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March 11, 2026 — Meeting Transcript
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Web page within the school and adjusting to how to use that with the new website but I think that the new website actually as they're realizing is going to be much more useful and user friendly for them to push out information. That was part of the conversation. The other part was around prop O and how PTOs can help support prop O. They ultimately all decided... each school kind of had different feelings about it but they decided as a collective group that each school's PTO is doing a DOUGH for prop O night. They're doing a mod pizza fundraiser night or day and night I should say. I think on March 31st you might have seen it on social media where they are donating mod pizza will donate a percentage of the proceeds to prop O in name of all the school's PTOs so I think it's great that as a collective group they've kind of all decided to do something together. I also wanted to highlight a little bit about the celebration of black achievement. I'm sorry Cameron's not here to hear this but those of us that attended I think would all agree it is a really great event. I would love to work on getting more people there because I actually feel bad that more people didn't see this.
A couple items on the agenda. We had a good discussion around replacing the scoreboard or the swimming timing system that's used for competitions and I expect that may come up for a vote at our next meeting but we had a good conversation around it and... Of course. And you know so everything is going great. Okay. Anything to add to that Ben? Okay. Chris did you have a governing council meeting? You want to tell us about that? Yes. The governing council meeting several things. First we got a pack update which we always do but this one what they're trying to do is restructure pack. They found that many participating are interested in the pack and partner districts don't have a robust pack within their districts so now the pack at SSD is trying to do a better job of sort of centralizing all the pack and having... So there's going to be some outreach around that and some more discussion but they're really trying to reinvent that program so it touches more families because in certain districts it's touching no families so they're trying to really help that process. We're lucky that we have what we have and each district can have a parent that they want but they're trying to do a better job of making sure that every family in SSD is aware that there is a parent committee that they can go to for...
So there's going to be some outreach around that and some more discussion but they're really trying to reinvent that program so it touches more families because in certain districts it's touching no families so they're trying to really help that process. We're lucky that we have what we have and each district can have a parent that they want but they're trying to do a better job of making sure that every family in SSD is aware that there is a parent committee that they can go to for... The other thing we did was we oh they discussed the FY 25 audit was clean so that was great. That was good news to hear and we did the board of elections, the SSD board of education elections. One was contested and we have to vote again in June and we'll do that but otherwise we have some new board of education members over there and that's it. Great. Thank you. I had a PTO council meeting. I would say they talked... they are still kind of in continuous talks like with Gina about the new website and how to use their... you know each PTO has kind of a... Web page within the school and adjusting to how to use that with the new website but I think that the new website actually as they're realizing is going to be much more useful and user friendly for them to push out information. That was part of the conversation.
I'm sorry Cameron's not here to hear this but those of us that attended I think would all agree it is a really great event. I would love to work on getting more people there because I actually feel bad that more people didn't see this. It's really great that we highlight our own black alumni and their successes and they are so proud and our current students and current students and the alumni are so proud to have come from Clayton High School. They each every year talk about that a lot and they have such great memories and relationships with teachers and specific memories of classes and teachers that got them to where they are today. Anyway and yes we involve our students from elementary on up in the program and I just think it's great so thank you to those board members that attended that as well and the community members and also just wanted everyone to know we had a great meeting with some former Board of Education members to educate them on Prop O and took them on a tour of Gay Field to see the facilities there which I hadn't actually toured the facilities yet either so that was eye opening for me as well to see the needed changes over there and it's always great regardless to engage with former board members like Dr. Halscher mentioned Frank earlier.
Anyway and yes we involve our students from elementary on up in the program and I just think it's great so thank you to those board members that attended that as well and the community members and also just wanted everyone to know we had a great meeting with some former Board of Education members to educate them on Prop O and took them on a tour of Gay Field to see the facilities there which I hadn't actually toured the facilities yet either so that was eye opening for me as well to see the needed changes over there and it's always great regardless to engage with former board members like Dr. Halscher mentioned Frank earlier. I think they have such historical knowledge to share which is valuable so I always enjoy getting together with that group so that was good too. Anything anybody else attended? I don't think so. Okay we can adjourn Chris. Move that the Board of Education adjourn. Thank you.