001my mic was off here Madam chair you have a full committee tonight great um shall We rise for the pledge sure thanks I'll get that set up I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which success all right um okay this is um going to be a expedited meeting um do we have any public comment we have no public comment great okay first order of business is review and acceptance of the minutes of the May 18 2023 curriculum Community committee meeting um do I have a motion to accept the minutes foreign doesn't I'll make the motion do we have um a second on the motion okay we're good all right any discussion of the minutes Corrections amendments Editions Mr Hanlon they were very succinct yeah thank
002you all right hearing none um uh 18th meeting um all in favor bye bye okay it's unanimous um third item on the agenda is a peck Jones Grant request for 20. 20 23 24 and I'm going to hand it over to Marlene Solano for explanation thank you faith so we very much appreciate being able to access the peck Jones funds for this current school year that we are closing out for our kindergarten and grade one students this is a separate and a different request although incredibly similar this is a request for the same amount of money for next school year so for the 23-24 school year and this is to I see a typo on there this is um very similar it is for the um grade 2 and grade 3 classrooms we've engaged in
003an inventory of grade two and grade three we've identified the need for books at all of the students levels a lot of this is precipitated by covid and that we sent so many of the classroom library books home some of it has even nothing to do with not getting the books back it's just that they're old and worn and it's time to replenish so given the budget constraints that we're under it makes sense to us as a team to reach out and use that 22 000 to replenish a significant you know part of our classroom libraries across the district and this again would be in grades three and grade four foreign yeah can I ask a question about the timing are we doing both of these Peck Jones grants in the same year no we're
004not the monies that I requested in April have been expended we took that and we went and we purchased and have received and have labeled and have distributed those kindergarten and grade one books into the classroom libraries that's was done between when you all approved it in April and just a few weeks ago um that was for the 22-23 school year and now this would be for the 23-24 school year we had two school years where we did not tap into the peck Jones funds we had enough money in our budget and with the Esser funds that we were able to buy whatever it was that we we needed for curriculum supplies so looking ahead to next year we can get a jump on it over the summer by getting those orders done and having
005those in the libraries in the fall so it was just looking at looking at the time it made sense thank you that was that answers my questions about the timing because we're do we are in fact voting on them both in this year but that's because we went a couple years during covid without exactly thank you and just to clarify so the application will start will go in July 1st or later yes we started the next fiscal year yes so this will come up as an agenda item on that June 29th special meeting that we will have and that books will close out and then this will go to the town in in you know the summer time so that we could expend those funds in the next fiscal school year okay um so we
006do need to have a motion on this um and I'll take a swing at it move to authorize um the application for Peck Jones funding Eric Peck Jones grant for the 2023-24 school year for the purchase of classroom library books for grades three and four you got that perfectly did you get that Kevin you read it better myself faith okay so do we just vote on it and it doesn't go to the full board or are we are we making the motion to send it to the full board the motion is to send it to the full board my second thank you um any further discussion all right seeing none all in favor aye aye okay and then last but not least uh we have a um out of state field trip this is informational
007we do not need to vote on it correct so I'm going to ask more read and read to please share about the special field trip to Virginia Beach sure so the uh Greg Bell would like to I'm going to switch over so I can kind of read from it too Greg Bell is taking would like to take the chorus to um the music festival in Virginia Beach and um it's an opportunity for students um and a challenge for the group of students involved in the course to perform for Collegiate level judges who will critique and grade their Ensemble providing immediate feedback and then they'll also have a Public Presentation performance and they will do a little bit of sightseeing while they're down there so they're requesting to go from April 3rd to the 7th next
008year and a couple of those days are school days but this is quite the experience to be able to get that feedback from the Collegiate level so that's the request foreign the other thing that I'll add to this is that the music department K through 12 has been working super hard to reinvigorate all of those programs both the choral program at elementary middle and high school the band program at each of those levels and the Strings program they really experienced such a hit during covid that they're they're trying we know how important music education is and they're trying to reinvigorate those programs and they've been meeting with success and I think this is um one of Greg's ideas in order to generate that excitement along the trip so Dr Gad and Dr Reed and um
009Dr Solon have all signed off on this field trip and thought it was a great idea and a step in the right direction and it's here for inform um as an informational item so that you all know what is that it's the trip is happening but also wanted to add that the reason the rationale and the reasoning behind it um any questions no I have just one um I saw that the cost for per student is one thousand twenty six dollars and then there looks to be an intensive fundraising is the goal to cover completely or um is it the normal financing Arrangements on these on this uh for the students well I think the goal is to cover as much as possible for each student so you know won't have to pay much okay
010already um can I go off your question face please um so it's that's the cost per student to the student but the fundraising will take that hope take that down for all the students correct okay all right um well that's our agenda folks so um unless something urgent has just happened um do I have a motion to conclude to close the meeting I I moved to adjourn okay um SEC and seconds all in favor hi hi thank you everybody thank you everyone thank you all for tuning in and doing this virtually today we really appreciate it I