School Board Live: October 7th, 2025

001We have a motion. >> So move. >> So I got first. Any further discussion on that? >> If not, all those in favor signify. I say not. >> Those motion carries. Now therefore certification and only Any further discussion? There >> Mr. Harris. >> Yes. >> Mr. C. >> Yes. >> Miss. Yes. And Mr. >> Yes. We got a couple motions out of session. >> Do we have a second? >> Second. >> Any further discussion? >> Say yes. Second further discussion. All those favor. And there nothing else from close session 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. >> Thank you all very much. Any further discussion? If not, all those in favor signify by saying

002I. >> I. We do have an approved agenda now. So our first item of action, first item of this presentation, the school construction project. So good evening. Good evening. So wanted to give you uh so we got two updates. one on the middle school edition and then uh after this one we'll do the CTE uh building. Um so not a lot looking different on the outside but a lot definitely different on the inside. So this is looking at the office space for the uh alt ed program. Uh so you can see doors are up, tile the the floor is in, lights are on, and it's looking really good. In fact, we'll be stripping and waxing the floors uh next week downstairs. And you may recall from your walkth through last month, we you got to

003see the upstairs and those floors were already being stripped and waxed. This is looking at one of the offices. Uh there uh this is uh one of the teacher workroom areas. Uh you can kind of see as they're putting some of the final touches touches on getting the painting detail uh done. And uh this is uh on the first floor looking out uh towards the stadium there. So you can see you bulletin boards, projectors, TVs, technology is hung and uh we're just ready to do the final cleaning. Get the floors all ready. And again, this is on the second floor looking at the the staircase. Um, another classroom space there. And then the auxiliary gym. Uh, looks beautiful. U, I don't think you got to see this last time, but the floor is in. All

004the painting detail is is done. And it is absolutely a gorgeous space. Um, and it really it looked like we more than doubled uh the space in there. choice of line play. >> You get your choice. There's three pickle ball courts in there. So, >> yeah. >> And I'll let Ty talk about. >> Okay. So, uh first off, uh to bring the budget to bear with the middle school, we have spent 20,938,678.80 so far on the middle school edition project. This represents 80.55% of our budget and we have completed 93.69% of the project. So we are coming down to the finals. Um as Mr. Strickland always has asked um we are obviously under budget and uh we are looking to open the building up after the first of the year. So we're looking good with

005that. As far as change orders for the middle school, uh the only thing to add was the fire hydrant that was approved last board meeting. Uh nothing new since >> any questions. So we're getting closer. >> We actually have furniture coming uh next week. >> Next week. Yeah. >> Wow. We'll roll right in over the next three weeks. All right. So, uh here's your CTE. So, again, there's your your new parking lot. We had light poles going up this afternoon. Uh so, we can get some lighting uh in that parking lot, but it looks gorgeous out there. And if you recall a few weeks back, this is what it looked like uh in the the uh ground over there. Uh and then we kind of started to see um you know, the footings and stuff

006going in. um you're starting to see a shape of a building and today this is what you see. So we've done two pores um each of 10,000 square feet uh for the slab. So obviously you can see the back pore that's that lighter gray area. Then the that darker gray was actually just poured this morning. Uh and so both of those are 10,000 foot um areas. Uh we'll have about 10 separate pores uh to complete the building, but making great progress. And this just kind of gives you an overview. I love this shot because it you really can see the building taking shape. All the various classroom spaces and they look small sitting there, but um they're huge. The the one space for the welding is 3,000 square feet. And so I mean that's huge

007uh for uh you know for that space. So >> yeah, exactly. Um and so here's another angle looking at it from the other end and you can see the detail work going in. You can see all the plumbing and stuff um for the um restrooms that are going in there. And then towards the upper left um the corner there, that's going to be uh the 4L space. And I can talk about J. Okay. For the CTE project, uh we have currently spent 4,692,961.80. This represents 11.94% of our budget. Um and we are 15.82% complete. So we are on time and under budget. So things are going nicely. As far as change or orders are concerned, there are two that I need to add in for the um for the CTE. You have that sheet there.

008Um the nice thing about it is is the net change of them is uh $2,39152. So our contingency contingency actually grew by that amount. So we have more contingency than we started. >> I like that. So, >> just worked out nicely. >> Um, >> I got a question. Have Have you lost any time to weather? I'm just curious because it it could it didn't look like it. It looked like you guys were >> um No more than we planned to lose. And when you do these type of projects, you plan out an average, you know, >> days a month. You lose. Uh, we haven't really had a lot of weather to deal with. No. We're in really good shape. >> Good. Other questions as always great work managing a project like this day. >> Yes

009sir. And I apologize. Uh you also have the documentation for the RRMM payments for the architectural services. So all the documentation is in there. There were five parents this cycle. >> Yes, sir. Thank you. >> All right. Our next presentation is enrollment update. >> Yes. So, tonight we're going to give you uh an enrollment update in reference to u middle high school as well as elementary across the board. We've been closely monitoring enrollment for the last couple of years, but really coming into this year as we've seen um somewhat of a spike in enrollment. So, uh Mr. Downey is going to provide an overview tonight of of what it looks like, where are we and how this may affect us and will affect us as we move forward. So, thank you. >> Good evening, everyone.

010>> So, as as Mr. Charlie just uh just put it, we've been monitoring growth um of the bass little bit here in the county um to see impacts currently our elementary schools um middle school and high school. And with that we want to show you some of the data we've come across. So first I'm going to start with um the total school enrollment. So for 10 years we went back and looked at where what does our enrollment um look like? So starting with 201617 um to this um current year um you will see the numbers there. So with these numbers I want to let you know so from the 201617 to the 2425 school year um these numbers were taken the enrollment from the last day of the school year that year. Okay. So um

011so for those nine days that's that's what those numbers represent. And then you have this year the 25.6 six school year, which is the most current enrollment that we have currently. So, with that said, you see we have an increase of over 600 students, 12.5% um growth that we've seen in Louis County from 2016, 17 years. >> 212. >> Yes. So, we've got we've got a couple things um with that. Um obviously that is postcoid, right? It's our parents that kept their students out, specifically uh a lot of kindergarters at that point. Um didn't didn't enroll their kids when they that first year and then they did after that. And then we also saw a lot of students just moving into the county because other other counties weren't having school like we were. Um so

012that really boosted that number um as you see 100 we went up 137 in that one year. Um you know just just because of that. Um lastly I want to also point out um on this slide that this past year so that 5310 number is the last day of 2425 school year. So in May we were at 5310 currently we're at and it's September. So we've grown over 100 students um just in that little time frame um because we're doing great things here in Louisa obviously. So um so moving forward I want to talk about each school and I want to talk about the capacity that schools have and the growth that we're so starting with the high school. So building capacity there at the top we have 1750 currently um when we finish with

013the CTE edition that we we just saw we will be uh 272 students um able to house there at the high school. Did you click into the next? >> Oh yeah, sorry. I did it on my thing here and not on this. There we go. So, um, there we go. So, with that, as you see right now, we're at 1546. Um, which gives us a lot of room for growth, but if you do look back the 10 years, we're still up considerably a 10.7% growth rate. Um, you know, in that 10-year time frame. Um, so again, the high school is well below capacity. Um, we will see as you as we go through this presentation, you'll see that we're expecting more growth. The gra the lower grades are bigger. So, we're going to see increased

014growth as we go through um the years here. Uh, but we feel like we have plenty of room for that growth based on the numbers we have. For example, everybody that occurred now starting to >> get into school. >> All the way. >> Absolutely. So, and just kind of off the cuff, typically our our graduation classes are around upper 300s. Well, you'll you'll see or can see that our classes now are getting bigger and bigger. there some big classes in middle school and and the elementary school is growing as well. So, all right. So, with that said, has over 2,000 students. >> Yep. So, it'll be it'll be a great place. All right. So, moving ahead here to the middle school. Um, again, we are currently at 1,65 as our building capacity, but we all

015know we have modulars out back. Um, with those modulars, we're able to to handle the the over,200 students that we currently have at the middle school. Um uh but obviously we have an addition coming and we can't uh I know move in quick enough as uh Dr. Harper likes to say. Um we'll be getting 500 more seats um in that new school when it's uh in that with that addition. So it'll it'll be fantastic. Um and again we're feeling as though with that addition we will have enough room for growth moving forward. So we're putting ourselves in in in a good place. All right. Now we're going to move um to the elementary schools and you're going to see a little bit different story. Um starting with JWT. So um JWT uh has a building

016capacity of 885. Um but that's sort of by state code. Um we have our specially sped um autism uh classrooms there which really when you take that into perspective you're really looking at 775 seats in that in that school. Um with that said as you can see here we've grown in the past 10 years from just over 600 to to about 682. So um you know we are we are getting bigger and we're approaching that 775 number. um still quite a ways away but approaching it. Um and obviously a good piece of this and a good reason we're where we are with Jud is the recent addition um that we did there put us in this place to be um to have those numbers where they are. All right, next moving on to Moss Knuckles.

017So Moss Knuckles uh building capacity is 700 and as you can see their growth from 583 to 662 is up almost 80 students. It's a 13.5% growth. Um we've seen consistent growth. If you see there from the from CO on it's been a pretty good growth rate um from the from the 2122 school year till now. Um and we will see that that will continue um as I show you some future future information as well. So with that um let's see and the the current enrollment number as you see there so I get one one step ahead of me myself is um approaching capacity at 662. You're you know you're 38 away from from that building capacity. >> Yeah. All right. Sort of a similar similar story here at Thomas Jefferson. Um where again building

018capacity 700. Um but you have us we're already at 701 with our students at um Thomas Jefferson Elementary School. Um and again the growth over the last 10 years up 11.8%. So we're seeing again significant growth at our elementary levels. Um so um our and our obviously our current enrollment is at capacity. So last but not least we move on to Trabillions Elementary School where Travillians uh we are currently sitting um at 570 as a building capacity but we do have mobile classrooms there to enable us if we needed to to go to approximately 645 students about three more classrooms at 25 a piece. Um and if you look there in the last 10 years you went from 492 students um to 566. So up 15%. Um so a good amount of growth uh at

019Travillians Elementary School. Um but again if you look at that number 566 we're very close to capacity um you know to the to the traditional school but with those modulars we do have room um should we need it. Okay. So we have room to grow there if we need. All right, with that said, we move on to the enrollment numbers with this pro with projection. So I'm going to start kind of in the left. So this is the information we've kind of already already covered. So the lefth hand column is the 1617 numbers and then your current enrollment is is that second um column with the numbers and then you have the building capacity which we've kind of covered all that. If you look at the right hand column now, these are projections when we

020worked we worked with uh the Welden Cooper Center um to get future projections based on factors like birth rates, based on factors like people moving into the area and so forth. And with that they projected these numbers for the 2930 school year. So, if you look there, um, if you look at the high school, 1679 is the projected number for the 2930 school year, but we have a building capacity of 2072. We're in good shape. If you look at the middle school, again, um, it's a little bit closer, but it's still similar. We have we put ourselves in good in good shape. 1434 um, up 230 from the current um, number, but we have 1565 as our as our capacity there. Okay. Okay. So, we still have room to grow there. Down. When we look

021at the elementary numbers, those numbers look a little different. So, 761 is your projected number for JWIT. And again, with that adjusted number because of the autism um classrooms and so forth, you're at 775. That's really close to the capacity number. Um if you Moss Knuckles and and um Thomas Jefferson are both well over their capacity numbers. uh and travillions. While we could have 611 again, it's over the the traditional building capacity, but with the modulars, again, we could make it work, but it's still right there in the um in the high high range of numbers. So, um with this, I also want to um just reiterate again, this is the the high school, middle school, I think we're in great shape. those elementary schools. Um those numbers are where we're we're concerned. So moving

022forward, where do we go? So we have some action steps. So first off, we have the LCMS edition and these are in chronic chronological order. So we have the LCMS edition coming spring of 2026. Puts us in great shape with the middle school. With that addition um coming open, we have the mobile classrooms that are at the middle school that we can use at other schools. Or where are we going to put put them? We would move two of them which would provide four classrooms to Moss Knuckles Elementary School which would increase their 700 number to 800. All right. And then we have Thomas Jefferson. Same thing. We would move two of those units from the middle school to um to Thomas Jefferson and increase that from 700 to 800. And then where do we

023go from here? Well, we begin a planning phase for a new elementary school. Um which we'd like to do in uh June of 2026, so going into this coming summer with a plan to open that school in the next three years. And again, chronological order. Then after we start that planning process, boom, we get to move into a brand new state-of-the-art CTE uh center, which increases the capacity of the high school. So again, high school, middle school are in great shape. But the elementary schools, we've definitely got to we've got to come up with a plan and work through it. And we believe that getting that design phase will will do that and opening that new school. So with that, are there any questions? I if I want to say a couple things just to

024sort of summarize as well being I think we we're in a really good spot as Mr. said on numerous occasions that the middle school and high school with with the addition of um opening in the spring in August 27th at the high school we're in a good place there at our elementary levels I think we're in a good position as well from having our new newer modular units that we can move to have a step in between getting the the new elementary school built. I think that's going to be that's a real positive that we have these units that we have to move out anyway. We can move them out to TJ, excuse me, and boss numbers and that will help us in the interim years. And then we have a we have the elementary

025school um in the CIP. It's it's a little further down. We're we're looking at moving that up a little sooner, starting that design phase next summer and then looking to open it up within the next three years. We believe that the being able to add the capacity and teach county already having additional capacity there uh and having there the addition that we built with with the plan we have should be able to take us to where we want to be um in order to get the school open and care of the numbers. So, I believe we have a a plan here in place u that would that would certainly u take care of the issue. But I will say, you know, Louisa is growing and the growth is not just in one part of the

026county, it's throughout the entire uh community and we are needing to get make sure we're getting in front of this to grow. I think a plan here that will help us do that. >> Mr. Chairman, you know, the other day I had the uh Charlottesville area um realtors in. They were working at the resource council. They volunteered today and they were uh chatting and they were talking about Louisa and how, you know, it's just awesome that Louisa is the the place people want to be. one because of the academics that have increased and done so well and just the culture and that it's not just the culture of the schools, it's infectious and it's the culture of the community and they were just talking about how how it is now they're, you know, they they're

027their number one spot. That's where everyone wants to be because of of it. So, I mean, obviously we can see here with real data what's going on, but I mean they were they were just speaking from the people walking through the doors going, "Hey, where you want to live? We want to live in Louisa County, you know, and I obviously we can see it up here." So, and I I think that's across the board with building starts and, you know, addressed and stuff. Yeah, there's a lot of people moving. >> Well, appreciate that. You see the numbers, but also that >> Yeah. inside what they see. >> Yeah. But but I I did say that one young lady that lives in Louisa, her her child goes to Moss Knuckles and she was just raving about

028how good the school was. So I see guy smiling over there. But anyway, but just raving about how good it was and then you know how how just just a wonderful experience that child was having and the others chimed right in. So I think it was awesome. But it but it does I mean people want to move to Louisa >> just uh I almost feel like this is unique for Louisa that we having this growth right now at all because I read where other school divisions they're losing kids and they're struggling with losing the resources they had for those kids. And uh I'm adding those numbers up that means we got 2,611 kids in elementary now. That's a lot of kids and they're going to be going through the whole system here. >> Yeah. When

029we looked at the when we got the results from the Weldon Cooper piece, one thing that it showed was the birth rates for Louisa County in most other counties in the state of Virginia are slowly going down where Louisa was going up actually. >> Yeah. Yeah, I was just trying to do the math here. The kids in fifth, fourth, third, and second grade, you take uh third of the kids in school off that thing. That'd be in first and kindergarten, you know, and then when they get to high school from that group of four classes, that'd be 1750 kids in high school, you know. Yeah. I think we u I mean, it's amazing driving around the county now. Everywhere you look, somebody's cutting a road and putting houses in it all. I feel like we're

030trying to get on this as early as we can and take care of and all. >> I don't think anybody saw this coming to this extent that we see right now. >> Questions. >> Middle school with the elementary school. um a lot of pieces to come together. One of the questions that will come up eventually is if a new school that means their current students and current schools to move to schools. So I can as this moves forward I can see that happening but that's several years on the horizon. other things. >> It's exciting. >> Lee, I have a question. Um, so the question is not where it's going to be. The question for me is how long before we know uh where where are we thinking about this school? I mean, I I understand

031that we don't know now, >> but how long do you think it'll be before we know when we'll be able to decide what we're doing? >> So, we need to look at a few things. Um, and first and foremost is, you know, where are our future students? Uh, so the ones that have been born but not in school yet, where do they currently live? >> Um, beyond that, you know, where are housing complexes that have already been approved, where are they going to be located in? And then lastly, are there any future places on the horizon that are coming that maybe haven't been approved? So, we got to look at all those factors amongst other things. Um, but then I mean the goal for the goal that I think we need to have is going

032into the summer, going into that design phase is having having that that answer to that question. >> Okay. >> That gives us time to figure that out. >> Yeah. No, that's great. So I you know I don't you know I know there's not going to be any additional members coming from the school system from the chap I mean we think about growth is already built in growth >> that we already know about let alone growth and it is an equal it's great that everybody wants to come Oh no, >> I guess our secret starting to get out. Um, but we're saying a couple steps already. So I assume sometime in the next couple months if there otherwise. >> Yes sir. >> Yes. And I would say as we move forward CIP as well, we had

033discussions about coming into the next few months. >> I got a question for the speaker. expert on something I don't know the current legal status are allowed not allowed but to your point I'm sure they're thinking about somebody >> being able to have something for the presentation. >> Yes, sir. >> Nicely done, sir. >> And so on to the third presentation of the 256 goals. >> Yes. So, >> thank you. I got several people joining me up here as well. Pardon the delay. >> We are having technical difficulties. We will be with you in just a moment. All right. So, um, we're presenting tonight the one of my favorite things to do is present these goals and objectives because it's really our path forward to how do we achieve uh what we want to achieve

034and lead the way on our journey to greatness and uh the great work that's being done. Uh, this is an opportunity to really show where where does that skeleton come from? Where does that scaffolding come from of how what what our folks are doing and what what does it all mean? And so, uh, when I say that, you know, we always start with this mentality, and you see up through our shirts on the night, that strike the stone mentality. You got to keep at it. Got to keep at it to make sure, uh, we can get where we need to be, which is out there leading the way and making sure our students have the opportunities they need to get out there in our community and beyond and be successful. And so, it all evolves

035uh, around what do we want to do as a mission? and that's to be a world class forwardinking school division. One that challenges every student to reach their maximum potential and one that is the model for school division of the future. For 10 years now, we've said this is our mission and our vision is to make sure we can have that happen through really the promotion of the five C's. Making sure our students are good collaborators, communicators, critical thinkers, they're creative, and they're good citizens. And that's important to what we do. said tonight as we present this to you um we're excited because everything evolves around that mission of challenging every student to reach their maximum potential. So tonight I uh asked Dr. Greg to come up with our first goal is team LCPS will

036ensure that each student is fully engaged with his or her learning through access to high quality curriculum instruction and assessment. >> All right. So yes, so under this objective, the first thing is is last year um we continue to support the excellent work of team LCPS and our ignite team um by by working on the five C's. Um included in that we participated in ed leader 21 as you guys all remember. We also uh awarded innovation grants which you guys were big part of and and supported and we conducted uh the 5C's PD at each school. So moving forward for this year, we continue to focus on building um deeper understanding of the 5C's, but this year it's for both staff and students. In previous years, it's been a big focus on staff with the

0375C's, and this year we're going to move down to the student level. So that's important for us. Um on top of that, we the Ignite team will be attending various conferences uh to gather fresh ideas for integrating the 5C's. Um and we're also excited to continue with the 5C innovation grants. Um, and last but not least, the goal again of this is is to help equip our students to become career, college, and life ready. So, that's the the big piece of the 5C's. And with that, I'm going to turn it over to Thompson. >> Good evening. As we continue our focus on balanced assessments, we have and will continue to support our students and teachers through things such as the lead performance assessment teams, our Ignite subcommittee that's been focused in working on authentic assessments.

038Uh the use of performance assessments where the state's permitting us to do that. Uh hopefully that might expand in the future. Fingers crossed. Uh and the use of our Louisa County Public Schools digital portfolios as a place to put all this great work. Uh we are this year starting to develop capstone projects. Uh we're looking at doing one at elementary, one at middle, one at high that will not only let us assess content but also let us assess the five C's through that content. So we will be working on those as we move through the year. Thank you. And I will now turn things over to Dr. Objective 1.1. Each year we provide effective researchbased curriculum instruction resources for our teachers. We're going to continue to do that while working with them hand in hand

039to show they have all the resources they need to make the magic happen in the classroom. And I'll pass it over to Miss. >> Good evening. Um I'm talking about objective 1.2. So we're providing professional learning opportunities and resources and instructional support to help with mathematics and literacy. Um we are providing professional learning opportunities with or Gillingham numerical reasoning. Um, we have resources like building back fluency kits, haggardy resources and instructional supports. We provide our pacing guides, unit plans, and our instructional website. We'll continue to do um those professional learning opportunities. We're excited to offer a send next week. And um we'll we continue to update our resources and materials every summer so our teachers have the most upto-date things. Thank you. We'll turn over. Hello. 1.3 has to do with a tiered interventions. So

040we want to have clear and consistent processes for those interventions. So for academics, we have used universal screeners like standardized assessments and classroom assessments. We also have our attendance support team that works with interventions for attendance. Um and this year we'll also be focusing on specifically orthographic processing which is a part of reading instruction making sure we get professional development and help our students with that which we found to be a deficit in sometimes and then also working with tailored interventions for students based on other data. And now I'll have Miss Spade 1.4. for good evening. Um, it's my pleasure to talk to you about Steam. Last year, we continued to build and support upon the foundation that was already existing in Steam, um, to enhance the 5C's and to continue communicating and collaborating with

041our educators across all elementary schools. This year, we're taking it up a notch and we are going to make sure we have alignment with the new math and science standards, as well as upgrading and updating used and very loved equipment. and we thank you so much for your support for funneling um your support into our ingenuity. Now I'm going to turn it over to Dr. Greg. >> Me again. 1.5 talks about supporting staff and students with instructional technology. Each year uh every year I work very closely with our tech coaches to look at providing professional development such as Google certification and weekly newsletters that highlights the great technology resources we have. So, moving forward, we're going to continue to update our technology resource, see what's out there in the field, and see what can make

042us grow and get better. Next, I'll pass it over to Mr. B. >> Good evening, everyone. I'm excited to go over to my 35point highlight of our CTE programs. Start. No, I'm just kidding. Um, last year's major focus, this goal is all about growth, development, and support of our programs. So, I could not talk about our growth and development without the CTE center, um, which you guys got an update on earlier. So, a big part of last year, myself, Mr. Bundick, Mr. Wido, Mr. Childress and all of our CT teachers meeting individually with architectural firms, designing those new spaces, developing those those opportunities. And what is that future going to look like for Louisa County Public Schools? Also managing over $150,000 in grants. And that's important because that's going in to support our existing programs.

043That's tools and equipment in the hands of our instructors and our students so that they can make the magic happen every day. That's a big part of what we do. As we move into next year, continuing to do that. A few key programs you're aware of. The JRTC program is on boarded and we are growing that quickly. We already have 50 students enrolled for next semester. Excited to see that grow and develop. Our Little Lions program has also expanded. Um we have more students enrolling in that teacher training academy than ever before and we went from 20 to 30 in our little Lions program. So when we move into the CT center, we could jump to that 40 and be ready to go. So lots of great expansion happening in CT. I could talk all

044night but instead I will pass on to Mr. Bundick. >> Thank you. Um 1.7 is we annually have an annual pass rate of 85% or higher. Just so you know, last year we offered all of credentials across the board. We earned 801 CTE credentials last year for our students at an 88% pass rate. So we were able to exceed the pass rate and annually we will maintain um that rate as our as our goal for 1.7 this year. Next up is 1.8. That's major clarity. that is our online portal for all 6th through 12th grade students to investigate career, college, and life ready options for them. So, it's a great portal that we are able to uh give them as a service and all students have 247 access and their parents can see that with

045them as well when they start making post high school decisions or pathway decisions. Lastly, uh 1.9 implementing strategies on the new accountability system with 3E. Uh this year's score turned out really nicely for us. So, we're going to continue to do that. Um, and just so so everyone's aware with the intentional scheduling that we do with our counseling office and with our instructors, we make sure that those schedules and those classes align as a sequence and we also give the correct assessment and credentials that are required as high demand credentials and um we will be meeting with our instructors this fall already preparing for 26. So all that is on board now and we also will be giving PD to our staff who needs that as they learn how to to match up their sequences

046and their credentials. Thank you. I'll turn it back over to Mr. Balance. >> All right, I'm back to talk 110 is about AI. I would say we were probably one of the few school divisions in the nation that have a goal around AI built into our strategic plan. Um which I think is a big deal for us. So to share some data with you from last year, we had 460 teachers using school AI. Last year was the first year we we debuted school AI to the division as our preferred platform for uh student usage. They created over 7,600 documents which again is saving them time. 5600 uh assistant conversations where they went in and worked with assistants to solve a problem and over 436 spaces. Spaces are huge because that means students are interacting with

047AI. So not only our teachers are using it, our students are using it too. Last year's goal was all about introduction and teacher efficiency. Um I think we met and exceeded that goal. This year we're moving into that student uh introduction, getting students more involved with AI, helping them understand AI. We recently had our AI round table uh to get insights on that and how we build that moving forward. So this year you're going to see a bigger focus on student engagement. At the AI round table, we had education weekly there and they said that we are one of the leading school divisions in the nation for AI. So very proud of that. Thank you for your support and allowing us to do that work. >> I've got one question. Um I think it's a

048good thing to be talking way overse. >> Yeah. So that is exactly why we use school AI. So every conversation is logged, cate categorized and uh monitored. So if they're saying things, teachers are alerted. Um, and then every conversation we can go back in and view on the back end, export it, send it to an administrator, all that kind of stuff. >> Y, no problem. >> Great question. Guard rails are important as we open that up and make sure they're exposed to it. Make sure the guard is there as well. Right. Now, we're going to move to gold goal two and I'm going to ask Dr. to come up and teams will promote the well-being of each student, staff member, foster positive citizenship, resiliency, sound character, and a supportive environment. All right. Um I'm excited

049to start with talking about objective 2.1. Um assisting schools with our anti-bullying efforts um in our implementation of our bullying prevention measures that we do across the division. Um so last school year we did obey us um anti-bullying lessons at our schools um once a month. We also gave the um survey to all of our students in grades um 2 to 12. And from those results, we develop school site plans um to ensure it's not taking place in our schools. And then here in Louisa, we dedicate uh the month of October to spreading kindness. If you remember last year, we did our kindness in the Commonwealth campaign um where we partnered with Grayson County Schools as they recovered from Hurricane Helen. We raised over $30,000 for their school division. So looking into this year um

050we will continue um our use of the OVEAS anti-bullying prevention program with lessons as well as the survey and we're very excited uh for our theme here this October. Um we are actually celebrating 10 years of our focus on kindness. So our theme this year is kindness a decade of difference. Um, so what we're doing is taking some of the best of the things that we've done over the last 10 years as well as some new things um to try to spread kindness throughout this community. There's a focus on veterans. There's a focus on our school employees, um, our first responders, and then um, each of our schools is going to pick a cause um, during one of the weeks that that school is going to focus on. Um, we're very excited about a lot

051of the things that we have going on. We're going to do our first ever Team LCPS blood drive. Um so lots of ways that we're looking to spread kindness um not just within our schools but um throughout this entire community. All right, that moves us on to objective um 2.2 and this is talking about our proactive approach to discipline and ensuring that we have a fair and consistent approach um across all of our schools. And so um each summer we spend time meeting with all of our administrators, Dr. Alpurn and I reviewing school discipline ensuring that fair and consistent approach as well as during the school year we meet monthly review the data and ensure that it's being implemented consistently across all of our schools. So we did that last year and that worked with

052effectiveness and we will continue both of those this year. So now I'll turn it over to Dr. Alpurn to talk about objective 2.3. >> All right. Hello again. So I'll round out goal number two. Um 2.3 talks about uh nurturing citizenship, resiliency and sound character. And we do that by making sure our staff are trained in how to work with students possibly if trauma might affect them. We do that also by having initiatives like our nature as co- counselor. If you look at Patriot Point and TJ that's a pinnacle example, but all our schools and all our counselors are working on making sure that we have our students go outside and really um have nature um help them and support them in their emotional development. And then sources of strength is something we have in

053K12 that help fosters that resiliency in students so they'll have the strengths um to rely upon. Objective 2.4 talks about respecting students. We have an inclusive schools audit that we con we did with the state um for including students with special needs. Um we've had therapeutic and adaptive programs especially with the addition of an adaptive PE teacher um Louisa County Schools um adaptive PE teacher which is helping us be do different activities like unified and special Olympics and also different therapeutic activities which is very helpful. And then finally 2.5 talks about healthy, safe and supportive learning environment. We continue to have threat assessment processes in our schools. We use a data management system called Navigate 360 to make sure we have those um storage of that information and we also train all our teams um

054in our schools with the formal training phone DCJS department criminal justice system. And now going on to third third goal with Dr. Plumbing. >> Yes. So Dr. Plum is going to come back up and we're going to talk about goal three. And goal three is really about cultivating a climate professionalism and sustainable growth by maximizing resources to enhance student achievement in a responsible manner. All right. And I'm going to talk um start out talking about objective 3.1, our high quality differentiated professional development. Um and last school year um we successfully utilized the safe schools online modules for a good portion of those required um staff developments and trainings that our staff need. And that has been done with success. So we will continue utilizing Safe Schools this school year um for a lot of our

055professional development. So I'll now turn it over to Dr. Greg. As mentioned in goal one, the instructional team provides various ongoing professional learning opportunities such as Orton Gillingham, Goran Fletcher, Hegy, math, reading, science, all the subject areas. This year, we'll continue with optional after school professional development. And we're also very excited about October 14th, which is our division YPD day. We have a PD for all teachers given voice and choice known as ascend. So consider coming down if you like. October 14th at the high school. Good evening. Last year we worked on some specialized training opportunities for school registars as well as our front office staff. And so we will continue that. Next year we utilizing um installing some new tools in powers school as well as some reports to help us to validate our

056data as well as analyze our attendance, discipline and enrollment data. Thank you. Now Mr. Wallace. >> Good evening everybody. Um, so this year's goals, um, we're looking to mainstream the school reviews, um, as far as maintaining our, um, consistent cleanliness as far as the schools go and standards and focused development where it's needed. Thank you. Turn it over to Mr. George. >> Good evening again. So, uh, last year, uh, we committed to continuing to do, um, IT Pro TV for professional development for the technology staff. We also did, uh, launch and learns, um, and we did a, a special fiber, uh, splicing um, session for the text. And so, we're going to continue that same thing again this year, IT Pro TV, and then along with special uh, training sessions to, you know, the technology

057is always changing and growing, so we want to make sure we're keeping our staff up to date on that. and I'll turn over to Miss Herman. >> Good evening everyone. >> So last year uh we use safe schools in other uh online virtual platforms to provide professional development uh opportunities for our staff and to meet their requirements. We also provided serve safe training for all staff. And I was very excited. Last year I was able to send five of our cafe leaders to our state um annual conference uh for for additional learning. This year we're going to continue to use um safe schools and other online platforms. Um and we're also adding leadership training with Dr. Coney to all of our monthly manager meetings. And then we're continuing to offer serve safe classes um for

058all of our staff. We had our first class in August and I'm happy to 11 out of 11 successfully passed and thankfully I was one of those se seven of those folks were brand new employees who had never set foot in our kitchen. So it was a wonderful opportunity to provide that training and and and give them that knowledge before they started to serve food for our kids. The other four including myself were reertifications in case you don't worry I'm good. Um but I'm really excited to say that 70% of my staff are currently Surf Safe certified and this is the management class. this isn't the regular surf safe class. So that's a big accomplishment for a lot of my folks. And the other significant thing to that is our requirement is only that all

059of our managers and our assistant managers are certified. But because food safety and sanitation I believe is the most important thing that we do. Um we offer it to all of our staff and many of them take advantage of that. I I feel like they cannot get enough um information and training in that area. So 75 70% of our staff are certified. So that's a wonderful thing. And I will turn it over to Miss Cole. >> Good evening everyone. >> Not allowed to say after Randy. So I'll just say that uh in transportation we do continue as we have over the years. We continue to use of course safe schools did it last year and continuing to do it. also training our um drivers, aids and different members of the ed of the transportation staff

060in the use of Narcan as well as um seizure medications when it warrants with students on their bus. CPR and first aid training is required of all of our personnel as well as autism training. So those things we're going to continue this year as we have done in the past. And now I give you Mr. Baker. >> Good evening. Um, we had a new hire orientation session as usual this year. It was a a combined effort of payroll and HR. Uh, but we also added a bookkeeper training at the schoolboard office uh to cover all the mun procurement, purchasing, and accounts payable uh issues that may come up or we've got new bookkeepers and they just needed some some extra training. Uh so we continue to place the emphasis on the staff the their development

061training and continuous improvement and we try to stress you know good customer service the whole time. So I'll allow Mr. Paloney to come up here. >> All right. I'm very excited to talk about objective 3.2 our recruiting and hiring of a high quality workforce. And here we have kind of a three-prong approach that we utilize. Um we have our Louisa County High School student to instructional assistant to teacher pipeline um that we're very proud of. Last school year we had four of our students that had graduated straight from uh teachers for tomorrow program hired on as IAS and were instructional assistants working to become certified teachers. We've added two more. So this school year we actually have six across the division. So very excited about that. And then we also have our IIA to teacher

062pipeline. So, our instructional assistants that are utilizing Grand Canyon University to become certified teachers. Um, last year we had 33. This year we already have 37 with some additionals um that are getting ready to launch as well. So, I'm very excited about that. And then our third prong of the approach is our um recruitment. Um we really do um aggressively travel across four different states all across Virginia, North Carolina, uh Pennsylvania and beyond. Um going to the best job fairs with the um you know the colleges that are producing the most teachers. And so we're continuing to put together um that um trail for this year and we take our administrators and diverse teams with us um to try to bring back the best folks to teach in the best place in Virginia and beyond

063here in Louisa. So, um, that's objective 3.2. I will turn it over to >> myself for goal number four. So, so we're going to talk about our systemwide operations to meet the needs of our students, staff, school, and community. And for objective 41, I'll turn it over to Mr. Chill. >> Good evening again. Uh, so I have two objectives uh for 4.1. Uh last year the um the first one was to provide and support web filter content that meet and exceeds SIPA compliance. So the child internet protection act uh and so let me just say we far exceed uh SIPA and we were kind of reviewing it actually today in some conversation and talking about how we have lightseed the rocket uh goardian and various things that are providing uh content filtering for us and

064also provide health monitoring. So if a student is is talking about or thinking about committing suicide or something like that, we can actually see that and get um information about that. So and that gets sent to the appropriate people. Uh then the next one is to ensure network security by conducting an annual um uh test and um network assessments. Uh so we're going to continue uh to do that. So we'll have an outside company come in do uh pin testing. So where they essentially attack us from the outside and then come inside do some testing. Um we've also uh last year we in the past we've added Duo. This year we added another layer to Duo. So instead of it just protecting our Google uh email, it's also now protecting P school. Uh so just

065continue to add additional layers to it. And then something else that um I'm doing I think you would want to know about is I'm heading up a statewide cyber security conference uh that will be held this month October 22nd in Charlottesville uh for all Virginia technology leaders and working through cyber security. Turn it over to Mr. Baker. We strategically plan the use of funds provided by Virginia federal programs and Louisa County constantly using these funds in a fiscally responsible and sustainable way for instruction as well as completing great infrastructure improvements. I had to read that because I couldn't do it freely and took a long time to write that. So, uh, multi-year and long range planning for operation on CIP needs needs to be certain we do not face a negative impact to budget in

066the foreseeable future. And just briefly, um, a lot of people have questions about federal funds right now. And for the majority of our funds from federal government, you're looking at least 60 days out before we see a problem. So, the federal planning year is October 1. So, anything that's funded in July uh starts in July, we're pretty locked in for a year unless something that's never happened before happens, which has been happening. So, uh we will keep our eye on it, but we don't feel uh real uncomfortable with that situation right now. Thank you. >> I was going to say he was turning it over to me. So, um, we're constantly seeking grant opportunities to, um, meet the growing needs of our program. So, I'm really excited to tell you that last year we we

067received $105,000 and grants which, um, helped us provide new serving lines for two of our schools, which was greatly needed. Um, and also provided a sun awning for our mobile cafe. So again, this year I'm just continually looking for grant opportunities out there, looking to enhance our garden program and whatever other program needs we might have. And I will turn over to Miss Cole >> and Mr. Good evening again. >> Your name's first. >> Okay, I'll go first. uh we will in in transportation we'll continue uh the objective talks about maintaining a safe and and secure educational environment. Of course, we're going to continue, as you know, with the safe school task force that's been in place and looking at what's going on in each individual school as far as uh and Mr. I'll leave

068him as far, but with safe school task force, with the safe school task force, we of course are are digging deeper and looking further into what we can do to continue to be uh be safe. And that, as you know, every now and then we add a new layer of of safety, a new a new covering over that that safety um umb use that umbrella to continue to keep our kids safe. We're also of course continuing to use open gate in all of our facilities uh at our our outside large outside events and have begun earnestly working on reunification plans at all levels should we need to ever evacuate and reunify our students with their parents. And uh along that line also, we began last year and have really dug a little deeper this year

069viewing bus tapes uh of all buses. Every bus tape is viewed at least once a week. Um some more often or as needed, but they're all viewed at least once a week. Four days a week, Monday through Thursday, bus viewing, bus tape viewing goes on. Um and it's really improving. we feel is really improving the behaviors and the activities that go on on buses because kids know we're looking. So, thank you. >> How can I follow that? >> You couldn't talk about. >> So, we're combining uh last year and this year's um goals to make sure we strengthen the safe school task force um the efforts in planning and addressing the audit findings more effectively. >> That's how you follow that. starting to feel a little bit like the Oscars now. I was looking for

070>> they were funny. Um, I'm just going to summarize this one. I didn't spend a lot of time on it, but all of the payroll processing that flows from HR to payroll uh for for each payroll period now is a direct link between the frontline ASOP legacy system or the new ESS system that's in Munice that we use. And I know a lot of people in the uh audience, they have to approve items in both. So they're they're aware of what I'm talking about a little bit. Um, and what I'd like to say about that is, you know, we continue to train and retrain uh new and existing staff to get the maximization out of Munis because it it costs a lot of money. I don't know exactly how much, but it's it's pretty good

071stuff. Um, and I'll be honest with you, uh, Justin during the the last audit, uh, fieldwork, I learned two things I didn't know that Munis could do. So, even I am still, you know, learning things about it. And, uh, now everybody deserves a second chance in life. and it's my second chance to introduce Miss Harmon. >> So, hello again. So, in uh utilizing the resources available to us, we um last year again were able to provide districtwide C for all of our students, which means we were able to provide breakfast, lunch, and after school meals at no cost for every child, which is wonderful. Um, we also utilize the rural non- congregate option for our summer meals program, which is um very it's key to be able to do that because it changes the rules

072of the program and allows us to meet the needs of our families and provide food how they how and where they need it. It also enables us to provide meals seven days a week to our families. And as you know, uh we had a tremendous summer and surpassed the goal that we the um it's not a goal, but the numbers that we served the year before. Uh we surpassed that and it's serving over 51,000 meals last summer. So um it's our our plan this year to continue all of those same programs, continue our C um breakfast, lunch, and after school meals. And it's the plan to uh utilize that um non- congregate uh provision again um for summer meals. And of course the key to the success of those programs is to continually to increase

073participation. So that's what we're working on this year. We just revamped menus and really excited. We provide we um put out new menu items starting this week and the kids seem really excited and our numbers keep going up every day. So it's a fabulous thing. And now I'll pass it on to Mr. Wallace. >> Yes, sir. You are you get involved with the weekends? >> No, we are not we are not involved in that. >> Thinking. >> So again um combining last year and this year's goals um we are trying to improve facility evaluations. Um we want to guide long-term planning and align the CIP projects with division growth. I'll turn it over to Mr. W. >> All right. So, our battle goal is to communicate and build partnerships with all our stakeholders, safety, growth,

074and success. >> Good evening, school board. Realizing I am the last goal, brevity will be the name of the game. But, uh, number objective 5.1 is all about establishing, monitoring, and maintaining a variety of communication channels. Uh, we try to do this in a variety of ways. and social media, we try to have a great presence on it. Uh the newspaper, we try to be in there frequently and partner with them. TV news, same thing. Great partnerships with them. And then our website as well. I just want to provide some numbers. I'm a numbers guy. And I think they, you know, the numbers don't lie. Just uh social media alone, 160,000 unique engagement so far this past month, which is great. We started using our app a little bit more this year. Try to make

075a concerted effort for that. And we've had 60 new downloads in the past month with 16,000 page views. And then um one thing I'm really proud of is uh the number of times we have made you on campus to do stories. This past year uh two years ago we set a record with 92. Last year we made 94. So we just set a new record and then we're looking obviously to set a new record this year. But um especially as news stations are are having smaller crews now. We're really um grateful for that. Uh objective 5.2 is all about creating campaigns and initiatives to engage our community. Uh very proud of our team LCS MVP awards. Me and Mr. Shirley, we always say that's our our best our favorite traditional Fridays to go around. And

076we're averaging about 4,000 views for each of those episodes. And then continuing on with initiatives, helping out LCHS athletics with student athletes of the week, our hundred yard series, and then uh we did the one where it was where you going to be on Friday nights in the jungle. So doing fun fun things like that to keep our community engaged and uh and uh updated with what we're doing. 45.3. I'm going to pass that over to Miss Herman. one last time. So, objective 5.3 is expanding mutually beneficial partnerships, linking community resources to support students, staff, and school needs. And I love our community partners. Um, they're the key to the success of our summer meal program. Um, because of them, once again, the community cafe served as a model for summer meals programs. We partner

077um with our own LCPS technology um elementary um education, our steam, our extension agency, and the Louisa Arts Center to provide um enrichment programs with our meals for our kids during the summer, which is just fabulous. Um this this year we're continuing to work on those partnerships. Um also included in that is working with Centaur to bring more popup markets to our families and that's open to all families and within our community. Um, again partnering with the art center and our and our own folks within here to um have new opportunities for education during the summer and uh working with our extension agency and our school gardens. We were just out yesterday at Traavilians planting vegetables which is always a fun time. And then a new partnership this year looking into um our hydroponic um

078greenhouse right in our neighborhood to provide some fresh local produce for our schools. So I will now pass it on to Miss F. Hello again. Uh this is my favorite goal because it helps us to make learning visible for our entire community and to celebrate our wonderful students and teachers. Last year we had a lot of new events. We had a day, we had um the Virginia study school at TEES and we also had are you smarter than a fifth grader which is a science so review night. So this year our goal is to continue to grow those programs with a couple of caveats. We're going to focus on expanding our BPI steering committee so that we can help our youngest and most vulnerable newest learners and their parents with resources and making sure they

079are K5 ready. Um, and the second thing we're going to do is we're going to tweak our one book one Louisa to make it bigger and better and to engage more parents and there might be some mice up for adoption. So stay tuned and I'm turning it over to Mr. Wilook. >> Follow mice adoption. Last objective 5.4 four is all about maintaining uh positive uh relationships with our community and for that I'm just we have so many community community partners that it's just so encouraging. Um food line in Lake Hannah we always do our 911 tribute ceremony there which is really great and then stuff the bus is one that really comes to mind. That's our yearly uh school supplies fundraiser. Many of y'all have volunteered many times before and we set a new record

080this year with 102 boxes of supplies collected. So, uh, just continuing to focus on supporting our community while also providing them with communicative services and just wrapping it all up with communication. It's being able to tell the stories of the people and the work that behind me and the work they're doing. So, really appreciate your support. All right. So, um, what you just heard was are really our goals, objectives, our road map to on this journey to greatness that we always reference and where we want to be. So, where have we been and where we're headed? And I tell you, we have uh second to none. Uh I'm the proudest superintendent in the Commonwealth because we have the best uh staff uh in America. We have the best community you could ever ask for and

081we have a true u wonderful families and students that attend Louis County Public Schools. Uh I always say our most valuable resource are our people and certainly our staff continue to get it done. our teachers, our AAS, our bus drivers, our maintenance workers, our cafeteria workers, our technology folks, our teachers, you name it, across the board, our administrators. You heard from their directors what the things they're doing to try to make sure that we're continuing to be out there leading the way and our people are just amazing at what they do. So again, let's come back to what we talked about continuing to strike the stone to make it happen so we could provide those opportunities so every student can reach their maximum potential. Um something hot off the press that I wanted to share

082with you. Um, this is hot off the press um that this this came out that we were um ranked uh this this year as the number two best places to teach in Virginia out of the 130 school divisions that that are in part of this. Fourth um as far as district with the best teachers in Virginia, the sixth best school district in Virginia. Last year we rated seventh, we bumped up to sixth and uh sixth for the best district for athletes in Virginia. Um, these are these are things that we're proud of, but this is because of of your support, this community support, the amazing amazing staff and families that we have within this school division community. So, I'm just very grateful, but I wanted to share that with you tonight u because it's it

083is it's hot off the press and big congratulations to all that make this stuff happen every day and uh we're one of the few rural school divisions uh that are getting this high recog recognition and I think it's very something to be very proud of. So with that being said, um we open it up for any questions you may have about or comments about the goals and objectives. >> Well, first thing I wanted to. So, um, questions folks have staff and teamwork. >> Amen. >> No other teamwork that works together like this. You should be number one. >> Yeah. They didn't ask us. >> Very. We're very proud though. Very proud. >> Proud of each and every one of you. Absolutely. >> So, any other questions or comments? >> So, um anybody had a couple

084questions? >> Well, I I got I'm going to say something, Doug. I'm going to tell you something. And and all the awards and all this stuff is nice, but you know, the cool thing. We're turning out some really good human beings coming out of this school. Not just academically, not just athletically, but really good, kind, caring, respectful people that are going to contribute wherever they go, wherever they move, wherever they we hope they stay in Louisville, but if they don't, it's going to be contagious. What we're doing here is going to be contagious, and it's going to move through what we're doing here. And it and it shows what you folks are doing. It shows every day in each child that they're they just look like a a light that just shines brightly into a

085community. They're they're you know, I'm just proud of you guys and I'm and it's just awesome what's going on. >> So, a couple questions I had was um with mentioned about grants. Are you finding more or less opportunity for grants? >> I would I would temp I would I would call on my on the team here, but I think grants are out there. We we we're always exploring to go get them. And I will say this group of folks right here are continuously trying to find grants uh seek out grants and so we can provide opportunities that we may not otherwise be able to provide to achieve that mission. And um you know I every you know every week one of them is coming to me saying hey what do you think about this grant

086with this grant and and it's just you know out there and we just make sure we're going after Mr. >> Yeah I had a question about the grants. Are they government grants or private industry grants? >> Across the board. So a lot of them state grants or but but it's across the board. There various grants out there, companies that they put out whether it be something to enhance your classroom or technology technology or there also federal state grants that are out there as well as well. It's across the board and our correctly was it 33 or 36 in Yeah, I appreciate you bringing that program up because uh you say that because that's a program that came to you all several years ago and you said we believe this this could be a real um

087key to making sure we're putting a quality staff member in front of every student every day as the teacher crisis continues to hit across the country. We believe we can build our own pipeline and continue to work together and it's so far proven to be very successful. Well, that that seems like a win-win. We get teachers and these people are not going to a four-year college being $100,000 in debt when they get out. >> Correct me if I'm wrong, Mike, but you've started the school year, the last two years completely full, right? You were completely staffed and that says a lot about what we're doing because nobody else is doing that. Another thing I want to say our teacher training academy high school right now that are in that that are working through our learning

088kids are working on >> that's awesome >> question so it's three and a half years if they don't start with any college credits but But we have several students that are actually doing enrollment through Grand Canyon their junior year and senior year. So we can actually shave off two and a half years from graduation. >> That's awesome. At the same time of college, [Music] >> that's a making sure we have pathways for every student to find their passion, how they're going to make go out in the world and be successful, make a difference and feel good about what they're doing. >> Yes, sir. >> Good presentation. [Music] >> I would not expected anything different from you, Mr. Harris. I think that's all great presentation. So on to our consent agenda. >> Second. And then question

089I have is under the bills just wanted to ask finance again all been reviewed approved for Amazon. Thank you very much for that. That being said all those in favor signify by saying >> those motion carries on to our action items. >> Want to make any comments about the decoration. >> Yeah. So, these are these are folding chairs slash desk that we bought back during co so we can make sure we were able to have school and do the things we needed to do. We no longer need these and we really quite frankly have a space form as well and we have no need for we would like to be able to >> um I had a question about it. I see you got $47 each and you got $30. I'm a little confused on

090what the price is. >> So I think the the price would be for us would be $30. >> We paid 47 and want 30. And I guess my other question is when you say auction, is this going to be online? >> Be an online. >> Will it be like somebody could buy a tin or somebody's got >> deals? Um, are we uh I would I would I'm going to look at Dave Baker for this. Are we putting them in one lot separating those out? >> One lot, sir. >> One lot. Okay. Thank you. >> So, I mean, do we have any restrictions if somebody puts in a $10 bid for 900 check? minimum set or we can also not accept it's not >> okay but 30 is the number we're looking for. >> Yeah. So

091the depreciated value% off and then compared it to what's for sale online right now of like these items in that similar condition. And the last question is u being that we are going to increase our space here or nowhere down the road where are we going to say wish we kept these chairs. >> These aren't items that we would be able to use in those capacity. This was a specialty item that we needed back then that we were able to use and purchase with some funds we were getting. Um but we would not need we thought every way possible to try to find a way of use for these and it's just not there. We really need the space take up a lot of space in our storage area. So that being said, all those

092>> second further discussion I was trying to remember that one is fully represent by saying >> second discussion question forward. Yep. >> All those in favor say >> I approve and so we have a second. Any further discussion? The only question I have any substantive changes with this this year's plan? >> Very very similar to last year's plan. except the podium. >> No sir, we're staying the course. We're just going to expand the good things we're doing. >> All right. So, if there are any other questions, all those in favor sign. >> I passion special discussion on that. If not all those in favor signify by saying we approve anything in our action item. So onformational items update packaging control >> come forward. >> Yes. The only change to this plan is that um the

093uh for the workman's comp the medical providers have been updated. So some of some places have changed their contact information some are closed. So that's the only thing that's really changed. >> The bloodborne pathogens exposure plan. >> He just wanted me to say it again. >> Yes. [Laughter] So like you said there's no substant >> correct we just updated the information for the work. >> It's it's a required >> Yep. >> So when I read >> okay >> just number four I cannot believe it's number four. better be quick. >> I'll be sure of the goals and objectives. I promise you that. Uh well, good evening. I'm very excited to share a few highlights from our journey to greatness. We always start with human resources. Dr. Pony uh recently held a substitute teacher workshop and

094he informed us that he has 10 potential subs into our pool. I'm sure our principles are very excited about that. The instructional team's been working very hard as well. Uh recently uh we hosted several optional afterchool professional development opportunities for our teachers. They were all well attended by our faculty and staff. So we're excited to keep on putting that on. Miss Spade recently planned and facilitated a and water day. Our fifth graders from all schools had an opportunity to engage in hands-on learning related to agriculture and and farming etc. Really tightly in line to our standards. So very excited that this paper was able to do that. And lastly for instruction, the team planned and facilitated a five C's planning meeting where the Ignite team spent time discussing how we'll move the 5C's forward for

095team LCPS. We're very excited to have that time to make those plans. Transitioning to CTE workforce development with Mr. Bundrich, he's always looking for opportunities for our kids. Recently, he participated in the Chamber of Commerce 2025 business expo. And Mr. uh bowins he uh planned and executed the AI round table was very well attended by family members and stakeholders people in Mr. uh Mr. Straley's advisory teachers administrators really got a wealth of knowledge regarding AI helped draft some plans as well and pointed us in the right direction for the future of AI here at TLCPS also Mr. Balance uh helped a to debut our new JRTC color guard as you can see in that picture so great work Mr. Balance Mr. Wallace and his team recently installed new LED exit signs at JWIT. They repaired

096hot water lines at the transportation garage and repaired hot water heater at the high school. No sink, >> no sink or toilets, but waters involved. Mr. Childress and his team uh recently installed a new intercom at the Lions. They updated wireless access at JWT. And as he as Mr. Chis mentioned earlier, he's continuing to plan for the first ever statewide cyber conference for public schools. And I'm very excited to participate in that with Mrs. Stra. So great job, Mr. Childress. Miss Herman always gets it done as well. She harvested cabbages at Travillians and she started her after school feeding program at all schools for students who participate in extended learning. Uh Andrew uh he secured coverage about our award-winning auto tech program and he organized our annual 911 tribute and first responders event which is

097well attended. We're very appreciative of that recognition. So thank you Mr. Wil for that. And as Mr. Baker stated earlier, the finance team held a training session for LCPS bookkeepers. >> Very happy. Very happy. And Dr. Al Per, she held a special education current advisory committee meeting um recently. So as you can see, it's a lot of great work taking place at T-Mo CPS. Any questions? >> Well done. >> Thank you. on to our school safety task force update. And you know me, I go on and on. No, just kidding. A lot of great people have told me one important thing. Know your audience. And I know Mr. Harris, I can spell quick Q I K. >> Got three uh three things to to talk about. They'll be very quick. >> I don't want to

098go too fast past the SRO team. This is not a test. We've lost one and gained one, which means we're still short one in the end. So, if you see Deputy Irwin down there to elementary school, he came back to us and replaced Deputy Voton who's going to become a K9 officer. We're working hard to fill that other spot. Uh, and you know, as the schools begin to expand, really having a full up 100% command SRO team is critical and we're working hard to fill that seventh position. Uh, just a quick couple notes on the safety audit. It went extremely well. I can't say enough good things about all the people on the safe school task force, even our brand new members. We have five or six of those all came out to uh participate

099to include Major Low, Captain Hart, Chief Hawk, lots of folks from the fire department. So, it was a great showing across the the board. Like last year, minor issues overall, few less than last year, 28. We've already cleared five. Our teams are working hard to clear up all of those by the next uh meeting in in November. We had a lot of great work by the uh the vaping committee. I don't know if anybody had the chance to go by the high school uh earlier to see the motivational speaker, Mr. Robert Hackinson Jr. gave a great presentation to all grades in high school and then the next day all grades in the middle school. Very engaging type speaker. I think uh he got his point well across to the students. They'll at least remember it

100for a while. Uh and we've got other things in progress to keep re-emphasizing those things. is one of which is save the students against the vaping epidemic. Trying to crank up those clubs because clubs because you know how important is to have the students engaged and talking to their fellow colleagues peer-to-peer type thing is extremely important. So trying to get those clubs underway. Uh Andrew's done a great job with the anti- vaping logo. You can see it right there up in the the top right hand corner. Uh truly professional, wonderful stuff. And we're also looking to the future. There's lots of activities going on, but we're also considering the need for an addiction counselor if we are very successful. I mean, one way you know it, you know, tobacco, all those things, very addictive. So,

101it's not just a stop because it's going to hurt you. We have to do a lot of follow on kind of action. So, we're kicking around that also. Have you noticed I don't know what some of the local jurisdictions arrest? >> I saw that in fact it was in the Richmond Times dispatch here this past week. >> Yes, sir. I think we're uh we're looking at those situations also and I think we're equally aggressive to any other kind of uh law enforcement agency too. >> Any questions or comments I can answer before? >> I just like to add this piece. We had an incident uh this past week uh where another school bus uh from a neighboring or not neighboring but in the state Rockingham County was traveling through Louisa headed to the state fair

102and it had a bus accident. Um, it was an accident, pretty severe accident. We got the call. We weren't sure whether it was our bus, someone else's bus or what. But I I just want to commend Miss Kohl's um for her quick work to get uh our transportation team out there uh to help get uh help them as well as Miss Bryant and her team who took in those students from Rockingham that were not transported from the incident and really housed them until a plan could be developed. uh for them to reunite with their families in uh in school. So I I just wanted to bring that up. I think it's another great um examples of the great people we have here in Louisa jumping to the cause. Many others in this room also jumped

103u to help and uh others not in this room and I just want to thank the team for for jumping in and helping. Certainly if we were in a similar situation in another community, we would hope that folks would take good care of our people and uh certainly I was very proud of of the work that I did. So I just wanted to bring that up and we received a a note a nice note in and some fake goods from Rockham County Superintendent just saying, you know, they they really never seen anything quite like what has happened as far as taking care of them and their families were very appreciative as well. So just wanted to say that and thank them for their generosity. >> That is kindness or whoever get >> Go ahead. I'm

104sorry. >> It was just between 1 and 1:30 that day. >> Yeah. And so some were transported back, the parents located transported back, but many didn't many of the students didn't want to get back on the bus. So, and so that was that was there was an opportunity there for them to be there. They were there for a good while. Herman jumped in uh in and and her team and Julie jumped in, made sure everyone's fed. It was >> I tell you another thing I think the school division did really good was that um they let people know in Louisa it wasn't a Louisa bus right away at all. that was out there almost immediate with a bus accident, but it wasn't a Louisa bus. >> Yeah. And I appreciate you saying that. We didn't

105want our families panicking once we found out it was someone else, but we also, you know, wanted to make sure they were. >> That's right. >> They had eight individuals that were transported. We did >> you know students at that time were glad but all of the students who saw that you were Thank you. >> We would have been shorter had we not. >> So on the public comment, we have one person sign up in the middle of district. So good for individuals. This is God in 2020. This is in 2025 in that time between 2025 13 years anxiety depression suicides just because responsible well separation of course mental health professionals took advantage of it. We got to reverse this. I mean, seriously, we got to reverse this. We got back in the school system

106all the CDC didn't even have teenagers. Now it's the same I think it's time to separation of church and state. professional school systems responsible for kids that simply um because I don't think the mental health professionals have the best interest if they're denying children access to God and Christianity and truth and they do not have the best Anyone else? >> If not, we're going to report this evening. >> Okay. With that being said, I just wanted to mention facilities again that you know um watching the work orders that coming in out that makes a difference. Um that um a lot of us our jobs including yours everybody um has no issues. So there's that in our schools, in our buses, cafeteria. I'm still thinking about all the so on board upcoming meetings. A reminder that

107our next meeting will not be Tuesday. It will be Monday, November 3rd because the election will be November 4th. So it'll be election time this month from now. So and then coming up um tomorrow middle school and 21st. So, is there any other items? >> Home homecoming parade. Homecoming parade is uh the 23rd. >> 23rd. Homecoming parade. 23rd. >> Yeah. 23rd. Ma'am, got to make make sure we get that get on that one. >> Move to a motion to second. >> Second. >> Any further discussion? >> All those in favor signify by saying >> I approve. How are you?