001Testing one. Testing. testing. Daniel Kathy Brown here. Our two members that are not here are out of town and send their apologies, but good to have you with us at this time. I don't think we have from city councils. Okay. At this time, uh, we'll look at the adopting the agenda. Everyone had an opportunity to look over that. Do I have a motion to adopt? I make a motion. And do I have a second? Second. All those in favor say I. I. Hearing. No. No. We drop the agenda. And this time, we'll look at the consent agenda. They'll have a motion to look at at the to adopt the consent agenda. I'll make a motion to adopt the consent agenda. Do I have a second? Second. All in favor, please say I. I. Hearing no
002opposition. The consent agenda is passed. Dr. Martin. All right. Discussion items and and I apologize. 8 a.m. on the Monday after a holiday. I'm the genius that scheduled this board of education meeting. Next year, I just go ahead and put it on the 4th of July at 8:00 a.m. So, we'll see you all there. Uh consent agenda. You can see approval of um first item that I have for review. Approve an amended job description for student services supervisor. This is uh for the position that Dr. Hamilton was in last year as opposed to having a 612 and a K5 uh individual. This uh position would complement uh Kelly and support in the student services area. Uh the next item that I have here, approve noonday employee assistance program. Um the noonday is a service here
003in the Trustful community. And um let's see, we are going to use them to support our our our um our staff, our faculty in the case there are needs there for employee assistance. Uh, the next item under cons that I wanted to speak to was approve an agreement with American Travel Consultants for our high school to go to Chicago next year for the St. Patrick's Day parade on uh March 12th through 15th. I did want to make sure this was a conversation I had with Mr. Canals. Did want to make sure that this was in lie of the trip that they take to Orlando. Correct. This is not an additional trip that they take. Okay. And let's see. Board of Education members can also see we have a myriad of field trips over the course
004of the summer as well. And Dr. Ward, that is consent agenda for today. Okay. Thank you. We'll look at the next item, personnel. At this time, do I have a motion to adopt personnel? Do we need to approve? Motion. Okay. Okay. Okay. Ready for that? Yes. Yeah. Do you have a motion? I'll make a motion. Okay. Second. Second. Okay. All in favor, please say I. I. Motion passes. Dr. Martin, anything you want to Yes, several items here under actually just some individuals that I would like to introduce. Uh we have been busy over the course of the month of June. Um our principles have looking at assistant principles and that's something that we sit down and discuss. I have a chance to uh interview these individuals as well. Whereas principles see assistant principles as their
005right hand and the function of the school day. These are individuals that I like to see as our pool for potential principles for our school system. And so I'd like to introduce a couple of individuals that we have contracts for on the board of agenda for recommendation. The first is Miss Kimberly Felts, who will be an assistant principal at Payne Elementary. Miss Felts, if you would give us a wave, please so that our board members know who you are. not able to be here today, but Steven Mitchell comes to us from Jefferson County and he will be a new assistant principal at Kahaba Elementary. Uh he has the big shoes of filling those for Miss Gian Grosa who's moved to be a principal there at Payne Elementary School. So we welcome Steven. Uh and then
006we have Katherine Raspberry, not to be confused with Maggie Raspberry, correct? who's our golf coach and has made it to state, but Katherine a a star there at the high school of, you know, in and of herself, uh, assistant principal there at Hwitt Trustful High School. So, welcome, Katherine. Also wanted to mention that we do have on the agenda uh, a contract recommendation for Dr. Puy as well as board members can see. And then just because she is working with the state department of education on a couple of matters of certification uh is Bri Brienne is here. Olivea is uh new assistant principal at the middle school with Jared Me. Um only other item that I have here under the personnel um report is under a leave of absence. if we could. I know that
007uh uh Jared Me and Hannah Me have welcomed a new addition to their family. Uh we we are working with Mr. Me on just what the rest of his summer looks like, but I did want to make sure that we mentioned that we keep Little Jackson in our prayers um and just support the Me's family uh as we can. So, that's all that we have for the personnel report. Okay. Looking at new business, we have the first item under that and I believe we need to make a motion to adopt the first item. That's right. And uh individuals may have seen across the Birmingham area as well as the state of Alabama. Several several systems have already adopted and approved policy as it relates to the new focus act. And this is something the principles
008and and uh I will be discussing at our retreat on July 15th. But essentially what this legislation says, and this was uh the governor's um really for this session, one of her um initiatives, uh no cell phone communication devices at our schools, period during the school day. Students are not even to have those on their person. And so we will ask students to either keep all cell phones in their locker or all cell phones in their vehicle uh if they have one there on school grounds at the high school and then in their locker like they have in the past for the middle school. But no access to cell phones whatsoever here at Trustful City Schools in this next school year. So that'll be a big policy change and I know that Mr. King and
009his team are starting to put parameters together for that. So that's a recommendation. New business number one. questions, comments? No. No. I think it's fantastic. Good. Good. Absolutely. The teachers will appreciate it. Yeah. I watched a webinar uh I think it was the principal at Fair Hope High School. Okay. That started a program like last year, you know, and it was about how they, you know, did it and the benefits they saw from that. But it's going to be a tough one, I think. But I think it's great. Yeah. Uh, like if they go to their locker during the day, can they check their phones? Not supposed to. Like no touching phones. That's right. That's right. Erin Piper has been leading us through a book study, Anxious Generation. And Aaron, correct me if I'm wrong,
010but you and and Demetiana showed a video where just looking at the data from testing, a cell phone on the desk versus in a locker versus outside of the classroom, individuals actually scored better the further the cell phone was away from their person. Close, you know, extremely close to you. If it's not in use, you know, they're aware. So great. Would the pouches still be available the in the classrooms? We don't have that either. We're not going to do that. What would you call that? The parking lot where they put the phone. No, I They need to be in their lockers. Yes. Because what they'd have to do is put them on their person to take them to the next class. So, we're going to ask them to just keep them in their locker. Period.
011Yeah. So, it's going to be a shock for them. Yeah. It's going to be a change. I've read the book, too. Yeah. Thanks, Jenny. It's really amazing. Yeah. Yeah. So, thank y'all. Yes. So, we need to do more. We need to make a motion to approve. I make a motion. Motion. Have a second. Second. All in favor, please say I. I. Motion approved. Next item. Be because of um that legislation and the board of education passing the policy change. We in turn need to make sure that we update our student handbook as well to account for this change. So, new business item number two changes our parent student handbook to account for this change. Okay. Very good. Any questions, comments on that? Entertain a motion to adopt and approve that amendment. Do I have a
012motion? I make a motion. Have a second. Second. All in favor, please say I. I. Very good. That is approved. And then the final new business item is that to place a transition job coach job description on the table for a first reading. And what this entails is essentially when we are looking at IDA, which is special education legislation, um there's an indicator indicator 13, which is a transitional support indicator. So when you think about all of our students that have an IEP in special education, essentially what this indicator does is make sure that we as a school system are transitioning those students past high school, their high school experience. And so um I I call them the trustful errands. That's Aaron Deck. Yes. Yes. So uh Aaron Deck and Aaron Piper have been working
013on a position uh to support this change and working with Mr. Kirkland on this as well to make sure that it fits within our um our maintenance of effort structure. And so this allows for us to support a role that we already have to support those students with special needs um as they transition out of their high school experience. Okay. All right. Do we need a motion? We need a motion and adoption. Yes. And a motion. We have a motion to place this on the table for first reading. Have a motion to adopt. I'll make a motion. Second. All in favor, please say I. I. All approved. With that in in mind, does anyone have anything they'd like to say? Any questions and comments? We'll be here for the next two hours if you need
014anything. At this time, we'll make a motion to adjourn. All in favor, please say I. I. All in favor? Good. Thank you for being here. And our next meeting will be the 21st of July. Thank you for being