001uh next we have staff reports by Dr Mark Porter thank you president Lofton The ptoo Independent School District Community expresses our gratitude to our dedicated school board members your unwavering support and commitment to the education and well-being of our students truly make a difference in their lives in an environment where public education is one of the hottest topics and presents us with challenges every day your understanding and guidance Empower us to navigate these complexities with confidence and resilience this year under the theme leadership for tomorrow's Texas we celebrate the transformative role that our school board members play in shaping the future of our students your leadership Fosters and environment were excellent thrives and where our students are prepared to face the challenges of an Ever evolving world thank you for your devotion your vision and
002your consistent advocacy for the P off Independent School District please join me and saluting our school board [Applause] members oh whatever okay uh we do have uh gifts for you all we Sho all across the United States and abroad and we just you know we just wanted to shower you we went to Europe and bought you things that thought yeah yes yes yes Europe that's right we flew there to get it and our principls have done an ex I mean a wonderful job they were so disappointed they couldn't come in January to give you your gifts they just cried because they really wanted to come there a lot of snow yeah when we said it was going to change to February said oh no dog we got to give it to them this month so
003they they really appreciate you guys and they were just devastated and traumatized by not being able to serve you in January so here in this February now they're here and we want I want to thank our principles for coming out I'm telling you they work hard every day they're faced with challenges every day and they've been with us all day long so we thank them for it so we're going to begin um lot do you are you going to do it or how you want to do this Miss lot looking at me like you didn't tell me I had to do this so okay let's start off let's let's start from usually we start from the top I mean and go down so let's start from the bottom an alphabetical order we'll start start with
004uh trusty gwood the youngest we going young to old who got left at my joke you left at your J oh man all right good evening again good to see everyone we appreciate all your hard work the trusty gwood we thank you for your sacrifice your hard work your dedication to the students and teachers faculty and staff of P artha Independent School District we express our gratitude to you you today and thank you for your continued hard work for Port AR ISD thank you sir thank you okay he'll come down in the front he likes taking pictures I do you know me so well you're back yourself yeah I'm Sorry Miss Glon is not here so I'm speaking on behalf of the queen and Lake VI Elementary School I'm sorry to the front and let
005him take the picture this away he's going to take the picture of everybody it next okay next we have Dr Brown good afternoon again on behalf of the Wilson Early College High School the Port Arthur alternative campus and Abraham Lincoln Fine Arts Academy we would like to present uh this token of appreciation uh to Dr Brown for everything that he has done for our community for the school district uh we appreciate you and uh we salute you and we say thank you for your hard workor and dedication you next we have Miss Diane Brown we thank all of the school board members and on behalf of um Booker Washington and Sam Houston Elementary we thank trustee Diane Brown for all the dedication to our students our community and our schools we appreciate all you do
006[Applause] okay who's next yeah Mr Brandon [Applause] barti good evening to all of our board members and president Lofton to our trustee BTE it is with deep gratitude we extend our heartfelt thanks to you and for your commitment to our students to our staff and it is your leadership and vision and dedication that creates opportunities for success and education we appreciate you [Applause] next we have treasure Mr jakori naris [Applause] [Music] um on behalf Memorial High School CTA and Adam El We Appreciate You board members and you uh Mr nus for everything that you do every day for our kids and our community thank you so much [Applause] we heard a lot about you Dr Porter said we went shopping near and far and all over the world that Jay in here is actually for
007Journey because we were on a journey we found out that she is a Dr Pepper lover we have Dr Pepper popcorn we have Dr Pepper peeps we have the brand new flavors that just came out the Blackberry and all of that so we going to Feast you into sugar coma want to tell each and every one of you guys how much we appreciate all of you all what you do to keep this ship going in the proper direction it's not an easy job and y'all have patience with us and we love you guys for everything that y'all do and you especially we got this for you now that's coming from William be Travis Elementary School and Thomas Jefferson and next we have the president Mr Kenneth Lofton [Applause] well and partnership the tinyest Titans in
008Memorial 9 want to acknowledge and celebrate you for all that you do uh here behind the president's bench in our community uh and even in the another country in China as your son represents por of the ISD and to all of our board members our superintendent we we really appreciate you for your support and we thank you and this is just the token of our appreciation and as we say it weekly every single thing you do matters yes now you special be special tonight okay okay great great we'll actually board members want to say something after we finish next we have our Girl Scouts and we see them here and they were trying to get here last month as well and we are happy that they're here with us tonight good evening all right I
009am happy to have with us tonight C Cadet Girl Scout Gabrielle synagog who will give our greetings good evening I am Cadet Girl Scout Gabrielle Sagle the Girl Scouts of San San jento are proud to have two troops in Port Arthur we have a troop we have a troop number 13453 for elementary girls and my troop troop number 13025 for middle school and high school girls both troops would like to express our gratitude to the Port Arthur Independent School District for supporting us and H and as a token of appreciation we have a gift for the each of you thank you [Applause] yeah this way [Applause] what members you may want to come down and take a picture the I think the Girl Scouts want you down there they're not going to move without a
010photo I'm going get on the corner sorry sorry okay [Applause] yeah next we have Mrs hope Scott and she'll be representing the city uh city council P of ptas first I'd like to say good evening to everyone um honoring the president lton and our superintendent and all of the board members I was told I have just a few moments everyone should have the state of the council so and it just tells you that our ptas are doing well we have 11 of the 13 schools in good standing three schools are not on PTA unfortunately but they're working on it so perfectly our next president which won't be me will handle that and I do want to point out that advocacy right now is so very important we have um people in power we're trying to
011take public funds and give to private schools so when we stand we're standing for our children and we need everyone to stand your membership helps your membership counts the state looks at numbers so our district is in your report how many memberships we have we need to have a whole lot more than that and I wanted to point out one thing in 1973 this shows you how long PTA has been fighting for our kids in 1973 Texas PTA president delivered 500 letters and back then I'm sure that was a lot to Governor uh Dolph brisco's office calling for a special session of the legislature to correct inadequacies in school and believe it or not 2025 we're still fighting for the same thing so I'm encouraging everyone who doesn't have a PTA membership join the PTA
012also our founders day is March 28th our speaker is uh Attorney James Payne tickets are $20 and we're praying that the school board attends so that's all I have okay okay to say anything uh any board members would like to comment all about all everybody left well of course everybody did leave uh Miss I first I want to say Miss Miss Scott uh I will I don't know if I I join every year but I will be joining rejoining this year and I will bring some people along with me to to join uh for first of off uh secondly uh Dr say about thanking people Thanking us uh you all for having us and um for you all recognize us as a board well I can't speak for everybody on this board but I can
013speak for my myself uh I don't do this to be recognized so if I don't ever get recognized I'm okay with that because I signed up for this job and the purpose of me being here as a board member is to make the district a better place for our students staff and our staff members so thank you for recognizing me but if you don't ever have to recognize me again because this is something that I supposed to do this is something that I signed up to do and what I stand for and um I would like to thank uh one of the principles that's still here that I see here uh Mr fet because I I do be at his campus pretty frequently uh me and him do have conversations we do talk and I
014want to thank you for the leadership that you have uh brought to this district and to your campus and the route that you all taking uh with our kids in the transitioning phase uh from uh the alternative campus to back to their regular campus so don'tk me but I want to thank you all for the job that you do I want to thank the executive team I want to thank the everybody that's here uh that works Under the Umbrella of the put out the Independent School District because I'm not the person that make it go around you are the people that do the hard work and make this District run thank you thank you any other questions go ahead Miss Johnson I just want to UT the sentiments of TR Steve B as well thank
015you to uh I know they they left out but thank you to the principles uh all of the administration to uh coach funo just like Mr barti says not to single anybody out but just seeing him sitting there right now um everywhere you go you see his face as a new principal and everything the pride that he has for p Arthur being that he doesn't live in Port Arthur is not from Port Arthur but he has Pride just like he was born and raised here for you know 30 40 50 years and he's at everything he support and he's not the only one you know I'm just using him as example right now I see Miss Washington back there look she uh know we ran into each other at uh Margaritaville and I'm like what
016you doing out here while I'm on vacation but she was there learning and getting information for the schools but that's speaks volumes that oh you know yeah yeah look Margaritaville is a restaurant it s's food it was during the day no one was in taking okay yeah let me be clear it's a restaurant and a resort that has conference rooms that house a lot of different and there was a lot of school buses to back it up and I seen it in class and everything so misquote my words but that just speaks volumes to the links that they go to travel to get um all the information that they need for the schools and she is also another standout uh principal um another one I I hate that Dr Jordan is gone because with this
017being my first year with my daughter being a part of P PISD which she would not have been a part of anything else but with this being her first year she has definitely made me a Believer and instilled in me that PISD does like class of 2003 produce productive people and there is no other District that we would rather our kids be and it starts with the administration and those principles who give so much time and are so dear neared to heart so like Brandon said you know like at work I'm an operator and I always say we just The Operators the country contractors do all the work and that's the same way I feel on the school board I'm a board member but you guys put in the leg work to make us look
018good to make the district look good and to make our kids the educated kids that Excel among anywhere else everywhere they go so it's definitely appreciated from you guys we should be giving you baskets every uh month because y'all deserve it for the work that y'all put in but I'm thankful for everything I did get from Thomas Jefferson um and was it uh T Terell I am thankful for that but um we just want y'all to keep on keep it on and spread that to the principles when you talk to them but we thank you while we're in the mood of thanks I just want to say thank you look at him president Lofton is it okay if I get my thanks thank you I was just going to say thank you of course my
019fellow board members of course this is the day of thanks and this is supposed to be done in January but due to weather but thank you each of to each of you that of course come every single month um this is as trusty bti said this is not a job of recognition it's actually known as one of the most thankless jobs um because there is no Financial form of payment but there is a very great reward um in serving in this position and although we always don't always agree on everything we always find a way to get the job done um so thank you to all who came out tonight um even those who had to leave but thank you so much for honoring us as um Vice President Johnson said um we definitely appreciate
020it and we should be giving you baskets because it is the work that you do and the work through our superintendent and of course this board so thank you all so much for that and also PTA is extremely extremely important um thank you for um reminding us of that um especially those memberships PTA is something that has been ingrained um in my life since I was growing up so thank you for so much for that as well I'm done all right Mr I just want to say thank you to everyone for being here and for all the hard work you guys do I'm here for the kids too I retire from pis D I'm still stuck in pis giv my service to the teachers and the kids in the community of pis I want to
021say thank you all again anybody else all right okay we'll continue on and as Mr stanil comes to the podium we want to extend our gratitude to Mr stansel he is our transportation director for his diligent work in preparing and introducing the bus rider safety handbook this handbook serves as a critical tool in reinforcing the values of safety and respect among our that our student bus riders it is essential that we understand bus transportation is not a mandatory service but rather a privilege afforded to our students therefore we urge everyone to uphold appropriate behavior and decorum while being transported by our dedicated bus drivers to and from school and District events Mr stanel all right good evening uh ladies and gentlemen and uh come from the Transportation Department as Dr Porter said um the gift
022they gave to you all was me uh sorry about that but I give one bus ride Five Mile round trip to every board member I'm here today to present the uh safety handbook for riding the school bus is something that I feel we need we don't have but we have to have consequences for the actions of our children on the buses uh everyone does have a copy I'm assuming everyone has looked through it so I'm going skim through this if I go too fast somebody just raise your hand and I'll slow down a little bit so basically what we have here uh just standard rules for are getting ready to catch the bus how they should be where they should be when they should be um nothing particularly Difficult about this uh we do need
023every student to have a badge that's something that we're going to start really driving home we have a new routing software that's coming up for kids to be able to badge in badge out so that's going to be extremely important to make sure that every student has a badge and it's a safety uh consideration as well I'm going jump ahead because I really want to get down to conduct on the bus I know Dr Porter has uh sent out a YouTube video where we're talking about discipline and trying to get parents involved and transportation sees a lot of that and we want parents to be involved as well so what we are trying to implement what I'm hoping that you all would vote on is that we can amend the current student handbook to place
024this in there so Transportation can have some rules outlined for how Behavior will be dealt with on our buses we go down to the infractions which is the main part I really want to get on uh we do outline the level of infraction there's three different levels and each level has a number of days or where the bus privileges will be uh revoked it is a privilege to ride the bus it is not law but we do offer it and we love to have the students own the buses but if the behavior becomes unsafe then we need to revoke those Privileges and get the parents involved hopefully the parents will get involved before that takes place but if in the event they don't the bus uh privileges will be revoked they can still attend school
025just Mom and Dad would have to take them uh we see some of the level infractions I'm going to jump around uh level one infractions would include like you know loud disruptive talking harassing other uh passengers littering we move down to level two defacing school property uh possession of Lighters a laser pin matches inappropriate uh touch and unsafe Behavior move down to level three we get to the more extreme stuff fighting weapons on the bus lighting the matches fireworks uh thing of that nature we're not at that point but but in the event of at least we would have some outline of what the parents can expect and go from there as we go further down it shows what the infractions would occur so like for a level one infraction first offense we're going to
026reach out to Mom Dad let them know your child's misbehaving on the bus you might want to take some actions while the bus privileges might be revoked that doesn't happen the level two we're going to try to suspend for two days remove the bus riding privileges now they can still go to school we're not trying to take away any educational time you just won't ride the bus to go to school Mom and Dad have to get you there you know because we have to try to control what we doing on the bus uh level two infractions as we went over it's just different offenses different suspensions from the bus same with level three go down to a little bit more serious fighting on the bus First Defense three-day suspension and it can go all the
027way up to a 10day or you might lose your bus privileges for the rest of that semester so that's what we're trying to uh implement and I hope you all read it and understand where we're coming from from a safety standpoint and we're trying to get the parents more involved in the child's uh bus riding the child's learning the child's education uh that's what I have any questions yeah I have a question uh yes go ahead president Lofton uh M thank you for that uh presentation uh a few questions I do have um with that being and I seen that you have the suspensions and infractions down there of the I think it was like three days okay 3 four uh 3 five and 10 days suspension uh when the bus who determines that the
028that of the suspension will it be the bus driver or the when it comes down to the suspension part of it who would deter make that determination this will determine because it goes off of the infraction so if we have the level three infraction and we have a fight on the bus then we can go down and see what the level three infraction would be which would be the first offense going to be a 5day suspension I think the question well I'm going to a question my question is who would make that call to to suspend the person from the bus the school the school okay okay turn no no but will you have the capability and the uh the responsibility to input the information in uh a system where you know okay if I
029pull up this kid's information I know that they're suspended from the bus route will that be something that the school input or something that you're off with but school would do it and they'll send a notice to us saying that we're going to remove the student from the bus for x amount of days yes thank you thank you so basically all infractions on the bus will go through the school yes we send a video with pull the video we send it over to the school they keep up with what number and fraction it is and they reach out to the parent talk to the parent let the parent know correct okay awesome awesome well i' have been put off their bus long time look I I had my days I at fraction let me add
030to what uh Mr stansel is saying um first of all we have to understand that the students that are riding the bus is about you if you think about it 50 to 70 students on a bus daily back and forth think about where we live in Port Arthur the construction in Port Authur is horrendous I mean lights are out the street are uneven there's construction at every corner and our bus drivers must pay attention they have to concentrate on the a path that they're driving if you have students that are yelling and screaming and hollering it's distracting so parents are going to have to help us and talk to their children and tell them when you're on the bus it's not just about your life you're talking about the lives of all students that are
031on that bus correct and the bus driver has to to concentrate but as you can think about us in our driving I was on we were on our way to uh the Port Acres uh pack today and I'm telling you the lights were out on 365 in Memorial they were out the next light on the side of um by Chick-fil-A we went a little further down I turned on Jade was construction the streets were blocked you have to make a a detour come all the way around I mean it's a lot going on in P off when and it's good construction we want the construction but we have to concentrate and even with us driving a car by ourselves sometimes it's challenging so we definitely want our transportation we want our students to get to
032school safe and get home safe so we we've got to have our parent parent uh parents to cooperate with us and help us and remember transportation is a privilege it is not mandated by the state of Texas we do not have to provide transportation other than special education yes but this outline was definitely perfect and it was great it literally it's clear as day and plain as day so it's really really good to know that we have this actually put in place now oh we had one of our own uh Mr Derek Mo uh did a lot of work on that so I do want to give him recognition for uh doing a good job on that cool questions thank you all right thank you all for your time okay where we are now where
033we agenda lot okay Miss lot two months worth of uh information about what has been going on in the district so I will try to fly through it um we had uh Lisa Welty from Sam Houston Elementary was nominated by channel uh for some someone from the community to receive the channel 12 Golden Apple award for an educator we also have a teacher uh Tiffany May at Tera Elementary who was teacher of the month for Phil pop Motors and her name went in a drawing to be a teacher of the year and she actually won teacher of the year so she received a significant gift card and her mother is the Foster grandparent at Sam Houston she her mother Tiffany's mother was also Foster grandparent of the year for this year for the across the
034grandparent uh organization uh Adams introduced their new sensory room one of our alumni was inducted into the semipro football hall of fame and uh we're familiar with the new Bond that we are proposing on the May ballot and weekly Elementary also has a new covered walkway at their campus we had four observations during the month of January and nine observations during the month of February including school resource officer day one of our students Tavon Chapman uh signed on National College Signing Day to attend Houston Christian University and he was also our homecoming King and February is also CTE month so we have been highlighting the CTE programs um over at that campus and we also had uh school counsel's week at the beginning of February we celebrated the tit um holiday day at all of
035our campuses even our middle and high schools were in on the celebration our high school choir had a lot of wins for solo and Ensemble contest our njrc participated in the annual standown event at the Civic Center we also had Sam Houston Elementary uh lost the student and and the peers of that particular student decided to honor her memory by making a human heart um that was one of the ways that they are learning how to process their grief our Alpha students learn how to make pottery at school and also during a museum field trip the queen Elementary was awarded a $2,720 grant from um the bont Children's Museum and indorama Ventures for their stem programs at tarot Elementary we have a content creator club and the alum call him the star of the content
036creator Club little Caleb chatlin he uh went around the district throughout the month with a black history uh trivia game that he created himself and um here he is because he uh challenged Dr Porter for this particular episode and it was uploaded to their um Terrell's Facebook but Caleb also has his own YouTube channel so we we just know Caleb is about to go viral we had some students at our CTE program who have passed the first part of their real estate uh certification program we also have Alpha stem labs and uh going on and this this baby just really I was so tickled by the fact that Weekly created snow and how surprised the children were that they actually created snow in class um the ninth grade academy had parent teacher failure conferences so
037that students know where they stand as far as their credits at the end of the first semester what they need to do to be more successful in the second semester so that they can move on to the 10th grade um this is a UIL academic team who had some wins from the high school and we have a Saturdays and after school tutorials at several of our campuses Alpha just had a recent s Saturday school session and 113 students showed up for Saturday school um our Wilson Early College freshman uh went on a college campus tour to the University of Texas at Austin and also uh visited Houston tillison we had some GT tame wins from our Wilson students and uh they are actually uh preparing to go to state we celebrated Martin Luther King day
038when we had our snow day we asked our community to send in their photos and videos for snow day and we received over 300 photos and videos on that particular day so the community really really enjoyed that uh we had some more celebrating Black History Month across the district my personal favorite is when wheatle does the Black History Museum and the kids make the posters and dress up like our black history Heroes uh something that we are doing in our uh Communications Department to drive home that 70 and above we've started a campaign called the the 70% standard um and we want everybody the students and the families to understand that we want them to aim for more 70% or better on all assignments and all assessments cvas and star and everything and um we
039have a new member of our department Dylan delaos that was taking the pictures he actually did a very good job outlining the campaign and um he's created Graphics that we have posted on our social media and we he's getting ready to do some Tik Tock like videos to help to drive home that campaign we have some artwork for black history month from TJ in the top left corner and this Booker T I thought this was so cute that Booker T Washington reenacted the March um from Selma Alabama and this is little Martin Luther King leading the parade and the kids are carrying the banner that says we shall overcome so this was a part of their Black History Month celebration um Wilson Early College gentleman club they have been inviting guest speakers to speak to
040their um population and this the the particular guest speaker that's with the gentleman club she's a product of um Port artha ISD I think she graduated from aor in 2007 but she's a nurse practitioner who um practices in bont and uh Puerto Rica's Elementary had a petting zoo day for as a reward for students who have been exhibiting good behavior um let's see we celebrated the 100th day of school once again um Wilson early college students are Mr and Miss top teen for this this year they were crowned in January um and then the CTE campus put out a student interest form so people can students can click on the QR code and fill out a form so that they can register for CTE classes any grade level from 9 to 12 the multilingual Department
041was featured on the tea website for all of the hard work that they're doing and working with our immigrant families we have been um promoting our online registration we have been bombarding parents with all calls emails and text messages about the importance of online registration for next school year right now we have over a thousand students who have registered and last year we at this point we were at 750 so we are getting the word out we've made some videos featuring some of our board members that we are also have posted some of them and we have more to post um we are also having a career fair and we've been promoting the our career fair we have a video promoting that as well Wilson has a sewing and a knitting club and it has
042a lot of um participation and it it's not just the students it's a lot of teachers that are involved and some parents uh February 25th was declared pakers Elementary first graders Day by our mayor um they visited city hall they were able to sit in on a meeting and they received the key to the city and um I know they just had a great time because I've never known kids to have a day named after them so our kids have a day named after them Adams Elementary invited a retired NASA classroom flight director to their campus and he conducted experiments with the students uh a lot has been going on in our athletics department we had senior night for the girls and boys basketball team we are now in the playoffs um getting ready to
043go to round four with our boys tomorrow night baseball season has started and soccer season is still in full effect we posted our track and tennis schedules as well um we had some of our twirlers were asked to perform at a Houston Rockets game at the halftime one of our Flames the captain represented the district at the dance team member as a dance team member at the Texas dance Education Association conference um so she was one of 270 all state dance team members our lady Titans powerlifters as you can see I don't it looks like that's the whole team qualified for regionals um the the coach was here earlier but I'm I'm just go ahead and say I think that's the whole team that qualified for regionals and then um we had a lot of
044students who qualified for state and uh our marching band so that's the bottom right corner we had one two three four five six eight football players named to the super goal um team from the bont Enterprise our Alpha girls and boys eighth graders won this year's uh Clash of the Titans for um basketball however our seventh grade team at TJ for basketball the girls basketball they are undefeated um our elementary basketball league is in full swing our Dazz and Dolls went to competition um from Thomas Jefferson and they won in seven different categories right now the cheerleading squad and the Flames are preparing for triy outs for next year and we also had a celebrity in the house um the head coach of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team he and his staff visited
045uh tank king um and they spent the day uh at Memorial and they attended the basketball game that evening and Notre Dame was one of the the I think they were like the Runners up for the championship for college football this year um our new our new team member Dylan has upgraded our weekly sports schedules uh incorporating pictures of our kids in sports for the actual uh events of competition for the week we post those on Mondays more Sports pictures at the bottom left um some more of our wins from the band we had 10 students in the band who um are a part of the region 10 our region band a lot of community engagement a lot of our elementary campuses have been having uh fatherdaughter dances and mother daughter events and in the
046coming months the campuses are planning uh events where the parents and the sons can participate in fun activities more Community engagement um trusty bti introduced his new scholarship uh in the article that was printed in the Port Arthur News the city of Port Arthur had planned to host a Citywide baby shower during our the week that we had the snow days so they rescheduled that and our high school is one of the drop off spots to donate uh new items for newborns and mothers to help out the mothers in our community we want to thank the 100 black men of Greater bont for donating $1,000 that we were able to purchase clear backpacks for uh students who need them and the AKA donated feminine hygiene products to uh girls at Alpha uh we were asked
047if we were doing anything to support the students who were impacted by the Los Angeles wildfires so I did a little research and found out that this is a a very legit uh opportunity to donate online the site is being run by the Los Angeles Unified School District the information came from one of the trustees on the school board there and so we've been promoting this website if anybody from our community wants to donate because we know what it's like to lose everything and be displaced when it happens when we have hurricanes and finally um over the last two months we have had over 2 million views of our content on social media on Facebook in particular um a lot of it was uh the weather closures the messages about the bond the messages about
048the basketball playoffs and the messages about our uh enforcement of our rules and protocols regarding behavior we the video that Dr pory did for YouTube has had over 2,000 views and I think we just just released it Monday and those 2,000 views probably came within the first 48 Hours a a lot of accomplishments by our alumni uh Kristen Kathy who was the former uh media specialist for the school district has moved on to Houston and she has been elected the president of the Texas school public relations Association and she's the first African-American to hold that position um kayin Hunt is a actor and producer in Hollywood um he attended the Golden Globes he works for Via Davis's production company and he also is launching his book release for his book American wolf Glenn Alexander II
049um was one of the conductors on the album of John batist that won a Grammy we had one of our alumni who is deceased but she was inducted into the museum of the Gulf Coast U her name is Sarah Davis uh Miss calco who is our p parent and family engagement coordinator she and her sons have published a book and it is on Amazon and at Barnes & Noble and unfortunately we did um experienced the transition of several of our current and former family members and um so we recognize and remember them as well president Lofton board members that concludes our staff reports thank you Dr pter uh next we have the minutes considering if appropriate approved minutes of the January 23rd 2025 Board of Trustees meeting considering if appropriate approved minutes of the February
0506 2025 Bond Board of Trustees meeting have a motion second motion motion was made by uh B and second by Miss Diane Brown all in favor say I I all opposed next we have the consent agenda the following items which are of a routine or and or reoccurring nature have been designated con consider gender items by the board president for policy B local all the items in the consent agenda will be acted upon by one vote without being discussed separately unless requested by entrusting in which the event the items or items will be withdrawn immediately for individual consideration in its normal sequence after the items not re requiring separate discussion have been acted upon I will let you look at the 13 items we have uh have a motion Mr President I'd like to make
051a motion that we accept the consent agenda items as follows 1 through 13 second motion was made by B and second by Mr gwood uh all in favor for items 1 through 13 say I I all oppos next we have Personnel considering if appropriate approval employment of teach I've given you the list of teachers which we all we are happy that all teachers we're asking for approval are certified for the 25 26 school year so move second motion was made by Mr gwood second by m Johnson uh all in favor say I I all opposed information by average daily enrollment by month 7,9 949 average daily attendance by month 9111 call for J second made by Mr second by Mr at 737 p.m.