001Scented Markers I think so well you know maybe it was a great family this was a stamp pads either sent it names thanks again foreign [Music] there are no modifications and next we have recognition of visitors and comments from the audience uh this is where you have the opportunity to share information with us on anything that's not already on the agenda um Miss Kelly so I'm Kelly Bruner I'm the principal here at helsberg elementary for those of you that I don't know tonight we have our student ambassadors who have done tours of the building can make that resolution first okay okay so I have done um our student ambassador program there are fifth graders um Mrs rund is Darcy run is a fifth grade teacher and Megan Connelly is another fifth grade teacher and um
002they helped started it they helped to start this group and so the kids are going to tell you all about it I'm not going to say anymore I'm gonna let them take it away so I don't know who's going first this evening Miss Violet King elements not only Public Schools on master show them their example by being kind by being friendly and by showing um am I taking on extra responsibility like making bulletin boards or videos to promote our kindness campaign and by showing visitors around African members we show in the classroom but there's responsibility respect and leadership in order to continue as Ambassador we have to be responsible me too the three times the most experience because this is right we take our lunch to Mrs Harmon who had a work at lunch sometimes
003it even spills in terms he has accomplished so much already since we anniversary supposed to see the ambassadors at home today we are trying to work so hard to work in compass growth so before we have started the kind of stupid this has a pretty neighborhood which is called BBN account and recording videos explaining what it means to be kept and sharing them with other children we also help our secretary by delivering questions every day we have both of new students and given to us to the community we have so many more plans for this year some of these include starting a reading club helping students academically collecting pop tabs for charity and collecting canned goods for families I want to help helmsburg Elementary but also the community we would like to face up the
004Outdoor Learning space to make it usable for all classes these are just a few of our twins but this year my name is Piper Spears and I'm a fifth grade student in Mexico we enjoy a lot of things about being an ambassador to start we love showing other students just how fun holmesburg is as a part of this we think it's important to help other students learn and find ways for them to enjoy learning we also feel that being ambassadors gives us a chance to be role models for the school and we love reinforcing kindness in the school and community one student also said that they enjoy opportunities to work with younger students and another student said that they loved delivering bus notes because they get to see all of the students in the school
005and see how happy they are in their classrooms overall we love helping people and making homesberg in an even better place some ideas that we had as a group are to help Riley Children's Hospital by collecting bottle caps and pop Taps and by raising as much money as possible a few students here have been personally helped by Riley and we would like to do whatever we can to help them we also want to help other students enjoy learning enjoy learning and encourage others to become more active in their school and Community we also want to make the environment and community we also want to make the environment and Community a cleaner place by teaching others about recycling another idea is to have a dream box and make dreams come true if students want new equipment
006you can hopefully work to replace golden birken equipment with new better equipment it would also be exciting to repaint the walls with bright and beautiful colors Mr Rose Brown my name is Ron Brown and I think that being a student ambassador could help us in the future because it helps us develop leadership skills it also reminds us to always be kind and help anyone who needs it now aim in the future being a team leader in the Athletics or the speech team can show leadership and help others who need guidance we believe that one day being the student ambassador will also help us as we prepare for college and that helps us build important skills that we will need in your jobs it gives us leadership skills helps us think on our feet helps us
007with social skills and it gives us experience with lots of people have any questions for our ambassadors I'd just like to say you guys are amazing investors they did a great job I know they took you on a tour and [Music] that's right so the board has Ambassador pins that are Eagle pens for each of you tonight um so I think Mr Spooner is going to call you by name and Miss Babin is going to be able to hand you your pin and then we would like to take a picture of each of you with the school board and then after our picture you all are free to go unless you would like to stay for the rest of them but in between I'm going to stand in the middle of the table with your
008your particular students so if you want to take a picture with your kid getting me okay okay all right Miss Violet King foreign [Laughter] [Music] thank you this is Jalen Reeves yeah I've been here getting an awesome group here Miss Piper Spears foreign don't say my name [Music] is still in here one two three they're all gonna be looking at a different way awesome yay [Music] wow back to our usual grounds [Music] number five discussions minutes from October 20th 2022 do you have a motion to accept the notes as presented absolutely a second in discussion Carol yes yeah X is an action unit items and the recommendation to approves the 2023 through the 2025 school calendars into uh are the recommendation to approve the 23-25 school calendar I so moved you have a second okay
009any discussion yeah um I appreciate the patience in us getting the calendars um approved and out to the public um we have decided to go to a two-year calendar um that will be um published on the website tomorrow if it's approved tonight the biggest change to our calendars for the next two years is that we are moving from trimesters to semesters um across the district so um Elementary Middle School and High School will all operate on semesters within those semesters you will see that we have nine week period grading periods that will be reported out and then the process to get to that decision uh we sent out two surveys to all of our staff across the district um both surveys came out with semesters on top we were able to get data of how
010many Elementary how many middle school and how many high school teachers took the survey we also had an opportunity for staff to be able to provide comments of why they were choosing um whichever Preferred Choice that they had and through those comments and the data was semesters we made the decision to to move that way in the end I truly believe that this is going to help our advanced placement courses our dual credit courses and it will align our elective courses so they are back to back and kids don't have to take um their electives won't be split up so where they if they have entrepreneurship the first trimester right now there are kids that don't have it again until third trimester they have that Gap in the middle so moving to semesters eliminates that
011as well any questions I have enough questions I guess I just have a comment I appreciate the time that was taken to get everybody's input to make sure that all of the staff have the opportunity to weigh in what were the pros and the cons and obviously you know there's a lot to consider there so I'm really glad to have those comments and make sure we're taking in the voices of the books ways and then also in the way you know that they're they're going to be aligning their curriculum about those things so I just appreciate the time that we're into it and I'm glad that we can come up with something never going to make everybody happy and Afraid problem yeah thank you for that um it is not an easy decision to weigh
012obviously we've had some changes in the past but we gave two surveys because the first survey was like uh just sent it out and you choose trimesters or semesters after looking at the options and the second survey came from feedback from staff they wanted to be able to tell how many Elementary were voting one way how many Middle School how many high school and then they wanted to be able to provide the reason why they were choosing that so I was thankful for it both surveys it was pretty close it wasn't a Landslide by any means so question sure still announce your name oh sorry Janine um Sprint parent just question same week it fall week at Spring two at Christmas that's awesome yeah and the breaks line up um the start of the school
013year lines up like it did this year um there were no other major changes to the calendar in any way okay I was gonna say what parents care about mostly when is when are the bricks that is absolutely what are the dates this year and then graduation and snow day so it's a really kind of the big determinants of the calendar and those look pretty similar to what we're used to and it should be posted on the website by the end of the day tomorrow we will also it's the same e-learning day policy that we will have moving forward at love state legislator changes that so and I just like the magnets that you guys put out this past summer I don't know if you did that before but that's in heaven I agree because
014I was always pulling mine out we're printing it five million times a year and I also do I know Emily has done the um you know the two-year calendar and I think that is really important for people for planning purposes um so that you can you know determine are you available on this date in 2024 any other comments welcome here yes maybe yes Vicky yes Stephanie yes Steve yes motion carries thank you thanks I have the recommendation to approve the compensation of Brown County Middle School head football coaches Michael Tyran and Justice Guerrero the assistant coach stipends in addition to their head coach stipends do you have a motion to accept the recommendation to approve the compensation for the Middle School head for head football coaches as presented National move any discussion yeah I I
015um appreciate this this coming to the board tonight uh these two coaches we were not able to fill the assistant coach positions and they have taken on um the additional work of the assistant coaches um that isn't any money extra money that was not appropriated for um and I think it goes a long way to send to our coaches that go out of the way for our kids every single day so I would appreciate that and this is for the season that just ended correct and with that the discussion welcome Carol yes Amy yes Vicky yes Stephanie yes yes I have beginning with the separation of Brown County High School intense pair professional Charles Baker effective October 28 2022 through the appointment of helmsburg elementary school teacher Cynthia Bachmann master's degree level B 46 750
016to 13 years of experience full time with Benefits effective November 21st 2022 this is a replacement for Anna Harris do you have a motion to accept the consent agenda items as presented beginning with the separation of the high school intense care professional Charles Baker effective October 28th and ending with helmsford teacher Cynthia Bachman um starting on November 21st um I have a question what simply have been teaching secondly okay and I want to welcome Cynthia back I'm really excited to have her back in Brown County Schools any other discussion okay roll call um Carol yes yes definitely yes yes superintendent's report my favorite part I typed it out I got a page and a half not going on so bear with me um first I want to congratulate Chase Austin Hadley bradov who competed last
017Saturday at the state past question finals um they both are our seniors and have finished out their career Chase finished 40th and Hadley finished seventh 70th across the entire State um and just want them to know that their coaches and teachers and families and friends that were also proud of them and their commitment to Brown County across the country um something to celebrate uh today Mr Killinger and the spirit of Staff proudly sent out a message that they broke all of their records for the walkathon they raised 13 135.44 the rewards on the price which also means apparently Mr White will be shaving his eyebrows yes Mr Killinger in the spirit of Staff um and I'm most certain everybody here in the board um thank everybody to all the families at sprinting up for your
018hard work supporting schools and students couldn't have done it without you uh we have a great weekend lined up um tonight's opening night for Brown County High School play almost Maine um Mr Ling and his entire team of materials have been working incredibly hard for the show um we have several shows this weekend and hope that you can make one of them um tonight I think the first one starts at seven tomorrow there's another show at 7 p.m Saturday there are two shows one at two and one at seven um Just for information ticket prices you can pay ten dollars for reserve seating or seven dollars for an adult general admission for five dollars for student general admission um Brown County Middle School this Saturday is holding their annual pancake breakfast um everyone is invited
019to this awesome event it is from 8 A.M to 10 30. you'll see Mr Steele Mr Davis making scrunches pancakes um they've got toppings I'm sure Galore um um this is the main fundraiser for the Middle School cost of seven dollars per person or you can pay 25 for a family of four or more um kiddos three and under are free uh next Friday is Veterans Day um and we will be honoring all of our veterans with our annual program and the largest banks gymnasium the serum ceremony will begin at 9 30 a.m this year uh we'll live stream the program on our YouTube channel as well if anybody has any questions about the program um they can contact the high school front office or anyone at central office the community is invited to this
020event um and we hope to see as many as possible there this is the first year I believe since pre-pandemic that's been going to be as as normal as it used to be and what time is it at let's start the program starts applying there yes yeah and then finally Tuesday is election day um November 8th we have um if anybody needs to review any of the information regarding the Brown County Schools referendum um we want to make sure that you understand all of the facts um the question that's on the ballot and how confusing it is um and the impact of the referendum for the school district um the monies from the referendum will be dedicated to recruit and retain the best of the best teachers and staff for our students that means we
021will be able to offer competitive wages and benefits it will ensure that we get to continue Innovative programming keep our small class sizes we'll get to expand our CTE our Career and Technical Ed courses um it will be to support the CRC and also our Early Childhood Center that's right there in Nashville um I just want to encourage everyone to utilize our tax calculator that is right on our website um it will be able to tell people what their true investment is again the language on the ballot is misleading and it's mandated by the state legislator we have links that can talk you through that question and help you find the tax calculator as well um it's important to know that the referendum is not passed Brown County Schools is forced to absorb 1.2 million
022dollars back into our budget as our current referendum will expire in 2023. if the community votes no to supporting the schools that means that we are forced to significantly reduce our programming and services across academics the Arts and our Athletics we could potentially free salary and wages for our staff which means cutting jobs across the entire District again there's a link on our website a whole page dedicated to the referendum that has all of the facts if anybody has any questions at all behind cell phone number is there it's listed you can call the office any one of the building principles of the schools or stop in at central office so that's all I have tonight thank you for sending out the Grant Square and we will send another one on Monday who's The Speaker
023for the veterans program Chris Snell is our featured speaker this year and he is the Brown County veterans um officer at the veteran affairs anything else so that you have a motion to adjourning I'll do some paper say hi hi