001[Music] Good evening everyone and welcome to the June 10th, 2025 a clinic board of education uh board meeting. Uh the board went into executive session at 5:30 on motion of Michelle Dwit, second by me, uh to discuss certain legal and personnel issues. Uh and we will now start as we always do with 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. Okay. Uh sorry for starting this meeting a few minutes late. We did have some items to discuss in executive session. And to be honest, if I had my brothers, this is a meeting we probably would have postponed for at least another 5 years. Uh because tonight is the
002uh final uh regular school board meeting for our fellow member Michelle Wall, who we will greatly miss. Um on the agenda tonight, we've got some special recognitions. Um no one has signed up for public comment. Uh there are going to be some reports. The board will have comments. There'll be some old business. There'll be some new business. There'll be a personnel report. Um you've seen all of this before. Um before we uh move forward though, the other thing I wanted to do, we have one of our uh former board members here at Char Edeland. And I just wanted to recognize her and say hi. Good to see you. So with that, Dr. Burroughs, are there any adjustments to the agenda as presented? Yes, we have three adjustments under item 5D, the HS girls championship soccer
003team. Um, they were unable to make it tonight. They're I think they're on talk show or something, so we took second fiddle. item uh and item 10 C and uh 10D are tabled uh due to the financial advisory committee not meeting last month. Okay. And this being her last meeting, um I thought it might be nice if we let uh Miss Wall chair the balance of the meeting. So without objection, I'm going to pass the gavl and Thank you. [Music] All right. Thank you. You're welcome. I got a lot of practice. Moving on in the agenda, we're going to start with my favorite po part where we celebrate students. So, recognitions. The first is the grow your own teacher apprenticeships. Mr. Banks Good evening everyone. So I am here um for a recognition for our
004as a part of our grow your own initiative. Just want to give you a little bit context. So four years ago, we launched our grow your own initiative where we did so with our high school students. A couple of years later, there was some discussion around apprenticeships. So we then launched our teacher apprenticeship in partnership with the Delaware Department of Education, the Delaware Department of Labor, RODell, Wilmington University. Not only did we launch, we were the first school district in the state of Delaware to have this teacher apprenticeship program. What is the teacher apprenticeship program? Think apprenticeships in the form of a doctor, in the form of electrician, right? So this is a earn while you learn initiative, right? And so like I shared the Apoquinn School District had the honor and the bandwidth to
005be the pilot for the entire state of Delaware. So this evening I want to recognize our first cohort. These individuals they were or are currently pareducators in the district part of the earn while you learn model. It's a two-year program for them. So we started this program with this cohort. These individuals came to us with already having 60 credits or more towards their bachelor of science degree. All right. So, this program just pretty much removes some barriers, right? And allow for them to f finish um a dream that they all started to become a school teacher, a classroom teacher. So, they're going to move from pareducators to classroom teachers. Um, so I would like for our individuals, um, Alexis Cresman is not here with us this evening. She couldn't make it. Alexis Cresman, Jamie Bartuski,
006come on up, Karen Burgess, Thank you. I'll get a photo Jennifer Male. This is for you as well. Thank you. Thank you, Winshin. [Applause] Thank you, Courtney Siso. [Applause] Nicole Brown [Applause] Cartha layman. [Applause] This is Mari Basiglia. [Applause] So, while they're getting prepared for their photo, again, this is a phenomenal opportunity that we had, like I said, in partnership with the Delaware Department of Ed, the Delaware Department of Labor, Rodell, Wilm U, and the National Center for Grow Your Rome. Right. So, these partners allow for us to um be the first teacher apprenticeship in the entire state. We're going to grow. All right. We're going to grow not only as the a district, but we're going to grow here. And this pipeline, this initiative is going to allow for us to fill vacancies, right?
007We're going to grow our own. We're going to not only grow our own with our par profofessional unit. We're now working on a plan and a program with the Delaware Department of Ed, Delaware Department of Labor to look at our students, right? So, the students who are in our educational pathway, they're going to follow this trail, right? So, they're going to graduate high school, get into a paraprofessional position, and then they're going to work on their college courses, and then they're going to take off as teacher of record for the African school district. So, ladies, congratulations. They've all graduated. We do have one or more that graduate later in the year, but they've all graduated and they're on their way to become teachers of record for the Aquinus School District. [Applause] Again, congratulations to Delaware's
008first teachership cohort. Congratulations. Congratulations. Moving on in our agenda, we have the AGW BPA National Leadership Conference. Good evening. Okay. Uh, hi. I'm honored to stand before you to recognize the outstanding achievements of my students from Alfred G. Waters Middle School, who represented Delaware at both Delaware BPA State Leadership Conference and our 2025 BPA National Leadership Conference in Orlando this May. These students are part of our school's chapter of Business Professionals of America where they've spent countless hours preparing for competitions in business, technology, finance, design, and leadership. They exemplify what it means to be innovative, determined, and community members who are our young professionals of tomorrow. Please join me in celebrating them. First up is Drei Vadlammani. So, just a little bit about Drei. Um, Drei has been nominated to serve as a Delaware BPA
009middle level representative for the 2025 to 2026 school year. Each year, only one seventh grade student uh from across the state is selected for this honor as part of the Delaware BPA state officer leadership team. We're proud to share that this makes the third consecutive year that it's an AGW shark that's chosen to represent Delaware in this role. [Applause] Judy is also being recognized for being part of a presentation team where she placed third at the state level and she also placed fifth in financial literacy. [Applause] Next, Bavia Aurora, third place as part of a presentation team. And unable to join us this evening is Mika Gandhi third place as part of the presentation team. Shrishta Yarlagada third place as part of the presentation team. Next we have Kumar Sharia fourth place as part of
010a video production team. [Applause] Prenal Desai fourth place as part of a video production team. Critic Cherila And unable to join us this evening is Gav Parihar, also fourth place as part of the video production team. Congratulations. Thank you guys. The very important list. Sorry. Um, next, Nikash Sonia as fifth place as part of our digital game design team. [Applause] Aina Shingavi, fifth place as part of the digital game design team. Aina has also been recognized for first place for mobile applications. Next, Sanvi Vankadora, fifth place as part of a design team. [Applause] and also 10th place for B business communication skills concept. [Applause] Next, Josh Adibanjo also fifth place as part of the digital game design team and second place for mobile applications. [Applause] Uhoh. Sorry guys. Next we have some individual um event
011students. Um first up is Maher Propa who plays second for graphic design promotion. [Applause] Cavvenia Parthan third place for prepared speech. [Applause] Schllo Subbermanium first place for prepared speech. And unable to join us this evening is Sashwath Swami, sixth place for spreadsheet applications. Blake Degrren Degrren. Uh third place for spreadsheet applications and 10th place for business math concepts. Uh next Prrenav Chilakapati ninth in business fundamental concepts and third in financial literacy. [Applause] Last but not least, Neil Veroni, first place for financial literacy and third in computer literacy. I just want to say these uh recognitions are not just about medals and um or placement. These students uh have worked really hard. They reflect leadership, discipline, and the kind of forward thinking I hope all of our young leaders um aspire to be. So, uh, thank
012you so much for, um, recognizing them and h having them, uh, showcase their talent. [Applause] [Music] Congratulations. Thank you again. [Applause] Moving on in our rec recognitions is the um Odessa ProStart Chef Karen Miller. Go Docs. Hello. I am here tonight to honor our um ProStart management team. We were lucky enough to uh not only take part in the Delaware Prostart student invitational for the second year in a row with this team. Um but we are back-to-back state champions. So, we are very happy for that. And in May, we were fortunate enough to go back down to Baltimore, compete in our national prostrart student invitational, and our students finished in the top 20 in the country for their program. So, I am very pleased to introduce Adeline Evans, [Applause] Carter Bramhol, [Applause] Sierra Smith and
013Ruby Wall. [Applause] Thank you so much. [Applause] The next item on the agenda says board recognition. Dr. Burroughs. All right. So, as Mr. Forston mentioned at the beginning of the meeting, this is uh Michelle Wall's last school board meeting. Um we have offered her to volunteer and continue on, but uh I'm not sure she's going to take us up on that offer. Um so, Michelle's been on the board for 10 years. through the 10 years. Uh she has seen a lot of change, has been about a lot of change, and has looked out for the best interest of all students throughout the district in her 10 years. I was just saying to her today, I remember the first time I met Michelle. I think she had a list of a 100 questions for me um
014before she started. But if you know Michelle, anything that she gets involved in, she's going to research uh do her background on it. and she had very um very good questions for me as she jumped into the role. She didn't know I don't think she knew completely what she was signing up for at that time, but she did run on parent engagement and getting parents more involved and and she's worked on that and we've held a bagels with the board almost every month. I think we've missed one month um in the five years Michelle has worked to get parents engaged and she did that in many different ways. Um, and if you're on the board, you know, it's not just you on the board, it's your family on the board. And her family's here tonight.
015Um, she even volunteered or volunt told Jason on two occasions. He was like co-chair of our uh referendums of our successful referendums. Um, we had four referendums in the 10 years why four successful referendums on the 10 years why Michelle was on the board and she was instrumental in those and behind the scenes and pushing and u making sure that those refer referendums got through. So in our token of appreciation we have a few things for you tonight and I don't know if I have Vanna coming out. All right. So, first we have a note of thanks, little ducks. Um, all of our schools and departments have submitted notes of thanks to you and you will find in the notes in the glass jar. Um, and a sentimental touch, the notes are written on cards
016the shape of ducks for your beloved OS ducks. We also, unfortunately, we have a few proclamations. Not unfortunately about the proclamations, but we have a few proclamations here, but Senator Hansen was going to be here tonight to present those to you, but unfortunately she got stuck in caucus. So, we have a proclamation from our Governor Matt Meyers, and then we have a joint um proclamation from the Senate from Senator Stephanie Hansen, Representative Hensley, and Representative Moore. Um a joint tribute. You also have an assortment of goodies from the schools that your daughters have attended. So, um, we start with Silver Lake, so you have a few bee things there. Um, then Kwell Bridge, so you have some Cobra items there. And Odessa High School, so some duckwear. The flowers are provided um by OS um
017from the agriculture um department. You also have a certificate in there is for lifetime attendance at sporting events and at um any extracurricular events there is. And we also have a pass for Jason in there as well. And um there's a gift card for you for Jack's on main. Um that's my favorite. So um I don't know if anyone like to come up and share comments. I know Steve had signed up. So, Steve, if you'd like to come up and then we'll give the opportunity for the board to offer any comments that they may have. So, good evening. For those who don't know me, I'm Steve Buyers. I'm the president of the Aquinic Education Associ Association and a social studies teacher at Miltown High School. On behalf of the nearly 1,000 members of the Apoquin
018Education Association, we want to extend our heartfelt thanks to Michelle Wall for her many years of dedicated service to the students, staff, and the community here in Aquinic. From parent volunteer to schoolboard member to advocate for educational funding, Michelle has worn many hats and consistently demonstrated her deep commitment to public education. Her support of the educational staff at Aquinimic has made a lasting impact. And we are truly grateful for her tireless efforts. From bagels with a board member to attending sporting events, even if she's wearing green, and her relentless support of the arts, we simply say thank you. We wish you the very best in all your future endeavors. We know that when it comes to Allies for Public Education, you are just a phone call away. Thank you for your leadership, your advocacy, and
019your unwavering dedication. Good luck on your next chapter. And as a token of our gratitude, we have an official A.E.A. red fored shirt that says on the back, promote, protect, and strengthen public education. You have certainly done that. [Applause] I don't know if they want Do you want to give any comments or would you like to wait to give your comments? Okay. All right. That's good. So, at this time, we'll have Jason and Stewart and Ruby come up and with Michelle and we'll get some pictures. I always tell people 10 years doesn't seem like a long time in in the service role, but when I look at um the picture of my family from the very first time when we signed up to do this and I remember talking to the girls and Jason when
020they were little and the girls were in first and third grade. So, we've come a long way as a family and as we've watched the district grow, my family has grown, too. I mean, I have I have formal remarks that I'll give during board comments because I think I'll need a minute. But it's really been an honor to serve for 10 years. [Applause] Thank you to everyone. So, at this time, we're going to take a break for cake. Uh there's cake out in the uh lobby, but while the um while you're getting cake, there's also going to be a video slideshow uh with uh thing shells forward uh time here. So there's a picture of the little guys, but feel free to step out, get kicked. It's going to be a running slideshow at this
021time. So miss Madam President, can we take a short recess? So, gave us into a short recess. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. N. [Music] Heat. [Music] [Applause] Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Following a brief recess, we will resume with our normal um agenda. As Dr. Burrus had previously mentioned, the next is public comment and we didn't have anyone sign up this evening. And next is the report section, infinite campus information. Mr. Moss, Dr. Moss, excuse me. Thank you. Uh for those of you who don't know me, uh my name is uh Brandon Moss. I am the supervisor of data systems accountability and uh assessment uh here in the epidemic school district. I am going to be talking to you
022today a little bit and giving you a little information about our transition from ehchool to infinite campus that we have coming up. Next slide, please. Great. So, I wanted to start with a little information about what a student information system is because we currently have e school. We're moving to Infinite Campus and that would be our student information system. So, student information system is a central platform that manages all student related data. It tracks enrollment, attendance, grades, schedules, demographics, and discipline. It's used by everyone, teachers, counselors, administrators, and families to support instruction and our students. And it integrates with all of our systems, transportation, um, uh, nutrition, all of our assessment tools, special education, and all state reporting. So, currently, LEAs, which are what they call school districts, uh, are utilizing the system that I
023mentioned called ESchool. Thank you. Okay. So why are we shifting from e school to infinite campus? So the department of ed is transitioning all eleas all districts uh to infinite campus from e school in two waves. So the first wave uh was happening this year 24-25. There was a lot of different districts in that wave. The second wave is happening in 2526 and we as aimic are part of that wave in that transition. So what was the purpose of this transition? So the purpose was to have a more streamlined statewide data and reporting application has a more modern interface. It's more up-to-date with more tools and it has in enhanced platform support and more consistent updates. So it'll be uh more consistently working. Okay. So how are we supporting implementation in Apple? So we've done
024a lot to support this implementation. We've been working really hard. So we have a district implementation team we put together. It's doing a fantastic job. Uh we have an imple implementation project support team from Infinite Campus that we meet with every two weeks uh bi-weekly. They call those status meetings and we've been doing that since October. Uh we put together a comprehensive professional development plan. We have over 800 online trainings completed by our district staff to date. They have access to a staff uh training site where they can test everything out and try it early. and we have live workshop sessions with Infinite Campus uh every so often where they actually go over all the important points to make sure that we're where we need to be. We've had two trial conversions because we really
025want to make sure that all of our data comes over correctly. Uh we had trial one and we're currently in the second phase of the trial conversion. Now, uh we have bi-weekly district technology meetings and we're actively preparing for our go live which will be in mid to late July. So, family communications have been prepared and scheduled. You actually received one today uh on in your email from us and we have those ready to go. So, how will this impact families? So, little timeline here. So, MP4 grades will be available on home access center which is eSchool's parent portal on June 22nd. Uh families will be notified about the transition. You had an email come through today. More information to come. And the new infinite campus parent portal opens on August 4th and home access
026which is eSchool that access actually ends on August 7th. So there'll be a little bit of an overlap there that we'll be working with. So not only are we transitioning our student information system, but we're also moving into a new uh online enrollment system as well. So our current online enrollment link will be unavailable after June 12th. The new Infinite Campus enrollment portal will go live on July 17th and I have my little blurb about communication there, but we already have communication prepared and that'll be going out to families. We're ready to go. Yep. Uh, next slide. So, anticipated considerations, concerns, and kind of things we're working through. So, there's been ongoing challenges uh with the Department of Ed transportation system integration. We are extremely proactive here in Apple. So, we make sure we get
027ahead of everything and we're always putting systems into place to make sure that we're where we need to be. Department of Ed had a little trouble working with that vendor, uh, but they've been doing a little bit better with that and we're we're on our way with that. Uh, adjustments to the DDOE model of support we're working through. So, Department of Ed has always been our middleman uh, when it comes to e- school. they've always been the the uh entity that we've gone to when we had issues. And with this new model, we're going to be going straight to Infinite Campus. So, it's a little bit more work on the district, but it it is their new model. And then online enrollment being unavailable during that transition for a month. Uh we've been planning a
028lot with that. We have systems in place ready to go. Parents will be able to um if they when they come in, they'll be able to put their name down. We'll take down all their information. We'll send them an email with the link when it comes active and then we'll also we also prepared a paper copy of the registration so families can fill that out if they really want to as well. So kind of wanted to open it up to questions and comments uh at the end. Uh we've done so much work. We feel really good about this transition. It's going to be great. There's a lot of great features for families that we're excited about with this new Infinite Campus system. So I just wanted to see if there was any questions. more comments
029questions. Yeah. Yeah. I the reason for this presentation is wave 1 there was some issues with wave 1. There was some break up in services. There was things like that. Transportation was an issue. IPS were an issue. Um along with many other things they have worked out some of the kinks. I just don't want there to and I our team has done a great job to try to prep for anything that there is out there. But also, I want parents to be aware that number one, this is a state. The state has made the transition. This wasn't a decision by the district because we're on a state system. Um, it's statewide. Number two is that we're trying to be proactive and notify you of these changes that are coming. We realize that not a lot
030of people are paying attention to things that are coming that will be coming in July and August, but we also, if you could just help us in getting the information out to people so they're aware. Um, and when home access closes down, there's not all this panic um, in the system. So, yeah, thank you. I appreciate the presentation, the information, and with the restboard, if any questions or anything comes or you're hearing something in the community, feel free to send them back to us because we want to assist them in any way possible. Absolutely. Thank you for Thank you. Next on the agenda, we have the construction update, Mr. Hopkins. All right, Steve. Mike. All right, as you can see, we're starting to come along now. The project is starting to wrap up. All the
031sod is done in front of the building here. It's also done in this area here right now and it's wrapping around. All the concrete uh walkways are in. Everything's starting to wrap up. We do have a CO for the building. So, we're in we're occupied. Our staff is occupying the administration on the 17th and then uh the nutrition is moving in there now to do theirs as well as custodial and we'll be serving lunches out of there on the 23rd. So, wedding did did a real good job of bringing this in. Next slide, Steve. Yep, I got you. So, this is kind of a side view to kind of give you an idea of this area through here is now all kind of green. So, like you're not seeing it in the drone shot, but
032it's done. This is all done. This is them laying side here, believe it or not. And then we're going to level this out in the back. This fence will come down and come this way, and we'll grade this out inside this so it's good for kids to walk on by the time school starts. Steve, come in the back here. This is going to be the entrance coming into the back of the building. There'll be a lot that comes right through this area here. So, we're going to demo this portion of the building first, take it out of the way, and then start bringing this lot in so we can be ready for school. Got about 54 days to make this whole area work. Good, Steve. This the front of the building. Everything's done now. Here
033we've got the uh all all the stuckos in, lights are in, everything's completed, cameras are up. We're ready to come through the door. This is completed classroom in the uh in in a music wing. Furniture starting to come in, but all the floors are polished. Ceilings are in, windows are cleaned, bringing it home. Carters are the same. Everything's cleaned up, getting waxed coming down. This only has probably one coat till we get all the furniture in and then we'll make it shine coming down through there. This is some of the classroom furniture that's coming in now. So, all the classrooms are set, done. You know, we're just kind of coming coming through the final finishes and we'll be cleaning as we, you know, just come through and get ready for school. Good Steve. Another room
034here. You just kind of see the desks are kind of a nice colors, a deep chocolate look, but turned out pretty well. They look nice. Steve, reception area is done. Right now, they're setting up all the stuff there for monitoring and coming through. So, this area is ready to go. We're ready to occupy come Monday. This is the large conference room in the admin area that looks out over the front of the campus this way. There's also a small conference room next to Leah's office, but but this is the larger one with the glass marker board here. Catch you. Leah's office is all prepped, done, ready to go. She's ready to move in and good to go. Kitchen area is done. the uh the the nutrition staff has already moved in. They're putting the small
035wares in now, starting the cleaning up, getting ready to go for school lunches that start on the 23rd. So, this area is done. There'll be some minor punch list stuff going, but this area is complete. This is the front side of it here. You can see these will be this is where the registers are. Students come in and around, do their walkthrough, select their items, and come back out by the registers this way and out into the cafeteria. Gymnasium is complete. They're all wrapped in the the the bleachers are in. Everything's done. We just got to take the final wraps off here. Once the dust is done, we got a couple locker room things going on. When that dust is done, we'll take everything down off the duct sock and everything and we're ready to
036go. This is the acoustical shell that's up on top of the stage. This is floor protection. Now, this is all black at the end of the day, but this is it set up as as they got done. The acoustical shell is in position. Everything's good to go. That's where we are right now. The school's in good shape and we welcome any of us to come through and have a look. We are on budget and we're definitely on time. Those are the those are the answers we always like. Thank you. The next report is a superintendent report. Dr. Burroughs, good evening. This is our uh last school board meeting for the school year. We have two days left with uh our two days left to make uh differences with kids in the importance of our lives
037and we have four days with our teachers and staff. No one's counting though. Um but we're we're coming to an end of a uh a great school year. It's been a tremendous school year for our district and uh we're excited we're excited to go in the summer. I hope everyone gets an opportunity to uh relax, refresh, spend time with friends and family, and uh come back charged up to uh have another great school year. Uh just some numbers. Currently, we have we're down to 23 full-time teaching openings at this point um and 11 full-time PAR openings. The we filled 63 positions this year. Um we are currently at 13,100 students exactly. Now, as of Saturday, it's about a thousand students less, but uh that's where we ended the year at 13,100. Um 203 students up
038from our September 30th count. Any questions? 200. Do we have any but the So, it's 1300 13,100 as of the day before graduation. Do you have a rough idea of what we're looking at next year? So, our estimate for next year um is we're being very conservative um because our growth has been a little wavy is 13,100 actually. So, um remember that we know I mean we lose about a thousand seniors hands. Yeah. So, so we're looking at 13,100 on the conservative side. Okay, thank you. Are there any additional questions for Dr. Bros? Moving on in the agenda of board comments. Mr. Abrams, would you like to go first? Um, I would start with a couple things to note. In my opinion, I believe the Optimus School District is the best in the state. Not
039only because of our employees and our students, but all the individuals who donate their time to help our students succeed in and out of classroom. As we approach the end of the year as a school taking money to thank everyone who makes our school district operate successfully dayto day. Every month as we did this evening, we have many people come before us and we are proud to see many of the accomplishments that our students and staff achieve. Many things that they have accomplished over the years never ceases to amaze me which ultimately leads me to my next graduation day. Saturday's graduation was a good day. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to attend in person. However, I did watch each graduation as they were streamed live and I was able to see a different side of graduation.
040I want to take a moment to recognize the IT department, mainly next slide, Steve, and everyone who works on the production side for graduation. From the pre-recorded videos to the live shots were excellent. The work this group does throughout the year probably does not get enough recognition, but the job they do is nothing short of first class. Tonight may be just another typical monthly school school board meeting for most, but tonight's meeting is a special night. Tonight is Michelle's last school board meeting. Now, I remember how I've met each person who has run for the school board over the last 16 years. The first time I met Michelle, she had ideas on how to move the district forward, parent outreach issues facing teachers, and most importantly, how she was concerned about the welfare of all
041our students. Now, what many people failed to realize is the amount of time and self-education required to be an effective schoolboard member. And in Michelle's case, to not only be that, she's also the highest paid school board member in the state. Opportunic is the best district in the state and Michelle has had a major impact on that accomplishment. In her terms as vice president, president, her work on the BSBA legislative committee, she was instrumental in getting the second union count passed into law. All her work on the referendum are just a few of the many achievements she has helped guide this district through. We would not be where we are today without Michelle's hard work and dedication to the district. While tonight is all about Michelle, I would be remissed if I didn't take a
042moment to mention the Wall family as well. Another thing many people fail to realize is while you are serving on the school board, there are many nights away from your family, supporting the many district events throughout the year. In addition, Jason has volunteered as referendum chair and spearheaded the 911 memorial flag that could be seen throughout our district. So, not only did we get Michelle, but we got the whole family, and truly our district is better because of it. Now, I originally said tonight is a special night as we celebrate Michelle's time on the board coming to a close. But I would like to add, Michelle, you truly are a special person whose commitment, dedication, and positive impact you have made in this district will be felt for many years to come. Thank you. Mr.
043Wingdians, um, admins, interventionists, everyone who comes together to make that, um, experience for, you know, what's best for kids, um, every day. So, thank you for all of that support. Um, I want to thank Dr. Barls for getting those numbers down for the teacher shortages. um without teachers, we can't do what's best for kids. So, um thank you for your office, you and your office for getting those numbers down. Um I want to congratulate Tim who um won the school board and I look forward to working with him next uh month in the coming years. And last and certainly not least, I want to thank Michelle Wall for doing what's best for kids. As always, she's always reminded us at the end of the day whenever we're making decisions that was that would always be
044her last her last statement. And that's where we will always come together and make a decision whether we were yay or yes or no on a certain um item. At the end of the day, it came down to that. So, thank you for your leadership. Thank you for um helping me become a better school board member. But u most importantly, I think I recognize you before being a school board member as being a great mother. So I thank you and I wish you all the best. Thank you, Mr. Forest. All right. Since our last meeting, we had my uh favorite and best event of the year, which was our high school graduations. We had all three backto back to back. And as I think was mentioned earlier, we had nearly a thousand graduates. I shook
045all but I think three or four of their hands. So, my shoulder is just about recovered. Um but I'll say it's worth it. I mean, high school graduation is why we do this, right? And uh and so there's not a better day. the whole school year. Um, since our last meeting, we also had uh three senior awards nights where we honor students. And um, it's amazing. I mean, if you were at the graduations, I mean, each high school uh, got about $8 million or so in scholarships. That's $24 million. And one of the things that is done at these senior awards nights is the local organizations, the women's club of Odessa, uh the uh uh the Rurton Club. Um all of these local organizations come forward with scholarships for our students. It is a tremendous
046thing the way this community supports our students. Um, and I will say when you hear some of the things that they have done in high school, it is beyond impressive. Um, you know, I like to think I did okay in high school, but whenever I go to this senior awards night, I always feel like I was a real slacker uh when I uh compared to what some of these kids uh were able to accomplish. Um, all good things must come to an end. And we've known for many months now that this night was coming. and that is that this would be the last schoolboard meeting where Michelle Wall was a voting member and sitting at the table up here. Um, but the fact that we've known that for so long doesn't make it any easier.
047Um, I could go on and on and on at some length with uh different observations and anecdotes about Michelle. She was always prepared. She's always dedicated, always hardworking. Uh but I think to sum it up, the highest compliment you can give is her heart was always in the right place. Um the other thing I'll say is that there are many times when you ask yourself, am I making a difference up here? Should I be up here? Anybody maybe would be just as good as me. Uh but I will say this with respect to Michelle, the answer is without reservation, yes. She has made a difference, a tremendous difference in any hundreds of ways. Um, from advocating and pushing for the mid-year unit count to getting Jason to uh provide great assistance on referendums uh to
048constantly advocating for students and families. Uh Michelle, we will miss you at our board meetings and your perspective, your enthusiasm, your dedication, but we take comfort in knowing that you are that you live quite nearby just across the parking lot and that you'll always be available as a sounding board. And so I simply ask that you don't be a stranger. Thank you. Wow, Richard. Dr. Graham. Um, so good evening everyone. Um, certainly don't intend to be uh redundant and Mr. Abrams, I'm pretty certain we didn't work on our speeches together, but we have similar sentiments. And so, uh, with that, I want to start with graduation. Uh, graduation day is meaningful for all of us in many different ways. Um, I had a few family members and friends um that weren't able to attend, but
049they participated on the live stream and they were very impressed. Um, the updates went up so quickly. They were able to see everything so clearly. And so, I just want to acknowledge Steve and I apologize because I know I'm going to leave people out, but that is not my intent. to recognize the entire team, but Steve, um, Danielle, Terry, and her team, the way that the day flowed, um, it was very efficient and allowed for us even to squeeze in an executive session in between, and we were able to have an overall productive day. So, uh, super ecstatic to celebrate, uh, the students that graduated, but also just certainly wanted to recognize our team that support the day. um it's a just a day for us but there is a lot of work that goes
050into that and it was very evident um on Saturday when we were all together and so thank you um to all of you and as well as the the principles the leadership team at each and every school in preparation for the day and much like u Mr. forest and said the student body that was um present that day if that is ind any indication of our future we should all be very optimistic they are a force to be reckoned with their speeches and like Mr. forest and said perhaps I thought I was kind of cool in school but certainly not to that degree. Um and so very impressive uh group of young people and so again we all should be very optimistic about our future um as our student body is uh reflective of who
051what we can look forward to. And then lastly uh certainly not least to uh Mrs. Wall right I think I joined the is it my second year? Yes, I've been on the board now for two years. Um, and you were from the beginning very welcoming to me. Um, provided lots of guidance. Um, but I think what I find most important, um, and that I that resonates with me is you often are a voice of reason. I feel like we all and you always say we're we're just one of five. And I'm like that's a good point and it's so true. But sometimes, you know, when you're elected and you have an agenda and you're you're focused on what you want to accomplish, um, but you truly are one of five, right? And it takes, um,
052collaboration and teamwork to really move anything forward. And that is not always easy. I respect all of my board members, but we all are very strong-minded in terms of what we want to accomplish. And we we've learned when to concede. um in order to do always what's best for students. And so that is one quality about you and I take with me I'm just one of five. I've even started to say it when I engage with the public and they're like why don't you change this? I'm only one of five. Right. So um but it doesn't deter us from the hard work. And so in my short time here on the board, two years or so, I appreciate that about you. I appreciate you being a a a thought partner, if you will, and your
053overall leadership. Um, I think when I joined, I've been sitting here ever since when I first joined. Um, and you all may see us kind of leaning in and whispering and taking notes and stuff, but it's asking questions and it's sharing thought and it's it allows for me to speak to you all from a place of just an overall empowerment, right? Because this isn't an easy position to be in. Um, and so we continue to all be uh committed to doing what's best for students, but I think that um your leadership, your guidance, your partnership um has been impactful. And so I thank you. Well, thank you to everyone. Um might need a minute. Um, I did write it down so I could hit all the highlights, but I will first start by saying I
054agree graduation is the highlight of the year. Schoolboard members, contrary to popular belief, are not paid. Um, we've all uh listened to that rumor about how much we were paid. I told Matt today I could come back and volunteer some at the same rate that that I'm paid already. Um to me graduation day is the motto for our school district is the world is your campus. So as those thousands of kids cross the stage to me that's when they embody the motto of the Abuquin School District they truly make the world their campus from the time they step up those stairs shake all of our hands and leave. They are off to set an example in this world for what we do here all the time. Um I do have a technology request that I
055um next slide Steve is you know what we always say but the other payment for being a schoolboard member is that you get to sit at those senior awards nights. You get to appreciate those community partnerships but from our vantage point on the stage. You get to see a child's name called and there's a a moment of surprise. Oh, who who me? I I'm being recognized for that honor. And then there's this moment of pride that walks like washes over them as they start to walk across stage. That's sort of the payment of being a schoolboard member is watching kids realize their own greatness. So I don't know if it's a way to get a camera on the stage facing the kids so the parents can see that on the screen behind us like when
056I don't know I'm not not going to know the technology pieces or how hard that would be but that would be really awesome if parents could see that too. So, I know I come up with some of these ideas and people are like, "That's a little crazy." But that is it's a it's a it's a magical moment they to see up front. But, okay, I'll get to what I wrote down to share so I don't miss anything. So, I'm getting old signing door glasses, too. I think occasions like this naturally lead you to reflect and ask, "How did I get here?" In 2009, a job with DuPont brought our family to Delaware. Like so many others, we chose to settle here because of the Abuquin School District. By 2013, my youngest daughter was starting kindergarten.
057I was looking to better understand Delaware, to find my why, and to explore what is always my internal question. How can I help? The journey led me to participate in Leadership Delaware. Through that experience, I began to reflect deeply on how I could contribute to making Delaware a better place to live, work, and raise a family. For me, the natural answer was to support our schools. I had already enjoyed volunteering at Silver Lake Elementary and leading a local Girl Scout troop. So, with the encouragement of my family and friends, I ran for the school board. Serving on the Aquinamic School Board for the past 10 years has been an honor. Sometimes challenging, but always meaningful. Thank you to the incredible staff of the Apaconic School District, those of you who are here tonight, and all
058of you who are tuning in. Your tireless work and commitment to our students is deeply appreciated. And while not everyone always agrees, I've consistently seen one common thread. Everyone I've worked with is always striving to do what's best for kids. Thank you. Over the years, I found it interesting how people tend to judge schoolboard members based on what they see once a month at a Tuesday night meeting. But there's so much more that goes into this role. A big thank you to each and every one of you that I served on this board with. The countless volunteer hours often unseen are a true testament to your dedication to our community. Thank you. Most importantly, I want to thank my family. For the past 10 years, there have been they have made countless sacrifices quietly and
059without recognition. Public service doesn't just ask a lot of the person in the role. and ask a lot of your loved ones, too. They've been my steady foundation through it all. This work is never done alone, and I am deeply grateful for their love and support. Thank you. About a year ago, with the support of my family, I made the decision not to seek re-election. This past year has brought both incredible highs and heartbreaking lows. We sent our first child to college, and we unexpectedly lost a beloved father and grandfather. My focuses needed to be elsewhere. Now, as my schoolboard service comes to an end, a bittersweet moment. I've been asked many times, "What's next?" I've asked myself that question a lot, too. This past year has taught me so much. So much. And with
060that growth and with the full support of my family, I'm excited to share that I have formed an exploratory committee to run for the ninth district state representative seat. This I see as a role that is an extension of the service that I've been honored to provide for the last 10 years. Another opportunity to ask, how can I help? Our community deserves strong representation in Dover. and I'm ready to bring a fresh, dedicated voice to advocate for families, educators, and neighbors that I've proudly stood beside for the past decade. If you're interested in supporting this effort or just want to connect with me, please reach out to me at michelleallforwall.org. Thank you again for allowing me to serve this incredible community for the last 10 years. And that's all I have. Moving on in the
061agenda. Yeah, I'll just have one comment. Um, looks like James was a very um, impactful or intricate part of graduation. So, I saw Steve saying like, "Don't forget James." So, good to Thank you, James. Thanks, James. Um, old business. The first item on the old business agenda is Nolan's Law, Dr. Gero and Dr. Peters. We're here for the second reading of Nolan's law policy22. So, we will be looking for tonight. Steve, thanks. Um, so the overview again is uh we have a new Dell code piece of Dell code. It's nicknamed Nolan's law. Um, but it does require us to have a crisis response plan for each school or in each district. Um, so really a lot of this is dealing with significant events such as a death of a student or staff member. And it
062also requires us to create and maintain district and building level crisis teams and conduct annual reviews and trainings to ensure readiness. Hello. So the plan that we have in place that meets the Nolan's law requirement as well as goes above and beyond and addresses all kinds of crises proactively and comprehensively is the NASP's prepare model curriculum. So, as we've shared with you the past two months, the acronym is there for your review and it really spans the whole um continuum of uh pre during and postcrisis intervention and response strategies. So, um for many years now, we've been rolling this out on an ongoing basis. We have both workshop one as well as workshop two. And um Ed and I provide this training not only within our district as well as to other districts in Delaware
063and um surrounding states and we participate nationally in trainer updates since this work really is ongoing. Um so again really trained staff in crisis prevention response and recovery ensures alignment with best practices by using this vetted researchinformed um curriculum and supports both students staff and our families following a range of critical incidents. So uh we're open to any questions and then looking for a motion for approval. Are there any questions for the board on the presentation? Is there a motion? Oh, yes. I move that we approve Nolan's law as presented. Policy 6122. Is there a second? Second. I have a motion by Mr. Whit, a second by I'm sorry, a motion by Dr. Graham a second by M on the motion hearing none all those in favor vote by saying I I feel a little
064bit out of thank you carries. Next on the agenda the conduct and discipline code revised policy 6109. Dr. Gero or Dr. Small and Dr. Gerto B8's team first slide Steve. All right. Good evening. We are here to present the second reading of policy revision 6109 on district conduct and discipline code. Um again we're at the second reading point. Next slide Steve. Um the scope of this policy is that it applies to all stakeholders both internal and external to include all enrolled students, parents, guardians, and appropriate community members within the school district. And I'm going to hand it over to Dr. Ger. Thank you. And really the purpose behind this policy is to just reinforce that uh we want a safe, civil, welcoming environment in our schools and school events. Um, and this applies to parents,
065community members, and attendees. And, um, part of the language w within the policy itself just talks about treating students, staff, and volunteers with respect, behaving in a civil manner, not disrupting or interfering with school events. And again, it covers a variety of areas, not only in our schools, but on our school property, our grounds, school events, as well as vehicles. Um, we also have our first civility committee meeting is scheduled for June 24th will be the first one. I know it's tough in the summer, but I'm sure we'll have more than one meeting. Um, so that will be our first meeting on June 24th. Do you expect another policy to come out of that out of the meetings or the 6109 tonight is the policy that we're voting on? And then um we're going to
066we would like to develop a procedural handbook or almost like a parent code of conduct similar to what we have for students. Are there any questions? If not, I'll entertain a motion. Like to make a motion to approve the district conduct and discipline code 6109. Second. I have a motion by Mr. Wit, a second by Mr. Abrams sub approved the conduct and discipline code revised policy 6109 as presented. Are there any questions, comments or concerns on this motion? Yeah, I have just a question. So the the committee that's meeting on starting on the 24th in the in the new language that we're adding, it says the superintendent andor designate is directed to develop rules of conduct applicable to those attending school events activities and administer the provisions of this policy. That's what that committee is
067going to do. Correct. Correct. And I know it's somewhat of a loaded question. How long do you think it's going to take to develop those rules? I mean, I think that's tough to predict. It'll definitely be more than one meeting. I would say probably a handful. Four to five is my estimate, but it's hard to say. So, I know we talked in earlier schoolboard meetings about the fact that this was going to be part of the code of conduct that gets distributed to students and parents. Yeah, it may not make the initial print. What we can do is we can create an addendum to that. So, our online version that that's accessible through our website would have any updated or new language in it. We can change that immediately. the print version. We could send
068out um you know a reminder or a notification that this has been added in there. But I also think that's not the main vehicle. The code of conduct is an additional area for it, but I think our us communicating that as a district is really the main vehicle because it's it's not necessarily the student code of conduct. It's it's a parent code of conduct. So I do think it should be in there. I do think it's another area that's highly visible to put that there, but there are other other methods of communication that we need to make sure we're getting this out. And the other thing that saves time too is um so I'll be heading the committee and what I like to do is have a draft coming in because if if you're starting
069at ground zero and then just gathering thoughts and opinions, then it it takes a lot of time just to get those together and put something together. So, I'll come prepared with some key points and some drafted language and then um you know we can move off of that to speed up the process. So, so my only other question is because in the paragraph you have on the back side of this document does reference parents and it does reference the um if they're on our on school property to the code of conduct. So, we're going to put that in two separate parent code of Yes. Yes. And we will have parents. We have um the committee is a pretty broad committee. So it will have several parents on there as well as a variety of school
070staff. All right. Just referencing more than one place is better than Thank you. I would like to thank Richard for coming up with this um idea for the policy as a result of some of the things that um our district has experienced over the last year. Um, sometimes it's not just doing what's best for kids, it's doing what's best for parents, too. So, um, so thank you for that, Richard, and thank you to the committee um that has worked so hard to put this together. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Is there a motion? There already was a motion. Are we? We have to. Those in favor vote by saying I. I. Those opposed? Motion carries. You're out of I'm out of practice at running a meeting. All right, moving on. New business.
071The first item on the agenda is the minutes from the May 13, 2025 board of education meeting. Madam President, I move that we approve uh the meeting minutes from May 13, 2025 along with the reassessment minutes from the meeting on May 27th, 2025 as presented. Second. I have a motion from Dr. Graham, a second from Miss Dit to approve the both May 13, 2025 board of education meeting minutes and the May 27th, 2025 board workshop minutes. Are there any questions, comments, or concerns on this motion? Hearing none, all those in favor vote by saying I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Moving on in the agenda, the salary scales for approval. Dr. Small. Good evening again. The salary scales for fiscal year 2026 have been presented for your approval. We're asking for your approval as presented.
072Madam President, I'll make a motion to approve the salary scales for 2025 2026 as presented. Second. I have a motion by Mr. Abrams, a second by Mr. Wit to approve the salary scales for approval as presented. Are there any questions, comments, or concerns on the motion? All those in favor vote by saying I. I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. The next item on the agenda, the new cell phone policy 6123, first reading, Dr. Gerau. All right. So, tonight's first reading. So, next month we'll be looking for a vote. Um, as we stated last month, Senate Bill 106, um, which is now in the House committee. The Senate did, um, pass it through, but then it's in the House committee right now. Um, so still waiting for uh everything to finalize there, but it proposes in
073title 14 that we limit cell phone usage and we communicate cell phone restrictions to students and families and develop a cell phone policy. Here are the four key components of the the proposed policy that you have. Um, one is to promote academic achievement and student well-being, create a safe, respectful school community, establish clear uh district-wide expectations, and it's developed with input from educators and families. And as far as instructional time, one of the big things that we'd like to um limit is instructional time. So a lot of the focus of the policy is around instructional time. So we're talking about classes, tests, assemblies, academic activities where students should be engaged in class work. Um devices must be silenced and stored and violations will be addressed by the code of conduct. And since we met last
074month, I also added some additional language. So, the consequences remain the same in the in the uh cell phone infraction or electronic device infraction, but we added an additional section in chapter 1 that does talk about restrictions specifically at the middle school and high school level where students will have their phone locked in a pouch for the entire day in the middle school and high school will be class by class. Since we've piloted this for a year, have do you have any like backwards data on how much how well the students did in the classroom without the obstru without the distraction? It's limited because it was really about a 2 and a half month period between the pre and the post test. Um, so it's tough to really get good data about, you know, student
075attendance, student grades, but we do have a lot of perception data and a lot of comments. And essentially, um, it's been reported that students were on task more. Some of the key takeaways are students are on task more and we've had fewer issues with um anytime students are unsupervised in you know areas such as hallways and bathrooms um that's typically when things happen that we don't want. Um so in those by limiting cell phones we've had fewer students in hallways and bathrooms meeting up in bathrooms of the pilots. Did we do a pilot at the middle school? We did not. Oh, okay. No, only high school at Quinn High School. I was going to say I seen it in action at EPO. The only thing that we did do is we did try So with
076some of our middle school students, we had additional pouches and for students that were a tier three level. And what I mean by that is students that had frequent infractions where they were using their cell phone in class or had it out when they were not supposed to. Then we utilize that as an intervention to say we're gonna lock your phone. But that's a small handful of students. Okay. That's what I recall. And Dr. Gordo, you said that for middle school we're going to do all day. Correct. Starting new school year. Yes. Okay. And a communication did go out this evening uh at 6:30 about that as well. I was gonna say I don't think I'll see it. and we're yeah we'll that's only the first part but we're going to be working with schools.
077It'll be in um our beginning of the year presentations. It'll be in newsletters before the school school year starts. So we'll make sure it's heavily communicated. It'll be in the code of conduct um which we also ask parents to review and we do a we do a review with um staff we have a staff presentation for code of conduct and a student presentation for code of conduct when students come back in session in the fall also. Okay. Yeah. Dr. part did from what we from talking with students when we visited what they told us was, you know, summer is the hardest part, like coming off a summer break because they're accustomed to having it. But then once you get into the routine, a couple of weeks, it really just becomes the norm. Um, and then
078coming back from breaks or longer periods of time, you have to reaclimate again. But um you know hearing from students they said that's the toughest like when you first come back but then they just they just get into that routine. Yeah. I think you know just from like a board perspective whenever we can obviously support the message like I'm just thinking about you know he'll be in seventh grade in his cohort and it's like hey heads up guys this is coming. I think it's a little more natural for a fifth grader coming into sixth grade because that's really the expectation is there isn't cell phone usage at the elementary. Um so it'll be a little bit more of a transition for seventh and eighth graders and then the high school level. Sounds good. Thank you
079Dr. Cardo. Um, in terms of the referrals in the high school, did they go down for the two school the two classes that was um p that was paddling the um the the the pouches? I wouldn't say so. Um, so students didn't have them out as much. But then in terms of infraction because it was a new thing and we had to enforce that, it sort of balanced out. So there wasn't really any significant difference. I would predict though that over time we'll have fewer issues with that. And in talking again with um the two schools we went and visited, what they found was um one a decrease in the number of fights because a lot of a lot of what happens with fights is students are either texting or on social media and arranging
080something. Let's meet up here. Let's do this. Let's do that. So when they don't have access to it. Um and the other thing they had was fewer um incidents of bullying and cyber bullying and issues through social media where students were um you know either putting each other down or say saying mean things to each other and so on. So those were the two biggest impacts that schools have seen that have implemented. Thank you. Just one last question. I I know it's um that money shouldn't be an issue when it improves our students, but what do you anticipate the Are we still under a grant to do this district or districtwide or is there Yeah. So, a couple things. Yeah. One, um we still have all the pouches from last year with exception to some
081that just through attrition they wear out or or break. So, there's always that piece of it. Um those from the high school will be passed down to the middle schools. And then as part of the bill, there is funding included in that bill. How much we receive, I'm not a 100% sure yet. It was proposed as a half million dollars um that school districts would then get and they'll probably be an application process for that and then any remainder we'd be looking to, you know, fund and cover. Thank you. So what is going where and by that I mean in materials I have we've got the PowerPoint and then there's text which is policy 6123 district cell phone use policy. So where is where is that policy actually going? So 6123 will be the board
082policy. It'll be posted on our website under our board policies. And then um based on 6123 as well as 6109 which is our student code of conduct then everything's just enforced through that. So our procedures are in the code of conduct and the policy lives on the Well, but I mean I know we've talked about if you're in middle school, no cell phones. They're locked up for the day. If you're in high school, we're going to have, you know, the calculator pouch or you know, whatever you want to call it. I mean, is that being written in the code of conduct? Yes, it's in there. It's in chapter one now. So, that was the difference between this month and last month. We went in after last month, updated that language, and it's in there for
083print. Okay. So, this policy is just catching up with the change to the code of conduct. Yeah. Because we have to get ahead. We have we really have to have the code. All right. I just want to make I just want to make sure that what we actually decided to do was in the code of conduct. Okay. That's okay. Great. Are there any further questions? Thank you very much. All right. Thanks. For those of you who are just tuning in and we go over things with the presentation and then it's presented at least twice to us before we vote. So that's why there's no vote on that item. Social media policy 3115. Dr. Small. All right. Social media policy 3115. Um next slide, Steve. Um, as you can see, this is the first reading for
084the policy. The second reading is next month where we will be asking for a vote on the policy. Next slide. Um, the scope of this policy is that it uh applies to all employees, all technology at any time. Next slide. Um, we're recommending adding to the policy language that speaks to the idea that social media is dynamic. It's um, ever changing. It's um, developing and evolving over time. So, we need a policy that should account for that um, that piece that is dynamic in the social media in itself. Next slide. Um so the language that we're recommending adding to the policy is um shared there engaging in access engaging in access and otherwise use of personal social media during work time unless it's shared for sharing content that is um based on the professional judgment
085and con let me read that let me get a little closer that way I can read it a a little bit better engaging in access or otherwise use their or otherwise use the personal social media during work time unless they are sharing workrelated content that adheres to the standards of good judgment and professional conduct. In other words, we want to make sure that the policy speaks to the idea of being professional in the work environment and using professional judgment in your use of social media from the perspective that sometimes it's not a black and white answer that you would be able to provide as far as should you do it or should you not do it. But using good judgment and professional conduct as the use of social media is what we're looking to achieve
086in that particular area. Next slide. Um, we are recommending deleting from the policy the language that speaks to publishing any recording or image including audio, video and pictures um being prohibited. The reason why is that um in certain circumstances, so if my child is friends with um a another student that is a part of the Abquinomic School District um and they are going to let's say prom together, I may take a picture of them and post that on social media. It's just a proud moment for my child, but our old policy language would have said that that was prohibited. Next slide. And we're recommending revising the policy to speak to the idea that uh communication with students should be electronically legitimate and appropriate and it should be discoverable. So the language that shows there speaks
087to making sure that that's uh managed correctly. I think that's the final slide. questions. Are there any questions from the board? Hearing none. Thank you very much. And that they will see you next month. Okay. Thank you. Moving on. Overnight field trips for approval. Madam President, I'll make a motion we approve trip IDs 10818, 10819, 10820, and 10821, which is Appmac High School, Adessa High School, Middletown High School, and Kennels Bridge Middle School students to Nashville for HOSA's international leadership conference, and also approved trip ID 10817, uh, Odessa High School students to Orlando for the Educators Rising National Conference, and trip ID 10810 at the Quinn High School students to the TSA National Conference in Nashville. Second. I have a motion by Mr. Forston for all of those overnight field trips as he listed and
088a second by Mr. Abrams. Are there any questions, comments, or concerns on the motion? Hearing none, all those in favor vote by saying I. I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. The next agenda item is change orders for approval. Mr. Hopkins, I've submitted change orders for approval. Uh, a couple of those change orders to note is we have one for $41,000 284. That's for additional sod and irrigation to stabilize the site to get us in the school. And I don't mean dirt hanging around. And then there's another one there for $21,000 and change there. That was for uh premium time to help meet our timelines that the district needed. With that, I'm recommending these for approval. Seeking your approval. Madam President, I move that we uh approve the change orders as presented. Second. I have a
089motion by Dr. Graham and a second by Mr. Abrams to approve the change orders as presented. Are there any questions, comments, or concerns on this motion? Hearing none, all those in favor vote by saying I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Moving on in our agenda, personnel report. Dr. Small. Okay. I think the next time I should just stay up here for all of my presentations in a row. We'll get you a chair. Thank you. You're welcome. Um the personnel report for the June board meeting has been presented for your approval. Tonight, we are asking for approval of that uh information. Madam President, I'll make a motion to approve the personnel report as presented. Second. I have a motion by M. Mr. Abrams, a second by Mr. Wit to approve the personnel report as presented. Are
090there any questions, comments, or concerns on this motion? Hearing none, all those in favor vote by saying I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. That brings us to the establishment of upcoming meeting dates. There will be a special board meeting on Wednesday, June 25th, with executive sessions starting at 4:30. the meeting starting at 6 o'clock in the boardroom of the Marian Profit Training Center. The financial advisory committee will meet at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, July 1st in the Tony Marshall Building. And the next regular board of education meeting will be Tuesday, July 8th, 2025 at 7 p.m. in the board room of the Marian Profit Training Center. That's all we have for you. So, for the last time, farewell and good night. And it's been a pleasure to serve you. Thank you. [Applause]