001e that's what I was going to say [Laughter] [Music] just okay e e e [Music] e e e party mode we have a reporting members present and we are all here with the exception Mrs Crawford is she still uh we have our Pledge of Allegiance and we have two girls from saqua I think they're both from saqua have haror Ferguson and Kate hirers and Dr kofman's going to read uh biograph information okay so we have Kate hirees she's in prek she's in Miss Cochran's class her parents are stevenh and Cammy hirers her interests and hobbies are dancing singing playing dress up and wearing high heels skating riding her new bitee wearing lots of jewelry she even has a jewelry box in her classroom much to her teachers dismay playing with her American doll and swimming
002pretty much thumbs you up huh now we have Harper Ferguson she's in prek Miss farner's class um her parents are Keith and Beth Beth Ferguson Harper is an outgoing accessorized 5-year-old she loves to paint at school and play board games at home she enjoys gymnastics playing at the park and cheering on the telal Tigers at NSU riverhawks all right ladies just come on see it you see it I Al to the flag of the United States of America and to the republ stand Nation God indivisible good job [Music] [Applause] girl you [Music] got we're going to take your picture okay turn around and look at Miss blunt okay Mom heavy it's not heavy picture mystery boxes there's a cat girl look at look at Miss blunt [Applause] [Music] [Applause] item tiger roar we'll get girls
003[Music] so I am tigers roar we are uh honoring Junior High All State wrestler Hayden Justice and we also have Coach Gary Mur come up introduce want us up there so you'll be here for the picture yeah so my name's Gary mle I'm the junior high wrestling coach uh Aiden Justice is a seventh grader I know he wrestled at 155 pounds all year uh well most of the year and uh had a great great year for the year he's 25 and two um we finished first at prior we finished second at Wagner to a three-time junior high state champion who's a freshman so that tells you that and then at Junior High State uh in the seventh grade division we finished runner up got beat by the Champion by one point and in the finals
004of that constellation match he won 17- two 17 to1 yeah yeah we Tech fall uh in the second period so outstanding year obviously uh with that record and you know with seventh grader and as large as he is uh there's a there's a lot a lot to be excited about to say the [Music] [Applause] least three got it congratulations that's something proud of we have some State trophies ahe that young item C discussion and vote to approve the minutes from the previous meeting this was the meeting of January 21st regular meeting do I move to approve second you're yeah because I would here okay and all so Dr so obained item D you're ready to go Deputy Treasurer to report and then we'll have discussion and vote to approve the monthly Financial reports good evening
005the bank balance as of January 31st was $18 m3671 76 receipts for the general fund as of January were 8,218 38475 building fund $421,500 sinking fund 2,3 or 2, 3,631 44 that brings us um in general fund 9,317 2 962 building fund we're at 5, 350,977 2,578 sinking fund 2,279 18338 at the end of the month we did move $5 million to another account to draw interest off of for the time being and then we'll move it back over when we need it i' asked that that I was like why does general fund have $9.3 million and I love it but I don't know where that came from yes and changes money around for interest reasons yeah um activity account at the end of January 1,21 16,924 and6 cents we'll go over to utilities utilities
006this month electric we paid over $88,000 less than we did last January so that was good gas we paid um 2300 more this January than we did last January and then water and suar we paid $975 less than we did uh last January that's it the total savings for um we'll say $9,000 so sometime in the next couple months um the gentleman U Mr Fatam from ESP is going to come give us an overview of the projects that we have done for Energy savings and where we are on all of those projects pretty amazing it's it's doing what it was promised thus far that's so unusual I have a finance related question that you guys an exact answer for but we know roughly on our student on Child Nutrition where we were for the most
007recent month we have as far as what we in yes I got part of your report okay never mind I will withdraw that question [Music] appropriation so a supplemental we've never done a supplemental before because we've always had the co money that we've always gotten so since we no longer have that we're doing a supplemental to keep our what happens is the state tells us how much Appropriations we get like mid well no at the beginning you know we had $45 million as we spin that down you know that we want to keep the $5 million carryover well at midterm adjustment which is what we just got we got more money and so now we want to in we want to input that into our appropriation so we can show that we have that $5
008million carryover so on there you'll see the foundation salary incentive this is everything above what they thought we were going to get at the beginning of the year so we got 1.2 million more in our midterm adjustment and then we also got like $8,300 more in our state text quick allocation and then our interest earnings we don't ever put the full amount in there of interest because we never know we've got over $318,000 and so he went ahead and just added that in there so that's why our full um is 1.5 so after you guys board approve that I will add that in to our uh accounting software and then that will be reflected on all the reports that we do from here on out and we can add anything that we want anything new
009that we get after they do our original Appropriations for us we can add that anytime throughout the year to boost our numbers so we had such an influx of money with covid money that there was no need to put it into the budget until the end of the year so the last few years that's what this district has done uh the money is always in the bank but it's just not added to the tally until July but this year and we could have done the same thing this year it would have our carryover would have looked like 2.5 million and then they would have we would have added it back in July and it's just more transparent to put it in um so we know exactly what we're working with right one way or another
010it goes into the calculation whether we put it in now or it rolls into next year so one way psychologically it's nice to see it now rather than be at that 2 point whatever and when you have a $5 million goal yes trying to make sure we did that yes I appreciate that we discuss before we made a motion or a second do I have a motion I'll make a motion and we have had a discussion any more discussion okay Mrs Dr item principal director to have exective director and assistant superint and I are going to our professional development we'll take turns so we have sported this presentation at the first thing if you'll look um so if you want to go ahead to the next slide um these are some of the categories that
011we're going to talk about the learn upon the summer PV for 24 instructional coaches district and instructional PV Katie ker professional learning communities special education alternative teacher support with NSU initiative one summer PD that we're about to have okay so the first thing would be our required by the state and this comes from learnupon learnupon is an online platform that we use and it's it's nice because it prints the certificate it keeps the points for us if you look at the first Six Bullets so from bloodborne pathogens bullying fura hazardous Communications Title 9 and mcken vento homeless those are required every year autism every three years for all and then alcohol and drug awareness digital teaching child abuse Suicide Prevention and mental health are every five years we keep track of those the new law
012says that that um the employee will keep track of those but we keep track of those with Jessica Morrison has helped us she has a tracking system we put those in Sher Kimbell at the annex takes and puts in points because we still try to get 15 points a year in a 5year cycle 75 total points they can receive more than that but we still keep track of that one of the ones we do that for certified certified yes certified staff child abuse we do that every year we do not wait for every five years we feel like that is very important for everybody to be reminded that if you see something do something immediately report that whose responsibilities those are because we we feel like that's very important um we also give the teachers
0133 hours in the beginning of the year PD to complete that set of those that are um that are owed yearly so we make sure we have enough time allotted so they can do um all employees do we don't keep track well we keep track of everybody that has to take like uh blood warm path or whatever because we do have nons support we have the non-certified the support teacher that does have to do some of these too so we keep track of those in a different way the next one is our summer PD series and you were given a handout that should have shown you some of the selections that we had um this past summer we Lacy and you know our federal grants director she through grants pays for this PD so what
014she starts out with she's really good to do A needs assessment so she does A needs assessment with the teachers with the sides and you know to determine what do you guys want what are you needing what are some things that we need and then this last summer we had approximately 80 people we did two sessions that doesn't mean it's 80 different people but around 80 people that came um they will receive $100 a day the sessions are usually 8 to 11: and then they come back at one to three and we if you just do half a day because some of these sessions are half a day you get $50 and if you do two it's $100 a day and those are all paid through grants step down be back up in a minute
015next one is the very important to our professional is our instructional coaches we have two instructional coaches in the elementary Jessica morson and Cassie Stevens they work with all of our teachers most usually all of our people F we focus on the first year teachers all certified teachers anyone the principal suggest like there's something that you know they can give them at the middle school we have Miss Candace Jefferson that's a new position we didn't have that last year so when we gave this presentation Miss Keys had a Stern talk with us last year and so he just to say we now have an instructional coach at the school so and then we also have Mr Chuck pack at the high school and these four I mean they are very very vital parts to the
016operations of this school when you talk about instructional strategies and what they do these four do great I mean they make sure that all of our teachers are able to use all of our District programs the platforms that they have to use they're using High station Edge elastic anything like that they make sure that the teachers know how to do all of that we do a new teacher training at the begin these four work with all of those teachers talk about classroom management technology Mr pack at the high school does a lot of the technology fixing that I think he's at about 800 request a year to do all that so the instructional coaches are just very very important and we're glad to have them the next one is just PD that we offer to
017different staff members we have literacy first the structured language Basics and navigate kindergarten are both with Crossroads learning uh the letters training and if you go to anything about the science of reading they'll tell you that letters training is one of the most important things our state department we've had a lot of our elementary teachers uh trained in this they give them a stiping for that sometimes they pay us sometimes they don't but we usually we usually get the money somewhere they finally give it to us so uh we have Dr cersi with her writer's Workshop that is just extremely helpful has been very important in the elementary our ey station stuff computer science training prisms the VR training that is that's a hot thing at the high school they love the VR and Mr
018Pat does a great job with prisms of course we have mental health and first aid our behavioral threat assessment that Lacy Wilson she did the beginning of the year we had lots of people doing that our sa membership gives us lots of writing and math Workshops the K20 Learning Center and then anything but the events placement so we offer a lot of things we also some that didn't make the list Dr Barbara Sorel is very important of her uh trauma and how to deal with kids that have experienced trauma so our teachers really like that and this all goes back again to Lacy Wilson she funds all of this stuff with all of the grants gets us there we give the teachers a stien if it's outside school to go to it uh get them
019there get them home and then usually the principals will have them to sometime present on some of our PD days that they've been to a great Workshop they get to give what they've learned back to the staff then our next slide is probably our one of our most important slides and you can see we even put the little glasses and yall know I didn't do all that with techie Jessica s to him she goes highlight it get copy and go so all of our teachers that at the back of school they got the little teal glasses so that's kind of her signature is the teal glasses so when she goes to buildings people have them on so we contracted with her again with Lacy Wilson's money I don't know what we're going to do when
020that runs out but uh 19 days that Mrs Kinder has been will be on our campus from the beginning of the school and our back to school kickoff and she has tons of topics I mean this is just as detailed as she is I mean here's what 19 days will get you I mean the middle school the high school she's at sequa all three elementaries and what I really like about Katie ker is the high school and middle school teachers absolutely they fight over who is going to get to see ktie kinder that day and so when you can find something that the elementary they kind of love it all but middle school and high school they get nage and so we are glad to have Katie kimer here on campus and uh talked to
021some teachers and they're just in and I think Miss Jones summed it all up on one of her little comments with that Katie puts on Facebook and T said that Katie Kinder is a breath of fresh air and she has really just I think done a lot for our school district this year and we are excited to have her we hope we can continue that partnership throughout even next year she spoke at the beginning she did yes she did I I've seen the pictures with the glasses but I don't know what what does she what is her program or background well it's a little bit of everything it's anywhere from motivation classroom management new teachers um you know so she's done these are all the different things she's come here and she does a lot
022more than that but that's what we've had her come to do and we will have more we still have more days this year and we have more days uh scheduled next year and all of this you know like Cara said a lot it's Grant driven um we are so fortunate with the amount of money that we have in competitive grants that that's why we get to do these things if we were using general fund for this it would dwindle to learn upon and maybe one little thing um but this is what's going to change uh instruction for us this is what's going to get alternatively certified emergency certified um and like you just said get the rest of us renewed she really does that she just brings like an energy to a classroom or to
023a building and people feed off of that when they see it um and this has been a hard year for a lot of reasons in education in our state and really just our nation and so just a little bit of Rejuvenation and excitement is it goes a long way we took it where you know it's prek and when we went to misti's building one morning I mean it was just every teacher was standing at their doorway with their little glasses on just ready and she did nothing but just go in talk to the teachers for just a little bit and you just thought that it'd give them that $100 sh because it was great so yes she does lots and lots of things for our um School District so again we are thrilled to have
024Katie ker Katie Kinder maybe we can get a free day for thisal that we on very um the next thing we're going to talk about for just a moment is the professional communities that are at each site either by departments whether they meet on a planning time or whatever these communities of teachers that meet and talk about academics they look at the data they're data driven meetings at grade levels guiding Co we have guiding coalitions at Middle School and High School uh we have new teacher and mentorship programs with admin I you know I speak about it a lot but Abby really does a great job at her site with new alternatively certified teachers and all of the new teachers that they're required to go and observe so many times with other good Stellar teachers
025so they can watch and provide that time for them so that's nice late start Friday the high school they don't want to live without it because every Friday they have that time because if if an English has 10 10 English teachers all 10 cannot be off first hour you know so in order to plan together they have Fridays they have late start Friday and they have about 45 minutes that they can get together in their subject area so it it's very very valuable and I feel like high school will want to continue to do that and next I want to talk a little bit about special education um they also with our sped program I want to talk in our special education program of course we know that Miss Micki Malloy is the director over
026that program there are 34 special ed teachers there are 37 Special Care parents in the district there are seven speech teachers and right now we have five nurses each of those has something different that they do and and for our tier two that's what you call a special care PA there are certain things that they have to have in order to be these parents if you're a tier one you're just working in the everyday classroom and you have to know that if you have we have to have 48 college hours or above or you have to take a par protest you know you're high schooled upon all these things for tier two you have what you have required for tier one but then there are other qualific other things that you need to do you
027need to do CPR bloodborne pathogens other things that Nikki has together then there's just some of this um certification training and Melissa doson is certified in that now and so she want our special ed coordinator and she's been teaching and she teaches and supports them so IEP meeting expectations support teachers in understanding an IEP process and then our speech language path and each of those speech language has to do so many different types of trainings that we allow them to do the nurses have to do vision screening training diabetics training seizure training and cardiac arrest training every year so all of those things in that sped World in that special education World those Services Nikki and Melissa do a great job keeping track of that that support to principles and to everyone um the alternative
028teacher support right now we have um a agreement with NSU and this is our first year for teaching fellows and right now there are two we had three but one did not make it so these would be somebody that has a degree in a stem field math science or they're wanting to have that but they are degree they might have been one of our reps or they might not have been they North Eastern put that out for them to apply they applied we had three this year one was at the middle school and two were at the high school one of those did not stay and remain at the high school but we have two that are finishing out they are paid at much higher they're not paid as quite as high as a teacher
029but more than a a support person they have benefits from Northeastern State University what we do is work together to train them and they in a classroom with a a teacher that is their Mentor teacher and all year it's a full year program that they're together and then what the hope is is that when they graduate they apply for one of our positions and we get them we do know that both of the ones that are making it through this are going to apply for some jobs that we might have some potential candidates so you really get a good look at those next year we have seven more spots so we're going to begin to advertise that that is with camb Dr Renee cambiano and Miss Anna L and so we're working together so that's
030been a really neat program and a new help for us is it in stem specifically or is it cross it's really supposed to be in stem so we have one place in math and then we have one place in a tech ad program and so next year we already know there's going to be a couple for wanting the stem like robotics or something like that but that that's what the grant is for science math and Technology next thing we like to talk about is initiative one training we talked about a little bit back last year Mrs Jones has us all of the principles and District leaders were in the first Cort we made it through almost 12 sessions of doing this and uh we've probably we're being we've cussed cry we've each other we've hugged
031each other and it has been just really a phenomenal learning experience about our decision making the increased capacity and to relate and communicate and you can see all the things those are just the high points that we've covered we uh have done trust acceleration accelerators and we really focused on everything we say is positive intent Mrs Vance really takes that to heart back there the positive intent sometimes she has to remind me to be positive a little bit but uh no we do a really good job at that and uh kvr being kind direct and respectful Rhonda really has to work on that it's been a great great yes get up here and tell it all yes so and let's see what can I say about the other two see what you did for coming
032to the board meeting they are it's been a great great experience I think it has grown us as a district has led us to have our academic achievement meetings that we've had and so it's just really I think turned the leadership team into being much better leaders and uh we're all learning our strengths our weaknesses we're learning to verbalize things uh say how we feel as long as it is kind direct and respectful and with positive intent we have 100% confidentiality when we have our meetings and I think it has just really helped us all be better leaders and then this year Mrs Jones has decided that we are meeting with uh all of our VPS so we have that cohort this year and so it's been great because you know the VPS get left
033out of a lot of things they always have to work we always bring in the leaders and then they're there and so just getting that group together has been if nothing else getting to just get to know those people just a little bit better and having those three years and then we go through the same program and Dean and I and tamy are all in there with those guys and girls and it's just another been a great experience and then next year we're going to be do a train the trainer model with initiative one and then we'll start working with our thoughtful leaders in each building so it's just going to expand and get better we may even have some things for some board members so uh it's a just a great learning experience for
034and I think it's money well spent to for the betterment of our school district someone else facilitates that companies out of Wisconsin Dr Phil what you call I I lovely call it group counseling the days that because we're in both cohorts we do it all you know like six hours of it at time and I just tell my family have group counseling today all day it kind of feels like want group counseling good and then our last one of course is the summer PD for next year so so we'll do it just like this year Lacy sends out A needs assessment what people want and she tries to go get on July 14th we'll be a Katie Kinder day she will do the entire day and she'll have a she'll be the keynote all day
035long and she's already ready for that day so we are excited for July 14th and 15 and then to wrap up everything that's into that is you know we have a professional development committee made up of two people from every site ad minist TR Middle School is uh Miss Keys is on that this year and Mrs blunt and they're responsible for selecting our district teacher of the year and we will do that tomorrow all of our signed uh winners they will come in for an interview and there's a rubric that we fill out asking questions it is a very unique process so the hardest part for that committee is keeping it a secret from when we decide at 5:00 until it's announced tomorrow or Thursday morning at 8:00 so on Thursday morning we Mrs Jones
036will announce our district teacher of the year so we are just a I think here we offer a lot of professional development for the teachers our teachers like it and they use it wisely our administrators like it we got really lucky this year because last week because for some reason I approve Rhonda and five teachers to be gone all last week six teachers and then Amanda and Kristen were both gone Wednesday Thursday and Friday and I said this would be fine so the snow was very welome this past week we didn't have to cover for uh any of those people and they got to really really enjoy the conference so they were working so it's just uh it's great does anybody have any questions over professional development so initiative one is what you do as
037an administrative team to teach you how to it's to create better leaders and really to learn about yourself like you said kind of strengths weaknesses um about just leading and leading with Integrity coming up with goals uh you create a a two-word purpose through all of the sessions so we create that we look at values we look at goals individually so it's professionally and personally I mean it really helps both I think all of us would say that it's it's it's not inpection yes go and and car is definitely used a lot of the things know talking about being kind direct and respectful about delivering the mail having hard conver just because you're a leader doesn't mean a hard conversation is easy but being direct and being respectful I mean having a hard conversation is
038is being kind direct and respectful not dealing with what needs to be dealt with um is is not giving our employees the best so it's just helping us become better leaders and better people um so then we have have the assistant principles and like you said I love it because we get a few good meetings with them a year um and then they are they're they're taking care of the business of school when we do pull our leaders out but we don't pull them out of the building very often so it has been amazing for the three of us to sit in that group and even I think the aps together because they don't get a time and they don't have a cohort they don't have a a a late start Friday where they get
039together as a group so they have really bonded as a group and and grown as a group um and I love it because we get to see you know potential principles in that group we get to you know grow our own leaders um and then the Train the trainer piece that group will be trained then to go into each of their own sites and identify like the thoughtful leaders that's so the term that they use for that like who are your leaders and your buildings that can start to spread that out um through all of the sites and so we we've it's been hard I mean there he's not lying there's been cussing there's been crying there's been a little bit of everything but that's how you grow you grow through going through difficult things
040um and so yes yes 100% so I I every one of us have gotten something out of the train and it's GNA be very different what what everybody has um but definitely has been worth our money and our time I mean it's been an investment that we knew ahead of time we knew the dates and it's like you are there unless literally unless there you're a surgery or a death I mean they have made it where it is priority because it's really easy for things to get in the way of of things and we have just made it a priority so I thank them for that because I I know it's harder for them to leave the 500 people that they're in charge of at their site or more um to come down here for
041a few hours and uh you know we turn our cell phones off we don't use them um we do this 100% accountability and attention and you know we're present and that is super hard for any of us in this world nowadays to really just be present and and not let technology get in the way with that I have a question about so we heard about all these programs many of which are Grant funded were any of them impacted by any freezes on these are FAL GRS for the most part um or you know I know different organizations came out and said well ours are all front funded so we got it at the first of year so for this year we're not going to be impacted even if they are frozen by not getting any
042payment although we could be you know next year if there are cuts and they're not renewed but did we have any direct impact nothing this year we went through a few hours where we scrambled like everyone else and Sabrina got here and claimed every dollar that we had already spent that we might not have you know because the federal state grants we do monthly but federal grants we tend to do quarterly and so um she got right on there and we everything that we had already paid out we had tried to make sure we were going to get every dollar reimbursed but by the time um the the next day that had already been lifted I would expect that we would see more of an issue next year on the type of grants that might
043be available for us to apply for um not necessarily the grants that we already have uh and maybe fewer dollars just put into formula grants um I think there will be an effect and I think it's something that we're going to have to have on our mind when we do our budget um we've been told by a few credible sources that there could be like a 25% cut and like title one uh title two all those uh grants and those go to our state and then to us they go through this St funnel through the state um I have not heard that like about title six which comes directly to us it doesn't funnel through the state and again I think the competitive grants that we have will not be affected but what I would
044expect is the availability of things that we could go apply for will probably be edited quite a bit thank you any other discussion item F the superintendent report uh we have 524 employees right now 3,637 students which is down about 20 from last month um 162 prek kids 443 at Cherokee 494 at Greenwood 501 at Heritage 707 at TMS and 1310 at students at THS in central um transfer spots we have a few random through the elementaries uh nothing at Sequoia TMS or THS next month we set our capacity for the last quarter and um would expect that we would have no transfers that last that last quarter um on bond update uh the T-Mac steps I think feel like I've been saying this for a few months but um they really are in the
045finishing pieces of that uh so that's good uh Pac projector has been installed and already used Riser risers at Heritage are installed and have been used for a program uh TMS inter has been ordered some of it some of the pieces have been fixed but we're getting an entire new intercom system um and so most of that will be done over the summer uh we're just trying to make sure we have she has what she needs in between uh that time uh roof repairs around the district we have quotes to do all the repairs that are needed on the various sites and so uh that should be happening any time now uh think I mentioned the fencing that transportation the gate got a new gate we've put the fence out we've put the awning up
046um so we those things that we heard we got right to work on that uh parking lot expansion uh at Cherokee we're going to uh move back the fence back towards the end the back side of the Kinder wing and add a gravel lot uh right now it'll just be a gravel lot but it'll still be parking be more than we have uh right now so that is already in the works and uh we're going we've got a a a quote to paint the exterior of Cherokee uh to match the new portion on the other side um we just gave permission for Robert to get a new U Marquee sign electric sign ordered for the Performing Arts Center and really we're going to try to do we're to try to replace everybody's to be honest
047they they all need to be replaced and so buying um all of them at one time we get quite substantial discount and so we think we will be able to do that P the on one but give me a couple months and we'll surprise you with be like a step up closer to this one than the they will be yes you can have the actual picture instead of just the and the problem with I mean they get it's like a computer it goes out so fast so we're hoping we'll be able to buy something that where you can upgrade it as you need to where what we have right now you can't um the barn this evening there are two contracts for that a a contract with the construction management company and for the GMP
048they G guaranteed maximum price for that Barn like everything cost more than we're supposed to but it is what it is and we want our babies to have something nice and what we promised so it's on that is on here the iron building will be ordered as soon as this meeting is done uh with an expectation of 8 to 10 week time so we knew we' get that the the I'll say the red iron kit in May which is good timing that gives us time to do the clean up dirt work uh build the pad all of those things we'll have that ready by May 1st so when we get the building package we can get it up and then the completion date is scheduled for before school starts in August that's what I told
049people and that's what the schedule we're on right now magic yes ready um January attendance uh seoa went down a few as 85% uh Cherokee was 89.4 which again was down Greenwood was 91 which was down a couple percentage points Heritage was 88.9 which was down about three Middle School was 90.5 it was up from the month before so sickness must have been in that building the month before and high school was up a bit so our babies I think that sickness went through and kind of wiped out a lot wiped me out for a week and that is yeah not normal um so uh January child nutrition data we served 67,8 uh meals in 17 serving days uh we will PID Chartwells $222,450 16 cents other bills were uh right at 40,000 so 262,000
050is what we spent on um Child Nutrition that month we'll be reimbursed $262,500 19 so we're in the black for $121 37 [Music] yes we're moving in the right direction yeah I think the grabbing go Parts at THS um had already started and that was working TMS had just got started that was working so at TMs in December 18% of the students had a breakfast and in January 20% did um I'm sorry they yeah they went from 18 to 20 a thhs went from 133% in December to 20% in January and they had their grabbing go-karts up before the middle school did so I think we'll see that same jump at the middle school but we knew that getting breakfast counts up was going to be the change and so that's getting that that's good
051that's promising going in the right direction um it wasn't last I started to say last weekend because it wasn't because we're week late a week ago the Hall of Fame uh on a Saturday night we honored a many uh at the 10th Annual athletic Hall of Fame banquet those honored were Wilson Fargo Bart Frank Richard Davis Dan ree Mike Revis the 1971 baseball team and the 1996 baseball team it was a great event um the room looked beautiful the food was good the speeches were fantastic so uh I'd like to thank our Hall of Fame selection committee that' be coach Miller uh coach David qus uh coach David Spears uh coach Wilson uh coach King and uh athletic director Cloud um they put a lot of work and effort into that and so want I
052publicly thank them for that um this is the big announcement I I I meet with Lori once a month before the board meeting she would but I said I'm not telling you this so um go donations so I'm extremely excited to announce that the TPS received $16,779.23 [Music] [Applause] so $90,000 more than the first year uh this program transforms your state income tax dollars into funding for TPS you help students families teachers and the community plus you get a tax credit which saves you more than a tax deduction uh there's more information on the website if anyone's watching this or listening um and I want to thank our 2024 donors um Mr Jerry and Tracy halp gave a donation of $90,000 that's a two-year commitment by the way in order to get the the tax
053credit the tax 12 at 75% yes but it's incredible Gabriel and Julie Laney uh $2,700 Winston and darling Darlene cob $270 Paul and Judy Bizzle $2,400 Evert and Paula mutsig $2,400 JD and Karen Cary $2,400 Jen and Kelly seat $2,400 Josh and Laura Wendell $2,400 an anonymous donor of $1,800 um that you know year two that's a pretty exciting grow from that um and that money is going to be able to use uh help us with school supplies with well restricted yes we have to uh there are categories they can choose and they can choose yes they can choose TPS but they might some of these people said I want to give 500 to each school or I want to do some you know it might be sorted like that um and they can choose
054a very some very specific categories or some more generic categories um but it's all going back into so then we write a small Grant and we have an account that account and that way so we can monitor it and so we need to go back and be able to show what we spent funds on and that we can show that we made that that promise to that commitment that they made um on On Their donation and Nikki has been absolutely amazing it's one of those other little things that she says and everything T wants me to do that has ended up on her plate um and it it's but it's it's very good um 90 you know $100,000 and next year could be help us uh with the the school supplies for kids that you
055know as we know we're trying to look for ways to save money um we've lost a couple of the 21st century grants in the last couple years we'll be apping for another one we'll have another one going away um that's a potential of you know of hundred thousands or tens of thousands of dollars into our after school program or our robotics program so um so appreciated and um I know you would be excited because laia had been championing this for a really long time and so introduced this about about seven years ago so this has been something that I have been very hopeful about how much was it uh last year 106,000 77030 so thank you thank you thank you to all those donors that I just listed um a couple other things and then
056I'll stop talking there's some dates April 1 is the ossba day at the capital I don't know if you all have noticed some of the emails that they sent but if you are interested and us going as a group or anyone that would want to go to the capital that day um I can arrange that I'll just let you reach out to me and uh on April 1 um and couple of us went a year or two ago same type of thing we would just go up there meet at ossba and then go to our local legislators and make visits um on uh and I will send you this copy uh April 17th is the Zone 8 meeting day at ictc so there is an evening meeting on the evening of the April 17th that
057I will email you about and see if you can attend um wanted you to know that the teacher of the year and retiree reception is uh at 4:00 on April 22nd we always love um when you guys can come by that if you could uh reminder uh Accent on Excellence that's our end of the year ceremony is May 21st at 88: a.m. um graduation is on a Sunday at two o'clock uh May 18th two o'clock Sunday graduation um I will be emailing you and asking uh I need to move the September board meeting um that way I can attend the impact Aid conference uh right now we have it on Tuesday the 16th and we could do the 18th on a Thursday that week or we could go back a week like we did this
058so um if there's one of those two days then you can let me know um in the next few weeks then we'll change it in the next couple months and I wanted to point out that ossba uh conference has moved to a different week uh it's usually like the last weekend in August and this year it's the first weekend in September so it's September 4th through the 6th but that is a change that um and Again Britney will get with everybody and see who can go and that kind of thing but in your mind it it is a week later than normal and that's all I have for today very good I was thinking about the go donations which would be advantageous for all of us to make and if you were as an ptical
059example a retired teacher who lives on your retirement and Social Security and you only owed about 600 or 700 in state taxes if if that person were to make a donation to think and if you do it two years in a row 50% credit for one year uh and I think you can donate up as individual up to a th000 25 2,500 2 no that's as a couple that's a cple someone who but you know it's pretty amazing that you really recoup that donation 75% of it if you make the commitment for two years in a row so it's what it allows us to do as a district and for people all over the state is rather than sending your state tax money off for the legislators to divvy up decide how it's spent we
060get to S send a certain percentage of it we get to spend here and choose how we spend it in our local school district so it would it would make sense for all of us to do it and so and our our financial advisers in town also have more information for businesses because there there's couple of pockets like 100,000 foration it's up to 100,000 and they can even do some advertising that we can help with on that with our Facebook page and our meetings like that so so thank you it is a win-win situation in fact that I've never done is embarrassing well my name's not on there either it's a matter of just getting there figuring it out but we had two or three people do it the first year in the last month
061and look where it's grown to this year financial advisors tax accountants they'll watch that this is going on figure it out and then I'm sure they'll all be talking to us all about it car would like to mark that down as my presentation please we can do that he's not having positive I told her it wasn't even her turn to present and she's taking all of her time that's not kind direct but not kind [Laughter] in so do you ask back was that kind and respectful yes no I is that okay item G discussion and vote to approve the following sir plus do I have a motion I'll make a motion to approve second any discussion I Dr ever Dr Kaufman I and I item H discussion and vote to approve the following second any
062discussion item I discussion and vote to approve the adoption of the following policies I have a motion move second any discussion Neo I Dr and I business items consent docket vote to approve the following and it's one through four but on three trips out of state need to strike 3A which um that is not going to beated do I have a motion move to appr Second any discussion Neo hi Dr I Dr C I and I item K discussion and vote to approve uh Indian Capital technology M SC campus instructor Nisha Edwards as adjunct instructor for academic Credit in anatomy for the 2024 25 school year motion move to approve second she's teaching now right yes okay we do this at the beginning of the year if they de had a new staff member okay
063that's fine discussion and that was it motion had a motion so any more discussion Miss Nemo hi Dr hi Dr C and I item L discussion and vote to approve the schedule of encumbrances I'll make a motion to approve second any discussion Miss n i Dr ever Dr kman and I item M and I will make this motion motion vote to approve uh the following Personnel items and it's one through five on number two employment include the names lindsy husky OPAC educator Taylor Thompson Barner Parton Paris and Renee Gus guso is that you pronouncing Special Care PA of pending certification a motion I'll second that made motion I'll second any more discussion I Dr and I