001[Music] hello everyone and welcome to the organizational board meeting of the akron public schools board of education on 10 january of 2022. uh it's happy to be here and good to see everyone here in this new year and we're going to start off with roll call mr pendleton dr akbar here ms autry president dr hall aye ms jackson ms mckittrick here mr perry and welcome coach east griffin from eclc thank you very much uh mr griffin if you don't mind leaving leading us in the pledge of allegiance if everyone can stand if they can for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you very much uh we next move to the next portion of the agenda uh recognition of a board president from 2021 dr hall that's
002my first time doing it okay all right dr akbar will you join me at the podium please so tonight we're going to recognize our outgoing president dr n.j akbar phd and i want to take a moment and sort of walk you through some of his accomplishments in the past year so i won't read the entire proclamation but i want to read the highlights so whereas dr akbar has completed his second year on that on the board of education of the akron city school district serving as president during 2021 and during his presidency and despite all the unprecedented challenges presented by covet 19 dr akbar provided steady leadership and actively represented the board and the district throughout the community and whereas dr akbar served on the joint board of board of review since 2020 the board
003comprised of members from the city of akron and the akron city school district that oversees akron city schools imagine akron an 800 million dollar building program which now has the last new construction underway for the new garfield clc and whereas dr akbar's presidency he worked diligently with the board on the adoption of the aps racial equity policy to ensure that all learners are afforded an equitable education which also led to the creation of the board equity committee and the implementation of the akron public schools diversity equity and inclusion program as well as the advanced aps three and three plan to ensure district-wide equity for students and staff and whereas you know what i am going to read this whole thing because it's that good um whereas during his tenure as president dr akbar devoted his
004leadership skills to overseeing the superintendent's search leading to the appointment of superintendent christine fowler mack and whereas dr akbar established the ad hoc communications committee established in february 2021 to elevate the communications to families and community members the work of that committee will add to dr akbar's legacy as aps works to see that its message of education for all makes its way into as many parts of our community as possible now therefore be it resolved by the board of education of the akron city school district county of summit state of ohio section one that dr akbar is recognized for his outstanding leadership in service as president of the akron board of education since 2021 section two that sincerest appreciation is extended to dr akbar by his colleagues and section 3 that a copy of this
005resolution be made a part of the permanent record of the akron board of education and that a copy be presented to dr akbar congratulations sir and as a souvenir of your time we have there should be a board gavel one here this button can i get can i get the box open here we go there's a minimum iq requirement on the side of the box wow look at that there you go sir hello all right and the microphone is yours sir actually i'll put this back over there for you thank you all right thank you very much to my colleagues and to dr hall for that recognition i have more to say but i'll save that for later we'll move on to our election of officers uh first with election of president uh is there
006a motion i'm sorry is there uh yeah is there a nomination miss miss altri i'd like to nominate dr akbar as president think he is there a second i second it all right it's been is there any other nominations are there any other nominations are there any other nominations we now close nominations with uh that one nominee uh any discussion on that motion or on that nomination i'm sorry all right is there a motion to accept the nomination of dr akbar sounds weird talking about myself and third person um for the election of president so moved it's been properly moved by dr hall is there a second second it's been seconded any discussion hearing now mr pendleton roll call vote dr hall aye ms jackson ms mckittrick yes dr akbar yes ms autry yes mr
007perry yes thank you thank you very much uh next we move to election of vice president are there any nominations for vice president mr mckittrick i nominate dr hall is there a second second it's been a motion to nominate dr hall for vice president are there any other nominations are there any other nominations hearing none we will close nominations with that one nominee dr hall is there a motion to approve dr hall as vice president it's been moved by mr perry is there a second it's been segregated by miss mckittrick any discussion hearing none mr pendleton roll call vote ms autry yes mr perry dr hall aye ms jackson aye mrs mckittrick yes dr akbar yes thank you thank you very much and now we will have the oath of office uh delivered by judge
008david hamilton and you can go there good evening i'm judge david hamilton of the act municipal court and it is my distinct honor and privilege to administer the oath of office to both dr akbar and dr hall these are both friends of mine so it's easy to do for me today so so i so glad to be here and honored to do this today dr akbar please raise your right hand do you solemnly swear that you will support the constitution of the united states and the constitution of the state of ohio and that you will perform faithfully the duties as president of the akron's board of education to the best of your ability in accordance with the rules and regulations of the board of education and laws now in effect and here and after to
009be enacted during your continuance in said office and until your successor is elected and qualified if so please say i do i do thank you congratulations dr akbar [Applause] okay dr hall please raise your right hand do you swear do you solemnly swear or affirm that you will support the constitution of the united states and the constitution of the state of ohio and that you will perform faithfully the duties as vice president of the akron board of education to the best of your ability in accordance with the rules and regulations of the board of education and laws now in effect and here and after to be enacted during your continuance and said office and until your successor is elected and qualified if so please say i do i do congratulations dr akbar good vice president
010i'm sorry dr hall my bad all these doctors in here [Music] all right um so um there won't be a passing of the gavel today but i did want to start off by sharing a few remarks and then making some appointments and then we'll have a brief um recess so if anyone wants to leave they can do so after we hear from our student representative of the board but first i want to thank judge hamilton for the honor of delivering our oath today we definitely appreciate it and also want to thank dr hall for serving alongside me for another year thank you to my colleagues for entrusting me to lead this august body for another year in the last year we faced many challenges and i believe we persisted and have managed them well guided
011by our priorities and our values as a board we have put our students and community first by approaching every challenge committed to listening and asking the tough questions our resulting actions considered what we learned through that commitment as we prioritize transparency and collaboration through the lens of of equity this year we will continue to do this by remaining informed and open to the possibilities as we continue to progress forward our team will launch into a new year accompanied by many complexities and systemic changes and challenges that we will need to address some of those challenges will be to continue to traverse the ever-changing challenges that covet 19 has placed in our laps this board is committed to keeping our families our students and staff safe as we continue to navigate this very real public health
012crisis we will always we have already witnessed the tremendous loss our students have experienced during their time out of school buildings for almost an exact year this is not something we want to repeat and we're happy to have our superintendent lead us in that discussion today elevating our vision for the district through the goals that spouse and advance aps are three and three priorities of academic achievement equity and engagement centered on the elevation of the college and career academies of akramado where each of our students graduate with a plan for employment enlistment enrollment or entrepreneurship we will explore many policies such as pronoun usage and chosen name live streaming all of our committee and board meetings adding community and board member review process prior to adopting our school boundary maps to ensure there's equity and
013transparency in the process we will be negotiating the contracts for all of our bargaining units in an effective and collaborative way with the hope of being bold and progressive and addressing some of our persistent challenges with the vision of our future and children as our north star this will be done while our district finalizes its living wage study we embarked on last year the board will continue to examine the financial needs of our district which will include both a master facilities plan and looking at our student needs that will require developing a plan to address them which may include asking the community to support a levy request our board will collaborate with the community and setting our priorities for the use of our esser funds this board will be active and engaged in that process
014and will ensure that our very most vulnerable among us receive the highest level of support focused on meeting their existing and historical needs continuing to develop our team it will be paramount which will include some retreats so board it will include some retreats and we will also need to explore the impact of on our board of osba's decision to non-renew their national school board association membership where we receive the benefits of membership membership in the council of urban education we will need to determine how we will ensure our board sustains this type of benefit that we receive from cube now none of these challenges or the others that we will face will be easy but we are prepared and up for the challenges and the successes many of the issues we will address and take
015actions on existed prior to any of us being here but i'm hopeful that we will be courageously that we will courageously undertake some of education's long-standing problems however we will face them together that's where our strength lies as a board administration and staff in all of our buildings and across this district our strat our strength lies within all of us we will continue to put our students first and let the light of their bright futures guide our hearts minds and actions this year will also we will also celebrate many successes as a team we will do so not with a self-centered heart but with the spirit and passion for the advancement of our youth akron public schools and the city of akron a city whose promise will only be fulfilled through our commitment and compassionate
016approach elevating every child who will one day grow up to be a productive citizen we will do so indiscriminately indiscriminately regardless of who the children's or the child's parents are or the zip code they live in our priorities this year will continue to exhibit that fact now i would like to take a brief moment of personal privilege and thank my partner and the love of my life alex for his unwavering support and of the hours of work that this board requires that takes us away from the family time you continue to inspire me every day and i feel incredibly blessed to be by your side for the rest of our lives i also want to thank my colleagues and supervisor at kent state who have allowed me to do the work of this board which
017required some time off and shifting in my schedule i feel tremendously blessed to have the support and encouragement of my entire community of family and friends and the support of many in this city who trust me to represent them so thank you again for allowing me that moment and i look forward to getting to the work of this district right now thank you [Applause] thank you very much and next we will move to board member committee and ward assignments and with that we will have our legal contracts and board policy with chair bruce alexander and co-chair valerie mckittrick um job isar perry and dr andre akbar as committee members for finance and capital management our chair will be diana autry and our co-chair will be dr hall with members carla jackson and dr nj akbar
018instructional policy and student achievement chair valerie mckittrick and co-chair diana altre with members joe perry and myself equity committee chair dr derek hall co-chair bruce alexander member carla jackson and myself we also have a at large board of trustee member for osba and that trustee will be bruce alexander and the alternate will be diana autry cluster and award assignments book though will be dr hall with wards 3 and 4 east ward 10 will be mrs uh mckittrick uh ella ward 6 will be mr bruce alexander firestone ward 8 will be mr job esau perry kenmore garfield on ward 7 and 9 will be miss carla jackson north wards one two and five miss diana altre and all the specialty schools will be myself we also have a need to appoint our joint board of review
019which will be myself dr hall mrs altrey miss jackson and superintendent fowler mack is there any questions or discussion on those committee assignments okay hearing none we will uh move forward to the establishment of board meeting dates for 2022. um is there a motion uh to approve those meeting dates as reflected in board docs it's been properly moved by mr uh perry is there a second second it's been seconded by mrs mckittrick is there any discussion hearing none uh roll call vote mr pendleton ms autry yes mr perry yes dr hall aye ms jackson aye ms mckittrick yes dr akbar yes thank you thank you very much and we will move to community and school reflections and we'll start with our student board member coachee griffin yes okay okay hi my name is cochise griffin
020and i'm a sophomore at eclc in this bridgestone academy this is my first year serving as a student board member and this is my first student report my fellow classmates and i are happy to return to in-person school it's good to be back in school schools provide a safe environment where students can try not to worry about what's going on at home a safe learning environment is good but it's not easy for students to adapt to the school environment because of other distractions students need adults they can trust and talk to about what's going on at home and get the help needed with january being national mentoring month this is a good time for adults and role models to build relationships with students i feel that talking to students about their problems would be a
021stress reliever students would do better academically because they would worry less about fitting in socially their problems at home sports and extracurricular activities most students don't look look forward to altercations but pent-up emotions and stress lead students to have altercations i feel like students having relationship with mentor mentors will make student conflict easier to resolve and conflict altercations would decrease coach marquise hayes the head football coach and athletic director at east high school is an adult that builds good relationships with students he talks to students and tells them the cause of their decisions and the consequences they could face he does he does endear students for being honest and letting him know what's going on talking to and playing for coach hayes has made me more disciplined his expectations helped me hold myself to a
022higher standard i am a center and defensive tackle under coach hayes food and nutrition plays a big part in sports and i like to eat one of my favorite meals is a seafood boil a seafood boil can include crab legs shrimp crawfish potatoes and corn my peers and i would love to see a nutritious and better variety of school lunch options like vegetarian options i'm not vegetarian myself but many of my peers are vegetarians students don't eat school lunch lunches regularly if students would eat school lunches they would perform better in the second half of the day because they would get a boost from their school lunch sports are big at ease and nutrition plays a big role in a student athlete being successful over the past seven years 45 student athletes have gone to
023college on football scholarships under coach hayes players have are currently attending the university of pittsburgh bowling green university the university of toledo and the university of akron one of the biggest conferences in college football is the acc east graduate bengali kamara and his team the university of pittsburgh won the ac hcc championship this year 12 former east football players have graduated from college the others remain in college and are playing college football i am undecided on what college i will attend but i plan on getting a full-ride athletic scholarship and attending college for free on behalf of my fellow student board members and myself we wish the akron public schools family good health and well-being thank you [Applause] thank you very much mr griffin we are excited to have you a part of our student
024board and appreciate those words and i'm sure potentially you might get a call from someone like miss folk to talk about some of the things that you talked about in your speech so thank you very much okay thank you no problem and since there's no request to address the board um and i'm assuming actually let me ask are there any other community in school reflections okay here now we're gonna take a three minute recess to allow those who want to leave to leave and then we'll carry on with the uh business of our board uh so we'll take a three minute recess hello everyone we're gonna move to uh return from recess thank you to everyone who was here who's leaving um we will now move to um the next portion of our agenda which
025is approval of the previous meeting minutes uh we will be approving the regular meeting minutes of monday december 13th uh 2021 as well as the special meeting minutes of december 21 2021 as well as the special meeting minutes from 4 january 2022. is there a motion so move is there it's been properly moved by ms autry is there a second second has been seconded by mr mckittrick any discussion hearing and saying none uh roll call vote please mr pendleton dr hall aye ms jackson mrs mckittrick yes dr akbar yes ms autry yes mr perry yes thank you thank you very much next we move to personnel recommendations madam superintendent good evening dr akbar and members of the board i wish to recommend the approval of the personnel recommendations presented in categories 5 through 16. thank
026you very much it's been recommended by the superintendent for personnel recommendations are is there a motion on the table so moved has been properly moved by mr mckittrick is there a second it's been seconded by mr perry any discussion on personnel recommendations hearing none roll call vote mr pendleton ms autry yes mr perry dr hall aye ms jackson mrs mckittrick yes dr akbar yes thank you thank you very much next we move to resolutions and motions on the consent agenda madam superintendent yes sir i wish to recommend the approval of the resolutions and motions presented in category 21 or excuse me 22.1 they are in proper format and i move for their approval is there a motion to approve has been properly moved by ms autry it's their second second it's been seconded by dr
027hall to approve the resolutions and motions on the consent agenda any discussion hearing saying no mr pendleton roll call vote please miss autry yes mr perry dr hall aye ms jackson mrs mckittrick yes dr akbar yes thank you thank you very much next we move to business affairs recommendations madam superintendent thank you and for those recommendations excuse me those resolutions as well i wish to recommend the approval of the business affairs recommendations they have been reviewed and are in proper format excuse me thank you very much is the are the is there a motion to approve the business affairs recommendations so moved it's been properly moved by dr hall it's their second it's been seconded by mrs mckittrick any discussion on the business affairs recommendations hearing saying none we will do roll call vote mr
028pendleton mr perry dr hall aye ms jackson mrs mckittrick yes dr akbar yes ms autry yes thank you thank you very much we now move to our superintendence report madam superintendent thank you dr akbar and again good evening to our board members and to our broader community and happy new year i do believe this is our first chance to be together since the holidays and it is good to see you all we're going to start off the superintendent's report really first of all updating you on some more sad news that we're starting the year with our the resolutions you just approved did reflect that we had some losses in early december so we were sad to recognize that we had um two deaths the death of one of our tutors and a custodian a beloved
029custodian here in the district as well recently we were made aware that one of our long-standing colleagues dr mary beth klug who once was our director of special ed for the district retiring in 1998 after serving over 20 years in the district did also pass away and so we felt that both you and the community would want to know of dr klug's passing and the fact that our district did express condolences to the family before serving as our director of special education dr klug was a professor at eastern illinois university she stepped away from the university into the k-12 education though with ease she was an avid supporter of the arts and work to ensure full art experiences for our aps students along with her technical duties she is remembered fondly by many many friends
030and colleagues here in the district so we felt like it was important to take the opportunity to raise that to your awareness also this evening one of the things that i wish to do myself and the team is to provide you with an update we thought with the state of kovid still kind of running rampant not only in our community but others that you might have some questions and it might benefit you and also the broader community to understand what it is we are doing to ensure the safety and well-being of our students so i want to begin by reminding the board and our broader community of our ongoing commitment to closely monitor public health data and to act thoughtfully on the recommendations of local state and national health officials to keep our students our
031staff and our community safe guidelines for the use of masks social distancing and other safety precautions are being routinely reviewed and updated to align with the data and recommendations that we receive but tonight we're going to go through a more a broad kind of presentation as to where we are and then we will open it up for you to offer some feedback and also to ask additional questions so to assist i have dr mcwilliams woods and deborah folk who are my right hands in a day-to-day way but they're going to walk through the basic presentation good evening board members and superintendent and president thank you for having us here tonight we deborah and i were even dressed alike tonight to make sure that we did a nice job presenting what are the odds and kathy
032mcveigh is joining us too we noticed i guess it was the blue and black day i know so we are here tonight to give you an update with this is the last week of our first semester so this is good timing for us to check in to look at some of the data and the metrics that we monitor daily in terms of covid and internal staff absences and cases internally but then to also look at some of the preventative measures and check in on some of the adjustments that we've made as we've watched what's happened out in our community the yin yang of this relationship that we have where we watch what's happening in nationally in the state regionally and then in the county but then we also have to translate that into what's actually
033happening day to day in our schools and and carefully monitoring what do case rates look like in our schools what do staff absences look like to make the day-to-day decisions on keeping our schools open or making adjustments in terms of learning conditions that happen day to day for us so we're going to talk through that tonight our safety team member is our safety team members are still very intact the team that has been leading us debra folk obviously is a key player in keeping us engaged all the time with our health experts in this county and the educational service center also helps coordinate across districts in this region so that we understand what's happening not just in our district but in others as well so starting just at this big picture national lens and this
034is not anything new for all of you that when you look at the cdc national community transmission in the united states it is very red in that upper right map and that widespread community spread because the omicron variant is so much more contagious that that is happening across our country and certainly then when you translate that here in summit county we are also at that high transmission rate and when when the county says this is a high transmission county the emphasis on the masks everyone should wear a mask in public school settings we're fortunate that we didn't have to go back and forth like many districts that we have stayed due to your leadership very consistent which makes it much easier on the students and the families to stay in a nice rhythm so we
035but we're even pushing the compliance and enforcement and kind of dedication to quality mask wearing even more and you're going to see that in the presentation tonight and then on the left hand side the positivity rates a seven day average just to give you a sense this was through december 27th of counties in this area as well on where we fall compared to the other counties there recently was an important study that i just want to highlight for you because it was one of the first studies in the country that actually happened right here in our backyard at case western reserve to look at the level of severity of illness with the omicron variant versus the delta variant and although the increase has been significant and that positivity rate has been significant the i guess
036if it's hard to say good news but but i guess the good news is that the study in case western reserve found that this variant is milder than the delta variant resulting in significantly less severe illness fortunately in this study they also looked at age of of folks who had gotten uh coveted and the similar results that there was a milder this delta this variant is milder with less severe illness so within that context then the decision-making for for us here in akron day today and when you think about the national level state wide what's happening and then even regionally in this area there really has been a shift in how we think about making changes in our learning conditions day-to-day when this all first started with some of you who are in this room
037all together we were making decisions without a lot of information because we were experiencing the covid infections and we were trying to listen almost minute to minute on what the researchers and the scientists were learning now we know so much more about the prevention strategies and about how the the covid variants are spreading we understand what needs to happen within just our rituals and routines that our students do through the day there's so much more that we know that we feel better equipped to make decisions day-to-day because of that our goal and this has been stated by our president our governor uh superintendents everywhere our goal and and our president of the board i mean everyone has said you just said that in your opening statements our student board member just talked about the importance
038of being in school and the differences i think we all have seen the negative effects of what happened when we were remote on not just student learning i actually am more concerned about the social emotional needs and the wraparound support a lot of what mr griffin talked about tonight in his comments which were just perfect timing we didn't even plan that tonight so our goal is to remain open with temporary adjustments as needed the unit of thinking is very small now where we're looking at what's happening in a building what's happening with classes what's happening with schools versus what's happening district wide necessarily because the the differences are so significant on what can happen in one school based on positive covert rates based on staff absences student absences that the unit you know we used
039to really only think about the district now it's much more nuanced that we look at school by school decisions and within the schools what do we need to do to modify while we're watching the data in the county and in our district so things like we could make adjustments in field trips in events and how often we bring students together there's other types of factors that we can start to modify and shift to help keep our school schools open and students learning and so those are sort of the nuanced decisions governor dewine here you know also just recently just a week ago re-emphasized this notion that i think we should go back and look at what pediatricians have told us and what children's hospitals have said that we need they have all said kids need
040to be safely in schools and so that that continues to be our goal before we actually start looking then at the data that we look at on a daily basis and this is sort of the dynamic team here that we look from the operations and the academic it's a combined effort that we have to look at this the centers for disease control has also compiled dozens of studies that show that schools can be some of the safest places in terms of covid again a year and a half two years ago we didn't have this type of data and researched and now we do so that helps for us to be able to rely on the research when you think of all the prevention that happens in the schools sometimes that's much more robust than what's
041happening out in the community and there's some of the data that you'll see some of that influence of what happens when students return to school so the data that we monitor daily to determine if any temporary adjustments are needed meaning temporary event closures if we did need to go to remote it may just be for a few days instead of months and months and months we look at the data daily and we look at it in the same way that we look at the summit county public health they report their data on their weekly reports they code it as decreasing sustaining or increasing so that's what we're watching for our trends and the first three are county coveted positivity rate for adults and children county new case rate for adults and children vaccination rates for
042adults and children and then staff and student covid active case rate so the first three are here's what's happening in the county and then the fourth one you get into the akron public schools looking at our dashboard that is public on our website that shows our staff and student covid active case rates and we're going to dive into each one of these i bolded the last three because these are the keys because a lot of what particularly for whether we need to make a decision going into remote a lot of the decisions and this is what all of our colleagues are saying across this county and across the region when we talk at the northeast ohio esc that the staff absences are probably the the major reason if a school needs to go remote because
043of staffing shortages and that we just asked we had a meeting this morning with the staff from summit county public health and we asked if any school had had to close in this region for any other reason and she said no she said there might have been one school that had another reason because of some spread that they closed a class but otherwise it's all been because of staff shortages so that one is probably the most important that staff absence for the next five days and trends and then student absence trends and then an interesting one is operation supply chain and distribution there have been moments when we have had to huddle about some food distribution issues where the concern is would we have all the deliveries we need or will we have the deliveries
044of mass when we need them or will we have so that is a concern that we have to monitor on a daily basis so i'm going to have deborah now come up and we're going to tag team the rest of the presentation where she will share the data points and any of the information that she gathers from the summit county public health and then i'm going to talk about how it translates then to our decisions that i bring to the superintendent about any hot spots that are happening with the school good evening nice to see you all this evening thank you for having us uh the positivity rates usually come out on thursday afternoon from summit county and i wanted to share with you the most recent three weeks because as you all are aware
045we've had the holiday season and we've also had a different change in the type of variant that's going through first it was alpha then it was delta which was very severe illness but not necessarily spread as much as omicron so as you can see in mid-december the county was at 22.8 percent and this is everybody ages young too old and then it did increase to 30 percent just around the christmas time so what this really kind of does reflect is you saw thanksgiving happen you then got through some positivity after thanksgiving this is the end of that positivity and then once we got beyond christmas we went to 34.2 percent for that last week of december through january 1st so therefore that is important for us to keep a very careful eye on as we
046try to determine as dr mcwilliams would said is it increasing is it sustaining or is it decreasing so we always make sure that we look at these the second item that i wanted to share with you was a absolutely telling piece of information off of summit county website and this is from december 27th through january 9th the total cases in summit county were 14 576. this is an increase in cases but was interesting to us as we looked at this was the age of the coveted cases in the block listing next to it as you can see from ages 0 to just under 18 those positivity rates are very low and that actually reflects well when you are putting students into schools because they do not tend to be the spreaders of this disease but
047if you got slightly older from 19 through 59 that is where the spread is occurring this is our staff members which is why we monitor this particularly well and very actively on a daily basis through our absences and the recording of information so we wanted you to see that students are safe when they are with us as long as we have staff that can service them in an equal format across an classroom a building as well as the district the next one is kind of interesting this is a comparison of the month of december and i wanted you to see this because the individual colors white is very very low case rates as it goes through the blue spectrum it then gets into the kind of magenta and the red with the red being the
048highest spread now this is an individual day rate of cases confirmed and pop improbable but please look at ages 18 and under which is mostly blue with one very large red day which happens to be the 28th of december welcome to the celebration of christmas with family but then look again at the ages of 18 to 64. we please remember that in those yellow boxes beginning on december the 18th going forward this was winter break this is when students were not in our school buildings but we're at home being with family and friends and we noticed that as we looked and compared these two relegated groups very high spread among the adults just after christmas going into the new year's weekend so we had been monitoring those even though this was winter break this was
049still something we were actively looking at and this resulted in the decision to make sure that we could go ahead and test our staff or offer tests to them the sunday of new year's weekend so we tried to make sure that we were following up with that as well this actually is a snapshot of our dashboard and for those of you who have been out on the dashboard it does list the total number of student and staff cases for the 2122 school year beginning july 1. it is the active cases that are really the cases that are truly somebody is homesick somebody cannot come to school or report to work and then we also are monitoring the other information by building as of this morning we had active cases for students at a 137 which
050is 0.7 percent of our student enrollment we had active cases of 144 staff adults which is just coincidentally happens to be 0.7 of our staff and i will tell you when we took this snapshot after we had met this morning we were back into the dashboard later this afternoon because in a number of cases that are now closed meaning they have reported back to school and back to work and we're down to 79 positive staff cases later today now that this is a fluctuating daily update to this particular very piece of important information and then subsequent below that we have each building listed for students and staff so we get a reflection and can look at those numbers as well so this is where we're going to start tag teaming now to say okay here's
051the data but then when i'm looking building by building on a daily basis i'm looking to see what that distribution is and are there any schools that are seeing the hot spot kind of cases where i start to get concerned that we may not have enough staff because each one of these cases it's not just one day of absence right it's at least five days and it could be longer so that's where the building by building lens this alone tells me the kind of the sequence of days that staff are going to need to be out but then it it translates into the staff absences that are the major major concern on whether we're going to have enough staff enough subs to be able to cover a building and that again you know in all
052of the priority listing of these the staff coverage is probably what's going to be triggering any kind of temporary shifts if needed to remote but it may only need to be for a few days but that this translates right into that absence we wanted to give you some data sharing what information we had prior to coven compared to absences that are occurring or attendance rates in the case of students as to what had happened once coveted started so as you see we have about 1500 teachers and please understand we focused only on teachers that we do certainly have a number of other support staff that have this but this is the person in the classroom with your students and we found as you can see we did have from 1920 and we picked specific months
053we did october november december january because this was prior to covid really getting a march on us in the early school year we wanted to go ahead and show you there was elevated teacher absence rates when you compare october of 1920 which was as an example 8.7 percent and we had an elevation this last october to 8.93 percent please go across the board for november and december and currently in january and this is the last five days because we just came back on the third we had a 13.8 percent of staff teacher absent rate compared to the same time frame of january of 20 of 9.4 percent now with 20 000 students in attendance we wanted to compare those attendance rates as well so we did see a decrease in our students attendance we have
054november of 19 which is 91.81 compared to november of 21 which was 87.45 so we have captured very many of our students being in attendance on a daily basis but we also are seeing a decrease in attendance and currently in january for those nine five days that we have been here we've seen a decrease in attendance as well but be very proud of us because we have still 85 to 90 percent 80 you know attendance daily from our students because it's good that they are in school so just on this and i'll show you one other lens or view that we have a tableau report which is our data analytics system that we can look school by school and we can look at this is a 30-day trend so we can look at actual numbers
055of days of absence and monitor to make sure are they increasing decreasing are we seeing any unusual spikes that we would need to be concerned about so when we look at the the teacher absences and the students in terms of our recommendation from deborah and myself to the superintendent on the top part with the teacher absences you know on a school by school level today for example we had schools that had zero staff absences and remember this isn't just covet absences this is you know any absences we had a couple schools that had zero and then we had a school that had 20 21 percent okay and that that obviously right mrs mckittrick right that's where you start to get uh more concerned if it went up to 30 percent that would be a very
056serious level of concern now when you think of the diversity of our schools and programs that's where you have to drill down to well who is it that is in that building that is absent and is it what type of staff member is it a classroom teacher or is it some other support teacher that would also need a sub you drill into is it just a one day absent or these more coveted cases so that's where there isn't uh you can't use just one number that triggers anything because we just say when you get past 20 percent getting up to 30 percent that's where you know that's going to be a difficult building to staff and then i need to look at what else is happening in other schools to determine if i should if
057we have enough subs across the district so those are all the thought processes that go in place with student attendance when you have this kind of lens to be able to see whether it's increasing or decreasing you know similarly the these are not just coveted absences these are all absences and across the country school districts are reporting a higher number of absences across the country routinely all through the year even starting back in september one of the most important things that we all have talked about is the ability to vaccinate our adults and then eventually our students and for those of you who have been with us as you remember we did vaccine clinics for our staff members when they became available in february and march and we were very fortunate a number large number
058of our staff took advantage of those and we're very pleased to do it what you may not be aware of is we also did coveted vaccine for eligible students at the high school level in april followed by second shots in may we then came back in the fall and we by that time had 12 year olds on up who could participate so we did during the school day additional vaccine clinics in september and october and we waited for baited breath for the five-year-olds to become eligible which they did in november so we went ahead and scheduled those now those because we needed uh parent consent and travel we did those at night or on saturdays and we were able to participate in november followed through december and these are the current fully vaccinated rates for
059summit county so you can currently see that as of last thursday's report we have 17.7 percent fully vaccinated for five to 11 year olds 12 to 17 year olds are at 50.6 percent we have 18 to 64 year olds at 69.4 65 and above are 87.6 but the total average in summit county is 60 percent now obviously we will keep working towards improving that and encouraging staff members and students to take advantage whether it's a public clinic or something that we currently do sponsor so that that is a snapshot of the key data points that we look at on a daily basis unfortunately because of our health partners week you know we could text and get a team from summit county public health on a call this morning in 2.3 seconds they're they're that responsive
060to being able to sit down and talk through any data point that we're seeing or questions that we have on their dashboard that is public for everyone we did put out and you've seen this in a couple different the superintendent sent it out and then i sent it out to all staff with our reopening team that uh pat shipe and i co-chair back in august we sort of set procedures for these different levels of when people need to be out when students need to be out on staff needs to be out how do we keep learning continuing and this is posted on our website as well that at the in the blue highlight is what we're talking about tonight the school level that that's in collaboration with summit county public health due to extensive outbreak
061or staff shortages and looking at those metrics that we just talked about and making that decision in collaboration with the county public health at that point if a school looked as though we couldn't staff that building and it would be for a few days maybe through three or four days if we're anticipating an increase then we have a plan mapped out and our teachers are ready because we did an instructional improvement day where they planned at the beginning of the year for the first semester to make sure they had lessons ready to go and then we gave them time on our january end service last monday to kind of refresh those plans for second semester that we would immediately go to and if a school if mason elementary had clothes for temporary for a few
062days they would go to remote lessons the first day asynchronously to get everyone time to adjust and then the second day would be live instruction just like all of our families and students are used to and they would move forward and same thing if anything ever happened at a district level obviously a district level would be you know a much more substantial spread and that would most likely be something that the county is asking for the state if we went back to a district level because again most of the decisions now are more at a school level versus large-scale district we just want to showcase we're not going to go through because you're all familiar with the mitigation efforts that we have we just wanted to highlight a few changes we've made based on the
063data that we just reviewed we have put in place and some of the science that has come out we've put some shifts in place that deborah will just quickly mention so that we can get to questions on adjustments i've always sorry about that we already went over the vaccination clinic so that if you're already aware as of early november we have been very fortunate to have tests provided in our in-school clinics so that if a student or staff member presents a symptom and it is felt to be covered related in the case of a student the nurse will call the home ask the guardian to come and pick up the student and provide the in-home testing materials with instructions so they can go home and if the test comes back negative the student come back
064can can come back the next day but if it's positive then those instructions will be followed for isolation we recently were offered materials through the ohio department of health at the state level and that now does include surgical masks that are part of it it's in fact the most recent order is the n95kn 94 type so those are beginning to arrive so that they are also available with the other varieties of masks we have because we do not want a student or staff member to not get a mask that is appropriate whether they bring it from home they bring it in you know from their parent or they're able to get it from us and then the last one on top of the covid testing home kits we are and have been testing last winter
065in concluding into the fall and winter are athletes that are in contact sports such as basketball wrestling cheerleading swimming etc and we are currently working on possible additional plans for additional testing we did fortunately work with the vendor who gave us our testing materials for our athletes to obtain those tests that you heard us distribute to our staff members on the sunday of new year's weekend it was very simple instructions they took them home they recorded exactly what they needed to do with the vendor and with the district so we could make adjustments to those class areas beginning when students came back on the fourth so other adjustments just based on the current data and the spread that we're seeing for our field trips we're on a two-week cycle right now where i review those
066with the superintendent and we're pulling back on some of the bigger field trips where students go out and are integrating with lots of community people right now we're postponing those and then we're also where we can with our partner engagement we're shifting some like our eighth grade showcase instead of being all together in the ballroom at one of our local event spaces we've shifted that back to virtual just for now and then every two weeks we're reviewing to see if we can relax some of that and that every two weeks we'll continue to review that we just wanted to give you the most recent timeline is to the quarantine and isolation updates because this is very fluid so please be aware that the cdc came out with its newest guidelines on december 27th now that
067was a media announcement that said it was going to be changing when that happens then they actually post exactly the information they want everybody to at the state level know about in this case it would be the ohio department of health they then put their guidance together and give it to the local county health departments and then we get the information so although it's fast and furious there still is a method to the madness of exactly when things happen so we got our first information from ohio department of health on december 30th and then the cdc did another switch and we got to january 4th and we were then given another realignment on january 7th so these are very fluid we will always listen carefully and monitor those cdc guidelines we are very fortunate here
068in the state of ohio that the governor as well as the local districts around us share our the information as they get it readily we ask each other questions and i will be honest with you we i think we'll see another update shortly and finally how does this translate and get communicated to families that has been a major priority of this board to make sure that we are out front and being much more transparent about our decision making and and notifications to families so the shift of the any of that temporary transition to remote or notifications of event closures and things like that it really is very similar to a snow day in terms of the tools that we use the all calls the website the social media the emails event cancellations similar process and
069then we're we are more regularly now going back into the rhythm of updates to our learning 2122 website to make sure that families uh have one place that they can go to on a regular basis and then we've had our massive you know major major uh campaign for the vaccination awareness and we have a roll up a sleeve website now that's new and a major social media posts and newsletter just to get that word out about the vaccination clinics and here's the next one coming up january 14th i can't not say this here in a public meeting to encourage both student and staff booster shots for this clinic three to seven at north high school and that is our update thank you very much and board members this presentation is being made available as well
070for community persons who are watching along so that they also can not only hear many of the updates that were given but to have that printed information might i add that in addition to the many ways in which we're using our communication outlets here from the district level one of the first things we know is that many families get their first hand information from schools and so we're also making sure that our schools are equipped with talking points with information so that they are your first level of communicator but as well supported by district efforts you know much like we would too when we have snow days things of that nature using multiple outlets to make sure the word gets out so our goal is to remain in school again to the degree it is
071safe to do so we're monitoring a multitude of factors and communicating i think very effectively with all of the resources available to us in our communities as well as talking to peer districts so we were quite aware coming out of the new year what every school district in summit county was doing as well as cuyahoga county and why so that we could also make sure we were pressure testing decisions that were being made here as well so this this state of of challenge has had a positive yield in that it has partnered us and networked us in uh ways that i think are quite productive let us open it up for if there are any other clarifying questions that you might have or any finalizing comments that you might want to make any questions uh
072dr hall so are we still on the two question then we give it a whirl okay all right i've got several um so the first question i have um is related to and i'll try to add these in order um so when we're looking at um the monitoring to inform slide slide here yeah the data review daily um i think it's great that we talk through some of the measures that we're considering um but my question would be and by the way so you know part of this so some of these questions are you know questions that we get asked in the community right and so i don't think we're doing our jobs if we don't bring those questions here and ask them in a public setting right so please let that be the preamble
073or the preface to my comments or questions um so uh is there any uh comment that you might make about what these numbers would have to be you know before we so for example if the positive rate's 30.6 percent and then it goes to 34.2 percent how high does that number have to be before we would take action or are we or are we saying listen these are all measures we're looking at but what we're really doing is waiting for the summit county public health department to tell us to close yeah i think that's a great question and we have asked all of our experts that same question because because it is that we're accustomed to a more you know specific data driven when you think about our first round of this we had those
074red yellow you know green charts and there were specific metrics attached to that when we have talked through and this has really been through this year but especially since the increase has started with our summit county public health colleagues they they when we ask that same question they say it's not that simple you know it's not a number anymore it's a multitude of factors and really for the districts you know they're monitoring those positivity rates and the big items at the top that are not bold on that for us it's the impact that we're monitoring so what is happening out in the community then we're saying how is that translating to student and staff absences particularly staff absences you know what does that look like on the ground every single day school by school by
075school and sometimes even class by class by class and so that's where our focus has to be and then we let the county deal with those other big metrics in terms of the county spread the county case rate et cetera okay great great my second question and again i asked that question because you're getting because you could ask quite a bit like what metrics are you looking at yes where numbers have to be you know and so i don't have those answers at the top of my you know i'm sorry tipping my fingers yeah that i can just provide so okay all right i appreciate that and then my second question is this slide here the aps 2021 dashboard the reason why so you mentioned staff absences i have a question related to that but
076um so looking at here you know so this is public facing right so these numbers here are these are the that numbers that the public will be looking at yes right okay the reason why i asked that question is because you know how many students do we have in this district approximately 20 000 right how many staff do we have approximately 4 000 staff correct right right so if i'm doing the math yeah it's not 0.7 right yeah i mean 144 out of 4 000 is a little over three percent so so i'm asking i say that not to nitpick or to try to embarrass somebody i'm saying but but as an educational institution right if we can't do math how do we expect our students to do math it is a it is a
077really good nitpick because as soon as we started sharing it i went right there and said oh we forgot to change that lower number right right um yeah we were showing some different full cases versus you know so we forgot to change that lower number so i apologize no no exactly but it's a good catch somebody who's watching is going to catch that absolutely comes a funny meme like oh yeah they can't do math so like right anyway so looking out for all of us with that question and then uh i guess the part b of that is you mentioned staff absences so this board authorized a resolution to help address some of the time off how was compliance with that resolution going it's going well uh and from mrs mcveigh's standpoint in terms of
078you know our teachers and this this i will tell you of course this only happens in the akron public schools because i'm so proud of our teaching staff but the bulk of our teachers will say i have covert but i want to come back tomorrow because i don't have any symptoms and we have to say no you cannot because they want to be in the classroom and so they the new guidelines for the five days the the attendance that you all so graciously passed to be able to not have that count towards their their sick days i think that was spot on to be able to honor the work they're doing and they the data that we showed with the absences you'll notice and we see this in the daily trend it spiked when we
079did all that testing but already today we saw a big drop off because we're hitting that five days and now mrs mcvay has you know they were calling right away because the policy changed have you guys changed it now can i come back because it's five days versus ten days because i have no symptoms or they're getting better so thankfully that's the mindset of our teachers and that's why the attendance has already started to level off but to clarify they want the ten days they're they they're getting tickets oh sure if they want that and they need that and you know some of our staff are experiencing symptoms beyond the five days but if you don't then you're able to come back right so the days exist there i will say that in full transparency
080we still are working through it's been very recent that that approval was made so and it also covered some persons who had already used personal days and or and needed to now apply that allowance to those days so we're still working through making sure that everybody is afforded the coverage that the resolution reflected so it'll be a minute before it's done for everyone so i didn't want to present that as if oh it's going great and we're done and yeah that's right okay so i had one more but i can wait to ask my last question thank you any any other uh questions all right uh your one final question okay so this is the derek hall show tonight okay apologies apologies thank you for thank you colleagues for indulging me asking all these questions
081i appreciate it uh so the last question i had is so um so one of the more one perhaps on the measures in place perhaps the the most consistent feedback i've gotten from folks and i've seen on on you know on some of the aps facebook sites are parents who are commenting uh on their frequent hand washing so i've seen some fairly angry posts talking about really kind of alleging that that isn't happening with enough frequency no pun intended and sort of questioning you know how do we get on a regular schedule and that just passing around and that you know that the hand sanitizer thing's not being passed around as often as it maybe could be or should be in some classrooms and so i get that this is not going to be perfect
082so that's the point of the question but it's really around the frequent hand washing how do we get to a place where we're reducing some of the variability in the cadence in which that occurs in some of our schools yeah just we get there from from you all giving us that feedback from families because we want wherever we're hearing that we want to be able to make sure that we're following up and and not just for covin you know i i keep saying this that even our you know absences this is the season when we normally have flu and winter illnesses and the frequent hand washing is going to help for all that the rest of that too ms autry i'm sure you're supporting that miss nurse autry over here that that should be a
083practice regardless of the state of covid but obviously elevated because of it right now so we can definitely double down with our staff we started that this past week with our principles to reinforce the you know the magnitude of these health protocols i think we all thought we were phasing out in the fall and it was getting better and just naturally i think all of us started to relax and we're really trying to push that back so i will definitely um you know highlight that frequent hand washing so i appreciate that so because the question i also got was how frequent is frequent is that once an hour is it every two hours is that three times a day and so you so you take that kind of questioning attitude you multiplied across you know
084all the voting the staff we have and so there's probably a great deal of variability around that so so i mean i don't know if it's helpful to maybe come up with some direction like some directive that everybody hey the minimum is this yeah we actually do have a guidance document specifically on the safety protocols with that type of cadence guidance so we will get that out again make sure that gets distributed to everyone and reinforced all right so thank you appreciate that thank you um i i did have two questions um that i wanted to ask one one actually goes back to the dashboard slide um and i'm not sure if this could be possible if this possibly can be done but my thought is that for the staff all staff that includes both
085direct students facing staff and non-student-facing staff i think it might be helpful to disaggregate that out a little bit to actually show our families the percentage of student-facing staff versus those who are not student-facing um because that might actually just give you more information the other piece of that if you look at the data slide that mrs folk shared with the age ranges of who's been you know how many active cases or you know the cases that we've seen i think that those two things may also be helpful if you disaggregate it by middle school high school and elementary because i would suspect the bulk of even the students will likely be in the high school level um and so that that this that proportion of uh how you look at the data is different
086um and then the last thing i want to say just want to make sure that we all and i'm not a health expert but i'm a data person we also want to be careful about [Music] the way in which we look at data so if i'm looking at this and dr hall is more of a healthcare person so he probably knows more than i do but if i'm looking at this this doesn't tell me that that younger people aren't getting it or it's saying that they aren't having the same effects or symptoms to actually get tests to say that they're positive so if we know how most viruses work kids do spread viruses very very very much so i think we just want to be careful about just saying that because that doesn't necessarily depict
087the full picture and i think that might give some of our staff in elementary school buildings uh maybe a false sense of uh what the reality is yeah so thank you thank you for the feedback we'll also make sure we talk across uh with summit county i believe they're there that's their chart and so we've it's one of the things though we've been watching um just to glean uh insight so so let me comment if i may just quickly on this slide too um in relation to dr akbar's comment um so what so you know when we made the decision to close schools a year ago you kind of had two camps right you had people that were like school should be open and people you're supposed to be closed and now with the masking
088then we not have to get the two camps again right people that believe in mask and people believe that that student should not have to wear a mask so i see this slide the first thing that popped in my head when i thought about it um was um and i think what you said it to a company was you said you know students you know these young kids they don't tend to be spreaders of this disease so the question i'm channeling here is when i've gotten asked quite a bit well looking at this data here you know why are my kids having to wear a mask in school right it's look at these percentages here right so and this is counting square right so a lot of the schools in the county are not requiring
089mask on any kind of regular basis right so why why are we why are we uh requiring our students to wear a mask every day that's the question i'm channeling so and let me just be clear i believe in wire masks but i feel like i'm not doing my job if i don't channel that question for you yeah it's a great question that we all get regularly because it's it is sort of the chicken and the egg argument right is the data look good and look low and especially our case rate that shows very low transmission that's happening here is because of the mass and as soon as you remove those masks then all of that prevention disappears that we just talked about and i think we're seeing that with our colleagues but governor dewine
090was very very clear in his last address that he implored schools to to require masks and he said he's not going to be able to do that at the state level but he asks that schools do that to help with this increased spread so our state you know wants that to happen we see the positive results because of it that we've been able to stay open that we've seen our absence rates in a realm that is manageable for us to be able to keep schools open and ultimately we want to keep our students and our staff safe you know health is probably you know punches through everything right and so that's what we ultimately want and the masks are the best defense for that yeah i agree i think that's well said um i don't
091care are we tracking how much so so when students and staff get code are we tracking or measuring how many of them end up in the hospital as a result of their infection being shared with us right yeah yeah that's why the bulk of the data we have to rely on summit county public health because we just share it with them and then they gather it because they get it from different sources roger that okay thank you okay thank you very much my second question i'm so sorry sorry um you know dr hall snuck right back my second question has to do with the slide around the contingency contingency plan if temporary remote learning is needed uh two things one i think that it might be helpful to add a a row around classroom because
092you mentioned in your beautiful presentation about even drilling down to classroom levels and making some decisions around that so i'm thinking if this is a public facing document that might be helpful right and then secondarily there might need to be one more slide that talks through what you talked to us about about what remote would look like day one being synchronous day two being live instruction i think that those are the type of things that our families and communities looking for absolutely i can i can definitely do that it's on the document itself and i can link that document that gives more details but i will definitely add a slide so it's easy to see in terms of communication the reason why i laughed when you said add the class i had it in in
093the document and then i said oh that might be confusing for secondary students you know who are just one class of algebra but then what do they do with the other guys so then i took it off then i put it back on i've done that five or six times so it made me laugh that you said put it back in so we'll figure a way to to note that because i think it is it's possible especially at elementary that could happen yeah definitely thank you very much that concludes my report thank you very much we've now moved to president's report i have no further report for today so we will move to treasury's report mr pendleton thank you mr president in front of your board places are two placemats you've seen these placemats before
094and over the last couple years you've helped create them the first i'll hold up a low low-tech presentation here in brief is the multi-colored one and just a reminder that our fiscal year aligns with a school year and even though this is a calendar laid out for our current board members this is just a reminder for our new board members you'll hear a lot of talk about fiscal year and school year so this is a really high level review of what to expect in your coming months from the fiscal office fiscal actions so these are things that you'll see at your board table in agenda form and we certainly each year make this a stronger document so either your own questions drive that or through finance committee so it's just a good reference document the
095second document the blue outlined one is ruth solomon put this together for our finance committee and i think it's uh from dr akbar's opening and some of the priorities that we need to accomplish it's a great outline in areas for finance committee of what we need to accomplish and these are aligned to as you can follow along the first column and s or update to the superintendent's presentation that was given last year what to expect coming may kind of win decisions are to be expected and how they might interact with other committees as was mentioned tonight we talked about osba and the memberships of nsba and you can see we might even talk about that in the january finance committee and have our piece to that in finance committee and then relay that to legal
096and policy committee so this was a nice overview i thought and one that we can modify and most definitely will but i think the six month preview was a great way of looking at it so we may want to do that for other committees i definitely are looking at that for legal and policy to assist with our strategic planning documents in each one of those committees so that concludes my report mr president thank you very much any questions for mr pendleton i just had a comment i you know i um i agree i agree with you uh mr pilot i i think you know adopting something like this for that i think will be helpful because it kind of gives us an idea keeps us on the same page as pages as sort of what
097to expect as we move forward and it kind of keeps us on task as well um you know so i like the i like that that thought process and recommendation thank you thank you very much and the only comment i had was on the pink colorful document around [Music] the fiscal calendar uh there's a few uh obligations that we have as a board and as a institution um around our finances one of them being the five year forecast and i'm really saying this so that the uh just as uh fyi for our new board members and then we have at a few points of the year where we have to statutorily provide those so mr pendleton if you if you haven't i think it'll be good to talk through that process with our new board
098members at some point offline just so they understand kind of our statutory require requirements thank you thank you any other questions or comments are you hearing none we'll move to committee reports legal contracts and board policy uh since mr alexander is not here um miss mckittrick no report okay hearing none finance and capital management miss altrui thank you mr president just briefly i just wanted to mention that on december the 10th myself former board member patrick bravo board member carla jackson and ryan did meet and heard from william phillis the executive director of the ohio coalition of equity and adequacy regarding a possible lawsuit over the school vouchers and so since then 100 school district did proceed with filing the lawsuit this past tuesday january the 4th and so the question remains is there a
099financial loss now that the school funding formula no longer deducts funds for those educated outside of a public school and so over the next few weeks leading up to finance committee additional review will be conducted regarding the filed lawsuit thank you very much ms autry any questions from ms autry all right hearing that instructional policy and student achievement mrs mckittrick oh i'm sorry miss autry thank you again mr president um i really just wanted to uh thank tamiko hatcher and lisa johnson for their thorough information they provided to the committee over the last two meetings regarding our alternative education programming and so i believe the board has a list of those programs that they can refer to and so we do have some excellent programming to meet the unique learning needs and desires of our
100students and so i just wanted everyone to be aware because we often typically just think of our traditional high schools and we have so many other programming that we can offer i know during those committee meetings you know i have some personal stories to share because i have family members who participated in some of that programming you know as a result of discipline issues but what these programs do offer should be made available to all of our students not just due to discipline so i know that's something that we're kind of looking into to make that more broad and available to all of our students and not simply just based on discipline so it's a very uh valuable helpful document if you want to look it over to look at our various programs and the
101seats that are available in those programs and how to get referred to those programs and so thank you thank you very much any uh questions for instructional policy and student achievement hearing none equity committee dr hall we have nothing to report but we will be convening again on january 18th thank you very much so there's no unfinished business that needs to come before the board or new business we do have a need uh to recess into executive session uh pursuant to ohio revised code one two 0.22 g 1 and 4 for the purposes of considering the employment and appointment of a public employee or official of the school district and preparing for negotiations is there a motion on the floor second it's been properly moved by mr perry and seconded by mrs mckittrick is there
102any discussion hearing and saying none roll call please mr pendleton miss jackson mrs mckittrick yes dr akbar yes ms autry yes mr perry dr hall aye thank you thank you very much and we want to uh just we before we end we want to just thank mr griffin for uh his outstanding uh participation in being one of our only members to actually stay the entire time and be engaged so we definitely appreciate you and congratulate you for what you're doing and thank you for everyone else who's here uh we do uh plan on seeing you in about two weeks thank you very much and uh we won't have any action when we return so no need to stick around if you don't want to we now stand in recess for executive session you