001business showing appreciation for the ongoing support of schools. Your work has benefited our community and helped us achieve our goal of challenging every student to reach their his or her maxendry works closely with our chamber of commerce certainly business person of the year also and So worked very closely to life. >> Yes. Appreciate it. >> Bye, Tracy. How did we do that? >> Clearly, we didn't rehearse. >> So, um, recognition. So, we're on to presentations. So, >> we approved it. >> Construction project. >> So, we're on on to uh the school construction project updates. So, Good evening, gentlemen. Haven't seen y'all in like a month. >> Good evening. Yes, it's been a while, hasn't it? >> So, um, wanted to dive into the CTE project and, um, if you I mean, you don't you only
002have to drive by to see the the significant changes that are taking place. Um, so this is a view from the front of the building from from the highway. And so on the left side of your screen, that's the Little Lions uh, space. And then to the right of the screen is going to be the main office area. So you can see all that's up and uh in fact the crane was uh delivered I think today to go ahead and start to set the steel for this section of the building. Um so this is um I know it's a long hallway. It's a really wide hallway. It doesn't look so in the picture, but that hallway is 16 feet wide. So, it's extremely wide when you get in it. Um, that's looking down from the
003little lions uh if you came in from the playground area. That's uh kind of the end of the building. So, the far side of the building looking down towards uh central office on the far end. And um this is inside the little lion's uh lab area. So, that's two classrooms that you'll have right there. Um and then that's a work room that you see where the scaffolding is set up. You see that doorway right there? That's a storage and and a workroom area. Um, this is the kitchen area for culinary arts. >> Now, that looks huge. >> It is huge. Yes. There's some walls that are going to go in the back. It'll get broken up some, but it's a it's a really large space. And this is directly across the hallway from that. So,
004this is looking at the the two conference room areas. So, right now it looks like one large room, but where you see that that steel beam going down the middle as a divider, um there'll be a divider that goes up and down uh that will separate that from one space to two spaces. And then in the hallway where you see those steel beams, there'll be um doors again that will go up and down that can open that space. So, if you need even more space to open up to the hallway, you'll have that availability as well. Um so I wanted to show this. This is the electrical um lab space. Uh this does not have a classroom with it. And so as you look in and you see the the steel plate there, that's um
005a mezzanine. Uh so um four of these lab spaces have mezzanines in them. So I have a space for storage up above and we'll get to see what that looks like in just a second. Um, this is looking into one of the uh labs, the residential construction that does have a classroom space. So, you can see the classroom inside there. And again, you see the mezzanine on top. >> What's a mezzanine? Sorry. >> A mezzanine. Uh, it's a it's a a metal structure. In fact, it says concrete as a floor. Uh, and so if you look here, you see that area above the the classroom? >> That's a mezzanine. >> Oh, okay. And so that will be sheetrock off and there'll be different storage areas up above. So we're trying to better utilize the space
006that we have available because you have these tall ceilings in these workspaces. So why not use that uh for additional storage space. So here you can see that that storage will be up there. You see the door frames that are in place. Um and then the classroom below. All right. This is looking inside of the um nursing lab and it makes the dog leg left to go behind there. So, this is a very fairly large space. The windows you see on the left are a one of the two classroom spaces for the nursing lab. And now we've made our way all the way down to the end of the building. Um and so this is uh the beginning of the connector. So, if you rode by a few weeks ago, you saw all this woodwork
007on the end of the building. And so, I had people question me, are we building this out of wood? And which that was the framing for the concrete for the masonary work uh that needed to take place. And so, you can see that uh coming together here. And then this is a view uh from uh the outside. And they're putting the um the sealant on there to waterproof uh that area. Um, and so, um, out in front of this is more footings and the the pylon that you kind of see up against the other concrete work there. You see on each side of that image, that's where the the bridge will actually sit. So, that's where the bridge will sit down on that. And then about 12 feet in front of that will be another
008set of pylons that will go up uh to support that bridge structure. And again, that'll uh begin to be put in place over the summer. Um but over spring break we did do the footings up next to the high school. So all that's ready to go. >> So where is the bridge go to? >> Uh the bridge is going to connect to this here and then it's going to connect to uh the second floor classroom on the corner of the high school. >> Uh that that classroom will end up being converted into a transition hallway and then a couple office spaces as well. >> And So, I'll let uh talk about change orders. >> Yep. So, before we talk about the change orders, uh just to give you a look ahead, um what's coming up
009for the building this summer, uh we are going to have a busy summer and there's going to be some significant changes. Um you're going to see the roof finishing up probably the end of June. Uh if you drive by the building in the daylight, you can see all the roofing materials stacked on top of the building. Uh they're they're they have begun installation. Uh should U both the high and low sections of the roof by the end of June. Uh the canopy, the outside canopy that um that CT folks will work under that covers the whole back side of the building uh will be put up in June. Um rooftop AC units are going to start showing up as soon as the roofs in as it's going in. They're going to be uh craning on
010our rooftop AC units in the month of June. And of course, the work on the secure connector will start after the last day of school. They're going to get rolling on that. and um that'll be ready to to roll. Um it'll be obviously barricaded off, but it'll be ready to roll uh by the time school starts. So, those things are up and coming. Uh they've got a lot of things moving moving this summer. So, as far as change orders go, uh we don't have any for either the middle school project or the CT project this this goound. Uh currently with the I'll do the middle school first. Currently with the middle school uh we have spent $23,180,97742 which represents 89.17% of our budget. Uh we are 99.63% uh complete. We have one more payout to
011do um and they're finishing up some of the uh change order items and then we'll deal with retainage. Uh and that's all we have left. So uh everything is essentially complete there. CTE building. Uh we have spent $14,59,12066. This represents 36.94% of our budget and we are 42.54% complete with that project. Uh we are rolling. So um overall the question the question that you uh that you asked sir um we are under budget and we are on time >> so everything is roll. >> Are there any questions and so um again so by the the summer the end of the summer of what we're seeing on the picture here um how much of that will be in place? all of it and it except for the we we won't be broken into the the high
012school building yet, right? >> No, we won't have um I don't think we'll have broken into the high school. You'll see the the self structure in the roof portion of that, >> but it'll be all connected ready to >> they'll do a very similar to the middle school where they broke it and it's barricaded. >> Um they will have to make some connections. So, I mean there will be pieces of it. We won't be able to walk through there. So, we won't not have any traffic, but they will have to do some things. Um, it won't be complete like it's finished and you can walk through be much like I said like the middle school will have barricaded and they'll be working behind the scenes. Um, and there will be a lot of things that
013will be in various levels of conclusion. >> So, will we lose that classroom next year, beginning of next year? >> Yes. >> I'm sure y'all taking that into account. >> We have some. >> Okay. Fantastic. Any other questions? and I appreciate you always at the same question. >> Yes sir. So the two projects that we have talked about obviously we all know that Louisa is growing um for obvious reasons. Um our population is growing our student base is growing and we have to account for uh the space that we have available for them. The middle school edition added 500 seats um for the middle school bringing them up to 1565 uh student capacity. CTE center um added capacity to the high school and they'll now be at about 20 thou 20 2,72 uh students >>
0142000 20,000 that would be a very large >> that would be a large school yes a lot of construction you didn't know about happening so as Mr. IO pointed out we are growing and so uh as a division we felt it was important for us to do our homework because we needed to be prepared for tomorrow. Uh and so uh we contracted with an outside uh company uh to work through what that would look like. What are our birth not just what our birth rates are but what our projected increases in students. Um and so Mr. Downey you want to say anything about that? >> All right. So, as a result, we have Future Think that we'll be bringing up here in a second. U Tracy from Futures Think will be here and uh to
015share with what their findings are as far as um the uh survey that they have put together for us. >> Yeah. and really what they're looking at enrollment, what's our enrollment um looking like, what's the future enrollment, what are the what are capacities of our facilities, how are we um going to really maintain and make sure we're u ready for that enrollment increase, and then three, um additional facility where we need to put that facility knowing that we have growth really all over the county. So, I think that's what this presentation um that's that was the task at hand and we look forward to hearing that tonight. >> Can you hear me, Tracy? >> Yes, ma'am. a little bit of school. Share my screen through a quick presentation regarding each of those. >> Can you
016see that? >> Yes, we can. All right, >> perfect. So again, as we mentioned, our project scope included enrollment projection study um looking at the building capacities and a potential location of a new school. In terms of projection enrollment, we look at three mainers. Um one, the historical enrollment to the birth data, which helps us then project kindergarten six years later. and as well as new housing development. Over the last 10 years, um we've had of students for 13%. So, as we mentioned, lots of growth and really it occurred at all levels. We had an increase of over 300 students at the elementary level, an increase of 132 at the middle school, and an increase of 150 at the high school. So again, um, as we've seen that enrollment increase, it's been across the board
017terms of birth. Um looking at this table here from 2009 to 2023. Unfortunately 2024 is not yet available. Um they're still working on that data. I contacted the department of health um last week about that. Um but again we've seen increases in the number of births. So like you know we have population increases, we have the student enrollment increases and we have the birth increases as well. Um this part shows us so across the Commonwealth in Virginia we've actually seen a decline in the number of births. So Louisa County is kind of bucking that trend. There is also a significant amount of new housing development in the area. Um we have each of the developments listed their height total number of units which is at just over 4,100. So to date about,00 units have been
018built. So which leaves us with a little over 3,000 um yet to be um built. We have everything from currently under construction to you in the planning stages. So again this is going to occur over a period of time. um we have, you know, included all all of those pieces in terms of looking at our projected enrollment as well as where that growth is going to occur within the county. So, in terms of the projections, we did a five-year projection. Um looking much past five years, it can get a little bit fuzzy because not only are you projecting each of the grade levels, you also need to project the number of births. So to get you know those kindergarten years in the six through 10 year of a projection. So we for our planning purposes
019we wanted to look at five years. We feel very confident in those numbers and over that fiveyear period we're expecting an increase of um 654 students. again occurring across the gate um the grade levels at the elementary an additional 335 students um 161 students increase at the middle school and 158 at the high school. So in terms of looking at at our current enrollment as well as our projected enrollment in terms of the capacity at each of the buildings we're really at the elementary level right now right at capacity you can see Jwitz at 88% Knuckles at 95 Thomas Jefferson just a little over 100 or three students over currently and then um 99% at Pavilion. So again, look, this is looking back at that September 11th um town and um the capacities of each
020of those buildings convention at millions that does not include the um modular units that are out at there. This is just the strict building capacity. When we look at the capacity versus the moderate projected enrollment in that fifth year, we see that each of the schools jumps to well over capacity. So, um, at the elementary level totally at 108% where we really like to see elementary schools being is kind of in that 85% window. So, um, looking at that, we're really, you know, pushing the need for a new new elementary school to accommodate our current population as well as the future population. We also looked at the middle and high schools and um, right at you know, pretty good shape in terms of middle school at 77% at the high school 88%. And when we
021look at that versus the moderate projection in the fifth year again right at 87% for the middle school and 82% at the high school that addition um that we talked about. So really good shape as far as middle and high school goes. Okay. So the third part of our task was looking at potential of new school and where that might be located. We looked at several data points in terms of that you obviously location of the existing schools. Wanted to make sure we were able to balance between all of the schools with within 3 to 5% of capacity. Um in terms of looking at um boundary adjustments, keeping neighborhoods together, trying to maintain a balance of socioeconomics, provide of course room to accommodate the new housing and the growth based on that. um minimize travel
022times on buses and looking at if there is existing infrastructure in terms of water, sewer, electric and um how how that would play into that new school location criteria. So in terms that looking at the elementary schools, this map illustrates each, you know, where the locations are and then the color coded um showing the current attendance boundaries for each of the four existing schools. We also looked at where the new housing developments are located and as you can see it's kind of across the county. Um but there are some concentrations particular we in the Moss Knuckles and the Thomas Jefferson um current attendance boundaries. Take a look at that. Um with JW there are four developments currently um 28 units. In Moss Knuckles there are six developments with um just over 1,671 units. Thomas Jefferson
023has 11 developments with 1,335 units and then there's one development in Trabillions with five units. So in terms of looking at all of the recommendations based on the enrollment study with the increasing enrollment looking at the capacities recognizing that the elementarymentaries are pushing capacity right now and is only going to be further um sasperated by that new growth based on the housing. Um, so in terms of, you know, those criteria that we talked about too, if looking at with a new school opening, keeping neighborhoods together, balancing um, capacity within that 3 to 5% window, looking at the socioeconomics, looking at travel times and distances, u existing infrastructure if that's in place. really looked at a new school should be located in the central part of the county. It's also important because that central location would
024also allow a pool of students from all of the existing schools to provide that enrollment for the new school as well as allowing room for growth and accommodating that as as we move into the future. So, further looking at that, there is a property identified that's already owned by the county and that meets all the criteria, which is parcel 4295, which you can see here in colored um with this brown star. It's adjacent to the middle school location. Um this, you know, we landed on this parcel for a variety of reasons. It's in that central location. it it's already owned by the county so we avoid you know land purchase. Um infrastructure is in place so we don't have you know we can save some significant cost there not um having to put in that
025infrastructure and it really you know meets the needs of all of that existing criteria um that we talked about. So that's really you know kind of where we've landed in terms of the recommendation. So with that, I would be happy to turn it over for questions. >> So if any board members have any particular questions, >> thank you for that. Really appreciate that. Tracy, I was going to ask you this myself. I know there was some conversation about there were certain developments that you felt would not necessarily increase the number of students. There were a few housing developments within the county >> that did not necessarily um such as I remember one of those cut along that's really not going to have an impact and my understanding from you was you were taking those into
026consideration as you made this decision. >> Correct. The cutalong and the lake resort both of those we expect little to no um students from those developments. Um so yes and that you know the cutalong particularly with 891 units is you know it's fairly significant but yes we don't expect um to see a lot of students coming from there >> and if I was following it looks like in terms of the current area was going to have the the most growth it's really this the middle of the county and that's sort of represented by um I guess the lost knuckles and TJ >> percentages Yes. Yes. Now if we I can flip back to that math >> was at 88% but I think if I remember correctly that we use that for specialty schools so that
027we can't put as many students because of uh the students that we have there are limited to the number so that actually the ad is a little deceiving because actually we the student population is different about the program. Yeah, the programs that are there are what that's a great point because of the specialist programs that we currently have at the capacity not necessarily the student capacity not necessarily the building capacity that is >> Mr. You said pedal and you don't expect to be any school children in that >> correct. Yeah, we expect little um to no students coming out of there. >> I mean I just wonder we hear not going to be a whole lot of kids a lot of playground in the backyard but even if it comes in that would be in
028common area. still be coming right there in the center of this >> basically count on one end on the other end and then the other two are more central located here towards the center of the >> I think what what I'm hearing too is by putting it in the center it's going to allow it use it as a safe pull from all the schools. So as we as the growth happens, everything can sort of come to the closer to the the center and keep the uh keep the capacities about the same. Also, one of the things that we had asked you uh Tracy, we were working through this and something was going to be really important to us and our families was keeping travel distances to possible not pass school and get to another school.
029Exactly. >> And that was something that I think was you were taking to high account, correct? >> Oh, of course. >> Yes. Yeah. In terms of keeping that ne the neighborhoods together and making sure that Yeah. children weren't passing one school to get to another. Um and yeah, and minimizing the the travel times and distances. Um >> I'm sorry. Go ahead. >> I was just gonna in terms of when you're calculating that I know it's estimates that when you look at our longest travel time now for children on the elementary school bus with the school will it substantially reduce it or based on it on the model it's some that are still going to be about the the same length but none will be longer than they currently are a correct assumption. Um, yes, with
030some of the scenarios that we ran, um, they were definitely all under current travel times, but I wouldn't say they were significantly, um, reduced just because, you know, the size of the county, but um, certainly, you know, they were they were not getting worse and they're getting a little bit better. And then too on um you know where where those boundaries end up falling and the you know I mean there's lots of decisions that still need to be made before you know we can you know land on a solid answer for that but yes >> so other questions comments I would tell you Mr. chairman and I became sort of anecdotal the other day. There's one member of my family that's the house over Lake Hannah and they're expecting a child. So they went next
031door and the families who had just bought the house, they're expecting a child. So when we talk about Lake Hannah there there's lots of there's lots of people moving to that community. So we can't just rule out that oh they're all incomes and they're they don't have kids because the reality is Louisa is very desirable I assume we have the best court system in so you know I I say that people want to be here you know and so we can't you know can't say oh they're all late homes they're not their second homes but that's not the case there lots of people moving here to this is where they want to plant their roots >> right I would like to ask another thing, Tracy. So, u also when it comes to the shifting, so
032when we at another elementary school, we have the fifth zoning district. >> I think something to really make sure we understand is the fact that many students will be probably have to move schools, but not necessarily they're going to move from their school to the new schools. could be from their school to it could be several different moves here as we do this in the next few years. >> Yes. So yes, while some students moving would be going to the new school, others might be shifting to already existing schools just to get that balanced capacity and and talk about all the all those other criteria that we um mentioned in terms of those travel times, not going past another school, you know, all of those things. So yes, um >> the moves there would be
033moves beyond just to the new school. >> As I recall, when we opened up Lost Knuckles, we were we naively went into a thinking, you know, students would only be moving one direction to lost knuckles, but it it it's a multiffactorial move and then minimize that travel time, >> right? Right. >> And um for for me looking at this, I think this gives the board direction of where it needs to be located. Um there's still going to be a few years before that building is open. So in terms of, you know, what the district would look like and what we would need to do with that, that would be a conversation as all those variables that you mentioned could change over the next couple of years in terms of population growth. there may be more
034in the water um as Mr. Runner suggested in terms of growth that may be >> right >> could happen in the economy. So you know that's that's a future discussion about where the the lines will be but where u your recommendation is I think it's very helpful to the board to be able to think about our next step going forward. >> Great. Great >> clearly like something central located in those options no matter where it is but it's really the direction we need to go. Yep. >> Right. It does really provide flexibility because I wish I had a crystal ball and knew for sure where it all was going to be, but um I think giving, you know, allowing for that flexibility with your planning is is really going to be key moving forward. And
035and I appreciate you calling out that some of the things we take for granted in Louisiana, we've seen the growth rate, we've seen the increase in birth rates, but that's really going against some of the trends throughout the Commonwealth. >> Oh, absolutely. And across the country for that matter as well. Most, you know, of the divisions or districts I'm working with, we're looking at closing schools. So, this is a really great opportunity and a testament to the um division in the county um and what you all are doing that it's a place as you mentioned where people want to be and it's it's much easier to open a new school than it is to close them as I'm sure you're well aware so >> any final comments or questions for the other board members >>
036any final comments >> thank you very much this has been very very helpful we truly do appreciate it >> well thank you it's my pleasure to be with you tonight. >> Good night. >> So, on to the consent agenda as presented. >> Do we have a second? >> Second from Mr. Rund. Any further discussion? >> Didn't have a question about that. Well, yeah. I've got a couple >> on the bills for the diesel and fuel. Is that going to be enough money? >> Miss Cole, you mind coming up? I know Miss Kohl's has been paying close attention to fuel prices. Um certainly um diesel and regular and I know uh she probably has some hopefully some good answers for us. >> Thought you didn't have no more diesel. >> I'm sorry. >> I thought you
037didn't have any more diesel. >> We have diesel. Maybe not fuel, but we got helping the diesel somewhat. >> Thank you. Good evening, board members. >> Uh just to answer your question, uh yes, ma'am. Mrs. Hen, we should have enough diesel and gasoline to make it to the end of the school year with what we have and what we have on reserve for this year already. >> Um >> the prices really aren't and I'm almost ashamed to stand here and tell you what we because everybody's listening. But we do uh in the month of April, we were paying or we have been paying Yeah, we were because April's gone. We paid uh $441 per gallon for diesel and $3.15 per gallon for unlimited gasoline. Um, now the whole since the beginning of the school year,
038of course, the prices have fluctuated, going up, going down, going up, going down. Now they're on an upward trend. And but we because of what we have done leading into this season, if you will, we are in a better place than than alive. I've seen some news stories about other school divisions that are, you know, considering cutting back on some things. Of course, we use more fuel when we drive more. So, um, we don't have any more field trip for this year. Do have a lot of athletic events, but, um, so, you know, where we can save, we save. And when we have to use it, we have it. >> Okay. And I appreciate Miss Cole's um she's been really paying close attention because we have conversations almost daily about where are we with the
039fuel cost and so forth because we're seeing out there so many divisions are having to make adjustments uh because of the increased cost, but we're able to still get the fuel at a decent cost. We feel great about this school year. I would say the conversations that she and I have had is we really do need to pay attention going to the summer and into next year because if those continue to rise, then we're going to have to have some other conversations. But um we do feel good about finishing this year out. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> And thank you for keeping us where we are. So that makes a huge difference. Appreciate that. >> So I do have my standard question for finance um to confirm that um all of of the Amazon
040purchases and PCAR purchases have been reviewed and approved by finance. >> Thank you sir. Any other questions? There being none, all those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> Those opposed. We have an approved consent agenda. So on to our action items. And the first would be the adoption of the VSBA schoolboard policy revisions. >> Make a motion to adopt the revised VSBA school board policies as presented. >> Do we have a second? >> Second. >> Any further discussion? >> Yeah. way you do it. Just kind of legal updates and clarify the wordings, but no. >> So, as you mentioned last month when we had the review that it was really just clean up of the language and I think I asked the question of there aren't weren't any more um additional reporting
041requirements or additional costs associated with this. >> Thank you for that. All right. Any other questions? If not, all those in favor signify by saying I. >> Those opposed. On to 9.02. >> A motion to award the RFP 2026-1 for the structured cable cabling system for the new new CTE building >> to the Christ communications in the amount of $174,546. M children next if we can get a second for Miss here. Sorry. >> Good evening again. >> So um as I've typically done with our projects, I keep the structure cabling out of the general contractor's portion of it. We like to manage that ourselves in house to make sure we get um what we're expecting to get. So, we issued the RFP um the uh week the Friday before spring break and then we had
042a mandatory pre-bid meeting on uh the 13th. Um and we had six vendors, six contractors attend that meeting. Uh we did end up having um four addendums uh as part of the process as questions came in. So, that's actually pretty good, but that's a small amount of addendums um which tells me that the RP was well written. So I'm happy about that. Um and then we had a matrix. So this was RFP, not a bid. So we had a matrix uh to actually pick to award the the contract. So it wasn't based on lowest price. Uh but fortunately the company Chris Communications did also have the lowest price and they had the highest number in the matrix uh that the committee um when they went through and and calculated you know price was part of
043it. They got 20 points for price and and so on. Had you had you worked with them before? >> Uh we have worked with them before. Uh Chris Communications did uh the structure cabling for JW Elementary. >> Thank you. >> And looking at the um your rating system looks like it was by far they were the the best the overall selection. >> Yes. And the one thing that um you know I really appreciate about them is we want quality and I put into the RFP for a 5year warranty on it. um every one of their u employees who will be a part of this project is Bixie certified and so we won't get the five-year warranty, we won't get a 20year warranty, we'll get a a lifetime warranty. >> Wow, that's fantastic. >> Yes. >>
044So, any other questions or concerns about that? >> I was just curious about one thing. I was looking at this one where you list the four and price and all. they have like different numbers. You like have a category. >> Yeah. So, um that's how I do my RFDs. So, if we had any additional need for additional cabling or if we had a additional TV that we needed them to to mount or something like that, I include that uh as part of my RFP so I know the pricing up front >> so that they don't upcharge me through the process. So, I know what that's going to be uh if we have to do something like that. >> I guess my question I see like one is 15 all over the place. >> All over
045the place and all. So So you're comparing apples to apples, oranges to oranges. >> Correct. >> Yeah. Primarily for the RFP itself, we were looking at the the base price because we're assuming that we've already done a good count. We we're not going to add TVs or or any of that thing for them to hang. So >> 600 TVs would be a lot of TVs. >> Yeah, it's not 600 TVs. >> Okay. Is this your way of calculating things? >> Yes, it is. It's my way to make sure we don't get burned after we already have a contract in place and that I know what they would charge me if we had any additional cables to run, any additional fiber that needed to be run. I already have the pricing for it. >> You asked
046my question was a little puzzling. I had seen a difference there. >> So, any other questions? >> So, I had one. I see. What is the correct spelling of Chris Communications? >> Um, it's C R I S T Chris. >> So, it's because I saw it a couple of ways. So, thank you for in our board packets. I just want to make sure if we approve it, we approve it for the right company. >> Yes. >> So, so thank you for that. Any other questions? >> Thank you, Mr. Children. There being no questions, um we have the motion on the table to award the contract for CTE building. So, all those in favor signify by saying I. >> Those opposed. Motion passes. Motion to approve the 2026 BSBA Showcase for Success Award application. >> And
047we have a second. >> We have a second. So, Mr. >> Hey, excited to be able to nominate and recognize Patriot Point at Thomas Jefferson Elementary, the Nature Playscape. Um, you all all been there, seen it. Um, they've done a great job of opening this up. The students love it, staff love it, and I think it's making a difference. So, we're excited to nominate uh them for our showcase for success this year. >> So, any questions, concerns on that? >> If not, all those in favor signify by saying I. >> Those opposed. Motion carries. >> Make a motion to approve the 2026 2027 special education annual plan as presented. >> And do we have a second? So, any questions? I believe Dr. Alpurn, you discussed it. >> Nothing. every year. >> Any questions from the
048board? >> I I just want to say uh Mr. Chairman that of all the things we do, we get kudos for many many things. Our u special education it it really um the people so much appreciate what Dr. Alurn and her team bring to the table and what and and really we it is wonderful. Um you know, I they tournament champions the other day. I mean, it's just awesome experience. And so, thank you for what you do and thank you for all your hard work and your team's hard work with that. >> It's not not often we get applause on a motion. So, thank you, Dr. So, um I guess any other questions? So there being no further discussion, all those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> Those opposed. Motion passes. So
049we are on to ourformational items. So journey to greatness number 11. >> Good evening, sir. >> Oh, that's right. >> Sure. >> I'm still on May the 4th be with you. >> That's right. I'm very excited to share a few highlights from our journey to greatness. Number 11. We'll start with uh human resources. Dr. and his team recently organized and held an annual team LCPS job fair and as Mr. Stley said earlier we had over 180 interviews conducted with some outstanding candidates. So thank you Dr. F for putting that together. Transitioning over to instruction Mr. Dley recently facilitated the 2026 civics B. It was hosted here in Louisa County for the region and it was a tremendous success. A lot of people came out to support. Uh we had three students that will represent Louisa
050at the state level. So very excited about that. And Mr. Daniel also facilitated the roadside cleanup activities for our high school students which was also a great success. You've been hearing a lot about math the 24 math tournament. Miss Gray served as a proctor for the regional 24 game tournament in Orange County. We had a seventh grader earn third place overall and a fifth grader earned fourth place overall. So kudos to those folks. Moving on to workforce development CTE. Mr. Budriick uh recently he hosted the cosme and barbering licensing ceremony and we had 17 students earn their state license which is very exciting and uh Mr. Budget also plan to facilitate the annual CTE career and hiring fair we had over 40 employees come out and support the event and meet with our students so
051thank you Mr. Budget for your hard work transitioning over to steam and innovation Mr. balance assisted with the planning of the JRTC award ceremony. We had 45 cadets receive over 170 accommodations. Tremendous. >> So, great work. Mr. Wallace and the maintenance team, they're always all across team LCPS. Recently, they repaired a fence at the high school baseball field. They repaired damaged seats at JW outside. And they've repaired the roof at the metal gym. Technology also hard at work. They repaired and updated Chromebooks, updated office desktops, and prepared new devices for the 26 27th school year. That's a lot of devices right there. Miss Herman, this is very exciting. Uh she facilitated new product tasting at the high school where students sampled pe protein tacos. Sounds delicious. On Taco Tuesday, uh beef burria and cheese papoosea
052and jalapeno fish sticks. Um, M. Herman says the majority of our students voted to add these items to the menu for next year. So, new menu coming soon. Awesome. Uh, Andrew, he secured coverage for the 2026 Lion Pride Run from CBS 19, CBS 6, and the Central Virginia. And he also took video of our high school ASL students performing at the national performing the national anthem at the Fredericksburg Nats game in Fredericksburg, which is also fantastic. >> And last certainly not least, we can't the Dr. Albert, she supported the high school with their adaptive prom and she also held her third annual mental uh health awareness walk. That's a few highlights from this month. >> Wonderful. >> Any questions? >> And I I just like to add um and Mr. Har, don't shoot me. I
053I won't be brief. But um the uh but I just wanted to add this is a busy busy time of the year. There's so many things happening. Uh recognitions, we have all of our state assessments happening, just so many things happening. I just I just commend the staff for all the things they're doing. You saw so many of things up on the screen with recognitions and and just other things just trying to make those moments special for our families and our students. Our staff's doing such a great job. And I commend many of the folks sitting here in the audience tonight for the great work they're doing and the staff uh that aren't here that are doing all the great things. I just just want to give them a huge shout out. U those moments
054make a big difference and preparing our students for their assessments make a make a big difference and just all those things culminating right here in the last month. It's exciting month. It's busy. You feel like you're you're shot out of the cannon, but it's an awesome time of the year. So, um uh just really really look forward to that. And then just a reminder, tomorrow night is our educator of the year, MVP of the year ceremony um at at Spring Creek where we really culminate the year with our um recognitions um for the divisionwide as we recognize each school in operations. So exciting night ahead tomorrow night as well. Uh and hope hope many of you can attend. Yeah, I'm glad you mentioned that because this time of year just sometimes you feel, you know,
055some some organizations, some systems are just trying to get across the finish line. Um, and that's not what we do here. I mean, it's yes, we're going to get there. Um, but taking that time to celebrate the the efforts of what everybody's done, um, makes a huge difference. So, um, I mean, there's the the memories that you all are creating, you know, with these these programs and these celebrations and these awards kids are going to have on their wall till um their grand for show to to their grandkids. I mean that's that's what an impact I was um was actually having to to move a box of our cat knocked down and I found my some of my awards from high school and I spent 20 minutes talking to my family about it. I think
056they would would have been happy the cat had not knocked it down but it it just means that much. Um, so we really do appreciate it. And then I had on a completely different matter. I was going to say for the facilities pictures that may be the first time that all three pictures were outside pictures. So so for that I I appreciate that and and I I want to add one thing I think I should share with you and and u Miss Profett Hoffman were there along with Mr. balance and we were at the uh JOTC uh ceremony and after that ceremony u we had a parent come to us and say I want you all to know you saved my kid's life and so you never know what you're doing to make a difference
057in a kid's life but she said since we added that program he joined that program he's had a whole different outlook on life his respect at home has changed his his work ethic at home school. His grades went from all Fs to to B's and A's and she said one high C, but we getting that one up. But but she was just so grateful and just but I want you to know that's a program that you all uh really battled for and fought for for nine and a half hard years and u you know commend the staff, Mr. Bowens and and the team for what they've done to make that a credible really credible program in year one and really we're in a happy year. So, uh, we haven't even really been in existence about
058a half a year. So, but that's what it's all about. That's why we come and do what we do, um, each and every day. And I just wanted to share that moment with you because you're changing lives and it it's it's it's a awesome feeling and it's great that we get to provide this service uh to this community. So, I just wanted to share that moment and thank you. >> So, um, so for the record, Dr. Grigg, you finished in record time. We carried it a little longer. So that's not >> I apologize, Mr. >> And so on to our next item, school safety task force. So Sergeant, good to see you. >> Beat that record. >> Got to be competitive. So the little bits and pieces we want to bring you up to speed
059as we get ready to transition into the summer. Uh but you know, the safe school task force has a vaping subcommittee. Uh some of you were at the most recent meeting where we met with the community and state members, and I think those that were there would say it was a great and Dr. did a heck of a job putting that together. So, there was an awesome discussion and it was so awesome that we're going to follow that up on the 23rd of July at 6 p.m. U via online. So, we'll carry on those discussions and there's probably more to follow from there. Uh you may remember we mentioned we were going to be talking about artificial intelligence at the last school task force committee. We did. Mr. Bowman and Lieutenant Love gave two fantastic
060presentations. It was amazing to hear all the great things that are going on in the the school division from Mr. Bowens, the CT folks, our IT folks across the board. A lot of thought has been put into it. Uh, and Lieutenant Love brought up a lot of good points that, you know, things are still out there to consider. Things are changing rapidly and as a result of it, the safe school task force decided to put together a digital subcommittee and we're lucky to say that Dr. Alurn volunteered to head up that subcommittee. So, I think there's going to be a lot of great discussion about things, additional things that we can do to keep our students safe and our parents informed as we move forward. Uh, Mr. Downey and Miss Spade have been working hard
061also on the reunification area and about the 23rd of July. We hope we're going to be doing our reunification exercise to make sure we're up to snuff and ready to do those things should that ever happen to us here, which we hope it doesn't. Continuing on, uh, we, you know, already that we're going to be looking at the crisis medical response plan has already started, but we'll be getting members of the school administrators from each of the schools together later on during the summer to to continue to fine-tune it. We're also working on the digital map update that's already in progress. We've got the uh feedback from two schools already four more to go and our goal is to make sure we try to wrap this up as early as possible so that we get
062the hard copy maps in the hands of every school central office before the first day of school in August. We have lots of upcoming safety assessments. Safety never goes by the wayside. It just continues right on through the summer and of course we'll be coming right back into the safe school task force and getting ready for our audits uh at our during the fall when we come back. Happy to say Robini does love tabletops. I know our administrators much of this have been had six of them over the past uh school year but they're all important. It allows us to kind of exercise those emergency procedures, see where we're short, what don't we understand, and it allows us to go back and update the crisis management response plan. But like we did last year, we
063brought that critical response group who makes our digital maps. They're going to conduct this tabletop exercise for us on the 2nd of June. They did the same thing the previous year. It's uh pretty intense uh and we learn a lot from it. Our administrators will be there, our community partners will be there, and we work our way through the exercise to continue to improve our responses, reduce time, and of course improve our plans and procedures. >> That's the morning of our next board meeting. We invite any and all of you all to attend as well. >> Okay. >> And wrapping up the uh the brief, we have the school safety forum. We've heard about that before. It's coming up on the 20th to the 22nd of July. Three of our SRO will be there and
064one of our safe school task force members. We also have an executive form for superintendent, assistant superintendent, same day, earlier in the day. Lots of great topics and of course we bring that information back and put it to use in our plans and programs that we have here. Can I answer any questions or receive any comments? >> My question is I think I remember from that district pass that at least one SRO was permanent one was missing from one school. Has that been filled? Are we all 100% or what? >> So we have seven positions. Six are filled. So there's one SRO at each school. But at the high school, we like to have two, which is the seventh SRO. And that seventh SRO now fills in for anybody that gets sick or has to
065train or do any of those things. While we don't have that seventh SRO, Rob Sonowski does those things and fills in for the SRO that have to train or get sick. >> Okay, thank you. >> We appreciate that. And the other thing I wanted to say with safety, Miss Cole spent her day today um with the North Anna Power Station drill that we have to do and and be a part of. So, she spent her day today. Uh, just some of those things that happened behind the scenes, you just don't know they're happening. But, um, there was a a drill today in the county and Mr. Clever was a part of that that Thomas Jefferson and maybe Mr. Street was maybe a part, but he's not sure he was yet. Um, long story, but uh,
066long story, but uh, but but we do appreciate that because those are things in our community we have to be prepared for and Miss Kohl's always keeps us up to date on that and works through that. So we very appreciate >> but thank you. >> Thank you Sergeant. >> Thank you very much. >> So our next item is the first reading of the BSBA policy update GCBE. >> Good evening. So I'll be very brief. Um this policy was just updated to be legally compliant and it does not affect us here in Louis County Public Schools. So there is no impact here to Louisa. Thank you. >> Not too many questions to ask from that, but thank you. >> I appreciate that. Have >> um so on to our public comment. So the floor is open
067if anybody would like to speak. Three minutes an individual, five representing in a group. >> Mr. Chairman, I think you ought to alleviate saying the three minutes and the five minutes because we don't get anybody Who cares? >> Well, I just want to give somebody an opportunity if they're pondering. >> I'm just teasing. >> So, so on to um Looks like there's nobody speaking. So, on to the reports. So, anybody have any questions on the reports? >> They look wonderful. >> So, um and I think we did get the field trips added there at the end. >> Yes, sir. >> So, so thank you for doing that. Um so on to our upcoming meetings and you it alluded to that is a very busy time of the year. Um so our next board meeting is
068June 2nd. Um and we between then we have our educator of the year tomorrow night, the local scholarship reception reception on May 13th, retirey dinner on May 20th and the graduation on the 15th. So and then the middle school graduation on the 21st. Um, so a lot going on between now and next June meeting. So I'm sure we'll all be seeing a lot of each other the next couple of weeks. >> And with that beep, I think that means >> move to. >> Um, yeah, we have a a motion to adjurnn. >> Second. So any further discussion? There being none, all those in favor signify by saying I. I. There's a