All right. I'd like to call to order the legislative and governmental affairs committee. May I have a roll call, please? Roll call. Mr. Apel? Here. Mr. Apel present. Dr. Armstrong? Dr. Armstrong present. Mr. Burken? Here.
Mr. Burken present. Mr. Castillo? Here. Mr. Castillo present. Ms. Chompong? Here. Ms. Chompong present. Dr. Clark? Dr. Clark present. Mr. Harris? Here. Mr. Harris present. Mr. Gaul? Mr. Gaul? Absent.
Ms. Holloway? Ms. Holloway present. Ms. Mellorine? Ms. Mellorine present. Mr. Morris? Mr. Morris absent. We have a quorum. Thank you. The first item on the agenda? Yes, good afternoon. Your first item is
2.1 found on page three, consideration of an update report regarding the 2026 regular legislative session. The recommendation is to receive. Do I have a motion? I've got a motion by Mr. Burken, a second by Ms. Mellorine.
Okay, um as you all might notice, Ben and the staff are not here. Uh they're busy over at the Capitol because we have education committees going forth. I was over there for another meeting. I could tell you it's a madhouse, so
they probably won't get through for a while. But, uh there's not a whole lot for us to report. Uh you know, we have been monitoring all the bills, and I think I sent all of y'all pretty explicit instructions on how to go to the spreadsheet as we
update it. If you'll follow that link as we uh update the bills that are in education committee, you can see, and you have a hard copy here. You can see uh whether it's reported favorably, whether
it was defeated, uh and what the process is on those bills. Uh so, that's basically going to be our report. I would like to say this that Dr. Bromley, your staff does an excellent job at the table. Yesterday, I thought uh
I thought they did wonderfully. Ashley did a great job on one bill in particular, uh and I appreciate that. Anything that you need out of legislative committee, if you let me know, uh or being, uh we'll we'll get it to you. Uh and any
questions you may have on a bill, we can get that answered. But, so far, it's been relatively quiet as compared to other years. Um you know, it we it may not stay that way, but let me do you say this, if
we reach out to you and say we need your help, that's when we need you. We need you to go to the uh capital possibly, call your legislators uh on the bills, and that's how this process works. We wait till we see what
is brewing, and we have to either support or oppose, and then when we call, that's going to be serious. So, any comments or questions? Mr. Chairman, I was just wondering, I saw this hard copy, could we go over each one? Sure. I asked uh since we're we are so
early, and our next meeting doesn't start till 3:30, if you would like, I can explain each bill. Okay. Uh Ms. Champagne? Thank thank you, Mr. Chairman. Uh I'd like to thank uh our Bessie board member, Ms. Holloway.
She has been appointed to the special school district uh through the governor's office. And I want to thank her for her work that she's done on reforming that special school district. There were some problems, one with uh having forums. They did meet today with
Ms. Which Ms. Holloway did uh a team, and I'd like to thank you for that, as well as our Bessie staff that have helped with some of it. And of course, LDOE and Dr. Bromley for all their hard work they're doing on every bill that's coming before them in education. But,
thank y'all. We appreciate it. Thank you very much. Any other questions or comments for the committee? What is the next item on the agenda? >> That concludes our agenda. Thank you. We're done. So, um the board meeting does not start till 3:30, correct? >> 3:30 is correct. We We have to start at
3:30. The meeting is adjourned.