001I'd like to call tonight's uh board meeting to order. Please join me for opening exercise to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you. >> I have to take the role. You can't see us. >> Yes, please. >> Sure. John Cassiano >> here. >> Willard Deler >> here. >> Josephinger >> here. Todd Hernandez >> here. >> Becky Height >> here. >> Lauren Huner >> here. Todd Lizer >> here. >> Rachel Shappler. >> Jennifer Senitis >> here. >> All right. Uh, next item is approval of the agenda. >> Thank you. >> Second. >> Comments, questions? All those in favor? I >> post. No. >> All right. Welcome. Thanks for coming. evening in the dark. Yes.
002Uh this is uh brings us to courtesy of the floor. You see a couple guests, maybe personnel and the guest. U this is opportunity to address the board. Just rise, state your name and the township you're live in and address. If not, there'll be another opportunity at the end of the meeting if you would like to do so then. >> All right. See none. Thank you. We'll move in to the next item. Uh 1.07 are the minutes and we have uh June 18th minutes and the 8 August 6 workshop minutes. >> So move. >> Thank you. >> Got it. All those in favor? I >> I no. All right. Okay. We don't have any recognitions. Uh awards for visions. I do not have a report, so we'll go into the superintendent report. >> I do.
003I have three things for you tonight. Um, one, we had a wonderful opening day with our staff on Tuesday. Um, we had welcomes from um, President Hernandez, also from Mr. Smooyer and Mrs. Kennon, both from NWLEA and NWF, and an inspiring message um, from Principal L. He's a current principal. um he talked about positive relationships um choosing joy and building positive um resilience as well as building um pool culture. We also um today throughout the buildings in all three of our buildings welcomed our newest Tigers and had orientation in all three of our buildings um and are excited next week to welcome all of our students back next week. And lastly, I mean Stacy will tell me where the certificates are, but I would like to honor Mr. John Casiano, Mr. Joe Fner and Mr.
004Todd Lizer. So, PSBA um has a Oh, there should be >> um recognizes three of our dedicated school board members for their years of service to the Northwestern Lehigh School District. And so, for more than 40 years, PSBA has celebrated the commitment of local school directors through what is called an honor role program. And so their recognition is their way of thanking individuals who exemplify leadership and who give generously of their time and talent for the benefit of public education and the students of our commonwealth. And school school directors are recognized beginning at five years of service and for every five years thereafter. So this evening I am pleased to present honoral certificates to three school board members who have each dedicated 10 years of service to the Northwestern Lehigh School District. Mr. John Castiano,
005Mr. Joe Classinger and Mr. Todd Lizer. So on behalf of the Northwestern High School District, thank you for your leadership, for your commitment and for your countless hours that you give to the students and Northwestern. So thank you and each of you have a certificate at your place. >> Stand down. >> I yield my time to Joe Binger, please. I would like a picture of all three of you later with Mr. >> So, thank you. That is my report. >> All right. Thank you. Thank you for your service. Okay, we'll move into personnel. So, 2.01 personnel agenda. >> We do have a personnel agenda um before you. There are a few additions. They are highlighted for you in um yellow. I will point out you have a a retirement of Karen Lapos who has um
006will leave. She is the administrative assistant to the director of curriculum after 21 years of service to the district um making her retirement effective January 5th. She is the first um retirement on the top of your agenda as well as some additions that you see um and we'll take your um questions should you have any. All right, I'll entertain a motion in a second. >> Motion. >> Second. >> Thank you. Any comments or questions on I see none. All those in favor? I >> I do have two. >> Abstain. >> I abain 2.01. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Next item. 2.02. Approval of the business administrator contract as presented before us. >> Yes. a close discuss with the board. Um, and I believe it reflects um the conversation and agreement and the agenda item has
007the attachment for your um review and approval. >> Move to approve the contract. >> Thank you. >> Second. >> Thank you. >> Uh comments, questions none. All those in favor I >> oppos? No. >> Congratulations. >> Thank you. Thank you very much. >> You're allowed to come back tomorrow. >> Oh, sorry. No. Um, I want to throw I'm sorry for personnel. We do have one introduction. So, back >> here. Sorry. Sorry. >> Yes. Apologies. >> So, sorry. Miss Islanders as well would like to introduce one of our new um people that you just hired. So, sorry. You did come out in the dark. We don't always do something and her starting with a couple days and she's been great. So, she is Sydney um Hefner. She joined our health and s team um this year.
008We're happy to have her. She's a graduate of Westchester. Um she did sub the year at North Hampton um school district and she's also coaching volleyball there at the high school. I have to say that she is a pardon me a two-time athlete of the year. So I have to welcome >> I just want to say like I'm so grateful you know for this opportunity. It was a quick turnaround like Amy said. Um, but all the staff at the middle school, all the administration staff, um, you've been great to me so far and welcome me in with open arms, making me feel comfortable. So, I just want to say thank you and I'm really excited for the school year. Thank you. >> So, so we say it's not always like this doubly because we did
009interview Sydney on a Friday on a whatever day it was and said, "Can you come tomorrow?" And she said, "Sure." whatever day it was. The orientation was the following day and she came the next day and we said, "We'll get you a computer. We'll get you set up. We promise." And so in both cases, we said, "Can you come tomorrow?" And she said, "Yes." And now she's getting introduced to you. So it's not always like this in either case, but thank you for rolling with us in both cases. >> And you feel free, you don't have to stay the rest of the meeting if you don't. >> Okay. Uh so moving to the next person for all item 2.03 Cedar Crest College affiliation agreement. >> Yes. So this is an affiliation agreement with Cedar Crest
010College. They're similar to the ones that you have taken in the past. This is for field study internships, practicums, and on student. I would ask for your approval. So we have an active agreement with >> no move. >> Second. >> Thank you. Comments, questions on this item? >> Seeing none. All those in favor? I >> I >> oppos? No, >> thank you. All right, moving to curriculum. We have an item there. Whatever it is [Music] >> the monitor. >> Well, it's gonna quit anyway. [Music] >> I love it. I will. >> All right. Uh, so curriculum building 3.01 participation in the PAS survey for grade 8 and grade 10 and we did discuss this at the workshop meeting but I know not everybody was able to attend. So if you want to just give a
011quick highlight. >> Sure. We um participate in the pay survey every two years. Um the questions um for the survey are attached. I believe they are under administrative content. Um per our policy on surveys um this does need to be approved by the board and we do participate. There are many grades you can participate in. We have selected grades eight and 10. It does track the same co cohort of students. So they participate eighth grade and then those are the same students that then will take the survey in 10th grade and then we do send a note to parents and then they if they pass up opt out if they wish to opt out they do notify us that they wish their children not to participate. So move. Thank you. Second. >> Thank you. All
012comments, questions. Do we ever use this information that we get from? >> We do and the county uses it as well. And so one of the benefits is the drug and alcohol money for the county is directed um to specific endeavors, specific programs um based on this data um that is collected for by school district and also by um um county. I know there's no cost to us to do this, but uh except for the time, the 40 minutes or whatever it is for each student to take the survey. And I looked at that survey. I mean, it's like nine pages of questions about cigarettes and vaping and all these other I was just wondering if we ever had got any benefit from using the data that comes out of that because I I looked
013at the rural school summary. Uh I didn't see that you could look at the individual school summary but uh it's just a lot of information. I just don't it's like overwhelming. you do. I mean, but the other example is when there's a student who's struggling and needs either services or placement that's often funded by Lehigh County Drug or Alcohol. And so when one of our students would need um you know the obviously the worst case scenario is they would need placement and for substance abuse or something like that or they would need services that's funded by Lehigh County Drug and Alcohol or they need uh one of the providers that comes into our school that's obviously also funded by Lehigh County Drug and Alcohol. the one that benefits of us participating is they're able to
014access those funds. >> And so that's really the benefit and then it's the programs and initiatives are driven by the data collected through this survey. >> Is it anonymous or does it connect to a >> Thanks for the question. Anybody else? >> All right, we do have a motion to second. So all those in favor I >> post. No. All right. Thank you. Uh let's take this in the policy. Um first item is the uh PSBA policy contract. We are asking for the the board's approval tonight to engage with PSBA services like we have been doing for the past several years to help you know go over all of our policies. This time we're going to target the 300 level policies that deal with employees. Uh so we're asking for your approval to engage that
015service. Again, it's been really helpful for us to get through the number of policies that we've been reviewing each month. >> Thank you. >> Second. >> You got somebody. >> All right. Uh comments, questions on this item. >> All right. See none. All those in favor? I >> I post. No. Okay. All right. Next item is uh first reading and we did have four policies there that we did discuss at the workshop. Any followup? >> No questions or comments on those. >> Okay. Thanks. Uh and the next two items if we can take those together. We did vet these. Uh 4.03 is the second reading the final approval on several policies and there is one policy to resend. So I don't know if you want to comment on the second reading if you had any.
016>> Yeah. No comments or questions. And we resend, just as a reminder, was due to the policy that was passed by the board 103, which uh makes this no longer needed. >> Okay. >> Motion to approve 4.03 and 4.04. >> Second. >> Thank you. Comments, questions? >> All those in favor? I >> no. Moving operations 510 bus stops. Yes, this is an annual item um that we ask for your approval for the bus stops for the 2526. >> All right. And we do need to take action on move. >> Thank you. >> Second. >> All right. Thank you. Comments or questions? >> Any uh feedback this year out of the norm or is it all? So um I believe my team has said that the questions and requests have been liked within the past week.
017So nothing >> great. >> I would also like to add that we are experiencing driver challenges. So we've lost two more bus drivers. We've had to dissolve the number of runs at this point and we're at our limit especially with our van drivers as well due to the displaced students that we've been moving to NWE and Widenberg and so we are tapped there as well as far as drivers. So, we're doing a little bit of a of a a game with everybody, shuffling them around to make sure we can get transportation. But thankfully, a lot of our parents put us up on the opt out this year like they did last year, as well as the parking pass for seniors and not routing them if they're driving here has been very successful. So, it's created
018some relief, but we are uh struggling a lot with our driver recruitment as well as retention. You can see we've had a bus sit out on the corner of Karnsville and Route 100 forever. We had it out here for night in the country, we're trying to get anyone that was willing to drive for us at this point. So, we may although everything's rolling smoothly now, it might, you know, go the other way. We'll have to have conversation with the board and I'll go chat if I touch all of everything. >> No, I mean you mentioned that. But I mean huge shout out also to you know I already put that bus down there where Troy mentioned it with trying if anybody has any ideas for people that know definitely want to drive um we are
019probably at our max in terms of bus driver we won't have anywhere to go from and we might have to make some concessions with you know daycare etc to make it all function and fly. >> Okay. Thank you. Anything else? I think we do have a motion and a second. >> Okay. All those in favor? I >> I >> post. No. All right. Thank you. Good luck with start the year. Uh district finances. First item. CLIU. Uh transperent agreement. >> Andrea is on. >> I don't Andrea. >> Yep. Sorry about that. So, we have um >> One second, Andrea. >> Honestly, I could speak to it. >> Go ahead, Andrea. >> Uh >> okay, >> Andrea, are you still there? >> Yeah, I'm here. The trans perfect is an annual agreement that we take for
020approval each year where we are allowed to work with transperfect with consortium pricing and the IU for um special education related documents. >> Okay. Items. >> All right. We uh do need to take action on this. So moved. >> Thank you. >> Second. >> Thank you. Comments or questions on this item? See none. All those in favor? I >> I post. No. >> All right. Yes. So, let's see here. Uh the next several items we did vet at the workshop meeting. So, I'll read them and if we can take them and consent, uh we we will. Uh 6.02 is the Civic Theater of Allentown agreement. Uh 6.03 3 the CNE entertainment contract 6.04 Ultimate School Shows Agreement 6.05 CLI21 title one equitable service agreement uh 6.06 educ uh community education classes and then I'll just
021end with 6.07 7 the white all copy agree that he's all okay taking okay so 6.02 through 6.07 07. >> So move. >> Second. Thank you. >> Just know um I did tell the board there was a fair in the white hall contract. So the race that you see on the white hall contest are slightly different $5 difference from those that you review at board workshop. I think those race board they had a clical error in their office. >> Any changes or updates when we from when we discussed that workshop on many of the contracts >> um the only thing we changed ultimate the ultimate school to turn out at title one instead of student activities. Gotcha. >> Thank you. >> All right. We do have a motion to second. Uh any other comments for
022vote. All right. All those in favor I >> oppos. No. All right. Thank you. Okay. 6.08. Are the reports? >> There's no. >> Okay. We move to receive the reports. >> Thank you. >> Second. >> Thank you. Comments, questions? See? None. All those in favor? I >> oppose? No. >> All right. 6.09 the bills. This is all new, >> correct? You have three months of bills. So, it's the June 30th run and the bills we paid in July and then the bills for this month. >> So, move. >> Thank you. >> Second. >> Thank you. Um, comments or questions on any of these items? All right. Seeing none, all those in favor? Hi. >> Hi. >> All right, moving along. Other reports. 7.01 foundation report. >> Um, yes. Thank you. Um, I only have a
023few things tonight. This Thursday, there's a Tiger Takeover at Drizzle Ice Cream in Schneckville. Um, September 18th, there's also a Tiger Takeover at Don Corleó. U for both of them. Just don't forget to mention the foundation to have a portion of your total automatically donated. And lastly, registrations open for the annual clay shoot at Lehigh Valley Sporting Clays, which is on Sunday, October 26th. >> All right. Thank you. >> Any additional comments for tonight? Just want to make sure. Okay, that takes us to the next item. 7.02 are the committee reports. Uh, first one is the intermediate unit. >> Anything? >> Nothing to report. >> Okay, thank you. Uh, LCTI, that would be Rachel. >> I don't. >> Okay, LRYC, we do have the president's desk newsletters attached for July and August. And reccomission, that
024would be me. Uh we did have night in the country. Uh I was not able to attend but Becky has been helping out a lot. So anything you want to share? >> Um I think it was a really good night. We had almost 5,000 people through with what our ticket totals and everything. So still finalizing all the numbers and everything, but it >> was a good night. >> Good night. >> Good. Awesome. Thank you and thank you for helping out. >> Uh and that's really it for reccomission. So moving old business is not listed but is there any old business that the board forward not new business >> I look at everybody I look at everybody not everybody looks back so >> all right so uh new business I will look at everybody as well
025but we do have an item there before I open it up uh 9.01 Is there one the piano donation uh from my name? Oh, Kelly Forno. >> Um yes, this is for >> um this is for the middle school. Um it was donated to the music classroom for general music. Um the piano that was there had some broken keys and starting to age with how often you have it been around and so they would love piano donation and we do need to take action on all donations. So we ask that you would accept the piano donation. >> So thank you. >> We do thank you for >> All right. Awesome. Uh we do have a motion to second. So all those in favor I I >> oppos. No. >> Thank you. >> Uh any other
026new business that someone would like to bring forward? >> I actually had something if it was okay. >> So um with the recent, you know, changes with soccer with junior high varsity as well as several community members. It is it was brought up to me to ask or to find out which again not looking for any answers tonight. Um, but for our stadium, is there a reason why we don't have any like open stadium hours where people could go and use our track to run or to walk? Because being that we're in a rural community, there's not sidewalks, there's not, you know, people can run over at the recck fields. However, that's not always the best for people with mo mobility issues. Being that it's not like a flat surface, it kind of is a
027little bit hilly and then uphill. It's not overly some, but it does make a difference. So, I had said that I would um you know, bring it up at our next meeting to see if that was something that could be done. I know several other high schools that have like a nice flat track, you know, that's done the way ours is. Um they can open it up to community members at times to be able to use it. As well as even just our own students that want to train, you know, like my son had to train to run, you know, a mile and a half in a certain amount of time, three miles at a certain time. So, you know, obviously not everybody has the opportunity to go up there, you know, and outside of
028the normal practice hours to use it. So, I just wanted to see, you know, there are other local, you know, stadiums that are open. We went to a stadium on Monday night for soccer in New Jersey. Theirs was unlocked. You could go in and use the walking trail um track even while people were practicing on the field. So, I'm not necessarily safe dating that it needs to be open all the time, but I didn't know if there was a reason why it's not. And if so, could could there be some kind of compromise that's made so that it could be available for people to use should they want to? So, like I said, not looking for any hours now. I just said that I would try to find out, you know, the reason why it's
029not open for community members. They brought up the fact that they're taxpayers and they would like to use it if possible. So, I shared it. There you go. Thank you. You go to math class, too. >> Can I Stacy, can I respond? Are you in charge of the computer? >> Yep. Yep. Go ahead, Jason. >> Yeah, we we do have that in place. Uh the problem is the hours are very limited because our stadium is pretty full and um but but we do have those hours. So, those folks are more than welcome to uh email me if they can't find it on our website. But um during the summer, I think they're open while people are here uh till 3:00. Um, and then in the evening, so long as nothing's in there, there it's open
030till I'm going to say 8:00. I'm not Don't hold me to that, though. But we we have that in place already. >> Okay. Thank you, Mr. Zimmerman. Now, just asking, so if there are students in there practicing, the community is not able to use the track. >> Yeah, not really. Because for the same reason, we need to uh get clearances on everybody. Um, we we don't have any control and there's some interesting things that do happen in that stadium. Regardless that being said, uh doc I think it's Dr. Hunskirt on Paul can do that that who is it? >> Yes. Thank you. >> Okay. Yeah. So So that that also being said um those the gates are open. Most people won't go in though out of respect for the other other programs. So um the
031bottom line is we have something in place and uh uh they're welcome to reach out to me and I can give more details. >> Thank you, Mr. Zimmerman. >> You're welcome. Yes. Thank you. Anybody else? Anything else? >> Yeah, I would uh just like to take a minute to put something on the board's radar. Um, last night we had a planning commission meeting at Lynn Township and uh for uh a year or two now a couple of the supervisors have been uh informally talking about reszoning in Lyn Lynn Township to uh eliminate uh some of the residential uh zoning areas that we have and put it back into agriculture. And last night, one of the supervisors came to the planning commission meeting and he uh presented this as his uh intent to uh to start
032a conversation about this. I don't know what the legal uh procedures are for changing zoning, but it can't be one unilateral one uh uh of three township supervisors coming in and and uh proposing this and taking a vote on it. it's got to do a lot of studies and and uh public hearings and that kind of thing. But uh the reason I wanted to bring it to the board's attention is that uh I I don't know what the other three townships are are discussing about uh zoning if anything. Uh but uh I see a problem with this in uh what he's talking about doing is taking the area uh which is currently zoned rural residential. That means single family homes can be built. And uh this would be the area from behind the golf course
033all the way over to uh Flint Hill Road, which is Pods Road, and the Camp Meeting Road, which is that first road at the medical center that that goes back around the back. So that whole area in there behind would be the southeast side of neutropolei which is currently rural zone rural rural residential uh would be agriculture and uh that would eliminate the possibility for any family homes to be built in there. I think that is a a problem and as we know uh housing has been uh not as active as as it has been in the last couple of decades and we always had a natural increase in our assessed value in our school district from people building houses and businesses coming in and building houses and that uh helped to uh increase the
034assessed value which uh helps our millillage and uh eliminates the need to tax the existing land owners as much as uh we we would need to if we didn't have any of that growth. Uh taking that growth away I think would be a a real disservice to all the residents in the area. And uh and I don't think that this is something that they're considering uh as a consequence of doing this. In fact, I think their opinion is that the enrollment's going down. All we have to do is lay off teachers and we'll be able to uh pay the bills and uh you know that's a real simplified way of looking at it. But uh they don't have an understanding of uh what is needed in the school for our community to support this school.
035So, I think this uh you know, as this moves on, if it takes up steam and we start having meetings about this, u I'd like to uh make it known to you that this is happening and maybe we can get some of you or some of the other people that you know to come to these meeting in meetings and give some public opinion about this. Uh, and there are a lot of people that move up here from uh outside of the area and they buy five acres and they put a big house on it and they don't want to see any more roofs as far as they can see out there. I mean, there are a lot of people up here that that do this. There's a lot of people that don't want to have
036any development at all. But I think it's uh I think it's uh the wrong way to go to uh to start talking about removing something that's existing zoning for rural residential and uh and putting back into a agriculture just so we can't have any more development in the area and it's uh just to get it on the radar. This something is being discussed. No action required but it's just something to uh be aware of. >> What was the feedback? There were on the planning commission there were I'd say of the one two three four five six that were there uh there's one that's uh were there's three I'd say half of them that are 100% for that and three of them that have some caution about it and the makeup of the supervisors is uh
037three supervisors is two of them are former land owners and the other is a businessman who has some uh what's the use of the property right now. Is it all being farmed? >> Yeah. >> So, they're paying tax at the the rural residential level, not at the farm level. That would be the intent to lower the tax. >> Yeah. >> Who drives the tax rate for farmland? The county. That would be the other eventual option is to raise the tax on all the farms. >> I don't know. You mean how they assesses that? >> Yeah, the county assesses it, but you know, the farm land doesn't pay the same rate as resident, >> right? So, fish in the county in some respects that brings it value farmland. Well, you know, the uh the natural growth
038that we have experienced in the past, I don't think is 3% of the property tax value uh in our assessed value, total assessed value, but uh it helps and uh I think that um you know, if if something like this were to happen, all the existing land holders, we know our budget's going to go up 3% a year at least, probably four to four to five. Now uh you know with 70% of our our budget is uh salaries and if we have 3% salaries increase that's uh that's more than we can bring in on act one and it's more than that we can bring in on you know this natural growth. So there's going to be maximum act one tax increases and if we take away any new development that could you know that could
039come in uh that is really going to hurt us. And then the the the uh the other comment is well new houses mean new more kids but we do have a an enrollment decline. Uh we can handle more kids and uh we have I don't know how many five classrooms in Weisenberger that we are 15 that are empty. >> Uh so there is room to grow within the school district before we have to talk about adding on. Thank you. Anybody else? >> Okay. Uh, communications. Second opportunity for courtesy of the floor. Thank you. Thanks for coming tonight. Uh, see, uh, next item is, uh, communications from the secretary. Rachel's not here, but is there anything Nothing. Okay. So, moving to administrative and building sharing. I know >> we're going to skip the individuals online. They
040text me that uh they're good tonight. >> Yeah. >> Um we are back. Um Dr. mentioned that we had um our sixth graders in today with their parents. We did a little bit of a different format this year. Um, so parents were able to visit the classrooms, visit the their child's home room. Um, there's presentations and it was a great great morning. Um, I want to take time to thank our custodial maintenance staff. Um, this summer we had a lot of projects going up and the school from roof to sprinklers to painting. Um, and did a great job of getting the building ready for for school and just want to take time to really thank them for their hard work. Um, we have our parentform information night next Thursday from 6:00 to 8:00 and that's
041for our seventh and eighth grade parents. Um, and we are starting with exciting news. We're starting a chapter of the National Junior Honor Society at the middle school this year. So, Mrs. Jenser is reading that. Um, it's going to be out only. Um, there is criteria that eighth graders have to meet. Um, if they meet that criteria, they'll be invited to fill out an application and apply for for that that honor. So looking forward to that um and starting at the middle school. >> We too had our freshman orientation this morning. We're happy to see the building filled with kids again. Um although our athletes have been in for a couple weeks, so they've been around. Um I want to thank all of the teachers, Mr. Gibler for organizing a really nice event today. Um
042students went around to a round robin kind of environment um to experience different hubs in our building and then they did a mock schedule, visited the cafeteria. So it was really nice to see them. Special thanks to our student council kids who were amazing today. They are the best tour guides and um they really led the activities very nicely. So I want to thank them and their adviser, Miss Del Bomber. Um we two are having open house on September 3rd from 6:00 to 8 at the high school. Ours is an open forum due to the number of kids u who participate in activities. We just find that that um works well for us for people to be able to come and go and visit with both their fall teachers and their spring teachers if they
043so choose on that evening. So we're looking forward to a great year. Thank you. >> Uh thank you again for signing my contract for another three years. Um we are getting ready for the audits. will be here the day after Labor Day. Um, so we'll be closing out 2427. >> Well, everybody in our department's qualified, ready to tackle the year. So, everyone's happy to be here and we're ready to get excited. Welcome back, everybody. >> Yeah, good evening. So, um, my two departments have been very busy the last week or so. um taking care of any last minute bus changes or route changes. Um maintenance department is wrapping up any summer projects. I'm happy to report that we are 95% done with the high school roofing project that should be completed by the end of
044this week. Um and then we look forward to collecting students on Monday. I just want to give a kudos to Sean and his team maintenance and ground still tremendous job as they always do. Our building looks amazing. Other than that, I'm ready for the kids to get here. The teachers are back. I'm ready for the kids. It's going to be a great year. >> I mentioned we're ready for students. You had to see um Baxter sitting there today when all the students are coming. We were very boring during the summer all the adults. And so Baxter is very excited today to see all of the children back in our buildings at all the various buildings. His children are back and he's very happy and he'll be able to be even happier on Monday when they
045are all back. >> He has a nice fresh haircut too. >> He does have a nice fresh haircut. He does have a nice fresh haircut. But we're very bored in the summer. >> Thank you. Okay. So, it takes us to board member sharing and I'll just open it up to anybody that would like to share anything. Right. >> I just wanted to say um that I'm excited for all the kids to be coming back to school and also a huge shout out to Northwestern Elementary's staff. Um they are leading or led open house in the dark. Um I went in and met my son's teacher in the dark and she did a fantastic job. Um everybody had a great attitude. They were positive, they were upbeat, they made it work, and it was just fun.
046We even did a little scavenger hunt by flashlight on our phones to find the things that they needed them to find and to pick out a desk. So, um, amazing job to be able to pivot and to still lead a a great night for all of our students. >> Anybody else? >> All right, I'll just wish everybody good start of the year. Good luck to all the staff and welcome the students and all the sporting teams. So be uh excited to see everybody back out here as usual. So thank you everybody. All right. So that takes us to uh last item, the meeting announcements before we adjourn. So I'll read over these. Uh an exec session for personnel was held after the board meeting on June 18th here in the boardroom. uh workshop meeting was
047held on August 6th at 7 PM here in the boardroom. Uh and that was followed by an executive session for personnel matters uh in the boardroom here. There is a workshop meeting uh for on scheduled for September 3rd, 7 PM here in the boardroom and there will be an exec session for personnel matters on September 3rd after the workshop meeting here in the boardroom and we will have a regular board meeting September 17th 7 p.m. here in the boardroom. So with that Second.