001[Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] [Applause] Hey, hey. [Music] Hey, [Music] Hey, [Music] hey, hey. [Music] Hey, [Music] hey, hey. [Music] Hey. Hey. Hey. [Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] Hey, hey, hey. Heat. Heat. [Music] Chinese >> present. >> Dr. Kelly >> here. >> Watson >> here. Jackson. Miss Lolita, will you serve as the chairperson of that committee and of the personnel? >> Yes. Yes. So, personnel committee will come to order. Roll call. Oh Oh, just I'm sorry. Okay. Item one, receive personnel updates and workforce dashboard from Miss Miranda Watson. [Music] Good evening. >> Our personal report, you know, is not as lengthy as it was last month, but we have had some movement. Uh we did hire three new hires. They were all um two teach well one teacher, food service worker,
002and we also hired a teacher assistant for one of the banker positions. Um below you'll see we also had three resations. One of them I will note out that was hired on last month's uh agenda. He was hired and then he uh resigned this month. Um but like I said, we are still advertising and trying our best to keep somebody steady in the classrooms for our kids. If you look at the second page, you'll see some of the uh vacancy statistics. While we did have some changes at the college and career academy, the percentage the percentage didn't change. It was it's still 87% staff. Um and then um for the teacher positions, we're 82% staff. At Shada, we're 97% uh staff. That's no change. We still have that one vacancy to fill. We do have
003a prospect, however, we're still trying to work out some things with him as well. And then that same one person is a teacher, but we're 95% staffed by our teachers. And I will um it's not one of our core uh vacancies, but it is a spare vacancy. The at the ELC um they're 100% staff um all around with uh overall as well as teachers there. All their vacations have been filled. And if you see the district totals there, we're 95% staff overall, which is a 2% increase from last month. And we're 91% staff for teachers, which is a 1% increase. Like I said, we've been doing some work, which is just not moving as fast as it was over the summer, but we are working on it. And if you look at some of the
004highlights overall, like our vacancies are down, like I said before in the uh report, our own turf certification meetings have begun. We had our first one um in August and our next one is scheduled for next week. We do have a representative from um a university in Baton Rouge that will be in Ted and attended >> a university. Get that right. But >> from Southern University. >> That's right. >> You said it right. >> Go ahead. and uh she will be um uh in attendance to present u talk about the alternative certification program and I would love to see some of my HB.CU to use get involved in alternative certification process. Um it's all fun and games to do our trash talk but it it's good to see that we support one another. Um in
005addition to that because of that um that meeting with that with her well actually because of our our new resident that we have who was able to have that dialogue with her mentor with her supervisor rather who's going to come in and desk is going to be doing the presentation that same day and she's coming out to observe her. So we're excited about that. We see some movement with our residents. So we're very excited about that. uh safe school trains are still ongoing and while we have those vacancies at the high school, we have started to reach out to proximity who's going to start facilitating um our ELA courses for the um for the high school, the secondary courses. So, we do have that in place until we're able to hire a full-time teacher in
006that vacancy. You have any questions? [Music] Thank you. Okay, we haven't have any questions to close the personnel committee. >> Budget and finance committee >> present >> here. She's here. >> Um, Miss Porter, can you serve as Yes. Item one, receive and consider for approval - RFP. >> We do have a presentation tonight. >> How's everyone doing tonight? >> Good. Um, Madame President, Madame Superintendent, and the rest of the board. Uh, and and Mr. Joseph that's here. Thank you for having me today. Um, Mr. Joshua asked me to come today to kind of present. Um, I am Travis Franks, uh, educational professional services. I'm the uh, -ate consultant that's hired by the school district. And, uh, St. Parish as well as every other school system and library participate in a in a program called -ate.
007That program of -ate pays for the internet access that comes into the school district and then the fiber optic data lines that go from schoolboard office to school and then it also pays for the products inside the school that basically basically deliver the internet to the computer, right? whether it would be a a computer wire or whether it would be wireless from an access point. Today, what we're talking about on this RFP is the portion of -ate called category 2. And that's for the wiring inside the schools, Ethernet switches that I will go over. And I just wanted to present to you guys the RFP that's here. Uh what we have in it has been reviewed by um Mr. Joshua and and the IT staff that's there. We wanted to present it to you today.
008Uh if you have it printed in front of you, uh agenda again, the timelines, the requirements, the evaluation criteria, technology highlights, and submission details. Um key dates that we have uh with your K tonight, we would like to release tomorrow on September 12th. So, it's going to go in two places. It's going to go on the federal website of the -ate website that lets every company in the United States bid on your services that we're releasing out to bid. Um that timeline of the federal program, it has to be out for 28 days. Uh obviously you can see we're going all the way out to October 22nd. So we will far have ex s ex s ex s ex s ex s ex s ex s ex s ex s ex succeeded that and Louisiana
009procurement law requires it the bid to be out for at least 30 days. So, we're going to do it online with the online bidding service that uh St. Alena has as well as I'm going to put it on the federal website. So, both places it will be advertised. Uh there's an inquiry uh open and close. Remember, if we have an RFP, that's why we're doing it for any questions that come from the vendors that the the DIC team can uh answer their questions. And uh and then again, their deadline is going to be October 22nd. uh proposal requirements. It's telling the company, the executive, the technical proposal, the compliance with e-ate with there's a lot of rules. Uh pricing forms and then how many copies and PDFs that we want them to submit. Next page
010is going to be evaluation criteria. The - program specifies in one large rule that the pricing has to be the most heavily weigh. That's why you're going to see pricing is 30 points. and then approach technology management team and support office makes up the 100 100 points or or 100% of the scoring committee. You're probably going to have three people probably to be three people on a scoring committee once the RFPs all the proposals come in and then he his team and him are going to score them. Once they score them, then they come back with the quotes and and what they want to do and then again they will present you with allowing to go into contract with this company. So you will be bidding on this again once the RFP process is finalized.
011Uh technology highlights uh remember what I just told you earlier about where it's a category 2 bid. So, uh, Wi-Fi land, I mean, Ethernet switches, licenses, UPS's, uh, professional installation, and then also I didn't list in here wiring, and a few other categories that are allowed by the federal program and submission deadlines. Again, we we spoke about October 22nd by 2:00 p.m. at the schoolboard office. The contact is this nice man here. And again, they can submit via mail, hand delivery, or a central auction warehouse. That's where a company would be allowed to upload. That's part of the Louisiana procurement law that you allow each company to also do an online submission. So, in closing, what we're doing is we're building an RFP that is all unit based. So, all we're going to bid be
012bidding out is a unit of one of each product allowed under the program. The IT team is going to decide and then get approved from you. There's a five-year program that this works on. We're starting a new 5-year budget cycle for funding year 2026. So, this RFP and funding starts July 1st of 26 and lasts till 2031. What it goes by a budget is it's uh $21 per student. So, last you for 5 years. So roughly you're at about $218,000 that you will have available to you. And with the RFP that we we do and we have been doing for many years, we're doing unit pricing. So what it means is we're just going to go out to bid. Each of these companies will give us a price of one of each of the products
013eligible and then this team here can decide if they want to buy $50,000 in year one or they want to spend it all or you guys want to split it within 5 years. It's totally your choice as an IT and board how you distribute these funds over the five years. So your total is about 218,000 and in that the the -ate program is going to is going to fund 85 basically 85% or 85 cents on the dollar. You guys match 15 uh cents on the dollar or 15%. So definitely a huge one. The other part of the rate while I'm here I tell you about the internet and wide area network. So every year, and we're already in contract, uh you get a couple hundred,000 a year from the federal government that pays for the
014internet and data circuits between the schools. Okay? So it's just a process that has been going on for uh the telecommunications act was passed in 1996. So since about 1998, St. Helena Parish has been participating in the program. It's not a new thing. It's just something that fortunately keeps continuing and you guys can receive these federal funds to deliver it deliver reliable internet services to the students or should I say to the devices that you have within the schools. Any questions [Music] okay with you? This my boss. Uh I thank you for your business. We do. We appreciate it. And uh thank you. Any and again, Mr. Superintendent, anytime you have a question, please feel free to ask. >> Thank you very much. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Next item is >> Well, no. So,
015at this time, I'm asking that the board that the committee uh recommends the that you approve or receive approval of the - RFP. >> That's a move. I second. >> It has been moved and second. Can take a vote? >> Yes. >> Chainy. >> Yes. >> Quarter. >> Yes. >> Motion carry item. Next item is to receive and consider for approval updates to salary schedule to include the infinated compensation stipen plan. >> Yes. I'm going to ask that we table this uh item until next month. Committee. I move that we take the item. I second it. >> Has been moved and second item table to next board meeting. And this concludes the budget and finance committee. The the education committee will come to order. Roll call. >> Order. Present >> present. >> Here [Music] >>
016first item is to receive Okay. Receive and consider for [Music] >> I'm sorry. Miss Joyce uh portal was sent in for Miss Virginia Bale. So receive and consider for approval professional support service proposal for for professional development. Yes. um committee, you have in front of you um three proposals from three different organizations that um we look into to provide us with um various services that will help increase our academic performance in our schools. As I said stated earlier, there are two things that we want to do this school year. We want to increase parental involvement. We want to increase test scores. And so we have been doing a lot and lots and lots of work to move our dish forward. And while we have seen incremental um growth from year to year, we don't see
017that huge growth that we want to uh see. And so with that, um, we were looking at different services, uh, service providers that can help come in and provide the supports that we need for our teachers and for our learners, um, during the school date. So, I'll read it. It's it's listed. Incremental gains between 2023 and 2025 have occurred in our school district, but we still face notable gaps relative to statewide mastery rates. As you know, um, basic and above has been out for a long time. now is mastery and advance. Our learners must achieve mastery and advance on these state assessments in order to be considered proficient. And so we have a huge gap that we need to fill to get our learners to the point of mastery in advance. So um sustaining and
018accelerating growth will require targeted interventions in the lowest performing grades and subjects so we can address those achievement gaps. So we have uh academic professional support services that I would like to have come into the district to provide those supports for us. So the objectives of these professional support services would include the first bullet on teach educators how to effectively implement the identified instructional strategies that's needed to improve academic performance. uh they would provide um co-teer lessons with educators to model the application of these strategies in real classroom settings. Also fundamental training for administrators and teachers provide professional services for our e learners and then also um have small groupoup interventions. So the recommendation um from the administration is at the arts and technology academy we have four service providers for English language arts, math,
019science and social studies and that would be one person per subject. And then at our college and career academy we prov we provide three service providers for English one and two algebra and geometry and then one for our junior high um learners. I would like to do a phased approach with this where in phase one we provide services during the month of October which is 16 days and this is after um the benchmark assessment one has been um administered. We would receive that data and then make determinations about who would receive the small groupoup interventions and which teachers would be receiving the one-on-one coaching. [Music] Once we receive um the data back from how well phase one, you know, was handled, then I would come back before the board and look at phase two of
020providing additional services um in those same areas. The issue that we have, well, there's no issue. There are three companies that provide this type of service. I have the Kirkland group, Kids First, and the Bailey Group. The cost per person per day for this service, as you can see on the sheet, for the Kirkland group is $1,425. For Kids First, it's $1,475. And for the Bailey group is $1,500. And for the 16 total days, you see the total co cost that would be associated with bringing these providers in. The Kirkland group total cost would be $159,600. Kids first is 165200 and the Bailey group is $168,000. All of this would come from title one grant. So the general fund would not be impacted by this at all and this is a nonreoccurring expense. So this
021is a one-time expense that we would uh provide for our learners. So with that you see the the the three companies that provide the services. I'm asking that the board that the committee recommends the Kirkland group because it is the lowest of the three at $159,600. So that would be 16 days for seven um service providers that will come in and provide the listed services that I shared with you all um at the arts and technology and also the college and career questions. I'll just make a comment. We know that we've done everything that we possibly can. Uh we're constantly doing things and I think that by providing this extra layer of support will be phenomenal for us. So I'll make that motion. >> I'll second >> for the uh Kirkland group. A motion has
022been made and second. Can I get a vote? >> Yes. I also would like to make a point uh committee that uh in the handout that you have in that first sheet, I wanted to make it clear about our public bid laws and that since this is a professional service, you do not have to bring it out for RFP. So, I just wanted to be clear with that. If you look on the second page, it clearly lists that um in the question are the professional services start by local political subdivisions and other local entities subject to the public bid law because it is a professional service. The answer to that question is no and you have the explanation listed there for your information. [Music] Next item is to receive and consider for approval agreement with
023instructor instructor to provide transcript and diploma request services. >> Yes, committee. I'm asking that we table this until next month. >> I move we table that item. I second. >> There's a motion and second to table item um this item to the next board meeting. So, this will conclude the education and committee uh meeting. >> All right, we're going to move right along to our regular board meeting. Um Mr. fears the kingdom. Let me make a prayer, please. >> Let us bow our heads. Most gracious and Father God, we thank you for life, health, and strength. De Lord, we're thankful that we can assemble together to have a meeting of like minds to do what's best for this district right now. We ask that you bless every plan and every task that you've anointed our
024hands to do in Jesus name. Amen. >> Amen. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The meeting room will come to order. We are now holding a meeting of the St. L school board. Roll call. Present >> present. >> Mr. Cheney >> present. >> Mr. North >> present. >> Mr. J >> present. >> Mr. Apple >> absent. Item B approve minutes and agenda from August 14 committee meeting August 14 regular board meeting and August 29th special board meeting and the current agenda. Can I get a motion that we approve those collectively? >> Ask. I >> motion by Miss George Porter, second by Mr. George Hughes. Any questions? No question. Um, let
025me go back and redo this motion. Can I approve August 14th committee meeting, August 14th regular board meeting, and August 29th special board meeting? Can I get a motion to approve those three collectively? >> I so move. >> Motion by Miss George Porter, second by Mr. George Hughes. Any questions? No question shall pass by general consent. Now, can I get a motion to approve the current agenda with an addendum? >> I move >> relating to insurance by Mr. Josh McGee. and we will add that um as item number two for the new business. Making that item number two, insurance. Can I get a motion to add that to the agenda? >> I move that we add that item to new business section two. >> Motion by Miss Virginia Bale. >> Second by Miss Lolita Porter.
026Any questions? No question. Shall pass by general consent. Now, can I get a motion to approve the current agenda with the agenda? Also move. >> Motion by Miss George Porter. Second. >> Second by Mr. George Hughes. Any questions? No question. Should pass by general consent. Item C. New business. Presentation from Southeast Community Health System Youth Mobile Crisis Program. [Music] Hello. [Music] Thank you. I'm new to this show. All right. Good evening everyone. Um, I want to take the time out to thank you guys for allowing us to come out to speak with you guys on a very important matter. Um, we'll be discussing youth and their mental health. Um, today we know that uh across our communities we've been seeing a lot of challenges with youth and their mental health. everything from um depression, anxiety,
027um trying to handle stress to more severe issues like depression, suicidal ideiation, different traumas. We are here to present a resource to you guys to let you know that we are open, available, and willing and ready to help in whatever way or capacity that we can. Whether it's individually going out, meeting the clients at at their home or meeting them at the school for school crisis, whatever the situation may be, we are um a youth mobile crisis program. We offer 24-hour, 7-day a week crisis intervention counseling and crisis stabilization to individuals ages 20 and younger who may be experiencing a mental health crisis out in the community. Um, it doesn't matter where they are in the community, how big or small we may think the crisis is. If the child is experiencing a crisis, and
028we're having difficulties trying to help them self-regulate their emotions, you know, it's no problem. Give us a call. We'll come out. We'll speak with you, the child. Um along is me myself. I'm Kiera Jones the behavior health therapist and Rashanetta Smith my family peer support specialist. Uh she's also traveling out with me. Um we've been covering all of region 9 Washington parish um St. Helina um Tangaho uh help me out. >> Livingston St. Tammy. So, we cover all of those areas with our region 9 department. Um, I have some information that we are leaving with you guys today with our number. The service is free of charge to families. Uh, we're grant funded, so they don't have to worry about receiving a bill. Um, [Music] any questions? So, it doesn't matter uh if the kid
029has consent on file or not. Well, we to get this service, >> we contact the family and we get the consent from them. Well, if it's verbal over the phone and they say, you know, maybe they're at work, they can't leave work to get to the house to address the situation. >> They give us the approval to go out, we go out, we can stay there until they get there >> and they can sign the consent forms then. But as long as we have verbal consent from them, we can initiate treatment. >> And that is that just for the home or is that for school as well? anywhere, any location. >> So, we do have to get parental approval before we call them out to come to the school. >> Right. And we do have
030uh consent forms also that we can send to the schools um giving Southeast the permission to come out with the youth mobile and provide services. Okay. So, if the kid already has consent on file with Southeast, do we still have to call the parent? >> We still notify them. >> We still have to call the parent. Yes, ma'am. >> Prior to services? >> Yes, ma'am. Gotcha. Unless it's a life or death situation. If we feel like it's a situation where we can't wait on parent involvement, this kid is, you know, on the verge of doing something serious >> and we need intervention now, we can come out right then and someone to be working on getting that consent while we're meeting with the child. Well, I'm glad that this is finally off the ground because
031we have been waiting for a while to, you know, receive these services. So, this is awesome. Thank you so very much. >> No problem. No problem. >> Thank y'all for >> Don't you have an event coming up at the Fifth Law Center next month? Uh, a mental health uh event, mental health day. Are you familiar with that? >> The mental health day? >> Yeah, coming up next month. >> No, ma'am. >> Okay. But if you have some information on it, you can let us know and we'll definitely come set up a table if we need to. Um, >> yeah, that's what they were asking for people who wanted to set up tables at that event. >> Sure. Sure. Most definitely. We've done uh several events all over all the way. Uh, we also have a
032team in Baton Rouge um for region 2. So, we've helped out with some of the events over there. They've come help out with some of the events over here. >> Okay. Is this you right here? this card, >> Kier. >> Okay. Well, I'll I'll email you the information. I'll for >> Thank you so much. I greatly appreciate it. >> Can we schedule a meeting with you and the principal so that we can set up like procedures on how to handle this when we call these days? [Music] >> All right. I would just like to say thanks uh to Southeast Community Health System for always being in our beck and call in the anything we can do to help. >> All right. Thank you. Thank you. >> Item number two, insurance. Mr. Josh McGee. [Music] 15.
033Okay. [Music] Okay, we're going to start with the packet first. Good evening everybody. Um, tonight we're going to discuss, this is going to be pretty brief from what we normally do. Tonight we're asking Larma, we're accepting an extension from Larma to extend our policy from the current term to December 1st. We'll go over that in our November meeting. So, we're going to have to have a new expiration date, an effective date December 1st. The terms and conditions are not changing. They're just extending our policy period for ARA and and they're prorating our premium for the next two months. And I have that in the balance here. The only thing that we have to renew for October one is the cyber liability. That's on page six. That's still the travelers. None of the terms and conditions
034changed. We have our annual premium and that went up I think maybe $100 from it. We have no crime coverage. Page eight is our breakdown. I have the prrated premium right there on the page. Total alarm prorated premium for the next two months. Then I have the traveler cyber liability for your total your total premium for the next year. And then below that I have the physical damage coverage that we secured in September for the police buses. But I just wanted to remind you that that's where some of those coverages are coming from. We we'll we'll go over that in detail session. This next page here work [Music] I'm proud to talk about this one to a 1.21 and that's the one the factor of our premium up. You are now officially the lowest experience
035mod I have ever seen on the workers compensation policy at a 75. So you're getting a 25% discount because of your experience right now. And you've worked on this for years. You've hovered at that little 1.0 >> and now it's dropped. It's saved you $30,000 this year. >> Oh, that's great. >> So as you can see, I did a comparison from 04 to05 and 25 to 26. our estimated payroll is up so much and I put the payroll variance there because of the audit. When this audit comes through for this year, it may adjust a little bit there too, but for dollar for dollar, we're actually cheaper with almost $800,000 with an additional estimated payroll. The audit will will balance that out in in a couple of months. So to your your right corner, you're
036looking at $86,754 for the year compared to the 87,000 you paid last year. And you have zero open climbing, >> which is even better. >> Absolutely. >> Any questions on any question? >> All right. Thank you. >> Item B, superintendent's report. Oh, can I get a motion to approve the in motion by Miss George Porter, second by Miss Hughes. Any questions? No questions should pass by general consent. Item D, superintendent's report. Good evening uh board members. Good evening community. Uh we are here traveling around to try to get more of our community involvement. As stated um previously, there are two things we want to do this year. We want to increase brewing involvement, our community involvement, and we also want to increase our test scores. So, I'm going to always say those things at every
037meeting that we have because it is important that we get more people involved in helping and supporting our learners in this school system. It is critical. With that, I want to introduce to you all Miss Cassidy CHO. She is a member of our superintendent advisory council. And as such, she has a seat at the table at the board meetings. So, we will have a representative from the superintendent's advisory council who will be here to serve in this capacity. She will also learn, they will learn how governance works in the school system. then she'll also be a part of the governance process. So we do have as a committee um a learners committee where if there are any issues that the superintendent's advisory council members would like to bring before the board they do have that
038mechanism in which to do it through their committee and then through the full board. So, I will yield and let Miss Cassidy introduce herself, say a few words, and then board members or anybody in the community would like to, you know, share some things with her, please feel free to do so. >> Hello everyone. Um, hello, I'm Cassie. Um, I'm a senior also and I'm very happy to be here and just get to experience um Um, I don't have a lot to say, but but again, I'm happy to be here and thank you for allowing me here. Absolutely. Let's give her a round of applause. [Music] So, we're very excited to have her uh represent the superintendent's advisory council who represents uh and they are the voice for all of the learners across the district.
039So we will meet once a month and uh listen to their concerns, their suggestions, their ideas about how we can make learning, how we can make, you know, school exciting, fun, and more meaningful for them. And so we've already started with a survey that we put out to all of the kids at the school. And so what they're doing right now is analyzing all of that data. So when we do have our meeting next month, we'll be able to talk about it and come up with some solutions, some ideas around that data that we receive. So I'm very excited about that because their voice is very important, very important part of the work that we do. So welcome classic. Uh next month we may have a different person. It all depends on how the council
040decides how they want to um you know be represented at the board meetings. I'm excited. All right. Next, I want to talk about STEM NOLA. I'm going to ask Dr. John Paul to please come up. Yeah. Be ready at all times. Miss uh we had our STEM Nola event today. It was virtual and it was phenomenal. We had across the district. All of our kids participated in it. I'm going to let Dr. John Paul um share uh the news about that because he did spearhead this whole week. >> Hey board members. Um we last year I think year before we had some sor fund and we wanted to utilize the fund towards increasing the um the science experiments in the classroom and uh this we decided to choose simola um to bring their program to
041our district and um in the spring in the fall of last year we had the event called super Saturday uh we had it on Saturday so the families can come and um you know get the their kids involved in their science experiments. Um we were supposed to have this virtual experiment you know virtual STEM event last spring uh but we wanted to push it to the next year so all the learners can have the experience inside the classroom. So this virtual um experience uh provided the opportunity for the learners to experience the lung how the lung lung works in through four different activities uh starting from the mechanical lung um activity all the way to how the um the the capacity of the lung works. So they could visualize and be experience through the balloon
042activities and everything. So um this this program will continue for the next year as well. We will have one more super Saturday and then one more virtual event and it is a huge uh feat like Dr. Joseph was mentioning uh in in the text message. Uh we because we had it from K through 12 the entire district was involved and every single learner including the kindergarten learners even the pre-k learners will will have the maker space activity. So um this this program is really uh opening the eyes of the learners to see the real life application of science in their life and uh we are excited to continue this program even in the future. Thank you all. So it was a 2-hour program. It started at 9:00 and it ended around 11:00. And like Dr.
043John Paul said every single kid K through 12 was a part of uh this activity. So that means we had to have all of our technology up and running. And so they did do that. We had minor, you know, of course, you know, with technology or minor um issues that needed to be resolved. Those uh issues were resolved and every kid had the experience of that virtual um that virtual activity. Would you like to share your thoughts about that, Cassidy? What did you think? Um, personally I love the experience and getting to do the activities and make the lung and see how it worked and, you know, seeing the presentation of, you know, they had, you know, the sheep's lung, you know, cuz it resembled the human's body and all of the, you know, parts.
044That was really fun, you know, being in the classroom and then just the kids in general. Everybody was working together and actually doing it. So, it was very nice and I'm looking forward to doing it again. >> Yeah. Great. >> Yeah. I was concerned about the high school kids because, you know, they cool and all and whatever, but they were all actively engaged, too. And I was able to go in, you know, each one of the sessions to see, you know, how engaged the kids were, and they were all engaged. So, it was really exciting. So, I look forward to uh having to do this again um with our learners. The next thing I wanted to share with you all is our intern match day. I'm ask Miss Singleton to come up and give um
045an explanation about what that was. And then we'll also have some more comments from Cassidy because she was a part of that as well. Miss Singleton, good evening everyone. So, this was our this is our second year doing our work-based learning internship program. And uh this year, Miss Courtourtney, our work-based learning instructor, decided she wanted to go big and uh host a match day similar to uh match days that doctors and nurses have when they find out where they're going to do their residency. Uh and so it was held at the in the gym at the early learning center and all of our internship partners were present. Uh the learners were dressed to impress um courtesy of um a a shopping adventure uh with the district. Um and it was a phenomenal event. the uh
046the partners got up and spoke about uh what the learners would be doing at their internship and then they got their envelopes and got to pull out and reveal who their interns would be. The learners had no idea where they would be placed. So, it was a surprise to everyone involved and it was just amazing. We have 15 interns this year. Uh and they are placed throughout the uh St. Helina parish. Um we have I want to say 10 partners. So it was it was amazing and the learners really enjoyed it. And the class of 2027 is already trying to plan theirs. Thanks. >> Cassie, would you like to share your experiences with the program? >> Yeah. >> Um, uh, during the internship program, it's been very fun, you know, learning about professionalism and how
047to behave in the workplace and different things like that. And the shopping experience that they took us on, that was a big surprise. And it was really fun to just you know get the feel to dress and get dressed up and different things like and the match day was like she said a big surprise. Everyone was very happy with where they were placed and I'm just excited because it's just a great experience and I'm just very excited. Thank you. Um and so in closing, board members and community, I want to say once again, um two things we want to do this year. That is increase the community support, parental involvement, and increase test scores. And that is going to take all of us together to make that happen. And so with that, that concludes my
048report. Item E, approve committee reports from September the 11th, 2025. I >> motion by Miss Joyce Porter, second by Mr. George Hughes. Any questions? No questions should pass by general consent. Item F, executive committee to discuss the matter of Laticia Bloomfield versus Sling Fair School Board. Docket number C 25878. Can I get a motion that we go into the sixth position? >> Motion by Mr. George Hugh. I second. >> Second by Miss George Porter. Any questions? No questions. She passed by general consent. We shall return. [Music] Hey. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] What are [Music] you doing? Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Hallelujah. [Music] Hey. [Music] Down. B. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Something [Music]
049something. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Hey, hey. [Music] Hey. [Music] You don't [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Something. [Music] Hey [Music] laow. [Music] Hey, heat. Hey. Yes. Yes. [Music] Yes. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Thank you. [Music] Boom. Okay. [Music] Okay. Thank you. [Music] Thank you. Heat. Heat. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. [Music] Thank you. [Music] Can I get a motion that we return from executive session? Second. >> Absolutely. >> Motion by Miss George Porter. >> Second by Mr. George Hughes. Uh, in regards to the item under the executive session, no action was taken, just an update. Item G, meeting closing. The next meeting will be October the 9th, 2025, Darlington Church of God in Christ, 8880 Highway 10, Greensboro, Louisiana 70441. As always, we're live. We will be representing
050the second and the third district on that night at the Church of God in Christ. So, we're asking all all of our constituents in the second and third district to please come out and be with us as we are trying to involve the community and be of parental support. Closing comment. Board members, any comments? I would just like to thank my constituents who came out tonight to support first and six fifth street. And I have a little refresher for you all. Thank you so much. All right. Any other comments? No comments. What a hawk plan. Come on. East Feliciana. And I'm going just say, let me say this. I had some East Feliciana people call me this evening inviting me to come over. So we want to fly halt fly. We want to get that
051dub tomorrow night. >> All right. That last comment. This meeting is a joint. [Music]