001e e e okay Mr Antonio here Mr Badger Mr blefeld I'm here M Kachi here Mr goson here m k Nas here Dr Morris here Mr Walker here Mrs Ginsburg here Harrison Ernst here Reed Harris here great thank you so much all right we'll now do the Pledge of Allegiance and I some students are going to help me this evening thank you so much for your help all right so I'm going welcome everyone to our March 3rd meeting of the wi school board if you take a look at our agenda you'll see a listing of our prior meetings we met on January 27th for a work session February 3rd for a regular public board meeting February 10th for a finance committee meeting February 18th for a policy committee meeting and racial Equity oversight and VI
002Bri boing for excuse me for our work session taking a look at um the next agenda item you'll see our upcoming meetings March 10 is our finance committee meeting March 17th racial equity and March 31st will be our next work session and we now have a presentation this evening from lurer gwy good evening uh wien families friends uh community members good evening Bo School Board uh my name is Philip lety I am the principal at lower gwynned and we have a special presentation for all of you this evening um this is my second time doing a presentation here uh and I was looking forward to this one because it is something near and dear to my heart uh it is all about our music program and our general music program uh here at with a
003hickin um so I would like to introduce our fantastic music teacher M Erica G thank you so much for having us here tonight and it is very exciting to have some very talented students here with us um before I get to the reason why they're sitting here I just wanted to give you a little bit of background about our program in the district it was the screen Mrs D are you at a mic by chance just so people on the TV can hear you is this oh aha there it is okay um so like I said we are very proud to have our third graders from lower gwed here with you tonight our general music program in the whoops in the district um in case you're not familiar meets three times every 12 days for
00445 minutes at lower gwed I am the full-time General music teacher but we are joined by our strings teacher Caroline gossweiler who also teaches General music part-time she's music all a cart she's on a cart and I'm on the lower stage at this point in time um and we are doing all sorts of wonderful things with all of the students in our building and I think oh there we go so some of the things that we do it's I'm just GNA try to tell you briefly before we get to the main attraction behind me but we celebrate music appreciation and literacy um our fifth graders have a ukulele unit in every school in the district thanks to a beautiful we off Grant which is amazing we do bucket drumming throughout the different grade levels we
005do so much Movement we have fun units that we've created for hipop culture right now we just started today March Madness which is a fun activity for elementary school students um throughout the district where we listen to songs in various categories and all of the students vote for it and today when kids were coming onto the stage they said it's March Madness today yes so I know that there are dinner conversations siblings who are going to say what did did you vote for so it's a really great time did I mess something up with your okay all right we also celebrate culture and you can hear right now this is activity for month from Mexico we also celebrated just recently Black History Month with learning about mtown music jazz we did bucket drumming we did
006rhythm sticks we celebrated Lunar New Year we even celebrated the super with different activities um little games like oh which letter name is this on the music staff throw it into B with your football uh we clapped out rhythms of different football player names and hopefully next year I don't have to dictate Isaiah because that is not easy for elementary school students so we do it all on the stage we also integrate technology I'm proud to say that um in my classes I maintain grade level music Microsoft sway Pages where kids can access things for activities that they do in class I've heard stories from the younger grades the kids go on during indoor recess and they just watch things on the music s which is great we have projects that we do on canva
007which I'm going to discuss in a couple of minutes and also now we have a new fifth grade news team and in addition to all of the music equipment on the stage I also have a full green screen a lighting kit and sound it's just busy up there but it's great we also perform concert from last we have kindergarten for second concert for us for fourth and fifth graders and that's a parody of I knew you were trouble it's I knew you were trouble um that's an old Diva goodie um I'd love to invite all of you to all of our performances and I know going back um I've sent emails and I I sometimes hear oh I was at recorder concerts for my own kids I'm good thanks anyway I'll come to this concert
008instead but I have a feeling after hearing about what we do in music class maybe some of you will want to be there front and center cheering these kids on so all sorts of different events coming up in the spring but here we are the spotlight on these third graders third grade is a huge year for Elementary music especially in our district the students learn how to read notes on the music staff using the trust left to get them ready for everybody's favorite the recorder T recorder has a bad rep but we'll talk about that in a minute we um do things traditionally and a little bit off the beaten path at lower gwened I become very um good at writing parody songs I guess you could say um I'm on the PBIS committee for
009lower gwened and I've written songs about all the different places in our school like said I Want It That Way by the back street boys it's eating in the C well my fifth grade daughter helped me come up with this one I'm sure that some of the parents in the room have heard the song A my daughter said Mom you should do egbdf and it's become a fun um a little hit with our third graders I'll spare you but um I shared it in some networking groups that I'm in on um various online platforms and I've been getting comments from people not just in our country but schools in Australia and all over the world because they just think it's the funniest thing and their kids remember and they go around and now they know
010the lines of the trle CL because of this silly little song but I have a really special project that I wanted to share with you and I'm not even gonna say well I'll say it I'll read what's on the screen because it's kind of small but we had a really fun experience the kids got a chance to come up with their own egbdf phrases and to some of you you're probably wondering what does that mean but if I reminded you of your elementary school music days maybe Every Good Boy Does Fine is ringing a bell um that's what I learned um my initials are EG years ago I had a student that came up with Erica gyama bites dogs feet but they are all invited to come up with their own and now that we're
011in the 21st century they made some really awesome canva graphic designs and we have a project to share with you so here is our trouble cff project [Music] [Laughter] [Music] [Applause] [Music] we could get our hands high the [Music] music staff was the [Music] bigy we learned that space is spell the word [Music] space but the line notes w't [Applause] estimate learn the order of lines B GB [Music] [Applause] DF our teachers taught us the pneumonic device to help us remember the f we learn many of you every IS F this wasil we inspired to write our own even made things even more fun and special we headed to to our many students and [Applause] this Friday baby [Music] do every girly daddy deserves face care every girl daddy deserves face but baddies are the
012same every good love [Music] dessert every good banana Dess [Applause] okay excellent guy Erica Gama bites dinosaur feet every good bubble deserves they design good bird does f no birds every great fornite another common third gr Team every giant Bo fortnite I like that one every giant baby does fly like animation there Every Good Boy Deserves Football Every Girl by dancing [Music] be every good brownie deserves [Music] much every B [Music] voice ER buys dog food every good band f every girl brings devices forever hopefully not this every good burger deserves R every great baby doesn't freeze every girl break danly I like how she break it down girl every girly B does [Music] fantastic every G IC baby do fine every girl buys every golden banana does everyy deserves fro every gross B Every
013Good beatric deserves F by ER Gama B de feet up every good bunny [Music] deserves every gibberish bot doesn't fake Every Good Boy Deserves [Music] friends Every Good Boy Does football every girl baby deserves PL Every Good Boy Does F every good bat does fortnite everything banana does fine excellent girl like knob every good beist does fine every good maybe Dino place every good her done spot every gr buys different SP here needles go big during Friday every day we're going to do fortnite every girl begins doing fortnite and there were many many many more where that came from now on to record true and third grade music and this evening so that was just a little bit of what I went through on canva over the past few weeks and their creativity is just
014amazing and it definitely has helped them learn the order of the lines at the beginning of the school year I gave them a pre-test and I said you probably don't know any of this but maybe if you play piano you do so I said name the note there was a note on the staff and some of them were able to tell me right away because they know how to read music oh that's an F but this year I got the most creative answers like Lady Gaga Aaron Rogers Homer Simpson so now I gave it to them again at the beginning of February and uh I believe that the statistic was 88% of all third graders got that question correct so that was great and I think that I might be stck so there we go
015so I know you saw recorder cases and you probably went oh yay recorders and I tell that to the third graders when we start our job is to make all the parents who are a little hesitant about their child bringing home a record feel better about it when they come to our concert I've seen lots of things online as a parent as a music teacher I know that they have a horrible reputation um here are just some of the funny ones that I've seen I love the middle one so glad I was taught to play the recorder at school has really come in handy during my adult life I've lost count of the times I've resolved a difficult situation with a quick blast of Three Blind Mice and brace yourself recorders are coming but recorders
016have a lot of benefits they serve as a foundation of music education reinforcing Concepts such as Melody pitch and Rhythm as well as introducing students to music staff notation as I told you before its simple design and ease of play make it a perfect beginning instrument for all it helps de develop fine motor skills hand eye coordination and breath support acquired skills are easily transferable to other instruments and musical activities which await our students in later grades fourth and fifth graders are able to take band instruments they're taking what they're learning with me and bringing it across the hall for Strings as well it also promotes performance skills teamwork and musical expression our students absolutely love playing so maybe you don't resolve conflict with a quick blast of Three Blind Mice but you resolve conflict
017because now you know how to work as a group you have skills that you've taken with you from listening to each other helping each other out and you're able to resolve conflict that way and our students can play a mean three blind light and Hot Cross Buns if I do say so myself they actually just oh wait sorry they actually just started playing forgot about that one um the very first day of music class I know that third graders are very excited to get their hands on their recorders I don't tell them anything on purpose because I know that we have students who just want to play they just want to take those recorders out of the cases and go wild I don't show them how to hold the recorders I don't show them how
018to play it we do that afterwards and it is a hilarious 30 seconds um if you have sensitive ears you can cover them but this is my all-time favorite this is from last year's Dr Beck's class this is her class this year but this one is classic because there's a kid in the front who doesn't he's like what do I do um so it's what do I do [Music] so that's what people expect when they hear reporters and that's what they get um in the first 15 to 20 seconds at lowered but never again I say that and we talk about all sorts of things like rest phys so now I'm going to invite my lovely recorder students over here they can take their recorders out of the case and they can show you that
019they know that their recorders across their lap it's not going to magically jump into their mouths or um making those horrible noises anymore and we learn all sorts of things like our left hand goes on top we cover our holes completely we get ring around the finger and I even show them it looks like you've got pimples on your fingers it's going to hurt at first but I we've got a lot of string students over here right raise your hand if you're also a string student okay so yes they're used to painful fingers they're they're over it already and we also talk about how you make a sound into the recorder so you don't hear squeaking and squawking like that we use our warm soft air we make this to sound and I had a
020little demonstration that I told them about using a feather you want your feather to just stay in your pop so we have feathers and we're just going to demonstrate so why don't you all stand up and they're just going to try to keep their feather in their Pals so that when they play their it's going sound just so lovely and not screechy Andy can you show what would happen if we do a lot of echoing on our recorders to get our um umer and our tone so you can put your feathers down and we're just going to demonstrate how now we can take that two sound in our soft warm air you can stand up we're just G to act few pows this group has only been playing for about two or three weeks but
021like I said they can play a mean hot cross funs so we are going to play Hot Cross funs for you and I'm sure you are going to be wowed and if that doesn't wow you then we are also going to play harmonious hot cross and it is going to be glorious I know you're going to enjoy it yes please start [Music] now we're g to do a little bit faster and then we're going to harmonious hot cross FAS is a little easier [Music] now same thing for you we so that's after and they have their concert in May and I know that by May 13th you're going to sound like world class phenomenal 34 play ERS they're already on the right Road thank you so much for having us tonight we really appreciate it
022and we hope that you enjoyed and we're not afraid [Laughter] of yes round Clause again for STS so I hope uh you gained from that presentation that a typical music class at lower git is not typical and it's actually extraordinary the talent we have as our students and the amazing staff that we have teaching and educating them um they go above and beyond and the results are right here behind us so thank you again for having us do this and you know show you what we do at loww and here w a hickin so thank you thank you all thank you so much for joining us wow guys that was amazing I can't believe you've only been playing for a few months that is awesome and I have to say here with hickin we just
023have such a phenomenal music program like across the board all the elementary schools and shows like as they get older like just they have such a love for music like as you see they get to the middle school and the high school it's just amazing and Mrs Kama is just such an amazing music teacher I see the videos that she posts to our our website and um the funny parodies and the PBIS videos so guys you're so fortunate to have such an amazing music teacher so I hope you appreciate that and um what's like the the best thing like what do you guys love most about music you can tell me something who wants to share one of you share you can come up to the mic one of you tell me yes oh whole
024thing the whole music left yeah does she make it really fun for you you can come up learning how to play the record yeah what me too um dances the games and learning the notes all the videos that we watch did you have one also that one also the gam awesome well sounds like music clast is a lot of fun I always loved my music class too awesome I'm hoping this inspires you to learn another instrument next year I think it's with fourth grade they can pick an in this year already they can pick an instrument right so some of them are already playing right they next year I'm sure that awesome well wonderful you guys did again wonderfully that this was really a great performance thank you who else has comments or questions I
025I just want to Echo thank you for coming out and being so brave to show us your reporter skills I loved it and thank you for sharing this this with us this is amazing music is really important for everybody my daughter loved all aspects of music that she's even going on to college for it but you know it's a great thing I'm so excited and proud of you guys yeah I want to say great job this is my school I call it my school for one more year um so thank you Mrs Gama my kids you know love music and I can attest the fact that March mtis is a huge deal and I can't wait to hear who the winner is this year it's really tomor morning well they're they're so excited I heard
026there was fights on the news team about who got to cover March Madness okay so paper is on it all right anyone else all right well guys you know what we always love to get a picture will you guys your a picture with us awesome uh Dan this is your school we do all right now we'll move on oh you guys are welcome to stay for the meeting um or you can also leave and take some cookies on your way out it's your choice the rest of the meeting is going to be just exciting there might be some instruments no guarantee though um we may have some recorders up here um but you're also welcome to leave and take some cooking your choice all right um so we'll move on now to First public comment
027and I have no comments in person anyone along okay who's our first comment yes we have one hand raised we have Carina Taylor okay and I should my comments first uh the board appreciates hearing from the community a maximum of five speakers will be heard on the same topic please limit comments to three minutes in the interest of fairness and in order to treat all speakers equally it's the board practice not to engage in dialogue with speakers when appropriate uh followup responses will be posted on board docs and the first public comment period is for agenda items all right so you can go ahead Perina and unmute I just want to make sure you can hear me yes we can hear you okay so um I see that there's a resolution to approve of the
028new assistant superintendent position but there's not a contract attached so I'd like to ask what's the difference between the resolution and the contract and whether we have to go ahead and ask for a right to no request for the new contract as well and I make that a point because Amy I think you were quoted at one point in an article where you said that you want the school Community to trust you guys because you have over 200 years of experience but it's been a pattern now that you keep advancing Central Administration um positions without giving the community an idea of what the contract entails the salary cost or anything prior to you just push prior to the district putting a resolution or a vote without the community having some general knowledge certainly about the
029salary so I hope you'll answer that question the difference between the resolution and whether or not we have to do a right to know request and um lastly I'd like to give a shout out to all the black parents at the middle school that really pushed for um the BSU at the middle school level they recognized the need for the students at that level to have a way um to identify themselves to have a refuge and the parents are very very excited to be able to work with the staff to help the students I think that is a positive in the direction of trying to mitigate some of the racial issues that are occurring at the middle school so please um the question again that I asked in the front thank you thank you Carina
030anyone else all right and we'll close our first public comment period and um we'll move on to board president report and this evening I have no informational or action items and we'll move on to our superintendent for Jim thank you uh tonight is actually a quite a a positive and and inspiring night for Wen School District because we have as my one action item under this report the opportunity to appoint the next assistant superintendent of schools who is with us tonight I see he's brought a support cast and that's very nice for you to join him thank you Dr Shan Gardner comes to us after a a a rather extensive search that was uh led by theery County Intermediate Unit on our behalf uh we participated in in multiple rounds of interviews a very uh
031impressive and highly credential candidate pool so Dr Gardner Rises to the top of that he is currently a director of curriculum instruction uh in the upper Marian school district for stem so that that expands a lot of reach for different areas of the the uh the curriculum prior to that he was a supervisor and also a high school math teacher so he knows what it's like to be in the classroom in addition to was like to lead major initiatives in a very impressive School District uh he he has a impressive list of credentials I will not follow let see them all now most recently his Doctorate came in educational leadership from wer University so um we're just pleased and and thrilled to have him here tonight and have this as an action on him before
032we move that not we want you VI wor yes thank you um yes we are so excited to have Dr Gardner join the whisp school district and become part of Wis Nation um the extensive background in educational leadership in addition to his content knowledge in various regards um and most essentially is firm commitment to Student Success that's something that always comes um at the Forefront of of every decision as I understand throughout his career um and it certainly came very clearly through throughout the interview process um and the importance of building relationships relationships with students and staff administrative team board members community members that was something else that came through and it's going to um farewell for us in this role as he joins our our school district I'm very honored to work alongside him
033as the superintendent next year as he'll be the assistant superintendent and I know that together we're going to do some incredible work as we continue to Foster excellence and Innovation um and support our students and and community so thank you and welcome Dr Gardner so with that please for approval of agenda item 8.1 which is the approval of the appointment of Dr sha Gardner as the assistant superintendent of schools for the period June 11 2025 through June 30th 2029 as per the attached resolution second a motion's been made and seconded are there any comments or questions I just wanted to say that I was so struck um when we got to meet you briefly um you just had this great enthusiasm um I loved your focus on relationships and also the Innovation you um that
034we saw in the curriculum that you developed in Upper Mar and I thought that was just so amazing and I'm so excited for you to start here in wi hicken I know you're going to be a great addition and work well with Dr dwan so thank you so much and we're excited to have you any other comments questions all right then all those in favor I I anyone opposed right motion passes you need Ro to welcome you at Dr Gardner and um I'd like to just welcome you to make a few comments hi good evening thank you so much I am excited beyond belief to join Wiest Nation uh to cultivate create collaborate with everyone in the community with our teachers our principles Schoolboard Dr danan uh building relationships is critical uh to every decision
035and everything we do and that's the foundation to support success this combination of academic Excellence with a sense of belonging which is so critical as we move forward and we have student leaders in the room and that we really work with them so that they have choices as they move forward they have confidence and that they're agile Dynamic thinkers as they join the world as our Future Leaders so I am excited to join West Nation uh if anything I was hoping you know to join now but we do have to wait a little bit and that's okay that's all right uh and I look forward to upcoming events and engaging with the community so I can't thank you enough I'm honored and privileged to be part of this community thank you and I do appreciate
036you wearing both blue and gold today yeah um and I would love if we could get a picture with you e e Amy could I just make a comment before he leaves yes s please I just wanted to I just wanted to tell him that um I hope to meet him in person at some point and that I'm not just a head and a pair of glasses that I'll see him soon and welcome because he's sounds phenomenal I love all of the things that he BR he will bring to Wick again thank you Rosetta all right well again welcome to Rah hicken all right we'll move on now to our assistant superintendent report just so much excitement um I have no information items or action items this evening thank you oh now we'll move on
037to our board solicitor report thank you we have one action item tonight which is the approval of settlement agreement between the district and the family which I understand has no changes since disc last week so I'm looking for a motion to approve action item 10.2 10.1 excuse me thank you motion to Second motion remain seconded other any comments or questions I seeing none all those in favor I anyone opposed motion passes thank you board secretary report Jo take it board secretary the secretary report is unchanged from what we reviewed on Monday so I would ask please for approval of agenda items 11.1 through 11 so move a motions made seconded are there any comments or questions seeing none all those in favor I anyone pass motion pass board treasur report thank you similarly the board
038Treasures report is unchanged from Monday so I would ask please for a motion to approve agenda item 12 second a motion to made and seconded are there any comments or questions seeing none all those in favor I I anyone opposed motion passes H report good evening uh changes from last week's agenda are marked with an aster and can be found in bold in the details these include resignations retirements appointments a leav leave of absence extracurricular changes and volunteer additions in items 13.1 and 13.2 additionally item 13.5 was added and represents a contract for additional administrative support to cover a leave of absence at the middle school all other items were reviewed at last week's work session and I have no other changes so this evening I'm seeking approval for Action items 13.1 through 13.5 thank
039you so moved a motions to made seconded are there any comments or questions seeing done all those in favor I anyone opposed motion passes thank you a Communications committee zy I just had a couple of quick informational updates um as you know it's reading Across America or read Across America this week we um well we I had the opportunity to read at the F Elementary on Saturday it was amazing we had um 50 people register the event and so that was very promising and uh we had about 35 people attend uh Amy is uh going to the Amer Library this coming Saturday so hopefully she has just as much will be a little competition um and then this week uh a number of us on the school board have volunteered to be guest readers at
040uh various elementary schools I had the pleasure to go to Bluebell Elementary and to uh Stony Creek today and uh they each School kind of has personalized it and made it their own which I love um at Bluebell Elementary they have um they do rise and read I think is the theme and it's by grade and so everybody uh it's the first thing that they do for that grade for this week and uh students are allowed or have the option to bring in a parent caregiver friend to read with during this this uh session and so there's a number of volunteers and myself who read with students who didn't have someone there um and it was so so special and then at um Stony Creek I actually was a guest reader at a Kindergarten class
041and what they're doing at Stony Creek is the entire school is reading the same chapter book which I thought was I was like kindergarten chapter book so I thought that was so cool because they have different pictures throughout the hallways so it's like a conversation piece so that was really fun and I got to finish the book feel like I got you know a prize CU I got to find the ending find out the ending so that was a lot of fun um so that's reading Across America I know some of my my colleagues have have signed up to go in um so I know uh I know they'll have similar experiences also on a different note I did join the rasn monthly meeting and um I must say I'm very impressed with their Lobby
042she is working really really hard um they're in the process of right now uh getting a bill in in uh in the Senate to make this Statewide change and for those who don't remember rasn is for the later start time um and they are working very hard there's a lot of traction they're getting a lot of interest and this is across the entire state so I'm I was very impressed there's there's a couple of you know different um uh initiatives that they're working on I can share them out to you if you guys are interested and then um they all they got three endorsements from three different coalitions um so so they're really um getting a lot of progress there so that's about it thank you I no other items for this week great thank
043you any comments or questions I thank you again and I'm looking forward to reading on Saturday as well as reading this week at school just love that awesome all right curriculum and [Music] Technology all right we are seeking approval for Action items 15.1 to 15.4 um as reviewed in last week's eting that's oh sorry one two and three not four sorry there you go one two and three second have motions to made seconded or there any comments or questions seeing none all those in favor I anyone opposed motion passes thank you facilities and transportation Joe thank you um we have two items up for uh vote this evening 16.1 is approval of landscape maintenance contract for the district 16.2 is the High School stadium bleacher project uh we reviewed and discussed these last week and
044they're are unchanged from last week so I'm seeking a motion for approval of action item 16.1 and 16.2 a motion to remain seconded are there any comments or questions I think I just wanted to mention that I don't I don't take 16.2 lightly that's a lot of money for the bleachers we did discuss it last week but like I want to just underscore the fact that I think we try to be as fiscally responsible as possible but unfortunately this is the price of what it is and and we have to replace them like as soon as possible so you know Harrison I think you commented on we need bleachers you said so we need bleachers yeah so we have to do it I'm sorry that it cost so much to the community but this is
045what it is right so there it is I told you 300 bucks I could do it any other comments or questions all right all those in favor I anyone opposed motion passes thank you thank you uh finance committee yeah just another uh informational plug uh for next Monday and the finance committee will meet to have it second budget workshop for the uh uh 2526 school year budget we appreciate any public interactions and comments on Steve I have to tell you I saw Dean over the weekend again and she was out socially talking about how exciting your budget workshops are so she was plugging them there we go no joke um there are three items uh for approval tonight 17.1 are the financial reports for January 17.2 the payments the same month and 17.3 Tre the
046Montgomery County Intermediate Unit budget contribution from the West School District um these are not changed from last week so seeking a motion to approve 17. through 17.3 so move second motions be made seconded are there any comments or questions just one quick question will the finance meeting um be um available via Zoom I'm gonna referred to amand and I don't believe so okay thank you it is all right there's no comments or questions all those in favor I I I anyone opposed motion passes thank you um Marshall there are no informational or action items to even thank you RI oh Paul's in here um anything for RI dran no informational items and no action items this evening March 17th so however is the upcoming Community conversations event so make sure you are staying tuned to
047your email where the in invitation has come out there's an RSVP link please be sure to RSVP so that we can make sure we can accommodate everyone who's interested in joining and so that you can contribute to the subject of those conversations so please do join us March 17th make sure you check your email to um to RSVP it's going to be at the Penland Community Center and a reminder the bridge is out so it's a plan ahead to take an alternate route we going to be attending a plan to make sure you have enough time and that invitation has gone out yeah yeah and Dr danan I'll just add one thing is that um normally our racial Equity oversight committee meetings um primarily consist of the administration giving us updates on various um key
048areas of focus for the committee um the session that we have scheduled for March 17th is different in its nature it's really intended to be more of a listening session where those of us on the committee have an opportunity and are soliciting feedback and input from various stakeholders within the community to talk to us and U let us know about their own personal experiences dealing or interacting with some of these areas of focus that we've been exploring so uh we encourage all folks um to consider attending again to share their perspective with us as board members and those of us on the committee um and hope we have a good turn up great thank you any other comments regarding that all right then we'll move on to health wellness and safety is there anything this
049week Jan yes there are no informational action this time thank you um extracurricular nothing report this um MCU we did have a meeting um we talk generally about some um facilities that we're going to be like turning over and changing the use of those facilities we also talked about some of the impacts um um of federal dollars that we're not going to be receiving and how that's going to impact the mciu um so that was um some of the highlights of the meeting um and uh I'll probably have a little bit more to share next time after we have a legislative committee meeting and learn a little bit more about maybe those impacts um North monco PBA um I did just want to quickly touch on Governor shapira's proposed budget just the education part of
050it I thought it' be interesting to hear um he does have and this isn't passed yet so some of it may may not go through but um he's proposing 526 million in basic education funding through a bipartisan adequacy formula which basically would mean the schools that needed the most would get the most um increased special education fund by 40 million to bring it to a total of 1.5 billion for special education Cyber Charter Schools he wants to set um tuition reimbursement rate at $8,000 per year I learned today that that would not affect us very much because we currently have one student in a Cyber Charter School um although it is expected to save the state $378 million uh $5.5 million increase in technical uh career schools increase in student teacher siphons supporting aspiring teachers
051increase in budget for school safety and mental health uh a continued uh support for free menstrual project in schools and continued Universal free breakfast so hoping some of that will go through um yeah in the final budget great thank you any questions what about ERC anything no sorry nothing there thank you okay all right then we'll move on to our second public comment period um here the board appreciates hearing from the community a maximum of five speakers will be heard in the same topic please limit your comments to three minutes in the interest of fairness and in order to treat all speakers equally it's not the board's practice to engag in dialogue with speakers when appropriate we follow up with responses on board docs and this can be on any school related topic I have
052no one in person um online yes I have one hand raised Carmina Taylor okay Carmin you can go ahead and unmute yourself so I wanted to I guess bring this to Dr D W's attention and actually I was in a meeting last week where kaziah was there there have been some racial um derogatory remarks made at the Bluebell Elementary School to the students of color and um it's taken a long process for the the children that have been called certain names um certainly the nword and then one a fourth grader called another girl a dword and I had uh advised the parent to ask for a restorative justice practice um process for Bluebell so I just wanted to put out there to kazaya and to Dr danan to really look into the racial issues that
053are happening at Bluebell because um the little children from penlan are hurting and they deserve to be reconciled they deserve to be treated with respect and dignity and I think that when kaziah had mentioned at the pen meeting that she and another person in the district facilitate the process and I've heard the reasons why they use it at the middle school unfortunately I think it needs to be done at the elementary school levels as well so I just wanted to make um the district aware that there's a need for the restorative practice implementation process to occur at Bluebell thank you thank you Carina anyone else no hand rais okay then we'll move on to to board comments um and I just wanted to note I attended um all four shows of the middle schools um
054Mary Poppins and it was amazing it was so great I'm looking forward to into the woods week and I can't go to all of their shows I'm sure you'll be there s but but I will be there Thursday um but yeah Mary Poppins was just amazing and for Mrs Brown um last seventh and eighth grade show it was really an amazing one to go out on so you know you know major congratulations to her it was a great production um any other comments from anyone I think the um the robotics team had a competition this weekend that they did really well in I only got like a partial story from a neighbor but do you guys know anything about that or no I was wondering that because I seen one of my friends uh in
055robotics walking around the halls the medal today yeah they actually won the competition at hor at haer horam they won it wonderful that robotics team is amazing and also now that Reed is here I just want to congratulate him in person for his awesome performance we did and you found out yesterday do you want to tell the news you found out yesterday something exciting right um yes so uh I qualifi for state and then R400 freestyle that's awesome news congrats well anything else to share anyone no all right well then um could I have a motion to adjourn I motions been made and seconded all those in favor I yeah