Good evening. We're going to call this meeting of the Grapevine-Colleyville Board of Trustees to order on October 27th at 5:30 p.m. We are having technical difficulties, so we're going to each speak as loud as possible and um it it might not look the way that it always does for meetings. So, just bear with us. At this time, the Grapevine-Colleyville Independent School District, we ask that all in attendance give everyone their attention and respect. There's a specified public comment period for those in attendance to address the board, but we ask that you do not
make comments outside of this time period as it disrupts the ability of the board to conduct the business of the district. If any materials need to be distributed to the board, please see board clerk Stephanie Heppenstall. If after at least one morning any individual continues to disrupt the meeting, we may request assistance from law enforcement officials to have the individual removed from the meeting. Thank you again for your participation and cooperation this evening. Tonight, Superintendent Dr. Schnautz will lead us in the pledges followed by the Texas pledge.
Please join me in the US pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Now the Texas flag honor the Texas flag. I Pledge allegiance to the Texas one state and indivisible.
Thank you, Dr. Schnautz. So, I'm now going to turn this meeting over to you. All right. Thank you, President Braun. I'd like to invite trustees Dalia Begin and AJ Pontillo to the front for tonight's student recognition. So, tonight we'll be recognizing our National Merit Commended students. GCISD is proud to announce that 42 students of the class of 2026 have earned the National Merit Committed Designation. Selection is based on the 2024 preliminary SAT or National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. many students placed among the top 50,000 highest scoring students in the nation and are being recognized for the
exceptional academic promise demonstrated by their outstanding performance. Congratulations to GCSD's class of 2026 National Merit commended students. Although they cannot be here tonight, we want to recognize those from our collegiate academy. First, Carly Blazier. Give Carly a hand. And Emily Duza, let's give Emily a hand. And next from Calville Heritage High School, we have Deborah Campbell.
No, this way. Just stay. Yes, stay or stay. It's not the commended students, y'all. We're We're trying to get organized here. So, it's great. Zoe Fang, Camila Hermesio, Julian Klehoffer,
Kelly Kester, Harper Newton, Vincent Nguyen Joe Zabala,
And so we have a few from Colleyville Heritage who are not here with us tonight. And so first I'd like to recognize Julia Chin, Sydney Nguyen, Risha, Cameron Bule, Ali Halai, Zuna Jen,
Aiden Lan, Julie Sparks, Ameilia Tion, and Nathaniel Ye. And these are your hurd commended students for the class of 2026. Now we have from Grapevine High School, we have Benjamin Alexander,
Isaac Brown, Jay Chung, Sophia Calvin, Sophia Malish, Andrew Moon,
Keegan O'Hardy, Brian Rathy, Brennan Snider, Caitlyn Warzka.
Sorry. There you Zayn White. And we have a few from Grapevine High School that couldn't join us tonight. First off, we have Shaina Landry. We have Arouch Shakani, Andre Garcia,
Bonnie K, Sanjay Roganov, and Cayenne Sajukong. And also from our iUniversity Prep these students could not be here tonight as well. First, we have Tessa Bradley. Isabella Mclesus player B and Aiden Phillips. Let's give it up for DC class of 2026 National Committed Students.
All right. Yeah. Go ahead. Congratulations. Now the IQ level drops in the room.
So this is going to be our very first intermission. And in this intermission, um, we're going to have the students can take pictures out in the lobby. We need to see if if our stuff is going to work and if we can get back online the the traditional way. So, um we're going to take a five minute break.