001Right. We'll call to order our virtual board of education meeting for uh September the 8th and welcome everybody. We have a crowd. It's nice to see all the faces. Okay. Who are you? >> Mrs. Burgerer here, >> Mr. Burns here, >> Mr. Hood here, >> Mrs. Slate here, Mrs. Wooden >> here. Thank you. >> Okay. recognition of guests, which is lovely to see. Um, Mr. Kaiser, would you like to >> Sure. I'm going to list off. >> Yeah. I'm going to list off all the U GSP, which is the Governor Scholar Program, the Governor's School for the Arts, GSA, and the GSSE, which is the Governor's School for Entrepreneurs. Um, I I'll call your name. Um, >> he thinks they're going to go against that wall over there. >> Yeah. >> So, when you get
002up, call your name. You'll stand up over here. Hold a pause till the end. Uh, and then we'll get everybody in one large group. We'll get the board members up there and we'll take a photo of you. Um, before I begin and just name everybody off. Um, I know with GSP, GSA, and GSE, it's you guys leave your homes for sometimes 3 weeks, four weeks, and sometimes more. And uh I'm sure your parents cuz I had one this year for the first time and uh it was like a month long. You guys spend a month on campus or wherever you're at. I know there's different spots where you guys go and you are fully immersed in in an experience that probably prepares you better for for what you're going to do after high school than
003anything. So, um to take on that responsibility to go down there and do that and spend that time and and um dedication to whatever you're passionate about, whether it be entrepreneurship, the arts, or pure academics, um makes very proud, probably makes your parents who some of them are probably here, makes them very proud. Um and you should be proud of yourselves. That's a pretty big deal to take on that responsibility in the middle of the summer to go basically continue school, not just for seven or eight hours a day, but all day, all night, every day for a month. And so that's a really uh great accomplishment and it's a it's a way to represent the school beach with the community uh like not many other kids get to do. So um I'd like to
004thank each and every one of you who are here and those that are not here, thank them as well. Um I'm so when I read your name off just stand over here and then we'll get a picture. Okay. Uh for governor scholar program Adelaide Schilling Maya Gelf Ruby Freeze I'm even if you're not here I'm still going to name their names so we have it on record. Uh Isabelle Bacher those are GSP kiddos. Uh now for GSA Governor School for the Arts we have Malia Driscoll. Mattie Hoops, George Kaiser, Jack Eizor, they're probably out at band right now. Uh, Bella Slo and GSC Jacob Sipple. All right, let's give them a round of applause. >> All right, board members. superintendent. >> Do you need to move some of these chairs or table? >> Do you
005want me to move some of that stuff out of the way or [Applause] You all are welcome to stay for the meeting or >> I know it's riveting stuff. Well, you can take this opportunity. >> Oh, good. >> Thank you for coming. >> Where's the kinder kid? >> Dedication public. [Music] >> These go back down somewhere. >> Oh, sorry. Sorry. >> Sorry. had like >> Okay. Uh on to our discussion and action agenda onto the working budget. We'll take a motion to approve the working budget for 2526 modifications. >> I'll make a motion. >> I'll second. >> Okay. Do you have anything to add about working budget? Uh yeah, I talked with Christie about the working budget uh from the tenative budget to the working. You want to kind of explain how we got to
006where we are? >> Yeah, I mean there's not many changes. It's very similar with tenative was the big thing the items that changed were um their tax revenue. It kind of reduced by 130 grand because of the new property that came online and increased their PVA and so more was diverted to the restricted fund and less to the general fund. Um the other thing is our carry forward reduced a little bit due to some additional retirement sick and annual leave payouts at the end of the year. Um but we were able to absorb all those reductions in revenue with um the offset in the decrease in salary and benefits related to the reorganization and structuring and like some of the >> replacement of hires and stuff like that we've done in the past past two
007months or so. So I mean it was very it's a very healthy budget. You know I maintained our contingency and there's flexibility in it. So that's it's a really you should be fine. >> Anybody have any questions? >> Mrs. Burgerer, are you ready? >> Anybody else have any questions? >> Okay. All right. Now we're ready. Now you're ready. >> Mrs. Burgerer, yes. >> Mr. Burns, yes. >> Mr. Hood, yes. >> Mrs. Slate, yes. >> Mrs. Woods, >> yes. Thank you. >> Okay. Motion carries. >> On to item B. Um, take a motion to approve the tree removal quote. Well, I don't think there's a motion yet because we kind of we have to discuss the three quotes of which one we'd like to choose. >> Okay. But you have to do the motion first in
008order to this >> motion to motion to approve a quote. >> Yeah. >> I'll make a motion. >> So, I'll second. >> So, that has to be read. >> It says to approve treatment. doesn't say which one. >> So for this one, we have the three quotes and I just wanted you guys to be able to discuss the three quotes that were offered in regard to just removing the trees. Uh so the three quotes, one came from Schuler, one came from ArborCare, and one came from GoGetter. And they're all they're not too far off in price. Um but but all three offer their quotes to to go in remove the tree, stump grind, and clean up. >> Do we have a projected cost for replanting? >> One one offered a replanting as part of their
009quote. I took that out. It was I believe Arbor Care and it was like $4 or $5,000 to replant uh eight 8 foot trees, 8 to 10 foot trees going back in. >> Okay. >> With and so once this is happens then it's okay and talking with you guys about getting three different types of trees, three different three different options. Making sure when they're planted that they're at least 8 to 10 feet tall. >> Okay. So they wouldn't how long would they wait? Do they even say how long they would wait after the stump removed before they would actually plant? >> They could do it in the in the fall before it gets cold out or they could do it in the spring. >> I don't know anything about when is the best time of
010year just depending on the tree. >> Yeah. Not winter fall like early fall >> and we're still thinking fall break >> if we get it removed. >> Fall break, >> right? And then if we had a, it depends on probably the temperature and the and the climate from after October 10th after they're removed to November. If we can get them in there and plant them, I think we can get it done then. If not, we could wait until April, March, April. >> Okay. Anybody have any thoughts on that process? And do we want to get them planted earlier versus later? >> I would love to get them planted earlier. in there without something. >> Yeah. Is that an option? >> Yeah. >> Once this once this this ball is rolling, then we can start on
011Okay, let's look at three options from each one of these. Each one of these also provides the planting option. Um we get three different types of trees. One already offered um a green giant at 8 to 10 feet tall to plant. Those don't shed. Uh they're green year round. Um the two other trees I I can't pronounce what they were but >> are any of them shade trees versus pine tree types or >> Yeah. two others were >> so it's a diverse option. Yeah, I mean >> four of all the same thing or >> No, it would be three different options uh for each company, but they would suggest there are three that would fit like ar guess landscape architecture aesthetically for the front lawn mount >> deciduous plant four of the same tree whatever
012we chose that's like aren't we doing four are we doing some kind of different something different what I mean what are they proposing >> everyone they they've just suggested four of the same kind we have not now but we wouldn't I don't think they would do two like evergreens and two deciduous but >> I think four of the same would be that's up to you guys that kind of think so >> so I'm looking at the the price three different quotes so one is for 14,000 one is for 16 >> and then 17 the same the 176. >> Oh, that includes the plant. So, that that goes down to 14. >> Okay. Okay. >> Roughly. >> Which one? That's the go-getter. So, oh, I thought I saw 12. >> 14, 16, or 12? >> There
013is 12, but then there's a 20,00. >> Oh, okay. Okay. So, it goes to 14 recently. Do you have a strong feeling like when you were meeting with these different companies? >> They're all they're all fine. The the only difference between the three of them is one of them is local. One of them >> the person who does it lives done work here before. >> But I don't want any conflict of interest of like you know so but it's not like there is that he's done work here for us before and done trimming of trees. He's done a lot of the landscape work. Um he's local. What's a school here? It's a Schuler. >> Mhm. Um, but the other two are good. Good as well. I have no >> I have no no preference. >>
014Was that the 16? >> Yeah. Okay. >> I've used Go-Getter personally and had a good experience, but I've heard nothing but good things about the other two. Also, a lot of word of mouth regarding the other two. >> I don't know anything about Arbor. I've used Go-Getter. Fabulous. And I have used um Scher also, but I don't know Arbor here. I have not never heard of them, so I don't >> um Yeah. And they're from Cincinnati. Can we ask Schuler to sharpen their pencils? >> Sure. >> You want to use somebody local, but their price was more expensive? I don't know. >> They took out a big oak tree at my house. They did a great job. >> Who's that? >> Sure. >> Yeah. I don't know. I don't want to labor the whole thing,
015but at the same time, I'd like to use somebody local, but I also don't like the idea of spending more money than we need to, even if it's a couple thousand dollar. >> I can always see if they can come back lower price. And if they do, question is, how do we prove that? How does that mean to get that ball rolling? >> Am I Am I missing Schiller's quote? I've got arborare go-getter and >> oh that's yeah >> it's the last one I mean the price >> you have to actually >> it just I know it doesn't really >> you don't >> it doesn't say okay >> you know >> if you [Music] want >> so if we want to use the logo guy We >> and you we're going to go back. Do
016we vote? You say yes, but then you go back and beat him up or >> Yes. >> Do we not do >> we have to come back and do it again? >> Do we have to redo this motion? >> Is I guess the question? >> We don't have to make another motion to do that, right? >> To do what? What you want to do? >> Reo the motion we had. Sorry, I'm in the wrong one. Tree removal. [Music] I guess you can amend it and base it on amount of money, you know. I mean, you can make your motion to say whatever you want, right? But >> it there's not a recommendation is what I'm saying. So, typically there's a recommendation on which one and there's not. So, that's why I'm asking you we need
017to redo that amendment to >> what? I'm not sure. Are you going to I'm not sure where you're trying to get at. We made a motion. So we don't until we get children to give us a better >> then we motion exactly. >> We just I mean >> so if we approve it we won't amend it. >> We just say we're going to do this guy, right? >> Never going to name somebody. We really need to name somebody. >> We're going to name somebody. >> Then you all name somebody and we will add that to >> qualify that name. Motion to approve the Scheler quote amend the motion. We can amend the motion to Right. We can amend the motion to >> and they have the choice of doing it or not. >> Okay. >>
018As long and then if they if they're not able >> So you want to amend the motion to approve it the next removal quote from the >> I don't say it says sure but >> so we can have something to fall back on. uh >> if they don't meet that based on recommended reduction price then we will go with the next best which is name that go >> you got that >> no >> you got all that >> no okay we're going to say motion to approve a tree removal quote from >> Scheler based on >> a price of >> a >> price decrease an acceptable price decrease >> comparable to The other two plugs >> I second >> I can't talk that fast. Comparable to our request. >> If request is not met then
019we will go with the next best quote being gogetter. >> If request >> we go. Got it. >> We did it. No, >> you just have to get close, right? >> The the uh the the removal will be awarded to to whom? >> Go get her. Go get her. >> And if not, >> Schuler, if not motion to approve a tree removal quote from Schuler based on an acceptable price decrease comparable to other quotes. If request is not met, the removal award will go to gogetter. >> Go get her >> will go to gogetter tree service >> to go >> and whoever they are could come to my house before the wedding real quick and take a couple. >> All right. So you want me to read the motion again and then we vote on
020it or we have a more discussion? >> Read it. >> Motion to approve a tree removal quote from Schuler based on acceptable price decrease comparable to the other quotes. If request is not met, the removal award will go to go-getter tree service. So are you ready to vote? >> Mrs. Burgerer, >> yes. >> Mr. Burns, >> yes. >> Mr. Hood, >> yes. >> Mrs. Slate, yes. Mrs. Wooden, >> yes. Thank you. Okay, that motion carries. >> Got it. Great work. >> Yes. >> On to the consent agenda. >> Make a motion to approve the consent agenda as posted. >> I'll make the motion. >> I'll second. You have anything that you want to discuss on the consent agenda? Are you >> um good? >> There's a couple things. uh one being um you'll see as
021item E um I notified Mr. Jeremy Deeders of termination of contract uh this past week. Um he will provide services through September 30th. Uh our timeline based on this RFP as part of the consent agenda, we will open the RFP tomorrow. It will run till September 19th. On September 19th, it will close. We will then uh go through um some interviews in a special meeting close session to interview potential candidates for the replacement of board attorney from the different firms. That will be on September 23rd um where we'll interview with the hopes of creating a contract to be uh to go into effect on October 1st. So, we'll have coverage from Jeremy uh until the 30th with the transfer of coverage uh to the next uh the winning um firm uh on October 1st. So,
022we will gather proposals between now and the 19th to review and then set some interviews for the 23rd and go from there. Um while being part of this open meeting, I do want to say I appreciate all that Jeremy's done. Um I I've only worked with him very closely for two months, but in my other positions in the district from from operations to high school principal, um he was always good to work with and and available and uh had had a great working relationship from from my perspective. So appreciate all he's done for the for the district um and and myself. So I just wanted to say that publicly. >> Absolutely. I agree. and has been there for us over the last I guess 5 years. So >> yeah, appreciate his work. Um, anything else
023on the on the consent agenda or >> uh just a I mean some of the things you might not understand. Kexsack keac kesac is our um governing body that oversees guardian angel. Um Brad Bentley who's our guardian angel administrator uh puts together kind of the rationale and the justification of funding uh for that we get through KEXAC. And so he puts a lot of work in to show all the great things that are going on at Guardian Angel in order to secure that funding. And so that agreement is there just to outline that that Guardian Angel is doing everything they have to do in order to secure that. So Brad, I just want to also say Brad, thank you to him for for doing that every year and and putting in the work and the
024time to show um all the great things going on at Guardian Angel. Um EKU Option 9 is the same thing we did with ENKU. There's a there is a staff member here that is seeking their certification through EKU option 9. Um so that's just an agreement that we have with them. Lango language services. It's just affordable language services that we've had in the past. It's just changing its name. It's it's a really great program. any of our uh staff members if they need to contact a family with with u an e family of any language um they can use this service to call have a translator at the drop of a hat uh within within minutes and so it's a really great service um they also come in they can provide service to interpret for
025a meeting like this or service to interpret maybe even sign language so they offer uh all languages to to help us out uh in communication with the families that we have in the district. Um so that is lango. Um civics test uh by by by law we have to give a civ civics test to every student before they graduate. Uh once they hit 9th grade at some point between 9th grade and 12th grade uh 70% on the test is passing that test is aligned to the national like citizenship test. uh we have to submit that and make sure it's aligned. Um so that's that's on there. Um >> is that new? >> Uh no, it's it's been going on for a few years now. Board approval is new I believe, >> but the actual test
026seen the actual test. >> Yeah. And so >> there's there we'll take it to the next board meeting. See how good we are. >> Come early and we'll take the test. uh even like a student that shows up as a junior >> may not have been at a school or senior may not have been at a school that does require it. >> So we have to make sure that all those students when they do enroll that they do complete it. So mostly it's like all of our freshmen but there's kids that transfer in from >> just a lot of work to make sure all those kiddos are taken care of. Um cyber security report we're we're required to send a report to the state KDE to show that we're in compliance. Obviously Tim is the
027the mastermind behind our cyber security and all the things that go on that we have no idea how to understand or so we're gonna do a really good attempt at >> saying some of these words what the the cyber security report uh it's to demonstrate that we are in compliance with the things we need to do to make sure that our building and our campus and our students are safe. So we have to show that we meet federal regulations on furpa copa the child internet protection act so software that we have that allows us to do that we have munis we have infinite campus we are a google school and microsoft so all those have the safety measures built in to allow us to to uh be compliant with those federal regulations um and then
028we also have some additional current security measures that we show the state that we're doing like the anti virus software there. Patch scanning. Don't know what that is. Uh firewall. I I get it, but I don't know how that works. Uh MFA, Tim says MFA quite a bit and no one knows what MFA is. Multifactor authentication. >> So there you go. Lesson for the day. >> Um and then geoloccational controls. You know, obviously >> geoloccational controls are part of it. So, that is all the stuff that that Tim and Brandon put together to make sure that our kiddos, our staff, our campus is safe. Um, and has built-in measures to prevent a cyber attack as well. So, that is the cyber security report. And then you see the surplus plays play clocks that we have
029um from the the field. >> And when those get sold, do they go back to the athletic budget? >> Go into um I do have one question. when um on use of facilities. Mhm. >> So are all of our like teams at Beachwood they get all their time first before we start letting >> absolutely >> other entities >> couple couple measures. We make sure that every Beachwood program has precedence, >> right? >> And that those hierarch hierarchy of that is varsity gets first dibs, then it goes to JB, then the freshman, then the middle school, the elementary. So that all happens. And once that's all filled and complete, then the only in general, the only teams that do get on here are like a basketball or soccer or some outside entity, but it's >> primarily
030almost all made up of Beachwood kids. So, >> so >> I just know we usually are very short on on time, you know, and that's why I just want to make sure. >> Yeah. And they don't get pressed on any other consent agenda. >> Yeah. Anybody have any other questions? Ready? Mrs. Burker, I >> think we are. Yes. Thank you. >> Mr. Burns? >> Yes. >> Mr. Hood? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Slate? >> Yes. >> Mr. >> Yes. Okay. Motion carries. Um on to information portion. Superintendent report. All right. Um, first off, I'm excited to as part of the superintendent report kind of do some some learning um throughout the course of the year. So, we'll do some programs that we have here. Tonight will be gifted talented, but we'll also go through the cycle
031of all the uh kind of supplemental programs that we have here so everyone can learn on what these great people do. Um, then we get into the 26 school year. We'll start to look at each pillar uh of the um of the the three-year strategic plan and we'll start to communicate and do some learning around each one of the pillars and what we're doing in each one of those. So to carve out a little bit of time uh uh to be able to do some learning is really exciting and I'm glad that we get to showcase our great staff members to to show what they do. Um, you have teachers, you have administrators, you have all these other people. Then you have these kind of like glue people that make sure all these programs run.
032Ashley being one of those people. Think it's a talented program. And I'm going to turn it over to her to explain kind of what she has done, not just to continue on what we've had here, but but make it a lot better. Um, whether it be building the program and adding to it or communicating to our families what this program is all about. So, um, she's really taken it and and and lifted it to heights it has been before. So, I'll turn it over to Ashley now. >> Great. Thank you. Okay. Um, so, um, I'm Ashley Richie, um, gifted content coordinator. Um, super excited this year to also introduce Jessica Inweiler. She, um, was hired this year to be, um, part-time gifted support teacher. It's the first time that we've ever had two people um
033in the gifted and talented program and I cannot tell you how wonderful it is to have an extra person supporting um and working with students. So, I just wanted you to be able um to put a face with her name. Um so, just a couple of highlights. Um this is my third year as gift and tonic coordinator. Um Beachwood's gifted program currently serves over 300 students K12. Um 90 of those students are primary talent pool which is made up of grades K through three. Um the rest of those are formally IDed students in grades 4 through 12. Um many of those students are gifted in more than one area. So they're three or four or five areas. So they have multiple plans. Um so having an extra person to support the number of students we
034have at Beachwood in the program is extremely important. Um so just a couple of highlights. Um when I took over the program three years ago, the goal kind of was to pick one area and just build on that. So the first year we really focused on primary talent pool. Um so primary talent pool is the elementary side of the program. Um so what students receive in kindergarten through third grade. Um the one thing that we really focus on was making sure that students who are um PTP so identified as that which means we they've gone through the committee and um we've decided to place them that way. They receive that small group instruction um based on you know enrichment that they need. So, those kids get instruction now with Jessica um once a week for
03530 minutes, which is huge. It's more than they've ever gotten. Um we also implemented a pets, which is like a critical thinking um creativity program in grades K through three. So, every student at Beachwood participates in that creativity program. Um which is a great way to um identify high potential learners in the area of creativity. Um the second thing that we focused on um is our website. So we worked to um this summer we revamped um the beachwood website. It was just really um outdated and it wasn't very user friendly for families or students. Um so what we worked on was to make sure that it was ready for everyone. So students, families, um staff. So, um you can see that we have um lots of student buttons so that they can access all of
036their um resources in one place. Um we even have our primary talent pool buttons which are full of resources for those um students in the elementary building. Um most importantly, I feel like it's really important for our families to know what we do in the gifted program. I think that um we haven't always been super clear in what we provide. Um so the first thing that the biggest part is we developed a talent um development model. So it shows what we provide students in grades K through 12 on one spot. So it shows what we use to identify them, what programs we use to support them, and then where they can receive um outside services um to support them outside of Beachwood. Um so I think it's just a nice snapshot of what we provide
037um from elementary all the way to the time that they graduate. Families can also read about how we do the gifted program. They can, um, go to the arts, um, read different enrichment opportunities. So, there's just a lot of resources on our, um, on our new website. Um, the other thing that we changed in the first year is the way that we progress monitor. Um, by state um, regulation, you have to progress monitor gifted students twice a year. Um, so we changed that process. We wanted it to be meaningful for students and parents and teachers. So, um students now get um progress monitor on a report card, but then they receive a detailed, um piece from every single teacher in their gifted area that details how they're performing in class and what they're doing. Um
038it's been a really positive way for gifted students to hear how they're doing in class instead of just saying you're getting an A, which most of them are. Um so, we're really proud of that. Um we also developed um dance identification at Beachwood. was the only area um of gifted and talented that we did not service here. Um so we developed a process. We currently have eight students who are identified gifted and danced. So we provide their enrichment by doing workshops at school um and progress monitoring them that way. Um the thing I'm probably the most proud of um is our middle grades. This is my second um my second year project. um our students in grades six through eight, you know, Beachwood's unique because they're like the middle school, but they're not. They're in
039high school and also final year of elementary. Um so we created an enrichment menu. So these students who are in sixth through 8th grade um attend a launch event. We teach them all about their enrichment opportunities. Um and then they um choose their own enrichment outside of the classroom. So they have a menu for the first semester and a menu for the second semester. Um they get to choose what they want to go on. Um all of the um you can see on this side all the details have priority IDs. So a priority ID is the area that a student is gifted in. Um I've been really um big on teaching students. I want them to be able to say what their name is and what their priority IDs are because a lot of students
040don't know. Um so that's something we've been working on. Um so this menu is different than what was offered last year. Um and it will be different again in the spring. So, they're just getting lots of different um opportunities to leave campus and also bring um partners in to work with our students. So, moving forward, um some goals that we have for this year with Jessica, the biggest goal that we have is just to develop a primary talent pool curriculum. We want to be able to show parents what we teach. Um so, we're working on second grade this year. So, the goal is that by the end of the school year, second grade is complete. So, like a three-year cycle to get all of those primary grades finished. Um, we're also really hoping to increase
041enrichment in grades 9 through 12. A lot of those kids take AP classes and honors classes. Um, but there's not just a lot of extra opportunities for them. So, by having another person to focus on more of the elementary side teaching, it allows more time for me to work on those opportunities and be more involved in the high school. Um, clear consistent communication with families. Um we've worked really hard to build that on Class Dojo on the elementary side. So to communicate what we're doing with our PTP students um the use of Google Classroom for gifted students and then also being involved with you know the high school newsletter and those pieces. And then finally developing um staff resources. So just increasing that capacity of what our staff members can do and use in the
042classroom to support um gifted learners. That's a little GT. that. >> Awesome. >> That's great. >> Any questions for Ashley? >> That's pretty good. I'd like to say that high school is getting it used to be more primarily. Yeah. So, >> thank you. >> Sure. >> I can tell you the communication's been great this year already. >> I feel like I get two, three messages a week between my two kids and that's so much increase. So, it's you guys are definitely hitting the home run on that. >> Awesome. That's especially good if your kids are in a gifted account, >> right? [Music] I before you write your had your goals up there, I wrote like increased opportunities like an effort and increasing opportunities. There's evidence of that. There's evidence of increased communication. Um there's evidence
043of you leading teachers to be able to feel more comfortable providing those enrichments. Um so much so I mean you said 300 I mean it's almost 20% of our kids >> 20% of our entire population is gifted we should probably be devoting a lot of time to that. So um so much so that she's been so successful in that and and such a leader that we've invited her to be part of cabinet. So she was integral in in development of the three-year strategic plan. Just somebody who's talented herself. Uh just very happy that she's part of the team. So great work. Thanks. [Music] >> Yeah, Christie, you want to come up? >> Come back. >> There you are. There you are. She's the owl. The owl find you. >> Yeah. So, really, you know, again,
044we're still early in the year. Pretty much August was like a half of a normal month when we're full in school year. So, you know, really not seeing a lot of action or changes. is it seems like we're going along according to budget and plan. Nothing popping out, you know, to highlight really as far as I'm concerned. I know I reviewed this with um Justin and Sarah too every month. Um really because you know we just approved the tax rates. We won't really see that money coming in starting like November is when you start seeing that. >> Um >> and you know we've only had a half a month of like full payroll costs which is really the largest cost we have in the district. So that'll in September you'll see more of that. you'll
045see like a more normal month. So I I mean I there really isn't a lot of It's just it's very minimal right now. What's going on? >> So early. >> Yeah, it's so early. Exactly. It is. So I really I feel like honestly I feel like when we get to like November is when we're really we're going to get a real feel like more of a feel what's going on. >> Especially if you want to build some stuff. >> Yeah. Exactly. >> Yeah. All the cost. Yeah. I agree. >> Anything else you can think? >> Uh a couple things. Um, Commissioner Fletcher uh for KDE, he was scheduled to visit on the 29th of September, but he's bumped that to October 17th. So, he'll be be here on a Friday, October 17th. I don't know
046if it's morning or afternoon, just save the date. So, he'll be around. He wants to tour the new school. He wants to see the curriculum. He wants to see the deeper vibrant learning that they're pushing from the state. He just keeps hearing about Detroit. And so, he wants to see what's going on. Um, speaking of that and and other superintendents wanting to come visit, uh, Dr. Poe, former superintendent at BU County, reached out from the Northern Kentucky Education Council. He wants to bring a bunch of superintendents here. They'll be visiting, uh, doing a site visit on September 30th to see again what we're doing to be ahead of the game in regards to deeper learning, vibrant learning, and just people want to see the building. They want to see what's what goes on with Beachwood.
047uh September 30th. Uh reminder on Monday uh a week from today we have our joint session that's with SPDM and uh the board of education. Uh we'll be doing something a little bit different this year. It will be more of an interactive experience where board members and SPM me SPDM members will partner up and do some learning around the five pillars. So there'll be some rotation station activities. We we'll treat it kind of like like school. And so I'm excited to to do that uh and learn together on the 15th. So that's next Monday. Um I've been doing the staff meets. I'm probably about 75%. I'm thinking to myself, why did I sign up to do this uh to meet with the hund and so staff members, but I'm I'm getting there. I'm chipping away.
048I've got till the September 30th to do so. But they've been awesome just to like meet with everybody individually and talk to them and get their feedback. and it's just been very positive. Um, so those have been going great. Um, we have our next 2 by two, which again, 2 by 2's, two board members. I know, uh, Kyle came last time. This is not just I think I don't know who's coming this Friday, but our next 2 by two is this Friday, September 12th. Kyle, you want to share out your experience like what we were able to do on that day? It was I'm I'm glad you came up with the concept of it because it was great seeing the building operating. You know, when I'm here after hours or on weekends and stuff, it's
049just an entirely different vibe and you hear, especially having younger kids, you hear about what the high school is doing, you hear about what our middle school age kids are doing. But to actually see it in action was really cool. And I love visiting the classrooms, seeing so many of the kids and just seeing the building alive. um you know all the the work that prior boards and prior administrators have put in. It was a really neat experience and very motivating for me to see the building operating that way. >> Great. Um so this Friday will be our next 2 by two. We'll have one each month and so that's this Friday. Um I do want to take a moment to recognize Savannah Starks and Britney Ever. Uh both of them were teacher of the
050year for KMEA for region six I believe. uh Savannah being the middle school uh teacher of the year and Britney being the elementary teacher of the year. So very prestigious awards award. Um it's not surprising they put in so much time, so much effort. Um and our music program is second to none. So it it's I'm I'm glad that they are getting recognized for the work they do. Um girls soccer all champs and they are in the midst of a regional right now. It's like a sectional. they play Brawlert sometime this week. Um, and if they win that, then they go to like the official state. Um, and so girls soccer being successful in in the first year of a new head coach. And then volleyball, uh, has kind of advanced beyond that. They are
051at state. And so volleyball um, has been strong so far this year. I think they're top 15 in the state, uh, all classes. And they will head down Friday. Since they are going to state, we're going to do a sendoff. Uh so Friday morning 9:45ish uh outside we'll do a proper send off for them actually going down the state. Now if girls soccer does the same thing and makes it down to state then we'll do the same thing. But volleyball's ready to go. Hopefully they they do some damage. >> They're down at Owensboro. They're down at Owensboro or >> Yeah. I don't know who they're playing first round. Do they do like a round robin? they do on two matches Friday night, one Saturday morning and then after that >> then it settles and sees
052>> and so uh yeah that's this weekend. Um speaking of which Friday is our first home football game. Always always good to get that first home football game on Friday. Unveil the new scoreboard senior night for golf and cross country. >> Uh should be a nice evening. The band's going to play the full uh show at halftime. Um, weather looks good, 85 and sunny and should cool down pretty quickly. So, there's nothing like it in the fall with the band and all the athletics and so I'm excited for that. >> And so, we have new student or we have students doing the scoreboard. >> We we have two interns, but the um >> two interns video >> two interns will run the the media part of the scoreboard. our crew will be doing a score
053part, but um we'll be there'll be some graphics and hopefully some commercials and some ads. Uh the boosters have been working very hard to secure sponsorships, so they they've done a good job with that. Um so yeah, hopefully it all comes together on Friday night. Um another really cool thing is our our our AP scores are finally in like full AP scores from a high school perspective. uh ultimately a 78% pass rate which is really high especially when you consider this and so I want to clarify for our community and at large is we don't allow or not allow kids to take AP. We let any kid who wants to take AP take it. We actually encourage every kid to atast take at least one AP before they leave here. A lot of schools do
054not do that. they only allow certain students into those AP courses knowing that they can handle that class or not. So we push all of our students to try to take that to see like I can do an AP class, I can go to college. So that's one aspect of it. Then the other aspect is we require them to take the test. Some schools may say, yeah, you can take AP, but only certain students we can allow to take the test. It's optional. We require all of them to take the test. So no gatekeeping on the front end or back end. And we have scores where we're at a 78% pass rate. It's pretty strong. Um, one of those we had a new teacher this year for AP Chem, 100% pass rate in her first
055year teaching AP Chem. So, just really great highlights. That goes across the board. All of our teachers put a lot of time in. It's not just those AP teachers that do it. It's the teachers that lead up to AP. >> It's those middle-grades teachers. It's those elementary teachers that build and scaffold that create these superstars that go in and get threes and fours and fives on these AP exams. So, it's a really great team effort to show kind of a culminating um outcome. So, just want me to take a moment to to recognize that. >> Thank you. >> Um Kroger, Lord, Kroger's going through some things right now. >> Hey, they kind of might be a little karma. Uh but anyway, they uh they've been nice and I do want to reiterate to our community,
056those who are watching, if you're watching, please spread the word. Please tell those that you know that go and pick up at Kroger or drop off at Kroger to be nice and to follow the rules and to please meet Kroger where they are. Kroger does not have to allow that. Kroger knows we are a great community partner. Kroger has been lenient. When you get to drop off in the morning is pretty civil. Um I think everybody's calm. It's in the morning and uh there's flow. There's nobody waiting. But and then parking, student parking, they've been great. Kids have been great this year. They've adjusted. Um parking is not an issue for Kroger. They they want to provide those spots to the kids. Pickup is the one I'm asking for some help. Pickup is where we
057want people to follow the rules. Don't go in the lot until 240. um because we've had in the past 30 40 cars sitting in the lot creating congestion while somebody's trying to get gas or a deliveryy's coming in or someone just wants to park or an employee wants to leave. That congestion creates a little bit of an issue. So, we're asking our community to not go into that lot until 2:40. Once 240 hits, come through, pick up your child and go. Um this is not something that that be the ultimate thing is that's at your choice to do that. What we do suggest everyone doing is pick up and drop off at Beachwood because Beachwood can provide a safe drop off safe pickup uh that is monitored by staff. Um that is not our property
058to monitor. So that is parents on their own accord going up there and doing that. Um, so I do want to reiterate that Beachwood can provide the best drop off, the best pickup, the most safe uh for your kiddos. So also be aware of the the the safety that comes with that uh that when you when you decide and make the choice on your own to go at the Kroger. But anyway, they are been they've been really good. They've been they haven't been um mean about it. They've just been very matterof fact and they've approached with with good negotiation and good compromise to say, "Okay, we want to continue to allow the you to do this. Is there a middle ground here you can help us out with?" So, it's been it's been a good
059discussion and and so uh now they had a fire, they're closed for maybe up to three weeks, maybe a month to >> Oh, they're they're open again. >> Wow. >> Great. >> So, they're allowing us to continue uh through that process. So they had trailers out there and everything and all their frozen products so that they can um they were still going to let us use it while they were closed. So >> they've been great. I don't want to be negative to them. They've been really great. Let's let's meet them halfway. That's what I'm asking. >> Um Beachwood Swim Club. Um they they put out something on social media and we got texts of, hey, what what's going on here? Um so dayto-day parking there, they're not going to allow anymore. um they have to
060maintain that property. They do the gravel, the cut grass cutting, and so the day-to-day, which really wasn't a need of ours in regards to people parking there dayto-day, they were going to remove all but we reached out to them said, "Hey, dayto-day is fine. It's not really a need for us. Could you allow us to do homecoming and Banfest and the bigger events that that bleed over?" And they said yes. >> Um so we're fine with the ones where we request that space. They are totally fine. So kids are not allowed to park there anymore then? >> Not dayto day. And so if you look up there prior to this it was what would you say? How how often did a kid park at swim club if >> Yeah. Maybe maybe five cars >> during
061construction. >> Yeah. During construction >> during construction there was but now that we've opened up 84 I was going to say so we have >> I don't see why I don't know if anybody's parked there this school year. I know when we were under construction, we were limited on our student parking. Now that we've >> expanded, >> so uh they they they were they were good. They they said they were they were they did a good job with with helping us out, especially with Bandfest being on set this past Saturday. Speaking of that, Festival of Bands, I I know in talking with Austin, band director and Coulison, the president, I think they want to have one of their highest grossing band fests or festival of bands that they've ever had. Weather was great. They had
062some really big bands there. >> I think Campbell was there and Riyle was there. So, these really large bands generated a lot of money for their program. And those boosters, they do it right. I mean, they're so organized. They came. Yeah. >> Go ahead. >> No, I was gonna say with that new speaker system, I could hear it on Pleasant >> Ren. [Music] The new speaker system is very It works. >> It does. It works. >> She's engaging in community. >> I'll do our morning announcements from you actually. You can actually hear what they're saying. Not like, you know, Charlie Brown. >> No. Right. Exactly. You're right. >> It's part of our communication plan. will be amazing. >> It will be amazing every touchdown >> all around the community. >> All around. >> But yeah,
063uh I came in. >> We did ask for clear. >> We did. We got it. >> It's been a festival of the bands. They did all that. And then the next morning, I come up here on Sunday almost 6:30 or 7 a.m. and it's clean. Like not it's like nothing happened. And there was thousands and thousands of people. So them plus Jay Hubard. Special shout out to Jay Hubard. Uh just great just great people. >> He does a great job. >> Um district newsletter came out this past week. So recommend anybody who wants to check out what's going on full district that came out this week. And then afterward tonight if you guys want to do a quick walk around the campus just to see where the project will be starting in the next little
064bit. >> Keeping on. We got the new >> Yeah. We're waiting on the Joe to advertise the bids and Kodell to review those bids and >> the updated. >> So, waiting on Joe for that. There's a lot of uh details in regards to the camera systems that will be over there. >> Uh the drainage system tying in to where like all that work is that's I think the engineering part has been the hold up, >> right? >> Um they did some borings. those are going to require a little bit more reinforcement in some areas. So, just discovering all that through the surveys and the engineers. >> So, that's kind of been the hold up on that. >> So, we should hear something next month. >> I hope we hear something next week or so, >>
065right? >> But in regards to something actionable at board, that October board member board meeting, hopefully we have um the the bids to Yeah. [Music] Anything else? >> That would be it. >> Okay. Thank you. Um Okay. Um we will take a motion to make the agenda part of the official board minutes. I'll make a motion. >> Second. >> Uh Mrs. Burgerer, Mr. Burns, Mr. Hud. Mrs. Slate, Mrs. W. >> Yes. >> Thank you. >> Okay. We'll take a motion to adjourn. I don't get