001I'd like to call the Monday, September 8th, 2025 regular meeting of the Lraine City Schools Board of Education to order. Call the role, please. >> Mr. Ferguson, >> here. >> Mrs. Washington, >> present. >> Dr. Ballard, >> here. >> Mrs. Nazario, >> here. >> Mr. Sturgil, >> here. >> Please stand for the pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Seeing no visitors, no public, I will entertain a motion to approve or amend the minutes of the August 25th meeting. >> Amend or accept. >> Amend or approve. >> Approve. >> Accept. Yeah. >> So moved. >> Support. >> Discussion. >> Roll call, please. >> Dr. Balor? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Nazaria?
002>> Yes. >> Mr. Ferguson? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Washington? >> Yes. >> Mr. Sturgil? >> Yes. And I was supposed to say that the board does wave the right to read the meetings, the minutes. Uh any old business reports and recommendations of the treasurer? >> I have items 8.01 through 8.03 for approval. >> So moved. >> Support. >> Discussion. >> I would just like to add once again, thank you to all our community partners. Um, I didn't tab tabulate all of the total, but I see our churches, social clubs, and groups like that. Over $13,000 on this list again today. And I can't tell you how great that is, and we appreciate you all. >> Roll call, please. >> Mrs. Washington, >> yes. >> Dr. Valor, >> yes. >> Mr. Ferguson, >> yes. >> Mrs.
003Nazario from >> Yes. >> Mr. Sturgil, >> yes. reports and recommendations of the superintendent personnel. >> I appreciate that, Mr. President. And again, um excuse me. I just want to take a couple seconds to to thank a lot of people. Um we have a thousand employees. We have uh 6,000 almost 300 students. Uh we have a whole lot of families. Uh and this may have been the smoothest start of the school year I've ever been a part of. So, I just want to thank everybody um for all that you did. Our staff for making our our schools a welcoming place to be. um transportation the smoothest start ever. Uh I mean everything has just been fantastic and I just uh truly appreciate uh your leadership and your kindness and your ability to um make people
004feel like they want to be a part of what's going on. And what I mean by that is when you compare where we are today with where we were this time last year, um our enrollment is up, attendance is way up, uh disruptive behaviors are way down, uh participation and and advanced classes and the arts way up. uh career tech and early college um enrollment way up um and transportation again is spot on. So I just want to thank everybody for what you did um to make up to this point great and I have no doubt that uh we'll continue to ride that wave. But I like the board to consider for approval um item 9.01 personnel matters. >> So moved >> support >> discussion. Roll call please. >> Mrs. Washington. >> Yes. Mr. Sturgil,
005>> yes. >> Mr. Ferguson, >> yes. >> Dr. Ballard, >> abstain. >> Mrs. Nazario, >> yes. >> Like the board to consider for approval items 9.02 to 9.08. >> So move support >> discussion. Is that eight or nine? >> I've got nine on here, but it's changed. Let me double check. >> We have nine broken out. >> Yes, >> nine is broken out as the policies. That's all. >> 902 through 908. >> Oh, gotcha. Just don't get a policy. Okay, I got you. >> Discussion. >> Did we have a motion? >> Yes. >> Oh, >> discussion. >> Roll call, please. >> Mr. Sturgil, >> yes. >> Dr. Ballard? >> Yes. >> Mr. Ferguson? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Washington? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Nazario? >> Yes. >> Like the board to consider for approval items 9.09,
006which are are two policy updates in Candly. Both of those are to bolster um the protection of directory information for children. And in in essence right now our policy says that they cannot be um shared for the purposes of profit making we want to also add marketing. >> So moved >> support >> discussion just question is this in line with what the what is the OSA? >> Yeah. >> That's correct. Yep. >> Okay. >> So we're not we're not out there inventing the word. >> No we're not going renegade. >> Roll call please. >> Dr. Ballard. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Nazario. >> Yes. >> Mr. Ferguson. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Washington. >> Yes. >> Mr. Surgel. >> Yes. >> I'd like the board to consider for approval uh items 9 I'm sorry 10.01 to 10.10
007operations matters. >> So move >> uh discussion. >> Um yes. I would just like to say um I'm I'm thankful for the work we do with the ACES with the those uh is it okay to say kids the kiddos the youth >> they're they're adults now but >> uh um what they do with our with our kiddos and community um I am glad to see that we have um uh what do I call them I'm I can't think of the word my anxiety is kicking in um some checks and balances and and things there that we're going to check off to say this was a good investment. These uh these people were good for our kids. So, we're going to hopefully work on our attendance and um work on our scores. So, >> and graduation
008rate is a huge one for them as well. Yes. And I do I appreciate the shout out to Mike Ferrar and his team and they are everywhere uh supporting our children. So, it's a very very and they're expanding from uh last year it was just success academy and moving forward they're also going to include night school. >> I I've read that. That's awesome. >> Yep. And their support of students and um graduation has been critical. >> They've done amazing things for as long as I can remember. >> Roll call, please. >> Dr. Ballard? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Nazario? >> Yes. >> Mr. Ferguson? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Washington? >> Yes. >> Mr. Sturgil? Yes. >> And that's all I have this evening. >> Okay. Any other business? Committee reports request from board members. >> I
009I request another policy meeting questions. >> I'm sorry. For those of you in the audience who don't understand at home, um, >> we've set a policy meeting. Policy meetings are necessary, but incredibly boring. So, it's >> But Barbie loves them. >> I do love them. And they're working on a a bunch of new updates. So, we are doing that. >> We have to have one if I call for it or not. >> Yeah. No, they're uh the next board meeting. Second hearing of the public. Oh, we have a public now. I'm sorry, Julie. Here comes another public. >> Okay, Julie Garcia, LEA president. I just wanted to give you a a monthly update of the activities that we're doing. Um, we are going to be participating in district trunk or retreat as well as any
010family night events that we have. Um, we received a >> Can you share the date for that? >> Uh, I think the trunk or we said October 29th. >> I'll look it up again. >> Yeah, because 28th is my birthday and it's all about me this year. Um, so we received a wellness grant to continue our wellness activities that we have on our PD days. Um, those activities are led by all of our staff members from teachers, parapros, admin. I mean, so we have a variety of different activities um to and we received some money to fund that. Um, and I understand that our kickball competition will continue. Let's go. >> Um, we will have our annual breakfast with Santa on December 13th and more information will be forthcoming. We will have a scholarship fundraising
011breakfast in March um hosting at the American Legion and again more information will be coming with that. Um the LEA um the staff members gave a generous donation to the officer police fund with the incident this summer and our teachers gathered together and raised over $4,000. >> Wow. >> Um our walls of love sock collection was very successful. We reached a five-digit number. The entire district participated and the competition between the buildings was fierce. The admin building in the warehouse together won the competition and will receive their breakfast and their lunch. And as a thank you to all the buildings for participating, the LEA will be purchasing ice cream treats for each building and putting them in the freezer so everybody gets a little treat to say thank you for your help. >> And if
012I could cut you off again, I just truly appreciate your leadership in that. That whole thing was great. Very well organized and for a very very worthy cause. So thank you for that. Yes, we we we really had a good time because I will tell you the secretaries kept texting me and saying this is how many we have. How many do they have? This is how many and I said I can't tell you but but we did hit that five-digit number. So, um we are very appreciative of all the support that we received. >> Over 10,000 socks raised. >> Yes. >> By our folks >> from everybody. So, >> pairs of socks. It's 20,000 socks. >> Pairs of socks. And I got into my office this morning and people are still sending them to me
013in the courier and putting them on my desk. And >> so, like I said, everybody participated. So, but thank you everybody. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> That is great. >> That is awesome. >> Next board meeting will be Mon uh Monday, September 22nd, 5:00 pm right here in LHS land. Be there or be online to join us. And at this time, I would entertain a motion to go into executive session for the purpose of A2 employment. >> No, no. And no action will be taken at when we come out. >> I support. >> Roll call. >> Mrs. Washington. >> Yes. >> Dr. B. >> Yes. >> Mr. Ferguson? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Nazario? >> Yes. >> Mr. Sturgil? >> Yes. >> Hokei Kadino?