November 11, 2020 — Meeting Minutes

they were very creative very thoughtful
and
i wanted to bring tom uh here so we
could recognize
him as a representative of all the
librarians library assistants
so tom could you just talk a little bit
about what you all did
to make it such a meaningful experience
for our students
yeah sean absolutely and thank you uh
for the recognition
so this summer before the district made
its decision
about our learning models for the school
year there was something that was really
apparent
to our district librarians and that was
we needed a method
of distributing books to students that
would work in any learning environment
in the spring we relied really heavily
on sora our e-book and audio book
service
for digital access to titles but we got
a lot of feedback
from students and parents and that told
us that for some of our students
there was a desire to hold physical
books in their hands
and for others our growing but new
ebook and audiobook collection could not
compete with the thousands of titles
in our print collection that we have
carefully curated over the years
and so the librarians knew that we
needed both print and digital resources
to meet the needs of students
in the upcoming possible learning
environments
so in mid-july the librarians and the
library assistants began to meet and
make plans that had two
really important goals the first one was
to get the right books
to the right students regardless of
format or learning environment
and the second was to do this while
prioritizing the health and the safety
of
librarians library assistants students
and staff
and so we look to leading information
from the american library association
and
the american association of school
librarians and some real critical tests
that focused on
the kova 19 virus and its lifespan on
books
specifically done by the realm project
which stands for reopening
archives libraries and museums and then
these expert viewpoints were then
coupled with the guidelines that were
coming out from the district
and that led us to a clear way to
connect our students with
information and literature librarians
and library assistants began the year
in all of our libraries with curbside
pickup services
students and parents could request
specific titles or librarians could help
match books up with student interest
and books were distributed print books
were distributed safely
and quarantined before going back out to
other students
funds allocated from last year's board
report
were dedicated to continuing to improve
our district's ebook and audiobook
offerings
so before the kindergarten classes
arrived back into our building in early
october
over 2400 print books were checked out
mainly through that curbside
pickup service and at the same time we
had over 3 300 ebooks and audio books
checked out through sora
and with all of those we had just
through sora we had over 2500 hours of
reading taking place
through the digital service by hundreds
of clayton students
and i think that those numbers are
important but equally important are the
connections that were made
students were able to find comfort in
revisiting a favorite book
continue with the series that they love
find new
and fascinating information or dive into
that
new story that helps them escape from
the world for a moment or
maybe make even a little more sense of
this world
as we have classes full of students
returning to the school building that
same system
continued as students requested books
online
and have had them delivered to
classrooms or a common pickup spot
as well as continuing with our curbside
pickup service for our learning at home
students and students continue to read
and listen to books online
as well we've been able to be nimble and
supportive when students find themselves
at home for extended periods
and need and want books to read for
curricular needs or for enjoyment
so i can't emphasize enough the group
effort from the entire library staff
both in conceptualizing the large and
the small details around this plan
and implementing those details on a
daily basis
additional time to help students
digitally browse to
select books that are going to be
meaningful for them to pull books
ourselves
to safely quarantine books adds hours
cumulatively to the work that the
librarians and the library assistants do
on a daily basis so again
thank you sean for this recognition for
this team effort
that we do for the students
thank you tom and on behalf of the
administration and the board of
education we really do appreciate
all that you and the school librarians
and the library assistants did
and it is what you said was really
important how to be nimble and and you
knew how to pivot
and set an example for how to adjust in
a time of need and i'm also going to
just take a few seconds to
recognize you tom because you know you
don't know that i was going to
recognize you this but i just found out
yesterday
that you were selected as the second
vice president of the missouri
association of school librarians
which is a huge honor and it's great
that you're representing
our school district and then
representing the state of missouri too
so
that is huge so thank you so much for
all of your work and your leadership
and uh thank you and extend our thanks
to all the
the librarians and our librarian
assistants
i will thank you sean and thank you
board
and then joe i just also want to just
take a few moments to
recognize that today is november 11th
and it's veterans day
and so want to just take an honor to
take the time to
uh honor the men and women who have
served in our u.s
military and uh we know that we've had
teachers that have served in the
military we know that we have had
lots of community members and we know
some of our students have gone into the
military
and just want to take that moment to
recognize um
all of those people who have served in
the us military and we want to recognize
our own because david gulick
also was in the oklahoma army national
guard
and so thank you for your service and so
i just want to put that out there since
it is veterans day and we're having the
meeting on that day and
and want to say thank you to all those
people who've served our country
thank you
thank you sean and uh i certainly um
on behalf of the board want to give
thanks to the librarians and library
assistants but also to all the veterans
and
those who've served and including you
david so thank you
um for your service so
we are gonna move on to uh
superintendent communications so handing
it back to you sean
okay so as part of my superintendent
communications there are a few things
that i want to do
tonight is i want to give you some
general updates about some things that
are happening within the district
i also want to give you an update about
our return to uh returning to in-person
learning
i want to also just talk a little bit
about our district strategic plan which
is
part of our action items tonight and
then give a quick up
equity update so just a few things for
general updates i wouldn't recognize our
varsity boys soccer team who won the
district championship last week
and just wanted to make sure the board
was aware of that they
they played against ledoux and won and
then they went to
uh sectionals and um was
beat webster groves on friday on
saturday night and so it was a really
exciting game and so
um they did play in cape girardeau last
night and did not win that but
um we are really really proud of our
boys varsity soccer team so
and then the other thing i just think
it's important to remember and i shared
this with the board
is that just like our librarians our
teachers have learned how to pivot and
try to do things differently in a
creative way
and this past weekend we had our
poe in the park which was the theater
performance in
shaw park and so we had students who
were putting on vignettes from
edgar allan poe we had dance routines we
had music we had
skits we had our orchestra playing
it turned shawl park into something that
i've never
never experienced it was truly
incredible and it's just like we've
we've talked about is that this
experience of the pandemic and being in
a different type of learning environment
has caused us to think differently and
thinking differently is is going to
potentially influence how we're going to
do things in the future
and so uh maybe some of you are able to
see that but i just want to recognize
clayton high school for pivoting with
our arts programs
and then on friday i wanted just to let
everyone know that
uh dan kaczowski and i are going to be
attending the
virtual online uh national blue ribbon
award
and dan's going to accept the national
blue ribbon for clayton high school
and again that's a huge honor for our
district and want to just make you aware
that we'll be doing that on friday
and then uh joe mentioned that we are
going to have um
we had a added contract onto our
uh agenda tonight and that has to do
with the the informational item that uh
it is presented in the board
memo this past week around safety and
security and so is the contract that
we were able just to get today so i
wanted to make you aware of that
so in terms of the returning to learn uh
our in-person running returning to learn
in our in-person learning
since october 5th we've had our uh
students back
in schools actually from the first day
of school we've had students in our
schools
um and just have built built capacity
uh in terms of build bringing in
students on a gradual basis starting
with our elementary schools
this past week on november 9th we
welcomed our middle and high school
students back using a hybrid model
and we still maintain our learning at
home students
and then soon we're going to be sending
out communication about
our second semester uh i want to just
say that
um i recognize the
the emotion and i recognize um the
the fear that people might have in terms
of going back to school
and we don't make these decisions very
lightly
and i will say that i feel very
confident the plans that we have put in
place to mitigate
risk within our buildings we can't
eliminate risk we can
minimize them as much as possible and i
want to say thank you to
our teachers for doing such an
incredible job
of again pivoting and having to
um approach learning in a new way so
that way our students can be with them
in person so that way they can actually
see their students faces
and being able to interact with them in
a way that's different than zoom
and i know our teachers have done an
incredible job with on remote learning
and there's could be the potential that
we would have to go back to remote
learning at some point
but i will say we're going to take
advantage of having our students in
front of us
and uh really want to say thank you to
all of the teachers who are really
the heroes in the situation and also our
our team that has our administrative
team who's put
so many things in place to make this
successful i will say that i spent the
last
three days at clayton high school just
helping and standing in the hallways and
directing students
and it was it was incredible to see the
students
again and saw a lot of smiling face not
smiling faces i saw smiling spaces in
their eyes
and um but i had a few students say
thank you
and um how glad they were uh to be back
and
um and i and i also talked to a few
teachers who
were excited too about seeing um their
kids again so
um i will say that we are going to
we are going to continue to make sure
that we are monitoring the
the the uh stu
the anybody who has uh
contracted covent and making sure that
you know if we're keeping track of that
we're also looking at our quarantines um
and so we are
really working to try to minimize
transmission transmissions in our school
and those schools that have opened um
have not seen
transmissions within their schools there
are uh
issues with things that are happening
within communities and maybe people who
aren't
adhering to those guidelines and so
we're hoping that
um we're not going to have to uh
change and pivot again but if we need to
we'll be prepared to do that
so as i said as i said before there are
definitely benefits to having our
students back
with us in terms of being responsive
being able to
uh see the students emotions i will say
that we also have challenges to it
and this isn't an easy process and so
some of the challenges that we face this
week is that
um you know again kind of quelling those
fears and anxieties
that people have about being back in
school we have
a positivity rate that is going up
again in our region and again i met with
medical professionals we met with dr
newlin again on the superintendent group
with our superintendent group
and they said that the most important
thing that we can do is put those risk
mitigation
measures in place to keep our students
safe and
our schools are actually the safest
place for our students because we have
so many different
measures in place the other challenge
though is that we can't control what's
happening on
outside we are going to have to do some
reminders for our students about
when they're walking home or um you know
what they're doing outside of school
and we also know that there are varying
perspectives on people feeling like we
should be in school we shouldn't be in
school
and we're managing that um but overall i
will say that this past three days has
been
fairly smooth and uh really i
i know that there's definitely some
challenges still and we're working to
make sure that we're addressing those
as best we can
we are going to continue looking at our
data within the region
and not within our school district and
so we are looking at data in terms of
uh positivity rates within our area but
the other thing that's most important is
that we're looking at transmission and
quarantines within our schools
and you probably have seen in the news
that there have been some schools that
have had to
either close individual buildings or
close the district
most of them have been individual
buildings and it's because they might
have seen an
uptick in transmissions or quarantines
within that building
and uh we will closely monitor our data
to see whether or not we would have to
do those things same things but we're
hopeful that
we will maintain um the low percentage
within our buildings
and the other thing too is that uh this
data gets updated every friday and so
this is our current data from last
friday
there are some change that we are we
have had some changes over the last
couple days
but we are working to make sure that
we're monitoring this data
to determine whether or not we would
have to make some changes like other
school districts at this point we do not
have to do that
so um i wanted to stop right there and
see if anyone had any questions before i
moved on to strategic plan
if you had any i can raise their hand
and i can
amy any questions david any questions
stacey any questions yeah just a quick
one
um sean have we worked out all the
transportation issues for
for kids midday
yes and so we had um we added two bus
lines in the midday for
why down middle school so that way our
students could get back and forth
uh from school and so uh we had
initially our first
on our first day we ran the run and um
we noticed we we found out we needed to
add some additional stops and so
mary jo her team and facilities added a
few more stops to accommodate students
who needed that so yes we've been able
to do that
good thanks jason any questions
no questions okay thanks uh caitlyn any
questions
thank you kim any questions
okay thanks gary any questions real
quick
thanks joe um sean i obviously
we know that we're operating in a very
fluid and constantly
changing environment um
with new data coming from lots of
different sources i just wondered if you
could maybe talk about
what what is the best place for people
to monitor
in terms of information that's actually
going to affect whether we have to make
any kinds of changes
you know we hear lots of different
things from lots of different sources
what's the
what's the best place for for people
just to stay tuned
to know whether a change is something
that might affect
what we have to do in the school
district
so we do have our data website that has
the
uh different uh charts that have are the
positivity rate looking at the age bands
and so we are really going to be seeking
the guidance from st louis county health
like we have done in the past and so
st louis county health um they
right now are continued that
recommendation that we could have
our schools in place in session um
i will say that there was an
announcement on friday on monday
that um you know the things might
potentially change and so we have to
uh if they're noticing that they're
feeling that the data is telling us
uh that we need to make a change either
at
all of our levels or at one of our
levels and i'm suspecting if any of our
levels would
be at the high school because that's
where uh we're seeing some
increase in terms of positivity rate um
but our website does have that
information
but we are going to be really seeking
the guidance from st louis county health
on whether or not we would um
would need to change again to remote
learning what i would say is that
because we're putting in as some of the
medical professionals will tell us
is that because we're putting we will
see a positivity rate that's in the
region
but again if we're keeping the risk
mitigation measures
in place that will lower the uh
possibility of transmissions with
actually within our school setting
and so that is really the most important
thing we can do is to have
masks uh to make sure that we are
practicing social distancing
hand hygiene making sure that we've done
things like
our um air filtration system so i think
that we've done a really nice
job if you look at our buildings we've
even looked at the structure in terms of
the way the hallways
are divided um so i think those are the
most important factors
great thanks sean
and i don't have any questions thanks
sean i guess
maybe just a quick comment just want to
thank again you and
the administrators and the whole staff i
mean i know this is
very very difficult and you guys are
working tirelessly so thank you
for all the work you're doing thanks joe
and i
and i would say too is that if um people
are listening out there i think that
if if people uh you know some of our
parents
or students uh quick thank you to our
teachers
and uh the handwritten card or something
like that goes a long way
and just letting people know how much
you're appreciated how much they're
appreciated
so tonight i also want to talk to you a
little bit about our strategic plan
which is up for an action item tonight
and really excited about what we've been
able to do with our district strategic
plan
and i um i'm feeling like this is very
different than what we've ever done
and i feel it's very student learner
centered it's aspirational
it's innovative and thinking about how
we can do approach learning in new ways
and really equity focused and so uh
tonight you're going to be asked to
approve the objectives and the goals
themselves
and i wanted just to clarify with the
board so that way you understand when
we're talking about our goals
those are those big broad overarching
areas that we want to identify as
areas that match our mission and vision
it's real big picture um they're bold
but they're attainable
and our objectives are what would be
true if we were actually
attaining those goals meaning that what
are going to be the milestones to know
that we are moving towards
achievement of those goals and those are
have to be measurable
and so one of the things that we have
with our objectives
is a data dashboard that is going to
monitor
our objectives and the action steps
are those things that are that the
administration and the staff
has to be has to do to reach those
objectives
and so those are going to change on an
ongoing basis based off the data that
we're seeing
and in the document you have it doesn't
have
all the action steps listed and that's
on purpose because
the goal of the work that we're doing is
going to be fluid
and i think where we have actually um in
our previous strategic plan
we weren't able to be as um flexible
with the work
that we were doing because we said that
every single action step was already in
the the goal in the strategic plan which
made it like
a 70-page document and then what happens
is there's any changes to that we had to
adjust it and so
the the action steps are going to be
something that's going to come forward
as part of our reports
but they're going to be monitored by
that data dashboard
and i wanted just to share with you is
that the data dashboard is something
that
is going to be on our district website
can you see that i just want to make
sure you guys are seeing that okay
so our data dashboard and this isn't up
yet we're not going to put it up until
after the board
makes the final approval but um the the
data dashboard is going to be
interactive
and so people can actually click on
these and uh
numbers the numbers will pop up and it's
gonna be and we also have benchmarks
that are set on here as well
in some of these charts so this is
something that we're still going to have
to add to
uh because we have some additional
action steps actually and objectives
that need uh some additional measures
and so we are going to be adding to it
it's part of this um evergreen model
that we've talked about
but uh this is something that we are
going to be holding ourselves
accountable to
i wanted just to share with you these
are the goals that we have in place
and you know our subcommittee has worked
really hard
uh to make sure that we have had we've
looked at this we've actually had
students look at this we've had
other teachers look at this and um
and i really love the way how we ended
up with the catchphrase of a place for
everyone to grow as learners
in head and heart i think that's really
easy for us to remember
but it's connected to our goals so a
place for everyone is goal one
we ensure all learners regardless of
their identity feel safe and valued
to grow as learners is about the
personalized growth of
equitable personalized and individual
learning experience
and then head in heart is around that
social emotional
and um physical well-being of our
students and so
uh i'm really i think that's an easy way
for us to remember
our strategic plan goals
and then uh you saw the strategic plan
document
it has it's in its final state and you
can see that our communications
department
did an incredible job of putting this
plan together
and making sure that it includes uh a
background
of why how our strategic plan came to be
and including that profile the graduate
that's grounding
our strategic plan and so um
hopefully you had an opportunity to look
at that and
um i just wanted to guys give you an
update about that strategic plan before
we
did that for approval tonight and the
subcommittee will talk a little bit
about that late about some of their
contributions to that
um in terms of our equity update i just
want to let the board know that
uh cameron poole has been working really
uh
a lot around the development of our
committee and so
he has been uh contacting individuals
and
uh talking to them about how they could
potentially be a part of the
uh equity committee that we're going to
be forming
and we'll be sending more information to
you about that soon
uh but cameron has been doing multiple
jobs
uh in terms of professional learning
personal coaching
and i will just say today that um we
were short
uh some staffing over at wydown and he
was teaching art
so he is multi-talented and um
wanted to say thank you to him for his
work lately so
and then i'm going to turn it over to
caitlin to see if she can provide an
update to the board
yes so we are on our third day of
in-person school so here are some
observations from being
inside the building i'm going to break
this into three topics
sanitary measures schedule and teaching
so
as you all know the desks are being
sanitized after every class and a
sitting chart is being used
some effective measures that i've
noticed are that some teachers with
smaller class sizes are arranging their
seating charts
so that students don't have to sit in
the same seating classes that are back
to back
i've also observed that teachers are
making dividing lines on the floor to
ensure that they
are socially distanced from students and
i've heard from students that they think
the six feet markers are effective
although they would like them
in more in areas like the commons as for
the hallways they're separated into two
lanes
although students do tend to get a bit
crammed together
during passing period and especially
when entering through the front entrance
and exiting the building overall
students felt nervous
at first but are more comfortable now
with the safety measures that are being
taken by the teachers and the
administration
um some of the biggest worries of
students are other students not
enforcing social distancing measures
also how long in person's school will
last
as for the schedule a couple students
are concerned with how
we can get through the curriculum in
time um with the
lower time in class we have now compared
to regular school and online
school especially for those taking ap
classes
and who have to work on a national ap
curriculum
students have also noticed that class
sizes can be disproportionate with the
alphabetical divide
usually there is a few less students in
some classes in the afternoon
in addition morning students felt like
they needed more time to adjust to the
early schedule
after the online schedule and some of
them don't feel
like the schedule is productive for them
with the early time and then
afternoon as for teaching i just want to
say a big thank you to our teachers who
are making a large effort to teach in
person
while also keeping students online
engaged generally there are fewer
students online which can sometimes be a
barrier to students who
can only interact with the other
students online
however some teachers have been having
students participate in full class
discussions
on speaker so that everyone in person
and online can participate together a
few students have classes with teachers
that
are in quarantine so when that occurs
teachers are zooming in from home with
the substitute in the room
and students have found that when class
is under these circumstances
it's most effective when the teacher is
displayed on the smart board
rather than every student opening the
zoom on their own which can get a bit
clunky and echo around the room
thank you sean and thank you caitlyn
appreciate both reports
so we're going to move on to study items
i do just want to note for the board
um some of you may have gotten texts or
noted that um
the live stream youtube apparently is
having challenges
um nationwide with their live streaming
so i'm not sure that we're actually
we're recording this meeting
but we are having some challenges with
the live stream so i just want to kind
of note that
as we move forward um and that's a
youtube issue
right now so we have two study items and
um tony gets the pleasure of having both
and the first one is the 5.01 the first
reading of policy gbe
bb employee alcohol and drug testing
tony great thanks joe good evening
everyone
um so this is the first read of each of
these policies that i'm presenting
tonight
the first one like joe said is policy gb
ebb employee alcohol and drug testing
so the way the policy is written there
are a few revisions and essentially
you'll see what the highlighted changes
that were
outlined in the policy is that the drug
testing rules really have not changed
but what has changed is the way that the
employers will find the information so
currently employers
contact previous employers to determine
whether a violation has occurred
and we will need to continue to do that
by law for um
three years while the clearinghouse
database becomes populated with the
updated submissions because that became
that went into effect january of 2020 so
after three years
employers may rely on the clearinghouse
um
and from that point moving forward and
uh the way that everything is in the
updated policy we're comfortable with
the way the wording
is presented
thank you tony um
gary any questions
no i don't have any questions thank you
thank you kim any questions
okay thanks caitlin any questions
thank you jason any questions no no
questions
thank you stacey any questions
thank you david any questions uh no no
thank you
thank you amy any questions nope
okay and i don't have any questions
either
so thank you tony we can move on to 5.02
which is the first reading of policy
gcba
which is professional staff compensation
great so this policy is being updated to
reflect
the new legal requirements that were
outlined in house bill 604
uh specifically in this one regarding
teacher externships
essentially with hb 604 a requirement
now is that districts
um will allow teachers to move on the
teacher salary schedule
through a teacher externship there's
certain requirements with the
externships that dusty has outlined
and to sum it up the externship is an
experience
in which the teacher supervised by the
teacher's school or the district gains
practical experience
through observation interactions with
employers or employees at a missouri
business
so dusty has clearly published
requirements for the externships
it has to be district approved and then
they also give an equivalency schedule
to help provide
guidance on how to convert the
externship experiences
into movement on the salary schedule
additionally
um in in this policy update it outlines
how a salary freeze
would be when it's lifted in a case
where
if there were multiple years where there
were salary freeze so
that this is really just verbiage in
here to be proactive in the rare
situation where a district would have to
go to
a salary freeze for multiple years but
really what it outlines is
if the district was to reinstate um
salary after the frozen salary it would
go to the very next step they would not
be required to
play catch up with multiple years
great thank you tony um amy any
questions
nope thanks david any questions
no thank you stacey any questions
thank you jason any questions
no no questions thank you caitlyn any
questions
thank you kim any questions
thank you gary any questions no thanks
john
great thanks and i don't have any
questions either thanks tony
um so we're moving on to uh
information items and we have a 6.01
which is safety and building improvement
plans update
and this is uh chris tunnell i think
yeah thank you joe uh appreciate that um
so we came last to the board i believe
back in toward at the end of may when we
were wrapping up the safety study
that we had put together and throughout
most of 2019 with kind of a general
overview
of what we're doing and i i know mary jo
is on here too she's been a great
partner with me and
in helping work through kind of
identifying the next steps
and that's kind of where we are tonight
and bringing you that update and as
as sean mentioned earlier um we are
bringing a contract
for approval that mary jo can talk about
with the board to actually start
implementing
all of these items so we've had made
some pretty good progress
in working through all of the different
items that we've identified
that we want to tackle as a result of
the safety study and safety audit
that we did and done a really good job
of actually separating those out into
things that our folks are able to do
in-house whether they're you know just
reconfiguring door locks
or installing additional security
cameras that sort of thing and things
that we would actually need to work
with an architect and a contractor to do
so we we've got that scope separated out
into two pretty clear buckets
and then actually put together a
timeline for implementing these projects
which will actually start um this fall
and work into next spring um with the
bulk of
you know the work that would be most
disruptive
being completed during the summer of
2021 and the summer of 2022.
obviously because we're talking about
building plans and security issues you
know we don't have a whole lot of detail
to outline about the type of
improvements that we're going to do
in in this type of form just because
some of those improvements identify
um some vulnerabilities in our building
that the safety study uh honed in on
which is actually why we wanted to do
that safety study
but the types of projects that we'll be
doing in
all of our different schools are adding
and replacing security cameras
on all of our campuses i'm looking at
how we have door controls
and monitors to better have a sense of
the type of security that's in those
buildings
reconfiguring the way that visitors and
parents come into our schools
during the school day to really really
you know account for a single point of
entry and control
um in all of our buildings and and to
make that point of entry even more
secure
um than it already is and also looking
at the way that we can control security
in some of our outdoor spaces
specifically over at gay field and attic
field and
the field there up on y down to try to
make them
spaces that are not only harder to get
into when our students are there
but also allow for safe and efficient
egress
if there's ever a situation where
there's a lot of
individuals that need to leave that area
that's kind of just a highlight of some
of the safety projects
as you know we also took a look at
gender neutral bathrooms
in all of our schools and have put
together
solutions for addressing that and
renovating some of our existing
facilities into gender neutral bathrooms
at all of our different school buildings
and
doing those i think in an
age-appropriate way so trying to make
those changes that are appropriate for
a high school and middle school and an
elementary level
thank you chris um so this is an
information item but i want to make sure
if the board has any comments or
clarifying questions
um they're addressed so um gary any
comments clarifying questions
no thank you great thanks kim
great thanks uh caitlyn
great thanks jason no thank you
stacy no thanks thank you david
yeah so chris this on
on board docs we don't really have a
breakout here so
uh is there do we have an uh like a
written outline of kind of where we
carved up that work um
you know internal versus external
because what we reviewed
in the fall were um a pretty healthy
number of blueprints
with a lot of work in there and i would
like to just kind of
wrap my head around what's what's in
scope versus what's out of scope
um and i know we've got an action item
here for an aia contract which is
fairly boilerplate generally speaking
but it's
um you know we just got it an hour ago
so it's hard to extract that
that work from a 40 page doc in in
25 minutes of multitasking and
we if and chris if i can add on the
contract
the scope of work is not included
because it does provide more detail than
we want to
have posted but every contract that
would come forward
um with every contractor would be
approved by the board at that point in
time
so david back to your original question
though we do have a pretty detailed not
a budget and scope of work
um at this point that that lines out
exactly
what are the things that we're moving
forward with bond architects and that
are going to be implemented by
a contractor and then what are the
projects that we're going to be able to
do
on our side and kind of a timeline and
implementation
calendar for actually accomplishing
those by the summer of 2022 is kind of
our end point
yeah if you would be so kind as just to
share that with us i mean i'm fine with
offline but
that'd be a big nice to review
yeah and um we were working on the
documents
uh today and finalizing everything and
so um
we're supposed to get the final
documents hopefully by the end of the
week
so the contract if i can just say this
now
is based on a percentage of construction
costs
not budget so we have a we're working
with a budget
and what we'll pay the architects what's
in that contract is a 10
fee on the actual contract cost so when
we bring those contracts forward
is when they would get a percentage of
that so basically that overall contract
we do have a budget that we're going off
of but the actual fee is based off
ten percent of contract costs
thank you um and can i just say
something joe too i think that
we wouldn't normally be providing a
contract this
late in the game i i'm gonna say sorry
to the board on this
and one of the reasons why is because we
wanted to
move forward with the work this summer
and we
and have moving having this contract
approved
earlier has been helping us stay on a
timeline and normally we wouldn't be
doing that so we apologize to the board
and we'll get you all the information
that you need so i just wanted to say
that
thanks sean um amy any questions
comments
i'll just note that i mean it looks like
the
costs of work are
around three and a half million dollars
so it's it's pretty substantive
um
are we um did a lawyer review the the
architect's agreement they
yeah and as as david mentioned they're
pretty boilerplate so it's pretty
standard uh revisions that we have to it
and um the three and a half million
dollars is basically the funds that we
have available from the sale of the
maryland building
so we're trying to stay in that budget
so those are funds that are set aside
they're not part of the operating budget
and they've been specifically earmarked
for this project
sure well yeah i mean the aia forms are
boilerplate but
a lot of times the lawyers make changes
because there's a lot of things in that
form
that are pretty geared towards the
architect especially like who retains
ownership over the
um plans and specs and
some some stuff like that and then
there's also i know obstructions in here
and like what's included in their um
scope of work and then
you know do we end up having to pay that
10 on all these additional
items so i was hoping the lawyer had had
negotiated all that
yeah and i mean you can tell from that
form the edited
sections they have lines to the left
side of it um
and then at the bottom shows the
revisions so all the detailed revisions
are
are kept at the bottom
so so just one thing i mean i don't know
amy or david so
david i kind of have the same reaction
you did with the length of the contract
but
the reason i didn't have too many
questions and amy maybe you and
gary can weigh in on this from a legal
standpoint is if you
look at articles 9 4 or 9
5 it's got a termination by either party
and we can terminate within seven days
with written notice and then we just owe
the architect services already rendered
so that made me feel a little more
confident about
you know even though i don't know that
we've told them we have three and a half
million dollars set aside they're going
to find out now
this is a public meeting but if there's
anything that we're uncomfortable it
looks like we can get out
with a week's notice so oh i mean the
three and a half
the three and a half million is i got
that number from the aia from the
b101 yeah it's in the document
and that's what they're basing the work
off of the scope of work we're trying to
stay within that
budget and if you notice in their amy we
did make revisions to that is that
they know they have to stay within the
budget and if
the bids come back and they're not
they're responsible for making the
revisions
and that's on them to keep us in budget
awesome does this
wouldn't be alright if we just had a day
just before we approve everything
just one day like read this for a little
bit scan through it
ourselves but that would that would that
would that
slow us down at all
i think that i mean i'll speak for mary
jo but i think the concern is is that we
don't have a
the next regular board meeting is
december 16th
and um with with the timeline that we're
working with them to
to have any work completed this summer
um
we need to have construction documents
complete and be
bidding projects by um end of january
middle of february
uh this year to be on that timeline so
for us to really be able to
to leverage the next two summers to do
again what will be the most you know the
more disruptive pieces of
of this work and a big piece of that is
the gender neutral restrooms because to
do that work we're
doing a lot of major construction and
taking restrooms in our schools out of
service so we would not want to do that
um during the school year that type of
work is is
generally better to be done over the
summer so a lot of this as mary jo
said earlier is just really trying to to
maintain that timeline
so we could hold a special meaning if we
need one
for this right it's the pleasure i mean
i'll say that i'm not planning on
looking at this thing any
any further because if if we already
have hired council and they've already
redlined it and negotiated it i'm not
gonna
i mean these things are really hard to
get through and really technical
and i negotiate these quite frequently
and i
i'm not looking to get in the middle of
this one
well and and amy to to uh kim's point
i mean we have we have seven days notice
and and quite frankly we're not going to
have billable activity for at least a
week or two i mean under the best of
circumstances so
you know what i what i'm happy to do is
just kind of peel the onion back on this
a little bit personally over the next
few days
um and if something jumps out at me and
i go holy cow then i'll
shoot you guys a note but uh i i would
be fine
and i know we're kind of jumping around
on the agenda
a bit here but i i i would i would say
i'm i'm fine
just letting us go through knowing that
we've got such we've got the wiggle room
to back out
and uh with with little cost or
implications so um but i'll give it a
peek
it's just that the way they redlined
this is kind of a booger to to read
through quickly because they
they struck a lot of lines and then it's
and it's an addendum at the bottom so i
have to kind of piece it back together
to flow through the document it's a
little bit of a pain in the arse
um but oh it it's not you know aia stuff
is pretty
pretty well structured so i'll i'll give
it a read
may i ask a question mary jo um
timeline wise if the board approved this
next week i just want to just throw this
out there because um
would we still stay on time line like
and the reason i asked that is because
the board may have to
uh is still doing work around the exec
the
superintendent search and might have to
have an executive session next week
and so if they're meeting together i
mean how how
if they were doing that how how much
would that impact the timeline
um are you saying what day monday
tuesday
or monday or wednesday yeah
would that impact the timeline too much
for the
uh i don't think so i think that would
be fine
if we could get it approved next week
december 2nd we were a little concerned
um because basically they can't we we
have to get drawings
in order to get a big package out and we
really need to get it on the street in
december
and so it's just making a really tight
crunch so but next week
throw that out there in case the board
was because of the
the timeliness of this we were hoping to
get this to you earlier but i wanted
just to
provide that as another opportunity so
the what's the what's the board's
pleasure the um
we do have a executive session that we
had talked about
per kind of search next week next
wednesday
joe you're going gary i don't mean to
jump back in after saying i had no
questions i was kind of looking ahead to
the action
item section here but we've kind of kind
of blended these i
i guess um i mean just to be
very very pointed and very specific i
would
i would like to hear um
you know how much time our council had
to look at this and
if they've had sufficient time to review
it
suggest revisions negotiate revisions
that kind of thing i'm with amy like
i don't want to pretend that i can
um look at this and um
dive into every every paragraph of it
and understand it but i want to know
that our
actual hired counsel has done that so
that's that's kind of where my focus
would be and that's the only thing that
would affect
my decision today versus a week from now
so mary jo do you want to talk about do
our attorneys did
look at the contract today right yeah
so did they get it today too no
no no we got it last friday so
um we we've had basically we had two
days to review it
so and then did bond did they come did
they redline it and then they sent it
back to bond with
some red lines and did did bond uh
did they accept all of our our chains
did every change
okay so who do you know who retains
control over the
uh over the drawings
the drawings i think um i'm not listen
let me see
i'm just trying i can always try um hold
on i'm looking at my red line
that is in um hopefully
we have some ownership rights to them
we always get all of the drawings
afterwards
it's in section 7.4
if you want to look at that
i think it's in section 7.4
or maybe
it's in section seven so
okay
and there wasn't very much i don't think
there was any changes in section seven
except seven thirty seven
seven three yeah copy seven three yeah
it's in section
seven article seven sorry
yeah and you look at 7.2
percent so
so rather than i mean you know so we've
obviously skipped to uh 7.02 here to the
action item um our discussion of it
which is okay
because it's last minute so i just want
to go back i mean what's the board's
pleasure i mean do you want to
consider that i mean do you want to wait
we have a
we could tack this on next wednesday
right
well i mean it sounds like we've already
negotia i don't know
at this point we can it sounds like the
contract's been negotiated with bond so
i don't know
if we can at this point go back with
additional revisions
even if we have right marriage i don't
know
i'm sorry say that again said well it
sounds like our council negotiated
this contract already with bond
so i don't know if we could even at this
point go back with
additional revisions i think we could
if there's something if there's
something we're really wanting
so bond is they're just gonna um are
they gonna
they're gonna get bids and then they'll
contract with a um
with the gc or they're just going to
oversee the project
themselves
no we're not doing a gc we'll just
oversee the projects
with the architect yeah not on something
this small these are actually a lot of
small products
so we didn't even have a gc at the
center of clayton
and that was almost nine well actually
10 million
any any other thoughts
i'm fine voting on it tonight if if uh
amy and gary
think it's okay amy seems to probably
know more about this than the rest
i mean i will say this it's on it's on
the agenda and so
yeah we need to if we if you know we
decide if we're gonna make the motion or
not
um i mean what amy was concerned about
was the rights and in section seven two
you know it it shows that we've retained
our rights
so um upon completion of the project the
owner shall retain all rights the
drawings for their use in the
maintenance of future upgrades or
addition to the systems put in place
under this contract
so
and we can get out in seven days at any
time
and david did you i was thinking you did
you have something else you were
concerned about
no i i uh you know retention of the
drawings i
actually hadn't even gotten that far but
that would be the key for me
and um but like i said i'm fine with the
seven day
we've got the seven day out so i mean i
can tinker around with this over the
next few
days and you know if we need to kill it
then it's no big deal
so um i just don't know that we're
the seven of us are gonna find anything
that's materially a problem
um that our attorneys didn't already
grab so i
i don't know that it's an effective use
of time
so i'm gonna suggest that we um
fast forward to our action item 7.02
and we're going to come back to 7.01
since we're on this
and i'm going to ask gary for you to
read the motion
all right here we go uh 7.02
i move that the board of education
accepts the safety and security contract
with bond architects inc as presented
second okay it's been moved and seconded
any other questions or comments
okay all in favor
aye aye aye the opposed
okay it passes unanimously
um now we're going to go back to
uh 7.01 so thank you mary jo thank you
chris um
we know that you know it's um safety
stuff is tricky because you
there's certain things you don't want to
share publicly um
but of course we want to be as
transparent as we can and we want the
information so we
we understand there's a balance um so
7.01
is the of course our strategic plan the
school district of clayton's strategic
plan
um so you want to um read that motion
uh gary and then we'll kind of have some
comments
all right 7.01 i move that the board of
education
approves the goals and objectives of the
dis
the district strategic plan as presented
second okay it's been moved in seconded
and and what i want to do before i open
it up to comments or questions
is just because we had a subcommittee
and certainly sean gave us a uh
um kind of a summary of the strategic
plan but i just want to give kind of an
opportunity for the subcommittee
to speak to um
kind of their work and in this case
um although not characteristic i'm going
to start
and just speak to uh goal number one
and then um i think gary's gonna speak
to two
and stacy is going to speak to three so
what i just want to say about goal
number one
is i think it's a it's a really a nice
balance
of kind of the quantitative looking at
things like disparities of discipline
right i mean you know what's our uh
diversity of our
teaching uh our teachers and our staff
right and
and really the some of the commitments
of the board around
uh equity and anti-racism and anti-bias
but then it also includes really the
feelings
part and this is what i think is you
know i think both are unique
um to strategic plans but really
important
right because the perception of students
on how they
feel definitely affects their experience
in school
and quite honestly how they perform and
so i think it's a good mix
so that's what i'll say about goal one
gary
so uh with with the
introduction um you know as follows
before i get into goal number two i mean
i think the first thing that i want to
say is i just
really appreciate how much time um
sean and his staff took with
us as a subcommittee to um to go through
this this was not
a short process we had
i don't even know how many meetings or
how many hours
they were very patient with answering
questions from us
and you know accepting
uh challenges to things and and coming
up with ways to
explain and present things and
i appreciate that i felt like i learned
a lot about
a process that if i'm honest i was
probably a little bit cynical about
going into it it's like what are we
really doing here but i think we
um we we covered a lot of really good
good ground and i just appreciate their
their patience with us and their their
hard work and their input on it
throughout this process but specifically
focusing on goal number two
and why i was kind of glad to be able to
talk about this one in particular
um i think as we look at the language of
that
we'll commit to the educational growth
of our learners through an equitable
personalized and individualized learning
experience
i think those three words equitable
personalized and individualized
i've asked for explanations of what the
differences are
between those more than more than once
or twice
um and i think what we've done um
and what this this this provides us is a
really good
um explanation of what those things are
and why they're all important it's not
just
any one of those things so i really
appreciate that part of this
and how it allows for each of those
things to be addressed
as i read through the we will know when
we have achieved
this when parts of this i really get an
understanding for what we're trying to
do
and why all those things matter so
that's the part of it that was really
um important to me and that i felt like
a lot of time and effort
went into um and i think we've got some
really good things that that come out
and honestly i'm just excited to see
what everybody thinks about it and
uh what kind of what kind of input we
get
thanks gary stacy um hi
so before i talk specifically about goal
three
i want to echo a little bit what gary
said and just thank
the administrative team for working um
so hard on this
but also joe and gary um
for working also spending a lot of time
with me on this we spent a lot of time
together with sean but also with the
admin team and so i want to reassure the
rest of the board that
um it was time you know we spent a lot
of time on this but it was
time well spent all of our discussions
were very productive
and i too really enjoyed the process but
um
and i also wanted to point out that we
spent a significant amount of time
discussing
how each of these goals and objectives
would be measured
so as you've looked through it hopefully
you've seen
under each goal there is a measurement
under each statement we will know we
have achieved this goal when
and we were very intentional and
specific about making sure that each
item in this document could be measured
which is what ultimately will hold us
all accountable
for achieving these goals so hopefully
you noticed that
um goal three specifically is about
social emotional and physical well-being
and
we've we talk a lot about social and
emotional well-being
um at board meetings and just in the
district as a whole
and so this um goal
i find i was happy that this became a
priority as well and also
include including physical well-being
and
i love the statements of this one
because it's about
advocating for and taking care of
yourself but also the students learning
to demonstrate kindness and respect for
others
and learning habits that foster lifelong
physical wellness and
also what i think is so important
especially when we think of the profile
of a graduate is
them students are students learning
choices
that build a more inclusive community
because ultimately we want our graduates
to leave our school district and be
productive
members of our society and you know be
global citizens really so i
think this goal with social emotional
and physical well-being
encapsulates a lot of what we've been
talking about for a long time
you know on the school board and a lot
of these
uh points in this goal are measured by
our panorama surveys
um so you'll see um the emotional and
physical like well-being survey
data social emotional survey data that's
a lot from our panorama surveys that
we've talked
quite a bit about but we also added in
their community service hours which are
required you know at the high school for
on our society and some other things and
that's a way to track
that our students are becoming inclusive
members of the community so
we felt that part was important as well
and hopefully you've had time to look
through it and if not you will soon
um but i'm really pleased with the way
the whole document came together and i
think um
gary and joe and i worked really
together worked really well together
with the administrative team too
and i'm happy with it so
that's all thanks stacy um
amy any uh comments or questions
no other than i just wanted to thank um
the team stacy and joe and
gary for all their hard work and working
on this
um strategic plan i know that they had a
lot of meetings
um that the rest of us weren't involved
in so thank you for your
commitment to it thanks amy
david any comments or questions
um really just i guess just to comment
i and i don't know if a lot of you guys
know this but i think probably the first
time i really got exposed to
a handful of you um
was at a uh at an early days strategic
planning kind of foundational workshop
uh an offside on a weekend
which now feels like eight years ago um
and so uh i mean that whole process was
pretty eye opening for me you know
instead of just being on the sidelines
yelling at sean over something i'm not
happy with
um i felt like i was part of the process
and
you know to see it kind of come to
fruition and actually be a
shaped up you know strategic direction
is
is is kind of cool um so i just
you know more than anything you know
even if i weren't sitting in the seat as
a director i just
would say thank you for letting me be a
part of it and um and i'm glad to see
where it's at and i
i like what i've read and and um and i'm
probably more excited about seeing it
translate into action
thanks david caitlin any comments or
questions
yeah just a comment so me adam nilay and
the district advisory council have had a
lot of conversations between
ourselves and the administration about
the strategic plan and we're very
appreciative that many of our
suggestions were taken into account
and used to revise the strategic plan so
thank you to the administration
and we also look forward to working with
the administration on some of the action
steps
thank you caitlin jason any comments or
questions
no no no questions no comments
thank you uh kim any comments or
questions
well uh just a couple i mean i want to
reiterate the appreciation for all the
time i know that the subcommittee's put
into this
and i too kind of uh journeyed from the
sidelines along with you guys in this
past when you first started talking
about it as a board
gosh well over a year ago and it's it's
it's really incredible to see how far
it's come
the one thing that i want to make sure
that the community understands which
maybe
is not obvious in the reflection of this
document when they read it the first
time that
everything that's here in no way
undermines
the excellence the academic excellence
that the district is used to in fact
everything here supports um the
district's academic excellence even
though it's not
as explicitly stated as the previous
uh strategic plan you just have to dig
for it i think
how sean set it up at the beginning of
the meeting where he talked about you
know these are the
these are the goals and then these are
how we translate the goals into action
and then we're going to see
and the community is going to see i
truly believe when
it goes down to the curriculum reviews
and into the individual departments
where this translates not just into the
academic excellence that we're already
used to and accustomed to which i
consider table stakes for the district
but into really advancing
you know the educational experience
forward in a positive manner for
all the students that attend the
district and i think that's what's great
about it
um the only question that i have and it
comes from a place of ignorance
is what's the difference between a
creative and a
critical thinker is it the same thing is
it is it an
evolution of is a creative thinker an
evolution of critical thinking skills
um so if you know if sean or somebody
else could comment on that that'd be
great
so when you're talking about the the
difference between a creative and
critical thinker
i think that what we want to do is we
want to be able to have
um there's a lot of similarities but
when we think about people who are
critical thinking is that
how to solve problems in multiple ways
or how to look at a problem in different
ways
and i think that there's a there's a
there's a lot of overlay in terms of
creative and critical um being able to
take a problem and
analytically you know solve a problem
but also
being able to have like those
opportunities like similar to like a
maker space or those types of things
where you can
use your creativity to do something to
invent something or a new invention or
something like that
where the students have ownership of how
to solve the problem
um and so yeah i think there's a lot of
overlay with credit
creative and critical um but if that's
something that we think we may need to
define a little bit more we can
definitely do that
um thanks everybody so we have a motion
in a second on the table
um everybody in favor
aye anybody opposed
okay it passes unanimously thank you so
we're moving to 7.03
which is the second reading and approval
of policy
jhcb which is the immunization of
students and this is robin
yeah go ahead dear gary you wanna do you
wanna um
go ahead and read the motion first gary
okay thanks joe
uh 7.03 i move that the board of
education approves policy
jhcb you immunization
of students with the proposed changes
second okay it's been mooted seconded
robin do you want um did you want to
make any comments before we
before i ask the board if they have any
comments or questions
just if there was a typo in the version
that msca had provided us so we just
corrected that that was the only change
in the policy since the first reading
gotcha thank you um all right uh
does anybody have any well just go
through
um amy any uh comments or questions here
no okay thanks david any comments or
questions
thank you stacy any comments or
questions
thanks caitlyn any comments or questions
thank you jason any comments or
questions no
thank you gary any comments or questions
yes sir
thank you kim any comments or questions
nope
okay i don't have any comments or
questions either um
all in favor
any opposed all right it passes
unanimously
so um i need to recuse myself from this
uh
next one so i'm going to leave and
somebody can text me when uh you guys
are done
all right this is for the part-time
temporary employment of
sarah miller and we are at um
7.04 gary can i get you to read the
motion please
7.04 i prove that the board of education
approved the part-time
temporary employment report as submitted
okay second
okay are there
any questions or comments
okay all in favor aye
aye motion passes
i texted joe
okay um so we're moving now on to the
consent
agenda um can we have a motion gary
8.01 i move that the board of education
approved the consent agenda 8.02
through 8.04
second okay it's been moved and seconded
any comments or questions about the
consent agenda
okay all in favor aye aye
aye any opposed
okay it passes unanimously
um and i do just want to note that there
is a
donation in there and so i certainly
want to recognize
um the generous donation by ms penny
inglesman
who donated a thousand dollars to the
english department scholarship
for writing and her husband um allen was
a
english teacher in our district
okay um we're moving on to public
comment do we have any public comment
uh there is no public comment this
evening okay
um then uh finally we'll move to uh
board communication does anybody have a
committee or a liaison report
go ahead stacy hi um
so i attended the pack
ed um executive committee meeting which
is
the parent advisory council for of
children with educational diversity
um i'm the board representative on the
special school district governing
council so
um christina blankenship who chairs that
committee asked
if i would also um be on the pac-ed
executive committee um which i agreed to
so and i think it is an important
connection between us so
um we had our meeting on zoom robin was
there
too and cameron and basically they have
created a new structure become more
organized with an expanded executive
committee and i will put in a plug for
them they're looking for parents to fill
some new positions they have
um they have organized
a first quarter survey they're planning
to send to parents soon to see how
learning went for those students
and let's see they are um
inclusive school week schools week is
actually coming up in december the 7th
to the 11th so
um i think we'll be hearing more from
them
at one of our december board meetings
some updates um
and some like promos they'll be doing
for it
so just to draw attention to inclusive
schools week in december
and um let's see
that's pretty much it um i mean went
over a lot more detailed stuff but i
really was impressed with how well
organized they are
and the committee they've formed and
have a lot more parents involved than
they have in the past so i think that
will help
all of our students with educational
diversity moving forward and i'm happy
to be a part of it too
okay thank you stacy any other committee
or liaison
reports from anybody yep i have one from
the clayton education foundation they
had their meeting last night and
unfortunately i was unable to attend but
i got in touch with them
the head of the education foundation
today to get an update and i know sean
you and
chris were at the meeting so you can
fill in any blanks i don't cover here
but
um i i'll just start off with saying
that it's always nice to report on what
this cef is doing because it's always
great news which we can all use during
these pandemic times so
um i think one of the best things that i
heard today
is they actually received a ten thousand
dollar
donation it was the bequeathment from
mary louise frey hickman she was class
of 44
at clayton high school and she left
the donation as a scholarship endowment
for her most influential
teacher who was the teacher of clayton
in the english department so
i thought that was awesome um they also
got some additional money for
from the class of 1951 because they are
not holding their
typical reunion this year and they
thought the best way to
um kind of honor them in lieu of coming
together was to give money
back to the foundation so they can use
it for current students and teachers
um they are postponing their teacher
grant awards to second semester i think
sean and i might have mentioned that uh
the last time that we have an update on
the foundation
and that certainly makes sense given
that it's such an
unusual academic year for everybody with
a lot of uncertainty
at this point they think that um they'll
have the applications due
sometime in february and they'll put the
applications out
you know by the end of the year give
teachers six weeks to complete them
and then look for a fall implementation
when hopefully we'll be back to
something that resembles uh more of a
regular
type of traditional school year um
they are also postponing the hall of
fame ceremony that they typically have
um until september of next year so the
new uh school year and it'll coincide
with homecoming
and at that time they'll be combining
the class of 2021 with the class of 2020
where
they've already identified the hall of
fame inductees and i think one of the
things that's really great that they
are doing is they are working together
with cameron poole
um who of course is our director of
equity
uh on uh putting together and they have
put together a diversity committee
because
one of the things that they actually
have trouble doing is
getting nominations to come in and the
diverse or getting nominations to come
in that are fully complete so that they
can
make the appropriate awards and so this
committee
will be actually seeking out people
instead of just
waiting for nominations to come in that
are deserving of the awards
and i think that that's great because it
will really be
a much broader representation of uh
people that should be recognized for you
know further service and for their work
either within or outside of the district
that have in some ways been associated
with the district
um what else did i miss sean oh the food
described so the pantry food drive
they raised close to ten thousand
dollars it was great they let us
use that um you know their their
non-profit
uh taxable uh status in order to raise
money
for the food pantry so in addition to
the physical donations of which
i know probably many of you participated
in certainly a lot of members of the
community
participated in the clayton education
foundation raised an additional 9
360 and what the social workers within
our district also do every year is they
usually do kind of a food drive on
behalf of the families that they help
directly and
this is not something you know good work
often goes
uh unappreciated and unnoticed and
sometimes for a reason and this is one
of those areas where
social workers and the teachers
participate in a food drive
for families and they do it it's always
kind of been private and behind the
scenes
but in this year i'd like to you know
uh thank both the education foundation
and the social workers and the teachers
that have been doing this for so many
years because
they are going to be able to use the
education foundation in the same way
that the pto
use the education foundation to collect
money for the food pantry
and donate funds to the education
foundation which the foundation is going
to match with 500
to start off with so that's wonderful
um that's all i have for my notes sean
you and chris will have to fill in the
blanks
for not being at the meeting you covered
it really really well so i appreciate
you
sharing all that i don't think there was
anything else that i would add
um so thank you
thank you um any other committee or
liaison reports
anybody um i will just say um
just for the sake of the public
that just a quick note about the
superintendent search
that the position is posted we're
getting in um
i should say our search firm uh
mcpherson and jacobson is getting in
applications i know they're actively out
there talking to people too
um so um we'll have more on that later
but that um people can actually submit
um applications all the way until the
beginning of december
so um there'll be a lot of activity and
more to report here and
you know in the next few weeks uh slash
month
anything else any other coming reports
or liaison reports
all right can we have a motion to
adjourn
all right i move that the board of
education adjourn
second all right all in favor
aye aye any opposed
all right we are adjourned thank you all
right and noted that it's uh 8 25.
good night guys