001As required by section 2.2-3712D 2-3712D of the Virginia Freedom of Information Act, a roll call vote will be taken to certify that to the best of each member's knowledge. One, only public business matters lawfully exempted from open meeting requirements under the act. And two, only such public business matters as were identified in the motion by which the closed session was convened were heard, discussed, or considered in the closed session by the board. Prior to the vote, any member of the board who believes that there was a departure from the requirements of one and two as reads shall so state the same indicating the substance of the departure that in his or her judgment has taken place. Does any board member wish to respond? Hearing no response, I will now take the foyer roll call. Mr.
002Steven El Pier, senior. Yes. Mr. Hal J. Miles. Mr. Kenneth El Pritchette. Hal B. Miles. I'm sorry. Hal J. Miles B is wrong. Okay, Mr. Hal B. Miles in his absence. Mr. Kenneth El Bridgetette. Yes. Mr. Car Ducker. Yes. M. Joyce Proctor. Yes. Mr. Bernard J. Lundy Jr. Yes. Mr. Adrien T. Dent Senior. Yes. Thank you. There are no recommendations from close session. At this time, once again, I say good evening to everyone and welcome to our schoolboard meeting for Wednesday, May 21st. Once again, Miss Davis, if you would call the role, please. Mr. Steven El Pier, senior here. Mr. Hal Bem. Mr. Kenneth El Pritchette here. Mr. Carrie Tucker here. Miss Joyce Proctor here. Mr. Bernard J. Lundy Jr. here. Mr. Adrien T. Dance, Senior. Yeah. Thank you. Next, we move to number to
0031A. Board members, approval of the agenda. If there are no changes, is there a motion to approve the agenda? So moved. Moved by Miss Proctor. Is there a second? Second. Miss Tucker. Mrs. Tucker. All in. All in favor? I oppose. Next, we move to 1B. Moment of silence. I don't believe we have anyone. Okay. 1 C, Pledge of Allegiance. Ask that you will stand for the pledge. [Music] Miss Proctor, if you lead us to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. 1 D correspondence. Any correspondence? No correspondence. Next we have move to 2A. Miss Brown recognitions. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, board chair and school board members. We're excited this this evening to recognize our
004esports gaming for our middle school and high school students. And so, as you know, in Petersburg, we have great esports teams. Um, and so, of course, we've had one at the high school level. And of course, we started our middle school um I think this year, right, Miss Yates? We started our middle school um program. And so, we're excited for the work and the games that our students have been um engaging in. And so what we want to do tonight is we want to uh recognize starting with Miss Denica Coleman Milner, our steam coordinator at Vernon John's Middle School to come forward so that we can recognize our amazing students who play esports at both Petersburg High School and Vernon John's Middle School and Blandford Academy. So with that, Miss Milner. And as she comes,
005we know how very important this is. And so we have students who play sports throughout Petersburg. But esports is absolutely special. It's now, you know, taking the the US by storm and across the across the world where now students who are gamers. There's a space now for students who are gamers to play esports and to really really compete. And now we know that colleges are now giving scholarships for esports. And so we are excited that here in Petersburg we are able to offer this as um a program for a wonderful for our wonderful high schoolers but now for Vernon John's middle school. So with that, Miss Milner, our steam coordinator, you take it away and let's congratulate our fabulous Petersburg students. Okay. Good evening, Superintendent Brown, Board Chair Pritchard, Vice Chair Pierce, and schoolboard members
006and community as well. It's my pleasure to share with you that we had a strong year for our esports team. In the fall, all three PH PHS teams reached the playoffs with the street fighter team advancing to the finals. This spring, six out of the seven PHs teams play made the playoffs. Sporting Wave reached the Street Fighter semifinals and both the NBA 2K teams made it to the quarterfinals in our middle when our middle school team. Our Smash Brothers team was 57th out of 200 teams and our NBA 2K teams finished in eighth place. Individually, we also placed for our second um 2K team. They placed 11th. So, at this time, I'm going to to call those who are that are here this evening as well as those who may not be here this evening
007um so that we can be aware of who our teams are and the great job and acknowledge that what they have done this year. So, we have our street fighter team, we have Chanty um sporting waves, Chanty Fowler, Dewan Duboce, and Alejandro Brotherson. Fortnite, the Crimson Build, Commandre Graves, Elijah McClendon. The The Wave Bus for Fortnite was Philip Revel, Trevor Barker, Jane Davis Davis, Madden, we had Goalpost Malone, Timothy Morton Jr., Marvel Rivals, Seal Team Wave, Aaron Garrett, Imari Massenberg, Jamario Mloud, Key John Stewart, Ben series. There you go. Service. Thank you, sweetheart. Logan Graves, Lamonte Turner, Tyler Hen Hume, Norman RmIrez, Shamari Jones, Anthony Marterville. For NBA, NBA 2K, we have Tragic Johnson, which was Amari Massenberg, Snars Barkley was Kan Stewart, Smash Brothers was waverunners. We have Alejandro Brotherson, Xavier Harman, Ben Service.
008Service. Okay, thank you. Michael Barro, and Logan Graves on our middle school level. And I don't believe Oh, yes, we do. Um, on our middle school level for 2K, we had Aiden Seville, Juan Reeves, and Gideon Davis. And on our Smash Super Smash Brothers Ultimate team, we had Elias Whitten, Xavon Brown, Xavier Collins, Ethan Lindley, Lindsay, and Jeremiah [Applause] Folks. Thank you. Do we have any more students in the audience? Congratulations, students. Well done. If we have any if we have any parents here with our students, please stand. Yes. And great job parents. And so do we have our coaches here as well, Miss Milner? We do have Mr. um Coraniano. Um and Mr. Vicks is his daughter wasn't feeling well, so he's at home being a fabulous daddy. Absolutely. Thank you. This is our
009wonderful coach and our wonderful students who have participated and excelled in our esports program at Petersburg High School and at Burning Jobs. Let's give them a round of applause. They all have done a fabulous job and each one of them both our high school as well as our middle school had the opportunity to go to Virginia State and hear all the the potential opportunities that esports can afford them. Um we are discussing some potential scholarships and so hopefully we will have some avenues open up for our kids going forward. Thank you all. [Music] [Applause] Sounds like something missing. Thank you and congratulations once again. Next board members, we will move to three. The approval of the consent agenda. Miss Bram. Thank you board chair pitch and school board members. It is the superintendent's recommendation that
010the school board approve the final personnel agenda dated May 21st, 2025 as provided with our block. R 3B, vendor contracts. It is the superintendent's recommendation that the school board approve the vendor contracts as provided. R 3C, approval of consent agenda. It is the superintendent's recommendation that the school board approve the meeting minutes of 5525 school board disciplinary committee hearings 42825 minutes special meeting 42125 meeting minutes schoolboard disciplinary committee hearings 3525 minutes PCPS board public hearing FY2026 budget 3525 minutes regular meeting 3425 minutes schoolboard disciplinary committee hearings as provided. Next for our 3D donations received by Petersburg City Public Schools. It is the superintendent's recommendation that the school board accepts the donations received by PCPS as provided. And you should see the donations on your screen for the period of May 2025. Any questions from board
011members? If there are no questions, is there a motion to accept the superintendent's recommendation? So move. Moved by Mr. Pierce. Is there a second? Second, Mr. Dance. All in favor? I oppose. Motion carries. Thank you. Next, we move to number four, our superintendent and staff reports 48. Thank you, Mr. P. Thank you, board chair and school board members. Our first presentation of the evening is our April 2025 Petersburg City Public Schools financial and head start updates given by our chief financial officer, Dr. Matias Greywood. Dr. Greywood. Good evening. Good evening, Board Chair Pritchard, honorable members of the board, and esteemed Petersburg City residents. I present the 2025 budget update for Petersburg City Public Schools as of April 30th, 2025. This presentation outlines our financial standing, revenue sources, and strategic planning as we work towards ensuring
012fiscal responsibility and excellence in education. I am Matias Greywood, chief financial officer, and I look forward to um discussing our financials. Second slide, please. Our general fund 01 had an original budget of 12.3 million in revenue from the city supplemented by 1.5 million in nutrition funding, 1.9 million in CIP funding, totaling 15.7 million. As of May 10th, 2025, we have received 14.7 million with a remaining balance of 1.3 million from the city that we expect next month. Next slide, please. This is an overview of the FY24 versus FY25 budget for the general fund. Instruction received 41.18 million for 2025 with 3.2 32.3 million spent leaving a balance of 8.8 million. Administration, attendance, and health services increased to 10.19 million for FY 2025 with 7.4 million spent ensuring staff and student support leaving a balance of
0132.8 million. People transportation crucial for students was allocated 3.5 million with 3.5 million spent. Operations and maintenance saw significant investments at 12 12 million 12 million not 12.12 million with 9.9 million used to sustain facilities leaving a balance of 2.1 million. Technology continues to be a priority with 2.7 million and 2.6 6 million utilized to enhance digital infrastructure leaving a balance of 120,000 overall FY25 total budget stands at 69.26 million compared to 58 million of which 55 million has been spent so far. Next slide please. This is the food service and grants fund. Overall FY25's total budget stands that um our grants and food services funding play a vital role in supporting students well-being. School food services was increased from 5.1 million with 13.18 million spent so far. As for instruction in fund seven, it
014received 17.9 million and insurance program expansion for admin and health services. Transportation and maintenance budget remain crucial for district-wide operations with 96.53 million allocated across all funds and 72.9 million spent. We retain 23.6 6 million in available resources to strategically utilize for the remainder of the fiscal year. Next slide, please. I'll pause for questions if there are any from the board members. Any questions from board members in reference to his presentations on the budget? You can move to the next slide. Okay. Um, next we go to the Head Start budget overview. The the Head Start program continues to provide early education support, federal funding overview, salaries and wages where 9339,000 and allocated and 691,000 has already been spent up to date. Free benefits are 420 411,000 and 27 273,000 used. Classroom supplies and expenses are
015monitored to optimize spending efficiency. Total budget is 1.4 million. 1 million has spent has been spent and 379,000 remains. Next slide, please. Federal fund non-federal share contributions. People transportation received 252,000 ensuring flexibility, accessibility for our students. Donated goods and volunteer services contribute significantly to program sustainability. Overall, our Head Start budget stands at 1.75 million, of which 1.28 8 million is spent leaving a balance of 470,000. Next slide. Any questions? Any questions from board members? And I believe we act I'm thinking that we asked this before. Do you know if Miss Nelson if she's taking money from another line item to um to put in a place where she has a negative in the classroom supplies and the membership dues? Is she she's moving funds around? Yes. Uh I'll I'll have to verify with her, but
016there's a uh there's an adjustment to this uh information that she gave me. I can get that information back to you. Thank you. Thank you, Chair. Mr. today. We met uh last week and uh we talked about that um situation and that's what she's doing. She is moving money around to get rid of the negative uh balance. Okay. Thank you. Any other questions? Thank you, Dr. Greywood. Thank you. We move to 4B. Thank you, board and school board members. We now have our second presentation. um our ISA, our Gear Up, our Carl Perkins, and our Clyde Moore grants. And it'll be presented this tonight by Mrs. Barbara's Miss Barbara Smith, our um director of workforce readiness. [Music] Good evening, Board Chair Pritchette, um Vice, um Chair Pierce, Superintendent Brown, colleagues, families of PCPS, and other
017schoolboard members. Good evening. Good evening. So, I'll be presenting first the call Perkins grant. Next slide, please. So the program focuses on um meeting the needs of career and technical education uh state uh for Petersburg City Public Schools. Uh we have to submit a local career cluster pathway plans of study and we submit that to uh Breitpoint Community College. Um and we submitted the education and training teaching and training uh plan of study which was uh submitted to us um after review from Breitpoint. Uh we use data for improvement local state um data to improve our programs included in the Perkins grant. labor market needs. We look at different state reports to ensure that uh some of the labor market needs are included in the programs that we're trying to implement uh for career and
018technical education. The purpose is to improve, expand, and modernize our career and technical education programs and look at the quality of the programs that we're providing for our students. Um next, we have to have secondary and post-secondary linkages. So activities and different uh ways to ensure that students um have that uh ways to link opportunities for them after um high school after graduation. Also looking at all aspects of the industry uh to ensure that they have all exper um they have experiences opportunities in all aspects of industry for career and technical education. And currently we uh the Perkins grants support the following program areas that we have here um at Petersburg City Public Schools is our business career connections which includes career exploration courses in the middle school, our Virginia teachers for tomorrow course, family
019consumer science, health and medical science, marketing, trade and industrial technology and engineering which at this time services about 1535 CTE students. Uh so we are proposing well we have to submit the grant for the current amount um that we receive and once we receive uh the actual amount that has been allocated to Petersburg City Public Schools then we would revise the um grant with that number. So at this time the following areas that we are required to use the funds for are professional development again for teachers for administrators for others in the school system uh staff and intern um we have a proctor to help and assist with our uh testing and some other some other activities to assist the middle school and the high school. Um we have interns for that. We have to
020use it also to uh improve some of the unmet performance measures. At this time we have three unmet performance measures and they're in the category of um increasing the enrollment of non-traditional students um for the special population and regular and also increasing the science achievement. um activities for special population again required um and it speaks to some of the program focus. We have to make sure that we're assisting and helping those students um under the special population category. Next, equipment and software strengthening our academics and technical areas um of career and technical education which also includes the collaboration with our academic um areas. And lastly, student organization, college, and career participation. Uh so those are the areas that uh we're proposing to um distribute the funds in for call Perkins grant. I'm not sure did
021we want to do questions in between or just go to the next grant. Okay, the next grant is the Clawmore grant. Again, this is meaningful for our health and medical science classes and they support over 50 public school systems in Virginia. Um the the areas that they have and will continue to support is our practical nursing accreditation to ensure that we provide that for our high school students, our nurse aid. Um they've provided uh funding for certified adult CPR first aid training. So, all of our students in all of our health classes do receive that service. Um, they've had blood pressure events. They've been able to have different events, uh, funding for college tours, again, promoting health and medical science, uh, courses. Uh, the students have been able to, uh, get their clinical experience by
022going to different hospitals and different nursing homes. um the students have been able to have open house events and then uh family engagement events at different uh schools. So with the proposed $150,000 um it can support the instructional materials, the the fees that are associated with the program's equipment. We have to have insurance also uh student uniforms, office and program materials. uh preassessments and assessments are important one for the students and the teachers and then finally teacher professional development to include lensure for the um teachers and also nurse association fees for the teachers and currently we have 225 students participating in our health and medical science courses. Next, we have our Gear Up program, gaining early awareness and readiness for undergraduate programs. Again, the purpose is to increase the number of lowincome students who are
023prepared to enter and succeed in post-secary education. Um, at this time, the grant currently offers $45,000 with a match in kind of $45,000. And as you can see in the program review, some of the uh colleges that they were able to tour, some STEM activities, um making sure that they have assemblies and town hall meetings with the students. Um this will be a continuation of students. They will be juniors. 330 students are served with this program. Uh they create opportunities for tutoring and mentorship for these students. the coordinators and the um tutors or the mentors. They can also attend regional meetings and they do receive a stipen. Uh financial aid night um will be used and parent academy um funds will be used for that. College and career fair guest speakers. They have a gear
024up week. Um they have a junior night SAT prep to assist the juniors for their SAT professional development for the uh coordinator. And then finally, STEM activity and summer camp for the students for Gear Up. And then finally, we have the ISAP uh grant. This is the individ individual student alternative education plan. Again, alternative education pathway uh for our students. The components of the program are career counseling. Um the students are able to earn a GED. They provide CTE opportunities for them. They have to meet their economics and finance course and the students um understand their different options upon um getting their GED. Uh some of the criterias um the principal would meet with the parents um make sure that the students receive a pre-evaluation and pre-assessment for the program. the required 7.5 grade uh
025level uh of reading achievement and attain a score of $125 I mean I'm sorry 125 on their GED is required and then they're required to complete a GED practice test um to ensure that they can get a GED score of 145 I mean 145 or more not sure I must be the fund the the dollar amounts I'm sorry so the proposed amount is 28,900 113 um which is just a little bit over what we received. Um but again this amount will be given to us by the state based on the data that we provide and the needs that we provide to them. And this will provide funding to you to be used for GED instructional material program supplies materials family engagement events uh preassessments and GED exam professional development for the teacher and the um
026or anyone else um assisting in that program. And then finally, transportation for some of those post-secary opportunities that they're seeking. Currently, we have seven students in that program. Two have completed it. Three are almost on their way to completing it and two two are being monitored. And the goal for next year is to have at least 30 uh students in that um after meeting with um our program uh our principal this year. That concludes my presentation, I believe. Mr. Ronco, I'm sorry. Do anyone have any questions for Miss Smith on the grants presented? No questions. Thank you, Miss Smith. Appreciate it. You're welcome. Good evening, Mr. Chairman, Vice Chair, Madam Superintendent, and our community members. This grant is um you know, before I get started, I want to let you know I do have a
027little cold. Either I can't see when I come here or I can't hear. Now I can't talk very well. So, excuse me. All right. So, uh this grant is um from the criminal the department of criminal justice services. Um it's for five security officers uh school security officers. Um and they would be as you see where they refocus would be two at Petersburg High School, one at Vernon John's Middle and Blandford, one at Cool Spring and Pleasants Lane. I want to start working into the uh elementary schools and then one shared for Walnut Hill and Lakemont. Um you know the the whole idea about having uh additional security officers is as a deterrent for one they can assist in in monitoring access particularly in the middle in the elementary schools and here as well. Um,
028we also want to build relationships. So, it's not just about always being security, right? We want to build relationships with this. Uh, and we want to start building those relationships also in that elementary school so they have a trusted adult uh that they can talk to, they can see, they can they can, you know, foster that relationship and not just with our students but with our parents. So, as parents come to these schools, we want to be able to make sure that we can foster these type of relationships. Uh the funding is a $28,000 grant. Um we got to pay about $75,643. We have to do a a a match. Our match ended up being about 37% is what the requirement of the grant was. Uh so we would save $132,430 uh if we went
029with the program this way. Uh the current fund the current funded positions we have right now we have seven at Petersburg High School, three are part-time. We have four uh Vernon John's uh one's part-time and then we have three at Blandford, one at Pitman. I also have a substitute who works about uh one or two days a week. Um I I do want to give a a thank you, a public thank you to Mr. Altman, uh the city manager. Uh we we were required to have the city manager for this grant be the project administrator and he was gracious enough to do that for us and send us a delegation of authority for superintendent and the assistant superintendent of operations. Thank you. Um thank you Mr. Wanka. Um again congratulations on Petersburg receiving the grant.
030Can you kind of talk through the eye match and where those funds and all of the process related to the fact that we are excited about getting these additional funding for the officers that we definitely need in support in Petersburg. So, can you talk through that please? So, our IMATH has to come through our local funds. Uh, so we'll have to use our local funds for the IMAC. Um, but if you look at it, you're paying for less than two officers and you're getting five. Uh, so that's that's the benefit of of doing it this way even though it's a a fairly high match percentage, but but it is a good benefit as like I said, you're paying for less than two and you're getting five and we're able to now keep up sta uh
031minimum staffing positions as well. This will help us do that. Thank you. And so we need to make sure that is there anything that we need to have signed for the board today that we need to move forward with as far as receiving those funds? I think we would just need approval uh that we can move forward then getting the funds. Thank you. So there's nothing that needs to be signed today. I'm sorry. Is there anything that needs to be signed today or is the board minutes approval enough for the state? I I will double check with April. I think the approved minutes uh should be good enough. Uh but I will double check with April just to make sure. Thank you, Mr. Rocka. Again, congratulations on us getting five for the price of two.
032um that we have. And again, this is much needed. So, we'll just need to make sure we have once the board um decides to go and take care of that and we can get those funds expended. And I know that we'll be working on a training program for our security officers this year so that we continue to u make sure that throughout the year they're professional learning and support for our officers. Yes, ma'am. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Rona. Any questions from board members? Okay. Thank you. Next we'll move to number four C as a grant. Notice Essa. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you board chair Bridget and school board members. We'll now move to our ESSA grant um given by Miss April Blunt. And so she will be um joining us um on Zoom
033as she was at the Vaso conference. um representing and supporting Petersburg. So, good evening, Mitch. We will hear us. Now, move to our essay grant um given by April 1. And so, she will be um joining us um on Zoom as she was. Thank you. So, Miss Blunt, we are ready for you when you're ready to begin. Chair Pierce, members of the community, colleagues, schoolboard members, I have the privilege today to share some information about the ESA grant. Um that's elementary secondary um act grant. Um and I will be giving you an update on title one, title two, title three and title four. Grants that you will be looking through today. Um and this is just the agenda is the ESA grants. We'll start with the needs assessment um providing an update there. We'll give
034you some information on title one um title two title three and title 4. Um one of the things that I would like to share with everyone is the division started out by doing a comprehensive needs assessment. Um and that is required for all of our grant programs. Um we did that on Wednesday, April the 30th um 2024 and we did it via Zoom. We had the opportunity to include feedback from um through surveys with parents, staff, um students, teachers, and we had a focus group um that was online where we're required to gather information, make sure we're looking at data um to show who participated in the needs assessment. Um we had 24 p participants that participated. We invited 48 about 48 and of those 24 we had principles, teachers, grant managers, um division leaders,
035community. Um there you can see that represents you know who participated in the grant. Um so we did have about 58% of um participation in the different areas. Surveys were sent to parents, teachers, and students. And we'll give you some information and sort of share some of the questions that we asked and the feedback that we received. This survey here are just some of the questions because I know from our last presentation. Um you all are interested in some of the questions that we shared with students. So what we did is looked at fourth and fifth grade students. Um they had the opportunity to answer this. some of our middle school students, sixth and eighth grade, and our high school students um were invited to participate. Um this year we had about 238 students that
036responded. 12% of those participants were from the elementary school, 85% was from the middle school, kudos to um Miss Green, and 3% were from the high school. Um these are the questions that were answered. Some of them are just such as um my teacher models in the instructional framework for our daily activities. Um we asked them yes or no these three questions and most of the students provided yes they do. Um this year I participated in STEM experiences at my school. Um 56% of the students said yes they do. Um Character Strong as you all know is one of our new SEAL curriculums. We asked students, you know, if they participated in Character Strong's activities this year. 55.9% yet said yes. And keep in mind, this is the first year for Character Strong. So, we
037wanted to make sure when answering these questions about the instructional framework, Character Strong, um that we were making sure that students have been exposed so that we know where to go back if they have not. Um, another question that we asked students was, "My school should add more parent and student activities to support my learning." They had the opportunity in this area to pick multiple. And so, we gave them the areas of math, reading, science, and social studies. So, we ranked them here and just showed that most students wanted more activities in math. About 151 said they wanted more um activities in math. ELA 100 um 93 in science and 70 in social studies. Some of the other two questions that we had here that we felt was really important was we wanted to know
038the level of participation um in STEM opportunities and what type of programs kids wanted to see. So we just sort of share the ranking. We asked them about technology and coding. 121 students definitely wanted to have more experience and exposure to that. Engineering and building we had 115 students science and math opportunities 112 and anything around nature um and environmental 94%. And then one of the more open-ended questions that we asked students was what afterchool enrichment opportunities do students want to see? And we summarized here, you know, a lot of them talked about soccer and sports such as that being a top priority, recreational opportunities for them. Um, they also talked about a mix of having fun and academics um through skill building type activities. Um they talked about uh important to them STEM and
039technology opportunities which goes along with our question that we had before where they wanted more robotics hands-on type programs. Um they shared with us that arts programs remain highly valued and they want to be able to participate in the arts, dance and drawing. And then some of the other um initiatives that they wanted to see was um social activities, more trips, um gaming opportunities and things such as that. They did talk about tutoring is very important to them that they do want to be able to have uh meaningful tutoring opportunities and outlets for them to be creative. The next survey results that we would like to share with you um are the survey questions that we gave to teachers. We had about 90 teachers respond. 31% of them were from the high school. 30% were
040from the middle school and then we had about 17% from Pleasants Lane and the rest from the other three elementary and Westview. um these questions focused around professional development and resources and and things that they needed. So in this first chart here um under professional development the three questions that we asked teachers was this year we rolled out amplify and that is our um ELA um curriculum in our division. What is their level of comfort using it? And so, as you can see here, most of them felt, we had 44% said that they were efficient, that they feel confident, and they could probably deliver um instruction in their classroom um without a a lot of assistance. Um we had about 43% of them said they were uncertain and might need more training. And we had
04114% said that um they are confident and could support others. So, one of the things that we're going to do with this data, um, working with our CNI team, and they've already started doing this, is where they're not comfortable or they're uncertain, professional development opportunities will be provided for them in those areas to make sure that they're comfortable and stronger. So, this is great feedback for us. The next question was this year we rolled out the instructional framework in our division and what is their level of comfort with using the instructional framework and so as you see um 61% said effective I feel confident delivering instruction in their classroom and that's great because that's what we want to hear. Um, we had 26% say they were confident and only 14% said uncertain or need more
042training. Um, and and that's great to hear because we know new teachers coming in, substitutes, they all had an opportunity to complete this. So, any place like I said where we see that there need more training, we're on it and um developing some opportunities for teachers. Um the last question in this category was this year we rolled out character strong in our division and how comfort comfortable are they using character strong. One thing that you'll notice that is consistent. We ask students, parents um or guardians and teachers all similar questions because these are things that are priority in our division. So character strong 64% of them said they are definitely um effective in this area and could deliver um this with confidence. We had 19% that are uncertain. So we'll make sure that training is
043provided additional training to make sure our teachers are comfortable and 17% said they're confident. Um the next one as you and I'm not going to read all of those um to you for the resources but we asked them about you know how is their VA which is their reading specialist working out to help them implement um amplify um and we ask them to agree somewhat agree or disagree. Um, for the most part, if we look at it, their answers, um, if you look at agree and somewhat agree, agree that their VA specialist was helpful, their instructional coach, because our schools do have instructional coach. Most of the teachers um are are happy with the lack of the the support that they're getting from their coach, instructional coach. And then you look at their family engagement
044specialists, um, 39 and 63%. So, they're very comfortable with what what's going on and how they're interacting with families um in their school buildings. And the last one is their behavior specialist. We ask them how do they feel about some of the strategies that their behavior behavior specialist is providing and some of their resources and support. And as you can see, overall 74% um agree with the strategies. So where we have some deficiencies or disagree again that's an opportunity for us to provide professional development to make sure that everybody is comfortable with the resources. Um if there's additional resources need them need needed that we provide those to them. And that last question down there is just one that we asked teachers were asked um their their preferred format for professional development. um most of
045them said virtual sessions is their preferred format. Um and 39% or 39 um said in-person workshop. So we asked them that. There was a couple other questions and um that we asked teachers for their overall satisfaction. And then the last um survey results was what we sent out to our parents and or guardians. Um we had 89 parents actually um respond. Um more than 50% of the responses um were for were from families of um secondary students. Um we asked them how many engagement activities had they participated in. Um and as you can see we had most of them had only participated in one. Um and then we have the orange and the yellow shows the two or three or more. So we want to definitely make sure um that we get families more engaged.
046We are happy that most of our families have at least participated, but we want to see how we can get them more engaged. Some of the other questions that we asked was how would they like to see um their child school offer um different types of STEM opportunities. Again, we aligned this with what we asked our students and they said, you know, some of the activities and they were able to check multiple as well. And so, their top priority there, as you can see in yellow, was engineering and building experiences. They wanted to see more opportunities in in that area, but everything else was fairly even um of what they would like to see offered for their students. the middle um graph there, we asked about um their child's learning um and what additional um
047type offerings should we offer their their children. Um most of them said out of school field trips is what they feel that their children needs to really be exposed um that are aligned to so next highest was in school field trips where we bring um companies in or speakers in to sort of talk to children give them hands-on engagement opportunities and you can see that um overall feedback was a about the same for everybody. And the last two charts over there was just general um yes and no questions that we asked. Have they been invited to a family engagement event at their child's school? Most of the families said yes. Um are they aware of character strong? Because we wanted to make sure not only are our teachers teaching it and our students students understand
048the language, but we wanted to make sure that our families are exposed to our curriculum framework and character strong and know those terms. and we had 61% said yes uh and 39% said no. So we'll be doing a lot of outreach to make sure that they understand what character strong is um and how it's being used. And then that last question over there is my child's school has communicated the um instructional framework activities and applications in daily work. Majority of the parents 67% said yes and we had 33% said that said no. So this gives us an overview of what we need to do, what work we need to put in, how we need to communicate with our families. And so these um comprehensive needs assessment is required before we um begin writing our applications
049um or identifying what our needs are in our grants. And so we use this information in our um our our our groups um to devise and identify the supports needed for our grants. So I'm starting with title one and title one is um improving basic programs definitely is to make things equitable for our students and it is a supplemental funding base. You may remember that um we received last year about $4 million. Um and we expect the level of funding to go down just a little bit but stay really around that $4 million for the 25 26 school years. Some of the things that we're going to be using our funds on um if approved is $3.4 4 million will go to direct services um boots on the ground type situations that directly support our
050students, teachers, um and community. That would be our mental health and behavior interventionist, instructional coach, coaches, instructional spe specialists, our interventionist, data um specialist for the middle school, family engagement um staff, homeless support um and an administrative um support that support the grant application. We also have about $100,000 in there for professional development for teachers and leaders because the one thing that we want to do based on our survey results and our new teachers that we have in there is make sure that we're developing our teachers and this will be through sending them off to conferences. um also have our veteran teachers have an opportunity to lead and ha hold professional development opportunities as well as our division leaders. We have about $175,000 that is directly focused on field experiences for our students, right? And
051transportation costs. We want to make sure based on the results that we're providing our students with great opportunities and exposures outside of the classroom that directly aligns so that it helps them better understand some of the um the the curriculum and learning that they're doing. And then we have about $164,000 that's there for instructional resources like take-home books that we'll send home, you know, during breaks and that kind of thing. manipulatives, family engagement opportunities for our um students and staff. And we have a little bit of funding out there. Um as you all know, every year we have to put fund funding as set aside for our private school and indirect costs that we may have. And this is title one. Title two retention efforts um and support mentoringship opportunities for our teachers. One of
052the great things about this is uming level or the latest funding level was about 387,000. We do anticipate it being about the same um from what we understand from the state. Most of our funding here in this area will be directed towards some of our positions that we have out there. One of them will be a professional development and lure coordinator. Um 0.5 of their salary will come from this and the other.5 will come from title one. We have an instructional coach that is at the high school and that will take the biggest bulk of the funds um putting direct support in there. the professional um development and lensure coordinator's responsibility will be to uh make sure that the PD that we're offering aligns um because that is one of the requirement identify professional development
053that is needed help us secure people and deliver professional development and the lensure piece is they will be helping with mentorship opportunities for our teachers making sure they're monitoring the lensure requirements of new teachers teachers and making sure that teachers are on pace to receive their license. We have about $26,000 that is going directly towards indirect cost in the private school which is required. Um we have about $132,000 that's for recruitment um incentives incentives and men mentorship. And what we mean by recruitment incentives that would be used directly for teacher recruitment particularly at our high need schools which is our CSI schools um and our ATSI schools and other schools. Um and then we have about 52,000 that's set aside for our grow grow your own and that's really around our practice and EP support
054um and leadership to make sure um we're successfully completing those requirements. Title three. Um that team has done a lot of um great things this year with their students. Um this is directly to sort of help with language acquisition, making sure that our students are getting what they need. Um that we're providing teachers with professional development to train our um teachers on supporting our students and families. And so right now we're looking at level funding. We do anticipate possibly having a a little bit of a higher level this year, but um right now we have everything sort of at level funding. 13,000 approximately is for software that is used uh or excuse me 13,000 is for curriculum writing, summer school and um tutoring support. Uh, and that curriculum writing is to make sure that our
055instructional framework um directly aligns and has um supports and resources in there for um our ESL students as well. We have about 19,000 is set aside for supplemental resources like Elevation and Lolo as well as professional development. And that professional development is around both of those software, all of our teachers, so that everybody knows how to monitor and support and sort of review data to make sure that our students are growing. We have about 672 um dollars set aside for indirect costs. And the last grant program that I have the opportunity to share with you is our title four student student support and academic enrichment. And this one allows for us to do well-rounded education opportunities. We actually have to do that. That's providing, you know, new programming or opportunities into the division. Um health
056and safety um initiatives and um staff use or support in technology um training to help students improve. So, our funding areas here, um, we have about $74,000 that's going directly to our STEM position. Um, and that will be making sure that they're engaging learners, um, working directly with learners, um, providing them real world problem solving experiences. We have $86, um,,000 going to our mental health and wellness support. Um, and that is a position that we'll be working with students to make sure that they're prior prioritizing and providing them with resources. Um, new this year, we added a social work position, listening to some of the things that the the school board has requested that we possibly need. We're putting 109,000 aside for a social social work position. Um and this will help us provide wraparound
057support for our students. Um we have about 2,500 per for professional development for some of our tools that we have. And some of our tools that we do have in this grant is our behavior tracking software and um and we have our um SEAL curriculum. Our private school and indirect cost for this grant is about [Music] $16,355. And this concludes um my presentation for this evening and I would be happy to answer any questions that anyone may have. Thank you, Miss Pal. Any questions from board members? Tucker, is there any way that we can get a individual like a item as um list of the amounts per section like on page well seven um we see that everything is lumped together like mental health behavior interventionist instructional coaches. Is there any way we can get
058a breakdown of how much goes to each one so that we'll know what has a budget and what doesn't or how much the budget is for each individual item on slide seven. Yes, thank you Tucker. We'll definitely make sure we get a breakout and so I don't know if April can hear us but Dr. Greywood, you hear the request that they want. She wants an itemized um um list of all the things that we listed that funds would go to, but want to be able to see it in a spreadsheet so they can look at the specific area that we're attributing funds to. So, if it's student mental health, if it's a mental health position, what it is and where and what that cost is. Is that correct? Any other questions? Mr. Dance? Yes. U
059great presentation. Um I just wanted to um get a better understanding of uh private school and indirect cost that was mentioned several times. The private school and indirect cost. So, one of the things that we're required to do is the indirect cost is a set rate and that's usually 3.5% of our large grants and 2% of our smaller grants. And our smaller grants is the ESL grant and it's the title 4 grant. Those funds which are set aside for indirect cost goes back into the general budget and the finance director is able to utilize those um towards a salary or building expenses or whatever it may be. That's what indirect costs are. The private school funds are um St. Joseph's has students that are zoned to Peter school, Petersburg and we have to get the
060number of students that are eligible for the different programs and we put it into the grant and I think each of you have access to the grant where you can see the calculation is automatically done by the state in that and it tells us how much funding um has to go directly to the private for them to use to support the students um that are Petersburg students if it's in title one in title 2 three and four they're able to use it for all students there whether they're Chesterfield students whatever but since it's a Peter first school we're required to give those fun thank you Miss Blunt I have a question. I noticed on your surveys the the numbers are low. How long did we run the survey and when did we put the survey
061out? Um, our communications team actually put the survey out. Um, they put it out a week before we took the results and she ran it for a week. I think she put them out that Monday. Um, we took it down that Friday. We asked her to um you know remind staff, we reminded principles um to have their students do the survey during home room period. I do have to give kudos at least to Miss Green. You can see that her eighth grade students um did do it through probably through their home room period. We also um reminded principles to have their teachers um complete the surveys and then our communications department also pushed it out to parents a couple times. Thank you. And I I'll talk to you after I have questions after. April, thank
062you for the presentation. I have a question. How long do we know before the survey is due? So, we know that over time that each year we have to do this needs assessment. Is that correct? That is correct. So, how far So, we know at the very beginning of the year that we have the needs assessment. Are we have we always done the needs assessment at this time of the year in Petersburg? So, typically with the needs assessment, we start in February time frame. Um, and that's the typical time frame that we start getting everything collected, decide when we're going to have the needs assessment, decide when we're going to start collaborating. Um, this year, I think because of, you know, everybody in transition, it happened a little bit later. Um, but typically it should
063start right around February. Thank you. It's just, Miss Brown, it's just that it it puzzled me because it's only 238 students. That's not even an entire school in the city of Petersburg. And and for teachers, you have teachers and I don't know whether teachers knew if the administrator shared with them, but it's a low number of teachers as well. So we have we will have to do better next year. Yeah. Thank you, Miss Tucker. Can we get the raw data from the survey? Can we be sent that in a spreadsheet as well? Yes. The sample. Yes. So the sample I think board member Tuck is asking for the sample of the actual survey itself. That's correct. Yes. That's correct. Yes, we can get a copy of the survey. And um Bo, you're absolutely correct. And
064so the timeline is going to be essential next year that we start around the time that we're supposed to start so that we can give as much time as possible so that we can get more feedback um from our community and our stakeholders and that's why I asked um Miss Blunt when do we typically start this and is that every year we've started it around February and so we get um feedback from there. So that's the time frame that we should be starting but we know at the beginning of the year that we know we must collect this data. Is that correct? Thank you. Any other questions? Thank you, Miss Blunt. Miss Brown, we'll move next to 4D summer programming. Thank you, school board. Thank you, board chair Pritchette and school board members. We will
065now move to our summer programming update on our community builders grant given by Dr. Brandy Lee, our coordinator of family engagement. Thank you, Dr. Lee. Thank you. Greetings, chair, vice chair, superintendent Brown board, those here and listening at home. I am Dr. Lee and I'm here to talk about the community builders summer program experience. And um while we wait for it to be pulled up, I do want to thank Mr. Anthony Allen who has joined us this evening as well for his collaboration in planning this summer experience. Could you speak up louder please? Sure. So I'm Dr. Brandy Lee and I am here to talk about the summer community builders experience and I just wanted to thank Mr. Anthony Allen for his support with planning this experience. Next slide please. And so here we have
066the agenda and some of the information I'll be sharing out this evening. And next we have our purpose. I won't read it all to you, but if you just direct your attention to the bottom portion of the slide, you see that the purpose of the program is to reduce behaviors that lead to gun violence through the exposure to various educational experiences. And so many of the activities that our students will experience over this four um this week will align with the legislation itself and it also aligns with our current division goals. Next slide, please. And so here you see some of our learning outcomes. And I'll give you a chance to just look at the the outcomes and the different categories that they fall under. Next slide, please. Additional learning outcomes here. Next slide, please.
067And so the next slide just talks about how students were selected for the program. And so we selected students based on interests from the students who are currently participating in the program. And we've also allotted space in the program to take on students who are currently in the seventh grade rising eighth graders. For those of you who may not be familiar with this grant, this grant is specific to seventh and eighth graders. And this grant is also operated in Rowanoke. So in Rowan Oak those students who are who participated this year had the opportunity to have a summer component. Our current eighth graders did not. So we are extending that opportunity to them this summer with this experience um with the goal of having them come back next summer and also serve as mentor to
068the students who will then be eighth graders. Thank you. Staffing for this summer experience um will be this summer experience will be staffed by the family engagement team. So that includes myself, Miss Crystal McDaniel, and Mr. Anthony Allen. And so here is a proposed summer budget, and you will see that it covers um transportation, some special one-time costs as well, and of course food, materials, and supplies. Next slide, please. And so these are just some of the highlights. Not everything that the students will do for that four-day, fiveday experience is mentioned here, but these are just some of the high points. So we are excited to take the children on a few field trips to give them a few hands-on experiences. You'll see more about that in just a second, but these are some of
069the high points of their their itinerary. Next slide, please. And so here, and I I know this is kind of lengthy, so I'm going to go through and give some of the high points, but as you see here, what we've planned for our students in this experience aligns with Superintendent Brown's four E. And so just a snapshot of Monday. Um students will be traveling to Richard Bland. They'll have a STEM and AI experience. It is a hands-on application experience. And they will also, while they're there, learn about the free college courses that they can take. and those free college experiences or courses that are also available to their family members. On Tuesday, on Tuesday, um in alignment with the goal of being enlisted, so at a family engagement university event, we noticed that our students
070were really interested in learning more about um what was required to sign up or to be enlisted to enlist in the military. And so this is an extension of that experience. And what we know is that the military um has changed their selection process. they have become more selective in their process and so we want our young people to know about that and so they will visit Fort Greg Adams um they will have those conversations and learn about um how to access various career fields in the military and then they'll get to have lunch with um the soldiers on Wednesday in alignment with the with employment um our students will visit Breitpoint and they will learn about the G3 program and for those in our audience who may unfamiliar with the G3 program. It is
071a program, the G3 stands for get skilled, get a job, and give back. And so, um, that program offers tuition at little to no cost to students or those in Virginia who for a family of four have an income of $100,000 or less. And just to share some of the workforce um areas that that program focuses on is early childhood, health care, information technology, manufacturing, skill trades, public safety and human services. And it is bless you in collaboration with the community college workforce alliance as well. And then lastly on Friday um supporting the goal of our students being entrepreneurs, our students will have the opportunity to visit the house on market. The House on Market is a hidden gem. It is a locally owned and operated art space. Um, and so at that time, our
072students will have the opportunity to combine culture, art, and the expression of their emotions in a safe space while also working on some emotional charades and some conflict resolution strategies because our goal is to reduce participation um in the behaviors that lead to gun violence. You don't necessarily have to always have the conversation directly itself. It is about the building of those resilience factors and building our students social capital. And that is something that we hope that this summer experience will do. Next slide please. And so just to talk about how we collaborated across the division to help ensure that this um experience will be a success. We have worked with the team at Vernon Johns to be able to carve out space for the builder's hub and to make sure that the space will
073be available for us to be able to welcome in guest speakers such as Virginia State who will come in and talk to our young people. Um we have also worked with the curriculum team and the administration team at Vernon Johns to make sure that we can cross reference and we are not um the students who have been invited to summer school that we honor that invitation as well when we are um sending out information we have to achieve those program outcomes we have collaborated with various departments across the division I know that Dr. to Carter Jackson. Jackson Jackson has been very instrumental in helping us secure the experiences at Breitpoint and Richard Glenn. So, I'm very appreciative of that. We've also worked with our transportation team to coordinate transportation. And then, as we prepare to
074wrap this up and get that out to those um parents of those seventh graders, we'll be working with our communications team to revise our flyers and and get it out as soon as possible. Next slide, please. And so here you just see our next steps which I I kind of already shared but getting the information out and continuing to recruit to fill those final slots. Next slide please. Thank you. Thank you. Is there are there any questions from board members? I I do have one question. The the house that's on Mark, that's Market Street, right? Yes. Are they still open? They are. Okay. So, Mr. Pitch, she came to a um community builders partners event and she was so excited by the energy in the room and the opportunity to collaborate with other partners on
075behalf of children. She texted me and said, "I went home and took the foot sale sign out the out the yard." So, she is still open. Okay. Wonderful. Wonderful. Another question. Um, I had several partners to reach out and they wanted to know how can they participate. Okay, they can just give me a shoot me an email or I we can share my phone number. We are happy to collaborate on behalf of of children and just really tie the community into what it is we have going on for families and children. Appreciate it. Yes. Thank you. All right. Any other questions? Thank you. We appreciate it. Thank you. Likewise. Thank you, Dr. Lee. Okay, next we move to our public comment period. Public comments are encouraged by the public and staff during the public comment
076period. No person may speak on the issue for more than three minutes. Please give your name and address or the ward number. Is there anyone here to speak tonight? No one signed up. Okay. Seeing no one, we will move on. Next, we'll move to our action item, Miss Brown 6A. Oh, I'm sorry. This Dr. Dr. Greywood also. That's our budget. City Council did pass the schools budget last night and so we will take the final vote so we can get our contracts out. [Applause] Yes, absolutely. Thank you, board chair pre and school board members. It is the superintendent's recommendation that the school board approve the approval of the PCPS approved 2526 budget as provided. And again, we will have those contracts out within three business days after tonight's vote. So, we So, please anticipate contracts
077coming out on next Tuesday. Is that correct, Dr. Lane? So, thank you all for your patience, but we are waiting for the budget to be um um approved. um school board and city council. So, it is a superintendent's um recommendation that the school board approve our PCPS 2526 school budget. Thank you. Division. Thank you, Miss Brown. Board members, you've heard the recommendation. Is there a motion to accept? So move. Moved by Mr. Pierce. Is there a second? Second. Mr. Dance. All in favor? I oppose. Motion carries. Thank you all. Great. Thank you. Next, we'll move to six. I believe you're not ready for B, right? I think we're going to skip B. We do not have the applications for ESAP, Gear Perkins, and Claude Mo, right? We do not have those. Okay. We're going to
078move next to 6C, VSBA readiness application. Miss Brown, thank you. Thank you, school. Thank you, board chair pitch and school board members. Um, it is the superintendent's recommendation that the school board approve the VSBA, Virginia School Boards Association workforce readiness application as provided. Okay, you've heard the recommendation. Is there a motion to accept? So move. Moved by Mr. Lundy. Is there a second? Miss um Mrs. Tucker. All in favor? I oppose. Motion carries. Next we move to 6D the ESSA grant application. Thank you. Thank you poche Putin and school board members. It is a superintendent's recommendation that the school board approve the ESSA grant application as provided and you'll see the attachments um in the document. Thank you. Is there a motion to approve the superintendent's recommendation? So move moved by Miss Proctor. Is there
079a second? Second. Mr. Pierce. All in favor? I oppose. Motion carries. 6E policies for second read. Thank you. Thank you, board chair and school board members. It is the superintendent's recommendation that the school board approve the policies for second read as provided. Thank you. Is there a motion to accept the policies presented for second read? So move, Mr. Chair. Moved by Mr. Dan, second by Mr. Pierce. All in favor? I oppose. Motion carries. And our last action item 6F, PHS field trip. Thank you, board chair pitcher. It is the superintendent's recommendation that the school board approve the recommendation for the PHS overnight field trip. Thank you. Our overnight athletic, sorry, can't see our state track meet. Our VHS HSL track meet for our grades 9 through 12. We have 10 students going. So, we are
080excited. If you could scroll up a little bit more, our state our class three state track meet. So, is the superintendent's recommendation that the school board approve the overnight field trip for our students? Thank you. You've heard the recommendation. Is there a motion to accept? Moved by Mr. Pierce. Is there a second? Second, Mr. Dance. All in favor? I oppose. Motion carries. And I want to go back to the missing grants. Can you can someone please share with the board what is what is the deadlines on the grants? We want to make sure that we do not miss any of our funding. Do we have a deadline? What is the date? Uh, Barbara Smith, would you please come to the podium so that you can go through the grants and the deadlines that have been
081laid out by the state and federal grants so that we are clear on what those dates are so that moving forward next year, we are making sure that we are hitting all of the deadlines as required because we don't want to miss out on any funding to support Petersburg City Public Schools. And so that would be the expectation for everyone that we are adhering to grant deadlines so that we can secure that funding. So, the grant deadline uh for the Perkins to be uh submitted in Omega was um April 30th. Um, and it has been submitted, but once um it's been reviewed by the school board, they do um they do have to um deny everyone's uh uh submitted application in Omega because we have to revise it for the amount that they actually give
082us. So, we have to submit it for the present amount and then we have until we receive the actual uh award letter. um probably the end of June. Uh so around the end of June would be the final time to submit uh the Perkins grant. And then the Clawmore grant um also it is more of a an aotment and um as long as we have all the data provided to them. May 30th. Uh I'm sorry. Um May I think it was May the May the 15th was the date that um the information was provided to them and they're sending out the award letters um per the information that was submitted. And then gear up that's not due till June 30th and ISAP also June 30th. And Miss Smith while we have you at the podium.
083Sure. Um, I had sent to Miss Brand also the JVG grant. What happened to that? Because I don't see it here. So, the JVG grant, the information wasn't provided um based on the objectives that were um for the program into the information portal um before the deadline. Um the signatures weren't obtained um and therefore it was um the window was closed. um they will let us know if there's another opportunity between now and end of June. Okay. So, can you tell us what did that grant fund? It was for the JVG program and mainly um $4,000 for the teacher salary and the materials and supplies. Uh $10,000 of it was to go back to the program. Um and then the rest was used about five $6,000 for materials and supplies and other activities for that
084program. So that's that's something that we're probably going to have to look for in local and we will work within our other funding sources to be able to look at that. Our title dollars, Dr. Grey, what are you looking? We'll look at other funding sources to be able to um fund that activity for students. Is that correct? Uh yes. And we'll get with you. But when is that deadline at in you know during the school year? What is that deadline? Um the deadline is uh May May 16th, usually the second week of May. So it's every year it's May 16th around second week of May. Thank you. Appreciate it. Thank you, Miss Smith. Okay. You're welcome, Miss Miss Brown. We'll move next to our information items. Are there any reports from you? Any updates? Okay.
085Thank you, board chair and schoolboard members. I have this quick updates this evening from my superintendent report. Just a couple of slides really quickly. Thank you. And so, of course, uh, Mr. Ranka has already taken the thunder of our school security officer grant program where we were able to attain funding. And so, you heard about that earlier. So, again, thank you, um, to our team for that work, Mr. Martinez and Mr. Danco for working together to make sure that we could secure those funds for the additional school officer support. Next slide. Thank you. I just want to just also congratulate our students once again. We attended the code RVA um graduation. Um and so we had two of our students uh Janiah Vanell and Nashira Johnson who are Petersburg students who graduated from code RVA.
086And so of course we have some other graduations that'll be coming up. Our appamatics regional um governor school and our Maggie Walker will have graduation ceremonies coming up next week. And so again, congratulations to our wonderful students for their accomplishments from graduating from code RVA. So we were able to attend and it was a great event. Next slide. Just a little bit sneak peek in some of the things that are happening in Petersburg. I know that you all approved the school tutoring. If you remember a couple of board meetings ago, we you approved money for tutoring um in Petersburg. And so here are some examples of just an example of one of our reading and math tutors. We have about 53 tutors in Petersburg. And so I wanted you to see here's what some of
087the tutoring groups look like in our schools. And so they are focused on key math and reading um skills. And so we of course got them pretty late in the year. And so we're excited about next year. Is that correct, Mr. Brown? That next year we'll be able to start a lot earlier, but this is the work that they're doing now with our students. Um and so again, this is our math quiz bowl, our Vernon John's Bamford um sixth grade annual math quiz bowl. And so these are our sixth grade students. And so we have Miss Brown, Miss Good, Miss Gray, Miss Henson, Miss Evans, and Mr. McKen, Mr. McKenzie who has been helping and working with our students. So our students are delving into some of their competition of this of math. And so
088we know that we have lots of work to do, but this is just a sneak peek in some of the things that our kids are doing that people don't see every day that we are engaging them in some competition and really using some of their math skills. And so wanted to show you a picture of some of our great kids. And next, I know last time I brought to you all the proposal that we were going to go to the Richmond airport. And so I want you all to see the final what the final product looks like at Richmond International Airport. How we are recruiting for the next three months at the baggage claim. So there are four baggage claims at Richmond International. And so on all four of the baggage claims when you go
089everyone and I told you all that when I first came to Petersburg I stood waiting for my bag last July and I looked up at the sign and I was thinking to myself and I saw people advertising and so I said you know what Petersburg we're going to have that there so that everyone can see. And so I know I've heard from you all about billboards when I first came. And so I thought about the fact that there are thousands and thousands of people that come through Richmond International Airport. And so why not do something different? And so we have put this sign. And so that's what it looks like. And so that's what people will see for the next three months at Richmond International Airport. Come transform with us our our wonderful student who
090is our speech student. I thought she was a beautiful representation of what our kids look like and her accomplishments. And so on four baggage claims, thousands of people are going to see and be invited to come transform with us. And that that that QR code says we're hiring and it shows our symbol and we're showing them that we're on the way up. And that's what that arrow is is that we're making progress. There are ups and downs, but we're shooting up. And so that's what you see at Richmond International Airport for Petersburg City Public Schools. So I think it looks great, but I just wanted to that is what we're trying to do. Thank you. And so just again our capital improvements projects work in progress. I want to thank Mr. Godet for all of
091his hard work because he has done some amazing work of all the things we're trying to do in a in a short pinch and Mr. Martinez has come on board. We got lots of work to do, but just want to just thank Mr. Godette openly because it is a lot juggling painting and juggling, you know, demolition and all of that, but I want you to see that we've already started the exterior painting at Lakemon Cool Spring and Petersburg High School. And I hope you see them out and about doing this work. So, there's still lots to be done, but they're starting this work and we're hope we're ready for our kids to see some, you know, nice faces of our schools starting in August. Um, and then of course there's some of the flooring and
092electrical work that's happening at the school board. We put in, you know, system for the internet so that it can run better. So when our employees come to the schoolboard office, they're able to get on systems. We can, you know, do more there. And of course, they took down those particular walls and we're starting to put in those um those cubicles that will create a more collaborative environment at Petersburg. And so this is just some of the work that's happening. We'll go into some interior of some schools with painting once kids are out in a few days, but this is just some of the work on the move. And everybody knows we've been doing a lot because we have a very short deadline. And so, it's been a lot, but I want to thank the
093team, thank Mr. Godette for all of his hard work. Mr. Martinez coming on board. I know you're still learning and getting into it, but we are on the move. And so, just thank you all for your work. And then once again, don't forget everybody, as a reminder, these were the locations of our temporary relocations. We don't want to make sure that no one gets confused. I think people have kind of figured it out, but we want to make sure that you know where you where our departments are located temporarily um until our kids get out of school until we're able to be back in the schoolboard office. So, just wanted to give those quick updates um for this evening. So, board chair pitcher, that conclude and board members, that concludes my superintendent report for this
094evening. Thank you, Miss Brown. Any questions for Miss Brown from the board? Okay, next we move to 7B committee reports. Any reports? I don't think I know we have um our gifted committee meeting is tomorrow. And also remember for committees who whoever is in charge of the committees. Remember that you must also um send your announcements to the clerk that we must advertise our committee meetings because they are public meetings and they must be advertised. If you're going to do if you are going to do a virtual meeting, you must provide the link so that the community community can also get onto the link and that's that's also for Head Start also. She needs to start doing that. She needs to start advertising. Thank you. Appreciate it. Next, we move to C. Next board meeting
095will be June 4th. Graduations. Did you say graduation? Graduation is this s next. this next Saturday the 31st. Okay. Yes. [Laughter] Yes. Next we move to number eight. New business from board members. Any new business? Seeing no new business. The time now is 7:35. Is there a motion to adjurnn? So moved. Moved by Mr. Dance. Is there a second? Second. Second. Mrs. Mrs. Tucker. All in favor? I oppose. Motion carried. This meeting is now adjourned. You all have a great I guess I can say a great summer. Yeah. Because when we when we see you again, school will be out. June starts at 5. Okay.