001the board of trustees of the Bulmont Unified School District in open session. Um, and if you would please stand and join me in the pledge pledge of allegiance. Ready? Begin. 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. Okay. Moving on to item number um 7.0, public testimony. Uh during meetings of the board of trustees, members of the public have an opportunity to comment on items that appear on the agenda, regular or special meetings, or items that do not appear on the agenda, but are within the subject matter of the jurisdiction of the board. Individual speakers shall be allowed three minutes to address the board on each agenda or non-aggenda item. The board
002shall limit the total time for public input on each item in um to 20 minutes. Speakers may not yield or donate any other speaking time to another speaker. Um with board consent, the president may increase or decrease the time allowed for public presentation depending on the topic uh and the number of persons wishing to be heard. The president may take a poll of the speakers for or against a particular issue and may ask that additional persons speak only if they have something new to add. And we do have public comment um for Myra Esam and uh Gabby will be translating. Thank you. May you tell me your I I mis said your last name. Can you say it again? Esia. Esamia. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Um, she has concerns regarding the after school program, the
003way that children were selected for the program. [Music] Um there has there's not a um a wait list with a numbered weight list and she has not received a response to the concerns she shared. [Music] Um she's also concerned about the reclassification process. her daughter has been um going through the testing and there has not been improvement or communication with her on how to support her or help her do better. Thank you, Gabby. [Applause] 8.0 zero oral reports. Uh we will receive a report from the superintendent and review the district calendar for the months of August and September as we have no report out of close session. Good evening everyone. Welcome back to our first meeting after the opening of our 20 2526 school year. We're so excited to have our students back and all
004of our staff back. Right before we started, we had an annual leadership symposium for all of our leaders. And this is a great picture of our leadership team within the districts. That's principles. It's the principles, the cabinet directors within the district all uh over two days where um looking at planning for the school year, uh communicating all of the initiatives. Um, it was such a great event and it was great to see everyone and I love this particular one because I can't actually spot anyone that's not smiling in this in this picture. So that it's not often that you see a picture of everybody smiling. So that means we're creating a great culture in our district. And then we uh also had the day before we opened schools a welcome back for all of our
005staff. that is classified staff, certificated staff and management. Um you know classified staff are all support staff that's instructional assistants, co-instructional um our business team, our maintenance team, our transportation team. So, everybody was um excited to come back to our district and we welcomed everyone uh with a keynote speaker that did an a great job to delivering a message that we all embody in our district that carries our values, carries our um expectation to how we will treat every student in Bulma Unified School District. So, it was on top of all of that, it was so fun uh by adding um an almost surprise visit from Art Arts. He's our um a member of our classified team did an awesome job rallying every single school with their mascot and their theme for each school. Everybody,
006everybody did an awesome job uh competing uh to highlight their schools and their departments. And then of course the first day of school uh all of us spread throughout the schools and tried to visit and listen to students coming back, the parents, some of the crying that happened at the TK level. Um, it was just so good to see our schools alive again in a way because really like when the students are not there, they're just so dull to go to. And of course, um, I want to highlight the Glen View project. Uh, this is something that we've been working on for few months and it came to fruition and they opened all four classrooms at Glen View High School. much needed for expansion. Um, Glen View is our uh houses our continuation school and
007uh program for the 21st century uh school. Not everybody's there, but a lot of their activities that they hold are at that school. So, having these additional classrooms is going to give a lot of opportunity to spread around and actually create room for new students and new programs at that school. And as far as the calendar updates, we have um our next board meeting which is August 26. It's on our calendars. That meeting is only close session. And so the next regular schedule meeting will be in September on September 9th. On August uh I just I want to highlight on August um 28th, we will have a district-wide welcome back to school celebration. at this building here in the boardroom. Um, this event is free to the public. It'll include refreshments, activities, and giveaways. On
008September 10th, members of cabinet as well as members of the board of trustees and some of our management team will be attending the state of the city. Um, that's an annual event and we look forward to hearing information from the city. September 23rd, we will have another board meeting and that is a full um close session and open session meeting also. And lastly, we would like you to mark your calendar for our exciting college and career expo taking place on September 30th. That is for the report. Madam President, can I ask a question, Mrs. Kish, about in August that um can you bring the calendar back up? August calendar. forgot what you called it. The districtwide welcome back to school celebration. Can you just Can you talk a little more about what that is going
009to be? What is that? Are you talking about the 28th? Uhhuh. Mhm. Um it's going to it's we've done it last year so it's open to all of our students. Um it's really organized by our parent uh engagement department and the leaders of all of the parent committees. They get input and feedback on organizing that event and they open it to all of our students and staff from all of our sites. So are they going to have get they be able to get information or what's the they they usually hold tables. Okay. And like for example um DACA I don't know if um Dr. Bernett wants to add any information to that or I know what Dr. Gray is not here right as far as what the tables are going to be looking like and
010what's included. Um it's a welcome back event uh where we're open to all of the families to come and to gather information as well as as have some fun. We have like um food trucks. We have ice cream available. We got music and then we have many booths including um various schools representing um we have the um different um programs that are represented. Our sped team brings some of the resources and different um groups from the community also join um so that we bring that community um belongingness together for the families so that they could have fun engage and their resources. Thank you. I just want to make sure we made that very clear what that was for. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. This is our second annual Yeah. Welcome back. And I heard it
011was really good last year. Okay, we have a special um e a special evening tonight. Uh item number 9.1 is to appoint um Petra Wrathfelder and Kaden Alderson to serve as the 202526 student board members and administer the oath of office. And so the Bumont Unified School District Board of Trustees has selected two student board members um to its ranks for the 202526 school year. Um high school students were given the opportunity to apply and two finalists were selected to serve. Uh these students following the administration of the oath of office will each serve a semester and will fill in for each other during absences. They will have preferential voting rights in all open sessions of the board meetings with the exception of human resource items and they will not take part in the close
012session portion of the board meetings. Each student board member will be seated with members of the board of trustees and will be recognized as a full member. Their preferential votes will be cast but will not affect the final outcome. And so we are pleased this evening to um ask our two uh student board members to come forward and uh take their oath of office for this year. And parents, we will we'll take our time with pictures. You'll have every opportunity to make sure you get just the right shots on this. Okay. Would you like to do them separately for for recording or would you like them to do it together? Do it together. Okay. So, but face your parent face your parents. Yeah. Do you want to stand next to each other and I just
013So, I will start with the sentence and it'll repeat after me. But each one of your paper has your name. So when you say I, state your name and then repeat the rest of the sentence after. Hold on. Hold on. We're amaz. Do we have a microphone? Raise your right hand. Yeah, we need a microphone for both. Last time you didn't do that. They can put it in the middle if you want because they're going to say it together. Okay. So raise your right hand. Well, can you do it with the microphone on the other side? You can still read it. Okay. So I and state your name. I Ken Nison. I Petra Rathfelder. Do solemnly swear. Okay. Do you want to Can you do it together or Okay. I I can say do solemnly
014swear or affirm. You can also do it. Read it all separately and then you she reads it after you. That's fine too. He's he's taking charge. Take two. Take the microphone. Start over. Okay. I K Nison do solemnly swear or affirm that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of California against all enemies, foreign and domestic. That I will bear the true faith and allegiance to the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of California. That I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation and purpose of evasion. And that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties upon which I am about to enter. Congratulations. [Applause] I, Petra Wrathfelder, do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution
015of the United States and the Constitution of the State of California against all enemies, foreign and domestic. That I will bear true faith and allegiance to the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution to the State of California. That I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion. and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties upon which I am about to enter. Congratulations, President. Does the board want to take a picture with them? I'll take the microphone and I'll take this paper. You can stand in front. That's Thank you. So close. We'll stand in front of us. Sorry if I take your job. No, no. I I appreciate the backup. Thank you. And then can you be in the middle? [Music] Okay. for me. Thank you guys so
016much. Thank you. Congratulations. You guys Oh, really? They are viewers. This is your new spot. So, Madame President, um Kate, I think Petra is going to start the first semester. Kaden is welcome to attend the meeting or um leave and come back, but um it's totally up to him. Thank you for coming, parents. excited to keep this. I know you wouldn't miss it, but your um your your children are a directly direct reflection of you and um I was one of the board members in the interviews with them and they are both so impressive. Yes. And so um just be proud. I know you are, but we just thank you for sharing them with us and their time with us and we really value their their student voice up here on the board. So, thank
017you for Thank you for coming tonight. Okay. And Petra, you're in good hands. You can ask Susie if you have any questions. Okay. Thank you so much. It's different up here. It's a little more nerve-wracking. So, all right. So, moving on to item number Oh, we need to take a motion. Thank you. See, I don't have Susie next to me helping me. Do Do we have a motion to appoint? So moved. Second. Moved by Susie, seconded by Lance. And any more discussion. All right, we'll call for a vote. It's about to show it. And motion carries. Congratulations. Right now, moving on to item number 9.2. conduct the second reading and adopt ordinance 2025-26-06 uh levying special taxes within community facilities district number 2025-1 the B of the Bumont Unified School District. Do we have a
018motion uh to adopt this ordinance? Move to adopt. Second. That was moved by Lance or David. David seconded by Jeff. Yes, ma'am. Any discussion? Mr. Call for a vote. Motion carries. Okay. Item number 9.3, conduct a public hear public hearing relative to proposed conveyance to the city of Bumont certain property for public street right-of-way purposes. Good evening, Madame President. Superintendent Kish, board of trustees. At the July 22nd board meeting, our board of education adopted a resolution of intent uh number 20252604. And this was to dedicate approximately 11,400 square ft of real property to the city of Bowmont. You have an illustration here on this slide. Uh this dedication is for the rideway for a brand new street. This is second street is going to be right in front of the district property which is we
019call a Pennsylvania property. Um more officially is two parcels. Parcels number 41977007 and parcel 41824 011. This public hearing in the board action tonight will will complete the proceedings to dedicate this piece of land to uh the city of Bulmont for that brand new street that they're working on currently. And Madam President, uh respectfully uh if we can move forward with the public hearing. Yes. So, we'll now open our public hearing at 6:23 p.m. We have any discussion on this? Okay. Hearing no discussion, we will close this public hearing at 6:23 p.m. Item number 9.4, Four, adopt resolution 2025-26-09 authorizing the conveyance to the city of Bowmont certain property for public street right away of purpose. Is there a motion to adopt resol this resolution? I move we adopt. I'll second. Moved by Jeff, seconded
020by Susie. Any discussion? Call for a vote. and motion carries. 10.0 is the consent agenda. Uh 10.1 actions prepared for the consent agenda items are consistent with adopted and approved policies of the district and are deemed routine in nature. They will be acted upon in one motion without discussion unless any member of the board of trustees requests that an item be removed from from the consent agenda. In that event, it will be taken up in the order indicated on the main agenda. Would any of the board members like to pull an item from the consent agenda? Okay, no one desires to pull an item. And so, do we have a motion to approve items 10.1 to 10.8? I move approval. I'll second. Moved by Jeff, seconded by Susie, and call for a vote. Motion carries.
021Item number 12.0, instruction and support services. Uh 12.1, approve revisions to the 202526 instructional calendar. Uh we have a motion on this item. So moved. Second. Moved by Susie, seconded by David. Any discussion? Okay, call for a vote. Motion carries. 13.0 is human resources. 13.1 Approve a new job description for the position of behavioral health coordinator. Uh do we have a motion on this? A second. Move. Moved by Lance, seconded by Jeff. On item number 13.1, any discussion. Call for a vote. [Music] And motion carries. Item number 13.2, Two, approve the variable term waiver request for the 202526 school year. You have a motion. I'll move approval. Second. Moved by Susie, seconded by Lance. Any discussion? Call for vote. Motion carries. 13.3 approve the certificated personnel assignment order listed on the report dated August 12th,
0222025. We have a motion. So, I'll second. Moved by Lance, seconded by Susie. Any discussion? Call for a vote. [Music] Sorry. Um, Lance Lance seconded by Susie. Motion carries. Item number 13.4, Four, approve the classified personnel assignment order listed on the report dated August 12th, 2025. Do we have a motion? So moved. Second. Moved by David, seconded by Jeff. Any discussion? Call for a vote. [Music] And motion carries. Item 13.5, approve the administrative and confidential personnel assignment order listed on the report dated August 12th, 2025. We have a motion. So moved. Second. Moved by Susie, seconded by David. Any discussion? Call for a vote. The motion carries and at this time we will have introduction of new management. [Music] President Williamson, members of the board, Superintendent Kakkesh, cabinet, colleagues, and guests, we are pleased to
023announce the appointment of Jessica Parker to the position of elementary school assistant principal at Tournament Hills Elementary School. Miss Parker joins our Bumont team from the San Bern San Bernardino City Unified School District where she is currently a program facilitator. Since beginning her career in education in 2010, Miss Parker has held a variety of roles including teacher, afterchool program coordinator, program director, and executive assistant. Prior to joining San Bernardino City Unified School District, she gained valuable experience working with Real Journey Academy, Hope Academy, and the Boys and Girls Club of Stockton. Jessica earned her bachelor of arts and liberal studies from the California State University at Stannislos and her masterers of science and education from Calif California California Baptist University. Please join us in welcoming Miss Parker to her new position as elementary school assistant
024principal, President William Snora, members of the board, Superintendent Kakkesh, Cabinet colleagues, and members of our community. Thank you for this incredible opportunity to serve. I am deeply honored by the trust you've placed in me and I'm excited to step into this new role and focus on supporting our students, empowering our staff, and strengthening the connection with our community. The magnitude of this moment is not lost on me or my family. I am both humbled and honored to become a part of the administrative team and to continue to ignite positive change through service. I look forward to working alongside all of you to build the strength of our district and create an environment where learning is engaging, inclusive, and inspiring for all. Again, thank you again for all this honor. Wait, just a second before you
025leave. Um, who did you bring with you? I have cuz I see somebody recording. I have a lot of people. So, my hand weighs a little big. So, I have my husband and I have my three children. So, I have Angel, Aiden, and Millie, just the little one running around. And then we're missing Julio, who is helping with the fires. Um, he's just kind of He works for the CCC, so he's a little busy for us. Well, thank you for coming to support her. We appreciate it. Thank you. Congratulations. Next, we are pleased to announce the appointment of Alicia Chamberlain as a career technical education coordinator. Miss Chamberlain joined the Bowmont Unified School District team in in 2018 as an elementary teacher and currently serves as the college and career teacher on special assignment. She
026began her education career in 2004 as a teacher with San Bernardino City Unified School District and has also worked as an assistant principal for Hurupa Unified School District. Alicia earned a bachelor of arts in human growth and development from the California State University at San Bernardino and a master of arts and curriculum and instruction from the University of Phoenix. Please join us in welcoming Miss Chamberlain to her new pos position as CTE coordinator. Thank you so much. Good evening, uh, President Williamson, the board, cabinet members, sorry, Superintendent Cookies, uh, colleagues and city members. I am so incredibly thankful for this opportunity to be the CTE coordinator. I've spent the last four years working directly with our CTE programs in the department of college and career readiness and our team has been doing amazing things these
027last four years. I've watched the growth of all of our programs expand across the entire district. We support teachers at every secondary site in the CTE pathways and I am beyond excited to continue to do the work and to help our department and our CTE programs grow to serve our students so that they can without a doubt leave Bowmont Unified as college and career ready. Thank you so very much. Thank you. And who do you have here with you? Uh my family is not so large. We're quite a small bit, but I brought my old or I'm sorry, my youngest daughter who's also a student in Bumont Unified and who are my closest friends to be with me this evening. Wonderful. Thank you. Thank you for coming to support. [Applause] Okay. Lastly, we are pleased
028to announce the appointment of Donald Lee as a site custodial supervisor for Bowmont High School. Mr. Lee started his career with Bumont as a custodian 1 at Mountain View Middle School in 2021. Prior to joining the Bowmont team, Donald worked at Mount San Antonio College and Los Angeles Unified School District. He has also held the position of custodian 2, interimm custodial services supervisor, operations manager, and plant manager. He is currently the custodian at Tournament Hills. Donald is working towards his associates degree in business administration from Mount San Antonio College. Please join us in welcoming Mr. Lee to his new position as site custodial supervisor. [Applause] Good evening, President Williamson, members of the board, Superintendent Kich, cabinet, colleagues, and community members. Um, my name is Donald Lee, and I am excited for the opportunity to serve
029as site custodial service, sorry, site custodial supervisor at Bowont High School within the Bowmont Unified School District. Um, I've worked around Bumont High in terms of the kitchens and I've also worked there on a few assignments and um, I see a positive outcome for Bowmont High. I see what myself with 20 plus years of experience in custodial services and the current the current team that's up there. I see us being able to make Bulma High a cleaner and more efficiently run facility. that will be a plus for staff, students, and community members of all sorts who come to visit the campus. Again, I'm thankful for the opportunity. Thank you. Congratulations. And would you like to introduce anybody in the audience? You can't get away that easy. We want to know who's with you. Okay. Over
030here is my lovely wife, Navia Lee, and my daughter, she attends Starlet Elementary. Her name is Silly. Thank you for coming. Thank you so much and welcome all three of you. We're so excited to have you here serving in in your capacity with Om. Okay. 14.0, Business Services. Item number 14.1, approve modification number four, agreement number C-1108292 for the Bumont Unified School District to provide facility and support services for county special education programs during the 202526 school year. Do we have a motion? So moved. Second. Moved by David, seconded by Lance. Any discussion. Call for a vote. [Music] And motion carries. 14.2 is anformational item. receive an update on the district's capital facilities programs. Good evening, President Williamson, Superintendent Kich, board members, cabinet members, and public. I'm Anna Gonzalez. I'm here to give you a
031quick update on our construction projects and some that are currently in construction and some that are wrapping up. So, on the agenda, we have Glen View High School. uh the new classroom building, educational support facility expansion project. We have the Palm Innovation Academy new kitchen building and summer wind trails K8 portables. So the first one is Glen View High School. You've heard a little bit about this project. Um students occupied the buildings uh or the building last week. Uh but in the photos you'll see the uh furniture that was delivered and assembled at each of the classrooms. You can see the workers. Uh you can see the shade structures that were installed uh prior to school starting and then the fire lane that was prepped uh for asphalt. The next project we have um the
032educational support facilities expansion project. This one's still under uh under construction. You can see that uh we poured the concrete uh walkway for the cl the spaces. We've also prepped the fire lane area. We've installed um some of the fence posts and then we've also now installed uh some of the landscape with the trees around the perimeter of the fire lane. So again, this one's still ongoing. It'll be wrapping up this month. Palm Innovation Academy, new kitchen building. Again, this one's under construction. This one's going to go all the way through next April. Uh in the photos, you can see that we've already installed the rebar uh in footings. We've also poured concrete inside the footings. And we also did some of the we completed the ADA path of travel um items in front of
033the from the school uh for uh the slope issues that they were having. So all that is now uh completed for the first day of school. So the kids were able to uh walk through that breezeway. And lastly, the summer wind trails K8 portables. The portables were delivered uh being cleaned up. Uh the door frames were installed. You can now see that even concrete was has been poured and we actually already did the um concrete for the restroom ramps up out there as well. So this one will be ready to occupy this month and that's the end of the presentation unless you guys have questions. Are those are those classrooms at Summerland Trails going to be used this year? Yes. So it'll be wrapping up this month. So right now we're actually doing some punch
034list items cleaning up. Uh but they should be occupied this month. So, and I promised that to the principal and she's here back here listening to me. So, of course, it's going to depend on the enrollment and the balancing of the classes if all of them get used this year or maybe the second semester. Thank you. Wonderful. Thank you. Thank you. Item number 14.3, approve resolution 2025-26-07 authorizing the filing of applications for state allocation. Do we have a motion? So moved. Second. Moved by David, seconded by Jeff. And any discussion? Call for a vote. Motion carries. Um item number 15.0 reports. Our first report in 15.1 is to receive a report from the California School Employees Association and it's chapter 351. Do we have anybody from CSA here tonight? Okay, thank you. 15.2. Receive a
035report from the Bumont Teachers Association. Good evening, President Williamson and members of the board and Superintendent Kich Julio Martinez here. BTA president with a brief uh brief report for August 12th, 2025. Well, our school year has started in full swing. Our welcome back rally uh really demonstrated how our district has grown and continues to grow. Uh the amount of new teachers added to our staff is truly significant and absolutely necessary to meet the needs of our students, especially in the field of special education. I had the opportunity to meet many of these new teachers during the new teacher orientation. Uh, and I want to commend the district for hiring qualified and diverse teachers that will undoubtedly bring a wealth of knowledge and experience to the district. Um, talking to my colleagues, they're motivated and eager
036for the new year. Though we are continually challenged with the everinccreasing demands of the Keenan trainings that seem to have been added more and more each year. But nevertheless, BTA stands by our commitment to work with the district and achieve student success. And that success was seen in that overall gain of that 8.37% in our ELA scores and the 5.3 uh 6% in our math scores which are really a true indicator that the hard work of our students, teachers and curriculum directors have really paid off. Uh this is possible when teachers are given the resources they need and the autonomous time to collaborate and to plan. Um I want to thank Superintendent Kish for her cooperation in working with the BTA. We had a great meeting last Friday. We talked about many things including our
037upcoming site visits and BK participation in that face um welcome back event coming up in August 28th uh about our every other month meetings that we plan to hold and of course those scores u of ELA and math scores. I also met with assistant superintendent Castillo and a director of technology Hart. We had a great cooperative and productive meetings and later this week I'll meet with um Dr. Brown and next week um with CBO San Martin and in the near future hopefully each one of you. Uh this concludes my report. Thank you for your time. Thank you. 15.3 Receive a report from the Bowmont Administrators Confidential Management Employees Group. Good evening, President Williamson, Superintendent Kich, board members, cabinet colleagues and community. Um, lots of celebrations obviously to start the school year. Want to welcome our
038our new student board members, Peter Ratfelder and Kaden Anderson or Alderson, excuse me. Names are important. Um, I I think that that is it. It it is evident that we put students first when we put a student on our board and and that is something very very special about um about our school district. I also want to welcome the newest members to back me. Uh Jessica Parker, assistant principal Turman Hills. Uh Donald Lee, psychotic supervisor at BHS. Uh and Alicia Chamberlain. Although I haven't had the opportunity to work with Jessica Donald, I have had the opportunity to work with Alicia over the last uh four years. She's phenomenal. I know she's going to be an incredible uh addition to the management team. Um also just want to thank everybody who made the opening of the
039school year what it was. um that the energy at the school sites, whether it be uh management team, certificated staff, classified staff, uh there there's always a buzz and for for anybody who's worked this summer to actually see students come back and and have that energy, it's it's amazing. So, I just want to thank everybody who made uh the beginning of the 2526 school year uh what it was. So, thank you very much. Thank you. Uh 15.4 receive a report from board member Dr. Lansston Sylvester. Good evening. Uh, Madame President Williamson, Superintendent Kakeh, board members, cabinet members, uh, everyone here tonight and that's viewing online. I want to welcome our new hirees. Uh, congratulations once again. Want to welcome our new student uh, representatives. Uh, Petra, let me get it right. Wrath Rathfelder and uh
040Kaden Alderson. Is that right? It's good to have each and every one of you. She left, but I wanted to see Jessica Parker because I think I heard in the introduction uh from Stockton. And so I'm going to go to Tournament Hills to talk to her because it's a fellow Stocktonian and I did I did community work up there. So when when I lived and served up there. So um interested in finding out all that uh she has done there. Um not a big report. Uh I I was very pleased from the rally that I experienced. It was actually um the first time I've ever attended a rally in education where the high schoolers, middle school, elementary were all together in terms of the staff. And so, um, it's, uh, Bulmont is special that way.
041Bulmont Unified is special that way. And they did a tremendous job with the rally. So, um, I look forward to this new school year. Kudos. Thank you. Uh, 15.5, receive a report from board member David Sanchez. Well, board members, I am going to report that I also enjoyed the rally so much that when I got back to my work site, I had to leave a little early. I I and I stayed as long as I could. I even was tardy for my assignment, but it was well worth it. Um, we all have that one grump that we always work with. And I have to tell you, when I was This is going to get back to that grump, too. Um, I kept saying, "No, we have opportunities. We have opportunities at our school." And it
042I I have to tell you that was one of the strongest messages we've received in a long time. And uh I appreciated that guest speaker. Yeah. Because sometimes you have to switch your mentality. That's not a problem problem child. That is an opportunity. And uh I have been spurting that around at my site last couple of days. And again, once this gets out, they'll know why now. And uh they're going to know who that grump was because I'm always teasing them about it. Um other than that, welcome students. I'm glad we have representation. Always have. It's a little intimidating being up here and people staring at you or it is. And even we get nervous too. So feel free to use your voice. Ask any questions you have. There is no such thing as a
043dumb question. Um I know people push that to certain limits, but uh and even this morning or this afternoon, I I asked a dumb question after everybody had a conversation over here. I said, "My internet's not working." and they spent five minutes talking about it, but I didn't hear it. So, it is okay. Other than that, this is a great year and I'm glad to see another one kick off. Thank you board members for putting up with me. Thank you for the entertainment. I mean, report. Item number 15.6, receive a report from board member Jeff Brown. I would also like to welcome the new student board members um to our wonderful little club. Uh um the uh uh I want to thank all the staff that put together the welcome back event. Um the speaker
044did an excellent job um of really staying on topic and focusing on like it. In previous years we've had speakers who have really kind of shotgun blasted a lot of data, but this guy had a did a really good job of coming back to the same thing over and over and over again. and uh um he did a I think a fantastic job. But um I what I really wanted to thank was the people who the behind-the-scenes people because to put on something like a back to school event on that scale is the amount of work is absolutely phenomenal. Um and so those are the people I would like to take a minute to appreciate. um all of the M staff, all of the technology staff, all of the um uh um basically everybody behind
045the scenes who nobody and and there's kind of a joke in in that kind of circle of people where if you did your job, nobody would know you were ever there. Well, we didn't know you were there. So, kudos because because because that's how it goes. if you do it right, nobody will ever know you were ever there. And there was no sign of any behind the-scenes work or anything like that. So, it was it was but obviously that has to be done. So, thank you very much to all of those people. Um, and Madame President, thank you. And I just Maze just whispered to me as a lot of it was April and Thomas. They are those people coordinating, but the actual work happens at the high school maintenance. They coordinated all of their
046efforts, but every single department had um had a hand in it. So, thank you for recognizing all of our staff. Yeah, for sure. Okay. 15.7 re receive a report from board member Susie Laura. Well, I just like to say welcome to all all the people that arrived tonight. It's good. I don't want to repeat everybody. got to agree with everybody here. I do want to say that the welcome back rally was really fun. I was sitting there a little concerned for a while because I really didn't think Art was going to show up. So, I was like, "Oh, please tell me that's not true because he has to be here." So, we can't have this without our hype man. And so, um I just always really appreciate his energy. And the other thing that I
047really do appreciate and principles, I hope you hear me. I just love how you guys have just really upped your game every year. I mean, it's getting better and better. So, I can't wait to see what next year your cheers and all your things are looking like because it was pretty incredible. So, um I just that was really fun to see. So, um great. We're going to sell tickets for next year's show. Yeah. Right. It was amazing. It was really Susie, I think we need to get the the departments involved. Oh, maybe we should. See, ESF's got they got up their game. It's what's got to happen. So, yeah. So, anyways, I just I was really excited and um yeah, that's enough for now, I guess. And so, uh hope you guys have a really
048great school year. It's off to a great start. And I have another little one joined the district this year, too. So, now I have two of my grandkids at school. So, thank you. Lanca, did you have something to add? I just have a question. I I know there are several uh principles out the audience. This is my first getting ready to begin first full school year with the district. Can I just show up to the school or do should I just con should I contact you first? They usually one of the um members of executive cabinet will come with you. Dr. Lenston Sylvester [Laughter] um inside joke. We would help you out with this. Um April will be more than happy to coordinate between you and the school administrator. That's fine. That was funny. Thank
049you, Maze Kich. [Laughter] Goodness. All right. Thank you. Because see, we handle business, but there's a way you can go about it and still be joyful. And I think that uh Bowmont does that really well. So, happy new year everyone. Welcome to the new school year. Um did I miss something? I felt like I missed something. Okay, you're good. Yeah. So, the rally was it was just so good. Um I know it's been said the the uh keynote speaker, you know, a really good keynote speaker will in I feel like they'll inspire you in all areas of your life. And as a mom that's adopted two children out of foster care, um you know, I I just sat there thinking we my husband and I, we are Rodney and Christine. and um which was Josh
050Ship's parents and you know it it can be it can be rough and uh so I left there kind of seeing the future for my kids as well and the hope of sticking it out and just you know deepening the determination um for my kids personally. Um, but then one thing that he said that was very inspiring was to just go one sentence past your job description. And I think we do more than that, but what a impact that can make on someone's life. Um, sorry. What we do can really change the course of somebody's life with our students. And so that I cried all day that day and I thought I was done. Um, but it just it got me. So it just got me and I think that is a really the sign
051of a great keynote speaker when it changes you as well. And so just want to I know that you know everybody's not here but what we do is very important and it can really change the trajectory of our students lives. And then as administrators, you know, you have the opportunity to do that for your staff as well. Um, it's no different. And so, uh, that that was just it was amazing. Um, I hope we we all go a couple more sentences past our job description. Um, and I've seen that in Bowmont, uh, time after time after time. You know, the energy was just amazing. But the thing is is that um that energy was certainly amplified at the rally, but that's the energy that you feel when you go on any campus any day. I
052mean, it's it's it's no different. This was definitely got us pumped up and ready. Um but our our uh our our schools are amazing and you feel that every time that you visit and so um that's just that's evident. Um, I'm really excited about our new student board members. Um, we want to hear your voice. If you um have information we need to know, we want to hear it. So, thank you for being here and representing the student body. Um, and we're excited to have um someone from 21st Century. I think that's a first. Um, yes. And so, um, we're it'll it's going to be a great year. I've heard um several people say it's just going to be a great year. you can feel it sometimes and I think that's been the consensus. Um,
053welcome to our new management. Um, we're excited to have you serve in your new roles or join our team. And I think that concludes our uh board meeting this evening. So, do I have a motion to adjurnn? So moved. Second. Moved by David, seconded by Susie. Call for a vote tonight and meeting adjourned at 6:59. appreciate it. [Music] Yeah, please on the phone. Okay. So he needed