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DAY ONE, NOVEMBER 13, 2022 ORDER.
WE HAVE A SECOND DAY TOMORROW.
THIS MEETING IS BEING CONDUCTED VIA REMOTE VIDEO CONFERENCING AND IS BEING LIVE STREAM BY THE COUNTY CHANNEL REQUEST FOR PUBLIC COMMENTS.
PARTICIPATION WILL BE ACCEPTED BETWEEN 12 NOON AND 12:30 PM.
BY SENDING AN EMAIL WITH YOUR NAME, PHONE NUMBER, AND TALK TO ROBIN DOC CHRISTIAN AREA YOU FOR.K12.SC.US.
YOU RECEIVE A PHONE CALL DURING A COUPLE OF COMMENTS WHERE YOU'LL BE ABLE TO SPEAK TO THE REST OF THE BOARD FOR A MAXIMUM OF THREE MINUTES ON ISSUES WITHIN THE BOARD'S DOMAIN.
THE FORUM WILL BE LIMITED TO 30 MINUTES AND CAN WE HAVE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE AGENDA, CHERYL? OKAY.
MOTION TO APPROVE THE AGENDA WAS MADE BY MR. EARL CAMPBELL A SECOND BY, UM, MR. DICK GUYER, ANY DISCUSSION VOTING IS NOW OPEN.
OH, MR. ORISHA JUST CRUSHED HIM FOR THE OFFICE YEARS.
UM, MAYBE WILLIAM HAS MENTIONED SOMETHING ABOUT THIS, BUT A WHILE BACK, I THINK, UM, WE HAD ROBINS ANNUAL EVALUATION COMING UP AND IT WAS GOING TO BE, I THINK SOMETHING PERTAINING TO IT.
AM I JUST WONDERED? UM, HAVE WE MISSED AN OPPORTUNITY HERE TODAY AND BY NOT PUTTING IT ON? OR WHAT, WHERE ARE WE ON THE, ON THE SCHEDULE WITH PAT? I GUESS I JUST WOULD LIKE TO KNOW.
I'M NOT SURE, HONESTLY, I DON'T REMEMBER OFF HAND WHAT THE REQUEST WAS.
WE, IT WAS NOT MENTIONED AT ALL IN AGENDA SETTING FOR THIS MEETING.
MR. JOHN DALLY HERE, JOHN DOWLING.
HOW ARE YOU VOTING MR. NELSON? HOW ARE YOU VOTING? YES, THE MOTION CARRIES 10 ZERO ZERO ONE VOTE NOT CAST.
AND THAT'S MR. WILLIAMS SMITH.
WE WILL NOW STAND FOR THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE.
WE WILL HAVE A MOMENT OF SILENCE.
THE MEDIA HAS BEEN PROPERLY NOTIFIED.
PUBLIC COMMENTS, MS. CUSHION, BARRY, YOU DON'T HAVE ANY, OKAY.
THERE ARE NO PUBLIC COMMENTS FOR TODAY'S MEETING.
CHAIR ON THE AGENDA IS THE EFFICIENCY STUDY UPDATE.
AND SO TODAY I'D LIKE TO PROVIDE YOU WITH THIS UPDATE ON, ON
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WHERE WE ARE ON THE EFFICIENCY STUDY.THE STUDY CONDUCTED BY MGT CONSULTING GROUP DOES IDENTIFY WHICH IDENTIFIED SOME IMPORTANT ISSUES FOR OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT TO CONSIDER.
IT IS IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT SOME OF THE IDENTIFIED RECOMMENDATIONS HAVE BEEN IMPLEMENTED.
SOME ARE IN PROGRESS AND SOME HAVE NOT BEEN RESOLVED.
AS OF YET, AS I MOVE THROUGH THE PRESENTATIONS TODAY, YOU WILL SEE A COLOR CODING SCHEME USED IN THE SLIDES, GREEN ITEMS. WE'VE COMPLETED YELLOW ITEMS AND PROGRESS.
RED ITEMS NOT RESOLVED AS OF YET IMPLEMENTATION OF MANY OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS WOULD REQUIRE SOMETIMES A REORGANIZATION.
AND I DID NOT THINK IT WAS PRUDENT TO LAUNCH A REORGANIZATION IN THE MIDST OF A PANDEMIC.
THEREFORE I OPPOSITELY STRATEGICALLY IMPLEMENT SOME COMPONENTS, BEGIN PREPARING TO IMPLEMENT OTHERS AND FINALLY ABLE SOME OF THEM UNTIL WE HAVE A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT OUR BUDGET AND FINANCIAL IMPACT WILL BE.
FIRST-LINE CRITICAL ISSUES TO CONSIDER THE STUDY IDENTIFIED CONSISTENCY IN DISTRICT PRACTICES AND SPAN OF CONTROL DISTRICT ALIGNMENT AS SOME KEY ISSUES TO RESOLVE.
SOME OF THE KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM THE STUDY ARE AS FOLLOWS.
SEVERAL OF THE INEFFICIENCY WITHIN THE SYSTEM ARE DUE TO THE ELIMINATION OF STUDENT SERVICES DEPARTMENT.
THIS CAUSED MANY STUDENT SERVICES TYPE FUNCTIONS TO BE DIVIDED AMONG DIFFERENT DIVISIONS.
THIS MEANT THAT MANY OF THOSE FUNCTIONS WENT TO DIVISIONS THAT DID NOT HAVE A SIMILAR SCOPE OF WORK.
THE PRINCIPAL TO PRINCIPAL SUPERVISOR RATIO WAS TOO HIGH TO EFFECTIVELY MANAGE.
THIS HAS LED TO INCONSISTENCIES ACROSS SCHOOLS OVER TIME.
YOU FOR COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT, AS THE LOWEST PERCENT OF FUNDING FOR LEADERSHIP IN THE STATE WAS IDENTIFIED.
THE DISTRICT HAS INCREASED RETENTION RATE FOR SCHOOL LEVEL STAFF.
OVER THE LAST THREE YEARS, WE'VE SEEN AN INCREASE IN RETENTION.
FINALLY, THE DISTRICT OFFICE IS UNDERSTAFFED.
MANY ARE MANAGING MULTIPLE JOB FUNCTIONS, SOME OF WHICH DO NOT ALIGN WITH THE SCOPE OF THEIR RESPECTIVE DIVISION, WHERE TO TURN TO HIGHLIGHTS THE IMPACT OF ELIMINATING STUDENT SERVICES DIVISION EFFORTS TO SAVE DOLLARS.
ELIMINATION LED TO ELIMINATION OF DEPARTMENTS, REDISTRIBUTION OF FUNCTIONS AND SERVICES HAD TO BE DONE, WHICH LED TO AN ALIGNED EFFORT AND INEFFICIENCY OF FUNCTIONS AND SUPPORT THIS PAST YEAR, WE BUILT A NEW STRATEGIC PLAN FOR THE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
THAT STRATEGIC PLAN, UH, IS CENTERING OUR WORK.
THOSE ARE THE THINGS THAT WE ASPIRE TO, TO IMPROVE STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT POINTS OUT.
THIS SLIDE POINTS OUT THAT FOCUSING OUR STRATEGIC PLAN, FOCUSING ON OUR STRATEGIC PLAN AS OUR NORTH STAR, WE CAN ALIGN OUR ARROWS AND BECOME MORE EFFICIENT.
NEXT SLIDE, YOU SEE KEY RECOMMENDATION ENHANCING STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP STUDENT SUCCESS.
ONE OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS WAS HIRING AN ELEMENTARY AND A SECONDARY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR ADDING TIME FOR SUPERVISION AND COACHING AND CREATING A STUDENT SUCCESS DIRECTOR.
ANOTHER ONE IS ALIGNING PRIMARY FUNCTIONS MOVING FOR EXAMPLE, ATHLETICS OUT OF OPERATIONS.
AND PERHAPS THE STUDENT SUCCESS DEPARTMENT MOVED STUDENT HEARINGS OUT OF FINANCE AND OVER TO THE STUDENT SUCCESS DEPARTMENT, SHIFTING FOYER TO THE COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT, IMPROVING SUPPORT ROLES FOR SCHOOLS, LOOKING AT OUR BILINGUAL SUPPORT, ENHANCING OUR SUPPORT OF CORE AREAS LIKE READING AND MATH AND DEVELOP ASSESSMENT SUPPORT FOR PROGRESS MONITORING.
WE DESIGNING ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE AND CHARTS AND UTILIZING THE HR DEPARTMENT TO MANAGE ALL AND MAINTAIN ALL ORGANIZATIONAL CHARTS IN ORDER TO HAVE CONSISTENCY AMONG THEM AND TO CREATE A PROCESS FOR MAINTAINING THOSE CHARTS.
OKAY, AND HAS STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP FOR STUDENT SUCCESS.
THE HIRING OF A DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT AND CHIEF OF SCHOOLS WAS AN IMPORTANT COMPONENT.
A KEY RECOMMENDATION WAS TO LOWER THE PRINCIPAL TO PRINCIPAL SUPERVISOR RATIO.
AND AS A RESULT, THEY RECOMMENDED THAT WE HIRE AN ELEMENTARY AND A SECONDARY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOCUSING ON SUPERVISION AND COACHING OF PRINCIPALS AND THEIR LEADERSHIP TEAMS THAT WOULD ADDRESS ONE OF THOSE KEY COMPONENTS OF, UH, OF THE STUDY TO INCREASE SUPERVISION, SUPPORT AND MENTORING, UH, AS WELL.
THEIR WORK WILL ALSO BE KEY TO ELIMINATING CONSISTENCIES THAT CAN EXIST ACROSS SCHOOLS, WHICH WAS ANOTHER
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COMPONENT IDENTIFIED, UH, BY THE EFFICIENCY STUDY AS WELL.THIS IS CODED IN YELLOW BECAUSE WE WILL BE HIRING THESE POSITIONS THIS YEAR.
I WOULD LOVE TO FIND A CANDIDATES FROM THIS POSITION FROM WITHIN OUR SYSTEM, FROM THE PRINCIPAL RANKS, I'VE BEEN ABLE TO OBTAIN A WELL BEFORE I GO THERE FROM THE PRINCIPAL RANKS.
ONE OF THE REASONS I HAVE NOT HIRED THOSE POSITIONS YET IS ALSO DUE TO THE PANDEMIC BECAUSE STRATEGICALLY I BELIEVE THAT AS WE MOVE TO THE COMPLEX PROCESS OF OPENING SCHOOLS IN THE MIDST OF A PANDEMIC, I WANTED MY MOST VETERAN SCHOOL-BASED LEADERS LEADING THOSE SCHOOLS DURING THOSE TIMES.
AND SO IN ORDER TO, UH, MAKE SURE THAT THEY WERE THERE, I OPTED TO WAIT IN THE HIRING PROCESS FOR THAT, BUT WE WILL, WE WILL BE MOVING FORWARD WITH THAT, UH, VERY EARLY INTO THE NEXT SEMESTER, UH, INTO THE NEXT YEAR.
SO EARLY IN JANUARY SO THAT WE CAN, WE CAN, THEN ONCE WE GET SCHOOLS OPEN, WE CAN THEN, UH, SHIFT THAT ATTENTION TO THAT WORK.
I WANT TO SHARE WITH YOU THAT I HAVE BEEN ABLE TO OBTAIN AN OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO ENGAGE WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA DARDEN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS AND THE CURRY SCHOOL OF EDUCATION UVA'S PARTNERSHIP FOR LEADERSHIP IN EDUCATION.
ALSO KNOWN AS PLE IS A JOINT VENTURE BETWEEN THE DARDEN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS.
CURRENTLY RANKED AS THE FIFTH BEST SCHOOL OF BUSINESS IN THE COUNTRY AND THE CURRY SCHOOL OF EDUCATION.
THEY COMBINE THE BEST RESEARCH AND PRACTICES FROM EDUCATION AND BUSINESS TO SUPPORT DISTRICTS, TO IMPROVE THEIR SYSTEMS SO THAT THEY CAN IN TURN HELP TO ACCELERATE SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT.
I AM FAMILIAR WITH UVA AND THE WORK OF PLE FROM THEIR WORK IN PALM BEACH COUNTY.
I HAVE EXPERIENCED WHAT THEY HAVE DONE.
I HAVE EXPERIENCED THE IMPACT OF THEIR WORK.
IN FACT, THEY WORK WITH DISTRICTS ALL ACROSS THE COUNTRY, BOTH BIG AND SMALL, AND HAVE BEEN WORKING WITH OUR COLLEAGUES IN THE NORTH AT CHARLESTON COUNTY SCHOOLS FOR THE PAST TWO YEARS, PROCEDURALLY UVA WOULD ASSIGN OUR DISTRICT, THE TEAM TO EVALUATE THE STRUCTURES AND PRACTICES THAT WE CURRENTLY HAVEN'T PLACED AND MAKE STRATEGIC RECOMMENDATIONS FOR IMPROVEMENT.
THIS IS AN ACADEMIC FOCUS THAT IS A FOCUS ON IMPROVING STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT.
THEIR SUPPORT TEAM CURRENTLY INCLUDES WELL-RESPECTED PRACTITIONERS.
ONE OF WHICH WE SPOKE ABOUT EARLIER, PAUL BAMBRICK SANTOYO WHO I HAVE DEEP PROFESSIONAL RESPECT FOR THE LEADERSHIP 2.0 BOOK THAT WAS THE STUDY.
A BOOK STUDY THAT HAD BEEN TAKING PLACE IS A FOUNDATIONAL INFORMATION PIECE THAT IS REALLY IMPORTANT TO THIS WORK.
THAT LIES AHEAD IN TERMS OF IMPROVING STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT AND IN TERMS OF IMPROVING, UH, THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP IN CLOSING, UH, WE DON'T, WE WOULD ALSO IDENTIFY SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL LEADERS THAT WE WOULD TAKE THROUGH THIS PROGRAM WHO WOULD WORK WITH THEIR FACULTY TO ACHIEVE THE GOALS THAT WE SET FOR OUR SCHOOLS.
THIS WORK WITH PLE WOULD REPRESENT A MAJOR EFFORT TO ELIMINATE ANY PRIORITY SCHOOLS FROM OUR PORTFOLIO AND CLOSE THE LONGSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT GAP.
IN OUR DISTRICT, I WILL BE BRINGING THE UBA PARTNERSHIP FOR LEADERS IN EDUCATION TOPIC TO THE ACADEMIC COMMITTEE IN THE NEAR FUTURE FOR A BRIEFING HIRING A STUDENT SUCCESS OFFICER IS IN RED SINCE WE DON'T HAVE A BUDGET AND ARE UNABLE TO IDENTIFY THE FUNDING AT THIS TIME.
HOWEVER, WE ARE INTERNALLY THINKING ABOUT HOW WE WILL REORGANIZE OR HOW WE WILL ORGANIZE THIS DEPARTMENT IN ORDER TO FACILITATE THE ALIGNMENT OF ALL THE STUDENT SERVICES, UH, UH, FUNCTIONS OF THE SYSTEM, AS WELL AS BE ABLE TO MORE FUNCTIONALLY ALIGNED THE OTHER FA TH THE OTHER ASPECTS OF OUR DIFFERENT DIVISIONS AND DEPARTMENTS, SO THAT WE DON'T HAVE A FUNCTION SITTING IN THERE THAT DON'T NECESSARILY ALIGN WITH THEIR SCOPE OF WORK TO IMPROVE.
UH, THE HIRING OF A DISTRICT ATHLETIC DIRECTOR WAS ANOTHER RECOMMENDATION AND WE WE'RE ABLE TO DO SO.
THIS WILL ASSIST WITH CONSISTENCY ACROSS ATHLETIC DEPARTMENTS IN THE SCHOOL DISTRICT WOULD ALSO FALL UNDER THE STUDENT SUCCESS, ALIGNING PRIMARY FUNCTIONS.
THE DEVELOPMENT OF A STUDENT SUCCESS DEPARTMENT WITHIN THE ISD DIVISION WILL ALLOW US TO BRING THE FOLLOWING FUNCTION UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF THE STUDENT SUCCESS OFFICE.
THE HEARING OFFICER HAS BEEN HIRED HAS BEEN, UH, SHIFTED OUT OF THE FINANCE DEPARTMENT AND THEIR WORK LIVES RIGHT NOW WITHIN ISD, WHICH IS WHERE A STUDENT SUCCESS DEPARTMENT WOULD FALL
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ATHLETICS, VMS, SOCIAL, UH, SOCIAL WORKERS AND OUTSIDE COUNSELING AGENCIES TO NAME A FEW WOULD FALL UNDER THE STUDENT SUCCESS DEPARTMENT.AS I MENTIONED, THE HEARING OFFICER'S IN GREEN BECAUSE PREVIOUSLY THE HEARING OFFICER WAS IN THE FINANCE DEPARTMENT AND WE HAD MOVED THAT WITHIN THE ISP AT THE MOMENT, FOYA WILL MOVE TO THE COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT BECAUSE CURRENTLY IT IS UNDER RISK MANAGEMENT.
FINALLY, I PLANNED TO MAKE TECHNOLOGY, A STANDALONE DEPARTMENT THAT WILL REPORT TO THE DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT SO THAT WE WOULD HAVE SCHOOLS, ISD AND TECHNOLOGY REPORTING DIRECTLY TO THE SUPERINTENDENT.
OF COURSE, OF THIS PAST YEAR HAS DEMONSTRATED THE NEED FOR THAT FOCUSED ATTENTION WITHIN TECHNOLOGY AND OUR SYSTEM.
IS IT CURRENTLY IN YELLOW BECAUSE, UH, TECHNOLOGY HAS PLAYED A CRITICAL ROLE IN THE START OF THE SCHOOL YEAR DURING THE PANDEMIC.
AND AGAIN, I DIDN'T THINK IT WAS PRUDENT OR A GOOD IDEA TO SHIFT THE REPORTING STRUCTURE AT THAT TIME, BUT IT WILL HAPPEN AROUND MID JANUARY, IMPROVING STUDENT SUPPORT ROLES.
WE HAVE BILINGUAL SUPPORT AND AN ASSESSMENT SUPPORT FOR PROGRESS MONITORING WITH RESPECT TO ASSESSMENT SUPPORT FOR PROGRESS MONITORING.
IT IS ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I'VE SPOKEN ABOUT, UH, IN THE PAST, AS A NECESSARY COMPONENT.
IT IS ALSO, UH, ONE OF THE THINGS IDENTIFIED AS A HIGH IMPACT COMPONENT BY, UH, UVA, AS WELL AS, UM, THE WORK OF PAUL MEMBER CENTOS HIMSELF, BECAUSE IT PROVIDES THAT FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT DATA TO MONITOR WHETHER THE INSTRUCTION THAT HAS BEEN TAKING PLACE, UH, IS BEING MASTERED BY STUDENTS ARE BEING LEARNED BY STUDENTS.
AND THEN BASED ON THAT, YOU CAN MAKE DATA-DRIVEN DECISIONS ABOUT INSTRUCTION ON A REGULAR BASIS.
UM, I HAVE, UH, BEEN, UH, LOOKING AT, AT THAT PIECE FOR SOME TIME, IT WAS GOING TO BE A COMPONENT OF THE K-12, BUT, UH, SINCE, SINCE THAT IS NO LONGER, UH, PART VOTE WHERE WE'RE HEADED AND I HAVE LOOKED AT, UH, AND, AND, AND WE WILL BE UTILIZING PERFORMANCE MATTERS, UH, IN ORDER TO GUIDE THAT WORK.
AND ALONG THAT THOSE LINES COMES A COUPLE OF ASSESSMENT ITEM BANKS ON FORMATIVE ASSESSMENTS, TIED TO STATE STANDARDS THAT WILL HELP US, UH, IMPROVE ON STANDARDS, BASED INSTRUCTION, MONITORING PROGRESS AND STANDARDS BASED INSTRUCTION, AND BEING ABLE TO MAKE DATA DRIVEN DECISIONS, UH, THAT TEACHERS CAN MAKE ALONG THE WAY.
IT ALSO HAS A DATA REPORTING ANALYTICS AND REPORTING SYSTEM WITH IT THAT THAT ALLOWS YOU TO REPRESENT.
SO YOU CAN SEE, UH, NOT ONLY HOW YOU'RE PERFORMING, BUT YOU CAN SEE HOW YOUR OVERALL SCHOOL IS PERFORMING.
YOU CAN SEE HOW ALL THE SCHOOLS ARE PERFORMING AND YOU CAN, YOU CAN SEE WHAT KIND OF NEEDS EXIST, BILINGUAL SUPPORT.
STRADDLES IS LOOKING AT CLOSELY IN ORDER TO, UH, MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE THE APPROPRIATE, UH, SUPPORT, UH, IN THE RIGHT PLACES FOR, UH, FOR OUR SCHOOLS AND OUR SCHOOL REDESIGN ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE AND CHARTS REGULARLY RECOMMENDATION FROM THE CONSULTING GROUP WAS TO MAKE HR RESPONSIBLE FOR DEVELOPING AND MAINTAINING ORGANIZATIONAL CHARTS.
AND ADDITIONALLY, TO HAVE A PROCESS FOR MAINTAINING ALL ORGANIZATIONAL CHARTS THAT HAS BEEN ACCOMPLISHED.
AND THAT HAS BEEN DEVELOPED, HR IS RESPONSIBLE FOR MAINTAINING THE ORG CHARTS OR ANY DIVISION WITHIN THE SYSTEM.
AND IF ANY DIVISION, IN TERMS OF THE PROCESS, ANY DIVISION WISHES TO MAKE ANY CHANGE IN THEIR ORGANIZATIONAL CLARKE, THAT WILL REQUIRE A MEETING WITH THE CHIEF OF HR, CHIEF OF FINANCE AND THE SUPERINTENDENT FOR KEY POSITIONS.
THESE ARE SOME OF THE KEY CRITICAL POSITIONS THAT WERE IMPORTANT TO, UH, UH, REALLY BRING ON BOARD.
AND SO, AS I MENTIONED EARLIER, WE HAVE A DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT, UH, ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS WOULD REPORT TO THE DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT, CHIEF AVAYAS D THERE WOULD BE
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A DIRECTOR OF STUDENT SUCCESS THAT WOULD REPORT TO THE CHIEF OF ISD, AND THEY WOULD MANAGE ALL OF OUR STUDENT SERVICES TYPE FUNCTIONS AND FINANCE WE'LL BE LOOKING TO BRING ON AN ADDITIONAL ACCOUNTANT.HR BAR WAS ONE OF THE PLACES WHERE, UH, THE EFFICIENCY STUDY IDENTIFIED A SIGNIFICANT GAP IN PERSONNEL, AND WE HAVE IDENTIFIED FOUR KEY, UH, COMPONENTS TO THAT.
ONE IS A DISTRICT DIRECTOR OF EMPLOYEE SERVICES TO COORDINATOR OF BUSINESS SYSTEMS AND COORDINATOR OF DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION, AND THE HUMAN SERVICES RECRUITER, UH, TALK ABOUT OUR ONGOING WORK AND THE EFFICIENCY STUDY.
THEY RECOMMENDED THAT ANOTHER SALARY REVIEW AND COST OF LIVING INCREASE WAS NEEDED.
UH, AND SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE WOULD BE LOOKING TO, UH, LAUNCH AND IT GETS STARTED, BUT IT HAS NOT HAPPENED YET.
STAFFING MODEL FORMULAS ARE BEING LOOKED AT SO THAT WE CAN BETTER SUPPORT OUR TARGETED INTERVENTION SCHOOLS.
TARGETED PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT IS IN GREEN.
WE SPOKE ABOUT AN EXAMPLE TODAY ABOUT HOW SOME OF THAT WORK IS TAKING PLACE.
SO FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT SYSTEM FOR PROGRESS MONITORING IS IN YELLOW BECAUSE WE ARE ON OUR WAY HERE.
I MENTIONED TO YOU ABOUT PROGRESS MONITORING SYSTEM AND PERFORMANCE MATTERS AND WANT TO CONTINUE TO MOVE AWAY FROM PAPER-BASED SYSTEMS THAT'S IN YELLOW, BECAUSE THAT IS ONGOING.
THAT CONCLUDES THE UPDATE WHERE WE ARE TO THIS POINT ON THE EFFICIENCY STUFF.
HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, MR. JACK, I THINK YOUR HAND IS STILL UP FROM THE AGENDA QUESTION.
NO, NO, IT'S, IT'S A QUESTION ON THE STUDY.
I JUST PUT IT UP EARLY TO GET IN THE QUEUE.
YOU GOT TO BE NOW WITH PATRICIA'S FIRST.
UM, ROBIN, IF YOU'RE ABLE, CAN YOU PULL UP THE CURRENT ORG CHART? THAT'S ON OUR DISTRICT WEBSITE.
UM, WHERE ON OUR WEBSITE OR DO YOU SEE IT? WE KNOW WHAT I DID.
I WENT UP TO THE SEARCH BOX AND I TYPED IN ORGANIZATION CHART, AND I ONLY GOT ONE THAT CAME UP AUGUST 13, 2019.
NOW THERE MAY BE OTHERS ON THE DISTRICT WEBSITE, BUT THAT WAS THE ONLY ONE I WAS ABLE TO LOCATE.
RODRIGUEZ, IS THIS THE MOST UPDATED OR CHART THAT WE HAVE ON OUR WEBSITE? DO YOU KNOW, WHERE SHOULD I BE LOOKING AND TELLING OTHER PEOPLE TO LOOK ELSEWHERE? OH, MAN, THAT IS THE CURRENT ORG CHART THAT EXISTS THERE.
WE ARE WORKING TO, TO SHIFT THE ORG CHART AS WE BRING ON, UH, ADDITIONAL POSITIONS AND WE'RE ABLE TO EXECUTE ON SOME OF THESE OTHER COMPONENTS.
AND WE'RE SORT OF, AS I MENTIONED EARLIER, UH, WAITED FOR A COUPLE REASONS, ONE, UH, WE'RE IN THE MIDST OF A GLOBAL PANDEMIC, AND I JUST THOUGHT THAT, UH, REORGANIZING, I THINK PEOPLE NEED SOME CONSISTENCY AND KNOWING WHERE TO GO AND WHAT TO DO, YOU KNOW, WHO TO GET AHOLD OF FOR THINGS AND, AND THROWING THAT UP IN THE AIR AND SHIFTING THAT AROUND IN THE MIDST OF THIS, UH, I DIDN'T THINK IT WAS A GOOD IDEA.
I DIDN'T THINK IT WAS PRUDENT TO DO IT RIGHT THEN AND THERE, SECONDLY, THERE ARE BUDGETARY FACTORS THAT WE JUST DON'T KNOW OR HAVE INFORMATION.
AND SO, UH, RATHER THAN, THAN SHIFTED AND HAVE A WHOLE ORGANIZATIONAL CHART THAT MAYBE DOESN'T COME TO FRUITION, I DIDN'T THINK WAS, UH, WAS A GOOD IDEA.
WE NEEDED TO SEE WHAT, WHAT THE BUDGET'S GOING TO LOOK LIKE.
AND I THINK THOUGH THAT WE NEED TO MAKE, WE DESPERATELY NEED TO MAKE SOME INTERIM, UM, UH, EDITS TO THIS THAT WOULD INCLUDE, FOR EXAMPLE, DR.
BRADLEY, UM, AND CHANGING SOME OF THE NAME OF OUR SENIOR STAFF, UM, CANDACE BROODER.
UM, AND, AND THIS IS, IS CRITICAL, AND I KNOW THERE'S MORE CHANGES TO COME, BUT WHEN YOU'RE, YOU'RE NEW TO THE DISTRICT AND YOU'RE NOT FAMILIAR
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WITH WHO THE KEY PLAYERS ARE, MOST FOLKS GO TO THE ORGANIZATION CHART.SO I WOULD JUST HOPE THAT WE CAN UPDATE THIS IN THE SHORT TERM.
AND THEN AS TIME GOES ON, INCORPORATE SOME OF THE CHANGES THAT YOU'VE REFERENCED HERE TODAY IN YOUR PRESENTATION.
MA'AM, THAT'S A GOOD SUGGESTION.
RODRIGUEZ ON YOUR SLIDE, 11, WHERE YOU HAVE KEY POSSESSIONS, DO YOU HAVE JOB DESCRIPTIONS OR DOES MS. WALTON, HOW ARE THEY DIFFERENT? ARE THEY DEVELOPING JOB DESCRIPTIONS? EVERYTHING WOULD HAVE A JOB DESCRIPTION.
AND SO THEY'RE IN THE PROCESS.
AND SO WHAT'S YOUR TIMEFRAME ON, WHAT ARE YOU HOPING IN THE, IN THE BEST CASE SCENARIO, WHAT WOULD BE YOUR TIMEFRAME FOR THAT? SO, UM, THE ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS, UM, WILL BE IN JANUARY.
UM, DIRECTOR OF STUDENT SUCCESS, THE, UH, ALL THE OTHER POSITIONS ARE NOT POSITIONS THAT EXIST.
I KNOW THOSE AREN'T POSITIONS THAT EXIST, BUT, BUT, UH, BUT THAT'S, UH, THAT'S A COST NEUTRAL MOOD, UH, WITH WHEN UTILIZING OTHER DAUGHTERS OTHER DOLLARS DIFFERENTLY.
RIGHT? SO THE FIRST TWO ELEMENTARY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AND THE SECONDARY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, AND IT IS AN IMPORTANT COMPONENT OF ACTUALLY ANY OF THAT KIND OF WORK WITH UVA.
YOU'VE HEARD ME SAY BEFORE THE IMPORTANCE OF THAT SPAN OF CONTROL AND PRINCIPAL AND A PUNCHBOWL SUPERVISOR RATIO.
UH, AND, AND THAT IS ONE OF THOSE, UH, BUSINESS SYSTEMS MODELS THAT, THAT I DO KNOW, UH, UVA, UH, IS SOMETHING BIG, BUT WHETHER YOUR IS BIG ON IT OR NOT, IT IS GOOD PRACTICE.
SO, UH, AND THEN, UH, UH, THE OTHERS THOUGH, UH, WE'D HAVE TO SEE, I THINK, WHAT, WHAT COMES WITH WITH THE BUDGET SITUATION, UH, AND THEN LET'S DO CAMPBELL.
I THINK WHEN WE ORIGINALLY DID THIS STUDY, WE CAME UP WITH NUMBER 17, BUT THEY SHOULD KNOW.
AND HOW MANY, UH, THOSE THAT YOU REALLY FOCUSED ON? I MEAN, I SEE FOUR THERE.
SO AT THE MOMENT WE'VE IDENTIFIED THOSE FOUR AS, UH, SOME REALLY IMPORTANT ONES THAT WE WANT TO HAVE IN PLACE, UH, AND TRY TO GET THEM IN FIRST AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
SO, SO SOMEONE LIKE THE DISTRICT-WIDE THE D THAT BE ONE OF THOSE 17 OLD SAW STAFF.
I THINK IN, IN SPEAKING WITH, UH, WITH MS. WALTON, RIGHT.
UH, SHE'S LOOKING AT WHAT SHE WANTS TO BE EFFICIENT WITH IT TOO.
SHE DOESN'T JUST WANT TO GET 17 BECAUSE YOU TOLD ME I HAD TO HAVE 17 BECAUSE THE, THE EFFICIENCY STUDY.
SO, SO SHE, SHE, YOU KNOW, THAT, THAT WOULD BE SOMETHING THAT WOULD COME ON, HOWEVER, THAT WOULD BE FALL UNDER STUDENT SERVICES, STUDENT SUCCESS, UH, DEPARTMENT.
NOW, THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS, SECOND DIRECTOR, YOU THINK, YOU JUST MENTIONED THAT YOU HAVE PEOPLE IN MIND, BUT YOU TO MAKE THOSE MOVES.
BUT WHAT I SAID WAS, I WOULDN'T LIKE TO BRING IT, UH, THROUGH, UH, I WOULD LIKE, UH, IT WOULD BE IDEAL IF WE COULD HIRE SOMEBODY FROM THE PRINCIPAL RIGHTS, BUT I DON'T HAVE A PRINCIPAL.
WE'VE GOT TO MOVE BECAUSE OF THE STABILIZATION.
SO MY QUESTION IS HOW WOULD THESE PEOPLE INTERFACE FOR DR.
BRADLEY AND TERMS OF THEIR RULES? THEY WILL REPORT DIRECTLY TO DR.
SO THERE, THERE WOULD HAVE SUBSETS OF, I SUPPOSE, ADMINISTRATORS OR SO THAT SAW IT UNDERNEATH THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS.
IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE SAYING? YES.
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SO IF WE CAN SHOW ABOUT BEING IDEAL HERE FOR A MOMENT, RIGHT.IDEALLY, UH, I WOULD LOVE TO SEE EACH OF THOSE EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS HAVE, AND, UM, ANY, UH, LANGUAGE ARTS SPECIALIST AND A MATH SPECIALIST, UH, THAT, THAT WOULD WORK ALONGSIDE THEM IN OUR PRIORITY SCHOOLS.
UH, AND SO, SO THAT, UM, SO THAT THEY WOULD BE AN HANDS-ON, UH, WITHIN, WITHIN THOSE SCHOOLS, UH, FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING SUPPORT FOR OUR, FOR OUR TEACHERS, ALONG WITH WHAT YOU JUST REFERRED TO A DAY, THERE'LL BE NEW HIRES OR PEOPLE.
IT WOULDN'T BE PEOPLE THAT WE HAVE IN ISD.
IT WOULDN'T BE PEOPLE THAT YOU HAVE SPREADSHEET.
IT WOULD BE PEOPLE, IT WOULD BE, IT WOULD BE, UH, UH, TYPICALLY IT WOULD BE LIKE, LIKE TEACHERS THAT, THAT DEMONSTRATE STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT MOVEMENT.
SO, SO YOU HAD MOVED HIM OUT OF THE CLASSROOM TO ADMINISTRATIVE POSITION.
WOULD THAT BE AN ADMINISTRATIVE POSITION? I DON'T KNOW THAT THAT WOULD FALL.
I DON'T, I'D HAVE TO CHECK WITH THE SMALL FIRM, WHETHER THAT TITLE FALLS ON THEIR ADMINISTRATIVE POSITION OR NOT, BUT IT WOULD, BUT THE IDEA WOULD BE THAT THEY WOULD BE, THERE HAS ADDITIONAL SOCIAL SUPPORT IN THOSE PRIORITY SCHOOL, ON A REGULAR BASIS.
THAT, THAT, THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT CLARIFIES TO ME WERE VERY STRUCTURED.
I ALSO AGREE WITH JOANNE AS WE UPDATE, WE NEED TO HAVE IT VERY CALM.
RODRIGUEZ, UH, I WANT TO FOCUS ON MOVING AWAY FROM PAPER SYSTEMS. YES.
UH, I KNOW THAT ALICE HAS BEEN WORKING ON AN AUTOMATED PROCESS TO HANDLE A TITLE NINE COMPLAINT SUCKS, CETERA.
AND I'M SURE THAT'S A VERY SMALL PART OF HER OPERATION.
COULD WE BRIEFLY RUN THROUGH THE THREE MAJOR AREAS, HUMAN RESOURCES, FINANCE, AND OPERATIONS, TO SEE WHAT THEY HAVE ACCOMPLISHED AND ARE IN PROCESS OF ACCOMPLISHING IN AUTOMATING PROCESSES AND AUTOMATING PROCESSES.
UH, HAN, DID YOU WANT TO START AND TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT ON YOUR END AUTOMATING PROCESSES? CAN YOU HEAR ME? YES.
UM, SO WE HAVE BEGUN, UM, A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO ACTUALLY ON THE AUTOMATION OF FINANCE.
SO WE'VE BEEN VERY SUCCESSFUL IN COMPLETING SOME OF THOSE PROJECTS AND SOME ARE LARGER AND ONGOING.
SO, UM, THE FIRST ONE I MIGHT WANT TO MENTION IS THAT THE FINANCE DEPARTMENT HAS ALLOWED ALL, UM, ACCOUNTS PAYABLE DOCUMENTS TO BE TRANSMITTED ARE NOW, UM, PREPARED, ELECTRONICALLY.
SO ALL THEY'RE SOARED ELECTRONICALLY.
SO WE NO LONGER HAVE, UH, ANY LONG TERM PAPER FILES IN OUR ACCOUNTS PAYABLE OFFICE.
SO THAT, UH, REDUCES THE STORAGE COSTS THAT WE'VE INCURRED FILING TIMES FILING AND, UM, AND, AND GATHERING, UM, DOCUMENTS FOR AUDITORS.
WE CAN JUST GIVE THEM ACCESS TO OUR SYSTEM AND SO ON.
UH, SO NOT ONLY ACCOUNTS PAYABLE, BUT ALSO THE P-CARD DOCUMENTS ARE ALL STANDING IN ELECTRONIC LATER STORED.
AND THE BANK OF AMERICA WORKS, SOFTWARE SYSTEM ALSO ACCESSIBLE VERY EASILY OR ANYONE WITH THE RIGHTS, INCLUDING OUR AUDITORS.
SO THAT IS ONE MAJOR AREA, UM, THAT WE ARE WORKING, UH, THAT WE HAVE COMPLETED.
UM, RECENTLY DURING THE PANDEMIC, WE WENT PAPERLESS, UH, CASHLESS AT RM GATES TICKET GATES, SUCH AS THE FOOTBALL GAMES, BASKETBALL, VOLLEYBALL, THOSE SORTS OF THINGS.
WE, UM, INSTITUTED, UH, WE TOOK ADVANTAGE OF A SOFTWARE SYSTEM.
WE ALREADY HAD ADDED ON A SMALL MODULE TO IT, WHERE WE ARE TAKING CREDIT CARDS AT GATES AND DOING ADVANCED TICKET SALES.
SO WE'RE NOT TAKING CASH AT OUR GATES, AND IT ALLOWS US NOT TO HAVE TO PREPARE A DEPOSIT PREPARED TICKET LOG INVENTORY REPORT.
AND WE DON'T HAVE STAFF DRIVING TO THE BANKS LATE AT NIGHT ANY LONGER.
SO WE'RE ABLE TO TRANSMIT IT ELECTRONICALLY RIGHT THERE, THEN AND THERE, AND IT MAKES THE SYSTEM
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MUCH MORE, UH, SEAMLESS.AND, UM, I THINK OUR STAFF ARE VERY EXCITED ABOUT THAT AT OUR SCHOOL, PARTICULARLY ATHLETIC DIRECTORS.
I HAVE ONE QUESTION WHEN I WAS WITH THE COMPUTER COMPANY, WE A RECORDS RETENTION AND IT WAS A BIG DEAL.
AND WE HAD ONE GUY WHO ALWAYS ASKED HER, WHAT IF THERE'S AN EARTHQUAKE? UH, THESE RECORDS ARE ALL BACKED UP IN THE CLOUD SOMEWHERE.
YES, WE HAVE HERE IN THE DISTRICT, BUT THEY ARE ALSO BACKED UP BY MUNIS.
AND MUNIS HAS TWO LOCATIONS, ONE IN TYLER, TEXAS, AND ONE IN THE FOUNT OF MAINE.
SO WE DO HAVE A, UH, DISASTER RECOVERY SOC SYSTEM, AND THOSE ARE ALL BACKED UP IN THE CLOUD AND, UH, STORED ELECTRONICALLY.
WELL, I THOUGHT WE WERE GOING TO GO TO THE OTHER DEPARTMENT, MADAM CHAIR BEFORE, UM, MS. WALTON, ARE YOU ON? YES.
SO I'LL START AGAIN, TALK ABOUT HR AND SEAN'S HIRING RECORD KEEPING AND BENEFITS.
SO WE ARE WELL ON OUR WAY TO ALL, UM, EMPLOYEE FILES BEING ELECTRONIC.
WE BROUGHT THE SYSTEM ON BOARD.
WE BECOME THE PROCESS OF INTEGRATING NEW EMPLOYEES INTO THE ELECTRONIC SYSTEM ALREADY.
AND WE HAVE ALSO, UM, BEGUN TO PERCH FILES OF OLDER EMPLOYEES TO STORE IN THE SYSTEM AS WELL.
SO THAT'S WELL UNDER THE WAY ON THE WAY, AND IT'S CALLED FRONTLINE CENTRAL AND THEY ALSO HAVE, UM, HOW'S OUR AUTOMATED HIRING PROCESS THAT CONTAINS APPLICATIONS.
WE COLLECT ALL DOCUMENTS THROUGH THERE.
WE EVEN ISSUE CONTRACTS THROUGH THAT SYSTEM.
SO WHEN WE BRING NEW EMPLOYEES ON EVERYTHING IS PRETTY MUCH PAPERLESS.
WE HAVE DONE OUR HIRING THIS YEAR THROUGH AN ELECTRONIC, UM, VIRTUAL ORIENTATION AS WELL.
SO WE SEE EMPLOYEES ONLY ONLINE, ALL DOCUMENTS I SENT THROUGH ONLINE AND OUR SYSTEM IS HOW, HOW HOW'S TO HOLD ALL EMPLOYEE FILES.
YES, BACKUP IS WITH THE FRONTLINE CENTRAL.
THEY HAVE TO, UM, UM, WAYS TO BACK UP.
THERE IS A SYSTEM THAT THEY HOUSE AND I LEAD THEY'RE OUT OF CHICAGO AND THEY ALSO HOUSED IN A CLOUD AS WELL.
UM, OUR BENEFITS DEPARTMENT IS A LITTLE BIT SLOWER TO COME ONLINE BECAUSE WE ARE SO DEPENDENT ON THE STATE DEPARTMENT AND THEIR SYSTEM, AND THEY ARE ANTIQUATED AND VERY LITTLE IS ONLINE, WHICH, UM, DOESN'T GIVE US TOO MUCH OF AN OPPORTUNITY TO MOVE AS FAST AS WE WANT TO WITHOUT BENEFIT ON THIS END, BUT WE DO AS MUCH AS WE CAN.
OKAY, MR. RONNIE, SO I'M GOING TO ABOUT TWO AREAS, KIND OF WHERE WE'RE ELECTRONIC AND WHAT WE'RE WORKING ON.
UM, WE'VE BEEN ELECTRONIC FOR SOME TIME, AS FAR AS MAINTENANCE.
UH, ALL THE WORK ORDERS ARE THROUGH THE SCHOOL DATA SYSTEM.
SO THAT'S, THAT'S BEEN IN PLACE FOR SEVERAL YEARS.
UM, IN THE LAST FOUR OR FIVE YEARS, WE MOVED ALL OF OUR INSTRUCTION PLANS AND AS-BUILT TYPE DOCUMENTS TO DIGITAL.
AND WE ALSO BROUGHT IN A GIS SYSTEM THAT CAN HELP COORDINATE A LOT OF THAT INFORMATION.
UM, WHAT WE HAVE DONE RECENTLY, I WOULD SAY IS WITH, UM, OPERATIONS AND FINANCE IS THROUGH CVRE ERIE.
WE BROUGHT IN SOMEBODY TO LOOK AT OR, UH, PAY APPLICATIONS AND, AND HOW OUR PROCESSES IN PLACE TO SEE HOW WE CAN STREAMLINE THAT.
WE, THEY JUST ANNOUNCED, SUBMITTED A REPORT.
SO WE'LL BE LOOKING INTO THAT REPORT AND KIND OF HOW WE CAN DO SOME THINGS A LITTLE MORE EFFICIENTLY WHEN IT COMES TO PAY APPLICATIONS AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE.
WE ALSO HAVE IN OUR FUTURE, UH, CONSTRUCTION DOCUMENTS, SUCH AS CORRESPONDENCES.
UM, WE'RE GOING TO BE LOOKING INTO POSSIBILITIES OF USING SOME SOFTWARE PROGRAM THAT CAN ALIGN ALL THOSE TOGETHER, UM, AND HAVE THAT DIGITAL.
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THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.MY QUESTION WAS ABOUT WITH ALL THESE NEW POSITIONS THAT WE ARE PROPOSING TO THE DISTRICT TO THE BOARD, UM, HAVE WE HAVE COVERT 19 THAT SHOWS THAT WE POSSIBLY CAN SAVE SOME MONEY IN DIFFERENT AREAS OF SOME AND IN TERMS OF POSITION-WISE? WELL, I THINK THE EFFICIENCY STUDY SHOWED US THAT WE ARE SEVERELY UNDERSTAFFED THAN THE DISTRICT OFFICE.
UH, THAT'S WHAT THEY POINTED OUT FOR, FOR EVERYONE.
SO I THINK, UH, I THINK IT'S THE OPPOSITE ACTUALLY SOMETIMES BY THE WAY, INCREASE IN TECHNOLOGY, UH, INCREASES WORKLOAD IN OTHER AREAS IN OTHER WAYS.
SO IT MAY NOT BE THE SAME TRADITIONAL WAY, BUT, BUT SOMETIMES IT CAUSES, UH, UH, INCREASE IN WORKLOAD IN DIFFERENT CAPACITIES.
I MEAN, AND I DO UNDERSTAND THAT, BUT YOU KNOW, LIKE I SAID, MY QUESTION GOES, I WAS JUST WONDERING ALONG THE LINES OF AFTER THIS PANDEMIC, I'M SURE I'M SURE THAT YOU KNOW, THAT, UH, THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO WILL NOT GO TO WORK IN THE SAME CAPACITY THAT THEY WERE BEFORE THE PANDEMIC HIT, BECAUSE NOW, NOW THE REALIZATION HAS COME THAT YOU MAY NOT NEED AS MUCH PEOPLE TO WORK IN ALL THESE POSITIONS, OR YOU MAY CONDITION CONTROL, HOW HAVE SOME OF THESE MORE BE CONTROLLED BY, UH, LESS PEOPLE THAN, THAN, THAN, THAN MORE SO THE, UM, I STARTED, I SAW THAT, UH, WAS GOING ACROSS THE, UM, THE AIRWAYS AND A LOT OF, A LOT OF CEO'S AND, UH, EXECUTIVE, UH, EXECUTIVE DIRECTS WORD.
THAT WAS THE NEW DISCUSSION AFTER THE COVID-19 I'VE HIT.
AND I WAS JUST WONDERING, UH, THAT ARE RESONATE WITHIN THE DISTRICTS.
I THINK WHAT YOU SEE HERE IN OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT IS TWO THINGS, UH, UH, MR. SMITH, THAT IS THAT, UH, ONE IN TERMS OF THE DISTRICT OFFICE, THERE WAS AN UNDER-STAFFING IN THE DISTRICT OFFICE AND TO THAT FUNCTIONS WERE MISALIGNED AND LOCATED IN DIFFERENT PLACES.
SO, UM, SO, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN'T ELIMINATE A DEPARTMENT WITH ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND NOT EXPECT TO SEE RAMIFICATIONS OF THAT.
AND I THINK THAT'S WHAT HAS PLAYED OUT OVER TIME.
UH, PERSONALLY, WHAT I SEE IS I STILL SEE THE NEED FOR, UH, FOR THOSE POSITIONS THAT ARE THERE, UH, WHICH IS, WHICH IS WHY, UH, AND WE'RE BEING AN ESSENTIALLY, UH, SO, YOU KNOW, WE'RE BEING, UH, JUDICIOUS ABOUT IT, RIGHT? I MEAN, THE EFFICIENCY STUDY SAID 17 POSITIONS, UH, FOR HR AND WE'RE NOT RUNNING OUT, YOU'RE SAYING 17 POSITIONS RIGHT NOW, WHAT I'M SAYING IS THESE ARE POSITIONS WE MIGHT IDENTIFY THAT WE NEED.
UH, AND, AND SO, UH, WE'RE LOOKING AT, AT, WE WANT THOSE POSITIONS, WE'LL HAVE TO SEE WHAT THE BUDGET TELLS US.
I MEAN, THAT'S, UH, THAT'S THE OTHER IMPORTANT FACTOR OF IT, RIGHT? THE DOLLARS THAT, THAT WE'LL BE ABLE TO UTILIZE.
AND THEN, UH, FROM THERE, UH, MAKE THE DECISIONS AS TO, UH, WHAT, WHAT ARE, YOU KNOW, ESSENTIAL AND WHAT IS ESSENTIAL, WHAT ISN'T, WHAT CAN WE, WHAT DO WE NEED, WHAT DO WE NOT NEED? YOU KNOW, AND THOSE ARE, UH, YOU KNOW, BORN COMPONENTS, BUT THERE'S, THERE'S STILL A LOT OF UNKNOWNS IN TERMS OF THE BUDGET THAT, THAT DON'T ALLOW US TO MEET.
UH, UH, ALSO, UM, I NOTICED THAT MAYBE I MAY, MAY MAYBE I MISS IT, BUT I DIDN'T SEE, I DIDN'T SEE ANY, WAS IT, ARE THERE ANY SPARE ASPERA UPDATES WHERE WERE THERE ANY, ANY POSITIONS, UH, AND, AND, AND ESPECIALLY THE SPECIAL ED DEPARTMENT, UH, NOT IN THAT LIST, UH, DR.
WHITE, WE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO FULFILL THEM.
SO WE'VE ADDED APPROXIMATELY SEVEN TO NINE POSITIONS.
JUST TO GO A LITTLE BIT, EXCUSE ME, SIR.
CAN YOU SPEAK UP JUST A LITTLE BIT? WE'VE ADDED APPROXIMATELY SEVEN TO NINE POSITIONS, THIS ACADEMIC SCHOOL YEAR.
WERE YOU ABLE TO HEAR ME START? YEAH, I HEAR YOU SAID SHE ADDED ABOUT SEVEN TO NINE NEW POSITIONS, THIS SCHOOL, THIS ACADEMIC SCHOOL YEAR.
THROUGH A COMBINATION OF FUNDING, BUT MORE GENERAL FUND STATE AS WELL, AS WELL AS FEDERAL I D E A.
UM, WITH THAT, WITH THAT BEING SAID, IF THE, IF THOSE FUNDS ARE POOLED, WOULD THOSE POSITIONS BE WITH THOSE WOMEN WHERE WE LOSE THOSE POSITIONS ON THE GOL, SIR, IN REALITY OF OUR FUNDS
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ARE PULLED.THAT WOULD BE SOMETHING I'D HAVE TO WORK WITH HR AS WELL AS TO OUR CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER AND TAKE ITEMS INTO CONSIDERATION.
RIGHT? WELL, WELL THAT DESCRIBES THE REASON WHY I'M HERE.
WE ARE ASKING YOU IF THOSE FRIENDS WERE, WERE PULLED FROM DIFFERENT DIFFERENT MODES AROUND THE STATE WILL OFFER AN OFFERING US THE FUND FUNDING FOR THOSE POSITIONS IS FOR ME TO SEE WHEREVER MAYBE THE DISTRICT MAY NEED SOME, THEY NEED TO NEED, NEED TO HAVE A BACKUP OF FUNDING JUST IN CASE THAT HAPPENED DEPENDING ON THE SEVERITY OF LOSING THAT POSITION THAT HAS BEEN CREATED.
SO THAT'S WHY MY LOGIC OF ASKING YOU THAT, BECAUSE AT THE END OF THE DAY, IT IS OUR JOB TO MAKE SURE THAT WE, THAT WE, AS A BOARD HAVE THE AMOUNT OF FUNDING THAT THE DISTRICT NEEDS TO FUNCTION.
SO I'M TRYING TO PROCESS IT AND UNDERSTAND EXACTLY WHAT, WHAT WE'RE DEALING WITH ALL ON HAND AT THIS POINT IN TIME.
DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? YES, IT DOES.
WE BOTH HAVE A SIMILAR PERSPECTIVE TO MEETING THE NEEDS OF OUR STUDENTS, AS WELL AS OUR COMMUNITY.
AND I'M SHARING WITH YOU THAT THE THREE TYPES OF FUNDING AND I COULD REFER TO MRS. CROSBY WHO'S WITH ME AS WELL.
SO GIVE, WE HAVE A DECREASE IN FUNDING WOULD PROBABLY ALSO BE REFLECTIVE OF STUDENT DECREASE OF STUDENT POPULATION.
AND THERE IS A SYMBIOTIC RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE TWO, BUT I BELIEVE STRONGLY THAT WE WILL BE ABLE TO WORK OUT THE NEEDS OF OUR CAMP, OUR CAMPUSES, AS WELL AS OUR DISTRICT.
REGAN THERE, I SEE WHAT YOU, WHERE YOU, WHERE YOU'VE HIRED A, OR YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT ATTEMPTING TO HIRE A HEARING OFFICER.
IT'S NOT A HIRE IT'S, UH, IT'S A ROLE THAT ONE OF OUR EXISTING EMPLOYEES IS FILLING, BUT IT'S NOT LONG.
IT'S NO LONGER IN THE FINANCE DEPARTMENT.
IT'S NOW IN, UH, IN, UH, UH, ISD, WHICH IS WHY, UH, IT'S ALREADY IN GREEN BECAUSE WE JUST SHIFTED THE RESPONSIBILITY IN THE ROLE INTO, INTO ISD, WHICH IS WHERE EVENTUALLY, UH, UH, A STUDENT SUCCESS DEPARTMENT WOULD, WOULD FALL ON.
HAVE WE ALSO TALKED ABOUT, OR LOOKED AT A DISTRICT ATHLETIC DIRECTOR BECAUSE, BECAUSE IT IS A DISTRICT JUST SIZE, I'VE NOTICED THAT CERTAIN DISTRICTS HAVE HAD DISTRICT ATHLETIC DIRECTORS, AND I WAS JUST WONDERING, WHAT WAS THAT A PART OF THE STUDY OR NOT, OR IS THAT SOMETHING THAT, THAT THAT'S POSSIBLY TO LOOKED AT AS WELL? YES, SIR.
IF, IF YOU, UH, IF ROBIN CAN PULL THE SLIDE UP, UM, WHERE A ENHANCED STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP FOR STUDENT SUCCESS, UH, IF YOU GO ONE MORE UP, YOU SEE RUN THAT ONE RIGHT THERE.
YOU SEE, UH, IN RED, DOWN AT THE BOTTOM, THE DISTRICT ATHLETIC DIRECTOR.
AND, AND THAT'S THE, UH, THAT'S THE FULL-TIME DIRECTOR AND THAT WILL BE HOUSED AT THE DISTRICT OFFICE.
THAT'S NO, I WILL TO ASK SOME QUESTIONS.
RODRIGUEZ, COULD YOU, UH, SAY A LITTLE BIT MORE ON PAGE 12, SLIDE 12 ROBIN, UH, WHERE IT SAYS, UM, STAFFING MODEL FORMULAS.
IT'S THIS, ARE YOU TALKING AT ALL ABOUT PERHAPS, UM, DIFFERENTIATED? CAN YOU SAY MORE ABOUT THAT? YEAH.
SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT, UH, WE'RE LOOKING AT IS, UM, YOU KNOW, WANTING TO ELIMINATE PRIORITY SCHOOLS AND WHY SAYING ELIMINATE, I DON'T MEAN ELIMINATE THE SCHOOL.
I ALREADY SCHOOLS IN ATSI SCHOOLS, RIGHT? SO, SO, UH, WE THINK THAT THERE'S SOME POSSIBILITIES THERE BY ADJUSTING, UH, STAFFING FORMULAS BASED ON NEEDS, SUCH AS THAT, THAT WE CAN MORE POSITIVELY IMPACT, UH, THE WORK AROUND STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT.
UM, FRANK, CAN YOU TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT, UM, HOW EFFICIENT THAT YOU DON'T NEED TO HIRE IN JANUARY, HOW THOSE ARE FUNDED, UM, A HOT LIVE LIMU, UM, BUT I THINK IT WOULD BE USEFUL FOR US TO KNOW HOW THOSE YOU'RE SPEAKING ABOUT THE ELEMENTARY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AND THE SECONDARY EXECUTIVE.
CAN I HEAR WITHOUT ASKING QUESTIONS? CAUSE WE COULD NOT HEAR IT.
A DOCTOR IS ASKING ME TO ELABORATE ON HOW I WILL FIND THOSE ELEMENTARY EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS AND SECONDARY EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS.
THOSE FIRST TWO THAT YOU SEE ON THE SCREEN IN JANUARY, UH,
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SHE'S INQUIRING ABOUT, UH, WHERE THAT IDENTIFIED FUNDING WOULD COME FROM.SO, UM, I FAILED TO MENTION WHEN I WENT THROUGH THE SLIDE, IF YOU, IF IT PROBABLY, HE PROBABLY FIGURED IT OUT, UH, THE FIRST TWO LETTERS IS WHERE THOSE POSITIONS REPORT TO.
SO DIAZ WOULD BE DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT, UH, CHIEF OF SCHOOLS, ISB, DR.
STRATOS, AS WE KNOW, FINANCE, FINANCE, HR, HUMAN RESOURCES.
SO TO YOUR QUESTION, UM, WHERE THAT WOULD BE FUNDED FROM, WE'LL BE UTILIZING TITLE $2 THAT WE HAVE, AND, AND WE'LL UTILIZE, UH, THAT WE'VE BEEN APPROVED TO UTILIZE THAT BECAUSE SO MUCH OF THIS WORK OF, UH, EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS IS AROUND, UH, COACHING, MENTORING, AND SUPERVISION OF, UH, UH, UH, WITH PRINCIPALS AND LEADERSHIP TEAMS. AND THAT IS ON THE JOB PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR THOSE ROLES.
SO THAT WOULD BE TITLED TO, WELL IT'S SOLELY TITLE $3 OR IS THERE ANY YUP.
UM, GOES TO HR OR RUBBERY GETS HIM AND, UM, MS. WALTON.
SO OBVIOUSLY ONE OF THE, UH, GOALS OF THE BOARD IS TO RECRUIT, RETAIN HIGH QUALITY, HIGHLY QUALIFIED SPEAKERS IN THE MINISTERS.
AND, UM, I THINK, UH, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THESE ARE THE EIGHT, THE FOUR HR POSITIONS HERE.
I MEAN, IT'S VERY OBVIOUS WHAT A DIRECTOR OF EMPLOYEE SERVICES, ISN'T COORDINATOR DIVERSITY INCLUSION DUKE'S FOUND ON THE COORDINATOR OF BUSINESS SYSTEMS AND THEN THE RECRUITER IN TERMS OF HOW, WHAT, WHAT VISION DO YOU HAVE OF RECRUITMENT RIGHT NOW? I KNOW WE HAVE CHILDREN CABINET ACQUISITION, AND I JUST KINDA SWITCHED THE, WHAT DO YOU SEE? SO, UM, MS. WALTON, IF YOU GET READY TO JUMP ON, I'LL TURN IT OVER TO YOU THE SECOND.
BUT I THINK, UH, THE ADDITIONAL RECRUITER ON STAFF IS AN ESSENTIAL COMPONENT IN ORDER TO HELP US, UH, UH, EXPAND OUR, OUR OUTREACH, BUT YOU KNOW, JUST ONE PERSON.
BUT, BUT, UH, AN ADDITIONAL PERSON CAN HELP US WITH THAT WORK OF, UH, OF RECRUITMENT.
WATTS, IF, IF I CAN JUST, UM, GO BACK IN TIME A LITTLE BIT AND TALK ABOUT THE RECRUITER WHEN WE FIRST, UM, TRIED TO REALIGN THE HR DEPARTMENT TO, TO BE MORE EFFICIENT AND GET THE BEST BANG FOR OUR BUCKS, WE REQUESTED TWO RECRUITERS AT THAT TIME, SO THAT WE COULD, UM, TAILOR THE, THE EFFORTS WE WANTED, UH, AS A RECRUITER FOR SECONDARY.
AND WE WANTED A RECRUITER FOR ELEMENTARY SO THAT WE COULD HAVE A RECRUITER FOCUS ONLY ON THE LEVELS TO BRING TEACHERS INTO THE FOLD.
SO THIS WOULD BE GOING BACK TO THAT ORIGINAL IDEA OF BRINGING ON ANOTHER RECRUITER TO PUT WITH JILL SINCE JOE IS HER, HER, UM, BACKGROUND IS ELEMENTARY.
WE WOULD BRING ON A SECONDARY RECRUITER, SO THEY COULD TEAM UP AND SPREAD THE, UM, THE EFFORTS ACROSS LEVELS.
SO THAT WOULD BE WHAT RECRUITER WOULD DO.
IT WOULD PICK UP SOME OF THE SLACK AND WOULD FOCUS A LITTLE BIT MORE.
WE WOULD GRANULATE DOWN A LITTLE BIT MORE IN TERMS OF POSITIONS AND LEVELS.
AND THEN CAN YOU SPEAK TO THE COORDINATOR OF BUSINESS SYSTEMS? YES.
UM, IN HR, WE CURRENTLY HAVE, UM, DALE CRAWFORD WHO MANAGES ALL THE SYSTEMS. WE TALKED ABOUT FRONTLINE, WE TALKED ABOUT THE APPLICATION SYSTEM AND WE TALK ABOUT FILING SYSTEM.
HE DOES THAT AS WELL AS DOING ALL OF OUR TRACKING OF POSITIONS AND ALL ABOUT DATA.
THAT PERSON WOULD BE RESPONSIBLE FOR INCORPORATING, MANAGING AND CONTROLLING ALL OF THE BUSINESS SYSTEMS LIKE OUR TRACKING SYSTEM, LIKE OUR FILING SYSTEM.
AND THEY WOULD ALSO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR KEEPING THE DATA THAT WE HAVE TO KEEP IN HR.
SO IT WOULD BE A LITTLE BIT MORE DEFINED AND COMBINED VERSUS THE WAY IT IS NOW.
SO IT WOULD BE A FINE TUNED FOCUS, GEORGIA.
ALICE HAD WE CONSIDERED INSTEAD OF TWO, UM, A TWO PERSON RECRUITING TEAM LOOKING AT ONE PERSON WHO HAD THE BACKGROUND FOR BOTH THE ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY.
WAS THAT AN OPTION OR NO? WELL, THAT'S BASICALLY WHAT WE'RE DOING NOW, BECAUSE JILL HAS, IS HAVING TO DO BOTH.
SHE'S HAVING TO DO ELEMENTARY AND SHE'S HAVING TO DO SECONDARY.
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SO HER, UM, TRAINING HAS JUMPED UP TO SECONDARY AS WELL.SO SHE'S WORKED WITH SECONDARY PRINCIPALS AS WELL AS, UM, MIDDLE SCHOOL PRINCIPALS.
SO SHE DOESN'T HAVE TO PUT SO MUCH EFFORT AND BEING CONCERNED WITH THE ELEMENTARY POSITIONS BECAUSE SHE KNOWS THOSE.
SO THE SECONDARY, THEN THAT'S WHERE SHE WORKS IN CONJUNCTION WITH THOSE ADMINISTRATORS.
SO THAT WOULD FREE HER UP TO CONCENTRATE SOLELY ON ONE LEVEL.
UM, HOW ABOUT THESE NEXT TWO QUESTIONS ARE FOR FRAYING, OUR LEGAL, UM, WE'VE GOT WENDY, BUT WERE ANY OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS TO REINFORCE THAT PARTICULAR DIVISION WITH MORE IN-HOUSE COUNSEL? DR.
RODRIGUEZ? NO, BUT THAT IS SOMETHING WE COULD, WE COULD LOOK AT, UM, AS WE CONTINUED TO EVOLVE AND IN OUR EFFICIENCIES OR EFFICIENCY, UH, WORK WITHIN THE SYSTEM, UH, YOU KNOW, CERTAINLY, UH, UH, A DEDICATED PARALEGAL, UH, BUT PERHAPS, UH, UH, TRADITIONAL IN-HOUSE COUNSEL, UH, AN IMPORTANT COMPONENT BECAUSE YOU'RE RIGHT, FOR SURE.
SHACK, SHE HAS A LOT THAT COMES THROUGH HER PLATE AND THE SYSTEM, OUR SIZE, UH, THERE WAS LOT THAT, UH, UH, THAT FALLS THERE.
SO YOU AREN'T CORRECT ABOUT THEM.
UM, AND MY OTHER QUESTION, AND IT'S, IT'S BEEN PARTICULARLY RELEVANT LATELY WITH A LOT OF DISCUSSION ABOUT AUDITS AND HOW MUCH, YOU KNOW, THEY COST THE DISTRICT EVERY TIME, A LOT OF SCHOOL DISTRICTS, IT'S NOT UNCOMMON AT ALL TO HAVE AN AUDITING DEPARTMENT WHERE YOU HAVE AN IN-HOUSE AUDITOR THAT REPORTS DIRECTLY TO THE BOARD, AND IT'S MUCH MORE COST EFFECTIVE THAN, YOU KNOW, THESE MULTIPLE AND COOKIE CUTTER AUDITS THAT WE DO ANNUALLY, UH, AND BEYOND, UM, WAS THAT ONE OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS IN THE REPORT? BECAUSE AGAIN, IT'S RELATIVELY COMMON IN SCHOOL DISTRICTS AROUND THE NATION.
UM, I WAS ONE, I WAS WONDERING, I WAS, I WAS HEARING SOME OF THESE POSITIONS IN HR DIRECTOR.
UM, I MEAN THE HR DEPARTMENT, UM, WAS THE MR. HA, I THOUGHT IT WAS MR. HUNT'S POSITION RIGHT NOW.
MR. HUNT IS A DISTRICT MENTOR.
SO, UM, THAT, THAT POSITION COULD NOT BE PUT IN TOGETHER WITH THE HR RECRUITERS.
MA'AM NO, IT WOULDN'T BE AFFECTED THAT WAY BECAUSE HE NEEDS TO BE ON THE GROUND AND AVAILABLE FOR TEACHERS WHEN THEY CALL, IF YOU'RE A RECRUITER, YOU'RE NOT IN THE DISTRICT ALL OF THE TIME YOU'RE OUT AND ABOUT, YOU MIGHT BE OUT OF STATE, YOU MIGHT, YOU PUT IN TOGETHER A RECRUITING FAIR, BUT A MENTOR HAS TO BE THERE, HOLD THE HANDS OF THOSE BRAND NEW TEACHERS.
SO THAT, THAT WOULD REALLY PUT HIM OUT OF THE SCOPE TO BE ACCESSIBLE TO TEACHERS.
THAT WAS JUST BECAUSE I NOTICED THAT THAT, THAT, THAT POSITION ALSO WORKED THE FUNCTION THAT, THAT WAS THAT HE WAS, IF I'M CORRECT.
I MEAN, HE WAS WORKING ON THE, ON THE GRIEVANCES, ON THE GRIEVANCE PROCESS AS WELL, CORRECT? YES, HE DID THAT.
WE ARE IN HR, WE ARE CROSS TRAINED.
UM, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU KNOW, HE IS AN EX PRINCIPAL, SO HE'S REALLY GOOD AT SYSTEMS. YES.
SO WHEN WE NEED HELP IN OTHER AREAS IN HR, WE, WE, WE OF CROSS, WE CROSS THE BOUNDARIES, SO HE WAS JUST PULLED FOR THAT ONE PARTICULAR THING WE WAS WORKING ON.
AND THEN DO YOU, UH, DO YOU KNOW WHERE WE ARE WITH, WITH THAT, WITH, WITH, WITH THAT WORK BEING DONE RIGHT NOW? YES, WE ARE.
WE HAVE, UH, FINISHED UP OUR, UM, DUE DILIGENCE AND WE HAVE, UM, WE WILL BE READY TO MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR WHO WE'RE GOING TO USE GOING FORWARD.
SO WE'VE BEEN SUCCESSFUL GETTING A SYSTEM THAT CAN DO WHAT WE NEED IT TO DO AT VERY MINIMAL COST.
RODRIGUEZ, UM, W UH, I'LL RUN ON CREATING ALL THESE DIFFERENT, UH, OR, UH, LOOKING AT THESE DIFFERENT CREW POSITIONS.
UM, CAN YOU, CAN YOU HELP ME UNDERSTAND WHICH ONE OF THESE POSITION POSITIONS WILL, WILL HELP THE DISTRICT ALIGN WITHIN THE GOALS OF THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP AND
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SECURE, SECURE IN THE BAG ON THAT? YES, SIR.I'M JUST GOING TO PUT TEETH IN THEM.
SO, UH, IF YOU LOOK ON THAT SCREEN, THAT'S THERE RIGHT NOW.
UH, THE FIRST THREE, I BELIEVE ARE CRITICAL IN CLOSING ACHIEVEMENT GAPS, UH, IN HR DEPARTMENT OR RECRUITER TO RECRUIT HIGHLY EFFECTIVE TEACHERS IS, IS CONTINUE RECRUITING, HIGHLY EFFECTIVE TEACHERS.
WE HAVE HIGHLY EFFECTIVE TEACHERS.
WE WANT MORE HIGHLY EFFECTIVE TEACHERS, RIGHT? SO, SO THE RECRUITER, UH, UH, IS IMPORTANT IN, UH, IN ACCOMPLISHING THAT.
SO IF YOU'RE LOOKING SPECIFICALLY AT THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP, UH, UH, THOSE, UH, FOUR, RIGHT THERE WOULD BE VARIABLE.
WOULD THEY BE ANY MORE WELL COORDINATOR OF DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION IS AN IMPORTANT ONE, BECAUSE YOU ALSO WANT, UH, TO MAKE SURE THAT, UM, THAT, YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE A DIVERSE WORKFORCE THAT, THAT, UH, STUDENTS CAN, UH, UH, RECOGNIZE AND SEE THEMSELVES IN THOSE ROLES, RIGHT.
AND, AND ASPIRE, UH, AND DREAM DREAM BIG.
THAT'S AN IMPORTANT PART OF, UH, UH, STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT, I BELIEVE.
SO THAT'S ANOTHER ONE RIGHT THERE AS AN EXAMPLE, ALL OF OUR, ALL OF THESE POSITIONS, RIGHT.
ARE GOING TO BE DESIGNED TO MAKE OUR SYSTEM FUNCTION BETTER.
IF OUR SYSTEM FUNCTIONS BETTER, UH, WE'RE IN A BETTER POSITION TO IMPROVE STUDENTS.
I WAS GOING TO ASK SOMEWHAT SAME SORT OF QUESTION, BUT, UH, THE RECRUITER, TO WHAT DEGREE DOES IT INTERFACE WITH THE DESTRUCTION OF THE RIGHT TENSE? IF YOUR GO.
SO YOU, WHEN YOU SAY THAT, YOU MEAN, DO YOU MEAN, UH, DR.
STRADDLES OR ANYBODY IN, I MAY ADOPT DESCRIBES THE DRIVER OF HOW INSTRUCTIONS
AND I, I, UM, I WANT TO KNOW, IS IT BECAUSE IT'S OLD AND SAY, WE NEED A SCIENCE TEACHER, OR IS IT BECAUSE GOT THE STRUGGLE, SAY WE NEED THIS KIND OF SCIENCE TEACHER FOR THIS PARTICULAR SITUATION, BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, SO OFTEN WE WERE OPERATING IN SILOS AND I'M TRYING TO MAKE SURE I SEE YOU HAVE AN EHR THAT SHE'S NOT SOLELY OFF, WE'RE WAITING ON THE HR, A BIG SCHEMATIC.
SO I I'M, I'M PERSONALLY BIG ON CROSS-FUNCTIONAL WORK IN CROSS-FUNCTIONAL TEAMS. RIGHT.
I SEE IT AS ESSENTIAL IN HIGHLY EFFECTIVE SYSTEMS AND THAT'S WHAT WE WANT TO BE.
UH, SO, SO I KNOW THAT THEY, THEY INTERACT NOT ONLY WITH OUR PRINCIPALS, FOR EXAMPLE, IN TERMS OF ON THE GROUND NEEDS FOR SCHOOLS, BUT ALSO OVER HERE.
SO, UH, SO, UH, MS. WALTON, YOU WANT TO GO AHEAD FROM THERE? YES.
UM, SO MR. CAMPBELL, LET ME TALK TO YOU A LITTLE BIT ABOUT HOW GEO FUNCTIONS NOW AS THE RECRUITER.
SO THEIR POSITIONS AND THESE POSITIONS ABOUT CREATED, CREATED BY HR.
THESE ARE POSITIONS THAT COME AVAILABLE IN SCHOOLS, AND WE FILL THOSE POSITIONS BASED ON NEEDS BY SCHOOL.
SO WHEN JILL IS RECRUITING, SHE IS ACTIVELY IN TOUCH WITH EVERY BUILDING PRINCIPAL WHO NEEDS A TEACHER PLACED.
SHE TALKS TO THEM, SHE LOOKS AT WHAT THEIR NEEDS ARE, WHAT KIND OF, OF SKILLS THEY ARE LOOKING FOR IN A TEACHER.
SO WHEN SHE IS AT A RECRUITING FAIR, SHE'S IN DIRECT CONTACT WITH PRINCIPALS, DIRECTORS AND ISD, SHE WORKED VERY CLOSELY TO SUMMER WITH DR.
WHITE, WHO IS THE DIRECTOR OF SPECIAL EDUCATION.
THAT'S ONE OF THE REASONS WE STARTED SCHOOL WITH NO SPED OPENINGS, BECAUSE THE TWO OF THEM WORKED VERY CLOSELY TOGETHER FOR POSITIONS THAT NEEDED TO BE FILLED.
IF SHE FOUND SOMEONE THAT SHE THOUGHT WOULD BE A FIT, SHE DIRECTED THEM TO DR.
SO WE DON'T, UM, HIRE THE POSITIONS AND SAY, HERE'S SOMEONE WE GO DIRECTLY TO THE NEED WHO NEEDS THAT POSITION.
AND THAT WE MAKE, WE'VE LET THE PERSON WITH THE NEED, MAKE THE DECISION ABOUT IF THAT'S A MATCH OR NOT.
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MS.THE INTERACTION COMES AHEAD OF TIME SO THAT THEY KNOW WHAT THEY'RE RECRUITING FOR, WHICH I IS YOUR POINT, AND NOT JUST FOR SCHOOLS, BUT ALSO FOR, UH, FOR ISD, SPECIAL ED, UH, AND USEFUL FOR, FOR EVERY POSITION.
SO THE CONTACTS ARE MADE IT'S IT'S, IT IS A SYSTEM THAT'S SET UP FOR CONTACT.
THERE, THERE ARE TEXT MESSAGES, THERE ARE PHONE CALLS THAT ARE MADE DIRECTLY FROM, AT A RECRUITMENT FAIR TO A PRINCIPAL PRINCIPALS, A CALL TO THE PHONE.
SO IT'S, IT'S AN ONGOING, UM, ACTIVE, ACTIVE PROCESS OF BRINGING STAFF IN TO THE SYSTEM.
AND I UNDERSTAND THAT IT'S NOT AN EASY TASK.
MY QUESTION IS THAT, BUT IT IS ALSO BASICALLY AS A REFLECTION OF THE HIRING PROCESS OF THE DISTRICT DRIVEN BY THE STRATEGIC PLAN OF THE INSTRUCTIONAL PART OF THE DISTRICT.
YES, IT IS REALLY A MINOR QUESTION.
WHICH MEANS THAT NOT NECESSARILY AM I GOING TO LOOK AT A PRINCIPAL WHO SAYS WE NEED A BC TEACHER, AS OPPOSED TO, I'M GOING TO LOOK AT THE DISTRICT AND SEE WHERE WE'RE GOING IN THAT PARTICULAR SCHOOL WITH TEACHERS.
SO THAT'S, THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT MY QUESTION IS ABOUT.
I, YOU KNOW, I JUST WANTED YOU TO JUST STATE PUBLICLY YOUR COMMITMENT TO, TO ENTER DEPARTMENTAL DECISIONS.
MAYBE MY COMMENT HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH MALES.
I APPRECIATE THE FACT THAT THROUGH OUR RECRUITMENT EFFORTS, WE'RE ABLE TO TAILOR FIT, UM, THE INDIVIDUAL TEACHERS WITH THE SCHOOLS WHO NEED THEM AND THE POSITIONS THAT ARE OPEN.
BUT ISN'T IT MORE TRUE TO SAY THAT WHEN YOU'RE HIRED, YOU'RE HIRED BY OUR DISTRICT AND YOU CAN BE MOVED TO ANY SCHOOL AT ANY TIME WHERE YOU'RE NEEDED.
IS THAT MORE TRUE TO SAY, YOU MAY COME IN, UH, YOU KNOW, IDENTIFIED FOR A SPECIFIC SPOT THROUGH OUR RECRUITMENT PROCESS, BUT ULTIMATELY YOU WORK FOR THE DISTRICT AND YOU CAN BE PLACED ANYWHERE.
AND THAT USUALLY IS OUR PRACTICE, BUT WE DON'T FUNCTION ON YOU HERE.
WE'RE GOING TO PUT YOU WHERE WE WANT YOU TO BE, BECAUSE IN ORDER FOR A TEACHER TO BE EFFECTIVE, IT HAS TO BE A PLACE WHERE THAT TEACHER WILL FUNCTION EFFECTIVELY WITH THE TEAM THAT ALREADY EXISTS AS WELL, THE NEEDS.
DO WE SAY TO A TEACHER, IT DOESN'T MATTER THAT YOU ARE BENEFIT HERE.
SO WE'RE GOING TO PLACE YOU HERE.
VERY, VERY RARELY DO WE DO THAT, EVEN THOUGH WE HAD THE ABILITY TO DO THAT, AND I KNOW YOU WANT TO SET THEM UP FOR SUCCESS AND THAT YOUR GOAL UNDERSTANDING, CORRECT? CORRECT.
UM, CAN YOU TELL ME THE FUNCTION OF THE STUDENT SUCCESS, OFFICER, STUDENT SUCCESS OFFICER WILL, WILL FUNCTION SIMILAR TO WHAT YOU WOULD CONSIDER A DIRECTOR OF STUDENT SERVICES OR AN OFFICER OF STUDENT SERVICES, I SHOULD SAY.
UH, THEY WOULD, UH, COORDINATE AND, AND ORGANIZE, UM, ALL THE FUNCTIONS RELATED TO STUDENT SERVICES, TYPE FUNCTIONS, UH, VMS, UH, SOCIAL WORKERS, UH, UH, THE AGENCIES THAT WE WORK WITH THAT SUPPORT, UH, UM, UM, THAT AREA, UM, ADDITIONALLY ATHLETIC DIRECTORS, UH, ALL THOSE TYPES OF THINGS THAT YOU WOULD FIND, UH, YOU KNOW, PROBABLY EVEN LIKE A STUDENT DISCIPLINE, RIGHT.
UH, HEARING OFFICERS, THOSE THINGS RELATED TO STUDENT SHARPS.
UM, AND NOT, WE WERE RODRIGUEZ THE REASON WHY I WAS ASKING YOU THAT, OR, UM, DID YOU LOOK AT THE FORMAT BEFORE THAT WAS, THAT WAS BROKEN UP BEFORE YOU, YOU, UH, PRESENTLY CAME HERE.
I MEAN, PRIOR TO YOU ARRIVING AT ROBBING AND BEAVER COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT, UM, I DON'T KNOW THAT I'VE SEEN THE STRUCTURE OF THAT.
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I CAN'T TELL YOU THAT I'VE SEEN THE STRUCTURE OF THAT.AND THEN THE REASON WHY I'M ASKING IS BECAUSE SOME OF THESE, SOME OF THESE, UH, THESE STRUCTURE THAT HAVE BEEN BROKE UP A SEEMS LIKE THEY WERE UP UNDER, UH, A PREVIOUS DIRECTOR, I BELIEVE.
UH, I BELIEVE IT, I MEAN, W UH, MCCORD'S, UH, TITLE WAS WHAT CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER, UH, MS. WALTER, IS THAT CORRECT? HE WAS A CHIEF AUXILIARY OFFICER.
SHE VOTED THE CHIEF OFFICER, RIGHT.
AND A LOT OF THESE, UM, UH, THINGS THAT WE'RE GOING OVER.
IT, IT SEEMS AS THOUGH A GREAT BIT OF THEM WOULD GO UP UNDER, UNDER THAT TITLE.
AND, YOU KNOW, UM, I THINK THAT THAT WOULD, THAT, THAT BRINGING THAT TOGGLE BACK WOULD EVEN SAVE WAS SOME MONEY VERSUS CREATING SOME OF THESE OTHER POSITIONS, AS WELL AS THE, UH, I BELIEVE THE ATHLETIC DIRECTOR IS AS WELL EVEN, UH, TO SOME DEGREE, POSSIBLY EVEN SERVING THAT IN THAT, IN THAT COMPANY, THAT CAPACITY TO SIT, TO SAVE WITH SOME, SOME, UH, FINANCIAL MONEY, JUST, JUST A FOOD FOR THOUGHT, JUST TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW CAN WE GET WHAT WE WANT TO GET DONE WITH, UH, BEING GOOD STEWARDS OF, OF, UH, OF THE MONEY BAG.
UM, YOU JUST, JUST FOOD FOR THOUGHT.
I WAS, I WAS JUST WONDERING AS I WAS OVERWHELMED AS I WAS LOOKING FOR ME.
UH, AS WELL AS, UH, I WAS WONDERING HOW LONG HAS THIS DISTRICT BEEN RUNNING WITHOUT A ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY OUR DIRECTOR, BUT I KNOW WE HAD ONE IN THE PAST, BUT WE, WE, AT THIS CURRENT TIME WE DON'T HAVE IT.
AND I WAS JUST WONDERING, HOW WAS IT FLOWING WITHOUT ONE RIGHT NOW? I DON'T KNOW HOW LONG IT'S BEEN.
UH, ALICE, CAN YOU, CAN YOU SPEAK TO THAT? I CAN'T MR. SMITH, WE CURRENTLY HAVE, UM, UH, ELEMENTARY DIRECTOR AND WE SAID, OH, WE DON'T HAVE THE SECONDARY DIRECTOR.
AND I'M OUT, I'M JUST ASKING FOR THE SECONDARY DIRECTION DIRECTOR, HOW LONG HAVE WE'VE NOT HAD ONE? UM, IF I CAN REMEMBER CORRECTLY, IT'S PROBABLY BEEN A COUPLE OF YEARS MR. SMITH.
AND I WAS JUST WONDERING, HOW HAVE WE BEEN FUNCTIONING WELL, WITHOUT IT, BECAUSE I'M CONCERNED WELL, YEAH.
WELL, I GUESS I WOULD SAY THAT WE DON'T HAVE AN ACHIEVEMENT GAP THAT'S BEEN CLOSED, WOULD BE THE WAY I WOULD RESPOND TO THAT AND, AND THAT TO BE TRUE, BUT I WAS PAYING TO PLAY AND I WANT TO PLAY DEVIL'S ADVOCATE TO THE ANSWER THAT I WOULD SAY ALSO, UH, WE DON'T WANT TO, I I'M, I'M A LITTLE CONCERNED THAT THOSE POSITIONS MAY BE OVERLAPPING WITH THE CHIEF, WITH THE CHIEF.
UH, I MEAN, WITH THE DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT, BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, UM, IT CONCERNED ME WHEN WE FIRST GOT THE DEPUTY THAT THAT POSITION WAS ALWAYS OVERLAPPING WITH THE, A VOWEL WITH ISD.
SO, I MEAN, I'M JUST TRYING TO KIND OF UNDERSTANDING WITH HIRING OF ALL THESE NEW POSITIONS, HOW WILL THEY INTERCEDE AND NOT OVERLAP AT ALL? BECAUSE IT JUST SEEMS THAT THERE IS SOME OVERLAPPING GOING ON AND SUCH AND SUCH OFFERS FROM JUST LISTENING TO WHAT SOMETIMES WHAT THE, WHAT TOOK PLACE.
I GUESS WHAT I CAN SAY IS THAT, UH, IN MY PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE, AS A SUPERINTENDENT, HAVING SERVED AS A REGIONAL SUPERINTENDENT, OVERSEEING PRINCIPALS AND COACHING AND MENTORING PRINCIPALS, I CAN TELL YOU THAT THE ISD DEPARTMENT HAS THEIR WORK CUT OUT FOR THEM IN MAINTAINING, SUSTAINING, WORKING THROUGH AND DEVELOPING CURRICULUM AND CURRICULAR WORK AND SUPPORT FOR SCHOOLS.
THEY ARE NOT, UH, THEIR BANDWIDTH WILL END THERE.
THEY DON'T HAVE THE ABILITY TO HAVE THE BANDWIDTH THAT WE WANT, UH, IN ORDER TO, TO HAVE THAT OVERSIGHT, COACHING, MENTORING, AND DEVELOPMENT OF PRINCIPALS, ASSISTANT PRINCIPALS, LEADERSHIP TEAMS AT SCHOOLS, RIGHT.
I CAN TELL YOU THAT, UH, RESEARCH BEST PRACTICES FROM THE WALLACE FOUNDATION AND FOR MANY OTHER, UH, UH, ORGANIZATIONS ABOUT PRINCIPAL TO PRINCIPAL, SUPERVISOR RATIO, THEY TELL YOU THAT 32 FOR ONE IS NOT THE ANSWER THAT YOU NEED TO BE DOWN CLOSER TO SIX OR SEVEN TO ONE, BUT THAT'S JUST NOT LIKELY IN THE WAY SCHOOLS ARE FUNDED.
SO GENERALLY SPEAKING ABOUT THE BEST YOU CAN GET TO IS AROUND 16 THAT'S 17 OR 18 TO ONE.
AND SO, UH, THIS DESIGN ALLOWS FOR THAT.
AND WE TALKED A LOT ABOUT, WHICH WAS ALSO IDENTIFIED IN THE EFFICIENCY STUDY IN CONSISTENCIES ACROSS SCHOOLS.
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A LOT OF THAT HAPPENS BECAUSE IT'S 32 TO ONE, AND YOU NARROW THAT RATIO DOWN, AND YOU SAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS SUPERVISED BY THIS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, SECONDARY SCHOOLS SUPERVISED BY THIS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, ALL OVERSEEN BY THE DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT, CHIEF OF SCHOOLS WHO UNDER HIS SUPERVISION BRINGS TOGETHER ISD SCHOOL FUNCTIONS, SCHOOLS THEMSELVES, RIGHT.AND I'M GOING TO BE ADDING THE TECHNOLOGY COMPONENT TO US.
THAT IS A MORE SUCCESSFUL, UH, RECIPE FOR CLOSING ACHIEVEMENT GAPS OVERALL, IN MY OPINION, RATHER THAN, UH, HAVING IT JUST ALL THROWN UNDER ONE PLACE.
AND, AND, AND, UH, AND NOT HAVING THE BANDWIDTH TO DELIVER ON THAT WORK, I'VE SEEN IT WORK.
I'VE DONE THE WORK UVA WILL WHEN THEY COME AND BRIEF THE ACADEMIC COMMITTEE ON, ON, UH, ON THAT WORK, WON'T EVEN WALK IN THE DOOR UNLESS YOU HAVE A COMMITMENT TO THAT KIND OF A RATIO.
SO I SEE PERSONALLY IN MY PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE IN 26 YEARS OF EDUCATION, TREMENDOUS VALLEY, THE DEDICATED PRINCIPAL, PRINCIPAL, SUPERVISOR, RACIAL THAT IS SMALLER, AND THE STRUCTURE IS NOT DESIGNED TO OVERLAP, BUT DESIGNED TO WORK TOGETHER FOR STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT.
UH, AND I, I RESPECT YOU A PERSONAL, YOUR PERSONAL EXPERIENCE DIED EARLY.
SO I THANK YOU, BUT I'M JUST CONCERNED SOMETIME WHEN WE USE DAILY, BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, DATA, WE CAN FUDGE THE DATA AND WE CAN FORMULATE DATA TO SAY WHATEVER WE WANT DINNER TO SAY, OR AS WELL AS PRIOR PROJECTS OR OUR RESEARCH, YOU KNOW, WE CAN MAKE RESEARCH TO SAY WE WANT, BECAUSE I'M SURE THERE'S A THOUSAND DIFFERENT, UH, POINTS OF RESEARCH OUT THERE.
SO MY CONCERN IS HOW DO WE PUT THE TEETH INTO IT? AND WHAT DO WE CURRENT HAVE? HOW ARE WE USING IT AND HOW IT ADDING, HOW ARE WE GOING TO BENEFIT FROM IT IN TERMS OF THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP, JUST FOR INSTANCE, AS A SUPERINTENDENT AND THESE POSITIONS, HOW WILL THAT INVOLVE YOU AND HOW WILL THAT HELP YOU TO GET THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP? WE HADN'T ASKED YOU THAT QUESTION.
AND WE, AND WE ENTERED TO PUT THESE INTERNAL, UH, POSITIONS, AND, AND, AND WE, WE CAN PUT THESE AT THESE POSITIONS THAT YOU BRING FORWARD TO THE BOARD.
HOW WILL THAT HELP YOU OUT PUT TEETH INTO IT AS A SUPERINTENDENT TO GET THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP DONE? HOW DOES THAT INVOLVE YOU? BECAUSE I HEAR YOU SAID THE, ABOUT THE DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT, BUT AT WHAT POINT WILL YOU GET INVOLVED? SO I'M GOING TO CARRY IT.
THEY'RE GOING TO CARRY OUT MY VISION FOR, FOR THE SUPPORT OF THE SCHOOLS, RIGHT? SO I'M, HANDS-ON ON THESE THINGS.
CONSTRUCTION IS MY BACKGROUND.
ACADEMICS AND INSTRUCTION IS MY BACKGROUND, RIGHT? I'M AN EDUCATOR BY TRADE, RIGHT.
SO, SO ESSENTIALLY, UH, YOU KNOW, OUR WORK ACADEMICALLY HERE, RIGHT.
I UNDERSTAND WHAT WE'RE DOING.
I'M ENGAGED IN WHAT WE'RE DOING.
I CAN'T BE EVERYWHERE ALL THE TIME FOR, THAT'S WHY YOU HIRE PEOPLE LIKE A DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT TO ZERO IN AND FOCUS ON A COMPONENT OF THAT WORK, THE CHIEF INSTRUCTIONAL SERVICES OFFICER TO FOCUS IN, ON COMPONENT OF THAT WORK AND SO ON AND SO FORTH.
SO MR. DAN WILL BE THE LAST ONE, AND THEN WE'LL TAKE A FIVE MINUTE BREAK BEFORE WE GO ON TO THE LESSONS LEARNED.
RODRIGUEZ KISH, JUST WANT TO GET CLEAR ON ONE THING GAIT, YOU SAY THAT THE DIRECTOR THAT THE ISD WOULD BE DELIVERING CURRICULUM THAT THE SCHOOLS NEED.
THEIR FOCUS IS ON COORDINATING AND WORKING THROUGH THE, THE, THE ACADEMIC RESOURCES, THE CURRICULUM OF THE, THE, UH, UH, HELPING TO MONITOR THAT COMPONENT AS WELL.
NOW, AS, SO MY QUESTION IS HOW DOES THAT COMPLIMENT OR OVERLAP OR CONFLICT WITH WHAT DR.
STRATASYS ROLE IS? WELL, THAT IS DR.
AND I DON'T MEAN THIS IN A SARCASTIC WAY.
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WORKING ON CURRICULUM? AND WHO'S A CA WHO'S THE ACCOUNTABILITY POINT FOR MR. DANNY? IF YOU'RE ASKING WITH REGARD TO MY CURRENT, FROM MY DIVISION.SO I CONSTRUCTED OF 11 DIRECTORS WITHIN OUR DIRECTORS.
THAT INCLUDES LITERACY ELEMENTARY DIRECTOR, C T E DATA.
THE POINT THAT A SERVICES DEPARTMENT, OUR DIRECTORS, WE HAVE A COMBINATION OF COORDINATORS SPECIFICALLY FOR COORDINATORS, FOR INSTRUCTION.
WE HAVE A MATH, SCIENCE, STEM COORDINATOR.
WE HAVE AN ESAU SLASH WORLD LANGUAGE COORDINATOR, PROVIDING SERVICES AND SUPPORT.
NOW, I ALSO WANT TO MAKE AVAILABLE.
WE MR. DIRECTOR FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE FAMILIAR WITH ACTUALLY WE HAVE DIRECT HANDLE DIVISION ON THE APART MENTOR.
AND THEN WE HAVE SUPPORT COORDINATORS SPECIFICALLY WITH REGARD TO ACCOUNTABILITY.
OUR JOB IS TO HELP ASSIST OUR SCHOOL SITES WITH CURRICULUM RESOURCES, BUT THE ONSET OF I'D LIKE TO SAY, UM, A FORMATIVE EVALUATION TOOL THAT WE'LL GET INTO GREAT WILL ALL ALSO THEN TO DRIVE SOME OF OUR RESOURCES IN RESPONSE TO HOW OUR FORMATIVE TESTING IS TAKING PLACE, AS WELL AS ONE OF OUR INTERNAL.
THAT, THAT WAS MY UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT YOU DO.
SO MY QUESTION IS HOW DOES THE DIRECTOR OF STUDENT SUCCESS HELP YOU IN CURRICULUM? I HAD A FEELING THAT'S WHERE YOU WOULD DRIVE THE BUS, SIR.
SO THE DIRECTOR OF STUDENT SUCCESS WILL BE WORKING WITH OUR PROGRAM, WHICH IS ONE OF OUR DIRECTORS IS OUR ALTERNATIVE EDUCATION, RIGHT? CHOICES OR HEARINGS, BEING ABLE TO SUPPORT SEL SUPPORT, UM, OUR SOCIAL WORKERS.
SO IT GOES BEYOND NOT JUST THE INSTRUCTIONAL, BUT IS THAT THE HUMAN COMPONENT OR THE BASIC LEVEL OF MASS LOW, RIGHT? THE NEEDS OF THE NEEDS OF THE LEARNER, SO THAT WE COULD TAKE YOU TO THE NEXT LEVEL.
AND THAT WOULD FALL UNDER THEM, INCLUDING IF I'M CORRECT ON THE DEFINITIONS WITHIN OUR PRESENTATION, THAT WE WOULD HAVE OTHER SUPPORT SERVICES.
AND WE'LL GET MORE INFORMATION THIS AFTERNOON FROM DR.
CAMPBELL REGARDING THAT WITH SOME OF THE WORK WITH, OKAY, THANK YOU.
IT'S TWO 20 AND WE'LL TAKE A FIVE MINUTE BREAK AND RESUME AT TWO 20.
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UH, IN SESSION.AND OUR NEXT TOPIC FOR THE WORK SESSION IS LESSONS LEARNED.
BRADLEY, I CAN PICK IT OVER, BUT I'M WEARING RED TODAY.
NEXT, UH, COMPONENT ON THE WORK SESSION TODAY IS LESSONS LEARNED K-12 AND DR.
STRADDLES, SHE'S GOING TO WALK US THROUGH THAT.
SO PUT UP, YOU KNOW, THAT I DO WANT TO TEST FOR IT SO EVERYONE COULD HEAR ME IF THERE'S CLARITY.
THANK YOU GREATLY APPRECIATE IT.
SO THANK YOU FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY TO SHARE LESSONS LEARNED WITH REGARDS TO OUR K-12 LEARNING SOLUTIONS.
I WANT TO START BY HEARING THAT FROM THE ONSET, IT WAS AN OVERALL SENSE THAT THE PROVIDER GENERALLY WANT IT TO BE A SOLUTION TO DISTRICT'S NEEDS BY PROVIDING QUALITY CURRICULUM TO STUDENTS IN A VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT.
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SECONDLY, I WANT TO SHARE A, WE BOTH HAD A PRESENTATION TO BOOK THE PROVIDER UNDER ESTIMATED, AND WE FEEL THE ABILITY OF THEIR SOFTWARE TO ADAPT TO THE COMPLEXITY OF A SCHOOL DISTRICT.UM, ROBIN, IF YOU COULD DRIVE FORWARD.
AS A SCHOOL BOARD, I FORMALLY BROUGHT FORWARD K-12 SOLUTIONS TO YOU ON JULY 28TH, BUT PRIOR TO THAT, I'D LIKE YOU TO RECOGNIZE THAT THE FIRST WEEK, IF YOU CAN HIT THAT FIRST HYPERLINK TO SAVE IT CLICKS OVER.
AND I DON'T KNOW HOW TO TELL YOU TO GET READY TO, UM, HIT LATER AND THE BOTTOM END OF THAT LAST LINE, THE LAST LINE IN THAT GRAY AREA.
SO I'D LIKE THE FIRST YEAR THAT IN JUNE ARE THE VISION CONDUCTED.
YOU COULD JUST THROW THEM UP A LITTLE BIT IN THIS PUSH VARY.
WE CONDUCTED A SURVEY ON FAMILIES ACTUALLY INSTITUTED THE MAN.
AND BASICALLY THE SERVING WAS FACE-TO-FACE VERSUS VIRTUAL.
A QUICK SUMMARY OF THIS INFORMATION JUST SHOWS THAT THERE WERE MULTIPLE PAGES OF INFORMATION WE HAVEN'T GONE THROUGH.
AND I WOULD PROBABLY PUT IT INTO ONE PAGE FOR YOU FROM ONE SPREADSHEET THAT WE FOUND THAT WE HAD JUST ABOUT 19,000 RESPONSES, WE WERE SHORT ABOUT 3000.
THAT TREND ACTUALLY HAS CONTINUED ALL THE WAY THROUGH WHAT OUR SURVEYS FROM THIS SURVEY, WE IDENTIFIED 4,912 FAMILIES WHO BASICALLY SAID, YES, I AM INTERESTED AT REMAINING IN A VIRTUAL CONTEXT AS WE WERE NOW DEEPLY INTO, UM, THE COVID PANDEMIC.
SO HE CAN GO BACK TO THE PRESENTATION.
I JUST WANT YOU TO GET A SENSE OF SOME OF THE NUMBERS THAT WE WERE LOOKING AT.
THE SECOND TIME THAT WE'VE BROUGHT FORWARD ON K-12 SOLUTIONS WAS ON JULY 28TH.
WHEN THE PRESENTATION WAS DONE TO THE WHOLE BOARD ON AUGUST 4TH, WE, WE HAD THE APPROVAL OF THE PLATFORM AND THAT WE ALL RECOGNIZE THAT ON SEPTEMBER 15TH AND IMPORTANT IN ALIGNMENT WITH ANOTHER SCHOOL DISTRICT, WE DECIDED AS IF, AS A GROUP, THE TERMINATION OF THE CONTRACT, THE SERVICE WITH THE VENDOR, IF WE CAN CONTINUE, PLEASE, THIS IS JUST A REVIEW FROM THE TIMELINE OF WHAT WENT ON BETWEEN MAY AND JUNE.
WHEN WE MET WITH DIFFERENT GROUPS, WE HAD DIFFERENT COMPANIES, AND THIS IS JUST SHOWING YOU HOW, AGAIN, THAT WE LANDED WITH THE SPECIFIC VENDOR.
IF YOU COULD PROCEED TO THE NEXT SLIDE, THANK YOU.
THESE WERE THE VENDORS THAT WE LOOKED AT, ADMIN, AND THEN THEM WAS ONE.
THEY'RE ALSO THE, UM, OWNER OF HUB, EXACT PATH.
NEXT SLIDE, EIGHT, 12 SOLUTIONS.
THESE ARE YOUR PROS ON WHY WE LANDED WITH THEM.
NEXT LINE, WE LOOKED ALSO AT SCHOOLOGY.
NOW, MANY OF YOU ARE NOW FAMILIAR FAMILIAR WITH AT SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION HAS PURCHASED SCHOOLOGY, AND THEY'VE ALSO PURCHASED ANOTHER PLATFORM OF CONTENT THAT WE ARE JUST NOW STARTING TO HAVE STAFF MEMBERS WITHIN MY DIVISION BEING TRAINED.
AND THAT PLATFORM IS THROUGH DISCOVERY EDUCATION.
THAT INFORMATION WAS RELEASED THIS WEEK BY RYAN BROWN, BUT THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION.
AND WE'VE ALREADY PUSHED THAT OUT TO THE SCHOOLS, BUT WE'RE GOING TO HAVE OUR TRAINING FOR US.
WE'LL TRAIN THE TRAINER MODEL HERE AT THE DISTRICT, AS WELL AS TRAINING BEING DEPLOYED DOWN TO OUR SCHOOL SITES.
AND WE JUST RECEIVED AGAIN, THAT NOTIFICATION, THIS MONDAY BASED RECEIVED THIS, ESPECIALLY, CAN YOU GO BACK TO THAT SLIDE FOR ME? UH, I JUST WANT TO POINT OUT, YOU HEARD ME TALK EARLIER ABOUT AN ASSESSMENT PERFORMANCE SYSTEM AND, UH, UH, ONE THAT WE CAN USE TO MONITOR STUDENT PROGRESS.
THAT ASSESSMENT PERFORMANCE SYSTEM IS POWER SCHOOLS.
UH, IT'S PERFORMANCE MATTERS, WHICH WAS ACQUIRED BY POWER SCHOOL.
SO THE SYSTEMS INTEGRATE AND THE BILL AND WHAT DR.
RODRIGUEZ JUST SAID WITH THE POWER SCHOOL AND IT'S OKAY, ROB, YOU CAN GO, GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE.
WHAT POWER SCHOOL HAVING SCHOOLOGY AND PERFORMANCE MATTERS, WHERE NOW TEACHERS WILL BE ABLE TO HAVE A ONE-STOP SHOP INSTEAD OF GOING TO MULTIPLE PLATFORMS. AGAIN, IT IS ABOUT EASE AND LIKE
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GIVING OUR TEACHERS TOOLS, BUT NOT SO MANY THING, STUFF.SO MANY RESTARTS THAT THEY HAVE TO KEEP LEARNING SOMETHING NEW.
THESE POINTS ON THIS SLIDE, IDENTIFY WHERE WE HAD LANDED TO THE WHY OF K-12.
AND IS THAT GRANDBABY SHARED EARLY.
THEY ALSO HAD AN EMBEDDED FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT WITHIN THEIR INSTRUCTION.
SO THIS IS WHERE WE START WITH LESSONS LEARNED.
I HAD SENT OUT A SURVEY, BUT WE'LL LIVE WITH TWO QUESTIONS.
WHAT DID WE LEARN? QUESTION TWO.
WHAT DID WE LEARN? AND I'D PUT TOGETHER RESPONSES.
AND AT THE VERY END, I'LL GIVE SOME FEEDBACK FROM MY MOM, MYSELF AND MEMBERS OF MY DIVISION.
SO ONE ITEM LESSON LEARNED IS THAT IT TAKES TIME AND, AND TRIALS OF THE SIDE OF A PROGRAM IS APPROPRIATE FOR DISTRICT WIDE PURCHASE, ESPECIALLY FOR A DISTRICT, OUR SIZE, NEXT SIDE, YOU CAN'T MAKE SOMETHING FIT.
THANK YOU, SUSPICION MARY, YOU CAN'T MAKE SOMETHING FIT THAT IS NOT ALIGNED TO WHAT WE DO.
AND I WANT TO SPEAK TO THAT COMPONENT FOR A MOMENT THAT WAS TAKING A CURRICULUM THAT WE STRONGLY FELT WAS QUALITY.
IT WAS ASSISTANCE WITHIN THE VENDORS ORGANIZATION ITSELF THAT WASN'T FITTING INTO THE OPERATIONS OF SCHOOL DISTRICTS.
THE LAST BULLET SHARES A POTENTIAL VENDOR NEEDS TO SUPPLY A COMPLETE IMPLEMENTATION TIMELINE WHEN SET PROJECT DEADLINES FROM BOTH THE VENDOR OR THE VENDOR AND THE DISTRICT BOTH ALSO NEED TO ASSIGN A DEDICATED PROJECT MANAGER TO MONITOR TASKS COMPLETION AND DELIVERABLE TIMELINES.
THIS WEEK CAME INTO RECOGNITION.
AND YOU'LL SEE ONE OF MY COMMENTS LATER ON WITH REGARD TO READING THE ROADMAP.
WHEN WE WERE REACHING OUT WITH QUESTIONS AND HAVING ISSUES, IT WOULD GO FROM PERSON TO PERSON B, PERSON C WASN'T RESPONDING.
SO WE HAD TO KEEP GOING UP THE FOOD CHAIN IN ORDER TO GET OUR RESPONSES THAT WE CAN CONTINUE THIS DISCUSSION.
THIS SLIDE CONTINUES AND IT CAN HAVE DIRECT ACCESS TO A PROGRAM IS CRITICAL, RIGHT? IN OTHER WORDS, IMMEDIATELY GETTING OUT TO US UPFRONT, BUT WE RECOGNIZE THAT ON AUGUST 4TH IS WHEN WE SIGNED CONTRACT.
OUR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT DID NOT HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO START UNTIL THE WEEK OF AUGUST 10, WHERE WE HAD DISTRICT PERSONNEL AND PRINCIPALS WERE ABLE TO GET INVOLVED WITH APS.
THE NEXT LEVEL PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WAS IMPLEMENTED AUGUST 17TH, WHERE WE STARTED WITH A TRAINED AND TRAINED THEM ON THE FOLLOWING WEEK.
ACTUALLY WE ALL RECALL WAS LEAP WEEK WHERE IT WAS AUGUST 24TH, WHERE WE'VE DEPLOYED INTO OUR SCHOOL SITES.
WE HAD INFORMATION EARLIER THIS MORNING ON PD, AND THEN THE FOLLOWING WEEK OF AUGUST 31ST, THEN ACTUALLY WE WERE CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR A STUDENTS OF SPECIAL NEEDS OR SUPPORT STAFF, AS WELL AS ANY, ANY NEW TEACHERS WHO WERE ONBOARDED FROM WHEN WE INITIALLY STARTED ANY TRAININGS.
THE SECOND BULLET SHARES THAT WE ARE HAMPERED IN OUR INACCURATE EFFORTS, BY THE LACK OF CON CONTRACT THAT HAD TIME DOWN DELIVERABLE DELIVERABLES TO HOLD K-12 SOLUTIONS ACCOUNTABLE TO OUR TIME TABLE, NAMELY SPECIFIC, AND JUST STARTED THE SCHOOL YEAR.
IT GOES A CRITICAL ONE, AND I DO LOVE HOW THERE'S ONE PERSON IS PUTTING IN PLACE.
THE IMPORTANCE OF ASKING PROVIDE IS A QUESTION OF, HAVE YOU DONE THIS RATHER THAN, CAN YOU DO THIS NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE? I WON'T READ ALL OF THIS TO YOU.
I'LL TAKE A MOMENT FOR YOU TO READ NEED A VIRTUAL LEARNING SUBJECT, NOT ONLY WITH REGARD TO, UM, A PAN GLOBAL PANDEMIC, DEVON, BUT IF WITH REGARDS TO JUST USE OF USING THE TEMPORARY WORLD OR THE CASE OF, OF A HURRICANE, NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE MISS, ESPECIALLY VERY ON A POSITIVE NOTE, THE PLANNING OF WORK TO ALIGN INSTRUCTION AND WHAT STANDARDS WAS COMPREHENSIVE.
HOWEVER, NEXT TIME, OR I WOULD APPROACH IT A LITTLE DIFFERENTLY.
I WOULD WANT A LOG-IN AND SANDBOX AND SANDBOX SPACE.
AND WEIGHT IS A, A SHELL THAT'S CREATED BY A SOFTWARE COMPANY THAT ALLOWS YOU TO GO IN AND THE VAN HATFIELD REALLY CRUSH KILL, DESTROY.
YOU CANNOT HURT IT, BUT UNLESS YOU FEEL YOUR CAPACITY AND USAGE AND LET YOU KNOW WHAT THE CAPABILITY OF THAT SOFTWARE LEGS, YOU, YOU KNOW, SECOND FROM THE LAST SENTENCE, I WOULD ALSO HAVE A MORE COMPREHENSIVE TEAM ONGOING.
WE INCLUDED PEOPLE AT DIFFERENT PARTS, BUT I WOULD WANT GRADE LEVEL TEAMS, BEAUTIFUL RECOMMENDATION, BUT WE WERE A LITTLE TIGHT ON CONSTRAINT OF TIME THAT WE WERE TURNING THINGS AROUND AS WELL.
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SO CRITICAL TIME IS NEEDED TO ALLOW TEACHERS TO PROBABLY PREPARE AND LEARN A NEW SYSTEM.WE RECOGNIZE IT, HANS, THE ONBOARDING ON AUGUST 24TH OR PD AND THE FOLLOWING WEEK TEACHERS STILL ASK FOR MORE.
WE GET HABIT PLACE, THE OPPORTUNITY, WHAT I WANT TO PULL AND PULL ON SYSTEM THAT THE VENDOR WAS GOING TO PROVIDE.
THEN THEY WOULD HAVE BOND PERSONNEL AVAILABLE THAT TEACH TEACHERS WITH COBRA SUPPORT THAT HELPED US, AND THEY WERE PLANNING TO RUN SOME ADDITIONAL TRAININGS AND THAT'S IN THE PAST, BUT THIS WAS WHAT THEY HAD SHARED THAT THEY WOULD PROVIDE US SECOND POLAND, ALL POTENTIAL VENDOR SOLUTIONS NEED TO BE ASKED AGAIN, HAVE YOU, INSTEAD OF THE CANYON, I DON'T WANT LIKE A PROCESS LIKE THIS CANNOT OCCUR IN SUMMER MONTHS TO BE ROLLED OUT IN AUGUST.
ADEQUATE TIME AND WHOLE USE OF USES REQUIRES AN EXTENSIVE TIME COMMITMENT IN ORDER BE EFFICIENT.
OPERATIONAL IS SIX TO NINE MONTHS.
WE RECOGNIZE WE DID NOT HAVE THAT OPPORTUNITY, BUT I HAVE TO PLEASE.
SO IN SUMMARY, THESE, IF SOMEBODY ITEMS RIGHT, THE TIME FACTOR, STATE, ELECTRONIC CONTENT NOT AVAILABLE, BUT IF THEIR STATE IS SUB CONTENT, WASN'T AVAILABLE KINDLY TO US, UM, AS AN INDUSTRY LEADER, RIGHT? THEY WERE THE INDUSTRY LEADER ON VIRTUAL LEARNERS.
WE RECOGNIZED IT, BUT THEN I REWORKED TO, DID THEY FIT INTO THE SCHOOL DISTRICT? DID NOT KNOW THAT UNTIL WE WERE IN OPERATIONS WITH THE PROVIDING SELF EVALUATION OF MEETING NEEDS AS A PROCESS THAT WE'RE ACTUALLY GOING TO WRITE DOWN DEFINITIVE IN WRITING.
SO A WORK AT A TASK FOUNDER, SCOPE OF WORK IN TERMS OF CONDITIONS OR AT THE FOURTH.
AND THIS WAS ONE THAT AN ITEM SLOWED DOWN, READ THE ROAD ROADMAP.
AND I LITERALLY HAVE A FINAL SLIDE.
THIS SUSPICION, GARY, THANK YOU.
I WILL READ IT OUT TOO, BUT I THINK I SAVED THIS ONE.
I PUT IN THE LAST, BECAUSE I FOUND THEM, BUT RATHER STRONG.
I HAVE TO SHARE THAT IT WAS A LOT OF TIME, BUT IN MY DIVISION, ESPECIALLY WITH GET INTO OUR EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY TEAM, WE STARTED THE ONBOARDING OF THIS, WHAT A HOLISTIC TEAM, WHEN PEOPLE AT THE TABLE, IT WASN'T JUST SOME EDUCATORS.
WE KNEW WE HAD TECHNOLOGY INVOLVED AS WELL.
WHEN WE ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT ONBOARDING OF TENDON TECHNOLOGY, WE WOULDN'T TELL HIM YES, IT DOES.
UH, I'LL LEAVE THOSE ITEMS ALONE AT THIS TIME.
SO AT THIS TIME I AM OPEN TO BUSHINGS AND GROWTH PLATES.
I WAS ACTUALLY JUST ON THAT LAST SLIDE.
THAT WAS PROBABLY MY BIGGEST TAKEAWAY ON THAT WAS THE TECHNOLOGY COMPONENT AND ITS INTEROPERABILITY.
WHEN, WHAT WE USE AT, I THINK THAT THAT ONE'S, UM, ONE OF THE BIGGEST TAKEAWAYS FOR ME AS A BOARD MEMBER, I KNOW I HAD ASKED ABOUT THAT.
WE WERE HEARD THAT THAT WAS FINE AND EVERYTHING OPERATED AND THERE WAS, I THINK SOME PROMISES MADE ON THAT.
UM, BUT I THINK THAT THERE MAYBE NEEDS TO BE SOME, SOME FOLLOW UP QUESTIONS.
SO
AND WHAT, WHAT DO YOU DO TO BRIDGE INTO POWERSCHOOL AND ANSWER, ANSWER.
BUT THERE WAS SORT OF THREE BARGES STORAGE AND SECURITY.
I WAS A QUESTION I WAS STARTING TO BE NOTE DETAILED CAUSE I WROTE DOWN THE QUESTIONS PROVIDED AND THE RESPONSES, UM, TEAM AT THE TIME FELT EVERYTHING WAS WELL.
I FEEL STRONGLY THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT SUCH A LARGE SERVICE.
THEY HAVE A LITTLE MORE IN WRITING FIRST BECAUSE SAYING YES.
AND THEN MAKING OPERATIONAL WASN'T WASN'T OUT IN THE SUN.
UM, SO I THINK THE BOARD, THE OTHER PIECE OF THIS EQUATION IS THE BOARD REQUIRES A LITTLE INTROSPECTION TOO.
AND WHAT LESSONS HAVE WE LEARNED AS A BOARD? I'M CLEAR ON WHAT DR.
STRATOSE PRESENTED, BUT I'D ALSO LIKE TO UNDERSTAND FROM THE BOARDS END, YOU KNOW, THAT CONTRACT WOULD HAVE GONE THROUGH WITHOUT BOARD APPROVAL.
SO WE HOLD SOME OF THAT RESPONSIBILITY.
AND, UM, SO I'D JUST LIKE TO ASK SOME OF MY FELLOW BOARD MEMBERS, WHAT YOU FEEL YOUR LESSONS LEARNED, OR I KNOW WHAT MINE ARE CERTAINLY, UM, IN THIS, IN THIS EVENT.
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OKAY.THE ONE THING THAT I WOULD ADD IN THAT REGARD IS THAT I THINK THERE NEEDS TO BE SOME TYPE OF STANDARDS FOR WHEN THESE CONTRACTS COME FORWARD TO US.
UM, ALMOST THE CHECKLIST, IF YOU WILL, WAS THIS ACCOMPLISHED? WHAT WAS THE SCOPE, CERTAIN QUESTIONS THAT ARE JUST BY DEFAULT ASKED FOR ANSWERED BY, UM, THE DISTRICT.
SO I DON'T KNOW IF THAT NEEDS TO BE SOMETHING THAT'S DEVELOPED, BUT, UM, THAT'S MY, IT'S JUST GOOD AGAIN, I'M EXPECTING, HOPEFULLY THIS DEGREE WOULD HAVE A PROCESS THAT WAS THAT.
CAN YOU SPEAK A LITTLE LOUDER? WHO WHO'S SPEAKING NOW? I WAS HOPING WE'D HAVE A PROCESS WHERE WE GO TO PURCHASE SOFTWARE.
THIS IS THE PROCESS WE GO THROUGH.
AND THEN YOU TAKE YOUR LESSONS, LEARN.
HOW DOES THAT PROCESS TO CHANGE? SO THAT IT'S NOT.
SO IT'S NOT JUST THAT, YOU KNOW, IF I KNEW WOULD BE NOTICED WITH EVERYBODY COMING BEHIND US WILL BE WHAT THE FIX IS.
THIS PROCESS SUCH AS WE NEED TO GET A CONTRACT ATTORNEY TO LOOK AT THE CONTRACT AND CONTRACT ATTORNEY AGAIN, SHOWED US ALL THIS WRONG.
THE PROCESS NEEDS TO CHANGE HERE.
THAT'S KIND OF, THAT'S WHAT I WAS KIND OF HOPING TO SEE.
THAT'S JUST BECAUSE OF MY BACK.
I'M USED TO, BUT I THINK WHAT HELPS US, WE GET THOSE PROCESSES.
SO YOU'RE OUT ONE DAY, THE NEXT PERSON SAYS, OKAY, WHAT ARE WE DOING? STEP ONE, LIKE THE CHECKLIST, STEP ONE, REDEFINING THE SCOPE.
HOW DO WE DEFINE THE SCOPE? WE TALKED TO ALL THE POTENTIAL USERS EMPLOYED.
YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? I KNOW IT'S A PAIN TO DO THAT, BUT YOU ONLY HAVE TO DO IT ONCE.
AND THEN YOU COULD CONSTANTLY GET IMPROVEMENTS FROM YOUR LICENSE BY, YOU KNOW, YOU NEED A CONTRACT ATTORNEY TO LOOK AT THIS BECAUSE NONE OF US ARE CAPABLE OF DISSIPATING.
MY CONTRACT ATTORNEY, ALREADY NOTES, AND A LOT OF THESE OTHER THINGS.
AND I UNDERSTAND WE'RE NOT UNDER TIME, BUT IT'S JUST WOULD LIKE TO SEE US GET TO THE DISCIPLINE OF WRITING OUR PROCESSES, STEPS, STEPS, STEPS.
AND THEN WE KEEP THEM HONEST AND WE IMPROVE THEM ON THE LISTS BECAUSE THE LESSONS LEARNED IS SUPPOSED TO FOCUS ON PROCESS AND HARMONY PEOPLE, NOT INCIDENTS.
IT'S ALWAYS SUPPOSED TO FOCUS ON WHAT DO WE HAVE THIS CORE SO THAT THIS DOES HAVE EITHER WHAT I USED TO SEE ON THERE PROBABLY SHOULD HAVE ARTICULATED THAT BETTER BEFORE WE WENT THROUGH THE SECOND.
BUT I THINK THAT SHE DID BE COLLECTED EVERYBODY'S INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNED EVERYBODY THAT WAS INVOLVED THE VALUE OF WHAT THEY LEARNED, BUT THEN YOU DO MEMORIALIZE THAT SOMETHING WHERE YOU DO THAT.
AND THAT WOULD, I WOULD INCLUDE THE GEAR IS ONE OF THE BOARD
MAY I RESPOND? SO I WOULD LIKE THE OPPORTUNITY TO TAKE THIS INFORMATION.
AND THEN BILL, WHEN, UM, MRS. CROSBY CAN BE DETERMINED, UH, BECAUSE THAT, THAT IS THE NEXT LEVEL OF PROCESS.
WE REFLECTED THAT WAY AND LEGAL AND LEGAL AND TO ADD WHAT THE WHO'S NEVSKY SAID, CERTIFY OF THE RESPONSE, RIGHT? SO YOU'RE SAYING YOU COULD GIVE YOU, BUT WHERE'S YOUR CERTIFICATION OF RESPONSE AND THE SUCCESS.
OTHER THAN ME GOING THROUGH ONE MAKING PHONE CALLS AND ASKING YOU ABOUT THE SPENDER, WHAT DO WE REALLY HAVE TO CERTIFY THIS? WHEN WE'RE LOOKING
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AT PURCHASING OF ITEMS, WHICH ARE WE SPEAKING TO POINTS, HE ANNOUNCED $7 MILLION.WE STARTED THE PROCESS LOOKING AT POTENTIALLY SERVICING ENFORCEMENT.
THEY ALSO HAD STUDENTS WHO TURN THE PROCESS LIVE ON A TIRED HISTORY, SAY TIME CRUNCHING WAS A PART OF IT AS WELL.
UM, AS A VENDOR, THEY'RE GOING TO SAY YES.
UM, BUT WITHIN OURSELVES, OUR OWN PROCESS TO, TO BE MORE DEFINITIVE AND THEN LOOK AT WHAT REGULATIONS WE HAVE IN PLACES OF DISTRICT.
STRAUSS JUST MADE SOME COMMENTS RELATIVE TO WHAT I WAS GOING TO SAY.
FIRST OF ALL, FROM A BOARD PERSPECTIVE, YOU KNOW, WE DIDN'T LOOK AT IT WITH ANY CONCRETENESS, BUT THE TRUTH IS THE TASK THAT WE WERE ASKING TO BE DELIVERED WAS KIND OF LIKE ALMOST AN IMPOSSIBLE TASK.
WHEN WE LOOK FOR SATISFACTION FROM BOTTOM TO TOP TO SATISFY ALL OF THE ENTITIES, SCHOOLS, ET CETERA, THAT MAKE EVERY TEACHER ON BOARD WITH WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DELIVER ON.
IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE WITHIN THAT TIME LIMIT.
IF WE WERE LOOKING FOR, AND THE COMPANIES LIKE STRATA SAY, THEY'RE GOING TO SAY YES, THEY CAN DELIVER IT.
BUT THE FACT IS, YOU KNOW, TO WHOM, WHETHER THEY'RE DELIVERED TO THEM, A CERTAIN PORTION OF, OF THE, OF THE EDUCATORS WOULD BE ABLE TO, YOU KNOW, RECEIVE IT AND DEAL WITH IT.
BUT FOR THE ENTIRE DISTRICT THAT PEOPLE PLAYED, WE NEED A LOT MORE TIME TO PREPARE THEM, EVEN DURING THE DELIVERABLE DATES AND THE TIME, THE LITTLE WINDOW WE HAD.
I MEAN, YOU LOOK BACK AT IT AND SAY, IT REALLY WASN'T, WASN'T POSSIBLE.
YES, WE WANTED TO UTILIZE FLEX, BUT IT WASN'T POSSIBLE TO REALLY GET THAT PRODUCT UP AND RUNNING WITHIN THAT TIME, ADD, YOU KNOW, TO, YOU KNOW, WE CAN'T, WE CAN'T LOOK AT THAT COMPANY IN TERMS OF THEM NOT BEING ABLE TO DELIVER, BECAUSE I'M SURE THEY ALSO NEED A BIGGER WINDOW TO DELIVER.
THEY ARRESTED, YOU WILL SEE THE CONTRACT, YOU KNOW, BY MAKING PROMISES THAT THEY COULDN'T DELIVER IT.
BUT IN ALL FAIRNESS, YOU KNOW, THEY PROBABLY DO HAVE A REPUTABLE PROBLEM.
AND WE REALLY NEED TO LOOK A LITTLE BIT LONGER TERM AT SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
AND I THINK THAT'S WHAT MARY WOULD SAY, OKAY, I'M GOING TO TURN THE FOCUS BACK TO THE BOARD AGAIN.
UM, THEY, THE DISTRICT HAS THEIR RESPONSIBILITY.
WE HAVE OURS, AS I SEE IT, THE BOARD FELL DOWN TWICE.
THE FIRST TIME THE BOARD FELL DOWN, WE ALLOWED THIS TOPIC TO COME ONTO AN AGENDA FOR APPROVAL WITHOUT EVEN HAVING A CONTRACT AVAILABLE.
NOW WE HAD THE GOOD SENSE AT THAT JUNCTURE TO REQUEST.
UM, BUT WHAT THAT DID REQUEST TO SEE, UH, A CONTRACT FOR REVIEW, BUT WHAT THAT DID WAS SLOW THE PROCESS DOWN, WHICH FURTHER PUSHED THE TIMELINE OUT, WHICH FURTHER COMPOUNDED THE PROBLEM.
SO THAT WAS THE FIRST TIME THE BOARD FALTERED.
SECOND TIME THE BOARD FALTERED WAS TO ACCEPT THE CONTRACT AS IS, WE ALL READ IT, WE ALL REVIEWED IT.
WE SAW NOTHING THAT WOULD NORMALLY BE PRESENTED IN THAT CONTRACT.
NOW, THERE HAS TO BE SOME LESSONS FOR THE BOARD HERE CAN ALL BE ADMINISTRATION.
WE MUST TAKE SOME RESPONSIBILITY THERE.
AND HOW WILL WE DO THINGS DIFFERENTLY IN THE FUTURE? DAVID'S DRIVEN DRAG CAUGHT SOME OF WHAT YOU WERE SAYING, BUT YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT A PROCESS THAT SHOULD BE IN PLACE AND SHOULD BE APPLIED UNIFORMLY, YOU KNOW, UH, WITH, WITH ALL CONTRACTS.
I THINK, I THINK I GLEANED YOUR MESSAGE THERE.
THE BOARD ALSO NEEDS TO PUT A PROCESS IN PLACE.
UH, I DO ECHO, UH, OF SOME OF OUR, WHAT MRS. ORSZAG WAS SAYING, OH, HOW LONG WERE THEY? IT GOES BACK TO WHAT I'VE BEEN SAYING FOR A VERY LONG TIME.
NOW, THEN AFTER THAT HAS BEEN IGNORED ON THIS FROM THIS BOARD, I THINK THAT WHEN CONTRACTS COME TO US, WE NEED MORE TIME TO STUDY THE CONTRACTS AND READ OVER THE CONTRACTS AND WE NEED THE CONTRACTS TO COME TO US IN A MORE TIMELY FASHION.
I DON'T THINK, UM, THE AMOUNT OF TIME THAT WE HAVE IS, IS, IS GOOD ENOUGH FOR US TO READ OVER THESE CONTRACTS WHEREVER WE ARE ATTORNEYS OR NOT, BECAUSE ONE PERSON WOULD READ OVER IT.
THEY MAY SEE SOMETHING THAT IS QUESTIONABLE AND, YOU KNOW, THEY, THEY MAY, THEY MAY BE
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ABLE TO ASK THAT QUESTION AND, AND THAT, THAT COULD, UH, POSSIBLY BR BRINGS, IT BRINGS SOME ANSWERS THAT THAT WAS NOT THERE BEFORE.AND, YOU KNOW, I DID THAT, THAT THERE ARE SEVERAL TIMES WHEN, WHEN YOU'RE JUST, JUST HAVING A, HAVING A GOOD AFTER THAT, AFTER ACTION REVIEW THAT I THINK THIS BOARD HAS TO STOP RUBBER STAMPING CONTRACTS WHEN THEY COME BEFORE US.
AND WE HAVE TO ACTUALLY, UH, WE HAVE TO ACTUALLY LOOK INTO THE CONTRACTS AND READ THEM AND UNDERSTAND THEM AND PROCESS THESE CONTRACTS.
I MEAN, BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, THE QUESTION I ASKED MYSELF, UH, W W WHEN, WHEN THIS CONTRACT CAME UP, YOU KNOW, UH, OR LIKE MR. SKIPPER JUST SAID HE HAD LONG WINTERS TO READ HIS CABLE BILL, THEN HE HAD TO READ SOME, THE READER, A PRIOR CONTRACT.
AND THEN THAT QUESTION COMES UP.
DO WE HAVE THE RIGHT AMOUNT OF TIME TO READ THESE CONTRACTS AND PROCESS THESE CONTRACTS? YEAH.
WE CAN GET AN ATTORNEY, AN ATTORNEY, BUT SOMETIMES MORE, UM, MORE THAN ONE EYE IS BETTER THAN THE CONTRACT.
THAT TIME THAT'S ON WHAT YOU CAN ACTUALLY GIVE HER AN ATTORNEY, A CAR, OUR CONTRACT, AND THE ATTORNEY MAY TELL YOU, HE MISSES HIM TO ANOTHER ATTORNEY IN THE FIRM OR ANOTHER ATTORNEY JUST TO READ OVER IT BECAUSE HE MAY HAVE MISSED SOMETHING.
SO I THINK IT'S VERY, JUST VERY CRITICAL AND SEDENTARY.
IT MAY BE AN EASY, SOME BOARD MEMBERS MIGHT SAY, BUT I THINK THAT WE HAVE TO FIRST TAKE OWNERSHIP IN WHAT TOOK PLACE, BECAUSE IT WAS A BOARD ACTION.
SECONDLY, WE MUST TAKE MORE TIME TO LOOK AND GO OVER CONTRACTS AS A BOARD, OR HEY, MR. THAT WE HAVE INDIVIDUAL TIME TO GO TO THE CONTRACT TO BE ABLE TO PROCESS THEM GETTING A GETTING 20 OR 30 MINUTES IN EXECUTIVE SESSION IS NOT ALLOWING ENOUGH TIME TO PROCESS CONTRACTS.
SO THAT'S JUST, THAT'S JUST QUICK, QUICK, QUICK, PAUSE THAT TO MY MIND WHEN I, WHEN I HAVE A REAL CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM CONVERSATION WITH MYSELF ABOUT THIS CONTRACT.
I THINK THAT ONE THING THAT HAS TO, THAT WOULD BE HELPFUL TO CHANGE.
THAT'S AN IT'S, IT'S AN UNDERLYING CULTURAL ISSUE.
UM, MOST BOARDS, NOT JUST THIS POINT, MOST BOARDS FALL INTO THE TRAP OF BELIEVING THAT WHEN THEY CHALLENGE WHAT'S BEEN DONE OR ASK QUESTIONS, THEY ARE INSULTING THE PEOPLE THAT PREPARED THEM AND THE PEOPLE THAT PREPARED THEM, UH, COMPOUND THE PROBLEM BY SOMETIMES TAKING A FENCE AT THE FETCH, HOW DARE YOU CHALLENGE MY WORK.
AND THEN THE PEOPLE WILL LOOK AT WHICH THEY SHOULDN'T BE CHALLENGING THEIR WORK THERE, THAT THEY ARE THE PROFESSIONALS.
YOU GOTTA, YOU GOTTA, YOU GOTTA, UM, I THINK THAT IF BOTH THE BOARD AND ADMINISTRATION ACCEPTED THE FACT THAT BOARDS HAVE TO LOOK AT THIS INFORMATION, THAT THEY HAVE TO FEEL COMFORTABLE BEFORE THEY SHINE ON THE DOTTED LINE.
IF THE MEMBERS, IF THE PEOPLE PREPARING THEM ARE, ARE WORKING UP TO THEIR CAPABILITY, THEY SHOULDN'T BE AN ISSUE ANYWAY.
BUT I THINK THAT RELUCTANCE IS THERE ON BOTH, BOTH SEGMENTS, THE BOARD AND THE ADMINISTRATION, AND IT CREATES A, WE, THEY ATMOSPHERE AND YOU'RE AN ADVERSARIAL RELATIONSHIP.
OH, I GOT TO, WHY DID I HAVE TIME FOR, WHY ARE THEY ASKING THIS AGAIN? AND THEN THE PEOPLE ON THE BOARD ARE SAYING, WELL, WHY CAN'T THEY GET IT TO US IN TIME? WE JUST HAVE TO RECOGNIZE THAT WE HAVE DIFFERENT JOBS AT EACH JOB HAS VALUE, AND THEY MAY HAVE TO COOPERATE WITH EACH OTHER.
UNDERSTANDING SHE DIDN'T TAKE TWO AND THREE DAYS TO DO IT.
UM, YES, I, I THINK THAT, UM, I FEEL WE INCREASE THE AMOUNT OF TIME THAT WE HAVE NOW TO LOOK AT THE CONTRACTS.
UM, SINCE WE WENT TO THAT, UM, THE PANDEMIC ME HAVE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO COME IN AND LOOK AT THEM ON OUR TIMEFRAME.
I MUCH PREFER THAT TO BE HANDED THEM IN EXECUTIVE SESSION.
I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING GOOD THAT WE'VE DONE.
I DO THINK THAT DO, UM, YOU KNOW, KIND OF PIGGYBACK ON WHAT RACHEL SAID AND PERHAPS WHAT JOANNE IS ALLUDING TO THAT THE BOARD DEVELOPED, I CHECKED THIS IN TERMS OF, OKAY, WHAT DID I LEARN FROM THIS? I LEARNED THAT I SHOULD BE LOOKING AT EVERY CONTRACT FOR DATES,
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DELIVERABLE DATES.I HAD TIME TO READ THE CONTRACT.
I THOUGHT THE CONTRACT WAS WELL-WRITTEN.
UM, BUT I DID NOT AT THAT POINT.
WHEN I LOOKED AT A CONTRACT, I'M GOING TO BE LOOKING FOR THOSE, FOR THAT TYPE OF INFORMATION.
SO I THINK WE COULD DEVELOP A CHECKLIST LIKE RACHEL SUGGESTED THAT PEOPLE, BOTH PEOPLE DEVELOPING THE CONTRACT AND THE BOARD LOOKS AT TO DETERMINE THAT WE MET THESE THINGS AND HAVE WE, AS BOARD MEMBERS DONE.
I DON'T THINK IT'S, UH, I, I APPRECIATE THAT WE HAVE MOVED FORWARD, BUT BEING ABLE TO LOOK AT THE CONTRACTS PRIOR TO EXECUTIVE SESSION, AND I CERTAINLY ENDORSE, CONTINUING TO DO THAT AS A NEW PRACTICE.
UM, I HAVEN'T SAID ANYTHING, I'LL SAY A COUPLE OF THINGS.
UM, SO FIRST OF ALL, I THINK IT WAS ABSOLUTELY AN IMPOSSIBLE TASK.
IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE FOR THIS COMPANY TO DELIVER.
IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE FOR, UM, THE DISTRICT TO GET IT UP AND RUNNING IN THE TIMEFRAME THAT WAS NECESSARY.
IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE FOR THE BOARD TO REALLY, UM, HAVE A GOOD JUDGMENT ABOUT IT.
AND WE WERE FACED WITH THE, SOMETHING IS BETTER THAN NOTHING SORT OF ATTITUDE.
AT LEAST THAT'S THE WAY I LOOKED AT IT.
AND I'M JUST SPEAKING FOR MYSELF.
UM, SO SEVERAL THINGS, I DON'T THINK THE BOARD, NOBODY ON THIS BOARD IS AN I, WE ARE GETTING AN ATTORNEY, UM, AND WITH, UH, WITH ONE OF OUR TWO NEW MEMBERS, BUT THAT'S NOT OUR JOB TO, TO, TO LOOK AT THE CONTRACT AND MAKE DECISIONS.
IS THIS A GOOD CONTRACT OR NOT? THAT'S THE JOB WAS LEGAL AND A CONTRACT LIKE THIS.
THAT'S SO SPECIALIZED, UH, FOR, UH, TECHNOLOGY ABSOLUTELY HAS TO BE REVIEWED, VETTED, WHATEVER WORD YOU WANT TO USE, BUT A SPECIALIST IN THAT FIELD AS A CONTRACT, I DON'T EVEN THINK IT SHOULD COME TO THE BOARD UNTIL THAT'S FINISHED UNTIL THAT'S DONE.
THEN WE CAN HAVE OUR INPUT, TWEAK IT A LITTLE OR WHATEVER WE THINK, BUT WE DON'T, WE DON'T, NONE OF US HERE HAVE THAT CAPABILITY.
AND I DON'T THINK WE SHOULD THINK THAT THAT'S, THAT IS, YOU KNOW, WITHIN OUR CAPABILITY.
AND, UM, SO THAT, YOU KNOW, ANY, ANY CONTRACT WITH THE BOARD HAS TO APPROVE, THAT WOULD BE MY OPINION IS THAT IT ABSOLUTELY HAS TO HAVE GONE THROUGH THAT VETTING BEFORE IT'S EVEN PUT INTO THAT EXECUTIVE SESSION FOLDER.
AND, UM, IT WAS OBVIOUS BY, UH, CAN'T REMEMBER HUNTER'S LAST NAME, THE ATTORNEY THAT DID LOOK AT IT VERY CAREFULLY SORT OF AFTER THE FACT THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF THINGS COULD HAVE BEEN PREVENTED.
HE HAD, HE PERHAPS LOOKED AT IT AHEAD OF TIME.
ALTHOUGH STILL, I DON'T THINK, I STILL THINK IT WAS PROBABLY TOO SHORT A TIME PERIOD TO TRY TO GET IT UP AND RUNNING, UH, FOR IT TO ACTUALLY BE SUCCESSFUL.
AND, AND MARY'S BROUGHT OUT, UM, STRATASYS BROUGHT OUT ONE OF THE KEY COMPONENTS IS THAT IT WAS ORIGINALLY, YOU KNOW, IT WAS GOING TO BE INTENDED FOR LESS THAN 5,000 STUDENTS.
AND ULTIMATELY IT HAD TO BE MADE FOUR OR FIVE TIMES AS IT HAD TO BE FOR FOUR OR FIVE TIMES AS MANY STUDENTS AS THAT.
UM, SO THAT, THAT WOULD DEFINITELY BE THE, UH, MY SUGGESTION AND WHATEVER.
AND JUST LIKE MR. VICK HALLIGAN HAS, HAS REVIEWED THE CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTS.
ALL OF THOSE SHOULD BE REVIEWED AND VETTED AND DONE BEFORE THEY EVER COME TO THE BOARD.
UM, NOW MAYBE MY FELLOW BOARD MEMBERS WON'T AGREE WITH THAT, BUT TO ME IT SEEMS LIKE THERE'S NO WAY THAT WE HAVE THAT CAPABILITY AS INDIVIDUALS OR, OR IT'S WORTH.
UM, THOSE ARE, THAT'S KIND OF THE MAIN THINGS I WANTED TO SAY.
SO WE'RE GOING TO GO BACK AROUND.
JUST TO FOLLOW UP ON THE CONVERSATION, YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE LESSONS LEARNED, FOCUSES ON THE PROCESS ON THE PEOPLE IT'S NOTHING TO DO WITH THE PEOPLE CAN ONLY MAKE ONE MISTAKE AND THAT IS NOT TO FOLLOW THE PROCESS.
OTHER THAN THAT, THEY CAN'T MAKE THEM SLEEP.
AND SO IT'S NOT ABOUT FEELINGS OR ANYTHING ELSE STRICTLY ABOUT THE PROCESS AND THE WORDS, CERTAINLY AS FOR HOLIDAY, WE WEREN'T, YOU NEED A CONTRACT ATTORNEY.
WELL, THOSE ARE THINGS THAT CAN INSERTED INTO THAT ACROSS IT'S ALWAYS RELEVANT.
AND IF WE HAD HAD THAT OUTLINE TO, TO YOUR POINT, NOW, WE WOULD KNOWN RIGHT AWAY, OH, THIS CAN'T BE DONE.
I MEAN, WE WOULDN'T KNOW AFTER WE HAVE TO LOOK FOR SOMEONE THAT SOMETHING ELSE WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING ELSE.
SO THAT'S WHY IT'S SO IMPORTANT.
I THINK GET THAT PROCESS WRITTEN.
YOU ALL KNOW WHAT RESPONSE DID YOU
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KEEP, KEEP IMPROVING? IT'S GOT NOTHING TO DO WITH THE BABY.UM, YEAH, I'M GONNA GO BACK TO JUST, UM, WHO KIND OF THAT CHECKLIST THAT I WAS TALKING ABOUT.
SO WE OPERATE WHEN WE DRIVE AS A BOARD THROUGH POLICY.
AND SO, UM, MY BIGGEST SUGGESTION TO MAKE SURE THAT IT'S A MEMORIAL ICE AND THE LESSON LEARNED TO TAKE ON FOR YEARS TO COME, IS THAT THERE'D BE A VERY SHORT AND SWEET POLICY THAT REFERENCES SOME TYPE OF CHECKLIST, BECAUSE I RECOGNIZE THAT ALL CONTRACTS ARE GOING TO BE DIFFERENT, WHETHER IT BE FOR INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY INSTRUCTION AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
BUT THERE SHOULD BE SOME VERY SET STANDARDS FOR WHAT WE AS A BOARD LOOK FOR IN A CONTRACT, BECAUSE LIKE YOU MENTIONED, YOU KNOW, NONE OF US ARE CONTRACT ATTORNEYS.
UM, HOWEVER IT IS OUR ROLE TO APPROVE THESE CONTRACTS.
SO, UM, I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION IF I MAY, UM, THAT THE BOARD CHAIR, THE REPS, ALL THE COMMITTEE TO DRAFT A POLICY RELATIVE TO CONTRACT STANDARDS, EARL CAMPBELL SECONDS, UM, OR CHAIR DIRECT THE POLICY COMMITTEE TO DEVELOP POLICY AND POLICY RELATIVE TO, UM, CONTRACT STANDARDS OR CONTRACT STANDARDS FOR BOARD APPROVAL.
I'M NOT SURE ANYBODY
SO THIS WOULD FOCUS ON WORST RESPONSIBILITIES.
IT'S ONE OF THE FLAWS YOU CAN MAKE IS TO DEVELOP A PROCESS WHEN YOU'RE NOT ONE OF THE BIG BLACK SHEETS ON THE WORK, THAT'S A BIG MISTAKE.
SO WE CAN ONLY FOCUS ON WHAT WE FOCUS ON IS YOU HAVE TO GO TO THE PEOPLE THAT ACTUALLY DO THE WORK TO THE PROCESS SHOULD BE, I DON'T WANT TO MAKE THAT MISTAKE BECAUSE EVERY NOTHING'S IMPOSSIBLE FOR A PERSON FOR NOT TO DO.
SO, NO, YOU ALL KIND OF KEEP CHANGING YOUR WORDING, DEVELOP A POLICY, DEVELOP A POLICY FOR, UM, OR APPROVAL OF CONTRACTS.
AND THEN THAT CAN BE IN COLLABORATION.
I THINK WITH DISTRICTS, THE DISTRICTS GOING TO HAVE THEIR INTERPRETATION OF WHAT INFORMATION WOULD NEED TO COME FORWARD TO US, YOU KNOW, AND THEY'RE THE ONES THAT GO THROUGH THIS PROCESS AND THEY HAVE THEIR CHECKLIST OF WHAT DEPARTMENTS THEY GO THROUGH.
UM, SO IT'S GOING TO REQUIRE THE POLICY COMMITTEE TO HAVE A, I MEAN, THAT LIAISON, I WAS NOT SURE WHERE IT FITS.
I WAS JUST GONNA SUGGEST THAT, UH, THAT PERHAPS THE BOARD WOULD DIRECT US TO DEVELOP PROCESS FOR THE CHECKLIST AND BRING IT BACK TO YOU TO SEE IF THAT IS WHAT YOU'RE THINKING ABOUT.
AND THEN, UH, WE CAN FINE TUNE IT IF IT'S NOT, OR IF IT IS, YOU KNOW, FINE, UM, TRYING TO FIND A BRIDGE, WHAT YOU TWO ARE SAYING.
CAUSE I IT'S TAKING LOTS OF COPIOUS NOTES ON ALL THESE DIFFERENT POINTS, SO PERHAPS SHE CAN BE IN COLLABORATION.
NORMALLY WE HAVE, UM, THIS CART LUNCH WITH US, PERHAPS DR.
STRATOS COULD, IF YOU DON'T MIND, I WOULD JUST SAY IT PROBABLY NEEDS TO INVOLVE FROM PROCUREMENT DEPARTMENT.
UH, IT NEEDS TO INVOLVE A BUNCH OF THEM THAT PROBABLY MOST OF THAT WORK WOULD PROBABLY NOT BE, I DON'T MIND KNOWING HER.
I'M JUST SAYING IT MAY NOT BE IN HER WHEELHOUSE AS MUCH AS IT MIGHT BE.
UH, MAYBE, MAYBE IN PROCUREMENT.
I KNOW, UM, I BELIEVE IT WAS IN THE FINANCE COMMITTEE.
I HAD DONE A DRAFT KIND OF PE ONE TIME FOR US, FOR FOOD SERVICE.
I THINK IT WAS, WE DIDN'T HAVE A FEE FOR THAT.
SO, SO PERHAPS THE, KIND OF WHAT YOU'RE GETTING AT, UH, DR.
RODRIGUEZ, THAT THE DISTRICT CREATES A DRAFT PE AND THEN WE KIND OF USE THAT AS OUR GUIDING POST FOR FEEDING D UM, ATTACHED.
I'M JUST TRYING TO BRIDGE WHERE YOU TWO ARE COMING FROM.
TO ME THAT SEEMS LIKE THE BETTER ORDER BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO DO YOUR WORK FOR ANY CONTRACT, MADAM CHAIR, POINT OF ORDER.
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HOW, HOW ARE WE DOING THIS RIGHT NOW? BECAUSE I FOUND THAT WE HAVE A SECOND.WHAT HAVE WE OPENED IT UP FOR DISCUSSION OR ARE WE STILL TRYING TO GET THE MOTION TOGETHER? NO.
OH, CAN I SEE A BUNCH OF HANDS RAISED ALL OVER THE, OVER HERE IN THE, IN THE, IN THE HAND RAISED COLUMN WHO ARE, THEY WILL MAKE TO GET INTO THE COMPENSATION? THAT'S ALL I HAVE IT RIGHT NOW.
WELL, WHY DON'T YOU GO AHEAD, BEN AND AMANDA, FOR THE DISCUSSION.
SO I WAS GOING TO AMEND THE MOTION BASED ON THE CONVERSATION THAT JUST TAKEN PLACE ABOUT THE, UM, BASICALLY THE STAGING OF THE EVENTS.
SO, UM, I'D LIKE, YOU WANT TO CHANGE IT OR YOU WANT ME TO AMEND WHAT SPHERE? UH, CHANGING.
UM, OR THAT THE BOARD OF EDUCATION DIRECTS THE DISTRICT TO DEVELOP A PE RELATIVE TO THE BOARD OF EDUCATION.
DIRECT SHOULD START BY THE SUPERINTENDENT POURING OF WATER.
ONCE THE THERE'S A MOTION ON THE FLOOR, THAT MOTION MUST BE, MUST BE DEALT WITH CORRECTLY.
CORRECT? I'M MAKING A SUBSTITUTE MOTION.
MR. DAMIANO, YOU MUTED QUITE A BORDER.
PLEASE INSTRUCT PEOPLE NOT TO SPEAK UNLESS THEY'VE BEEN RECOGNIZED BY YOU.
WELL, I GOT FIVE DIFFERENT PEOPLE INTERJECTING RIGHT NOW AND I'VE BEEN SHADING HERE PATIENTLY WITH MY HAND UP WAITING FOR, TO GET RECOGNIZED.
AND YET I HEAR ALL THESE SHY CONVERSATIONS GOING ON.
SUPERINTENDENT, MS. MR. DALLY, DR.
WAS NASTY HOUSE FOR FLOOR AND IS MAKING A SUBSTITUTE.
BUT HOW IMPORTANT OF ORDER MA'AM SIR? HOW IS SHE'S MAKING THE SUBSTITUTE MOTION? THERE'S A MOTION ON THE FLOOR AND THE MOTION ON THE FLOOR HAS BEEN IN CONVERSATION AND OTHER PEOPLE WERE WAITING TO TALK ABOUT THAT MOTION.
AND ONCE YOU, ONCE YOU HAVE ALREADY GAVE HER A MOTION AND THEN ONCE YOU'VE ALREADY GIVEN WHY SHE'S MADE THE MOTION, THEN THEY SEEM BY THE COMPENSATION.
SHE WENT AROUND TO OTHER PEOPLE.
AND YOUR TIME, I UNDERSTAND THAT.
CAN YOU REPEAT WHAT YOU HAVE PLEASE? THE BOARD OF EDUCATION DIRECT THE SUPERINTENDENT TO DEVELOP APE RELATIVE TO P E P E R N O B.
RIGHT NOW WE DEVELOPED THE OEC PRICE.
SO I LOVE A P E P E RELATIVE TO A CHECKLIST FOR BOARD APPROVAL CONTRACTS.
MR. EARL CAMPBELL, YOU COULD MAYBE HAVE CHECKLIST SLASH PROCESS.
I'LL LET YOU, YOU ADD THAT WORD BETTER FOR, AND YOU'RE GOOD WITH THAT AT ALL.
SO THE FUNCTION IS THE BOARD OF EDUCATION DIRECTOR.
THE SUPERINTENDENT DEVELOP A PE RELATIVE TO A CHECKLIST SLASH PROCESS FOR BOARD APPROVAL OF CONTRACTS.
BRUCE ASCII AND SECOND BY EARL CAMPBELL.
SO LET'S GO BACK TO THE QUEUE AND MR. ORISHA, OKAY.
NOW THAT'S BECOME COMPOUNDED BY RECENT EVENTS.
UM, THE FIRST MOTION THAT ROSE, UM, RACHEL WENT TO MAKE, I WAS GOING TO MAKE AND SUGGEST THAT THE BOARD DIRECT THE STANDING POLICY COMMITTEE TO DEVELOP A PROCESS FOR HOW THE BOARD HANDLES CONTRACTS.
NOW THAT DOCTOR WAS NASKI HAS MADE A SUBSTITUTE MOTION.
CAN WE MAKE THAT OTHER MOTION AGAIN? BECAUSE I DO BELIEVE THE ONE THAT'S ON THE FLOOR NOW IS VERY DIFFERENT IN NATURE THAN THE ORIGINAL ONE THAT DOCTOR WAS NEVSKY MADE.
AND THEN I WAS ALSO GOING TO MAKE, I WOULD SAY THAT WE VOTE ON THIS, THIS, THIS, THIS POTENT AMENDMENT IDEA SUBSTITUTE, AND THEN WE GO BACK AND GO ON THE OTHER ONES.
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SO AS A SUBSTITUTE MOTION MONITOR THIS REPLACES THE OTHER ONE, CORRECT? CORRECT.AND THAT'S WHY IT'S HIS SUBSTITUTE MOTION.
I UNDERSTAND I'M WITH YOU THERE.
I'M IN LOCKSTEP WITH YOU THERE.
MY QUESTION IS, CAN WE THEN BRING UP AGAIN THE MOTION THAT WAS REPLACED AS A SEPARATE MOTION? I THINK THERE'S VALUE IN IT.
MY OPINION ALSO PRESENT BECAUSE IT IS QUITE DIFFERENT.
JUST LOOKING FOR PARLIAMENTARY PROCEDURE.
I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE WE DO IT THE CORRECT WAY.
SO LET'S CONTINUE ON THE MOTION.
MADAM CHAIR, I'M ASKING YOU, IS, IS THAT THE CORRECT PROCEDURE? MAY WE DO THAT? YES.
I'VE ANSWERED THAT SEVERAL TIMES.
THEY'RE NOT, THEY'RE NOT REALLY, UH, THEY'RE, THEY'RE DIFFERENT BECAUSE THEY'RE DIFFERENT PROCESSES.
I UNDERSTAND MY QUESTION TO YOU AND LET ME REPHRASE THIS, PERHAPS I WAS NOT CLEAR.
CAN WE THEN MAKE A SEPARATE MOTION? IS IT PERMISSIBLE? THAT IS THE, THE ORIGINAL ONE THAT RACHEL MADE SINCE WE REPLACED IT.
I'M JUST LOOKING FOR PARLIAMENTARY PROCEDURE GUIDELINES.
WE CAN GO BACK TO THAT OR SOMETHING SIMILAR.
I WAS GOING TO GO RIGHT BACK TO THAT.
HOW DID THAT COME BACK UP? AND WE CAN JUST CLOSE WITH THAT AS WELL.
UM, BUT HAVEN'T WE REPLACED IT WITH THIS ONE.
I'M JUST TRYING TO GET THE PROCESS.
UM, THAT'S ALL WE CAN MAKE IT BETTER.
UH, WELL, I FIRST HAVE A QUESTION FOR DR.
WISNIEWSKI RACHEL OF RELATIVE TO A CHECKLIST PROCESS FOR BOARD APPROVAL.
UH, YOU TALKING ABOUT WHAT THE ADMINISTRATION DOES PRIOR TO SUBMISSION TO THE BOARD OR WHAT THE BOARD SHOULD DO TO APPROVE CONTRACTS.
SO THIS IS IT'S SIMILAR OR ARE VERY MUCH THE SAME OF WHAT YOU'RE SAYING.
SO THE DISTRICT, I CAN'T UNDERSTAND YOU.
COULD YOU SPEAK UP OR SLOWER? ONE OF THE OTHER, OKAY.
UM, I SEE THEM AS KIND OF THE SAME TWO THINGS THAT YOU JUST MENTIONED.
I WOULD SEE THE CHECKLIST AS BEING ONE.
THE DISTRICT DOES AND BRINGS FORWARD TO US FOR US TO APPROVE AS NECESSARY THINGS FOR CONTRACTING.
UH, HERE'S WHY I CAN NOT SUPPORT THIS MOTION.
I'M NOT A LAWYER, BUT I CAN READ WHEN I GO TO THE PHARMACY, I'M NOT A DOCTOR, BUT WHEN I PICK UP MY PRESCRIPTIONS, I'M EXPECTED TO BE ABLE TO READ THE INSTRUCTIONS AND KNOW WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR IN THOSE INSTRUCTIONS.
EVERYBODY ON THIS BOARD CAN SIT AND LOOK AT A LIST THAT'S TITLED.
HERE'S WHAT EVERY CONTRACT NEEDS TO HAVE IN ORDER TO BE LEGAL, SUCH AS A START DATA, STOP DATE, A REMUNERATION, A SIGNATURE BLOCK.
WHAT WE WILL NEVER GET ALONG THE WAY WE SHOULD IN PROGRESS.
AS LONG AS WE HAVE THE ADMINISTRATION TELLING US HOW TO DO THINGS, WE HAVE TO DECIDE FOR OURSELVES HOW WE DO THINGS.
SO I'M GOING TO MAKE A SUBSTITUTE MOTION THAT DEEP POLICY COMMITTEE DEVELOP A PROCESS FOR THE BOARD TO APPROVE OR DISAPPROVE CONTRACTS.
ONCE THEY ARE SUBMITTED TO THE BOARD BY THE ADMINISTRATION, THE POLICY COMMITTEE DEVELOPED A PROCESS FOR THE BOARD TO APPROVE OR DISAPPROVE WE'LL LIST THE REST.
THE POLICY COMMITTEE DEVELOPED A PROCESS FOR THE BOARD TO APPROVE OR DISAPPROVE CONTRACTS UPON SUBMISSION FROM THE ADMINISTRATION.
AND WE CAN HAVE WENDY COME UP AND GIVE US A VERY SHORT TUTORIAL ON
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WHAT THE THINGS ARE THAT HAVE TO BE IN EVERY CONTRACT.THEN WE CAN HAVE THE TECHNICAL PEOPLE FROM THE ADMINISTRATION, COME IN AND TRY TO GIVE US THE MUSIC AS WELL AS THE WORDS.
I FEEL LIKE THAT WE HAVE A DRAFT FROM THE ORIGINAL INTENT AND THAT PERHAPS WE'VE CONFLATED TWO SEPARATE PROCESSES.
AS I UNDERSTOOD MR.
AND IT IS MY BELIEF THAT BACK.
AND SO THE THAT'S WHERE WE HAVE TO START.
WE HAVE TO KNOW WHAT THEIR PROCESS IS, WHAT THEY HAVE GONE THROUGH.
WHEN THEY LOOK AT A CONTRACT, THEN ONCE THAT IS COMPLETED, THEN WE CAN DEVELOP HOW THE BOARD THEN ASSESSES THE CONTRACT AND ITS VIABILITY.
SO I FEEL LIKE WE'VE CONFLATED THE TWO WITH THIS PARTICULAR MOTION.
AND INSTEAD OF HAVING TWO SEPARATE MOTIONS, BUT I DO FIRMLY BELIEVE THAT WE CAN'T DO OUR WORK AND DUE DILIGENCE UNTIL THE DISTRICT HAS DEVELOPED THEIR PROCESS AND HOW THEY ARE GOING TO GO THROUGH AND AFFIRMING A CONTRACT.
SO SOMETHING I WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK AS A PRESIDING OFFICER.
SO REVIEWING HALIBUT FAD WAS CALM AND CARING.
UM, BUT WAS IT REALLY WORK SESSION? SURE.
ENOUGH OF SUBSTITUTION IS AN AMENDMENT.
SO WE'VE HAD DOWN TWO AMENDMENTS ON THAT ORIGINAL TO TRY TO ORIGINAL MOTION.
SO WE ARE GOING TO VOTE ON THEM IN DESCENDING ORDER THIS ONE FIRST, THEN THE SECOND ONE, AND THEN THE VERY ORIGINAL ONE.
SO, UM, I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO, UH, COULD CONCUR WITH, WITH MS. FAVORITE.
SHE BE, AND I BELIEVE DR WAS NEVSKY FROM HER REEBOK SUBSTITUTING THE SECOND MOTION.
IT SEEMS LIKE IT'S OUT OF ORDER.
NOTHING IS GOING TO COME BEFORE THE BOARD UNTIL THE DISTRICT HAS PROCESSED IT.
SO I DON'T THINK IT'S VERY HARD TO DECIDE, YOU KNOW, THE BEST WAY FOR US TO PROCEED IF WE DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT IT'S, LIKE YOU SAID, WHAT'S HAPPENING ON THE, ON THE DISTRICT SIDE.
SO THAT'S, THOSE ARE MY COMMENTS.
SO MR. SMITH IS NEXT AND THEN MR.
UM, WHEN IT, WHEN IT COMES DOWN TO THIS MOTION, THE REASON WHY I'M SUPPORTING THIS MOTION IS BECAUSE FOR INSTANCE, TODAY IS MY MOTHER'S BIRTHDAY.
SO, YOU KNOW, TODAY'S BEEN HARD.
TODAY'S BEEN, I WOKE UP, I'VE BEEN UP ALL ON AND OFF ALL DAY, ALL MORNING PRIOR TO EVEN COMING TO THIS MEETING, YOU KNOW, I CAN USE THAT FOR EXCUSES SAY, WELL, YOU KNOW, THE PASSING OF MY MOM TODAY WAS A HARD DAY.
I, UM, I DIDN'T WANT HIM TO COME TO THE BOARD MEETING BECAUSE OF PERSONAL REASONS, BUT I STILL CAME.
AND I SAID THAT TO SAY THIS, THE BOARD HAS TO STOP HAVING EXCUSES.
WHEN LEADERSHIP STARTS FROM THE TOP, WE ARE THE HEAD ON THIS BODY.
SO WHEN I SAY THAT, WHAT I'M IMPLYING IS THIS, IT IS OUR JOB TO FIGURE OUT HOW AND WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO TO UNDERSTAND THIS PROCESS? BECAUSE THE BOARD ITSELF DOES NOT HAVE A PROCESS OR HOW THINGS SHOULD GO.
SO I, SO, SO I I'VE HEARD WHAT MY COLLEAGUES HAVE SAID TO ME.
SOME OF IT IS STILL AN EXCUSE TO GIVE IT BACK TO THE BODY.
AT THIS POINT IN TIME, THE BODY HAVE ALREADY BOUGHT US SOME WORK THAT WE DID LOOK THAT WE DIDN'T LOOK, THAT DIDN'T LOOK GOOD.
AND WE HAVE WAS VOTED ON BY THE HEAD AND IT, AND THE WHOLE BRIDGE COLLAPSED.
SO WE ARE WHO WE ARE ELECTED TO REPRESENT OUR, OUR CONSTITUENTS SO THAT WE, AS THE HEAD MAKE DECISIONS, WHEN IT COME TO THIS DISTRICT, WHEN IT, WHEN IT, WHEN IT COMES DOWN TO IT AS OUR JOB TO TELL THE SUPERINTENDENT WHERE, WHAT DIRECTION WE WOULD FOR, FOR THE DISTRICT TO GO, SAME THING WITH CONTRACTS IS OUR JOB TO BE STEWARD OF THE MONEY OR ANY CONTRACT THAT COMES BEFORE THIS DISTRICT.
SO, SO SAYING ALSO SAYING WHAT I'VE SAID IS THAT WE NEED TO ESTABLISH SOME PROTOCOL PROTOCOL OF HOW WE SEE GOOD TO MAKE, MAKE THIS, MAKE THIS HAPPEN.
SO EVEN IF WE GO BACK AND ACCEPT, THE OTHER MOTION I DID IS NOT AS, AS, IS NOT PREMATURELY TO
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ACCEPT THIS MOTION BECAUSE IT IS OUR JOB TO HELP GIVE DIRECTION ON WHERE WE THINK THEY SHOULD GO ON.HOW, HOW, WHAT PROCEDURES WE SHOULD HAVE MOVING FORWARD OR STEADY, JUST RUBBER STAMPING THINGS.
BECAUSE IF YOU ASKED ME ON, ON THAT, ON THE OTHER MOTION, DR.
RODRIGUEZ CAN BRING A
IF WE HAVE FAITH AND WE TRUST HIM, THEN JUST WAIT TILL HE BRING IT UP TO US.
EVEN WHEN WE ACCEPT IT OR REJECT IT, WE DON'T HAVE TO DIRECT HIM TO DO IT BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY HE, I HAVE TO HAVE THIS ACTION AFTER ACTION REVIEW.
HE SEES THAT THERE'S A POSSIBLY A NEED FOR IT AS WELL.
SO THAT'S JUST, THOSE ARE JUST SOME OF MY THOUGHTS.
I WILL SUPPORT THIS MOTION BECAUSE IT IS TIME FOR THE HAND OF THIS, OF THE HEAD TO HAVE THE BUYERS TO START DOING OUR WORK.
SO I W I W I WILL SUPPORT THIS MOTION TODAY.
WE'VE TO VERDICT QUITE A BIT FOR ONE ON ONE TO DEAL WITH, WHICH WAS A PROCESS, BUT NOT HAVE TO CONTRACT A WHOLE PROCESS, WHICH MEANS WE DEVELOPED A SCOPE DEFINING OUR NEEDS.
IT'S IT'S MUCH BIGGER THAN THAT, BUT A CONTRACT, THIS MIGHT BE A SECONDARY THING THAT WE CAN HELP WITH CHECK THOSE FOR THE BOARD TO LOOK AT CONTRACTS, BUT THIS WAS BUYING SOFTWARE.
WHAT IS THE PROCESS THAT YOU USE TO BUY SOFTWARE OR ANYTHING? WHAT IS THE PROCESS? WE DO, WE HAVE TO DEFINE THE SCOPE.
WE HAVE TO DO THIS, AND THE WARRANTY CAN DO THAT BECAUSE WE DON'T DO THE WORK.
AND THE BIGGEST MISTAKE YOU MAKE IS TRYING TO THINK IF YOU KNOW HOW THINGS SHOULD BE DONE, IF YOU DON'T ACTUALLY DO IT.
SO IT HAS PEOPLE THAT HAVE TO WORK.
I HAVE TO SAY, THIS IS THE CLASSES THAT WE GO THROUGH.
AND THEN YOU LOOK AT WHAT HAPPENED WITH K-12 AND SAY, WHAT DID WE LEARN TO IMPROVE THAT PROCESS? BECAUSE IT OBVIOUSLY HAS SOME FLAWS IN IT OR ELSE THE STUFF WHEN THAT, SO IT'S MUCH BIGGER THAN JUST A CONTRACTOR.
IT'S JUST, IT'S KIND OF DIVERTED FROM WHAT I ORIGINALLY HAD.
AND I'M SURE IT'S BECAUSE I DIDN'T ARTICULATE IT PROPERLY, BUT THAT I'M TRYING TO GET THE POINT ACROSS THAT IT'S, IT'S BIG PROCESS.
IT'S NOT JUST A PIECE AND EVERYBODY'S INVOLVED AND WE'RE THERE.
AND THEN, SO AFTER ALL THIS IS EVOLVED, WE DO STUFF TOO.
WE LOOK AT THE CONTRACT WITH OMAR AT THE VERY END OF THE PROCESS AND ALL THIS OTHER STUFF THAT HAS HAPPENED BETWEEN, IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT A CONTRACT, IT'S ABOUT DEVELOPING THE SCOPE IN OUR ENVIRONMENTS, TIMELINES.
AND I UNDERSTAND THAT THAT IS THE SOLUTION.
AND THAT'S WHAT WE'VE LEARNED.
FROM THE STAGE WE HAD HAD THE PROCESS WHERE I LOOKED AT IT.
SO IF YOU KNOW WHAT, THIS IS NOT DOABLE IN A SENSE YOU'RE WASTING TIME.
YOU HAVE TO, BECAUSE WE HARDING KNOW THAT THOSE KINDS OF THINGS ARE THE LESSONS I WAS HOPING TO LEARN AND CHANGE THE PROCESS WE HAVE.
SO IF WE DON'T LEARN THOSE LESSONS AGAIN, RIGHT.
SO WHEN YOU'RE, I'M NOT INTERESTED IN WISCONSIN.
SO WE NEED TO DISPOSE OF THEM THOUGH.
CAUSE IT HAD THE ORIGINAL AUTOMATIC THAT AMENDMENT.
SO WE'RE SPEAKING ONLY ABOUT THIS, THIS MOTION.
THAT'S ON THE FLOOR, MR. DALLY.
I AGREE WITH DAVID AND HIS WIFE.
WE HAVE TO TELL THE ADMINISTRATION WHAT WE REQUIRE BEFORE WE'RE LOOKING AT A CONTRACT.
THAT IS, IF YOU LOOK AT MY MOTION, THAT IS WHAT THE PROCESS FOR THE BOARD TO APPROVE OR DISAPPROVE.
WE'RE NOT TELLING THE ADMINISTRATION HOW TO DO THEIR JOB AND THEY ARE NOT TELLING US HOW TO DO OUR JOB THERE.
AND I, NOW I HEAR A LOT OF CONVERSATIONS AT ONCE.
MY MUTE SIGN IS NOT ON THE, I MEAN, CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW? WHO AM I TALKING TO? IT'S GOOD.
I'M JUST TRYING TO COMMENT THROUGH LOUD AND CLEAR WHEN WE'RE FOLLOWING YOU.
SO WHAT DAVID WANTS IS A PROCESS FROM START TO FINISH ON A CONTRACT.
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FIRST THREE QUARTERS ARE THAT ARE RUN BY THE ADMINISTRATION AND PROCUREMENT PEOPLE TO LEGAL.AND THEN IT COMES TO THE LAST QUARTER, THE LAST 25% OF THE DISTRICT PROCESS.
AND THAT LAST 25% IS CALLED THE BOARD'S PROCESS.
AND THE BOARD'S PROCESS IS SIMPLY WHAT THEY'RE GOING TO, WHAT THE BOARD IS GOING TO LOOK FOR.
NOW, HAVE WE BEEN DOING SOMETHING WET DURING K12? WE MIGHT HAVE SPOTTED, UH, THAT THERE WAS NO DELIVERABLE, BUT I'M TRYING TO TALK MORE GENERALITIES.
IF THE BOARD DEVELOPS A POLICY, WE SHOULDN'T DEVELOP POLICY BASED ON AN APE.
A PERFORMANCE EXPECTATION THAT PERFORMANCE EXPECTATION HAS TO BE DEVELOPED HAS TO BE DRIVEN BY THE BOARD POLICY.
SO THE POETS, THE POLICY CAN SAY THAT THE ADMINISTRATION WILL DEVELOP A PROCESS AND CONTRACTS AND THEN SUBMIT IT TO THE BOARD.
AND WHEN THAT HAPPENS, HERE'S WHAT THE BOARD WILL LOOK FOR.
THAT'S WHAT MY MOTION IS ALL ABOUT.
MY MOTION IS TO KEEP US FROM TRYING TO TELL THE ADMINISTRATION HOW TO JEWISH DATE, YAWN, AND ALSO TO KEEP THE ADMINISTRATION FROM TELLING US HOW DO I DREW UP BECAUSE OUR PREROGATIVE, WHAT WE WANT TO LOOK FOR.
SO IT'S OUR PROGRESS, OUR PROCESS.
SO LET'S KEEP IT THAT WAY AND THE BEST WAY TO KEEP IT THAT WAY IS HAVE OUR POLICY COMMITTEE DEVELOP A POLICY FOR THE BOARD, AND THEN WE CAN GIVE IT TO THE ADMINISTRATION AND SAY, ADJUST PROCESS ACCORDINGLY.
UM, TYPICALLY JOHN, I WOULD AGREE WITH YOU AND YOUR STATEMENTS.
HOWEVER, UM, I'VE LEARNED THAT THERE ARE CERTAIN THINGS I'M PROUD OF THE DISTRICT, LIKE THE EXAMPLE THAT I GAVE EARLIER WITH THE FOOD SERVICE PE THAT, YOU KNOW, WE HAD TO AVOID IT NECESSARILY.
NO, THERE WAS NO CORRESPONDING.
OH E AND IT WAS BROUGHT TO OUR ATTENTION FROM THE DISTRICT AND THEY ASSISTED US IN DEVELOPING AN APPROPRIATE O E TO MIRROR THAT.
SO NORMALLY IN GENERALLY I WOULD AGREE WITH YOU THAT WE SHOULD, YOU KNOW, SET THE POLICY THAT THAT GETS WHAT THE DISTRICT DOES, BUT IN THIS CASE, UM, THERE'S INTERNAL THINGS THAT OCCURRED AT THE DISTRICT LEVEL THAT WE JUST, YOU KNOW, DON'T KNOW THE WHOLE PROCESS AND HOW MANY PEOPLE IN HANDS TOUCHED DIFFERENT THINGS.
SO I THINK IT'S BRINGING THAT TO US IN THIS RESPECT, YOU'RE BREAKING UP.
RACHEL, I WOULD ASSUME THAT, UH, I WOULD ASSUME THAT THE POLICY COMMITTEE CAN HAVE OUR IN HOUSE COUNSEL AND THE PROCUREMENT PEOPLE THEN TO DISCUSS THAT WITH THEM WHILE THEY'RE FORMULATING THEIR POLICY.
WE'RE GOING TO VOTE MELVIN CAMPBELL.
CHRISTINA WAS DAVID'S GERRYMANDER AND TRACKING ROBOT.
RACHEL WAS NO SKI RICHARD DYER.
SO NOW, UM, ROBIN, COULD YOU PLEASE PUT OFF THE SECOND? UH, IT WAS THE FIRST SUBSTITUTION, THE SECOND IT GETS OUT THERE.
ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION ABOUT THIS LONG TAKE, CAN WE READ IT OUT LOUD, PLEASE? THE BOARD OF EDUCATION DIRECTOR, SUPERINTENDENTS TO DEVELOP A PE RELATIVE TO A CHECKLIST PROCESS FOR BOARD APPROVAL OF CONTRACTS.
I WOULD LIKE TO AMEND THE MOTION YOU CAN'T ANYMORE.
WE'VE ALREADY HAD TWO AMENDMENTS.
THAT'D BE SUPPORTING THIS MOTION TODAY, BECAUSE THAT WAS WHAT I JUST SAID IS THAT THE SUPERINTENDENT HAS ANY EVER HAD ALL RIGHT TO BRING PEAS BEFORE US ON HIS OWN AS A SUPERINTENDENT.
WE, WE, WE SHOULD HAVE TO DIRECT THE SUPERINTENDENT TO BRING THIS PROCESS BECAUSE IT SOUNDS LIKE HE AND HIS STAFF ARE ALREADY WORKING TO POSSIBLY GET THIS DONE.
AND THEY HAVE UNDERSTANDING AFTER US HAVING A PUBLIC AFTER ACTION REVIEW TODAY.
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ALMOST SEEMS PART OF A DAILY, UH, A PART OF THEIR DAY-TO-DAY DAY OPERATION.SO I'M INCLINED NOT TO SUPPORT THIS BECAUSE I THINK THAT IT DOESN'T TAKE FOR US TO DIRECT THEM TO DO THIS.
I THINK IT SOUNDED LIKE HE HAD THE STAFF WAS, OR WAS ALREADY GOING TO DO THIS WITH THEM TO COME UP WITH DEALT WITH WHAT THEY SEE FIT, TO MAKE THINGS WORK ON THEIR OWN THIS ON THEIR SIDE OF THE, ON THEIR SIDE OF THE BALL.
UM, SO I WILL NOT SUPPORT THIS MOTION THE DAY BEFORE, BECAUSE I THINK HIS MOTION IS PREMATURELY.
I AM ALL FOR THE ADMINISTRATION CHOOSING HOW THEY WILL DO A CONTRACT AS LONG AS IT SHOULD IN COORDINATES WITH THE CUNY RULES AND THE LAW.
BUT I AM ADAMANTLY OPPOSED TO THE ADMINISTRATION TO TELL THEM THE BOARD, WHAT THEY WILL DO TO APPROVE A CONTRACT.
MR. VALLEY, NO MOTION CARRIES SEVEN THREE ONE.
PRISTINA WIDE STATEMENT STRIPPING HERE.
CATHY ROBOT AND MELVIN CAMPBELL.
RACHEL WAS ASKING RICHARD DYER AND THE ONE ABSTENTION IS MR. SMITH.
SO NOW CAN YOU PUT OUT THE ORIGINAL ONE? I'M NOT SURE IF THAT, UH, MY VOTE, UH, I THOUGHT I HIT NO, NOT ABSTAINED.
SO CAN WE CHANGE THAT PLEASE? THE FINAL IT'S STILL, IT'S STILL FAILED SEVEN 40.
BUT I JUST, I JUST WANT TO SEE, I JUST WANTED TO GET IT DONE.
I JUST WANTED TO PUT THAT OUT THERE.
GOING BACK TO THE VERY FIRST ONES.
THIS IS VERY SIMILAR TO THERE IT IS, RIGHT.
IS THERE A WAY TO MAKE IT LARGER SO WE CAN READ IT A LITTLE MORE CLEARLY OR READ IT ALOUD? THE BOARD OF EDUCATION DIRECTOR, CHAIR TO DIRECT THE POLICY COMMITTEE TO DEVELOP POLICY BASED ON THE DISTRICT'S PROCESS, PES OR CONTRACTS, BUT WE REALLY HAVE TO HAVE THE, THIS IT'S IMPLIED OR STATED REALLY IN THIS, THAT, THAT THEY HAVE TO DO, UH, THE VOTER THAT JUST PASSED FIRST.
SO WOULD YOU LIKE TO WITHDRAW IT AND THEN WE CAN VOTE TO WITHDRAW IT? OR WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO DO? I DON'T KNOW IF THAT GETS, I CAN HEAR, SORRY.
I ALWAYS MAKING A SUGGESTION TO POSTPONE IT UNTIL THEY COMPLETE THE WORK ON THAT PE
YOU MADE THE POSTPONING MOTION BACK AND DROVE BY.
AND SECOND, MY QUESTION IS MOTION TO POSTPONE THE MOTION AND THEY WOULDN'T, WOULDN'T POSTPONING, POSTPONING THIS MOTION, MOTION TO POSTPONE THE MOTION, THAT BOARD OF EDUCATION DIRECTOR CHAIR.
BUT YOU GOT TO STAY WITH THAT MOTION.
WE ARE GOING THROUGH MR. BELL CAMPBELL TO SEE THE DIFFERENT SET, UH, YOU KNOW, TO ME, THESE TWO WORSENS DEPENDENT OF EACH OTHER, THEREFORE, I DON'T KNOW WHY ONE HOUR I HAVE MINE.
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DIFFERENT ENTITIES.THAT'S A PART OF THE PROCESS THAT I ALLUDED TO GETTING A COMPLETE PROCESS DONE.
SO, YOU KNOW, THE WILL HAVE THE FINAL SEAT, REGARDLESS.
SUPERINTENDENT WOULD HAVE A ROOM LET'S BE DONE.
SO, YOU KNOW, THE HORSE BEFORE THE CART OR BEHIND THE HORSE.
UH, I DEFINITELY AGREE WITH MR. K OR MR. CAMPBELL.
AND MY QUESTION IS WE ARE HOLDING TO WHAT ARE WE VOTING FOR NOW ON THE, ON THIS MOTION? AND WHEN I POSTPONE A MOTION, IS THERE A TIMEFRAME ON THAT? YES, IT'S IN HERE.
I'VE DONE IT ALMOST CAN ONLY BE POSTPONED UNTIL THE NEXT MEETING.
AND THEN I HAVE TO COME OFF THE TABLE.
NO, WE CAN SET A DATE SO YOU CAN SET IT.
YOU CAN SET A TIME TO ADD THE, WE COULD ADD THE MOTION TO POST PROBLEM, SPIN MOTION, THAT THE BOARD OF EDUCATION DIRECTOR, CHAIR, TO DIRECT THE POLICY COMMITTEE TO DEVELOP A POLICY BASED ON A DISTRICT PROCESS SLASH E FOR CONTRACTS.
WELL, TO ME THAT SAYS THAT THE DISTRICT HAS TO HAVE THEIR PART DONE.
THAT'S THE WAY I THAT'S THE WAY I, RIGHT.
SO THAT'S, THAT'S HOW IT, HOW FAR IT'S POSTPONE TO, TO WHEN THE DISTRICT COMPLETES THEIR PORTION.
YEAH, BUT THAT, THAT'S NOT HOW I UNDERSTAND WHEN YOU POSTPONE A MOTION IS UNDERSTANDING.
THE WAY I UNDERSTAND ABOUT MOTION TO BE POSTPONED IS, IS POSTPONE FOR, UNTIL THE NEXT MEETING.
AFTER THAT, THAT MOTION MUST BE DISPOSED OF THAT.
THAT'S THE WAY HOW I, HOW I INTERPRET HOW I INTERPRET IT.
SO I'M, I'M A LITTLE, I'M ON THE FACE OF HERE TO UNDERSTAND THAT THIS, THAT THIS MOTION CAN EVEN, EVEN MOVE FORWARD FOR, FOR, FOR, FOR WHAT I JUST STATED.
I THINK YOU MAY BE ACTUALLY DOING, LAYING ON THE TABLE.
I THINK IF YOU LAY SOMETHING ON A TABLE, IT HAS TO COME BACK AT THE NEXT MEETING ACTUALLY CAN HAVE A SET TIME AND THIS ONE HAS A CERTAIN TIME.
UM, SOMEONE ELSE ASKED THE QUESTION.
SO I HAVE ANOTHER QUESTION, ALLIE.
UM, IF I, IF I READ THIS MOTION, I THINK ALL THE DISTRICT NEEDS TO DO IS STRUCK HIM IN WHAT THEY CURRENTLY DO, WHICH TWO, IT SHOULD SHAKE RICHIE MURPHY, 12 MINUTES.
I DON'T THINK THAT THERE'S ANY REASON WHY THEY CANNOT COME BACK IN HERE FOR THE DECEMBER 8TH MEETING TO PRESENT THIS PE.
SO THERE'S GOING TO DRIVE A POLICY, WHICH AGAIN IS ASKED BACK, WHICH, BUT NONETHELESS, THE, UH, ADMINISTRATION IS NOT BEING PLACED WITH AN UNDOABLE TASK HERE TO DOCUMENT WHAT THEY DO ALREADY, UNLESS THEY WANT TO CHANGE A LITTLE BIT OF IT HERE AND THERE.
SO I WILL VOTE TO TABLE IT TO DECEMBER RACE, BUT NOTHING BE GONE.
UM, UM, I WOULD LIKE TO AMEND HIS MOTION.
IT'S ALREADY BEEN AMENDED TWICE AND NOW IT'S JUST THE POSTPONEMENT LIMIT ON AMENDING.
SO THEN YOU COULD AMEND THE AMENDMENT.
BUT ACTUALLY I I'M, I'M AMENDING THE, UH, POSTPONE THE POSTPONEMENT.
CAN WE FILL IT UP FOR DOWN? AND THEN WHY DON'T WE LOAD THIS ONE UP OR DOWN? AND THEN YOU HAVE ANOTHER ONE YOU WANT TO MAKE? I DON'T KNOW.
I DON'T THINK YOU CAN DO THAT, BUT I CERTAINLY AM NOT A PROBLEM.
IT'S ALL VOLUNTARY, EXTRA FUNDING.
WELL, SO I DON'T THINK YOU'RE AN EXPERT, SO I THINK WE BETTER BUILD UPON IT.
AND THEN YOU, OR WE CAN ACTUALLY IN-HOUSE CO WELL, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW WHAT? THERE'S NOT MUCH.
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ALL RIGHT.EARL CAMPBELL, CHRISTINA
TRICIA, RACHEL AND RICHARD DYER.
SO MR. SMITH, WOULD YOU LIKE TO MAKE ANOTHER ROOM? UH, YES.
I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION THAT HOWARD, TO MAKE A MOTION THAT WE, THAT, THAT WE D WE DIRECT THE, THAT, THAT THE BOARD, THE REST OF THE POLICY COMMITTEE TO DEVELOP A PI POLICY POLICY TO AP FOR CONTRACTS.
I'LL SECOND PRE-DISCUSSION, I'M SORRY.
THE BOARD DIRECTOR POLICY COMMITTEE TO DEVELOP A PE FOR CONTRACTS.
MA'AM ON DISTRICT PROCESS OF PES AND CONTRACTS AND PROCESS FOR DIRECT THE POLICY COMMITTEE DEVELOP A PE FOR CONTRACTS.
WHAT ELSE ARE YOU ADDING DEVELOP A POLICY BASED ON THE DISTRICT'S PROCESS.
AND I MEAN, ON PRE EXCUSE ME, TO DEVELOP A POLICIES BASED ON THEIR PROCESS OF PES FOR THE DISTRICTS FOR CONTRACTS.
SO I DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW THAT DIFFERS FROM WHAT WE JUST VOTED ON, BECAUSE THERE'S THE B ONE IS DIRECTING THE CHAIR.
AND ONE IS THE BOARD DIRECTING THE POLICY VERSUS THE CHAIR WHOSE IT SEEMS TO HAVE SHOWN UP OVER MICRO-MANAGING AT THIS MEETING, UH, UH, VERSUS REPRESENTING LIKE THE, HAVING THE BOY AS A WHOLE, AS A TEAM TO DIRECT THE POLICY COMMITTEE TO GO AHEAD AND GET IT DONE.
SO THEREFORE EVERYONE WOULD BE IN THE LOOP WHEN IT, WHEN, WHEN EVERY ACTION IS BEING TAKEN PLACE ON THIS MOTION.
WELL, ONCE THE, ONCE THE, UM, DISTRICT LOOKED BACK WHERE THEIR PROCESS CHECKLIST, AS I RECALL, WAS ON THE MOTION FOR CONTRACTS AND PRESENTED TO THE BOARD, THEN IT GOES RIGHT TO POLICY COMMITTEE.
I GUESS IT GOES TO POLICY COMMITTEE.
I DON'T SEE WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE IS THERE? NO, BECAUSE WE HAVEN'T MADE THAT MOTION YET.
POST FORMAT, NOT POST POST
AND THEN WE POSTPONED THAT ACTION.
SO THOSE ACTUALLY HERE WILL BE POSTPONED, POSTPONED IN MY MIND WHEN I'M IN TIFFANY, SOMEBODY ELSE THAT HELPED ME.
BUT IN MY MIND, IF YOU DIDN'T POST ONE, IT WOULD BE CONTINUOUS ACTION, BOTH BONDED.
WE HAVE NOT DIRECTED FURTHER ACTION UNTIL THE UNDERSTANDING AS TO WHAT WE DID WITH FOLKS FROM VOTING ON IT, YOU POST ONE 49.
IT'S NOT A GIVEN THAT WE'RE GOING TO DO THAT.
SO THIS IS A DIRECT THING TO TAKE AN ACTION, RIGHT? THE POSTPONEMENT POSTPONEMENT WAS POSTPONE VOTING.
I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU MEAN.
WHEN YOU SAY THE POST VOTING, THEN
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WE READ IT.DID NOT AGREE THAT WE WERE GOING TO DO THAT SADLY.
SO THEREFORE, I GUESS WE AGREE.
ALL RIGHT, YOUR HANDS UP, LET'S BE CATHOLIC.
WELL, WE JUST PASSED A MOTION, DIRECTING THE SUPERINTENDENT TO DEVELOP A PE RELATIVE TO THIS.
SO ARE WE GOING TO DEVELOP COMPETING HE'S IN THE HOME? I THINK THAT THE IDEAS, THE SUPERINTENDENT DEVELOPS HIS PE, THEN IT COMES TO THE BOARD AND THAT'S WHERE WE STEPPED IT, OR DON'T ACCEPT IT OR MAKE CHANGES TO IT.
BUT FOR US TO DEVELOP A PE AND THE SUPERINTENDENT DEVELOPMENT, PE, THEN WE HAVE COMPETING PES.
AND IT DOESN'T SEEM TO MAKE SENSE, MR. DOLLAR, I TAKE MY HAND DOWN MR. SMITH TO MRS. ROBOT AND POINT.
UH, I, UM, I, I, I DEFER THERE BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT ONE, ONE DEVELOPMENT IS COMING FROM THE DISTRICT.
ONCE AGAIN, THAT'S THE BODY, HOW THE BODY FIELD, IT WILL BE IN THEIR BEST INTEREST TO PRESENT THINGS TO US.
CORRECT? WELL, NO, WE'RE OKAY.
NO, ACTUALLY I THINK I JUST GO AHEAD AND FINISH IT UP.
I JUST GO AND FINISH IT UP AND YOU, IF YOU WANT TO RESPOND, YOU CAN, UH, BASICALLY ONE PART OF IT IS HOW I SEE IT IS ONE PART IS BASICALLY ON THE DISTRICT.
AND THE OTHER PART IS BASICALLY ON THE BOARD TOGETHER.
SO THERE ARE TWO PARTS TO THIS.
THE BOARD TAKE OWNERSHIP ON THEIR PART AND THE STAFF TAKE OWNERSHIP ON THEIR PART.
WE DON'T HAVE TO KNOW EVERY SINGLE THING THAT THEY'RE DOING TO GET STARTED IN THE PROCESS TO GET THIS DONE IN A TIMELY FASHION, BECAUSE CONTRACTS ARE CONTINUOUSLY COMING AND COMING IN THIS DISTRICT.
EVERY TIME WE HAVE MEETINGS, ALMOST WE'RE VOTING ON CONTRACTS.
SO IF WE HAVE THIS AFTER ACTION REVIEW TODAY, AND WE'RE SEEING THAT WE MUST DO SOMETHING, THEN WHY, WHY ARE WE LATE? WHY ARE WE PUTTING OFF FOR TOMORROW? WHAT WE CAN HANDLE TODAY, WE CAN START THE PROCESS.
WE DON'T HAVE TO FINALIZE IT, BUT THE DISTRICT HAVE A PRODUCT OR A WAY WHERE THEY'RE THEY SEE, THIS IS HOW WE SEE FIT TO BRING IT TO THE BOARD.
AND WHEN THEY BRING IT TO THE BOARD, THIS IS WHAT, AS A BOARD, WE'RE SAYING THAT ALL, LET THEM, LET THEM KNOW OF US TOGETHER, COHESIVELY AS ONE UNIT.
THIS IS WHAT WE SPENT FOR, UH, FOR THIS IS WHAT WE EXPECT, WHAT WE EXPECT FOR IT TO BE DONE WHEN IT COMES BEFORE THE BOARD, AND THIS IS NOT DONE, THEN WE WON'T EVEN ENTERTAIN IT AS A BOARD.
SO YOU HA I SEE IT AS TWO DIFFERENT, TWO DIFFERENT GROUPS WORKING.
AND, AND YOU, YOU CAN THEN, AND THIS AND THIS, I WOULD SAY THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH WORKING IN SILOS.
BECAUSE AT THE END OF THE DAY, I THINK THAT WE BOTH BRING A WORK PRODUCT.
THEY PROMOTE, UH, BRING TO US AS WELL AS WHAT WE BRING TO THEM.
THEY'LL SAY, HEY, NOW WE KNOW WHAT THE BOARD EXPECTS OF US.
THE BOARD EXPRESS FOR US TO BRING TO IT, TO HAVE IT IN THIS ORDER, IT WAS NOT, IT WAS NOT READY.
IF OUR PROCESS IS NOT DONE AND LOOKED OVER AND SIGNED BY THE SUPERINTENDENT, THEN THEY'RE NOT GONNA ENTERTAIN IT.
SO IT'S TWO DIFFERENT PROCESSES.
THAT'D BE NOT THAT, THAT, THAT, THAT'S WHERE WE KEEP DROPPING THE BALL AT.
WE KEEP TAKING IT, MAKING IT PERSONAL AND PUTTING THINGS INTO IT.
AS SOMEONE SAID EARLIER, IT'S NOT ABOUT FAILING.
IT'S NOT ABOUT A TRUMP OF NOT QUESTIONING OR NOT TRUSTING SOMEONE.
IT'S ABOUT UNDERSTANDING THAT, LISTEN, THIS IS WHAT WE EXPECT OF YOU TO HAVE IT.
AND THIS IS WHAT THE SUPERINTENDENT, THIS IS WHAT MY STAFF HAS DONE SO FAR.
AND THIS, AND THIS IS WHAT Y'ALL REQUIRED OF US IS DONE.
IT'S TWO DIFFERENT PROCESSES TO, NO, IT MAKES NO SENSE.
CAN YOU SPEAK UP LOUDER PLEASE? WELL, YEAH, I AMEND YOUR MOTION TO SAY POLICY INSTEAD OF PE I SECOND THAT THANK YOU.
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AND JUST CHANGE PE TO POLICY, OR DO I NEED TO CREATE A NEW MOTION? SHE AMENDED, THIS IS JIM.OR THE AMENDMENT CAN JUST SAY, OH, YOU JUST DID.
BUT IT WASN'T,
JIMMY JUST AGREED TO WHAT SHE SAYS.
I THOUGHT THAT SECONDARY AMENDMENT, WELL, THAT IS THE AMENDMENT.
IT'S THE MOTION TO STRIKE A PE AND REPLACE YOUR CALLS.
ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? I CAN'T DRAW A LINE.
I DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW THAT'S DIFFERENT FROM WHAT WE JUST TOLD IT.
ON PREVIOUS, UH, PREVIOUS, PREVIOUS MOTION WISE THAT THE POLICY COMMITTEE DEVELOP A PROCESS FOR THE BOARD TO APPROVE, OR JUST, THIS IS FROM CONTRACTS UPON SUBMISSION.
CAN YOU EXPLAIN TO ME HOW THE TWO ARE DIFFERENT? WAS ALL SHAQ HAD HER HAND UP? WELL, SOME OF THE NOTION OF ORISHA ROBOT IS CHANGING.
WE VOTED TO POSTPONE THE DISCUSSION.
IS THAT CORRECT, KATHY, ON THAT PARTICULAR ITEM? NO.
PREVIOUS TO THAT, WHEN WE VOTED NO PREVIOUS TO THAT, WE VOTED TO HAVE STAFF DEVELOP A PERFORMANCE EXPECTATION AND A PERFORMANCE EXPECTATION IS WHAT THE BOARD EXPECTS OF ADMINISTRATION.
THIS MOTION IS WHAT THE BOARD EXPECTS FROM ITSELF.
AND, UM, I'M LOOKING AT THE MOTIONS HERE.
AND I DO SEE THAT THE LAST ONE WAS ALMOST IDENTICAL TO WILLIAMS NOW.
AND THE BOARD DECIDED TO POSTPONE IT TO IT'S DECEMBER 8TH MEETING.
IS THAT CORRECT? THAT'S CORRECT.
IT'S AS I SAY, WHEN IT'S NO MOTION TO PASS, COMM WAS TASKED.
UH, PREVIOUS TO THAT, I HAVE WRITTEN IN MY NOTES, HAVING HELPED ME OUT WITH THIS.
THERE WAS A, UH, SEVEN, FOUR VOTE ON A P E GO.
THIS IS A DIFFERENT, LET, LET, LET ME SAY IT.
CAUSE YOU'VE GOT IT WRITTEN DOWN.
UM, THIS MOTION, THE POLICY COMMITTEE DEVELOP A PROCESS FOR THE BOARD TO APPROVE OR DISAPPROVE CONTRACTS UPON SUBMISSION.
IT WAS SEVEN FOR TOM AND ROBIN.
AND, AND THIS COULD BE WHY I'M CONFUSED.
I ONLY SEE, UM, I HAD TO EXPAND.
I WAS LOOKING AT A TRUNCATED LIST OF MOTIONS.
SO IT SOUNDS LIKE YOUR AMENDMENT WE'VE ALREADY DONE.
I DON'T SEE YOU ALREADY DONE IT.
I DIDN'T HAVE THE MOTIONS EXPANDED.
NOW LET'S GO BACK TO WILLIAMS AND THIS IS A DIFFERENT NOTION ABOUT A PPE AND WE'LL VOTE ON THAT.
ACTUALLY, I ACTUALLY, UM, EVEN IF WE VOTED ON THAT, WE, WE ONLY LEAVE IT ALONE.
CAN WE PLEASE VOTE? ACTUALLY, I HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY, GO AHEAD.
YOU KNOW, I WANT TO TAKE A PAGE OUT.
ONE OF MY COLLEAGUES, A BOOK WHO WOULD SAY SOMETHING NOW ABOUT, YOU KNOW, WE SAY WE'RE FOR THE STUDENTS.
AND WHEN WE SAY THAT WE COME TO A SCHOOL TO DO THE STUDENTS AND THE PEOPLE AT WORK, YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES THEY DON'T DEPEND ON WHAT THE MOTION
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IS DEPENDING ON WHO MAKES THE MOTION, THE MOTION AIN'T GOING TO PAY.AND IF THE MOTION IS FOR THE GOOD OF THE STUDENTS AND THE GOOD OF THE COMMUNITY, THEY STILL WON'T PASS.
BECAUSE SOME, BECAUSE IF, JUST FOR THE SAKE OF US, IF THE MOTION AIN'T MADE BY CERTAIN PEOPLE ON THIS BOARD, IT WON'T BE SUPPORTED.
AND YOU KNOW THAT, I FIND THAT VERY CON THAT'S VERY ON HEALTHY FOR THIS BOARD.
MOVING FORWARD TO SAY THAT WE WANT TO HELP THE STUDENTS IN THIS DISTRICT MOVING FORWARD.
YOU KNOW, I THINK THAT IS VERY
IT'S ALMOST LIKE, UH, IT'S VERY INSENSITIVE FOR PEOPLE WHO WE SERVE, YOU KNOW, TO, FOR US TO CONTINUE TO SIT THERE.
AND IF IT, IF IT, IF IT AIN'T CERTAIN PEOPLE'S IDEA ON THIS BOARD, THEN, THEN, THEN WE SHOOT A DIE.
IT'S NOT FOR THE GOOD OF THE PEOPLE.
YOU KNOW, WE'VE ALL BEEN ELECTED.
AT LEAST SOMETIMES WE NEED TO LOOK DEEPER THAN OURSELVES AND ASK OURSELVES, WHY ARE WE SERVING ON THIS BOARD? I ALWAYS SERVE HIM ON THIS BOARD TO, UH, ENHANCE OUR FRIENDS OR ENHANCE CERTAIN GROUPS OF PEOPLE, OR ARE WE SERVING ON HIS BOARD TO LOOK FOR THE BETTERMENT OF EVERYONE? AND THIS INCLUDES ME AS WELL, BECAUSE YOU KNOW, I AM, I AM NOT HAPPY WITH HOW WE'RE HANDLING SOMEWHAT, SOMEWHAT, SOME OF THIS, UH, SOME OF OFF OUR FIDUCIARY RESPONSIBILITIES ON HIS BOARD.
IT BRINGS ME GREAT, GREAT CONCERN.
YOU KNOW, WHO SAID, WE WANT THESE FOR THE BETTERMENT.
WHAT'S THE PROBLEM WITH BOTH OF US MOVING IN AND COMING UP WITH, UH, WITH UNDERSTANDING OF THE PROCESS.
EVERYONE HAS TO HAVE THEIR PROCESS.
THIS BOARD WE HAVE HAD, WE GOT TO FACE IT.
THAT LEADERSHIP STARTS FROM THE TOP.
IT AIN'T GOT THE RODRIGUEZ FOR THIS DISTRICT.
WE DON'T WORRY ABOUT GETTING 11.
OH, IF WE GET SIX OR SEVEN VOTES, WE'RE GOOD.
AND THAT'S ONE OF THE PROBLEMS WITH THIS BOARD IS JUST MAKE A GAME OFF THE TOPIC.
I'M SURE THAT I AM A MADAM CHAIR.
NOW, IF SOMEBODY ELSE, MR. I JUST LIKE TO SAY DITTO TO WHERE EVERYTHING WILL SAID, I'VE BEEN WONDERING ALL ALIGN.
WHAT, WHY ALL THE DISCUSSION BASED ON WHO MADE THE MOTION, WHO SECONDED IT, YOU ALL ARE GOING TO VOTE.
UM, I DON'T CARE WHETHER IT'S PARENTS LEAVE IT ALONE, GO BACK AND CHANGE AND GET TO SAY THAT IT'S MOSTLY TACTICAL.
AND, UM, I, I FEEL THAT, UH, BY JUST STATING THAT DECISIONS ARE MADE BASED ON WHO MAKES THE MOTION, UM, IT'D BE A LITTLE AS EVERYBODY'S THOUGHT PROCESSES HERE.
AND, AND I PERSONALLY FIND THAT UNACCEPTABLE, BUT AGAIN, THAT'S YOUR THOUGHT PROCESS? I JUST HAPPEN NOT TO AGREE WITH IT.
OH, MR. CARMEL, I JUST NEED CLARITY.
I MEAN THE OTHER ONE WOULD BE, WAS THAT THE SAME AS WITH THE POLICY? THAT'S WHAT I WANT TO KNOW.
I MEAN, IF JOANNE'S AMENDMENT WAS TRUE THEN WAS IT A BIT OF THE SAME THING?
IN FACT, THEY VOTED THIS DOWN BEFORE WE PASSED THE SECOND MOTION.
MEAN THE POLICY, MAN, THIS IS A RATHER MUTE.
I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE NOT, YOU KNOW, THE IDEAS
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THEN THIS IS A NO.UH, THE MOTION FAILS, UH, TO, YES.
I KNOW THE NOSE OR EARL CAMPBELL PROCEEDED SQUADS.
JOANNA WORSHACK DATA-DRIVEN HAPPY ROBOT.
RACHEL IS NASTY AND RICHARD GUYER.
WE'RE ONTO THE LAST ITEM HERE.
UM, UPDATE ON SUPPORT SERVICES.
BUT THEY DON'T SUPPORT SERVICES.
THAT WAS A REQUEST FROM THE BOARD FOR ONE OF THE AGENDA TODAY.
CAMPBELL IS ON FOR TRANSPORTATION AND JOB.
ALL RIGHT, GOOD AFTERNOON, EVERYONE.
I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERYONE CAN HEAR ME BEFORE I MOVE FORWARD FORWARD.
I JUST, I JUST WANT TO TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO THANK YOU AGAIN FOR GIVING ME ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY TO PRESENT TO YOU.
UM, THIS AFTERNOON, UM, I WOULD LIKE TO START WITH A QUOTE COMING TOGETHER AS THE BEGINNING, KEEPING TOGETHER IS PROGRESS.
IF EVERYONE IS MOVING FORWARD TOGETHER, THEN SUCCESS TAKES CARE OF ITSELF.
AND THAT'S NOT MY QUOTE, BUT HENRY FORD SAID THAT, UM, I WANT TO TALK A LITTLE BIT.
WE KEEP, UM, ROBIN ON THAT QUOTE FOR A SECOND, UM, FOR THE CARING COMMUNITY INITIATIVE.
I WANT TO START BY SAYING THAT WE'VE DONE ALL THREE.
UM, WE'VE CAME TOGETHER, WE MEET BIWEEKLY AND WE ARE WORKING TOGETHER TO ELIMINATE AS MANY BARRIERS FACING OUR COMMUNITY AGENCIES THAT ARE SUPPORTING, THAT ARE SUPPORTING OUR STUDENTS VIRTUALLY IN THE VIRTUAL LEARNING CAPACITY.
SO I JUST WANTED TO EMPHASIZE THAT THE DISTRICT, AS WELL AS COMMUNITY AGENCIES ARE WORKING TOGETHER TO SUPPORT STUDENTS WITHIN OUR DISTRICT.
ALL RIGHT, WE CAN MOVE ON TO THE NEXT LINE.
SO I WANTED TO START BY JUST GIVING YOU A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE OF WHERE WE ARE NOW, JUST GIVING YOU AN UPDATE ON THE WORK THAT WE'VE DONE SINCE THIS MORNING.
SO I ALWAYS LIKE TO GIVE CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE.
UM, AND BEFORE I BEGIN THIS PRESENTATION, I DO WANT TO START BY SAYING THAT BUFORD COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT DOES NOT ENDORSE ANY OF THE COMMUNITY AGENCIES.
I DO WANT TO START WITH THAT, BUT IT WAS HOW WE GOT HERE WAS REALLY, UM, A VISION FROM A CONCERNED CITIZEN.
AND THAT IS, UM, I'M GOING TO LET YOU KNOW WHO SHE IS, PASTOR ROBERTS, WHO, UH, IS THE PASTOR OF LOVE HOUSE, UM, CHURCH.
AND ALSO SHE WORKS WITH THE LOVE HOUSE LEARNING ACADEMY.
SO THIS SUMMER, UM, JUST WITH THE DECISIONS THAT WE MADE ABOUT HOW WE WERE GOING TO SERVE OUR CHILDREN EITHER, YOU KNOW, FACE TO FACE VIRTUALLY, WE WERE, YOU KNOW, JUST TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHERE WE ARE AND HOW WE WILL SUPPORT OUR STUDENTS.
SO SHE CAME TO ME, UM, ACTUALLY CALL THE DISTRICT AND HAD A PROPOSAL.
SHE WAS JUST SAYING, IF WE ARE IN A VIRTUAL PLATFORM, THEY'RE GOING TO BE NEEDS BY FAMILIES THAT NEED SUPPORT FOR THEIR CHILDREN BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO WORK.
AND SHE WANTED TO BE A PART OF BEING A PROBLEM SOLVER.
SO WE HAD A BRIEF CONVERSATION.
AND FROM THAT, WE ARE HERE TALKING ABOUT THE CARING COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS FOR E-LEARNING.
SO IT STARTED WITH, UH, A VISION FROM A CONCERNED CITIZEN AND IT TURNED INTO A POSITIVE, UM, INITIATIVE.
SO WITH THAT BEING SAID, WE, WE, WE TALK FURTHER AND WE FOUND THAT IT WOULD BE ADVANTAGEOUS FOR US AS A DISTRICT TO TAP INTO, UM, OUR COMMUNITY AGENCIES THAT HAVE A VERY STRONG PRESENCE IN OUR DISTRICT.
AND SOME OF THOSE AGENCIES SUPPORT OUR STUDENTS DURING THE SUMMER, AS WELL AS AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAMS. SO THE COMMUNITY AGENCIES THAT WE REACH OUT TO, AND YOU CAN GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE.
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Y M C A BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB AND OUR NEIGHBORHOOD OUTREACH CENTERS ALONG WITH THE LOVE HOUSE MINISTRY.SO WE MET AND DETERMINED THAT JUST IN THAT ONE MEETING, IT WASN'T GOING TO BE ENOUGH TO REALLY RESPOND TO HER VISION.
SO WHAT WE DECIDED IS THAT WE WERE GOING TO CONTINUE TO HAVE COMMUNICATION AMONG THE AGENCIES.
AND WE CAME UP WITH THE TIME, NOT A TIMELINE, BUT A SCHEDULE TO MEET BY BI-WEEKLY.
SO WE STARTED IN JULY AND IF YOU'RE LOOKING AT THE SLIDE, UM, WE HAD A, ANOTHER, OUR LAST MEETING WAS NOT NOVEMBER 10TH.
IT WAS ACTUALLY NOVEMBER THE 12TH, WHICH WAS YESTERDAY.
SO ON JULY 29TH, WE MET WITH THE LOVE HOUSE MINISTRY, PASTOR, BOYS, AND GIRLS CLUB, THE Y MCA AND THE NEIGHBORHOOD OUTREACH CENTER.
UM, WE WERE REALLY EXCITED ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY BECAUSE THREE OF THE FOUR AGENCIES HAVE MULTIPLE LOCATIONS WITHIN OUR DISTRICT.
UM, AND WE FELT LIKE THAT WOULD BE A AWESOME OPPORTUNITY FOR OUR FAMILIES TO BE SERVED.
UM, YOU KNOW, IF THEY HAVE CUT, DIDN'T HAVE THE FLEXIBILITY OF STAYING HOME WITH THEIR WORTH THEIR STUDENTS.
UM, SO FROM THAT MEETING, WE KNEW THAT WE WANTED TO, TO OPEN IT UP EVEN MORE.
WE WANTED TO FIND MULTIPLE OPPORTUNITIES TO PROVIDE THESE LEARNING AGE, LEARNING A, UH, COMMUNITY AGENCIES, UM, OPPORTUNITY FOR OUR FAMILIES TO CONNECT.
SO WHAT THAT MEANS SAID, WE TAPPED INTO OUR ECUMENICAL PARTNERSHIP.
UM, WE, UH, IF YOU'RE FAMILIAR WITH THAT, WE MEET, UH, AT LEAST TWICE A YEAR WITH OUR FAITH BASED LEADERS.
UM, AND WE WERE ABLE TO CONNECT WITH CHURCHES THAT WERE WILLING TO WORK WITH US IN THIS INITIATIVE.
UM, IF I CAN GO TO THE NEXT LINE, ROBERT, SO ON AUGUST 12TH, UM, WE MET WITH THE COMMUNITY AGENCIES AND AT THAT MEETING, WE JUST STARTED TALKING ABOUT THE LOGISTICS OF LOGISTICS OF WHAT THIS WOULD LOOK LIKE.
UM, HOW MANY STUDENTS COULD THEY SERVE? UM, WHAT WOULD IT LOOK LIKE IN TERMS OF SERVING THE STUDENTS? AND SO WITH THAT BEING SAID, WE WRAPPED AROUND, UM, ADDITIONAL SUPPORT, LIKE TRAINING WITH OUR SEL, UH, SYSTEM PANORAMA AND MS. SWINTON IS ON WITH US AND SHE'LL CHIME IN AND JUST A LITTLE BIT.
AND SO ON THE 21ST WE MET WITH KIM STATLER, WHO'S THE REGIONAL WORKFORCE ADVISOR FOR SOUTH CAROLINA TO TALK ABOUT JUST HOW THESE OPPORTUNITIES CAN EXPAND AND WE CAN SUPPORT OUR STUDENTS.
AND WITH THAT, KIM WAS WILLING TO, UH, PROVIDE ADDITIONAL SUPPORT, UM, THROUGH THE PROCESS OF WHAT THAT, WHAT THAT WOULD LOOK LIKE IN OUR, UH, OUR CHURCHES ON AUGUST 26, WE HAD OUR TECHNOLOGY SUPPORT TEAM, UH, SPEAK TO OUR AGENCIES ABOUT THE SUPPORT THAT THEY WOULD PROVIDE THROUGH THIS PROCESS.
UM, A LOT OF TIMES, YOU KNOW, THERE ARE GLITCHES THAT OCCUR.
UM, AND WE HAD OUR TECHNOLOGY TEAMS SPEAK TO THEM ABOUT THINGS, LOOK, THINGS THAT THEY LOOK SHOULD LOOK OUT FOR AND WAYS THAT THEY CAN ACCESS THE SUPPORT, UM, THROUGH OUR DISTRICT.
IN ADDITION TO THAT, WE HAD OUR DIRECTOR OF LITERACY, AS WELL AS OUR DIRECTOR OF, UM, EARLY CHILDHOOD SPEAK TO THEM ABOUT BEST PRACTICES.
UM, AS IN RE IN RELATION TO SHIP TO, YOU KNOW, MAKING SURE THAT KIDS AREN'T SITTING AT SCREENS FOR LONG PERIODS OF TIME, GIVING THEM BRAIN BREAKS, MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE DOING READ ALOUDS.
SO JUST GIVING THEM BEST PRACTICES.
IT MAY COME NATURAL TO TEACHERS, BUT WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS WERE, UM, GIVEN THE NECESSARY TOOLS TO SUPPORT OUR INSTRUCTION VIRTUALLY.
IN ADDITION TO THAT, WE HAD OUR FOOD SERVICES MEET AND TALK ABOUT HOW THE FOOD DISTRIBUTION AND ELIMINATING AS MANY BARRIERS FOR THEM, SO THAT KIDS WERE FED AT EACH OF OUR SITES, OKAY.
IN SEPTEMBER, AND I'M NOT GOING TO GO THROUGH ALL OF THEM.
WE ALSO CONNECTED WITH UNITED WAY.
UM, WE HAD A REPRESENT ACTUALLY TWO REPRESENTATIVES SPEAK TO OUR, UH, COMMUNITY PARTNERS ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF HAVING, UM, A MIRACLE AMERICORPS VOLUNTEERS.
UM, WE ALSO TALKED ABOUT THE WAIVERS THROUGH DSS AND THAT PROCESS, AND WE'LL GO INTO A LITTLE DETAIL ABOUT THAT AS WELL.
AND WE PROVIDED THEM WITH A OVERVIEW OF ALL OF THE SUPPORT SERVICES, UM, THAT WE PROVIDE IN OUR DISTRICT.
AND, UM, THEY WERE VERY RECEPTIVE TO THE INFORMATION
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THAT WE SHARED ON SEPTEMBER 9TH.WE TAGGED IN WITH OUR MILITARY FAMILY SUPPORT, WHICH IS KIM WILEY.
SHE, UM, CONNECTED WITH US IN TERMS OF WHAT WERE THE NEEDS FOR OUR MILITARY FAMILIES.
UM, AND WE ALSO CONTINUED TO PROVIDE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT, PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT TRAINING AS IT RELATES TO LITERACY AND THINGS THAT THEY CAN DO TO SUPPORT THE, UM, THE, THE VIRTUAL LEARNING, UM, IN SEPTEMBER ON SEPTEMBER 16TH, KIM CONTINUED TO EMPHASIZE, UM, THE STEPS FOR THE DSS WAIVERS, UM, AND ALSO JUST UPDATES ON FOOD DISTRIBUTION WAS OUR CONVERSATION ON SEPTEMBER THE NINTH, I'M SORRY.
ON SEPTEMBER 30TH, WE HAD, UM, A TRAINING BREA TRAINING ON COVID SAFETY PRECAUTIONS.
WE FELT THAT IT WAS IMPORTANT FOR US TO ADDRESS THAT.
AND, UM, OUR COUNTY COUNCIL, UH, REACHED OUT TO US IN OCTOBER, I'M SORRY, IN SEPTEMBER ABOUT POSSIBLE FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE.
AND SO WE'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THAT IN THE, IN THE NEXT SLIDE.
UH, THIS IS A PICTURE OF WHAT THE MEETINGS LOOK LIKE.
THIS IS JUST LIKE A QUICK SNAPSHOT AND THIS PARTICULAR, UM, PICTURE IS A PICTURE OF OUR DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT, DR.
BRADLEY, WHO, UM, GAVE THEM SOME QUICK UPDATES ON WHERE WE WERE AS A DISTRICT IN TERMS OF, UM, TRANSITIONING FROM OUR VIRTUAL TO OUR HYBRID SCENARIOS.
AND, UM, YOU MAY RECOGNIZE SOME OF THE FACES THERE, BUT OUR GOAL, WE CAN GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE.
OUR GOAL WAS TO KEEP THEM INFORMED, NOT TO ENDORSE, TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY HAVE THE NECESSARY TOOLS, THE NECESSARY, UM, STRATEGIES.
SO THEY COULD SUPPORT THE STUDENTS THAT WE, OUR STUDENTS THAT WERE IN THESE, UH, COMMUNITY AGENCIES ON YESTERDAY.
IT WAS A FEEDBACK SESSION, UM, FOR OUR AGENCIES.
IT WAS THE END OF THE FIRST QUARTER.
SO WE FELT THAT IT WAS IMPORTANT FOR US TO REFLECT ON OUR WORK.
HOW COULD WE GET BETTER? HOW CAN WE, UH, BUILD STRONGER COMMUNICATION? UM, AND, UM, IN THAT DIALOGUE, THERE WERE A COUPLE OF, UM, AREAS THAT WE REALLY NEED TO WORK ON TO MAKE THIS, THIS RELATIONSHIP STRONGER.
AND WE DID HAVE A MULTIPLE, UM, A MULTITUDE OF POINTS OF CELEBRATION, WHICH I WAS ALSO EXCITED TO, UM, TO HEAR THAT, YOU KNOW, WE, WE ARE SEEING SOME SUCCESS.
AND I THINK THAT THAT IS IMPORTANT TOO.
SO LIKE I STARTED EARLIER, THERE WERE FOUR COMMUNITY AGENCIES THAT WE STARTED WITH AND WE REALIZED THAT IT WAS IMPORTANT TO REACH OUT EVEN FURTHER AND THROUGH OUR ECUMENICAL PARTNERSHIP, AS WELL AS, UM, THE AGENCIES THAT ARE LIKE KNOWN AROUND THE DISTRICT, WE LANDED THE PLANE ON 14 COMMUNITY SERVICE PROVIDERS.
NOW I DO WANT TO LET YOU KNOW THAT THERE WERE ADDITIONAL, AND THESE ARE THE PROVIDERS THAT WE MEET WITH ON A REGULAR BASIS.
THEY'RE PART OF THE BI-WEEKLY MEETINGS.
WE HAD A FEW THAT STARTED WITH US AND THEY KIND OF FELL OFF, FELL OFF.
LIKE THEY DIDN'T SEE THE NEED, BUT THE 14 COMMUNITY PROVIDERS ARE THE EAST, THE CENTRAL GROUP THAT WE'VE WORKED WITH FOR THE PAST COUPLE OF MONTHS.
CAN I GO BACK JUST ONE SECOND, ROBIN? SO THIS IS A PICTURE OF ONE OF OUR, UM, WHO'S AT A CHURCH AND THE PICTURE I THINK GOT CUT OFF, BUT SHE'S ON HER IPAD AND SHE'S ENGAGED.
AND IT REALLY WAS A VIDEO THAT WAS POSTED ON THEIR FACEBOOK AND THE, THE, THE PROVIDER, THE, THE LEARNING COACH WAS ENGAGED, DANCING WITH THE KID.
SO I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT I EMPHASIZE THAT WE CAN GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE.
SO IN THIS PICTURE, YOU SEE OUR SUPERINTENDENT, DR.
RODRIGUEZ HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO VISIT, UM, A FEW OF OUR SITES ALONG WITH OTHER MEMBERS OF THE INSTRUCTIONAL SERVICES TEAM, JUST TO CHECK ON THEM, TO MAKE SURE THINGS ARE OKAY.
UM, WE HAVE MEMBERS OF OUR TECHNOLOGY TEAM ACTUALLY GO OUT TO SITES TO MAKE SURE THAT THE WIFI WAS CONNECTED CORRECTLY, MAKING SURE THAT EVERYTHING WAS INTACT SO THAT WE DIDN'T HAVE THE DISCONNECT, UM, WITH TECHNOLOGY.
SO THIS PICTURE WAS TAKEN IN OCTOBER.
UM, IN OCTOBER, WE HAD OVER 600 STUDENTS THAT WERE IDENTIFIED IN EACH OF THE 14 AGENCIES KEEP IN MIND.
MANY OF THE AGENCIES HAD MULTIPLE SITES.
SO I JUST IDENTIFIED JUST THE 14 PROVIDERS, BUT MANY OF THE PROVIDERS HAD ADDITIONAL
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SITES.SO, UM, THIS IS JUST A PICTURE OF WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE IN SOME OF THE LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS AROUND THE COMMUNITY.
ALL RIGHT, MS. SWINTON, ARE YOU READY? YES, MA'AM GOOD AFTERNOON.
CAMPBELL HAS HERE IS I'M ACTUALLY, WE REACHED OUT DURING ONE OF OUR MEETINGS WITH ONE OF THE COMMUNITY PARTNERS.
THEY MENTIONED THAT SOME OF THE STUDENTS NEEDED HEADPHONES AND THE REGULAR EAR BUDS WERE NOT WORKING.
SO THEY ACTUALLY NEEDED HEADPHONES THAT HAD A MICROPHONE, UM, AND THE PARENTS COULD NOT AFFORD AT THE TIME TO PURCHASE THAT.
THAT WAS AN ADDITIONAL EXPENSE THAT THE PARENTS COULD NOT AFFORD.
UM, SO WE, AS YOU KNOW, HAVE BEEN WORKING WITH CAPACITY TO MEET THE NEEDS IN OUR COMMUNITY.
SO THIS IS ANOTHER NEED THAT WE PUT OUT.
WE PUT OUT A REQUEST FOR, I THINK ABOUT 15 HEADPHONES WITH A MICROPHONE TO BE DELIVERED TO ONE OF OUR COMMUNITY CENTERS.
AND THIS IS, UM, WHEN WE RECEIVED THAT BOX.
SO I'M ALWAYS EXCITED TO BE ABLE TO USE OUR COMMUNITY, TO HELP, TO MEET THE NEEDS OF OUR STUDENTS.
UM, JUST AS THIS INITIATIVE HAS, YOU KNOW, THIS IS THE COMMUNITY COMING TOGETHER, AND IT'S JUST ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF HOW BUFORD COUNTY SUPPORTS OUR STUDENTS.
I ALSO WANT TO ADD THE ADDITIONAL RESOURCES.
SO WE MET WITH OUR BEHAVIOR MANAGEMENT SPECIALISTS WITHIN OUR DISTRICT, AS WELL AS OUR SOCIAL WORKERS, INSTRUCTIONAL COACHES, AND OUR SCHOOL COUNSELORS.
AND WE ASSIGNED, UH, ONE OF THEM, ONE BEHAVIOR MANAGEMENT SPECIALIST, A SOCIAL WORKER, INSTRUCTIONAL COACH, AND A COUNSELOR TO EACH OF THE AGENCIES SO THAT THEY COULD HAVE ADDITIONAL SUPPORT.
SO THEY WOULD CHECK IN WITH EACH OF OUR AGENCIES ON A WEEKLY BASIS, IF THERE WERE ANY PROBLEMS THAT WANTED TO BE PROACTIVE ABOUT, WE TRY TO ADDRESS THOSE ISSUES PRIOR TO THE BI-WEEKLY MEETING.
AND SO, UM, WE WERE ABLE TO PROBLEM SOLVE.
UM, THERE WERE SOME KIDS THAT MAY NOT BE ENGAGED AND THEY WANTED SOME STRATEGIES ON HOW CAN THEY, YOU KNOW, GET THEM ENGAGED.
SO I JUST WANT TO LET YOU KNOW THAT THIS WAS A TEAM EFFORT TO SUPPORT THE NUMBER OF STUDENTS THAT WERE IN OUR, OUR, UM, COMMUNITY AGENCIES MISSING, WENT TO YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE 90 DAY LICENSE? SURE.
CAMPBELL TALKED ABOUT THE 14 SITES AND EACH LOCATION THAT THEY HAVE.
SO THE ONES WITH MULTIPLE SITES HAD TO SUBMIT MULTIPLE APPLICATIONS TO THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES.
THEY WERE OFFERING TEMPORARY LICENSURES FOR, UM, TEMPORARY CHILDCARE FACILITIES.
SO THERE WAS A PROCESS WHERE WE EACH HAD TO PROVIDE CENTRAL REGISTRY CHECKS OR SLED CATCH BACKGROUND, CHECK, UM, PHOTOS OF THE LOCATION AND APPLICATION, BOTH FOR THE SITE, AS WELL AS, UM, THE CHILDREN THAT WERE GOING TO BE SERVED AT THAT SITE.
AND THEN EACH SITE HAD TO HAVE SOMEONE WHO WAS CPR AND AED CERTIFIED.
SO THIS, UM, TURNED INTO WHAT WE THOUGHT WAS INITIALLY A SIMPLE PROCESS, BUT IT, IT WAS REALLY DSS DOING THEIR DUE DILIGENCE, NOT TAKING US THROUGH THE ENTIRE PROCESS TO BECOME LICENSED CHILDCARE PROVIDERS, BUT ALLOWING THAT OPPORTUNITY FOR, UM, A TEMPORARY LICENSURE TO BE ISSUED.
SO, UM, I KNOW THAT FOR THE SCHOOL DISTRICT, WE'RE WORKING ON OUR, OUR, UM, LICENSED, AND IT HAS NOT BEEN A QUICK PROCESS, BUT IT DEFINITELY IS THOROUGH.
UM, SO YOU GOT TO GET CREDIT TO DSS FOR EVEN THINKING OUTSIDE OF THE BOX AND OFFERING THIS DURING THIS UNPRECEDENTED TIME.
AND I WANT TO ADD TO THAT MS. WINSTON, THAT, UM, OUR CHURCHES THAT PARTICIPATED IN THIS, THEY HAD TO GO THROUGH THIS PROCESS.
SO MANY OF THERE WERE A LOT OF INTERESTS AT THE BEGINNING, BUT SOME OF OUR CHURCHES THOUGHT THAT THE PROCESS WAS A LITTLE OVERWHELMING.
SO THEY, THEY DIDN'T, YOU KNOW, CONNECT WITH US.
IF WE CAN GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE, I THINK WE TALKED ABOUT THAT.
THIS IS REALLY JUST THE STATE GUIDELINES FOR THE TEMPORARY CERTIFICATION AND THE LAST TWO SLIDES WE CAN GO.
WE TALKED BRIEFLY ABOUT THAT ONE ALREADY.
SO, YOU KNOW, I'M WANTING TO END, YOU KNOW, WITH JUST SOME QUOTES FROM THE AGENCIES.
UM, THIS WAS AGAIN FROM PASTOR ROBERT, SHE SAID THAT MEETINGS HAVE KEPT US UP TO DATE WITH CHANGES, STUDENT REQUIREMENTS, MENTAL HEALTH TRAINING, AS WELL AS PARTNERSHIPS TO BUILD RELATIONSHIPS, TO HELP US PROPERLY CARE FOR CHILDREN.
DURING THE COVID-19 LEARNING, WE HAVE DEVELOPED A COMMUNITY WHERE WE HAVE LEARN THAT WE ARE NOT ALONE BECAUSE OF THIS.
WE ARE ABLE TO REACH OUT FOR SUPPORT WHEN NEEDED FOR MORE THAN JUST ONE AGENCY, BUT A COMMUNITY FOR ALL, FOR ALL THAT YOU AND YOUR TEAM WORKED SO HARD TO DO WE THANK YOU FOR YOUR DEDICATION.
SO THIS WAS JUST ONE, UM, EXAMPLE OF HOW THIS PROCESS KIND OF CAME ALONG AND
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HOW WE FEEL THAT IT WAS A POSITIVE OUTCOME.AND THIS IS FROM BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS SPECIAL, THANKS TO BEAVER COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT FOR INITIATING THE BI-WEEKLY COMMUNITY PARTNER MEETINGS.
EXCELLENT MEANS OF SHARING INFORMATION AND PARTNER IDEAS.
GREAT WAY TO SEE AND HEAR FROM KEY SCHOOL LEADERSHIP.
SO I WANT TO EMPHASIZE THIS, THAT, UM, WE, AT EVERY MEETING, WE DIDN'T HAVE THE ANSWERS.
A LOT OF TIMES THE AGENCIES TALK TO EACH OTHER TO FIGURE THINGS OUT, LIKE IF THEY WERE EXPERIENCING ANY CHALLENGES THROUGH THE PROCESS FOR DSS, WHAT THEY COULD DO TO KIND OF SOLVE THOSE PROBLEMS. SO I REALLY FELT LIKE WE CREATED A COMMUNITY OF LEARNERS IN THIS, WHICH IS ALWAYS A BLESSING TO, UM, HAVE THE CONNECTION WITH OUR COMMUNITY.
UM, YESTERDAY WHEN WE MET AND I, THIS WAS REALLY FROM THE HEART.
I DIDN'T HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO MEET WITH THEM THE LAST TWO WEEKS, BECAUSE THERE WAS A CONFLICT IN MY SCHEDULE AND MS. SWINTON LED THAT MEETING.
AND I SHARED WITH THEM THAT I REALLY FELT LIKE I WAS LIKE, THIS WAS A PART OF A FAMILY.
LIKE WE WORK TOGETHER TO SOLVE PROBLEMS. WE, WE MEET FOR AN HOUR AND A HALF BIWEEKLY.
AND, UM, I THINK AS A BEGIN, A GOOD BEGINNING, I'M NOT SAYING THAT IT'S PERFECT, BUT I FELT LIKE THERE WAS A CONCERNED CITIZEN THAT HAD AN IDEA AND THE IDEA TURNED INTO A WAY THAT WE COULD SUPPORT AT LEAST 600, 600 STUDENTS WITHIN OUR DISTRICT.
WHAT KIND OF RELATIONSHIP DO WE HAVE WITH THEM, PARTICULARLY FOR HIM TO THE ONE ON HILTON HEAD AND WHAT I NOTICED WHEN YOU WENT THROUGH YOUR PRESENTATION, YOU DID DISCUSS THE SPOON CONTACTS.
YOU HAD SOME OTHER WORD THAT WOULD CONTACTS, BUT I, I, YOU KNOW, YEAH.
YOU SAID, THINK ABOUT THE PARTICULAR CONTACTS THERE.
AND ONE OF THE REASONS I'M ASKING THAT IS BECAUSE ONE OF THE CONCERNS IS THAT THEY, THEY REACHED OUT AND SAID THAT THEY REALLY WANTED TO ASSIST WHERE THEY COULD TAKE WITH THE STUDENTS WHO ARE HAVING SOME DIFFICULTY VIRTUALLY, BUT THEY DON'T HAVE ACCESS TO, TO THE, TO, TO THE DATABASE THAT THEY, TO REALLY ASSIST WITH WITH SOME DARKNESS.
THAT'S WHAT WORDS THEY CAN ACCESS THROUGH GRADES AND, AND, YOU KNOW, THE ATTENDANCE AND OTHER THINGS READILY TO KNOW WHETHER THEY'RE BAD CHARGE THEIR STUDENTS THAT THEY'RE DEALING WITH THOUGH, REALLY FOLLOWING THROUGH ON THEIR END OF THE VOLUME.
SO HOW, HOW ARE WE DOING WITH THAT? CAN WE DO BETTER? IS THE QUESTION.
SO I ALWAYS FEEL THAT WE CAN ALWAYS GET BETTER.
SO I DO WANT TO START WITH THAT.
THE OTHER PART OF THAT IS WE HAVE TO HAVE PARENT PERMISSION TO ACCESS THE INFORMATION.
SO THAT'S ONE PART OF THE POSSIBILITY OF WHY THERE MAY BE A ROAD BLOCK THERE.
BUT, UM, IF YOU, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU, YOU MENTIONED SOMETHING ABOUT THE CONTEXT, SO ON SLIDE FOUR, IT'S A LIST OF ALL OF THE COMMUNITY CONTACTS.
SO I DON'T KNOW IF THAT WAS THE QUESTION TALKING ABOUT THAT.
THE CONTACT FROM, LET'S SAY BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB TO HILTON HEAD HIGH SCHOOL, YOU'RE WORKING WITH 20 STUDENTS IN THE MILITARY AT HIGH SCHOOL.
IS THERE A COMMON FLOW OF CONTACT WHO I CALLED? YES.
I DID MENTION THAT WE HAD OUR INSTRUCTIONAL COACHES, SOCIAL WORKERS, BMS IS SO EVERY AGENCY GOT A CONTACT LIST FOR A SPECIFIC ISSUE.
SO IF THERE WAS AN INSTRUCTIONAL ISSUE, THEY WOULD REACH OUT TO THEIR, THE INSTRUCTIONAL COACH THAT WAS ASSIGNED TO THEM.
IF THERE WAS A BEHAVIOR ISSUE, THEY WOULD REACH OUT TO THE BEHAVIOR MANAGEMENT SPECIALIST THAT WAS ASSIGNED TO THEM.
IF THERE WAS A SOCIAL, EMOTIONAL ISSUE, THEY WOULD REACH OUT TO THE SOCIAL WORKERS OR THE SCHOOL COUNSELOR IN REFERENCE TO THAT.
SO EVERY AGENCY RECEIVED A CONTACT LIST OF FOUR OR FIVE PEOPLE.
AS A FOLLOWUP TO YOUR COMMENT ABOUT
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THE PARENTAL PERMISSION TO, I GUESS, WHATEVER IS THE LEGAL TERM TO ACCESS INFORMATION ABOUT A PARTICULAR STUDENT, IS THERE A PROCESS IN PLACE AT INDIVIDUAL SCHOOLS WHERE A UNIT LIKE THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB CAN GO THROUGH THAT PROCESS OF GETTING IT SIGNED OFF BY PARENTS, OR DO THEY HAVE TO INITIATE THEIR OWN POP WITHOUT? SO IT'S A COMBINATION OF BOTH, UM, MR. CAMPBELL.SO WE HAVE MOU A MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN OUR BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB AND Y M C A.
SO THAT PROCESS MAY LOOK DIFFERENT AT A DIFFERENT AGENCY WHERE INDIVIDUAL PARENTS WOULD HAVE TO GIVE PERMISSION TO ACCESS THE INFORMATION.
UM, THEY WOULD HAVE TO REACH OUT TO EACH OF THE INDIVIDUAL PARENTS.
IF W IF, IF IT'S NOT WRITTEN IN OUR MOU TO ACCESS THE INFORMATION FOR PARENTS, LIKE I S LIKE THE Y YMCA AND BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB, THEN YES, INDIVIDUALLY, THEY WOULD HAVE TO ACCESS.
THE PARENTS WOULD HAVE TO GET PERMISSION TO ACCESS INF UH, INFORMATION ABOUT THEIR GRADES.
SO MR. CAMPBELL, LAST YEAR, YOUR HONOR, FOR RETRAINING, THAT CAME UP AND WHAT HAS TO BE AN INDEPENDENT MISSION FORM, BECAUSE WE ACTUALLY WENT THROUGH THAT AND BUILT IN BETA HIGH SCHOOL.
SO THEIR INDIVIDUAL WALKS FOR THE PARENT HAS THE RIGHT TO GIVE THAT INFORMATION THEMSELVES AND KEEP THE SCHOOL OUT OF THAT PART OF THE COMMUNICATION.
SO IF I'M THE PARENT OF YOURSELF, I CAN GIVE IT OVER TO THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB.
IF NOT, THEY HAVE TO KNOW THAT AGENCY WOULD HAVE TO HAVE AN INDIVIDUAL FOR EVERY STUDENT OR A STAFF TO CAMPBELL.
BUT I THINK ALSO WANTED TO, WE DIFFERENT POETS OR WALMART PRINCIPALS, ESPECIALLY IN YOUR AREA, WE NEED YOU TO MAKE A POINT OF CONTACT ON YOUR CAMPUS, IDENTIFY THE ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL AS THAT COMMUNITY LIAISON.
SO WHEN SOMEONE CALLS, PLEASE BUILD UP CAPACITY WITH BEING A BUILDING THAT, THAT RECEPTIONIST KNOWS WHO TO DIRECT A PHONE CALL TO AS WELL.
SO AS IS POSSIBLY, IT COULD BE A TRIANGLE, BUT IT'S NOT NECESSARILY A DRAG KIND OF STAT WHAT I'M SAYING, AND I'M WONDERING HOW DO WE MAKE IT A TRY? SO THAT HOME SCHOOL AND OUTSIDE AGENCY ON THE SAME PAGE OF CONNECTIVITY, YOU'RE WORKING WITH 20 STUDENTS, HOW DO EACH PARENT KNOW THAT YOU'RE AT THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB WHEN THERE'S 20 STUDENTS, AND THIS PARTICULAR SCHOOL KNOWS THAT THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB IS WORKING WITH THESE 20 STUDENTS.
SO THERE'S A CONTINUITY IN THE COMMUNICATION.
WE COULD WORK WITH AN AGENCY WITH REGARD TO DEVELOPING MOU.
I COULD ASK THIS, THIS IS CARPET TO BE PART OF CONVERSATION.
AND THAT'S A CAM HAS PHENOMENAL RESOURCES AND CONNECTIONS WITH OUR COMMUNITY TO BUILD THAT CAPACITY, ESPECIALLY IN AN AREA THAT I BELIEVE IS RINGING THE DOORBELL.
CAMPBELL, I'M READING ON PAGE 13, WHERE IT SAYS THAT CERTIFICATES WILL BE GRANTED TO ORGANIZATIONS OPERATE OR WISHED OPERATING SCHOOL DISTRICTS THAT ARE NOT PROVIDING FIVE DAYS OF IN-SCHOOL IN CLASSROOM INSTRUCTION.
SINCE IT WAS ANNOUNCED TODAY THAT WE WILL BE GOING BACK TO SCHOOL ON JANUARY 4TH.
DO YOU KNOW IF THERE WILL STILL BE ORGANIZATIONS OFFERING THE E-LEARNING ASSISTANCE TO OUR STUDENTS WHO HAVE OPTED FOR A VIRTUAL INSTRUCTION, BUT WHOSE PARENTS WORK? YEAH.
UM, KIKI, YOU CHIME IN, BUT FOR EXAMPLE, I HEAR AN ECHO, THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB IN ORDER TO BE A MEMBER OR A STUDENT RECEIVING VIRTUAL SUPPORT.
UM, THOSE STUDENTS HAVE TO BE TAGGED AS VIRTUAL STUDENTS.
SO REGARDLESS IF WE GO BACK TO A FIVE DAY, UH, FIVE DAYS A WEEK, THOSE STUDENTS WILL STILL RECEIVE THEIR VIRTUAL INSTRUCTION AT THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB, BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT THEY OPTED FOR FOR THE YEAR.
I THINK I NEED TO ADD TO THAT DR.
CAMPBELL, ONCE WE GO BACK, UM, FACE-TO-FACE I POSE THIS QUESTION TO DSS, UM, ASKING ONCE WE DO GO BACK, FACE-TO-FACE NOT KNOWING WHAT THE TIMEFRAME WAS ON THAT.
UM, WOULD THEY STILL BE GRANTING THOSE APPLICATIONS FOR THE TEMPORARY SITES? I'VE NOT GOTTEN A RESPONSE BACK YET, BUT WE ARE AWAITING AN ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION.
UM, BUT IT IS VERY LIKELY THAT THEY WON'T.
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OFFERING THESE TEMPORARY LICENSES TO PLACES THAT HAVE LESS THAN FIVE DAYS OF FACE-TO-FACE INSTRUCTION.SO WITH BUFORD COUNTY, AS A WHOLE, GOING BACK TO OFFERING THE FIVE DAYS FACE-TO-FACE, AND THOSE PARENTS WHO CHOSE VIRTUAL, THERE'S A LIKELIHOOD THAT THEY WOULD SAY THAT THOSE PARENTS WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO FALL UNDER TEMPORARY CHILDCARE.
AND THEY WOULD BE RESPONSIBLE FOR FINDING A LOCATION THAT WILL PROVIDE THAT.
SO THAT WAS MY CONCERN, THAT THOSE PARENTS THAT HAVE OPTED FOR ALL HER TOOL, AND THEN SOME OF THESE TEMPORARY SITES WERE CLOSE AND THEREFORE AGAIN, AND DATING THAT ONES LIKE THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB, AND THAT WE MIGHT SEE AN INFLUX OF CHANGING OVER TO FACE-TO-FACE.
AND, AND, YOU KNOW, TH THIS IS FABULOUS.
THERE WAS A COMMUNITY NEED AND OUR COMMUNITY STEPPED UP TO THE PLATE.
SO, UH, NOT SURPRISING, BUT STILL WONDERFUL.
I MADE A LITTLE BIT OF, UH, UM, I'LL KEEP YOUR UNDERSTANDING.
SO, MS. HENDERSON, DID YOU SAY THAT THERE IS AN MOU WASTE AND GIRLS CLUB AND THAT MOU BAN YOUR GIFTS, THE FLUFFED STUFF, POSSIBLY THE AVAILABILITY TO, UM, COMMUNICATE DIRECTLY WITH THE SCHOOLS ABOUT PARENTS, BEST STUDENTS THAT THEY'RE SERVING.
IF THAT IS PART OF ME, IF THAT IS A PART OF THE AGREEMENT AND THE ANSWER IS YES.
IF IT IS PART OF THE MOU AND IT IS THAT IT TO SEE WHAT SPECIFICALLY WE SELECT, THERE'S STILL A PARENT RELEASE THAT WHEN I UNDERSTOOD MY CHILD TO YOUR AGENTS SAY THAT BENEFIT, AARON UNDERSTANDS THAT'S PART OF THAT AGREEMENT.
SO WHEN YOU SAY, LIKE SHE SAID, THERE WAS AN MOU THAT MOU IS WITH BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB, THAT PART OF THE MOU MIGHT NOT BE SPECIFIED IN THERE.
IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE SAYING? SO, YEAH, CLAIRE TO CLARIFY, THESE USE WERE ESTABLISHED BEFORE THE COVID 19.
SO I I'M, I'M NOT CONNECTING THOSE TWO DOTS.
IT'S JUST THAT IN THE PAST, OUR BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB AND OUR Y YMCA A LOT OF TIMES HAVE, UM, ACADEMIC GOALS.
SO IN THE MOU, THEY REQUEST THE INFORMATION LIKE GRADES FOR THE STUDENTS THAT ARE RECEIVING SERVICES AT THEIR AGENCIES.
SO I WAS JUST SAYING THAT THAT'S THE ONLY WAY THAT THEY WILL RECEIVE THE GRADES IF IT'S WRITTEN IN THE MOU.
AND THERE'S AN UNDERSTANDING WHAT THE PARENTS WHO, WHO HAVE THEIR CHILDREN AT EACH OF THOSE, UM, YOU KNOW, AGENCIES, BUT OUTSIDE OF THAT, FOR EXAMPLE, THE LOVE HOUSE MINISTRY, WE DON'T HAVE A MOU WITH THEM.
SO PARENTS WOULD HAVE TO GET PERMISSION FOR THE AGENCIES TO REQUEST THE GRADES AND DATA.
I JUST ASKED THAT BECAUSE, UM, THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB WHO HAD INDICATED THEY DIDN'T HAVE ACCESS, BUT YOU'RE INDICATING UNDER THAT MOU WITH THEM, SO THEY SHOULD HAVE, SO THERE WAS SOME KIND OF DISCONNECT HERE THAT MAYBE WE COULD CHECK OUT, PLEASE.
SO, SO CHRIS PROTZ, WHO IS THE REGIONAL DIRECTOR, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR THE LOCAL BOYS AND GIRLS LOW COUNTRY.
UM, HE, WE MET YESTERDAY ACTUALLY.
SO I WILL REACH OUT TO HIM AND SEE WHERE THE DISCONNECT IS, BUT I ALSO WOULD NEED TO REVIEW THE MOU AND MAKE SURE THAT THAT IS WRITTEN IN THE DOCUMENT IN THE PAST.
IT HAS, BUT I'VE NOT SEEN ONE FOR THIS YEAR.
SO I WOULD NEED TO REVIEW THAT, BUT I CAN HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH CHRIS.
YOU HAVE ANY, I WAS JUST GOING TO SAY THAT WE WANT TO WORK WITH THESE AGENCIES AND SAY THAT WE, AS A DISTRICT ARE AGREEABLE TO HAVE ACCESS TO THAT PROVIDED THAT WE'D WANT THE PARENTS TO GIVE PERMISSION FOR US TO DO THAT.
SO I THINK WHAT WE NEED TO DO IS WE HAVE A FIRPA RELEASE FORM AND MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE A LIST OF ALL THE STUDENTS PARTICIPATING AND MAKE SURE THAT THE PARENTS HAVE THAT, BECAUSE I KNOW WITH THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS AND BEING MR. ROPES, THAT WOULD, THAT HAVING CERTAIN DATA AND HELPS THEM AND WHAT THEY'RE DOING, COUNT THE CHILDREN AND THEY SHOWED PROGRESS.
WE DEFINITELY NEED TO LEVERAGE, TO WORK CLOSELY WITH HIM TO GET THAT IN THERE AS DR.
YES, WE NEED TO GET THAT RELEASED.
WE'LL GET PHOTOS TO KIDS, JUST A COUPLE OF COMMENTS AND QUESTIONS.
FIRST OF ALL, CAMPBELL AND MS. SWINTON, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE PRESENTATION.
IT WAS VERY INFORMATIVE AND, AND, UH, HAVE THIS, UH, E-LEARNING, UH, COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS.
UM, UH, MY, THE, JUST A MINOR CORRECTION YOU'VE GOT, UH, THE PRESBYTERIAN DAY SCHOOL ON HILTON HEAD IS THE FIRST PRESENT HERE IN DAY SCHOOLS.
YOU JUST NEED THAT CORRECTED ON SLIDE AND SLIDE NINE.
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KIDS ARE GRADUATED, SO WE HAVE PROGRAMS THOUGH.NEXT THING I WANTED TO ASK WAS, UM, YOU SPECIFICALLY MENTIONED DR.
CAMPBELL THAT THE DISTRICT DOESN'T ENDORSE THESE PROGRAMS, WHICH CAN YOU JUST EXPLAIN THAT A LITTLE BIT? YEAH.
SO IT WAS A SITUATION WHERE, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE NOT GONNA, WE, WE DIDN'T POST THEM ON THE WEBSITE SAYING PARENTS, HEY, GO TO THESE AGENCIES.
WE DON'T WANT TO MISS ANY, YOU KNOW, WE HADN'T VETTED THE AGENCIES.
SO WHEN I SAID THAT WE DON'T ENDORSE, THAT'S WHAT I MEANT.
LIKE THERE'S NOT A, A LEGAL BINDING CONTRACT WITH EACH OF THESE.
IT'S JUST THAT THESE ARE THE AGENCIES THAT WANT TO, UM, PROVIDE SERVICES.
AND I FELT LIKE OUR ROLE WAS TO HELP FACILITATE THE RESOURCES SO THAT THEY COULD BE SUCCESSFUL BECAUSE IN THE END GAME, THEY'RE SERVING OUR KIDS AND WE WANT OUR KIDS TO BE SUCCESSFUL.
SO WE FELT LIKE PROVIDE THEM WITH IT'S MANY RESOURCES THAT WE CAN SO THAT THE, THEIR SITUATION WOULD BE SUCCESSFUL.
THEN OUR STUDENTS WOULD BE SUCCESSFUL.
SO WE DIDN'T POST IT ON THE WEBSITE SAYING, HEY, YOU KNOW, SIGN UP FOR THESE AGENCIES.
THAT'S WHAT I WAS TRYING TO CONVEY AT THE BEGINNING OF THE PRESENTATION.
SO THIS, THIS TEMPORARY 90 DAY LICENSE WITH DSS FOR THAT COMMUNITY E-LEARNING SITE WOULD BE DIFFERENT THAN WHAT THE DISTRICT IS DOING FOR PROVIDING CHILDCARE TO THE, UH, STAFF EMPLOYEES, UM, FOR AGES FIVE TO 12, I BELIEVE THAT WAS ALL LABELED AS A TEMPORARY LICENSE.
AND IS THAT IT'S 90 DAYS FOR THE SCHOOL YEAR.
IT'S THE SAME EXACT APPLICATION.
SO WE'LL HAVE TO REAPPLY FOR THAT BECAUSE, UM, I'M SURE THAT TEACHERS AND STAFF, UH, THE CHILDCARE CONTINUE FOR THIS SCHOOL YEAR, MRS. WALDEN HAS GIVEN ME AN INSTRUCTION TO MOVE FORWARD WITH A PLAN FOR, UM, AFTERCARE AND, AND WHAT THAT'S GOING TO LOOK LIKE ONCE WE GO BACK FIVE DAYS FACE-TO-FACE.
SO WE'RE WORKING ON A PLAN FOR THAT NOW, AND I PERSONALLY WANT TO THANK THE BOARD FOR PROVIDING THIS, UH, SERVICE FOR, UM, FOR THE EMPLOYEES OF THE DISTRICT.
UM, MR. WILLIAM SMITH, I WOULD LIKE TO STOP, START BY SAYING, UM, UH, DR.
I, UH, UH, I THANK YOU FOR NOT MAKING IT.
I'M MAKING SURE THAT THE BOARD OR THE, OR THE BOARD OF EDUCATION DID NOT ENDORSE ANY OF THESE PEOPLE, JUST BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT WE WILL ALSO HAVE, WE WILL ALSO BE LIABLE FOR LOSS OF ANYTHING HAPPENED ON ANY OF THOSE PROPERTIES AND WE HAD ENDORSED IT.
SO IT WAS A VERY, IT WAS A VERY EDUCATED AND SMART AND WISE DECISION FOR YOU NOT TO ENDORSE IT, BECAUSE WHEN YOU, WHEN THIS FIRST WAS BOUGHT, I REMEMBER I WAS ONE OF THOSE BOARD MEMBERS WHO WAS QUESTIONING THE FACT OF WHEREVER WE WERE GOING TO PUT THAT OUT IN THE NAME OF BEEF GUYS, SCHOOL DISTRICT.
THESE ARE PEOPLE WHO ARE SUPPORTING BECAUSE I HAD A, RATHER A VERY SERIOUS CONCERN WITH THAT.
SO I THINK IT WAS A VERY SMART DECISION.
AND I THINK THAT THAT IS SOMETHING THAT, UM, THAT I'M, I'M GLAD THAT YOU HAVE KISSED, YOU'VE KEPT, YOU'VE KEPT THAT CLOSE TO YOUR CHEST AND MAKE SURE IT HAD BEEN VERY CAREFUL ON YOUR WORD, YOUR WORD SMITHING, AS SOME OF THE BOARD MEMBERS, UH, WOULD WOULD SAY, BECAUSE THAT IS, THAT IS SOMETHING THAT COULD GET US INTO A LARGE AMOUNT OF HOT WATER.
SO KUDOS TO YOU IN ENGLISH AND YOUR STAFF IS SAM'S TO MR. SWINTON FOR, UH, MAKING SURE THAT Y'ALL WERE USING THE WORDS THAT, UH, Y'ALL ARE NOT ENDORSING BECAUSE ENDORSING COULD, COULD GET US IN A, IN A LARGE AMOUNT OF TROUBLE, UH, ONTO MY NEXT, UH, MY NEXT QUESTION IS, UM, I NOTICED THAT WE, WE HAVE GOTTEN SOME OF THESE DIFFERENT, DIFFERENT PEOPLE, DIFFERENT GROUPS AND DIFFERENT ORGANIZATIONS, WHAT IT WAS IS HOW DOES HEADSTART, DID THEY NOT OPEN UP OR DO ANYTHING IN REFERENCE TO YOU GETTING THE LITTLE ONES, UH, TO ANY, TO ANY SENTENCER OR THEIR OWN CENTERS? UM, MS. MR. SMITH? I CAN'T SPEAK ON HEADSTART.
UM, I DO HAVE SOMETHING, YEAH, THE TEMPORARY LICENSURE THROUGH DSS WAS ONLY FOR CHILDREN AGES FIVE TO 12.
SO THAT WOULD HAVE ELIMINATED THEM FROM BEING ABLE TO, UM, SUBMIT AN APPLICATION FOR THE YOUNGER CHILDREN.
UM, AND I, AND, UM, IF I MAY ASK, I'M SURE THESE, UH, THESE ORGANIZATION TOOK, THEY TOOK A PUNT IN, I GUESS, ALL, ALL, UH, ALL, ALL KIDS FROM WALKS OF LIFE AND, AND, AND BACKGROUNDS, CORRECT? CORRECT.
SO, UH, AS A PART OF THE REPORT, WE GAVE YOU NUMBERS, WE'RE NOW ATTACHING NAMES TO NUMBERS.
SO WE HAVE AN IDEA OF THE NUMBER OF KIDS THAT THE, THE CHILDREN THAT WE'RE SERVING IN
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THE DISTRICT.UM, RIGHT NOW, JUST ON PRELIMINARY DATA, UM, THE KIDS THAT ARE BEING SERVED AT OUR, ACROSS THE DISTRICT, UM, HILTON HEAD, BLUFFTON, BUFORD CLUSTER, UM, THERE'S NOT A SCHOOL.
AND WHEN I, WHEN I SAY THAT LIKE ELEMENTARY AND MIDDLE SCHOOLS THAT I'M NOT SEEING ON THE LIST, SO ALL KIDS ARE BEING SERVED IN ALL THE 600 KIDS THEY'RE REPRESENTED ACROSS THE DISTRICT.
WELL, I THINK I DEFINITELY, I DEFINITELY THINK, UH, THANK YOU.
AND AS WELL, I THINK THOSE ORGANIZATIONS FOR A TIME OF, UH, A TIME OF A PANDEMIC, UH, BEING ACROSS THE AMERICA ALSO, UH, A PANDEMIC AND IN RIGHT HERE, AND BEING BUFORD COUNTY FOR THOSE GROUPS AND AGENCIES WHO STEP UP AND HELP HELP OUT THE KIDS IN THIS DISTRICT, UH, I SPEAK FOR MYSELF.
I SAID, UH, AS A BOARD MEMBER THAT I REALLY APPRECIATE, I REALLY APPRECIATE THEM.
AND I APPRECIATE THE WHO JOE SAID TO MAKING SURE THAT OUR KIDS ARE STILL GETTING EDUCATED.
I MEAN, IT JUST, IT MEANS IT MEANS MOUNTING TO SOME OF THOSE KIDS, BECAUSE SOME OF THOSE KIDS, THOSE WAS NOT JUST PLACES WHERE THEY COULD GO AND GET EDUCATED.
THOSE ALSO POCKETS OF OUTLETS, WHERE THOSE KIDS NEED TO HAVE THE EMOTIONAL.
AND JUST, JUST THAT, THAT, THAT, THAT BREATH OF FRESH AIR TO KNOW THAT SOMEONE IS STILL CARING ABOUT THEM AS WELL.
SO I DEFINITELY MY HAT, I SAID, HATS OFF TO YOU AND HATS OFF TO THEM AS WELL.
AND, AND, AND I, I COMMEND YOU ON STILL KEEP MAKING SURE THAT WE, UH, KEEP OUR DISTANCE IN WHEN RELATING TO OUR, OUR, OUR, UM, OUR WORDSMITHING WITH REGARD REGARDS OF, UH, SAYING THAT WE ARE ENDORSING THEM.
AND IN DEFENDING THE FRUITS ARE ALSO, I THINK THAT OUGHT TO BE A QUESTION THAT DR.
RODRIGUEZ MAY WANT TO ANSWER IF HE, IF HE'S, IF HE IS, UH, IN THE WRONG, BECAUSE TH THAT, THAT THAT'S A, UH, UH, A VERY DEADLINE.
I, I'M NOT SURE WHAT YOUR QUESTION WAS.
COULD YOU REPEAT YOUR QUESTION? I DIDN'T HAVE A QUESTION.
SO IT LOOKS LIKE WE'RE FINISHED FOR TODAY, AND WE WILL RECESS FOR THIS EVENING AND RECONVENE.
IT'S NOT IN THE MORNING, AND I'LL JUST READ TO THE PUBLIC THAT IF YOU WOULD REQUEST FOR PUBLIC COMMENTS PARTICIPATION TOMORROW AT 9:00 AM, YOU NEED TO SEND YOUR EMAIL REQUESTS BETWEEN EIGHT AND EIGHT 30 TOMORROW MORNING, UH, WITH YOUR NAME, PHONE NUMBER AND TOPIC TO ROBIN DOC, PUSHING VERY
AND THE FORUM WILL BE LIMITED TO 15 MINUTES.
SO IT WILL BE BETWEEN NINE AND NINE 15 TOMORROW MORNING.
I WAS JUST TOLD THAT YOU HAVE TO PARTICIPATE BY ZOOM, AND THE LINK IS BUFORD.
AND THEN HYPHEN K-12, HYPHEN S C I'VE BEEN U S.ZOOM.US/J/ (945) 488-0900.
SO WHERE ARE YOU GUYS? IT'S ON THE AGENDA ON OUR WEBSITE, SO THEY CAN JUST CLICK OFF ON IT, THEN IT'S ON OUR WEBSITE.
SO THE LINK IS ON BUFORD SCHOOLS ON THE AGENDA, ON THE AGENDA, ON THE WEBSITE, AND THE WEBSITE IS BUFORD SCHOOLS.NET.
ALL RIGHT, WE ARE RECESS UNTIL TOMORROW AT NINE, EIGHT, GOOD NIGHT SAFE TRAVELS.