eyes no n all right at this time we will now move to the request for bids for Mary Castle Elementary Mr Smith Madam president Dr Smith members of the board recommend the board approve the plans and specifications for Mary Castle Elementary classroom Edition project as submit second all right properly moved and seconded all in favor say I I I I'll oppos all right the eyes have it now we will move on to action or to our item 5.5 approval of requests for bids for the Craig Phase 2 Renovations Mr Roger Smith mam president Dr Smith members of the board recommend the board approve the plans and specifications for Craig phase two uh renovation project as presented so move we have a second okay properly moved and seconded all in favor say I I I I all opposed say nay all right all eyes thank you board now we will move on to the approval of the Personnel reports Miss Carla Johnson good evening Madam president Dr Smith and members of the board rep we'd like to request approval of the personel report as submitted all right do I have a motion so moved all right Jessica it's done do I have a second second all right properly moved and seconded all in favor I all opposed all right the eyes have it all right board um we have conducted our business and now at this time we will go to our administrator and board comments would anyone like to go first go ahead and go Miss Pucket all right I am presenting for the last time as I will pass the time to this done um from the Arts board we have the young entrepreneurs this is from ages 5 to 17 this is for our young leaders who have a chance to learn and develop their um marketing skills their sales and customer service this takes place they still have two more January 18th and February 15 this is at Lawrence Community Park from 10: to 1 we also have um a few more dates for our Winter Market that's on select Thursdays from 4 to 7: also at the community center you can go to the cityof lawrence.org for the additional days for that and also for our wonderful seniors we have the golden hour game days this is um at on Thursdays again at the Lawrence Community Center from 11: to no on Thursdays so that is from the parks well thank you Miss Pucket um just a point of clarification and I've done this before myself we actually do our committee reports at the at the monthly meeting the second time of the month did I just mess up no it's okay no because now the now the community knows what's going on in the city of excited about no no I I'm excited now I want to go to that stuff no um and I've done that myself no but thank you for that and then um if you have any like our personal you know board comments at this time I'm opening up the floor otherwise I'll call in people so anybody have a comments I have no comments other than thank you everybody um I'm excited for another year um this is going to be an exciting year and I look forward to it I um thank you it's always been an honor and um yeah looking forward to the work it's going to be a interesting all right um Miss Dunn do you have any comments at this time you Miss Lawrence excited to work with all of you in the coming year it's going to be great um one thing I do want to call out and Shout out all of our facilities um people who have been shoveling snow and uh dumping salt and making sure our kids and uh staff and teachers can get inside and outside of building safely it is uh not easy work and it is sometimes worth that does not go recognized so Mr Smith please extend that uh that heartfelt thank you also to our bus drivers who every day open the door in sometimes very frigid temperatures to a child who's been standing at a bus stop um also in very frigid temperatures um so shout out to those bus drivers who get that wind in their face each and every day thank you for that Miss Lawrence uh Dr Mahal J we're grateful for the welcome the um onboarding experience with all of you to uh Orient me to the board and um just the welcome and grateful to have my family and friends out today I'm looking forward to the work ahe thank you Dr Mahal uh I just have a quote uh one of my sorority sisters was recently chosen as the Georgia teacher of the year and um she said to quote as leaders are job isn't to represent One Voice our job is to represent the voice of others the people who aren't always in the room and and when we talk about intersectionality I see this with our board that we are all here to represent those who do not have the privilege to be in this room and I really look forward to serving with each and every one of you I thank you for our staff um our teachers our Administration everybody um and most importantly the kids we another point of intersectionality is we're all parents and that really personalizes the work that we do and um I just wanted to say thank you and we look forward as a governing body to serving our community this year Dr Smith Madam president and board there's often you don't get thank yous but you make decisions and you decisions on the shoulders of other board members we made a decision several years ago Roger Smith to build our swimming pools Grant neith go to the mic and share what happened because of building nice facilities we were able to do something this past weekend we haven't been able to do it many years we've got a brand new swimming pool at Lawrence North High School what happened we do and we hosted Mick championships and one of our teams even won Mick Championship Morris North won that so uh it's pretty exciting to be able to host that and and uh have it here we also hosted some col teams University of Michigan came and practiced at LC and that's a pretty neat thing for high school kids to get to watch a tier one big 10 you know high level swim swim program and I'll just go and keep going you know when the Olympics came the Olympic trials came we were the practice site for several major clubs and universities to come in and that's just we can't take for granted that what a need experience for our 14 to 18 year old to get to watch the highest level watch future Olympians uh as they train and get to see that so um we get a lot of accolades on our our aquatic facilities and our facilities as a whole uh across the board and particularly in the athletic Arena so congratulations and my last statement since we are in the season of snow it's normal parents we're okay and it will be cold and Roger Smith and his team will be out to make sure we shovel out but I want to remind people we still have a long way to go with wnter so we'll be ready for you thank you all right thank you Dr Smith thank you board um happy 2025 again our next uh board meeting our monthly board meeting will be January 27th here at 7 pm at this time I will take a motion to adjourn the meeting so who do I have a second second properly moved and seconded at this time we will gavel out thank you issue she I don't

Tri down so you started following Cricket a little bit late in ex compared to most of the most of the uh kids in the subcontinent household who come from subcontinent household but uh uh cricket was running in the house all the time you would see that and everything and you started watching the game uh till now what is that one beautiful move movement that you cannot uh forget either watching the game or being on the ground what is that one Unforgettable moment for you in so that one Unforgettable moment was when USA defeated Pakistan M and I I've never seen a team like USA rise like this like I haven't seen USA play in back so when I saw this I thought oh my nation is beating another team I can do that one day too and it was like so amazing for me I just love that moment so that would be my moment

[Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] got me now here we are back again no I can hear my we hear each other myself I hear myself waiting for tip off it's here tonight and the tip is controlled by the chickabee comp Colts fought for and recovered by Caitlyn be sa techy will work the point dribbles to the perimeter gives to Emma Goslin leading scorer for the Spartans Ball's out of bounds after it's being fought for and will be Spartan's ball out of bounds Spartans looking to make their fourth win of the Season tonight against the Colts y Caitlyn beak with the jump shot o in and out rebounded by number 11 Berger she'll look to operate the point and give to Taran corvo comp works the perimeter continues to work hero looks to take the basket shut off there as outside on the far perimeter Caro looks to deal no penetration good interior defense by the Spartans Hera looks to get the jumper and it's rebounded by Goslin kekney works the point goes to Caitlyn beak oh dribbles it out of bounds well hopeful we can keep this good fortune and good play we've had going at home hopefully we can keep that rolling tonight that' be a good thing think the same thing as we if you can start knocking down some threes get them to keep us pressure yep CaRu looks inside nothing doing and picked up after the interception by mney she surveys the court takes it in looks to Jill Stevens little too hot to handle out of bounds off Jill's hands out of bounds take to see a little bit more of that penetrate let our guards Drive in a little bit more Burger looks to see if she can go inside to number 51 Santiago with the basket quick steal almost by kavo very quick and opportunistic there looks to go inside to Marino off the off the rim Ball's controlled by galui coming out double team her in the back she dbes off oh good play by be yeah there we goere look like hit it off of her leg correct good referee to think for a second and say wait wait let me take another look at that good work Marino looks to inbound on the far side near court goes to Osan outside looks to drop and take that step called for a travel turnover away from those want to keep away from those unforced turnovers yep he has three of them that we already have correct so it'll be galui to burer burer goes out to kavo she likes to look for three and the bank is open and that's a 5 nothing Le lead for chick comp here in the early going on the Caro three-pointer oops mcky dribbles out of trouble there with [Music] Caro Goslin takes the ball all the way to the iron very good coach Gary with some instructions while osam goes to the line for Two Shots hopefully tonight Steve don't get called for a lot of those moving screens that we often get called on for but for the girls to set the screens let our guards drive them into the girls yep let that let the penetrator run them run the run them right off let them run the defender off the screen both shots for Goslin well done on the board 5 to2 with 520 left in the first quarter isto will pick up here manto man nice dish Inside by uh burger oh was that burger or carav I don't know if that shift outside to Goslin for three High rebound there you go good work by Kenna right at her Kenna just a little strong yep may have rushed the shot just a little bit but a good steal nonetheless goes outside to CaRu there car goes crosscourt to gal guli goes to Burger Up top Burger back to guli looks to find deban court debet court tries to take the Baseline puts up the floater and it's good 9-2 comp comp applies some extended 131 pressure here they've got y coach saw that coming they had a trap on mcky there that's what you get when you pick up your dribble e we are back to live action coming out of the timeout Jeff you were just saying during the timeout break out what a comp presents some challenges on defense because they've got so many ball handlers it's almost like a four guard guard set yeah it'll be tough they're quick normally a lot of other teams I think we can out run them but today's matchup is a little uh definitely going to have to be more of Swing the ball quick ball handling action not going to be able to dribble around like that well twice got go gotten called with the travel yeah I think we have once we get past a CaRu when you get past her now they have the other three you have somebody that's down low on the other side get give those quick passes pass right around them we're not going to be able to dribble through them all no so berer works the points looks to the new substitution Peña Peña looks to roll off nothing there shut off defensively ball's dead ball goes off the leg mcki goes to the floor for it and it looks like a tie up very good jump ball East lto ball good hustle there Maya NOS in for Caitlyn beak [Music] correct this is a really extended one31 that she's way way out High you were right I mean that she's all the way up midcourt got to move that ball quickly with passing you're right goes to mne outside to marino marino snaps it through not quite there for Jill Berger looks to isolate on mney nice help by Stevens nice basket taking it to the cup 11-2 comp it's been all chicke comp so far comp stays in that very active and extended one three well now more of a hard to say there you go get the shots off good work up opens things up gosin fights for the rebound couple swing passes and get that shot two times I know mne had an open shot earlier didn't take those are the ones that we got to look take that shot put it up there let our bigs go down there and crash the boards we have a little bit of a height advantage over them correct so oops Berger goes to Debon Court back out to Peña back to toban court over to berer they're working the perimeter here trying to find Caro inside she's triple team nothing there back out to Peña oh sorry toban Court rather that's a three-point shot Marino waits to see what she has doesn't like the look goes crosscourt to mney mne goes over to gosin one dribble and a pull-up jumper off the back rim comp got a piece of that one off of the um Marino jump shot Greece BL in for mck inbound play called out by coach they swing the ball around nolles looks to reverse it then goes back to [Applause] marino marino pulls the ball out looks nice screen by Jill Stevens drops the ball back to Grace blaze a little long and Mosin with the rebound takes it right right back up into traffic good job by Grace pleas see that's four shots that we've taken we've grabbed four offensive boards that's good yeah so I mean that's the only good thing that's coming out of this quarter hopefully some putbacks coming soon on those offensive rebounds Spartans run the inbound play it goes to nolles she pulls it out for another look screen by gosin frees up noes momentarily looked good number five and the F very good another Reb right another rebound for Grace blazs well done I mean that's all you can do for right now until they start to go you just try to keep shooting and rebounding them that's all you can do doesn't look like the chab Tom girls are boxing out when we're taking our shots so that's creating our voids for us our girls to be able to get in there Marina goes to blaze blae looks to take it herself against nice well done nice take by Grace Blaze I think she might have gotten fouled on that one as well but no call 14 to4 Burger takes it all the way in Miss everything over the top the ball's fought for Blaze comes out with it finds noes and the Spartans will set from the top find blae outside she draws the attention of two Defenders goes inside the PO oh high post Stevens nice pass back to her blaz just loses the handle on the way up well defended by comp guli almost lost the handle there she calls out a play looks to debet court goes over over to now back to the B Court there travel travel well done Kendall Reed checks in for Jill Stevens and we've got Butler [Music] oh problem substitutions here and we've got Butler and Peña checking in for comp [Applause] this defense it it certainly the look of a 131 but then it's almost like as it gets extended they drop a second person down it almost goes into more of a one two two it's a oh offensive foul against coach did not like that offensive foul call against that a Goslin car looks to snap it underneath and it goes over everything final 25 seconds of the quarter with East lto trailing by 10 14 to four you think we're going to get the final shot in this one or do you think it's going to be I feel like we've had this conversation over and over again yeah I feel like we had this [Music] before Blaze goes inside to Reed Reed Powers it up o just missed I would imagine Carib will keep it and she does way down [Music] yep jump ball called but the quarter expires after one here in East Low it's the chickabee comp cold 14 and the Spartans four e okay just about ready to resume here for the second quarter it'll be chick comp ball inbounding with a 14-4 [Music] lead looks like Ken Marino may be drawing a shadowing assignment on Caro for the second quarter ball goes to the high post comp can't get it out nicely done Jill Steven it the way yep has it to Emma gin comp player got a hand on the ball there in the defensive transition Inside Job Maya NOS goes up for the two good play by Maya NOS there excellent yep way to hang in there 14-6 as P Peña brings it down gives it to shagman shagon goes to Tibetan Court try to get it inside St off there by goes to gosin takes it right at her there we go that's a blocking [Applause] there Emma gosin since Court flying as but the Bon Court was trying to take the the charge Emma just goes right through her and makes the first it's the mark of a smart player and a confident player you know it's easy to say oh on the last one I got called for the charge should I pull it back but that you can't you can't play like that you can't play worried or scared you have to take the ball in the basket she gets the block exactly next play She Drives right through it yep and golin goes for the second just off grabs her own rebound oh just little rebound again what a hard worker oh there you go Jill Stevens up with it kenam Marino there we go the offensive rebounding against Butler fouls Jill Stevens on the offensive side really really good job so far on the offensive glass it's keeping us in the game that's just keep shooting the ball and then even if we're missing the shots we're still grabbing the rebounds two three Chan not even a minute into the quarter and that's two fouls on comp for the quarter Jill goes for Le TI up go there we go here well done I like this I like this aggressiveness from Esa meal East will run the stack on the inbounds play it goes outside to Stevens another clean look o just off the rim Marino runs it down good Hustle by Marino to get that ball there goes outside to Noles on the far side she takes a step back looks at a three oh look good just off the bat tenaciously goes after that ball again oh that's a jump ball that's not a f it's unfortunate call against a good aggressive and hard-nosed play by Jill Stevens it's a tough place for call a foul but in any event Coro brings it up brings it up goes to pñ there they look to find her again inside Debon court goes back outside rebound is ball is up Emma Goslin clears the rebound nice nice defense by Caro there that was not a long not a long break for burer over there on the bench as she's back in lto looks to inbound goes to Maya in the corner extended Grace Blaze with a clean look there we go yes there we go 1410 Spartans cutting the deficit only down by four with six minutes to go in the second storing back well done they collapse on the high post y that's got a little bit of hand on that one good aggressive play by Maya yep watch the street come go k watch the streen lto defense coming out of the inbounds play Marino blankets kavo she goes to the Baseline looks to Dish yeah was well done nice pass oh attention then slipped that pass into Santiago that's twice she's gone Baseline and dished it off nice take by Stevens good block by oh a quick whistle on that one yikes yikes Grace blaz picking up the foul yeah Kendall Reed and Sabina keky check in for Jill Stevens and Maya NS I think anytime carw goes Baseline you have to Y our backside help needs check to the middle under the hoop she's looking for that ball goes outside to burer she takes a Baseline good finish Marina will bring it up The Far Side she finds gosin who had Blaze momentarily crosscourt but then that got closed down she's still out there Emma takes it all the way gets her own rebound right back up Marino gets the rebound she and Reed both battle for it she gets it swing out to blaze blaz looks for it in good job by gra well done killing it on the offensive and defensive side for the rebounds the rebounding has been super so far burer will bring it up the outside goes to deeton court debent court tries burer goes inside to Santiago good job by Reed to get over there man comp is really only getting one shot they are they are not getting multiple shots they're not boxing out they're not rebounding and East Credit to the SP doing that that's a foul there we go by Grace blaz once again a shot we miss get the offensive rebound and put it up great hustle great rebounding like just killing comp underneath the boards before they're just not boxing out right and when you're not an overly big team you you have to do those things both of these teams really it's you know whoever boxes out is gonna get those rebounds blaz makes the first Jill Stevens checks in for Emma Goin Emma's doing a fantastic job tonight driving grabbing those offensive she she must already have like eight or nine offensive rebounds another shot for Blaze Blaze goes two for two at the charity strike 18 to 14 with four and a half minutes remaining in the first half chick comp leads comp passes around the perimeter Burger looks to go to guli guli goes back to Burger burger outside works over to to Venton Court tries to go Baseline cut off by BS good pressure over there yeah easta meow this is good they're moving quicker than I have than they have been so that's nice to see chabe came out with all their cylinders turning but yep since since the first uh four minutes of the game chick seem to have slowed down oh plays with a nice handle of a high ball there she goes over to McKenney mne kicks to Stevens Stevens look the ball fake nice move by Jill k out to Kenna Bang Yes there we go and just like that the Spartans are trailing by only one point 1817 3 minutes and 40 seconds remaining in the first half the last two games Marino's been uh shooting good from downtown makes a big difference in the game that's should travel Trav go defend inside comp applies some token pressure with CaRu there they work the ball over to blaze on the near side Blaze finds Marino who pops stops and Pops a little bit long oh just get back there you go yep don't want that 80 foot foul nothing easy Marina goes back to her assignment on Caribou there looks to get to the middle she can't she shut off and stopped there yeah he was doing a good job with that when she drives her really closing down the lanes yep almost a travel there good interior pass goes outside to guli up and off the front iron oh now there's an example so a rebound by Peña one of the only rebounds that comp has got and they get it they go back to the line yep they goes with the up fake gets Grace plays to jump a little bit draws the follow chab beam trying to stop the bleeding here do p makes the first I think that one what the third basket I think I should have paid closer attention I think it was only they have 18 in the first might that might have been their first basket of the quarter look back if not one or two they haven't had many Caitlyn beak gives Ken Marino a break nice screen by Stevens ball goes from mne out to gosin she puts a screen on her there I think one official would have called it one way it's not his call so correct Butler goes to the top goes out to guli gly tries to go back to Butler there oops ball almost gets [Music] loose a hold or a hand check along the Baseline there fifth follow so they'll be going to the line for the rest of the the half Burger on the line to shoot too this is the first y sorry no Kendall Reed in for Jill Stevens Burger misses the second good rebound by Kendall Reed fought for out to mne mcky pushes goes up to nolles noes doesn't like the look and pulls it back out floater to the middle for Kendall Reed nice move just off the rim and back jump ball there we go well done it's a long jump ball y be on the alternating possession comp will take that one once again he saw met right in on that uh May comes flying in tie it [Music] up okay it looks gosin up top on burger goes to debet court with a nice bounce past to Peña good defense y Well Done rebounded by go slide your feet and Caitlyn be with the bounce pass to Goslin Goslin there to mney kekney resets from this side takes the ball nice interior pass bounc it back out go Reed to beak beak to mne mne to Goslin inside to Reed back that's a nice yep and fat for Rebound good good board by kendle Reed yes well done that's a good hustle play and a good finish just over a minute remaining comp leads 20 to9 a terrific second quarter for this Spartans pñ takes that one does not get the roll goes to De Venton Court that's F that's the one one East none of the East medal girls have picked up the betting court and she comes through and grabs the offensive rebound that's one of those plays where she just Bo somebody finds her and boxes out grab that board makes the first and it goes back iron for debent court rebounded again by gosin we're at the one minute Mark in the half 2119 comp with a two-point lead Grace blae works the outside looks to Reed Reed likes the look she has look up and off the rim coach looks to extend the pressure kennet goes in for the steal gets a little too much body on that we be sending terrible to the line yeah check with my stat guy Steve they had 14 points at the first quarter okay thank you Jill Stevens and Maya nolles check in for Kendall Reed and Caitlyn beak Diaz checks in for giloi and car makes both free throw throws 2319 spart uh Spartan's trailing by four long pass does not get there caribu looks to take it to the basket does not get it in Stevens comes out with it she has no outside nolles pulls it back waits for numbers tough ball to the Middle with no one [Applause] there pull up jumper from the middle of the lane for Butler 2519 Spartan should hold for one and try to get out of this without giving comp any more looks at the Pass lucky there nice look one or the other out of bounds ball will go to comp with seven and a half seconds let's just hopefully we stop them they don't get a shot yeah they put on a little run here at the last no foul not that clean of a look oh that was a very unfortunate last minute and a half for the Spartans that was a game that should have been a three-point game at Halftime and instead the Spartans are behind 28 to 19 going into the half e e e wrapping up the last 25 seconds at halftime as chab comp comes out of the locker room coach Gary giving final instructions for the girls on how to come back from the nine-point deficit they were playing pretty good until that last 90 seconds of the uh second quarter chabe went on a 70 run Taran cavaro had a buzzer beater to put him up nine at the end of the halftime yeah that's just such a hard thing when you when you play against a team with with three-point shoo excuse me with three-point Shooters man two two possessions and game can go like you said from a game that was a a two or three-point game to a nine-point game so the Spartans will just have to dig in and dig themselves out a little bit of the damage they did at the end of the first half and uh you know get this back to within a two possession game good news is it's under double digits correct correct yeah and this is I mean you know cops a good team this is you know this was not going to there not going to be an easy we knew we knew it wasn't going to be an easy game coming into it but dig their heels in chip away at that lead and keep it up on the offensive side if our start if our shots start falling a little bit more it will be uh be a good close matchup hopefully all right looks like isto goes back to the same lineup that started the game for for them and they'll inbound on the far side Marino goes to gosin right for an opening three there we go three excellent well done that's part chipping right away very cut that deficit right down to six nice shot by Emma Goslin to open up the second half it's a good it's a Well drawn up play it's a good way to start the half lto extends a man-to-man defense here nice look inside to Santiago man nice look by B she's pretty reliable inside yeah and it goes back and forth with mcki out here takes a second look looks to penetrate back out to Marino gets a look for a minute doesn't like the distance ball is tipped and then intercepted car looks to attack the the defense she pulls up at the free throw line look for a back door cut the Benton Court didn't see it goes oh Butler with a nice uh nice stutter step to take the ball to the basket mcky takes two Defenders goes by them gives it to gosin who's got a chance to go Baseline on Santiago just in and out just short well fought for on the rebound Grace plays in for Sabino mck 3222 649 left in the third quarter comp with the lead Butler brings the ball up comp in no hurry here looks to go to guli gy takes the dribble just out of bounds that'll be Spartan ball Marino looks to inbound again it's that very very extended 131 pressure look Gosa looks to dribble through gives to Marino outside to beak beak takes the look look floater there we go Nice Shot byit cans the floater Butler will work thetically from the top goes outside to galui looks Baseline takes the ball Baseline passes wildy beak intercepts Spartans press look to go quickly be dribbles up top goes outside to with a three-point look Jill stens gets the ball jump ball good job by Jill stbound well done Spartan ball [Music] [Applause] underneath Marina will inbound off of a foul line extended play here Stevens catches B by ter overly aggressive whistled for the foul ball goes into jel Stevens back to Ken Marino looks there good yes Marino for three and with that comp takes the quick time out go 5 minutes and 41 seconds remaining in the third East lto has cut the lead to Five Points 3227 e and we're good for the reset comp inbounds and carille will take the point assume the role there double team by oeland and Marino there there we go hand hand check yep that's one of those ones when you're out in the wide open yep can't clear out like that I do believe that's three on car that's two quick ones cuz she just I don't know she had one in the first half she probably did that's that'd be three that might be worth taking it right at her y okay gosin works the works the perimeter just outside the three-point Arc findo good look there just off oh stay that'll be East metal ball off of chick comp off of burger well Burger sorry not Butler that was Burger on that one exactly and Marino looks to inbound to Blaze Blaze with the take the floater is up no good rebound by Goin oh gos and fouled but [Applause] yep and my Aon with her 19th and 20th offensive rebound on it's been absolutely it's been a Relentless performance by isow on the glass still St there you go there you go that's good well these are 32 to3 five minutes to go in the third quarter first six games of the season I think we had one three-pointer combined these are all the threes we've been waiting for that's it Caribou tries to get to the Bas it's a two-point comp lead 32 to30 Marino looks to go wide to beak beak with a look has the ball up and good rebounded there by Blaze and Berger fought for it sum almost time with a shot by a good look by Kaitlyn beak Berger tries to get to the basket nice help defense o good quick hands burer goes back in excellent good health defense again nice back door cut there o good passing but broken up by and she's pushed she got pushed reason that Jill went down there is she got pushed over as she was going for that ball I think a what a big difference is Kenna's face guarding yeah CaRu keeping the ball out of her hands every time she has the ball Something's Happened on the other uh it's the same thing we saw that it's a very similar look to the look that Perez got the other night from jio from Holio yep and same thing Kenne oh great back door look there oh wonderful passing yep that's twice she's done that g uh the beton courts made a good play Baseline hit the open girl underneath yeah they're they they passed the ball well the extended 131 Marino looks to beak beak can't quite save it unlucky unlucky unlucky burger and Caro in the back car likes oh good jumped on by Grace Blaze way to jump that passing Lane beak looks up and finds gosin gosin one-on-one against the BET cour then goes past that should have been n one right past Peña and bet de Ben Court then Peña well done should have been a foul should have been foul Peña leaned in with her shoulder y good hands oh should have been a follow after the play good job by Caitlyn beak to get a hand on the ball she got followed right after that Caravan looks to inbound over the jumping jacks of Kenna Marino they try to find her but they can't get it there great hands oh goes to the B Court nice block by Jill oh great good play by the betting court again yeah cop will inbound under the basket you got to look for caribo to be careful to inbound quickly and then pop out for her Burger was wide open on that play Santiago over the back no such call bounces around Jill Stevens got away with a double D on that one think I would have rather had the double dribbled out yeah comp goes back up by four 3632 that's a kick ball Kendall Reed checks in for Jill Stevens Sabina mne checks in for Caitlyn beak isto runs the inbound play ball goes long to Grace Blaze takes a look penetrates Marino to mcky mney just off the front rim fought for comp comes out with it her waits to reset and Kenna will pick her up right there stays keeps her in front of her outside Burger ball goes with the long rebound de Venton Court comes up with it finds paa Peña back to Berger who looks to find the cutting CaRu she does goes underneath nothing doing but there's Santiago to pick it up man they don't run a lot of designed plays to Santiago but between rebounds or things that collapsing pressure yeah she does a good job when that ball gets into her kek goes to blaze that looks to go across Court to gosin takes it up and a foul on Sano and one good job nice take by Emma gosin confident take for the basket absolutely 3834 just over well two minutes and 12 seconds remaining here in the third quarter c will go to the line to try to complete the three-point play the oldfashioned way Jill Stevens checking back in for Kendall Reed Maya noes in for Ken Marino I think what coach Gary's trying to do is get Kendall or sorry to get Kenna a quick break while is off the floor and gosin does convert the three-point play 3835 comp with a three-point lead noes defense pain to there P Grace Blaze ties her up should be travel jump [Applause] ball o ball on the alternating possession without kavo in guli plays the top of that extended 131 pressure Gosa looks to break it and she does goes back to mne tries to find a seam goes to gosin at the arc gosin back to mne outside to blaze takes the ball base line just misses the floater rebounded by Peña to debent court now back to burer Emma contains her [Music] there burer on the outside doing goes back up top to [Music] guli looks to go back to paa doesn't like the look she has 10 on the shot clock Peña takes it in smart play with the shot clock winding down to try to to the basket and get some contact the last couple plays ping has been seeming to drive no not afraid of the She's Not Afraid of the [Applause] contact Ken Marino checks in for Sabino mck and Kendall Reed checks in for Emma [Music] gosin and pñ makes them both extend the comp lead to five 40-35 BL gives the ball to Kendall Reed Reed looks to try to get the ball across nothing there Butler sorry Burger dribbles out of trouble oh oh oh got St with the can't leave ball can't leave [Applause] ball bur misses the first keeping Beacon for Maya noes Grace BL comes out and Emma gosam back in Diaz comes in and debent cor goes out for [Music] J makes the second 4135 Reed goes with the long in bounce to Goslin who looks to have numbers here blocking call nice take by Emma goson who's never afraid to go strong to the hoop nope two shots for em AOS little short on the first [Music] and Goslin converts to Second 4136 five-point lead just under a minute left in the third quarter car brings it down against Marino can't get any penetration oops ball goes outside off of P's hands goes long to burer ball fakes tries to get a look she gets nothing clean well defended by the Spartans interior pass to straight up tries to operate on Stevens nicely rebounded yeah now we're getting beat up on the offensive boards Mareno pulls up goes crosscourt to beak be goes to gosin just inside the arc that's it Jill Jill Stevens burer with the fall good offensive rebound by Jill Stevens Stevens converts to First Kendall Reed out as Grace Blaze checks in look like shagan comes on and gly goes off for comp oops rebounded by gosin go goes up and there we go excellent good offensive rebound by Emma Goin once again cuts the deficit down to four and she's still on the line with 15 seconds to go well [Music] done one shot for Goslin and she makes it lead down to cut down to three now help stay in front of her yep well done yep good defense by everybody good burger looks to go no help by Jill well done ball East gets out of it down three at the end of three so that was the East won that quarter by six points so well done 4340 comp leads by only three points going into the four e [Music] okay here we are as fourth quarter action begins comp in possession holding on to a three-point Advantage 43 to 40 a real barn burner tonight here at East High School Berger moves the ball around galui comes out to the top goes over to shagan shagon goes inside to kavo triy oh called her for an offensive foul what is that four for her yeah I think it's got to be four she hooks that hand every time when she goes by the girl that's twice you hook she hooked Kenna's back and drove right by her well that could be a real that could be a real development here in the in the fourth quarter it has to be at least four on now so I mean it's three that we've noted and I'm almost positive she had one before that so yes Grace blaz goes to the basket that could be it blocking that's four that's got to be four maybe that's at least four if it's not five that one there I the first in the first half she had the uh she got called for she got the uh charge in the first one I thought that was bad this one here that one I think that was that should have been a charging call yeah but I think it was reversed like you said I think it was we got that's what I'm saying the first in the first quarter we it shouldn't have been one on that one there she shouldn't have gotten that one even so I mean she's going to have to sit for a good portion of the quarter if it stays this tight you're going to want her at the end that that ties that ties the coach's hands yep yikes over the back on [Applause] Goslin 724 left in the fourth quarter 43 chick comp 41 East Long Meadow bet and Tor checks back into the [Music] game comp works the perimeter Burger tries to get some penetration oh just bumped off goow the body we we do that over and over again just get to the spot go up with the hands make them make them make the shot Burger makes the first one at the line this this could factor in later in the quarter we're not even a minute into the fourth quarter yet and that's two fouls on each team could be a long quarter yeah could be a long quarter Burger looks to shoot the second and she makes it 4541 comp not only that nice ball ball movement there we go nice all the way to that should get in there there we go nice take by go job by Emma go that was great ball mve but not only that not only do you have uh W terrible out of the game that takes away that little bit of a press that they cre press yep paa tries to run the point there goes to Berger nothing doing rebound mne she looks to bad pass and gets it SAA fights gets that rebound back e medal ball good to see mne going for a jump ball and throwing to betan court around instead of normally getting thrown around herself Stevens will wisely oh over and back ah she waited till she came over [Music] [Applause] that's unlucky on that exchange with a backourt violation Peña looks to inbound tries to get it to burer and she does dosin has her on the perim that's got to be that's got to be at least three Ono I think that's three on emmo she had called earlier with the charging call he SLO denies on the ball the way inne on guli screen there lost control straight up there we go Santiago goes back to gly gy tries to go over Jill can't do it another rebound from mne yes takes it all the way to the iron good rebound goes up with it again oh good board by Goslin alternating possession and ball will go to Chick comp coach Gary looks to extend full court pressure for the first time in a while and again this is another thing you can do without one of their ball handlers without carav oen you have a chance at working this pressure freezer freezer burger goes over the middle Marino picks up there ball goes to GLI back to burer not a lot of places for them to go for offense go inside to the Benton Court stop good board by go she's got to have 20 rebounds tonight easily coach Gary calls out the play from the sideline screen coming from gosin unlucky off the hands of be unlucky unlucky nolles comes in for beak Spartan's down two with 523 left in the qu tight game yep it's the first time they're making everybody tuck in their shirts today yep it's a interesting what certain referees are interested in so paa looks to operate there with burger at the top goes outside to guli back to burer they work finally find to bettin court there nothing doing can't get an Avenue to the basket tries to turn [Applause] oh the old Larry Bird play where if you turn in a circle and hope that the defender goes with you and then you've got an open look at the basket ball goes outside to nolles good look off the rim ball should stay here for East slow well done Marino runs an inbounds play here nothing doing rolls outside to mne to reset finds a lane to the basket by G East L will retain possession blaze in as Maya goes to the bench Marino looks to inbound again finds Emma for a good look there we go Oh in and out that was three quarters of the way down good look by Goslin oh lucky with that unforced turnover she was wide open she was okay now comp looks to apply a little bit of their own pressure enjoying a four-point lead 47 to 43 with four and a half minutes left in the fourth I just spread it out let Emma go right at her couple of options for screens there Marino looks top gos looks to go again turned over by comp burer looks to see if she's got a lane to penetrate she does not Peña thought better of taking that shot burger with that patented ball fake that she uses often to betting Court outside to guli who gets a good look from three nice box out push it all the way up the court and Coach Gary calls a quick timeout with 3 minutes and 52 seconds remaining in the fourth it's 47 East L meow 43 e [Music] we're back with 352 to go left in the fourth quarter you saw Met Ball down by four points mcki inbounds to like inbounds to gosin gets the ball back to Blaze Blaze with a shot fought for Inside by Stevens fight hand on it good job by Jill Stevens to get a hand on that ball coach takes another timeout got only have one timeout left e Coach Gary draws up a different play for this time see if this one see if he likes this better Emma with the three go yep very similar to the play they started the second half with that's it Teru back into the game so uh finds a streak guli very well done 4943 just like that man she makes a difference when she comes back in ball off the hands of Joel Stevens Spartans are going to have to dig in here and reset for the last three minutes and 15 seconds and try to make up this six-point deficit yeah we definitely need to stop right here y so galie looks to run the point along with Kya they're trying trying to trying to free up Caro for a good look Kenna plays terrific defense on her throws the ball wildly over to Peña find Santiago on the post now see there's a they haven't asked her to do anything the whole half and she comes up with that that's a big bucket good basket by Santiago yeah very very very strong and reliable and guli will be in no hurry here comp will used the full 30 or the full third 26 seconds remaining on the shot clock I would imagine NOP CaRu unwisely shoots that ball should have held that for possession in time she's got to let Emma go and three for mcky off the rim tie it up yep goes to blaze there we go there's the basket nothing CaRu could knew she couldn't even fight for the loose ball and run the risk of being fouled out of the game 5145 comp up by six with just under two minutes [Music] remaining kle plays tight defense there on unforced [Applause] turnover so EO has possession back trailing by six with a minute 43 left Coach Gary calls out the play he wants goes over to Grace gets a good look good dve by Jill Stevens a Goslin in there oh trap it trap it trap it oh gal nicely dribbles out of trouble finds Caro on her way to the basket fires it up nothing doing Santiago with the rebound of course Sano of course the put back Santiago coming in clutch for chick be comp the last shooting she must be shooting like 85% I don't know she has she missed one shot she's doing terrific for comp shoot all the time but man she converts the shot she takes coach Gary calls a timeout with a minute and two seconds remaining 53 for comp 45 East Long meow e e see what the Spartans oh worko looks to inbound to follow on Santiago that's something that works out good pick up a fall no time comes off the clock unfortunately that's only the third team fou on to so no shooting yet now we're underneath the hoop hope we get a bucket here and get a quick turnover gosin seals goes back to Marino long rebound fought for ball is pressured ball is press and I I successfully jinxed Santiago by saying she's never missed so you can credit the announcers Jinx for that one sorry sorry kiddo [Music] and Isel meow's going to have to go quickly here and get some looks quickly we got to go faster than this got to go faster than that y ball under the hoop goes off gooie eight point deficit with 30 seconds remaining is going to be going to be a tall hilt SL now yeah we have to quickly get two fouls nevertheless and one would have been a good one to have 5347 got a foul here got a [Music] f she's too fast they can't catch her Ken's GNA get hit with the technical the FL fall [Applause] you know there's something to be said in a play like that for just if you've got somebody down low just knock one of the girls away from the ball say you're trying to box out try to draw a foul somewhere off the ball if you can't catch the girl with the ball thing is I don't think you've been in many situations where you have to foul somebody at the end of the game right that's to be one of those ones where you get them down on the offensive side when inbound it you should been trying to you know who the ball was going to go to you know they're going to get it so CaRu makes both free throws for a 57 sorry 554 5547 comp lead they'll also retain possession on the intentional foul call so they'll be inbounding with 8.7 seconds left [Music] with 6.6 seconds remaining and comp going to the line within eighto Advantage this one is probably in the books yeah that's the F we needed 40 seconds ago P misses the front end of the two shot foul she'll take the second now and pñ with a violation for not drawing any iron on that [Music] one and that's your ball game ladies and gentlemen a close game opened up a little bit at the end looks a little bit a little bit more distant it could have been tonight's final uh comp 55 eastl mow 47 always a pleasure Jeff have a good one guys

5 p.m. 5 p.m. it was crazy yeah we didn't take there were no breaks there were noan of course is probably got 50,000 steps in that day I don't know count our our up time on technology there's not not very many glitches a little unplugged for here probably but and then yeah soes that's awesome Community effort really good I have one last thing um just to update on some enrollment is that um for our uh online courses we have 47 college courses being taken right now for students um that's through from ACC fhtc and ESU you know ESU is offering them um to our students now as well online and then we have um um uh 44 kids taking uity courses and that's for high school credit so that's anywhere from the cosmetology to the uh cyber security um you name it uh women's studies so those are high school courses but they're done online yes okay and they're that's how that worked yes and that's all all of that is mapped to the state standards so like I have somebody taking women's studies right now so it's in the the history department and blah blah blah so um trying to to meet those individual plans study um as they go through um and that's a easy way for them to go heck no I'm not going to take this anywhere I'm not going to go down this path and so on so Diane runs that there's eight80 students that run through that throughout the day um we do have a few Credit Recovery kids um we're not making that habit but it is best for them so we can keep it on track for graduation so that is individual bases and a special circumstance um so unfortunately so they're not enrolled three times in a row in the same class you know if they failed it a couple times we're giving them an option and that seems to have been um pretty successful right now the autonomy so just update on that so lot going on thank you very much anybody else anything else okay um be honest I did this report before the break so I don't know but I will tell you that on Tuesday first day with kids and kind of sorry Wednesday first kids um and Road's you know okay was also the day of a job fair in andoria um that Southeast Kansas Works put on especially in light of the Tyson plant shutting down things like that so I took whne me and we went and spent the day over there um I would say I know I got one application filled out right there in hand um somebody else actually from our community that I talked to and got a resume from um maybe yielded three potential um also though talked to a couple High School seniors that were like what you know and we just talked about education in general and the field and um so that was kind of a fun conversation so didn't y like a ton of results but I think still kind of worth it at the same time and just like we go to teacher job fairs and you have to kind of head hunt and go find and look them up and whatever especially because of the shortage you know one girl the application I got actually went to the table next to me which was MFG oil and was like oh maybe customer service and I was like let me go find her I might be able to get her in I got new customers you know and she's the one that fill out the app so um we're we're trying to fill vacancies um we have two starting at bees on the 27th um one's coming back to us one is moving to the community um so you know we have some things in the works we're not drastically low the high school still could use a few um but really that's that's my biggest hot spot right now High School is It's Not Unusual for that to be hard to fill to be really honest with you a lot of people are scared to go school real and sometimes I have to talk them into it or find someone who's not uh the other thing I just wanted to kind of touch on is we had a I had in service today with my 244 Paris um I'm going Friday to the 245 Paris and Monday to the 243 Paris um but really did a lot of data collection today from them as a lot of questions like what does your day actually look like like I tell you these are the things that you should be doing what does that really look like and some we got some raw number data some was just some feedback data but with the main intent to look at we're always short Pairs and we have pairs that come and go so how can we make it better for them upon entry so really we're going to look at our onboarding process and what that looks like but we wanted to get some data from those people that have gone through it um or in your past and what have they seen that they've liked or not liked um and then what are they doing and how can we help support that um either from my level or the building level so great conversation they were very involved um I told them it was a safe space you know I'm not going to go say oh so and so said this or whatever wasn't about that um and so I think that really allowed them to share it and we had terrific conversation I hope my other two go go just as well because it's going to be some phenomenal data for us to use moving forward um and then in the afternoon we talked U buil talk that and did a little teaching and really looking at learned helplessness and how we can foster Independence and we even practiced how we can scale back doing too much into being making kids more independent and how they can just self evaluate throughout and look at those things so um they actually had two of them tell me this is a top five day and I really think a lot and I got another email since we got back and I think some of that was they got heard it was all about hearing from um and it was great for us it's just what we needed to so Joe took the notes and he's compiling the data I facilitated the meeting and we fed them and not lunch but we had snacks and candy and I mean it was it was a really good day so yeah I think that's really important I know Jen filled in as a pair of Subs sometimes and I think that's can be a very thanless job and you kind of feel like you're on the bottom run and nobody really is listening so that's really important that he did that it it was it was wonderful and I appreciate how much they participated today okay thank you l so yeah kind of a short board report here because um when uh we only had about nine days of school we didn't get much of what the students were doing technology wise as they were kind of headed for holidays and that but U we've got a lot of reporting going on uh just in this next month and a half chrisy and I a whole bunch with the Civil Rights data collection for the federal level and the educator uh data collection system for the state um it's kind of a good thing we didn't get started too far on our civil rights uh data collection because the state just informed us today that they had to mess up with the uploads that they provide and uh our choice is to either hand change everything they have in there or wipe out everything that is done and so luckily we haven't uploaded any of our stuff otherwise we'd be doing it all over again from scratch so it's a yeah so we uh it's going to be interesting to see what uh additional data we're going to have to provide because they have said that they won't be able to fix their side of the data that they normally provide by the March 7th deadline so that's a a new one in there um uh we did get access to our training database uh so a little later this week uh for cumulative we'll be uh getting our principals and secretaries and counselors uh involved in uh some training modules and then they'll be actually able to use a version of cumulative that's been built for us with our data as of December 27th and can go in there and make changes and uh you with it being our actual data as of that point it's maybe becomes a little bit more um relatable to what they're doing you know it's not some random name you you know you can actually see a student's name and their parents and if you make a change you you know you can feel or understand what you're really doing in that process of training um you know what effects you've made oh you know I just accidentally deleted that parent you know or or oh you know I've separated them into two families and it would make much more sense knowing it's our own students so um that is happening this week um and we found out about the uh Kansas kids is becoming kids and and uh that data system it's it's uh going to actually instead of us having to basically upload our data will be there and and we um um approve that it's ready so um a little bit more hands off and and they're hoping that um that this will keep the state system like cleaner um then they'll only be gathering basically like for instance when we say fourth graders we need to set them up to take the state assessment in reading and math and social study well as long as the state knows hey this kid's a fourth grader they will automatically now with this new system just say they're a fourth grader these are the tests they need you know and so less work of us having to actually go and tag each student and say yes take this test take this test and then upload that data it'll just be there so it'll be interesting to see how that U works um they are implementing it and hope to have everybody into it by March and then kind of do a dual system for the rest of the school year and then go live with it next fall so a lot of different things happening uh one other thing uh ksde.org is becoming ks.gov uh at the end of the month and so all those email addresses will be changing the websites will be changing and then we've even found that you know links to documents and that are have to update and all that so yeah I think darling found some trainings and they have checked one to hey this is live will be able to show it they checked it before our meeting and then in our meeting they pulled it and it was so they're having to struggle through it too yeah so but just uh aware that that is coming that and that will be a valid uh valid change thanks for work CRA you got plent to do speaking of days off how many snow days did we end up having to we ended up three we were off Monday Tuesday went to school two hour delay Wednesday full day Thursday 2hour delay counts as a full day for us and Friday we were out so we're the well well not necessarily because again we got to have 1116 hours total in the school year and chrisy and I we've been swamped because we yeah we haven't had a chance to do the math yet more information because everybody's been asking are we going to have to make up we're going to do some feary before we start whenever we get a chance to catch our breath we're going to do some math and figure it out but we'll share with everybody but worry fortunately a lot got paid for the snow days this time two days yes remember we paid two class we P our classified staff for two snow days so two of those three are paid so that was good that was POS like that was a long stretch right you at the same time exactly and that was one of the reasons the board a number of years back number of years back gave us gave gave gave us the permission gave me the permission you you approved it to be able to pay two snow days and this is a perfect example of why it's a long stretch off over Christmas break whether not so yes okay all right great the other great yeah Board of educa Board of Education appreciation month every month ought to be Board of Education appreciation month again want to thank you all for your service to the student staff and Community it's very much appreciated the jobs that you do um the time you put in U people don't U understand and know I think they do a little bit after they saw the article in the paper and then it was October or November the different things that the board members do so again thank you so much uh and we do have some ice cream clean ice cream cake tonight for you guys uh so Lindsay's just set that out I think to let that fall and we'll be ready here in a few minutes when we're wrapping up here um I want to continue we we continue to talk about um some information from our strategic plan and some of this looks familiar from in the years from last year but there are a few other additional items down below we just continue to look for ways to bring in the community to have discussions to have open honest communication with our community um just a variety of different ways and we will look for more opportunities in the future um as we are getting ready to have a work session on wesy for a little bit more information regarding the bur and Elementary School uh facility options and thoughts and what we're going to be doing there we continue to look again for you know different thoughts different you know things to discuss and then we'll probably bring that information to the public again so there's so many different ways that we have uh you know just Incorporated the public into public education and uh keeping those excellent lines of communication open and if you guys have additional items different ways for me to do a better job um sharing information with the public I am all ears um again public is very important to us they are very very important to us so again just some reminders of how we do work you know to inform the public and then the last item is we've already talked about this but uh great news again in regards to Michaela congratulations go out to her and I mentioned and de for their work on this honor so we'll get some uh social media out some positive stuff out we'll get this article in the paper we want to get this out there for BC and then all the other great things and you've already heard a number of different great things that are happening here as we're starting a new calendar year I mean there's a lot to be proud of here in Burlington and it's the people the people that make a difference so again that's all I got okay great thanks board member items anybody have anything me I was going to kind of talk about the meeting we just had before this meeting just a little bit L our admins here so we met with um recent graduates from Burlington High School from last year so we have three um that attended we have two that um went into college and one that went into the military um and uh we got some really good feedback um a lot of it you know was was positive um they gave us some some suggestions and things that maybe we could do a little differently with um like career fair and some of the clubs um how we advertise those clubs and things like that at school uh but the grade wise so we always ask them at the end we go through questions and get some feedback good and bad um so we got we one gave us a solid B they said solid the other said a solid B+ um and then one gave us an a um but some of the um feedback as far as like uh the career fair thing maybe just have it set up differently maybe with tables and more um different types of careers and so we kind of talked about you know maybe we could and we can you know that would leave that to to you guys at the high school to figure out really um but maybe pulling the kids and seeing what things they're interested and then trying to bring in those types of things um I know that last year the the career fair was set up a little differently um I think then years before maybe last year was the first year we had it first year okay yeah since Crystal's been there and we did pull the students and that's how we that's how you decided so we did yeah so that's we we did a survey and and then try to match with the yeah um but then we talked about like well they don't know what they don't know right so then they don't know what careers are even out there so anyway that was just some of the the feedback um we you be typing this up so we'll get you we'll get you sent we'll get you sent this we talked about going to it before there were seniors yeah yeah and for all kids and it was open to all no was it just seniors this year are they talking the one beinged yes yes everybody did yes so we'll do it every other year now but again with Crystal this was that was her fourth year this is her fifth year so that was her first time to run it off yeah so okay yeah good feedback that's it's good information yeah um one thing that really stuck out to me two well two things really um with the question we asked is there did you have a staff member or teacher that was like a trusted middle and each one of them had no problems popping off a name of a of a teacher staff member that they that was like a mentor trusted adult that they felt they could always you know go to so that was um and it was all different each one of them had a different um teacher which I thought was really good too it wasn't you know all the same um and then with all the positives um two of them said um that they felt like they were really seen like the staff members and the teachers really saw them um as a student as a person so that like got me because I was like like that you know above all like I really think you know these were students that started their High School careers at other high schools and then came here during high school and they both said in comparison to their old high school they they had something to compare to also that was yeah that's good that's a key piece of it I think it is cu they they both said those two that you know their previous schools you know weren't great and we had so much more to offer and the way that they were treated by staff and um I just thought that was really good those two things stuck out to me because I you know I just want kids to have a trusted adult and and to feel like they're being seen so um just wanted to share that with you guys thank you anything else they have the other suggestion about extra curricular so like one of them said you know they really weren't involved at first as a freshman because they didn't really they were you know like didn't really know what the options were and so like they just suggested like maybe in the gym have like booths for each club and the kids could go around and see what the clubs were about because they weren't very involved first C years because they didn't really know what the options were you know so some kids are like really involved so they're always involved right and then some kids don't know because they'd see a poster yeah maybe the first week have during Power Hour all the clubs are set up on a table so they can go around and really like oh this is really what this club is about or be happy to know we did that this year these are great things so it's good feedback because those are the type of things and then we actually yanked freshman and said you're going to go try this go try W cat's care go try this like what are you going to do well I got I got a wallat pass I'm going do no you're not let's go try this so we really were very um uh intentional about try it if you don't like it you never have to go back but and so but that was I I don't know if that was just random if that was I don't knowt but that was what happened so good yeah well and that was key too one of the we asked them like their favorite memory what was their her experience um being in school and all of them it was an extracurricular thing it was a club it was a um trip that they went on and it was a sport like it was all that extra stuff because it was that again was like the connection piece for them feeling part of a team feeling like they belonged and um so I thought that was that was I'm Happ they on Improvement at checking them James I did have one thing I wanted to talk I talked to Craig about this at the last meeting but we didn't have everybody here so I want to make sure when we went down to wiah for our uh oh the School Board conference can't the title so one of the CL actually I went to four sessions one of them was based around social social media usage one of them turned into that halfway through the class and there was some information that came out during the class that I didn't ever think about and I'm going to guess other people in here have it I'm talking to school memb but it probably applies to the administrators also they got into a discussion about like Facebook for example usage and they gave an example and it was a city manager not necessarily A Schoolboard member but they said the city manager had his Facebook account set up before he became a city manager it was his personal account and when he became a city manager he as time went on people would send him questions on his personal account and he started answer those questions using his personal account which made his personal account his public account so then people were able to go and look at things on his public account and that was part of his professional position at that point well somebody he had got into it with somebody on his on Facebook and he decided to block that individual which is not something you're allowed to do if you are a public servant apparently because people have the right to speak to public servants but he did and he got sued for hundreds of thousands of dollars and lost so their suggestion was and obviously I know that we try not to comment on social media but I know that several of us have been have definitely had a PLL to do that over the past few months one suggestions they made was is if you are going to do that make a separate Facebook account or Twitter account or whatever it is that says Bob plumber usd244 School Board member and then on your other account make it very clear that your personal one is your personal account has nothing to do with your position and differentiate between the two I don't think we have a problem with that but I know that there's been a few times I've wanted to post things that might have caused a problem and uh I know there are a few people that have posted things not that they caused a problem but I don't want so I don't want to accidentally post something then somebody go back and see what I was doing in 1995 on Facebook you know and find something that could be held against me in the future so I just wanted to put that out to everybody it's not a a view that I had ever thought of and I never would have thought that could have come back on somebody but I thought everybody should probably know that that was out there W good point if I might kind of add to that kind of along with your email uh addresses you know uh if you aren't using a school district email address you may want to because U your correspondences uh the personal email can become part of like a a lawsuit or anything like that and then all of your personal emails would become subject to that so if you're currently using a a personal one and you would like a district one it sounds like we are very very lucky here I heard a lot of stories from people in larger districts and uh it there were some horror stories um especially during Co time frame I know a lot of you were on the board and I wasn't um stalking death threats all kinds of things like that during that time period for some people um so I think we're pretty lucky but that doesn't mean we shouldn't be more careful good points good reminders okay so moving on to result uh there's there's a lot of data in here and you know so that as you guys go through the data it's much easier for you to kind of understand it to interpret it because when I take first brush out I go so now I'm asking you to explain like uh says b State Ela 2024 and then the second slide after that says Ela 202 so I'm trying to understand that that's on slide 10 it could but then above that is 2024 okay so even if it is 2024 wow there's a lot of netives in there yeah and you know so if you go back to the slide before I found this kind of interesting like you know this basically breaks our kids up by level so kind as Craig talked about earlier we're hoping to see kids at two threes and fours you know which were actually better than the state like we have less kids in four compared to the state um and is there more text on the bottom of that SL christe I can't see so 74% of our kids in third grade were at a two three or four which was an increase from the year before in 89% which was an increase of 2% from the year before so you know we're improving I feel like but then when I look at that side I'm like then of those like so these are kind of like the um components if you will like overall topic areas that the kids are assessed on and like all of ours are showing below but like our kids are doing okay and I actually like compared it to a couple years ago and it's kind of the same thing we were actually talking about this with third grade like a main idea we're B at it every year and so we kind of talk to second grade I have no idea how a state generates this I have a question blue and and is below mean is two and a below because the state would I think say that in theow I I can't tell you anything that's what I'm saying so you guys see this all the time I'm just looking and then 10th grade is oral so I I just want to cave out that the state will see a two they only want thre and fours well and if you look at both those in all the categories for the most part on third and fourth and all the categories in tent the majority of the students are two or below you can also say the majority of the students are two or above just because two is such a big category right so it really is going to depend on how you want to you know squish the data around which I think is what's important and this isn't even my report so I'm sorry guys but I think that's what important when we start looking at the longevity of it is to also see are we moving kids from ones to twos twos to threes or higher in that section which we disaggregate data all the way down to a high two a low two a high three and low three because we want to see if we're truly moving kids then that's what we're wanting to keep pushing and this only shows you that one snapshot well and it's a little bit cons uh confusing to me because it talks about how the third grade went from 69 to 74% well that's a different group of kids in the third grade it really you should be looking at third grade last year compared to fourth grade this year right to see if they're moving up but you're also talking about a different assessment that's true that's true it's not perfect I guess yeah there's I mean there's no perfect way I mean if you like the reason I put that like third grade because I think you were talking about the same teachers teaching the same standards they're using similar methods are we looking at how we're teaching it maybe you know like we talk to them like we so we're giving an interim assessment test my building's never done that before the state's really encouraging it it's hoping they're hoping to come it in I can get on this topic for a long time but they're re they're they've redone the ELA standards so now like this year they came out with what's priority standards part of that's because the science of reading is becoming a big deal so like now on the assessments more so at my grade levels in the past it's been like um you they're assessing reading to learn and now they're going to try to also assess learning to read and reading to learn at the third grade level then get to fourth grade a little bit less of that and as it goes on up that's going to release it's really important for us to teach kids how to learn to read right like we need to already know that before they get there I'm not sure how they're going to measure that but that text the test the text complex complexity and all that's going to change so this is is actually the last year that we're going to have these cut scores because we're giving all new this year and they'll establish the pet scores next year which will'll get in August and we'll start out with new levels for two threes and fours but I'm telling you like I think I said it last time with the math the math this came from lady at the state Department's mouth the lady in charge of Assessments we're not going to update the math standards until the state of Kansas can do better on these because we're not getting enough kids in the threes and fours so they're not going to change them I mean it it sounds to me you it sounds to me as often as you say they change these that there's no way to do any kind of long-term Trend and there's no way to get any useful information out of it at all yeah I mean you're going to get about five six seven maybe years worth they're going to change the standard and change assessments and then they're going to start back but it's never truly Apples to Apples it's an apple to another fruit maybe you know no I understand you said earlier the ACT scores for juniors were higher than we've ever seen before some classes are just going to be a little bit higher than the other classes I mean it varies year to year so a few percentage back and forth I don't think is a major indication that's just within the mar you see is like if you're you know you're consistently performing right I mean you're always trying to push those kids as far as you can and I think with these interim assessments what they've done now is they've changed those and we're going to have a better chance like they're supposed to be more predictive of how we're going to do and let us see like oh these standards like oh yeah you can break those inter reports down be like okay they got that or they're still not doing very good at that so we can keep working on that or you know whatever they might be um but we tried to get away from teaching to the test I mean way back Child Left Behind we were trying to get everybody proficient then we kind of got away from that state assessment's becoming a big deal again it's as simple as that so so number 13 swing Jody is this the same group of kids that you just talked about that score really well on the Keys um yes yes so these were yeah so there these are our current Juniors and um so yeah it's not where we want to be but we broke it down today the same group but then they take exactly and so I guess this is where I was confused I'm like know I put that chart somewhere if you go to 14 this is what Darla saying too this is where we're focusing right now is we broke it down these are the questions and if you look over there are where we need to be and you can go down below there was a one like was there thank you it's Q maybe no that's Kanas anyway so you can see below and this is what the teachers were talking about today is so we're not how important this where is this in your scope and sequence have you taught this and then we talked about vertical alignment are they supposed to come in with that from a previous grade and have some knowledge of it and have we hit it yet do we just need a touch B on it do we need to teach it if you know because it is important to us but one thing that Matt and I are doing is the fast bridge and the fast Bridge testing we do three times a year is aligned with and it's the verbage is supposed to be close to the state sens so besides the interim we have two interim we have uh we'll have two fast bridge scores prior to our state assessment so for the middle school and high school we're Hing looking at this our teachers are and then just just like Darla said you can go into individual kids and we have this for every kid and so our teachers then look at where we're low at collectively groupwise how we can address that but then individually um so this is the first time that you know it is new for us and so we were trying to break it down like how can we move the needle move a group of kids from because right and I'm trying to what the I don't have it on there there was like I want to say 27% in the high ones 27 kids in high ones and maybe one kid in the in the low ones we're like okay let's get the low one to the high one let's get those 27 how do we get those to twos and it made more sense but again In fairness to our teachers this is the first time they've seen this data and so now we're having the conversation and this type of stuff when you break down data this is real okay and this is Ela but when we look at math we're really good at probability and statistics tell me ever when we teach that in a sophomores and we're really good at it I mean we are outstanding about the state so it is what it is but it has good information so it feels right now like it's just bucket fulls of information we haven't quite figured out how to use it yet the beauty of these interims are that you're going to be working with the same group of kids it's a smaller test in October November and then another one January February this is and so you know these October November results there tells you you know we are low on this so let's do some extra work with these with these actual kids you're not wait you're not getting you know that one test in April and you're getting the results in late May June when school may even be out and the kids are already gone and they're on to another grade level you know so hopefully this can make things much more actionable well it definitely is a better way to measure kids because like when we gave like the inner windows open for two weeks I mean so you could take the first one in like the last two weeks of November or something like that and then the get ready to open up at the end of January I think right and then we have a couple more months then we'll take the summit of Assessments when the fourth grade took their Ela inter in the fall I mean Lisa is like well I know someone we did bet on because I haven't taught that stuff yet so you can expect that some like some of your standards are going to come out low because you can't have taught the whole curriculum between August and November you know but as they come back and take it again in January hopefully cover a few things that you might be spiraling back in you're going to see some growth on those things and it's just it's also another opportunity for us to maybe I personally think take some of the pressure off you know the state assessments the teachers do feel like they're a big deal but it's also a test like if we don't have any practices on if the kids have never seen that format before so um you know I think using the inters are good and it will give us some ways to monitor ourselves a little better and just clarify that the slide that is this year's Junior this data right here you're looking at is the current soft are the current sophomores it's not last year so that right there are our current Juniors so that's a spring okay so then right here I wanted to show you an example of the interims and so this is our current sophomore so this is what we're and like Darla said we're trying to use these this pieces of information as they go um this year so we we'll see how they do and and to me it is a t we have kids of test anxiety this is shorter um uh I to me a little more less stressful for kids um our kids even said that and then we can see growth that way and they might tot they vomit on state assessment day right so at least for conversations for data wise it's like our kids are there but they might have just had a bad testing day um so anyway so are we actually breaking this down for individual kids and saying hey for this kid we need to attack this problem that's where we're at okay well I you said we could I didn't know if we actually act actively started doing that yet because that seems like a large workload it very much so and that's where like Deborah came today and she's she's willing to help teachers as well we're going but again for our for our teachers this was the first time for them to see everything first time to get together and really see everything um and so we're having this conversation fast Bridge we've already been doing that and so now putting we have fast bridge this week we have inters coming at the end of the month and so we'll have all these other items and we we we want to look at the correlation too is you know are the testing better on one or the other and then that it's also we're always re evaluating like we evaluate is fast Bridge helping us as well so I mean it's it's a large conversation but under the umbrella that we don't want to te Teach them to test and train them to test it is all about like the standards and the knowledge and the I mean the content right to master yeah you don't want to grade you don't want to teach the test but at the same time this is showing you where there's gaps in Knowledge and Skills right that we can work on closing yeah somebody greater than us decided that these are the standards for this grade level and so that we will we will continue to focus on this we will teach them and focus on that well rest assured that those students have test anxiety have data anxiety I trust that you guys are looking at that and kind of figure it out and I think our our charge our in this is to accept a reasonable interpretation we trust you so and at the high school really it is the why for the kids why is this important instead of just clicking through and so we do battle a little bit of that but um uh uh conversations with enrollment and I will tell you that is because we do we have to use data right you have to have something like oh hey you have to you need to go to a reading lab you need to do this no is so I we will I will be asking for support in that as we have reading lab and math Labs um for our kids because that's our only way we can address some of these um lower when we start breaking it down individually and so they're going to be losing an elective so we can make sure we are doing our part so it's not going to be pleasant conversations with kids and parents but also we don't just use one test it's going to be that that across the board some triangulated pieces to look at so I just yeah I prefer the I like a report out from as web guess as you can see it's colorcoded and you can see them like they get smaller or bigger like it's easier to follow right see I'm I'm a dork I like all of this so you can have it so I'll make a motion to accept the ELA results monitoring report as reasonable interpretation of the Board of Education results policy second motion seconded discussion having done sub start worried I would loged in come it's Jody I wish I had this for the guys that work Tak a little slow down it is takes a while to get down motion carries 60 and again thank you guys for what you're doing they're doing a lot of evaluation as you can tell repete bid we have some very small projects this year uh to do so last year we didn't have a big concrete bid uh uh project to do this year is again just very small you can see the square footage sections uh we reviewed these areas and this is the amount so I plugged in about 150,000 each year so this year's going to be a much smaller year great and this year we last year we did not have any um you know any concrete major concrete so we're we're kind of on top of things that we are at some point in time we're going to have to do you know there's going to be some big sections we're going have to do at the high school parking lot um uh trying to think of others I'm hoping that the county is going to look to do something with that road between um the elementary angle parking and where they're doing the construction when they're all said and done with the construction I'm hoping that that will be a you asphal is getting beat up pretty good from all the construction so anyway but that's that's a county that's a County Street that we will not have to worry about so you this will be summer sum very small again about $237 18.75 and these have been reviewed by myself margarito and Chris NE motion motion to approve the concrete bid from Burlington Construction Incorporated in the amount of $ 23,7 18.75 second motion seconded discussion it's like taking a long time to got right most car 6 I just no you moved to prayer the background yeah I'm the headed home uh next one is boxy floor bid okay you see some information we did have two vendors uh that Pro that gave us bids for our epoxy floor projects we had uh one main project and two alternates alternates for me were trying to determine it depending on pricing for not only for potentially this year if not this year doing them this year I can then plug plug them in for next year have a better idea on the pricing so uniflor is the company that we've worked with in the past day are the ones that have helped Rectify our previous bad situation with epoxy foring ATS was a secondary company that came in they are out of Nebraska uh they submitted bid bid information but they did not have a bid Bond or proof of insurance big red flags big concerns um and that does not meet our bid specs even though they're low bids low biders they are not you know qualified biders based on our bit specs and I did call and express to the gentleman who came said well we can get those things for you but at the time of the bid you don't have them that's not fair to everybody and he was on site for a visit I met him talked with him he knew about everything so having said that that's where we stand um and un is the one that we have had help us with we've had nightmares with yes they are the ones we're happy with they have taken care of our needs we they are the number one draft pick right now for us as far as taking care of our not only our our needs but fixing problems that we've had in the past um I it would be my recommendation to do the middle school boys and girls locker rooms they are really bad dingy yellow bad shape they just look horrible um we'll wait on the high school restrooms wait on the Middle School concession stands for another another time maybe next year or the year after but I think it's just best to right now to look at that the middle school boys and girls locker rooms and my recommendation would be go to with unior on Project one pro one only to accept the bid for epoxy floor project from un Inc for the project number one in the amount of second discussion no discussion it's headed your way got thank you come my horse back there we go motion car 6 this must just come today yes we have one retir I'm I'm Mo to accept the retirement request of Charlie Woodworth as brington Middle School physical education teacher with regret at the end of the 2024 2025 school year second does it many us discuss so discuss 31 years been at somebody said he taught at proac or something couple years might have been student teaching but I think he's been here for all 31 it'd be interesting to know how many of the teachers are younger than the number of years right now we certainly wish you Well's you'll be there did he come in behind Tim Mar I think so when Tim moved up oh yeah motion car 6 no personel no students negotiations for right now no we can maybe look at February or March okay de briefing thank you for coming I really like congratulations yeah that's one of my favorite to get we received more information tonight on this linkage than we have in the long time so I felt like it was three totally different perspectives and I appreciated that I think it was his dad was prob along little bit no we did not go over any questions I just said did you look at the questions so you don't look like a fool and then told us problem okay uh yes look like J ice cream uh J yes I just know how I just know how much I thought he would have been into it ahead of time and he would have totally just got the right words

on Monday July or sorry January 6 saying hey does field trip and medical account I was like no it's qu there's quite a buzz I've talked about it at lunch with students they're excited to for the opportunity to qualify for and we're hoping that it'll encourage kids to come to school more frequently I think it's a really great you a buzz in my house just well I did just like we do in our school we have plc's well um I was pretty grateful to be able to talk to Mr Neely I've got a cell phone and I have the the um brancha principal so sometimes we'll just kind of talk with one another and say hey what do you think about this and and run ideas past one another and was able to talk to Mr Neely their criteria is more on the denial of credit so if you exceed 10 absences and even they will change depending on how they want to incentivize it depending on the need of the school so we thought we really would like to encourage kids to come to school we really need them to come on a consistent basis so we decided to narrow the parameters a little bit more not make it unattainable but make it a little bit difficult anything else okay anything else Daniels on your report all right then moving right along let me make sure I am not I believe item 7 C is Mr financial report president members of the board Administration staff ladies and gentlemen I've got a couple frogs in my but I'm going to try to keep them off balance so they don't overtake my local courtship so a couple couple summary statements about the month end of December 31st 2014 um our budgets for the last four years have been strengthened in a in a way by federal relief funds those expired and are now down to zero that we're able to spend uh September 30th of 2024 so it's been CR three and a half months ago that the last Co dollar was spent in our school district uh I know there's a number of districts even in this state that still have significant unspent balances weren't able to get approvals those were quite difficult to spend in some cases I remember back in about May of 2022 I had not only a Canyon State bus sales representative Frank ban call me they had business Managers from two other school districts call me and say how did you Chino Valley District qualify with federal funds Co to buy a school bus and our grant writer at the time and federal programs director cind he had found a way to social distancing and I got calls back and these two other districts didn't have the ability to do that so thank you for bringing buses I think overall got two vehicles a bigger bus and a smaller bus so so so those were a ride but the ride is over um and as a result we've been able to push money sometimes from our operating fund under our Capital fund and keep it there because we knew at some point there' be people that would be needing these Co funds come back to operating funded would need some money back from Capital so at this point the end of the day December 31st our operating budget 18.7 million expenses year to date in our operating budget that's salary and benefits for most staff and that's things like uh well health insurance follows that we pay about 300,000 every year for our property insurance fuel all of our operating cost utilities that's our operating budget 18.7 million spent 9.5 Capital fund uh budget 1.1 million expenditures 303,000 just to put it in perspective a couple years ago we spent over 2 million in capital over 700,000 I think in curriculum we I don't know how many decades behind on curriculum but soon as superintendent Daniels found out became a goal it became a reality on our capital expenditure so we've been able to push some M generated dollars into our capital budget and tonight we're hopefully going to sh someone else back to M for salary support in the meantime if the district can keep its capital expenditures under that million on the budget of fund that'll really help district because then we can transfer and keep some of those dollars open they operating other states don't operate this way they don't allow funds to go between different categories but because our state is so low in funding they say if you can make it work make it work so it it kind of gives us an option uh any questions on our on our just our year-to dat activity on those two funds that's our AIG pict couple funds we Ed by half of our funding through half the Year too so follow so if we take a look at uh we've got a page in our financial report and it's all dark all the numbers are vertical and it's called Cash Fund these are these are kind of difficult funds to manage those that are called cash fund balances and it's it's before your big your big legal Pages it's right where my report starts pages and it's uh it's really bold and nice big 14 qu letters numbers those those are they're kind of like a private sector operation almost like a McDonald's where if you're going to buy promotional materials or McDonald's or you're going to give your your staff some supplies or you're going to give them uh uniform allowance you need cash to do that these funds are you need cash to do that funds whereas our 18.7 million from the state if for some reason our October property tax bills and our November property tax revenue postings if for some reason there's a huge delinquency and if you pay property tax in Arizona unless it changed like two seconds ago you can PID part of it and Fallen part of it by the end of March I believe it is so if for some reason there's a recession and people just really get late in that October cash payment and so it's not paid in time they're going to load it up in March our office at the county doesn't care one bit we can be negative2 million cash in our operating fund because they know what's they know what's going to come eventually but these funds don't have that that bonus these funds cash has to be there or you can't make the payment so just a just a couple to note O2 2 2 and 024 because people go to casinos in Arizona um the state collects those funds and does something pretty pretty similar lots of states do this they take some of those revenues and push them out to school district the difficult thing is we don't know till well we don't know till actually the end of April maybe even the 1 of May what the total award for those two funds are the last couple years I look uh so there's there's kind of three things involved you get your first payment per a fund and we got it just yesterday was 44,000 for each of these funds so that 44,000 for each of these funds you could say is kind of an indicator about the strength of the gambling economy so our share of the casino revenues has been this time of year 56,000 per Fund in November December and then another 56,000 in May for a grand total of 112,000 for fund 022 and a grand total of 112,000 for 024 224,000 thank you g this year we got 44,000 for o22 payment one and 44,000 for 024 payment one so if the past is an indicator of the future I'm going to say that it's probably going to be less than 50,000 again when we get the second payout in may even if it is 50,000 that's 50 44 is 94,000 per fund times 2 is 188,000 is significantly less than the 224 that we got high tide back in 2019 2020 um so those are funds that we watch so that's not really good news is it half a million dollars well no but it's part of a trend that since Co funds have dried up that we have to really be careful what we do with these is we pay our teachers class size reduction if you've got 100 students and you've got five teachers and then six more students come along so you've got 106 fifth graders you want to lower the class size to 17 we use that six teacher they pick up 17 the other five do we use it partly for that want to use the class size and we use it also for Teacher Improvement I think there's three instructional coaches that go around and we can use some of these well we can use all of these funds for those two purposes so so then we just move those expenses from our operating fund over to these funds but I don't dare move anything in there so if you take a look at that page you see that 022 and 024 began the year and I can bring you the last year the year ended June 30th of 2024 I can bring you the cash in those funds and believe me it was Zero because once I moved the expense in there to follow the cash and the fund balance goes to zero we've added before I got this posted um I got this report done for you before I posted the revenues Saturday morning County gets the revenues from this Department of Education and I posted them Saturday morning I think I gave this report these documents uh in last Tuesday Becky I think so about three days earlier this report was done but that's good news I mean they still have some money thank you again you know for help is out there but it's down about 20,000 over year over year so that's that fund 022 024 it's split into two parts another one to take a look at is fun 691 this is a good news story all the way around 691 F or six from the bottom down there seven from the bottom just's take a look at the expend excuse me excuse me 3.7 million expenditures These funds are almost almost unbelievable support we in the state and U and this kind of makes up for some of the other maybe you could say Grim or not quite so quite so welcome news so I put together a little summary and if you can each one of these I don't think and then maybe one for superintendent one for Becky as well so they have just keep going so so this this brought me to do something I've been doing school business management since 2000 so this is year 24 I've never thought I would ask the superintendent for approval to display their art in a public setting certainly not this one yeah but I did and you have superintendent's art right here if you could just flip the page to the back this was a document that I think was revised and you can see end of useful life at the top here you can just flip to the very back and turn it over so you can read it this is superintendent Daniel's art this I think is probably the 28th hour of doing this document then go to the one in front of it and it's got little dots and the little little little index I go to the one in front of it I think you might have had a little help of our mejance director and maybe Justine from the high school put this one together both of these documents I'm going to say combined person Powers Pro or hours probably took over 30 hours these were presented to our school facilities board this is all 691 fund related uh and they were trying to reject and modify and deny that they have been submitted these things way back in August when I met with with superintendent Daniel back in about October and they denied even having some of these things this was touch and go for about four months but because our high school principal and because our maintenance director Chris and because superint danels put in the time to do these documentos and to submit them Friday December 13th something happened so go back to the second page please just look at the little memo there December 13 20 24 school facilities board don't go to the front this go back one you're start the back read the agenda item we were on the not just a quiet piece of the agenda but us and about nine other schools were on the agenda for some funding based on these pictur does anyone know what these pictures were that you looked at what was being highlighted here high school high school any in particular I saw you know the end of building in the life building yeah end build yeah exactly it end of useful life buildings exactly right all this work went into we've got classrooms 14 through 21 over here plus classroom 13 what we call the art building all those buildings now have been officially retired by the state retired now it may be a year and a half it may be one three months we don't know but at some point just go down the just go down the agenda item there recommended board approval of recommendation to approve 9 through 12 class space for Chino Valley High School District 9200 feet with a budget of $3.8 million so that's what was on the agenda I was there personally for this meeting December 13th was a Friday nine o'clock meeting and they went through it we presented a little bit more data they had everything they needed and you flip to the next page which is again the back of see what they did motion and voting mir's it in my office for little as there they voted unanimously to give us 3.8 million to replace these bus oh wow that's so great so thank you for your art and you're never ending and it was it was just amazing how many times different people would go through our class rooms and tour them and say the superintendent reported in the high school science lab number two there were 19 from Malahide ble bleachers or beers we only found 13 when we sent our crew in they sent a crew that they paid hundreds of thousands of dollars called called what is the word for trity they got some Consultants called Varity and they double checked and remodified every school district's space to see if we had enough adequate space and then they rejected and fought with us for about four months and finally we got enough support with these documentos here thank you again that it was undeniable that we needed this square footage they couldn't just come in and be a good neighbor and wipe it out and leave it there so that's what it took and then at this meeting board had the data I was there to present if I needed to didn't need to say much U but these buildings hopefully in two years will be down and a new one will be there so they're gon to completely take down the building and then rebuild that's the goal so so funny funny thing about this is my daughter who is in high school told me the other day did you hear that they're going to tear down a lot of buildings at the high school get new buildings and I was like no I didn't but I false information I can't give it to you any quicker now if you had two two meetings a month yeah well that's okay I'm good with one obviously the buzz is going on in the high SCH so it's a month to the day December 13th January 13th that's about as quick as no I think this is such fabulous news I mean I know that you like were you've been concerned about the a lot of things and this is just so great congratulations you guys your hard work is paid off in your so John will this money be enough to tear the buildings down and rebuild well if you if you do it from one perspective and you take the 9200 square feet that's in play about 8,000 square feet for the buildings to the north and about 12200 squ feet to the buildings to the South and you multiply that 9200 by by what's your number going to be you get your 4 million 9200 time whatever equals 4 million I did it a while ago let just let's just make sure here we think that that because they're paying for it I'm just going to do 4 million divided by 9200 you $430 a square foot this wasn't our estimate of the job this was their estimate based on I don't know $30 $40 a square foot to remove and pile theend get it off site and then another 100 to put a slab down and that was their cost I can I can tell you that I feel better with their number because if there is a cost overrun they can make change orders and increase their award if they need to the tricky thing is when they put their hand out to the legislature and the legislature of PE exactly 2.8 million to the valley District goes over we hope they don't have to go back at the next legislative session to ask for more but we do know every year they get 300 million programs so at this point it's a really new program I think there's two schools in the state that have been approved before us I heard about this in April they very not the next day the same day I heard about it I applied for this and U do we have a certain time frame and all this have to they're expecting even um in the meeting one of the meetings that we were on they shared with us that technically school facilities board exists to build things not destroy things and so they're expecting that in this legislative session they'll either ask for an additional appropriation for demolition because demolition doesn't fall under their purview and they just approve space to be down permanently and taken off our square footage for insurance purposes and all those kinds of things so because we're the first demolition project they weren't completely certain how they were going going to approach it but the funding is there and it was I think some of the things that really mattered is that a unique member of the school facilities board has been to our campus several times and really in as retired civil engineer really took that hard look for himself at the buildings um so he was a good advocate for the district um also the buildings were constructed originally to be sheds so the eight of classrooms was originally constructed to house um animal feed um equipment for our fish hatchery that we had at the time and when we had such explosive growth in the 90s and early 2000s they closed it in and turn it into eight classrooms so it wasn't really ever intended you know to have students in it and then our the two rooms that are the art rooms were originally the um maintenance shed and bus facil and so those were not really ever intended to be classrooms either and we've been using them for classrooms for a couple of decades so those two things really help make that decision easier for them and their goal is that the buildings will be demolished and then the new buildings will be erected on that same footprint the other thing that's really really good is that none of those classrooms those 10 classrooms were not eligible for HB because the roof could not support um an HB so one of those rooms happens to be the hottest room in the entire district and it wasn't going to get H back well now it's getting a whole new building instead of just H which is a wonderful thing we don't know what all it means we don't know what the time frame is they don't know but we were in um they had done two schools really really early on and then decided don't they needed to roll this program out Statewide there were 11 schools that were being considered in that in that round and I think three or four we were um the number one most needy on the list now are the classro still utilized classrooms are currently being utilized end of life yes even though they're end of life we verified with our insurance provider we verified and we had actually had a fire in those CL in a couple those classrooms um and so the classrooms are you know kind of in better shape than they were after the repair um but the situation where we're in now is they're in use especially because the HVAC project is evacuating classrooms around the campus into the other Portables so because over the next eight to 10 months we'll continue to have this big shift of students out of classrooms and portable while that classroom gets the H back that they're still currently in use but we're in the process of developing a plan um this should coincide with the end of the HVAC project and we're in the process of developing a plan to relocate students in classes that are currently in that in those buildings into other vacated classrooms but like having culinary out due to HVAC um the kilm is a huge part of ceramic class um and so there are some considerations but as soon as we knew um John and Chris and I Chris who is the head of our Maintenance and Facilities um we got together and started coming up with some sort of rough plans for how we might make it work so we're not exactly sure what that looks like the timeline will drive it um but finishing hbac on all the other classrooms first is crucial I think that's excellent more one more hopefully you keep on a roll with all the good stuff so yeah one more part part five now to this so we've seen the photos or the the artwork now please go to the front page with my little red initials up front there and now we'll take a look at everything the school facilities board has done for since I've been here since February 2021 first page you can kind of look at those first four numbers and those were design and assessments to get H back on our 5 ,000 first four Awards September 2021 just follow that first sheet down we got $61,000 to do the Del Rio cafeteria polish concrete jump a little further my number on the on the far left there go to number 13 136,000 for bleachers at Heritage Middle School 240,000 for bleachers here at the high school one here we don't have there's no room for bleachers that 240,000 foot Lees uh gym weatherization this was done gosh a year and a half year and a half $400,000 that's just a little piece of the high school face of the South $ 4,755 knock the windows out of the southside of the high school they knocked the windows out of the north side they mored everything in now the water's not coming into the gym 1.87 million oops little problem on that anybody know how much the final cost was to repipe all the gas lines at the high school fall of hold on was that fall of 2023 yeah over 2.9 Million because of the diameter of the pipe they couldn't use the smaller because they had so much more volume for the HVAC un they had to increase the diameter so the state coughed up that other 1.3 million that was the original award to 1.8 but the payout was over 2.9 that's page one 4.2 million you see that in the lower right corner look to page two are we done no we're not done now go to Project 26 now we've got H that failed a year and a half ago at the high school gym the nice East gym 225 ton units 111,000 took us nine months the time you ordered them so they got here uh who's our local vendor right down the street TDK Comfort Systems they put those in tremendous job fire it follow fire it follow it on down Del Rio fire alarm 131,000 State paid for it uh just got finished over at Del Rio with some concrete masonry unit repair 414,000 please don't be too concerned about the colors at the on the exterior I was GNA ask that don't be too concerned that's coming too yeah that's coming too we got an answer for that one but just to keep the water out yeah just to keep the water out and repair those Corner cracks where the masonry had failed 414,000 completely done now go a little further down you see lots of carpet replaced why uh Heritage Middle School has a really nasty status status is about the sixth column to the right say status Heritage Middle School's carpet for $228 was applied for by me just like the other three schools uh and it was escalated thank you very much to the point that people must have forgot about I don't know but once it goes to escalated status ARA on that I work with sometimes four hours a day wasn't able to touch it it's gone up to Upper man the other three PID 25,000 for a new carpet at the high school 19,000 for Delo and 21,000 territorial I requested that this be done uh Heritage so that's that's to be determ uh we've got we got written up by the county health inspector last year the last minute May of 2024 for violations in our kitchens that two of our schools stay PA for 22,000 and 35,000 for that uh now you see that first page where I said pay attention that 570th of the design now you see what was awarded again two years ago though for hbac at the high school we've got the 3.4 million there Del Rio we've got the 3.9 million we've got the Heritage Middle School 5.2 million we've got the territorial H 3.3 million and we've got more projects in place also so oh and I misspoke I was over at the total paid column look at the amount of the word call you might have heard me make a mistake the high school was originally awarded 7.3 million for each and they're what uh maybe 30 30% done would they be 25% done would you think we're like at uh we just started phase three of four so we about 50% so they've been they've been here since June of 23 Oh you mean at the high school or since the whole project started June 23 started us yeah so they've been here for 18 19 months going on 20 months two two schools are done they'll re Heritage and territorial I think is maybe 15% done but High School's 50% done so that's what the seven million and then 3.4 million at Del Rio is and then 5 million at Heritage is and then 5 million at territorial is that's what those awards are for right there over $21 million then we say oh well we're not quite finished because when you make penetrations in these roofs that Bell would make a nice penetration uh you have to seal that penetration and you have to not only seal it sometimes you have to put up a cricket wall or re reinforce a drain so we paid another roofing company to come along and that cost of Del Rio 796 th000 they finally gave us an invoice Progressive Roofing finally gave us an invoice for that last week that's done 89,000 on one project 41 now 89,000 for Heritage they gave us that in voice and I wait I submit it into the software and then I wait sometimes it's a month sometimes it's two month and the state pays so those are done completely ready to be paid territorial you see another 838 th000 just to seal the roofs and the penetrations but there's some really good news too if you come around and and go outside this building and walk to the high school in the daylight and you look up on the roof of this building you see a little buildup Cricket wall over by the east side of the gym there's a layer almost an eighth of an inch thick it's like a each almost like a blanket it's called elastoma it's like 700 layers of of plastic bottles it's got I call it Gorilla Snot and silk oxy and Liquid Nails all in a membrane that you kind of heat up and it sticks to the roof and it's like that all over Del Rio and all over Heritage so roof penetration of water is is kind of a thing of the past at one time before it was done quite a few roof penetration but if you had any of these last few rains Dr Moody any any water coming in a littleit fix they fixed it so I think I think the problems with the rain after they put that elas coting on was more for the h fact that wasn't completely sealed I would think I would hope it's not the actual membrane that's leaking I would hope okay because it's pretty thick you can see it right up here pretty much then you come down a little further and you say well now wouldn't that be okay 27 million uh awarded on the fifth column over 16.7 million paid and that's just page two then you go back and add page one uh awarded the other 4.2 million so 31 million awarded and that's 60 million paid so you say well are we done well you're not done so now we do have page three here and this has another 17.9 million take a look at that so page three Del Rio when it was done had this big the1 I think there's 14 there maybe 15 maybe 16 they go east and they go west all the way to the old fed office that whole building isn't done no AC this is a proposal number 44 for 3.4 million to come in there replace that huge it's I don't know a quarter as big as this building that's the hbac unit outside it's only a chiller replac that old failed one is kind of still working a little bit but the gas lines I guess the fluid lines have have rotted to a degree that's providing cool cool a in the hot summer months to that whole building that's going to be replaced but 20 rooftop units once it's done now it's in progress you see that seventh from the far right there back up to approv it's in progress It's sitting there in escalated status we don't like escalated status especially Caitlyn because their then carpet was escalated Beyond anybody's memory or reach but that's its status uh the high school had another 355,000 allocated to do some roof penetrations and new lighting ballast it's it's actually approved as of a couple weeks ago that's 355,000 then you see the 3,877 460 that the state approved for the classroom art number 46 art and the other eight classrooms there's 3.8 million now we have an architect and we have a design team and we have a contractor and they've been here and they met and they walked their places last week and our Lea is on and the school facilities board is well aware now we have people lining up to weather relation studies for us so three more schools Heritage Territorial and high school we've already got a $28,000 design study for weatherization that at the the Rio School way back in 2021 that's done I'm estimating about 60,000 each per study by an architect then if you go 50 to 53 about two and a half million to come and and do exactly what was done at the South and North End of the high schools for 400,000 to do the whole buildings everywhere else now that may not be quite as thick as what they put on at the high school we don't have the design studies done yet except for Del Rio but we did have the architect made that design study meet with the a company here last week and the company walked the building they're going to be presenting a proposal and then that will be presented to funding as well we imagine between two and three million per school high school Lookout the budgeting maybe five so these are all estimates but the award estimates another 18 million so if we can do that it would it would just be uh well it's a seal they would go every 16 fet take out all the caulking that's failed all the masonry control unit reca it all then put the ceiling adhesive on the outside and then put that pretty well on every vertical surface so single window in schol so how many years would this last but I just want to say John's had 53 projects in the works over the last four years three and a half years really that's unheard of money allocation by the time we're done it will probably be well over that's that's awesome that's that is to John and to Chris Sheriff for their diligence in sticking with it with school facilities board working hard to build that relationship um with our lers on we need it I have one one response to the timeline on all these weatherization when we when we put these uh there's not applications yet uh there's information going back and forth once we get our our bid proposal in from our roofing company that would do the first one which would be Del real because the studies are already done there uh that would probably qualify us for June or July of 25 funding they only do weatherization funding twice a year so if it's funded then we'll get the applications in as soon as these guys write the studies and then the proposals come in from the from the construction companies but I would say nothing's going to happen on these probably till at least September 25 and then probably at least a year and a half so spring of 27 a whole 26 year gone but I don't know how fast these weatherization can go I know it took them about about three weeks to do the high school I think it's all windows were gone on the North side windows were gone in the Southside they had 15 20 guys there so they might once they get the award they might knock Del Rio out in in a month I don't know but the funding only happens once a year usually at the beginning maybe again mid year we miss the funding all for the 25 year but we're right in line for the funding of 26 year so I would say spring of 27 so um I'm asking how long all these repairs will last for I mean well it's like a roof they'll call it a 20-year roof Dr Moody what's been your experience with 20-y year roof a warranty our 20-year roof is already leaking so not a lot gu just what they what they asked is last week uh when we were were talking they were talking with the district because they always want us to to tell them that we've done our due diligence to maintain these and the architect and the engine the construction company came to our defense so to speak the school fail through and said you know they've never had $800,000 in one place to seal this building there are chemicals you can put on sealant and you can seal BL to a degree but they just said this district has never the funds to do that just I hate to stand on my hands and say you're right we've never had $800,000 in one place that we never needed to just throw 800,000 on the walls and Del school but we haven't so so we haven't done a thing to repair or replace the more once you start going between masonry block bing up cing and and the blocks collapse now you've got a bigger problem so you better not do it unless you got a general contractor standing by so so I'm not sure I've heard the top code is a 10year warant heard that but I'm not sure the warranty here but the stuff they put on the south and north side of the high school I imagine is pushing a quarter of an inch thick I imagine that stuff is never going to fa that was a very small really localized most fcks in last problem so I don't I don't know exactly but they estimated million that's the weatherization is actually and then we like to say there's more to it like maybe some foundations and maybe double P windows but I think I think the double P window one is one I actually forgot the double pain window is one four four other classrooms here the red brick ones and then the bad one at high school and the status of the the replace those is we're waiting for some more information I've applied for it but it hasn't been approved yet so that I can't even put on here and there could be 300,000 there we do have one that I also didn't put on here it's 28,000 to tear out all 20 windows in this building there's six or eight on the west four or five on the North or six on the North not these up up high they're up high on this gym here they're up above us here and that's 28,000 that's been applied for but it's not in escalated it's just waiting so so I imagine to these other ones are going to be at Le at least 300 because it's the red Bri buildings and then there's the B head building and the wrestling or the waight room over here we've got an application in for those but we don't we don't have a budget yet for well at first I thought like you know like when you test paint you see if the color work you know so I thought that that's what it was at first weatherization is a fancy word for a paint job okay that's the states word for paint job so so so the only thing I can add is that if you do take a look at the southide of the high school the stuff they put on there is probably pushing a quarter of an inch so that's what I call like hair gel Gorilla Snot my voice and silk oxy and Liquid Nails and Loctite all in one and it's never coming on almost like a polymer so I hope they do that everywhere but I don't know if they're able to for a typical blocks I just that's all I well Mr Livingston after all of that great information we still have our Student Activity fund report well Ed on my mind tonight Del Rio is just right there so one thing to say about Del Rio they did a fundraiser and they brought in more10 so now you say well did they did they win the prize for the most money brought in for revenue for this month and they did until you turn the page in the high school Mile High wrestling as a group brought in more but per student brought in less how's that because it was just a few wrestlers and that was mostly money from other places anyway P an entry fees to the mile high wrestling so Student Activity is money that's very but 58,000 in there and it's very tightly monitored and and kept out of our books it's separate account $158,000 year and I think if we had any problems with it principles would be after me because my office helps secure that and write checks against it but it's for students and it's raised by students any questions thank you so much we really appreciate you so you know all right moving along to item eight our consent agenda our cons tonight includes items a through i i a motion approve tent agenda approve agenda second all in favor moving on to Personnel item 9A is I'm not there so n a is UN a what is it oh it's all these here I lost my page we're looking for for elimination of permanent sub position so um due to our decrease in students um over approximately 100 students um we're looking at way of um trimming our waistline and um looking at positions that at this point um we can go ahead and through attrition um I'm going ahead and eliminate them um we have four permanent substitutes um the high school already took care of their um permanent sub um she took a position in the office at the high school and then we have another one at Heritage who has gone into a par position and then we have two other positions that they will have an opportunity to move into I think it's Title One um pair of positions so we're just looking at ways to keep our staff but also um cut our budget down and you know trim our wayist like a little bit with our reduction questions or comments all right seeing none I'll entertain a motion to approve eliminate the three four it's four there's a typo sorry and I'm just reading it more permanent substitute positions in the district I'll make the motion for the appr for in the district and a second no second and all in favor um second month in a row we don't have a supplement believe it so on our personal report we have two new classified positions one new classified sub three resignations and three Re retirement notices six classified changes four new coaches one resignation two extra duties and 176s that makes up to the do any questions regarding the Personnel report again this is an action item seeing no questions I will ENT motion a second thank you all in favor item 10 a uh let see I do not see oh I see it's Miss wolf and Mr Richardson will be presenting this I'm presenting for uh Mrs Bry and um so Mrs Bryce isn't here today and so she is bringing a uh proposal for a pilot to Pilot a leadership program at um the high school and this initiative was brought forward by Mr Richardson he has worked with this um in the past and has witnessed it is a profound difference it's made in his his previous school um and it the students complete student Community hours it's not um required but if they want to do community service hours um because they're motivated by um teachers Business Leaders and the program itself um to make an impact in our community um and this um approach Fosters in Fosters integrity and a commitment to Services empowering students to grow into men and women of character who actively contribute to making their Community the best it can be there will be a digital link to the program which is displayed on our district website for 60 days for public review and we will have a committee of admin teachers local Business Leaders and parents to meet over the day review period there's no cost to the district as this program was purchased by a by businesses in the area and if you have there's an example of a lesson plan next to that uh it's called tapus and if you have any questions we'll have Mr Richardson come forward I think this is a really good idea I do too now I think I probably missed it somewhere was it L I don't know will it be available to all students or is it a select number of students do you have to apply for the program no the plan the overall plan is to have Business Leaders and teachers team up together and once a month teach the program to all kids I can remember when we used to require community service hours and I know there were cheaters but I thought it was a great thing I I especially about May first got all sorts of kids coming asking if they could do community service hours I really like it does this happen through school hours or is this something after through school hours yes ma'am anything leadership related and anything for business people to be involved in our students life I think that's that's a I agreed um however during school hours how will that look so if a kid is struggling in math and they need to graduate obviously they're can continue to focus on math but this leadership component is is it going to be in a particular class like the English classes social studies how how is it going to no we'll do it all at one time um because bringing people in and out um we're working with the business Community right now to find out what the best time is um um once we get approval it's gonna reach got it because bottom line is if if a kid doesn't have character we can't teach so Mr Richardson is it safe to assume that you would run like an assembly schedule that day yes Ma and instead of having an assembly in the gym students would be learning this lesson instead okay clarification I love it so just as a as a note if you vote to approve it you're authorizing a subcommittee of the board that's subject to open meeting law to review this curriculum for potential adoption so they're piloting it and you're authorizing that subcommittee to to do their work according to the law well with that being said this is an action item um unless there's further discussion I do I do have one more question and this it sounds like it's really great is it for all the students are you g do they have to do application how do you select it's going to be for all the students because one of the goals is um from my grad school research if a kid doesn't get involved in high school 90% of them will never get involved in their Community or vote and it's another way to try and get our kids to get involved to be get learn to really be a citizen and have that opportunity to talk because the way we don't want a teacher just to teach it because according to a teenager their parents are stupid we're stupid but when a business partner comes in and says the same thing all of a sudden the light bulb goes off plus it's and my experience with doing this for 16 years business people coming into the building number one start asking questions why can't we do this and that they start getting more involved in the school the second one is I know of seven different instances the kid told me they would not have graduated if that business partner didn't step in we didn't see it the counselors didn't see what was happening um it was the but the business partner because they started building relationships and that's what everything is built about they they were able to help that kid get back on their feet and graduate well I think I'm sorry I was just gonna say I think this also goes back to our board goals of that Community Partnership and showing how without our community not here so I think that's awesome I have one more question so when you get the kids all kids that want to participate they participate and then you get community businesses that have businesses they can they discuss with the kid what things are about or it hands on the the lessons are um Tim elore is the creator of they use images like my the best lesson I love is the iceberg you so you only see 10% of it 90% is your leadership and character underneath um they you we present the information it is a full out lesson plan it's very thought out there's videos to go with it the video for iceberg is really really cool I'll send it to you if you want um see it but they have all the guidelines that we ask teachers to do present it here's the objectives how are you meeting the objectives they have activ ities and then they also give the student challenge a student to have the opportunity to go out and do something to make a difference and the new part that has come in the last few years is when we teach the lesson we send home information to the parent talking points that they can talk to their kid about the lesson that they learned did I see that you had a comment yes um it's more just like a Kudos and I just my brain just escaped me what you you have a meeting tomorrow would you have a meeting tomorrow with the chamber with the chamber so we wouldn't have gotten this if if Billy didn't already start forming those relationships with some of the the chamber members they sponsor our student of the week every week too the one that gets on the Marquee and they get like a little $15 gift card and a gift and we recognize them every week so it's we're starting to see a we're looking for a climate and culture change and we're trying to reward the positive things because that's if you do that that kind of reinforces what you want um we do I think we did a pretty good job last year of setting some pretty firm boundaries this year we got to start recognizing some of the other the good things so it's like a both and high expectations but also coming around and teaching them some of the ethics and character building stuff and we wouldn't been able to do that without without him stepping into that chamber meeting every month yeah I was I was just thinking does this lead then maybe to some internships for the students afterwards for for work experience or something like that is that kind of one of the goals progam it's a byproduct of that it's building that relationship and getting the kids to really understand and once they get they we can say it all we want and we can teach it and history and everything else but when they actually see it being done by a community leader and working with the school the light bulb goes often than they want to be in faor Mr living back to you item number 11 um budget revision number two budget revision well that's great we touched on it briefly the business report about the uh the $8.7 million operating budget and the $1.1 million capital budget and our expenses year to date if you could take a look at this little double-sided sheet I gave you I think you got a copy of it budget report one of these uh this entire document I've got three of them for signatures if you this tonight this is our budget I gave you every page it would be about Factor pages and summary pages so you've got a and your your legal size uh part of your pack we've got about six pages out of about a 24 page you don't need to look at that this is all you really need to look at so if you keep in mind that $8.7 million budget and then keep in mind that the state has probably 13 14 maybe 15 different accountants that look at our data every day they look at last year's carry forward amount was it legally carried forward into this year's budget they look at this year's student count they look at last year's student count and they generate this report so everything I do in this 26 page budget and in the 80 page annual financial report everything I do is basically summarized in all these factors right here on this page one page two so I get the latest one of these and it's if you look at the lower left corner page one it was done December 20 so it's the most recent it's the most current uh it allows me to say well what's going on on page one with our operating well with some of their factors if you look up there with the revenue control limit Revenue control limits number we're going to hear a lot about going forward because I've been so fortunate the last couple years I've been able to kind of set it aside just a little bit because we've been able to revenue control limit is simply about nine factors how many students are in seats how many weights are applied to those based on special conditions maybe they're in a remote school maybe they've got a learning disability if you take 2,000 students and you bring in $5,000 a piece you get $10 million then you wait and you wait and you wait when you're done waiting and putting in weight for you end up at about in this case 17.3 million so that's where we would have for our operating budget for the last few years well the last few years we've been able to move money from Capital back and forth to m m back and forth to Capital so that last year the 23 24 year our operating budget is 20 million up from the 21 year of 15 million and we spent less than 14 million in the 21 year so in four years we're able to take that Revenue control limit stay at 18 that's like now 17.7 but the budget last year was or 20 million those days are over because we had some student growth we had some transfer coming in from Capital that made big money available to increase our overall budget even though our Revenue control limit based on the number of students in the seats every year and the weights equal about 17 million a year so now we're really we kind of landed and now we're down back to what the revenue is generated by the students in the seats because those carryover funds you might remember some of the things we've done 800,000 worth of capital that we were able to use for textbook adoptions our little mini houses over here another 900,000 the district put in our $658,000 track that we did back in 2022 numerous projects capital and initiatives I got a note yesterday this is interesting well it was actually Friday I was on the phone for an hour and a half of our attorney our Auditors and the and the auditor general Tino Valley School District last year increased instructional expenses by12 million 600 salary yeah and some just just to salary we had some some funds and so so that's what I had to explain to our Auditors how did you take a $1.3 million increase for your instruction well we had the funds and we did what we thought was best for for well now this those those opportunities are kind of drying up but this is the last hurah so to speak uh to do something with these funds so here's what they said was available 8,771 for our M budget bottom of page one but if you take all those numbers on the side they equaled about aund gosh what is it not 100 about 80,000 if you add the 76 and the 128 take away 3,000 so they're recommending a budget of 18, 844 that's that's what they they call it optimize 8,844 but that's again in play so to speak if you have other monies other places so and that's about where we are right now 18 mil 771 they compare my number with their number they say District amount that's what we have right now for our budget 18 milon 771 flip the page please now see what we can do we've got some funds here in capital they say the capital could go as high as 1 mil 733 see that optimized number there there you go so if I simply take 600,000 away from that page and you see that on the bottom of the page in big letters 600,000 and say that falls from 1,733 down to 1 mil 133 hard stop and then if again superintendent and the principes and the directors everybody else says we can do one better than that we'll stop spending when we hit about 750,000 this year that leaves us about another 300,000 if you need it to bring into next year and we've pretty well got all our Capital expenses done for the year even though we only spent 303,000 we''ve got our debt service for the mini houses 138,000 our debt service for the track 93,000 our debt service for the four new pieces of equipment that we bought another 138,000 once you put those three together we've about maxed out what we're going to spend in capital so we're quite confident at this point we can stop our capital budget at 1.1 million stop expenses at right around 720 730 maybe 750 carry forward a couple hundred, in capital and stand Capital next year and move that whole 600,000 right on top of the 18.7 million in M where we use it for salaries and benefits travel and insurance and everything else and take it up to 19.4 million then if you take a look how that trans on to your little sheets here on the legal side you go to PID seven of eight and you'll see those in a vertical column you'll say oops that capital budget doesn't look too healthy or the m&o budget doesn't look too healthy but you can see those numbers and it's page seven of eight it's this one right here where you've got the calculation it's about the six six page in of the 2025 budget limit and it's got the two addons and it translates this page that I gave you here so as you go through here let's see you've got so it's about the fourth page in on your your handout at the top calculation of 2025 General budget limit and you see the M column on the left and you see the capital column on the right that 17 million see that to the far left 17 mil 327 even that we can split we can split some of that we're leaving 160,000 Capital we're leaving 17 million in M we go down to the next one this is new money from Capital to one 296 o we don't need it in capital now we already built a capital budget up we're transferring it back to M we're taking 950,000 back to get us through this year that leaves 346 that's New Year money from Capital did we have some savings from last year yeah we did Turn the Page over to let's see you have that page I hope you have that page yeah you have that 5 168,000 on line 8 of page8 568 we add that to the New Year money of 5 we get the wind then go back to page seven what's happened to the end of M hold your breath for one more second you see the 950 that came in for Capital you add the 1.1 million we brought forward from unspent ml from the4 thank you very much we were able to do that you had the 1.1 to the 950 to the 17 that we had from the revenue control limit we end up with another 150,000 prop1 funds in 2016 19,44 what last year 18 million we spend a little bit less than this year better be able to better stop it at 18.4 18.5 something like that wouldn't it be nice to bring s or 800,000 forward to get into next year when our student counts are going down but I can't talk to that right now other than we've got a completely dedicated team here to try to do what we can to reduce expenses so we'll have a nice carry forward next year but as you can see the chances of it spring 950,000 again from the capital into M are drying up the chance of us bringing in another 1.1 million indefinitely from un m is is drying up so the hard is probably going to keep us pretty close to that 17 million that we generate from New Year funds for Revenue control foro but we're we're still we're still going we just do what we can to be conservative increase those big years of well we ever hit 20 million to get an M for a budget I don't know but got to have some help from so question we be concerned I mean I have full faith that you guys are you know putting money where it needs to be and keeping a good eye on it by no means am I going to be coming should we be concerned well here's the here's the situation then uh if if you were a motorist and got in an accident somewhere and we were the trauma team the administrators in here and superintendent were the trauma team and you came into us you know for for treatment life-saving treatment we would welcome you and we would say we're paid professionals to to solve problems like your issue whatever it is we wouldn't turn you around and say go through the motorist are rent into right that's that's that's a bit of an emotional thing I've got a son-in-law right now that's a nurse he is a PR team nurse and he's had people in the operating theater say that you know this person could have they could have worked this out with the that we don't operate that way so we've got a good year to figure this out uh and we know that we had 2258 students in the 23 year we know now we've got almost 200 students left decline last year decline this year we know we've got some savings so there's a there's a phrase that I've been going over for probably 15 years never doubt the ability of a small group of dedicated informed committed people to change in the world indeed it's the only force that ever has so will we be bringing you updates I think you've heard tonight you're going to get another cost reduction update at the February meeting so it's not going anywhere except you know to the top of our list everyone that has a chance to live within these reduced budgets there's nowhere else it's going it's going to the top apartment have I lost a few hour sleep when we gave away that or or spent that 1.3 million extra in in instructional cost last year yeah because I knew where this was going I like having lots of money to do things when I need it I don't like to say well you know uh principal you've had 21 students per class for the last four years now you're going to 28 because I can't count I don't like saying that but they understand if the student count went from 2258 down to 2060 that that's almost 2 200 kids and for every you could say it this way for about every hundred student students there's about $862,000 attached so they know the consequences our directors our principles they know that I think I think superintendent Daniels has worked with five maybe six districts over the years that have been in a a bind or they've already overspent their budget so now it's catchup time hope you get all the overe expenses pushed away and the in continuing obligations pushed away before the auditor general catches up to you uh I've done that with three other districts so that they showed up and they've already overspent like in this case it's it's June July and our budget's 18.7 and we spent 21 I've been in districts like that as a consultant and turned it around it's not easy and right we've both been called in Consulting capacities to work with districts who are fin because of our experience doing that me on the programmatic side John on the fiscal side um I would say that we're both very fiscally conservative not at the expense of what happens in the classroom our goal is to always maximize quality instruction in the classroom for the least expenditure that we can to be fair to our employees to cover our costs but to make sure that we're keeping the districts in Good Financial standing the last couple years we spent a lot of money um we had Co relief funds that enabled that to happen as John pointed out those funds don't exist anymore with that coupled with um the accessibility of the empowerment scholarship account to the general student population not just special needs students we've consistently lost about a hundred students a year to esas and so over the last two years we're down those couple hundred kids you know the state was down $900 million in Revenue behind budget last year the legislature the governor are going to have to take on the issue until they do um this is what we're sharing with staff until they do we have to keep preparing for loss of students because truthfully the legislature and the governor are not doing their due diligence toward the state's budget but a $900 million deficit is inexcusable and it's inexcusable when it's carried on the back of local districts um districts all over the state are closing schools because of it C Creek School District board will vote to close two schools this roselt post 5 in December it's all over the state same reason um here that's that's not something we ever want to have to do so we're working very hard to manage that budget accordingly I cannot say enough good things about our administrative staff and director staff um they're spending we as soon as we saw enrollment on the first day of school we started talking about this is belt tightening year this is our belt tightening Year we're not you know belly but belly button the backbone tightening but we are definitely tightening our belts and you have to say no to everything you can say no to and so leaving positions fallow that have been vacated when somebody leaves the district ways for us to save money um but we literally no stone unturned tomorrow morning the leadership team will meet um John's presenting three budget scenarios for next year based on you know whe if enrollment stays flat if we're down 4% which is about what we've been each year the last couple years or for down 10% administrators and directors are bringing their list of this is exactly how much money I need to run my school for the basics for next year excluding Personnel so John can take that money plug it into his budget scenarios and see where we're falling our goal is to plan our budget for a 4% decline we think that's the responsible thing to do heading into next year and not to say oh we don't think we're going to lose any more kids but to be conservative and so that's the approach we're taking and truthfully I know from the kind of email text messages and phone calls I got over Christmas break that our administrators and directors are taking it seriously um as we've made the rounds to the buildings as we've made rounds individually with administrators and directors people are coming up with some very very valid cost-saving measures could it potentially change things like the number of custodians we staff in a building absolutely what could that mean we've talked about this in every building it could mean like it meant 34 years ago in Heidi and I started in this business um classrooms were clean once a week students took the garbage to the dumpster at the end of the day clapped the erasers clean the desks those kinds of things we rather do that and be able to preserve positions to make sure we don't damage the entirety of instruction in the classroom so we are literally looking looking at every single thing we can do with the four positions you eliminated this evening we're anticipating um through attrition leaving positions making again next year nine or 10 positions total is what our goal is so that's where we are so is iteso or more retired um 60% of the population in our area is going be can attest to this since she serve seniors um excuse me about 60% of our community is 55 and old so while they're our families moving in the families that we seem to have our students in special education as Miss F who's sitting behind Dr B kin Ates she's a special ed teacher at Heritage um we have a large special needs population so we're growing in Special Needs students but we tend to be um not enrolling as many general education students need gamblers to gamble we need gamblers to we need them to gamble on something other than sports book yeah absolutely so those are those are some of the basic reasons um that we look at so the area definitely is changing demographically the 2030 census will be pretty interesting any other discussion this is an action item to approve tonight's uh budget revision number two I'll make the motion for the approval of the [Music] second4 item number 12 is to the dates of all the board meetings 2025 into January of 26 I think Becky put a calendar at your spot to enable that or I pass and this calendar is only determining when we as a board meet has nothing to do with school time but if there's like a change with all we subject yes so one thing that was pretty interesting and unique typically you know we have to rearrange a couple meetings on the um because it falls during fall break or Falls during spring break or something like that this year as the calendar fell we could meet on your regular second Monday of every month with no deviation so that that was unique um and then the only thing that was a little um odd I'll say that is um the Veterans Day holiday is the 11th this year but the 10th is a school day because state law says we take Veterans Day on Veterans Day no matter when it falls unless it falls on the weekend then it you know will take the Thursday before the Monday after but Veterans Day is an enumerated state holiday and Senor policy manuals but the 10th is a normal day of attendance and I actually went through the calendar today to find out when we had the last one Del Rio had their huge Veterans Day assembly the day before veterans St that year on the Monday so okay this is also an action item I'll make the motion to approve the yeah it's also let me let me retract for just a moment please not only are we approving the calendar but we are also approving that we will be here in this boardr in the posting of yes please all right I'll make motion to move to approve the public determination a second please I'll second thank you all in favor I all right well I'm not using the Bell because I broke it good night all we'll see you next month so take these with you this

and then IAD you Lucy had a conversation at 10:30 and then they come around in the afternoon and then miss Rosenberg and myself had a touch point they may have come through we we have students uh who actually find their way to the cohort office to stop in and just say hi because we've changed that that culture of you're not in trouble when you come see us it's a supportive space and so then our admin assistant Mrs Brown is also having a contact point and we're each learning the student uh personality and and what makes them tick and finding ways to have those conversations and and get them there I would say um fourth quarter was go time we were really focused and Laser focused on these students Miss abdulla was calling parents and scheduling meetings we had parent meetings um with particular students once a month and then it started leading to two weeks every two weeks we were having a meeting with the parent and the student and creating a timeline and checking where are they now um coach hillenberg and Brian Hansen were checking on our CVP students and it got to where we had a the majority of students were behind credits starting that fourth quarter were our CVP and so coach hillenberg was bringing in students and checking every Monday and Wednesday at 2:00 you're going to be in my office working um we would have meetings with those families and set timelines of expectations with progress we did home visits and talked with parents and students at home that were unable to come to our campus Kelly axom was able to really pull through some of our special ed students who were struggling and um it really took a team effort in pulling a lot of these kids um and making that progress and we were able to get all of them to walk across that stage in May so I'm scrolling out and look at what I feel like is the most fastic question before pleas um so we have multiple students so we can see it at least somewhat here that fit in different places so this is north but CBP and I don't know if that means fulltime CBP or kids that are just some McDow are they half day or full time I don't see CSA new tech but thinking about those three I think my question is first of all my statement is I would imagine it's a challenge to meet with some of those students who are in your building just part of the day or maybe not in your building at all and has that worked out how do you meet that challenge last year um CVP was our greatest challenge of 2024 um and CVP functioned differently um we had meetings with Mr bble reviewed over students that were not making the expect expected progress and then we would schedule parent meetings and we would all meet and set timelines and and progress we also met with um Mr du about McDow and worked with Angela as well with the McDow students this year with the change of how CVP um is now operated we now have more direct input in working with families on those students who are doing the CVP um something else that we did at East is at at the end of first semester those students who were CVP we made decisions do they continue or do they need to come return in person um we also scheduled times if it was CVP then they had check-ins where they would come to East Campus and either meet with Mr Hansen or melenberg to work for amount of time or review their progress in with the team or with them individually I just want to point to the this it was this quarter's meeting that we had um last year that following looking at this data I have highlighted there 66.5% of it as were students who were attending the majority of their classes at CDP it was following this meeting that we met with the leaders of both buildings and said do you want control over which of your students are in your building and which of your students are a CVP and they said yes please and we immediately made a change starting for this fall um dramatically changed the relationships between the the different it may have been I won't call them walls between the the organizations or the sub organizations and those are almost entirely G and Mr now to answer your question on uh where they were located on from this sheet uh so CVP that's a full-time CVP student that was credit deficient and so that doesn't Encompass our entire CBP load at this point in time but just those that were fulltime credit deficient uh mcdal it's pretty rare for us to have a full-time mcdal student right so just based on the programming so that those are students who are mostly half day McDow half day at North uh CSA at this time was uh doing a nice job with their group and they were all on track at that point in time uh much smaller number in there com uh comparatively right compared to our total number which we also have at the top I would just add to that that I I think one of our great strengths is the many Pathways we have for kids to find one that fits them but but in doing so we complicate your job so appreciate going to the thank you both of the question follow so welcome Mr words I was going to have the whole group in here we were going to have the stage and when you walk in we were just stand up and start clapping but I decided to hide a s Le well if you if you were going to clap you probably should have been clapping for those folks don't don't go anywhere probably so it was uh I I debated on whether or not to start with a joke I'm not gonna I'm GNA apologize for the jeans though uh I got dressed uh upstairs as quickly as I could and came down and um we're were driving from Indianapolis listening to the board meeting um on on um on our phone as we drove and uh the there's been a wealth of information shared and the thing that I I I'm I really love is that everybody who's involved can speak it so fluently um and so it it really is uh it really is it really has made a difference for so uh I wanted to say that but um changes to CVP those were were just covered but the other thing that um I wanted to talk about U on an earlier slide and we don't have to go back but I do want to talk about um that what happened when we brought the teaming model to Columbus is that it changed the accountability um you know you go from a system where everybody's responsible for everybody to a system where this particular group of people is responsible for a cohort um or a group of students and so you know they become my students and so um they go the extra mile they make the phone calls to CVP and go visit CVP and work with those leaders to make sure that the students are getting exactly what they need you know and so North is over 2,000 students and David Clark is great and and and Michael Parsons is great but asking them to be responsible and know and understand well what each of those 2,000 students needs that that's a big LT and so we you know brought the team in and the team has made it their that's it's their group of students that they're responsible for for four years and so um I did want to um go ahead to the the next slide and so you were just talking about the the common sheet and quarter 3 and what that looked like and this is this is realistically where we were after quarter 3 so we meet um with the cohorts on a quarterly basis um and talk about and we meet more than that but we sit down and we meet with the cohort about uh four times a year on a quarterly basis to to get a really big snapshot of where they are get a great overview of where they are um look at the common sheet ask a bunch of questions and and give specific feedback and guidance and so um what what I heard them talking about um were the steps that they go through on a weekly basis to make sure that everybody's getting exactly what they need so this slide right here demonstrates or shows how Student Success is process driven it's a process and so they come to the table every week and I heard that talked about and they sit down and igad's part of it um and certainly benefits from the uh it's a symbiotic relationship with with igrad and uh you'll notice or you you did notice that they posted their first 100% graduation rate and it's no coincidence that it happened this year they were at the table having those same conversations and so iat's a part of what we do special and it's a part of what we do and again those are partners that we we absolutely need because again it is a process so um if you look at Columbus North where they were uh at the end of quarter 3 um again uh 83 .4 um the East was sitting around 87.5 that average is out to 85% which is not where we landed as a graduation rate so again working the process understanding what folks need delivering on that on a weekly uh basis St in day out right it's the old how do you eat an elephant and it's it's it's little by little action by action and so on a weekly basis again we are seeing these actions that lead to Student Success now I'll just point out that these averages that you see up here or the numbers that you see up here those are the realistic graduation rates so when we ask them we say what do you what where are you going to land they give us a couple different numbers they give us the hey if everything goes exactly as it's plan number this is where we'll be and then they give us the this is a realistic place of where we are right now based on whose credit deficient if we had to graduate today this is where we would be and so that's what this number represents next slide okay so waivers um starting with 23 24 cohort you the state made a change to the waivers um and how we were able to um function with waivers and it affected us the grad rate in North was um was caed due to the issues of um um alternate diplomas and so alternate diplomas are diplomas for students with severe cognitive disabilities and so the state says you can give up to 1% of your graduating class or your entire cohort uh uh can be an alternate diploma and so we as a district uh 931 was our cohort and so we 1% nine we could have nine um and we actually we went over um and so uh North issued 7 um Columbus East issued three uh and because of it we were capped our our graduation rate was capped uh next slide so it doesn't say that students can't graduate it just says that you can't use those numbers to be a part of your of your graduation rate you have to take those stud on your graduation rate so they graduate and they get their diploma but they can't count toward your rate if it's over the 1% cap for an alternate diploma now for just a basic waiver uh those are cap two so 9% then it'll slide to six and then it'll slide to three so this year was we could not be over 9% of our graduating class and we weren't we didn't even approach it we were at five inant change um and then next year it slides at 6% and then 5 to 3% and that's where it will remain um so for us that uh amounted to 51 students getting a um a wa yes okay this is a slide been waiting for um this is uh we're probably 15 minutes into this uh presentation um and several different slides and we buried this slide on purpose because it's a lagging indicator right this is a this is an indicator of the work that has gone into um the students and so this again speaks to the process and so yes it's super important but working the process is is what's what God is here so 90.1 is where we congratulations and again uh I'm going to assume that those uh are applauds for the cohort and all the students that they worked with and the students who put in the hard work and the parents who put in some hard work too um uh next slide so this one here is uh special because it shows again the impetus for the program when we dip to 8108 uh again in 22 and that is part of a CO dip we saw that across the state and again we don't want to use CO as an excuse but it it was part of what happened uh the state was at a 10e Lev in 2022 um and so again part of the co deck but then you see how we rebounded when we um when we uh rebounded to 834 again we were already working on how do we implement the cohort model um and this is is U that demonstrates kind of the uh dramatic gain that we were able to make in in the course of the year and uh Dr Katie Jenner Secretary of uh education for the state of Indiana said there is an urgency to continue this positive momentum and I will Echo those words there is urgency for us to continue this positive moment next slide this is interesting so of the 158 public schools of more than 150 uh students in their graduating cohort Columbus East percentage Point gain was 10th highest in the state in Columbus North percentage point game was 15th highest in the state in that group which is again pretty dramatic and it speaks to the work and I don't want to get in the weeds but when we started the cohort model and these folks took over the the senior class they were all already there were already students who had migrated out of the cohort and so without going back and explaining how all that works it they were already a little bit behind because there were already students who had decided that they weren't going to be with us or they weren't going to continue in school and so um we were working with a limited ceilings the best and so for us to be able to make those kind of gains uh was pretty impressive next slide here we go so graduation rates for bcsc versus State and this just shows kind of how we moved over the course of the last uh five years six years um versus the state and so we were 90.0 state was 9023 and again I mentioned earlier that there were a couple students uh with alternate diplomas that we weren't able to count but had we been able to count those students we would be lock St with the state rate 9 9.22 is where we would it out so 9.01 officially and we're proud of that uh but we were we were tracking the state pretty hard next slide Yep this shows some demographic information um and so we made gains on almost every significant uh demographic area so our uh Asian population was up um black uh White um Hispanic multi-racial um our e and our mult I'm sorry our e and our Hispanic numbers were uh incredibly uh impressive and again that is um under the leadership of uh Dr Nicole Leech who um is working very hard with those folks to make sure that those students are getting what they need in with the uh the coworks Mr words I believe I missed this when I looked at this the gray is supposed to 23 graduation rate is that right no that's against the state that's against the state state versus b y State versus bcsc yep and so I did not uh I did not show our gains but I I I know them so I can I can tell you what they were um next slide more demographic information I believe yep again showing how our paid are free and reduced our gen Ed uh special ed nonl uh elll folks males and females did this is pretty interesting so of the 24 large districts in Indiana with similar demographics to us so greater than 30% free and reduced uh greater than 6% El uh and greater than 12% Special Egg um our graduation Point increase was the highest so the average growth among those groups was .94 so less than a percent and we were 6.6% points gain and that's a list of the schools over on the right that we would be comparing ourselves with the uh similar demographics uh next diploma types this outlines our diploma types um and I heard Dr Phillips talking about our academic and Technical Honors and academic honors earlier uh this is pretty uh incredible because what we noticed was that when we've got a group who are working with a group of students and they are focused on what they're doing um we're able to say Hey you know if you just took one more class in this direction you'd be able to get that technical honor if you just took two more classes you'd be able to get that Technical Honors so that number represents an 88% increase over the largest number of tech honors diplomas that we've given over the past 10 years um which is pretty pretty impressive again and it's the work of the cohort and it's the work of those folks focusing on what students are doing coming to the table every week and noticing um when there's an opportunity to to help them achieve at a different level that was something this uh first quarter when I attended with Mr Edwards uh the meetings at each of the schools eight different cohort team beings I was impressed because you can really easily focus on the students who are credit deficient and and get in that world and live there and we need to spend the majority of our time there but um I learned from the cohort teams that many of them if not all of them are looking at things like like Mr Edward just said well student instead of taking this U science class next semester takes this science class they're on track to get an honors deployment and they don't even know it and so just having that brief conversation with them that did you know if you took this one and you as long as you get a C+ or better you're going to get an hment when you finish U so it's not only looking at those students that are struggling it's looking at the whole um you know the whole group the whole all the V and and that is uh that's such a true statement that there are some really academically minded and driven students who walk in our doors and they know exactly what they're doing when it comes to pursuing an academic honors or an academic honors or Technical Honors um and and they know that and they are driven and they're doing those things but we also have a bunch of kids who are just great students and they come in and they take classes that they're interested in um but they they they're close and they they don't know and so us being able to say you know if you just took one more class if you just did this you'd be able to get that I don't know if you want to wait to the end but um and I hesitate to ask this question because I don't want to take anything away from the remarkable job that they did but but I don't know if I'm reading this correctly this is what I emailed you about um the top line is students have received academic honors and Technical Honors and then the third line is students have received just Technical Honors and if you add so if you look at total Technical Honors um it's 219 in 2023 and 219 in 2024 so I inter that is we actually have fewer students qualifying for both honors and I don't know if I mean maybe we're asking students to focus more I don't know but so the thing question there somewhere yeah so here here's my best attempt in answer um those numbers have moved independ if you look at that chart those numbers tend to move independently of of one another and so we can see that the academic and Technical Honors has dipped over the years but it so it's it's a it's up and it's down so it's it's wavy but the thing that I noticed about the Technical Honors which is what made me say in the first place is that it was never out of the 30s like it was it was never like it didn't it was never it was never in the 50s you know what I mean and so when we when we see this phenomenon where it's like well we've been in the 20s we had we've had you know uh 30s but then we all of a sudden jump in the 50s you know something something was going on there and it's like what was it that caused us to finally you know issue so many Technical Honors of f but if if somebody asked me how many Technical Honors did bcsc award or did our students earn wouldn't it be the 53 plus to 166 you're yeah no you're not reading it wrong yeah yeah so it's 219 right it's 219 but what I'm saying is that first line and that third line move independent of one another there's there's no there's I don't I don't want to say that there's not a correlation but really there there isn't one um and so when we when we see um the the number of Technic that we were able to award I don't I don't maybe we need more data um like another year of data to be able to look at it and say that it's meaningful but it's not it's not something that we've seen so it was something that I thought I would point out thank you yeah I just have one question on the did not graduate the 92 um I believing if I remember correctly on our last discussion this is a fouryear graduation right so like when you said there was a ceiling you know how roughly how many of that 92 by the time you instituted the te model were really already pass that so really that's a great question and I I don't know the answer um but um because essentially right that's your opportunity as we now have multiple years in here so I guess that's what forward is how much came we were able to say essentially a little little under half from the last year so I mean I would assume that would yes Mr chain Mr Simpson do you have any idea what we took over many out of the numerator so the exact number I do not have off the top of my head but there uh the max point that we could have could have reached would not have been much would not have been much higher than what we were able to get to um there were there were maybe a handful of percentile points that we could have moved from from that point in the in the low 9 s uh so as as Mr Edward said on the front end we came in and there were some numbers that were already moving in in a different direction so yeah and so the thing that hesitate to make this but I'm going to say it anyway the thing that you know um I'm excited about is I'm excited to see the first 4year graduation rate with the cohort model uh and that's not to take anything away from the folks who were um you know haven't had their students for 4 years because they're certainly doing some phenomenal things um but that first foure group will um that'll tell us a lot is there is uh okay and so additional strategies I think this is the last slide um but the thing that uh again we kept learning as we were going through this school year last year and so we were able to do some things that would give students additional opportunities to to pass and so um it was like well what else can we do and how else can we help students and when can we get you know how can we give them more opportunities more chances and so again the summer school for the cohort that was something that we did that was extremely successful um bringing folks back in person so this was the CVP change that we talked about because what we knew um is that if we could get students into the school have them be around the cohorts they had a greater chance for success but we also know that there are students who need to be virtual um and so we respect that but that is now a decision that is being made by the folks who are running the C- because they want their students in their buildings so they can get as many chances as possible uh to help them uh the instant accountability again we're meeting on a weekly basis we know who needs what when if we know that somebody's not doing homework when the meeting breaks up we can go get that student bring them down in the office and have them sit in the office and do some homework and then we can get it back to the teacher and it's a it's it's a closed loop so we we get the student and they do the homework and then we don't give the homework back necessarily we take it to the teacher so that it doesn't get lost or crumpled in the bottom of the backpack um so for those of you with children you know exactly what I'm talking about by Ching me voice but I mean High School boys that's exact so um the N9 week evaluation that was something that we had never done before that the schools had never done before and so it was interesting that you know after the first nine weeks they were able to take a look and say are our students in the right classes you know are you know is you know this student having uh too tough a time in a super advanced math course or a super Advanced English course um and do we need to kind of right siize this student so again by looking at data we were able to recognize some opportunities and those were things that we did um is there is there another is this the last SL I can't remember this is the last one I just I put the uh this up here for a question slide but I'm going to I'm going to jump and add on to this that the most I won't call it the most exciting thing that I've learned in the two quarters that I've set through these meetings and participated in these meetings with the 18s um is the work that each team is doing to innovate and so um you'll sit in one of those meetings you'll hear about well we learned that it's it's kids in biology that are really struggling and so we talked to the science department chair and now the science department chair and a teacher are during the advisory period they're pulling kids who are struggling with Biology and just working with those students on biology because they have the list of kids they got it from the office they know exactly who meets what um and they're targeting the their efforts towards the students who need a very specific outcome um that's just one example we learned of another group that's taking U students who are um either native Spanish speakers or they speak Spanish at home who are seniors and who are doing well academically those kids during their advisory or during their resource period are coming down and working with freshmen who are struggling with English language not that they can't speak conversational English but reading a biology textbook or an Algebra 2 textbook is incredibly difficult for someone who's not an inded English teer it's that academic language so a student who speaks Spanish while was working U you know in high academic spe is working with someone who's struggling those things are happening every week across our um Co a cohorts and I'm I'm excited about the when each of those things gets grain across all of them uh I'm going to mention another one that's not up here right now and that's the already proactive effort to reach out the middle schools and so the you know the senior the senior groups right now they're already um thinking about and I I believe had already gone to the middle schools and met with the the eighth graders just to start building a relationship we gone and had conversations with the eth grade teams about hey this is who we are if you come to East I'm going to be your assistant princi I'm going to be your academic coach or your counselor year um and so the the pushing that down reaching that down into Middle School level is going to be another one of those things that continues to to grow the capacity in this to really impact students I'm going to say a couple more things then then I'm in the rap I I get I can talk about it a long time it's um it's been a great thing for us but I I just want to say um Lord chambley um never and I don't want to Discount the work anybody's doing but Lori chamble is the principal that you all asked me questions about last year how's she doing because she has two cohorts so she was she was running two cohorts at columbuses last year and managed to um turn out a pretty spectacular uh uh result with the the the 2024 cohort so I just want to give Lor a special shout out because again she worked really hard um and then I I will say that um this is built on principles that we would want to build any of our programs on um relationships um outcomes for students and accountability so um those three things have combined to help us really win in bcsc and we know that every cohort will present its own uh unique set of challenges but um based on what we know right now it's working exactly um the way we wanted to Mr Edwards I Lori introduced um some of her fols can you both come back up to microphone please have the members of your teams from last year who are here stand up for us please thank you sure thank you Mr Edwards for your kind comments but I couldn't have done it without my amazing team please stand and come up here yes have them come on yes come on thoroughly embarrassing just they really are an amazing group to work with um we've got G abdela my Administrative Assistant who calls all the parents and schedules all those meetings for us Kelly axam who works with our special education students and Trent hillenberg our academic coach and then Brian Hansen was our counselor last year as well and they are just really a tremendous group really a pleasure to work with and dedicated and committed to those [Music] students all right we have uh IAD come up first Bob and Lucy at igad they're in our our meetings each morning uh going through that process with us and then special ed coordinator Daniel ho comes comes into our meetings our guidance counsel counselor Sandy fres hour and then our academic coach last year we had one of the seniors Amy Rosenberg and then our admin assistant who could not be here today was uh is Mickey Becky Brown Excuse me Becky Brown so she can be here with us today here's our team congratulations okay now one more thing and then I'm promise uh Dr Parsons and uh Mr Clark uh thank you for um again being um working with these folks and and training them in providing um providing an environment where they can can Thrive so uh the building principles have been absolutely essential in this as well questions yeah yeah at the half year mark what is uh the current projected graduation rate for this class so I've got a bunch of numbers that I managed to compile but that's not one of of them but I can tell you uh that it's over 90% thank you and to put you on the spot the closer you get to perfect the harder it is I recognize that so I might not expect 6.6% next year but if you were a betting person Mr Edwards what kind of improvement think expect to see so it's not putting me on the spot it's putting those folks on the spot um and so I'm yeah I'm I'm going to yeah I'm going to say it out loud uh but I I really do think that we'll uh approach 92 if uh if not it's not there um there were two um areas where we significantly outpaced the state average um English language Learners was one of them special ed Miss Kelly Mr hoe Miss F in the back and Miss London I can spot those faces here in the room that that um really made that that department and our programs there work for students I want to give you a round of applause thank you very much and while we're hanging out Kudos I'm sitting here right now but we know the person who was sitting last was done leading helping lead this district is also room Dr Roberts conratulations [Applause] thank you for the good questions and really allowing us to um celebrate this we appreciate so um I would like to maybe celebrate us as a board um there was discussion of this came up I know the quandry was do we implement it right away or do we plan for a year and then implement it and it's um obvious from this that we made the right decision to implement it right away um I have well another comment or request I think um when we were adopting this new program um there was a teacher survey that really was not strongly in favor of it I've I think I've mentioned this before but now that it's been in place I would love to see a teacher survey again down the road of um I'm assuming that a lot of teachers have changed their mind on whether or not this is a good plan but but it would be nice to survey the the teachers at at the high schools and see what their feelings are at this point um and well I guess my other Challenge and you already mentioned your goal for next year statistically agression towards the meeting would say we're going to go down next year and and I fully get that challenge statistically but I appreciate the efforts and I think with two years of doing this how can we not go up so really quickly is we just um to listen to the teams talk among one another and talk about what they're going to do and how they're going to get students more involved um I they they keep getting better um and so they keep learning things and then they Implement those things right away um and again just to be a fly on the wall in some of the meetings to hear the way that they talk about some of the things that they're doing and the thing that I'll mention because it just sticks out uh Cory Williams um and some of her folks uh hosted a I can't I don't even know what it was called but they hit a bunch of reers around uh around Columbus North and folks had to go around and find reindeer if you found reindeer you could turn it in and you can you know for prize and so it seems trivial um it seems small but if you like coming to school um then you're going to go um and if you can get into what's happening while you're there um that's that's where the mat happens that's and so every little thing that they're doing and they do those things at East too every little thing that they do to get students and teachers to want to be there and create a better atmosphere um is is making the team stronger making the school stronger and making the challenge maybe a little easier and I I do have one question to help my understand um and I actually warned Mrs I might want to turn to her you can but but help me and US understand so there's waivers there's alternative diplomas and and also I mean the whole spectrum of special ed um we have students in life skills are they part of our graduation rate how does that how does that all fit in yeah I'll take a swing at it um so the answer to your question is yes they are part of the graduation read and um the the the alternate the alternate diploma so some folks say alternative some folks say alternate like officially it's the alternate diploma and so that is a diploma for folks with severe cognitive disabilities and so this is the thing that kind of um I had a hard time with because how do we say we're only going to get out X number if we have more than that who have done the work and who are deserving and who should get those how do we cap it at 1% like how do we decide who gets one and who doesn't so that that for me was was difficult U but the answer to your question is yes so students with severe cognitive disabilities can receive an alternate diploma but the State caps that at 1% of of your graduation and then the waivers if students qualify for a waiver that's a regular yes yeah yeah I I would just like to second one of the points about the survey because that was one of the we were doing the deliberation I think it was about year and half ago that was one of the major points that kind of came in at the 11th hour if I recall 90 teachers from the teachers union I believe there was only one maybe two that were slightly favorable the rester um asking for a delay and opposition to it and so at the same time had to believe the people on the ground and so I think Not only would I say we need a teacher survey I think also we should look at the parents and see like how do you feel about this how is this making you feel engaged and then also the students perspective I think you get those three as part of the survey I would still recommend using the same source so it's comparing but for the teachers but the other two I think can be done through ular the public comments portion of our meeting tonight remind everybody what this process looks like if you attend the board meeting there is a sheet at the table when you enter the room you'd like to speak um you can the on us you get 3 minutes there is a Time War there to help you stay on time and we do need to stay on time we'll make sure Tock to that um if you have someone that has spoken before you and they've made your point it's okay to pass just say I agree with so and so and you can move on um please do not use the nams of individual students staff members Etc don't use specific titles it's the same things you can't principal e for examp um the same sure we're we're umol and um and then no cheers and from the audience it is sometimes difficult to get up and back all right so first name I have on this piece of paper is humy yeah my first name okay I'm very sorry about that mind introducing yourself thank you my bad no problem is it on okay yeah it's on hey everybody welcome back um thank you first off for accountability for the weather decision on Friday um I kept my home my kid home from school that day because I didn't like the decision that was made to keep School in session um my nephew attends Mount Healthy which is out off of 58 going towards Backwoods and my brother had to leave work early and go pick him up from iare or from school because iare was canceled and it was hectic it was crazy and the roads were absolute garbage by the time he got to driving out there um I know you talked about a few points and covered actually most of what I was going to talk about but thing that I'm concerned about um the walk zone for our schools is half a mile from the home school that that student attends um there's safety concerns there because the sidewalks aren't cleared and we have students that are walking in the streets at 7:30 in the morning when it's dark outside because they don't want to walk in the snow that's still covering the sidewalks and I understand y'all can't control the snow on the sidewalks but at the same time take into consideration the safety of those students that are commuting that way because not all of them have the luxury that my child does being in the walk Zone I can take him in a car um because if I had to walk with him all the way to his school it wouldn't happen and he wouldn't go because I'm not walking in six Ines of snow on sidewalks that haven't been treated in any way shape or form and a quarter to a half an inch of ice packed down underneath of them it's dangerous it's slick and it's a fall hazard on top of several other things we have people that don't pay attention when they drive we have people that just are completely oblivious to these kids walking on the streets and I hear a lot of people or I see a lot of comments online where people are like back in my day well it's not your day I care about my kid I know other other people care about their kids there are things that need to be done and put in place to keep our kids safe and I know you guys do it to the best of your ability at that time and holding yourselves accountable for mistakes made or decisions made is fabulous but at the same time every County surrounding us on Friday canceled school and had an e-learning day every single surrounding County and we did not and we had bu that took 2 hours to get kids home because the weather was trash we had parents that were panicking to get to their kids and I know we had teenage drivers from high schools that were leaving and don't know how to drive in this weather so I just ask that you guys take that into consideration the next time the weather is Indiana thank you good evening I'd like to thank Dr Phillips for taking accountability earlier I didn't know who I was writing this to earlier I just had concerns wanted WR so my name is Randy day I come here this evening as a proud bcsc employee of more than four years hopefully more to come I'm also very proud to be this mon employee the mon as well as driver of bus 165 which is also in the mount hey area I'm also here as a parent a grandparent and a genuinely concerned citizen of P County I take my job very seriously which is why I'm here today on Friday January the 10th a decision was made to carry on as usual for dcsc district this even though the information was provided forecast very Grim weather patterns and potential danger the student body was equipped Thursday with their tablets in preparation for an e-learning day or at the very least an early dismissal was this talk as you aware neither of those things happened the students were sent in for a full day of school thus causing them to be sent home right in the middle of the winter storm that had been predicted this is where I'm genuinely concerned as they were released onto the terrible Ro conditions and passible roadways and many experienced automobile slide offs as well as wrecks in general to further the Carnage many of those students were sent on buses that also experienced many of the same situations listed before many buses became stuck on the Slick roadways or slid off into ditches some with children on board I was in one of those buses I was stuck until 6:30 p.m.

IO thank you thank you we appreciate you yes you you right there thank you so you oh I can't get in my chair I don't know if that's welcome to do but who cares what oh I didn't hit anything it fell all right all right see We're very professional as you can tell thank you for sponsoring us we know how to walk yes we just say we know how to walk yep what considering the fact I almost fell trying to get in my chair oh okay that all right I thought you just randomly said words in no particular order nope but we do do that a lot do do yes we've been doing it for about half the stream anyway anyway what is what is Jordan doing yeah you want to cut to Jordan real quick yeah let's go to Jordan yeah let's cut to Jordan he's got some prime gameplay going on yeah yes this is oh oh yeah Oh my he did it oh my goodness level 21 never in my day yes never in my day all right hold on can you get this one oh my goodness oh oh come on oh it's going to get it yes yes never in my days have I seen gaml this advance such a pro what's he going to do here which direction which direction oh my goodness oh my goodness oh oh oh a it's a good try it's a good try good try oh but he's got the hey those are the moves he knows now those are the moves oh dang oh my goodness uh oh if he makes this one he might just beat the goat he may whoa he might he might just be he is the goat everybody I I keep clapping every time how could he be so good at video games hm I don't know hold up and that oh okay this is looking like a tough one you can see you can see Hunter he's very upset yeah he does not approve of this gameplay Hunter watching oh man that is so bogus you can't go out of bounds with it dude that sucks oh my good oh he restarted before it even gave it a chance oh my goodness yeah you can't even go out of bounds with it that's so that's dumb this one's real difficult yeah this one looks annoying it's real hard cut the stream cut the stream go to commercial what did I even do you know what you did explain it to me what did I do you know what you did explain it for everyone here what did you do you know what else is hard what what is that what does that mean sorry guys this is this is a tough relationship I should have never done it anyway good job Jordan he's still going on it this is aemp like 13 he's still doing amazing is Owen watching the stream look yeah cut to Owen real quick yeah let's go to Owen guys we can see ourselves to Owen watching the stream so we can watch watch the stream we can watch the stream while watching the stream while watch at that there's us from the past dude oh my goodness look at me look at that incredibly handsome young man bobbing his head for no reason look at that man he's waiting I would me personally the the eyes of the cyber tiger things are also Vapor waved oh oh yeah that why are they green because why not I you know I legit thought that we were on the left side of the screen I thought Owen screen was us and I was like wait a minute w we are also waiting on two matches everybody just two two two two of them two of them one two yes two not one not three somebody tell Jordan to like hurry up he's been on this level forever I I don't think it's is he going to play block blast oh he's playing block blast he's playing block blast he's playing tetrio while playing tetrio there's no way this is insane you know saying three earlier made me remember how for the long for the longest time I used to think that um the actual way to like put up three for like counting on your fingers was this ah instead of this I never understood that I always thought it was this so I went one two three four yeah five five and then five all right Jordan is doing block blast and he is doing great he is blocking on they blast right now what side what side did that warrant man oh was that a te spin oh my gosh I I don't think anything was he on X Games mode he on X gam mode on X game mode oh my God he got egg game mode oh my God he should place that one block [Applause] piece I never thought I would see that what does he doing in all my years of blocking and Blasting and Blasting mostly one of those one of those more than the other for real oh look at that who oh my goodness it's oh sorry I got I got a little startled okay I'm I'm calm for a second I thought he was playing an actual game I know he's playing 40 lines I'm just a chill guy he's just a chill guy with his hands in his pockets I got a little waiting in the wind look at him go look at him go he's balling he's balling I'm like yeah she's fine Lego dude he got he got an invite to Lego Master's private room Hunter Hunter accept it Lego Master invited you to a room H press accept must 3 bro casually get sub uh 29 how does one do that in I mean not 29 he joined the room everybody you know 40 lines in 30 seconds that is that that's otherworldly man yeah that is that is aive I'm trying to think of how is this massive like the yes anyway but uh yeah 30 33 seconds yeah I can't even hit anything under a minute like my my time right now is 1222 yeah and he just did more than one line per second yeah his his his PPS has to be at least like three or four insan get this man a computer he has one get this man a cookie he deserves maybe he has a one I don't know look at him go whoa my wait switch to Jordan he's playing quick play tell him to do swamp water light what I think it's when you use all of the cards at once including expert mode ah I see I see I see I see I see I did not know the term like the alphabet I see you mean like the drink like you can get it Subway no not highy no icy the icy icy I iy I love ices oh oh this is an actual round oh my goodness we're in round two wait really yeah we're in round two okay we got this is real this is Canon we got yeah this is Canon this is can can in the we weren't paying atten what is this called the Cyber tiger Cinematic Universe the CCU for real this is the CCU everybody this is a new thing yeah we've got EMT on the left side of your screen we got Hunter on your right let's see here I think Hunter gearing up for a quad assault oh my goodness that's big damage God oh my God that damage was massive you know what else is massive we have to set it up all the time we must drag it out anytime we say anytime we say massive bro we just got to scream yes that's the philosophy of the meme dragging it out beyond the point of it being funny it wasn't funny like the second time it wasn't funny when we started explaining it yeah it whenever you have to explain anything man it just makes something really unfunny mhm where's the funny there's a big quad that was the funny there was the funny it was right there come on let's see emit staying alive just like the song yes and he's dead he's dead well that is going to be a we got Jordan against opai for Hunter oh Jordan versus opai oh and and he lost how unfortunate G it's not over yet though GG's though it's not over he's got one more chance yeah he's got one more chance rtion is the reverse 3 0 against one of the best in the league on the horizon could it be Horizon could it be on the horizon like Animal Crossing Horizon zero dawn like like yeah like zero Dawn the te spin triple oh my goodness it never in my wow they have it all the te- spins in the world every last one of them check your closet where you kept your te- spin it's not there because it's not there you want to know why I took it no Jordan did oh sorry yeah Jordan did yeah Jordan took it he stole it in Cold Blood that that term is usually used for yes he did it its name was T yes it was a very creative naming process yep I totally didn't just think of the first letter of it anyway if if you can't tell we don't know how to commentate this cuz they're going so fast look at this yeah this is this is a this is a little too fast here guys can we slow down just a little bit right here please oh Jordan stayed alive for a very long time in a very compromising position for a while GG's OPI or Opie whatever I don't know something your name is pronounced in a way meanwhile clay gets and and then we jump into the winning uh a win match we got Owen Owen is uh playing a a match yes as clay off screen Zen anio we still got an Owen match up to watch yeah look at his face oh look at that look at his face game play this is what it's all about this is what it's all about why is he why does it say out of focus guys we're out of focus we need to lock in we're out of focus anyway we do have Owen in the center of your yeah he's in the middle his opponent is off on the side over there not important you know because we're watching The Cyber Tigers right now watching the Cyber tiger gameplay in the middle right here that out of focus is really blocking get out of the way get a move on we apologize for this we are very sorry yes we are so so sorry my attention span doesn't last long so that's why we're out of focus and I'm trying to think of a funnier way to continue that but I can't think of anything so just say yes you got to one up me you got to follow up yes I have to follow up I have to follow up with the funny whoa whoa why did why did you do that what what what the what the sigma what what happened did you not see the screen in its weird little thing no I didn't I think you're just crazy crazy I was crazy once that Meme lost relevance like a year ago I'm bringing it back no you're not it's going to be massive a oh my goodness he said it Peter no one understands what's going on we so this stream is an amalgamation of just words and numbers and everything else literally everyone watching this stream right now will not understand I feel bad if my parents are watching this yeah they're seeing my final form mine probably aren't we're we're good they don't watch t yeah yeah you're you're safe man if mine watch if mine watched this back uh boy yeah they watch my Smash Bros and maybe my OverWatch they're going to see the final form of brain rot exactly they're going to understand what it's like in my mind they will finally get it why is my phone vibrating so much I'm not going to check it because I'm too busy watching Tetris gameplay answer it on stream and just yell at them stop calling me see I don't think it's a call I just think it's multiple texts yo the why is HW Tua funny to people that's one of the text hey we can't say that on stream yes we can I just did somebody get this guy out of here okay so there's a discussion about Hawk Tua happening in you also won't get that one I need to I need a straight jacket guys stay in the Box no stay in the Box no stay in the Box no get out of my skin bro please me inside bro skin when he doesn't know it get out of my skin excuse me and you think I'm crazy with my jokes crazy crazy meanwhile we've just been that Baro did get a dub in his match over Raven King off screen he just off screened him sorry Bartell we're we're kind of half paying attention here what okay take a quick look at Alex's camera what's happening with that it's like it's like tearing why like look the score not shown he needs the f11 what does that do it full screens the game because you can see his bottom bar oh yeah he's it's currently it's currently 5:30 p.m.