001Walt, come on. >> Yeah. Your facilities now. Bring the >> call to order. Stand for the pledge. I pledge algiance 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. >> All right. Can I do the roll? Oh, Bob's already got it. >> I got it. He's on it. >> He's on his favorite thing to do. Roll call, please. >> Wonder Jam here. Vanacus here. Gardin Campbell >> here. >> Dan Hibbo >> here. >> We have a quorum. >> Thank you. Uh please note as a courtesy of the members of the audience um and the board of education, please sign on to your cell phone. Public will only be able to speak during public comment if signed
002up. Do we have anybody signed up? >> No. >> Very surprised. All right. Thank you. Um can we get uh moving on approval of the agenda? Can I get a motion? >> So moved. support. >> All those in favor? Yes. >> Yes. >> Opposed? >> Motion passes. Number two, consent action agenda. Um, board regular meeting minutes. Can I get a motion? >> So, sorry. >> All those in favor? >> Yes. Opposed? >> Motion carries. >> 3 3A reports, discussion, back to school updates. >> Sure. So, just give you a little bit of an update. Uh looking forward to a great school year. August hits as I mentioned last time. My favorite time of the year and uh there's a lot of excitement, enthusiasm, a lot of people coming back. Had PD upstairs today. Uh had
003some some math professional learning going on. Great with the dialogue and everything. Enjoyed uh uh seeing people and just hearing them discussing things and learning about things. So just really excited about that. Um, we're putting the finishing touches on hiring. Uh, we had some hiring due to, you know, a few retirements and some changes and some shifts. So, uh, working that out right now. Uh, sent out our back to school uh, letter today to staff and, uh, we mentioned that our back to school kickoff is coming up on Thursday, August 14th. There's a little bit of change in the agenda. Um the the breakfast starts a little bit later this year. Um and I believe it's 8 8:15 that it starts. So um that's a little bit different, but other than that, everything's pretty much
004uh >> Are you doing that? Cuz you're hoping to get more people. >> We're um we uh Yes. And um also um our association asked if they could go first uh bright and early and so we we told them we'd give that a whirl and see how it goes for a year. >> Okay. So yeah, doing that. Um new teacher orientation Tuesday, August 12th. Uh and as I mentioned, professional learning opportunities are taking place all over. We had our administrative assistants back uh uh at the end of last week. We had like I said many elementary teachers uh here today with the illustrative math uh having some some experiences. So on Thursday this week all of our administration will participate in a retreat and we'll be focusing on our two emphasis areas which I mentioned
005before. Number one identifying a guarant guaranteed and Bible curriculum. Uh so really taking a look in what's essential for every student to know and be able to do. Make sure our grade levels, our departments are all on the same page. Not that we haven't done that before, but we're just really trying to focus and strengthen that. And number two, uh which I did a presentation on teacher and student clarity, making sure un kids understand not only what they're learning, but why they're learning it and how they'll know when they're successful. So, uh, so we'll be spending some time, uh, mainly with that. On Thursday, uh, back to school events are ramping up, uh, over the next few weeks. Parents, uh, should have some communication from the buildings. Uh, I know the middle school and high
006school both have a summer newsletter they called it, I believe, and it's on their website. As soon as you go there, boom, that's the first thing that pops up in case parents are wondering about dates and activities that are going on. Elementary tends to be principal is sending out that back to school letter as well. So, um, when in doubt, go to the website. If you don't find it, um, and I guess I'm talking to the people out there, but, um, if they don't find it, just please call us. We'll help you get get that information. Uh so you know we still as you know we don't have a budget uh yet for this year. So we're still using our best guess uh that we had and we're we're moving along and uh just being
007cognizant of that and cognizant of the fact that we don't have anything concrete. We hope to have something uh before school. Uh but I don't my opinion I don't think we will. I think it's going to be gonna be a while. So, >> I bet it's going to be midepptember. Could be. Could be. Anyway, we'll keep you posted on that. Um, and again, just eagerly anticipating the beginning of school on Monday, August 18th. Uh, everyone's back in the offices. So, if you get questions as a board or if parents have questions, anyone out there, they should be able to contact their buildings and not have any issues getting a hold of people because they are are definitely back uh with that. And um you know, a suggestion I'm giving especially to early uh parents or
008parents that are new in our district is, you know, it's so important for your your kid to have ownership of where they go to school. you know, this is my building. Um, and I, you know, parents always give them suggestions, especially like at a kindergarten age that, you know, when you know what school your son or daughter are going to, take them to the playground and say, "Yeah, this is your playground and this is your school." And start that your school, your playground. Because you want them to to, you know, you want to start instilling that in them. Yes, this is my school. And you want them to have that ownership because when they have that ownership, they tend to connect with other kids, adults, and people uh much better. So, I highly encourage them
009to do that. So, if you have anybody that says any suggestions before school starts, I would tell them, "Yeah, do that." That's it's one of the best things you can do for your kid to feel comfortable when they do get here if they've already seen the playground, seen the school, and they have that feeling of, yeah, this is my school and this is my playground. I think that's a wonderful thing. Other than that, do you guys have any questions regarding the school? >> Are we doing um so have we taken delivery of the buses yet? >> Not don't think so. Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> And that's coming along over there. If you haven't noticed, it's really coming along. Uh we're we're excited. And we'll have we'll have some kind of uh you know,
010celebration of that as well when we get there. Uh working on the equipment inside right now. Working on the um also the tools and so on. uh you know um we've had been very fortunate. Weller has helped us with you know uh suggestions from uh from a tool person as well. So just very excited about what that's going to bring to our kids and to our community. >> Um do we have a full contingent of bus drivers? I mean is there any issue with that? Because I know a lot of districts are >> Yeah, we're always looking for bus drivers, but we've been pretty fortunate. We've had a lot, you know, a lot of our bus drivers tend to stay. Um, and we're very uh appreciative of that. Um, but we're always looking for some
011because you do, you know, it sometimes with all the events and activities and so on, you you need people or if people something happens with a family and person can't do it for a while or somebody gets sick or something, it's always important to have backup experienced backup people. So that's good. >> We're really looking for that as well. But I don't believe we have any. Have you heard anything, Heather? >> No. >> Yeah. Okay. You said we're always looking, >> right? >> We we onboarded one. We're going to on board one more. Um we have two drivers um in our uh on our team that are reserve drivers. So we they pick up all the empty routes, we guarantee that they'll get 20 hours a week. And then when there's a new route that
012opens or somebody retires or resigns, they'll typically roll into that, add hours onto their days, and then we try to rehire with that reserve driver route. sort of like having a long-term substitute that comes all day every day. >> Um, and if there are no runs for them to do, they help our mechanics move vehicles and do some of the the small things like seat cushions >> on the buses. Just stuff that they can putt away at and have a value add in that moment. So, >> okay, good. No, great. We don't have too much in the way of construction or anything like that going on on either the buildings or the roads, right? Because they always think of the beginning of school, right? What are the the big thing that happens is, you know,
013the bus routes and this and that, right? We all remember we all remember what happened in the middle school, you know, first open, right? You know, get that flow of traffic and how do we get that figured out? Um, but we really don't have anything major this year, do we? >> And Sentry Park boilers finishing off the fire next week. Make sure everything's good there. >> Um, and then really it's just transportation. Yeah, >> we haven't heard any like county projects or city projects. >> They did a good job getting a lot of the things done and and they they always work with us on >> on that too and try to work around things and if something is happening or maybe not on schedule, uh city manager calls me all the time and will
014say, "Hey, Raj, just so you know, we got this and I know he's in they're in contact with Arwin all the time." >> Good. I just see a sign that they were remilling Chicago Drive 11 or something >> something. Yeah. Yeah. >> Shut it down for 12 hours. >> Yep. >> Hammer it out. So, >> it's all right. Get her done. >> Yeah. >> Good. >> All right. >> Anything else? >> No. Thanks. All right. Appreciate it. >> Thanks for your attention. >> All right. Seeing there's no public comment, um move on to the next regular meeting of the Granville Board of Education will be Monday, August 18th at 7 p.m. at this various location, the administration building. We are adjourned.