001Mr. Vice President, whenever you're ready, >> shall we stand for our pledge of allegiance? >> I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. >> Good evening to everyone and on behalf of the MSD Pike Township School Board and the administration, we welcome you tonight to our regular MSD Pike Township School Board meeting, August 28th, 2025. At this time, we will open up with a good of the cause. Does anyone that have anything that is for the good of the cause? Take your name and give us three minutes or less. Thank you. >> Good evening members of the board. Um Dr. Young, my name is Ben Church. I am the vice president
002of membership for the Pike Classroom Teachers Association. This evening, PCTA hosted an event at the Performing Arts Center, and it was great to see all the educators who are ready to stand up and advocate for public education. They know their students deserve the best, and these educators are going to fight to make sure that happens. In just a few days, PCTA and the district administration will be coming to the table for the bargaining process. Educators in the district are looking for a fair and competitive contract that will encourage teachers to continue working in the district and will attract highquality teachers to the district. Pike has an opportunity to be the district that educators from all over the state seek out. What is the best way for you to attract and maintain great teachers in Pike?
003Make sure that it gets into the contract. A great contract will make hiring and training easier for the district because there will be less turnover if the teachers feel appreciated for their dedication to the community. Two years ago, the state legislators passed a law that changed discussion from districts shall have discussions to may have discussions about working conditions. Bike administrators have continued to work monthly with PCTA to discuss such topics. However, if you lose your next election, if the current administration changes their jobs, or if PCTA changes their leadership, that is not guaranteed. This is valuable time for collaboration to solve problems between educators and administrators. PCTA has asked multiple times for the school board to create a board policy requiring that district admin and educators continue to collaborate and have discussions. Yet, we still
004do not have a board policy requiring discussion. I'm here again requesting that you create a board policy that states district admins shall have discussions with the teachers union. The state law for evaluations has changed. Dr. Young has agreed to create a committee with administrators and PCTA members to create a new evaluation process. We look forward to seeing evaluations that are fair and equitable for all teachers in the district. Finally, public education is under attack at the federal and state level. As educators in the district, we need leaders who will be brave and do the right thing for educators and students, even if it is difficult. We need leaders who will stand up and speak out in the face of injustice. Martin Luther King Jr. said, "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he
005stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands in times of challenge and controversy." Will you stand during these times of challenge and controversy? Will you speak out for communities that are hurting? Will you do everything you can to make Pike strong? >> There. Anyone else for the good of the cause? >> No one else. Then we're on the spotlight on Pike Dorsy. >> Good evening. It's wonderful to see you all again. This school year is officially in full swing and things are continuing to go remarkably well. Amazingly, um, Monday, which happens to be Labor Day, will be a full month since the first day of school. Uh, an impressive number of our student athletes have received an impressive number of college offers. This week, we had the opportunity to congratulate Alana Divine,
006a member of our semistate winning Pike High School girls basketball team, for committing to continue her academic and collegiate career at the University of Detroit Mercy. So, we want to congratulate Alana. We're so proud of her and are looking forward to a tremendous season. On Saturday, 14 of our theater students from Pike High School had the opportunity to attend the first Indie Metro Tech Theater Day at Warren Central High School. While there, they went to workshops on sound, lighting, rigging, and scenic painting and spoke with local businesses, colleges, and industry union representatives about the many pathways to enter that field of work. Yesterday, our Pike High School unified unified flag football team took to the field to play their first game ever, which is remarkable. Today, Pike High School hosted Senior Sunrise for the class
007of 2026. Tomorrow, our Pike High School football family will play their season opener, which will be available to watch via live stream if you can't be there in person, courtesy of our RTDV, RDTV students with support from our IT department. Um, we're very excited that in September there will be several opportunities to catch our performing arts students in action. Uh, there is Pike High School's orchestra doing a sidebyside with the Filermonic. There's choirs and construction and there's also a free show from our theater students called How I Became a Pirate. So, those are going to be phenomenal. We have homecoming coming up. So, if you'll save the date for that, we'd appreciate it. That's Friday, September 19th. And then of course, last but never least, thank you to the donors listed on this evening's agenda.
008Circle City Security LLC made a donation worth an estimated value of $1,700 to our Pike Red Zone food pantry. The Screaming Eagle Soccer Academy donated 13 balls and two bags with an estimated value of $389 to our Pike High School girls soccer team. Anton Holland donated football cleat with an estimated value of $180 to Guy Creek Middle School and Kent Robinson donated three ring binders and hanging file folders with an estimated value of $20. So we sincerely appreciate their generosity. >> Thank you. We are on to report to the board. Looks like first reading the board of education policies. Dr. Maggie Bishop. >> Good evening, Mr. Vice President, members of the board, and Dr. Young. This evening, there are nine policies for you to review. I promise we're almost there. Um, after this nine, there
009will be a remaining nine um for you to review. Please, um, if you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact me. Um, all of these policies are revisions based on July 1st updates from legislation. So, some of these policies you may have seen before, but there was additional revision based on uh new laws that went into effect July 1st. So, please do not hesitate to uh contact me should you need additional information from me. >> All right. Thank you, Dr. Bishop. Um, back to school update, Mr. Alina Hartman, and >> good evening, vice president, members of the board, and Dr. Young. Thank you for allowing me to come and present all the back to school um some back to school fun along with kind of what our theme are for each building for the
010year. Um, our back to school night was a huge success. very well attended. Um I asked principles to share with me some pictures of the um first few weeks along with some points of pride. And so what you will see in the next few um pictures will be our students honing in on the positive learning environments having many opportunities for great collaboration and learning and really just getting down to the work of school and all that school has to offer. Um, we'll start with the threes. Um, our three-year-old program is growing. Our enrollment in our threes is growing. Our littlest learners, they are on their educational journey. um learning a foundation of social emotional wellness and AC early academics through what you see there structured play and meaningful classroom experiences and really just learning how
011to um be a part a strong part of a school community. Um next up is our four-year-old program and well first of all our three-year-old program is led by Mrs. Gustin Bolinsky. Our four-year-old program is led by Mrs. Blandon and they are focused on strengthening the things for the threes but especially the early literacy um skills and foundations. The theme for both the threes and the fours is one team one dream and um it basically reflects a commitment to fostering teamwork, curiosity and love of learning. um they had over 150 attendees at their back to school night and so that's that's pretty good for our for our little um red devils. Um first up for the elementary we have Central Elementary and the Cardinals and Mrs. McGee and her team they are honed in on
012both growth and proficiency. Um Central third graders had a 71.8% the 8% proficiency rate for the I read 3, which was a 8.4% growth over the previous year. Um, their theme is together we can dream big, work hard and make an impact. Um, and so they are also working to strengthen their um um parent connection and they have an allp pro dads club that is doing well and well underway. um for College Park, Mr. Botsford and his team, their theme for the year is better each day. And um they're they're Mr. Botsford says that they're all excited and they are using data to really um plan for instruction daily and to really meet the needs of every individual learner. They are really celebrating right right now and proud uh are proud of their staff, their
013students and their families. They received an 84% pass rate on i3 and so they are um hoping to even make elevate that for this year but still quite a quite a success. Um dear run the Bucks um that is Mrs. Graham and her team and their team, their theme this year, if you uh you remember last year was no better, do better. And so this year is no better, do better, dot dot dot the shift. And so um their second graders um uh pass rate for i3 was 40.6 and that's compared to the 19.8 from last year. So they are really moving. um that group of kids obviously this year will be third graders. Their third grade pass rate last year was 74% pass rate. So it's just a great demonstration of the hard work
014of staff and students um and the community. Um Dear Run is a multilingual community. They have over 50% of students who are English language learners. Eagle Creek welcomes a new principal, Miss Kendra Randall, and their theme for the year is see the good, be the good. Um, and Eagle Creek is off to a great start, welcoming 300 families to back to school night. I have a feeling it had to do with getting a glimpse of the new principal, but nonetheless, we welcome them um and are excited. Miss Randall is building a great school community by hosting meet the meeting of the minds where scholars of the week are honored uh at each grade level. And you can see the picture it looks like of one of the very first uh kids scholars that was honored
015there, Miss Willa. Eastbrook Elementary, the Tigers, Miss Gardner is thrilled to share the growth of students uh the growth they're making in reading. Um they had a 75.8 8% pass rate for their third graders. And that is up from 63.8% pass rate. And that's great. We're excited about that. But what's even more exciting is that 60 just under 60% of their second graders passed I read already. And so those kids are third graders this year. So we're celebrating. But um the academic is great. However, there's some um um athletic excellence happening at Eastbrook as well. The running club um celebrates three years in a row of first place finish at the Red Devil dash. So, um uh Fishbach Public Academy, the Explorers, Dr. Steel and her team, they are continuing to celebrate academic excellence. Um
016their theme for the year is gearing up for success, building a better world. Um they were named last school year um the Indiana Department of Education STEM certified school and they worked all year to do all the pieces to meet that accreditation. And so they were celebrating um schoolwide for that. They're also celebrating an 88.7% pass rate on iie 3. The Guyian Creek Gators are leveling up this year. That's their theme. They also have a new principal, Mrs. Gardener. And she states that their theme reflects a shared commitment to growing and leveling up in key areas, instruction, relationships, schoolwide procedures, and processes. and she's excited to get focused um in this year and and ensuring that Guyian is a place where teaching and learning is fun, it's engaging, and it meets the academic goals um
017academic goals and student success. New Augusta Public Academy South is next and the Phoenix and Mrs. Foster and her team strive to maintain consistent academic progress for all students and their theme for the year is incredibly determined soaring higher. Um and so um New Augusta South has strong partnerships with families and community organizations that support student success and achievement. And as you can see um one of the pictures is a club picture. their sewing club is underway and the kids are holding up proudly the types of products that they have been able to um make during the club. And then last but not least is Snacks Crossing the Rockets. Mrs. Jones and and her team, they are off to a great start. Um they're eager to uh really dig in and continue the work from
018the previous year. Their theme is you matter, empowered to learn, encouraged to grow. They are celebrating 39.1% of their second graders. Um had a pass rate of they had a pass rate of 39.1% of their second graders last year get over that third grade test. So they're pretty excited because that is up from 20%. So that's pretty significant. Um and uh really want to see what that group of third graders does this year. So that is preschool and elementary. I thank you for your time and I will invite Mr. Inman to join me. >> Thank you, Mrs. Hardman, uh Mr. Vice President, members of the board, Dr. Young. >> We have had a tremendous start in our secondary uh schools um to to begin the year. Um I want to start with uh Pike High
019School. Um this is actually a photo of the class of 2029 um at freshman orientation. So we had a tremendous turnout with with getting the class of 2029 out. Uh obviously we had an orientation for them, but uh it's first time we we've had them uh go to the football stadium and take a composite photo there. So, uh, very excited to get them in the building and start their high school career. Uh, the theme for for Pike High School this year is moving the needle in 25 and 26. Uh, and that just pertains to getting better every day, building on your successes that you've had in the past. And we actually had a lot of success last year. 96% graduation rate, 90% federal graduation rate for the second consecutive year. zero graduation waiverss uh needed
020for the second consecutive years. 8,343 college credits earned. Think about how much money that is saving our students >> and and their parents. Um I mean it's that's one of our main data points. How many how many kids are getting college credits at Pike High School? And you can see that uh that's a large amount. Uh increase in overall SAT scores. Another benchmark that we closely monitor, highest AP scores, and again that goes into college credits. If a student gets a three, four, or five on that AP test, they would get college credit. Obviously, we had Mrs. Gracial Miranda as the Indiana State Teacher of the Year. Tremendous celebration there. I think it's probably this only the second one in in the history of Hike Township. So, to have Mrs. Miranda as the uh ambassador
021for the state of Indiana is tremendous and she is great. I I know you guys have probably spoken with her. Um awarded best community for for music for the second consecutive year. And the Lady Red Devils, that's semi-state champion. I guess they are regional champions, but it should say semi-state. I think one one shot away from going to the state uh championship. So, a lot to celebrate at Pike High School. some of the events coming up. Obviously, homecoming is the big one. Uh making sure that we uh have a tremendous week to celebrate the accomplishments uh of the district really. Um one one initiative that we started this year, and again, we got to give Dr. Young and the ward a lot of credit for letting this use evolve. um we we get over 3,000
022students in um in a timely manner and in about 15 minutes uh they come in um and uh go through the evolved system. It's funny I spent way too much time at IU Methodist this year and they use the same system. So, um um but uh the staff has has done a tremendous job helping and uh getting students through and uh again keeping keeping us safe and secure is the main priority there. Here's kind of the the main gym here. You can see the the first photo of the demolition and then the uh the added adding of the wood and then that is the finished product. Uh right now I was in the high school yesterday. They're putting up the bleachers and that's going to be a tremendous competition gym for us here. Um and
023uh again we look forward to adding more of those state championships on that floor and in different basketball boys and girls. So but uh that that's going to be a nice nice uh place to to compete in Pike Prep. This is uh Mr. Cooper's fourth year. Last year we had 138 students earn their Pike High School diploma using Pike Preparatory Academy. And again, I know Dr. Young mentions this this a lot. That's 138 students that probably would not have graduated from high school and they're they they were able to get through there. Um, class of 2026 graduation is May 28, 2026. So, we'll definitely put that on our calendar. Um, Mr. Cooper, as I said, this is his fourth year at Pike Prep. He said this is by far his his best group in the
024four years. The attendance is is high. Um their their motivation is high. So again, just establishing that that culture of hey, uh we want you to get through. You got to be motivated to get through and we'll do everything we can to help you be successful is is very evident at at Pike Prep. expanded our graduation pathways to include more opportunities uh at Pike High School for Pike Prep students. So, we do have a lot of students that may be in uh in the barberine, cosmetology, HVAC, taking those pathway career pathway classes there and then moving on to uh the Pike Prep in the afternoon or in the morning depending on how their schedule works. So, we expanded that. they were uh visited by the department of education who did a did a shout out
025and said this is the exemplary program and uh I'm very very happy to get that those accolades from the Indiana Department of Education. So New August North Public Academy Mr. Jobs a veteran principal quote their education is the key that unlocks endless opportunities throughout your lives. I think we all agree with that. Um and uh again as a veteran principal he he's staying with his three C's uh content connecting students to learning culture connecting uh students to each other and then community connecting students to the real world. So again that's that's kind of his theme going into the school year. A veteran administrative team you can see Dr. Payne, Mr. Davves and then Mr. Bishop as uh the administrators there at New Augusta North school ren re renovations. And I know Mr. Guber touched on
026this and showed a lot of photos last week. Here's some more. And and again, when you go into a building that looks like this, you're going to be excited to learn in that building. and uh the if you haven't had a chance to to go to the three middle schools, what they've done there, and uh just the the uh the renovations and the beautififications that have happened. Um it really really makes you uh want to be in that building. So, uh again, we appreciate you guys' support for for that. Gian Creek Middle School, where every culture ignites learning. reason he put these photos up here is he uh and it really all our secondary buildings we had very very low turnover maybe one maybe two teachers you know a couple years ago we're trying to
027get 12 14 teachers in the building uh in the summer very low turnover I think guy only had two hires to make um and uh again when you have that stability it it means a great deal to uh to how your schools run and the uh and the improvement that you can make. Here's the vision again. You got Mr. McKenna. This is his third year as as as principal with Mrs. Burnsworth and Mr. Gardner. But Guyan Creek School aims to prevail our students to become productive me members of society that value embracing cultural differences, scholarship, and honoring the stakeholders responsibility for their middle school experiences. So, kind of kind of what what their their focus is going to be. And again, the renovations there. I can't I'll touch on this again with with Lincoln, but
028uh uh if you haven't had a chance to get to those buildings, make sure you do and and see the uh uh just just the the changes that that have taken place. upcoming events at Gyen Creek Middle School. Uh got the fall sports pep rally probably going on right now and then uh the back to school jam hosted by student council on 95 Lincoln Middle School. Dr. Tapler has been the principal there for several years. Uh perseverance, respect, integrity, determination, empathy um are kind of their core values that they've listed there. Um, this action plan is it could could really be at all three middle schools, but again really focusing on direct instruction, differentiated instruction, scaffolds, grade level instruction. Uh, we have an enrichment period that we now are calling win, which stands for what
029I need. Um, and all three middle schools have that. Uh, so again, trying to get uh students who are in need of some remediation that that time to get that that done. again a more focused uh approach to to our PLC's, professional learning communities and and then PD um and then making sure that students have ownerships with their I learn tracking forms incentive uh incentive accomplishments and then uh positive behavior support uh recognition and affirmation celebrating when they're doing stuff that that's good and that's that they're doing stuff that's well and again the the renovations for for Lincoln Middle School. All right, ladies and gentlemen, I appreciate the time to share about the secondary buildings in the district. >> All right, there any questions? >> One comment, Mr. Vice President. >> Dr. Moore, >> first
030of all, let me thank Miss Hardman for these uh the scores are the increases that have uh uh been made in individual schools. We thank you for that publicly. And then we want to thank uh Mr. Enman for uh the win program. I kind of I kind of like that. But I am impressed with the the the increase of numbers. It's good for board members to know what those numbers are that they can share with parents and people in the community. Thank you so much. >> All right. Any other question or comments? Thank you, Mr. Emman and Mrs. Hartman. We are on now to our board action items. First up is the minutes of the board of education written meeting August 14, 2025 approval. >> So move, Mr. President. >> Second. It's >> been moved
031and second that we approve our minutes from August 14th, 2025 regular board meeting. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Oppose. >> All right. We're on to Dr. Maggie Bishop. Approval of policies again. >> Mr. Vice President, members of the board, and Dr. Young, >> I am seeking your approval of action item B, approval of the board of education policies as presented. >> So move. >> Second. >> It's been moved and second that we approve Dr. Maggie Bitch's board of education policies as presented. Are there any questions? On to vote. All in favor say I. I >> oppose. >> Thank you B. Thank you Mag Dr. Maggie Bishop. >> Thank you. >> Um just before we uh bring up um Dr. Hunter for a recommendation of the HH HR report. I would like to
032obtain a motion to um remove case number 20250 from our HR report to be discussed in our exec session September the 6. Motion please. I make a motion that we remove that from our agenda. >> Second. >> Removed and second that we remove case number 2025082625 to be discussed in our exec session. All in favor say I. >> I oppose. All right. Dr. Hunter, your recommendation. >> Mr. Vice President, members of the board, Dr. Young, I ask that you approve the HR report as presented except for case number the item case number 202508-2625. >> So move. >> Second. >> It's been moved and second that we accept our HR report tonight with the exclusion of case number dot dot dot dot dot dot >> dot. Tuesday. >> All in favor say I. >> I. >>
033Opposed. Thank you, Dr. Hunter. >> Thank you, sir. We are on now to uh approval to apply for our former union educator, Miss Selena Hartman. >> Good evening, vice uh vice president of the board, members of the board, and Dr. Young. Um I am requesting your approval to apply for the forum credit union educator grant on behalf of College Park Elementary. >> So move. >> Second. It's been moved and second that we accept action item D as presented by Miss Hartman. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Any oppose? >> Thank you. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Uh now we're on to uh claims and allowances. Mrs. Gray. >> Good evening, Mr. Vice President, members of the board, and Dr. Young. I present to you action item E which is our claims and allowances
034and I request your approval as presented. >> I move we accept the claims and allowances as presented. >> Second. It's been moved and second that we accept action item E claims and allowances as presented. Are there any questions? We're on the vote. All in favor say I. >> I oppose. And I'd like to combine action. I'm sorry. I should have did that on E2. Action items F and G for recommendation. I'm sorry. >> No problem. >> Missed that. >> Good evening, Mr. Vice President, members of the board, and Dr. Young. I present to you action items F and G, uh, which include five contracts and four donations, and I request your approval as presented. >> I move we accept action items F and G, contracts and donations, as presented. Second move and second that we
035accept action items F and G as presented. Are there any questions on items F or G? >> No questions. We're on to vote. All in favor say I. I. >> Oppose. Thank you, Mrs. Gray. We're on the board member items. Dr. Moore. >> I have nothing tonight, Mr. President. I already said it. >> All right, Mrs. Wilson. Well, I probably I don't have anything really to say other than you guys Labor Day is coming up and enjoy your time off because you've been laboring for over a month now and you probably need this break. So, enjoy it while you can. >> Oh, I do want to say one thing. Um, saw the track. I had went to church, had about five different people come to me and tell me how much they love New Augusta's
036track. So, I was really proud of that. So, it's great. Thank you, Miss Wilson. Um, Mrs. Barnes. >> Uh, thank you. So, I was able to represent us as a board at our district wellness council meeting last week. I think it was last week. Last week. Yes. And I wanted to point out that we were recognized um by America's Healthiest Schools. So, out of 168 schools in the United States, Pike was in the top 10 with all of our schools being represented in that recognition. Um, so thank you so much to Mr. Jacob for your leadership um for the council. And also I wanted to make a comment about the Run Club at Eastbrook. Uh I was there at the dash at the Red Devil dash and they were they were doing it. They were
037running very well and super happy. So I'm not surprised that they have uh three consecutive years of winning. I witnessed that. Um, I was also able to go to the black back to school night um at both Eagle Creek Elementary and at Gian Creek Elementary so that I was able to meet Mrs. Gardner and Miss Randall in person. Um, and they did have huge, huge turnout at both schools and so good luck to them and all of our principles and leaders and all of our schools for a great school year. >> Thank you, Mrs. Barnes. Uh, Miss Kelly. >> All right. Good evening. >> Good evening. >> Um glad that we are here this evening and we have >> three weeks down now of our school year and we're plugging along. But as Miss uh
038Wilson was saying, take time the weekend, long weekend, refresh, regroup, come back ready on Tuesday to be with our scholars and just keep being quite proud. We have so many exciting things coming up. Not just homecoming, but just all the different things that are coming up. Each of the high school students looking forward to their next milestones are down all the way down to our threes looking forward to the milestones that they'll reach. So excited about this new school year. >> Thank you, Miss Kelly, Dr. Young. >> Thank you, Mr. Vice President. I have enjoyed an opportunity to get out to the schools and not only thank our educators but actually congratulate them and congratulate them on three consecutive years of overall gains on IE um I learned and I know that Mr. Emman referenced
039a overall graduation rate from the high school of 96%. Well, the final tally for graduation is I think October 1st. It's around that time, which means that our students who may continue to work on classes and finish coursework over the summer, as well as we go back and forth with the state of Indiana on uh any questions they may have about the data, that graduation rate can actually increase. So, uh Dr. Bishop and myself are really excited um fingers crossed that that 96% can actually continue to go up and get close to maybe 97%. So this is probably the highest graduation rate. Uh we know that the state official when you take out all the caps and all that stuff is still over 95% pushing 96% but this may very well be the highest graduation
040the class of 25 rate that we've we've ever seen. So we're excited about that. Thank you, Dr. Young. Um, few just a few things for me. Go ahead, Miss I would like to say one more thing. On Saturday, I had the opportunity to attend an event at Washington Park and where our esteemed superintendent among three of the other superintendent in the state were able to speak and present on AI being in the and how it's being used in our district. And I will say the districts that were represented were very forefront and future leading in where we are going with that and how we're using AI with our students. I was very impressed with how all of those um districts are looking at how do we get ahead of this or stay ahead of it
041and in front and helping students real students as well as staff the benefits that AI will have to keep us front and center and cutting edge with education. So I did want to u mention that uh we were represented well in that conversation and Pike is leading in that area. So >> thank you Miss Kelly. >> Thank you so much. Um I I just might I want I got a few things I want to just talk about just briefly. Um, I do believe I do believe on behalf of the board that this is a board that we're concerned about the teachers, the welfare, paying them as much as we can, pay them and getting them uh paid and contracted in a good in a good way, in a fashionable way. So, I do believe I
042just I want to say that and I also want to say that I also believe that this is a board that uh we not only speak up but we but we speak out and so um um I kind of you know I kind of felt some kind of way uh on that statement there about leadership that speak up and speak out because I do believe that on behalf of the board we do that this board I don't know what other boards do around the district and personally it's not my business but this board we we don't stick our head in the sand and uh and and see to it that our district is not provided for. So we might want to pass that on as we um uh negotiate this this month. Uh, also, um,
043you always hear me say all the time that, um, I pray for our district. Uh, and I do, uh, I I ride through the district and pray for the district because in my other world, my real world, uh, I, that's just my job to do that. And so, um, and I say that often because every day that we do not, and I emphasize do not, every day that we do not have an active shooter come into our buildings and and take advantage of our children, it I go to sleep feeling good because we all saw again what happened just this week, two days ago, and unfortunately, two kids. And what what what what what bothered me the most when the young boy was interviewed, the young student, probably 9 years old, he said, "I saw
044my friend take a bullet in the back." >> That touched me. >> So, so the safety of our district is Paramont. And to see us again come home, our babies come home to us after we put them on the bus, to me, that's a win. And I and I so appreciate that. I wanted to mention that and continue to say to all of us uh be vigilant continuously uh for our district and our children because we have some evil people that just simply don't care. And then lastly, um uh I I want to take this time to invite all of you. I'm I'm sure all of you uh worship in your own respective venues, but this Sunday at 10:00 a.m. uh we're celebrating our 30th pastoral anniversary and there is a guy that I think
045I know a little bit about Dr. Daryl Webster will be sharing with us in the conclusion and certainly we invite all of you to be a part on this Sunday public announcement to all of you. All right, we like to take a motion to reject. >> So move brother President, vice president. Second. Second. >> All right. Meeting stands journ.