001I'm Amber Sprouse. I'm the president of the GMA 50 FFA chapter and I'm a junior at Gwood High. I'm John Connard. I represent uh C7 on the board of trustees. Tell me a little bit about FFA, please. The FFA is a studentled organization. So, we do have adult supervision, but the students decide everything. And um we go to camp and convention which are really big not vacations but they're educational opportunities. So we learn a lot about leadership. That's their main focus is you know how to be a good leader and a strong leader. And um so convention you learn all sorts of stuff about leaders and you have talks with people and you get to meet a lot of very very high-end people. Um, and the plant sale is April the 21st through the 25th.
002The 21st it's only open for district employees, but um, the 22nd it opens up to the general public and then we're open until we sell out or to the 25th. And they have a lot of beautiful plants in there. And tell us what the proceeds for the plant sale will go for. So they go to help the kids go to those um leadership events such as camp and convention and then we also have CDEs which are career development events and they're competitions but you learn about a certain career in agriculture. So they have dairy stuff and then they have plant stuff and they have horses and chickens and you just learn about you know what they make, what they produce, how they do that. good ways to keep them healthy, stuff like that. So, so
003a lot of things that are outside the regular classroom y'all will get to really see and learn about during this convention. There's a lot of hands-on experience, too. Best of luck on your conventions and also best of luck on this plant sale. We hope that y'all will come out and support this great group here at Russell Career Center for their plant sale in April. Thank you. So, Mr. Connor, how was the last board meeting? The last board meeting was pretty intense, but we got a lot accomplished because we hired a firm so that we could begin our process of searching for a new superintendent. So, since that time, they have actually done a lot of work. We've had um different forums for employees, for the community, and those have been fairly well attended. We've also
004had online surveys. Our group that we hired has met with students, has met with teachers. So hopefully we'll get a lot of input so that we know what we're really looking for for superintendent because we want our public really to to to get in there and tell us what we need as a superintendent. That's very important. So this next board meeting, we will start receiving some of the names of the folks who have actually applied. It will be top secret and most of that will be an executive session and then we'll start going through their resumes and start selecting narrowing it that our search down. So it's a tedious process but yet I think it's an exciting process as we look for new leadership for Greenwood District 50.