001e e e testing one two testing testing e e e good afternoon everybody thank you for being here today um we will call the meeting to order and Dr Ward if you would mind saying our prayer and our pledge please pray please de father we thank you for our many blessings we thank you for the opportunity to gather this evening guide us as we make our decisions that affect our young people we ask that you continue to bless and protect those individuals who may be suffering especially with our latest tornadoes we keep these in mind we ask this in Christ's name amen amen attention salute pledge I plge algi to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice
002for all all right thank you um uh Sandra if you'll call the rooll please Kim de here Sher tolber present Kathy Brown here Steve Ward here Jason Daniel here all right um thank you all for being here today we got a full house today I had to park over at won there's so many right here um um well thank y'all we we'll get started um board members if y'all have had an opportunity to review tonight's agenda then I will entertain a motion to adopt our agenda for the evening I'll move to adopt second second any discussion all right all in favor of adopting tonight's agenda please say I I I any opposed all right motion carried all right um let's see is Lisa right here there she is hey Lisa come on up give our
003city our city update thank you wow we do have a big group here tonight um thank you for allowing me to come in and give a city update I'm Lisa brigh we uh will have our workshop and um council meeting on Thursday with Workshop beginning at 5:00 immediately following will be city council we normally would meet next Tuesday but because of spring break we bumped it up to Workshop so if you're interested in attending that will begin Thursday at 5:00 we have our next chamber meeting Thursday as well Thursday is a busy day Thursday at 11:30 at the Civic Center um the willb foundation will be sponsoring that and Mike Enis will be our speaker so it should be a really good uh event and then you can call the Chamber if you'd like to
004make reservations for that next we dedicated our fourth fire station last week I'm not sure if you saw that on the news but it was a really big um accomplishment for the city having that fire station allows us to have the lowest rates when it comes to Fire Protection in your um homeowners insurance so we're really glad to have that open it also houses our city inspections department as well so if you want to go take a little tour of it stop by I'm sure that the staff there would not mind showing you around it's it's a beautiful facility um and then we also um as you probably know had a little bit of a um press release on garbage pickup for the city so we ask for your your grace and your patience as
005we navigate we allow the we um provided the mayor to be able to go into contract negotiations with Amo and we're working through that and we will come back around on that note I will say one of the the main things with the city that we we have experienced different is our online sales tax is treated so differently than our regular um retail sales tax so I encourage you to shop local um in including myself I'm preaching to the choir on that so um keep that in mind as you're shopping and Shop our brick and morar that helps the city a lot so thank you for allowing me to give you an update and if there's not any questions um we'll have a good rest of our meeting thank you thank you Lisa all right
006Dr Martin I'll turn it over to you for recognitions all right excited about this evening we have several student groups that we are going to recognize I I've noticed a trend in my short time here as superintendent we will do recognitions and then usually those students and families leave and then we recognize the next group so because of this trend one of the things that I would like to do for those parents that are are here in the room we're going to recognize some middle school students we're going to recognize some high school students I want to make sure that all parents are familiar with our leadership trustful group would you please wave if you're in our leadership trustful group there at the high school so so this is a group of students they do
007projects throughout the year uh it's an outstanding program Amber Benson is there in the back Amber if you would wave as well I would encourage your students to at least take a look at this program they also do some Partnerships with our elementary school so I know we're going to recognize students I know at some point you'll vacate the facility here they're going to present projects tonight but please parents make sure you look into that program as well it's an outstanding one before we recognize our students I am privileged to announce here that Payne Elementary School was named a 2024 class Banner school and that's that's a pretty big deal class is our Leadership Council for the state um for all of our administrators and so Dr Lisa Los Pike put together an outstanding program
008and it was recognized by that group and I've asked Dr Los Spike if she would come forward and share with us a little bit about that program so doctor the floor is yours [Applause] all right so what we did at Payne um for the 23 24 school year we designed and implemented a framework uh to start our math lessons and it's where we provide students with cognitive interest hooks to spark their curiosity get them engaged and to deepen their understanding of math and so that was implemented with 225 second grade students in the 23 24 school year and then we expanded to other grades at Payne as well it's being fully implemented in trustful City Schools now and all of our elementary schools K through five in math so I'm really excited about that but
009this high yield strategy of providing these cognitive interest interest cues what it does it Sparks students Natural Curiosity and it uh Sparks their background knowledge their excitement and it primes them for the new learning not only did our hooks accomplished this but these even captivated our students where they were fully immersed in the learning it was just a sight to see as a result we achieved an unsurpassed increase in our second grade math growth comp compared to the previous year we went from 71st percentile growth to 80th percentile and this growth was consistent for all student proficiency levels so what I mean by that is our high-risk students increased from 67th percentile growth to 78th perc tile our medium risk 71st to 77th and our lowrisk or no-risk mass students went from 73rd to 81st
010so it it reached every student level um we've seen higher student motivation engagement deeper math understanding and an increase in retention of Concepts so I want to introduce a few people who are really key in this effort I want to start with our two assistant principles Dr Maggie Jensen and Miss Kelly Shirley and then I want to talk about these three ladies right here who are very key in this initiative um we have Dr Donna brumo and Miss Cynthia Wyman our two math coaches so a little bit about them they were on the design team for these um cognitive interest cues we worked very closely together and the three of us had an opportunity to speak at the National Council of teachers of mathematics conference in February in Kansas City on this topic and it
011was so well received we got a lot of great feedback and then miss Sarah wils over here was a second grade teacher last year and teaching third grade this year and she Embrace these cognitive interest cues and took them actually to a higher level than we had ever anticipated and I have to say when we talk about the Husky experience I taught Sarah I was her math teacher in fourth grade I taught her in fourth grade and now she has taught two of my grandsons so it's just like a full-blown experience but I wanted to take a minute and let the three ladies maybe share their favorite cognitive interest hook with you very briefly so you get a better idea of what we're talking about so Donna would you come up first absolutely thank you
012all it's so great to be here and we're so excited to see the excitement in the students and see that they cannot wait to start a math lesson and begin the day with when can we do math when can we do math I mean where you heard that so one of the hooks that we implemented that to this day we have first graders that will talk about this hook and talk about the learning from that and it was a measurement lesson uh to start um a student that would use the objects or use objects to describe identify and compare length weight uh tall short those types of of attributes and so we started with uh Hey guys bring in your favorite stuffed animal tomorrow didn't tell tell them why uh just bring bring in a
013stuffed animal so they of course the curiosity is already starting what's this about why are they wanting me to take this to school so the next day the teacher started the lesson with hey have you ever been to the veterinarian with your pet you know when you go to the vet they measure to see how your animal is growing weight they look at different sizes and they make sure that the dog or cat or other animal is growing properly so today you're going to be a veterinarian you're going to get to measure your animal and what you brought with you and so without giving them parameters on what they could do the teacher laid out cubes laid out plastic chains uh chain links laid out rulers and just watched and the children were measuring and
014they were laying the animal on the table and putting tape measure around it and really thinking about what is the size of this animal and so they all discussed what they found what they realized how many cubes long how how big round and they started comparing each others and so it was a beautiful lesson to this day we have first graders say I want to be a vet I really want to be a veterinarian because that was so fun but they learned and the teachers said feedback that they really understood that concept so that was one example from a Kindergarten class I'll be fast all right someone invented this and I paid $15 for it on Amazon could y'all what does this have to do with math and I'll give you a hint I'm on
015a telling time lesson something that's difficult for second graders the relationship between minutes and hours and then if I speed it up for you you're going to see that one of the googly eyes is going a lot faster than the other one and think if you are in second grade what you'd have to say about it and if you'd have an entry point and if it would get you excited and curious about you were going to learn that day you think it would make a difference it makes a big difference hi so they did such an amazing job of creating like our hooks for us inside our um curriculum and some of our other third grade teachers did too and so one of the hooks was a roller coaster and we applied it to arrays
016in multiplication and so as they watched a video of roller coaster and my students know that I love roller coasters and so I was all into it and so instead of just having them sitting on the carpet I had them to actually act like they were getting on to the roller coaster sit in like their rows and their columns put their hands up and we like rode the roller coaster together and that was such an amazing cook for them because it really helped them connect and think back okay I'm not just thinking of roller coaster like I'm thinking of when I rode on that roller coaster um in class and so that was one of the amazing ones they did but then they came to me let me say one thing so imagine going into
017her room there's a roller coaster video playing in these kids were swaying intoing all these they were all into it they loved it yes they make it easy cuz they love stuff like that and then another one they came to me and they asked me if I would be interested in having the soccer coach and some soccer players from the high school come to my classroom um because we were doing two-step word problems and a lot of the word problems were about sports because that's just kind of easy to connect and so I was like of course cuz I've been with my kids for 2 years and I know that they love soccer we play socc er every day at recess the whole class is playing together and so they came in and they kind
018of we made it into a two-step word problem rather just than just being like okay they're coming in and then the word problems will be about soccer we made the actual real life world problem while they were there so we had them time the players how many times they could kick back and forth in a minute and then how many times I could kick with one of the players in a minute and who could kick more and then we turned it into okay well if they went to every third grade classroom how many kicks would they do and then they got to go and work with their partner and make a poster about it and it really just allowed me to see them dive deep so I'm super thankful for the intentional work that they
019do to put this together and my kids love it so yes all right okay April's G to take a picture all right okay thank you Dr lost bike you and your team so pay elementary school if you if you look at AK cap scores you can see that these results are paying off with our students uh children swimming Dr Los bike you'll be recognized I know with other Banner School recipients correct hey Sarah would you come here real quick and stand next to Dr LP so I know you're looking here and you say wait Sarah Lisa Los Spike Sarah Lisa it is true Dr L Spike started teaching when she was 13 years old so I I just when she says that I want to make sure that they they allowed younger people to teach
020back during that time that you're welcome you're welcome can we give them a round of applause ladies thank you all right we have a couple of of student recognitions here the month of March is music in our schools month so we have coming forward right now our Middle School band program and our Middle School brand Band program is directed by Brandon Peters uh as well as Lewis and Shannon Moore and and I'm going to have you introduce our students here in just a second you heard Dr Los bikee talk about the Husky experience and one of the things that we talk about quite often here in trustful is we'd like to see everyday excellence in the areas of academics Athletics and the Arts and we recently had our leadership trustful day it was education day
021on Thursday and so we pulled out some old yearbooks and I thought this was interesting in a 19 41 yearbook I believe it was correct Miss Tiner you and Amy pritchet didn't they find uh in there it said in 1941 they wanted their students to be brainy bronny and Breezy and so I thought wait a minute here acade excellence in academics Athletics in the Arts brainy broy and Breezy so with that said you know if we're looking at the Arts we want to make sure we're excelling in that area and Mr Peter is going to share with us how we're doing that at the middle school thank you art we have a lot of awesome students in our Middle School band and tonight we have with us uh some students who were recognized at the
022metro area and in the state level um for their Excellence this year and so we have Tabitha Jameson Ryland Spence Paige Su Judah Goot Charlie Hodes and a couple more Emma Enz and Cory Williamson that could not be here tonight but these students placed um at the Metro level being recognized as the most outstanding uh Middle School band student students in Jefferson and Shelby County and then Tabitha Ryland and Charlie plac at the state level being recognized as the most outstanding Middle School band students in the state of Alabama please give them a round of applause can they uh can they tell us what instrument they play okay sure you want you all can do that I play I also play I also play I also play I oh yeah what's up with that all
023right thank you Mr Peters appreciate we'll just have you follow Miss Chamberlin out there and parents if you if you have a student here we're going to have them now with our larger groups we'll take them out this way back down the hallway but parents they will meet you out there in the foyer our next group that we have we have our Middle School chorus and our Middle School chorus um let's see here under the direction are they coming in okay all right under the direction of Nicole Hill and Miss Hill I'm going to have you introduce your students for us if you would will you come to the podium here use that mic thanks got good okay um these are we had 26 students try out for All State and if you don't know
024what Alabama vocalization all state is it is the um top three four choirs in the state or five there's five um in middle school there's only two and it's very rare that this happens but we took 26 and had 19 make it we have a few absent tonight for different reasons because they're all involved um but that is a really big deal in 21 years of teaching I've never had a group that big my biggest group was like 14 so I'm really really proud of these young ladies and young men um we have Ella AIT I didn't say that right AIT sorry um we have Ellie Kaufman have Emma Kate Cook Marissa Gilmore Claire Hill Marcus Hill Cadence Matthews Sophia Moore Jenny Kate osbor Charlie Solomon Janna van sahale Weber and Amy U we also
025had the opportunity we were one of the eight schools chosen in the state to perform in Montgomery um in the state capital rot Tundra and um in another building while we were there as well and they made us these very nice posters that I want to make sure you got one as well sir with our name on it so that um everybody get to see what they've they've accomplished this year and sahy you want to pass those out for me if um is it okay if she comes back there to give y'all something real quick oh yeah we have some wristbands that we've made for the Middle School choir now um and if if you want one you're welcome to raise your hand and she'll give you one as well so thank you so much
026it's a long haul picture okay so you two thank you would you make these congratulations you I love it not my phone thank y'all thank you we go can we hear it for the huitt trustful Middle School choir that way thank you very much all right thanks for being here tonight and the crown disaar oh yeah all right and we transition from our Middle School choir to our high school choir under the direction of Dr Ben Cook Dr Cook would you bring your group forward for us please hello and I'll have you introduce everyone and then tell us a little bit of about yourself abolutely all right thank you you mind using yes sir oh I like this this is nice all right good evening everyone I uh I kind of snuck in there at
027the end of that uh to to see the the last session because I actually am a parent of one of those kids so I get to I get to support them as Dad and now I get to uh now I get to be here as teacher but I'm Ben Cook uh and I'm the the High School director at hu trustful High School for the choir and these are some of our Allstate choir students um unlike Mrs Hill uh number one I am not going to remember without having everybody's names in front of me so I've got their names right here uh also I did not bring any goodies I didn't know that we were uh we were having a a swag Fest up here but um we had we had 16 students from the high
028school make one of the uh Alabama vo vocal Association All State choirs Justice Andre jeski Sarah butram Lilian Campbell Kelsey Dudley Riley godf who's not here she could not be here tonight uh nor could Katie Harris McCord Haynes Eli Hollingsworth Wesley Miller also could not be here Murphy Peterson Callie self who also could not be here Stella Shipman Kennedy Singh and if you notice I skipped over a couple that was our satb choir in the ssaa choir we also have Miss Kylie Royster and Jillian Benson and Mr Alex fiser in the ttb B choire uh that's uh the tener tener Baron base soprano soprano Alto and the others were soprano Alto tener base so uh an outstanding accomplishment for these kids to make it I want to point out a couple of them for a
029couple of different reasons Kelsy Dudley stelle Shipman are uh very special in this case because they first made all state their 7th grade year with me at hu at Trussel Middle School back in 2020 and today or this year they are going to complete their seventh is that no sixth sixth All State Choir that means that they will have been in all state choirs for as long as they have been eligible to be in all state and that is a huge accomplishment it's very difficult to make all state and those ladies made it all six years of Eligibility additionally we have a couple of special uh kids in this group group Mr Eli hollingworth and Miss stelle Shipman were selected as our District's outstanding Coral students and when I say District I don't mean trustful
030City Schools the Alabama vocal Association has seven districts and we are in District three which encompasses all of Jefferson County and Walker County so very uh a very huge honor for them to have been selected as outstanding Coral students um a couple weeks ago our choirs went to State Coral performance assessment where we were assessed alongside the other choirs in the state of Alabama and I'm happy to say that all three of our choirs at hu at trustful High School came away with Superior ratings in every category by every judge um our several of uh several of those scores were perfect scores and some of them were one point away from being perfect scores our chamber Choir in particular only lost two points the entire time which is practically unheard of so these are outstanding
031kids making some outstanding accomplishments so thank you do a picture you mind stagger in two rows we can do pictures can you all stagger in two rows with um tallest people in the back yeah that means you're in the front all right you yeah you're all right Dr C thank you here thank you for being here tonight students congratulations thank youall than you for thank you for sharing members of the board that's recognitions for this evening all right thanks everybody all right moving into our consent oh no sorry Mr Kirkland is up with a financial report you always get to follow the recognitions I'm so sorry we need to put you in a different spot yes just as exciting as sorry Jim fin febru for tonight um please to announce that all bank accounts are
032reconciled to the general ledger the Financial extract has been uploaded to the state department with all necessary edits corrected for the month our total expenditures and transfers out in the general fund are at 38.9% of our budget compared to 4.45% of our budget uh this year uh avalor revenues are at 81.7% of our budget which is about 3.2% higher than this time last year um and as always upon approval by the board the monthly financial report will be posted on our website for public review thank you thank you Jim Jim all right next is consent agenda youve all have had an opportunity to review that I'll take a motion to um to adopt our items listed on the consent agenda I make a motion a second second all right um items for discussion uh Dr
033Martin anything you want to bring out bring to our attention yes I've pulled a a couple of items here from consent agenda this evening if board members will take note of item number five this is a recommendation under consent to approve the 2025 2026 as well as the 2026 2027 school calendars lot of feedback given throughout the uh the various groups and I did ask Dr puie if she would say just a quick word on the calendar committees and the process under undergone here um so we appreciate that we had Parents students teachers and administrators work with us on these committees it was good to have them in separate groups so that everyone had a good opportunity to voice their concerns and their thoughts and some great fresh ideas um so we appreciated all that
034input that led us to make some changes to our initial calendar leading us to option two um that we all work through on the second calendar but we had some great input more so than we've had in the past any questions on the calendar that I can answer for you I can just say I mean I appreciate Dr P and all the the effort that went into it I was on I came and attended the parent committee meeting as a as a parent actually and um just the feedback that that was given by all the parents that were on that committee I think we we've done the best we can I mean you know you're everyone would like a a 13 or 14 week summer everyone would like three weeks at Christmas um a full
035week at Thanksgiving I mean you know but getting in 180ish days um is is it's a challenge and with all the opinions and the and all I think you've done a great job I think it's a good product that we've that we're presented with tonight um it's it's it's the best the best compromise I think we can we can do but I like it and Dr poy both options both for the 25 26 and 26 27 that was option number two correct for each of them that was approved so all right okay uh next item that I have here item number seven uh recommendation to approve the 2526 hu trustful High School curriculum guide and course description guide I just wanted to make sure that uh that that's a document that uh Dr Pie as
036well as Mr King and his team have been working on so we bring that as a recommendation this evening as well I did I did have a question about that um so I know we have a lot of AP classes we have gened classes there's advanced classes that are it's kind of the in between are we we keeping all of those I know there's been a lot of we got a lot more AP classes now than we used to we're we're still keeping the advanced level classes yes no so yes uh we found out that the College Board offers preap uh which provides us a full curriculum uh previous previously we had to get rid of that curriculum because they were charging $1,000 per course per year but because we offer some of the qualifying
037AP courses that fees waved so we get receive all the curriculum and the resources that come with those courses essentially it's uh our advanced classes but with the idea to help students bridge the gap between a general class and the AP class okay so it's what an advanced class should do sure you get and you get the the 0 five additional yes opportunity Credit Opportunity okay good I just I can only say from personal experience you know I've got a kid that wants to take AP classes but doesn't want to overload with four or five AP classes so having that middle of the road one helps helps with balancing that that balance I guess so good I'm glad to hear that that's an option we're keeping that and that is available on the high school
038website the curriculum guide so that individuals can go out and seek that out I'm going to skip down to item number 12 the approval of bus cameras and an upgrade for several of our buses in the transportation department I just wanted to note that this is paid for out of A&T funds uh so not out of the general fund Mr Kirkland and his team have done a very good job of I think the original budget we were anticipating was 150,000 and so as board members will note this this amount that he's been able to negotiate is significantly lower than what was originally budgeted item 13 approved 2526 tuition and this actually uh arrives to us from Board of Education policy which which dictates how we determine our tuition uh tuition to attend trustful City Schools
039outside of Zone boundaries is $5,500 on an annual basis we do split that up at times and and we'll charge that per month uh and the way that that's arrived at is they take overall local revenues and divide that out by our ADM to make that determination and that's what we've arrived at once doing that calculation so 5,500 is the tuition rate per board of education policy item 17 you'll note there I just I wanted to make sure that this is an item where we're approving an individual to support our storm shelters uh and and opening of those and the reason I've highlighted this is I just want to commend Mr mes and and the team I know we just had our storm shelters open this past week I think you were there eight or
040nine hours is that correct uh our four shelters are the middle school and all three elementary schools there have been two other times uh where we've had to open those shelters I believe after 11:00 p.m. there were times you and I were on the phone after 3:00 a.m. so I just want to take this opportunity and commend you and your team the Magnolia shelter if I'm correct had 90 individuals that were in attendance there on Saturday so just so the city knows we do have a safe place place for individuals to go and we're very fortunate to have folks like Jared Mees and his team that are willing to go into those shelters so we thank you Mr [Applause] [Music] mates and then the next item was item I'm going to go back one item
04116 which is the uh recommendation to approve the turf replacement at the stadium uh talking with uh coach Walker talking with Coach Floyd we are at end of life of our current Turf and so we had a bid here within the last couple of weeks competitive bid taking the low bid on this project and we anticipate as soon as our I'm just going to ask real quick our seniors over here raise your hand if you're a senior and you're graduating in May so as soon as they walk off the field the trucks will come onto the field to start demoing that Turf so we have a new Surface for next year so uh and that's just because we have to I mean that's yeah they they use uh gmax scores to the buoyancy of the
042turf and look at that from a safety standpoint we do have that rating score on our website I believe uh under the high school uh it may be under facilities I take that back uh but we do share that with the general public and like I mentioned that's the the buoyancy of the turf the safety of the turf and we're at end of life and it's time to change what's the uh normal life expect 10 12 years 10 12 8 to 10 I'm sorry I said 10 to 12 8 to 10 and we're on 11 okay and Coach Walker said that the turf that we had purchased guarantees state championships in not just football but other sports as well is that correct weant yeah we purchased that upgrade yeah it's in the warranty so I
043assume this is a more better better Improvement the latest tff is going to go in so there have been some improvements over the years I assume yes sir better product than 10 years ago you want to share where you this wasn't a situation where we looked in a magazine and said yeah that Turf looks nice do you mind sharing all the different places that you went uh go ahead there just to investigate I know you and Coach Floyd really went all over the southeast in your investigations yeah we uh we coach Floyd and I have learned a lot more about Turf in the last couple months than we ever wished uh we would but yeah there's a lot of different options out there um you know from you know now that have new technology with
044a pad underneath the turf um that that helps with head injuries and everything of that nature also the infill that you see in the turf um you know primarily 10 years ago was the black rubber uh which is hot and now um they've gone to more of an organic infield that can be you know 25 30 degrees cooler uh which is really nice in the summer so yeah we went to a lot of schools a lot of places and um we're excited about this project I got a question so when you put Turf on the football field is it same or different than under the Pavilion I mean is it a sport I mean because we're practicing under there so how does that it's kind of basically the same Turf correct yeah what what's under
045the Pavilion is very similar to what is at our Stadium right now this is entirely different from what they're putting in a sports complex isn't it's baseball softball field correct because it's for football right yes sir thank you and then the remainder of consent agenda members of the board can see we have various uh bid renewal recommendations we have a few job descriptions that receive first reading last month bringing to the board for second reading this month facility use requests um and then field trip requests and so Madam president that takes us through the end of consent agenda any other discussion or items youall want to ask questions about or bring up all right all in favor of adopting the items listed on the consent agenda please say I I any opposed all right motion
046carried that brings us to Personnel all right Personnel report our headings under the Personnel report this evening we do have uh two recommendations for resignation one reassignment or recommendation for transfer we have a few long-term substitute recommendations as well as three leave of absence recommendations members of the board can see recommendations for schedule change employee extra Services agreement recommendation and that makes up the Personnel report for this evening okay um I'll take a motion to to approve the items listed in the Personnel report so moved second second any further discussion all right all in favor please say I I any opposed okay motion carried new business all right our first item here under new business is to place on the table a first reading of the El Elementary School donation sheets and after conferring and
047meeting this morning with uh Mr Kirkland as well as Dr poie there are no changes to these sheets from the 2425 to 25 26 school year okay I'll um I'll take a motion to adopt the oh this is the first this is the first reading so I guess I'll take a mo motion to put it on the table for the first the as as it is stated I make a motion all right second second any further discussion all right all in favor please say I I post it's on the table all right second item that we have this evening under new business is to place on the table for our first reading a job description for student intern maintenance workers we have several very very talented students who are working in various trades whether they're
048going to the Craft Center or working in our CTE programs with folks such as George Logan and others and so we would like to take an opportunity to allow those students to work with our Reg shirts over the course of the summer that's and so what this does is allow us to to have a job description that enables them to have that opportunity they get paid they would yes heck yeah we can we need to apply for a job at the Des house good deal um okay um anybody I'll take a motion to adopt putting placing this item on the on the table I'll make a motion second second um any discussion all in favor please say I I any post okay a so on the table Jed is that with one D or two
049all right item number three here these next two items are are not for Action before the Board of Education more informational item number three is an informational item for the 2526 Board of Education meeting schedule uh which again is very similar to the 2425 meeting schedule before the board of education so we would continue to look at the third Monday of each month to conduct the business of the board the next item there is a discussion item for members of the Board of Education and this is the assistant administrator accountability act which would require an opt-in option this is something that I've worked with uh legal counsil on our board attorney Whit coven uh had a meeting with our assistant principles on Friday to have a conversation about this opin what this would do is
050it would extend um our current contract principal um option that we have with principles which each of our principles are currently on a contract to our assistant principles uh and move them if the board so chooses from the Student First Act legislation to this accountability act and allow them to work under a contract very similar to how principles work under a contract so this is for discussion this month and uh if favorable by the Board of Education we would bring a recommendation next month before the board this is this is new the state has just created this or Mr from last it's it's legislation from last year and um it basically just extends the contract principal law to other assistant administrators including assistant principles assistant csfos and assistant superintendent potentially um the opt-in part basic
051it's it the the statutory language is a little bit confusing but it it says the board has to opt in that means that any new administrator in those categories would be employed under contract and then there's also a process for current assistant principles to be able to opt in so sort of a double opt in an opt in by the board and then an opt in by employees as well so if you're a new hire you don't automatically you if you're a new hire if the board opts in new hires will automatically be offered a contract just like our contract principles it's just those who who were employed with the board before July 1st 2024 which is the date set forth in the ACT gotcha okay thank you that's more than I've talked in a
052lot thank you m um is there anything for us to vote on or or we just discuss this is just a discussion item to answer any questions before we bring this before the Board of Education all right and current basically the main thing is that current administrators can they get a choice can opt in as well yes got it okay any further questions discussion all right administrative reports one administrative report this evening um we've got a video we'll show and then I'll turn things over to Miss Benson Miss Benson is kind enough to allow me to come in several times throughout the year to meet with the leadership class which is I know you don't believe this one of my favorite things that I get to do as superintendent is sit and talk with you
053and work on different projects the last class remember I had you give us your elevator speeches do you remember that you had to stand up and give us your 30 Brooks I'm looking your way I know you're not making eye contact what do you think you think you got it oh yeah sure all right let's go so you want to learn about me yes okay awesome my name is Brook madx I'm a senior at H trust high school as of course um I'm part of leadership H trust if you don't know what that is it's a class that connects the classroom to the community so what we do is we kind of go around Trussville learning about things like Dr Martin in the school board and what they do for us um and also other
054things like municipalities such as trust and everything they do for us and how great they are and just leadership roles around the city in general and learning how to be a leader me specifically um I'm part OFA I'm thece president at ustv this year which I've enjoyed greatly we actually have next year next week or this week this week Awesome event fundraiser and what else I've run trash for six years there we go all right let's give Brooks a hand Brooks president deso just asked if I had prompted you before that I was going to call did I prompt you before no that's terrific Brooks had a chance to to work at education day correct and then leadership trustful also saw you at the high school doing some other lead they started to think that
055Brooks was an assistant principal at the high school at one point so yes Mr Chamberlain can we watch our video on these outstanding students please Far and Away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing this quote by Theodore Roosevelt perfectly captures what leadership hu at trustful aims to accomplish in this program every project every initiative and every challenge is an opportunity for students to work on something that matters these students are not just leading they're making a real difference and that difference is the real prize I'm Amber Benson Business Academy teacher at hu trusville high school and I'm grateful for the opportunity to work alongside our students as we connect the classroom to the community leadership hu trustful began in 2021 after a conversation
056with mayor buddy Cho hu at trustful High School principal Joy Young and June Matthews and Melissa Walker with the trustful Area Chamber of Commerce without hesitation or Interruption the support for our students has been everyone's main priority this unique partnership brings together trustful City School's mission for providing excellent educational and skill training opportunities and the city's 2040 vision of creating strong relationships between the city government local businesses and the school system hi my name is Laura an James I've been a part of the leadership hu trustful class for 2 years before taking this class I did not have strong leadership skills like public speaking or working in a group however after learning about each department in the city and how they work together it has given me a completely different perspective about our city and
057how it works through having opportunities of working on a city Improvement project myself and getting to connect with the city leaders and how they work different departments I've grown more confident in things like public speaking teamwork and be just being overall more confident in myself leadership Q trustful is a year-long course designed to provide students with the behind the-scenes look at our city learning from our city leaders merchants and Community Champions this experience leads students to develop the skills needed to effectively organize develop create and present a project proposal based on the needs of the trustful Community this extraordinary partnership offers students the opportunity to develop leadership skills gain knowledge of business management city government and community service and to apply these skills within the trustful area these skills stimulous train transer into both college
058and adult life helping guide students from learning today to Leading tomorrow empowering them with the knowledge and confidence to navigate future challenges and take on leadership roles hello my name is stie Benson and I'm a senior at here at trustful High School something that I've learned while in leadership HT is the importance of networking this skill of making connections with individuals of all abilities will definitely Aid me in the future as I grow and learn about different areas of my career networking allows us to always have a familiar face around making future opportunities less scary and more impactful the selection process for leadership H at trustful begins in the early spring each year with faculty nominations nominated students are reviewed and applications are sent to select students who meet the course requirements each application received
059is evaluated and scored highest scoring applicants are invited to interview with the selection team consisting of Industry professionals interviews are evaluated and scored references are also contacted if more information is needed and then the final selection is made since the program is focused on connecting the classroom to the community there are several benefits for both our students and our community over the years it has been pure joy to see these outstanding students apply Real World Knowledge increase their civic engagement step outside of their comfort zone create valuable networking opportunities and Foster a sense of accomplishment and pride as they see their positive impact on the community hi my name is BJ Allen and I'm a junior at H trust High School I think that communication is something that I've really developed through the leadership HD
060class throughout this school year we have done numerous things that have involved communication and has made me have to speak in front of my peers and people I've never met before I always been nervous when I have to speak in front of others but this class has made me step out of my comfort zone and real and made me realize that is isn't so bad after all it has provided them access to Career Pathways and has helped them build professional skills through the work with local leaders this work has allowed them a safe space to develop professional communication public speaking skills project management and event planning skills that will serve them well in their future careers it has also taught them about the importance of ethics and accountability in the workplace hi my name is
061Eva Clair Foster and I'm a junior at huitt Trussville throughout my time in leadership I've had the amazing opportunity to meet with Mr Ben short many times to help work on our Improvement projects He inspires me and my group to be better leaders by showing us the importance of diligence and dedication to your project and putting 100% passion in whatever you do by his utmost kindness and willingness to work with us to formulate our ordinance he shows us how important it is to not only pour time into your goals and projects but also to pour time into those you are leading around you the community benefits from the Fresh perspective and energy of students who are motivated to make a difference leadership H trustful projects often focus on real issues with students contributing their time
062ideas and resources to solve problems and improve quality of life the community is directly impacted by the development of Future Leaders who we hope will return to trustful to live work shop and worship students engage in volunteer work and service projects contributing to the overall well-being of the community they serve as positive role models for their peers not only at the high school but also the middle and elementary schools this collaboration across generation Bridges the Gap forming a sense of shared responsibility as our students work alongside Community leaders and business owners this program creates a symbiotic relationship where both students and the community grow learn and Thrive together strong Community ties have been created since the Inception of leadership H at trustful we have seen over 80 students come through the program and numerous completed
063City Improvement projects these projects include the welcome to downtown trustful sign on Main Street Greenway Bridges a community garden at the library home of the Husky signs Community impact Awards increased hallway signage at hu Trussville High School emergency blue lights on the greenway Sports Complex directional signs an updated signage on the John lamaster disc golf course and these are just to name a few these projects would not have been possible without the unwavering support from trustful City Schools the Chamber of Commerce and Community leaders and businesses who have donated their time funding and expertise over the years leadership C trustful students have served on local boards as junior members for the adult leadership trustful class and huskys together the vision for the program is endless every year brings new opportunities as our school system and
064City continue to grow and Thrive as alumni returned to trustful to pursue family and careers our hope is they will connect with the new leadership P trustful classes and serve as mentors and advisory members we hope to expand our leadership reach and collaboration to the greater Birmingham area and even the state level as we celebrate our students our school system and our city let's remind ourselves how blessed we truly are to have received the best prize life has to offer the chance to work hard at work worth [Music] doing great job [Applause] good evening thank you for for having us here this evening students we're so proud of you and I consider myself extremely lucky and fortunate to have this opportunity to work alongside y'all every day I'm continuously amazed at not only how bright
065y'all are but how much energy that you bring not only to the classroom but to the community and all of you are involved in so much more than just school so we are proud of you congratulations we will begin our city Improvement project presentations we have two this year that are focused on our school system so while the health initiative group comes forward I'll let them Walk This Way also take a second Miss counselor Lisa brigh always so supportive of our program and we thank you for that from day one so thank you yay girls my girls I know sure to rec okay okay hey everyone I hope everyone is doing well tonight today we are here to talk to you about a topic that is negatively affecting 30 million teenagers in the US every
066day and 150,000 students just in this state it hurts their health and creates long restroom lines and let's be real no one wants to wait in line to go to the restroom am all right um um if you're wondering what we're talking about we are referring to vaping um we are the hghs health initiative group I'm Fallon deit I'm a senior here at HTS my name is Mackenzie Stewart I'm also a senior and I'm Janie steel I'm also a senior our goal is to positively impact the health and safety of students at hths we are striving to eliminate long lines in the bathroom and more importantly impact the Comfort level of the students in our bathroom environment and also our school environment as a whole okay just a little more about the detector so it
067protects the privacy of students because it doesn't use a camera so it's perfect solution for privacy areas like the bathrooms um the sensor will provide Vape detection smoke detection THD detection and sound detection of abnormalities like gunshots and shouting um in areas where cameras can't be placed so the sensor will also detect keywords like help and aggressive motion sler okay so in total hths there are 26 student used restrooms um There are 16 in our academic wings and our initial plan is to get the 16 taken care of and then hopefully move on to the other 10 so our cost is each Halo detector is about $1,695 after doing some rough calculations 16 Halos if we wanted to do our phase one of the plan would be about 20 $7,000 if we wanted to move
068on and do all the bathrooms at once all 26 it'd be about $44,000 um they are wired in so there isn't batteries and there shouldn't be any maintenance needed our possible funding options are with the huskys together Foundation we have been in contact with board of directors member Dr Rachel poie and we also plan to meet with um Lisa brigh we also plan to reach out to The Trestle City Schools Foundation due to their past financial assistance with other um schools in our school system and we've also been in contact with the trustful police department and our sro's due to their Duty and their interest in maintaining he um our school safety and our community safety we've also been in contact with Chris adwell the owner of Electronic Communications Incorporated who's offered to purchase these
069Halo sensors at cost and install them for free and to continue this project we just need approval to take next steps from the school board and just any feedback you may have thank you for your time hey gentlemen just second any questions board members yeah maybe some questions ladies you have any yes it okay okay I have a question so it's going to be hardwire right so what is just saying that the power go off would they have batteries as a backup or what I think that once the power comes back on it would just rewire back to what like normal I don't know if the school has generators but that might also play a part in it um I'd have to we'd have to like look into it a little more of course but
070sure we could figure something out answer good answer thank you you're welcome thank you good job girls thank you it's a great SM theath smoke so they the bathro yes they the teachers can't go in the bathroom can't put Cera in there so this is goes off move it up all right good evening everybody we are a part of the HHS Sports meting internship they go in the St the St start off my name is BJ Allen and I am a junior and I'm part of the HS band my name is Dave Carter I'm a senior and I'm on a basketball team and our other team member Cy Williams she's currently at cheer triy outs and we're wishing her the best of luck with try outs G so what is the sports media internship program
071before I talk more about that I would like to share with y'all a quick story so as some of y'all may know I'm on a basketball team and one thing I like to do whenever I play any game I like to step in the gym and just like look at my surroundings and calm my nerves down but this particular game we were playing vavia and it was two days after we had lost to Oak Mountain so it's kind of like a big game for us and so when I was looking around the stadium I noticed that they had a Jumbotron and I was like that's cool we have a Jumbotron too so there's nothing really to it but I saw that they had the live game broadcasted on the Jumbotron at the same time that's
072going on and I thought that that was very cool and then I was thinking I'm like it must be some fancy high-tech rig that they got then I look and it's just some student running the little camera following the game and I'm like that's definitely something that we can have at trustful and like the recording live games is not just it like the possibilities are endless and so when uh Mr Lance or ad Lance Walker came with the idea I thought it was a great idea and I had to jump on it oh so my bad more about our program is more than just recording games it's taking pictures writing articles operating the lights at the football games and soon to be at the basketball stadium and it allows kids to practice ice their event
073management and sports management skills in high school before they get to their career so our purpose for this project is to provide students with hands-on experience in sports media while offer them opportunities for scholarships and recommendation letters to support their future success we're currently right now in collaborations with our PA announcer Chad Summers and our very own ad Lance Walker and our plan for participating for students is we had a meeting with Chad Summers and he wanted to do more like a Club kind of thing which allows kids to do it before school after school anytime they have time and it also allows people who play sports to also be a part of the program So currently we are seeking sponsorships are in contact with two local tech companies here in Trussville the first one
074being Adam black media which is a marketing firm here in Trussville that helps small to midsize organizations grow using social media websites events and many more and nighted which is a creative agency that specializes in social media and design so for our potential Wars and achievements in order to help students prepare for college like I mentioned previously they will have the opportunity to gain scholarship money or a recommendation letter to help in college and our ask is approval from the school board to implement this into our school system and any feedback that yall have about our program I got a question so good job great job so this would be a more of like a club setting than a class because that way y'all could participate you wouldn't need another elective or anything like that
075so you could do it before after school so I like that that's great I think I think at my nephew's school I was just telling charer one my my nephew's school they have a a kid a couple kids that go around and do this and then they they film the game and take pictures during you know professional pictures during the game then they put a link up and sell their pictures or sell the video or something as a little little side side gig but they they go to all the school events and things it's a neat I mean it's a growing area I think it's great for us to get involved in that and Dave you know my husband coached you in 5K Upward Basketball and he so he he believes your success is solely
076because of those fundamentals gave you in 5K I'm very thankful for all his I'm sure the little girl in pigtails that was on your team was also really she she drove she helped drive that that drive for you I'm kidding um no thank yall that was great that's a a great it's a great idea it [Applause] is and Miss Benson I know we heard from several of the students but would you mind introducing who else is in the class and who is here with us this or having them introduce themselves I'll leave that up to you yes if you haven't yet had the opportunity to speak with your group if y'all will make your way over here we do have several that are out with Athletics but Cohen can and Ryder and Noah and Rachel
077and Samantha Brooks you you set the tone for us a moment ago so y'all come on forward all of these students are also working on projects geared towards the city they will be presenting April 3rd to city council prior to April 3rd they are also going to various boards and committees within the city parks and board is tomorrow night and we will take several of our projects before them to get their feedback and we're just learning it's a process you can't just decide to have an idea and the next day run with it you have to develop it and oftentimes receive funding and and move forward so Brooks madx you introduced yourself a little bit earlier so Cohen come on forward introduce yourself tell usy Cohen let's let's get name grade what participate in and
078if you're a senior of future plans can you remember those four things everyone yes I'm not a senior my name is Cen Looney I'm a junior uh I work at Mills by Misty year round I'm very involved in First Baptist Church and I will be at the parks and rec meeting tomorrow implementing or going over what I would like to improve Kevin um my name is rder Clayton I'm also a junior at trustful and and I'm involved with of course the leadership class and I'm also in National Honor Society uh I'm not a senior like I just said but uh I'm planning on attending uh Auburn University when I'm done and my group uh Ava Clair was in the video we're with the mural we're trying to get a mural P for trustful to uh
079honor like our success and advancement that we made as a city and we're working with Ben short and we already have our ordinance passed so awesome awesome good job hello my name is Ella Serena and I'm a senior this past year I was co- captain of the varsity football and competition cheer team and I serve on Service Association senior board Focus club and I'm a member of National Honor Society and Leadership HT and After High School I plan to attend Mississippi State University in order to pursue a degree in elementary education [Applause] yeah there will be a Mississippi State Alumni Association meeting in the back with joy Tiner in the back corner my name is Noah F I'm a junior at hu Trussville High School uh I'm in leadership HT National Honor Society right now
080we're working on the Christmas tree lights not for the not for the tree right but for the actual mall itself just to lighten our tradition up uh I I love to play drums at church I'm a big part of my church and I hope to continue there and I plan to go to Auburn University for [Applause] engineering hi everyone my name is Rachel Pernell I'm a junior at hu trustful High School um I'm involved in leadership hu trustful National Honor Society Service Association and Junior board and I'm involved at my church Cross Point Church and um I'm a part of of the trustful signs and Merchant maps and um we have met with the chamber we are going to meet with um the trustful rede Redevelopment Authority and um we hope to implement and enhance
081our community soon so thank [Applause] you hello I'm Samantha Morrison I'm also a junior and I'm involved in the soccer program National H Society girls engineering and Leadership HT and I'm also working with the trustful Merchants sign of map and uh we're make planning to make a sign and a map to implement around trustful to show people around the merchants who who may not be seen or who who people haven't heard of and just to spread the word so thank [Applause] you thank you again for your time and if any of these projects were of interest to you and you have any expertise or have anything that you would like to share with them please catch up with us after our meeting thank you Miss Benson could we get a picture of all the students
082and Dave and BJ ladies have you come forward great job good job guys thank you foring that's right to tell me about it no you don't she do some great job yeah thank y'all good job guys okay um no one has signed today to um to speak so um I will entertain a motion to adjourn so mooved all right very good thank you all have a great night