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This February 6, 2025 regular meeting of the Fairfax County School board will now come to order. Please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance, followed by a moment of silence for the devastating loss of life. In last week's heartbreaking aviation tragedy, Washington National Airport, including 3 fcps students and 7 Fcps parents. Arbor joins the community in grieving and extends its deepest condolences to the families, friends and school communities of those lost.
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>> we did hear another round of applause for 3, a and whoever that was playing the guitar weather. And principal. Greta, thank you. The Fairfax County's schoolboard remain steadfast in our commitment to ensuring every child receives a world-class education in a safe, welcoming and inclusive environment. We will uphold our policy, supporting educational equity in championing the success of all students, including those
receiving special Education services, immigrant students and their families. Students from economically disadvantaged backgrounds, lgbtqia plus students. Another historically marginalized communities. Our work is guided by the belief that every child deserves access to an exceptional education with the resources and opportunities they need to thrive. We will continue to stand by our students, families and staff ensuring the Fairfax County Public Schools remains in place. We're all feel valued and supported in. Every learner is empowered to achieve their full potential. Before we
begin tonight's meeting, I would like to recognize former at large school board member Mark Emery, who joined us earlier this evening for the VHSL recognition and former Mason District School board member Sandy Evans, who has joined us this evening as well. Agenda item, 2.0, 2 announcements, Mr. McDaniel has submitted a written request to attend tonight's meeting. Virtually due to a personal conflict as he has a were. Conflict is located the Dr. All those in favor of approving Mr. McDaniels
request. Ms Maren Mystics, Mr. McElveen Dr. Anderson, MS Sanderson Sizemore Heizer Mr. Moon, Miss Lady Misty John, cutting myself that unanimous for board members present, Mr. McDaniel, can you try your microphone? We'll try him when he's back. When he's on. If you would like to review a copy of the meeting agenda, please see the back of the auditorium to obtain copies of any items or supporting
materials being presented tonight. Please reference the QR code on the agenda or visit FCPS DOT Edu slash board docs. Tonight's meeting is being broadcast on channel 99 and live streamed on YouTube and our website fcps Edu Slash live stream. Tonight's meeting is also being broadcast in in Spanish, on YouTube at YouTube Dot com Slash the at symbol FCPS and Espanyol. Agenda item. 3.0 3 Black History Month proclamation calling Sizemore Heizer for the Proclamation.
>> Whereas the month of February is the time that we as a nation recognize and celebrate the historic can continue efforts of black Americans in approving improving our society to Black History Month. It's this observance originally commemorate as, quote, N**** History week was created by Doctor Carter G Woodson. Renowned scholar and journalist in 1926. And gradually expanded to a month-long observation. Whereas the 2025 theme quote,
African-Americans and labor quote, focuses on the various and profound ways that work of all kinds free and enslaved skilled and unskilled, vocational and technical intersect with the collective experiences of black people and sets out to highlight and celebrate the potent impact of this work to the United States and across the globe. And whereas first Africans arrived on the shores of Virginia 400 years ago, bringing skills,
knowledge and traditions that have created a lasting culture impacting our communities that continue to be reflected in daily life. Whereas the contributions of African-Americans to the labor force include Richard Spikes and invented with more than a dozen Patton's, including the automatic gear shift. The automatic safety brake system, an automatic car washer, an automatic directional signals. Alexander Miles who invented an elevator that was able to open and close its own doors and the elevator shaft doors
Dr. Charles drew a pioneer in blood transfusions and storage is work. Transform field of medicine and save the lives of many during World War. 2 Frederick Jones and inventor who revolutionized the food industry with his invention of the refrigerated truck. And Madam CJ Walker and inventor of hair care products who became the first female self-made millionaire in America. Whereas Black Americans resisted historic and ongoing oppression in all
forms since the nation's earliest days and contributed to the founding of development of this nature nation and recognize the importance of teaching this rich impactful history to all students to create an inclusive and for all. Whereas the labor, these African descent contribution to the development of the rich and vibrant culture, Virginia, including Gladys at petition who contribution to the development of the global positioning system. GPS.
Maggie L Walker, a businesswoman and teacher who was both the first African-American woman to charter a bank and the first African-American woman to serve as bank president and Benjamin F picks and inventor who was the first to patent. The gasoline powered peanut picker. Therefore now, therefore be it resolved. But the Fairfax County School board officially recognizes and here by proclaims February is Black History Month in appreciation for the contributions of great Americans who have worked tirelessly and often without
recognition or compensation for the advancement of Fairfax County, Virginia, and the United States. We encourage the celebration of the collective ingenuity, creativity, cultures and traditions of black Americans and encourage participation in educational events honoring the contributions of black Americans. Is there a second by second decision cutting all those in favor? Miss mayor Mystics, Mr. Mcelvain Dr. Anderson missed Anderson missed each on coming. >> Mr. Moon misleading Saint
John cutting. Miss Sizemore Heizer. Myself Mr. McKenna with us. OK, we'll try and win his back. That is unanimous for board members present agenda item. The motion passes agenda item 3.0 4 career and technical education, disability employment, an adult and community Education Appreciation Month Proclamation. >> I call him Dr Anderson, for a proclamation. >> Whereas the celebration of career and technical education, CTE, disability
employment and adult community education. Ace Appreciation Month recognizes these exemplary Fairfax County public school programs. And whereas Fcps office, a vast selection of CTE programs that give all students and valuable opportunities to explore and learn about a career they may wish to pursue in the future. During the school year. 24 25 Fcps offered 170 CTE courses and business education and
information technology, family and consumer science, health and Medical Jay ROTC marketing technology. Family and I'm sorry, technology and engineering educate technology and engineering education as well as trade and industry. And these classes equipped over sept 65,000 students with the knowledge and skills needed to prepare for the workforce. Military, continuing education and or
success in a competitive global economy. And whereas our division celebrates the many contributions of people with disabilities in America's workplaces and economy and recognizes the value people with disabilities bring to the workplace as evidence in a recent study that showed that a disability friendly organization are 25% more likely to outperform their organization of peers on productivity. And whereas the Davison Pulley Korea centers and other fcps programs help
students with disabilities transition to life after high school through work experience is provided by the local. By the local Northern Virginia business community and by providing workplace readiness and independent living training, fostering self advocacy and self determination and increasing the soft skills needed to succeed in the workplace. And whereas the ace program began with an action by the school board in 1955. And it's
celebrating its 70th year as thousands of adults have learned essential skills. In addition, the Fairfax County Adult High School has given adults the opportunity to earn a high school diploma certification of high school equivalency through the DI program and the change and the chance to enroll in individual courses and certificate programs, including adult Esau business information, technology, health and medical
trade and industrial Cuban trade and culinary arts and world Languages. Fcps is ace program complement the Virginia apprenticeship program by offering apprenticeship classes and electricity, HVAC and plumbing and provide career exploration in the trades will cross training with related tasks and whereas fcps honors the achievement of students, staff and programs, including Edison
Academies, Electrical Engineering Program honored with the V DOT CTE, Creating Excellence Award for programs in the year. Program of the Year in Region. 4. Kathleen Fuel goal. >> Sleepy Hollow Elementary honored as the Virginia Department of Education, Computer Science, Educator of the Year. >> Kim Gadson. Twain, Middle School.
>> I entered as the middle school teacher of the year by the Virginia technology and Engineering Association. >> Read own. Recognize that the administrator of the year by the Virginia Association of Family and Consumer Sciences
Association and the Foundation for Applied Tech Technical Education F A T E honored with a V the OEA CTE creating Excellence award for business and industry partnerships for region 4 and Virginia. Now, therefore be it resolved that the Fairfax County school board here by proclaims February 2025. as career and technical education disability employment and adult and continuing Education
Appreciation Month and commend these programs, pivotal roles and providing all students young and adult the opportunities to acquire job skills, transition to new careers have equitable access a societal resources and grow as responsible and ethical workers and citizens. Is there a Mr? Moon, all those in favor. This mayor and mystics that Mr. Mckelvie Dr Anderson missed Anderson Miss Sizemore Heizer, Mr. Moon. >> Lady John Cunningham, myself. But unanimous for
board members present the motion passes. Congratulations. And 3.0 5 Sleepy Hollow Elementary school 17th anniversary proclamation calling Dr Anderson for a proclamation. Hello again. >> Whereas Sleepy Hollow Elementary School first opened its doors September. First, 1954, on the former site of
for Buffalo, one of several forts of the 7 Corners area used during the Civil War. The school was built at the cost of. 391,000. $63. We would love those. Those are good dollars. We could build 9 schools in the week. At a time when the total number of students enrolled in Fairfax County Public Schools was
28,700. And whereas Sleepy Hollow Elementary school students and families represent 15 countries and speak 17 different languages with an additional 8 languages spoken by the school staff creating a cosmopolitan learning environment where multiculturalism is celebrated through various programs, Sleepy Hollow holds the distinction. For being one of
the first fcps schools to host an annual family Heritage celebration with its international night becoming a beloved tradition. >> Whereas Sleepy Hollow Elementary School has been one of 2 elementary schools in Fcps designated to pilot foreign language instruction in 1957. which continues to this day as the foreign language elementary School. last program engaging students
in developing proficiency and whereas Sleepy Hollow provides a rigorous and engaging curriculum to meet the academic and social needs of all learners. In addition to opportunities such as math and science Olympiad and outdoor Garden, a student ambassador program and is designated as an Abbott Elementary school equipping students with tools for academic success, such as organizational skills goal setting and perseverance and whereas sleepy entry school is proud of its educators posting on its roster. The 2024
Virginia computer science educator of the year reflecting the school's dedication to excellence in teaching. >> And whereas Sleepy Hollow Elementary has built strong and enduring partnerships with the parents, families and caregivers and the broader community fostering a collaborative spirit that enhances the overall educational experience. And Fosse says the nurturing and welcoming institution it is today. Now, therefore be it resolved that the Fairfax County School Board honors Sleepy Hollow Elementary
School on the occasion of its 70th anniversary, providing educational excellence and enrichment opportunities. 2 students and the community. Is there a second by second, Mr. Mcelvain all those in favor. >> Miss mayor and Mystics, Mr. McElveen Dr. Anderson missed Anderson missed Sizemore Heizer, Mr. Moon misleading message and cutting myself. That is unanimous for board members present. >> Mr. McDaniel, U.S. notice right? Mr. McDaniel, how do you vote? I vote aye,
unanimous for all board members present. The motion carries. We will begin with. Photos will save the Sleepy Hollow Elementary school 70th anniversary. And the clerk will call the rest as we go.
>> The board would like invite those here. Present for that react. Technical education, disability, employment and adult and community Education Appreciation Month Proclamation. Please join the board for a photo up front.
The board would like to invite those here and honor of the Black History Month proclamation to please join the board photo up Front.
>> Agenda item. 4.0 one community participation. The next order of business is community participation. We welcome all community members who are here and those who signed up to speak this evening. Additional information about signing up to provide comments of school board, regular business meetings and public hearings can be found on the school board website Fcps Edu Slash school board. During the sign-up process. Community members acknowledged they were informed of the school board's expectations for property Corman, providing comments.
expectations are also available online and with the printed agenda and meeting materials in the back of the room. We ask audience members to be respectful of one. Another shouting out. Purse will not be tolerated. Please hold your applause until the conclusion of a speaker's remarks. Audience members may not join speakers at the podium and should remain at their seats, including recording video or taking photos. We are grateful to those who have come to speak to us today and thank you for your cooperation. School board members will be listening but not responding. Madam Clerk, please call the first speaker. >> And POW.
>> Good evening. My name is Owen Pow. I'm a 7th grader at Glasgow Middle School. I'm here to talk about healthy school start times because it directly impacts me as well as my friends and peers. American
Academy of Penetrations recommends that middle and high schools start no earlier than 08:30AM, to align with teenagers. National sleep cycles. I know you already heard of the benefits of doing this. So I want to take this time to tell you about my own experience, Glasgow, middle School is one of the 3 middle schools in Fairfax County that starts in 6 great. I want to go over their elementary school. So let me tell you is
quite a shock to my system from going to a 09:20AM. start time to a 07:30AM. Start time. I would wake up at 05:50AM, to catch my bus at 06:30AM. The half-mile walk wasn't too bad when it was light. But when the time change, I was walking in the dark to my bus. Stop. I'm comfortable the darkness now. But when I was 11, I was a little nervous. Walking the pitch, black wooded area. You never know what could be hiding in there. When I
finally get on the school bus, everyone is tired quiet. Some people even have their eyes. Kazin heads resting on the windows. I know it doesn't take a genius to realize that going from this state here. First class is not conducive to learning. I'm more than halfway through middle school, but I think about my 2 little readies and want them to get the benefits of extra sweet. I hope you look at me and my peers in believe that we deserve healthier school start times and will allow us to maximize our potential at
school. Thank you for your time and consideration. >> I'm Julie Seuss. >> Good evening. Chairman Fish. Board members. >> My name is Anslee Foods. I'm a parent, local family physician. And today
representing the Pine Ridge Neighborhood Civic Association. Extraction of the Pine Ridge neighborhood from its current assignment to them and Frost Woodson, try it. But unravel a foundation fostered by the school board over the years. In lieu of alternatives, which are in line with the published county revision plan objectives. Samples of these alternative solutions, including programming redistribution.
That is a creation of a peak or centers in neighborhood schools rather than vesting students, man as well as placing students from new Unassigned residential development into existing under capacity school. The pilot School Neighborhood School Network is unique in that growth in school programs as well as after school activities. I swim team Boy Scout Girl Scout or deliver jointly with the abiding neighborhood of man to wear. For the disruptive impact.
move would be magnified by significantly severing these valuable connective relationship. In conclusion, the Pine Ridge neighborhood residents, appreciate your recognition of the overwhelming negative consequence of resign. Mont and hope that your decision support platform, which avoids dismantling a foundation built over years. Very difficult to restore again.
>> Can Barajas POW. >> Good evening. I am here to request that you consider making healthy start times a priority for middle schools as a few other parents and students have already stated
the American Academy of Pediatrics published decision stating that teens greatly benefited from a school start time of earlier than 08:30AM. They demonstrate increase academic performance, better attendance and better mental health. All of these are goals which Fcps strives to obtain for all students. I understand that the school board must pounds numerous considerations and that he may seem more efficient. A pair of boundary changes with middle school start times. But this isn't just about work. Efficiency.
These are boys and girls at our schools. Time does not stop for them. While early middle school start times are in place, they lose the benefits of the extra sleep in critical time of their growth. That reality is the founder work will take years to accomplish. And in the meantime, our children are going going and moving through school system. I have 3 sons, 13 years old can and fight. My oldest son started middle school in 6 great at 11.
You're so waking up at 05:50AM, to get ready for school. The reality is that he will no longer benefit from the middles changing middle school. Start times. But I'm hoping that my middle son and others like him who started last school this fall can have that benefit. I understand that there are many factors that I play and cost is a huge one. Perhaps a pilot program for middle schools or start in 6th grade could be considered to begin with into the later start. Times can be applied to other middle schools. I just
urge you to fully consider all options to consider the recommendations from the consultant you hired. Consider the parents and the community advocating for healthier start times. But above all, consider the students currently at the Middle schools. Thank you for your time. Sandy Evans. Good evening.
>> I'm Sandy Evans and I'm happy to be back with you again to continue my 20 year advocacy for later start times for middle school students and high school students as co-founder of Sleep in Fairfax. Sleep appreciates the board leadership that has gotten us this far. As far toward the goal of healthy start times for middle school students. But we're now calling on you to take action and make a decision. In December. You received 5
options from your consultant. But there's been no public follow-up. We would like to see a public discussion of these options and get your opinion on them and ask you to pick an option and get the staff working on a transition. So our young teens can get relief as soon as possible. As we know from past efforts, this will not happen without board direction and determination. And clear communication from the superintendent about the
importance of this change. The options are cost effective options. Be in SIMI pediatrician recommended start times after 08:30AM, for teens. Well, keeping elementary school start times reasonable. comes close to recommend at times. You can probably eliminate option E. The so-called slide. This approach has been considered and rejected time and time again for about 20 years. It's
is is geared to changing elementary school start times too much, much later at upsetting parents. It's not well aligned with teen by or with young child have So we ask you, please consider the pros and cons of each of the options. He is a problem solving approach. Look at issues as they arise filed those problems, get whatever feedback you need and then make a decision. At the very
least the board and the superintendent. >> Should make. >> And Elise, DeAndre. Dr Reid, members of the board. I'm a mom of 2 amazing kids and Fairfax County Public schools. But the reason why I'm here today to talk about middle school start times is
because I'm a pediatrician. I've worked in our community for 20 years, taking care of hospitalized children. And that's the point of view. really like to emphasize to you. Not up issues been a member of the it aforementioned American Academy of Pediatrics that has done all the hard work for you. This is a no-brainer, as my son would say. Evidence is crystal clear. School should not start adolescents before 08:30AM. Crystal clear. I'm not going read hash all of
that with you what I am gonna tell you we voted for you. We entrusted you to take the best interest of our children in hand. When you make And there's only one decision that takes their best interest in the hand. And that is not starting school time before 8.30, I listened As I said, worked for possible. Is it Housewives children for almost 20 years in our community in the last 10 years. I have not
worked a single shift without taking care of a child for multiple children who've tried to harm themselves. Not a single shift. You're in last 10 years. really want to drive that home, too, because we know that sleep is foundational. For mental health. Foundational when you pass plays a kid, whether it's an intensive outpatient program, a partial
hospitalization program, residential program. You name it. The first thing we do is address their sleep. It is so important. And for you too. It's so important. I implore you. Consider this mental health crisis in our community. When you make this decision for children, it's not about dollars. It's about our children's lives. >> Richardson.
>> Good evening. My name is Lee Richardson. I'm a Fairfax County parent and the president of the Sleepy Hollow Elementary School PTA. And I ask you tonight, Board members to please move forward as planned to implement a later start time earlier than 08:30AM, in the morning for our middle school serves students in the fall of 2025. I ask that you keep the middle school start time change. Separate from the
comprehensive boundary study to couple these 2 things would add years to something. We have already waited 10 years to see. Please do not let perfection be the enemy of the good. The arguments about childcare and multiple disruptions to students are not compelling enough reasons to continue to sacrifice the health of significant population of students are middle school students matter. Further changes the norm in K through 12 education. Our children are always facing a change every single year.
Parents will always have to deal with child care and schedule changes regardless. I strongly encourage the board to not let the edge cases and anecdotes that are not supported by the data distract you from the decades of science and demands from students, parents and community organizations for healthy start times our students, health and well-being is the priority. And to delay further would be shameful for what it says about will and the ability of the adults in power to take our students. Health seriously. The consultants
have given you the consultants that the taxpayers have paid Have given you a range of options where there's certainly one that will work for all students. The community has done their job by participating in a home asking you to find the moral courage to finish the job. Even that's its heart. And I know it is. You have the power and the support to take action. Now, this is a win to do something that we have a material and positive impact but to not act will only increase the apathy and cynicism among the community that they have about our fcps leaders, the people who
elected you to the seats want you to act. If this change is delayed, it will further erode the trust that the citizens of Fairfax County having their elected leaders doing nothing on this issue is frankly not an option. Surely Hendricks. I good evening. My name is Julie Hendricks and I am the parent of 2 children at Sleepy Hollow
Elementary, including a rising 6 greater. >> I'm here to Orange, urged the board to move forward with moving the middle school start times to support student physical health. >> Social and emotional well-being and academic success. We all know the recommendations. We've heard them tonight. That middle school should not start before 8.30, Fairfax County made the right choice for high school in 2015 proving it can be done successfully and quickly changed to a norm. I want to thank our Mason District Supervisor Doctor Ricardy
Anderson for being so communicative during this process, getting regular updates about the status of the contract evaluation that yes, we taxpayers paid for and also the community input that's come through this process. We have seen them any feasible options and I appreciate that changing school start times will be temporarily disruptive for families. But childcare is a challenge. No matter what time your kids go to school. I along with many other families in our community who have been engaged in the process for
years feel it's worth the growing pains and the initial year to make a move. We know we'll increase our students health. Please do not let the comprehensive and review prevent you from acting. We all know it has potential to continue to get delayed and delayed. The district has been researching middle school start times for years. We have a well thought out and well researched planned to use to move forward. I moved here from out of state from the district in California. And I am so grateful every day for the emphasis that Fairfax
County places social and emotional well-being. You do not get that everywhere. This could majorly improved that for adolescents. Your community elected as our school representatives and you all state that you will always do what is best for our students. And I ask you to please approve changing these start times to do just that. Thank you. >> Robert Rigby.
>> Good evening. I'm here to talk about adverse childhood experiences, especially with respect to immigrant, black, disabled and transgender students. I'm speaking to all at CPS employees, including
senior and Central staff and student facing workers. I grew up in northwest Florida my school year for pockmarked by a large scale public solved by the Ku Klux K*** and the vile campaign in Florida by Anita Bryant in the late 70's that denies gay people. It was a center of adverse childhood experiences that took me decades to shed where kids are going through. Now is worse. Black students to the code
word to CRT immigrant students families are being ripped away trans students existing is being denied and disabled students who are losing service employees must be clear and how much they welcome and respect all students be explicit say the words needed. Now that block and run and disabled and transgender students welcome and empowered in your classroom or cafeteria in your
gym or on your Bush, you can interrupt. thing. You remember up to Trump welcoming and empowering words and kids will be less hurt. It rose shows our mission by giving kids a better chance as artist. If you can't welcome power traffic and keep these children safe for humanity's sake, for God's sake, at least
do no harm in my neighborhood today near school. I saw yard sign with gross exclusions and tours about equity immigrant, transgender and other LGBTQ people. Community. Let's just not let that happen. >> Joseph Miller. Everybody.
My name is Joe Miller. homeowner in the Fair Lakes area. And my kids attend Greenbriar ease elementary school, which is a split feeder. They did it. And that is the entry school. And what happens is that splits off. Part of it. Some of the kids go to rocky run. kids go to Katherine Johnson. Katherine Johnson's, a great school what problems? That's 3 miles away.
We're going 3 miles away. Even though the closest middle school rocky run is under capacity. And are based entry. School is in Chantilly. High School pyramid. We purchased our home. We anticipated that rocky run was going under renovations. And since Greenbriar East was in the Chantilly High school pyramid that once those renovations were completed, that the school board would. Open that school up to kids who were a
sensibly going to going Katherine Johnson a sensibly because Rocky run was overcapacity before the renovation. So I just want to encourage school board to look at these issues and light. Of the equal protection clause. We are similarly situated and all material respects with the subdivision that's adjacent to ours. Greenbriar, right down to the census block level. But for some reason. Even after
Rocky run, he's undergone a 50 million dollar renovation. It's still sitting there under capacity. it's projected to be around. I don't know. 71 1% or something like that. And Katherine Johnson is projected to be at 83% or something along those lines. So there's a difference between changing the boundaries and there's a difference between just having current boundaries compliant. And even though the revised 81 30 doesn't account for
correcting discrimination and current school boundaries, boundaries. That doesn't mean that Fcps doesn't have to comply. Thank you. >> Kathleen Mallard. Colleen Beaker. Good evening, Doctor Reed. And if CPS school board
members, my name is Colleen Booker and another 3 Fairfax County Public School students, a graduating senior at T J, a freshman to justice and 11 year-old sixth-grader at Costco, Middle School. Much older students also attended Glasgow school from 6, 3, 8, grades. We've been the school system so long that are new gun school principal Lisa Barrow was the principal Hello, Mentor. School might not graduating. Senior was a kindergartner. Our family is at a for 6 and a half years. The school board was presented last February 2024. With a very detailed timeline for a
plan that would help our students get out there. Mostly. In 2015 high school start times change to 8 o'clock or later a school board goal. But cool change. Middle schools Seven-thirty state the superintendent, the time stated that they were pushed back middle school start times at a later date. Now it's 2025. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that middle and high schoolers start no later than no earlier than 08:30AM, to align with adolescence, national sleep cycles. The timing for this is now. Tonight. This week, this month. fall of 2025.
Implementation is possible. If we make a decision, choose a path to move forward. Parents of middle schoolers have waited long enough for this change. And armies in district community. Approximately 3500 students in our middle schools are subjected to a 07:10AM. start time for 3 years instead of 2 years compared to middle schools in other parts of the county. The science is clear, not enough. Sleep leads to of wide variety of unhealthy outcomes, including poor attention span and ability to learn. Parents of middle schoolers have waited long
enough for the change. Fairfax County public schools needs to do what it says. It's going to do. Thank you. Please play the video testimony by General White. >> I'm not spoken that urgency of implementing hoping that a school start times that the December 16th meeting since
that the media outreach community outreach enrich the popular petition people ask me why I'm doing this since my students are older will benefit as a longtime follower supporter and campaigner for school board members disappointing and how this has been handled. We haven't heard any valid reasons why certainly want to pair the boundary work with the start times what little we've heard excuses like it's too late and we don't people to change to first. It isn't too late to get this back on schedule. too
late. It's only because you made it so your constituents keep telling you. We don't want to wait for that work. That work is complicated and it can be difficult to stick to your proposed timeline. You know, also said it might be done phases. So how does it make sense to pair faced? that hasn't determined who the and the how yet. With no school start times, there's much to be determined about boundaries and too much risk of further and further delay with middle school start times. So don't care. That's it. Changing.
Schools will happen for many families. By the time the boundary work starts to be implemented, do their age are changing for programs and services or any other risas. So that excuse also doesn't want that. And for others, they want to change because of the benefits. thinking you just don't want to do it despite your constituents pleading with you to do so. People ask me all the time. What's happening with the school board and voted in the primary, campaign for all of it. people ask me why start times have been delayed. looks
like only answer will have to be. If they don't want to tackle an issue, they will do it despite what the constituents elected you are saying as the community awareness continues to grow, I think you'll find the constituents disappointment in the consequences that come with that disappointment to be deep and lasting. >> Chair fish. That was our last public speaker.
>> Thank you Item 5.0 one student Representative matters icon student representative. want. >> Thank you, Mr. Chair. There are so many things to celebrate tonight and many, many things to honor. First, a huge congrats to our Virginia High School League, Athletic and academic teams recognized earlier tonight as well as our orchestra has banned middle school sports, February is a month filled with so many meaningful recognitions starting with Black History Month across our schools, students and staff are celebrating in many different ways whether its morning
announcements pending the school Rock weekly features for the kickoff celebration at what's in last night and many more. These initiatives highlight the incredible contributions of black Americans and allow students to engage in learning this month that both inspires and honors. What with it also being CTE, disability, employment and adult Community Education month. I also want to touch on how important these groups are along with our general high school experience. One of the things that makes Fcps truly special is not just our rigorous academics, but also the
hands-on career learning opportunities that students have through our academy programs from CTE courses. As mentioned tonight, from technology, education, health and medical Sciences, Jr, juicy and more. These are the skills that students will need in the real world. And so along with that, I also just wanted to mention that it is competition season for all of our CTS. Those TSA DECA Hosa Skills USA, some wishing all of the students, the best of luck. But behind every is also a dedicated CTE adviser. Not
just guiding students in the classroom are preparing them for competition, but also mentoring them and being a key role with them during those competition. Weekends as we continue discussions around the budget, I want to highlight the importance of sustaining and expanding financial support and stipends for CT advisors and courses as some of my other board members have expressed in their budget priority survey and finally Happy National School Counseling Week. Our counselors are superheroes from always being there for students advising us through course election which is going on right now. And just being a
figure that we can always look up to. I relied on my counselor so much and I don't know where I would be without her. So to all of our counselors, thank you so much for your dedication patients and the care that you show every single day. Your work changes lives. And we are so grateful for everything you do on to update. Last week I had the opportunity to meet with Dr King Mission and the equity team to discuss the SR in our proposals for the new school year. There are conversations. We realize that it's not only it's important that we don't just CBS earn are as a rule
book, but also something that defines students rights and policies that shape our school experience. I really appreciated the opportunity as well as students to provide feedback through the SR in our survey that went through student emails in January and February. I look forward to continuing to share student perspective on the new SR our proposal as we discuss them into March in January. I also had the honor of attending the Fcps D it Major Conference. Wright participated in a panel alongside Mr. Safety Dr Reid,
Dr King and Fcps to students that discuss the role of AI and education. One of the key takeaways from our discussion was how AI can be leveraged to support strategic learning plans, making education more personalized. But we also must ensure ethical and responsible use understanding what the limitations of AI may be. Another thing that we talked about I literacy for our students the same way during the pandemic. All students and staff learned how to get on to zoom and use a computer. It's going to be so important, especially for elementary
schoolers and middle schoolers where AI is a huge part of their lives right now to know how to use it correctly and responsibly. A huge thank you to Mr. Safety, Mr. Simmons and the entire D it team for organizing such an amazing event. Briefly. I'd also like to share the questions that our superintendents Advisory council is focusing on across the 5 focus groups on a strategic plan goals with the help of our subject matter. Experts at our last meeting in January. So I'm just going to read the questions from the different goals for goal. One
students are focusing on how we improve literacy rates in elementary schools as well as how we improve the east, all testing system and experience for those in the program for gold to students are focusing on how we improve chronic absenteeism and what some of those markers might mean as well as reducing the rates of disproportionate discipline throughout Fcps go 3 is focusing on how fcps can support elementary and middle school courses as well as high school course selection as well as how we can support multilingual learners and accessing coursework similar to their general education peers and understanding the
differences that might exist throughout different types of courses go for is also focusing on something very similar, which is how we support disadvantaged students extracurricular activities. And what kind of statistics can help us with our solutions. And finally go, 5 is focusing on how we effectively communicate resources and information from the college and career center effectively across all high schools. Thank you, Dr Reid for meeting with us at our January meeting and taking the time to answer questions about these proposals. I'm very excited about the direction
students will take to present our final proposals in March. Lastly, I wanted to present another student opportunity. The Fcps family summit is being held on Saturday. March 15th at South County High School where students are invited to showcase their projects and advocacy efforts around inclusivity in schools. So this could be a club that your product part of or a project that you're doing in the community where students can earn service hours and share their work with peers and have conversations about fostering inclusivity in our school community communities,
which is a central goal of strategic plan goal, too. There is a Google form that you can fill out by February 17th if your student, if you or your student club is interested in attending as well as contact information for more information, which can be found on the Family Summit Web page. And in my minutes after this meeting, these first couple months of the year are always so busy. But it is so exciting to see the work that our students are doing and where they will be going. Thank you. Thank you,
Mr. Want before I continue, I would like to acknowledge that we have couple of our students from the school board's student leadership development program. >> Here with us tonight, including your car, Nick from Providence District. Please stand. There. She is. Ari Ali, from Sully. And Sergio Escobar from Mason.
>> Mr. Cherry also have our student from 100 Well, I'm sorry over there from Madison High School. >> You'll be seeing more of them around our various meeting. Some of the more in our work session earlier in the week. Thank you for being here. Everybody. Agenda item, 6.0 1 action item certification of closed meeting, compliance in order to comply with Section 2, Dash, 3, 7, 1, 2, d of the code of Virginia. It is a surfer the board to certify
that since the Fairfax County school board convened a closed meeting on February 6, 2025. to the best of each board member's knowledge. Only public business matters lawfully exempted from the open meeting requirements and only such business public business matters as were identified in the motion convening the closed were heard discussed or considered by the board during the closed meeting. I have a motion. Mr. McLean, second, Dr. Anderson, all those in favor. Mystic's it Mr. McElveen Dr. Anderson, the Sanderson Miss Sizemore Heizer Mr. Dunn, Mr. Moon
misleading message on cutting Mr. McDaniel and myself. All those opposed abstentions. This Marin motion passes agenda item. 6.0 1 action item. Confirmation of action taken in close meeting. There were no actions in closed tonight. Agenda item, 6.0 3 action item proposed financial year 2026. 2030 Capital Improvement program icon. This Marin for a motion. >> I move that the school board approved the proposed fiscal year 2026. 2030, Capital Improvement program.
Is there a second second? Thank you, Mr. And we'd like to speak your motion. So this is an annual action that the school board takes. But it the one with the most resources attached to it. >> We are approving the 5 year program for the maintenance and planning of 8.7 billion dollars in public facility. Assets. This work is compiled through a lot of data that includes projections of which
our school staff, our office staff, have been on target 100%, 205% of the time. It is in the cip that school boundaries fall under. The plans for renovations, updating maintenance backlogs, potential new schools and how that is all funded or not is in this program. It is essential for the board to approve this program because what happens next is that it
goes to the county Board of Supervisors. They determine how much funding this program will get. It has been 230 million dollars a year. And this is one of the reasons why we have a 45 year cycle to renovate our schools. The process is not working. However, we need to maintain our buildings because that is where students learn and our staff work. The discussions about things including middle school start times all land in our facilities. Overcrowding
under crowning how many students were shepherding who one school to another? What programs or where? It's all related to facilities. So the issue here is how we're going to get money to fund our facilities. And it starts with this. This document. I'm eager for the board to work among each other and with the Board of Supervisors to come up with real solutions. Because what we're doing cannot continue if we want things like nice new buildings. And net 0 schools
and you know, quiet rooms and common rooms and smaller classrooms and state-of-the-art and, you know, machines and activities. This it to me is the most important thing board can work on right now because it impacts every single person who is in our school division. Thank you. Thank you, Miss Mayor and Mister McCAbe. Would you like to speak your second? I will defer later in the
>> I care deeply about the capital improvement program. >> And I view it as one of the most fundamental obligations of the school board because to provide safe and modern classrooms and schools with updated facilities, especially in the county as wealthy as ours as highly educated ours is is fundamental. However, I will be voting against the capital improvement plan this evening because I view the
current plan is irresponsible and light of the presentation we receive from facilities a couple weeks ago, which reflected enormous needs and meager resources and we are operating in accordance with a construction Q a renovation. Que that was established in 2009. We're a very different school system than we were in 2009. At this point. We should be looking at available resources and taking a
strategic reassessment of how we are spending money so that we can align our spending with what we anticipate from the school boundary review, the priorities that exist within our system and making sure that we are doing our utmost from a system perspective to provide modern updated classrooms, schools, facilities for every child at every school, no matter where you live and what school you attend. Thank you, Mr. Dunn.
Miss Anderson. >> I just want take a quick second. I would first like to thank staff for the immense amount of work that this takes in order to create this document for us every year and to outline and come up with a plan with the resources we do have available to us. So I think that it's extremely important. I am absolutely in support of the work that staff is done. I also want to speak to the fact that we have schools that are at the end of the renovation. Que that have been there for 27 years. And those schools have been
waiting just the same amount of time that all the other schools are waiting as well. So I absolutely believe that we need to follow through with our commitment to those schools. I was part of a school environment that was in the middle of a renovation. And I watched what happened in our building where where deferred maintenance was pushed off because the renovations coming. And I know that's likely to be occurring in the 12 schools that are at the end the list. So I absolutely am in support of us continuing the work to finalize. Many of those
schools are in my district. Many of them are in my colleagues from the Sully district. And we share a lot of those schools together. And it is essential that we continue to make sure that those students also have the opportunity the privilege of working in the Tate same type of schools and that have already been renovated. >> Thank you, Miss Anderson Mystics it. >> I would come Garvin Mike Sanderson that, you know, we dip can be selfish. We have
some schools already being designed and built and renovated and the best inside off the county has really all schools do now. And I just court, some of them were junior on which is on the que now popular tree people smell Center Elementary School copper on Franklin with the school Central High School. Most of the schools are. >> Old, a 1980. >> And before our.
>> In most 1980's, some of the schools are over capacity. Some have a lot of more jitters as well. Center in high school has 22. feel it is possible for anyone to make a comment that we should not considered the schools in the queue waiting for so long to get ovate. It. Start a new Q on via respecting the work has been done so far and I wouldn't I would like to continue with this que Bility,
the finished all the schools. Most of them are innocently district. So I making looking out for my students and my constituents. Thank you. Thank Marks it. Miss Sizemore Heizer. I just want to speak briefly first. I really want to thank staff. This key and her staff for all the hard work and >> just to see the hundreds of pages that you submitted this last year and answers to many
the board follow-on motions as well. In addition to the cip work. So just thank you for all thoughtful answers and exploring many of the different areas we try to explore as we've looked for ways and we'll continue look for ways to reduce the time for renovation. The cost for innovation and being creative in funding. Our innovations. Because we really cannot continue with a 42 year renovation cyclin. will continue to work together. So thank you, your staff for all the hard work you've done. I wanted to mention I also. You know, what we've been talking
about having to redo renovation to start a new innovation queue for a couple years. Not knowing this moment coming as our previous renovation queues ending and mastering the work of determine the criteria and how determined the privatization and each you. But that doesn't mean you don't finish the previous que. Those schools have been waiting for a long time for the renovation. And it's it's not fair to skip them just because they're at the end. I think we had a queue that was thoughtful and thought out at the time of the in 2008, when we developed it.
And so we finish through those schools and then we start anew with our new criteria and the new process. One of the ones that on its words to the end of the queue, which is something that the previous board actually voted on. It was championed by my former school board vice chair. We served together chair and vice chair. My former colleague Tammy Derenak Kaufax is the conversion of the Pennant Hills Center on the route one corridor for early childhood. And the school board has talked significantly about the importance of early childhood
and the data and the research that shows that students have access to preschool just have better outcomes in reading and literacy and graduation rates actually play saves money from not having. is much higher intensity interventions. If you can have better access to preschool. So very proud to support that motion that we passed to have that already bonded purpose for early childhood. So I think we need to finish the que to make sure the schools that have been waiting for many years renovations get their innovations and we do what we
can to push some of these priorities that we know are backed by evidence-based research. So thank you again to staff. I'm happy to support this. Thank you. Miss Sizemore Heizer, Yes, I just also wanted to be sure that we're providing context, you know, to the credit again of the staff until now, the immensity of the need had not been identified and quantified to the extent that has been prevent present to the board in just the last few months in the past few months, the board
has been educated about essential components that we the board must continue to understand in public and discussed and provide directives for that includes alternative sources of revenue, things like could we have a specific bond just to get through the maintenance or maybe want a green van der? Many want to bond, you know, for the early child education. >> That has not been discussed. We want to look at public private partnership. is a growing strategy. Alternative ways to conduct renovation. I was unaware spring's spring's spaces until that came to the dais where
students and staff might only be out of their constructed school for a year instead of what we've been doing and stretching it out numbers of years. So a lot of information has come to light that is really exciting. But it's not going to be quick. It's going to take us years to figure out what the new plan How are we going to get away from this 45 year cycle to something much less, not to mention the economy, the availability of materials. So I really, you know, I really urge my
colleagues for us to spend dedicated time this year the next year and the next one, 3 more years ahead altogether and figure out what the plan is. What do we want to do? Where do we want to explore? want to be in 3 years so that we don't keep approving plans that we know will take a literally a generation to build a new school and renovate it. Thank you, Mr. And Dr Anderson. Thank you. I do want to take a moment to thank staff because it has
been a lot of work Somis Umansky and your team. It is each and every year just. >> Very significant. And we have also received some very scholarly work from your shop. All of the reports that we've discussed in CPD see that we can't wait to dig into that takes a lot of hours and I'm very appreciative of that. My concern with the cip, it's not with the schools that are in the queue because we know what that conversation has been.
community's awaiting for certain things to happen and it doesn't happen. There is a deep disappointment. So I definitely understand what has been shared with the schools that are in that queue. But I also I'm having a hard time reconciling when we pivot away when something is no longer needed. For example, if the Q, if whatever we place in our cip is sacrosanct than I do have to raise my concern over the fact that just last year
Cip we removed Glasgow Elementary from the table for so it is clearly a living breathing document to be responsive to the needs of the communit they change. I even remember asking Dr, Read this question. In work session. Not I can remember member. I can remember when it wasn't just as it was last work session, which is if we were to apply the the
objective criteria that we think we're heading towards. In our needs of this day. What all of the schools and that he'll continue to. Will they withstand that evaluation? That assessment? And she was very honest to say no, they would not. I do want us to with to uphold our our commitment to our communities. But we have to do this every facet we also heard quite a
bit from my community who was really who really turned out here this evening regarding the middle school start times. That's not included. And that in the plan, I'm glad to see that the pocket lawn concerns raised in that plan. But it's not in a consistent way which raised at the work session I'm not going to be able to support this plan this evening because I think we can do more. Dr, Anderson, Mr.
>> Thank you. Mister It supporting the motion supporting the Cip. I'm and going to see why. Why do even know? It's just like most of my comics that I not happy with a 42 psych ER for the renovations and this He could you. >> For the benefit, public.
Tennis. Why we adopting cip this time of the. >> Certainly the reason we are adopting at this time of the year is because it needs to be incorporated in adopted as part of the county's cip. So there will be public hearings in April and the county's cip will be adopted in May. So as part of building that we need to provide our cash flow in our proved portion of it. The county soon after the adoption comes from the school board.
>> Okay. So is deadline from the county side. They we need to So yes there is they need it in the next 2 weeks. >> Looks to be a have to be incorporated into their book. >> And there something that I want Pat public hearing for accused him out to me. You know, we all want to get because we're not we don't have a taxing authority. We don't have a means up my school with the senator.
Because that, we our own cash from home, the money that can use no bait in appealing new schools. center you know, pretty much at the mercy of the company, body of county Board of Supervisors. And we get about 200 don't million dollars per year. Is that correct? >> Correct. Starting in Fy 25 and beyond. We're getting 230 million dollars annually. >> Correct. So that is why on liberty by 8 p, you know, I'm
on cash goes only so much we can do in terms of warning to reviews TV ad. 42 use. I could too well what he does all year, which according to policy, is about 25 But Cie Cip is one of those things are with a budget. We have no choice but end up with day. To adopt. If you don't know, not going to be alert. It's not that. You know, we are a
bulge. 2, you know, we've used to be that cycler. We cannot guarantee feed on that. Just like a buzz. And if we do know that the budget, we cannot pay staff, they cannot run programs. >> EPA he called home. >> On happiness and most loss, if not all job loss cash from a limited amount of cash. Will we have? keep and a lot
choice. But all that because no matter what we need to continue renovating and being team, how are school age? That is why with redress Lloyd, on a peace, even on my part, I am. I have lot choice but to support the cip. Thank you, In Saint Johns County. First of all, I would like to take the staff. >> Thank the staff because this is amazing work. Work
that I wasn't aware of. What I was in the school building and realizing like I was just thinking about my school building and my issues in terms of heating or cooling and you guys have to take the whole comprehensive look and you have to do a triage of this. One needs of more than this one because it's an emergency each and every one of us in our own individual school. So I really appreciate that. And I recognize how hard of a job this is. I really appreciate a lot of the different. Of consideration
that you've brought up to us. As my colleague Mr. Moos said I'm going to support this because we have no choice. That doesn't mean that we can't. As we move forward, start thinking differently. Start thinking about how we can improve. Funding source is how we can improve how we do the Q. That doesn't mean that that's going to fall by the wayside because we approve it for this year. This needs to be approved because our
schools that need to be taken care of. There are teachers. There are students and buildings that are counting on things to be fixed. even talking about me to patients. Just talking about an elevator working for the heating and cooling working and that makes a difference in your daily worth work or your daily Kos time as a kid. And so I look forward to supporting this cip and I also look forward to working with my colleagues. >> To see we're creatively and
maybe with more intentionality on how we move forward. To improve the process. >> Thank you. Miss Eaton, cutting, Mr. McDaniel. Thank you. I'll be supporting the motion. First and foremost, I want to thank staff Dr Reid for all your work on this. >> The I know it takes a lot too. Produce the dot like So thank you for that. At the end
of the day, we're being asked to cast a vote up or down on the cip program. Let's be very clear about this. I agree that we could ammend. This is a living breathing document. But that's not the vote on the table. The vote is up or down on these expenditures. So I'm gonna vote for this. I have my rights. I have my complaints, but I'm 90% confident in this document I question whether or
not voting this down would impact our AAA bond rating and fundamentally button this down with Holt, billions of dollars. First of renovations and construction. And I'm not going to put our communities for that term on that chaos. So I could complain about some specifics as we all could. I'm going to be supporting this document and I'm looking forward to its passage. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. McKinnon, this lady. It would like to
thank staff. I know this is a volume of work. >> And and it takes hours to put together and it's not easy work. So I just do really appreciate the work staff. I also appreciate the comments of my colleagues at the diocese and especially the way my my colleague, Mr. McDaniel just shared. You know You know, this situation with this is that when you read something this comprehensive, you might bump into things that are not 100% what you
would want. But I do feel like, you know, the work has to get done, but I but I just I'm probably in a position where I don't want to put through the baby out with the bathwater. So I'm well, I'm still a listen to my colleagues. I'm not sure if I can vote for this. My guess is I'm probably going abstain just because I have some cognitive business around some of the items that are in there. But I do staff to know
how much I appreciate their hard work. Thank you. Thank you. Miss leading Mr. Dunn. So I appreciate the comments of my colleagues. But reality other strawman fallacies that when you set up a false argument and then say that that's what's actually being advocated. >> There's been no advocacy by me or anyone else to cancel particular projects. But there is an obligation to reassess the projects that we are spending money on. We have a 42 42 year. Innovation que
getting worse. We have 530 million dollar deferred maintenance backlog. 379 million dollar infrastructure backlog and 14 billion dollars. It would cost to Courtney of facilities to get back to a 20 to 25 year renovation cycle. Those are staggering numbers when we only have 230 million dollars year Dre to said we should be governed as a school system, not as a system of schools to advocate for renovations of particular schools is to argue
for system of schools rather than a school system. We should be acting of the school board in a unified way to address the systemic means as we are in school boundaries as we are now their challenges. continuing the current path only make the situation worse. to the point where will be off the cliff and will be too late. And we just will not be able to address the fundamental needs of our school system. We are at a point where we've been presented information by Superintendent. By And again, I do appreciate all the work
that's gone into this. We have a fantastic superstar facilities. Team of superstar superintendent now is the time to change. Now, the time to reassess and make sure we're spending our dollars wisely as constituents elected us to do to make the hard choices not to wait 10 years as we have done with middle school start times and make choices. Now because these are long-term investments and we need to think long term. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Dunn Mystics it.
>> The sudden ski, I wanted to just kind of quick question on on the slight 8 of the Capital Improvement program. Funding summary a the Graf is says we need 1.4 billion dollars and only 3 84 million are funded. We get 230 million dollars and bond funding. That's 1.1 billion dollars in 5 years.
How that to translate that in this in this light. >> That's correct. Right now we have as the funded portion, all the bond referendum funding we received to date and through this fiscal year, the we get to that over one point or that 1 billion dollar number over the course of the 5 years with the anticipated approval of that 230 million dollars annually. >> So this is unfunded. 1 billion dollar basically is
the future money will be getting, which is to 30 billion a year. That's correct. So that does not show any deficiency at this particular moment. We are already funded for the current projects, correct? And that's why we're on a 42 year cycle. We had to build out the priorities and build out the cash flow with the anticipated funding that we get that 230 million dollars annually. >> We are going to change some of our prom prom contracting process is far building. I
believe. That's correct. We've been working revisions to school board policy. 82 40, which allow for different contracting methods for construction. >> I do think that would bring in some savings far this following projects we are doing. >> I don't know if that's going to be the easy button that brings us the hundreds millions of dollars I think will gain some efficiencies and I think will gain some
efficiencies more in the process and the product by having a builder on earlier in the process. I can't with certainty say, though, this is going to so the financial issue that the costs to lure rising, you know, ever since COVID, especially in with the adoption of prevailing wage in the past couple years. I think that you're going to still see those higher prices. They're not going to go back down from the pre-pandemic rates. >> And on a sudden ski, I I do want to appreciate the slide
you have which stories are funding per square feet Eskom but all school division neighboring counties. We have we get the lowest of the funding, Florida construction, our innovation. am I correct? Yes, that is correct. We get these fundings. We have the most students. We have most buildings. So I mean, it is what it is. I mean, we have to work with funds. We have a definite e that is in need of more funding from.
>> The bonds and we have to collaborate with the Board of Supervisors. I also want to do 0.1 more thing about the infrastructure replacement requirements. We have a backlog on that. But that does not come out of the bond money. >> Right. That is correct. Right now the bond is funding. What you see on page. 43, our cash flow of major capital projects infrastructure and maintenance is coming out of
it. Various operating funds. >> pesky I have that said this before that other ways of building meant and those like contracting nm contracts federal government uses quite a bit. We should look in other resources and other options off doing this as good thing to do it ourselves are, you know, our source, some of this work because this is what I've
seen in the federal side most in most of the federal building. So this is something I would like to, you know, get 6 more information on. Thank Marks. Thank you. Mr. McKinley. >> Thank you, Mr. Fresh. I too want to thank staff. believe this year's cip presentation was the most illuminating that I've seen in my time and the board. And that's in part because of this man work to really bring out those
staggering figures Mr. Dunn just referred to 14.5, not just We certainly a lot of. Work to make up that funding. So I have a few questions. So some news was released this week that the Board of Supervisors is pursuing a bond for early childhood education facilities. How does that interplay with our facilities?
And this is that county specific is that schools specific? Does anyone? I would say that you're Presidio is not here this evening. So I didn't know if that's something that skipped committee has been briefed on. >> Van Ski, are you familiar with the van content for the early childhood on the county side? >> I would be to go back and get more information. I have been made aware and the county has reached out to us saying that they're going to be conducting a feasibility study within their facilities as
part of this work and, you know, Put us on that awareness. >> Thank you for that. I find it shocking that we don't know more about that and that the blame does not fall in this room. It falls falls elsewhere. So would be grateful to hear from our Board of Supervisors, colleagues they're planning to do something like that, especially if implicates our facilities. secondly, I site specific question and this follows on some of comments
from Sizemore Heizer about early childhood facilities. So Sizemore Heizer mentioned the the pennant Hills facility. The one I want to focus on those the Pinewood Lakes facility. So that as we can see an update to the cip. It says its state slated for planning and 2032, I believe. And just going back. 28 23 follow on to the cip. iPhone
motion was made by Mister Net Colfax dedicated 0.5 million to the design and planning for this facility. So I'm not quite clear why we're still 7 years out on planning for that. And Miss get realize that's before your time. So I don't know if you have answer tonight. I would have to get back to you on that Thank you.
>> Dre. I don't have an answer either. I'm guessing. >> I don't know what the original and the follow-on motion. I know that was a plan to study that. But I don't know where that sent in the queue at that time. So I I would have to go back and speak with this man It's was definitely a priority conversation, Mr. Not Colfax. Brought forward. >> I bring this up just to say
that I hope that our Board of supervisors are contemplating these facilities that are already in the pipeline when they're looking at this pond funding my 3rd question is on Dunn Loring facility. So I'm interested to get staffs. Opinions a letter that was sent to us by McLean Citizens Association, as well as the various counties associate society. They're what these letters have indicated is that there is excess capacity in
the region where we're at. We're looking to put this facility with 10 surrounding schools, you know, all having extra capacity, mistreatment stanwood freedom, h*** having significant extra capacity. So. Just any thoughts, staff provide a minute. >> just as the meeting was started, received an email with some data. So I didn't have a chance to print it. But
this Umansky 40, perhaps you could relay some of There were some topics around trailers classrooms for special programs, if you could eliminate that to be responsive, but appreciate it. >> Sure. So while there is excess capacity in nearby elementary schools again Lawrence, Ben in the works for quite sometime to address that more long-term growth in need. And another thing I want to
point out and sent to Doctor Reed. That's not so much peer capacity, but just really looking at the recent rise in additional programs in this area. So right Dunn Loring in the Marshall Pyramid, but Falls Church and other adjacent. Pyramids have seen a rise in the need for additional classroom, specific to special education. We did some research and found that those pyramids also had a lot of temporary classroom
trailers. So there's other things that we would want to consider when thinking about planning and that need for Dunn Loring that goes just beyond what you see in the current membership utilization. >> Okay. Thank you. I mean, this is something that I as one board member going to pick paying a lot of attention Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Mcelvain. All right. As a note to the public on May 6th, we're going to have a work session as a school board. >> Some of the topics that
will be receiving from the CDC committee and Miss Mayor and has encouraged us along with some of our cip follow-on motions that need further discussion and some of the other research that's been done around those issues. So mace, okay. May 6th we will have a work session on that. So stay tuned. Miss Saint John Gunning for go back. >> Of apologies for bringing in right now. I just did want to bring some light for the early childhood. The skip team has made a very conscientious
and intentional effort to get the entire skip team year to work on early childhood education. And I know that that is a focus that is going to be yearlong in looking at everything and we haven't discussed the bond yet. But I know that that is a very intentional that is very intentional work that's going on right now. Thank you, Miss Saint John. Coming. >> See, no others will go to a
vote. The motion is on the screen. All those in favor Ms Maren Mystics. It Miss Anderson Miss Sizemore Heizer Mr. Moon Miss Saint John Cunningham. Mr. McDaniel myself. Those opposed. Mr. Make McElveen excuse Mr. McElveen Dr. Anderson, Mr. Dunn. Abstentions, lady. Will the clerk read the vote? >> 8, 3, one. The motion carries. Thank you.
>> I call on Mister Dunn for a follow-on motion. >> I move to direct the superintendent to engage with the county executive to explore the issuance of additional or standalone bonds to augment the funding available for school construction, infrastructure, maintenance and renovation to include a potential green bond and to deliver report to the school board with options and recommendations by May 8th 2025. Is there a second? Mr.
McLean, Mr. Dunn would like to Speak your motion. Yes, please. sorry. Been discussed a little bit. And there is a shocking disconnect between the stand on bond that has been discussed in the news media, which is the first time I learned about it for early-childhood education, which I think all of us strongly support. It's the key to closing the achievement gap. But with our school boundary view, one of our
major issues under discussion is the possibility of moving 6 graders to middle school. And one of the stated purposes of that just to make room for pre kindergarten early-childhood education. So we will have ample space and we likely have ample space in our schools as is right now to accommodate as much early childhood education has the federal government, the state government, local government wishes to fund. at a time when as we have stated, we have 14 and a half billion
dollars that we require to get back to the 20 to 25 year renovation cycle, which is the industry standard to address the very significant infrastructure backlog. Very significant half billion dollar maintenance backlog. We really need as much funding as possible to address the needs of our facilities, our schools of our students our staff of our communities and in order to make sure that the school
board has all the information it requires on the types of bonds, the types of financial instruments that are available to us. The impacts of the bonds on our credit rating and the possibility of issuing stand-alone bond, whether as a green bond, whether as a dedicated van for early childhood education or another educational purpose, such as school, construction and renovation. It's absolutely vital that the superintendent and the county executive together who are responsible for operations to have the
greatest expertise and resources to fully explore the full range of options have a very thorough conversation and dialogue. Thank. They can then come back to the school board and the Board of Supervisors to present strategic high-level options. That is the fundamental nature of our board's job as part-time officials with day jobs and many cases. Our job is to make high level strategic
decisions. And this motion is intended to gather information back then can be brought back to us so we can address perhaps the most serious crisis from a long-term perspective that our county has faced many, many years as one of my colleagues at the scope of this crisis has only recently become clear. That's because of the excellent work by the superintendent and I miss him and scanned her facilities. Team. And it is time for us to address this crisis. We cannot put this off for years and years and years
because the crisis is growing worse. And so to understand our fiscal options is absolutely essential. And that is what this motion is intended to do. Thank you, Mr. Dunn, Mr. like to speak your second. So I've long believed Fairfax County has been far too conservative it's funding. I think that. >> You know, the county does meet regularly with the credit
rating agencies, but compared to other jurisdictions of our size, the amount of bond funding we have seems to be low and the county is now at a point where as illustrated earlier, it's it's in the bond market for for new new bonds that we weren't aware of. So I don't see any issue bringing us another option to the table as outlined by Mister Dunn that I think there's. I think
everyone on this board agrees green construction is the way of the future. This system is heavily invested in that. From our roofs to our solar panels, to our our lighting, just about everything, our facilities. So it's long past time for county to look at this option. Thank Thank you, Mr. McLean, Mayor. I think it's essential that we talk about the bond. I said that previously. It's just not a one and done thing and it's
not a one man show to put this forward. This needs to start with a discussion with the board. It's not up to one school board member to direct. >> The superintendent to go ahead and talk with the county executive. It's actually a bond program that's run by the county board. Are funders and our counterparts. So the logical thing is to start with them. It is very unfortunate is another colleague said that the county board has taken a step. That could be super positive, but not with us. You know, I aspire for this board
and the county board to work much more thoughtfully and strategically together, especially since our facilities hosted half a million events last year, some of which were actually run by Fairfax County. So were inextricably linked. And this is only going to work when all of us on this board and the people on the on the Board of Supervisors get together and makes really bold decisions. Other counties do this other counties Henrico County, they use their meals tax. They have
over. It was 400 different facilities improvements. I'm aware of where superintendent came from last in Washington billion dollar bond. Texas. They do billion dollar bonds. There are things that are best practices in common in other places that this county doesn't do. And it really rests with the board of supervisors because they're the ones to put the bonds out. There is not the only solution for capital funding, but it's the one we've got place. Now, we should figure out how to expand it. So I will not be supporting this motion because we as a boarding to publicly
discuss it before directing the superintendent to do anything about Thank you. Thank you. Aaron Miss Anderson. I agree with my colleague that I think that the board needs to spend some time talking about what our funding streams are. >> But if nothing has become clear to me over the last month is that we have several crisis is going on in education right now. And for me as much as I would love to ensure that our infrastructure is as solid as humanly possible. The crisis that I am the most concerned about is our teachers and our staff. So
I can't support this because any scent that the county could give us extra. I wanted to make sure that we found that contract. And so I would I I just can't fathom plea put this forward to the county right now. I think it's an essential conversation for us to have with them in a partnership where it's not necessarily board directed. It's it's one board to another. I think we need to start off by getting all of us together and actually discussing this in a way that we can work together. I've
said that many times. And so I can't support this tonight. But I look forward to those conversations of my colleagues in the future. Thank you, Miss Anderson. Excuse me. I will take a >> I know slow he's not here with us tonight, but I do want to that. I know that the early childhood office and Mr. Presidio have attended meetings with the county about the early childhood bond. I
think the press coverage probably caught people by surprise and if you were here tonight, he would speak to and no work with the superintendent to ensure that you can report back to the board on the work there. I think they've been. I think they Report back to us on the conversations that they've been having and the outreach was early. So we can go from there. I have. Mr. McDaniel.
>> Thank you. will least for the motion, you know, it. I think this is a classic example of the need for better communication. These are I was aware of this is, you know, wealth care months, comments. This is coming up pipeline. So kind of taken aback a little bit buys some sentiment that ball. This was blindsided. I
don't think it was. But that's just this one board members view at the end of the day. I don't want to put the county. And when I say the county, I mean to to board, it's because fundamentally, 22 people govern this county, our board and the Board of Supervisors. I don't want to put any of us in the position of sniping back and forth on bond capacity. I question how that would impact our AAA bond rating, which is a hallmark of what we have done for good governance in this county sense. The late 70's to my my
recollection were one of the few counties want. If you miss governments and the country to have this AAA bond rating. So continuing to go back and forth on this and and this type of fashion, it's just not a good way to do business. Had this motion. Then to reestablish the joint infrastructure financing, working group between the 2 boards. I would support it, but I'm not going to support us. Just firing off a letter saying give us more about money, especially because well. We didn't know maybe
that this pre this early child education bomb is coming down. The pipes. So unfortunately, I can't support tonight. There's a path forward to have this conversation. This motion is not the path. Thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. McDaniel Miss Sizemore Heizer. Thank you. I also will not be springs motion at this time. Repeat with my colleagues have said, but I'm hoping Dr Reid and Ms Umansky at that May 5th
or 6 secant. Exactly. You said work session that we're having with the additional follow-up most. The Cip, the additional discussion, one of the points of conversation could perhaps be water some ways that we can collaborate with the county on issues around bond funding around. As my colleague mentioned, preschool and enjoy the work out school and thats decree time for conversations that we could have. You know, we are checking have with that chair of the Board Supervisors or you can have on ideas that
we discusses aboard a work session. I know a couple years ago we had a joint cip work group that ended up in raising the bond funding. That's an option that we could discuss. county counterparts and see if looking to do something like that. But I think that May 5th work session, perhaps you all can come with some ideas of ways to collaborate we can have that conversation together might be a good thing as a good point to have a thoughtful discussion. But how do we best collaborate in a way that sets both our boards?
And more importantly, the schools in the county up for success. So that's just the thought. I had. Thank you. Miss Sizemore, Heizer, Mr. Moon. >> Thank you, Mister Chairman. Thank you. Mister Mistook them for bringing this motion. Even though. I am not going to be able to support this motion today, but I so to me, understand why you brought this one up. I'm not That we the school system this edition. Additionally, he kept
funding. From somewhere. And at this point in time, it's a county side county coming is going to have to make some decisions in regard. Even though he may be difficult for to superintendent to Engage County executive to make. For 2 make those decisions because ultimately it's going to come down to a county. You put up to season. I'm hoping that Mr.
Chairman, you can engage Yukon each year. To them know our desire this conversation. Maybe some time we have a work session and we schedule a join board. 2 meeting. just have that discussion with the county side. He agrees to give us a nation of funding on up. I think we not to present case and hopefully doctor. Reed.
For works at the board may work session if if he could bring to the board. Harford information I for it because I need to prison on isle going to be able to use the information. I have a conversation supervisors that why 25 either is much better 40 to reassign. Why for students and for our teachers.
And why even for 25 years site per. Makes water finding insurance sense. If that cuts down on not a maintenance cost. I'm hoping that we can somehow find a way pump up fi that so that we can show that it actually in long saves money. By going to 25 us. I couldn't 40 tweet once we those information we can at the meeting in the county. by
choice present those Ford dealer consideration. Thank one gone for, you know, just loss. I'm hoping that this winter is to gate this. We the debate. Our board, 2, pretty. e convey our message call the Board of Supervisors happen, you know, to in conversation. Thank you, Mr. Moon. >> Miss Saint John coming.
>> So I to cannot support this. But I think it's really important for us to discuss here is. The importance of the relationships that we build with. Counterparts on the Board of supervisors. And a lot of us have one-on-one relationships with the board, the board of supervisor that represents district. I have monthly meetings with mine. I know what's going on. He knows
what's going on. I encourage everyone to do that because I think. The way we move this ball forward is not just through our relationship for 2 board, but these personal relationships. I have relationships with other board of supervisors will sit around and discuss things. And I know we're very data-driven society, which is. Very important. But I also think that those relationships are crucial. I know that the Board of Supervisors want the same thing that we want. But I also
understand that right now we're going to be a huge reduction in our tax base because of what's happening with fire. tax funding where there's not money there. The Board of Supervisors has less of the pie. And we're going to have to be created for how we try to solve this. I encourage us work together as a board, have a discussion as a board
work with with the Board of Supervisors. But I also encourage us to have those build those relationships so that we can creatively figure out how we're going to do this. I just think that the way that this motion is. Presented is not it the best way to build a relationship. We can't be adversarial. I also know that our state partners are state delegates and senators are also trying to work to support us. But
we're facing a funding shortage and we've got to be realistic. And my father who always keeps gives us pearls of wisdom. And I've said this to many of you. It's like everybody wants to go happen, but nobody wants to die. You know, so we all want the best. But nobody wants to pay taxes. So now we have to figure out what we're going to do. I think we start strengthening those relationships. Thank you. Miss on cutting Dr Anderson.
>> Thank you. We have a joint meeting coming up with the Board of Supervisors on the 25th. Is it potentially is it possible for this to be a conversation on the agenda? Even if I respond? It's the question is to you. formal. Yes, happy to talk to Chairman McKay. I think that will be a good idea. Even whether this does not pass. I think that's something we need to to establish. And I also don't see any harm and having our
executive speak to their executive because they have conversations all the time. We're just honing in on what possibilities could be in this area. Because you have regular meeting set up with Brian Hill. Correct? How would be hot? How would those meetings be impacted if you would have raised this as an exploration? It's just too to see what they're thinking. You talk
about a wide range of Certainly could ask the question. And I think that will be a good start. We have to start somewhere because we sit here and we know what we need to have happened. Faust schools, we see our need. It's very clear to us and we just need to continuously convey this to the other side because we cannot generate any revenue. We are at the mercy. And so the more we can engage in these discussions than what we could be planned full. I
don't think we lose from doing that. My last question is too. MS events key not to put you on the spot at all. But I'm curious in the district where you've worked in the division's what you've worked before. Have you had simultaneous bonds going on 4 different projects with different types of yeah, different types of projects. >> Yeah, we're I came from and District Columbia. It's sort of a unique situation where the mayor could go out and get
bonds without voter referendums that I do know from the right precedent case. But I guess the answer your question. Yes, we did. So we would have. Console to do major capital Project. major infrastructure and asset projects, all kind of concurrent and based on what the needs were and that five-year pipeline, the amounts would vary from year to year depending on what the priorities were.
>> Thank you, Dr, Anderson, Mr. Dunn. Yeah, I just want to clarify a couple things for those men eat thousands of people watching on YouTube. First of teachers salaries are not paid from bonds paid from the operating budget. 2 completely different pots of money. So teacher salaries is not even part of the equation. Secondly, we're not talking about issuing of the line is very clear. Explore the issuance of additional are
stand-alone bonds. They're already talking about issuing fam on bonds. I've been an education advocate for 10 years and this county, an effort, multiple boards talk about how they really wish they could issue additional bonds because even 10 years ago school infrastructure, construction renovation, maintenance needs. We're great. And and but we were always an understanding for your school boards are under the understanding that the only bonds that the county could issue to preserve the AAA credit rating where the school once every 2 years.
That's not true. Right? There's some financial instruments that count against credit rating can impact it and other financial instruments that don't. And so I think if we the 22 people who govern this county get together in a room. I don't know what the conversation would be. I know everyone's background here. None of us. Financial instrument, bond market experts. Neither are any of the folks on the Board
of Supervisors. The experts reside under the county executive. And then with our, you know, Superintendent and CFOs office. Those are the financial experts they can come together. They can develop information and then presented to the board. And that's that's the information gathering. And then you raise up to the decision-maker level. That's how it works in any large organization. As I've been the COO for a 2 billion-dollar federal agency. I understand how these things
work. I regret that this motion on past night, but I hope formally or informally we will actually go out gather the information so we can actually pursue this because this isn't a one school member initiative is actually a board initiative. Thank you, Mr. Dunn, Mr. McDaniel. >> And just just to clarify how the bond process works in this county, because I do have some experience in doing that will come to be an expert. But I do kind of know a thing or 2. The 10 principles of sound
financial management that the county adopted decades ago. The resolution that led to us having a AAA bond rating, the resolution that led to us actually being able to build out the county to the Mecca that it is today. The thing that I'm advocating so hard for us to protect and be sensitive about that document outlines very clearly how we fund Barnes and the bond capacity of that county. We
have to have maintained a certain percentage of bonded out debt versus the total book value of real estate assets. We also have to ensure that the percentage of our operating budget dedicated to debt service is below a certain threshold. So this isn't simply a quote, question of just issue more bonds or not. It is a closed loop system. The question is not get more bonds. The schools are not. The question is give more bars. The schools and
that would mean taking away from other projects within the county. So this is not a simple conversation of just well. Let's issue a stand-alone bond in call of the day. We have to be partners at the table and that's why I'm so passionately advocating this motion to not pass again. Had this motion been to have that joint conversation. I would be on board with it. But that's not what this motion says. >> Thank you, Mr. McDaniel seeing merit. >> I think mean colleagues I'm
thinking about what is the point of having a motion like this? I mean, we are here to direct the superintendent. I don't know that we need motions a silly to direct ourselves. And, you know, how do we set up our agenda for discussions that we have? This one coming up on May 6 but Mr. McDaniels Point, I asked that the first joint meeting when we met with the Board of Supervisors. What does that AAA bond rating actually get us if we have school buildings that are well past useful life, we can say we have a AAA bond rating. And how is that
benefiting us right now? Also, we could stay just focused on the current bond program, which has us getting bond money every other year on the ballot. Well, how is it that the schools get funds on the ballot this year will be on the ballot. It's an even year. Not year. You'll be on the November ballot. So schools are slated to be on the ballot. Yeah, we have 4 times the amount of square footage than the county plus our buildings. Are you 7 days a week? Including county programs. That is key
conversation. Could we adjust the schedule and maybe have a few years of school bond funding and get rid of the backlog of maintenance. These are all discussions. I pored over the county's bond program and I have many questions I referring to what was, you know, set up in the past I can't recall that document Mr. McCain was talking about. But let's let's review what we've been through. We've been through COVID. We've been through a recession. Who knows what's going to happen to our workforce right here locally.
You know, it's time to review these things. And I just see a pattern in this county of waiting too long to review things. 40 years for a boundary view, 15 years for start times 40 something years for operating systems to be reviewed. If we are world class, we need to update our business operations at our funding mechanisms and it's hard work and we're going to do it together. And certainly our executives are going to have to do it together. But if we can all get on the same page and talk together, it's got to start with us before we direct executives to do it. Thank you. Thank you. Miss
Mayor. All right. Seeing no others. We have the motion. Please on the screen. >> All right. I will call for a vote for the motion on the screen. All those in favor. Mr. McElveen Dr Anderson, Mr. Dunn, all those opposed. Miss mayor Miss Anderson Sizemore Heizer Mr. Moon misleading message on cutting Mr. McDaniel myself. The motion does not pass. Agenda item.
7.0 1 performance review safety and Security E L 13 monitoring report. Each year. The school board assesses the superintendent in part on the basis of the school divisions, reasonable progress pretty cheating. The 2023 to 2030, strategic plan's goals and adherence to a set of 13 executive limitations found on pages 14 through 31 of the board's strategic governance manual. The superintendent
provides annual monitoring reports to the board for each executive limitation the board than votes on whether the provided report is in compliance or if a corrective action is needed. Icahn Doctor Reed form on a report on executive limitation, 13 safety and security. >> Good evening, chairman. First members of the board and the public tonight as Mr. Perrett Mr. Fish mentioned I'll be presenting executive limitation 13 which discusses safety and security. So let's go ahead. Thank you. I want to
share that at the time of this report to the best of my knowledge, information and belief. We have gathered information and evidence that I believe supports compliance with the board's executive limitation associated with this topic and would like to share some of the highlights this evening. Want to do a reminder that there are 7 areas of executive limitation, 13 and outlines all the parts of item. Number one. These are
the remaining items. So it's like item one. And Kevin. thank you. These are the remaining items. And although I'm only going to be sharing selected indicators this evening, I want to remind the board and the public that the entire monitoring report is publicly available and attached on board. Docks. So tonight, I'm going to start with some updates about how we develop procedures. How we
develop procedures that ensure the safety of students and staff and the security of our schools offices, transportation services and grounds. First of all, want share that our Office of Safety and Security trains with Fairfax County Sheriff's Office on the responses to critical incidents and supplied our road. Deputies with keys to the buildings. This add up. This upwards of
25 law enforcement personnel that are able to rapidly respond to incidents that may take place in one of our schools. We've also purchase new public safety radios for each school which are set to be deployed next month. These Wi-Fi radios eliminate potential dead zones, ensuring communication is always available. The new radios have actually already been issue too Office of Safety and security, uniformed officers which allows him to communicate more effectively
while working in schools during all hours. Excuse me, Fcps is also contracting with the critical response Group or Crg. To create digital maps for all our fcps school buildings. This ensures that all emergency response teams are working from the same platform essentially and prevents gaps in our responses. Next. I want share
our security vestibule updates are underway with the first group of 19 schools set to be completed by the end of this month. And they're actually about 95% complete at this time. Last month, the plan was shared for a pilot to implement the school board's recommendation for a comprehensive annual school traffic and pedestrian safety assessment, which will begin in the spring of 2025. So the next couple months. Also last
month, the Office of Safety and Security of Mendon updated guidance for extreme cold and wind chills, very timely to provide more structure and consistency across the division for protection of our children during inclement weather. We're very grateful this morning that the ice we a couple degrees away from not just a crystal trees but to roads as well. So big thanks and shout out to our facilities. Team Underground's
team for checking for broken limbs, trees down and other hazards on our campuses. Around our campuses. And also just want to take a moment thank all our security folks, our safety and security team are specialists sorrows. That partner under the leadership of Brian Lambert. Ryan, Morgan, it's a great team and they work really hard. 24 7 to keep our students, staff and community members in our school safe. So big shout out.
To close out indicator. One of those executive limitation like to focus on the safety tip line. Fcps does have an anonymous safety tip line to report school safety issues. And this is regularly used to investigate threats, unsafe or dangerous circumstances and a variety of other criminal behaviors or concerns about student wellness tips can be submitted by phone, text email or web and their signs up
throughout our schools to give the ways in which to do this. And this evening, this would be our. Number of tips received through different avenues in the last school year. 23 24. So looking at indicator, too. I want to highlight how we implement procedures to ensure the safety of students and staff when they participate in off-site school-sponsored activities such as field trips. Another events. We have many processes and procedures
in place related to this field trip safety which include commercial bus carriers that have been reviewed by risk management. So they match up with Virginia Department of Transportation Safety measures also are copies of emergency care forms for students are sent on each trip and emergency contacts are and made sure to be accurate for that adult charge. And the recommended Ray show in Fairfax County is one chaperone to every 10
students. O S s school administrators to reschedule or avoid trips located your high profile events that might have safety concerns. So we really work hard to make sure students when they lever campuses are also safe. Looking at indicators, 3 talks about how we provide the appropriate training for staff and students on fcps safety and security procedures as well as crisis prevention and management and new this school
year, we had mandatory safety and security training, which is called school-based safety and security orientation, which ensure that all school staff are trained to be on. Just the crisis management team. And that the team that typically attends tabletop activities. Based on the feedback from last year's Eel, 13 all school board members have also been invited to attend tabletop exercises and and have an opportunity to participate in that process.
So looking at indicator talks a little bit about how we implement routine staff background checks and procedures for timely communication with law enforcement regarding employees which again ensure a safe learning environment for all students during our meal for presentation. Earlier this year, I stated that Fcps has been fingerprinting employees hired prior to 2006 in order to store all employee
fingerprints digitally and conduct routine background checks. As of the end January 2025. Almost Welt, but 91% of all of these necessary fingerprints have been completed and we're in the process of ensuring that the rest of these fingerprints or captured. In January 2025. The Office of Safety and Security sent notices to the heads of all law enforcement agencies across the commonwealth,
reminding them of the need to report school employee arrests and also clarifying that Mr. Lambert is the designee to receive notices. The office also recently hosted the Bomb Threat Assessment for decision-making course from the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Office of Bombing Prevention. This course provided foundational knowledge on the assessment and evaluation of bomb threats unrelated responses. Well, also looking at how to distinguish between low moderate and high-risk threats
using best practices from FEMA. And as you know, the past year. So we've had a bit of an uptick in threats. And so we really felt like this was a training match for our staff. Indicator. 6 talks about providing age, appropriate safety and security curriculum for students to support their safety and well-being. So we have a new grade level appropriate, appropriate lockdown video which is now available for students in grades K through 5. That's
been a concern raised by a number of community members. We don't use the same video K 12. So we've created elementary developmentally appropriate lockdown video is which differentiated from secondary. And also the alcohol, tobacco and other drugs. And it was revised last year and implemented beginning this past fall. lots really work on on that topic.
Indicators 7 focuses on establishing a comprehensive cyber security plan to safeguard students, staff and the division from cyber threats. This year, CBS began the roll out of the and Ist Risk Management framework. And that's the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Cybersecurity Framework. And the Center for Internet security. So different to.
Groups, I guess help U.S. implement controls and measure progress while providing a framework for risk based assessments and authorizations. So Mr. Chairman, this concludes the presentation for executive limitation, 13 safety and security. >> Thank you. Doctor Reed will get started with board member comments and questions with Sizemore Heizer. >> Thank you, Doctor Reed and thank you to staff Mr. Lambert and Mr. Walker Elegy for that.
With all the great work that you've done on around safety and security. Do they get your name wrong? >> You're just looking space. Like, like, that's not me. So thank you for all your hard work. I really appreciate it. couple questions ahead on the beals. I noticed that. 4 is not funded. Let me know there's a certain number of schools whose vestibules we're we're not going to be able to fund or what's the point of 5 aside, if I think or if I were not funded. So what's the plan
to make sure all the schools have these best deals? I believe that all the best deals will be funded. It's likely that the design has already been funded, but I'm going to defer to Umansky at this point. >> Sure group, just to give a high-level recap of everything group. One is substantially complete wrapping up things over the next couple weeks. Group 2 is actually out to bid for construction right now. It's on new business tonight. Group 3 is in design and that earlier stage design. So we hope to carry that through and
submit for permit summer. And yes, groups 4, 5, have not started contingent on funding. >> So we continued on fundings that mean. It's not that we need to have more funding are going to take funding of the bond or operation funding. Is there plan for that funding just say we're not going to do that until we figure out think we haven't identified an incumbent funds. Whereas once we start to the 9, they are identified in encumbered. >> I ask that because I want to make sure that this is a
really important and a long-term plan major Dr for safety in our schools. I just want to make sure that we are working towards a plan for funding those last few criticism. Thank you. And then the other question I had a couple of questions. First is I want to thank you for the Narcan training that is so important, so vital for our Just thank you for that. I want to start with the emergency procedures that in place I saw on Page 4 of the report that there's still the working group looking at both the shelter in place that
physical evacuation for students with disabilities. I know this is a working group that's been there for. I think at least a year. I know. Talk to you about this years. So go. So do we know where that group is in looking at actual physical that evacuation for people disabilities as opposed to a shelter in place where there were students with disabilities are left behind in the building while everybody else is safely evacuated outside of the building, which can be traumatic in itself. So to know that the process of that group is?
>> Yes, ma'am. Well, I I m our back row, Amanda and I and several members of SEPTA actually met with the fire marshal a year ago to identify the possibilities. And in fact, we did begin at that point ordering different equipment that would enable us to evacuate students on an IP at the same time that other students were evacuated. Again, that was a school by school design given different schools have different layouts and different maps. But I know
Mister Lambert is fairly new still and I don't know if you have something to add to that, if make sure we have more thorough response in a Friday letter, Mr. Lambert. >> Yes, I'm aware of that topic. I know the group to Dr Reid met with shared some concerns were also tracking the General Assembly has a bill that's still going through right now. That may require that individual. I ups have to agree with the school's plan. So that's something we're watching very closely there are some
concerns with the fire marshal. We've dedicated rooms that are fire safe, but ensuring that we have enough staff, if that were to be something that happened because there could be collateral concerns. Would that make it more dangerous to evacuate students then to shelter in place. The fire department has given us great assurances that their first priority is to respond to those rooms. But once the staff member we're to evacuate
somebody and we lose the ability to use elevators. For example, those staff members cannot go back into the school. So those are all things that we're going to be working with. And I do know that the governing body SEPTA is is very engaged in this topic. Yeah, I would if maybe at some >> My longer up to know where we stand and I'm very well aware the general, some of the bill just spoke. My former school work colleague Laura Jane Cohen. He's carrying that Bill. And I think my understanding is that is trying to get document on the IEP plot page or similar
pages. What the plan would be for that student. So I think you'll be helpful before that bill goes through to have some serve things it teams could offer as this is what options are. And of course, it's still individualized for each student. But knowing what options, I would be helpful if that Bill does go through and it pains to start documenting on the plot page what the plan would be. So you know wouldn't. And one last question I had on my time's up. You're not. But on cyber security on the NES that I'm
familiar with, Nist framework, is it? I don't know if it's customized for different types of organizations are industries that get you in terms of cybersecurity risk. That's particularly the public governments for public agencies or in this case really have a lot of students who are accessing the Internet or access WiFi. Are there unique risk to students that, you know, helping them understand what not to click on and all these other things. I don't know if that's framework is particular to schools or if there is a subset that is particular or or not just look at more
understanding about that. >> So I'm going ask Mr. Lambert to comment on that. >> Both myself and Mr. Us at the shop collaborate on on those topics. It's a general framework series of can trolls that are put in place its adaptive depending on the situation. So it's not not so rich. It is. It's one size fits all. But it's a general framework and got a few anything. It's just that >> Yeah. Primarily be books.
Focus on the systems in the back and to make sure we can protect and secure the data and the networks. There's not a lot in terms of friend and and use of being there. Things like MFA show up, but those don't apply to students. So this is more focused inwards towards infrastructure and the strategies we use to secure those. >> That's my hope. that was not aware that it was an affront and strategy as well as back into. Do we have training for students around cybersecurity restaurant fishing. I know there's a lot of controls terms of what goes in their e-mails. But whether
it's our e-mail systems or Internet systems or when they leave here. I think it's important training when they leave here. So I'm just curious what kind of training we have around safety security for turning our students. >> The place we touch those our digital citizenship courses right now. And there's not a specific carve out time to kind of spend time on cybersecurity, but it's certainly going need like when we talk to a student leaders, they talk about how students need to be aware of those things. So it's an opportunity that lies ahead of But I believe like now they're focusing on digital
citizenship. >> I encourage you to look at that as digital security. Our digital citizenship and digital literacy curriculum and see how would it need to be updated as this change is pretty rapidly? I think that was my time keep hearing Bill, so thank you very much. Appreciate it thank Sizemore Heizer as Mayor. I really enjoyed reading this it's really outstanding work. It answers a lot of questions that I received from my community. And so I do urge you Dr Rita is this is a
resource document, especially about security cameras. Families are always asking me of a security cameras. What's the status? I've had. People ask, can I pay for security can like and they themselves pay for security camera. Have it installed. So it's really a big one for elementary schools. trees, but the vestibules and how is cruise? But have the timing has gone for the installation of the was it a little bit of a delay and then initially and want to carry things cool with like
zoning that was I think holdup at one point permitting. Yeah, the permitting like we got that figured out so it can be as fast as possible. >> I believe that we certainly have done up front work and that's part of why we're doing the best to bills in groupings because we're permitting them as a group this man skin, if you want to add on that. >> No, except that, you know, we found that time decreased for approvals and that second phase. So I do think we're making better on our our schedules and it's going in the right direction.
>> Great. Yeah. We'll seeing a spike schedule. Just want to mention, as you say on Page 6 that we are year ahead of schedule with that security camera project insulation. So again, I think that would be really great news for the public to hear. >> Entry protocols and exit protocols. I see on Page 7. >> you know, there's a note about shared visitor protocol and my experience is that it has not been consistent, but I haven't thought a check each time. But I do really hope that there is a way to really check that it is the same in every single school not
signing at once. Can the machine at another show, your badge and also exit? I that's been a concern of mine. So I hope you can design no way to really make sure it's it's consistent. Iin notify this actually connects with the work I advocated for around knowing which communication vehicles are used for. What? So I actually was kind of surprised on Page 7 to see at the bottom that the emergency messaging system notify 2 and its focus on critical
operational issues. And I kind of feel like I've heard things 3 notify that are not critical operations that might be like, hey, I just you'll see your e-mail for this important, you know, Nelson from the principal or something else. And this just goes back to like, please be clear on which vehicles are used for which because that also will help families to say like, oh, if I get any notified that are really to use that and not, you know, just go onto the next thing in their inbox. Ana Page 12 reducing the time to do the verifications of
people's employment from 3 to 5 business days to less than an hour. That is fabulous. And it's those kinds of efficiency is that I hope the public knows about. And that we just need to see more of that. I also wanted to ask about. Peace. 13 about requiring law enforcement agencies upon arresting a person. To identify the superintendent. We know that that went awry years ago in an email was sent to a non-working address since
turned the legislation. One point was proposed to have it faxed to school board off to school offices like is is there a consistent practice on how law enforcement agencies inform school divisions? And if not, I think that's something I know I'd like to take up as a board. That needs to be changed part by the state code. Last thing I just on the back on Page 14. I know that the curriculum gun safety is not. We're going live prevention is not in this. This rubric here on the back. it is you to compile a list of
it. But like I think as well as the digital citizenship like having all here that cross nexus of her game and safety and how it integrates here. Thank you. Thank you. Miss Mary. >> So I'll respond to the law enforcement notice. There is a standard expectation that's email with the read receipt. However, what we've realized over the last year, first and foremost, our Fairfax County, public or affairs, Fairfax County Police Department Sheriff's Department are fabulous. They're right on it.
They have a direct connection with our security staff and, you know, there's just no gap and information. What we have found those for outsider County notification. It has been mixed and out of state notification. And it's occasional right. So that's really why Ben, I think insistent that the Rat Pack program or something that's an automatic paying would be important. But I'll ask Mr.
Lambert, if want to comment because was part of the reason I point out that we sent these letters out because we gave a very clear direction. But let's remember. >> correct. Dr Reid. >> Law enforcement officers among many other responsibilities are supposed to make. >> Notification on certain things Dr Reid sent out a notice when she first arrived in the school district and we decided to follow up on it after we had an incident happened in the last few months that we didn't get notice as Dr Reid pointed out, the Rat Pack program would eliminate the need for us to
continue to send these notices out. Because every time somebody was fingerprinted and processed. And because they were enrolled in a no. The HR team is is well engaged on that were well prepared. It would immediately notify us and avoid that gap. So what Dr Reid did with the memo is, you know, covering all of our bases, making sure we're reminding folks and reinforcing it. But we're really optimistic about rap that. >> Thank you very much, Mr. Dunn. Thank you. I was running
Dre if you could introduce to the community, Mr. Lambert and his impressive background because I think it's important for community know we have world-class expertise, leaving our safety and security office. >> Mr. Lambert is our chief safety and security officer. And he comes from long. History in public service at the national level. Mister Lambert, you want to elaborate to the degree. Thank you.
Appreciate it. >> I did join in November. So 3 months complete after E a 25 year career with the Secret Service where had the blessing to lead all of our field operations across the U.S.. And before that, I was a police officer in Chesterfield, Virginia. But hail from the Great College of William and Mary. >> apologize for that. Mister lest you there's a lot of
discussion about crossing guards rain. could provide an update on on the funding of you know, making sure we have enough crossing guards of all across walks during school hours. >> So that's great question. I know there is a lot of discussion, particularly last spring in different parts of the county about crossing guards, which for many of our children, is really a critical safety issue because some of the roads that are children asked across are quite busy and some of our adults, show
officer best selves when they're behind the wheel in the morning. So Mr. Lambert, we have an update on crossing guards. I believe. been there's been some work on that, but also some commitments to that. So Mr. Lambert. >> the responsibility of president for providing a crossing guard says through that Fairfax County Police Department. Like like many places, I think area that's challenged to find folks to work just to give some context on when we hear requests 4 new
crossing guards, we will generally send somebody out from our safety section and observe the area both in the morning in the afternoon, sometimes on several days. If we agree that we think there should be, we pass that over to the police department who says their traffic unit out to do their their own assessment and then based on their resources and availability, they tried accomplish that. But you are correct. It can be a a. Challenging issue. It is
a resource issue often. I will say this, my my deputy just retired from the Fairfax County Police Department, one of their standing orders is that crossing assignments get filled so routine patrol officers are often filling crossing guard roles. So the police department takes that seriously enough. That is a sacrosanct fang that that gets filled up a crossing guard calls out.
>> I will also Chief Davis, we work very closely know, Mr. Lambert does. And he and I the chief and I can act immediately when there's any kind of a concern around safety and security that is appropriately elevated. And he had he and I also spoke last spring about crossing guards and his commitment to those safety high safety needs. I know there's a deep commitment from his desk as well on this topic. >> And I'm grateful for every law enforcement officer and the chief everything they do
to protect our public safety. But it was my nursing. The county was trying to find a new funding source potentially fcps to pay for those crossing guards long term. Is that still happening? Or did misunderstand? >> No, sir, I think what my understanding of what was occurring last spring was not so much then moving of funding, but rather the. Oversight, the recruitment. In other words, would it be possible to contract may be?
Somebody? Maybe, you know, there are many some private, tight security agencies and with the school division want to take that role. And I was I was clear that I think that was our area of expertise. I really felt like we thought the police were doing a great job with that and we're connected to also traffic violations, which, you know, I it seems like a natural know
no gap service. So they left it where they kept it with the police department. But I know that was a discussion last spring. >> And so that that's ongoing discussion that's been result at this point. >> To my knowledge, it's not an ongoing discussion. >> And is there any discussion about centralizing our security staff in our schools Mr, Lambert or is that still being maintained at the principal level with the dotted line, Mr. Lambert. >> Currently, it's the supervision. Is that the principal level with the dotted line to Mr? Lambert?
>> Is that under consideration for being changed at all? >> We've certainly discuss that. And I I think that Anything is fair game. But yes, we certainly have discussed it. >> ask if there's been any assessment or any plans or discussions to assess the security staffing in our schools to provide more security assistance to better meet the nationally recommended ratio of no students and staff to 2 security personnel.
>> So I know Tom Becker all was part of that work prior to his retirement and he and Mr. Solomon. We're looking at those ratios and also the duties, you know, of our administrative staff and our genes staff within the school. So I think there working on some type of a schematic that. May create different roles and responsibilities for security specialist or staff. I've also
said, though, given our budget circumstances. And some of the federal uncertainties and the need to fully fund our collective bargaining agreement. We're really going to have to think about not adding more staff, but rather we. Deploying the current staff. We have so we would have to think about if we're going to add. Staff for a particular program, what are we not going to do then to provide staff to do that programs that make sense? because we can't. We're not in
a space where we can later on programs with more staff are going to think about. What we would stop doing to start doing something else or to do something differently. So that's a conversation. Certainly that's ongoing. >> This is a very impressive report. And, very impressive record. But we facing of the pernicious social media next door and other sources that create a false perception of the safety of our students on a daily basis. What more could be done or what is under
consideration to ensure that we are accurate, making sure parents in our communities have accurate information about the safety of our students to safety for schools. >> So I think Chairman McKay here in Fairfax County offices where the safest county in the country right? Our data continues show that and I would argue that our schools are some of the safest schools in the country. We have fabulous security staff within our schools. Our sorrows. All
right. All secondary schools and we have security staff by region assigned to elementary and our staff are well trained. the and we generally speaking, I feel like our meeting, staffing ratios. So I would encourage members of the public you know, to connect with their students. Teacher, principal, they have concerns and I know Brian Mr. Lambert certainly would also be able
to answer concerns. We have a lot of ways to get information. But our discipline data, if you recall, even recently we looked at it. The types of discipline incidents remarkably minimal for serious discipline events. I can see muscle want nodding. It's week. Our schools very safe. And I recently shared with families say the safest place for children to be during the day. So to your point, I think perhaps we have to think of
more ways to communicate that. So charge staff of thinking about how we can better tell that story. Thank you. Appreciate it. Yes, sir. >> Thank you, Mr. Dunn, Mr. Moon. Talk to me. And I think you just answer my question becomes should in up online over that, you know, for me, Ana, you know, going to ease keeping our students and employees safe and secure. You
know, you provided a lot of information. More needed from my point advantage between ease data. She'll do they to show that our kids. I wish she and employees indeed in safe and secure, learning and working environment. And that has to be. so. resources that we put The Army King hour, and
working environments, even safer and more secure. And if you could provide that data, I would long way. thank you. Its search. Thank you, Mr. Moon Mystics it. >> Dre, this is excellent presentation of a good report. I have only couple of questions. One is about our ACC TV's on one of the pages that afford says Conte, 44
Elementary school. The funding for CCTV, and it would be once fully funded. It would be completed within 3 years, possibly sooner. What kind of how much is the funding get this of make an estimate on that? >> So great question. We've done a lot of that work through grants so that we don't go into the general fund for those dollars and we don't have a separate bond for those projects. Ms Byrd and we have
any kind of a financial Mr. Lambert on what that the CCTV project funding might be. >> If we were to install external cameras at the 44 sites, that would be approximately 5.3 million dollars with an annual recurring $90,000 for licensing and $40,000 for breaking repair. I have the information. If you are interested about interior as
well, but I think our priority would first 50 get the exteriors. >> Thank you so much for the information. This is something is a priority some of us. I guess many my colleagues to that our elementary schools sometimes can be the target of bad elements Sen. And I also nightmare for any parent is all the shootings happened and
we have armed officers at minutes Cups, cooler school and high school. But we don't have it in and images schools so while we we may not be able to have armed officers in every school. Comey, pride, eyes use off the, you know, weapon detection system. An elementary school's first year. Is that a consideration? I think we're >> still open to using the weapons detection. I think the
plan that we're going to unveil over the next couple months. We'll give a lot of flexibility for us to do that. I would add that last year, Dr Reid. Give us. And Brian Gibson who works here with U.S., 6 officers that we dedicated just to the elementary schools. What I want to be clear about is these are folks that just drive around and, you know, maybe a cruiser pulls in front when they stop at a school. They go inside for upwards of an hour to touch base with the school administration. Talk them through what they're doing. And where unveiling
just in the next couple months that we're going to incorporate them into the fire drills. We want them to be president every time that they're bringing the students outside. So we have a group that's a Monday to Friday dedicated just to our 141 elementary schools and not the middle and high schools. >> That that sounds good. But I don't do so. I'd have I it's you know, realize that some time getting to the SOS to the right place and right time. It's that's why something in in location itself. I that's
what would be wonderful to see. So thank you for all the work. this is like Michalik said, excellent report. Thank you, Miss 6 that I will take a turn. >> So this is going to be a little kind of out of left field or out of pocket as the kids say incorrectly so the intersection of student rights
and responsibilities and cybersecurity and the devices that we provide. Our students. You know, we obviously talk to our students about bullying can online. But I recall. Several years ago during a board meeting when the notion that students could access things like Netflix on their laptops with scoffed at surely kids can't do that because we said you can't go to Netflix on your browser. And certainly the kids couldn't figure that out. And of course, like as
soon as we put up roadblock, they found a way around the roadblock, shared with other friends. We put up a new roadblock little while later. So I'm not worried so much about Netflix, but I am worried about. Students who are using devices in ways that are not appropriate and that are against our rules. But they're not being used. You know, for the typical ways that people think about like cheating or you streaming media or whatever we certainly
know when students of compromise our information security, what are we doing to ensure that students who may do that are held accountable. It's not something that we really talk about it and Sr in our conversation. But it does happen. >> So students that wonder from the approved use of their laptop, right? Are grainy to chant? I'm not. I'm not I'm not worried about YouTube or Netflix and then. >> I'm I'm more worried about
students who are using it for hacking or school servers or things like that. More sophisticated things, right? maybe these are the kids that find out how get to Netflix tell their friends whether doing other things. I'm more interested in more sophisticated uses of the technology that are inappropriate certainly we speculating we have very bright students here. So curious, what are we doing to ensure addition to protecting
our kids from cyber bullying and all these other things that we are ensuring that our devices are not being used in such a way that is an appropriate. >> Yes, sir. understand that better. So we do have light speed, which bit of a type it. It's a monitoring software so teachers can tell where students are going on their laptop. And parents now also, have a portal that they can see that, but I'm going turn to Mr. Sethi and then Doctor
King to kind of talk about that intersectionality. >> Thank you. Dr Rate. Run our cars for latitude for principals, depending on how. Depending on what defense they break when it comes to our acceptable use policy. Right. So there's progressive discipline if it's something very minor, it's a minor infraction. It could be accounts lane. But if they're hacking into our system that can they be referred to the hearings office well. My
office Gotham's office has been collaborating around this because at some Dr reads them parent meetings. We're hearing parents concerns about. Space is that their students are visiting our website. And what are we going to do about it? So we're constantly retraining our principles about progressive discipline in that air. >> Yet again, I'm more concerned about the sophisticated misuse of our devices. And those things would probably only be found by. You know, folks with a
sophisticated approach to looking for those things, probably not on light necessarily. Maybe it does show up on light speed. But, you know, and I'm not a computer genius. I can't even really articulate. But I sense that Mr. Sethi is. Maybe has we have very bright kids absolutely die. So when we encounter some of the students kind of >> link to the 5 h's of Internet, but they shouldn't be. There's always a
conversation that has to be had at school level recently in collaboration is not as what our cyber security team finds out and how do you just it is? We started reporting it to the principal so they can get a CDs of incident report doesn't exactly what that did and hopefully not doing okay. And that is that dissipate aspect that going to bring along. I would also mention that some does he find this, too. And so just curious and we tried to the the CIA live to tell us what could be doing
differently. We act. We have a couple of students actually help us with the back and middle school students so bright. So there's a little bit of balance off. You could be doing this point that I trees INS, aka, Whitehead Moore says don't go down these tallies. Otherwise your families and your parents are going to be informed about it. So don't end up becoming that black had that. You don't want anyone to peak. It is a balancing act and it's it is going to be a bit off. We try to keep up to get the led. We catch up to get ahead. We catch up and we're trying to
keep it all control of it is not as expensive as it may sound, but good. We don't want any student to kind of cleared to fire up and took you out. >> do want clarify that. We do not encourage our students to do engage in that behavior to gain the attention of our it Department for recruitment. So this is something we don't want our students. >> Participating in and what do is let me go back and work with Mr. Setting Dr King and look at it data about what
you're talking about and see what we have from the beginning of the year and how that's been dealt with and will provide that in a Friday patient that. >> And I won't say which of my colleagues wrote a note to me saying we should hire them, I appreciate the sentiment and I truly had it reading the report had to dig a little deeper to find things that I was curious about because so much is addressed in the report on the issue of vestibules and I appreciate my colleagues following up on
future projects. We are sitting in a school right now that has a shiny new Vesta Thanks to the hard work of this board and the school divisions team for getting that done. So very much appreciated appreciated. Update on cameras and the, you know, the backlog that we've eliminated in the last and the other work that's being done to particularly around the table, top exercises in the new videos. This has been a subject, I believe in our last report. We were not quite there yet. It's great that we've made it there. I think
that's a tremendous accomplishment. So this is, you know, there's nothing more important to us than the safety of all of our students, especially now. All right, miss some want. >> Thank you, Doctor Eden, Mr. Lambert for this report. You know, just in light of recent incidents is and what we see about threats. Lilly, I've been talking a lot about safety and security. So I really appreciate the security vestibules on the update. Like we have 19 school event and we're now onto the next phase. that's amazing. One thing that I did want to talk about was on Page 9 of the report. It talks about communication plan
to inform like staff students and families of procedures and what to do when potential threats arrive. And I see that there's trainings for new principals, about media crisis response. But I was wondering if I've mentioned this in one of my minutes, 4, I was wondering if there was anything that the Office of Communications could do with students about how to respond to these threats when they arise how to deal with the threats because even though none of these threats have are like manifested into something that actually happened to the school. It does create that
anxiety around it. And even then even after that incident goes away, it plagues that school when it happened at T J in May, it was something that no one showed up to school. And then the week after it was kind of like it never happened. But it did shake our school community. So I was wondering if there was like any proactive education that we could do for students, even if that's a video similar to how we talk about your security turns lockdown video, if there is anything we could do for students about how to deal with those instance, some us want to think that's a great idea. And very recently
just did a video with. >> To Woods and students who? >> Are working at the national level on gun safety star. It right. >> In fact, we've edited that video likely will be putting that out very shortly. And they talked about the anxiety that the even the lockdown videos right noon time. There's a threat. There's just this feeling of anxiety. So I wonder we certainly can look into it. And I wonder if that could be an SEC, group that you all come together and we
could maybe do a script and have it come from students too. So maybe let's talk a little more about them. >> Yeah, for sure. I would love that. I have actually watch that video by the 2. What some students really appreciate But I was just thinking a little bit more about like, how do students respond to that threat? How should I feel about that threat? Who can I go to and talk to the principles of an amazing with managing it at the school level that I just think more resources for students and families in that case. That's a great idea. And then I had one more question and I was wondering if we track these threats that occur
at schools year by year. >> Or like what we do after a threat at that school happens and it goes away the next week. Do we keep track of those events? Yes, we do. >> He missed one and Mr. Dunn to finish up. Just question suspects. Lambert, new the cost of interior video cameras and you mentioned 5.1 for external. What is the internal cost mind? >> If we were to add 5 interior cameras in every
elementary school, which would be 700 cameras, it would be 1.7 million more. >> And does that assume that our number of video cameras and middle school and high schools of adequate and feeling mentioned elementary school. >> That that would be first bringing me. >> Elementary schools up to some level inside. I know that there is some interest in having cameras that face bathrooms because sometimes
the various activity goes on and bathrooms if we were to add a camera outside every bathroom at every elementary, middle and high school. That would be about 2 Million. Just summing up those figures. 5.3. 2, 1.7. Fill the boat, so to speak on cameras. >> That's 9 million 40 billion dollar budget or 4 billion where we are now. So can you
talk about staffing like eyes on 700 video cameras? I don't think give 700 people watching each camera, right? So I had watch as those cameras and are using AI at all. >> Sure that that's a great question. That is obviously a lot of camera lenses to be watching each of the schools has the ability certain staff to go look at them. One thing that we haven't really brought up here, that I'd like to bring the front is of all the school systems and this area.
We are the only one with a 24 hour response in group that is watching those cameras around around the clock. So often that is used when an alarm goes off at school. That enables us to respond and real time. It's also able something that we are sharing with the police department. So we are in final phases right now working with the real time crime center so that the police department will be able to see our camera feeds. And
so you can see how valuable that would be. God forbid we were ever and some sort of crisis situation that they can cut out the middleman and see what's going on in our schools. The cameras are great. Deterrence that that is a factor that it does. But we are also looking at AI overlays on the camera feeds. There are some products out there that can detect weapons that are. But there's also
technology that can detect spills and always. And so those are all things that we think if we get the camera system outfitted that the future is going to let us put software on top of those things that will help us with security elements. Thank you. >> Thank Martin. Mr. Moon to close this out. commission's just one quick question. The entire camera We don't placed into a camera or indoor
cameras in the classrooms to E we do not because we want to protect the privacy of students and we so teachers as That's correct. Comment. So one question that I had and Mr. Lambert, your predecessor was not quite able to get back to before the tired such uses your task. Is whether she you. He's considered. Teaching space between teaching hours.
>> I will get back to you with that answer, Mr. Moon. And if I'm a while you have it was one close out the you brought up about data. But I'd love share what we didn't put in this report. What I think is the most telling. Is the last 2 climate surveys and that asks students how they feel about their safety. And so it's 28,000 students and 25,000 students respectively, who answered this Fairfax
students rated their safety above the state average, both at the middle school and at the high school level exceeding state and local numbers. So I did. I didn't want to leave tonight without that data point. >> Thank you. Appreciate that. You put that writing would be even better. Thank you. >> Mr. I want to respond. The gymnasium question. We did answer and it's likely not. only Mister Lambert was aware, but during class when the gymnasiums use, the cameras would not be on. But during
evening activities luncheon are murals. Times of unstructured time. After school events, they would be. >> OK, thank you. Yes, sir. Thank you, Mr. Moon. All right. Seeing no others icon Saint John coming from Ocean. >> I move that the school board finds that the superintendent is in compliance with the executive limitation. Number 13 safety and security. I further move
that the school board approved the monitoring report based on the superintendent's reasonable interpretation of executive limitation. Number 13, safety and security as outlined in the strategic governance Manual. Is there a second, second miss mayor, the Saint County. We like to speak your motion know. Miss Mary, like to speak to your second. >> I would only add that as much as the school division is doing. We can only keep our kids so safe and our staff so safe. We need the community's help. 2. Keep our community
safe. So we're gonna do all we can. But it's up to all of us. So thank you. Thank you. Aaron. >> Call for a vote for the motion that is on the screen. All those in favor, Mr. And Mystics, Mr. Mcelvain this Anderson, Miss Sizemore Heizer, Mr. Dunne, Mister Moon misleading, missing 10 coming Mr. McDaniel and myself with Dr Anderson, away from the table that unanimous for board members present. All right.
>> We don't have were not team Mr. McDaniel that. I see. And hallucinating >> all right. So that is with Mr. McDaniel and Dr Anderson, away from the table. still unanimous. Agenda item. 8.0 1 policy review, safety and security. Eel 13. The next order of business is the policy review of Elf 13 Safety and security annually. The board will review each executive limitation at the time of the monitor report is
provided to determine if revisions are needed. Board members may offer amendments to executive limitations any regular meeting provided they send a Final Amendment language to the board in clerk, at least 48 hours in advance of the meeting at which is to be considered at this time. No amendments have been submitted in advance of this meeting. But board members may provide comments on executive limitation, 13 safety and security before we vote on maintaining the current language for the year ahead. Seeing no comments or discussions icon the Saint.
John, cutting 4 ocean. >> I move that the school board maintains executive limitation, 13 safety and security purity as it is currently jailed in the 60's Strategic Governance Manual. Is there a second by second, this mayor and missing to county would like to speak. Your motion know Miss Mary, like to speak your second. No, thank you. >> I will call for a vote for the motion which is on the screen. All those in favor. Miss Marion Mystics it Mr. McLean, Miss Anderson missed
Sizemore heizer, Mr. Dunne, Mister Moon misleading, missing John Cunningham. Myself with Mr. McDaniel and Dr. Anderson, away from the table. That is unanimous. Agenda item. 9.0 one academic matters that Colin Dr Reid for Academic Matters. >> Thank you. Chairman Frisch and members of the board and public. I want to head this evening. We feel like it's timely to talk a little bit about the national assessment of Educational Progress, ornate as it's discussed and
it's Nate in grades 4, 8, reading and mathematics and recently and that turned the page. So recently these results were released and they really, again show that as a nation, we have 4 to do in the areas of mathematics and reading. I want to provide context, however, because I think that we need to be very careful before we draw conclusions about our local schools. And so I want to be
very clear with our Fairfax County Public School community, just exactly how many of our students were part of this. Nate National work. And I want to be clear this assessment was given last year and limited only to 8 elementary and 13 middle schools with a total of 466 children in Fairfax County, Public schools that actually participated and then a
testing that's less than 2% of our 4th and 8th graders and represents just a 0, 2, 5, not even half a percent of all enrolled fcps students in K 12. So we really want to make sure that our community understands not only is that a tiny percentage, it's not even a percent of our students that participated. We actually also
do not receive student school or division results. These are state and national results tonight. I think we have to be very careful as we draw any kind of local conclusions around this work. The nape assessment also measures different. Things that reflect different purposes that so well information. So I want to make sure the context in the chart on the right of the slide is very clear about when Nate is actually the window
for testing versus RSO wells. Our standards of learning. I also want to share that than a test. It's interesting, Ali, not computer adaptive. And I think that's important because so well is computer adaptive. And for people who are asking. So why is that a big deal? It is a big deal because if you have students that actually can answer higher level questions, the computer can adapt to that and provide
really an opportunity for many of our students, some of whom Mr. Sethi was recruiting earlier, but many of our students who are middle school students in elementary students are not able then in a non adaptive assessment environment to really demonstrate their ability. So the content also in 8 has been minimally refi. Since 1990, and I have to tell you, I know that you're home because and might be a an important year.
It's 35 years ago that contents been revised and the S o well contents revised every 7 years. So I just I really want to be clear about what the how do I say the conclusions we draw about the power of public education and all of the hard-working educators across this country that are giving it their all. And we're really looking at an
antiquated assessment that's not provided in and adaptive format that's assessed in January and February. And I just really think that to it's not representative of the work that's happening in our classrooms across this country and certainly not in classrooms here in Fairfax County. So let's look at the page. Again, this is a kind of little different way of showing the same data point. And and this is the entire of Virginia. So well. Sort of
comparison here in our area in a had 466 students tested. But we had 26,000 tested in so Wells. And I think you can see that Fairfax County continues to outperform Virginia and outperform Nationally by any measure. So. We continue to be proud of the work. Our
students in Fairfax County do on a daily basis and proud of the work are educators and all those who support educators do on a daily basis. We look at interpreting than 8 data. Nape proficient does not represent grade level proficiency as determined by state assessments. And I think what's most interesting is all of our states really have somewhat different standards. So when you're thinking about a 4th grader in Wyoming
border, South Dakota or Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Mississippi, California. They're different curricula that are being used. And when you have one non adaptive assessment, you're going to struggle with a lack of alignment between the written taught and tested curriculum. And that's I think one of the other outcomes of our Nate examined, suppose you could argue that the longer we continue to use the same tests after 35 years, perhaps a less
reliable, the conclusions were able to draw. I also want to share the last evaluation in terms of achievement levels was in 2016 and that actually concluded that further evidence it was needed to determine if the levels were, in fact, reasonable, valid and informative. So I think that to how does Fcps compare on other national measures? Again, when you look at S A T
the class of 2024, sat at a CT reading and math outcomes. We continue to outperform outperform Virginia. The United States and the global student community both in reading and mathematics. So we're very proud of, again, the work of our students and educators. I also say that nice. Sure. This in the earlier report this year, Fairfax County and I don't know better You have this off
the top of your head that we are. We think I want to say above 70% of our students taking the SAT and Virginia is still down at the right around 50% of students in Virginia. So we have we have much higher percentage of our students here in Fairfax County that are taking the SAT and we're still ahead of the averages for our state and nation that rusty want to elaborate that on. But you may not have the numbers either, but I know
they were significant. >> And pulling that up right now, >> trust is pulling that up? And you can just raise your hand when you have it. The washes point that out the reason that's an important data point is that provides the access and opportunity for students. And that's a commitment the board made in terms of funding this assessment. So that really a
high percentage of our students are taking this assessment and you could argue that the more students taking the lower average outcome would be. But that's not what's happening. We have a high percentage taking the assessment and a high percentage performing on the assessment. >> Dr Reid remembered Bright spot on. We're just at 70% and Fairfax versus just over 50% in the state of Virginia. So
definitely that high participation rate. Despite that to your point, reflecting higher outcome. >> right. Thank you. Veterans Services double checking so I think that's significant. And that illustrates the >> core. >> mission-driven work that we're standing my and talked about it being any of the meeting, road and equity excellence and opportunity for all kids and the excellence is on the board there. Sony, Mr. Chairman, that is DEMICK
matters this evening. Thank you so much. >> Seeing nobody on the board. I'm happy to move onto agenda item. 9.0 2 strategic plan. Update. Dre. >> Thank you, chairman. For members of the board. What could be more exciting this evening that a strategic planning update and having a J not go. And Michelle Lewis in the audience and they are here. representatives from our professional learning and teacher leadership and instructional coaching
offices. So we're very excited to focus on pillar. See this evening. Which is again and this evening strategic plan I'll be talking about are novice teacher, instructional coaches. This is a program that supports are very newest teachers, and we're deeply committed here in Fairfax County to supporting our newest teachers. This novice, teacher instructional coach position focuses on essential areas like planning. Instruction classroom
management data analysis and differentiation and really intended to facilitate student success. Also want to say Mr. Salmond has reported that we've had the highest teacher retention rate over the last 4 years last year. We believe that's because we're providing higher levels of support for our teachers. And I do want to report also Mr. Jones is here this evening for Mr. Solomon and I believe we have had 70%
of our intent to return forms returned 40% in the first 4 hours and with a 96% rate of our staff saying they want to come back next year. Is that correct? Mister Jones. >> Yes, ma'am. That is correct. >> All right. So again, I think that's a to all of our staff programs like this that support our educators. So the importance of novice teachers support on the next slide.
Talks about that. Nearly half of all new teachers leave within the first 5 years. That's the data across the country. 44% leave within their first 5 years. So we know that it's critical to provide high levels of support and those novice years. We also know the data says it takes new teachers, an average of 3 to 7 years to master the complexities of teacher. You're learning that art and science. So some of us hopefully we have mastered some of this mine and But it's
just it's hard heard, right? Like you think you have a certain tool kit and yeah, it's just a lot of opportunity there. So research shows that these types of programs increase teacher retention efficacy and also lead to greater student outcomes, which is really why we're all here. So the novice teacher. Instructional coach program, which was launched this school year. Has 436 teachers supported since August. So lots of excitement about that.
One of the key strengths of this program is agility, which unlike previous approaches, where coaches resigned a single school for the year. These coaches work across multiple school sites which allows us to kind of mobilize. Does the team so were able to reassess needs and redeploy resources over the course of the year. They're not static. So we're maintaining a high level of adaptability based on feedback from principals and
coaches in the 2nd quarter. We didn't just assignments to include 20 more elementary stream or medals. And one more high school. And initially focused on, you know, the highest concentration of novice teachers. But we continue. >> To, I think, just a really nimble and top full program. So the feedback on the slide that you've seen, I think is amazing. And this is after 1st quarter. So we really looked
at the positive data and are working to continue and expand that program at this time. We want to take a look at one of our new teachers working with her novice teacher, instructional coach at Centerville Elementary School. >> Madam Kerr clerk, please play the video.
>> The novice teachers instructional coach program in Fairfax County is designed to support new teachers as they transition into the classroom. Coaches work closely with teachers daily planning lessons observing, providing real-time feedback co teaching and modeling effective strategies. At Centerville Elementary school, Sarah Phillips, a novice teacher, instructional coach support and that the team a first year teacher. >> From the very beginning days of the school year, even before the school year started, she helped me set up my classroom and joined me on
our welcome walk where we get meet all of our new students and then throughout the fall, she's help me plan small-group time. small group time is something that gave me a little bit of anxiety. Made me feel a little overwhelmed because they didn't see it that much in student teaching. So I really wanted to use that time effectively and efficiently because I know it's a great time to really tailor the instruction to let the students need. So Sara and I sat down on multiple occasions what planet weeks at
a time of different ideas that I can use in math and language arts as well. And also the schedule to so that I could stay on top of it and make sure that I'm seeing all of the kids in meeting all their needs. >> A cornerstone of the novice teacher instructional coach program is that coaches spend 90% of their time in classrooms engaging directly with teachers. The program emphasizes a collaborative data-driven approach where teachers identify focus areas based on student needs
together with their coach. They analyze student de to develop tailored strategies and continuously refined practices through ongoing coaching cycles all with student success at the center. >> Coaching in Fairfax is Asset-based. And so it's really important for us to we look at it as building on people strength. They have a partner that they can trust who is non-evaluative and is really someone that they can lean on and be themselves without judgment. It allows us
to collaborate openly and freely to look at data and think about what would be best for students. >> When students get best practices, student learning increases. because novice teachers, we're learning is best practices in a small, intimate setting. They're able to go and the lesson reflect lesson and then strategy in the next time they do it. >> We just 24 hours will one day. >> Now this instructional coach position, it's had a positive ripple effect. If you look at the whole school, the instructional coach.
>> Read big rates. Teachers have already been here with the new teachers. We have seen an increase in confidence. A decrease in stress and then student outcomes increasing. And this also helps with the school culture and creates a positive school culture where everyone feels valued. >> And supported as a for through the years. Students are growing because they're getting so live instruction, best practices. And welcoming learning environments. >> Being the first year teacher, there's so many ups
and downs. You know, it's of roller coaster of an experience trying to learn the curriculum and classroom management and all those things. So my experience with Sarah has been nothing but incredible. >> So that. >> Is the strategic plan. Update. >> Thank you. Never gets old hearing. The children. It's a that does not miss Sizemore
Heizer. >> Thank you. And I think this is a wonderful tool. I know a lot of times when I talked to new teachers one thing to talk about is just how difficult and I low that first year is and having, you know, and having somebody who's a mentor to talk to some good kudos to you all as well for the work you've done on the program. Thank you very much. It's it's incredible. And to hear that our retention rates are the highest in 4 years is also incredible. So kudos to your staff as well for all the work that you've done for Mr.
Salmond, but couple questions remind me of these. These positions are. >> The new positions like the the funding streams for them are the positions that were taking some our previous coaches and kind of repurposing. For this use. >> They're not new positions on that day. I I want to make it clear to the public why that they're not right, adding layers, but we're really being really efficient, effective and thoughtful. How we're using our coaching. >> We are now weighs fiscally
responsible, thoughtful. >> The team gets tired of me saying that, Not at all. Good answer. >> putting a friend. Is that what we're doing here? We are. MRI goes here. I what I would say is. >> We took a different approach to positions that we have traditionally utilized in one way. We made a decision, a conscious decision to choose to use them in a different land. All sj to talk a little about that. Thank you, doctor. Eat yes, that's exactly right. So we've had centrally funded coaches in the county for a
while. Now. >> But in the past, we used those coaching positions to positioned at one school because that's what we needed at the time over the past few years. As we know, the landscape of education has changed and the pathways into the classroom has also changed. So we're seeing more and more novice teachers coming in with various degrees of experience and so reallocating those existing resources in saying this worked at the time. But now we need to do something
different. That's exactly what Dr Reid and leadership team challenge just to do so that's first this program. >> I love that. And that's what I thought. But I wanted to make some public was aware that we didn't add a bunch new positions because what the other I love about what we did is that we're being really nimble and agile. And looking at how things are changing. The needs of our teachers are changing what existing resources we have and how we deploy them the best way. And I really love that thinking. I think that's a great thing to bring to a lot of our programs and a lot of our the things
that we're doing. So I love this. I really did wonder how old she looked like she was 12, the new teachers. So more my that the teachers age. But >> I think it's a great program and I'm glad that we're repurposing staffed in a way that's really effective teacher retention because we recognize if we >> keep our teachers, they get much more effective in the classroom. And therefore, there's much more effective teaching and learning happening. But one other question I had is. When you talk about a retention rate being the highest in 4 years,
have we surveyed our teachers or done some way to feel like what did they feel has been the most effective thing to help them be successful. The job why are they staying like what's the difference? And we're doing is that the teacher coach, is it? It sounds like it would be right. But be interesting to know for their perspective, what is working and what is not sure. And I think there's some we certainly have some survey data and can collect more. >> I will also Dr Ponce and the school support teams.
>> Which would be Muslim. And and some of our school improvement It's Neal Mr. Not go up. That whole team came together because my bottom line was no new resources. No new positions right? >> Come up with a plan. And so I want to make sure that the board of the public understand this was the team that came in said we think if we do this,
we can actually be more effective. Even so I really want to credit them thinking because we can't keep doing what we've always done and get different results, right? Like we know that. And so. I think that's critical. Just to remember in that sense and we'll check in on data about, you know, why more folks are staying. I do think. It's certainly a heavy lift this year. If you're an elementary teacher with a new literacy curriculum. So I think the other the board has been very
supportive of our teachers with allowing those 7 early release stays to enable that planning. But also to be supportive around these positions, being able to support teachers as they take on the heavy lifting. Also say the board making sure we have the resources to purchase these materials. 4 new staff there. That's what many new staff needed, something that's very tight. Very scripted, right. Many of our more
veteran staff don't require that level of scripting. But for our new staff or staff new to this field, it's an imperative. So I just feel like that's important, too. So. >> I just want to real. I love this program. I love the creativity of thinking which we really need is our staff are changing and I'd love to see more of Let's take a look at what we're doing. Is really meeting our needs now? And if not, how can we change or adapt to really meet the needs to. And so at was phenomenal. Great job. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. And
keep up the great work. I appreciate it. So thank you. Thank you. Missus, more hazardous lady. >> Yeah, I'll be brief again. Fantastic work. I just want to reiterate one of the things that you had a one-year slides which is related to the fact that takes 3 to 7 years to master complex demands of teaching and learning. And I just want to reiterate this because being being a new teacher, especially in these times, is really, really challenging. And I think that
we are doing amazing work to to support those folks. But I this is more of a plea to our community and to our parents just ahead of deeper understanding and maybe some grace related to the fact that for some of these folks, they didn't teacher training trainees and they didn't do their undergraduate or work in teaching some of them did. And like she said, the video, the small group Sessions, she didn't get a lot. Her student teaching. You know, I can tell you that when I intern and then when I actually got a job as a school counselor, it was not very much like what I did as an intern. It's just a
different reality. And the pace is so fast. So that's all I'm asking is people understand. It takes 3 to 7 years. And what front with an obvious teacher programs like this, that it's going to take closer that 3 side. But just just to give our teachers some grace. And I just want to uplift all those who work with our kids every day do amazing work and we can do without Thank you. Thank you. Miss Lady Mystics it. To thank you for the position doctor of
every job. I actually like this idea very much. And that's a kudos to the team. >> On this slide to number 5 bases breaks down how many teachers at an elementary and these at the coaches, I guess. in high school, 3 in middle school and high school and they're more A subject specific. You know, the so are there, like of the coaches are like one of one of them is second science coach are then
they work with the science teacher. How does it work in that level? >> going to bring up Michelle is who's actually in charge of the whole program. And she's the one who actually manages and selects. >> So they're not content specific necessarily. They're really looking at good instruction. Classroom management student engagement looking at assessment, analyzing it and then helping teachers pick strategies that matched the content so that kids are successful.
>> So it's not necessarily the content is being discussed. It's more of the how do you know the instruction and management, glass? >> That's right. So it's through the content that the kids are successful by the strategies that coaches are helping the teachers. Well. >> So some of the time we have of an inverted new teacher comes to the class. They all this feel like all we got a new teacher. She has no experience. Are the parents
being told that this is what the new program we're doing and this is a coach working with the be the teacher. We're very transparent in the fact that we believe everyone needs a coach doesn't matter if you've been teaching for 20 years, 30 years. >> Everybody could use somebody to support them so that we're constantly thinking differently. And I think that Fairfax County, we've developed and we are still developing a culture of continuous improvement with that idea that everybody's
constantly improving. we don't necessarily put it out. It's parents right away. Haig Avenue teacher and a new coach that's gonna come in. But we're certainly do not hide anything. We want to be transparent. That support is needed by everyone. >> Yeah, I think some some just to walk vocal about that if they get a new teacher in the classroom. and then make of you know of that that point made. definitely a great
program. Please keep it up and keep going. And I think it's going to be ready. Successful. >> Thank you, everyone. I will say secondary teachers generally have departments. So where is elementary? Don't have departments for that content knowledge many states also require a content meter rather than an elementary education majors. So we generally, I think feel pretty confident that the content knowledge is going to be solid. But it's those
strategies for I didn't know the content. But if I don't have the instructional strategies, I'm not going to be effective in those generally cut across content. So. Thank you, everyone. Thank you. >> Agenda item 10 consent agenda. Our adopted rules of parliamentary procedure. Robert's rules provide for a consent agenda listing several items for approval by the board by single motion. Many items listed have gone through board review and documentation has been provided to all board
members and the public in advance items may be removed from the consent agenda at the request of a board member prior to the meeting, the consent agenda is on the screen. Is there any objection to approving the consent agenda? Hearing and seeing no objection. The consent agenda is approved. Agenda item 11 new business, the following our new business agenda items. There will not be a vote on these items this evening. But action is scheduled at a future meeting. Agenda item. 12 Board committee reports I call on. Miss Sizemore Heizer
for Port from the Budget Committee. >> The Budget Committee met this last Tuesday afternoon to discuss the budget. some of the various board. Priorities in the budget in some of the constraints we have around our budget as Dre presented, we have constraints on J Lack funding. We have constraints we're really trying to focus on a collective bargaining agreement and 7% pay raise for our staff. And I look forward to further conversations. Thank you. Sizemore Heizer.
>> Agenda item. 13 Superintendent matters icon Dr Reid. >> Thank you, chairman for It's the great heat to. couple days. I it's hard to remember that we were up very early this morning. Was it 2 hours today? >> Because of the ice for hour. Just thrilled that we were able to get. To get school going 2 hours late. >> And >> just appreciate that. We've
also been very busy visiting schools and attending different athletic events in just a really proud of the strong start for second semester. And I'm hopeful that the forecast for weather next week does not come to its because it looks like we're expecting more snow. So I'm going to be out doing a lot of sun dancing I'm going to be charging the team with coming up with some sun dancing.
>> Because we do not want more days. anyhow, just that that takes care of Superintendent matters. Thank you. >> Thank you, Doctor I think you've just entice to thousands of children to snow dancing. So alright, agenda item 14 board matters. I ask for unanimous consent to skateboard matters this evening. Hearing no objection at 10:27PM. This meeting is adjourned.