##VIDEO ID:AHcr2192ea0## [Music] good evening this meeting is being held in compliance with Sunshine Law having been advertised at First Atlantic City noce the post in Township clerk's office B post office M Post Office Atlanta County Library as well all the schools in the districted roll Miss aner Miss bar here Dr sheno here Mrs Jackson here Dr La here Mrs perto here Mr Rogers and Dr Nelson here entertain a motion to convene the executive motion I have a motion a second Jackson questions comments all in favor iOS as have it resolved pursuing section 7 and8 of the open public meeting act the public shall be excluded from portions of the involving discussion of legal matters attorney sorry attorney client privileges Personnel Transportation HIV and Board of Education vacancy be further result and discussion of such subject matters of executive session be disclosed to the public when formal action is taken on such subject matters or at any other appropriate time further resol the board may take action on items discuss in executive session now therefore be resolve the boardly in executive session for approximately 30 minutes I get a motion to close executive session Recon mod session motion motion by Miss second by m questions comments All favor this meeting is being held compliance Sunshine Law having been advertised in post l City notice Post in Township clerk's office me post office post office L Library as well as schools and District this meeting is being recorded there are two opportunities to address the members of the board the board values and welcomes comments and opinions from the residents as long as the remarks are not personal disc the public comments support from this meeting allows the board to listen to community members and to hear opinions on school policy and operations the first portion public portion is reserved for persons wishing to speak on agenda items only second opportunity FS the action items is when the residents May address the board on any moment of silence for private reflection I get a motion to improve minutes regular session executive session dated September 25th 2024 second I don't know who the first one an Anor okay Miss Anor and uh roll call please miss Anor yes Mrs Bart yes Dr Serena yes Mrs Jackson yes Dr L obain Mrs PTO yes Mr Rogers here yes and Dr Nelson yes at this time we have presentation till turn over do Z thank you at this time can I have Mrs Bryan come down to Pro uh to give a the reading challenge winner for the month of October Okay so so this month's winner the first winner for the 2004 25 school year is Gavin VRA Gavin is in Mrs gildner's first grade class he is an exceptional student hard worker and always tries his best he's respectful and kind to his teachers and his classmates congratulations gav come on is she here oh come on gild get in here all right on three one two three awesome thank you guys got all right Mike would you roll the staff members for the month of September please St of the St of the mon sta of the mon the of [Applause] the and who's our St of the M who is it me who did I say me Mrs is Foster Mrs is Foster show us our and everything congratulations I was very confused because I walked up I saw you run in right and the light was out and the door was open is the staff of the mon so what happened was many teachers said many wonderful things about Mrs fer specifically about how kind Mrs fer is utilizing their shark habits Mrs fer was noted by her teachers as being very kind and very helpful the same types of things that we like and our sharks to when you're kind and helpful to one another so we want to thank you has a special certificate yay [Applause] [Music] great job we want to thank you thank you [Music] who was nominated by her peers and is winning the crown of character as St member of the month so we want to thank you and your team here and how awesome everyone is to support our [Music] students congratulations [Applause] have a very important announcement at this time we would like to announce our staff ready of the month typically when we do that all staff members vote and we look at the results to see who has the most amount of votes but for the very first time the person who was nominated was nominated by multiple people all saying different things but all saying them about the same person so congratulations to our staff of the mon Miko a hug a than and we do have a couple of you guys here can you stand up my my staff members of the month please congratulations thank you for coming all right at this time can I have Dr Holst from please come down good evening so I have the pleasure of introducing you to our student council representatives and our officers for the school year 2425 so come on down Miss Marshall Mr C want to come down as well so miss Marshall and Mr Kramer organized our elections our students filmed their speeches and they campaign and here are our winners so I'm going to present to you our president PA she has already emailed me to discuss several things that the student body would like so we'll be working on that um Nathan Erikson he is our vice president Isam Muhammad is our treasurer chamy Alon is our SEC secretary and brao and Valerie vendos will be our student board representative picture with all you guys okay round three one two three awesome congratulations now board representativ will you stay here for a minute okay cool thank you guys big [Applause] job all right at this time your job now is going to be part of the board with us and so with that there has to be an oath so we have the oath that we have for you guys just I want to ask you to raise your hand and the board members going to read it to you okay typically we make you read this all by yourself so but we'll help you all right so the oath of Honor trust me it's much easier you just say yes okay all right raise your right hand as student representatives of the William Davies Middle School student council Board of Education you solemnly pledge to uphold the values of Integrity responsibility and service you also vow to listen to the voices of my of your fellow students and open mind I'm changing that as I go so sorry about some of the TS doesn't make sense uh to represent their interests and concerns with honesty and fairness and to advocate for their needs respectful respectfully and uh thoughtfully you commit to fostering a positive and inclusive School environment leading by example in both word and action you will work in collaboration with your peers teachers and school leaders to promote the wellbeing of and success of every student you understand the importance of your role and Trust placed in you with the oath he promised to carry out your responsibilities with dedication humility and pride always driving to make William Davy's Middle School a place where every student can Thrive now repeat after me this I pledge to be the best of my ability this I pledge to be the best of my ability I to be the best of my ability congratulations [Applause] all right Dr Holstrom we have another another uh presentation I just have to say i' love seeing you guys over there um so I'm going to intro introduce Mr K who will bring up our media broadcast media students Mason chanchez Conor Clinton and Cody [Applause] freeden I know I don't want to take your fire but I do have to say that these students we did a state of the union we were live running for our elections and these guys are just amazing so congratulations good evening board members my name is uh Mark wsky I'm the media teacher here um Conor Clayton uh Cody reer and my friend Mason Sanchez who this is the second time being recognized he officially thinks he's cooler than I am uh but they all did incredible um doing a election broadcast and uh it was live streamed for the entire school and I just couldn't be more proud of them so thank you so much for recogniz wonderful job [Applause] thank you guys I think they're not got you you got the picture Mr Williams [Applause] K you guys can come close it's okay it's okay I want to bek I'm not I'm not Mr K before you before you sit down if parents want to see that how do they go about seeing those videos so if you would like to see the videos you can go on to our district social media Pages uh or you could follow the media department on Instagram at wdm Media or you can go to our YouTube channel and it's called the dragon Network and we not only serve William davies's middle school but we serve all three schools and the community so thank you Mr K appreciate it now at this time can I please have our William D's mid school council give us their up on 911 student council and njhs members attended a First Responders brunch they got the opportunity to talk with EMTs firefighters and cops about their Brave careers on 924 students completed in a color Awards competition sixth graders came out on top winning the spiritday and Brad student council elections were held the last week of September on 927 8th grade students attended the high school Fair giving them the opportunity to learn about each high school choice some upcoming events for October the new family breakfast was held on October 4th thr by our kindness Club the Davies pep band performed at the oakrest verer creek football game last Friday this week is our week of respect on October 18th we will be having our piie and administrator event concluding the PTA competition between staff and students trunker treat is on October 19th from 1 to 4 p.m. student council members will have a trunk set up on October 25th is is pink out day clubs and activities will be wearing all pink in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month October 30th is the Halloween parade all clubs and activities are invited to walk in the parade great job guys let's give a nice round of applause all right okay just again congratulations to the 20242 Middle School student council and welcome to board Representatives I want to thanks so much the William Davies Middle School teachers for taking this on this wall it's just so important we really appreciate you doing that uh since our last meeting I've met with the Senor with the Senor and D staff to discuss the upcoming year we call to the district dialogue uh for your review please see the registration transfer statistics for the month the enrollment the discipline and the HIV reports following are dates to remember Monday October 14th is Columbus Day will be closed uh Saturday the 19th is the PTA trunp retreat at H Session 1 at 1 to 2:30 p.m. and session 2 from 2:30 to 4:00 p.m. on Monday October 21st will be our PTA meeting at dav's Cafeteria on November 4th through Friday November 8th will be our fall break school is closed uh Wednesday November 13th is our next scheduled Board of Education meeting but the executive starting at 5:15 and 545 is our regular s right here in the Davies cafeteria that concludes my super fin report thank you Dr zto at this time we'll take public comments to receive comments from the public on tonight's agenda items in accordance with the board's policy on participating in a board meeting each speaker has asked to limit their comments to 3 minutes you're not uh permitted to yield your time to any other person see none board member comments Dr trino I just want to say Welcome to our two new uh members and I think it's wonderful that uh you're going to sit in with us and see what really happens and report back um and I I just think it's fantastic the work that's being done by the media team to make just makes such an impact um because I've watched the YouTube channel and it it's amazing it's like professional I I really recommend you going out and take a look at um so I I just want to say welcome and don't forget about trunker tree and um glad to have you board thank you Dr anybody else um I'd like to Echo and say thank you to the student council members the two new members on the board here uh it's something that I think we've been talking as a school board at least for the 5 years I've been on so I'm glad that we were able to get it done and I think there's a good opportunity to um teach him uh what it means to be you know civil servants and understand that uh you get a lot of complaints I'm sure you're complains you want something in your school and no gratitude when you do or don't get it done right but the best part is you get paid a lot of money right no you don't get pay anything no we um I want to also uh say thank you to the PTA for putting together the Trunk or Treat times two first year we're going to be doing it uh two sessions so I think it's great um and I do know being have the township meeting on Monday um the news is out there I think you're going to have a lot of and uh are you guys already sold out session one is sold okay so look looking forward to that so thank you for all the hard work there um also I want to say that we do have the school sorry the the township parade I think it's October 30th another opportunity to collect candy and be relatively safe in our streets and I also wanted to say thank you to the media team I'm very proud of everything you guys do and uh um I've uh show a lot of that kind of stuff to the the township members and to the committee members and uh I know that they're interested in maybe seeing if you guys can help them with some of their stuff it might be a good opportunity to span out a little bit um that's all I have at this time uh can we do the Personnel committee Miss Jackson yep so our committee met on Wednesday the 2nd at 5:00 pm virtually um in attendance were myself Mrs bar Mrs litski and Dr um we discussed and reviewed personnel and policy matters including u a few PR professionals new hires District goals and the board member vacancy um our next meeting is scheduled for Tuesday November 12th and that'll be virtual as well um so if I could have a motion to approve the Personnel policy committee items in section n motion to approve Personnel policy Committee in section 9 through 915 motion motion by Miss bar second Sor I didn't from I said it loud call please questions or comments Mrs an yes Mrs B yes Dr Serena yes Mrs Jackson yes Dr La yes Mrs P yes Mr Rogers yes Dr Nelson yes any um Mrs ster did we have any new hires here tonight not tonight thanks finance and operations Dr Le um the finance and operations committee met Tuesday October 1st at 4 p.m. um and I have a motion to vot 10.2 through 10.4 motion by Miss prto second second by Dro questions comments roll call please Mrs AG yes Mrs bar yes Dr sharino yes Mrs Jackson yes Dr laa yes Mrs yes Mr Rogers yes and Dr Nelson yes thank you drog this far curriculum committee sure our curriculum committee met also on Tuesday October 1st virtually um in attendance was myself Dr zto Miss fro Miss anra Dr Sereno Miss Bryant Mr LaVine and Mr pelner we discussed some curriculum updates it hadn't been long since we had met but um any Cal conversations as well as the School Code of Conduct um our vice principal shared all the great work that's happening there can I please have a motion for 112 through 118 asist motion motion by Dr Sho second second by Miss Jackson questions and comments roll Mr anra yes Mrs bar yes Dr Sereno yes Mrs Jackson yes Dr La yes Mrs PTO yes Mr Rogers yes and Dr melon yes moving on section 12 old business any old business new business [Music] thece public comments receive comments from the public accordance with board policy and participated at board meetings on any item anyone no executive session I would entertain a motion for adour motion by m second by Mr bro questions comments all in favor oppos I have a thank you