##VIDEO ID:XfTPg2Dmwwc## present in compliance with the New Jersey open public meeting law commonly referred to as the Sunshine Law the Vim board of education has CED notice and posting of this meeting to be sent to the following announcing time place agenda Etc The Daily Journal S&J today the Press of Atlantic City Veno the clerk for the city of vinand and the administrative office public bulletin board would everybody please stand for the flag salute 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 liberty and justice for all Mr mustell do we have a resolution for executive session we do now therefore be it resolved that the Board of Education of the city of V school district will convenient executive session for the following reasons is outlined in JSA 10 col 4-12 discussion is about anticipated litigation and any matters falling within the attorney client privilege to the extent that confid confidentiality is required in order for the attorney to exercise her ethical duties as a lawyer do I have a motion so moved second second loll call please Mr foki yes Mr medo yes Mr Rivera yes Mr sabran yes Mr Silva yes Mr Holmes yes Mrs cispa yes the record will show Mr Bono 502 pres do we have any special presentations yes we have two special presentations this evening first we will have Dr Sandra Struthers executive director for jobs for America's graduates New Jersey will present the Jag program for the 24 school year good evening uh to the chair and superintendent Yano staff students and a violent Community uh thank you for allowing us to uh share information about jobs for America's graduates and our Jag leaders I'm Sandra Struthers I am the executive director for Jag New Jersey a part of the New Jersey Chamber of Commerce Foundation led by Donna kustard who is our president it's always an honor to present Jack to stakeholders and share updates on our our incredible work and tonight I'm excited to present a brief summary of the program followed by long- awaited public presentations to Mr Bob Rush violent joined the Jag Network in 2016 and I supported several as a matter of fact hundreds of you since that time the demographics presented here on the next slide show participants uh from the past year I call your attention to selection criteria and average barriers per student barriers represent challenges that some of our participants experience that may impact their ability to graduate and secure postsecondary or employment opportunities after graduation even with these challenges our Jack New Jersey leaders farewell in the program the next slide is a summary of post-secondary Education opportunities secured by Jack leaders since 2023 for many of our participants this is the first time that they secure a job the power in Jag is that they are prepared for their first job and will be able to sustain it over time also we are fortunate to have employment Partners who are now employing several of our Jag students the goal is twofold the specialist secures Partnerships with prospective employers and facilitates the employment process with the students students the national network is now moving toward credentialing our participants so they are prepared and competitive in career track jobs we are equally pleased in the increase in violent Jack students seeking additional Education and Training Beyond high school as you can see from this slide Mr Rush has done a stellar job in establishing Pathways to Higher Education and Training so what happens when you assign a committed Jack specialist like Mr Rush and provide them the opportunity to teach and coach and provide job skills with the youth you get the type of results you see on the next slide these results were from 2023 which represents the Jag graduates of 20122 the same is reflected on the next slide from our 2024 results which reflects 2023 graduates jobs for America's graduates has annual outcome standards to which program must work toward violent High School since it start in the program has met annual standard standard outcomes five out of eight years oftentimes we don't take time to recognize the accomplishments of teachers who consistently go the extra mile to transform the lives of our students I appreciate having the opportunity to acknowledge the work of Mr Bob Rush your Jag New Jersey specialist and share with you his accomplishments over over the last two program years and I believe there's a third on the table you'll see on the next slide that Mr Rush joined a short list of Jack Specialists across the country to be recognized for meeting and exceeding standard outcomes he was also nominated as a high performer from our state for his outcomes and employer engagement activities and his Partnerships for 20124 Mr Rush's leadership resulted in meeting an exceeding performance standard outcomes for the class of 2023 violin was also among six of our programs that had a 100% graduation rate and violent has ranked fourth among the New Jersey programs for employment and that rate is 75% I think that deserves an Applause this is no easy feat to take students from where they are to opening up Windows of of opportunity so they can secure a promising future Mr rush you could come up please we thank you for your dedication and hard work and your contributions to Jag New Jersey and Jag National also lastly like to thank um the school board of course um and the administrative team led by principal Quinn and other Jack Champions uh one is in the room today Dr m can and the violent community and surrounding areas um and we appreciate your partnership and we certainly hope that you are pleased with our work thus far thank you all so very much congratulations Mr Rush [Applause] dress it's quite okay we're going to take another picture we're going to come down please for e for everybody up on the board I'd like to say thank you um this is a teamwork effort from VHS um I just want to make note one one very special day is coming up and I've said this just about every year mark on your calendar is April 4th that is our job fair for this year so please if you'd like to attend the job fair Friday April 4th will be the VHS job fair thank you for our next presentation I would like to ask executive director Terry gusi to provide us with an update on our behavioral support plan good evening everyone as everyone knows since the pandemic uh the state has charged school districts in ensuring that we're focusing uh part of our instructional day in time on student behavior and student support emotional growth so this is just a very brief overview as to what we're going to our plan for the 2425 school year um as you see my cover on this indic shows that we have the portrait of a graduate and I felt that that was important to keep on there because as every pillar has to do with emotional growth support um it's good to keep that in mind as we approach our students and their emotional needs um since the pandemic we have seen a rise in student behavioral needs and and we're really talking about students understanding what the expectations are during a school day uh their social skills uh their ability to be able to be uh in the classroom and have the understanding and expectations so part of our job uh with Central Administration has been working with Administration in the schools to figure out what their needs are and uh over this past year we have seen uh an increased need for social and emotional supports in the classrooms especially at the elementary school level I don't know when we're going to be able to start saying because of the pandemic when we're able to stop saying because of the pandemic but we have seen as many of you know um that increase of Social and emotional needs and support especially with our younger students uh we have seen a increase in referrals for Behavioral assistance um we have seen an increase across the board at all levels uh referrals to our partial care programs our inpatient hospitalization programs and we've also seen uh as we've tried to be given support in the least restrictive envi environment or the general education we're seeing an increase of students being removed from those programs to be put into a more specific classroom um I have always been very proud of the supports that we have uh been able to offer our students and violin we are really have always been above the curve and we've offered supports before supports were even really a a task that was given to us by the Department of Education um we for many years have had our school-based youth service programs or our raft program at Wallace and at the asela building that is a partnership with inspir health uh over the years we have trained all of our school guidance counselor teams our social workers and our child study team members in functional Behavior assessments understanding the wise of behaviors and why students may be um be experiencing or acting out or responding to different situations in the way that they are uh we have brought in applied Behavior Analysis or ABA Services into our autism program as a best practice uh we have implemented social and emotional learning classrooms theal classrooms in our Middle School levels as well as all the programs that many of our elementary schools have like the character Ed programs the school of characters those types of things uh we have always given uh professional development opportunities in Social and emotional learning a lot of trauma informed classroom uh type of workshops uh how to address behaviors that are out of the ordinary uh over the past year two years now we've brought in restorative practices uh we work with the prosecutor's office with the Handle With Care youth tips uh to know how to deal with children who may have experienced a experienced a trauma within their home by the time School ended one day to the time the next school day starts um we have partners with mj4 s and we've also if many of you remember we have received the Jed grant for emotional supports and and uh and uh some Outreach though that is in the early stages and our administrative team our our curriculum team has been working on our mtss our multi-tiered support systems which also include early intervention for not only the academic needs but also the behavioral needs so we offer a plethora of things which I'm very proud but we're we're still in the we're still able to offer more and that's what we're trying to do this upcoming year um at the district level the way we plan uh on continuing these supports is not only continuing everything that we just went over but our partnership with Complete Care to expand uh the behavioral and mental health needs which has been part of our mou and we we're working diligently with Complete Care to try to get that service in place we have many Partnerships with local agencies and clinics that can support our students uh we encourage all of our schools to utilize New Jersey positive behavior supports in schools or NJ pbsis uh practices uh that is through the bog Center at ruter um as we embark on our parent universities working with parents on behaviors expectations that's a huge piece of what we want to bring in when we start our parent universities um something that happened last month uh which is kind of the main frame of this is that the board approved uh an additional um partnership with genovian Associates excuse me to work with our general education population right now they already work with our autism um program but to work with the rest of the students at the elementary level working not only with students but a bigger piece of that is working with building Administration and teachers so they can assess they can design they can Implement strategies to help their kids within the classroom they're going to work with our building Administration and our staff to train to coach and to evaluate evidencebased management plans uh this it our hope is that working together with this company will improve our educational outcomes as well as address our call to action we also are very excited because uh through Mrs rola's office we have received a grant at the middle school and high school level to um add an additional mental health counselor at each of those levels so again we are continuing to move forward we look at this and we understand the needs of our students and you know this is something that I am passionate about I know that it's a need in our district and I I thankful that Mr Yano and our team sees the need for this as well um you know I always like to add things in a final thought and just kind of cut see that's my teaching background but just you know all behavior is a form of communication and we it's up to us as Educators to figure out what the children are trying to say it could be I don't like math sorry Jeffrey or it could be something bigger like something is happening at home but it's up to us to figure out and through this plan and through the tools that we have offered and that we're bringing in this year our hope is that we can figure out what our kids need and what they're trying to say thank you any questions right have a great evening [Applause] thanks there is no hip report approval of minutes August 7th 2024 combined meeting August 21st 2024 additional combined meeting questions or comments do I have a motion so moved roll call please Mr Bono yes Mr foki yes Mr medo yes Mr Rivera yes Mr saano yes on October um sorry August 7th and abstain on August 21st thank you Mr Silva yes on August 7th abstain on August 21st Mr Holmes yes Mrs SCPA yes motion carries committee reports Mr foki yes good evening the finance committee met on uh Tuesday September 3rd via Google meet at 8:00 a.m. in attendance was Mr mustell Mr Jana Miss Cary Mr Silva Mr Rivera myself following topics were discussed the RFP for the Vana High School HVAC heat pump project was won by phasa mechanical RFP for Middle School reading math Intervention Program opens September 18th uh the following unbudgeted HVAC issues and the associated estimated costs for rosi Landis Johnstone pway and Cunningham VHS North HVAC repairs RFP came in at 1.8 million uh BARC SE parking lot land is structural repair and Cunningham structural repair following Personnel items NJ youth Corp Warehouse supervisor retirement diesel mechanic retirement and lastly uh we purchased 6 54 passenger buses on gov deals um totaling 339,000 thank you thank you Mr R good evening the discipline committee met on Thursday August 8th at 5:30 p.m here at the Landis building in attendance were Mr Boro Mr medo Mr Holmes Mr Yano a group of Elementary and secondary principles and assistant principles representatives of the vaa and myself uh this meeting was a continuation of a series of meetings being held with school administrators topics discussed included changes to the code of conduct challenges facing elementary schools that were not present in the past the effect of trauma and mental health at the younger grade levels distractions at all grade levels also discussed were resources to help with some of these challenges including goguardian software which is currently implemented in some schools but possibly looking to expand it to more schools in the district the software tracks internet activity on students computers uh placing behavioral Consultants at all okay through five schools to help with the challenges that face our kids today they may that may lead to discipline issues and finally and taking what is working at individual schools and implementing them districtwide Mr Holmes the curriculum and instruction committee met on August 26th 4:30 p.m. in attendance superintendent Yano Mrs deari Mr sabran and Mr Bono and myself we discussed the back to scho Extravaganza professional development updates Service Learning at violent High School curriculum and Department updates English Language Arts High School intervention course the Danielson 2022 evaluation rubric for the 2526 school year Transportation committee and on Tuesday September 3rd at 5:00 P PM uh present were m superintendent Yano Mr mustell Mr Bermudez Mr Bono Miss Mason and myself driver recap 143 drivers budgeted 135 drivers needed 134 filled positions Five drivers are on leave 17 subs and three drivers in training we had 195 open registrations 141 completed in August we have established a new procedure that requires certain documents before the parent is allowed to submit it saves our team time in chasing documentation The Joint ches there are 13 co-ops summer 22425 route packages are complete and have been picked by the drivers 2425 driver vacations have been completed all but three drivers have completed the state mandated training welcome back meeting was held with the drivers on the thir we updated the website to include additional information regarding the registration process back to squat travaganza Transportation had a tent set up to help parents with any questions they may have had with registration and bus passes amongst other things we had two buses on display and explained bus safety and procedure as far as Vehicles we received one new bus is being prepared to be infused in the fleet with cameras and tablets uh like the finance committee we discussed the purchase of six buses for $339,000 from gov deals uh also on gov deals two buses one pickup garage one Durango for supervisors and the uh tow truck we reorganize the bus lot consolidation of buses to the main bus lot has been completed and the lot has been renumbered trans finder we are mandating the drivers to use trans uh use tablets for pre and post check as well as student finder and z pass the struggle is getting the students to bring their badges to swipe on a daily basis thank you any further reports public meeting report by the board solicitor good evening everybody nothing on the legal front just wanted to wish everybody um a safe and successful upcoming school year thank you thank you um I don't believe we have a student representative here tonight U public comment on agenda items only limit your comments to to three minutes state your name and where you're from thank you too Cooper James Cooper excuse me I apologize Mr Cooper good evening my name is James Cooper I'm the founder of a mentorship program called out of bounds and mentoring the green and over the summer we had a seven-week program um which is a golf program mixed with mentorship and the kids was ranging from ages 9 to 17 from 15 different cities with 80% being here from cumland County um I know we have a big task on our hands um this year as far as dealing with the different things that's going on in the schools and we have a whole lot of good programs here what I wanted to do was find out um how can we actually honor the kids that's participating in violent Public Schools that's actually in our program I wanted to know what would I have to do as far as getting them to come here to receive a certificate Mr Bermudas will reach out to you and uh we can coordinate an event to honor those students so Mr runis okay thank you very much Mr James if you could leave us your contact information as well Dr Thomas mccan thank you Mr Mell good evening VOR Board of Education my name is Thomas mccan uh 1013 Holmes Avenue Vinland New Jersey and I'm here on behalf of the viny high school historical committee uh we want to thank the board members that are uh helping us get the national landmark sign out in front of Landa school and um led by Mr Medio uh we certainly appreciate um Everybody recognizing the outstanding achievement that our school and school district and City accomplished and earned by getting our building registered as a National Historic treasure we were the first structure in the City of Violence to get that there is now two other sites and structures that have the same designation but we are a national landmark and we're very very proud of that and we're very proud of uh the accomplishments that our students and staff the members of the committee did back in 19 early 1990s ironically as the committee's going through the binders we have many binders on uh the um the work that went into getting this on the map for historic structure we received thousands upon thousands upon thousands of dollars to get this place to look like it does and get the sign out the front after we got done was we got some bragging rights we're very happy about that as a city our community loved it Governor Whitman was so impressed that she sat on that stage pounding her chest for having a school in this state on the national register and she was so impressed that she came down here with the Bus full of um her delegates and colleagues to recognize that up on the stage also with Senator D Sela and San Jack Gibson and many other dignitaries so as we're going through our stuff we had um many things we had to do on this building to make it qualified iron ically Mr Medio had all the bricks he got the board led the board to point all the bricks on this building because that was one of the things that was holding us up getting the designation and um he led the board to fund that and then the state gave us matching funds for that again thousands and thousands of dollars went into the sign to Town the front on the front campus there is built uh Larry morigi architect was very helpful with all the work that we did here so we want to thank the board members that uh F that's following Mr medo's lead in getting our sign back out where it was belonged um many years ago it was taken down and misinformation was given out that Theo sign was broken the sign was never broken I talked to Mr Weaver the former superintendent of Maintenance here and uh others and the committee found that it wasn't broken Mr M Dr mccan I have to ask you to wrap it up a little I'm wrap that's it we wrap it up here's a ribbon but thank you for your support we really appreciate it and continue good luck for the rest of the school year thank [Applause] you superintendent no we have more I have no other she is there anybody else would like to speak seeing none superintendent's recommendations yes thank you requesting discussion and approval regarding Personnel items 1.1 as noted on our agenda questions or comments do I have a motion so moved second roll call Mr Bono yes Mr fi yes Mr medo yes Mr Rivera yes Mr saano yes Mr Silva yes Mr Holmes yes Mrs kisp yes motion carries congratulations Miss greenfeld please come on up yes thank you um good evening thank you to the members of the vinin Board of Education and Mr Rano I'm deeply honored and grateful for the opportunity to serve as the vice principal can't believe I'm saying that of Sergeant Dominic pill Middle School um I'm excited to collaborate with the dedicated staff students and families of our school Community my heartfelt appreciation goes out to my family my friends my colleagues my administrators that have always supported me on my career journey and of course to my daughter Miss Natalie I love you and you inspire me to be better every day my babe um I can't wait to get started so thank you so [Applause] much we are very excited to have you on board and looking forward to doing great things together so thank you requesting discussion and approval regarding procedures and operations items 2.1 through 2.3 as noted on our agenda questions or comments yeah I just have one question on um policy 2200 um paragraph let's see paragraph three the first sentence for the the removal of approved annually by the board just wanted to know why we're removing the approval removal of the approval from the board for that curriculum content so as this is the first reading when we come back to policy and Personnel we'll look at that specific line trying to find it on the document because it's the strike through these policy alerts come directly from Strauss Esme uh which is our policy review company and they provide us with the language that complies with the law so something must have changed that requires us to remove that line I don't have it in front of me the board brief that we shared at policy and Personnel so we'll go back and this is the first reading so at this at the next policy and Personnel meeting we'll unpack that a little further so that the board members are aware of why that was there's a strike through on that line okay thank you Mr Rano if if I might add um there's also no legal requirement to perform the review annually it's actually supposed to be on a multi-year basis which typically ranges from 3 to 5 years obviously I'm not privy of the exact um Communications that took place during committee but in terms of the legal perspective um it doesn't have to be annual and it could be up to the board's discretion whether it be annual every two years three years as long as it's on that multi-year uh timeline thank you thank you thank you any further questions do I have a motion so moveed second roll call [Applause] please Mr Bono yes Mr fi yes Mr medo yes Mr Rivera yes Mr sabran yes Mr Silva yes Mr Holmes yes Mrs kispa yes motion carries requesting discussion and approval regarding Finance items 4.1 through 4.10 as noted on our agenda questions or comments do I have a motion second second roll call please Mr B yes Mr foki I'm going to abstain on 4.5 and 4.6 yes to the remaining items Mr medo thank you yes Mr Rivera yes Mr sabran yes Mr Silva yes Mr Holmes yes I'll obain on 4.5 4.6 thank you Mrs Scot body yes motion carries there are no regular agenda um proposed items for review or discussion or adoption by board members approval of the following amended name of the vinand High School South building first lieutenant Charles chiy assela any questions do I have a motion so moved second roll call please Mr Bono yes Mr foki yes Mr medo yes yes Mr Rivera yes Mr sabran yes Mr Silva yes Mr Holmes yes Mrs cispa yes motion carries approv of itemized bill pay list for July 2024 questions or comments do I have a motion so moved second second roll call please Mr Bono yes Mr foki yes Mr medo yes Mr Rivera yes Mr saano yes Mr Silva yes Mr Holmes yes Mrs cottis body yes motion carries there are no emergent items old business new business board member superintendent remarks I'll start with Mr foke nothing at this time Mr medo congratulations Miss Greenfield I hope you do a good job for us thank you Mr Bono sorry I speak loud enough sorry um in central Administration and the Board of Education uh have been working very hard all summer long for this District um I'm personally excited and um happy for all the new hires and transfers and every that we've worked very hard for for this uh new 2024 25 uh school year uh being a first year board member I have been taking a lot of uh information in on how our district works I've listened to positive and negative experiences um there's one thing that I can assure you uh is that 99.9% of the people in this administration building that sit on this board um of Education with me we all have one thing in common uh we have the best interest in our hearts and our minds for the students of violent staff members and the schools within this Learning Community um I've sat in committee meetings for transportation facilities discipline and curriculum and every discussion is for the betterment and positive change for violent Public Schools very proud of that and proud to be a part of it uh so thank you to everyone involved um we have the tools needed to produce successful educated students within our district I'd like to wish all of our false sports teams clubs a healthy fun and successful uh season a special shout out to uh violent High School football and girls tennis as two of my pride and joy uh Lana Robbie our student athletes on the team so good luck to those teams lastly I would like to wish our flag skip Flag ship School in my opinion VHS south and north campus the best uh please every staff member do your best uh to committing the discipline and curriculum that are in place to have a healthy learning environment for all students our students deserve it we the board are committed to working with Central Administration and selecting a principal for the school year sooner than later VHS South needs a leader that its students and staff will get behind support and strive for excellence special thanks to Debbie Quinn who is the uh T um fill in principal uh for the upcoming year um and we are confident that your leadership will provide our school with what it needs until we find somebody uh to fill in and replace and learn from you then you can go back to your retirement and enjoy it so that's it thank you Mr Rivera good evening everyone um every beginning of every school year brings a lot of excitement a lot of uh Joy well not for the students um most of the students have joy um but it's also an opportunity to start fresh brand new what happened last year was last year what happened in that class that you got that D in don't worries there's a new year you can pick that up um every teacher fresh start new set of students um so it's an exciting time um so it's an opportunity to change The Narrative of your own personal life change The Narrative of our school district which is the best school district in New Jersey um and just completely start fresh So to that I say all the students good luck all the best to you to every student to every teacher to every faculty member to every staff member M to every P Personnel member in every single department and all throughout this school district we need you we need you to make Contin making New Jersey excuse me vinand New Jersey the best school district in New Jersey try to change my mind I always say that um I also want to speak to the parents you are part of this you are a huge part of this you are our partners you are important we need you it is they're they're a huge part of it and I'll say this I haven't said this in a while parents ask lots of questions it is your right to do so p and with that thank you and have a good evening Mr sabran Mrs Greenfield congratulations I I couldn't be any happier than to see you get this post um as anyone who knows me knows this is one of my major goals is to make sure that we grow and encourage our Workforce because not only our you're going to be a rockar at pillow you represent to other staff members not only the hope but the promise of being able to move up and become a leader in the district and whenever possible this is what we need to do not to the exclusion of other candidates if they' be outside the district but always looking at our own with the with the most interest and support so good luck to you I know you're going to do a great job um and to the rest of our staff members and to our students and parents um these 29 years are just kind of blown right by uh 20 is an employee and now my ninth is a board member and I know that feeling of excitement you always get your before school starts and um even though I'm not working now I can feel it um I just hope that we have a a safe and successful opening of school tomorrow and another fantastic year thank you Mr Sila yes Miss Greenfield congratulations looking forward to working with you um wish you nothing but the best in the school it's a great school my kids went there so I know you'll do great you have some great teachers um great support staff so I know you do nothing but the best over there I'd like to wish all of our students um all of our parents all of our administrators support staff and everyone else involve a happy school year and successful school year thank you Mr Holmes yes congratulations to Miss Greenfield looking forward to the work that you'll do in your new role we're back to school tomorrow and I want to thank our Central Administration team and building Administration for their hard work this summer um I also want to shout out the transportation and registration departments for working tire so tirelessly to address the needs of our students and families over the summer parents and Guardians please keep in mind that our staff is filling hundreds of calls a day we'll have the normal hiccups for the first few weeks of school um but everyone please be patient we're glad um and happy with the work that has been done if you do not know uh about the new schedule please check the website for those board members if you receed calls or emails please forward those calls to Mr Yano and his Sab so they can address them accordingly I'm looking forward to a great school year there's a lot of great things happening in B Public Schools thank you Miss godoi for your presentation um this evening that was well thought out and relevant um to addressing our students needs needs uh I say relevant because sometimes a lot of our so-called Solutions don't really address students needs so thank you for that let's commit ourselves to being a part of the the solution this school year thanks and have a great year superintendent thank you just a special shout out to our entire team who put together an extraordinary Extravaganza we had over 1,200 registered participants 150 student volunteers and athletes all of our schools represented over 40 Community Partners it was an incredible day uh looking forward to planning next year's event and uh it just super exciting uh last week we held our new teacher orientation and non-ear teachers academy uh also another huge success thank you to our curriculum team our special ed team our HR team for you know hiring as quickly as teachers are coming in and filling these positions on a continual basis because we had quite an awesome group coming in over 63 uh new teachers uh at our new teacher orientation uh yesterday we officially welcome back our staff members they spent the last two days working on professional development uh setting up classrooms and making connections with their new leaders as we uh are proving uh new principles of a new principal of pillow um Mr Pierce at Johnstone and um just bringing in a couple other support staff members as well just another reminder Remer Mr Holmes kind of spoke about this already you know tomorrow is our first day you know buses will arrive uh they may be a little bit late but please be patient with us students are asked to be at their bus stop 10 minutes prior to the noted time on the bus pass parents please check parent portal for bus updates as updates are being made daily I want to shout out to a couple of our local Community Partners chew North Church donated 400 book bags uh with school supplies for our students thank you True North Fusion Church they donated 400 Staff Care bags will be which will be distributed this week uh tissues hand sanitizers and Candy everyone loves some candy and also Ami on Chestnut Avenue donated 25 book bags with school supplies so thank you all of the supplies and donations will be carefully distributed uh because we have students and staff members who will appreciate receiving those items and finally uh you know our Central Administration team uh on behalf of the group I want to wish all of our students and staff a wonderful exciting school year let's make it a year full of growth learning and success and partnership because without partnering we will not be able to move this District forward so it's working together from the Board of Ed Administration teachers parents community and our kids we'll be able to achieve amazing outcomes thank you I'd like to congratulate Miss Greenfield I think it's a long time coming and uh we're excited um and I know you're excited and the school's excited uh all of the new hires I'm a little disappointed at one of our retirees Mr Eubanks from the junior Roc he's going to be sorely missed when he does leave um Mr Cooper thank you for coming and pointing this out to the board I have followed you followed the mentor on the green um on Facebook so I'm excited to be able to you know um give our kids a little bit of of recognition that they deserve and they need also so thank you for coming tonight and make sure that you know I'm sure they'll get in touch with you soon so that we can do that I want to Echo a lot of my fellow boards members comments um from our all of our staff our teachers our secretaries our bus drivers our maintenance I don't want to leave anybody out so I'm going to say the entire District our Central team has been working very hard I want to thank our board members for working together also with Central Administration and and the whole District uh we are a team we need to partner together and I see that's what we're doing um with that being said good luck in the new school year and we're excited to see where this is going good luck to our sports teams with that do I have a motion to adjourn all in favor for