001e e e now is 5:30 p.m and I call the Thursday February 27 2025 meeting to order Madam clerk please call a rooll Dr William pres Mr here walk pres Dr pres C here next we'll move to item 1.3 approval of the agenda this is an action item Mr chair I would like to amend the agenda to do a recognition on tonight I have a second second motion made by Mr Payne second by Miss Cunningham any discussion on the motion any discussion hearing none Madam clerk please call for vote M Pam yes Mr P yes Dr William yes Dr Silverman yes M Walker yes Mr Grace yes next we'll move to item 1.4 the moment of silence and Pledge of Allegiance and tonight we'll have a special uh moment of silence uh we lost in
002the past weeks two of our Educators one Mr Wayne tumer and Miss Judy Brown and I'm not trying to steal your thunder Dr Williams but I would like to have a special moment of silence prior to our Pledge of Allegiance and we all stand please Al 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 next we'll move to item 2.1 the approval of minutes these are the minutes from our February 13 2025 regular school board meeting and February 13th 2025 school board work session so Mo a second motion made by Mr Payne second by Dr Williams any discussion on the motion any discussion hear none Madam clerk please call Mr P yes Dr Williams yes M
003wer yes MH yes Mr yes next we move to consent items we'll approve all these together item 3.1 through 3.3 3.1 music in our schools month March 2025 youth art month March 2025 as well as Social Work month March 2025 do I have a motion motion to approve second motion made by Mr Pay second by Miss Cunningham any discussion on the motion hearing none Madam clerk please call for a vote Dr Williams yes Mr P yeser yes yes yes Mr yes next we'll move to recognitions 4.1 School Board clerk appreciation week February 17th through the 21st 2025 at this time I'll turn over missc cont Danville Public Schools Proclamation Virginia school board Association School Board clerk appreciation week February 17th through the 21st of 2025 whereas School Board clerks in each locality throughout our great
004Commonwealth are appointed by law to fulfill their duties and responsibilities and whereas School Board clerks are responsible for keeping accurate records of the meetings and proceedings of the school board a record of all receipts and dispersements and a record of all official acts and whereas School Board clerks perform such other duties in connection with the school business of her or his county or city as may be required by the school board and whereas School Board clerks maintain frequent contact with the public including parents employees and the media on behalf of the school board and superintendent and whereas Schoolboard clerks in performance of their duties are often required to work extra hours attending Schoolboard meetings and whereas Schoolboard clerks help to ensure students achieve their Highest Potential and provide as invaluable service for school board members
005and superintendent and now therefore the Virginia School Board Association board of directors do hereby recognize February 17 through the 21st of 20125 as school board clerk Appreciation Week in the Commonwealth of Virginia finally be it resolved that the Danville School Board joins the Virginia School Board Association in recognizing the many and variant contributions of school board clerks and its meeting on the 27th day of February adopted by the danille school board on February 13 2025 signed taquon Graves chair Dr Angela Harrison superintendent let's give our clerk a round of applause I would also like to recognize her family who's here if you would stand and be recognized her family is here our Schoolboard clerk Miss Miss Bad Jones let's give their Miss Jones you know how much we appreciate you um you you make everything
006work for us and the board is very appreciative everything you do so continue to be great we know you will and the best is still yet to come for you next we will move move uh to item 4.2 the winners of the Black History Month essay contest and I will turn it over let's see to miss Henderson Miss Thomas good evening uh chairman Graves and members of the board and Dr Harrison it's a pleasure to be here this evening and celebrate our students accomplishments so the Black History Month essay contest um is designed to encourage the uh students here to develop a deeper understanding of the contributions of um African-Americans um in our society it also provides students with an opportunity to improve their research and their writing skills um the participants they have to
007submit um an original essay discussing the contributions of African-Americans in labor free and unfree skilled and unskilled and overall experience um for African-Americans and their contributions to the labor force so without further Ado if we may uh the categories were early Elementary upper elementary middle school and high school and our winners are for Early Elementary first up winner will be Annie [Music] Wilson our runner up is Jaa Blackstar and one more runner up will be king Kingston boy now for our Upper Elementary our first place winner is Tamara pry our runner up Owen Davis our next runner up is Anna Lee Duncan and for our Middle School winner we have Isabelle Ingram Isabella thank you for that let me get a right then we have KY Galloway a runner up and our next runner up
008is Grace machowski e e e thank you so much thank [Music] you members of the board it isn't often that we have um an opportunity to um really say thank you we we bring lots of problems to our school board members we bring lots of challenges lots of business to you all and often times um we forget that you have lives and jobs outside of the school board uh we see you at the basketball games we see you at Community agencies um having meetings participating in the community um support opportunities it's just but but again we forget sometimes that you have other careers and often times you're recognizing those careers and we don't get to say thank you so tonight we wanted to take this opportunity to say thank you to Mr Graves for your
009leadership not only with the school board uh but with the community and in your career you keep us safe so I'll read this from the city of of Danville Police Department throughout his career detective taquan Graves has demonstrated unwavering dedication to community safety and excellence in law enforce forcement over the past year detective Graves excelled in the violent crime gang unit solving complex cases such as homicides on robberies assault and gang activity achieving an impressive 78% clearance rate 37% above the national average and the highest in the department as a US Marshall Task Force officer he located numerous Fugi for various agencies including those wanted for homicides detective Graves Integrity empathy and commitment to Justice have earned him widespread respect and trust and this was from Chief Christopher wilds and we want to thank you
010for all that you do to keep us safe and then keeping us in mind too as a school board you leading School boards a huge task and then keeping yourself in in such a a a positive way way in your own career so we wanted to take this time to say thank you for all you do and wanted to present you with a plaque and a gift card and have your family join us and saying thank you so if you all can join e e know whose idea that was payback is coming next we'll move to item 5.1 public May address the board we have anybody signed up next we'll move to item 6.1 Eagles Brew presentation at this time I'll turn it over to Dr Stone chairman Graves board members and Dr Harrison good
011evening it is with great honor and excitement that CTE and oec present a rewarding collaboration the Eagles Brew Beth men Miss Shader Miss wac and our accompany Barista Mr Coleman are accompanying me this evening this collaborative initiative between our departments exemplifies our commitment to inclusive education that prepares all students for Meaningful participation in the workforce work-based learning and community life this initiative aligns with our strategic plan plan under goal one student achievement with the objective of increasing College and Career Readiness for all students with the first initiative being increase work-based learning opportunities as well as the second initiative being increasing postsecondary um Readiness the CTE and oec coffee cart school-based Enterprise provides several benefits to exceptional high school students students learn practical job related skills as customer service skills are necessary in the workplace teamwork
012and money handling by interacting with peers teachers and customers our students have the opportunity to improve their communication skills their contributions to this Enterprise is fostering a sense of accomplishment responsibility and community at George Washington High School and most importantly our teachers from CTE and oec are collaborating this is adding another layer of support to help our students transition to the workplace to continue their education for their next chapter of Life at this time Mr Coleman would like to invite you to join us at the Eagles brew and have a cup of Joe on [Music] us thank you and the coffee is good too thank you right thank you so much thank you thank you thank you next we'll move to item 7.1 2526 superintendent's proposed budget at this time I'll turn it over Miss
013Gillis good evening chairman Graves Dr Harrison and board members tonight I'm here to present to you the superintendent proposed budget requests for 2526 and as always we start with our theory of act theory of change which is part of our strategic plan and it all ends with Stu student achievement but it begins with culture and climate stakeholder Community engagement staff learning and growth operations and internal processes which leads us to student achievement which is one of our main goals here's the Mission Vision and beliefs for this Danville Public School System our mission is to inspire educate and develop students in collaboration of families Community to ensure students graduate college and andoor career ready we we envision schools that cultivate Excellence for all and our belief system is that we believe in students have have Equitable
014access to learning we believe in using data to make decisions we believe that all staff and students should be should promote positive and engaging learning environments we believe in collaborating and communicating with the community to to create learning opportunities we believe in celebrating success as we always do at our board meetings our budget priorities for 2526 is improve student achievement safe School environment supporting services for learning improved facilities and most importantly investing in employees improved student achievement um starts with investing in the classroom we are um focusing um on high quality instructional materials we have our instructional pair professionals that are in the classrooms with our teachers to provide additional support we maintain smaller class sizes in kindergarten through third grade we um investing in our literacy and math instructional coaches with our federal funds
015we also have you know are increasing our science curriculum resources for training and micr credentialing and we are hopefully going to be adding additional funds for um exceptional children it's in the house and C versions of the budget that have passed but it has to go through the the um Governor to be signed um and then we'll we will get additional funds for that we also going to invest in reading on grade level we have professional learning um that goes on for the science of reading we have reading teachers for our elementary school so they can do small group instruction and we have our after school program and our Saturday school program we're also going to increase um have increases in our career lessons and career Pathways we increase College and Career Readiness for all
016students through the increased courses at CTE all of you have seen the wonderful um facility at GW that we are going to have all of our um CT our additional CTE courses offered in and we have our innovate Academy For Middle School um safe School environments and safe routes to schools so we want to make sure that kids are not only safe in the school but also on the way to school and so we're going to we have improved our video camera surveillance system on our buses we're going to ask the C to increase our bus assistance to support our bus drivers um we're going to use our ID badges to support our school buses we're going to do a pilot at Park Avenue Elementary where kids will flight to get on the bus and
017that way we'll know who's on the bus and who's not on the bus um and we also going to have administrative support for disciplined referrals and compar communication our tier one school safety is that we're going to enhance uh our detection system by adding um evolved metal detectors at our high school we already have our 911 inform I'm sure some of you have been getting the the text messages um we have our cameras in the classrooms at the middle schools and high schools and we're going to have enhanced Hall monitoring we're going to have a security analyst whose main job is to monitor security cameras at all facilities um we're going to have increas increased training for security guards at the prek elementary middle and high school levels and we're going to have improved video
018camera systems for surveillance improvements in um administrative SEC school safety and also en enhancments in the school safety plans student Support Services um supports um we're going to have support for attendance behavior and mental health we have our social workers who are out in the field and focus on attendance and Community Access to Family Resources we have our faith Specialists who to improve family engagement we have improved support for appropriate behavior we have mental health liaison Services connecting schools to communities and Mental Health Resources and we have increased support for nurses to improve health and wellness of students and families in addition we have support for graduation we have graduation coach and a transition species for EC students we have our do education GED and night School courses and we have our increased access to
019pathway courses at um our high school some of those courses are conclude the pathways are cyber security Precision Machining nursing and Dentistry engineering cosmetology business enterprises Aviation culinary arts and Automotive as you all know we have our facilities improvements going on we have our George Washington High School renovation we have our active I mean we we' we've renovated IW Taylor for our activate school we have our Langston campus that's going up that will house Galileo and the central office we reopened our Glenwood Elementary School to have a campus there that currently houses our Virtual Academy um we are planning for Forest Hills and we have done a feasibility study for wberry and other facil I'm sorry other facility improvements include boner Gibson schoolfield Park Avenue and Westwood they have gotten various types of Renovations done
020new roofs you know painting furniture those types of things so we've done improvements there as well and we also are building a brand new facility which is our Arn Hills Elementary School so investing in our employees compensation and benefits so we are requesting a 8% incre salary increase including the step for teachers the state is going to provide a 3% increase in a one-time bonus but we are asking for 8% in a onetime bonus so the difference would be um requested from our city council non- teing employees were requesting 4% salary increase and and a bonus of 1,000 we're also going to request funds to reduce the family health insurance premiums so that families don't have to pay so much people on the family plan won't have to pay as much as they do now
021and then we want to um increase our access to the employee assistance program and we're going to have continue the it teach program certification for people who you know have a bachelor's degree and don't don't necessarily have a teaching certificate but want to climate and culture we're going to continue our secret shopper and customer service measurements we're going to increase our climate surveys we're going to improve the employee recognition programs and we're also going to um work with our payroll team to figure out a way to pay classified employees um over extended periods of school breaks and closures such as Christmas and spring break school performance and accountability framework has changed uh the state has adopted a new accountability framework which will increase the workload for our teachers which will include microc credentialing such as
022data analysis hqm and interventions implementing required reading plans participation in video be required science of reading PD training to develop DK 2 and three assessments so these are the things that are are going to be um required of our teachers which is why we want to Pro um give them the additional um 5% increase over what the state is providing additional budgetary increases include utilities everybody knows that they utility rates are going up bills are getting higher for the everyday person and it's happening here as well um we're asking for transportation increases because of inflation cost of tires tubes oil all those things are going up we um mentioned the bus AIDS this is we're going to request the 10 bus AIDS um from the city and we also going to have our security enhancements
023that we mentioned and that's $100,000 for a total of $3,497 this here is a snapshot of our proposed budget for um 2026 as compared to the adopted 2425 budget and as you can see from the Commonwealth of Virginia we anticipate a 4% % increase at the stands right now that could change you know once the final budget is adopted in June we're requesting of the city 4.6 million and our federal grants are anticipated to increase about $1.7 million our other Revenue anticipated to stay the same and our textbook budget is going up slightly and our school nutrition budget is going up um about 158,000 that's related to um salary and benefit increases here's another snapshot I of our proposed budget by category type the expenditure type um salaries benefits contracted Services other charges materials payments
024to other agencies capital outlay and other uses of funds and as you can see those two the two biggest pieces of the pie are salaries and benefits which equates to 80% of our budget so 80% of our of our entire budget is people so the next um breakdown is by function that's like the the category type so the category types are instructional Services ad admin and attendance and health Transportation operations and maintenance School Food Services other uses of funds and technology and the biggest piece of that pie is 66% which is for instructional Services which is where it should be and finally we go back to our strategic plan goal areas it starts with climate and culture then it begin you know then we go to stakeholder engagement communication staff learning and growth operations and
025internal processes and then our student achievement so the calendar of next steps is that between February 17th and March 11th Dr Harrison and I have gone out to all School faculty meetings and presenting the budget to all of our faculty so they can ask questions and get and provide their input we're going to have a public hearing on March 6 and March 20th for um at the school board meeting on the budget the city council will have a public hearing on our budget on May 6 and then um the approval dates are April 3rd where this board will um approve the budget request um and then on May 20th the city council will approve their request to us and then on June 26th we'll bring the budget back for the board adoption you know that's
026after we get the city budget and we'll know our final state budget are there any questions any questions any questions thank you and we'll move right into 7.2 account payable warrants all righty so um this evening you have before you accounts payable warrants number 149 in the amount of $921,000 in the amount of $200 number 155 in the amount of 1,821 4693 number1 162 in the amount of 163 in the amount of $510 167 in the amount of 4,124 99944200907 and I guess it'll be a matter of just maybe getting a um detailed report at some point it would be on um registry 67 and the um check numbers are 10 2139 February 18th mhm it's Kelly Services and then there's another one for 10851 on January the 28th for Kelly Services those are for
027our subs oh yeah I understand that do you have a you have a particular question well it's a it's a um well you know we had the snow days so we had to double up on some payments so that that's two weeks the first one you asked about was for two weeks yeah but um I would just like more details um okay I can provide that to you once we you know after the meeting yeah and then the other one just a rationale for um it would be registered 162 and that check number is 101616 616 yeah it was avoid that's aoid yeah but just out of curiosity because it was such a large amount just just just I would have to research that one as well okay and then the last one would be
028but we do we do have a program with a where we pay for um our sped teachers to go go back and get their certifications so that it could be for that that's that's would be probably the only one that had that large of amount okay okay and then the last one would be um check registry 149 and it was one well I guess it would be 822 to DC which one is it um check registry 149 149 I don't think that was with is that one today did I pass that one okay oh okay let me I probably put it in the back now oh that one okay which one is it it's 8 22 to DCC that's D Community College yeah last 3822 oh okay D most of the time with d Community
029College is for um Early College yeah early college I'm sorry yeah early college program colge I hadn't really paid attention that much a large amount that's why I was asking about well early college is expensive yeah IOD that I think they build us like twice a year okay I just I just use not okay oh yeah it back here no that's it thank you any other questions any other questions thank you Miss Gillis thank you next we'll move to item 8.1 committee updates we'll start with policy committee M Walker yes thank you um in our policy meeting on February 13th we reviewed the vsba policy development process um policy Workshop information the administration regulations AR and the standard operation procedure alignment and the a policy discussed at our vsba Retreat um we also discussed the
030life cycle of um DPS policies and then additionally we had discussion in regards to resources that are made for us um in regards to um the policy committee it be school board policy Google Drive um our board docs and our vs ba policy Services thank you thank you Miss Walker we'll move to item 8.2 student achievement accountability committee update Dr Williams sure on February 18th uh 2025 myself Dr Silverman Miss Cunningham Dr harison Dr babala and Dr uh kogan all met to discuss the audit findings for our science curriculum uh this audit began in Janu I'm sorry July 2024 with some virtual meetings with the cmsi project manager um after we accepted the proposal uh site visits began and they were conducted some areas of focus in the division were accountability the organization and structure
031um that's again like our coaches and things like that our curriculum and then Equity um the study did find that we had several strengths within our district our our Dex curriculum our hqi our instructional support our department leads our teachers things like that um our Community Partnerships um the Innovative prr programs that we have activate motivate innovate and then the greatest asset in my favorite asset are staff and teachers uh some of the areas of growth that they had recognized were uh the rigor the execution and some of our instructional strategies um and then we wrapped up the meeting with a discussion about some of the strategies of how we can wrap up the year as far as our Playbook testing and preparing again how to finish up the year thank you Dr Williams next
032we're move to item 9.1 public notice March 2025 Tuesday March 4th 2025 5:30 p.m. operations facilities and planning committee meeting here in the dam room Wednesday March 5th 2025 4:30 p.m. governance committee meeting here in the dam room Thursday March 6 2025 4:30 p.m. policy committee meeting Thursday March 6 2025 5:30 p.m. regular meeting and a public hearing on the proposed budget followed by a work session and on Tuesday March 18th 2025 5:30 p.m. student achievement committee meeting here in the damville room also on March 17th inclement weather makeup day next we'll move to item 10.1 resolution to purchase property I'll turn it over to Dr hariston thank you Mr Grace um Mr Spencer has prepared a resolution uh for your approval uh I am requesting that we uh be allowed to engage in the
033purchase of property located at 61 Mountain View Avenue Danville Virginia uh known as the um DB s Conway house it is uh right uh directly um near right there on the corner of Forest Hills and we will be with the purchase of this property for the amount of $250,000 we are able to uh relocate that house and then expand the playground area for the Forest Hills Elementary School so I'm requesting permission to engage uh in the purchase of this property on behalf of our school board this is an action item need a motion I make a motion I second it motion made by Mr Payne second by Miss Cunningham any discussion on the motion any discussion any discussion all right Madam clerk please call for vone Dr Williams yes yes I'm sorry go ahead Mr
034yes Dr yes M Walker yes Mr yes I'm sorry I got confused what what was the motion that I made I want to make sure that's correct Mr by m Walker okay M Walker I'm sorry about that correction but a reord okay thank you thank you next we move to item 11.1 Personnel recommendations at this time I'll turn it over to miss W good evening chairman Graves Dr Harrison and members of the board you've been presented with the Personnel recommendations for your review consideration and approval I'm happy to answer any questions that you may have any questions any questions this action item so move I second motion made by Mr Payne second by Dr Williams any discussion on the motion any discussion he anotherone M clerk please call for vote Mr P yes Dr Williams
035yes Dr Sil yes m yes I abstain Mr yes thank you next we'll move to item 12.1 Finance report turn it over Miss Gillis good evening once again chairman gra Dr Haron and board members you have before you this evening the revenue and expenditure reports for the month ended January 2025 you also have before you the reappropriations report for carryover funds for the month of January as well as the textbook and school nutrition budgets if anyone has any questions about this report I'd be happy to try to answer them any questions any questions hear none this is an action item so move second motion made by Mr Payne second by Miss Cunningham any discussion any discussion hear none Madam clerk please call for a vote Mr P yes Miss Cunningham yes M Walker yes Dr
036Williams yes Dr yes Mr yes thank you m Gillis next we move to item 13.1 board request for information for future agenda items yes Mr Grace I like to see how we doing with the graduation rate for George Washington High School as well as scalo if possible please certainly thank you any others um I know when we had that last discussion in regards to like our student academics I was thinking that you all was going to take some type of um consensus to like what's in March or something in regards to um the dashboard in regards to what ma'am the student achievement I thought you all was going to do another Benchmark in March or was it when we had the discussion in January um our benchmarks well let me look at the calendar um
037I I didn't remember us coming back with that until the end of the year but we can we can certainly bring I was just it was I think our last detail report you had said You' look into it in March but maybe maybe we do get bench we give a benchmark in March would you like a report after that okay okay thank you yeah yeah the update of the um bench mark we can can give you that any others any others we'll move to item 14.1 comments superintendent um again you've already mentioned we we lost a a really just an amazing teacher Judy Brown um Judy was um just a phenomenal uh uh teacher to us to many students and uh we sad um that she's no longer with us and certainly want to send
038out prayers to the staff and Wayne tumer um who I work with at the high school was just an amazing uh teacher a lot of students he he helped get them over the hump um uh to graduate um but I want to thank our Allin team our central office this time of year Wednesday and Friday Dr babalola and babalola and the entire team is Mentor and all of the group um they they go out and co- te um throughout the week Monday Wednesday and Friday uh so they spend long hours in the evening completing their task while they're in the classroom supporting children so I I just have to say thank you to all of our central office staff who go out to the schools um and become principles for those days and English engl
039teachers and Math teachers um to support our teachers and our students that's just an amazing um sacrifice on behalf of our children and I just have to say thank you thank you board attorney I don't have any comments please call roll M Walker yes just to add to um we have um as Dr Harrison said with m brown she will be truly miss and Mrs Mr tumor but also um that was a teacher and I think we maybe didn't know who she was but it was Fanny Owens her funeral is on um Frid on Saturday she was 99 and she actually um came to Danville in 1945 she taught at West mland Gibson Langston and GW so she was a teacher for over 40 years and might I add she was also a charter member
040for Danville alumni chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Incorporated thank you that's it Dr I just want to comment that I've been tutoring over boner and and I want to thank everyone there for how welcomeing they are especially Miss Flores and miss humler and also I want to compliment the students within I'm working they're making a real effort and it's a joy to work with Dr Williams got a few um again thoughts and prayers to the families of the Educators that we've lost um honestly in the last couple weeks and the last couple months um our DPS family has really been hit so um just thoughts and prayers to all the those families uh Marquita thank you again uh with cler appreciation we thank you for all you do you were truly the glue for us
041and all the crazy things that we do uh to our students to our staff to our teachers and Community um I know we have a couple more days but I want to extend a happy Black History Month uh your stories your culture um your histories and your futures are valid um you're making an impact every day and so I want to thank you for being you and that you are truly your ancestors wall dreams um I want to wish a blessed Ramadan for our Islamic and Muslim Students um just uh a time of peace and for reflection and stuff for you and your communities and then thank you again for all of our students and the incredible things that you're doing whether you're serving coffee or making art or writing essays you're doing great things
042and we acknowledge you and to our staff and teachers I know that we're gearing up for testing season so thank you for all that you do too that's all Miss C okay um not to reiterate some things that have already been said but I definitely do want to send condolences to the family of Miss Brown um as well as the family of Mr tumer um it's one thing to know them in the education field but it's also another thing to know them personally when you're with them in the community so I definitely want to send um condolences there um to shine a light on our athletics department um our track season for GW and Galileo um they previously went to do an indoor track at Liberty University um they also went to do a region
043track meet um I want to just shine a light on them as well our GW basketball team um the boys basketball team as well as our girls basketball team JV and varsity um I want to congratulate them on a very well done season um and we also always highlight things that are done in the public education system but I want to shine a light on some things that are done in the community um I'm a firm believer that what you do on the outside in the village also commemorates what you do inside in school um we've got seven amazing students who next week will be going to Charlotte North Carolina to walk or they were selected to model in Concord fashion week so I want to congratulate them and shine a light on them as
044well um continue to be great in and out of school that's what I have um again definitely uh thoughts and prayers to those families um I mean it's really really fortunate also uh I want to give a special thank you to DPS because recently I competed in the history competition that DPS hosted and it meant a lot how carefully and how you know just like how we handled the Black History Month how how we we made sure that it we understood the importance of learning from history so that we don't repeat it well I was at the competition there were these three wonderful women who were alive during the time of bloody Monday in the civil rights movement in Danville and they were happy to share their experiences with us and some of their experiences
045you know it it got really serious they really told us like what what it was like they told us not being able to vote what it was like the feeling of getting sprayed with the hose um of course you know one of the ladies uh made a joke she said it was so hot that day that hot the hose felt a little good you know but um but to have an opportunity like that to hear it from them and then to cuz then they asked me to to ask them questions on the panel and I asked them what was the Civil Rights Movement like after that like was it did it die down was it and to hear them say that their resolve was stronger than ever to hear them say that the movement exploded
046after that I'm just really thankful that DPS gave me that opportunity so thank you so much yes first I would like to thank Miss bash Jones once again for all her hard work and dedication to of the board a lot of times people don't see all the hard work that you put into serving the board you know she's up at 11:00 I'm getting emails I'm like why is she sending emails at 11:45 and then I you know I get up and respond cuz she up let me go to respond back but you know we want to make sure that you know your work is is is noed not just with the board but through the community as well so once again we thank you and thank you to your parents uh for you know putting
047up with you know just having her G some and you know her staying at work a little longer as well as her daughter um knowing that you know what she do for the school district is just not for you know for us but it's for her as well so we appreciate that as well um to uh Mr tumor Wayne tumor um had the opportunity to have him as a a teacher and for him to make learning fun that was Mr tumor you you knew Mr tumor is not coming in with his pants sagging um he had his his certain style and that was just Mr tumor you he was cool in his own way but once you cut the music off you know he knew how to cut a rug or two uh and that
048was just Mr tumor so my present thoughts go out to his wife and his children and his family uh Miss Judy Brown educator week at uh Woodbury not wbury wbury taught both of my daughters um when they heard of her passing it it it took them for Loop so we had to sit down and and and comfort them but what was so um heart feeling was to see her grandson play on last night Mr Isaac Smith and did a phenomenal job and he done something that I don't think I would be able to do is to go out and play a a game like he did on last night knowing that my grandmother has just passed a few days before so I want to take my head off to him for his leadership and for
049his uh guidance to the team on last night and let him know that you know we're rooting for him in college and asking everyone to continue to keep his family in the prayers in their prayers also m Judi funeral Miss they called her Miss Judith so that's the reason why I said Miss Judy her funeral will be um Saturday March 1st the viewing will be from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. at Bible Way Cathedral and the service will start at 12 12: noon so if you like to attend um that those are the arrangements for Miss Judy Brown once again the last day of uh what coming up tomorrow Black History Month and we want to say thank you for all the ones that paved the way for us to get to this point thank
050you I would first like to send my condolences and thoughts to the Brown family as well as the uh tumor family um and to Miss Jones I think I've been up since about 3:00 a.m. and I don't know what I would do without Miss Jones I'm just going to be honest so I want to say thank you personally and and I do not take that for granted at all anytime I call you're available anytime I text or email you're available I've sent her stuff that's months and months out and she's already taken care of it so we do appreciate you uh deeply um this award that I received I want to thank the board uh for this award I do not take that lightly as well so thank you for recognizing me my family is
051here I think this is the first meeting that they've been to in seven years I don't know if it's going to snow or H or what what but I do appreciate that and um and lastly I know Miss C has has already talked about it I would like to also congratulate both uh the boys and girls basketball team at George Washington High School um I'm not sure of the the girls just yet but as far as the boys I'm happy to uh announce that for all district Kobe Morrison was named player of the year so I think that that deserves a round of applause and um Xavier Cobbs and both Isaac Smith were named first team so that's that's amazing as well so not only the awards but when I saw the names I immediately
052asked about the grades and obviously we were student then athlete and that's what I've been preaching I had the opportunity to work with all of these guys and Kobe Morrison is a honor roll student Xavier Cobbs is an honor roll student and Isaac Smith are all honor roll students so not only are the athlete not only are they breeding athletes in that program they're also breeding students first and and looking at their grades but looking at their classes they're also Advanced students so that is amazing and I I hope and I wish the best for that program came up short last night no matter what happened they uh they're going to continue to grow and they're going to continue to learn and hopefully they'll come out stronger next year um and with that being said
053I'm I'm going to end my comments and uh I'll move on the 14th .4 clarify School Board request yes um so I'm going to bring back the graduation um information as to where we are and I and I'll check on the Benchmark information to see where we are with that and get back with you okay all right thank you next we'll move to item 15.1 I don't think we have a Clos tonight so we'll skip over that and and I have uh the pleasure of sending y'all home early so at this time meeting a turn thank you have a good night