USD 457 Board of Education Meeting 5/19/2025

001Item is the pledge of allegiance led by Pale Elementary. Hey, it's on you. I pledge alce to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, liberty and for item B. We'll take a moment for silent reflection. Item C, meetings and note, staff appreciation dinner, is Thursday, May 22nd at 5:30 p.m. at Garden City High School Commons. Four or more board members may be in attendance. Item D, approval of agenda. Following amendments and D1, remove item H3, new business, the avenue membership. D2, additional certified personnel actions for consideration. Item F3. Mr. President, I move to approve the meeting agenda as amended. I'll second that. Move and seconded to approve. Any discussion? All in favor, raise your hand. Opposed. Same. Motion carries. Okay. Item

002E, delegations of public comment. Is there any Hey, item E1, building presentation. Uh, PL Elementary School. Susette Goldsby, the principal. I am Cisa Goldby and I am the principal at Fly Elementary. Here with me is Jillian Algarand. She is our instructional coach as well as our lighthouse team coordinator. Um Mr. Henningson is our other lighthouse team coordinator and our sponsor of our student lighthouse team. he is unable to be here tonight. Um him and his wife just had a baby girl, so he is otherwise preoccupied. Um and tonight we have our student lighthouse team here to present um about our school. Hi, I'm Drew McDonald and I'm a coordinator on the student lighthouse team and my partner Jackson Cop was not able to make it. I'm Brady Bennett. I'm the leadership action team leader and

003unfortunately two of my members were unable to make it. I'm on the leadership action. I'm on the culture action team. And Logan and Valeria were not able to make it. And Logan was our culture action action team leader. I'm Elijah Rez and I'm the leader for the act for the academic action team. I am British. I'm Jennifer. I'm Ken Hill. I am on I am on the academic. This is our student lighthouse team made up of fifth and sixth grade. Our coordinators oversee the lighthouse. One of the main duties for the AC academic action team is to track our measures percent. by the class and the school as a whole. Each week, the leadership action team leads the Monday morning meeting and produces the daily announcements each. The culture action team sells and distributes popcorn

004and pickle on Thursdays. They also help make the substitute teacher survival for our daily This is our school mission statement. We say it every day first thing in the morning after the pledge of allegiance to remind us daily that we are proud to be a Panther. Each and every student and staff pledges the mission statement to the school and to one another. Each class also creates their own mission statement to start the day being philosophy. Every Monday we begin the week with our Monday morning meeting week. All students begin in the gym in order to put first things first and start our week with a plan. Our leadership action team leads the Monday morning meeting. Here are some things that we include in our Monday morning meeting. The date and weather for the day, the

005pledge of allegiance and the mission statement, lunch and breakfast for the following day, lead measure scores by class and staff, a joke and a riddle, flag certificates, upcoming events, and an all school activity. That first students lead measure competition came from students. Students brought this idea to the building leadership team where was discussed and approved. A lead measure is like an action step that helps us achieve our widely important goals to improve our fast grade scores. If the students leave measure average is above 80% and higher than the staff average, then the whole school will receive an extra that week as a celebration. The student average is 100% a 30 minute recesses. This friendly competition has continued to increase our monthly average from a 70% to a 90% or higher. About three weeks ago, as

006a student body, we reached our goal of 100% of students meeting their leaders. The legacy model is our service learning project to raise money for the Lea Legacy Foundation. It's a mile race held at the zoo where staff, students, and parents and community members can participate. This year, our goal was to raise $1,500 and 5,000 snacks. We ended up raising $4,500 and over 5,400 snacks. The money went to Labor Legacy's greatest needs fund and the snacks went to fill the fridge so patients and families have a treat during their treatment. After the race, we went to the cancer center to make letters and gift boxes for the cancer patients. While we were there, the doctors gave a presentation about how their jobs help our patients. As we finish our fourth year as a light h

007as a leader in me school, we continue to grow in learning and using the seven habits in our lives at school and at home. The seven habits has affected our school in a positive way by increasing positivity positivity throughout our school, increasing positive behavior, and helping students and staff complete their lean measures by putting first things first. By using the seven habits in the leader and me program and a lot of hard work from students, staff and parents, we achieved achieve lighthouse status shows we have efficiently used the seven habits to make our school even better. We've grown in our learning, built more positive relationships, and developed into more well-rounded individuals. To us, this means feeling more connected to our school and community, like we like we're part of one big family. There were many

008steps that we had to complete to um as requirements to become a leader lighthouse school. One of the requirements was to complete an evidence binder that demonstrates how we met each of the 23 rubrics in the leader and me process. A link to our evidence binder is attached to the picture on this slide. If you would like to look through our binder, you can see all of the progress and improvements our school has made over the last four years. Thank you for listening. Did anyone have any questions? I want to hear Joe. Okay. Well, next time I don't I don't really have a question per se, but I I want to commend you guys for what you do. I'm I'm really proud of how you've taken you you've expanded from the school and even gone

009out into the community and really are making a difference in the community and and I appreciate that. So, thank you. Thank you. Good job. Hey, come up here and shake our hands and if you want a pin, take one. Okay. Congratulations. Good. Take a paper. [Music] in front of the board. There you go. Right there's a little How you? One, two, three. One, two, three. Got you all. Good job, guys. That's fine. Okay, we'll move on to item E2. This is the recognition of letters training completion. Uh Heather Stegman, director of instruction. Okay, I'm going to invite all the teachers that are letters and principles that are letters completers this year to come up and join me. Um, you'll recognize them because they all are matching today. So, they look like lots of twins. Okay.

010So, I just wanted to summarize a little bit about Garden City's letters journey tonight. Um, letters truly is a commitment and it's a journey. It's a two-year commitment. There are 55 hours of videos that each of these people have completed over the last two years. 656 pages of reading, 48 hours of face-to-face learning on our district in service days, and then there's hours of hands-on learning and assessments that they have to complete in order to complete the course. So, it is a very large commitment to learning how to teach our kids to read. Um, in 2022 2023 school year, we had our first cohort of letters teachers start. there was 40 of them and they were all volunteers. Um and then the data from comparing teachers who had had letters to ones who had not

011was significantly different. So the district did commit after that to expanding that and requiring it of all K3 teachers. Um, and then several buildings because they're K4 said, "I'd like my fourth grade teachers to take it as well so that our building PD can can really align to what they're learning in letters." So, um, early childhood LA in 22 23 also trained all of their staff and Andrea and Melanie have remained committed to that. when they have new teachers come in, they go through letters training and have kept their um 100% participation in letters training. This cohort started in 2324. We had 125 teachers that started that year and they've worked the last two years to get finished um this May. Um, and then I have linked the participants names in there. That way you

012know who we're talking about because I'm not going to read 125 names to you. Um, at the same time that our second cohort started for teachers, we started an administrator course as well and we had 10 administrators that um, started that course. Um, and it is also a two-year course and they just finished. I think some of them will tell you what the final took about what three to four hours. It was pretty intense final. Um so definitely a big time commitment for them too. On an ongoing basis, we have we are remaining committed to our letters um training and what we've learned in it. Um in the 2425 school year, we had our third cohort of teachers start and our second cohort of administrators. We all of our K6 administrators will be letters trained

013by the end of next school year. Um we will have six staff members be trained to be letters facilitators which are like letters teachers this summer. Um we have sent staff to the MTSS symposium where letters um authors have been there to speak and Jill Regal um Cyra Ortiz and Laura Martinez last summer went to the letters applied workshop where we got to meet all of the authors of all of the different letters courses and it was a pretty small workshop so we did get a lot of face-to-face time and opportunity to speak to them and get questions answered. Um in the long term um our next move with our letters training is our professional development next year is going to revolve around implementing what we've learned and what can we do to make sure

014that what we've learned doesn't die that it lives within our classroom and in our instructional practices. And the next thing is is our ELA adoption. We do have a lot of great questions coming from teachers and what they've learned in letters and what they're looking for in our next set of curriculum because of what they've learned. So, we wanted to invite everyone here. Obviously, not all 125 came, but we wanted an opportunity for you to recognize them because this is a big commitment and a big job and they've put a lot of time into it. Sorry, got me all choked up. Yeah, please. Thank you. Do you guys have any questions or anything that you would like to ask of them? I will say my wife is in the cohort, so I know personally firsthand

015she's finished with some of you guys, the early ones, so I can testify to the hard work and the hours it takes and the time away from everything else. So, I appreciate your commitment outside of the classroom to make yourselves better. And so, just want to say thanks for all that hard work. Heather, I would ask uh on the professional development of letters, we're reading and writing, what are some of the the glows of of it compared to how we were teaching reading and writing prior? And it could be anybody. What are you guys' thoughts? because I've presented up here and I've talked to them about this before, but I want to So, I feel like the PD what it does, um, it kind of it's kind of like when you go to a college

016class, you tell you, "Hey, read this and then we'll come back and discuss it." And that's kind of what letter PDS do. We read the unit and, you know, take the test, the quizzes, do all the interactive work. Then we go to the PDS and they talk about it and helps it not only helps us talk with the other teachers that are doing the same grade level because how they did our PDS we were for example kinder first together second grade was together third and fourth and so it was nice to see what other teachers were doing with letters or how they were using their data to apply it for their small groups or how they learned letters because there's we all learn differently. So some of us learned one part of letters better than

017others and so we were able to also help each other out. But yeah, those PDs were more of discussions and really applying it and diving deeper into the unit that we were doing. Yeah. Are there any yes ands? And thank you. I I too want to commend you for the extra commitment. Everybody I've talked to that's done it was terrible that all the extra commitment that but they all said it was worth it. So I I appreciate the extra effort and everything you guys have done because I do think it's important and and I think it will help the district grow for sure. And honestly, we've already seen it this first, well, this is my second year, sorry. But, um, we've actually already seen those results in their reading. Um, kids I mean I teach

018first grade personally and I know everybody else who teaches first grade has probably seen that kids are able to write complete sentences a lot better, able to decode, read amazing Yeah, I was wanting to get a photo with everyone together. I was going to do it out there, but we want to do it in here. Have to do a sority pose. Is there some going to tighten up tighten up on [Music] this like exactly right? Get in there. Get in there. There you go. There you go. Perfect. Good. There we go. Ready? One, two, three, cheese. One, two, three, cheese. One more. Thank you guys. Thank you guys for coming. Don't be a lot of it The consent agenda. President, I move to approve the consent agenda items as amended. Been moved and second. And

019is there any discussion? All in favor, raise your hand. Post. Same. Motion carries. Item G. Is that right? Okay. Item G. G1 engage after school program. Jamie Schwear. Yes. by myself. Yes. Well, thank you for having us. Um, I have a couple special little guests with me, so we're going to let them go first so they can get home and do their home routine things. Um, I have a student and her parents from Als Brown Elementary. Bella is in second grade. Um, she has been in the afterchool program all year and her parents are excited to be able to come and speak about the afterchool program and her successes that she's had with it. U, Miss Rasone is her classroom teacher, so she's going to kind of help facilitate translate as we need it. So,

020um, Belinda, if you guys want to come this way. Well, uh, Bella really loves as after school program and that's her favorite thing. She has learned a lot. And I don't know what this meeting is about. Is it if it's about taking it away or keeping it? No. Just information. Okay. Go on strike. Yeah. But she really does love it and she uh like really has learned from it and she loves all the teachers that help her out. I mean, it's amazing and it it definitely helps a lot of the kids. You know what I mean? some, you know, as we know it, a lot of kids don't get that help at home, but the the teachers really help out a lot. They're doing amazing and I think everybody's thankful and we're really grateful that

021we get to come up here and speak about it. You know what I mean? And nobody really asked. I don't know if you guys had other meetings about this before, but Bella has really really grown and got smarter and the teachers have really, you know, went beyond the teaching. Above them. Yeah. Yeah, we really appreciate it. The progress that she's made from the beginning of the school year to the end of the school year is amazing. Like she's she's progressed a lot. You can see it in her test scores and everything. So yeah, we really are thankful for all the teachers. Uh the after school program is amazing. What's your favorite part, Bella? Say it again. I learned a lot. Good. Awesome. Thank you very much. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Thank you, man. Keep

022it up. Thank you. Thank you, sir, for coming. Yes, sir. Thank you, sir. Appreciate it. to the right spot or something. Okay. All right. There we go. Technology and I are not bad friends. Pencil and paper and I get along great. Um for the 21st century grants schools, um we have Victor Nalis and Florence Wilson and they're in year five. Um we have went through the reapplication process. Um sometime mid to late June we should hear whether we were um granted it or not. Gertude Walker who's in year four. So next year Gertude Walkers will be the one in the renewal process. Then El Brown Jenny Wilson year three. So each year for the next three years we have one that will go through that renewal process. Um and then that's when the um award

023letters will be um for the first time in many many years. It's a big yahoo for us. We started this school year fully staffed. That has not happened in five or six years. So that was really exciting. Um the staff at VO, they come from VO, they come from the high school, they come from Charle Stone. So just because the after school program is in that building doesn't mean that it's serviced by the staff in that building. So um it takes all of us to pull from different directions to to make it happen. Um the staff at Florence Wilson come from Garden City Achieve the high school and um and I think it should be a Horus good not a bird um at Ela Brown. However, all the staff Ela Brown is from Alter Brown.

024Um, and Jenny Wilson, we have teachers from Jenny Wilson. We have teachers from the high school. We have teachers from Horus Good. Um, Gertude Walker's a little bit the same. Some Gertude Walker, some high school. So, that's kind of how we put all these people kind of together. And then there's the um enrollment numbers for each of the different sites. Um this is one of our um staff kind of PD days. Um and a grant requirement we have to go to conferences and stuff. So we bring things back try to share with the rest of our staff. So that's what we're doing here is kind of a team development thing. um recognize the room. We had our Christmas get together in here. Um I brought all five sites in here and better light meal and

025I had some good times and um the conferences are required by our grant to go to. So, we have to go to a state conference and those are usually held in Witchaw and then we have to go to a national conference and it's kind of for us to pick which one we want to go to. This year we went to the Beyond School hours in Palm Springs. Um, I took three staff with me and we went to that one and that's where we'll learn things and that's what we bring back to the rest of the staff. Um, just some program information. Um, we go Monday through Thursday 3:50 to 5:50. That 3:50 to 410 is a snack and recreational time because teachers contracts expire at 410. So then they're available to do something extra. So

026that's kind of what drives the timing of it. Um, we focus on fluency, reading, phonics, vocabulary, math, STEM. So we kind of cover a wide basis. Um some of the students do receive busing. Um so that is a benefit for the parents. We part of the grant or require us to have family nights one each semester. And so each school or each grant has to have them. So like Bo and Florence Wilson, we can team up. We can tag in on a planned school activity and just help with that. Um like at um Alter Brown Christmas time we kind of tag in on the winter wonderland. Gertude Walker we have a winter wonderland. Um different thing. Everybody does something a little different every building. So um like here is the Jenny the connect for is

027at one of Jenny Wilson's family nights. Um the other picture is from Alter Brown here. What, two weeks ago, Julie? Probably. We had a family barbecue type of thing with activities and had community people come in and have booths available so our families could see what was available for them in the community. Um, this is the one is the Gertude Walker Winter Wonderland Land Night. Um, it's kind of a Christmas theme and then they can rotate to different stations and do things with their families. Um, we have business partners that we use. Um, and here's a list of all the different people in our community that are business partners. This particular um, picture, Grady Gleason, is one of the Farm Bureau a ambassadors. And so he would come and help and do things with the

028kids. I think it's kind of neat to see a senior in high school down on his knees playing the games with the kids. and he really did a good job and he really enjoyed what he was doing. We have the zoo. They come and do presentations for us, bring animals. Um there's Jennifer with Farm Bureau. Um one thing that we do do and I haven't highlighted it very much in the past is um I make my programs do some type of community service. Um for the last eight years, we've rang bells somewhere. Um, it gets to be a long day for Mrs. Schwar because this school does it for two hours and this school does it for two hours and this school does it for two hours and so that Saturday is a long day.

029Um, but it's a voluntary thing for my staff and students. Um, the first picture we're at the neighborhood Walmart. Gard Walker always rings bells at the neighborhood Walmart. They've kind of helped us in the past with donations and stuff. It's our little neighborhood school. So, we do that. Um, Altera Brown, those are some of the kids that came and rang for Altera Brown. Um, they got a little certificate um that Santa had told them that they had been a very good workers. So, um, they get excited about that and they really like doing it. There's usually no complaining even when it's cold. Um, they just trucker right along. Um, this is a bit of our summer school from last year. We had a circus theme and every summer school we have some type of theme.

030And um, for a lot of our kids, this is probably the biggest thing they're going to do all summer. This is kind of like their vacation, so to speak. So, we really try to hype it up and make it a lot of fun for them. Even during the summer school program, um, we have guests come like magic hope with their ponies. The Little Ponies are really a big thing. Um, the last day, um, I partner with Tyson and we do our own hamburger cookout. So, Tyson gives us the the protein to make our boogers and stuff with. And then my staff um, take and cut up watermelon, cantalopes. We have a smorgus board of all kinds of fresh stuff. And then the kids, that's what they have for lunch that day. We don't have a

031regular um school lunch. Um this is just a little fun that we get to have at different times. Um the one is a staff dinner before our winter wonderland. We had a chili supper for that night, so they get to eat a little ahead of all the families and the kids. Um the other is um they studied snakes in their STEM lesson and then they made these snakes and they had a blast with them. I couldn't believe paper snakes could be so exciting but they had a good time. Um this is um a Christmas Christmas time and Halloween and stuff. We do something a little special and karaoke is the most soughtafter station to go to. Um, and I I get really kind of tickled at it because we had some karaoke in during summer

032school with my book club kids and I told him, I said, "You're practicing your read reading fluency because they're working to keep up with all the words and they just keep reading along, reading along, you know, and they keep getting faster and faster." I said, "See, we're practicing our fluency. It works. They get excited about it." That's it. Okay. um with me this evening. These are a piece part of what takes to make all this happen after school. Um between the five sites, we have 45 48 staff members that come after the day, give us another two hours of their time. Um for some of them, they stay all three rotations. Some of them it works with their schedule with their kids in daycare that maybe they just do one rotation. Um, some of them

033do twos, some of them do all three. Um, since I'm the only facilitator, I do have a head tutor at each site. So, if I'm not in the building, they're the ones that deal with somebody needs gets sick, needs to go home, or discipline issues or they kind of step in and be me because I can't be at all five places at once. Um, let's see here. Let's pick on somebody. Um, Miss Lowquest. she um took on a great challenge for me this year. I'm at Alter Brown. I had three little boys that were Spanish speaking only. And so, um I paired him with Jessica because she is bilingual. She does Spanish and English. And she worked with those three little boys for math. And then they were paired with Arelli Rico for phonics because

034she's bilingual. So, she could do the phonics part. I'm gonna let Jessica talk about them with the math and then Aurelia you can chime in on the reading part the growth. So, uh, these three little boys, first graders, all three in the same classroom with Miss Rico all day. Uh, and I got them the first rotation and goodness sakes, but every single day it take 5 to 10 minutes just to get them out of the bathroom because it was extra playtime. But, you know, they're first grade little boys. So, um, but you know, it was amazing to see the growth because all of these boys had just migrated to Garden City with their families from two from Vene, one from Venezuela, one from Mexico, and I guess maybe the other one had moved like late

035spring of last year. But, so they were pretty well at zero English, you know, might have been able to say hi and goodbye, but not much else. And so, we were just working on getting math math words, math terminology. Can you count to 10? Can you count to 20? And and then starting to un identify some of the English words and pair those with that. And then starting to work a little bit more on on incorporating that with the math that they'd be doing in first grade. And by December, they were ready to move into regular math rotations. So they they just grew so much. It was just amazing to see how much they just wanted to learn and they wanted to be there and and really enjoyed being around their friends but also learning

036and just wanted to soak up the English too. So every Friday they will ask are we staying? Are we staying? No, not today. Um so we're gonna have a math madness tomorrow. around and two of them they don't have to say think it in Spanish anymore they can think it in English and say it so that good did with them and for phonics with me by December they were naming and sounding out their ABCs and they were into CBC's and one of them he was doing diraphs just within the nine nine weeks and I truly believe it's the after school program that we have and that helped me as a classroom teacher to build that relationship with them too. So I am thankful for this program. Okay. Um let's pick on somebody from a different

037school. Um Anna. So Anna started out willingly to do snacks. Snacks is probably the hardest thing to find someone to do because it happens at 350 and it goes to 410 and you can't be a contract person and we don't have enough paras that want to stay or it works with their little a lot of the paras have little ones so it's not always feasible. Um so I have several of the Filipino teachers that come from the high school and they just go to various sites and that's all they do. They come in and do snacks and when we're done with snacks they're done. Um, but it is, I learned, very helpful because if you have a teacher that all of a sudden, I can't stay today, Mrs. Shuer. I need a sub and it's

038two o'clock. You're not going to find a sub. So then these teachers are willing to just stay and sub. So I have kind of some built-in subs, which is kind of nice. And we um needed to fill a position partway through the year. So Anna was doing snacks and then just stepped into the position. So she already knew the kids. She was familiar with the building. So, it turned out to be kind of a win-win. So, tell them a little bit what you do. Yeah. Um, the funny thing is the first teacher that was handling them was also Miss A. And then I'm also Miss A. So, when I got in and say, "Is your name really Miss A, Miss A?" Yeah. We thought you were just making it up because you're from Miss A.

039And then what's funny is um it's really a nice experience because the kids are very excited. The last week they said we can't um imagine that we won't have after school like in the next two weeks because some of them they said that like they are um some of them they said they don't want to skip the regular school because they want to attend after school because if they will be absent they can go to after school and it's really [Music] nice this is Why don't you kind of talk to them about our conferences that we attended since you're my only one here from a conference I think. Wow, you really put me on the spot. Just tell them what we did. Well, we some things we learned. It was in Orlando, Florida. And um

040wow, we learned a lot. We learned about math games. We learned several different types of interactive games that we can do to bring in movement with learning. um which we presented on. Um it was the conference was scheduled. So like for two days you just pick the workshops you wanted to go to and then we all kind of tried not to go to the same one so we could get more information and then learn a lot about how to make learning fun. Yeah. And then came back and shared I had a video that I wanted to put on this slideshow but I couldn't figure out how to make it work. Um, but one of the math things that they gave us was to tell us to put your hands behind your back and pick your

041numbers and then you and your partner put your hands out and either you have to add them together or multiply them or whatever, you know. And so we did it with the staff. If I played the video and didn't even show you the pictures, all you would hear is laughter and giggling and fun. And I mean, they're going at it. And so I'm like trying to model that this is what we want our kids to do. We want them doing this actions. We want them laughing. We want them having fun. It's mental math, you know. Um, a lot of the things we do after school, we're um doing um in a game kind of concept, but we're not really, it's not truly a game, but we're doing those things to make them feel like they're

042playing games. Um, Miss Rico did have one of her parents come at conferences and wanted to um had questions about it because her daughter went home and told her, "All we do after school is play games." My mom thought we were supposed to be teaching. And so Aureli being the organized person she is, she pulled out all the stuff she uses with these kids after school and showed her. My mom's like, "Oh, you are learning. That's just not games." And my is like, "No, it's the way we present it that it makes it seem fun because who wants to do more learning when it's 4:00 in the afternoon and we all want to go home." So, um, I think that's kind of what helps the kids. They get excited, they know it's fun. And um

043Matt is our um from the office of instruction kind of our liaison for the after school program. And this year he's been a little more involved. Last year he's kind of learned it out. And this definitely a learning process. So um a lot lot of hard work going on, a lot of dedication, a lot of time spent by everybody after school. And it's really nice to see the the parents that stepped in today to talk about the gains that they see and the gaps that that school program is filling. So, uh really words of affirmation from from parents and hearing this speech and then hear and seeing all the support staff coming in and supporting each other. This is great. I think that's all we have. If you have questions, I'll let them take it

044because they're really the workforce. I just come here, but if it's important, they're doing it all. the kids. Um, is it parent initiated, teacher initiated for the kids to attend? It's data driven. Okay. With our fast bridge testing. So, we use our fast bridge testing, identify the tier three kids first. Those are the first ones recruited. Then, we recruit tier 2 kids and we just kind of work up. But, it starts, our main focus is those tier three kids to try to get that gap closed as much as we can. Like if we have a kid that we know is really struggling and okay, do we have room? Like if I talk to this parent and see if they'll she's she'll we have room, she'll just give an application and we kind of have recruitment.

045It goes in spurts like the beginning of the year we'll have a big surge of recruitment. Then it kind of settles down and then October when pair of teacher conferences roll around. As soon as parent teacher conferences us, the applications just keep it coming and then it levels off until about February, 1 of March, um we'll get a few more and especially if um teachers are having conversations with parents, you know, we really need to push and catch up before the end of the year, then we kind of spike about three different times of the year with our enrollment. So knowing some of our kids that aren't going to be able to get any support, not support, but help from their parents that don't speak English, can't read English, can't do these things in English

046at home, having that them be able be pulled in to get all that support and that extra help because their parents want them to succeed. So that's been great for our building especially, too. Not a question, but Jimmy, it was probably exciting to start the year fully staffed. It was truly exciting. There was a lot less stress in my house for a while. Can you speak a little bit about um instruction tools or curriculum you use uh when you're teaching uh reading? Um let's see. Use some online teacher. Yeah, we do reading math. Um Belinda, go for I started in end of January, February. Um I had not done the after school program. One of my co-teers, Miss Calderon, here it taught at the school where we're at for many more years than she has.

047And the kids would come up, Miss Calderon, Miss Calderon. I'm like, wait a minute, where's she getting all these little first graders? So, I kind of got in for that because I'm like, you know, these relationships are pretty important. But back to the curriculum, when I got in, I thought, you know, I've got 28 years behind me. So, I went to Miss Wear and I'm like, hey, yeah, I'll work for you and I'll do this. She's like, okay. So, she sent me with Miss Rico and then they both trained me and they have the books laid out and it tells you exactly what they've tested, what you're going to help them with. Um, I don't know the name of the folder that shows, but they have reading fluency. It has cards. It's more or less

048a lesson plan that's made up for you. The first few minutes they come in, they review. So, they're doing fun games. You know, you can um have them put their cards in a row and then they want to speed read them to see if they know them. If they don't, then they um challenge each other. Then they're going into actual passages. They're the decodable passages that are with the um program. Uh so it was easy for me coming in. It was there for you. You know, you can make it fun and put your twist on it, but um and it's different than what they see throughout the day, goes, you know, and fun form. And the instruction for the students kind of cater to each individual student and where their needs are and then who

049helps you kind of figure out where that student is or where is it? The big boss up there. Okay. So you kind of So I go through a fast bridge data, identify the kids, then I um go around to a lot of buildings and I do the QTS spawner. It's a phonic screener kind of thing. Get all that information. That's where my baseline start. then I know this kid needs this, this kid needs this, this kid needs this, and they're placed to what they need. Um, so some of like the phonics groups, there might be a fourth grader, a third grader, and a fourth grader all in the same group because they all need the same thing. Um, if their phonics is all in place, then more than likely they need some fluency practice because

050a lot of the CVM tests are are based on how much you can read in a minute. But we're working on those kids to build their fluency so they can read 50 words a minute or 80 words a minute or whatever it may be. Um, every one of my kids go through a vocabulary and comprehension and there are tier one highle vocabulary words and my tutors make the card um with a vocabulary word on it, a picture card, a definition card and um they use those all week. they read the book, model what it is to read with fluency, how to read with expression, how to read with punctuation. Um, how to read and have fun with silly voices if the story allows. Um, because a lot of our kids are ELLL learners, so if

051we put a picture with the word, I'll remember it. If you put the word up there and I really don't know what the word means, I'm probably not going to remember. But if I have something to associate that word with, then it stays pretty concrete. I have a Is there an answer? Um I already picked on Kim. Um Shane Shane does that. Yes. And she's she's a newbie, so she can probably give you a real high. Um I um first and foremost, I am happy because um I have to I get to, you know, the kids um we read the the tangible book, not the not the ebooks. So they have to and show me the picture. show me the picture and they would do like that and um then they would be I get

052it from Miss Kim because she trained me. Um we have the word and then what we do is um I will have them have that word and then first we pair it as as she said we pair it with with a with a picture in the word and they will hold on to that word and as they as we read the story from the from the book they would be raising it if if they hear it it's your word it's your word. So if somebody is not listening, it's like it's your word like oh this is the word and and something like that and um uh what else? So and for them every Thursday is game day. Game day. So is it game day? So they take all the vocabulary words maybe this week's words

053and a few of last week's words and they have a game day and these people come up with some of the most amazing created games and these kids are laughing and having fun. And we have little ones that remember really big words and they go back to their classroom teachers and the teachers are just amazed that they know all these things and they retain it very well. This is funed, right? Yes, this is all funded through the grant. Did they get supplementals? Yeah. Um the district does the grant doesn't do the busing, but the district want does provide busing to um like at Gertude Walker, we don't want kids crossing Mary Street, especially at you know six o'clock at night. So like there's some stops north of Mary Street that we just do. We don't

054do doortodoor. It's just a neighborhood kind of stop. Um unlike the kids like Alter Brown, VTO, Flor Lawrence Wilson, if they get bus during the day and they get busted home from the after school program, it was nice to hear from from a testimony from someone whose lives it's really affecting Bella and her parents tonight and that I appreciate it was wonderful and just want to thank you all for what you're doing. You're making a difference in the lives of individuals. We'll start summer school June 2nd and we have 140 kids coming to Gertude Walker and 100 kids coming to Al or to Florence Wilson. So, it's going to be ready or not, we're gonna come. Amazing work. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, the district alternative education placement. We have Josh G, deputy

055superintendent and principal Lucas Salt. Um, so we just wanted to visit with you all a little bit tonight about a a new program that um that we want to try uh for the upcoming year hopefully. Uh the the DAE, we're calling it the district alternative education um placement. And so it would be um a program for our students that go to expulsion hearings uh that we don't feel like they're ready to go back to the to the school yet um but would allow them to continue to work in their curriculum and if they're at the high school level continue to earn those credits. So yeah, it'll so this will allow students to make progress in the curriculum, but when they're removed from the typical setting, we know the kids out, then they're probably unsupervised and

056maybe creating more problems for themselves. So this might not be a student that could necessarily do virtual on their own because we do give that option for expelled kids, but their reading level may not be high enough. they may be a student on an IEP. This will help ensure some special education compliance as well. Um and prevent the idea is to prevent give them some supports to prevent future expulsions. Um if you're suspended or expelled, um it doubles the chance the student will drop out. So, we're trying to create a support system where a kid might make a poor decision, but we're giving them the supports. Um, so hopefully they don't find themselves in that situation again. Um, classroom will be Finny County uh Department of Corrections or the um community service center. It is

057just west of the juvenile detention center. We kind of had well, one thing, some of our special education students do receive services there that might have trespass warnings. So, this won't be on school grounds. We won't have to worry about the trespass warnings um for the expelled students. And um we did have a classroom, but that did cater to these students at one one time, but it wasn't district personnel running the classroom. So, it was kind of hard to control the things that were going on in there. Um and so this will be an option through the expulsion process. We're thinking three-hour sessions, a morning session um maybe for a fifth through um eighth grade group and then an afternoon session where we have 9th through 12th graders. So we catch all those kids. Um

058right there right now they have like two rooms down there. We're thinking 10 um capacity in each session so we could cater to 20 kids. And it's just another program like we we try to create pro programs in alternative education to catch kids falling through the cracks. And I think this is just another program that could do that. Um we're going to staff it with a either a teacher that has special education credentials or a special education parent. And Drew might be able to talk more on that. Um yeah, so our hope is obviously to to get a special educ somebody with a special education degree to be able to staff this. The one thing we have to be cognizant of because we are now staffing it ourselves as opposed to the county or the

059state staffing it. Our teachers all go on contracts and have to have breaks. So we will have to have a pair down there additionally. Uh so our teacher can go on lunch break or get their plan time, whatever that may be. So the staffing will generally always be a twoerson crew down there manning this uh this program. um they'll be they're going to complete courses through ingenuity or virtual platform but they will have the support. We're thinking obviously reading and math are are core classes that we really need to concentrate on. Um they're not going to get all their education, but if we can focus on those things and then Ingenuity has a intervention um on purpose. So an IP classes through Ingenuity. These are classes actually geared towards ISS, OSS, alternative ed kids. And

060we're already paying for this suite through our Ingenuity. So, they'll get either math or or reading core class that they'll work on on top of an IP class. So, they're getting that prevention. They will also have an evaluation by uh Benny County Youth Services, which we already do this. Um we refer a lot of kids, probably more more kids to the drug, alcohol prevention, and vaping um classes right now between Achieve and Garden City High School. But these kids will be evaluated by the Finny County Youth Services. They'll also provide programming for these kids. hopefully maybe the other half of the day. So, they're even have more time where they're being in front of adults and and being supervised. Um the CL some of the classes, you know, they have substance abuse education, coping with

061trauma, hardship. Um there's there's a number of different ones. Emotional regulation, refining decision-making skills. We probably made a poor decision to get ourselves into this situation, right? So, um trying to create the decision-m skills. Um, Compass will has also talked to us about having a mental health assistant down there to also provide some services. So hopefully giving that student enough um supports where we're not in that situation again. Um, so have a hire a teacher. Um, I I talked to Casey today about getting desktops down there. that would be school issued desktops and we're going to have to work with uh the FCDC, the county folks about some software and and internet and things like that and we're we're trying to hammer those things out. But that's kind of our next steps on this. So

062yeah, on the personnel side of it, it's no additional staffing. Uh we've just reallocated a teacher and reallocated a parah that we didn't need elsewhere. So we're just reallocating those positions. So the staffing is neutral as far as cost is concerned. Back to what Lucas mentioned, we we did used to have a program almost identical to this. The problem that we ran into when running that is staffing became very unreliable because it it wasn't our staffing. So, whenever there's cuts at the state level, you know, you may be you may be seeing cuts in programs like this. Having it be our staffing, we can have more consistency in in the development of the program and the implementation of the program. And and the other thing I would say is like Lucas said, we already have

063the Ingenuity platform. So um curriculum will not be an increased cost either. So really this will be pretty much a a zero cost program. We will have to put a few more computers down at the FCDC building to to support the kiddos. But talking to Casey today, he felt like he would be able to find some um in places that weren't being utilized that we could that we could use. some of the fifth graders may have to go through my path which we already have through it's just another a lower level program through Ingenuity. So, the plan is I if the if the kiddos have the reading skills and they're able to do virtual school, um when they would go to the expulsion hearing, we would recommend them to go to the virtual school. And

064this would be just for the kiddos that we felt like would not be successful on the on that on that platform where they would they're going to need some extra help and some more adult support so that they'll have daily contact with an adult to make sure that they're continue to make that progress that they need. Um so that when they do when they do return to us, at least they're hopefully in a better place. You think you'll have 10 and 10? I mean, do you think you'll have 20 students or I I' I've had 87 expulsion hearings this year. So, I don't think now a lot of those kiddos we sent virtual. A lot of those kiddos, they just need they just need a they need a wakeup call. And so, a lot of

065them, we let them once they come into the to the hearing, they they they visit with us and and we let them go back to school on probation. A lot of them are kiddos that they had a pocket knife that they didn't realize they had in their pocket, things like that. So, a lot of them are not um kids that I would would say would be a danger to be in school. But there there are some kids that, you know, that do that do need to have an alternative placement. The other thing that this does is it gives us flexibility in our decisions as a as a ch as a hearing chair officer. you know, instead of just 186 them for an entire year, we can this is an option for a short-term placement as

066opposed to just automatically haveing to go with the only option we have as a as a long-term placement because we know putting them back in the building that they came from isn't a suitable answer to, you know, to what we want to do. Uh the other thing I would say and Lucas touched on them briefly is um we we for about the last year we've been looking for an answer uh for uh sped issues that we've been dealing with when when expelling students. Uh the state strongly frowns upon expelling special education students. So, we've been trying to find a better way of doing that, handling that process. And this gives us that better way of still offering services to those students while they are uh out of our school. And I think early on, John,

067you won't have be full, but as the year goes on, you'll have more kids make poor decisions. And I think even some kids that are going to the hearings now and I think next year when when we're at this point next year, we're going to have kids that are going to end the year with us that'll probably be going back and starting starting that program in August where with this being new, we'll be placing kiddos as we go. So it'll take a little time, but I don't think we'll have any trouble filling the classroom. Are there some safeguards in for the teachers and the parent that will be there? Is therebody on call? Yeah, just in case something happens. So, it is at the it's at the juvenile right by the juvenile detention center. They

068have staff that is also there. Yeah. So, then there's an agreement kind of. Yeah. So, that that'll be one of the things that we'll do. Obviously, we'll have to have anou and so um that that'll be one of the next things that we'll do is we'll we'll work with Jennifer. We'll get with um with the at the FCDC and and kind of talk about what what that's going to look like and kind of drop that out. one of the SRO's that might be one of their sites as well. I I get exactly what you're saying. If a student needs transportation to get there, we'll be able to provide them. It's one thing we've discussed. Some of these programs do provide transportation, some don't. The difficult thing is a lot of these students are, and Josh

069can speak more to this, but a lot of these students are going to be spread out. So, if it if there is transportation, it's going to have to be probably a regional pickup site and a regional drop off site. Josh, can you talk more? Realistically, we'll have kids all over town. And so, I don't know what that looks like. So, I mean, you say you're going to be trying to put together or we will or we won't. We're we're looking at how that would work. Most places don't offer transportation for expelled students. Um, so us doing it would be a little bit unique, but it wouldn't be a it wouldn't be what you think of as doortodoor just from the aspect that in order to get them started on time, we may have kids from

070all the way out of Burnside to all the way up north of town. And so those kids aren't going to be on they can't be on our buses. They can't be on our general education buses because they're going to be on a no trespass. So they can't be on a normal bus. So picking them up and dropping them off gets really complicated because they are so spread out. That's why generally programs across the state that have this, you have to get your child to the location. I John, I don't know that I could tell you how long we've used it. quite a while. Um Lucas probably knows more than I do. I' I've been I've been at central office for six years and I know we've used it for the virtual school for the six

071years that I've been down here. Um so it more than more than six years I can tell you. I was a par at the new outlook and we were running E2020 which was the precursor to Ingenuity and that was 16 years ago. So we've been running Ingenuity through like the alternative credit recovery you know upwards of 20 years. possibility of everything everything and egeneuity is a a 612 program Lucas had mentioned it earlier um we don't put our fifth graders on it so there's that gap so we have to have we have to have things to fill in the gap and then with our our struggling readers a lot of them we don't want to put them on so we'll we put them on my path which is kind of like the remedial version but

072it's all the same company Most people in the state of Kansas use edgenuity. Not everybody in the state of Kansas that does some sort of online uses, but the large majority and it quite honestly it's the easiest that works with the state. Thank you. Thank you. Next, G3 student drug testing year summary HR. So, you guys have this in your u in your likes. You didn't give me one. So last year um when we approved the drug testing policy uh we said that we would come back at the end of the year and give you guys a report on how that drug testing um process went. We obviously uh had the committee that got together last spring uh developed the the policy came to you guys as a board and asked for approval. you guys

073granted approval for the policy uh and we started the process to look at how we were going to implement the policy at the beginning of the year. Um we started at our four secondary campuses uh Guard City High School, Horsegood Middle School, KH Middle School, and Garden City Achieve. Uh September was our first month in rolling out the program. And in that month, we we rolled out the program and at Garden City High School, um we tested 20 students. Of the 20, uh two came back positive, both uh for marijuana. Throughout the remainder of the year, we ended up with seven I want to make sure I'm correct. We ended up with seven total positive tests uh through the remainder of the year. So, uh, two at the first test and then five more, uh,

074throughout the year. Uh, at the middle school level, there were no positive tests outside of, uh, one for a student that did test positive for, uh, that student's ADHD medicine. Uh, the testing company got a hold of once they saw what it was for, they got a hold of the parents, the parents confirmed it was ADHD medicine and provided the prescription for the ADHD medicine. and that became a negative test. Um the testing uh just to be honest with you uh when we first rolled it out the first uh in that September uh roll out um we knew there was going to be a lot of learning. We had to figure out what the best locations in these facilities for testing was going to be. Uh it did take us a a month uh to

075two months to get everything figured out. In that first month at Garden City High School uh the testing took almost three hours. We knew that that wasn't going to be uh sustainable throughout the year. So, we found, and by we, I mean they uh found a better testing location. They came up with a better process. We worked a lot with Accelicare on this. Excelicare uh and then Michelle Scholan and our testing coordinator and the the athletic directors and activity directors at those schools really did a good job in those first couple months of coming up with a great process at their individual buildings that fit their individual uh individual buildings. Um by the time we got a couple months in uh it was taking less than an hour at Garden City High School to get

076through all 20 tests. Um so the process became very efficient. uh it became uh fairly painless. Uh we worked through hiccups and and um pitfalls at each of the buildings. Uh early on we thought we would get some push back uh from parents or uh push back from kids. We really didn't. We only had less than a handful of of phone calls asking about the process and or or complaining about the process. But after the first couple months of it, uh there weren't any major issues, any major concerns. Uh Josh and I talked about it. We thought we would see a lot of phone calls down here complaining about the policy or or asking questions about the policy. Uh we I got way more compliments about the policy than I did criticisms uh about the

077policy. So throughout the year, it it did end up going very smooth. I will uh I will say Accelicare was a big part of that because on-site we try to be as handsoff as a district as we can because we don't want uh there to be any any uh projection of bias or anything toward any of the tests. So our administrators outside of supervising the process they stay out of it completely. Excelicare has all of our student uh ID numbers that they um they put through a machine and it randomizes the machine. They pick the students. Uh they know, you know, they send out uh tell us, hey, these are the students that need passes. The only thing the administrator is doing is sending out the passes and bringing the students in. The administrator never

078sees who is getting tested ahead of time. Nobody sees that outside of Excelare. Um when the test when there's a positive test, the only people seeing the positive negative coming from uh the company is our testing coordinator up here at the ESC and Accelicare. If there is a positive, our testing coordinator will get a hold of the building principal, let them know there was a positive test and then at that point the building principal takes over and uh implements the process of of trying to help that student. So it was a good process. Um total expenditures for the year uh were right around $9,000. Um it, you know, costwise wasn't very expensive. We did have to hire a part-time testing coordinator uh that was a school nurse. Luckily, we had uh one that only wanted

079to work part-time and and this fit great because she could do this and then sub the the other part of her halftime as a sub nurse. So, it was a really good process. Uh a lot of compliments. There's a lot of things that we're going to adjust uh for next year to make the process even better. Uh one thing that Jessica and Josh and I have to consider for next year is making the determination. Currently we're using uh urine samples. Uh do we want to stay with urine samples or do we want to go to mouth swabs? Um you know a urine sample is a little more intrusive than a mouth swab but a mouth swab is a lot more expensive uh than a urine sample. So, um there are pros and cons to both.

080If you go to mouse swabs, it's a lot quicker uh to to get all the tests done because you don't have to wait on um on on those kids to have to go to the bathroom. So, going into next year, we're excited about it. We we think we have a process that works well. Uh we'll continue to refine it and make it better. Um but overall, I think it was a pretty successful year uh with our drug testing policy. And I'm sure you guys are going to have questions. What is the the additional cost on the mouse swallow versus the urine exam? So, moving into next year, uh it's about $20 a test. So, right now we're paying $40 a test. Next year it'll be $45 a test for a urine test and $65 a

081test uh for a mouse swap test. you talk about um how students are kind of put on the list like what how so in order to be on the list uh you have to be involved in an extracurricular activity. So that's not a lot of people thought early on and we tried to make it clear a lot of people thought early on that's only going to be case of things like football and basketball and baseball and volleyball and softball. It's anybody that is in an extracurricular activity that represents Garden City uh public schools in any capacity. So, if you're in the choir, you're going to be on the list. If you're in FFA, you're going to be on the list. If you're in theater, you're going to be on the list. If you're in robotics,

082you're going to be on the list. If you're in football or or volleyball, you're going to be on the list. So, all of those people are automatically the second they sign up for that, they're automatically inputed it into the list unless they've opt out. if they opt out, they just can't participate in those extracurricular activities. Last year, we did all the opt out forms by hand because um our enrollment, we have to have all our enrollment stuff done in at the beginning of March. We didn't obviously pass this until the end of spring going into next year. One great thing is it's all embedded in the enrollment form. And so, every single student either opts in or opts out and it's actually an opt out on the enrollment form. So every every single student is

083going to opt in or opt out and then if they if they do choose to opt out they just won't be able to participate in any afterchool activities. Do they change their mind? If they change their mind they they say yes I yeah I I I want to do this. So if they have to they have to take five consecutive they'll automatically be put on the list. They won't count as one of that school's random 20 or depending on how many. But if they opt in, they have to test five consecutive tests and they have to test before they can opt in. Is this how you said extracurricular activities, but does this also affect co-curricular like band where they also get a grade for participating? Yeah, it does. It does affect those and they have

084to have alternative assignments if they miss um if they miss a big event. I see Miss Miller here uh summer does our orchestra. Obviously, if they're going to uh some orchestra contest and a student's tested positive, they're going to sit out of that contest and that may have been for a grade four. So, they're going to have to come up with an alternative assignment in order to get that grade. We can't hold the grade from them because of this policy. We only uh we have to give them an alternative assignment for what they what they're missing. Is this uh something I know we're using a Celicare now, but I know we've we're switching to Growwell and we talked about the testing grow. Yeah. Is this something we can use them for or switch over to

085them? It is. I've actually reached out and they they haven't got back to me on the price, but they did say that they would be able to staff it and send two people up to the buildings if they needed to each month. Um but they just haven't got back on cost on the refuse test. So what's that process? Um so a refused test is a positive test. So if they refuse to test, they're automatically marked as positive. They get the discipline for a positive test and then they have to do five consecutive tests uh of negative uh in order to stay in in good standing. Um we have had a few refused to test. uh those individuals just never came, which is, you know, it's not uh we wish they would choose a different habit

086or different lifestyle, but it's also something that um we don't want that habit or lifestyle uh to continue in those programs either. I'm I'm surprised. I was expecting higher numbers than that. Yeah. Yeah, we were too. Um I you know and I've spoken to some of you about this and I I'm not sure what to attribute it to. I don't know if you know if the random randomization of it just didn't catch kids or if um maybe kids weren't doing it because they knew they could get tested. You know I've talked to different groups of kids and I think it it did give kids an excuse to say no to a lot of that stuff. So, and that's what we're trying to do. We're trying to to help them make positive decisions that are going

087to have beneficial lifelong impacts for them. Yeah. I hope we're well save time, but it is quite a price jump. Almost doubles the price to Yeah. Yeah. So, we went from Yeah. like 9,000 a little over 9,000 this year, you know, and if if you go to 6,500, you can do the math pretty quick. But it would be less intrusive and it would be much more timely as far as getting them in and out. Yep. Getting them back into the classroom. Yep. And that's a big part of it, you know, early on when when it was taking a couple hours to go through the process, you know, the principles are sitting here going, you know, they're missing and most of the time you want to do it in the morning before, you know, a lot

088of parents pull kids in the afternoon or you're leaving on activities in the afternoon. So, a lot of times you want to get it done in the morning. Uh the problem with doing that is we also try to schedule English in the morning and math in the morning. Those those subjects that you really want to get done in the morning and and so when you're missing a couple hours sitting down at the principal's office waiting to go to the bathroom, that's problematic. It's encouraging that you've got a lot of compliments versus a lot of bad calls or calls complaining about it. It was probably 8 to 10 to one, I would guess. I mean the and I have a lot of a lot of parents that uh I'm friends with in the community that have

089secondary age students and so you know a lot of them were very very happy that we did this. You know I think they all see a problem with it inside the community and and with teenagers these days. Um and they're looking for help on how to deal with it. And I think I think this is just a helping hand for parents and with it being as we explained to us a truly random process, I would hope this this has a reflection a good reflection on them making good good choices in life right now. Yeah, we hope so. Well, thank you guys. Thank you. Thank you. Nope, I'm stand up here. Adam H1 music troop Dr. Virginia Duncan and so Dr. Duncan um she we've got we've got illness going around still and in case you

090guys haven't noticed I think half half of our staff is sick right now but um so Summer Miller is here to present to you guys uh to talk to you guys about every four years we we do a large music uh fine arts trip. It it used to be uh it started as a band trip and orchestra that used to go every two years to Branson and then this has all kind of migrated and and changed and now we've turned this into uh a fine arts trip that encompasses uh orchestra, choir, band, and theater kind of all doing it together. so we can um a lot of the same kids um but also pull a lot of our resources and staff members to be able to help supervise the trip. So, I'm going to let

091Summer talk about the trip itself. Good evening. Thank you. Um so, hang on one second. So, you have um it's kind it's not a firm itinerary, but this is kind of what we're what we're looking at. And the thing that we wanted to emphasize was the the educational value of this trip. These kids are going to get to have workshops with professional musicians and actors and the things they're going to get to do not only watch a Broadway show, but get to see um we're going to do a thing in the pit and some of the theater kids are going to get to be on stage with the actors and do that kind of stuff. Um each group will get to produce some type of performance. Um, in fact, our tour guide, uh, Mike mentioned

092that the choir and the band might get to perform at the United Nations building. There's a place that we can perform while they're coming out of session or whatever. And I was like, it's crazy. So, um, so not only do they get to participate in those workshops, but they get to watch professionals perform and just it's just I think it's just going to be an eye- opening experience for the kids to see those things. And then of course we're going to go see um our national historic sites and go to Chinatown and go see the Statue of Liberty and all that sort of stuff, too. So, I think it's going to be a really great opportunity for the kids. So, and we do have the uh the price is capped at $1,900. Chances are it

093will come in a little bit under that. Um but we are providing transportation. We're going to fly um and it right now it's about the same cost and I am not doing another 30-hour bus ride. I'm done. No more. So, we will either fly out of Denver or Kansas City. We haven't we don't have our dates totally set yet because we're waiting on um flights and so they're trying to get us the best pricing on flights. And of course, that depends on what you guys decide about the trip, too. So, um that's what we're waiting on. But hopefully the the price will come in under under $1,900. um that covers everything once they get on that bus with us to go to Kansas City or Denver. Everything is covered. Um the company has a meal

094a Visa type meal card that the kids can sign up for and they will put money on that directly for the kids to pay for their meals and that kind of stuff. He he explained it to us when we had our um our Zoom call with him. It was really cool a really cool process. I don't know how they did that. So, okay. What questions do you guys have? Do you anticipate That is a good question. I we have quoted 150 and we will take one adult for every 10 kids. So that would be a traveling party of about 160 or so. 165 somewhere around in there. This is all fundraiser. Yes. Yep. The students will do um outside fundraising. I have plans for my students hopefully to earn their money through performance in the

095community. got some I've got some plans for them just to go like what you hear, scan the QR code, make a donation, and it goes directly to those kids. So, we'll see. We'll see how it works out. But got to think it's a good idea. Nobody wants popcorn or candy bars. Like, let's do some live performance instead. I think they're looking to entertain a motion to approve. Move to approve the performing arts trip to New York, New York for the summer of 2026. I'll second it. Move and seconded. Is there any discussion? All in favor, raise your hand. Opposed. Same. Motion carries. Last time we did have some board members go. I think that is an expectation. So you guys can decide. $1,900, please. Thank you guys. We appreciate it. Thank you. Okay. Item H2,

096nutrition service large equipment purchase. I see. You might have went to the restroom. I don't know if you have any questions, but um Tracy just has some large equipment. It's all budgeted. Um it's it's actually part of her spin down plan um for her carryover. That's okay. You're on timing, but she can answer any questions. Catherine, do you have any questions? You understand the equipment that I'm wanting to purchase? No. Oh, yes. Okay. Yeah. Okay. So, I did a little bit of research and we have a lot of old equipment and a lot of aging equipment. Um, we have some the ovens that Adita Sherman, for example, are 35 years old. So, but they don't make equipment like they used to. So, those 35 year old ovens will probably last longer than the ones that

097were purchasing today. Um, if you would do approve that. So, we are purchasing, we would like to purchase two ovens for the high school. The high schools were only 12 years old, but those high school ovens, they turn on at 4:30 in the morning. They don't turn off until 1:00 every day, and that's including this summer. So, they get a lot of use. So, I think that's one reason why we're going through a lot of motors on those. The other um ovens were at Kenneth Henderson's. They were 18 years old. So, they're we have two that we just can't keep running on those. the dishwashers. Um, this we used to always get Hobart dishwashers and they ran forever. We even bought rebuilt ones. They ran forever. Well, those ones that are running forever are starting

098to get older and older and Hobart no longer um makes them the way they did. They also no no longer make a dishwasher without a internal booster heater. So, we have booster heaters and they're very expensive and they work well. So, we actually went with a different brand of dishwasher this time, one without a um internal booster heater. And at Jenny Barker, we did go for with a little cheaper version. It's I don't know if you've ever been out to Jenny Barker, but it's kind of like a corner unit. And so, we went um with a um a door or like you would do like you would buy at home. And we put it on this um like a stand for that. Um the steamer that steamer was trying to remember how old that steamer

099was um 32 years old that we're replacing for good. So it's they just can't keep it running. Any questions? When I read your memo, the one like Alter Brown, the dishwasher was original to the school. Yeah. Geez, I can't imagine. It's probably time for some new It it it is. Um yeah, our dishwashers. We have um Jenny Barker. I couldn't even age that one. It's over 40 years old. Um Edah Sherman 39 years old, Dio 38, Buffalo Jones 36. Altera Brown 33, Gertude Walker 31. So, we have some they came most of them came with the building and a lot of those were actually rebuilt units when we purchased or when they purchased those in the past. The new ones will never last that long. No, never. We we're already having problems with one of

100um one of our newer Hobarts. So, they just don't they just they don't build them like they used to. They come with warranties. They do come with warranties. And um I actually there's a gentleman that came down um basically a broker that um all the companies that we did, he's the one that's helping them find the equipment. He came down and went through all the kitchens with me and um I think it's going to help in the long run because he can make suggestions and because I'm losing my kinker. So, um, it it it will help and which ones we knew we'll need to replace and any other questions. All right. Thank you for your night. Thank you. Uh, Mr. President, I move to approve the $72,995 purchase from Index Restaurant Supply and $24. So

101far supply move and second. Is there any other discussion? All in favor raise your hand. Approved. You know motion carries. Item H3 Kansas Association of School Boards membership renewal for the 25 26 year. So last year when we approved it um you all had asked me to come back and kind of talk about uh the value that we saw in it um the legal piece that we paid for. Um, we did do some research. The the um all of the policy updates that we get, that's that's that's that extra cost for the legal. That's part of that would be that. Also, it gives us access to call the attorneys. I mean, we have Jennifer, so um we don't call her very often or call them very often, but it would give us the opportunity. I

102know Drew's made a couple of phone calls for some things um that that he's that he's reached out to him for. Um I do feel like we've we've used used them quite a bit. Uh Jessica and I went to our negotiations training. I think um Jackie, I believe you you went um that was all sponsored through KSB and and with our membership, we get to attend those for free. There's a lot of other trainings that they offer because of our membership. Um and and some of those are free and and others there is a cost, but because we're members, we get it at a reduced rate. And so I do feel like there is is value and we've um we've definitely utilized their services. One of the things that um that I think is going

103to be important um soon, Anna in the superintendent's office, our deputy board clerk, has resigned and so um I'll be in the process of hiring a new board clerk to fill that position. And so he'll take care of the the training. And Jennifer, um it would be good for her to go and and do do a training with him, too, because I don't think she's been since you started right after you started. Go to two that were local. one was canceled and last year we had terrible rain so we didn't go to Hayes. So um I think we would get we would get help with that as well and they're really good. I mean Jennifer I think calls them probably more than any of us do for questions that she has and resources that she

104needs from them. But I feel like we all utilize their services. When you call with the legal issue are they timely and in Yeah. So it's immediate. I mean 99% of the time when I've called the Lori or whoever which is nice you we don't use them a ton. Um but when we do use them it's because it's something that's really really complicated. And I I trust Jennifer with everything that we do. pitch fist. It's nice to hear it sometimes from somebody else that may have a different point of view or perspective and making sure we can match up uh you know what Jennifer's saying to what I'm thinking and what KSB is saying is always good to have you know for those really really complicated things. uh dealing with personnel, it's it's nice to

105have a couple different perspectives. Um because sometimes I may be a little more aggressive in my thinking than Jennifer and um sometimes I want to make sure that she's right. Normally she is right. I'm normally not right when I call. So, it's good to have just somebody else to be able to tell me um yes or no or you guys are headed in the right direction or you guys are headed in the wrong direction outside of because the the thing that they see is they see, you know, Josh, I think all but one district. Yeah. All but one district in the state of Kansas. And so they see, to my knowledge, at least that's what it was last year, they see everybody's issues and they see everybody's problems and pitfalls and and sometimes out here

106we don't necessarily from a personnel standpoint um get to see everything that that's going on in all these other places and they do. So that that perspective is nice. Thank you. discussion. I think they're looking for a motion. If if so, I move to approve the renewal of the KASB membership and LAF agreement for the 202526 school year. It's been moved and seconded. Is there any further discussion? All in favor raise your hand. Oppose same sign. Motion carries. Okay. H4 teen intervent intervene program agreements. So um yes sir I am recusing myself from this because I'm on the live wall board also in the room next door. Okay. Thank you. Thanks, Mark. Yeah, thank you. Um, just I have Beth up here to to kind of kind of help if there's questions that I can't

107answer. She's going to know more than I am, obviously. But, um, they reached out to us um earlier in the year um about some some grant opportunities. And so, we we applied um we applied for the grant um and we earned that. And so basically Beth helped us write the grant. Um we submitted it. We got the grant. And so then um we have this contract and then basically they'll they'll provide the services through through the funding that we got from the grant. And so the teen intervene program is really to support our kiddos that are that are struggling with um with with vaping and and alcohol and things like that. And so they'll provide um we have to provide the we'll provide the facility at like Garden City High School and they'll provide the

108staff that will come and and do the courses and and support those kiddos. And so my hope is that um as as principles um it kind of goes back to the discipline piece again as principles are dealing with um kiddos that they're catching vaping instead of you know um looking at at going to an expulsion because I've had I've had a couple of kiddos in front of me for their third fourth fifth time vaping um getting caught at school. So instead of going to an expulsion, maybe we can put some services in place to support those kiddos to change that behavior instead of going down that path. Is the program mandatory for the kids? It's voluntary. It's all voluntary. Yeah. Yes, ma'am. Um, so Beth, uh, Beth sent us kind of a a draft of

109a of anou that she had that she had put together and I sent that to Jennifer for um, Jennifer to look at and Jennifer said that since since there is um, money changing hands that um, we needed to have a contract and not anou. So the contract that you look at is the contract that Jennifer drafted for us and I visited with Beth and Cali and they're both fine with the contract. So has their high school leadership looked at the contract I don't know that they have you say that have you talked to anybody? Not necessarily the contract. We have talked to them about the process. Yeah. And and what teen would be able to offer. They're excited about it because it takes burden off the counselors. Uh, one thing that we've we've always struggled

110with, um, you know, we we actually worked with Livewell, uh, probably 10 years ago to when vaping was starting to become, uh, a major issue, we worked with Live Well to find a way to, um, be able to funnel kids into a program, you know, if they were having issues with vaping to be able to funnel those kids into a a program. The problem we ran into, and it's not Livewell's fault, the problem we ran into is we were using your services as our funnel. And early on, to be quite honest with you, we overwhelmed them. And then they lost uh they lost their people to be able to offer that support on campus. And so, a lot of that turned back onto our counselors to try to offer some support or help uh for

111those students. Uh communitywide, we just don't have a ton of support. The one nice thing about what Beth and Cali and those guys at at LiveWell are doing is they're actually going and hiring somebody to offer that support on campus so that those counselors don't feel like they're not substance abuse counselors, they're not alcohol abuse counselors, they're school counselors that have taken one class in that. So, this gives an opportunity to actually bring somebody in that has the background to be able to help those students and let the counselors get back to doing what they're doing. And that's being a counselor, a school counselor here at City High School, right? We had to resist kids in here a while back and they were asking us to kind of change our policy. This doesn't interfere with

112our policy. No, it's not time. We actually have this in our policy currently. um the idea of this in our policy and and we offer referrals to all students um that get um that get caught with tobacco, alcohol or drugs. We but right now all we can do is offer the referral to a community program. A lot of times those community programs are overwhelmed and so this will offer them a referral to a community program. But the great thing about this is Beth is going to go hire somebody and that community program is going to be right in their school where we can get an immediate response. This is just a one-year commitment, right? Yeah. Yeah. So, the way that the contract reads is if uh we don't if we don't make any changes to

113it, then it'll automatically renew. Um I forget the language. There's an automatic readable in that Jennifer wrote in there agreement automatically. Yeah. After Yeah. But we kind of talked about that it was dependent on funding too. Yeah. So the and there's language in there too about the funding. If we don't have the funding then then it would stop. So the funding was through a and and I'll let Beth talk a little bit more about this but the funding was through a grant. Uh the grant was issued to Garden City Public Schools. All we are is a pass through. the funding comes to Garden City public schools and then we turn around and and pass it right back so they can actually hire an individual. You can talk about the grant itself to the city a

114pet grants. Yeah. Which work specifically on prevention. There's not um a lot of prevention programs specifically targeted at teens right now. So um this is one that it's really favorably looked upon. We struggle with, like Drew said, catching those kids that might have parental referrals or self-referrals or maybe they've just got trouble and only just put their toe into the world of vaping and drinking. So, this program really works and focuses on those kids, too. It starts off with um a one-on-one meeting with the person that provides the teen intervene where they go through um a referral or not a referral, they go through an assessment process and then there's three subsequent classes after that that are one-on-one. The last class is with parents and we saw this program working out of Newton and McFerson

115too and they will tell you there that they had the least success with those parental classes too. Getting parents to come um meet with their kid at the school is the struggle for them as well. But we have a drug-free communities grant right now. So we're really thankful for the opportunity to um go and find these programs and then bring them back to Drew and Josh and Mr. Ming and Mr. Byer at the high school and say, "What do you guys think of this? We just saw this." So, um, we're kind of building the plane as we're flying it right now, too. But like you guys have heard tonight, a lot of these things we've heard is that we really do need some additional resources to help these kids. So, our hope is that by

116doing this, it will reduce some of the the hearings that that we have and maybe get the kiddos the support they need to to make some lifestyle changes before before it gets to that point. You said the high school staff was on board with the leadership. Yeah, we kind of feel like we're at a point where we can't really ask to do that restorative justice kind of programming if we don't have the tools that you guys need to implement that inflation. So, this is kind of stage one of that. Will this be available too? Yeah. Uh, depends on how busy we are. Right. Right now, we just have funding for one part-time person. Not even one part part-time person. That individual will stay busy. Garden City High School. Sure. I just I just think it's

117as equally important to address these problems in middle school. Not that the high school kids don't need to help too, but trying to stop it earlier. Sure. If they do have time, we can we can see how because I mean the staff person is not tied to the high school like the students are. So if they have the opportunity to travel, I don't think it'd be that big of an issue. So the funding that we that this this agreement addresses is the amount of the grant. Yes. Yes. So if we get into this and realize that we need to expand the amount of services that we offer, is that something we can apply? Is there other grants we can apply for to try to We pride ourselves on being very good at um finding money

118from people. So we think there's some additional opportunities that could be out there um to grow it. Live has been really good to the district. There's been there's been a lot of things that Beth and Cali have done to support us in the past. I would just hate to see if we get into this and realize how how much is being utilized and then have just the cost be the inhibitor inhibiting factor of expanding it to middle schools if it needs to be if the demands there need I guess is there always tells me there's more money out there got find it has a second round that opens up which is a larger amount too this was the large so um this specific program is only for kids age 12 to 19. So that would

119work. It says in the packet or and in the contract that there's like one to six sessions. You explain like what the only need one session versus So the first session is kind of like we get to know each other. We kind of talk about where we're at. We do that intervention. Like I have specifically not gone through the whole training. There's two trainings that are set. first one will be August 13th and 14th, have that person trained on the program. Um, I've just sat through numerous sessions where somebody that talks about it goes through it and then subsequent sessions, session two and session three, the kid kind of works through maybe what some of their triggers might be as to why they're using. They might talk about like the health risks associated with vaping

120or alcohol, that sort of thing. And then they come back like another month later and have another session kind of to see where they're at, see how things are going, see if they might need some additional resources. And then that last session is kind of a family session where they talk their parents about where they're going, what they're doing. Um, do they need some additional help after that? What's the time frame on that from first session to six? It's probably about I would say two and a half to three months for the whole the whole system to work at C self- serve. It's based like on the change model. So change doesn't necessarily happen overnight. If you've ever had to lose weight or to start exercising more, you know that it's not a one day

121changer click this button sort of thing. And there's several different programs out there. We went with this one just because they were using it here in Kansas, too. Um, Stanford University has another program that's real similar to it. Doesn't have as much training that goes along with that one. So, we really liked this component for that person that's going to step into that role. And it doesn't necessarily have to be a trained substance use prevention counselor. Can be a part-time school nurse that we heard about earlier. Um, we have some leadership people that we're looking at, too. So, we really, it's really set up so that Anyone really can teach it and facilitate it questions. Thank you for a motion if anybody so wants to make Second to approve the teen intervening program agreement between

122the board of education and fine county community health coalition. Any discussion? All in favor raise your hand. Dr. Okay, move on to item I, board open discussion first. So, I won't steal everybody's thunder. Um, I was disappointed that I I didn't get to go to graduations. I always look forward to that every year and I was disappointed, but I understand it was a good turnout and and it was a good time. So, uh, and I want to thank Nathan and his church for, uh, the goodie bags that we keep all getting the credit for that we didn't that you did, right? But, uh, I appreciate everything you've done. I've had so many people thank us and and that. So, I know you and your congregation and and the such worked so hard. So, thank you

123for that. Like, Jenny Pill, I appreciated them coming out today. I I was really impressed with them and and their ability to uh go out to the community too and just expand from the school and get involved in the community. So, I appreciated that. Um I also had to miss graduation and um sad I got to go see my grandbabies. So, you know, it was a good tradeoff. Um the um Hall of Fame banquet on Friday was um very nice. Uh I went to the high school with one of the inductees, so it's kind of cool to, you know, rub shoulders with somebody famous. Um and it's always impressive to hear the stories that they have. Um this is my second banquet. Um, I know school is winding down for the the kiddos and the

124teachers, but I think as I learned last year, that just means that you guys' work is like just starting. So, good luck for the next couple of months and preparing for the next school year. Yeah, Mark. Uh, yeah. Congratulations to the Hall of Fame inductees, Joanna Holmes, Hely and Gary Fee. That was fun going to that. I know them both. So, it was it was Gary Fif was in my wife's class. I've got to meet him at some reunions. And then, of course, I've known John Ed for a long time. And congratulations to all the 25 2025 graduates. It was it was fun to go to the C achieve virtual academy graduation and then the Garden City High School graduation as well. It's always good to see the excitement in the air with the with

125the families and and the students as they're graduating. Thanks to the Plymale group. It's always good to hear from from our students, the the teachers that completed the letters training. It's great to know that we have staff here at USD457 that's willing to go that extra that extra mile to to get the training and do the job needed. And then the afterchool program teachers too, I think that the family again, Bella and her mom and dad, the testimony they gave us tonight was really good and it's great to to hear from from people like that that it directly affects. So kudos to those those folks as well. Uh definitely agree with everything that's been said already. Uh was fun to be at the graduations and uh just to see those kids especially that they achieve

126graduation because those kids would not have had a chance, you know, in other places. And so to see their parents so excited for them that they've completed that and moved on. Uh and I do want to say huge thanks to the retiring teachers. I know we've got a lot of teachers that are stepping away and they've given a lot to the the kids in this community and the community as a whole. And so I want to say huge thanks to them and their investment in this and their best wishes as they go forward as well. Uh keep encouraging the teachers uh to finish strong this year. We've got a couple more days left. Uh I know it's getting weary in a lot of different situations that I've talked to with some several teachers but encouraging

127them and thanking them for their hard work as they finish up and really all the staff of the school district and all the different places the things that are happening and especially as we heard about the after school program it's finishing one phase is finishing and going right into the next and so we know that's coming. So I appreciate all their hard work. Um do appreciate the ply mill presentation as well and the teachers the lettuce training like I mentioned there. My wife has been through that and it's been a daunting task to to get through that some evenings and so uh she she definitely we I can appreciate them. Um definitely appreciate and a lot of times we don't I know it was kind of a rough start for international teachers but I wanted

128to say thanks for Drew and all the support that the entire school system has put together for them. I know they've worked with a lot of them and uh they had a little bit of rough transition at the very beginning, but they've smoothed out and it's been very well received and I know we've got some others coming in from what I hear and so that's going to be a good thing. Looking forward to what we have for the school system with them and um I think that's appreciate being here and just wish the best of luck and safe summer for all the kids. I'd like to piggy back on what Nathan said. I just want to thank the staff. Uh it's a long year and people can get burned out and get into a routine,

129but I know our staff works hard every day and they give their best to our student every students every day. So, I do appreciate that. Um spring's an exciting time of year. I mean, the graduations are always a highlight of being on the board of education for me and getting to see the excitement of those those young men and women walking across the stage and and having that sense of accomplishment and going to the next chapter of their life and just getting to go to some of the awards banquetss and then some of the students that get honored at the graduations. Just some of their achievements. We have incredibly bright uh young young students in our district and we got a bright future when we graduate. a lot of students that are that that smart

130and they have a good future ahead of them. I would like to thank Jamie Swear. I know that that after school program has a lot of work and she does a lot of organizing and to get that program to work and to run smoothly. So, I thank her for all her work and all the teachers that help with that. Exciting that for the first time ever it was fully staffed. Um I know that's been a concern in the past. Uh so to have that or not have to worry about that and the kids can come and go to the after school program and have someone there to teach them I think that's just wonderful and the letters training. Um, I do want to recognize all the teachers that have gone through that and just the

131extra effort that that is. I think that's a fundamental fundamental program and helping our students read and and getting our teachers trained to help our students best is obviously, you know, very valuable to the district and to our students. And want to thank PL like Mark said, I think is just having kids in the boardroom is fun. Getting to see them uh read or do their part of a presentation that's a great experience for them in the future. don't have anything anybody else hasn't already said, but graduation was good. It was was big a lot of kids, a lot of happy kids and parents. Um, same with the after school program. That's a very liked program. Seem to do a very good job with it. And the letters training, all the teachers, dedication it takes

132for that. much is the same. It's was a great weekend. Graduation weekend is always an exciting time. It's I want to thank our faculty for the extra work it takes to put those ceremonies on. Uh we had a a couple really great student speakers at graduation this year. Really impressed by those those uh those graduates. But yeah, for me it's having the opportunity to shake the hand and to say congratulations to as they walk across stage is the the great joys of being on the board. Um I do want to say thank you to this mill student lighthouse team. They did a great job coming tonight and presenting um and uh for all the teachers that have gone through letters training. It's uh it is quite a bit of work. I mean, it's clearly spelled

133out the amount of hours they spend, the amount of training they go through, but I think it's making a substantial difference for our students and I'm really thankful for everybody's willingness to do that. Um, I appreciate the presentation tonight on the drug testing policy. U again, I want to thank the board for for adopting that policy. I think um that that direct testing policy uh is doing a good job. Um even though, you know, we've got it's not about getting positive test results. It's like as Drew said, I think it's about providing a deterrent and giving kids a reason to say no. So, um, seven positive tests in the course of the year to me tells me that that policy is is doing what we want to do. We're not we're not finding positive tests,

134but I really feel like we're uh trying to turn the tide away from uh issues. Um, and lastly, just thank you to the faculty. It's been a been another long year, a long hard year and of hard work and you guys have done a tremendous job throughout the district and I just thank you very much. Dr. Thank you. This will actually be my last board meeting. So, as you articulated prek through graduation, that is huge. So, we got to be part of the virtual, the achieves, and the graduation, the culmination of could be 13, 14 years of education. That's that's phenomenal. So, thank you all for that. We have teachers retiring, as uh Pastor Hec alluded to. We have people that have um some of them have done 40 years and and not all here

135in Garden City, but some of them vast amount of time. So that really does let us know that this is a special place and a celebration. Um we have the plyal presentation, the letters, the afterchool programming, the DAE, the alternative placement. We're just doing so many things for anything and everything that the students need. Drug testing, give them opportunity to say no. uh engagement enrichment on the New York City trip, nutrition bids. We're still looking at our facilities of what do we need to do to continue to for the next 30 years move forward. Uh the teen intervention program gives students an opportunity to do something different uh than maybe that they had before. So we are hitting it on all cylinders. As we already know, we have a great replacement coming. But um like

136I say, as it draws to a close, uh serving as superintendent for the last three years, it has been a profound honor and a source of immense pride. Uh my heart has definitely rooted in Garden City community and definitely welcomed me with open arms and reminded me gently of the power of collective purpose. Uh together we embarked on a mission to engage, enrich and empower every shareholder in the in this district, whether a student, educator, parent or community partner. We've embraced the belief that everyone has capacity to lead with that shared vision, igniting progress, strengthening connect connections, and reaffirming the district's extraordinary potential. Uh these relationships that we've built will remain in my memory long after I depart. While I will miss the laughter in the hallways, the dedication of our teams, and the vibrant

137spirit of this community, and known leaving USD457 is a position to keep rising. Uh this is not an end, but a continuation, a reminder that the work of nurturing tomorrow's leader really never includes. Thank you for trusting, challenging, and allowing me to grow alongside of you guys. Uh, Garden City will always hold a special place in my story, and I will carry my lessons forward with gratitude. With unwavering belief in this district's future, it's my last board meeting, but thank you'all so much. Dominguez. Okay, mov to item J, next board meeting. The next board meeting of education will take place on Monday, June 2nd at 6 PM here in the board meeting room at the educational support center. Item K, move on to executive session. Mr. President, I move we go into executive session for

13810 minutes to discuss negotiations for 2025 2026 school year pursuant to the exemption for employer employee negotiations under coma beginning at 85 session. I'll second that move and second move to executive session. Any further discussion? All in favor, raise your hand. Post same. Motion carries.