001Good evening everyone. I am Teresa Smith and I call the June 4th, 2025 Parent and Community Advisory Council meeting to order. Miss Wilson, can you please take the role? Yes. Rebecca Brown. Shereice Holden, Reverend Dr. Evelyn Huggin, Carleta Lundy, Mashra Deran, present. Latansza Wilson, present. Halen Lavo Coreas. Christopher Smith, present. Akimbra Lawrence, present. Teresa Smith, present. Dolores Milhouse, present. Yosida Hinton present. Shade Davis. Dr. Sheila Jackson. Robin Welsh. Present. Chairwoman Smith. We have enough for quum. Excellent. Excellent. Thank you. So guys, it is graduation season and a transition to summertime. I hope that everyone is enjoying the nice weather, but even more so that our scholars are transitioning to their next phase, whether it be college, the workforce, high school, middle school, or perhaps first grade. This is a great time of the year to
002celebrate achievements and share successes with your loved ones and then creating that sense of community and pride. So I welcome everybody this evening to our meeting. Our first agenda item is adoption of the June 4th meeting agenda. I hope you all had an opportunity to review it. Are there any objections with with adopting the June 4th, 2025 meeting agenda? Hearing none, the June 4th, 2025 PCA meeting agenda is adopted. Item 1.5, approval of the May 7th and April 2nd, 2025 meeting minutes. The May 7th and April 2nd, 2025 meeting minutes were posted to board docs. Are there any corrections to the minutes as posted? If there are no corrections, the minutes are approved. The next order of business is report of the chair. So, there was a request for PCA to attend an executive session
003with the board of education this month, but due to not being able to discuss this with PAC, I informed the board of education of this as well as the expectation of item 9 in board policy 1500. And I'll just like to take a moment to read it here. The full board and the superintendent will consult regularly, but not less than quarterly with the parent community advisory council and may meet more frequently by mutual agreement. Prior to the first board meeting of the school year, the board and the superintendent will meet with PCAC to receive input regarding the development of the annual performance goals of the board and PGC and PGCPS. With this said, I would like to ask PAC if you are opposed to me proposing that we meet with the board of education starting
004next school year in October, February, April, and May. Are there any questions or concerns? I have a question. Sure. Yes. First date of October. Um is it possible to do that a little bit sooner earlier? Um or is there any reason why it needs to stay October? So none of these these u months are etched in stone. Um these are just some that I thought about. So I I welcome whatever you guys would like to move forward with. But we've been spinning our wheels with trying to get these meetings on the calendar. So, at this point, I just want to be able to give them some months and then they can try to pencil in a date and and you know, we see if it all fits with everybody's schedule. So, if October, if you
005think October is too late, you know, I welcome the input of everyone else. Miss Milhouse. Yes. I would just um our first meeting is not until September. So um we don't meet again until September of the new school year. Um so that will at le um but I also want us to take into consideration that we do have I want to say four four new members coming on um next school year. So, we we do want to have um an opportunity to have their voices to be a part of the conversation. Um but I don't believe that that does not allow us to have an October meeting. We're just proposing it. Um it does say prior to the beginning of the school year. Um and and so it would be um welcoming to me like
006if we could get in to a meeting with the board um during their summer retreat or something like that. But um I just want us to make sure we take into consideration that the new members do not start until July 1. Um we can't meet without us having under the open meeting act. So, we would have to kind of, you know, if we can't get a retreat approved, we would have to meet in small groups. Um, but I just want to make sure that we are making sure that the voices that are here are being um heard as well as the incoming members voices are being a part of the conversation. Fair enough. Any any additional thoughts? Miss Wilson Wilson, I was going to say I just wanted to echo the uh or and stress
007that if there is supposed to be a meeting prior to the beginning of the school year, I mean the four meetings are good, but it sounds like there needs to be an additional additional meeting prior to the beginning of the school year. Thank you, Mr. Smith. Just adding on chair. So even if let's say the full body can meet it maybe it's a good proposition if you guys as the chairs be able to meet too even prior to the school year at least to be getting the engagement of it. Um and I love your idea about um what I call it preemptively getting on the schedule like early like at least gives them something to react to right so either those dates don't work or time frame it at least puts the ball in their
008court to respond to it. Absolutely. Thank you. So, Miss Lawrence, in light of that discussion, would you be okay if we stick to October? Yes. Okay. Okay. Great. The context. Awesome. All right. Great. Thank you for that. All right. So, then the next agenda item that I have here, and Miss Mailhouse kind of segue us into this. Um I had mentioned I think a few few meetings behind that some of our terms were ending. Um we were informed that more than 116 applications were received to backfill the positions unless somebody was selected to stay on. Um so I just want to alert you all who the selectees were for district one, Miss Briana Holmes. District 2. And I do apologize in advance if I mispronounce someone's name. Miss Garcia Hera. Not not that well with
009with foreign language. District three, Kamika Harris. District six, myself, Teresa Smith. District nine, Miss Candace Perkins. Then the nonprofit representative is Mr. James Williams with the Kevin Durant Center. And then the business representative is Trayvon Suki. He is a local entrepreneur and videographer. So I'm excited um for the next set of people who will be part of PCA. And eventually we're going to have our heart our heartfelt thanks to everybody who has served on Pak thus far. All right, that concludes the report of the chair. Is there are there any questions or any feedback for the items that I reported on? All right, hearing none. No, Vice um Chair Smith, I I just want to add um um it it has not been in the practice to um have a lot of fanfare for our
010outgoing members. Um and so I am um wanting to hopefully that you can take some time doing your report to just give a a few raha words for the um the the work that has been done um tirelessly. um and the volunteer hours that have been put in for the members who have committed the time for the past two years and a special um um we miss the teacher appreciation for our um Miss Rebecca Brown um last month and recognizing that. So, if we can just take a moment and just say kudos and just and I don't know if you had that on the agenda for later. I actually did in the closing remarks section. Um, are you okay if we if we wait till later? I am. I'm sorry. Sorry. It's all good. But
011I love the fact that you are making sure that we do recognize the folks who have definitely served. I mean, we don't want it to go unnoticed. So, thank you. All right. So, the report of the superintendent, good lord. the report of the superintendent design. The chair recognizes Miss Welsh. Good evening. Um so I just have some uh information about where we are with policies. I will say that um the um board I guess they met on May May 8th or something and they had nothing they did not address any policies during that meeting except for the curriculum policy which they did uh put out for public comment but the other policies they did provide a updated report of how many policies have been addressed uh for this school year and currently 13 have been
012enact enacted this year. This was as of April 24th and then 15 were rescended and 17 are currently under review and seven more are awaiting review. They also provided information in the number of bills that were reviewed this past year of which 188 bills we were tracking and were reviewed and we supported 28 of those bills. uh and we supported eight 10 of them with a amendments and then opposed 42 of the bills and we did have the remaining ones we did not have any um um position on. So as far as where we are with bill with uh policies currently um the um right now we um the the committee uh this upcoming meeting which is June 17th will be um discussing student teleaalth appointments and community schools that both those policies for making
013a decision to um send it out for public comment. So, I do want to point out that back in the early part of the year, we did change the policy that had been originally 9340, which was about policy development and now has 8,000 number. But in it, instead of the committee voting to send it to the board so that the board can vote to send it out for public comment, the change in that policy now allows for the committee to vote on sending it out for public comment and then it goes directly out to public comment at that point. And it sits out in public comment for two weeks and then with it will come back to the committee and then the committee will um you know review all the public comments and everything make
014any decisions relate to possible changes to the policy and then they will move it that's when they'll move it to the uh board for the first reader and then and then second reader. So at this point in time though, we have uh student telealth appointments in community schools that the board will that the committee will vote on on the 17th to make a determination to send it out for public comment. And then they are still in the discussion phase with uh a policy on business and also home and hospital uh teaching as well as um new policies that will uh that they haven't addressed previously this year that'll be addressed at the 17th meeting will be employee use of social media and personal electronic devices. So we do not have a policy on that. We
015do have an administrative procedure but we are going to be writing a policy on that. And then the other thing is the uh policy 0104 title 9 that is actually um being amended because of the fact that so originally it was going to be amended because the August 2024 regulations were coming out and we were going to have to amend it to reflect those regulations. However, there was a Supreme Court case, not Supreme Court, federal court case back, I want to say in January that basically ended up uh the results of this ended up um causing that the August 2024 uh regulations did not go in effect and it went back to the 2020 regulations. So, our policy right now sort of reflects what the what Title 9 had talked about and how the 2024
016regulations were going to be looking. we were sort of proactive but now we got to go back and make changes so that it actually is in line with the regulations that are in effect right now. So that will be the other thing that we will be looking at. Um the the committee the committee is also bringing back board member uh members vouchered reimbursement of expenses which we had discussion on it but then we had some specific questions about what expenses are allowable and um uh is it just reimburseable offense expenses that um are allowed or can the school system set up a fund to like for example there's a lot of requirements now in the law for board members to be trained in a lot of different areas which means they need to go to
017training sessions and conferences and stuff and the the a lotment that they received as a reimburseable doesn't always cover that expense. So, uh there so that we did um it was sent to the attorney general and we did get guidance on that that they absolutely can have expenditures beyond the the reimburseable amount which is $7,000 per board member so that they can uh take advantage of the opportunity to do trainings that they are actually required to do. So, um I think that um these that's where we are right now with the um with the policies. I will say a policy that it looks awful benign, but when you really get down to the business of it and it's coming back again for discussion at this meeting because I I u it was an old policy
018and I did a rewrite on it's policy 3000 business and um it really is a foundational policy which we're probably going to move over to the the um the 000000 series which has to do with commitments because it's foundational in the sense that the business of the school system whether it could be financial, operational, academic, whatever it might be there there should be strong foundation there in terms of really everything is should be in relation to what is best for kids and what is you know appropriate for kids. So I did take that policy and make some major changes to it and there was some definite discussion and board members are now uh giving some more feedback and so that will be at the will be coming back up for discussion on the um June
01917th meeting. So that that's where we are right now with policies. Um and we did not get a couple policies done this year which we will move over to next year's uh you know list of policies um because we just we got so tied up also in the legislative stuff that we just didn't have time to get through every single thing. So So anyway, any questions? Thank you, Miss Welsh. Are there any questions? Miss Wilson? Yes. any of the policies that you say that will pretty much um move over to next year, is there a way that uh that information would be able to be provided to um PCA so that they can start again preparing for next year to be able to you know advise things of that nature as it kind of comes
020along and they can kind of get ahead of it. What we could do is so on the June 17th meeting um that their policy policy on policies says that the superintendent's responsible for providing a list of policies that he feels should be worked on during the upcoming school year. And then um and then on top of that, the board members and my understanding is I want to I want to say the chair of the policy uh and governance committee was going to um basically survey the board members to see if there were any policies that they felt were important. And generally speaking, when they do decide they want to add a policy, it's based on their constituents coming to them saying they have concerns about a certain policy. So then all of that will be
021put together into a work plan and the committee I think I want to say it would vote on it uh definitely either June or the first August meeting. But I could definitely I'm pretty sure be able to share with you at least the draft of what it might look like for the upcoming year even if they don't vote on it right then and there. And then it would go it then goes to the board uh I think in the September meeting. But let me let me see because I wouldn't, you know, I don't have any problems with that. It could ch vary, but it might at least give you some sense of what of what is going to be addressed for the upcoming year. I I will share with you that I do know one
022of the policies that will be coming back up will probably be the cell phone policy. Whether or not we will make that much change in that, I don't know. I know the superintendent has um reached out to get information from a wide group of people and there's been a a group that has been working on uh putting uh the administrative procedure together for that um and you know and revising it. Uh but Maryland State Department of Education just came out with guidelines on what they think should be in a cell phone policy and so um that one I I know we will at least go and review that policy to see if there's we should be making any changes. Um so that that's one I know for a fact with that will be coming back
023up. But um I would be glad to share whatever you know once once the committee makes the initial if they vote on especially if they vote on it in June at the June meeting I can certainly share that with the PCA. I could send it Teresa to Teresa who could send it out or to me Maya who could send it out to all the members. Thank you. Any other questions? All right. Hearing none, Miss Welsh, thank you so much for your report this evening. Oh, not a problem. Thank you. Uh-huh. All right. Let me get back to the agenda. So, our next item is related to the bylaws committee. Miss Milhouse, can you provide us with an update or maybe the final outcome of the work that your subcommittee did for the bylaws? So, um
024I did not see the report um from last meeting on board docs that outline all the um the changes that were made in the the bylaw, the revised bylaw. Was that not Was the report in the last meeting? Yes. Yeah, it should have been there. Hold on one second cuz it would be easy for me to share it. Um, unless I can share the screen. If I can share my screen, you you should have. If you don't have the ability, I can. Do you see the um buttons towards the bottom? I have it. Okay, great. Can you see my Can you see it? Yeah. Yes, we can see. Okay. What do What do you all see? The PCA bylaws committee suggested revisions page one. Okay, that's because I have a new split screen, this new
025technology. Y'all just bear with me for a moment. I was looking for it. Um so I want to thank the committee for the work that we um we did um I would say you know in one or two sessions that we were able to get through everything one in-person session and then a virtual session. So this was sent out um hoping to get feedback from everyone and this right here lists the changes that we made to each article. Um, so what I'm not going to do is I'm not going to read through each chain. So I am really hoping that everyone um did read through this, but I will um talk to really more so some of the high level um like the article 2 purpose. Um, we really just wanted to make sure that
026it was clear um on what we were here to do. Um, and not make it seem um that we were just here to advise the board um but you know as far as a superintendent as well. But so the language right here is standard advisory committee created to advise the board of education and to facilitate it activities and programs um in the public schools. Right? So I'm hoping that whatever feedback you all have um cuz I didn't get any suggestions on the form. So I'm hoping that everyone was able to read it. hearing hearing no questions. Okay, I'm going to take that as yes, you read it and you all thought we did a great job as well. Thank you very much. Um, we I do want to bring attention to um a couple of
027things that were um important to us that we wanted to make sure that was a part of this. Um, and before I do that, I do want to add we would need to vote on this before we can move this forward to the board for them to um approve this. So, we would um accept the changes, move it forward before it can move forward um to adoption. Okay. And so one of the things that we wanted to talk about here um I'm going to say this is article um this is kind of out of order um cuz this says article 4 here officers um but article nine where the PAC members authorized for recommendations to the board. One of the things that we talked about is when we are meeting with um the various groups
028that we are meeting in an advisory capacity and we are not in a position to afterwards go out and um market or broadcast the information from that meeting. That is not for us to do as a role as advisory committee. it is still up to PGCPS to communicate um any final reports or um any data that they may be presenting to us because they still have the opportunity that they may need to present to the board. So this is just clear that um we want to make sure that people understand that we are not to disclose, distribute or discuss any confidential or sensitive information outside of advisory meetings without proper authorization. And that pro proper authorization would look like when we met and talked about the climate survey. Not until the climate survey was presented
029to the board. Then um a copy of everything was sent to PCA to say, "Hey, you know, would you mind sharing with your districts?" And so we want to be clear on making sure that people are not stepping um in the role of communications because PGCPS has an entirely very effective communication department and we are not in any position trying to do anyone else's job or responsibility just advise and make sure the community's voice and the parent voice is part of the conversation. Um I also want to bring um attention to um article 7 where it states that all members shall remain on camera for the duration of the meetings. When a member needs to be off camera um he or she should alert the chair or vice chair or whomever is um presiding during
030the meeting. Um what we suggested as a revision all members should remain on camera for the duration of the meetings. when a member needs to be off camera, they should alert the chair or vice chair. Um, whoever is presiding on the meeting and we corrected the grammatical error in this, but I wanted to bring that to the attention because I know um that this is something that we had not adhered to um and we had to bring it to a lot of people's attention when we're doing um any voting. You have to be on camera with the voting. So, we wanted to highlight that and then make sure that any grammatical errors were um updated. So, there there weren't too many changes that we um made to it, just some revisions. Um we talked about
031um the vice chair article six about the election because there was some discussion. Should we um does the vice chair automatically move into the role of the chair? And no, we we still have an election. Um if the vacancy happens, then we would have an election, a special election at the next meeting. Um and so it's not too much more. I mean, I'm not going to read each change, but um and I mean, we can kind of vote on whether we want to move forward. Do people want more time? Do we wait until the new board members, I mean, committee members come on? Um because at this time, it's no, it's no rush. The school year is about to end and um it probably won't make it to the agenda for the board until next
032school year anyway. Hey, Miss Milhouse. It's Teresa. I have a question. I'm not sure if it's for you or if it's for Miss Welsh. Um, there tends to be inconsistency where we outline um the terms for vice chair, uh, recording secretary and chair. So, my question is, is it appropriate for that information to be in a bylaw or in a policy document? Okay. So, can you can you share a little bit more like where where's the incon is it is it in the policy that you're seeing the inconsistency? Well, it's it's not identified in the policy. We have it as we have it here in a bylaw, but in I've seen it listed in other policies for the district. So, I just don't know. When I say inconsistency, um, I'm not speaking specifically for PEAC.
033So, I'm just wondering from an operational standpoint, where does that information typically be placed? Is it a policy document or is it the bylaw that supports that particular um function? Miss Welsh, you you are on mute. Are you talking about the terms of office? Yes. It's really So if if you read through our policies, some policies are more generic and don't have as much information in and then they can now for many of them they're administrative procedures, but has somewhat of a similar effect as a bylaw. And so then the administrative procedure it comes in and picks up and provides the detail of how it's going to operate and then some some policies actually are a little bit more prescriptive and so then that might lay it out very specifically and part of so ideally
034policies are supposed to be pretty global um and where the the board is providing the big picture of what they want to see and then the details would be worked out like in the bylaws or in the um administrative procedure. But it also is dependent on who is on your committee too. So you know the board members change and so and it is their policies and although I do remind them repeatedly that you know any like real details really need to be left for the administrative procedure but depending on who is on the committee that could happen. So I don't I'd have to go back and look at um the policy just to see if we even have language in there about that. But if it isn't in the policy, then of course the bylaws
035can absolutely pick that up. Okay. Thank you. Are there any other questions or concerns for the great work that Miss Milhouse and her team has done? And so the team would consist of if Miss Akimbra Lawrence and um Miss Carleta Lundy. Thank you. All right. Hearing none. So, what I'm hearing, Miss Milhouse, is that we can decide to vote on these changes right now or we can choose to wait until the new um PCA group is on board and vote. Then because of the my review of the information, I feel that we can we could do this vote now. I don't think it's it's not like a lot of substantial changes that would impact how we operate. And for that reason, I believe that the vote could be taken today. But I welcome how you
036all would like to uh move forward. Yeah. I don't think it hurts to take the vote today. Um, and you know, and the new the new folks, you know, will have the the bylaws as they are with the work that was, you know, put into making sure they're updated. Um, I think, you know, it's it's okay. My vote would be to go ahead and vote today. Okay. I concur as well. Okay. So, in hearing that, would someone like to put a motion on the floor? Can I can I just add one comment? Sure. What was missing was the frequency of the report. That was not in our update. We didn't have um Let me let me pull a policy up real quick. Is it mentioned in the policy? Sometimes I see it there. It's not
037okay. It's not. And so, um, I I would like to just suggest adding it to something that it states that it is at least at a minimum an annual report. And and I say that because if we say a monthly or a quarterly report um you know yeah that that that that creates I thought I was on mute. I'm sorry. Well I I was able to your lips as well so sorry. Okay. Um but it it just becomes a little overwhelming to try to present um something on a quarterly basis. I mean, it was challenging enough to pull everything together just for the um it was a midyear report. Um and and so because I do want to be mindful with our volunteer role that we are parenting, we are working full-time jobs. We we
038are doing a lot of different things. um and to bring together a report um you know monthly and quarterly depending on what we want it to look like but um I think that we can do it but I think it's best to give us the room to be able to add more but not be responsible upfront for having to adhere to a guideline that we know uh we may not be able to adhere to. So my suggestion would be able to um just make a change where it talks about reporting um to an annual report that we will submit an annual report. Are there any objections with what Miss Milhouse is recommending that we will have an annual report from PCA to the board of education and a superintendent? All right. Hearing none, Miss Milhouse.
039So with that change, just put this. Would someone would like would someone like to put a motion on the floor? So, I would like I will um move to that we adopt the um draft bylaws um based on um the recommendation presented by the bylaws committee with adding the change to pro um where we will submit or be responsible for an annual report that will be submitted to the board annually. I have a quick question. I'm so sorry. Um, if you are presenting, Miss Wilson, I'm so cuz it's a motion on the floor. Give me one one second just to keep a point of clarification then. Just one second. I need to know. Do we have a second and then if we need to adjust, we can. Well, I have a point of clarification about
040the motion though. But we got to wait. Supposed to I thought that supersedes the motion because it's about the motion being made. Miss Welsh, Miss Welsh, can you if if I'm wrong, can you correct me? Do I need to get a second first and then we address any concerns about the motion? Uh, generally speaking, they usually have the discussion after the sec it's been seconded, but but in this instance, I don't know because of the fact that she's saying if she doesn't Well, you know what? I I think it should be in the discussion because then you can ask the question what specifically do you mean and then if we have to amend the motion we can amend the motion before we're voted on. Okay. Thank you. Is there a second? Second. Okay. So, it's
041been moved and properly seconded that we adopt the draft bylaws with adding a change for submitting an annual report to the board of education. Are there any questions? Miss Wilson question. Yes. Can a member of the uh committee that is presenting the proposal, are they able to put the motion on the floor? I just want to be clear. Yes, anybody can make the motion. I think I could even make the motion, but it's not somebody other than the chair would make the motion. I guess I'll say it like that. Okay. And that's that was the reason why cuz if it can't if it's not legal to do that some organizations that's not legal to be done. So I just wanted to clarify. Miss Welshes, am I correct that um Miss Milhouse had an unofficial role
042by leading this this um subcommittee that she could make the motion? He got make the motion. Okay. All right. Great. Robert Ruth. Okay. Thank you. Are there any objections with the change and us adopting the bylaws that have been presented? Not objection. All right. Hearing none, the adoption passes. The the motion passes. I'm saying no adoption. The motion passes. Thank you. All right. Miss Milhouse, do you have anything else related to the bylaws subcommittee update? No, I don't. And I I just want to um state that this it it is important that we do this and it was um you know it it was a lot of conversation and consideration and I would like to lend you know the floor to Miss Lawrence to pro you know provide any feedback that she wants to add
043in our robust discussions that we had. Yes, Miss Miss Lawrence, if you have anything. I know you were new this year and you you jumped right in and that's the type of leader that we need part of. I I say to Miss Milhouse all the time with her um her historical context is always helpful and her leadership in this um I don't know that I would have been felt comfortable jumping right in without um having that leadership. Um I don't know that I have anything to add. It was, you know, it was a lot of robust discussion um with the committee. Um I hope that we captured everything. Um and I hope that everyone did have a chance like Miss Milhouse said to to review it um and really like thoughtfully review it. I know
044we're all busy and we have a million, you know, I'm in here uh cooking and on the type of thing. So, we're all doing a million things. Um but you know I hope everyone did take you know really take a chance the time out and pause to really look at it and offer um the feedback. Um so that's all that I have. Thank you. Thank you. And I I just want to add to make sure everyone knows that article four um where it says officers and then item number two the chair will be responsible for submitting and then I had in here to identify the time frame quarterly annually written report. So that's where I will make the update. So it will state the chair shall be responsible for submitting um annual written reports to
045the board and um do know that those reports have to be presented to the council and upon approval we submit those to the board. So I will make that update for article 4 item number two. Awesome. Okay. Great. Thank you. All right. So the next the next item on our agenda is the PCA retreat. So let before this school year um PCA had had brought up the idea of having a retreat. Um we had discussion with the superintendent. Um we also brought it up to our board of education. But we are now at the end of the school year and still no retreat. But I will say I get the sense that everybody thinks it's a great idea. So I believe that this will be a space for reflection, strategic planning, and team building, especially
046in light of our new members. So I would like us to really intentionally move forward with this because we can't we can't do those things in our regular sessions. So, I know we have elections on the on the um agenda tonight. I don't know what my role will be come come our next term, but just as a member of PAC, I would like to see that we set clear goals and priorities. I would like us to strengthen our relationships and ensure that there's a sense of unity among us. Um, and that there's a shared purpose between the parents and the community cuz that's who we are here to represent. Um, again, this will be an opportunity to review and reflect. We have some successes, but we definitely have some challenges, too. So, we need to
047just have that that forum to be able to discuss things of the previous school year and what may be upcoming. Um the other thing is reviewing data. I know that data has been presented to us but we haven't really had an I opportunity to dive into the data ourselves and try to make some influ in in um inferences from the data um and how that could also influence how we advise the superintendent and the board of education. So I don't want a retreat to just be another meeting again. I want us to be intentional. Let this be our launch pad for impactful parent and community um advocacy. So I open the floor for discussions. I would like to know what you all thoughts are and see how we can get this move forward. I pause
048any any questions, concerns. Miss Lawrence, I know that um one of the things that would be helpful to have a retreat. you know, I understand I learned um you know, why we're not able to convene, but I think um like you said, it would build community, especially for new folks. Um I just think of, you know, it would have been very helpful to to have that connection and get to know um you know, everyone that's on Pac um and just learn from everyone. So, I definitely think it's important and I hope it is something that we can move forward. Um, so you know, I would love to see it happen this summer. Thank you. Others, Miss Mail House, I know you you okay with smiling on camera. I think everyone has know knows you know
049what I feel and over the past couple of years it is it has been something so important to me um in order for you to effectively meet and collaborate and partner that there has to be an opportunity for us to build community amongst each other. Um, and because we don't know each other, um, especially even when we come on, right, we just we get a list of names like, "Hey," and then we we meet each other on camera. And so I don't think that most people understand that we we don't know one another. And so we're building these relationships, you know, through these boxes. and when we're able to have a retreat to at least set the tone of, you know, what are we doing individually with our districts, but also how do we make
050sure that we're folding in the work of the community partners that are on the council who sometimes I feel like they're just they're just here and not really knowing why am I here? What what can I do to contribute? But to also understand that our um superintendent, you know, partners or members are not here also just to give us a bunch of reports, right, to read out everything. You know, they're our in-house resource and are able to really guide us. Um as well as understanding what the board support does for us and what that looks like. So um you know, I'm I'm all in, of course, right? I've already pulled up the last proposal and like, hey, we already have a proposal and and I'm hoping that we can do it a little longer. The
051last time we did it from 9:00 to 12:30. Um, and you know, if we can just squeeze a couple more hours in there, um, I I think it would definitely be beneficial because it is a large school system to kind of figure out how to navigate. Some people are coming from the schoolhouse level of support and then now moving up to what we are calling now the district level of support. And it is a a very big transition from just engaging with the PTO PTA level um to what you do from an advisory standpoint because there is very very different in our roles in what we do. Absolutely. Thank you Mr. Smith. just um co-signing u Mr. Kamera's point and um just to state that I do think as new members extremely helpful um as
052they come on board. So I think the retreat's a great idea and uh like want to give kudos again to uh vice chair Milhouse. I did not get settled into my role until she she did a deep dive with me over several uh sessions. So uh I think hope all new members get that same onboarding so to speak. uh tremill house. I think it need like an onboarding class for everyone that comes on board and give them the uh the introduction to Yep. Thank you for saying that, Mr. Smith. Others, Miss Walker, I hate to put you on the spot, but I would love to know what your thoughts are from a board member perspective. Miss Walker, if you're there and you're speaking, you're on mute. So, we'll we'll circle back. Um, Miss Duran, do
053you have any thoughts? Yeah. Um, unfortunately, I have been voted out and someone new has been voted in. I I've had a phenomenal time being on the board and getting to know all of the things that the um the board member, not the board, you know what I mean, the people who work for the uh for the district, the reports that they put out and being able to communicate with everyone. I actually met you in person and that was awesome. That's when I really felt like, oh, we're really starting to form a bond. Um so I still plan to join the meetings uh as a guest on the other side but I think that the uh the retreat idea is phenomenal. That's like I told my board member there's so much work that I wanted
054to do with PAC and in this role. I didn't do a tenth of the intention that I had coming on here and working with her and getting the district together and all the things. But um I've enjoyed my time here. I think that the retreat idea is phenomenal and I'm with um I really think that we all have to figure out how to work better together and of course knowing what other people are doing in their individual districts so that we can spread it and get I I know that we do phenomenal work in Prince George County and there's phenomenal things that are happening and just being able to get that word out and uh being able to affect change and speak more with the board of education. I I think everything is very splintered
055and the very first thing that PCAT can do is just have that joint meeting in person. That's the very first thing that you can do. It's the the lowest hanging fruit. So, I think that that's a phenomenal idea that you guys um have in trying to get that together. Awesome. Thank you. Thank you for that. Miss Brown, any thoughts? Sorry, I got caught up in another meeting. So, I'm actually driving home. I think it would be absolutely wonderful. I see you guys every month on a line in your boxes. Uh, so I think it's a phenomenal idea to get together and actually do some face tof face bonding um and share experiences. Um, I know we we do a lot on camera but or off camerara for me. Uh, but you know, being able to
056actually put, you know, really what we're trying to do here and make that actual commitment in person, it would be huge. Awesome to hear, Miss Welsh. I think I think it would be a great idea, too. When we had the one retreat, I thought it was very helpful. It helped really get to know all the different uh committee members which I thought was and and even like the strengths that each committee member brought because each all the members on this committee have their own areas of expertise and stuff which can really be helpful and also as we I can remember at the last um retreat we got talking about different things and there were definitely some areas that that the committee members felt were really things that down the road should be addressed and you
057know looking at data you know, and the research and providing guidance to the board and to the um superintendent and so I think I think it would be a great idea. Awesome. And then Miss Hinton, I am going Oh, Miss Hinton and Miss Wilson, I would like to hear from the two of you. And then Miss Walker, I knew she'll come back. And then Miss Barton. Oh, Miss Barton. Yes. So, Miss Hinton, you have any thoughts? This your first year, too. So, I know you and I have been able to to build a relationship, but yeah, share your thoughts. So, being grateful to be here with you guys and see that um we're trying to work together. I would like to see more improvement and I would like us to get together and see us.
058I think when we you guys got together, I was not part of the members. I don't think I was here and I don't think I I have seen some of you out there and I have talked to some of you here and that being great but I think like we should meet one day and hopefully we can like connect in different way not just here and it being an honor to be part of this group and I hope that we can do more together for the community. Yes. Yes. Yes. Thank you. District eight. District eight. Miss Wilson. Yes. First, uh my apologies. I needed to be three places at one time tonight. Um parent all all of the hats. Um but no, um I am one that will not be uh returning. I was able
059to do a first term. Um my son's school, we have some weird stuff going on with the school as well. And so I wouldn't even be back in district two for the full term. Um, but I do think that having a retreat would be absolutely fantastic because sometimes, you know, I would uh personally struggle with trying to fully wrap my head around how are we supposed to be able to advise when we don't necessarily have all the means to be able to advise at all times. And I think getting clear getting a clear understanding when you're coming into the board of you know the expectations of how to be able to put that advisement together as a group and have that advisement go to the board and also have um you know I I had
060the chance to attend a uh a meeting that you know in the past we've had a board member on and it was a bit jarring um and so I I I'm glad that um uh board member uh uh Walker I am glad to see when you have come it has been an absolute breath of fresh air. It's always positivity and how we can work together and things of that nature. So I personally appreciate that. Um and I think that essentially uh with Chairwoman uh Smith getting ahead of things. I love that. And so I definitely say go ahead try to get this um uh retreat together as best as possible. I don't know if you all kind of a as a pecat once you know we're we're gone if you all should have like committees
061in and of yourself or whatnot, but I do think that that would be helpful so that you're able to if something does come up last minute, you'll have different groups already in place to be able to jump on it and address it sooner rather than kind of being proactive or flatfooted because we receive something kind of late. But I thank you all. You all have absolutely positively been wonderful and thank you all so much for coming together to try to assist with the advisement for all of our students, our community at the end of the day for Prince George County Public School. Thank you, Miss Len. Miss Barton, I know you you play a background role, but you are you are essential to this group and then you will be essential to the retreat as
062well. So, do you have any thoughts? Um, absolutely. Yeah, I always think uh a retreat is always something good to have you know when you pull a back pull back from the regular routine of you know we do this all day every day and everything and then you can come together and to be face to face to greet each other learn a little more about each other I I think it's an excellent idea you should definitely move forward with it awesome thank you so welcome wrap it on up I know that you Thank you. I'm so sorry I didn't hear you earlier, but listen ladies and gents, I want to say thank you so much for the work that you've done for those of you who are transitioning. I don't take it for granted that
063you are volunteers and you're you applied and you're doing the work. So, thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Miss Wilson. Thank you for the kind words. I will echo everybody's sentiments that a retreat is so foundational. It's something that you need for all of y'all to be in a room to be able to discuss. Sometimes board meetings just simply don't do it. It doesn't give you the ability to discuss what you need outside of an agenda. And this allows you to go deeper. So I am a fan the your your chair and your vice chair know that I am a fan of retreats and I will do everything I can in order to support you in that endeavor. I think that when you all get together, then you can brainstorm and you can pull together
064a really cohesive plan and recommendations to come back to the board and the superintendent. So, I'm happy for you all to do that. I did hear Miss Hinton um say district 8. So, you know, I'm going to ride for district 9 and make sure I put that shout out right there. But, I want you all to know that I appreciate you all and I want to thank you for your service. for those of you all continuing forward. Um I do have a district nine new representative and we have a number of represent I feel like there's like five or six that's coming on board and listen we get better every year. I know there's hiccups, you guys, and there's jumps and there's frustrations. But I want you to know that every year we make something
065better. And then you know what happens when you make something better? Then it bubbles up the other issues. And so we going to tackle that and then it's going to bubble up other ones. And we might not be here at the at the pinnacle, but we're going to know that we were at the foundation to make this work. So I just want to say thank you so much. And um if you let me talk, I'll be talking forever. So I'll just stop right there. And um again, as you all talk at the retreat, you can also talk about what support looks like from the board liaison because I'm happy to make sure that um I I pull that together. All right. Thanks, guys. Thank you. M Miss Walker, before you leave, I do have a
066question for you. Um because there may be a cost associated with this. Can you just educate me on how that process looks? Do we send it to Mia? Oh, send it to Mia. Do is outline what you need. Yes. And then go ahead and send that to me and we'll figure it out. Okay. Okay. We know that we want to support this retreat. And so we'll figure out what the right next steps are and how I can be an advocate of that. But what will look like help is if you have kind of like a budget of what that'll look like. Um and we'll see what really needs to be not what really when I say that I mean what can be done inhouse. For instance, we have printing for instance. And let's see what
067you have budgeted. Let's look at the total price and then see where we can still give you what you need etc. So send it to Mia and Mia me and Mia gonna work it together and make sure you have what you need. Okay, sounds good. Thanks. Can I just share um you know the proposal that we used the last time? It was a it was a very clear um ask you know Dr. Jackson and her team came and helped kind of do some team building activities not to um you know increase any cost. We did the retreat actually at the board office in the back um as well and um the board office did support and Dr. Jackson's team did support with some printing. Um but what had to happen is we have to vote
068on the request for the retreat first. Um and you know come up with a date and time a proposed date and time and then we submit that um to the board office. um well actually to the liaison in the board office who will present it to the board who has to vote on it because there will be a cost to um what we asked for was um continental breakfast and lunch. Okay. So what I'm hearing is that I need a motion from the floor to proceed with um creating a proposal for the retreat. Yes. And I already the proposal. We already have a proposal. So So we're not we're not voting to create a proposal. So just to move forward with doing a retreat. Yes. Move forward with presenting a a proposal for the retreat.
069And so the proposal, we already have one, you know, the template that was approved and the format that they told us to put it in um um the last time. And then we just need to decide on um a date to present to the board when we would like to do it. Okay. Gotcha. So we may need two motions. So So would someone like to put a motion on the floor related to moving forward with presenting the proposal for a retreat? I move that we akimbra I move that we um present the proposal for the retreat to the board. I second. Okay. It has been properly moved and seconded that we present a retreat repo retreat proposal to our board of education. Are there any objections? hearing none. We will move forward with that. Um,
070now the next thing we need to determine, should we have this retreat before the school year starts? How did you guys do it last time, Miss Mailhouse? So, we did it during the school year. So, so we don't want to talk about how we did it last time, like when I was just trying to get a a roundabout idea, but of course we can do because we didn't we didn't, you know, because the timing of it, we ended up doing it like at the end of the school year. Um, and so this would probably have to be open dates because we don't have the new members on board to see if um and I don't know if the board office is open in the summertime. I don't know. You know, um, you say yes. Yes.
071Yes, we are. The board is on break, but I'm here for you guys. I I'll help. The board members have a six week break starting July 1, but the board office staff, we work 12 months a year. And and we'll say this, board member Walker, the um well, I don't even know, did we have a liaison before? Oh, yeah, we did have a liaison. We did. and the liaison did drop by um but um it wasn't like a requirement for the board liaison to be present at the meeting. Um but we definitely would love and welcome the president. My goal will be to be there. Absolutely. Um and so my suggestion would be to um submit the proposal with um an an open date for the summer, right? Like we're not going to stick to
072a date because we now need to reach out to the other the incoming council members. Um, and if I could make this suggestion, if it's okay, um, based on because the board will have to approve the budget because we don't have a budget, but I think it would be very beneficial for um, us to also maybe have some of the um, current members who are transitioning out if they would like to be in attendance to kind of help with some information sharing and transferring of knowledge. um and and just really be a part of sharing what you know what they experience but also helping us build for the future. I think that's a good idea. So I just want to make sure that I heard you correctly in lie of getting a uh a date
073tonight. we would submit the proposal with an open date and then we can have further discussion about a concrete date. Right? Once if once they approve the the the proposal then we just choose a date so that you know we don't have to have the proposal um we just know we're asking for a summer date. before a date prior to the beginning of the school year. And then after this meeting, then you know we need to discuss how we will then reach out to the um incoming um council members to get their input about their time. But we did have it on a Saturday um and it started at 9:30. We had continental breakfast. We um had lunch and some very good robust discussions and some pretty good activities that were led by Dr. Jackson
074and her team. Okay. Okay. So, based on the discussion guys, you are there any concerns with us moving forward in that regard? Hearing none. Great. Thank you all for the feedback for this agenda item. All right. So, our last agenda item is elections. There are three positions. Chair, vice chair, and recording secretary. I would like to know are there any nominations for any of these roles? Y'all know we got to operate. So, we got to get some people to step up. How about we start off with recording secretary? Nobody never wants to do that role. I would like to nominate Miss Lawrence for this position. I think it would be great. Sorry, I'm sighing. Um um I I can I not um I just I sometimes lose my I can record I can be recording
075secretary. I need to brush up on my Robert's rules um which I can do. Um and also I know that there's a good template that I can use for um for movement forward. I just sometimes lose myself and forget that I'm recording when I'm recording. So if you if I you know if if that's the case and you see me not recording I I might need just a little reminder. Right. Exactly. Excuse excuse my dog. But yes, I'm happy to um accept that role. Excellent. And and look, we we are team players here until you you know get up to speed. We will make sure that you know we're helping you out. Great. Great. Thank you. Absolutely. Well, I'll just add this two cent to this, Miss Lawrence. You you you don't have to notate
076everything that's said. You really just have to notate when we're voting on something who made the motion, right? Who first, second it, you know, that's you just can say that there was discussion and any actions, right? Exactly. Exactly. Okay. All right. Very high level. And you can use AI to help you. Amen. But but thank you for accepting the charge there. All right. Um vice chair, any nominations or self-nominations? We need to vote on Oh, we sure do. I guess I felt like this such a hard position to to to get somebody to do. Let's move it forward. Let me stay in order. Go ahead, Miss Miss Milhouse. What did you say? I was like, "That's why we got to her and vote her in." All right. All right. So, Miss Aimbra Lawrence has accepted
077um the nomination for recording secretary. Are there any objections? Hearing none. Mr. Keeber Lawrence is now our recording secretary for next if so for next school year. Most definitely. But if our bylaws pass, you might be in that role for two years. Okay. Right, Miss Miss Mail House. No, it's still one year. Oh, is it still one year? Okay. All right. I've been correct. We didn't change that. That's right. We didn't change that. We did have discussion about it, but we did not change. We did have discussion, but we did not change that. Gotcha. Okay. All right. So, the next position is vice chair. Are there any nominations? Can I ask for a point of clarification? So, Chair Smith and Chair Milhouse, y'all are still serving next year, correct? As as far as district members,
078representatives. Yes. Yes. Right. Okay. Why'd you ask that? Because do we do we need to do we need to change anything around? Right. Right. Exactly. I told you that one. Understood. Um, so that said, I think I would like to step down from chair and be vice chair. I have enjoyed my role as chair. But what happened um to me through advocacy um another group got stood up and if for most people who who know my involvement with special education that's the disability issues advisory board. Um and I am vice chair over there and I enjoy the work of both groups. Um, so I would like to step down as chair here and be vice chair to still support the work that's being done, continue some of the ideas um that came from my term
079here. Um, yeah. So, I'll I'll stop there unless y'all need a a a speech. So, is there anybody else who would like to nominate themselves as vice chair? Well, can I can I nominate Miss Milhouse? I nominate her as chair and then Miss Smith as vice chair. Well, well, wait a minute. We got to focus second. I think we Let's vote and move forward. Let's Let's focus on the chair, vice chair role. Um, and I will say this, I I I am open. Um, I do want to be um full transparency. I do have one year um left. Um I still have a lot of ideas and a lot of energy and um but I do want to support um Vice Chair Smith and the work that she's doing and I know she mentioned DIAD
080but she also um maybe not on the board with CCAC but her support and work with CCAC um which is really the voice for special education um for the parents in our school district um is is really creating a lot of movement because of her recent advocacy work as well. So, I do support um your transition so you can also have the time and attention to where your passion truly is. Um but your voice is still going to be with us because you have two years left. And um I want to make sure that we move forward in recognizing the work that you've done. And you're not saying you're going anywhere. You just you just just shifting roles. Just shifting a little bit. Yeah. For a second or two. Yes. So I guess you can't
081motion because you Yeah. I think somebody else may have to nominated. So, I would like to um place a motion, move forward a motion that we accept um Chair Smith's um decision to self-nominate and move into the role of vice chair for the parent community advisory council. Second. All in favor? I I Okay, any oppose? Hearing none, the motion carries. Thank you, Miss Mailhouse. Congratulations. July 1st, you become I really want to ask one question. So, do since you didn't do a report this year, and I'm just joking. Look at you. Look at you. All right. So, the next position is chair. Um, which is a very essential role. Um, and I would say it's not light work, but that's not to discourage anyone. Um, you are the voice of everybody. Um, PCA and then
082the people that's behind us. So, are there any nominations for the position of chair? I nominate Miss Milhouse Wilson. I second at third. Miss Milhouse, it sounds like you are not getting out of this. I saw we have open up discussion. I'm just joking. So, I do I I want to be very transparent and and state that I accept the nomination one. Um this is my last year because I've already served. This is my second term, the last year of my second term. Um but my work will entail next year is developing the next um PEAC leadership. And so I will be looking um to you all as well as the new council members that will be coming in to um and you know as we said with the retreat and throughout the year gleaning
083from me but you don't even have to glean from me because I am going to pour it out. Um, and I want to make sure that um, the voices that we have around the table um, nobody really knows who's the chair or the vice chair or the recording secretary because we are we are working effectively as a group. Um, and so I accept the nomination, but I accept the nomination with everyone knowing that I will be working to make sure that I develop the um, next um, parent leader voices to carry the work that has to move forward. So you only doing work for what, one month? Just joking. Just joking. Oh well to I mean I will serve my entire term out but I will you know my my focus is to make sure
084that everybody we're rotating throughout the executive leader meetings right um that people also get an opportunity to sit in the role to maybe lead the meeting um but I I do want um everyone to know that their voice the the titles that we have to carry to to do the administrative work. That that's how I see myself, right? Anybody in executive role, we we're doing the administrative work, right? Um but it's our voices that we are carrying forward on on those documents to say, hey, as a collective, this is what we're doing. So, no, it won't be for one month. It will be for the year. Be for the year and then I will transition out. But I will not be going anywhere until my children graduate. So your voice will always be here. I
085gota unless I win the lottery. Love it. All right. Um, does anyone oppose Miss Mailhouse being the next chair for PEAC? Hearing none, this will be my last meeting because Miss Milhouse will be the next chair for us. Congratulations everyone. Amazing. Congratulations everybody. This is awesome. The continuity is great. Um the switch of roles because um how powerful of a duo it's been. I'm really excited to see um the leadership continue and each of you all as supporting roles um within your district. So great job. Thank you. All right guys, so moving this right along. Um do we have any followups? Any next steps hearing? None. Actually, I'm sorry. I just had a quick question um for Miss Barton. I know that at our last meeting um we had composed questions for Mr. Baldwin at
086uh transportation office. Just wondering if you know if he ever received those and if so, if he had any um if he had a response. I did send them over to him. I have I haven't received anything. I will check on it first thing tomorrow morning. Okay. Thank you. And Miss Lawrence, I'm glad you actually brought that up. And just so that other families, if they have not already seen um the notification, there is a survey that's out there. I think it went to the entire school body, but it impacts um families who are at specialty schools. Um it's four schools. I know Maya. I know Maya because one of my children go to Maya. Um the Spanish immersion school and it was two others. If anyone knows I think one of them was Dora
087Kennedy. Dora Kennedy. Okay. So the other French immersion overlook and Phyllis Williams. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. So just a reminder if you haven't completed the survey please go out because what they are doing is launching a pilot for next school year for those four schools and there will be hubs where the students will be picked up from. So share your thoughts on that survey so that um the department of transportation um can know how the the parent body feels. Miss Laur, you have the floor. Oh, I thought that was a question. No, that the question was from me. Is uh the Mandarin uh immersion school, is that still a part of the uh It wasn't listed as part of the pilot. So, I we could get clarity, but I would assume they're just
088going to proceed with their normal planning for um bus stops for those students. Thank you. All right. No problem. I have a quick question. We were at my school told that transportation is normally opt out, but that this year it would be opt in. And my parent community was asking when are they going to have the opportunity to opt in or did we just miss here? But everybody's going to automatically be assigned the bus route. So, I don't think I can answer that question tonight, but I'll jot it down and then we'll we'll have we'll do some followup with the Department of Transportation. Thank you. Um, one of the things I was going to say is I think Miss Barton can take that off and help to um, get an answer for that on behalf
089of Peacock as well. Miss Barton, what do you think? Can you would you be able to Thank you so much. Thank you. All right, guys. So, the moment of the hour if there are no other questions. Well, yes, Miss Walker. Thank you so much. You know, I try not to add into these calls, but thank you. Um, one of the things I was wondering from your vantage point is, um, you all represent a district and I'm just wondering how you all interact to help to get the word out. Um, and maybe Miss Barton can help on that since I don't know if you all have your own distribution list. Maybe I can talk to Miss Barton afterwards just to see like how you all send out communication, but I was just wondering how you all
090get out important information to say, "Hey, um, we'd love for you all to fill this out in case you haven't seen it." If not, then one of the things that I think I can do is um for we I'll work let me talk to Miss Barton offline to see how board members can assist with that. Okay. I think that that's I think that that's a great great idea and I appreciate you taking the lead on that, but I just wanted to also mention that I think it's a challenge. I think every district um is probably unique in how they receive information. Um, sometimes social media is like the the one-stop shop for a lot of folks, but I won't say that that is the actual solution. And I think we probably should that may be
091an item at the the retreat, a discussion item on how things how information is filtered to make sure that we're reaching our family. So, I do appre I just wanted to say that because I appreciate you bringing it up, but on a broad level. Well, I think it's an and versus a but. Um because the good news is for information like this that's districtwide is that PGCPS does send it out. So as you said before it's gone out already. This is just like the additive to it. So we each have when I say we the board members each have newsletters or some way we communicate on top of the communication. So that might be something that doesn't look like extra work. But that's why I said in addition to the amazing things that happened and
092what you guys are going to talk about at the retreat, I do think that I can play a role as a liaison to board members and I'll work with Miss Barton to figure out how can we engage board members in the important stuff that you all are looking at like transportation specifically, not everything, but the things that's really important to you all. Um, and let me and I'll take that to work with Miss Barton. Then I'll bring it back and if you all say no to it, I'm good. But I just want to make sure that I'm doing I feel good about doing a little bit of something, you know. I appreciate that. Thank you, Miss Barton. Yeah. My question was um the previous question that uh Miss Walker had asked me to look into.
093Who was the person who asked that question because I was searching? It was Miss Deran. Okay. About the opt in and opt out. Okay, great. Miss Barton, we've worked together on this question before. We've contacted transportation. and they just haven't gotten back to us. So, it won't be the first time that they're hearing from us on this topic. Okay. Okay. Great. All right. Thank you. Any other items? All right. So, before we adjourn the meeting, I do I do have a little message for um our people here. So, I would like to honor not just the time that you all have served, but the heart behind the volunteer hours that you guys have put in. Um, some of us are departing as executive board members, Miss Wilson. Um, I know you and I joined PCA
094together. We've now we have served on the board together. So, I really thank you for all of the work that you have done. Thank you for serving. Thank you for the questions that you have asked. Um it goes without being noticed. I mean yeah. Um so everybody has been dedicated dedicated. Uh it shows that you guys are rooted in the love for the children as well as the community. Um and that cannot be measured by just clocking in the hours. So again know that I'm saying thank you to you all. um you sat here and it was not just to be heard but to also listen to others to get into this fight and you asked the hard questions. You offered bold ideas and you reminded us that progress does not happen in silence. I
095know sometimes people don't like our delivery. We all have different personalities but look we are here for the same mission and it's for our school system. Um, there may have been late night emails. You may have attended your own district meetings. There may have been planning sessions that you were a part of, but you showed up. So, thank you. Um, and you did it with grace. You did it with grit. You did it with generosity. So, for those who are not continuing on, I want you to know that you're not really stepping back from your role. Your impact is still here. We want to hear your echo. We want you to still empower families. We want you to challenge the policies that's there. We want everybody's voice to be lifted. So, please continue to stay
096engaged. Please continue to stay connected to PCA. Then, Miss Milhouse, I have to personally thank you for your mentorship, your council, for helping me be a good leader um and continue the mission of PCA. I think our partnership has been remarkable. Um, so I deeply I deeply appreciate your willingness to share information and your desire to strengthen parents and family. Thank you so much. So I thank you all again for your service and then if you all have anything to share with one another, I give you all the floor. So I'll start with Miss Milhouse. I'm not leaving. I know, but but some other people are leaving in case you want to share share something. No, I'm just joking. Um, you know, for those who, you know, Miss Brown, Miss Wilson, Miss Thuren, you know,
097you you all may be transitioning off of the council, um, I am hoping that you all are not transitioning out of our lives. Um I do hope that um we will still be able to call on you um for insight, guidance, um counsel, advice, um that you all are a part of um the the strength that helped carry us forward this school year and the previous school year and and the work that you all have done. Um it's not unnoticed. Um, and Miss Brown, I want to say to you, I heard you very loud and clear when you mentioned that um, the way we are engaging with our children around math, we're making them hate it. So, I walked away from that conversation and and did some self-reflection and made sure that when I spoke
098about math in my house um because I love math that I spoke about it with um more more excitement and curiosity than my own frustration because of this new math. And Miss Wilson um thank you for jumping in and taking over the meeting minutes because I thought I was like, "Lord, I can't do it again. I can't I can't write another note. I can't do it. I just can't do it. I can't. And so I I thank you for the various conversations that we've had and um just the insight um that you've given me about um what it's like to navigate right from a parent perspective and the work that we do when we're working and we're we're um managing households and caring for people. But what we need to do to make sure that
099we are vibrant and very present for ourselves because our children see us. And Miss Deran, I your your passion and commitment um you're not going anywhere. Like you said, you had a lot of um insight and guidance and information to share. So just because you're not sitting on camera with us, right, you're going to still be on camera with us. Just know that, right? And um I'm hoping that we will all be able to see um each other face to face to glean from what you all have said to us monthto monthth have shared you know voicemails emails um but your voices are very powerful and so um don't go away don't be quiet continue to um elevate the concerns but what Miss Deran what you stated was we also want to highlight and elevate
100the great things that are happening in PGCPS. So, thank you. Thank you, Miss Milhouse. Are there others that would like to share anything? Hi, Mommy. Hi. Hey, Mom. I hit the Miss Wilson, you have the floor again. Uh, first let me say that hearing that ch that child's voice was so beautiful. Oh my god, it was so adorable. Oh, sorry. I have one. I'm only going to have one. But um but um I would also like to say that you know I think that uh some of us that we were able to complete a uh a term um you know from my understanding there's still eligibility for a second term if in the future your children are still within the system or you're still in some type of eligible place. So, you know, if your
101drive is still there, if that fire is still burning, you know, you may have to wait 2 years, whatever the case may be, but still jump back in there. Um, put your application in and, you know, you can you can probably also get with some of these members that are here, whoever your particular PAC rep is, um, and just, you know, stay on it. So again, uh I think as uh Miss Milhouse said, you don't necessarily need to be on camera to be on camera. So um that's what you know I'm taking from this. Um my child will probably be in high school by the time I look to try to come back since our I think uh uh Vice Chair Milhouse, we're you guys will be leaving out of the school that we will
102be going into. Um, and so it's going to be very weird the next two years and then my son will be off to high school and obviously we don't know where that'll be or what that's going to look like at this time. Um, but it's been an absolute pleasure working with you all. Thank you, Miss Wilson. I really appreciate that. My kids just walked in the house from a baseball game and they don't see that I'm trying to run a meeting. Um, are there others that would like to share this [Music] evening? Well, I'm hearing none. So, again, thank you all for your service. Um, we move this retreat forward. I hope to see everyone there. You are more than welcome. It's it will also be a open meeting so the general public is um
103can can be present as well. But especially our PCA members, I would love to see you all there. So, can I get a motion to adjourn the meeting? I motion that we adjourn the meeting at 8:37 p.m. Do I have a second? I second. Aimbra. Thank you. So, it has been properly moved and seconded that we adjourn the meeting at 8:37 p.m. this evening. Thank you all. Have a good evening. Bye. Thank y'all. Bye.