001students each and every day and help them with the education process. And be with us, Lord, as we make decisions concerning the the school and the in the community. Just give us guidance and direction. It's in Jesus name we pray. Amen. >> Amen. >> All right. Approval of the minutes from the October 9th board meeting. Need a motion to approve that. >> I'll second. All in favor? Hi. >> Hi. >> Comments from patrons concerning items on the agenda going on out there. All right. >> Oh, I have something. I guess I kind of forget what I'm sitting up here. Okay. >> Um, so the Rockstar, the robot team, the Rockstars are going to be having an event at the museum on Saturday from 12:00 to 1:30 celebrating Native American History Month. Uh it's also part
002of their program which they would have come and spoke about it but they're beta um most of them are either there or on their way back or something you know different things going on with that. So um I'm just going to share it with you to come out see what they're doing. Um we have as one of our students has designed a video game. He came up with it all on his own and we we're using Scratch. We have a high school student who's familiar with it that's in robotics as well and she's helping him develop it. It's a it's it's not a major game, but it's just getting the prototype and and getting the ideas on paper, you know, basically. And then that ties in in order for them to advance in the video
003game, they must um go to the museum, they check out books in the library, they go to a historical site. Um it's that kind of thing where they isn't interactive because we don't want it just to be another video game. Uh the the reason why is because as the other group spoke about a little bit was archaeology is our theme this year and archaeologists said we need younger people involved in archaeology. A lot of our volunteers, a lot of our people are older, which is great, but we need younger people that have an interest in history and in the past and and things like that. So that's kind of the our part in helping is getting younger people. And so it'd be open to students to join. It's called the history club, a history heroes
004club. And then once they join that, then they get a t-shirt and they have um they get access to the game and it goes from there. Um so anyway, I just would like people to come out, see what they're doing, and by the >> What time did you say that was? >> It's 12 to 1:30. And hopefully some of the other teams will be able to come too and tell their story. But anyway, it's open anyway. It's just going to be out there in the front lawn while it's supposed to be nice weather that day. >> If not, they said we'd move it in. They talked the kids talked to the museum people and they said they would open the museum for us. That's normally like their closed time, but they'll they'll have it open
005and they they think it's great. We talked to the librarian. Right now it's kind of on hold because the library, you know, repairs a lot of their historical books are there about the county and things, but they were focusing on Native Americans this time. It's different. They'll have different options as they go through the game and it all will kind of stem from what the museum has. >> Anyway, that's just a little blurb for them. >> Okay. Thank you. They do a much better job explaining it, but >> they're not here. >> But they're not here. >> All right. Anything else? We got one building principal here. She's got a report for everybody. All right, just a recap of some things that have been going on in the elementary. Um, lots of fun, different variety
006of activities. Um, we celebrated Red Ribbon Week the last week of October. And special thank you to all those who had their hand in um creating different activities for students. And a big thank you to Melanie Hawkins. She um reached out to a BMX bike show and it was a super um high energy, lots of music. The kids absolutely loved it. Um there's some pictures on the back of one of the uh cyclists uh ramping over. Um, I was seated in a chair. So, um, he put the chair there and he told me, he said, "Do not move." And I said, "I won't." Um, but it was fun. The kids loved it. Um, October 20th, the Scholes Volunteer Fire Department, they visited our elementary and did a safety uh fire safety and prevention program and
007brought the fire trucks out on the playground and um, students were able to kind of climb on and look at the equipment and things like that. The adult booster club had their fall festival and it was um well attended with a lot of our younger elementary students and their families. October 28th uh we hosted a Cosmos leadership team here at Scholes. On October 31st, students in the elementary dressed up was their favorite book character and a lot of fun reading activities in the classrooms that day. Uh thank you to Donna Harris who is a grandmother to one of our elementary students in the Jasper American Legion and Duboce County Choppers. Um they donated um a very large amount of food items for students in need for weekend um bags and things like that. November 3rd
008um I attended the Martin County Community Foundation and just want to say thank you to the foundation for their continued support to our school and programs. Three of our elementary teachers received classroom grants. Um, Miss Molly Parsley, Melanie Hawkins, and Ruby Harter all received grants from the foundation. Elementary winter athletics are underway. So, good luck to all of our student athletes, and thank you to our coaches and parents for their time and commitment. Also want to say a huge congratulations to uh Jennifer Gwyn, our elementary librarian and reading specialist. She received a $15,000 grant from Smithville Charitable Fund and those funds will be used for new library books, um, display shelves, and just other materials for our library. >> Good deal. >> November 11th, we honored all veterans at our, um, program here in the
009high school. Special thank you to Molly Tharp, our PBIS coordinator. She has planned, um, monthly events for the entire school, elementary, middle school, and high school. And this past um Wednesday we did a PBIS event and it was a movie and popcorn day for students um who are um doing positive character traits and we had a high percentage of our students meet their goal for that month. Wednesday also was our teacher professional development day. Our preschool team, they met with um one of our preschool coaches and they worked on their path to quality training for early childhood education. our kindergarten through five teachers. We reviewed inclement weather instructional plan since uh winter is approaching. We had a nice taste of that Monday. Um but we worked on what asynchronous learning and synchronous learning would look
010like for our younger students and teachers started to prepare packets and then work on getting their Google classrooms ready for the synchronous learning. So hopefully we won't have a lot of lot of those days. Um but we we want to we want to prepare. >> Um we also like to share today was our elementary beta convention in Evansville. We had 37 elementary students attend that. Um and I just uh spoke with Cali Ferman, our elementary ba beta sponsor, and she said we have been awarded 25 um awards so far and it's still um the awards ceremony is still going on. So that our elementary um we've received 25 so far. their behavior is a lot better than some of the other I mean and it's not not I'm not just partial I mean you know
011when you're watching you're thinking oh my goodness doesn't have but anyway you know no one's watching them no one's but we have people I mean the organizers not we the organizers have people watching them and and being with them and the kids know who their people are and they communicated with them this morning already they did this morning and so that's a shout out to you guys who work with them all the time. >> Our sponsors, Callie is in the elementary and then Reva um and Ashley McGomery are middle school and then Megan in high school. And they've stayed after school um I mean for the past couple months and they really do a great job of preparing our students. And then finally, I'd like to say um thank you so much to Karen Ray.
012She has worked in our whole child classroom um for a little over a year now and she is moving on to a new position in the cafeteria. Um, I know that was a a difficult decision for her to make. Um, but I think that that's kind of where she her passion is is um, you know, in the where she likes to bake and cook and all of that. And so she will continue, I know, to to love and care for our students um, just in a different role. So, I want to say thank you to her. >> I always visit her table wherever she's. >> Yeah. So, good. And then I uh, there are some pictures of just some different classroom things going on. um and different activities we've done in elementary. >> Thank you.
013>> So, I have Miss um Eubank and uh Miss Hobus's updates if that's okay. >> Sure. Um, so Miss Eubank would like to give a shout out to Cassie Phillips for leading our hour of code program during yesterday's two-hour delay. I'm not sure if my microphone is on. >> It is. There are >> all the middle school kids learned about what computer science is and why it's important and a common computer science vocabulary. After the presentation, students had uh an opportunity to work on the computer science ciphers and do a little programming on code.org and Scratch. And I know kids love that coding. It's it's really fun. >> And Scratch is what they're using for the for the game. Yeah. >> Developing. Yeah. >> Shout out to Amy Harter. She uh was able to pass
014the assessment, get her literacy endorsement. She is also leading the charge in helping our middle school pursue a STEM endorsement. We're working with Melanie Hopkins in the elementary and work with who worked with uh Kristen Johnson and with ROI um so that they can apply next year for STEM certification in the middle school. Shout out to Danielle for uh Cornet for assisting in middle school staff with their first island checkpoints window. She had also been sharing a ton of great information and what we can learn from the data. We will use I Ready and I learn data to ensure our students are properly placed in classes they need to be more successful and they're starting that in January. >> They're they and I actually have um updates on curriculum um that aligns with that from
015um Danielle. She is sharing some data related to testing and it aligns with this conversation because they she actually met and talked with um teachers about both of these things yesterday. >> Thank you. >> Uh she's also going to be here next month to c uh to celebrate some successes and we'll have another round of data next month as well. another data set student programs. The middle school has a variety of things planned to celebrate their positive behavior intervention points. As always, Molly Tharp did a wonderful job organizing the event. 127 students in the middle school participated in the celebration. This month, students had an opportunity to watch a movie and have popcorn. They were able to choose from a variety of movie titles. Students who were ineligible had some much needed time of one-on-one
016time with Mr. Emer, Mrs. Harter, Mr. Turpin, and Mrs. Gardner to help get some missing work turned in. We celebrated Red Ribbon Week the last week of October. We had some great activities planned, including a week of dressup days, a scavenger hunt, and positive messages to encourage students to stay away from drugs and alcohol. The big event was the BMX bike stunt show where students were reminded that thinking big, dream big, and go big in life. We would also like to show our appreciation for the Martin County Local Coordinating Council for awarding us a grant to help pay for the activity and prizes. On October 29th, they took the entire 8th grade class to Evansville for the Junior Achievement Job Spark program. students had nearly two hours to explore career opportunities for a number of
017pathways and that was the first time that Miss Eubank had been involved in that and she really enjoyed it. >> The kids enjoy it once robotics they were talking about. Yeah, >> they really enjoy. >> Yeah. Gives them that first taste. >> They have make they made plans already so it's >> Yeah. Uh today in the middle school had more than 70 students participate in the Juno Bader convention in Evansville. We look forward to hearing how our students performed. Um, so that was the first time Miss Eubank had ever been to Beta and so it was very interesting for her. She was like, "Woo!" at the beginning, but she said it has been wonderful to watch the kids um, grow and she rode on a bus down there with them and she's still there as
018well. So I think for her first experience, as um, Audrey noted, there's been quite a few awards. We actually judged musicology. >> When I went down there, I was like, "What is this? I'm the worst music." Like, "Please don't make me listen to music." It was like a quiz bowl for music. And we It was trivia. And most of the questions were geared. They were like, "New some of those answers. They were from the 90s." >> None of the kids knew who Sher was. None of them. >> Nobody knew who Sher kids out of all the groups that came through. They're like, "Share one question the answers." They were like, >> "I can see." Jimmyi Henrix, one of the questions, Jimmy, they kept answering um Eminem and uh Michael Jackson and once they were correct,
019but just so everybody knows, Scholes Middle School took the win in that category out of eight teams. They won and they answered a lot of really great question. >> It was a big win. They have a lot >> We have some kids that like that um vintage music, I guess. Classic rock. >> Classic. Classic rock. Raise them right. Yeah. Uh, it's been a busy week. We wrapped up our island checkpoint window tomorrow. On Tuesday, they showed um appreciation to their local veterans and their commitment to our country. And we had our PBS celebrations in middle school basketball started the first week of November. We look forward to watching our rocks grow and wish them all a great season. Uh, teacher accountability, their third professional development schedule was yesterday. middle school and high school staff participated
020in professional de development with Mrs. Eubank. She kind of led the charge on that and she shared and modeled explicit reading strategies all teachers can use to help students better their read uh to become better readers. In keeping with our first PD, Mrs. Eubank shared an article that was titled helping teachers understand and mitigate trauma in their classrooms. We had a lot of engagement and discussion following the PD. the middle school staff met with Danielle Cornet to learn more about incoming iLearn data and how we can make more informed decisions for our students. I walked through there when they were all in there and you could hear a pin drop. They were all engaged in that activity and um I I read the article. I thought it was a great article and the great part
021about it was some teachers were talking about how they didn't agree or uh did agree with certain pieces and I thought it was great to hear them have that positive debate and how she shared how that she can they can take that back to their class and use it. >> Where do you hold this at? >> In the cafeteria. >> Okay. On November 25th, Becca Cobb from Davies Martin RMC will be coming here to talk about uh talk to sixth graders about camp kilowatt. So those are the updates from Miss from Miss Hovus. Um Mr. G's honors class put on an outstanding live performance of The Hobbit on Halloween Day. students and staff from all glory levels enjoyed walking our trail to watch the performance. I have to say it was fantastic. Uh so you
022have a tour guide and then you walked to different spaces. Did you were you able to get out there? It was so it was amazing and a lot of the kids had memorized their their lines. It was fantastic. And there someone even had like >> purchased hobbit feet to wear and they had great costume. They did they did such a an amazing job. it. I was so excited to get out there. >> Is this the third year that he's done that or >> He said 32nd year. >> 32nd year. >> It was some random number like that. He kept Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Has it been? >> Yeah. Because my oldest daughter, who has graduated a long time ago, >> was in it. Okay. And now my youngest daughter, she was the white-haired >> Yes.
023>> magician guy or whatever he is. >> But they all knew their lines. It was great. It was wonderful. >> They did fantastic. Uh the entire district celebrated Red Ribbon Week the last week of October with a variety of activities. The big event was the BMX air show in which Mrs. Gibson and I uh Kendra unexpectedly selected to have the bike ramp over their head in front of the students which they absolutely loved. Thank you Mrs. Eubank for writing a grant so that they could have the show. >> You guys go. >> Yeah. She says no is beta time. We want to wish our high school beta the best of luck as they travel to state competition tomorrow and se today and Saturday. A huge thank you to our bus drivers who ensure our students
024arrive safely to and from the competition. Um, everybody's driving a bus. Actually, Kendra is driving a bus and um I think Reva is driving a bus and Ben was driving a bus and Cecil took a bus load down. So, it took it was amazing how this all Amy Money is driving a bus. Yes. early. >> Yes. Um, so it was it was great to see all of those kids there mingling with other kids from other schools. It was really and and the competitions, it's just great. I have to give kudos to Reva Proutman though because she is the state elect president or she's the apparently they vote because she gave me a pin that has vote for Reva and it's got a picture on it. So >> who who votes? I think they build them
025themselves. >> Oh, >> she's had the training. She did that this earlier. This year, last couple months ago, she had to go to South Carolina. They paid for for all of it. That's their headquarters. >> I have a picture >> of Reva who is the state beta elect. That's a big deal. You see all of these kids running around? Her hand was in organizing all of it. And um we were judging and I said, "I need a picture." So, I have a picture. >> Thought that was great. I I thought Yeah. And ba she loves that and so does Megan. So Megan's there too and they're they're making Megan their group stays overnight, right? Yes. The high school >> Saturday. >> Yeah. So it it's a big deal. Um she uh shared that Megan Hawkins
026and Charlene Brightenbball put on another phenomenal Veterans Day program this week. A lot of new additions were added to the program and they incorporated a variety of grade levels. This was one of the larger attended programs that we have ever we've had in years. It was good. >> Very good. And oh my goodness. Um Aaron Cage in that violin and the student that played the trumpet. >> Those both didn't show. >> Last weekend, our drama club put on two live performances of the trap, which was the sequel to last year's show. It was written by our very own students, Aaron Crossen and Brooklyn Green. They are excited to announce that the spring show will be the Beauty and the Beast. I think it's sold out. >> Oh, wow. >> I think it's sold out. >>
027Megan Hawkins has worked hard to organize this year's college and career fair, which will be next Friday, November 21st. We have students from Lagodian Orleans who are also be attending. I think she said there are 65 representatives of um career opportunities and colleges that will be here in both gyms. So I I'm looking very forward to it. She's I know she's worked very hard on that. And the Cosmos schools are have you know we were in a meeting the other day with um a team from SIEC on workbased learning and they were um ident they were like oh you're Megan Hart. Okay. It's like almost like she's famous. It was great. She would never say that, but so I won't. Um, on December 10th, Washington will be bringing uh their superintendent and a couple of
028board members and high school principal, an A teacher to uh tour our A program and farm in hopes of starting a similar program at Washington. She is proud to announce that the class of 2025 holds the highest graduation rate in her 10 years of administration. They finished with an overall rate of 96%. and she wants to wish everybody um a happy Thanksgiving holiday. >> Okay, thanks for that. >> All right, new business. Have some personnel issues. Resignation of Tracy Stucky from the evening custodian position. Resignation of Kennedy Salmon from intermediate teaching assistant. Approval of Teresa Ray as middle school cheer coach. Approval of Sydney Davis as high school softball volunteer and fifth and sixth grade boys basketball volunteer. Hope Smith as elementary cheer coach pending a positive outcome of required paperwork. Approval of Vicky York
029as full-time evening custodian. Approval of Madison Burkehead as substitute teacher. Approval to move Rihanna Royston as elementary special education multicat classroom teaching assistant. Mal Mattaline Lan is requesting maternity leave. Tentative dates are April 20th of 26 through the end of this school year. Approval to hire Lillian White as elementary special ed assistant. Neotion to approve those folks. A motion >> Ethan second. >> I'll second. >> All in favor? >> Some fundraisers. Elementary student council to sell candy cane grams at uh December 2nd through the 18th. Culinary class to have bake sales September 4th through December 31st. Proceeds going to our fifth grade uh the students family. Winter Guard to host a parent night out on December 12th. It will will begin collecting payment on November 12th. Postprom parents to sell dirty sodas at the boys
030boys varsity basketball games November 3rd through April 1st. FFA to sell Texas Roadhouse items November 17th through December 18th. Elementary Library to host a book fair December 15th or December 1st through the 5th, I'm sorry. Motion to approve. >> Motion Eva second. >> That all in favor? >> I trip request Mrs. Goodman's 6th through 12th grade classes to the Martin County Humane Society for service project. That's December 17th. Motion to approve that trip. >> Motion. Then a second. All in favor? >> Facility usage. Captain Treadway request that all that Girl Scout troop 440 hold monthly meetings in the cafeteria through April of 26. Wintergard to use the cafeteria for parents night out requesting fees be waved. >> Also, Amy Money has approved both of these prior to this. Okay. So a motion to approve that
031usage. >> A second. >> Go ahead. >> Eva's got it. Okay. All in favor? >> I uh Early Rocks preschool to host holiday event on December 19th, 8:30 to 9:30 in the cafeteria. >> Gingerbread houses. Oh, >> and approval of the 26 prom to be held on March 28th this year. 26 event. >> All in favor? >> I items after four, collective bargaining. Collective bargaining bargaining agreement compliance. Motion to approve. Hold on a second. >> I'll second about this how many times? >> Maybe that's why >> Yeah, we voted on it. Voted on it. We vote. Just keep voting on it. >> Yeah. >> Uh, trip request Carrie Goodman's class to Mitchell Opera House to attend a movie on December 9th. I have a one here from Kathy Overton that she just made aware of
032it today, right? It's u going the FFA is going to uh Paley High School on December 5th. It's the Poly FFA Christmas party to compete, celebrate, and collaborate with FFA members from other schools. She just put that on our desk today. >> And what date was that again? >> December 5th. Okay. So, add that to that. Number two item on trip request there. And we need a motion to approve both those trips. >> Oh, yeah. Eva and Annette. All in favor? I >> I >> personnel requests approve uh request approval for Joyce Joyce Jones as a substitute teacher >> and for Emma Holt as a substitute teacher. Motion to approve those. >> Motion got it. >> No, you got it now. >> Okay, I got it. >> Second. >> Okay, got the second. All in
033favor? I >> I um see we need uh to uh athletic department is the first one. Athletic department requests approval for the corporation to pay fuel costs for the sporting events for the 2526 school year. Motion to Well, hold on. We'll put these together. This is um request to pay a $1,500 stipen for the 2526 school year for DHH state requirements and a request for long-term cash flow planning related to Senate Bill one. Need a motion to approve those. >> Laorna second. >> I'll second. Ethan. All in favor? >> I. >> And I think that brings us to the superintendent report. If I'm not missing anything. Am I missing anything? >> That was it. Okay. Just making sure. >> Um I kind of jumped in when I was doing Carol and uh Kendra's and also
034with um Danielle. But I have to one thing that I really have to say is thank you to the community for you know jumping and the bus drive big time thank you to the bus drivers on Monday and the families for the snow just blew in on us and everybody did an amazing job. Parents were um very helpful. Some of our buses, you know, couldn't get to kiddos. We had some flexibility. Our bus drivers communicated with each other. It was great to hear their voices on the radio and as they worked together to make sure our kids made it safely to school and it was fantastic. I apologize for you know the the maybe the lack of knowledge of knowing that was coming in but um you know those things are going to happen sometimes.
035But I just have to say that the support from the community as I made calls to parents was fantastic and and wonderful. It was a great relationship. one of our buses. She was afraid to come down that Windham Hill there. She waited to uh until the county and the county they, you know, they listened to our calls. Um and they were wonderful as well. She waited there. We had some I called parents and they said, "Oh, they're fine. Um Charlene's got it." And I thought that was great. So, I can't say thank you enough to everyone. The teachers did a great job of getting out and helping kids. The kids uh seem to have a good day. By the time we went home, every all was well. So, >> I think there's a lot of
036confidence in the community with our best drivers. >> Absolutely. 100 100%. And it it was wonderful to see on Monday. Um I also wanted to celebrate the Veterans Day program. As we said earlier, it just gives me goosebumps. I So, I sat over in the corner. I moved around a little bit, but I sat in the corner and there was this amazing group of gentlemen in that front row and oh that just their service and years of service and they you know um I it was it's just unfathomable to say um how much gratitude we have for all of them and I'm I am so glad that we got to celebrate that with them. It was wonderful. Um the grant, the library grant money. Uh it was wonderful when she came over. Jennifer Gwen came
037over and we really talked about she was so excited. We were all excited. Did a little dance because you know $15,000 is a lot of money and u I uh a library person and I just was wonderful and we took a picture of her with a group of first graders and I can't wait to see she's going to create a space in the library for the kids to use those new books and I think that's wonderful. Um, we've had some work-based learning uh work and I have to give a shout out to Calie and Kendra and Megan. Um, we're working on a strategic plan because with the new graduation standards, we have to change things a little bit and we have received grant dollars from SIC to work with a consultant from Wisconsin about developing
038um and tightening our workbased learning and aligning all of our college and career ready thing um courses with that. So, it's going it's great work, but to hear Callie talk about it was really amazing. She that is her in her wheelhouse and she and and Megan both and Kendra, they're all on fire for making the best opportunities for kids and how do we do it well and it it was, you know, just hearing that excitement in the voice and and the work is really um very good for us to do as a team. um they've invited uh Carol Eubank to come next time because they really want to trickle it down. Part of our accountability that's in 2526 the letter grades come back and part of the accountability grade is are our middle school kids
039exploring high school high school courses and um career options and you get points for that. So um we're going to kind of weave Carol into that next time as well. we get to meet with them four times and um so we already have the dates on the calendar thanks to Megan and Kelly. Um we uh Danielle Audrey and I have been meeting with some uh local organizations in the Martin County uh community foundation and ROI team to talk about preschool and we've even met with um Martin County Head Start to how we can collaborate together to provide the best opportunities for kids in Martin County. um they've shared some data with us that we have um over 50 kids that are in Martin County that are in that three to five year old um age
040range that are not receiving any type of early childhood learning. Um so they are hoping that we can work collaboratively to meet the needs of those kiddos. And it's just been really great when we um looked up and there's like nine people on the screen. It was a little intimidating but it was it was a really great conversation. and they love the direction that Audrey and her building staff, they're leading that that preschool. So, it's great and I appreciate that, Audrey, all the things you're doing up there with them. Um, I also want to say that back there Damian and all the technology team we've met and we've been talking really about what technology looks like in the next three to five years and and D um we work with Josh who is kind of
041a consultant. he's kind of leading our charge and he uh is going to come in the next couple months and speak to um at the board meeting just so everybody has an idea of what direction we're going and and what our options are. So, it's been it's been really uh great work. So, I also have to say thank you to the board for continuing to support uh this decisions that we make and giving us guidance along the way. Um, and I will go back to Darla and Kendra Wright for we're working our budget and looking at how our money and our finances are along the way and we're leaning on Kendra Hov''s budget from last year and we're looking at our budget this year to make sure that we are as aligned as we possibly
042can. Um, and so it's just been great work and we have a great collaborative team and I just have to say thank you to everyone. >> All right. Thanks, Nothing on the financials we need to be aware of. I mean nothing stands out. >> No, just that you know that percentage as I uh so Kendra gave me this number like these percentages of where we should be right now with our finances and we are a little over on the education fund because of the new curriculum that we purchased. But we're just right on the edge um like uh for our operations. you know, we've had a couple of um HVAC things happen. So, but we are right there in that little window. So, we are still continuing to work. We do have um our speech
043if anybody knows a speech language pathologist. We do virtual speech and it is a very expensive um online platform that we are required by law to have a speech pathologist. So, if anybody knows a speech pathologist, we would love love love to to have them reach out to us. We would love our kids to have an in-person speech, but that is that is another thing from our education fund that's kind of u a little higher than it's been in the past. >> All right. Need a motion to approve the leave of accounting report for October 20 25. Motion to approve that. >> All motion. >> Eva second. >> I'll second. >> Ethan, all in favor? I >> I and we need a motion for the approval to pay claims. Motion to do that. >> I'll
044make a motion. >> Second that. All in favor? >> I don't think there's anything else. I think we're >> our small craft show. We had over 750 people that came through and um beginning to disperse some of the money here and there that the school for projects. So if you have project need a little extra support, you know, let me know or or Ann or Katherine Treway. Um we're all free, you know, work on that and discuss it and things like that. So but it was nice seeing I mean all those people come through because you're supporting the local crafters. Um we are planning on having another one in the spring. Last year we had a home show in the spring and it went over well uh for our first attempt at that. So some
045people have come and said, "Hey, we do we work on projects all winter. we would love to have someplace to sell them if that would be possible. So, we're looking at maybe expanding just offering it up and saying, you know, are you interested in coming? Um, and so all that money goes back into the school. We get so the second round would be, you know, nice. We charge $25 a booth and then different amounts depending on how many booths you get. That kind of thing kind of very uh but I think people enjoy it and just thank you for supporting that and the people because that's how how all works. >> How many vendors do you have? We ended up having um I would say around we had 90 spots. I would say we had
046around 65 vendors, but some of those had four, three, two, I mean it varied, but we're at our maximum with 90 spots. That's it. We're not doing hallways. Uh we occasionally will set up like there was someone wanted to have a fundraising for someone um an issue here in the community. So I said, "Sure, we'll just set you right there when people come in because we send them down the hall and around. That way they see we have two gyms. They see what the food is. We had everything from junior class selling things to children selling things, you know, they make their their products. So it's and we have people from all different areas. North Davies comes in to sell things. People from um Dub Boys, from Mitchell, just various places from up around even
047there. >> Yes. And so I kind of recruit. I go to these other craft shows. That's my excuse for going to the craft shows. Uh but then I see something maybe that we don't have at ours. And last year, in fact, we added one this year because there was this neat little card person there selling stuff. And I said, "Hey, did you ever think about coming to Scholes to maybe set up at the small craft show November, you know, first weekend of November. And he said, "Uh, well, we've been trying to get into that craft show for years." I said, "Oh, really? Where are you from?" And he said, "Sholes?" Oh, well, you are in. Uh, I don't know where I'll put you, but you are in anyway. We will find a spot. So, we
048did have to expand this year 10 extra >> food spots, but they actually live across from the overlook. It's like >> I'm just amazed by the talent and Karen Ray's food. Like all the talent >> and most people say they make we I've had several of them. I go around and ask how did you do today? Did you do okay? And they said, you know, we make as much here a couple of them said we make as much here we do at Greenwood >> um at Martinsville. >> This is our biggest show. The shows were all down a little bit this year for everybody. They said they weren't selling quite as much stuff at any shows, but ours was the biggest. I said, "Well, people come here to buy their Christmas gifts, and get something
049new and different >> and just to support local, you know, support the local people and it's all in one place like having a mall in our our school." >> Yeah, mall. >> That's good. Anyway, so >> that's all a big event. >> We have to say again, happy birthday, Darla. >> Happy birthday. Not an official. It's still not yet, but >> we're not saying. All right, I think that's it. We're journ