001All >> [music] [music] >> right. Good evening everyone. We're going to go ahead and call to order. If everyone could please rise for the pledge. I pledge allegiance >> to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Okay, just a reminder if anyone would like to address the board this evening, we do have speaker forms on the table over here and you would just give them to Kathy on the end there. Let the record show all members are in attendance. Like I'm really the Is everyone okay with the agenda? >> Do we have any communications? [clears throat] >> I apologize, Madam President. We actually do have one. We are cordially invited to the GCPA Founders
002Day and GCPS Hometown Spirit Awards on February 11, 2026. It's going to be held at the Helenics Cultural Center at 36375 Joy Road, Westland, Michigan. The doors will open at 5:30. There is going to be a raffle and a 50/50 and the ticket sales uh will end um for the event on the 4th. So, there is a Scantron on here. So if we want to RSVP that way. Um and and that is it. >> Thank you. Moving on to our board committee updates. Starting with building and facility committee. Mrs. Rocky. Thank you, Madam President. Uh our buildings and facility committee met this evening at six o'clock. Uh present were myself, uh Miss Picassio, Mr. Mallaloy, uh Mr. Fiser, Mr. Wiznooki, and um Mr. Emmens. Uh we went over syncing fund project updates. Uh they had
003a meeting this week with we have a meeting this week with foresight. They're going to discuss phase two of our middle school athletic field project. We have a couple items that still need completing the fencing and concrete um on the north end. They're waiting for the weather to break and they can get that taken care of. Um our stage curtains for Burgger Transition Center in Douglas are due to be completed by the 15th of this month and then they can schedule for installation for the new curtains. Um B&G updates. Uh we received another 50 tons of salt. So we've already gone through 100. So we're moving along this winter. Um [clears throat] over break uh filters were changed um throughout the buildings and um BTC uh had their floors. There was they stripped the wax
004and uh rewaxed and everything came out great over there. They said um and we have two new drivers and one new bus aid starting this week. So that'll add to our add to our fleet. And that was it. >> Thank you. Curriculum committee, Mr. George. >> Uh thank you, Madam President. Uh the curriculum meeting met tonight. In attendance was myself, Miss Bterbah, Miss Childris, Miss Williamson, and Mr. English. Uh tonight we unpacked the state testing data for the fifth, 8th, 11th graders through social study and science tests. Um we looked at some of the trends that are forming right now. um what's going up, what's going down, plans to address things like alignment through the district, through the grades, um and just the next steps to get the students ready uh for further testing. >>
005Thank you. Moving on to item eight, our shining star above and beyond certificate. Mr. Fischer, >> Madame President, thank you. We are very pleased to see a great turnout uh to recognize our shining star students and also recognize our above and beyond staff members. I want to thank the community for coming out in this slightly chilly uh January evening. Uh to lead us off tonight with the Burgger program awards is Mr. Scott George Tonight, first we'll be starting with Burgger Baylor and the shining star student is Aiden Bargertock. >> Aiden, here you go. >> Aiden was nominated by uh his teacher, Megan Bedun, and she had to say, "I would like to nominate Aiden for January signing star. This is my third school year working with Aiden and by far his best. I was worried
006that Aiden would struggle to continue to make progress having me for a third school year. But I was wrong. Aiden comes to school ready to work every day, maintain safe behavior, follows directions, participates in class, and has become a role model for new classmates in the room. I am constantly getting to see how much Aiden understands what he is capable of, and a huge increase in participation. An added bonus is how many big smiles we get to see from Aiden throughout the day. >> GOOD JOB. GOOD JOB, AIDEN. Thank you. And for Burgger Baylor, our staff member for going above and beyond is Nicole Martin. Uh, let me tell you about Nicole. Oh, is she here? Here she comes. Let me steal that back. [snorts] Here we go. Congratulations. >> Uh Nicole was also nominated
007by Miss Megan Bedun. She had to say, "I would like to nominate Nicole as January's Above and Beyond staff member. This is my third year working with Nicole, and I have seen the progress her students have made with her. Nicole is able to stay calm and positive when things are chaotic. This year, she has a particularly challenging student and has gone above and beyond to make sure the student is included in Burgger activities in a way that is safe and positive. I had the opportunity to watch Nicole work with her student on a field trip and I was really impressed at how well she was able to help her student do. Nicole gave the student breaks as needed, was positive and maintained their dignity. Burgger and Nicole students are lucky to have her. >> Congratulations.
008[applause] Thank you. >> All right. And for a Burgger transition center, our shining star student is Christian Palmer. Here [applause] you are, Christian. Congratulations. Let me tell you about uh Christian was nominated by teacher Amanda Jandi. I think Christian Palmer deserves recognition as BTC's shining star student for this month. He's always so kind and respectful in my class and when I see him in the hallways. He always does his work for me and never complains. He is always cheerful. I've had him every year since I began at BTC in 2017. Christian has been a great student every year in my classroom. He's been nothing short of delightful. Congratulations, Christian. Good job. [applause] Good job. >> All right. And for BTC, our going above and beyond staff member is Amanda Jandi. Amanda was nominated by par
009profofessional Sherry Prush. Amanda is the health ABT teacher at BTC. I would love to nominate Miss Amanda. She strives her hardest to make sure every student, every single student has a successful, safe, and happy day at school. She goes above and beyond to check on staff and helps whenever she can. She also uses the PBIS system very effectively. Our students and staff are blessed to have her on our team. Thank you so much for all you do, Amanda. It never goes Okay, tonight I have Less in memorial. So, our first shining star student for Lathers is Connor Crosby. >> [applause] >> Hey Connor, that's for you. Hang on. We're going to tell everyone about you. So Connor was nominated by Dana Kenir, his teacher. She says, "Conor is truly a shining star. Every day Connor
010comes to school. He shows so much improvement and works hard to reach his goals. He has a positive attitude daily. Connor also has a big smile on his face and such an amazing personality. His happiness is contagious in our classroom. We love having Connor in room 22. For this reason, I'm nominating Connor as the lather shining star student. Here you go, buddy. Great job. Our second shining star student from Lathers is Mia Wber. All right. Mia was nominated by Trisha Trisha Buckley, her teacher. She says, "I'm excited to nominate Mia Wallweber for the Shining Star Award. Mia has a wonderful attitude and positive approach at school. Mia comes in every day with the biggest smile and is always so kind to her classmates. She has a great classroom helper and has the best attitude toward
011learning. Mia has been work really been working hard on her writing this year and it looks amazing. I've never seen Mia have a bad day or even be in a bad mood in kindergarten. Her positive spirit is infectious and her giggle is the cutest and brightens my day. For these reasons, I am recognizing Mia as a shining star student at Lathers. [applause] Going above and beyond for Lathers is Miss Kimberly Bailey. Kimberly was nominated by Jessica Greer, the social worker. She says, "I nominate Kim Bailey for the Above and Beyond award. During the beginning of the school year, Kim has done so much for the students on her case load and the special education team. She's always on top of the paperwork, filling it out diligently and making sure everything is correct. She never misses
012a beat, even when it's overwhelming. When there's a special education student who is requiring more support, Kim always reaches out to other members on the IEP team to advocate for the child and ensure they get any visuals and special supports they need. She's always looking to collaborate with others when there is a challenging situation or a tough behavior a student is going through. She's very insightful during meetings, a great listener, and a team player. We're lucky to have Kim at our school. For these reasons, I am nominating my awesome colleague Kim Bailey for the Lathers Above and Beyond award. [applause] All right, our shining star for Memorial is Delilah Phillips. >> [applause] >> All right. Now, Delila's made it through our labyrinth. Let's go ahead and talk about Delila. So, Delila was nominated by Mrs.
013Logan. She says, "Dila is a great model student for her classmates. She is always kind to her peers. Delila has made so much improvement in class. She follows the classroom routine. She will join us during morning meetings and at the carpet during our readalouds with minimal prompting. We can always count on her to do her part during our morning meetings. She's also made improvements with turn taking during activities and waiting for her turn in the sensory room. Delilah is always willing to help. She keeps keeps the classroom in order by putting her toys away. Delila is a ray of sunshine in room five. Thank you, Delilah. Our going above and beyond at Memorials, Riley Hadley. [applause] Riley was nominated by Miss Julie Rutherford. Rutherford Ford. Wow. I would like to nominate Riley Hadley for the
014above and beyond award. Riley is an amazing teacher who consistently supports her students academic and emotional well-being. She goes above and beyond by collaborating with colleagues, supporting the first grade team, volunteering for instructional rounds, planning field trips, working with a reading coach to improve small group instructing instruction, and mentoring a student teacher. I would like to thank Miss Hadley for her dedication as a first grade teacher and leader. Thank you. All right. Tonight I have the honor of the Douglas Shining Star student and staff member go going above and beyond. Tonight the shining star student is Landon Cormande. [applause] Landon was nominated by teacher Mrs. Zea. It says, "We are proud to recognize Landon. He shows what true leadership looks like. Leadership doesn't always mean being the loudest or the first. It means doing the
015right thing and helping others." Landon sets a great example by following classroom rules, staying focused on his work, and being kind to his classmates. He is always willing to help others. Whether it's explaining an assignment, cleaning up without being asked, or encouraging a friend to do their best when challenges come up. He stays positive and tries his hardest. Because of his responsible choices and caring attitude, he makes our classroom a better place for everyone. We are very proud of him and excited to recognize him today for showing outstanding leadership. Congratulations and keep up the good work. Congratulations. [applause] >> And then our Douglas staff member that is going above and beyond is Charlie Klandenny, prayer professional. [applause] >> Congratulations. All right, we have a novel here, so give me a second. And Charlie has been
016a valuable asset to our Douglas team since he started working with us full-time. And this is nominated by all the Douglas teachers, just so you know. First off, he is subbed in just about every classroom in the building. And the kids love him. When teachers are going to be out, the students always ask, "Can we have Mr. Charlie?" When they find out he is subbing in their classroom, you can hear the cheers around the building. Charlie has also taken on the role as a onetoone parah. Last year he was one of the only people that one of our students would even respond to because he related with him, played with him, and gave him the positive attention he needed. This year, Charlie stepped in to help with a student who has never been to the
017school before and was aloping from the classroom every day. Charlie was asked to take over as a sub to work with him. Slowly, Charlie built a relationship with him and now he gets work done in the classroom, stays in his seat a lot more, and rarely tries to alope. Charlie has since been hired into the district as a parapro because he's so valuable to GC. Finally, Charlie is the ultimate team player. If he sees a teacher, student, or staff member in need of something, he offers a help. If he has any open time, he goes out of his way to reach out and offer help. Anything you ask him to do, he does it with a positive attitude. It is a pleasure to nominate Charlie for the Above and Beyond award. [applause] I have the
018pleasure of giving our shining star student from Farmington their award and that is Avery Huie. >> [applause] >> You're welcome. Congratulations. And Avery was nominated by her teacher, Tessa Gitson. Miss Gitson said, "I am honored to acknowledge the hard work and dedication Avery Huie has put into her education. Avery has been my student since the beginning of the 202425 school year and has always been a shining light in the classroom. From her motivation towards her schoolwork to her selflessness and willingness to help others and make them feel included, she is one outstanding student. Avery shows great work throughout her school day and she's never afraid to ask for help since she knows it will strengthen her knowledge. Avery has shown in more ways than one that she wants to grow academically. She is always showing
019her best effort, working diligently during independent work time and making sure she understands what has been taught. She is a very kind and respectful person inside and out outside of the classroom. I am so thrilled to have seen Avery grow over the last two school years. Congrat Congratulations, Avery. I'm so proud of you. Great job. Keep up the great work. [applause] And our staff member um for going above and beyond is um the teacher who just nominated Avery, Miss Tessa Gitson. [applause] All right. Congratulations. >> All right. And she was nominated by Mr. Robinson, the principal. Mr. Robinson said, "This month, we are proud to recognize Tessa Gitson, our incredible special ed resource teacher, as our above and beyond staff member of the month. Tessa exemplifies what it truly means to go above and beyond
020for students. She consistently provides individualized support, meets students where they are, and celebrates every success, big or small. Her dedication ensures that every student feels valued, capable, and confident in their learning journey. Tessa works tirelessly to collaborate with classroom teachers, support families, and advocate for her students needs. Her patience, compassion, and commitment help create a safe, inclusive, and encouraging environment where students can thrive academically, socially, and emotionally. We are grateful for the heart, professionalism, and positivity Tessa brings to our school every day. Her impact reaches far beyond the classroom, and our students are better because of her. Thank you, Tessa, for making a difference every day. >> You're amazing. [applause] Yeah, we're really scared. >> I know. >> Good evening. I get the honor of doing the middle school and our shining star student for
021the month of January is Denica Otis. Is she here? Well, she doesn't appear to be here, but I'm going to tell you about her anyways. Denica is a kind of student who gives 100% every day. Curious, focused, and determined to truly understand every part of what she's learning. She asks thoughtful questions, checks her work, and then turns to help classmates with patience and kindness so they can succeed, too. Her leadership shines beyond the classroom as well. On the field and the court, she's a standout in both soccer and volleyball, bringing the same work ethic, teamwork, and positive energy that makes her a joy to teach. And our going above and beyond staff member for the middle school is Zay. No, I'm kidding. [laughter] Natalie Reeves, our counselor, who also happens to be the handler for
022one of our new facility dogs. And if y'all look, she's got them in a very handsome necklace. But enough about Zade. We're going to talk about Natalie because she is our above and beyond staff member for January, but she is always going above and beyond for Garden City Middle School. She takes time for all students who need her services throughout the day and she also serves them after school as a sponsor for our scary movie club, GSA, and homework help club. She is also the host and handler for our facility dog, Zade. Her kind disposition and downto-earth personality allow her to connect with everyone in a way that makes them feel seen and understood. We are so fortunate to have Miss Reeves as part of our team and the students of Garden City Middle School
023are better for having her in their corner. Thank you, Miss Reeves, for all that you do for our school community. [applause] Okay, tonight I have the pleasure of having the Garden City High School. The shining star for this month is Cheyana Bedoro. [applause] Cheyana was nominated by Lindsay White, PAR professional. She says, "I'm nom I'm nominating Cheyana for the Shining Star Award. She consistent she consistently brings a positive attitude to school each day and serves as a helpful role model for her peers. She comes to school willing and ready to learn, works hard despite the obstacles she faces, and takes accountability for both her learning and her health. She demonstrates excellent behavior, social determination in meeting her goals, and gives her best effort every day. In addition to her strong work ethic, she is helpful
024to her classmates and is an awesome friend. Her positivity, perseverance, and responsibility truly make her deserving of this month's shining star award. And our above and beyond staff member is Alan Bennett. Thank you. Mr. Bennett was nominated by Sharon Kohler, principal. She says, "Mr. Bennett has been our theater director at Garden City High School for several years, and it is well known that twice a year, you can come to Oly to see a great performance and great sets that all came from the vision and hard work that Allan has put into our program. This past summer/arly fall, Allan had a conversation with me regarding a health concern. Mr. Bennett did not let the concern hinder his engagement with the program. On the contrary, he moved right into, "I have an idea of doing the diary
025of Anne Frank, and if you would permit me to do so, I'd like to direct that for our fall play." He went on to explain about the cast, things that were needed, plans he had made, and the things he had set in place. If I allowed him to do so, because the show must go on. I am certain everything he did behind the scenes this fall was an extra toll on him and his family. But his love for our theater program is so deep that he was determined to put on a show that met all of his high expectations. And he was willing to let down not let down our students. I thought the show was the best he has done so far and I'm amazed at the grit and determination he puts into our
026theater. The Diary of Anne Frank was in my opinion the best of the Alan Bennett catalog to date and I'm excited to see what else he has in store. Thank you, Alan, for giving it your all, no matter what obstacles are thrown your way. And congratulations on being the high school's above and beyond. [applause] Congratulations. All right. Uh, last but certainly not least, uh, is the Cambridge uh, shining star student for Tessa Choka. Did I say that right? Tessa came to Cambridge High School starting in the 2324 school year. During her time at Cambridge, she has excelled academically and has quite imp and has quite impressive attendance. The past trimester, Tessa was the only student with perfect attendance. Also, during the last trimester, she achieved a GPA of 3.86. Furthermore, all students or all teachers
027attest to her work ethic, her kindness and positive attitude. Tessa is working hard to graduate this June and we could not be prouder of her. [applause] And the Cambridge uh Above and Beyond staff member is Jill Morta. [applause] Uh Jill continues to be the staff member who shows such care and concern for her students both personally and academically. As one of our learning lab style teachers, Jill has taken on the learning intricacies of the Edmonton program or Edmontonum program and utilizes the resources of Edmonton uh that ensures students are not just getting through online courses but are learning from their online courses. Jill tries to instill the same level of ethical learning within each one of her students. Many of our students overcome the struggles of online learning with the assistance of Jill. Our students
028can find success within the courses she oversees. [applause] And with that, can we get one more round of applause for all of our award recipients? [applause] And I just want to say thank you to all those folks who uh took the time to be so thoughtful and courteous uh to nominate those well-deserved folks recognized this evening. Thank you. >> Moving on our item number nine presentation a middle school Miss Boswell Am I live now? Okay, there we go. Good evening, Madame President, the board, the rest of the cabinet. We welcome you here to Garden City Middle School tonight. We're very thankful to have you. Families, we're thankful to have you. We're really excited about the work that we get to do at Garden City Middle School on a daily and we're excited to share that
029work with you tonight. Um we'll try to keep it brief, but bear with us. Uh we're going to dive into some data. We're going to look at programs that we have in place and we're going to talk about our plan to go forward for our students and our staff. So stick with us and we'll we'll get there at the end. Our first highlight tonight is looking at our three MYIP goals. Our first goal is to increase the number of students who pass their common assessments with a 78% or higher by 5% in every core academic area. That's math, social studies, science, and ELA. Our second goal is to decrease the number of suspensions by 5% from our previous school year. And so we'll look at data that supports our trends in that area. And then
030our third goal is to reduce the number of students who experience excessive ab absences, which can be defined by 10 or more days per school year, by 10%. So we're looking to take that average down in a in a pretty drastic way. And that's it's a big goal, especially considering where we are on the national scale where attendance is concerned. And so this was one of those big goals because takes a lot of work uh to define the reasons for why students aren't coming to school and and try to help support families and students to get them here and get them learning because ultimately that's always our goal is to have them in front of us and and to make the most impact. So those are the three goals that we have selected this year.
031The first point of data that we want to look at is our NWBA results. This is from our fall testing. So this is our baseline testing scores in the baseline uh tend to be our lowest of the year because we come back from the summer slide. We are looking at you know those first days of school. In fact we tested day three, four and five of school this year. So, we tested well before we started any instruction in our building so that we had a true baseline for our students so that we can really see where are we and where do we need to be. And so that is the data that we're looking at here tonight. I want to highlight one of the areas. Uh we're looking at 432 students overall. That top number
032represents all of our students, seventh and eighth grade. So, we get a brief snapshot. If we look at the yellow, oh, didn't mean to hit that. Let me go here. If we look at the yellow area up to the blue, those would be the students who are partially proficient to above and beyond that proficiency. So, if that gives you any indicator of where we're at, and we have over 57, we have 57% of our students in that range. So, that's a really good healthy range when you think about that. 50% being the the national average. So we're about 7% over that. But when we break those numbers down and we look at them individually, it becomes a different picture. It might seem like a different picture, but we want to look at that number as
033as a building. We are over 50% on that proficiency wheel. And so that's a good place to start at the beginning of the year. The bottom section, this breaks it down by grade level. our seventh grade, we're in about the 43rd percentile for where we want to be. So, we're about 7% lower than we'd ideally like to be. And our eighth grade, we're about 4% lower average where we would like to be. And this is in reading. So, what we're going to talk about are the steps that we are taking as a building to address these particular concerns whereas reading is concerned. And we will get to that data as we go through this presentation. I want to highlight for just a moment our average RIT scores for the beginning of this school year. For
0347th grade, we are at 209.6 and the norm average nationally is 212.3. So we're not too far off the cusp of where we should where we would like to be nationally. And if we look down at the eighth grade writ scores, we see a similar pattern. 213.3 is our starting point for the year. And the national normed average is 215.7. So we are just off off the cusp of where we want to be. It's a good place to start, but it's not where we're going to stay. That's not our goal as a building. That's not our goal as the administrators of this building. And we're working toward that every single day to make sure that we can see that dial up because there are direct correlations with this performance, MSTEP, PAT, and then the day-to-day
035performance in our classrooms. And we as a staff look through that data and we constantly let that drive the decisions that we're making. We're going to talk more about that. For our mathematics, we had 435 students test. If we again add up those averages, we have 46% of our students in that range of partially proficient to above proficiency. And we rank all grades in the 37th percentile. When we look down at the bottom and we break that achievement up by grade, we can see that our seventh graders have a higher average in that upper echelon and our eighth graders are a little bit lower. We have 63% of our students in that lower area, that needs improvement area. And that's where we're going to target our interventions and that's where we're going to target our
036focus to help support those students to kind of close that gap from top to bottom. Looking at those RIT averages again, beginning of the school year comparatively, if we look back, not that we're ever going there again, but year-to-year, where are we? We are right on par with where we were last year as a seventh grade. So, our seventh grade baseline is comparable uh across the board and we are 3.2 below that normal national average. In our eighth grade, we did drop down 1.4% uh in our scores and we continue to be a little bit below that normal average. And so, we are looking at ways as a math team to dive into the data and say where are we going wrong? What do we need to do? And in having these conversations uh through
037grade level meetings where we've met with high school teachers and elementary teachers, we've talked about why might we be seeing these gaps? Because again, this is the beginning of the year. So these especially the seventh grade scores, these are the students are just coming to us. Why are we you know at this point? What are we missing? What do we need to change that we're doing here so that we can have better impact on the students? And in having those conversations, uh, we've talked about some of the gaps that might have been missed because of placement in terms of advanced, uh, learning in fourth grade and and where we're we're missing those marks. And so, what can we do as a building to address those concerns so as to support these students and see that
038growth change? And really as a as a whole school district, how can we change that for the betterment of the future to where when students are coming to us at the seventh grade level, we're seeing those higher scores, meeting those normal averages. And then our science results, uh, science is unique. We are the only building in the district that takes the science test for NWA. This is the first time that our seventh grade students take it. So when we look here and we see we have 65% of our students at that proficiency or you know partial proficiency to above proficiency. It's a really great place to be especially with this being the first time that our students are being exposed to this material in this capacity [snorts] and it's one of those things that we
039want to celebrate and highlight because it's a really great place to start. When we drop down to the eighth grade, we see those numbers shore up just a little bit, but we still have 51% of our students in that range. So, we're staying above that national normed average as we are. Our average RIT scores between last year and this year did take a small dip. 6 uh in the seventh grade and then8 in the eighth grade, but we see that those norms are pretty well leveled out. uh we definitely want to increase that and we will talk more about how we're targeting that uh through exposure and experience uh with our students and initiatives that we've put in place to help support them. So while that is really good place to be almost close to
040the national averages, we want to we want to hit that and go beyond that uh in the near future. can't have this conversation without talking about our MSTEP and our PAP. And our building is very unique in that our students take the math and reading MSTEP as seventh graders, but they don't take it as eighth graders. Instead, they take the PAT uh for the eighth grade, the ninth grade, the 10th grade, and the 11th grade. Well, no, the eighth grade, nth grade, and tth grade. 11th grade, they take the SAT. So, one of the things that I would like to highlight here today and and really draw attention to is the change from proficiency in seventh grade. So, students who were proficient on the seventh grade MSTEP, our proficiency in the area of ELA grew
041by 27.4% last year with our students. You'll note that the year prior we were 37.1, but we're still seeing dramatic increase from year to year on that. And that gives me I take heart with that because that shows that good work is being done in that time period to really address that. The other thing that we focused on for the last three years is talking to students about that test and the impact of that test and why it is important to take time. Uh, our kids take a lot of tests and whether we love that or hate that, it it's where we are and we want to see their best work and encouraging them in that capacity and making sure that they understand how those scores impact their programming, how those scores impact the way
042that teachers approach their curriculum and and things of that nature. It's very important and I think it's a conversation that we're going to continue to have uh throughout with our students because we do see that significant change multiple years in a row and we want to continue to have that conversation. Looking at the math scores, we did see a dramatic dip in last year's math scores. We went down by 7.1%. So again, that did lead those conversations of what do we need to do differently in math so as to support our students so that we can start seeing the results that we know we should be seeing and that we know that are we're capable of of seeing with hard work and really targeted instruction. This is a look at our MTSS wheelhouse. We've got
043our academic and we have our behavior uh tier one, tier two, tier three. They're like Bible words for for teachers and educators across the world and for families. It's important to understand that a tiered focus represents that tier one is going to be provided for all students. That tier 2 is going to be provided for some students and that tier three is going to be provided for the really important cases where students really need that targeted and individualized support. And so when we look at that uh big picture-wise, we're looking at firming up core instruction in the tier one so that everybody has universal support. And that's that's really where we're we're gearing to go. If we're going to do it in that tier 2, tier three, why would we not do it in the
044tier one? And those are the conversations that we're having. And and and that's a mind shift. And it's a little bit of a change in the way that we give instruction and the way that we approach things, but it calls for differentiation and it calls for us uh to make sure that we're looking at essential standards. So that's been one of the big goals that we've had in our building for the last couple years and we're only uh firming that up by our work with Dr. G from solution tree thanks to the high school lending him and his expertise to us so that we can uh really bridge those learning gaps, provide interventions for students now instead of later and making sure that students know how to get what they need from their education. And
045so that's one of the big parts there. Uh we want to get past the I taught it into the point of students learned it in that tier 2 section. And we want to make sure that students have the opportunity to reflect on what they're learning and and share that out. And so we do that through a lot of differentiation. Uh our MTSS meetings are held almost weekly. I won't sit here and say we've made every single week, but we really do try to come together weekly as a support staff and as administrators to look at what particular needs are we seeing, what kind of behaviors are we seeing, what kind of uh performance are we seeing, what patterns are there to that uh data that we have and how can we adjust the sales for
046that small group of students who might need that additional help. And then that intense intervention. Uh we're going to talk a little bit more about that later, but really these are the students who now's the time. This is the place. How can we really dive deep with them on a onetoone level whenever possible? And so that's the work that's done there. Then when we look at the behavioral side, uh we are in year four of our PBIS implementation in this building. and and they'd done it prior, but uh my first year here as an assistant principal, I you know, kind of took the bull by the horns. Let's get this in place. Let's process this. And I would love to say that I think we're getting results this year that I didn't think possible just
047looking at it. And we're going to talk more specifics about that, but we're talking about that on the tier one level. And until you have that strong tier one, you really can't talk about tier two, tier three with a lot of um wherewithal and and a lot of planning because your your tier one isn't shored up. And so we are in the early stages of we know we have a firm tier one. How can we really tie in that tier 2, tier three to give a full scope for our students? And so we're really happy uh to announce that we are in those stages of implementing the tier 2 and tier three. and Megan and I will talk more about that in just a moment. >> All right, so here are some things that we
048are doing to help address some of our goals. So these are all things that we're doing that were in progress. First, we have our homework club that meets weekly. This is an opportunity for kids to stay after school. There's a certified teacher. Our counselors stay after students have an opportunity to work on missing assignments or just assignments that maybe are not done they need a little extra help with. there's a teacher that's able and willing to help them. Uh we have our science tutoring. They meet monthly to review concepts and again allow students another opportunity for that hands-on experience uh within the content that they're working. Uh I'm excited and we're excited. This year we have a teacherled guiding coalition. So the teachers are working together to kind of come up with our intervention plan.
049um they are we we've we've met they have given the plan to the rest of the staff um and we're looking at ways that we can in uh include an intervention support plan for our students. We're doing this under the guidance of Dr. G with that focused PD uh to help us make sure that we're we're doing this the right way. In addition to that, uh we do have an intervention for reading, uh reading for all apprenticeship through West Ed. This is targeted for grades eight and nine. We're obviously only doing it for our eighth graders. This is meant for students at least two years behind in grade level reading. Those are those students that were in the red. When we look at NWA, uh they do not have an IEP. They do not have
050a disability. uh they are just at risk and we're trying to really close those gaps and give them targeted instruction. They meet daily for an entire class period. Uh they are assessed on grade level content uh and they're working in grade level content. So there's students that are struggling with that grade level work. they're getting uh right on time instruction to help scaffold and support so that they're able to work through the content that they're needed to be successful and to continue on. Um, and what we've seen so far in this first semester is that 100% of our students have showed growth in the reading unit. We just started the social studies unit, so we don't have any data on that yet to see the growth there. Our next mykip goal that we are focused
051on is our suspension reduction. Again, our goal is to decrease those suspensions by 5% from year to year. Uh the blue bars represent last year's data. Our yellow bars represent this year's data. And so when we look at this, you're like, Brandy, those numbers are a little bit higher. And you'd be correct. uh we are still working on that response to how can we support uh our students, how can we help them make better decisions, but there are those non-negotiable moments that you know call for a suspension. We do always consider our seven factors and and those are are often you know carry they carry a lot of weight and a lot of conversations between Megan and myself uh as we consider them. But the one thing that we must consider is that this year
052we are up in enrollment by about 30 students. So it's not apples to apples as far as numbers go when we talk averages. It's not to say that they're overcoming this, but it it's not as bad as it looks just because we do have more students. Uh the other thing to consider is the fact that we have a lot of uh targeted behaviors that we are focused on and working with our special ed team on addressing because we we we've got those behaviors that are manifesting as a result of disabilities uh that are already documented. And so working within that parameter and and trying to better support students and find better or more appropriate placements for them has been the work of our team and and that's what we're going to continue to do. And
053uh we're going to talk Megan's going to talk in just a moment about how we are utilizing alternatives to suspensions so that we don't have this high of a number. Right? So with alternatives to suspension, this is when we look at the seven factors and we try to determine what else can we do to support behavior. So uh through our PBIS, we have the pause room. This is an opportunity for students that are maybe having a difficult time with classroom expectations that need just a little break. They get to take a break, reset, have some reflection questions. What was behavior? How can I fix this? Hopefully get right back to class. And we're seeing a lot of students that are taking that break, able to go right back to class and get back to learning.
054Uh and that's been able to help them. Uh this works when you know students and the teacher can oftent times have restorative meetings uh and studentto student restorative meetings if there's peer conflict. We have afterchool and lunch detention. So after school is held weekly on Thursdays. Uh and our lunch detention is held as necessary. So that's another opportunity for uh students to oftentimes if it's lunch detention they might be meeting with an admin or another teacher. Um but the teacher that supports with the afterchool detention will also talk with students and uh that can tend to be restorative as well too. We have parent meetings and wraparound meetings to help our students uh especially as Brandy was talking about some of our students with special needs where we're determining if it's a manifestation of their
055disability wrapping in all of their support so that we can figure out uh how we can best support them in a learning environment so they can stay and continue to learn. Uh [clears throat] we give them opportunities for community service and restitution if the consequence would fit for that. Uh and then social work and counseling referral system. So if we're noticing a pattern of behavior, we can refer them to our social workers and our counselors. We have a full-time gened social worker this year. So that really helps uh to uh provide social emotional learning for our students that wouldn't qualify to get some of that extra help within the IEP with the special ed social worker and then continued professional development with staff meetings and just the work that we're doing together to support social
056emotional learning and alternatives to suspension. And our last goal, uh, absenteeism reduction. Our goal again, reduce the number of students who miss 10 plus days of a school year by 10%. Uh, these are obviously numbers that are results to date. But if you look here, we have 80.7% of our students who are without chronic absenteeism, which is a huge boost for our numbers. I I raise my hands and shout looking at that because it's a much better place than we were last year at this time and we ended up at 62.6%. So our goal would be to be no lower than 70.7%. So in order to do that we are going to have students uh identified as at risk for truency. So when we get that 5-day letter, we are talking about what do we
057need to put in place now? Uh parent and student meetings uh to help provide early interventions and supports. A lot of time this is a factf finding mission. What's going on? What what what is the causation of this? Sometimes it's family situations. Sometimes it's transportation. Sometimes it's we took a family vacation in September and and this is where we are. But, you know, God willing, they'll be here every day thereafter. So, it's it's really just a factf finding mission to find out what's going on so that if there is a need for support, if a student is struggling uh with their peers or if they're struggling with anxiety, we can give them that onetoone time with our social workers or with our counselors to talk about those targeted needs and provide plans for those needs
058so that we can be accountable to them and their families in order to support their attendance, their regular daily attendance in our building. Additionally, our MTSS group meets to highlight next steps for students who might be experiencing that truency. Uh so that you know the answers in the room and we're going to come up with the answer together so that everybody's got a voice in that process. So just talking a little bit more about PDIS positive behavior interventions and supports. Um so here are some of the things that we have been doing this year. We had our kickoff assembly at the very beginning of the year on day two. Uh it was led by Brandy and I. We separated by grade level. We went over the expectations uh and let our students know, you know,
059ways that they could be safe, responsible, and respectful in all areas of the school. Uh cougar coupons is an opportunity for teachers to uh call out students that are doing the right thing in that moment. So frequent and often rewards within those cougar coupons. Students are able to use those for many different things. Purchasing uh a seat at the high tops in the cafeteria when the weather is nice, they can during lunchtime they can play outside. Um go to the gym during lunchtime. Um and then through different incentives, we always have like additional things that they can buy with their cougar coupons. We have a weekly focus that we announce every day in our morning announcements. that's what teachers are looking for every single day talking about these. So continuing to reinforce the expectation and
060then our monthly rewards uh at the end of the month we have you know base it on what are we trying to improve and then we can look at that data and determine you know have we met that goal. These are just some photos of our students in action. This is our PBIS assembly at the beginning of the school year. Uh we were quizzing students on whether or not they knew the expectations. So you step to the right if the answer was true, you step to the left if the answer was false. So they were having fun with that and the winner earned a prize and we had some pretty cool prizes there. Uh we also threw in a dodgeball game for those who were able to pass their test. Uh and it was students
061versus teachers. So they got to uh play with the teachers. They I think they won. Actually, this is like my first time here that they won. And I'm not proud to say that out loud, but they did. And then uh some lightning round to close that out. And really the call was to get anybody who wanted to be involved and on the court and and participating in these activities, giving them the opportunity to do so. And that is PBIS. It's for everyone. Every student every day has the chance to have a positive day. And and that's how we start our day. That's how we end our day. And I really love being able to stand up here before you and tell you that I think that the students and staff of Garden City Middle School
062are buying in to what we're doing here. And the data to support that is on average 95% of our students are qualifying for that monthly incentive, which if you know anything about the tiers, the the ideal space is 80 20 15 80 155. We're really reducing that and we're really proud of that work. In fact, in December, 25% of our student body qualified for a VIP experience. We had Home Alone for the holidays where we showed Home Alone on the last day of school and students could buy snacks and hang out and enjoy time with their friends at the end of the day. But our VIP experience was down in the gym. We had a blow up movie screen, had it loud on the speakers, and they came with a free delicious slice of cheese
063pizza just for them in honor of Kevin Mallister. And third uh 127 students earned it. We received over 3,000 Cougar coupons in the month of December turned in for incentives alone. That's 3,000 caught doing great things moments that were celebrated in one month alone. So, we're really happy to see those numbers. Another great thing that's happening to support our science uh students, we go to science for tomorrow at the University of Michigan. This is an opportunity for our students to one see what I would say is the greatest university in all the land. uh go blue, but two to spend time with scientists in the premier people in their area of studies. And so this is uh pictures of our students doing DNA processing to determine if the DNA was from the same characterization and
064then the black light to determine if that's the qualifier. So, spending a lot of time doing that. Each one of these uh tools cost $5,000. Uh they let us know that after the kids had already started using them. [laughter] And I stood up and I said, "Okay, we're going to be very careful now, right?" Uh but just having access to those kinds of materials and and having access to the minds that were in the room is is just second to none. And we are very fortunate that we can provide that for our students. And uh we do this almost every month. It's it's about every month and a half that we go over to the university and we're able to eat with the college students. They get to go to a college dorm hall and
065and enjoy food and you know their eyes get really wide and big and they're like, "Oh, hey, ice cream machine." And so they're they're living their best lives and learning a little bit more about science every time we get to go. This here uh is the meet with the PhD candidate. So all of these candidates were uh sharing their dissertations with our students. So their areas of study uh in which they are the primary expert in that particular area. So listening to the conversations between our students and the scientists, I had one kid never would have pegged him. He walked up and he goes, "Did you know that I wanted to be an archaeologist?" I was like, "I did not know that. And now I'm so glad that we are here. Uh so we are
066very fortunate to get to do this and we're grateful for that partnership with the U and we look forward to uh doing more of these events uh as the years go on. >> All right. So uh we also have a weekly uh family newsletter that we send out every week. It's just a snippet of uh some of the things that are happening. There's a partner with us section. So if there's um a new Tik Tok trend that might be causing some problems, we let the parents know about it, help partner with us. Um and then we just highlight some of the great things that are happening here. Um and that goes out to our families weekly so we can partner with them and they can work with us together. And our last point that we
067want to highlight are the extracurricular activities that are offered to our student. While we are a small school district, we take great pride in knowing that our students have a many opportunities to get involved. Uh, in fact, if we look over here at our clubs, uh, some of those are from the imagination of the children themselves. And they'll walk up to you and they'll say, "Hey, can I start a Dungeons and Dragons club and I say, if you get five people who want to do it with you and an adult to sponsor it, I'm here for it." And and that's how those things come to life. And so, we're really excited about those clubs that we have here in our building and the opportunities that they afford to our students. And then I want to
068highlight too uh our sports offerings. Uh girls basketball. This is our first year in my time here where we have not had trouble fielding two separate teams. So I'm really excited about that. And our wrestling team, we had over 25 kids try out, including a number of our girl students, which is huge because at the high school level, I believe we only have one girl wrestler. So really growing a program and and and getting back to that. We're really excited to see that and our kids are coming out full force trying to get involved and we're really looking forward to that. And then I I would be remiss to not comment on the fact that starting in 2026, we are super excited to offer football and cheering for cheerleading for our students. Uh this is
069a great way for our students to have school pride and still do the sports that they love. And so we're really looking forward to what that's going to bring to our our student body and we're just really excited to be here at Garden City Middle School. are excited to do the work that we get to do with our students every day. Any questions? All right. Thank you. [applause] >> Thank you both. >> Comments from the audience focused on today's agenda. And we have >> Oh. Sorry guys, I skipped I skipped the whole session. >> Let me cross my I didn't cross it off. So that's fine. It's a board presentations. We're going to start with uh PTA presentation. >> You can just talk wherever you want. Hello. Um, I didn't and item B, administrative presentation.
070Back to you, BL. >> Yeah. All right. Thank you. Thank you everyone. We appreciate the gifts. >> Okay. So now really moving on to comments from the audience focused on today's agenda and we do not have any this evening. Moving on item 12, election of officers. A um accept and act on nominations for president. Are there any nominations for president? >> Madame President, um I would like to uh nominate you to remain our board president, uh Jamie Picassio >> for the next year. >> Is there support? >> Support. >> Any discussion? All in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? Right. Thanks, guys. >> Item B, accept and act on nominations for vice president. Do we have any nominations? >> Madame President, I'd like to nominate Mr. George to serve as vice president. >> Is there
071support? >> Madam President, I would also like to nominate Miss Rafie to continue as president. >> We have support. >> Any discussion? Um, never had this happen. So, [laughter] >> we have we have actually you said to vote. >> So, we just vote one one person at a time. >> Uh, everybody just all in favor of I think one and all in favor of the other, I believe. Right. >> Do you remember? It's been a few years. It's been quite a few years. >> So, we have each person vote for who they want, Kathy. Each person votes for who they want. Okay. So, we do like a roll call. >> A roll call vote. Okay. Can we have a roll call? Well, we have stain, right? >> Yeah. >> That's awkward. >> Or okay. For
072yourself, >> we'll start with Scott George. >> I vote for Scott George. [laughter] >> Jason Malloy. >> Sarah. >> I'll vote for myself earlier. >> What? children Sarah and Jamie. I'm gonna go with Sarah for the next year. So that's everybody. So, uh, with five votes, I believe that Sarah Rafi will be our vice president for the next year. [applause] Okay. Accept and act on nominations for secretary. Do we have any nominations? Madam President, nominate Miss Budabra for secretary. >> Any other nominations? Any discussion? Okay. All in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? All right. Congratulations. [applause] >> All right. Item D, accept and act on nominations for treasure. Do we have any nominations? >> Madam President, >> Mrs. Pall, >> I nominate Margie Sanders for treasure. >> Support. I would like to nominate Scott.
073I'm sorry. >> Oh, thank you. >> Okay. >> Do we have any discussion? >> All right, Kathy. >> Margie and Scott. >> Scott. Childress Chase Marty Sanders >> Sarah >> Margie >> Scott George >> and Jimmy >> you guys I told you not to tie >> [laughter] >> as president. >> Oh. Um, I'm gonna stick with Margie for another year. >> Okay. We still have other stuff. Okay. Item 13, the approval of the general consent agenda items. A, regular meeting minutes of December 8th, 2025. B, closed meeting minutes of December 8th, 2025. C, building committee minutes of December 8th, 2025. And D, curriculum committee minutes of December 8th, 2025. A motion is in order. >> Support. >> All in favor? >> Any opposed? Okay, motion passes. 14, new business, a human resource report. Mrs. Williamson.
074>> Thank you, Madame President. The human resources report this evening reflects the termination of one member, the resignation of another, and the onboarding of a new teacher for BTC. So, if there are no questions, my recommendation is to accept the report as presented. >> Motion is in order. So, move. >> Any discussion? All in favor? I. >> Any opposed? Motion passes. Item B, notification of request for proposals of network infrastructure augmentation. Mr. Johnston, >> where's that mic? >> Good evening everyone. >> Uh you have in front of you a memo. uh we we will be going out for a proposal to add to our existing network infrastructure. Uh we are going out and this is an E- rate project if anyone's not familiar with it. Date is uh federally funded program that program uh generally
075everything is based on free slush. uh previously we're around the 80 20% meaning the the actual funding from the universal service fund is about 8% of the project and we have to pay about 20% of the project. I believe the scope of this project will be approximately $600,000. So it will now be posting on Thursday. It'll also be post posted to a state 470 forum. So, everyone will be able to get on this and hopefully we get good price. Any questions? >> Okay. Thank you. >> Right. Item 15, comments from the audience. And we do have one, Mr. Bennett. high school today and it is none other than Disney's Frozen. >> That's exciting. I didn't hear that. That's exciting. >> I didn't see any uh drama theater on your uh clubs. Uh we will have
076a junior cast. We have a junior cast for those that are familiar with the show. We have a young Elsa and Anna portray. So we are opening up auditions to the uh the district and the kids in the district to uh accompany the high school >> production. It will be um April 24th, 25th and 26th and we fully intend on that uh 25th performance of being a matinea at 2:00 that uh that will follow a pancakes with the princesses >> in the cafeteria. So, uh, we will fully endorse anybody, anybody that wants to wear their Elsa or Anna, [laughter] including you, Dr. Shotg. [snorts] [cough] [clears throat] Okay. So, yeah. So, look forward to that. Support the uh the high schoolers. Um, this is a uh this is a big show, but we got a
077big theater. We got 880 seats that we got to fill. So, uh any less than uh than that would be disappointing. So, just want to get that out there now. and the um high schoolers seem to be really excited about it when it was announced to them after school today. So, >> thank you again for having us. [applause] >> Thank you. Item 16, review and recommendation. Superintendent and other central office administrators. >> Madame President, thank you. Uh just a couple items. Again, just a shout out, congratulations to all of our above and beyond staff and our shining star students. And I just again want to echo my great appreciation for the work that's being done uh for the success of our kids and also for those kind souls who take the time to nominate and
078and reflect on uh recognizing both staff and student. Um on behalf of Wayne Resa, I do have a resolution I'd like to share in recognition of uh school board month. Uh this came from the board of Wayne Resa and Wayne Resa Superintendent Dr. Dvita Colbert uh for January of 2026. Whereas the promise of education shapes the future of 43 communities across Wayne County and strengthens the prosperity of our state and nation and the boards of education entrusted with the education of more than 20 260,000 students plays an essential role in ensuring excellence, equity, and opportunity for every student. And whereas these committed public service servants give generously of their time and expertise in service to the students, families, educators, and communities of Wayne County, exercising thoughtful leadership in shaping policy, program, and resources that ensure
079ADA educational excellence. And whereas as local leaders, Wayne County School Board members provide steadfast leadership and advocacy on behalf of students working collaboratively with policy makers in Lancing and Washington DC to advance educational priorities. And whereas understanding the critical importance of access, opportunity, equity, and excellence, Wayne County School Boards work diligently to advance student achievement, promote student well-being, and uphold safe, supportive, and inclusive learning environments. And whereas boards of education across Wayne County through strategic partnerships with families, community organizations, local industries, and higher education institutions have expanded opportunities, strengthened career pathways, and prepared students to excel in a complex and competitive global economy. And whereas the mission of public education is to honor the diverse strengths and needs of all students, empowering them to become informed, engaged, and productive citizens in a dynamic and everchanging
080world. And whereas the state of Michigan and the state board of education recognized January 2026 is schoolboard recognition month acknowledging, celebrating, and honoring the commitment, vision, and resilience of school board members across the state. And whereas schoolboard recognition month celebrates the champions serving on Wayne County boards of education whose oversight of preK through 12th grade and beyond helps ensure that all students are prepared to excel in a globally connected and competitive society. Now therefore, be it resolved that the Wayne County Regional Educational Service Agency Board of Education in celebration of schoolboard recognition month expresses its deep appreciation for the commitment, vision, and exemplary leadership of the Wayne County Schools and Boards of Education that was presented and adopted on the 17th of December 2025 by Wayne Rees Board of Education. So again, I want to
081echo those congratulations. Uh and as superintendent now for a number of years, I want to thank you as a board. uh for your commitment to serving the students Garden City Public Schools and for also for your commitment of recognizing that public education is indeed the cornerstone of democracy. We greatly appreciate your support and then all you do for your kids. Thank you. [applause] It's worth applause. Thank you. I can tell you we we're fortunate we've got a great board, so I very much appreciate their good work. Um, I want to also thank the Garden City Middle School team for their thoughtful uh, informative presentation tonight and really happy to see so many activities and opportunities for our kids to succeed and the great attention to detail uh, put on MTSS both for academics and behavior.
082Great work. Uh, very proud of our somewhat rambunctious facility dog over there, uh, Mr. Zade. Uh, and happy that we have Natalie recognized tonight. Um, we've done great work so far. Our two facility dogs, Zade, who is stationed here at the middle school and services the Marquette corridor of, uh, Lather's uh, Memorial and Farmington, and also Onyx, who has the remainder of our buildings home based out of Garden City High School, servicing Douglas, Cambridge, and the Burgger program. Been very well received by staff and students alike. Uh we're grateful for the good work that has taken place uh with the owner of Unleash Dog Training, Avery. And we're happy that we've got so far five folks trained up as handlers and certainly including Mr. English. And we're looking at another round. We've got we've gone
083through the training. Uh the uh testing is rather intensive. Takes about two and a half hours. So we're setting up another block of training so that the dogs can get around the the buildings. And we know that the handlers have been getting out there. Uh again, very wellreceived and um certainly as a dog lover, this is a great thing. But as what's really exceptional is to see how well the dogs interact with kids and how intuitive they are uh with reading kids and their emotions and bringing support. They're also pretty good at reading staff, too. And it was a joy having uh Zay join us in cabinet the other day, and we were hopeful that uh maybe he could swing by on our uh Wednesday all admin meeting, too. It's it's a good thing and
084we're proud to have the board support. We're grateful for the work that Mr. English did in securing the grants and we were really impressed by the uh receptiveness and enthusiasm of those staff members who wanted to be hosting handlers. So, shout out to everybody involved and we're really proud to get this project off the ground. So, um board we are, you know, we did approve the street strategic plan officially on December 8th, our last board meeting of the 2025 year. Mr. English. Uh Miss Williamson and I are going to be working throughout the week. Uh we'll be working in the ad all admin meeting on Wednesday. We'll be working in the uh leadership meetings moving forward and officially launching that strategic plan out to the uh district staff and community here uh this month and
085moving forward. So, we're happy to take that on and I want to thank you for your good work with that supporting that initiative as well. With that, any comments from the cabinet team at all? Dr. Shaka, >> good evening. >> Ju just a brief awareness that uh we have a school choice window application that is open this week and next week. And uh as you know, the School of Trace program is really special because School of Trace students and families unlike residents work uh hard to get into Garden City Schools. And it's a testament to our good product, the culture, the instruction, the staff, the facilities, and the general experience that out of district residents are seeking to join our Gordon City family. some of the unsung heroes in that uh school of choice process.
086Uh one of them is here today. I would say Dan York needs some recognition. He's hiding behind a speaker. [applause] Why does Dan need recognition? Dan is tirelessly updating our websites, creating advertisements, and strategically making sure that neighboring communities know about our good work and so they can join uh all the success we're having at Garden City. So, we're thankful to Dan. Thank you, Dan. Always available. Else. All right. Uh, next regular board meeting uh is Monday, January 26th, and central office will be the venue for that meeting. And you'll uh get the opportunity to uh meet Onyx, our other facility dog, during that meeting. Well, we will have a presentation kind of explaining the whole process uh and maybe see Onyx in action a little bit uh so the board can be uh fully
087informed on how we are utilizing the dogs in the buildings. And with that, that'll include my comments. Thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. Fiser. Item 17, review and recommendations. Members of the board, does anyone have anything this evening? President. >> So, um want to wish everybody a happy new year. I hope that all of our families and our staff were rested and uh and came back ready to go. Um thank you for your presentation. It was a great presentation. Um I love I love the focus on PBIS continuing at the secondary level. It clearly is making a difference. Um I'm really pleased to see um tackling attendance. It's an issue everywhere. That is not a Garden City issue and anybody in education knows that. but if we can't get them here, we can't teach them.
088So, um I love that that's a priority. And uh please thank your staff. Um make sure they know that we recognize their hard work and dedication because all the clubs, all of the MTSS, everything that's happening as a result of of their hard work. So, thank you. >> Anyone else? Okay. Item 18. >> Madam Madam President, >> Mrs. Ro, >> I move that we adjourn. Any discussion? All in favor? >> I. >> All right. Thank you everyone for coming this evening.