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Board of Education Meeting: May 7, 2025

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Source
YouTube / Red Clay Schools
Date
2025-05-08
Location
New Castle County, DE
Material
Transcript
Extent
4,380 words · about 25 min
Collected
2026-06-15

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001One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. You may now be seated. Mrs. Stevens, can you please commence roll call? Miss English here. Mr. Leonard here. Miss Sander here. Miss Thompson here. Mr. Wilson here. Mr. Matthews here. Quorum established. Thank you, Miss Stevens. Now we move on to the approval of the agenda. Is there a motion to approve the agenda for tonight's board meeting May 7, 2025 as submitted? So moved. Kathy Thompson. Thank you, Miss Thompson. Is there a second? Susan Sander. Thank you, Miss Sander. Is been properly moved and seconded to approve the agenda as submitted. Is there any discussion? All in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion carries. We now move on to recognitions. Good evening. Hold on. Miss mic needs to be turned on. Oh, sorry. Good evening, Red Clay

002family and friends. Superintendent Green and President Matthews, please join me in presenting the awards tonight for board recognition. Tonight we would like to recognize excellence in music education. With gratitude we proudly honor Jennifer Green Brew. Acknowledging the Delaware Music Educators Association Retiring Teacher Award in recognition of her extraordinary career and commitment to music education. Throughout her decades of service, Jennifer has been a beacon of inspiration, creativity, and excellence, igniting a love for music in thousands of students and cultivating a legacy that will echo through the halls of education for years to come. As Jennifer takes her final bow as an educator, we celebrate not only her career, but the countless lives she has enriched through the power of music. Her voice, her spirit, and her song will remain with us forever, part of the soundtrack

003of Delaware's educational community. Congratulations, Jennifer. Let's give Jennifer another round of applause for her 30 plus years of service. Tonight we have the distinct pleasure of honoring a group of exceptional young scholars. Please join me in celebrating the remarkable achievements of 68 Red Clay High School students receiving the prestigious Delaware Certificate of Multi-iteracy. This is the largest group ever. Woohoo! Woohoo! This esteemed state award not only recognizes but also celebrates the significant accomplishment of mastering languages beyond English. Each recipient has demonstrated high proficiency in listening, speaking, reading and writing in one or more languages and invaluable skill in our global 21st century. These students have not only embraced bilingualism and multilingualism, but have excelled in their linguistic skill, preparing them for diverse careers and workplace environments. We recognize two levels of excellence tonight. The gold

004level for those who have reached an intermediate mid level of proficiency and diamond level for those who have achieved an advanced low level of proficiency. All Delaware Certificate of Multi-iteracy recipients, please come forward to receive your Board of Education recognition. Okay. As as I you hear your name, please come up. Angeli Aala Barcenas, Raul Dario Olivarez, Naelli Garcia Guerrero, Juan Carlos Ailva, Hanya Tides, James Nesmon, Abriana Seni, Amanda White, Danna Campusano, Marisol Kioto, Alison Fuentes, Jacqueline Luna Guilera, Adrian and pastor Berin. It's Emily Kito Kadija Rajab Jasmine Ranel Tovar Elizabeth Toar Lemos. As these students move forward, they carry with them not just a certificate, but a medallion they will proudly display display at their high school graduation, symbolizing their hard work, dedication, and the bright futures ahead of Yeah. Give me that. Look this

005way, guys. Um, Mr. Tonight, we'll take more photos of you guys as a group and with your families outside. Yes, we will take additional pictures in the lobby. Thank you guys. Let's give our board recognition recipients another round of applause. benefit along. And I do again thank you to our family, parents, but more importantly to our scholars for your dedication and commitment to bilingualism. Uh to our staff members and our numbers actually doubled. Um, I know last year we recognized approximately 35. So to see that we're at 68 this year is is definitely encouraging. Okay, so now we move on to public comment. The Red Clay School Board appreciates any member of the community who would like to make a public comment. According to board policy 2006, the Red Clay School Board allocates up to

00630 minutes to public commentary. Each person may have up to three minutes to address the board and this time may not be transferred to or from another speaker. The board generally does not respond directly to a speaker. The board meeting is not an appropriate place to or forum to raise complaints or concerns about individual employees. Upon request, the superintendent shall provide the speaker with the procedure for submitting such complaints or concerns. The order of the speakers is listed on the screen. As you see your name, please make your way to a seat near the podium or if you are virtual, unmute um when called to respect the time of anyone present tonight. When you speak, please state your name, the an organization if you are speaking on its behalf, and the topic of your comment.

007There is a timer on the screen that will turn on when you have one minute left. It will turn yellow with 30 seconds left and flash in red when your three minutes are over. I will thank you for your comments and call on the next speaker. And we will begin with um Miss Susan Brown. Welcome and good evening. Good evening to uh Superintendent Green, uh our esteemed board members, our school community parents, and uh guests who may be here in the auditorium. My name is Susan Brown. Um first, I'm always a Red Clay parent. I have two graduates from Conrad School of Science. Uh tonight I am standing before all of you uh as a proud board member uh to introduce a Wilmington nonprofit organization named I can do kids. We empower children and their

008families to adopt a rise and move attitude to encourage a healthier and active lifestyle that positively impacts overall well-being. We offer a six-week running program for kids ages 4 to 12 at Abbiscino Studio uh stadium right down the street from Warner Elementary School. We meet twice a week from 6:00 to 7:30 on Monday and Thursday evenings. And our athletes come together. We warm up as a family because that's how we have framed ourselves. Each age group runs uh or walks or does a combination thereof of an assigned number of laps. On Mondays, our athletes finish strong uh by doing a 50-yard dash. And on Thursdays, we challenge minds and agility by hosting an obstacle course for our kids. And then we finish as a family, by stretching and enjoying a sugar-free popsicle. And as you

009can imagine, the popsicle is kind of the highlight uh during the summertime. We also have volunteer coaches, both teens and adults alike, who engage with the athletes by age group. Uh and their job really is to motivate and encourage the children to do their best, whatever that happens to look like on that given day. We see them through literally the heat of the summer with smiles racking up laps and miles until the very end. And no program would be complete without a closing celebration. We call it a summer bash where our athletes run their final laps, earn finishers medals, and then get the chance to showcase their athletic prowess before their families and friends with the chance to compete for uh to compete for a trophy in the 50-yard dash. We truly believe in making

010fitness fun or and for both parents and and grandparents and athletes. And many times the parents and grandparents are right out there on the track with all of us, which then helps make choosing a healthier lifestyle an easy family activity to undertake. So, this is an open invitation to all um not just to those on the board, but also to school leaders who happen to be here. Our program kicks off on Monday, June 16th. If you have a budding athlete in your household or if you and your family have a desire to serve as volunteers, consider checking us out. As a school leader, if you'd like flyers to make available at your location, please reach out to us. You can learn more about the organization, who we are, and more about what we do by

011visiting us on the web at www.iandokids.com, or find us on Facebook or Instagram. We hope to see you out on the track. Thank you. Thank you so much, Miss Brown. And Miss Brown, do do you have any documentation with you now that you can give to Miss Stevens? So that I do not I did not bring that, but I Miss Stevens. I will email you a flyer. Thank you. Thank you for the opportunity. Yep. Thank you. Up next, we have uh Mr. Martin A. Wilson, Senior. Good evening and welcome. Good evening everyone. Good. I just want to take a couple minutes to do a little reminder and talk real quick about the gentleman that had me get involved with this board 25 years ago. A lot of people say he's my enemy, but let me

012tell you, Mr. Paul Perez will never be my enemy. He's the one asked me to run for Red Clay because I had three kids at AI at the time and one in HB. I miss him. We had a lot of meals down in Delaware City and also the Honorable Theodore Blunt. Them two were my mentors. and I appreciate everything they did. So, next Tuesday, if you can remember, please step out and vote between 7 and 8:00 p.m. for Mr. Wilson. I feel that I have four good years left. Somebody said, "What platform are you running on?" And platform I'm running on is I'm an advocate for kids. Also, I have 15,500 bosses. They range between preK and 12th grade. And that's what my life is about. My God-given talent for the children. I love the

013children. I want to see everybody educated. So, please remember me and I can always say this. I love everyone on the board. I appreciate it. Even though this morning between the time of 10 minutes to 7 and 10 after there were people taking my signs out of the yards. We got the truck, but it lets you know how low down people are. I love everybody. This is the highest paying job. I get a meal once a month and I love to go and get educated and help every department that I can help in red clay. It's just not enough for me to go around. So again, remember me, a good old guy, just trying to do a job for the children. God bless. Thank you, Mr. Wilson. So, I am going to be making one

014special exception. Um, there was somebody who had a technical difficulty with our forum. Um, and I I typically I've never had made an exception to add someone um late to the list, but I just wanted to preface that for the board. Um, given that there isn't another name on the public comment list, I will call on Jennifer Howard. Miss Howard, are you on with this virtually? If so, if you could please unmute. Hi, thank you so much. Um, I submitted my public comment form at 6:28, so that's probably my fault. But good evening, members of the board. Um, yesterday marked one year since a fifth grade student at Marbrook, James Messik, was hit by a car. His young life was tragically cut short as he walked home from school. We owe it to his memory

015and to every child in this community to ensure this never happens again. A year has passed, but children are still walking that same dangerous route. and along other busy roads, crossing unsafe intersections, and navigating areas not built for pedestrian safety. Routes that were considered safe 20 or 30 years ago may no longer be safe today. Traffic pattern, speeds, and road designs have changed. I'm asking the board to formally direct the transportation department to review all designated walking routes to assess current safety and recommend improvements, including where busing or infrastructure changes may be needed. We must act now to protect our students lives. I also want to remind everybody to vote next Tuesday. The polls are open from 7 to 8. And make your plan. I encourage you to support uh Devon Henson for school board.

016And thank you for your time tonight. At this time, we will hear from our superintendent, Dr. Green, to provide his superintendent report. Thank you, President Matthews. Welcome to those who are in attendance, those who are joining us online. Um we are two weeks off of spring break and we had a late uh April schoolboard meeting and an early May meeting. So there's really not much um well there's a lot to update you on, but I'll be brief in in tonight's um update. And what you see on my cover uh page this evening are the first Spanish dual language emerging graduates uh who we just recognized and honored. Um again, the journey began 13 years ago as kindergarters at Lewis. um they metriculated through Skyline and are successfully completing uh the program again in in various

017areas of high schools within Reclay. This week is teacher appreciation week. So we want to honor publicly acknowledge all of the wonderful dynamic educators across um our wonderful marvelous schools. Thank you to all of the educators uh for your selfless sacrifice that you make, the the knowledge, teaching wisdom you impart upon our students, the collaborative spirit that you share with one another. Um and in my photo, I do want to give a shout out to National PTA. Um they recognized um Brett Clay. um we had to identify a particular school um and in this particular case um in photos it's HP deont middle school but in addition uh Lynen Hill heritage forest oak moat Warner also received um generous gifts during teacher appreciation week from national PTA Delaware PTA uh representative Mike Smith came out

018to join us um along with Yavon Johnson who is the national PTA president and Kelly Coffee who is the Delaware PTA president. So, we want to thank National PTA and Pilot Pin Company for their generosity and recognizing um all of our educators and it's amazing how how much a something that we probably all take for granted. Um I know when I find a good pen, I don't want to let it go and it always seems to find its way into someone else's hands. So, something as simple as a pen meant a lot again to our educators. So, again, thank you to all of our educators for all that you do and happy teacher appreciation week. It's also staff appreciation week. I had the honor and privilege um to go to several schools yesterday. Uh AI

019Dupont High School, AI Middle, Lewis Dual Language Immersion, uh Joseph E. Johnson, and actually our school nutrition department also provides nutrition services for Thomas Edison Charter School. And we recognize the various uh school nutrition staff members on staff appreciation week. Um, so I want to thank our um, child nutrition department for all of their efforts and we were able to drive or I was able to ride on the uh, reclay lunchbox which is our um, mobile uh, cafeteria on wheels uh, traversing our community to recognize staff appreciation. Next we had national signing day for our Delaware Teachers Academy. So we want to give a big shout out to all of our future educators. Several recla students took part in a national signing day for teachermies um committing to pursue careers in education and inspir inspiring

020the next generation. Uh we're proud to support them with incentives to return to teach. Uh students Elizabeth Tyler Limus, Michaela Eubanks, and Daisy Ramirez. Um actually participated in that and actually pictured with them is assistant principal Cody Quig from McCain High School. Um, I also had the opportunity today to participate in a community forum um around Delaware Teachers Academy. We're doing some exciting work in creating and developing our pipeline um through the teachers academy um working with Dr. Broomall who um had the the the vision and wisdom to support those students who are graduating to get their parro certification to start out as paras and now they're metriculating through um various programs to grow your own. And so we had the opportunity today or I had the opportunity to serve on a panel along with

021Dr. Dorsy um our director of HR um to really share a lot of the exciting things that we're doing to grow our own to create that pipeline and and show our students that you know education is a viable career path um to choose and more importantly one that we're supporting here in recllay. I know last month or may have been last month or two months ago, time is flying by. Um it was the annual Arbor Day celebration uh last week and we had Red Clay students were the top recipients in Newcastle County and then we actually had um the state award winner again. We recognized Abby Riley from Heritage, Jishnu Shanker from Northstar and his sister Porn Nanker from Northstar who was the state winner. There were over 7,000 um entries for the Arbor Day

022poster contest. Um and our red clay students um were shining brightly um as they took not only the state but look uh were among the awardees for Newcastle County. We also want to give a shout out to um Charter School of Wilmington has been named a national finalist and awarded $100,000 in uh Samsung technology to enhance learning and innovation at their school. Um Samsung Solve for tomorrow is an innovative national challenge that encourages students to apply a design and engineering process um that addresses real world problems in their community. And Charter's team did quite the innovative project, one that they're actually being encouraged to patent um because it is so innovative. Um Charter's team tackled a pressing issue u of the physician shortage by creating a remote wound care solution. Uh they developed a smart

023hydrogel bandage that communicates with a mobile app and tells you the process in terms of how the wound is actually healing. Um it notifies patients of signs of infection. Uh it provides wound care recommendations and tracks the healing process all from the comfort of their home. So congratulations uh to the the charter winners and they dethroned uh a neighboring school district who was known to you know win this award occasionally. So we want to give a big shout out to Charter School of Wilmington students and charter as a whole for this wonderful recognition and winning the Samsung National Finalist Challenge. We are have several of our schools are hosting spring concerts this month. So, please go and support our talented students. Again, as we sit in the wonderful CAB theater, the arts are alive and

024well throughout Red Clay and not just here at Cav Callaway School of the Arts. So, we're encouraging you uh to go out and support um our various schools. Dates and times can be found on the school and district website. Um, summer is upon us as we close out uh the school year with proms, graduations, celebratory events. Um, our summer programs are up, registrations are live. Um, we the spring into learning um schools uh hosting at Richie Richardson Park, Moes and Balts. Our fame stimulate program will be at Brandy Wine Springs, Heritage, Linda Hill, Northstar, and Cook. Uh those times are listed. Um and we know for a lot of our summer programs extended school year um children's defense fund freedom school which will be at Warner Elementary shortage academy Johnson Elementary and Lewis uh Marbrook

025and Forest Oak will also um have the fame incorporated program which will be host uh the location will actually be HB Dupont. Um for our families who are registering for those summer programs please pay attention to deadlines. Many of our programs have a hard and fast deadline of May 15th. Um the district will be migrating to a new student information platform known as Infinite Campus. Um which is going to take a lot of bandwidth, a lot of process not only from our technology department but our schools to migrate to that new platform. of that timeline. Um so please reach out to your school um and ensure and our schools will be reaching out to families whose students need that extended school year support and or services to make sure that you meet that May 15th

026deadline and just listed some of our community partners and again I just talked about applications. of summer programming, please contact your home school or the office of strate strategic initiatives, excuse me, at 3025523723. And as Mr. Wilson just indicated and through our public commenter, um next uh Tuesday, May 13th, um polls are open for schoolboard elections. So, we're encouraging all of our community members to go out and exercise your vote irregardless of what nominating district you're in. You can vote at large. Uh for those members who are running for school board, um please look at the board of elections website and as well as um knowing where those polling locations are. Class of 2025, I know senior itis has kicked in and I'll be surprised if any of our um upcoming graduates are listening in

027on this board meeting. Um, but we're excited to to celebrate and honor your accomplishment as we uh participate in commencement exercises. Uh, we'll start here Friday, June 6 with C. Callaway School of the Arts graduating um at 5:30. And I also know that Charter actually probably is the first of the commencement ceremonies. Um but reclay proper in terms of that uh Cab Callaway's graduation will be here 5:30 and then the remaining four uh will take place at the Chase Fieldhouse on Saturday June 7th and we'll be back here for uh Groves adult education graduation program um here in the Cab Callaway Theater. Again, the Red Clay Education Foundation's uh golf annual golf tournament will be Monday, June 23rd at the North Country Club. Uh the early bird special had did close. Uh we're encouraging uh

028those who are still interested to register for the event. Um it's a one um a a worthy cause which is the Reclay Education Foundation who supports everything from McKenna Vento u students who are unhoused or may be experiencing homelessness. Uh each year they provide a generous donation to um our department. They support the back to school um block party. They supported our annual health fair which took place this past Saturday at Warner Elementary in Brandy Wan Park. We doubled the number of um participants from last year. Uh so thank you to all of our community partners who participated in that in the health and wellness fair. Uh thank you to uh our lead nurse Mandy Pennington and those in our health services department for their efforts and then the various community partners uh that participated

029and ultimately to our families who came out to not only gain access to services, health screenings um but just had a wonderful time again engaging um in our health and wellness fair. May is a month full of recognitions and appreciation. Um I will not go through every one on this slide but again to all of the various recognitions that take place throughout the month. Um you know we celebrate you, we see you. Uh we value you and again that provides the rich tapestry that makes up uh Red Clay and why we are unique in terms of um the wide diversity, geography, demographics um that we serve. Um so again we recognize we celebrate everyone um as we go throughout the month of May. The Wington Learning Collaborative um next meeting is May 20th. Um and

030then in closing um Strong Schools Town Hall meeting will be hosted at Warner uh Elementary uh next week uh May on Monday May 12th from 5:30 to 7:30. Um this is through the reading consortium. Uh so please use that QR code. We will also push out information on social media for anyone who's interested in attending um strong schools town hall that's being led by the reading consortium really looking at redistricting efforts trying to uh help the community gain knowledge and understanding and build foundational knowledge of what's is happening versus what isn't. Um as there is a lot um I would say of lack of understanding in the broader community. Um, so that town hall will be hosted next week. And if you haven't had the time, I want to give a shout out to Miss

031Alva Mobly, uh, Mr. Horus Knight, um, Karen Cowback, and, uh, Karen Ammon, excuse me, and Courtney Calvak and Moises Velasquez for their effort in our new website launch. Hopefully, you you find it more accessible. Um, it's it's beyond just freshening up a web page. Again, it's a lot of quality information that's on the new website. So, thank you to our comm's team and department and those who work to promote and build the new website. That concludes my report. Excellent. Thank you. Any questions, comments? Really well done. I know there's a lot of information there. Um, thank you so much for wrapping up such a great school year. So, we now move on to approval of the minutes. Is there a motion to approve the minutes from the executive session held on April 16, 2025? So

032move. Thank you, Mr. Wilson. Is there a second? Second, Kathy Thompson. Thank you, Miss Thompson. Has been properly moved and seconded to approve the minutes from the executive session held on April 16, 2025. Any discussion? All in favor? I. Any opposed? The minutes are approved. Is there a motion to approve the minutes from the regular session held on April 16, 2025? So moved. Kathy Thompson. Miss Thompson. Is there a second? Second. Susan Sanders. Thank you, Miss Sander. Uh it has been properly moved and seconded to approve the minutes of the regular session held on April 16, 2025. Any discussion? Any all in favor? I. Any opposed? The minutes are approved. We now move on to action item. Action item A. It is a recommendation that the rec board of education approve the facility and repair

033repair plan, excuse me, as submitted. So move Kathy Thompson. Thank you, Miss Thompson. Is there a second? Second, Mr. Wilson. Thank you, Mr. Wilson. has been properly moved and seconded uh to approve the uh facility uh and repair plan. Um any discussion? Miss Stevens, please call the vote. Miss English. Yes. Yes. Miss Sander. Yes. Miss Thompson. Yes. Mr. Wilson. Yes. Mr. Matthews, yes. Unanimous. Motion carries. Action item B is the recommendation that the Red Clay Board of Education approved the major capital improvement schematic design plans for the six red clay schools as submitted. Second and those schools are Heritage Johnson Lewis for roof project mode for a roof project. Stanton and AI middle school. So move Kathy Thompson. Thank you. Second, Mr. Wilson. Thank you, Mr. Wilson. has been properly moved and seconded to approve

034the recommendation. Is there any discussion? Hearing none, Miss Stevens, please call the vote. Miss English, yes. Mr. Matt, yes. Miss Sander, yes. Miss Thompson, yes. Mr. Wilson, yes. Mr. Matthews, yes. Unanimous. Motion carries. Action item C. It is the recommendation that the Red Clay Board of Education approve the confidential staffing report as discussed in exec session. So move, Mr. Wilson. Thank you, Mr. Wilson. Is there second? Susan Sanders. Thank you, Miss Sanders. Um the motion, the recommendation has been uh properly moved and seconded. Is there any discussion? Hearing none, Miss Stevens, please call the vote. Miss English. Yes. Yes, Miss Sander. Yes, Miss Thompson. Yes, Mr. Wilson. Yes, Mr. Matthews. Yes. Unanimous. Motion carries. That concludes action items. And we now move on um to action items. Yeah. So, does anything need to be removed

035from the consent items before we move on? Hearing none, is there a motion to approve the consent agenda? So move Kathy Thompson. Thank you, Miss Hampton. Is there a second? Second. Susan Sanders. Thank you, Miss Sanders. Been properly moved and seconded to approve the consent agenda. All in favor? I. Uh. Any opposed? Motion carries. And now we move on to school board committee reports. Uh, up first we have DSBA legislative committee. Do we have an update for legislative committee? That would be Mr. Wilson. Okay. He just left. I believe he had he had had a little early. Yes. So there's no formal report, but what we can do for the board um is to make sure whatever those notes were that came from the DSBA legislative committee get circulate to you electronically and we'll add

036it to it just we'll make sure it's in board docs for future reference. Excellent. So up next is the secondary attendant zone and programming committee. Um, so we did have um a couple of I'm sorry, my Siri decides that it wants to talk during the meeting. So, uh, we did have a couple of meetings, um, since our last meeting. Um, up first we have the April 15th meeting. Um, uh, we had, uh, several board members in attendance and I believe that one was actually already presented on at the last meeting. But really, most importantly, we had our May 1st, uh, uh, meeting uh, was really well attended. we had to add an additional um time for us to um stick to the timeline that we have uh presented by the board. Um the timeline continues

037to be a point of discussion. Um at this time we still are on target projecting to provide recommendations uh from the committee to the board um in at the July meeting. Um so they have until the end of June uh to submit that. Um and the the biggest focus and and area of progress during the last meeting is that from all of the public recommendations um that the committee has set out for consideration, they started to narrow down um some of the ideas um and and recommendations that they want to uh provide. Um so there still are a couple of meetings that are currently scheduled. Uh this does not mean that we may not have additional meetings. um within this timeline, but we our next meeting is Wednesday, May 21st um at 6 p.m. um

038as always at the district office uh boardroom and our last meeting will be June 17th, 2025 at 6 p.m. district office in the boardroom. Um also a big reminder, as Dr. Green presented in his superintendent report, the website has been beautifully updated. Um and this includes all of the committee um micro sites or or or pages within the website. Um so there is a lot of great information and for anyone who may have missed any of the past meetings um the minutes are there but then the the great thing about uh the site also is that it has the link directly to the m uh the meeting uh video recording for those who would like to tune in. Um, and there's contact information um, uh, to for our chair uh, Dr. Mark Puit if there's

039any questions um, that aren't answered within the materials that are provided. Any questions? Yeah, I just like to make uh, ask a question. I know we started uh, the last I wasn't wasn't able to make the last meeting secretary attendance zone and I know we started I believe with 11 uh scenarios and we eliminated a few. So how many are there now as far as scenarios? So there really were two really to prioritize. One was to looking at um the nature of a a CTE innovation center or looking at expansion of um IB and then the reduction of 8 to 7 in terms of middle school programs because they were interrelated. So if you did one there was going to be a domino effect in terms of changes that needed to be made in other

040areas. Um and so the committee really had some fruitful discussion, wanted some additional information. Um we are also in the process of formulating um a community survey um to be able to support and get broader feedback but then also um the process of what would a town hall andor some focus groups look like to ensure that we're getting um broad stakeholder input around concrete um ideas and not kind of some philosophical things that um were floating out there. So it kind of got reduced to um really two secondary things that will have again some domino effects in terms of the implications for the broader community. Thank you. Absolutely. That's a great question. Um any other questions? Hearing none. U we will move on to the WLC report. Um Miss English, do you have an update

041for us? Um yes. Can you hear me? Okay. Missing English like you've been muted or you're on mute potentially. Can you can you hear me? And great. Please proceed. Okay. Um, so am I echoing? Can everyone hear me? Um, okay. So, yes, we did have a WLC meeting um yesterday, but we had to well, we were not actually able to um start the meeting because we did not have quorum. Um, we were supposed to discuss the upcoming FY26 um budget. And so essentially I don't have any updates but as soon as I um get some then um when that meeting is rescheduled then I will follow up with the board. Thank you. Um there are some information items um that are posted. Please peruse them. They are um in board docs. Um the meeting dates

042for next year's um uh the new for the new fiscal year I should say. Uh for the board meetings have been posted that folks have put them on their calendars. I know that summers are busy and that way they can reserve the time um as appropriately listed. Is there any other comments, questions for the good of the group? Do I have a motion to adjurnn? So move Kathy Thompson. Thank you, Miss Thompson. Is there a second? Is there a second? Second. Thank you, Miss Sanders. A motion has been properly moved and seconded. Um all in favor? Any opposed? None. The motion carries. Time is now 7:42. Have a great summer. Um, everyone, good night.

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