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So good afternoon again. Welcome to our 4th and final check meeting of the 25th, 26th school year. Our meeting norms for our virtual setting are, of course, to remain muted unless you are speaking to the audience or have a question. Of course, be respectful of everyone who is presenting and speaking. If you have any questions or anything to share, please feel free to utilize the chat
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feature or the raise hand feature to be acknowledged. So today we have a couple
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of items to discuss on our agenda but before we go into that I do want to
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certainly express our sincerest condolences to the Adams Elementary family. I
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know you all may be aware by now that PAISD did lose a staff member. Yesterday
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evening Mr. Marlin Sanders was a music teacher at the Adams Elementary school. So we
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certainly extend our heartfelt condolences to the Adam's team, our students and staff who
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are all impacted by such a sudden and tragic loss.
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So today on our agenda, we are going to briefly discuss the unassigned epinephrine
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administration policy. I know it's been discussed a few times in the past. We do have assigned medical
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authorization from a local physician who is encouraging schools to move forward with one
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of the options available whether it's Neffi or Epipin and there's also another option available
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as well. So we'll discuss that and then there are some summer health and wellness supports that
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students will have available to them as we prepare to break for the summer.
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If you have any questions, please feel free to again use the chat or the raise hand
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feature to ask those.
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So for the unassigned FNF and administration policy, I did receive some information from
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a team member and along with the information received was a signed medical authorization
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from Dr. Russell Perry in Bowman and this was just to allow schools the
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opportunity to have the medicine in stock on campus in case of emergency. I know
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this is something that the team has discussed. I know some some felt the need
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for it because we just never know what will happen with students on the
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campus from day to day. So if there are any hesitations about it, if there are any I guess
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statements of support about it, please feel free to unmute. This will allow us some discussion
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before we present this to our superintendent and then to the board of trustees for the policy to
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be added. So are there any,
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let's see, I see a couple raised hands, I'll acknowledge
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nurse peacock first and then nurse when nurse peacock feel
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free to unmute nurse peacock.
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Now it's a law that we have to have the definition.
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Well, it's been a law that we had to have
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it, but we just did not have a doctor to work with us. Okay. Okay. Thank you. Nurse
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I see a really neat to have that on campus. I had an incident last week, a student of mine.
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She had ate somebody else's lunch and she didn't realize they had peanut butter in it.
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And she is highly allergic to peanut butter. So she came, I mean, she came him off as right away
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because her lips started to swell and she was tingling. And I asked her, I said, well, you didn't
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bring me an FBP and you didn't tell me, you know, I told her all that. And she said, well, I usually
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to carry with me, but just that day she did not have it
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because she stayed spending night her grandmother's house.
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So I told her, well I have to call her the ambulance
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because I cannot take the risk of you having
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to hear it happen and if I shop,
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and she said, well no, just call my grandmother's
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and she can bring me something so we call her parents,
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call her grandmother and they agree
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that she can bring her the medication
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because they just lived on the street so that's what happened.
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But it really scared me because I don't have
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anything available in my office
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to do, you know, to help her if it was truly a really bad
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of reaction. I mean, the student noticed right away
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as soon as she, you know, might take a bite out of it,
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she knew that peanut butter and she spit it out,
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but even with that, you know, she still had the little,
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you know, symptoms, you know, her lip was starting to swell
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and, you know, she was filling tingling her foe.
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So I was really, I mean, I was very hesitant to call,
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number one, you know, because I didn't want her to have that
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shocking idea of anything to help her with.
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But thank goodness her grandmother came
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to the rescue right away and should take the medication and if you help
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there are some signs. We could avoid that those accidents that we have on in
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our office in those emergencies. Okay and thank you for sharing for sharing that
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I'm sure you know some other members of the team may have had some similar
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instances with students and or staffs or even visitors you know we never know
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what will take place. So I always say it's better to be safe than sorry, have it and not need it then need it and not have it. So I am all I'm all for for for this and thank you nurse peacock for reminding us of the updated legislation regarding this as well.
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Now, I do know that there are some options that are available now, whereas before we
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rely mostly on the FEPN, but I do know that Neffi in schools is an option now, so are there
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any preferences in regards to which unassigned medication that we get
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any preferences?
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is your pick out
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probably the epinephrine to start off with first I would think before we do the
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nephrine and then the the artist was for nephrine and epinephrine. The order of let me pull it
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because it was just for epinephrine and that's the one we need to go with.
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I think it's for nasal too.
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Yeah, it's for the Navy. The Navy, the Navy nasal spray. Yeah. Yeah.
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The basic, the basic, the nasal spray. So you probably be more expensive too. I'm just saying.
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Well, it's for it's it's free schools. Yeah, there's a program where you can get two
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cartons for your school for for free. And then if you have to use it, you know, of course you have to report that it's been used and then they'll send you a
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replacements. It's kind of similar to the Narcane. I would like to be better, the nasal would be better.
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Is it easier to train? Yes, it is.
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Okay. So, these are all considerations that we will make when we bring this to Dr. Portery for the attention of the board of trustees. Of course, we can't implement a policy without,
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about, you know, without going through that process, but it is supported by legislation
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that we should have a problem at all, we're getting this, getting this in place.
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Any, anybody else on that?
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Any questions about that,
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okay?
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Well, I do want to thank Nurse Trent for sharing, Nurse Venus trended, did email me, and
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Senators give us some information about this.
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She also sent us over the signed authorization from Dr. Russell Perry, who is a local doctor
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here in Beaumont, and he signed the form for local school districts to use.
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So thank you for sharing that information to help us start this process.
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Of course, I'll update you all when we return in the fall with any information or any changes
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that have taken place over the summer regarding this policy.
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All righty, summer student health and wellness supports.
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I'm not sure if you all have seen yet the advertisement of mental health support
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and services that are available to our students even through the summer.
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You all may be familiar with T-Chat.
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it's Texas child access through telemedicine or telehealth, but it's basically an
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initiative, a mental health initiative with UTMB and students have access to
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free mental health support throughout the year. So that extends into the
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summer. I did ask for our media team to share that resource with parents. So I've
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seen it come across social media, I believe it's something that the team will be putting
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out periodically over the summer. Just in case we have some students who need some support
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and are not able to see their school counselor or their school social worker because we're on break.
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They can still receive the support that they need at home through this virtual telehealth program.
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and so they have licensed professional counselors,
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they have psychiatrists, psychologists,
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on staff, all through UCNB, all free of charge.
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They don't ask for any insurance information
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or anything like that.
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The only requirement is that the patient be a student
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in a school district that is a T-Chat partner.
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And so any student in PAISD would meet their criteria.
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So if you know you I know a lot of time students visit your clinics and and share things with you if you have students in mind who may benefit from this while we're on break when they're not able to access their school resources please please please
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Um, direct them if they're of age or, um, if age appropriate, if not direct their parent to our website to our social media or even to the school counselor before the end of school so that the referral can be made to teach at once we make the referral.
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then UTMB pretty much takes over, they make contact with the student's family directly where hands off, all we have to do is simply take the first step and make the referral.
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So that is something that's available free of charge to students through the summer.
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They'll do virtual appointments, all they would need is a cell phone or a computer to go to Zoom and they'll have a private session with their counselor or signage.
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our psychologists to support them through the summer.
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So please help students and parents to be reminded of that.
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Again, you may have some students that you already worked closely with,
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who may be able to utilize that support while we are on summer break.
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Okay.
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Are there any questions about tea chat?
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Okay. Just as a reminder, we are hosting our summer programs.
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So we do have summer school, which will actually start on Monday.
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We're in a very tight turnaround this year due to how our regular year calendar fail.
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So thank you to all those who haven't agreed to work the summer program.
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Again, if you come in contact with any students through summer school who may be.
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You know, able to utilize the teaching service bombing refer them as well.
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Summer school for those who just want to know will be from June 1st through the 25th.
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It is Monday through Thursday when we are going to be on certain campuses this year.
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So the campus is open for elementary, will be Adams, Travis and Washington.
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Middle school will be Jefferson and then high school will be of course Memorial High and Wilson
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in early college high school will also have programs at Wheatley as well as PAC, the alternative
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campus. So not all campuses will be open for summer programs but those that I just named will be
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we will have nurses on staff and every on every site to serve students throughout the summer.
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Nurse Cole, I see your hand.
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I know it's kind of late for this school year but I was wondering if
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there's any way since they're combining the school that they can put kind of a
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health form in with their registration instead of having nurses seeing students
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blinding with no information on those particular students. I know at this school
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I think we have over 250 students signed up for the summer program and our nurse
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Thomas from Wheatley is doing Jefferson and she's not familiar with any of those
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students. So for the future could we kind of get something where the parent has
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to feel that I own line? Yes ma'am this year as a part of the registration form
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for summer school we did include some some questions now I don't think it's the
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full emergency care form like in its entirety but we did add some more questions
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on the summer school registration form to get more updated contact information for the parents and like emergency
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Emergency, you know, information. So I don't think it was the full emergency care form, but the technology team did kind of add a little bit to that registration form to get more information about the students and their needs. And in addition to the year coming up, is there any way we can put this form as a part of the registration process for the upcoming year? Because I'm not getting a good return on the students bringing those forms
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Yes, ma'am. It should be the emergency care form should be a part of the registration process.
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I don't register anybody, so I don't get to actually see the form live.
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But nurse Owens has her in there, but I think she may have a little information about that.
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Nurse Cole, this year I had a registered my baby, so that's how I know.
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It is included emergency care form and the concern about including in registration. So next year on school starts
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We want to help need paper family or all included within a registered term for
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School in the fall. Okay, and we'll just need to know how to access that
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Yeah, the front attendance clerk
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They said they have to do a train and they'll show us directly like which button to click and you will just see it when you go in
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to do your assessment and charting in the eSchools.
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It should be easy for you to see,
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and I trust the dig up papers all day.
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Thank you very much.
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Thank you for your question.
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Mercier Bert.
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I wanted to say, if you have access to power school,
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you'll be able to see those registration forms.
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That's how I've seen them all, all during the year.
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They use everything they turn into the registrar
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is in power school and you can see.
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So if it's in that packet it should be on power school.
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Okay.
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Thank you.
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I'm not sure if everyone has access.
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Or not.
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That may vary by campus, but yes,
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man, I do know what you're what you're speaking of.
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Okay.
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Nurse, when?
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Yes, it was my next question.
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Do we have do we get access to that?
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Because I know I can't see anything from the.
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It may vary by campus, so I can't guarantee that everyone has access to what I had to.
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My registrar instructed me on the person I can't think I think her name may be big
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to her.
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I can't remember her name, but all I had to do was request to be an email and the lady
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gave me access to it and put a pass word in there and then I could see everything in
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power school.
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It was probably Ms. Vanessa.
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You just have to ask for it.
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What's it, Ms. Vanessa Martinez?
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Yes, sounds about this sounds like her. Yes, ma'am. Yeah, so that's something that you are interested in. I would suggest just, you know, reaching out, making sure that your campus leader is is aware of that and Miss Vanessa Martinez is our
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or a PMS coordinator for the district,
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and she does handle those systems and databases.
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Nurse Peacock,
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Nurse Peacock.
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Like, when we get ready to just bring the trust
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with the process at the beginning of the school year,
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like a lot of kids are diabetics and a lot of kids
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like that I get sometimes make me trade care
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or make me get stressed from the two-feetings.
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Some of those, if we can just write on the side
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or call and let me know because I can't look at everything when I first get here and I need to talk
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with those parents and make sure I got all the information. So I think if you got a child
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getting the two feeding or a diabetic, there's some way we need to let this school know when we
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get those choice because I have six, seven, and eight and I can just look at that all at one time.
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Yes, ma'am. I would also accept there are any, you know, severe cases or special cases on your
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campus that you let the perceiving nurse know, you know, if a student is
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transitioning off on campus to another. Even for summer school, like if you know
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that you have some students who are expected to attend summer school and they
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are going to be on another campus this summer, especially at that elementary
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level, even middle school. Please let those let the nurse know the summer school
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nurse know to be on the lookout or be alerted for certain students and certain circumstances.
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Nurse Peacock, you have another question or comment? I see your hand again.
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It's regarded another subject. Okay.
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Well, can I say it now? Yes ma'am, go ahead.
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Okay, about the choking device that's in the cafeteria.
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I want to know the process like once we use it are we going to get another one because you can use it over and over again.
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That will have to be followed up on with our custodial maintenance department.
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Those devices were ordered through Mr. Rito, our custodial supervisor.
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And so I'm not sure what the replacement will look like.
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I believe to my knowledge just one has been ordered so far for every campus.
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So that may be a discussion that that we need to have a going forward,
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regarding the maintenance of those devices and the replacement of those devices.
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In the education to the staff.
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Yes, in the education, the training.
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So that'll also be something that we discussed when we return.
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from summer break. I know we have our annual safety trainings that we do every year with
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our staff, so we will have to add if we move forward with the undersigned epinephrine and
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if you know with the live vac type of device that we have now the choking assistance device.
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So the trainings will look a little different in addition to what we already require
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We will likely have to add those to the list as well.
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Nurse Tran.
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Is there a policy in place for the choking device?
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I believe so.
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And that again, legislation requires us to have these things now.
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So that's something that we don't really have an option on.
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That's only if it's donated to us, isn't it?
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Or can we buy it out of our own budget?
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Yeah, they were purchased.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Did everyone get a life back machine?
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I didn't get one.
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Um, they started the delivery.
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I cannot say that every campus has received it yet.
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I'll have to follow up again with Mr. Rito and his team.
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They were the ones putting them out.
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If you have not received one,
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and it should be in the capital in the cafeteria area, I believe.
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So it may not actually make it to your office, but if you have not gotten one, I'm more than
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certain one is coming your way.
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Okay, thank you.
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You're welcome.
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Nurse Cole.
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One more thing.
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Does anyone know where our updated policies are, are they online for the nurses, because
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the book that's in my office, the policy is like from 2019.
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team. So do we have some updated policies that's online from like 2025-26?
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Our district policies? No, you have to have nursing policies for everything we do.
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I would have what's in the red manual as well,
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I'm not sure. But I know our district policies
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and everything are updated online.
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So that'll be something to look into as well.
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Where did you receive the last copy from?
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That was here.
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I've never received the last copy that was in my office
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when I moved over from the cake building.
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Got you.
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OK.
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OK.
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And is it that red manual?
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Like the handbook?
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Is that what you're talking about?
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No, I don't know if that are in there.
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No, it's a red book.
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that's nursing policy. It's not district policy. It's basically, um, politics for the nursing.
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Okay, nurse Trin.
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Nurse Chloe, you're probably thinking about the school nurse handbook that was
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given to us by nurse Lake, because each campus has that. And like you said, it is not up to date.
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Yeah, I think that that is what I'm talking about. It's read it.
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The one that I received from
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She's actually in a binder that's been printed out of the print shop because she's out of the red book, but I know for sure the queen has one when I left there.
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Okay, I think we're speaking about the same.
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The same document.
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That's what I have.
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So we may have to take a look at updating that.
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I
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have a red binder, the red, it's fine that you're talking about.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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The red binder is not our policy.
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The red binder we develop was guidelines.
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That there are only guidelines.
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The one that you're talking about late.
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And I think Regina, because Mrs. Hudson had got a group together.
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And we didn't do the policies.
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We did guidelines.
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So those are not the nursing policies and the state guidelines if you look at the book with the one I'm referring to the real one, it may not be the same like yours Dr. Jones.
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the policies that we do have are the like the policies related to student health and
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wellness are on our district website. Those are our waterproof policies.
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Okay. So that's and that's why I asked where we you know discussing those because those are
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constantly updated and are available on our website. If you go under school board you will see
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board of policies and there is a section that deals with student health and wellness.
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We we had tried one time to get a nursing policy and I had got a lot of people that
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region was using bottle, I mean, uh, uh, uh, uh, nursing, uh, policies, they changed
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some things to fit their needs. And they had sent me the whole policy book and I had
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gave it to Miss Hudson, I think, but nothing was ever done.
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All
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right. Was it a physical copy or like an email? It was email. Okay. You think you
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still have that? Just take a look for me and let me know.
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Nurse Tran and then we'll move into our community events.
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Nurse Tran. I believe Carrie Miners at Region 5 did
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share with us, Selves B's policy book. If I can find out, we'll definitely share with you Dr. Jones.
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Okay. Sounds good. Thank you.
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All
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righty, at this time we'll move into announcements and reminders. I do see that we have some of our community partners on today, so I certainly want to, um,
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can you all hear me?
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Oh wait, my computer is feeling like me today and I'm so sorry. I think I just had a little glitch.
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I do apologize. Everybody was frozen. I was like, can they hear me?
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Okay, I suddenly want to thank our community fighters who are on with us today.
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I do apologize if I interrupted anybody when I touched out.
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but I did see Mrs. Smith on the city of Coral Actors, so it's...
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Ms. Smith, please feel free to unmute and share any updates you may have with us.
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Wow. Good afternoon. Actually, we don't have any. Of course, we are just preparing for a summer youth health camp that we're going to have in July, July the 9th. And we will be sending out a communication to miss a lot. I think she still will be, you know, posting things out. It will be for children 8 to 11.
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And my four hours just coming to the health department and learning some public health information and stuff, but we'll be sending that out.
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That's about it and just other, you know, other than preparing for seeing children during the summer for their vaccinations.
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Yes, ma'am.
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Okay, and we'll also have Ms. Lot click something out like as we approach the end of June,
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we may start putting it out earlier though just to hopefully get a better response.
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Reminded parents that you know immunizations are part of the child's back to school routine
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and so they do need to get those done so I do have some graphics that she shares every
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year. So we'll ask her to start putting those out as well. If you all have any particular
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graphics in particular that you want us to put out or any special times, I know sometimes
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you guys may stay open a little later. So if there are any special times or special dates where you
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all are doing your clinics, let us know and we'll be sure to put that out. We definitely will share.
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Summers usually quiet and we, you know, we don't have a lot of parents coming in during the summer.
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and that's really the best time to come because the way
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this shorter, but we will definitely,
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and we will probably be in different,
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doing different community events too.
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I know that we will, whenever the back-to-school
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event that takes place at the high school,
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I'm sure we'll be there doing vaccinations,
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and there's a couple of other places,
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I think Willie Carter, but that he holds at,
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I think he said he was connecting with Linda's
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lighthouse this year, so, but whenever even he holds,
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we will be there doing immunizations as well.
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Awesome, awesome.
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And then I came across something that piqued my interest.
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It was a gardening initiative.
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Is that with the city of Khorator as well?
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Yes, ma'am.
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We have a community garden in the back of the health department.
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Excuse me.
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I mean, we have great.
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But there are classes.
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that are done on Wednesdays and so anytime you see anything on Facebook, please go free and of
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course it is open to the public. Thank you so much. All righty good afternoon Mr. Pearson with
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the YMCA. Hey hey look at I pulled over to a safe spot so I'm not driving and trying to talk
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because, you know, my hands move when I talk and it just be an awful, awful thing.
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It's, yeah, so it's summertime and just as Smith said that it slows down the health department, busy at the Y.
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So we've got summer day camp coming up.
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It is passport to fun as a theme this year.
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So the kids that we do are going to a different country every week and getting their passport stamped and learning about culture and sports and food and all that sort of fun stuff.
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So that's summer day camp, and then also we've got, you know, swimming lessons.
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This will be our fifth year with the City of New Orleans pool, plus the YMCA pool,
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and we have swimming lessons in the morning and the evening and the middle of the afternoon.
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So there's no excuse for somebody to not find time to learn how to swim.
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With that, I'd like to talk about a couple of different grants.
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We have a grant specifically for foster children, which allows them to have free swimming lessons.
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So if you've got foster kids at your campus, I will share with Dr. Jones the flyer that
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has the registration information for the foster kids, as well as just the general schedule
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for all those some lessons.
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And then we've got another one coming up that is a grant for adults to learn how to swim.
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We know that children whose parents don't know how to swim, don't go to swimming lessons.
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So we'd like to try and help break that cycle and that one we're still waiting on the funding
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We'll get the word out some more once we get that program up and running, but those are
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two big grants for the summer.
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And with all of our programs, whether it's summer day camp or some lessons or even after
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school, please encourage your families to come to the YMCA.
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Nobody has denied the ability to participate due to an inability to pay.
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We provide financial assistance so that everybody can participate.
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So we want to make sure that it's accessible and that children learn how to swim, adults learn
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out of swim and kids aren't sitting at home in front of the screens while their parents
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are working in the summertime.
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So those are kind of the big things that are happening.
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On June 6th, we will be at Port Nature's High School doing a bicycle rodeo, and that is
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free to anybody in the community.
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You can go to the Port Nature's Police Department website and sign up.
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You know, we're seeing more and more kids out on e-bikes, right?
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And on one hand they're just menaces to society out there cutting in out of cars on the other hand
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But come on folks. Let's be excited by the fact that we have children outside again
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And so we want to teach kids how to how to use the road safely
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So that everybody's protected the drivers the kids and guys are out riding their bikes like me
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So so that's June 6th that will be a Saturday
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today, the city of Groves has reached out and once the wine stated do a bike rodeo with
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them as well, so we may have something over close to report Arthur. And who knows, maybe
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eventually we'll do something in report Arthur, but we have invited a PNG first, so that's
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where we're starting. But we use the Texas safe cyclist curriculum and again, it's about
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teaching people how to be, how to use the roads correctly, how to be out there and have fun
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and be safe at the same time because you know here's my here's my stat for
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Port Arthur. We have 300 miles in 40 miles of paved road in Port Arthur and less
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than three are dedicated for bicycles.
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Hold that you're at for a second and most
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it seems like a lot of people don't know which side of the road they're supposed to
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ride on because I'm encountering people on night to have and they're going the
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wrong way all the time. And when you're on a bike you go with the traffic when you're
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summer day camp, swimming lessons, and bicycle safety, we want to cover it all, safe in the water, safe on the road.
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Alrighty, and again, thank you, Mr. Pearson. Again, I'm extending the same opportunity to you, you know, any graphics that you have for us, please, you know, feel free to share.
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there will axi media team to get those posted on social media and to our website.
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At one time they had a tab dedicated to the YMCA, I believe it was under our parents'
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page.
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Okay.
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There was a tab.
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I'll get those flyers too.
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As soon as they get back into the office, I actually had them sent and they're sitting
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on my computer right now and I got you got caught out of the office for the meeting.
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So on my way back, I'll get them to you.
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All righty, sounds good.
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Thank you so much.
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Thank you. Okay. Are there any questions as we prepare to wrap up our final meeting of this school year?
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Any questions, any, any additional comments? I know we have some things to look into in regard to the policy
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of making sure everyone has access to the information that has been approved and those policies that we do have in place
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regarding student health and wellness and I'll certainly take it to consideration the discussion
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from today regarding the undersigned epinephrine administration and then just as one final reminder,
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please if you have any students in mind who may be fine benefit in the TCHAT service this summer,
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please do not hesitate to refer them before the school year is out. If there is nothing else,
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I would like to just again thank you all for your time and your participation this
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school year. Of course as a council it is our objective to discuss those topics
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that are in our students' best interests when we you know consider their
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health and their safety and their wellness. So thank you for dedicating your time to
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this council for participating, joining the virtual meetings and engaging in the
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discussion as we you know try to make the best decisions for our students.
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So thank you, Mr. Mayor, and thank you all for your support in helping us to do that.
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So without further ado, I will say we are adjourned if there's nothing else.
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It is 357.
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I hope you all have a wonderful summer.
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Be safe.
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Get some rest.
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We'll deserve rest and enjoy your break sometime with your families and have some fun in the
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sun.
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You too.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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That made me have a good one.