001students from Bernardine sits your show. >> Hey, it's on you. We'll start [clears throat] to the flag of the United States of America and to the for one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice. >> Right. Thank you. Okay, we'll say please take a moment for a silent reflection. >> [snorts] >> Okay. Item C, meetings is a note. There will be a board faculty meeting at Plymouth Elementary School on Wednesday, December 10th at 7 a.m. Four or more board members may be in attendance. Board faculty meeting at Jenny Barker Elementary School, Friday, December 12th at 7:50 a.m. Four or more board members may be in attendance as well. Um, capstone project for US government, a local action plan, student presentations, central cup coffee, Friday, December 12th at 8:30 a.m. Four or more board members
002may be in attendance as well. And finally, a board of education Christmas party, Thursday, December 18th at Kasamaraj's at 6:00 p.m. Okay. Item D, approval of agenda with the following amendments. D1, additional certified and classified personnel actions for consideration. Item F3 and D2, additional meeting of note item C. >> President, I move to approve the meeting agenda as amended. >> Second. >> It's been moved and second. Is there any discussion? There is none. All in favor raise your hand. Opposed same side. Motion carries. Item E, delegations and public comments. I don't believe we have any or >> do we have two up there? >> I'm sorry. We did not have the pink slip. You changed the slip. >> All right. Well, let's go. Number one, we'll do uh Riley Smith. Right. I I'll just right
003now remind you, you have five minutes, okay? It's it's your time. Um, we are not allowed to answer any questions, but if there's clarifying stuff, we'll try to get you an answer. Okay. >> All right. Thank you. Begin. >> Hello everyone. My name is Riley and I'm here to formally invite you to our government night school capstone project on February December 12. No, December 12 at the Central Cup. My classmate and I have been working on this project problems of practice where we identify real challenges and opportunities in garden city. During the event we will be presenting our action plans and project ideas which were developed in Kadu collaboration with the city of garden city. Our goal is to share practical solution that we can make meaning difference in our community. Hope you will join
004us, learn about our project and provide your support and feedback um will become more engaged in our communities. >> Thank you very much. >> Thanks for the advice. >> Okay, next up is Russ Tidwell. so much. >> Last time I was here, Robin at the end of the meeting said she wanted people to sometimes come in and say good things. So, um I I just uh I wanted to take a second and say thanks to the board and to administration at K and at of course good. Um we rebooted the middle school debate and forensics program this year this fall. Um we're able I I was able to do that because I'm not coaching debate anymore and so I just took both of those programs. We just finished I'll finish up the last meeting with
005the horse goods kids tomorrow and we're done. We finally got to get up and going with meetings uh like the second week of October. We did our last tournament last week, second of two tournaments. This year we only had the two middle schools in Garden City competing, but I already have commitments from a couple of other area schools to do it again next fall. Um, so I think it's going to grow a little bit. We had 23 kids between the two buildings, which felt pretty good for a boot up in the middle of October and u with with, you know, just sort of word of mouth and email. Um, out of that 15 kids competed in one or both of the tournaments and uh I kids were even today when I finished at KH we
006I still had kids saying is there any way you can come back and do this again all of spring and I just said no. But um they're very excited. We had a really good time. Uh it was really good for me. The other part of it that I that was really great was that I have we had a couple of our graduates from last year who are competing at the community college this year in debate and forensics and and I just had one of them was a KH student, one of them was a horse good student and I brought them in with me and they sort of served as assistant coaches and I really suspect that we're going to pick up a couple of educators out of that deal. So I just wanted to say
007thanks and there are good things happening too. Thank you, Russ. [clears throat] [snorts] Okay. Item E1, recognition of outgoing board members. assignment superintendent. >> So for three of our board members, tonight is their last official board meeting. And so um just as a token of our appreciation, first um Andy Farmeire for your service. Come on up, Andy. Uh September of 2022 to January of 2026. >> Thank you for your service. Bring me a picture. All of them together. Okay. And then uh Miss Jackie Jigot for her service January of 2022 to January of 2026. >> And the last one is John Whesi. Uh January 2022 to January of 2026. you guys want to come up and we'll do a real quick picture. I just want to thank you all for your leadership and for your
008time on the board. It's I know that oftentimes it's a it's a lot of work for the amount of pay that you get, which is zero. And so, um, I appreciate you taking the time and and being willing to to give back to your community. So, much appreciated. >> Yeah. One, two, three. One, two. Thanks, guys. Thank you. Thank you. >> Okay, we'll move on to item E2, recognition of Crystal Apple, teacher finalist and winners. Brut. So, first off, I'd like to to thank the outgoing board members. We I definitely appreciate everything that you guys have done for us and and specifically me and thank you for the time, energy, and effort that you guys have have put into this. It's a it's a ton to take on. It's a big responsibility for our community
009and and we couldn't have three better ones. So, thank you guys for doing that. Um, I get the fun uh the fun announcement of the night. I get to to introduce our Crystal Apple finalist and award winner. So, um, tonight we're proud to recognize all of the Crystal Apple nominees that we had for USD 457. Uh, the the ones I'm going to introduce, you guys are obviously outstanding educators. You your model commitment to our district, to our communities, and especially uh to our kids. You're the heart that you pour into these students every single day. Uh it could not be overstated how how much you give to our uh school district, but more importantly to our kids and to the kids that you guys service. Um I'm going to introduce you guys. I'm going to
010have you guys come up because I know Dena likes to come in front of a lot of people. Uh so first uh the finalists that we had uh for USD 457. First, Mr. Nick Catch and then Miss Laura Walsh and then our two Crystal Apple winners uh for the school district. Um, Miss Megan Ford from Jenny or from Jenny Barker Matt Dela Cruz from Alter Brown. So from the board of education, from uh from the school district, I'm fortunate enough that I get to call all of you guys friends. Uh I know all of you on a personal level, which makes makes this even more special. Um when we got the finalist when we got the list of the finalist uh we sat down as a leadership team uh because we knew a little a
011little bit ahead of time who who the finalist uh were going to be. And and I'll be honest with you, it was great to see the names that were on the list. There are not five more uh deserving people in our district uh up for this award than the than the five that are in front of you guys tonight. I can't express how proud I am of each and every one of you. uh how much I appreciate being able to call all of you friends, even if you guys get me in trouble sometimes, but I I appreciate all of you and all that you've done. Uh Megan and Matt, uh you guys, congratulations, especially on winning the award. Uh we couldn't have two better people have won this world uh award. We're we're appreciative of
012all of you. You guys are great teachers, great individuals, uh but mostly uh more than anything, great humans. So, thank you guys. if you would give them a round of applause. >> Thank you guys. >> Thank you. on the end. >> Hold on, hold on, hold on. This picture isn't going to be like this. She have to go over there. Jackie, go. [laughter] >> [laughter] >> I'm gonna have to move over. Okay. Ready? >> One, two, three. One more. One, two, three. Thank you. >> I suppose I'd give you one, too. special. >> Okay, we'll move on to item E3, building presentation from uh principal Brad Hill from Bernardine Sits Intermediate, sir. Got it. All right. Thank you for being here, hearing all the wonderful things that are going on at uh Bernardine sits. We'll
013start off introductions. Um Brad Hill, principal. Thank you for the board members that are going off. My fifth year as administrator. So, uh, you guys have always supported me, uh, supported the building. So, I appreciate all that you guys do. Here we go. There's all our StuCo members. Um, we have a band concert tonight. So, there's a few people that couldn't make it. Uh, so we have six that are going to talk about different programs, different things that are going on at Bernardine 6. >> Mr. P made a bet with all students about state testing. Any student that scored a three or four on any of the tests would be put into a drawing to pie Mr. Hill on the face. We improved in all subject areas. Fifth grade science had a 12.5% increase in
014students scoring a three or four. Fifth grade math and sixth grade math had a 10% increase in students scoring a three or four. And fifth grade ELA had a 10.4% increase in students scoring a three or four. And sixth grade ELA had a 3% increase in students scoring a three or four. Duko helps robotics run their concession stand at their home competition every year. When we run the concess concession stand, we'll handle money and serve food to the customers. It's always a good time. >> Student student help with the Thanksgiving lunch. Every year we help clean up tables and trash. We also get to meet parents at the door. We have donuts for our first responders and we get donuts and juice for them and they drive through our driveway as we serve to them.
015Some even stopped to hang out with us for a while. We really enjoy this and it lets us support our first responders. This year, Mayor Boy Cesna came to the school to visit with Stugo. He talked to us about leadership, how the city council meeting is run, and different things that are happening around Garden City. We are planning on taking a field trip to the courthouse next semester to see everything and learn more about leadership. Every year, every year we have each class decorate their own doors for winter holiday. Each home room chooses a theme and gets to decorate their own door. We have guests come in and judge the doors. Last year, Mr. um Mr. Gman and some staff members from ESC came and voted. This year we had the Garden City High School
016Super Bowl members come church. The winning class gets a hot cocoa party before winter break. We also have some We also have trees up in the commons area that each team gets to decorate for the holidays. We also participate in the Christmas parade every year. Last year our theme was wrapped up in Christmas and we had a giant present with tons of the smaller ones around it. This year our theme was Santa and his reindeer and elves. We had lights and inflatables on the trailer and we all pushed up candy. Capturing kids parts at BSIC focus on focuses on building strong relationships and a positive school culture. Teachers greet students at the door each day creating a welcoming start and rein and reinforcing that every student every student is seen and valued. Classrooms use a
017social contract developed collectively with students to establish shared expectations for classes use good things giving students space to share positivity positivities and build connections with peers and teachers together. These practices foster trust improvement engagement and create a supportive encou encouraging atmosphere for both staff and students across the building. Students from zero district for pearls during the nineweek period are invited to participate in the courtly celebrations featuring fun activities, games, and snacks as a reward for their positive choices in behavior. Stu does multiple fundraisers to raise money to be able to go on trips as a group and to help the in school. One of them is one of them is full store. We have items including mini puppets, fidgets, mechanical pencils, squishies, hairbrushes, and giant puppets. They range in prices from 25 cents to $5.
018We are open once a week on Tuesday mornings. Last year, Stupo groups group started two new fundraisers. Teachers drink cart. We sell flavored water, coffee, tea, and hot chocolate to staff on Thursday mornings. This was a huge hit last year with the staff and something they look forward to once a week. Healthy snack cart. Healthy snack stand. We sell sell healthy snacks after school once a week on Thursdays. This gives the students something to look forward to towards the end of the week. We plan on starting these backup 2021. We have a feeling that they will be a big hit again. Here are clubs and activities at BSIC. Bulldog broke furniture for PTO robotics after school program [clears throat] and choir and orchestra. Thank you for making time to hear about what is happening at
019PSIC questions. Can we get a picture? >> Is there any questions we have? >> You guys did a great job with that. >> Thank you for the presentation activities. >> What's the What's the grades in your studio? What what grades are you guys? >> Sixth grade. Hey, when you come through, shake our hands. There's pins right here. If you want one, please take one. Okay. Good job. >> Photoshop. Yeah, we'll do >> Thank you. >> Where we can see you kids over a little bit. There you go. [clears throat] speech. >> All right. Ready? One, two, three. One more. One, two, three. Thank you, >> guys. Okay, move on to item F is which is the consent agenda. [clears throat] >> I move to approve all consent agenda agenda agenda items as amended. >> Second.
020Move and second. Is there any discussion? There's none. All in favor raise your hand. Post. Same sign. Okay. Item G, board reports. Uh G1, Hansen's canar recognition for 2025 in the area of kindergarten readiness. Ryan Cot, principal at Georgia Matthews. Again, thank you board members that are going out. I appreciate everything you guys have done past three years. Know it hasn't been easy some of the stuff that you've worked but thank you. Um I'm here to present on the kindergarten readiness uh star program. The Kansas Canstar Recognition Program uh for kindergarten rec read Readiness recognizes communities that offer quality inclusive opportunities to young children and their families so that each student enters kindergarten at age five social, emotionally, and academically prepared for success. Uh the application process begins in January. The application closes again in
021May and then at the state level they review everything. Um I'm one of the ones that was tasked to work on the district application with with the team that I have later on in the slides. Um we were awarded um for the 2425 year uh the star uh the bronze star. Um as you can see we're one of 26 districts. So it's a fairly new program um but the district has come a long ways in working on early childhood learning uh with Garfield and kindergarten. Um some of our program strengths through the application came up as uh community collaboration. um Garfield and a lot of this primarily stems in the prek uh with Garfield working with uh program parents as teachers um working to help educate um parents and work with the preschool building on
022building a strong academic program um with development developmentally appropriate um practices. Um they work with Russell Childhood Development Center and other agencies to put on trainings um not only for their staff uh parents and other preschool programs. Um, another one uh with trainings is the district office has done a good job of supporting some of those trainings like this past year uh which will go towards this year's application is working with the kindergarten teachers and understanding of what ASQ the ages and stages program uh does for kindergarten readiness also preschool. Um they also put on that dyslexia training um that works prek through 12 uh for the community members and and teachers that kind of aligned uh with letters and and some of those educational practices that are are geared to help um reading achievement.
023Um another one of the strikes is the district has an ASQ day which we did early in September uh where all kindergartens are out. Um the teacher set up time for parents to come in and take the two uh quizzes that all kindergarteners need to take. Um one is academic, one is social emotional, kind of looking at developmental needs for kindergarten. Um, some of those screenings can be used to help um, design purposeful play, which is a program that kindergarten and preschool use to where they're taking academic um, standards and tying it into play. Um, so whether it's how to play together or working through counting or different activities that that kind of are developmentally appropriate for those students. Um that day we ended up uh getting this year it was 89.9% of our prek
024kindergarten students and families to participate in completing both assessments and um a conference with the teacher. Uh, one of the difficult things is making sure um the language barrier um getting the understanding of why it's important, why it's important to come talk and take those tests um with parents and go through the results. Um like what in my building some of the problems we face with the language is getting parents to understand exactly what it is. um trying to use interpret interpreters or using um software to try to explain exactly what it does um at times has been difficult like when we've had Haitian cre which we don't have a a physical interpreter which kind of makes things tough trying to get um an understanding uh that area too with ASQ we've grown um in
02523 24 only 71% of our parents completed did bold tests and everything they needed to meet the state standards of what participation looks like. Um, this past year, uh, we did go down a little bit. Um, some of that could stem from some of the changes with, um, students moving from building to building. Um, some of the understanding with some of our new kindergarten teachers, um, we went from 89 to 87. We're still meeting what the state threshold of 85% is looking at. Our goal is actually 95%. Um, our numbers would be probably a lot higher, but there were some students where parents only took one and not the other. Um and and some of that is going back towards teacher understanding what they need um to go through the whole results of the assessment
026are and kind of what the purpose is which the district has taken steps this year to try to educate the kindergarten teachers, administrators and preschool teachers the importance of what the results are saying. Um that's an ongoing process as well. Another one that Drew has done a great job is working on trying to get certification or certified teachers both in preK and kindergarten classrooms. Um that's another area where we still can grow because one of the requirements is 100%. I think we were three or four teachers last year short of that. Um but I know they've done a whole lot of trying to get certified teachers in those positions. Um the other one that the district is working really um towards is standard alignment. Um they've taken a great step at having preschool um use
027Hagerty, the phonics instruction program, tying more academic pieces into that. And I know in my building we're seeing uh the results of that. Our kids are coming in higher um with letter recognition, sound recognition for the ones that are going to Garfield. Um, so that's going to continue to grow, especially with looking at a new curriculum as we're aligning those things that that will help those pieces with our program. Um, one of the areas on the application piece that they also look at is nutrition. Um, it's an area that we're not going to be able to grow because of the dynamics of our district. Uh, some of the things they look at is preschool kids eating with other grades. um where we're at is we're just a preschool building. So there there's not that ability
028to have lunch um with other grades. Another one is they look at um kind of a homestyle type lunch with our nutrition program. We're not able to do that. Um there there's some ways we can but it doesn't meet the needs of looking like a home lunch where there's a big bowl and people are serving um kind of that but that's something that we know and we know we're not going to grow with unless there's major changes but I mean it's just kind of the dynamics of OKR. Um, so I mean there there's some ways that I think uh for this next year and the the following year as we move on uh that we will have that ability to grow from bronze to silver. Um with those districts there there's a few points we
029can pick up um with that. Another area is looking at transitions which we've already started talking about kind of administratively of how we can tie or improve transition from preschool to kindergarten um and kind of all the transition pieces we're looking but primarily for the readiness part is how we can partner up with uh Garfield to those kids that are coming to my building to other elementary buildings um getting parents ready for that transition. And that's something I know they've um like talking with Andrea um took steps last year of trying to improve of getting us as administrators into Garfield to look at the kids that are coming to our buildings and there's some other things we can work on of maybe getting parents visiting our buildings. Um some of the things that I think
030the district has done in the past that will help that transition um moving from Garfield to to the K4 buildings. Um, like I said, the team that I worked with from Garfield was Sarah Gear, Millie Gar, Melanie Garrison, Andrea Baker, and Madison Thompson, and then Becky Alexander um when she was in the kindergarten role, uh, helped quite a bit with the application and complete it. So, it it was it's a pretty big award. Um, it's a fairly new one and the district should be pretty proud of what they've done to achieve the recognition. You guys have any questions? One thing I would say um we this is the first year that we've actually this last year was the first year that we were actually able to uh actually complete the rubric to even to even
031participate because for that there's a set of uh questions that we had to answer to before we could even go on and we weren't able to to get through the the initial process because of some of the things that we did. So it really opened our eyes and helped us make some make some significant changes at the kindergarten level. One of the things was um in the past and in a couple of our special ed programs um we had two-year kindergarten mandatory two-year kindergarten programs. That's a big no no at the state. That's not to say that we can't retain kindergarteners, but we can't make it mandatory. If you're in this program, you have to be in here for two years. And so, um really kind of started to look at things a little on
032on an individual level or um and so I think it really opened up our eyes and helped began a lot of the discussions. We brought the new um we brought the new behavior plan that that we kind of created a couple years ago. That was kind of a byproduct of of of this too because um a lot of the a lot of the things we had in there was pretty punitive for our care nurse. And so there was a lot of work a lot a lot of other things that have been affected been impacted because of the work that Brian did and and the things that we identified through um trying to participate and and and not being able to You might not have an answer for this, but um I'm sure it's not an
033issue just at this level. It's through the entire district. Are there any programs through the state either government education locally to help like maybe grow our own interpreters? >> Um interpreters >> interpreters like you know >> I don't know of anything. So, one of the biggest hang-ups that we have with um with interpreters is uh they have to have a high school diploma, at least a high school diploma. And oftentimes when folks are coming from other countries, it's very hard to obtain their actual high school diploma, especially if they're coming from places like Haiti. Sometimes it can be very difficult um to get that sent from the school in Haiti to the United States in order for us to hire them. We've had and I had to check tomorrow. We do have an offer if
034he hasn't accepted yet. We last week we talked to uh a potential Haiti candidate and we've got an offer out. The problem that we run into is with the 32 different languages, we obviously can't go and afford to hire a specific language that we may only have three kids, >> right? But with Haitian Creole, it's um it's been a little bit challenging just because of um some federal stuff that has happened. We we had a couple move away. Um but the one we have now uh hopefully he accepts if he hasn't accepted today. Uh he would be a very good candidate because he is uh local. even just as is do we have access to the interpreters like that they use at the county for court and those type of things like could we access
035them as well? >> Yeah, I'd have to check. Yeah, that's a that's a really good question. Most of the time they ask us for interpreters so yeah >> I mean I know the process they go through. One of my customers is an interpreter for the court system and I know we had to go through a pretty rigorous testing to make sure that he could do it properly. But >> yeah, >> if we had >> That's the same way. I I'm not sure what their testing is. Like we have a lot of people that can speak Spanish that don't qualify to be interpreters. >> Yep. That's I'll I'll dig into it. that that is helpful especially having someone in the district especially you know because they don't understand the education sites so it's not fully getting
036translated correctly I know when we've had some of the ones in district that's made a a major major difference um especially like with an example with another kindergarten in the building um before we had the one interpreter leave. Um, she was able to translate and actually get a parent in and understand why we were doing it instead of them looking at is are they doing something wrong and it makes a big difference. >> Yeah, I mean that's what I mean these communities and our internal communities inside our communities are oftentimes pretty tight. So that is the a big a big impact on that group just being able to have somebody that they know inside their own community being able to do that that interpreting. some of the highest level then >> uh gold is the
037highest level but right now looking at some of the qualifications which they were re going to revamp it for this next year gold is extremely difficult the way funding is the way um just especially larger district structures are from my background it's really hard to throw prek into an elementary building and be able to function with size unless you have a massive budget to do appreciate all your work. I know it takes a lot of time to get things together and all that stuff. >> Yeah. And it, like I said, it was really useful, but I I mean, I I kind of threw a lot together with the application, but um using the ladies from Garfield and and just their knowledge putting everything together was a massive help. question maybe not for you Brian but
038>> the new curriculum that we're looking at does any of that cover prek or is it >> so most of those curriculums they don't have a some of them do but a lot of don't have a pre-k component so you look at because what you see with prek is we're just adopting ELA right now is what we're looking at and most of your prek curriculums are um are integrated curriculum so it's going to teach math social studies and science and ELA allin one and so we'll look at We'll [clears throat] look at probably a totally different curriculum for prek, but it's on the same adoption cycle as our ELA curriculum. So, they'll they'll be for adoption. So, we'll have something that'll come to the board when we get to that point. >> And Heather, do
039we have >> Yeah, ELA, the early childhood center has recommended what? >> Okay. >> It's going to curriculum counsel tomorrow, so should come to the board in January. Ryan, good job. Thank you very much. >> Thank you. >> Adam G2, Garden City High School Go Credit CD operates principal Ryan May and from Garden City High, but I just to clarify Um at a previous board meeting, we briefly shared a lot about um some of the opportunities that we provide for students for post-secary success. And so um tonight we have Whitney Lindenburgger, who is the lead associate principal at Garden City High School, to share more about CTE and dual credit offerings for you guys. >> Okay. I'm going to ask I don't even know your name, but I'm Whitney and I'd love for you to
040click those buttons over there because um I mean I'll try, but goodness knows what will happen. And I had to be a little extra and use Canvas. So Mr. Mr. Arby was like, "You might have to scroll instead of click." So, you guys are in for a real show here. What do I do with this thing? Click it. You think? Click down. Oh, look at it. It works. My gosh. Okay. So, I'm Whitney Linenburgger. Um, Mr. Ming had a medical appointment today in Witchaw, so he's on the road back. I know he wish he could be here, and I want to be fully transparent with you guys. I am a teeny tiny piece in a 1,000piece puzzle of people that make this machine work. Um, just this year, uh, myself and Mrs. Ming are now
041the site coordinators, um, for the dual credit stuff with the Jo. So, I have learned what I feel like is a 8 inch three- ring binder full of stuff that I never even knew, and I still feel like I've just kind of fallen over the edge. So, I have a ton to learn. Um she's been Mrs. Ming has been awesome in helping us. Um but luckily for me there is a beautiful spreadsheet clear back to um tracking all of our dual credit data. So um I just looked at that spreadsheet and I only pulled the fall data because it would have taken me like 27,000 hours to pull all of it. So, um, this year, um, in the fall at GCHS, we have kids enrolled in 1,343 college credit hours in total. So, some kids
042might be taking three hours, some kids might be taking 12. It just kind of depends by student, but that's the total number. Um, we have 16 classes offered concurrently on our campus. So, they're coming and our teachers are teaching them versus taking everything online, which is what most students do. Um there are 58 total courses taken. Um and then we also have h how do we make this work? Um minus those 16 classes where kids go to learn college algebra from Mr. Beiju um and stuff like that. We have a two well one and a half egeneuity or online labs. So we have some kids taking egeneuity but then we have some kids taking um those dual credit classes. So we've actually been able to take um that half prime. just one person who's there
043in the morning. Um, and every kid in that room is just taking Garden City Community College classes. Now, we're going to see if I click the wrong way or the right way. I'm not going to read all of these to you, but I thought it was kind of powerful just to see the broad range of things that our students are taking. Um, so you've got English one, college comp, um, college algebra, kind of your basic stuff. And then we've got kids that are in welding, that are in accounting, um, early childhood, microeconomics. My student aids in microeconomics. I'm learning some microeconomics. It's serious stuff. Um, but that's just kind of an overview of the different classes that our kids are taking. Um little chart here just shows you kind of what enrollment has looked like
044since the fall of 2020. Um there was a little dip in the fall of 2023 and I picked Mr. Ming's brain and he said well there was a lot of COVID money that was helping us to pay kind of fund that stuff and that went away that year. Um and we also had an onampus teacher that came over from the Jo that we lost that class that year. So that kind of being the enrollment, but as you can see, we're almost back up to fall of 2022 when we were the highest we've been. So, um, so talking about enrollment, when we look forward to spring of 2026, we have 233 students enrolled. Again, that might mean a student taking one class, that might mean a student taking four. Um, right now, when we talk to
045students about enrolling, um, we pretty much limit it to our juniors and seniors, um, and our gifted sophomores. So, if you look at those numbers, I just estimated how many gifted sophomores there were. So, this isn't 100% accurate. Um, but when you do 233 and you take the the whole of 11th and 12th graders with 10 or 15 gifted 10th graders, that's about 26% of those kids. So, basically one in four um is taking some kind of dual credit class, which I think is is pretty awesome. Um, of course with all of this, we have to talk about how do we pay for it because of obviously college isn't free. Um, CTE courses are free through the college. They're funded through lovely Carl Perkins. Um, they also have Buster Boost. So, if kids qualify for
046free and reduced lunches, they don't have to pay um, tuition and fees at the Jo. And then we do get a really nice scholarship bucket that we get to distribute. So, you guys have any questions about that? Maybe, maybe not. There we go. Um the other thing that I thought was kind of powerful was you can see the total number of credit hours earned. Um and in total, we're almost at 8,000 credit hours since um the 2020. And that's only counting fall semesters again. So you could almost well definitely double it. And then we also have kids that do this in the summer. So it's kind of a bird's eye view of dual credit stuff. Um, as we look forward, I think, um, we have a really, really strong partnership with Garden City Community College.
047Um, I feel like we have really good open communication and if they have a crazy idea or we have a crazy idea, we work really hard to to make that work. Um, we're always trying to streamline the process. If Mrs. Ming was was here, she could tell you about the piles of enrollment forms that she's taken over there this fall um, for spring enrollment and getting all those signatures and doing all that stuff. Some of you guys have had kids that do that and you get to fill all that stuff out. Um, so we're just continuing to streamline that process and then also thinking about how what can we do in our master schedule to make this stuff more attainable for our students. But really, we want things that we do to have staying power
048over time. So, questions about dual credit, anybody? Okay. Now, career ready. We're thinking more about CTE. Um, right now we have 20 CTE pathways offered at our high school. Um, I totaled up I have to tell you my logic here because I don't know if you guys know anything about Skyward, but it's a black hole and you could go for days. So, um, in the fall I pulled every roster for every CTE course and if I totaled up all those kids, that would be 1,436 students. Now again, some students might be enrolled in three classes. Some students might only be enrolled in one. Um, but we've got 1,436 enrollments in the fall of 2025 in different CTE courses. Um, that's across 58 total classes, which >> you know what that number was last year? >>
049I do not. I probably, if someone was really smart, could figure that out. Um, I just have to go back in there. But um these are all the different classes that we have. So what's really cool about CTE, I don't know how familiar you guys are with it, but um we have a whole person who is devoted to filling out the paperwork for this and they map pathways. And so kids take classes at different levels and they move through um like introductory application technical um they can become completers of pathways um and eventually if they are that they can use that sort of not really certification but if I'm a completer in a pathway I can take that sometimes to a college and get some college credit or skip a class in college because I've
050done what I needed to do. So, um, these are really career focused courses, um, that let them just explore kind of what they're interested in. So, whole bunch of good stuff and more to come. Um, so what's next here? Um, we have really Emily Hamlin Delo has taken CTE by the horns and it is a big hairy bull, let me tell you. Um, but she has a vision and a passion that all of us uh very much appreciate. So, she's already written a grant. Um, and we've got some money coming in to really kind of focus on how do we make these courses accessible to all of our students. We know that right now, um, students that are identified as ESL and not spending a lot of time in the gened classroom don't necessarily have
051the same access as every other kid does. Um, same thing with some of our students on IEPs. So, we are purposefully planning some courses just for those kids that are flagged as CTE. Um, what else? Let's see. Again, master schedule changes, which kind of makes me my knees shake a little bit, but we're going to do it and it's going to be awesome. Um, and then Emily has a whole spreadsheet of new pathway proposals that she will be looking at for the next school year. You guys are going to see a lot of that um in your curriculum council stuff that comes through. Um, but again, we just want things to be sustainable. So, yes. Do you have have any questions for these are my shout outs because these are the people who really understand
052the system and make it happen. Um, and Don Tucker and Phil Tster at the college. They're awesome anytime we have a question. So, yeah. What can I try to answer? I should per say I just I I think the relationship that you guys have built with the college and that has been wonderful. It's pretty fantastic. >> I 100% agree and she said at the beginning she's not Mr. Ming. That's how I like when when they were like do you want to do it? I said well yeah I want to do it but I'm real nervous because he he understands everything and he has a great relationship. He really set the foundation for that. So we're just trying to to keep it rolling. So yeah. >> Yeah. I don't have a question either, but a statement
053following Ry's. I I think it's great the relationship and what y'all are doing and the numbers you showed us tonight and the number of students that are enrolled in these dual credit courses. That says a lot, too. So, that that's something that really really looks good. >> Well, we we appreciate that. We definitely want to make sure that we are giving students what they need. Um, and we we have a a clientele of kids that are definitely ready to go. And even students that we maybe we're not so sure about like, oh, are they ready for college or not yet? Like our counselors are very wellversed in what's a good one to try. How do we make sure that they're in a lab where they can be successful? Um, we have proctors that have access
054to all of their stuff so that they can see what's going on, contact parents, all that good stuff. So, it is a good way to kind of get your toes wet without jumping off the deep end, you know? So, yep. >> Speaking from the gallery preview, things to come. CTE, dual credit. We in leadership have talked a ton about how do we continue to offer more dual credit CTE through the college or through colleges. So, our our kids continue to have more and more opportunity to go through those CTE pathways at Garden City High School. Um, you know, we talked this morning about CDLs. How do we get our kids uh now that kids can get their CDL at 18 kids now that they can do an 18-year-old program? How do we get their button
055to see at Garden City High School at 17 getting the coursework done? If you guys know anything about CDL's, the amount of time, the cost is substantially increased over the last couple years. So, how do we and we've got a bunch of those types of kids at the high school. How do we continue to grow grow those pathways? And yeah, >> Mr. Loach had those things on there that that's how we continue to grow workforce inside Garden City to keep kids in Garden City, limit student debt, do those sorts of things. So, they do a great job. >> Something else I would say um that Emily's really tackling right now is we might offer like an environmental science class, but there is something mapped to a CTE pathway. forgive me I don't know the name
056that the standards and the competencies are very very similar. So something that we can talk about on our end is maybe instead of offering environmental science which is this number we offer this other course and then we're getting CTE credit from that and from a state like funding perspective that really helps us out too. So, those are again curriculum councils probably going to they're going to be flexing their muscles and you guys are going to see a lot of courses coming across and you might be thinking why are we doing all this? Well, a lot of that is to align those things and also just to get the most bang for our buck. Why would we not give kids a CTE credit? Um, and if some of those courses are funded, why would we not
057be getting the the money for that from the state if we could just by changing a number and a a name and tweaking a few standards? So, it also opens up great doors for our teachers um because when you're a CTE teacher, you have access to a whole bunch of funds for things for your classroom um that gened people don't have access to because they've got those Carl Perkins grants and all that good stuff. So, it's good stuff for sure. >> Anything else? >> I think this really illustrates, you know, we we talk about student success and and it's more than just our state assessment scores. I mean, I don't want to say that state assessment scores aren't important, but when we talk about a graduation rate of 96% at Garden City High School and
058the dual credits that we're doing, I mean, these kids are being successful outside of once they leave Garden City High School. And so, I think that says a lot of work that's being done, not only at Garden City High School, but all the work before they get to Garden City High School, too. There's a lot of good things happening. Right. >> Thank you guys so much. >> Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. [snorts] Okay, item H, new business. H1, we'll talk about sidewalk repair proposals. It's a first read. Director of plant facilities, Brandon Anderson. >> So, before I get into that, one thing I noticed in Bernardine Sits's report. If you guys remember, we did Sit's roof uh April 15th and May 15th last year, and it was during testing. Uh but I've asked Mr.
059Hill and they mentioned tonight their test scores actually went up. [laughter] So, we got the benefit of maybe not cramming it into a summer and and maybe getting a better bid. Maybe it won't be that experience every time, but I'm going to propose that we do do roofs during every testing time. >> But I thought that So, I'm here this evening to discuss um actually it's the followup to a project that we did in 22 and 23 that you guys may be aware of and that packet was actually included uh in in your bid. We did eight campuses at the time in 22. Uh this year I've got a proposal to do the other half of our campuses. Uh and what precision concrete cutting does is they come in and they basically have walked and
060and in your packet there's a map of of those 10 schools or 10 sites. Um and they go walk them and they look for trip hazards and they look for curb issues. Um minor curb issues I would tell you. Some major curve issues we're going to have to take care of. There is one at the high school. Uh and then we've got quite a few good that we need to work on. Uh but this proposal is to go into those 10 schools. They would come in in the springtime. It was can actually happen at any time uh during the day. They've got a a dustless um machine that basically they go out, they shroud it and and it's safe for people to be around and it doesn't create dust. Um again, the city has done
061this. The last time we did it, we did it in partnership with the city. Our cost was out. Uh there are a few items that I actually took out of this project. For instance, over by VO, the sidewalk that's going to get replaced. They had some areas that they that they recommended us fixing. Well, if it's going to be replaced in the next two to three years, we didn't want to do that. So, I I fixed those area errors or areas that that we wouldn't want to fix because they're actually going to be replaced uh with that city project. But, so for your review and consideration, um and actually there's two options uh if you go to page 13 of the proposal. Um and I couldn't print it off. you click opt option one and
062option one is to do with the ADA standards without the curb repair. Um and that would be 324 trip hazards that they'd fix for a cost of $40,428 uh with a 5% discount through uh Green Tree Purchasing Program. That's a $2,02140 discount. So a total cost for that would be 38,4660. If you could I couldn't click op click on option two and then print it out. But if you clicked on option two that adds the curb work uh which is 74 linear feet of curb repair. Uh that cost is 43462 with a discount through the green tree purchasing program of 217310 for a total cost of 41,2880. On that same page, it shows you uh the 10 campuses that we're looking at and the cost on each of those campuses. Um I think that covers
063all of my presentation. I'll open up for any questions you might have. >> The work that this company did for us before is it stayed it hasn't resettled or it hasn't changed. Ironically, you can walk around and still see some of the numbers from that project and some of the work. I will tell you where there's not trees, yes, it's worked very well. Um, but even from my past history with with cities and then also with the school district, if we have trees in those along those sidewalks, I mean, it it's inevitable that we're going to get some some movement, but for the most part, they've they've lasted very very good. You mentioned last time you worked with the city on some of the sidewalks. I know they have a sidewalk program for the residential
064customers. Don't do any of these along the roads qualify for some of that? >> So, I'm not sure if they would have let us apply for that assistance. Um, and and I think a lot of times that's actual sidewalk replacement. >> Um, I did ask actually was in a meeting with the mayor, but then I actually reached out to city staff. Um, typically the rule of thumb is the landowner takes care of their sidewalk. I think that's for replacement. This wouldn't actually be replacement. >> I can check though. R, >> when when would you be looking at getting this this done if it gets approved? >> They come in in the spring and do it during the spring. So, I know it's a first read tonight, but would it be helpful to to No rush?
065No, we're fine. Any other questions? I'll try to get an answer back on Nathan's question and get it out to you guys. >> Thank you, sir. >> Thank you. Item H2 professional development council handbook also per three director of elementary and curriculum Heather St. >> Good evening. >> I shared a pretty lengthy document with you guys in that board handbook. I think it's pushing 50 pages. Um so every five years we are tasked with submitting our professional development um for lack of a better term handbook. They call it a plan, which is a little deceiving. It makes you think that our upcoming professional development that we're sending that to them. It's not. It's like a handbook of what our policies and procedures are. So, um, we started that process this year because it was, um,
066due this school year. So, last year we got started with that. And what the state does is they send you their template with guidance as to what they want in that section. So, the professional development committee and myself worked through that throughout last school year um to meet all of the qualifications that they have in each of those sections. It uh required us to make a lot of pretty significant changes to our PD policies and handbooks. Um so some of the major ones were um we added a rotation of membership which is something we had kind of been talking about in our professional development meetings anyways but this was the right time with submitting that plan to the state to get that rotation put back in place. Um we added administrators to our professional development
067council as voting members. Um, our administrators are governed by the same PD policies in that handbook, but they weren't allowed to vote on what was in it or to be part of the voting members of the council. Um, and at through this process and talking to KSDE, that was a little abnormal um that they aren't voting members. That was kind of unique to Garden City. So, we revised that, made them voting members. Um, we also added chairperson roles. So that's why Laura is here with me tonight. She is our professional development council chairperson. Um Megan Ford is our vice chairperson and they elected to go ahead and continue to use the office of learning services secretary to kind of manage all the paperwork and recordkeeping. But again we had to go through that whole process
068of deciding how do we want to define those roles within that committee. Um we also had to uh delegate different responsibilities which in our district we were already doing this but we've documented it in our plan. Um the teachers anyone certified in the district has to set goals for themsel and their professional development should align to those goals. Um our policy has always been they review their goals with their principles and their principles approve them. But through our process, we kind of put um an extra step in there. If the principal and the teacher can't come to an agreement, there is a procedure for them to come to professional development counsel and appeal that. So, it's just a lot of things like that within that handbook that are now more clearly defined that weren't always
069part of our old PD handbook. Um, again, that is the state handbook. It's their I'm sorry, it's their template. It does have some additional revisions that need to be done because what I have found is when the state gives us a template, they have different people working on different sections and their formatting does not always match and that is certainly the case in that handbook right now. So, we do have some cleanups we need to make to it, but I believe all of the policy and procedures in there are accurate, corrected this time. anything you want to add to that process? >> No. So, this is a new role for some of us on the committee. I think I've served uh over 10 years on and off. So, it's so it's an elected position for
070the teachers and we represent what grade level we're teaching at one building. And I think, you know, Laura's done a good job in this role of already starting to communicate with the teachers and make sure they know, you know, one of the things we talked about is teachers are really good about applying and getting their PD points, but if you implement or if you can show impact, you can get two and three times um of the PD points. So for our letters training for example, we've invested a lot of time and energy into that and we really want to see implementation and we want to see impact on students and she's done a good job of reaching out to staff and encouraging them to document that implementation, document that impact and be able to multiply
071their their points. And you know ultimately whatever professional development we do, we want that. We want teachers to use it and we want it to impact kids. And so, you know, Laura's really been advocating for teachers to document that process. [snorts] You have any questions for us. That's some great bedtime reading, I'll tell you. >> I don't think so. >> Thank you very much. >> Thank you. Okay. Excuse me. H3 revised board of education policy EJFA on the pursing authority. >> You don't look like Jessica not. >> So, um Jessica's son got released to play basketball today. So, we told her she needed to go watch her son play basketball. So, uh I got put in charge of of this. Um it is unfortunate that she couldn't be here. Um, so and I she wouldn't
072tell you anyway, so I'm going to do it for her. Um, the um we we've gone through this whole process of the audit uh of the internal audit and for the first time in as long as we can uh look back, it it was the first time that we'd had no material weaknesses within our audit. So, uh, for a school district of our size, uh, for the amount of money, for the amount of accounts, for the amount of people, uh, it truly is a testament to Jessica and the entire department, uh, over there with inside finance that they were able to to get through this audit and for the first time in a long time, uh, come through it, uh, pretty clean. So, we appreciate Jessica. We we appreciate the entire uh finance department for
073what they've been doing for us. I know they keep Josh uh the few hairs that he has left on his head. They're they're at least keeping keeping those on there. So, thank you to Jessica and that group. What I have in front of you today, uh during our internal audit, uh there was a recommendation to define uh the requirements for purchases under $20,000. Uh the revisions presented to the board will suffice their recommendations by defining that department administrators are responsible for obtaining informal quotes and conduct market research. Uh as always, purchases over $20,000 must go uh out uh through the board of education for the formal bid uh process as outlined in DJ ED. So, um, what the immaterial weakness was, uh, we didn't clearly state under $20,000, how do we purchase things? Uh, they
074wanted a an outline of how do we purchase things under $20,000 that aren't a part of the bid process, that aren't uh approved through you guys as a board of uh, education. Um, this policy uh was reviewed by Jennifer Cunningham. Jennifer Cunningham um didn't make any changes to to what Jessica presented and was happy uh with the way it was written as policy. So u you guys have a couple different options. Uh you guys could approve uh the and we do recommend the changes. You can approve uh the recommended changes uh and we would adopt the adjustment to the policy uh or you can not approve it and uh we can not make the changes. uh or we can go back and re-evaluate. So few different options. We recommend you obviously do it. Any questions
075on this >> first re? It's it's for I mean if you guys want to take action tonight that would be fine but it's not it's not anything that's time time pressing. It'll >> be on consent agenda on consent agenda in in January. Um the one thing I would say is the ring in there has changed a little bit but really it doesn't change anything on how we're operating or how we're doing business. Everything that we're doing is going to be completely the same. It just um they wanted it to be more clearly detailed I think in our policy so that it so that was there. So, um, it'll look a little different, but it won't change anything as far as how we do business in Garden City in the business office. >> Okay. >> Item
076I, board open discussion. Robin, you're up. [clears throat] >> Well, um, I was really impressed with the numbers that the kids talked about for those improvements. I don't know if it was directly related to getting the referee down or not, but um I think [snorts and clears throat] that those were numbered for them to be proud of. Um the Crystal Apple was a really nice ceremony. Um when you think that there was 180 people nominated to be in the top six is quite a feat. And so we obviously have a lot of amazing teachers if there were 180 people nominated. Um was great to hear glows from Russ. I'm glad that he threw out some positive things. Um the bronze star recognition that to me seems pretty impressive and shows that the prek program is
077doing well and we have a good working relationship with the other people that are doing that type of work as well. I'm sure everyone's about to pull their hair out because it's a week before break and children are probably being a little rambunctious. So, prayers for the teachers. >> We got [snorts] Mark. >> Yeah, I'd like to outgoing board members, Andy, Jackie, John. Thank you for your service. I know uh it's been a long four years for y'all and I appreciate what you have done. I've learned a lot from the three of you through through your leadership and and uh the volunteer time that you put into this thing. So for that I don't know what you can do with your time now, but I'm sure you'll figure that out. U the Crystal Apple, it
078was great. Uh that was the first one I'd ever been to and it was really good to to hear the inspiring stories from those those finalists of why they were doing what really was to me. It was great to hear that to all them. It's great to have it's great to have the teachers uh like them in our school district and it's always great to have a building presentation Mr. Hill students from Bernardine says it was nice to hear from them. Uh [clears throat] Robert may hit on this but the Bronze Star that the canons can star recognition for Mr. caught. That was good to hear that that we are making some really good progress. Great to hear that. And then the dual uh course credits that we're doing with with the relationship, the partnership,
079the collaboration we have with Garden City Community College, that is it is really great for our students um and our community. So like to always like to continue to do that and that relationship is really important and I think it's it's it really will pay for a lot of folks. Nathan, >> again, thanks to the Renard Essent, of course, they're already doing, but just want to say great job to the academic teams like the robotics teams and things like that that they're doing there. There's a lot of things that are happening behind the scenes. A lot of times we see the sports teams up front, but the other teams are not recognized. And so, I know they're hard at work and they've got some competitions going on. So, very exciting to see that. I wanted
080to do a shout out for them. and even some of the sports teams are engaging in the community in some new ways this year which is exciting to see that as well. Um appreciate all the CTE opportunities uh to help our students do better and get better and so that's exciting to see that and provide them a a step up as they go forward as well. Uh it's been fun to be at some of the board faculty meetings uh that we've been able to see good interactions and positive things happening test scores and things like that coming back and good questions and good uh communication as well. And uh just a thanks to our nutrition staff. Uh they work a lot behind the scenes every day, make sure the kids are fed well and everything's
081taken care of from breakfast to uh lunch to even the snack after school. And so I appreciate them and want to say thanks to all of our outgoing members as well and their leadership and their friendship and uh what the future might hold for you all. So thanks >> Jackie. I'm sorry. John, you're up. I saw Jay and I >> um first of all I'd just like to thank the community for giving me the opportunity to serve on this board. It's been a privilege and I want to thank each one of you that I've served with for the time that you guys have put in and the projects we've tackled and some of the hard things that we we chose to tackle. Wasn't always popular. It wasn't always the easy thing to do, but we
082decided to do it anyway. And I hope you guys continue to do that on this board. But I want to thank you all for the time and effort that you guys have put in and opportunity to serve with you. And I'd like to thank the administration as well. Um, you guys put in endless hours for our school district and you guys make our job as board members a lot easier with all the information that you provide us and get to us and all the information that you um [clears throat] kind of sip through and bring to us to make decisions. So, I appreciate all you guys' hard work and leadership of the district and um I'm excited for you guys' future. So, anyway, with that said, I I don't want to just repeat what everyone
083else said, but I enjoyed having the kids in the room tonight and have always enjoyed that as a board member. So, that's been great. So, thank you. >> Yeah. >> Um I will repeat everything John said. Um would like to thank everybody for helping us along the way, teaching us and learning everything that we did and doing what we did. Um not sure what I'm going to do with my time from April to June negotiations, but probably find something. >> Um I just want to start by thanking our faculty um throughout the district at all levels. uh you know being able to one of my favorite things uh to do as a board member was to attend board faculty meetings. Um I I was just always continually blown away about the level of pride um
084and dedication that I saw from from everyone at every one of those meetings. And it just really um you know instilled a lot of hope in me to know that we have an entire uh district full of folks that are dedicated to serving our students and just trying to create the best positive outcome for for them and and our community as a whole. And so I just thank thank all of the all of our faculty. Obviously, I we have a a tremendous administrative team here. Um, and I'm I'm just uh very excited for the future uh that our district has under your leadership, Josh, and and the team you've you've uh you've created. Uh I want to thank also my fellow board members. Um, you know, it's it's uh always great when you have a
085group of seven individuals that um all come from different backgrounds and different areas of expertise and different perspectives and are willing to challenge each other's ideas and listen to each other and consider each other's uh uh thoughts and opinions on things and and I think it speaks to a lot that we didn't always vote on the same way. I think that that spoke to uh this board's ability to um to to you know trust their gut and vote their own their own feelings and I feel like this this group of individuals and uh the the three board members that were here in my first uh sec time on the board also did that. So I really appreciate everybody. Um kind of like uh you know as as Jackie said you know wondering what to do
086with my time. I'm not sure what I'll do on Saturday mornings without a board packet to read because that was kind of my, you know, get some coffee and sit down and read a board packet when I wake up on Saturday. So, I'll have to find something to fill that time with. >> Thank you all. I appreciate it. The opportunity to serve with you guys. >> I'll kind of repeat some things. Um, it's always bad last. But I do thank Russ, you know, for his his there isn't a guy that's more committed to debate and forensics and than him and everything he's put into it over the years. And I know um he also puts that same effort into the district. He really does. He's he he can be hardcore, but I know he is
087he's the man when it comes to that. As far as the board members go, I do appreciate your help and especially you two because my first term here, I was a fill in and I was brought in by your vote. So, I appreciate that that you trusted me enough to to bring me on and I really appreciate everything you guys have helped and done and and I liked it so much I ran again, you know. I I appreciate that and everything you've done and it's been very very good and exciting and and I feel like I've made some friendships out of it. So that Crystal Appen as as everybody's talked about the Crystal Apple winners. I mean that that just speaks of itself. There's I I've been every time I've had the chance to go
088and and I love it and to watch these these educators stand up for that award. It's a it's a pretty they they should be very proud and honored for what they've accomplished with that. Um to repeat everything everybody said. Um, I agree with with Drew. I think Jessica I I she's she's 100%. She's the real deal and she she's good at her job and uh she I'm very confident in her abilities moving forward with the district and running our finances. And then one other thing, um, I had the luxury this weekend of participating in the shop with the cop deal at Walmart. And I bring that up because uh USD457 provided the transportation for the 65 kids to get from the United Way to Walmart. Shane drove the bus. Um he loved it. He was
089in it 100%. He was he was with the kids. We were laughing, having a good time. So it's just another shout out of how the district's involved in the community and I appreciate it. Josh. Um, [clears throat] yeah. Once again, I just want to thank the three of you that are that are leaving the board. Um, for your leadership, for all the time and effort that you put into to making our district a better place for kids, but I also want to personally thank you for for having having the uh giving me the opportunity that that that you have given me along with the other board members. Um, I I really appreciate it and um you guys will be missed and I'm sure that we'll be making phone calls to have you serve on committees
090for something down the road so that you don't get too bored in your free time. Um, the other thing, uh, just just a couple of couple of other things. Um, congratulations to Drew and Steve. We took the interim name off of their titles today, so they're they're officially official. So, um, no more interims and and uh, he goes for flight seven. And it was awesome because Drew had no idea. He was gone Thursday and Friday. So I went and talked to Tamron in his office and said, "Hey, let's let's get this done." So I sent him a text after you guys approved the consent agenda. And he had no idea that that had even happened. And so um I take I take pride in that. So um we have uh we have successfully completed 16
091of our 18 board faculty meetings um for the year. uh Jenny Barker and Ply Mel will um we'll we'll have those uh >> Friday and to or Monday >> today's Monday Friday and Wednesday of this week and we'll have all of we'll have met with all all 18 campuses so um to my knowledge I think that's probably the first time we've ever done that in the first semester um that was a lot of work on on on you all and I appreciate you um Mark I think you only missed like one or two um the whole whole time so Mark is kudos to Mark for for the extra effort fly's at 7. >> Yeah, 7 in the morning. Susan and I are going to have to have a talk. That's an early morning. Um the
092last thing just just uh just so everybody's aware. Um uh as we go off to Christmas break, we have uh staff will still be working on the 22nd and 23rd of December and January 2nd, but we'll be close to the public because there will probably not be a whole lot of people that are actually working. We'll have a lot of folks that'll take vacations. So while they'll still may be some folks working be close to to the public for those days. So and I think that's all I have. >> Okay. Item J, the next board meeting, next regular meeting of the board of education will take place on Monday, January 12th, 2026 at 6 p.m. here in the board meeting room at the educational support center. >> Oh, you guys are going to make it
093easy for me. Then the 22nd, you don't have a meeting and you don't have one right away on the 4th. >> No, we didn't. They were talking just for you. We got >> that way. >> The 23rd. So I try and get everything done. I had your meeting. That would have been a really fun night. >> Yeah. >> Then I come back on and I would have had a meeting on >> again. Yeah. >> Okay. Item K. We'll move for adjournment. >> Mr. President, I move we adjourn. >> Second. second it. All in favor?