001March 19th meeting order. Madam clerk, please call role. >> Dr. Williams, >> present. >> Mr. Payne, Miss Walker, >> present. >> Miss Mclofflin, >> here. >> Miss Cunningham, >> here. >> Miss A >> here, >> Mr. Graves, >> here. Next, we'll move to item 1.3, the approval of the agenda. >> Mr. Chair, I would like to make a motion to amend the agenda to add 9.2 the superintendent evaluation calendar. >> Second >> motion made by Dr. Williams, second by Miss Avery to amend the agenda. Any discussion? Any discussion? Hearing none, madam clerk, please call for a vote. >> Miss Cunningham? Yes. Miss A? >> Yes. Dr. Williams, >> yes. >> Miss Mclofflin, >> yes. >> Miss Walker, >> yes. >> Mr. Grace, >> yes. Next, we'll have the moment of silence and a pledge of
002allegiance by Miss >> Mclofflin. To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Next, we'll move to item 2.1, approval of the minutes. These are the minutes from our Thursday, March 6, 2026 regular meeting. >> Mr. Chair, I move that we approve the minutes as presented. Second >> motion made by Miss Mclofflin and second by Miss Cunningham. And these are the minutes uh for the regular meeting as well as the work session. Any discussion? Any discussion? Hear none. Madam clerk, please call for a vote. >> Miss Averett, >> yes. >> Dr. Williams, >> yes. >> Miss Walker, >> yes. >> Miss Cunningham, >> yes. >> Miss Mclofflin, >> yes. >> Mr. Graves, >> yes. Next,
003we'll move to consent items. We'll approve both together. Uh, item 3.1, uh, school library month proclamation, and 3.2, child abuse prevention month. Bo, what's your pleasure? >> Mr. Mr. Chair, I move that we approve the proclamations as presented for school library month and for child abuse prevention month. >> Second. >> Motion made by Dr. Williams, second by Miss Avery. Any discussion on the motion? Any discussion? Hearing none, madam clerk, please call. >> Dr. Williams, >> yes. >> Miss Cunningham, >> yes. >> Miss Walker, >> yes. >> Miss Mclofflin, >> yes. >> Miss A, >> yes. >> Mr. Graves, >> yes. Next. Next, we will move to our recognition portion. And on this evening, um, we have a special recognition. So, we're going to throw off the agenda for just a second. And I'm going to
004ask if my my friends will come in and join me. Uh, they're coming. Dr. Harrison, close your mouth. They're coming. We we have our our region six superintendent here and they're going to join us at the podium. >> Good evening, sir. >> Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chairman, members of the school board. Um my name is uh Ken Nicely. I'm superintendent in Ronok County Public Schools and the chair of this year's selection committee for our region superintendent of the year. And I'm so pr proud and thankful to uh Steve Mayhew for superintendent in Pennsylvania County for helping me join on behalf of region six superintendent. We want to talk for a minute about your superintendent, Dr. Dr. Harris. So um uh first of all, just a little bit about region six. So region six is
005a pretty big area. It stretches all the way up from Alageney Highlands, Montgomery County, down through the Ronut Valley, you all the way down to Danville and Pennsylvania. So, this is a lot of folks coming together and each year we make a collective decision about who do we want to be our region superintendent of the year and also who do we want to represent our region for the Virginia Superintendent of the Year uh selection process. And so this year, our choice was your superintendent, Dr. Angela Harrison. So, And I know you have a lot on your agenda this evening, so I'll keep this short. But why Dr. Harrison? Well, she puts students and student learning first. She knows she can't do it alone. She pulls together leaders, principals, teachers, staff, families, and the community all
006together with a can do spirit and hard work. She leads people to believe and know that achieving success for all students is hard, complex work, but we can do hard things when we work together. Under her leadership and working together as a team, this year all Danville public schools are on track to success. Now, I don't care what state labels say because I'm not a big believer in the official labels, but what I do know is all uh schools in Danville are on track for success. And why do I know? because I know that all the teachers and all the staff in all of the schools are doing all the right things um on behalf of the students that they serve and u and they should be very proud I know you are of their
007accomplishments um their efforts that they're working together. So we brought some just real quickly some some balloons. I think I picked the right colors even I think I accidentally even wore the right color tie today. So and then we have just a little bag for her. Uh different products from across the region so you can sample those later. Uh it's kind of heavy. So uh but we're just so grateful to be Dr. Haristen's colleague and friend and we're g to take a moment here to celebrate her with you this evening. >> Thank you so much. Yes. And thank you again Dr. Nicely and and Mr. Mayhew for joining us here today to celebrate our superintendent, but also want to recognize Dr. Nicely because I think it's retirement >> and I want to congratulate you for
008that. Nearly 30 years in uh service and education. So, we do appreciate you and our neighbor uh Mr. Steven Mayhe over in Pennsylvania County. So, we'll take a picture. >> Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. He drove two hours. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Next, we'll move item 4.1, celebrating a milestone, 100 adult education graduates. And at this time, I'll turn it over to Dr. Harrison. Adult education is an important part of our school community. Um Dr. Harrison came to us I think was about four and a half years ago and um has been four and a half years and he assembled a dynamic team who cares about our community. We know that paths to success and getting that diploma varies for every individual. For some uh individuals, it's four years, some five, some
009six. And we actually have some students who are in their 40s and 50s still trying to work toward that diploma. And to go over, you have that nurturing, caring environment at all times. when we have our graduations. Everyone is so very proud. In fact, last evening, one of my students, I sent him over a little a little bit ago and um he graduated last night. He earned his uh GED so he can go on to D Community College, enter the workforce at a different level. So, the work is so powerful and when you see um them working with our students, it just it touches your heart. So, I want Dr. Harrison talk a little bit about his program and then we have a special recognition. >> Thank you Dr. Harrison. Uh to the chairman um
010school board members we just want to present a little bit of data um on our path to success. Um as uh Dr. Harrison already for stated started this work in 2021 about four and a half years ago. Um and since then we have as of last night um managed to graduate 102 students now. >> Um and and none of this is possible without uh the team that I have standing behind me. This is just a portion of them. But I couldn't do the work um without them. Um and I I owe a lot of the success of Adult Ed to them because they put the work in day in and day out. and if it was not for them, we would not be doing the things that we are doing. Um, so I just want
011to just close with this. We are not graduating students. We are we are changing lives and strengthening our community and we are excited about uh continuing the momentum moving forward. Um, and we just want to let you know that we're not done yet. We're committed to the work that's before us. So, thank you for just supporting us and and allowing us to serve the students. Thank you, Dr. Harrison, for the support that you provide. as well as your team at the district level. >> You know, recently we recognized a coach for winning 100 games. We did that again last fall, but we want to recognize you for your 100th graduate. So, you graduated two since we had this apprentice. So, we'll go with 100. And it says, uh, Dr. Antonio Harrison, um, coordinator to adult
012education and credit recovery in recognition of your outstanding leadership and dedication to adult education leading to the milestone of 100 adult education graduates from July 21 through March. Dan public school board and we certainly appreciate all that you all everyone does because they also offer serve safe um certification for local restaurants to ensure that employees who are working work safely as well. So, this is for you and your team. Thank you. >> Thank you so much. >> The whole team. Thank you. them. Another round of applause. Next, we'll move to item 4.2, recognition of Donovan Reeves. Donovan Reeds would come forward and I'll turn it over to Mr. Danaher. his family and coach Smith would join him. Look that way. >> Chairman Graves, Vice Chair Cunningham, members of the board, Dr. Harrison, thank you again
013for allowing us this opportunity to has accomplished something that is actually not easy to do in the sport of wrestling. Mmore Donovan has achieved some milestones that that are are truly if you know the sport of wrestling hard to achieve. He is a three-time state qualifier. Qualified as a fourth place finisher in our region in 2025. In the last two years, he was our region runner up. Um he has also um this past year finished sixth in the state, which is a place finisher in the state of Virginia. His overall record is 66 and 20 in three years. Um he is an attest he's a testament to coach Smith and uh coach Medlin and the hard work that they've put in in the wrestling room and the commitment that he's made to the sport of
014wrestling. Um he's also an outstanding football player, but this young man deserves a lot of credit for what he did in wrestling along with his parents and his brother uh who are with him today. I'm used to being like the tallest one. This is for you. And as you go into the next level, we want you to remember Daniel. If you become an NFL or wrest and perseverance and commitment to excellence have brought us pride to our school community and we're so delighted to have your brother, your mom and coach and dad here as supporters. We really appreciate you. Thank you so much. because it's a bigger group. Sorry. Let's give Donovan another round of applause. Next, we moved item 4.3, Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month, March 2026. I'll turn it over to Miss Trina Mclofflin
015and if Miss Mentor would come forward please. >> Proclamation Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month March 2026. Whereas developmental disabilities occur among all racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic groups. And whereas recent estimates in the United States show that about one in six children aged 3 through 17 have one or more de developmental disabilities. And whereas Virginiaians with de developmental disabilities contribute significantly to our schools, families, faith communities, and workforce. And whereas the Danville public schools is committed to a community-based system of support for individuals with with de developmental disabilities and is redesigning critical programs and services to promote inclusion and community integration. And whereas developmental disabilities awareness month is a time to recognize the Danville public schools efforts to achieve a culture of meaningful and full inclusion of individuals with de developmental disabilities in all facets of community
016life and to set forth its commitment to identify and remove barriers to inclusion for all Virginiaians. And whereas recognizing the abilities and contributions of people with developmental disabilities enriches our school community and signifies our commitment to equal opportunity, access, and rights for individuals with disabilities. Therefore, be it resolved that the school board of Danville public schools does hereby proclaim the month of March 2026 as developmental disabilities awareness month and encourages all students, staff, parents, and community members to acknowledge its observance. Adopted by Danville School Board on March 5th, 2026, signed Chair Taekwon Graves. Superintendent Dr. Angela Haristen. >> Good evening, Chairman Graves, Vice Chair Cunningham, Dr. Harist, members of the board. Each March, we recognize and bring awareness to developmental disabilities. Joining me this evening to help bring awareness is Rhonda Wright Simmers, principal of
017Grove Park and North Side Preschools. Miss Tiffany Younger, early childhood special education teacher at Grove Park Preschool. And we have our friend Mr. Tristan Acres with his mom Tiffany, but he decided to not come up front. Um, he is he's one of our students who participates in the programming offered at Grove Park Preschool. Within our school community, we celebrate diversity and inclusion. We recognize that true inclusion means focusing on our students strengths, not labels. We celebrate our inclusive schools and we recognize that Danville public schools ensures that all students have the opportunity to learn, participate, and succeed. As we work to bring awareness to the importance of ensuring that everyone belongs, activities such as reading stories or books about the contributions of individuals with disabilities, the kindness and friendship challenge for maybe you play a
018game with a friend or you create a buddy a buddy bench and you sit with someone that you usually do not sit with. Also along we have a pledge where students can pledge to be inclusive of everyone because everyone deserves a seat at the table. And we'd like to wrap our month up on March 31st by wear blue day. We wear blue in honor of the celebration of bringing awareness to developmental disabilities. So we hope to see you all wearing blue on March 31st. >> Special Olympics. >> Oh yes. And I'd like to do a Special Olympics announcement. We'll be offering Special Olympics for our students on April 13th at George Washington High School. We'll be on the football field. We're partnering with the Special Olympics Fleet Feet program. Um and Veronica Jennings out of
019um Fairfax, Virginia is helping us with that. And we have a rain day of April 20th as well. So, we're very excited about that activity and we just cannot wait to have all of our students there to celebrate. Next, we'll move to item 4.4, reading academic competition recognition. And at this time, I'll turn it over to Miss Agner, and Miss Ponty. Good evening to Chair Taan Graves, Vice Chair Casey Cunningham, Dr. Haristen, and the members of the board. It is truly an honor to stand before you tonight to celebrate excellence across our district. From January through March, our students engaged in a series of dynamic and rigorous district state district-wide competitions showcasing not only their academic skills but also their creativity, their confidence and perseverance. Our mission in Danville public schools is to raise student
020achievement, close achievement gaps, and empower students to take ownership of their learning. One of the key ways that we achieve this is by ensuring our competitions are challenging, standards aligned, and designed to enhance critical thinking and skill development for all participants. We would like to take this moment to extend our sincere gratitude to our school administrators and competition coaches whose guidance and support to help make these experiences meaningful and successful for our students. This year, we proudly recognized the outstanding achievements of 97 students and 53 teams who earned top honors in our district competitions. Their hard work, resilience, and pursuit of excellence truly showcased the strength and promise within our schools. These students didn't just compete, they rose to the challenge, demonstrated their skills, and represented their schools with pride. Thank you also to the
021students, families, and staff who joined us for the awards ceremony on last Wednesday evening. Your presence, your energy, and most importantly, your support made the event truly a celebration of our entire school community. At this time, we would like to acknowledge our reading champions. Let's hear it for the Reading Bowl champions. Activate STEM Academy Elementary and Middle. >> These students had to read lots of books and answer lots of questions. So, we appreciate them for competing in our reading bowl. Way to go. Activate our board members. Would you all come up and take a picture, please? >> Both of them. Yes, ma'am. Okay, thank you. Activate. Next, we have our district spelling bee winner, Mia Totten of Activate STEM Academy. We would also like to wish Mia all the best as she competes in the
022regional spell and be Principal Scott. Okay. Next we'll have um Miss Agnar and she's going to recognize our science competitors. Well, good evening everyone. Uh, it g gives me great pleasure anytime I get to come to the board to recognize our students. So, at this point, we'd like to recognize our science overall school winners. And for elementary this year, it is Arnett Hills Elementary. You know, mom and dad pictures. Congratulations. >> Our middle school winner this year is Westwood Middle School. >> And we actually break this one down into grade levels so that our other schools all have equal chances. But Westwood took sixth grade, seventh grade, and eighth grade. Good job. There we go. All right. One Our high school science competition winners, George Washington High School. We're now going to recognize our math
023winners. So, math overall school winners for elementary school elementary school. One more. Yes. >> Our middle school uh is seventh grade activate STEM Academy. >> Yes, ma'am. Back to Ready, two, one. Thank you. >> We went a little out of order because our sixth and eighth grade winners were OT Bonner Middle School. You want to tack on a whole and our high school team was Galileo Magnet High School. I do know they had several events this evening, so they may not have been able to join us. Last but not least is our history competition. So our overall school winners for history day for elementary once again Arnett Hills Elementary School. He smiles. >> For middle school, we once again recognize Activate STEM Academy. Come on. And last but not least, our high school winner was
024Galileo Magnet High School. And we would like to thank you for your support in our continued work with our competitions, the work of our students, our staff, and our team. And we appreciate you. Thank you. >> I spoke too soon. I apologize. Thank you. You got it. Three, two, one. Thank you all. >> Let's give them all another round of applause. And while we still have uh Miss Wright Simmers and and our special education department director, I just want to thank y'all for all y'all do, your educators. We appreciate your service. We thank you. But question, um how can we get involved in our Special Olympics? Because I know we need volunteers. So, so tell us how we can volunteer. We can help support our Special Olympics. Thank you so much for that. We are
025actually in the process of recruiting volunteers. So, you will be receiving some information and an opportunity to come out and volunteer. You may get to pick your station. We may volunteer you or we may volunt you, but there's definitely a lot that we can do. And we're also utilizing our partnerships with our um community foundation members and um receiving different donations so that way it's not only just a school event or a district event, but it's also a community event. >> Absolutely. Thank you. Let's give them another round of applause. Thank you. >> Next, we'll move to item 5.1. Public may address the board. Do we have any signed up? >> No, sir. All right. Next, we move to 6.1, accounts payable warrants. And at this time, I'll turn it over to Miss Gillis. Good
026evening, Chairman Graves, Vice Chair Cunningham, Superintendent Harrison, and members of the board. This evening, you have before you accounts payable warrant number 173 in the amount of 1,647,754.35. Warrant number 180 in the amount of $556,57145. number 185 in the amount of 2 million4 two,438,19722 and number 189 in the amount of 73,831.36 if anyone has any questions I'll be um or concerns I'd be happy to try to answer them >> any questions any questions concerns hear none thank you we'll move into superintendent's proposed budget >> thank Thank you. So, um I am pleased to present the superintendent's proposed operating budget for fiscal year 2627. Um the budget represents our continued commitment to the students, staff, and families of Denver public schools. You should all have a copy of the budget before you. It's this lovely little
027book right here. Um I'm going to do the clicker tonight. So I begin this presentation with celebrating the fruits of our labor that for the first time in over a decade all Denver public schools are fully accredited. This budget is designed to sustain this achievement by aligning our resources with a continued commitment to excellence. And so we built our budget on this foundation and the foundation is our vision which is excellence for all. Our mission which cultivates academic and social achievement and partnerships with families and the community and our mantra which is excellence for all, empowerment for everyone. We remain grounded in our core beliefs which include equitable access, datadriven results, environments that are positive, welcoming and supportive community collaboration and then celebrating our successes. This budget is built on the financial engine. This budget
028is the financial engine for our new strategic plan for 2026 2030 2031. We are focused on resources. We're focusing our resources on student proficiency, wellness, culture and clim and climate fiscal and operational management, family and and community partnerships and communication. For fiscal year 2627, our budget priorities are investing in our youth, highquality instructional materials, investing in our employees, and strengthening parent engagement. We'll now go into the to the funding. It's important to note that the timing of our the timing of our state funding. The governor's budget was released in December of 2025, and we are using that but that proposal to build our our current budget. The Virginia legislature adjourned on March 14th um of 2026 this past Saturday. However, they did not finalize a budget as of yet. They are um supposed to convene
029reconvene on April 23rd, 2026. And at that time, once we get our final figures from the state, we will adjust our budget at that point. So, let's compare our fiscal year 26 revenue to our fiscal year 27 proposed budget. So, the Commonwealth of Virginia, our budget is um is going to decline slightly to 71.9 million from the adopted budget. The city of Danville appropriation is proposing to go to increase by 2.9 to 35.4 million. Our federal grants taking us um are going to remain the same and our operating revenue um is going to go down slightly. Our total proposed budget overview is $116.3 million. Of that 8 million is um plus8 million for textbooks um 5.6 million for school nutrition for a total proposed budget of 122.7 million inclusive of textbooks and school nutrition funds.
030So our proposed operating revenue like we said before um the becoming division is 71.9 which represents 62% of our budget. that is our main um source of revenue. Another large chunk of our revenue obviously comes for the city of Danville appropriation. That's 30% of our operating budget and that includes the 2.9 million request requested increase. Federal grants equal about 8 million and then another um 1 million from other revenue. Our proposed operating expenses by function as you can see 70 over 70% of our budget is go goes towards instructional services where it should be. Then the other 30% goes towards operations and maintenance, attendance, admin and health, transportation and technology. So our budget is ma basically composed of our human capital. Our budget is 84% human capital which is includes salaries and benefits. The remaining
03116% of our budget goes towards contracted services, supplies and materials, and other charges. Our city of Danville request is broken down as follows. 2.4 million is for investing in our employees, and that includes a 2% salary increase, which is the match for the state proposed 2% salary increase for our um local match for our SOQ and nonSOQ funded positions. We also asked for funds for um certain classified positions to complete our um compensation market study increases. There's a 2% bonus um that was part of the state the part of the governor's budget that we're asking for the um nonoq and local match as well as a 7% health insurance premium increase. In addition, we're requesting $500,000 for meaningful engagement and that is to um for remediation and for for kids in need. Here's this um
032trend of our enrollment. As you can see, our enrollment is declining slightly year-over-year. Um our annual enrollment for this year was 5,473 students and that was inclusive that was as of the fall SRC report. And that was inclusive of our prek students. And our enrollment um trends allow us to scale our operations and staffing level up appropriately to meet those needs. So, the calendar of our next steps are we have a um public hearing on April 2nd. We will approve our budget um on April 16th. On May 5th, the city council has a public hearing on our school budget. And on May 19th, the city council will adopt a resolution approving the school budget. And once again, I like to say to the students, families, community, and staff of Denver public schools, thank you for
033your continued partnership. And we would still want to repeat our mantra once again. Excellence for all, empowerment of everyone. Are there any questions? >> Any questions? Any questions? >> I do have a question. >> Um, and maybe that could I can request this later, but I'm just curious about how many SOQ positions we currently have. >> That will be in our book. We will be having a budget work session um at our next work session. So, we can go but that is in the book. It's on table page on. Hold on one second. You go to our finance section. We have approximately in our budget um in the general fund, 114 positions. Those are the total budgets, the total positions we have in our operating budget. Are there any other questions? >> Just a comment.
034I just want to thank you and your team for the hard work you put in uh for this budget process. Uh for those that weren't uh able to join us at the city council meeting, it's always good to hear that, you know, education is their number one priority. Um and we appreciate that partnership, that relationship with our council to continue this work to make sure that we have everything that we need for our staff and students. So again, thank you for this. Um, again, this is a process that we we always look forward to doing, but it's always a challenging piece. Um, so again, thank you for for your work and your team's work. So, please share that. Thank you. >> Next, we'll move to item 7.1, OST leadership lab update. and I will turn
035it over to Dr. Babalola. >> Good evening, Chairman Graves, Vice Chair Cunningham, board members, and Dr. Harrison. We are here to provide an update on the out of school time leadership lab. This is a partnership with Suzanne Bale, who is the program director and senior program officer with the Danville Region Foundation. It's a partnership that we've had for a couple of years now. So, we thought it would be good to provide an update to y'all to you all about the entire program and the different cohorts and an overview of the program and how it has impacted our work inside of Danville public schools. So, today I have Suzanne Bale. I also have Katia Green. She was one of the cohort members and also Sher Hicks. She was also a cohort member. So, I'm going to
036turn it over to Miss Bale. Backwards this way. Oh, yeah. Okay. Thank you. So I'm going to provide a brief overview if you would like a deeper dive in your folder is this document that's a case study of how the out of school time leadership lab came to be and then tucked in it I believe yes no oh I apologize coming to you now um uh is a doc uh the case study and then this one pager a promotional material but it'll give you a good sense of what lab is. So, the out of school time leadership lab is a multimonth experience focused on strengthening practice. Um, it's grounded in a really simple but fairly complex idea that quality improves when leaders have the tools to observe, assess, and strengthen their programs. practical it's applied
037and it's rooted what happens every day during the out of school time hours. So these are hours when school isn't inically after school summer learning programs sometimes before school programs as well. Well I mean to say before school programs um are a bit more rare than after school programs but they certainly uh fit the bill. So how does it create impact? The outcomes that the Danville Regional Foundation cares about are economic transformation and the education pipeline is a key element of that as you all know as leaders in this space. And when we think about the education pipeline of course about what happens during the school hours, we also have to think about what happens in the hours when school isn't in session. So the outcomes that can practice academic uh strong academic performance, improved
038school attendance, approved improved behavior can be shaped by practice in the afterchool space. But those outcomes only come from quality. And so quality programs depend on leaders having the knowledge, skills, and capacity to create quality experiences. That's the throughine for the Danville Regional Foundation. If we want stronger outcomes, which we absolutely do, we have to invest in the people doing the work. So, how did this start? Um in the postcoid years which I know are far away but also near in our memory um we were hearing from community a real passion for improving um supports for children and families and there was a real growing interest in afterchool and summer programming. At the same time, there's recognition that putting kids in the basketball with a basketball in the gym was great, but we could do
039more and folks needed to be equipped with how to do more because there was a desire that we needed to have durable skills to deliver higher quality. Um so the opportunity was to close that gap and to support the leaders with um that set of opportun with that set of skills. So the leadership lab came out of that impulse that DRF was hearing from the community and that shared approach has been really central from the beginning. The foundation got the ball rolling because we released a request for a proposal from practitioners across the country to deliver um quality instruction but that consultant was chosen by the advisory board of the out of school time leadership lab. So, this timeline lays that out. It's been a really deliberative effort over time. You'll see um I mentioned
040that request for proposals released in January of 2023. Um convened the advisory committee a couple months later in March. The advisory committee reviewed all of the proposals. They selected the Smarter Learning Group as the consultant. The Smarter Learning Group met with the advisory committee and really had an experience of co-creation throughout 2023. um before applications opened up at the end of the year um in 2023 and then launching in 2024. So see 2024 is there in orange. We had our first cohort and so these two fantastic leaders were part of that cohort. Um wait no >> you were you were in cohort two. I stand corrected because we've got um a representation of both cohorts here. Um so first cohort in 2024 we learned some important things. We heard back from participants and from the
041advisory committee um to switch from rather a calendar year to a school year and tighten it up a little bit. We're like great that makes all the sense in the world. I just broke this. Um so from the first cohort fantastic thank you from the first cohort from the second cohort switched from >> I cannot be trusted with the clicker. Lovely. Um switched from a calendar year to a school year. Here are the organizations that are represented in the advisory committee. These are folks, you know, I acknowledge that it is no longer American National Bank. It's Atlantic Union. So, please make that correction in your mind. Um, but we've been really um fortunate to have leadership from Dr. Babalola as part of the advisory committee. So, this shared decision- making has been key to the
042co-construction of um the leadership lab. And if you'll flip forward one more, so this was the first cohort. you'll see names of your staff and then of staff throughout the Dan River regions. There were nine in the first cohort. Um note that these titles are as of completion date. Some folks have certainly transitioned to other roles. And then the second cohort doubled in size which is certainly speaks to the demand the I think the it's fair to say the good vibes and the the sense that there was something valuable to putting time into this learning experience so across the region. And with that, it's my pleasure to turn it over to Miss Green and Miss Hicks, and they're going to talk about what they learned and how they put it into practice and how it's
043making a difference in this system. Before I turn it over to them, Miss Bale did share all of the candidates, but I since we're at Danville Public Schools schoolboard meeting, I want to highlight the Danville Public Schools candidates that were a part of the program. So in 2024, Kim Agner, Sher Hicks, and Olivia McCar was a part of the first cohort, and they took their learnings to help expand our Saturday school back in when we did that, the Mars. So they took that learning to expand that. And then this cohort, we have Dr. Michelle Adams who was a part of the EC team, Katy Green who was in federal program, Stephanie Prunty who was a part of curriculum instruction, Hillary Simmons who is a part of the EL program, and Dr. Gwen Stone. And they
044have a project that they're working on. and Miss Green and Miss Hicks are going to talk a little bit more about that. >> Good evening. Thank you for the opportunity to highlight um some of the great learning that's come out of our participation in the OST lab um not only during the 2024 year but also during the 2025 year. So some of the highlights would definitely include the see the possible learning journey retreat. Um, initially, I'll be honest, when I was um tasked with um being a part of this cohort, I didn't know what to expect. Although my assistant director, Miss Sher Hicks, had participated before. Um, I was a little bit reluctant just because I didn't know what to expect and because it was going to be time away from the office as well.
045um but it was a much valued experience and so I understood exactly um the takeaways that she was able to bring to the table. So with the see the possible learning journey retreat um each cohort traveled to Greenville, North Carolina. If you're um familiar with um that area, you know that they've been very innovative with how they have restructured um their community as a whole. And a piece of that included their um afterchool programming. And so both cohorts had an opportunity to visit various sites um with different aspects of afterchool tutoring whether it might be mentoring or um taking an extension from your traditional afterchool programming for a little bit of a twist. Um also with our cohorts um it varied between an 8 to 10 month collaborative project which um Suzanne just mentioned. our
046cohort based on the feedback from the 2024 cohort um um extends a little bit of a longer amount of time so that we are able to we've been able to have a lot of more in-depth conversations. Um we can definitely see the intentionality as far as with this cohort this year as well. Some of our learning objectives have been to share well for them to present evidence-based strategies and for us to collaborate and to discuss those strategies as a group and to see how we can best implement those into our programmings. Um it also has improved collaboration and creating more partnerships. We have been able to partner for example with um the YMCA specifically with u Miss Hillary Simmons and our English learners. we were able to um have an afterchool partnership just this past
047year. Um we've also been able to just deepen networks and connections. There are lots of community resources through Miss Kathy Gore, for example, that we didn't even know existed within our community. And we've been able to as a um DPS team to talk about ways in which we can benefit from their resources, but also ways in which we can support um their initiatives as well. So that's been very eye opening. And then of course shifting the culture and mindset about afterchool and summer programs. So there are great takeaways about ways in which we could still focus on the academic pieces of afterchool um programming but to also bring some engaging activities to those as well based on the interest of our students but also the resources that are available within our community as well. and
048Miss Hicks will talk about things um how we were able to um observe some of those evidence-based strategies during our see the possible trips. >> Good evening. Um I wanted to just talk about this observation tool that we were introduced to um during the first cohort. We during the see the possible trip we saw a lot of interesting afterchool programs. Um but this particular tool is something that was a good takeaway for me. Um, as we observe um, our after-school remediation programs, um, a lot of these areas we pull from as far as the setting, the climate, um, student engagement, um, the type of activities they're doing, the materials, are they high quality instructional materials? Um, and also the relationships and the cognitive growth. Um, and some other things that are very interesting to me
049that I also pull from is just, you know, the student count, the staff count, um, what stands out for me in different classrooms that we visit um, when we're observing after school tutoring and what could be added or changed to these um, sessions to make them better and more effective. Um, and so I I do look at what tools or resources we might be able to provide to them that they maybe they don't already have um and being a part of the federal programs. That's something that we're really interested in doing and want to do um with our title one funding. And so um so that's something that um was really interesting to me and I I have used the data that I got from this really um quite often. And so, um, Suzanne mentioned
050a lot about high impact and so we wanted to definitely highlight our learnings and, um, high impact that we've been able to take away from our participation in our out of school time cohorts and that would include increased Saturday school and after school tutoring opportunities. Um we have definitely increased the opportunities by which our schools have been able to provide afterchool programming for for our students um through both Saturday school and after school. We also incorporated a playbook which is um an easy reference for our administrators about best practices for implementation of their afterchool programming. And as Miss Hicks mentioned, when she goes out and observes our after-school sites, she use a rubric um to um provide feedback to our administrators, but also our site coordinators about student engagement, class size ratio, for example, and
051then just providing feedback to the um tutors as well as ways in which we can improve um I'm sorry, instruction during those afterchool site visits. observation and monitoring tools. As I just mentioned before, one of the biggest takeaways has also been cross-dep departmental collaboration to maximize impact. We've been able to identify funding sources to support more enrichment and innovative learning opportunities. For example, we've collaborated quite extensively even during last summer with CTE as well as our LEAP coordinator um as well as Miss Agnar to find ways to maximize funding opportunities for our summer enrichment camps for example, but also enrichment activities such as book clubs and robotics um for our afterchool programming. We've also um for the 2526 school year, which we're most excited about is we're going to and which is part of our
052project for 2526, we're going to have our first ever English learner summer program and partnership with some of our OST community or um partners that we've um been working with this current year. And so we are very excited about that. We will focus on our WEDA standards of listening, speaking, reading, and writing. But we will incorporate that through enrichment activities for our students. So although we will focus on the academics, we're also going to focus on those enrichment pieces through robotics which incorporates CTE as well as those corecurricular um aspects as well. And then we're going to pull in some title one pieces through family engagement. We're going to offer some workshops for those families as well. So we're extremely um excited about that piece um and that key takeaway. and we're more than happy
053to answer any questions that you might have. >> Any questions? Any questions? Miss Walker. >> Thank you all for that presentation. Just two questions probably or anyone. Miss Bale, this is an awesome program. How do you all um pick your participants? And also, is there a limit of how many participants you can have each cohort? >> Great question. I'm going to take the second one first and then I'll loop back. Um it needs to our sense is that it shouldn't be kind of like too big. Um part of that certainly is cost, but the other part is that we want to have some relationship building. And so I think I think I had budgeted honestly for 15 in the second cohort and then was kind of like we've got 18 great candidates. We're a foundation.
054Perhaps we can scrunch up some money for three more. So, it's a bit of an imperfect science, but the the ballpark that the committee kind of set out was around 15. Um, to your first question, how does the how does the application process work? The advisory committee created the application process for the first cohort and we didn't change it for the second one because we felt like it worked well. Um and then based on availability and time, the advisory committee made the choices of who they would recommend. Um there was like a rubric, they ranked it, I compiled it, and then we had a conversation and through that there was some consensus around it. So long story short, it was very community driven. Did that answer your question? >> DA, thank you. >> Sure. >>
055Yeah, Dr. Williams. >> First, thank you all so much. Uh we hear it constantly the kids are saying there's nothing to do or there's no activities for us. So, thank you for putting in this work. Um, kind of a two-part question. What sorts of activities are we looking to do for our youth? And then how are we going to address uh inequities like transportation, things like that for kids who may not have availability for that? >> Um, I'm so sorry I lost your first question. Say it again for me, Dr. Williams. What type of activities are there for them to do? >> What type of activities? >> I from my seat as I hear I hear noise behind me. So I'll let them take care of that, but I'm going to answer it from my
056seat at the foundation. Um I can speak to what I hear from community, but I am not the most wellpositioned person for a program to decide the activities that they offer. And so the aspiration from this is to create a stronger ecosystem around the out of school time so that folks can sharpen the questions they ask of themselves in their practice create more interstitial connection among um the region of the out of school time practitioners and to that end um we've also supported um Kathy Gore with the United Way. Cafe stood up starting in September the out of school time network because when the first cohort completed, keep me honest here, they were like, "Suzanne, you're going to create an alumni network." And I was like, I I wasn't aware that that was something I
057was going to do. But as I reflected on it, that impulse to stay connected was critical for those nine folks, but it really it nine people wasn't going to be enough. And so that then it made me think, oh, we need a network for all of the practitioners in the region to come together and to share and to learn and to grow. Um, so Kathy's done a great job with that. Since launching nine months ago, the out of school time network is absolutely punching above its weight. And your second question, which I have also now forgotten, funding for transportation and whatnot. Um, I'm well aware as someone who sits in a philanthropic space that ecosystems require resources and it's foremost on my agenda for this year to figure out how to address that. Thank you.
058>> Did you want to speak to >> Yes. >> Um within Damble City Schools, transportation was one of the barriers that we was a we were able to eliminate because through our local funding, but also through title one, we are able to provide transportation for our families. And as far as the activities, um, one of the challenges that Miss Hicks and I wanted to make sure that we could, um, address was to still encourage remediation, but to also definitely encourage enrichment opportunities. And so, you would see those types of, um, opportunities at schools like Activate, for example, with their robotics um, after school programs. You might also see at Woodbury um, where they have book clubs for students to participate in. at um Bonner, they've had various types of um very creative clubs. Um I
059think one year it might have included something with comic books, but it just depends on the creativity of the actual um person that's interested in providing that after school support and we're able to support that especially through title one because we can always tie in um opportunities for reading and math across the curriculum. >> Any other questions? Any other questions? Thank you, Miss Bale. Let's give her a round of applause. I'd also like to recognize Miss Gore. Thank you for being here as well. Next, we'll move to item 7.2, business program spotlight. I'll turn it over to Dr. Barnes. Good evening, Chairman Graves, Vice Chair Cunningham, school board members, and then Dr. Haristen. Uh tonight's spotlight for CTE is the business pathway. The business pathway the strategic alignment is it's increase college and career readiness
060for all students is to increase workbased learning opportunities and the second initiative is to increase post-secondary readiness. Um for our business spotlight for the high school pathways we have two. First is marketing and second is jobs for Virginia graduates. And see, as you can see, for marketing in the ninth grade year, you can start taking classes for marketing exploration. In the 10th grade, you can start taking sports and entertainment marketing. For the 11th grade, you can start taking entrepreneurship. And for the 12th grade, you can take um advanced entrepreneurship. And currently our enrollment are 80 students. For job for junior graduates, which we offer at GW and also at RISE, um they're for our atrisisk students. And currently, we have 25 students enrolled. Um for our impacted opportunities for our business pathways, there is three
061components. We have our workforce development, career exposure, community partnerships. within our workforce development and economic development. Students in marketing and entrepreneurship course can develop workforce ready skills through operating a studentrun t-shirt company which we have as the Eagle Press and is our school-based enterprise through the hands of experience product design, budgeting, marketing and sales. Students gain practical business skills that prepare them for careers in marketing, retail and entrepreneurship. And our second component which is the career exposure and student empowerment which students are introduced to careers in marketing, branding, retail management and small business ownership through real world operational experiences within that course. And then guest speakers project-based learning industry aligned practices help students understand wide range of opportunities available within the business and entrepreneurship fields. students currently participate in FBLA which is a studentrun organization
062and then for our third component which we have community partnerships and innovations. It's a school-based enterprise which is the Eagle Press collaborates with school organizations within the community and is designed to produce custom apparel and promotional items. These partnerships provide students with authentic client experiences while strengthening connections with the school, local business and broader community. And students have produced merchandise for the school districts. for example, the Harry Johnson classic and a lot of others. Are there any questions? >> Any questions? Any questions? >> Thank you, Dr. Barnes. >> Thank you. >> Next, we'll move to 8.1 public notice, April 2026. Thursday, April 2nd, 2026, 4 p.m. policy committee meeting here in the schoolboard meeting room. Thursday, April 2nd, 2026, 5:30 p.m. a regular meeting followed by a work session. Thursday, April 16, 2026, 4 PM
063Student Achievement and Accountability Committee meeting. Thursday, April 16, 2026, 5:30 p.m. regular board meeting. Wednesday, April 22nd, 2026 at 9:00 a.m., our 2026 VSBA governance training in Charlottesville, Virginia. Thursday, April 23rd, 2026, 400 pm governance committee meeting. Thursday, April 30 30th, 2026, 4 PM finance committee meeting. And April 3rd and April 6 through the 10th is spring break. Next, we'll move to item 9.1, school year 2627, academic calendar updates. And I'll turn it over to Miss Mcraw. >> Good evening, Chairman Graves, Vice Chair Cunningham, esteemed board members, and Dr. Haristen. I'm here to present um the school year 2627 academic calendar. Again, we need to um make some revisions due to um the Department of Elections updating the primary election date from um June 16th to August 4th. August 4th was our original approved start
064of school date for next school year. Um, and given that the majority of our schools are precinct voting locations, um, we don't feel like starting school on the same day as voting would be a very good idea. So, um, in your folders and on the screen, uh, you see our proposed revision, um, to maintain the 90day semester and the 180day school year, we propose to, uh, change October 12th from a teacher professional day to a full instructional day. Are there any questions? >> Any questions? Any questions? >> Dr. Williams. >> Thank you so much, Miss McCarth. So, what would be the first day of school then? >> Thank you, Dr. Williams. The first day of school would now be August 5th, one day later. Yes. >> Any others? Any others? This is an action item.
065>> Mr. Chair, I move that we move the first day of school. Second >> motion made by Dr. Williams, second by Miss Cunningham. Any discussion on the motion? Any discussion hearing? None. Madam clerk, please call for vote. >> Dr. Williams, >> yes. >> Miss Cunningham, >> yes. >> Miss Mclofflin, >> yes. >> Miss Avery, >> yes. >> Miss Walker, >> yes. >> Mr. Graves. >> Yes. Thank you. Next, we move to item 10.1, personnel recommendations. I'll turn it over to Miss Wimberly. >> I'm sorry, Miss Wimberly. Before you go, we have one in front of you. I failed to write down uh item 9.2, superintendent evaluation calendar. This is an action item. I'll turn it over to Miss Aver for clarification or any questions. Um I make a motion to approve the superintendent evaluation calendar
066as you have been presented. Um any questions? Any questions? Any questions? Motion's been made by Miss A. Need a second. >> I second the motion. >> Motion been made by Miss Aver, second by Dr. Williams. Any discussion? Any discussion on the motion? Any discussion? Hearing none, Madam Clerk, please call for a vote. >> Miss Aick, >> yes. >> Dr. Williams, >> yes. >> Miss Mclofflin, >> yes. Miss Cunningham. >> Yes. >> Miss Walker. >> Yes. >> Mr. Graves. >> Yes. >> Now 10.1 Personnel recommendations. >> Good evening, Chairman Graves, Vice Chair Cunningham, Dr. Harrison, and members of the board. You've been presented with personal recommendations for your review, consideration, and approval. I'm happy to answer any questions you may have. >> Any questions? Any questions? This is an action item. >> Mr. Chair, I move
067that we approve the recommendations as presented. >> Second. >> Motion made by Miss Mclofflin and second by Miss Walker. Any discussion on the motion? Any discussion? Hear none. Madam clerk, please call for a vote. >> Dr. Williams, >> yes. >> Miss Cunningham, >> yes. >> Miss Mclofflin, >> yes. >> Miss Avery, >> yes. >> Miss Walker, >> yes. >> Mr. Graves, >> yes. Thank you. Next, we'll move to 11.1 finance report. Turn over to Miss Gillis. >> Good evening. Once again, you have before you the revenue and expenditure statement for the month month ended February 28, 2026, as well as the textbook um revenue expense report and the school nutrition expense report. If anybody has any questions, I'd be happy to try to answer them. Any questions? Any questions? Any questions? This is an action
068item. >> Chair Grace, I move that we approve the report as uh presented. >> Second. >> Motion made by Dr. Williams, second by Miss Cunningham to approve the finance report. Any discussion on the motion? Any discussion hearing? None. Madam clerk, please call for a vote. >> Miss Avery? >> Yes. >> Dr. Williams? >> Yes. >> Miss Mclofflin? >> Yes. >> Miss Cunningham? >> Yes. Miss Walker. >> Yes. >> Mr. Graves. >> Yes. Thank you. Next, we'll move to item 12.1. Board request for information for future agenda items. >> Dr. Williams. >> Yes. If we can get an update on our capital projects, this where we're at with some of the improvements through our school. Any others? All right. We'll move to comments. 13.1 Superintendent. >> Thank you, Mr. Graves. I I tell you, I didn't
069have any comments, but I and I I went over to to GW today to watch their 53rd inspection. Um they did not have one last year because of some budget uh reductions, but this year was just amazing. They were uh rated on skills and knowledge, grooming, and drills. Now, we do have to teach our young men about grooming or shaving a little bit. you know, we're going to have to do some lessons over there, but they did a phenomenal job. They're up to 102 students and expecting 130 students last year. We have one student over there that scored a 98 on the ASVAP and has been or um offered $40,000 to go work on a nuclear submarine if he signs the papers. We have a couple of other students who have other offers um from
070from various um ROC uh programs at the college level. They're just doing amazing work. And sometimes we we get a little sidetracked and I appreciate all the patience for Monday with the bad weather. We get sidetracked a little bit and and become a little distracted. But anytime you become distracted and we lose our focus, why are we here? We forget that the answer to that question. just go see some of the great work going on with our students and principles and students. It was just an amazing amazing morning. Miss Hilton got to participate as well. So, thank you all so much to our George Washington High School Eagles and those um gentlemen over there for all the work they do with our children. Thank you so much. >> Thank you. City attorney. >> I don't
071have any comments. >> Call roll, please. >> Dr. Williams. >> Thank you. Good evening, everyone. I'll keep it short. Um first want to start again, Dr. Harrison. Thank you for all that you're doing for our district. Um kudos to you for your accolades. Um and just represent sure we're the best district possible for teaching and learning. Um to the other Dr. Haristston, I can't even say Dr. A. Haristen, Dr. Antonio Haristen. Uh kudos again to you for 100 graduates. Uh as someone who works in adult education, it's not easy. So kudos again for that. Uh to Miss Agner, Miss Prunter, um and the rest of the curriculum instruction team, kudos for the hard work that you all put with our academic compet uh competitions that we've had. I was devastated that I could not make
072it, but um thank you again for your hard work with that. Uh to DRF, thank you for your continued partnership to ensure that Damville's the best city to live and work and play. Um a big shout out again for the Special Olympics. If we can volunteer, parents, community members, help out for that. And uh as we come to close to the end of the school year, as testing season and um things approach, we just ask that you keep our students motivated, our teachers, make sure that we're providing the support for them and uh let's wrap up this uh semester. >> Miss Mclofflin, >> thank you. Um I was excited to see wrestling um Donovan Reeves being presented. Um he is an amazing young man, but that only speaks to his family. Um, I was following
073them since their oldest son, we called him Juju Russell. Um, and he went on to the military, but they're a phenomenal family and I'm glad to see um, he continues to progress in everything that he does. Um, Coach Smith, I know when we were fighting over space for practices, um, he worked with us, but he was retiring four years ago and he keep coming he keeps coming back feeding into these kids alongside coach Medlin. And so I just appreciate how they built that program and how those guys, even though they didn't make states, they took their time out. Coach Smith was there for his birthday. They took their time out to support Donovan. So, I think that's commendable. Sometimes, you know, we don't we're going to make it about us and they made it about
074their teammate. Um, I'm excited um that DPS continues to acknowledge academics um our academic teams and our competitions. That gives us our children um that heart to keep going because most of the time we're talking about football and basketball. Um, and so I'm glad that we we are truly taking time out to recognize academics. Um, and it's sometimes those kids that don't get the recognition. So I appreciate DPS for that. Um, Galileo um, had some successes in track um, this season and so kudos to them and their coaches. And parents are already looking for summer opportunities. Please. Um, I've been getting comments um from parents the last couple of weeks and so I'm looking forward to seeing what DPS has and anyone in the community um have any programs for our students, please um share
075it so that um all of our children can be occupied this summer. Thank you, >> Miss Aver. >> Yes, thank you. Um good evening again to everyone. Um just briefly, uh definitely want to commend adult ed. Um, in my work I do get to spend a lot of time at adult ed and just to see how they rally behind every single student, young or old, um, to make sure that they're successful is truly paying off and we saw we heard that tonight. Um, number two, want to thank um the out of school time group for coming in, Miss Bell, Dr. Babalova, Miss Green, Mrs. Hicks for all of their work. Um, as you see, Danville Public Schools is doing a phenomenal job in school during school time. And to be able to get a group
076together to mirror to work to mirror that outside of school time, I think is amazing. It just goes to show how special Danville is. All of the collaboration to make sure that our students, families, and the entire community is successful. So, thank you all again for that work. Miss Walker, >> good evening again. Um, just as a little ditto on what you all said, um, thank you again to our adult education for, um, pretty much allowing purpose-driven programs for our adults. Um, congrats also to Mr. Donovan Reeves for his commitment to excellence. And then again, thank you for DPS for recognizing and having a monthly recognization of celebrating developmental um disabilities. And by way of announcements, um so Wilkinson Company is actually having a special Easter eggs um hunt. Um the community and all of
077the students are invited to it. It is Sunday, March the 28th from 3:00 to 5:00. It is at Aason's Farm. So, you know, that is a humongous yard. So, um they're asking whether it rain or shine, they're going to have it and there will be refreshments, a photo booth, and arts and crafts. Thank you, >> Franklin. >> Um, real quick, um, I guess I would like to acknowledge is the OST leadership lab. Um, just being in like some leadership opportunities in high school, I can already tell that some people aren't suited to be leaders, some are, but almost everyone wants to be one. So, having a program that specializ in that is really helpful, not only for students, but also for adults. That's all. >> Thank you, Miss Cunningham. >> Good evening. Um, I'm going
078to take my cue from Mr. Tyrell Payne in his absence. Um, while he's preparing for the VSBA Southern Region meeting, which we're having next week on the 25th at George Washington High School, um, he normally preaches a sermon in his comments, so I'm going to try to do what I can. Um, just this evening alone, um, I'm going to take two phrases that I heard from Dr. nicely and from Miss Mentor and I'm going to put it together and combined what it says is we're putting our students and students learning first while focusing on our students strengths and not their labels. And I'm going let it sit for a little bit so it can marinate. I'm going say it again. We're putting our students and our students learning first while focusing on our students strengths
079and not their labels. Um I'll not to be redundant but I'll shout out Mr. Antonio Harrison with adult education. Um just alone today if you follow them on social media they've been able to announce several certifications with Serve Safe. They've been able to announce GED. Um just congratulating them. Um sometimes we focus on the path alone and we don't focus on the outcome. Um we however it can happen the pivot of the path um the the circumstances the environment we focus so much on that and we don't focus on where they ended up. And that's what I want to say to Mr. Antonio Harrison. That's what they're doing. They're not focusing on the path. They're focusing on the outcome. I want to say that contributes to the collaboration, the partnership with Danville Public Schools. Not
080only are we focusing on our youth, not only are we focusing on our students, but we're focusing on families in its entirety. And I don't want the people I don't want the community and the citizens to miss that. Um, we we talk a lot um throughout our schoolboard meetings on K through 12. Um, but I'm glad that he was able to be here today to mention the number and it wasn't one 100. He actually mentioned today it was 102 graduates that they actually had. Um, so I definitely want to highlight that. Um, I've already mentioned the VSBA um, Southern Region meeting next week. Um, report cards went home on today if I'm not mistaken. So again, shout out to all students who continue to strive and do their absolute best. That's all that we can
081ask for is for you for our students to do their best as well as thank you to the staff um and the teachers that are there to support them. Um I am going to plug my own child because she is on the principal's list. Okay. So so congratulations to her. Uh Miss Mentor, I will see you next month at Special Olympics. And Principal Scott, I will see you in the morning for your award ceremony. Thank you all for what you do. >> Mr. Graves, >> good evening again. What a great day. Um I was talking to um our student representative Franklin and I said, "Man, how is your grades? You know, how's school going?" And he said, "You know, I'm I'm in the top of my class." And he just walked off and he threw
082his shoulders up. So that's good to hear. We have some phenomenal students and you heard that tonight. Um all the student recognitions, uh that's amazing. When uh we first started, me and Dr. Harrison, one of the things that we put on the table is we must uh recognize our students. every meeting we should hear something about our students and our staff. So, it's great that that that train is continuing to go. Um, I would I would like to thank Dr. Nicely and Mr. Steven Mayhew uh for coming to recognize our superintendent of the year. Um, and hopefully our state superintendent here soon. So, we're going to go ahead and So, thank you again and Dr. Harrison, thank you for all your work and your team as well. I know Mr. Payne is somewhere tuning in
083in Charlottesville. So, he's not here, but he's in Charlottesville still doing the work of the board. He's working on behalf of the uh the Southern Region. So, again, thank you for that service. Um Dr. Antonio Harrison, it was amazing to hear 102 students. Um the numbers prior to him getting here, his arrival was very low. And I mean, first year, as soon as he jumped in, the numbers just skyrocketed. And it's just amazing to see the work that's going on right on uh North Main Street. So, great things are happening. Great things are happening there. Um, and again, I think uh Mr. Cunningham has already stated, but our Southern Region Conference is next week on the 25th starting at 5:00 pm. >> 4:30 p.m. I'll be a little late. 4:30 p.m. But again, we're going
084to have a treat. We're going to have a guest speaker, uh, Dr. Jeffrey Smith, our Secretary of Education. So, if you can, um, if you have that opportunity, please join us at George Washington High School for that. um in April 13th, Special Olympics. Uh we're going to make sure that we attend, but I'm also going to challenge our our firefighter friends and our our police friends to see if they can show up and and work with our students. They're always looking for work, especially the fire department. Always looking for work. So, we're going to make sure that we invite them um as well. And lastly, I don't know if y'all paying attention to March Madness, but Duke won today. So, go Blue Devils. And with that being said, I'll move to 14.1 uh recess. We
085have a motion to recess. >> We don't have close. No close. Oh, y'all have an early night. With that being said, any further business? Any further business? What?