001program administration objectives and where we want to go from here. Um we got even more traction with the army because they shortly thereafter offered us an army program and those four letters in front of are very important that NBCC and that slide is from an older presentation that I presented to you before many many ago but NDCC stands for national defense cadet court and it's a little bit of difference standard program I jokingly um use a lot and it's no doubt it's called the community um so the program is amazing because you can stay on the wait list for the program for 20 years you never get so if you decide as a community hey we want to put the dollars in we want to build this program ourselves would army give us the curriculum
002and whatever other support you can cost right that's basically what NCC means and we were um looking into what that would look like for us. So again, part of the presation I gave you before is these cost projections. So that first year start program is in the neighborhood of $284,000, right? Instructor cost obviously a lot of that uniforms some of those things have. But again to package to bring on a program that's continuing on every year after that there are those sustainability costs right so you're paying that large number up front and you have those sustainability costs looking around just $200,000 that we wanted to march forward Mr. came to you I believe I had a presentation went to board supervisor and they suggest let's do this because a lot of times when you start
003NBCC program that is your fastest and most guaranteed route to be approved for full program so the goals and objectives were let's get started let's you know our positivity before this and hopefully we'll be kind of scooped up and part of the traditional program unfortunately the 19 pandmic came out of left field and stop everything, right? So, our priorities changed, restructuring happened, we stopped thinking about program growth, we started thinking about how do we get the doors back open and those became a priority and same with the federal government, right? So, that left us kind of hold the phone, hey, anybody there? We still want to increase the program, but also at the same time all these other things and um you know, call us when we know we're also trying to keep school, right?
004So, um we didn't from anybody after that which again I meant to go back and the exact date but they came out right before the pandmic kind of sent us like program and then the whole world shut down for a decade but with only a couple of years so that being said October 2022 I'm blessed to have a best friend who director and he sent me an email and it was director command that said hey we're looking at you know our weight people if they want to email army after this. He said absolutely put in application. Um so fill out the application and submitted it in October 2022 and then two years later haven't really heard anything not surprising because we stayed on the wait list for other things for over a decade and didn't
005hear anything. Um, but we received a phone call email from Paul Aer who's the operations and instructional support manager. It seems he's the most important guy for he travels around the country does site visits and how to sell programs and they said they want to come out for a site visit. To be honest, I've been jaded by this before. So, I was a little nervous. I actually called, they put their phone numbers and all their emails and actually answer the phone. So, I called and said, "Are you all the programs? You've been through the site before programs. Um so we were thrilled to meet with them right back myself um Mr. L was there too and discuss what our school could offer and why we thought was the best place to have program and touring
006Mr. around. He was extremely impressed with our vision and when he left he told us he was going to be putting an application in the secretary of navy but these things take time anywhere from 1.5 to two years before he would be back in touch with us to start that process of building a program if funding did become available and again left thoroughly impressed with what we saw and we were all very excited because heard that 1.5 years really lines up well with our CT center up challenge for us right now you all are aware of that. Um, that being said, about two months later, uh, we get another phone call and they say, "Surprise, we would actually like to fast track you all and start a JRTC program as soon as you ready." Um,
007so you kind of talk amongst your team, let us know what as soon as you are ready looks like and get back to us because we are thrilled and excited and ready to go. Um, so I have with you Major Hampton. Major Hampton and I got to spend the day together today. around the school getting to learn what is he here. He's the director of region 8 which is our director and he is here to talk a little bit about the marine court what it is what it isn't and how he thinks it will kind of help ladies and gentlemen when I came in here I was speechless I'm not going to lie to anybody in this room but I've never seen more robust or facilities. I've been in 100 schools over the last Who
008am I? I'm your regal director once this program off the ground is what we are not. We're not here to recruit kids. We're here to teach leadership, character development, a little bit of program management. We're here to teach selfreiability. responsibility to help out my student when I was an instructor. I don't want any rough I would do it again this leadership class that we teach character development classes that we're obvious tool, how to put things together and just show some self. What we want to do is just create good time for questions. I said a few more things I want to go over. Um so um are students interested in the JTC program? Our data shows yes. We've surveyed them a few times over the years and I will say that the comes back around
009these numbers. Not exactly on data shift a little bit. Um but we have 39.5% of our students who say I would consider taking a zero class. I probably learn more about to me that's a very realistic response. I would say the same thing about sure but I kind of want to learn a little bit more but 18.6% of our students close to 19% they're ready to sign down. So they're very excited today. So you think about 20% of 1500 students is that's a large amount of students, right? So the DRPC program only required to have 10% of the population in order to maintain the program. We're already with our interest around 20%. We're excited about the opportunities for our students. We're more excited about the fact that those 20 plus% students are going to get
010the opportunity to go they're really passionate about that they don't necessarily have the ability to do today in their academic. Um so again we feel like the desire and the need is there. So I want to back to these numbers a little bit because these are important because you'll notice I didn't choose those four letters when we were talking about this program. So again, the projected program costs are the same. We're still sitting at $284,000ish program. That being said, the Marine Corps because we are a full-fledged program picks up 100% of the nonpel cost. So all those things that you see highlighted there are things that would be paid fully by the whether they're less or more they're picked up. You'll see that the staffing instructional pay is left there at the bottom $165,000. But
011the good news is that they pick up 50% of the minimum instructor pay right. So that's a 50% of that $165,000. So 50% of each instructor salary which leaves us around $85,000 cost right and then again all the equipment. So normally and I are working through our Perkins funding our local fun. We're not going to have to take away from any of our existing program to build this program because all the supplies uniforms. So very excited about those numbers and excited about what they offer. So again, if you look at that map, that's 70% off. That's a great deal at any any rate, right? I just kind of wanted to drive home with you all how fortunate we are to be in this position because I believe there are not many schools now there are
012not I know there are not many programs being open across the country so hard work has paid off I want to talk to you very briefly about the implementation plan because I do think this is important um we are not going to try to start this um in August when we come back to school full-fledged we know that this program takes time to build we have we need to adjust. Um, we have some facilities and are we need to clean out and restructure. We have a good master plan of what all that looks like, but it's going to take time to work and I think we try to do all that over the summer on board like the uniforms, your equipment, all those things getting in place will be responsible talking with Marine Corp and
013our leadership staff. We feel like a second semester start with students is the best option. That being said, we're going to hire our first instructor as soon as we can. Give them the ability to get in, get to work, moves on the ground, start meeting school counseling, start talking with students, start interacting, promoting the program. Also getting involved in our current clubs and activities. So, we all know that um Lieutenant Colonel B does a great job with our armed services club and we want those two to blend together, right? So, we want to introduce our instructors. Lieutenant Colonel actually had a very good conversation today, the three of us about how that can look like. He's excited to be a part of the markmanship team. all those great opportun who maybe can't get in their
014schedule because it doesn't fit their current academic plan and you don't want them to feel left out, right? Um so again all that in year one and starting with that Marine Corps one course in second semester the goal is to enroll about 100 kids. I think we can we can beat that but I think that's a pretty solid goal to start with. two moving into adding VRTC, two and three. So again, giving our students three opportunities to take you everything is kind of a domino effective scheduling. So you get a good cohort of level one students, they can take two semester semeri opportunity summer camp scholarship this year full-fledged four courses forced approach. So we feel like this is this is a solid plan to kind of phase this into a school culture environment. Um
015so that is all I have for you as far as presentation. I will pause for any questions for myself. We had that conversation earlier. So, two instructors um you know 20 to 25. So that's 50 students per class. So we have 50 students per class. We lost 15 students per semester. 300 goal and I just know that when we start those numbers we start talking about so we have that conversation today I don't want to superm. So what is the actual commitment from the student if they quote sign up for the these courses like any other course they're in like they can great so are will the instructors be employees of the county correct y so they are they're employees of public schools we work with to recruit they have a list of qualified applicants
016We have to follow our typical hiring process. We have the ability and select your employee. They have the great two bosses. I'm so excited. I was 185,000. This is really good news. You all are going to have a waiting list. I'll guarantee you so glad you guys are on board. We're ready to address any kind of situate. question. How many schools have you already done with this program? We've got 254 nationwide in one of them United States. Is there any issue that might come up? And a lot of this program you want to deal with character numbers on there. I'm going to show sometimes instructor that doesn't happen very often because they want to get back to the world. We all grew up very many of our instructors in way long. I would assume your
017program is going to be very strict with the kids tolerant if you don't follow the rules. It sounds like a great program. I read Jesus and all. So this program will kind of follow that same line. Yes sir. out of jail. My options were I mean borrow complete and they decide to join a service doesn't give them an opportunity it does and every service JRC is a little bit different coming out of mean when they go into a service that service looks at it, but you can get that promotion once you complete [Music] Like you said earlier, if somebody goes to the program, there's no obligation. You know, And so the other thing is we're always about non-negotiable accountability that with this program comes some accountability and I heard minimum numbers did that start at
018the beginning so you're going to get coming out of the box is very easy. They'll have to adjust again. drill instructor. A lot of the drill instructors gravitate towards this because throughout our careers we had to teach something experiences not instructor but I did a lot of varsity level drill your teams can travel across all the same exact level. I've got one more question. There are no college. department. Yes, sir. Mr. Chairman, how do we move this from a information item to a action item? Since we have all we have a motion to move it to action. We have a second. Second. Second. Any further discussion? I would just like to add the whole program that probably any other questions. So along those lines um that I notic four by the time we get to
019the full cycle about three years will all four classes be offered. So they the way they correct me if I'm wrong they mix classes and they differentiate instruction. So now you become your fouryear leader in that classiment. There are also some one last question in terms of our current budget. So, so I appreciate you all moving this to action tonight as well and and and thank you US uh Marine Corps for doing this because you positioned us to do it as it goes with your question of $85,000 item as opposed to nearly $300,000 item. Um where we are positioned well is um the budget that was just signed by the governor and will allow us has some flexibility in there for us to utilize some funds um to be able to do this and make
020this happen and no addition we will not need to ask for additional cost from locality as well. We're in a good place. And then my last comment is that question is As you can tell, we've been talking what 20 minutes about this. So, the level excitement of this program is from beginning all the way up to the board. We're excited about this. Um, you know, you all said eight years. For those of us who've been on the board longer, this started in 2007 in terms of discussion. So for this one to get here this morning. So that being said, all those in favor signify by saying motion car. So just clarify, we've got a motion. Second. Second. Any further discussion? And just to clarify and just to clarify, as Mr. said this this implementation includes
021the courses that will need to be put in place for the implementation. So clarify that we have those courses approved because we need those approved prior to signing students up. All those in favor signify by saying I motion passes. Congratulations. All [Applause] right. Yes, sir. Update number 11. [Music] I'm excited to share highlights from our journey of greatest number 11. We'll start with human resources and Dr. and his teams job fair and Dr. 19 instruction. Mr. recently planned, coordinated and facilitated the first ever regional civics be first annual uh family movie night school did excellent job that endeavor the book they read and they watch the wild robot we had over 1500 people registered to attend this event great engage Mr. B is always looking for opportunities for our students. Recently he planned the CT
022signing day at the high school implement the student career hiring fair. So again two events are very wellappointed over and his team all around team LCPS wiring for lights and repair box at the middle school Mr. They recently devices across the division update income at the middle school and distributed new teacher devices providing meals for rising orientation also looking forward to that harvest soon man always gets it recently created communications for educator of the year and he's also a video of Mosc 9,000 view and Dr. She planned to facilitate the special education resource fair. She showed a sensory friend and that was absolutely excited about Marines are showd I'm 14 years old. I guess that won't give you a final update for the school year. Uh I want to go back to what took place
023just prior to the you probably heard about our motor vehicle crash in the past for several years, but they are a very important piece of keeping our students safe. And while Sergeant Harris isn't here today, Mr. Red is playable. putting all this on for a lot of different reasons on the rest of the year. This is so important because you can talk to what you see and hear different parts of your brain and you have the opportunity to come in just like crime railing being rescued by fires and then unfortunately being here to remember and hopefully we'll go forward in the future and the right choice behind so great update about our team focus and then really at the middle there Mr. Leadership, we help the mini was the next thing that we had to
024do. We were able to set up a center Thomas Jefferson's assistance. We used our software, we had role players, and all went very smoothly. So, we're working our way now to the full exercise where we do everything and do it as realistically as we can to show that we have and we're also working to support Dr. Dr. who are the focal point of our unified division communication. to help a quick Mr. and head up all our sections making work. We got a $10,000 micro grant award which helps support some of the choices that we made later to increase awaren the community. I do want to draw your attention to this sheriff and sheriff's office working very hard as reports come in as may arrange agency to go out and do some education with the folks
025that own the business but then they follow that up with activity and you can see the most recent check. So that's progress coming out probably right after school end sometime replace all our tests well that works great if you're in road and all those kind of places but for all those that does not work so well and it did not work so well. Uh so they tested the internet both internet and time and it worked great on our machines. They now producing those for all their machines at some point. We're also doing the digital map updates based on everything that Mr. talked about there's some big changes going on over the middle school and of course lots of different construction but I thought this would be an easy change but as soon as I got
026the diagram I thought we're ahead of the game we're already start requisine. You know, the bigger it is, the more difficult it is to do. So we may not get to the perfect spot this year but over time we're very pleased to say that all going to the school safety event but we're thankful had the ability to send four of our six school You can see all right with us. And when they come back, all four of them fores I did skip over one thing that I want to recently place talking to a nurse and I don't know how we school. She wanted to talk about school safety and her high school son of the other high school initial HS and we've got the greatest weapons detective weapons that's not working for us. My son
027comes in and tells me people are not paying attention. We're trying to sell something that go world class detectors have a worldass operation to operate those worldass detectors. I'm here to tell you truthfully that we do have a worldass operation because principles that we have here in the central office. Uh so we are following the rules and regulations and operational provided people are paying attention to doing the things that we expect. Yeah. The people like We haven't found explosive mass destructor. This is both a deterrent and another layer of safety and I think our crew are doing a great job. But we also check every visit that comes to our school and of course one of the biggest events and we recently were impressed when they came through. We were checking all those parents as
028they came through. And that's what that nurse was talking. So here operational pass [Music] around and I would I would chime in to say I agree with you Sergeant Sarnoski about the staff being um so diligent in morning as I've traveled through the schools, I see that as well. So many of our staff members are involved in this process in the morning and uh they're very very engaged in the process and take it very serious and commend our principles for making sure that happens because that is a big piece of this process. If you don't have that piece of this, it is certainly not going to work well. And so I agree 100% and really appreciate the staff being so engaged in it and taking it serious. Yeah, I would say, you know, you say
029that your question was a great question about the like the guitar case and so forth because in the spring, you know, the lines go a little bit slower into certain areas, especially and we have a plan of who enters the building where because with baseball, softball, and so many different other sports that carry big bags and so forth, um it does take a little longer sometimes. So, we have a we've worked out a plan to try to make that more efficient as well. But springtime is often one of the biggest challenges to keep us moving outside because of because of all those bags being checked. Thank you very much. Thanks for all your next information. So we conducted our annual review on May 1st with parents and our teachers and you have the numbers in
030front of you. We are still in some first grade data and some data but overall strong. I think next year we'll probably notice. So I know right after we dropped those numbers contining up and we're back to our number. Any other questions? Great job. Thank you so Oh, okay. Was that a second? It is. Once I once I heard it, I got it. All right. So, we had a motion to move it to action. We have a second move to action. Any further discussion here? All those in favor signify by saying I motion. So now we have a motion. Second. So any further discussion? All those in favor signify by saying I. Those opposed. We have an approved. Thank you very much. And on to the comment section. So for anybody you'd like to speak
031and three minutes as an individual, five minutes as a group and there will close the public comment section. So on the reports any questions you had? So the only thing I wanted to mention was This time of year is a crazy time. We're in the sprint where everybody's, you know, this has been a long marathon towards the end of the race. Everybody's feeling from their second, third or fourth win depending on where you're at in there. But we appreciate you all giving that one last push. I can't believe graduation couple weeks. Um, but all that takes you all working together. We really appreciate that. And um I just want to call out the facilities that um you know we joke about the faucets and the toilets and stuff but if they're not working in the
032middle of testing that that could be a problem and so thank you for I watch that very closely especially Christmas time like this. Can I add something to that? Yes, sir. And I appreciate those comments and uh I'd like to just say we are we are in the final stretch and uh this is always an exciting time of the year because we're going to finish strong and stronger than we've ever finished. Our folks are working hard as I'm going out to the schools. I mean staff is just working so hard to to get us over over the finish line and make sure uh we're out in front. We're doing it. So I just want to say, you know, thank you to them. And as with that comes uh so much stuff here at the end
033of the year. We got graduation coming up next Friday night. exciting. We've got next Wednesday we have our reception for our scholarship night uh as well. And then tomorrow night uh we have our educator of the year and MVP of the year uh ceremony as we recognize uh certainly the best of the best uh tomorrow evening as well. And then one thing I wanted to add in is we're looking at um and we couldn't really um set this date until we had an approval of of moving forward with the CTE, but next Wednesday uh the 14th um we we're going to do a groundbreaking ceremony at the high school uh which we need. We're going to get moving on get making that happen. But we're going to do a groundbreaking ceremony for the CTE uh
034building there at the high school at 4 o'clock next Wednesday as well. So, uh, a lot of things happening over these next few weeks as we finish strong. Uh, I appreciate what Dr. Grigg put across the line there with the journey to greatness. There's so many things happening that people are doing such a great job out there and just so proud of our our our staff, our community, our parents, our kids, just really working to make it make it all happen here at the end. And thank you all for your support of all that. Look forward to seeing everyone at many of these events over the next week, two weeks. And as Mr. covered most of the upcoming um meetings. So hope to see everybody who can attend those. There's a lot coming up. Um
035that being said, we have a motion to move. Second. Any further discussion? There being none. All those in favor signify by saying I. Those opposed. We have