and then the list of the authorized signers becomes Adrien Gomez, Casey Ster, and myself. And so, this one should >> All right. need to get a recommendation to approve the revised corporate author authorization resolution. So move second. Got a motion, a second to approve this revision. All in favor say I. I.
These are not simple initiatives. They are a notable improvement that require discipline follow-through. Simultaneously, we are expanding chapter 74 pathways in public safety and health related fields, advancing our partnership with Northern Essex Community College through the early college initiative, giving the students opportunities to graduate with an associates degree, new programs in radiology, uh, operating room technology, pharmaceutical technician, and EMT directly responding to the documented regional workforce shortages. This is strategic growth that strengthens students opportunity and regional economic development. We are also managing significant capital investments tied to these expansions. At this stage, the leadership continuity, protects financial stewardships, timelines, compliance, and long-term stability. Under this committee's leadership, the district has strengthened instructional systems, expanded chapter 74 approvals, deepened industry partnerships, and enhanced our reputation as a regional and uh technical and career education. We are on a clear uh upward trajectory. A leadership disruption now introduces unnecessary risk to the momentum we have worked hard to build together.
Also, we want to find out which particular languages are going to be required for the survey. Typically, we have the survey cover for at least a couple of weeks, two weeks for your entire community. We sometimes ask your city, in this case the city of ISUsa, to maybe have it on their website as well so that it expands the interest and expands the opportunity for respondents. But the online survey, and again, if I may, I'm going to take the liberty in talking to Mrs. Near. Um, we understand that you're going to have that survey in English and in espanol, Spanish, as well as Mandarin. That is the case. No other languages are required. It's my understanding. Okay, we'll make sure that we have those. Let's see. Let me Yeah, let me go to the template if you don't mind, stakeholder input, educational partners. Okay. What you see here, ladies and gentlemen, is an example of the outreach that we typically and normally have available as we have stakeholder input.
When I was little, we didn't have much money. But honey, we had freedom, and that's the richest thing here in America. Sometimes our neighbors would drop us off fabric. One time, my mama sewed a coat out of that fabric. I called it my coat of many colors, which later became another hit song. My dream was to be in the Grand Old Opry. This is a big show where very popular country singers perform. And I performed there when I was 13 years old. And I sang You Got to Be My Baby. As I said earlier, I was on local radio when I was 10. I also created a theme. I made an album of patriotic songs called Forgotten Country, which reached number 23 on country charts. I worked with a lot of artist artists over my career, including duets with Willie Nelson and Paul McCartney from the Beatles.
Well, it'll tell you each of the buildings about what year you should think about starting to replace it. And it kind of gives you a budgetary track where you can say, "All right, in 2035, we have to come up with about $2.5 million to address some roofs at different buildings." So, it really helps. Uh what we found in North Lawrence is it helps focus in on, you know, what is important near-term and what is important long term. And so it's not just uh everyone's running around trying to get things fixed here and there. You have a dedicated plan of what you need to actually >> for budgetary. You can also then uh drill across and look at your bond when you have bonds coming due and know okay u we can we have a clip in our fin So we we can limit that impact on the taxpayers and know in two years we're going to need three million and then in four years we need another two.
>> Any opposed? >> Recommendation to salvage bus number 61. >> Yeah. Does that does that mean this first time I'm presented with Yeah. I usually approval for items we salvage.
Over the years, we have cultivated strong relationships with state officials, multip uh municipality leaders, workforce boards, higher education partners, industry stakeholders. Those relationships translate directly into opportunity and investment for our students. Continuity safeguards that trust and momentum uh happen. This request is not about reconsideration. It is about strategic judgment. I believe deeply that maintaining stability at this moment best serves our students, our staff, and our member communities. If you vote to resend my resignation, I am prepared to demonstrate that commitment through action. I will forgo any future COLA salary increases for the remainder of my contract. I am also committed not to resign during the school year, middle of the school year, ensuring stability and consistent leadership. I remain fully committed, fully engaged, and ready to continue leading this district through this critical phase of growth and implementation. I respectfully ask for your support and your vote to move this work forward together.
As your teachers president mentioned, we not only are going to talk to certificated staff, which is number seven, confidential staff, but we specifically want to make sure that we're talking to the teachers association executive board as well, and that is CSEA as well. But if I may, this this evening and the latter part of this process, we are going to acquire from you, the trustees, what your characteristics are that you desire most in the next superintendent. Those skill sets, those experiences, those characteristics. However, if you wouldn't mind looking at that list now, we will be taking we will be taking your input at this meeting. We will be speaking to Superintendent Ortega, to the cabinet, to any district leadership, representatives, directors, coordinators, all your site principles, classified staff, including your district office staff, confidential staff, certificated staff, as I mentioned, number eight and nine is the association uh executive boards.
Do you happen to know Miley Cyrus? I know her quite well, actually, because she's my godaughter. Isn't that neat? I was married to the love of my life, Carl, for nearly 60 years, who sadly passed away last year in March. When I was older, I created a band with my family. We traveled in a bus called The Coach of Many Colors. I also made my own theme park called Dollywood in my hometown of Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, which helped a lot of people in the area get jobs. It's one of the best theme parks in America, and I often visit there to say hi. Y'all should come visit sometime. You would love the cinnamon bread there. I created a foundation in 1988 called the Dollywood Foundation. I saw many teens dropping out of school, so I gave them $500 if they finished school. With the success of the Dollywood Foundation, I started the Imagination Library.
So it really staggers that so you're not increasing that rate like all all at once. >> Yeah. You know it's fully interactive. You can get as high level as you want. You can drill down into the details. This is just a, you know, top down overview of by year what you're looking at for the entirety of the district. Um, and then like I showed with the high school, you can drill down as simple as, hey, we just want the electrical, we just want the mechanical. This is what it is. This is the estimated date that we're going to see it, you know, start to fail or start having to look at replacing it. Um I think it's pretty it's about the high level points of the study. >> Yeah. And so you can take your building. So if you went down to building detail >> where >> if you go to building select so you want to select all or just one select just a couple.
>> So >> a motion second to approve the rec to approve the salvage of bus number 61. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? >> Uh recommendation to approve extended day field trip for Sharp Creek fifth grade to Chicago, Illinois, April 17th. So move second. >> Got a motion and a second to approve the Sharp Creek field trip. All in favor say I.
Thank you. Uh at this time before I ask for a motion on this or if anybody's interested in a motion on this, I would like to take a quick executive session without the superintendent uh to discuss um considerations on this. Can I get a motion to go into executive session? >> So moved. Second.
And as was mentioned by your site principal at the podium earlier, we believe that student voice is particularly important. That being said, we will continue on with parent partners. Anything that you don't see on this list, we are prepared to add to that. So, we'll give that a moment in a second. But we do speak to a wide variety of students, whether it's elementary, middle school, or high school. We sometimes uh divert from just your ASB council. We want to speak to different entities that are on the campus as well. Parent partners, um, our DAC, our PTA, our ELAC, um, that's important as well. community partners, Rotary service clubs, the chamber, as a matter of fact, business partners, if you have an education foundation, and then we do have an open community forum in which we are here perhaps in your high school gymnasium or a multi-purpose room to take in any information um from stakeholders in a more open-ended opportunity.
You know, I've been blessed beyond measure, and I believe that you ought to bless others. That's why giving back matters so much to me. The Imagination Library was founded in 1995 and gave over 200 million books to kids ages 0 to 5. It started in America and then expanded to Canada and even to Ireland. It just recently celebrated its 30th anniversary. When it started, I gave a speech that said this. When I was growing up in the hills of East Tennessee, I knew my dreams would come true. I knew there are children in your community with their own dreams. They dream becoming a doctor or an inventor or a minister. Who knows? Maybe there's a little girl whose dream is to be a writer and singer. The seeds of these dreams are often found in books. And the seeds you help plant your community can grow across the world.
You want to see what the Yeah. >> mechanical would be for the next and then you can go I want to see it out 10 years, 15 years or 20 years. So now I know in that bu in our building which years I need to focus on the dollars and where they go. >> Um what's interesting about this it has a built-in factor they use they use a there's a the construction world escalation >> escalation rate. So the numbers that you see are not today's dollars in 2035. It's anticipated those are 2035 numbers. So you get a clear picture as as inflation as inflation moves through you uh some districts uh you can have access that super access to veteran bars. They have board members that wanted access so they have it so they can kind of look at it uh and kind of you know help in that when you again uh trying to come up with those plans and all and you get an idea you log in and look kind of help uh that process along too.
Any opposed? And the last one is a recommendation to approve field trip for Southwood High School choir to compete in the ISSMA state competition in Annapolis February 21st. So very done. Hopefully well. But we g a motion to approve that we were happy with it. >> So >> all in favor say I. >> I.
>> Any discussion? We will be discussing this when we come back. Chair will call the vote, please. >> Mr. Tox, >> yes. >> Miss Ferris, >> yes. >> Miss Dler, >> yes. >> Mr. Jones, >> yes. >> Mr. Mia, >> yes. >> Mr. Mercedes, >> yes. >> Mr. >> Yes. This is automatically save. back in session. Thank you, >> Mr. Maher. >> Thank you. >> The superintendent's uh letters house, please. >> Yeah. Um so, uh through you, Mr. Chair uh Superintendent Lavoy. So we've we are reviewing your request and are taking considerations on it. Um the chair and I will meet with you so that we can discuss um the the letter itself. >> Next week, please. >> Um next week um and then we'll come back together for final decision if needed. >> All set. Thank you. >> All right. Admission report. I don't know who was going to do that.
So, that is typically starting at 6 in the evening. It might go till about 7 or 7:30, but it's an open forum for us to capture anybody else. And of course, we're capturing that information uh from your stakeholders through the survey as well. And again, all that gets compiled. But if I may ask the board uh and I'll just open it up, Madame President, in kind of a popcorn fashion, anything else or anyone else that you believe is important to have on this list to make sure that we are speaking them to them? board vice president Rodriguez Pñena. >> Yes. Um, so where is the city of Isuza included in here? Like the mayor and the council members. >> That's exactly Mrs. Pñena. What we'll do, we'll we're going to add to this list. >> And um I don't not sure if this is the problem, but I am the president of the educational foundation.
As an American, I learned early on that patriotism isn't about speeches. It's about doing your part even when no one's watching. One of my favorite things to do is support the troops. I'd visit as much as I could and hope that I could bring happiness and cheer to lift their spirits. And as I said in my website, I'm not a bit political, but I'm extremely patriotic. Because patriotism isn't just waving a flag. It's lifting each other up. It's believing that every child deserves a chance, every voice deserves respect, and every dream deserves a fair shot. I hope you now know my story. Thank you. God bless you, and God bless the United States of America. [applause] Do you know any of Dolly's songs? Would you like to sing one of them up here? Like, no. Uh, our seventh and eighth grade division. Is it Katia?
It really becomes a collaboration tool with everybody. We we sit down with them on we'll just pull up you know mechanical and make sure that we have everything. And the nice thing about too we verify it. So after they do the study, we go down through and look through it. Um, and anything that looks out of the way, we go we go back in, verify, is that accurate? And we found some things that were missed or we needed to change. Uh, and we go back and do that. And then as new things come on, if you change out your HBAC, we can go back in to the back end, change that for you. So now you have it as as you move through. I wish I would had as a superintendent because because I'm not as uh I don't have to rely as much on other people to tell me what issues are.