001good evening everyone would like to reconvene the Thursday February 27th 2025 meeting of the Lake Forest Board of Education uh if you would please join me for pledge of allegiance followed by movement of Silence I to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands God indivisible liy andice thank you uh welcome to everyone to the Delaware Early Childhood Center affectionally in Harrington called the little school affectionally by Mr Dempsey and maybe Mrs mclusky where we went to K arten and first grade so it's nice to be back many years later uh we will start tonight 2.3 roll call of board members uh we have Mrs MOSI here and vice president starky here and president Earl Dempsey serving as chair is here as well we have three board
002members present thank you for being here move on to 2.4 approval of agenda Mr St make a motion we approve the agenda as presented second I motion floor properly seconded any questions or discussion on the motion seeing none move to a vote all those in favor I I any opposed any extensions motion carries three to zero 2.5 approval of minut minutes I in motion we approved minut minut from the February 13 2025 second a motion floor properly second any questions or discussion on the motion seeing none move to a vote all those in favor I any opposed any extensions motion carries 3 to zero up to the very fun part of the evening 2.6 recognition and presentations turn it over to Dr Lucas good evening everybody we've got Mrs sh here from the Delaware Early
003Child Center the resident administrator she's going to tell us all about the great things going on here at day welcome Mrs short hi good evening thank you for everybody for joining us here at the Delaware Early Childhood Center I know it's been a long time since a lot of since many of you have been here um so I just wanted to share with you a little bit about our programming here is when it's raining here we have a hard time with our Wi-Fi with our internet sure the old building perfect thank you go ahead and start person all right so here in our building um and across the district we actually have um two sets of programs we have our home visiting programs and our preschool programs so this year we've been talking a lot
004about it starts with us it and it truly does start with us here with our littlest ones um yep screen we start prenatal to kindergarten entry um and with our home visiting program that we have we have programs that have been here in Lake Forest for as long as 30 years we have um parents as teachers new directions Early Head Start um Child Care partnership through Early Head Start as well as Stand By Me in those programs we have 18 staff members including a program manager um Health coordinator I have mine Health coordinator um parent Educators home visitors that go into the community thank you and we also have a financial coach here with Stand By Me In Our preschool programs um that includes our special education programming for the Lake Forest school district for
005again birth to kindergarten entry state funded early care and education seats which was formerly known as ecap though lots of people know it is EAP it's no longer called that and then we also have tuition based seat so we have a program called Little Spartans which is our full day Child Care Program and then we also have students that join us um for part Bay where their families pay for them to be here too we have a total of nine classrooms in Lake Forest so we have five here at deck two at Lake Forest North one at Lake Forest East and one at Lake Forest South totaling currently 153 students and then we also have an additional 13 students that are seen in their child care centers or in their homes in the community we
006have a total of 82 special education students but that is increasing so children as they turn three can enter our program if they have special needs so just this week we added more students so that number grows um pretty quickly we have 69 state funded seeds and then 40 self-pay tuition seeds and some of those students overlap they can be special education students as well as state funded in the classroom we have we obviously have our special education teachers but we also have additional support so we have four general education teachers 20 par professionals and assistant Educators occupational therapist physical therapists speech and language therapists we also have two special education coordinators just because of the nature of um how many students we get in a year we consult with Audiology autism I inter teacher
007behavior interventionist Early Childhood mental health consultants and teacher as individually impaired our Educators also complete two home visits every year per student where they're trying to build that connection with the home um for the Family Partnership we also provide itinerate services for special education students where staff collaborate with our child care centers so that we can keep students in their most natural environment because ultimately it's best for them to be if they're in a Childcare Center and they're doing well there it's best for them to stay there not be pulled out for part of the day to come get special education services um so we send our staff there to assist them we help train them give them guidance and then we also have um some of our therapists go there to provide the services
008um and that allows us to provide like I said in the least restrictive environment um additional services that we have here in the Delaware Early Childhood Center so we hold the child find coordinator which is responsible for all child finding obligations in Lake Forest which includes birth mandates so um if a student is diagnosed with autism death line hearing impairment or visual impairment they can start services with the school district as early as birth um so we are responsible for that we're also responsible for screening and evaluating all students referred from the birth to three program through the state of Delaware um and then any Community referrals uh the ages and stages developmental screening review from all childcare providers in the Lake Forest feeder pattern so all as of 2023 um all child care centers
009are required to do screenings with their students with their children and we funnel them they come to us and we go through them and Screen them and then we're also responsible for the early kindergarten entry requirements we have family service workers which is something we're really proud of here that support our preschool programs they help us with eligibility enrollment and attendance um Family engagement and School Readiness family well-being family connections to peers and Community as well as family advocacy and Leadership and I'll talk about this a little bit later but um that is something we've really been working on as that advocacy and Leadership from the parent perspective we also have a before and after Care Program here for students at South and Central currently it's only South and Central because we have a bus
010that can bust them here um and then we hold 68 state funded preschool seats in Milford and Seaford um those classrooms are held in the Boys and Girls Clubs there and that goes back to Lake Forest has housed um head EAP program for over 30 years including in those areas so there are some influences changing Early Childhood in Delaware Public Schools so one of the big things recently was the Delaware childcare act um and that was where all public schools in by July of 2024 were required to become licensed under office of childcare licensing which you'll see in a minute there are some challenges that come with that because we're not a child Center here we have to provide special education services as well um House Bill 202 developmental screenings that's another one that's impacting
011us right now so again I said all students have to be screened through their um through ages and stages and the school districts are then required to process those screenings which is which is increasing the amount of screenings that we're doing and the amount of special education evaluation that we're ultimately doing funding um currently for we only get unit funding um unless we apply for those State fundit each which we do here in Lake Forest um but some other school districts don't necessarily have that something we have to keep app line for um because there are LR requirements we are required to have typical general education students with our special education students at a 50-50 rate at a 50-50 match um but that's an unfunded mandate they're not giving us money to have those general
012education students um and then our standards are changing so as of July 2025 we will be going to the Head Start early learning outcomes framework um we are proud in Lake Forest that our current curriculum actually matches those standards so we're not super super worried about it but it is something that's changing um and we're helping to roll that out and then this year Delaware's literacy plan finally includes PK so it's always been the K to3 literacy plan they've now included us um and the program manager from preschool programs and myself are part of that committee so the challenges that we're facing part of the office of childcare licensing requirements requires an early childhood administrator to be on site 50% of the time that's obviously a challenge for us here at Lake Forest because we
013have programs in all of the schools so can't split myself so we're having to make sure that other people are considered Early Child administrators to spill that time um spacing requirements so they measure a classroom they tell me how many students we can put in a classroom and sometimes that doesn't always match what we you know can do or want to do or need to do um same thing with class sizes in ratios so to keep our class sizes lower they they tell us how many kids we can have to a teacher but again that doesn't always come with the funding to do that um The increased staff power requirement through office of childcare licensing we have to keep a complete separate file from what HR has um we are required to to have more
014training with those staff members and then we also have to continue to do that every year we have an annual renewal license license um when it comes to our ages and stages and the developmental screening as I mentioned we're seeing an increase in screenings which is increasing our workload um and increasing the evaluations that we are um doing for special education students um I did just put in there our unit cend so beginning in 2020 we had only 35 students that were identified as special education um which got us 4.27 units fast forwarding to 2024 this year we WR 83 students and 15.28% general education students with um the special education students and providing those itinerant Services because when they're asking us to go into those childcare centers which we know is best um that
015takes a lot for one person to go in and see one student in that in that Center um because of Licensing our staff credentials also have to be different so when we hire a par professional they cannot just have taken the parpro um they also have to have additional things in early childhood again positive changes but things that are influ us and challenges that we're facing um we are having we're struggling with the need for an adjusted calendar we have a different amount of days that we are required to do than the rest of the school district but we also have increased PD needs and then our funding is year to year so every year we are not sure if we're going to have the funding we need to run the programs the way that
016we want to which continues to be a challenge but despite those challenges we have a lot of really great things happening here that we're really proud of um we transitioned over the past three years we've transitioned to an Inclusive Preschool program so when people call it ecap it drives me insane because we are not just ecap we are a preschool program that has students from um all different you know all different areas um so that is something we continue to try to push we are preschool programs in Lake Forest uh we received a quality improvement award two years in a row again something we're really proud of um we licensed all of our sites by July 1st 2024 we were definitely a little concerned because that was a lot of work to have that done
017so quickly last year we sent 13 Educators to the conscious discipline National Conference and then created an implementation team for deck um we began utilizing Procare management system which allows us to do all of our preschool applications and all of our communication with fames organization and tracking attendance and all that happens in one place um two of our staff members presented at the parents as teachers National Conference parents as teachers um was a blue ribbon affiliate for the second time we have 10 staff members furthering their education so we have um we have met with d State University of Delaware and Wilmington University to try to grow our own um with our pair of professionals and our teachers so we have 10 that are enrolled and actively going to school we talked about at the
018beginning here we have new HVAC in the deck building which which is Hu huge which allows us to have this meeting here today we hired a full-time custodian for the first time we received bus contracts to safely transport our students previously we were transporting our students in Vans um driven by Educators and so we have been able to do that with u Mr Weller help we are super excited super happy with that um we have new cameras inside and outside of the building to increase Security in all areas um as well it's not on there but we added doors um so that there is some level protection there from people getting you know access to our students and then the part that's cut off at the bottom um that just happened this week we had
019two Lake Forest parents that went to legislative Hall and advocated for Early Childhood funding and that was with the help of one of our family service coordinators um Desiree Oliver who kind of helped them got that you know build up their courage so that they could do that um and we were really proud of that we still know that there are things that we want to improve here um to ensure that we have an inclusive Early Childhood programming um again we're looking at high quality Staffing so continuing to try to get our staff members enrolled in higher education um the high quality instructional materials we're constantly looking at our um curriculum and how can we make it better how can we supplement we're exploring full day options we currently only have our two childcare classrooms
020that are full day but we know that some of these students need full day um services to transition better to kindergarten so we're exploring those options um our summer programming we currently only have students here that are on 12 month programming our esy for special education but we are looking this year to add our general education students we're collaborating with the elementary schools um and then we've come up with improvements to our intake process again so that we can have applications and they're all um going through one place we've increased our work B work based learning opportunities with Lake Forest students Partnerships with Lake Forest High School and chitman our parent advisory Council and policy Council um that's our um we have two members that attend the parent advisory Council and then our policy council
021is continuing to grow to get parents to Advocate again as I said we want to increase our attendance at our play group so parents as teachers hold play groups here in Harrington it is now here at death and we are trying to increase that and then increase the quality of our home visits again to get into the homes and have parents recognize um and and learn that they are their par or their students first teacher we have opportunity active opportunities to bring in um Community I've named soccer shots so we don't have like a gym teacher here we don't have a music teacher so we're bringing in those opportunities so we re recently part partnered with um a company called Soccer Shop so our students were all able to participate in soccer and then we
022are going to have Special Olympics hosted here in May we're also trying to get more classrooms better playgrounds and then our Roofing is being currently being done at that right now we definitely invite you all to visit at any time come in and see what we have going on here we have this short video um Mr Springer and the Springer and the digital design team from the high school came and spent some time with us um starting that partnership trying to get our branding out there but they took this short video to just kind of showcase some of the things that are going on in the classroom um so we will play this and this e e any questions than appreciate it uh this questions discussion from the from the board she Jing so much
023um there's just so many different things going on and I just appreciate you and just all that you're doing for our youngest Spartans for doing a great job thank you m m yes and also I've just never don't hear complaint I hear so much positive about the people who have been whether they the regular ed students that are coming in and being part of the program whether it's the kids that are just getting OT whether it's the I've just heard nothing but love for their teachers love of everything so I'm just um your it speaks for itself and that's the word going around our community so um I think um you guys are doing a great job and you hear it out there so every year at the beginning of the year it's like oh
024am I going to deck or oh you should see if your kid you know even friends speak to each other oh you have a kid that's fre let's see if you can get him in de so lots of people excited about the program and I think I like I said I've never heard such positive things that come out of here so great job for everybody here thank you I will say the uh we saw walking down the hallway right I'll call them the the Staples easy buttons right um those are those are really cool I know Mrs starky took a picture and really LED those and I I got chastised walking down the hallway because I pushed one and was told that I'm supposed to repeat it and look in the the mirror so that's
025a really cool thing for those kids um I did have one I did have a question about the uh the office of childcare licensing thing I'm trying to remember what what changed um is that office ex always existed in doe was there a recent change no there was a change yes okay yep um it used to be24 was it was it elsewhere was it in the the kids department or something okay all right so when they came over that whole process process expanded to where now it caught us into their mix is that what it was yes yeah uh it just it does it seems the way you explained it it does seem like a lot of I'll call them cumbersome almost hurdles that we have to overcome to uh yes and they are they
026are trying to change it back a little bit they're going back um and changing some of the language so that hopefully we'll have our own um but like for us and we have a couple other school districts that will still fall under um because we do have a child care classroom if if we continue to have Little Spartans which we will that's not going anywhere um then we still have to follow you know the more strict guidelines and those things but hopefully we'll be able to find a balance so does this mean in this in this bucket we're in now that we are treated the same as a a daycare whether it's a facility or in home correct wow okay all right thank you for that anything else well it's great to be here I
027got to see Mrs Klein's first grade class and Mrs bunting's kindergarten class down the hallway at least what it used to be I don't know what it was for you Jordan I had Miss razell I think for kindergarten and Miss Lites who was one of my favorite teachers ever so thank you very much again keep up the great work anything we can do for you please let us know okay all right we will move from that to item 2.7 citizens participation uh reading from our agenda time is set aside early in the Lake Forest Board of Education meeting for Citizens participation to allow members of the public to address board members on any relevant topic reading directly from board policy K public concerns and complaints the citizens participation item on the board agenda is an
028opportunity for members of the community to speak publicly those who wish to speak publicly to the board May must complete the information formed provided at the board meeting and sub submitted to the board secretary prior to the opening of the meeting this form should clearly State the reason for addressing the board public should not expect discussion or responses at this board meeting and finally comments are limited to three minutes per person uh so with that we do have two public speakers signed up this evening uh first we'll start with Mr Dwayne Hammond from Fon welcome Mr Hammond I have a can I ask a question before I proceed sure I am refes I have comments I would like to make but my daughter who could not be here tonight sent me a letter can I
029be two people you cannot I cannot no okay but if you would certainly um I want take your take your time you know um presenting what you want and then if you want to leave yeah and then if you want to leave a copy of the letter to be distributed to the board that would be fine as well leave it with you uh there are there are a couple uh spelling mistakes but we can live it that uh good evening I'm Dwayne Hannon I going to read this uh on behalf of my daughter my name is Bri H and I have both a proud L Forest Al a former assistant coach for the girls with cross team I addressing you today releas a decision to cancel the girls with cross P for this season we
030just got this information yesterday as a former player and assistant coach it deeply saddens me to see this program cancel on short notice especially with no other opportunities for these girls to play lacrosse I understand the concerns raised particularly by Mr Johnson regarding low participation numbers however I believe canceling the program all together is not the best solution by canceling the season we are not only depriving the girls who have replay the sport a chance to discover and fall in love with lacrosse we are also taking away last opportunity for seniors who have played for three years to finish their High School careers where ever we had we had committed athletes or I'm sorry we had a committed athlete who plans to play lacrosse at the college level without her final season she would enter
031her first year in college had gone an entire year without competitive play putting her in a significant disadvantage the athletes themselves understand that this may be a challenging season they know the team might face a losing record and in fact there was a recent season when the team went one and 13 in that 1 and3 season there was a firste young head coach and only two seniors all through the rest all the rest were under class which is the same situation we face now yet despite this the girls remain committed persevered through the difficult times they are still uh they are still willing to give their best effort season knowing that is about more than winds or WS it is about building the program growing as athlete and creating memories they are committed to persevering
032the spirit of or preserving the spirit of the gate and to taking advantage of this last opportunity to play together regardless of the player future plans it is a simple way to undertake uh these recruit these teammates have compiled a list of at least 12 were interested in playing it is also important to note that while the development of the feeder program is a worthy long-term goal the lack of action on that front should not negatively negatively affect the girls who are eager to play now these athletes should not be penalized for lack of foresight when they have been showing up and working hard day after day in the present there must be another solution that allows these girls to have a season here a few suggestions continue for a few more seconds start the
033varsity season is planned and once tryouts for other sports are finished recruit athletes from those teams that did not make those teams to join the lacrosse program reestablish a JV program and play 7v7 games with other JB teams to allow players to learn the game without the pressure of a varsity season reach out to other local schools to explore options for these girls to play lacrosse in their programs these are just a few ideas but regardless of the path we take something must be done women's lacrosse is a rapidly growing sport in the last 20 years participation in women's lacrosse has increased by 43% and the sport is now included in the Olympic lineup yet we lack feeder programs that would help develop an interest and skill at the middle school level to ensure future
034success of our program we must work to create the strength of these feeder programs in conclusion while I understand the challenges we face I urge you to reconsidered this cancellation and explore other options to ensure these girls have the opportunity to play their hard work dedication and love for sport deserve to be honored and together we can find a way forward thank you for your time and consideration Mr chairman thank you for that if you want to produce a copy to uh to Shell that would be great um and certainly thank you to uh for you for coming and for your daughter for any um and I think our next speaker uh is the same uh Laurel sweet I believe it is from I guess Harrington Felton uh speaking on the same topic so ma'am
035you have three minutes as well thank you okay so I have four daughters three all of them play Lacross my eighth grader plays across to so she's over de Turf she's got a bunch of her friends that are ready to come up next year from Shipman that are playing at De Turf I have one that's in 11th grader playing my oldest daughter played for all four years my next daughter is actually playing at for do at a club team as a goalie um does well out there it's a level one team so me it's a D1 but it's a a thing the girls worked all last year really hard they've had four scholarships come out of Lacrosse in our school the program had a total of what 15 kids last year and we have five
036kids came out Scholarships in Lacrosse one's this year and four last year and the kids are willing to participate they're willing to do it and they don't have anything at this point and the other I know how the shipment is because where I work they have to sign up on what they're going to do so even if they tried to join something at this point those other clubs are closed but their girls signed up I mean they were given opportunity there were 12 of them that signed up the team only needs 10 so I don't know why they're saying no and I agree with Brianna's idea that you know when kids don't get on other teams they do Shuffle and they can get picked up on other club they know they do that with track
037and and field and that kind of stuff in cross country but to tell them two days you know practice starts next week and they don't have anything we just went and bought all new equipment because the school has no equipment for them either there's no the prospects for them to try that I've ever heard of we just went and bought all their new stuff I spent like $500 on new equipment because this was supposed to be happening and I keep it just even if they don't play but it's the fact that they've been talking going they had um meetups last summer they got together over the summer to give the practice and Bre talk to some of the middle schoolers and was looking into like I know other schools that eighth graders play on the
038high school team and I don't know and I know Johnson says you can't do that but I haven't found a reg that said you can't it says you have to be on the same campus I that's not written anywhere so I don't know if we can pull eth graders up but I know there's kids in eth grade that would want to play if we can't get them but they have a team they have 12 people so they only need 10 on the field and if they have they've played Short we've had people short before people then you know people get sick we understand that but not every team has you know an entire another team team to replace that team so the boys lacrosse played with exactly enough players the year before they demise but
039they've got kids coming up so even when they lose the two seniors they've got a bunch of freshmen that'll be here next year that are ready to play but I know when they start over again you pretty much have to start back at the bottom and it took them this is their sixth or seventh year of Lacrosse and to reset them when they're willing to do it they've got people participating I I just don't think it's fair to them I mean most of the girls do well you know that kids in after school activities do better in school too that camaraderie you don't get that anywhere else and her I mean I don't know if um the senior will lose her scholarship by not playing and that's an option too I mean that's not a
040good thing that if you have thank you Mr swe thank you Mr Hammond um uh so I appreciate uh both of you being here and advocating for students and advocating for your own students and others uh um that's that's really what this public comment should be all about so I appreciate you being here in New method going through it did just want to quickly address the eighth grader thing that one is not a lake forest rule that is a diaa rule um and so that's our hands are tied on that have been tied in the past we have tried to get exceptions in the past for other sports now I know diaa has gone through some changes recently but I'm not aware that that one has changed can I can I speak to that for
041one second one second it used to be I found the Ray and it says that eighth graders can participate on high school teams if they are under the same Administration however what it does not do it does not define the word Administration technically if I look at it and read it Chipman falls under this board this board is the administration the high school falls under this board this board is the administration therefore I think unless they have a different unless I haven't found the right Ray yeah so historically it was for small schools so they could have a program and that the time for that rule really has passed but that's that's for a different time yeah yeah and and so I don't not the the time for the back and forth but we we
042have gone down this path before and and whether we agree with it or not because in the past we have not agreed with it um but it you know it's it's for us it doesn't seem fair that Milford can do it because their two schools are on the same campus delmare can do it because their two schools are on the same campus but that's the answer we've gotten in the past unfortunately um but I will say this um um especially since as you mentioned it just happened yesterday I it's not something that I was aware of until seeing the sheets um I don't know if other board members were but uh it does do give us uh tremendous information and opportunity to look into ask some questions and go from here so thank you again
043very much uh with that um that's all we had signed up for this evening so that will conclude our citizens participation item and we will open it back up again prior to our next meeting in two weeks thank you all again with that we'll move on to section three reports start with 3.1 student council report um Maya Lopez welcome Miss Lopez floor is yours so for student counc board meeting minutes um culinary Hospitality yes speaker from douber Restaurant Association about Workforce Development and apprenticeship opportunities on 2 1925 visit from Delaware restaurant Foundation to observe our wbl initiative we we are a finalist in the superstars award in Education and Training on 2 2025 ping desserts for cheerleading competition here at Lake birth High School on 22325 in Delaware proar students Invitational are on March 12
044principal Round Table was held on February 19th 2025 at 12m a group about 10 or 12 students at L with Miss R and Miss KY the students are excited for hidden talent hidden talent competition held on April 17 2025 hosted by the black student union American Lung Association tobacco free day on April 17 2025 hosted by the American Lung Association Grant also spring Sports and the place of beauty FB week was held during the week of 210 to 214 the activities included the flag ceremony green green hand ceremony teacher breakfast pickle hunt dodgeball tournament and trivia on morning announcement also congratulations to BR string and Lacy Hudson on receiving a secretary scholarship the rising grade direct nth grade scheduled results 308 total eigh graders go to chip Curr 1338 night graders came there two scheduling
045nights at the high school and 170 still need to be scheduled for the rising pathway breakdown 26 for Allied Health 17 for culinary three for performing s 27 for a power 11 for Teacher Academy two for jdd 12 for animal science 15 for a structure seven for finance 12 for computer science four for plant science one for visual arts and two for digital s great so thank you Maya I think this is the first time you have presented to us correct great work so could you tell us what your position is with student government and what you what year you are in school I guess represent okay well we look forward to seeing you a lot more reports in the next couple years thank all right thank you very much um 3.2 report uh 3.2
046Financial reports uh Mr Kurt Kellerman understand not really a report so to speak as far as as much as an update yeah so we don't have a financial report this evening but we did have kind of a quick informational discussion topic item that in the details with the enhanced minor Capital Improvement funds uh so this is the second time in probably the last several years that the state has provided these additional enhanced minor Capital Improvement funds um the unique character of these funds though is different than our normal minor Capital Improvement funds the normal funds require a state or a local match it's the 6040 uh State local match so for every $6 that the state puts forward we have to raise $4 in taxes in match funds uh for that to to get those
047State funds and so the unique part about these minor cap these enhanced minor Capital Improvement funds is that there is no match required but they do provide language in the bill that says that the school districts do have the option to provide a match should they deemed necessary and so given the age of our facilities here uh and the fact that we've pretty much already exhausted our current minor Capital Improvement funds um we're in that business where we would be have an interest in trying to Manch L funds now normally that would be done through the tax uh setting season and so when you make that decision up front that you're going to try to match those enh enhanced minor Capital Improvement funds you could add that to the match tax but in this case
048uh our tax rate has already been set for the year so uh but we do have another option in this case and so the the other option that we have is that we have the uh Kent County impact Fe funds that we collect each year and so right now our balance on that account is approximately a little over 3.2 million and so the enhanced minor Capital Improvement funds that we've received this year is uh a little over 300,000 and so our match if we wanted to we could provide up to 40% of that match which would be a little over 200,000 so I'm just proposing that we would take that 200,000 match from our Kent County impact fee funds that 3.2 million that we have in the books right now because those are funds that
049in the future we would use anyway as a local match for major capital or minor Capital Improvements so bar and any opposition from the board this was just an opportunity to bring this to the public and and and let you know of our intentions so uh any questions with that process thank you Mr callman questions for Kurt on this topic so if we put that money forward now would we be able to potentially adjust the assessment rate in the next year to recoup that or that simply looks ahead so uh the other thing I wanted to bring up is they have the governor's recommended budget out already now there's a chance it'll change this next month with the new governor in place but they already have in that new budget a significantly more uh State
050amount for the minor Capital Improvement funds so it almost equals what our normal m was this year and our enhanced MCI it almost reached that level so when we talk about trying to match that next year we're gonna almost have to include that in the match TS yes okay all right thank you any other questions for Kur all right thank you for that update thank you okay 3.3 technology report Mr Terry Lovin welcome Mr L thanks quick overview of what we've done in the last year technology standpoint the agenda so this is my technology team you guys have probably seen this in the past like a pretty strong team of technicians supportting the district they do all the the heavy lifting um couldn't do it without them so really appreciate those guys you can see
051kind of the work orders we've done year to year um at this point this school year stting in July 1st um we've done 3,173 work orders um at all schools so Conant turn lots of work we do just about everything I think today we're at Chipman helping with testing so we get our hands dirty all the time really appreciate these guys so uh last year when we spoke uh the highlights were Network rewiring through the high school in East cam upgrades device upgrades and campus Migration by Travis so where we're at with that um so the building that we're wiring again this was a um an eate funded project um total was about $850,000 um fcc's picking up about 650,000 of that give or take um with that shipment is complete complete rewire I'll do
052um t five wiring through the building we have the high school in East schedu for this summer um so looking forward to getting those upgrades done it's really helped with the wi-fi at Chipman so think it's going help with these do as well security cameras um when we met last year we had done East since that time we've got here deck's done chim's done Central South North everything except to high school which is currently in work um I spoke to the technicians today and they have about five cameras left to do at the high school and then we'll all be on one system um web BAS system except for e on a separate system but we're kind of integrating but um but that's been a a huge push and nice nice job getting that complete
053staff devices we pulled back about 95% of the devices from our staff over the summer upgraded Windows 11 um devices that could be upgraded again about a hundred of them were replaced so they have brand new devices and this summer we'll be finishing getting everything upgraded prior to the Windows 10 uh end of life then we'll also replacing additional devices of Summer and then Infinite Campus migration uh this is going to be a pretty heavy lift for uh for the district along with all the other districts in the state we are in weight too so we have the advantage of learning some some things from wave one but myself this bullet check there in the back um then burette and uh Mr deck we're meeting with it at campus every other week just for weekly
054updates and we're also participating in a lot of training get get know the system so that once we do implement we could uh make sure the staff is prepared going on next um data backup we currently use a a fairly old system um Barracuda um it works it doesn't work great and one of the issues we have with it is so much of our staff is using Google Drive now and we have no way to back that up because to the cloud so we're looking at some filebase systems that will integrate with Google Drive get back up that that as well um as well as you know back up our local server local data uh the network wiring again I mentioned that earlier so we got the the high school and East happening this summer
055so that'll be you know pretty much um beginning of June up to the beginning of school year again getting those buildings done and then the infinite campus migration again the summertime is going to be really busy for our team um to get that migration complete make sure we get all the application integration with clever and bology repes pl link all those things make sure everything's up going run before the school year starts and then move forward with staff training when they get there those two weeks before school starts and again everything that we're doing in the technology office aligns with the district plan um party one the education success again that's been the one to one devices for the students we're continuing to to maintain those devices a lot of um lot of kids own
056every day fortunately we don't have a lot of issues with the pr books other than few broken screen keyboards here and there they they work so love the pr book the infrastructure upgrades and then our partnership between the technology and instruction technology has been great to the Future Ed committee prity 2 area you know the communication with the um communities we're still using remine it's a great platform and then um school facilities and culture we get the camera upgrades done we got server upgrades done F replacement cycle and all the infrastructure upgrade so we're looking good moving forward um I think the uh the influx of dollars you know through the car fund at Sr funding has really helped get us where we needed to be and now was just a m a maintenance St
057from your own out again just quick summary of everything I discussed we won't read that for you but um you have anything else any questions thank you Terry question for Mr Lovin and our technology update M MOSI not so much a question just I finally have like been on the board long enough to see things like become a plan and then come to fruition so it is really nice to kind of see the wiring like see the check offs of the things getting done um I know obviously you guys are working all the time I know this um infinite C thing campus thing's probably gonna be um fun for you we're looking forward to it we'll get through it and then we'll take the box of bruises and then we'll move on to the next
058thing but it is something I think um you know everything felt like when I first got on the board it was like the co era and it was like everything was thrown into technology and it was just and seems much smoother but I love seeing the check offs and seeing things get done and um constantly seeing what we're doing to improve at each school and everything so um I know you're a small little group of people but um it's very important and um think you guys are doing a great job so thanks thank you thank you m yeah so um you know I've always said education is very you know technology is pervasive in every organization but Tech education is really different because now you not only have the technology for the educ for the
059organization but then you have the educational technology that's necessary to actually U for the students to use to educate the students and stuff and I I've really been very pleased over the years to see how well those two components integrate here at Lake um and that Future Ready committee uh that I've been lucky enough to be a part of I think is a good indication of that where you get folks from both sides of the house together to to have that discussion so and I do I remember back you know early days on the board to where um you know one of the challenges we had was was Staffing not having enough IT staff um allocated and um so it's great to see still a lean team right um but a a very well qualified
060very well motivated team uh under your leadership so thank you a couple questions for you um what's the what's the camera system system that we're using in 90% of the district the cameras the system is alware okay um so it's again it's a cloudbased system Motorola it's kind of the the background of that so that's we're here and walk through the Halls so and and what's the one that East has um rata okay okay Sor and that's that's more of a proprietary system right that'd be a little harder to right so what we're doing actually at the high school right now is um a lot of cameras we had throughout the district were compatible the wasse so many of the cameras we pulled out of the buildings that we did last year were able to
061use those on the new system at the high school so um save would cost you know but fortunately those are non propriety camer so they can work with any system but the verata system at East get it's it's their Hardware it's their software it's their Cloud although there's some talk that that may be changing as well so I think end goal would be you know potentially keep the cameras there but tie them into the current system that we have that is just one sheet of glass for the entire District that Cals and administrators and everybody else can have be into um and one last thing I think uh we we completed the migration of V our active directory and stuff into the State Forest right so that got us some things through the through the
062state how was it worth it I guess in summary is it do you see a difference now in terms of support and manageability so our biggest say headache but our biggest issue when we were on our own was the exchange email management I mean that was a constant almost a daily piece of that um so being able to hand that off to professionals at DTI is simplifying that piece of I don't have to worry about that anymore um so yeah that's that's been great there's some other things um you know we manage our own Azure you know wild base kind of uh infrastructure we kind of had to give that up but we weren't doing a lot of that anyway you know management it's kind of a set and forget kind of thing unless we
063want us some new features um we can request those from DTI they're not locking everything down so just partnership with them it works so so no not really missing anything okay you so for not being anymore all right great thank you anything else for Terry all right thank you m love appreciate all you do on to the 3.4 superintendent report Dr thank you sir good evening everybody uh a lot of great things going on in the district so I want to start with recognizing just a few first congrats to South Elementary School for their award as a national recognition school I bring this up again because Mr Truitt and Dr Huber went out to Austin Texas last week and picked up the hardware at their National Conference so congratulations to the great staff and students
064at South I'd also like to congratulate Miss Kesha Bard at Chipman she was named behavior health professional of the year for the district uh we thank her for the great work she does and we wish her the best of luck at the state level uh speaking of employees of the year uh teacher of the year nominations have closed and the selection process is underway that's correct right Mor and uh we look forward to seeing how that shakes out uh we've had a fantastic FFA week last week which started with a Chili flag raising on Tuesday uh which was attended by a number of community leaders and culminated with an epic dodgeball tournament on Friday at Chipman in between there was a greenand ceremony FFA staff breakfast a career day number of other a related celebrations
065so thanks to uh Mr Butler from Chipman Mr Curry Mrs Scott and Mrs Saxton uh for their leadership in the Department always like to send out some calendar reminders during this uh time so tomorrow Friday the February 28th marks the interim for the third marketing period That's crazy already so please reach out to your school if you have any concerns about your students progress tomorrow also marks the last day of Black History Month and we're going to um celebrate that by having our uh cting event at Lake Forest High School dinner will be served at 5: and the program will start around 6 so encourage everybody to get out there it's always one of the best community events of the year uh check out our website for more information on that uh that's all I
066have for this portion of my report so i y to the floor for any questions for uh discussion thank Dr Lucas any questions or discussion for Dr Lucas and superintendent report all right thank you again sir we're up to the 3.5 LFA report Miss Anita bullk welcome Miss bullk good evening I'm Gonna Keep the floor Miss bullk I'm sorry back up sorry so um I wanted to give as a part of my report tonight I wanted to give my semiannual update on the Strategic plan so uh if you remember in the fall we refer to this as our Spartan for Life vision 2030 we're probably going have to change that pretty soon to 2035 because years are ticking off here pretty quickly uh but the purpose of this is to update the board and Report
067progress make recommendations for future District operations so just to review our district priorities our academic success for every student uh partnership with families communities and businesses and school facilities culture climate and I just wanted to point out how Mr love and I appreciate how he how he always works to tie those into all the initiatives and uh the rest of the department heads do a great job of keeping our focus on those priority areas um every year we kind of have an essential question that we sort of a point of emphasis for the year for example exle last year our our emphasis was on implementing the necessary changes that we needed to increase student learning and this year it's all been about Spartan for Life brand uh to again to spark and encourage student learning
068our our real Focus this year in terms of quantitative success has been every K to a student demonstrating at least one year of measurable academic growth um we want all our students ready for kindergarten uh third grade reading want every child to read grade level by third grade uh we're really hoping our fourth to eth grade ESC scores improve and then the high school usually has a Litany of things that they're focused on but generally um revolves around college career and Military Readiness our goal is really for every student to leave our campus enrollable enlist or employable and just real quick a little bit more about our Spartan for Life vision um if you remember that's a way that we can tie together Community um District school or Department leadership and P and personal um
069leadership as well not personnel personal like taking ownership of yourselves and it starts with me right and there's our community relationships traditions and a and we're an agriculture community so agriculture is part of being his partner for life so I thought uh for this uh this report this year I do a little SWOT analysis and talk about our strengths weaknesses opportunities and threats to this point as far as our strengths go we have really made some strong gains in Staffing I know that um there was a real Staffing crisis there for a couple years where we're having a everybody across the state was having a really difficult time finding highly qualified staff and Mr Morman and his team have done an excellent job and uh for the first time we are pretty close to being
070fully staffed with the exception of some areas that I'll mention that are just um supply and demand kind of get the best of us uh sub coverage is at an all-time high at least as far long as we've tracking it this year we're we're covering classes at a rate of about 79% and um that was up from 69% last year so I think when you have less vacan less vacancies you certainly have less need for Subs so that's part of it we're also getting some good people coming out of Kelly subs and then leadership continuity has been um a real uh pleasure uh we've got principles and assistant principles in place at the schools now for um in most places for quite some Time same teams and then of course the central office and the
071Board of Education we've had the same teams in place now um pretty consistently for the last three or four years uh another strength our um academics we've again got a full Cadre of Highly qualified teachers and highly qu high high quality instructional materials uh Mr doc Mr Dick and the CIA Department have done a great job um we've invested a lot of money in high quality instructional materials the ccla for our uh younger students is amazing if you ever get into our um elementary schools uh it's ridiculous to hear these little ones talk about Constantinople and uh the human body systems and uh it's pretty cool um fiscal responsibility another one of our strengths uh Mr Kellerman and his team produce a balanced budget every year and we've been add to our we've been able
072to add to our strategic Reserve um keeping keeping our accounts in the black and then uh uh Mr Mr Lovin mentioned some of the major investments in technology but also in facilities I mean um it wasn't that long ago we looked at the roofing uh graph that we got every year and it practically every roof and every building was was orange or red and now those are all uh I don't know what color we use blue green whatever it is but we're in really good shape where the roofs are concerned we've made major investments in HVAC um and then um our technology the good thing about it is we've been able to really lean on Federal and State funding we have not had to go into local funding for that um and then of course
073Community Support relationships are probably our biggest strength here in Lake Forest some of our weaknesses um you know it's just a our staff is I don't want to say aging because um that wouldn't be the right way to put it but staff are retiring at a higher rate every year um it's just just the nature of our of our profession um and we still see some shortages in secondary math science special ed um and our pay scales we still even though the board was very generous the last time we negotiated our new teacher pay is still about 14th out of 19 of of the organized districts academics we're still demonst we're still um showing some weaknesses in standardized testing that we're working on and we we feel like that's that's going to we're going to
074show growth in that real soon um and then our reliant on the state for Capital funding as you know we've had two certificates of necessity were denied by the state but we're going to keep trying um but we couldn't possibly uh build some of the facility improvements without Health in the state so we still have to rely on them and then um again our aging building and um the technology it's great but when we get to the point where we have so much technology it ages out and that puts us on a Perpetual replacement schedule that cost us a lot of money so um we can see that as a weakness so opportunities that we have um well you know with a demand Spurs creative ways to modernize our staff from within so the teacher
075Academy was stood up last year and the kids are showing great interest in that uh Mr Mormon has uh I think what have we got four five artcs this year um so we're really showing some growth from within so we're looking at creative ways to modernize our staff and then special programming efforts Miss Almond's not here tonight but uh they've done an amazing job in the special Ed side going out and bringing in pts OTS and some Specialists uh through their interaction and relationship building out at different conferences and such on the academic side made some big investments in high dosage tutoring and then as uh Mr Dempsey mentioned our future ready committee is looking at some AI some artificial intelligence and how we can use that to help ease the kind of administrative load
076on our on some of our staff um again fiscal responsibility our debt service payments are starting to drop off a little bit less every year so again that that that opportunity makes us lot more fiscally solvent and then um our building upgrades relying on those state and federal dollars have really bought us some time I mean our our buildings are much older um but we are really in good shape and we've got time uh to get make the necessary upgrades and Replacements uh some threats um as you know got um a lot of changes uh at the state in the state Administration so we don't know what the future holds in terms of what sort of top down things are going to we're going to get from the state and from the legislation uh academics
077the uh the nape scores um are a big emphasis uh the literacy crisis so-called literacy crisis that's going on um our continuing growth in special populations um and uh one thing that we haven't talked about much as a burden ofof and Delaware is a burden approved State makes it very difficult and uh and often times uh it creates a litigious environment that uh that sometimes is tough to manage as we know terms on the fiscal side Senate Bill 35 is is looming and uh that could affect us greatly as well as Equalization public uh education funding commission we don't know how that's going to fall out in terms of where you know where we're going to where we're going to end up at the end of that and then the public education um uh CC
078help me out cation compensation committee um the state wants to get to 60,000 for the for new teacher salary uh but that means we've got to come up with about 30% of that and we're pretty far off from that so uh fiscally um we're looking at some big challenges over the next few years and then facilities and Technology um space Contin agencies we uh met for the first time with our Capital strategic planning Capital planning about a week ago and one of the things that we talked about was we have we have enough space right now but God forbid there was an emergency uh we have nowhere to put kids if we had to relocate one of our schools or um you know we had some reason that we would weren't able to use one
079of our buildings so space contes and then AI uh again we don't know enough about it to know if that's going to end up being a threat to us looking forward we hope to run the community leaders open house again in the fall again I keep mentioning AI but it's a big thing right now and and figuring out how we can use that to our advantage uh the Strategic building and growth committee that we just stood up last week we're going to be start meeting quarterly look to the Future um as far as building goes and then uh contined emphasis on Safety and Security which Delaware is one of the highest rated States for Safety and Security so thank you to everyone who's contribut to that on the legislative side so that concludes uh my
080report any questions or input discussion from the board thank you Dr lcas sorry to cut you off earlier this is a very critical very very worthwhile questions discussion from the board for Dr Lucas I appreciate the format that you did that and that was really nice just to give us the strengths the weaknesses the threats the opportunities that's uh it's helpful to see it in just little pockets of stuff so um thank you for all your work and your leadership and your vision for our district you all right thank you again sir okay without further Ado we'll try again 3.5 LFA report Miss Anita bullk welcome Mr bullk even me so um one of the things that the that the teachers and the um LPA does and we really support is the collaboration that we
081have with the district a lot of our staff as Dr Lucas alluded to that you know we're there's people that have been here for years and years and years are dropping off due to retirement and just saying you know what enough's enough and we're trying to promote we're trying to retain and trying to promote um keeping us in there and making everybody feel appreciated and stuff like that from our custodial staff to our CNS to even the nurses and support staff and stuff like that so and we appreciate what you guys do for us um this is a critical time everybody is very nervous about Infinite Campus as well as myself and Mr L as he said earlier we are trying to plug away make sure that we have a smoother transition than level one
082did um wave one so hopefully things will be smooth for everybody um we are working on the scholarship stuff we are not doing the p in the face contest this year so you're escaping the um traditional pie in the face but we are doing the basket raffle and we are going to do those donations and we're going to start selling tickets in March and then we'll have the baskets raffled off in May also on March 4th we are um promoting the wearing a red wearing something red to promote education for all students for Equalization and supporting our students across the state so if everybody would be um student staff like we asking if you could wear some something right on March forth to support education for all students thank you miss buek any questions discussion
083from the board for Anita right thank you again for all that you do and the very open dialogue and relationship we have with LFA thank you all right we're up to section four unfinished business start with 4.1 word policies second reading 4.1 for policies and make a motion we approve the following policies as modified during discussion second a motion floor properly seconded we will open it up for discussion by quickly reviewing each of these policies again for those the audience these have come through once to the board for first reading so second reading generally goes pretty quickly we'll start tonight with uh EBA buildings and grounds inspections any discussion on ebaa seeing none move on to ebbb accident report any discussion on this policy see now move on to EBC emergencies discussion on EBC here
084in none move on to ebcb safety drills any discussion on this policy I just had one thing in the in the red in the third paragraph building administrators were work with District administrator don't usually say that whether it should be District administration or District administrators not sure what but that correction would be great anybody have any further further on this um M the I don't know if with necessary with the necessary authorities if maybe it is an Andor does it always it doesn't always have to be I don't know just thought it would read a little way okay I I beat down with that agree with that it's not always necessarily you're doing both okay thank you moving on to ebcc bom threats discussion on this policy see now move on to ebce school closings
085and cancellations discussion on this policy here n move on to EC buildings and grounds management any discussion on this policy see n move on to ECB buildings and grounds maintenance be discussion on ECB see none we going to e e AE e bus emergencies a discussion on this policy and finally ebb use of private vehicles on school business discussion on this policy so I think we had I have went on something on this one I think we had talked about this uh during first reading um and there was some changes made um I'm still concerned that um still concerned of Staff awareness and following this procedure and um or following this policy and the exposure that it potentially puts the district in as well as them themselves um I know we've mentioned um it says
086on school business um but I think maybe clarifying or outlining or giving examples that will prompt thoughts on this uh what I kind of put at the bottom there was a a closing statement of this policy applies to all School business and student transport purposes including but not limited to academic events field trips extracurricular activities athletic practices and Games Etc I think if we put something like that there it may resonate more with folks of what the heck it is we're talking about so um hand that off to you if the board so desires any discussion on that suggestion Mr MOSI I agree I think um it seems very formal so you don't take it for the informal things sure yeah great uh so if we could maybe make that change and then pull this
087one off of tonight's approval and bring it back for a second reading uh next time we have any thoughts from the administration on that well I do know that we do have particular policy directly related to student travel so I don't know if we should even pull any reference to students off of this policy because it's referenced in policy jjh very explicitly transportation to and from schools blah blah blah whenever practical student make um District provided Transportation extra Co extra and co-curricular activities include all academic contests athletic competitions cheerleading concerence clubs and organizations so I wonder if the route we should go is take students completely off of ebb because they're referenced very specifically in jjh and that's maybe where the formality goes to yes so that's a great Point Dr Lucas because for example
088number one is just staff using their personal vehicles for school businesss two is yeah so maybe maybe uh for example I think number five may be the only one that addresses students and maybe instead of that we say we point to this for any student related travel yeah and then we address all of the concerns or questions on that other policy so would you leave five in there or no and reference that because I guess the only thing I'm thinking is that this is directed to staff use of their vehicles so I don't know if it like emphasizes it by saying staff can't transport students but also refer to like just like dkc is linked in this policy like I wonder about linking whatever J A or something you know like so let's let's do
089this can we bring this policy back for a first reading in conjunction with the other one and have the policy committee take a look at those suggestions between the two policies and then bring them back to the board together yes sure i' like that just because I I know we I don't know how long we've had this policy but I just for some reason I feel like this is one of those policies that just is not adhered to as often as I think all the time it it's happening all the time and I see it more as a parent than a board member per se um but I I do think you know if this is policy we need to be able to enforce it so we'll clean that up and make that a point
090of emphasis for and I agree I I see it happening as a parent and just because it doesn't necessarily concern me as a parent doesn't mean it doesn't concern me as a board member and also doesn't mean it doesn't concern other parents y so we should fix those holes okay great all right thank you so uh with that we'll close discussion on this we do have a motion on the flo properly set any final discussion seeing none we'll move to a vote all those in favor I I any opposed any extensions motion carries three to zero up to item 4.2 the 2025 to 2026 school year calendar uh this is a discussion item Mr Mormon uh good evening everyone um just are bringing back our calendar draft after uh presenting it to uh the community
091for feedback um we did receive some stakeholder feedback um on the draft calendar which was shared uh directly with uh the Board of Education we are asking that the board do uh vote to approve uh this uh calendar for the upcoming school year 2526 this evening all right questions or discussion for Mr Mormon um so Mrs St uh just uh do we need to make a motion for that I don't see anywhere else on the no so um so this is listed as a discussion item not as an action item and there is no subsequent action item so are we okay putting it as an action item in two weeks yes does that bind us up time framewise okay no sorry all right I think that's what we're going to need to do so that
092it's effectively properly noticed as well that would be voted on any any other questions comments on the calendar itself or the process so I will say that I think last time we got together we had or last time we discussed this we had staff feedback yes sir and we had volumes of Staff feedback mostly very favorable and that was great to see um so then we put it out for the community feedback and unless I'm missing something on the document um we we didn't exactly have a a large volume of community feedback correct um that could be taken one of a couple ways I am hoping the way to properly take that is that uh we're doing something good and sticking with what we have done the last several years corre uh everyone is pleased
093with so I'm hoping that that's the case because we we publicly we went through the same process we always do of getting it out and soliciting feedback correct sir okay the one uh you may have noticed uh we did get some specific feedback from one individual that talked a little bit about uh inservice day in March uh trying to break up that uh that time frame we are kind of restricted uh in the in with the how we use those inservice days throughout the year based upon our negotiated agreement uh we are required to provide uh the opportunity for teachers to uh finish up report cards and wrap up grading and and do things at the end of each marking period uh so you know pulling an inservice Day from the end of a marking
094per and putting it elsewhere uh can result in a challenge um the approach that we use with the frontloading of several in service days to help with um preparing the classroom environment for the teachers and and professional development as well as the non-academic training that they're required to take such as child abuse training um sexual harassment training things of that nature all take place at the beginning of the year uh so teachers are limited to 188 days per year um and then so uh you know pulling students out obviously we have um um only about seven days built into the calendar for any other contingencies so removing additional student days would put us in Jeopardy of potentially having to extend the school year should any kind of major event happen that requires school closure all
095right thank you for that Mr mman anything final from the board all right we appreciate the discussion we'll see this as an action item for a vote in our 1 March meeting with that we're up to some action items U Mr starky Section 8 Personnel yep Section 8 personel resignations I make a motion we approve resolution 8.1 as a motion on floor properly seconded questions or discussion on a motion seeing none move to a vote all those in favor I I any opposed any extensions motion carries three to zero section n personel retirements I make a motion we approve resolution 9.1 as written second a motion on floor properly seconded and questions or discussion in the motion seeing none we'll move to a vote all those in favor I I any opposed exensions motion carries
096three to zero section 11 personnel transfers beate resolved that Lake Force Board of Education approved the transfer of Sarah K Huber from assistant principal at Lake B South Elementary School to principal at Lake B South Elementary School effective July 1st 2025 second a motional floor properly second any questions or discussion on that motion seeing none we'll move to a vote all those in favor I any opposed any extensions motion carries three to zero so we talk about have some discussion after the after the vote um we talk about one of our current goals and priorities is that Spartan for life um and we certainly have one here on the agenda um we will will miss Mr Truitt who is retiring this year as our principal at South U but we are very happy to introduce
097Dr Sarah Huber as our new principal for the next school year of Lake Forest South Elementary please join me in uh so Dr Huber not to put you on the spot but I'm going to put you on the spot I know you have family who have joined in to uh to to to join in a celebration with you uh would you care to say a few words yeah my mom and dad joined on zoom and my husband stay home with our fost daughter she likes to talk so think she able to hand this um so I'm super excited can't we have a wonderful team South a great community and I am very excited um for this next chapter and keep great things well thank you very much we are we are all very proud of
098you we're all very glad to have you and we look forward to this great success in this next chapter thank you sir okay Mr start uh section 13 Personnel offers of employment I make a motion we approve resolution 13.1 and 13.2 as written second I motion on floor properly second any questions or discussion on the motion seeing none move to a vote all those in favor I I any oppos any extenstions motion carries three to zero section 15 Personnel leaves of absence I make a motion we approve resolution 15.1 through 15.6 as written second a motion on floor properly second any question questions or discussion on that motion seeing none will'll move to a vote all those in favor I I any opposed any extensions motion carries three to zero and still in section 15
099Personnel leaves of absence and make the motion resolution 157 and 15 second have a motion on the floor properly second any questions on the motion seeing none we'll move to vote all those in favor any opposed n any extensions motion fails 0 to3 uh section 17 Personnel terminations bate resolved that the lake forest Board of Education approved the termination of case number 02025 effective February 17 2025 second I motion on floor properly second of any questions or discussion on that motion seeing none we'll move to a vote all those in favor I any opposed any extensions motion carries 3 to zero section 19 personel appointments I make a motion we approve resolution 19.1 as written second a motion the floor properly seconded any questions or discussion on that motion seeing none move to a vote
100all in favor I I any opposed any extenstions motion carries three to zero section 21 other business and make a motion we approve resolution 21.1 school choice presented second a motion floor properly second any questions or discussion on that motion seeing none move to a vote all in favor I any opposed any exensions motion carries 3 to zero section 22 other business field trips I make a motion we approve resolution 22.1 uh as written second a motion floor properly second any questions or discussion on that motion see n we move to a vote all those in favor I I any opposed any extensions motion carries 3 to Z thank you Mrs starky thank you Mrs mclusky we're up to section 25 item 25.1 good of the order opportunity for board members to address any topics
101not covered Elsewhere on the agenda the floor is open m m um I just want to say I was out there is anybody here from the high school John's John oh I you were hitting from me um the high school number one these um programs of study look great um not even though I was excited to get my booklet I already got to go through it all all 60 pages of it or whatever online because it's there perfect every time I was swiping my phone was going sweep and my kid say what are you doing the program study um looks great stop doing that but it looks great um I'm really excited for that I think it's going to be a great um handheld visual for these kids to see and hopefully it just keeps
102more kids excited about coming to our high school and not leaving us so um if they can see all the things we're offered which I'm excited about I have um a 10th grader that was going into or that's going into 11th grade I got to kind of go through the scheduling because of the changes that are going on at the high school with some of the um pathway so it's really nice to see um and and see what's available and see how they're putting it out there to show what can be done with these pway so um really like I really like this so good job you're here anything else um so tomorrow's the last day of February where does the time go uh so I bring this up once again to talk about uh
103School Board election since that time of the year uh Lake Forest board of education does have one seat scheduled for an election this year uh the terms now consist of a four-year commitment filing deadline is always the first Friday of March which this year is next Friday uh March 7th um and then elections after that are always the second Tuesday of May which this year will be Tuesday May 13th uh at this point checking the uh State elections website today we currently do have two candidates who have filed to run for the open seat and reading those in order as they appear on the elections website uh we have Daryl Hughes from Felton Delaware who filed on February 4th and is listed as a pro provisional candidate um and we have uh Mr James Ral
104um who filed on February 10th and is listed as a qualified candidate uh once again thanks to both gentlemen for their interest in filing arguably there's no greater method of having local community impact than in serving on your local District board that is all I have I will add that our next meeting is in two weeks Thursday March 13th we will be back at the Central Business Office no no field trip that night Randy um and but once again thank you for hosting us tonight doing such a a great job welcoming US Open Arms um anything else good to all right I would like to have a very brief executive session just for one Personnel item so we will um so just so you know we're going to have a brief discussion on Personnel item
105we will come back together in adjourn there will be no further business but thank you all for being here this evening and uh we make a motion to go into executive session second second a motion FL properly seconded exit executive session all those in favor I I I any opposed any exstension motion carries three to zero uh thank you all very much for being here thank you for supporting our great District