001a good spring break and welcome back and welcome to the April 21st Camp County School Board meeting. Uh we are going to start with a pledge of allegiance followed by a moment of silence. I alian to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. All right. Well, we have lots of fun presentations tonight, which is always a good thing. And one of our favorites is our Campbell County Educational Foundation, and they're going to have something they want to present to us. So, invite Campbell County Educational Foundation. Thank you. Well, good evening, Mr. Chair or Dr. Chair, Dr. Stanley, members of the Campbell County School Board. Thank you for the opportunity to speak again this evening. I'm
002Rose Eper here to represent the Campbell County Educational Foundation. Other foundation board members include Susan Brandt, Dean Farmer, Linda Gruba, Vicky Maddox, Brandon Treadway, Kyle Andrews, Sam Vance, Dr. Pale and Dr. Stanley. This group of volunteers work to provide financial assistance to Campbell County students who are pursuing postsecary pursuits. Funding we've been so fortunate to obtain from generous individuals, corporations, and local foundations support dual enrollment students as well as college and career readiness programs at all four Campbell County high schools. Our goals are straightforward. That every student who wants to take part in the CTE Academy has that opportunity. That every student graduates from Campbell County high schools graduates on track with a definite plan of action. And we're also striving to help obtain a 100% graduation rate at all Campbell County high schools. I
003want to note a couple of new programs the CT Academy is now offering to students along with HVAC, welding, machine technology, health sciences, informationational technology, now mechatronics, and early education are offered. Did you know that through the CTE Academy, students from all four Campbell County high schools have access to a variety of career paths, allowing students to earn up to 36 college credits as well as trade certificates. The foundation assures that there are no financial barriers for students to pursue these careers, taking care of fees, textbooks, and tools that are needed. This foundation's support has continued to grow each year. We're fortunate to receive individual and corporate donations and significant grant support from local foundations. Once again, we're increasing our donation level and have a check for 37,375 to present tonight. This amount combined with
004the gift we made in the fall provides funding to pay for all of this year's CTE Academy students books, supplies, and materials. We're thrilled to provide this support and even more excited to see our student interests and participation in these programs grow. I also have the pleasure of introducing a Campbell County student who is living proof of the opportunities made available through the CTE program. Laney Green, a senior at Brookville High School, has participated in both the new early childhood program at CBCC and also the teachers for tomorrow program. Before we present this check, Laney, would you mind telling us a little bit about your experience? Hi everyone. Hi, my name is Laney Green. I am a senior at Brookville High School as well as a firstear early childhood development student at CBCC. Over the
005past few years, I've had the incredible opportunity to take part in several educational focused classes, many of which have been at the at University of Lynchburg and through CBCC. Through these programs, I have completed over 140 hours of practicum experience, most of which were spent in an adaptive special education classroom. I owe so much of my growth and confidence to Miss Thompson at Tomahawk Elementary School. Her support and guidance has been instrumental in helping me feel prepared to lead support and lead and support students in a classroom setting. From teaching small lessons to assisting with daily routines, she has given me the space to learn, grow, and truly feel like a future educator. I chose to enroll in these programs because teaching has always been my passion. I've known for a long time that I
006wanted to work with young children and help shape the future through education. These programs gave me the chance to start that journey early, to step into the classroom, not just as a student, but as someone preparing to make a real impact. These experiences have been nothing short of amazing. Outside of the classroom, I have been involved in so many amazing activities at Brookville. I'm a proud member of National Honor Society, a representative in the student advocacy group, a contestant in the Miss Brookkeville scholarship pageantss, and have been a part of the competition cheer and track team since middle school. I've also spent two years in the elementary teacher assistant program. Every one of these experiences has helped shaped who I am and pushed me to become a more well-rounded, driven individual. To Campbell County Schools,
007the Teachers for Tomorrow Foundation, and the Campbell County Educational Foundation, I want to say thank you from the bottom of my heart. You've given me opportunities I never imagined were possible at this age. I truly feel set up for success, and I hope to be back in Campbell County in a few short years with my own classroom. [Applause] Thank you very much, Laney. Congratulations on everything you do. You're doing a great job. It's an excellent example of Campbell County, what we can do and uh opportunities we we afford. So, we're very happy for you, Laney, and we're very appreciative from the foundation. Thank you as always. And as always, Please extend from the board our gratitude to all the donors. You know, we know we don't get to see them. We don't get to talk
008to them, but without them, you know, we wouldn't have this. So, our heartfelt thanks. So, this is to you. Oh, can I say? Sure. Laney. Laney, will you stand up? Amy, would you stand up? Okay. I had four. Okay. Okay. Just want to make sure y'all knew each other. You can start to substitute. Um you expedited application. All right. Thank you so much. All right. And then we get to move now to our um Can I can I ask a question? Sure. While y'all are here, I know y'all going to get up and leave pretty soon. At the spring forum, when y'all made y'all's presentation to the other people from other camp, how how were y'all received? Is it Huh? Really? Well, a lot of people asking questions, a lot of people very interested in
009what we're doing and how we got started and what our goals are. Really, did any other counties have anything similar or um not really not quite what we do. That's great. That's great. I think some other counties have some foundations, but ours is very focused, right? I think I think that may be structured a little bit differently. Yeah. A little bit more broad and what they do. You want to give the the total? We kind of calculated a total in our meeting tonight. Oh gosh. Well, I don't have it in front of me, but we're somewhere in the neighborhood of $265ish,000 that we've been able to $265,000 that our community has donated. Yeah. To see our students have these opportunities and that's that's hard work from this from this group and also generosity from our
010community. Very much so. Great things for our students. That's right. Yeah. I'd like to I think I can speak for John Hardy. Y'all, thank y'all for the breakfast y'all provided at the career fair. I got my donut. I saw that. Stay away from the cameras. All right. Well, now we get to recognize our student VSBA art contest winner, Dr. Stanley. Yeah. Um Josiah Monroe. Um Josiah, come on up. come on up to the podium and I'll come over here with you. So, Mr. Jones brought up our BSBA Southern Forum as you all remember we had that great event and and being a competitive person. I certainly like to win on behalf of Campbell County, especially when you're the home team. Okay. So, so we're hosting this event and uh when they went through the winners
011to the art contest, it was great to have Josiah, a 12th grader at Altista Combined School, win first place at the high school level. And your artwork was called Solo, if you remember that picture. Um it it was quite impressive and we were certainly thankful to have a Campbell County student win, but certainly want to thank you for taking the time to to enter the contest. And now his artwork goes on to the state level um where it continues to compete um and he could potentially win over $1,000 or win $1,000 and uh and uh and be a state winner. So good luck with that. And uh I got a chance to meet Joe not too long ago at our career fair. And guess what he wants to do? I'll let him tell you. I
012want to be an art educator. Good. [Applause] So anyway, congratulations Josiah. And if you all have any questions on Josiah being uh I'm sure he's happy to answer what he can. Yeah. Have you met Mrs. Hunt? Yeah, a lot of maze tonight. Do you have u plans as far as uh stud college or um um I plan to go go to a school in New York called Parson's. It's an art school. Great. Awesome. Good. Well, good. Congratulations. Congratulations again. Thank you for being here. All right. And then another great presentation. We have a presentation from Dr. Hail, teachers for tomorrow presentation. And we've got quite a crowd here, and that's always great. So, good evening, chairman, members of the board, and Dr. Stanley. Um, tonight, this is not about anything that I want you to
013hear the stories of our students and our teachers. So my name is there just as a placeholder but this is about the teachers for tomorrow program and that is a theme for this evening. I will share before we start though Josiah also went through teachers for tomorrow at Alta Vista. Um and so um we're the our teachers our staff they're doing amazing work. Um teachers for tomorrow program has been in Campbell for quite some time but we are excited to now say that we have classes at all four of our high schools this school year. We are very much rooted in this idea that we serve our community. Um, and part of what we we hope to inspire is that education, it's a it's a life. It's a career that you can have. Um, and
014for many a calling for their passions. Our mission continues to be to provide that worldclass education system so students can pursue anything. And also this idea that you belong in Campbell County and thank to Miss uh thanks to Miss Hunley for also continuing that message with our mentoring program. teachers for tomorrow 1 and two. It is a dual enrolled program. So students receive university credit from the University of Lynchburg. They follow a curriculum called Sarah. Um and this is really a a gold standard um for what is expected in education to know how to move into the classroom and also to get that experience throughout. Again, we have teachers for tomorrow one and we have also added teachers for tomorrow two. Um within our school system, students receive three college credits for teachers for tomorrow
015one and students receive four for teachers for tomorrow for tomorrow two. So seven credits through these two courses. Our goal is to continue to grow our own so that we are able to continue to serve our community. I have several others here tonight um to share with me. Um Dr. Wilkerson will be sharing more along with Miss Hancock who is also a teachers for tomorrow instructor as well as our English instructional specialist. Um and then we also have representatives from each school alista. We have Miss Morton here from Brookville. We have Miss Davis and then we also have from Russ Bailey um and Miss May from William Campbell. So we're very proud um to continue to share more. So these are two of our um of our former teachers for tomorrow students who have come
016back and they are now teaching in our schools. So, Taylor Carwall, she was from the class of 2011 at William Campbell, and she has been at Brookne Neil for a while now, and she's a special education teacher there. And she um she told us recently that she loved that she was able to earn her college credits and that they were able to help her when she went away to school to be able to pursue that degree. And then Sydney Nollie, she was from Rusber High School, the class of 2019, and she's there and um she is teaching French and she really has enjoyed the opportunity to see how the training in Teachers for Tomorrow fits in with the practical um day-to-day um teaching and responsibilities that she's able to do on a regular basis. And
017we are also excited because next year we're going to add the Educators Rising organization to our schools. All right. It is my pleasure to share a few highlights from the teachers for tomorrow program with you all. First, um I'd like to mention the fall seminar at the University of Lynchber. The University of Lynchber each year hosts our students and students have the opportunity opportunity to attend breakout sessions, engage with professors. Um the topics from this year's seminar included law and ethics, careers and education, multiple intelligences, dyslexia, simulation, and they were also provided with a tour. Our students have the opportunity to work with different teachers and students at all three levels, elementary, middle, and high in their cadet placements. And in a few minutes, you're going to hear directly from them. In November, we had
018a teachers for tomorrow day with students um and central office personnel participated. Activities included lesson planning, preparation and professional development, roundt discussions with different members of division administration and our TFT2 students participated in mock interviews and they all did an outstanding job. And then lastly, I want to highlight the portfo portfolio completion and presentation which highlights the work that our students do throughout the year. And now I'll ask Miss Morton to come to the podium. Hi. Um I was not expecting to speak. Um I teachers for tomorrow 1 at altista combined school. Um this year I had four students. Uh, one of those students is a junior and is already signed up to take teachers for tomorrow 2 next year. Um, I did a lot of recruiting and I think I have three kids signed
019up for next year and I am pushing them to go ahead and sign up for teachers for tomorrow 2 as well. Um, I have two students who are going to uh speak to you about our program and that is Princessa Cruz and Cassandra Ramirez. All right. Good evening everyone. I'm Cassandra Ramirez and I'm Princessa Cruz and we are both seniors at Alt Vista High School. We are excited to have the opportunity to share a little bit about our experiences in the Teachers for Tomorrow program. It was wonderful having the opportunity to be in a classroom setting and be able to teach. However, what made it so comfortable was that we felt prepared to be in the classroom. One of our favorite projects we did was the barrier book project. For the barrier book project, we
020had to research dis different disabilities and mental health issues. Afterwards, we were able to write and illustrate a children's story in which the characters represented children struggling with these problems. Projects like the barrier book project, the ceiling tile book report, and the disability simulation helped us gain perspective on what students may be struggling with. This helped us understand and be prepared to make accommodations whenever we were in the classroom, which ultimately helped us become better teachers. I truly would recommend the Teachers for Tomorrow class to anyone interested in education. Not only are you giving good resources and opportunities, but you are also introduced to numerous support systems within the educational field. Thank you for giving us your time and have a wonderful evening. Thank you. [Applause] Hello. Um, I'm Sarah Davis at Brooklyn High School.
021I've been teaching the Teachers for Tomorrow program for 13 years, I think, at this point. Um, I've seen a slew of students come through this um program and it's just been a phenomenal experience for me as a teacher, one of the highlights of my career. Um, and I I in fact recently have been able to teach with a couple of students that I taught in TFT. So, that's been really neat, too. Um, this year we had a huge group of TFT1, but we also had a great group in TFT2. I'm gonna have um Maggie Keys here. I'm gonna have her speak a little bit about her her process in in this program and her experience here. And um I'm looking forward to seeing what she does in the future. As with a few of the
022other ones that are in here, they're all here to be teachers and that's exciting. Good evening. My name is Maggie Keys from Brookville High School. Last year, I had the unbelievable privilege of being a part of Teachers for Tomorrow. Through this experience, my understanding of teaching has changed entirely. It became something far more profound than I ever had expected. Teaching should never just be an idea or a possibility. Teaching has to be an experience. For my practicum, I was placed in a seventh grade US history class. History was a subject I genuinely enjoyed and I had chosen it because I was currently taking Apush. I felt confident with the material largely thanks to my incredible APUSH teacher. So when it came time to teach my practice lesson, my practice lesson which was the causes of
023World War II, very exciting. Um I had I thought I had it all figured out. Um the pressure was on, but I believed my plan was solid. I modeled my lesson after a lecture my teacher had given. No books, no notes, just straight lecturing, something I had never done before. And yet, I was blissfully confident. I practiced for hours, my mom, my friends, and they all endured my endless talking. It was just 15 minutes straight of me lecturing, no real structure, and just hoping for the best. And then the day came and I walked in and I completely bombed. It was so bad. I lost track of all my points. My practicum teacher looked so confused and the students were halfway asleep. I walked out of that classroom, went straight to the middle school bathroom
024and sobbed. At that moment, I truly doubted whether teaching was for me. But as so many great teachers say, the best way is to learn. The best way to learn is by failing. And that day, I failed. Eventually, I did get another shot. I taught a much better lesson. But I had to fail first. I had to fail in order to succeed. So many other people entered teaching thinking it will be easy. And I had to admit that was my expectation, too. I figured I was bossy enough that giving directions for a living would be a perfect career. But as many of you in this room already know, that is not teaching. Teaching is more than standing in front of a classroom and speaking words into air. Teaching is more than handing out worksheets and
025redirecting students to online study guides. This experience through Teachers for Tomorrow showed me that teaching is a connection and a relationship you have with those willing to learn and listen even when your student teacher goes on for 15 minutes about World War II when it really doesn't make any sense. It also showed me that teachers can fail too. And the surprise is it actually makes them a better teacher. In all, I'm so grateful for my Teachers for Tomorrow experience and everything it has taught me. I encourage everyone who's interested to take it and I'm so grateful I got this opportunity. Thank you so much. [Applause] Good evening. My name is Mary Bailey. I teach at Rusber High School. I have taught the Teachers for Tomorrow program for as long as it has been in Campbell
026County. Um, which is either 14 or 16 years. I'm not sure at this point. I'm going to get my students to stand up because I'm just so proud of all of them. So, y'all stand up. Stand up. Stand up. I love teaching Teachers for Tomorrow. It's It's such a joy. And I have um been able to see the benefits of this program. Four of the teachers at Rusber High School now went through my teachers for tomorrow pro hours. It's not mine, but our teacher for tomorrow program. Um, I know I have a student at Russ Middle School, Savannah Evans, who went through this program. I also have students uh who teach at Yellow Branch. Um, and William Campbell. And I may have some others out there. I'm just not sure. But when we talk about
027a grow your own program, um, we can and we bring these students back and it's very exciting. I think if you ask any of the students here, Teachers for Tomorrow is a life-changing experience. It really is. whether they decide to go into teaching or not, it's a life-changing experience and we give them the skills to teach and they're going to teach somebody something. I tell my students that all the time. Whether you go into the classroom or not, you will be a teacher, as a parent, um as a worker, teaching a training someone, that kind of thing. So, the skills that we give them are lifelong skills. So, you all supporting uh this program, we are beginning to see the the benefits of that. and we have some fine educators who have come through this
028program. So, I'm going to turn it over to two of my students, Addie Barnes and Summer Adams, and they are going to come and talk to you just a little bit as well. Good evening everyone. My name is Summer Adams and I attend Rusber High School. One of the many things that I've learned during my time in Teachers for Tomorrow is how to be a is how to be a leader and how education works. I haven't always seen myself focusing my future on teaching, but what inspired me to build my future around teaching was my fourth grade year of elementary school. My two biggest influences were Mrs. Dunn and Miss Stone. Miss Dunn being my math teacher and Mrs. Stone being my history teacher. They changed my perspective on what teachers are meant to do
029versus what impact they actually leave with their students. My fourth grade year was by far my most difficult year. But whenever I needed to cry or I needed a hug, Miss Stone was standing there with her arms open, ready to listen. Miss Stone impacted my life and my perspective by introducing me to Jesus, which changed every aspect of my life. My goal is to be the teacher that not only teaches academically, but also impacts students the same way Mrs. Dunn and Mrs. Stone impacted me. Teachers for tomorrow has taught me a lot about leadership in different in the different levels of education. I have learned that no matter the grade level, middle or elementary school, these students see us TFT students as leaders or almost like an additional teacher because we are all able to
030present ourselves as a leader. Spending time in the classroom has shown me how every student learns differently and how there is no right way to learn. We all learn differently and TFT introduces you to those different types of learning styles. TFT 1 and 2 has helped me grow in confidence, leadership, and understanding of what it takes to be an educator. If students are considering this, I highly recommend it. It has given me an experience I'll never forget and has shaped my future. Hopefully, Teachers for Tomorrow can shape the future for students so they can reach their potential as leaders and as educators. Thank [Applause] you. Hello everyone. My name is Addison Barnes and I'm a student at Rusburg High School. I'm also a part of the Teachers for Tomorrow program. Before I start, I wanted
031to preface by saying this. When people say that kids say the darnest things, they really mean it. For instance, when I walk into my classroom and my kids ask me, "Miss Barnes, are you sick? Have you been crying? Did you get broken up with?" "No, everyone. I just didn't put on any any makeup. Thanks for noticing." But throughout the backhanded compliments and low blows, the connection and relationships I've built with the younger generation of students has been so gratifying. I have chosen willingly to work with the middle schoolers for both my placements this year and it has been beyond rewarding. Middle school years are hard for everyone. But watching my students not only develop as learners or test takers, but grow as people is something that I never thought would be so special. So when
032my students without fail point out my lack of makeup or my eye bags, they also never failed to tell me how much they value my help and encouragement. They confide in me about their anxieties and stresses and trusting in me to guide them down the best path for success. So when I see my students grow and develop into the young adults I know that they are and I get to see them take on new responsibilities. There is nothing more valuable. Working with the younger students has been a blessing and there is no greater feeling than walking into class every day and hearing my three favorite words, "Good morning, Miss Barnes." Knowing the impacts I can have on their lives forever. Thank you. [Applause] Hello, my name is Jesse May. Um, and I am the teachers
033for tomorrow teacher at William Campbell. I'm a Campbell County graduate from Brookville who came back to teach in Campbell County. Um, and this is our first year in a while offering the program. Um, my first year teaching it. Um, my students are in the program right now and it's been an awesome experience. Right now, um, there's four girls. They're all in their field placements right now. Two of them are in middle school, two are in the elementary school. Um, and it's been a great experience for me to, um, get to inspire other people to join this great field and also learn from them and their excitement. And so I want to invite up um one of my students, Payton Francis, to share a little bit about what inspired her to take this class. Hi, my
034name is Payton Francis and I'm a junior from William Campbell High School. I want to start by just thanking y'all for allowing me to be here today and speak on what inspired me to join Teachers for Tomorrow. When I first heard that Teachers for Tomorrow was coming to William Campbell, I knew I wanted to join. Although I was initially unsure if I wanted to pursue a career in education, I knew if id never tried it, I wouldn't know. Um, so what inspired me to apply was knowing that by being a teacher, I can provide a safe and nurturing environment for children that may not experience that anywhere else and also just make an impact on students lives. This program has really helped me realize that being a teacher is a career I want to pursue.
035Currently, I'm doing my field placement at BrookNet Elementary, and I'm doing second grade. What I have most enjoyed so far for my field placement is my mentor teacher, Mrs. Cox. She's taught me to have patience and overwhelming situations and to keep my composure when things may get out of hand, and she really does it seamlessly. Um, next year I plan to attend CBCC and do the early childhood education program in hopes that it will help further my knowledge on becoming a teacher. Yeah. Thank you'all again. Thank you. Um, we're not going to play all of this, but we do have a short video just to show a little bit more um before wrapping up. [Music] Welcome to Teachers for Tomorrow, a program that prepares aspiring educators for the future. Teachers for Tomorrow started in Campbell
036County probably between 13 and 15 years ago. We go through the South Carolina Sarah programs. They have a very solid program that allows us to show students in one semester in a block schedule or two in a regular school year. Um the ins and outs of teaching and and who they are as learners. um who they want to be as a teacher, how to best meet student needs, how to lesson plan, and then to actually go out and be matched with the teacher um so they can have the experience in the field. So students get a chance to observe different classrooms. We can come back and discuss what they observed and um the different things that they see with the teachers that they go and observe and even student interactions which I think is pretty
037exciting. Um, and the culminating event, of course, is a five-week practicum experience where you get to go into a classroom and really get to know your students and plan lessons and teach them. And most students come out of the practicum feeling just excited about um their accomplishment. Uh, usually by the end of it, they know kind of if they want to be a teacher or not, and that's the whole point of the program. [Music] I loved it. Both my parents are both teachers, so it's been something that I've been considering for a long time, but this was just like a new perspective and experience for me that really opened my eyes to like what it actually means. My um my placement teacher, the classroom teacher, she was really amazing. She was very organized and she
038communicated well and she was like a a real example. Like I knew like if I go into teaching this is how I would want to be. I decided to take teachers for tomorrow because I always knew from when I was little that I wanted to be a teacher and I wanted to get like the real hands-on hands-on experience. When I was in my placement, I got to watch a little girl for like the few weeks that we were there. I got to watch her improve her reading skills, which was really cool and really rewarding. Even if you don't plan on teaching or like you have the slightest interest, I definitely would because not only do you get to like learn how to be a teacher, but you learn like really good life skills and like
039um leadership skills. I took Teachers for Tomorrow because my older sister came through Rusbury and she also took this class and she really inspired me. She's now a second grade teacher. The class has definitely made me realize that I like early childhood development, like being able to work with younger kids. I actually got to go back to my elementary school that I went to and I worked in kindergarten in a kindergarten classroom and I loved it. My kids were super sweet. I loved my cooperating teacher. She was very helpful in like giving you the whole aspect of teaching. Not just like the good parts and the bad parts, but all of it. and like what teachers have to do and it gives you like a new level of respect for teachers. Um so we'll share
040this so you can see the rest of it as well. Um but before we do our thank you, you do have um a special invitation. We are starting something something new. Um and May is next week in case you didn't realize that on your calendar. Um but we will have our first teachers for tomorrow educators recognition. It will be held here at the technical center. It's May 2nd at 9:00 am. Um, and we really hope that that you can make it so that we can recognize these students and share with their families and their teachers um and and celebrate them um as they are concluding um their experience. Um and last piece is just thank you, you know, thank you for being the next generation. And yes, Miss Hunley is our personnel director if you
041didn't put that together. Um and of course, you are always welcome to to reach out to us. So, thank you. We'll be happy to answer any questions that you have. Well, I just want to comment the enthusiasm of the students and and it's apparent that it is a good program for them to brag on it the way they are, but also the passion of the teachers that are teaching the program. So, I really value and appreciate that. So, well, I promised that I would get a picture. So, I'd love to have our our students and teachers come up for a picture. That would be great. And foundation, you're welcome to join in, too. Great. Yeah. We're not getting in the picture. Out of the way. She wants to be in it. I can take it.
042Great job. Okay, on the board, we have to make sure Nowhere. Just a little technical term. Thank you. [Applause] Matter of the computer might be dead now. Well, now now we get to start the really boring part of our meeting. And you all are welcome to stay or not. But u we do appreciate you coming. Thank you all. [Music] Now reality ex Okay. Okay. Well, that was that was really uh great presentations and great re a great reflection on Campbell County Public Schools. Uh do we have anybody that has to speak tonight? Nobody. Okay. All right. Well, then we will start with uh approval of the March 24th meeting minutes. I'll ask for a motion. Chairman, I reviewed the minutes and I'll make a motion to approve. Second. Have a motion and a second. Any
043questions or um comments on the minutes? All in favor, please indicate by saying I. I. Any opposed? All right. Payment of the bills. Mr. Chairman, I have reviewed the bills and make a motion to approve as presented. Motion second and a second. Any comments or questions on the bills? All in favor of payment, indicate by saying I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. All right. Our action items, acceptance of donations. Mlanahan, tonight you have a list of donations for approval. Unless you have any questions on those, I ask you approve them as presented. Ask for a motion. Motion to approve. Second. A motion and a second. Any questions or comments? All in favor, please indicate by saying I. I. Any opposed. Motion carries. Non-resident tuition. Mahan. Tonight you have a list of students for approval as
044out of county tuition students. Unless you have any questions, I ask that you approve them as presented. Have any questions? I'll ask for a motion. Motion to approve. Second. Did we get that? Okay. All in favor, please indicate by saying I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Supplemental appropriations. Tonight you have a list of appropriations for approval. Uh 10 of them and if you have any questions I'll be happy to answer them. Otherwise I ask that you approve them as presented. I ask for a motion. Motion. Second. We have a motion and a second. Any questions for Mahan? All in favor please indicate by saying I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Dr. Dr. Wilson. Good evening, Mr. Chairman, Dr. Stanley, board members. Tonight, I have one request for release from compulsory attendance and two for religious
045exemption. Um, if you don't have any questions, I would recommend we approve them as presented. I have a question on the first one. Yes, sir. So, this student was in a homeschool program and then Dr. Stanley has to approve um so he can get his basically high school equivalent. Yes sir. For him to move to the high school equivalency program they have to represent they have to present data that he completed the equivalent of a 12th grade education and so they do that through a variety of assessment data. So once they present that and we release him from compulsory attendance then he can enter into the high school equivalency program. Okay. So, so there's a form and there's there's notation that confirms it. Yes, sir. So, once we send them Yeah. they they present us
046with that uh data that he's completed the equivalent of 12th grade and then we give them the letter that will allow them to enter the other program. Okay. Because this we haven't really seen this. I think this is the second one this year, but it's not as not as often as some of the other requests. Yeah. Okay. was only 16. Yes, sir. And by by state code, they have to be at least 16 before they can even request for release from compulsory attendance. Do we need to vote on these separately or together? Together. Together. Okay. Any other questions for Dr. Wilson? Right. We'll ask for a motion then. Motion. Second. A motion and a second. Any other questions? All in favor, please indicate by saying I. I. Any opposed? Thank you very much. Sunley personnel
047report. Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you for making sure that those students um knew who I was. I did get to meet most of them at the career um day that the tech center put on a couple weeks ago. um and recognizing some of their faces, they would walk right up to my table as soon as they walked in because they already know they want to be teachers and that makes me really happy. We've got some really good wellspoken students and you've got some smart principles back there who are saying come see me in four years. So, good job. So, we're in good shape with the personnel report moving into next year still. Um so, if you have any questions, I can answer them. Otherwise, I'd ask that you approve it as written. I
048noticed we have a lot of experienced teachers. A good mix. Yes, we get That's good. Yes. A lot from surrounding places and then um if you notice the asterisks on there are our grads. So yeah, we have a good mix. That's great. All right. So any questions from the board? Was that Oh, bus drivers. Bus drivers. Sorry, we didn't hear that. 12 short fulltime part time. not getting any better. That's terrible. Thank you. We finished up a CDL class in midappril and we've got uh two of the three candidates currently have their learners which is accept that process and we're currently doing something we have not done before and growing your own folks interest. Good. Any other questions? Then I'll ask for a motion. Motion. Second. We have a motion and a second. All in
049favor, please indicate by saying I. I. Any opposed? Thank you, Miss H. Dr. Hail. Um, good evening again. Um, so before you tonight, this is first reading of policy. Um, these are minimal changes that you should be noticing that come from February updates, but also have to do with positions because many of them name a specific person whereas best practice is to name the position. So that way you don't have to update policy if we have a resignation which we are not intending by any means but that information will be readily accessible as it's supposed to be on our website. Um, so that is some of the changes that you'll see. Um I do want to draw your attention to one. This came from recommendation from our principles JN for student fees. Um so this
050is not a huge increase um but an increase from $30 to $40 for the student ID which allows them to attend athletic events. Um so that allows them to attend home events for their district. It's different when they go beyond that play. But then also an increase of $5 for parking. These fees had been the same for quite some time. We also added technology. Um we did not have computers listed because this was pre onetoone. Um so we do want to make sure that we are including which would be our practice any type of damaged um technology equipment. Um in particular a main item is often chargers um that can come up. Um so we did want that to to come for first reading in preparation for the new school year. Um but most of
051the updates are small minor changes. Um, but did want to make sure that we brought that to the board in April um for the first reading. And I'll be happy to answer any questions you might have. Um, yes, Dr. Hail, the only one that jumped out at me was um the red lining and I might have opened the wrong one, but the red lining of that we're removing the remediation recovery program. Correct. It is encompassed in our literacy plan now. So, whenever it's covered in another policy, it is deleted from something that's redundant. Great point. Thank you. Yes, absolutely. Any other questions? No. All right. So, we don't need a we don't need So, no action. We'll come back in May. And of course, if you have questions in the meantime, let me know. All
052right. Thank you. Okay. So, that's the end of our action items. We have an information item tonight. Um, and so this is some amendments and proposed new positions for for Campbell County to submit to the state uh legislative committee. And so we we don't need to act on it tonight, but um Miss Parker presented these. And so I would just encourage ne you know during the next month if you have any specific questions um to just give her a call and then next month we will um basically vote on them and decide if we want to put that forward to the state. Am I addressing this correctly? Um it's not the same as to the Virginia school board school board association. They give us it was an 89page list uh that they do every year.
053This is the first year I dove in, you know, after looking into it in the past, not knowing like I was ready, but it they encouraged every one of us individually to do this um and present it to our school board and then vote on anything. So, I there was a lot in there. I tried to focus on the things I thought were most important and um we did the proper formation of how we would submit it to VSBA for their lobbying committee to consider um some changes and then I did have one new position and I'll when we're done uh I'll hand you guys some of the backup literature for that new position that I'd like them to consider. Okay. and then that then the VSBA legislative committee will vet it and then that's
054some of that those are the things that the delegate votes on at our at the fall conference. So, so we will bring this up again um next month, but I would encourage everybody to review it and if they have any questions or um you know, give a call. Any questions right now? All right. All right, Dr. Stanley. Yep. First of all, I want to welcome everyone back from a a I hope you all had a wonderful spring break. Um, you know, now we get into that time of year where we've got two weeks of review, then we start testing, then we have awards, and then we have graduation, and it goes by about that fast. So, you know, this is an exciting time of year. We're thankful to be here, and uh, you know, wish
055our our administrators and teachers the best of luck in the next uh, month, you know, as we get through it. The only thing I've really got for you is a uh just a reminder, you may or may not remember, you've gotten an email prior to the break that notified you that we are up for a math textbook adoption for our secondary grades, um 6 through 12. And so what we've done is we put all of our resources online. Okay? I think all of this was included in the email that you got. Um but if you don't remember receiving it, you can go on our website and you can see the process and you can see um the three um sets of materials that we have there to choose from. All of the materials are on
056the state approved list and uh we hope to have a recommendation for you at our next meeting in May. But we encourage everybody to go on there, take a look at those resources and there's a feedback form and we certainly welcome all feedback. It's for all You said this is 6 through 12. This is 6 through 12. Correct. Correct. So, unless you have some questions about that and if you do, feel free to contact myself, contact Dr. Hail, and we'll be glad to answer that. And that's all I've got for you. All right. Well, anything anything on the budget? Anything? Still, we're still kind of in a holding pattern with the budget. The governor has not taken any action and I think he's got until May 2nd. Yes. Is that right? So hopefully at our
057next meeting we'll be able to have something set in stone and and feel confident about what we're doing. Okay. Thank you. All right. I think I'll start on my left. Miss Parker, any comments? Uh yes. Actually, I'm going to bug you guys a bunch today. Um the first one is a congratulations to the Brookville speech team. It used to be called forensics. I'm glad they cleared that up because I was always really confused as to what they did there. But they had a class three team state championship. Um they've been doing it since 1940s. I didn't realize that. And I've uh got a great list here. Lucy Donahghue, Sarah Beaker, Lucy Sloan, Emily Emanuel, Taylor Green, Jayla Wilder, Xavier Colbert. They won anything from fifth place to state champion. Um so they really knocked it
058out of the park. I want to give a personal congratulations to a Brookville alumni who's also my neighbor Jason Hunt. If anybody knew Chason when he was running track, he just went to he goes to University of Lynchburg. He's been breaking records. He just went to national division three and broke the 5K record by six seconds. U so pretty cool. Super excited for him. Um the teachers for tomorrow. Oh my gosh, incredible, right? I was crying if anybody didn't see. That was awesome. donations again were awesome. I did want to also um give hats off to everybody at CCPS admin and Rusber Middle for the southern region meeting. They did an incredible job. All the schools had students who um made um table centerpieces. I couldn't think of the word and they were beautiful but
059and we had students perform. It was a really great event. Um, I did want to mention I would love to encourage other members if they haven't taken these before, but I did a VSBA Zoom on Robert's rules specifically for school board. It was very enlightening and also an empowering the board for success was also fabulous. The tech center open house was also fabulous. Um, kids were excited. I met a lot of great employers. I try and go to tables where I haven't met the employers before and speak to the students. It was it was awesome. Um and then I had an incredible opportunity through schoolboard member alliance and I also recommend everybody join them. We went to DC two weeks ago to the victims of communism museum that I didn't even know existed and apparently
060Congress determined that there was a need for one back after Tianaan Square and it didn't happen until like last year. So it was awesome. I actually need some time to unpack it all. I mentioned to Dr. Stanley today, I was given a book on communism that's actually approved curriculum for 8th grade. The fourth grade and sixth grade should be out by the end of the year. It was an incredible experience um and they will come out to our schools um and do PDL or it can be used as it was incredible. So, I'll unpack that a little bit more and chat about that hopefully next meeting. We also got to go into um you know kind of like a little star struck moment into the federal department of education before it's closed. Um so we
061got to go in there and meet with the staff and actually got to meet Secretary McMahon. She was incredible. Um and I also have tons of notes there uh regarding you know funds and obviously no services are going to be cut. a lot of information on data collection and really re revisiting why we're doing why they're doing it and if it's necessary at the level to which they're doing it. So some really great stuff and I hope to be able to present you know share a little bit more about that with Dr. Stanley, Dr. Hail, my other board members between now and next month. But uh it was super busy month and it was great. So that's all I have for today. Thank you. Yeah, Mr. Jones. I got a I got a lot too
062and just bear with me because my note takingaking is ter terrible but I thought the spring forum was really really good at Russ Moon School. Compliments to you guys for putting it together. Um the three seminar sessions I went to were really really informative and interesting. And I think that the thing that struck me or hit me in the face as hard as anything did like really was Ammerst Mobile Lab for their CTE starting at third grade level. That that was amazing to me that they they are starting to introduce their kids to the career technical um subjects at the third grade level. And but I would like to hear I wish we had recorded all of the sessions so we could have seen them because there were there were a lot of good sessions
063and could only go to three but it was you know my hats off to you guys for pulling it off. Um the I got a lot like I said I got a lot. The career job fair at the technical center was great. I didn't come, but I know it was great because Maddie Kirkman, the news article you did on that was tremendous. It was really, really, really good. And reading it was just like me being here and, you know, being involved with it. And I know I know Miss Wilson, Mr. Hardy, I mean, if you could have crafted a news story, that was it. And and we really appreciate that. And and the story on the Brookville High School construction project, all that was really, really great. We appreciate it. Um, but the job fair,
064I mean that that's just great every year and we appreciate y'all's effort doing that. Um, also went to the fifth grade fifth to sixth grade orientation at Rushburg Middle School a couple weeks ago. Um, never been to one before, but where they bring all of the fifth graders from the feeder elementary schools to Rusber Middle School. Not the Rusber feeder schools bring them there and and it was really funny because all those kids were walking around in there and their parents and biggest majority had never been in the building before and it was like is this school going to swallow me up when I come in but my h I was so impressed with Miss Scott the guidance counselor and Miss Greenway branch they provided invaluable information and assurance that these kids wouldn't be swallowed
065up you know when they started in the middle school and that was that was reassuring not probably more to the parents than it was to the kids. Uh Miss Condiff, Miss Perman, and Miss Bennett and all the sixth grade teachers were there. And they have a program. I didn't know anything about it is called webb. It says where everybody belongs. And that was just it was really I think it gave a lot of comfort to the parents and the students just to be there. And they you could see them touring through the building. It's like look at this, look at this, look at this. So, it was really worthwhile. And then the fifth grade county chorus, I didn't go, but my wife videoed it for me. And it was I didn't go because I had
066to go to choir practice at church cuz they said I needed more practices in the morning listening to to the children singing. But but did anybody here go? I'm gonna get it. Was all of the fifth graders, the singing fifth graders from all of the elementary schools, whole district, county. They filled all of the stage up at Rusburg High School. And these music teachers, Amy Lee Ross from Al Vista, she was the director. She was the one actually conducting it. Miss Wilson from Tomahawk, Miss Carm CL Carmichael from Leville Road, Nicole Stevens from Yellow Branch, Jamie Rice from Rusburg Elementary, Joshua Farner from Brookne New Elementary School, and Yolanda Miller from CES. And those kids were really, really good. I mean, it was amazing to me watching it. I mean, I actually watched it twice.
067It was that good. So, my hats off to them. And it's really, really good to see that. Um, uh, glad to see Mr. Brandt came to our meeting and thankful for the Campbell County Education Foundation. The Rusber Middle School flower sale is Saturday morning. You get there early if you want to get something. And Concord Elementary School, Mr. Bennett said, not a lot going on. Getting ready for the so testing and getting ready for the fund run, which is a primary PTO fundraiser. And I think that's all I got. But that's that's all I got. Good. Thank you. Well, Brook High School was busy over spring break. Get the kids out and they can start knocking some things down. So, that made a big difference. Um, so the cafeteria is up and functioning. So, that's
068big news. The kids have been in there. Unfortunately, that the front steps aren't quite the main steps aren't quite there yet, but they're coming. Um, English Hall is done. The teachers are ecstatic to be back in their classrooms. Um, There's a lot of excitement and I think and that that kind of helps motivate I think and and kind of get the ball rolling to where that excitement to get one hallway done and moved back in that the teachers are more than willing to keep kind of that movement going. So that's exciting. Um there's a Brookville High School vendor fair for Aftergrad um on Saturday morning. So if you need to get some Mother's Day shopping done, I encourage you to go by and the vendor fair that they're hosting to support aftergrad. um attended the
069glow party with Leward Elementary School. Dr. Stanley was there. He got drugged um over to the elementary school um to enjoy the glow party. It was a wellrun event. I know it's probably our last turn. I think we heard a lot of other elementary schools that had them and it was Le Road's turn to have theirs night and it was exceptional. So, shout out to our organizers for that. And we also have a bubble fun run, first annual bubble fun run for our PTO as a fundraiser that we're excited about coming up this Friday. Um, I just want to recognize that April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month. Um, and so you'll see the pin wheels around at some of our schools, um, that took some pin wheels with extension. Um, but they also, you
070know, it's I don't think people always realize that our teachers and our administrators and our guidance counselors are oftent times the first round of defense when it comes to child abuse prevention. Um, that they're the ones that recognize that their signs are the ones that often hear from the students. um they notice things that people don't always notice every day is if you've had to make that phone call and I've made plenty to CPS in the past. Um it's not an easy thing to do. Um it's not easy as a teacher to report. It's not easy as an administrator to make those phone calls, but I think it's a a recognition for all of us that are in our schools that do that front line. Um so a shout out to administrators and our teachers
071that that take the time to pay attention and to be that first line of defense. This is fine. All right. Well, I just want to say welcome back from spring break. I hope everybody enjoyed their break and came back well rested and ready to go. We have six weeks left of schools to go. Um, thank you to the educational foundation and also fantastic presentation for the uh teachers for tomorrow program. It was encouraging and I'm so excited. And also, I can attest that kindergarteners will humble you really quick. Miss Fawn, why did you choose to wear your hair like that today? But it is a great privilege to be able to be part of a young person's life for such a great amount of time. Um, I don't know anyone that hasn't told me that
072one or two teachers changed their life. I don't think I've ever met anyone who hasn't had one or two teachers that have changed their life. So, it is a very very noble profession. All right. As always, there are a lot of end of the years coming up and look to look forward to. Um, the Friday before spring break, I was able to chaperone the Leville Road Elementary kindergarten field trip to Amazement Square. Excuse me. The kids had a blast and it was a joy to watch them experience new things together. Honestly, kudos to all the kindergarten teachers that colorcoded and stickered off the kids into groups and times. It was chaos, but there were multiple sets of eyes on our kids at all times, and it was impressive and exhausting. Uh the night before we
073took our family to the glow night at Le Road. It was quite an experience with a great turnout. Lots of fun and glowing activities to uh show off their classrooms, pizza, and snacks. There was a glow dance party at the end and the kids were exhausted by the end of the night, sweaty. Um, thank you to everyone at Lew Road who put that on. It was fantastic. And again, I'm echoing Karen and Ann today. Um, this Friday, the 25th, the Leville Road PTO is hosting a bubble fun run starting at 6 PM. There will be a quarter mile race, half mile race, and mile race. There will also be face painting, photo ops, Kona Ice, and games and prizes. The price is $10 per person, so come on out. May 1st is the Leville Road
074PTO Mr. Goodies fundraisers. So, be sure to head out to Mr. Goodies and let them know you were supporting Leville Road. And our school records keep being broken by our Brookville Bees track and field teams. Michaela Aulie set a new school record in the pole vault with a jump of 12 feet. Congratulations, Michaela. And Kayn Tucker set a new school record in the 200 meter with a time of 25.41 seconds. Congratulations, Kayn. And congratulations to the Brookville Winter Guard. They received a silver medal medal at the Atlantic Indoor Association Championships. And again, I'm echoing Ann over here. Congratulations to Brookville High School speech class three team state championships. What an accomplishment. Um, there are a lot of appreciation days that I missed in April. So, thank you to all of those that volunteer in our
075schools, our assistant principles, our library media specialist, and our par profofessionals. Think I got them. Good job. Yeah, I appreciate you sharing those. Mr. Phillips. Okay. I don't have a long list. Um, Dr. Shields, thank you for emailing me. you came back from spring break and saw an email from me. I'm sure that made your day. Um, but you sent me an email about all the activities going on at Northburg High School. Miss Cundiff sent me an email and then for the second time I left the emails at work, so that doesn't help me, Gary. Um, but I recall, um, let's see, Becky Booth was at the, uh, FBLA that was in a competition. Um, so, uh, kudos to those folks that went to that and competed. Um, and then you gave me a nice
076list of year-ending activities that I'll try to mark on the calendar, but thanks for your feedback there. And thanks to Miss Kundiff. I don't see her here tonight, but I appreciate the feedback even though I didn't bring it to the meeting. Um, um, thanks to the Campbell County Educational Foundation again for their continued outstanding efforts. and as the Rusber district um representative uh our donations list is pretty heavy for RHS this month. So thanks to all a lot of individual contributors as well. So thanks to those folks at Phillips Equipment down the road here made some nice donations to Russ High School. So uh thanks to the community for the continued support uh for our Campbell County education system. Um, congrats again to Josiah Monroe. I think he snuck out. Um, but yeah, great effort
077on his part to represent our county. Um, and Mr. Bennett, are you running in the race? Um, are you going to lead the kids? No. I know you have a storied running career, so uh sure if you're going to get out there or not. Um, and yeah, I think that's all I had tonight. So, Gary, uh, I don't get emails from our principal. They call me and tell me to come to the office just like high school. Um, I'd like to congratulate Hannah Bradner who received the Pamplon leadership award scholarship for $5,000. Neil Harter received the Grand P me award for $2,000 a year. Uh, we discussed this earlier. Conor Max received the National Coca-Cola scholarship out of I think thousands. Yeah. 20,000. 20,000. He got He got 20 grand out of that. Wow. Um,
078Connor was also selected to serve on a national youth advisory council. There were 21 individuals chosen running from ages 16 to 24 across the country. This council advises and supports the Y with emerging issues, opportunities, programs, and decision making. Also, the Y provided funds for a group of our aspiring political science students participate in the model general assembly. History teacher Megan Robinson led these students to Richmond where they were given an opportunity to prepare, present, research, and debate a number of bills in the state capital. I'd like to thank the wife for supporting the kids. Uh they also provide us with the pool for our swim team at no cost. Um big thank you out to Alista Police Department Chief Tommy Merrick for including the Al Vista combined school yearbook staff with the Alt Vista
079Police partnership that allows our students to work with police officers and local businesses and posting stickers reminding citizens of underage drinking laws. It's good they got involved with that. Um, debate team was West regional runup and will compete in the Super Nationals. Have we heard anything from Daryl Smith yet? When is that awarded? Daryl Smith, have we heard if he not? Yeah, that's um the career fair I thought was excellent. If you can't get a job here that day, something wrong. Um the regional meeting I heard a lot of complaints on our building. I mean thought how nice it was and well thought out and the people really like the wall from the older school. So that's all I have. Thank you. Um, so I went to the career fair and um, I've never been
080able to go to a lot of these things until this year since I've retired and it really made an impression on me. And Mrs. Wilson and Mr. Hardy, I just want to specifically recognize both of you for I I know it's a lot of work contacting all the um, people who wanted to attend and there's such a great selection of of, you know, employers in the region and um you know I thank them for being there but they were glad to be there and so I think it's a real asset for our our kids and our and our school system. So thank you so much for for all that hard work. C can I just say I had one comment from uh I think it was Jamerson that basically said that this job fair is
081rivals Virginia Tech. It's that good best in the area. So, congrat Thank you very much. Yeah. And so, um it's good to see Leon back and it was good for him to be here again. The foundation just constantly um exceeds our expectations and our and our kids truly do benefit from that that that we can really promote our CTE and and and really just minimal, you know, no cost to them. So, um, it's just a great program. Just Josiah, that's very exciting. The teachers for tomorrow, very exciting. I just love that enthusiasm. And I remember a few years ago, we we, you know, talking about how important it is to sort of grow our own and I just love seeing those asterisks by the our our employee, you know, when new employees. So, that's it
082really is great. um another month with no discipline issues. So that's great. Um we do have to um somebody elbow him please. Yeah. Yeah. Spring fever is going to be here but hopefully uh one one item that we have to bring up is you know as we talk about having student advisors on our board, Mr. Parker's expressed interest. I think for the remainder of this year, I'll join that committee and then next January as we transition, somebody else will have to pick it up. But um we'll try to get that ball rolling and get it organized so we can implement it next basically next year. Right. I'll email you tomorrow a date. Maybe May 15th is a possible date to meet with students. Okay. This year. All right. And see what your calendars look like.
083Good. Thank you. And then um I'm not going to put the administrators on the uh I'm not um ask them to speak tonight, but um Mr. Harrison shared with me that um kids were excited to get back. He has noted that um attendance is better. Maybe all those winter viruses and respiratory illnesses have subsided and kids are excited to be back to school and want to be back. So, I'm really glad about attendance. That's always it's an issue everywhere, but um seems to be a bigger issue at Brook Neil. So, I'm really proud that it's What did you share? It's at 12%. Yeah. So, that's great. Really, really good. Good job. And um we're excited about getting that site prep for that new um uh modular that we're going to get in there. We're going
084to talk about that some more, but um hopefully that ball will be rolling. Mr. Cartwright shared with me that um that they're reestablishing the student council association for the upcoming school year. This is the first time since um COVID that we've had a functioning uh student council. And so our students are eager to take on leadership roles and help shape the culture and spirit of the school. A group of our student leaders volunteered at Brookne Elementary to help with their Easter egg hunt and it was a great opportunity for the students to give back to the community and to connect with the younger kids. And William Campbell held their second blood drive of the year with the Red Cross. Participation from students and staff was strong once again and we're proud of the difference our
085school community is making. And he wanted to thank the maintenance department. The school building received a much appreciated facelift with the repainting of the William Campbell sign. And three of our students, Dakota Sage, Kylie Cooper, and Seth Holly competed at the Future Business Leaders of America State Conference in Virginia in Reston. And we're proud of their hard work and representation. And then they're grateful to welcome members of both the Brookne Neil and Glattis Volunteer Fire Department to win Campbell. They visited to speak with students interested in becoming junior firefighters, sharing their experiences and equipment firsthand. And it was inspiring and informative visit for many of our students. Did I miss anything? No, sir. You you do a great email and I just keep it on my phone and so uh so I appreciate that. So,
086and I believe that um that's all I've got. So, anybody else? I got How many employees are with the career fair? The actual businesses there were 88 represented. That's amazing. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah, that's really good. I did see on the news last week where Delta Star, you know, we toured that place a year ago, they said they were going to have a couple expansions and and they're pulling it off. So, you're going to produce enough employers for them? I'm hoping to. I think we're going to try to take a technical center group out this this spring if we can to check out the new facility that they just finished. Okay, it's a big expansion, too. That's good. I'll ask mention that Miss Rosette Barner Wy is here tonight visiting us and she is our
087new 403b representative for value teachers for our employees. Wonderful. Well, welcome a former educator for County Public Schools. Wow. Yeah. Thank you for being here. Welcome. Yeah. Well, welcome. And anything we can do to help, just don't hesitate to reach out. It's a great You're you're going to be impressed. So, all right. I will ask for a motion to adjourn. Motion. Motion. All in favor? Close your laptops. Close your laptop. Actually, Delta Star, you guys. Delta