001It's so important [Music] 7.1 session the board approved by Friday items. for employee DP66750. We want you distribute former employee um in exchange for the former employ. Okay. Uh, the roll call vote went as follows. I voted by Mr. TP. I voted by Muser. I voted by Mr. Carlson. And they voted by Mr. W. Pledge of Allegiance Dr. for God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all creation items. Nor Good evening. Um, so uh what I'm going to present to you is the total counts of completion of the school year. Uh, so our total UTK through 8th grade enrollment was 13,83. Early learning enrollment was 483 students for a total of 14,376 to the loss of 27 students from the last board meeting and a difference uh uh 225 less students in the same time
002period last year. Uh unfortunately I did not get u any sort of counts for homeless or foster students that wellness staff indicators Dr. Jordan director CICA Right. First of all, I' like I'd like to say um good evening to the board, good evening to the the audience, good evening to executive cabinet. It's great to see you guys on this um last board meeting before summer really officially starts and takes off for us all. um looking forward to a nice uh productive break over the time. So, we're looking to see some good things happen. So, wanted to say thank you for that. So, tonight um what I get the opportunity to do is provide you with a report about on the local indicators that are going to end up on the internet or they're going to
003end up on the California dashboard for our for our on the California dashboard that tells us where we're at and where we land in terms of our academics, um our suspension, product absentis, and all those pieces that we talk about on a consistent basis throughout the school year. So that's what this report is going to be about for us tonight. So that being said, I want to give a little bit of background about this. Every year we are given the opportunity to provide an overview of where we are on locally determined indicators based on our team analysis of those indicators. Those indicators reflect an emphasis on local control while allowing us to measure out um our progress and how we are getting things done in Lancaster school district. So things such as um do we
004have textbooks for children? Um do we have appropriately assigned teachers in classrooms? Those are the kinds of things this measures. Um it does this report reflects an emphasis on mobile control and it's a part of the LCF that allows for that particular piece to happen. gives us our voice on the dashboard so that we're able to say yes, we are doing all of these things and these are the results we are getting because of what we are doing based upon these pieces. So I wanted take us back to our district priorities. We've set this over the last couple of weeks more times than I can um I can count. We have to get kids to we have to get kids to school, get students to behave and get students to learn. I like to call
005them the three gets at this point. We got to get them here. We got to get them to act appropriately while they're here. And we have to get them to learn while they're here. But you see that at that third point is that get them to learn because we have to get all of those other pieces in place before that can happen. We had a nice little meeting with all of our people from all of our um leadership team last week that was able to reflect this and we got to the point where we figured out at many of our school sites how we're going to do the coming year. I want to take us back to the idea of what this all around and where this all comes from. This all comes from a
006direct um it's directly related to the Lancaster School District local control and accountability plan that sits with those three main um goals that are that are reflective of the priorities that we have. Equitable learning practices and positive learning environments. How do we get them to behave? Safe and supportive environments. Once they're safe and supportive and they're here, that's when we have to be able to get them to get here. That's how we get them to learn. And then it's coupled with those two pieces of equity multiplier that you will be hopefully proving later on this evening that talk about increasing stability for our teaching for our teaching population as well as enhanced culturally relevant practices to make sure that our our teachers, students um and the rest of our schools are in good position for
007those. So jumping off with that, I'd like to begin the discussion that I would that I came here for tonight. We're going to start about start talking about some of these priorities that we've that we have in this district. So this priority that we have that we have to reflect on the LCF local indicators. So these priorities speaks to the bas this particular priority speaks to the basics. I like to call it tissues, toilet paper, and textbooks. It's the basics. It's the things that we need to have in schools to be able to make school run along with the teacher. Definitely with teachers. So you're going to see that reflected in this priority. So here's what we're looking at. We are in at this particular point, our HR department has killed it this year. I'd
008like to give we can all give Mike Davis and his team a huge round of applause for the work that they've done. Um been awesome work. They've been able to get they've been able to get people into the classroom, get appropriately assigned people in the classroom. That's a big deal. Um, we've also been able to keep our schools prepared enough to be able to be we were able to educate our students in in proper locations. That's the easy one. The next one turns into our report on on our self-reflection on our implementations of state academic standards. So, as those are the basics, the team sat around throughout the school year and discussed various other aspects. One being a self-reflection on the implementation of our state academic standards. This priority discusses how we are implementing state
009standards and if there is appropriately assigned and sustainable training in order to keep it happening throughout the school year. In terms of professional development, I want to highlight a couple areas here, but in terms of the professional learning, it was noted um that especially this year, our curriculum department is in a place of sustaining our PD offerings to align with state standards. They've been focusing primarily on the next steps of standardsbased instruction and standardsbased grading to be able to push our systems forward. But I really want to highlight something here. You see where the red is on this um on this particular slide in this report? That red is that's where we were last year, which means that we've moved up. We're starting to make positive we've made some positive growth and that has uh
010a lot to do with the hard work that has been done um through our former AI department um our assessments multi I'm getting this down. I swear I'm gonna get this right. Assessment multilingual learners program. So that that's been the focus of that of those of that particular department and be able to build that sustainable situation in that space. In terms of our priority two implementation academic standards, this discusses we see here our instructional um instructional materials. Um they're readily available to all of our students. They're aligned to the frameworks. Um, next year we will be piloting a new math curriculum beginning in January and providing a recommendation to the board for adoption in April for purchase for the fall of 2627 for of math curriculum that we align to the math framework that we've
011been waiting after every PD. I want to make sure that this is very evident because even my department does this. Um after every PD it should be noted that there is a survey that goes out to all to to allow our staff to identify PD needs that fulfills this partic and that that fulfills this particular requirement. Our CIA curriculum instruction and assessment AMLP assessment multilingual learners pro program equity um PSA departments people safety and attendance departments all look at the data to consider next steps. In this slide, I want to highlight the work of the assessment again the assessment multilingual learner program as they have taken the reigns in areas to continue to work in identifying the needs is based upon data to provide that support for our for our teachers and being able to
012teach solid ELD lessons for our students. Again, that's where I want to say English language development. You see that we're moving towards the area that area of full implementation in this in this particular we have built up our work with state with the state board adopted standards. This talks about um our health education content standards PE standards. In fact um one of the things that Lancaster is extremely proud of is our elementary PE program which is supportive of many other aspects of the system within this district. Um our visual performing arts has taken off. Um, that's one of the trainings that want to bring a teacher out to a training on Saturday, say art. You're going to get them there. They love the trainings with art, especially when you're when you're when you're bring it
013back down to uh the ideas having to do with standards when you're when you're hanging up the standards world languages where where they are being taught are being taught in in alignment with specific standards. So this particular measure again we operate on surveys again um and the target group and we work on target group report. So we actually have conversations with people to identify how we can support them in the space that they are at and sustainable in this particular area. We talk about um identifying professional learning needs for groups of teachers staff as a whole. We're consistently surveying our staff to make sure that they're getting even what they feel that they need so that we can support the learning in the classroom with our priority three speaks towards family engagement. Um, this one
014is one that's near and I think everybody here knows that how for me particularly this is probably one of the most important pieces of work that we do or that we can do um for family engagement. This is the place where Lancaster has be has started to shine specifically this year um in terms of the work and the resources that we're providing our students or providing our families. So I'd like to highlight the work of our student and family services department. We have begun to train at various sites using parenting using parenting partners to support families working with families working with families through our family ambassadors community leazison. This is a wonderful program. Some of you have come to those graduations where you've been able to watch these families actually graduate in front of their
015children from these programs as experts in this particular way and then on top of that be able to move it into a spe into a space where they can start to train other families. That's the purpose of that of that particular program families training families. Other pieces to this is our community leazison that's working through our family based community leaison who are within our um our our student and family services department. Other pieces of this talk about our work with Scholastic having to do with our dual capacity training training and working with parents on how to work with their students in the home and then working with our families on with how they can interact with the school site and then how teachers can interact with can interact better with families. So these areas are
016what's are what are supporting our that relationship between our schools and our staff and our teachers and all the way throughout our systems which is actually building in at least based upon YouTube data. YouTube data that was provided to you earlier in the year, a more positive environment for our kids. So here I want to highlight this area that allows for insight into our school sites, offerings, opportunities for families to provide feedback and governance to our schools. We have to make sure well they're the taxpayers. So we do to some degree have we have to a large degree through school site councils through our English language advisory councils provide them. We have to provide opportunities for voice our trip AAAC's as well to make sure that families have voices in terms of the work that
017they do with in terms of us being able to build our systems up. This one I want to um highlight that third bullet that talks about rating LEA's progress and providing all families with opportunities to provide input in policies and programs. Um principles have worked incessantly hard this year to be able to try to provide that make the opportunities known and make the opportunities available to families. I can tell you that because I read the I read schoolside council minutes on a consistent basis and it is arduous and they do good work in trying to get the try to get feedback from our families. Here we cannot or we can note that Lancaster has adopted has adopted parents. So this is our communication tool. So this is how we communicate back and forth with our
018families two-way communication pieces. Um, this is definitely something one of those pieces that we consistently this is how we're being able to build those relationships, those trusting relationships back and forth so that our families trust us and we can be and we're able to service their students the way that the way that we do the way that's necessary for both the family and us. This is also evident via YouTube surveys that communication is a high priority for Lancaster and that we do everything we can to ensure that parents know where their children are in terms of the academics and behavioral progressions. Priority six talks about our school climate. So basically this one is all about did we did deliver a climate survey and I can say with every instant terms that yes we have over
019and over and over and over and over and then hold on one more time and one more time over again. We're consistently trying to get the feedback from families and we've done it this year through a couple of different ways. Dr. Mary um earlier spoke about parents not tonight but he sent out an email talking about parents square. Parents Square is a huge opportunity for us to be able to be in a position to get um to get feedback back and forth. It's a medium for us to be able to get people to have that two-way communication with families. Youth group is our main climate survey and we deliver that information to on a yearly basis. Um, thought exchange is more of an informal piece that provides our qualitative reviews of some of the information
020that we get and we generally use those for um for uh or to be able to bring in town hall meetings and topics for town hall meetings so that we can have those conversations with families in that space. That's why we were having conversations in town hall meetings about early childhood education in those pieces. Um, we've also partnered with handover research and as well as Google to provide some of that support to us. Last and final priority seven is access to a broad course of study. This is the stuff that makes kids engaged and wanting to come to school. Um, P school is the tool that we use to be able to track student enrollment to be able to ensure that our students are getting the different courses that they may be looking to try
021to get. Um, and make sure that we're making education uh inviting, fun, something that kids want to be at, a place where kids want to be at. This is where the electives come in. Last year we started instituting electives for almost every middle school kids, every middle school student to make sure that we have that opportunity and it's definitely been something that we've seen um take off. Um we've also used the L the Lancaster dashboard to track students and where they're at as well as department reviews of student placement schools courses because you can never get past the idea of the human eye that's going to be looking at these things. These are examples of some of the I would say access to broad course of study. some of the some of the some of
022the courses that we've provided our students. We have music the visual and performing arts almost throughout the system. Um you guys again on the board many of you attended our performance bands on stage. I don't think I'm allowed to call it that. I think I have to call it um band spectacular I think is what we call it. So one of the one of our premier performances for all of our m all of our students throughout the district. Um that's a huge thing for us and that takes a year to get to to that point. Um the AVID program fulfills that uh that career and college readiness piece on PLTW. Other areas of the world of other areas and other program also focus in this area. So last piece identification of any barriers. So we
023do have barriers in being able to get this. Obviously any system is going to have that. Um we have a high number of students who score below grade level on our I Ready assessments. We have to make sure that we prioritize reading, language arts, math, science. We have to make sure we prioritize those pieces. We the hope is is that we're able to put those pieces into an engaging study that allows our students to be able to feel engaged and be able to get that elective. Um the biggest one I believe in our district and we've said this over and over again time in the school day to provide for classes outside the court. Um especially if a student is having troubles in both math and language arts, it turns into it can turn into
024a troublesome situation. But we off but we do where we do f focus our time is on that after school emphasis that our again our student family services department is over in terms of our EL8 program. So that also supports that. So that being said, if I want to take it back to addition priorities, our it's the three get them. If I leave you with anything this year, I want to say this is what we're get. Get them to get them get the students to school. Get the students to behave. Get the students. That said, questions. Yeah. based on our on the input uh what recommendations would you make for the board for the next date on LCAP? So this year LCAP is being reported out that's being um provided for adoption tonight um is
025going to be a lot of what we are currently doing and doing it with fidelity and accountability. It's not about what we put on paper, it's about what we actually do. We can write the best stuff in the world but somebody but we have to be able to look back and say yes we did it and this is how we know we did it. So I look at it like this. If I tell you to do I used to tell this to my to my students when I was a teacher. If I tell you to do something you do it you fail. My fault. I told you to do the wrong thing. If I tell you to do something you didn't do it. You fail. That's on you. But we have to do what we
026say we're going to do. And accountability is the biggest piece of that I think. And I think that we're doing a really good job of getting back up the last two years. So, thank you. Thank you. You believe that it starts off and works down or it's brought up the basics? I truly believe in internal accountability. I believe that. So, like I'm a good teacher because I'm a good teacher. Does that come from somebody who tells me that I have to be the teacher or that I have to do certain things to a degree? Yes. But for but I think it really does come from what what our intrinsic motivation to do good by students. If you don't have that, there's no outside entity. I'm just uh I know one year you heard during the
027ALAP briefings that you were very uh adamant that start at the top. But is that the right way? that I didn't get all the all the uh all the believe people at the at the principal level specifically at the site because we're going to talk about that as being the the um the nexus for where change takes place is at the school site. If we don't at that school site level know how to hold people accountable effectively then that again that's that intrinsic motivation. That's what I was asking. Okay. Sorry. Thank you. Sorry. End of the year is always show right. Um so just wanted to this is a real brief not even a presentation. Um we do this on a yearly basis. The con ask consolidated application. This is how we um receive the
028funds from the so this what we see from the board is basically the okay for me to press the button that we are looking to looking to receive funds for title one two three title four. Title one is um basically our students who are going to be um in the highest of needs or highest at risk students um which is in our district like I think we're pretty high percentage I think we're 80 what like 89% um unduplicated population so we're pretty so that's pretty much everybody so after 45% we cover everybody um title two speaks more towards professional development title three is two parts um limited English proficiency as well as immigrant so it focuses our students who are coming into the country who are brand new within the country within the last two
029years. And then on the on the limited English proficiency, those are students who are learning on the English language. So that's for our ELD programs that kind of supports the bio situation in that in that space. Um title four is more of along the lines of our enrichment. It's a limited amount of funds, but it's more along the lines of the whole child approach to student to student. What I want you to bring to what we bring to you is the um later on you're going to get the opportunity to vote on whether we're going to take whether we are going to receive the funding or whether we're going whether I can press the button to say yes is what so hoping that you say thank Patience request proposals report individual action items. Superintendent adoption
030resolution 2024 to 2025 more compensation for this meeting motion by Oops. with the one adoption of resolution 2024 202546 compensation from this meeting for Greg TV on June 3rd 2025 and 2025. Can I get a motion? Motion by Muser second by Mr. W. All in favor motion passes 31 adoption of resolution 20248 of certification of authorized signature approval December 17, 2024. Motion motion by Mr. W seconded Mr. [Music] favor. Motion passes 40. Individual action items educational services adoption of learning cases group district local controlled accountability plan community school CCSB motion by Mr. Second by Mr. W. All in favor? Motion pass 40. Individual action items. Adoption annual budget report July 1st 2025. Single budget adoption motion. Motion by Mr. TV. Second by Mr. Win. All in favor? Worship messes 40. Approval of amendment number two
031to agreement of intergultural services with SBA architects incorporated for Sunnydale Elementary School moderization and construction project motion by Mrs. Mr. TV. All in favor? I motion passes 4 zero approval of amended amendment number one with with oh inverex for modular building reconstruction and construction services for Nancy Corey Elementary water modernization we have a new construction project motion by Mr. W second by Mr. Juicer. All in favor? Motion passes. 40. Individual action items. Human resources. Approval of deputy superintendent. Uh motion by Mr. Ti, second by Mr. Zutter. He's here tonight and he is the most qualified person to take this responsibility and position up. All in favor? Motion passes for zero. of Shemica Andre as co-principal of Montist second by Mr. Lucer. This is you. Dr. Andrea couldn't be here tonight, but she's proven herself over
032the past year as a very competent administrator at Monav Vista and this is the right move for district and especially Monavista and the students that go. She started in the district has been very successful early student. [Music] Congratulations, Miss Coordinator of Multilingual Burana Oral Blanco. Motion by Mr. TB, seconded by Mr. W. All right. So, Mr. So Palano is presently a bilingual intervention teacher at Linda Verde with over 15 years of experience in a dual language educ language education including teaching abroad in Germany serving as a jump start core member a teach emergent bilingual change agent a glad coach as a state sitewide professional development focusing on multilingual learner support and integrated ELD instruction. She takes great pride in her educational accomplishments which include a master's degree in ed technology pursuing a certification to teach
033English as a foreign language as foreign language and she is deeply committed to lifelong learning and current balances currently balances her professional responsibilities while pursuing a doctorate in management with an emphasis in organizational leadership. She is passionate about inclusive classrooms, equity, language learning and has a deep personal commitment to advocating for students. In her free time, she enjoys traveling with her family, exploring different cultures and cuisines, and embraces challenges as a true thrillseker. She's here in the audience with us tonight. Hi, I am I just wanted to say thank you um particular my daughter to my friends and co-workers Stephanie and um Leslie my boss I want to say thank you for your inspirational leadership guidance and believe in me that make all the difference like to thank my family and friends for their unwavering
034support and belief in me. Their encouragement and support helped shape who I am today. I am truly honored to accept this opportunity and excited to contribute to and grow alongside such a knowledgeable and dedicated. I look forward to serving with purpose and making meaningful. Thank you. All in welcome assistant principal motion by Mr. Chief second by M. All in favor? Oh yeah, sorry. Uh, Miss Ben Manuel has been in education for 12 years and is presently a second grade teacher at Enterprise Elementary School in the East Side School District. She earned a bachelor's degree in urban learning, a master's degree in education, and a master's degree in administration. She's extremely proud of earning those two master's degrees while working as a teacher because it reflects her dedication to education and personal growth. For fun, she
035enjoys a good hike and makes it a point to travel abroad at least twice a year. Lastly, she's passionate about animal rescue and fosters animals that people no longer want, like dogs, cats, and ducklings. She finds them new homes or at times have been known to keep them. And she's here with us in the audience tonight. All in favor? Motion passes for each assistant principal. Sorry, San. Dasis motion by Mr. Williams. Second by Mr. Mr. Dassus has been in education for 26 years in elementary, middle, and high school as a teacher and administrator. He currently works as a sixth grade language arts teacher in the couple school district. is most proud of being happily married to his wife Alicia for 25 years with their four children. Sandy 25, Ariel 23, Adam 12, and Samuel 8.
036For fun, the classes loves traveling and enjoys going to sports venues across the world. The best one being Marana Stadium and Rio de Janeiro, where world famous Bailey played soccer. He's here with us in the audience tonight. I got a motion. Can I get a vote? Thank you again for the opportunity. I brought with me for support and I look forward to being cancer school district. Rio. Did you enjoy the trip to Rio de Janeiro? And you like that stadium? Oh, I love that stadium. Yeah. It It's huge. It is absolutely lot of people, but it's really hot. Welcome to LA. Approval of of revised job description and updated job title for director of employer second by Mr. W. All in favor motion passes 40 of director of compliance and accountability Dr. Melissa Wood motion
037by Mush by Mr. Wayne Dr. is currently the principal of Sundale Elementary. She has proudly served at Lancaster School District for 28 years as a teacher, instructional coach, assistant principal, and principal. Her proudest professional accomplishment is earning her doctorate in organizational leadership. As part of her transfor transformational change product, Melissa led teams of middle school teachers through the transition into common core, creating one common goal of improving literacy across departments. As a teenager, Melissa met her husband, Robert, who's a principal at Lava, and together they built a life infused with travel and adventure. She is an adrenaline junkie. but she isn't tweaking your sips so you can find your skiing, mountain biking, or backpacking in the Sierra. Melissa's core belief is that you should play as hard as you work and she is excited to
038be starting another adventure as a new director of compliance and accountability. And she's here in the office. That's what you get when been here almost 30 years. I'd like to thank all of you for the confidence that you have to put me in this position and I'm here with my family. My family is actually the city of pastor and the good people in in this room right now. So, thank you for being here for me because these are the people right here in the audience who have raised me and have I hope I've made you. So, thank you for the opportunity. Provinial internship permit 2025 2026 motion by Mr. T by Mr. We shall pass this motion approval of variable term waiver for 2025 2026 school year motion by Mrs. Second by Mr. L. All
039in favor? I motion passes for um so the provisional intern uh permit and the variable term waiver are just compliancy issues that we have to have for teachers who aren't fully credentials and we need the board's approval for you. Individual actions items student and family services approval ratification of agreement for services with Zar Stain Muhammad. Um The H E Per Helper Foundation motion motion by Mr. TP second by Muser. All in favor motion passes 4 Z addressing the board. Individuals who wish to address the board may complete a speaker card and present it and any supporting documents to the superintendent assistant or other district official prior to the start of the meeting. Personal information such as a student, parent, guardians name, address, phone number, date of birth, email address, and other directory information as defined
040in education code may be excluded from the minutes of the meeting by submitting a written request to the superintendent. The board president shall recognize individuals who wish to speak. Individuals wishing to to present testimony to the board concerning specific items on the agenda may do so once that item has been seconded and is on the floor for discussion. Time limits of three minutes per person and 20 minutes per item shall be allowed. Board bylaws 9322. Board members may ask questions for clarification purposes. However, no action may be taken and no discussion may take place on an item not on the post agenda. Comments from PTA CSA permit from the audience. There are no comments. Consent agenda item superintendent items 17A through 17 L. Motion by Mr. Win seconded by Mr. Zer. All in favor I
041motion passes 40 agenda items business items 18 A through 18 Z motion motion by Mr. TP second by Mr. win. All in favor? Motion passes 4 Z agenda items education services items 19A through 19E motion by Mr. Zutter second by Mr. W. All in favor? Motion passes 40. Consent agenda item human resource human resources services items 28 through 22. Motion by Mr. TP, second by all in favor. Motion passes 4 Z. Consent agenda items student and family services items 20 21 A to 21 by Mr. Zer second by Mr. TV. All in favor? Motion passes 4 Z and go to comments. This is your point. Thank you so much. one final presentation actually for you. I really appreciate listening to you have to say about we're really working for making sure that we're achievement. I
042want to say congratulations to all the people that are coming on. Not going to go through all the names. Um but I think that um that we have a great group of of people that are leading our schools. It's great to see more people being put into those positions outside as well as people with a wonderful summer. I'll echo uh Julie's words for Dr. We miss you. Enjoy your trip to Kolina. We will you can and uh we hope you have a very successful those that been selected as assistant principles. Congratulations. We are so happy to get teachers, administrators moving up and especially those with what sounds like kind of ambition working on a doctorate master to someone to masters. It's amazing. Dr. Goyne's replacement Dr. Wood. Congratulations. Remember, he talked a lot. So, it's
043not that we're asking for shorter, but you did talk a lot. I won't say any more about that for the uh other other selections that we have made goes to show you that the Sano Valley has some exly good candidates. Greg, Greg's a teacher at Dside Side School District, so he'll understand. And uh all in all, this is one other thing going on. And this is Dr. Freez's last meeting. This is his uh sanor. I don't like Jordan. And we will miss him too. He's got a good replacement with uh Mr. Charles Coleman and we're all anxious to see how this turns out. Thank you very much. Likewise, uh Dr. Goins, we're going to miss your presentations. stop by and visit us sometime for sure. And Dr. Bus as well, thank you for everything you've
044done, all the projects you've worked on in our district and check up on us as well. And congratulations to all the new appointees and even though docus, we worked at one of my first school sites I was at. So congratulations. Great to see that we can work together again. But everyone enjoy your summer and uh have a great great so I want to echo a good farewell to Dr. going but what we overlooked was that he's taking with him our principal and his wife and so she also will be from um we wish them the very best in the easy breezy sunny town of Santa Barbara I'd also like to acknowledge our our new hires and um it's nice to see people that work so hard and committed so much to our district to rise
045through our district. It's also nice to see new people coming on um to fill those those needs. So, thank you to everybody and also I just want to acknowledge our middle our um summer school programs. I know we did our extended year at Discover. We did our extended year Linda Verde. We did u we had an extended year at a couple of sites and so those all went well. So, just want to acknowledge uh student family services and for all the work they did and we look forward to our summer school July. Thank you. Thank you. Got the floor. You do share from this last one. Well, thank you. I was anticipating that. Um uh well eight years ago um the the board of trustees showed their confidence by hiring me the district and I
046can't express how much I appreciate you rescuing me from the high school district because I just need a good rescue and the the eight years here have been uh time has flown by and it's been absolutely wonderful. um that meeting back in in June of 2017 um much like we saw tonight where they announced a physician I wasn't able to make that board meeting because a family member who had emergency hospitalization had to go be and so I never had the opportunity to uh introduce my wife and so I said to her uh well you should really come and see what I do at these board meetings a lot, but uh just come on by. And so uh she's here tonight. So I would like to introduce my wife and she too. Washington. Um my
047uh my entire term here has just been wonderful. the people of Lancaster to the families and staff. Uh just warm my heart. I think of all the great friendships I've made and uh the help I've been able to provide to some people and the guidance I I gave uh along the way. Um I was blessed to have some outstanding outstanding people work for me. all of my directors uh and come and go and new directors have just been wonderful. Um my the support staff uh Jerry and and Mariel just been wonderful and they've just made this job so easy. So I I'm going to miss um friendships and the relationships and uh I look forward to the next always my goal at 38 years in education. My goal is to uh be uh retire from
048Sters for 38 years so that I can draw upon Stirs for 38 years. So hope uh at age 99 to check in let you know how but said we take one one day at a time and uh tomorrow's my last day. So Thursday I'll wake up a little bit lighter step and and uh get ready to sell a house and move to Washington. But thank you again to the board and thank you Mr. Carlson for the opportunity to still not give a speech as long as Jordan, but you know something like myself. Good luck, Jordan. Thank you. Absolutely. So I'll start with thank you for the pleasure of working you everything offer with the district and I appreciate all this given us and I hope that you can good luck right back to what you
049It's been fun. I didn't mind your long quite informative. Maybe I haven't been here long enough to be. But thank you for everything that you've done. um just everything that you've done for our children, our community, you know, everything that you've done for our district. The information that you offer is most definitely invaluable. I know that you will be a great asset where you go. Um hate to see you leave, but I just want you to keep us updated on your progress and how you're doing. And safety to Mrs. Coins. Thank you for your service and what you've given our district and I wish you the best of luck as well. Congratulations to all of our PIP approvals, you know, um all of our variable term wiable term. Um, congratulations to everyone in their promotions
050and their new positions and know we've had a lot of changes that we've gone through, but been wonderful. I love to see the fact that we've been able to constantly retain um our employees over and over again, watching them advance, watching them grow within our district. Um, the longevity is just awesome to see. And that means that, you know, we got to be doing something right because you're hanging in there with us. And especially you, Dr. Woods, I am going to miss seeing you at Sunnydale, but I'm going to enjoy seeing you in your music as well. We'll see. I do know that you haven't even on Saturday, correct? this Saturday at uh we have an event summer kickoff or is that um welcome to wellness was so I guess you do have a summer
051off otherwise I was going to expect to see everyone guys for coming I appreciate it and we will close out at 6:59 have a wonderful Oh, see I was ready to go. Can I get a motion? Motion by Mr. T, second by Miss. All in favor? Now we're out of here.