Springdale Public Schools | March 2025 School Board Meeting

001e e e it's 5:00 so we will go ahead and uh call the meeting to order this is going to be uh the March 11th 2025 Springdale school board meeting and I'd like to start uh by inviting side baits up as our senior representative from Springdale High School to lead us in the [Music] pledge I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for it stands one nation God indivisible withy and justice for all well welcome thank you for uh being here tonight thank you for having me you uh obviously have uh a lot going on right now and preparation for Saturday but yes sir um if you just want to tell us a little bit about yourself um kind of where you came from schoolwise and plans

002for the future and then we'll go from there all right um I'm s Bates uh I go to Springdale high school I'm a senior I play on the basketball team and when I was younger I went to Lee Elementary and then Elmdale and then I moved to fville oh no then I went to hellstern and then I went to fville schools and then bville schools and I'm back at springo and uh what was the other question um whatever you want to tell us future plan oh oh yeah future yeah um After High School I plan on going College somewhere and playing basketball and then maybe get a business degree and learn how to work the camera so I can be good at that okay mhm you have any questions for Mr baes have a chicken

003wing Resturant I did I noticed that yeah have a chicken wing Resturant yeah I like chicken wings are my favorite [Laughter] food guys any questions for well you led the pledge tonight we heard you led the anthem at one of the games yes ma'am yeah they had technical difficulties so I just started singing it and everyone joined in buil-in leadership yes sir so you already doing some work with your camera and your boovie camera and all that stuff uh yes sir I started in football season then when basketball season started I fell off of it but once like uh probably basketball ends and I'll hot back on it you have any ideas of where you want to go to school next year um I don't know at the moment but like some schools in Kansas

004have been reaching out to me some d2s and then some so probably the jco route awesome we're excited to watch you guys on Saturday um I think a few of us may be able to get down there and watch we had a great time watching you all season yes sir state tournament MH thank you there was great article about you Rec yes ma'am leers yes ma'am thank you are your mom mom or dad here no sir right anybody else great job thank you for having [Music] me all right so that brings us to uh Item B agenda for the meeting are there any changes to the agenda yes sir we have a late addition if that's okay I'd like to go down in in Miss Hopkins area and under presentation by chief officer in at

00542 Kansas so um we had an opportunity to purchase the last home on the Block over it's on it's on it's on okay it's on yours yeah yeah so we added that it was yeah yeah okay all right I'll make a motion to approve the uh agenda so have a motion by Mr Hutchinson and a second by Mrs to approve the agenda as presented all those in favor I opposed motion passes brings this to the consent agenda make a motion to approve the consent agenda second a motion by Mr Ramos and a second by Mrs cook to approve the consent agenda all those in favor I opposed presentation by Dr Cleveland absolutely first I'd like to invite Miss har see absolutely thank you here the ID R yes okay so um and if you go

006to the next slide there are some some pictures they're a lot more interesting than I am for sure there they are so uh before I get started I just want to clear up a couple of things um if you watched the news um story that came out they said that we were being honored nationally for the ID Rod we were actually on uh we had a spotlight in the US Department of Ed on their website for after school programs it was actually for a project we did in November on um we did a balloon parade like a Macy's day parade kids had to create we had some stem we had some um history um we it was a multi- disciplinary activity that we did um but this one has been submitted and we're really really

007hoping that we get another uh national awards but this one has not been um has not received the um the recognition yet but we're sure hoping um in addition they said that this happened at the elementary school it did Sonora Elementary was definitely there but uh it was also it was a a group effort with sonor middle as well we went over and a lot of those kids at the Middle School uh were mentoring and we have a pretty good partnership and we've got um Miss Brandy Willl height she's here in in the crowd too she um is the program director there at the middle school so this was a a group effort and what I have here I'm just going to read um when they do a submission Little Rock the O that oversees

008our 21st century Grant um they ask for just kind of a statement and pictures so I'm just going to read the the statement if that's okay that we submitted um and these are a few of the pictures we added a few more they always say keep you know just a few pictures but how do you pick like they're all so amazing so this was a really fun project that we did and the Ida Rod is actually happening right now in Alaska so um we started our race just a few days after the actual idid Rod started so students enrolled in the 21st century programs at Sonora Elementary and Sonora Middle School got to have a unique experience where they found out what it was like to be an Alaskan instead of an aranan through an

009interdisciplinary unit about the adod sled dog race the in Alaska students were able to use math literacy geography History Science and Engineering as they learned about the great the last great race students learned facts about Alaska read books about the history of the serum race history of dog sledding and the importance of the adidad sled dog race bringing and preserving the culture in Alaska math skills were needed as students looked at into the 2025 I did Rod musher profiles and they had to analyze their stats students discovered a chemical reaction that created a snow-like substance from the two household items the learning led to an engineering undertaking the students were tasked with designing and creating a beautiful yet sturdy sled that could be used in a very modified idod race this race happened around Sonora

010element Sonora Middle School's campus students ran a relay race with checkpoints just just like in the idod at each checkpoint teams answered questions in the unit before being allowed to advance down the trail at the end students received medals certificates for leadership teamwork creativity and the creativity they demonstrated overall the unit was a huge success and students have a much deeper understanding and appreciation for our 49th state so hopefully um the department of Ed will will recognize us for our hard work so up here you can kind of see our sleds they were um put on scooters and we did have one Rider and one puller and they had to name them they had to display um the spirit of the idida rod um in their names and in their designs this is just a

011few of them um polar positivity all the kids did they focused on on the dogs uh Paws with the positivity but then they put their own hands all over the sled and they ended up you can see them up there they've got a gold medal because they won um first first place in the race so it was a whole lot of fun and the channel 5 news did come out they um videoed our chaos and they did a really great job of cleaning it up so if you get a chance to watch the news you can tell how much fun everybody's having um and then what we found out was the guy who came um Luke Patrick was our um reporter he actually used to work in Alaska so he is sending his story to

012Channel 2 news in Alaska where he he worked in Anchorage and he's um hoping that they air our story there and then next year he wants to jump on early with us and he wants to maybe um let us FaceTime maybe let us go out to some of the checkpoints maybe meet some of the dogs in the race and maybe make even a bigger connection there so anyway fi trip to Alaska fi that's what I said we're going to find that Grant [Applause] no no bus no bus thank you thank [Applause] you I'd like to introduce Dr GRE he's got really good people to introduce you've seen some of these young people before we're going to talk about the the m state championship Dr Cleveland and board thank you for the opportunity for me to

013introduce a fine group of young people um as you know Harbor has a rich tradition of a strong debate in forensics program um this doesn't happen by accident I mean we have a great group of young people that come together and they're led by Mr coddle and you know a team of others at other schools and again this is a this is prideful for our school um recently they competed at a mock trial um competition and I'm proud to announce for the sixth time in our school's history they were named state champions so at this time I'd like to introduce Mr coddle hello hello hi I'm uh Daniel coddle and I coach uh debate and forensics at Harbor High School I direct the programs there uh this year I picked up mock TR it says

014Lauren lorf but I want to give a shout out to my partner in crme Monica Whitaker where are you right here uh this is our other mock coach coach lorf actually coaches our forensics there at Harbor High School um come on uh coach Whitaker she's been with this mock trial program for over 10 years uh well before I came uh was a part of all of the other four uh championships before I was here at Harbor and uh really this year she's been teaching me about mock trial because I hadn't done mock trial since 2010 as a student teacher and so if it wasn't for her and our other volunteer coach Trey Bowerman he's an alumni coach uh we would not have got uh another one this year uh this team is ranked 24th in

015the nation last year 36th in the nation year before that this year we're hoping for uh 23 or higher we'll be happy with you know a little bit better each time uh these young people behind me they're they're marvelous uh they're they're they're great people they devote uh more than a part-time job uh to be able to do mock trial at this level um pretty much every week they do 10 to 20 hours week of outside of school practice to be able to win at this level uh our team this year won on a 3-2 split uh five judges and uh by one single point uh that's how competitive it is um I'm thoroughly uh proud of all these young people and actually I'd like to invite Sam Myers just to give you the student

016perspective real quick hi uh I'm Sam I'm uh one of the I am the team captain for this year I've been doing Mo trials for 3 years uh but I usually find my way into the back of like every single photo uh so if you look into like the back right I should just be hiding behind somebody um but mock trial has always been something that I've really enjoyed uh I've been an attorney um for the entire time I've been doing it and it's something I really like to do uh the downsides of it though is when we had that snow day uh or snow week I should say right before a tournament um it wasn't like a time to catch up on work it was like oh let's l 10 hours on walk trial

017every day so but it was definitely it's it's definitely rewarding in the fact that um you find a lot of a lot of love for speech and debate and just public speaking in general for like through these tournaments and definitely through competing with others um and the community is so great as well uh even though like we do we are very competitive like coach kle said every single team we go against um we try to be friends with uh and there's really no animosity on the circuit towards one another um so yeah uh but these guys behind the team really couldn't have done it without any single one of them uh every single one of them put like their hearts and souls into this and really want to take it home to Nationals uh when

018we go to Arizona in about two months um and so that case will turn into 79 pages to like 110 120 so it'll definitely be interesting to see how it goes um but yeah how many teams from Arkansas go to Nationals uh there's only one team yes sir uh first place although uh three years ago or two years ago um we were the host State uh and I was on the runnerup team so we actually did get to go that year um but uh usually it's just one one team every year gets to go to Nationals where's it at this year it'll be in Arizona um I yeah it's okay I I don't I think it's in Phoenix but I might be wrong so teammates are yeah what's the case this year uh this year

019was a murder case um so yes it was last year uh a kid died at a trampoline park and it was a negligence case so a little bit more interesting this year uh the um it was about like a restaurant owner and then their owner killed the other person for half a million dollars through a buy sell agreement um but then there was also a mob boss uh into the mix uh if you look the guy also hiding behind somebody in the tan suit um he we acted like he's from New Jersey um we trained him on a New Jersey accent constant um and he he was the mob boss guy for our case so yeah that was that was kind of the team we always like to put Witnesses in accents um and really

020get them into character so do you want to be an attorney or in law or I've been thinking about uh going into law I I really want to do Consulting but I I also really want to go to get my JD um just because I think law is definitely something that I I really want to pursue a senior I am unfortunately this is my last year competing but um I know they'll they'll probably do the exact same thing next year and win it all congratulations yeah good luck let us go Arizona goes you said well thank you um it should be I think it's May May 7th through 10th is the competition dates so it'll definitely be fun do you want to introduce the rest of the team oh sure um right here in the

021blue strip tie we have Caleb wh uh he's also one of our attorneys and then uh Adriana Perez uh she is also one of our other attorneys so both of them do prosecution and defense as well um landri he's the one back here he was one of our Witnesses this year um W Winona Watson was also one of our Witnesses this year uh Caleb Baker uh was also uh one of our Witnesses he was a law enforcement officer um he was kind of Born to be one uh like we like to say um Aaron over here was our wonderful timekeeper he joined us four months before the tournament and we just handed him a stopwatch uh and he figured it out so um he he did a great job uh meline over here was an

022expert uh we put we gave her a British accent um so she sounded a little bit more fancy um but uh she did very good she she competed in the final round as well as did landri and then finally uh Emily starky um who competed in the final round as our defendant so we were on the defense for the final around um thankfully it was a defense heavy case but um starky did a really good job uh she actually picked up the character two days before the trial um and then competed with it so it was definitely impressive um to see kind of her growth through that impressive y look sharp too we appreciate it so how many of you are seniors uh just two of us so um probably come back yes um well

023I guess raise your hand if you're a junior really quick yeah so we we do have a senior heavy team for next year we do have one sophomore and that will be meline so she still has a she she will still have some competing years left in her well congratulations and good luck yeah thank you so much are your parents here my parents are not here oh is anybody's parents here everybody can drive they are not here but yes thank you thank you so [Music] much Mr CLE I heard you uh went a little Above and Beyond at the state oh yeah something happen impressive you for all you do like they're all headed out to take picture Sam didn't tell you he's I watched him ride bicycle for years oh that's true great job

024Sam proud of you his dad's my doctor so great family Mr Robinson do you mind to come forward Miss Robinson's going to come forward this evening and we're going to talk with little AP aren't we little AP yeah I hate to follow that the fun of kids and I get to talk about data so I'm always excited thank you for this opportunity to share um the AP realm I am the AP coordinator at Harbor High School I'm also assistant principal um Margaret Robinson is my name um and I'm always happy to talk about AP it's a very important realm for um us at Harbor and so uh what we've got here the first couple of slides Sharon just so you can see the growth that's happening in Springdale uh with the AP program this is

02510 through 12th numbers and so this is a fiveyear summary of Where we've been in springdell and we're on the upwards Trend which we're super excited about that that means our kids are more kids are taking part in the AP program uh the next slide we have is the number of EX exams that are given each year so we take those numbers of kids to 1483 and they're participating in 2521 2521 exams so we're seeing more and more students take multiple exams which is also encouraging uh means they're taking rigorous cours work and pushing themselves and then thirdly is um the percent of pass rate we had a little bit of a drop last year uh for the district um so this is the numbers of students that are scoring three or higher and so

02651% of the kids in Springdale Schools last year scored a three or higher the importance of that means that they are getting college credit for that three or higher so that's very encouraging that means our students are prepared I do want to put you a little Aster on 2020 we all know what that year was and that's an unusual year of pass rate because they pretty much only gave a 45 minutes test and a lot of people passed it so um that's kind of an anomaly so the other trend is really um doing well we're increasing number of exams and we're still staying above that 50% Mark that's really good so that's the data for the district and so we're Trend trending upwards with ap um participation so to break that down and what that

027looks like at Harbor I can speak a lot about that uh because that's my role at Harbor is AP coordinator so um this is Harbor's 5year summary and so last year we gave we had 799 AP kids we gave 1,400 right over 1500 exams um and uh 70% of our kids scored uh three or higher on those exams so um we are really really pleased with the trend at Harbor with the number of kids uh and I've got a slide here in a minute shows you how many are enrolled for this May and we'll be taking exams in this may so right now we have 876 students registered in 27 different courses and we have scheduled to give 1,731 exams and that's just Harbor High so it's a big job um so the new testing

028for this year is digital there are two types of digital tests that we're going to be given we have a a hybrid model where some of the classes like AP Calculus um AP biology some of the classes that have some technical parts to their testing they're going to be their multiple choice part will be digital and then they will have a free response booklet where they work out problems on an actual Student Response paper the rest of the exams are going to be fully digital so they will all be testing on a Chromebook and the whole test will be done in a digital form format um AP pushed that fast this year we piloted uh three tests last year digital they offered that pilot to us and we did that in three exams and um

029in order to do that I had to have a lot of work done with the technology team they installed enough Wi-Fi capacity in our aux gy to test over 200 up to 250 or even higher than that um kids on a computer at one time so your Wi-Fi high capacity was very was critical of importance um the other thing is with that two testing 22 kids that means we have to have capacity to plug in how many of those Chromebooks don't come charged and and unfortunately that was a lot so our electrical team through the maintenance department in Springdale built a phenomenal system that they set up panels so we wouldn't blow circuits they ran extension cords down through the desks and we had the capacity to plug in every four desk we could plug

030in a Chromebook so we can flawlessly test um upwards of 220 or so testers in our Ox gy so that was phenomenal cooperation with our Tech with our technology team and our maintenance team here in Springdale so I could not have done it without them last year this year our biggest exam is like 2113 so we're going to have that capacity again to be able to test those kids with the Wi-Fi and the PO that we need to be able to make that happen so here's kind of a timeline of how we go we have the great big desk move I call it on May the 2nd because obviously if we're going to test in the aux gym we have to have places for 215 kids to sit so we have to move those desks

031from classrooms to the AUX gym and we do that through our whole school so I call that the great big desk move and so we'll set up the ox gym and we'll leave it set up for two solid weeks um for the testing to take place we have a one round of test 12 tests that'll happen the first week and then the second week we'll have the final seven uh 15 tests so it's broken up into two weeks we have a few tests that submit their work AP Art Studio Art we have drawing 2D 3D they submit Theirs to a digital portfolio as well as computer science principles and uh AP research those are all digital projects they do all year and they submit those so there's not really an exam for those um and

032all the digital submissions are done uh by April 30th the last thing well not the last thing next last thing I want to talk about this is um just kind of what it looks like to plan the logistics at harber high because not only do you have digital testing you have kids who get accommodations in those tests so we can have accommodations like extra time 50% extra time we have accommodations 100% time student students that have a have a medical condition they have to test their blood so they have to test in a room by themselves so what you're going to see on these next several slides are just a breakdown of the different rooms that each test requires and by day and so this is kind of my mind and how it works and

033how I do the logistics of all of these different tests to make sure every student has the accommodations they need for that test so there's there's several slides here um in every exam it depends on who's taking that and what accommodations um my largest test is AP Psychology which I'm going to get to here in a minute um this is the largest test so I have eight different rooms that I have to play in for that exam and so that's kind of a what it's like with world and seminar all of these large exams that we give we have have accommodated rooms uh for different testing so we have to get Proctors to give those tests and what have you so it's a it's a chore and uh adding you know adding all the tests

034every year it creates more of a challenge of finding places for them to test uh but I enjoy it it's something that I I really like to do so finally I would like everybody has an invite at your desk um we are having our very first ever distinguished scholar banquet on Thursday and so we recognized at Harbor that we have a lot of really sharp kids couple of more in this group back here and you're going to meet a couple of more u a little bit later in the program um so we wanted to find a way how can we really really recognize these top top seniors so we have 52 seniors that met our criteria for the distinguished scholar banquet and it they had to have one or more of these criteria and and

035so I you see the breakdown there we have 52 kids that met these requirements or met one of them um four National Merit finalist Sam as you just heard talking is one of those um 30 plus composite act we have 31 of those AP scholar with distinction we have 27 now that is a college board recognition they set the criteria six or more AP exams with a average score uh Capstone diploma again that's a college board designation you take AP seminar AP research and four more and uh you get qualifying scores and you earn a Capstone diploma which is a a very distinguished award especially for other states they've had it a long time and they recognize that and then finally our AP uh Excellence Medallion that's if you take 10 or more AP classes

036at Harbor we recognize you with an Excellence of Medallion and we had 28 of those so as you can see we're very um blessed with some wonderful students and some sharp minds and we are super excited to celebrate them on Thursday so you are all invited have some good food from Carill and uh recognize these kids uh Dr GP will Hood all of the students that are uh distinguished Scholars they'll get a hood to wear for graduation regalia and they'll get their other regalia so we're looking forward it's going to be an exciting ceremony thank you thank you [Applause] [Music] good evening board and Dr Cleveland thank you for allowing us to show off a little Hardware that our students won um a couple of weekends ago I'm going to introduce Miss H Davis she

037is our sponsor for the Junior High quiz Bible team and let her introduce the students that um did some fabulous work thank you okay my name is Miss Davis um I currently teach Advanced sixth grade and seventh grade math over at dtsoi and I very proudly coach this group behind me uh for the Junior High Quiz Bow team um for our members for our Junior High quiz we are AAA Affiliated um and so we did regionals at the end of January uh with other local uh 7A uh 7A Junior High quiz Bowl teams um and then we competed at State a couple weeks ago the Saturday before uh the snow apocalypse um and where we actually got first place in all of State for 7A um as far as my members here so members of

038Junior High teams can comprise of any member or any student 7th grade through 9th grade um I do not have any nth grade teams this or nth grade students this year so I will be very happy that I get to continue on actually with these students next year as well um so I have three seventh graders I have Diego Chavez koono not here not here okay Nathan OS uh and Henry Moody um eighth grade wise I have Danielle Robertson her brother Garrett Robertson Ali lot Charlie Schneider Roger Cordon hi and Quinton Clevenger who is our team captain who couldn't be here today because he's actually uh with the Arkansas philarmonic uh junior orchestra playing over at fton today as well so um so he had to choose and I said that's fine um um so

039like I said we were first place in our Northwest regionals uh where we competed against many ninth grade only teams as well so we are a fairly young team um doing very well with that um we actually also got second place last year at Northwest Arkansas regionals um and then we got first at 7A State um like I said that Saturday before the snow apocalypse Roger Cordon here is our uh is the MVP High Point scorer both at regionals and state um his average is around 22 questions correct per round which is impressive considering the fact toss-up wise you can only have a maximum of 40 4 questions so he's uh getting correct about 50% of the questions as a team like so they um they all come together as a group of five um

040buzz in and he's buzzing in and getting in correct about you know 22 out of the 44 possible toss-ups which is very extremely impressive in the world of quits Bowl in case you guys never seen him so do do you want to say anything Roger what's one of your favorite questions you oh yeah um so uh I think my personal favorite question was actually a uh lightning round esque thing we got so in the 8th grade so last year's tournament one of the reasons why we lost was because we got this super hard one it was like I don't even remember but it was super tough and we were like scribbling down on paper for like 30 minutes and then the other team got named the fast food brand who makes this meal well um

041we finally got a bit of uh kind of karma this time around uh because the other team uh got questions on a city they'd never been to Baltimore uh we knew all four of them but they didn't no any of them and guess and then we got um how many sides does each shape have that was awesome that's Roger for you um in case you guys have never met Roger Roger's pretty awesome um yeah um but I do I'm very proud of all my students all of my kiddos um they've all worked hard um it doesn't just involve uh going out there on your own buzzing in questions but also working together as a team and I've seen I've been with about half of them um since sixth grade year actually coaching them as a

042sixth grade team as well um and seeing them grow as a team and seeing them grow in their personalities has been just fully rewarding for me um and just sing their Joy you know being able to you know take home that state Trophy and like I said our goal is next year to bring it home as well since I I'll get to have um all if not more um possible because I have sixth graders coming up into seventh grade who I know will will be great as well so so is there a national or does it just it stops it stops at State yeah yeah as much as we' love to like that yeah so any other questions yeah I do I actually most of my parents showed up I think all of them are

043here now yeah so all these we have these back two rows or these middle two rows he said go ahead and stand up stand up [Applause] parents and I I can't talk enough about the positivity of my parents so when it came to State um we all we didn't car pull down um we didn't ride a bus down we all parents actually took their kids down because they wanted to see their kids at State um so we had quite a bit of a backing as well um so I can't brag enough on my parents for taking that step and being like hey yeah nope we'd be happy to drive the kiddos down so where was it at uh it was down in Bryant for how many days uh just one day it was just on

044a Saturday M awesome so sweet congratulations thank you guys [Music] that was great Mike I hope that you can follow that these Quest Bridge young people they're going to do great Cleveland hello School Board uh I'm here to talk about our questbridge scholarship recipients and this came from uh Miss Cook I don't know if you remember yeah you uh back in September you whispered something under your breath maybe about something questbridge um and just as I was leaving you were walking I was leaving I was asking what um how past years like the last years by the way can we get our kids to come on up here behind me um so anyway these are our five questbridge kids this year um they've been matched with um as you can tell Frank Gomez has been

045matched with Cal Caltech University uh Etha H has been Mass with Yale Diego Hernandez with Washington and Lee Alan moldonado with Washington University and of course Glenn Nolan at springd high school has been matched with the University of Chicago so what I wanted to do first is just kind of chat about what questbridge is for folks that don't understand what that might be can I do that real quick and so um Ashley tarbin do you mind she has worked with these she's been my go-to so I'm going to let her chat about just the nuts and bolts of what quest Bri is real quick okay do you you want do okay um questbridge takes a holistic approach with about 25,000 applicants and these students have are top 1% in um their assessments academics leaderships and

046the essays that they write a company maybe barriers they faced or how they've advocated in their Community for others so questbridge is top 50 colleges in the country and whenever they select this top 1% of students it really is a selective honor but the match process the college is looking for a student that would thrive on their campus and with the majors and then the students are also narrowing down the process so it's a recruiting tool whether they're going into engineering or medicine law um it's just an excellent opportunity for these students to shine and have a complete full ride plus a stien each semester that they are um in their four years of college and they also have a supportive Community when they're there they have um a questbridge partnership meetings once a month

047they help them acclimate to their Community um a lot of these are private colleges and smaller campuses where they get to know a lot of people and so it's just an excellent opportunity we have some of the top um as far as statistics go in the nation Springdale has some of the most I think the whole South might have 32 so you're looking at this group right here so they did an excellent job and Mr fop do you want them to introduce well I'm just going to say behind me represents on average if these students were in state tuition and room and board on average $75,000 a school and most of them are ranging up to 1,000 for four years year and so it's in it's in that spirit that I think you know that

048ought to be celebrated right there that's [Applause] let's start with uh let's start with uh start with um and I'm just going to chat with you for a second why y why you Pi Y and what you hope to do there um hi school board thank you so much for having me again it is truly a privilege and an honor to stand before you here today U my name is Etha H I'm a senior at Harvard high school and I am incredibly privileged to match to Yale University um I have always loved Yale I was one of those you know rare species of children that knew what they wanted to be when they were really young um I've always loved healthc care and medicine that's kind of like the niche that I fell into so

049from a young age I knew I loved school there was no one that supported me more than my teachers and um there was no one that I wanted to work with more than my peers so Yale was always my goal I loved the school I Loved You Know The Prestige of the ivy league but as I learned more about it through the college application process um I realized that there was no school where I could fully be the student that I wanted to be um I am a stem kid I love math and I love science but I also love to read and I love to learn about history and the humanities and so Yale was a place where I knew I didn't have to sacrifice one part of my academics for another I didn't

050have to just you know be in a research lab all the time I could also you know do research and innovate but then go study in a library and Yale was just the epitome of who I wanted to be as an innovator and also as um a servant leader so yes so I ranked nine schools and out of those nine yalees at the top of my list so I am incredibly um lucky and fortunate to have matched to Yale are you are you going do you have a trip planned to go to Yale before you actually start again is that coming up yes so uh Yale does something called Bulldog days um it's like a three-day orientation for First Years um where they can come and explore the campus meet other First Years um discover

051like extracurriculars that they want to go into and stuff like that so I go from April 21st through the 23rd so right before AP exam week is when I'm going to be at Yale do you have another scholarship for two that you're working on right now um yes I have like a few small ones but um it's mainly the big Quest Bridge one that I'm incredibly grateful for is in with this process stand up please everybody see you and your dad is here where's your dad hi Dad Dad Ken and then Mr [Music] [Applause] F teach ma what do you think about this young lady she's not bad I got okay okay uh I want to talk to uh Diego can we get Diego up here hi Diego how are you doing I'm I'm good

052okay now what made you think about Washington and Le um I was really attracted to the campus and the majors it really had like what I was looking for in a college and I just thought it would be like um the ideal college for me and it helped me become like the a person I want to become in the future okay cool what are you going to study when you get there I'm going to study bioengineering what are you going to do with that um I plan to do um I want to help people so I can um make medicine I can make um artificial organs and Prosthetics and just discover all the little niches in biology and chemistry how' you hear about Washington um it was through the quest Bridge because we we really

053explore all like 50 colleges to narrow down like what exactly you want to major in what um campus you want to go to and they help you um find the colors that's right for you were you working on another scholarship at all um just some little ones okay School Board I'll hush if y'all want if yall got something to where is you're doing a great job where is Washington let's he it's in Lexington Virginia Lexington Virginia he's a member of the band you want to talk about brother um okay um I have a band so what's the name of that band uh Los Carnales Hernandez oh my I love it I love it go ahead so um we were a little group at started at so SOI and um my brother my old oldest brother

054who goes to the University of Arkansas um started playing the guitar my younger brother um he's in 10th Grade he goes to harbard with me and he started playing the accordion and then I got on to the base and we started a little band and we play at little parties like here and there all across like the state sometimes in like we've played in like other states too like Missouri and Oklahoma and um we really get to express ourselves in do you have a cover do you have a cover feed I mean are you Sergeant come on now come on yeah and we we get to Showcase like our heritage our music and um at like our schools at SOI we haven't got into at Harbor because um we've just had a lot going on

055this year but um we I think we plan on doing it in the Multicultural Festival that's going to be um later this year okay cool Miss Tarpon knows uh a lot about dieo because he started out at the school of innovation there were some science classes that he wanted to take at Harvard high school and that's what m Farrar was able to kind of finish up the whole Quest process proud um let's talk to Alan about that Alan hell how you doing good how are you I'm good and you're going to Washington you yes sir in St Louis what made you pick that place and what are you going to do um well um at first I was like really scared of leaving my home I really love my family I have a little brother

056who's five um I really don't want to leave him at all and so Washington University is the closest University out of the 50 schools that quester has to offer and that was a school I just really wanted to go to because of the location really um it's only 5 hours away um um maybe one day I'll plan to come back on a weekend I don't know yet but um the reason one of the reasons I chose it also was because of their engineering programs I I plan to study electrical engineering yeah at first I was uh leaning towards aerospace engineering but that school only offers a minor in there but I still plan to uh straight into Aerospace um through electrical engineering I know springo High School you play soccer are yes depend on playing

057more soccer when you get up there um I might join the club but I am in a going to be an engineering major so I don't know how hard that's going to be yet okay so I guess geography played a lot of role in in what you're doing yes sir and your sister goes to the University of Arkansas correct yep so your your family you guys you guys have created a culture of going to college and getting that second degree and getting that that going to that higher education that's part of exactly yep awesome proud of you thank you thank you uh Glenn Nolan come on up Glenn you're going where are you going you to the University of Chicago uh yeah what made you want to go to the University of Chicago what are

058you going to do when you get up there um I'm planning on majoring in computer science uh especially in cyber security and then minoring in music performance and I chose you Chicago because uh over the summer two summers ago I was able to go visit the campus through the University of Arkansas's uh Talent search program and me being able to go up there I went up there we did a bunch of stuff up there but on one of the days we were up there we toured the campus and I fell in love with the campus I decided then that's where I wanted to go I knew I wanted to go there so badly so that when questbridge came out and I became a finalist you Chicago was the number one school I ranked and I

059didn't rank any other binding schools other than that school so I ranked you Chicago and MIT because they're a non-binding school but other than that I knew exactly where I wanted to go I and I got in and so that's yeah that's my plan awesome you're in the band pretty you uh yeah I've been in band your instrument uh I played French horn I've played trumpet and trombone for jazz band I've been a part of All Region and all state and All Region jazz music has become a very big part of my life and I'm planning on to continuing when I go into college um well yeah I'm planning on minoring in music and I also know that uh Chicago is very rich in music and so I'm enjoying I'm looking forward to the opportunity

060to being able to listen to some of the groups around there like the Chicago Symphony well I've known Glenn now for since the seventh seventh grade when we found you in SEL tip Duke TIP back in those days and just keeping messing with you regarding your academic trying to get that ACT score up that PSAT score up it's been fun getting to know you over the years and to see this kind of moment here it's just pay off and your your uncle's here correct yeah and where where he go there he is very proud are you proud or what very talk about that very proud and your girlfriend's here proud of proud of you Frank come on up here how you doing Frank yeah this is Frank from the Don Tyson School of innovation and

061he's one of our National Merit semi-finalist that's become a finalist how about that that deserves round did you know that Frank is the last kid at our school district that scored a per 36 on the ACT boom that's it another round of applause and you're going to Cal Tech yes I am what made you want to go to Cal Tech young man so uh first of all Celtic is very close to uh one of my uh I mean to some of my relatives uh they're in elonte while CTIC is in Pasadena so it's about 30 minutes away so that's a pretty big convenience for me I don't have to worry about housing and all that and also I saw that they offer a great engineering program and along with their research uh they have What's

062called the JPL or the jet propulsion laboratory and I'm actually looking more into that since I want to go into aerospace engineering uh through their mechanical engineering ma the mechanical engineering major along with the Aerospace minor that they offer you know there's a lot of people out there that finish a statement with well it's not rocket science but yours is isn't it I mean that's where you're headed yeah you're you're going to send somebody out in out of space aren't you yep that's the goal how about you are you going to go if you desire will you go on it that's a little more to it than just one more thing you're are you a Gates finalist are you a Gates scholarship final yes you're another one that we found in the seventh grade back

063in the day too and I've been getting to know you over these over these years you turned into an excellent excellent student uh just a heck of a heck of a model for us here at sceno public schools and I just want to say this to all you kids I hope you've got some of these people's uh phone numbers in your phone wherever it is that you're going these people that have helped you uh fan Your Flames when you came to like Mr F I hope You' got his phone number in your seriously because there's going to come a moment here where you guys are going to lean on somebody and you're going to be thinking about oh what and I can't get a hold of I can't get how about my spring aliens we

064love you guys y'all are awesome you guys represent everything that we stand for in education diversity uh being involved in multiple activities not just academics and here you are stepping off into the next moment you're going to be successful be your wildest dreams and we want to hear about reach back out to us won't yall have anything else for these guys I feel really inadequate yeah aren't they cool good dis gracious aren't they cool this is what crbd you asked about crbd boom there it is so there you go one last time um I just want to say one more thing um I don't I think I can speak for all of us when I say that we would not be here with without our recommenders um they put everything into us and to supporting

065us helping us through this incredibly stressful but fulfilling process so um I just want to thank Mr fin he did more than I ever asked him to um he his classroom was always open for me and I bothered him so much and I still do um but he is the definition of a phenomenal human being and an outstanding teacher and I can never ever thank him enough so there's Mr shs stand up please Round of Applause for all [Applause] teachers all kinds of people that pour into these kids and that's why they're finishing at this Finish Line like they are that's so cool thank you um and then miss Ferrar also every time I asked something of her she gave me tenfold of that so um she wasand new this year to Harbor which made

066me a little nervous that a brand new counselor was coming in um but immediately she became one of my best friends and greatest Mentor so I once again thank you Miss farar for everything you [Applause] did and then um Mr Stewart also he's not here today but I also want to thank him too for everything I know but he was another one of my recommenders that I love so dearly on he's phenomenal I brag on him very okay thank you great job y are going to do amazing things get a picture oh it's doing great I'm say hi I will good evening board and Dr Cleveland I have some very special recognitions this evening to share with you the office of educational policy um have recognized Walker Elementary and John Tyson Elementary um as schools

067that are beating the odds because students demonstrated high growth on the atas exams even though the school serves um high percentage of students that um participate in free and reduced lunch so Walker Elementary was recognized um as overall beating the odds for Northwest Arkansas and John Tyson Elementary was recognized overall in Northwest Arkansas for beating the odds in ela um gu congratulations ladies the office of educational policy believes that growth is the best indicator of the positive impact that the school is having on students um these awards are based on the 2024 content growth score calculated by the division of Elementary and secondary education the growth scores reflect how much students at the school improve from 2023 compared to how much other students with similar prior achievement improved um there schools were recognized based on

068overall growth as well as for growth in math and English and language arts separately um their certificates will be mailed at a later date so we just wanted to take a moment to recognize these two schools for their um outstanding student performance so congratulations [Applause] ladies hey I have a quick question for me yes um what sorry what what would you guys say would be like if you were going to tell somebody the number one reason that you feel like you accomplished this what would you tell somebody what this what's the secret sauce I will say having all staff bought in to the achievement of our students and doing whatever it takes to move them knowing their data and knowing what steps they need to take to move them forward in whatever content that may

069be I will second that but also add that we are very focused on student agency so we're helping our students own their learning and being very connected to what their goals are and what they want to achieve and our community support is amazing and then our teachers going above and beyond our parents really supporting the work we you're doing group effort is what I'm hearing Community everybody buying in not just one teacher awesome thank you [Applause] um I would like to introduce you to um two of my new favorite people that I've just recently met if I could have Nicole and Peter come and join me please um at the beginning of the school year we had some unique um challenges that we have shared with you with some of our um new kindergarten friends

070and Dr Cleveland and the team were talking about what is it we could do um you know we're very Solutions oriented but what what could we do to help support support um our community so that we could make sure that we had students ready to come to kindergarten to learn and we knew that we couldn't do this alone that we had to have some answers in our community that there had to be resources in the community that we could tap into and so we started processing and putting our brains together and reached out to some of our Community Partners um I contacted Diana McDaniel and said listen we need some help we need to bring in some of um maybe Arkansas children Northwest U anybody who's willing to listen to what we're dealing with to

071see what Solutions may be out there and so she was eager to help we brought in um a team of about 15 people and we just sat and put our heads together shared our concerns the issues we were facing and UAMS Rose to the occasion and we learned of this beautiful organization um called The Institute for Community Health and Innovation and they're like we have some resources we can help and so so um I wanted to give um Nicole and Peter an opportunity to tell you about two of the programs that we have um been able to already Implement um in two of our schools we are piloting at turnbo elementary and Jones Elementary with the idea that these programs will be growing in the future so Peter and Nicole I'm going to turn this

072over to you and let you talk about our community health worker and the 247 program I I might need this stool down here to Aller this for a second um thank you all so much for having us um I'm Nicole Bard I'm with UAMS our Institute for Community Health Innovation and we are so thrilled to be partnering with Springfield School District and piloting this Marshall e Community Health worker um our mission at UAMS is to create a better state of health for all and so when we heard um and had that collaborative round table and heard about the needs of the community we recognize that this aligns that supporting families early in development and supporting them through their journey to create successful um School ready Children and Families aligns with our mission so um we

073are excited to be embedding a community health worker starting um next month we'll be working uh with the schools to be piloting this program where she will be um she's a trusted member of the marshes community and working to create um easier earlier access to early developmental screens and helping them navigate helping families navigate to Providers helping them get set up with insurance so that we know that if Children and Families have are set up on insurance and connected to those early screens that they're most they're set up on that path for developmental health and so some of the activities that we see this going into this are um going out in the community and conducting developmental screens that are culturally appropriate um also providing education to families on parenting developmental screens developmental health and

074then also providing navigation to families so I'll turn it over to Peter too to share a little bit about the 247 program that we are also currently doing with um turbo and Jones so thanks Nicole can you hear me all right okay yeah thanks for having us appreciate it my name is Peter Cooper with you AMS and the 247 parent program really really is parenting education and case management um case management is supporting families meeting where they are doing needs assessments figuring out where can we help you do you need employment do you need clinical navigation and connectivity do you need to get connected to higher education do you want to go be enrolled at Northwest Arkansas Technical Institute and procure a CDL license or HVAC license so that's the case management that comes with

07524/7 parenting uh the the parenting part is the education we have 12 lessons that we teach uh it takes about 6 to 12 weeks just depending on how quick we go those lessons consist of what's your family history um where are you in health physical health mental health how can we get you connected to getting your blood pressure checked cholesterol checked Etc um maybe you're not living with the parent of your your child so how do we help you co-parent how do we ensure that you and and the parent work together to ensure the best outcome for your for your family one of the other classes is is parent engagement how do we get parents more involved in what's going on with the kids lives especially in the schools our moms and dads attending the

076PTA schools our mom and dads attending the you know the school meetings with the teachers to understand where their child lies academically um so we teach these classes throughout the community we we've been doing this four years now we've partnered with several nonprofits in the community um this morning we graduated our first small class class at turnbo elementary it was a big big success we had a a martial e couple that graduated they they met twice a week for six to seven weeks they've learned a lot of information we've got surveys to sort of measure that data we do a pre-s survey and a posts survey we we want to show growth um and so yeah that's that's it essentially parenting classes and case management to ensure those families are connected with resources to help

077Advance the the well-being of their families yeah happy take any questions if you guys have have any questions what will the logistics look like so it's one um what do we Health worker between two schools is that right we have one Community Health worker for two schools we're piloting it um ask me how much is this costing our district how much this Z do they are funding this for us yes um so we were really excited about that and they are willing to grow the program but I told them we wanted to be good stewards of their resources and so we wanted to get this right before we expanded the program to other schools in our district so turnbo and Jones were very high need schools um that had a lot of these issues and

078so um that's where we're starting and we have two principles that are absolutely on fire for this program and they would have been here but both of them um are ill and could not join us this evening so they were very sad that they couldn't be here to just share with you their excitement to be bringing these programs to their schools so so do you feel like without really going into much details we were kind of that spot early on this year with some education Child Development stuff do you feel like going into next year this is going to have us a little more prepared and we're hope obviously yes we're hopeful that this will allow us to be a lot more proactive um we um have been meeting pretty regularly since we found out

079that we're on boarding this community health worker talking about ways that we can get her into to their Community to um do more of a child find so that we can do these developmental screenings in homes in churches in community um places and help get these families connected to the resources that they need help get help them get um enrolled into our prek programs and if not enrolled in pre- programs help them get connected to um the developmental services that they need to get them ready for kindergarten it's pretty encouraging to know found some solutions cuz when we're in Washington there wasn't any solutions was back to our local people yes they they they are a gift that keeps on giving and like I said they are definitely um a friend to Springdale and so

080we are very excited they've been great to work with um I think we're the first schools that um School District that they're bringing these programs into um so I think we're the first school district that's brought the 247 program into a school setting and I know definitely we're the first district that has brought the community health worker into the district and these programs have existed outside of the school setting but we're bringing it in and we're integrating it in we brought along um Megan Rojo who's our pre- director she's going to be working closely with these two schools as well as Andy Ingram um our special education director will be closely connected with all of this and so that all of these um transitions will be seamless as we move forward what's the age range

081of kids that will be our Target would be 3 to five but is um Gloria is our um community health workers name as she's finding moms and children even younger than three to five then she can also be working to help identify services and resources for them as well how was the first um initial reactions to the 247 grade you said that I that some have just graduated the program and what kind of reactions did you get from the families did from the graduates um did you feel like they bought into what yeah we've been doing this four years so we started in 2020 I mean when you're starting a social program that's meant to be socialization is difficult so it took a little while to build word of mouth but if you know our

082Marshall e brothers and sisters it takes a while m word of mouth is the best way to spread information that in Facebook quite honestly um and so when when folks started buying in Word of Mouth got spread real quickly I mean over so over the last four years we've been over a thousand adults and graduated almost that many so it is and yeah we we hope to continue this as as much as we can so when you when you find a parent who's who's struggling with maybe they have a child who's struggling with behavior especially they can talk through these problems and work this out it just becomes a real solution based system y it's wonderful thank so it's got to take some I mean it's got to take some pressure off some of the

083teachers right especially in that prek kindergarten CU that's where we were just yeah when at the beginning of this year when we were looking at um the data that showed how many of our prek students um at these schools mirrored their population it did not correlate well and so miss Ferguson um is actually working with Trent's team um and some of her families I think that were connected to this program um to actually create a commercial um the Marshal e families are creating the commercial um to push out to that Community advertising hey come enroll your kid in prek and so there's definitely a push to um within that Community to um get our families to trust our prek program to get them there and I think the addition of Gloria um who is a

084very trusted member of the community they she's worked for UAMS she's she's worked in a different role but will be transitioning to this community health worker role um and I think her being boots on the ground in you know into the communities of these two schools um will really help with that as well so we're we're excited and she'll be working year round and so we're already work talking about when Jones and turbos doors are closed the community clinic at Jones does not close and so um how can we utilize her services with the with the provider as the provider is still seeing families of Jones um working with those kids that she's finding during the summer and then how can we utilize her Services even working with Megan Roo um during the summer as

085their doors are still open enrolling families and so um I think it's going to be a beautiful thing any other questions for us um um once we do get Gloria um started in our district I do plan to bring her back to a board meeting and let you meet her so you'll get to see a face with the name okay thank you board and thank you Peter and for being here this evening you invite your team up too I think it's good for brought okay so uh Springdale School Board Dr Cleveland Administration um I brought three ladies with me tonight that did a tremendous job now that I can't see anything at all uh during the State basketball tournament last week uh to our incredible administrative assistants and I'm going to have them standing and

086we going Applause janana Kate chrisy Wy and Mary Welch their meticulous planning and organization were instrumental in ensuring the smooth operation of this event uh we deeply appreciate your commitment and your effort uh I think they got tired of me walking it over and over each week uh but they didn't say anything during that uh special thank you to the athletic directors Chris Wood and Eric Bernett for their leadership and coordination during this as well to Jason Jones and to the entire Springdale high school administrative team for their continued support throughout the tournament we extend our sincere appreciation to SRO Brian treat and the team for providing cover and ensuring the safety of all attendees to Damon Donell Larry little and the csso security team at the metal detectors your diligence in maintaining a safe

087and secure environment did not go unnoticed we had people actually thank us as they came in John Scott SRO at Springdale High and the Springdale Law Academy that if you are at the tournament you notice they you took care of all our parking your efforts in the managing parking lot Services were invaluable and maintain order and accessibility for all our guests um bulldog arena is the most technological gym in Arkansas High School athletics I'll put it up against anybody because we can do just about anything we need to an unbelievable job was done by Donald Tucker Alexa Vargas and their team provided exceptional support ensuring seamless operations for All Digital live stream and Technical needs and if you didn't know we did every game through our live stream not somebody else's we did it um

088we are also incredibly grateful to the Army National Guard for assisting with bus parking and being available for anything that was needed your willingness to step up and provide support was truly commendable if you didn't notice logistically we would have them pull up to the front steps the National Guard we had uh gotten a Suburban from crane Automotive they would take them over to the lock building which uh is being redone and we parked all the buses out of the parking lot where it would uh fit more people into it after they got done with the game they'd go back and they'd take them back over and bring them back uh heartfelt thank you to Kendrick Kenny and her volleyball team hosting team for making visiting teams feel welcome they met them at the gate

089and to the springd high ambassadors for their outstanding efforts in hosting the cheer and dance squads that came in with the other teams your hosp hospitality made a lasting impression to our dedicated maintenance team and custodian team led by Jeremy Wyatt Rick Daniel Wayne butram Megan Kelly who helped us in the parking lot James Wilson with just about anything I could come up with it needed done Joe testler uh did all kinds of things in preparation for this him and his team hardworking and getting to keep Bulldog Arena set up cleaned and wellmaintained was essential in ensuring a pleasant experience for everyone I also want to thank our Junior High and middle school teams and coaches who ran the concession stand throughout the tournament uh you did an outstanding job your services were greatly appreciated

090by all included Lakeside junior high George Junior High J Kelly Middle School and Sonora Middle School all had teams that worked the concession stand throughout the tournament and did a tremendous job a huge thank you to bayy Jones who organized the table workers and Pa announcers as well as to Tom Skipper Mike McFarland Dave Robinson for their unwavering support managing team hospit ality and locker rooms uh Bailey actually kept the clock in between games where you keep on a pattern which is you know it's a very hard job to do because there's a certain time that the tripa allows but she kept us on time every night except for the one overtime game we had to All American Steakhouse your generosity in providing the hospitality room made a significant impact in making our guests feel

091valued and cared for and if you were up there you were cared for there was no doubt uh we also extend our gratitude to go surfaces uh Midwest Sporting Goods Lindy Lindsay with Lindsay realy Trent Jones and the communication team for their contributions in sport throughout the tournament Jeremy ha and Coca colola your generosity in providing products and assistance did not go unnoticed he took care of the actual hospitality room throughout the tournament from cocacola finally to thank the Springdale Chamber of Commerce for the advertisement promotion grant that we received from the city and the volunteers who dedicated their time throughout the week uh I think we had at least eight or 10 at a time all during different stations all during the week uh we worked really well hotels that uh that they talked

092to for team rates things like that and it worked out really well uh finally this tournament was a tremendous success because of each and every one of the IND individuals and groups that I listed we are incredibly fortunate to have such a supportive Community thank you for being an integral part of this event and for your continued commitment to Excellence we have had three uh state championship tournaments uh boys golf this year volleyball and basketball and I don't think anybody will ever say that they were halfway just got through anything like like that these things are over the top and that's the way we want to be your dedication hard work and teamwork truly exemplify the spirit of Excellence that defines that defines our Springdale community on behalf of the Springdale athletic department I want

093to extend our heartfelt gratitude with deepest appreciation Springdale athletic department I want to say thank you to all these people involved any questions you know how many people we have well seven about 7,000 tickets that does not include teams coaches and then you know we kind of guess 10,000 uh we probably hit that point pretty good right around that point with the Chamber of Commerce and all that so you know having 10,000 people come in and watch basketball very minor problems um I mean you know I I asked about 10 coaches the first day I said hey who won the first game they said I don't know coach but the hospitality room is really good and I said okay so we took that as a compliment Ram but uh each uh each individual that came

094in and played uh received a coin just like you guys said each team coaching staff wise got four Under Armour back packs and four Yeti cups with the 2025 6A tournament on there they got a basket of food that was just coming in for each team so I think each one Hospitality wise and that could not be pulled off without these three ladies my two assistants because the hardest part about the tournament is we still have other things that are going on soccer on other side of town baseball all that white it's going on over here so uh everybody did a really good job of covering those events and taking care of those things so but again we want to make sure we're always first class it was Springdale boys will play at 145 at

095Hot Springs uh again it's been a great year in basketball our you know girls and boys both teams were were uh either the conference Champion or the conference runner up so it's been a good year uh so we want to make sure we did it right you did a great job too uh like I said it uh it's all about a team there's no doubt and having this community here and having people just ask and and fill in for it it was tremendous just to see everybody working so worked out well said like a leader thank you [Applause] you need a vacation I was going to say Mary made a 36 on her ac2 at one time I had to add mine together twice to get thank you all for being here see you so

096I really feel inadequate to follow all of the presentations today um our students and our staff are amazing um so I'll I'll present my part and um y'all will think they're even more amazing um so I just have a few things on your agenda today um if you'll remember um probably about a year or so ago we started presenting policies um a little bit differently where we present them um at a meeting for initial review um give you some time to review also get feedback from staff or anyone else who has feedback um and then bring them back for the next meeting so today is just that presentation for initial review um the actual policies are linked in your agenda but I'll just go over a few of the highlights um policy 3.1 would add

097outof State University experience to years of teaching experience for placement on the salary schedule um that's a pretty unique circumstance that was brought forth by a particular employee um we think it will affect just a handful of employees um and so that is a recommended change 3.6 is updates to the PD policy to make um our new calendar work remember that we're shifting to having a half day um where then teachers can use the other half day for um parent teacher conferences which is also some feedback that we've been getting over the past few years so just some tweaks to that policy to make that work um 3.8 and 8.5 and that's the certified policy and the classified policy over the same thing it's sick leave and personal leave the way the policy was written

098it was confusing to employees that um the personal leave is not additional days you take part of your sick allotment and can use them as personal so there's no change to the actual policy just some clarifying language and a little table in there to make it more clear going forward and so that's on both the certified and classified side um 3.10.1 um from best I can tell is an old policy back when um all of our schools operated on the same schedule and it said that principal hours were 7:30 to 4:30 well when we have elementaries who are opening the door you know 7:15 7:25 um and then secondary schools who may be there till well after 4:30 it just didn't line up with what was actually happen happening um in reality I think our

099principles are in the building much longer uh but this policy kind of restricted some people who felt like even though they were there at 6:45 in the morning didn't feel like they could leave at 4:00 to go take care of something if they needed to so um it clarifies that principal hours are a minimum of eight contracted hours um and that they need to be there when um kids arrive and when kids leave but what fits with their level of um education Elementary secondary and then also um what works their building um 4.30 um clarifies a student suspension can be 10 days ISS and 10 days oss the wording of that um was a little bit off and so just some clarification so that it's clear on um how long a suspension can run and

100then was that the there was something in there about um something being a line being removed about out of school about it being out of school suspension you remember that part off top of your head in that policy um if there was a I'd have to go back and look if there was a line removed it was just making cleaning it up so that it was clear that you can do 10 OSS and 10 ISS um anything in excess of the 10 OSS is considered an expulsion and they get their um appeal opportunity as part of their due process but um a 10 and 10 um with being 10 in school and 10 out of school is um a tool that's used across the district so we want to make sure the policy reads correctly

101and not cause not causing confusion um and then finally on policies um section six of the asba model policies um you know we've slowly been transitioning over to those um the next numerically was six even though we did eight um a couple years ago but the next one that we needed to adopt was six you'll see those in there um no changes to what I would call practice um but just moving our policies to line up as closely as possible um with the asba policies you'll see in there several of those section six policies are listed as reserved if you'll remember how we've uh started doing that when we moveed to the asba policies if it's a policy that doesn't really apply to us um but we want to kind of leave it as a

102placeholder because it's a number that's in the the numerical system for asba it's just Ed as reserved so there's not a policy but that it's a placeholder in case we want to come back and implement it at some point um and that way our numbers don't get off uh with their numbers and they're real easy to match up um so like I said this is just a a presentation for initial review for you I don't need any action um I'll be happy to answer any questions today or over the next month um and we'll bring them back to you hopefully mostly unchanged by in April and they have already been presented to the certified PPC and um the one that affects classified PPC will present that to them um this week but those changes are

103actually a result of conversations that were had with that group so I think it will be something that they're thrilled to see do you have any questions you've been working on this for three four years now oh my goodness are you getting close to being done with all of them yeah and you know one of those things we could push through and get them all um done at the same time the problem is is that some of the sections are more substantial than others and so you know like when we did the the student policies and the Personnel policies you know may have 30 to 50 policies and so the idea and the feedback that we got from you all is that that was a lot for one time so let's just um slowly implement

104it um policies are something that are never updated um I I literally on my to-do list I think from the day I started working here um always have policies written on it because the minute you get them updated implemented something changes and just so we're real clear about these policies um if you all approve them in April they would go into effect July 1 um and as soon as the legislative session is done we're going to be looking at all the changes that have to come about um as a result of the legislative session so job security maybe I'm not real sure um but yeah it's a constant process of trying to make sure that they're um up to dat and make sense for implementation okay um the next item for you all is just

105a legislative update um these are just a few bills um obviously um and there I tried to pick out the ones that affected School boards and then maybe one that uh one in particular that we talked about um last month so the first one is House Bill 1724 it specifically talks about um School Board terms um election date it would change the term for all Schoolboard members to four-year terms um would have the Schoolboard election the only option would be the preferential primary date which is the option you all use anyway um take out the November election option um and then because the terms of board members would shift it kind of has this phase in or phase out I'm not really sure how you would word it but um for members of a School

106District board of directors that are currently holding terms this is when they would expire according to this bill so it take away when yes which is an interesting legal concept that we can talk about some at some point but but um that is out there it was it's a relatively newly filed Bill and so I don't have a lot of information on you know kind of what we're hearing on it but it does obviously directly affect you so I wanted you all to be aware that it was out there I'm just thinking in my head if it did pass if there were opportunities to for potentially yeah potentially um so Senate Bill 89 I don't know where my 89 went but it's now act 120 so I guess whatever bill number it is doesn't matter

107um requires we talked about this last month requires that agendas and minutes um be posted on our website within prescribed periods of time the minutes um 24 hours after approval agenda at least um 24 hours before we all do that anyway um the special meetings it the agenda would need to be posted two hours before which we follow that anyway it also requires that names email addresses um in terms of board members be posted on the website um that information is already there we'll have to get some clarification I believe we have um I don't know if we have your direct email addresses on there or if we have a thrillshare link um there are lots of reasons that Paul Miller can explain about why we use thrillshare links and not just put the email

108addresses out there um and so we'll have to clarify whether that's sufficient um but we'll we'll handle that Senate Bill 90 is the um bill that mostly dealt with public comment at board me at board meetings we talked about that last month it's now moved to the Deferred list um the Deferred list means it's not being considered right now but it takes approximately one second to move something from the Deferred list to the agenda um and so until a bill is um withdrawn from further consideration then it's still a possibility to be pursued um and then finally Senate Bill 142 which is now act 122 is the Bell to Bell noell um we talked about that last month that um would prohibit possession and we will hopefully get some clarification on what possession is um

109of a cell phone from the time that instruction begins in the school day till the end of the school day like I said there are numerous other bills out there um and once the legislative session is over we'll do a more comprehensive review of everything um that that passed and so we're all um familiar with steps that are going to be taken moving forward and changes that will have to be made but these are really the school board specific bills and acts that are out there right now does anyone have any questions how many more weeks do we have to worry about this Dr Cleveland are you hearing how many more weeks they plan on going yeah yeah okay anything else okay and the final item is just a reminder um that the school election

110is coming up scheduled for May 13 2025 um Mr Bell is running un opposed and Mr Ramos did draw an opponent and so again we've got another school board meeting between now and then I'll remind you again but just letting you know reminder of the election date and then um candidates that will be considered okay thank you good evening School Board Dr Cleveland um I would like the first item on my section is um to introduce Miss Sarah Gentry she's the principal at hcj CPA and advisor pllc they are our auditor and she is going to present our audit report for June 20th 2024 good evening I have to agree with Kendra I think um I'm not sure I can ever make an audit report quite as exciting as um the student accolades that were

111presented before us so but um but I do get to present a great audit report tonight so that's at least exciting news so um I'm not sure quite as exciting but it is exciting so first off we appreciate the opportunity to be here tonight and to perform the audit of Springdale School District um so we we'd like to say thank you for that we'd also like to say thank you to Stacy and her accounting team um they put up with a lot from us we we have a ton of document request a ton of questions that happen throughout this process it's not easy you guys are subject to a regular financial statement audit and also what's called a single audit under the uniform guidance which is compliance-based and there's a lot of document requests that

112come with that so we really appreciate um all of your help throughout the process and Dr Cleveland thank you for putting for steering the ship and putting the right people in the right seats because that makes our job easier so we appreciate it um so we'll walk through the audit in kind of an high level um you'll see that our responsibility on these financial statements is to express an opinion on the numbers and that they're materially correct and so you'll see in our audit opinion we um issued an unmodified or clean opinion on those financial statements under the regulatory basis of accounting which is the basis of accounting prescribed by the state of Arkansas so a clean opinion um in that regard if you look at the financial statements the very first fincial statement on

113page four is the balance sheet under the regulatory basis you'll see that it's in column format and we'll kind of walk through what each one of those funds due for the district the First Column you'll see is the general fund that consists of your operating funds of the district and um your state restricted State funds that balance the fund balance at year end was about 32.6 million approximately 7.6 million of that was restricted for future State programs and then the remaining 25 million um is unassigned the special Revenue fund that consists of your federal programs and your food service programs and those the entire $21 million fund balance um that rolled into the next year is restricted for federal program use the other governmental funds that consist of your capital projects and your debt service

114and um the entire 43 million is assigned for future capital projects and then the last column there is the fiduciary funds and those are your things like your band boo boosters your school clubs those are the things you hold the school district holds in merely an agency capacity the next statement on page five is your statement of revenues expenditures and changes in fund balance so this kind of walks through the changes that occurred during the year you'll see it's also in column format so the general fund experienced at the bottom you'll see a net increase in fund balance of about 1.7 million total revenues were 240 million which is an increase from prior year of about 11.4 million most of that had to do with an increase in your property tax um revenues which was

1156.7 million up and then also um 4.1 million um in state revenues related to the learns act that raised um teacher salary so that was the majority of your increase in your revenues in the current year you'll also see total expenditures were about 217 million in the general fund that's approximately $12 million increase from prior year that almost is all attribut to attributable to salaries um again with relation to the learns act you had to bring up those certified employee salaries and then likewise the district also raised the classified employee raises wages as well in the current year and then the district also had some large a few larger supplies and software cost or purchases in the current year that brought up those revenues um in the current year in the general fund and then

116you'll also see the general fund transferred about 22 million over to your capital projects and Debt Service funds in the current year the second column there the special Revenue fund um experienced a net increase in fund balance of about 170,000 so about a break even in those funds which is normal for those funds those funds are kind of now designed to be a cost reimbursement um so those are going to break even pretty closely most of the time um the other governmental funds the last column there that had a net decrease in fund balance of 48.5 million the revenues were 14.3 million this year which was a $2.2 million less than the prior year uh the district didn't get approved for um some of the state facilities partnership monies that sometimes get um Divi out

117for for renovations and so forth and then total expenditures were 106 million in the in the uh capital projects fund that was an increase in the prior Year from of 17 million a large majority of that had to do with some of the um construction finish out and also some hail damage um repairs and so forth that happened throughout the current year um the district received 20 million in insurance proceeds from the finish out of the tornado tornado insurance proceeds and also that hail damage that we just mentioned so you'll see that as a line item as well on your financial statements and then as mentioned previously the district and that other um government Al funds received those 22 millions that that was transferred over from the general funds into that Capital project fund the

118next statement is a statement of revenues and expenditures for Budget to actual the the state of Arkansas requires this um on the general fund and the special revenues fund so we'll um walk through that high level on some of the main changes there the general fund um property tax revenues were higher than expected by about 2.4 million they the district has a tendency to base that kind of on a flat you know it's going to be flat from year over-year um but actually Northwest Arkansas as it has been over the last several years has grown significantly so those property tax revenues were higher than expected the state revenues were also higher than expected by about 1.2 million um the district received several miscellaneous grants in the current year that wouldn't have been known at the

119time of budgeting expenses had a net unfavorable variance about 2.9 Million um a significant portion of that had to do with um the Merit teacher incentives that were fully funded by Desy but um at the time a budgeting wouldn't have been known um and then Capital outlays were higher than anticipated um by about 1.1 million and that was due to the district making a conscious decision to go ahead and make some needed upgrades in technology in the current year and then likewise the district transfer 22 million in capital projects which was um 9 million more than expected that they could transfer over so any excess funds get transferred over into those capital projects funds and then these various fluctuations led to the net unfavorable budget to actual variance of 7 million in the general fund

120but really most of that is as we spoke attributable to those transfers just over into your capital projects so more of a shifting of funds um the special revenues funds Federal revenues were lower than budgeted by about 16.9 million this variance relates to um a change in budget specific to a grant the 21st century Grant so that was specific to one Grant and a change in budgeting and then special Revenue fund expenses had a net favorable variance of 6 million these budget expenses still include some Esser carryover and the state requires that you budget all of it and then even if it's going to roll over and be used in a in the next year the remaining um Pages there you'll see that start on page seven those are the notes to the financial statement

121they give a lot of great information and more detail on the numbers themselves but they stayed consistent from one year to the next um so we won't go through each one I do like to point out one um in in particular on page 11 note four those are the commitments the future commitments of the district um the regulatory basis of accounting if you'll notice you don't see debt on on your financial statements it doesn't it basically functions off of a current sources and uses model of accounting and so when you have Bond proceeds it runs through his revenue and when you have payments it runs through his expenses and those don't show up on your balance sheet this footnote details all of the future commitments of the district so you can clearly see the two

122bonds that are still outstanding of the district and those remaining balances at 6:30 um and then future commitments under construction contracts and so for so that kind of gives you in more detail the um the commitments of the district at June 30th there's a ton of reports in the back that um have to do with the compliance requirements that were required to test that I spoke of earlier um if you'll notice on page 23 that's your schedule of expenditures of federal Awards um you'll see that the district spent just over 50 million in federal funds in the current year which is a significant amount of federal funds and as an audit requirement we're required to test certain compliance requirements based on the major programs that are selected each year we're happy to report that we

123didn't have any findings in those um programs selected for testing as major in the current year the two programs that were selected for testing were Title One and special education cluster those move around each year uh there's a detailed process that we have to go through to determine which funds are major and which funds aren't and which get tested each year and they rotate so those are the two funds that got tested this year and we didn't have any findings related to our selections um our selected samples and then likewise the state of Arkansas requires us to test in an examination um other state stat certain State statutes and that's on page 28 that's our report opinion on those examination procedures over the state statutes that were required to test we're also pleased to report

124we didn't have any findings related to those stat statute compliance requirements that were um required to test as well so in a nutshell that's the audit um if you guys have any questions I can answer those we are also happy to report at under auditing standards we would be required to report if we came into any disagreements with management over accounting principles or um auditing procedures or if we experienced delays or felt like we were not getting the information forthcoming to us um we would be required to tell you guys as those charged with govern it's under auditing standards and we're happy to report we didn't we don't have anything to report under that as well so do you guys have any questions you're welcome yeah we do too makes my job a little easier

125Miss Hopkins was happy to report that this was solely her and not Mr Hayes that's true previously it was Mr H thank very much thank you we will need to approve that audit is that our next step yes please I make a motion to approve the audit report for um year ending June 30th 2024 um as presented have a motion by Mrs cook in a second by Mrs Creek to approve the audit report as presented all those in favor [Music] opposed Bess thank you board um they they are really a great group to work with they kind of descend upon us for about a week and we have three to five people here at one time all asking for different things um but they're um they're very good to work with I've worked with some

126in the past that weren't so good so I really appreciate them um the next item for um that I would like to seek approval for is the February 2025 financials um those were included in your packet just a few things to point out uh our collections are just a little bit ahead of where they were this same time last year which has been pretty consistent this school year um we had we did receive $164,300 and 17 cents from Arkansas School recognition funds that is included in our other state grants and Aid um expenditures are running just slightly not even a full percent ahead of where they were the same time last year so I'm pretty comfortable with that as we go forward and we're kind of closing getting close to this last quarter of the

127year um also wanted to note that we received the final reimbursement on the fraudulent activity that occurred in Michigan that we talked about in the fall it's taken a little bit of time to work that out and get all of that reimbursed but we have been 100% reimbursed for that activity um Dr Cleveland and I met briefly um with uh with Miss uh Miss Sarah prior to the meeting and she indicated to us that what we're seeing on our level as far as the wash checks and some of this fraudulent activity is is been very common not only Statewide but Nationwide and they've seen that quite a bit not only with their clients um at at their clients businesses but also with their clients even sending checks to them um some of those have been

128uh I guess uh fished out of the mail and washed and um they've had some issues with that as well so it seems to be a a universal problem at this point questions she like the steps that we we taken pay all things you a motion to approve February 225 financials presented second a motion by Mrs creek and a second by Mr Hinson to approve the February 2025 financials all those in favor oppos pass thank you um the last item I have is to seek board approval for the resolution to make the purchase of 412 North Kansas Street Kansas Street is house last and the other home that we actually own it's the last home left has been working with the lady who who lived there for 50 plus years for a long time and

129we've worked out at least for her to to release the home from us really of her until she V she's how much was it 200 even so so that gives us everything to the ditch everything to the ditch yes so and it's technically not Dy said we don't necessarily have to have it for our plan but it's important to have it for the overall scheme the safety scheme so and it just cleans everything upes hold it doesn't hold up anything stru she's a super awesome lady great a great neighbor [Music] okay I make a motion that we uh approve the purchase of the hole in 412 North Kansas Street second a motion by Mr Hutchinson and a second by Mrs cook to approve the purchase at 412 North Kansas Street all those in favor opposed

130motion passes thank you we'll pass that resolution where we at on all of you we have got it just about ready to launch we um I'm working right now on a board um I don't I don't know that I want to call it a packet like a board procedures guideline so that once you log in you've got a a step by step how to navigate through through the program and then I also wanted to add some additional information that kind of explains um how our budget strings work because I think that would be helpful as you're looking through and looking at particular funds and the detail as to you know is this instructional or is this uh maintenance so I worked on that just about got it drafted I'm going to send it to um

131our representative at aliv you and kind of let him give me a few pointers and um adjustments that he might seem necessary Unfortunately they don't have a um I I would have thought that they would have had that available as a um just a handout that we could give to not only our staff but also you as the board and they don't so we're kind of having to create that and then I'm sure they'll use it going forward for other Fe other people so okay okay hello board Dr Cleveland so at Central Junior High we're pretty much just finishing up doing the final punch list so this is the new library that that was the cafeteria um and then in the back behind the U the storefront windows is a multi-use room that'll be back

132there for them to use this will be the circulation counter um back on on the south end of the library um this is the the East Corridor that that will connect where the gym is to to this new new wing and to the main office and then uh just the restrooms that's all I had it central um we did order furniture for phase three so um we're planning on moving into that the week after spring break and and that that project will be completed um we're working over at the um professional development center the old after school program building over there they're they're on schedule there um so we've got electricians and plumbers in there right now doing a lot of that work um they've done a lot of the above ceiling um work hvac's

133going on over there now so it it's moving uh pretty good over there and then the the lock building um we've got all the demo done um they're they've got set up there now they're doing a lot of blocking in that building and getting ready to insulate the walls and the ceiling to bring it up to to meet the standards of the state um and then the last thing is the baseball softball fields at Harbor and at Springdale are pretty much complete um we've got a small punch list of items to complete there uh but they're playing games on those fields and and and everything there so would like to the facility like we did two years ago so on Thursday might take about two hours I know you're really busy at this time it's

134always fun from something the bus not supposed to eat the bus we'll clean it up okay like next th okay yep we can set that up all right you guys have any questions on any the projects we can have con and be there yeah all right all right thanks that you're ER rasing to the microphone Miss I'm gonna grab my water while she hello good evening Dr Cleveland and boor um um we weren't sure if Valerie was going to pick it tonight because she had conferences so I'm Cali day um I'll be presenting for us tonight um this past weekend Valerie and I were able to participate with our AA committee's day um where we collaborated with other members across the state um to accomplish various tasks uh for the organization um our members reelected

135president risma to serve another term and we are very excited to continue the many Endeavors that she has spearheaded for students and Educators in Arkansas Demetria watts in Springdale has joined our team as our ESP board member and will be representing our classified staff across the district she's already been hard at work advocating for members bringing an oversight to our attention uh to help bus drivers make up the hours that were missed due to the snow days Valerie and I are very excited to be going to Portland this summer for the Nea representative assembly we have grown our membership enough to also have two additional delegate spots where Springdale educators will join us uh we have an upcoming vote on just who those two positions will be um and we will know shortly um definitely

136know by the next meeting so we'll give you those names uh then um I'm sure that it is not news to you to say that this last month has been a whirlwind in general um but particularly from a legislative perspective Miss clay spoke to some of those things things um we've seen executive orders cabinet appointment hearings and other cases at the national level as well as the State of the Union Address um I'm a little over halfway through listening to the hearing from yesterday on the access bill um it was quite lengthy if you missed it um but while there are definitely some Co components of it that are concerning for our students in community I'm going to ass assume that you're probably already aware of these I won't attempt to list out all the

137impacts that these decisions would have on us here in Springdale but the place I would like to speak about um is the intersection of the federal components with our Arkansas legislation the biggest areas of concern um are those of voice and discrimination while the certainty of the federal department of education is a bit unsure at the moment we know that today 50% um was reduced in force and that is or and that if it is fully eliminated the burden of those extra funds and the authority of decisions fall to the states I love the state my family tries to get me to move back home every time I visit and I tell them that I cannot imagine leaving Arkansas um however the brief timeline uh just from the last few years as far as the

138legislature goes um has taken away a lot of the voices of citizens and in particular Educators in 2021 uh collective bargaining was taken away in 2023 we lost teacher Fair dismissal through the learns act and payroll deduction for member dues via tppa this may not seem like a big deal if it's only seen as a payment method but the reality is that it was a targeted effort to reduce educator associations by automatically unenrolling all of our members and requiring them to reenroll we consistently have members across the state who somehow miss that memo and don't know that they aren't active members we in Springdale are very fortunate that we don't really have to worry about losing our jobs because of an administrative Vendetta we've got great people here but not everyone in our state has

139that privilege their membership is often the only line of defense that they have left in a lot of places and if they didn't know that they needed to reenroll they wind up in a crisis already in 2025 numerous bills have been aimed at preventing the Democratic process of citizens having the ability to pursue ballot initiatives to allow arens to speak for themselves when they feel that their legislators aren't hearing their voices all of these affect Educators in Arkansas and their ability to speak up when harm is being done to our students and also to ourselves this violates First Amendment rights that we should be able to speak on outside of our contract hours and promote spirals of Silence when we see harm being done to our students we are mandated reporters within the walls going

140so far as to know how to respond to Armed asants yet we can't speak to our legislators about it outside of a phone call or an email that just becomes a tally mark students come first always that's both during contract hours and outside it also doesn't mean that educators are Limitless and we should have the same rights as everyone else to speak up for ourselves and for the children that we so dearly love and invest our lives in every single day yesterday it went beyond the Educators and section 23 of the access bill is aimed at eliminating the voices of students in the policies that directly affect them and their education they aren't old enough to vote yet so this is kind of the only place for them to be heard but without exemption for

141taking an active role in Civic engagement something I was not even remotely aware that I could do at their age they can't make up the work that they miss which could harm their long-term academic Endeavors these hearings happen during the day and in Little Rock so the vast majority of students and and educators are not eligible to sit at this table students and educators are some pretty major stakeholders and not able to speak about their daily lived experiences in these decisions that will affect their daily lived experiences the takeaway here is that if this happens based on the legislative track record we've seen in recent years Aras students and citizens will be further harmed and further silenced with regard to disc termination many of these legislative issues and executive orders are now threatening our student

142right to a free and Equitable public education executive order 13166 revoked the necessity to provide documents or services in languages other than English knowing our elll population here in Springdale this should absolutely give us pause this means that either our community will eventually have limited and and less access to information resources and education and or that we will be left to foot foot the bill for those things without federal assistance in Springdale for I don't even know how many years we say all means all maybe I'm spoiled with that mentality but I have a hard time understanding how policies from the federal and state levels when you boil it down combined with the double standards of vouchers which I know you are all too aware seem to say that only some students are actually worthy

143of equality and Equitable education by pulling funding from students who simply need support in their language acquisition The Fallout of these measures especially in Springdale if we hesitate to act would be detrimental I would like to fervently request of you as people that I respect as people who have a proven track record of vot of valuing all of the our students and who have positions of respect and Authority in our community and our state to publicly stand against these policies and to prioritize efforts to communicate these effects on our students in our community to our community and our state because not everyone knows I talk to people in Rogers and Bentonville who are not far away at all who have no idea what we work with every single day let me be very clear this

144is not a partisan stance whatsoever I do not care about the letter by someone's name I care about education policy because it's our kids tragically from the national to the state level education as a whole has become a sacrificial lamb on the altar of partisan agendas in the culture wars of the elite but down here we're still looking these little ponds in their sparkly little eyes they're not a problem they're potential they aren't a test score they're a testimony of overcoming obstacles time and again they're not a liability they're a legacy they're not a number they're Natalia they're not a dollar sign they're Diego they aren't a bargaining chip or an agenda they're a billson or an Alejandra or a Keandre or Camila or Jake their Shia and Hima their Rosie rafhael Ruan sukimi Sarah

145their Lexi and Lionel but more than that they're not just students they're ours i' like to leave you with one final quote from a favorite movie of mine which quotes a brilliant book by Thomas Moore for if you suffer your people to be ill-educated and Their Manners to be corrupted from their infancy and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them what else is to be concluded from this but that you first make them thieves and then punish them if we don't have the opportunity to teach our children because we no longer have the means and permissions to do so or to advocate for them when need arises we leave them to whatever first education they received please we know the kind of people that you are we know the

146values you hold and we know that you love these children as much as we do and we ask from the bottom I personally ask from the bottom of my heart be brave with us take a stand not against anyone but for our kids we know you care we've seen it history has seen it and yet again we ask that you would stand with us as we stand with you any questions thank you very so no Patron comments miscellaneous item J any questions about that two is what I I plus two oh plus two okay meeting adjourned thank you for coming e