001I Tough the April 20 or April 14th board meeting, regularly scheduled board meeting to order. Call the role, please. Mr. Ferguson, here. Mrs. Washington, present. Dr. Balor, here. Mrs. Nazario, here. Mr. Surgel, here. Tonight's pledge will be led by students from General Johnny Wilson, Mr. May. Yeah. Good evening everyone. I'd like to welcome Miss Davis um up and her students to lead us in the pledge in a short presentation. Good evening everyone. Would you please stand for the pledge of allegiance? I pledge algiance 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. Please remain standing as we sing. No, I'm just joking. Good evening and thank you for being so welcoming to our students at General
002Wilson Middle School. My name is Nicole Davis and I'm serving as the principal of the John General General Johnny Wilson Middle School. And I'm Chris Wiggins. I am serving as the assistant principal at the General Johnny Wilson Middle School. And I am Janette Chappelle Nettles. I am eighth grade ELA and on the illustrious BLT of the General Johnny Wilson Middle School. My name is Kendra Flores. I am a member of the General Johnny Wilson Middle School Student Council kindness club. Hello, my name is Maya Morales and I'm the member of the General Johnny Wilson Student Council. Hello, my name is Karly Patterson. I am a member of the General Johnny Wilson Middle School Student Council Club. Hello, my name is Ka Rice and I am a member of the General Johnny Wilson Middle School Student
003Council Club. So, when you come to my party, you no matter if you're late or not, you introduce yourself. I am a Hello, my name is Arian Fuga. I am a member of the General Johnny Wilson Middle School student council/kindness club. Okay. So, if you ever been to a GJW party, you know how we do it. When I say GJ, you say W. GJ W GJ W. All right. Thank you. Welcome to our show. So, at General Wilson, we are respectful, resilient, responsible, engaged in our community, academically accountable, and lifelong learners. This year we are very proud of our school's initiative to raise money for an artisian well that will be constructed in an East African village in honor of the of the general Johnny Wilson. Thank you for everyone that donated. So today we
004have some amazing young people with us today. Um, and I would like our amazing young people to spend one moment telling you a little bit about themselves and what they are very very excited about as they most of them get ready to enter high school. I am very, very excited because we reached our $3,000 goal and we are building a well and giving the general Johnny Wilson his flowers while he is still here at 81 years old. [Applause] I am most excited about winning third place in the Mazarv is art contest for post an ad for jewelry. I'm most excited for young scholars program excited for early college and I'm most excited for early college as well. [Applause] I'm most excited for meeting new seventh grade teachers. [Applause] Thank you so much for being so
005welcoming to us. You all have a good evening. Thanks. Thank you. Picture two different pictures. Yeah. Come on. Okay. Yep. Students families got any money. Everybody, two, three. I'll do another one. One, two, three. Thank you. about your time. Recognition of visitors once again, Mr. May, it's on you. All right. Thank you, Mr. President. We get plugged in here. All right, we want to provide you with another art update on our arts expansion and we want to focus specifically on post-secondary opportunities tonight. So, our arts council has been working um for the last well several years now on our expansion and the next phase of it that we've been working hard on has been partnerships uh with post-secondary institutions. So, we want to talk about three in particular tonight that we form partnerships with the
006Cleveland Institute of Art, uh, Cleveland State University, and Kent State University. And tonight, we are going to have you hear from students that have participated in these partnerships and the opportunities that now they have. And so, Cleveland Institute of Art, um, they have provided us with a couple of scholarships for the weekend intensive series. And we'll uh invite in a minute here a couple of our students up who uh completed uh finished that um intensive series here just very recently. You'll see some of the artwork that they produced. Cleveland Institute of Art also wants to offer us a scholarship for their onampus onampus summer preol program that they do. And we're also in the process right now developing a partnership for their portfolio reviews um as well. They've been really eager to work with us
007and um really excited about um the future here. Cleveland State University um wanted to partner with us around instrumental music and recruiting our students there. Also, uh vocal music, dance, and drama. We've had students go on recruiting trips there and they also for our students in our arts program and we'll do on-site admissions decisions for our students. As long as they have a 2.3 or higher GPA and they're part of our arts programming, uh they will make a decision. um on site for our students. They're really uh want to assertively recruit our students into their arts programs. And then Kent State University um we have a number of things that we're working on with them. Um initially we started they wanted to um do a kind of a meet and greet with our students in
008dance and drama and uh out of that we've grown quite a bit. So for those of you that come to see The Whiz u next weekend um several of the set pieces um are from Kent State. So, they are letting us use their set pieces. They did The Whiz themselves as one of their productions a couple months ago. Uh, the costumes are also from um Kent State. They're going to work with us on that. They want to work jointly to plan productions. So, they do six productions a year. We obviously do two. Um, but what they proposed to us is that we plan productions with them so we can collaborate. Uh, when they're doing shows, we can be doing uh the same show like we did this year with the Whiz. they already provides master
009classes for our students and uh we're working to develop a four-year recruiting plan. So if you're ninth grade, this is your experience with uh Kent State um on their campus and with their professors coming here. And then uh most recently um we're working on developing a framework for a joint national endowment of the arts grant application uh for the January window coming up. So Kent State's been really eager to partner with us um in a number of really exciting ways. So, uh, we're going to spotlight each of these partnerships and with our students. We're going to start with visual art. And so, I'd like to invite, uh, Adria and B, if you guys don't mind coming up. And Audrey and B, um, have been, uh, scholarship recipients for the Cleveland Institute of Art and the
010weekend intensive series. And so, they're going to discuss with you the experience they've had going to Cleveland Institute of Art on their campus um, for Saturday afternoon um, in intensive workshops. And then we'll uh scroll through some of their um art that they've produced and a couple uh things from the Cleveland Institute Arts website um as they're going through. Okay, you good? All right. Okay. My name is Audrea Royal. Hello. I see some familiar faces. First off, I would like to say thank you, Ross, for the opportunity because let me say I've been through all of our advanced classes at least three times per class. So that's six art classes, all advanced level. And CIA gives me much more time to develop my craft. As art is not seen as just I like to make
011this because it's pretty. Art is political. Art will always have a statement in our life. No matter what situation, especially in the current situation of our time, art is a protest of human culture. It will always show our resilience. And being a person of color and a woman of color, it shows my resilience throughout life with people always holding me back and down, trying to put me in a box, saying I'm not enough. Sort of like as you see here, that's my self-portrait as she's kind of she's more lopsided. She looks burnt out almost, but she's still looking up in hope because art has always been that sort of window for me. It always let me express myself and see life through an interesting perspective and see life in general as an interesting perspective as
012I always move through. And then here is also a corpse lily which is one of my favorite flowers. Um, I made them because, um, I made certain flowers that are more, I guess I would say, out of the norm of a pretty flower because almost in a feminist way. Since women are seen as pretty flowers, I wanted to make such a grotesque flower. As you could see, it's unfinished, but when it's finished, it's grotesque, but it's still strong. It's powerful, and it pushes through boundaries and standards. Outstanding. Wow. Thank you. Protest of human culture. Wow. Oh, and this is also mine. I love making the human form. It's just something I've always been into. So, as you can tell, it has no really defining facial features or defining norms of what it looks like to
013be one certain thing. As we are humans, we are ever changing. We change depending on the mood, the weather, the season, what time of day it is. We are always evolving for the better and for greater causes. So, I like showing progression of time or even just a still moment in time since I love showing people and I love showing different types of people. It's always something I've loved. And that goes back to art is always going to be political. Art, no matter what form or what you do with art, it will always make a statement whether what statement you're trying to push. Propaganda with the Obama posters is art, but it always is political because he's looking up for hope. And oh, here's a great example of art is political. A graffiti mug. As
014graffiti is a type of art, not tagging actual graffiti. It shows resil resilience in times of war. There is risk. There are important statements. And with our current um man in power, let me just say he the first um panel of that mug says, "You steal our land then kick us out." H which is very funny how certain people in power think they own everything or have this type of control over one certain type of people when really you have such an inflated ego. But it can all be just blown away like that. such as he takes he takes pe he takes land that never belonged to him in the first place and sells it back to the people for more money. It makes no sense because what he's doing is just trying to take
015your power. He's trying to take your voice. That's why he's trying to defund the very program that we're talking about today, our education board and our arts program. Why? Because art is always political. Art always shows the resilience of people no matter what place or time it is. Thank you. I bet you win every argument in your house, don't you? I'm convinced. Very good. That was outstanding. Um so Audrey and B also that that the first class the Cleveland Institute of Art um were it's fair to say quite a bit ahead of all the other students in the weekend series. You guys were allowed on the wheels to work and uh Yes. And we had that advantage because of the programs and what our teachers are given to us and feed us due to our
016beautiful programs and the beautiful people that help support us to this day. Wow. At the college, we got to experience a lot more of like opportunity, I guess, when it comes to making things cuz like you can say what you want. Like we got to use like a grind mill which we could never have in school. It's so it's like huge. It's like half of the school. It's ridiculous. It's like it's a whole bunch of sanding things with different grit. We got to experience like a whole bunch of different glazes. Like we can only do low fire stuff like point like five at the school, but they had like cone four, cone six, cone 10, and those go up to like 2,000 degrees, which is insane. So we had like a wide variety of like
017creative control. And um on one of the slides, it I have like six things that are unfinished. Like Audrey, she did a lot of sculptural stuff. I did a lot of real stuff. As you can see, um I eventually I got a lot bigger with my work because at the high school I was still learning and I created create more size stuff, but as you know, as the eight weeks went on, I got to experience bigger and bigger. And ceramics is hard. I mean, you got to get the clay and right consistency. You got to build it up, make sure it's centered first, otherwise it's just going to collapse. And with the CIA program, I feel like uh my teacher, he really like helped us show us how to do it. I mean, he's been
018doing it for years. Um, on one of the days we didn't have class because he was going out to Utah for a whole like ceramics convention that was over the weekend. So, he knew what he was doing and he taught us like a whole bunch of different techniques and everything. And like the hexagon one, you can see we had one of those uh like it pressed out the shape and we don't have that the high school like so it was cool to experience that. And we also had like um we have a lot of stuff. Yeah. It's much more broader and you give much more opportunity to do what you really Yeah. And I really like your hexagon cup because it's kind of the opposite of my political cup because it gives Yeah. But um
019I we also got to connect with other people that we wouldn't have because a lot of the people that were also taking the class, they were from Cleveland and we're all the way out here in London. That's like a 40-minute drive. So we got to see like, you know, how do they do their work? What's their school like? You know, meet new people, open up opportunity. I know personally for me, like I don't know what I want to do with my uh when I grow up. But it's definitely given me more of a idea of like maybe I want to go to college here. Maybe I want to go to an art college. Maybe I want to like take a like focus on ceramics or be a teacher or like maybe something else in the
020arts. Maybe something else that includes arts like an architect or like um like a graphic designer, you know? It really opens up like it shows you a lot more like um shows you get the idea. Thank you. Yeah. So, Cleveland Institute of Art uh became interested in us. They saw on YouTube our um district-wide concert a year ago and then the recruiter um's husband was flying through the Cleveland airport and he coincidentally about that same time saw our students art on display and the two of them had a discussion over dinner and they were talking about Lorraine art and so the recruiter reached out to us and uh came out and met with uh Miss Smith our department chair and uh she said we we just can't ignore what we have seen in the last
021couple of weeks um at the airport and then what she had seen on YouTube and uh so we got to talking and they they said that they were just so impressed and you guys have done an incredible job of opening up more doors for us. So they want to do a scholarship in the summer uh for their uh twoe pre-ol program and then want to uh work with us to partner in more and deeper ways uh going forward. Um so thank you both. Yeah, B got another go ahead. The last thing is that these classes, especially at CA, it can be super expensive. Like the seven day classes, if we didn't have that scholarship would be $400. I can't spend that much. I don't know if you can spend that much. So, it gives us
022a chance to like do something we otherwise would have never been able to do. And it's really nice to, you know, bring something new. And I'm guessing even on the off campus with the student that will be staying over some I don't know if like I don't know how expensive that is but I'm sure it's a lot. So that's several thousands of dollars. It gives us opportunity to do something we otherwise would have never done. You can't just drop $400 in tell me about it. But it gives us the chance to try something other. So it's nice, I guess. Very good. Yeah. Very good. Well, thank you both very very much. Thank you. Um so next we want to invite uh Mr. Trune and uh we have a couple of our students, few students um
023in the instrumental program. Um, so they've had, I think, a really interesting and important experience. Um, and while they're coming up, I want to start uh with this uh great email that we got from Dr. Burch Browning, um, who's professor of music and the director of bands at Cleveland State. And I'm just going to, uh, read it here and then, uh, while they come up. Um, I'm happy we're connected. I enjoyed having the Lauren High School band on campus last week. It was my first time spending any length of time with Ted. He seems to be a great fit for the band in the community. I also think that CSU could be a great fit for many of your graduates. I'm sure you know that CSU ranks very high in our social mobility mobility achievements.
024But we can make this work both ways. I have many wonderful future teachers who would be valuable as section coaches and our private lessons instructors. I want to provide them with appropriate teaching experiences even while they're in school beyond the standard observation based field experiences. Perhaps this is something we could work on together. Um so just a really fantastic experience and um if you guys don't mind. Yeah, go ahead. Say a little bit. Yeah. Um, my name is Gabriella Gutierrez. I'm a part of the Lorraine High or Lorraine High Wind Ensemble. I play tenner sachs and I'm going to talk about how I went to Lorraine County win ensemble. Um, this year Tune sent out a couple students to go participate at Firelands High School. He gave us um audition music and he set us
025up with an accompanist and we went traveled to Firelands, performed our solos and all three of us got ones. This is our first year um traveling to Firelands for this. So, it was really a good thing for us. Um sorry, I don't got much to say. So, I'm going to pass it over to Logan. Thank you. Would have been very hard to follow. Hello, my name is Logan Goodman. I am a senior, four years in the Lorraine Band Wind Ensemble, and I want to talk to you guys about some of the opportunities that we've gotten this year, which have never been really done before. Um, and I'm going to talk to you about we had doctors of music come in and help uh orchestrate the band. We had Dr. Clark and Dr. James. Dr. Clark
026came in and orchestrated the band, which was a really big help because he not only helped us learn and improve as a whole ensemble, but also learn in individual sections. like he would go through each section and give tips and advice on how to play our music, which helped us learn up and go up into OMA, which was our competition this year, which we only started last year after not being able to do it for a while because of COVID. And this year was really big because we got a two, which is almost the highest rating you could get. So, that was a really good experience. And then we also went to CSU which was before OEMA and we were able to not only get even more instruction and kind of like tips for the
027band, but we were able to play our entire things of music and get critiques and advice on how to play it better on group and individual. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. [Applause] Hello, my name is Hannah Puit and I'm going to talk to you about OMA Honor Band. Out of the four UC students up here, I was the only one that was able to participate in it due to Cleveland State giving me that opportunity. Along with the opportunity of OMA honor band, I got a scholarship from Cleveland State University for $6,000 for being in the Lorine Win ensemble. So due to band, I was able to get a scholarship to Cleveland State for not even studying music. I went into a completely different major and they still supported me through it. I want to
028say thank you guys for your support though for the band. It's it's been great. Excellent. [Applause] Okay. I'm Molina Garcia. I'm not really in the wind ensemble, but I'm in the concert band, which is another subsection of the band in total. So, we don't really work with or anything like that. But from what I have seen, yes, all of these opportunities have given every single student a great opportunity to do things more than we would have before. Like in MA, we would have never got to go there. we would have never got to got get judged and learn what we can do and what we can make better about what we're doing at all. Same with everything that we've got with the doctors coming in like teaching us new techniques to do. It has been
029an amazing experience in my four years of being in this high school. I think band is my favorite thing about the entire thing. [Applause] Good evening everyone. So, as you can see, um thanks to uh the wonderful support of our district, uh we have been able to increase opportunities for all of our students. Uh it's been an absolutely wonderful year and it's as a teacher, it's just great getting to see all of our students improve and really buy in uh to all the programs. So, I wanted uh to thank um everybody here because uh instrumental music is a community um supported thing and I just want to thank everybody for their support. Thank you. [Applause] So, next we're going to u I just sent a message to our uh students working in the musical. um
030they're going to talk about their trips to Cleveland State and Kent State um together because so Kent State and Cleveland State both want to work and recruit our students uh for drama and for dance. Um so I'll show just a couple pictures from their um trip to Cleveland State and then to Kent State. When they went to Kent State, uh Kent put on a whole comprehensive program for us. The first time we went, they did master classes for our students. They could choose from four classes um that they uh wanted to learn more and work in. So this is a picture from one of the master classes. Then they performed for us the whiz. So our students had a chance to to see the performance and then um they got a campus tour, eat on
031campus um and then they've had a couple of other trips since then back um which has been um again really outstanding. So I'm going to flip over here to Zoom and welcome them in. All right. And Michael, I may need just a touch of help. All right, we're getting there, guys. Do we hear them? Uh, they're coming out of these speakers, not the house speakers. I think should be on the right there. It's usually I'm on mute. That's the issue. You think after five years we pick up another what we need is a 17y old kid. Okay. Is this a a quick Zoom one, Michael, or is are we uh we good? You know what? Can you guys uh say something back to us real quick? Zoom. HDMI. All right, I think we are good
032to go. All right, there we go. Yeah, we are good. We can hear you loud and clear. Oh boy, this is awesome. Um, hi, my name is Ace Vz and I am a junior and my trip to Kent was really exciting. We went to go see The Whiz, obviously, and I got to ask questions about certain set buildings, which was really cool for me. and I did a art business class which was very fun because I want to do film making when I get out of high school. So overall it was a really great experience and I love Penn State. My name is Kylie Gray. Um whenever we went to Penn State I've already been to Penn State multiple times. I do a program through Penn State over the summer. Um but I just like
033I really was excited to see the campus. Oh, also I'm a junior. Sorry. Um, I loved like seeing the musical theater department because like it's so fun and vibrant in there. And I got to talk to the uh director of the musical theater department. And she was I had asked her about like what it's like auditioning and things like that, things that they're looking for. And what she had told me was basically everything that I fit because whenever I get out of high school, I really want to do musical theater. Um, and it was an overall very great experience. The music school was awesome. I'm so happy that we have the some of the set pieces that they gave us. Hi, my name is Shahari Jackson. I'm in um 11th grade. I'm in 11th grade
034and I really love the is inlet residency because we got to experiment and we got to experiment and like learn different dances and like we we got to move around and just do a whole bunch of things that we wouldn't have done before and really just feel the flow of everything and just be be ourselves and move around and just be have fun and be together and yeah peanut Hi, my name is Dina Reed and I'm in 10th grade. I'm sorry. Um, what I liked about Ken State is the whiz obviously, but yeah. Um, I like that the outfits and the um the dances kind of uh the acting. I like the sassiness, the emotion. Um, nothing could be better. It was actually really cool. Uh, uh, Inlet, I like that, too. Same thing what
035JJ said. Uh, we danced. We met a lot of interesting people for sure. Um, okay. Bye. Um, hi, my name is Gracie Hill. I'm a 10th grader and what inspired me the most was Ken State. They had a lot of energy that I liked and it's just like inspired me a lot because their singing was great and their dancing was just like in my category. Hi, my name's Emry Martinez and I liked that musical theater class we took. Uh, I don't know the professor's name, but she was fun and I liked learning that choreo. So, I forgot what play it was, but it was fun. My name is Isaac Puit. I'm a junior and I'm actually in theater and uh like musical theater. So, wait, I'm in choir and musical theater. My bad. And so
036for fire, I got to go and I got to work with like professionals on my singing as a solo. And then I also got rated and judged on it. And I got to do that for free, which is nice because most of the time it costs money, but the school paid for it for me. So I didn't have to pay for it, which was really nice. Hi, I'm Nia and I'm a sophomore. And when we went to Kent State, they just were really welcoming and all the acting exercises we did were so fun and I feel like we all benefited from them. They were just really helpful, really welcoming. The show was amazing. They put so much work into it. And actually, I feel really like it's an honor to have some of their set
037pieces because they did so well on them with all the costumes and the music, the lighting, like even down to the smallest speck of dirt on the stage was really beautiful. And yeah, um my name is Joel Alexis. I'm a 10th grader. And what I really liked about inlet, uh inlet residency, uh got um we did a warm up routine and it was really fun. It was really relaxing and it was like really interesting because it was doing different movements than what we would usually do, but it was very fun. He's on down the road. Hello. Sorry. Lots of chaos at rehearsals. Yes. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you guys so much for all of your guys' support. Um we love everything you guys have done for us this year. All the help we've gotten.
038Um, this couldn't have been possible without the endowment grant, which was things that our upper admin had kind of applied for and made sure we had. So, we just appreciate all the support that our district gives our arts programs. Um, not every district has this. Not every district values this as one of the most important things and we're just fortunate enough to be art teachers working in a district that really supports us and, you know, puts us first and it's it's awesome. It really is. you witnessed it firsthand just embracing the arts, what it does for our students and uh so thank you. Thank you. Absolutely. Thank you. Thank you guys. Have a good rest of the rehearsal. Thank you. Will you talk about the great things happening around the district and one of the
039first things that pop up is the arts. Um fantastic students, staff, uh partnerships and just really come a long way in a short period of time. I want to thank Ross for his leadership, but again, um the most important thing is surrounding our our students with great teachers and we've got that just just blessed up and down. So, thank you for all you've done to make that happen. So, coming up, we've got uh art show next week on Thursday. Then Friday, Saturday, we've got the musical and then after that, our dance showcase. Um so, we've got a number of really exciting things coming up here in the next few weeks. I'm in awe of the passion we just witnessed. That's funing. And the people who nurtured it, congratulations. picture. Parts and family. Yeah. Students, families
040all together. If I just get Tony to bring his vehicle, thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Good job. They've only given us one one scholar. Gotcha. We got to find Let me look at that guy. Well, first hearing of the public. Weapon. weapon. Uh, I need a motion to approve or amend the minutes of the March 24th meeting. Motion to approve. Second. Roll call, please. Dr. Ballard? Yes. Mrs. Nazario? Yes. Mr. Ferguson? Yes. Mrs. Washington? Yes. Mr. Sturgil? Yes. I need a motion to suspend the order. So move roll call, please. Mr. Sturgil, yes. Mrs. Washington, yes. Mr. Ferguson, yes. Dr. Balor, yes. Mrs. Nazario, yes. I need a motion to go into executive session for A2 and G. So moved. Support. Roll call, please. Mrs. Washington, yes. Dr. Valor. Yes.
041Mr. Ferguson. Yes. Mrs. Nazario. Yes. Mr. Sturgil. Yes. Yeah. I need a motion to come out of executive session, please. Roll call. Dr. Bard, yes. Mrs. Washington, yes. Mr. Ferguson, yes. Mrs. Nazario, yes. Mr. Sergil, yes. Old business. Any old business? Okay. Reports and recommendations of the treasurer. I have items 8.01 through 8.07 for approval. Discussion. Can I have a motion? So move support. Roll call, please. Dr. Ballard. Yes. Mr. Sturgil. Yes. Mr. Ferguson. Yes. Mrs. Washington. Yes, Mrs. Mazario. Yes. Reports and recommendations of the superintendent. Thank Mr. President. Like the board to consider for approval items 9.01 to 9.03. Personnel matters. Discussion. Yes. Um on 9.08. No, we're not that far yet. We're only up to three. I you know, hold that thought. I'm ahead of myself. Want extra credit? Roll call, please. Motion
042now. Support. Roll call, please. Dr. Ballard, yes. Mrs. Nazario, yes. Mr. Ferguson, yes. Mrs. Washington, yes. Mr. Sturgil, yes. Like the board to consider for approval item 9.04, personnel matters. Discussion. I'm happy that we're moving forward on this in a timely manner. Uh I'd like a motion. Support. Roll call, please. Mrs. Washington? Yes. Dr. Ballard? Yes. Mr. Ferguson? Yes. Mrs. Nazario? I have to abstain. Mr. Sturgil? Yes. Like the board to consider for approval items 9.05 to 9.07. So, roll call, please. Dr. Bal, yes. Mrs. Washington, yes. Mr. Ferguson, yes. Mrs. Nazario, yes. Mr. Sturgil, yes. Did you get 9.08? Nope. Do that separate. Okay. Like the board to consider approval item 9.08. Um, as as I read it, approval to recommend the non-renewal of the following LEA member, Thomas Weaver. Wait a minute. Well,
043that was 9.07. I got 9.08 on mine. Can I see yours for a second? Yep. I have that as she does. Two. I have it as eight. Um, said, "Is this your son?" I'm like, "Mom, I don't know what that [Laughter] original. Okay. I' I'd entertain a motion to resend the previous action of the board. Who moved? Support. Roll call, please. Hold on. I'm sorry. Mrs. Washington, you were the motion and Mrs. Mazar was Okay. All right. Um, Mrs. Washington. Yes. Mrs. Nazario. Yes. Mr. Ferguson. Yes. Uh Dr. Ballard. Yes. And Mr. Surgel. Yes. I apologize for the confusion. I would like uh the board to consider for approval items 9.05 and 9.06. So moved. Support. Roll call. Um Mrs. Washington. Yes. Mrs. Nario. Yes. Mr. Ferguson, yes. Dr. Ballard, yes. And Mr. Sturgil, yes.
044Like the board to consider item 9.07 as read. Approval to recommend the non-renewal of the following LEA member. Thomas Weaver. Support. Um, I'll support. Motion. I'll entertain a motion. Yep. Support. Mrs. Washington made the motion. Dr. Ballard support. Okay. Uh, Mrs. Washington, yes. Dr. Ballard, yes. Mr. Ferguson, yes. Mrs. Mazzaria, yes. Mr. Sturgil, yes. Like the board to consider for approval. Approval item 9.08. Personnel matters. Discussion. Yes. Um 9.08. Um the uh policy 9211 I believe. um as passed to committee should read reject instead of revised and this is the second reading so I don't know how we should move forward that's district organizations uh I reject is what was discussed correct yes in committee that's that is consistent with the the policy meeting so I'll take entertain A motion to amend item 9.08. So
045moved to to read motion uh reject reject policy 9211. I have a motion. Do I have a second? A second. Roll call, please. Mrs. Washington, yes. Mrs. Nazario, yes. Mr. Ferguson, yes. Dr. Ballard, yes. Mr. Ferg, Mr. Surgeon. Yes. Like the board to consider for approval items 10.01 to 10.15 operations matters. Discussion. I'll entertain a motion. So move. Mrs. Nazario. Yes. Dr. Ballard. Yes. Mr. Ferguson. Yes. Mrs. Washington. Yes. Mr. St. Yes. [Music] And that's all I have. Okay. Any new business before the board committee reports and requests from board members. Uh just to say that I'm going to be joining next week. I'm going to be joining a group from uh city government down at a uh conference in Birmingham, Alabama, and it's on increasing retail strategies in the city of Lraine. I'll be
046res representing the district and the board, and I will report back at the next meeting. And thank you for that, by the way. And that's the that's the the city received a grant um to research and they invited us to be a part of the conversation because we're again we have a great partnership with the city. So I want to thank uh Jay for attending and the city for their leadership as well. Yeah, good stuff. Second hearing of the public. Thank you for your patience. Oh yeah, of course. Good evening. I just have a question. Um, I'm wondering if there has been any conversation at the board level, sort of preemptive conversation about um what aspects of the school program or curriculum might be affected, may or may not be jeopardized if the executive orders
047that have to do with um history, how history is uh taught to kids do actually come down the pike for Lraine City Schools. And if that conversation has not happened, if you could sort of give me an idea of what the decision makingaking process would look like. Yeah, we're still first of all, appreciate the question and I'm not sure if you've looked on our website, but the equity is the foundation of our strategic plan. So, we are I don't want to say scrambling, but learning. Um, we received legal advice to pump the brakes and don't um do anything too quickly uh because we have to make a DEI statement theoretically by the 24th. Um and obviously look at all those things that kind of factor in. Um our attorney that's working on this is working
048with a lot of different school districts and is of the opinion that there are going to be some judges who intervene. Um but they told us not to rush into anything. So right now we are still in the learning mode. Um the what has been shared in terms of executive orders aren't clear. Um they're not specific. So even if they did go through, no one really knows what they mean yet except for the overt um statements that are there. But in terms of specifics and the details, there's not enough information yet. So the um the statement that you have to make by the 24th is in response to the executive order about DEI. That's correct. Correct. But there has been no instruction about the executive order surrounding what are they calling it? Uh something about
049sanity and something for the educational like where they're specifically talking about curriculum and history. uh as far as now again there's nothing that's been in my mind finalized or clarified on those things. So um if you would like to talk after the meeting I'll give you my number and I'll keep you in a loop as things happen but yeah right now we're just told just uh take a deep breath and wait for more clarity and wait for some intervention because many many lawsuits have been filed. Okay. Um Dr. Graham please. Um I read the update and I know everything is changing so fast but do you guys need to No, keep going. Okay. Um I believe that they just declared that the um they're not going to extend the deadline that the deadline is going
050to remain on the 18th. Uh last I heard it was changed the 24th according to OD well ODW. The just came through at 1:30. You probably didn't read it. I haven't seen yet. From uh how do you say it? Rozo. Rzzil. Yeah. Road there. Theirs says the 18th. Yeah, that they that they denied the u extension. Gotcha. I'm in a meeting tomorrow. I'll learn more and get back to everybody. Thank you. Okay. The next reg regularly scheduled board meeting is Monday, April 28th at 5:00 p.m. right here at Lorraine High in the board room. Be there or be square. And I will entertain a motion to adjurnn. So moved. support. Roll call, please. Mr. Sturgil, yes. Mrs. Nazario, yes. Mr. Ferguson, yes. Mrs.