001for e for e e e good evening everybody can I have everybody's attention all right uh I'd like to go ahead and get this started I'd like to call to order the March 18th 2025 uh picosen City Public Schools school board meeting uh Mr Lami could you uh please lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance now for the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge allegiance 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 now for a moment of silence please be seated yesterday we celebrated St Patrick's Day A Day to Remember the unique culture of Irish people and their significant impact on our country their presence in America has produced some of the greatest writers including F
002Scott Fitzgerald in his novel this side of paradise Fitzgerald displays an understanding of Personal Achievement for what it's worth it's never too late to be who everyone wants to be you must live a life that you're proud of if you find that you're not then you must have the strength to begin again thank you very much thank you [Applause] Miss Carol are there any additions and or modifications to the agenda uh we do have one addition to the agenda um the request the board to add the approval of the minutes from the work session on February 18th 2025 these minutes were inadvertently omitted from the board packet that was sent to the board last week the board received them today and hard copy of the minutes has been given to them tonight for their review
003We request that you amend section 7D of the consent agenda to read approval of minutes for February's regular meeting work session and special session thank you uh Miss pery uh recognitions we've got a bunch tonight so yes chair Burbage members of the board community members and colleagues thank you for being here this evening we always have a lot to celebrate um but this particular month it impacts a lot of people so thank you for fitting in here um as always once you've been recognized if you want to stay we invite you to stay but if you need to leave there's no shame in that either um you can sko it out to either exits so before I begin with our senior of the month I wanted to add um provide a disclaimer that I am
004actually not part of the selection process for our seniors um and so while I'm incredibly proud to announce this myth senior I wanted to share that bit of information and also these writeups come from our High School counseling office so I'm not responsible for follow the following glowing remarks academically Jude has consistently excelled in his studies currently ranked five out of 155 students his impressive GPA demonstrates his dedication and commitment to his education his academic Pursuits have also included advanced level courses such as honors advanced placement dual enrollment at both High coast and high school as well as his attendance at the Governor's School for Science and Technology his thirst of knowledge for knowledge and willingness to take on challenging coursework highlights his intellectual curiosity and drive in addition to his academic achievements Jude is
005actively involved in numerous extracurricular activities he's a valued member of the pen High School band participating in The Islander marching concert and jazz bands as well as lending his musical talents to the evolution showband choir Jude is also member of the PHS scholastic bowl the Excel service Club chess club D andd Club Chick-fil-A Leadership Academy National Honor Society science National Honor Society mu ala Theta math Honor Society and the social studies Honor Society roppa his involvement extends beyond the school Community as he serves as a lead alter captain at St basil Orthodox Church volunteers with Port which is people offering resources together and works parttime at otel additionally Jude has been recognized with prestigious Awards such as the national Rule and small town award and the College Board and the AP scholar award please help
006me congratulating Jude Pie as our March student of the month m [Music] [Laughter] [Music] back in February both the high school and middle school took 34 students to the all district course event which was hosted at the Ferguson Center at C news campus they did very well there and while attending the following seers AUD singers audition and were awarded State placement through the Virginia Coral Directors Association for all Virginia chus as I call your name please come forward and remain up here for a picture from our Middle School we had Amelia Ramirez soprano 2 Payton schaer soprano 2 Kylie Cooper ala one I believe can not be here to do a you know pre-arrange arrange uh extracurriculars and then Victor CLA which is base from our high school we had Zaya Willi soprano one delegate
007one Ava Gorman also won delegate 2 and also cannot be with us here tonight with Heather Jensen 1 alternate one [Applause] our swim team had a great season and performed very well at the state tournament we congratulate everyone on their hard work and especially would like to highlight Tony debris Tony earned two state championships this year in the 200 freestyle and the 50 freestyle on top of this he's also maintained above a 4.0 grade point average please join me in congratulating Tony on his hard work and recent titles as state champion are either of his coaches here coach Daniel Barry or coach Luke Alman okay moving on to some more state champions one once again phs's track had a great season with multiple state championships as well as second place runner up first we would
008like to congratulate Jacob wies on being State runner up in the 3200 meter Oh wrong picture sorry there we goob you go Jacob if you would to mind saying up here we're going to get the whole um all of the Champions together our 4x800 relay athlete also were state Runners up and represented picosen very well congratulations to Isabella Butterfield Ella cman Ashley GTH and Elizabeth Trant that one I checked it it looks like Ella was not able to be with us evening but say one more please so additionally we have a repeat state champion Elizabeth Tran who has added more to her impressive list of state champion titles this year and the 3200 meter as well as the 1600 meter congratulations to everybody and [Applause] good job congratulations I went so quickly I didn't show
009you the beautiful images that I created for them so I'll go through those really quickly near relay te as well yeah holding their baton [Music] tonight we are also going to recognize some of our student athletes for their accomplishments at another state tournament for PHS wrestling picosen wrestling team had another successful season the team posted a dual meet record of 13- two in route to winning the regular season Bay Rivers District title and the Virginia duels the wrestling team also plays first at the bay Rivers District Tournament the region 2A tournament and the doublea state championship of the 13 wrestlers that qualified for the state champ tournament this year 11 wrestlers placed in the top six with a School record of nine finalists and four state champions and if you don't understand that's amazing it's
010very impressive now let us recognize those wrestlers who earn individual championships or runner up in the state as I call your name please come forward and remain UPF front so that we can then get a team picture oops sorry this is another stack cam Herold cam is a junior he plays first in the state at the 106 PB weight class he finished the season he finished the season with a 285 record he was runner up at the Colin e Baker Invitational went 5-0 at the Virginia duels and was the Bay Rivers District champion and region 2A runner up did I accidentally cam do you have bradens yeah I'm so sorry we have a lot apologize that's my fault thank you bradden bunting bradden is a junior he played second in state at the 113 pound
011weight class bradden's record this year was 259 he went four- one at the Virginia du taking first in the baby Rivers District tournament and the region 2A Tournament Logan KY [Applause] a junior Logan played second in state at the 120 PB weight class Logan's record this year was 299 he went 5 and0 at the Virginia duels taking first in the bay Rivers District tournament and the region 2A tournament Jared Goodson Jared is a junior and claimed his third State title Jared wrestled this year in the 132 weight class he took first at Colony Baker and Ocean Lakes Invitational Jared won 4-1 at the Virginia duels finished second at the Windsor New York Christmas classic it was Bay Rivers district and Region 2 Champion Brian La also a junior Brian brought home his second state championship
012this year in the 144 weight class Brian posted a record of 374 this season and also took first place at the colony Baker Invitational won 5 and0 at the Virginia duels finished second at the witer New York Christmas classic in was Bay Rivers district and region 2A Champion Reed Booth Reed is a junior who also brought home his second state championship this year in the 150 weight class Reed had a season record of 353 and took place I'm sorry first place at the colony Baker and Ocean Lakes invitationals finish second at the Windsor New York Christmas classic was a bay River and region 2A Tournament champion Christian Leonard Christian is a senior who placed second in state in the 165 weight class Christian's record this year was 298 he went three in one at the
013Virginia duels taking first in the bay Rivers District tournament and the region 2A tournament it's also exciting to note that Christian will be attending BMI in the fall SEL cross Nate is a junior who played second in the state at the 175 weight class Nate's record this year was 2515 and he finished the Year Strong by taking first place at both the bay Rivers District tournament and the region 2A tournament Austin Conley Austin is a junior who played second in the state at the 190 weight class Austin's record this year was 310 he played second at the colony Baker Invitational and first at the Ocean Lakes Invitational he went four- one at the Virginia duels taking first in the bay Rivers District tournament and second at the region 2A tournament now I'm going to ask
014that the following wrestling members come forward as I call your names to join us for a team um photo K Atkins Braden Agnes you also finished third which is nothing to shortcut Jacob heidman Nathan heidman Jaden linkor neiah Owens Keith Reynolds Keegan web I hope I say this thing correctly I should have asked Kaylee Zerby did I say that right tell me how to say it how do I say it kale I apologize I should have asked that's my fault oh now don't post find it my mistake that's I said his name correctly thank you kale Howie way Preston Bundy Derek Kennedy I also want to recognize their coach Eric Decker and assistant coach is Kendall rhor Mike McCormick Scott [Music] Brown Mr Brown here Ross Graham Richard Harold Patrick McCormick and Donald Booth okay
015we're g to try to squeeze everybody into an image I'm G have you guys scoot down [Music] me and charge like I did it for our picture night got them out of [Music] quick okay ready [Music] congratulations is [Music] that yeah that might be the last [Music] one the last thing I wanted to mention as the exit I don't know if you noticed that many of those were Juniors so we expect great things next year for our Juniors as are seniors pressure no pressure no pressure MH that concludes our recognitions for the evening [Music] okay I think we're everybody's cleared out now um for presentations and reports for the instructional update uh Miss I like I said to miss pie that's a tough act to follow so um I will do my best but we
016also have some amazing students as part of this presentation as well so good evening members of the school board superintendent community members and colleagues this evening I will be presenting an overview of Career and Technical education in picosen City Public Schools as we know CTE is an educational pathway that equips students with academic knowledge technical skills and hands-on experience in various career Fields CTE programs prepare students for college career and certifications by integrating core academic subjects with real world applications these programs often include work-based learning experiences industry certifications and dual enrollment opportunities and we just wanted to highlight that picosen City Public Schools was highlighted on the VOE newsletter for um in March February we're a month behind sorry with budget uh February was CTE month and so they highlighted this photo which showcases um
017this display created at the high school to show the impact of Career and Technical education teachers shared what they wanted to be when they were younger and the skills they learned in high school that they still use today and students filled out Hearts sharing what they love about their CTE courses CTE courses are offered at the middle and high school levels at the middle school we currently offer technical education foundations of communication inventions and Innovations technological systems computer applications and keyboarding and introduction to coding and programming Computer Solutions as students advance to high school their opportunities expand significantly allowing them to explore a wide range of Interest career paths and post secondary options our course offerings reflect this growth providing students with access to specialized programs that align with their passions and future aspirations for
018example students interested in public service can explore criminal justice gaining insights into law enforcement legal studies and forensic science and those with a creative eye May pursue fashion marketing which blends business principles and with Design and Merchandising for students considering careers in education as we talked about before teachers of Tomorrow provides hands-on experience and early exposure to the teaching profession while engineering and drawing supports those with interest in stem Fields equipping them with technical skills applicable to architecture product design and mechanical engineering and those are just a few examples of the many opportunities they have available at the high school level of course picosen City public school students have access to a variety of Career and Technical education courses through our partnership with New Horizon's Career and Technical education center and these courses provides hand
019on provide excuse me Hands-On industry relevant training that prepares students for both postsecondary and immediate career opportunities as you can see our students have access to courses covering Health Sciences Public Safety and various traits so the real stars of the show is we will have some students sharing with us their work in CTE tonight but here we have and someone's going to have to hit that video for me back there no sound but we know what's happening of course we have some welding going on and also pictured here students and Welding courses at new Horizons Samantha Esposito Valentino Batista Justin chance and Cole ringham and so we wanted to share some numbers for CTE as well in the Middle School alone we have over 230 enrollments in our CT courses while at the high school
020we have over 420 enrollments in CTE courses additionally 49 students are currently enrolled in specialized CTE programs at New Horizons where they have access to that Advanced Training in high demand Fields these programs offer not only technical skill development but also industry recognized certifications that can lead directly to employment opportunities Beyond traditional CTE courses many of our students also take advantage of dual enrollment opportunities earning both high school and college credit simultaneously and here we have pictured uh the criminal justice visits the Eastern State Penitentiary Deca members at a compet ition Sports Marketing the virtual meet with the Savannah bananas coach we know that's very popular and the PMS CTE students Lego build challenge all right so tonight we're going to highlight three of our students PHS engineering and drawing with Brandon Milner New Horizon's
021physical educ excuse me physical and occupational therapy Khloe dun and New Horizon's hbac Ian price so I'll allow them to come up and they have some slides and a presentation to share with you as well this advances side you can also flip my book to see what comes next as well good evening everyone I'm Brandon Milner as you may have already known and I'm here to talk to you about our Sami bow competition this year so the goal of snami is to design a boat that will eventually become an actual model which is built by the Newport News ship building company and so design process that we had to follow um the engineering design process so we first start out with our initial design which which we try to make it similar to a cadar
022design which is what it's currently based off of so at the stage we were beginning to learn the program called AutoCat inventor which is the program we use to pretty much make a 2d design become a 3D model and this is initially what we came up with so here's a few of our designs that we have come up with and these designs obviously flawed and their own way but we began to just pretty much work out what we could actually make our final design with so one of the steps that is used to figure out the final design of The Bu of the boat is to figure out the calculations for each um part of the boat so here is a uh spreadsheet of the boat and um what AutoCAD Adventure does is actually can
023predict what the uh the weight and vertical center of gravity could be as well as the vertical momentum and other stuff like that for the boat it also uh it also um gives measurements and accurate weight for other parts of the boat such as the battery or propulsion motor of the boat so right here is our final design of the boat our initial design is very similar to what the final design of the boat is but we also added a few other parts that actually makes boat function such as the battery propulsion motor and [Music] the and the was called but um yeah hi my name is Chloe Dunn and I attend the afternoon physical in occupational therapy program at New Horizons uh first I'd like to say how honored I am to be chosen
024to speak on behalf of this program so thank you um New Horizons has given me the opportunity to gain knowledge about a career that I'd like to pursue in college in fact it has helped confirm that decision for me this program has allowed me to gain a wealth of knowledge which I feel will give me an advantage AG or Head Start in college not only has this class taught me about physical and occupational therapy it's also allowed me to learn valuable qualities to succeed in the workforce in fact uh weekly we're graded on our employability additionally um I'll be able to come out of this program with a certification in physical and occupational therapy um as a Aid um lastly this class is very Hands-On and immersive we do many lab practicals which we're graded
025on these practicals include performing medical procedures on each other um for example we do things such as proper uses of assistive devices um the prop use of modalities so like heat and cold therapy um the testing of each other's range of motion and we even take each other's blood pressure and heart rates so that being said I'd highly recommend this program to any students interested in py and oi hello my name is Ian price I have enjoyed my year at New Horizons a lot during my year I have been working with my teacher as a skills USA participant and got first place in the district and will be going to states to compete during this process you will learn more in-depth of how systems work and why problems get fixed the way they do during
026my process of getting ready for skills it has been a lot of work in and outside of the classroom this helped me prepare a lot more because if I had any questions my teacher was there by my my side the entire time helping me grasp what I couldn't grasp before also throughout my year I have had the opportunity to participate in various Hands-On activities that include building and repairing HVAC systems learning how to braze copper pipes and the correct way to wire up a system while making it look good finally while going through the process I have learned how to properly use gauges vacuum a system recover refrigerant and have completely set up an HVAC system that works and will be used by the class to give them Hands-On training and will also help them
027learn the proper repair processes to help them in the field I'm very thankful for the opportunities I have been [Applause] given the great thing about being an educator is you have so many students to be proud of as if you were their parent you know and just to see all the awards tonight and hear these students speak thank you CH thank you Ian uh for coming out tonight um Sorry getting my pages right thank you Brandon and we really appreciate your time and we're so proud of you and all the work that you're doing I want to say thank you to Kim Montalvo who is our director of accountability and also um overseas CTE for helping bring this presentation together tonight and also happy birthday any questions thank you so [Applause] much thank you so
028much Brandon thank you Miss H uh for our operations update uh Mr Roberts good evening and uh I think that was a tougher act to follow congrats to all those students I think that we can employ um some of those um especially the HVAC I would love to have my hands on some of those students anyways um quick update today first starting out with uh Food Services uh last month I you know kind of briefly explained our fpar process and that we did have some um findings and technical assistance um items that required an action plan we submitted those to VOE which were approved uh just here recently um one thing that we'll be bringing to your attention for for approval um in April is some amendments to our or additions to our wellness policy
029um we need to add some things for goals which is a good thing because we just need to make our wellness policy a little bit more robust uh with specific goals for student and staff Wellness so we'll uh present those to you uh I'll be meeting with those committees um between now and then um to create those goals um USDA audit will also be conducted at the end of this month it's very similar um to the process that we just went through um that process was V OE this one is USDA so a lot of Regulation a lot of uh formal processes there so all right um continuing our conversation on the recruit grow and retain uh like I shared last month we go to the traditional job fairs there's a couple more that I
030attended um Radford um JMU and we also did a coffee talk with some military folk uh to try to recruit uh we're updating our postings and getting ready to launch that marketing um the videos that we release at local businesses that kind of air and loop um we're also exploring Grant funded opportunities kind of to grow your own grants and also some pre-apprentice programs for our students that um take our teacher Cadet courses so we have been um in discussions with a couple of different universities to see what their offerings are and again as we you know get more knowledge we're going to keep you updated and try to make that something that we can um recruit and grow um our own there with those processes um and then of course the superintendent proposed budget
031budget and mag study will definitely help all three of those things to recruit grow and retain if approved and funded so um just a little summary that is a live picture of I think the fair that I was at at Radford um of our booth um you know saw a lot you know I'm still reaching out to those I I interviewed and spoke to so hopefully we'll land some of those young teachers all right Safety and Security the Safety Committee that meets mothly uh we're really focusing on those strategic camera placements that's been recommended um looking to fund those um shortly we work with Josh Montalvo to try to get those ordered um and placed tabletop discussions continue we've really done a great job in my opinion with the lockdown procedures this past month we've
032held all the drills for um each of the schools and we've had great discussions highlighted some needs that we've you know discovered and we've made some adjustments already that I think is is making us safer we'll have the active shooter and Safe Haven uh discussions this month which will hopefully lead to a full exercise next so um that would include going off site safe havens and all that things uh things of that nature so looking forward to that all right so Transportation I know this is something I keep continue to bring to your attention uh our two new sub drivers are almost at the end of their training they are doing van trips Aid um helping out just when we need subs so they are being active during their training but we're almost at the
033end so we should see two new sub drivers hit the road very shortly but like I said they're already helping out doing van runs when needed for Subs uh our GPS driver training is tomorrow in our inservice with our bus drivers what that will give them is a refresher course for those veterans that are coming back with the tablet on the bus that's required to give the app to the parents so basically it's their GPS anytime they stop the student um pictures will flash up to confirm who should be going off that stop or who should be getting picked up in the mornings um which is you know the refresher that's hugely beneficial just because of sub runs you know the combination runs that we have to do for those sub driers so that training
034was uh tomorrow we're also uh waiting on the Sydney ordinance they're going to work with us to to create one for those Stop Cam arm um cameras that will catch you know the violations uh that will also give us some additional bus cameras inside the camera give us those live feeds and those cloud storage capabilities which we're looking forward to so you know we're going to start pting as soon as we get comfortable with all this technology that we're installing on the buses and the systems with some parents uh with that app um hopefully in the next couple of months to start full implementation by next year but hopefully you'll be able to see more and more uh buses on this pilot as we go through the the year um and of course uh we're
035we're ordering buses you know we've got four on the docket now uh one special needs bus bus and three more 77 passenger buses to look at so got quotes on all those getting ready to see if we can't go to purchase very very shortly all right and uh this is a topic that I've I've received a lot of um you know request for information on we did send out a parot square message there um a little bit ago and it was due to the the power school data breach back in December so when that first initially H happened and we had knowledge of it we sent out in a message saying hey you know we've recognize this this is something power school is going through you know once we know more we'll we'll let you
036know more and power school will be reaching out well they finally did um they sent the mass email to all those that were impacted um and then we we followed that up with the power Square message that basically stated you know if you have questions with the the actual information Power School sent one it is legitimate so you know if you did receive that information um that is their support to you if you have questions on that do contact them with the numbers that they have provided um if you've received something in error please do reach out um we did send that link to let's talk um through the parent Square message or you can email me directly the way but there is a category and let's talk that you can report those errors I'm
037doing with those erors is reporting them directly to power school with a ticket so if you you know received an email from power school that stated names of children that are not yours let me know through the let's talk or or directly and I will put that ticket in to get that resolved and whenever they give me updates you know that's when I'll I'll give them back to the people who reach out so um it is legitimate please do follow those instructions um it does give you some protection for your credit for two years uh with the programs that they've selected okay and unless you have any questions that's all I have I had a couple questions with the power school they breach go ahead um we were able to I was able to review
038the contract that Miss Spence sent um I thank you for that I was you know I asked an hour later it was in my email box um so there's just some language in there and I compared it to some different districts too um one of them is really the the indemnification that power school has one of them is that is says 10.2 ination by the customer so it says that the customer has to defend power school and and its Affiliates and their directors so is that something where I mean are we are we contractually obligated to like have to say our school is fine we can't sit there and say negative things about them because of the data breach because it that's how I read that part of the contract no and I mean just
039to be clear you know power school was pretty good coming up front just saying hey you know this one is on us and uh you know we we got our legal representation you know involved and make sure that you know we were protected and uh working with them and you know they were pretty prompt as far as saying hey you know we're going to get the information to those that we know they're impacted and if you know there's any mistakes in you along the way let us know and put in a ticket so that's kind of the path we followed if that answers your question on that one but uh there the response is in the contract too and it's very boilerplate of saying you know they could be pretty vague on what the what
040of your information was compromised they don't even have to get into it and if you look at the deeper some of the deeper districts or some of the stuff stories have come out that you know people have gotten this stuff earlier that it was you know special education records ucational records Social Security numbers I know we don't it's not stuff on our end but I think as a customer service component that yeah I think it just seems like we're just saying hey whatever they say is fine and and we don't have you know there's no recourse for you other than getting the monitoring so I don't know if it's time to look at different components and I looked at Virginia Beach they have a uh policy where they can't sign a contract that says there's
041an indetification in it they go with parent view so I don't know if there's things down the road we need to look at to hold them accountable to say you know we don't have to you're not the only game in town or you know we don't like a response we can switch or or what yeah I I'll just address a couple of those points one um we don't have to use power school so that we the Coen school has been um a client of Power School uh for many many years and um it's the I if I'm not mistaken and I could be wrong about this it is the largest if not one of the largest uh data companies uh in the world um and certainly in the United States they um many whole states
042uh by power school as their tool for um school systems to use uh the only tool so this is just one in the Commonwealth uh we do have the option to choose our Data Systems I mean there are plethora plethora of um companies out there that do this same kind of work we've already started looking at at the availability of companies out there um as a matter of fact we're going to another school division um a team from here not primarily to look at that but this is another School Division that uses one of the next um um Top Flight companies in the in the country that provide this service and they also consolidate this service with a lot of other services that we pay separate vendors for like uh School dude and um um
043ad minum and and at handbook educat handbook and also the other big uh ticket is Frontline which is all of our HR systems um operate under another company so there are companies that do pieces of this and then there are companies that do the whole package so we're actually investigating those things um so that it's not um we're not married to uh Power School so to speak um and like I said some states they require all of the data to be housed through one system Virginia does allow you to um to shop that that product and uh we are looking at that um back to the contracts we do require our attorneys uh to review all contracts before we signed them and this was reviewed um originally by the attorneys um and of course we
044have reup that contract multiple times um as has most of the school divisions uh around use power school I have an idea now there's a a law major lawsuit that some of you may be aware of um that uh uh was probably the first of many um from this particular data breach since it's a very large company with a lot of clients um and this is I think filed from somewhere around Wisconsin or somewhere um so we'll follow that case closely and see uh if there's any merits to that case they find that power school is liable for some things then you know my guess is there'll be some class action beyond that but um just just a thought on on that topic um that's um probably a ways down the road I I tried
045to go back is this a contract that's like that's the dollar figures not so much that we don't have to approve it because I don't I couldn't go back and you know how sometimes says we have to approve the food vendor or athletic vendor I couldn't find one that said we had to approve power school you don't it's a it it is one of those vendors that that are that are part of the operational side of the house and we approve those vendors we have uh contracts with probably 20 or 30 vendors doing similar work um followup is is that contract or is it an extended contract do you know when this contract currently I don't know if the top of my head Andrew do you know if it's an annual contract or multiple multi-year
046contract annual it is an annual contract I said 2024 on on this contract um and another question I know you said they sent the emails directly to the parents of students were affected did they give the district any kind of ballpark number of how many students were affected within the district yes they they did the um staff specifically but the ballpark for the the students they give us just a ballpark it wasn't an exact from them but they guaranteed us that they would reach out to the ones they knew that were impacted um if there were eras you know to let them know and that's what we've done so far Y is it possible to get a list at sort of the administrative level of who these parents are or who the kids like compromised
047sure yeah I mean they have that um in their possession we could get that yes can you request it and just to make sure that we've gotten everyone counted for sure I know they provided the numbers to contact power school but did they give up like a website where parents can go and verify if their kids were specific themselves yeah I'll have to dig into that specifically but that is a good suggestion y just one last question I don't know if you know the answer to this or not but as far as for our students do do you have any idea in your conversations with power school what information was compromised you know was it right the um the the version we got from power school was for Student Records was just mainly the recory
048information um there could have been some um data associated with health but it would just be the brief things that would be in the power school like when a teacher gets on there somebody that needs to know it's just short little brief statements um but past that it wasn't anything more than Direct information so no testing information or that's not in the student table that was was talking about you know as far as that was the larger like when you you you can read it was a nationwide breach some of the earlier ones that I found out have been told it was you know educational records or discipline records and you know whatever they're just a vendor whatever you throw in there is what they people can have access to so whatever the school uses
049grades displine records or social security numbers I don't we put Social Security numbers on our side was that was a good thing on our side we don't have that for the student side no definitely not and it was just the student table and the teacher table so to your point it was whatever was contained in those those tables so thank you yep any additional questions all right thank you thank you Mr Roberts y Miss Carol do we have any public comment we do we have two speakers today okay um I'm going to read the public comment statement um the co and School Board welcomes public comment during regular meetings school board members do not respond to public comment during a meeting all comments should address a matter related to picosen Public Schools the school board
050will not hear public comment that involves an individual student related matter the disclosure the disclosure of which would violate applicable confidentiality requirements the school board expects that each speaker will be courteous modeling for our students how one can respectfully disagree with others views speakers will address their comments to the entire school board and not to one individual board member nor to the superintendent a staff member or the audience speakers are encouraged not to engage in personal attacks speakers will present their comments from the podium to follow School Board policy time allotted to speakers shall be three minutes first speaker is Allison veracis from war Farm War warnham Farm Road evening um my name is Alison verus I I have two children who attend picosen Primary School uh I re recently sent you all an email
051uh to express my concerns regarding safety protocol and lack of resources and felt it necessary to bring it to the floor tonight for all to hear uh my hopes are that the Board of Education will evaluate and set more responsible and realistic protocols in place moving forward to address when there are disruptive and unsafe behaviors by students in a classroom to give the kids who are in the general classroom environment a chance to learn in a positive and safe space but also to identify where is a good place or solution to accommodate the kids who may have behaviors but cannot thrive in the traditional classroom environment because of the rules uh I'm going to try to ad Li on this uh there was a son uh a child in one of my son's classrooms that
052was extremely disruptive over the last few months um displaying danger uh dangerous behaviors to himself and others um disrespectful disrespect respectful with his actions and words to school staff and students um and at times abusive and I witnessed him hit um a staff member um chasing kids around the classroom forcing them to Run for Cover and have to hide in order to stay safe what was more disturbing uh was that despite displaying these unsafe behaviors that he did he continued to be reintroduced into the classroom with the expectations that things would improve they did not um I understand that there needs to be documentation of behaviors before protocols can be implemented for each child but surely there must be exceptions to that there are protocols and resources in place but they don't seem to be
053available fast enough the student rights state that every student is entitled to an orderly school and classroom environment which will allow Optimum learning emphasizing the values of responsibility kindness fairness and safety in my opinion and based on my observations in the school it's because they do not have the proper resources to handle situations such as these I want you to know that while I greatly appreciate the board's prompt response to my email I still have many concerns I know you cannot discuss individual student matters due to furpa and I also recognize that when it comes to students that are outlined in the individual Disabilities Act that there are tricky areas to work through however the moment that safety is not established in a classroom then there should not be a question I know that there
054are other parents that share this concern that could not be here tonight so I'm representing the voice of many but the ask here is not hard please keep our kids safe establish the proper resources to respond to situations such as these and more importantly get the resources in place to help these kids who are struggling and to help the administration handle them a reset room is simply a temporary fix there needs to be an environment for these kids that can thrive in a traditional classroom environment but there also needs to be an environment for these kids who cannot if things keep going the way they are they will not end positive excuse me sorry 3 minutes I'm sorry thank you for your time I appreciate [Music] it next speaker is em Emily MCC Carly from
055Roberts [Music] Landing thank you for the opportunity to speak today I too am here um with the concern of safety in the classroom um I my daughter is in a different classroom from um Allison's but we have the same concern with different children being disruptive in the classrooms um the classroom has been evacuated on on multiple occasions because of one student who my daughter was was witnessing throwing desks throwing chairs and the metal water bottle that she brings to school every day was thrown across the room so hard that it was dented it was full of water and I cannot even imagine what would have happened if that had hit a child um sorry I'm kidding a little emotional my daughter had a really rough year last year and had to go to the ER
056for the same issue three times she got surgery for that issue isue in January on her leg and a child in her classroom 3 weeks after that surgery kicked her in that leg because of behavior issues this child has that we have voiced concerns on repeatedly since October the child simply gets removed from the classroom put in the reset room and put right back in we can do better than this and we have to do better than this my daughter's mental safety is not being addressed her physical safety clearly not being addressed but her mental safety she was scared to go back to school for 8 days because she thought that if she got hit again she would have to go back to the hospital for a fifth time to address this issue as Ellison
057said we do not have the proper resources in place to support these children who have behavioral issues I have a background in recreation therapy and I am well aware having worked in a community- based setting with people with developmental disabilities that they need to be included but they need the resources available that can support them and the general education classroom for these specific children are not it the Adaptive classroom is not it there's no middle ground right now that we have to support these children while also protecting the safety of those in the general classroom and in the Adaptive classroom so something needs to to be done and we can do better thank you thank you any other comments other comments okay all right so we're going to move on to item 7 the consent
058agenda but we need to do a I need to read a modification of the agenda um so this will be see I guess we'll go through it's item D so uh item a is approval of financial reports Item B is authorization to change appropriation and to accept and expend funds in accordance with attached request item C is approval of personnel action and item D this is where we have an amendment um the original was to approve minutes for February's regular meeting and special session but we need to amend section 7D of the consent agenda to read approval of minutes for February's regular meeting work session and special session so can I get a motion to approve the consent agenda so moved Mr chair can I get a second second uh any discussion Carol can we
059have the vote Please Mr Claude I Vice chair deos I Dr Goodell i m Jes I Mr Maxwell I chair Burbage I both passes 60 thank you Miss Carol okay moving on to Section 8 other matters for consideration um the first item is consideration of approval of the adoption of AP Psychology textbooks for picosen high school um can I get a motion to approve the adoption of the AP psychology textbook so moved can I have a second second uh any discussion hey Miss Carol can we have the vote Please Mr Claude hi Vice chair deos hi Dr Goodell I Miss Jones I Mr Maxwell I chair bage I vote passes 60 okay moving along to item 8 B is consideration of approval of proclamation for military child of the month and week of the young
060child can I get a motion to approve this consideration I moved can I have a second second any discussion okay Miss Carol the vote Please Mr Claude I Vice chair devose I Dr Goodell I Miss Jones I Mr Maxwell I chair bage I passes 60 oh I guess we had it was a double here I guess uh so item 8 C is consideration of approval of proclamation for week of the young child is that a repeat of Item B or okay all right anyway uh can I have I guess a motion to approve consideration of proclamation for week of the young child so moved can I have a second second any discussion Miss Carol the vote Mr Claude I Vice chair deos I Dr Goodell I Miss Jones I Mr M maell I chair Burbage
061I vote passes 60 thank you Miss Carol um that moves us on to section nine this is a public hearing on the superintendent's proposed budget for FY 26 um do you want to take over on that yes um I'm going to Tee It Up For Miss Spence who will come up and um share the updates from the budget uh for FY 26 that was presented at the February meeting I know you all have had um um ample time to uh pour through that budget we've had um some individual sessions with board members to discuss questions and um I found those uh sessions to be very productive um and helpful myself to review pieces of this uh very comprehensive budget uh as well um as you know we have a meeting scheduled on Monday night joint
062meeting with city council to uh go through our budget uh proposal uh with our funding partner so um we're looking forward to that very much 6:00 in in this room we encourage the public to join us um but there are a few uh slight updates as we have shared over and over again the the uh the budget process is organic um the general assembly uh has uh finalized their work and sent their um uh final budget for FY 26 to the governor's office um uh we anticipate uh some back and forth uh still uh on the budget uh to be resolved and then um hopefully a approval of the budget early this year so um as you know they um we've had years in in the recent past where that budget uh drug on until
063post summer um so we're we're hopeful not to have that um with this budget this year it's looking um positive uh in addition um as we shared with the budget presentation there were several bills still in the budget um negotiation in the general assembly at the time those budget those budget bills that would generate additional state revenue for picosen schools survive the budget and are still there which is really good news now if the governor signs those um it will be official and we will um be U adjusting the budget asked for the city and as you remember and Tracy will get into the the details of this those particular numbers we had designed to come directly away from the ask the request for the funding portion from the city um so it's the budget
064is designed that way and each piece of that or the those funds would would come off of the um uh request from the city but also um the the budget is designed to have adjustment in that comp study piece as our primary um negotiating area so to speak the area that we would adjust our budget again for through an amendment in the um April or May meeting if uh need be so um without further Ado Tracy all you good evening chair Burbage members of the school board Mr tillet School Community I'm going to briefly discuss what is included in the conference report that the house and the Senate when they ended on February 22nd where they landed they um both had it in both their separate um reports and they came together they both support
065funding for the repeal of the support cap which as well as additional sped Revenue the potential additional funding for picosen City Public Schools is approximately $493,000 which we're very we're um we're very hopeful that this will pass um and the governor will sign it the House and Senate as I mentioned earlier they released their information on the six came together on the 22nd however our 26 budget is developed based on the governor's budget was released in uh 2024 initially the superintendent's proposed budget allocated State funding of $225,000 for bonuses which were included in both the house and the Senate budget proposals for payment in September be funded in one year paid in another however since it's changed now they've got the house and the Senate have both said let's fund this in this current fiscal
066year since they've done that we have reduced our budget by $363,500 comprised of local funding of 1 38,500 and of course the state funding so in the amended proposed budget that we're voting on tonight the SI our ask from the city has been reduced by that 138,000 500 the only change is getting rid of the bonuses nothing else has changed with the projected ADM still holding at 257 and in the last month's ADM projections we're still holding true there is a projected net increase in state funding of approximately $620,000 and these are the components you'll see that they had the the increase in compensation supplement of 300,000 and 400,000 and hold harmless there was a decrease in s soq funding of 333 but the lottery funds what happens between those things they kind of when
067one goes up the other goes down not proportionately but it just depends on how the adm's running it goes down to increase in in addition to that we've had a net decrease of federal grants of 39,000 and then it's showing uh increase in City support of 1, 1,487 697 it was 1,626 it's been reduced by the 138 500 for bonuses as reviewed in the February board meeting we recommend adopting the comp study suggestions from management Advisory Group along with the governor's 3% salary increase we compared as we've mentioned the our sta our salaries at pcps staff to those of other school districts and management Advisory Group has outl on the cost required to align our pay plan with the regional market a market average we also in response to ongoing Recruitment and ret retention uh
068challenges the school bus drivers and AIDS there's an additional $3 per hour pay increase as well as an adjustment to the minimum run rate so our net projected in cost increase related to compensation alone is almost 2.1 million as far as this is primary increases including the comp study we have dual enrollment canvas software and certification lcer of 115 projected additional costs related to sped purchases Services of 89 fully funding AP testing of 40 Material supplies along with athletic expenses at a roughly a little over 70,000 and then these other few items adding to 2.5 million we scrubbed the budget and found decreases that could be done compared to um the fy2 original budget New Horizons um has gone down 123,000 based on our projected enrollment our our slots I should say textbooks has gone
069down 54,000 as long as some other I'm not going to go through each one of these things but Capital outlay we really scrubed that cuz I don't know for those um individuals that are on board last year we did quite a bit in capital outlay for the getting our operational maintenance and operation infrastructure up so decreased 456,000 so this is just the snapshot it's going to it reflects a 6.7% increase as a whole of about $2 million that is as Mr tillet said we put all our ducks in one basket that's basically we ran flat in our operations non non-compensation related operational cost is all in that comp package so so this just shows how we came to it uh as far as if we had Revenue increase of 560 expenditure increase um of two
070million that goes to our ask for the city this this didn't quite go right okay so um there is a um I'm this budget has about 1.5 million as from the city I tried I'm sorry it kind of went off the in here but our current funding request for the city is 1,487 696 7 if we get the additional state revenue that was like my second slide that we discussed of about 493 th000 and we're projecting um we had in our current budgets 24% increase for our health insurance we think it's going to land about 177% that's going to give us a savings of about 147 so if those three things the planets all line up you know like hopefully they do um we're going to be asking from the city about $847,000 so okay
071and as Mr tillet mentioned um there's going to be a joint work session next Monday where this will be shared as well C some miscellaneous items I just wanted to um mention on the pay plan um there was a um for grade 108 secretary the max none of these affect the budget by the way it's just the pay plan the max salary range was adjusted and then I also added uh a grade for the speech language pathology assistant I did want to note we had I did have a question from um from a a uh individual in the community about the in your budget on page 45 for the board and it had approximately get it here I had about $330,000 um for the board salaries where last year was 3,000 and they were asking
072why and I said yeah that's that's a good ask I inadvertently had um transposed the numbers between the board and the clerks I just wanted to mention that you'll see that the amended proposed all right so questions I did have one question so in in your planet align budget ask for the city is $847,000 yes how does that compare to the ask from the city last year 600ish um another point that we have discussed we generally run about 31% of the um City's overall budget so that is kind of a moving uh Target um you know from the city Side so um that generates a a certain amount of money um and uh that uh that number increases just something to chew that that planet align number is not far off from inflation that's exactly
073right that's one of the thing we noted is um that this new number is very reachable now the other number was ambitious we realized that and we discussed it at at at length in the work session but um this this new number if if this gets signed by the governor is is really good news from from my perspective no questions um thank you I guess is all I have to say clearly this has been a huge effort Tracy already all people that were involved from the various schools whoever had input into it uh I think it's just an outstanding job um I personally feel like we are absolutely doing the right compensation study I hope that uh as a result of that the retain the grow the recruit all of that will be uh positively
074affected um and even some of the other things that have been mentioned tonight uh will it will help with that um but I know based on what you just explained to us that like the insurance going from 24% to 177% to me that's a pretty big decrease and when you're looking at hundreds of thousands of dollars and being able to go to the city now hopefully and we've uh cut that may have decreased that as well just an outstanding job and I just want to say that all of you thank Mr Claud appreciate those comments I do want to I know I'm not supposed to be checking my phone during a live uh school board meeting but um we have uh from from a staff member a question that we need to clarify in the
075budget uh the bonuses are still in this budget it's in another year they're in another year this current year and that was done actually by the general assembly in their final um uh agreed budget um uh the that the budget that the bonuses that they would contribute the the so soq portion of would be paid in FY 25 not 26 so the date of that um you know we'll we'll work out whether it's the end of this school year beginning of the next school year but it has to be paid with fy2 funds is that correct so we will be using vacancy savings funds from FY 25 for the 138,000 roughly 138,00 ,000 portion uh and that reduces it from the request from the city FY 26 budget so just for clarification for the general
076public I'm glad teachers are watching out there definitely so I have just a question or clarification um say when this budget is approved some of the planets don't align uh and we have to revisit what is that process I know we we approve it and then it doesn't seem like we revisit it again it seems like there the negotiations work itself out over the summer and you know you start August it might be a little different than it looks right now how you approve it can you talk through how very good question and I can talk about this briefly um and then the expert will will maybe clear it up um the um the good news is this budget is appearing to be on the way to resolution quickly um whereas last year and the
077previous year all of that stuff was happening over the summer and so we if there's an adjustment that when there's an adjustment um signed by the governor we will come back to this board either in the April meeting or the May meeting and amend the budget accordingly so if it turns out to be all of those numbers you saw if they come to fruition then we'll come back and the the adjusted budget that you will send to the city it's already sent because we have to do that by March uh by the end of this month we will send them our budget but if the budget changes we will this board will approve that change and send it back to the city did that clarify and usually that's the way it's supposed to work but
078unfortunately the last two budget Cycles we didn't get that information until the year fy2 was already closed and then we have to go through carryover with the city um that money actually has to go back to the funding partner by the 30th of June by Statute and then we request it back uh as you recall we usually deal with that in an August or September meeting when we talk about carryover funds fortunately in this situation we should have this budget resolved um prior to the summer and I just want to mention one thing um I just uh as well want to thank everyone that helped with this budget it truly was a 100% effort of all members people that you see here you know during the board meeting meetings a lot that you don't see
079you know and um everyone was uh you could tell we very thoughtful in their request and very deliberate and um they really they met all the deadlines and everything so it made the process so much easier so thank everyone for that and all right I've got one last question I guess for for the members of the community parents or teachers who rather than sit open for the Governor's action can you give us like a brief brief summary of what we would contact the governor and ask him to sign as is or can we put that up on the website yeah that's we could do that how about we do that we'll communicate it with the school board directly and then we'll also do it on the website how about very good question thank you and
080and lastly before we go to a vote I want to uh in addition to um uh Tracy's um uh gratefulness and and um thanking the very uh many people who have contributed to this budget um and that is all absolutely true but the Lion Share of this work falls on the shoulders of our CFO who does an incredible job she knows this um process inside and out um not only from the school side but from the city Side having worked on that side of the budget for many many years so I want to again publicly thank Tracy Spence for this uh incredible budget work uh that started you know the beginning of the year um and has also included a comprehensive uh compensation study and all the leg work that happens back and forth uh
081through that process looking at literally every single job description and and having to make sure that that matches with our um competitors and counterparts around the region so thank you Tracy for great work so Mr tet are we moving on to Item B now okay all right item 9B is consideration of approval of superintendent's proposed budget for FY 26 um can I get a motion to approve the FY 26 superintendent proposed budget so move can I have a second second do we have any discussion uh Miss Carroll can we have the vote please Mr Claude I Vice chair debose I Dr gell I Miss Jones I Mr Maxwell I chair BBY I passes 60 thank you all right moving along to item 10 uh communication Andor other Matters by School Board Andor superintendent uh Mr
082logi absolutely the reports from Picos City Public Schools First from the primary school last week picosen Primary School celebrated the culmination of our one school one book event with an author visit from Laura Murray she is the author of The Gingerbread Man is loose series the children were excited to learn about her new graphic novels coming out soon and to see the gingerbread man thems they were fabulous audience members and and were very curious thank you to Mrs Insley for her hard work in these programs she is bringing the joy of reading to picosen primary school as the warm weather is upon us we are getting outside more often and enjoying the rigin's Pavilion we have had many classes eat lunch together outside enjoy a read aloud story and many have had their earned popsicle
083celebrations from our Valentine's drawing last month outside please make sure to have students wearing or bringing tennis shoes every day as we go outside for recess whenever it isn't raining this Friday we are raising awareness for Down syndrome by wearing blue and yellow Andor crazy socks we recognize those with Down syndrome and celebrate how we are different and unique and in what ways we are the same join us by wearing crazy socks because socks are the shape of chromosones parents should be starting to see information about upcoming field trips this spring next week the first grade is going to the Virginia Aquarium and in May kindergarten will go to the zoo and second grade to Jamestown please make sure to be volunteer vetted if you would like to be a chaperon stay tuned for information
084about our end of quarter 3 celebration before spring break we are looking forward to celebrating hard work and attendance in school next from the elementary school bosen elementary school enjoyed the sounds of St Patrick's day yesterday with Mr Tom Mets from new prit news pipes and drums playing the bag pipes at arrival that's very cool our students have been representing picosen Elementary School well in our region with the battle of the books and odyssey of the minds PES times competing in Regional challenges over the weekend we also held great computer challenge Tri outs and are looking forward to our students representing pees later this spring our school has enjoyed our one school one book book Choice titled Summer of the woods written by Virginia author Stephen K Smith who will visit PES this Friday PES
085welcomed many guest readers during read Across America week to include men from around our community in the annual Real Men read event as well as students from middle picosa middle school our PTO also celebrated reading during read Across America week by visiting classrooms with gifts of classroom book sets we had spring picture day and also held safety drills over the past month we also welcomed the TR dooc Woodwinds quintet from Fort Eustace for a schoolwide musical performance we have been very busy over the last few weeks and have been impressed by several weeks of our highest attendance rates since the start of the school year we appreciate our family supporting student attendance so students can experience all of the exciting things happening at PES this spring and then from the Middle School great things are
086happening at picosen Middle School last Thursday PMS hosted the night of the Arts and CTE showcase it was awesome to see the talents of so many students displayed on the stage in our hallways a huge thank you is extended to the teachers for their hard work and dedication to make this night possible congratulations is also extended to the PMS Battle of the books team for their third place finish last weekend in their competition we are extremely proud of them congratulations is also extended to the PMS Odyssey of the mine team for their third place finish in the regional competition last weekend we look forward to cheering them on at the state competition on April 26th we are also currently busy planning for next year PMS school counselors hosted Rising parent information nights last week and
087are currently conducting classroom lessons to review registration information from the student perspective with all fifth sixth and seventh grade students and finally picosa Middle School would like to extend congratulations to our 37 students that were inducted into the National Junior Honor Society our four students that were selected for all Virginia choir and to our March Golden Bull students of the month hatus blink sixth grade Khloe Carpenter seventh grade and Rodney Johnson 8th grade and finally from the high school picosen high school is quickly wrapping up quarter 3 with lots of exciting things thank you to everyone for a successful completion of the end of course writing as so well this month as it was hard work for all congratulations to our winter sport athletes as they dominated in postseason good luck to band and course
088as they go to assessment this week and congrats to Shire as they wrap up their competition season as well we look forward to an upcoming college now informational next uh night next month and all preparations for the end of the year ramping up thank you thank you Mr Maxwell right um a long list today um since the last meeting I did get to attend the gifted education advisory committee meeting uh that was a great meeting thank you to miss montal for kind of heading that up um we got to review the draft uh draft revision for the policy updates and I think there's some exciting changes and improvements to that program I hope to be able to talk out talk about more once we kind of finalize that draft um also intended the safety meeting
089I want to thank uh the SRO the ssos school administrators for attending um what Mr Robert said but I think there's a lot of good things happen in that meeting and I appreciate the opportunity to attend um recognitions again I'll start with my preemptive recognition of what my fellow School boarders will say that I will have forgotten um thank you to our special recognition our congratulations to the senior of the month Jude py great job I'm always amazed by the resumes that I hear being presented here so we've got some outstanding kids here um again I don't apologize for not having all the names of everyone recognized tonight but uh congratulations to the show choire and all the All State um Award winners uh the swim team track team Representatives the wrestling team state champs
090also thank you to the CTE team for giving this presentations that was that was great it was great to see what we're doing in the schools uh thank you to the c c teachers for for fostering those you skills for our students um you know congratulations on that recognition by the vdoe and and recognizing our our work here um also thank to the U people who came in to give public comment special thank you to miss Ensley for the one book program it was a big hit in our household y just to uh reiterate I wanted to U congratulate this senior of the month Jude brudy the choir All State Choir uh Mr de uh swim track and wrestling and the CTE efforts and then really uh I wanted to extend a thanks a lot
091of thanks for the budget that are working in here but I wanted to say thanks for the budget for the citizens of picosa uh I know it's a tough ask I know there's been a lot of chatter about assessments going up uh taxes um but in in reality it is a great investment um you know investing in your community investing in your students uh it's it's something that you know your community is desirable to move to right that's why the values of your property uh go up and I I think you'll see these Investments pay off more I don't know if that's a good thing or bad thing for your for the tax bottom line but um I just you know I think the the citizens want to see it in in spent wisely and
092I don't think there's a a wiser Choice than investing in your schools and your teachers so I want to say thanks to the community thank you uh Mr Claud yes uh I also have sort of a long list I started jotting down I probably won't be able to read but uh starting with uh Miss py I want to thank you because every month we have these wonderful recognitions and providing the certificate taking the photos all the work that you do with that and I'm sure there are other folks involved but thank you to all of you congratulations on Jude I don't know how he goes to school because every Club every society I mean it's quite uh good I know you're you're quite proud of him and as you should be and conat also kind
093of in the same vein uh Miss perie also took photos at the real men read uh that uh Mr logi mentioned I took part of that and I really enjoyed it it was great I read uh to a class at the uh elementary school special education class and then also uh Miss Kasin caught me at the elementary school and said hey would you like to read at the primary school to preschoolers and I was glad to do it uh the teachers the students all of it it great experience and they actually really seemed to enjoy maybe they were just you know they had some instruction beforehand but they seem to enjoy my reading so I was happy about that um want to thank uh Ashley uh for your presentation Chris has already mentioned uh the
094CTA I just think is amazing in itself uh thinking back to my days at the high school uh probably mentioned this before we had industrial Cooperative training it was very small you got a part-time job they did great with what they had and all but this is just beyond thing I've seen and it's very impressive working with New Horizons and and I know there are many others but thank thank you for that and thank you Miss matalo as well uh on this and I'd like to sing you happy birthday but I don't think you that would beo um Mr Roberts thank you for all you're doing uh with recruiting going to the job fairs uh updating postings uh grants uh I just kept writing and writing also with the GPS uh very impressed with that
095process and how the training is going substitute drivers again just fantastic job um okay let me see what did I miss here uh oh for the teams congratulations of course as uh you've mentioned all of them I won't try to read them uh but tonight it was just so impressive that we had to pull out additional chairs to seat the audience of of family friends coaches volunteers um we see these each month as I said but I just like to thank those who are behind the scenes so to speak the volunteers sponsors the staff that work with these teams all those involved it truly does take all of these folks together to make these teams a successful and individual success I've never seen anything like like it again I it is very impressive so thank
096you to all of you um I actually think that's it thank you Miss Johnson I lot of repeats but I think it's for all good reasons a big congratulations to our senior of the month Jude perie our Virginia honors choir delegates the swim team the track uh the wrestling uh all the individuals and team accomplishments from our winter sports were very impressive uh thank you Miss ey for the CTE presentation and also for the three students uh love that that was very interesting um and very inspiring for future students to have those as an example as well um to our speakers um who are no longer here but um who did come to speak that is not an easy thing to do and um thank you to them for sharing those very serious concerns I
097appreciate their time and efforts there and lastly on the budget a big thank you to our um CFO Miss Spence as well as to Echo Dr Goodale's sentiments um thank you to the community um to the work on the city Side as well that I'm sure is to come um it's an important investment in our in our schools and I hope um accomplishing you know the goal that we all have which is to you know find some better pay find some better benefits um wherever we can for our teachers uh hopefully this budget will be a start at that so thank you for that and good luck to all of our spring Sports um at the high school and I guess a little bit the middle school on the JV side as well um that
098I think are really kicking off this week thank you Mr deos all right um obviously Echo everybody's comments like we always do um comment on CTE um you know just really thankful that we continue to have that program um coming from an industry where we rely heavily on um on on programs like that to uh help um bring up a new Workforce um is really really good um so uh we need to continue to invest in that um in all levels that we can turn around and do um also attended rman Reed um another great event uh as it always is every single year it's really enjoyable to uh read to uh to the students uh doubly enjoyable when it's your kids as well uh so uh appreciate Mrs bulls for uh helping pull all
099that together um she didn't tell me I was doing both schools but that's okay um uh also attended the Odyssey of the mind uh competition uh on Saturday um you know and and it wasn't um completely said in uh in AJ's um uh update but all three teams got first place middle U elementary middle and high school um absolutely amazing um uh skits um all the structures and this is basically the structure we only had structure teams structures did amazingly well um uh my son is already bragging that the elementary school held more weights in the middle school and the high school uh which which was great but uh absolutely amazing uh amazing uh event um those that don't know um there's an individual in newort news Kimberly beite who uh pulls together that uh
100every single year she does both the regional and the state side of stuff um and uh she did an amazing job and uh you know picosen helped tremendously with her as well uh with doing some stuff so uh Kos to those folks um and last little thing uh everybody knows that we had um daylight savings time um so we get to see the sun uh uh won't set um before 7:00 until October so good times coming so thank you okay uh I guess I will reiterate all the other great things that people have talked about before me I do want to uh make a special comment to uh Mr perie um he is an like all the seniors of the month are just amazing kids and I always look forward to seeing like where they
101go how far they how high they they they fly um he again has amazing resume I he he's impressive you be proud um all the teams that came tonight uh the Virginia Choir The Swim Team the track team the wrestling team all those kids put in a lot of really hard work uh and it paid off um the coaches and volunteers that volunteered their time to help these kids and Mentor these kids Special thanks to them um and then also the parents who you know they do it you know getting them to practice and making sure that they get things done around the house you know special thanks to the parents as well um thank you Miss Spence and all of your staff for putting together a budget that will I think you guys did
102an amazing amount of work and um thank you uh lastly CTE it was great to see the presentation I I do a lot of work in my other job with CTE and it's always I always kind of am happy when I've come across someone from bosen who's in the CTE program uh we need in the industries that I'm in we need these kids you know we need future Workforce Development um it's vital to our existence um and I'm glad that these kids are getting real world experience so it's all that I have um and of course being last is ditto Echo what are the other words that we use to repeat all of those things that um have been said um but I want to end by thanking you as members of this board for
103uh not only your support of this budget and the process but your advocacy because it matters um as you're out um saying those things to the folks that you encounter in the grocery store and everywhere else the the importance of investing in our future and that's what this is all the things we've seen tonight from CTE to sports to all all of the programs and a great success that we love to celebrate uh all happens through the funding process to make this available and what you all do is make that happen so I appreciate very much your support and advocacy for this budget thank you um I guess moving on to item 11 Miss Carol do we have any other material for Board review no we do not tonight okay thank you um moving on
104to section 12 I'm I am going to make a call for a closed session see um pursuant to section 2.2-cu of the code of Virginia I move that this board go into closed meeting to consider the admission or disciplinary matters or any other matters that would in that would involve the disclosure of information contained in a Scholastic record concerning a picosen public school student um can I get a motion to go into close session I move second second discussion Miss Carol the vote Mr Claude I Vice chair deos I Dr Goodell hi Miss Jones hi Mr Maxwell hi chair verbiage all V passes 60 [Applause]