School Board Meeting - 06/25/2024

001GOOD EVENING I AM KIM MELNYK CHAIR OF THE SCHOOL BOARD OF THE CITY OF VIRGINIA BEACH, VIRGINIA AND I HEREBY CALL THIS MEETING TO ORDER AT SIX O'CLOCK ON THE TWENTY FIFTH DAY JUNE TWENTY TWENTY FOUR THANK. THANK YOU EVERYONE WHO IS JOINING SOME PERSON ESPECIALLY WHEN WE HONOR YOUR STUDENTS WERE HAPPY TO SEE YOU ALL HERE THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO JOINED US ONLINE THIS EVENING AT THIS TIME I WILL ASK MADAM CLARK TO ANNOUNCE THE ROLL CALL. THANK YOU MADAM YEAR PRISON IN THE SCHOOL BOARD CHAMBER IS CHAIR MELNIK VICE YOUR FRANKLIN MISS ANDERSON MISS ANDERSON, MISS BROWN, MR. KALIN MISS KENDRICK MISMANAGING MISS MANNING, MISS RIGGS AND MISS WEEMS AND PLEASE STANDARDS YOU ARE ABLE FOR ABLE FOR THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE, I ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

002REPUBLIC FOR WHICH FOR WHICH IT STANDS ONE NATION UNDER GOD INDIVISIBLE WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR THIS EVENING THE SCHOOL BOARD HAS THE PLEASURE OF RECOGNIZING STUDENTS STAFF FOR THEIR ACHIEVEMENTS OUR FIRST RECOGNITION FOR THIS EVENING AS FINALISTS IN A NATIONAL CONTEST. PLEASE WELCOME GODFRIED PRINCE KEIT KIVI PRINCE WHO ATTENDS THE ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY THAN OUR INCOME SO HIGH SCHOOL PARTICIPATED THE NATIONAL CONTEST HELD BY RUBEN A COMPANY THAT PROVIDES ONLINE INSTRUCTION TO HELP STUDENTS OF COLLEGE AND CAREER READINESS PRINCE WAS SELECTED AS ONE OF SIX NATIONAL NATIONWIDE FINALIST HE WAS RECOGNIZED FOR SHOWING TERRIFIC POTENTIAL AS A FUTURE TERM BY DEMONSTRATING STRONG WRITING, SPEAKING AND OVERALL COMMUNICATION SKILLS PRINCE IS A TRUE LEADER AND HARDWORKING STUDENT. CONGRATULATIONS PRINCE WE ARE SO PROUD OF >> YOU. OUR NEXT RECOGNITION THIS EVENING IS FOR THE BBC'S TWO

003THOUSAND TWENTY THREE TWO THOUSAND TWENTY FOR OUTSTANDING TEACHER OF THE GIFTED. PLEASE WELCOME FLO HEILIG RECIPIENTS OF THE BBC'S OUTSTANDING TEACHER OF THE YEAR AWARD EXHIBIT OUTSTANDING QUALITIES RELATED TO GIFTED EDUCATION AND THE AREAS OF TEACHING AND WORKING WITH STAKEHOLDERS. MRS HEILIG IS A FOURTH GRADE GIFTED CLUSTER TEACHER AT FAIRFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. SHE HAS OR 20 OF HER 31 YEARS AND EDUCATION WORKING WITH GIFTED STUDENTS ADVOCATING FOR GIFTED EDUCATION SHE HAS A LEADER IN HER BUILDING AND MAKES LASTING IMPACT ON GIFTED STUDENTS AND THEIR FAMILIES. MRS HEILIG IS SELECTED AS ONE OF TWO VEHBI CPS OUTSTANDING TEACHERS OF THE GIFTED FROM BBC SASSIER. CONGRATULATIONS MRS HEILIG WE ARE VERY PROUD OF YOU >> OUR NEXT RECOGNITION NEXT RECOGNITION THIS EVENING IS FOR A STAFF MEMBER WHO IS BOTH THE BBC'S OUTSTANDING TEACHER OF THE GIFTED

004AND THE REGION TO OUTSTANDING TEACHER OF THE GIFTED. PLEASE WELCOME LIZZIE SAMUELSON NOT OUT HERE LIZZIE SAMUELSSON A, A GIFTED RESOURCE TEACHER ANY AND LEGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL COULDN'T BE HERE TONIGHT BUT WE ARE GLAD TO HONOR HER FROM THE POOL OF EXCEPTIONAL EDUCATORS SUBMITTED FOR THE REGION THE VIRGINIA ASSOCIATION OF THE GIFTED SELECTS ONE CANDIDATE AS THE OUTSTANDING REGIONAL GIFTED TEACHER OF THE YEAR IN EIGHT YEARS AS AN EDUCATOR MISS SAMUELSSON MISS SAMUELSON HAS BEEN A LEADER IN ARE BUILDING AND IN THE SCHOOL DIVISION IN ADDITION TO DEVELOPING OFFERING PROFESSIONAL LEARNING FOR SCHOOL AND DIVISION STAFF ON TOPICS RELATED TO GIVE TO TEACHING RIGOROUS INSTRUCTION AND AUTHENTIC LEARNING MISS SAMUELSSON HAS A PROFOUND IMPACT ON GIFTED LEARNERS AND THEIR FAMILIES IN AND OUT OF THE CLASSROOM CONGRATULATIONS MR. SAMUELSSON WE. WE ARE PROUD OF YOU

005OUR NECKS RECOGNITION OF THIS EVENING IS FOR THE TWENTY TWENTY FOR VP CPS NURSE OF THE YEAR. PLEASE WELCOME KIMBERLY HARTZOG MISS HEART SOCKS ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND PROFESSIONALISM MAKE HER STAND OUT AMONG THE MANY GREAT NURSES AT VBC YES SHE IS DEDICATED TO HER PROFESSION ENSURES THAT EACH AND EVERY STUDENT IS SEEN ,KNOWN, HEARD AND LOVED CONGRATULATIONS THIS HARTSOCK WE ARE WE ARE SO PROUD OF YOU OUR NEXT RECOGNITION THIS EVENING IS FOR THE VIRTUAL CLASS FIVE VOICE STATES SOCCER CHAMPIONS PLEASE WELCOME THE FALCONS OF COX HIGH SCHOOL THE BOY BOYS SOCCER PROGRAM AT COX COMPLETED A SUCCESSFUL SPRING SEASON WITH THE FINAL RECORD OF EIGHTEEN WINS TO LOSSES IN A TIE SCORING SIXTY NINE GOALS AND CONCEDING I'LL INSERT THIS ONLY TWELVE THE PROGRAM WAS FACED WITH MULTIPLE CHALLENGES LEADING UP TO ACCOMMODATING EVENT THE

006VIRGINIA FIVE A BOYS SOCCER STATE TOURNAMENT AFTER A SOLID WIN IN THE STATE QUARTERFINALS THE TEAM WAS FACED WITH TO BACK TO BACK MATCHES IN THE PEAK HEAT OF HENRICO COUNTY AFTER BOTH MATCHES GOING ONE HUNDRED PLUS MINUTES AND RESULTING IN PENALTIES. THE COX FALCONS HAVE BEEN CROWN WITH THEIR FIFTH STATE TITLE WIN IN PROGRAM HISTORY I WOULD SAY LET'S TAKE A MOMENT AND CELEBRATE THAT AS WELL >>. THE BOYS WERE LED BY 12 SENIORS AND CAPTAINED BY SAM BRAIDWOOD JOSHUA HAGGERTY DAX BOOTH DACS BUTH GABES ARATI AND CARTER WHALEN THE TEAM TELLS US THEY APPRECIATE THE ENDLESS SUPPORT FROM FRIENDS FAMILY AND THE LOCAL COMMUNITY. THE TEAM MEMBERS ARE AS FOLLOWS JACKSON, BLAGG, DACS BUTH SAMUEL BRAIDWOOD GRAYSON BRAZUCA, SAMUEL PETKOVIC, JOEL CANNITO WRITER JOE CHASE FOSTER JOSHUA HAGGERTY TRIP HORNER CHOCOBO HOYAS LANTOS

007I'M NOT SURE I SAID THAT RIGHT AND IF I IF I DID I APOLOGIZE WEST KEENAN KYLE KEPHART MICHAEL KOPECKY EMMANUEL MORRIN TYLER MERKLINGER ETHAN MEYER CHRISTOPHER PRETTYMAN CONRADE SILVERBUSH SILBERBERG KAIDEN SULLIVAN JOSEPH BASTIANO BHAU VOEGTLIN NATHANIEL WALLACE CARTER WELAND NATHANIEL WHITE BRYSON WILLIAM AND GAVE YEAR. THERE'S MORE I THINK ON ANOTHER PAID SO HANG WITH ME SANTO RIPPA IS THE HEAD COACH OF THE FALCONS AND THE ASSISTANT COACHES BENJAMIN SPEK HART, SEAN DUFFY AND KAIMAN BAY. CONGRATULATIONS FALCONS. WE ARE EXCEEDINGLY PROUD OF YOU OUR NEXT RECOGNITION THIS EVENING IS FOR VHS VHS CLASS FIVE GIRLS OUTDOOR TRACK CHAMPION KALLUM HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATE JANE PHILLIPS COULDN'T BE WITH US THIS EVENING BECAUSE SHE IS CONTINUING HER ACADEMIC AND RUNNING CAREER AT THE UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY JANE FINISHED HER SENIOR YEAR BY WINNING THE CLASS

008FIVE GIRLS OUTDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS IN THE SIXTEEN HUNDRED METER AND 100 METER HER NAME HER NAME MAY SOUND FAMILIAR BECAUSE WE HAD THE PLEASURE OF HONORING HER THIS YEAR AS A VESSEL FIVE GIRLS ST. CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPION AND THE TWENTY TWENTY THREE TWENTY FOUR VAGISIL CLASS FIVE GIRLS INDOOR CHAMPION IN THE SIX HUNDRED METERS AND THE ONE THOUSAND METER CONGRATULATION JAMES. CONGRATULATIONS JANE. WE ARE SO PROUD OF YOU OUR NEXT RECOGNITION THIS EVENING IS FOR THE VIRTUOSO CLASS FIVE STATES SOCCER CHAMPIONS PLEASE WELCOME THE KNIGHTS OF KELAM HIGH SCHOOL THIS IS THE SECOND GIRLS SOCCER TITLE IN HISTORY IN SCHOOL HISTORY THE TEAM MEMBERS ARE ADLEN BRO ADDISON ALISON CHERVITZ IN A WAYS AUDREY MAGGIO AVICHAI DAVITS ABARGIL AVERY SPELL BAILEY CAMPBELL BROOK ERWIN'S BROOKLYN BAYLOR CAMERON DEVORA CAROLINE INSULAR DILLON MACK AND TAFFER GABRIEL STUART

009ISABELLE TURNER TO SHILA JOHNSON KAILI PARKER KELLY KINCHELOE LAUREN CRAWLEY LILLY TURNER MADISON GOOD MARIA ALVAREZ MASON RICHIE MOLLY BOWDEN RAGAN THOMPSON SADY DICKERSON SAMANTHA CAMPBELL SOPHIA MITCHELL TAYLOR GAROFOLI ZETA BEKKER EIGHT THE KNIGHTS ARE COACHED BY HEAD COACH MARIO HURDLE AN ASSISTANT COACHES KAREN OWENS AND TIM CYBER CONGRATULATIONS NIGHTS WE'RE SO PROUD OF YOU. YOUR ALL RIGHT SO THIS CONCLUDES THE SCHOOL BOARD RECOGNITION'S FOR THIS EVENING OK ITEM AID ITEM EIGHT IS THE ADOPTION THE AGENDA. ARE THERE ANY MODIFICATIONS TO THE AGENDA AS PRESENTED ALL RIGHT AND I CALL I CALL FOR A MOTION TO APPROVED THE AGENDA AS PRESENTED MOTION MADE BY IS RIGGED SECONDED BY MY. ANY DISCUSSION SEEING ON THE BOARD IS OPEN. MADAM CHAIR WE HAVE NINE EYES THE MOTION DID PASS FOR THE ADOPTION OF THE AGENDA. OK, ALL

010RIGHT. THE SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT DR. ROBERTSON WE LOOK FORWARD TO YOUR REPORT AND RECOGNITIONS THIS EVENING THANK YOU. GOOD EVENING MADAM CHAIRWOMAN MADAM CHAIRWOMAN. MEMBERS OF THE BOARD HERE A FEW ITEMS OF INTERESTS FOR YOU AND OUR FAMILIES. I I THINK THE BOARD FOR JOINING ME IN VIRGINIA THE VIRGINIA BEACH COMMUNITY AT COMMENCEMENT CEREMONY EARLIER THIS MONTH CELEBRATE OUR FOUR THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND SEVENTY EIGHT GRADUATES STUDENTS SAVORED THE LAST MOMENTS OF THEIR JOURNEY BEFORE TURNING TASSELS AND TOSSING THERE THEIR CAPS. I'M PLEASED TO REPORT OUR SENIORS OFFERED MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTEEN MILLION DOLLARS IN SCHOLARSHIPS AND >> ALSO MORE THAN TWENTY EIGHT HUNDRED GRADUATES RECEIVED AT LEAST ONE VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION DIPLOMACY FOR EXEMPLARY PERFORMANCE MORE THAN TWENTY FOUR HUNDRED OF OUR SENIORS GRADUATED WITH A GPA THREE POINT OH OR HIGHER

011ABOUT THIRTY SEVEN STUDENTS TELL US THERE'LL THEY'LL BE PURSUING COLLEGE DEGREES ALL ABOUT TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY OF OUR SENIOR SAID THEY WILL BE ATTENDING TRADE SCHOOLS PARTICIPATING IN APPRENTICESHIPS IN AND ABOUT TWO HUNDRED STUDENTS TO BE A LISTING IN THE MILITARY OF THEIR POST-SECONDARY PLANS WERE PROUD OF ALL THE MEMBERS OF THE CLASS OF TWENTY TWENTY FOUR WE THINK THEIR FAMILIES AND OUR STAFF FOR ARE SUPPORTING THEM DURING THEIR ACADEMIC JOURNEY WE CELEBRATED THE WORK OF OUR CUSTODIAL STAFF JUNE 17TH AT OCEAN LIKES HIGH SCHOOL DIRECTOR OF CUSTODIAL DISTRIBUTION SERVICES SAM NEXT THINKS HIS TEAM OF FIVE HUNDRED STAFF MEMBERS WERE BEING VALUABLE MEMBERS OF OUR SCHOOL COMMUNITIES I TO TOO APPRECIATE THIS INVALUABLE PROFESSIONALS THEY NOT ONLY CLEAN THE BUILDINGS BUT THEY ALSO SET UP FOR SPECIAL EVENTS ASSIST WITH BUSSES, MONITOR THE

012CAFETERIA EXCEPT ACCEPT SCHOOL DELIVERIES, MOVE CLASSROOM FURNITURE SO MUCH MORE ON CUSTODIAL APPRECIATION DAY THESE VALUABLE STAFF MEMBERS WERE APPLAUDED TREATED TO LUNCH AND GIVEN A PAIR OF CANVAS FOLDING CHAIRS TO HELP THEM RELAX AFTER ALL THE WORK THEY PUT IN FOR US EACH DAY. THANK YOU CUSTODIANS. WE SO PROUD OF YOU >>. WE THINK HUNDREDS OF OUR RETIREES ON JUNE 18TH WITH A BIG CELEBRATION HOLYROOD THE HOLIDAY INN AS EACH GUEST WAS GREETED WITH CHEERS A RETIREMENT YOUR YARD SIGN AND A SHOULDER STUFF WITH GIFTS. THE CELEBRATION INCLUDED A DJ AND DANCING HUGS AND PHOTO TAKING OPPORTUNITIES AND A FEW TEARS ARE TEARS. OUR HUMAN RESOURCES DEPARTMENT AND OUR OFF THE FOOD SERVICES PUT ON QUITE THE PARTY WITH GREAT FOOD AND TROPICAL THING WE WANT ALL OUR EMPLOYEES RETIRED AND CURRENT TO KNOW

013THEY ARE TRULY APPRECIATED LAST MONTH I JOINED SOME OF YOU IN CELEBRATING THE HOUSE STUDENTS BILL SUITED TO STUDENTS AT VIRGINIA BEACH TECHNICALLY FREE EDUCATION CENTER HAVE BEEN WORKING ON HOME ON ANY AVENUE FOR PAST TWO YEARS THE HANDS THE HANDS ON EXPERIENCES TEACH THEM CARPENTRY, ELECTRICAL MASONRY, PLUMBING, LANDSCAPING AS YOU CAN SEE THE STUDENTS MADE REMARKABLE PROGRESS THE HOME IS SET TO BE SOLD LATER THIS YEAR. THE HOUSE MADE POSSIBLE BY HELP FROM THE COMMUNITY THROUGH DONATIONS OF MATERIALS AND TIME PROCEEDS FROM THE SALE OF THE HOME WILL BENEFIT TEACHERS AND STUDENTS THROUGH THE VIRGINIA BEACH EDUCATION FOUNDATION. THIS IS A WONDERFUL PARTNERSHIP WITH OUR STUDENTS, STAFF AND LOCAL HOME BUILDING EXPERTS HELP STUDENTS LEARN AND SUCCEED AT THE VIRGINIA HIGH SCHOOL LEAGUE ANNOUNCED THIS TWENTY TWENTY THREE TWENTY FOUR NATIONAL RECOGNIZING SCHOOLS WITH

014ATHLETES WHO ACHIEVED YEARLONG ACADEMIC SUCCESS. THEIR AWARD IS PRESENTED BY THE VIRGINIA ARMY NATIONAL GUARD. SIX CUTS ARE AWARDED IN EACH OF THE VESSEL'S SIX ENROLLMENT CLASSIFICATIONS I'M PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE ANNOUNCE THAT PRINCE IS IN HIGH SCHOOL WON THE CLASSIFIED FIVE NATIONAL GUARD GROUP WITH THREE HUNDRED FIFTY POINTS THIS RATING IS BASED NOT ONLY ON ATHLETICS BUT ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE IN AREAS SUCH AS CREATIVE WRITING DEBATE AND ROBOTICS CONGRATULATIONS. CONGRATULATIONS TO THE STUDENT ATHLETES IN HIGH SCHOOL. THIS OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AND FINALLY FOR STUDENTS OF THE ENTREPRENEURSHIP BUSINESS ACADEMY COMES THROUGH HIGH SCHOOL WILL GOING TO CHICAGO IN JULY TO PROMOTE THEIR BUSINESS AT THE NATIONAL PITCH CONTEST THEIR PRODUCT CALLED SHE CLASP IS A SIMPLE INNOVATIVE DEVICE THAT ALLOWS YOU TO EASILY CLASS JEWELRY SUCH BRACELET OR NECKLACE OR NECKLACE. THE TEAM MEMBERS OR MAYA HAMMILL

015AMARI W CHLOE HOFFMAN AND YASSMIN MASTERED THIS IS THE FIRST TEAM EVER FROM HAMPTON ROADS AND MAKE IT THIS FAR IN THIS INCUBATOR EDU COMPETITION WE WISH THE TEAM THE VERY BEST AND THANK YOU MADAM CHAIR. THIS CONCLUDES MY REPORT. THANK YOU WE >> ALSO HAVE SOME RECOGNITION TONIGHT AND I'M PLEASED TO FIRST START WITH JEREMY COX JEREMY IS CURRENTLY AN ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL AT ROCKY RIVER HIGH SCHOOL IN CHARLOTTE MECKLENBURG AND WE ARE PLEASED THAT YOU'VE ACCEPTED OUR RECOMMENDATION FOR JEREMY TO BE THE NEXT SYSTEM PRINCIPAL AT SALEM MIDDLE SCHOOL. AND JEREMY, I SEE YOU HAVE SOME GUESTS. OH CONGRATULATIONS AND WELCOME TO VIRGINIA BEACH. NEXT UP ANGEL PARSONS ANGEL IS CURRENTLY ADMIN ASSISTANT AT VB MIDDLE SCHOOL ALSO USED TO WORK IN THE OFFICE OF PROFESSIONAL GROWTH AND INNOVATION WHEN I WAS THERE AND

016I'M PLEASED WE'VE RECOGNIZED WE ACCEPT THE RECOMMENDATION FOR THE NEXT ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL SAILELE MIDDLE SCHOOL TO MAKE A DYNAMIC TEAM WITH JEREMY COX >> AND I SEE YOU HAVE SOME GUESTS THAT'S OUTSTANDING AND I SEE YOUR PRINCIPALS HERE WATCHING HER NEW TEAM GET SELECTED SO SHE CAN PUT YOU TO WORK SO CONGRATULATIONS. SO CONGRATULATIONS. NEXT UP WE HAVE SHARON BIRD CHIRPING BIRDS CURRENTLY A TEACHER A TEACHER AT SALEM HIGH SCHOOL AND WE PLEASE THAT YOU HAVE APPROVED OF OUR RECOMMENDATION FOR HER TO BE THE NEXT COORDINATOR VISUAL PERFORMING ARTS PERFORMING ARTS AT SALEM HIGH SCHOOL UNLESS YOU ,I SEE YOU HAVE A GUEST. CONGRATULATIONS AND THEN FINALLY >> IT'S AMY CHURCH CURRENTLY AN ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL AT FIRST COLONIAL HIGH SCHOOL BUT ALSO USED TO BE HUMAN RESOURCES SPECIALIST AND WE'RE PLEASED THAT YOU'VE ACCEPTED RECOMMENDATION

017FOR TO BE THE NEXT DIRECTOR OF EMPLOYMENT SERVICES IN THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES >> I SEE YOU HAVE A GUEST ALL ALL RIGHT CONGRATULATIONS. CONGRATULATIONS ON ALL OF YOU ON YOUR NEW POSITIONS AND THIS PHENOMENAL SCHOOL VISION THANK YOU. WELCOME TO THE FAMILY OK TONIGHT, TONIGHT WE HAVE TWO SETS MINUTES FOR YOUR APPROVAL. THE FIRST IS THE MEETING MINUTES FROM OUR SPECIAL SCHOOL BOARD MEETING ON JUNE 4TH ARE THERE ANY MODIFICATIONS TO THE JUNE FOURTH SPECIAL SCHOOL BOARD MEETING MINUTES AS PRESENTED ALL RIGHT SEEING NONE I CALL FOR A CALL FOR A MOTION MOTION MADE I MISS RIG SECONDED BY THIS KENDRICK. ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION THE VOTING BOARD'S OPEN MADAM HERE WE HAVE EYES AND EYES AND ONE ABSTENTION. SO THE MOTION FOR THE MINUTES FOR JUNE 4TH DID PASS. OK, AND MR. KAPLAN

018DID YOU WANT TO OFFER YOU MY ABSTENTION DUE TO THE FACT THAT I WAS ABSENT THAT NIGHT. OK, THANK YOU SIR. ALL RIGHT. IN ADDITION, WE HAVE THE REGULAR SCHOOL BOARD MEETING MINUTES FROM JUNE 10TH. ARE THERE ANY MODIFICATIONS THOSE MEETING MINUTES. ? ALL RIGHT. SEEING NONE MOTION BY MISS KENDRICK SECONDED BY MISS FRANKLIN ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION AREN'T THE RIGHT. THE VOTING BOARD IS OPEN SO MADAM CHAIR WE HAVE NOT WE HAVE NINE I'S THE MOTION TO PASS THE APPROVAL OF THE JUNE 10TH MEETING MINUTES AND WE HAVE ONE ABSTENTION DID YOU WANT TO MAKE SIR I WASN'T HERE OK ALL, THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. THE SCHOOL WELL NOW YOU'RE PUBLIC COMMENTS ON MATTERS RELEVANT TO PRE-K THROUGH 12 PUBLIC EDUCATION IN VIRGINIA BEACH AND THE BUSINESS OF THE SCHOOL BOARD AND THE SCHOOL DIVISION

019FROM CITIZEN DELEGATIONS WHO SIGNED UP WITH THE SCHOOL BOARD CLERK PRIOR TO NOON TODAY THE PURPOSE FOR THE PUBLIC COMMENT SECTION OF THE SCHOOL BOARD AGENDA IS FOR THE BOARD TO OFFER AN ORDERLY FOR TO RECEIVE PUBLIC COMMENTS DURING THE MEETING I'D LIKE TO REMIND EVERYONE ATTENDING TONIGHT'S MEETING THIS INCLUDES THOSE ON THE DAIS AND THOSE IN THE AUDIENCE AND ONLINE TO PLEASE SPEAK WITH RESPECT AND KINDNESS. THE SCHOOL BOARD ALSO INVITES THE PUBLIC TO SUBMIT COMMENTS THROUGH OUR GROUP EMAIL ACCOUNT WHICH CAN BE FOUND ON WEBSITE MADAM KIRK WOULD YOU PLEASE, WOULD YOU PLEASE INTRODUCE THE FIRST SPEAKER THANK YOU MADAM CHAIR OUR FIRST SPEAKERS WILL BE OUR BE OUR STUDENT SPEAKERS. WE HAVE RIVERS DEVLIN ROBINSON AND THEN BRYN BURTON GOOD EVENING I'M A RISING SEVENTH RISING SEVENTH GRADE STUDENT AT ODIASE I'VE

020BEEN ATTENDING SINCE SECOND GRADE I WAS NOT GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO FILL OUT A SURVEY I'M A STUDENT AT THE SCHOOL THAT WILL BE AFFECTED SO SHOULD BE ABLE TO GIVE MY OPINION AND THAT IS WHY I'M HERE TO TELL YOU WHY YOU SHOULD CLOSE ODIOUS BECAUSE I'VE BECAUSE I'VE BEEN ATTENDING ODIASE FOR FIVE I'VE MADE MANY FRIENDS WHICH IS NOT EASY FOR ME FOR ME SINCE SO MANY PEOPLE DELIVER ON THE WHOLE CITY IT WOULD BE HARD TO KEEP IN TOUCH IN TOUCH WITH MOST OF MY FRIENDS ROADS CLOSED AT MY HOME SCHOOL I WAS OFTEN BORED OR NOT CHALLENGED SOMETIMES I WOULD HELP OTHERS WITH THEIR WORK BECAUSE I HAD FINISHED MINE. I ODIOUS CHALLENGES ME AND HELPS ME FEEL EXCITED TO LEARN NEW THINGS WHEN I FIRST STARTED AT ODDS IN SECOND

021GRADE I. I WAS NERVOUS STARTING HAD A NEW SCHOOL AND ADJUSTING TO HOW THINGS ARE DONE. I QUICKLY REALIZED THAT I LIKE BEING THERE AND MADE FRIENDS EASILY WHERE AT MY OLD SCHOOL IT WAS A LOT TO MAKE FRIENDS I HAD A LOT MORE IN MORE IN COMMON WITH MY CLASSMATES. I WAS ABLE TO LEARN MY OWN WAY AND FIND MY OWN WAY FIGURING OUT THE ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS INSTEAD OF BEING TOLD HOW TO DO THINGS. MY TEACHERS HAVE BEEN AWESOME THEY'RE ALWAYS THERE TO ENCOURAGE ME AND HELP ME LEARN TO ADVOCATE FOR MYSELF AND FIND CREATIVE SOLUTIONS TO PROBLEMS I FEEL SUPPORTED AND UNDERSTOOD. I'VE INVOLVED WITH ECOLOGY CLUB CHESS CLUB LEADERSHIP WORKSHOPS AND DRAMA CLUB IN MY TIME AREAS . I LOVE BEING INVOLVED IN EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES AT MY SCHOOL THIS YEAR I

022TOOK PART IN THEATER CLASS AND DISCOVERED HOW MUCH I ENJOY IT I WAS A PART OF THE PLAN DRAMA CLUB I HOPE TO CONTINUE A THEATER INTO MY EIGHTH GRADE YEAR ODIOUS AND TAKE PART IN THE MUSICAL I SEE ALL THESE THINGS BECAUSE OF ODIOUS CAUSES WOULD BE UPSET THAT I WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO DO MANY OF ACTIVITIES OF THE ACTIVITIES I LIKE OR SEE MY FRIENDS THAT I'VE DONE IN SECOND GRADE IT BE DONE IT WOULD BE VERY HARD FOR ME TO TRANSFER TO A NEW SCHOOL BEFORE I'M DONE WITH MIDDLE SCHOOL AS SERIOUS AS AN OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN IN MY OWN WAY AND BE CHALLENGED YOU WOULD NOT JUST BE SHUTTING DOWN A SCHOOL YOU'D ,YOU'D BE BREAKING APART A COMMUNITY FRIENDS THAT HAVE GROWN UP TOGETHER AND HELPED EACH OTHER. I

023WOULD ALSO IT WOULD ALSO TAKE AWAY OPPORTUNITIES FOR FUTURE GIFTED STUDENTS TO BE CHALLENGED AND FIND OPPORTUNITIES TO LEARN IN THE WAY THEY NEED TO. PLEASE DO NOT CLOSE ODIASE AS MY TEACHERS USED TO SAY TO ME THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX AND COME UP WITH A BETTER SOLUTION. THANK YOU. SO >> JUST A REMINDER FOR OUR AUDIENCE I'M SO SORRY BUT WE DON'T ALLOW CLAPPING SO YEAH I'M THANK YOU I APPRECIATE THAT. YEAH THAT OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS DEVELIN ROBINSON THEN BRING BURTON THEN IN CHINA BACHAR HELLO I AM A RISING SEVENTH GRADER AND I WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK ON BEHALF OF THE OLD SCHOOL I FEEL THAT WE SHOULD KEEP THE SCHOOL THE WAY IT IS JUST ALLOWS ME AND OTHERS TO LEARN AT OUR OWN PACE AND IT ALLOWS US TO LEARN UNTIL

024THE VERY LAST DAY OF SCHOOL IF THIS ACADEMY WERE TO BE ALTERED MYSELF AND MANY OTHER STUDENTS WILL LOSE THIS AMAZING PRIVILEGE AND I URGE YOU TO KEEP THE SCHOOL THANK YOU. OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS BRAND BURTON ORANGE IN A AND THEN VICKER VICTOR KNEW ABOUT MY NAME IS BRIAN BURTON. I'M GOING INTO EIGHTH GRADE AND I'M 13 I'VE THIRTEEN. I'VE BEEN GOING TO AREAS FOR SIX YEARS SINCE I WAS IN SECOND GRADE OUR SCHOOL HAS BEEN A GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR SO MANY PEOPLE DIDN'T GET TO LEARN AND ACCELERATED CURRICULUM AND GET CAN GET TAUGHT IN DIFFERENT WAYS TO HELP THEM LEARN BETTER. THEY AND ALSO TAKE CLASSES LIKE THEATER AND WORLD LANGUAGES STARTING IN SIXTH GRADE WHEN I HEARD THAT THE SCHOOL SYSTEM WAS TRYING TO TAKE AWAY THOSE OPPORTUNITIES FROM THESE PEOPLE I

025KNEW I HAD TO SAY SOMETHING NOT ONLY AS EARLY AS THE FIRST PLACE MIDDLE CAUGHT IN THE WHOLE STATE OF VIRGINIA. IT'S ALSO THE SECOND PLACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL VIRGINIA I KNOW THEY DON'T HAVE MUCH TIME LEFT THERE BUT WHAT ABOUT THE ABOUT THE LITTLE KIDS YOU JUST AND DON'T GET TO SPEND MORE THAN A FEW YEARS THERE WHAT HAPPENS? WHAT HAPPENS TO THEM AFTER THAT AND WHAT HAPPENED TO THE KIDS THAT NEED TO WORK BUT CAN'T GET IT FOR US BECAUSE WHAT EVERYONE THAT GOES ODIOUS FROM EVERYWHERE IN VIRGINIA EACH IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT NEIGHBORHOOD YOU LIVING LIVE IN. IN FACT MY BEST FRIEND ACROSS TOWN FOR ME IT'S BEEN A GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR ME. PEOPLE LIKE TO PEOPLE I WOULD NEVER HAVE IF IT IF IT WASN'T FOR ODIASE IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT KIND

026OF BACKGROUND YOU COME FROM THERE. WELL LET'S JUST SAY THAT THEY DO CLOSER YES WHAT HAPPENS TO THE HOME SCHOOLS ARE ACCUSTOMED SCHOOLS AREN'T ACCUSTOMED TO HAVING SO MANY EXTRA KIDS IN THE SCHOOL THERE AROUND EIGHT HUNDRED AND EIGHTY FIVE MIDDLE SCHOOLERS ATTENDING EACH YEAR AND THERE ARE ONLY 15 MIDDLE SCHOOLS IN THE SCHOOL SYSTEM THAT'S AROUND FIFTY EIGHT MORE KIDS IN EACH SCHOOL. HOW WILL THEY ACCOMMODATE ALL THOSE EXTRA KIDS WHAT HAPPENS ALL THE TEACHERS AND STAFF THAT CERTAINLY THAT CERTAINLY DON'T HAVE THE JOB ANYMORE. WHAT HAPPENS TO THEM AND A POOL? THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE PURPOSE FUTURE OF OLD SCHOOL 14 PEOPLE STRONGLY PEOPLE STRONGLY AGREED WITH MAINTAINING THE CURRENT STRUCTURE AND USE OF ODIASE TEN PEOPLE AGREED IN FIVE MORE NEUTRAL AND TOPIC WITH FOR WITH FOUR DISAGREEING AND THREE IN TWO

027STRONGLY DISAGREE THAT'S TWENTY FOUR OUT OF THIRTY FIVE OF THIRTY FIVE PEOPLE WHO DON'T WANT AWAY THAT 60 PERCENT THAT'S SIXTY EIGHT PERCENT SIXTEEN OF THESE THIRTY FIVE PEOPLE ALSO STRONGLY DISAGREE WITH PHASING OUT YES IN THREE DISAGREEING THAT'S 54 PERCENT IN BOTH OF THESE CASES THE MAJORITY OF THE SUBCOMMITTEE DOES NOT THINK IT'S A GOOD IDEA FOR US TO GET PHASED OUT PLEASE THESE DO NOT TAKE THESE WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITIES AWAY FROM THE NEXT GENERATION OF EXCEPTIONAL STUDENTS IN VIRGINIA BEACH. THANK IN OUR NEXT OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS WHEN SHARNA BLOGGER THEN VICTOR NEWBAUER AND THEN YOUR WENSHENG LEAVING DR. ROBERTS AND CYBER SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS AS AN AUDIENCE MYSELF I WANT I WANT TO SHARE WHY PRESERVING ODIASE IN VIRGINIA BEACH IS SO IMPORTANT MY SCHOOL HAS INVESTED IN VARIOUS FACILITATORS TO DO OUR

028BEST DO OUR BEST WORK. ONE EXAMPLE INCLUDES A THINK CLASSROOMS AND IT'S A SMALL SO SOUNDPROOF CLASSROOM ADJACENT IN THE CLASSROOM. ANOTHER EXAMPLE IS THE WOBBLY CHAIRS AS YOU CAN FOCUS IN ENERGY IN A WAY SO NOT DISRUPT CLASS MY SCHOOL HAS ALREADY ACHIEVED MULTICULTURAL DIVERSITY WE HAVE A VERY INTEGRATED MIX OF ALL POPULATIONS THAT MAKE UP THE CITY INCLUDING ALL ETHNIC BACKGROUNDS AND VARIOUS MENTAL HEALTH DISORDERS WHAT ARE SOMETIMES CALLED VARIOUS ABILITIES AS OPPOSED TO DISABILITIES WHY WOULD ANYONE TRY TO UNDO WHAT HAS ALREADY BEEN ACHIEVED ODIOUS SHOULD REMAIN AS IS AND BE A MODEL SCHOOL FOR THE REST OF THE CITY TO EMULATE AND INTEGRATE THOSE PROGRAMS IDEAS SPECIAL GIFTED CURRICULUMS USE IT. YES, I FULLY APPRECIATE MY SCHOOL HAS A VERY STRONG MUSIC AND ARTS PROGRAM OR YES A LITTLE TO NO

029A SPORTS AS ATHLETIC FIELD WE'RE NOT WE'RE NOT A DESIGN FOR THE SCHOOL I'M TOLD THERE WAS A VERY RECENT COMMUNITY OUTCRY REGARDING POSSIBLE BUDGET CUTS IN THE AREA. SO I'M SURE A COMMUNITY WOULD PREFER TO MAINTAIN THE STRONG MUSIC AND ARTS ASPECT AS OF SCHOOL ALSO. OH YES. IT'S A MARVELOUS WORLD LANGUAGE PROGRAM SOMETHING NO OTHER MIDDLE SCHOOL HAS TO OFFER IN ADDITION I ALSO APPRECIATE THE LACK OF LACK OF BULLYING IN MY SCHOOL I FEEL SAFE WITH STUDENTS THAT ARE LIKE ME AT MY SCHOOL I I'VE HEARD OF ONLY ONE OR TWO INCIDENTS OF BULLYING IN OVER SIX YEARS AT LEAST OTHER SCHOOLS HAVE AT LEAST TWO INCIDENTS WEEKLY THE LIFE OF BULLYING IS BECAUSE EVERY STUDENT IS EXCEPTIONALLY SMART SO IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO MAKE FUN OF SOMEONE WHO HAS YOUR SAME

030TRAITS PHASING OUT ODIOUS WOULD DEFINITELY INCREASE BULLYING BECAUSE MIXING TOO MANY DIFFERENT ABILITIES AND THAT KIDS LIKE ME WOULD BE ODDBALLS IN THE GROUP IN CONCLUSION. OH YOU SHOULD KEEP ODIASE RITCHEY STATE TO RETAIN MULTICULTURAL DIVERSITY AND PROVIDE MODEL OF EXCELLENCE FOR OTHER SCHOOLS TO MIMIC IF THEY CHOSE TO. ADDITIONALLY, IT WOULD PRESERVE A WONDERFUL PERFORMING IN LANGUAGE PROGRAM AND REDUCE BULLYING CITYWIDE THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME OUR >> NEXT SPEAKER WILL BE VICTOR NUVO AND IN YOUR WENSHENG I AM TWELVE AND ARISING SEVENTH GRADER INTO GRADER INTO ODIASE IT SHOULD NOT BE SHUT BECAUSE A LOT OF KIDS AND I AREN'T GOING TO MOST NOT BE GOING SCHOOL IF THEY SHUT DOWN AND OTHER BE GOING I EITHER BE GOING TO A PRIVATE SCHOOL WILL BE HOME SCHOOLED WHICH AS PEOPLE HAVE ARGUED WILL

031NOT RAISE SO ALL SCORES OF OUR LOCAL SCHOOLS IF NOT AT ALL. YES AND OTHER GIFTED STUDENTS THAT THINK LIKE US WE WON'T BE ABLE TO THRIVE AND WON'T BE ABLE TO TALK TO OUR CAPABILITY STUDENTS THAT IDENTIFIED AS GIFTED OFTEN ARE OFTEN VERY GOOD BY OTHER KIDS CALLED MARRIAGE AND EVEN BOLDLY BECAUSE OF OUR ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS GIFTED THAT ARE PART OF LOCAL SCHOOLS MAY NOT WELL THEIR TALENTS BECAUSE THEY OR DID YOU NOT FEEL THE NEED TO FEEL THE NEED TO ACHIEVE EVEN MORE BECAUSE ACADEMIC SUCCESS WHEN IN FACT WE FEEL PEER PRESSURE TRY NOT TO FEEL AS IF NOT TO APPEAR AS CURIOUS BECAUSE WE MAY BE CALLED NAMES OF STUDENTS SHOULD NOT BE STIFLED BUT INSTEAD NURTURED DON'T EVEN WANT A SAFE ENVIRONMENT WHERE WE SURROUNDED BY LIKE MINDED PIERCE THANK. THANK

032YOU FOR YOUR TIME. OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS YOUR MENSCHEN MICHELLE. OK, WE WILL MOVE TO OUR ONLINE STUDENTS SPEAKERS. OUR FIRST SPEAKER IS LUKE DUNN PLEASE ON MUTE EVEN MEMBERS EVENING MEMBERS OF THE VIRGINIA BEACH OVER MY NAME IS LOOKED DOWN AND OUTGOING AND A THIRD GRADER YES I'M HERE TO TALK ABOUT TO TALK ABOUT WHY ODIASE IS REALLY IMPORTANT FOR KIDS LIKE ME ONLY AS WE LEARN THINGS JUST RIGHT FOR US ALL. YES WE DO. WE GET TO HARDER AND MORE INTERESTING WORK THAT KEEPS US EXCITED ABOUT LEARNING WAS I FIND THE FINDING A BOOK YOU CAN'T DOWNLOAD GOOD WHEN MY WELL MY GOSH EVERYONE LOVES LEARNING JUST AS MUCH AS I DO IT'S FUN TO DO FUN TO OUR COURSE AND WANT TO LEARN NEW THINGS EVERY DAY OF EACH OTHER AND SHARE

033IDEAS MAKING SCHOOL FUN AND EXCITING OR DO YOU DRAW THE ODDS MAKE A FUN AND CHALLENGING THEY GIVE GIVES US SPECIAL PROJECTS DIRECTOR I THINK AND USE OUR IMAGINATION WE TO DOVE DEEP INTO SUBJECTS WE LIKE SCIENCE MATH, MATH, READING, WRITING, ART, MUSIC HISTORY AND MORE. THIS MORE AND MORE CREATIVE WE CREATIVE. WE ALSO GET IN DO INTELLIGENT LEARNING CONNECTING DIFFERENT SUBJECTS FOR EXAMPLE WE DID OUR NATIVE AMERICAN STUDY WHERE WE TODAY THE BOUNDARIES OF THE GEOGRAPHICAL INDIVIDUAL THE NATIVE AMERICAN THE NATIVE AMERICAN CULTURE, D'AMBOISE AND MORE WHILE WRITING AND GRAPHING READING AND CREATING ART EXHIBIT PER CLASS MUSEUM ACTIVITIES LIKE CHESS CLUB FLYING KANGAROO MENTHOL ALSO IMPORTANT IN JAZZ CLUB I LEARNED TO THINK AHEAD AND PLAN WITH ME PROBLEM WITH PROBLEM SOLVING AND STRATEGIZING ODIOUS HELPED US ONE LEADERSHIP PRINCIPLES FOR OUR FUTURE

034OPPORTUNITY TO TAKE A TO TAKE ON LEADERSHIP ROLES AND PROJECTS GROUP ACTIVITIES THIS DISASTER THIS TEACHES US TO WORK WELL WITH OTHERS MAKE GOOD DECISIONS AND WE CONFIDENTLY WE'RE NICOLELIS GILS NOW BECOME GREATER BECOME GREAT LEADERS WHEN WE GO SOMETIMES KIDS WHO ARE EARN DIFFERENTLY AND FEEL LEFT OUT OR BORED REGULAR CLASSES IN A GIFTED GO WE ALL FEEL LIKE WE BELONG UNDERSTOOD AS A CHILD A MOTHER YOUR CHILD I HAVE ATTENDED FIVE AND I CAN TELL YOU AS A VERY SPECIAL PLACE FOR ME MY FRIENDS. WE ENJOY LEARNING AND LEARNING FIELD CHALLENGE AND PREPARE FOR THE FUTURE. I HOPE YOU NEEDLESS TO SUPPORT ODIASE TO THAT ORCHID'S YOU CAN HAVE THE CHANCE TO LEARN AND GROW IN THE BEST WAY POSSIBLE. THANK YOU FOR LISTENING. OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS BIKILA SACKHEIM PLEASE ON MUTE

035GOOD EVENING SCHOOL BOARD MY NAME IS ECOSOC I'M AN ALUMNUS OF ODIOUS AND A RISING SOPHOMORE AT OCEAN COMPLAINTS ACADEMY ODIOUS AS WE ALL WE ALL KNOW IS A GIFTED SCHOOL WE'RE NOT JUST SMART WE THINK DIFFERENTLY AND WE HAVE SPECIAL TALENTS AND CHALLENGES FROM THE STUDENTS EXCELLING IN HIGH QUALITY SCIENCE LABS TO THE GIFTED DANCER STUDYING EVERYONE IS DIFFERENT GIFTED IN A DIFFERENT WAY. THIS IS WHY EXISTS AND NEEDS TO STAY I. I CAN SAY THIS WITH COMPLETE CONVICTION AS I HAVE HAD VERY UNIQUE EXPERIENCES IN MY EDUCATIONAL JOURNEY I WAS FIRST IDENTIFIED AS GIFTED IN FIRST GRADE IN A DIFFERENT STATE THIS DIDN'T HAVE A SCHOOL LIKE INSTEAD ODIASE INSTEAD THE CLUSTER PROGRAM WAS IMPLEMENTED WHERE STUDENTS WERE PULLED OUT OF CLASS FOR AN HOUR A DAY THREE TIMES A WEEK THERE WAS

036NO CONTINUITY OR CONNECTION WITH THE MATERIAL AND IT JUST WASN'T CHALLENGING ENOUGH IN GENERAL JUST AS WE WOULD START TO FEEL STIMULATED AND INTERESTED THE ONE HOUR WOULD BE UP AND BACK TO A NORMAL CLASSES. WE WOULD GO MANY GIFTED PIERS INCLUDING MYSELF STOPPED TRYING. LEARNING BECAME BORING A THING WE HAD TO DO AND DIDN'T WANT TO DO. I'M VERY FORTUNATE FOR THE MY PARENTS DECIDED TO MOVE ACROSS STATE LINES AND TIME ZONES TO VIRGINIA RIGHT BEFORE I STARTED SIXTH GRADER ODIOUS FOR ODIASE FOR THE FIRST TIME I FELT CHALLENGED AMONG PEERS WHO KEPT ME ON MY TOES. WE DUG DEEPER INTO COARSE MATERIAL AND ASK QUESTIONS THAT FOR SOME TURNED INTO INSPIRATION FOR THEIR EIGHTH CAPSTONE RESEARCH PROJECTS ARE TEACHERS WERE ABLE WERE ABLE TO PROVIDE SUPPORT AND HELP THE PERSONAL GROWTH OF INDIVIDUAL

037STUDENTS. IT WAS A PROFOUND INFLUENTIAL ENVIRONMENT ONE THAT WE SHOULDN'T SACRIFICE AT ANY COST FAST FORWARD TO THE END OF EIGHTH GRADER AND I'VE GONE THROUGH A COMPLETE TRANSFORMATION I WANT STUDENT OF THE YEAR EVERY SINGLE YEAR EVERY SINGLE YEAR I SELL THE ADVANCED FRENCH PROGRAM EARNING A PERFECT SCORE ON THE NATIONAL DEMPS LANGUAGES COME NATURALLY TO ME BUT I NEVER WOULD HAVE FOUND THAT OUT WITHOUT ODIASE I EARNED THE PRESTIGIOUS RECOMMENDABLE FOR LEADERSHIP AND EXTRACURRICULARS LIKE SCA AND ANOTHER FOR STUDENTS GIFTED IN NONACADEMIC AREAS CAN SHINE LIKEWISE SOME OF MY GIFTED PIERS EXCELLED IN THE PROGRAM YET SOME STUDENTS BARELY MADE THE CUT EARLY ON WANTED TO GO BACK TO THEIR HOMES SCHOOLS TO PARTICIPATE IN THE PROGRAM THEY WERE GIFTED YES BUT A FULL VERSION PROGRAM FULL VERSION PROGRAM WAS NOT WHAT THEY

038NEEDED THEIR NEEDS MORE SPECIFICALLY TAILORED TO A TOWARDS A SPECIFIC SUBJECT OR DISCIPLINE GIFTEDNESS IS A SPECTRUM PEOPLE IN ONE AREA OF AREA OF THE SPECTRUM NEED THE CLUSTER PROGRAM AND PEOPLE IN THE OTHER AREA NEED A PROGRAM WITH ODIASE IT WOULD THEREFORE BE A HUGE DISSERVICE TO BOTH GROUPS TO DISSOLVE AREAS AND EVERYONE TOGETHER IN ONE AREA I CAN DEFINITIVELY SAY THAT ODIASE HAS CHANGED MY LIFE FOR THE BETTER WHERE WHERE I AM TODAY. WHAT I'VE ACCOMPLISHED THE OPPORTUNITY HAVE BEEN EXPOSED TO IT'S ALL THANKS TO THIS WONDERFUL SCHOOL NOW HIGH SCHOOL I CONTINUOUSLY EXPERIENCE THE POSITIVE EFFECTS OF BEING AN ODIOUS ALUMNA WHEN I HEARD ABOUT THIS OPPORTUNITY I DECIDED TO COME BACK AND SPEAK TO FEEL HOW MUCH ODAC TO MEET A U.S. SENATOR ONCE SAID WHAT MAKES A CHILD GIFTED TOUTING

039MAY NOT ALWAYS BE GOOD GRADES IN SCHOOL BUT A DIFFERENT WAY LOOKING AT THE WORLD AND LEARNING ODIOUS HOPES HELPS ALL TYPES OF BRAINS FIND THEIR POTENTIAL WHETHER IT'S IN MATH AND SCIENCE READING AND WRITING OR HISTORY AND ART SO PLEASE LISTEN TO OUR SINCERE APPEAL. DON'T TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY WAY FROM FUTURE GIFTED STUDENTS THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME OUR NEXT ONLINE SPEAKER IS FUNNY SACRé HOW I NESHA I'M A RISING FIFTH GRADER ODIASE HAS CONTINUED FOR ME EVER SINCE I SECOND GRADE IN TWENTY TWENTY ON THE BUILDING THE PEOPLE THE EVENTS LEARNING THE MOST IMPORTANTLY THE METHODS USED TO TEACH US ODIASE HAS ADVANCED CURRICULUM THERE'S NO DOUBT ABOUT THAT BUT IT IS ALWAYS TAUGHT TO US A CARING AND UNDERSTANDING TEACHERS IN THE SIMPLEST WAYS EVEN ON SOME STUDENTS FOUND THE CURRICULUM TO

040OUR TEACHERS HELP THEM DO WITH PATIENTS BESIDES IT'S THE CURRICULUM WAS DILUTED MAJORITY OF US GET FOR IT BUT IT'S NOT JUST THE CURRICULUM THAT IS THAT'S EVERYTHING FROM ART MUSIC THE ROOFTOP GARDEN AND POLICE ARE ON A WHOLE NOTHER LEVEL IS IT COULD BE AMAZING SCIENCE LAB IN SACRAMENTO, THE HALLWAY THE SCIENCE LAB EQUIPPED WITH EVERYTHING INCLUDING LAB COATS AND IS USED BY ALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AND IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE ANOTHER ONE OF MY FAVORITE THINGS ABOUT ODIASE IS THE GUIDANCE AND COUNSELING WITH COUNCILS AND TEACH AND UNDERSTAND THE UNIQUE NEEDS GIFTED STUDENTS PARENTS FOR ANY SORT OF CHALLENGES THEY MIGHT FACE IF NOT FOR COUNSELING PROGRAM. I HAVE BEEN INTRODUCED METACOGNITION CONFLICT RESOLUTION AND EFFECTIVE BOTH SO EARLY ON THE SCHOOL HAS PROVIDED ME WITH MANY OPPORTUNITIES INCLUDING MOCKING THE REAL KEY

041DEFLECTIONS I PLACED IN THE NATIONALS AND MANY MORE AT I'M PRIVILEGED TO BE ABLE TO BE ABLE TO LEARN AMONG FRIENDS AND PEERS I LEFT MY ALSO DIFFICULT FOR ME FROM ME AND MANY SMALL WAY THIS HELPS ME GROW ERODES THE FRIENDS I'VE FRIENDS I'VE MADE HAVE BEEN TEACHING HELPING ME AND LAUGHING THROUGHOUT MY THROUGHOUT MY YEARS AT THIS AMAZING SCHOOL AT THE CURRICULUM TEACHERS AND FRIENDS ARE AN AWESOME EXPERIENCE WHICH IS HELP ME LEARN AND GROW SO MUCH NO MATTER WHAT. ODIASE EMBODIES THIS QUOTE BY GEORGE WASHINGTON CARPET EDUCATION IS THE KEY TO A MARK GOLDEN DAWN OF FREEDOM ODIASE GAVE ME AND MANY THIS KEY AND WE USED IT STEP STUCK TO THE GOLDEN DOOR EVERY DAY WE ARE THERE SO PLEASE DON'T TAKE AWAY OPPORTUNITY FOR US THE STUDENTS TO THRIVE IN

042ODIASE THANK OK WE HAVE ANOTHER IN PERSON STUDENT SPEAKER YEAH CHEN SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS YOU PROBABLY DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH I STRUGGLE REGULAR SCHOOL EVERYTHING IS TOO EASY FOR ME ODIOUS WHY ARE ALL THESE STUDENTS ARE HAVING CHALLENGES? I JUST LOVE CHALLENGES BUT THERE IS NO AT SCHOOL MATH AND SCIENCE OR MY FAVORITE SUBJECTS AND I WANT TO NOTICED WHEN I GROW UP THOUGH I NEVER LEARN MUCH IN HAVE MANY STRUGGLES I STILL KEEP GOING UNTIL THE END OF THE SCHOOL YEAR AND I HOPE YOU CAN I SPOKE TO IN AND ANOTHER CLASS I HAVE BEEN WAITING A LONG LONG TIME PLEASE AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME OUR NEXT SPEAKERS WILL BE MATTHEW CODY CONNER TANYA RIVERS SPEAKER NUMBER THREE HAD TO CANCEL AND THEN WILL BE AMANDA ROBINSON WELL SUMMER TIME AGAIN AND

043WHILE I UNDERSTAND FOR A LOT OF PARENTS THIS IS A CHALLENGING TIME THE YEAR WITH THEIR KIDS BEING HOME FROM SCHOOL AND THEN STILL HAVING TO WORK AS A PARENT OF AND LGBTQ CHILD OF DISABILITY. THE END OF THE SCHOOL YEAR COMES AS A RELIEF KNOWING MY CHILDREN ARE SAFE HOME NOT HAVING TO WORRY ABOUT SENDING ANOTHER EMAIL TO THE PRINCIPAL ABOUT A STAFF MEMBER KEEPS MOST GENDERING. MY DAUGHTER FAILS A FOLLOWER IEP NOT TAKING THAT PHONE CALL IN THE MIDDLE OF THE WORKDAY TRYING TO CALM HER COMFORT HER AFTER SHE'S BEEN BULLIED OR LAUGHED BY THE OTHER KIDS IT'S A BIT OF A WEIGHT OFF IF EVEN IF EVEN FOR A LITTLE WHILE INCREDIBLY PROUD OF MY CHILDREN NOW MY YOUNGEST JUST FINISHED HIS FIRST YEAR OF MIDDLE SCHOOL MY DAUGHTER JUST SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED

0448TH GREAT MOVING ON TO HIGH SCHOOL KIND OF A ROUGH END THE SCHOOL YEAR FOR YOU GUYS THOUGH WITH THE RACIST BULLYING CONTROVERSY IN THE BOOK REVIEW COMMITTEE MESSING UP THE RELATIONSHIP WITH THE LIBRARIES PREVENTING KIDS FROM ACCESSING BOOKS FOR SUMMER EATING NOT EXACTLY A GOOD LOOK NOT REALLY A REALLY A PAT YOURSELF ON THE BACK WAY AND THE YEAR HOPEFULLY THAT'S REMEMBERED THAT'S REMEMBERED BY VOTERS IN NOVEMBER WE CAN GET BACK TO MAKING OUR SCHOOLS SAFE PLACES OF LEARNING FOR OUR KIDS I WAS TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT TO SAY TONIGHT. I WROTE DOWN SOME PREDICTIONS. THE FIRST ONE WAS THAT A COLPEPER RUN AWAY AGAIN WHEN I GOT IT TO SPEAK BUT HE DIDN'T EVEN SHOW UP TONIGHT SO SECOND ONE WAS SOMEBODY WOULD SAY VIRGINIA'S EDUCATION SYSTEM SHOULD MORE LIKE LOUISIANA'S FORTY

045SEVENTH RANKED EDUCATION SYSTEM THAT'S NOT HERE SO I GUESS WE'LL BE LUCKY BE LUCKY ENOUGH TO SKIP THAT NONSENSE OR TONIGHT MY LAST AND PROBABLY MOST CONTROVERSIAL PREDICTION IS THAT IT SHOULD BE A ROUTINE VOTE TO RENEW THE SCHOOL BOARD'S MEMBERSHIP WITH THE VIRGINIA SCHOOL BOARD ASSOCIATION WILL INSTEAD BECOME A DRAMATIC POINT OF CONTENTION WITH ORGANIZED SORRY ORGANIZED SENT FROM OUR CHRISTIAN NATIONAL SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS. THAT'S A CONVERSATION AND VOTE THAT MISMANAGED SHOULDN'T EVEN BE ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE IN AT ALL CONSIDERING SHE HAS A PERSONAL INTEREST IN THAT MEMBERSHIP NOT BEING RENEWED SETS THE STAGE FOR STAGE FOR THE CONSERVATIVE SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER LIONS THAT SHE'S THE DIRECTOR FOR AN ORGANIZATION THAT'S THE LARGEST DONATION HAS GONE TO VICTORIA MANNING FOR A SCHOOL BOARD. INTERESTING SINCE SHE'S NOT ACTUALLY RUNNING I WOULDN'T BE WOULDN'T BE

046SHOCKED TO SEE A SURPRISE RESOLUTION INTRODUCED TO JOIN THE SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER ALLIANCE INSTEAD OF RENEWING WITH THE VIRGINIA SCHOOL BOARD ASSOCIATION. IT WOULDN'T BE INTRODUCED BY MANUAL THEY'D BE TOO OBVIOUS IT'LL PROBABLY BE PROBABLY BE ONE OF THE MANDEANS CULPEPPER DO THE DIRTY WORK LAST TIME SO MAYBE BROWN OR POSSIBLY THE NEW KID KENDRICK YOU I'D LIKE TO HOPE >> THAT OUR SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS CARE MORE ABOUT OUR KIDS AND THEIR EDUCATION THAN THEY DO ABOUT THEIR OWN PERSONAL AND POLITICAL GAIN. BUT OBVIOUSLY HAVE MY DOUBTS I GUESS I GUESS WE'LL GET TO SEE SOON HOW MANY OF THE BOXES I GET A CHECK ON MY BEING OKADA, HUH? HAVE A GOOD NIGHT. OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS RIVERS THAT AMANDA ROBINSON THEN CECILIA CORNELIUS. GOOD EVENING I'M GOING TO TALK ABOUT THE POTENTIAL CHANGES

047TO THE MODELS OF DELIVERY THE DELIVERY FOR THE GIFTED EDUCATION PROGRAM I HAVE TWO CHILDREN THAT HAVE ATTENDED ODIASE AND SECOND GRADE THE SURVEY SENT OUT TO THE SUBCOMMITTEE MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY REGARDING ODIASE COMPRISED OF 10 PEOPLE WITH ONLY SEVEN RESPONDENTS. THIS IS OUT A LARGE ENOUGH SAMPLE SIZE TO RADICALLY DETERMINE THE OPINION OF WHAT SHOULD BE CHANGED IF ANYTHING WHY WERE THE ONLY 10 PEOPLE ON THIS COMMITTEE THE SURVEY THAT WAS SENT OUT TO THE REST THE GIFTED CONNECTED FAMILIES WAS A VERY AMBIGUOUS FILL IN THE BLANK TYPE OF SURVEY THE QUESTIONS ARE PROVIDED WERE VERY UNCLEAR IN BIG TO THOSE WHO ARE NOT FAMILIAR WITH A FIVE YEAR PLAN FOR GIFTED EDUCATION. THE SURVEY SHOULD BE SENT OUT TO ALL GUPTA CONNECTED FAMILY STUDENTS AND STAFF SEVEN RESPONSES FROM THE COMMUNITY IS

048A LAUGHABLE NUMBER AND SIMPLY COMPRISE TO SAY THAT FEEDBACK FROM THE COMMUNITY WAS RECEIVED AND THE DECISION HAS ALREADY BEEN MADE THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE TO DISMANTLE ODIOUS WE'RE WE DOING A DISSERVICE THE STUDENT POPULATION THERE ITS ORIGINAL INTENT WAS INTENT WAS TO SERVE THE TOP ONE TWO PERCENT OF GIFTED STUDENTS IN THE CITY THOSE THAT ARE PROFOUNDLY GIFTED, THOSE WITH HIGHEST NEEDS GIFTEDNESS IS NOT SOME SORT OF ELITE GROUP AS SOME PERCEIVE IT IS NOT EASY RAISING GIFTED CHILDREN. IT'S A NARROW DIVERGENCE REQUIRES SPECIAL EDUCATION IT IS ALSO A CONTINUUM NOT GIFTED STUDENT HAS THE SAME NEEDS THOSE ARE THE HIGHEST THE HIGHEST NEEDS IS WITH ANY SPECIAL EDUCATION PROGRAM NEED MORE SPECIALIZED INSTRUCTION TO HELP WITH THEIR WAY OF LEARNING. THAT'S WAS CREATED CLOSING ODIOUS WOULD BE DETRIMENTAL TO THE MENTAL HOPEFULLY STUDENTS AS

049WELL SOCIAL INTERACTIONS SOCIAL INTERACTIONS CAN BE DIFFICULT ESPECIALLY THOSE TWICE EXCEPTIONALITIES BEING SURROUNDED BY PEERS WITH SIMILAR TRAITS UP THESE STUDENTS ESTABLISHED BONDS THAT THEY WOULD NOT OTHERWISE BE ABLE TO. THEY DON'T FEEL THE NEED TO HIDE THEIR INTEREST EMOTIONS OR FOR FEAR OF BEING PERCEIVED DIFFERENT NECESSARY THERE ARE MANY DIFFERENT OPTIONS GIVEN SATELLITE LOCATIONS PULL UP PROGRAMING ELIMINATION OF ODIOUS AND GIFTED CLASSES AT HOME SCHOOLS WHERE SOME OF THE OPTIONS INSTEAD OF ELIMINATING SERVICES WHY NOT EXPAND IF MORE STUDENTS ARE BEING IDENTIFIED AS BEING GIFTED IT MAKES SENSE TO EXPAND THE PROGRAM AND NOT REDUCE IT AS OF RIGHT WE HAVE THE FULL TIME MODEL IN THE GIFTED THE GIFTED CLUSTER MODEL. THAT'S IT THOSE ELEMENTARY STUDENTS THAT MAY BE MORE THAN CLUSTER BUT NOT FULL TIME AREN'T GETTING THEIR MEETS NEEDS MET INSTEAD

050OF EXPANDING TO INCLUDE ALL GIFTED STUDENTS MEET THE STUDENTS WHERE THEY NEED IT SOMETHING AND THEN TO ONE GROUP IS NOT THE ANSWER. YOU NOT DO THIS SPECIAL EDUCATION STUDENTS DO NOT DO THIS TO GIFTED STUDENTS MANY SCHOOL DISTRICTS IN VIRGINIA THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY HAVE SEVERAL OPTIONS TO SERVE GIFTED LEARNERS FULL TIME PULL FULL TIME FULL UP CLUSTERING FOR SPECIFICS. CPS IS TRYING TO BE INNOVATIVE AND START THE COURSE WHY ARE WE NOT EXPLORING MORE WAYS AND MODELS TO SERVE STUDENTS INSTEAD OF LESS ALL THESE MODELS CAN BE USED SIMULTANEOUSLY USED SIMULTANEOUSLY TO SERVE THE NEEDS ALL GIFTED LEARNERS WITHOUT THE NEED TO BUILD A SEPARATE SCHOOL ANSWER IS NOT TO CLOSE ODIOUS OR EXPAND THE SELECTION PROCESS TO ALLOW MORE STUDENTS KEYBOARDS FOR THE HIGHEST NEEDS HIGHEST NEEDS STUDENTS WITH PROVEN GIFTED PEDAGOGIES ENRICHMENTS

051THEY USED TO HAVE ANY EXPAND THE GIFTED PROGRAM TO UTILIZE MORE MODELS AND SERVE MORE STUDENTS AND UNDERSTAND THAT GIFTEDNESS IS A CONTINUUM AND THAT THERE ARE VARYING DEGREES OF STUDENTS THAT NEED TO HAVE THEIR NEEDS MET. THANK YOU OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS AMANDA ROBINSON CECILIA KORNELIUS AND THEN SANDRA SHIMABARA I LOVED HER IDEAS. MY OH MY NAME IS AMANDA ROBINSON OF A PARENT OF TWO CHILDREN THAT ATTEND ALTERNATIONS SCHOOL RISING SEVENTH GRADER WHICH YOU ALREADY HEARD FROM AND RISING FIFTH GRADER I WANT TO VOICE MY SUPPORT FOR THE SCHOOL BOARD COMMITTEE SUBCOMMITTEE TO MAINTAIN THE STRUCTURE AND USE OF THE OLD DONATIONS SCHOOL. I AM FIRMLY AGAINST THE FIVE YEAR PLAN TO DISBAND ODIASE I QUESTION THESE RECOMMENDATIONS AND DO NOT FEEL THEY ARE REFLECTIVE OF THE COMMUNITY ALTERNATION AS A AND SPECIAL SCHOOL

052WHERE ACADEMIC AND EMOTIONAL NEEDS ARE BEING MET. THIS YEAR IT WAS RANKED AS NUMBER TWO IN VIRGINIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AND NUMBER ONE VIRGINIA MIDDLE SCHOOL BY U.S. NEWS AND WORLD REPORT CLEARLY THE ADMINISTRATION AND TEACHERS ARE DOING THINGS WELL AND MEETING I NEED IN THE COMMUNITY BOTH OF MY CHILDREN HAVE BEEN CHALLENGED ACADEMICALLY AND ARE SELLING WITH THE ACCELERATED CURRICULUM THEY HAVE FOUND SOCIAL ACCEPTANCE THROUGH SIMILAR PEER GROUPS AND WITH OTHER KIDS THAT WANT TO TALK ABOUT DNA AND MEMORIZE THE PERIODIC TABLES IF MY CHILDREN OR OTHERS LIKE THEM DO NOT HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE THE OLDEST LEARNING ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH DEMONSTRATES THAT THERE IS LESS MOTIVATION AND ENGAGEMENT AND SATISFACTION WITH LEARNING AMONG GIFTED STUDENTS. I HOPE AT THE SCHOOL BOARD FOLLOWS GIFTED EDUCATION SUBCOMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS TO LEAVE WILL DO NATION AS IT IS

053NOT EXPAND IT. THANK YOU OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS CECILIA KORNELIUS SANDRA CHINA BLOGGER AND THEN LAUREN CLARK HELLO I AM CECILIA WINCO, CORNELI US I'M A GRADUATE OF VIRGINIA BEACH PUBLIC SCHOOLS GRADUATE FROM TOXIN NINETY ONE IN NINETY ONE I I'VE ALSO RAISED FOUR CHILDREN THREE WHO HAVE GRADUATED FROM COX AS WELL AND THIS IS MY YOUNGEST DAVIS IT HE WAS A STUDENT ORDINATION I'VE ALSO TAUGHT IN THE SCHOOL SYSTEM ON ALL DIFFERENT LEVELS I TAUGHT FIRST GRADE. I'VE ALSO TAUGHT THIRD FIFTH AND I'VE BEEN A SUBSTITUTE TEACHER EACH LEVEL I'VE ALSO BEEN ALSO BEEN A SUBSTITUTE TEACHER AND ALTERNATION AND I'M HERE TO TELL YOU THAT EXPERIENCE FOR THE CHILD AND THE ENVIRONMENT IN WHICH THEY LEARN AND AS COMPLETELY DIFFERENT AND IT WAS IT WAS MADE UNIQUELY TO MEET THE INDIVIDUAL NEEDS OF

054THESE SPECIAL CHILDREN I DON'T SPECIFICALLY LIKE THE TERM GIFTED BECAUSE ALL CHILDREN ARE GIFTED IN DIFFERENT WAYS AND I THINK THAT OFTEN THAT IS A DETRIMENT TO THE CHILDREN THAT GO TO PARENT SKIP OFFEND AT OR DEFENSIVE OF THEIR IS AN IDENTIFIED BUT THESE CHILDREN THEY GO TO OUR CHOSEN TO GO TO ODIASE THEY ARE DEFINITELY UNIQUE AND EVEN THOUGH THEY CAN SURVIVE OR EXCEL IN THE REGULAR CLASSROOM ENVIRONMENT THEY ARE NOT ABLE TO LIVE UP TO THEIR FULL POTENTIAL WE TALK ABOUT THE CHILD BEING LEFT BEHIND AND TRYING TO MEET THE STUDENTS NEEDS OFTEN I THINK IN THOSE SITUATIONS WE THINK ABOUT STUDENTS DISABILITIES ARE TITLE ONE STUDENTS THAT NEED MORE ASSISTANCE THIS IS A GROUP UNIQUE GROUP OF CHILDREN THAT ALSO NEED SPECIAL SITUATIONS AND ACCOMMODATIONS SO THEY ARE NOT LEFT BEHIND. THEY

055ARE NOT ABLE TO LIVE UP TO THEIR POTENTIAL AND THE REGULAR CLASSROOM ENVIRONMENT DAVIS AS AN EDUCATOR AND A PARENT I WAS NEVER A BIG PUSHER I ALWAYS MEET THE STANDARDS AND WHATEVER WE WERE SUPPOSED TO BUT I FELT LIKE THIS THE CHILDREN STAY IN THEIR HOME SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT AND EVEN TOLD MY FRIENDS WHAT THE CHILD SAY IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOLS AND THEN I HAD DAVIS WHICH I DID NOT HAVE VERY MUCH EXPERIENCE WITH THE GIFTED STUDENT AT THREE HE DECIDED HE WAS GOING TO ODIOUS ONCE HE WAS IN KINDERGARTEN HE WANTED TO STUDY TO PASS THE TEST I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THERE WERE THINGS THEY COULD STUDY BUT HE SELF ADVOCATED AND HIS GIFTED TEACHER JOHN VIRI QUICKLY IDENTIFIED HE WAS GONNA BE A GREAT CANDIDATE AND I SAID WHAT I WHAT I DO

056TO HELP HIM SUCCEED AND SHE SAID JUST TALK TO HIM THAT HE WAS A NATURAL AND I'VE BLOSSOM I'VE BLOSSOM. I'VE SEEN THE SCHOOL THAT HE USED TO BE AND IT'S A GREAT ENVIRONMENT THAT THE CHILDREN SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO KEEP. THANK YOU. OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS SANDRA SHINE A BIGGER THAN CLARK THEN NEW YORK NIVO. GOOD EVENING, DR. ROBERTSON. BABY STEPS OF THE SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS. THANK YOU FOR SERVING STUDENTS PARENTS AND STAFF OF VIRGINIA AT VIRGINIA BEACH. I HAVE TWO DIFFERENT DIMENSION REGARDING OTHER NATIONS VOTE FOR THOSE WHO DID NOT KNOW SERVICES FOR GIFTED CHILDREN WERE HELD AT A BUILDING CALLED CAMPS LANDING FOR MANY YEARS PRIOR TO 2015 VIRGINIA BEACH LOCALS NO KNOW THAT KIM'S LANDING WAS ALREADY ANCIENT IN ROTCH INFESTED AS OF DECADES PRIOR TO THE EARLY 2000S I WAS

057THERE IN THE EIGHTIES I CAN VOUCH FOR THAT NONSTOP COMMENTS UNLIKE WILLIAMS BEING SLATED FOR RENOVATION, IT WAS SADLY NOT EVEN DECIDED TO PRESERVE THAT HISTORICAL BUILDING AS A SCHOOL AT ALL. INSTEAD THEY DECIDED TO SPEND SIXTY THREE MILLION DOLLARS DESIGNING AND TAILORING AN ENTIRE NEW BUILDING FOR THE GIFTED SPECIAL ED POPULATION AND THAT WOULD BE INCREDIBLY WASTEFUL TO NOT CONTINUE USING THE BUILDING FOR ITS INTENDED PURPOSE. ONE POSSIBLY HELPFUL IDEA IN THE INTEREST OF EQUITY DON'T KNOW WHERE I WANT THIS TO DO IS TO CONSIDER CHALLENGING OR CHANGING THE LANGUAGE AND TO REFER TO GIFTED PROGRAMS AS SPECIAL ED SIMILAR TO THE DECISION TO PROVIDE SPECIAL EDUCATION SERVICES FOR CHILDREN, IT WAS DECIDED DECADES AGO THAT SERVICES WERE ALSO NEEDED FOR STUDENTS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE BELL CURVE. THE IDEA FOR WAS

058FOR BOTH PROGRAMS. THE IDEA WAS FOR EVERY CHILD TO REACH THEIR FULL POTENTIAL AS THE LAST SPEAKER MENTIONED SO I'M WONDERING IS THIS PARTICULAR RESTRUCTURING OF SERVICES FOR OUR CHILDREN IS THAT RELATED TO SOME LEGAL ACTION TAKEN AGAINST DBCP WONDERING IF EVEN THOUGH PLAINTIFFS DO NOT WIN THEIR CASES THE LEGAL ACTIONS ARE PROBABLY COSTLY TO THE TAXPAYERS PROBABLY THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS REGULARLY AND WONDERING IF BP SAYS COUNTERSUING THESE PLAINTIFFS FOR LEGAL EXPENSES? IF NOT, WHY NOT HOPEFULLY THERE'S A PLAN TO MITIGATE ANY FURTHER ACTION FOR THE MORE FORTUNATE FAMILIES WHO FEEL THAT THE STRUCTURE SERVICE THAT SHOULD REMAIN IN THE CURRENT STATE OF EXCELLENCE THE WORST THING TO EVER DUE TO A POPULATION IS TAKE AWAY INCENTIVES TO EXCEL AND REMOVE SOLID EXAMPLES OF EXCELLENCE. NOW SWITCHING GEARS NOW I'M RUNNING OUT OF TIME BUT

059I ALSO WANTED TO MENTION SOME TOTALLY DIFFERENT A SEPARATE ITEM WAS CONSIDER IF YOU CAN CONSIDER AS MUCH AS EASILY POSSIBLE KEEPING THE SAME CLASSES OF STUDENTS TOGETHER YEAR AFTER YEAR EVEN THROUGHOUT MIDDLE SCHOOL AND HIGH SCHOOL THIS IS DONE IN ITALY AND ITALY HAS NEVER HAD ONE SCHOOL SHOOTING SO FAR ONE REASON FOR THAT IS GROUP COHESION DOES WONDERS FOR STUDENTS MENTAL HEALTH AND SAFETY AND WILL LIKELY PREVENT THE NEXT CATASTROPHE THIS WOULD GIVE STUDENTS AND PARENTS MORE INCENTIVE TO BOTHER GETTING TO KNOW EACH OTHER AND WILL PLACE MORE WATCHFUL AND HEARING EYES ON STUDENTS WHO MIGHT BE EXPERIENCING MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES IN KEEPING THE SAME CLOSER TOGETHER WITH STRENGTHENED FRIENDSHIPS. THANK OUR >> NEXT SPEAKER IS LAUREN CLARK THEN NINO NOVEM AND THEN COURTNEY JACOBS HELLO SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS THANK YOU THANK YOU

060FOR TAKING THE TIME TO LISTEN TO ME THIS EVENING. MY NAME IS LEARN CLARK AND I AM THE PARENT RISING SEVENTH GRADER AT ODDS. I'M HERE TONIGHT RESPONSE TO YOUR GIFTED ADVISORY COMMITTEE AND SUBCOMMITTEE SURVEYS REGARDING THE FUTURE AND PURPOSE OF ALL THE SCHOOL IN THESE SURVEYS YOU OUTLINED IN SIGHT INPUT ON AT LEAST THREE DIFFERENT OPTIONS FOR THE PHASE OUT AND DISSOLUTION OF IDEAS AS POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS TO ADDRESS THE PERSISTENT DISCREPANCY BETWEEN ENROLLMENT SPACES AND ELIGIBLE GIFTED STUDENTS. I'D REMIND YOU IN 2014 THE CITY OF VIRGINIA BEACH DECIDED THAT WE REQUIRED ESPECIALLY AT SCHOOL FOR THE GIFTED THE TAXPAYER SUPPORTED THAT IDEA AND OLDER NATION SCHOOL WAS FINANCED TO THE TUNE SIXTY THREE MILLION DOLLARS WITH A NEARLY 100 PERCENT COSTS TO THE TAXPAYER THROUGH THE OBLIGATION OF A TWENTY YEAR DEBT BOND FOR

061THOSE WHO ARE LISTENING AND MAYBE BE UNFAMILIAR WITH THAT PROCESS THAT MEANS THAT INSTEAD OF USING EXISTING MONEY TO BUILD ROADS, THE CITY PROMISE THAT THE TAXPAYERS OF VIRGINIA BEACH WOULD BE RESPONSIBLE FOR PAYING THE FULL COST OF CONSTRUCTION OVER THE COURSE OF TWENTY YEARS BY MY CALCULATIONS THAT DOES NOT RELEASE THE TAXPAYERS FROM THE BURDEN OF THE COST TO BUILD ROADS UNTIL AT LEAST TWENTY THIRTY FOR MAKE NO MISTAKE IF AIDS IS PHASED OUT AND THE BUILDING IS USED FOR ANY OTHER PURPOSE THAN WHAT YOU PROMISED THE TAXPAYERS IT WOULD BE YOU'LL HAVE RENEGED ON YOUR PROMISE TO THE PUBLIC IN THIS SCENARIO CITIZENS OF VIRGINIA BEACH WILL CONTINUE TO BE TAXED AND PAY FOR A GIFTED SCHOOL THAT THE CITY SAID WAS REQUIRED BUT SOMEHOW IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE TO THEIR GIFTED STUDENTS

062I ENCOURAGE EVERYONE WATCHING TO CLOSELY MONITOR THE FINAL DECISION REGARDING ODIOUS AND ITS PHYSICAL BUILDING CAREFULLY ODIOUS DRAWS FROM EVERY CORNER OF THIS CITY AS SUCH EVERY REPRESENTATIVE ON THIS ON THIS BOARD ANSWERS TO TAXPAYERS VOTERS THAT HAVE A STAKE IN THE FUTURE OF ROADS I RESPECTFULLY REQUEST THAT YOU HEAD BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD TO EXAMINE ALL OF THE OPTIONS AT YOUR DISPOSAL FOR MODIFYING THE ADMISSIONS PROCESS SO THAT THE SCHOOL CAN CONTINUE TO DELIVER SPECIALIZED AND CORRECTIONAL SERVICES TO STUDENTS. THE WAY YOU PROMISED THE PUBLIC AT WHAT THIS INCLUDES SIMPLY OFFERING ADMISSION TO THE TOP ONE TO TWO PERCENT OF APPLICANTS ACROSS THE CITY APPLICANTS AREN'T SIMPLY HIGH ACHIEVERS FOR THE FIRST TO FINISH A WORKSHEET STUDENTS GRADE LEVELS AHEAD IN READING AND MATH IS INSTRUCTION HAS BARELY BEGUN THESE ARE THE STUDENTS

063ODIASE WAS DESIGNED FOR WE NEED TO MAKE A DECISION AS A CITY. WHAT ARE WE TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH WITH GIFTED SERVICES DO WE WANT TO NURTURE AND ADVANCE OUR BRIGHTEST MINDS SO THAT THEY MAY COMPETE AT THE HIGHEST INSTITUTIONAL LEVELS IN OUR COUNTRY DO WE WANT THESE GREAT BRIGHT MINDS TO ONE DAY RETURN TO OUR REGION TO DESIGN ROCKETS AT NASA OR SAVE LOCAL RETIREE AS A NEUROSURGEON AT SANTERO I'M CERTAIN I'D LIKE THE FUTURE OF OUR REGION TO BE THE BRIGHTEST IT CAN BE AND THAT IS THE PURPOSE AND FUTURE OF ODIASE OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS NEIL NOVEM. COURTNEY JACOBS AND THEN CHANGPING LEE NEO >> NOVA COURTNEY JACOBS GOOD EVENING I'M HERE TONIGHT TO ADVOCATE TO ADVOCATE FOR THE ADDITION NEW THIRD GRADE CLASS AREAS FOR THE UPCOMING SCHOOL UPCOMING SCHOOL YEAR. I

064BELIEVE CRUCIAL FOR THE BOARD MEMBERS TO REEVALUATE THE FUNDAMENTAL MISSION OF ODIASE AND ROLE AS A DEDICATED FREESTANDING SCHOOL FOR THE GIFTED SUCH INSTITUTION ARE DESIGNED TO CATER TO THE TOP ONE TO TWO PERCENT OF STUDENTS LEARNING SURPASS WHAT IS TYPICALLY OFFERED IN OFFERED IN A STANDARD CLASSROOM ENVIRONMENT ODIOUS SHOULD REMAIN COMMITTED TO THIS PURPOSE RATHER THAN TRANSFORMING INTO GENERAL EXPERIENCE FOR ALL OR ONCE A WEEK PROGRAM. OUR GOAL SHOULD BE TO FULFILL THE SPECIFIC NEEDS OF STUDENTS WHO EXCEL BEYOND THE CAPABILITY OF GRADE LEVEL EDUCATION OVER THE PAST YEAR WE HAVE CONTINUALLY ADVOCATED FOR OUR CHILDREN FALLING SIGNIFICANT DEVIATIONS FROM THE ESTABLISHED PLAN DURING THE TWENTY THREE TWENTY FOUR ADMISSION PROCESS THE TWENTY THREE TWENTY FOUR YEAR WAS THE ONE YEAR WHERE THE KIDS WITH THE HIGHEST NEEDS WERE LEFT OUT OF THE ADMISSION

065PROCESS AGAIN THIS MARKED THE FIRST OCCASION WHERE TOP APPLICANTS WERE NOT OFFERED A SPOT IN SECOND GRADE AN OVERSIGHT THAT EVEN THE PROMPTED THE INTERVENTION THE VIRGINIA BOARD DEPARTMENT SORRY THE VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION WHICH CONFIRMED THAT THE COMMISSION PROCESS WAS FLAWED AND INCONSISTENT WITH OUR LOCAL PLAN THE VIDEO HE RECOMMENDED ADDING HE'S LEFT BEHIND STUDENTS TO ODIASE COMPARING THE EMISSION LATER THIS YEAR ONLY 50 STUDENTS WERE TOP RATED USING THE NEWER ADMISSION PROCESSES WHILE LAST YEAR TWO HUNDRED FORTY FOUR STUDENTS WERE TOP RATED BASED ON THE SELECTION CRITERIA MADE UP BY A GIFTED OFFICE ADDRESSING THESE AREAS BY ADDING AN ADDITIONAL CLASS TO BE A CRUCIAL STEP TOWARDS RESTORING THE INTEGRITY AND TRANSPARENCY THAT IS DESPERATELY EAT IT FROM THE GIFTED OFFICE FURTHERMORE I MUST EXPRESS MY CONCERNS REGARDING PRESENTATION ON THE GIFTED OFFICE

066TONIGHT THAT IS FORTHCOMING. IT APPEARS TO FOCUS ON THE NEGATIVES WITHOUT DISCUSSING THE ACTUAL NEEDS OF THE STUDENTS WHO REQUIRED THESE SERVICES AS YOU DELIBERATE I URGE YOU TO KEEP TO KEEP IN MIND OUR RISING THIRD READERS REGARDING THE SURVEY DATA FROM LOCAL PLANNING SUBCOMMITTEE AND OTHER RESPONDENTS THAT'S THE GIFTED OFFICE WILL PRESENT TONIGHT. IT IS IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT IT COMPRISES OF ONLY 40 TWO RESPONDENTS THIS IS NOT REPRESENTATIVE OF THE BROADER STAKEHOLDER COMMUNITY IN VIRGINIA BEACH ACCOUNTING FIRM NEARLY ZERO POINT ZERO ONE PERCENT OF THOSE INVOLVED IN GIFTED EDUCATION THIS RAISES SIGNIFICANT CONCERNS REGARDING THE RELIABLE AND VALIDITY OF THIS SURVEY DATA. MOST TROUBLING IS FROM THE DISCUSSIONS WITH PARENTS ON THE SUBCOMMITTEE IT SEEMS THE LOCAL PLAN FOR THE GIFTED EDUCATION REMAINS LARGELY UNCHANGED MAINTAINING THE STATUS QUO RATHER EMBRACING NECESSARY REFORMS

067I STRONGLY ENCOURAGE THE SCHOOL BOARD'S REQUEST THAT THE GIFTED OFFICE REVIEWS CURRENT DATA FROM THE TWENTY TWENTIES ON CONTINUUM OF SERVICES AND INCORPORATES BEST PRACTICES TO ENHANCE EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCES FOR ALL GIFTED STUDENTS IN VIRGINIA BEACH >>. OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS JUMPING LEE AND THEN NIKOLA, GEORGIA. DEAR SUPARMAN THANK YOU FOR GIVING ME THIS TIME TO SPEAK AGAIN I WANT TO THANK ALL OF YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION. I REMEMBERED ATTENDANT THE FIRST US GLOBAL MEETING ON JUNE 20 TWENTY TWENTY THREE I WAS VERY ENCOURAGED GLOBAL MEMBERS YOU POINTED OUT SOME QUESTIONS WHY DO WE HAVE AUDIENCE WHO IS THE HIGHEST JOSHUA LOOK BACK AND REVIEW ALL THE STUDENT'S APPLICATIONS AT ODIASE WITH THE HIGHEST THE SCORES LOCAL PLANS AS TOP WILL BE CHOSEN BY THE LOTTERY WE NEED THE FAIRNESS PROCESS FOR OUR CHILDREN TODAY I'M

068ASKING A THIRD GRADE CLASS WE HAVE SUFFERED A ONE YEAR I HOPE FOR RESOLUTION AND VOTE TONIGHT PLEASE CONSIDER SUPPORTING THIS OPTION SINCE IT IS THE ONE THE ONLY ONE REMEDY WE CAN GET ON TEMME DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY STUDENTS GOT FROM THE RACE IN GRADE CLASS THIS YEAR FIFTY EIGHT STUDENTS FROM THE REGION SECOND GRADE CLASS AS FIVE FIVE FIVE ABOUT FIFTY STUDENTS ARE AUTOMATICALLY PLACED ODIOUS ANY OTHER YEAR BUT LAST YEAR MY CHILD GOT BOTH NETNET PERCENTILE ATSUKO GOT AN HIV TEST THE LAST YEAR I'M SURE SHE IS ONE OF FIFTY EIGHT STUDENTS IF SELECTED THE PROCESS WAS FOLLOWED THE LAST YEAR SHE APPLIED OH YES THIS AGAIN AND RECEIVED A PERFECT RATING OF FIVE FOUR FIVE PLEASE GIVE ALL FAIRNESS THE PROCESS OUR CHILDREN PLEASE EITHER THIRD GRADE CLASSES TO MEET

069A TOP STUDENTS NEEDS THANK. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS NIKOLO GEORGIA HADIR YOUR SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS AND DR. ROBERTS SPEAKING TONIGHT TO ADVOCATE FOR THE ADDITION OF A THIRD GRADE CLASS AT OLDEST AND FINALLY RECTIFIED SITUATION FOR THE CALL FOR IT IS ENCOURAGING THAT THE ADMINISTRATION WOULD BE SHARING A REASONABLE OPTION WITH YOU LATER TONIGHT. HOWEVER, I WOULD TO ADD SOME DATA AND COMMENTS THAT MAY BE HELPFUL DURING YOUR DISCUSSION PLEASE CONSIDER NOT ONLY THE COMPLICATIONS BUT ALSO THE BENEFITS THAT SURPASS ADDITION ADDING A CLASS FOR TWENTY SIX MORE STUDENTS PLEASE CONSIDER THIS OPTION DOES NOT ADVERSELY AFFECT THE STUDENTS ALREADY OFFERED AT THE SCHOOL FIRST GRADE. FIRST GRADE IS THE ONLY REALISTIC ENTRY POINT FOR ALL THE US WHICH IS YEAR'S FIRST GRADE FORD HAS BEEN MOST NEGATIVELY IMPACTED BY

070THE UNAPPROVED CHANGES HISTORICALLY AS WELL AS THIS YEAR ALL TOP TIER STUDENTS HAVE BEEN OFFERED TO SEE AT ODIASE DURING THE FIRST GRADE SELECTION PROCESS BUT NOT LAST YEAR. THEREFORE COMPARING THE NUMBER OF TOP STUDENTS IN OTHER GRADES WHO APPLY TO ALL IS ILLOGICAL AND MISLEADING. THIS COHORT THIS COHORT IS THE ONLY ONE IN THE HISTORY OF ODIASE WHO WAS NOT GIVEN A FAIR AND APPROVED SELECTION PROCESS IN THE FIRST GRADE. THE UNAPPROVED SCALED USE LAST YEAR WATERED DOWN THE SELECTION PROCESS RESULTING TWO HUNDRED AND FORTY FOUR STUDENTS BEING READ IT IN THE HIGHEST YEAR CONSEQUENTLY THE LOTTERY LEFT THE LEFT THE STUDENTS WITH THE HIGHEST NEEDS OUT OF THE SCHOOL HERE ARE THE NUMBERS OF THE APPLICATIONS YES LAST YEAR NINE YEAR NINE HUNDRED AND NINETY SIX STUDENTS THIS YEAR SEVEN HUNDRED AND TWENTY

071FOUR STUDENTS THE DIFFERENCES 37 PERCENT FOR SCHOOL PERCENT FOR SCHOOL YEAR TWENTY FOUR TWENTY FIVE ONE HUNDRED AND ELEVEN SECOND GRADE STUDENTS WE APPLY TO OLD YES AND THEY WERE REEVALUATED USING THE APPROVED SCALE IN ACTIVE LOCAL PLAN AMONG THE STUDENTS CURRENTLY EIGHT OF THEM ARE RATED A FIVE FIVE FIVE AND SIX ARE RATED A FIVE FIVE FOR BASED ON THIS YEAR'S RANKINGS ALL OF THESE STUDENTS WILL HAVE BEEN OFFERED A SEAT LAST YEAR IF THE PLAN HAVE FOLLOW THESE STUDENTS SHOULD BE OFFERED A REMEDY AND THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR NOT MAKING IT RIGHT. THE SUPERINTENDENT THAT THE SCIENCE LAB HAS BEEN UNDERUTILIZED AND IT SHOULD BE SEEN POSITIVE THE ROOM CAN BE FINALLY BE USED THE BUDGET IS VERY REASONABLE AND CAN ONLY ALWAYS BE JUST HAD THE OPTION TO ADD A CLASS

072AT ODIASE WAS FIRST PRESENTED TO YOU ONE YEAR AGO THIS YEAR LONG EXPLORATION PERIOD MEANS IT IS TIME TO TAKE ACTION NOW BECAUSE IT IS LIMITING OUR TIME AND COMPLICATING IMPLEMENTATION TIMELINE PLEASE. PLEASE TAKE THE NECESSARY STEPS TO ACT ON THIS MATTER I WILL BE LOOKING FORWARD TO HEARING YOUR DISCUSSION AND PROMPTLY VOTING ON THIS PROLONGED ISSUE ADDING ODIOUS IS A GREAT INVESTMENT FOR GREAT INVESTMENT FOR EVERYBODY. THANK YOU. WE'LL MOVE ON TO ONLINE SPEAKER AFTER SPEAKER IS NICOLE GREEN PLEASE ON MUTE GOOD EVENING AND THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK I AM HERE THE PARENT TO PARENT TO SPEAK ABOUT THE VALUE OF ALTERNATION SCHOOL TO OUR CHILDREN >> WHILE SOME GIFTED CHILDREN MAY DO WELL IN THE HOME SCHOOL GIFTED CLUSTER'S OTHERS HAVE MORE INTENSE NEEDS AND THEY MAY NOT DO WELL

073THEIR WHEN OUR SON WAS AT HIS HOME SCHOOL HE SPOKE DAILY ABOUT NOT WANTING TO GO TO SCHOOL BECAUSE HE FELT BORED. HE REQUESTED EXTRA WORK FROM HIS TEACHER AND SHE WAS HELPFUL BUT HE DID NOT ENGAGED DOING EXTRA WORK SEPARATELY ON HIS OWN HIS ACADEMIC NEEDS WERE UNMET AND HE WAS LOSING INTEREST WE SAW SIGNS THAT HE WAS AT RISK OF DEVELOPING LOW SELF-ESTEEM AND BEHAVIORAL PROBLEMS WE WERE CONCERNED ABOUT THE RISKS AHEAD SINCE HE HAS BEEN AT ODDS, HIS ENGAGEMENT HAS BEEN HIGH AND HE HAS REGAINED HIS LOVE OF LEARNING AND HIS SELF CONFIDENCE. OUR SON IS VERY OUTGOING AND MADE EFFORTS TO MAKE FRIENDS AT HIS PREVIOUS SCHOOL HE EXPENDED A LOT OF ENERGY TO SOCIALLY AND EMOTIONALLY ADAPT HE DID MAKE FRIENDS BUT FELT BORNE OUT BY THIS CONSTANT REPUTATION AT

074ODIOUS HE USED AROUND PEOPLE HE FEELS UNNATURAL CONNECTION WITH HIS IN HE IS IN HIS ELEMENT AND FEELS AT HOME CLOSING ODIOUS WOULD PUT CHILDREN WITH THE HIGHEST NEEDS BACK IN ENVIRONMENTS WHERE THEY MAY HAVE SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL CHALLENGES DUE TO DISENGAGEMENT OR FEELING THAT THEY NOT FIT IN THERE IS A IS A REAL RISK OF KIDS GETTING OFF TRACK AND EVEN GETTING INTO TROUBLE MY HUSBAND IS WAS ALSO A GIFTED HIGH NEEDS CHILD AND GOT INTO A LOT OF FIGHTS IN TROUBLE BEFORE FINALLY BEING PLACED GIFTED PROGRAM AT THE END OF HIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL YEARS IF >> THE SPOTS AT ODDS ARE LIMITED THEN IT'S A MATTER OF RESOURCES WITH THE HIGHEST NEEDS STUDENTS THE SOLUTION WE SHOULD PUSH FOR IS TO OPTIMIZE THE SELECTION PROCESS WHILE SUSTAINING ODIOUS IN ITS CURRENT FORM I

075BELIEVE THAT IF PROGRAMS LIKE ODIASE DID NOT EXIST OUR SON WOULD HAVE NOWHERE TO TURN IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM AND HE WOULD BE AT HIGH RISK OF BEHAVIORAL PROBLEMS AND LOSING INTEREST IN SCHOOL DESPITE HIS NATURAL LEARNING THIS COULD HAVE A SEVERE IMPACT ON CHILDREN HIM I BELIEVE I BELIEVE WE SHOULD KEEP ODIASE IN PLACE IN ITS CURRENT FORM IDENTIFY THE CHILDREN WITH THE MOST TENSE NEEDS AND GIVE THEM THE OPPORTUNITY TO ATTEND. THANK YOU. OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS ALLENA DRUG LLAMO PLEASE UNMUTED GOOD EVENING. MY NAME IS LINDA GUILLERMO ELENA GUILLERMO AND I'M A PARENT OF A RISING THIRD GRADER AT ODDS IT'S HARD PASSIONATE COMMENTS FROM THE OLDER FROM THE OLDER STUDENTS AND PARENTS BUT I JUST WANTED TO ADD TO THE DISCUSSION ON ODIASE PHASE-OUT FIRST IT WOULD BE GREAT TO

076KNOW WHAT THE CURRENT PROBLEMS ARE. WE'RE TO SOLVE THESE PROPOSALS OR PROPOSALS OR ARE WE JUST DISCUSSING IS BECAUSE OF THE PARENT OUTCRY ON THE ONE YEAR ISSUE MY ASSUMPTION IS THAT >> IT'S DUE TO THE IDEA TO SERVE A LARGE GROUP OF GIFTED LEARNERS IF >> ANYTHING INSTEAD OF PHASING OUT WE SHOULD BE WORKING ON EXPANDING ODIASE BASED ON THE TEST RESULTS FOR BOTH LAST AND CURRENT YEAR ODIOUS IS A TOP NOTCH SCHOOL AT THE STATE LEVEL INSTEAD OF DISMANTLING SOMETHING THAT WORKS SO WELL, WHAT CAN WE'LL LEARN FROM THE SYSTEM AND IMPROVE GIFTED PROGRAMS AND COMMUNITIES AT LOCAL >> SCHOOLS IDEAL IT WOULD BE GREAT TO INCREASE THE BUDGET FOR STUDENTS ACROSS THE LOCAL SCHOOLS TO IMPROVE BY THERE PROCESSES BUT IF NOT POSSIBLE LIKE CONDORCET WE THINK OUTSIDE OF THE BOX TO

077SPREAD ITS RESOURCES AND POTENTIALLY CREATE CROSS TRAINING OR SHARED LESSON PLANS FOR USAGE ACROSS ALL SCHOOLS? ADDITIONALLY, GIFTED STUDENTS HAVE SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS AND WAYS TO LEARN AND LOCAL CLUSTER PROGRAMS OFTEN CANNOT ACCOMMODATE THE STUDENT'S NEEDS AND ENSURE THAT THEY NOT ONLY ACHIEVE THEIR FULL POTENTIAL BUT ALSO UTILIZE THEIR RIGHT TO GET SPECIAL ACCOMMODATIONS WHEN LEARNING CANNOT AGREE MORE WITH THIS WITH THE PREVIOUS SPEAKERS ON THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING ABLE TO MEET BOTH ACADEMIC AND EMOTIONAL AND SOCIAL NEEDS GIVE THE CHILDREN >> ANOTHER AREA MAKES ODIOUS AN ATTRACTIVE SCHOOL IS COMMUNITY AND PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT BETTER SUPPORTED BY THE SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION ODP PROCURES AFTER SCHOOL CLUBS AND EVENTS WITH PARENT VOLUNTEERS WHICH MAKES IT THE VERY SPECIAL PLACE FOR BOTH KIDS AND PARENTS INSTEAD OF PHASING OUT SO WE SO WE CAN WORK WITH LOCAL SCHOOL PROGRAMS

078AND PARTIES TO START SOMETHING SIMILAR AND ADDITIONALLY I WOULD LIKE TO ADVOCATE FOR THE ADDITION OF THE THIRD GRADE CLASS THE ODDS ARE TO ENSURE A FAIR AND EQUITABLE PROCESS FOR ALL VIRGINIA BEACH STUDENTS THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND OUR DECISION PROCESS A MANAGER THAT WAS OUR LAST SPEAKER THIS EVENING. THANK YOU MADAM CLERK. OK, NEXT ON AGENDA IS INFORMATION AND THIS EVENING WE ARE GOING TO START WITH OUR INTERIM FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR APRIL AND MAY TWENTY TWENTY FOUR AND WE WELCOME MR. DANIEL HOPKINS, DIRECTOR OF BUSINESS SERVICES. HELLO. GOOD MORNING SIRENS MAKING SORRY I'M MAKING SURE THIS THING IS ON GOOD EVENING. CHAIRWOMAN OR CHAIRWOMAN MELNIK VICE CHAIRWOMAN FRANKLIN SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS DR. ROBERTSON IN YOUR POCKET THIS EVENING ARE THE APRIL AND MAY INTERIM FINANCIAL STATEMENTS I'M GOING TO CONCENTRATE ON MAY

079THE FIRST GRAPH SHOWS THAT THE OVERALL REVENUE TREND REMAINS ACCEPTABLE AT THIS POINT IN THE FISCAL YEAR. WE JUST RECEIVE THE STATE'S FINAL FISCAL YEAR. TWENTY FOUR DIRECT AID BUDGET ON JUNE 13TH THE FINAL BUDGET ONLY INCREASED SEVENTY SEVEN THOUSAND DOLLARS FROM MARCH'S PROPOSED BUDGET THIS MAKES OUR FINAL SHORTFALL FROM THE ORIGINAL BUDGET TO FOUR POINT FIVE DOLLARS MILLION. THE MAJOR LINE ITEMS SALES TAX DECREASED EIGHT POINT FIVE MILLION STATE BASIC EIGHT INCREASE THREE POINT EIGHT MILLION AND THESE NUMBERS HAVEN'T CHANGED MUCH FOR LET'S FROM YOU KNOW THEIR ORIGINAL MONTHS AGO THE ADAM OF OUR ORIGINAL BUDGET TO THE FINAL BUDGET WENT FROM SIXTY THREE THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED TWENTY TWO STUDENTS TO SIXTY NINE THOUSAND SIXTY TWO THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED TWENTY STUDENTS THAT'S A DECREASE OF DECREASE OF TWO HUNDRED AND NINETY FIVE STUDENTS FEDERAL

080REVENUES ARE SHOWING A FAVORABLE TREND AT THIS POINT IN THE FISCAL YEAR WE RECEIVED FEDERAL IMPACT A PAYMENTS OF APPROXIMATELY SIXTEEN DOLLARS MILLION OTHER SOURCES OF REVENUE YEAR TO DATE THROUGH MAY OR FAVORABLE AT THIS POINT IN THE FISCAL YEAR THEY ARE UP ABOUT THREE HUNDRED FORTY THOUSAND DOLLARS FROM LAST YEAR MAINLY DUE TO THE CLASS ACTION SETTLEMENT AND THE STOP ARM AND SALE OF CAPITAL ASSETS WITH THE APPROVAL OF THE STATE BUDGET THE NEXT GRAPH SHOWS AT THE SALES TAX RECEIPTS WILL BE IN AN UNFAVORABLE LEVEL LEVEL YEAR TO DATE THROUGH MAY WE ARE APPROXIMATELY EIGHT POINT TWO MILLION DOLLARS LOWER THAN THE SAME TIME LAST YEAR AND THE LAST GRAPH SHOWS EXPENDITURES INCOME TAXES CONTINUE TO REMAIN ACCEPTABLE AT THIS POINT IN THE FISCAL YEAR THIS CONCLUDES MY PRESENTATION. I'LL TAKE ANY QUESTIONS

081DISAPPOINTED WITH THE SALES TAX REVENUE I FEEL LIKE I'M DOING MY PART BUT I THAT'S YEAH, THAT'S REALLY DISAPPOINTING BECAUSE THAT'S A LARGE NUMBER THAT'S OVER EIGHT MILLION DOLLAR DEFICIT FOR PRESCHOOL DIVISION. SO I'M HOPING WITH THE RECESSION STARTING TO SWING BACK AROUND A LITTLE THAT WE WILL SEE THOSE NUMBERS INCREASE WHILE NOT RECESSION OUR I'M SORRY. YEAH, I'M GETTING SOME LOOK SO I SO I WAS JUST HOPING THAT WE HAVE ANY OTHER COMMENTS. OK, I JUST HATE TO SEE THAT EIGHT MILES AN HOUR. THANK YOU MR. ITEM B IS OFFICE OF PROGRAMS FOR EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN AND OUR SPECIAL EDUCATION COMMUNITY ADVISORY COMMITTEES OTHERWISE KNOWN AS SEAD NO AND THEIR ANNUAL REPORT WE HAVE A PICTURE OF YOUR SON THIS YEAR AND IN THIS OK, WELL WE WELCOME DR. RONNIE MEYERS, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR PROGRAMS FOR

082EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN. GOOD EVENING. CHAIRWOMAN MELNIK VICE CHAIR FRANKLIN MEMBERS OF THE SCHOOL BOARD AND DR. ROBERTSON MY NAME IS RUNNING MIERS JOB AND I SERVE AS THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE PROGRAMS EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN TONIGHT MRS. MEGHAN ASHBURN CHAIR OF SICK IS HERE WITH ME TO PROVIDE A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF THEIR WORK DURING THIS SCHOOL YEAR AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR CONSIDERATION FOR THE TWENTY TWENTY FOUR TWENTY TWENTY FIVE SCHOOL YEAR BY STATE REGULATION IS CHARGED WITH ADVISING THE SCHOOL BOARD AND ADMINISTRATION AND MATTERS RELATED TO THE EDUCATION OF STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES IN VIRGINIA BEACH CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS THE ROLE AND FUNCTION OF THIS OF SIOC IS OUTLINED THE REGULATIONS GOVERNING SPECIAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS FOR CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES IN VIRGINIA THE PRIMARY FUNCTIONS OF CISAC ARE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF PRIORITIES AND STRATEGIES FOR MEETING THE

083NEEDS STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES. MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS REGARDING THE EDUCATION OF STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES REVIEW POLICY PROCEDURES FOR THE PROVISION OF SPECIAL EDUCATION AND RELATED SERVICES AND REVIEW THE SCHOOL DIVISION'S LOCAL SPECIAL EDUCATION ANNUAL PLAN AT THIS TIME I'M GOING TO TURN IT OVER TO MEGHAN WHO WILL SHARE SOME INFORMATION RELATED TO THE KEY ACTIVITIES AND ACCOMPLISH OF SICK AND THE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR NEXT SCHOOL YEAR. THANK YOU. HI EVERYONE. NICE TO SEE YOU ALL AGAIN AS REQUIRED BY THE VIDEO AND THE REGULATIONS GOVERNING SPECIAL EDUCATION FOR SPECIAL EDUCATION FOR THE CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES VIRGINIA WE REVIEWED THE LOCAL SPECIAL EDUCATION ANNUAL PLAN PRIOR TO SUBMISSION TO THE SCHOOL BOARD AND REVIEWED POLICIES AND PROVIDE AN INPUT THE SCHOOL BOARD POLICY REVIEW COMMITTEE. THIS SLIDE YES THIS SLIDE HIGHLIGHT SOME OF THE OTHER KEY ACTIVITIES OF THE SEA

084YEAR THE MEETING SCHEDULED WAS RESTRUCTURE THIS. THIS IS MY FIRST YEAR CHAIR AND WE RESTRUCTURE THE MEETING SCHEDULED SCHEDULE THIS YEAR TO INCLUDE FOR BUSINESS MEETINGS AND FIVE SUBCOMMITTEE FOCUS MEETINGS WHICH HELPED US TO USE TIME MORE EFFECTIVELY TO FULFILL SCIEX MANDATE OF ADVISING THE SCHOOL BOARD ON THE NEEDS OF STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES ACTIVELY SOLICITED AND RECEIVE AND RECEIVED PUBLIC COMMENT AT THE BEGINNING EACH MEETING THIS YEAR WE RECEIVED TWENTY FIVE PUBLIC COMMENTS WHICH IS A 400 PERCENT INCREASE FROM LAST YEAR A FEW TRENDS IN THE COMMENTS INCLUDED POLICIES AND PRACTICE PRACTICES THAT LIMITS OPTIONS FOR STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES INCLUDING REMEDIATION PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS, MATH OR SCHEDULING AND EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES CHALLENGES WITH TRANSPORTATION TO AND FROM SCHOOL VARIABILITY ACROSS SCHOOLS RELATED TO COLLABORATION BETWEEN SCHOOLS AND FAMILIES DISCIPLINE PRACTICES AND KNOWLEDGE AND IMPLEMENTATION OF LAWS AND

085REGULATIONS RELATED SPECIAL EDUCATION PROCESSES AND VARIABILITIES AND BUILDING LEVEL STAFF KNOWLEDGE ABOUT ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY TO EDUCATE ZACH SPECIFIC TOPICS THAT WE ARE PUBLIC COMMENT FROM WE WORKED CLOSELY WITH DR. MIERS TO IDENTIFY APPROPRIATE SCHOOL DIVISION REPRESENTATIVE TO DO PRESENTATIONS THIS YEAR. TOPICS INCLUDED THE TRANSPORTATION PROCESS WHICH WE HAD SOMEONE FROM TRANSPORTATION COME IN WE ALSO HAD ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY REPRESENTATIVE COME IN TO TALK TO US AND ROMNEY CAME IN TO TALK TO ABOUT THE NEWLY PAST SPECIAL EDUCATION BILLS THAT ARE COMING TO AFFECT THIS YEAR. MEMBERS OF THE BBC ALSO PARTICIPATED IN THE FOLLOWING COMMITTEES AND ACTIVITIES DURING SCHOOL YEAR INTERVIEWING WITH THE CONSULTING FIRM RESPONSIBLE FOR OUR NEW SUPERINTENDENT SEARCH THE SCHOOL CALENDAR COMMITTEE, THE STREET STRATEGIC PLAN AD HOC COMMITTEE, PROFESSIONAL LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES ON MEETINGS IN COLLABORATION WITH OPEC FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ASSISTANT PRINCIPALS

086AND WE WENT TO THE BACK TO SCHOOL FOR BASED ON THE ONGOING WORK OF THE BBC WE OFFER THE FOLLOWING RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE BBC. YES SCHOOL BOARD PROMOTE A DIVISION WIDE INCLUSIVE CULTURE WHERE STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES ARE CONSIDERED STUDENTS FIRST CONTINUE TO PROVIDE PROFESSIONAL LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES ON INCLUSIVE PRACTICES EMPHASIZING THE SHARED RESPONSIBILITY IN THE EDUCATION OF STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES TO IMPACT OUTCOMES AND A RIGHT OF ALL STUDENTS TO HAVE MEANINGFUL ACCESS TO INSTRUCTION AND HIGH EXPECTATIONS CONTINUE THE WORK OF THE DEPARTMENT OF TEACHING AND LEARNING AND OPAC TO ENSURE INSTRUCTIONAL PRACTICES TO SUPPORT SPECIALLY DESIGN INSTRUCTION AND INCLUSIVE SETTINGS ARE EMBEDDED IN ALL PROFESSIONAL LEARNING ACROSS THE DIVISION FOR GENERAL EDUCATORS SPECIAL EDUCATORS, TEACHER ASSISTANTS AND BUILDING ADMINISTRATORS ENSURE ALL IEP TEAMS DISGUSTING ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY AND UNDERSTAND HOW ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY PROVIDES MEANINGFUL ACCESS AND ENGAGEMENT

087IN THE CURRICULUM FOR MANY STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES INCLUDE HOW TO SUPPORT STUDENTS USING ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY IN PROFESSIONAL LEARNING SESSIONS REQUIRED FOR GENERAL EDUCATORS SPECIAL EDUCATION EDUCATORS, TEACHER ASSISTANTS AND BUILDING ADMINISTRATORS ENSURE ALL ADMINISTRATORS THE SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS FAMILIARIZE THEMSELVES WITH THE KEY DATA IN THE MOST RECENT DBCP FEDERAL FISCAL YEAR TWENTY TWENTY TWO SPECIAL EDUCATION PERFORMANCE REPORT THAT'S LINKED IN THE FULL REPORT THAT YOU WERE PROVIDED DBCP HAS NOT STATE TARGETS IN MULTIPLE AREAS INCLUDING GRADUATION PRESCHOOL OUTCOMES, INCLUSIVE EDUCATION ENVIRONMENTS IN SOME POST SECONDARY OUTCOMES CONTINUE TO ADDRESS THE NEED SCHOOL PROPERTIES, INDOOR AND OUTDOOR AREAS TO MEET ADA STANDARDS SO ADMINISTRATION AGREES WITH THE RECOMMENDATION PROPOSED BY SEATAC SEEK RECOMMENDATIONS ARE REFLECTIVE OF THE ONGOING COLLABORATION WITH SIOC MEMBERS AS WELL AS DISCUSSION HELD AT MEETINGS. IN ADDITION, RECOMMENDATIONS ARE ALIGNED TO STRATEGIES AND

088THE COMPASS TWENTY TWENTY FIVE STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK SPECIAL EDUCATION INDICATORS, SPECIAL EDUCATION BILLS AS WELL AS THE WORK OF THE DEPARTMENT OF TEACHING AND LEARNING THE LAST RECOMMENDATION IS OUTSIDE THE WORK OF OPEC. HOWEVER STAFF WILL CONTINUE TO COLLABORATE WITH OTHER DIVISION OFFICES TO INCLUDE THE OFFICE OF FACILITY SERVICES WHEN SPECIFIC ACCESS NEEDS ARE BROUGHT TO OUR ATTENTION THESE ARE THE MEETING DATES FOR OUR NEXT YEAR AND WE WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO TALK MYERS MANNING FOR SECURING A SPECIFIC LOCATION FOR US NEXT YEAR THAT'S REALLY GOING TO HELP US SAVE TIME AS WELL AND SO WE WILL BE MEETING ALL YEAR IN ROOM ONE AT PLAZA INSECTS AND THESE MEETINGS ARE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. WE WANT TO HEAR FROM FAMILIES OF STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES. NBCS AND WE WELCOME ALL TO ATTEND. THANK YOU.

089ANY QUESTIONS SO THIS TIME WERE AVAILABLE FOR QUESTIONS. OK, I'M CAN BARELY SEE MY LITTLE THING. ALL RIGHT, MISS MANNING WELL I JUST WANT JUST WANT TO THANK YOU AGAIN AND KATIE FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP ON THE COMMITTEE IT'S A PHENOMENAL GROUP. I MEAN BOARD MEMBERS EVEN IF YOU'RE NOT ON THE COMMITTEE I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THAT YOU SCHEDULE A MEETING TO GO TO AND I'M SORRY I WASN'T ABLE TO ATTEND THE LAST COUPLE AND I WANT TO THANK MR. FRANKLIN PER SERVING IN FOR ME. I HAD HAVE A NEW JOB AND IT JUST CONFLICTED WITH A MEETING THAT I HAVE SO THANK YOU MISS FRANK UNDERSTANDING AND I APPRECIATE AND I APPRECIATE THAT I MISSED BEING THERE AND I JUST WANT TO ALSO COMMEND YOU MISS MIERS MYERS, FOR THE PARTNERSHIP THAT HAD WITH THIS COMMITTEE

090I REALLY FEEL REALLY FEEL THAT BECAUSE OF YOUR LEADERSHIP OF YOU AND YOUR TEAM YOU'VE TAKEN IT TO THE NEXT LEVEL IN THE PARTNERSHIP I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR THAT FOR THAT. I KNOW THAT WE STILL HAVE ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT AS YOU SAID, BUT I THINK WE'RE HEADING IN RIGHT DIRECTION. SO THANK YOU SO MUCH IS FRANKLY . WELL I, I JUST WANT TO APPLAUD YOU GUYS I COULD DISCUSSION GUSH BUT JUST THE BUT JUST THE MEETINGS THAT I'VE ATTENDED WE MIGHT HAVE SOME ROOM FOR GROWTH BUT I HAVE NO DOUBT THAT WITH YOUR TARGETED APPROACH TO YOUR MEETINGS AND YOU KNOW WHAT YOU WANT TO ACCOMPLISH AND EVERYTHING THAT YOU ARE DOING CURRENTLY THAT WE WILL DEFINITELY BRIDGE THAT GAP AND I JUST WANT TO APPLAUD YOU ALL FOR DOING SUCH A GREAT

091JOB. I WOULD ABSOLUTELY ECHO WHAT MISMANAGED THAT IN TERMS OF COME IN AND COME SEE THESE MEETINGS WE HAVE THE MEETING THAT'S AVAILABLE. WHAT I LEARNED ABOUT THE ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY THAT WE HAVE WAS JUST ASTOUNDING TO ME ALL THE RESOURCES THAT WE HAVE FOR OUR STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES AND I JUST AM SO ENCOURAGED AND EXCITED ABOUT EVERYTHING THAT YOU ALL ARE DOING SO I'M A BIG POSITIVE AND SINCE THESE MEETINGS ARE POSTED TO THE PUBLIC WE CAN ALL GO ANY TIME. SO IT'S POSTED SO THERE'S NO NO PROBLEM ON OUR PART. SO THANK YOU. THAT WAS THAT WAS GREAT. THANK YOU. KATIE WOULDN'T JOIN US THE PODIUM BUT SHE IS BACK HERE AND . I KNOW MRS. MANNING RECOGNIZED HER SHE DOES A LOT TO KEEP EVERYTHING ORGANIZED SHE SPENT A LOT OF LOT OF

092TIME GETTING GOOGLE DRIVE SET UP SO WE DEFINITELY WANT TO COMMEND TO COMMEND HER ON ALL OF HER WORK. THANK YOU. WE'RE GOOD. ALL RIGHT. ITEM UNDER INFORMATION IS THE OFFICE OFFICE OF GIFTED EDUCATION UPDATE AND GIFTED COMMUNITY ADVISORY. OTHERWISE GYGAX ANNUAL REPORT ON ANNUAL REPORT ON THE FIVE YEAR PLAN IMPLEMENTED GOOD EVENING SCHOOL BOARD CHAIRMAN MELNIK VICE CHAIRWOMAN FRANKLIN SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS AND DR. ROBERTSON. I'M CRYSTAL WILKERSON DIRECTOR OF K-12 AND GIFTED PROGRAMS AND I'M HERE THIS EVENING TO PRESENT AN OFFICE WITH GIFTED EDUCATION UPDATE AS WELL AS THE GIFTED COMMUNITY ADVISORY COMMITTEES ANNUAL RECOMMENDATIONS JOINING ME TONIGHT IS THE CURRENT CHAIR OF THE MISS ALLISON CREW ALONG WITH OTHER MEMBERS OF THE GIFTED ADMINISTRATION TEAM DR WILLIAMS BECAUSE THIS IS THE WELL SCOTT I ASKED WOULD YOU ASK THAT YOU PLEASE HOLD ANY

093QUESTIONS UNTIL THE END OF THIS PRESENTATION THIS PRESENTATION WILL BE DIVIDED INTO TWO PARTS THE FIRST PART WILL BE THE ANNUAL RECOMMENDATIONS YOU ALSO HAVE A COPY OF THEIR COMPLETE ANNUAL REPORT PROVIDED FOR YOU AND YOUR SCHOOL BOARD MATERIALS. THE SECOND PART OF TONIGHT'S PRESENTATION WILL PROVIDE AN UPDATE ON WHERE WE ARE WITH THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE TWENTY TWENTY FIVE TO TWENTY THIRTY FIVE YEAR PLAN FOR THE EDUCATION OF THE GIFTED AS A REMINDER COMMUNITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE SUPPORT SCHOOL DIVISIONS BY PROVIDING FEEDBACK AND OFFERING COMMUNITY PERSPECTIVES. THE GIFTED ADVISORY COMMUNITY PER VIRGINIA CODE HAS TWO KEY ROLES WHICH ARE TO REVIEW THE LOCAL PLAN INCLUDING ANY REVISIONS AND TO PROVIDE THE ADMINISTRATION AND SCHOOL BOARD WITH AN ANNUAL REPORT CONTAINING FEEDBACK RELATED TO THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE FIVE YEAR PLAN FOR THE PREVIOUS YEAR VIBS

094VBS ENGAGES WITH THE GIFTED COMMUNITY THAT ADVISORY COMMITTEE MANY MEANINGFUL WAYS BEYOND THEIR TO REQUIRED RESPONSIBILITIES AS WE VALUE THEIR PARTNERSHIP AND COMMUNITY VOICE WHEN WE PLAN AND DEVELOP PRACTICES TO SUPPORT OUR GIFTED LEARNERS DISPLAYED HERE YOU CAN SEE A FEW OF THE OUTCOMES FROM THE BBC'S ANGIE PARTNERSHIP THIS SCHOOL YEAR GEEKIEST HAS WORKED COLLABORATIVELY WITH THE OFFICE OF GIFTED EDUCATION ON A VARIETY OF TOPICS SUCH AS GIFTED DATA REVIEW REVIEW THE TWENTY TWENTY TO TWENTY TWENTY FIVE LOCAL PLAN FOR THE EDUCATION OF GIFTED FEEDBACK ON AMENDMENTS FOR THE TWENTY TWENTY TO TWENTY TWENTY FIVE LOCAL PLAN FEEDBACK ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE TWENTY TWENTY FIVE TO 20 30 LOCAL PLAN AND ALDERNEY SCHOOL AND ENHANCEMENTS TO GIFTED PROGRAM PROGRAMING WITHIN OUR DIVISION ALL VOTING MEMBERS WERE ASSIGNED A SUBCOMMITTEE TO WORK ON THE DEVELOPMENT

095OF THE TWENTY TWENTY FIVE TO 20 30 PLAN AFTER RANKING THEIR INTERESTS AND WERE INVITED ATTENDS THE PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT MEETINGS TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL SUPPORT ONCE AGAIN THIS YEAR GEEKIEST MEMBERS PARTICIPATED IN SITE VISITS TO OBSERVE ELEMENTARY MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL GIFTED CLUSTER PROGRAMS PRIORITY WAS GIVEN FOR MEMBERS TO OBSERVE SCHOOLS WITHIN THEIR FEEDER PATTERN THAT THEY REPRESENT AS WELL AS THEIR INTEREST AND AVAILABILITY THE FIRST ROUND WAS DONE IN EARLY DECEMBER THROUGH EARLY JANUARY WHERE EIGHT SCHOOLS WERE VISITED WITH 12 GEEKIEST MEMBERS AND SCHOOL BOARD REPRESENTATIVES MRS. FRANKLIN AND MR. CALLAGHAN THE SECOND ROUND HAS DONE LATE FEBRUARY THROUGH LATE MARCH WHERE SIX SCHOOLS WERE VISITED WITH NINE GEEKIEST MEMBERS AND SCHOOL BOARD REPRESENTATIVES MRS. FRANKLIN AND MR CALLAGHAN DURING SUBSEQUENT MEETINGS TEAMS WERE ABLE TO DEBRIEF ABOUT THEIR OBSERVATION AND DISCUSS CONSIDERATIONS MOVING

096FORWARD AS DEFINED BY THE LOCAL PLAN FOR THE EDUCATION OF THE GIFTED TO REPEAT THE COLLECTIVE SITE VISITS THIS YEAR ENCOMPASSED A TOTAL 14 SCHOOLS BY 12 GEEKIEST MEMBERS AND TWO SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS HERE WITH ME THIS EVENING TO PROVIDE TAX REVIEW AND RECOMMENDATIONS IS MRS ALI, OUR CHAIR THANK YOU SO MUCH MEMBERS. MEMBERS OF THE SCHOOL BOARD I'M SURE THAT WOULD BE FINE. THANK YOU, DR. ROBERTSON THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND ATTENTION AND ALL OF THE INNOVATIVE THINGS THAT YOU ARE DOING TO THIS DISTRICT THANK YOU LEADERSHIP TEAM AND THANK YOU TO THE PARENTS WHO ARE HERE TONIGHT I ONLY HAVE TWO SLIDES BUT DO HAVE A FEW REMARKS TO PUT THIS IN CONTEXT FOR YOU AND TRY TO BRING TO YOU A BIG PICTURE FOR WHAT IT IS THAT WE'RE DOING. WHERE

097ARE WE GOING WHO ARE WE SERVING THESE ARE REALLY IMPORTANT THINGS I DON'T KNOW I DON'T KNOW IF YOU WERE RAISED AT THE 70S LIKE MY DAD TAUGHT ME I WON'T GO THROUGH THEM ALL BUT I HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH PLANNING AND PROGRESS. THE SEVEN PS PERTAINING TO ALL OF OUR STUDENTS GIFTED IDENTIFIED SPECIAL EDUCATION ALL OF THE OTHER STUDENTS RESERVE EACH OF EACH OF THEM WITH UNIQUE NEEDS PERTAINS TO PLACEMENT WHERE ARE THEY BEING PLACED? WHO ARE WE SERVING PROGRAM HOW ARE WE DOING. HOW ARE WE DOING MEETING THEIR NEEDS AND HOW ARE WE MEASURING YOU'LL HEAR THAT IN THE RECOMMENDATIONS PARENTS HOW ARE WE ENGAGING PARENTS ENGAGEMENT INCREASES ENGAGEMENT INCREASES ACHIEVEMENT AND REDUCES ABSENCES. IT'S VITAL TO WORKING WITH PARENTS AS TRUE PARTNERS PROGRAMS TO EXTEND THE REACH OF THE TEACHER BECAUSE

098TEACHERS ARE REALLY CHALLENGED IN STRETCHED TO MEET THE NEEDS OF THESE REALLY UNIQUE AND DIVERSE STUDENTS WHETHER THEY ARE SPECIAL EDUCATION OR GIFTED AS YOU'VE ALREADY HEARD FROM THE PARENTS PEDAGOGY HIGHLY VALUE OUR GIFTED RESOURCE TEACHERS AND THE TEACHERS WORKING ON THEIR GIFTED ENDORSEMENT. THESE ARE TEACHERS WITH VARIOUS SPECIAL TRAINING TO MEET THE NEEDS OF THESE UNIQUE LEARNERS THE PERSON I HAD TO PICK UP THERE FOR THE FINANCES FINANCES ARE CRITICAL WE NEED TO BE TO BE CREATIVE WITH FINDING FUNDING TO MEET THE NEEDS OF THESE GIFTED LEARNERS AND FINALLY, PUBLIC REPORTING IS VITAL TO INCREASE TRUST IN PRINCE TRANSPARENCY PARTNERSHIP WITH THE PUBLIC HIGHLY VALUED VALUES YOUR SCHOOL SYSTEM. SO GETTING INTO THE SLIDES WE HAVE SIX RECOMMENDATIONS THIS YEAR YOU HAVE THEM IN FRONT OF YOU. I'M CERTAIN THERE THEY ARE ALSO IN

099YOUR MINUTES FOR EACH OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS I'M GOING TO BE PROVIDING YOU CONTEXT FROM THE NATIONAL WORKING GROUP ON ADVANCED EDUCATION WHICH HAD THIRTY SIX RECOMMENDATIONS WON'T GO THROUGH THEM ALL BUT I HAVE ALIGNED SOME OF THE OF THE THIRTY SIX WITH THESE RECOMMENDATIONS AND SO YOU HAVE A SENSE OF WHAT OUR BODY IS RECOMMENDING AND THAT ACTUALLY LOOKS LIKE IN REAL LIFE. SO TO START RECOMMENDATION NUMBER ONE MEANINGFUL GROWTH MEASURES THAT'S WITH THIS ONE IS ALL ABOUT SO AN ALIGNMENT WITH ALL SIX COMPONENTS OF THE LOCAL PLAN THE GIFTED MEMBERS WOULD LIKE TO LIKE TO STRENGTHEN THEIR PARTNERSHIP A DISTRICT OFFICES IN ORDER TO IDENTIFY MEANINGFUL OUTCOME MEASURES TO EVALUATE THE EXTENT TO WHICH THE LOCAL PLAN IS IMPLEMENTED WITH INTEGRITY INFIDELITY THIS RECOMMENDATION THIS RECOMMENDATION ALIGNS WITH THE WORKING GROUPS NUMBERS TWENTY AND

100THIRTY THREE AS FOLLOWS NUMBER TWENTY EIGHT IS IN SCHOOL AND DISTRICT ACCOUNTABILITY SYSTEMS PLAY SIGNIFICANT ON STUDENT LEVEL PROGRESS OVER TIME THAT WAS ONE WAS ONE OF MY PIECES PROGRESS HOW ARE WE DOING HOW WE'RE ALL OF OUR STUDENTS OUR STUDENTS DOING AND THEN DISAGGREGATED BY GROUP NUMBER THREE IS PUBLICLY REPORT ON THE STUDENTS PARTICIPATING IN ADVANCED EDUCATION INCLUDING THEIR ENGAGEMENT AND GROWTH OVER TIME AS WELL AS THEIR DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS. IF WE DON'T DO THIS AND WE ACTUALLY PENALIZE TEACHERS BECAUSE THEY ARE WORKING SO HARD TO GROW KIDS ARE NOT GETTING CREDIT FOR IT IF YOU WANT MORE DETAIL ON THAT I'M THAT, I'M HAPPY TO SPEAK TO THAT. NUMBER TWO GREAT RESPONSIBILITIES THAT'S WHAT THIS ONE PERTAINS TO IN THE AREA OF DELIVERY OF SERVICES THE RECOMMEND SUPPORTING BUILDING ADMINISTRATORS AND PRIORITIZING ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

101AS OUTLINED IN THE RESOURCE CLUSTER MODEL HANDBOOKS THIS RECOMMENDATION ALIGNS WITH THE WORKING GROUP'S RECOMMENDATIONS NUMBER THREE AND FOUR USE ASSESSMENT DATA AGAIN SOME DATA TO COUPLE WITH WHAT WE FOUND IN THE SCHOOLS BY ACTUALLY BOOTS ON THE GROUND VISITS WE DO NEED SOME DATA SO DATA SO USE ASSESSMENT DATA TO IDENTIFY ADDITIONAL STUDENTS FOR ADVANCED EDUCATION SERVICES IN EVERY GRADE AND NO FOR IS USED LOCAL SCHOOL BASED NORMS. THIS IMPORTANT WE DO NOT USE SCHOOL BASED NORMS ACROSS ALL OF OUR GIFTED IDENTIFICATION AND PLACEMENT THIS WILL ENHANCE DIVERSITY AND MAKING SURE THAT WE REACHING STUDENTS IN EVERY AREA OF VIRGINIA BEACH WHERE THEY LIVE NUMBER THREE HIGH SCHOOL PROGRAMS. THIS IS AN AREA WHERE BOTH MY STUDENTS ARE NOW I HAVE MANY, MANY YEARS OF WORKING IS INTERESTING PEOPLE IN MY HOUSEHOLD AND I

102CAN REPORT THAT IT IS A CHALLENGE ACTUALLY AS THEY GET OLDER IT DOESN'T ACTUALLY GET EASIER AND I I FOUND THAT TO BE A SURPRISE SO DEVELOP A VARIETY OF OPPORTUNITIES AT THE A HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL THAT SUPPORTS GIFTED LEARNERS THIS ALLIANCE WITH RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE NATIONAL WORK 11 12 AND 13 NUMBER 11 NUMBER 11 IS EMBRACED CONCURRENT ENROLLMENT OR DUAL ENROLLMENT NUMBER 12 THIS OFFER ADVANCED COURSES IN AS MANY SUBJECTS AS POSSIBLE IN GREAT SIX THROUGH 12. THIS REQUIRES ABOVE GRADE LEVEL TESTING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT IS ACTUALLY THE APPROPRIATE PLACEMENT FOR THESE STUDENTS AND TAPPING INTO ACCELERATION TO MEET THE NEEDS THESE STUDENTS NOT JUST ONE GRADE LEVEL UP BUT SOMETIMES FOUR FIVE GRADE LEVELS BEYOND WHERE THEY ACTUALLY ARE AUTOMATICALLY ALL STUDENTS PARTICIPATING IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ADVANCED EDUCATION PROGRAMS SUBSEQUENT ADVANCED LEARNING

103OPPORTUNITIES IN MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL. WE'RE DOING A LOT OF GOOD THINGS ALREADY HERE IN VIRGINIA BEACH SO THESE STRATEGIES OPEN SUBSTANTIAL OPPORTUNITY FOR LOW COST INITIATIVES SUCH AS EXPANDING OUR DUAL ENROLLMENT RIGHT NOW YOU HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL 11TH GRADE UNLESS YOU HAVE A SPECIAL WAIVER THEN YOU CAN GET IN A TENTH GRADE WE SHOULD LOOK AT MOVING THAT DOWN TO NINTH OR EVEN EIGHTH THAT WOULD ALSO SERVE THE MILITARY FAMILIES WHO ARE HIGHLY MOBILE WE HAVE SEVENTEEN PERCENT OF OUR STUDENTS OUR MILITARY ONE IN THREE OF OUR MILITARY CONNECTED STUDENTS IS GIFTED AND OF OUR GIFTED STUDENTS ONE IN THREE IS MILITARY. THESE ARE HIGHLY MOBILE STUDENTS WHO ABANDONED HOMES SCHOOLS THEY'VE BEEN. THEY'VE BEEN IN SCHOOLS ABROAD. THEY'VE BEEN LOCAL SCHOOLS IN ITALY THEY'VE BEEN IN SCHOOLS THEY DODA SCHOOLS. THEY HAVE

104UNIQUE LEARNING TRAJECTORIES WE REALLY NEED TO MEET THEM WHERE THEY ARE AND IF WE LEAN MORE ON DUAL ENROLLMENT AND TIDEWATER IT'S A FANTASTIC RESOURCE THAT CAN MEET THESE UNUSUAL EARNERS THEY WANT TO PURSUE CHEMISTRY GREAT IF THEY WANT TO PURSUE PHYSICS GREAT WE CAN MEET THEM WHERE THEY ARE SLIDE TO PLEASE AND I'M MOVING ALONG I WON'T GET TO ALL OF MY COMMENTS, OK? I RECOGNIZE TIME IS PRECIOUS AND YOU ARE EXTREMELY DEDICATED. REALLY APPRECIATE OR TIME SO RECOMMENDATION FOR HIS OUTREACH TO THE COMMUNITY WE HAVE SO MANY GOOD THINGS GOING ON HERE SOMETIMES I WONDER IF WE ACTUALLY ARE REACHING PARENTS WITH ALL OF THE OPPORTUNITIES THAT ARE TRULY AVAILABLE SO OUR RECOMMENDATION FROM GEEKIEST IS SHOWCASING THE OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENTS TO THE K-12 CONTINUUM OF GIFTED SERVICES. ONE THEM IS THE ADVANCED

105TECHNOLOGY CENTER NOW AND AGAIN I'M JUST NOTING HERE THAT WAS A SURPRISE TO ME AT JUST HOW WONDERFUL AN OPPORTUNITY THAT IS FOR SOME OF OUR STUDENTS WHO ARE NOT REALLY ENGAGED BY THE STANDARD FARE COULD BE VERY WELL SERVED THEIR SO I WONDER HOW WELL WE ARE I'M RAISING AWARENESS ABOUT THAT YOU UNIQUE RESOURCE NUMBER FIVE INCREASE RIGOR IN OUR IN OUR GIFTED CLUSTER PROGRAMS SO IN THE AREAS OF CURRICULUM AND INSTRUCTION THE RECOMMENDS THAT GIFTED PROGRAMS CONTINUE TO ADVOCATE FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF RIGOR AND GIFTED PEDAGOGY IN ALL GIFTED CLUSTER CLASSES. THIS ALIGNS WITH WORKING GROUPS RECOMMENDATIONS SEVEN EIGHT, EIGHT, NINE AND TEN. NUMBER SEVEN ALLOW REALLY ENTRY TO KINDERGARTEN FRANKLY I DON'T KNOW IF WE IF WE DO THAT BUT WE SHOULD BE NUMBER EIGHT ALLOW CHILDREN WHO ARE READY FOR ADVANCED

106MATERIAL IN ALL SUBJECTS TO SKIP ENTIRE GRADE LEVELS. A QUESTION WAS ASKED IN THE WHAT ARE YOU SAYING JUST PASS THEM I'M SAYING NO PLACE THEM PLACE IN THE APPROPRIATE GRADE LEVEL FOR THE APPROPRIATE INTELLECTUAL FIT THAT IS THE BEST WAY TO MAXIMIZE YOUR DOLLAR IN MEETING THESE STUDENTS NEEDS GO AHEAD AND PLACE THEM WHERE THEY BELONG IN THE APPROPRIATE GRADE LEVEL COULD FULL GRADE ACCELERATION IT COULD BE SINGLE SUBJECT AND THAT IS FOR ALL GRADE LEVELS K THROUGH 12 THAT IS APPROPRIATE AND EVIDENCE BASED NUMBER NINE ALLOW CHILDREN TO SKIP GRADE LEVELS IN PARTICULAR SUBJECTS I JUST MENTIONED THAT A NUMBER TEN GREAT COMPRESSED PATHWAYS FOR STUDENTS AN OUTCOME MEASURE HERE THAT WOULD BE MEANINGFUL TO YOU WOULD BE JUST LOOKING AT WHAT IS THE PROPORTION OF OUR GIFTED STUDENTS WHO ARE IN ACCELERATED

107WHO HAVE BEEN ACCELERATED THAT WOULD BE INTERESTING AND MEANINGFUL. ILLINOIS HAS BEGAN DOING THAT BACK IN TWENTY EIGHTEEN THEY DECIDED THAT WAS AN INTERESTING PERFORMANCE MEASURE NUMBER SIX MEET THE UNIQUE NEEDS AT EACH SCHOOL AND WHEN MAKING STAFFING DECISIONS GENACK RECOMMENDS THAT WE SHOULD LOOK AT TEMPORARY EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENTS OR OTHER AVENUES THAT YOU FIND ARE APPROPRIATE THAT IS NOT MY AREA OF EXPERTIZE TO STAFF THE UNIQUE NEEDS OF RENAISSANCE ACADEMY SCHOOLS WITH SPANISH IMMERSION PROGRAMS AND SCHOOLS WITH EXCEPTIONALLY LARGE POPULATIONS OF GIFTED IDENTIFIED STUDENTS AND THAT ALIGNS WITH THE RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE WORKING GROUP NO.14 INTENTIONALLY RECRUIT UNDER-REPRESENT AND UNDERSERVED STUDENTS FOR EXTERNAL ADVANCE LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES SUCH AS COLLEGE ENROLLMENT DUAL ENROLLMENT AND OR ONLINE COURSES AN OUTCOME MEASURE HERE WOULD BE WHAT IS THE PROPORTION OF ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED STUDENTS WHO ARE TAKING ALGEBRA IN

108EIGHTH GRADE. THIS IS THE GATEWAY TO GETTING AN ASSOCIATE'S DEGREE BY THE END OF HIGH SCHOOL NOT JUST DO DUAL ENROLLMENT BUT A FULL ASSOCIATES DEGREE AND THAT'S WHAT THEY'RE DOING IN HAMPTON ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE KIDS EVERY OR OR PUT ON A PATHWAY TO GO DO THAT SO THEY ARE DONE WITH TWO YEARS COLLEGE BY THE TIME THEY GRADUATE SO INCLOSING IT'S IMPORTANT IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT ADVANCING GIFTED LEARNERS SPANISH CONTINUUM OF ABILITY THAT YOU'VE THAT YOU'VE HEARD FROM ALL THE PARENTS OR TONIGHT IT'S A TRUE CONTINUUM IT'S NOT GIFTED OR GIFTED OR NOT IT'S NOT BINARY AND FRANKLY WE'RE ACTUALLY MISSING GIFTED STUDENTS AS GOOD AS OUR IDENTIFICATION PROGRAM IS WE ARE ACTUALLY MISSING STUDENTS TO TOO. SO IT'S NOT A PERFECT PROGRAM IS NOT A PERFECT REMEDY TO USE COGAT

109AND THAT AND OUR HOLISTIC CRITERIA TO FIND EVERY STUDENT WERE NOT THERE STILL IN OUR CLASSROOMS GIFTED STUDENTS BECAUSE HE DIDN'T HAPPEN TO POP ON THOSE TWO TESTS. THEY'LL POP FOR ACADEMICS FOR CREATIVITY, FOR LEADERSHIP, FOR ART OR THEY WON'T POP ON ANY OF THOSE AND THEY'LL BE FRANKLY INTERESTED AND PHYSICS KNOW, PHYSICS WERE SOMETHING ELSE THAT IT REALLY IS ONE OF THEIR PASSIONS. SO IT IS IMPORTANT TO KEEP IN MIND THAT DR. PLUCKER WHO IS ONE OF YOUR ESTEEMED CONSULTANTS HAS NOTED THAT IN A STUDY FROM TWENTY FIFTEEN THAT 20 50 PERCENT STUDENTS START THE YEAR ALREADY KNOWING THE MATH AND READING MATERIAL FOR THE ENTIRE YEAR SO THESE ARE STUDENTS AGAIN WHO ARE NOT NECESSARILY IDENTIFIED GIFTED BUT THEY'RE ALREADY ADVANCED WE NEED TO BE LOOKING AT THE FULL THE FULL CONTINUUM OF

110STUDENTS IN THE CLUSTER PROGRAM AND WITH RESPECT TO ODIASE THOSE ARE THE TOP TWO TO THREE PERCENT WHO ARE THE OUTLIERS WHO HAVE ALL OF THE COMPLEXITY INTENSITY, KEEN OBSERVATION SKILLS, CREATIVITY IN ADDITION TO BEING ACADEMICALLY HIGHLY ADVANCED THOSE ARE THE STUDENTS IN FIRST GRADE THEY'RE ACTUALLY READY FOR FOURTH GRADE MATH SO THEIR TRUE OUTLIERS SO THAT IS WHY IN CLOSING ONE OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS IS FOCUSING ON ENSURING THAT THE GST IS SUPPORTED IN MEETING THE ESSENTIAL DUTIES IN THE IN THE SCHOOLS AND GIFTED STUDENTS SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO USE THEIR VORACIOUS APPETITE FOR LEARNING AND REDUCE BARRIERS SO TO THE POINT OF THE OTHER PARENTS LET'S EXPAND OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENTS TO ENGAGE WITH MEANINGFUL LEARNING AND NOT LOOK AT CLOSING SCHOOLS NECESSARILY BUT EXPANDING OUR OPTIONS, BEING MORE FLEXIBLE AND MORE NIMBLE ACROSS THE

111CONTINUUM LIKE THE RTI FOR SPECIAL EDUCATION AND BE CREATIVE WITH FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES LIKE E AS TITLES ONE TWO AND FOUR ARE AVENUES OF FUNDING THAT ARE NOW APPROVED FOR THE USE OF GIFTED STUDENTS. SO I HAD MORE TO SAY BUT AGAIN IN RESPECT FOR YOUR TIME. I JUST WANTED CLOSE WITH THAT AND HOPEFULLY IT WAS HELPFUL THANK YOU DR. WILKERSON SO. SO THANKFUL FOR OUR PARTNERSHIP . WE THANK YOU VERY MUCH THE OFFICE OF GIFTED EDUCATION ACKNOWLEDGED IS THE RECOMMENDATIONS PROVIDED BY AND WE'RE SO THANKFUL FOR THE TIME ENERGY THAT THEY GIVE TO PROVIDE OUR DIVISION THEIR VOLUNTEER SUPPORT IT IS IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT RECOMMENDATIONS ONE AND FOR ARE THE ONLY NEW RECOMMENDATIONS THIS SCHOOL YEAR AS RECOMMENDATIONS TWO, THREE, FIVE AND SIX OR A CONTINUATION FROM LAST SCHOOL YEAR DISPLAYED HERE ARE THE

112DATES FOR THE UPCOMING SCHOOL YEAR MEETINGS FOR THIS UPCOMING YEAR THE COMMITTEE VOTED TO HOLD MEETINGS AT A CENTRALIZED LOCATION SO ALL MEETINGS WILL HELD AT PLAZA ANNEX FROM SIX TO SEVEN THIRTY ON THESE STATES AND ARE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC AT THIS TIME WE WILL TRANSITION TO THE SECOND PART OF THIS PRESENTATION SO THAT I MAY PROVIDE THE SCHOOL BOARD WITH AN UPDATE ON OUR WORK TO DEVELOP THE NEXT FIVE YEAR PLAN FOR THE EDUCATION OF THE GIFTED WHEN WE LAST MET I SHARED WITH YOU THIS TIMELINE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE NEXT PLAN AS INDICATED BY THE STAR ON THE SLIDE. WE ARE APPROXIMATELY HALFWAY THROUGH THIS PROCESS WE HELD OUR LAST MEETING ON MAY 6TH TO RECEIVE THEIR RECOMMENDATIONS AND HEAR THEIR SUMMARY OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE FIVE YEAR PLAN WE

113HAVE HELD THREE SUBCOMMITTEE MEETINGS WITH DIVERSE STATE REPRESENTATION TO DEVELOP THIS PLAN. WE CONDUCTED SEVERAL STAKEHOLDER FEEDBACK SURVEYS AND WE HAVE MET WITH PLANNING INNOVATION AND ACCOUNTABILITY RESEARCH TEAM TO STUDY THE RESEARCH ON GIFTED EDUCATION MODELS TO INFORM OUR PRACTICES IN AN EFFORT TO RESPOND TO STAKEHOLDER FEEDBACK AND QUESTIONS EFFECTIVE MODELS OF GIFTED EDUCATION, WE ASKED OUR RESEARCH DEPARTMENT TO EXAMINE THE RESEARCH AND SUMMARIZE THE FINDINGS THIS INFORMATION WAS PROVIDED TO ALL SUBCOMMITTEE MEMBERS AND A PRESENTATION AT THE JUNE SIX MEETING OUR OFFICE PEER OFFICE ALSO DID A DATA REVIEW FOR US TO FOR US IN RESPONSE TO THE REQUEST FOR DATA AND I WILL SHARE SOME OF THIS DATA ON THE NEXT SLIDE ONE POINT OF FEEDBACK WE'VE RECEIVED FROM GEEKIEST IS THAT THEY WOULD APPRECIATE MORE DATA BEING SHARED WITH THEM IN ORDER

114TO SUPPORT THEIR RESPONSIBILITY OF OFFERING INPUT ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE FIVE YEAR PLAN SPECIFICALLY THEY ASKED ABOUT THE ACHIEVEMENT RATES OF GIFTED LEARNERS WE'RE THANKFUL FOR THE OFFICE OF PLANNING INNOVATION ACCOUNTABILITY AS THEY PARTNERED WITH THE OFFICE OF GIFTED EDUCATION TO PROVIDE HELPFUL DATA TO SHARE WITH GCAP HERE YOU CAN SEE A COUPLE OF THE HIGHLIGHTS OF DATA SHARED SOME OF WHICH WAS FROM THE GIFTED CLUSTER EVALUATION YOU HAVE THE FULL HANDOUT CREATED BY PEIA THAT WAS SHARED WITH ME IN YOUR MATERIALS. I'LL PAUSE GIVE YOU JUST A MOMENT TO REVIEW THIS SLIDE ANOTHER STEP WE'VE TAKEN THIS YEAR TO ENHANCE OUR GIFTED PROGRAMS AND TO INFORM OUR NEXT FIVE YEAR PLAN IS TO SOLICIT MULTIPLE PERSPECTIVES FROM OUR STAKEHOLDERS RELATED TO GIFTED EDUCATION SERVICES AND THE FUTURE OF ALL DONATIONS. SCHOOL THROUGHOUT THIS

115SCHOOL YEAR THE COMMUNITY HAS SHARED A WIDE RANGE OF IDEAS RELATED TO THE FUTURE OF ODIASE AND WE WANTED VARIOUS STAKEHOLDERS TO PROVIDE INPUT THIS WILL HELP GUIDE THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE NEXT FIVE YEAR PLAN SINCE THERE HAVE BEEN SO MANY SUGGESTIONS AND IDEAS OFFERED FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION IN THE NEXT FEW SLIDES I WILL PROVIDE THE OUTCOMES FROM THESE SURVEYS. SORRY I'M SORRY. THANK YOU HERE AND INCLUDED IN YOUR MATERIALS IS INPUT SOLICITED FROM OUR COLLECTED VIA A SURVEY THAT WE CONDUCTED AT THE LAST MEETING HELD ON MAY SIX SEVEN MEMBERS WERE IN ATTENDANCE AT THIS MEETING OF THE NINE TOTAL CURRENT MEMBERS THROUGH THIS SURVEY THEY HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO SHARE THEIR INPUT ON THE OVERALL PURPOSE AND FUTURE OF ALL NATIONS SCHOOL RICH DISCUSSION KURD AROUND THE PURPOSE OF ODIASE PRIOR TO THE

116MEMBERS RESPONDING THE QUESTIONS INDEPENDENTLY DISPLAYED HERE ARE THE SURVEY RESULTS THE SURVEY RESULTS ARE ALSO PROVIDED IN YOUR SCHOOL BOARD MATERIALS I WILL PAUSE AND GIVE YOU JUST A MOMENT TO REVIEW THIS DATA ON THIS SLIDE YOU WE'LL SEE THE CONTINUATION OF THE SURVEY DATA WILL AGAIN PAUL'S FOR YOU TO YOU TO REVIEW THE DATA SHOW ADDITIONALLY DURING, DURING THE JUNE SIX GIFTED LOCAL LAND SUBCOMMITTEE MEETING THERE WERE FORTY FIVE ATTENDEES OUT THE SIXTY SIX SUBCOMMITTEE MEMBERS ATTENDEES WERE ABLE TO PARTICIPATE IN GIVING INPUT ON THE SAME SURVEY QUESTIONS THAT WE'RE GIVEN TO GET ON THE OVERALL PURPOSE AND THE FUTURE DONATIONS FOR AT THE AT THE BEGINNING OF OUR MEETING THIRTY FIVE ATTENDEES COMPLETED THE SURVEY. THE RESULTS FROM THE SURVEY ARE ALSO PROVIDED TO YOU AND YOUR SCHOOL BOARD MATERIALS I WILL PAUSE

117AND GIVE YOU A MOMENT TO REVIEW THE DATA ON THIS SLIDE YOU WILL SEE THE CONTINUATION OF THE SUBCOMMITTEE SURVEY DATA APPLAUSE AGAIN FOR YOU TO YOU TO REVIEW THE DATA SHOW AS YOU CAN SEE ON THIS SLIDE THIS SURVEY OUTCOMES HAD MANY DIVERSE OPINIONS AND CONFLICTING VIEWS DISPLAYED HERE YOU CAN SEE THE TOP THREE AREAS WHERE THE AND THE SUBCOMMITTEES HAD THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF AGREE OR WERE OPEN TO EXPLORING STRONGLY AGREE OR THAT WE SHOULD PRIORITIZE AS THEIR RESPONSES THE AREA OF HIGHEST AGREEMENT BETWEEN BOTH SURVEYS WAS THAT WHEN DOING SELECTION IN GRADE TO WE SHOULD SELECT TWO STUDENTS WITH THE HIGHEST RATING FROM EACH HOME SCHOOL AND THEN OPEN UP THE REMAINING SEATS TO THE HIGHEST RATING STUDENTS. I WILL PAUSE TO GIVE YOU A MOMENT TO LOOK AT THESE SURVEY COMPARISONS

118WE HAVE INCLUDED RAW MATERIALS FOR YOUR REVIEW ALL INDIVIDUAL COMMENTS COLLECTED ABOUT THE PURPOSE OF OD'S WE ALSO RECENTLY OPENED A DIVISION WIDE SURVEY TO GAIN PUBLIC INPUT AND PROVIDE AN OPPORTUNITY TO OFFER FEEDBACK RELATED TO EACH COMPONENT OF THE NEXT FIVE YEAR PLAN WE WERE DISAPPOINTED THAT ONLY EIGHTY NINE FAMILIES RESPONDED. HOWEVER THIS DATA WAS ANALYZED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING INNOVATION AND ACCOUNTABILITY WHICH SHARED THE TOP FIVE SUGGESTIONS FOR IMPROVEMENT BASED ON COMMUNITY INPUT AS DISPLAYED OUTCOMES FOR IN TURN SHARED WITH SHARED WITH THE SUBCOMMITTEES TO PROVIDE WITH ADDITIONAL INSIGHT AS THEY PROVIDE SUPPORT FOR DEVELOPING NEXT PLAN WE HAVE INCLUDED IN YOUR MATERIALS FOR REVIEW ALL INDIVIDUAL COMMENTS COLLECTED FROM THIS AS YOU CAN SEE ON THE SCREEN, THE OFFICE GIFTED EDUCATION PLANS TO BRING THE DRAFT OF THE TWENTY TWENTY FIVE

119TO 20 30 LOCAL PLAN FOR THE EDUCATION OF THE GIFTED TO THE SCHOOL BOARD RETREAT ON JULY 9TH TO SEEK INPUT AND FEEDBACK BASED ON THE WORK DONE WITH GEEKIEST AND SUBCOMMITTEES FOLLOWING A RETREAT WE WILL MEET WITH THE LOCAL PLAN SUBCOMMITTEES FOR THE FINAL MEETING ON JULY 15TH WHERE WE WILL SHARE WITH THEM THE INPUT PROVIDED DURING THE RETREAT AND GIVE SUBCOMMITTEE MEMBERS AN OPPORTUNITY TO REVIEW THE DRAFT OF THE LOCAL PLAN IN ITS ENTIRETY. DURING THIS MEETING, SUBCOMMITTEE MEMBERS WILL BE ABLE TO GIVE THEIR FINAL INPUT AS A COMMITTEE INTO THE TWENTY TWENTY FIVE TO 20 30 PLAN DRAFT OUR LAST STEP WILL BE TO BRING THE PROPOSED DRAFT BACK TO THE SCHOOL BOARD FOR INFORMATION AT THE AUGUST TWENTY SEVENTH MEETING AND RETURN TO THE SCHOOL BOARD FOR ACTION ON SEPTEMBER THE

120TENTH AS YOU ARE AWARE THE WORK WE DO BEGINNING IN SEPTEMBER SUCH AS CALENDAR WEBSITE UPDATES, TESTING ADMINISTRATION AND GIFTED IDENTIFICATION THIS SCHOOL YEAR IS ALL IMPACTED BY THE DECISIONS BEING MADE THESE PROCESSES WILL INFORM OUR DELIVERY OF SERVICE FOR THE TWENTY TWENTY FIVE TO TWENTY TWENTY SIX SCHOOL YEAR WE'RE GRATEFUL FOR OUR PARTNERSHIP WITH THE ACC AND THE PARTICIPATING MEMBERS OF OUR SUBCOMMITTEE AND APPRECIATE THE TIME THAT THEY HAVE DEVOTED THIS YEAR WE ALSO WOULD LIKE TO THANK MRS FRANKLIN AND MR TALENT FOR THE TIME AND SERVICE BUT THEY HAVE DEDICATED TO THE COMMITTEE THIS CONCLUDES THE RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE GIFTED COMMUNITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE AS WELL AS THE OFFICE OF GIFTED EDUCATION UPDATE WE COLLECTIVELY WELCOME ANY QUESTIONS AT THIS TIME. OK MISS BROWN OK SO THIS IS A LOT OF INFORMATION I FIRST

121WANT TO START BY THANKING THE GAG FOR ALL OF YOUR WORK. I KNOW THIS NOT AN EASY TASK AND I KNOW IT'S A LOT OF INFORMATION AND I KNOW THAT BECAUSE SITTING IN ME SO I APPRECIATE ALL YOUR YOUR EFFORTS THERE AND I DEFINITELY THERE'S QUITE A FEW THINGS THAT YOU SAID THAT CAN AGREE WITH I HAVE A SON THAT'S SON THAT'S ACTUALLY IDENTIFIED AS GIFTED MYSELF AND YOU KNOW SOME OF THOSE IDEAS THAT YOU HAVE A REALLY GREAT IDEAS AS THE COMMITTEE SO I JUST WANTED TO THANK YOU FOR THAT MY QUESTION RELATES TO IT SEEMS TO ME THERE'S TWO DIFFERENT PARTS OF THIS PRESENTATION. THERE'S THE RECOMMENDATION SO AT THIS TIME IS THERE ANY RECOMMENDATION FROM THE BACK TO DISSOLVE ODDS IN THIS PARTICULAR PRESENTATION NOT AT ALL. AS A MATTER OF FACT,

122THE DUKE IS NOT EVEN AWARE AS TO HOW ODIOUS CAME IN THE CROSSHAIRS THIS YEAR AND WE DEFINITELY WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO ENDORSE DISBANDING ODIASE AND I'D CERTAINLY HAVE MORE TO OFFER ON THAT THERE ARE MANY OPTIONS THAT WE COULD LOOK AT THAT WOULD MEET THE NEEDS OF THESE INTERESTING STUDENTS. I JUST I HAD TO BECAUSE WE GOT SOME COMMENTS TODAY AND I WAS SITTING HERE I WAS A LITTLE BIT SURPRISED AND THEN I SAW THESE SURVEYS IN HERE. I THINK THESE FROM THE FACT THEY'RE SEVEN AND SO THERE IS A COUPLE QUESTIONS IN THERE ABOUT IT AND SO IT SEEMS TO ME THAT YOU GUYS ARE TRYING TO DETERMINE THE PURPOSE OF OF ODIOUS IS THAT IS THAT CORRECT? THE SCHOOL BOARD ASKS WHAT IS THE PURPOSE AND WHAT IS THE FUTURE OF

123IDEAS AND WE FRANKLY DID NOT HAVE ENOUGH TIME IN ORDER TO DO THAT AND I THINK WE'RE GOING TO IMPLEMENT SOME OF THE SUBCOMMITTEES IN BETWEEN THE WORKING GROUP SO THAT WE CAN FULLY ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS BECAUSE WE HIGHLY VALUE YOU AND YOUR WORK AND WE WANT TO BE ABLE TO PROVIDE YOU ANSWERS TO YOUR QUESTIONS FRANKLY THE SURVEYS I WAS NOT AND DID I DID NOT PARTICIPATE IN CREATING THE SURVEYS AND I WOULD HAVE DESIGNED THEM TO GIVE YOU MORE CLARITY BECAUSE OF LIKERT GAIL USED DOESN'T REALLY HELP YOU OPEN AND INTERESTED EXPLORING IS DIFFERENT THAN AGREE AND SO IT DOES MAKE IT A CONFUSING WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT THERE IS NOT ENTIRELY NOT ENTIRELY HELPFUL NOR IS IT RANDOM SAMPLE NOR IS IT DESIGNED REALLY TO GIVE YOU THE CLARITY THAT YOU WANT

124AND CERTAINLY WE COULD COME UP WITH SOMETHING LIKE THAT WITH INTENT BUT IT WOULD TAKE SOME COLLABORATION THAT CREATED THIS SURVEY THE GIFTED OFFICE GENEROUSLY DONATED THEIR TIME TO TRY TO COMPILE ALL OF THE FEEDBACK DURING THE YEAR AND TO TRY TO OFFER SOME CLARITY. BUT FRANKLY THAT'S IS NOT IN MY ESTIMATION AS AN EPIDEMIOLOGIST THE WAY TO GO NOT DOING THAT AND I JUST NOTICED IN THE COMMENT BOX IS THERE WAS SOME DISCREPANCIES AND THE DATA PRESENTED THE WORDS ON THE PAGE AND THE ANSWERS CIRCLED WERE VERY DIFFERENT FROM ONE SURVEY RESPONSE TO THE NEXT. SO I THAT'S MY QUESTION THERE AND I THINK THE OTHER THING IS IS IS WE HAD A SURVEY THAT WENT OUT TO PARENTS AND THIS IS THE SEPARATE PART ABOUT THE FIVE YEAR PLAN IN IT YOU SAID

125THERE WAS EIGHTY NINE RESPONDENTS I DON'T WANT TO TELL YOU, RON, SO LET ME FLIP BACK TO THAT IS THAT WHAT IT WAS RIGHT YEAH AND I THINK THAT THINK THAT WAS A QUESTION ABOUT THE FUTURE OF ODIOUS THE FUTURE OF ODIASE AND WHETHER IT WOULD DISSOLVE WAS IN AND YOU KNOW AS A BOARD MEMBER I I'VE BEEN ASKING QUITE FREQUENTLY PRIOR TO SENDING OUT COMMUNITY INPUT SURVEYS THIS THE DRIVE DECISIONS THAT WE HAVE TO VOTE ON AND YOU KNOW, FINDING OUT THAT FAMILIES THINK THAT ODIOUS IS CLOSING IS EXACTLY THE REASON THAT ASK FOR THESE THINGS IN ADVANCE. I DID GET IT AS A PARENT I DID CLICK ON IT I DIDN'T ANSWER BECAUSE ANSWER IT BECAUSE I'M A BOARD MEMBER. I'M KIND OF FEEL LIKE IT'S SORT OF A CONFLICT TO PROVIDE INPUT

126IN TWO DIFFERENT LOCATIONS BUT I DID NOTICE BUT IT FELT A LITTLE LONG THAT PARTICULAR SURVEY WAS SENT IN ADVANCE FOR REVIEW THAT WAS THE CASE. BUT WE DID GET YES UH YOU, YOU DIDN'T RECEIVE THE G CACS INPUT SURVEY NOR DID YOU RECEIVE THE SUBCOMMITTEE SURVEY BUT YOU DID RECEIVE THE OTHER ONE. OK I WILL DOUBLE CHECK I CAN GIVE SOME CONTEXT I THINK THAT'S JUST I'M GETTING CONFUSED BECAUSE THERE'S MORE THAN ONE THING ON HERE AT THE SAME TIME I GIVE SOME CONTEXT CONTENT CONTEXT IF YOU LOOK AT THE INPUT SURVEY EVERYBODY WOULD TAKE A LOOK AT THAT RIGHT NOW REFERENCE THIS IF RECALL THIS BOARD HAS HAD MULTIPLE CONVERSATIONS ABOUT ODIASE IN VARIOUS FORMATS OVER THE LAST SEVERAL MONTHS. SO I WANT TO TAKE THROUGH THE QUESTIONS MAINTAIN THE CURRENT STRUCTURE AND

127USE OF WORDS WE HAVE HAD MEMBERS OF THIS POOR WHO HAVE WONDERED WHETHER OR NOT WE NEED MAINTAIN THE CURRENT STRUCTURE AND USED USE OF ODIASE SO WE TOOK IT UPON OURSELVES HIS ADMINISTRATION. LET'S ENGAGE WITH THE AND LET'S ENGAGE WITH THE SUBCOMMITTEES AND FIND OUT WHAT THEY THINK THIS BORDERS DISCUSS WHETHER OR NOT IT IS STILL THE APPROPRIATE THING TO SERVE GIFTED IDENTIFIED GIFTED INTELLECTUAL KIDS IN GRADES THREE THROUGH EIGHT OR SHOULD WE LOOK AT ONLY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL OR SHOULD WE LOOK AT TO SHOW WE KEEP IT AT TWO THROUGH OR SHOULD WE REDUCE THE NUMBER OF SEATS IN MIDDLE SCHOOL AND INCREASE THE SEATS IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ALL OF THESE QUESTIONS WERE DEVELOPED BY DISCUSSIONS THAT HAVE BEEN HAD AT THIS BOARD BY DIFFERENT BOARD MEMBERS. NOW I'M GOING TO CONFIRM THAT YOU

128SAID SEVEN OF NINE CURRENT MEMBERS COMPLETED THIS SURVEY SO THAT THAT IS NOT GOING TO BE A RANDOM SAMPLE. YOU SAID YOU WENT TO A PARTICULAR GROUP THE CAT TO GET THEIR INPUT SO THAT'S A VALID MEASURED THEN WE GET THE SUBCOMMITTEE INPUT YOU ASKED THE SUBCOMMITTEE THE SAME QUESTION THAT ALSO WOULD NOT BE A RANDOM SAMPLE THAT'S PURPOSEFUL SAMPLE WHERE YOU WENT TO THE SUBCOMMITTEE MEMBERS THAT ARE DEVELOPING THE AREAS OF THE GIFTED PLAN AND THIRTY FIVE MEMBERS OF THIS COMMITTEE RESPONDED YOU THEN ATTEMPTED TO TRIANGULATE THAT THAT IF I TO THE COMMUNITY SURVEY NOW. NOW THERE COULD BE SOME DISCREPANCY AS TO WHETHER OR NOT THE QUESTIONS WERE STILL APPROPRIATE ON THE COMMUNITY INPUT SURVEY TRIANGLE THERE'S THREE PIECES HOWEVER YOU DID ARTICULATE AND NUMBER 17 WHERE THERE WAS AGREEMENT AND THERE ARE

129SUBCOMMITTEE AGREEMENT AND THERE WAS ONLY ONE AREA WHERE IT WAS OVERALL AGREEMENT AND THAT'S AS NOTED IN RED AT THIS POINT WE ARE STILL IN THE DEVELOPMENT PHASE THE INVESTIGATIVE PHASE AND YOU'LL GET ANOTHER PRESENTATION IN JULY WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO TAKE ALL THIS INFORMATION AND INFORMATION AND COME BACK TO THIS GROUP WITH OPTIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THIS GROUP TO DECIDE SO I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT FOR US TO RECOGNIZE WE DID NOT JUST RANDOMLY SELECTED QUESTIONS THAT WE WANT TO SERVING THESE ARE QUESTIONS THAT WERE CREATED BASED UPON COMMENTS WERE MADE BY BOARD MEMBERS OVER THE OVER THE LAST SEVERAL MONTHS AND THERE IS A REASON IN A METHOD TO COLLECTING THAT INFORMATION THAT WE WILL USE AND DEVELOPING A RECOMMENDATION AS TO HOW TO PROCEED AND THEN AT THAT POINT WE WILL BE LOOKING

130FOR INPUT AND FEEDBACK FROM THE BOARD ON WHETHER OR NOT WE'VE GOTTEN IT RIGHT OR WHETHER OR NOT WE DIDN'T MAKE ALL THE DECISIONS I THINK WE ALL NEED TO RECOGNIZE THIS IS A TOPIC THAT GAINS GREAT INTEREST AND PEOPLE FEEL VERY STRONGLY ABOUT AND THAT'S GREAT THAT THE INVOLVEMENT OUTSTANDING I'M I'M ALSO DISAPPOINTED WITH EIGHTY NINE MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY RESPONDING BUT WE HAVE SEEN THAT BEFORE SO WE WILL WE WILL CONTINUE WORK ON THIS INFORMATION AND ENGAGING ENGAGE YOU AGAIN IN A CONVERSATION IN JULY AROUND THE NEXT STEPS IN THE PROCESS. THANK YOU FOR ALL THAT INFORMATION EXPLANATION. THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING YOU DO. THANK YOU WITH RESPECT THAT THE ROBERTSON WE HAVE A WAY TO COLLECT THE INFORMATION WITHOUT THE EMOTION AND I WOULD LOVE TO BE A PART OF THAT. IT

131IS A VERY CHARGE TOPIC BUT WE CAN LOOK AT PROGRESS, STUDENT PROGRESS SEEKING GROWTH IS ONE OF THE DISTRICT'S GOALS AT THE BOTTOM OF EVERY WE COULD SEE WHERE WE'RE DOING WELL WITH THAT AND WHERE WE'RE NOT DOING AS WELL AND THEN MAKE SOME EDUCATED IN EVIDENCE BASED DECISIONS THAT TAKE THE CHARGE OUT OF IT AND I WOULD LOVE TO COLLABORATE WITH YOU ON THAT. YEAH, THAT'S THAT'S A SEPARATE REASON FOR THE INPUT THAT WAS RECEIVED ON TO SERVICE AND WE AGREE WE NEED TO HAVE SOME OUTCOME MEASURES. MY COMMITTEE CANNOT PROVIDE YOU WITH RESPONSES TO THAT SURVEY WITHOUT THAT INFORMATION OTHERWISE IT'S JUST A GUT FEELING. OK, MISS YEAH SO I TOO IS CALLED A LITTLE OFF GUARD BY GETTING EMAILS AND ALL THE SPEAKERS HERE TODAY ASKING WHY WE'RE CONSIDERING CLOSING ODIASE I

132MEAN WE HAVE TO BE CAREFUL ABOUT OUR APPROACH ON THIS ASKING THESE MEAN ASKING THESE QUESTIONS IT'S GOING TO SOLICITOR RESPONSE FROM OUR COMMUNITY AND IF WE DECIDED WE WANTED TO CLOSE A HIGH SCHOOL I MEAN THERE'S KNOW YEARS PROCESSES AND THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT PROGRAM AND FOR THE SEVEN AND A HALF YEARS I'VE BEEN ON THE SCHOOL BOARD NOT ONCE HAS ANYONE EVER COME TO ME AND SAID I THINK YOU SHOULD CLOSE ODETTE'S IT'S ALWAYS BEEN YOU NEED TO EXPAND ODIA SO I IS A LITTLE CONCERNED ABOUT HOW THIS WAS PRESENTED AND GETTING THE COMMUNITY WORKED CONCERNED ABOUT THIS ISSUE. I DON'T I THINK THAT WE COULD HAVE HANDLED IT A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENTLY. I WANT COMMENT ON SOME OF THE GEEKIEST RECOMMENDATIONS. ONE OF THAT I THINK COULD FALL IN FOUR OR

133FIVE BUT I THINK IT WAS MENTIONED SIZE IS TO SKIP GRADE LEVELS, YOU KNOW, GIVING THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX AND PROVIDING OTHER OPPORTUNITIES. WHEN I TALK TO PARENTS TIMES WHO CALL ME WHO THEY FEEL THAT THEIR STUDENTS AREN'T BEING SERVED IN THE GIFTED CLUSTER CLASSROOM BUT THEY DIDN'T GET INTO THAT'S A CONVERSATION THAT I HAVE WITH THEM AND THEY'RE ALWAYS LIKE I DIDN'T KNOW THAT WAS AN OPTION. I DIDN'T KNOW THAT WAS AN OPTION IN MY SON WAS IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL UNTIL THE PRINCIPAL TOLD ME ABOUT IT AND AND WE DID CHOOSE THAT OPTION FOR HIM AND WAS THE BEST DECISION WE EVER MADE SO I WOULD LIKE TO SEE US DO MORE THAT PRESENT THOSE OPTIONS FOR THE STUDENTS THAT IT COULD WORK FOR OBVIOUSLY THAT HAS TO BE A PARENT CHOICE. WELL, WE

134CAN'T FORCE THAT BUT I THINK FOR SOME STUDENTS IT COULD BE A GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR THEM ON THE GIFTED STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT DATA ON SLIDE 11 ITEM THREE SAYS EIGHTY EIGHT PERCENT OF INTELLECTUALLY GIFTED STUDENTS IN THE RESOURCE CLUSTERED CLUSTER PROGRAM WHO RESPONDED TO A SURVEY AGREED THAT THE INSTRUCTION THEY RECEIVED AT THEIR SCHOOL MET THEIR ACADEMIC I DON'T HAVE THE SURVEY IN FRONT OF ME BUT I BUT I DO REMEMBER LOOKING THAT IN-DEPTH WHEN WHEN WE GOT IT GOT IT AND THAT'S NOT THE RECOLLECTION THAT I HAD I RECALL A LOT OF STUDENTS AND PARENTS MAYBE PARENTS SAYING THAT THEIR STUDENTS WERE NOT RECEIVING OR BEING CHALLENGED RECEIVING THE INSTRUCTION THAT THEY SHOULD BE RECEIVING AND GIFTED GIFTED KLUSTER. SO SO IF WE COULD GET COULD WE GET WHAT YOU'RE REFERENCING HERE THE EIGHTY EIGHT

135PERCENT OF ITS IN YOUR POCKET AND CAME OUT OF THE GIFT CLUSTER EVALUATION EARLIER IN THE YEAR SO IT SAYS 88 PERCENT EIGHT PERCENT OF THE GIFTED STUDENTS MAYBE THE DIFFERENCE WAS THE PARENTS DIDN'T FEEL THAT THEY WERE. YES, MA'AM. THAT'S CORRECT THE STUDENTS WHEN THEY REPORTED THE FIFTH GRADERS, ONE THIRD OF THEM SAID MATH WAS NOT CHALLENGING ENOUGH ONE THIRD SAID IT WAS CORRECT THAT AND ONE THIRD SAID IT TO CHALLENGING YEAH SO YEAH. SO I I YOU KNOW, MY MEMORY AND SO I'D LIKE TO TAKE A LOOK AT THAT SURVEY AGAIN BECAUSE I JUST DON'T FEEL LIKE IT'S REALITY WITH OUR GIFTED CLUSTER MODEL AND THEN ON SLIDE 17 THE IDEA OF SELECTING TWO STUDENTS WITH THE HIGHEST RATINGS FROM EACH COMPREHENSIVE HOME SCHOOL FROM WHAT I RECALL I DON'T THINK THAT WE

136DO THAT WITH ANY OF OUR OTHER ACADEMIC PROGRAMS OR SPECIALTY PROGRAMS AND SO I'M CONCERNED THAT IF WE DO IT FOR ONE IT'S KIND OF GOING OUTSIDE OF WHAT WE NORMALLY DO AND I'M ALSO VERY CONCERNED BECAUSE I DON'T WANT STUDENTS WHO AREN'T PREPARED AND HAVE THE ABILITY TO BE AT ODDS TO BE AT THAT SCHOOL AND NOT AND BE OVERWHELMED AND NOT BE PREPARED FOR IT YOU KNOW IF THE HIGHEST THE HIGHEST STUDENT AT ONE OF THE SCHOOLS THE FOUR FOUR FOUR BUT EVERYBODY ELSE IS A FIVE FIVE FIVE FOUR BECAUSE MY STRUGGLE AND SO I ASKED MY COLLEAGUES TO REALLY GIVE THAT SOME THOUGHT WHEN WE'RE CONSIDERING THE SELECTION PROCESS THE UPCOMING CHANGES TO THE LOCAL COMMUNITY EDUCATION. YES. AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORK. THIS IS THIS IS A BIG ONE. I

137ALSO HAD CONCERNS WITH THAT RECOMMENDATION. I'VE GOT TO HIGHLIGHT TIMES AND STAFF ABOUT THE TO KIND OF THE SAME REASONS THAT MY COLLEAGUE IT'S ALREADY STATED THAT WHEN SEND IT OUT TO THE GENERAL POPULATION YOU SEND OUT THE SURVEY TO EVERY SINGLE HOUSEHOLD. SO YES, BUT THAT WAS THAT WAS A DIFFERENT SURVEY. THIS THE SURVEY DATA RESULTS YOU'RE LOOKING AT WERE SEPARATE IN THE SUBCOMMITTEE THEY RECEIVED THEY RECEIVED THE SURVEY WITH THE QUESTIONS ROBERTSON JUST REVIEWED AND THEN AND THEN EVERY OTHER HOUSEHOLD, WHETHER THEY WERE GIFTED OR NOT HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO PROVIDE INPUT ON EACH OF THE FIVE COMPONENTS THE GIFTED PLAN AND THAT WAS WHEN WE GOT EIGHTY NINE RESPONSES NO NO NO I'M SORRY MA'AM YOU I'M SORRY MA'AM. YOU CAN'T I'M SO SORRY CAN'T HAVE QUESTIONS FOR ME. YES. THANK YOU

138HOW WAS THAT IT WAS IT JUST I HAVE A SISTER WHO WAS SENT OUT THROUGH THE ALERT NOW FROM THE DIVISION IT WAS A DIVISION WIDE SEND OUT SO YEAH THAT IS JUST YEAH I MEAN I KNOW THAT IF I WAS A PARENT AND DIDN'T HAVE A CHILD AND THE GIFTED PROGRAM I PROBABLY WOULD JUST NOT PAYING ATTENTION TO IT OBVIOUSLY. SO MAYBE ESPECIALLY SINCE I'VE GOTTEN THAT IDENTIFY WHAT 25 TO 30 PERCENT OF OUR STUDENTS ARE GIFTED THAT'S A HUGE AMOUNT OF PEOPLE THAT MAYBE WE COULD JUST FOCUS ON TO THOSE FIFTEEN THOUSAND OR HOWEVER MANY THAT I'VE BROUGHT THIS UP SEVERAL TIMES AND I CAN'T REALLY SEE IT REFLECTED ON ANY OF THE QUESTIONS. MAYBE I'M MISSING BUT AND HOPEFULLY WE WILL HAVE A CONVERSATION AT THE RETREAT OR WHENEVER WE'RE DISCUSSING THE

139FIVE YEAR PLAN BUT KIND OF GOES BACK TO THE PURPOSE I'VE OFTEN SAID AND AGREED WITH MANY OF OUR SPEAKERS TONIGHT ORIGINAL PURPOSE OF A STANDALONE BUILDING IS TO SERVICE THAT NEEDS THE VERY COMPLEX NEEDS OF THESE THESE LAWYERS WHO WEREN'T QUITE DIFFERENTLY. WE'RE NOT JUST SMART NOT JUST A LITTLE OUT OF THE BOX AND THAT'S NOT PERCENT OF PEOPLE IN OUR DISTRICT. THAT'S NOT TWENTY PERCENT THAT'S NOT 15 THAT'S NOT THAT'S PROBABLY TEN. IT'S PROBABLY ONE TO THREE PERCENT THAT THAT CANNOT MAXIMIZE THEIR POTENTIAL AND COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL THAT'S WHAT I ALWAYS THOUGHT THE PURPOSE STAND ALONE. WAS FOR SO WHAT IS REALLY HAVE THAT CONVERSATION AGAIN TO COME WHAT IS THE PURPOSE IN THIS BUILDING AND ARE WE ARE WE DOING THAT OR DO WE HAVE ANOTHER PURPOSE WHERE JUST BEEN KIND OF BEEN

140FOR BRIGHT KIDS AND SO WILL BE AT THE BUILDING SOME WILL BE A CLUSTER AND YOU KNOW, FOREVER. SO I LOOK FORWARD TO THAT CONVERSATION BUT THAT'S VERY POIGNANT. THANK YOU, MISS ANDERSON. UM, I ALSO HAVE BROUGHT SOMETHING SEVERAL TIMES BUT I DIDN'T SEE IF I DIDN'T SEE IT ON ANY OF THE SURVEY QUESTIONS THE FACT THAT AND I BELIEVE IT'S EVEN BEEN RECOMMENDED THAT WE EXPLORE SATELLITES THROUGHOUT OUR CITY IN DIFFERENT LOCATIONS, MAYBE DIFFERENT DISTRICTS THAT'S NOT REFLECTED ON ANY OF THE QUESTIONS BUT BUT MY IDEA OF SATELLITE SITES I HAD SEVERAL BUT ONE OF THEM HAD TO DO TO DO WITH THE FACT THAT USING SATELLITE SITES IN DISTRICTS THROUGHOUT OUR CITY IN LIEU OF THE GIFTED CLUSTERS THAT WE HAVE IN HOMESCHOOLS SO IN OTHER WORDS, USING SATELLITE SITES THROUGHOUT THE CITY

141IN SPECIFIC PLACES FOR STUDENTS WHO ARE IDENTIFIED MAYBE DIDN'T MAKE MAYBE DIDN'T MAKE THE CUT FOR OBVIOUS BUT WE STILL NEED TO MEET THOSE STUDENTS NEEDS ALSO AND AS AS WAS POINTED OUT MY MEMORY IS THAT SEVERAL PARENT EMAILED US THAT THEIR CHILDREN ARE NOT GETTING BEING CHALLENGED THROUGH THE CLUSTER GROUPS THAT THEY HAVE AT HOME SCHOOLS AND AND I WOULD LIKE TO SEE MORE DISCUSSION ABOUT THAT . I KNOW THAT THAT WOULD HAVE A BUDGET IMPACT BUT WE NEED WE NEED TO START WE NEED TO START ASKING CITY COUNCIL FOR MONEY TO MEET THE NEEDS OF OUR SCHOOL SYSTEM AND THIS ONE PARTICULAR AREA THAT WE REALLY NEED TO STUDY HARD AND AND SHOW THAT WE HAVE A NEED FOR THAT BECAUSE THE FEEDBACK THAT I'M HEARING FROM PARENTS RIGHT NOW IS CLUSTERS ARE

142JUST NOT NOT MEETING THE NEEDS THOSE THOSE GIFTED STUDENTS WHO ARE DIDN'T MAKE THE CUT FOR ODIOUS AND AS A TEACHER I REMEMBER THOSE CLUSTERS I USE THEM AS WELL WE . WE HAD WE HAD THE GIFTED ARE COMING TO MY CLASSROOM ONCE A WEEK OR SOMETIMES IT WOULD BE ONLY ONCE A MONTH DEPENDING ON BECAUSE I DIDN'T KINDERGARTEN SO THEY DIDN'T COME AS OFTEN BUT I JUST I CAN SEE THE POINT THESE PARENTS ARE MAKING WHEN THEY SAY THIS IS NOT MEETING MY CHILD'S NEEDS MAYBE THEIR CHILD WAS ONLY HAVE FIVE FIVE FOUR AND THEY DIDN'T MAKE THE CUT IT WILL BE YES BUT BUT THEY THEY DEFINITELY LEARN DIFFERENTLY THEY THEY NEED TO BE CHALLENGED MORE IN SPECIFIC WAY AND. AND SO I I STRONGLY BELIEVE THAT SATELLITE SITES THROUGHOUT OUR CITY IN

143DIFFERENT AREAS COULD HELP MEET THE NEEDS OF THE STUDENTS AND WE NEED TO EXPLORE THAT AND FIND OUT HOW MUCH IT WOULD COST IF WE NEED TO GO TO CITY COUNCIL AND SAY LOOK, WE REALLY NEED TO DO THIS IS WHAT'S GOING TO MEET THE MEET THE NEEDS OF OUR STUDENTS. WE NEED WE NEED TO STRONGLY ADVISE STRONGLY ADVISE CITY COUNCIL TO MEET THOSE NEEDS FINANCIALLY. AND I ALSO AGREE WITH MY COLLEAGUES WHO TO STATE THAT THEY DON'T AGREE THAT THE SELECTION OF ONLY CHOOSING TO TO START TO POP STUDENTS FROM A SCHOOL AND THEN GOING TO OTHER SCHOOLS I AGREE THAT THAT A STUDENT WHO'S A FIVE FIVE FIVE WHO MIGHT BE FROM ONE SCHOOL TO TWO OF THEM AND THEN MAYBE TWO STUDENTS FROM ANOTHER SCHOOL MIGHT ONLY BE FIVE FIVE FOUR MAYBE

144ONLY BE A FOR FOR FOR THOSE WHO HAD ALL BE COMPATIBLE FOR WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR FOR STUDENTS TO GO TO ODIASE I THINK WE'VE MADE THAT CLEAR THROUGH STATING THAT WE'RE BACK TO THE FIVE FIVE FIVE STANDARD NOW FOR WHAT WE LOOK WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR FOR MEETING STUDENTS NEEDS AT THAT PARTICULAR SCHOOL. SO I ALSO DISAGREE WITH WITH THAT RECOMMENDATION. I DON'T IT WOULD BE AT ALL COMPATIBLE WITH WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR. THANK BRAZELTON'S SOMEONE'S PLEASE I'M, PLEASE. I'M >> VERY SORRY I COULDN'T NUDE PHOTOS SO I APPRECIATE ALL THE INFORMATION. I THINK IT'S THE START OF A MUCH BROADER CONVERSATION WILL NEED TO CONTINUE TO HAVE HOPEFULLY WITH SOME OF THAT HAPPENING DURING THE RETREAT. I'M HOPING THAT THE NEXT TIME WE WE HAVE THE CONVERSATION WE COULD HAVE PERHAPS SOME INFORMATION

145THAT LOOK AT THE SUCCESS MEASURES AND PARTICULARLY INTERESTED IN >> THE I GUESS INCOMING SECOND GRADERS FROM THE CLASS THAT WAS THAT CAME IN WITH A DIFFERENT RATING IN THE CONTROVERSY AND HOW THEY ARE DOING IN COMPARISON TO OTHER GROUPS THAT HAVE COME PERHAPS BEFORE THEM IF THOSE SECOND GRADERS WHO CAME IN AND THAT RATING SYSTEM ARE SUCCEEDING AND KIND OF DOING WELL ACROSS THE BOARD COMPARATIVELY TO THEIR PREVIOUS COHORT WHAT IT SAYS TO ME IS PERHAPS THOSE STUDENTS ARE BEING SERVED WELL IN THAT SETTING AND IF THEY ARE BEING EXCLUDED OTHER TIMES THEN MAYBE WE ARE SERVING ALL STUDENTS WHO WOULD BENEFIT FROM THAT LEARNING ENVIRONMENT THE WAY THEY SHOULD BE BUT I CAN'T MAKE THOSE KIND OF ASSUMPTIONS ONE WAY OR THE OTHER WITHOUT SEEING HOW THIS COHORT DEAD AND HOW THAT COMPARES

146TO PREVIOUS COHORTS CERTAINLY WOULD SPEAK WOULD SPEAK TO THE NEED FOR EXPANDING THE OPPORTUNITIES IN OUR HOME SCHOOLS BUT IT KIND OF CREATES ALMOST AN INTERESTING EXPERIMENT THOUGH NOT PURPOSEFULLY THAT WAY OF HOW WE WOULD LOOK AT THESE STUDENTS AND IT PLAYS INTO WHETHER I WOULD AGREE WITH PICKING TOP TWO FROM EACH OF OUR SCHOOLS ACROSS THE DISTRICT TO HAVE THAT REPRESENTATION AT THAT REPRESENTS ALL OF OUR CONSTITUENTS BECAUSE IF WE HAVE STUDENTS FROM THAT SECOND GRADE CLASS THAT WOULD BEEN A BY FOR WHATEVER AND THEY ARE SUCCEEDING THEY ARE DOING JUST AS WELL AS THEIR PEERS THEN THAT SAYS TO ME MAYBE WE SHOULD ALLOW FOR THAT REPRESENTATION BEFORE WE FILL ALL THE SLOTS SO I THINK I'M MEETING THAT ADDITIONAL INFORMATION BEFORE I CAN MAKE AN INFORMED DECISION. THANK YOU. SPRINKLERED WELL THANK

147YOU SO MUCH AND I CHEST AND I'M SURE MR. KELLY CAN ATTEST TO THE FACT THAT THERE HAS BEEN SO MUCH WORK THAT HAS BEEN PUT INTO THIS AND SO MANY AND AND AND YOU KNOW, I HAVE LEARNED A JUST ABOUT GIFTED STUDENTS IN THE LAST THREE AND A HALF YEARS AND IT'S AN IMPORTANT CONVERSATION BECAUSE THEY DEFINITELY ARE A COHORT OF STUDENTS THAT HAVE NEEDS AND I WANT TO MAKE TO MAKE SURE THAT, YOU KNOW, AS AS I'VE BEEN PROGRESSING IN MY KNOWLEDGE ABOUT YOU KNOW, I DID HAVE TO TWO KIDS THAT WENT TO SCHOOL AT THE TIME AND AND YOU UNDERSTAND THE NEEDS THAT THIS PARTICULAR STUDENTS HAVE BUT I THINK WE HAVE TO ALSO MAKE SURE THAT WE KEEP TALKING ABOUT THE FACT THAT GIFTED IS NOT EQUIVALENT TO JUST BEING SMART

148YOU KNOW AND WE HAVE WE HAVE TO HAVE THAT DISCUSSION BECAUSE IT'S VERY EASY TO CATEGORIZE THESE KIDS AND JUST SAY OH, THEY'RE JUST THE SMART HITS THEY'RE GOING TO THRIVE IN ANY ENVIRONMENT AND THAT AND I THINK THAT WHAT I'VE LEARNED THE MOST IS THAT THESE KIDS HAVE ALSO GOT OTHER FACTORS THAT COULD POTENTIALLY LIMIT THEM IN A IF THEY'RE NOT IN A PARTICULAR SETTING AND BECAUSE THEN THEY'RE BORED THEY BECOME DISCIPLINE ISSUES MAYBE YOU KNOW, JUST DIFFERENT DIFFERENT FACTORS I DON'T I DON'T WANT TO GENERALIZE THIS BUT BUT THAT'S SO MUCH OF WHAT I'VE LEARNED IS JUST THAT IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT BEING SMART. GIFTED IS PERCEPTION IT'S HOW YOU YOU GO ABOUT LIFE. IT'S HOW YOU LOOK THINGS HOW YOU HOW YOU ARTICULATE HOW YOU I MEAN THE STUDENTS THAT ACTUALLY SPOKE

149TODAY I MEAN IT'S JUST AMAZING HOW THEY WERE ABLE TO ARTICULATE THEIR THOUGHTS. I KNOW THAT YOU KNOW YOU'VE TALKED ABOUT YOU'VE TALKED ABOUT YOUR CHILD SELF ADVOCATING AND WE'VE HEARD SOME OTHER EXAMPLES OF THAT. SO WITHOUT GOING INTO LONG EXPLANATION AND YOU KNOW DIGRESSION OF EVERYTHING I'VE LEARNED I MEAN I MEAN I THINK THAT THAT IS WHY IT'S SO IMPORTANT TO ME TO ENSURE THAT WE TALK VERY CAREFULLY ABOUT ODIOUS BECAUSE IT IS IT IS IT WAS CREATED FOR A REASON IT IS AN IMPORTANT ASPECT TO ARE LEARNING IN VIRGINIA BEACH AND I JUST I WANT TO JUST MENTIONED THAT I I WAS ABLE TO YOU KNOW, LEARN THAT THROUGH ALL OF THIS TIME WITH YOUR WITH YOUR GROUP NOW I YOU WANT TO ASK YOU THOUGH IN TERMS OF THE SELECTION THE ONE

150THAT'S YOU KNOW, IN RED THAT IS IS THE SOURCE OF SOME OF THE CONCERN HERE WE HAVE HAD SO MANY DISCUSSIONS IN GEOCACHE ABOUT WIDENING THE NET ENSURING THAT WE ARE GETTING A MORE DIVERSE POPULATION AND I KNOW THAT THAT IS SOMETHING THAT THE BEDDAWI ACTUALLY DISCUSS WITH US MANY YEARS AGO AND SO WAS THAT IS THAT THE REASON WHY THAT WAS AN AGREEMENT BOTH IN THE SUBCOMMITTEE? NO. SO BASICALLY WHEN WE WERE LOOKING AT TRIANGULATING THE DATA THAT WAS THE POINT THE DATA POINT THAT THEY BOTH HAD ALIGNMENT WITH BOTH REPORTS SO IF YOU CAN SEE FROM THAT SLIDE ON THE LEFT THE GAG HAD DIFFERING OPINIONS FROM WHAT THE SUBCOMMITTEE HAD AND THAT WAS THE AREA IN WHICH THEY BOTH ALIGNED THE HIGHEST PART OF WHICH THEY ALIGN. CORRECT. BUT I'M JUST TRYING

151TO THINK OF THE REASONING BEHIND WHY THEY WOULD HAVE A LINE. ,I DON'T KNOW THE ANSWER TO THAT BUT I CAN SO THAT WOULD BE INTERESTING IF WE COULD DISCUSS THAT AT BECAUSE YOU KNOW, I THINK IF WE HAD A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF WHY THAT WAS SOMETHING THAT THEY FELT WAS IMPORTANT BETWEEN BOTH GROUPS I KNOW WHERE THAT COMES FROM. IT COMES FROM DR. YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT TRYING TO DO LOCAL NORMS REPLACEMENT BECAUSE NOT ALL STUDENTS WILL HAVE THE SAME KIND FRONT LOADING OPPORTUNITIES SO WE'RE REALLY SO IF WE SO IF WE LOOK AT FIFTY FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS WE TAKE TWO THAT GETS US ROUGHLY TO ALMOST HALF OF THAT ENTERING CLASS BUT IF WE CHANGE THE COMPOSITION OF MIDDLE SCHOOL WHICH HAS MORE STUDENTS PER GRADE LEVEL AND WE SLIDE THAT SEAT CAPACITY DOWN

152INTO THE ELEMENTARY THEN WE'RE LOOKING AT A CHANCE TO GET THE FIVE FIVE FIVE FIVE FIVE FOUR PLUS POTENTIALLY THE TOP TWO THAT WOULD ALLOW FOR OUR EFFORTS TOWARD DIVERSITY TO ACTUALLY BE MATERIALIZED AS WELL WHICH AGAIN IS PART OF WHAT WE ARE CHARGED TO DO SO I. SO I WOULD LIKE TO ASK FOR THE RETREAT AS WE'RE TALKING ABOUT OUT IF WE COULD GET MORE DATA ABOUT THAT AND THE REASONING AND JUST HAVE A LITTLE BIT MORE INSIGHT ABOUT HELPING US MAKE A DECISION ABOUT MAKE A DECISION ABOUT THAT. I DO LOVE TRYING TO BRING SOME SOME STANDARD MEASURES INTO THIS FOR US TO BE ABLE TO ASSESS THANK YOU. AND SO TO MRS. FRANKLIN'S POINT THAT'S WHERE I BELIEVE THE DISSOLUTION OF THE BUILDING PROGRAM CAME FROM FROM THIS BOARD IS THAT WE

153DO NOT HAVE ARE REALLY DIVERSE POPULATION AT ALTERNATION. IT'S NOT WE STUDENTS SAY THEY THOUGHT IT WAS A MULTICULTURAL EXPERIENCE BUT IT'S NOT AND THAT IS WHY THIS BOARD TALKED ABOUT EXPANDING SO THAT ITS REACH WAS FELT ACROSS THE CITY FOR ALL STUDENTS BECAUSE LET'S BE HONEST, NOT EVERY STUDENT WHO TESTS FIVE FIVE FIVE IS GOING TO GO BECAUSE THEY DON'T WANT TO OR BECAUSE THEY'RE DOESN'T WANT THEM TO AND WE KNOW WHO THOSE STUDENTS ARE BECAUSE WE TEST THEM ALL. WE ALSO HAVE PARENTS THAT LIKE MRS. MANNING SAID TO HER POINT THAT DON'T UNDERSTAND THE PROGRAM AND OR NECESSARILY KNOW HOW TO FILL OUT ALL THE PAPERWORK THAT IS REQUIRED FOR ENTRY INTO THAT SCHOOL THAT'S REAL IPAD PRINCIPLES TAKE HAD PRINCIPALS TAKE ME ASIDE TO TELL ME THAT STORY THAT'S WHAT THAT'S WHERE

154THAT CAME FROM AND IT'S NOT FAIR TO OUR ENTIRE COMMUNITY. SO TO MRS. ANDERSON'S POINT, THAT IS WHY SHE REALLY TALKED ABOUT THE SATELLITE PROGRAMS TO MEET THE NEEDS LITTLE MINI ALL DONATIONS ALL ACROSS OUR CITY OR IS SHE POINTED OUT, MAYBE EVEN DISTRICT DID SO THAT IT IS FAIR ACROSS THE BOARD YOU KNOW I'VE HEARD FROM ONE PARENT IN PARENT IN PARTICULAR WHO'S REMINDED ME MORE AND ONCE THAT THERE ARE STUDENTS AT ALL DONATION MAYBE SOME FIVE FIVE FIVE THAT ARE STILL STRUGGLING WHOSE PARENTS HAVE HIGHER TUTORS THAT HAVE A WHOLE HOST OF EXTRA JUST TO KEEP THEIR CHILD THERE AND MRS. MAN HE MADE THAT POINT TO THAT MAYBE NOT EVERYBODY IS IS CUT OUT FOR ALL DONATION LONG TERM THAT THEY MIGHT GO BUT MAYBE PARENTS FEEL THE PRESSURE OF KEEPING THEIR

155STUDENTS IN ONCE THEY GET IN AND SO I THINK IN FAIRNESS FOR THOSE QUESTIONS THAT THOSE THOSE WERE REAL QUESTIONS. BUT MY OTHER QUESTION IS FINDING ONE AND SO HOW MUCH MONEY DO WE PUT INTO ALL HOW MUCH MONEY DO WE HAVE FOR THE GIFTED PROGRAM FOR JUST ACROSS A DIVISION WE CAN BRING ALL THAT TO YOU AT THE RETREAT SO THAT YOU HAVE THAT BACKGROUND INFORMATION AND CAN LOOK AT IT COMPREHENSIVELY FOR GIFTED BECAUSE MOST OF THAT MONEY GOES JUST TO ALL DONATION GREAT PORTION OF IT GOES DOWN. YES OH YES, OK, SO WE'RE NOT MEETING FUNDING IS ALSO AN ISSUE FOR FOR WHAT WE NEED TO DO WITHIN OUR CLASSROOMS ACROSS THE CITY BECAUSE MOST OF FUNDING GOES TO ALL DONATION AND EVERYTHING HAS A COST OBVIOUSLY IN EVERYTHING THAT AS WELL TO

156MRS. ANDERSONS POINT WE'LL BRING IT ON ANALYSIS THE CENTER COST WELL. OK, UM OK I THINK THAT'S ALL I HAD FOR NOW IT'S SURE IF YOU WOULD ALSO DO DO US A FAVOR AND TALK ABOUT BECAUSE I KNOW THAT WE DEFINITELY TALKED OUT SOME MEASURES THAT WE WERE LOOKING AT TO CREATE MORE OF A BRIDGE BETWEEN ODIASE AND THE CLUSTER GROUPS AND MAYBE SATELLITES. SO IF WE COULD ALSO MAKE SURE THAT WE BRING SOME OF THAT ADDITIONAL INFORMATION I KNOW YOU GUYS HAVE ALREADY BEEN DISCUSSING AND I'D LOVE TO HEAR SOME OF THE IDEAS THAT YOU ALL HAVE. I THINK THAT SOME PEOPLE SOME PARENTS OUT THERE DON'T REALIZE THAT MANY THE CONCEPTS ARE NOT JUST BEING SHARED WITH JUST THE GIFTED GROUPS THEY'RE BEING SHARED YOU KNOW THE THE KNOW, THE THE CHURCHES ARE

157SHARING THAT TEACHERS WHO THEN OR UTILIZING THAT IN EVERY CLASSROOM NOT JUST WITH GIFTED STUDENTS SO THAT THEY CAN INCREASE THE KNOWLEDGE AWARENESS OF ALL STUDENTS SO IT MIGHT FEEL MIGHT FEEL LIKE THEY'RE NOT GETTING AS BUT I THINK IT WOULD BE REALLY GOOD TO GET A GET A LOT OF CLARITY AROUND WHAT THEY'RE TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH THEIR SO WE CAN ENSURE THE PUBLIC IS AWARE OF ALL THAT. OK, THANK YOU. OK, THANK DR. CRAIG. DR. ROBERTSON, THANK YOU. THANK OH I'M SORRY YOU REFERRED TO YOURSELF AS AN EPIDEMIOLOGIST MASTER'S DEGREE OK ALL RIGHT. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU FOR THAT. SORRY SO MUCH FOR YOUR TIME. YEAH OK. ALL RIGHT UM AND NOW EXPLORING AN ADDITIONAL THIRD GRADE CLASSROOM DONATION SCHOOL AND WE WELCOME DANIEL KOUICHI, CHIEF ACADEMIC OFFICER GOOD EVENING. THANK YOU. TONIGHT I

158WILL PROVIDE YOU WITH SOME INFORMATION AND CONSIDERATIONS DUE TO THE SCHOOL WORDS REQUEST TO EXPLORE THE POSSIBILITY LOGISTICALLY COST WISE AND WHAT IT WOULD MEAN IF WE WERE TO CONSIDER ADDING A CLASSROOM IN THIRD GRADE TO ALL DONATION SCHOOL SO DISPLAYED HERE YOU CAN SEE THE PURPOSE OF THIS PRESENTATION OUR HOPE IS THAT THE CONSIDERATION AND THE INFORMATION WE SHARE WITH YOU THIS EVENING WILL HELP YOU AND ASSIST YOU IN EXAMINING THIS POSSIBILITY SHOULD YOU DECIDE TO TAKE ACTION. THE INFORMATION DR. WILKERSON SHARED THIS EVENING MAY ALSO SUPPORT YOU AND THE DECISION YOU ARE CONSIDERING AND I'LL BE ABLE TO TAKE ANY QUESTIONS YOU MIGHT HAVE AS FOLLOW UP THE CONCLUSION OF THE PRESENTATION . THE FIRST CONSIDERATION CENTERS AROUND THE TWENTY TWENTY TO TWENTY THREE APPLICANT POOL AS YOU SEE HERE WE'VE DISPLAYED FOR

159YOU EACH GRADE LEVEL AND THE STUDENTS RATED WITH THE HIGHEST RATING THAT SCHOOL YEAR SO AS YOU CAN SEE THE RISING SECOND GRADERS WHO ARE YOUR FIRST GRADERS HERE DURING THE SCHOOL YEAR TWO HUNDRED FORTY FOUR STUDENTS RECEIVE THE HIGHEST RATING THAT YEAR WITH ONE HUNDRED THIRTY SEATS AVAILABLE IN THE SECOND THAT THEY WOULD BE ENTERING. YOU MIGHT NOTE AS WELL FIFTH GRADE THESE ARE THE TWO GRADE LEVELS EVERY YOU RECEIVE THE MOST APPLICATIONS I'LL GIVE YOU A MOMENT TO ANALYZE THE THE ANOTHER CONSIDERATION WE FELT THE SCHOOL BOARD WOULD WANT TO CONSIDER AND LOOK AT IS LOGISTICAL IF THE SCHOOL BOARD WISHES TO ADD A THIRD GRADE CLASS THIS WOULD BE A ONE TIME EDITION OF THE TEACHER ALLOCATION. A TEACHER WOULD BE HIRED TO FILL A THIRD GRADE ALLOCATION AND ANY OTHER SUPPORT

160STAFF THAT WOULD BE NEEDED AS FAR AS SUPERVISOR FOR EXAMPLE IF A HALF TIME PE ASSISTANT WOULD BE NECESSARY FOR THAT GRADE LEVEL FOR SUPERVISION LUNCH AND THOSE KINDS OF THINGS WE WANT TO DO TO LOOK AT THE STAFFING WILL SHARE THAT IN JUST A MOMENT. EACH YEAR THAT THAT ADDITIONAL TEACHING ALLOCATION THAT YOU WOULD ALLOCATE WOULD MATRICULATE UP TO THE NEXT GRADE LEVEL. SO WE WOULD NOT BE ABLE OR WE WOULD NOT HAVE SPACE TO ADD MORE EACH YEAR. IT WOULD MATRICULATE ANOTHER LOGISTICAL CONSIDER ASIAN FOR THE THAT THE ADMINISTRATION REVIEWED WAS SPACE AND THE CURRENT MOST APPROPRIATE SPACE THAT WOULD BE AVAILABLE WOULD BE THE THIRD GRADE BEFORE THE THIRD GRADE CLASSROOM WOULD BE THE ELEMENTARY SCIENCE LAB AND SO WE'VE BEEN THERE WE'VE ANALYZED THAT WITH OUR FACILITIES TEAM AND THEN OF

161COURSE YOU WOULD WANT TO BE AWARE THAT THAT SCIENCE LAB WOULD NEED TO CLOSE FOR THREE YEARS FOR USE BY THE CURRENT STUDENTS. ANOTHER CONSIDERATION WE FELT YOU MAY WANT INFORMATION ON RELATES TO A COST THIS IS APPROXIMATE SO WE WOULD TO FINALIZE QUOTES WITH FACILITIES FOR SOME OF THE RENOVATIONS THAT THEY'VE ESTIMATED WE HAVE BEEN OUT THERE. WE'VE ASSESS THE COST OF A CLASSROOM SET OF FURNITURE AND SO I'LL PASS SO THAT YOU CAN REVIEW THAT NOW AS WELL AND AGAIN THE SALARY RANGE COULD BE AT THE LOW END OF NINETY THOUSAND OR THE HIGHER END OF MORE SUPPORT STAFF IS NEEDED FOR ELECTIVES AND SUPERVISION THE FINAL PIECE OF INFORMATION THIS EVENING THAT I'LL SHARE IS THE PROCESS THAT WE WOULD NEED TO TAKE TO ADD A THIRD GRADE CLASSROOM AND SAID THIS

162WOULD BE THE RECOMMENDATION TO DO THAT EFFECTIVE THE TOTAL NUMBER OF SEATS FOR THE NEW CLASS WOULD NOT EXCEED TWENTY SIX STUDENTS AND THE TEACHER ALLOCATION MATRICULATE TO GRADES FOUR AND FIVE IN THE FOLLOWING SCHOOL YEAR ONLY TWENTY TWENTY FOUR TWENTY FIVE THIRD GRADE APPLICANTS WOULD BE ELIGIBLE AND NO SPECIAL EXCEPTIONS WOULD BE MADE TO ENSURE AN APPROPRIATE PROCESS IS UTILIZED AS FOR OUR PLAN APPLICANTS WOULD BE SELECTED BASED ON THEIR RATING FROM HIGHEST ALLOWANCE HIGHEST BEING THE FIVE FIVE FIVE IF THERE WERE MORE APPLICANTS WITH THE HIGHEST RATING FIVE FIVE FIVE THAN THERE ARE SEATS A RANDOM DRAW WOULD OCCUR FOR OUR PLAN IF THERE ARE LESS WITH THE HIGHEST RATING AND THERE ARE SEATS APPLICANTS FROM THE NEXT YEAR WOULD ALSO BE SELECTED APPLICANTS NOT SELECTED FOR THE EXTRA CLASSROOM AND REMAIN IN

163THE APPLICANT POOL AS THEY WOULD CURRENTLY AND CONSIDERATION FOR AVAILABLE SEATS THAT MIGHT BECOME OPEN BEFORE THE START OF THE SCHOOL YEAR. THERE WOULD BE NO APPEALS FOR THIS PROCESS GIVE YOU A MOMENT TO REVIEW THE AND AT THIS TIME I'M AVAILABLE FOR ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU MIGHT HAVE AS YOU CONSIDER THIS SPRINKLERED. THANK YOU. I APPRECIATE THIS SO I DO HAVE A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS BECAUSE YOU KNOW AGAIN MR. HOLLAND AND I AND MANY IN THE GIFTED TEAM YOU KNOW WE'VE HAD A COUPLE DISCUSSIONS ABOUT AND SO I JUST WANTED TO SAY THAT THERE IS YOU KNOW, THERE IS NOT GOING TO A PERFECT SOLUTION FOR THIS AND I QUITE FRANKLY AFTER LOOKING AT EVERYTHING I'M JUST GOING TO GO ON RECORD AS SAYING I DO SUPPORT ADDING THAT THE ADDITIONAL THIRD GRADE I

164DO HAVE A QUESTION THOUGH AND WE HAVE WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT THE PUBLIC UNDERSTANDS THAT WE UNDERSTAND THAT IT'S NOT GOING TO BE A PERFECT SOLUTION FOR EVERYBODY BUT IN ORDER TO ACCOMMODATE, YOU KNOW, A GOOD SEGMENT OF THE FAMILIES THAT THIS IS THIS IS THE SOLUTION THAT IS GOING TO WORK AND SO YOU KNOW WE HAVE TALKED ABOUT THIS ABOUT THIS FOR TESTING WOULD MAKE IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR ANY FAMILY TO BE ABLE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF GETTING INTO ODIOUS INTO AN ADDITIONAL CLASSROOM SO I UNDERSTAND IT'S NOT PERFECT BUT IT'S YOU KNOW, IS AS CLOSE AS WE'RE GOING TO GET I AFTER ALL THE THE LUX'S THAT WE'VE DONE SO WITH THAT SAID THOUGH WE DID HAVE AN EMAIL FROM HER PARENTS AND I THOUGHT IT WAS KIND OF AN INTERESTING QUESTION

165AND I JUST WANT TO ACTIVELY ASK YOU SO IF WE HAVE THIS CLASS AND YOU KNOW THEY'RE GOING TO BE RETESTED NEXT YEAR, OK, BECAUSE WE TEST EVERY SO IF THEY'RE IF THEY'RE GOING TO BE RICH BUT ANYONE THAT A CHILD THAT IS ENROLLED IT STAYS THAT AT ODIASE THEY DO NOT GET RETESTED OR RESELECTED . THEY STAY THERE. I UNDERSTAND SO THEY'RE QUESTION THAT THOUGH WAS WITH THIS PARTICULAR WITH THEIR INABILITY TO INABILITY TO RETEST AND I JUST WANT TO PUBLICLY ASK THAT SO THEY CAN GET A RESPONSE TO THEIR QUESTION KNOW THE ANSWER WOULD BE NO WE WOULD NOT WOULD NOT REMOVE A CHILD THAT WAS ALREADY ATTENDING SCHOOL THERE. OK NOW THAT WAS THAT WAS THE QUESTION THAT WAS ASKED BY A PARENT AND I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE

166ASK PUBLICLY SO SO THAT WE AN ADDRESS THAT TONIGHT BECAUSE THEIR SUGGESTION WAS WAS TO RETEST THAT CLASS NEXT YEAR TO SEE, YOU KNOW, IF THERE'S A POSSIBILITY BECAUSE THEY PERHAPS MAYBE DIDN'T, YOU KNOW, APPLY THIS YEAR SO SO I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT THERE THE QUESTION IS ANSWERED AND THEY DIDN'T HAVE TO WAIT FOR A RESPONSE ON THAT AND SO WITH THAT BEING SAID I YOU KNOW, I THINK THAT WE HAVE WE HAVE REALLY TURNED DOWN THE BEST RODE THE BEST AVENUE TO MOVE FORWARD AND I THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME I DO SUPPORT THIS. THANK YOU. SO I UNDERSTOOD ONE OF THE EMAILS THAT CAME THROUGH WAS A WAS FROM A PARENT WHOSE CHILD DID NOT GET SELECTED LAST YEAR WHEN WE HAD THE LOTTERY PROCESS AND THEY DID NOT WANT

167TO PUT THEIR CHILD THROUGH IT THIS YEAR BECAUSE THEY UNDERSTOOD AT THE TIME THAT THERE WERE ONLY GOING TO BE THREE OR FOUR SEATS SO THAT THEY DIDN'T TESTED HIM TO HAVE A CHILD TEST THIS. SO NEXT YEAR ENTERING FOURTH GRADE FOR EXAMPLE WOULD THERE BE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR TESTING AGAIN IN CASE SOMEBODY MOVED WHAT IF SOMEBODY MOVED AWAY AND THAT'S ALWAYS THE CASE. SO ANYONE CAN APPLY EVERY YEAR YOU CAN APPLY EVERY YEAR IF YOUR CHILD IS IDENTIFIED GIFTED SO YES, THEY COULD ABSOLUTELY YOU THAT THEY MIGHT NOT BE GUARANTEED A C DEPENDING ON THEIR RATING AND SPACE AVAILABLE BECAUSE PEOPLE DO WE HAVE A LOT OF LOT OF MILITARY IN THE AREA WHO DO SO I'M NOT SAYING THERE'S A LOT FOR THAT BUT WHAT WE DO HAVE OPENINGS OCCASIONALLY. YES. SO I

168WAS JUST WONDERING ABOUT THAT MYSELF BECAUSE I UNDERSTAND THE DILEMMA THAT THE PARENT WENT THROUGH THIS YEAR. BUT YOU KNOW RIGHT NOW WE DON'T HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO RETEST ANYONE WHO DECIDED NOT TO TEST EARLIER IN THE SPRING SO I REMIND YOU THAT YOU'RE PICKING THE MOST QUALIFIED APPLICANTS FOR THIS GRADE WERE REWARDED FOR HOW YOU TEST IN SECOND GRADE WE WANT GRADE. WE WANT TO SEE THOSE THOSE PEOPLE WANTED TO GO TO THIRD GRADE OUT OF THOSE PEOPLE THEY TOOK THE THIRD GRADE TEST TO EVALUATE THE POTENTIAL FOR THIRD GRADE. YOU REWARD THEM FOR HOW THEY TESTED IN SECOND GRADE. I GET SO THAT IF YOU CHOSE NOT TO DO THE PROCESS AND YOU DIDN'T CHOSE THE THIRD GRADE THAT WHEN SECOND GRADE YOU ARE YOU WERE EVALUATED FOR HOW GOOD WERE POTENTIAL FOR

169A SECOND GRADE THEY NEEDED TO GO THROUGH GO THROUGH THE TESTING FOR AGREE THAT THERE WERE APPLYING FOR I'M SORRY PARENTS SORRY PARENTS MAKE A CHOICE BUT TO MAKE THE CHOICES TIME THERE WOULD BE A VALUE IN ON A DIFFERENT STANDARD. WE JUST CAN'T OFFER A DIFFERENT STANDARDS FOR. AND I UNDERSTAND THAT I JUST I GUESS I WAS TRYING TO GIVE A LITTLE REAM OF HOPE SO THAT MAYBE THE THAT PARTICULAR PARENT COULD SAY WELL WE'LL TEST NEXT YEAR AND IF SOMEBODY MOVES AND THERE'S ONE OR TWO SEATS AVAILABLE, MAYBE YOU'LL QUALIFY YOU KNOW LIKE I SAID I CAN'T, I CAN'T GO BACK AND RETEST EVERYBODY. I UNDERSTAND I DON'T KNOW IF YOU HAVE IT RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU AND I KNOW I'VE SEEN IT BEFORE BUT DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY OPENINGS THERE

170WERE THIS YEAR IN THIRD AND FOURTH GRADE AT ODDS, I CAN GET THAT. I DON'T HAVE IT RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME. I'D BE VERY CURIOUS. I THINK IT MAY BE IN MY EMAILS OR BUT WHEN I TYPE IN IT YES IT DOESN'T EXACTLY BRING UP WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR IF I DO YOU KNOW WE HAD TO OPENINGS THAT ORGANICALLY WERE OPEN THIS YEAR BEFORE CONSIDERING IS WORKING FOR THIRD GRADE. YES. WHAT ABOUT I DON'T KNOW BUT I DO KNOW ABOUT THEY'RE GREAT. ALL RIGHT. SO I'M AND I'M JUST GOING TO MAKE A COUPLE COMMENTS HERE. YOU KNOW, I I AS MUCH AS I WOULD LOVE TO GO BACK DO REVALUATIONS A LOT OF TIMES GOVERNANCE SOLUTIONS ARE NOT PERFECT. I WOULD LOVE TO BE ABLE TO SATISFY EVERY STAKEHOLDER WITH EVERY SINGLE DECISION BUT

171IT JUST CAN'T BE DONE. I DO SUPPORT ADDING THE THIRD GRADE CLASSROOM AND I DO SUPPORT THESE RECOMMENDATIONS I I DO THINK THAT THERE IS A PRETTY CLEAR NEED THAT IT WAS THE GREATEST NEED BASED ON THE DATA PRESENTED AND I'M GOING TO SUPPORT IT. THANK YOU. OH OR MR CAMERON IS JUST GOING TO SAY WE'RE YES SIR LET ME REITERATE THE QUESTION THAT SANDERSON RAISED JUST TO MAKE SURE THAT THERE IS FULL CLARITY BECAUSE I WAS LEFT WITH A LITTLE UNCERTAINTY SO MAYBE THERE ARE OTHERS WHO SHARE THAT POSITION AS WELL. SO WE'RE GOING TO DEAL WITH HYPOTHETICAL SITUATION OF AN INDIVIDUAL WHO CHOSE NOT TO HAVE THEIR CHILD TESTED AND AS A RESULT THEY WILL NOT BE A CONSIDERATION FOR ANY SEATS IN TWENTY TWENTY FOUR TWENTY FIVE SCHOOL YEAR. THEY NOW REALIZE

172THAT MAYBE THAT WASN'T A WISE DECISION FOR THEMSELVES AND THEIR CHILDREN AND AS A RESULT THERE IS THEN THE FOLLOWING YEAR TWENTY FIVE TWENTY SIX ARE THEY ABLE TO HAVE THEIR CHILDREN SUBJECTED THE TESTING PROCESS TO POSSIBLY OPEN THE WINDOW IN TWENTY FIVE TWENTY SIX THEY ARE AND EVERY YEAR UNTIL SEVENTH GRADE OK THAT'S ALL I WANTED TO CLARIFY. THANK SO I SO I JUST WANT TO THANK MY COLLEAGUES AND THIS AND YOUR TEAM FOR ALL OF THIS WORK. THIS WAS THIS WAS A LOT OF WORK. HOW MANY STANDALONE GIFTED BUILDINGS ARE THERE IN THE ONE HUNDRED THIRTY FOUR SCHOOL DISTRICTS IN THE COMMONWEALTH I BELIEVE ME REALLY TOLD US THAT THEY WERE ONLY AWARE MAYBE ONE OTHER BESIDES US WHEN WE RESEARCHED THAT AT THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR SO WE'RE VERY FORTUNATE AND

173WE'VE INVESTED A LOT IN THIS AND I THANK YOU FOR FOR ALL OF YOUR WORK AND I LOOK FORWARD TO JOLINA YES WE'D LIKE TO THANK YOU ALL. OK. OK, THANK YOU SO MUCH OK AND LAST FOR INFORMATION IS THE SCHOOL BOARD COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS AND SO ON THIS WEEKEND I SENT THE COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS SPRINKLE AND I WORKED ON IT ON FRIDAY I THINK I SENT IT FRIDAY NIGHT AND IT WAS DIFFICULT. IT WAS EASY AND DIFFICULT BECAUSE MOST PEOPLE WANTED TO REMAIN THE SAME TO CONTINUE THEIR WORK ON THE COMMITTEES THAT THEY WERE ORIGINALLY DESIGNED SO THAT MADE THAT MADE IT A LITTLE EASIER HOWEVER, WE FOR CERTAIN HAVE FOR BOARD MEMBERS EXITING AND IN ON THE 31ST OF DECEMBER AND TO UP FOR REELECTION SO THAT MADE IT A LITTLE MORE DIFFICULT BECAUSE THERE

174IS A CHANCE WE COULD HAVE SIX NEW BOARD MEMBERS SO I DID WANT TO TELL YOU THAT THE DRAFT YOU RECEIVED THIS WEEKEND ADMITTED ON I JUST ACCIDENTALLY THE MENTAL HEALTH TASK FORCE AND HAD TO CHECK WITH DR. ROBERTS AND ON THAT WE'RE KEEPING OUT INTACT. SO THAT WAS ADDED AND THAT IS JUST GO IN AND CAROLYN WEEMES WHO SERVE ON THAT NOW WE NEED AN ADDITIONAL MEMBER OF THIS BOARD TO STEP UP FOR THE GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE BECAUSE WITH THE DISSOLUTION OF THE PMC THAT THE CHAIR OF THAT OLD COMMITTEE SERVED ON THE GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE. SO I DO NEED ONE MEMBER OF THE BOARD TO STEP UP THAT IS NOT ME OR SOMEONE ON AUDIT PROCEDURE ER WILL BE ON GOVERNANCE. MRS. BROWN LARGE MEMBER IS MEMBER, IS THERE ANYBODY THAT WOULD LIKE TO WHAT

175TIME DID I MEAN I DIDN'T THINK OK I WAIT I CAN'T HEAR I CAN'T TALK. OK MISS OK SO IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING AND I LOOKED AT THE I'M NOT ABLE TO PULL UP THE BYLAWS ON MY COMPUTER RIGHT NOW BUT IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING AND WE VOTED ON THE CHANGES TO THE BYLAWS THIS COMMITTEE ONLY HAS FOR YOU CAN'T ADD ANOTHER AT LARGE. NO THE WAY THAT WE CHANGE THE BYLAWS IN THIS BOARD VOTED TO APPROVE THAT IT WILL ONLY BE FOR AND THE ONLY WAY TO CHANGE THAT IS THROUGH BYLAWS WELL NOW WE DON'T NOW WE DON'T NEED ANYBODY MISS ANDERSON THAT WAS MY UNDERSTANDING AS WELL BEFORE I DID NOT ASK TO ASK TO REMAIN ON THE COMMITTEE. OK WELL THEN TO LEAVE IT AS AS IT'S REPORTED ON IN YOUR PACKETS THE OTHER

176THING IS I DID TALK TO MR. COLPEPER TODAY WHO I EXPLAINED ANYBODY WHO'S INTERESTED I HAD TO BOARD MEMBERS MRS. RIGS AND MR. COLPEPER WHO BOTH ASKED FOR THE SAME TWO COMMITTEES AND SO I GAVE MR. CULPEPER THE AUDIT COMMITTEE AND HE AND I TALKED ABOUT THAT TODAY AND I GAVE MRS. RIGS THE LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE SO THAT SHE COULD WORK IN TANDEM WITH THE VBA DELEGATE ASSEMBLY SO KIND OF HAND IN HAND THERE AND MR. PEPPER WHO HAS ANOTHER TWO AND A HALF YEARS ON HIS TERM I PLACED HIM ON THE AUDIT COMMITTEE AND THAT COMMITTEE THAT COMMITTEE IS THAT'S THE COMMITTEE I HAVE THE MOST CONCERNS ABOUT BECAUSE THERE'S A THERE'S A CHARTER ATTACHED TO THAT COMMITTEE AND THAT CHARTER STATES THAT IT MUST REMAIN CONSISTENT AND SO I APPRECIATE MRS. WILLIAMS AND MR.

177CULPEPER STEPPING UP TO SERVE ON THAT COMMITTEE AND I'VE LEFT MRS. FRANKLIN AND IF SHE EXITS ON THE THIRTY FIRST DECEMBER AND WE CAN WE CAN REPLACE HER OR I CAN CONTINUE HIS EX OFFICIO UNTIL WE ACTUALLY APPOINT A THIRD A THIRD PERSON WELL IN ADDITION IN ADDITION TO THE CITIZEN MEMBER, MR. DAVENPORTS THE SPECIAL EDUCATION ADVISORY COMMITTEE MRS. MANNING TONIGHT YOU MENTIONED YOU MENTIONED THAT YOU HAVE A STANDING YEAH THAT'S WHY I DID NOT REQUEST URINATING ON THE OK SO. OK, SO WE NEED I NEED EVERYONE I'M FINE BEING AN ALTERNATE OH YOU'RE FINE WITH BEING AN WITH BEING AN ALTERNATE. YEAH OK. EVEN THOUGH YOU CAN'T SHE CAN'T I CAN MAKE EXCEPTIONS MAKE EXCEPTIONS OK ALL RIGHT I THANK FOR THAT VERY MUCH AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENTS. OH THAT'S RIGHT THAT'S YOU MISS BROWN

178WE PLACED YOU ON WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT WITH MISS NAMES THAT WAS AN OVERSIGHT AND THEN YOU CAN LESNER. OH AND THE G CACC IS OH I WENT ONE IT MRS. FRANKLIN AND MR. AND MR. KOTLIN AND NOT MR. CULPEPPER AND THAT WAS FUJIKO OH YEAH I WAS TOO. YEAH IT'S IT'S ON PAGE THREE OR FOUR THE IS WE'RE GOING TO REMAIN WE'RE GOING TO LET THAT REMAIN THE SAME. MR. FRANKLIN MRS. FRANKLIN TO MR. KAPLAN HAVE BEEN TO HAVE BEEN A GOOD TEAM AND WE'D LIKE TO KEEP THAT SOLID. FRANKLIN I HAVE A ARE HOW ARE YOU MAKING NOTES OK AND SO THAT'S WHY WHAT YOU RECEIVE THIS WEEKEND WAS A DRAFT WE PUBLISH THIS TO THE PUBLIC FIRST THING MONDAY MORNING AND NOW WE WILL CLEAN THIS UP AND HAVE IT AS PART YOUR POCKET

179FOR A JULY NIGHT. DID ANYBODY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ,COMMENTS OR CONCERNS WITH WHAT'S IN FRONT OF YOU? OH, MISS SWEETS. YES, THANK YOU. AND I DID BRING THIS UP TO MILNOR BUT I DIDN'T HAVE THE CHANCE TO TALK TO MY COLLEAGUE IS ANDERSON BUT JUST I ACCIDENTALLY I ACCIDENTALLY I THOUGHT I WAS REQUESTING ALL MY COMMITTEES THAT I WAS ALREADY ON AND I LEFT OFF THE U.S. SO. SO I'M AVAILABLE TO BELIEVE YOU SEE BUT MISS ANDERSONS ON IT BUT I'M JUST OFFERING IT OUT BECAUSE I'M ON IT NOW AND IT SEEMS KIND OF SILLY FOR ME TO GO FOR SIX MONTHS AND THEN GO BACK ON IT SO UNAVAILABLE TO DO BECAUSE I THOUGHT I THOUGHT I HAD REQUESTED BECAUSE WHEN I WROTE MY COMMITTEES I DID BECAUSE I WAS REQUESTING BECAUSE ON BECAUSE

180I HAD IT BECAUSE I ADDED AUDIT ANDERSON IF YOU WANT TO BE ON THAT FOR SIX MONTHS THAT'S FINE THAT'S FINE BUT I'M AVAILABLE TO CONTINUE ON THE U.S. TO BE ON THAT COMMITTEE BECAUSE I DO HAVE SOME CONCERNS THAT WE'RE ADDRESSED THAT I TRIED TO GET ADDRESS LAST YEAR AND I WOULD LIKE TO COMMUNITY SO THAT I SO THAT I COULD ADDRESS THOSE THINGS WHEN WE MEET AGAIN IN DECEMBER OF OH OH IT'S ONLY ONE MEETING IN DECEMBER WE ONLY HAVE ONE MEETING SO YOU CAN ADDRESS THEM WITHOUT BEING A MEMBER BUT THAT'S FINE. I'M NOT OK. I WAS OK UM I DIDN'T REALIZE THERE WAS ONLY YEAH I YEAH I HAD FORGOTTEN THAT WE ARRANGE A MEETING BUT I DO REMEMBER THAT THERE'S ONE THING IN DECEMBER I WAS A LITTLE I WAS

181A LITTLE CURIOUS ABOUT LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE BECAUSE USUALLY THE CHAIR DOES NOT SERVE ON A COMMITTEE USUALLY I KNOW THERE I'M ASSUMING THERE WERE SOME OTHER PEOPLE THAT WOULD LIKE TO BE ON THE LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE SO THAT I'M JUST CURIOUS ABOUT THAT AND THEN ALSO CURIOUS ABOUT THE POLICY REVIEW I THINK THERE WAS TWO MEMBERS THAT PROBABLY PUT POLICY REVIEW ONLY REQUEST ONLY REQUEST WAS ERLANDSON IS MANNING SOME JUST KIND OF CURIOUS TO ME WOULD YOU LIKE ME TO OK SO FOR AS I STATED IN THE BEGINNING, MR. COLPEPER ASKED FOR AUDIT AND LEGISLATIVE AND SO DID MRS. RIGGS AND WHEN WE TALKED WITH MRS. FRANKLIN AND I TALKED ABOUT I WAS GOING TO DO ONE ONE EACH AND MRS. REAGAN DID NOT GET AUDIT BECAUSE I FELT THAT MR. CULPEPER WOULD BE BETTER SERVED BECAUSE

182I NEED HIM FOR CONSISTENCY AND I NEED HIM TO REMAIN ON THAT COMMITTEE AS LONG AS HE CAN SO THAT'S WHY WE PUT HIM THERE AND IN THIS RIGS ASKED TO BE BACK ON LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE AS SHE IS AN OUTGOING MEMBER AND WOULD LIKE TO BE A PART OF THE PLANNING FOR THE LEGISLATIVE AGENDA AND THEN WORK IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE VA AND HER PARTICIPATION AT THE DELEGATE ASSEMBLY AND SO I THOUGHT THAT THAT IS A FAIR ASSESSMENT, ESPECIALLY SINCE MR. CULPEPER CAN STEP BACK UP IN JANUARY AND WE JUST ALLOW HER AS A SITTING MEMBER TO SERVE FOR THAT SIX MONTHS AND HE WHEN WE TALK TODAY HE SAID HE WOULD BE WILLING TO COME BACK ON TO LEGISLATIVE AND BE THERE FOR THE ENTIRE SESSION OF JANUARY OK I, I GUESS MY CONFUSION

183IS IF YOU HAVE A MEMBER LIKE YOU'VE GOT MR. CULPEPER THAT WANTS TO BE ON LEGISLATIVE BUT YOU'RE TAKING A SPOT IN YOUR CHAIR OF THE SCHOOL BOARD THAT YOU'RE ON LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE AND IS RIGS HAD RESIGNED FROM THAT. SO I DON'T MR. CULPEPER CAN'T CONTINUE TO BE ESPECIALLY WAS CHAIR WHY HE CONTINUE TO BE ON LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE? I WOULD HOPE THAT THE CHAIR IF OTHER MEMBERS WANT TO BE ON THE COMMITTEE THAT THE CHAIR OF THE SCHOOL WAR WOULD SAY YES IF NOBODY WANTED TO BE ON WOULD UNDERSTAND THAT SO THAT. SO I GUESS THAT'S MY CONFUSION IT'S WHY YOU'RE ON IT BUT. BUT ANOTHER MEMBER WHO REQUESTED IS NOT ON IT. THIS WAS A PRETTY I THIS WAS A PRETTY DIFFICULT I MEAN THE CHAIR OF THE SCHOOL BOARD CAN BE ON COMMITTEES

184TOO. IT'S JUST THAT THIS WAS A VERY DIFFICULT PIECE WITH UPWARDS SIX PEOPLE EXITING AND I THOUGHT WE DID A PRETTY DECENT JOB ASSIGNING GIVING EVERYONE JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING THAT THEY ASKED FOR I THINK IN FAIRNESS THE POLICY REVIEW COMMITTEE IS SAYING EXACTLY THE SAME THERE HAVE BEEN NO CHANGES TO THAT COMMITTEE AND I THOUGHT THAT AND WE FELT THAT THEY'VE DONE GREAT JOB WORKING TOGETHER AND MR. ONCE ASKED THE SAME AS BROWN AS THE SAME SANDERSON AS TO SAY SO MISS MANNING YES THERE ARE BYLAWS STATE THAT THE CHAIR SHALL BE THE EX OFFICIO OF ALL COMMITTEES CHAIR CAN'T BE AN EX OFFICIO OF ALL COMMITTEES OF THE CHAIRS ALSO ON COMMITTEE IN THE YEARS THAT I'VE BEEN ON THIS BOARD CHAIRS HAVE NEVER PUT THEMSELVES ON COMMITTEES EXCEPT THERE WAS AN EXTENUATING CIRCUMSTANCES

185WHERE THERE WAS AN EMPTY SPOT SO I SHARE MISS WINS CONCERNS OF THE CHAIRS PUT HERSELF ON COMMITTEE ESPECIALLY ONE THAT WAS REQUESTED BY MULTIPLE BOARD MEMBERS MY NEXT CONCERN IS THAT I AS A SEASONED AND LARGE SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER HAVE NO REPRESENTATION WHATSOEVER FOR ON ANY OF OUR FIVE BOARDS STANDING COMMITTEES I ASKED TO SERVE ON THE POLICY COMMITTEE AND I IS NOT PLACED ON THAT COMMITTEE AND I WILL NOT SUPPORT THE RECOMMENDATIONS THAT HAVE BEEN MADE BY THE CHAIR AND VICE CHAIR ON THESE COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS. OK, SO TO SATISFY THAT REQUEST I WILL STEP DOWN FROM LEGISLATIVE AND I WILL ALLOW MR. PEPPER TO TO STEP UP AND I WILL SERVE HIS EX OFFICIO BECAUSE WE HAVE A LOT OF MEMBERS THIS BOARD WHO ARE UNABLE TO MEET THEIR OBLIGATIONS FOR COMMITTING WORK

186AND SO I WILL REMAIN AS EX OFFICIO AND STEP WHERE NEEDED AND I'M SURE I WILL BE NEEDED. I GOT ONE REQUESTS FOR YOU THAT WAS IT AND IT'S VERY DIFFICULT WHEN WHEN WHEN ARE GIVEN ONE REQUEST AND THE MEMBERS OF THE OF THAT COMMITTEE CURRENTLY HAVE ALL ASKED TO STAY THAT I WOULD REMOVE SOMEBODY FOR THAT FOR THOSE SIX MONTHS AS YOUR EXITING AND THEY'VE BEEN DOING THE WORK THIS NOT IT'S NOT EASY IT'S NOT EASY WORK BUT. BUT YOU GAVE ME ONE CHOICE AND THAT'S NOT THE FIRST TIME YOU'VE DONE THAT. YOU'VE LISTED ONE ITEM AND THEN AFTERWARDS YOU SAY I DIDN'T GET AND THERE ARE MANY PEOPLE ON THIS BOARD THAT SERVE IN SO MANY CAPACITIES ON SO MANY BOARDS BECAUSE NOBODY WANTS TO DO THE WORK OR PEOPLE HAVE JOBS THAT

187DON'T ALLOW THEM TO MEET FOR ALL OF THIS COMMITTEE WORK IT IS VERY DIFFICULT AND IT IS VERY DIFFICULT WHEN WHEN YOU STAFF THAT BUT HAVE TO ATTEND THESE MEETINGS AND PEOPLE DON'T SHOW UP AND I CAN ONLY SO MUCH OF OF OF OF OF THE BOARD I'M NOT I'M NOT COMPLAINING ABOUT PEOPLE'S JOBS BUT THIS IF YOU CAN'T DO IF YOU CAN'T DO THE WORK JUST SAY YOU CAN'T DO THE WORK MANY OF US ARE WILLING TO FILL IN. WE DO IT FOR DISCIPLINE AND WE DO IT WITHOUT COMPLAINING. BUT I FELT THAT WE DID A GOOD JOB AND PLACING PLACING PEOPLE MIZORAM MAY I FINISH PLEASE I AM VERY WILLING TO SERVE ON THE POLICY COMMITTEE THERE'S NO LACK OF PEOPLE WANTING TO SERVE. I DON'T THINK THAT THERE WAS WERE ANY COMMITTEES

188THAT YOU COULDN'T FILL A SPOT? I DIDN'T THEN RECEIVE THE COURTESY OF A PHONE CALL TO SAY I'M NOT PUTTING ON POLICY COMMITTEE DO YOU DO YOU WANT SOMETHING ELSE? SO I HOPE THAT MY COLLEAGUES WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO STEP DOWN STEP DOWN FROM THE POLICY COMMITTEE BUT ANYBODY LIKE ANYBODY BE WOULD ANYBODY BE WILLING TO STEP DOWN MY DECISION BUT I MEAN I HONORED I HONORED THIS THIS IS THIS IS JUST PURELY POLITICAL IS WHAT IT IS YOU KNOW I'M AN OUTLAW AN AT LARGE REPRESENTATIVE OF THIS SCHOOL BOARD I REPRESENT ALL OF THE CONSTITUENTS IN VIRGINIA BEACH AND THEY DESERVE TO HAVE A VOICE ONE OF OUR STANDING COMMITTEES THANK YOU WOULD YOU LIKE TO SERVE ON GOVERNANCE I WOULD LIKE TO SERVE ON POLICY COMMITTEE AS I'VE. AS I'VE SAID BEFORE,

189I DON'T EVEN THINK WE SHOULD HAVE THE GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE. THANK YOU, MISS BROWN. THANK YOU ALL RIGHT SO I APPRECIATE I APPRECIATE THE CHANGES. THERE'S BEEN SOME SOME CHANGES SINCE I PUT MYSELF IN BUT SO I HAVE A COUPLE OF COMMENTS I HAVE A QUESTION FOR MISS LEONETTI AS WELL BUT I FIRST WANT TO I WANT TO MENTIONED THAT YOU KNOW, WHEN WHEN BOARD MEMBERS FEEL LIKE I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT MYSELF I'M ON A NUMBER OF COMMITTEES AND I'M VERY HAPPY TO SERVE WHEREVER I NEED BE. BUT WHEN BOARD MEMBERS FEEL LIKE THEY CONSISTENTLY ASK TO BE ON COMMITTEES CONSISTENTLY TURNED CONSISTENTLY TURNED OVER, THEY'RE GOING TO ONLY ASK FOR THE COMMUNITY THAT'S THE IMPORTANT. SO I WOULD THAT MAYBE IT'S A POSSIBILITY MOVING FORWARD THAT RANK ARE SELECTIONS IN ORDER OF MOST IMPORTANT SO

190THAT YOU KNOW, SOMEBODY REALLY GOT A HEART TO SERVE ON SOMETHING THAT WE WE KNOW WHAT THAT THAT IS SO I JUST WANTED TO MAKE THAT COMMENT. MISS LEONETTI THIS IS SLATED FOR A VOTE ON THE 9TH OF JULY CAN YOU CONFIRM FOR ME WE DO NOT ACCEPT PUBLIC COMMENT AT OUR ABRIDGED MEETING. CORRECT. THAT BY LAW HAS UNLESS YOU MAKE A SPECIAL EXCEPTION TO ITS YOU COULD DO THAT YOU CAN LEVERAGE MEANS GENERALLY ABRIDGMENTS DO NOT HAVE PUBLIC ONLINE MEETING ALREADY MADAM CHAIR I, I WOULD REALLY LIKE TO SEE VOTE ON THIS DURING OUR REGULAR MEETING THERE'S BEEN QUITE A YOU CHANGES TONIGHT. YOU KNOW THAT WE HAVEN'T EVEN REALLY HAD THE CHANCE TO LOOK OVER UNTIL JUST NOW BUT I DID LOOK AT THE AGENDA AND I DON'T KNOW IF THERE WAS A

191GLITCH IN THE THE OR SOMETHING BUT FOR SOME REASON I WAS UNABLE TO ACCESS THIS PART ON OUR AGENDA POCKET AND WE DID GET AN EMAIL FROM AT LEAST ONE PERSON IN THE COMMUNITY THAT HAD ASKED, YOU KNOW, WHERE THAT WAS AND SO I THINK IN FAIRNESS WE SHOULD BE MOVING US TO ACTION ON OUR JULY TWENTY THIRD REGULAR MEETING OK HOW MANY MEETINGS DO WE HAVE WE HAVE SCHEDULED FOR JULY SO THAT WOULD LEGISLATIVES COMMITTEE COMMITTEE MEETINGS YEAH WE HAVE WE HAVE WE HAVE A HANDFUL OF COMMITTEE MEETINGS WERE SCHEDULED FOR OUR C HOUSE. ALL RIGHT. SO CANCEL PRC WILL CANCEL WELL WE HAVE NEW WE HAVE WELL WE AMENDED BARLOW 120 A COUPLE YEARS AGO BECAUSE OF THE SITUATION SO YOUR POINT ARE APPOINTED TO TERM ENDS JUNE 30TH UNLESS YOU HAVE AN

192APPOINTED A NEW SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS AND YOU STAY UNTIL SUCH TIME SO BY LAW ALLOWS THOSE POINTED TO STAY ON UNTIL YOU APPOINT A NEW STUDENT. SO EUROPE LOSE THE COMMITTEE THAT WAY. OK, OK GO AHEAD. I JUST LIKE TO SAY THAT THIS WAS A THIS WAS AN INTERESTING SELECTION AND FOR THE RECORD I HAVE FELT LIKE I HAVE BEEN VERY ACCOMMODATING I WOULD LOVE TO BE ON WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT. I WOULD HAVE TO BE IN AND DISCUSSIONS BECAUSE QUITE FRANKLY I'M THE ONLY MEMBER OF THE SCHOOL BOARD SHE DOESN'T HAVE A DEGREE AND HAS GAINED SUCCESS IN THE WORKFORCE WITHOUT A DEGREE AND I FEEL LIKE I REPRESENT THAT COMMITTEE OR THAT THAT SEGMENT OF THE POPULATION INCREDIBLY WELL BUT YOU KNOW I DO WHAT DO WHAT IS BEST FOR THE SPORT I DO WHAT

193IS BEST FOR THIS DIVISION AND I'M HAPPY COME BACK AND SERVE ON DIFFICULT BECAUSE I BECAUSE I WAS ASKED TO DO THAT AND I FEEL LIKE OUR ARE TENSE DISCUSSIONS ABOUT THESE COMMITTEES SOMETIMES ESPECIALLY BEING PART OF THE PROCESS IS IS DIFFICULT FOR ME BECAUSE QUITE FRANKLY I JUST WANT TO DO WHAT IS BEST IN TERMS OF SERVING WHERE I CAN AND SERVING WHERE THE NEED FOR THIS DIVISION AND. AND SO I WOULD SAY IN TERMS APRC THAT THERE ARE FOUR PEOPLE AND DISCUSSIONS BETWEEN SHOULD BE BETWEEN THOSE FOUR BOARD MEMBERS AND YOU ALL DECIDE AS ADULTS WHO IS GOING TO COME TO US WE DID THE BEST JOB WE JOB WE COULD I I HAVE AGAIN DECIDED THAT I'M GOING TO SERVE ROMNEY I'M NEEDED AND NOT A NOT EXACTLY WHERE I WANT. SO

194YOU KNOW I'M GOING TO ASK THE FOR THE FOR BOARD MEMBERS TO BE ACTIVE BOTH ADULTS ABOUT THIS THAT WHEN TO BE ON APRC AND DECIDE AMONG THEMSELVES WHO IS GOING TO BE ON THAT COMMITTEE AND THEN COME BACK TO THE CHAIR AND AND LET US KNOW BECAUSE QUITE FRANKLY TO GETS TARGETED AND BE POINTED AT FOR TRYING TO MAKE THE BEST DECISIONS IS INCREDIBLY FRUSTRATING TO ME BECAUSE WE HAVE TRIED TO BE ACCOMMODATED AND I THINK ACROSS THE BOARD AND NOT BE POLITICAL ABOUT THIS DISCUSSION. SO SO I'M JUST TRYING TO SAY THAT I DO NOT BELIEVE THAT THIS WAS DONE IN THAT THREAD AGAIN, I HAVE TRIED TO BE INCREDIBLY ACCOMMODATING OVER MY THREE AND A HALF YEARS ABOUT THESE COMMITTEES AND I PUT IN FOR COMMITTEES AND SOMETIMES I GET THEM AND

195SOMETIMES AND SO ALL I'M GOING TO SAY GOING TO SAY IS I WOULD ASK THE MEMBERS OF THIS BOARD THAT WE HAVE ONE COMMITTEE THAT IS UP FOR ADDITIONAL DISCUSSION AND I WOULD ASK THIS FOR PEOPLE THAT REQUESTED IT TO TALK AMONG THEMSELVES GET BACK TO US AND THEN WE CAN GO FROM THERE. THANK YOU BECAUSE I DON'T WANT TO HOLD THIS UP I DON'T WANT TO HOLD THIS UP LIKE WE DID IN SEVERAL YEARS PAST LET'S JUST BE ADULTS ABOUT THIS. EVERYBODY COME TOGETHER ON THIS AND AND LET'S MOVE FORWARD AS A BOARD. THANK MISBEHAVING. YES. SO I DO ALSO HAVE SOME CONCERNS THAT MISS BROWN BROUGHT I WAS LOOKING AT OUR AGENDA PACKET ON THE WEBSITE THE WEBSITE YESTERDAY BECAUSE IT WAS EASIER FOR ME TO ACCESS WHERE I WAS AND THIS THE

196COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS WERE NOT ON THEIR LAST NIGHT. SO OUR AND WE GOT AN EMAIL ABOUT IT TODAY A CONSTITUENT SAID THAT SHE COULDN'T FIND IT AND SO THE PUBLIC HAS NOT HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO WEIGH IN ON THIS MATTER AND SO I AGREE THAT WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO HAVE PUBLIC COMMENT ON THIS BEFORE WE VOTE ON IT AND I HAVE A QUESTION MISS 180 IF THIS WERE TO BE TO BE UP FOR A VOTE AT THE RETREAT, OUR SUBSTITUTE MOTIONS PERMITTED SPECIAL MEETINGS. I KNOW YOU CAN'T AT AN ITEM TO AN AGENDA. I DON'T THINK A BRIDGE MEETING QUALIFIES AS A SPECIAL MEETING BECAUSE IT SAYS A BRIDGE MEETING AS A SPECIAL MEETING AND THEN WHATEVER'S ON YOUR AGENDA BUT YOU CAN SUSPEND YOUR BYLAWS SO YOU COULD SUSPEND THE BYLAW ON SPECIAL MEANING

197SO TECHNICALLY YES YOU COULD DO IT . THAT'S OK. YEAH, I I JUST THINK SINCE WE DON'T HAVE PUBLIC COMMENT AT THE RETREAT I THINK THAT WE SHOULD HOLD OFF TO HAVE PUBLIC COMMENT ON THIS TOPIC AND THIS REALLY SHOULD HAVE BEEN VOTED ON. OUR BYLAWS ARE SUPPOSED BE DONE BEFORE JULY 1ST SO I DON'T KNOW WHY THIS WASN'T SCHEDULED BEFORE TODAY. WELL, FOR THE RECORD I DID ASK FOR IT BEFORE BUT NOBODY ANSWERED MY EMAIL SO FOR IF I MAY I WILL MOVE THAT IT WILL WILL MOVE THAT TO THE TO THE TO THE LAST MEETING IN JULY WILL MOVE IT FOR SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS AND FOR THE RECORD BOSTONIAN DID TONINO DID OK. SHE DID UPLOAD THAT I SENT A TEXT OVER THE WEEKEND. WE WORKED TOGETHER AT SEVEN THIRTY MONDAY MORNING TO

198FIX A FEW LITTLE MISTAKES AND THEN AND ADDITIONS AND THEN SHE UPLOADED IT IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE ABOUT COMMITTEES OK THANK ,THANK YOU. SO HAVE I. SO HAVE WE DECIDED WE'RE GOING TO VOTE ON IT AT THE LAST MINUTE WE'LL JUST WAIT UNTIL JULY AND I'VE MOVED MR. CULPEPER TO LEGISLATIVE THE OTHER CHANGES. OK TONIGHT FOR THE CONSENT AGENDA WE HAVE THE FOLLOWING UNDER SCHOOL BOARD ORGANIZATIONAL MATTERS WE HAVE THE SUPERINTENDENTS DESIGNEE IN THE ABSENCE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT SUPERINTENDENT SIGNATURE AUTHORITY AND PAYROLL DEDUCTIONS ARE THERE ANY OBJECTIONS TO THE SCHOOL WARD VOTING ON THE CONSENT ITEMS IT'S PRESENTED ALL RIGHT HEARING, HEARING THEN I CALLED FOR A MOTION TO APPROVE MOTION MADE BY MR. OWENS AND SECONDED BY MR. BROWN ABOUT THE VOTING BOARD IS OPEN. SO >> MADAM YEAH WE HAD 10 EYES THE

199KIDS THE CONSENT AGENDA DID PASS EXCELLENT ON ACTION OUR PERSONNEL REPORT I CALL FOR A MOTION TO APPROVE THE JUNE TWENTY FIFTH TWENTY TWENTY FOUR PERSONNEL REPORT AND ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS MOTION PAID BY HIS OWN SON SECONDED BY MISS KENDRICK. ANY DISCUSSION. ALL RIGHT SAME NONE THE VOTING BOARD IS OPEN SO MADAM CHAIR WE HAVE TO ANALYZE THE MOTION DID PASS DR. ROBERT AND DO WE HAVE ANY APPOINTMENTS THIS? YES THANK YOU I'M PLEASED TO RECOMMENDATION FOR JENNIFER FREEMAN CURRENTLY AN ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL AT LAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TO BE THE NEW PRINCIPAL AT LINCOLN PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL I'M ALSO PLEASED THAT YOU'VE ACCEPTED OUR RECOMMENDATION FOR A MAN TO LLOYD CURRENTLY AN PRINCIPAL AT RED MILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL YOU MIGHT REMEMBER A MAN WHO WAS A CITYWIDE OF THE YEAR A FEW YEARS AGO TO BE THE

200NEW PRINCIPAL AT BAYSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL I'M ALSO PLEASED THAT YOU'VE ACCEPTED OUR RECOMMENDATION FROM MEGAN THOMPSON ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL THURGOOD THOROUGHGOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WHO JUST RECEIVED AN AWARD FROM THE STATE AS THE TOP ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL STATE TO BE THE NEXT PRINCIPAL AT WOODSTOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PLEASE IF YOU ACCEPTED OUR RECOMMENDATION FOR ONDREJ FAVORS CURRENTLY AN ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL AT NANSEL HIGH SCHOOL TO BE THE NEW PRINCIPAL OF BAYSIDE SIXTH GRADE CAMPUS PLEASED THAT PLEASED THAT YOU'VE ACCEPTED OUR RECOMMENDATION FOR RICHARD CURRENTLY AN ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL WHEN THE MIDDLE SCHOOL TO BE THE NEW ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL AT FIRST COLONIAL HIGH SCHOOL AND THEN FINALLY I'M PLEASED THAT YOU ACCEPTED OUR RECOMMENDATION OR LOVEJOY AS IT CURRENTLY AN ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL BRAND MIDDLE SCHOOL WITH THE NEXT COORDINATOR AND SECONDARY SOCIAL STUDIES DEPARTMENT OF TEACHING AND LEARNING. THANK YOU

201VERY MUCH. OK, ITEM B IS THE VIRGINIA SCHOOL BOARDS ASSOCIATION OTHERWISE KNOWN AS BOUSBIA RENEWAL I CALL FOR A MOTION TO APPROVE THE VIRGINIA SCHOOL BOARD ASSOCIATION ANNUAL RENEWABLE DUES MOTION MADE BY MISS RIGGS SECONDED I MISS ANDERSON. ANY DISCUSSION? OK SO NONE THE VOTING BOARD IS OK. OK MISS MANNING YEAH I JUST WANT TO RESPOND TO SOME COMMENTS THAT HAVE BEEN MADE BY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC AND MY COLLEAGUES FROM THE DAIS I HAVE RECEIVED WHO CONFLICT OF INTEREST OPINIONS FROM OUR COMMONWEALTH'S ATTORNEY ON THIS TOPIC OF MY INVOLVEMENT AS A VOLUNTEER FOR THE ORGANIZATION SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER ALLIANCE. I SOUGHT A COMMONWEALTH TURNING HIS OPINION ON THE TOPIC A COUPLE OF AGO I RECEIVED IT MY COLLEAGUES I'VE SHARED IT WITH YOU WITH ALL OF YOU AND SAYS THEY DO NOT HAVE A

202CONFLICT OF INTEREST ON THIS TOPIC BUT THAT PERSISTED BY MY COLLEAGUES ONE MY COLLEAGUES UP HERE ON THE BOARD AS WELL AS A MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC TONIGHT FALSELY CLAIMING THAT I HAVE RECEIVED FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE SBM THAT ABSOLUTELY ALLY IN FALSE AND SLANDER IN MY OPINION . I SHE HAS NO SLEEP ME I SOUGHT A SECOND OPINION SO WHAT'S YOUR POINT OF ORDER? I CAN BOHLIG SPEAKING ABOUT AND FEMA GETTING READY TO TAKE I KNOW BUT THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH SLIGHTLY DOES BECAUSE I'M GOING TO BE VOTING ON THIS YOU OUT OF ORDER BECAUSE YOU ARE SPEAKING ON A TOPIC THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO SBA STOP STOP. SO I SPECIFICALLY ASKED THE COMMONWEALTH'S ATTORNEY TO GIVE ME AN OPINION ON THE VOTE THAT WE'RE HAVING TONIGHT I HAVE A SECOND

203OPINION THAT STATES I HAVE NO CONFLICT SO I WILL BE VOTING ON THIS AND FOR PUBLIC RECORD THE, THE COMMONWEALTH'S ATTORNEY HAS STATED I DO HAVE A CONFLICT ON THIS AND I CAN VOTE ON IT. THANK YOU SO MUCH AGAIN MOTION ,MOTION MADE BY THIS FROM ALL RIGHT. I WANT TO START BY SAYING THAT I AM GRAVELY DISAPPOINTED AND HOW THE LAST COUPLE OF MONTHS HAVE GONE SURROUNDING THIS MEMBERSHIP AND THE TREATMENT THAT SOME OF MY COLLEAGUES HAVE RECEIVED ON THIS BOARD OVER THIS MEMBERSHIP AND THEY ATTEMPT TO SHUT DOWN DIFFERING OPINIONS ON THIS BOARD LAST YEAR WHEN WE VOTED ON THIS, I SPOKE ABOUT VERY VERY SPECIFIC MATTER AND I AM GOING TO READ A VERY SPECIFIC SNIPPET FOR THE PUBLIC AGAIN THAT I STATED DURING THIS MEMBERSHIP FIRST LAST YEAR WHICH I DID

204SUPPORT THE MEMBERSHIP LAST YEAR AND VOTE FOR IT. BUT QUOTE I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE SOME CONCERNS I HAVE REGARDING THE VIRGINIA SCHOOL BOARD ASSOCIATION THE FBI HAS BEEN KNOWN TO TAKE POSITIONS CONTROVERSIAL ISSUES THAT DO NOT ALIGNED WITH THE VIEWS OF ALL SCHOOL MEMBERS AND THE COMMUNITIES THEY REPRESENT. I HAVE SERIOUS CONCERNS ABOUT THE MEMBERSHIP STRUCTURE REQUIRING THE ENTIRE SCHOOL BOARD TO JOIN WHEN THE ADVOCACY OF THIS ORGANIZATION DOES NOT ALIGN WITH THE VALUES OF EVERYONE'S CONSTITUENCY ALONG WITH THE HIGH COST OF MEMBERSHIP ATTENDING TRAINING EVENTS IS EXPENSIVE. THAT'S IN THE LAST YEAR THIS YEAR I STILL HAVE THE SAME CONCERNS ABOUT THE MEMBERSHIP STRUCTURE I SEE NO FORWARD PROGRESS FROM THE SBI TO CORRECT THEIR MEMBERSHIP STRICTER. I HAVE BECOME ADDITIONALLY CONCERNED WITH THE FACT THAT THE SBA OPERATES MOSTLY SOLELY ON COLLECTING MEMBERSHIP

205DUES FROM PUBLIC SCHOOL BOARDS WITH ZERO ACCOUNTABILITY TO THOSE DOLLARS FROM PUBLIC SCHOOL BOARDS FOR THE FUNCTION OF PUBLIC SCHOOL BOARDS I HAVE SOME CONCERNS ABOUT THAT I WOULD MUCH PREFER TO SPEND THE MONEY THE FIFTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS ON SOMETHING LIKE A PART TIME EATING SPECIALIZED FOR OUR STUDENTS AND SO I'M NOT GOING BE SUPPORTING THIS TODAY . THANK YOU. SO I I THINK IN FAIRNESS LAST YEAR WE VOTED TO ALLOW THIS OR TO HAVE THE VA WE DON'T WE WE CAN'T CONTROL THERE ONE HUNDRED PLUS YEARS STRUCTURE. THEY REPRESENT ENTIRE SCHOOL BOARDS THEY DON'T DO INDIVIDUAL MEMBERSHIPS IT ALSO EXTENDS TO SCHOOL BOARD ATTORNEYS. IT EXTENDS TO SCHOOL BOARD CLERKS AND SO WITHOUT IT MANY OF US HAVE NO NO OPPORTUNITY FOR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT. IT TAKES IT AWAY FROM ALL OF THE PEOPLE THAT

206I JUST MENTIONED. WE WE WERE FAIR LAST YEAR. WE PAY FOR MEMBERSHIP FOR THE FEMA WE PAY FOR MEMBERS TO ATTEND CONFERENCES AND NOT EVERYBODY IN THIS COMMUNITY EVERYBODY ON THIS BOARD ALIGNS WITH THEIR THOUGHT PROCESSES EITHER AND THAT'S WHY WE DECIDED LAST YEAR TO ALLOW THAT IF THAT'S WHERE YOU FELT LIKE YOU BELONGED AND THAT'S WHERE YOU FELT MORE COMFORTABLE GETTING YOUR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT THEN PLEASE BY ALL MEANS DO THAT AND WE PAY WE PAY FOR BOTH BUT TO STRIP THE REST OF US OF AN OPPORTUNITY FOR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WHEN MANY OF CANNOT GAIN MEMBERSHIP INTO THAT PRIVATE SCHOOL BOARD CLUB AND THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT IT IS BECAUSE BACK IN LATE OCTOBER I TRIED TO JOIN AND I WAS NOT ALLOWED IN OTHER MEMBERS ACROSS THE COMMONWEALTH HAVE TRIED TO JOIN AND THEY'RE NOT

207ALLOWED IN AND NO MEMBER OF THIS BOARD HAS EVER BROUGHT FORWARD INFORMATION THAT YOU HAVE THINGS THAT YOU HAVE BEEN TAUGHT PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES WITH THE FEMA NONE OF NONE OF THAT HAS BEEN SHARED BUT MEMBERS OF THIS MEMBERS OF THIS BOARD WITH THE SBA HAVE BROUGHT FORWARD ALL THE INFORMATION AND MANY MEMBERS OF THIS BOARD HAVE ATTENDED THE SBA CONFERENCE. THE GOVERNOR SPOKE I DON'T I MEAN WE COULD GO ROUND AND ROUND ABOUT WHAT IS CONTROVERSIAL AND WHAT IS NOT BUT I CONSIDER THEM A NONPARTIZAN GROUP THEY DO NOT SUPPORT COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AMONG A LOT OF OTHER THINGS AND I JUST I WOULD SIMPLY REQUEST THAT WE JUST ALLOW BOTH TO CONTINUE MR. CAFFERTY IN, IN LIGHT OF YOUR COMMENTS MAY ASK YOU A QUESTION REFERENCING YOUR EXPERIENCE YOU SOUGHT TO BECOME A MEMBER

208AND WERE PREVENTED FROM DOING SO WERE YOU GIVEN A REASON BEHIND THAT? NO. AND THERE WERE PARTS OF THAT THERE WERE PARTS OF THE APPLICATION THAT I FILLED OUT ONE ONE SAID YOU HAD TO BE LIKE MINDED AND THEN THERE WERE A SERIES OF QUESTIONS THAT YOU HAD TO ANSWER AND THOSE WERE DO YOU BELIEVE IN CHOICE SCHOOL CHOICE AND NOT ANSWERED YES BECAUSE I DO BELIEVE PARENTS HAVE THE ABILITY TO SEND THEIR CHILDREN WHEREVER THEY WANT TO . THAT'S THEIR CHOICE THERE WAS ALSO A QUESTION ABOUT IT WAS SCHOOL CHOICE AND PARENTAL RIGHTS AND I ANSWERED YES, I DO BELIEVE IN PARENTAL RIGHTS AND I GOT NOTHING THERE WERE SOME MEMBERS OF YOUR COUNTY THAT TRIED TO JOIN AND THEY ALSO REMEMBERS ALL AROUND THE COMMONWEALTH WHO HAVE TRIED HAVE TRIED TO JOIN AND

209THEY'RE DENIED MEMBERSHIP SO WITHOUT THE SBA I HAVE NOTHING AND I'M REQUIRED I'M REQUIRED TO DO PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND SO THAT'S THE ONLY ORGANIZATION AND OUR PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION THAT'S THAT'S THE ONLY OTHER OPTION FOR US AND I THOUGHT THE CONFERENCE LAST YEAR WAS GREAT AND I WENT THERE WITH MANY OF YOU MRS. SEEMS MR. KAPLAN CALLEN, MISS BROWN, MR. COLPEPER WE WERE ALL THERE TOGETHER AND I THOUGHT IT WAS I THOUGHT IT WAS A GOOD CONFERENCE AND BUT I'M REQUIRED I AM REQUIRED TO DO PERCUSSION DEVELOPMENT AND THAT IS WHERE I DIDN'T DID YOU DID YOU NEED TO SPEAK TO ME? NO I MAY HAVE A POINT OR TWO THAT I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE AN MISREAD AND THEN DO YOU WANT ME TO LET YOU GO NOW THAT'S FINE. OK BUT I DON'T KNOW

210IF I HAVE MY NAME ON THE BOARD HERE'S SOME OF THE INSIGHTS THAT I'VE GAINED. THERE'S IN A RECENT TREND DEVELOPING WITHIN THIS OPTION BETWEEN ORGANIZATIONS FOR CONSIDERATION AND I'M UNDER THE UNDERSTANDING THAT ORANGE COUNTY, WARREN COUNTY, ROCKINGHAM COUNTY, ISLE OF WIGHT, BEDFORD SHENANDOAH AND I UNDERSTAND IT'S IMMINENT THAT HANOVER ALL OF THESE LOCALES ARE SAYING NO TO THE SBA AND YES TO THE SPENDING AT THIS MAY BE A NON ISSUE TO PUBLIC IT'S REALLY IS AN IS AN ISSUE THAT PRIMARILY INVOLVES AND IS OF INTEREST TO US IN THE BOARD. I WOULD ASSUME MOST PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY MIGHT GO WHATEVER AND NOT REALLY BE THAT CONCERN ABOUT IT. BUT MY POINT IS RELATIVE TO OUR POSITIONS IS I TRIED GET A DEEPER UNDERSTANDING WHY WAS THE SBM CREATED THE FEELING A FEW YEARS

211AGO WHEN THE FORMATION STARTED WITH THE CMA WAS THE FACT THAT THERE WERE COMPETING PHILOSOPHIES THAT SOUND DISAGREEMENT BETWEEN PARTIES AND I SAY THAT'S PART OF LIFE THAT HAPPENS ALL THE TIME AND I DON'T HAVE ANY PROBLEM WITH THAT. THERE WERE DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES THAT WE SHARED RELATIVE TO ARE WE SEEKING TO CREATING AN AWARENESS OF A HIERARCHY BETWEEN THERE'S THE BOARD AND THERE'S THE SUPERINTENDENT AND WE NEED TO BE MINDFUL OF THAT I GUESS THAT AT SOME PLACES THAT'S CONTROVERSIAL AND PROBLEMATIC BUT SPEAKING FROM WHERE WE ARE TODAY THAT'S NEITHER CONTROVERSIAL OR PROBLEMATIC RELATIVE TO THE RELATIONSHIP THAT I BELIEVE WE AS A BOARD HAVE WITH THE SUPERINTENDENT THE PERCEPTION IS THAT THE VBA IS A LOBBY ORGANIZATION AND THAT CAN BE SEEN AS A DEROGATE SHORT TERM BUT AT THE SAME TIME MANY AN

212ORGANIZATION HAVE PEOPLE IN PLACES OF GOVERNANCE LOBBYING ON BEHALF OF THEIR ORGANIZATION FOR THE CAUSES THAT THEY BELIEVE IN SO I DON'T HAVE THAT IS A PROBLEM BUT THERE ARE PLACES WHERE THE FEMA AND I ARE IN DISAGREEMENT AND BECAUSE OF THE ONGOING TREND OF THESE COMMUNITIES MOVING FURTHER AWAY FROM THE BCA AND MOVING TOWARDS FEMA AND THAT'S THE ALPHABET SOUP THAT YOU CAN GET EASILY LOST AND I YET THAT ALL OF THAT TO SAY I'LL BE VOTING THAT WE RENEW OUR MEMBERSHIP BUT I AM PAYING CLOSER ATTENTION THAN I HAVE IN THE PAST AND I THINK WE PROBABLY SHOULD DO OURSELVES A SERVICE BY DOING JUST THAT PAYING CLOSER ATTENTION TO WHAT'S GOING ON, DIFFERENCES OF OPINION AND PERSPECTIVE. I SHOULD ALWAYS BE ENCOURAGED AND RECOGNIZED BUT THERE MAY BE A POINT WHERE THERE

213IS A LINE IN THE SAND THAT HAS GOTTEN CROSS BETWEEN YOUR PRINCIPLES AND THE PRINCIPLES ESPOUSED BY AN ORGANIZATION WHEN THAT HAPPENS I THINK YOU SHOULD STAND UP AND SAY NO NO FURTHER I GUESS THE LONG WINDED ANSWER THAT I'M OFFERING IS FOR MYSELF I'LL BE VOTING TO RENEW BUT I'M PAYING CLOSER ATTENTION THAN I HAVE BEEN IN THE PAST AND THIS CAUSES ME TO LEAN IN AND BE MORE AND I JUST WANTED TO SHARE THAT WITH YOU IS THE CHAIR AND OTHER MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF THANK YOU. THANK YOU MR. X DID YOU HAVE YEAH I DON'T KNOW IF YOU DON'T KNOW IF YOU MENTIONED THE FACT THAT IT'S NOT JUST THE SCHOOL BOARD THAT GETS THEIR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT BUT OUR LEGAL TEAM OK. ,THE OTHER PART IS THAT'S FUNNY. OK SO THE

214OTHER PART IS I THINK THAT YOU MADE A VERY GOOD POINT YOU'VE GOT PEOPLE THAT AGREE WITH DIFFERENT PHILOSOPHIES FOR LACK OF A BETTER WORD. THIS GIVES THE PEOPLE GETS ARBOR BOY THE OPPORTUNITY FOR THE PEOPLE TO ATTEND THE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT THAT THEY FEEL FITS THEIR PHILOSOPHY FOR THEIR SCHOOL THE SCHOOL BOARD AND I THINK THAT WE'VE THAT WE'VE DONE A VERY GOOD JOB OF THAT OBVIOUSLY BECAUSE EVERYONE THAT WANTED TO GO TO THE VOICE TO THE CMA OR THE VSP WAS FUNDED FOR THAT AND IF THEY WANTED TO BE A MEMBER THEY WERE GIVEN THAT MONEY SO I THINK I JUST WANTED TO REITERATE THAT THAT'S BEEN DONE SO I THINK IT GIVES EVERYBODY THE CHANCE TO DO THAT AND I'LL STOP IT. TO MR. COLLINS MR. CULLEN'S POINT, SOME OF US DON'T HAVE

215A CHOICE, RIGHT? YEAH. WE DON'T HAVE A CHOICE AND SO IF WE HAD A CHOICE WE MIGHT BE HAVING A DIFFERENT CONVERSATION BUT HALF OF THIS BOARD IS LOCKED OUT AND SO WE CANNOT GAME ADMISSION AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT THAT'S WHY I APPRECIATE YOUR COMMENTS BECAUSE THAT IS THE REALITY OF THE SITUATION THAT PERSON WILL HAVE NOTHING. THANK YOU. YES. AND THANK YOU I WANTED WANT TO I'M JUST KIND OF REITERATING MR KELLY THANK YOU FOR ASKING THE QUESTION BUT I PERSONALLY FEEL LIKE WE HAVE AN INTEREST IN MAKING SURE THAT GET EDUCATED LIKE MR. OLMERT SAID, YOU KNOW REQUIREMENT AND IT'S ALSO AND IT'S ALSO A REQUIREMENT FOR CLARK AND OUR ATTORNEY AND THAT IS SOMETHING WE ALSO MUST PUT INTO CONSIDERATION AS WELL AND I I AM ALL FOR OPEN MARKET MAKING SURE

216THAT PEOPLE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN THEY WANT BUT IT'S BUT IT'S ALSO IMPERATIVE THAT WE HAVE AN ABILITY TO DO THAT AND SO THAT'S WHY I'LL BE SUPPORTING AS WELL. OK, MS. ANDERSON I WON'T BE LONG BUT I JUST WANT EVERYBODY TO THINK ABOUT YOU RECEIVE A DAILY ADDRESS FROM THE SBA AND THAT KEEPS US THAT REALLY HELPS KEEP US INFORMED ABOUT THINGS ARE HAPPENING ACROSS THE STATE AND OTHER THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING BUT YOU THINK ABOUT ALL THE THINGS THAT WE GET THEM ON A WEEKLY BASIS. I MEAN EVERYTHING FROM I KEEP US INFORMED ABOUT THE FEDERAL GUIDELINES AND THE FEDERAL ADVOCACY GROUPS AND I MEAN THERE'S THERE'S JUST SO MUCH THAT THE SBA OFFERS AND I'LL JUST LEAVE IT AT THAT JUST THINK ABOUT ALL THE STUFF THAT YOU GET FROM THAT

217YOU GET FROM THEM AND THAT THEY OFFER US SO FOR ANYONE THAT'S NOT RECEIVING AT EVERY DAY THERE ARE TWO TABS ON YOUR EMAILS. SO IT'S FOCUSED ON OTHER IN MY OUTLOOK ACCOUNT IT ALWAYS COMES THROUGH OTHER AND SO IT'S NOT IT DOES NOT COME IN VISIBLY IN MY FOCUSED. OK, SO THAT'S OK OH YES. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR EVERYONE'S COMMENTS AND INFORMATION ON THIS TOPIC AND CHAIRWOMEN MELNIK I APPRECIATE YOU SHARING HOW THIS THE SBA BENEFITS YOUR TRAINING AND THE TRAINING OF MANY OF OUR STAFF MEMBERS WITHIN THE ADMINISTRATION THIS IS UP FOR RENEWAL AND YOU SAID THAT YOU WERE BE INTERESTED IN ALLOWING BOTH BOTH OF THESE TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES TO CONTINUE DO WE LATER WHEN DO WE HAVE A DISCUSSION ABOUT RENEWING THE OTHER OPTION WE DON'T REALLY KNOW IS A SINGLE

218BOARD MEMBER ADMISSION OR NOT IT YEAH. YEAH. THANK YOU FOR THAT OK THAT'S ALL. THANK YOU SO AGAIN SO AGAIN THIS IS FOR THE BOUSBIA MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL THE MOTION WAS MADE BY MISS CRAIG SECONDED BY MISS ANDERSON ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION THE VOTING BOARD IS OPEN MADAM CHAIR WE MADAM CHAIR WE HAVE SEVEN EYES AND THREE DAYS SO THE MOTION TO PASS FOR THE VSP, THE SBA THE RECOVERY SCHOOL UPDATE AND RESOLUTION REAFFIRMING SO I CALL FOR A MOTION TO APPROVE AND REAFFIRM THE RESOLUTION COMMITMENT TO AN INVESTIGATION OF A REGION TO RECOVERY SCHOOL WITH A VOTE TO APPROVE AT THE JANUARY 20 THIRD TWENTY TWENTY FIVE SCHOOL BOARD MEETING I'M JUST MAKING THAT SURE IT'S JANUARY TWENTY THIRD TWENTY TWENTY FIVE. OK THEN WE'LL LEAVE THAT OK SO I CALL FOR A MOTION TO APPROVE

219AND REAFFIRM THE RESOLUTION OF COMMITMENT TO AN INVESTIGATION REGION TO RECOVERY SCHOOL WITH SCHOOL WITH THE VOTE TO APPROVE AT THE JANUARY 23 20 25 SCHOOL BOARD MEETING MOTION MADE BY MR WILLIAMS SECONDED BY MISS MANNING. ALL RIGHT. DISCUSSION MISS ANDERSON, I HAVE SEVERAL POINTS LIKE TO MAKE ABOUT THIS FIRST OF ALL I WANT TO WANT TO BE CLEAR THAT YES, I THINK WE SHOULD HELP STUDENTS WHO ARE IN NEED AND WHO HAVE A PROBLEM WITH DRUGS I DO THINK WE SHOULD DO THAT BUT I HAVE AS I EXPRESSED THE LAST MOVIE I HAVE SOME RESERVATIONS ABOUT THIS ONLY BECAUSE THERE ARE SO MANY UNANSWERED QUESTIONS RIGHT NOW AND SO I JUST WANT TO MAKE A COUPLE POINTS NO ONE THERE IS NO GUARANTEE NO GUARANTEE THAT SEVERAL OF THE OTHER DIVISIONS WILL BE ABLE

220TO PUT ON THEIR SHARE OF THE OPERATIONAL DOLLARS AND WE'VE BEEN TOLD THAT OTHER SCHOOL BOARDS IN OUR REGION THAT ARE A PART OF THIS THAT THEY'RE IN FAVOR OF IT SEVERAL THOSE BOARDS HAVE VOTED TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THE PLANNING BUT THEY'VE OFFERED NO DOLLARS IN THEIR DISCUSSIONS WHICH MEANS TO ME THAT THEY'RE WAITING FOR VIRGINIA BEACH TO TELL THEM WHAT WE'RE GOING TO PONY UP BECAUSE THIS IS A REGIONAL INITIATIVE FROM THE STATE THOSE DIVISIONS THAT DON'T HAVE THE MONEY IN THE FUTURE WILL STILL GET TO PARTICIPATE SO IF THEY HAVE NO MONEY TO PUT INTO THIS THEIR STUDENTS WILL GET TO PARTICIPATE BECAUSE THIS IS A REGIONAL EFFORT TO. THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO REASON ANY AND ALL QUESTIONS HAVE NOT BEEN ANSWERED SO FAR THE DIVISION HAS HAD TO MY KNOWLEDGE TWO

221LEGISLATIVE SESSIONS TO WORK OUT ALL THE DETAILS IN MY TIME ON THE BOARD I HAVE I HAVE TO MY KNOWLEDGE NEVER SEEN THE PRESENTATION LIKE THIS ABOUT A MAJOR PROGRAM AND FUNDING REQUEST THAT WAS ILL TIMED AND QUITE FRANKLY UNDERWHELM ME AS THIS LAST ONE ON THIS TOPIC I RECALL JOHNNY SUTTON BEING INVOLVED IN THIS TWO YEARS AGO AND WORKING WITH OUR LEGISLATIVE PARTNERS IN THIS WEEK'S HE WORKED ON THIS YET WE WE STILL DIDN'T HAVE AND HAVEN'T ANYTHING SO THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR TWO YEARS THERE IS NO GUARANTEE THAT THE COSTS SURROUNDING THIS WILL BE WHAT WHAT WAS WHAT WAS PRESENTED THE ORIGINAL PROPOSAL IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY FROM TWO YEARS AGO HAD A NINE HUNDRED THOUSAND PRICE TAG TWO PARTNERS IN THE FORM OF KING'S DAUGHTERS AND OLD DOMINION WHICH WE

222NO LONGER HAVE AS PARTNERS ANYMORE HAD WE NOT WE AND WE HAVEN'T EVEN GOTTEN TO THE FEEDING AND TRANSPORTATION AND A BUILDING AT THAT POINT THESE QUESTIONS AND CONCERNS WERE RAISED AT MULTIPLE MEETINGS OVER THE SPAN OF TWO YEARS. WE HAVE NOTHING BUT ONE TIME CONTRIBUTION FROM THE STATE AND NO GUARANTEES THAT WE WON'T BE PAYING THE MAJORITY OF THIS OUT OF POCKET THIS IS ALL THE WHILE WHILE WHILE WE SIFT THROUGH BUDGET SHORTFALLS INCREASED TEACHER RETENTION ISSUES AND THREATS THIS YEAR CUT ARTS AND MUSIC FUNDING THE DIVISION HEAD TIME TO WORK ALL THESE DETAILS OUT FOR TWO YEARS AND I CAN'T SEE FOR MONTHS MAGICALLY CREATING SOLUTION UNLESS THE PLAN IS TO CUT AND PASTE WHAT CHESTERFIELD HAS PLANNED HAS AND OH BY THE WAY I ASKED ABOUT CHESTERFIELD AT THE LAST MEETING DID

223THEY HAVE ANY INFORMATION I'D LIKE TO KNOW WHY WE HAVE NOTHING THAT WE'VE HEARD CHESTERFIELD DO THEY NOT THEY NOT HAVE A SUCCESS RATE IF THEY DO HAVE A SUCCESS RATE I'D LIKE TO HEAR IT. I'D STILL LIKE TO HEAR TONY WHAT TYPE OF LEGAL RESPONSIBILITY WE HAVE CAN WE BE SUED IF THE STUDENT STILL HAS DRUG AFTER THEY'VE ATTENDED OUR FACILITY? I'M NOT SAYING THAT WERE THE END ALL BUT IT SOUNDS LIKE THAT WE'RE GOING TO TRY TO HELP THESE STUDENTS AND I JUST I WORRY THAT FOR EXAMPLE LET ME JUST SAY THIS AND THIS IS JUST PIPE HYPOTHETICAL HOW. HOW DO WE MEASURE SUCCESS FOR EXAMPLE IF A STUDENT A STUDENT IS WITH US LET'S SAY YOU THERE JUNIOR AND SENIOR YEAR AND THEY GO THROUGH PROGRAM AND THEY GRADUATE THEN WE STILL

224CAN'T DO WE STILL HELP THEM AS A SUCCESS IF A MONTH TO AFTER GRADUATE AFTER GRADUATION THEY ACCIDENTALLY OVERDOSE NOW DO WE COUNT THAT STUDENT SUCCESS BECAUSE WE GRADUATED THEM AND THEY DIDN'T OVERDOSE WHILE THEY WERE IN OUR SYSTEM OR DO WE SAY WELL THEY'RE GREAT GRADUATED THEY'RE NOT OUR PROBLEM ANYMORE . HOW DO WE. I'M NOT SURE WE HAVE A WAY TO TRACK THOSE STUDENTS BUT IT WOULD BE NICE TO KNOW THAT WE COULD SOMEHOW MAKE AN IMPACT ON THEIR LIFE AND I'M HOPING THAT IF WE GO THROUGH WITH IS THAT WE WILL HAVE A POSITIVE IMPACT ON STUDENTS I RECOGNIZE THAT RECOGNIZE THAT THERE ARE STUDENTS OUT WHO NEED HELP BUT I'M NOT SURE THAT WE'RE THE ONES WHO HAVE TO DO ALL THE HELP I THERE ARE THERE ARE PLACES THAT STUDENTS

225HAVE TO GO TO SOMETIMES FOR TO RECOVER AND THEY COME OUT OF THERE AND THEY STILL GET GET INVOLVED WITH DRUGS LATER ON. I JUST I'M NOT I'M NOT SURE THAT THIS PARTICULAR ENTITY WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO HERE IS GOING TO BE THE ANSWER TO THE PRAYERS PARENTS HAVE TO GET THEIR KIDS OFF DRUGS I'D LIKE TO THINK THAT YES IT WOULD BE THE ANSWER THAT WE THAT WE COULD BE OF HELP BUT I DON'T KNOW THAT WE'RE THIS IS ARE WE THROWING A MILLION AND A HALF DOLLARS AWAY ON SOMETHING THAT IS REALLY NOT THE ANSWER HATED THAT KIDS ARE THAT KIDS ARE INVOLVED WITH DRUGS BUT ALSO HATE TO WASTE A MILLION AND A HALF DOLLARS ON SOMETHING THAT I'M NOT SURE IS THE ANSWER FOR THEIR FOR THEIR PRAYERS. THANK YOU.

226ME OK. ALL RIGHT. SO I TRACKED THIS IN THE LEGISLATE WHEN THIS WAS GOING ON QUITE HEAVILY. ANYBODY THAT WATCHED WHEN THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT THIS HEARD DELEGATE CARRICO IF SHE WAS VERY CONNECTED TO THE RECOVERY SCHOOL IN CHESTERFIELD COUNTY STATE THAT THERE WAS A ONE HUNDRED PERCENT SUCCESS RATE IN RECOVERY AND ONE HUNDRED PERCENT SUCCESS RATE IN ON GRADUATION. I DON'T KNOW IF CHANGED SINCE THEN BECAUSE IT WAS IN FEBRUARY ,MAYBE MARCH BUT THE RECOVERY SCHOOL HAS BEEN VERY SUCCESSFUL I WOULD JUST ASK THAT MY COLLEAGUES CONSIDER THE FACT THAT WE UNANIMOUSLY PUT THIS ASKE INTO OUR LEGISLATIVE POCKET. WE ASKED OUR LOBBYIST TO LOBBY FOR THIS WE ASK THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY TO DO THIS. THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY PUT THIS INTO THEIR BUDGET. THE GOVERNOR SIGNED THIS INTO THE BUDGET. THIS IS THE TIME

227WHERE WE'RE GOING TO GET THOSE ANSWERS AND WE NEEDED THIS FUNDING IN ORDER TO GET TO WHERE WE ARE. YOU KNOW, I A MILLION DOLLARS OF THE COSTS ARE GOING TO COME FROM THE STATE AND THEY'RE ONLY GOING TO BE GIVEN FOR THE PURPOSE OF A RECOVERY SCHOOL WE'RE NOT GOING TO SEE THAT MONEY OTHERWISE YOU AND I'VE HEARD A LOT OF PEOPLE ASK WHY NOT VAPE DETECTORS AND WE TALKED ABOUT THIS BEFORE AND I BELIEVE THERE ARE SOME PILOT PROGRAMS FOR DETECTORS AS WAS MENTIONED AND WE WON A STAFF HAD MENTIONED THAT THERE'S ONE AT LANDSDOWN AND IT GOES OFF CONSTANTLY. YOU KNOW THIS IS THIS IS THE THIS IS A GOOD OPTION. THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE NEED TO DO THIS IS A PROBLEM IN OUR COMMUNITY WHAT HAPPENS I MEAN I DON'T

228WANT ANYBODY A RELAPSE AND HAVE ANYTHING HAPPEN AFTER THEY GRADUATE BUT QUITE FRANKLY THAT'S IT'S NOT REALLY UNDER MY JURISDICTION AS A SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER YOU KNOW THERE'S LOTS THERE'S LOTS OF DIFFERENT VARYING NEEDS FOR STUDENTS IN OUR DIVISION WE'VE DONE A REALLY GREAT JOB ACCOMMODATING MANY NEEDS WE STILL HAVE WORK TO DO. WE'LL ALWAYS HAVE WORK TO DO AND THIS IS ONE OF THOSE THINGS THAT WE HAVE WORK TO DO ON SO I'M HAPPY TO SUPPORT THIS I'M HAPPY TO REAFFIRM THIS. THANK YOU, MISS OWENS. GO AHEAD AND THERE WE GO. SORRY. SO I I SHARE SOME OF MISS ANDERSON'S CONCERNS ABOUT MOVING FORWARD. I HEAR MISS BROWN TALKING ABOUT THE SUCCESS RATE IN CHESTERFIELD AND ONE HUNDRED PERCENT IS OBVIOUSLY THE HIGHEST THAT YOU CAN YOU CAN GET AND YET I'M CONCERNED ABOUT

229WHY THOSE NUMBERS THOSE STATISTICS HAVEN'T BEEN BROUGHT FORWARD TO THE BOARD BY ADMINISTRATION WHO IS STUDYING THOSE PROGRAMS? WHY >> WE HAVEN'T BEEN PRESENTED WITH SOME OF THAT INFORMATION I UNDERSTAND THAT A LOT OF THE FUNDING MY UNDERSTANDING IS LIKE HALF OF THE FUNDING FOR THE EXPLORATION IS COMING FROM THE STATE BUT PART OF THE FUNDS ARE COMING FROM OUR DISTRICT FROM THE MONEY THAT WE HAVE EARMARKED FOR THIS OR EARMARKED TOWARDS RECOVERY TYPE PROGRAMS AND FOR IT TO BE A REGIONAL SITUATION WHAT I WOULD HOPE TO SEE OUR SCHOOLS IN THE REGION PAYING IN AND NOT VIRGINIA BEACH PUTTING THE WHOLE INITIAL SITUATION FOR A REGION I APPRECIATE THAT OTHER BOARDS HAVE HAVE A DISCUSSION AND ARE READY TO MOVE FORWARD AND I'M SURE IT I WOULD FEEL MORE COMFORTABLE AS A BOARD SAYING

230I'M READY FOR US TO MOVE FORWARD WITH ZERO DOLLARS, WHICH IS WHAT I'M HEARING THAT THE OTHER BOARDS ARE COMFORTABLE SAYING I WOULD ABSOLUTELY BE COMFORTABLE SAYING LET'S EXPLORE WITH ZERO DOLLARS BUT THAT'S NOT WHAT WE ARE BEING ASKED TO DO. I HAVE CONCERNS ABOUT WHICH I HAVE HAD THE ENTIRE TIME ABOUT OUR DISTRICT'S OVERALL CAPACITY TO SERVE THESE STUDENTS IN THE WAY THAT THEY NEED AND DESERVE TO BE EFFECTIVE WHEN WE LOOK AT SOME OF THE PROGRAMS THAT WE ARE CURRENTLY SERVING STUDENTS ARE GIFTED OUR SPECIAL EDUCATION THINGS THAT WE HAVE BEEN WORKING ON FOR DECADES AND THAT WE STILL HAVE MAJOR ISSUES WITH DISPROPORTIONALITY AND SERVING STUDENTS THE WAY THEY NEED TO BE SERVED AND THOSE ARE THINGS THAT HAVE STRUCTURE AND GUIDELINES AND DECADES OF EXPERIENCES AND IMPROVEMENTS TO I'M OPEN TO

231HEARING ABOUT EXPLORATION BUT I WOULD LOVE TO BE LIKE THE OTHER BOARDS AND I'M OPEN TO IT WITHOUT PUTTING OUR MONEY FORWARD BECAUSE I'M NOT THAT THE MONEY THAT WE HAVE EARMARKED COULDN'T BE USED DIFFERENTLY AND BE AS EFFECTIVE OR MORE SO EFFECTIVE IN ADDRESSING SOME OF THESE ISSUES PARTICULARLY ONES SINCE WE'VE LOST OUR PARTNERS AND TO YOU AND KDDI WHO ARE TRULY THE EXPERTS TO BRING THE EXPERTIZE PIECE IN SO I HAVE A LOT OF HAVE A LOT OF CONCERNS AT THIS POINT DIVISION DOES OUR DIVISION DOES DECIDE TO MOVE FORWARD WHEN WE GET TO THE POINT IN DECEMBER I WOULD CERTAINLY NEED TO HEAR WHAT THE MONETARY COME OUT THE OTHER DIVISIONS ARE WILLING COME IN WITH BECAUSE RIGHT NOW EVERYBODY ELSE GET THE EASY OUT OF SAYING YEAH LET'S MOVE FORWARD AND

232NOT COMMIT ANY MONEY SO I'M AND I CERTAINLY HAVE CONCERNS I WANT TO SEE WHAT'S BEST FOR THE STUDENTS THAT WE SERVING BUT I NEED THE NEED THAT DATA AND INFORMATION PRESENTED ENSURE THAT THAT'S REALLY WHAT WE'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO PROVIDE. THANK YOU I'M SORRY I. I BELIEVE THERE IS SOME ERRONEOUS INFORMATION CIRCULATING WE'VE NOT TALKED ABOUT A DOLLAR FIGURE WITH VIRGINIA BEACH CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS WHAT WE ARE LOOKING AT THIS EVENING IS A COMMITMENT AN AFFIRMATION OF A COMMITMENT YOU MADE EARLIER A RESOLUTION TO EXPLORE A RECOVERY SCHOOL FIVE REGIONAL SCHOOLS OR FIVE SCHOOLS WITHIN OUR REGION INCLUDING VIRGINIA BEACH HAVE MADE THE EFFORT TO SAY OR HAVE MADE A RESOLUTION WITH THEIR BOARD AND I WILL ONE CAVEAT THE CHESAPEAKE BOARD RECEIVED VERY FAVORABLY AND INFORMATION WILL NOT ACT INTO THE

233FIRST WEEK OF JULY JULY ALL THEIR BOARDS HAVE APPROVED MOVING FORWARD TO EXPLORE AT NO TIME HAS A DOLLAR AMOUNT BEEN ON THIS TABLE WE ARE ASKING FOR YOU TO AFFIRM WHAT YOU ONCE GRANTED AND THAT WAS THE ABILITY TO EXPLORE WITH FOUR OTHER PARTNERS WHAT IT WOULD COST US TO PUT TOGETHER A REGIONAL SCHOOL AND NOT ONLY WHAT IT WOULD COST WHAT THAT REGIONAL SCHOOL WOULD LOOK LIKE IF FIVE REGIONAL SCHOOLS COLLABORATE ON THAT THERE IS NO DECISION THAT THIS WOULD BE VIRGINIA EACH CITY PUBLIC SCHOOL RESOURCES PORTSMOUTH OR CHESAPEAKE MAY WELL BE THE ONES TO IDENTIFY SPACE SPACE THAT IN OUR EARLIER PROPOSALS WHERE A LARGE PART OF OUR FUNDING THAT FUNDING MAY NO LONGER BE NEEDED IF NORFOLK WERE TO IDENTIFY SPACE THERE ARE DECISIONS TO BE MADE THAT I CAN'T PRESENT

234TO YOU THIS EVENING I CAN'T TELL YOU IF NORFOLK WOULD GIVE THAT AS IN SPACE OR IF EACH DIVISION WOULD NEED TO PUT FORWARD MONEY ERRONEOUS INFORMATION CIRCULATES ALL I AM HERE THIS EVENING TO ASK YOU TO DO IS TO GIVE PERMISSION FOR THE REGIONAL SCHOOLS TO MOVE FORWARD WITH AN INVESTIGATION AND WE WILL REPORT TO YOU ON A MONTHLY BASIS WHERE WE ARE ON THAT INVESTIGATION IN EDITION AS WE WORK THROUGH WILL DETERMINE WHAT POSITIONS ARE NEEDED, WHAT NEW FUNDING EXISTS FROM THE COMMUNITY SERVICES BOARD WE CAN SHARE WITH YOU THE PROGRAM'S THE BLUEPRINT OF CHESAPEAKE BUT I CANNOT TELL YOU THIS EVENING THAT I WOULD ADOPT WHAT CHESTERFIELD ARMY IS DOING BECAUSE IT IS A REGIONAL DECISION I CAN TELL YOU THAT NO ARE ON THE TABLE OTHER THAN WE ASKED DISMISSED BROWN

235PUT FORWARD OUR LEGISLATORS TO WORK FOR THIS MONEY I CANNOT IMAGINE TELLING THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY I WANT TO RETURN THIS FUNDING THAT YOU ASKED US FOR. WE HAD A RESOLUTION MOVING FORWARD FOR THAT THEY RESPECTFULLY IT WAS MENTIONED BY OUR SUPERINTENDENT AT THE LAST MEETING THAT THERE IS SOMEBODY THAT IS GOING TO HEAD UP THIS THIS THIS WORK AND THE QUESTION WAS ASKED WILL THAT PERSON BE PAID OUT OF THE FUNDS FROM THIS SO I THINK IN FAIRNESS TO MY COLLEAGUES YOU HAVE QUESTIONS THAT IS ONE OF THEM THAT SOME OF THAT MONEY IS GOING TO BE USED TO PAY SOMEBODY. THAT'S THE FIRST THING THE SECOND THING IS IN FAIRNESS TO EVERYBODY SITTING HERE, IT HAS BEEN A YEAR AND A HALF TO TWO YEARS WITH WITH NOTHING ZERO EXCEPT FOR FAILURES ALONG THE

236WAY. NOW THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT WE CAN'T MOVE FORWARD BUT I REALLY THINK JUST LIKE LIKE LESNER I THINK IT IS FAIR THAT THIS GROUP HAS CONCERNS ABOUT WHERE THIS IS GOING AFTER NEARLY TWO YEARS OF NOTHING AND THERE WERE PEOPLE THAT MADE TRIPS IN NEW JERSEY THERE WERE PEOPLE THAT DID THIS THERE WERE PEOPLE THAT DID THAT DID THIS AND THEN IT ALL IT ALL WENT AWAY AND THERE IS A PEACE BECAUSE WE ARE HEARING FROM LEGISLATORS THAT THIS FUNDING STREAM MAY CONTINUE AND I DON'T THINK THAT IT'S ERRONEOUS I THINK THAT PEOPLE ARE HEARING TRUTHS AND THAT THERE REALLY MIGHT NOT BE A FUNDING SOURCE THAT WAS A LINE ITEM THIS TIME OR WAS A FUNDING SOURCE THAT THEY FOUND BUT THAT THAT MIGHT CONTINUE AND WE REALLY DON'T KNOW IF THE PUPATE

237PEW PER PUPIL SPENDING IS GOING TO BE ENOUGH TO SUSTAIN SUSTAIN THE SCHOOL AND THE FACT THAT INITIALLY YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT 20 STUDENTS WHICH IS LESS THAN I MEAN THAT'S THREE AND A HALF KIDS FOUR KIDS PER DIVISION FOR HITS PER SCHOOL PER DIVISION I THINK ALL OF IT IS FAIR. WE HEAR SO OFTEN FROM MEMBERS OF THIS BOARD WHO TALK ABOUT MONEY AND THE MONEY THAT IS SPENT. I MEAN TONIGHT JUST THE SBA IT'S THIRTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS OUR MEMBERSHIP AND FOR SOME THAT'S TOO MUCH. YET WE'RE WILLING TO EARMARK A MILLION DOLLARS FOR PROGRAM THAT MOST OF US DON'T OR ANYTHING ABOUT AND SO I DON'T I DON'T WANT ANYONE TO GET ANGRY BUT I DON'T THINK THERE WAS ANY PROBLEM IN LISTENING TO JUST STILL SOME LINGERING QUESTIONS FOR SOME PEOPLE IT'S

238A A LOT OF MONEY THAT WE'VE EARMARKS TONIGHT WE'VE HEARD FROM SPECIAL EDUCATION THAT WE ARE MISSING MARK ON A NUMBER OF OF OF THE VERY IMPORTANT PARTS OF SPECIAL EDUCATION. WE'RE MISSING THE MARK AND NOW YOU KNOW, WE HEAR ABOUT OH GOSH YOU KNOW WE FEED KIDS WE DO. WE DO THIS WE DO THIS WE DO THIS AND NOW WE'RE GOING TO BECOME THE SOLE SOURCE OR ONE THE SOURCES FOR DRUG ADDICTION. AND SO I PEOPLE'S CONCERNS ARE VALID IT CAN'T GO BOTH WAYS IT REALLY CAN WE CAN'T NOT HAVE THIRTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS OR OUR PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION BUT FIND A MILLION FOR A PROGRAM WE KNOW NOTHING ABOUT NOT SAYING I'M GOING TO VOTE AGAINST IT. I'M JUST SAYING WE ARE NOT ASKING FOR A COMMITMENT OF FUNDS I'M ASKING FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO

239EXPLORE AND BRING BACK TO THIS BOARD WHAT FUND THEN FOR THIS BOARD WHERE WILL THE MONEY COME FROM FOR WHOEVER WE'RE HIRING TO HEAD UP THIS WHOEVER IS GOING TO HEAD THIS UP WHERE WILL THOSE FUNDS WILL THAT PERSON'S SALARY DRAW FROM FOR THE PROJECT TO DEVELOP THE PLANNING THAT WILL COME FROM THE SEVENTY FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND HAS AN EARMARK BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY FOR A PLANNING YEAR. OK, SO THERE IS COMMITMENT MONEY I MEAN THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY NOT FROM THE SCHOOL BOARD FUNDS THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY IS PROVIDING FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND YEAR ONE FOR PLANNING WITH THE EXACT PURPOSE OF THE INVESTIGATING THE THE TYPE OF PROGRAM AND WHAT IT WOULD COST TO PUT ON THE PROGRAM IN THIS REGIONAL AREAS AND I SMELL LIKE I SPOKE LIKE I SPOKE TO JOEL ANDRUS TODAY AS

240WELL AND ON THIS AND TO YOUR QUESTION WE HAVE TO REPORT BACK TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY IN DECEMBER HOW WE HAVE ALLOCATED THOSE FUNDS FROM JULY ONE UNTIL DECEMBER AND DURING THAT SOME OF SOME OF THE QUESTIONS THAT WE'VE HEARD TONIGHT ARE LEGITIMATE THAT WE HAVEN'T BROUGHT FORWARD INFORMATION BUT I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT FOR ALL OF US TO UNDERSTAND WE ARE NOT HIDING ANY INFORMATION FROM ANYONE WE ARE TRYING TO TAKE THIS REGIONAL APPROACH AND WHAT DR. REFERRING TO IS THE DISCUSSIONS THAT HAD BEEN HAD WITH THESE OTHER SCHOOL BOARDS IS ARE YOU INTERESTED IN THE EXPLORATION? THEIR ANSWER YES MY CONVERSATIONS MY CONVERSATIONS WITH THE SUPERINTENDENT IS WE EACH DIVISION WILL BE RESPONSIBLE OR THE COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS PROGRAM. IT WILL BE A IMO YOU TYPE OF SITUATION LIKE WE HAVE WITH THE

241SCORE SCHOOL OR GOV SCHOOL WHERE IF YOU WANT TO BE A PART OF THE PROGRAM YOU MUST HAVE SKIN IN THE GAME I WOULD NEVER AGREE OR I WOULD IT WOULD MY DECISION I WOULD NEVER BRING TO THIS BOARD A PLANE A PLANE WHERE IT SAYS VIRGINIA OBESITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FUNDING THE COSTS OF STUDENTS FROM OTHER REVISIONS TO ATTEND THE RECOVERY SCHOOLS AND I AND I AGREE WITH YOU I'M JUST SAYING THEY'RE A BOARD MEMBERS THAT HAVE QUESTIONS AND WE HAVE BOARD MEMBERS THAT HAVE QUESTIONS EVERY WEEK AND THEY GET ANSWERED AND PEOPLE HAVE CONCERNS ABOUT THE SPENDING OF MONEY AND I JUST THINK IT'S UNFAIR THAT A COUPLE OF PEOPLE HAVE QUESTIONS AND ALL OF A SUDDEN IT'S NOT FAIR HOWEVER WILL HAVE WE'LL HAVE INFORMATION AS GO THROUGH BUT WE JUST WE DON'T

242HAVE THAT INFORMATION RIGHT NOW CHANNEL I DON'T KNOW IF I COULD JUST FINISHED CLARIFYING ON OH, I'M SORRY MR. YES. OK AND THANK YOU DR. FAULT BECAUSE YOU'RE HERE I WANTED TO CLARIFY SO THE MONEY THAT WILL BE USED FOR EXPLORATION IS ONLY THE MONEY THAT HAS SET ASIDE FROM THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY. WE WILL NOT BE USING ANY OF THE MONEY THAT THE BOARD EARMARKED FOR RECOVERY PROGRAM OR OPIOID PROGRAM THINGS WE ARE JUST USING THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY MONEY FOR THE EXPLORATION PHASE THAT COVERS ALL THE PEOPLE WHO ARE GOING TO BE INVOLVED FROM THE REGION AND ANY TRAVEL AND WHATEVER EXPENSES ARE NEEDED THAT CORRECT THAT CAN BE DONE EASILY WITH THE SEVEN HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND THAT HAS BEEN DONE WITH THE FIVE HUNDRED FOR THE FIRST YEAR PLANNING TO 50 FOR THE SECOND

243YEAR PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTATION THANK YOU. THAT'S HELPFUL. SO YOU THINK THAT OVER THE NEXT SIX MONTHS IT'LL TAKE THREE QUARTERS OF A MILLION DOLLARS TO INVESTIGATE NO QUESTION WHAT WOULD WHAT WOULD THE FUNDING COME FROM VIRGINIA EACH CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS MY ANSWER WAS SEVEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND HAS BEEN EARMARKED FOR A YEAR AND A HALF OR TWO YEARS OF PLANNING WOULD BE SUFFICIENT A PLAN WOULD COME FORWARD AFTER THAT ONCE WE'VE MET WITH THE REGION TO DETERMINE WHAT EACH EACH SCHOOL IN THE REGION OF THE FIVE WOULD CONTRIBUTE. SO DR. AND YOU HAD STATED SOMETHING THAT KIND OF WAS A LITTLE BIT CONCERNING TO BUT ALSO I THINK YOU MEANT IT'S NOT A CONCERN. I WANT MAKE SURE I UNDERSTAND THIS SO SO I JUST TO BE CLEAR IF WE HAVE A REGIONAL RECOVERY

244SCHOOL AND LET'S JUST SAY THAT AND I'M NOT I'M NOT POINTING AT THEM BECAUSE I THINK THEY DON'T HAVE THE FUNDS BUT I'M JUST LET'S JUST SAY PORTSMOUTH FOR EXAMPLE LET'S JUST SAY JUST SAY PORTSMOUTH IS A PART OF THE REGIONAL RECOVERY SCHOOL AND THEY IN THEIR BUDGET YEAR DETERMINED THAT THEY CAN'T CONTRIBUTE MONEY TO THIS REGIONAL SCHOOL SO OK, SO IN THAT SCENARIO WOULD WE COULD THEN BE TO PONY UP ANY FUNDS FROM THE REMAINING SCHOOLS THAT CAN CONTRIBUTES TO PAY FOR PORTSMOUTH'S STUDENTS TO ATTEND THE REGIONAL RECOVERY'S WANTED AND I JUST WANT TO BE BECAUSE YOU SAID SOMETHING ABOUT THAT I WAS LIKE I WANT TO BE I DON'T UNDERSTAND THIS >>. YEAH. SO I WOULD NEVER BRING TO THIS BOARD ANY MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING OR MEMORANDUM AGREEMENT THAT INDICATES THE VIRGINIA TECH

245PUBLIC SCHOOLS UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES WOULD BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE COSTS OF STUDENTS ATTENDING A SCHOOL FROM OTHER SCHOOL DIVISIONS WITHOUT THEM CONTRIBUTING WE ARE NOT GOING TO COVER THE COST. I WOULD I WOULD NOT PUT THIS BOARD IN A POSITION WHERE THEIR ARE FUNDING THE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES FOR STUDENTS FROM OTHER DIVISIONS NEVER AGREE TO >> THAT. OK OK I JUST WANT TO BE CLEAR BECAUSE WHEN YOU SAID YOU SAID THAT I WAS LIKE WAS THAT EVEN A CONSIDERATION TO CLARIFY OK THANK YOU OK YES THANK YOU. HUH. OK TONIGHT THESE QUESTIONS ARE FAIR. I'VE GOT QUESTIONS I'M A LITTLE BIT MORE EDUCATED UNFORTUNATELY I'M GLAD THAT YOU ALL AREN'T EDUCATED IN THE SPACE I'M MORE EDUCATED BECAUSE PARENTS CALL ME I FOR PLACES FOR THEIR CHILDREN TO RELOCATE FOR A YEAR. I HEAR THE STORIES

246I'M FAMILIAR WITH OTHER SCHOOLS RECOVERY SCHOOLS BECAUSE I PERSONALLY HAVE TAKEN TIME TO RESEARCH A BUNCH OF SO BUT JUST TO MOVE FORWARD SO THAT WE CAN GET THESE QUESTIONS ANSWERED AND YOU KNOW, I WANT TO APOLOGIZE BECAUSE I DON'T I DON'T WANT TO GIVE THE IMPRESSION TO OUR STAFF AND THIS IS WHAT I'M HEARING THAT BASICALLY THEY'VE DONE NOTHING OR TWO AND A HALF YEARS BECAUSE THAT IS SO FAR FROM THE TRUTH. SO DR. ZOLLNER I KNOW HOW HARD YOU BEEN WORKING I KNOW I KNOW HOW ABOUT HOW FAR BOBBY JINDAL ISN'T GOING TO I KNOW. YEAH, FOR TRYING TO GET FUNDING. WE STARTED THIS REMEMBER WE STARTED THIS AND WE WERE GOING TO TRY TO DO IT OURSELVES BECAUSE THAT WAS DOCTORS SPIRITS WHEN HE AND I HAD THE INITIAL CONVERSATION BECAUSE YOU

247FRANKLY SAID WE CAN DO IT FASTER IF WE HAVE TO WAIT FOR LEGISLATURE AND HE WAS PROBABLY RIGHT BECAUSE WHAT WE HAD TWO AND A HALF AND A HALF YEARS TO GET IT LEGISLATIVELY AND THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT HE SAID. SO THAT DIDN'T WORK OUT AND THEN WE HAD TO GO THROUGH DIFFERENT VENUES TO GET FUNDING BECAUSE WE KNEW WE COULDN'T MOVE FORWARD WITHOUT ANY TYPE OF FUNDING. SO THAT'S WHAT WE YOU KNOW SOME OF US HAVE SPENT A LOT OF TIME BEHIND DO IN THAT THESE QUESTIONS THIS TONIGHT IS JUST TO MOVE FORWARD SO THAT THESE FIVE SCHOOL SYSTEMS WHO DECIDED TO PARTNER AND DO THIS ARE GOING TO START REALLY MAKING A GOOD PLAN IF WE SEE IT IN DECEMBER AND THEY COME BACK TO US AND SAY IT'S GOING TO BE FIVE MILLION

248DOLLARS OR IT'S GOING TO BE THIS AND THIS AND WE DON'T AGREE WITH IT THEN WE VOTED DOWN WE HAVE YOU KNOW HAVEN'T YOU KNOW, WE SPENT A LITTLE TIME WELL YOU'RE GOING TO SPEND A LOT OF TIME AND WE VOTED IT DOWN BUT AND I AND I HATE TO PUT STUDENT AGAINST STUDENT BECAUSE I KNOW THAT HERE IN THIS THAT IT'S TOO ON THIS THAT IT'S TOO EXPENSIVE BECAUSE THERE'S NOT ENOUGH KIDS AND WE SPEND A LOT OF MONEY ON VERY SMALL GROUPS OF KIDS AND SOME INFORMATION A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO WAS WAS INACCURATE ABOUT HOW MUCH WE SPEND WITH ONE POPULATION BUT WE SPEND 19, 20, 30, 40, 50 THOUSAND DOLLARS ON SOME OF OUR KIDS AND MORE AND THEY ARE SMALL NUMBER BECAUSE THE NEED IS SPECIFIC THE NEED IS GREAT

249AND WE DO IT BECAUSE WE DO THINGS RIGHT HERE IN VIRGINIA BEACH. SO I DON'T WANT MY COLLEAGUES TO GET SO CAUGHT UP INTO OH MY GOODNESS BECAUSE IF WE DO THAT WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO LOOK AT ALL THESE STUDENTS THAT WE PAY DOUBLE, TRIPLE, QUADRUPLE TEN TIMES WHAT IT CALLS TO EDUCATE A CHILD AND SAY IS THAT TOO EXPENSIVE. I HOPE YOU DON'T GO THAT. YOU KNOW, I WE DON'T DO THAT BUT TONIGHT AND I DID CALL NINE OF MY COLLEAGUES SO I'M HEARING THINGS DIFFERENT THAN WHAT I HEARD ON THE TELEPHONE WHEN I CALLED YOU GUYS BUT TONIGHT IS JUST TO MOVE FORWARD SO THAT WE CAN GET ALL THESE QUESTIONS ANSWERED AND ANY QUESTIONS YOU HAVE EMAIL THEM IN ONCE WE GET THE GROUP TOGETHER AND SAY THIS IS A CONCERN,

250HOW IS THIS GOING TO WORK THEY'RE GOING TO REPORT TO US DOCTORS ARE JUST ABOUT EVERY MONTH. SO BYE BYE THEIR FINAL PRESENTATION WE SHOULD HAVE EVERY SINGLE QUESTION ANSWER WE SHOULD GET SOME OF US SHOULD GO TO CHESTERFIELD OR SOME OTHER PLACE AND SAID THIS IS JUST A MOVE FORWARD WE ARE NOT COMMITTING ONE POINT TWENTY FIVE MILLION WE ARE COMMITTING A LITTLE BIT OF MONEY TO GET PERSON IN CHARGE OF HIS FIVE SCHOOL DIVISIONS AND THEY'RE GOING THEY'RE GOING TO WORK OUT BESIDE THE BLUEPRINT OUT THE SIDE, THE BLUEPRINT, WHAT THE PROGRAM LOOKS LIKE GETS IN THE PROGRAM. I MEAN EVERYTHING AND THEY'LL PRESENT IT TO US BUT I REALLY URGE MY COLLEAGUES TO VOTE TONIGHT TO MOVE FORWARD SO THAT WE CAN GET THE QUESTIONS ANSWERED. THANK YOU OK ALL RIGHT ALL

251RIGHT. AGAIN, MOTION MADE BY SECONDED BY MISMANAGED MISS MANNING NO FURTHER DISCUSSION VOTING IS OPEN MADAM CHAIR WE HAVE 10 I SAW EYES TO THE MOTION TO PASS THIS SO YOU DO THAT. ALL RIGHT. MOVING ON TO COMMITTEE ORGANIZATION AND BOARD REPORTS DOES ANY BOARD MEMBER HAVE ANYTHING TO REPORT WAITING FOR THE CLOSED I'M GOING TO WORK. YES, PLEASE YES THE AD HOC COMMITTEE TO COMMITTEE TO SEE THE OPEN SPACE JERICHO ROAD WHERE THE BAYSIDE SIXTH DRIVERS ARE NOW LOCATED WE MET FOR THE OUR FIRST INITIAL MEETING TODAY WE HAD TEN PEOPLE ATTEND. WE TACKLING JAMES BROWN IN OUR THE SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS AND AMELIA ROSS HAMMOND AND WHERE THEY'RE FROM CITY COUNCIL AS WELL AS TWO FROM OUR STAFF AND THEN WE HAD SOMEBODY FROM PARKS AND REC FROM PUBLIC WORKS FOR THE CITY

252OF VIRGINIA BEACH AND TO CIVIC LEAGUE OFFICERS THAT REPRESENT THAT AREA SO WE HAD A VERY SUCCESSFUL MEETING I'VE GOT THE MINUTES HERE IF ANYBODY WANTS A COPY OF THEM AND OUR NEXT MEETING WILL BE IN SEPTEMBER BECAUSE WE NEEDED TO GET IN GET A LITTLE SPACE BEFORE WE MET AGAIN. ALL WE MAKE DECISIONS BEFORE WE CAN MOVE FORWARD WITH THAT COMMITTEE SO VERY GOOD MEETING. THANK YOU, LARRY. WE OF A LOT OF PEOPLE MISSING NOW FOR THE CLOSED SESSION. DO YOU JUST WANT TO DO YOU STILL WANT TO GO INTO A CLOSE SECOND CAN HAND OUT YOUR INFORMATION. OK, NO, WE'RE OK ALL RIGHT WELL THEN WELL THEN WITH THAT WE WILL ALLOW YOU TO PASS THAT OUT OH MR. CARLIN I'M SO, I'M SO SORRY. PLEASE PLEASE SIR. YOU'RE ASKING IF WE HAVE

253ANY COMMENTS TO MAKE ABOUT THINGS IN GENERAL AND MAYBE THIS IS A NIGHT WHERE IT'S A GREAT TIME TO MAKE THIS POINT. MY DISCLAIMER MANY TIME YOU PROBABLY HEARD ME SAY ME SAY IS THAT I FORGET WHAT HAVE FOR BREAKFAST MOST DAYS SO USING SO USING THAT AS MY EXAMPLE THERE WAS A RECENT EVENT THAT WAS HELD AT OCEANA. THERE WAS AN INTERN SCHIP PROGRAM THAT SCHOOL SYSTEM IN OCEANA PARTICIPATE IN AND I MAY GET EMOTIONAL IN THE PROCESS JUST DESCRIBING WHAT I WITNESSED BUT IN THE MIDST OF AN ENVIRONMENT WHERE THERE'S LOTS OF CHALLENGES AND DIFFICULTIES AND WE'RE SOMEWHAT AT ODDS WITH EACH OTHER AND WE WERE WONDERING IF WE'RE DOING RIGHT THING AND MARCHING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION. THIS WAS AN EVENT THAT WAS AS HEARTWARMING AS YOU CAN EVER IMAGINE. THERE WAS

254CEREMONY THERE, THERE WAS PRECISION THAT WAS HELD AND THESE YOUNG PEOPLE WERE GRADDY WAITING FROM A PROGRAM THAT THEY PARTICIPATED IN THAT THE SCHOOL SYSTEM AS A PART OF AND IN LIGHT OF ALL THE CHALLENGES THAT SURROUND THE SCHOOL SYSTEM THAT I NOW HAVE A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THAN I EVER DID BEFORE, THIS WAS ONE THING I WAS STUNNINGLY PROUD TO SAY WE'RE DOING THE EXPRESSIONS OF ACCOMPLISH AND JOY, PRIDE FAMILY IS THAT WERE THERE CHEERING THESE KIDS ON. IT WAS SO MOVING AND SOMETHING TO BE SO PROUD OF AND IT JUST MAKES YOU SAY GOSH EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE WE JUST HIT A HOME RUN AND THAT WAS A HOME RUN AND I JUST WANTED TO MAKE AND AGAIN I FORGOT WHAT IS CALLED. YEAH THAT'S WHAT IT'S CALLED BUT IT WAS TERRIFIC

255AND I WAS SO HONORED TO BE JUST IN THE ZONE WHERE THIS THING WAS HAPPENING BECAUSE IT WAS REMARKABLE. SO THOSE ARE MY TWO CENTS AND IF YOU EVER HAVE THE CHANCE TO SHOP AT THE MAYBE EXCHANGE OCEANA YOU CAN SEE THEM AT WORK. THOSE STUDENTS YEAH IN IT'S IN LIVE ACTION OR THE COMMISSARY IS RIGHT UP. YOU ARE. YEAH, IT'S YES AS A MILITARY BRAD I APPRECIATE ALL THOSE THINGS THAT YOU MENTIONED. I JUST WANT TO HIGHLIGHT FOR THOSE IN OUR DISTRICT THE KICKOFF OF THE SUMMER FOOD PROGRAM WE HAD A WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITY TO TO VISIT WITH THE USDA ASSISTANT SECRETARY THE DEPUTY SECRETARY OF THE PROGRAM AT BETTER-OFF WILLIAMS MY DISTRICT AND IT'S JUST WONDERFUL THAT OUR CHILDREN WILL NOT HAVE TO BE HUNGRY DURING THE SUMMER AND SO THESE SCHOOLS THESE DISPUTING

256FEEDING PROGRAMS ARE NATIONWIDE AND VIRGINIA IS DOING SUCH A GREAT JOB WITH MAKING SURE THAT WE HAVE THOSE AVAILABLE WITH SOME OF THE MOST YUMMIEST FOOD SO FOR INFORMATION ON THAT, YOU CAN VISIT THE U.S. D.A. SUMMER SUN MEALS PROGRAM TO FIND OUT WHAT SCHOOLS ARE OFFERING THOSE SUMMER MEALS FOR CHILDREN THROUGHOUT THE CITY OF VIRGINIA BEACH AND NEIGHBORING CITIES DR. ROBERTSON IS THAT ON OUR WEBSITE AT NICOLE I DON'T THINK IT IS? YEAH, OK, THANK YOU. EVERYBODY ELSE AND WITH THAT WE ARE ADJOURNED. IT IS TEN 05 AND WE'LL WAIT FOR MISS LEONETTI TO HAND OUT WHAT SHE NEEDS TO GIVE US