001meeting to order. May I please have a roll call? Oh, >> Dr. Huntington. >> Mr. Coffee? >> Yes. Here. Present. >> Mrs. Stiff >> here. >> Mr. Kennedy. Mr. Fitzpatrick >> here. >> Mrs. Lynn >> here. >> Mrs. Guerrero >> here. May I please have everyone stand and join us in reciting the pledge of allegiance guard outward. face post please colors present arms. I pledge algiance 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. >> Order. arms. Outward face forward. March. Um, you may be seated. On behalf of the board of education, I would like to welcome all of our visitors in person and those watching live um via stream. Your presence is greatly valued and
002your engagement reflects the shared commitment to the success of our community as a whole. At this time, members of the public may make comments to the board of education on any item listed on the agenda. Please note the board respects and values the information delivered to us but at this time we cannot engage or in or have a dialogue with you. Your comment should be directed to the board of education and all in attendance must conduct themselves with respect. Um thank you Miss Rico. Um do we have anyone wishing to address the board at this time? >> No ma'am. >> Thank you. All right. May I have a motion to approve the consent agenda? So >> moved. Second. All right. Roll call, please. >> Miss Lynn, >> yes. >> Mrs. Grownare, >> yes. >> Mr.
003Coffee, >> yes. >> Mrs. Stiff, >> yes. >> Mr. Fitzpatrick, >> yes. >> All right, the fun part of the meeting. Uh, we are going to go on to recognition and awards, which most of you are here for tonight. Um, if I could please have our Juliet Central and Juliet West principles go to the podium. Good evening. Miss Parker and I are proud to recognize students from the class of 2026 who have been named as Illinois State Scholars. The Illinois Student Assistance Commission gives state scholar designation annually to senior students who are in the top half of their graduating class and/or scored at at or above the 95th percentile nationally on the ACT or SAT exam. Roughly 10% of Illinois High School seniors receive this recognition each year. So, congratulations to each and every one
004of you on this outstanding accomplishment. Students, when we call your name, we ask that you please come forward to be recognized and stay upfront where so we can take pictures by campus. Uh we do have cert certificates for each of you. We'll get those to you tomorrow at school because with the large number of uh students we have here, it gets difficult to know who's here and uh passing them out. So, we appreciate your patience, but we'll get you those tomorrow. Okay. So, I'll start with the uh the central Illinois State scholars. First is uh Joel Agiri, Felix Arcand, Carlos Ariano Marillo, Brian Baron, Finn Burnernhard, Sochi Quuevis, Amber Davis, James Feele, Johanna Figueroa, Jackie Fragoso, Carly Frato, Malcolm Green, Aiden Hadley, Eric Isai, Jalomna, Demetrius Cortis, Aziel Lara, James Lee, Sophie Litzoganis, Cheyenne Mendoza,
005Delaney Moran, each Nunees, Rory O'Hara, Juan Rossilus Alvarado, Erica Science, Lata, Regina Sandival, Abigail Shriner, Leo Smith, Kayla Stallings, Jack Strabing, Evelyn Ventura, and Ella Wilcock. Congratulations to the class of 2026. All right, there we go. I invite you to smiling for a little bit. >> I know. A of course she's Okay, round of applause. I don't make it. We are also very excited to celebrate with the families and of our uh students at Juliet West who have qualified as an Illinois State Scholar. We're going to follow suit. When I call your name, please step to the front and line up for that wonderful picture. Mia Agnich, Christopher Bakis, Jonathan Baronac, Sydney Barlo, Daniel Batista, Connor Bergen, James Bergen, Mallerie Barry, Tyler Bishop, Chloe Brower, Leslie Combmes, Charlotte Dean, Jessica Del Toro, Emily Diaz, Ava
006Enderley, Ella Featherston, Addison Fowler, Favll, Nelly Galagos, James Gibson, Lena Javanni, Taylor Greenwood, Sean Hogan, Patrick Holmes, Jonathan Hood, Iroel Joim, Olivia King, Ava Kennedy, Michael Nappic, Cara Konichi, Elizabeth Lane, Ava Lurendi, Amaya Love, Robert Malin, Malinowski, excuse me, Henry Masten, Maline McCarol, Isabella Menddees, Evan Newman, Ava Alferman, Zoe Agnovich, Payton Palish, Marawn Pulk, Elena Potakei, Kayla Price, Ludmina Puitz, Brody Pilaski, Yahara Ramirez, Sierra Rapata, Dylan Ringoffer, Emma Roberts, Kevin Robas, Gavin Rodriguez, Marco Rodriguez, Jack Cerno, Joyce Seal, Ariel Smith, Ellis Steven Tape, Noah Tarver, Dylan Trainer, Quinn Train, Cocana Trevino, >> Chris, >> Callaway, Walsh, >> Ethan Wes, Lavoski, and Henry Young today. Okay. So, if you are in front of someone's head, you're not in the photo. So, we may have to do a little bit of switching around or just make your
007way into a corner. You're good there. a little tiny tiny bit. So, I'm going to >> She literally is Okay. All right. Okay. family and friends. I invit Should I just call the recess now or wait? Congratulations. The board of education is going to take a brief recess so we can congratulate All right. Now, we're going to go ahead and move on to Dr. Guzman for superintendent reports. >> Thank you. Uh, no correspondence or legislative reports, but um, be on the lookout. I'm sure there will be some legislative information coming. Um, I will keep the board up to date. We have two presentations tonight. Our first presentation is our annual hiring report and I'm happy to introduce Sicily Calhoun, our director of human resources, who will present this information. Good evening. Can you guys hear
008me? Okay, good evening everyone. Okay, so I want to talk about the annual hiring. will give you an update on it as of today. Um, so let's jump into it. So, so the hiring is aligned with the strategic plan which is strategic one I mean sorry strategy one and action plan one through three. So, so far for 2526 hiring season the administrative team we have hired approximately 98 staff members 34 being certified and 64 being classified. Um the employee process we want to ensure fair and equitable process for all candidates and all participants on hiring teams are trained by HR. So let's get to the hiring data. Currently the certified staff we have um staff members 42 as you can see administrators teachers 385 social workers 15 counselors we have 23 deans 13 we have
009four IEP managers, five psychologists, four nurses and five um speech pathologists. um the internal promotions this year. Um two we hired two administrators that who was Hispanic and one that was um Asian. So job postings as of February 5th, 2026, as you can see our current certified postings is a math teacher which is at central. We have we need two FACS teachers which is at central two IT central uh vision itinerate central special education teachers central and a um school psychologist which is west for current administrative postings we have a director of u inter what I'm sorry in I can't even see that informationational technology executive director of special education which is anticipated and our behavior coordinator. So far, as you can see here, we have the certified staff hiring demographics with the yearly comparison
010for 2025. Uh, we have, let me scroll down here so I can tell you we have 58%. um um white, we have um 6% unknown, 21% AfricanAmerican or black, and then we have 15% Hispanic or Latino. The hiring that we did this year, um the as this one, you can see Jolliad Township teacher demographics versus statewide teacher demographics. As you can see, we are almost neck andneck with the state. uh we're trying to stay competitive with our hiring um um geographics wise. So that is the percentage for for the state why versus Jolliet. So the challenges and constraints that we have here um as you know statewide teacher shortage, we have competition with our neighbor uh neighboring districts. We have some hard to fill positions like special education, psychologist, math, CTE, and EL. And then
011also the number of college students enrolling in teacher preparation programs have declined by nearly third over the past decade. Un um unfulfilled Illinois's public school teaching vacancies by year, although it has decreased a little bit this year, but it's still at 3,000 as you can see. unfulfilled positions here for the 2526. Uh we have a psychologist which is at west. We have math as central, special education central, vision itinerary central, two IT central and two facs central recruitment and recruiting and hiring 2526. We um right now our career affairs as you can see is community connections. We have Illinois associations school personnel. Um that's one. We have niu. We have another one coming up for Illinois. And then Louis University JJC um Illinois Association and Governor State. We are trying I have contacted um uh
012Chicago state and I'm waiting on a response back from them. Um so the advertising openings we are indeed ISA K through 12 national minority newsletter HBCU at Illinois's association school personnel and Illinois Association school business. This one right here is explore growth within our own staff building our own instructional pair of professionals u which we're going to talk about well me and Dr. is going to talk about prayer professionals who want to become teachers. So, we're going to look into that. Um, classified staff demographic, as you can see, the retention rate for this school year is 91.3%. Teacher retention this year, we are above the state, is 93.7%. uh retention strategies. We are going u solid onboarding procedures um continue hold new employee orientation continue providing training um employee support and rec uh recognition conduct
013exit interviews and the new one that I was thinking is the state interviews. These meetings proactively u identify actionable lowc cost improvements to boost retention and strength trust. Key hire and workforce highlights for this year. Um, total certified staff 496, total classified staff 403, teacher retention 93.7, continued diversification of hiring pool, ongoing recruitment and grow your own efforts and any questions? Any questions? If not, thank you. Thank you. Our next presentation is brought to you by Dr. Hampton who will share our five-year financial presentation. >> Good evening to everyone. I'm presenting the annual five-year financial plan. Um so first slide you see um are the budget revenue allocations by source and you can see that the majority of revenues received are uh via property taxes second by evidence-based funding which is uh state funding federal
014at 5% other state 5% other local and CPPRT is four and 3% % current existing EAV or equalized assess value percentage change from year to year we're forecasting flat at 4% um through 2030. Other key revenue assumption is the new EAV growth. Um, and essentially we're keeping that flat at 35 million. As in the past, and I've shared this before, we've gone up as high as almost 250 million. Um, but for the most part, it's been flat, or should I say consistent at about 35 million, which is great for the district. Consumer price index. This is essentially how we receive new money from one year to the next. Um and you can see that we're we are projecting 2.5% growth. Um the average CPI is somewhere between 2.3 to 2.5% as you can see in
01522 23 um these were essentially the the years coming out of COVID where we were 7% and 6.5. However, because we're tax cap the majority that we could receive is 5%. Or was 5%. Um other key revenue assumptions in the projection um evidence-based funding. Um so due to enrollment um we're projected to see a decrease because it's proportionate to the number of students um that you have in the district. Um transportation reimbursement we're projecting flat for all years. But just know um probably for over the past 15 20% I'm sorry I'm sorry 15 or 20 years um the reimbursement has only been about 25 to 30%. Uh special ed reimbursement upwards of 70% but regular transportation has been about 25 to 30%. other state funding um and federal funding, title funding. Um conversation has been
016about a 26% decrease for FY27. Um and then there's also conversation around possible decrease in special education um funding. Uh projected expenses by object, salaries and benefits 68%. Most school districts are anywhere between 60 to 70 to 75%. Normally this is the highest expenditure of all districts. And then you can see purchase services is a little higher but that's dealing more with our construction projects. Um capital outlay and then you have your supplies and materials. This is new um and I wanted to share this with the board. um I essentially update this information twice a year. We haven't had it in this uh presentation but uh we feel that this is uh viable information as we start to move forward because we are experiencing um enrollment decrease decreases and it's not just us it's throughout
017the state and it's throughout the country. Um, so I update this normally in the fall, sometime after September, then again in January. And what you see here, um, if you can focus in on 2425 into 2526, so the green into blue with the focus in on the yellow at the bottom. And I don't know if you can see, you can probably see it better um, on your computer, but essentially from last year to this year, um, we lost 371 students in one year. And you can see in projected another 169, 2728, another 235. 28-29 another 222. 2930 another 146 and 20 3031 another 201. We're talking almost 12-,300 students um where we would see that decrease. The one good thing about this model is is as we get new information we can update this. Um
018but right now these are the projections that we see. Um so what I added also here was just the enrollment history. So you can just see where we have been since 2001 to where we are now. Um essentially we are projecting to be closer to the 24 25 26 school year. So almost 20 years ago um to be around those numbers. Um what does that mean? Um obviously as you lose students um that impacts the classroom um which impacts probably the largest group are our teachers and we have a plan so that we can deal with this over the next four to five years and that plan is really to um is through attrition. So, as teachers retire and or resign, we won't fill those positions versus keeping those teachers in place and then we
019get to the point where we have to riff or what we call reduction in force and then we're talking about an entirely different process. Um, just for a point of history, normally at the new teacher orientation, we have 20 plus new teachers that we're hiring each year just through attrition. So if that trend continues then I think we'll be in a better place come 2029 20 20 2030 31. Um and I'll have a slide to also just kind of show if we don't put this type of plan in place what does that mean right? Um this one here just goes back to 2015 and just shows the number of teachers that we essentially have hired um really over the past 10 years. Um and you can see that increase there. We're talking almost 63 teachers.
020Um other key uh expenditure assumptions uh salaries are subject to negotiations. Again decrease to FT over five years. Retirement savings are included here which basically means if a teacher retire we have a number to um put in place of a retired teacher. So normally you have a a retired teacher at a higher salary. you bring in another teacher, newer teacher at a lower salary. Um, health insurance increase 7%, dental insurance 3% and then all other expenditures by 5%. So the next slide just shows the aggregate revenues um, and you can just see kind of the growth.8 2.4 for 2.3 and again it's based on all of the assumptions I just spoke about in terms of the revenues and then this slide slide just a um shows you the expenditure side where it's somewhere between 2.1
021to 3% depending on the given year and then this is just the aggregate and I always focus in on the at the bottom and essentially that's the number of months in terms of fund balance. So, think of it as a savings. So, um it shows in 2026 14.34 months of fund balance. Um up to 2031 18.7. This is important because um when we start to get in times like we are now where we having reductions in federal which then impacts the state which then potentially there is budget cuts there. um we still have to be able to function as a district um and be able to pay payroll and our our bills and get through. It used to be three months, then it went to six months, then it went to a year, and now
022it's about a year and a half um in terms of the amount of fund balance you should have if you can have it as as a district. So then the next this slide here is just shows that aggregate amount. So that's what you want to see that trajectory going up. So this is if we um make the necessary changes as we move through um decrease FTE through attrition make um necessary adjustments from year to year. This one here basically just shows the fund balance decreasing. So in 2031 it was 18.7, now we show 14, right? So we can see if we don't do anything, we'll start to see this fund balance actually take a turn. Um, and that's what this graph shows. So the other graph was upward trajectory. This one here, you can start
023to see that it's starting to flat out and then eventually if we don't do anything, you'll start to see a decrease and that's what we don't want. That means we didn't do what we needed to do operationally as a district. This graph just shows the difference between the two. The purple one is if we didn't do anything, kept every staffing the same, didn't make any changes and adjustments, you start to see it flatten out. The other one shows an upward trajectory if we make the necessary changes. Um, and so just going forward, you'll start you'll see the enrollment projections as we move through. We'll talk to you about we have the staffing um presentation next month so we'll see some things there with Diane and her team but we are definitely um just keeping a
024watchful eye on this and as we receive information I can go into um this spreadsheet make the necessary adjustments and see how that impacts the district because we do feel we're going to hear some news. We know that the governor is either this week or next week. I believe he's having his budget um hearing or um presentation. So, we'll start to hear some of this um as we move through. And just know in the past sometimes we hear these things at the start of the school year and then mid school year we start to hear some different things in terms of adjustments and budget cuts. But we're watching it closely. will make the necessary adjustments and obviously update the board um as we receive information. And then here this is just the observation of where
025we are. Property tax freeze always on the additional EBF funding again um right now um they have allocated the 350 million. Past year was 300 million. Um the 50 million was really um tax rebate u for certain districts. Um, however, we'll see if they're going to maintain the $300 million. Um, and again, the level of federal funding, again, we know we're going to be impacted to what magnitude. We won't know those things until probably the next few months, maybe even to the summer or early fall. Any questions? >> Yeah. >> Like this year, >> Yeah. So, I put 7%. We have an insurance committee. Uh we do a great job as a committee to keep costs down. Um we've made adjustments over the past years um to try to maintain those things and keep those
026um single digits. Um initially this year we were closer to almost 20%. Um and we made some adjustments based on recommendations to so that it's stays affordable for everyone and we were able to get that down to about 3 to 4% versus you know 15 to 18%. So the the insurance committee does a great job. There's some difficult conversations, but we have to have the conversations and then again, we have to do what's best for, you know, everyone in the district. >> Any other questions? >> Thank you again for a great presentation. >> Um, also within superintendent reports, you have the second semester 10day count report. Um as you saw um from Dr. Hampton's presentation at the beginning of the year we were down 371 from last year at this semester we're um down to
027382. So it's pretty comparable to where we were at at the beginning of the year. Um and again we track this every semester and make sure we're within our contractual limits and then this is always shared with the board um at the upcoming meeting. So, are there any questions regarding the uh 10day count? If not, that concludes superintendent reports. >> Thank you for those reports. Um, we're going to go ahead and move on to action items. First action item, a course revision, and that will be on probability and statistics transitional math QL stats. Can I have a motion please? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Any discussion? This is from our CCC committee. We're leveraging our current probability and statistics class to shift it to a transitional math class. There was a request to offer
028more transitional math classes. So um our math team proposed this and they'll be working on this um this summer and we'll offer it next year. >> Any others? All right. Roll call, please. >> Mrs. Guo Numeare. >> Yes. >> Mr. Coffee. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Stiff. >> Yes. Mr. Fitzpatrick, >> yes. >> Mrs. Lynn, >> yes. >> Item B, weighted grades for competitiveness. May I please have a motion? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Thank you. Any discussion? >> This is just to ensure that our students are competitive with other schools in the district. Within the memo, I gave you our comparisons to different schools. Um, and then the the list of then changes that we would move forward for the next school year. >> Thank you. Roll call, please. >> Mrs. Lynn, >> yes.
029>> Mrs. Guerrero, >> yes. >> Mr. Coffee, >> yes. >> Mrs. Stiff, >> yes. >> Mr. Fitzpatrick, >> yes. >> Item C, certified staff performance evaluation agreement 2026 to 2027. May I please have a motion? >> So move. >> Second. >> Any discussion? This is just an annual um action item. Thank you to uh Diane and her union leadership that um works through the evaluation review team each year and brings these needed changes and recommendations to the board. >> Roll call, please. >> Mr. Fitzpatrick. Mr. Fitzpatrick, excuse me. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Lynn, >> yes. >> Mrs. Gueron, >> yes. >> Mr. Coffee, >> yes. >> Mrs. Stiff, >> yes. All right. Item D, agreement between Juliet Township High School and Flourish ED22. So moved. >> Second. >> Any discussion? >> I just want to
030point out that the board requested um I think during the the summer that we would provide a summary of first semester accomplishments, but that is noted in the the agreement uh or the memo that I wrote and then our recommended work for second semester. >> All right, roll call, please. >> Mrs. Flynn. >> Uh, yes. >> Mr. Fitzpatrick. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Groonome. >> Yes. >> Mr. Coffee. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Stiff. >> Yes. >> All right. Item E, Eate, recommendation for core switch refresh. >> May I have a motion? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Thank you. Any discussion? >> Yes. This is a recommendation to uh replace our core switch switches within the district. So, -ate is a program pro provided by the Federal Communications Commission or some people will hear it called
031FCC. Um, it actually gives discounts to school districts based on their free and reduced numbers. It allows us to um perform and upgrade a lot of our infrastructure in infrastructure for technology. Um, based on our free and reduced percentage, we will receive an 80% discount. So, we pay 20% of the cost. um any vendor um that's recommended is approved through -ate um and then they receive um either reimbursements or credits through the federal government. So based on that um we have our project costing $172,557.13. Our cost is $43,13929. Uh that is the recommendation to approve CDW government for a quote of $215,69642. >> Roll call, please. >> Mrs. Stiff, >> yes. Mr. Fitzpatrick, >> yes. >> Mrs. Lynn, >> yes. >> Mrs. Goname, >> yes. >> Mr. Coffee, >> yes. >> All right. F A
032Basos. abatement um asbestos I know how to say these words abatement for Juliet central and Juliet west renovation projects >> so move second >> any discussion >> yes this is a re recommendation uh to provide work at Juliet central and Juliet west um this is getting ahead of the projects that we have for the summer so part of the abatement will occur during the spring and um at central and then at class right at the end of the school year. It prepares us so that we can start construction um as soon as school is over um at the end of May. >> Thank you. Roll call, please. >> Mr. Coffee? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Stiff? >> Yes. >> Mr. Fitzpatrick? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Lynn? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Geronimare? >> Yes. I'm going to
033go to item G. Second reading of board policy policy 2 um-240. It's on 660 curriculum content. Do we have any just or may I have a motion? >> So move. >> Second. >> All right. Now any discussion? >> This was about the potato family. It had some different um changes within I um had selected the defaults for the district um of what what we would continue to teach. >> Any other discussion? Sorry, keep forgetting. >> All right, roll call, please. >> Mr. Coffee? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Stiff? >> Yes. >> Mr. Fitzpatrick? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Lynn? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Groare? >> Yes. Uh item H second reading of recommendations one policy 7-270 administration of medicine at schools I have a motion >> so move >> second >> all right discussion no seeing none
034may I please uh have roll call >> Mrs. Groare >> yes >> Mr. Coffee >> yes >> Mrs. Stiff >> yes >> Mr. Fitzpatrick >> yes >> Mrs. Yes. >> Item two, policy 7-190, student behavior, um, electronic equipment. May I have a motion? >> Some moved. >> Second >> discussion. >> What's that for the phones? >> They're going to have a cubby or >> Yes. Um it is aligned with the presentation last month from the committee and um there is a recommendation for a holder that is um over the door of a classroom and that's where they would be held in the classrooms. >> Awesome. >> Any other discussion? >> All right. Roll call, please. >> Mrs. Lynn, >> yes. >> Mrs. Coronair, >> yes. >> Mr. Coffee, >> no. Uh, as discussed in the
035previous meetings, uh, I think it's wrong timing, wrong message. >> Mrs. Stiff, >> yes, >> Mr. Fitzpatrick. >> Yes. >> Thank you. We're going to go on to personnel items. And for this, may I please have a motion for personnel items 1 through five and 7 through 13? So move. >> We have a second. >> Second. >> Thank you. Any discussion? >> All right. May I please have roll call? >> Mr. Fitzpatrick? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Lynn? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Graome? >> Yes. >> Mr. Coffee? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Stip? >> Yes. >> Now, may I have a motion for line item six, professional change of status? >> So moved. Second. >> All right. Any discussion? Roll call, please. >> Mrs. Lynn, >> yes. >> Mr. Fitzpatrick, >> no. >> Mrs. Graome, >> yes.
036>> Mr. Coffee, >> yes. >> Mrs. Stiff, >> yes. >> All right, moving on to J. Student discipline recommendation. Mr. Coffee, please. After receiving deliberating the information contained in the hearing officer's report, the board of education is charged with deciding one whether removing the child from his or her learning environment is in the best interest of the school, what the rationale is for the specific duration of the recommended expulsion, whether all appropriate and available behavioral and disciplinary interventions were exhausted, and whether the continued presence in school would either pose a threat to the safety of other students, staff, or members of the school community, or substantially disrupt, impede or interfere with the operation of the school. The board of education must then convene into public session to formally vote on the motion to expel if
037the expulsion is the consensus arrived at during executive session. I make a motion under case number C252614 recommending expulsion until January of 2027 and placement at Lincoln School. >> I have a motion. So move. >> Yeah. Roll call, please. >> Mrs. Stiff, >> yes. >> Mr. Fitzpatrick, >> yes. >> Mrs. Lynn, >> yes. >> Mrs. Guare, >> yes. >> Mr. Coffee, >> yes. >> All right. Thank you. Um, we're going to go ahead and go to unfinished business. >> I'm sorry. >> Oh, sorry. >> We voted one through six. >> One through five and then seven. >> Six >> through 12 and then >> Oh, we did. Uh, yeah, we did seven through 13. >> I'm sorry, I missed it. >> Yeah, >> go ahead. I'm sorry. >> No, you're good. Sorry. Um, unfinished business.
038Do we have any? >> None. >> Okay. Um, do we have any new business? >> All right. board reports if we want to give any >> any board reports. I attended the um state of the district which was really good to see all the community partners come out and um also the community expo which again was really neat to see all the community partners and the cafeteria filled and how there was job recommend or people there with um hiring and it was just a really good turnout and I was um excited to be there. Yeah, >> just a reminder for the joyful uh brunch, you can still get your tickets. They're going fast though, so I get them as soon as possible. You can also do sponsorships. And again, this is going to um benefit
039MAC mentoring, which benefits many of our students, including our um just want to shout out to the the boosters club also. And again, this is in honor and memory of Michael Austin Clark, our friend. All right. >> I can I have a Can I share? Is that okay? Under public comments. >> Oh, yeah. There we go. Yeah. Announcements and public comments. >> Thanks. Um I I just want to thank you for sharing about that. I want to thank Christine, her team, all the leadership um for the work they did with not only say the district, but the community connections expo. Those are two huge events that we've had since the last board meeting. Um and it's been non-stop. And so, thank you, thank you, thank you. Um, also, anybody who's out there streaming, I wish
040we could have made this announcement when we had all of our students here, but the CED internship submissions are due on the 20th. We sent a push out to our kids today. As a reminder, we're doing pretty well. We almost have 200 um submission from each of our campuses. So, that is wonderful. So, hopefully we have that last push. Thank you for sharing the joyful brunch. We also have the JTHs Foundation trivia on March 8th. Um so there sponsorships available. It's a fun event. Um if you can attend, you can call to get information or you can go to the foundation website. Um also very proud that um the 2026 Chamber Award Celebration is on February 24th and JTHs has been nominated um for an award in the category of education. You don't know if
041you win until you're there. So, we're either really happy or really sad. So, um but we're going to be there to celebrate no matter what. Um and then, um due to new legislation, we are going to have to change the March board meeting um from March 17th to March 18th, but we will put um communication out. But to what? >> March 17th to March 18th. Um their new legislation went into effect in November where you cannot have school board meetings on any type of election day. Um and so that includes all the various elections and so that was new legislation. So we will amend the date of the board meeting because of that. But we will put communication out. That's it. >> Thank you for remember reminding us all that we need to go out
042and and vote. Your vote is your voice. Your voice is your vote. >> All right. One little extra thing. I just want everyone to remember that when children have big emotions, it's our job to be the calm in the chaos. Abolish ice. Thank you. >> Roll call. I'm ready. >> Uh, Mr. Fitzpatrick. Yes, >> Mrs. Lynn. >> Yes, >> Mrs. Gon. >> Yes, >> Mr. Coffee. >> Yes, >> Mrs. >> Yes. >> Thank you.