001Uh, Miss Manella. All in favor? The vote is unanimous. We're back in public session. Please stand for the pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the stands. One nation. Welcome. And we're going to start our evening off with our GC Pride Awards. Superintendent Daly, President Coffee, Vice President Richards, Gates Chilai Board of Education. My name is Dan Zenowski. I'm the proud principal of Gates Chilai Middle School. Uh these students behind me are an embodiment of the Spartan way each and every day in our building. Their resumes and list of accomplishments is so long that I literally can't read it all in a two and a half minute presentation. But some of the highlights include you're looking at a group of students who are three sport athletes, presidents
002of their classes, leaders in theater productions, contributing members of several clubs. They're on high honor role. You might even have one 100 average behind us right now. They're members of schoolwide and district-wide committee. They're organizers of community service projects. They're students who have worked hard to accomplish their academic goals, some of which are even being moved into accelerated and enriched courses halfway through this school year. They are NISMA and music award winners. They're on select jazz bands. And most of all, they're positive role models for their peers and their teachers in our school community every single day. And they make our building a safe and comfortable place to learn. Students, when I say your name, come on up. Give me a fist bump. I want our board to know who you are and to put
003a name to a face. And then you're going to walk right over there and we're going to get a group photo afterwards. Got it? In no particular order, Briana Winter, Malikica Guessan, Eric Torres, Alyssa Alberry, Alicia Alberry, Dylan Wilkinson, Leila Lee, Somaya Morra, believe it or not, we do that every morning before the announcements. Most awkward one yet. Michael Cologne, Mila Terrence, Nikki Van, Savannah Major, and Muhammad Alhoka. Can we give them a round of applause, please? >> [applause] >> right up there next to her if you guys want. while we're wrapping up photos. Students, congratulations on your many accomplishments and families, thank you so much for taking time out of your busy schedules to come here tonight and to be recognized um by our school community. Your students are the reason that we do
004what we do every day. >> [applause] >> Thank you guys so much. If your parents have their photos, you guys are welcome to sit and join them. All right. Do we have any agenda changes? >> We had additions to personnel. >> Thank you. The next section is our board president comments. and just knowing that we're in that week before break and it's long and busy and chaotic and hopefully the most positive of ways. Um, I'm going to make my comments very brief, but I wanted to first start and thank our middle school team for being here, our students that came and spoke with us and who are here tonight sharing all the work you guys do in your school community and for your families not only being here tonight to support you and to see
005how wonderful you guys are, but in the work they do every single day to get you there. So, thank you to all of you. I wanted to recognize again all of the hard work, the concerts, the activities, the events, the sports going on right now. It's a busy, busy time of year, and I love seeing all of our community engaged together. I wanted to recognize the teams, the adults, the families, and again the students who went to their uh DECA conference today. And just again taking a moment knowing that this is an exciting time of year for so many people. It's also a really stressful time of year for a lot of people too. Um and just taking a moment to respect and validate whatever you're experiencing, your emotions, your stress level, your excitement level.
006They're all valid and real. And we thank you all for being a part of our community. Do we have any points of interest to share? Miss Littlewood, I was just going to share. there. I went to the high school band concert and it was pretty amazing and it's been awesome to watch the students grow um from elementary all the way up to the high school level. So, I highly recommend attending one in the future. Thank you. Any additional points? All right, that moves us forward to reportive meetings. Did we have any outside of our regular district meetings? Okay, do we have any visitor comments? That moves us on to the reports section of our evening. We have a varsity track team trip to Harlem, New York, January 9th through 11th, 2026 discussion. >> Good evening.
007Uh my name is Coach Tindle, coaching track here for the last six years. For the past three years, we've went to New York City for a track and field invitational at uh the Armory in Harlem, New York. We've had a great experience. Um the athletes always say at the end of the year, it's one of their best memories being on the track team in high school. And we would like to go again this year, January 9th to January 11th. And just looking forward to the athletes going again, being able to grow um athletically, but also personally, just being out of town with their teammates and friends. And we hope to over the success we had last year. Last year we won sectionals on a girls team. Boys were runner up for indoor and outdoor track.
008We had a hurdle relay that were named all-Americans from Nike nationals. Uh we had six athletes go to state championship last year and the boys were Monro County champions and they were runner up for Monro County during the outdoor season. And we're also twotime indoor Marmo County champions for division two on the girls and the boys team. So, >> thank you. Are there any questions? >> Thank you so much for sharing that with us tonight. >> Thank you. >> All right. Next, we have our middle school update. And GCMS families, you're more than welcome to stay for the presentation in the board meeting, but if you need to scoop and take care of things at home, you're more than welcome to leave, too. Thank you so much for coming tonight. >> Thank you again, guys.
009I know some of them mentioned homework. This is fine. Just a casual Tuesday where we receive a district-wide award. All right, Superintendent Dailyaly, President Coffee, Vice President Richards. My name is Dan Zenowski. I'm the proud principal at GCMS. Um, I have with me a team of leaders and educators tonight to share some of our uh successes and strategic work that's occurring in the building. I want to give everybody a chance to introduce themselves. I'm Canala Rollins. I'm the eighth grade assistant principal. >> Good evening. I'm Michelle Doer. I'm the sixth grade assistant principal. >> Good evening. I'm Andy Episcopal. I'm the seventh grade assistant principal. >> Hi, I'm Nancy Sheridan. I'm over I am overseeing the tutoring center school. >> Hi, I'm Mary Ferrari. I teach AIS math and I am an assistant in the
010tutoring center. >> Uh this evening we'd like to take a couple minutes to share with everybody our significant accomplishments and highlights so far this year. We want to give the board a formal update on some of the reconfiguration aftermath uh and all of that in implementation. And then we want to share with everybody a program new to our building, our tutoring center, and what that's contributing to our school community. So, highlights so far this year. I want to start by um all of the hard work and collaboration that's happened with the office of instruction and aligning our literacy program uh to the great work that's occurring at the elementary level to now bridging the gap in starting the work in the middle school. We have accomplished so so much this year. Uh we have uh
011new systems in place to track and monitor data. Uh we know where students are. They're taking common assessments. We know when to intervene. We know who to pull for extra support. And we're building systems to make sure that any student in the building who needs reading intervention now can have it in their schedule. It can fit one way or another. That was not always the case in the past. We have a lot of professional development and hard work. Um, quite frankly, our staff's working their tails off and they're excited about it, too. Um, they're attending tons of trainings. They're doing tons of job embedded meetings. Uh, they're having a ton of release time and the reason that they're so passionate and energetic about it is because they're seeing the successes. Uh overall, our teachers, especially
012at the sixth grade level, are saying that this is one of the strongest cohorts that they've had in a very long time. Definitely one of the strongest they've had since the pandemic. Their common ELA program and materials are rigorous and they're at a level uh that when we were in summer trainings, we were nervous about how our students would respond to it. When you walk into a middle school, sixth grade ELA class, hands are popping up all over the place. students are engaged in protocols. Everybody's engaged and as I said earlier, the data is showing that our students are really responding to literacy instruction at this level. Um, this work has resulted in a couple new courses in its first year of implementation in GCMS. We have a brand new uh and overhauled reading six
013course. We have a brand new ELA6 course and we have a brand new reading seven course. Reading as a class uh was never before offered at the seventh grade level. Now we're able to offer it to um between 80 and 100 students. Uh in the past when we got to seventh grade it was just intervention and small groupoup reading instruction. Now, we're able to take what we're learning from the science of reading, uh, research aligned materials and we're able to systemize it in whole class instruction and close learning gaps even further. Continue the conversation about highlights from GCMS. Uh currently our student council, we've expanded our student council to better represent each grade level, improving student voice in how we make decisions and ensuring equity in the decision makingaking process. One of the groups that
014our students can participate in is above the influence. It's helping our students to learn more about the negative influences they may encounter and empowering them to make well-informed decisions. On the next slide, you'll see a really nice photo from one of our ATI meetings. ATI is a U ofR program that meets twice monthly and works as an upstream preventative program. We have seven GCMS staff involved in supporting the group. And one thing to note is that 96% of students nationally do not use tobacco, vapes, or nicotine products. Big part of this group is that our students are able to help make decisions and put forth ideas on uh things to do. In our decision- making alongside student council, students are on other teams like our sit team and working alongside teachers and administration to make
015decisions that impact the entire school. On our sit team, there are 12 students and 12 staff that meet monthly. There also four of our GCMS students on the district improvement team. We have new groups and events occurring in the building. Uh most recently was our inaugural Minecraft event which occurred last week. We had over 30 students sign up for it and participated in a collaborative world building competition. We also have our new sound effects club. Last week, they were invited to sing at the Seabberry Woods Nursing Home in East View Mall, which is putting our students skill on full display out in the community. Uh further highlights, uh this year, uh we implemented our distraction-free schools. It came into full effect and it has been a huge success. Since the start of the year, we've
016only had five students in our building needing individualized support in managing their personal electronic devices. We can attribute a lot of this success to the initiative of students using lockers. Uh it's improved our student engagement to improve the organization and our classtoclass transitions. GCMS has also continued to implement proactive systems of support to support our each grade level where administrators, teachers, counselors, and social workers are regularly collaborating to review student data. creating systems to support students on an individual basis. Uh we also continue to review the code of conduct of students, ensuring that as an entire community, students and staff know the district expectations and how we support them. This year, we're continuing to train uh teachers to be restoative practice acan champions across our building. In this work, teachers are building to capacity uh
017building capacity to run proactive circles to support our community. We're also preparing to train student leaders to be acan champions to extend this work. This work has impacted our classrooms where we now have students and staff working to build norms in their classrooms that are built in and developed by everybody who is in that class. And due to the proactive nature of this work, our overall suspension rates continue to decline, which we'll go into more detail later in this presentation. >> All right. So, we had our reconfiguration um over the summer and into this year. So, we've got a lot to be very proud of with the successes that we've seen. Um so, with operations and logistics, um our hallways are less congested, which was a pretty big deal, um in years past. Um this
018year, students are able to get to class pretty quickly. Um they have specific pathways for their grade levels, um so they know exactly where to go and how to get there. Um, and I think that's really decreased um, transition time to classes. So, they're feeling like the hallways are calmer, more managed, and more safe. Um, for instructional programming, there's been so many more opportunities for our students for advancement. Um, just opportunities to really grow and thrive within their academics. So, with our scheduling, we have a lot of flexibility. Um, so we expanded our elective course offerings. Digital arts, we expanded civics, and then we added computer sciences. Um, so expanding those accelerating rich courses really allowed again for students to have those opportunities to grow um and really push themselves in their academics. In previous
019years, we really just had a few spots, a few slots for students to be put in for Accelerate Enriched. Now, we're really using the data to look to see who's actually um qualified, who can actually do the work um and making sure that they have that opportunity to have that course in their um course offerings. Some more successes are around social connections, formation of class identity. So with the grade levels, we see that we have a lot of support for them. The peer relationships are much stronger. We have a lot of event opportunities that are focused on grade levels. And one thing that's really important is those appropriate age interactions. So our sixth grade students are on the opposite side of the building from our seventh and eighth grade students. So, we're seeing um a
020lot of students really focused on their academics, focused on, you know, getting to know their peers and interacting in a way that's more positive instead of being influenced by maybe some of the older grade levels. Um, with professional collaboration, one piece we really want to point out is that our teachers and staff have way less meetings, but those meetings are really precise. They're really focused. they give them the opportunity to meet um for MTSS tier one interventions within the classroom but then also we've added um not added but given them an opportunity and the schedule has allowed for this for them to co-plan for content. So that's being able to look at their academics, look at their curriculum, see what strategies are being most effective in their classrooms and collaborate to make sure that all
021of their students are feeling supported. So there's always room to grow and we know that and we want to make sure that we're always looking to assess and analyze where we've been and where we're going. So we're making sure that we continue to focus on areas such as development of systems to continue to balance enrollment. We know that it's really important that we're looking at enrollment and looking to make sure that we're um effectively enrolling our students. Um also re reinforcing supports for students in the transition years. So from 5 to 6 and 8 to 9. We know those are important years within their academic career. So, it's really important that we support them and we look at where maybe we have not done the best job in the past, making sure they feel ready
022and prepared to enter into those grade levels. We also want to look at adjusting grade eight scheduling pathways. Um, this is really going to support their team experience. Um, and we know that our eighth grade students have a lot of courses to take. We want to make sure they still have those opportunities, but it's being done in a way that's most effective for them. I get to brag about our new tutoring center. So, it's really shifting the mindset. Our team has worked really hard to shift the mindset when student choices result in a visit to our tutoring center. We are thriving now that OSS is located inhouse at our middle school. We are changing mindsets from a punitive approach to a restorative lens. We have increased attendance as well as academic assignment completion rates. >>
023Yeah. Um so the tutoring center was created to support students academically while they were suspended, but also who struggled with work completion. By bringing our OSS students back to the middle school, it's giving them an opportunity to be supported by our middle school teachers. Also, they're getting that support for a longer period of time. At the high school last year, they were only receiving three hours of OSS time and now they're receiving five. Uh the center also has um a pushin component which supports both OSS and ISS. Lindseay Lamort is our social studies teacher and Jenny Marciano works with our special ed population. An added bonus is that on any given day, we may have two or three teachers stop into the tutoring center to check in on their students. They might be going over
024task directions or actually teaching a lesson. For example, Jennifer Gelfuso will use her plan time to come up and work with our um her Italian suspended students and the students are really appreciating their visits. In the past, it was really difficult to visit our OSS students at the high school due to schedule constraints, plan and travel time. The last structure that we put in place is the learning lab. You may have read about it in our last newsletter. Over 80 education students from Jun Sunni Jio tutored our gened population to help with work completion. The middle school students using the three using the EPAS system would come out of study hall or lunch to receive the supports they needed. We also experimented with after school tutoring following the late bus procedures. In a few slides,
025you will be able to hear how successful our tutoring center is becoming. Thank you so much for the support that you're giving us. >> Perfect. Thank you. Um, we have some pretty awesome new and improved restorative practices in place this year in our tutoring center. We're lucky to have Mel Melie Connidoro who could not be here this evening. She is a counselor assigned to our tutoring center to help us with this and she's terrific and she's awesome and she's great at helping our students and teaching us how to better help our students restoratively. As Nancy said, we do our best to help students academically, but along with Melly, we try to best focus on the whole student this year, both in ISS and OSS. Academics are important and we push those the minute they walk
026in the door, but they need that social emotional piece very much so. We try every day to repair relationships, set up action plans for success, stay positive, talk out issues with the suspended students, and try to have a more disciplined focus on healing and change rather than just strict compliance each day. Prior to this year, we had re-entry meetings that were only offered after students were suspended for five days. Now we have formal re-entry meetings for all OSS students, no matter how long they spend with us. Last year, mediation between students was after suspension was over. Now it happens when students are ready to talk and we have that throughout their stay. We think that's important before they return to the classroom. Check-ins were informal last year and now we have morning circles. We have
027check-ins throughout the day. they've scheduling time with their counselor when they're finished with us so that when they get back they falter a little bit we can check in on them when they u progress through the school year. Our goal is to have our students return to the classroom successful being caught up with academics of course but with the social emotional tools to not be suspended again even though we we do like having them. We don't want to necessarily see them again. Thank you. All right. Last year, we only monitored a number of incidents for out of school suspension. We are closely monitoring many data points such as ethnicity, students with disabilities, work completion trackers, and our repeat visitors to our tutoring center. This allows our team to better understand who's being suspended and for
028what so we can better support them in our school community. [clears throat] >> And we'll end with some data that um is pretty compelling. It's it's indicative of some early major successes of this new program. Uh last year uh we were down 42% incidents of suspension. This year we're down again. On top of that, between this time last year and this year, we're down 62% days of instruction missed due to suspension. This is a major indicator of school culture and climate and that the um severity of the infractions of our code of conduct, they're not major. Uh so the suspensions are not resulting in very long amount of time away from our school community. And so far this year there's only been three incidents of repeat behaviors resulting in out of school suspension. To put
029that into context, all of last year there were about 550 incidents of repeat behaviors. So when we talk about setting students up for success, making sure that we're using a restorative lens, getting to know them and leveraging relationships and systemizing supports and followup so that they have safe adults and safe places in our school to use strategies when they come back to class on top of going back to class. They're not feeling overwhelmed that they're behind in their coursework because they were removed from class for a certain amount of time because of all the awesome work occurring in this program this year. more than 80% of the work being sent to the tutoring center is completed. And in our partnership with Sunni Jio for our learning lab, which anybody in our building can use, we
030had over 600 students sign out of study hall or lunch in the months of October and November to work with a tutor, study for a test, and hand in works, labs, or assignments that they were missing. >> At this point, I'll take any questions if you guys have them. Thank you so much. Do you guys have any questions? >> I was just to make a comment. My son is in seventh grade and you know you're in carpool with him and his friends and all they talked about was how amazing the Jio students were and they started with they looked really scared the first day and then as the school year progressed they were like, "Oh my god, they're so helpful. So and so's doing better." I'm like, "Oh, great. I'm glad you can assess them,
031too." But yes, [laughter] >> and I want to give a huge shout out to our teaching staff, too, because yes, the Sunni Genio students work in our tutoring center and um support our students down there, but our staff has also agreed to take them and allowed field placement observations for one period a day while they're visiting. And every single staff member who was asked said yes. and every single staff member has reported that these have just been a positive community partnership and they're really helping with the school community and the academic culture of the building. I also wanted to say that I really appreciate kind of just the the glance into what the day and the culture looks like with the shift to grade levels more having had a child previously in middle school and
032now one currently and just kind of hearing like the differences of those approaches and how that may be making an impact for kids. So, thank you for sharing that. Any additional questions or comments? We have several middle school families here, guys, but thank you so much. We really appreciate all your work and your time putting this all together for us. >> Very well done. [applause] >> All right, guys. You're up for the capital project. Sorry we always put you after the really fun ones. We'll work on that in the future. We're going to do something uh fun today uh right before the holidays. Uh how do I switch this? You're going to switch it. Okay. >> We're going to do a cahoot for the capital project update today. Everyone members >> also you may be
033wondering uh there is a prize today. There is a campus construction Yeti mug for the winner of today's cahoot. Sorry, we take a moment to log into technology. Thank you for your patience. >> So, [snorts] all of this should be good information. Um, there are going to be some tricky questions I think for you all. Okay. And I would like to thank uh Jeff for the inspiration. All right. Is everyone who would like to participate in the lobby? I hear. Okay. I'm sorry. Oh, read the question. Yeah. So, what are our names? >> We did not introduce ourselves today. >> I am Joe Palato with campus construction management with design. >> Okay, that was worth no points. All right, first real question. How many square feet of new artificial turf was installed as part of
034the building brighter futures phase 2 project? All right. So, the thousand was I'm glad no one answered that was the center logo. The 86,000 is the softball field. 150,000 is just the baseball field. So that when you add all three together, it's 237,000 square feet of turf. All right. Next question. How many single occupancy restrooms are being renovated in the middle school as part of building brighter futures phase three? [snorts] This is the finished. All right. So, there are seven nonADA bathrooms and two ADA bathrooms, which equals a total of nine new bathrooms that will be in that building. How many total dollars are the construction contracts in the building brighter futures across all three phases? [laughter] Good. Good. Uh the 455 is the referendum value. The 372 is all of our construction contracts. 20
035and a half is just phase one. And the 1.6 is our contingency. Very close. How much new square footage was added to the middle school music wing as part of the building brighter futures phase one the picture is of this is the uh new band room away yes uh 3 uh 440 is the middle school music. The 20 or 2075 is the addition at the high school facts. 561 was the middle school technology edition and then the 642 square feet was high school tech. So across all of phase one, we added several thousand square feet across all the spaces. How many parking spaces were added to Florence Brasser in phase two of building brighter futures. >> I got a couple of you at 67. Um, yeah, it's just 61. Nothing fun about the other three
036numbers there. before three in a row. How many votes were cast as part of the future ready? So, this is the more recent project that was voted in February. Quick answers. Yes. Thank you. Uh the was the yes votes for future ready. 312 was the correct answer. Uh 374 were the votes for the building brighter futures project and the 291 was the yes votes for uh the building brighter futures. All right. This is going to be a puzzle. So, you're going to order these in the correct order. Reorder the document types in the order they are created. This is Curt's department. You do have a full minute to answer. Yes. This was a hard question. Um, so the first set of documents is the schematic design. So that's right after the vote or when we
037kick off a design stage. Then design development is about what 60%. And then the construction documents. Oh, the construction documents is the last bit that goes to the state. >> 67% 67%. If Troy Olen was to lay horizontal, [laughter] how many Troy's worth of stadium fencing is being installed around Spartan Stadium? If you were wondering, Troy is 6'5. Hopefully that helps. [laughter] So just 379 tro 2434 is the actual footage and then the other two numbers were nonsense. >> 676. >> Yeah. Bring that back. What elementary building will be the last under construction? Last under construction in the future ready project. Uh Florence Brasser. Yes, that is phase four. So we're currently working in Florence Brasser and with the MCA re aid resets. We need to wait five years. That's pushing that work into 2030
038through 2032. What phase of future ready will Paul Road, Walt Disney, and Neil Armstrong libraries be renovated? Wonderful picture of a Florence Brasser new office. Phase two. Yes. Still very close. There's one more question. When was phase two of future ready submitted to the state for review? [laughter] >> So February was when we voted on the project. Phase two is being submitted right now. So, December of 2025. One final piece, uh, we'll be having a Spartan Park grand opening. So, save the date. This will be April 10th, 2026. All right, let's see who won. Congratulations. I don't know where that's going to go. [laughter] >> Are there any questions on the capital project? This is a little fun, but >> Well done, boys. Well done. I do really appreciate that you guys made the other
039answers informational as well. So, thank you guys. >> Thank you. >> Yep. All right. Our next report was our student exeicio update. He was unable to make it tonight. So we will move on now to our discussion items. We have our policy committee update. >> We had a riveting meeting and went over uh these are all policies that have minor adjustments based on uh updated state or federal regulations and the policy committee uh recommended the board consider waving the second reading. >> Thank you. So the first policy we have first read of policy number 5413 procurement uniform grant guidance for federal awards. Any discussion? Okay. We have first read of policy number 5681 school safety plans. Any discussion? Okay. First read new policy 5850 data networks and security access. Any discussion? First read of new
040policy 5851 cyber security incident response. Any discussion in first read of policy 7522 concussion management. Any discussion? And like Chris said at policy, this is all very minor language changes based on state and federal guidance. All right, that moves us on now to our consensus items. Can I have a motion to approve the consensus agenda? Can I have a motion? Miss Littlewood, Mr. Long, any discussion? All in favor? The vote is unanimous. Can I have a motion to approve consensus items C through G? Can I have a motion? Dr. Richards, Miss Davis, any discussion? All in favor? The vote is unanimous. That moves us now to action items. Can I have a motion to approve the updated 2025 2026 districtwide school safety plan? Can I have a motion? Uh, Mr. Reinhardt, Miss Mella, any discussion?
041All in favor? Vote is unanimous. Can I have a motion to approve the varsity track team trip to Harlem, New York, January 9 through 11, 2026? Can I have a motion? Mella, Mr. Long, any discussion? All in favor? The vote is unanimous. Be it resolved that the board of education having heard an appeal from student A determination made by the transportation department designated as appeal student A and following due deliberation hereby uphold the determination of the transportation department. Can I have a motion? Dr. Richards. Second, Miss Davis. Any discussion? All in favor? It is unanimous. Can I have a motion to wave the second reading of policy numbers 5413, 5681, 5850, 5851, and 7522? Can I have a motion? Mr. Long, Miss Bernowski, any discussion? All in favor? One is unanimous. Can I have a
042motion to approve policies number 5413, 5681, 5850, 5851, and 7522? Can I have a motion? Let's see. Mr. Reinhardt and Miss Mutella, any discussion? All in favor? Vote is unanimous. I have a motion to approve the appointment of Michael Jerusi and Michael Bramley as co-inter field house supervisors effective December 3rd, 2025. Can I have a motion? We've got Miss Davis, Dr. Richards. Any discussion? All in favor? The vote is unanimous. That moves us now to our superintendent comments. >> A quick calendar reminder to kick things off tonight. Families, remember that elementary has a half day this Friday and school will be closed for students from December 22nd through January's 2. Our first day of classes for the new year will be on Monday, January 5th. Also remember that the entire district will be closed on
043Christmas Day, December 25th, and New Year's Day, January 1st. Our students and staff have put on phenomenal performances over the last few weeks. There is still time to see a couple more performances before the break. The seventh and eighth grade band and jazz band concert is tomorrow. and the Gates Charlie Community Band will take the stage on Thursday. Both concerts begin at 7 pm in the GC pack. We had the first of our Junior Achievement Pizza competitions last Friday morning. The commercials for the student created pizzas were outstanding and enough to leave us hungry for some slices. A big thank you to GC Hall of Famer Mark Parina of Mark's Pizzeria for making them so we could do a professional assessment of each. Don't forget to save the date for another night of laughs and
044fun in the Spartan Fieldhouse as the Gates Charlie Education Foundation welcomes back the Harlem Wizards. All 6 foot five of Troy Olan will be there to play against the faculty, staff, and administration allstars on Friday, January 16th at 7 p.m. with concessions by the GC sports boosters that evening. >> [snorts] >> We are still seeking budget ambassadors from our community for a great opportunity to dive into the district's budget and understand more about how we fund our operation. No experience is necessary, but ambassadors must be residents of our district. This year's meeting dates are Monday, March 9th, Monday, March 16th, and if a third meeting is needed, Thursday, April 2nd. To apply to participate in this outstanding program, complete the form at gateschild.org budget ambassadors by Friday, January 9th, 2026 at 5:00 pm. And as
045we approach the holiday break, I want to take a moment to express my sincere appreciation to each of you for your dedication, professionalism, and unwavering commitment to our students and community. To our faculty and staff, thank you for the care, creativity you bring to your work each day. Your efforts make a meaningful difference in the lives of our students and help create schools where learning and belonging thrive. To our board of education, thank you for your leadership, service, and continued support of our schools. Your thoughtful guidance, and commitment to our district mission are deeply valued. This time of year offers an opportunity to pause, reflect, and recharge. I hope the holiday break brings you rest, joy, and meaningful time with families and friends. I am grateful for all that you do and proud to work
046alongside such a dedicated team. Wishing you a safe, peaceful, and happy holiday season. That is my report. Thank you, sir. With that, I would like to ask for a motion to adjourn our meeting. Miss Littlewood, Mr. Reinhardt. Any discussion? All in favor? The vote is unanimous. Our meeting is adjourned. Thank you.