001Not used to these mics yet. All right, just some housekeeping. Please take note of the emergency exits on the side behind you. There's no smoking anywhere on school property. And if you're planning to address the board, please sign in on the sheet provided. Our meeting is being streamed on our district YouTube page. So we will go into correspondence. >> So good evening. I do not have any correspondence for tonight. >> So I have an honorable mention. I just want to acknowledge the annual ALC welcome back barbecue that happened on August 28th. That's it. >> That's all I have. >> All right. Next, we'll move down to the consent agenda. Can I get a motion to approve? >> Fran second. >> Jane. Discussion. All in favor? >> I. >> All right. 6. Thank you. Next, we'll
002go to reports. Superintendent. >> We had convocation on September 2nd where we had the opportunity to invite all of our staff back together. We had the opportunity to o have an overview of the areas of focus for this year as well as celebrations that we've had on the all of the hard work that has been done as well as acknowledge all of the construction in our district that has happened. We had a guest speaker that was an alumni and had an opportunity to hear the impact that Valley Central and the staff had on his life and his continuing able to live his dream and how he is giving back in the community and is willing to come back to work with our children as well. Um he is an opera singer for the Metropolitan um
003opera and is presently practicing and rehearsing for a show that's coming up soon. So unfortunately he was not available to be here in person um but was very happy to share um his recollection of his experience here as well as his brother who's also an alumni. He was very grateful and honored um our teaching staff as well for all the hard work and love they had given him. At superintendence conference day we had an opportunity to have um our teachers prepare for the for the year um able to have staff meetings as well as be in their classrooms. And I know that Miss Moika will elaborate on the professional development day that happened between those days. Opening day visits. Um I was able as long as along with the assistant superintendent visit different school buildings
004and all of the staff from the district office actually went to a school to help out on the first two days. So they were greeting students at buses or helping students get to their classes in the office and a number of other things so that we are there supporting all of our schools open up. Um students didn't miss a beat. Didn't it did not seem as if they were away at all. Um they were very happy to be back and things went smoothly on both both days and has continued to do so. I do want to take this opportunity to encourage parents to attend open houses. one begins tomorrow at East Coldenham, but we have a series of open houses um this week and next week. It's an opportunity for you to visit your child's
005school and learn about many things that are happening in the school and how things operate, who to speak to, where to go, and all the things that you need um as well. And so I will be at most of all of the open houses speaking to all of the parents before they get the opportunity to visit classrooms um just to talk about the district's vision for this year. And so thank you. >> Next we'll move on to the assistant superintendent for business. >> All right. Thank you, Mr. President. A few things tonight is uh first as a reminder for the audit committee which is before the board meeting on September 22nd. Um next startup of school on the transportation side did go very smooth this year. Thank you very much to Renee Marchant uh who
006works in my office. Um she really had a heavy lift this summer as most of my time and dedication was geared towards uh the construction project and some other responsibilities and as well as our first student um staff drivers and uh monitors. So, thank you to everybody for their efforts to to get a smooth opening of school. On the construction side of things, I'll turn it over to Bill in a few minutes for a report on that. Thank you to everyone that was involved from CSR's Palumbo Group, all of the contractors, and a lot of our district staff that really chipped in, Matt especially. Um, we saw Matt around all summer, uh, on ladders, in ceilings, here till 12:30 one night, here till after 11 another night. So Matt really uh goes above and beyond
007for us. So thank you very much. Um still some loose ends to to finish up which I'll I'll let um Bill speak to. Uh have been getting into faculty meetings to uh talk to staff and hear about any concerns that they may have. Um we got to ALC Berea High School and uh we're going to Montgomery Elementary School uh tomorrow morning. And with that, I would like to offer the opportunity after tonight's meeting if you would like to do a quick walk through Berea. Um, and you can see the progress that was made over there and if you'd like to schedule a time to see the high school science classrooms, we can set that up. So, that's all for me tonight. >> Thank you. All right. Next, we'll move on to the assistant superintendent for
008curriculum and instruction. >> Um, good evening. We had a very successful opening day at school. I was at East Golden and B and Berea Elementary School. I have to say as a former elementary principal, it's always great the first day of school, especially with kindergarteners because they're like, I think I know where I'm going. Or the first graders who are who I mistakenly called kindergarteners and they reminded me that they are now in first grade. Um, but that that was very exciting. In regards to our professional learning sessions, we were able to align our professional learning sessions with our key focus areas for this year. So start um success starts with clarity and learning targets uh beyond the buzzword. So authentic growth growth mindset in the classroom as well as our MTSS and beginning to
009unpack not just our plan but what MTSS is and what that looks like in our district aligned with what the framework is for the state as well as leveraging AI because you can't forget about AI at this point but um leveraging AI as a co-pilot. Those were specifically for secondary teachers at the elementary level, they had they had collaboration time to really get into CKLA. Um although it wasn't a uh facilitated by CLA, the idea was for them to explore their materials, begin to plan together as grade levels districtwide so that they had that time because in June they had six hours of someone presenting to them and we all know it's important to get into the work as well to get planning. Um in addition to that our departments were able to collaborate at
010different levels. So in regards to your core areas and department areas uh the our nurses were able to update uh forms and guidelines. Our related services were we're able to collaborate on schedules districtwide. So many things just really building upon coherence and um and consistency across the district as we continue to build on that. And let's not forget our three C's from two years ago either, even though we have our new strategic plan in place. That is all I have for this evening. >> Thank you. Next is the assistant superintendent for human resources. >> Good evening. Uh so I had the pleasure of attending opening day and welcoming back our students at Walden Elementary School. I was also able to visit Montgomery, the high school, and the middle school, uh who are all off to
011wonderful starts. We held our Viking induction program VIP on August 26th, welcoming our newest faculty members to Valley Central and providing them with valuable information about the district and their new job. 100% of the respondents rated the session as very important and they provided valuable feedback which we may be able to incorporate into next year's sessions. Uh on this agenda, we are hiring two new teachers, four PAR professionals, two custodians, and a maintenance foreman to the district. So, we welcome those uh those new employees to Valley Central. And that is it for me. >> All right. Thank you. Next, we'll move on to the capital project update. >> Good evening, everybody. Um I'll try and make this quick as uh we're very tired from two months of uh heavy lift here. So, uh I just
012want to start off with with what Brad was saying. I I say this every meeting that I come to with you guys on how important this and how great this district was, how everybody came together, uh right from the custodial staff right up to the superintendent, right to Brad. Um you know, putting on their shirts and jumping on and and helping us out. It was really amazing and it was uh teamwork at its best. So if we could teach a valuable lesson as a educators, uh it was just amazing teamwork and I want to thank everybody for that. So uh where we are today is we got opened up the buildings very successfully. Um, I know we did a walk through and a lot of things were were uh there were concerns, but we we
013definitely pulled it off. Uh, not to say that there's still not a lot of work to continue. Uh, we had this uh very strategically planned that we had we were going to do this amount of work schedule-wise over the summertime, get the buildings open, get health and safety and the the secure vest wheels completed. And then all the infrastructure like the McGomery Elementary School Boilers, which is going to do a switch over next year. We're going to do all the infrastructure over the at night uh this coming week. Um and a lot of power and data. So, an amazing amount of power and data uh took place in every one of these building. There's about over 200 drops just in the high school for the science room alone. Uh some of those things are continuing
014to happen at night. Um and I we're planning on the next week and a half to get that finished. Uh we do have electricians and contractors. They went right from dayshift right to night shift. Uh but we managed to get all the Prometheian boards on, you know, everything that we could get for the teachers to come in the next day and function their classrooms, but we're still working on, you know, putting that that that button on there and and uh calling it a success. So, um if you ask me, I think we had a great great summer. Um and I we got a lot of work to go and next summer we'll do it all over again. Maybe a little less work happening this time. Um but we're we're we're doing great. Um the track,
015uh if anybody noticed, they started uh painting lines on the track today. So, uh, we plan on be ready for for the opening of, uh, next Friday of the football game. So, that's going to be great. Um, and, uh, we're continuing the work and and scheduling for the next projects, right? We've on top of the workload that we had, uh, we've been planning, uh, for the next projects as well coming up, which we'll talk about in the future. So >> just Bill, real quick update on Montgomery and the ALC offices, which are just not completely there yet, but I know Bill always preaches lead time. So we've got some doors that are, uh, expected to land shortly, but also power and data there. So if you can just touch on that. >> Sure. So um,
016tonight we should be completed with the power and data in those two main offices. Um, so we can move everybody back in there. But as far as the face spaces being finished, um, they're finished. Um the doors at ALC, if you notice when you walk up the steps, they're about 9 and 1/2 ft tall. So those are customordered doors. Um not something that most factories are used to making. Uh we're expecting them shipped anywhere between the 19th and the the 23rd of September. So we still have a little bit of ways to go there. Uh we do have temporary doors on some of the main offices. If you see a white slab, it's a temporary door. Um just because we did not procure them in time. uh doors, hardware amongst a bunch of other things
017just have such a tremendous lead time on there. But we were we knew it was going to happen. So we got the temporary doors in place so that we can at least lock and secure the buildings. >> They are done. They have they have air. They have air conditioning. Very happy. So yes, >> good job. >> Thank you. >> All right. Thank you very much. All right. Next we'll go on to the Ox delegates meeting. Yes. >> Oh, thank you. Um, so I attended the meeting last week. Um, the uh main presentation was from the um Alcohol and Drug Awareness Council of Orange County. Um, I have a a folder handout that they gave us of all the different programs that they have. Um, they're a tremendous resource. I think Valley Central is one of
018the one of the very few school districts that we actually have someone from their program embedded in our district. um which is fantastic. Um so there's, you know, the usual um programs on here, Red Ribbon Week, Teen Intervention, you know, things you you've heard of before. A new one that they added this year is actually um gambling and online gaming, >> which is kind of coming up as, you know, now that there's all the um online betting um it's becoming a problem for um some teenagers. Um so that's another offering that they have. Um it was a very good meeting. Um we also talked about some of the other things that are going on um with Boseies. They had a ribbon cutting for their um capital project that was ongoing at Ardan Hill um last
019week. and um in that and they also talked about the um the schedule for the um delegate voting that's coming up in October which I think the email just came out yesterday or maybe today from Oxa with all the resolutions that we need to look at and and discuss as a board. >> So I'm going to pass this around and then I'm going to leave it with whoever wants it at that table. Good. >> Yep. Thank you. >> All right. Next, we'll move on to community participation. We'll start down here. Bob, >> so it's not exactly a a VC event, but I went to the parade, the Montgomery Day parade. We had a number of VC student groups go through there. Um, I have the advantage if it goes right by my house, so it's
020easy for me to see it. Um they we were very well represented and and the kids looked like they were having a good time. >> Great Fran. >> Nothing to report this time. >> All right, Jane. >> Um I was able to um wait, did we visit the buildings last week or was that the week before? Was that building visits? Did that happen after last the last meeting? Yes. All right. So I visited all the buildings. Um, I can't wait to see the finished products um because there was still a lot of work um going on, but um very exciting to see the new science um wing in the high school and um all the new um entries to each one of the schools. Um I was also able to attend uh convocation this year.
021Um it was um very unfortunate that the speaker couldn't be there in person. Um and I think that probably led to the fact that it was a little less inspiring than previous years, but um it was a it was great to have alumni talk about their experience here at Valley Central. >> Great. Thank you. >> All right, Diana. Um, I also attended the school visits to go and visit the work being done at the middle school, the high school, and at Montgomery. And kudos to the crew that got all that work done because when we did our walkthrough, it there was a lot to be done. So, congratulations and and getting all that all that together. Um, I also attended induction and spent some time talking with the new hires. It's always fun to talk
022to them because they're so excited and really excited and happy to be working at Valley Essentials and so it was really nice to see them. Um I also attended convocation day and I attended the Montgomery Day parade and rode the float with the Montgomery Elementary staff and students with their um the neon theme this year. Um always a good time handing out candy, looking at the smiles and um just a wonderful day for everybody. >> I was able to attend all the building tours and I will echo some of the other board members and Brad that just amazing the amount of work that was done and the amount of time and effort that went into really getting it ready for the kids for the first day of school. I am also excited to go see
023Bura. Um I went to new teacher induction and got to listen to Mrs. Quit Tony, which is worth it right there in addition to being the new teachers. And I was able to attend freshman orientation where I got to hear the interimm principal speak a little bit which was nice to kind of hear a little bit about his background, what he's bringing to Valley Central, and just kind of seeing how the year might go under him. That's it. >> Great. All right. I was able to tour Montgomery ALC and the high school. uh went to induction and convocation as well. And uh I'll just echo kudos to Ryan and his team because even as we were doing the tours, they were like going like ants with just moving boxes and everything. And uh Brad, I
024know Brad worked the weekend and uh I went by the middle school at six o'clock Sunday night and I bet was out there picking up garbage in in the driveway. So I'm sure that was a fun weekend for all. So good good work by everybody. Sure. >> Thanks. Um, I also just want to say thank you to uh Brad and Ryan, the custodians, everyone that took the time out to give us the tours because they really I'm sure they were probably like, "Yeah, yeah, I look so we can go back to work." But they took their time and very much appreciated. >> Okay. Uh, public comment. Okay. All right. So, we'll move on to old business. And can I get a motion for the approval of the high school curricular for drama production and workshop?
025>> Fran second. >> Bob discussion. All in favor? >> Opposed? 6. Thank you. Okay. So, we have uh two items for new business that we're going to walk on. So, I'm going to um call your attention to the updated memo that we just received that aligns with the agreement with VCAA. So, I'm just going to call out the changes so that we see them and then we'll go into the approval. So, on the memo from Ivan, you'll see in the first paragraph, fourth line down in brackets, uh or ending upon the hiring of a new high school principal, whichever occurs first was added on that page. And on the second page, uh all the way second from the bottom, you'll see notice. If either the district or Mr. ID Petro wishes to terminate their employment
026relationship, they'll provide at least 14 calendar days notice to the other. So this way this puts us in sync with our uh position as well as the agreement with VCIA. So okay. All right. So I will take a motion for the appointment of the interim principal at the high school. >> Jane Katy second discussion. All in favor? >> I. >> 6. Thank you. Motion for the approval of agreement with Valley Central School District and VCAA for the said interim principal at the high school. >> Diane. >> Diana. >> I'll second. >> Jane. Discussion. >> All in favor? >> 6. Thank you. That brings us to the end of our meeting. Matt, thank you for being with us. You get to go home before 12:30. And I will take a motion to adjourn at 658. >>
027Huh? 654. Sorry. >> Bob. Bob. Second. Second. Katie. Second. All in favor. >> 6. Thank you. And if you wish to do a tour of Brad, please the door.