001And Mr. Willerson, if you will our invitation for us, please. Okay, let's pray. Father, we thank you for the opportunity for being here. We got a whole host of people here in that large cotton school. A lot of moving parts, a lot of things take place. We ask for your wisdom tonight. Uh we ask the uh the presenters and they present these awards and the recipients as you especially whole host of family is here tonight and we uh so competition ask that in each situation bless them and bless the kids who have participated and are being honored tonight and Lord give me to praise for all that you do for Jesus. Mr. Richardson allegiance. Pledge to the American flag. Salute pledge. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the
002republic for which it stands. One nation under God indivisibley and justice for all. Now the Georgia flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag and to the principles for stands, wisdom, justice, moderation, and [Music] courage. commitment to it. Underneath action items, we do need to add uh the contract to the field USA market and we need to add the contract to the sub link. We have a motion motion. Second. All those in favor. And now we do special recognition. Special recognition. Thank you for allowing us to do this. This is one of the highlights of our board meeting and planning session is to have our students come in and be recognized for a variety of things that they are accomplishing. We've got a plethora of things tonight from one end of the spectrum to the other
003and we're excited about having that. So, we'll call different folks up and typically what we do is we call students up. We'll have you stand here in front of the board. After we finish, we'll have the board stand up. We'll get a nice picture with you and then we'll give you a round of applause from the audience. So, we're thankful you're here. I know that the last week of school, this is where you wanted to be tonight. Right. Right here. Yeah. Me, too. So, we're glad you're here and we're glad that we can celebrate our students and our families cuz we know without that partnership, this doesn't just happen. You guys are doing what you need to do. We're trying to do what we need to do to make that partnership. So, thank you for
004being here. And Miss Samples is going to start us off with our recent art show and some of our winners at the art show. Yes, sir. Thank you, Miss Rains. Um, welcome. We're very excited this year. Uh this was year 15 for our district art show, but this year we decided uh our art teacher said, "Let's add a little bit to this, have four different categories and pick a top overall winner." So, we're going to start with our K through two. And students, if you are here, if you will come up and we're going to ask you to line up. Mr. Rains will help you line up and we will get a picture with our board. So, in our K through two band, first place from Stone Creek and Miss Wolf, I think you're here
005as well. If you will come up, the art teacher. Uh, first place, Temperance Homes from Stone Creek Elementary. And second place in our K2 band from Naomi, Miss Heartline is the teacher if you will come up. And we have Nolan Clemens, second [Music] place. Third place from North Lefett and teacher Miss Farmer, if you will come up. And we have Anley [Music] Brown. And honorable mention from Stone Creek, Franco Jed. And in the K2 band, we had a special award. After we finished the judging, Mr. Reigns went around and he picked an overall superintendent award winner. And from Rosville Elementary, I don't know if Miss Harden is here, but we have Kane Wallen and Elanor Davis from Rosville Elementary. Oh, we've got one coming. [Music] Is this congratulations or [Music] Okay. And I'm going to
006get a picture with the board of this first group. Double roll with you. Okay, right here on three. One, two, three. One more. One, two, three. And stay where you're at in case you have any parents. [Music] Now we will move to our third through fifth grade group. And once again from Naomi with Miss Heartline, if you will come back up. First place, Houston Paris. He's got his art piece to show off, too. Congratulations. Okay. And Miss Wolf, if you will come back up. Second place, [Music] Cassie. Okay. We'll go after Miss Wolf and stay [Music] up. And third place from Raw School with Miss Harden as the teacher is Braxton Bat. I think about Hey, an honorable mention from Naomi with Miss Heartline, Pat Casey Bryson. catching. And the superintendent award for 335 from
007North Leette with Miss Farmer is Gimma Trap. Superintendent award from North Leette here. Okay, good job, Gimma. which is congratulations. All right, get all the board again. And right here on three. One, two, three. Get one more. One, two, three. And favorite in case we have parents. [Music] Oh, you're fine. You're fine. You're getting her way. Now we will move to our middle school group. And I will tell you the judges had a really hard time with middle school entries. And in first place from Rosville Middle is Miss Waters. Here, the teacher of first place, Aiden Shelton. Second place from Kanuga Valley Middle and Miss Bowling's class, Jonathan Singleton's here. And from Saddle Ridge, is she here? Okay. From Saddle Ridge Middle is Miss Gogggins here. Rachel will let you massage. Come on up. Third
008place, Lily Any. Okay. Jonathan. And then and from Tanigga Valley Middle, Honorable Mission, Ariana Hill. Ariana Hill. Okay. Okay. And our superintendence award from LMS is Miss Frederick. I did see her in the back. I think she's here. Yes. If you will come up. And Carter Parker. [Music] All right. So, remember to go set up. We'll get our middle school group. Okay. Right here on three. One, two, three. One, two, three. Stay where you're at in case we have any parents. From the very back. [Music] All right. And now to our high school students. And Miss Keith is the instructor from Ridgeland High School. And in first place we had Ashley Woods from Ridgland High School. Okay. also from Richland High School. Are they here? [Music] Okay. And in second place, also from Richland High
009School, Esther Lea. She's on her way. She's running late. She's like eight minutes away. And in third place, also from Richland High School, Lewis [Music] Cronin. Oh, we got the hallway. And honorable mention from Richland High School, Carlo Guzman. And their very last superintendent award for our high school student goes to Damian Packet. Let you hold that. And I'll tell you what we'll do is when the other young lady gets here, if we can come in or if we can come around there, we'll take a picture with everyone. Is that okay? Do you want us to wait? if you don't mind waiting since she's eight minutes away. Just let me know. Yes, ma'am. Thank you all. Thank you. And I will say if you didn't get a chance to come to the art show, it
010is amazing what our kids can do. I saw things that first graders were doing that absolutely blew my mind. And I mean, I still have a hard time just making a stick figure. So, I mean, they were blowing me away completely. But our kids are so talented. And the the other thing I think we overlook are the art teachers. They are amazingly talented in getting the things out of these students that I just it it blows my mind. So that is a huge part of connecting them with reading, writing, language, math, science, social studies. There's a direct connection there. They do a fantastic job. So I think we need to give our teachers a round. And now we're going to move on to some art on the field of play. And so I know they
011probably have never had golf and things described that way, but I know that they do a really good job. So I'll ask Miss to come up and introduce her. Right. We will first be celebrating our baseball team. So if you guys will come on up here, baseball coaches and teams. [Music] Um this season our baseball team um set several school records first. Um as you can see by their shirts, they made it to the postseason this year. Um not only that, they beat Gordon Lee in the postseason first round which put them in the semifinals. Um and then they had a super close game. and then they had a super close game um with Heritage to actually make it to the finals. So, we were super excited to see kind of where they started um
012at the beginning of the season to um where they kind of ended up throughout um the course of the season and we are really proud of all the work that these coaches put into them, but um we do have several that we would like to recognize. Um this is um Tucker Stevenson. Then we have Dylan Karna, Eli Williams, Kayen Waters, Kayen Watley, Ethan Bailey, and then we have I knew I was going to mess one of them up, but um and then we have um Eli Simpson. There's too many Eli's. And then Ben Peterson is here in the back. He is super fast and is super can catch a football really well. So, we're excited to see him on the football field, too. Um, we do want to celebrate all of these kids because they
013have kind of set an set a standard at Saddle Ridge um with their uh winning season as well as um these coaches and and they've worked really hard. So, uh we just wanted to celebrate them today. We have several that were NGAC if you won NGC awards if you'll just step forward. So, we have Hayden and Ethan and then we have one more that did and then Kayen Wley also I believe um won honorable mention. So, we're super proud of these kiddos. Um, and can't wait to see where the future takes them. Some in orange and black and some will be returning next year. So, we're really excited. So, good job, guys. [Music] All right, Dr. Will, you're going to have to slide just There you go. Now I can see it. Okay, right here
014on three. One, two, three. Let's get one more. One, two, three. And boy, stay where you're at in case there's people behind you. [Music] All right. Next, we're going to celebrate our NGAC champion golf team. So, this is um you guys can come on forward. So, what's really cool about golf is that it is, I believe, the only co-ed sport in any middle school sports. And so, um, you are often competing against the biggest eighth graders and, um, and you might be a female sixth grader. So, it is definitely a very difficult sport to score in. Um, and these, um, I don't know how many. It's grown like substantially in the past two years. These kiddos put in a ton of work all year long. um but also in this season. And I'm going to
015let um coach Alicia kind of tell you guys exactly because I'll mess it up. But Lyla um who is right here second, she is champion for two years in a row and that is um she has beat both girls and boys. So there's a low medalist for females and then there's a low medalist for males, but she has been low medalist for everything. So I'll kind of let him highlight the year and kind of how um everything went and how everyone scored and things like that. Yeah. So, like you said, these kids work really hard all year. Um, we've had really good support from admin to LeBron answering the questions that I had. Um, if we had any questions, stuff from NGAC's. Uh, but like I said, this is a great group of kids. Uh,
016we were here last year as runners up. Some of you guys last year, I hope you're coming back with a bigger trophy. They bring the trophy, but I promise it's bigger this year. Um, this is a really young team, too. We've got four eighth graders. Three of them are here. One didn't make it. Um, it's a really young team. We've got some sixth graders that didn't make it. Uh but we're looking forward to coming back next year and hopefully uh defending the title. Um can my six I think all six of you guys from NJ here if you guys can step forward. We've got Emry Beck. She's our only thirdyear player. So she's played all three years eighth grader going to the fet. So looking forward to watching her there. Uh Lisa Leicia your second
017uh like you said two time NPSC champion as an individual. Uh Hagen Hodgej, uh second year player, seventh grader. Uh Drew Harris, second year player, seventh grader. Uh Drew's come a long way this year. He played last year. Um definitely the most improved of anyone else at play here. Uh Riley Wilson won uh NGAC all tournament. Uh he came in second place by one shot, shot a 42. Um and Mr. Bryant, uh first year player, um shown a ton of potential. looking forward to having back next year. Thank you guys for having [Music] us. Trying to make sure you can shift that way. A little taller. There we go. Okay. Right here on three. One, two, three. Let's get one more. One, two, three. And stay where you're at. [Music] I didn't have to tell
018those middle schoolers I could leave. Man, they just head out the door. Now, we'll move on to uh a couple of things that we have from High School. I know we have multiple members of admin here. I know Miss Subtles is going to be presenting and I know she was here with her as well. So you guys come on up and introduce us to High School. Good evening everybody. My name is Virginia Subtles. I'm one of the assistant principles at GO High School and I have the honor of serving as uh CPA supervisor and as um one of the AC I'm here in Missstead represented as well. So I take my green black so um to represent our school. I want to take a moment just to say thank you to our board members for
019giving us this opportunity to celebrate our kiddos. Um I'm going to ask that Miss um Wilo come up. Um we have two advisers at our school. Uh Mr. Gordon is not able to be with us tonight, but this woman was going to tell us about all the wonderful student. So in April we went to our state FSA convention and at our state convention we had um two proficiencies which some of you may ask what that is. So, in agriculture education, um, all of our students have to do a supervised agriculture experience outside of the classroom. And so, they can choose to submit a proficiency application, which is a very long lengthy application. There's 45 different areas in the state. And depending on how you place in the state, it can move on to the national
020level. So, one of our uh proficiency award winners was Mia Hobs, and she'll come forward. Um and she her proficiency award category was in swine production entrepreneurship which is which is pigs. She actually raises and produces her own show pigs. So the uh her FAE program allows allowed her to develop skills in managing breeding and marketing swine whether for meat production show quality or just breeding stock. Um she gained hands-on experience in animal care, financial recordkeeping, business planning and decision making. Um she's demonstrated her ability to run a profitable and sustainable uh swine enterprise which is going to prepare her for her future career. Um she was actually named the Georgia state swine proficiency champion. So she was first placed in our area and region and then she was also first place at the state
021level. So we will get to submit her application to the national level and if she is declared a national finalist and she'll get to go through an interview interview process in Indianapolis, Indiana at the national state at the national FFA convention in October. So she's going to be in college then. She's going to come back to us. Um but that's one thing that in FFA they can submit it their senior year but then they go on and um they won't get recognized until October on the national level. So that was one of our proficiencies. Our second proficiency was Bradley Maher. She'll come forward. Um she won the region level as well, the area and region level. And then she was third place in the state of Georgia. She's only a junior, so we're going to
022we can resubmit her application next year with the feedback given. Um her uh proficiency area is in diversified livestock production. She works on her family farm where they raise beef, cattle, pigs, and goats. And um she has assisted in daily care, feeding and health management of cattle, swine, and goats. She developed a broad understanding of animal husbandry, biocurity practices, and livestock facility operations and uh record keeping because you have to be really good at recordeping to do good on your proficiencies. And that's one thing that consulted is a life skill that's good for them. Um so like I said she was third in the state and she was our north region winner. Also at state convention um we had three students that received their state FSA degree. To earn your state FSA degree they have
023to be two years in a education and FFA have to do either invest $1,000 or 300 hours of work through their SATE project. They have to uh demonstrate leadership skills like public speaking. Um they have to participate in at least five different FFA events above the above the chapter level. They have to do at least 25 hours of community service in two different activities. And um they have to have strong academic uh grades. And so this year we have three of those and two of those are here with us today. Emma Frame if she'll come forward and then Nia Hogs who's already up here. And our third was Hunter Treadway. Um, and then the last thing that we did at said convention, which is something we haven't done in a while, is we had three
024boys who are not here with us today. They're at baseball banquet. Um, they comp they participated in the Georgia State FSA talent program. And so, um, it's held at the Georgia FA State Convention. It provides a platform for students to perform in front of their peers, adviserss, and industry professionals. and they um sang a song at the um state of the state convention in front of like 6,000 people and that was Luke Hopkins, Levi Hopkins and Lake Rayurn and now since they have competed at state they can now submit an audition tape for nationals and they plan to do that and hope to be accepted. Um so that was kind of what we did at state convention and so we could just give them all a round of applause. [Music] There we go. Okay. One,
025two, three. Let's get one more. One, two, three. [Music] I know I'm going to pause real quick. I know our art students show have got here. Can we bring them all over and try to get that picture as well and then we'll move into the next thing high school. Yeah. [Music] Sure. [Music] Okay. Okay. That's okay. You know, I didn't do that. So, yeah. Y'all ready? All right. Okay. Right here on three. One, two, three. Let's get one more. One, two, three. Perfect. Thank you so much. Thank you for coming. Yes, we appreciate you being here. [Music] I'm back. I also have the opportunity of introducing Mr. Kers, our head um girls coach, and she he's going to tell you more about some awesome things that are happening at high school. Um, I'm here to
026recognize Aaron Grant. Um, and I'm going to pull her up in just a second, but kind of introduce uh who she is and why she's being recognized. Um, you know, who she is. She's a freshman. Uh, she started this season, uh, girls basketball. and you know as a a fresh and a young freshman at that and she uh you know averaged over 10 points a game you know hit almost 40 threes and improved drastically throughout the season. There's a big difference going from middle school to high school. So she had a great season basketball wise on the court and you won the most games in 20 years for girls and made playoffs for second time ever and she's a a big reason why she's a big part of that but that's not necessarily the you
027know the criteria behind this award. It certainly helps. But um what she is she's a top seven Georgia positive athlete. What that means is out of 7,000 nominations uh she finished in the final set and and they don't single it out to one winner. They uh knock it down to seven. And um Erin, you would come on up and I'm going to elaborate a little bit more on it, but I'm going to set the groundwork. You get your speech in a minute. But uh she's extremely shy. But um how how it works um in December and you probably see more of it on social media. It's picked up a lot of steam over the last few years, but the Georgia Positive Athlete, you know, they offer scholarships. There's a you know, a ton of benefits
028behind it. But I nominated Aaron and a couple other girls from our team, but um Aaron, you know, and you know, you got an essay kind of explaining all the good qualities they exhibit. And um you know and and everything I said about her is 100% uh truthful as far as you know and if anybody's coach it doesn't really matter what the sport is but the the kids that are supportive of everybody you know whether you know they score two points or 20 points and you know they're a true team first player you can't have enough of those and um she's truly that and um you know we got a couple other young ones that way. that's what we're trying to build with and uh so everything I said you know in the initial nomination
029was truthful and then um then it went to them and then they narrow it from 7,000 down to about a thousand and then you send in second another information kind of justifying all your reasoning why you feel they're a representative you send game film they evaluate it based on you know other coaches and get you know information and long story short you know narrow from 7,000 down to Aaron Grant you know um one of top seven in the state and it's just we've never had anybody in any sport uh receive this honor and um you know just a huge recognition. I'm very proud of her and um glad to have her for you know a few more years. She of the seven were there any others that were close to us or nobody at least
030I think 3 hours. I mean it's really um so her positivity goes 3 hours away. [Music] Okay. Mr. This is her mother. She's one of my assistant coaches here. Yeah. Get where you're going. Okay. We're We're good now. Okay. Right here on three. One, two, three. Let's get one more. One, two, three. Hey, stay where you're at. [Music] Okay. All right. All right. I think that takes care of the high school. So, we'll move on down to Lefay Middle School. And I think I've shared this story before about Mr. Carter. The first time I met Jody, I knew right off that we were going to be buddies because he made contact with the International Space Station. I thought it was the coolest thing I've ever seen in the school system. So, from the gym at
031Lake View Middle Lake View Middle, listen to me. I'm not I'm sorry. You You'll get me later Middle School. We didn't see anything, but we heard them go over, didn't we? That's right. and we actually got to stop. So, it was one of the coolest things I've ever experienced. Jody's great with the radio, the ham radio club, and does a great job with our students, not just in that, but in class, but also in SCA. Ring that bell for you as well. So, Jody, if you'll come on up and talk a little bit about uh the radio team, and then I think you're going to also talk to us a little bit about the maybe Miss Woodard is here. There's Miss Woody right there. Come up with them if you don't mind. And maybe you
032can introduce that for us and then bring them up as well. I'm I'm looking past Kim cuz she's already retired and telling her she's not coming back with that big smile on her face until I rise over her that night. That's nice. Um everything you said about Jody is absolutely the truth. Um Jody is a jack of all trades and a master of a few. Um we couldn't do middle school if it wasn't for Jody. He started the the radio club back in 2007. I was just a a mere child then. But um it has continued to grow and the things that they do is just amazing. Some of the kids when you watch them some of your quietest, you know, most introverted children get out there and they're making 40 50 contacts with other
033countries and and colleges and they they've just really come out of their shell. So Dod, if you'll come on up and I'll let you tell more about your amazing team. U this group back in February when they were competing, they we didn't know what our scores were going to be. We we submit the scores and you get the scores back later. Uh it's not a it's not a running tally. It's not a current tally. But uh when we went looked at our scores, we knew that we did pretty well and we thought there was a chance we would place within the top two. So we did within the middle school division, we placed within top two in the nation. Uh and then we kept looking at the scores and realized that we actually beat all
034of the other schools in the high school and elementary school divisions. And then we kept looking and realized that we actually took fifth in the in the field out of 81 schools. And that included colleges and universities. And we don't want to call anyone out, but you are, but alphabetically, we beat the likes of Arkansas, Arizona State, Baylor, Case Western, Cornell, Indiana, Kansas State, LSU, New Mexico Tech, Northeastern, St. Louis University, San Jose State, Texas&M, Virginia Tech, and the University of Wisconsin. Now, I will say the only reason we did not meet those other teams is because uh most of them were engineering schools that reported over $100,000 into their into their programs because they were tired of hearing of a little school in Northwest Georgia bragging about beating their their team. So concession from
035a concession stand at a football field. Yes. And uh and so we have we have decided that we are the most efficient monetarily in terms of of a bang for the buck. It almost sounds like you're asking for more money. I I would never ask without actual written documentation. I want to make sure that it's actually documented. There will be that that money would be coming our way. Um uh we also want to thank the folks there there are only really three schools I know of in Georgia that have a station. Uh there's a school in Gainesville. Uh the uh the Red Elephants over at Gainesville Middle School and Georgia Tech. They're the only other schools I know that have stations within the state. um we were only behind in terms of when we made
036the contact back in 2012. The only other school that was ahead of us that made a contact within the state of Georgia was Georgia Tech. So I I felt pretty comfortable that I think we may have, you know, I I I don't mind being behind Georgia Tech when it comes to what kind of, you know, intelligence and just sheer brain power that they've got available in in Atlanta. So we are we're thankful for our students. We have several students who are here uh many of them when they started with us. uh when we would hang medals up on the wall and then we would pass them around in in the weeks prior we would say who wants who really wants this who wants this and you would see students that that's me I I want
037that I want I want that that I can hang around my neck that I can wear at our honors day that I can hang on my wall that other people are going to recognize oh I was part of that group and some of those students that are here They don't they're not necessarily competitive in in sports, but that doesn't mean that they don't have that competitive spirit. And and it's obvious when you get them behind a microphone and tell them we need you to get 30 contacts in the next 30 minutes. Can you do that? And they do. And they just they they're talking to people all over the world. They're talking to people from inside the Arctic Circle to the civil and they're They're doing amazing work. This group has actually made contacts to
038adding another continent. So last year they they concluded Asia. That was the one contact we were we were missing. We're still missing Antarctica. But as far as making contact around the world, this group has continued the legacy that that started way back with and they're going to continue to do that. So uh if we could have that group come forward, the folks are representing here tonight. Some of them are wearing more than one. So, if it sounds like a cowbell, uh it's because they they won them. They received them. Um but we're thankful to them. We're glad that they're here and uh and the group that's represented here would be eighth graders and they're going to have some pretty big shoes to fill back at 49 Boulevard. See everyone? Wednesday three. One more. Wednesday [Music]
039three. Okay. Yeah. [Music] Heat. Heat. All [Music] right. I want to also take an opportunity to introduce you to our um media specialist, Miss Marina Lawrence. She is also a jack of all trades and as far as I know, she's the master of all of them. So, um, if you've not been to Lefet Middle School in a while, you need to come by and look at our library. It's it's become a mecca of maker space. Um, technology just everywhere. Uh, we have airplane simulators, we have VR goggles, we have active floor, we have so much stuff. I can't even think of all of it. But all of that has is spearheaded by the brains of Miss Lawrence. So she has also started some some other things with our kids and I'll let her talk a
040little bit about our podcast. So Anna Lee Bigs and Michaela Brackets will come on [Music] up. Okay. Um so what started as just an idea has turned into something truly special with these two girls. Um they took initiative they are creative um and they are dedicated. They took my idea of a podcast and just ran with it. Um it has been entirely studentled. They took it upon themselves to learn the reporting equipment um brainstorm topics. They built their own website to host their work. They make their own cover art for each episode. Um, and they've embraced feedback um, from with a Google form on their website. So, anytime you have feedback for them, you can give them feedback. And um, they also embrace suggestions with enthusiasm. They're excited to share with others and bring others
041into the process. just today they were um passing the torch to sixth grade students because they're in eighth grade and they'll be moving on to the high school next year, but they were passing the torch to sixth grade this uh morning so that we hope to continue the podcast um for years to come. Um but I am excited for their passion and leadership that they have brought this um project to life. So, I would like to represent or recognize, I'm sorry, Anna Bigs and Michaela Brackets. And I have some of their um podcast artwork on a little card with a QR code if you would like to take a listen and I'll give it to them one of these. What's the name of Is there a plan to keep the podcast going as they go
042into high school? Yes. So, some of the sixth graders will take that over. It's called Exhausted and Rambling. That's awesome. I'm just so proud of them. That's great. But will these young ladies do something like that in the future? Would you continue doing some kind of a podcast when you get to high school? Just planting the seeds. Just thinking about the new ELA standards. That's one of the standards in podcast. So that fantastic as far as get in there with them. Yeah. Okay, right here on three. One, two, three. Let's get one more. One, two, three. And I'll move [Music] back. Congratulations. And again, I think you guys see when a sponsor, a teacher, somebody gets involved like that, the sky's is the limit for our students. And so, we appreciate what all they're doing.
043So, thank y'all for being here. And then finally, I know Miss Hint is here to talk to us about a couple of exemplary learners. Uh, and so I'll turn it over to Austin. Thank you. So, I'm here tonight to present to you from the ESOL department. Um each year the state um chooses a or works with the county to choose an exemplary ESOL teacher and an EL learner. And so we're going to start first with our exemplary ESOL teacher. So this year I'm excited that um Esther Wilhelm who was a teacher at Chhatty Valley Middle School. She joined our ESOL team. This is her very first year and she has done an amazing job. She works at Rossville Middle School, Chattanooga Valley Middle School and Ridgeland High School. So she went from just Chattanooga Valley
044Middle School and inherited three large schools that she's working with our EL students. And she has taken on her new role like a champ. She went into Rosland Middle School and we had uh several students that would wave services. They didn't want to go to ESOL services and this year they have been known to skip out on their reward activities just so they can go to her classroom. Um these students wanted her to be um the teacher of the month at Roslin Middle School so badly that they kept nominating her over and over and over and made sure she got it one of those months. and uh she is not able to be here with us tonight because she has a child that's a senior and there are a ton of senior activities going on
045right now. So, but I wanted to go ahead and announce her even though I knew she was not going to be here, but we're going to do something special for her um at her schools um later on this week. So, I think her son is validictorian maybe. I believe that's what I heard. Yeah. So, they're at an awards banquet right now at Bridgewwater High School. So, we just wanted to say congratulations to Esther Wilhelm. The EL student award is a very unique award because the state takes into consideration a student that either was uh in the ESOL program um is being monitored after exiting the program or someone who was a former EL student. Um, and so the student that we are recognizing tonight is a former ESL student. This student was served um and
046and had additional English language support um on top of her regular educational support and um they look for students that have overcome um that extra support being needed. And so the student that they are recognizing from Walker County um actually is from Lefay High School and she ranks 13th in the class of 2025. Her GPA is over 80 98%. Um she's taken six advanced placement classes in high school and 10 dual enrollment classes. She is a member of the pep club, the junior city council. Um, she is the event competitive events coordinator for SBLA. She is the president of Skills USA. She's in the Beta Club. She's in the National Honor Society on the soccer team and was one of the very first flag football team members. Uh, let's see, there's a whole long list.
047Um, she has been able to intern at Sam um Gowen Law Firm. Um, she placed first in SLA competition for the best business plan, first place in the regional skill USA competition for public speaking. She was on a uh team effort for a promotional bulletin board competition. She placed fifth in the state with Skills USA for public speaking. This is huge for someone that started off in the ESOL program. Um, she was also a Charleston International Music Competition finalist, the Georgia Certificate of Merit winner, a distinguished honors graduate, Zel Miller Award winner. The list is huge. So, I just wanted to recognize um for the state, Roosevel Fuentes, and her mother is here with us tonight. Um, so if you'll come up and accept your daughter's So, do we represent her because she can Okay,
048right here on three. One, two, three. Let's hit one more. One, two, three. Perfect. Thank you. And Mr. Ray, we had one of our students show up. Yes. If we could recognize. Is it Traxxton? Okay. Kane. That's right. It's a super. This is for you as well. All right. And I hate that, but you get your picture made with me. How about that? That is awesome. There you go. All right. Right here on three. One, two, three. Let's get one more. One, two, three. Guys, go over here. Get one in the middle. That's perfect. That's awesome. Look at that smile. Perfect. All right. Congratulations. Yes, ma'am. Well, usually at this point, just when I say you can leave, it looks like everybody's taking the hint, Jody. So, you're behind. You guys can exit as well
049if you unless you want to stay. Anyone else the same way? And then we'll move on with our deal. [Music] Okay. um items of information. Uh first on our list, the superintendent report. Just a couple of things. First, I appreciate you guys amending the agenda to get those two uh items on there. Uh Mr. Walls and I were talking about that this afternoon. So, I appreciate you guys being willing to do that, put them on as consent items. that'll get those in place and hopefully completed before we uh come back to school. So, I appreciate your flexibility there. Um I know that there was uh we had a long discussion at the planning session about testing with uh curriculum. Uh I know Mrs. Hunter sent an email down to our uh folks at the DOE
050and asked some very specific questions. So, a couple of things I asked Robin to do tonight. She's got a a listing here. I'll pass this down and let you guys take one and pass it down. Just wanted to show you what a normal um reading passage looks like for a third grade student. Um and she's going to kind of give you an idea of what that looks like and why we were expressing some of those concerns. Um, I will say this that what has happened now with the email going down is it's kind of put us on a list of potentially red flagging us for an an audit. So, I that's probably not the best thing that can happen to us because there was a little miscommunication about the um scratch paper. The teachers don't
051take the scratch paper up and go back over that. the scratch paper is provided and Robin's going to explain that in just a second, but I'm I'm fearful that that that might get us into an audit and you know that that doesn't mean anything other than they'll probably be looking at a lot of things under a microscope. We'll work through that as we get to it. But I wanted Robin to kind of go through this real quickly and tell you what this is and how that translates into third graders who are taking a milestone test. It's the first test they've ever been introduced to like this that it's a high stakes testing exam. So probably um so I was hoping to report that we had retakes back. I have been checking um I don't know
052if Mr. Moscow is still here but he's like every morning at 5:30 he's the first text that I get were my retest scores. So I check um before I go to bed every night at 11 o'clock I'm logging into DRC. I'm logging in at 5:30 to see and as of 5:00 retests are still not back. They told us the drop date would be this Friday and that's for our third, fifth, and eighth graders. I was hoping with no writing portion that those would come back a lot sooner, but as of 5:00, still no retest. But um today we had some principles that was texting me that they were in really bad moods today. It was raining. It was Monday and I said, "You know what? We're not testing today." Like this is the first Monday
053in five weeks that we have not been testing on a Monday morning. So my first text after Brandon's this morning was Sonda Gentry saying it's going to be a great day. We're not testing today. We have some map testing going on, but no state testing for the first time in 6 weeks today. So um I just wanted to give you a copy. This is the right score um curriculum and I wanted you to see and Miss Rings I think I've got you've got my copy too. I think but I just wanted you to see that this is a typical third grade. They are given two passages. This is an opinion piece. So the students are to read both passages and then section one um they read the two passages part one question um once they
054read that based on the information how the chimpanzees communicate with one another. You see that that is multiplechoice. That's a quick question after reading those passages. And then they read another um short passage in which they are how did these two paragraphs add to the reader's overall understanding. Another questions three and four are also short answer and multiple choice. But then I just wanted to see in the time allotted this is a typical writing task that students as a third grader they think about the ideas in both passages then they write an opinion essay. So it would be okay if you're reading the two passages but before they read that before you write be sure think about ideas facts definitions details other information examples you want to use. Then third grader, think about how you
055will introduce your topic, what the main topic will be for each paragraph. Develop your ideas clearly. Use your own words, except when quoting directly from the passages. And be sure to identify the passages by title. Remember when using details or facts directly from the passages so they have a scrap sheet of paper. And then now write your opinion essay in the space provided. Be sure to introduce your opinion. Support your opinion. Give your reasons and details in a clear order. Use word phrases and clauses to connect your ideas. Have a strong conclusion that supports your opinion. And make sure you check your work for correct usage, grammar, spelling, capitalization, and punctuation. And so this is just I wanted you to see I had um the seventh grade one. I thought, "Okay, now I see why
056Bryce came home so stressed out." Because even though it's one question, there's five to six bullet points um in a comparison of opinion essay. So, they have two pieces of scrap paper that they're given that they can do those things on and then they type their final draft into. Most of our students though, if they're doing all of these things and doing a clear introduction and doing a concluding paragraph, they're writing that out and then typing it on their Chromebook. So, the scratch paper is not necessarily for them to write the essay as a draft and then translate it into the Chromebook as a as the final draft. What they do is they use that as what we used to call a a graphic organizer. organize your thoughts according to all those things that are
057listed. Then you then build your essay into and they have 90 minutes to do all of this. Is that correct? 70 minutes. 70 minutes. Okay. So that's where we were seeing it wasn't that students were writing out an essay. Then they weren't having time to put it in there. The scratch paper is more of a how do I organize my thoughts, answer some of those questions so that I know it's all going to be part of the essay that I actually type in. And again, keeping in mind, these are third graders who have never done this before. They've never been, even though we don't talk about tests anymore. We try to keep the anxiety low, they all know when testing weeks. They they can I mean, they they feel it. And so, we're trying to
058keep it from being overwhelming, but the training we're going through says you've got to put this stuff down and organize your thoughts before you actually start writing your essay. And so that that's where we I think there was a little confusion. Well, I think that, you know, when you look at before what you're supposed to do and then as you're writing and then make sure and go back. I mean, I'm not sure that if I was given a Chromebook and had two papers to analyze and do how how well I would do, especially when you're talking about an eight or nineyear-old. So, I know that typing skills has been one area that with the admins that we've talked that once they start typing and they're um you know taking away. I know that that was
059one area that Mr. Fruit said Addy Kate was very upset about that she came home and she said, "Dad, I had like all my thoughts down. I went through and answered all nine things that it asked me reminded me to do that I had a had a clear introduction. and I used transition words, but I didn't get finished. And he said she cried all evening. He said, "I really want to send you a letter that say my child's exempt from testing and not having any test." But I just wanted to share an example of a third grade of of the testing where you had an idea of kind of what is expected. If you would like for me to pull other grade levels, like I said, I looked at seventh grade and I was like,
060"That's a lot." You know, that's a lot that we're asking a child to do. But this is what we're practicing. This is right. This is from right score. So this is an example that or third grade um went through. But if you would like for me to pull other grade levels, I will be happy to do that at all. Are there other questions about it? Because I know that there's a lot to testing and um a lot of factors sometimes that we don't realize that happens during that week of testing. So, I I I just want to make sure I've got in my head what you're supposed to talking about here because a lot of stuff you read. So, they're just organizing their thoughts. That's that's the main thing. But they're not having to write
061out the story and then tag the story. That is that they don't have to. Dr. Willis, if you look at that whole list though where it asks you to write an introductory paragraph to make sure you have transition words. We do have many of our kids in right school. We've got some administrators here. They write that out. Um and and we we have to shred those at the end of every testing session. The testing coordinator has to count. It's if they have 96 third graders, they have to count 96 pieces of scratch paper and we put it in the shredder. So, I know I tested high school English one students and we had students that asked for additional scratch paper um because the topic was a lot more in depth for um those sophomore and
062juniors that were taking that class. So, when I accounted for the scratch paper, I could see that a lot of them had a graphic organizer, but then they had an introductory paragraph. They had their body written out before they actually typed it. So, it's not a requirement, but through that writing process that our kids are doing, that's how you teach that writing process is making that graphic organizer. And then, like I said, if you go through and you're answering each of those bullet points, you're pretty much writing an essay out. It's It's not required because we don't turn in the scratch paper. We shred it. So, all the state gets is what is typed in that amount of time. limb here and say Dr. Blo or Blouse or whatever her name is. I guarantee you
063when she put together the training, she wrote it down before she typed it up and checked it. I mean, that's just a normal part of writing. If I'm writing something to someone, I write it down. Sometimes I handr write it down before I I transfer it over. So, she's correct. There's no requirement. They don't look at that part. That's what that's how we train kids in the writing process is to get them ready to organize their thoughts so they can then transition that onto the the tablet. So it is part of the training process that we've paid money for and do but you're also talking about just like you said eight nine year olds who are doing this for the first time. So it's it's a difficult transition but so as part of this process
064what you shred do you have to document what you shred what how much you sh and submit that to the state we just have to document each testing coordinator at the school level has to document that they have shredded they have accounted for that if I have 95 students I have 95 the very first thing they do when they get their scratch paper is they write their name on that scratch paper and they also write their name, first and last name on the testing ticket that each student gets and they have to account for those and they turn in a principal's um assurance form. We had to turn around and redo it again for retest for third, fifth and eighth. So they have to sign that the testing booklets, if we have paper, pencil or
065any of the computer, the tickets that they take up that they distribute and they collect is the same amount in numbers. And when they check them, like when I tested uh launch students at A, when I collected those test tickets from those 65 kids before they left the testing session, I made sure that every test ticket had first and last name on it. And that just ensures that they are taking the correct section of the test. [Music] Other questions about that piece? Okay. All right. Uh the other thing that I've given you and we talked a little bit about it. I know several of you are riding together and you're trusting Mr. Middleton to get you to the arena on Thursday night. Safely. Okay. I should have qualified that at lot 53. Yes. We'll see
066if you noticed that. That's lot 35. I said just making sure that you have a map, you have your pass. Make sure it's displayed in your window. If not, they will uh take you off to graduation jail. So, and we do have some passes for sale. I'm not saying anything about that fundraising effort. Sell those to the admin cuz that was where admins north end are they getting a pass for parking? Do you know? Should be. Uh we'll need to check with Mr. Morrison, but we should have enough for What if we use one of those fancy Nancy 14 passenger buses and everything? We can do that, but there you go. We could Chris is qualified to drive one. So, maybe so we begin at 7:30, but I would recommend trying to get there 6:30ish
067to get position and see what's going on. Uh and then of course Friday night we'll meet in the horseshoe park in the horseshoe. They'll let you in at Lefay High School and um they start at 8:00. So again 7:15 7:30 when we march down with the graduates. Um GSBA summer delegate uh conference is coming up on June 5th through the 7th. I know Dr. Willerson and Miss Harden are going down and we'll talk about travel arrangements. Uh later on we can Travis down in the 141. Okay. What's the date on that? The date will be Thursday, June the 5th. We would go down. The conference starts on Friday the 6th and it finishes on Saturday the 7th about noon and then we'll head back after that. So um takes about five well depends on who's
068driving. Travis it might be four. Me it's like three and a half to get to Sedan. So, um, and then the other thing is we were talking through the, uh, budget and I know there were some questions about some of the 2% 5% expenditure estimates and then one backup documentation. And so, in order for us to do that, there's a couple of things that need to happen. One, we need to have another called session. Um, and then we need to get that tenative budget. It has to be advertised on our website and posted and it has to be advertised in the messenger a week before the first required budget hearing which is on June the 10th. So here are some dates. I just want you and I'll email these to you, but uh Tuesday the
06927th, Wednesday the 28th are open right now for a potential call session. And then the last one would be Tuesday June 3. That's open. The the catch with the third is we would have to post that immediately because the Walker Messenger advertisements will have already gone to the messenger. It doesn't have to have the tenative budget. It just has to refer people to where it's located which will be on the website. So I'll email that to you guys. You guys let me know which of those three dates work for you. We can do that here and we can start it available at a convenient time for you guys. We just need to advertise that. Um, other than that, I think that was everything that's been in addition to anything that we have on Tuesday night
070or if you have any questions, questions. Uh, next, um, still with these reports, Mr. Wallace. Thank you, Madam Chair, board members. Um, there's nothing really new to report with new construction other than we could do some dry weather up original for the RMS combo. I think the six week total is a little bit over 15 in of rain we've had at that site which is really abnormal I mean for this time of year for that amount but um of course I say that not only what typically is up there but it seems like it's been a lot so uh we need some dry weather we are behind uh on that on that project but we're getting close to being done with the grading we just need a few dry days so hopefully um weather will
071cooperate want to mention that the only other change really to my update was um the the radio system that you guys will have in front of you tonight. I want to give you just a couple things about it. Um the the Georgia Forestry Commission and the Georgia State Patrol recently went to this system. Um that that tells me a lot. Um there are systems that are running them in the state of Georgia through their school district as well like we're talking about. So, um it's it's got to be pretty comprehensive or those agencies wouldn't wouldn't be doing that. So, I feel good about that. We have tested it now for a couple weeks um about 3 weeks actually and um been very impressed like I said at the same session. So, we are recommending that
072tonight. You guys, thank you. Wanted to echo Mr. Rain sentiments about um you appreciate you for getting that in the on the agenda and that's coming out of the security funds. So we have about $74,000 left to spend in this fiscal year. This the the initial quote that we have was about 36 and some change. This is a sole source vendor onstate contract. Uh and so it may inch up to 40 as we look to see how many administrators need the devices themselves because this will replace the device they have that they use inside the school. Um, that still leaves us about $36,000 that we're going to have to figure out to spend because we don't want to lose any of that money or actually send that money back. So So will this go live
073when school starts back? We want to have some time also. Why would we want to wait another month? I want to have some time for our our buses to make, you know, I want to test them out in in the bus routes and when they start doing their preliminary before pre, you know, pre school the floor and and just make sure they have a little bit of time to be comfortable with them as well. Um, we will have routes and things we can use them over summer if we have transport. So, I do feel like it gives some time to work bugs out over the summer and um yeah, that we definitely want it to go to be live ready to go and also for the schools to have a little time with it as
074well. So, and Chris, if I'm not mistaken, this company will also move our equipment from where it is currently to Yes. in this contract price. So, we'll have the analog system as well as the new digital system. Yeah, we have a service contract with communications and he's going to move that within our contract we have within uh over to Fairland. So, we won't be dependent on piggy backing off of the state or excuse me the county government uh tower site. Uh we did realize it's a little higher elevation anyway. So, it works out nicely. And the only thing we might end up purchasing up there is a small roof mounted antenna that won't be real noticeable. So, um that will give us a good backup just in case. Um but this is actually Southern Link
075is a government only type um cellular network. So you can't just overcrowded it. It's it's only for government entities. So I think it's going to be a really good solution. I've been really impressed so far with how it's working up here. And um you never get 100% coverage, but I think we're going to be a lot closer than we were. And I just like I said at the planning session, these bus drivers I've been on routes with them before. This is their lifeline. I mean, this is their only connectivity to assistance or direction or whatever they need out there. Sometimes, you know, it could be the matter of of of a safety issue or a health issue for the MR students. So, I do appreciate you guys consideration of that. The other one that we've
076asked you to put on there tonight is for the Naomi gym floor. My understanding was when there was a fire there in 19 maybe 91 um that they they redid uh the floor at that time in the gym. It's a it's a parket wood floor which you don't see a lot anymore. Um and it was put directly down on the concrete and there's there's some issues that are arising uh from that and we have done some patching but I think it's time to just you know make the investment. Um it's a 25 year warranty product. I am somewhat familiar with this. We've got a rec center over in Vickence where they've had this down for 16 or 18 years. Uh they love it. It's it's it's really nice. the lines for the basketball court and
077then volleyball court lines, whatever you want to put in there are in the the material itself. So there's no painting, there's no gym floor stripping. Um it's basically you just clean it like you would vinyl floor. So Tyvec machine or something like that. It's open water. So I do think it's a good good option. A lot of people are going with this for elementary floors. not as much with high school boards, but elementary where they get ton of play, ton of traffic with all kind of different um you know, equipment on there. So, I do think it's a really good option. I appreciate you guys um considering that for us tonight and uh we will be taking that if approved out of uh bank's budget. So, money that was already allocated this year um so
078not in the budget um any additional uh money for that or asking for additional money. So, um, that's about all there is to update. Mr. Reigns, mostly about the safety and security, what we're looking at left with that money for this allocation. Of course, we got 26 allocation and an additional allocation that they gave us in January um that we have until 26 to spend. So, we've got some plans for that for strategics and some other um things we can pay for like our our sheriff's office and city of the fet police contract, which is nice of us to pay out of that now. saves us some money in the in the budget. I know Rachel appreciates that. So, any questions you have about the update or those particular items that I can answer for?
079Yes, sir. We'll be able to get rid of those old radios before we sell those off or they just trash. So, I think the ones we put in the last several years are probably a little more valuable because we have been going to digital radios since they've been affordable to do so. So, that we switch over to digital system. My my suggestion would be because I don't think we'll get a lot of money is to keep those radios in place on the buses especially in and then the base stations that we currently have because we'll have that as a backup and having that station at Fairland having these radio as a backup. It's still going to be analog system but at least we'll have something. I don't like the idea of having no backup and
080we have a backup now um at Fairland. So it's just not a good idea to put all your eggs in one basket ever with technology I feel like. So that's that's what my recommendation would be is not I don't think you'll get that much money back on it. So I think it's going to be worthwhile to hang on to. So the bus will actually physically have two radios in it. Um but I still think that's probably a good a good option for you. Not necessarily related to bed just a question in general. Uh as far as FCC lure does any is there any requirements for this new system question involvement? Not that I know of. Um because Southern Link is the one responsible for the equipment for the actual transmission of the data. So they
081own all the equipment except for the radios themselves. Whereas right now we own the transmission equipment that power. So we do have to have SEC license and you have to go update that every so often. So um that that is what the way I understand it. I get clarification for sure, but that's the way I understand it for the contract. And that's kind of the beauty of it. the expensive components they have to operate and keep up. And and the other thing about Southern Link is GSP, other municipalities, uh, fire and rescue, a lot of people are using that for government entities. You can rest assured that if there's some kind of catastrophe, they're going to be getting those up real quick for services. So, I will find out about the SEC license be sure
082100%. The other thing uh Kevin we're talking about too is there's a monthly u agreement with that for the use. We feel like we can uh we've got the question pushed out that we feel like we can take that out of the safety grant money as well. That'll be an allowable expense. Thank you. Any other questions? Thank you. Uh we do have two individual action items. The first one is um for the five-year local facilities plan. It's recommended that the Walker County Board of Education approve a resolution to request assistance from the GA DOE for purposes of developing a 5-year facilities plan as we as required. Do you have a motion? Motion. You have a second. All those in favor? The second is our financial report. It's recommended that the Walker County Board of Education
083approve the financial report for the month ending March 31st, 2025. Do we have a motion? Motion. Second. All those in favor. Okay. Um, next is our consent action items. It's recommended that the board approve the list of consent action items. Do we have a motion? Motion. Do we have a second? Any discussion? All those in favor? Okay. Next on our agenda is new business. Mr. Middleton, is there anything with you? Uh, no, thank you. I don't have anything. Mr. Richardson? No, ma'am. Miss Harden? No, not at this time. Mr. Willerson? No, not yet. And I have nothing. Next on our agenda is public participation. Um, Mr. Rain, I believe we have two. Yes, ma'am. So, we have two individuals who follow the procedures laid out in policy BCBI public participation in board meetings to address
084the board. Uh, both notifications were received by the 10 a.m. Monday deadline according to the policy. Uh, and I and I know you'll remind our speaker of the parameters, but our first guest speaker this evening is Mr. Mark Harris. And I apologize to Mr. Harris because we had a little miscommunication last month. He was signed up and didn't get an email back, but he is uh graciously decided to come again this evening and he wants to talk a little bit about the district-wide cell phone policy reform that's coming. So, okay. And I think we have uh on the podium is there the It's actually underneath because we had the the all the awards up there, but we typically have it up there as well. No, that's totally fine. The awards there. And if you'll just
085read over that and um Miss Harden is going to give you a one minute warning. All right. Time's almost up, but All right. Good. Good evening, members of the board, uh leadership, and community members. It is no exaggeration when I say that our students are part of one of the largest experiments humanity has ever seen. They are living a phone-based childhood and adolescence. A 2023 report found that teens spend on average 8 hours and 39 minutes per day using screens for entertainment. In Walker County schools, teachers are either constantly policing phones or they have given up allowing passive usage in class. Either way, our students are not receiving the same education that you and I receive because they're constantly distracted by their cell phones. I'd like to present three pieces of factbased evidence outlining how
086smartphones negatively impact our students education, mental health, and social development. Firstly, education. 95% of school students bring phones to school daily and 82% use them during instructional time. The University of Georgia found that heavy smartphone users had lower uh GPA than their peers. Additionally, when schools implemented phone restrictions, test scores improved significantly. Simply put, implement cell phone policy reform and our achievement scores will go up. Secondly, mental health. The CDC shows alarming trends for Georgia with a 36% increase in students experiencing persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness between 2011 and 2021. That time frame is significant because it's the time when smartphones uh receive wide widespread adoption. The Georgia Department of Public Health has identified smartphone and social media use as contributing factors to rising mental health concerns. The US Surgeon General says a similar
087thing. Simply put, if we remove cell phones during school hours and you reduce then you reduce the toxic comparison culture that social media brings. Uh third point, and this one is often overlooked, social development. Uh research from Vanderbilt University found that classrooms with strict phone policies have 30% more peer-to-peer interactions, and that's during group work. However, inconsistent enforcement between classrooms, that's different teachers, significantly undermined positive outcomes. The University of Georgia documented that fubbing or phone snubbing, which I'm receiving right now, directly reduces face-to-face communication quality in adolescence and that correlates with increased feelings of isolation. Sir, thank you. Simply put, inconsistent phone policies create confusion while consistent district-wide restrictions foster environments where genuine human connection and learning can flourish. So, what's the solution? I have two options for you or two suggestions. The first is
088lockable pouches. Students place their phones in individual pouches which are locked with magnetic pins upon arrival. keeping pouches with them, but they're unable to access them during school hours. The second option, which would be a lot cheaper, would be utilizing phone lockers. Students secure phones in designated lockers at the beginning of the day, accessible only at dismissal. Policies that merely discourage use have shown to be ineffective due to the neurological impact of smartphone proximity on adolescent attention. These things are extremely addictive as are the applications on there. Try teaching chemistry and competing with Tik Tok. It's very difficult. By implementing a comprehensive phone band with secure storage solutions, Walker County would join other forwardinking districts, creating environments where adolescence can focus completely on academic content without digital distractions. Develop authentic face-to-face social skills essential for
089future careers. Experience the school day without anxiety producing social media pressures. Build stronger executive function and attention skills needed for college readiness. The data is clear. Phone free schools better serve our educational mission and the specific de developmental needs of our students. I thank you so much for your consideration. Thank you. Thank you. I have some uh references for you all too. Okay. Thank you, sir. Okay. We had one other speaker that signed up this evening. Uh that was uh Trisha Rafiti. If you remember, Miss Rafi had signed up a couple of months ago, removed her name, and then she re issue one for me back on, and just said general comments. And I don't think Mr. is here this evening. You'll see her. Okay. Uh next, uh executive session, we do have a meeting
090for executive session for personnel. Uh do we have a motion? Second. Second. All those in favor? Okay. We have a uh back in session. We have a recommendation personnel for certificated non-sertificated uh transfers lake coach substitute teacher and substitute nutrition workers. We have a motion. Motion. Second. Second. All those in favor? Need a motion to adjurnn. Motion. All those in favor? And no, Travis, we're not discussing anything else until we go home.