001I call the March 20th, 2025 meeting to order. Madam clerk, please call roll. Dr. Williams, present. Mr. Payne, Miss Walker, present. Dr. Silverman, Miss Cunningham, present. Here. here. Next, I'll move to item 1.3, the approval of the agenda. So moved. Second. Motion made by Dr. Williams. Second by Miss Cunningham. Any discussion? Any discussion? Hearing none, madam clerk, please call for vote. Dr. Williams, yes. Miss Walker, yes. Cunningham, yes. Yes. Yes. At this time, we'll stand for a moment of silence and pledge of allegiance. Pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Next, we'll move to item 2.1, the approval of the minutes. These are the minutes from March 6, 2025 regular
002board meeting and March 6, 2025 work session. So move. Second. Motion made by Dr. Williams, second by Miss Aver. Any discussion? Any discussion? Hearing none, madam clerk, please call for vote. Dr. Williams, yes. Miss Wner, yes. Miss Cuttingham. Yes. Yes. Yes. Next, we'll approve our consent items. Item 3.1, school library month, proclamation, and 3.2, child abuse prevention month. This is an action item. So move. Second. Motion made by Miss Aver, second by Dr. Williams. Any discussion? Any discussion? Hearing none, madam clerk, please call for a vote. Dr. Williams, yes. Walker, yes. Miss Cunningham, yes. Miss A. Yes. M. Yes. Next, we'll move to our recognition portion of the agenda. First, we have 4.1, Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month, March 2025. At this time, I'll call Miss Mentor, and I'll turn it over to Miss Walker. Good
003evening. Proclamation disability developmental disability awareness month. Whereas dis 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 developmental disabilities. And whereas Virginia's with developmental disabilities contribute significantly to our schools, family, faith communities, and workforce. And whereas the Danville public schools is committed to a community-based system of support for individuals with developmental disabilities and is redefining critical programs and services to promote inclusion and community integrations. And whereas developmental disability awareness month is a time to recognize the Danville public school's efforts to achieve a culture of meaningful and full inclusion of individuals with developmental disabilities in all facets of community life and to set forth his commitment to identify and remove barriers to
004inclusion for all Virginiaians and to where he is recognizing the abilities and the contributions of people with developmental disabilities. ities enriches our school community and signifies our commitment to equal opportunity, access, and right for individuals with disabilities. Therefore, be it resolved that the school board of Danville public schools does hereby proclaim the month of March 2025th as developmental disability awareness month and encourages all students, staff, parents, and communities to acknowledge this observation adopted by the Danville School Board on March 6, 2025. Mr. Tycoon Gray, school board chair, Dr. Angela Harrison, Superintendent. Thank you. Mr. Chairman, Miss Vice Chairman, Dr. Harrison, members of the board. Joining me are some of our early childhood special education students and staff. We have Orion joining us. Orion Pena, Aaya Wag staff, Canon Glaze, and then some of our staff
005members. Tracy Euing, one of our physical therapists, Sharon Light, one of our speech language pathologists. Rhonda Simmers, a principal of Grove Park in North Side. And on behalf of the students, family, and dedicated staff, we're honored to accept this proclamation recognizing March as developmental disabilities awareness month. This acknowledgment highlights the importance of inclusion, advocacy, and opportunity for our individuals and our children with developmental disabilities. In Danville City Schools, our early childhood special education program plays a vital role in laying the foundation for lifelong learning, growth, and success. Through individualized support and commitment to inclusive instruction, we empower our youngest learners to reach their potential. Thank you so much. Thank you. Yes. Yes. Absolutely. Next, we'll move to some academic recognitions and we'll call in all at the same time, but we'll start with history competition
006winners and move to math competition winners, then science. Welcome. Good evening, Chair Graves, Vice A, Vice Chair A, Dr. Haristen, and members of the board. Um, it is our pleasure to be with you once again to celebrate our students achievements. Um, our colleague, my colleagues, Dr. Kdogan, uh, Jack Fawn and I are excited to be here with you. And did you go to the next one? So, um, our mission here at Danville Public Schools is to raise our student achievement, to close our achievement gaps, and to empower students to take ownership over their learning. Um, one of the key ways that uh we achieve that is by ensuring that our competitions are challenging, they are standard aligned, and they are designed to enhance critical thinking and skill development for all of our students. During the
007months of January, February, and March, our district held uh fun, engaging competitions for our elementary, middle, and high school students. Collectively, we are proud to say that all of our competitors were very wellprepared, and they were eager to take home their first place. So, we thank you to our school administrators, our competition coaches, um for all of their support for our students. And now we will share our individual and our school winners. So we'll start with our individual history competition winners. So our students competed in the DPS history day competition and the national history day evening competition. So we'll start with our first place individual winners in her absence. Uh this was uh Jada Lee Fulton from Gibson Elementary. We will have [Applause] next we will have um Westwood Middle School Maya Jones in her
008absent and uh Nelli Feliz Aquino is here with [Applause] us. And then I'm sorry. Uhhuh. [Applause] And then we have for first place in his absence, Justice Fitzgerald from GW. [Applause] So, now we'll go to our overall winners. There we go. For our uh overall school winners for um our DPS history day, we'll first have Forest Hills. [Applause] Come on up. Do you want to go ahead and do these? You want to Okay. Yes, ma'am. Uhhuh. 3 2 1. [Applause] So Next, we'll have our overall winner for our National History Day competition, which is Gibson Elementary. [Applause] Y ready two biggest cheerleader. Next, we'll have Bonner Middle School for our National History Day and our DPS competition first place winners. [Applause] [Music] I know. All right. There you go. Ready? I think you got [Applause]
009Okay. All right. Next up, I will turn it over to Mr. Jack Fawn for math. Good evening. The third annual Danville Public Schools math competition was held on February 7th at the Institute for Advanced Learning and Research. 150 mathletes participated in this event. The competition goals are to stimulate enthusiasm and love for mathematics, develop mathematical flexibility and perseverance in solving problems, strengthen mathematical intuition, and foster creativity and ingenuity in mathematics. Students participated in the following competitive events. The 24 game, Show What You Know, Math Sprinter, and the Puzzler. We will recognize the individual winners at this time. Please come up when I call your name. Our elementary winners from grades four and five. Catala Brandom from Woodbury Hills, fourth grade. Jada Cheetum from Gibson, fourth grade. Jada Lipford, Activate, fifth grade. Sophie Muhammad, Gibson, fifth
010grade. and Delano Walton, Schoolfield, fifth grade. From grades 6 through 8, Cutler Payne from Bonner, sixth grade, Coraline Loots, Activate, sixth grade. Karina Patel, Bonner, seventh grade. Chelsea Alvarez Anne, Bonner, seventh grade. Aiden Hustep, Bonner, 8th grade. And Dominic Cruz, Westwood, 8th grade. From grades 9 through 12, Hassan Muhammadua from George Washington, 9th grade. Michaela Cassa Galileo, 9th grade. Raymond Gal, Galileo, 10th grade. Nelson Shoalter, Galileo, 10th grade. Benjamin Pearson, Galileo, 11th grade. Carter Wilson, Galileo, 11th grade. Eliana Schulz, Galileo, 12th grade. And Michael Mitchell, Galileo, 12th grade. [Music] Ready? Three, two, one. Perfect. Hold it. [Music] [Applause] Thank you. Now for our overall winners um for our elementary they won the overall cup and the cup is the Dr. Jones uh mathematicians cup named postumously for Dr. Octavius Jones who was the host of
011the first of our math competitions. So our overall winner they've already received the cup but tonight they take the banner home. Let's hear it for EA Gibson Elementary. [Applause] our window. Ready? Three, two, one. [Applause] Our next overall school winner, sixth grade academy, Math Activate Academy. [Applause] Back up about two feet. I think I got everybody in their windows. All right, ready? Three, two, one. [Applause] Thank you. Our overall school winner for middle school. Overall school winner, OT Bonner Middle School. [Applause] There we go. Ready? Three, two, one. [Applause] And our final winning school, the overall winner for high school mathematics, Galileo Magnet School. [Applause] I will now turn things over to Dr. Kdogan with the science winners. Thank you. Good evening everyone. As Mr. Fon said, I'm Dr. Kdogan and it is my pleasure
012to recognize the winners of the third annual DAL public schools science competition. Top score achieving individuals were the following. for third grade. Jeremiah Wix of Johnson, Gage Cheney, Gage Cheney of Activate, Elijah Reynolds, Elijah Reynolds of Park Avenue, Luke Deetsz of Activate for sixth grade. For seventh grade, please welcome Sariah Austin. And for eighth grade, Tasha Johnson for ninth grade, Sincere Oliver of Galileo. A four-way tie. For 10th grade, Raymond Gal and Eli Perry of Galileo, Garrett Eisner and Kaye O'Brien of GW. in 11th grade, Jackson Deetsz of GW. And finally, Sophia Marowitz of Galileo. [Applause] Yeah, you got the wrong He got He's alive. two one. [Applause] And now to recognize the overall winners by grade band. Please welcome Park Avenue Elementary School first place elementary winners. [Applause] Stay so you can see it.
013Yeah. Perfect. Y'all hold it tight. Hold it tight. Hold it tight. Everybody say cheese. Cheese. All right. Hold it. Hold it. Hold it tight. Oh god. [Applause] And now, please help me congratulate our sixth grade academy winners. Please welcome representatives of Activate Sixth Grade Academy. [Applause] [Music] Hello. All right. [Applause] And now our middle school winners. Please welcome OT Bonner Middle School. [Applause] There you go. All right. Ready? [Applause] And now we move to athletics. And so we'll ask GW High School to come forward. Mr. Danaher, huh? You got one clap. [Laughter] Uh, Chairman Graves, Vice Chair, um, Graves, sorry, sorry. Um, board members, Dr. Harrison, thank you for this opportunity as we uh honor our some of our winner athletes. Um Yep. Um I'm going to go through some some uh well, I'll start
014with with with uh our wrestler. Um this year, uh we have the pleasure of having a wrestler who finished 27 and four in his just his second year of wrestling. Understand that. Just his second year. Um he was the district champion this year. He was a region 4 D runner up and he is a two-time state qualifier. I present to you Donovan Reeves. [Applause] All right. Ready? Three, two, one. [Music] Thank you. [Music] And this is the youngest brother. The younger [Music] brother. All right. Ready? Three, two, one. [Applause] All right, moving on. We would now like to recognize our JV boys basketball team. This year, this year, uh, the Pedmont District brought back, uh, the JV championship, uh, game. We played a single game against Halifax. our boys were victorious and became the the
0152024-25 JV uh Piedmont champions. Coached by Tyrese Morrison, assisted by Coach Harrison. Y'all may have to great everybody. Congratulations. [Applause] And be before we get to the varsity boys, let me recognize some other uh uh accolades that we had at GW this year. Uh on the girls basketball side, we had two first team all Pedmont uh players, Joselyn Cobbs and Ya. We also had one second team. Uh Tasa Garland was second team and then two honorable mentions, Aaliyah Johnson and Jaden Smishell. Actually, our entire starting five on our girls team was recognized by the Pedmont district. Um Jocelyn was named second team all region for region 4D and a was an honorable mention for the all region team as well. And the girls were runner up in the Piedmont tournament. They were also region qualifiers
016this year uh and played in the first round of the region tournament. All right, on to our boys. Our boys this year, I'm going to run through the accolades before we get to the the the end of it. I better put these on because I'm going have trouble reading that paper. Quit laughing at me. All right, our varsity boys this year, they were the Pedmont regular season and tournament champions. finished second in the sub region uh the southern part of region 4D and ended up being semi-finalist uh played up in at EC Glass for a chance to move on in the state tournament. Our all tournament team this year all Pedmont team first team Kobe Morrison who was also the player of the year. Xavier Cobbs was first team as well as freshman Isaac Smith.
017We also had two honorable mentions on uh for the all Pedmont Lamman Lamasier Davis and Nehemiah Caval were honorable mentions. And we have the coach of the year, Demarcus Morrison. At the region level, we had two firstteamers, Kobe Morrison and Isaac Smith were both named first team all region. We had one second team, Xavier Cobbs. And I just found out this afternoon that Mr. Kobe Morrison was named class 4 all state second team. [Applause] All right. And on behalf we'd like to same thing. We got a plaque on on behalf behalf of your recognition. Okay. Have we got everybody? All right. I have everybody ready. to our board. Thank you all so much. Just one more. Bend your knees a little bit so you don't pass out. Okay. Good. Okay. And I will uh introduce
018the next speaker um on behalf of Galileo. Galileo had quite a bit of success this this winter. Uh Miss Ramsay couldn't be here and Mr. Smith is taking care of a newborn baby. But to represent and and introduce everybody is coach Mark Bryant who is the indoor track and field coach at Galileo. [Applause] Didn't exactly know I was going to be preparing remarks for tonight, but uh as as track team we're used to being first, not last. Um, so being last is a new experience for us this year, but but thank you for having us. I have with me tonight I have uh coach Lee Carter. Coach Lee Carter works with our throws and our strength and conditioning. And I also have coach Doran Rickettts in the back who I promised I wouldn't make him
019speak. Uh, so but if he wants to, he's welcome to come up here. I also have some members of our team. Uh, in the white shirt and black tie is James uh, Kemp and he is a sprinter for us. We have Thomas Hungerland in the blue shirt. He is our second place pole vulture uh in the state. We have Donovan Perez who also participated in the 1,00 meter run. We have Samaj Marshall who was a top five finisher in the the 55 meter hurdles. We have Luke Bryant. That's my son. And uh he was a relay specialist for us as well as a fourth place finisher in Pole Vault as a freshman. Right behind him is Danny Lou Oavo Garcia and she was part of our girls winning uh 4x800 meter relay team. And next
020we have Ava Garcia, a freshman who finished second in the thousand, also part of the 4x800 meter relay team. And Maya Hearnden in the stripes is our 3200 meter champion in the state of Virginia. And Daniel Roman is part of our boys 4x400 meter relay team. So we had a really great year and really excited year. As always, I'm as excited as what they do in the classroom as I am what they do on the athletic field. But uh it was really close. They It was not our state championship to lose because we weren't the favorite, but we almost went in there and took it. Uh we we lost by two points and um it came down to uh nine possible outcomes if we just needed one of them to go our way. And the
021closest of which was a boy in the 300 meter dash from the winning team beat our boy by 0.01 second. If if that is flipped, we are standing here as state champions today. Uh so but our team held their held their head high and they carried themselves with dignity and um they always car themselves just at the highest level and I have nothing but great things to say about them and I didn't mention our boys are 4x400 meter relay champions and uh as well and uh anybody want to add anything? Y'all come up with [Applause] Can we see Miss Conam again? Okay, thank you all so much. And um we're gonna have Maya. Maya, if you'll come up. She's no stranger. She was a cross country champ as well. She's a senior, so we better
022look out for collegiate level work and certainly the next step. So congratulations. Congratulations. [Applause] And then we have our members of our 4 by 800 class. They were state champions, you all. So the ladies come on up. Yes. [Applause] Thank you, Maya. All right. [Applause] I I mentioned the ones who were here, but I didn't mention the ones who are not here. I I also want to say that um Rayas Stamps was part of that 4x800 girls relay team. And TK Tony on our boys four uh our boys team scored 40.5 points at state and was named the class one MVP for the boys track. So very proud of him. Thank you. Next, I'll move to item 5.1, public hearing on the 2025 2026 proposed budget. At this time, I'll open the public hearing. Public
023hearing closed. Next, I'll move to item 6.1. This public may address the board. We have any signed up. Next, we'll move to item 7.1, accounts payable warrants. I'll turn it over to Miss Gillis. Good evening, Chairman Graves, uh, Vice Chair Aver, Superintendent Harrison, and members of the board. You have before you this evening accounts payable warrant number 175 in the amount of $572,71957. Accounts payable in warrant number 180 in the amount of $2,586,441.39 and accounts payable warrant number 185 in the amount of $576,4594. If anyone has any questions concerning these expenditures, I'd be happy to try to answer them. Any questions? Any questions? Thank you. Next, we'll move to item 8.1, graduation status report. I'll turn it over to Miss Harris. [Music] Chairman Graves, board members, Superintendent Haristen, I'd like to give you um some
024information on our graduation data. First, when we look at our strategic plan for alignment, we look it's goal number one, student achievement. Objective B, increase graduation rate for all students. And objective C, increase college and career readiness for all students. So looking at our data, so um as as today we have 350 that are expected graduates for this year. We have um um the next column I have those graduates of the 350 that need some so testing that continue to need so testing. And then next column we have um students that are attending night classes that are seniors or egeneuity. So we have two seniors that are attending the virtual night classes and 19 that are in egeneuity to get extra classes so they can be prepared for graduation. And then we have expected 15
025graduates that would be um expected in our summer graduation. And so if you add the 350 and the 15, so that was 365 that we have um currently expected for graduation. Our graduation information on May the 29th, we have Rise Academy and any students that are team GED or adult ed, they will graduate at the Glenwood campus at 6:30 at 6:00 p.m. On May the 30th, we have our two graduations. We have Galileo High School and that will be at the AIT North Campus at 900 a.m. And the same day, George Washington High School and the virtual academy, they will be they will graduate at AIT um University North Campus at 200 p.m. We also for those students that will be graduating in the summer, we also want to have them to participate in a
026graduation ceremony. And so we will have a graduation ceremony for those 15 graduates in the summer. Um that will be held on July the 24th and that will be at Bonner um middle school and that will be at 5:30 p.m. And so I just also noted on there um um next year our graduation ceremonies will be held at our um GW um facilities. So once those are completed, we can hold our graduations um on a DPS campus and so those will be held at GW. Do we have any questions? Any questions? Any questions? So just to make sure so the data in regards to the graduates that includes George Washington and Galileo with the 350. Did that include? Yes ma'am. George Washington and Virgil and I just wanted to make sure. Thank you. Thank you,
027Miss Harris. All right. Thank you. Next, we'll move to item 9.1, public notice, April 2025. Tuesday, April 1st, 2025, 5:30 p.m., operations of facilities and plannings committee meeting. Thursday, April 10th, 2025, 5:30 p.m. regular meeting, followed by a work session. Tuesday, April 15th, 2025, 5:30 p.m. Student Achievement Committee meeting. April 17, 2025, 4:30m finance committee meeting. And on Thursday, April 24th, 2025, 5:30 p.m. regular board meeting. Also, spring break for students, April 14th through the 17th, as well as Easter holiday, April 18th, as well as April 21st. Next, we'll move to item 10.1, personnel recommendations. At this time, I'll turn it over to Miss Wimbley. Good evening, Chairman Graves, Vice Chair Aid, Superintendent Harrison, and members of the board. You've been presented with the personnel recommendations for your review, consideration, and approval. I'm happy to
028answer any questions that you may have. Any questions? Any questions? This is an action item. So, move. Second. Motion made by Miss Avery, second by Miss Cunningham. Any discussion hearing? None. Madam clerk, please call for vote. Dr. Williams, yes. Miss Walker, yes. Miss Cunningham, yes. Miss, yes. Yes. Thank you. Next, we'll move to item 11.1, finance report. I'll turn it over to Miss Dis. Good evening. Once again, you have before you the uh the revenue and expenditure statement for the month of February month ending February 28, 2024. You also have the reappropriations report for carryover funds as well as the textbook funds and school nutrition funds. If anyone has any questions about the report, I'd be happy to try to answer them. Any questions? Any questions? This is an action item. So move. Second. Motion
029made by Dr. Williams, second by Miss Cunningham. Any discussion on the motion hearing? None. Madam clerk, please call for a vote. Dr. Williams, yes. Miss Walker, yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Thank you. Next, we'll move to item 12.1, school board norms and protocols. We've discussed these in our most recent uh retreat. They have been posted or will be posted to our school board website. Um, you've had an opportunity to review these. Now we need to approve them. So this is an action item. So move. I second. Motion made by Miss Cunningham, second by Dr. Williams. Any discussion? Hearing none. Madam clerk, please call for vote. Dr. Williams. Yes. Miss Walker. Yes. Miss Cunningham? Yes. Miss A? Yes. Yes. Next we'll move to item 13.1. recommendation for -ate category 2 mini bid. I'll turn it over to
030Mr. Cheney. Good evening, Chairman Graves, Vice Chair Avery, Dr. Harrison, uh board members, Denver public schools recently conducted the -ate funding year 2025 through 2026 category 2 mini bid using VA state master contracts requesting network equipment and services. One company responded to the mini bid and is able to meet requirements and specifications requested. I would like to recommend magnify and respectively ask for your approval. Uh I will be glad to ask any questions if you have any. Any questions for Mr. Cheney? Any questions? This is an action item. So move. Second. Motion made by Dr. Williams. Second by Miss Aver. Any discussion? Any discussion? Hearing none, madam clerk, please call for vote. Dr. Williams, yes. Miss Walker, yes. Yes. M. Yes. Yes. Thank you. Next, we'll move to item 14.1, board requests for information for
031future agenda items. Any probably just um Dr. Harrison, I had requested um for like the benchmark information for March. I just I didn't know if you all was gonna do it next month or it's scheduled. Which date do we schedule? I don't know. April 10th is scheduled. Thank you. Any others? Any others? All right. Next, we'll move to item 15.1. Superintendent. Thank you, Mr. Graves. First, I want to thank our city council, our mayor, and certainly our uh city manager, Ken Lin, for working so closely with our team um to submit a budget that really demonstrates an investment in education in the Damma public schools. Um the budget to me was just well presented and and certainly demonstrates a commitment to our children and I cannot um thank them enough. um just reviewing what's going
032on around the state and at the national level. It just feels really good to have um the not only support of the school board but also our elected officials at the another level. Also, um thank you to you all our board members for being patient with our recognitions. It's a lot. It takes a lot of time, but the coaches and the uh directors that come forward, the time that they put in the children, um they're so proud when they can come before you and demonstrate um their their hard work and they and you show appreciation. And Mr. Dana, thank you so much. I know you um work a lot over there at GW, Mr. Crest, on athletics. and then uh we'll bring them forward. But I I did want to uh again say thank you
033to Miss Griffin who's our orchestra teacher, Mr. Kesling, u Mr. Walker at Bonner, and Mr. McNair. Um their performances were at a superior rating. Um and Bonner actually scored the highest score possible in their assessments. So in the district assessments, they uh did very well. And the choir is this week. and Mr. Pervvis is is is just right there with them all the time coaching them and encouraging them. So, our kids um students just doing such a good job, a great job actually, and I thank everybody for taking time to recognize them and and demonstrate that that we appreciate their hard work. Thank you so much. Thank you, city attorney. I don't have any comments. Please call a role. Uh I just want to say a huge congratulations again to our historians. mathematicians, our scientists,
034our future artists, our athletes. Um, we're obviously doing great things in our schools. Um, I know that spring break's right around the corner. Uh, spring fever is probably running rampant to the hallways, but continue the great work. I'm proud of each and every one of you. Thank you again to our teachers, our coaches, our parents, and just our community for wrapping um the arms around our students. Um, just a little plug for the strategic plan this Saturday. Please come out. Make your voice heard for the um new strategic plan that's coming out. That'll be at GW. Yes, sir. not a.m. Breakfast is served. Yep. Yes. Good evening again. Kind of ditto on um what Mr. Williams just said. Congratulations again to all of our competition winners. Um it was just a blessing tonight to see
035all the schools that were rep um represented. Um, also just wanted to commend the district on the efforts of um, right now of of how um, as we said, all hands are in, how they are diligently working with students and staff and trying to get everything together um, in regards to the testing. And also um, special thank you um, to our recruitment team. I actually was looking at something on social media and I saw at one point they was doing a recruitment in Tennessee. So, I thank them for their efforts in trying to get us some more teachers and staff. Thank you. Okay. Good evening. Um, of course, again, I just want to say congratulations to all the recipients for all the awards and the recognitions that were received and given out um this evening.
036Um, again, I want to push the um strategic planning graphics that's happening on this upcoming Saturday. Um, I look forward to that as well as probably after that I'll be going down to the GW track meet that's happening that same Saturday at 10:00. Um, I want to give a personal shout out to my own daughter. Um, only because she um, she was very excited to come home and tell me about two days ago that she showed growth in her I Ready reading. And that was a wonderful moment for me because we have been working with her alongside Dr. Mr. Simmons alongside the school staff just to improve and I I know firsthand what all they are doing as a staff to improve reading scores, improving those math scores. So, I want to give her a
037special shout out, say thank you to all that they have done to help her. Um, yes. Um, good evening again everyone. Um I won't reiterate what has already been said. I will make it very simple and plain. Um whenever you are doubting or having a day that you're not feel like you're not doing a good job and this is to this staff and falcony from DPS. Um tonight we had an overflow of students being recognized. Um we almost didn't have enough room for everybody to sit. So, it's nights like this that will help make you remember why you do what you do and that you're doing a great job. So, keep it up everybody. Mr. Grace, I think Franklin and uh Allan Spencer are akin to each other with I want to do something a
038little different. Um I know often time we and I I preach that I want to recognize and ensure that we're recognizing students, but I want to do something a little different. And if you're an employee for the Danville public schools, if you would just stand for just a second. Marcus, if y'all would just come out for just a second. Yes. I just personally personally want to say thank you for your work. You should be proud to see these kids come up and be recognized. And it's because of you that they are recognized today. So again, I just want to say from the bottom of my heart, thank you for your work. This is just the beginning and the best is still yet to come. So let's give them a round. I would like to concur
039with Dr. Harrison in reference to our city council and the relationship that we have with them. I want to thank our city council as well as our city manager, Ken Lin, and their staff. I also want to thank uh Andrea Gillis and her staff uh for putting together an amazing budget. So, let's give her another round of applause. I'm sure that takes a lot of work. And Mr. Danaher, thank you for being here tonight. Um, you had an a lot of accolades to share with the with the great things that our athletic program is doing as well as our our academics. So, again, this is only the beginning of what's great to to happen. And Dr. Harrison, um, you know, you're only as good as your leader, so we cannot leave you out. So, we
040we thank you for your leadership and your your continued dedication. you will find her at a at a basketball game, a track meet, a wrestling match, you name it. So again, we do appreciate you and your staff. And I'll leave it at that. And thank you again, school board members, for the work that you do. That does not go unnoticed. And our lovely clerk, thank you again for that. So I've ran out of thank yous for tonight. So we going to move on. Um so next we will clarify uh any board requests. So, we have the benchmark um assessments that are coming in April, April 10th. Thank you. Computer back. And at this time, if we have any further business, any further business, we have a work session following this. At this time, meeting adjourned.
041Thank you.