001is before we start tonight's meeting i invite you to participate and pledge allegiance as you said i pledge of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with literacy and justice and with that we start this meeting at 6 31 um do i have any modifications to the agenda no no modifications okay with that um do i have a recognition of visitors or comments from the audience of anything not already on the agenda does it look like it okay we do not have any presentation we do not have any discussion but we do have the approval of public session units from march 3rd 2022. do i have a motion second a discussion roll needed items i have the recommendation to approve the retirement notice of
002amy gordon effective at the conclusion of the 21-22 school year do i have a motion to accept the recommendation for retirement of miss amy gordon this school year with reluctance i will move i know amy is uh certainly one of our most celebrated teachers to approve and do i have a second carol yes amy yes vicky and steve yes mr kerry next i have the recommendation to approve the retirement notice of karen hedrick effective at the conclusion of the 21-22 school year i do have a motion to approve the retirement notice of miss karen hendrick for this school year actually second a second any discussion and also go forward welcome carol yes amy yes vicky yes steve yes nation carrie next i have the recommendation to approve the retirement notice of wilma allender effective at
003the conclusion of the 21-22 school year this includes a request for viva bridge do you have a motion to accept the recommendation for the retirement note of miss wilman allender at the conclusion of this school year including the request for the depot bridge second okay any discussion with that go forth and have a wonderful life miss wilma uh carol yes amy yes vicky yes steve yes please you guys what i had the recommendation to approve christy reitzman daddy harman david phelps kelly brunner and emily tracy to attend the innovation summit in san diego california april 3rd through the 6th do you have a motion to approve the trip to san diego uh for the innovation summit of christie wright debbie harmon david phelps kelly brunner and emily tracy but they're not taking me and i'm
004really upset remember that doing the motion second any discussion all right coco carol yes amy yes vicky yeah steve yes of course okay next is consent agenda items i have the separation of brown county middle school master teacher mitzi garman effective at the conclusion of the 21-22 school year through the appointment of sportica elementary school custodian carolyn michelle fox 12.25 cents per hour full-time with benefits 240 days per year effective march 17 2022. this is a replacement for dawn van uh do you have a motion to accept the consent agenda items as presenting beginning with the separation of nancy garman at the end of the school year and ending with the appointment of carol and michelle fox as custodian any discussion i would like to correct i believe i pronounced her name wrong it's um
005this is a replacement for don van weiser right yeah we will uh miss both germans that want to say something about brian brian i met brian when my oldest daughter was playing basketball before i was on the school board met brian with some questions about coaching stefan he impressed me so much with his professionalism um respectful and just being organized in the position and he's he's been like that in each position that he's had with us since i've been on the board and for 32 years it's just commendable he's done a great job yeah everyone's saying that we're not going to let him go but we have to so we wish him well and um i know they're going on to better things and with that roll call carol yes amy yes vicky and steve
006yes christian carries brook superintendent's report uh it was great to see all of our students and staff back at it this week hope everyone enjoyed relaxing spring break we are in the home stretch for the 21 22 school year and we'll continue to work hard and finish stronger than ever i first i want to thank brown county rotary club for taking the time to come and read to our sweet kindergartners across all three elementary buildings they have volunteered their personal time to spend a few minutes with the most precious of tiny humans um and share books with them that they and their parents are going to treasure forever um just so glad that we can have our community back into our buildings to share those moments and these experiences with our kids and our staff
007i want to thank board from my whole heart everything that i have for being able to support our professional development opportunities um specifically in dallas when we attended the niet national conference it was humbling and an incredible honor to be able to help celebrate our high school team as they got to go up on stage in front of 1200 educators from across the nation to accept that national founders finalist award they're one of only five schools in the entire country and only one of two high schools um and just to give you a little bit of um a factoid here about it the the other high school that did win they were from arkansas very small rural um community and in high school um much like ours and um they have been nominated as a
008finalist a few different times and this is their 13th year um with niet in that endeavor so um we're in year two i think two three so um it felt pretty good for us to be up there um it was great to be able to see that that team so thank you for supporting professional development opportunities for us i wanted to congratulate and thank mr bruner the coaches of all of our student athletes for their hard week dirt hard work during the winter season um last night we got to celebrate with our winter awards banquet in person in the auditorium the first time we've been able to do that in two years so it felt really good to have people in the auditorium it is always an honor to celebrate those athletes at the close
009of a season i personally was able to award the following students with the superintendent's award for girls basketball it was katy tipton boys basketball it was josh miller wrestling with summer rummage and cheer with summer ramek the superintendent award is for the students that have earned the highest gpa within their sport so again congratulations to all of the athletes i wanted to give you a few dates to remember across the district on march 29th at 6 pm our high school is holding a very important 9th grade orientation parent meeting this will be about the programs of study that we're offering for our students for the next year they had to reschedule the blood drive that was originally held at the high school because of we canceled school because of weather so they've rescheduled that for
010monday april 11th and then my goodness kindergarten roundup is right around the corner and we will have roundup at each of our elementary buildings it's scheduled for tuesday april 19th from 4 to 6 pm and we will send out some reminders about that and then finally our coven 19 data our county is at um level blue for positive cases in our district from february 17 through today march 24th a total of three positive cases that would be two staff members and one student we have had zero for the last few weeks so yes our symptomatic percentages um don't go above 2.5 in any building so we are looking pretty good with that thank you you're welcome okay we have the motion accepted claims as presented that's something second thank you any discussion on claims carol
011yes amy yes vicky thank you very much yes