001okay hopefully you have visual this is mic number one microphone number two microphone number three microphone number four microphone number five microphone number six and here is the podium microphone stream is live the stream is live microphone podium mic [Music] okay once again hopefully you have a visual uh this is the podium mic one two three podium mic to me the mash [Music] microphone number five out of a little well there wouldn't be any people in the background check one two three and lastly yes you hear people in the background yes so hopefully you got all that okay so hopefully youtube is a go uh i'm going to mute uh the mics going out to the stream right now okay overcharged thanks that's why they quickly hi how are you this one [Music] okay all
002right we'll go ahead and call what you need to order at 7 32. okay senator jones is here for the pledge yes uh i'm jackson and here's christina and jacob please stand for the pledge i pledge allegiance [Music] just a couple quick um notes if you do have phones please silent them in the event of an emergency there are emergency exits directly behind us and the door you came through for the movie roll call tonight we have one ball back jay brogan nikoi nova superintendent of schools brian graham myself georgia marco dana bruno mike lauria our assistant superintendent of curriculum staff development and human resource cheryl cardone assistant superintendent of people personal services and ruby paris our assistant superintendent of and school business all right and with that we're going to start with their approval
003of our attendance now can i get a motive second [Music] all right approval of the minutes from our november 8th meeting a motion all right hi my name is jackson jones and i'm currently a senior here at granola high school and i have a few updates for what's currently going on in the high school right now currently we have the starting sign ups for the mock trial in the high school that club starts in february but sign ups start right now winter sports has started in tryouts for this past week uh since all the funnels sports have finalized a few of the sports went to state's level but all of them had completed so now winter sports are now casting is complete for rehearsals for the wizard of oz high school musical that will premiere
004in february and right now they're going to be practicing with who they have currently since all the casting is finalized the reflections program sponsored by the high school ptsa will conclude on november 23rd and there's been some great feedback uh from that and um cap and gown orders for the seniors are now for graduation i believe they close on december 1st um but right now that's all the seniors have to get that and i believe they're one of the white ones uh decker regionals is the uh is going to be held on december 12th and that is going to be hosted by grand island this year uh in the past it was hosted other schools we're going to be hosting that i believe this sunday as well uh so we'll be hosting that and then
005the winners of that will go to compete on at the states level in rochester and uh that is all for the updates for the high school thank you thank you okay unfortunately our ambassador for the middle school is not here and i believe her recognition is good news do you want to say a few words yes thank you so i know that um jude we're going to invite her to come in december yep but we're very very proud of her in fact uh i think i have a picture of her for you to see faith probably yeah cross country star yeah so obviously faith is one of our superstar long distance runners uh we're very proud of her she helped section six class b secure a state championship which is really remarkable she was the
006section's second place runner and finished 15th overall in the states and that was a new personal best time so i think we'll just applaud for her and we'll uh [Music] nobody signed up for it so we are on to my curriculum and instruction thank you i just have one informational item and just it's our i-ready trainings i want to let everyone know that this last week we completed 14 half-day sessions with all of our elementary teachers at each grade level in terms of training them for iready ireti is the new program that we've taken on to perform diagnostic testing three times per year for both math and ela one of the things that our teachers learned in the training was how to read the reports so that they can use that data both in their
007daily instructional classroom as well as for rti purposes to make sure that we know where our kids are i know over the last several years many people know our three through eight testing has not really given us much data we haven't been able to have much and even before that with the app dot movement some of our student information is very limited so what's nice about our already program it's going to be able to give us the data that we need to actually look at our map program and strategically be able to implement changes the nice thing about iready is it's able to drill down into specific categories and show us exactly where our students are more deficient than others just looking at some of the data across the board just just to kind of
008share i think that we saw some some evidence of learning loss but not you know in some cases not as much as possible but definitely more in those lower grades like grade um one two three so i think we're going to be seeing some um hopefully good effort concerned effort to make that progress in those areas and it's not to be it's not a big surprise to us considering where we've been the pandemic but we're on our on a mission to move forward and actually you know work with our teachers to get these kids every i ready student gets a goal they get a goal for the year where they should be at the end of the year and they get a stretch goal that is a goal that will hopefully help them get to
009be back on track if they're not already progressing on track so i just want to give the board an update as to what our what work is going on elementary and our middle school teachers will be trained on that in the next two weeks okay add to personal instruction looks like we just have to approve pi one if i can get a motion on to non-instructional just looking for approval for pmi1 through pni3 all in favor aye opposed period good just touching base with our principles any introductions tonight all right thank you very much on to finance i think this is my shortest agenda [Music] i know so the first thing we have here for board approval is obsolete equipment um this is coming from buildings and grounds it is a unisa and a power
010washer and then the next item on here for approval is budget transfers over 15 thousand uh that pertains to the capital project area we are actually finishing that out and final cost reports will be done in december for submission so these are the last little things you'll see pertaining to the 24 million capital project as well as the budget transfer for payroll and that was just some internal movements of staff so we paid them out of the correct codes for state reporting can i get approval for um amd and finance please are just informational so that's the check warrants september and october uh treasurer's port for august and september revenue status report august september and october and budget transfers that are under the 15 000 for information any questions great um okay good evening everyone
011i have my um two that i already have a cpsc and a csc um program recommendation please if i can have action on those all right and then um i also have a special education services plan according to the state of new york we are supposed to continue to do a three-year plan for students with disabilities if you look through this it talks about our special ed continuum it talks about the programs that we actually house at grand island our out of district programs and how many students we have there the budget comparison am i pleased to say that for the past three years even though we have decreased in some areas and our special ed student population has risen um the budget remains constant so there you go that's your christmas present and um
012i also have cpsc at the current time that number continues to grow our cpsc students are three and four-year-olds and we are up to 55 students that we do service uh if you notice on the years are 2019 to 2022 so it uh it looks like it's up again um in the spring but i just want to let you know that the three years is kind of staggering because the last part of the plan actually shows data from our graduation rate to how our students are doing um suspension-wise you know if we were spent suspending any too many students with student disabilities etc etc that data is always a year or two behind in fact if you look the latest data is 2019 2020 it doesn't even have um last year's data course so there's
013a little bit of lag of time so probably the next time that i will be doing this is um be looking at it again in 2023 and i will do one that says 2022 to 2025. so in case there's any question why there's that little lag there's because of the data the data is always a year a year behind for us and then two years behind according to the state data questions from me all right thank you all right good evening everybody i thank our students for being here as well learning a little bit more about government so thank you for your attendance today each board meeting probably since last march i've been talking about covet updates so for our board the most recent information if you look at the two arrows the first arrow
014on the left indicates when we started school last year and the arrow on our on the far right is where we are today so this chart shows the week-to-week net change of positive cases on all of grand island that's all citizens on grand island there was an increase of positive cases on all grand island by 91 more from the from the last or the last week so updated as of november 17th there were more new cases on grand island so the aggregate uh a week ago we had 2590 citizens on grand island who had tested positive since last march of 2020 and this past week it went up to 26.81 so since the last board meeting we've had 56 students identified as positive with cobia 19 and 199 others who have to quarantine as a
015result of those 56 positive cases additionally we've had five employees identified as positive and eight others who have a quarantine and that's since the last board meeting since the beginning of the year we've had 123 students from september 1st to the end of last week identified as positive in our district and 457 others who've had to quarantine as a result of being a close contact additionally since the beginning of this year we had 22 employees and 32 others who had a quarantine some of these numbers are also reported say from families who child may have become a close contact for example in the community but this gives us the aggregate for our district at this time and this is just another way to look at the data you can see in september 22 positive students
016october 37 and as of november 1964 i know cheryl today we have more in the district and so those numbers are not represented in this chart and then you can see the increase of quarantine from september to now uh also our positive employees who have tested positive and a number of quarantine as a result and then the total for everybody to see that it's still present in our community i've shown this before this is an aggregate from erie county was published on november 13th it shows by age group the number of individuals who have been positively covered since march of 2020 to november 13th uh a few weeks ago it's just for nerds who look at data you can almost see like a bell curve here right exactly but take a look look at this
017this is last week and this is from march to now so last week by age group you can see that the the shape is changing a little bit right so from zero to four or zero to nine looking at it over a long period of time it looks different than it does this last week so this represents the age group of 0 to 9 and then the age group of 10 to 19 in the first two bars of the graph so you can see just you know there are more young people becoming positive in erie county over the last week so this chart alone represents 3567 new cases in erie county over a week's time okay this is just a chart that i keep track of and it it i get the information from charts
018like this that show 0 to 9 and 10 to 19 and the two lines represent the age group of zero to nine and ten to nineteen so from the beginning of the school year to the week ending november 13th obviously in erie county there is an upsurge of young people uh becoming positive with covet this just represents the the changes uh in october to now with a number of cases in yuri county and this is as of the 20th you can see here that there are 3 567 cases uh the week of november 13th or ending the 13th and then this is the last seven days 4 355 so clearly there is you know more there are more individuals who are positive with poverty in your county and this is the most recent data as
019of november 19th of hospitalizations in erie county so you can this chart starts in november 7. the first paragraph is november 7th and the last is november 19th so according to this chart there are 230 patients in local hospitals here in erie county with cobin and this is just kind of like the the the look from march of 2020 to uh the most recent data and i believe the red line is uh the current uh individuals not the current but the individuals who are hospitalized over time in erie county from march of 2020 to the present day so again the chart is moving in an upward direction for hospitalizations this shows that 230 patients in erie county and their vaccination status with 60 not fully vaccinated in hospitals and 63 percent of the patients in
020the icu are not fully vaccinated and 67 of the patients in the icu who are on airway assist are not vaccinated and this chart just is updated each week this one is uh we're still waiting for the most recent information but as of november 13th there were 84 of green island residents ages 20 plus years who have had at least their first dose so this number is incrementally growing each week just by small percentages but it's nice to see it growing so before i talk about um the most recent change in quarantine any of the board members have any questions of what's been presented so far okay so this is uh this is a little bit of good news for those who are identified as close contacts and who have had to quarantine last week
021late last week erie county is indicating that close contact students who are identified as close contact no longer have to be quarantined for the entire period if they receive a negative test on day five or after and if the parent completes this form and submits it to the school district i would say on day eight so this form along with a negative test will allow someone who is asymptomatic and currently quarantined to return to school three days earlier in the current quarantine period so this form was emailed to all of our families last week it's on our website do any of our board members have a question about this it's good to see some changes with the quarantine period for healthy asymptomatic students so at the last board meeting our board adopted a resolution that
022encouraged the erie county department of health to move forward with the test to stay strategy as many of you may know a test to say strategy is designed to significantly reduce the number of students who are excluded from school because they've been identified as a close contact as somebody who was positive a test to stay program would allow for students identified as close contact here in our school district to be tested daily before school if the student is negative given a rapid antigen test the student would be allowed to be here in school each day so this is a this this is a test to stay strategy our board adopted a resolution to support the erie county department of health to move forward with planning for this type of strategy in schools i'm very proud
023to say that grand island has been selected by erie county to be the only district in erie county to pilot a test to stay strategy so this is really you know it's really good news for our students who are healthy and asymptomatic in our home because of a quarantine this will be totally parent choice so a parent may choose to keep their child in at home in the full quarantine period or may choose to work with us to participate in the test today strategy which again is a pilot it is not it shouldn't be deemed as something that is fully endorsed by the erie county department of health yet so they will work with us to test kids every day who are otherwise would be quarantined and if those kids are negative they would be
024allowed to go to school so i'll just stop there for our board if you have any questions about that i guess the wording has invited us to work with them in developing and we feel confident that our input is really going to be heard it's a very good question today cheryl cardone and i um met with dr bursting and dr nicholas from the erie county department of health along with dr fusco and dr o'rourke are the district superintendents of erie one and yuri two boces and mr cornell and we all met and there were others on the video conference from the euro county department health who were part of their team they really do seem excited to learn how this can be scaled beyond grand island to other districts with that said there are a
025lot of logistics to make this work a significant amount of logistics the number of students in each school you know we have our elementary principals here who are currently identified as close contacts range between 30 40 50 kids is that a fair statement max and deletion so to have a test to stay strategy for 30 40 50 kids each day at different schools is significant obviously requires tests to be available to you know not just for us but eventually for more districts if this is deemed as a successful pilot so the tests need to be available the personnel needs to be available to administer the tests and the subsequent data reporting and the databases so we're fortunate i think to begin those conversations with erie county we'll have a meeting tomorrow with uh i will
026we will have a meeting tomorrow uh to discuss the logistics of this with dr nicholas from the erie county department of health and then beyond i'm i'm excited that the board has given me permission to work with an outside agency to uh to move forward with this strategy here in the district so we'll we'll be buttoning that up tomorrow as well is this just for class stuff or is it where they'll be able to participate in everything school related or everything at home that's still foreign it's an excellent question so right now this strategy is just for students to come to school not to engage in after school activities so it's really focused on the learning uh the continuity of learning for kids um in the future if it's deemed successful they may uh allow
027you know more flexibility with that but that's how this pilot is written to begin with so thank you to our board of education not only for standing up for kids in in the grand island central school district but i'm aware that other school districts have looked at your resolution that you were the first one to adopt and i know for a fact another school district board of education has adopted a very similar if not exactly uh word for word the resolution that you adopted and that really is wonderful honestly for our community to understand that for our employees to understand that for our parents to know that this board of education is is doing everything possible to help with the continuity of learning particularly for asymptomatic healthy kids who are stuck in a quarantine so
028this is really good news okay so um so with that said in in in and among the meetings that cheryl and i had late today with the yuri county department of health actually our meeting was pumped and changed three o'clock because of the erie county commissioner of health as well as the county executive met to announce that in erie county there's going to be now a four phase approach to try to reduce the caseload of coved and beds that are being occupied in hospitals as a result of the increase in individuals who have coveted and are hospitalized he announced today that starting tomorrow morning at 6 a.m there is a mass mandate for all indoor public locations in erie county phases 2 3 and 4 will not be put in into motion if the mask
029mandate helps to reduce the hospitalization rates in your economy based on covet so again at six a.m tomorrow students faculty staff parents should be aware that when we're traveling around erie county around grand island and we go to cops that will be expected to be masked in those locations it includes bars and restaurants and theaters and hair cutting salons and gyms and fitness centers and other entertainment venues and banks etc so that was a big announcement today and again you know phase two three and four according to the county executive would not go into effect if phase one helps to reduce the hospitalizations in erie county as you know i am not a spokesperson for erie county but does the board have any questions about that what's that well it was breaking news it too
030and i know niagara family made a statement and sunday we're not going to institute a mass mandate at this time so it's just very common that's correct so that was late breaking news today so that's all i have a few other slides to talk about some celebrations in our district but before i move on any other questions about coven okay so so uh you know the board and our community should know that we had a dedication ceremony for one of our tennis courts that um it's just a beautiful recognition of an amazing teacher parent former student athlete and coach in our district julie roth neville i want to thank mr don pray for organizing the recognition and this tribute and i want to thank his tennis players both boys and girls who helped with that
031ceremony and of course i want to thank the neville roth families for being in attendance and for taking a moment to participate in this tribute it really was beautiful we also had some guest speakers from some of our students also since we last met 11 of our seniors have committed to playing sports in their uh their next journey which is at the college level so i want to thank mr roth and ms chosky and their the entire team will help make this a very special event for the students as well as their families and i really really want to thank our principals who worked with their teachers to [Music] organize a um turkey trot the first ever turkey trot here that i'm aware of uh where kids not only had a great time uh running
032and enjoying the outdoors and meeting some goals for fitness but they also brought canned goods and foods to donate to needy families in grand island all the food items will be given to the neighbors foundation and to see this event occur on saturday with so many students having fun so much food items being donated there were really really special things that occurred to make this a special event mr woods there dressed as a turkey miss marcella did such a great job and there's a few pictures of these wonderful principles that you will see momentarily the principles i think had a goal for the students and if they brought in i believe it was five or more items then they got a ticket which allowed them to throw a pie at their principal i could not
033have timed that better now imagine i i don't know max and felicia if you thought that mr antonelli um had a better go at this than maybe the both of you did imagine a fifth grader throwing a pie at you and a kindergartner throwing a pie at you see some pictures of the genie a little bit more on the face so i'm going to let some of this play [Music] so these are some of our older students getting ready to run it really was great so i'm going to jump ahead of time look at felicia right there [Music] though they finally this one got to move a little bit closer all right so let's just jump ahead a little bit [Laughter] so this is what it looks like when you take a video of a
034lot of students getting ready to run the track and if you're taking the video and you don't move interesting things happening look at this one one young man lost his shoe get ready ready for the shoe here it goes it's right there [Music] you know our life skills students in the middle school helped run the concession stand what a wonderful opportunity for students to learn about money and exchanging money and service in the community they did a fantastic job and there were theme baskets that people could participate in and there it is right there that is a one there were two two carts that i think i filled this is just a picture of one card of all the students mr pakula or miss dr palanchi do you have anything to add to this event
035it was fun [Music] that's right it was really remarkable you guys did a fantastic job so congratulations to you and the last thing um i just want to share whoops here we go was our srp recognition day was november 16th i want to thank all the teachers and administrators who populated a shared folder where we were able to put together a nice little slideshow in recognition of all their srps i won't go through the whole slideshow but just beautiful pictures and another reminder of how important our srps are to helping our students helping our teachers and our students parents have a successful journey here in school this is just a nice tribute to all of our srp so i just i'll stop with everybody i want to thank them for all their work and my
036last thing is i hope you have a happy thanksgiving so thank you very much great okay on to the board of education report we have the grand island high school caps involved so thank you for bringing that up mr broker i know if you have if you could give the board an update on capstone gallons for graduation and how that flows this school year all right good evening everyone sure and right mr brooker i know that last year when you were here uh all of our graduates were blue gowns right right and then maybe you could just let the board know you know uh the evolution of that and how it evolved into our students this year so i was made i was made aware of the blue gowns last year very early on when
037i started receiving messages from members of the community asking how graduation gowns would be moving forward this year so meeting with the the people who coordinate graduation we decided to put it in the students hands so we got together with the class officers and the student council officers and we came up with several options for them and inevitably what we've decided on and what the students have decided on is they go back to the blue and white gowns but they're going to be non-gender specific so any student can pick either color to wear and we'd also talked about i guess traditionally the students would be lined up in rows of blue and white we're going to go alphabetical this year so the students will be in the colors will be inter intermingled so there will
038be they'll be easier to come up and parents will know when to plan for their their child to come across the stage for pictures and uh it just seemed like a win-win for everybody the students were very happy and moving forward the the website is up and running the students have been notified and families have been notified uh when they go to the website it's still gonna show a picture of a black gown but there is an option on the side to pick uh white or blue and that is the student's preference and whatever color they'd like to choose that also will allow us we have some leftover accounts from last year yeah and that will allow us to provide someone who might not be able to afford a gown uh one free of cost
039and it will not matter but what gender they are very good all right on to the wellness community so i actually had a conversation with sue last week because um jessica hutchings who is the middle school social worker and i wanted to meet with the wellness committee um to update um where we are with our family support services and i asked mrs who the other person was beside sue and we realized that we didn't have another board member um on that committee so sue said she put it on tonight's agenda if anybody would like to join us and we will have an upcoming meeting it can be virtual if you'd like um and we just want to update you where we are with our family support services we also talk about like horizons just presented
040to um everyone last week dr graham how many people attended that virtually 126. yeah it was really fascinating there were about 126 people viewing online we had one person who came in the auditorium so it may have looked a little interesting with just one person but there were 126 who watched it online right and jessica hatches does put those together but they are you know they are product also of our bonus committee meetings so if anybody would like to join us um please let us know i know before we were meeting at 11 but we we can move that time right i think we were doing that and and to start with i think we're just going to meet with the school representative so it would just be myself and you all whoever else joined
041and cheryl and jessica till we get our feet back on the ground and then we can go back and ask the town if they have any interest in having a careful people on the committee as they did before so i i think we could move the time i i can't remember i know but before we're meeting first it's been it's been all different times we did do 11 because it fit everybody's schedule then robin couldn't meet until four because she was the last board member besides seuss who's been since the inception you know so basically it could be whatever time we would like yeah i don't have one um probably i'd like to have one um in between thanksgiving and christmas just to say hello you know and kind of update where we are we
042do have a potential new agency joining us so that was why i wanted to update that and we also have a another potential speaker and the topic i wanted to run by the committee i think we're having that presentation in january so i would like to have a quick meeting like i said it can be virtual it'll probably be about a half an hour we meet typically what about every other month yeah so you think yeah okay yeah i could definitely be a part of that it was just the kind of time okay what time is best for you today thank you very much i'll be in touch with the date anytime i was gonna say yeah just shoot an email great and then the only thing other thing was throughout the border education was
043the charlotte uh subway pta meeting that i attended it's always wonderful to go back to subway to the beginning so um it was exciting to be there there's a lot of excitement down there in our primary school with our new principal um mr antonelli and it looks like they're implementing some new programs and disagree you know as well as keeping some of our our favorites that have been there for years and years so always good to be back at segway so then we're on to the public comment section we did with one person sign up but i just got to read through this real quick at this time public comments are invited from those individuals who desire to address the board of education on any topic which is not on the agenda residents who have
044previously signed up to speak will be recognized by the president when speaking please identify yourself first speak clearly and loudly enough for everyone in the room to hear you speakers are requested to limit their remarks to no more than three minutes to appoint a spokesperson if a concern is a group concern and if necessary or desired to supplement verbal presentations or written reports personal comments for a member of the community staff the board of education will not be considered appropriate so we just did have one gentleman sign up justin june justin shone grand island new york uh dr graham i'm wondering if you might i can't address you but dr burstein had belittled and ignorantly referred to all of our students as little disease vectors and i'm wondering if she gave you an apology since
045uh they are neither ticks fleas or mosquitoes and uh coven's not listed on the cdc website as a vector-borne disease i'd like to ask the board whether or not the preliminary discussions have started regarding new york senate bill a8378 which would require cove immunization to attend schools and whether or not we're prepared to reject mandates along those lines [Music] it's i propose that the entire grand island school district board of education stand up in front of the student population and explain to them why they're being burdened with society's health responsibilities you can bring the students in one at a time or however you need in order to social distance them while they are masked so they are not in a quarantinable situation and stand up on stage and explain to them stand up and explain
046to them why even though they are the least affected age group of coca-19 they need to endure the inconvenience of wearing mass in schools stand up in front of them and explain that you know that they can watch the director of the niaid and chief medical advisor to the president contradict themselves repeatedly on camera regarding the effectiveness and suggested requirements of masculinity but how it all makes sense stand up in front of them and explain why even though they are healthy show no signs of being ill that they need to miss seven to ten days of school even though most of them will not test positive for the virus during that time stand up in front of them and explain why even though the cdc states that reinfection of an individual that has already tested
047positive is rare and that it doesn't stating otherwise that even if they have tested positive in the past they should still be required to wear a mask and get vaccinated stand up in front of them and explain why the most athletic of them that play winter sports indoors have to wear masks while exerting a maximum physical and respiratory effort even though in their travel leagues that just ended they didn't have to stand up in front of them and explain why less than a thousand deaths among 72 million in their age range should have them living in fear of dying from this disease stand up in front of them and explain to them that as long as they wear massive quarantine like they're told to that we will continue that they will continue to earn our
048district millions of dollars in arp funding per year stand up and explain to them that even though the majority of their parents and their friends parents are opposed to max vaccine mandates they should ignore their parents and accept what the school officials impose the students at gisd deserve to be addressed directly in person by the entire gisd board of education the people that make them wear masks every day in school the reasoning and the logic behind the lunacy that they have to endure thank you sooner faster and keeping them in glad that we get to take part that there they're going to be getting if they have not yet signed up for aquaroo um several emails from our school so that once you get a reminder to sign up wrap room please do so you
049will be asked to complete the first time you'll have to complete it for now is the digital equity survey it is a mandated survey for all of you to complete as parents of students in our schools very short easy survey to fill out it's not something that you should be worried too much about but it is just to kind of assess our students accessibility to technology while they're both in school and at home this afternoon can i ask you a question about that yes so you have multiple children should you fill it out for each one you should fill it out for each child please yes um second thing is just want to give the board an update that our diversity equity and inclusion committee had their first meeting earlier today and i just want
050to say i'm very proud of the people who attended we had a great conversation about making grand island community in a home for all talked everything about the racially charged issues economically charged issues even issues such as our own homegrown islanders versus non-islanders came up so we really want great island to be a place where everyone feels welcome everyone feels accepted and that goes across the board for many different characteristics and our stories each individually can hopefully become one so happy thanksgiving everyone thanksgiving to everybody thank you for all you do so i'm happy to announce two and a half years after submitting for our destiny for subway playground it seems that we're on the end of the submission curve um we are doing some final signatures and then i should be able to submit
051for the reimbursement but uh i've never been so happy to receive a hundred thousand dollars in this world of millions um and also our american rescue grant submission is in the review process um i have a meeting tomorrow to go over a little uh back and forth that we're doing over a three-year grant and the level of detail of information they'd like to know so once that is done we will probably do a resubmission and then i should be able to update you when you get the final approval for that that is all i have happy thanksgiving and ruby i just want to add it was senator jacobs that worked with denise dunbar and uh her playground committee yes and that's where that one hundred thousand dollars was uh when we received it but yes
052to your point your submission it takes about two years initial submission was actually before i even started here in 2018. so it goes back a good three years of work but we submitted final uh items it's really interesting they're like when are you gonna what are you gonna start like we're we're done when you're gonna give me the money for it um so we're just going through that last bit but it's great news um that was a concern just with covet and everything else that they were going to start me and finger changing funding but it seems solid so i'll give you the update when i get the check real check not a large i just want to also wish everybody the happiest of thanksgiving whether you celebrate with your family or friends or both
053i hope it is joyful and a time to reflect on the things that we're thankful for so best wishes for everybody to have a wonderful thanksgiving okay just a couple of dates to go over here before we adjourn um we do have thanksgiving recess and i believe the middle school and high school is off the monday after thanksgiving for parenting photographers at middle school and high school december 13th is our max board of education meeting and december 24th through january 2nd will be winter recess what's up all right if anybody doesn't have anything else i will ask for during the meeting at 8 24 motion objections