001Good evening. Welcome to the Red Clay Consolidated School District regular board meeting for April 16, 2025. We will begin with the pledge of allegiance. Please stand. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America to the republic for which it stands, one 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. Dr. N. Smith here. Miss Sander here. Miss Thompson here. Mr. Wilson here. Mr. Matthews here. Quorum has been established. Thank you, Mrs. Stevens. Is there a motion to approve the agenda for tonight's board meeting, April 16, 2025, as submitted? So moved. Kathy Thompson. Thank you, Miss Thompson. Thank you, Mr. English. Uh, the motion has been properly moved and seconded to approve the
002agenda as submitted. Is there any discussion? All in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries. We now move on to recognitions. Good evening, Red Clay family and friends. Superintendent Green and President Matthews, please join me in presenting the award for this month's board recognition. All right. No problem. Thank you. OJ. [Laughter] Oh boy. Tonight we would like to recognize Excellence in Behavioral Health, Jacqueline Durant. In honor of being named Come on down, Jackie. In honor of being named the Red Clay's Behavioral Health Professional of the Year, your dedication to the well-being of students and families has made a profound impact on our community. You have been tireless a tireless advocate for mental health, support, social, emotional growth, and family empowerment. Your compassion, innovation, and relentless commitment to student success exemplify what it means to be a true
003champion for mental wellness in education. Jacqueline is the lead school social worker at Richie Elementary. Congratulations, Jacqueline. Thank you, Jess. Next, we would like to recognize Anna P. Moat Elementary School. Come on down. This honor is it. I'm sorry. This honor is in recognition of your outstanding achievement in earning the recognized ASCA model program designation from the American School Counselor Association. This national national recognition celebrates your school's commitment to excellence in school counseling by implementing a comprehensive datadriven program aligned with the ASCA national model. Your dedication to students success academically, socially, and emotionally is a shining example of what means to create a nurturing and empowering learning environment. Your work is remarkable. Your impact is lasting and your students are thriving. Congratulations. Do it again. There you go. There you go. You got good public.
004And I did make a joke with the moat staff. The only counseling award they have not received yet is some type of international award. Um they've won national state level awards, counselors of the year. They are a dynamic duo. So thank you for all your your hard work and effort. Greatly appreciation. And if I can just add uh I see that someone came to see uh Miss Jacqueline Durat. So we we appreciate you as well for uh professional of the year, behavioral health professional of the year. So thank you. Well done. Well done. Thank you, Miss Mobley. And congratulations, everyone. Really highlights the wonderful work that's occurring and happening at Red Clay. We now move on to public comment. Um, so I will be reading the rules of public comment at this time. Um, and
005I encourage those who will be coming to speak to listen very carefully to some of the rules. I know that I will move through this very quickly. Um, but I just want to reiterate um that these are the outlying rules for uh public comment proceeding. The Red Clay School Board appreciates any member of the community who would like to make public comment. According to board policy 2006, the Red Clay School Board allocates 30 minutes of 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 forum to raise complaints or concerns about individual employees. Upon request, the superintendent shall provide the speaker with
006the 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 to respect the time of anyone present tonight. When you speak, please state your name and the organization if you are speaking on its behalf and the topic of your comment. There 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 for a point of clarification, do we have any Zoom comments this evening? Are we going to proceed with the Zoom comments? Yes. Great. Thank you. So,
007up first we have in person uh Sheila Martin. Good evening and welcome. Good evening. I just said my name is Sheila Martin and I'm here because I have two students in the Ray Clay School District. Um they attend Warner Elementary School and I'm trying not to let my emotions overpower my intelligence. Okay. So I have a eighth grade I have a third grader and a fourth grader at Warner. My third grader is a in a gifted program at Warner and he has been assaulted twice within two months and two months is generous time in the boys bathroom at Warner and I find that very very very egregious. I don't understand why our children's safety is not considered or if it is considered something's gone wrong. He should not. The first incident happened because he was
008taken up for another friend who was being bullied and then he got attacked. And then the second one was because a student was in a bathroom threatened to urinate on other students and he simply made the comment that that is nasty and then he got into a fight. So, you know, I'm not here I am here to complain because I feel that that's egregious. two audications in a bathroom within a two-month span. It's too too many. And it's my grandson who is, like I stated, a in a gifted program. He is um he's um a a good student. He respects authority. The second time he let the guy hit him because he didn't want to fight back because he don't want to get in trouble. And he's trained in karate. He has a yellow black
009belt in karate. So, he certainly could have fought back, but he chose not to because he don't want he wants to follow the rules. And I think that something's gone very, very wrong there, and I think it needs to be, you know, looked into. And then finally, I want to say that he mentioned to me that the bathrooms are always nasty with urine and feces on the floor. This is according to my grandson. And I know we can't say names, but I do hope that this school board does take a look and see what is actually going on in Warner because I am really upset about it. Um, we don't send our kids to school to get into altercations in the bathroom. And if you have two incidents in the bathroom, where do they get
010this time from? Did Lily die in the bathroom? It just makes no sense to me. So that's my comments. I thank you for listening to me and have a great night. Good, sir. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Miss Martin. Yes. Can you just give Miss Stevens your contact information? Yes. Thank you. Thank you. Up next, we have Kamani Williams. Kamani. Moving forward, we have Emory Somerville via Zoom. Good evening, Emory. We're not seeing Emory. we will move on to the next speaker. Uh Amy Reynoso, welcome and good evening. Hi, good evening. Can Can you hear me? Okay, we can please. Yay. Okay, thank you. Good evening, Dr. Green. Um President Matthews, members of the board, thank you for allowing me to speak tonight. Uh I want to share some helpful helpful information about the
011parent volunteer organization that meets monthly at Dickinson called the DSA. These meetings are for parents, staff, and students to collaborate on ways to support the school. The DSA has hosted events like holiday movie night after prom and supports funding requests like pizza on culture night and the my spring picnic. A fall family barbecue is also being planned. These efforts are made possible through ongoing fundraising. I love that student organizations and teachers now reach out directly to the DSA for support. Dr. Royster's involvement and encouragement of DSA work has kept parents motivated. I know the DSA could do more for the school if more parents, students, and community members volunteered. The energy, passion, and commitment to Dickinson is exactly what the DSA needs. I wanted to extend a warm welcome to anyone who'd like to hop
012on Zoom for the final meeting of the year on May 13th. Please look at Red Clay's website under the John Dickinson School and there you will find a link to DSA's Instagram, Facebook, and website. The website has meeting and Zoom information. You can also send an email to Dickinson DSA atgmail. Thank you and have a good night. Thank you. Up next, we have Nia Cruz. Good evening and welcome. Good evening. My name is Nia Cruz and I am the president of the Red Clay Secretaries Association. Tonight I would like to say congratulations once again to our mentoring program as we end our pilot year and prepare for full implementation in the upcoming school year. I'm very happy tonight to be joined by and get the opportunity to recognize the remarkable trailblazers of our mentors and
013mentees who have come out tonight to support and they have been led by our former RCSA VP who will be making public comment a little bit later. With spring break and administrative professionals day coming up, I would like to say thank you to the amazing administrative professionals who are oftentimes the first point of contact for both families and communities here in Red Clay. To all of our hardworking and dedicated secretaries, clerks, administrative assistants, and professionals, I thank you for all that you do every day to make Red Clay remarkable. Thank you. Thank you. Up next, we have Charles Lockerman. Welcome and good evening. Good evening, members of the board. I've been here before. My name is Charles Lockerman. I'm speaking on behalf of Friends of AI. Um AI is doing a lot of great things.
014We plan next year we u to uh have a more involvement with students. We're trying to help with some of their end of the year stuff helping kids with prom etc. Um we also want to communicate the benefits of AI not only for the students but the community. Um I also want to start by speaking to a survey that was done I think in the last couple years that was sent out to parents um within the zones that said hey you know are you interested in sending your child to AI and a lot of them responded and said we are but the bus hub stops aren't conducive to our work schedules or the locations just aren't they can't the parents can't get to work and drop the kids off where the buses are. So that's
015direct feedback to say hey increased busing at you know may help increase enrollment at AI. Also I wanted to continue to emphasize the need for redrawing the attendance zones as there needs to be a consolidated effort um to have a balanced school district to be considered rightly consolidated. Uh right now things just aren't equal attendance-wise and our goal is to change that but we got to do it together. Last thing I wanted to speak of is um just an idea that I had to uh campaign at the middle school level where you guys are looking at what the kids are doing right now. And just, you know, when I was coming out of high school, I, you know, there was there's college fairs. You can meet people in the in the gymnasium at the table,
016talk to them about the different programs that each institution has. But I don't know if that same approach has ever been done at the middle school level. And if the middle school kids, you know, have a voice and an opinion going into the world because they're going to be more independent in high school than, you know, having, you know, members of each school, AI, etc. McCain, you know, go to the middle schools to try to like, you know, for better, lack of a better way to put it, recruit the kids and just tell them why it's, you know, good to come there, what the benefits are, etc. You know, I think that also helps to educate the kids and that's what we're all here to do. And you know, they have to be aware of
017the world and um they're walking into it, so they should have input into where they're going a little bit. Um and the more information they have, the better decisions they can make. Thank you for your time tonight. Thank you. Thank you. Up next, we have Tuana Swanson. Welcome and good evening. Good evening, Dr. Green and members of the board. My name is Tana Swanson from the human resources department. I am currently the lead mentor for our pilot year secretarial peer mentoring program. I want to take a few minutes to speak about our program. I know our RCSA president Nia Cruz has spoken on behalf of the mentoring program several times and the members of RCA local are grateful for Nia and the work she does for RCSA on all fronts. As a lead coordinator and
018current lead mentor of the program, I thought it would be beneficial if I could offer an update on the progression of our recently implemented program. Rec is the first district in the state of Delaware to incorporate this type of program for their secretarial staff. As you are aware, this peer mentoring program was the result of a collaboration between RCSA and our stakeholders and created out of a need as some of our newer secretarial staff felt we didn't have any support system to turn to. Unfortunately, we actually had a few eligible employees resign prior to the implementation of our peer mentoring initiative for this reason. The mission of our peer mentoring program is to be able to provide support to secretarial educational support professionals, affectionately referred to as ESP, both those new to the district and
019eventually to those who may need additional support in their current position. Our long-term goal is to have employees who are not only met with welcome as they come on board as members of our staff, but also to ensure them that they are not alone and to offer the support that encourages them to remain as part of the Red Clay family throughout their careers. Just a little insight as to how our program works. Mentors must at least hold the position of an administrative assistant too, which is previously titled senior secretary or above and have at least three years of employment within the district. Current mentees are those who were hired in the 2023 2024 school year. The recommendation for mentoring pairs is to aim to communicate at least one hour per month for 10 months. And
020that interaction can be in person, over the phone, via email, or in video chat, whichever is more conducive to their schedules. Miss Swanson, I do apologize. Can you just pull the mic down to you just a little bit? We'll give you the time that I just interrupted you back. Okay. Um, do you want me to just read the whole paragraph again? No, wherever you stop. Okay. Of course, there is always a chance of things not going as planned, but for the most part, we have received positive feedback from our mentors and our mentees. I also thought it was important to mention the recognition our program has received outside of our buildings. I was invited and given the opportunity to present highlights of our program on two separate forums. once at the state level DSDA ESP
021conference in do in February and on a national level at the NEA ESP national conference in Louisville, Kentucky in March. As a participant at both conferences, I was able to attend and engage in additional sessions along with representatives in attendance from mentoring programs across the country. at both conferences. It was privileged to be able to sit among other ESP mentoring representatives from other ESP career families and hear how they incorporate different aspects of mentoring programs into their different educational settings. I was also recently awarded the presidential citation for our program at the DSEA representative assembly conference most recently earlier this month. Although I've provided a face for our peer mentoring program in these situations and where the award lists my name, I cannot take full credit for this program as it is definitely a group
022venture that required the participation of both our enthusiastic district mentors and mentees. I would also be remiss if I Thank you so much. Thank you, Miss Watson. Thank you to our association as well as our HR department on that collaborative effort to make sure again those who work on those front lines who greet our children, who greet our families and often times send them out on the end of the day as as Miss Cruz indicated um for being innovative and and really looking at retention opportunities and recruitment opportunities through this collaboration. So, thank you again to our HR department and to our secretary association. job. Well done. If if you're able, if you could send your comments to our email so we could hear the rest of your statement. Thank you. RC board members um
023in global. All right. At this time, we will hear from our superintendent, Dr. Green. So, we have two on Are they back? They're on Zoom. Jennifer Howard and on Zoom. So, Jennifer Howard is next on Let me refresh. Go ahead. Jennifer Howard. Hi, good evening. Thank you for allowing me the opportunity to speak tonight. I want to talk about the Charter School of Wilmington, known as CSW, and how it has historically benefited from a special arrangement with the Red Clay Consolidated School District. First, a reminder to the public. Charter schools are public in Maine, but they are privately operated. They're funded with public dollars, but they're managed by private boards, not the district. Students who attend charter schools like CSW are not considered Red Clay stu students even though the district authorizes the school. And
024while Red Clay oversees CSW's charter, it's important to understand that Red Clay does not owe CSW any facilities. Yet, for nearly 30 years, Red Clay has provided CSW with access to one of its own buildings, the former Wilmington High School, at little to no cost. CSW paid $1 a year in rent for the first 12 years. Today, CSW and CAB Callaway share the Wilmington campus, but CSW enrolls more students and uses more space, yet still only pays for 31% of the building's cost based on an outdated formula from a time when four other programs were in that building. That number has never been updated. To make matters worse, under the new lease, Red Clay is now paying CSW $50,000 a year per CAD students to participate in CSW athletics. This is a complete reversal from
025past agreements where CSW reimbursed the district. And while CSW students can take over 20 classes at CAB, CAB students can only take three courses at CSW. That imbalance speaks volumes. Meanwhile, CSW is actively trying to expand and is now t seeking to take over one of Red Clay's public school buildings. That's a problem because again, the district is under no obligation to give away space, especially when that space could be used to serve the broader Red Clay community. Let's not forget the equity concerns. CSW has historically enrolled few students with disabilities, limited numbers of low-income students, and has consistently failed to reflect the diversity of our district. The bottom line is this. CSW is a charter school that operates independently, yet continues to receive preferential treatment, public subsidies, and physical space at the expense of
026transparency, fairness, and district students. I'm not here to criticize excellence, but we are here to demand equity. It's time for Red Clay Community to take a hard look at this arrangement, protect its public assets, and ensure that every student in this district has a fair and equal opportunity. Thank you. Thank you. Up next, we have Giana Howard. Good evening and welcome. Hi, my name is G. Last night, I listened to the CSW students share their perspectives at the attendance soon committee about expanding and potentially moving into one of our plays buildings. Today I want to offer a different point of view. As a student who attends a traditional Red Clay public school, if CSW expands and more students leave Red Clay schools to go there, that means less funding for the schools we actually attend.
027Our programs, electives, and supportive service services could all get cut because of funding allows the student. CSW is an elective selective. Not everyone gets in and many students who need more support or learn differently don't even apply because they know it's not built for them. If CSW expands, it might create even more separation between schools for some kids and schools for the rest of us. CSW is trying to move into one of Relay's public school buildings. That space could be used for new district programs, career pathways, or help reduce overcrowding. Losing that building to a charter means fewer options for traditional public schools students like me. It feels like one school is getting all the special treatment, extra funding, nicer facilities, and more opportunities, while the rest of us are being told to settle for
028less. That's discouraging. We want investment in all public schools, not just one. CSW expanding might make it harder to unite the comm the community around improving education for everyone. Thank you for allowing me to speak tonight. Thank you. Now, at this time, we will hear from our superintendent, Dr. Green, who will introduce our student representative and provide his superintendent report. Thank you, President Matthews. Again, welcome board members, those who are in attendance here at the Richardson Park Auditorium and those who are joining us online. And I also want to thank our tech department for scrambling today. Uh there were like some I guess some global Zoom issues. um and they always rise to the occasion to make sure that we honor our public obligation and making sure our community is engaged. So, thank you to
029our tech department. Yay. So, before I begin, obviously in keeping with our um monthly protocol process, we have our student representative to the board uh this evening joining us from the John Dickinson School. Jacob Lore, who's a senior at the John Dickinson School, is here to share and some of the highlights and the exciting things that are happening at the John Dickson School. Has I'm sure senioritis is is officially kicked in as we have a late spring break um having a senior at home. So, has has you can be honest, Jacob. Has senioritis kicked in? Yeah, a little bit. A little bit. So, we're we're here again for Jacob to give us some highlights about the things that are going on at the John Dickson School. Jake. All right. Um hello. To reiterate, I'm Jacob
030Lur, senior at John Dickinson School. And um this is just the stuff we've done this spring. So this is everything that the John Dickinson School has hosted and has done for all of our students just this spring. So here are academics. Um if you see in the like top middle of the screen, that's our business and entrepreneurship class, the grazing grounds. to cafe and recently they took a field trip to the Chestnut Hill College uh school and they learned how to further the career in culinary arts if they wish to do so. It's a great program we have. Um in the bottom left we have our social studies soapbox project where they create a speech about just the problems that go on in the world and they have a certain amount of time that they
031can speak. I did it when I was in middle school. It was very fun and some of our middle schoolers have been very prosperous in that. soapbox leading them to be better public speakers including myself. Uh in the bottom right we have our creative writing class from uh one of the teachers at our school, Miss Serby. And all of those students are published poets. Uh there's a few seniors and juniors in there and they all have published work uh online and uh some people bought them and they really enjoyed it. Uh and then our top right we have our students of the month. We just like to recognize a few kids uh that have been really trying hard and accomplishing reaching their goals and we like to maybe give them a breakfast, give them a
032certificate and really acknowledge what they're doing. And then if we're able to click that click that YouTube link, uh this is our Rams Morning Minute, our digital media class we have every Friday. They uh they just give us an update on what's happening in the week. Good morning, Rams. It's Friday, January 17th, and it's a bday. Please stand for the pledge of allegiance. You may now stand. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Please remain standing for a moment of silence. Thank you. UNI students. Today we will have a crispy chicken club on croissant or egg and cheese croissant with sweet potato fries. Yeah. So, we are collabing with Mcken and
033we are making over about 300 sandwiches to donate to the homeless. The Sunday breakfast mission helps the homeless people or people that do not have housing situations that are struggling with having food every day. It's in Wilmington and we're making these sandwiches for them. As you can see, Dr. King behind behind me. His community service to our nation for a lot of years has inspired all of us and that's the reason we're off on Monday, January 20th. We're very excited. We know uh there's people that don't eat every night in the state of Delaware, especially kids. We just want to do our part in celebrating the work of the uh Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. And we have some wonderful students here that are going to help us with that. How you doing? I'm getting
034ready for this dance coming up. We have a neon glow dance on Saturday, January 25th from 7 to 10:00 p.m. in the main gym. Ticket sales are still $10, so ensure that you get them quickly. See Miss Williamson if you have any questions. This week, our talented seventh grader delivered powerful speeches on the issue they are super passionate about at the all inspiring soap box main stage. The students tackled topics such as bullying, school safety, and healthcare cause. Congratulations to the 12 brave speakers and special thanks to our judges, Miss Short, Mr. Lee, and Miss Mel Rooney. as long as Mr. De Jong for helping put the events together. We're also proud to announce that the eight students represented Dickson at the district competition this Thursday. Hey guys, I'm here with sports and you know
035I don't really see any sports like you know like games going on here. So, but there is some weekly highlights. Let's go to those weekly highlights. This past Tuesday, Rams basketball has beaten Brandy Wine 71 to 52. MRP wrestling got their first win against Skyline. Congratulations, MP. Hold on. Hold on. Wrestle 52-8 against Stanford. Hold on. Coming in from the office, we have um uh swimming. Oh my god. Swimming 81 to 60. Congratulations on their win. Do you guys want to be part of the Hall of Fame? Or do you know anybody that wants to be part of the Hall of Fame? Come and scan this QR code right now and make sure you get this application in before January 25th. People So, as you can see, uh it's very light-hearted, very energetic, almost something
036you'd see out of a TV show, and we're really proud of uh how that's been implemented into our school. It raises our morale, and it's it's very good for our school. And Jacob, just to be clear, so this is through the digital marketing media. So the the students themselves are putting on this production as a part of the curriculum. Yes. The students do everything from filming it, editing, uh all the special effects. That's them. Uh they get little to no guidance from well, little guidance from the teacher. He's still doing his job. Um here we have our school culture. We have uh our tier one incentives where uh and the admin incentive cart where uh administrators would like to go around to different classrooms and tell the teacher, you know, pick two or three students
037who have been doing really good in class. Uh maybe give them some food, give them something else as an incentive. Uh that was really great. We have uh in the bottom right our building leadership team and our student council working together. Uh I was actually at that meeting. We had four or five student council members go and we talked about uh how to lower our suspension rates. And then recently our building leadership team also talked about how we can improve student teacher and respect and also the other way around teacher to student respect. Uh we also had our art festival in the top right. We had our IB seniors and a bunch of other talented students in the Dickinson school. And we hosted an exhibition. We had all the artworks up on panels and we
038invited people to come around. There was food, there was drinks and you can see some really really good artwork. Uh we also have ELLL evening classes where in the evenings I believe on Tuesday or Thursday nights we have um parents of students of Dickinson who don't know as much English as uh they would like to and we just have classes there where they can learn English and uh yeah it's it's a really great program for people who uh have English as a second language. And then here's here's just some of the students work. Uh top right there's me. Hi. Um that's at the art festival. We it was very fun. We have our Odyssey of the Mind team in the bottom right who's actually going to nationals uh upcoming in Michigan. They did a really
039really good job. Um, like you saw in the morning minute, we had a uh community service project with the Sunday breakfast mission where we partnered with McCain and we made a bunch of sandwiches for people who are uh unfortunate, maybe don't have a house and that was extremely fun. You get to volunteer, you feel good, you get to help out people. Uh, in the top we have our JDG award winners. That's Jobs for Delaware graduates. and they just got awards for being leaders in the classroom and really advocating for people. And then our bottom left, the most interesting, we have our field trips. We hosted 55 field trips just this year. Uh the one you see here is to Delaware Technical and Community College. That's where people, you know, the C program is holded there.
040It's a great free option for the first two years of school and then you can transfer somewhere else if you'd like. And along with our field trips, we go to a college or a trade school and then we have an incentive after. This one we went to main event. Maybe we do laser tag or something. It's a very fun field trip and it's mostly for people who get season above. We want to reward the students who are doing a hard work and good job at the John Dickson school. Uh and then we have our sports and clubs and extracurricular activities. Uh during lunch we have UNO and chess tournaments where kids who maybe don't sit together at lunch can sit down, have a game of chess, have a game of Uno, maybe win some candy
041as a prize and have fun. Uh our basketball team, we actually hosted the tournament game um our first tournament game against St. Andrews. It was a lot of fun. There was a lot of energy. We also had our pep band and dancing team there. So we incorporated other clubs in our basketball team as well. And then we had our uh carousel horse club where kids go up every Thursday and Friday. They learn how to feed horses, how to take care of them, and also they learn how to ride them if they're interested in that. And here's just a few pictures of our sports. Um just this spring we have baseball, volleyball team, which I'm a part of. We're doing pretty well. Could be doing better though. We got some work. Um our tennis team, our
042track and field, we're doing really good in sports this year. Um, our cross country team I believe were uh they won their conference three teams in a row, three years in a row, I'm sorry. And our girls volleyball team won their conference this year as well. Uh, and then our also doing a lot of good things. We have both sports. Sometimes, you know, the middle schoolers ask high schoolers for help. It's it's really inclusive at the John Dickinson School. And um, yeah, any questions? Thank you for having me. Thank you. Good job, Jacob. Well done. What are your your post high school plans? So, uh I'm planning to go to Ruckers for finance and then hopefully work on Wall Street as an investment banker. Congratulations. Well done. Thank you. You're welcome. So, and in full
043transparency, we want to thank Jacob again for I think embodying what we all highlight and desire in terms of a portrait of a graduate as he, you know, again, senioritis kicks in. I think there'll be what close to 17 days left after we come back from break um and and walk across that stage. Again, I know the board has received some communication just around work that continues to need to promote inclusivity. I think Dickerson with the Ramly as they like to affectionately call it are doing a lot of wonderful my mic cuts off stay engaged to continue to support that so that every student will have that opportunity that Jacob just presided um across the district I think we we've seen across the district every student rep that has come before the board has done
044an excellent job in representing their school and so we continue to work hard to ensure that equitable opportunities access um is is available to all of our students. So, Jacob, thank you. Best of luck as you head to Ruckers and I look forward to seeing you walk across that stage to shake your hand and give you your diploma. Job well done, sir. Thank you. And so, I know as we all eagerly anticipate tomorrow being the last day before we head on to a muchneeded uh spring break um for all. Also, I want to thank all of our staff members, students, families, um support staff for getting us to this this point in the school year. Um spring break has come at at a latter part of the of the the year and we don't normally
045have this long of a stretch, but thank you for all all the hard work and effort. My um cover picture um for tonight is actually an inaugural first time event that was hosted by Baltz Elementary and Warner Elementary. Um was a a Friday evening uh basketball um event. So, I want to thank um assistant principal Aaron Wright um over at Baltz and Adam Dossky who worked with the staff over at Warner for putting this community event together where the Warner Thunderbirds and the Baltz Bears showcase their talents at McCain High School. So, really talking about being inclusive and really highlighting it. Um it was interesting to hear the that the coaches and the staff at McCain um really look in awe because that gym was standing room only um for elementary basketball and the high
046school gym. It's similar to the relationship that we have with Goldie Beacum when our middle school programs fill up the Goldie Beacum gym. So really paying it forward. So we want to thank everyone who made that event such a successful one and we're looking forward to expanding those opportunities across Replay Clay Schools. um as we look at um co-curricular extracurricular well-rounded opportunities for all of our students. Again, we heard from Jacob and just want to highlight the first academic forum. Um so we hosted this event featured 73 students enrolled in AP research, contemporary literature, and IB theory of knowledge. Um the the courses focused on research methodology, ethical research practices, and instructing students in synthesizing and analyzing their findings. Um this event was the 11th and 12th grade students participating or they represented AI Dupont
047High School CAB Conrad and Dickson and we were happy to share that the McCain will be offering AP research and contemporary literature in the upcoming school year. So when we talked about our strategic plan ensuring equitable opportunities across all of our high schools um this is another opportunity not only to showcase that talent but really provide academic forms. Every student doesn't have the desire to be a student athlete, but this is an opportunity for students to demonstrate their leadership skills um within the academic arena in the classroom. And again, this was um the first academic forum, and we're excited for many more to come in the future. We also had the student career expo. Um this career fair was a part of our strategic plan goal for career readiness. Uh we had over 250 students,
048mostly juniors and seniors from all five district high schools participated and over 40 strategic partners and employers. Um this event was hosted at AI Dupont High School. Um you know it empowered our students to look at offering whether it be internships, future training programs and looking to fill seasonal positions now. So this was an opportunity we know a lot of our students are eager to go right into the workforce. Uh we are in the age of the gig economy. Um, a lot of our students want to learn and earn. So, this is an opportunity to really look at community partnerships. Um, and employers represented opportunities for each red clays of our 24 career pathways and um, eight major art majors at CAB. So, we were real intentional about aligning our career pathways to career opportunities,
049workforce development opportunities. Now, I think too often we say we're preparing our students for the future and for jobs that aren't really designed yet, but in reality, we have to prepare them for present day. Um, so that they can be marketable and ready for whatever those future job opportunities are. Had the opportunity to participate in the Secretary of Education scholars breakfast, I mean, excuse me, scholar dinner. Um the new secretary of ed uh Cindy Martin recognized 96 public school students from the class of 2025 and we had 13 red clay students get honored um during that evening in their their pictures and that includes uh Delaware Military Academy as well as the Charter School of Wilmington. Um congratulations to all of our students who were recognized that evening and their families who participated and also
050the school administration who supported them in their recognition. Again, just another testament when we talk about portrait of a graduate to see the top-notch talent that our district is producing as a secretary of ed recognized um scholars from across the state. Again, we just u as public recognition recognize Miss Jacqueline Durant from Richie School uh for being our behavioral health professional of the year. Um we're excited to have her come and represent the district um as we move forward at the state level. And again, we want to thank Mr. Rant, who's a social worker over at Richie Elementary, for all of her hard work and effort um and just doing an amazing job uh for that for the Richie community, the Richie Rabbits. Um and so we we appreciate and celebrate her as she again
051takes her talents to the state. PreK registration again closes at the end of this month. So, we want to be mindful that, you know, for those families who are interested in our preK, enrollment is now open. And also be on the lookout for kindergarten open house on April 30th from 4:45 to 6 p.m. Contact your elementary school or visit our website for more information. We are in prom season and this is just a message to all of our uh partygoers. As we enter prom season, please party responsibly. um celebrate and you know as you you know have this other banner moment in your um high school experience. We want you to stay safe and have fun. And thank you to all of our parent volunteers, boosters, school administrators for supporting um the prom, but more
052importantly to our students. Um please have safe fun um during this prom season. want everyone to save the date and be mindful when we come back from spring break, we will have our second annual um health and wellness fair. Um this will be hosted again at Warner Elementary at Brandy Wine Park on Saturday, May 3rd from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. This is a free event. Um so we want to thank Mandy Pennington and our uh health department and our community partners. You can join everything from free uh participating from free health screenings for children, adults, free food, game prizes, and again a lot of community partners as we head into um soon to be the summer months. Really looking at some community based opportunities and services that are available in the health and wellness
053space. Also, be mindful to save the date for Tuesday, May 13th, um for schoolboard elections. Again, we're encouraging everyone within our community to exercise your voice, a vote. Uh polls open at 7:00 a.m. They close at 8:00 p.m. Um and please check our website in various other areas, the um board of elections for specific polling places and and and locations for school board elections. We have our Red Clay Education Foundation um annual golf tournament which will be on Monday, June 23rd at Nor Country Club. I believe the early birds um registration has closed. Um so thank you to all of those who uh pre-registered for this event. It's fun had by all the the proceeds um support our McKenna Vento um program as well as other initiatives that the Red Clay Education Foundation supports um
054arts alliance different things that we're fortunate to have a a foundation that does provide additional supports and resources to the Red Clay community. So come out and join us. And April is full of recognition. Um you know from Earth Day to National Kindergarten Day. Um Autism Acceptance Day was on April 2nd, National Occupational Therapy Month. And I actually want to give a shout out to my daughter who is a senior in Relay who actually will be going on to the University of Pittsburgh to become an occupational therapist. So I look forward to celebrating her uh in the near future for National Occupational Therapy Day. Um, and then again, I'm going to take the liberty to give a shameless plug. She was one of three students in the state to actually receive an award um for
055occupational therapy. So, way to go to Jada. But I more importantly want to thank Miss Renee Allen, who is a dynamic educator at Conrad Schools of Science who saw fit to nominate her, but more importantly who support students in our um physical therapy pathway. Um, it truly does take an educator to inspire learning in students. So, more importantly, I know my daughter got the recognition, but I want to give Miss Allen a shout out for inspiring her um to achieve along with the other educators throughout Red Clay School District. Uh we will have National School Bus Driver Appreciation Day coming up um while we're on spring break and also happy administrative assistance professional day, which will also be next week. So again, thank you to uh everyone for all of your hard work and effort
056um and supporting all of the recognitions that are are throughout the month of April. And in closing, we are at spring break. So hope everyone has a wonderful spring break. Um it's April 18th, which is Friday through Friday the 25th. Um offices are closed on Friday, April 18th, and Monday, April the 21st. Uh but again, happy spring break and thank you to everyone in the Red Clay community for all that you've done to get us to this point and we look forward to welcoming everyone back after spring break and closing out the year on a high note. That concludes my presentation. Thank you, Dr. Green. Any questions, comments? All righty. Moving forward, we now move on to presentations. Looks like we have a presentation from Dr. Bumol. Good evening and welcome. So I have just
057a few updates from the last board meeting on policy 94. Some of the changes we made on April 2nd within the policy or we changed the title. We removed the advisory from the title. We also we also removed advisory from the body of the document. We also included that when a committee comes to an end they will present either a final report or a presentation to the board. The other piece that we've had a lot of discussion with frankly probably over the last two years about whether to include definitions in this particular policy or not. You will see those definitions in your presentation. Um we decided we have not been able to come to consensus but they would proide that information to the board as you can consider the action item tonight questions. Yeah, I
058just like to say that uh I think the definitions are important not for schoolboard members who probably know what the two uh definitions are, but for the thousands of families in a district who may not know what a standing committee is or a special committee. So, I don't see any harm in putting that in there. And I know it's in contention for two years, but I don't understand why we wouldn't want it in there for clarification. Any other questions, comments? I'll save my comments for when we vote on it. Thank you, Dr. Bwell. Now, we move on to the approval of the minutes. Is there a motion to approve the minutes from the executive session held on March 19th, 2025? So, move Kathy Thompson. Thank you, Miss Thompson. Is there a second? Second. Mh. Mr.
059Wilson. Um, it has been properly moved and seconded to approve the executive session uh minutes held on March 19th, 2025. Any discussion? All in favor? I. Any opposed? The minutes are approved there. Is there a motion to approve the minutes from the regular session held on March 19, 2025? So move English. Thank you, Miss English. Is there a second? Second. Kathy Thompson. Thank you, Miss Thompson. It's been properly moved and seconded to approve the minutes from the regular session held on March 19th, 2025. Any discussion? All in favor? I. Any opposed? The minutes are approved. Is there a motion to approve the minutes on the board workshop family engagement and education held on April 9th, 2025? So move Smith. Thank you, Dr. Smith. Thank you, Mr. Wilson. has been properly moved and seconded to approve
060the minutes from the board workshop on family engagement and education held on April 9th, 2025. Any discussion? All in favor? I. Any opposed? The minutes are approved. We now move on to action items. Action item A. It is the recommendation that the board of Brelay Board of Education approve the revised board policy 904 advisory committee to the board as submitted. Is there a motion? So move Kathy Thompson. Thompson. Is there a second? Second. English. Thank you, Miss English. It's been properly moved and second. Is there any discussion? Yes, I would like to add the uh definitions that we talked about for the last two years uh that are mentioned in the first bullet point uh about the special committee versus a standing committee. Again, uh for clarity for our uh families in the district who
061read these um I think it's important that they know the difference between the two. So, may I speak Mr. I I think it creates I think the addition of the definitions create is misleading, erroneous, unnecessary and confusion confusing. I don't think it creates any um clarity for anybody. I think it does the opposite. As we know, the board creates committees to provide advice in areas within the realm of board responsibility, which is setting the direction of the district. Committees are given charges and once that charge is met, the committee does not continue or its charge is modified. And in the charge statement, it talks about the committee's purpose, its goals, its deliverables, its scope, you know, everything that's listed here. So, it's real clear what the committee is about and the charge statement should be
062posted on the website to make it crystal clear to everyone. And the committee continues um until it's as the policy states until it's uh um until it's uh I I don't know why my brain isn't thinking until the board uh says the committee is done. Okay. Um, the board is responsible for the entire district of 13,716 students, 28 buildings, and lots of properties and educators and support personnel and everyone. We are a district of red clay. To suggest that the board would create a committee to quote address a specific area of need that affects a specific a specified district, building or group is simply misleading, wrong and confuses confuses our mission. All of our buildings and programs are interconnected. Red clay is one. Even the AI high school committee didn't just affect AI. It affected
063the whole secondary structure. That's why one of the reasons why we had principles from all the traditional schools on there and the same was true when we redid years ago when we when we redid the elementary feeder patterns because and we had a committee for that because it affects it it affected not only all the elementary schools it affected the secondary schools and it ultimately affected the high schools. So we are interconnected the board's focus it should be on the district and the focus should not waver. It should not be on a specific building or group because they're all interconnected and we are a district of red clay. So I'm opposed to including those definitions. I think they serve to mislead and confuse. Any other comments, questions, feedback? Is there a way to amend the
064motion at this point? I can't. You can always amend the motion, but this was it was it was moved and seconded. So that's subitted though. Speaking to the mic, please. I just can't hear you down here. Yeah, it's not work. Okay, sorry. There we go. Okay, there you go. I said I could I'm drawing a blank on the process for amending a motion. You can amend the motion that's on the table. I'd like to amend the motion with the addition of the definitions in the report that Dr. Broomall gave about standing and special committees. Is there a second? Second, Susan Sander. There's a motion in a second um to add the uh definitions that are outlined in the attached report provided by Dr. Brewall. Um is there any discussion question? I think we had it.
065Great. Um so I will now ask for uh a vote. Um and I will actually ask for a roll call vote. Miss Stevens. Miss English. Yes. Mr. Leonard. Yes. Dr. Nesmith. Yes. Miss Sander, yes. Miss Thompson, no. Mr. Wilson, no. Mr. Matthews, yes. Five. Yes. Two. No. Motion passes. So now we go back to the original motion with the amendment. Um, is there any discussion? Any further discussion? Hearing none, Miss Stevens, please call roll call vote. approve and pass it even with go back and vote. Okay, great. Okay, so we now move on. Um, no, you have to vote on the motion. We have to vote on the motion, right? You have to We voted on the vote on the amendment, not the motion. The amendment. Yeah. So, we do have to go back. So,
066any and I heard no discussion. So, Miss Stevens, can you please call roll call vote? So, for clarification, you're you are we are voting on the original motion as amended. As amended. Yeah. Because the amendment passed. Yeah. So, I was right. First, we voted on the amendment. Now, we're voting on the amendment within the policy. Correct. Okay. Thank you. Miss Stevens, Miss English, yes. Mr. Leonard, yes. M. Dr. Nesmith, yes. Miss Sander, yes. Miss Thompson, yes. Mr. Wilson, yes. Unanimous. Motion carries. Thank you. Action item B. The motion carries. So, the policy will now include the definition statement as we move forward. Congratulations to the board. I I am being sarcastic here because it's taken over two years for us to get to this moment. So, yes, we can move forward. Action item B. Uh
067it is the recommendation uh that the Redcllay Board of Education approve the financial position report as of March 31st, 2025 as submitted to include any subsequent revisions approved by the community financial review committee. Is there a motion? So moved. Captain Thompson. Thank you, Miss Thompson. Is there a second? Second, Mr. Wilson. Thank you, Mr. Wilson. It's been properly moved and seconded to approve the recommendation. Is there any discussion? Hearing none, Miss Stevens, please call the vote. English. Yes. Mr. Leonard. Yes. Dr. N. Smith. Yes. Miss Sander. Yes. Miss Thompson. Yes. Mr. Wilson. Yes. Mr. Matthews. Yes. Unanimous. Motion carries. Action item C. It is a recommendation that the Red Clay Board of Education approve a $1,000 Bank of America grant for the Conrad Schools of Science Cheerleading Program. Is there a motion to approve the
068recommen? So moved. Kathy Thompson. Thank you, Miss Thompson. Thank you, Dr. N Smith. It's properly moved and seconded to approve the recommendation. Is there any discussion? A huge thank you to Heather Blake and to the Bank of America. Thank you so much, Miss Stevens. Please call the vote. Miss English, yes. Mr. Leonard, yes. Dr. Nith, yes. Miss Sander, yes. Miss Thompson, yes. Mr. Wilson, yes. Mr. Matthews, yes. Unanimous. Motion carries. Thank you. We now move on to consent action items. Does anything need to be removed from the consent item before we move on? Hearing none. Is there a motion to approve the consent agenda? So moved. Kathy Thompson. Thank you, Miss Thompson. Is there a second? Second, English. Thank you, Miss English. Has been properly moved and second to approve the consent agenda. All in
069favor? I. Any opposed? Motion carries. We first now we we move on to our first board committee report, which is board policy review committee. Do we have an update? I just want to say thanks to the board for the two years of service try trying to get this uh passed and uh I I finally laid it to rest. Thank you. I second that. Any other updates? Moving on. Uh we move on to CFRC, the Community Financial Review Committee. So I attended the meeting on April 8th, I believe. Wait, I'm getting my dates mixed up. Mhm. Which one was this? It's April. I I'm losing my tab. I'm sorry. Yeah, April 8th. Yeah, I was flying. Uh it was a very brief meeting, one of the shortest ones. We did uh on their agenda, we were
070to have a presentation for the curriculum department that has been moved to the next meeting. Uh Dr. Ammon talked about the Newcastle County reassessments. Uh it may in the financial report, we're still in good standing, so we just approved that. So, thank you. And then he went over the monthly expenditure report. I will say that uh Miss Tom Thompson gives way more detailed uh reports around the CFRC. Uh but it was really really brief. So we are in good good standing and I do appreciate the engagement of the community members and the new and those who are on the in the district uh who show up and are engaged in the meetings and ask good questions. Nothing really stood out as an issue or anything to me in this meeting. If there's anything I'm missing
071um Dr. Ammon, let me know. Thank you. That concludes my report. Thank you, Dr. Nith. We now move on to the secondary attendance zone and programming committee um updates. Would anyone like to give an update? There is an attached report and board docs for the public and the board to review. Okay. I just want to say that we had two meetings and again it's a very intense group. we have the public and administration, teachers, etc. And it's very important uh this uh committee uh determining uh new attendance zones and and uh any other school consolidations that we may have or or some of the proposals. And at this meeting, we we had some public comment from Charter School Wilmington. Uh Mr. Puit, this is from the 20th March 20th uh meeting. Mr. Bruit uh reviewed
072the charge and a committee of the meeting norms. Uh Dr. Green offered some insight into possible scenarios from the reading consortium in WLC uh concerning city schools. And this is just a brief overview. Dr. Green also uh uh offers some different models from around the country on CTE innovation centers and so forth. uh since that's one of the uh scenarios we're talking about in this committee and we had a guest speaker uh uh Ted Ammon red clay chief operating officer presented the very detailed feasibel feasibility study for each of scenarios we had 12 scenarios at the time uh uh the cost that would be associated with those scenarios which was very useful to the committee and then uh at the end Mr. Puit made a motion that uh the April town hall meeting be used
073as a regular meeting so the committee could continue discussion and uh brainstorming on the many scenarios within the project. And that motion was passed and we we had that meeting uh last night. And at that meeting there was a lot of discussion. Uh again we had several representatives uh five I believe and all from Charter School Wington um comments about uh the need for a new building. Uh there also was a lengthy discussion for the need for more time to discuss the different scenarios that were brought up through the committee. Uh it was agreed by the committee members to add additional meetings uh possibly two per month and uh extend the deadline for final presentation to the school board for vote from July to possibly August September when no later than October 2025 so we
074can meet the deadlines for choice applications. uh Miss Corey Hickok, manager of assessment and professional learning, gave a presentation on the state data concerning the correlation between school size uh with enrollment and student performance and research showed that the threshold for consistent student learning was around 1,500 but state of Delaware data was not consistent with that and for reasons suggested were demographics and magnet charter schools. Mr. presented the results of an internal red clay CTE adult I mean audit of all three comprehensive high schools AI high McKeen and Dixon. The audit showed that Mcken had the most robust programs. They had seven in all CTE programs that were thriving while AI and Dixon both had one each. And then Mr. Puit separated the committee into four groups for discussion and brainstorming. We are now down
075to 11 scenarios. uh because the one was uh voted down by the committee to combine the AI middle school with AI high school for a 6 through 12 program. So uh it was a great discussion we had and we have a lot of work to do. So we did add another u meeting on uh May 1st uh which means there'll be two in May and then we will decide then how much more time we need for the presentation to the board for vote on the four scenarios that were outlined. Next meeting will be May 1st 2025. Thank you. Can I add to that? I just really briefly uh first I just want to say I am really impressed by the administrative team uh led by uh Mr. Puit is it Mr. Mr. Okay, Mr. Puit
076uh with his organization and his leadership around this process is it's very intricate and and well planned. So, thank you for that. Uh and then Dr. Hawk's information about the data in terms of comparing schools uh was interesting as well. And so lastly, uh I did mention the need for us to expand our communication around this committee's existence. uh possibly a direct email to families in the district so that they are aware ahead of time before any decisions are made because we don't want that us to make the the recommendation and and the I know there's a survey going out but just being very transparent about what we're doing and very uh not just not we're transparent but being very diligent about the communication so that if there's any ideas or concerns that they can
077come out before we make our recommendation from the committee to the board. So, um I look forward to continuing to do this hard work. It's a very difficult decision, but I know that Red Clay is uh ready to move forward. Thank you. Thank you, Dr. N. Smith. Any questions? Moving on. Um Wilson Learning Collaborative. Um yes. No, I just wanted to clarify for the record that McCain and AI do have more than one CTE program. So I don't I mean again I know there's an imbalance and we're working on that imbalance. So I'm not sure I wasn't present at the meeting. I'll answer that. So that was my other point. I forgot to say uh the the data just a quick correction. It was in terms of the facilities and the the the viability of
078those programs within the facilities. It wasn't the programs themselves having more. it was more the spaces were more conducive to their programs within McCain. Right. Okay. So, I just wanted to be clear and I think that's one of the the challenges when we look at CTE programming and and how things are laid out in terms of us being a traditional school district, what it requires when you have CTE programs, what are the capital um minor cap needs to outfit spaces. Um and too often we wet CTE programs to individual staff members. That staff member leaves and that program goes with them. and it takes a lot of investment. So I think part of this committee's efforts are for us to really look at not just from a programmatic need but a facilities need as well.
079And I will go on the record um to say that based on the direction that the board um provided with us with the charge providing or looking for ancillary space for schools outside of Red Clay is not a part of this charge in terms of what we're looking for. I know that media has grabbed this information and has kind of taken it and run with it. We're focused on balancing enrollment, looking at our attendance zones, and looking at programming across Red Clay Consolidated School Districts. Uh, I just think that needs to be stated clear for the record. Moving on. Okay, Miss English, take it away. Um, yes. Uh, last night's WLC meeting uh was held at Stubs Early Education Center. I also have a report in um Bordox for anyone that would like to review
080it. Um we had a presentation by principal Tracy Roberts from Harland Elementary School. Um she shared a number of great things that are going on at Harland. Um let's see, principal finalists for the Christina School District board. Um they were discussed and approved and recommendations were sent to the board. Uh we discussed a number of um updates on previous partnerships and contracts and for new business we discussed the WLC FY uh 26 strategy and recommended plan of action. Um I know in Dr. Green's report, it showed the regular um regularly scheduled uh meeting that will take place on May 20th, but there will also be a special meeting that is going to be posted for Tuesday, May 6th. Um and as soon as we have that location, that will be on the WLC website as
081well. Again, my report is in Bordox and we can serve as the host site, Miss English, just in terms of So, we'll likely have it at the Red Clay District Office, 150 1502 Spruce Avenue in in the board conference room. Perfect. Okay. Thank you. That concludes my report. What's the special meeting about? Um, generally, I'm not saying it in any detail. Um, it's escaping me. Oh, I'll provide it. I get that because we've had a number of special meetings over the last couple couple of months um because we've been running out of time with some of the partnerships that we're working on. So I think that this will be a strategizing workshop that essentially will be taking place. Um we just have not had the opportunity to do that at our evening public meeting. Um
082so as soon as I get the details on that I will be sure to share that with the rest of the board. Thank you. Can I ask a question real quick about the timeline for uh WLC and the reading consortium? Is there a timeline for them to have their decisions on what they want to do which way with schools in the city? So the WLC there is no timeline because they're not making any decisions with regards the redistricting. Um, so as long as the board agree with theou, the work continues unless the state officially makes a change with the Wilmington Learning Collaborative. Reading has a based on a May 9th, 2024 decision to look at redistricting, which would require the removal of Christina from the city of Wilmington. created a 18-month timeline from that period
083forward to provide a plan to the um state board of education for approval based on 13 stipulations that are written in code to then have to get approved by the general assembly. Thank you. Excellent. And um to answer Miss Thompson's question, I do remember the May 6 meeting is to review I want to say the upcoming budget for the WLC and a number of other financials. um to have a breakdown from Dr. Bergos on that and for us to be able to review that in detail. So that is what the May 6 meeting will be specifically about. You're welcome. Excellent. So last but certainly not least, uh we have items submitted by the board National School Board Association conference that was held through April 3rd through April 6, 2025. I'll I'll share uh it was
084I guess who was there? It was uh Mrs. Sanders and uh Miss President Matthews and I attended as well as Dr. Green. Uh and there were lots of workshops. We did notice there was less attendance than usual. Uh it might be because of the financial climate. But even so, uh I will just share one salient point that I got from one of the workshops I went to. Uh because a lot of times, you know, being an educator there I don't learn a whole lot. Uh but I did learn about uh capital funding and uh having the districts who need to build buildings and how they can fund them when they don't have the money. And this is called P3 public private partnerships. Uh I can submit that presentation um from the the app if you'd
085like. But it was a an interesting concept uh for some school districts across the country on how they might handle uh buildings. And I know there's different laws here in Delaware that may not be conducive to that, but uh that's something that I found interesting and I learned. Thank you. Thank you. Any other remarks? No, it was I thought it was hugely attended, but that was my first time going. So, um it was very very interesting. It was um wonderful meet people from all over the country, all with the same mission. It was very uplifting. Thank you. Thank you both for taking the time. And I will give a public shout out um being that it was Susan's first time. Susan actually um attended uh the sessions and was on track to earn a national
086certificate through NSBA. Um something that I achieved previously through other you know conferences prior um the uh GOG govern certificate and so congratulations on that. You finished all the courses. Yeah, it's a lot of work. Congratulations. Really well done. Thank you. Any other comments, questions? There are some information items and attachments and board docs for folks to review. Um, without further ado, uh, between, uh, now and spring break, have a wonderful holiday and I will entertain a motion for German. So, move English. Thank you, Miss English. And second, second, Miss Sanders. Um, all in favor? I. Any opposed? The meeting is adjourned. Thank you all. Have a wonderful spring break.