Good evening ladies and gentlemen today is Monday from the seventh and this is the regular meeting of the City of Fairfax School Board. We will call the meeting to order with the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands for the nation under God in the visible liberty and the House of Raoul. There are no changes to the agenda. The only other announcement is that following this meeting, the school board will go into a work session to discuss budget information other than that. There are no announcements. The first order of business is to present certificates of recognition to Fairfax High School One Act State Champions. And we're very pleased. We're very pleased this evening to have our Fairfax high school students with us and their sponsor and teacher Wendy Floor Knight and the I'm going to, what I'm going to do is I'm going to present the certificates and then I will ask Ms. Knight to give us a little, give us some information on the One Act play and how that worked at the state level. But we're delighted to have our youngsters and our families with us. I'm going to come up here to the microphone and I will call up each student and at Miss Knight and we'll go from there. Thank you. Schools are about two things. They're about schools are about opportunity and schools are about choosing things. They're about schools are about opportunity and schools are about youngsters doing well. And certainly we have both at your ex-high school. We have great youngsters, we have great staff members and we have a wealth of opportunities for youngsters whether that opportunity in the classroom is in a performance hall or on the athletic field. And tonight we have a group of youngsters with us who participated in the Virginia State drama program and they came away in 2008 Virginia State Champions. They won first place for best one-axis play, which is I wish I wish I was a title never so long. And so those youngsters who participated are with us this evening and I do have certificates. The first answer I'd like to call forward is Jeremy Chewy. Jeremy is a junior Fairfax high school and he's been in golf in drama for three years. He is being presented this certificate for his role in Never Swim Along for which he received an outstanding actor award. Jeremy has appeared on stage in the Wizard of Oz, a complete works of William Shakespeare of Bridged, J.V. Curls of the Garden Club, Arms in the Man, Glen Mia's energy output of glasses here. Her swim alone and will appear as Luminear in Beauty of the Beast. Jeremy designed costumes for the monster tails, directed waiting for death, and is very involved in the improv club at Perfect Fisal. Congratulations, Jeremy. Monster Tales, directed waiting for death, and is very involved in the improv club at Terrific Psycle. Congratulations, Jeremy. Applause. Our next student that we would like to honor this evening is Zach Gabo. Applause. Applause. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Back is also a junior fair. Backson has been involved in drama for the past three years. His certificate is for the role of Never Swim Alone, for which he received an outstanding actor award. Back appeared on stage in the Wizard of Oz, complete works of William Shakespeare Bridge, J.V. and Never Swim Alone. He is served as artistic director for this year's theater arts two, three, four production company. Congratulations, Zach. Our next uh uh uh uh honoree is Sarah Evers. Sarah. Sarah is also a junior at Fairfax and she's been involved in drama for three years. She's been recognized tonight for a role in Ever Slam Alone, which was the one that won the State Championship for Fairfax High School. She appeared on stage in JB, her also the Garden Club, the King and I, the Homest Bride of Dracula, Lenny Attender, Never Swim Alone, and will appear as Bay-Vet in Beauty of the Beach. Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Our next student is Patrick Term. Patrick? Who's that voice out? Oh, well, that's okay. I'll just, I'll, we'll make sure that he gets this certificate. But I do want people to know what Patrick has done. He's on more. He's been golfing drawn for two years. He appeared on stage and checked, please, and led me to enter and work backstage for Glide Spirit as part of the special effects crew. Patrick was an understudy for Never Swim Alone, he is also involved in the Prober of Club at Fairfax and has been involved in drama for one year. He appeared on stage in Blight Spirit as Dr. Bradman and also worked on the special effects crew. Dylan was also an understudy for his never swim alone and he will also appear in Beauty and the Beast. Congratulations. Applause Our next student is Kaylee Vanogl. Applause Thank you. Kaylee is a freshman at Fairfax. She was an understudy for Never Swim Along. She is on the at Fairfax. She was an understudy for Narrow Swim Along. She is on the Sockrun basketball teams. She is one of Wors in National African competitions. Congratulations. Our only senior in the group is Liz Parrish. And for that, for that. For that. For that. For that. For that. For that. For that. For that. For that. For that. For that. For that. For that. For that. For that. For that. For that. For that. For that. For that. For that. For that. For that. For that. For that. waiting for death and white spirit. She is also active in her church drama group and she will attend Shana Doa Conservatory for Arts and the Fall. Congratulations. Johnson? Thank you. Nikki is a sophomore and was the stage manager for Never Swim Alone. We all know that behind every successful front, here is a backdoor who does a really good job and Nikki Johnson was the linchpin to this particular team. She's appeared on stage in the King and I, check please in the only sprite of Diracula. She's worked certificate for Wendy Flora Knight. Wendy and Mrs. Knight has worked in theaters since 1988 with never swim alone marking her 74th. To look at her you would think that 74 would be part of her vocabulary because she certainly doesn't look like she's that. But this is her 74th production, her 19th Fairfax High School. She's done a number of previous productions including Camelette at the Little Thier, the Mass Trap at Studio 115, Little Shop of Horrors. She has been the assistant director for reductions for the complete works of William Shakespeare, and she would like to thank her husband Tim Knight for being a bastion of love and support and her friend Mike for his undying faith. Mrs. Knight earned her degree in her Bachelor's of Arts Theatre from Mary Washington College, her Masters of Education at George Mason University, and plans to pursue and masters of Fine Arts in directing her design at Catholic or the University of Virginia. And we'd like to say to Ms. Knight, you've done a great job with our youngsters. We congratulate you and we wish you well in beauty of peace. There are a number of us who are looking forward to it, particularly to the 10, 30 AM Saturday morning, Saturday morning, our small children, and we wish you all the best and thank you for all you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. So let's get into two lines and maybe we can do a more picture. Can you answer this? Can you please tell me? Can you answer this? Can you please tell me? Can you please tell me? Can you please tell me? Can you please You're tall. You're tall. You're tall. You're tall. You're tall. You're tall. You're tall. You're tall. You're tall. You're tall. You're tall. You're tall. You're tall. You're tall. You're tall. You're tall. You're tall. You're tall. You're tall. You're tall. You're tall. You I'm telling you. How do you want me to do it? Very good. I'm trying. Thank you very much. Yes. I missed your Griffith reminded me that you are not obliged to say for the rest of the meeting. I'm sure that the students have a lot of homework to do. So if you don't feel obliged to sit here for the remainder of the meeting, the next item will be citizen participation. Is there anyone who wish to address the board? Okay, Mr. O'Jale will hold up for a minute and then we will be glad to hear what you have to say. That's cool. That is just so neat. Are you moving? Yeah. Mr. O'Dell, the staff recommended that you use this area over here. They use the microphone over here where the computer is set up. And we don't have it to go over this one. That's what the television production staff recommended. Just make sure you press the green button. It needs to be a bright color so that you're hooked into the mic. This is first, could you check to make sure Mr. O'Dell will have his mic on. Okay. Thank you. Mr. O'Dell, we don't have a timer because they don't set a timer up for here. And Mr. Griffith will be glad to time you. Mr. O'Dell, we don't have a timer because they don't set a timer up for here. And Mr. Griffiths will be glad to time you. Do you want to 30? I'm going to ask for a more neutral timer about John Butchham. I'll give you a 30 second. The City of Fairfax voters are urged to vote, said Gerry O'D'Dell of 3920 Bradwater Street, on May the 6th, 2008 for Mayor, 6 City Council members and 5 School Board candidates. They remain at least two handed at forms in April. 7pm, Thursday, April 10th at Daniels Run at Elmuches School, per the city scene, but at Providence Elementary School per Janice Miller, who I hope will shed some light on the conflict. And 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 23 at the Masonic Temple near 123 and the Simbly Drive. This year I have been using my old 2004 and 2006 campaign literature for city council. Until my 2008 literature is ready. Oh, oddly enough, by the way, the incumbents don't seem to want to range for television coverage of any of these candidate-night forms, breaking with a longstanding past tradition. I just have to wonder out loud why. And that 2004 literature I've been using, Urges of Otters to Vote for Mayor is a right in the name Jesus Christ, the bed of life, a resident of our city in the Tabernacle in St. Leo's Catholic Church for decades. But this year, the mayor has a challenger. In fact, two challengers, both women, but while one Rose Mary McDowell has not the other woman, Christine Gaines, I think her name is, has filed an exemption from the requirement to file campaign finance reports. Translation, she will be spending too little to win. You might as well then vote for Rosemary McDowell if you do not support Mayor Letter. Turning to this year's city school board race, or should I say non-race, there are only five contenders for the five seats. The two challengers are assured victory since two school board incumbents, Alan Griffith and Amy Craig, are not seeking reelection. Griffith and Craig, apparently, couldn't bring themselves to bother to announce that this any of these school board meetings that they were not seeking reelection. The announcement that surely would have brought out more people to contend. At the City Council meetings, since I I publicly scolded Councilman Silverthorn, we're not making such a public announcement in time to allow interested voters to file for the openings. It seems only fair to Chai Griffith and Craig. Griffith, like Silverthorn, likes to tell only his cronies. Silverthorn sent 400 emails. Silverstone told only his homeowners association, but not the rest of us. I apparently won't have time to say something I wrote out favorable towards Mr. Butram and Mrs. Knight. OK, thank you, Mr. O'Dail. And I thank you for reminding me about the candidates night on Thursday. I do think there needs to be clarification. The city public information department was notified and asked to publicize in the city scene and on the city screen and on the city's website about the candidates's night sponsored by the Historic Fairfax Neighborhood Association line with News and Rust Field. They got the date right and the time right in the city scene however they published the wrong location. If people take a minute to look is that the information is posted accurately on the city screen, it's posted accurately, the information is posted accurately. On the city screen, it's posted accurately. The location is posted accurately on the city's website. And it's also posted on the marquees, both at Providence Elementary and at Daniel's Run. And Daniel's Run did publish a correction in their school newsletter. But thank you, Mr. Delphur, reminding me to let people know the accurate location on Thursday night. Anyone else who would like to address the board? There being no one else. The next item of business is the report of the student representative Christina tomorrow. Fairfax has taken home yet another state championship. Congratulations to the Fairfax players for their state victory one-act performance. The theater department has also been busily preparing for the Spring Play Beauty and the Beast, which will be performed in May. Fairfax has adopted a new Honor Code. It was worked on and created by students in the Fairfax Leadership Class. A video made by the students explaining the new updated Honor Code is available on the Fairfax High website. The student faculty basketball game was held March 12th as a fundraiser for all-night grad. Unfortunately for the students, the teachers took home the victory with the help of a few lucky shots. The annual art show was held last week. Various talented individual students displayed their artwork throughout the hallways for everyone to enjoy. The artwork was judged in many students' one awards for their outstanding work. The fashion show was held on Wednesday. Students modeled outfits from all around the world. Like always, it was fun to watch and a great success. Fairfax leadership held an annual Mr. Fairfax competition this past Thursday. Congratulations to Corey Apps, the 2008 Mr. Fairfax. And good luck to all the spring sports teams as they take on the Concord District schools. and good luck to all the spring sports teams as they take on the Concord District schools. Okay, thank you. Mr. Mayor, the questions for Christina? Thank you very much. The next item is Mr. McCarty from the Parks and Recreation Department is going to talk to us about a proposed irrigation system at linear middle school. Mr. McCarty, it's nice to see you this evening. Thank you for coming out. Nice to see you too. Thank you very much for having me. I want to talk about the linear fields and how we got to where we are right now, which is basically proposing installation of an irrigation system on the two athletic fields that are closer to the cutler park access road. In your information that you have in front of you is just the diagram of the fields. access road. In your information that you have in front of you is just the diagram of the fields. We're talking about the two rectangular fields that are outside of the track area that's currently being built. We have some money that we were going to use for some other athletic areas in the city. Whether it was some of the money that we would normally spend a draper drive or our Van Dyke Park or Pat Rodeo, but we've decided because of the priority of this field and trying to get this back into a playable condition for athletics as well as for the school, we feel it's necessary to install an irrigation system to allow whatever is putting there to grow whether it's seed or sod. Over the last couple of weeks of the parts of recreation staff have been working with Superintendent Monday and also out on the fields as well. Collecting some larger debris that's in the field in the turf itself, they really is causing us some concern of what we need to do out there. Basically, we're proposing that there would be three phases to this. The irrigation be part of one of the phases. Three phases, one being removing any of the larger debris that's in there and trying to come up with a solution for that, re-grading it and bringing some additional topsoil to try to mix in and also help whether it's seed or sawed grow there in a healthy environment to install on the irrigation in threes either seeding or sawing as a final step. We think that will take care of the turf conditions as well as establish a good growth and even if it is sawed potentially leave the opening for possible play in the fall if it's acceptable or at least get us to a playable condition in the spring of 2009. So where we're at is a Parks and Recreation Department. We've set aside around $60,000 to install the irrigation system. And prior to that being installed, we'd like to have a solution for the other two phases. We are taking quotes from SOG companies that are under county contract. We have one quote in and this is the information that you have in front of you is based on the first quote. The other two companies that came out and assessed this situation haven't turned in their quotes yet. And as soon as they have them, I'll share them with you. But the first quote basically is from the company that we typically do business with. They are under county contract and they would come in, wrote it till the material down to six inches, remove any of the debris that's anything an inch or greater out of the soil, mix in about 200 cubic yards of top soil, and then regrade it. That's when we would install the irrigation system. And then the final step again would be to determine the nation whether or not to solder our seed. So that's great. Thank you questions for Mr. McCarty. Mr. Brucher, Mr. Griffith. Just a quick question. What that will the irrigation system be laid? It will be laid flush with the top soil when it's finally graded out. So the irrigation system will be down anywhere from 6 to 12 inches, but it's stretched in. Okay. Do we have an idea of the size of piping and material? It's anywhere from an inch and a half down to an inch, depending on where it is. And the actual, you know, way out of the irrigation system, what heads and what not is actually being designed right now. So I don't have the specifics on the size of the pipe, but I know the water connection will be an inch and a half to two inches on the at the water meter. Okay, so the intent there would be a long and slow kind of watering process for whenever you water the field, just opposed to a quick thing, just to get it down, get it wetted and... Right. It would be a typical athletic field irrigation system where it's on a timer. It comes on late at night, runs through a couple of series of phase cycles and by seven o'clock in the morning, it's just shutting off. It would have a rain sensor if it is raining at night, so it doesn't turn on when the rain's on. But it's a timing system similar to what we have over Providence Park and something similar to what we had at Draper. Obviously much newer. Do we have any data on reliability on how easy these systems might be to accidentally damage or if they're not very deep in the ground very well protected? They do stand up pretty well. I mean, it's where the damage comes from is the grounds crew that actually would damage the heads. That's my crew. So we're pretty careful of that because it does come affect our budget overall. We're responsible for maintaining that field once that's turned over from the construction to the parks and recreation form will be responsible for maintaining the athletics as well as for physical education for the school and to keep not only playable but looking good. So we'll make sure that the heads are damaged. It would be our responsibility to replace any damage to it's to we also be responsible for all the inspections. Will there be any periodic inspections by the company or any other? There'll be annual inspections by the company or any other? There'll be annual inspections for the company where it's, you know, winterizing and de-winterizing the system, the daily and weekly inspections would happen with our ground screw, whether we're mowing out there, they'll be inspecting it if there's a head that's popped or if it's not coming on periodically, we have an athletic supervisor that goes around and checks the fields. And you also checks the irrigation system at least once a week. Okay, thank you very much. That's all I have to answer. Thank you, Mr. Redford. Mr. Griffith. Thank you. I probably heard this perhaps about, you know, already what they have in some ways. Are we talking about two fields or three fields? Two fields. Two big fields. The two large fields. Yes. About 2100, 21,000 total square yards. Yes. I see that. And this is going to be done in the current fiscal year. Yes. Out of available funds. Parking this is all parking wreck money. Yes. Out of your currently available funds. Yes. High bid to the single bid you got is $134,000. You've got that much on hand? No, we only have the $60,000. That's why I have $60,000. And we have the $60,000 which we are trying to make. And we will take sale then or? No, we're not going to, we don't have any funds for the other two sharing that information with you folks too is that I think in order if you're going to do anything whether it's seed or or our sawed out there the debris that's in the soil material right now needs to be removed. Yeah. That will settle or and when it does settle that will come up and you know you'll hinder the growth of the seed, hinder the growth of the sawed and also create you know potentially difficult situation to play on, maybe a hazard situation, but it needs to be addressed. Some of the things that we're pulling out of there, we pulled out a three foot round boulder on the surface. And not that I'm arguing with them, I'm sure that that's the case. I'm just trying to understand if you're suggesting that it's the school board that ought to be doing that right quick before you get to put your irrigation system in. I wouldn't suggest you're suggesting that. Where do you suppose we ought to get the money? I don't control your budget. So I wouldn't even care to venture a gas. However, I am working with FPYC to try to see if they could come up with some additional funds to offset any expenditures. We decided to divert some expenses that were earmarked for other park locations as a priority to make sure that this field becomes playable. It is a critical piece of the athletics, especially in the fall season with some of the other construction projects that are going on, you know, for the football program and also for it's the only other large athletic field area besides straight-per-drive. So we decided to divert it from our budget to that area and put it into the irrigation. If there's no funding available, I mean it could be shifted to one of the other two phases. The problem there, you take the debris out, but then it still needs to be seeded, and then you don't have any water to seed it. So we kept on going around with what comes first, the chicken or the egg, and our priority was, well, you need water at some point. Okay. So thank you. Okay. Mrs. Nondin, could you share the information that you received when you talked with Resty Shaw, the contractor and for Hex County College schools? Sure. And I do want to thank Mr. McCarty for being out there with his crew and working several days along with the contractor to try to remove debris. Our most important question to Mr. Shaw was, first of all, did the contractor fulfill the specifications of the contract? In other words, did we have a recourse to have the contractor come out and do more than what the work that has already been done on the fields. And the answer is no. The contractor has done what was in the contract in terms of the grading of that area. And again, there was no other requirements. The contractor did come back after some of these concerns were brought to light and work with a crew to remove some debris. Mr. Shaw also had Fairfax County people come and look at the condition of the field. And they deemed it acceptable, not great, but acceptable, no worse than the condition that is typical after construction at a school. That's not a great ringing endorsement, but it did not indicate that again, we were required to do more. What I have been told by Mr. Shaw is that assessment is valid. It is adequate. It is not a good cover. He would very much prefer to see some kind of a top soil kind of cover there, just no matter what you do, you don't have a very good ground there. It is again what many Fairfax County schools work with after a renovation. So Mr. McCarty, tonight has asked the board to provide authorization, should he go forward with any irrigation. He's also asked that we consider spending some of our money to support this project and again to prepare the soil better for this process. The other thing I'd like to point out is that the contractor Dustin has hydroceded that area once. And that was at the end of, it's sometime last, he's already done it twice. Okay, he's done it twice and it was, unfortunately, if you recall, we had a drought and there was no weight to water. So the grass cover is to say that its sparse is probably stretching the meaning of the word sparse. There is that the contractor did agree to hydro seed once again without an additional charge and I did want to put I did want to put that on the table. I did go out and look at the fields myself. When I look at the construction work that we've done at Fairfax or that even at the two elementary schools, there's a lot of stuff left on the surface. And actually there's a lot of stuff that's right below the surface. I think one of the things that happened that we brought in a lot of dirt In order to construct that field There was a huge if board members were calling there was a huge amount of dirt out there when we went into the former band room That when in the in the demolition, when the contractor removed the permanent risers, there was a pile of rocks that was left in the band room and covered up with the permanent wooden risers. I have a feeling that some of those rocks made their way onto that field. It was a type of quartz or what we think of as decorative stone that ended up being smaller pieces. So I do agree with Mrs. Monday that it's probably acceptable, but I also agree with Mr. McCarty that it probably isn't going to make for the best playing surface. So the board will have to take all that under advisement and see what we can work out. Mrs. Craig. I have a question since the superintendent mentioned it also. When Fairfax County does renovate their schools, they keep there is no field play for a year. So it can mature. And I know we're going to be in a tight situation on fields in the fall, but you had mentioned in passing that you know you would hope you could be on the field by the fall. Do you understand it could be spring? How are you deciding or where you're going? I mean I'm just trying to figure out where you thinking to approach us in July and go hey it looks it looks great. Can we have it August 1 or September 1? Or because right now we're sitting here in April. And we might tear the whole thing up again and then to have play on it in four months. I don't think it's a good idea. Yeah, I wouldn't even consider coming back to you to ask for play. In the fall, if you didn't remove the debris or put sod down. Right. If you're going to seed it and if the debris is going to be in there, we're going to be or someone's going to be picking it out of there over the next year as it settles. And it's not only going to have to be seeded once, it's probably going to have to be seeded, you know, at least four other times providing we have irrigation to keep it in good condition between now and the spring of 2000. Oh, I think irrigation would be fantastic. My child practices a cutner, which is pretty much a dust bowl. So I think this whole program is great. I just think we need to make sure it matures fully before we start using it. Yeah, the, the, again, the hope was, you know, if we are able to get the debris out, if we are able to put sod on it and, on it and we come up with some other ways of funding that, then maybe there's a possibility to play in the fall because it has been over. It has been seated twice. In the first time it was seated was supposed to be the start of the clock of the year. And that's why we're trying to at least try to bring that back into play a little bit. So you're thinking to approach us in July and ask if I mean are you just going to wait see? What are you hoping for play in the fall? Why I would like to see if we can get approval for to move forward with the irrigation system and then work with you folks to come up with a solution for the debris issue and whether it's seeded or sawed. And again, if we had more resources to put it towards us, we would. We absolutely would. It is a priority field for the schools, for the athletics. We would absolutely try to divert it to that, because it's also critical of how it impacts the other field locations. I'm willing to work with FPIC and see what we can do to get them to contribute to this too. Again, they do have some strong commitments to this video on other field locations, so resources might be limited for them as well, but they might be able to help with a little bit of this. But if there are any resources that are available to you, then I would greatly appreciate that to get the process moving. You don't want to put the irrigation in before it's torn up in the debris as well. Well, I personally would hope we can find some funds. I know it's tight, but I think it would be very beneficial to the city. And those are great fields. Right. And the irrigation would be fantastic. Thanks. You're welcome. Great. Thank you, Mrs. Craig. tonight. We are just a little too. Excuse me. A question I had as far as you wouldn't want to start the irrigation until we knew we were going to get debris out. I mean, it wouldn't make sense. And so I guess we would need to talk about, I know we've already had some conversations about this issue and looking at what might be done, but timeline wise and when we might be able to discuss this again as a board, because in November, it's just around the corner. But I think with Mrs. Craig that I think it's something that we need to look how we can work collaboratively towards a solution. Absolutely, we're here for it. Anything else Mrs. Knight? No, thank you. I just have two other questions. When will you get additional quotes as first thing? And secondly, when do you think you'll have any information about possible contributions by FUIC? The other two quotes we had the companies out last week. We were supposed to have them in on Friday. They weren't in on Friday. I call both of the companies to me, and they promise they'll have them to me tomorrow. So I should have them by the end of the day tomorrow. As soon as they have them, I'll put it all on a spreadsheet, get it off to Mrs. Monday's office and so you should share that with you. Contributions for FBIC, they would have to discuss that at a board meeting. I think they're also waiting to see how things happen with the overall city budget process too. So, over the next couple of weeks. Okay. All righty. Okay, that will be helpful that we can pull all that together. And we hope that we can be able to work with you and the youth group. Any additional questions? The motion, the thing that we need to deal with tonight, I guess, is to grant permission. I'm looking for the right piece of paper. Is to grant authorization to use authorized to install the irrigation system. And is there an interest in the board doing that going forward with that? Excuse me, Madam Chairman. I'm so sorry. I have one other question just to clarify. The two different quotes on the Phase I work, the 70 cent per square yard is for the seating just because- It goes up because they're not- They're a side company, so they really want, you know, and this is an estimate of what it would cost to see. They would, because they wouldn't be doing the side that they're actually at home work for the, the tilling and the mixture of, and the regrading would, would be more expensive. They were packaging it all together to try to do it. As part of they're doing this, and there's not another company that would do it. There are other companies and the other two companies aren't sorry companies so there they're landscape companies which were again their quote might be drastically won't be drastically different but it could be you know a little bit less than what's on here. Okay so all of the side prices very good price for including the install and that's why we use them because they are under the county contract and So all of the sod prices, very good price for including the install. And that's why we use them because they are under the county contract. We get a really good deal with that. Okay, thank you. Okay. Is the board interested in moving forward on authorizing the installation of the irrigation system? There's an action item later in the end of the agenda. Oh, okay. I guess so. I was going to do it now, but I guess it's an action item later in the end of the agenda. Oh, okay, I guess so. I was going to do it now, but I guess it is an action item later on. Sorry, Mr. McCarty. We're not going to do it now. Okay, that's all we have. I'm taking it out of order. Okay, why don't we just take it out of order? And then that way, you won't have to hang around and see whether you're going to say yes or no. Thank you for suggesting that, Mr. Griffitha, is there a motion? This is nice. Well, I would like to, I guess, prior to this before laying the motion out there, I'll present it with an amendment that the authorization would be contingent. It might mean a delay in the installation on making sure that we can appropriately address the phase one issues. Okay, Madam Chairman. I move this night. I move that the City of Fairfax School would authorize the City of Fairfax Parks and Recreation and Department to install a irrigation system on the fields at Lanier Middle School contingent upon resolution of phase one issues. Thank you. Is there a second? Second. Mrs. Craig seconded in discussion. Mrs. Knight? No discussion. Mrs. Craig? Mr. Griffith. Then if you have a question, please to the maker, I don't understand the amendment. Okay. I'm so sorry. Just want to make sure that we have as a board the time we need to address this and that's why I said earlier what's the timeline here. And maybe we need to do it right now, but to determine if we can come up with funding, whether it's through the linear project, currently underway, but to deal with the ROC debris issues. Or if we need to address this at our next work session. If we're not able to, I don't think it makes sense to install the organization system because it sounds like from what's been presented, there will be an issue later in damage to the irrigation system with the debris. So I wouldn't want to authorize the timeline presented to us was that they would begin work of installation of the irrigation end of April. I wouldn't want authors I authorize him to start that now. Mr. Greta. It seems to me there are two things here. We the simple motion was to authorize parks and wreck to put an irrigation system in under two of our fields. And I would vote to support that. That's fine. Now however we have an amendment that seems to say they can't do it until we come up with the money to improve fields that are already deemed to be adequate. And I would never vote in favor of that in the face of the budget situation and that we face and in fact the city faces as well. This is not a guns and butter budget. We don't have the luxury of cutting on one side while enhancing systems on the other. I'm happy that Mr. McCarty has $60,000 for an integration system in our fields. That's great. I will vote, however, against any notion that we should spend extra on our side to improve those fields. And for that reason, all I will leave this moment. I understand where you're coming from. Would you like to offer a substitute motion? I would rather vote up or down on what we got in the fit fails than we'll go. The substitute motion I have is the motion that we had before us. The original motion. Now there is a second on the floor for an amendment. And I'll be happy to vote on that motion. Okay, Mr. Any other discussion? Miss Gray, Mr. Bradshaw. I just want to make sure this feedback was not going to overwhelm you. I also have trouble with expanding any additional funds that we're not sure we really have yet. And I think the, I'm under the impression the goal was of the amendment was to basically put the notion out that we like the idea. If funding can be made available that from us, then we would have it in hand or an approval to move on immediately after a say a work session. We wouldn't have to wait for the next regular board session to actually approve it and have the parks and rec go ahead and proceed from there. To that end, I still agree with Ms. Griffith in terms of I don't think we've got the funds to start, put more funds out when we've been cutting and straining and trying to find other resources. It moves my, my desire, if we can do this to table this motion for now. I don't think that's a, that's nothing with the amendment. I'm ending the amendment. That's all I got. Okay, thank you. Mr. Craig, that's another new idea. Mrs mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I and addressing some things we need to address. It's adequate over there, but it needed to be addressed. So at Lanier, I thought he said, yes, phase one does need to be done. There is a lot of debris in those fields. So why would he get a mic, correct me from wrong? Why would we go in there and put an irrigation system in when phase one needs to be done anyways? And that's where I'm lost. And I just so maybe so I so I'm fine if John wants to table it, but I believe Mr. McCarty said phase one then two then three. So I'm fine, tabling to but anyways, that's all. then two then three. Madam Chairman. So I'm fine table in two but anyways that's all. Mr Griffith. I don't propose to go three rounds of comments on this Madam Chairman. It seems to me it is if we and they we got two parties here. We didn't argue this much about an $86 million bond. But that's okay. We can do this. We're getting down close to something we really understand. The motion before us presented by staff for us authorized Mr. Guarady to irrigate those two fields. It would appear that he believes that he should not in good conscience do that until such time as we perform work on the fields. That's fine with me. And the motion before stands, and if he doesn't want to start the project, until such time as we do that other work, if we determine we're going to do that other work, and I suggest tonight, I don't know if and when we will ever do that kind of work. Fine. He's still authorized to irrigate the fields whenever they meet the criteria you feel they should meet to do it. I don't know. I don't know if we're going to have any money left. I don't know when we would make a decision that we could do that. On fields that are deemed to be accepted. Maybe next month. Maybe next year. All righty. Okay. Are there further comments? You got a motion? Okay. The motion before us is the City of Fairfax School Board authorize the City of Fairfax Parks and Recreation Department to install an irrigation system on the fields at linear middle school contingent on the resolution of phase one field issues. Did I get that correct? Yes. Okay. All in favor say and fight by saying aye. Aye. A member is opposed? No. May. The chair votes know the motion fails. Is there another motion that the board would like to consider? Madam Chair. Mr. Griffith. I move the City Fairfax School Board authorised the City Fairfax Park and Recreation Department to install an irrigation system in the fields at linear medical school. Is there a second? Second. Discussion. Or have you already passed? I think I have said that. Okay. Can we clarify with Mike? Yes. Okay. Hi. I asked the question and then we'll ask Mr. McClare. clarify for us. Part of these will help my vote. Did you not say we need to do phase one before we would put an irrigation system in or that's question one. And if the answer is yes, then that answers everything. If it's no and you would still put an irrigation system in without phase one being done, then that's the other part of the story. We would, all right, to clarify, if you are going to deliberate whether or not you're going to do a phase one, we will wait on an in-install an irrigation system. If you decide that you will not do a phase one, there's still a possibility that we will do the irrigation system to try to get something going out there. Yes. On the side. You would do too before one was done if you had. If there's nothing, if phase one is never going to get done, we still need to pick a lot of debris out and will still have in that that's going to be a long process. It's not going to be a one year, it's going to be a two year, three year. I've seen construction issues like this before. So. And I appreciate the notification question, but just to also clarify further, I thought I understood you to say that you thought that it would damage the system and that there's really no point to put it in. So you're saying you would put it in and just know that in three years, if we were ever able to deal with debris issues. The damage would be to the system, the damage would be to the turf itself. The rocks and the debris that's in there causing the grass not to grow and not to take hold. So the debris in there wouldn't affect the irrigation system once it's installed now. And if phase one, if the debris issue was dealt with at a later date after the system, would that impact the cost just because dealing around an irrigation system? It seems like it would make it a lot more expensive. Yes, the way it would, it would, it would have an estimate on that. No, because we don't have the design for the irrigation system where all the heads are going to be in, yet anyway. So no, but it would be more expensive and more timely. Right, I'm so concerned about that. But I'm talking. Okay. Additional questions? No ma'am. Okay. The motion is to authorize that move that the City of Fairfax School would authorize the City of Fairfax Parks and Recreation Department to install an irrigation system on the fields of linear middle school. Motion made by Mr. Griffith and seconded by Mr. Betrum. All in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Chair votes aye. Members opposed? No members opposed the motion is unanimous. We are assuming, I mean there is some assumption here that phase one that other funds could be found for that and this board would not be responsible and you would move directly to two. So I trust that you will get back with Mrs. Monday and let us know what you found out on other on other bids and that you'll get back with us about FPYC possible participation. Absolutely. Thank you very much. Thank you. Sorry that we had this roundabout conversation but you got what you came for. No problem. Thank you very much. Thank you, Mr. McCarty. OK, the next item is Fairfax presentation by principal, Dr. Scott Braveryan, from Fairfax High School. And I would like to point out in the audience that Linda Burke, who is our cluster director, is with us this evening. And as always, we're delighted to see her. Thank you for being here this evening. And welcome Dr. Braband. We're excited that you're with us this evening and I hear you've got a lot of good stuff to tell us. Well good evening. Opening act is wonderful. The youngsters were wonderful examples of the young people. We have itfax and we're very proud of them. Well thank you. We're very proud of our students too. As you know and we'll address it later in the presentation. We've had in our seventy-thirty years of high school and in the span of two months we've had two state championships arrive at Fairfax High, one for girls swimming dive and now the other for state theater. So we're very very proud of our students. I think it's indicative of some of the great things that are going on in Fairfax. Chairman Miller, members of the City of Fairfax School Board, Superintendent Monday, City Attorney, Mr. Rust, residents of the City of Fairfax. I come to you tonight for the annual State of the School presentation. My report to you on the status of Fairfax, I come to you tonight for the annual State of the School presentation. My report to you on the status of Fairfax High School. I want to begin by saying the state of the school at Fairfax High has never been better, never been stronger academically, never been stronger in terms of school climate, and I look forward to sharing with you the good news and the results of your investment in the City High School this past year and in the years before. The outline of the presentation as follows, I will be going over the mission of the school, the vision and core values and beliefs, which have changed slightly with a new master plan from the Fairfax County School Board, asking us to re-look at our school plan. I'll also be talking about our three goals for the 2007-2008 school year with a school plan focus of what we've done. For each of those goals and an executive summary will be followed. For each of the goals, awards and honors and a conclusion. The Fairfax High School Mission, it is the purpose of Fairfax High to offer a comprehensive program in a safe and secure environment with high expectations that will allow students to develop academic and citizenship skills. The vision really follows the new outline for Fairfax County public schools that has given us three strategic governance goals, one being academics, the second being essential life skills, and the third being responsibility to the community. I'm not going to read the verbiage there, but obviously our focus is to translate the broad county vision into a vision that meets with the city strategic objectives and the objectives we have within our school. Fairfax High School's core values and beliefs, this was something we spent a lot of time revising the summer as part of the new school plan. Tim Plate, they sound simple but I think they're profound as you start to operationalize these values and beliefs into the day-to-day operations of the school. The first is that each child is important and entitled to the opportunity to realize his or her fullest potential that all students can learn and all means all, that high expectations promote optimal learning, and that learning occurs best when instruction is tailored to individual needs. We also believe at Fairfax High that professional learning communities are paramount for effective teaching and you'll see later that it is one of our three goals now that we finished our renovation process that occupies goal three. We also believe a dynamic partnership between students, faculty, parents, staff members in the community is essential to have exceptional student achievement and is important for the development of essential skills for students. And finally, we believe that at Fairfax High, our diversity is something that creates resilient, open, and innovative citizens for the 21st century and developing 21st century skills is one of the new mandates from Fairfax County Public Schools. Our three goals for the 2007-2008 school year are as follows. First, increasing the academic achievement of all students remains the paramount goal. This year we focus more than ever on our students with disabilities and on writing skills across all content areas. Our second goal remains strengthening the school climate in which student learning takes place. We've had a particular focus this year on developing programs that lead students to be responsible and ethical and we'll be talking a bit more about that shortly. I do want to say with school climate we remain convinced that the link between student academic achievement and school climate is key for successful schools and we continue to try to do things to drive a strong school climate. Finally, expanding professional learning communities to enhance student faculty learning. We're convinced that more focus on professional learning communities will enhance our teacher expertise, so it also will enhance student learning outcomes. And we're looking also for service learning opportunities under Fairfax County's third goal, responsibility to the community, looking for more opportunities for students to reach out and serve the community through the school curriculum, also through our school extracurricular and co-curricular programs. Goal 1 academics, executive summary for your review. First of all, I'm proud to say that Fairfax County, Fairfax High School, under Fairfax County, met all AYP goals for the 2006-2007 year when the testing came through and was available to us this fall. We are a fully accredited school based on S-O-L test results. Our AP test scores and enrollment held steady from FY06 to FY07, and I am proud to report to you tonight that from FY07 to next year, our AP enrollment is up 40% in two years. We are raising the bar at Fairfax High for all students. Our SOL test scores were up or held steady in every area except chemistry and we've done things in terms of changes to personnel and to the actual delivery of instruction and chemistry I expect to see that change this coming year. We developed a new program that we started last year, continued in its second year called Rewards and Remediation or Short for R&R. At the end of last year, we believe that R&R, which rewarded students with their time every other day to make choices about whether they wanted to go to the cafeteria, go to the library for quiet study, or go to a teacher. If they had an F, they would have to go to the teacher that they had an F in until a new change in Markin period. Based on last year's results, we believe R&R helped reduce the students with F's and indeed in SOL classes, the percentage of students with F's at the end of last year's academic year was down 43%. R&R also reduced the number of students with Ds and Fs in all classes by 9%. And we're very, very excited. We've had several schools inside Fairfax County Public Schools and outside the school system come to observe this program. And we are continuing to refine it this year and in the years ahead. Finally, our Career and Technical Education and our Fairfax Academy for the Communication of the Arts is set to announce a 21st Century partnership in two months with a major, major player in the Fairfax County area committed to education. And we're developing a strategic plan for the Academy, similar to the school plan required already in all Fairfax County schools. We are the first academy to go to this model. And we believe we will have synergy with both the school and the academy on reaching new goals for both the school and the city. The SOL pass rates for last year, when I was with you last year, of course, in April, testing was just a month away. Here are the numbers. We are in the 90s for everything except science and again most of that was due to chemistry which I've already mentioned to you that we're working on renewing. We are doing very very well if you go to the next slide. Here you'll see the no child left behind breakdown. For 2007 you'll see in parentheses what the cut point was in the state of Virginia for what they expected all subgroups to perform at for math that was 71% in reading with 73% the state of Virginia has a sliding scale expecting proficiency at 100% by the year 2014. That means every year that number will go up 4%. So next year math would be 75% reading would be 77%. As you look down you can see for math where at 91 for all students up 5%, our African American students with 79 up 9%, Hispanic, 84 up 10%. Disadvantaged students who are acknowledged by free and reduced lunch are up 4%. We had no change in students with disabilities and as I told you in the executive summary for our goals on academic students with disabilities is one of our key focuses and I'll talk a little bit about that later. Limited English proficient up 3% folks. For math, we were up for every single subgroup except student with disabilities, and we have plans in place to address that this year and in the coming years. In reading, we were also overall at 96% no change from the prior year. We were down slightly with some of our subgroups. However, I must tell you that of course even with the 4% increase next year to 77%, we would still be above that cut rate for all of our subgroups in reading. are renewing our focus in English for SOL, not only remediation, but SOL and Richmond so that all students have an opportunity to be successful in that English SOL. AP test, an eight year trend, you've seen this year after year and my three years as principal at Fairfax High. You can go back to 2001 and look at prior to the school board asking that all kids who are NAP courses be required to take the AP course and then that the school board would pay. That was the largest bump, but as you can see now from 2007 to 2009, we are now taking the largest increase in AP enrollment since 2001 when the board did it and we're doing this in-house with teachers working harder than ever, with students working harder than ever, challenging themselves to take a college prep coursework. And one of the things that I I talked about with the faculty is an expectations gap. 84% of our students in the senior survey last year said they planned to go to a two or four year college. Only 59% had taken one AP course. That is a 25% gap between the expectations of kids to go to college and the actual curriculum choices they're making in school. Our commitment is to close that gap so that kids who are playing to go to college are accessing at least one college level course. As you can see for next year our registration tallies are in we could again have a few drops we have a new policy where we send that out in May and ask parents to review those choices but we will be at an average of over three AP classes per each senior in the class of 2009 for next year if you take 1700 divided by an average class of next year senior class slightly over 500 So we're very very proud of the work involved in that Next I'd like to show you just a snapshot what I call the gateway at 10th grade at 10th grade and Fairfax County schools and in the city of Fairfax students have an opportunity to take their first AP course of course we've spent a lot of time redesigning our courses to have a pre-AP focus, not just in honors focus. And now we have pre-AP English and pre-AP world studies one. But in 10th grade, it's the first opportunity to take an AP course. It's in social studies. to take an AP course. It's in social studies. The class a year ago 28% of our students were in AP World Studies 2. This year the class of 2010, 44% of them were in AP World Studies 2. Next year we wanted to expand the pie of getting kids ready. Some are not right ready yet at 10th grade for an AP course. We're now going to offer pre-AP World Studies 2. But the goal was during the registration is that this was not about divvying up the existing number of kids and putting some back into a pre-AP course. It was instead about expanding the total pie, getting more kids than ever to get on a college track. Next year, 58% of the class of 2011, 58% will be in a pre-AP or an AP World Studies II course. A college track course at 10th grade and we believe those that get exposed to that at 10th grade will be more likely to attempt AP coursework in math, in science, in English, in 11th and 12th grade when the real myriad of AP courses is available to students. So that is an amazing three year trend and we're very proud of the work of our Social Studies Department to make that a reality. To continue to drive real results means new programs that we have to continue to look at to increase student achievement. This year we enhanced R&R. Chairman Miller asked me last year that she thought one of the things we could do better at Fairfax High was develop a ninth grade transition program. We developed a ninth grade transition program this year. Ninth graders instead of accessing R&R at the beginning of the year instead worked with school counselors and our PE department through an advisory program where they spent the fall getting a series of workshops on how to be successful in school. Ninth graders that had F's did participate in R&R, but they did not get the reward piece. Instead, they spent time in a transition program giving them the skill set. And I'm very pleased with that program. We're going to continue to refine it. One of the things that most powerfully did is school counselors were able to know those ninth graders in their ninth grade year, not in their junior and senior year, but in the ninth grade year, small groups, focus sessions on how to be successful in high school. It also helped us with students with multiple apps. We created a program called the Academic Intervention Team, trying to analyze why some kids are getting F after F. It's got to be something beyond just academics. And we've had a working group of counselors, social workers, school psychologists looking at what those issues are. We have a new Rebel Gold Card program. Don't leave home without it. This is where kids who have a 3.0 and no F's in their course work have an opportunity to get a Rebel Gold Card which can be shown to participating vendors and get 50 cents off at Smoothie King or a free small pizza at Lido Pizza. We need to continue to try to expand that, but it's a nice way to ask our business community to reward students for doing the right thing. With your city funding, I might add, our participation in AP Boot Camp has gone from 65 students, just three years ago, to 300 students this past summer. That's what you asked for and you got the numbers that you wanted. We actually double, I think, last the summer before last was 150. This year we had 300 students. Thank you for your support of the AP Bootcamp to make that possible. We've expanded AVID. It's a program at California Base that's been now in Fairfax County for some years. It takes the kid in the middle and tries to get them prepared for college level coursework and requires them to take an AP or honors course. I'm proud to tell you we're graduating our first AVID class this year. It was our smallest group. Of course, when we started it, 11 of the 14 seniors. Again, these are kids in the middle. Their parents often have not gone to college. They only have a 20 or a 25. They haven't been on a roll students per se. But there's potential there. 11 of the 14 seniors have been accepted to four year colleges. That is the goal of the Avid program and not just for those kids but to create a college going culture in the school, particularly for some of our underrepresented groups who never before thought a four-year or even a two-year college was within their grasp. Those 11 seniors have taken 31 honors courses. They've taken 57 AP courses. And I'd like to tell you that they applied to 67 schools and got in 35 of them. That's a 50% acceptance rate again for those 11 seniors. Very powerful. We've expanded or we've added a new AP study hall this year. Students who chose to take three or more AP courses had the opportunity to participate in the study hall where they were with their, really their classmates who were also in the same situation to have additional time in the school day to get the heavy course load done because many of these students are also heavily involved in our extracurricular activities. We have our Creative Classrooms program. It's grown to over 300 students. This is where we take high-flying math kids and have them tutor kids who are struggling a little bit more in math. They come during the R&R period to a math teacher's classroom. The struggling kid gets the benefit of instruction. The high flyer kid gets the benefit of a few bonus points on his math quarter grade and if you're a calculus student, a couple extra points doesn't hurt. It goes a long way. Both kids get points for participating. It started with just a few kids and one classroom teacher's idea, Tammy Hawthorn, it's now over 300 students. And I must tell you, I sent a letter to Miss Monday this fall asking to reallocate a small portion of city funds to help support that program we now have an online database where kids can get matched up mentor and mentee and it's just an amazing amazing program. Finally we have a lunch and learn program for SOL retakes. These are kids who are not in the course. They failed it last year. They're not in the course now because they passed the class but failed the test. Well how are they getting prepared to take this test again? What we did is we pulled them out of lunch. We got the cafeteria to give us food that we then got the library to allow us to put food in the library, breaking the rule of food and drinking the library. They had a quick drink and a slice of pizza and then they got right to work with the teacher certified in the content area to practice SOL. In January, when retakes were done, we had a 20% gain in SOL retakes. And I must tell you, too, I asked for a small amount of reallocated money from the city to make that a reality, to give those students teacher-led instruction before taking the SOL. So we're very, very pleased with our Lunch and Learn program. Other new programs. Ninth graders got a writing prompt this year. I mentioned to you earlier, focus on writing. They got a writing prompt to look at what are their levels. Are they at basic levels of writing proficiency or at the advanced? And we want to move more kids into the advanced levels on our S.O.L.s. We're also planning S.R.I. testing and say test done as part of our Read 180 program at Lanier. We want to test this spring all Lanier eighth graders and as part of a pyramid literacy plan really know where these kids are in terms of the writing skills. The first moment they arrive give that information to English teachers, and maybe even make some choices about the particular English section there and so that they have the support they need to develop and strengthen the writing skills. I'm also proud to tell you that we are going to close the gap by raising the bar when it comes to math and our students with disabilities. Starting next year, Fairfax High School will no longer offer Algebra 1 Part 1. All 9th grade special ed students will be enrolled in Algebra 1. We cannot wait for those students to get algebraic concepts in 10th and 11th grade that we're going to have a double block Algebra one class for our students with disabilities. We're going to give them the rich exposure to algebra that they need if they haven't already gotten in middle school at linear. Finally, I want to tell you that our student services under our new director of student services, Marcie Miller, has done additional things taking the ASC a model of making school counselors instructional leaders in the school. done additional things, taking the ASC a model of making school counselors, instructional leaders in the school. They redesigned student course selection. It used to be a few tables on your way to the cafeteria. Hey, there's a class over here and the student was there to talk about it. Instead, we took a full class period and had students sign up for courses they wanted to learn more about. They went up to four classes to choose from to go, I want to learn more about, they went up to up to four classes to choose from to go, I want to learn more about AP English, I want to learn more about AP bio, I want to learn more about auto tech, I want to learn more about theater and they had an opportunity to go to four classes, it was a very rich discussion, but by both the student and the teacher and that evening we followed that with curriculum night which was completely redesigned, less direct instruction from the principal and department chairs and more opportunities with hands on time to talk to teachers. We had teachers across every disciplinary area there to talk and we divided curriculum night into a night focused just on rising, a program focused just on rising ninth grade parents who have unique needs, and then those on parents from 10 to 12th grade. So we're very pleased with the feedback we got from most students and parents on that. That's academics again, headed in the right direction and continuing to try to raise the bar at the school. Goal 2 is strengthening the school climate. School climate and academic achievement go hand in hand. Here's the executive summary. We are down 37% in suspensions and three years at Fairfax High. Ninth grade suspensions. The ninth grade transition program we talked about, Miss Miller. Ninth grade suspensions are down 43% in one year. And we believe that's about introducing students to a transition program with small groups, PE teacher school counselors, getting a feel for the school, getting the strategies and skillset they need right up front to have success and know what the expectations are for Fairfax High School students. TARDIS are also down 37% in the last two years. I'll talk a little bit more about that in the following lines. Here are the details of a chart of suspensions. You can see suspension incidents are down 37%. This is a three year up till March 14 going back to the O405 year up to now this year, 2007, 2008. 37% down in suspension incidences, 36% on the number of days suspended. And of course that's crucial. The third vote, number of days missed. If kids aren't suspended as much, they're in school with instruction taking place for their teacher. That gives them a richer opportunity to have success. Our acidity students, which are defined as those students that have had two or more suspension incidents, are down 48 percent, which means we're not having kids continue to cycle in the loop of suspension after suspension after suspension. The number instance involving recidivist students again down 41% the percent of incidences was down 3%. School climate for tardies, year to date over the last three years and FY2006 we had 825 tardies and again this is year to date 690 last year this year 519. Starting this year we did ask faculty and I explained to students for their safety and security and for school climate reasons. When the tarte bell rings the door will be shut. In every classroom it very facts high Students who are late will go to their sub-school to get a pass and then return with the pass to the classroom. Again, the data speaks for itself. Students now know the expectation is to be in class when the bell rings and before the bell rings not after. And frankly too, and I said this at the beginning of the year, I think Virginia Tech last year really re-emphasized the need for a safe and secure environment. Students need to be in their classrooms when the bell rings, the holes need to be clear. And we are proud of the improvement in TARDIS this year. New programs for goal two. Again, we've talked about the ninth grade transition program added to R&R. We created sub-schools. I mentioned that already on the TARDY policy. We were not a school design for sub-schools, nor did the renovation design it. But the administrative team and myself sat down and talked about our experiences in Fairfax County. We believe the sub-school design is a superior design. It allows people, the administrator and the school secretary to get to know students better. They check in and check out through the sub-school. And frankly, the individuals involved in their jobs were somewhat changed. All of them report greater satisfaction now than what they were in their previous job where some would write discipline letters but never know the kid. One place to check out 2,000 students for attendance is what we had before. You never get to know students as individuals in that sort of model. We have 16 new exterior cameras thanks to the City of Fairfax School Board. We have a flat screen monitor in the main office that lets the public and students know exactly what the cameras are showing. And we appreciate having that extra extension of the security perimeter. We have a rubble, roar warning bell. As part of our Tarty policy, we have a two-minute warning bell that is a lion's roar. It allows students to know, and in the past it was a bell, the argument at least once a week was, has the bell rang yet? I don't know. There's no doubt when the lion roars that there's two minutes to get to class. And while we debate a little bit about the kind of roar and the quality of roar, I remain committed that the rebel roar will continue in some shape or form at the school. We have a new Student Services Advisory Panel. This is a parent advisory panel that Miss Miller has created to get parental input on what better delivery of services can we do for both students and parents so that they can understand the instructional goals of the school and how their students can better be served. We have expanded Blackboard account access. It's called 24-7 Parent View Access. We've had a good start and we're working with our cluster assistant superintendent Miss Burke to devise metrics to improve parent access to those accounts. We've also developed a new expanding horizons, Hispanic parent and student program, our Hispanic students at Fairfax High are achieving as well as any Hispanic population in Fairfax County public schools as well as any. And one of the reasons is a dynamic program like this at-risk kids are joined in a program in the evening. Their parents are required to come. The students get study skills and the parents get study skills about how they can support their son or daughter in the academics in the classroom. It's been a wonderful program. We've had about 10 to 15 graduate already in the ceremony and we have an additional group being prepared for the spring and a bazaarment are apparently A's on and Joan Hartman, one of our school counselors have been key leaders in that and we really appreciate their support of that. We're also looking to continue to explore for goal three, the school board service opportunities for students and we're very hopeful that more students can have opportunities to reach out in the community. This tomorrow has already talked to you about our new honor code that is fresh off the press. Its student led, student created. You can go to our website now and watch the video that was student produced to talk about the new honor code and it will become a major part of our school climate for the remainder of the fourth quarter and especially as we go into the 2008-2009 school year. Continuing with school climate, rubble round up. We continued, started it last year, continued this year. Survey showed 96% of parents favor continuing it. 95% of parents rated it a four or five on a scale of one to five. They found the opportunity to speak directly with teachers, even if it was for two to three minutes, was not only refreshing, but critical to help them understand where their son or daughter was academically in class. We continue a weekly thumbs up award program for employees. We have student presentations that lead every faculty meeting. I continue to tell students that the main thing is to keep the main thing, the main thing, they are the main thing and the faculty gets to see that at every faculty meeting with wonderful showcase presentations from our students. They're also showcased on something called PTTV or PrideTime TV show that our student leadership class has done. They've done things such as a great video during Veterans Day that recognized our own teachers who served in the Armed Services. They did the renovation video for the City of Fairfax program when we rededicated Fairfax high. They're just an amazing group of students and it has had a big big part in improving school climate. We have a peer mediation program which has gotten renewed attention but we have continued to have that over the years and continue to go to George Mason and work in their workshop but how to better relieve student conflict so that doesn't result in suspensions. We have the rebels at the round table with the principal as I've mentioned to you before, 10 kids at random once a month, how are we doing? How are we doing academically? How are we doing school climate? And how are we doing with professional learning communities? What are our goals and are we meeting them? And then they can talk about whatever other things, including the school roar as feedback. School of Human Relations Committee has been formed. Mr. Tarell, our lead administrative intern has been instrumental with that committee and we continue to have our Minority Student Achievement Committee, our Hispanic and Korean Parent Outreach. Regular meetings each month or as often as the parent groups want it to touch base with them and make sure their needs are being met at Fairfax High. Goal three professional learning communities. With your support, your generous support, we established this year vertical teaming in all of the four core math, science, social studies, and English. Additionally, our ESOL and foreign language had vertical teaming. And yes, for the first time, one of the only schools in the county, we had vertical teaming for student services. That means we brought elementary, middle, and high school counselors together to talk about a seamless transition from elementary to middle to high with students. I believe that vertical teaming is the next step in increasing the achievement outcomes at all levels in the city of Fairfax. Because teachers and counselors need to understand what is happening at every level K-12 so that they can better focus on instruction in their classroom. We've had a joint administrative meeting that we continued this year with Lanier and Fairfax High. We have it both in the fall and spring. Sort of, this is again our administrative teams engaging in vertical teaming. We've had an IC retreat that we expanded again with your support to include the entire Fairfax pyramid. We had elementary principals, the entire linear administrative team and the entire Fairfax instructional council together at Old Town Hall in August to kick off and understand what our goals were for the year as a pyramid. We've done staff development for professional learning communities. That includes sharing learning by doing, which is the defores who have been in the county doing training for some time. We've given that to our curriculum team leaders. We have a standard team meeting template. It's a report that's used all the time when teachers meet. They have to meet a couple of times a month in their curriculum team. And we're part of a pilot of Aspire, which is a new tool for both formative and summative assessment that really allows teachers to design their own form of assessments to see how students are doing based on benchmark standards and it allows the county to dipstick if you will to see how students county wider doing those county wide assessments are taking place in algebra-wanted biology this year. We are considered a leader in the Aspire pilot. We've been asked to serve on numerous panels about how have you made it such a part of your school curriculum and I commit to you that a strong school with PLC naturally has a fit with having an assessment instrument that allows teachers to come together and talk about how are my students doing in my class and what strategies are other teachers using to have success. Finally, the old goal three renovation, I almost didn't put it on there, but I know it still seems to occupy some time by the city school board. Final instructional priorities I wanna share with you. Finally, it is almost over. I wanna thank Patty Chapman and Rod Spellman again for all they've done in our office of community activities. They've borne the brunt of renovation at the school level and I appreciate all the time and sacrifice they've made to make us a world-class facility. We have spent some additional renovation funds on additional testing space in the auxiliary gym. We'll now have it with, now, if you will, in a sense retrofitted, to accommodate up to 200 students for testing in SOLs. What this means, it means we don't have to knock teachers out of their classrooms to conduct SOL testing. It also means we can shrink the SOL testing calendar so that we don't have a testing schedule that is off the normal schedule for students. And that allows more time for instruction, less time for testing. We as a school are developing new smart board proficiency standards thanks to your funding again in renovation. Every classroom has a smart board that is complete. Now it's not enough just to have it. We're going to set the bar at both a three-tier system. Starting next year there will be basic intermediate and advanced proficiency standards and I will be sharing with the faculty in August that all teachers will have a basic proficiency rating at the end of the 2008-2009 school year. It's not just a fancy overhead, it is a new instructional tool to deliver achievement outcomes for students and we'll be taking the lead in the county and developing these proficiency standards. I'm also proud to tell you that we've taken renovation funds to develop a new publications lab for our yearbook, our newspaper, and our lit magazine. It's a state-of-the-art lab. We've really had next to nothing in there before. Now we've given them the tools to develop a superior publications program and we want to compete with the other schools including in our cluster that have gotten state and national recognition for their programs and we believe that is going to be coming to Fairfax High as well. We've also added a mobile lab for special ed students. Again, one of our areas of focus is our special ed students. They need more technology in their hands to access some of our curricular initiatives and for our academy and fine arts as you may know and I believe this Monday is presented to you we're doing more and more with academy certifications students are just taking academy courses they're having a certification test at the end we see that moving to more and more online opportunities and we wanted a mobile lab to allow them to get that work done. And as you have probably heard, we are working hand in hand with Superintendent Monday to develop a strategic technology plan and with our cluster assistance superintendent Mrs. Burke, a strategic technology plan to be developed that looks strategically at both replacement issues with technology and enhancements to technology over the next few years so that we spend wisely any remaining renovation dollars on instruction. Finally for awards and honors, I want you to know and I believe I shared a couple of months ago, Governor Kane announced that we were a VIP school of excellence based on a whole host of metrics that Governor Kane came up with in the Commonwealth of Virginia. We've already acknowledged that we have two state championships after 72 years, two and two months, Girl Swim and Dive and VHSL One Act Play. It's refreshing to see that the state championship came in both athletics and in fine arts across the board. Our regional science fair, which just finished a week or two ago, we were second place in Fairfax County, only to TJ in the number of first place winners in the science fair. We had a record number of local school science projects, over 500 kids participated in the science fair. We had a record number of local school science projects, over 500 kids participated in the science fair this year. We are raising the bar in science education at Fairfax High. Ten National Merit Commended students, one National Merit Semifinalists who was still waiting to hear for a finalist designation. We had our teacher, the year nominee Pam Mezzar Smith, a young special education teacher who's indicative of some of the new teachers who were bringing into Fairfax High who were just as passionate and just as dedicated as some of the veteran teachers that we've had been fortunate to have at Fairfax for many years. I remind you and I appreciate again the school board issuing the Proclamationclamation's honoring Rod Spellman and pay Chapman for their work with renovation. In fact, our support employee of the year nominee was Rod Spellman this year, and later this month we will know whether he is a finalist for that position. In conclusion, Fairfax High has a clear mission and vision. We have clearly articulated core values and beliefs and clear goals. As you can see from the executive summary, we are meeting or exceeding each of our goals for this year. We've developed new programs to increase student academic achievement and strengthen school climate, which go hand in hand, and we're continuing to strengthen professional learning communities with vertical teaming into pyramid with administrative vertical teaming in the pyramid and we're wanting to be a leader in professional learning communities not only within our school but also within the pyramid and within Fairfax County schools. It continues to be an honor to serve at Fairfax High School and to serve the city and I believe that Fairfax High School and to serve the city. And I believe that Fairfax High is a school continuing to raise the bar, continuing to increase its reputation academically, and that we will have more good news to report in the years to come before you for the State of the School report. So thank you very much for the opportunity to be here this evening. Thank you. Thank you. Great report. You've been a busy man this past year. We appreciate it. We've had a busy faculty and staff. They're the ones that do the work and get the results. And it's an real honor to be able to serve with them. We appreciate that. It was an excellent report. I'm going to ask board members if they have comments or questions. Not on that. Julie, you want to start? Second, what Mrs. Miller said, excellent. We really appreciate the thorough update. I had just a couple of small questions related. You mentioned the Abbott program and maybe think about the college partnership program and I was just wondering I know you of course are not responsible for that program but I know that support our students and can you tell us anything about how that's been utilized or? Yeah, college partnership is a program where we, let me talk about two programs actually. College partnership is one program where we've identified students give them an opportunity to have field trips and really increase their awareness about college opportunities. I must tell you that under the budget this year, college partnership has been one of the programs slated for review by the county. I know Dr. Manusco's led a team, and they've just come out with recommendations regarding that, and I really don't know what the final fine print is on that. But that's a good question. Let me just share one other program though. I think that's, I'm sorry. I think I asked about the wrong program. The program, Tessie and Christian, Tessie Wilson and Christian Bronmer. The championship program? The, the, the, the, the, the, the champion program. There was a champion program. Unfortunately funding for that was, was, was, was of our students with that program? Well, let me tell you what we have done. Another program I did not mention in this report is called the Pathways program. We're doing this with NOVA. One of the things that's true about Fairfax High, over 20% of our college-bound students, go to NOVA. Go to NOVA. And it really is a school that is a good springboard into four-year programs. We have a new program called Pathways. We have identified students who maybe haven't thought about the college track. Again, this really, if it's nicely with our Abbott program, and they don't have to be Abbott students, these are any students. And we have brought in NOVA personnel. There's a NOVA counselor. They get workshops. They get an opportunity to interact and prepare the application process for NOVA. And we have had tremendous results with that. I want to say we had over 60 students identified this year. We have even more. And we're getting feedback that we're using the resources more than almost any other school. So frankly, we've been asking if we could, if that's the case, if the schools, other schools don't need them, we'll be glad to take those resources and take them at Fairfax High. But what it does is it helps kids through the process whose parents maybe don't know the details. It's a through the process whose parents maybe don't know the details. It's a how to process. We're going to hold your hand and make sure you do the application, you know the credit requirements, you know about scholarship opportunities. The other big thing that NOVA has been doing and you may have read is they're signing articulation agreements with four year Virginia schools so that a student who goes to NOVA has two years of successful completion there with a minimum GPA and I can't recall that number off the top of my head. They have the ability to then matriculate into four year schools like women married, like UVA, like James Madison, like Virginia Tech and many other fine Virginia schools. So it's a program that just started a year ago. It's growing very rapidly and we're encouraging more and more. In fact, I think our demand for this coming year, 0809 actually outstrips our resources. So we're actually in some talks about getting more counseling support, more NOVA support to get these kids that hands on help they need. The college partnership I wish I really can send through Superintendent Monday and update in just the weeks ahead. It is an important piece, we'd like to keep it. We'd like to keep it and I frankly just have to wait and see what the county budget process comes up to. I had the titles of the programs mixed up but I just, it's great we're all just applauding that excellence and achievements in the school and I'm also especially pleased by the collaborative efforts, supplementing what's going on to help for youngsters be able to move forward from high school and into it being. Well, I think it belies a point. It can't just be said. Students are going to look for reality behind the rhetoric. And the reality is we created an R&R program. Students can go get extra help during the school day, not after, which was the paradigm before. We now have student services with clear college prep programs. We have curriculum like AVID where you can take college prep course as an elective instead of something else. So almost everywhere they turn, they're getting a college culture around them. And frankly, encouragement in the student course selection fair, what I didn't tell you about is some of the teachers will ask seniors. I don't know whether Christina was one of those seniors to be in the class. So you'd go to the AP calculus. And you'd have a senior to there to talk to students about, here's how the class is, here's what you need to do. And peer to peer sharing that you can do this too is almost more powerful than anything that a principal can say or a teacher can say. And by the way, I did not say, but we have a record number of kids in AB and BC calculus for next year, over 150 at Fairfax High School. So we're continuing to improve and extend the pipeline of students who are going to be able to Access the very highest courses at Fairfax high. So thank you for that question. Well, just I appreciate it and appreciate The openness to collaborating in the community the support also from your staff with Fairfax community coalition. You're welcome Upcoming night in the suburbs. Yes, I hosted at high school. I appreciate that too. We're very excited about that. And Mr. Singh, then I know has been working with the coalition for that. Just one last question for clarification. Perhaps there's another Mrs. Miller, or I'm not familiar with the Student Service Advisory Panel that you'd notice. You'd notice Miller who is director of the office. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I wanted to just clarify. Thank you. Okay. We said this before. I wanted to make sure there was that. I thought, well, you've been busy, Janice. Thank you very much. Yes. Miss Miller, my apologies. Mr. Griffith. I have no questions other than to thank you for the, literally, the great work you continue to do, sir. Welcome. Thank you. Mr. Retro. Thank you. Again, outstanding. Outstanding presentation and just on my toes listening. This is obviously not your father's high school anymore. And I think it just- Not even our high school. I was getting to that too. I barely recognize it. And the efforts that you are taking you and your staff are taking to bring education to the kids is phenomenal. And as you go through and you read this, the achievement, the programs, everything that you do, everything's based on the teachers being there and your staff being there and doing things more than just what they normally do in the classroom. And this is something that maybe the parents really don't understand that this is not the way they were taught. And that their students, their children are getting an education far different than what was presented to them. My thought, my concern, my question, I I guess would be as you go through the vertical, the PLC, the vertical training and education, the really training accodre of teachers and staff that are going to be in high demand elsewhere. Have we thought of retention for these folks? What can we do to help keep these folks here? The, I have a simple answer for that, to continue to fully fund the City of Fairfax School Board budget for Fairfax High School because that budget is professional and staff development and I'll be very candid. That is one thing I can offer that frankly other schools simply cannot match. And I talk directly to my faculty about opportunities that we have to do things that support instruction that are just simply harder to come by in an error of limited resources. So I applaud you for your continued support to be quite frank and you know what you have only supported me and all that I've asked for the last three years. Of course, you have accountability and expectations as anyone should. But that's sort of what I've also shared with the faculty will continue, I think, to get resources as long as we continue to show real results in student outcomes. And that's what people, I think that's what the residents of the city of Fairfax and others want from the school system, as long as the results can be shown. So my retention strategy, quite frankly, is to continue to put resources in front of teachers, give them the overall goal, and then let them as professionals work together to drive good instruction in the classroom. Okay. Do other quick comments as a veteran of the curriculum night, excellent, excellent program, highly recommended. Printal access through 24, 24, 7 for Blackboard. Again, outstanding program, you need to do everything you can to make sure the parents understand that they can get to it. It's easy and it's really beneficial in keeping in contact with the teachers for the, you know, for your students and everything like that. It's very good for that. It's used it to great effects so far. Well, this was year one of implementation and actually assistant superintendent, Miss Burke, shared with us metrics on that at our last cluster meeting. I think you'll see an even renewed focus on attempting to outreach even more for parents to be able to have access to that and be aware of how their son or daughter is doing in the classroom. Okay, and last comment, again, to make sure the whole community knows how well we're doing at Fairfax for the PVVT and some of the other events that take place in the school if we can find ways to get them on Channel 12. I'd love to be able to get that information out to the community. Great. Thank you. That's all I have. Thank you, Mr. RetrimMrs. Craig. Camerity for my seventh grader to just skip eighth grade. Yes. Start ninth next year. That was fantastic. Presentation. It was great. I just had one question. I didn't even know there was a tenth grade AP class. So when you said, and I see the percentage jump, when you get them to sign up, then how do you break them out? Are you looking at their last year's scores social studies to determine whether they take AP or pre AP. Right, that's new territory for this year that just took place. It's a combination of several things, conversations with the students, conversations with the teachers. We do look at grade performance. We are an open enrollment school, however. And that is something I say everywhere, both to the community and to the faculty. Any student who wants to have the opportunity to take any course has that opportunity at Fairfax High. So the doors are completely open for the student to take the most challenging courses in which we feel they can be and they feel they can be successful. One of the things that happens at 10th grade for some of the kids and it goes back to our focus on writing as an overall school goal, some of them to get a college level writing in 10th grade is a new challenge. And to be honest, if you've studied the AP World Studies too curriculum, it's a lot in 10th grade. So instead of trying to make that less of a barrier, we really decided and we worked with the county instructional services staff to develop a pre-AP course for the 10th grade. Now, again, that's a course that is a good opportunity if it expands the pie. You don't want to really take a select group of kids and then just split in half while I'll take the a few of the weaker. Some I will say for next year, some of the kids that may have been an AP, may be in the pre-AP, but rising ninth graders. But we've brought in even more overall students who are either going to taste, if you will, college prep material at the 10th grade. And if they can have success in 10th grade, 11th and 12th where there's this whole, you know, banquet of AP courses, it just gives them more and more confidence. So it is new and I'm convinced that we'll have great success with that. Well, no more as we develop the baseline. And next year I'll probably bring you a breakdown that tracks both pre-AP and AP for that course. That's all. Okay. Ms. Mendy, did you have comments? Well, I just have to say what a terrific presentation and one of the great pleasures of working in the city this year has been to meet with Dr. Brebrand regularly and really admire his leadership and the impact that it's having on the school. But I'd also like to point out that he truly is the leader in the pyramid. He has initiated much of the activity that has happened through the pyramid. He's made certain that this vertical teaming is happening in fact. And so I very much appreciate that. Of course, he has a reason to be very interested in the K-12 program since he entered two little ones in kindergarten for next year. He will be adding to our ADM, which we will talk about later. So he will have two little kindergarteners next year at Daniel's run. So clearly he wants to make certain that they get nothing with the best. And with him at the helm I can be certain that they get nothing with the best and with him at the helm. I can be certain that they will as well. Thank you. You are. Thank you. I just have a couple of quick things. First of all, Dr. Brabrand, thank you for initiating the ninth grade mentoring program. And I hope to see that. The flourishing expand as time goes on because nothing's more important, I think for youngsters than to feel really comfortable in school and to view it as a second home and that there are people in the building who care about them personally. There was an article in the newspaper over the past couple weeks about block scheduling and how there are some schools taking a second look and I didn't know whether you may not be prepared tonight. But do we see any change in block scheduling? We feel that it's working at Fairfax. What are your thoughts? That may be a discussion that would not have enough time to probably adequately answer. I have heard about that. We actually heard a presentation at an all-county principles meeting from Katie Heycock of the Education Trust discussing the issue of block scheduling versus the traditional seven period. You know, I'm a believer, frankly, because I came in as a teacher under seven period day and then I went to study block scheduling, came back, made recommendations to the faculty that I was a part of at the time, we switched to block scheduling. I think good teaching can take place under any structure and the focus needs to be more about good teaching strategies and how we divvy up the blocks of time. The only thing I would say is for some subjects like science where you want to do real labs, the 45, 50 minute period, didn't really allow for deeper engagement. And that is something that I also worry about. And while I certainly believe direct instruction is a good instructional strategy, there's so many different strategies to get with diverse learners. That the seven period day sort of, by the time the kids got in and settled and got out, you found yourself doing some, I found at least as a teacher relying on that strategy a bit more than some of the others that featured small group instruction, station learning, inquiry based methods where you really had a chance for kids to have breakout time and discussions with one another. So again, I'm not convinced that the way that we develop the periods either block or a straight seven period day is superior. I think it's more about teacher quality in the classroom to be the real driver. But I'm certainly will be working closely with Superintendent Monday and instructional services as they look at the issues on that. It was just an interesting article and I appreciate you sharing your thoughts. You mentioned that the Academy will be forming a partnership with CTE and CTE is... Career and Technical Education. Okay, great. And the other thing is that as our youngsters, as our students are getting acceptances to various colleges, could you ask Ms. Miller to provide, Mrs. Mundy some type of idea of acceptances and how our youngsters are very? Okay, I can do that. I don't have anything else. I don't know anyone, I don't think anyone else does either. Again we appreciate you coming this evening and giving us an excellent report. We appreciate your hard working, your leadership and we wish you continued success. It is good for our students and it's good for our community. Thank you very much. Thank you. See you next year. Bye-bye. Okay. We will move on to the action items approval of March 3rd. Their minutes. The minutes were provided as part of the package. Is there a motion? Mr. Griffith. I move the City Fairfax School Board approval of the minutes of March 3, 2008, Regular School Board meeting is printed and distributed. Is there a second? Second. Mr. Griff there a second? Second. Mr. Griffith, moved to Mr. Patrick's seconded. The City of Fairfax School Board approves the minutes of March 3, 2008. Greater school board meeting is printed and distributed. Are there any additions or corrections? They're being done all in favor, signify by saying aye. Aye. Chair votes aye. Members opposed? Members opposed the motion motion unanimous. Maintenance agreement for Fairfax High School and the Leader of Middle School Rooms, Superintendent Monday. I would ask your support in approving this, authorizing this maintenance agreement. As you know, we have a roof system that is different from the rest of Fairfax County. We believe it's a superior product, but it does require a certain level of maintenance. I've met with the people from Puff, they have given us good service in the past. This maintenance agreement would require them to provide at least two visits to each school each year for maintenance. And I believe it again would protect our investment and be money well spent. Okay questions for Superintendent Monday. They're being done. I'm motion, please. Madam Chair. Mrs. Craig. I move that the City of Fairfax School Board approve the agreement with Puff as printed and distributed for the maintenance of the roofs at Fairfax High School and Linear Middle School. Is there a second? Second. at Fairfax High School and Linear Middle School. Is there a second? Second. Moved by Ms. Raq, questions, comments. There being none. Mrs. Craig moves at the City of Fairfax School Board. Approved the agreement with Poffice, printed and distributed for the maintenance of the Rooms of Fairfax High School and Linear Middle School. Motion seconded by Mr. Griffith. If there are no comments, all in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Chair votes aye. Members opposed? No members opposed? The motion is unanimous. The next item is release of Fairfax High School and the linear middle school bond funds to the city of Fairfax. Mrs. Monday or is Mr. Ruskin? I'll cover this. Madam Chairman, I think it's been delegated to me. Okay. This is the motion to transfer the funds we have found to be surplus at Linear Middle School and at Fairfax High School to the city for their use in the budget cycle at this point. This would be an immediate transfer. Yet Fairfax High School, it's a quarter of a million dollars, it's $250,000. At linear middle school, it is $2 million. There still should be adequate funds in the projects in order to complete them. Okay. Thank you. Questions for Mr. Rest. This has been discussed previously at work session. If there are no questions or comments, the chair will entertain a motion for approval. Madam Chairman. This is night. I move that the City of Fairfax School Board authorize the immediate release to the City of Fairfax of School Bond Funds determined to be surplus from the following accounts. Fairfax High School Account No. 325, 682235, 580335, in the amount of $250,000. And Linear of Middle School Account No. 325, 682125, 580335, in the amount of $2 million. Thank you, Mrs. Knight. Is there a second? Second. Okay, Mr. Knight. Is there a second? Second. Okay, Mr. Bresch. This is Knight, moving Mr. Bresch and seconded that the school board authorized the immediate release of the city Fairfax school bond funds determined to be surplus from the following counts. Fairfax, I'm not going to read the account number in the amount of $250,000 while in near middle school in the amount of $2 million. Discussion? This night, did you have comments tonight? No, I'm pleased to be able to make this motion. Okay, thank you, Mr. Boucher. Bless you. Madam Chair, I think we've discussed this. Okay, other discussion? No, I'm from. Mr. Griffith. Madam Chairman, for the record, I will vote against this motion as my colleagues to consider doing the same. I would point out briefly and without a motion that we are not a department of the City of Fairfax. We are a separate constitutional organization elected by the voters with authorities and responsibilities under law and under the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Virginia. The funds that we achieve either through bonding or by appropriation by the governing body are transferred to us and are not returnable. They're no longer city funds, they're school board funds. Now, we are returned, we have no reserve. We are returning money that could have just as an example, could have been used to turf both the fields of under discussion. I chose not to do that. In my view we have half enough money to build a recital fall in the weight room that we talked about and bragged about prior to the referendum. We made that a great point of that vote and half and a half of the money to do that would put us in good stead a couple of years now when the economy turns and we get finishes. I would ask my colleague to do this. When you visit here probably from your restrictions next week and falls church and when you go to Williamsburg in November.