001on the board and we are going to uh discuss more about what their role can be in the future. Um, but as you noticed, uh, Sarah Mccclure is not here, uh, today, but we do have another person, and Carson Puit, who is the current student body president at Ash County High School, is going to introduce his successor. You want to go ahead and introduce? So, this is Clara H. She's been my vice president for the past year now. Um, you've been success your freshman year, correct? Middle school. And middle school as well. Uh I we didn't have middle school due to uh co when I was yeah sorry since the word didn't have student council uh when I was in dental school but I'm glad you experienced that and she will be filling in well
002she will be succeeding me in this role next year. So you want to say anything introduce yourself. My name is Claire H like Carson said um I'm a junior this year. I'm super super excited to be president this upcoming year. Um I love being on council. It's it's been a huge honor meeting people and getting to help with dances and all sorts of stuff. So I'm really excited to be the kind of head of it this upcoming year. Thank you guys. And then, as I said, our early college representative, Sarah Mccclure, is also a student athlete. And so, she had a soccer game tonight. And so, um, she emailed and said she's sorry she could not be there. And I said, "Absolutely. You, uh, you need to be with your team." And we're really proud
003of all of her accomplishments. Um, but we do have, um, Addison over here who is forever, when I look at her, going to be called the commander. Um, because she was at a Can I tell that story? Yeah. Okay. Uh, so of course she takes on a lot of leadership roles and she is just known for getting things done. And I bet anybody in this room who knows this young woman um sees her everywhere. Kind of like her mom, but she sees her everywhere. And uh, so she took a personality test and she got a commander, which was no surprise to any one of us because she is a true leaders leader. Um, but she is um was the the alternate I guess you could say this year when we knew that Sarah would not
004be able to be there. But you want to pick up the good news for next year? Oh yeah, I'll be here next year again. I'm the student council president at the early college. So we have great leaders who are very involved in their community and I'm excited to work with each of them. So, as you all know, we we um have finished or we are finishing as this school year ends um a five-year strategic plan and I have asked the students behind the scenes because we've always had students to participate in providing feedback and so they're going to help me, we have a zoom planned uh with myself and the students upcoming uh they're going to help me uh look at what that feedback looks like um and give their perspectives being um in Ash
005County schools for a long time. Um so um I'm looking forward to connecting with them on that level and see what kind of feedback we can get from students to make sure that what we're doing really makes it down to the student level because after all that's why we're here. So thank you all. So I wanted to say um uh congratulations. She's not in this room that I see but congratulations to Jennifer Krisco, Dr. Jennifer Krisco. So, uh, Jennifer is an assistant principal at Ash County High School that I had the pleasure of, uh, mentoring while she was doing her ed and educational leadership from NC State University. And she defended on April 28th successfully. And several of us were able to be on her defense zoom, which was really fun. Um, I was really
006proud of her. She looked at mental health in rural uh communities and um be very interested to uh read after the minor changes uh her final copy and we'll we'll see if we can uh get that uh for you the board. I think a few of you'd be really interested in hearing what she learned through that. Um we had some employees of the month in April and as you know um our HR uh department decided that we really needed to honor uh just people in general. Um continuing our pinning ceremony and some of the other things that we're doing uh to honor our teachers. We're going to honor some more teachers here today and some staff members that go above and beyond all the time. Um, but our April employees of the month are Christy
007Aldridge, uh, middle school counselor and bus driver Shelby Dao. And, uh, they had some fantastic, uh, recommendations. We're really proud of them. And these are anybody can nominate someone uh, from the district uh, to honor for going above and beyond. And so if if uh, the team picks two people each month and so we'll have two more to honor next time. or to share about um our Facebook page. You can read some of the good things that are happening in our schools and especially uh when we honor a person, we're trying to uh share something really special about them, too. We had a fantastic Special Olympics. Now, it's one of my favorite days of the year. Graduation Day is always my favorite, but Special Olympics is a really, really close uh close day. And uh
008despite the rain and chillier weather we had outside, we had a fantastic uh day inside the gym. Um and I got to run with kids, trying to keep up with some of them uh was a lot of fun and cheer them on. Thank you to everybody here who showed up for our children uh so that we could celebrate their accomplishments. And of course uh during Special Olympics, everybody's a winner and we were um very proud um of our students. So again, amazing athletes and some of them even showed off their singing talents and their dancing talents beyond the individual sports and it was just a true pleasure uh to be around them as they just made you light up the room. Our 7th through 12th grade school counselors have attended the American School Counselor Association
009National Model for School Counseling Training over the past two years and most of them have uh com uh completed this training thanks to Gear Up who provided the funds so that they could do so and essentially it's a powerful framework that help support every student's success. Um, it aligns uh uh fantastically with our MTSS model that we have in place as well. Um, so we're really proud of them and we wanted you to know that. Um, last week, was it last week was the endowment golf tournament? Gosh, it was only last week. See Diane, I'm I'm starting to remember those things. But, uh, golly, it does go by fast and it's packed. Um but the annual endowment golf fund to uh endowment fund golf tournament was last week and we had 26 teams who competed.
010Um a special thank you to all of those who volunteered. Uh Diane happens to be on the endowment board and uh but Janet was there all day long. um to I don't even know what we were doing, taking tickets and selling tickets and serving food and um you know Josh was there in the morning. Um fantastic day. The weather turned out to be pretty perfect. We had a little bit of sprinkles and that was it. And I think all around people had a great time. And so uh the second half of the day I got to go out on the golf cart and take pictures of people and see the beautiful sites. and um we had a really good time. Um I want to say a special thank you to Rhonda Smith. Uh so Rhonda
011is our administrative assistant here in um Ash County Schools. So whenever you hear the joyous voice if you call the central office, that's typically Rhonda's voice that you hear. And Rhonda basically spearheaded the entire thing. Um tremendous amount of work and I'm just very thankful for her. This was the very first golf tournament that she got to plan and I think we were canceled it what three times. Um rain twice. So this was the third time. Yeah. So it was rain out and then hurricane out and then um this was third time's the charm I guess. But um we're really thankful for her. We had um a couple of great winning teams. First place overall was the AED team with Sean Turmmyer, Anthony Hamilton, Kenny Harless, and Jody uh Richardson. Second place overall uh was
012the Westwood Elementary team of Kevin Miller, uh David McNeel, Troy McNeel, and Steven Moody. So, uh where where is Mr. Greyel here? Uh you're you know the West Oh, no wait. Scott Grub team. I don't know why I'm saying Mr. Greyel. Yeah, Scott Grub team. um they play a lot of golf clearly um to uh be that good. So anyway, that's that's good stuff. We're we're really proud of them and glad that you all participated. I say something here. We appreciate everyone. The money that we raised from this tournament goes directly back to your endowment. All of the money that we earn through that is going to the grants. And we're trying to come up with another fundraiser before we do golf again so that we can even add to that pot because it's been
013a hard year. So, we're trying to more money. So, we um I don't know what the final amount was uh raised for the golf tournament, but um Kelly Hollerman um gave up some time during the day to come and share um the impact of her grant that she won um or that she wrote for. I guess I guess it is a winning. Um but at the same time um fantastic things that our children are getting exposed to from coding to school ridewide reads to murder mysteries to um uh just opportunities to take field trips that they otherwise would not get to do. Our teachers are so innovative here and I'm proud of the work and thankful that they took the time to actually write the grants. So, if your child, if you're listening out there
014and your child is uh um in the classroom where a teacher wrote this grant, tell your teacher thank you. This is teacher appreciation week anyway, but tell them thank you because that's a going above and beyond and they do that on a regular basis. April was child abuse neglect prevention month and so students and staff dressed in blue to show their support and every child of course deserves to feel safe, supported and loved and by wearing blue. I think we raised awareness to stand united against abuse and neglect. And you know we hate to think that any of that happens within our communities but it does. Um and so we want to make sure that all of our children are safe and protected. Um, so that was April. Um, the the Blige Elementary School spring
015festival and is Mitchell still here? Um, their spring fa festival was an absolute hit. Now, they've had a couple of different uh big activities of an evening. Uh, you know, this was the 30th year for Blige Elementary School and so we were excited to celebrate with them at the beginning of the year or maybe it was in the middle of the I don't even remember now. I have no time perspective. um this particular year. Um but families enjoyed food and fun and games and prizes and theme baskets and a cakewalk um which filled rooms filled rooms with cakes. So uh they had horseback they had horseback ride they had all kinds of things going on at the spring festival. The early college sophomores were were among those who helped to get some of their service
016hours in for college. Um, but they had a great great evening. Mountain View Elementary School had a Duke Energy Science Night and students and families explored with hands-on STEM like magnetic painting and uh, brain flake building and the North Carolina Science Festival, Duke Energy, and the Morehead Planetarium and Science Center helped to make the event possible. So, we collaborated with all of them in order to make sure that our kids had true hand our families, not just kids, our families had hands-on experiences, um, which was absolutely a hit. Uh, so, uh, kudos to Mountain View Elementary School. Westwood students and family also enjoyed a Duke Energy Science Night with games and, uh, amazing student art, hands-on STEM activities, and much more. And so I got lost in the maze that was in the media center.
017It was unrecognizable. Thankfully the lights were still on when that happened. Um but the kids were having such a fun time as they were putting it together. I I see Scott back there laughing at me. Um I wanted to see it as people were putting it together so that you didn't get lost in the sea of people and you had quite a sea of people uh to come that night um for all of the entertainment. Ash County Middle School had a fabulous as usual career day and it was so great to see so many community partners. I think we have what 40 community partners that day. Uh some were in there um who gave up their time. We had a special dinner. Even Virginia Fox came to eat or dinner. It may have been dinner
018that day. Who knows? Um but Virginia Fox joined us as well for the lunch that was prepared by our cafeteria. So, if anybody tells you that our cafeteria food is great, it's even better than great because that was a fabulous, fabulous lunch. Um, but it was really nice to see the number of um businesses that invest in hiring local and they were really quick to share how we hire local here in Ash County. And we want our children to um get all the skills that they have in school uh at our community college and even nearby universities and then come back and enjoy Ash County by working here. And so that was a theme hit of the day. Thank you to the board members that came. Um I think everybody was there to see um
019all the ways that our community steps up for kids. Then our Ash County high schools um uh also had a um a career and gosh I didn't even put it on here. Gosh, there's so many great things. Is it on down? Ah, we had our hiring fair on May 1st and we had over 50 community partners um on that particular day and we had some students that actually brought their resumes and were hired on the spot. So, that was a fantastic showing by our community um and an opportunity for our students um to really step up and show off the skills that they currently have just by attending Ash County Schools. What was most impressive was talking to the vendors, as I call them, vendors, businesses, local businesses that came to see our um students
020and showcase their businesses. um was that all of them said, "Wow, your kids ask great questions." And I felt really proud after hearing that they asked great questions. You know, after COVID, um and you hear a lot in the news about kids not having skills to talk to each other or to talk to adults and our Ash County students, Ash County High School, Ash County Early College, even our middle school students prove everybody wrong. our kids do have those skills and so we're really proud of that. Our JOTC Raiders, uh the cadets showed outstanding teamwork and they came in second out of um I think there were 14 teams um in the region. This is their final competition of the year. So they did fantastic and I'm really excited. I was in high school a
021couple of days ago and um students who have committed to the armed forces um I saw the stoalls that they're going to wear at graduation. Boy, we're really excited about that. We had our first signing day um about a month ago for a student that signed on into the army. Um but they're going to wear their stools at graduation. So, really exciting to see. And of course, graduation is just around the corner. Tonight for dinner, you guys heard and I I'm almost done. I promise. Um and I'm skipping a whole bunch of things that we could share that's going really well in our schools. Um, but our ProStart culinary team was represented at the North Carolina ProStart Invitational in Durham. And um, our uh, we we have some great partners. Thanks to Chef Thomas Fogger,
022Chef Trump Puit, and Amanda Elliot for their guidance and support. And especially for uh, we have an amazing culinary teacher, Debbie Sturgil. Um, and of course, she's retiring this year and we all hate to see her go. Uh, she is one of the truly replaceable irreplaceable teachers um in our district. Um but wow what she did with kids and they actually cooked some they're culinary too. Yeah. Fabulous. And I just now this I had an ulterior motive by keeping three cup taking three cupcakes tonight. I just want you guys to see this chocolate. I don't I don't know. It looks it's heavy. It looks fabulous. Uh, this is a cheesecake with a a raspberry. I don't know what it is. It's good. And then this one is strawberry with a whipped topping. Okay. Anyway, I'm
023making myself hungry again. The food was fabulous. I did eat healthy for lunch, but those desserts looked amazing and they were prepared by Culinary 2 students. So, these three uh seniors uh that came in tonight were just delightful. They were so proud of their work. they got to experiment uh with food and um what our teachers make possible for kids is extraordinary. So again, thank teacher Debbie Sturgil again is one of those irreplaceables. And then we have lots of things going on. Um after early college, Miss De's Alaskan Den students uh spread some Easter cheer and they helped prep eggs for the motherboard Easter to remember community egg hunt at Ash Park. uh that happened a couple of weeks ago. We're really proud of them. The Beta Club, the National Beta Club at the Early
024College uh was uh followed by an open mic night. And we have so many participants at the early college um that go above and beyond. Not only do they have the grade point averages and the uh character, but they are here to serve the community and they and they really do. I mean, throughout the hurricane, it was some of the same um uh students who uh made sure kids were taken care of and families were fed and that uh little ones had birthday gifts if they were uh shut in. So, um we're thankful for them and the continuing to serve motto that I think that they exemplify. And then our today I got the opportunity to speak at the TAP class. Um, so tap, not literally tap dance. I would have done that, too. Um,
025but our tap class is teaching as a profession. And so that has been grown by Dr. Jesse Hall at the high school. She's an English teacher and just truly inspiring. If you see her in her own classroom, she's one of those models that I want um teachers to be and students to emulate. Um, but I was there um during, you know, an interesting Monday morning at the high school. Um but the teacher as a profession class level three field experience students um went to Appalachin State University and they had a a chance to attend a teacher conference. And so we are you know we have a great um a great school system where a lot of other school systems are fighting to get teachers and don't have very many. we really have our uh teachers
026that want to come back and we're recruiting from within and some of them are just absolutely outstanding but they're learning from the best. So um that was really fun to get to speak to their class today. Um but it was also really fun to hear about the experience they had in their teacher uh teaching as a profession class. And so, um, this is teacher appreciation week. And again, um, you know, there I don't know if you can say thank you enough to the teachers and staff members, um, that work across, um, across Ash County Schools. We truly do have the best. I believe that and I'm just very thankful for them. So, thank you to all of you um, who are in this room who who are educators. I told somebody earlier today, they said,
027"Well, what do you say you do when somebody says I'm like, I'm an educator. I mean, I'm a teacher at heart." And I think we're all teachers at heart. And I think that's really important. Um, it's one of it's the most important profession out there. So, I may be biased, but those are the success in the schools. I'm not going to read the upcoming dates and announcements, but I am going to tell you about a couple of things that are coming up here as well. We have our student best of the best awards. Last year was our very first annual best of the best. And so these are seniors from the early college and uh the high school and uh we may have a certain person in here in this room that might get a
028an invitation to uh that best of the best dinner that's coming up. Um so make sure you have on your calendars June 3rd. Um these are your top GPA students. June 3rd at 5:00 um at Timber Rivers um it's it's been on the calendar for a while but the uh 5:00 at Timber Rivers um we will have a celebration for students. So this is a it's a I know it's a busy week um leading into graduation. We have a board meeting the night before and a dinner that night and I think there might be a couple other events scheduled as well. Um, but we're truly honored to um honor our kids who uh are the top of their class. But those names will be released at the next board meeting because it's still a surprise.
029Invitations went out today or or going out tomorrow. I don't know if you Carson Pru, did you get one? I did not receive one today. Okay. So then Car I just spoiled Carson. There you go. You're going to get one in the mail either when you get home or you'll have it tomorrow. You will have an invitation because Carson is one of the top students at Ash County High School. So there you go. I should just put their names in there, right? So the next one we have on here is a um donation that we recently recently received. Now, as you know, um Amy Walker all back there, Amy Walker, um about five years ago, so it was 2021 and everything had been shut down for that cword that we're not going to talk about
030that who shall be nameless, right? Um and you know, we had been in school, but it was just an odd odd year. And Amy's like, gosh, we got to get our community back. We've got to get out there and and really try to pull people together and let's do an outdoor event. And so we started brainstorming and this brainstorm became huge. And I think that first year we had about 1,500 people to show up and last year uh this um last year was our fourth annual we had over 4,000 people um to show up for this event and this is our back to school blast. And during that time we hand out uh 1,600 book bags filled with school supplies. Um we have Miss uh Mr. little here who all right Shane I can call
031you first name um who he and his team provide free haircuts and I think last year they did almost 300 free haircuts for kids um truly extraordinary um we partner of course with the sheriff's department um to have a festival-like atmosphere we have cotton candy our food service is you know handing out you know fresh fruits and vegetables and dressing like fresh fruits and vegetables and all of our schools are there showing their spirit, but really is a time for our community to come together to pull together things that children need to start off school on the right foot. Speaking of the right foot, the right and left foot for children in need also get a new pair of shoes. And we're talking name brand Nike and Adidas from Shoes for Kids. And so we're
032so thankful. last year they gave away $40,000 worth of shoes in one day. So if you have an opportunity to pat these community partners on the back and say thank you, go spend your money in their businesses, get your hair cut from them when you're a paying customer. Um or donate to Shoes for Kids. Um we're really really appreciative of that. What we're even more appreciative of is because we're usually begging and borrowing and trying to get discounts at whenever buying throughout the year um so that we can get all of these supplies for our children. Our churches do a great job of uh making sure that we are um that we have the things that we need. Um, but we always end up spending some money and I had uh Keith Laauo who um
033is from Horus man who's going to share a little bit and there's a microphone up here. Um I want to introduce you to him. He's going to tell how this came about, this donation came about and how it's going to continue to support Ash County Schools so that we can do this year after year after year. It is a joy to be here. I tell you what, just listening to all those things, like you said, you hadn't even scratched the surface of all the things. I'm sure that that was his name here. Yeah. Or April. And and it's good to see Jo the Grove family here and some of those who who've been putting up with me for 26 years now. Long time. But um I have long worked with a family here in Wil
034or forgive me. I live in Wils Ash County. Uh it is um uh I don't know if any of you have been around long enough to remember Sarah Neil who apparently taught for the school many years ago. Uh but Sarah lived in the big house just right over here on the corner. And uh had three siblings, her sister Mayor, sister Margaret and brothers Joe and Frank. And none of the four ever had children or uh Mary. And uh as Joe and Sarah passed away, they left their estates to Margaret. Uh and Margaret, if you if you've known Margaret, she's a special needs adult and she lives in the Avery group home. And uh uh long story short, is the is they created a trust for her and it has grown to a sizable amount of
035money. And the way the trust was originally written was all the money would would go to national charities upon the death of of Mars. And so uh several years ago if if you know Jack Reeves, local attorney, Jack is the trustee for the trust. And I suggested to him, I said, you know, why don't we do something that'll keep some of that money low? Uh and so uh he agreed to do that. So just in November, we created a trust specifically for Ash County Schools. And so a sizable amount of money, not quite seven figures, but close, uh, was put in there. And it should generate between 20 and $25,000 a year forever to for us to be able to turn to work with Dr. Cox and Dr. Morgan and Amy and and and Amanda
036and the rest of them here. And and what I'm excited about is this first $5,000 is really what I hope is just the first of a lot more to come. Uh we're we're taking baby steps. The market's been a little crazy, so we'll be careful how we take it out. But my my hope and my intent is to work with each of the principles to come to them and say, "How can we support your school? What are some things in your school you want us to do?" So, we're excited about that. Horus man uh has a long tradition of uh celebrating excellence in education and working with schools and that type thing. So we just look forward to our continued relationship and thank you for having me tonight and we thank you for thinking of
037us and making sure that the funds not only stay local but support education. So when I told you that we had a $5,000 donation, you would have thought it was Christmas. So, she was jumping for joy because that donation will go a long way for children this summer as we are planning for our back to school blasts. And so, we are just thrilled um for that donation and to continue that tradition. And so, uh thank you to people like Shane and um Oel and Keith who um are truly partners in this work. So, thank you. So, now comes to um people that um uh we'll be honoring with a dinner in September. Um but you've seen it plaster all over Facebook and our Instagram. Um but we have our district of the year employees that
038have been announced over the last two weeks. And so I'm going to call your name and um have you stand up um and we're going to uh share a little bit about or where where you uh are um located. So what school that you're from and represent and um I get to tell a little bit about you too. So maybe you come up here with me and we're going to start with Jenna. So, Jennifer Hart, you get to go first. There you go. Every year we honor a classified um employee of the year, classified staff of the year. I don't know what actually says on the plaque that she will receive. Um but she is a um she's in the office at Ash County Middle School. And I'll tell you, there's not a harder worker
039at Ash County Middle School. She's always there and always keeping things together. And I, you know, if I were Sherry Hines, the principal of the middle school, I would do whatever I could to keep this one happy here because she truly makes things run. We are so thrilled that you represent all of the classified staff and you know how hard our people work um in every school office um everywhere across the district. So congratulations. It is an honor and you will you will be you and your spouse will be invited to dinner later on um in September. So congratulations. Thank you. That's what I'm telling. You got to give her a hug. There you go. There must be a gold mine this year at Ash County Middle School. Sometimes this happened a couple of years
040ago. It was Westwood. And um this next person is our support staff of the year. And so support staff of the year. Um, it could be a counselor, could be an instructional specialist, could be a media specialist. Um, we have quite a few different roles across the district uh that fall under this category. Uh, Summer Davis, can you come on up again for us? So, Summer has it together in so many ways, but boy, she knows instruction and she knows it better than anyone. And so if I were entrusted with anyone in this district um to uh give me advice on teaching and learning, Summer would be Summer would truly be a go-to person at the school level for so many reasons. And number one is always she cares about kids deeply. And so we
041can be talking about all the numbers, we can talk about all the curriculum, but for her it always comes back to kids. summer. Not bad. So, next on our list um is our P of the year. And so, every year we gosh, we've we've hit the jackpot on beginning teachers here in Ash County. Uh we seem to have uh qualifiers for the state um ENCAT beginning teacher of the year awards and I suspect this year will be no different. Mason Wagner, will you join us up here? So I have to say when I first met Mason, he was not in a role as a teacher but yet was working for us and I was telling everyone behind the scenes, is he going to be a teacher? When is he going to be a teacher? because
042he has his teaching license and he is so amazing with children. And so, Nathan, congratulations. He is a PE teacher at Blige Elementary School. We're really proud of you and I am personally thankful that you chose to go into the classroom with children. Oh, thank you. Thank you. and to this. We got all kinds of stories about Mr. Wagner because um were were you not like the classified staff of the year a few a couple of years back? I was. Yes. So, so he he was started off as a custodian at Blue Ridge Elementary School and he was building an outdoor classroom for children so they'd have a places to read in our beautiful scenery that we have. Truly always has gone above and beyond and so I'm very proud of you. Congratulations. All right,
043so next on the list so I don't miss anybody. Um well, I'm going to say uh principal farmer um is our principal of the year. He is not here today because somehow he is at another revival. So if you see him, I'll tell you, he'll make anybody come uh come to the altar. Uh he's really good at what he does at at uh after hours, but um so Justin Farmer is not here. So, our teacher of the year, Tanya Rollins, if you'll come on up there. So, she's all things English. And so, she's probably one like Julie uh Taylor here that get frustrated with me when I say I don't like poetry. But, yeah, exactly. And she's really, that's what I was gonna say. She has my kind of brain because she's really good at
044math, too. Every time I have been in her classroom, students are always eating at her fingertips. Literally, I I don't think I've ever seen anywhere. I don't see think I've ever seen a classroom quite like hers. It doesn't matter whether there's something about how she engages children uh that's truly special. And so when we were uh when they were talking about the interviews for um teacher of the year, I think the thing that stood out um for you and uh Dr. Mo can can uh maybe share a little bit more. Um but the thing that stood out for you is how much you truly deeply care about your kids and how you care about education in general. And so she is a true believer in the power of education that can lift up anyone. And
045so I'm honored that you're our teacher of the year. We have so many amazing ones, but Tanya, thank you. Congratulations. See what I mean? I mean, it's better than that. It doesn't get any better than that. Um so uh the next on the list we have um two teachers that will also move on to the state level um just as our um teacher of the year will compete at the state level um as well. But um Megan Culbert come on up here please. Megan telling you about Megan uh Calbert. First of all, not only is she our our district CTE teacher of the year this year, but she's also Ash County High School's teacher of the year this year. So, from a CTE perspective, I don't think that there other than other than teaching, I
046don't think there's any more um important profession than what she prepares students to be. and she teaches our nursing uh fundamentals classes and I don't know what else you teach all kinds of nursing type classes um at Ash County High School and our kids know so much and I think she had a 100% uh on the last set of exams for uh whatever the class that the students have to take for it for their credentials. Yes. Yes. Their CNA CNA. Thank you. Thank you. It was not going to come to me today. Um, but Miss Colbert is d truly dynamic in the classroom and her kids I I mean I would trust them now. I mean if you think about a child that you want there when you are sick or ill or injured, she's
047preparing them. And boy are they prepared. Um, thanks. right now. And see, look, you have you a student here in the class, a testament of how amazing you are. And it's true. It's true. Of course, I can say that just about anybody, but Megan truly is special, right, Earl? [Laughter] So, finally tonight um to honor is our EC teacher of the year um Charles. Mr. Johnson, can you come up here, please? So, when I walk into his classroom, kids can't wait to share with me what they're learning. True. That's true. That is true. Every single time they're like, "Come here. Come here." really wanted to hold my hand and take me through the classroom and go to the uh the board and share with me what they're learning. Um they're they love to read. Um
048but they love to share how proud they are. And I think that's a true testament of what you bring to the table as a teacher, your positivity, um the time and love and care that you invest into kids is truly special. And congratulations on being the district exceptional children's teacher of the year. The first one to leave. I didn't know I did most. Let me see. So, you want to add to this? Yeah, I can if you'd like me to. So, I'm gonna take the last slot on here and kind of turn it over to Dr. Harry Worl. Uh, here she's a guest for us tonight. I'm going to go ahead and let you explain why you're here tonight. Absolutely. Thank you, Jim. It is my honor tonight to be here to recognize a very
049special leader in our region. And when we think about tonight and we think about all of our wonderful students and our great educators in Ash County Schools and our awesome board of education, we know that you have a phenomenal leader and our superintendent in region 7 have elected our superintendent of the year for our region as Dr. Issa Cox. Our superintendent talk about what she talked about tonight about all of you being passionate, student centered, truly understands the value of teaching and learning and how it transforms students lives. She is absolutely a fantastic colleague and mentor for our superintendent in our region and we are so thrilled that she is representing us in region 7 and she will go on to compete with other superintendent throughout our state for the honor of state superintendent of
050the year. So it is my honor to recognize Dr. These are cops. Thank you. Do you care if I ask a question, Dr. Worth? Oh, yeah. So, explain to us what what area is region seven so everybody knows. Seven is the state board of education region seven of our state. So if you think about it, we're talking about uh Avery schools, Wataga, Ash, Alagany, Wilks, Caldwell, Kataba, Hickory City, Newton, Conover, Burke County Schools, Yakin County Schools, and sometimes Siri joins us too. So, um, she was elected by our superintendent as our superintendent of the year for our region and we're just so proud that we get to work with her and just all the great things that you have going on in Ash County. And this is a true reflection of all of you, of
051all of your work. and she's constantly talking about all the great things you're doing and sharing those things with others and just a tremendous colleague to other school districts. Thank you for explaining that. Sorry to put you on the spot. Thank you. Thank you. Thank God. You were the last item on that one. Your doctor. Okay. So, a lot there. It's always a lot. It's a busy time of year. So, I don't think we have anybody for public comment uh this evening. So, we'll go on from there. We'll get Miss Kim Sullivan up for the new middle school update. We'll give it some time to get out. Yeah, you guys can you can happily go. um I'll probably be sharing this with you for several meetings, but right now we are disapproving a lot of
052dirt and we'll continue to do that. Um but it's a very good thing. Um, one of the main things that we have identified that is really going to be a bottleneck and is on the critical path now that we've got our grading contractor on site is they've identified that the main access road needs to go in sooner than later. And so we're working through all the logistics of um all of the parts and pieces that need to um um be accomplished as part of that. So we're expediting those submittals and trying to resolve questions and issues that are involved with that. And just to remind everyone, the um access road is going to be coming in not where the driveway was. It goes up to where the house was, but it's going to be coming
053in across where um the practice field is. It comes up, kind of snakes around, crosses the stream, and then goes up the hill to where the school's going. So, I know you see it on paper, but it doesn't really kind of fit in your mind. Um, we do have stakes in um, the practice field and I've talked to Mr. Farmer about that and um, he's talked to Mr. Hansen so they know what's going on. We haven't um, um, started grading in that area yet. We do mistakes in the practice field so they are familiar. We've been coordinating on that. Um, but you know, you can really get a good understanding of and see what's going on. Happy to take anybody up there if they want to go. if y'all have any interest and can you
054know we can get you up there but you can see a lot from the parking lot at the softball fields get a of course when it's windy and it's dry you get you get the dust so I'm afraid but and I've talked to Mr. about that too becomes a problem but so you get a good advantage from there's interest they also take you over there but the gist of things right now they have any questions don't sound like it thank you so much thank you as long as you're moving dirt not mud that's a good thing a student question in regards to middle school people so on the anonymous form we had a question submitted March 24th asking what is being done to ensure the introduction of the full negative impact trans uh the transport
055infrastructure of Mount Jefferson road uh I guess pertaining to the morning traffic. Okay. So, we had a traffic study done and um uh that was turned into and reviewed by the um um there's a group in Raleigh that actually does the evaluation of the traffic study. That's specifically what they are involved with. So, it had to be a review by them and approved by them and also the local division engineer too and um they um signed off on it. So, what is the traffic study include specifically? Um, I wasn't prepared to answer your question, but um, it was Yeah, it was it's a book, but it evaluates traffic. Now, it it estimates it into the future, too. It looks at different intervals, and it also looks at it at different times a day, like at
056um, 8:00 a.m., 12:00 p.m., 6:00 p.m. It looks at it different times a day. Thank you. Don't have anything else? I think we're good. Thank you. I think they're replying to them on that. Okay. So, while the tapins go by, you're good. So, the board will go into action items now on our agenda. The first item under action is personnel. And the board was emailed those. That's the personnel for this month of May. as well as the addendum that was sent to the board separately there. Do I have a motion to approve the personnel and the addendum? I move we approve the personnel on the addendum. Do I have a second for Miss Ward? I two seconds. That'll work. Any other questions or comments? Um, just that Dr. Mochin has a very busy schedule right
057now. There's lots of movement going on. So, we appreciate all the time and effort for that. Not easy. All those in favor of the personnel and the addendum, raise your hand. Motion carries. Next, we've got the minutes. Those were emailed out. And that was for the minutes for the April 7th board meeting. Do I have a motion to approve those minutes? I make a motion. Okay. Thank you, Miss Calhoun. Do I have a second to the motion? I second. Okay. Thank you, Miss Lord. So, we got a motion in a second. Any questions, comments on that? Hearing none. All those in favor, raise your hand. Motion carries. Next, we've got the consent agenda. These are things that the board has looked at before. Uh we're going to group all these together into one motion. So
058to kind of explain those that is the employee contract list for 2526 school year anou with the North Carolina DPI early literacy specialist a memorandum of understanding for pre-employment transition services permission to for an overnight CTE competition athletic camps uh nursing contract physical therapy contract and the maximum nursing contract. That's a mouthful. So, I'll open the floor to entertain a motion for the consent agenda. I'll make a motion that we accept the consent agenda. Thank you, Miss Jones. Do I have a second? I second. Thank you, Miss Calhoun. Any questions or comments with anything there? Hearing none. All those in favor, raise your hand. Motion carries. Next, we got the endowment board. Speaking of golf tournaments, so endowment board recommendations. So you've got those in the email there um for you. So the board will
059need to approve those. Do we have a motion to approve the endowment board grant recommendations? I move that we approve the endowment grant recommendations. Okay, Miss Ward's got the motion. Do I have a second? I'll second that. Thank you, Miss Eldridge. Any questions, comments? All those in favor raise your hand. Motion carries. Next, we've got the AIG local plan for 25 through 28. I about said 26, but it says 28. It's a long one. All right. Just put the We have to do a self assessment that is just long. It's about 76 pages and then we have handbooks and brochures and paperwork. I do remember last year not last year when I first started in this role it was co when we had to do this along with two um audits and I remember we
060didn't have seen and you had a big fat packet if you guys remember I have it somewhere yes probably kept it as a souvenir didn't so um yes we are asking we did we did work on this as a team a multitude of times and we had parent readers um from all different subgroups and now we're just asking for your approval. Do I have a motion to approve? I'll make the motion we approve. Okay. Do I have a second? Second. Thank you, Miss Elder. Thank you, Miss Jones. So, now any questions or comments? Yeah, I want to I had a couple of questions that pertaining directly to the plan. And the first one was if we lose title four funds. I noticed that title four is how we fund must be our materials from AIG
061because most of our money goes to personnel. Correct. Well, title four actually is safe and healthy students and that's a lot of student services. But one of the things that we fund out of title 4 is opportunity gap clubs which is a lot of our talent development particularly at elementary we girls on the run the robotics um off my head crazy a club drama club at westward all the different clubs and that came about um when we funded those with esser and then after esser we wrote it into title four because we feel like um all kids need that. So title four is really um AIG is is state and local we had federal for that but we don't get any federal funding other than what's aotted that's for all students in the county and
062title four is it's for all students all levels students but it it could impact this oh yes any any of the title fundings if we lose it could definitely impact any group any subgroup and when was the last time the AIG advisory We've met well we meet in different ways. So we meet especially this year probably we've met about eight times and then we have a parent readers. We we ask parents to come in um but sometimes they can't. So we let them read the plan and ask for advice and we call them phone. So that's usually when we're working on the plan. Yes. Oh yes. Yeah. And we get their feedback through surveys. So we send out uh parent surveys, student surveys, teacher surveys and then we look at that to evaluate what the
063change. So that self-ealuation I was talking about that's about this long. We have to rank each of these standards low quality, medium or high and from there decide which ones are the highest. And so this is written is how it will be based off those results from the surveys and what we know that we need to change and this would be the plan going forward if you it's grown a little bit since I used to help it's a lot but very thorough. We appreciate the work. The ladies work hard and we appreciate the parent readers and community help that we get. Um, we would like to drag them into every meeting, but even I feel even bad pulling them out of school because if I pull out my specialists, that's time without them being with
064their students and and I don't really like to do that after school either. So, we do the best we can, but they do a great job. And the principles have been very generous to let me pull them more this year than I probably do. Now, how often do we do the plan? Well, every three years. So in that third year, we really, this has been a year-long process. And so I look at it as two, but it's it's in law that it's every three. Yeah. Very thorough. Very thorough. Any other questions, comments? None. All those in favor raise your hand. Very good. Thank you. Next we've got the last item on the action is for a field trip on there and I see Oh yeah, there's Miss Denny hiding in the back. You were everybody
065sits in the back. Yeah, the cupcakes are back there. That's why everybody's sitting right. They'll do that to you. Yes. They do that to me. Yes. So, I'm here to ask uh permission uh from the board for me and Levelville and I to take uh up to six students this summer to UNCC Wilmington um to a Spark exchange. As you know, um last month I came before you talking about the Spark Lab. Well, this uh this just sparks from that spark lab. This is a teamshipbased uh summer program and during this time they'll uh the students will get to go to UNC Wilmington if you approved uh from July 13th to the 15th and they'll get to take part in um lots of opportunities. They'll get to meet with uh tech industry experts. They'll get
066to talk to technology innovators. uh they'll get to meet with business leaders and represent representatives from higher education. Um so it's be very much set up like uh professional development that we would go to. So they'll get to choose some of the things that they do throughout the day. Um but as a part of that uh they'll get to uh they can choose like coastal engineering uh digital anatomy. So where's technology and anatomy going? uh nuclear energy, uh marine cyber security, virtual reality and health sciences, mechanical engineering, prototype development. So, lots of uh higher ed and technology intertwined. Um they'll get to stay in the dorms there at UNC Wilmington. Um all but a couple of their meals will be provided. That's the meal down and the mill back. Um, they'll get to take part
067in team challenges, public speaking, um, and a lot more games, and they've got their whole days plan. They're there. Um, they'll get to receive credit. So, if they go this summer, that'll give them credit to kick off if they want to come to the Spark Lab, complete some more modules, but that'll give them credit to a computer science um, credit for graduation as well. Do I have a motion to approve this field trip? I have a quick question. Let me get a let me get a motion. Sorry. Sorry. I'll move that we Okay, that's okay. I'll second. All right. Now, we're good. Now, how do you pick the students or does the students have to apply for or do you pick how do you narrow out the six students? It's a great question. So, right
068now we created a poster and those posters are going to go out to every classroom uh tomorrow and uh in that on that poster is a QR code with um information just some information and they can go ahead and put their name in. Um the only thing that wouldn't right now allow a student to go is if they're a senior this year because they'll be graduating. So any So any student from eighth grade on up to 11th grade at this point to go. Yeah, you've got him bummed over here. [Laughter] Any other questions? She got mine. I was just wondering how we're going to pick what if there's more than six. Yeah. Yeah. What would be that? Can you take more? No, only up to six. um because all of the schools that are involved
069right with the that had a Spark Lab or going to have a Spark Lab can bring students so it's a limited number for each one. Um I mean I could reach out and ask if maybe a a class or a a school is not taking six maybe we could fill their spot. So that's something that I could ask um in a meeting with the SP. It's a great opportunity. It is a great opportunity. Any other questions? What did you say was the youngest would be their third eighth grade right now rising into ninth. So next year there would be a freshman for seniors. Thank you. Thank you. All those in favor raise your hand. Don't go too far. Miss Denny, I got a question for you outside of this. So motion carries. Do you want
070to put a plug in for something that's happening this week? Uh yes. the high school I've seen on Facebook. Um I'd like to invite you all to come and take part in our principal down a husky high mystery. So if you'll remember back a few months ago uh received a banner for a grant and that grant was the criminal hinds grant. So, it's a collaboration between forensics, biomed with forensics with Jennifer Miller, Biamemed with um Megan Calbert and um the seniors in Mr. Beckworth's English class and then criminal justice with Mr. Calbert. And so, we've been um going to places like the um NC State Department of Justice. So, that was interesting. There's only a couple days during the year you can actually walk inside their building. And um so we are going to have
071this culminating game. It's a mystery game and apparently something has happened to the principal and you can come and take part as an actor or you can come and try to solve the mystery yourself. So you'll have all kinds of things that you'll go to, people you'll talk to and try to solve it by the end of the night and we'll feed you some pizza along with that. So, have some fun. And of course, Mr. Roen's going to be there in his uh other professional official just in case something goes wrong. There you go. Yeah. Just goes Friday. This is Friday from 5 to 8:00 p.m. So, so if you'd like I'm still needing a few actors. So, you feel like I'm sure you can let her let her know by tomorrow. Great. Thank you
072so much. Sorry to put you on the spot. All right. We've got next some updates and discussion items for the board. And then under discussion, we've got policy 5030. So this particular policy, I know that we you guys have been diligently working on policies. And I know what an arduous task it can be uh to read uh so many policies and put your attention to detail in it. Um, this policy is a little bit out of order. Um, I know you guys are in the 3000 series currently. Um, but I was asked specifically because of the time it takes to update some of the regulations that go with policies to do this one at this or to consider it now. This would be only a discussion and we would bring it next month um to
073you. um the policy that you have listed there that is highlighted um is the current um school boards association policy. What is highlighted are the things that have changed. So those are the additions um to the current policy that are not currently in there. And so um essentially what we would like to do um you can see how on under a priority use and fee structure down at the bottom custodial andor supervisory fees will be charged. Um while the fees are not listed in here, um we want to make sure we have the most up-to-date policy because right now we lose money when people um rent our facilities, especially at the high school. Um the other thing that we would like that we plan to do as a part of this is u make sure
074that the application is electronic and we can have that um the electronic application sent to multiple parties um so that uh Jody Korum our maintenance facilities director knows that a certain building has been requested for a certain time and can give his input in case there's some sort of planned construction ruction or event at that time that might cause us to shift. So the finance knows um because we're often the ones who are um footing the bill um behind the scenes for custodial work. So our child nutrition services um we can't use a kitchen unless it's um authorized and our people are the ones who have to use the kitchen because child nutrition is where those funds come from. And so we want to make sure that all parties have the information that they need
075so we can best serve the people who need to use those facilities, especially when they're indoors. But there may also again be um something else that's already planned. Um and this will allow us to have better communication internally uh with it. Um uh you can see that the uh fees are mentioned in there a couple of times. uh use of kitchen um uh utility uh custodial supervisory fees. And one of the things that we often run into um are making sure that we actually have people there that can do the work. And um currently the our current fee structure, most of our people are in overtime by the time it's a weekend or an evening. And so um you know, we need to make sure that we are taking a look at that prior to
076making that commitment. Anything else to add? Amanda Lake and Lean worked really hard on um on the details of this policy for us. And again, this is the school board's association one and she highlighted it specifically for that. questions. One of my concerns about adopting a um the school board from Raleigh is that it often does not um communicate our particular needs in Ash County. And this is one of the ones that I think uh the community use of facilities is the one that impacts our community the most. Um being able to um access our facilities because we have limited facilities in Ash County. We don't have a lot of extra gym space. We don't have a lot of extra field space. We don't have tennis um we don't have the tennis uh we were
077at a um soccer complex. Uh a tennis complex. We don't have any of those things available to our community. So, we use our school facilities as taxpayers. So, um, I made a little bit of a list of just off the top of my head of people in Ash County who do use these facilities and, um, it's quite a lengthy list and so I'm hoping we can keep that piece. Um, and I understand the need for a, you know, accessing fees. I understand that we can do that as well. Uh, but we're talking about nonprofit groups here and we have many that are nonprofit that may not apply for a 501c3 to be able to use those because it's a quite lengthy process. The people who are involved in uh, AAU basketball, traveling baseball, traveling volleyball,
078cheerleading, community football even, they often change the leadership on those and so they do not often apply for the 501c3 uh, although they are nonprofits. So, we need to have a consistent way of saying who's nonprofit and who isn't. A lot of these people um try to minimally charge parents for what they're um have to charge. Um Lake and Snoden I think uh she's been a p participant in some of that and we try to keep the um fees down. So, I would like for us to make sure that these folks have use that directly impact our students and our kids with um alternate activities. Right now, I'm um helping with the uh transportation for a young man, my grandson to Boone to play soccer because he he wanted to try that one and they
079live closer to Boone. But Nana and Papa are taking Henry to Boon. ma some of the time or most of the time and not everybody has that opportunity and that's why we need to access the ones that we have here and I would hate to see that change for those people who do use our facilities uh while I understand the need for the fee structure I hope it's not something that they can't afford and all of us have attended fundraising events at some of our high schools for some person in the community um I remember when Trey Simmons was u sick we had a huge fundraiser for him. I remember when Marty uh Marty Laam's son John uh had cancer. We had a huge fundraising for them. So, we do participate in a lot of
080fundraisers that go back to the community, but we need to use the school facilities because there's simply no other place to have these things. So, we need to be very careful here, I think, about making sure that these facilities are, you know, that they're accessible to the people who need to use those that are just trying to improve our community. And an example that has occurred to me listening to Diane is that I'm a member of the Ash County Quilt Guild does a lot of contributions to people in need with quilts. It's an educational group. All the money we do is spent on educating people on how to quilt and or um we've also helped teach students in the middle school about quilting. And then we've had a quilt show at the high school gym
081one year and they are not a 501c3 but they do not raise money for the benefit of the members. They raise money to contribute back to the so we need to make sure that we have some addition to this. I think that allows such groups who are not raising money just for themselves like a store would be raising money but are raising money to help the community to also have access procedures. We do give the superintendent discretion to um wave those fees. So for example, empty bowls will be at our high school in what a week and a half, two weeks. And so empty bowls um we always give the partial waiver to now they use the kitchen. There is a caveat and there's a caveat in our staff. They have to pay for our
082staff. You can't ask them to volunteer their time and we can't pay them. And then at that point in the week if on Saturday they're all in overtime paying time and a half. I don't think that's the question. I'm just thinking access to the facilities and and I'm sure they I know that we've had fundraisers before that we either had um cafeteria staff volunteer her time or that we paid them and they volunteer u that was earlier. So I don't I'm not So yeah that I I don't have a problem with fees and schedules schedules but I do I do want to keep intact the access. I will say we get we raise very locally through facility use. It's mostly your forprofit businesses that make use aan two or three year period. Well, we just
083need to make sure our our reimbursement rates getting back salaries. We will see those rates before Yes. you know, that needs to be part of of what we are looking at here. And I know as the president of a 501c3, we still have to give money for insurance and those kinds of things. So, there are fees there that people don't realize have to be there. I think it cost us about $500 a year just for one night to be able to have the liability insurance that is required uh by the state. I will say that because I did look into that, folks. um to conduct those project graduation. It costs that kind of money there. Not to mention everything else that we do. Of course, we use totally volunteers there for that. But, uh we
084do appreciate the opportunity of having those facilities to do that because there's we've looked there is nowhere else in Ash County we can do what we do for our sen graduating seniors that night. So, there are other plenty of activities that happen in Ash County because we're so rural. We just don't have the access that you might have in Raleigh or Winston or even the YMCA is not available. We don't have one of those. So, I would like for us to be very careful here of the language and what we um the intent here for us to do that. And according to what I read um in the footnotes, we can um include for-profit groups in this use policy. I know it's highlighted for profit only, but we can do that other, but I'm a
085little leerary of that. I I would rather have it left to nonprofit, but I want a fair way to assess nonprofit without having to go through a formal 501c3. Oh, I'm a nonprofit process. Now, I didn't see 501c3. It's very vague on here. It just says nonforprofit. I don't really describe it as a 501, you know, C3 or a C6 because you have two different nonprofits. You can be a C6 or a C3 or a C3. So, you know, we do have a lot of groups here that uh you know, your AA groups that they the quilting group that would not have interest in applying for a 501c3 or the it takes two years and a lot of money and a lawyer to get that status at least probably longer now. I don't know. I
086have a it's been a long time since but it's not that specific to require a 50, right? But I just want Yeah, I think that needs to be How do we How do we decide what's nonprofit and what's not? That'd be up to whoever they're addressing in the end. I guess it'd be difficult. I mean, so so for example, um what we want to make sure most of the people that use it um I mean, like I said, I'll go back to empty bowls. They do this every year and they have no problem accessing our facility. In fact, we work with them to make sure that nobody is in the facility at that time so that they can actually use it um for their fundraiser. Um we've not had any issues except um we can't
087have somebody going in and using our kitchen without uh Tammy knowing. Um we need to make sure that we have our people there. We can't just have some random person that we give a key to um and let them have free reign to the school and then um you know we've had some of that in the past where our bathrooms are left trashed and then we have an event the next day at the school and nobody you know realize that they're there. So we just want to be able to take care of what we have and make sure we're not going in the hole. um because we rely on we don't have fundraisers to to do um things like this. I mean, we we rely on federal, state, and local funding. Um and there's not
088a specific line item that covers these particular um items for community members. And then how do you pick and choose which one gets that budget if there is a budget line item? Um, we just want to make sure that we're take that we are not going in the hole and we're taking care of the facilities that we have. We've not had a problem in the past. Um, but we do have a need for us to make sure that the minimum we're getting uh uh uh reimbursed um is for the people that we are expecting uh to stay during that time. And that's also another ask. you're asking people to work overtime and not everybody wants to do that too. So, we do it's a it's a balance. It's not that we don't want people there.
089We do and we we understand our facilities, but they do have to have the insurance um if they get hurt on our facilities and we're liable. So, we can't do that. We need to make sure we have people there that can actually open the facilities, monitor and close them as well. I think I see that the policy itself is is flexible enough. What's going to be in the details of the forms they fill out to apply and and how we how the the school system evaluates which ones are acceptable and which ones are not. I think the fee schedule needs to be very clearly listed in a summary sheet of and it has been in the past. Um usually it's listed what that specifically looks like. and we can bring that to you the next
090time. Any other questions, comments? Hearing none. Next, I've got on the agenda is a motion to adjurnn. Do I have a motion? I make Hold on one second. We have a special request. Sorry, I'm reading from from Carson here. Um, so Carson, you want to ask your request to the board first? Um since um this is our last speaking that will be conducted during um like the full of a school year. The full month of a school year. Yes. Yeah. I uh sorry. Uh I have Claire House with me and I wanted to demonstrate um the segment I occasionally do of presenting um the community and student questions to the board as well. I'm not sure if you guys been briefed on a few of the questions. I haven't seen them yet. Okay. Um there's
091a few that I'm not sure we're uh capable of answering currently, but I can still ask them and then present them at the next board meeting as well. I would just like to share for Claire and if she would be willing to join me. And so you're going to you're going to share the questions that are there and then at the June board meeting. Okay. So then the board can answer them and they will stay on the board. So she can so next month Dr. Cox will have them and then they'll be on our agenda. Is that okay? I will leave them as presented. Okay. So you're not So you're not on the spot. Yeah. So there have been multiple concerns that I we have all been aware of this I feel. Um this question
092is asking will the boys bathroom ever be improved or clean at the high school and will the vocational doors ever be returned? So that's a that those are those would be school level questions not district level questions. Okay, say that again. Will the boys bathroom what? Well, the back. Okay, so so hold on. Let's let let's do this. I know that you have you can you send each of the board members the list of questions again like the can you share it with them so that they have the link and can look at that and then we can actually sit down um and uh look at it with the principal and the board at a uh at a time when so that we're not putting them on the spot. I will say um the time
093stamp for this question was today. So I had not yet been able to review this question. Yeah, I was gonna say I hadn't seen anything like that on there. And then there is another question also relating to custodians as well. Uh just in general about the ensuring the campus drive and walkies are safe during two-hour delays with ice and snow as well. um is they identified themselves as a teacher who slipped um on March 21st which was a two-hour delay which I was not well and and we don't and I'm sorry but we weren't either so that would have gone that we weren't either. Yeah. So, if there are any questions that are for the board um on there, then we can look at those beforehand. That way, we're not putting the board on um
094Yeah. And you don't have to provide an answer to any questions. I wouldn't want you to. Okay. If you want to ruminate over any of these questions, I know this form is shared with you, Dr. Cox. Um I don't specifically know the email addresses for all the board members. She can she can share that with us. that helpful. Let's share let's share it with them and then we'll address them in June. Thank you. Thank you. We'll put a line item on there under discussion. Okay. So, it'll kind of fall in that. Thank you. on the agenda. Yeah. It's good to see that you guys are getting involved and uh making us aware of what the topics that young people or the high school is interested in as well. Um, I think that's really got interested
095in it. So, I think I emailed you back. Mine is view only, so I can't do anything about that. Yeah, you are listed as an editor on my side. Please Google for me. All right. Whatever you just did, I changed the general to Okay, that's whatever you did just worked. That's good. I will share this with each of you right now. And this link has been the link to the form has been given not only to the high school but early college and the middle school as well. Oh, cool. Was it with their principles as well? Yeah. Well, at the middle school, the principal was in a meeting. So, um Okay. I'll make sure that they share it. And the early college said she hasn't shar seen it either. So, we'll make sure that everybody
096gets gets the the link to see this. approved in the early college. So, are those still there? I haven't been there to check. Okay. Thanks, Carson. Anything else? I don't think I had a motion yet. Motion to adjurnn. You did make a motion. So, I got Miss Calhoun making a motion. Do I have a second? And I'll second. Miss Ward. All those paper.