001Hello, my name is Harvey Waka and I serve as a McKenna ISD schoolboard trustee. Each month after our board meeting, we provide our community with a brief summary of events and items covered during the meeting. Here we go. The meeting was called to order with the announcement of a quorum followed by an invocation and pledges led by board member Ken Kenneth Hussie. We then took the time to acknowledge a few of McKenna ISD's recognitions. always our favorite time of the the meeting. We started with the we are McKini ISD superintendence award. Congratulations to Maddie Bennett from McNeel Elementary and Julia Ramirez from Cochro Middle School. We then honored our every student every day award. Congratulations to Cedric Miner from Edins Elementary and Jacob Sto from Cwell Dual Language Academy. Next, we recognized our athletic state
002qualifiers in both swimming and wrestling. Congratulations to our state swim and diving qualifiers, Ethan Shields, Courtney Cusack, Hudson Phillips, and Luke Manus. Congratulations to our state wrestling qualifiers, Kale Brewaker and Riley Drenham. When we then acknowledge our Baylor talent identification program scholars, McKenna ISD has 37 students who were invited to join the Baylor tip program. The mission of the Baylor tip is to identify exceptional talent in steam and the humanities and to provide world-class learning opportunities that correspond with students exceptional potential. Next, we celebrated our communications department for winning multiple awards from the Texas School Public Relations Association. Our last recognition of the evening was for our Texas Association of Future Educators, state competitors. Congratulations to all our award winners. We look forward to celebrating our students and staff each month at our board meetings.
003Next, public comment was heard on agenda and non-aggenda items, and then the board entered into close session. After reconvening, Dr. Dennis Wulmarmac, assistant superintendent for business operations, made a presentation to the board on strategic plan pillar number six, finance and facilities. Additionally, the board received a McKenna ISD financial update from our chief uh financial officer, Marlene Harberson. The last presentation of the evening was an overview of the teacher incentive aotment by Alena Chisum, our assistant superintendent of human resources. The board then reviewed the consent agenda and moved into the discussion of uh an action portion of the meeting where we first approved the consent agenda. The trustees then reviewed monthly written reports including donations under $5,000 as well as a bond, energy, construction, transportation, human resources, gifted and talented and loss. Upcoming district events include
004the 19th annual Special Olympics track meet which will be ho hosted at Ron Paul Stadium on April the 2nd. The serenity fundraising breakfast will be on April the 7th at the McKenna ISD Community Event Center and our regularly scheduled board meeting will be held on April 20th at 6:00 p.m. also at the CEC. The meeting was adjourned following these items of business. Those are the highlights from this month's meeting. Thank you so much for your interest in the McKenna ISD and the great work that is happening all over our district.