[0:01] I'd like to call to order the um let me figure out what today's date is November 19th 2024 business meeting of ISD 622 [0:10] I'd like to call our meeting to order first um up is uh the Pledge of [0:20] Allegiance flag of the United States of America and to the Republic which it [0:27] stands one nation under God indivisible with liy [0:37] andice all right first up we just have to get um an approval of the agenda [0:42] could I get a motion and a second to approve the agenda so move moved by [0:47] Livingston second second by Martins um so that is approved do I have [0:54] to do we have to discuss I always forget okay any discussion [1:00] okay um all in favor say I and all opposed say nay all right um the agenda [1:07] is approved um next up is our public comment so this is an opportunity for [1:13] the public to comment on items speaker shall register by completing the public [1:18] comment signup sheet they'll State their name they and they'll have between um [1:23] two and four minutes depending on the number of speakers to speak on a topic the public comment section of the [1:29] meeting meeting shall last no longer than 30 minutes um we do have some speakers tonight so um and I will call [1:37] it based on how it's listed here um and each um speaker will have may you said [1:44] three minutes okay all right so uh first up is Jenny [1:52] Cook okay yeah um and just a reminder um so [1:59] we don't follow up we don't respond right away but we'll follow up after the meeting so okay um so I'm Jenny Cook but [2:07] I'm actually reading a statement from Deborah Toronto who is a par educator in [2:13] the prek program at Richardson I'm a parah uh but I'm at Justice alen page so [2:19] Deborah says I have been a par professional in the district for 18 years this year it [2:26] saddens me that after all the years of service through covid and Staffing shortages that the district would change [2:32] how we get our time off my sick time is crucial to me as I have two small children I don't get to use my time for [2:40] me I use it for my family the district making us acrw time each pay period is [2:46] making it so that I have to choose between work or my kids being paid or going unpaid and wondering if I can [2:52] truly afford it I ask for you to please give us our time upfront so that we can [2:58] afford to be home with sick kids if we need to and for us to not have to come to work sick and for your staff to know [3:04] that you do care about us and the work that we do thank [3:11] you thank you um next up I have Cindy [3:26] Swain Schoolboard superintendent and cabinet good [3:33] evening so remembering back to when Christine first came on as [3:39] superintendent one of the very first things that she did was take time off to [3:45] go to her daughter's 15th birthday celebration her motto was family [3:53] first after more than 23 years of frontloading our sick time suddenly HR [4:00] decided not to frontload Our Sick time now Paras cannot…