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Meeting Date:
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6/6/2024 - 6:30 PM
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Category:
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Old Business and Action Items
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Type:
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Action
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Subject:
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Resolution on National Gun Violence Awareness and Safe Gun Storage
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ACPS 2025 Strategic Plan Goal:
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Goal 5: Family and Community Engagement ACPS will ensure that all families and community members feel welcomed, respected, and valued.
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Funding Source or Fiscal Impact (where applicable)
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Agenda Item Summary:
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A core value of ACPS is to ensure a welcoming environment where students feel safe, valued and engaged in learning, and is committed to developing practices and programs that encourage common goals around safety, security and healthfulness.
Each year the School Board supports and highlights Gun Violence Awareness Day and Wear Orange Day held on the first Friday in June, and provides resources on its website about secure firearm safety, talking to your children about guns, and firearm suicide. Visit the ACPS Gun Safety Resources webpage at:
https://www.acps.k12.va.us/departments/student-services-equity/office-of-student-support-teams/gun-safety-resources
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Background:
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The Alexandria City School Board first adopted a Resolution Against Gun Violence on March 8, 2018 and has reaffirmed the resolution each year.
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Recommendation:
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The Superintendent recommends that the School Board adopt the Resolution on Gun Violence Awareness and Safe Gun Storage.
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Approvals:
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Recommended By:
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Signed By:
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Dr. Melanie Kay-Wyatt - Superintendent
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Vote Results:
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| Original Motion | | Member Abdel-Rahman Elnoubi Moved, Member Jacinta Greene seconded to approve the Original motion 'The Superintendent recommends that the School Board adopt the Resolution on Gun Violence Awareness and Safe Gun Storage.'. Upon a Roll-Call Vote being taken, the vote was: Aye: 9 Nay: 0. | | The motion Carried 9 - 0 | | | | | Meagan L. Alderton | Yes | | Jacinta Greene | Yes | | Dr. Michelle Rief | Yes | | Kelly Carmichael Booz | Yes | | Tammy Ignacio | Yes | | Christopher Harris | Yes | | Abdel-Rahman Elnoubi | Yes | | Dr. Ashley Simpson Baird | Yes | | Tim Beaty | Yes | |
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