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the Trustees heard a housing report given by Donnie Hillerman, Housing Director, Salem Croy and Demetrius Houston, Residence Life Coordinators, and several student Residence Assistants. In the report, updates were provided, current events and happenings were discussed, and also, ways the students see on-campus life helping them with life skills and development.

In other communication reports, Janet Gott, Head Start Director, discussed a possible Head Start fourday week, Early Head Start efforts, a sick leave policy, and classroom reviews. Dr. Tristan Londre, Vice Pres- ident of Academic Affairs briefed the Trustees on the start of the spring semester, furniture and equipment orders for the Savannah Campus, a recent faculty orientation at Savannah, current faculty openings, possible grant opportunities, and Dr. Mitch Holder provided information on a recent Upward Bound Open House, fall course scheduling, and an upcoming Health Science Day.

Vice President of Student Affairs, Dr. Kristen Alley echoed Savannah efforts and progress and provided praise to her employees in Student Affairs for their work with students and their departments. CIO Jennifer Triplett provided an update on Main Campus upgrades, Savannah Cam- pus progress for phase 1, a training session for faculty, and Savannah’s telephony system implementation. Brent Stevens provided Workforce Development Board updates and discussed the merger with the Northwest and Northeast board, a partnership with RootEd, work with adult education literature program and job center traffic.

In business items, Trustees approved a revised Head Start Sick Leave Policy and Head Start Incentive Pay proposal. They also approved several purchases including testing and accreditation supplies for nursing students, equipment for the science lab at Savannah Campus, simulation equipment for the nursing lab at Savannah

Campus, cybersecurity software and services, and CPA auditing services for WDB. In personnel, Abigial Brixey was approved as a Head Start cook at Brookfield and a new job description and position for Health Specialist Assistant for Head Start was also approved. For NCMC employment, Trustees approved the hire of Seth Duvall as Site Technical Support Engineer at the Savannah Campus, Robert Brunker as an adjunct instructor, and Cheyenne Bannan as a clinical instructor.

The next regular meeting of the NCMC Board of Trustees will be held on February 28, 2023 at 5:30 p.m. in the Frey Administrative Center.

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• From Front Page • family upon walking into the doors, a family that will be sure to last a life time. I highly recommend this opportunity to anyone.”

Cole Soptic, Grundy County

“Our two-day retreat was an amazing experience that I’d recommend to anyone no matter their employment role. I have been able to apply what I’ve learned to my career and my personal life.”

Becky Vandevender, Grundy County

A big thank you to our Platinum Level Sponsor BTC Bank. BTC Bank is a community bank founded in 1919 that’s based in Bethany. Since their founding, they've spread to 22 locations across Missouri and Iowa.

BTC Bank is proud to call the following communities home: Albany, Beaman, Boonville, Buffalo, Cameron, Carrollton, Chillicothe, Columbia, Fayette, Gallatin, Gilman City, Hardin, Jamesport, Maysville, Oregon, Osborn, Pattonsburg, Salisbury, Trenton, and Lamoni (IA). BTC Bank is agriculturally minded, service oriented and driven to strengthen the communities it serves. BTC safeguards the assets of its customers by creating a strong financial base through sound loans, investments and quality service.

NCMC To Host Blood Drive Soup’s On!

North Central Missouri College Student Senate will sponsor a blood drive on Wednesday, February 8 from 10:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in the Sugg Room of the Ketcham Community Center at 1322 Mable Street in Trenton. The drive will benefit the Community Blood Center (CBC). The CBC is the primary provider of blood and blood components to 70 plus hospitals and medical centers in the Greater Kansas City region.

“When individuals normally think of essential community services, they often think about fire and police departments,” said

Patsy Shipley, CBC executive director. “Community Blood Center and its donors are very similar to police officers and fire fighters. We make up a lifesaving team that is here to meet the needs of local patients. Our volunteer donors roll up their sleeves and do so without hesitation.”

In the Greater Kansas City area, one in three people will need blood at some point in their life and nearly one in seven hospital admissions requires a blood transfusion. This means, nearly 600 donations are needed every day to meet hospital demand, and with a limited shelf life, supplies must be continually replenished. In just 60 minutes, you can donate one pint of blood and Save a Life, Right Here, Right Now in your own community.

Anyone wishing to donate is encouraged to make an appointment by visiting savealifenow.org/group and using Group Code: FU. For additional details, contact Betty Tinker at (816) 351-9308. For more information regarding CBC donor centers and mobile blood drives or how to set up your own drive, visit www.savealifenow.org or call 1-877-468-6844.

To the Great Constituents of District 2, “If you always support the correct principles then you will never get the wrong results!”- Andrew Johnson, 17th President of the United States

On Monday, I was told two of my bills were going to be heard in committee: 1) HB 498 which prevents minors from attending sexually oriented performances and 2) HB 463, which bans biological sex transition proce- dures and puberty blockers for minors. With less than 24 hours to prepare, I and three other reps worked together to present bills to the General Laws Committee because we believe transition surgeries and puberty blockers given to minors are life altering and irreversible. The hearing went on from 4:30 PM to about 2:00 AM. Now we wait for the general laws committee to vote our bills out to the next committee. I will never stop fighting for the protection of children. During the agriculture policy committee hearing on Thursday, my banning foreign landownership (HB 499) was heard along with three similar bills. I’m proud to continue this fight and I’m excited to work with my colleagues to protect our land. To end the week, I signed onto a letter to urge Attorney General Andrew Bailey to intervene with all legal tools at his discretion to reverse this attempt by the federal government to deprive Missourians of their constitutional rights, specifically their right to keep and bear arms without government infringement. The ATF is OUT of control. Time to reign them in.

It's a pleasure to serve and as always if you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to my office at (573) 751-4285 or email me at Mazzie.Boyd@house.mo.go v.