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WE WILL NOW RECONVENE FOR COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION WORK SESSION.
THIS IS J TO NOVEMBER 14TH, 2020.
THE MEETING IS BEING CONDUCTED BY AFRICAN SAY I'D FIRST LIKE TO WELCOME, UH, TWO NEW BOARD MEMBERS WHO WILL BE SEATED IN JANUARY.
ANGELA MIDDLETON, DISTRICT SIX, AND THEN GOOD VOTE RIGHT DISTRICT 11.
WELL, FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS IS PUBLIC CONDUCT.
AT LEAST ONE COMMENTATOR, GLORIA, GLORIA YOU'RE ON PUBLIC COMMENTS, PLEASE STATE YOUR FIRST AND YOUR LAST NAME, PLEASE FOR YOUR MOM.
MY PROBLEM IS I WISH THAT THE COUNTY DISTRICT WOULD GET SOME TYPE OF POLICY IN PLACE.
AS FAR AS PARENTS AND CHILDREN, WHEN IT COMES TO ONLINE SCHOOL AND BEING ABLE TO GET THEM UPLOADED.
I'VE HAD SEVERAL INCIDENTS WITH MY CHILD'S GRADES, NOT BEING POSTED, AND I'M A VERY STRICT AND FAR MOTHERS.
I DON'T BEAT AROUND THE BUSH WITH MY CHILDREN AND I DON'T CUT CORNERS.
AND WHEN THEY ARE WRONG, IF THEY'RE WRONG, I COME DOWN HARD ON THEM.
AND I DID THAT WITH MY SON THIS YEAR.
HOWEVER, HE DID THE WORD AND IT WAS NOT LOADED AND POSTED FOR WHATEVER REASON.
I'VE SAT AND CHANGED MY SCHEDULE TO BE ON CALL WITH COUNSELORS.
AND I HAVE TAUGHT WITH TEACHERS.
THESE AUTOMATED MESSAGES ARE COMING OUT ABOUT YOUR STUDENT'S CLASSES AND THAT THEY'RE NOT DOING THEIR WORK, AND IT'S NOT TRUE.
HOWEVER, MY PHONE CALL TODAY, AND I KNOW IT HAD TO BE GOD.
I HAD A GENTLEMAN THAT COMES TO MY DOOR LAST NIGHT FROM THE SCHOOL A COACH MOM ANNOUNCED NOT KNOWING HE WAS COMING.
I OPENED DOOR AND HE ASKED WAS I MS. HALL ON HIS WALL.
HE SAID, DEREK WOULD FAIL IN TWO OF HIS CLASS.
MY SON IS WHITE, A QUAL IN THE ROOM FROM ME WHEN HE ON DOING HIS WORK.
AND I HAVE THESE PHONE CALLS COMING FROM THE DISTRICT, AWARE OF THE STANDARDS, MISSING CLASSES, I WOULD ADDRESS THIS ISSUE.
NO ONE COMES TO MY HOUSE UNANNOUNCED PERIOD.
I HAD A PHONE CALL FROM A WOMAN WHO SAID SHE HAD SAID, BRIAN, I'M NOT, I'M NOT UPSET.
I'M ANGRY ASKING ME ABOUT MY ADDRESS THAT I TOOK UP THERE.
AND SHE WAS THERE SAYING THAT THEY NEED TO SEND OUT MAIL.
IF SOMEONE NEEDS TO COME TO MY HOME AND TALK TO ME, I'M AVAILABLE.
WHEN THE COACH LOOKED AT MY SON LAPTOP, ALL OF HIS WORK IS COMPLETED.
AND HE SAID, MS. MOSS, YOU HAVE LIKED TO BE ANGRY.
IT'S ALMOST LIKE A FORM OF HARASSMENT AND IT NEEDS TO STOP PERIODS.
IF THERE IS SOMETHING THAT IS GOING ON WITH A GLITCH IN THE SYSTEM, AND IT'S SO MANY PEOPLE ON IT AT ONE TIME, SOMETHING HAS TO BE ADDRESSED.
I AM SUFFERING WITH ALL THE EMAILS GENERATED THAT CONTINUES TO COME.
I'VE TAKEN OFF AND WE'VE DONE THE ZOOM CALLS WITH CASPER'S, BUT COME INTO MY HOUSE ON A SOUND IN A COMMUNITY WITH NO PERMISSION, IT'S UNACCEPTABLE.
THIS WILL NOT BE IN WITH THIS PHONE CALL.
AND I APOLOGIZE THAT I HAD TO GET ON THIS MORNING TO SAY THIS, BUT THIS IS SERIOUS BECAUSE THAT MAN COMING TO MY DOOR, I'M SORRY, YOUR TIME IS UP.
BUT I HOPE YOU ALL RECTIFY THE SITUATION.
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INSTINCTS.BEFORE WE GET STARTED, I WOULD LIKE TO JUST REVIEW OUR CURRENT, SOME OF OUR CURRENT, UH, POLICIES.
AND THESE ARE SPECIFICALLY UNDER PINPOINT FOR SCHOOL BOARD MEETINGS AT BOARD MEETINGS, BOARD MEMBERS, SHELL WEIGHT, TO BE RECOGNIZED BY THE CHAIR BEFORE SPEAKING, MAKE COMMENTS GERMANE TO THE MATTER BEING AN ETHICAL DISCUSSION.
THE CHAIRMAN INTERRUPTED BOARD MEMBER WHO CAUGHT ON OR MOVES FROM A TOPIC NOT BEING DISCUSSED OR DEBATED RESULTING IN THE CESSATION ABOUT BOARDS, MEMBERS, CON COMMENTS, SUPPORT THE CHAIR OR PRESIDING OFFICERS IN FACILITATING AN ORDERLY MEETING.
THE EQUAL PARTICIPATION OF ALL MEMBERS IS VALUED.
BOARD MEMBERS SHALL NOT MONOPOLIZE THE SESSION OR DEBATE ON AN ISSUE FOR TOPIC.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THESE MATTERS.
WE HAVE A NEED TO HAVE A CHANGE ON THE AGENDA BECAUSE OUR 10 45 TO 1130 BLOCK TO LEGISLATIVE UPDATE, THAT'S BEEN CANCELED AND RESCHEDULED TO NOVEMBER EIGHT, EXCUSE ME, DECEMBER EIGHT, OUR NEXT BOARD BUSINESS MEETING.
SO WHAT WOULD THE BOARD LIKE TO DO SINCE WE NOW HAVE A 45 MINUTE BLOCK IN THE MIDST OF THE MORNING, MR. ROBOT? UM, I WOULD LIKE TO, UM, I GUESS MAKE A MOTION OR I GUESS WE'LL MAKE A MOTION, THEN WE CAN DISCUSS IT.
I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION THAT WE MOVE, UM, RELIEVE BACK FROM THEIR AGENDA AND JUST MOVE EVERYTHING FORWARD.
SO THE 1130 TO 1230 REVIEW OF A DISTRICT EMERGENCY PLAN, WHICH IS AN 8% FRONT WOULD GO INTO THAT SLACK.
THEN WE COULD HAVE, UH, UM, LUNCH EARLY FEMININE COULD PROCEED PERHAPS OUTSIDE LUNCH.
SO I MOVED THAT ME, UM, I JUST THE AGENDA BASED ON THE FACT THAT THE SPEAKER THAT WE HAD SCHEDULED TESTS CANCELED AND JUST MOVE UP THE AGENDA ACCORDINGLY.
THE VEGANS FIGURED SECOND JANUARY DISCUSSION DR.
WAS ASKING RACHEL YOU'RE MUTED.
SORRY, I DON'T HAVE CONTROL OVER THE MUTE BUTTON.
UM, I WAS JUST GOING TO ASK A QUESTION.
I SEE THAT WE HAVE AN UPDATE ON IMPACT FEES.
UM, IF WHAT KATHY WAS SAYING IS JUST BASICALLY MOVE EVERYTHING UP.
I WANTED TO CLARIFY, I, I SUPPOSE TO MAKE SURE THAT IF WE HAD A SPEAKER FOR THAT SESSION, THAT, THAT WASN'T GOING TO ADVERSELY AFFECT THEM.
I DON'T THINK THERE ARE ANY OTHER OUTSIDE SPEAKERS.
ANY REASON WHY THEY CANCELED IT THIS LATE HOUR? UM, I, THEY DIDN'T, UH, SHE CAN'T CANCELED BECAUSE WE HAD TO READJUST THE SCHEDULE AND MY EMAIL AND HER TIMEFRAME DID NOT MATCH BY THE TIME I LET HER KNOW THAT WE HAD TO RE SHE WAS SCHEDULED FOR FRIDAY.
UH, WE MOVED HER, SO SHE HAD ALREADY MADE PLANS FOR SATURDAY.
UM, I THINK WE'VE GOT TO STICK WITH THE AGENDA TIME SLOTS AS THEY ARE, BECAUSE TODAY IS A DAY THAT PEOPLE CAN TOO, MAN.
I THINK WE'VE GOT TO, UM, UH, EMAIL, UH, RECESS FOR THOSE TIME PERIODS AND PICK UP AS THE AGENDA STATES THIS WAY.
NO ONE WILL MISS ANY CRITICAL DISCUSSIONS THAT ARE OFFERED TODAY BASED ON THE AGENDA.
I THINK MY INTENTION WAS TO KEEP THE AFTERNOON THE SAME, JUST BECAUSE I THINK PEOPLE MIGHT BE INTERESTED,
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UM, AT ONE 15.THAT WAS MY FEELING WAS JUST TO, TO MOVE UP A REVIEW OF A DISTRICT, EMERGENT UP TO THAT SLOT AND THEN HAVE A LOT, OR MAYBE A LONGER PERIOD FOR LUNCH.
BUT CERTAINLY IF THAT'S NOT WHAT, YOU KNOW, SOMEBODY COULD MAKE AN AMENDMENT TO THAT TO MAKE IT MORE CLEAR.
I WOULD LIKE TO SAY THAT I'M NOT SURE WHY WE CANNOT, WHY OUR MIKES ARE MUTED BECAUSE WE ARE BOARD MEMBERS.
I'M NOT SURE WHY WE CANNOT UNMUTE AND
I KNOW THAT'S A FUNCTION THAT IS CONTROLLED BY THE ASSISTANTS AND ALL AROUND.
THEY HAVE BEEN OUR DIRECTOR, BUT AT THIS TIME, CAN YOU TELL ME WHERE I'M, THEY'VE BEEN DIRECTED TO DO THAT? AND THOSE ARE OKAY, BECAUSE FOR SOME REASON WE CAN NOT HAVE BOARD MEMBERS, UM, UNMUTE OURSELVES AND MUTE OURSELVES.
AND THAT'S VERY PROBLEMATIC AT THIS TIME.
AND I MENTIONED THAT BECAUSE I'M THOSE ALSO THAT YOU READ THAT TODAY'S THE FIRST TIME THAT YOU READ THE RULES AND REGULATIONS AT THE BEGINNING OF THE BOARD MEETING OF OUR PROCEDURES.
AND SO THAT'S CONCERNED OF MINDS.
UM, BUT TWO FOR IN REGARDS TO THIS MOTION, UM, ACTUALLY I LOOKED AT THE, THE, THE, UH, THE AGENDA FOR TODAY, AND I ALSO NOTICED NOTICES THAT THE, THE ASSISTANCE, UH, EVALUATION WAS SUPPOSED TO BE ON THIS AGENDA.
AND I REALIZED THAT IT WAS NOT.
AND IF WE CAN, THE BOARD SEES, UH, UM, IF THE BOARD SEES THAT DID EDIT THAT, THAT, THAT, THAT THE URGENCY IN THAT, BECAUSE I KNOW THAT WE WERE SUPPORTED, THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE ON AGENDA.
I'M NOT SURE WHY, WHY WASN'T, I GUESS WE POSSIBLY, WE ALL FORGOT ABOUT IT.
UM, BUT I KNOW THAT THAT COULD BE SOMETHING THAT WE COULD PUT IN THAT PLACE.
I MOVE THAT THE BOARD RECESS FOR THE PORTION DEDICATED TO THE LEGISLATIVE UPDATE SECOND.
SECOND, GIVE ROBIN A MINUTE TO GET THAT UP THERE.
AND I WOULD JUST SAY, I JUST WANT TO SAY I MAKE RECORD AS WELL.
I SECOND THE MOTION BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT PEOPLE, UH, I'M SURE THAT, UH, THE, THE, THE, THE CALENDAR HAS, I MEAN, THE SCHEDULE HAS BEEN PUT OUT AND I'M SURE PEOPLE MAY HAVE DIFFERENT THINGS THAT THEY MAY WANT TO HEAR.
SO WE HAVE, WE HAVE, WE RE WE ARRANGED THE TIMEFRAMES, THEN THAT MAY THROW A LOT.
THEY THROW PEOPLE OFF AND OUT OF IT.
THAT MAY BE FAIR AND OBJECTIVE.
SO I WILL SUPPORT THIS MOTION DUE TO THAT BEING THAT WE HAD ALREADY PUT AN ITINERARY ON TODAY'S MEETING.
I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO HAVE AN EFFICIENT MEETING.
I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT AS SOME HAVE STATED TO KEEP SOME OF THESE TIMEFRAMES INTACT BECAUSE OF THE PUBLIC.
SO IT SEEMS TO ME THAT THE LAST TWO ITEMS ON THE AGENDA ARE REALLY DEALING WITH BOARD DISCUSSIONS.
I MEAN, THAT'S OUR CALENDAR AND IT'S SETTING A NEW, UM, A SPECIAL CALLED MEETING.
IF WE JUST MOVED THOSE TWO ITEMS IN PLACE OF LEGISLATIVE UPDATE, WE COULD STAY ON SCHEDULE AND WE CAN BE EFFICIENT IN COMMOTION.
I MOVE THAT THE BOARD, I SAID, THIS ISN'T A MADMAN.
I'D HAVE TO AMEND THE MOTION ALSO FOR THE APPROVAL OF THE 2021 BOARD MEETING CALENDAR AND DISCUSSION ON SPECIAL CALLED MEETING, REPLACE OLED, JUST LIGHT UP UPDATE.
THEREFORE ALL ELSE WILL STAY ON TIME.
UM, EARL CAMPBELL, SECOND, YOU SIT UNDER THE DISCUSSION OF THE SPECIAL CALL BOARD.
TO ME, THOSE TWO ITEMS REPLACED THE TAKE PLACE IN THE LEGISLATIVE UPDATE PLUMP SLOT, RIGHT? I THINK WE CAN BE EXPEDITIOUS AND GET THOSE ROADS DONE WITHIN
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THAT TIMEFRAME.THOSE TWO AGENDA ITEMS DEAL ONLY WITH THE BOARD.
UM, I DON'T KNOW THAT THE PUBLIC WOULD HAVE MUCH INTEREST IN HIM, SO I THINK THAT'S MAKING GREAT USE OF TIME.
THANK YOU FOR THINKING OF THAT, MR. EARL CAMPBELL.
I'M JUST GOING TO SAY THAT THE AGENDA IS SET TO BE COME TIMES WHEN YOU COME TO THE MEETING, YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO CHANGE IT BECAUSE SOMETHING HAPPENS.
THERE'S NOTHING YOU CAN, YOU CAN'T CONTROL THAT.
I DON'T CONTROL THE PERSON CANNOT LEAVE YOU WITH US TODAY.
THEN WE MOVE ON ADDRESS WHAT'S ON THE AGENDA.
DID EVERYONE LOWER THEIR HANDS THAT ALREADY SPOKE MR. SMITH? UM, MADAM CHAIR, COULD YOU D UH, UH, UH, MRS. CHRISTIAN BERRY WHO'S CONTROLS ON MEETING US RIGHT NOW, MOLLY KEMANI.
COULD YOU, COULD YOU FIX THE SETTING, UH, WHERE, WHERE THAT BOARD MEMBERS CAN UNMUTE THEIR SELF, PLEASE IT'S ALL OR NOTHING.
AND BECAUSE THIS IS NOT BEING CONTROLLED, THIS IS NOT BEING TELEVISED BY THE COUNTY COUNCIL, BY THE COUNTY CHANNEL.
EVERYONE WHO HAS JOINED IN INCLUDING THE PUBLIC IS NOW ON ZONES.
SO WE HAVE TO MEET EVERYONE ELSE IS SO SHE HAS TO CONTINUE TO MEET OR UNMUTE YOU.
WELL, WHY WAS THIS NOT DISCUSSING THE AGENDA SETTING? WHY WAS IT NOT? WHY WAS THIS NOT MADE CLEAR IN AGENDA SETTING? BECAUSE I HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE OF, I HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE OF THIS, AND I, AND I'M TRYING TO SPEAK AS A BOARD MEMBER, AND I KEEP HAVING TO REQUEST TO BE UN-MUTED OR MUTED.
AND THIS MESSES UP THE FUNCTION OF OUR MEETINGS.
THERE'S A POINT OF ORDER OR SOMETHING ELSE.
I WILL NOT BE ABLE TO, TO, UH, TO DO THAT FUNCTION.
ARE YOU ABLE TO RAISE YOUR HAND AND SHE WOULD BE ABLE TO UNMUTE YOU AS SHE HAS DONE IN THE PAST? THAT'S THAT'S, THAT'S NOT TRUE AS, AS CHRISTIAN BERRY, LIKE I SAID, BECAUSE IF MY HAND IS RAISED OR THERE'S A HOST OF PEOPLE RAISING THEIR HANDS, THEN SHE WILL NOT KNOW THAT I'M TRYING TO CALL POINT OF ORDER.
SO ONCE AGAIN, THAT, THAT IS A PROBLEM, BECAUSE THAT STOPS ME FROM DOING MY JOB EFFICIENTLY.
YOU HAVE TO WORK WITHIN THE CONFINES OF THE, OF THE SOFTWARE OF THE FILM.
YOU KNOW, I MEAN, I I'M, THERE'S NOTHING MUCH ELSE TO SAY ABOUT IT AS A SYSTEM SET UP.
SO UNTIL WE CHANGE THE SYSTEM, WHEN YOU WANT TO SPEAK, I UNDERSTAND THAT DR.
GWAS, BUT THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE SHOULD, AS OFFICERS, WE SHOULD HAVE BEEN NOTIFIED THAT ABOUT DURING THE AGENDA SETTING.
AND I WAS NOT NOTIFIED ABOUT THIS.
I MEAN, I MEAN, THIS, THIS ALL, I MEAN, IS IT SUPPOSED TO BE THE SCHEDULE? SO YOU HAVE THE BMS AS OFTEN.
I DIDN'T HEAR YOU SAID SOMETHING, PLEASE, PLEASE VOTE VOTING IS OPEN AGAIN.
NOW I'VE BEEN, UM, ARE WE USING ELECTRONIC VOTING TODAY? I'M IN BOARD DOUBTS.
AM I DON'T SEE THE VOTING OPTION? YES, MA'AM.
SOMETIMES YOU'D HAVE TO GO OFF JOANNE TO THE RIGHT HAND CORNER WHERE IT SAYS CHANGE, VOTE AND CLICK ON THAT FIRST THAT'S HAPPENED TO ME A NUMBER OF TIMES, EVEN THOUGH YOU HAVEN'T VOTED, DO YOU HAVE CHANGE, VOTE ON THERE IN THE UPPER RIGHT HAND CORNER? I'M LOOKING RIGHT NOW.
YOU'RE WELCOME, MR. DOWNING ON.
NO, I DON'T SEE THIS NAME THERE.
HOW ARE YOU VOTING? UH, I'M GOING TO ABSTAIN Y UH, YES, THAT'S FINE.
THE MOTION CARRIES NINE ONE ZERO.
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NOPE.THE ONE THAT WAS MR. SHACK AND THE ONE VOTE, NOT CAST AS MR. DOW AND WHO IS NOT PRESENT AT THE MEETING CURRENTLY.
UM, WE'RE DOWN TO THE, SO THE OTHER MOTIONS WOULD GO AWAY SINCE THIS REPLACE THOSE.
UM, SO NOW WE'RE ON TO A DISTRICT TO STATE TEXTBOOK ADOPTION POLICY.
GOOD MORNING, EVERYONE, UH, REQUEST WAS MADE FOR A DISCUSSION AROUND A TEXTBOOK ADOPTION POLICIES.
STRADDLES WILL START US OFF AND TAKE US THROUGH GOOD MORNING, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, UM, BOARD MEMBERS.
I WANTED TO THANK YOU FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY TO PRESENT INFORMATION REGARDING TEXTBOOK ADOPTION PROCESSES, WALK YOU THROUGH SOME STATE GUIDELINES, MAKE RECOGNITION TO SOME OF THE QUALITY WORK DONE BY OUR SCHOOL MEDIA PERSONNEL, WHO ARE ABLE TO BRING BEAUTIFUL LITERACY OPPORTUNITIES INTO OUR SCHOOLS.
UM, BEFORE I GO FORWARD, I'M JUST GOING TO TAKE A MOMENT AS I TRANSFER OVER TO THE SLIDESHOW AND JUST WALK YOU THROUGH SOME HOUSEKEEPING, YOU SHOULD HAVE HOT, HARD COPIES OF BUFORD COUNTY SCHOOL, DISTRICT ADMINISTRATIVE REGULATION, ISDN ONE, WHICH IS INSTRUCTIONAL BOWLS AND LEARNING OBJECTIVES.
I S STANDS FOR INSTRUCTIONAL SERVICES.
YOU SHOULD HAVE A COPY OF ADMINISTRATIVE REGULATION BIAS, THREE ACADEMIC FREEDOMS. THE NEXT ADMINISTRATIVE REGULATION YOU SHOULD HAVE IN YOUR POSSESSION IS IFS 36, WHICH WALKS THROUGH OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT TAX CLASS SELECTION AND ADOPTION PROCESS OF WHICH WE ACTUALLY WENT THROUGH AS A GROUP OF, ALTHOUGH WE MAY NOT HAVE WALKED INTO EVERY CONVERSATION IN DETAIL, WHEN YOU DID THE ADOPTION OF MATH FOR ELEMENTARY AND MIDDLE SCHOOL.
IF WE RECALL, WE ELEMENTARY SELECTED IREADY MATH AND MIDDLE SCHOOL SELECTED BIG QUESTION QUALITY.
ONE ITEM THAT YOU HAVE IS BCSC BEAVER COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT TEXTBOOK ADOPTION AND EVALUATION PROCESS.
AND SHE'D ALSO HAD A COMBINED ADMINISTRATIVE REGULATION, WHICH IS
SO THEY LOANED ME A FEW PAGES, BUT THEN I'M ATTACHED TO THAT AND WANTED TO FIND THEM ITEMS. YOU SHOULDN'T BE IN POSSESSION.
THIS IS JESSIE UPDATED FROM THE STATE SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AS A VERY QUALITY JOB OF LIMITING WHICH PUBLISHERS WE ARE ABLE TO WORK WITH.
THEY DO A VERY STRONG JOB OF BEDDING PUBLISHERS.
I HAVE TO SHARE THROUGH OUR CURRENT ADMINISTRATION, OUR PROCESS FOR ACQUIRING ONBOARDING, ANY TEXTBOOK AND MATERIAL ALIGNS STRONGLY WITH THE STATE REQUIREMENT.
WE TRY ACTUALLY WORK IN THAT MANNER.
I'M NOT GOING TO SAY THE WORD TRY BECAUSE WE WORK THROUGH WHAT IS ALLOWED TO THE SAFE AND
AND I KNOW YOU'RE FAMILIAR THAT MANY PUBLISHERS REACH OUT TO SCHOOL DISTRICTS AND MY OFFICE IS OF THE PRACTICE THAT IT BRING INTERESTED.
WHEN WE TRY TO DEPAUL, WE DO NOT LET THEM PUBLISH, KEEP KNOCKING ON OUR DOOR.
AND I, I WON'T GO INTO DETAILS.
WHAT YOU CAN GO TO STAY IN LINE.
SO POINTS OF DISCUSSION FOR TODAY WILL BE OUR TESCO FOR ADOPTION PROCESS COPYRIGHT AS WELL AS AN INSTRUCTIONAL BALANCE WILL BE WONDERFUL.
THE ACADEMIC FREEDOM THAT WHOLE RELATES WITH WHAT OUR CHILDREN OBTAINED WITHIN THE SCHOOL.
PLEASE UNDERSTAND THAT SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, BOULDER ACADEMIC NEEDS CIRCLES AROUND THE SOUTH CAROLINA PROFILE FOR GRADUATE.
THIS IS VERY STRONG AND DEEPLY ROOTED INITIATIVE, AND IT'S NOT ONLY A PHILOSOPHY.
IT IS A PRACTICE FROM THE STATE TO THE SCHOOL DISTRICTS.
AND ONE THAT MY DIVISION STANDS BY RATHER STRONG.
EACH ONE OF THESE ARE HYPERLINKS PROVIDING TO YOU ACCESS DIRECTLY TO STAFF CAROLINA.
HERE, WE DO NOT HAVE AN ADOPTION OR FINISHES.
THE MATH ADOPTION HAS BEEN COMPLETED, BUT ONE ITEM I DO WANT TO BRING TO YOUR ATTENTION.
AS I BROUGHT TO YOU YESTERDAY, WE HAD A CONVERSATION ABOUT SCHOOLOGY PERFORMANCE MATTERS, AND NOW JUST DISCOVERY EDUCATION.
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I SHARED WITH YOU HOW THAT INTEGRATION IS NOW HAPPENING FOR A TEACHER IN POWER SCHOOL WILL BE ABLE TO ACCESS CONTENT AND CREATE CLASSES.AND THE DISCOVERY EDUCATION ADOPTION FROM THE STATE JUST HAPPENED THIS PAST MONDAY.
SO THAT INFORMATION WILL NOT BE IN THESE HYPERLINKS.
I DO HAVE TO SHARE THAT WITH YOU.
I WANT US TO TAKE A QUICK LOOK IF YOU'D LIKE TO, AND I CAN BRING LIKE ANY OF THESE UP, THESE ARE HYPERLINKS REGARDING OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT.
WE DO HAVE A POLICY IN PLACE, OR, AND THEN I CORRECT MYSELF.
I DO APOLOGIZE ADMINISTRATIVE REGULATIONS IN PLACE REGARDING OUR ACQUISITION FOR TEXTBOOKS, AS WELL AS MEDIA LIBRARY GUIDELINES.
WE HAVE A DRAFT MANUAL THAT LAST HYPERLINK IS A GRAPH MANUAL THAT WILL BE UPDATED AS WE GO THROUGH WORKING WITH TWO MEDIA SPECIALISTS WHO HAVE BEEN RECOMMENDED BY THEIR PEERS, ONE SECONDARY ONE AT THE ELEMENTARY LEVEL, IN ORDER FOR US TO CONTINUE WITH THERAPY INPUT.
AND I WANT TO PLACE EMPHASIS ON THE SIGNIFICANCE OF A MEDIA SPECIALIST AT A, THE SITE.
THEY ARE THE HUB OF TEXTS FOR OUR SCHOOLS.
I REALLY HAVE TO FACE THIS, YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES THESE ARE THE PERSONNEL OR OVERLOOKED.
AND I, I, AGAIN, I DO WANT TO PLACE EMPHASIS ON THE GREAT WORK THAT THEY DO AND HOW REALLY THEY KEEP US COMPLIANT IN PRACTICE, AS WELL AS IN COPYWRITING.
ONE OF THE QUESTIONS THAT I WAS, UM, THAT WAS SHARED WITH ME IS ABOUT OUR TEXTBOOK AND OUR PROCESS AND HOW WE GO THROUGH, UM, KEEPING INVENTORY.
UM, AND YOU'LL SEE, AS I GO INTO A FEW MORE SLIDES, WHICH IS OF GREATER VALUE OF HARD COPY OR ELECTRONIC TEXTS, AND I WILL SHARE THAT THERE ARE DIFFERENT PHILOSOPHIES AND PRACTICES, AND OUR GOAL IS ALWAYS TO MEET THE NEEDS OF THE LEARNER, BUT WHAT I'D LIKE US TO STOP AND RECOGNIZE THAT WE HAVE AN INVENTORY PROCESS IN PLACE THAT IS ALIGNED WITH SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION.
IT GOES WITH SOFTWARE CALLED DESTINY INVENTORIES ARE EXECUTED.
MEDIA SPECIALISTS GENERALLY ARE THE REPOSITORY OF DESTINY TO END LIKE, UM, I WANT TO SAY OUR TEXTBOOK ADOPTION, AS WELL AS OUR EACH SCHOOL'S INVENTORY.
AND THAT ALLOWS OUR STATE IN ORDER TO RUN INVENTORY, RIGHT? BECAUSE THEY ARE THE ONES WHO PAY FOR A TEXTBOOK, BUT TECHNICALLY THE TAXPAYER DOES.
AND ANY TEXTBOOK CHARGES OR LOSSES, OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT IS ACCOUNTABLE TO THAT.
THESE ARE STATE APPROVED SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALS.
THESE ITEMS ARE THE CYCLINGS THAT INVENTED THROUGH THE STATE THAT DOES NOT MEAN THAT A SCHOOL CANNOT BRING FOUR, INCLUDE SOMETHING ADDITIONAL ONCE THE PRINCIPAL HAS GOTTEN THROUGH AND APPROVED.
AND IF YOU DO TAKE THE OPPORTUNITY TO LOOK AT THEM, THEY ARE VERY COMPREHENSIVE.
THEY ACTUALLY EVEN INCLUDE CAREER TECHNICAL EDUCATION.
UM, I MAY BE NEW TO SOUTH CAROLINA, BUT I DO WANT TO TELL IT VERY STRONGLY, THE QUALITY WORK THAT THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION DOES, THEY PROVIDE AN EXTENSIVE AMOUNT OF RESOURCES OR A STATE STRUCTURE THAT'S LOOKED AT WITH REGARD TO HIS FUNDING.
THERE IS A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF SUPPORT TO OUR SCHOOL DISTRICTS.
AND I HAVE TO SHARE, I THINK, WHAT YOU'RE SEEING WITH SCHOOLOGY AND WITH DISCOVERY EDUCATION OCCASION, AS A REPOSITORY FOR CONTENT, WE ARE PROBABLY GOING TO BE AHEAD ON NATIONALLY.
THIS COMMUNICATION IS JUST THE SHARE.
I WAS REACHING OUT TO SPACEY CLEVELAND.
SHE'S OUR DISTRICT POINT PERSON FOR TEXTBOOKS.
SO YOU WANT US, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ON TEXTBOOKS.
CLEVELAND HAPPENS TO BE UP AND DOWN WITH THE PERSON, AND I'LL SHARE THAT HER SON GRADUATED A BEEPER IN HIGH SCHOOL THIS PAST YEAR.
UM, I WAS ASKING HIM TO PLEASE REACH OUT TO PUBLISHERS.
WHAT IS MORE EFFECTIVE, PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF IT'S HARD, COPY OR ELECTRONIC.
AND I DID MAKE MENTION TO YOU, YOU KNOW, LET'S TAKE NOTE SO MYSELF AS A LEARNER AND I'LL STICK TO GET INTO MY WORLD.
AND I HAVE TAPES OF YOU MEDIA SPECIALISTS HERE IN THE COUNTY.
I'M THAT KID WHO USE THE PENCIL IN THE BOOK IN ORDER TO IDENTIFY WHAT I NEED TO KNOW, LOOK AT CONTEXT CLUES.
BUT I WAS ALWAYS PRETTY TRIED TO BE PRETTY JUDGED, TRIED TO ERASE THAT I'M BUYING A HARD COPY.
AS I BUILT MY CAPACITY OF KNOWLEDGE OF CONTENT.
I NOW TO READ AN ELECTRONIC AND MUCH EASIER, BUT AS AN ENGAGING STUDENT, WHEN I WAS STARTING AT THE FIRST ACQUIRING KNOWLEDGE, I LIKE TO TELL, SHARE WITH OUR EDUCATORS, THAT WE'RE PUTTING THINGS IN THE BASKET, RIGHT? WHEN I HAVE MY BASKET BOAT, THEN I'M ABLE TO PUT OUT TO OTHER AVENUES AND TEACHERS FIND THAT AS WELL.
SO SOME SCHOOLS LIKE TO HAVE A BALANCE, RIGHT? THIS SLIDE SHOWS YOU AN IDEA OF THE COST OF SUBSCRIPTION PER STUDENT WITH REGARD TO BIG IDEAS.
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ONE IS HERE TO SHARE WITH ME, US HISTORY.I FEEL THAT WE NEED THEM TO PROVIDE BOTH MATERIAL MODELS FOR OUR STUDENTS.
ESPECIALLY IF A STUDENT, EITHER MY CHILD WHO, AS AN INDIVIDUAL EDUCATIONAL PLAN, I MAY BE SLD SPECIFIC LEARNING DISABLED.
I MIGHT NEED THAT HARD COPY, BUT I ALSO WANT TO BE ABLE TO HAVE THE ELECTRONIC PLATFORM IN CLASS, BUT I MAY WANT TO BE ABLE TO HAVE THAT HARD COPY AT HOME WHERE I USED IT AS AN ADDITIONAL RESOURCE TO DO ADDITIONAL WORK AND GOING BACK AND FORTH.
AND THOSE ARE PRACTICES THAT YOU HAPPEN WITHIN HERE IN THE DISTRICT.
THIS RIGHT HERE AT DISCUS IS ACTUALLY ONE OF THE STATE PAID FOR PERIODICALS ACCESS THAT IS AVAILABLE TO EVERY SCHOOL WITHIN THE STATE.
AND I HAVE TO EMPHASIZE STATE PAID FOR AGAIN, WHO GOES TO THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, PUTTING THEIR MONEY INTO THE RESOURCES FOR A SCHOOL SITE, WHICH ENDS UP WHAT SAVING DISTRICT'S MONEY.
THESE ARE ADDITIONS, NO RESOURCES.
AND I DID WANT TO SHARE WITH YOU.
SO AS WE LOOK INTO MEDIA OR RESOURCES THAT WE DO, WHAT DOES A MEDIA SPECIALIST DO? THEY REALLY TRY TO BED MATERIAL THAT IS TIED TO AWARD READING AWARD-WINNING CATEGORIES, AS WELL AS OUR OWN LYRIC ON YOUR RECORD LITERACY, MELISSA MARIE, WE TRY TO PUT INTO THE HANDS OF OUR CHILDREN QUALITY LITERATURE.
I DO WANT TO MAKE NOTE THAT THE FIRST HYPERLINK DOES TAKE IT DIRECTLY TO MATERIAL THAT HAD BEEN RECOMMENDED FOR THE SUBJECT TO A SHOOTING THAT HAD BEEN IN CHARLESTON A FEW YEARS AGO.
I KNOW THERE'S A WHOLE INITIATIVE THAT ACTUALLY WORKS FOR IMMEDIATE CENTERS, UM, PROVIDING RESOURCES TO SCHOOLS, YOUR LAST HYPERLINK, NEVER NEBULA AWARDS.
IT'S WON MANY MAINE, UM, MAY NOT BE FAMILIAR WITH, BUT IT IS SAIFAI.
AND I HAVE SHARED WITH THE BOARD MEMBERS BEFORE I SCIENCE FICTION IS PROBABLY THE ONE THING THAT CUED ME INTO WANTING TO BE AN AVID READER AS A YOUNGER PERSON.
UM, AND I, I STILL DABBLE IN THAT WHEN I GET THAT OPPORTUNITY, IF I'M NOT READING PROFESSIONAL LITERATURE, I WANTED TO GIVE YOU SOME EXAMPLES OF AWARDS ON THE HYPERLINK ON THE TOP IS VERY MUCH ACTIVE TO YOU.
THESE ARE NATIONAL AWARDS FOR 2018, THAT TYPE OF ACTUALLY TAKING THE MOST CONTEMPORARY 2020 SITE AS WELL.
SO YOU COULD NOTICE, WE TRY TO PROVIDE DIVERSITY IN LITERATURE, DIVERSITY AND WRITING AND AUTHORS TO CHILDREN.
THIS SLIDE HERE TALKS TO US ABOUT COPYRIGHT VERY MUCH TO KEEP IN MIND.
THIS IS PROBABLY THE WHY THAT I PROVIDE YOU WITH LIVE LINKS ON THESE.
IN ONE THAT I AM MEETING WITH COPYRIGHT MEDIA SPECIALISTS PROVIDE TO SCHOOLS WITH COPYRIGHT TRAINING, THE CITATION ON THE PRINCIPAL.
THAT ACTUALLY IS JUST OUT OF ONE OF THE MOST RECENT COPYRIGHT TRAININGS THAT WE'VE HAD UP TO HERE IN THE COUNTY.
THEY DID NOT ENTER THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS PROVIDING YOU INFORMATION.
AND AGAIN, YOU CAN SEE THEM REFERENCING REFERENCING TO OUR BOARD AS MINISTRATIVE REGULATIONS HERE.
THE LAST BULLET IS ACTUALLY FOR A CLASSROOM FOR USE OF COPYRIGHT TRAINING, POWERPOINT CREATED BY OUR MEYER DIRECTOR OF EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY.
UM, CHRISSY RAY ROBINSON, WHO'S NOW, AND I FEEL HIT HIGH SCHOOL PAUSE FOR A MOMENT AND JUST HAVE CONVERSATION WITH GUARDINO, ACADEMIC FREEDOM.
WHAT ARE THE RIGHTS IT, AND WE HAD THE SCHOOL.
BOTH OF THESE LINKS TAKE YOU TO THE FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE REGULATIONS THAT I SHARED WITH YOU, INSTRUCTABLES AND LEARNING OBJECTIVES.
IF YOU EVER GET THE OPPORTUNITY TO READ THEM, I DO.
I DO RECOMMEND I, AND I APOLOGIZE.
I TRIED TO KEEP THOSE LINKS THAT TOOK YOU DIRECTLY TO THEM, BUT AS I HYPERLINKED, AND IT TAKES ME TO THE ADMINISTRATIVE REGULATION SITE, AND YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO TAP INTO IAS AND THEN PULL UP YOUR RESPECTIVE.
I HAVE TO GIVE KUDOS TO OUR SCHOOL BOARD.
AND FOR THOSE WHO BROKE BOTH OF THESE WITH ADMINISTRATIVE REGULATIONS, UM, LAY WORK SHOWS THAT WE WERE VERY MUCH ALIGNED ON ISDN THREE WITH STATE AND NATIONAL GUIDELINES AND THE INSTRUCTIONAL GOALS AND LEARNING OBJECTIVES THAT YOU'VE PUT FORWARD AS A SCHOOL DISTRICT.
I MUST COMMEND YOU FOR BEING, UM, ACTION FORWARD-THINKERS AS, AS MEMBERS TO OUR DISTRICT.
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A LITTLE BIT OF CONVERSATION ABOUT CURRICULUM SELECTION.SO WE DO HAVE THE RIGHT TO LOVE CURRICULUM SELECTION FROM MY SEAT AS ACHIEVEMENT INSTRUCTIONAL OFFICE.
SO I DO HAVE THE RIGHT TO SAY, HEY, I NEED YOU TO DO THIS.
THAT IS NOT SOMETHING THAT I PUT WITH FROM MY SEAT.
I DO HAVE TO SHARE THAT WITH YOU.
I MAY AND I MAY AND HAVE HAD SHARED RESOURCES TO SCHOOLS FROM DIVERSITY AND CULTURAL EXPERIENCES TO TOPIA, TO ED WEEKLY ARTICLES OR RESEARCH AND TOPICS THAT WE ARE DISCUSSING AS SCHOOL LEADERS, BUT THE, MY SEAT AND UP FROM OUR OFFICE HERE AT THE DIVISION, WE DO NOT PUT ABOUT NEW PLUS DO THIS.
WE LEAVE THAT OPEN FOR OUR SCHOOL SITES.
IT'S A CITATION TO ACADEMIC FREEDOM WITH REGARD TO THE SCHOOL POLICY AND TEACHERS.
SO I'LL, LET ME GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE.
THIS IS FROM BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY.
IF MY PRINCIPAL, I AM A TEACHER TELLS ME I MUST DO STANDARDS BASED INSTRUCTION, AND I AM AN ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS TEACHER, BUT I CHOOSE INSTEAD TO DO ALL MAKING THAT RIGHT THERE IS NOT ACADEMIC FREEDOM.
LET'S GO BACK TO STANDARD SPACE INSTRUCTION.
WE HAVE BUFORD COUNTY, WE HAVE A SCOPE AND SEQUENCE.
WE EXPECT OUR TEACHERS TO HAVE A WIDE FOR YOUR INSTRUCTION.
AND THAT GOES FROM PRE-K ALL THE WAY THROUGH 12TH GRADE.
THIS SLIDE HERE IS A VIEW, A SCOPE TO SAY SO AS A TEACHER OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS, IF I WANTED TO BRING IN SOME OTHER LITERATURE AND HIGHLIGHT THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE LOCAL HISTORY OF SOUTH CAROLINA, I'D LIKE US TO RECOGNIZE THE SOUTH CAROLINA STARTING AT FOURTH GRADE REQUIRES, UM, THE TEACHING OF BLACK HISTORY INTO OUR INSTRUCTION.
SO A TEACHER WOULD HAVE THAT OPPORTUNITY AND SHE INTEGRATE MATERIAL THAT HIGHLIGHTS THE WORK OF SOUTH CAROLINA HAS A STATE, AS LONG AS WE'RE KEEPING IT ALIGNED WITH STATE STANDARDS AND WE'RE USING GRADE APPROPRIATE MATERIALS.
AGAIN, I STRONGLY RECOMMEND THAT THAT TEACHER WORK WITH YOUR SCHOOL ADMINISTRATOR TO MAKE SURE THAT THOSE MATERIALS ARE VETTED TO AN IMMEDIATE SPECIALIST, AS WELL AS THROUGH THEIR SCHOOL PRINCIPAL.
I'M HEARING WITH YOU STATE LANGUAGE.
SO AGAIN, IS THAT ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS TEACHER.
I GO TO MY PRINCIPAL AND I WANT TO SAY, HEY, I WANT TO TEACH THIS UNIT.
I WANT TO HIGHLIGHT AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY HERE IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
I WANT TO HIGHLIGHT WALKERS WHO HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO THE PEOPLE ARE HERE IN OUR STATE, UM, SHARING RESOURCES FROM OUR STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, AS WELL AS THE CITATION.
AGAIN, REGARDING THE REQUIREMENTS AND CURRICULUM, THE PRACTICE I'M GOING TO CHALLENGE EACH OF US, PUT YOUR STUDENT HAT ON.
I'D LIKE YOU TO TAKE A MOMENT TO READ THIS UNIT DESCRIPTION IN YOUR MENTAL LINE.
PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT TO MAYBE UNDERLYING ANY BIRDS CIRCLE, ANY, YOU KNOW, NOUNS IN HERE.
IN OTHER WORDS, I WANT YOU TO ALTER THE COMPLEXITY OF THIS UNIT, THE YOUNG, THE LIGHTING OF BIRDS AND CIRCLING UP DOWNS OR DESCRIPTORS IS BASICALLY A SKILL WE UTILIZE IN PROFESSIONAL LEARNING COMMUNITIES.
SO I'LL PAUSE TO GIVE YOU A MOMENT TO READ AND I'LL DO THE PRACTICE AS MANY EDUCATORS WHEN YOU'VE FINISHED READING.
IF YOU COULD JUST LOOK UP, PLEASE, THANK YOU.
THE HYPERLINK ON THIS SLIDE IS, AND FEET TIED TO THIS UNIT.
IF YOU EVER GET THE OPPORTUNITY AGAIN, I MUST ASK YOU TO TAKE A LOOK AT IT VERY WELL PUT TOGETHER.
SO THE QUESTION IS, AND I'LL GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE.
THEN A LITTLE MORE DEPTH TO THIS.
THIS IS A STANDARD TIE TO A STATE UNIT OF INSTRUCTION.
WHAT GRADE DO WE THINK THIS IS? AND I WON'T CALL OUT ANYONE.
I'LL JUST GIVE A PAUSE FOR EACH AND EACH AND EVERY ONE OF US.
AND I'LL SHARE WITH YOU THAT THIS UNIT OF INSTRUCTION, AS WELL AS THE STANDARD OR FOURTH GRADE.
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OF KNOWING MILITARY STRATEGY, BEING ABLE TO EVALUATE AT FOURTH GRADE, I KNOW IT DELTS THAT I'M NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO HAVE THIS.I DO NOT NEED IT BY ANY DISRESPECT, BUT I, I WAS VERY MUCH, UM, MY BACKGROUND IS HISTORY.
I HAVE TO SHARE THAT WITH YOU.
AND I HAVE TO SHARE THAT WHEN I SAW THIS AT FOURTH GRADE, I WAS ENAMORED.
I LOVED HIM BE ABLE TO HAVE TO DISCUSS WITH CHILDREN.
AND I MEAN, TO STAND THE STAND AT SOUTH CAROLINA REQUIRES THAT CHILDREN ARE ABLE TO UNDERSTAND THE POLITICAL, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL CHANGES AT AN INFLUX OF THE CIVIL WAR HERE IN SOUTH CAROLINA, STARTING AT FOURTH GRADE, HOW MANY OF US ARE ABLE TO HAVE THAT TYPE OF CONVERSATION WITH ONE GRADER? SO WE'RE REALLY VERY MUCH TIED TO THE STANDARDS OF WHAT WE'RE TEACHING.
WE RECOGNIZE THAT SOCIAL STUDIES IS A COMPLEXITY OF NOT ONLY LANGUAGE, BUT LOGIC THAT WE MUST BE TEACHING CHILDREN.
THAT IS WHERE A STATE IS GOING.
JUST THINKING BYTES IN OUR UNITS.
BRADLEY WOULD LIKE TO CON I JUST, I JUST WANTED TO GO BACK A COUPLE OF SLIDES, REALLY NOT WITHSTANDING THE COMPLEXITY OF THIS PARTICULAR STANDARD MEAN.
I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I LIFTED OUT OF THIS WAS THE REAL IMPORTANCE OF LITERACY EARLY LITERACY AND VOCABULARY OF VOCABULARY AND CONTEXT, RIGHT? SO WHEN YOU LOOK AT WORDS LIKE POLITICAL, ECONOMIC INDUSTRIALIZATION, INDUSTRIALIZING, UM, CONFEDERACY MATERIALIZED, JUST THE FUNDAMENTAL ABILITY AND NECESSITY OF BEING ABLE TO READ, UH, IT'S JUST SOMETHING, I MEAN, I JUST WANTED TO KIND OF UNDERSCORE THAT.
UH, AND I THINK IT JUST REALLY PLACES A REAL THIS ON WHAT OUR ELEMENTARY TEACHERS ARE DOING RIGHT NOW WITH OUR EARLY READERS AROUND JUST GETTING THEM TO UNDERSTAND HOW DO WE GET GOOD AT TEACHING OUR KIDS ACTUALLY, HOW TO READ, BECAUSE WHEN YOU TRY TO DECONSTRUCT A STANDARD LIKE THIS, OR UNDERSTAND A UNIT LIKE THIS FULLY BEING ABLE TO READ IT AND UNDERSTAND IT, IT'S JUST SO CRITICAL TO THE BASIC LITERACY SKILLS AS A SWEATER, AND TO PIGGYBACK ON WHAT DR.
WE RECOGNIZE IF YOU'RE FAMILIAR WITH NORM WEB'S WORK AND WAS ADDED ON, WAS ACTUALLY OUT OF WISCONSIN IN MADISON, NOWHERE, DO YOU SEE RICO? EVERYTHING IS AT A LEVEL TWO OR THREE OR A HIGHER AT A FOURTH GRADE STANDARD THAT DIRECTOR YOU COULD, SIR.
AND I, AND I THINK WHAT THIS HIGHLIGHTS, IT'S NOT JUST, UH, THE COMPLEXITY OF WHAT STUDENTS ARE HAVING TO READ AT THAT GRADE LEVEL, NOT JUST THE SIGNIFICANCE OF INCREASING VOCABULARY, UH, IN ORDER TO MASTER AND UNDERSTAND WHAT IT IS YOU'RE READING, BUT THIS TIES IN WITH, UM, THE LEVEL OF WHICH THE INSTRUCTION ALSO HAS TO TAKE PLACE, RIGHT? SO THAT IT'S NOT JUST THE COMPLEXITY AND THE EFFECT, BUT IT'S ALSO THE ALIGNMENT OF THE COMPLEXITY WITHIN THE STANDARD, THE COMPLEXITY WITHIN THE TEXT.
AND THEN EVEN WHEN WE ASSESS STUDENT OR THE COMPLEXITY OF THAT ASSESSMENT, THAT IT ASSESSES IT AT THE SAME RIGOR THAT THE STANDARD IS GOING TO ASSESS IT LATER ON.
OTHERWISE OUR STUDENTS REACH, UH, AN ASSESSMENT POINT AT THE END OF THE YEAR, AND THEY, AND THEY TAKE THE ASSESSMENTS THAT ARE MATCHING AND ALIGNED TO THE RIGOR OF THE STANDARD.
UH, BUT THEY NEED THE OPPORTUNITY THROUGHOUT OPERATE AT THAT SAME LEVEL SO THAT THEY CAN, UH, THEY CAN, UH, BE SUCCESSFUL ON THOSE END, THE END OF THE YEAR ASSESSMENTS.
AND THEN THAT HIGHLIGHTS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF DIFFERENTIATING INSTRUCTION, EVEN AT TIMES, MAYBE NEEDING TO DIFFERENTIATE, UH, TEXTS AND SCAFFOLD IT, UH, SO THAT YOU CAN THEN BRING THE STUDENTS ALONG AND INCREASE THEIR ABILITY TO GET TO THAT GRADE LEVEL TEXTS.
SO TO BE ABLE TO HAVE A DOCTOR AT PREVIOUS AS HAVING CONVERSATING, IF WE REMEMBER EARLIER IN THE PRESENTATION TO PROFILE OF A GRADUATE, IF WE LOOK AT THE SLIDE ON THE BULLETS, EXPLAIN CONTEXTUALIZE, IDENTIFY, ANALYZE THAT SORT OF QUALITIES THAT WE WANT OUR STUDENTS, AND YES, WE WANT MORE, BUT THESE ARE THE QUALITIES THAT WE WANT OUR STUDENTS TO BE ABLE TO DO WITH SUBJECT MATTER THAT IS IN FRONT OF THEM.
AND IN ORDER FOR US TO GET THE CONTENT, WE MUST BE BUILDING THE LOGIC SKILLS AS WELL.
THESE ARE THE I CAN STATEMENTS THAT ARE TIED WITH THIS FOURTH GRADE UNIT.
AND I'M WALKING YOU THROUGH THIS AGAIN FOR TWO REASONS.
ONE, IT IS A STATE REQUIREMENT, BUT TWO TO HIGHLIGHT
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THE LEVEL OF RESOURCES THAT ARE NOW BEING PROVIDED TO EXTEND TEACHING IN THE CLASSROOM, AND HOPEFULLY EVEN MORE SO TO, TO HIGHLIGHT.IT IS A SERIES OF COMPLEXITY AND LOGIC THAT WOULD WANT TO BE ABLE TO GET OUR CHILD TO DO WHAT AND SERVE WHY, BUT ANSWER THAT IN THEIR LANGUAGE WITH W WITH THEIR POINT OF REFERENCE.
SO THIS JUST GIVES YOU A LITTLE MORE OF THE PLANET PART OF THIS, UM, FOURTH GRADE REQUIREMENT.
WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT THIS, THIS IS A LOT OF A CHUNK FOR FOURTH GRADE TO START ABSORBING AND TO GET HERE, THEY WOULD HAVE HAD TO HAVE SOME TYPE OF UNDERSTANDING OF EVEN THE AGE OF REVOLUTION.
PRIOR TO THAT, THE TIME OF EIGHT AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT, WE CAN'T GET TO INDIVIDUAL ROASTERS AND STRIPE AT ANY ECONOMY.
IF I HAVEN'T TALKED ABOUT MAN AND ENLIGHTENED PYRAMID AND MAN, AND THE AGE OF REVOLUTION AND THE SIGNIFICANCE THAT OUR COUNTRY PLAYED IN THAT GLOBALLY.
SO THESE ARE SOME WONDERFUL REFERENCES.
I DO HAVE TO SHARE THAT THE LAST REFERENCE, UM, HIGHLIGHTS HERE IS ONE THAT I DID SEND OUT TO SCHOOLS JUST TO OPEN THE DOOR A LITTLE MORE.
I CAN SET THE SALE TWICE, AND I KNOW IT'S A LITTLE DIFFICULT TO SEE HERE ON THE BOTTOM, BUT THESE ARE ALL HYPERLINKS OUT HERE.
UM, RIZA RESOURCES FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS.
THE NEXT ONE ACTUALLY IS A RESOURCE THAT I'VE SHARED WITH SCHOOLS REGARDING BULLYING, RIGHT? WHERE ARE YOU WALKING? UM, OH, YOU CAN'T SEE IT? I DO APOLOGIZE.
I THOUGHT IT WOULD'VE COME UP WITH, I WAS MANAGING IT.
SO LET, LET ME TRY THAT AGAIN.
AND I DO A PO, I MIGHT HAVE TO DO IT BIG EACH LENGTH, SO MAYBE SEE IF IT DOESN'T.
SO MY FIRST ONE WAS, UM, ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS.
SECOND ONE IS WITH REGARDS TO BULLYING, AND THIS ACTUALLY HAS HYPERLINKS INTO GOOGLE FOLDERS THAT I SHARED WITH SCHOOLS.
I'M PUGGLE COMPETENCE AND BULLYING, UM, FROM GRADES K THROUGH 12.
ACTUALLY, I HAD LESSONS THAT I SHARED THAT WITH DEVELOPED THIS LIGHT SHARES SOME AFRICAN-AMERICAN RESOURCES.
NEXT LINK DOES SHARE I'M NATIVE AMERICAN.
WHEN WE SAY THE WORD HISPANIC, CAUSE A HISTORY TEACHER IN ME SAYS, WHERE IS THAT COUNTRY? SO I WANT TO SAY THAT IT SHARES LINKS TO THOSE WHO ARE INDIGENOUS TO A SPANISH SPEAKING COUNTRY.
AND I KNOW THE LANGUAGE NOW IS LATIN X.
AND THE LAST HYPERLINK SHARES SOME INFORMATION REGARDING HOLOCAUST STUDIES.
LET ME SEE IF IT COMES BACK UP.
SO IN CLOSING, I JUST WANTED TO SHARE, AGAIN, THESE ARE OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT'S ADMINISTRATIVE REGULATIONS.
AND IT IS TIME I HAVE I'M OPEN FOR ANY QUESTIONS AND I'LL STOP SHARING THIS DISCUSSION, BARRY, AND PASS THIS BACK OVER TO YOU.
UM, I, UH, IN PREPARATION FOR TODAY'S WORK SESSION, I, I DID CLICK ON THE FORT SUMPTER ANIMATED ABOUT THE BATH AND WATCH THAT EIGHT MINUTE VIDEO.
I WAS NO DIFFERENT QUALITY OF THE VIDEO.
AND IT CERTAINLY WENT ALONG WITH WHAT YOU HAVE HERE IS IN WRITING TOO, ABOUT WHAT TO BE LEARNING FROM IT.
AND I WANTED TO SHARE THAT THERE WERE SOME RESOURCES THAT YOU ACTUALLY, YOU GET THROUGH SOUTH CAROLINA, YOU WANT SPECIFICALLY GET IN LOW COUNTRY AND THE RELATIONSHIP TO LOW COUNTRY AND THE RICE INDUSTRY, AND BEING ABLE TO PULL FROM THESE LANES ACTUALLY TO THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS, AND THEN JONATHAN REIGN.
BUT I DIDN'T KNOW UNTIL I MADE SOME INQUIRY WHO WAS FROM LOCALIZED IN THE AREA, THERE'S A VIDEO FROM JONATHAN GREEN ON THE RELATIONSHIP OF THE RICE INDUSTRY HERE IN THE LOW COUNTRY PEN ARTWORK.
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THAT IS JUST PHENOMENAL IF YOU HAVEN'T YET.AND I DO WANT TO SHARE THAT WITH YOU.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRESENTATION.
I ASKED THIS TO BE ADDED TO THE AGENDA.
A COUPLE OF MONTHS AGO, I GOT QUERIES FROM A COUPLE OF CONSTITUENTS SAYING, I HOPE YOU'RE NOT TEACHING THE 1619 PROJECT AND BUFORD COUNTY SCHOOLS.
IT SHOULD BE FAN WELL, WHEN YOU SAY SOMETHING SHOULD BE PAYING THAT IT TRIGGERS MY CURIOSITY.
SO I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT THE 1619 PROJECT WAS.
LET ME TELL YOU WHAT I FOUND AFTER THE 16, 19 PROJECT WITH PUBLISHED MAGAZINES IN THE NEW YORK TIMES IN AUGUST, 2019, IT'S THE TITLE WAS A 1619 PROJECT ON THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BEGINNING OF AMERICAN SLAVERY.
IT AIMS TO REFRAME THE COUNTRY'S HISTORY BY PLACING THE CONSEQUENCES OF SLAVERY AND THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF BLACK AMERICANS AT THE VERY CENTER OF OUR NATIONAL NARRATIVE.
NOW, I READ THAT, I THOUGHT THAT SOUNDS PRETTY GOOD.
SO I HAD TO READ IT AND YOU HAVE TO PAY FOR IT.
YOU CAN'T JUST GET IT FOR FREE.
AND IT WAS BASED ON A BOOK CALLED 16, 19 JAMESTOWN, AND THE FORGING OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY PUBLISHED IN OCTOBER, 2018.
SO I READ THAT BOOK AND THEN I READ THE 16, 19 PROJECT, A CRITIQUE FROM THE AMERICAN INSTITUTION FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH.
RODRIGUEZ, ARE WE TEACHING? THIS IS THIS PART OF OUR CURRICULUM? AND THE ANSWER CAME BACK.
AND NOW GIVEN WHAT MARY HAS DESCRIBED, I UNDERSTAND WHY, BUT IT BRINGS UP AND BROUGHT UP DEJA VU TO ME.
AND THE DEJA VU WAS IN THE 1990S.
I WAS ON A SCHOOL BOARD OF A SMALL SCHOOL DISTRICT AND A CONSTITUENT CAME UP TO ME AND SAID, WHY AREN'T WE TEACHING INTELLIGENT DESIGN AND CREATIONISM? AND LOU OF THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION, AGAIN, LOOKED AT IT.
WE WERE IN A DISTRICT WHERE IT WAS HEAVILY REGULATED BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, AND IT WAS DETERMINED THAT THAT WAS FAITH-BASED AND THEREFORE INAPPROPRIATE TO BE TAUGHT.
SO, BUT A NEIGHBORING SCHOOL BOARD AND A NEIGHBORING DISTRICT ADOPTED THIS AND SET OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY.
SO THAT WAS A BIG CONTROVERSY THEN.
AND THAT WAS A SCHOOL BOARD ACTION.
SO I WANTED TO MAKE SURE I WANTED TO UNDERSTAND HOW PERIODICALS, HOW DOCUMENTS WERE ADOPTED IN THE CLASSROOM.
AND THEN A DEJA VU, UM, AT A COMMUNITY COLLEGE WHERE I WAS AT, UH, WE HAD A NURSING PROGRAM, THE NURSING PROGRAM, YOU HAD TO BUY A $200 TEXTBOOK CALLED GREY'S ANATOMY.
WELL, THE NURSING TEACHERS SAID WE ONLY USE ABOUT THREE OR FOUR PAGES.
THEREFORE I'M GOING TO COPY THEM AND HAND THEM OUT.
YOU JUST TELL ME, YOU DON'T HAVE TO BUY THE $200 BOOK A PROBLEM.
YOU HAD TO STOP THAT VIOLATION OF COPYRIGHT.
SO WHEN I WAS THINKING ABOUT THIS AND I SAID, WELL, WHAT ARE OUR CONTROLS? WHAT ARE OUR ROLES? AND I'M EXACTLY, UH, I'M JUST REALLY HAPPY TO SEE THAT THERE IS A STRUCTURE AND THERE IS THOUGHT ABOUT NOT ONLY TEXTBOOKS, BUT ALSO SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIAL AND COPYRIGHT.
AND FORTUNATELY, SO I THANK YOU FOR DOING ALL THIS RESEARCH.
AND I'LL ALSO TELL YOU SOMETHING ABOUT 16, 19 PROJECT.
IT'S, IT'S, UH, UH, IT'S A DOCTORAL DISSERTATION.
THERE'S ONLY TWO CHAPTERS IN THE WHOLE BOOK THAT TALK ABOUT SLAVERY, BUT YET THE NEW YORK TIMES
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TOOK THAT AND EXPANDED IT.AND WHAT IT DID WAS IT BASICALLY SAID WITH SOME FAULTY ECONOMIC ANALYSIS SAYING THAT SLAVERY WAS REALLY THE REASON THAT THE UNITED STATES ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL STRUCTURE WAS DEVELOPED IN THE FIRST PLACE.
AND THAT'S WHAT WAS DEBUNKED BY AN ECONOMIC HISTORIAN BECAUSE SOME OF THE FACTS ARE WRONG.
SO THAT'S THE THING ABOUT EDUCATION.
WE WANT TO TEACH OUR KIDS NOT WHAT TO THINK, BUT HOW TO THINK.
AND WHEN YOU HAVE TOPICS, THE TOPIC SHOULD BE EVALUATED AND LOOKED AT AND TAUGHT.
BUT THE WHOLE PICTURE, YOU CAN'T JUST TAKE ONE VIEW, ONE IDEA AND SAY, THAT'S IT? WHAT? I WENT BACK TO MY CONSTITUENTS AND SAID, NO, WE ARE NOT TEACHING IT.
I SAID, THE REASON WE'RE NOT TEACHING IT, NUMBER ONE IS BECAUSE THIS STUFF WAS JUST PUBLISHED 2018, 2019.
SO IT HADN'T GONE THROUGH THE PROCESS.
AND NUMBER TWO, IT'S VERY DANGEROUS FOR YOU TO SAY THIS SHOULD BE BANNED BECAUSE WHEN YOU SAY SOMETHING IS VAN.
WHEN I HEARD LADIES CHATTERLEY'S LOVER WAS BAND IN HIGH SCHOOL, I IMMEDIATELY HAD TO READ IT.
AND SO IF YOU SAY IT'S BAND, EVERYONE'S GOING TO GO.
AND THEN THEY MAY NOT DO THE REST OF THE INTELLECTUAL RIGOR OF SEEING THE REST OF THE STORY.
AND SO, UH, THAT'S WHY I ASKED FOR THIS AND I NOW HAVE LOTS OF AMMUNITION TO GO TO CONSTITUENTS THAT SAY, WHAT ABOUT THE 16, 19 PROJECT? THIS IS, THIS HAS GIVEN ME ALL, I HATE TO SHUT THAT DOWN.
SO I APPRECIATE THAT VERY MUCH.
MY QUESTION COMMENT IS NOT AS, UM, NOT AS COMPLICATED IS, IS FROM A GUY I'M JUST, I TRIED TO, TO, UM, PUT THESE LINKS TO, UM, AND I GOT ACCESS TO NY, TO THE HYPERLINKS.
I WILL WORK ON IT AND WE HAD IT RELOADED.
BUT I'M GOING TO HAVE THE TEST BECAUSE I'VE BEEN TESTED BEFORE THEY WERE LOADED.
SO I'LL TRY AGAIN BECAUSE I GOT WORKED ON SO FAR THIS YEAR.
I PERSONALLY DON'T KNOW, BUT I'LL PUT DOMINATE.
MA'AM UM, I JUST HAD A COUPLE OF COMMENTS AND A QUICK QUESTION.
UM, ONE, THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRESENTATION, DR.
AND I THINK THIS IS IMPORTANT FOR THE PUBLIC TO BE AWARE OF, OF, YOU KNOW, OUR DIFFERENT, UM, REGULATIONS AND THE RULES REGARDING TEXTBOOK ADOPTION FOR THE DISTRICT.
UM, I PARTICULARLY APPRECIATE, UM, THAT YOU SHOWED US THE CONVERSATIONS THAT YOU WERE HAVING ABOUT, YOU KNOW, THE, THE DIGITAL VERSUS THE PRINT, UM, BECAUSE THAT REFLECTS TO ME AS A BOARD MEMBER THAT, UM, NOT ONLY ARE YOU BEING CONSERVATIVE WITH THE FUNDS OF THE DISTRICT, BUT YOU'RE ALSO TAKING INTO CONSIDERATION THE NEEDS OF THE INDIVIDUAL STUDENTS WHO, UM, MAY PREFER DIGITAL.
UM, BUT LIKE ME, I ALSO DO BETTER WITH PEN AND PAPER.
SO, UM, I REALLY APPRECIATE THAT.
UM, MY QUESTION IS IN REGARD TO, I BELIEVE THIS IS REGULATION, I S 36 TEXTBOOKS SELECTION AND ADOPTION, AND IT SAYS ON, UM, ROMAN NUMERAL THREE, THAT, UH, THE BCSD REQUIRES EACH SCHOOL TO MAKE TEXT SAMPLES PROVIDED BY SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AVAILABLE FOR COMMUNITY REVIEW AND INPUT.
AND I KNOW I'VE SEEN THAT IN THE PAST AND, AND SHARE THAT WITH MY CONSTITUENTS ABOUT THAT PROCESS AND, AND HOW LONG THAT WINDOW IS OPEN.
AND I WAS JUST WONDERING IF YOU COULD, UM, SPEAK TO THAT A LITTLE BIT, UM, BECAUSE I'M NOT SURE IF THAT OCCURS AT A CERTAIN TIME EACH YEAR, UM, AND LONG THAT WINDOW IS OPEN FOR.
SO WHAT I COULD SHARE IT WITH IT, I DIDN'T BRING THE MATH ADOPTIONS APOLOGIZE, BUT SCHOOLS WERE SCHOOLS RECEIVED COPIES OF THE ADOPTED MATERIALS, POTENTIAL ADOPTED MATERIALS AND STATE SPECIFICALLY ADOPTION.
THEY ARE SHARED THAT INFORMATION WITHIN THE BUILDING, PRESENT THAT TO THE SCHOOL AND CANCELED AND GET SOME INPUT.
THERE IS A SURVEY FOR MEDICINE MADE IT, IT IS COLLECTED BY THE RESPECTIVE DIRECTOR, BE THE SECOND YEAR ELEMENTARY.
SO WE PUT THAT INFORMATION TOGETHER AND THEN WE'LL BE ABLE
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TO BOTH, WE HAVE THE PUBLISHERS COME BACK AND AGAIN FOR PRESENTATION.AND THERE IS A SURVEY QUESTION IS COMPLETED BY EVERYONE WHO COMES AND SET A TABLE FOR THAT, THAT PROCESS TOOK ABOUT THREE DAYS LAST YEAR AT THE ELEMENTARY, ANOTHER TWO DAYS AT THE SECONDARY.
AND AGAIN, THE PARENTS ARE SUPPOSED TO BE ABLE TO PERUSE AT THE SCHOOL SITE.
THEY DO, WE SEE COPIES AND THE SCHOOL SHOULD BE PROVIDING THAT INTO THEIR SCHOOL, THEIR SIC, AND TO BE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE REGULATION.
I DO RECOMMEND THAT IS REFLECTED IN THE MINUTES.
AND, UM, I HOPE THAT WE CONTINUE TO MAKE SURE WE PUSH THAT INFORMATION OUT BECAUSE I LIKED THE HAVING, UM, INPUT FROM, FROM THE PARENTS AND THEM BEING INVOLVED IN THAT PROCESS.
SO I APPRECIATE THAT EXPLANATION VERY MUCH.
MR. SMITH, ALL THREE WERE IN FRONT OF ME.
THANK YOU, MR. MELVIN CAMPBELL.
WELL, FIRST LET'S ADDRESS THE CURRICULUM OF RELEVANCY TO THAT CURRICULUM AND OUR AREA DIFFERENT KIND OF DISTRICT.
SO ALL DUE RESPECT TO THE, TO THE LANGUAGE, I THINK THAT THE CONTEXT OF WHAT'S PRESENTED THERE IS IT'S SOMETHING THAT SHOULD BE A FOCUS OF OUR DISTRICT IN TERMS OF WHAT WE'RE TEACHING AND HOW WE'RE TEACHING, WHO WE'RE TEACHING.
AND I MEAN, BUT I MEAN BY THAT IS A LOT OF THE CHILDREN THAT WE HAVE KIND OF A DISTRICT OF DIRECT DESCENDANTS OF PEOPLE WHO HAD INPUT INTO THAT SOUTH CAROLINA PROCESS.
AND, UH, IN REALITY, THEY'VE GROWN VERY LITTLE FROM THE TIME OF RECONSTRUCTION TO NOW BECAUSE OF THE GEOGRAPHICS AND THE HISTORY.
SO WE ALL UNDERSTAND THAT AS EDUCATORS, AND I'M NOT SAYING JUST AS EDUCATORS OR BOARD MEMBERS, BUT AS EDUCATORS AND IN TERMS OF THE CONTEXT OF HOW WE DO EARLY CHILDHOOD AND HOW WE EDUCATE TO THAT POINT IN THE FOURTH GRADE, WHERE THEY CAN UNDERSTAND THAT PARTICULAR CONTEXT THAT'S NOT EASILY DONE.
AND I, BUT I THINK OUR AWARENESS OF THE SITUATION WOULD MAKE US A LITTLE BIT MORE VIGILANT IN TERMS OF GETTING IT DONE.
SO THAT'S WHY MANY TIMES I, I, MY PET PEEVE IS, IS, IS EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION LEARNING THROUGH EITHER CHILDHOOD AND READING IS NOT NECESSARILY DONE WITH THE SAME STANDARDS AS A READING CLASS AND IN ILLINOIS OR NEW YORK.
THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I WANTED TO SAY.
THE SECOND THING ADDRESSES, UH, GAIA'S ANALYSIS OF 1619 PROJECT.
AND, AND, AND THE FACT THAT THE ECONOMIST WHO, WHO DEBUNKED SOME OF THE THEORIES THERE, BECAUSE WE KNOW THOSE OF US WHO WILL LOOK THROUGH TO UNCLEAR, DEVELOPED VISION, WE'RE LOOKING AT A PURE, PURE SENSE OF IT.
MOST OF THE HISTORY THAT WE'VE LEARNED ARE NOT TOLD THE TRUTH.
SO THERE WILL BE THINGS WRITTEN IN TERMS OF HISTORICAL CONTEXT.
THAT'S NOT TRUE, YOU KNOW, FOUR YEARS 60 AND 19 WAS AN IRRELEVANT YEAR.
MOST OF US WHO WENT TO SCHOOL BACK IN THE SIXTIES AND SEVENTIES, WE'D NEVER HEARD OF 16, WHAT IT MEANS TO THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN.
SO I'D PUT THAT IN CONTEXT WITH THE REST OF THE RATINGS ABOUT HISTORY AND SAY, AS WE CONTINUE TO GROW, AS PEOPLE DO BEGIN TO LEARN MORE ABOUT HISTORY AND LEARN MORE ABOUT THE RELEVANCY OF OUR INDIVIDUAL PAST.
SO THAT BEING THE CASE, I AGREE WITH KIND OF GUY ABOUT RESTRICTING AND BANG.
AND WE DO HAVE THE EXAMINE AND OFTENTIMES THOSE WHO ARE OUR MOST EDUCATED OR MOST CONTRIBUTORY TO, TO EDUCATION OR THOSE WHO ADVANCED THEORIES WAS WHAT
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ADVANCED WHAT'S STANDARD.WE MUST NOT LOSE FOCUS OF THAT AS THAT'S WHAT I WANTED TO SAY, MR. RON CAMPBELL.
UM, I BRING THEM, I, I WOULD SAY, UM, AND LET ME SAY THIS.
WE DON'T EVEN KNOW THE HISTORY OF UGANDA.
WE, DON'T NOT TALKING ABOUT IT.
UM, MANY OF THE STUFF IN 1690, I'VE HEARD THOSE, MY GREAT-GRANDPARENTS, YOU KNOW, AND I'VE TAUGHT A LOT OF THAT TO MY CHILDREN.
UM, AND WE NEED TO, I THINK WE NEED TO LOOK AT THE STATE AND THE COUNTRY NEEDED A CHANGE IN THE HISTORY BOOKS, BECAUSE A LOT OF STUFF, AND HE HAS A BLOG IS NOT FROM WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT, UH, BEFORE HE MAY HAVE FLOWN BEFORE COLUMBUS.
THERE'S, THERE'S A LOT OF INFORMATION OUT THERE THAT WE CAN DO THAT, BUT I WANT TO BAN EVERYTHING.
WHEN YOU START TALKING ABOUT HISTORY IN THIS COUNTRY, THEY'RE ALL AFRAID OF CHANGING, TELL HIM TO SHOW EVERY, AND THAT IS THE REASON WHY WE HAVE SO MUCH PROBLEM IN THIS COUNTRY TODAY BECAUSE WE DON'T KNOW THE HISTORY.
WE DON'T WANT IT BECAUSE WE ARE ALIVE SO MANY YEARS.
AND, UM, I WAS JUST GRATEFUL TO MY RELATIVES TO EDUCATE ME WHEN I WAS A LITTLE BOY ABOUT WHAT WENT ON YOU KIND OF WHATEVER, WENT ON IN YOUR SPACE IN THE COUNTRY.
AND THEY DID NOT HAVE SOME OF THEM DIDN'T HAVE A THIRD GRADE EDUCATION, BUT THEN YOU, THE HISTORY IS STILL THERE.
SO I THINK THAT WE, AS AN INITIATIVE, NEEDS TO LOOK AT THIS AND SEE WHAT WE CAN DO TO CHANGE IT, BECAUSE IF YOU KNOW, THE
ALL, UM, HOW LET'S START BY SAYING THIS WAS A GREAT, A GREAT PRESENTATION, UM, JOB BOARD DONE TO UNION STAFF.
UM, BUT I DO HAVE A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS DO WHEN IT COMES TO THE USE OF TEXTBOOKS, DO DO ALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL USE THE SAME TEXTBOOKS.
SO MR. SMITH ON THE STATE ADOPTED THE ANSWER TO THAT IS YES.
WHEN IT COMES TO READING, I HAVE TO SHARE THAT WE HAVE IMPROVED DIFFERENT READING MATERIAL.
I HAVE SOME ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS THAT ARE UTILIZING FONDNESS AND PRONOUNCED MATERIALS I HAVE RIGHT NOW THIS YEAR, WE HAVE EVERY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BRINGING ON IREADY, BUT THEY HAVE A ROLL THAT OUT BECAUSE THERE IS A DIAGNOSTIC WINDOW THAT'S TIED TO THAT.
SO YES, THEY ARE REQUIRED TO UTILIZE THE ADOPTED MATERIALS.
THIS DISTRICT HAS WORKED WITH ONBOARDING A FEW READING SUPPORT MODELS AS A START IN THE UPCOMING SCHOOL YEAR.
THE GOAL IS TO HAVE A SUPPORTIVE ONE MODEL, BUT AN ELEMENTARY THAT IS STILL INCLUDING THE USE OF FANTA AND PRONOUNCED, AND, AND THEN LOOKING AT MIDDLE SCHOOL, BEING ABLE TO HAVE A STANDARD READING MATERIAL THERE AS WELL.
NOW, TEACHERS MAY BRING IN SUPPORT MATERIALS.
IF THEY'RE LOOKED AT THROUGH AGAIN, THE PROCESS THAT SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION SHOULD BE MADE AWARE OF, RIGHT? SOMETHING A LITTLE DIFFERENT THAN THE ADOPTED MATERIAL.
I SHOULD RESPECT YOU AS MY PRINCIPAL AND BRING THAT TO YOU.
UH, HOW ABOUT HIGH SCHOOLS DO, DO DO HIGH SCHOOLS AND MIDDLE SCHOOL? DO THEY USE ALL THE SAME TEXTBOOKS AS WELL? NO.
IF WE'RE TEACHING HIGH SCHOOL CREDIT CLASSES, THE ANSWER IS YOU HAVE THEY'RE THE SAME ADOPTED MATERIAL, HIGH SCHOOL CREDIT BEARING COURSE.
WHEN THE IT SECTION YOU WILL SEE WILL BE OBVIOUSLY WHAT OUR ADVANCED PLACEMENT AND OUR INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE COURSES, THEY WILL NOT BE UTILIZING THE ADOPTED MATERIALS.
SO WOULD THAT BE THE SENDING ALL THE BUFORD, ALL THE SCHOOLS IN BEAUTIFUL COUNTY SCHOOLS AND ALL THE HIGH SCHOOLS SHOULD BE ABLE TO EVEN SHARE BOOKS AND MEDIA BECAUSE EVERYONE SHOULD BE USING
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THE SAME BOOKS ACROSS, ACROSS, ACROSS THE BOARD.I WOULD SAY THAT THEY ALL HAVE ACCESS TO THE SAME BOOKS ACROSS THE BOARD, BUT, BUT HAVING ACCESS IS DIFFERENT FROM EVERYONE USING THE SAME BOOK ACROSS THE BOARD.
MY QUESTION IS, ARE MY QUESTION IS, DO ALL SCHOOLS USE THE SAME TEXTBOOKS AT THE HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL, NOT ACCESS? DO THEY ALL USE THE SAME TEXTBOOKS? ALL RIGHT, MR. SMITH, I DON'T HAVE ENOUGH INFORMATION TO GIVE YOU THAT ANSWER RIGHT NOW WITHOUT ACTUALLY DOING A STRONGER INQUIRY.
HOW ABOUT THE MIDDLE SCHOOL? THE SAME THING FOR ME TO SAY YES OR NO.
I WOULD LIKE THE OPPORTUNITY TO PUT THAT INQUIRY TO THE SCHOOLS, TO DO A CONFIRMATION.
THAT'S WHY I AM SHARING THAT EACH SCHOOL HAS ACCESS TO THE STATE ABOUT THE MATERIALS.
WELL, WHEN YOU, ONCE YOU, ONCE YOU FIND OUT THE ACCURATE ANSWER, WOULD YOU MIND EMAILING ME AND ALL THE BOARD MEMBERS, THE ACTUAL ANSWER, I WILL SEND OUT A SURVEY TO THE SCHOOLS, MR. SMITH, BECAUSE I ACTUALLY HAD PUT SOMETHING TOGETHER AS WELL.
THE PROCEDURAL PRACTICES WITH DESTINY, I HAVE A LITTLE BACKUP ALREADY SET UP.
AND TWO, ACTUALLY JUST ONE MORE QUESTION.
THERE WAS, I DO REMEMBER THERE WAS A BOOK THAT WAS READ AT ONE OF THE HIGH SCHOOLS IN THIS DISTRICT.
AND A PARENT HAD HAD SOME CONCERNS ABOUT THE BOOKS.
DO TEACHERS USE ALL THE, I HEAR YOU SAID THAT THE LIBRARIANS READ THE BOOKS BEFORE THE, THESE BOOKS ARE OFFERED TO TEACHERS, OR HOW CAN YOU TELL ME THE PROCESS OF A TEACHER CHOOSING A BOOK FOR AN ENGLISH TEACHER, CHOOSING A BOOK TO TEACH A LESSON ON YOU TELL ME THAT PROCESS MEDIA SPECIALIST HAS A VETTED LIST OF MATERIALS, GENERALLY PURCHASING OF MATERIALS FOR THE MEDIA CENTER.
THEY SHOULD, UM, THE MEDIA SPECIALIST SHOULD SIT WITH THEIR PRINCIPAL FOR APPROVAL.
MANY MEDIA SPECIALISTS WILL PROBABLY HAVE PERUSE AND READ BOOKS, BUT IT'S A LOT TO SAVE.
THEY'D READ THEM ALL THAT'S IN THE MEDIA CENTER, BUT THEY ARE, THERE IS EMBEDDED RECIPE THEY WORK WITH.
AND IS IT APPROVAL PROCESS TO THE SCHOOL PURCHASING? IF A BOOK IS BEING UTILIZED IN A UNIT OF STUDY THAT MAY BE CONTROVERSY THAT CONTROVERSIAL DESTRIA DRIVING THE CONVERSATION TO THAT CONVERSATION SHOULD GO TO THE SCHOOL ADMINISTRATOR.
IF A PARENT CHOOSES FOR YOU, I'D SAY, WELL, MAKE MYSELF THAT MY MOM DOES NOT WANT ME READING X, Y, OR Z, AND BOTH IN AN ASSIGNMENT SHOULD BE MADE AVAILABLE, BUT AS STATED, UTILIZING THE SAME STANDARDS AND THAT CHILD SHOULD HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO REMAIN IN CONTINUUM OF ACADEMIC LEARNING, BUT JUST USING SOMETHING ELSE THEN TO TEACH THAT STANDARD.
BUT AGAIN, THE TEACHERS SHOULD HAVE THAT CONVERSATION WITH THE SCHOOL SITE ADMINISTRATOR, SIR.
RIGHT? SO, BUT THE POLICY, BUT THE POLICY IS POLICIES THAT THE LIBRARIAN IS THE ONE WHO INITIALLY PURCHASED THE BOOKS AND BRING THE BOOKS INTO THE, AND BRING THE BOOKS IN.
AND, AND THE TEACHER CHECKS OUT THE BOOKS FROM THE LIBRARIAN.
THAT WOULD BE THE GENERAL, BUT I HAVE TO GET A DISCLAIM WITH YOUR SEAR BECAUSE WHEN IT COMES WITH ADVANCED PLACEMENT OR SOME OF OUR HIGHER LEVEL COURSES AT THE HIGH SCHOOL, A TEACHER MAY GO AND PETITION, YOU WAS THE PRINCIPAL TO SAY, I'D LIKE TO ADD THIS.
WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH OF IT IN OUR LIBRARY, OR THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE WANT TO ADD ON.
AND I COULD, I COULD ACTUALLY ADD THAT QUESTION THAT YOU'RE POSTURING INTO THE SURVEY THAT I REPAIRED THE SCHOOLS.
AND COULD YOU, UH, ALSO, COULD YOU TELL ME WHAT WILL BE THE PROCESS FOR THE PRINCIPAL TO PURCHASE THESE BOOKS WHERE THE PRINCIPAL HAVE TO LOOK INTO THE BOOKS OR THE PRINCIPAL JUST PURCHASE THEM OR THE PRINCIPAL GET A, A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF WHAT THE BOOKS MAY ENTAIL? HOW WOULD THAT WORK GENERALLY, A PRINCIPLE, IF YOU HAVE FIRST ONE WHO'S HAVING, WHO HAS READ THE BOOK, YOU SHOULD BE, I STATED TO SIT WITH YOU AS THE PRINCIPAL.
WELL, MR. SMITH GUYS, LIKE SIT WITH YOU AND BRING YOU AND SHOW YOU WHAT MADE IT AN ITEMS OF QUESTION AND HAVE THAT CONVERSATION WITH YOU AS MY PRINCIPAL.
AND WE SHOULD HAVE THAT DIALOGUE.
IF YOU'RE APPREHENSIVE OF SOMETHING THAT'S BEST RECOMMENDATION IS WHAT IF YOU ACTUALLY HENCE IT, SHOULD YOU DO IT? YEAH.
IF YOU FEEL THAT IT IS SOMETHING THAT SUPPORTS THE STANDARD AND IT IS NOT SOMETHING THAT CAN BE COMPROMISING OUR CHILDREN AND IT IS AGE APPROPRIATE.
I HAVE TO SHARE THAT BECAUSE THERE ARE LEGAL CASES REGARDING INSTRUCTIONAL EXPERIENCE BROUGHT INTO THE ROOM INTO THE CLASSROOM THAT MAY NOT HAVE BEEN AS AGE APPROPRIATE.
THEN THAT'S SOMETHING THAT HAPPENS BETWEEN MYSELF AND YOU AS MY PRINCIPAL AND HAVING THAT CONVERSATION IS DISMISSED.
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MUCH TO, YOU REALLY TAUGHT ME SOME THINGS I'VE LEARNED, AND THAT WILL DEFINITELY HELP ME, UH, WITH, WITH BEING A REPRESENTATIVE BECAUSE I I'VE HAD SOME TOUGH QUESTIONS AROUND THIS, UH, IN, IN, IN, IN THE PAST.AND, UM, YOU REALLY ENLIGHTENED ME AND, AND TAUGHT ME SOME THINGS THAT I APPRECIATE YOU, UH, THIS PRESENTATION WAS, UH, IT WAS, IT WAS GREATLY APPRECIATED ON FOR ME ON, ON THIS THING.
STRATOS CLARIFY SOMETHING FOR ME WITH THE PRINT VERSUS DIGITAL.
SO, UM, I SEE THAT IN YOUR SLIDE PRESENTATION, THAT TYPICALLY AN ONLINE SUBSCRIPTION FOR A BOOK.
IF YOU JUST DO IT FOR ONE YEAR, IT WAS SIGNIFICANTLY LESS EXPENSIVE THAN THE PRINT VERSION, BUT THEN IF YOU DO AN ONLINE SUBSCRIPTION, AS WELL AS THE PRINT VERSION, IT'S, THAT'S VERY, SO MUCH ADJUSTING BUYING THE BOOK.
SO I SHOULD ASSUME, BUT MAYBE THIS ISN'T CORRECT THAT WHEN YOU DO AND, UM, THAT YOU CAN'T HAVE, UH, IF YOU DO AN ONE ONE-YEAR ONLINE SUBSCRIPTION AND YOU GET ONE BOOK THAT ONLY ALLOW IT TO BE USED BY ONE STUDENT, YOU CAN'T START GIVING THE BOOK TO SOMEBODY ELSE.
I THINK MAYBE THAT'S WHAT MR. SMITH WAS DRIVING AT A LOT POSITIVE.
AND ONLY IT IS A ONE-TO-ONE LICENSING THAT IF SOMEONE SAID THAT THAT CAN BE PASSED ON TO SOMEONE ELSE, GENERALLY IT IS A ONE-TO-ONE, UM, LICENSING THAT IS PURCHASED PURCHASE.
HOWEVER, THE BOOK IS GOING TO LAST FOR SEVERAL YEARS.
SO, UM, AND I SEE THAT'S AN EXAMPLE ON YOUR SIDE OF SLIDE, 11 IS A CERTAIN, I THINK IT WAS A SIX YEAR SUBSCRIPTION AND ONE HARD BOOK.
THOSE IT'S ABOUT BEING ABLE TO BE PASSED.
AND SOMETIMES WE DON'T HAVE THE ADOPTION CYCLE ACTUALLY SUBJECT TO FUNDING.
LIKE SOCIAL STUDIES WAS SUPPOSED TO BE ABOUT THAT THIS ACADEMIC SCHOOL YEAR, WE HAD NEW STATE STANDARDS IN SOCIAL STUDIES.
WE, AS A DISTRICT HAS KIND OF CHOSEN, BUT NOT ADHERENCE THAT IS NOT ACCOUNTABLE.
FOR EXAMPLE, FOURTH GRADES, WHAT FATE IS.
SO UTILIZING THE STATE STANDARD THAT IS GOING TO BE ASSESSED AT, BUT WE'RE LETTING OUR TEACHERS AT OTHER LEVELS UTILIZE THE NEW STANDARDS COMING IN, BUT THE STATE DID NOT FUND THE MATERIALS, THE TEXTBOOKS GRADE.
SO YOU GENERALLY HAVE A SAFE OF FIVE TO SIX YEARS FOR A TEXTBOOK, AND YOU ALSO HAVE A LIFE EXPECT TO STAY WITHIN THE MEDIA CENTER OF UP TO 11 YEARS ARE BOOKS ON THE SHELF.
UH, THE SECOND ISSUE THAT I WAS INTERESTED IN THAT, UH, DR.
CHAVEZ ADDRESS WAS ELECTRONIC DIGITAL BOOKS.
AND THE REASON I BROUGHT THAT UP IS I WAS WORKING AT A BOARDING SCHOOL, HIGH SCHOOL BOARDING SCHOOL, AND THAT SCHOOL, UH, GAVE ALL ITS STUDENTS LAPTOPS, AND THEY WERE IN THE PROCESS OF GOING TO COMPLETELY DIGITAL BOOKS.
UM, I THINK THAT'S APPROPRIATE FOR HIGH SCHOOL.
SO YOU KNOW, THAT THAT'S NOT APPROPRIATE.
I DON'T THINK FOR SO MANY SCHOOL SO LONG, BUT FOR HIGH SCHOOL, IT WAS.
AND THE REASON THEY DID THAT, THE BUSINESS OFFICER SHOWED ME HIS ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF IT WAS CHEAPER.
IT WAS MUCH CHEAPER THAN SHIPPING, STORING, REPLACING TEXTBOOKS ON THIS.
THIS IS A VERY WEALTHY DISTRICT.
SO I, I WAS AMAZED THAT HE EVEN CARED, BUT THE STUDENTS REALLY LIKED IT FOR A COUPLE OF REASONS.
UH, NUMBER ONE, WE HAD LIGHTS OUT.
IT WAS A BOARDING SCHOOL AND THEY COULD STILL DO THEIR WORK.
YOU CAN TAKE IT LIVE UP THERE.
IT WAS SCREEN SECONDLY, A SOFT, THE SOFTWARE THAT THEY USED HAD THE ABILITY TO HIGHLIGHT.
IT HAD THE ABILITY TO, WHEN YOU SAW THE BOOK, YOU COULD SEE WHAT PREVIOUS PEOPLE HAD HIGHLIGHTED.
SO IT'S LIKE WHEN I WAS IN COLLEGE, I ALWAYS BOUGHT USED BOOKS.
NOT ONLY BECAUSE THEY WERE CHEAPER, BUT BECAUSE THEY WERE ALREADY HIGHLIGHTED.
SO I COULD JUST GO TO THOSE CORPORATE STUFF.
AND OF COURSE, IF THEY DID THAT, UM, IT'S ALSO WONDERFUL.
IF YOU ARE TAKING A SHAKESPEARE, YOU GOT TO READ SHAKESPEARE AND YOU HAVE ARCHAIC ENGLISH WORDS, YOU CAN TAP ON IT AND IT TELLS YOU WHAT THAT WORD MEANS.
SO IN PREPARATION FOR THIS, I, I WENT TO ONLINE AND TOOK A LOOK AT WHAT ARE THE PROBLEMS WITH ELECTRONIC BOOKS.
AND THIS IS WHAT I CAME UP WITH, UH, ONLINE, IT'S CHEAPER TO REPLACE A BOOK THAN A TABLET.
WELL, I THINK WHEN THAT WAS WRITTEN, IT MIGHT'VE BEEN TRUE.
UH, TABLETS ALLOW KIDS SHORTCUTS.
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THE REAL WORLD OF HOW YOU SHOW CUTS.AREN'T WE NOT TEACHING? YOU KNOW, IT'S LIKE MY SON HAD TO DO, TAKE HIS, A BAR EXAM ON A BLUE BOOK WITHOUT HAVING ANY REFERENCE MATERIAL.
NOW IN A COURT ROOM, YOU HAVE YOUR LAPTOP AND YOU CAN BRING IT ON.
SO IT'S OUR CAKE, UH, TEXTBOOKS ARE STRONGER THAN TABLETS IN THE ARMY.
WE USED TO GIVE OUT MANUALS, FIELD MANUALS, TECHNICAL MANUALS.
AND MY ONE COURSE THAT I WAS IN CHARGE OF, IT WAS THREE FEET HIGH.
HE HAD A HOUSING AT OUR MOVING ALLOWANCE.
WE HAD 200 POUNDS OF INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIAL THAT WE COULD MOVE.
BEFORE I LEFT, WE WERE GIVING HIM A LAPTOP AND HAD EVERYTHING IN THERE.
SO IT WAS MUCH CHEAPER AND IT WAS MUCH BETTER UTILIZED BECAUSE YOU COULD QUICKLY KIND GIVE MATERIAL.
LASTLY, TEXTBOOKS DO NOT CAUSE DISTRACTIONS.
NOW, WHEN I READ THESE OBJECTIONS, I THOUGHT I COULD GO BACK A HUNDRED YEARS FROM NOW A YEARS AGO AND SEE THE SAME THING ABOUT, UH, MY BUGGY HORSE BESSY AND THE HORSE OF THIS CARRIAGE.
AND SO ELECTRONIC TEXTBOOKS ARE THE FUTURE.
AND WE NEED TO START THINKING ABOUT THE ECONOMIC AND, AND COST ANALYSIS OF WHEN WE MAKE THAT SWITCH AND TO WHO WE'VE MADE THAT SWITCH, BECAUSE MY TWO GRANDSONS ARE IN HIGH SCHOOL.
IF YOU'VE EVER LIFTED UP THEIR BACKPACKS, YOU KNOW, IT'S DIFFERENT THAN WE WERE IN SCHOOL.
WE HAD MORE TIME BETWEEN CLASSES.
WE WENT TO OUR LOCKER AND WE GOT ONE BOOK OUT.
AND IF YOU'VE CARRIED MORE THAN TWO BOOKS IN THE HALLWAY, YOU WERE A NERD.
SO, YOU KNOW, YOU HAD ONE BOOK NOW, THEY DON'T GO TO THERE.
THEY HAVE IT IN THEIR BACKPACK.
AND YOU KNOW, WHEN I LOOK AT THAT, I THINK, YOU KNOW, STONE AGE, WE'RE STILL BACK IN THE OLD DAYS.
SO THAT'S WHY I ASKED THAT AND YOU COVERED IT EXTREMELY WELL.
UM, BUT THAT'S SOMETHING AS A BOARD AND STRATEGIC OUTLOOK IN THE FUTURE WE SHOULD BE COGNIZANT OF IS OUR TEXTBOOK POLICY IS VERY GOOD, BUT NOW HOW DO WE PAY FOR KEEP UP STORE SHIP STILL ON TEXTBOOKS, BECAUSE THAT DOES WE'LL HAVE SOME, UH, ECONOMIC IMPACT POINT OF ORDER, MADAM CHAIR, UH, NUMBER ONE, WOULD YOU ASK THE SPEAKERS TO TAKE OFF THEIR MASKS? THEY ARE MUFFLED WHEN THEY TALK, UH, THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A PERSON AT THE D EFC AND A PERSON SPEAKING ON ZOOM REMOTELY IS STARTLING.
PLEASE ASK THEM TO TAKE OFF THEIR MASKS JUST WHILE THEY'RE SPEAKING.
NUMBER TWO WAS THE APPROVED AGENDA FOR YESTERDAY.
WAS THE AGENDA FOR TODAY APPROVED YESTERDAY? YES.
WHAT WAS THE EXIGENT CIRCUMSTANCE DECLARED WHEN VOTING TO, UM, RE UH, TO MOVE THE ITEMS ON THE AGENDA FORWARD IN TIME? THE REASON I ASK IS THAT ATTORNEY MCFADDEN WHEN GIVING US OUR WORKSHOP IN AUGUST SAID THAT WHEN YOU HAVE YOUR TIMES ON THE AGENDA THAT YOU POST, IT IS A FOIL VIOLATION.
IF YOU CHANGE THOSE TIMES, AND IF YOU, YOU CAN CHANGE THE TIMES, BUT IF YOU TIME CHANGE IT AFTER THE AGENDA IS APPROVED, YOU NEED TO DECLARE ACCORDING TO THE LAW AND EXIGENT CIRCUMSTANCE.
AND SHE GAVE US AN EXAMPLE THAT A BOARD CHANGED THE AGENDA, UH, AGENDA, UH, NIGHT BEFORE AN ELECTION TO INCLUDE AN ITEM THAT HAD TO BE ON THE BOOKS TO BE CONSIDERED IN THE ELECTION.
AND THE COURT SAID, THAT'S NOT A GOOD EXCUSE.
SO I THINK SOMEBODY CANCELING OUT, UH, AND THEN RE ARRANGING THE AGENDA MAY QUALIFY AS A VOYA VIOLATION.
SO I ASK AGAIN, WHAT WAS THE EXIGENT CIRCUMSTANCE TO, BY THE CHAIR AND PRESIDING A LITTLE BIT, THIS CHANGE TO THE AGENDA.
I ASKED WHAT THE WILL OF THE BOARD WAS.
AND THE BOY YOU WERE NOT PRESENT FOR THE DISCUSSION, I DON'T BELIEVE.
AND THE BOARD DECIDED THIS WAS THE BEST
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WAY TO HANDLE THE AGENDA IN A TIMELY, EFFICIENT MANNER.AND I WOULD SAY TO MY FELLOW MEMBERS, IT'S UP TO YOU, WHETHER YOU TAKE OFF YOUR MASK OR NOT, WE HAVE MADAM CHAIR, THIS IS CLEARLY A VIOLATION OF THE LAW.
SO YOU ARE THE PRESIDING OFFICER.
STRATOSE, I'M SO GRATEFUL THAT YOU GAVE A SHOUT OUT TO OUR MEDIA CENTER SPECIALIST.
UH, THEY OFTEN ARE UNSELLING HERE ROPES, AND THEY DO PROVIDE A VAST ARRAY OF SERVICES TO, UH, STAFF AND FACULTY, FACULTY, UM, ONE BEING THE DISCUS PROGRAM THAT YOU REFERENCED ON PAGE 12, THAT THAT DISCUS PROGRAM IS, UM, IS ALSO HIGHLY THAT IT'S A GREAT PROGRAM AND THE MEDIA SPECIALISTS, YOU KNOW, WHAT WE'RE DONE, UM, TO MR. SMITH'S POINT, I JUST WANTED TO SUGGEST PERHAPS ANOTHER AVENUE WHERE LITERATURE AND BOOKS ARE OFTEN REVIEWED AND SUGGESTED.
UM, MANY OF OUR SCHOOLS HAVE LITERACY COACHES THEY HAVE, AND THOSE LITERACY COACHES OFTEN RECOMMEND A PARTICULAR SUPPORTING MATERIALS FOR A UNIT OF STUDY, UM, AS, AS WELL AS, UM, SOME OF OUR HIGH SCHOOLS HAVE ELA DEPARTMENT HEADS AND, UH, ELA DEPARTMENT THROUGH THE DEPARTMENT HEAD MIGHT VET A CERTAIN BOOK THAT MIGHT BE USED FOR PARTICULAR STUDY.
SO, SO, YOU KNOW, TO YOUR POINT, YES, THE INSTRUCTIONAL LEADER IS THE PRINCIPAL, BUT THERE CERTAINLY ARE OTHER PEOPLE IN THE BUILDING THAT, THAT DO SOME DEEP DIVES INTO THE THANK YOU, MR. MEL CAMPBELL.
TALK A BIT ABOUT TEXTBOOKS TO WILL'S QUESTION.
YOU KNOW, I'M SURE WE DON'T ANSWER THAT OFTENTIMES DEPENDS ON, ON A PARTICULAR SCHOOLS AND WHAT THEY, WHAT THEY GOING TO VOTE ON.
I THINK LAST YEAR, WE DID HAVE OUR EXCEPTION TO THE RULE OF TERMS OF TEXTBOOKS AS THE OPTION A THEY ASKED FOR, OR AN EXCEPTION THAT USE A DIFFERENT BOOK.
BUT, UM, GENERALLY SCHOOLS, YOU KNOW, WHEN I WAS IN THE SCHOOL, BUT IT WAS A LONG TIME AGO.
BUT FOR EXAMPLE, AS A MATH TEACHER WHO MIGHT BE TEACHING TWO OR THREE SUBJECTS OF THE SAME CONTENT ALGEBRA ONE, THREE TIMES, I MIGHT JUST GET ONE SET OF ALGEBRA ONE BOOK BECAUSE TODAY THAT THE GUYS POINT, ALL OF THOSE BOOKS COME WITH WITH ONLINE SUPPORT, INCLUDING THE ENTIRE BOOK.
AND THAT'S BEEN A DIRECTION, I DON'T KNOW WHERE THEY ARE NOW BECAUSE IT, NEW PRINCIPAL BASED PACE OF CHANGE.
I DON'T KNOW WHERE THE HIGH SCHOOL AS I WAS GOING TO BE.
WE'RE MINIMIZING HOW MANY HARD COPIES OF BOOKS WE COULD GET, BECAUSE THE STORY HAD THE TURN AROUND.
IT WAS JUST LOSE THE BOOKS AS OPPOSED TO HAVING A CLASSROOM SET WHERE YOU DON'T HAVE ACCESS AS A BOOK, BUT AT HOME, YOU KNOW, IF YOU DO TAKE A BOOK HOME FINE, BUT BOTTOM LINE IS, MOST OF THE STUDENTS DOES HAVE ACCESS TO THAT BOOK ON THE COMPUTER.
WE NEED TO INVESTIGATE AND LOOK AT BECAUSE IT IS AN EXPENSIVE ENTITY WITH THE STATE.
YOU KNOW, THAT'S A BIG WEAPON DRI OF, OF TURNOVERS IN TERMS OF DOLLARS.
HOW MANY OF YOU SHIPPED OUT, ET CETERA, ET CETERA, AND YOU KNOW, ALL THE TIME, I'M SURE THE PUBLISHERS THEY'RE ON TARGET WITH THE MOVEMENT TOO.
I'M SURE WE COULD BE CUTTING HIS SPEECH AS OPPOSED TO MR. GALLON, UH, DR.
UM, WE'LL, I'M SORRY IF MY QUESTION IS REDUNDANT TO YOU GUYS.
UM, BUT I JUST WANT TO HONE IN ON A CERTAIN POINT, DR.
STRATUS, UM, AS FAR AS, LET ME ASK ABOUT HISTORY COURSES.
UH, ARE, CAN YOU STATE, CAN ANYONE STATE CATEGORICALLY THAT STUDENTS IN MAY RIVER HIGH SCHOOL IN BLUFFTON HIGH SCHOOL, IN HILTON HEAD HIGH SCHOOL AND BUFORD HIGH SCHOOL AND EARLY BRANCH, UH, WHALE BRANCH ARE BEING TAUGHT EXACTLY
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THE SAME HISTORY.IF WE CAN'T DECLARE THAT THEY'RE ALL USING THE SAME TEXTBOOK, ARE WE CERTAIN THAT THEY'RE BEING TAUGHT THE SAME FUNDAMENTAL CAUSE AND EFFECT OF HISTORY? MR. DALEY HAS A PRIOR HISTORY TEACHER AND, UM, PRIOR PRINCIPAL FOR HIGH SCHOOL AND MIDDLE SCHOOL, MY SOCIAL STUDIES DEPARTMENT WOULD PROBABLY BE THE MOST ARGUMENTATIVE GROUP OF INDIVIDUALS OR PROSPECTED IN HISTORY.
SO THAT'S WHERE I HAVE TO PUT IT TO SAY THAT OUR TEACHERS SHOULD BE ALIGNED TO THE STANDARDS BECAUSE TRYING TO ALIGN.
AND I'M JUST, I'LL SAY, 40 HISTORY TEACHERS ONTO THE SAME CONCEPT AND SAME PERSPECTIVE TO APPROACH A CAUSE AND EFFECT AS, AS YOU FOSTERED, WE PROBABLY WOULD HAVE 40 DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE BECAUSE EACH ONE WILL BE BRILLIANT AT THEIR PRACTICE.
AND I MEAN THAT WITH THE GREATEST RESPECT TO OUR EDUCATORS, BECAUSE WE TAKE A LOT OF PRIDE AT WHAT WE STUDIED IN OUR FOCI AREA IN HISTORY.
BUT WHAT I WILL SAY IN THE AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY AND THIS CASE U S HISTORY, THERE SHOULD BE A VERY TIGHT ALIGNMENT BECAUSE THAT IS AN ACCOUNTABILITY AREA, ESPECIALLY AT THE HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL, TIED TO THE REPORT PART SYSTEM BY THE STATE THAT I AM VERY RATHER CONFIDENT THAT THE PRINCIPALS KEEP A TIMELINE FOR TODAY.
UM, SO THEN WE CAN POTENTIALLY, THERE'S A POTENTIAL FOR 40 DIFFERENT CAUSES OF THE CIVIL WAR TO BE UTTERED, OR IS THAT AN EXAGGERATION I WOULD SAY WOULD BE PROBABLY NO DIFFERENT THAN IF I ASKED INDIVIDUALS IN THE ROOM I'M IN RIGHT NOW, I MAY HAVE POTENTIALLY, UM, 10, 10 OR 12 DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES.
MINE WOULD BE TIED TO MY EDUCATION, MY OWN RESEARCH VERSUS SEEING THE NEXT TEAM LEAD PROBABLY TIED TO THEIR OWN AND THEIR OWN RESEARCH AND PERSPECTIVE.
BUT THAT'S THE IDEA OF EDUCATION THEY MIGHT GET STAND AND GIVE YOU A CAUSE AND EFFECT AND PROVIDE THE DOCUMENTATION TO SUPPORT MY HYPOTHESIS OF PRACTICE.
HOPING THAT THAT IS A PRACTICE THAT WE'RE ABLE TO FORWARD.
SO WHEN WE SPEAK ABOUT CAUSE AND EFFECT, WE ALSO LOOK AT THINGS, THE MAT, THE MAGICALLY IN HISTORY AND WHAT LET'S SAY THE SUBJECT MATTER WE WERE DISCUSSING IN HERE THIS MORNING, UM, MAN, MAN VERSUS MAN, RIGHT.
YOU KNOW, WHAT IS THE CAUSE AND EFFECT THAT MAN GOES AFTER MAN, AS AN, ESPECIALLY AS IT RELATES TO THANK YOU, DOCTOR.
EXAMPLE IS WHEN PEOPLE OBSERVED A CAR ACCIDENT, THEY ALSO OBSERVE IT DIFFERENTLY IF THEY SAW ME.
THE SAY INCIDENT, I MEAN, SOMEONE IN THE DISTRICT, YOU'RE NEVER GOING TO HAVE EXACTLY THE SAME INTERPRETATION OF HISTORY BY EVERY SINGLE INDIVIDUAL.
THEN IS THE QUESTION RAISES IS THE QUESTION OF HOW WE EDUCATE STUDENTS.
IT SHOULD BE GIVEN A CERTAIN PERSPECTIVE AND, AND, AND GAIN FROM THAT PERSPECTIVE AND AUGMENT IT WITH THE STUDY AND FURTHER UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT IT REALLY WAS.
A LOT OF TIMES, GOOD STUDENTS REFLECT BACK.
AND 20 YEARS LATER, THAT'S WHAT THE TEACHER WAS TALKING ABOUT.
THEY DIDN'T TELL ME THAT, BUT FROM THAT, I GOT THIS.
AND THAT'S WHAT THAT'S REALLY EDUCATING, PARTICULARLY WHEN IT COMES TO HISTORY IS BECAUSE IT'S AN EVOLVING THING I WOULD CALL BACK IN THE SEVENTIES.
YOU KNOW, WE WERE RESTRICTED FROM LOOKING AT A MOVIE LIKE, UH, CALLED ME MR. DUES.
AND I WAS A WOMAN, A BLACK MAN, AND THE COMING TO THE SOUTH AS A SHERIFF AND IN THE NINETIES, THE CLASSROOM WAS RESTRICTED FROM DOING THE RIGHT THING.
BUT TODAY ALL OF THOSE THINGS ARE JUST COMMON THEMES OF THE CLASSROOMS. SO THAT'S EVOLVE.
UM, UM, MR. GRIER, ADD TO THAT A MINUTE.
SOCIAL SCIENCE IS AN OXYMORON, BUT IT'S NOT SCIENCE.
IT IS INTERPRETATION, BUT IT NEEDS TO BE BALANCED AND ALL, ALL, UH, VIEWS SHOULD BE LOOKED AT AND EVALUATED BASED ON YOUR OWN PERSONAL BACKGROUND AND YOUR OWN
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VALUE SYSTEM.OR THERE ARE SOME THINGS THAT ARE, THAT ARE ABSOLUTE, ARE KIND OF SCIENCE.
YOU KNOW, THE DATE OF WHEN THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE WAS SIGNED, THAT'S A SCIENCE, BUT CAUSE BEHIND IT, IF NOT, SO THAT THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT WE HAVE TO REALIZE.
WHEN WE LOOK AT ESPECIALLY HISTORY ECONOMICS, UH, ALL OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES, YOU CANNOT SAY, THIS IS THE ONLY WAY YOU TEACH.
THIS IS THE ONLY THING THAT YOU TEACH BECAUSE IT'S NOT A SCIENCE, IT'S NOT COMPLETE, YOU CAN'T PROVE SOMETHING OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
SO, UM, I GLAD WE HAVE ACADEMIC FREEDOM.
I'M GLAD THAT WE HAVE TEACHERS THAT ARE GOING TO TEACH THINGS IN DIFFERENT WAYS SO THAT STUDENTS HEAR DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES.
THAT'S EDUCATION SUPPOSED TO BE DOING DR.
I DON'T HAVE MUCH, MUCH TO ADD.
I JUST WANT TO PIGGYBACK ON WHAT KIND OF VIRUS SAID THAT.
AND I, AND I THINK THAT MR. DALLIN RAISES A REALLY INTERESTING EXAMPLE AROUND, I THINK PARTICULARLY FOR OUR HISTORY TEACHERS, SOME OF THE CHALLENGES THAT ARE, THAT THEY ARE PRESENTED, IF YOU TAKE THE SPECIFIC QUESTION OF WHAT ARE THE CAUSES OR WHAT WERE THE CAUSES OF THE CIVIL WAR.
WHAT'S INTERESTING ABOUT THAT.
AND I THINK IT KIND OF PROVES OUT MBE ASSESSMENTS THAT OUR STICK THAT OUR STUDENTS ARE GIVEN IS THAT THERE ARE GENERALLY, THERE'S NOT GENERALLY ONE PERSPECTIVE ABOUT THAT, RIGHT? AND I THINK IF, IF OUR SCHOOLS ARE TEACHING OUR KIDS, THAT THERE IS A CAUSE TO A PARTICULAR THING THAT, THAT ALMOST KIND OF AMOUNTS TO INDOCTRINATION.
WHAT WE WANT IS FOR OUR KIDS TO HAVE INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM AND ACADEMIC FREEDOM TO REACH THEIR OWN CONCLUSIONS ABOUT A PARTICULAR THING.
AND I THINK WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE STANDARDS THAT OUR KIDS ARE TAUGHT, UH, OR THAT THEY ARE ASSESSED AGAINST, THEY ACTUALLY REFLECT THAT IT'S NOT AS MUCH ANY MORE FACTS, FACTS, OR FACTUAL RECALL.
SHADOWS MENTIONED A LITTLE BIT EARLY IN HER PRESENTATION, ALL LEVEL TWO LEVEL THREE, AND PREFECT UP, UH, AN ANALYSIS AND COMPARE AND CONTRAST, AND FOR KIDS TO BE ABLE TO BRING THEIR OWN INDIVIDUAL PERSPECTIVES BASED ON THEIR OWN INTERPRETATIONS OF WHAT THEY'VE BEEN TAUGHT.
SO I THINK THAT WHAT IS WHAT MAKES TEACHING THE PRACTICE OF TEACHING, UM, SO HONORABLE, AND I THINK IT ALSO SPEAKS TO WHAT MAKES IT SO INCREDIBLY DIFFICULT THESE DAYS AS WELL.
UH, MR. JONES, AND I JUST WANT TO SHARE THIS, MRS.
WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT, EXCUSE ME, CRITERIA WHEN EDUCATED AND WHAT I MEAN BY THAT IS IF WE WANTED TO GET DOWN TO THE ROOT CAUSE OF SOMETHING AS AN EDUCATOR, I WOULD HAVE BEST PRACTICE WOULD BE IS THAT WE WOULD HAVE OUR CHILDREN DO SOME RESEARCH, BRING YOUR INFORMATION TO THE TABLE AND FIND A COMMON COMMONALITY AMONGST THE CLASSROOM AND BUILD UPON THAT.
I HAVE TO SAY THAT THAT PRACTICE IS ACTUALLY NOT HAPPENING THROUGH THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA AND WHEREAS CALLED DBQ, WHO'S NOT BEEN FED BASED QUESTIONS.
AND AGAIN, I FEEL LIKE I'M PROMOTING THE DEPARTMENT OF ED HERE, BUT THEIR DBQ FOR WEBSITE IS PHENOMENAL.
I WENT IN LOOKING WITH ONE QUESTION.
I SPENT TWO DAYS A WEEKEND IN GROSS LOOKING AT THE PHENOMENAL RESOURCES AND WHERE YOU GO AS AN EDUCATOR.
SO OUR TEACHERS ARE BEING TRAINED TO WORK WITH THAT DIFFERENT DIFFERENCE, BUT WE'RE TRAINING OUR CHILDREN TO BRING THAT DOCUMENT BASED INFORMATION, TO SUPPORT MY IDEAS TO THE TABLE.
AND I THINK THAT IS CRITICAL BECAUSE THOSE ARE THE SKILLS WE WANT OUR CHILDREN TO HAVE.
WE SAILED THE OCEAN BLUE AND I CAN GET INTO A WHOLE CONVERSATION IN COLUMBUS IS GOOD AND DEFINITELY HIS BAD.
WE WANT OUR CHILDREN TO BE THINKERS AND BE ABLE TO GET TO CANCER.
SO I JUST WANTED TO SHARE THE DBQ OPPORTUNITY.
IT IS AGAIN, AND I DIDN'T GIVE YOU THAT AS LIKE SOMETHING TO TAKE A LOOK AT GREAT JOB AT THE STATE LEVEL, MR. DARLIN.
UH, WE TALK ABOUT ACADEMIC FREEDOM.
THE CRITICAL THINKING, UH, A NINTH GRADER IS MORE IMPRESSIONABLE THAN FRESHMEN IN COLLEGE.
AND, UH, STUDENTS IN HIGH SCHOOL, EVEN UP IN HIGH SCHOOL CAN VIEW A TEACHER AS AN AUTHORITY FIGURE AND GIVE THEM MORE CREDIT TO WHAT THEY SAY THAN A
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SOPHOMORE OR A JUNIOR OR IN COLLEGE WHO MIGHT BE BETTER EQUIPPED TO CRITICALLY ANALYZE WHAT THEY'RE SAYING.MY QUESTION IS HOW DOES, HOW, WHAT, I'M SORRY, I GUESS THAT WAS JUST ENOUGH BACKGROUND NOISE.
UM, WHEN A PRINCIPAL GETS A COMPLAINT FROM A PARENT OR AN SIC SAYING, WE DON'T THINK A TEACHER SHOULD BE TEACHING FISH, HOW IS THAT HANDLED? UM, AND, AND I'LL BE, I'LL BE HONEST.
I BELIEVE THAT PARENTS AND
SO WHAT'D YOU TELL ME IF I CALLED UP A PRINCIPAL AND SAY, I DON'T THINK THAT TEACHER X SHOULD BE TEACHING THIS AS A CAUSE OF THE CIVIL WAR.
HOW IS THAT HANDLED? SO MR. DOWNEY, YOU BRING OVER TO ACTUALLY TWO ITEMS. ONE UNDER THE LAW COMPULSIVE TORY LAW IS FOR A STUDENT TO BE A STUDENT, MUST BE EDUCATED FROM KINDERGARTEN THROUGH 12TH GRADE, RIGHT? SO WE HAVE A CAPTIVE AUDIENCE.
IT'S THE LANGUAGE THAT THE LAW UTILIZES WE'VE RECOGNIZED THAT AS SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS.
SO ONE OF THE TOOLS WE HAVE AS AN ADMINISTRATOR IS NUMBER ONE, EVERY RELATIONSHIP WITH YOU OR EDUCATOR SECOND SCHOOL WE HAVE IS THAT, THAT OPPORTUNITY OF FREQUENTLY GOING AROUND OUR CLASSROOMS IN ORDER TO MAINTAIN, RIGHT, THIS IS WHAT WE'RE DOING WITHIN OUR SCHOOL.
WHEN A PARENT CALLS AND SAYS, MARY SHOULD NOT BE EDUCATED X, Y, AND Z.
I CAN'T SHARE HOW EVERY PRINCIPAL HAS DONE IT.
I CAN SHARE THE PRACTICES THAT I RECOMMEND, AND I'M SURE DR.
BRADLEY COULD SPEAK ON THIS BECAUSE HE IS OUR CHEAPER SCHOOLS, BUT WE WANT TO BE ABLE TO FIND HIM, WAS THAT A STANDARD SPACE LESSON, IF IT'S SOMETHING AT ADVANCED PLACEMENT OR AN INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE, THE QUESTION WILL BE WHAT CRITERION OR UNIT OF STUDY WAS BEING PRESENTED.
AND AGAIN, IF I SAID, NUMBER ONE WAS OUR RELATIONSHIP THAT YOU AND I HAVE WITH EACH OTHER.
SO YOU COULD BRING BOTH THAT INFORMATION TO ME TO HAVE THAT THERE MAY BE SOMETHING CONTROVERSIAL.
I SAID, PARENTS AT THE SCHOOL SITE, WE AS ADMINISTRATORS HAVE APPRENTICE, LOW FEES WHERE WE HAVE LOCAL JURISDICTION TO THE PRACTICE.
SO YES, HE WAS A PARENT AT OUR SIC MAY SHARE YOUR PERSPECTIVE ON NO, I DON'T THINK THIS SHOULD BE TAUGHT, BUT IT IS WITHIN THE SCOPE OF THE STANDARD AND SOMETHING THAT HAS BEEN APPROVED AND NOT CONTROVERSIAL TO A LEVEL THAT IS NOT GREAT APPROPRIATE.
AND I READ THERE'S A LEGAL CASE WITH REGARD TO AN ENGLISH TEACHER, WE UTILIZE THE WORD, UH, AN INAPPROPRIATE WORD, DESCRIBING A CHARACTER.
THE CASE CAME AGAINST THEM BECAUSE THE GRADE LEVEL UTILIZE IT, THAT WORD WAS INAPPROPRIATE, RIGHT? THE LOOK, THE SUMMARY OF THAT CASE CAME, SHOULD THAT HAVE BEEN EITHER AT A COLLEGE LEVEL OR MAYBE AT AN 11TH OR 12TH GRADE CLASS MAY HAVE BEEN MORE APPROPRIATE FOR USE OF TRAIT.
SO AGAIN, TO SAY APPROPRIATENESS FOR THE USE OF CERTAIN ITEMS IN THE CLASSROOM.
I, UH, I'M ALWAYS VERY CAUTIOUS.
I DID SUBSTANTIAL WORK IN MASSACHUSETTS ABOUT IMPLEMENTING THE CONCEPT OF SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT COUNCILS BACK IN THE 19, WHEN IT, UH, EDUCATION WAS REFORM ACT WAS PASSED IN MASSACHUSETTS.
AND, UH, I HAD MANY INSTANCES WHERE THE, UH, SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT COUNCILS WHO STUDIOS A SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT PLAN, UH, MANAGED TO TRY TO INSERT ITSELF INTO THE DAY TO DAY OPERATIONS AND DECISIONS OF THE, UH, OF THE SCHOOL.
AND I ALSO LEARNED THAT THERE'S A POLITICAL DYNAMIC WHERE THE PRINCIPAL DEPENDS ON NSIC FOR CERTAIN SUPPORTS IN THE COMMUNITY AND, UH, CAN SOMETIMES BE OVERLY INFLUENCED BY THE SIC, EVEN IF THEY'RE STEPPING OUT OF THE BOUNDS OF THEIR CHARTER.
SO I'M, I'M VERY SENSITIVE TO, UM, TO HOW COMPLAINTS ABOUT CURRICULUM ARE HANDLED.
IF WE, WE MEANING THE ADMINISTRATION AND THE BOARD FEEL THAT THE, UH, CURRICULUM IS APPROPRIATE.
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ALL RIGHT.CAN I ASK YOU, UH, THE SECOND TIME YOU PLAY, YOU COME IN AT THAT IB OR ADVANCED PLACEMENT, BASICALLY, YOU SAID THEY CAN GO BEYOND WHAT IS STANDARD TERMS OF APPROPRIATENESS, BUT YOU ALLOW THEM KIND OF
IS THAT A PRACTICE OR IS THAT AN EXCEPTION ACADEMICALLY I'D HAVE A DIFFERENCE WITH THAT.
MAY I RESPOND? SO THE ADVANCED PLACEMENT CLASSES ACTUALLY HAVE A SPECIFIC SYLLABUS THAT IS UTILIZED PUT OUT THROUGH COLLEGE BOARD, SO THAT I MENTIONED MORE IN THAT CONTEXT AND SAME WITH THEM, AN IB COURSE, UM, EITHER PAM THE MIDDLE YEARS PROGRAM OR THE PRIMARY, WHERE THERE ARE CRITERIA THAT ARE UTILIZE AND YOU MUST BE GOOD TO WRITE PERIOD ASSESS FOR A YEAR.
AND AT THE HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL, THE, THE LEVEL, THEY AGAIN HAVE A SYLLABUS THAT IS TIED TO THAT COURSE TO, TO THAT COURSE.
SO I MEANT THAT BOARD'S A DISCLAIMER BECAUSE THEY MAY NOT BE ALIGNED TO THE SCOPE AND SEQUENCE THAT IS UTILIZED IN OUR US HISTORY COURSE, BECAUSE IB HAS HISTORY OF THE AMERICAS, JEREMY, A CHILD THAT WELL, GENERALLY A TEACHER IS GOING TO BE TEACHING WHAT WE CALL HOT POT, THAT HISTORY OF THE AMERICAS.
AND YOU MAY ASK THAT TEACHER, OH, WELL, YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE KIDS WHO NEED TO BE ASSESSED FOR U S HISTORY.
THAT TEACHER ENDS UP PICKING UP TWO SCOPE AND SEQUENCES TO INTEGRATE WITH EACH OTHER BECAUSE HISTORY OF THE AMERICAS SYLLABUS MAY NOT HAVE THE SAME STANDARDS THAT WE MAY HAVE HERE IN THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA.
AND I SHARE THAT BECAUSE THE INDUSTRY OF THE AMERICA'S WRITTEN FROM A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE AND THE IMPACT OF THE AMERICA TO THE WORLD, VERSUS WHAT WE STUDY HISTORY OF THE AMERICAS, WE STUDY IT FROM A MUCH MORE AMERICAN PERSPECTIVE.
SO THAT'S WHERE I MESSED FOR MR. CAMPBELL.
YEAH, BECAUSE I DON'T WANT, I DON'T WANT TO TIE THAT HISTORY TEACHER IN STANDARD BASED TOOLS TO KNOW, EXPANDING TO WHAT IT WOULD BE.
IB CONCEPT JUST DOESN'T MEASURE THE MEASURES THAT I'D BE TEACHING IT, SOME STUDENT THAT I B HOW DOES THAT STUDENT CROSS REFERENCE WHAT THEY'RE LEARNING? IT I'D BE WHERE IT IS.
WHAT IS THAT? I MEAN, THAT'S MY MIND, THAT'S AN EXPANSION THAT WE DON'T WANT TO RESTRICT.
AND EVEN WITH THE SECOND PART OF THAT COURSE, FOR EXAMPLE, IT'S CONTEMPORARY AMERICAS IS THAT TEACHER ACTUALLY GOES ALL THE WAY UP TO THE VIETNAM WAR, WHICH MOST TEXTBOOKS DON'T EVEN GO THAT FAR.
WE TAKE IT, OUR CHILDREN I'LL JUST ADD REAL QUICK.
UM, ONE OF THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN AN IB AND, AND, AND NOT IB COURSES IS THAT THERE'S A LOT OF CURRICULUM INTEGRATION AND BE A CONNECTS TO MULTIPLE DISCIPLINES.
AND SO YOU MIGHT VERY WELL SELECT A DIFFERENT TEXTBOOK OR DIFFERENT, UM, READINGS, BECAUSE WHAT IS ACTUALLY IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE, OF THE KEY AND, OR THE DELIVERY OF THE CONTENT AND THE COURSE IS DIFFERENT.
STRATUS WAS MENTIONING THAT THERE MIGHT BE SOME DIFFERENT TEXTS THAT YOU WOULD USE IN AN IB COURSE VERSUS ANOTHER.
WELL, I'M JUST MAKING SURE THAT THE THINGS THAT THE IB COURSES ARE USING THOSE THAT, UH, THAT'S NOT A RESTRICTED ELEMENT BECAUSE IT IS IB.
I THINK WE NEED A BATHROOM BREAK AND THEN 11 O'CLOCK WILL BE ZOOM.
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BACK IN THE WORK SESSION BECAUSE THE NEXT AGENDA ITEM IS APPROVAL OF THE 20, 21 BOARD MEETING CALENDAR.AND WE HAVE THE CALENDAR FOR US.
AND, UM, WE DO NOT HAVE THE LOCATION OF THE DIFFERENT, UH, BUSINESS MEETINGS ON HERE, BECAUSE AT THIS POINT WE DON'T KNOW WHERE THE LOCATION IS GOING TO BE.
YOU'LL SEE THAT THEY'RE NOT ON THERE.
AND I WILL JUST LET BOARD MEMBERS RAISE THEIR HAND IF THEY HAVE QUESTIONS OR CONCERNS OR WHATEVER.
MR. SMITH, UM, MADAM CHAIR AT THIS TIME, UH, I WAS THINKING THAT MR. DON DID RAISE A GOOD POINT.
AND, UH, AT THIS TIME I WOULD LIKE TO, I WOULD BE THAT I WAS ON THE PREVAILING SIDE.
I WOULD LIKE TO BRING THAT FULL BACK UP.
I WOULD LIKE TO RESPOND TO THAT BECAUSE MR. DARWIN IS NOT CORRECT IN TERMS OF THE, WHAT HELLA MCFADDEN TOLD US THAT THE CHAIR NEEDS TO SAY, THERE'S AN EXIGENT CIRCUMSTANCE AND THERE NEEDS TO BE A TWO-THIRDS MAJORITY VOTE.
IF ONCE THE MEETING HAS TO BE DONE, WE'RE GOING TO ADD A FINAL ACTION, ACTION ITEM.
YOU'RE NOT ADDING ANY ITEMS. ALL WE ARE DOING IS REMOVING A PRESENTATION THAT THE PERSON CANCELED AFTER THE AGENDA WAS APPROVED.
THIS MEETING IS BEING RECORDED AND WILL BE POSTED FOR THE PUBLIC.
SO THAT'S COMPLIANCE WITH FOYER.
THEY CAN TURN THIS MEETING ON AND WATCH WHERE THEY WANT TO AND SEE EVERY SINGLE DISCUSSION.
SO THERE'S NO CHANGE IN FINAL ACTION ITEM.
SO I WILL NOT ALLOW IT TO COME BACK TO THE BOARD FOR A VOTE.
SO DO YOU HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT THE AGENDA HERE? I MEAN THE CALENDAR, UH, MADAM CHAIR, UM, YOU ARE WINNING OVER THE MEETING AND THAT'S WHAT YOU RULED AS A CHAIR.
I WILL NOT ARGUE WITH YOU, BUT, UM, I JUST WANT, MY QUESTION WOULD JUST BE TO YOU.
DO YOU HAVE THAT IN WRITING SOMEWHERE? YEAH.
I HAVE HER, I HAVE MS. MCFADDEN'S OF HER PRESENTATION WITH HIM TODAY.
I BRING IT EVERY SINGLE MEETING.
I WOULD ASK IS THAT IF YOU WILL, OFF OF WHAT YOU JUST SAID, IF YOU WILL GIVE A COPY OF THAT TO PUT IN, INTO THE RECORDS OF THE MEETING SO THAT WE CAN, SO THAT WE CAN MOVE ON.
YOU HAVE ACCESS TO IT, JUST LIKE I HAVE ACCESS TO WELL, BEING THAT YOU WERE IN THE BUILDING AND YOU WERE THERE.
ALL THEY ASKED WAS THAT W W TO, UH, NOT ONLY TO HELP THE BOARD OUT OR NOT THE WHOLE AMOUNT OF SHIT I'M TALKING ABOUT HERE, AND YOU'RE NOT GOING TO JUST CONTINUE TO SPEAK NO MADAM CHILD, VERY CALM.
ONLY THING I'M ASKING WAS IF YOU KNEW THAT YOU WERE THERE, WHAT'D YOU POSSIBLY THANK YOU.
ALL RIGHT, MR. VALLEY, I'LL CALL ON YOU.
UM, MADAM CHAIR, WE ARE DISCUSSING, WE ARE NOT, I HAVE A POINT OF ORDER.
MADAM CHAIR, MR. SMITH HAS THE RIGHT UNDER SECTION FOUR 30, 90 OF THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT TO HAVE ANY INFORMATION YOU LAUNCH PUT IN THE RECORD OF THE MINUTES.
SO IF HE'S ASKING YOU TO PUT THAT IN, IT IS NOT DEBATABLE.
AND I WANT TO RESTATE THAT IS MY BELIEF AND I, THAT WE ARE CONDUCTING AN OUTSIDE OF THE LAW AND MEETINGS.
I JUST WANT EVERYBODY TO, UH, I DON'T KNOW, I'M NOT SURE THAT ANYBODY CARES, BUT, UH, I JUST WANT YOU TO KNOW SOMEDAY SOMEBODY IS GOING TO WALK IN AND WITH CIRCUIT COURT AND PUT THIS BOARD THROUGH A RINGER ABOUT A CHATTER TO, TO US, A FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT.
THAT WAS, THAT WAS NOT MR. SMITH'S REQUEST.
SO DOES ANYBODY HAVE A QUESTION, THE, UM, THE CALENDAR AND IMPLEMENT AND WE'LL CALL ON PEOPLE WHO HAVE NOT SPOKEN, UM, OR JUST, IS THERE ANYTHING THAT'S UNUSUALLY DIFFERENT ABOUT THIS CALENDAR THAN EVERY OTHER YEAR? IT LOOKS THE SAME TO ME.
THE ONLY THING I NOTICED THAT WAS DIFFERENT.
SO OUR BUSINESS MEETINGS ARE TYPICALLY THE FIRST
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INSURANCE TUESDAY OF EVERY MONTH.I JUST NOTICED THAT OUR GRADUATIONS ARE A LITTLE DIFFERENT THERE TO AUDIT THEIR SCHEDULED.
UM, WELL, SOME OF THEM ARE SCHEDULED ON THE SAME DAY AS OPPOSED TO INDIVIDUAL DAYS.
SO SOME ARE AIMED AT P IF THEY HAVE GRADUATIONS.
AND, UM, W WAS THERE ANYTHING ELSE, ROBIN, THAT YOU CAN THINK OF THAT, UM, WAS DIFFERENT? UM, ONLY ON AUGUST 2ND WORK SESSION IT'S IN RED, BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW WHEN THE START OF SCHOOL IS.
AND SO I SUGGESTED THAT WORK SESSION BE THOSE LAST TWO DAYS OF AUGUST.
UM, ONE, BECAUSE AS A BOARD, YOU DID NOT WANT A WORK SESSION TO BE ABLE TO WEEKEND AND THEN COME IN ON TUESDAY AND HAVE A BOARD MEETING.
SO THIS WORKS SESSION IS IN BETWEEN BOARD MEETINGS.
AND IT'S ALSO THE LAST WEEKEND IN AUGUST.
I DIDN'T KNOW IF THAT IS A PROBLEM FOR ANYONE.
UM, I WAS TRYING TO GET AWAY FROM THE START OF THE SCHOOL, BUT I DON'T KNOW WHEN SCHOOL STARTS IN AUGUST.
I'M STILL, UM, MOLLY STILL, OR ROBIN STILL HAS CONTROL OF OUR, UM, AUDIO.
UM, I JUST WANTED TO REACH OUT TO INGRID VOTE RIGHT ON THIS.
SHE IS MY REPLACEMENT ON THE BOARD AND INGRID, I WOULD LIKE TO CONSIDER ANY INPUT THAT YOU MAY HAVE REGARDING THE CALENDAR AND MY VOTE TODAY AS SHE WILL INHERIT IT.
SO AT THIS MOMENT, I'M JUST GLANCING, I DON'T HAVE ANY COMMENTS AT THIS TIME, BUT IF I DO, I WILL BE CERTAIN TO ALL OF THEIR REACH OUT TO YOU IN CHAT.
I'LL CALL ON ANGELA AND, UM, INGRID AFTER THE BOARD MEMBERS, IF EITHER ANGELA INGRID WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK, JUST RAISE YOUR ELECTRONIC HAND.
BOSS NOTICES THAT THE WORK SESSION, UM, IS AN OCTOBER INSTEAD OF NOVEMBER, UM, MR. NORMALLY IN OCTOBER, EXCEPT FOR ON AN ELECTION YEAR.
AND SO WHEN WE HAVE IT IN NOVEMBER, IT IS AFTER ELECTION, SO THAT WE GET THE NEWPORT MEMBERS AN OPPORTUNITY TO COME TO THE, SO THAT'S WHY IT WORKS BETTER ANYWAY, BECAUSE THAT'S THE GREAT, THANK YOU, MR. SMITH.
UM, MS. CROSBY, THE BUDGET SESSION, UM, BUDGET WORKSHOP IN JANUARY IS YOU THINK THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO HAVE ENOUGH INFORMATION IN JANUARY.
YOU'D BE ABLE TO EVEN HAVE A BUDGET SESSION.
UM, I, I DON'T KNOW EXACTLY WHEN THIS GENERAL ASSEMBLY IS GOING INTO OR COMING OUT SESSIONS.
SO, UM, MY THOUGHTS FOR THAT, WE WOULD PROVIDE AT LEAST A CALENDAR DURING THAT BUDGET CALENDAR IN THAT DAY.
UM, WE COULD HAVE ANY DISCUSSIONS OF ANY, OR UPDATE OF ANY INFORMATION THAT THEY HAD AT THAT TIME THAT MAYBE A RATHER BRIEF DISCUSSION IF, IF THE ASSEMBLY HASN'T FINISHED.
I THINK THAT THE BUDGET SESSIONS, THE BUDGET FORUMS AND THE COUNTY COUNCIL PERSON THAT YOU'RE READING ARE VERY SOFT RIGHT NOW.
I THINK WE SHOULD LEAVE IT LIKE IT IS BECAUSE THIS IS BASED ON WHAT WE KNOW NOW, BUT REALIZE THAT THIS IS GONNA CHANGE DRASTICALLY.
UM, IT MIGHT BE HELPFUL IF WE HAVE ATTACHED.
UH, IF WE, YOU HAVE ATTACHED TO THE AGENDA, IT MIGHT BE HELPFUL IF WE HAVE THE BOARD APPROVED CALENDAR, BUDGET REVIEW TIMELINE THAT THE BOARD, UM, HAD EARLIER, UH, APPROVED JUST AS A REFERENCE.
I THINK THAT WAS LAST YEAR THAT WASN'T THIS YEAR COMING YEAR THAT WAS GONE BY.
YEAH, I THINK THAT'S A GOOD IDEA.
AND AS SOON AS YOUR BUDDY SCHEDULED WAS EXACTLY WHAT YOU SHOULD DEFINITELY
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WORK GOING INTO THIS.I MOVE THAT WE APPROVE THIS DRAFT.
SO THE MOTION WAS TO APPROVE THE DRAFT.
UH, 20, 21 WOULD HAVE EDUCATION SCHEDULED MEETING.
AND THE SECOND WAS MR. COLONEL GEIER AND ALSO JUST SPECIFICALLY CALL ON ANGELA.
DO YOU HAVE ANY, ANY COMMENTS YOU WOULD LIKE TO, UH, YES, ANGELA AND THANK YOU FOR THE WARM WELCOME.
NO, I DON'T HAVE ANY COMMENTS.
YEAH, NO, I HAVE NO, UH, NO PROBLEMS WITH THE CALENDAR DRAFT AS IT STANDS.
IF YOU'LL, UM, I NOTICED THAT WE DO A BUDGET.
I LOST MY BOARD DOCS THING HERE, UM, WAY BASICALLY A COMMUNITY MEETING, ONE AT BLUFFTON AND ONE AT BUFORT HIGH.
IS THAT SORT OF LIKE WE DO ONE SOUTH OF THE BROAD AND ONE NORTH OF THE BROAD, OR DO WE TRY TO HIT DIFFERENT DISTRICTS WITH THAT? NO, IT'S DIFFERENT FROM HAVING BEEN ON HERE FOR YEARS, IF THAT'S USUALLY THE WAY IT'S DONE, IS THAT RIGHT? I WASN'T SURE.
THAT WAS, YOU KNOW, MORE OF A HILTON HEAD ONE, OR IF WE WENT TO EACH SCHOOL INDIVIDUALLY, NO, THIS IS THE WAY IT'S BEEN DONE.
AND THIS IS A REQUIRED FOR US TO HAVE A PUBLIC READINGS LIKE THAT.
AND THAT'S CONSIDERED ONE OF THE OR PUBLIC INPUT, I GUESS.
ANY FURTHER DISCRETION VOTING IS OPEN.
I WILL BE ABSTAINING BECAUSE THIS BOAT PUTS THE BOARD OVER THE LINE INTO VIOLATION OF FOIL.
IT WAS SUPPOSED TO TAKE PLACE IN THE AFTERNOON.
IT'S NOW TAKING PLACE IN THE MORNING.
THERE WAS NO WASTAGE IN CIRCUMSTANCE AND THEREFORE THE CHAIRS EX RATIONALIZATION IS ABSOLUTELY INCORRECT AND I ABSTAIN AND THEN ABUNDANCE OF CAUTION CHAMPION TO ABSTAIN.
THE MOTION CARRIES NINE ZERO TWO AND WE HAVE THE ALLIE IN ORDER CHECK ABSTAIN.
NEXT ON THE AGENDA IS, UH, SINCE WE HAD TO, UM, EXTEND OUR NOVEMBER 10TH MEETING BUSINESS MEETING TO THE MORNING OF FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13TH, THAT MEANT THAT IT CUT INTO THE TIME OF OUR WORK SESSION.
SO OUR WORK SESSION HAS BEEN CONDENSED FROM TWO DAYS DOWN TO A DAY AND A HALF.
AND SO, UH, THE BOARD POLICIES, UH, WE NEED TO HAVE A SPECIAL CALLED MEETING TO CONTINUE THE FIRST THREE.
SO DO WE, WE HAVE QUITE, QUITE A BIT OF THE FIRST READING STILL TO GO.
WE WANT TO, UH, DO IT BEFORE THE END OF THE YEAR.
DO WE WANT TO WAIT UNTIL JANUARY WHEN OUR NEW NUMBERS WILL BE PRESENT? SO IT'S UP TO THE BOARD WITH WHAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO DO.
I THINK IT'S CRUCIAL THAT WE CONTINUE WITH OUR WORK.
AND SO I MOVE THAT WE HAVE A SPECIAL CALL BOARD MEETING TO DISCUSS, UH, FOR THE FIRST CONTINUE, THE FIRST READING OF THE, UM, POLICY MANUAL, OR JUST WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2ND.
SECOND BY MS. ROBOT, MR.
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EMAILED THE BOARD PRIOR TO TODAY'S MEETING, UM, SAYING SHE HAD A QUESTION OR A REQUEST REGARDING THE POLICY THAT PERTAINED TO THE ELECTION OF OFFICERS.AND I WOULD JUST LIKE TO ASK DR.
WAS NEVSKY WHAT THE NATURE OF THAT WAS
UM, YEAH, MY QUESTION ROUNDING.
SO I HAD ORIGINALLY THOUGHT THAT WE WERE GOING TO BE DOING A CONTINUATION OF OUR FIRST READING, UM, AT OUR WORK SESSIONS.
SO THEN WHEN I SAW THAT THE AGENDA HAD CHANGED AND WE WERE GOING TO BE DISCUSSING A DATE FOR THAT FIRST RATING, THAT'S WHEN I MADE THE, THE REQUEST FOR THERE TO BE A CONVERSATION SURROUNDING THAT POLICY.
UM, JUST BECAUSE I KNOW THAT THERE HAD BEEN SOME DISCUSSION IN THE PAST ABOUT THE PROCESS FOR ELECTING OFFICERS, NOT NECESSARILY TERMS OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT.
UM, AND I, I'M NOT SURE WHERE THAT STANDS, UH, IN REGARD TO GETTING ONTO AN AGENDA PRIOR TO JANUARY.
SO IT IS TIME SENSITIVE AND I THINK THAT WAS THE REASON FOR YOUR REQUEST.
UH, OFFICER ELECTIONS ARE, YOU KNOW, RIGHT ON TOP OF THIS RIGHT NOW.
SO IS IT SOMETHING THAT YOU CAN RAISE TODAY, UM, DUE TO THE TIME SENSITIVE OR ARE YOU AT THE MERCY OF THE OFFICERS AND WHEN THEY DECIDE TO, UH, SCHEDULE THE FIRST READING? UM, I WOULD LIKE, WELL, I'D LIKE TO, I GUESS, ASK THE OFFICERS IF THERE WAS ANY PLAN FOR THAT TO BE ON THE DECEMBER EIGHT AGENDA.
UH, I'M NOT SURE WHERE THAT STANDS RIGHT NOW.
I KNOW THAT WOULD BASICALLY BE THE ONLY OTHER TIME FOR THAT DISCUSSION.
I WOULD LIKE TO SAY THAT I CALLED DR.
WISNIEWSKI AFTER SEEING HER REQUEST AND I S Y PERMANENT, EXACTLY.
YOU KNOW, WHAT HER REQUEST WAS FOR HER TO EXPAND UPON.
AND I SAID THAT I, THAT I, I DIDN'T SEE A REASON WHY IT COULDN'T BE NONE THE DECEMBER EIGHT BUSINESS MEETING.
AND YOU SEEM TO BE VERY SATISFIED WITH THAT.
UM, AND YOU, UH, DISCUSSING ASKING ME ABOUT THE DECEMBER 8TH MEETING, AM I CORRECT? I JUST HAVEN'T SEEN AN AGENDA FOR THE DECEMBER 8TH MEETING, SO IT WASN'T POSITIVE IF IT HAD IT WON'T BE SO, RIGHT.
SO I DIDN'T KNOW IF THAT WAS COMING TO FRUITION OR NOT.
I KNOW THAT HAD BEEN, THAT WAS THE DIRECTION AND THE DISCUSSION.
I JUST HADN'T SEEN ANY FINALIZATION OF IT.
SO IF THAT'S THE DIRECTION OF IT, THEN I'M SATISFIED WITH THAT MR. SHACK.
ALL RIGHT, MR. DALLY, I WANT TO HAVE THE MEETING, BUT I CANNOT FORWARD YES OR NO, BECAUSE THE MEETING THAT WE'RE IN IS OUTSIDE OF THE LAW.
AND THEREFORE I WILL ABSTAIN, UH, MR. FENDER BACKGROUND CHURN.
IF WE SCHEDULE THIS MEETING FOR THE SECOND.
AND WHEN WE START THE FIRST READING HERE, WE CAN GO BACK TO THIS SECTION ABOUT THE ELECTION OFFICERS.
IT COULD BE DONE ON THE SECOND BECAUSE WE'RE OPENING THE DOOR TO THE FIRST REVIEW OF POLICIES.
NEVSKY CERTAINLY DIRECT US BACK TO THAT SECTION AND WE COULD DO THAT ON A SECOND.
ANYWAY, WHEN I SPOKE TO HER ON THE PHONE THIS WEEK, OBVIOUSLY WE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT THE BOARD WOULD DECIDE WHEN THAT SPECIAL CALLED MEETING WAS.
AND THAT'S WHY I SUGGESTED, WELL, YOU COULD HAVE THE CONVERSATION AT LEAST ON THAT SEPARATE BUSINESS MEETING, WHICH WOULD BE AHEAD OF THE JANUARY ONE.
AND I'M JUST POINTING THAT OUT AN ADDITIONAL REASON TO, TO VOTE THIS OFF, TO GO OVER WITH THE SECOND DOCTOR.
UM, AND IF THAT'S THE BOARD'S WORLD REVISIT AT THAT TIME, THAT'S FANTASTIC.
UM, I HAD A COMMENT IN REGARD TO MS. FREDERICK DID RICH'S, UM, MOTION HERE.
I WAS JUST WONDERING IF YOU HAD A TIME IN MIND BECAUSE I, I WILL BE, UM, TRAVELING EARLY IN THE MORNING, UM, THAT DAY FOR WORK, BUT WOULD BE AVAILABLE IN THE EVENING.
AND I THOUGHT IF WE COULD JUST GET THAT, I THOUGHT IF WE COULD JUST GET THE DATE DOWN FIRST, THEN WE COULD DECIDE WHAT TIME WORKS BEST FOR EVERYBODY.
BUT, UH, CERTAINLY YOUR INPUT IS, IS, UH, YOU KNOW, REALLY IMPORTANT.
SO I'M GOOD WITH DOING THE AFTERNOON OR EVENING.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MR. DALEY.
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IS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE UP.UM, DO YOU WANT TO SUGGEST IT? UM, IF I MAY, UM, I KIND OF FORGET WHERE WE ENDED.
I THINK THAT WE SHOULD THINK ABOUT THE TIME BASED ON PAGE 28.
SO FOR THE FIRST READING, IT WOULD BE REALLY GREAT TO TRY TO GET THROUGH THIS FIRST READING.
SO, UM, I AM OPEN ALL DAY, SO I DON'T WANT IT TO BE AROUND ME, WHATEVER TIME FOR ANYONE THAT HAS CONSTRAINTS.
WISCHNEWSKI FOR RIGHT NOW? THANK YOU.
UM, YEAH, I SHOULD BE AVAILABLE.
I BELIEVE IF I MAKE MY FLIGHT AFTER 10 30, UM, THAT MORNING.
SO I SHOULD BE AVAILABLE AT THAT TIME, UH, LONGER.
ARE YOU ALL GOING TO MEET UNTIL YOU FINISHED OR IS IT TWO HOUR? HOW ABOUT FOR YOU, SIR? THAT'S OF THE PEOPLE I'M SORRY, I COULDN'T HEAR WHAT TIME.
I MEAN, I THINK THERE SHOULD BE A HOT TIME WOMAN.
I THINK OTHERWISE IT COULD BE SIX OR EIGHT HOURS OR, I MEAN, YOU WANT TO HAVE A MOTION AGAIN? DOOR ORISHA.
I JUST WANTED TO SAY I'M UNAVAILABLE ON DECEMBER 2ND.
THAT'S WHY I ABSTAINED, BUT I CERTAINLY DON'T WANT TO PREVENT THAT THE BOARD MAJORITY SINCE I'M ON MY WAY OUT FOR SCHEDULING AT THEIR CONVENIENCE.
SO I LIKELY TO, UM, IF I'M UNAVAILABLE, I SIMPLY ABSTAIN.
YOU ALL ARE GOOD WITH THREE TO SIX.
DOES ANYBODY OBJECT TO THE TIME OF THREE TO FIVE? I CAN MAKE THE MEETING MR. DISTRIBUTOR, JUST TO FOLLOW UP ON THE STORE SHARK.
UM, MY QUESTION IS, UM, IF, IF WE'RE TRYING TO, UH, MEET THE NEEDS OF ALL BOARD MEMBERS, UH, I GUESS WE POSSIBLY DID SHOOT FOR ANOTHER DATE AFTER THIS.
WHAT IS THAT? W SO EVERYONE'S KISSED SO EVERYONE CAN MAKE IT WELL NOTED.
AND MISS HORSHACK DID NOT SAY THAT IT WAS A CONFLICT.
UH, MATT I'LL DO ALL DUE RESPECT, MADAM CHAIR.
SHE MAY HAVE NOT, BUT IF ONCE AGAIN, AND THIS IS WHAT I SPOKE ABOUT YESTERDAY, WE CAN MAKE SURE IT'S GOOD FOR SOME IN THAT.
AND NOT NONE IS SHE DIDN'T SPEAK THE FIRST TIME, BUT SHE HAS SPOKEN IN THE, IN THE MEETING IS NOT OVER.
SO, SO IT SHOULD NOT BE A PROBLEM IF WE, IF, IF, IF WE, IF WE, IF WE VOTE TO MAKE SURE EVERYONE IS MEETING THAT WE'RE MEETING THE NEED OF, OF, OF, OF, UH, THAT THERE WAS SQ.
AND WHY CAN'T WE RE RE UM, REACH THE NEED FOR
SO, CAN YOU MAKE, CAN YOU, CAN YOU HELP ME UNDERSTAND THAT SINCE YOU MADE THAT COMMENT? I THINK EMOTION, SOMEONE WOULD SAY SOMETHING, IF I MAY, YOU KNOW, I'VE MADE IT CLEAR IN THE PAST WHEN, YOU KNOW, UH, UM, ONE OR TWO BOARD MEMBERS WERE NOT ABLE TO MAKE A MEETING THAT I FEEL PERSONALLY, UH, IT SHOULD GO WITH THE MAJORITY OF BOARD MEMBERS.
SO WHAT I'M DOING IS DEFERRING TO THE MAJORITY OF BOARD MEMBERS WHO ARE ABLE TO MAKE THIS DATE.
IT DOESN'T REVOLVE AROUND ANY SINGLE PERSON.
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I'M FINE WITH THAT.DON'T MAKE ADDITIONAL MOTIONS ON, ON MY BEHALF, MR. SUMMITS, SINCE DON'T HAVE ANOTHER MOTION ON THE FLOOR AND MS. ORISHA SEEMED TO BE OKAY WITH THIS, UH, OUTCOME.
SO THE MEETING WILL BE FOR THE, FOR THE CONTINUATION OF THE FIRST READING ON THE, UM, BOARD POLICIES WILL BE ON WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2ND, FROM THREE TO 6:00 PM.
UH, POINT OF ORDER, IF Y'ALL WOULD STOP MUTING ME, I WAS GETTING READY TO MAKE A MOTION.
DID YOU HEAR WHAT MITCHELL
SHE DOES NOT DRIVE MY, MY EMOTIONAL STOP.
MY MOTION I'M MAKING, I'M MAKING MY EMOTION, THAT I'M BEING FAIR AND SENSITIVE TO EVERY, INTO THE NEEDS OF EVERYONE ON THIS BOARD.
SHE MADE A STATEMENT THAT I WANT TO RESPOND TO IT VERSUS
I MAKE A MOTION THAT WE, THAT WE SUBSTITUTE THAT DATE FOR, FOR THE, FOR THE THIRD FLOOR.
FOR THAT, THAT THURSDAY, THURSDAY IS NOT A GOOD DAY BECAUSE WE ALREADY HAVE A MEETING SCHEDULED FOR THE THURSDAY AND I'M STILL LEGISLATIVE VIRTUAL CONFERENCE.
WELL, HOW ABOUT THAT? MONDAY
WE CAN MEET RATHER THAN TO SAY, WELL, WE'VE DONE TWO MEETINGS IN ONE DAY.
ANYBODY WANT A SECOND? MR. CHAIR, CAN YOU REPEAT THE MOTION, PLEASE? THE SWITCH, THE DATE OF THE POLICY REVIEW FROM DECEMBER 2ND TO NOVEMBER 30TH, CORRECT? YES, MA'AM.
UH, I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT I DON'T HAVE ANY PROBLEMS WITH THAT.
I JUST SENT THEM, UM, UM, I WISH THAT THESE WERE SHACKLED WITH, LET US KNOW BEFORE WE GET OUT VOTE, THAT SHE WASN'T AVAILABLE BACK.
UM, I DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM, BUT I JUST WISH WE WOULD'VE KNOWN.
WHAT, HOW ARE WE CHANGING THE TIME? UM, WHAT TIME ARE WE BEGINNING? SINCE THAT IS SAYING, ARE WE SAYING FROM FIVE TO EIGHT? WHAT TIME? OKAY.
MAYBE HE NEEDS TO PLAY, RIGHT? SO IT'S DECEMBER 7TH AND NOT NOVEMBER DATE.
MR. WE CAN GO WITH THE SEVENTH BEFORE THE MEETING.
SO IT WOULDN'T BE ON THE AGENDA.
I THINK WE WOULDN'T REALLY HAVE ROBIN
UM, DO WE WANT TO RECONSIDER CHANGING THE DATE? OH, WAIT, WHAT? WHOA, WAIT, WAIT A MINUTE.
MADAM CHAIR, YOU TOLD ME TO MAKE A MOTION AND I MADE A MOTION.
SO, FIRST, FIRST OFF, I I'VE MADE A MOTION AND YOU SHOULD'VE THOUGHT ABOUT THAT BEFORE YOU GAVE ME THE OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE A MOTION AND YOU CAN MAKE A MOTION TO CAST OUT A MOTION.
AND I, AND WHAT WE'RE DOING IS WE'RE VOTING ON OTHER, DOWN ON ANOTHER DATE.
I, IF I, IF MY MEMORY SERVES ME CORRECTLY, I REMEMBER WHEN WE TALKED ABOUT CHANGING THIS DATE, WE VOTED ON ONE ON ONE DATE, AND THEN YOU SAID THERE, IF SOMEONE WANTS TO MAKE, MAKE, UH, LOOK FOR ANOTHER DATE AND YOU CAN MAKE A MOTION AND SEE YOU, THAT MOTION GETS SUPPORTED AND WE'LL MOVE FORWARD ON THAT MOTION.
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SO YOUR PAST PRACTICES ARE NOT MATCHING UP.CAN YOU HELP ME UNDERSTAND THAT? SO MY ANSWER TO YOU, MR. SMITH IS YOU'VE MADE A MOTION FOR A DIFFERENT DATE THAT WAS JUST APPROVED BY THE BOARD APPROVED BY MAJORITY.
SO IN ORDER FOR US TO CONSIDER A DIFFERENT DATE AND CONSIDER YOUR MOTION, I DO THINK THAT THE BOARD HAS TO HAVE A VOTE TO SAY THAT, YES, WE WILL RE WE WILL RECONSIDER THE DAY.
I'M JUST TRYING TO FOLLOW ROBERT'S RULES.
THAT'S ALL I'M TRYING TO DO, SIR, BECAUSE YOU'VE NOW SUGGESTED A DIFFERENT DATE.
AND WE NEED TO CLARIFY IF HE'S TALKING ABOUT NOVEMBER 30TH OR DECEMBER 7TH, I THINK WE NEED TO CLARIFY THAT UNTIL WE DECIDE, ARE WE GOING TO RECONSIDER? I WAS TRYING TO PUT THAT ORDER OF BUSINESS.
WHAT ARE WE VOTING ON? WE'RE VOTING ON GOING TO THE BOARD, JUST APPROVED AT THIS MEETING DECEMBER 2ND AND, AND MR. SMITH, I WOULD LIKE TO CHANGE THE DATE.
SO ARE WE GOING TO RECONSIDER IT? ARE WE GOING TO CONSIDER CHANGING THE DATE? THAT'S THE VOTE.
SOMEBODY MADE THAT MOTION AND YOU'VE DONE SECOND AFTER THAT.
DO YOU THINK THERE HAS TO BE, OR IF NOBODY WANTS TO MAKE SOME MOTION, BECAUSE NOBODY WANTS TO SAY I MOVED FROM RECONSIDER THE DATE OF THE ODYSSEY SEC POLICY.
SO IT'S NOT REALLY THAT, WELL, I'M TRYING TO PUT THAT WE CONSIDER THE DATE OF THE READING OF THE FALLACY.
SO WE CONSIDERED IT SHOULD JUST BE RECONSIDER ABOUT, OKAY.
SO THE WAITING WILL BE ON DECEMBER 2ND.
OH, IT'S NOT I HAVEN'T MR. SMITH, MR. CAMP.
SO THE MOST TIME FAILS BECAUSE THERE'S A THUMB IS JOHN DIALING ON JOHN DOWLING.
HOW ARE YOU BALDING? UM, YOU HAVE DONE FINALLY.
SO THE MOTION FAILS BECAUSE IT'S FIVE, FIVE, ONE OBSESSIONS, CORRECT.
IT'S BEEN UP FOR A WHILE PRIOR TO THE BOAT.
UM, I JUST, JUST A WORD, UH, JUST SOME GOOD ADVICE GOING FORWARD.
UM, IF WE TRIED TO CATER TO JUST ONE OR TWO INDIVIDUAL BOARD MEMBERS DEMANDS, IT'S GOING TO BE EXTREMELY DIFFICULT TO SCHEDULE.
WE HAVE DONE THAT IN THE PAST.
WE MOVED MEETINGS THAT WERE ALREADY VOTED UPON BASED UPON ONE OR TWO BOARD MEMBERS AVAILABILITY.
I REALLY BELIEVE YOU'VE GOT TO GO WITH THE MAJORITY.
AND THAT'S, THAT'S JUST MY, MY, MY FINAL WORDS THERE.
YOU HAVE A MAJORITY OF BOARD MEMBERS WHO CAN PARTICIPATE IN THAT MEETING, GO FORWARD WITH IT.
IT'S ADMIRABLE, KATHY, THAT YOU WOULD WANT TO HAVE EVERYONE'S PARTICIPATION.
HOWEVER, IT'S NOT ALWAYS DOABLE.
I DON'T KNOW IF THIS IS ALLOWABLE FOR JEN BOARD MEMBERS SUBMIT IN WRITING AND BUSINESS EMAIL.
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ON CHANGES YOU WANT TO MAKE TO THE POLICY, CAN YOU SEND THAT ALONG? OKAY.THAT WAS THE DRAFT LETTER OF DONORS.
I'M TRYING TO FIGURE OUT A WAY TO GET SORT OF CHECKS ANYWAY.
I APPRECIATE THAT MR. SMITH AND MR. DOWNS.
NOW WE'RE ON TO THE REVIEW OF THE DISTRICT EMERGENCY PLANS TO THE 8% FUN, UM, REVIEW OF DISTRICT EMERGENCY PLANS USING A PERCENT FUNDS WAS MADE, UH, FOR DISCUSSION AT THE WORK SESSION.
I BELIEVE IT WAS PART OF A CONVERSATION MAYBE AT FINANCE COMMITTEE.
UH, SO WITH THAT IN MIND, MS. CROSBY, UH, YES.
IN, IN THOSE FOUR NUMBERS WHO ARE PRESENT IN THE DISK, THERE IS A TWO PAGE JOHN PARTIAL DOCUMENT ONE FRONT BACK.
UM, AND FOR THOSE OF YOU AT HOME, I, I RECEIVING AN ERROR WHEN I PULL UP THE, UM, DOCUMENT ONLINE.
SO I APOLOGIZE, I DON'T KNOW WHICH PAGE, BUT THE PAGE WITH THE NUMBERS, UM, AS OPPOSED TO THE GRAPHIC ALLOW FOR, UH, A LISTING OF THE REMAINING PASADENA DECK CAPACITY USING 8% CAPITAL FUNDS.
AND THAT IS AS OF DECEMBER 31, WHICH IS THE LOW POINT IN THAT CAPACITY, UH, ON AN ANNUAL BASIS.
SO, UM, THE, AS OF DECEMBER 31ST ACQUAINT 21, WE'RE EXPECTED TO HAVE APPROXIMATELY $75 MILLION OF CAPACITY THAT IS ABLE TO BE BONDED IF THE BOARD SO CHOOSES, UM, KEEPING IN MIND THAT THIS DOES ALREADY ASSUME THAT WE WILL LEARN A $20 MILLION A YEAR IN 8% FUND FOR, UH, LARGE CAPITAL RENEWALS AND REPLACEMENTS AND TECHNOLOGY.
SO IT ALREADY ASSUMED THAT THAT WOULD BE DONE.
SO, UM, WITH THAT, UH, THOSE ARE, THOSE FUNDS ARE AVAILABLE TO BE BONDED.
AND THERE ARE, UH, IS CASH AVAILABLE ON COMMITTED PROJECTS THAT HAVE NOT YET BEEN COMPLETED.
SO, UH, THOSE COULD BE USED FOR EMERGENCY PURPOSES UNTIL SUCH TIME AS WE BONDED, UH, IN THE CASE OF AN EMERGENCY THAT WAS, UH, NEEDED SOME OF THOSE RESERVED FUNDS TO BE USED.
SO, UH, WITH THAT, I LO I OPEN IT UP FOR DISCUSSION MORE DISCUSSION.
THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR, THIS WAS BROUGHT UP IN THE FINANCE COMMITTEE.
UM, WE HAVE A FLOOR AND A GOAL, AND OUR POLICIES ON OUR FUND BALANCE.
AND THEN ON THE DEBT CAPACITY, NO, NO, NO OPERATION 15 TO 17, 15 TO 17% OF OUR ANNUAL REVENUE SHOULD BE AVAILABLE IN A FUND BALANCE.
THAT'S KIND OF LIKE OUR SAVINGS ACCOUNT.
IF YOU WILL, WE DON'T HAVE A FLOOR FOR 8% AND WHY THAT IS IMPORTANT.
WE HAVE A PAST, WE HAVE A INFRASTRUCTURE HERE, OUR BUILDINGS AND ALL THE THINGS THAT THE DISTRICT OWNS IS INSURED FOR APPROXIMATELY $750 MILLION.
IF WE WERE TO HAVE A CATASTROPHE NATURE HURRICANE, AND WE HAD GREAT DAMAGE, WE WOULD HAVE THE FOLLOWING ASSETS TO DEAL WITH THAT.
WE COULD HAVE OUR FUND BALANCE TO PAY FOR CLEANUP OR WHATEVER.
AND WE REALLY DON'T WANT TO, WE REALLY DON'T WANT TO SPEND THAT OR THAT BECAUSE THAT WON'T GIVE US A FLEXIBILITY
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TO PAY THE BILLS.WE HAVE INSURANCE, BUT INSURANCE DOESN'T COME RIGHT AWAY AND WE NEED TO GET KIDS BACK IN SCHOOL.
WE CAN GET FEDERAL AID, BUT WE JUST GOT FEMA PAID FOR MATTHEW THREE YEARS AFTER MATTHEW HIT THE, WE CAN'T COME ON THAT.
WHAT CAN WE COUNT ON? WE CAN COUNT ON 8% FUNDING.
I, IN MY VIEW, 8% FUNDING IS KIND OF LIKE A CREDIT CARD.
YOU HAVE A CREDIT LIMIT GIVEN TO YOU BY YOUR BANK, THAT YOU HAVE THEIR CREDIT CARDS AND THAT'S IT.
AND IT'S USED FOR EMERGENCIES, BUT IT'S ALSO HIGHER INTEREST.
IT'S ALSO SHORT TERM, 8% MONEY.
WHEN YOU BONDED IS NOT A 25 YEAR BOND.
IT'S A FIVE TO 10, FIVE TO 10 YEAR BOND.
SO YOU DON'T WANT TO USE, THAT'S WHY YOU DON'T WANT TO USE A CREDIT CARD TO BUY A CAR BECAUSE YOU DON'T WANT TO PAY THE HIGHER INTEREST RATES BY USING YOUR CREDIT CARD.
YOU WANT TO TAKE A LOAN OUT FOR THE CAR, BUT YOU GOT TO HAVE CAPABILITY TO DO THAT.
SO THIS IS KIND OF LIKE OUR CREDIT CARD.
THIS IS WHAT WILL ALLOW US TO VERY QUICKLY PUT IN A BOND TO GET MAJOR FUNDS, TO TAKE CARE OF MAJOR REPAIRS.
SO AS I START, WHAT I WOULD RECOMMEND FOR DISCUSSION, I'M NOT GOING TO MAKE A MOTION.
I'M GOING TO RECOMMEND FOR DISCUSSION THAT WE SHOULD ESTABLISH A FLOOR OF APPROXIMATELY $75 MILLION IN 8% FUNDING.
THAT'S 10% OF OUR INSURED VALUE.
NOW WHY DO THAT? THIS DISTRICT BROUGHT DOWN ITS CAPACITY DOWN TO AS LITTLE AS $20 MILLION, BECAUSE IT WOULD HAVE FAILED REFERENDUMS. WE HAD TO BUILD A SCHOOL AND BUILD A COUPLE OF SCHOOLS.
WE HAD A REQUIREMENT TO PROVIDE A QUALITY TO WHALE BRANCH AND BUILD A AUDITORIUM AND A GYMNASIUM.
AND WE USED 8% MONEY TO DO THAT.
SO IT WAS AN EASY WAY, A QUICK FIX, BUT IT WAS THE WRONG WAY OF DOING THINGS.
WE SHOULD HAVE HAD A REFERENDUM, BUT THAT UNDER 25 YEAR ON NOT 8% NOT USING OUR CREDIT CARD TO BUILD A SCHOOL AND BUILD MAJOR CONSTRUCTION, WE USE 8% MONEY FOR MAINTENANCE.
WE USE IT FOR TECHNOLOGY AND THAT'S THE $20 MILLION A YEAR.
AND WE, AND THAT'S A GOOD USE OR 8% MONEY.
A GOOD USE FOR 8% MONEY IS LIKE WE USE 8% MONEY TO DO THE DESIGN WORK ON THE ADDITIONS TO RIVER RIDGE AND MAY RIVER.
THAT WAS A GOOD USE OF 8% MONEY.
IT WAS A RELATIVELY SMALL AMOUNT AND WE COULD PAY IT RIGHT OFF AT ANY BIG PROBLEM.
SO THAT'S WHY I BELIEVE WE NEED A FLOOR FOR 8% BORROWING CAPACITY, TOO.
YOU CAN ALWAYS OVERTURN THIS POLICY, OR YOU CAN ALWAYS OVERTURN IT IF THERE IS AN EMERGENCY AND WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING, BUT WE SHOULD BE LOOKING AT USING REFERENDUM AND JUSTIFYING REFERENDUM LIKE WE DID LAST TIME SO THAT WE CAN ALLOW THE PUBLIC TO VOTE BECAUSE REMEMBER THE PUBLIC DOESN'T VOTE ON 8% MONEY, PUBLIC VOTES ON REFERENDUM.
AND SO THIS IS A WAY TO MAYBE GIVE THE BOARD SOME MORE DISCIPLINE AND SOME MORE INCENTIVE.
CAN YOU MAKE SURE THAT WE USE REFERENDUMS FOR MAJOR PURCHASES AND MAJOR CONSTRUCTION? THAT'S WHAT I AM NOT PREPARED TO BRING UP EMOTION, BECAUSE I'D LIKE TO HEAR SOME DISCUSSION IF THE NUMBER IS CORRECT OR WHY THAT NUMBER SHOULD BE, OR IF WE SHOULD HAVE ONE, OR IF THAT NUMBER IS CORRECT.
UM, COLONEL GARA, YOU HAD THE SAME DOLLAR AMOUNT AS I HAD IN MY HEAD, UM, FOR, FOR THE END GAME.
HOWEVER, I THINK THAT MY SUGGESTION FOR THIS CONVERSATION WOULD BE THAT WE HAVE A PERCENTAGE.
AND MY RATIONALE FOR THAT, UM, IS BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE FACILITIES THAT HAVE, ARE BEING UPGRADED OR HAVING, YOU KNOW, ADDITIONS MADE TO THEM.
THERE MAY BE NEW FACILITIES IN THE FUTURE, UM, OVER YEARS.
SO I THINK IT SHOULD BE A PERCENTAGE OF WHATEVER THAT INSURANCE
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POLICY IS.UM, SO THAT MIRRORS OR MATCHES.
SO, UM, I BELIEVE THAT WAS 10%, SO 10%.
AND I ALSO BELIEVE THAT, UM, SOMETHING LIKE THIS SHOULD BE PHASED IN.
SO AS OPPOSED TO JUST CREATING A POLICY, HAVE THIS PHASED IN A STEP UP TO THAT 10% OVER A PERIOD OF YEARS TO REACH THAT.
SO THAT THERE'S, UM, NOT A DRASTIC CHANGE.
ALL OF A SUDDEN WE DON'T CONSTRAIN OURSELVES TOO, TOO HARSHLY.
UM, THOSE ARE MY TWO MAIN SUGGESTIONS.
I THINK IT'S VERY NECESSARY AND I AGREE WITH YOU ON, ON ALL POINTS.
THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR, WE CURRENTLY HAVE REGARDING PER YEAR ON AN 8%, IF WE STICK TO THAT, YOU CAN SEE THE GROWTH THERE.
WOULD IT BE GOOD TO HAVE A POLICY SO THAT IT DOES SORT OF THAT GROWTH DOESN'T GET MISUSED, BUT I THINK THAT'S THE TARGET, RIGHT? BECAUSE THEY'RE ALREADY, WE'D STICK PRETTY CLOSELY TO THAT 20 MILLION THIS YEAR GROWTH.
IT'S JUST TO MAKE SURE THAT GROWTH IS NOT USED TO BUILDING THE, UM, AND WHEN GOT 75 ALREADY.
SO 75 IS FINE, NO MATTER WHAT, WHAT POLICY WE PASS, WE CAN ALWAYS OVERRULE IT IF THERE'S AN EMERGENCY.
UM, BUT I THINK SYMBOLICALLY IT'S PROBABLY COULD RECRUIT PEOPLE.
WE DON'T WANT TO USE THIS MONEY LIKE WE DID IN THE PAST BECAUSE WE WERE AFRAID TO GO OUT OR WHATEVER.
UM, I THINK THIS IS A VERY VALUABLE DISCUSSION.
I HAVE SOME GOOD SUGGESTIONS HERE.
I'D LIKE TO ASK MS. CROSBY, IF WE WERE TO, TO, UM, HAVE THE 10% OR AS DR.
WISNIEWSKI SUGGESTED MAYBE WORKING UP TO IT WOULD IMPLEMENTING THIS IN THE VERY NEAR FUTURE.
UM, HANDCUFF US IN ANY WAY FOR ANYTHING THAT WE HAD ALREADY PLANNED TO DO.
NO, MA'AM, I, I CAN'T IMAGINE ANY ITEMS THAT WOULD HANDCUFF US.
UH, WE, IF THIS INCLUDES OUR CURRENT PLANS, UM, IF FOR SOME REASON THERE WAS A NEED TO ADD MORE TO THE 20 MILLION OF BORROWING AND 8% THIS YEAR, FOR SOME REASON, UM, THEN THAT MIGHT HAVE SOME IMPLICATIONS THIS YEAR, BUT AS YOU CAN SEE FROM THE CHART, IT GROWS EXPONENTIALLY EVERY YEAR.
UM, THAT'S ALL I WAS THINKING IT WAS THIS YEAR.
SO THIS YEAR MIGHT BE THE ONLY YEAR THAT MIGHT HAVE SOME IMPLICATIONS IF WE NEEDED TO INCREASE THE $20 MILLION.
SO CAN YOU, CAN I ASK YOU A QUESTION? SO ON THE SECOND PAGE.
SO IT SAYS REMAINING CAPACITY.
SO WE HAVE ALMOST 75 MILLION RIGHT NOW.
PROVIDED THAT WE STICK WITH THE 20 MILLION A YEAR, CORRECT? YES.
AND I WANT TO REMIND THE BOARD, UH, WE DID ALREADY APPROVE A $3 MILLION COST, UM, FOR, WELL, THE WILLOW BRANCH SCHOOLS AND REMEDIATION THERE AND IN THESE $20 MILLION.
SO WE REALLY HAVE 17 MILLION TO WORK WITH IF WE STICK TO THE 20.
SO JUST WANT TO REMIND YOU OF THAT AS WELL.
MR. FENDER, UM, JUST FOLLOWING UP ON, I KIND OF LIKED THAT BECAUSE WHICH THE PRESSURE ON US TO STICK, WE NEED THAT 3 MILLION BRIDGE WE HAVE TO MAKE TO SEE, SORRY.
I THINK THAT'S A GOOD CRUSHER.
SO AM I NOT THINKING OF THIS CORRECTLY? SO MAYBE THE MOTION JUST BE STICKING TO THE, THE 20 MILLION BECAUSE IT LOOKS LIKE WE'RE GOING TO BE WELL WITHIN YOUR, WHAT YOU WERE SAYING.
UH, UNDERSTAND THAT THE 20 MILLION WILL US THERE, BUT BY HAVING THE FLOOR, I'LL KEEP US IN THE FUTURE FROM OVER SPENDING AND USING 8% IMPROPER IN MY OPINION.
AND THAT'S WHY IT'S, I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT AND NOW'S A GOOD TIME TO DO IT, BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT THIS PARTICULAR YEAR WE CAN MAKE AN ADJUSTMENT FOR A YEAR AND YOU CAN SEE IN THE FOLLOWING GEARS, WE SHOULDN'T HAVE ANY PROBLEM.
BUT YOU'RE SAYING THIS SHEET WOULD BASICALLY FIX THAT ABOUT 20 MILLION, BUT WILL, AS THIS FLOWS, IF YOU USE A PERCENTAGE, THAT'S CORRECT.
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YEAH.MADAM CHAIR, I MOVE THAT THE YOU FOR COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD ADOPT A POLICY THAT THE DISTRICT WILL MAINTAIN A 10% CAPACITY AND 8% FUNDS BEGINNING IN FISCAL YEAR 2022.
IT WAS MADE BY MR. EARL CAMPBELL.
UM, YOU BROUGHT THEM, WE'LL GET THAT.
GOOD POINT 10% OF INSURED VALUE.
YOUR VALUE IS ABOUT 75,000,750 MILLION.
WHICH ROBOT? UM, YEAH, I JUST WANT TO ASK FOR CLARIFICATION, MR. CAMPBELL'S QUESTION.
UM, I THINK HE SAID, WELL, I'M GOING TO JUST ASK A QUESTION BECAUSE I'M NOT SURE HE INTERPRETED MR. CAMPBELL CORRECTLY.
SO THE, UM, $20 MILLION THAT WE HAVE ALLOCATED IS KIND OF LIKE OUR MAX THAT WITH THIS, EVEN THE 20 MILLION ISN'T GOING TO GROW, WHAT'S GROWING IS GETTING MOMS THAT IS A WHOLE MOUNTAIN IS GOING TO GROW, BUT WE'RE ONLY, WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE TO JUST KEEP IT CAPPED AT 20 MILLION IN TERMS OF WHAT WE ARE GOING TO SPEND.
IS THAT CORRECT? I MEAN, I THINK LIKE I KIND OF UNDERSTOOD IS THAT THAT'S 20 MILLION MIGHT GROW AS WELL, BUT I DON'T THINK THAT'S CORRECT.
I DON'T THINK THAT'S OUR ATTENTION HERE.
SO I JUST WANT TO CLARIFY, THAT'S A DIFFERENT FALSE, THIS IS USING THAT POLICY IS 20 MILLION.
IF WE DECIDE THAT WE NEED MORE MAINTENANCE IN THAT PARTICULAR YEAR, YOU CAN BUMP THAT UP, BUT YOU CAN KEEP YOUR FLOOR, THE AMOUNT THAT YOU HAVE 10% OF INSURED THEM.
I JUST, I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE I UNDERSTOOD IT CORRECTLY.
MR. DALEN, MADAM CHAIR, THIS'LL BE THE THIRD ACTION THAT THE BOARD HAS TAKEN, WHICH BLOWS YOUR RATIONALIZATION ABOUT NO ACTION BEING TAKEN SKY HIGH.
THIS MEETING SHOULD IMMEDIATELY ADJOURN AND THEY UNFINISHED ITEMS SHOULD BE TAKEN UP AT THE NEXT MEETING, CONTINUING TO VOTE.
WE'LL BE CONTINUING THE VIOLATION OF FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT.
THIS IS ON THE AGENDA AT THIS TIME, SIR.
ALL RIGHT, MS. ROLLBACK, I WAS JUST GOING TO RESPOND THAT, UM, TO MR. DABBING, THAT ON OUR AGENDA, THIS TIME WAS NOT CHANGED.
AND THIS IS WHAT'S ON YOUR ORIGINAL AGENDA AT 1130.
WE BEGAN THE DISCUSSION A LITTLE BIT AFTER 1130.
ACCORDING TO OUR AGENDA, THE WHOLE MEETING IS, IS, IS GONE.
YOU SHOULD NOT HAVE CHANGED THE AGENDA FOR THE MEETING.
IT DOESN'T MATTER THAT YOU'RE BACK ON TRACK.
ANY MS. ORISHA, JAMES BE UN-MUTED.
CAN YOU HEAR ME? CAN YOU HEAR ME OKAY? YES.
UM, MR. DALEN HAS RAISED CONSISTENT CONCERNS.
UM, I HAVE TO YIELD TO THOSE CONCERNS.
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FRIDAY MORNING AND WE CHANGED THE AGENDA TODAY.UM, AND IT WAS NOT DUE TO EMERGENCY OR EXIGENT CIRCUMSTANCES, WHICH ARE BY MY UNDERSTANDING LIMITED UNDERSTANDING OF THE LAW THAT WOULD BE REQUIRED FOR US TO CHANGE THE AGENDA, UH, IN ANY WAY, SHAPE OR FORM, EVEN SOMETHING AS MINOR AS THE SHIFTING OF ITEMS ON THE AGENDA.
NOW I'M NOT TO BELABOR THIS ANY FURTHER.
CAN WE RECESS JUST TO GET SOME SORT OF FURTHER CLARIFICATION? I KNOW I CERTAINLY WOULD LIKE THAT FOR MY COMFORT LEVEL.
UM, I DON'T KNOW IF ANY OTHER BOARD MEMBERS WOULD LIKE A CLARIFICATION ON THIS OR NOT.
I WOULD SECOND THAT BECAUSE I DO NOTION IT'S JUST TO REQUEST AT THIS JUNCTURE AND THIS TIME I MOVE THAT WE TAKE A RECESS.
I AMEND THE MOTION FOR US TO TAKE A RECESS.
SO VOTING IS OPEN OR WHICH ONE? WHAT'D YOU GOT ON THE VOTE? YES.
IT'S I AT THE BEAVER COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD ADOPTED A POLICY THAT THE BUSINESS OKAY.
10% INSURED VALUE CAPACITY, AND 8% BEGINNING IN FISCAL YEAR, 2022.
THE MOTION CARRIES EIGHT
WE WILL RECONVENE AT ONE DATE AFTER AWHILE.
I REQUESTED THAT, UH, IF YOU'RE GOING TO CONSULT WITH ANY LEGAL ENTITIES OUTSIDE OF THE DISTRICT DURING OUR LUNCH BREAK, I REQUEST THAT YOU HOLD THAT AND PUT THE CONSULTATION ON FOR THE WHOLE BOARD.
WHEN YOU REJOINED THE MEETING.
THAT WAY WE CAN ALL BE SURE ABOUT WHAT IS PRESENTED TO AN ATTORNEY THAT SHAPES YOU COULDN'T DO THAT AT ALL.
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ON IMPACT THEMES, ANYA AND DR.SO THERE ARE TWO DOCUMENTS IN FOUR DOTS FOR YOU TODAY.
ONE, I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE A GOOD, UM, PIECE OF BACKGROUND INFORMATION TO PROVIDE THE TIMELINE OF WHAT'S HAPPENED SO FAR.
SO I'LL START WITH THAT TODAY.
UM, SO IN SCHOOL IMPACT FEES, AS YOU RECALL, AND FOR THE VIEWING PUBLIC AS WELL, THAT IN JUNE OF 2017, THE COUNTY APPROACHED THE SCHOOL DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENT AT THE TIME TO EXPLORE SCHOOL IMPACT PHASE AND TO, UH, REQUESTING THAT WE JOIN
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HANDS WITH THE JOINT EFFORTS WITH COUNTY TO DO A COMPREHENSIVE, UH, CAPITAL, UM, UH, IMPACT FEE STUDY.SO THE TWO ENTITIES WOULD JOIN TOGETHER AND, UH, ON AUGUST 15TH, THE BOARD APPROVED OF 2017, THE BOARD DID APPROVE, UH, THE ENGAGING WITH THE CONSULTANT TO DO THE STUDY.
AND SO, UM, LOTS OF DATA OCCURRED AND WORK ON THE, THE POINT, UM, ON THE PART OF TISCHLER BUYS, THE COMPANY THAT WAS COMMISSIONED TO DO A STUDY AND A FINAL PRESENTATION WAS DELIVERED TO THE BOARD ON DECEMBER 10TH, 2019, UH, EVENTUALLY AFTER SOME CONVERSATIONS AND, UH, WITH COUNTY COUNCIL OR WHEN ONE PARTICULAR JOINT MEETING, UM, BETWEEN DECEMBER AND JUNE, THEN JUNE 9TH WAS THE FINAL VOTE, UM, TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THE PLAN OF IMPACT FEES FOR THE SOUTHERN AREA SIDE OF THE COUNTY, UH, WITH A SINGLE FAMILY UNIT COST OF 9,005 35 AND A MULTIFAMILY UNIT FEE OF 4,508.
SO, UM, WITH THAT, UM, IN THE NEXT THING THE COUNTY TOOK IT, UM, BEGAN TO, UH, PRESENT TO COUNT TOWN COUNCILS.
THERE ARE THREE MUNICIPALITIES THAT ARE INVOLVED IN THIS PROCESS, AND IT IS THE TALENT HILTON HEAD, THE TALENT BLUFFTON, AND THE CITY OF PARTY BILL.
SO THE, THE COUNTY HAS BEEN INVOLVED WITH DISCUSSIONS ON THOSE PARTIES, AS WE HAVE HAD A DISCUSSION RECENTLY WITH TOWN BLUFFTON AS WELL.
SO IT, THIS POINT, UM, ERIC GREENWAY HAS BEEN OUR PRIMARY CONTACT FOR THE, UH, IMPACT FEAST AS THE DIRECTOR, FORMER DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT.
NOW I, THE INTERIM COUNTY ADMINISTRATORS, SO WE STILL HAVE SOME FOLLOW-UP CONVERSATIONS TO HAVE BETWEEN THE COUNTY AND THE SCHOOL DISTRICT AND THE SCHOOL DISTRICT AND THOSE MUNICIPALITIES, UM, JUST WANTED TO MENTION, UM, THE COUNTY COUNCIL DID APPROVE IN FIRST READING ON, UM, SEPTEMBER 14TH IS FULL IMPACT FEES, BUT FELT THAT THEY NEEDED, UM, THE INTERGOVERNMENTAL AGREEMENTS THAT ARE REQUIRED OF THIS, UH, OF IMPACT FEES TO BE ESTABLISHED IN PLACE AND AGREED UPON BEFORE THE COUNTY RESUMED.
SECOND READING THAT DID GO ON THE, ON THE AGENDA A COUPLE OF TIMES IN OCTOBER, AND THEN WAS PULLED OFF FOR A DESIRE FOR US OR THE ENTITIES TO COMPLETE THE WORK OF THE INTERGOVERNMENTAL AGREEMENTS.
SO I DID NOT BRING THE INTRADURAL AGREEMENTS WITH ME TODAY BECAUSE THEY'RE STILL IN A VERY ROUGH FORMAT.
AND I DO PLAN TO DO THAT ONCE WE HAVE HAD LEGAL COUNCIL REVIEW AND AFTER WE HAD HAD THE DISCUSSIONS BETWEEN THE MUNICIPALITY AND SOME OF THE CLARIFYING, SOME OF THE POINTS IN THE DRAFT IN NOVEMBER MENTAL AGREEMENT AND ANSWERING ANY QUESTIONS THE MUNICIPALITIES MAY HAVE, OR THAT THE SCHOOL DISTRICT MAY HAVE.
SO AT THIS POINT, UH, WE ARE IN DISCUSSIONS WITH THOSE MUNICIPALITIES.
WE ARE UNDERGOING, UH, I WENT TO MS. CARTLIDGE, SHE AND I HAVE CONTACTED AND MET, UM, VIA PHONE WITH SARAH ROBERTSON, WHO IS AN ATTORNEY FOR BIRTH FOREMAN AND RESIDE R W AND HER OFFICE IS IN BLUFFTON.
SO SHE'S FAMILIAR WITH THE AREA AND, AND IS HELPING US, UM, ENSURE THAT THE SCHOOL DISTRICT'S INTERESTS ARE PROTECTED IN THIS AGREEMENT.
SO THAT'S OUR MAIN, MAIN FOCUS THERE.
UM, SO AFTER THOSE CONVERSATIONS, UM, COMPLETE, WE DO PLAN, I PLAN TO BRING THAT DOCUMENT.
THAT'S GONE THROUGH ALL OF THE ADMINISTRATION AND LEGAL APPROVALS BACK TO THE BOARD FOR YOU ALL TO SEE A FINAL DRAFT, AND THEN YOU CAN APPROVE OR, YOU KNOW, VOTE ON IT.
UH, ANY FINAL, THE FINAL DOCUMENT BEFORE IT IS SIGNED AND DELIVERED TO COUNTY.
SO, UM, I WAS REMINDED THAT, UH, THIS TIME'S OF THE ESSENCE ON THIS TOPIC, WE MOVE FORWARD THE EVERY DAY WE DON'T MOVE FORWARD OR AT LEAST LOST REVENUE TO THE SCHOOL DISTRICT AND TO THE COUNTY FOR THEIR FEES AS WELL.
SO IT'S, IT'S VERY MUCH IN OUR INTEREST TO MOVE IT FORWARD.
AND IT'S, IT'S A UNIQUE PROCESS THAT I HAVEN'T UNDERGONE IN, IN THE PAST, BUT I'VE BEEN CONTACTING COLLEAGUES WHO HAVE GONE THROUGH IT.
AND, UM, AND I'M SURE THAT, UH, THE COUNTY'S PROBABLY BEEN DOING THE SAME THING.
UM, SO JUST A SUMMARY OF THE INTER-GOVERNMENTAL AGREEMENT.
UH, I'VE JUST FOR MY OWN BENEFIT.
I WROTE THIS DOCUMENT WEEKS, WEEKS BEFORE I EVEN KNEW THIS WAS
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ON THE AGENDA BECAUSE I NEEDED SOME TALKING POINTS AS WE DISCUSS THINGS WITH THE, UM, MUNICIPALITIES AND THE VARIOUS LEADERS IN THE COUNTY.RODRIGUEZ DOT ALSO HAVE SOME TALKING POINTS.
SO WHEN THE TOPIC CAME UP, I FELT IT WAS, YOU KNOW, UH, REASONABLE TO BRING THIS FORWARD SO THAT YOU ALL WOULD ALSO KNOW WHAT THOSE POINTS ARE, THAT ARE WITHIN THE INTERGOVERNMENTAL AGREEMENTS.
SO JUST A COUPLE TO NOTE, UM, SOUTH CAROLINA STATE LAW SECTION SIX DASH ONE DASH NINE 10, UH, IS, UH, IS DISCUSSES THE SOUTH CAROLINA DEVELOPMENT IMPACT FEE ACT.
SO, UM, IT IS SPECIFIC FOR SCHOOLS AND ALLOWS US TO IMPOSE THE FEES FOR THE PUBLIC FACILITIES AS TO ADDRESS GROWTH IS TO ADDRESS GROWTH, NOT, UH, TO ADDRESS THE PROJECTS THAT YOU'RE ALREADY BEHIND ON IT'S TO ADD CLASSROOMS BECAUSE OF THE CURRENT GROWTH.
UM, IT DOES REQUIRE THAT ACT REQUIRES AN IMPACT FEE STUDY, WHICH WE HAVE IN PLEADED AND A PLAN THAT LISTS THE PROJECTS AND THE TIMELINES OF US CONSTRUCTING NEW FACILITIES TO ADDRESS THE GROWTH.
UM, BASICALLY THE BOTTOM LINE OF THE IGA ON A SAY, IGA HAS INTERFERED WITH AND LOOKER, AND IT'S JUST A REALLY LONG-TERM, UM, THE INTERNET MELLON AGREEMENT WITH COUNTY AND SCHOOL DISTRICT IS MOSTLY ABOUT WHO'S RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT, AND IN THE ACTIONS THAT ONCE THE, UM, UH, THE FEES ARE IMPOSED, HOW THEY'RE COLLECTED AND HOW THEY'RE TRANSFERRED TO THE SCHOOL DISTRICTS FUNDS.
UM, SO IT BASICALLY GIVES THE COUNTY THIS AGREEMENT THAT GIVES THE COUNTY THE POWER TO ENACT AND POSE AND COLLECT FEES FROM, FROM VARIOUS AGENCIES.
AND FOR THEM TRANSFER THEM TO DISTRICT FUNDS, UM, THIS AGREEMENT, UM, THE ACTUAL STUDY AND THE AGREEMENT AND THE DEVELOPMENT FEE, UH, WILL BE IN PLACE FOR 10 YEARS.
AND IT WILL HAVE TO HAVE, I BELIEVE IT HAS TO HAVE A FIVE YEAR RENEWAL EACH, EACH, UH, EVERY FIVE YEARS.
UM, THE FEES WOULD BE IMPOSED AT THE TIME OF THE BUILDING PERMIT THAT IT WAS ISSUED, AND THEY CANNOT ACCEPT PARTIAL PAYMENT.
THEY HAVE TO HAVE FULL PAYMENTS BEFORE THE FEES OR HOST.
UH, WE HAVE TO PUT IT IN A SEPARATE INTEREST BEARING ACCOUNT, A DIFFERENT GENERAL LEDGER ACCOUNT.
SO IT WILL BE SEPARATED, UM, AND TRACK THERE.
AND THERE MAY BE SOME ADMINISTRATIVE FEES THAT THE MUNICIPALITIES MAY BE ELIGIBLE TO DEDUCT FROM US TO BE ABLE TO, UH, IMPOSE AND COLLECT AND TRANSMIT THOSE FUNDS TO THE DISTRICT.
UM, SO, UH, BASICALLY THE AGREEMENT IT'S JUST THAT WE WILL, OR THE MUNICIPALITIES WILL ALL COOPERATE AND THAT THEY WILL IMPOSE COLLECT, AND THEN TRANSFER THE FUNDS.
SO AS A SUMMARY, THAT'S BASICALLY THE PURPOSE OF THE, THE IGA IS, UM, OUR BOND OR EXCUSE ME, OUR, OUR ATTORNEY IN THIS MATTER, SARAH ROBERTSON HAS MENTIONED THAT SHE WOULD LIKE TO SEE ONE CONSOLIDATED IGA INSTEAD OF MULTIPLE AGREEMENTS, HAD EVERYTHING IN ONE PLACE.
SO THAT IS ONE RECOMMENDATION THAT HAS BEEN RECEIVED.
UH, THE CURRENT IDEAS I HAVE, THERE ARE TWO ONE BETWEEN US AND THE COUNTY AND ONE BETWEEN THE MUNICIPALITIES AND THE COUNTY.
SO WE'RE TRYING TO S WE'RE, I'M GOING TO BE REACHING OUT TO COUNTY STAFF TO TRY TO CONSOLIDATE THOSE AS, AS RECOMMENDATION FROM OUR ATTORNEY.
SO, UM, MY NEXT STEPS ARE, ARE GOING THROUGH THOSE LEGAL PROCESSES, CONTINUING THOSE DISCUSSIONS AND FINALIZE THE DRAFT TO BE ABLE TO BRING BACK.
SO WITH THAT, I WILL TURN IT BACK TO THE BOARD FOR SESSION OR QUESTIONS.
UM, MADAM CHAIR, JUST A POINT OF PRIVILEGE IF I MAY, UM, BEFORE WE PROCEED WITH ANY POTENTIAL, UM, UH, MOTIONS AND VOTING FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE MEETING, UM, CAN YOU PLEASE SHARE WITH THE BOARD, IF YOU WERE ABLE TO DISCOVER OR VERIFY WHETHER, UH, TODAY'S MEETING IS LEGAL OR NOT? I, I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU, BUT I WOULD NOT LIKE TO PROCEED UNTIL I HAVE A CONFIRMATION THERE.
FIRST OF ALL, NO, BECAUSE I DON'T HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO CONTACT A LAWYER.
I AM NOT DIRECTED BY ONE BOARD MEMBER TO CONTACT THE LAWYER.
YOU HAVE TOLD ME IN THE PAST, I CAN'T DO THAT.
I JUST WANTED TO KNOW IF YOU HAD LOOKED INTO IT OR ANYTHING OF THAT NATURE.
I'VE ALREADY SAID THAT I'VE REVIEWED WHAT MR. MCFADDEN, GAYS.
AND I HAVE THAT WITH ME, EVERY MEETING NOW HOPING ABOUT THE EXIGENCY EXIGENCY, DETERMINED BY THE CHAIR AND A TWO THIRDS VOTE.
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ADDING A VITAL ACTION ITEM TO AN AGENDA.IT DOES NOT RELATE TO ITEMS THAT ARE ALREADY ON THE AGENDA, I GUESS YOU'D SAY MOVING ITEMS. SO I DON'T THINK IT APPLIES.
AND THAT'S MY, THAT'S MY KNOWLEDGE ABOUT IT.
MADAM CHAIR, UH, TANYA BUTTONS THAT COME FROM THESE IMPACT FEES I ASSUMED ARE RESTRICTED FUNDS.
ARE THEY RESTRICTED TO BE USED ONLY IN THE CITY WHERE THE FUNDS ARE COLLECTED OR CAN THEY BE USED FOR, FOR EXAMPLE, UH, SOMEBODY FROM OTT THAT GOES TO, UM, OFTEN HIGH SCHOOL THAT'S OUTSIDE OF THE CITY OF OAKLAND.
BECAUSE THE UNINCORPORATED, OKAY.
THE SCHOOL ONE TYPE FEE IS POINT OF SERVICE, SOUTHERN AREA SERVICE AREA, WHICH MEANS SOUTH OF BROAD RIVER.
SO IT COULD INVOLVE NOW UNINCORPORATED AREAS, THEREFORE ACCOUNTING WITH THEM POST FEE, IF IT'S AN UNINCORPORATED, NOT IN
SO IT COULD BE OUTSIDE OF EITHER OF THE THREE TOWNS, THEREFORE CREATING A SITUATION WHEN ACCOUNTING WOULD IMPOSE A FEE INSTEAD OF BEING THIS PALLET.
BUT LET'S SAY THAT ONE OF THESE MUNICIPALITIES IS BLUFFTON AND FEES ARE COLLECTED FROM DEVELOPERS AND THE BLUFFTON AREA IS THAT ME, THAT THE SCHOOLS WITHIN THE BLUFFTON AREA ARE THE, ARE THE, ANY SCHOOL, THE FUTURE SCHOOL, AND THE WELCOME AREA MUST GET THOSE FUNDS USED IN THAT CITY.
IN MY OPINION, UH, IF ALL MUNICIPALITY, ALL THREE MINUTES OF KALDI'S PARTICIPATE, THAT THE NEW CONSTRUCTION CAN OCCUR IN ANY OF THAT SOUTHERN AREA, AS LONG AS YOU DEMONSTRATE A GROWTH, UM, GROWTH IN STUDENT POPULATION IN THOSE AREAS.
I PROBABLY, I WILL CONFIRM THAT THERE'S GOTTA BE INTERGOVERNMENTAL AGREEMENT BECAUSE IF IT'S OVERLY RESTRICTED, WE MAY HAVE A PROBLEM.
WHY YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW THE ANSWER TO IT.
WHY IS IT HARD ADVIL LISTED, BUT THEN BEAUTIFUL.
THERE IS A SMALL PORTION OF THE BLUFFTON AREA THAT IS STICKY ANNEX INTO THE CITY OF MARTY BILL.
AND, UH, RECENTLY I THINK
SO I DO KNOW THAT THERE'S A PORTION OF THE UNIVERSITY PARK, WHICH IS A SMALL AREA THERE THAT IS CONSIDERED TO BE THE CITY AND PARTY GILL.
AND THERE COULD BE FOR FUTURE ANNEXATIONS AS WELL, THAT ACCOUNTING WOULD, WELL, THAT'S A RESTRICTED.
WASN'T COOL OUT OF THE COUNTY'S JURISDICTION TO ASSESS.
AND IT'S BECAUSE OF THE FEES ARE IMPOSED FOR THE BUFORD COUNTY SCHOOLS.
THAT'S A GROOMING BUILDING AREA.
SO THAT'S THE REASON THAT IT'D BE OKAY.
UM, I HAD A POINT OF MADAM CHAIR.
UH, UM, I JUST WANTED TO TELL YOU, I'M NOT GOING TO ARGUE WITH YOU ALL DAY ABOUT WHAT I SAID THIS MORNING, BUT I WOULD ASK YOU THIS.
I'M ASKING YOU TO REVIEW THE VIDEO BECAUSE IN THE VIDEO YOU WILL HEAR MCFADDEN SAY THAT IF YOU POST THE TIME, SOME OF THE GOOD GENDER YOU'RE STUCK WITH THEM, THAT IS ABOUT 10 MINUTES INTO HER PRESENTATION.
I GO TO PITCH TENDER DOCUMENTATION THAT YOU'VE GOT FROM HER, BUT IT IS ON THE VIDEO I'M DONE REALLY.
I THINK I ASKED YOU THIS ONCE BEFORE.
I CAN'T REMEMBER THE ANSWER THERE, CERTAIN EXPIRATION DATE ON THE TISCHLER BICE.
IT HAS TO BE REDONE EVERY FIVE YEARS.
SO I THINK THAT IS OUR DEADLINE.
UM, THAT'S OUR EXPIRATION DATE.
UH, POLICE STATE LAW REQUIRES THAT EVERY FIVE YEARS.
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SO WE HAVE ABOUT THREE MORE YEARS.YEAH, WELL, THAT'S, THAT'S A GOOD POINT.
WHAT, AT WHAT POINT DOES THAT, UM, STUDY CONCLUDE? IS IT THE DAY THAT IT WAS PRESENTED TO THE BOARD? IS IT EARLIER THAT YEAR WHEN THEY MAY HAVE COMPLETED THE WORK? SO THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION.
AND I CAN DEFINITELY CONTACT OUR, UH, TISCHLER, VICE TOO.
I'M IN CONSTANT EMAIL CONTACT WITH THEM ASKING DIFFERENT QUESTIONS.
DO YOU REMEMBER IF THEY FACTORED IN INFLATION, THINGS LIKE THAT? UM, OR I KNOW THAT IT'S TOTALLY FINE.
THERE'S ALSO AN EXPIRATION OF THE FUNDS.
SO THEY HAVE TO BE BUILT WITHIN THREE YEARS AFTER THE DATE.
YOU SAID YOU NEEDED THAT FACILITY, SO THERE'S A TIMELINE PERHAPS TO SPEND IT, IF YOU DON'T SPEND IT, YOU CAN GET BACK TO THE FEED PAYERS SO THAT THERE'S ALL SOME STIPULATIONS TO THAT.
I'M JUST TRYING TO SEE IF THERE'S SOME PURCHASE THAT WE COULD USE TO HELP WHO I HAD HEROIN.
WE'LL CERTAINLY BE DOING THAT AS FAR AS TRYING TO MOVE IT.
I WON'T BE ABLE TO GET YOU ANY NEW HAIR, BUT RESTRICTED.
OH, I THOUGHT YOU HAD RAISED YOUR OKAY.
MR. DALLY, COULD YOU PLEASE PUT DOWN YOUR HAND? THANK YOU.
THERE'LL BE NO FURTHER QUESTIONS.
WE'RE ONTO THE PROMPTS OF THE FAMILY DONATION.
YOU WANT TO FIND THE WALK? DO YOU WANT TO SAY ANYTHING PERSONNEL? CAUSE IF IT WAS YOUR, YEAH, YEAH.
LET ME SAY THAT, UH, EXPANDED DURING A BOARD MEETING, BUT I'M CONCERNED WITH HOW WE, UH, SEE DONATIONS FROM THE BOARD PERSPECTIVE AND HOW IT'S AMR AND THE AMOUNT THEY ARE MOCKED BECAUSE YOU RECEIVED CERTAIN, THE PATIENTS THAT SAID THAT WE USE THAT PARTICULAR SCHOOLS AND SOMETIMES PARTICULAR DEPARTMENTS.
AND I WANT US TO KNOW WHETHER OR NOT WE HAD A LIMIT ON THAT TYPE OF EMR, UH, ITEMS, AND IF NOT, HOW WE CAN GENERATE A CHANGE IN THAT, BECAUSE IF AT THE POTENTIAL TO DEVELOP AFFLUENCE IN TERMS OF THE SCHOOLS, OKAY, KNOW IF I COULD MAKE THIS A FEW POINTS ON THAT? UM, SO FIRST OF ALL, WE HAVE DEVELOPED A POLICY.
IT WAS UPDATED AS LATE AS 2014.
SO IT'S, IT'S SEVERAL YEARS OLD AT THIS POINT.
BUT AT THE TIME OF THE CHANGE, WE INDICATED THAT AT THE TIME A THOUSAND DOLLARS DONATIONS ENOUGH WERE ALL COMING TO THE BOARD AND IN 2014 MADE A CHANGE THAT ONLY THAT ONLY 5,000 AND UP WOULD BE A TO THE BOARD QUILT.
UM, SO I SEE EVERY DOCUMENT IS WE HAVE A DONATION OR CASH OR PROPERTY THAT DONATION FORM EITHER CASH OR PROPERTY FOR BEAVER COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT.
AND THERE IS A FORM THAT HAS TO BE COMPLETED EVERY TIME.
AND YOU ALL PROBABLY HAVE SEEN THOSE.
UM, AND THEN WHETHER IT'S CASH OR NON-CASH TRANSACTIONS, WE WANT TO BE AWARE OF IT AND KNOWLEDGEABLE OF IT.
MOST OF THESE DOCUMENTS, MOST OF THESE DONATIONS ARE DEPOSITED STRAIGHT INTO THE STUDENT ACTIVITY FUNDS, WHERE THEY INDIVIDUAL SCHOOLS.
AND SO, UH, WE COLLECT IT IN A, IN A NORMAL YEAR, WHICH IS NOT THIS YEAR 2019.
WE COLLECTED ABOUT A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS IN DONATIONS DISTRICT-WIDE.
AND SO, UM, WE DON'T PUT RESTRICTIONS ON THE DONATION OTHER THAN IF IT COSTS THE DISTRICT SIGNIFICANT MONEY OR LABOR TO ACCEPT A DONATION.
FOR EXAMPLE, PIANO IS ON THAT BABY GRAND PIANO IS ON THE SECOND FLOOR OF A HOUSE.
WE WERE NOT QUITE SURE WE WANT TO ACCEPT THAT, OR IF IT'S GOING TO HAVE SIGNIFICANT COST FOR THE DISTRICT TO BRING IT UP TO PAR.
SO, UM, SO WE DO HAVE A PROCESS AND THOSE TIMES
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GO INTO STUDENT ACTIVITIES.STUDENT ACTIVITIES IS EXEMPT FROM PROCUREMENT, UH, AND THE DISTRICT DOES NOT HAVE TOTAL CONTROL OVER THOSE ACTIVITIES THAT THE SCHOOL MAKES DECISIONS ON HOW TO USE THOSE FUNDS BASED ON ANY RESTRICTIONS THAT MAY HAVE BEEN PROVIDED FOR THE VENDOR.
UM, SO WE DO KEEP RECORD OF THE DONATIONS AS WELL, BUT WE DON'T, UM, RESTRICT THEM BASED ON THE, ANY, ANY SCHOOL'S STATUS.
UM, BUT WE DO USE SPECIAL REVENUE FUNDS TO HELP WITH THAT.
AND I HAVE ASKED FOR, AND I THINK I GAVE IT DURING ONE OF OUR BUDGET SESSIONS A YEAR OR SO AGO, UM, WHERE WE DO A PER PEOPLE REPORT EXPENDITURE REPORT, AND WE LIST ALL THE FUNDS, INCLUDING GENERAL FUND ALLOCATIONS, TITLE ONE ALLOCATIONS, IDA ALLOCATIONS.
AND WE COME UP WITH A PER PEOPLE NOW, AND THAT WAS VERY EYEOPENING.
AND I ASKED FOR MY STAFF TO PREPARE THAT AGAIN, SO THAT IT DOES HELP LIKE LEVEL THE PLAYING FIELD.
AND YOU'LL SEE THAT THE HIGHEST PER PEOPLE SPENDING IS AT OXEN OF OUR MEDIUM SCHOOLS.
SO WE'RE NOT ABLE TO TAP INTO CREATING EQUITY AND STUDENT ACTIVITIES, BUT WE DO HAVE OTHER MEANS TO DO IT WITH OUR OTHER FUNDING SOURCES.
SO NOT SURE IF THAT HELPS THE CONVERSATION.
YOU KNOW, UH, PARTICULAR ABOUT STUDENT ACTIVITIES.
SO NOW I'M NOT SURE EVEN GIVING TO A DEPARTMENT, UM, YOU KNOW, YOUR, WE HAVE A NEW DISBURSEMENT DOESN'T COVER DEPARTMENTAL GIFTS, WHICH, WHICH IS, IS MY, MY QUESTION IS CAN WE FACE, UM, UM, UM, I WOULD LIKE TO MOTION THAT WE FIXED THAT THIS KIND OF GO NATION INDEPENDENT DONATION TO A CERTAIN LIMIT.
WELL, YOU KNOW, SOMEONE LIKE TRICIA, CAN'T GIVE A WHEEL BRANCH, A HIGH SCHOOL, A BILLION DOLLARS FOR THE ART
I DON'T THINK WE HAVE ANYTHING IN PLACE TO STOP IT.
WELL, GORDON HAS TO BE NOTIFIED OF
I'M SURE BECAUSE OF THE BENEFIT, BUT THEN AGAIN, WE LIKE TO HAVE THE LEVERAGE TO TAKE THAT MILLION DOLLARS OR UTILIZE IT COUNTYWIDE THROUGH DISTRICT SCHOOLS.
SO THAT'S WHAT I, THAT'S WHERE I'M GOING, THAT I'D LIKE TO FIX IT WAY UP $10,000, 5,000, THOSE SOME KIND OF LIMIT IS PLACED ON HOW YOU CAN DIRECT THE DISTRICT TO USE THE ONE.
AND IF IT GOES PAST THAT LIMIT, YOU CANNOT MAKE A DIRECTION.
YOU CAN DONATE IT TO THE DISTRICT.
A DISTRICT DECIDED HOW WHAT'S BEST TO USE IT.
THAT'S WHERE THAT'S, THAT'S MY THOUGHT ABOUT IT.
SO CAN I ASK YOU, SO YOU'RE SAYING IF SOMEBODY WAS GOING TO GIVE A MILLION DOLLARS, YOU'RE GOING TO, TO WELD RANCH, EARLY COLLEGE, HIGH SCHOOL, WE GOT SOME POLICIES.
WHAT YOU'RE THINKING, WHERE THE ONLY ONE.
SO IF YOU WON'T GIVE THAT AMOUNT OFF, THE WHEEL HAS TO BE A MOP TO BUFORD COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT, OR COULD PART OF THAT BE, I MEAN, ARE YOU GOING TO HAVE PARK, WE'VE BE LIMITED TO $10,000 OR WHATEVER WE ARE LIMITING TO THE PARTICULAR STORE.
I MEAN, IT, 25,000, WE WANT TO GIVE 2 MILLION, 5,000.
YOU GET, GIVE IT THE WHEEL, BUT YOU CAN GIVE THAT TO GO WITH IT.
THAT'S WELL, ONE WITH THE OTHER 15,000 HAVE TO GO TO DISTRICT GENERAL FUND TO UTILIZE WHICHEVER WAY I UNDERSTAND EXACTLY WHAT YOU'RE THINKING IS THE PROBLEM IS DONATIONS OR DONATIONS.
AND YOU'RE, SO YOU'RE SAYING THAT THEY HAVE TO BE UNRESTRICTED AFTER A CERTAIN DOLLAR AMOUNT, AS OPPOSED TO THAT'S WHAT I'M SAYING.
YES MA'AM
YOU MAY NOT GET THE DONATIONS.
IF YOU, IF YOU START PUTTING TOO MANY SORT OF RULES ON THE DONATIONS, YOU KNOW, THERE'S A LITTLE BIT, WE HAVEN'T DONE THAT MUCH DONATION IN THE PAST, OVER A CERTAIN LIMIT, RIGHT? JUST LAST WEEK WE RECEIVED A, ONE OF OUR SCHOOLS RECEIVED A $13,000 DONATION
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FROM ONE OF THE LOCAL CAR DEALERSHIPS.SO IT WAS ONE OF OUR NEEDIEST SCHOOLS.
SO THAT MIGHT PUT A RESTRICTION WHERE YOU DON'T WANT IT.
I WANT 10, I TEND TO GO TO THAT SCHOOL.
AND THEN THE OTHER THREE GENERAL FUNDING, ANYBODY WHO'S GIVING 13 WOULD PROBABLY UNDERSTAND THAT WHAT I'M SAYING MOSTLY I'LL JUST WAIT A SECOND.
UM, TANYA, LAST BIG DONATION I SAW WAS FROM GREG PARKER.
I THINK IT WAS 25,000 OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
HOW WAS THAT DONATION MAYBE DOWN OR HAS IT BEEN DIMINISHED? UM, GENERALLY IT HELPS TO, UH, SUPPORT, UH, OTHER POSITIONS OF THE YEAR, FOR EXAMPLE, GUIDANCE COUNSELOR OF THE YEAR.
AND WE'VE USE THAT AS A FINANCIAL INCENTIVE FOR THE FINALISTS.
UM, AND THERE ARE, I THINK COMMUNICATIONS MAY OFFICE MAY USE A PORTION, MAY HAVE USED A PORTION OF THAT IN THE PAST.
UM, BULK OF IT GOES, UM, BY THE SCHOOL AND PATIENT, UH, WHERE ARE THE AREAS THAT IT WAS GENERATED? SO THE SCHOOL WAS IDENTIFIED AS HAVING GENERATED OR IN THAT AREA WAS IDENTIFIED AS WHEN THEY WOULD RECEIVE OR THROUGH THOSE FUNDS.
SO, UM, YEAH, THE GENERALLY THE CHECKS ARE PRETTY SOME OF THE LARGER ONES WE SEE PER YEAR.
LET'S GO BACK TO WHAT YOU JUST SAID.
UM, MS. SCRUBBY, CAN YOU TELL ME WHAT'S THE PROCEDURES ON DECIDING ON WHO GETS THAT MONEY? UM, WELL IT DEPENDS ON THE GRANT OR THE DONATION, IF THERE ARE SOMETHING, OH, UM, HOW I'M REFERRING TO THE POCKETS OF MONEY THAT YOU WOULD, THAT YOU WERE JUST REFERRING TO DETAILS OF THE BUDGET, RIGHT WITH ME TODAY.
SO I WASN'T REALLY PREPARED TO TALK ABOUT THAT ONE SPECIFICALLY, BUT I CAN CERTAINLY PULL THAT UP AND TAKE A LOOK AT IT AND THEN FORWARD TO THE BOARD AT SOME FUTURE THAT DIDN'T HAVE A FUTURE DATE, BUT, UH, I DON'T, I DON'T HAVE THE DETAIL BUDGET IN FRONT OF ME, SO I DON'T WANT TO MISSPEAK TODAY.
BUT MS. CRUMBLE, MS. CROSBY, YOU DID JUST SAY THAT A PROPORTION OF THAT MONEY GOES TO THE D TO D YOU SAID TO THE TEACHER OF THE YEAR, WHICH ONE WAS IT NOW? I BELIEVE IT WAS THE COUNSELOR OF THE YEAR OR THE COUNSELOR OF THE YEAR.
AND DO YOU, DO YOU KNOW HOW THE, HOW THAT WAS? THAT WAS THAT IN PART WITH THAT PROCESS THERE BEFORE YOU GOT THERE? OR IT'S BEEN IN PLACE PROBABLY TWO TO THREE YEARS.
AND DO YOU KNOW THAT WHEN THAT ACCOUNT IS CALLED IT, THAT MONEY GOES TO, SORRY, DO YOU KNOW WHAT THE ACCOUNT IS THAT THAT MONEY GO TO? UM, I HATE YOU.
IS IT THE BANK ACCOUNT YOU'RE ASKING ABOUT WHAT BANK ACCOUNT IT GOES IN OR WHAT GENERAL LEDGER ACCOUNT IT GOES, WHERE IT GOES TO, YES, IT HAS A FILM SPECIFIC FUND.
AND SO I CAN EASILY RUN A REPORT AND CAPTURE THAT INFORMATION.
I DON'T KNOW THE NUMBER RIGHT OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD.
SO IS THAT A, IS THAT AN ACCOUNT LIKE TO ALL DONATIONS GO TO, OR THAT, THAT, THAT, THAT'S WHAT I'M GETTING AT? NOT THE ACTUAL ACCOUNT NUMBER.
I'M ACTUALLY, LIKE, WE MIGHT HAVE A CHAT WHERE WE GET DONATIONS FROM PARKERS.
WE MAY HAVE ACCOUNT WHERE WE GET FROM, UH, PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY.
UM, MY, MY QUESTION IS ALIGNED TO WHICH, AND THEN WHAT MY, MY, MY QUESTION IS TO WHICH ACCOUNT, IF SOMEONE DONATED DO THAT, WHERE WOULD THAT, WHERE WOULD THAT MONEY GO TO? IT DEPENDS ON THE SIZE OF THE DONATION AND THE PURPOSE OF THE DONATION.
UM, IF IT IS LESS THAN $2,500, THE SCHOOL CAN LOAD THAT IN A STUDENT ACTIVITIES ACCOUNT.
IF IT'S MORE THAN $2,500, GENERALLY WE QUEST IT TO BE FORWARDED TO THE DISTRICT OFFICE.
WE DEPOSIT IT AND, AND MANAGE THE BUDGET FOR THE SCHOOL OR SCHOOL GROUP OF SCHOOLS THAT ARE, UM, MAKING PURCHASES FOR THAT, THAT ARE ELIGIBLE FOR THE, TO RECEIVE THE FUNDING.
UM, ANOTHER QUESTION, ANOTHER QUESTION, UH, I WOULD LIKE TO ASK IS, UM, WHAT MIGHT BE SOME REASONS TO REJECT DONATIONS OR ABSORBATIVE FOR THE SCHOOL DISTRICT, UH, TO MATCH THAT, FOR EXAMPLE, UM, THEY MAY,
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I THINK IT'S A VERY RARE OCCURRENCE.I CAN'T THINK OF AN OCCURRENCE THAT THAT HAS HAPPENED.
UM, BUT IF, IF THE COST TO THE DISTRICT WAS PROHIBITIVE, UH, IF WE DID NOT WANT TO MATCH OR NOT CAPABLE OF MATCHING, THEN THAT MAY BE REJECTED.
UM, I HAVE A COUPLE MORE QUESTIONS.
UH, DO YOU MIND IF I PROCEEDED? DOES ANYONE ELSE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? WOULD ANYBODY WHO HAS NOT SPOKEN LIKE THE ANSWER? ASK A QUESTION OR, OKAY.
UM, YOU'LL HAVE TO WE'LL WE'LL COME BACK TO YOU.
UM, MR.
MADAM CHAIR, WE HAVE, WE DISCUSSED THIS IN OPERATION SOME, AND IT COMES DOWN TO, IF YOU CAN PUT A LIMIT, THE CHANCES OF GETTING A DONATION OVER THAT LIMIT ARE SEVERELY DIMINISHED.
SO IF YOU SAY YOU CAN ONLY RESTRICT 10,000 FOR A PARTICULAR SCHOOL, THE CHANCES OF GETTING ANYTHING OVER TIME ARE SLIM.
UM, BECAUSE A LOT OF IT IS LOCALIZED.
UM, YOU KNOW, YOUR COVERT AIR, YOU WANT YOUR, YOUR MONEY VISIBLE, YOU BLOCK IT, YOU DON'T WANT IT.
SO KNOW WE'VE TALKED WITH THIS DILEMMA.
I DON'T KNOW HOW TO GET OUT OF IT OTHER THAN THE COST.
HOWEVER, YOU CAN HAVE SOME KIND OF WAY TO EQUALIZE SINCE ACROSS THE SCHOOLS, WITHOUT PUTTING A BURDEN ON THE GENTLEMEN.
UM, AND I THINK THAT'S THE ONLY WAY OUT OF THIS IN A WAY WE CAN HAVE MONEY THAT WE SAY, AS YOU SAY, YOU LOOK AT THE PER PUPIL, BUT GREENLAND, THE STUDENT ACTIVITY FUNDS, IT'S LIKE BLUFFTON SCOTT X AMOUNT.
AND THEN I HAVE TO RECRUIT SCOTT, YOU KNOW, IT'S X MINUS 7,000 OR SOMETHING.
IS THERE SOME WAY WE, AS A DISTRICT CAN DEPERSONALIZE THAT BECAUSE OTHERWISE YOU'RE NOT, YOU'RE NOT GOING TO GET TO DONATIONS.
I MEAN, DO YOU REMEMBER THE CONVERSATION? WELL, I DON'T KNOW.
THERE'S NO, THERE'S NO EASY WAY OUT OF IT.
I THINK I'M THINKING IT'D BE MUCH MORE DIFFICULT TO DO THE SECOND PART FOR US TO ADJUST WHAT WE'RE DOING FROM A DISTRICT GENERAL CONCEPT OF DISPLACEMENT, TO THE DIFFERENT SCHOOLS THAT HAVE THAT DONATED A PERSON WHO WAS DOING DAILY RESTRICTED TO A CERTAIN LEVEL.
AND THEN IF THEY WANT TO GO OVER OR NOT GO OVER THAT AMOUNT, THEN FINE, BECAUSE I'M SAYING, YOU KNOW, GENERALLY SPEAKING, THE AVERAGE DONATION IS NOT BEYOND THE LIMIT, ANYHOW, WHETHER IT'S EMR, BUT POTENTIALLY IT COULD BE, UNLESS THEY, YOU KNOW, PROPER ENDS UP HAVING A DIFFERENT THOUGHT PATTERN AND DECIDE THAT $200,000 ONE TIME.
AND, YOU KNOW, WE'D LIKE TO HAVE THE FLEXIBILITY TO USE THAT 200,000, THOSE THE WAY WE SEE FIT ACROSS THE DISTRICT, YOU KNOW, AND, AND THAT KIND OF RESPECT THE ABILITY TO BE OUT LOUD TO THE DISTRICT AND THE EDUCATORS TO DEVELOP A PLAN FOR IT, AS OPPOSED TO PIGEONHOLING IT WHERE ONE FAMILY MIGHT THINK IT DESERVES TO GO, BECAUSE I WANT TO SEE THIS SCHOOLS, YOU KNOW, QUIET DO BETTER THAN THE OTHER SCHOOLS, QUIET OR DO SOMETHING.
I THINK WE NEED TO MANAGE ALL OF THAT.
THAT'S, THAT'S MY GOAL ON THE EQUITY PIECE.
I'M JUST THE MECHANICS OF IT, BUT I HAVE A PROBLEM.
I FIND, IT SEEMS LIKE WE COULD LOOK TO SEE WHAT OTHER DISTRICTS DO.
I CAN IMAGINE THIS IS JUST A REEFER COUNTY PROBLEM BECAUSE, UM, YOU KNOW, AND JUST SEE IF THERE'S SOME KIND OF PIECEMEAL, SO IT COULD BE A BEAUTIFUL COUNTY OR A COUNTY PROBLEM.
WE'LL COME GET
AND SO WE HAVE A POTENTIAL OF FLUIDS.
THERE IS POTENTIAL FOR THOSE THINGS THAT HAPPEN.
AND HOW ARE WE GOING TO MANAGE IT WHEN IT HAPPENS? I COULD SEE A CADRE OF, OF, OF INFLUENCE FOR MOLDING THE SCHOOLS IN BLUFFTON HILTON HEAD TO A MUCH HIGHER LEVEL THAN THE SCHOOL'S NOT GOING TO GROW.
NO, LIKE I SAID, I SEE YOUR REASONING COMPLETELY, BUT YEAH.
I THINK WE CAN PUT THINGS IN PLACE.
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DON'T WANT TO INVENT THE WHEEL, BUT IF THERE'S A LITTLE WHEEL, I THINK WE CAN INVENT ONE.MAYBE A PROBLEM THAT WE FACE OR A PROBLEM THAT THE COUNTY FACES OR WHAT HAVE YOU.
BUT, UM, BUT I'M WILLING TO BACK THAT, UH, NATIONWIDE.
WE'RE NOT THE ONLY ONES WITH THAT PRODUCT.
UH, SO IF, IF THAT'S SOMETHING THE BOARD WOULD BE INTERESTED IN ADMINISTRATION OF GETTING TO, WE COULD, WE COULD TAKE A LOOK AT WHAT'S HAPPENING IN OTHER PLACES AROUND THAT FOR ANYBODY WHO'S WILLING TO SHARE.
I WOULD LIKE, UM, I WAS CURIOUS WHEN I THINK I'VE HEARD SOMEBODY HERE SAY THAT IT'S OUR, UM, THEY USING POUR WATER.
ARE THEY USING HANDS AND THE ACTUAL MEDIA CENTER OR, OR, OR NO, MR. SMITH.
VERY, VERY, VERY, VERY, VERY HARD TO LET PEOPLE THAT HAVE NOT SPOKEN OR SPOKEN A LOT LESS ON SOMETHING TO GO BEFORE SOMEBODY WHO'S ALREADY ASKED A LOT OF QUESTIONS.
AND THAT IS WHY I SAID, I WILL COME BACK TO YOU AND I WILL COME BACK TO YOU.
I DON'T THINK THIS ROBOT IS WORKING ON THIS.
MY POINT IS THAT YOU KEEP ME, WE WERE, WE WERE GOING BY THE PARTICIPATION HANDS AND I JUST DIDN'T SEE THEM PUT UP THEIR HANDS.
I SAW HER ONCE SHE, YOU IDENTIFY HER, THEN SHE PUT HER HAND UP.
I'M JUST TRYING TO ASK YOU AND SEE IF THEY GET SOME UNDERSTANDING OF ORGANIZATION, UM, UH, ORGANIZATION OF HOW WE, HOW WE RUNNING ON ME AND THAT'S IT.
I MEAN, YOU DON'T HAVE TO GET ANGRY.
I'M JUST ASKING FOCUSES TO SEE, AND I'M ASKING, HOW ARE WE RUNNING THE MEETING? I DIDN'T SEE WHERE SHE PUT HER HANDS UP.
I DID RAISE MY HANDS IN THE ROOM HERE.
I LEFT MY, UM, SO MY, TO SEE WHERE THE MONEY, WHAT SCHOOLS HAVE BENEFITED FROM THE MONEY, THE DONATION.
SO, BECAUSE I THOUGHT WHAT I HEARD WAS SOME OF OUR SMALLER SCHOOLS ACTUALLY ARE BENEFITING MORE THAN SOME OF OUR LARGER SCHOOLS.
I FROM PERSONAL EXPERIENCE, UM, I'VE OFTEN FELT THAT WHEN I WAS AT, UH, PREDOMINANTLY LOW INCOME SCHOOLS AS ADMINISTRATOR, I DIDN'T GET THE TYPE OF FUNDING FROM MY PTO, FOR MY STUDENT ACTIVITIES THAT OTHER SCHOOLS GOT THAT WE'RE IN, IN WEALTHIER AREAS OF THE COUNTY.
UM, SO THEN I HAD TO GO OUT AND TRY AND BEAT THE BUSHES TO GET DONATIONS FROM COMMUNITY SPONSORS TO MEET THAT.
AND I'M NOT SAYING THAT'S WHAT WE SHOULD BE, UM, LOOKING AT, BUT I THAT'S WHAT I, I UNDERSTAND NELSON CONCERN IN THERE BECAUSE I'VE BEEN IN THAT SITUATION.
BUT WHAT I WOULD LIKE IS SOME FACTS, YOU KNOW, WHAT HAS, WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE NOW? WHAT DO OUR DONATION PATTERNS LOOK LIKE? UM, WHAT SCHOOLS ARE GETTING THE LARGEST DONATIONS AND IS IT TRUE THAT OUR SCHOOLS THAT ARE IN LOCKED IN AND HAVE, UM, MUCH, UH, X SURROUNDED BY MORE WEALTH OR ARE THEY GETTING MORE MONEY FROM OUTSIDE SOURCES THAN ARE SCHOOLS THAT ARE NOT, BUT I JUST WOULD LIKE THAT INFORMATION THAT WOULD BE HELPFUL FOR ME.
UM, AND THE QUESTION I HAVE IS, ARE WE JUST TALKING ABOUT MONETARY DONATIONS OR ARE WE ALSO TALKING ABOUT, UM, ITEMS, YOU KNOW, GOODS BECAUSE TONYA, I SUPPOSE I VIEWED THAT, UM, DID MR. LOPES PUT TOGETHER A, UH, FOR THE WHALE BRANCH ELEMENTARY WHEN BADEN GAVE THEM A DONATION LAST WEEK? AND WASN'T A LOT OF THAT THERE WERE GIFT BAGS FILLED WITH SCIENCE, FAIR THINGS AND LEGOS AND ALL THAT.
SO ARE WE JUST, I MEAN, THAT WAS FABULOUS.
IT WAS THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS WORTH OF GOODS.
SO ARE WE ONLY LOOKING AT MONETARY DONATIONS? ARE WE ALSO LOOKING AT THE EQUIVALENT, YOU KNOW, UH, THOSE TYPES OF DONATIONS AND HOW WOULD WE HANDLE THAT? I DON'T THINK THAT CAN BE DENIED ALSO BECAUSE THAT WAS THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS, RIGHT.
WE TRACK THE DONATIONS FOR THE FORMS SO WE CAN PACK.
WE JUST DON'T MIGHT NOT HAVE THE INFORMATION IN THE GENERAL LEDGER.
THIS MAY NOT BE A DOLLAR AMOUNT THAT IS POSITIVE, BUT WE DO TRACK THE DONATIONS FORM.
SO THAT WOULD INCLUDE THOSE ITEMS THAT ARE NOT RIGHT.
SO, SO THEREFORE THE EQUIVALENCY WOULD BE IMPORTANT TO COUNT AS
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WELL, IS MY POINT.SO IT'S NOT JUST, UH, THE DOLLAR DONATION IS, COULD ALSO BE LOOKING AT THE GOODS AND SERVICES DONATIONS TO MR. SMITH.
YEAH, ACTUALLY, UH, MRS. UH, FRIDGES BROUGHT UP MY NEXT QUESTION.
I WAS GOING TO SAY EXACTLY WHAT, SOME OF WHAT SHE SAID.
I NOTICED TOO, THAT THEY WERE ASSERTING, THERE WAS, THERE WERE CERTAIN, UH, SCHOOLS THAT WERE GETTING DONATED THINGS, UH, UH, UH, LIKE ON THE FOOTBALL FIELD.
THERE WERE ALSO ANOTHER GROUP AT ONE SCHOOL THAT DONATED A CHECK.
AND I WAS JUST WONDERING, UH, ARE WE GOING TO THOSE THINGS AS WELL, BECAUSE YOU CAN GIVE A GIFT THAT'S THAT, THAT COULD BE OVER THE 20 500,000, I MEAN, $2,500 VERSUS NOT GIVING THE ACTUAL CASH, OR YOU CAN GIVE A GIFT THAT'S WORTH FIVE, 5,000 MILES OR 13,000 MILES.
HOW WOULD WE, HOW WOULD WE BOUNCE THAT AS WELL? THAT'S SOMETHING THAT, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE'VE THOUGHT ABOUT.
THAT'S THE QUESTION? SO ONE OF THE THINGS, UH, WELL, MR. SMITH, I GUESS MY QUESTION, I GUESS WHAT I WOULD ASK, ARE YOU, ARE YOU ASKING THAT OF THE BOARD, OR ARE YOU ASKING, UH, ANYONE? I'M NOT SURE.
I, I W I WILL ACTUALLY, I WAS ASKING HER, I WAS ASKED SINCE WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THIS, I WAS ASKING THE BOARD OR ANYONE, BECAUSE, LIKE I SAID, I SAW SOME PICTURES AND I SAID, I SAW SOME GIFTS THAT WERE BEING, I HAD BEEN GIVEN TO DIFFERENT SCHOOLS.
AND I WAS JUST WONDERING, UNDERSTAND WHAT MRS. PRIVILEGES BROUGHT THAT UP IN CONJUNCTION WITH.
SHE WA WHAT SHE BROUGHT UP, I SAW SOME THINGS THAT WAS GOING TO BRING UP WITH ONCE SHE BOUGHT HER, HER POSITION UP THAT I JUST WANT TO TAKE HER TO EXPAND ON THAT AND GET SOME MORE CLARITY.
ONE THING I WOULD, I WOULD JUST SHARE, UH, WITH, WITH THE BOARD IS IN, IN, IN MY EXPERIENCE WHEN, UH, YOU KNOW, AND IT'S SIMILAR TO WHAT MR ROBOT WAS TALKING ABOUT, UH, THERE ARE LOTS OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF DONATION TYPE THINGS, RIGHT? SO, SO SOMETIMES YOU HAVE PARENTS OR LOCAL COMMUNITY MEMBERS WHO WILL DONATE A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF MONEY TO A PARTICULAR SCHOOL.
BUT THEN WHEN YOU START LOOKING AT MAYBE SOME LOWER INCOME, UH, SCHOOLS, THEN ONE OF THE THINGS THAT YOU SEE THERE IS, UH, IF IT'S LESS AROUND INDIVIDUAL FAMILIES OR WHATEVER, DONATING DOLLARS, OR, I MEAN, REMEMBER TONY DOLLARS, YOU SEE MORE CORPORATE TYPE DONATIONS, UH, IN, IN THOSE.
AND THOSE TENDS TO BE HEALTHIER AND LARGER DONATIONS, DENTAL SOMETIMES, UH, THEY'RE ASSOCIATED WITH LIKE A COMMUNITY GRANT PROGRAM OR SOMETHING THAT THE INDIVIDUAL, UH, CORPORATE, UH, HAT'S AVAILABLE TO.
AND SO, SO THE SCHOOLS GO THROUGH THE PROCESS OF SUBMITTING AN APPLICATION, MAYBE TWO TO OBTAIN A GRANT.
AND THEN, UH, THAT ORGANIZATION OR CORPORATE PROVIDES THAT GRANT MAYBE IN THE WAY OF, UH, SUPPLIES OR WHATEVER ELSE OR MONETARY COMPONENT.
BUT THEY HAVE SELECTED THAT PARTICULAR SCHOOL ON THE BASIS OF A GRANT APPLICATION THEY HAVE SUBMITTED.
UM, THEY MAY NOT, THEY MAY NOT WANT TO, UH, TO TAKE SOME OF THAT EXTRA AND SUBMIT IT TO, UH, OTHER OTHER SCHOOLS THAT MIGHT, MIGHT NOT MEET THE CRITERIA OF THAT GRANT, IF THAT MAKES SENSE.
SO THERE THERE'S, THERE'S A HOST OF DIFFERENT, UH, THAT'S WHY THAT'S REALLY, IT'S A COMPLICATED PIECE BECAUSE YOU DON'T WANT TO DISCOURAGE THE DONATIONS.
UH, YOU WANT TO FIND A WAY THAT THE EQUITY PIECE BALANCE, BUT NOT DISCOURAGED THOSE TYPES OF CORPORATE DONATIONS TO SCHOOLS THAT THEY WANT TO BE A COMMUNITY PARTNER WITH THE SCHOOL.
SO I WOULDN'T FINISH YOUR HAND IS NOT UP, SIR.
MR. MELVIN, CAMPBELL'S NEXT? UM, THIS IS THE R THAT THE GUADALUPE, I ASKED THE QUESTION AND I WAS NOT FINISHING, ENGAGING IN THE, IN THE, IN THE QUESTION THAT I ASKED.
AND ONCE THAT QUESTION WAS DONE, I LEAVE.
WELL, YOU DIDN'T HAVE YOUR HAND UP.
SO I THOUGHT YOU WERE DONE SINCE YOU HAD PUT YOUR HAND DOWN, SIR.
I MEAN, YOU'VE GOT TO GIVE ME SOME ABILITY TO RUN THE MEETING.
MR. SMITH, YOU JUST ARE NOT GIVING THEM THE ABILITY FOR THEM.
I IMMEDIATELY START ASKING QUESTIONS.
SO I GUESS FROM NOW ON, UNTIL I'M DONE, THEN I WILL NOT TAKE MY HAND DOWN.
BUT IT WASN'T, I'M NOT GONNA ARGUE WITH YOU SAY, YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE WAYS YOU COULD LOOK AT IT, I DON'T CARE ABOUT THE GIFTS AND STUFF IS THAT THE LEVEL OF THE GIFT STILL BECOMES
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THE PURVIEW OF THE DISTRICT.IF IT'S PAST A CERTAIN LIMIT, THEN THE DISTRICT CONTROLS IT.
IF IT HAS THE GOOGLE TO A PARTICULAR SCHOOL, FIND THAT THE DISTRICT HAVE THE LEDGER TO SAY THAT THIS AMOUNT OF DOLLARS WAS PLACED TO THIS SCHOOL.
SO IT'S RAN OUT OF PLACE, THIS AMOUNT OF DOLLARS OVER HERE TO THIS SCHOOL.
AND THAT'S THE KIND OF THING I'M DRIVING.
YOU KNOW, IF YOU'RE GONNA GIVE ALL THE FOOTBALL PLAYERS AT BLUFFTON HIGH SCHOOL, NEW UNIFORMS THIS YEAR, BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT I'M DOING.
AND THEN WE ARE LOOKING AT THAT AS SOMETHING BLUFFTON HIGH AS GETTING FROM THE DISTRICT, NOT FROM THAT DOOR LATER, WHERE NEXT YEAR YOU DON'T GET NEW UNIFORMS AGAIN, BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT YOU WERE TARGETING TO GET.
YOU GOT YOUR UNIFORM LAST YEAR, ALTHOUGH IT WAS THROUGH A GO LATER.
AND THAT'S, THAT'S THE KIND OF THING I'M TALKING ABOUT OCCURS AND COULD OCCUR, YOU KNOW, FIELD HOUSE, IF YOU WILL BUILD FIELD HOUSES FOR THIS PARTICULAR SCHOOL, WHAT ABOUT THE OTHER SCHOOL? THEY'RE NOT GOING TO GET A FIELD HOUSE.
YOU KNOW, IF WE HAD THAT EQUITY IN TERMS OF THIS PARTICULAR ITEM WAS GIVEN TO THE SCHOOL, THEN WE COULD THEN, YOU KNOW, COMMENSURATE TO OTHER SCHOOLS.
AND THAT'S, THAT'S THE KIND OF THING I'M TALKING ABOUT.
AND THERE'S GOTTA BE SOME WAY THAT WE CAN LOOK AT IT AND DETERMINE SOME FORM OF A RATING, SOMETHING, SOME KIND OF POLICY THAT, THAT CREATES A LITTLE BIT MORE EQUITY.
AND I, YOU KNOW, I THINK ANY LIMITATION TRAGEDY UP MOUNTAIN, BUT, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE CERTAIN AMOUNTS ARE, YEAH, FINE.
GIVE YOUR FAVORITE DEPARTMENT $5,000, $10,000.
I MIGHT NOT SLAP THINGS A WHOLE LOT.
LIKE WHERE DO YOU THOUGHT GETTING INTO THE BIGGER NUMBERS, FIELD, HOUSE UNIFORMS FOR THE WHOLE FOOTBALL AND BASKETBALL TEAMS EVERY YEAR, THAT'S A DIFFERENT BANG AND, YOU KNOW, KEEP UP WITH THAT EQUITY AND ONE COUNTY, YOU KNOW,
SO WE GOT TO KEEP THAT KIND OF ROTATION FAM THAT'S ALL, THAT'S, THAT'S JUST A LIST OF THIS.
AND I DON'T KNOW, I DON'T HAVE A SOLUTION.
I JUST HAVE, UH, A PROBLEM MR. KIM.
UH, THIS IS DEFINITELY AN ISSUE.
UM, SO WHAT, WHAT HAPPENS WHEN, UM, WHAT HAPPENS MRS. CROSBY? WHEN A, WHEN, WHEN SOMEONE FROM THE COMMUNITY DONATES TO $10,000 AND HIS NAME, BUT THEN HE MAY ALSO DONATE TO DAMN WELL, HE MAY DONATE $10,000 IN HIS NAME AND THEN HIS WIFE MAY DONATE TO ABOUT MILES AND HER NAME.
AND IT'S ALL GOING TO THE SAME SCHOOL.
WILL THAT RAISE A FLAG? WILL THAT, I MEAN, IF THERE'S TWO DIFFERENT PEOPLE, IF THE WIFE HAS GIVEN 10,000 AND THE HUSBAND HAS GIVEN 10,000, I'VE NEVER HAD THAT SITUATION HAPPEN.
UM, THERE'S NO WAY OF KNOWING, UNLESS I ASK THEM TO VERIFY THEIR IDENTITY AND MEAN YOUR MARRIAGE LICENSE OR SOMETHING.
UM, UNLESS WE MADE A POLICY FOR THE, FROM AN ENTIRE FAMILY, IT HAD, YOU KNOW, FROM THE SAME FAMILY OR SOMETHING, I DON'T KNOW THE ANSWER TO THAT.
AND THAT'S WHY I'M ASKING, BECAUSE THE I'M GLAD, I'M GLAD THAT I'M GLAD THAT WE, THAT, THAT THIS CONVERSATION CAME UP BECAUSE NOW THAT I HOPE THIS IS OPENING OUR EYES TO SEE THAT THIS IS, THESE ARE THINGS THAT COULD HAPPEN BECAUSE IT COULD BE 25, IT COULD BE 2,500 HOURS FOR FIVE HOURS.
AND BASICALLY W WHAT CAN I, WHAT COULD HAPPEN IS BASICALLY, UH, I CAN GIVE 25, MY BROTHER COULD GIVE 25.
SO REALLY WE W W UH, WE'VE GIVEN, WE'VE GIVEN 10,000 MILES, W W W ON THE, UNDER THE RADAR.
AND NO, NO ONE, NO ONE KNOWS ANYTHING ABOUT IT.
SO, YOU KNOW, I, I THINK THAT THERE'S A LOT TO, TO UNDERSTAND AND TO WORK ON HERE, BECAUSE, BECAUSE, BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT THIS, THAT LOT CAN GO ON WITHOUT, WITHOUT BOARD KNOWLEDGE AND, AND LIKE MR
AND TO ME, THIS IS THE, I MEAN, THIS IS, I MEAN, THIS IS A SERIOUS, A SERIOUS, SERIOUS ISSUE WHEN IT, WHEN IT COMES TO FUNDING AND, AND PEOPLE DONATE BECAUSE SOMETIMES, UH,
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SOMETIMES WHEN PEOPLE DONATE, THEY DONATE WITH INTENTIONS.SO, YOU KNOW, THIS, THIS IS THAT, UH, I MADE, I, I, UM, MY NEXT QUESTION, LET ME START RUN.
MY NEXT QUESTION IS THIS, DO WE DO A BOARD GET A MONTHLY OR QUARTERLY UPDATE OF ANY EVER OF ANY, AND EVERYONE WHO'S DONATED MONEY TO THE SCHOOL DISTRICT? NO, SIR.
WE BRING EVERY DONATION THAT IS OVER THE $5,000 THRESHOLD.
I SAID, EVERY DONATION, RIVER'S A QUARTER, WHEREVER IT'S $5 REV, IT'S A DOLLAR, EVERY DONATION, PLEASE LET HER RESPOND.
SHE'S ANSWERING YOUR QUESTION, BUT YOU'RE NOT LETTING HER ANSWER.
GO AHEAD, MS. CROSBY, WE DON'T PROVIDE, UH, WE DON'T CURRENTLY CREATE A MONTHLY OR QUARTERLY OR ANNUAL LISTING.
WE PROVIDE THE INFORMATION TO THE BOARD ON A CASE BY CASE BASIS.
EVERY TIME THERE'S A DONATION OF 5,000, WHILE WE BRING IT FORWARD, WE DON'T CURRENTLY HAVE A CREATED LISTING.
I KNOW THAT OUR FOLKS ARE TRACKING IT, BUT, UM, THERE IS NO REPORT THAT IS PRINTED OR GENERATED CURRENTLY.
THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR, WHEN YOU STEP IN, IF I SEND, WHAT I SAID IS BECAUSE WHEN IN THE FORM OF ANSWERING THE QUESTION, SOMETIMES WHEN YOU ANSWERED THE QUESTION, YOU CAN GET OFF TRACK.
WHEN I ASKED MY QUESTION, I'M ASKING MY QUESTION FOR YOU TO PROCESS IT, TO UNDERSTAND IT.
SO WHEN I'M ASKING FOR ANSWER FOR AN ESTIMATE, LEADING TO OTHER, INTO OTHER THINGS, THAT'S WHY I'M AT, I MAY LEARN AND DO THINGS DIFFERENT.
SO I MAY NEED SHORT ANSWERS TO GET TO MY POINT.
SO YOU ARE OBJECTING AND TELLING ME TO LET HER ANSWER.
IF YOU LET ME, LET ME HANDLE THE PROCESS OF HOW BASKETBALL, THE QUESTION THAT I WOULD HAVE TO DO, I'VE LET IT, LET HER KNOW THAT WHAT I WAS ASKING OF HER WAS TO GET TO A POINT, TO HAVE A CLARIFICATION, A CLEAR UNDERSTANDING OF THE PROCESS SO I CAN UNDERSTAND IT.
SO WOULD YOU PLEASE STOP DOING THAT TO ME? THANK YOU.
SO I'M GOING TO GO ON TO THE NEXT QUESTION.
THAT WILL BE ME FOR A LITTLE BIT.
SO, UM, I FIRST WANT TO SAY, UM, THANK YOU TO EVERYONE THAT'S EVER DONATED TO BUFORD COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT.
EVERY SINGLE DONATION WE RECENTLY HAVE RECEIVED WHETHER HOW SMALL OR HOW LARGE, WHETHER IT'S A PERSONAL DONATION OR A CORPORATE DONATION.
SECOND THING WITH ASSUMED HERE THAT WE DO HAVE A PROBLEM WITH INEQUITY, AND I DON'T THINK WE REALLY KNOW WHETHER WE DO OR NOT UNTIL NOT THE POINT IS, IS WELL-TAKEN.
CAN WE JUST HAVE A LISTING OF THE DONATIONS IN THE LAST, LET'S SAY THREE YEARS, AND MAYBE THEY NEED TO BE DONATIONS THAT ARE, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE VOLUME IS, BUT MAYBE THEY NEED TO BE DONATIONS THAT ARE A HUNDRED DOLLARS OR GREATER, OR 500 OR GREATER, PROBABLY LESS THAN 5,000 THAT WE HAVE TO, YOU KNOW, APPROVE IS MY GUESS.
BUT I HAVE REALLY DON'T HAVE AN IDEA OF EXACTLY HOW MANY DONATIONS WERE RECEIVED AND IN WHAT DOLLAR AMOUNTS, BECAUSE, AND THEN WHAT SCHOOL, OR WHAT SPECIFIC CLAUSE, OR EXCUSE ME, WHETHER THEY ARE RESTRICTED OR NOT.
AND IF THEY WERE UNRESTRICTED, WHERE DID THEY GO? WHO GOT THE MONEY? UM, I THINK THAT'S WHAT WE NEED TO SEE, TO DECIDE.
DO WE HAVE AN ISSUE OR NOT? AND THE WHOLE IDEA IS, YES, WE, YOU KNOW, WE'D LIKE TO HAVE EQUITY IN THE DISTRICT.
WE DON'T EVEN KNOW WE HAVE IT.
THAT'S MY COMMENT, MR. STRIVEN.
UM, I MOVED THE FORD DIRECT STICKER.
CAN YOU PROVIDE THE BOARD WITH A LISTING OF THE DONATIONS OVER THE PAST THREE YEARS WITH THEIR RESTRICTIONS? CAN YOU ADD TO IT, OR IF THEY WERE UNRESTRICTED, WHAT DID THEY, WHERE WERE THEY A LISTING WITH DONATIONS AND ANY RESTRICTIONS OR, OR IF THEY WERE NON-RESTRICTED WE JUST, WE JUST WANT TO GET A PICTURE AND I'LL GO THINK WE HAVE A PROBLEM, BUT WE MAY, WE MAY NOT.
I DON'T THINK WE HAVE A PROBLEM.
WE HAVE A RISK OF DONATION SO FAR, BUT I THINK WE HAVE A RETENTION PROBLEM.
THAT'S THAT'S JUST THE MINDSET.
I THINK THE POTENTIAL IS THERE A SECOND TATTOO? IS THERE, WE'VE GOT NO WAY OF HINDERING IT.
WE'VE GOT NO WAY OF DEFENDING AGAINST THAT'S WHAT I THINK, VERIFY THE MOTION.
I'M LOW THAT THE BOARD DIRECT THE SUPERINTENDENT WITH THE LISTING OF DONATIONS WITH ANY RESTRICTIONS IN THE PAST THREE YEARS TO PROVIDE
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TO RECRUIT THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS, SUPERVISION, SUPERINTENDENT, TO PROVIDE DONATIONS, I'M MIXING IT.BUT I ALSO THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE KNOW WHERE I'M RESTRICTED DONATIONS HAVE GONE LIKE MANY RESTRICTIONS.
SO WITH DONATIONS WHERE, I MEAN, CAN WE JUST HAVE, UH, THE DONATIONS AND WHERE THEY WERE, UM, UM, UTILIZED.
WE'RE MAKING THIS MOTION IT'S ON THE SCREEN, SIR.
WELL, I THINK HE IS THAT DOESN'T INCLUDE GRANTS CLIENTS.
CAN WE USE ALL DIFFERENT TYPES AND FOUNDATION, ALL DONATIONS WITH
AND I DO ADDITION TO THE PARTICULAR SCHOOLS.
IN FACT, THAT'S WHAT I'M TRYING TO GET THAT ACROSS TO.
YOU WANT TO SEE ANY RESTRICTIONS THAT PLACE, ANY OF THEM, HOW MUCH CAME IN? I MUST GET HIM INTO THE DISTRICT GENERAL.
LET'S GET HIM INTO, WHERE DID I GO? SEE? WHAT WAS IT RESTRICTED TO GO THERE? WE DECIDED, YEAH, THAT'S, THAT'S PRETTY MUCH IT.
I JUST WANT TO BE CLEAR ON WHERE I'M GOING.
I'VE SAID THIS ABOUT THREE TIMES ALREADY, BUT DON'T YOU THINK WE NEED TO KNOW WHERE UNRESTRICTED DONATIONS ARE SPREAD.
THAT WOULD BE PART OF THIS BECAUSE THAT'S GOING TO BE PART OF EQUITY.
WELL, AT LEAST CHANGE, ANY DEMAND SENTENCE TO ADD RESTRICTIONS.
SO THEY'RE EXACTLY EVERYTHING THAT COMES IN.
IF IT HAD RESTRICTIONS ON IT, TELL US IF IT DIDN'T TELL US WHERE IT WENT.
SO WE CAN GET A PICTURE OVER THE LAST THREE YEARS, WHEREAS YET, OR DID NOT HAVE AN EQUITY ISSUE HERE.
SO I THINK YOU NEED TO WORRY ABOUT WITHOUT ANY RESTRICTIONS AFTER LISTING OF ALL DONATIONS, HAVING RESTRICTIONS TAKE WITHOUT, WITHOUT, YES.
ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION PAST THREE YEARS, I JUST WANTED TO SEE THE TIME.
WELL, THIS WILL BE THE BOARD OF EDUCATION.
THEN GO BACK TO THE SUPERINTENDENT TO PROVIDE A LISTING OF ALL DONATIONS AND RESTRICTIONS IN THE PAST THREE YEARS.
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YES.UM, EIGHT ZERO ONE AND TWO VOTES.
JULIE'S NAPKIN RICHARD DYER, MR. SMITH ABSTAIN.
I'D LIKE TO JUST MAKE A COMMENT.
WE ARE UNDER-UTILIZING DONATIONS IN THIS COUNTY.
WE ARE NOT ACTUALLY GOING OUT AND SEEKING DONATIONS IN THIS COUNTY.
THERE'S A LOT OF OPPORTUNITY, BUT YOU HAVE TO ASK THEM.
FOR EXAMPLE, I THINK IT WOULD BE WONDERFUL IDEA TO TRY TO ENDOW A CHAIR IN A TEACHING POSITION AT ONE OF OUR CHALLENGING SCHOOLS.
SO THAT WOULD SUPPLEMENT A TEACHER SALARY TO TEACH IN A CHALLENGING SCHOOL AND UNDER AN ENDOWED CHAIR.
YOU CAN SELL, BUT YOU GOTTA SELL IT.
BUT TO SEE ALL OUR FOLK TENTIAL HERE, THAT WE ARE NOT TAPPING AND JUST COUNTING.
I THINK DON'T KNOW WHAT WE NEED.
WE'VE GOT TO TELL A STORY AND WE GOTTA HAVE A PROGRAM BECAUSE WE COULD DO A LOT.
WE COULD REALLY DO A LOT, ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION ABOUT THE DONATION.
CAN WE HAVE A MOTION TO ADJOURN? CORRECT.