001I've got six o'clock. Good evening everybody. Well, that was pretty pitiful. Good evening everybody. Good evening. There we go. You all cheerleaders. I mean, they left it all on the map. We'll call the board of education meeting board from the Granite City Community Unit School District number nine for Tuesday, January 25th, 2022. Roll call, please. Stacy here, Vinnie here, Kenogal here. Curran here. None here. McMasters here. Wumsar here. And Forbes here. Fantastic. Thank you. Uh we'll stand please for the pledge of allegiance followed by the invitation by pastor Harry assembly to the flag of the United States of America and to the stands one indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Let's pray. Father, we're thankful for another day. Your word says morning by morning new mercies I see. We're grateful for that. Lord, thank
002you for a new day yesterday and in building classes. Lord, I I pray your blessing on all that takes place. Lord, help us. Give us a fresh wind, Lord, to just blow this sickness out of here and and uh and give us a new day. Lord, guard our students. Keep our students hearts and minds as they study and prepare and do what they need to do. Lord, I pray you keep them soft. Keep them innocent. Help them, Lord, to do what needs to be done. Lord, so many people working on their behalf, teachers and staff and administrators. Lord, we pray your blessing on them as they lead and guide and try to make decisions that are going to be good for everybody. I ask everybody would be extra gracious to each other, Lord, and and
003and peaceful to each other and loving to each other. Lord, so many challenges that we face and many of our people are facing things they've never seen before, things they don't understand. Lord, help them. We ask you to help us to do what needs to be done for for the good of all. I pray your blessing on these proceedings tonight. Give wisdom from above in the name of your son. Amen. Amen. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. All right. First on the agenda is public comment. We have anybody here on on public comment that's not here for presentations or words or otherwise? anything that anybody had to say this morning. Okay, give everybody that opportunity. With that, I'll turn it over to uh we are lucky tonight to have several presentations,
004which always just makes me happy that we get to recognize people in the in the staff and the students and our community. So, I want to first u introduce Mr. Alan Meyer, Miss Martha Morse, and Mich Alicia Rignel from Mid America Trust to come forth and present some incredible awards. We have some for them, too. So, those you want to go out there a little bit further. So, we brought one big fun check because who doesn't love getting a photo with a big check? Um, as many of you here know, and there's a lot of new faces in the room as well, First Men America Credit Union each year donates and gives three students or three teachers in school district 9 uh teacher grants for $250. the teachers have to submit a proposal to the
005committee and then the committee chooses three three teachers um to give the money to. So this evening we would like to recognize Miss Debbie Lava. So Mrs. Laval uh she's from Wilson. uh she is going to buy caterpillars and have the students watch them grow into beautiful butterflies. And we also have Miss Liz [Applause] Nebert. Miss Nebert is per um she's part of the technology program and is purchasing the Dash and Dot robots. That's really fun. And then Miss Kathy I don't think it is here. So, Mrs. Rio, uh, she is at play there and she is, uh, purchasing a projector for her students. Um, thank you guys very much without you guys, you know, supporting the future of us. Um, I know the last couple years have not been the easiest and probably the
006most fun, but you guys are still out there doing amazing work and being shining stars. and I know that we appreciate you. Um, so thank you very much and I want to thank school district 9 board members and everyone as well. Uh, without you guys, it took, you know, uh, sending the emails, allowing us to come to the first day of school, um, meeting with the teachers, helping us get these teacher grants out to, um, our teachers so that they could be recognized and um, allowing us to help them. So, thank you very much. Um and also with me I have uh Martha Morse here. She is uh in our business development and our CEO and president of First Mid American Credit Union, Alan Meyer. Um without these two obviously uh we wouldn't be able
007to have the approval to do these amazing things. Allan as our CEO, he um is so giving with so many things and he allows us to give all this stuff to um our future. So thank you very much. Thank you. [Applause] I'm sorry. Couple more. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. [Applause] So good to see you. Thank you. Thank you so much. Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Appreciate your generosity. Yeah, we really appreciate it. Go Warriors. I want to next recognize the Coolage Junior High cheerleaders. Stand up. Stand up. Right. Come on. All the way out. All the way up. Come on up. The Koolage Junior High cheer team earned third place uh ISA championship and fourth place at the ICA championship medals. Yes, sir.
008Yeah, you got to see them. Along with the highest scores of the season, this team also earned the highest placement in college history. [Applause] Coach, why are you still back there? I'm like, why is he not up here? Okay. Uh, be sure to join them Friday, January 28th, this Friday at 6:30 live on Facebook at GCHS Warriors for a front row seat to the GC cheer showcase, which should I'll tell you, I went to one last year and it was so fun. I just want to say so even to check in, we have great cameras now. We live stream. They really are. It's like almost like almost like being there. So, it's nice. Um, I just wanted to recognize you and we're so proud of you and all the efforts. hand and I think I'm
009going to help you be able to provide some practice space for some of the cheer here in the board office. We uh right at the gym are going to be able to have their mat. I think we're delivered today, I think. So, I'm pretty sure so uh that's going to be nice for you guys to have another place to practice. So, congrats. [Applause] Look at that trophy. You guys trophy. Okay, so here we go. Cheerleing and Coach Kimmel. Perfect. We'll get you a photo. Okay, here we are. All right, here we go. We'll take a couple couple more. He likes to do lots of pictures. Can't never have too many, right? That's right. All right, brace. You don't get to look at first either. Thank you guys. To the side. Thank you. Okay, next we
010have our Granite City High School cheer head coach Megan Watkins. That was Tiffany Kimmel. Did I forget to say her name earlier? That's our coach. She's amazing as well. They work really hard with these girls. It's not easy. That's why it it is a sport. We need to make sure we we say that right. So, Megan Watkins is the varsity coach. I'd like to have Megan and the captains Annayia Hyde and Desiree staff, Taylor Hartman and Elsie Bzola. Did I say that right? Bizola. Basola. I'm so sorry. Come on up, [Applause] guys. Impressive. So, the GCS varsity cheer team took the highest ICC state placement over with the third finish in the state of Illinois in the co-ed division. Do you want to explain that a little more? Yeah. So, co-ed division. We are not
011just uh all girl, which is, you know, the stereotypical cheer. Um, but we also we have two gentlemen on the team who are put us in the co-ed division and we've been rocking the last three years just placing higher and higher every year. Great. Super proud of you guys, which is really cool. And the season isn't over yet and we're not done yet. No. So, they will now take on, get this right, the IHSA sectional going up against some really tough competition up north. Oh, yeah. So, like that's exciting. So, please join the cheer team live on Facebook at GCHS Warriors to catch the GC cheer case on Friday. Also, um those links to those things will be available on our web page as well. Right. Right on us. You'll have that too. So, we
012just want to make sure that we recognize all of you for your achievements as well. I can't wait because I don't care who's up. So, we wanted to make sure you had that. And look at this. I mean, come on. Another hand. get out to see them. They just in the midst of everything, they just keep their heads up and they do such a great job. Um it's a delight to watch. Uh so if you get a chance even to watch on Facebook, you'll enjoy it. So thank you so much for being here tonight. We really appreciate you guys. All right, Miss We'll get you in the photo. Two more. Thank you. I know heavy. Let's check it out. It's kind of heavy. Some major stuff. Good job, guys. [Applause] How great is it to
013be able to recognize those kind of achievements and the hard work they put in? I don't think people quite understand. and they practice just as hard and as much as any other sport. So, I think it's great that you guys have done so well. Thank you. Um I also want to recognize because last board meeting it was a little bit of a communication issue. I think it was me. So, uh Mrs. Heath was um nominated for the Emerson uh education award, excellence in education award. They only give out 80 a year, 10,000 plus uh teachers. It's amazing how the small percentage that receive these awards every year. Um, it is a huge honor. Did you get your uh little apple from them yet? Tiffany apple. Did you get it? Oh, it's kind of Is it
014cool? Yeah. Oh, it came in the blue box, too. So, she got that, too. So, I know this might dull in comparison, Mrs. Heath, but come on up. apple. Not a trending apple, but I just want to say that uh it's in recognition of your innovation and teaching excellence to the students of the Grand City Community School District. I'm just really proud that we have somebody grant someone I know works hard in so many different things. I know some of the high school students know all the things she does. I don't think I could name them all quickly. I would run out of fingers for sure. Right. So, we appreciate her so much and this was just one way to recognize you. Thank you guys. Thank you so I appreciate it. [Applause] Most notably when
015I said second year chemistry and I had no business taking to be my teacher because she could explain why you understand. I'm laughing because I have taught you don't want to think about the retirement situation either. No, no, she's actually younger one year than I am. We went to school together. So, I'm blessed to work in our district and very thankful for the opportunity. I've been here 30 years and um the staff that I work with is honestly just as deserving of this honor. We do. We have a wonderful staff and I've been very privileged and I I'm humbled by this, but I feel like I share this with many people. I wouldn't be where I'm at if it wasn't for the people that support me every day. and the kids. And the kids, too.
016Well, I've just got to say congratulations to everybody. That was fantastic. This is This is the way we should start. I know. I love it. A lot of hardware, I think, and checks and big checks. Good, too. That's fantastic. And good luck, uh, cheerleaders for what's coming up. So, so we hope to see you back here after you win. Yeah, with more hardware. Fantastic. Mr. President, you want to I know we've got uh more serious business to get on to if you want to if they want to be excused. Yeah, everybody's welcome to become like Woo! [Applause] Okay, on to the minutes. Uh item number five of the agenda, approval of the minutes of regular meeting of board of education on held on December 14th, 2021. Second. Give it to Linda for now, please. Uh
017Vinnie, hi. Kenogal. I Curran. Hi. None. I McMasters. Hi. Stacy. I Wilms. Hi. and approval of the minutes of the special board meeting held on December 22nd. Motion by Erica, second by [Music] Noble. Hi, Curran. Hi. None. I McMasters. Hi. Stacy. Hi, Vinnie. Hi, Bones. Meer. Hi. Uh, consent agenda is on there. If anybody wants to pull anything off, we can talk about it separately. Uh, the bill list request from various organizations and gift busy lines for donation for kids at Christmas. Ted Griggsby, Ted Griggs. Second to Eric by Eric. Any discussion? Roll call, please. Curran. Hi. None. I McMasters. Hi. Stacy. Hi. Vinnie. Hi. Canal. Hi. Wilms. Hi. Item 8A of recent retirements. Mr. President, the board you have received the information about this item below. We are prepared to make recommendations or hope
018for discussion in executive session. Um David Heel, position executive director of ed operations and alternative ed programs. Um effective was effective end of the 223 school. So move second. Any discussion? Roll call, please. None. I McMasters. Hi. Stacy. Hi. Vinnie. Hi. Kenobyl. Hi. Turan. Hi. W. Hi. Uh retirements resignations. Item 8. Mr. President Board, you have received the information below about this item. The administration is prepared to make recommendations or to hold this discussion in executive session. Uh Cynthia Johnson, position at cafeteria at Coolage, reason for retirement 12126. Ka Miller, cafeteria, retirement effective 531 2026. Brennan, a teacher at Crater, resignation effective 6222. Rose Evans, Cafeteria Griggsby retirement end of 2122 school year. Amy Mcquigan, English teacher, GCHSS, GCHS, resignation 21822. And Emresh Griggsby resignation effective 11922. So move second. Any discussion? McMasters. Hi Stacy.
019Hi Vinnie. Hi Kenogal. Hi Curran. Hi none. I WSME. Hi. Item 8C request for Mr. President. The board you received detailed information below about these needs. The administration is prepared to make recommendations. We're hold for discussion in executive session. Roil Roelle second grade teacher Wilson effective 3122 to 52422. Amy Mcquigan English teacher GCHS. 322 to 6122. Deborah Berkkey effective 121621 to 31022. Joel Wilkinson cafeteria GCHS effective 12621 to 31022. Jill Schillinger cafeteria coolage 1622 to 12122. Aaron Feldman language arts teacher Junior High School effective 12822 to 422. I secretary admin offices effective 1122 to 4622 and Laurel Young psychologist school junior high school effective 11922 to 41322 so move second any discussion call please Stacy I Vinnie hi Kenobyl hi Curran hi none I McMasters I I item 8 D request to extend leave of
020absence. Mr. President, the board administration seeks recommendation for approval of an extended leave of absence. We prepared to make recommendation for discussion in executive session professional prek effective 12321 to 31522. Second motion to Stacy seconded by Trying to be even. Roll call, please. Uh, Vinnie, hi. Canal. Hi. Currant. Hi. None. I McMasters. Hi. Stacy. Immer. Hi. Item 8E is employment of certified classified substitutes for the 2122 school year. Mr. President, board. This is kind of exciting. It is recommended that the following applicants be board approved as substitutes for the 2122 school year. Certified subs. Justice Daniels Celeste and Mo second. Any discussion other than things are things are looking up. Yes. Really appreciate that. Roll call, please. Kenogal. I. Curran. Hi. None. I McMasters. Hi. Stacy. Hi. Vinnie. Hi. Wilms. Hi. Item 8F. Granite City
021High School extracurricular resignations for the 2122 school year. Mr. President, we recommended the following extracurricular resations be accepted. Rebecca Cook, GCHS assistant softball coach. Jacob Janek, GCHS head football coach. Don Terry, GCHS assistant football coach. Freddy Lane, GCHS assistant football coach. Kyle Thompson, GCHS assistant football coach. And Richard Scurball Jr. So give that to Linda. Second. I'll second that. Any discussion? Roll call, please. Curran. Hi. None. I McMasters. Hi. Stacy. Hi. Vinnie. Hi. Canal. Hi. Wire. Hi. Item 8G. Granite State High School. Extracurricular recommendations for the 2122 school. Mr. President, the board high school and board administration is recommending the following extracurriculars for the 2122 school year. Miss Ky Parker, job shadow coordinator. Ed Connelly, assistant soft coach and debate coach. Second. Any discussion? Roll call, please. None. I McMasters. Hi, Stacy. Hi, Vinnie. Hi,
022Kenobyl. Hi, Curran. Hi, Wilms. Hi. Item 8H, Grand City High School extracurricular recommendations for the 2223 school year. The Grand City High School administration as well as the board administration is recommending the following extracurriculars for the 2223 school year. Megan Watkins, cheerleading head football. Hannah Goer, cheerleading head soccer. Melissa Kimble, dance team. Jeff Renard, head boys golf coach. Ginger Harrison, head girls golf coach. Ryan Reeds, head boys soccer coach. Barry Groby, assistant boys soccer coach. Steve Donald, assistant boys soccer coach. Linda Ames, head girls tennis coach. Rachel Davis, head girls volleyball coach. Mark Jones, assistant girls volleyball coach. And Alexandria Miller, assistant girls volleyball coach. So any discussion? McMasters. Hi. Stacy. Hi. Vinnie. Hi. Henogal. Hi. Curran. Hi. None. I WSME. Hi. Item 8 I employee discipline. Mr. President, the board you have received detailed
023information below about this item. The administration is prepared to make recommendations for approval or discussion in session. So move. Second motion second. Any discussion? Roll call, please. Stacy, I Vinnie. Hi. Kenoval. I Curran. Hi. None. I McMasters. Hi. Woman. Hi. Item 8J is a policies change in policies and I think all these were press related. Then they got the information from December. So, and there's four pages over here. Do you want to read each one of these? Sure, I'd love to. I don't think anybody wants me to, but I'd be happy to. Yeah, we do get press is a little trust press is a group sort of like a group of lawyers that we hire to go over any laws that will affect school policy that we need to to stay in legal good standing.
024So, these are they do that for us and we get summaries of those which so that they can look over them. Four or five times a year they do this. This particular one, some of these haven't been done in a while. Some of them are literally just updating footnotes. Uh some of them are more than that, but um the board gets those ahead of time and they can do the summary and they ask any questions anytime they want. Happy to explain it. So this one was large and press is something we subscribe to that sends us. So that's what we're looking at. We have received the information here and we are prepared to make recommendations or to hold session. Miss K, Mr. Skoolie, these are all there weren't any internal changes by our staff. This
025was all press. Correct. and and basically this year end one why it's so much is the because there are a lot of new laws effective January one as well as in August and the press subscription service tries to update all the new ch all the new laws and amendments to the new laws into the school code it is daunting it's a daunting list I said four pages but I think it's actually five so it is a And then the big one is like and and essentially the policy committee has reviewed these in their meeting and they have made a recommendation to this full board that the full board adopt these and I know was the the chair of that committee she spent a lot of time and press is something that many many schools I
026don't know a school that does right even small districts Otherwise, we have to hire Tommy to go through all of these and make sure we're lined up officially with state law and state legislator. So, that's why that group exists. With that, I'm happy to entertain a motion and a second for this and then any further discussion after that. Bill, I think Eric beat you up. He can second. Okay. You want to be second? I can late at night reading. Do I have any? I'm sorry. Is there any additional discussion? Roll call, please. Vinnie, hi. Canobyl. Hi. Curran. Hi. None. I McMasters. Hi. Stacy. Hi. WSME. Hi. Item number nine, old business. We do not have any old business. Are we going to move? Well, I think he'll their presentation will be in the reports and
027communication. So, we'll look through these real quick. All right. Item number 10 is new business school maintenance project grant program acceptance. Yes. So, the administration is seeking authorization to accept the school maintenance project grant from the state uh SMPG for $50,000. We would like to use that to continue the pointing that is necessary in high school. This is a matching grant. So, 50,000 of the operation Mainties will be allocated to major districts after the obligation of the 2122. This is an second talent. I said first any additional discussion call please. Kenogal I. Curran. Hi. None. I McMasters I. Stacy Hi, Vinnie. Hi, BSM. Hi. Item 10B is a tough pointing bid. The recommendation if this goes right along with the the grant. This is the tuck pointing bid that we have. Uh so in June
02821, the board approved James G. Scott to the masonary restoration project at the high school. We've taken bids in large areas of the high school and at that time we picked the worst ones. We prioritized them. We are seeking approval now to continue the temp work at the high school as the $75,740 approval is recommended. So question by Linda second. Any discussion and I will just say this is a huge improvement to see a long time. Do we know how much uh how large an area this will cover? Eric, would you like to There are different areas involved. Correct. Mr. Yes. Well, this is the one area that in the picture it is that whole end even the step out for the staircase that entire large wall will be completely uh retined. Okay. And Mr.
029Smith and correct me the area to the left the ramp they'll work on that as well. Correct. Yes. That degraded area. Yes. That's what I wanted to tell you. Yes. That is included in that. I thought that's what so I wanted to let you know. Yes. Yes. All that. And what they're wanting to try to do, well, we're all wanting to try to get this done as quick as we can. So, during the uh cold month here, uh they're probably going to move in, start grinding, take capture all vacuum, so we're not worried about that. Uh we'll have to just barricade off some areas for the kids to walk between classes. They'll stop their work. So that way once we get a weather break, they can go ahead in all those joints. We can be
030done before summer. Actually tackle more work. Zack, I think we have a motion on that. Okay, we do. Roll call, please. Curran, I. Nun, I McMasters, I. Stacy, I. Vinnie, hi. Kenogal, hi. Wilms, hi. Item 10 C windows and doors project for Griggsby Intermediate School. Perfect. So the president, Mr. President, the board, this is uh to reduce the water leakage and air filtration coming inside the building. The doors and windows at Bricksby Intermediate School need to be replaced. Uh this coincides with the HVAC replacement project. So they go hand in hand. Unfortunately, we are dealing with supply chain disruptions. It's pretty extreme. This disruption is a widespread issue due to the pandemic. Um just the delay in the cost increase has been incredible on some of the for this project. Extruded aluminum is the item
031that is in short supply across the country. St. Jacob Glass, however, will be found has the aluminum stock and quoted us $66,95 to complete the project. We're really lucky to do that. We asked the board to approve the bid at 66,195 from St. to complete the window andor project at Grizz Elementary School. It's in You want to talk a little bit? Second. Yeah. Eric. Yes. This is the area that's in front of the high our high school in front of great feet despite the black hole. So that horseshoe shaped area of the building. All that aluminum will be removed. There are some doors that we're actually going to eliminate. uh contacted the ROE and other other people about that and we have enough exits in our building to accommodate and uh this will be double
032pane glass and some actual panels that will have less glass but it be more attractive to the eye and will stop all the water leaks and air infiltration into that building. That's great. And as far as some of the safety issues, there were actually two doors that are in this office. They cannot even be classified as the exit door. So this is something I'm glad you found someone actually because it's been almost impossible. Correct. Yeah, it's very difficult. I contacted St. shake up earlier this year and uh they finally were able to acquire the bill aluminum and that's why we're here. Thank you for doing that. Great. So approval is recommended. Do you have a motion? A second on this roll, please. None. I McMasters. Hi. Stacy. I Finny. Hi. Canal. I Curran. I item
03310D maintenance vehicle purchase. Mr. board fleets of maintenance vehicles are beginning to cost more to repair and then what they're worth kind of in them. We've driven them. You know, this one's we are requesting permission to replace a 2001 Dodge white van with it has more than 220,000 miles on it with a 2022 Ford Transit cargo van. Vehicle inventory is scarce. Also another problem. And after calling several dealers, Marl Brothers Ford, Inc. gave us a great price on a new Ford Transit vehicle to replace our 2001 pictured below. So, you get an idea how what great shape that's in. We requesting that we're approved the purchase of this transit connect cargo van from $30,935. It's necessary and approval is recommended. Looks like that's just the front. You should see the summit. Second by I just
034had a question. So I I see we got it from brothers like our guys here in town couldn't couldn't check that. Yes. Yes. I called up Weber for I called Mororrow Brothers uh prior to Weber. Uh Marorrow brothers put us on a list try to get us to bang whenever they could. This is whenever I first took this position. Um called Weber at that time. Weber said they can't get them. Called Weber again just a month ago whenever Moro brothers contacted me and said they possibly can get a van. Weber Ford's salesman told me they quit making those four months ago and they cannot get. So whether he wanted to sell me a van or not, that's why. Yeah, he always checks locally first. That's a good question. I wish mentioned that, but thank you.
035Appreciate you thinking local as much as possible. Roll call, please. McMasters. Hi. Stacy, hi. Vinnie, hi. Canal. I Curran. Hi. None. I Wsmire I. Item 10E. the loader back. Mr. President, the board, this is a piece of equipment is in need of $7,000 repair. We have maintained this for as long as we can. Now, the repairs are exceeding the value of the piece of equipment. Herb Equipment has found a buyable equipment to give us $2,000 for the 300 John Deere has served us well and is a 1995 model. So, money for this. I assume um Mr. Smith will go towards a new one. Yeah, we're looking at uh renting one. We're going to try renting and see if we can get by with renting some. Uh the only time we really use this back though
036is winter time and larger projects. So depending on what projects we have funding for is the route will go probably look more towards the used one than I would a new one. Uh just for our use, I think we can get by with the used one a lot cheaper. Okay. Thank you. Second motion a second. Any additional discussion? Call please. Stacy I. Vinnie. Hi. Kenoval. I. Curran. Hi. None. I McMasters. Hi. Wire. Hi. Item 11. Do we want to do all that first or go directly? I think we're going to go Yeah, we're going to go directly to the Okay. presentation with Dr. David, Dr. Donald Harris, and Mr. Steve Matis for the program. So, with the board's indulgence, we'll we'll come back to items 11 A through just a minute, but directly to item
037H. Before I came down to the board office, I spent two years at the high school as assistant princip. The first year I was there, I I met a lot of different students with a lot of different needs. And one of the things that that occurred to me right away was we're going to have to start off in different learning environments for different types of learners. And students do better when they have different options. Uh the second year at the high school, I spent that entire year putting an evening academy program together and then I dumped that off on Steve Matt. Putting it together was and having the idea to put it together was a great idea and getting it to see was even a better idea. And then we uh picked Christy mode and
038and Chris used to help out as coordinators and the three of those people have just done an outstanding uh job at that program they really have and the data shows that and you'll see that in just a minute. Um Chris has transferred over as an assistant principal at the high school and a lot of that really helped prepare him for that role. I believe as it is Chrissy mode and now who's taking over for Chris u when I first came down here I worked with Dr. Harris and other administrators in this building to put together the all program for Lake School. And the great thing about that is you know Dr. was he sat in the room, sat at the table and helped build that program with the rest of us. And for for him
039to be the administrator of that program was awesome because he he always knew what the vision was. He always knew where we wanted to go with that. And he has done an outstanding job with that. And just a reminder, it really is still in the infancy stages because this is the first year at his building with inperson learning all year round. So, we're really just now getting a bird's eye view and he's already home graduate um this semester from that. Um so, we have a lot of success stories in both those programs. We have students in those programs that that go to homecoming, they go to prom. Uh Dr. Harris has students that participate in sports at their home school, which is wonderful. Um the philosophy in both of those programs has always been that
040we we really don't put any emphasis on the we like to say that we don't have a memory of of a student's academic past. What we really do is we focus and put our energy on welcome to the program. This is how we can help you be successful. And that really has paid a lot of dividends for us. And just a reminder, I do get 300 almost $300,000 a year that helps fund both of these programs. The other thing is we have about 136 high school students in the evening academy and in the all dead day program at Lake. With the money that the state gives us for those students, it's roughly around $800,000. So, I know sometimes it seems like it's expensive, but if we didn't have those 136 students in these programs, we
041wouldn't have that $800,000 and we would have 136 young adults in the community without a high school diploma. So, it depends on how you look at the math. So, we get a lot of money for those kids being here and those kids get a diploma for being here and we get grant money that helps pay for those programs. Also, um we do have two videos we want to show you. The first one is uh just some quick interview questions that we have with some of the evening academy students so you can hear from them directly. And then the second one is a community service project that Dr. Harris does with his students at uh Lake um alternative program and then I'll let these guys brag on all the hard work they do and the success
042that we've had and you will be I think wowed by a lot of the stuff that they've done in such a short amount of time. And I'm going to apologize for not introducing Mr. behind. Well, we say the best life. Making sure our people online can see it. For one, it's a lot less drama than day school. A lot less people to crowd my mind and distract me. Mostly just because I was really behind um and I needed more credits and I wanted to graduate early. Coming in night school, I could do that. I heard about it from a friend wasn't really as stressful as day school. So, came to night school. I did not do good my junior year. My sister was in here so she said it was really good and it helped
043her out a lot. It's more self-paced. I feel like I can go to work in the morning and then come to school at night. I feel like my focus is better at night. Um, I'm more focused and there's less distractions. Night school is more hands-on than day school. Like the teachers are always willing to help. Even if they don't know, they don't teach the subject you need help with, but they're always willing to help you. And they're always there if you want to talk to somebody. I used to struggle with day school a little. So I thought about it for about a year and then this year my mom's signing me and my brother up for it. My grades have improved a lot this year. Last semester I had anything above a B. All my
044grades were B or above. Oh, I never wanted to do my work. I didn't even like coming to school. But I came here believe I only missed two days last semester. Day school I was missing 20 to 30 days. not doing my work, bad grades, and that's changed since I came in high school. I'm able to do my school work and not worry about everything. The ability to actually focus a lot less again to distract me. It helps a lot of people. Everyone helps everyone around here. We all love each other and everyone's like friends here. It's really It's really fun being down down here being a night school. I love that. This next one's going to be um the late alternative program. But it's always nice to hear firsthand from these students. For a
045student to say, "We all love one another. We like it here." And for someone to say, I've missed 20 to 30 days before and now I've only missed two. That's huge. It really, really is. For people who do have jobs, and if the schedule just works out better for them, it really does. So, Lake Educational Support Services Center High School students have been giving back to Salvation Army during the first semester. On Monday mornings, students and staff make the short walk down to the Salvation Army to help unload supplies and stock supply shelves. Principal Harris and Lake teacher Eric Mitchell were kicking around some ideas at the beginning of the year on how the students could give back to the community. He came to me and said he had talked to Salvation Army, which is
046just down the road from us, and he said, "Hey, they are willing to have us come down one day a week and volunteer and help move boxes around and set things up for them. It's great for them to come out and um see the importance of some hard work. Um cuz not everything that we do out at Lake revolves strictly around um academics. We like to get the kids out and working in the community. So today we're sorting through food. We're making bags for people to come out and pick up. We're getting food out of a big truck. We're getting food out of freezers and going through so that way uh the the staff can focus on some other things while we take care of the smaller things here. Well, it's so important for them
047to be able to connect with the community that they live in. So, this opportunity for them to volunteer uh is just wonderful. The more students that came out here, the more that wanted to go. So, over the semester, we've been gathering students who wanted to come out here and work. And actually, this week, we're volunteering every day right before the Christmas holidays to help them prepare boxes and food and things like that. Hi, good evening everyone. I'm Steve Matis. I was the inaugural principal for the evening academy before accepting this position and Mr. Hutchinson has taken the role over from me. I have the honor of following our kids and you can see the impressive things that both programs have done to reach children. I'm going to share a little bit about the first three
048years of the program that I oversaw and Mr. Hutchkins will come after me and speak a little bit to the future of the program. Uh the first year of our program was 2016 2017. That's when we started the program. That's Dr. Ke's first year after he came with the concept for the program. So that year Dr. Ke was identifying the students would be our first group. He was assembling the staff that'd be and most of whom are still with us in the program today. Most of our original staff I think we retain close to 80% of the teachers who started with us and some of the teachers who start with us have in fact been promoted through our program. And he developed a skeleton schedule. Also at that time he met with local alternative ed
049programs because there were various models and formats kind of giving us a vision of who we wanted to be when we opened the 201819 school year. You see we started first semester with 61 students in the program. Nine teachers, two coordinators and myself, one assistant principal. That year we opened in the art hallway of the high school many of you will know which was nice to have a space. It's a nice big space, but it didn't feel like our own yet. And sometimes too much space can be an issue. That's a lot of us to keep an eye out where the kids were with their comingings and going. From the beginning of the program, our goal has always been graduation. We are graduation focused. The trick was figuring out how we were going to sell
050that to our students. So, what we came up with, Mr. Hutchkins is going to share a little bit on the program, is a concept called grad path. What we do is it's a digital transcript that shows future scheduling for a student. So, an initial meeting with one of our students considering the program, we can show you your graduation date if you hit certain markers. If you pass so many classes, if you if you have a job to do the work study, we can show you exactly when you graduate from high school, which is something that most of the students who got lost on the way kind of didn't have was hope. That kind of shows them where the end of the tunnel is. Um, the other thing that we came up with in 1819 school
051years, we began gathering data is credits became the language of our program. We stop talking to kids about the number of classes they need to pass. We educate our students on what credits are, what credits they need, and how they earn them. In our first year, we graduated 27 students of the initial 61 that we started with, and we added 20 additional students that spring semester. So, we had 81 students that first year. The next year, the 19 The next year was the 1920 school year, and that's the year that we moved above the cafeteria. It was so nice to have our own space, but we were still on campus. From the initial conception of Dr. Keels that we wanted to tell our students that you are still Grant City High School students. You're just
052going to school at a different time. As many of us know, sometimes in college we took night classes for various reasons. And we wanted them to have that concept and feel that you're still connected to this campus. And in fact, our students aren't able to play sports like Dr. Paris, but we did notice a large participation at homecoming and prom and football games. So, it's nice to see that our kids still felt like they're a part of it. Another thing we did is we stopped using grade level names in talking to our students. We stopped using terms like freshman, sophomore, junior, senior because a kid could have success. We've had students who start with us with.5 credits, which means they passed one class in high school and then next semester they pass three and a
053they get three and a half credits, which is amazing. around but at the same time they're still a freshman. So we took away the disheartening language. We start using color codes to show how class close they were to graduation. That also helps us determine what kind of interventions are needed. Uh the benefits of our program that we saw right away is one data collection. Not that data wasn't being used at the high school but kind of how we were using it was different for targeted to be specific and targeted to solve problems. One of the things early on is that we have limited resources. We have very few teachers. We have a lot of classes to cover. So, we developed a system of identifying what classes we need to teach each semester based upon our
054current student population needs. Teacher hires. We've had two teachers join us and Mr. Hutchkins is going to speak to that. And because it's a little weird for him to talk about it, we also hired an administrator from the program when Mr. Hutchkins came and replaced me as the principal at Being Academy. I keep going, Chris. Yeah, keep going. So the next thing I want to talk about is historical data to share with you. Click on slide three for me. Y there we go. All right. I'm trying to change it up so our people online can also watch too. The historical data I want to share with you is I told you that credits is the language of our program. So average credits a semester earned the students who have been through the day program who
055have come through our evening academy on average have earned 1.75 credits this semester. In evening academy they've earned 2.75 on average which means it's an average of one additional credit. We talk about ontrack pace for graduation. What I'm speaking to is if an ontrack pace is two and a half credits a semester. So that number means it's two and a half credits times the number of semesters they spent in the program. With that you see that they are now up our on average our students are ahead of their pace for graduation. Of the credits they attempt on average they earn 78% of those credits and we served 196 students in our first three years graduated 113 which is a very impressive number for us. Uh 70% is a consistent attendance rate. Uh in our program's
056history we've earned 1,200 credits. Our students have earned um have been doing very well in that. And then we've had 113 students graduate from the program total. Thank you. I passed Mr. Hutch. [Music] Okay. So, first I'd like to talk about what sets us apart. And I think like Mr. Matthysse was saying, data collection is at the forefront. Mr. Matis brought in the idea of using of using the small group, our eating caddy program and focusing data on them. So that way we can make predictions and we could use that um in our future endeavors like we need to we need to change something. We can use that data and through his use of data and then essentially teaching me how to use it. I'm now able to bring that to our day school to
057the high school in the day school program and we're using much more data than we did previously to make some of those day-to-day decisions. Now when we do data collection we are focused on attendance, academic progress and then credits earned because like you said that is the focus is graduation. Now staffing uh again with a small group our staff are able to make connections with our students. The class sizes are sometimes pretty much around 20 per class. And our class periods are an hour and 45 minutes. So those teachers get to know those students much better than in a 50inute class with eight of eight of the periods in the day. All right. And you saw that with the video with the students talking about us being a family. able to go across the hall
058and ask this teacher for help or that teacher for help. Uh he also mentioned that we have two teachers that we hired. Uh that would be Lindsay Doolittle and Kyle Koser. So both of those teachers worked in another district that lived locally and wanted to teach locally and they came to our program and taught in evening academy. Lindsay I think did for I believe a semester or maybe a year. Year. Okay. So she taught for a year with us and then U Mr. Koser taught for I believe was two years an Indian academy program. So they went to their schools taught and then came to us and it also was nice because they got to know our school, they got to know our students and it made a nice transition whenever we hired them. Now
059the other aspect of what sets us apart is online learning. Uh we were the essentially the first to really use egeneuity and use online resources to teach us our students and we were able to bring that into the day school program as well where we took some of our study halls where students just kind of sat in a room for an hour and we made it focused. We gave them something that they could do to make it worthwhile. All right. Uh we also had a lot of innovative teaching practices. Uh before the pandemic we did quite a bit with online learning using Google classroom or doing hybrid teaching with egeneuity where we had one teacher that used an egeneuity class. So the students took the egenuity class, but she taught taught it to them and
060and it was really it was very progressive and it actually prepared us for the pandemic to where that didn't affect our numbers nearly as much as it could have. And then we've got job placement. That's something that I've been trying to work on is trying to find, you know, we're going to get these kids graduated, but we also want them to be able to find a job or to be able to go to school. So that's that we're working on and hopefully we can bring that to the high school as well. All right. Now, as far as the program is concerned, so like uh Laney said, our program is much more focused in what we're teaching students and we try to take away all the distractions. So, uh our day is from 4:00 to 9:15
061p.m., but we serve lunch from 3:30 until 4:00. So, we've taken that lunch period out. Students can come and eat lunch if they would like to, but they don't have to. We've also eliminated all the passing periods so that there there aren't those between class distractions, that time where students aren't uh monitored in a sense, and it takes away from the drama that comes from between CL the passing periods. Like I said, our classes are an hour and 45 minutes long compared to the 50 minutes. So that gives our teachers a better chance to Okay, we just need to pause real quick so Mr. Mitchell can make an adjustment so the staff can see. Sorry. If I'm understanding correctly, I not sure what initial projections you might have had during these pandemic years, but growth
062has continued. It doesn't seem to have been impacted that much by this pandmic. Is that accurate or No, that's accurate. I would say we we haven't dropped um because And that's that's kind of what happens here with the pandemic is you have a lot of the students that become our students that stop coming or don't want to do remote learning and that's what we've kind of been able to do is to remain. So we have not dropped in that time period. Good. Okay. So our classes are now in 45 minutes. That gives uh teachers enough time to teach a lesson but then as well gives the students a chance to work on it and understand it rather than again trying to you know cram it into that 50 minutes and we have a guidance counselor
063available to the students so they their social emotional needs can be met as well. Now our program also allows for accelerated credit earnings. We use Egenuity to help us with that, but we also use our co-op program. So, our students come to school Monday through Thursday and then essentially that Friday is considered that co-op term. Again, most of our students or many of our students work and so it just made sense to incorporate that into their education. Can I interrupt you real quick before you move on? Um, the mention of the guidance counselors, do students in the school have access to social workers as well? Yes. We don't have a social worker in the evening, but uh we do have like we give the students an opportunity to come during the day and make an
064appointment with a social worker. We've had use it a few times and they'll make an appointment say at like 2:00, come and see a social worker and then just stay and eat, you know, eat lunch when they come to class. Okay. Our selection process. So, uh, when our selecting students, we use a few different ways to find them. First, that data that we were talking about before, uh, Mr. Matthysse and I took the data of our successful students and looked at what what did they look like. And, um, like I said before, we focus on credits. So, we took a look at how many credits those students had whenever they came into our program. And that's what I use now to recruit students. I look at students that are certain percentage credits behind and then
065I'll I'll send them an email. I'll give them a call and say, "Hey, um, have you thought about this? Is this something that, you know, can work for you?" We also have students that show interest. I have students probably at least two or three students a week that come to my office and say, "Mr. Hutchkins, I really want to come to night school." All right. Uh, I also have referrals. I have teachers, administrators, guidance counselors, social workers, and then even parents that call me and say, you know, hey, I think this student will be a good candidate for the evening academy program. Now, once I have these these students and I have an idea of who might be our students for the next year, we then go through um an interview. So, I'll kind of
066get the information. I'll find out if the parents and the students are interested and I invite them in and then we the three of us have a conversation. And like Mr. math has talked. We have a grad path that we come up with. It's an Excel sheet. And there on the left hand side, you have the number of starting credits a student has. You have all the classes that students need to graduate. And then we fill in with green the classes that they've already passed. Then on the right side, you have each semester that essentially the student would be with us. and we build that schedule right there for them so that they can see what their what the path of graduation looks like. Now, as well, we also complete an OEP form which uh
067creates goals for their attendance, their behavior, and their academic progress. So, like we want to make sure that students are earning three and a half credits a semester. We want to make sure that students don't miss more than three days a semester. And so, that's what we use. Can I ask question? What kind of form did you say you use? The OEP form. Okay. And that's that's the one how you're using to to track the kids in terms of how their progress has been made. That's the it's an individual operational education form. Um so that is something that we have to have for Dr. Harris's program and for the evening academy for our TOP grant. the nearly $300,000 a year I get. So that is that is absolutely a form that we have filled out.
068I promise you. Okay. And then um our students. So these are the different types of students that we have that come to academy. Uh we have expected mothers or new mothers. Uh this works very well for those students because then that gives them the opportunity to watch their child during the day and then in the evening whenever a parent or guardian comes home they can watch a child. they can come to school. So, we save several students from dropping out in that way. We have students that have high anxiety whenever they're in the hallway with 2,000 other students. They just can't. It just doesn't work. So, they don't come to school. But with our small group, it works much better. We also have students that are behind on credits, former dropouts or secondyear seniors. Um,
069so these are all students again that that are on the verge of losing and we're able to kind of rein them back in and keep them in and get them to graduation. And then finally, as I mentioned before, we have several students that are helping to support their families, especially through the pandemic and with everything that's been going on the last couple years, this has become a major factor in helping our students. How are connections made with students that have previously dropped out? Um, be honest. It's the ones that I've had this year are parents that have called and it's kind of a two-prong thing. When it first started, the way we got them was that we ran credits for kids who were close to graduation but would not age out like in one like
070in a year. So, we kind of got a hold of them and then word of mouth kind of spread and the people started calling us. Yeah. Because the others, you know, that's your captive audience on campus already, but I'm curious how you bring them back. That's phenomenal. It's it's an opportunity. Yeah. Sorry. My last slide. Okay. Here we go. Okay. And now uh Mr. Matthysse talked about data for the program over the years. These are the data points for fall 2021. So, the semester is finished. We had a 72.2% attendance rate, which is pretty consistent, a little bit better than our overall average of 70%. Credits earned were 227.5, which again is pretty close to the average for the other four years. The credit earned differential was 1.65. So, that one's actually a little bit
071higher than it was previously. And then in December, we were able to graduate 15 students. So definitely a successful fall semester. That's great. All right. Now, I'm going to turn it over to Dr. Harris. Thank you, Mr. All right. Now, which button do I press? All right. I will try and be brief. Um, I know we are going into your guys' time, but I did want to I this is time we'll spend I thank you for the opportunity to speak with you guys. So anyway, our program, Lake Education Support Services Center. Our uh hours of operation are from 8 to 1:30. You can see we're a shorter day, 5 hours and 30 minutes. Um, the students do receive breakfast and lunch. Lunch is basically provided, I'm sorry, breakfast is basically provided as a grab and
072go. They grab it and they take in the classroom like many of our buildings do during the day. Uh lunch is then provided in our cafe gym uh just like many of the elementaryaries to have that same type of setting. And we serve two different lunch periods. One for our fifth through 8th grade students from 11:20 to uh 11:50. So it's a 30-minute lunch. And then there's a little bit of time in there on purpose so we can clean the cafeteria. And then we go back in from 12:10 to 12:40 for our high school students. So they're separated out. um for the day, for the students day, it consists of six 50inute periods and then one 30-minute lunch. So, you can still see there we are maximizing our educational time that we have with the
073students. Um I think something else that's not on here that I want to point out that we do in our building is cell phones are taken at the beginning when they walk into the classroom. And I was able to find some clear lock boxes. And so then they the teachers take them, they put them in that lock box, the distraction is gone. At the end of the day, the students get back. That is something that we talk about during the intake. So parents know, students know, and if there's any issues with that, it's taking care of right then. So that is something we do in our building. It's the one thing I always keep getting asked, especially about high school students. When are we getting them back? When we get them back at 1:30. But
074when are you going to give them back? Never. You know, I'm never giving that back up. So it's a really good thing that we do. Um, so history there. history within the all ed for the day program. Um 2019 that was when we started it and that was above the high school cafeteria. We basically had one fifth and sixth grade class and then one seventh and eighth grade class. So I was not involved in it that other than I was out here as director of student services setting up transportation for those students. We had uh a high school principal and then also a college principal that worked that and covered that. Um and then remember March is when we shut down education. We went fully remote when nobody was ready. And so that year I
075think they started with zero students is that we put people in and then we ended with around 20 23 24 students that year. Um that were basically put into the program through I'm going to talk about intake a little bit. 2020 that is when we moved the program out to Lake. That is when I was uh moved over as principal. And so at the at Lake we started with um one fifth and sixth grade class. We had that we have a se a seventh grade class, an eighth grade class and then two 9th through 12th grade classes. Um in our staff we also have this full-time social worker and we have an SRO uh that are there for us all the time. And so at that year we started around with um I think it
076was with about 44 students began. And remember you can look back that we had that March that March would have been the time when we would have been looking at those students be coming from the high school, students that have been identified at the the third and fourth grade center that have been fifth and sixth graders and that opportunity went away. So, we did not have that. But by the end of the year, uh after we finally got through a full semester of remote learning, we were then able to start doing some more intakes and we finished last year with 60 students. Um so then that brings us to this year, fall 2021, our first year of basically in-person learning. our numbers had grown at the high school level. So instead of having just two
077high school classrooms, we brought it up to three high school classrooms. And that's where we currently are. And right now we have enrolled 69 students. We have 11 fifth and sixth graders, 11 7th graders, 14 eighth graders, and 33 9th through 12th graders. So the way you are a student is placed in our program first off the buildings and that would be Griggsby uh Koolage and the high school. at this point at the end of the year, we also talk to our third and fourth grade centers because those students that are fourth graders could be starting with us next year as fifth graders. So, we reach out to them starting in that March time frame that I just mentioned before. Um, so then they meet with they have a basically what you call a re-engagement
078plan. So, something has happened in that building, whether it be behavior, whether it be uh attendance, whatever it may be, they then meet with that family. They have that re-engagement plan. if that they're still not following what they need to do, they then reach out to us. The building principal makes a referral. They send it over to uh Dr. Keel and myself and we sit down and mostly through phone calls. We don't all necessarily get together. We can do it through a Zoom meeting and we talk about that student and see if that's something that's going to be a good fit for that student. If that's decided, we look at our numbers and we figure out everything where we need to go. We then have what we call an intake meeting. During that intake meeting,
079it involves our staff, myself, uh most of the time the SRO, most of the time the social worker, sometimes the teacher, uh if it involves an IEP student, it might be the the teacher from the other building, but the building principal from the other building is always there, and then Dr. Ke is there uh 99% of the time. We sit down with that parent, that guardian, and that student, and we det we discuss that EP that we've just been talking about that they just explained, and we go through those goals and objectives that we set them for them. The students are normally placed in the program for a minimum of a semester and then up to a year. All right? We have meetings. I call them our end of the year meetings. sometimes at the
080middle of the year where we go over that IEP and we talk with those students and that parent with staff including teachers and say are we where we need to be at that semester at that year to possibly transition back if not let's stay here and and and find some other ways. We have felt some students that we thought were ready and they might have that anxiety issue that they talked about that those students don't feel ready. So we have not pressured them back. We want them to be successful. So we have had some students and parents make that decision that no we feel they might need another semester. Okay. So that's that kind of goes through full circle of how they've got to come there and then how they possibly go back. Okay. I
081already kind of mentioned then this kind of follows the same as the evening academy. We have credit recovery issues. Uh discipline. It might be a number of discipline issues or there might be one specific circumstance that has happened that unfortunately we have to take that student out of the regular setting and have them come with us. Us having this building gives us more options as a district rather than just expelling them and sending them somewhere else. So that's that's another great thing um that we have attendance uh low attendance rate and then graduation and then that anxiety issue which I think a lot of times is shown through these other issues that you see from the other buildings when they're in the regular setting. Maybe their attendance is bad because they just can't be in
082a building that has 800 students at a junior high go from one place to the other. So here's some some very good program data that has just happened. Uh since we have finished last year, the start of this year, we had five high school students return to the regular education setting. We had two high school students move to the EV Academy and then we had three fifth through eighth grade students return to the regular education setting. At the start of this semester, we had three high school students return to the reg ed education setting. What that looks like is I call uh Mr. Dw, we do a re-engagement meeting at that building. we go there because some of the students had never been in the high school. I give them a tour of the high
083school. We walked around and checked out high school. That parent is there so they can see what that's like. And then we did have our one student that actually graduated at at semester. So that was a that was a plus. So basically over the past year and a half we've had 14 students that have transitioned out of the our all day all day program back to some other thing that is provided within our district. So, we have serviced since we've been started 101 students. Um, there's 53% female, 47% male. This semester with attendance being so tough to tell what it looks like with remote learning, not remote learning. I just wanted to show what our attendance for this semester with COVID and everything involved with it was 72% at an alled center, which is very
084good uh attendance rate. Um this this next one with credits earned basically we have um the credits that the students earned this semester and I go back to what they would have earned. Credits are courses however you look at it. We say credits because that's we talk like with our high school students like they've mentioned before but obviously our lower grade students don't have credits. They just have a course. But then I looked back to what they would have earned their last semester that they were in regular education. We had a 20 8% increase of the credits they earned this semester compared to their last semester of regular education. And then then lastly, I I this is a testament to the staff having a small setting and being able to put the time in build
085those relationships with them that discipline referrals again this is this semester compared to their last semester of regular education is an 85% decrease in office referrals. Not to say things aren't we're not having issues but the teachers can take more times and then give it to that student to work with that because you heard the one student we're not we are about academics but we're also about checking that social emotional component. And so that's some highlights real quick that I wanted to hit on. U we do have the the daily social emotional program that is done daily with the students. They start the day with that. We incorporate that with with the teachers and they have training for the teachers and then for parents. So we are talking about the same thing that we're doing
086in school that they can have home that common language. So I provide each parent a username and a password to you've heard probably the rethink ed. We were the first building that did that. That's that online component for parents. The other thing you already kind of seen the Salvation Army project. Um, lastly, uh, we brought on that high school co-op class just that was approved just for by you guys this last, uh, meeting. And so, Miss Mo comes out to us. We have 13 students in that. That's really helping our high school students catch up on that credit recovery. So, they're meeting with her one one hour a day and then they're also getting uh, the job credit, the credit credit for that for their job. So, that I know I probably spoke fast. I
087was trying to not go too fast, but you can still understand me. But that's a lot of our program. So, thank you for the time. I just say that from all of us. Thank you for the time. We appreciate where you where they are is huge. And don't you have door to door, too, which helps. Yeah, we have we have door to door transportation for the students. We have three buses right now. Uh and they pick them up and bring them, which is is great. I think that's amazing. The one thing we don't let the high schoolers do, we do not let them drive themselves to school. That was the other one. It's just amazing that we offer this and what they've done with these programs is just amazing. And so proud Thank you. [Applause]
088Do we have the data by chance on since before this program started and now how much like have expulsions gone down overall in the district? I don't know if it's possible to get that, but I think that's because that's my least favorite part about being a board member is expelling people when it seems like I can keep that with people. I think that's possible. I mean, we can we can definitely that'd be interesting to see. Yeah, that's a really I bet it's dropped. It has dropped and some of it's dropped because Senate Bill 100, but we all know that it's dropped because we we now have flexibility to offer other options and this board has done that. Yes. just from being around for a long time, knowing some of the situations that we've done and
089intakes on that we've had conversations about in the past, those would have been expelled that your hands would have been tied and you would have to do that. Now we can offer them something else. That's awesome. Which is just phenomenal that we offer. It really is. So, it's prevented a whole lot of expulsions for sure because we don't we don't service a ton of students that have IEPs, right? We service that students that kind of miss that are missed. And so, we do that because I had a student that transferred just to another district and they were asking, "How do I put him in a school? He doesn't have an IEP." I go, "He needs these services, but they didn't have the ability to do that without him." This is a great program to be
090able to help them. It really is. Thank you so much. I want to thank you all and the instructor for what you're doing for caring. I mean, that's really what it comes down to because without this, as you as you've all said, they're just lost. We've lost graduates. We've lost people. We've got dropouts. We have a whole much just a much bigger mess in this community without. So, thank you. Thanks for caring. Thanks for keeping it going and thinking of it in the first place. Great job. Thank you. Thank you so much. Appreciate it. All right. Item 11 A. We'll get back to the agenda here. 11 A is foyer. That's all. We need to read all this. No, we do not. There's been one foyer. It's been taken care of by the administration and
091and there were two requests during this period of December January 18 administration has fulfilled those requests as you can see. I don't think we need a motion on that. I don't believe and then we have quite a few fund statements, reconciliation statements, memorial fund statement, activity accounts statements for various information as well. Anybody have any questions on any of those? Thank you all. Appreciate you. Thanks a lot, guys. No questions on those. All right. Uh that takes us up to executive session. And we have a couple of items for executive session this evening. There we go. Okay. So, uh we do have exceptions noted under five hours. Yes. 22 Open Meetings Act. And this evening we will go into executive session for personnel C1, student safety to C28 and school building safety and security procedures
092to C8. And we'll need a motion to go into [Music] session. Second by roll call, please. Vinnie, hi Kenogal. Hi Duran. Hi Nun. I McMasters. Hi. Uh Stacy I and the time is