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READY TO ORDER TODAY IS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25TH.
IT IS A LITTLE BIT AFTER FOUR 30.
WE DID HAVE A SLIGHT DELAY BECAUSE THERE'S AN INTERNET OUTAGE IN BLUFFTON, AND THEY'RE TRYING TO MAKE SURE EVERYBODY COULD GET ON.
SO I'M GOING TO CALL THE MEETING TO ORDER.
UM, AND WE'RE GOING TO BEGIN WITH THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE.
I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.
UM, CAN I HAVE THE APPROVAL OF AGENDA OUT OF A CHAIR? I MOVE THAT WE APPROVE THE AGENDA OR THE LAST MEETING.
CALL FOR THE VOTE COLONEL BUYER.
I VOTE AYE, AYE FOR ME AS WELL, ROBIN, UM, MS. MIDDLETON IS NOT WITH US AT THE MOMENT.
DO WE HAVE ANY PUBLIC COMMENTS MS. GRINNELL? MA'AM NO, MA'AM WONDERFUL.
UM, NEXT ITEM IS ITEM D THE APPROVAL OF THE JANUARY 14TH, 2021 COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES.
DO WE HAVE A MOTION THAT WE APPROVE THE JANUARY 14TH, 2021 COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES.
THAT'S UNANIMOUS MOVING RIGHT ALONG.
WE HAVE ITEM E, WHICH IS THE UPDATE ON THE REALTOR SURVEY.
UM, SO I DID SEND AN EMAIL TO MS. JEAN BACK AT THE REALTORS ASSOCIATION, THE HOMESTEAD AREA REALTORS ASSOCIATION, SHE'S THE CEO THERE.
UM, AS YOU MAY KNOW, COLONEL GEIER AND UH, STAFF MEMBERS, THE, UH, INSTRUMENT THAT WE HAD CREATED, UM, WE ADDED A DISCLAIMER TO IT, AND THAT BASICALLY SAID THAT ANY RESPONSES WERE GOING TO BE OF THE, YOU KNOW, INDEPENDENT OPINION OF THOSE REALTORS THAT PUT FORTH, UM, OUR RESPONSE, THE, UM, THAT THEN HAD TO GO TO THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS FOR THE ASSOCIATION AT THE END OF JANUARY.
AND THE UPDATE THAT I ACTUALLY RECEIVED TODAY, UM, FROM MS. BECK WAS THAT THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS STILL WAS CONCERNED ABOUT THE DOCUMENT.
UM, THEY THOUGHT THAT THE ANSWERS SHOULD COME FROM THE TOWN, UH, VARIOUS GATED COMMUNITIES AND OTHER RESOURCES.
UM, SHE PROVIDED ME WITH THE JANUARY MARKET SNAPSHOT FOR BLUFFTON, UM, WHICH SHE STATED AS AVAILABLE ON THE 15TH OF EVERY MONTH.
SO THAT IS THE UPDATE THAT I RECEIVED TODAY.
I BELIEVE I HAD SENT THAT, UM, JANUARY REPORT, UM, TO COLONEL GEIER WHEN I SAW HIM COME AVAILABLE.
BUT, UM, THAT IS WHERE WE ARE AT THE PRESENT MOMENT.
SO NOT SURE HOW WE WOULD LIKE TO PROCEED.
AND I WOULD LOVE TO HAVE MS. MILTON'S FEEDBACK ON THAT.
UM, YOU KNOW, WE DO HAVE THOSE DATA POINTS FROM THAT INFORMATION, BUT I KNOW THAT WE WANTED THE, THE SENTIMENTS OF THE REALTORS, ADAM CHAIR, YOU KNOW, THIS IS A BUREAUCRATIC COP-OUT, UH, BY AN ORGANIZATION THAT'S OBVIOUSLY INSECURE AND ITS OWN ORGANIZATION, FRANKLY.
UH, COULD WE ASK THEM TO, UH, IF WE SET UP A MEETING PLACE AND DATE THAT THEY COULD ADVERTISE OR SEND TO THEIR MEMBERS, IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO, UH, HAVE A DISCUSSION WITH THE SCHOOL BOARD, THE BLUFFTON GROWTH COMMITTEE, PLEASE COME TO PICK A SCHOOL ON SUCH AND SUCH A DATE AND TIME AND SEE WHO SHOWS UP SO THAT IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE REALTORS ASSOCIATION, BECAUSE THEY'RE OBVIOUSLY POWERLESS WORTHLESS DISTRICT.
WE SHOULDN'T HAVE EVEN BOTHERED WITH THEM.
WE NEED TO TALK TO SOME REALTORS.
I'M, I'VE GOT REALTORS IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD AND I'VE BEEN TALKING WITH THEM
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AND THEY HAVE GREAT INSIGHT ON WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE BUFORD BURDEN, UH, CALLA, WASI, SPRING ISLAND, UH, OUT TO, OUT TO THE WHALE BRANCH.THAT'S VERY, VERY INTERESTING ABOUT WHAT KIND OF PEOPLE ARE COMING.
AND RIGHT NOW THEY TELL ME IT'S SLOW RIGHT NOW.
AND IT'S SLOW BECAUSE THERE'S NO SUPPLY, THERE'S DEMAND PEOPLE WANTING TO MOVE HERE, BUT THERE'S NOT ENOUGH HOMES IN THEIR PRICE RANGE AND WHATEVER TALKING WHAT'S THEIR PRICE RANGE.
THEIR PRICE RANGE IS WHAT I WAS TOLD IS $500,000 IN LESS THAN EVERYTHING ABOVE THAT.
YOU KNOW, THERE'S, THERE IS, THERE IS SOME SUPPLY OUT THERE, BUT AT $500 OR LESS, THEY HAVE MORE DEMAND THAN THEY HAVE SUPPLY.
AND, AND PEOPLE ARE LOOKING TO SAVANNAH, LOOK INTO CHARLESTON AND SO ON BECAUSE THERE SEEMS TO BE A JUST HUGE INFLUX OF NORTHERNERS WHO ARE COMING DOWN HERE TO GET AWAY FROM THE WEATHER AND TO GET AWAY FROM THE RESTRICTIONS OF COVID.
AND THEY'RE MUCH MORE RESTRICTED THAN, THAN WE ARE, BUT I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S WHAT THAT'S THE CASE IN THE BLUFFTON AREA, BUT I KNOW THERE ARE REALTORS OUT THERE THAT KNOW THAT AND BE WILLING TO TALK TO US ON A NON ATTRIBUTION BASIS.
WE KNOW THE CITY PLANNERS AND THE GOVERNMENT DOESN'T DEAL WITH THE MARKET.
THEY DEAL WITH THE RESULTS OF THE MARKET WHEN, WHEN THE TITLE IS SIGNED AND, AND THE, UH, THE HOUSE IS CLOSED, THEN THEY HAVE, THEN THEY HAVE DATA OF PRICE AND YOU KNOW, WHO BOUGHT THE HOME.
BUT THE REALTORS KNOW THAT THERE'S PEOPLE WITH KIDS LOOKING FOR SUCH AND SUCH A PLACE IN THIS AREA.
AND, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE BUYING SPEC HOMES.
ARE THEY, ARE THEY, UH, CUSTOM BUILDING HOMES? UM, HOW, YOU KNOW, THE SCHOOL CHOICE TO SCHOOL, WHAT KIND OF IMPACT DOES THAT HAVE ON THEIR SALES? THEY'LL KNOW THAT ALL THE REALTORS IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD, I ASKED THEM ABOUT THIS PLACE AND THEY KNOW ALL OF THAT BECAUSE THEY'RE IN WITH THEIR CUSTOMERS AND ALL WE NEED IS SOMEBODY TO GIVE US A CLUE ABOUT TRENDS, NOT SOME GOVERNMENT THAT ONLY GIVES OUT, UH, THE UDS AND, AND, UH, DEVELOPMENT AREAS AND SAY, HAVE A GOOD DAY THAT DOESN'T TELL US TRENDS.
I AM SO FRUSTRATED WITH THIS GROUP.
THAT'S THE SAME GROUP THAT CALLED US IN, UH, DURING, UH, OUR, UH, RUN FOR OFFICE TWO YEARS AGO, TO TALK TO US ABOUT WHAT WE FELT ABOUT, YOU KNOW, BEING ON THE SCHOOL BOARD, THAT'S THE SAME GROUP, AND NOW THEY'RE HUNTING.
WELL, UM, SO WOULD YOU, UH, BE AMENABLE TO THE IDEA OF PERHAPS GRABBING, UH, SOME OF THE REALTOR, UH, COMPANIES OR THE, THE REALTY COMPANIES IN THE BLUFFTON AREA AND SUE SENDING OVER, UM, A SIMILAR, UH, WHETHER IT BE MEET WITH US OR THEM TAKE THE SURVEY.
I'M NOT SURE HOW WE SHOULD POSE IT.
WHAT DO YOU THINK IS THE BEST AND WHY? WELL, I REALLY THINK FACE TO FACE, THESE ARE SALES, THESE ARE SALESPEOPLE, RIGHT.
YOU KNOW, THAT THEY'RE FACE-TO-FACE PEOPLE.
AND SO IF WE COULD DO, YOU KNOW, I, I WOULD HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH SHOWING UP AND CALLING UP AND SAID, CAN WE COME BY YOUR OFFICE AND TALK TO THE BROKER? RIGHT.
WE'VE GOT BUNCHES OF AGENTS OUT THERE WORKING FOR HIM.
HE'S HE? OR SHE, WHOEVER THE BROKER GOING TO KNOW ABOUT THE SAME INFORMATION, MAYBE NOT AS MUCH DETAIL AS, AS WE WOULD GET FROM THE ACTUAL PERSON IS MEETING WITH A PROSPECTIVE BUYERS.
I'M, I'M JUST WONDERING IF WE DID MEETINGS, UM, OR ARE WE PRESET DATES AND TIMES THAT THAT MIGHT RESTRICT HOW MANY RESPONSES WE GET? SO WE MAY WANT TO DO KIND OF LIKE A, HEY, WE'RE HAVING THESE MEETINGS ON THESE DAYS.
ALTERNATIVELY, IF THOSE DATES DON'T WORK FOR YOU, WOULD YOU MIND FILLING OUT THIS SURVEY OR DISTRIBUTING IT TO THE EMPLOYEES WITHIN YOUR OFFICE? I TRY TO CAPTURE AS MUCH OF IT AS WE CAN.
UM, WELL, WOULD YOU LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION IN THAT REGARD? AND THEN WE'LL GO AHEAD AND GET THINGS ROCKING ON THAT.
I DIDN'T COPY DOWN ALL THE WORDS THAT YOU SAID.
IT CAN BE SIMPLE, HOWEVER, YEAH.
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REALTORS IN THE LEFT-HAND AREA AND ASK THEM IF THEY WOULD BE INTERESTED IN FILLING OUT THE SURVEY OR MEETING WITH US AT A TIME AND DATE OF THEIR CONVENIENCE, OR WE GO ON THE COMMITTEE, GOING TO THEIR OFFICE AND SPEAK WITH A BROKER.WE'LL WAIT, PUT IT IN, PUT IT IN, WHATEVER FORM CAME, ROBIN, AND THEN WE CAN EDIT IT.
WOULD YOU BE INTERESTED IN FREELANCER MEETING IN THE BLUFFTON AREA AND ASK THEM IF THEY WOULD BE INTERESTED IN FILLING OUT THE SURVEY OR MEETING WITH THE BLUFFTON, UH, FACE TO FACE AT A TIME DATE AND TIME TO BE DETERMINED.
I'LL SECOND IT TO GET IT UP THERE AND WE'LL TAKE A PEEK AT IT AND YEAH, HOLD ON.
I WAS GOING TO SAY, UM, SHOULD WE CHANGE REALTORS TO REALTY COMPANIES? UM, BECAUSE THAT'S PROBABLY MORE ACCURATE, THAT'S DOING INDIVIDUAL REALTORS MIGHT.
AND SHOULD WE SAY, UM, AT THE END, UH, WHAT IT'S IN REGARD TO CONCERNING THE PRESENT AND FUTURE MARKETPLACE LIFTED MARKETPLACE? YEAH, I'M GOOD WITH THAT.
AND JUST JOINING THE MEETING CONCERNING THE FUTURE MARKET LEFT IN THE MARKETPLACE, THE MARKETPLACE.
UM, THE MEETING CONCERNING THE FEATURE BLUFFED AND REAL IS TO MARKETPLACE FILTER COMPANY MEETING CONCERNING THE FUTURE OF BLUFFING.
I WORKED FOR THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
AND INTERNET'S BEEN A LITTLE STRANGE IN THE BOSTON AREA TODAY, SO, UM, WE'RE IN IT TOGETHER.
UM, WE HAVE A MOTION ON THE FLOOR RIGHT NOW THAT WAS MADE BY COLONEL GEIER AND SECONDED BY MYSELF.
UM, JUST TO PROVIDE A QUICK UPDATE.
WE HAD PREVIOUSLY BEEN TRYING TO GET, UM, THE HILTON HEAD AREA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS TO DISTRIBUTE A SURVEY DOCUMENT TO THEIR MEMBERSHIP.
UM, BUT IT LOOKS LIKE THAT WILL NOT BE HAPPENING AT THIS TIME.
SO ALTERNATIVELY, WE ARE, UH, MAKING THIS MOTION, UM, MOVING FORWARD FOR A PLAN B ESSENTIALLY.
SO, UM, I'M GOING TO CALL THE QUESTION, COLONEL I 10 I AS WELL, THE MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY.
AND WE ARE MOVING ON TO ITEM F ITEM.
DO YOU HAVE DATES THAT YOU WANT ME TO OFFER? I MEAN, DO WE HAVE, OR YEAH, WE'LL PROBABLY HAVE TO COORDINATE OFFLINE, UM, TO FIND DATES AND TIMES THAT WORKS FOR ALL THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS.
WE MAY EVEN PUT IT ON, YOU KNOW, A MEETING DATE DEPENDING ON WHAT EVERYBODY'S SCHEDULE LOOKS LIKE.
SO, UM, ITEM, DISCUSSION OF SURVEY OF STUDENTS WHO LEFT THE DISTRICT.
SO THIS IS AN UPDATE, HOPEFULLY, DEPENDING ON, UM, WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE FROM
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MS. CAROL CRUTCHFIELD AND ROBERT AUDITING.SO I'LL GET STARTED, UH, YOU ALL ASKED THAT WE DO IT AND YOU DIRECTED THE SUPERINTENDENT ACTUALLY TO SURVEY STUDENTS WHO HAD LEFT THE DISTRICT THIS YEAR.
AND SO WE WERE ABLE TO OBTAIN EMAIL ADDRESSES OF ALL STUDENTS WHO WEREN'T HERE THIS YEAR THAT WERE THERE LAST YEAR AND SENT THAT OUT.
SO THIS IS SORT OF THE RESULTS AS, UH, UM, LATE YESTERDAY AFTERNOON WHEN I COMPILED THIS DATA.
SO WE HAVE GOT, HAD GOTTEN 316 SURVEYS BACK, WHICH REFLECTED 487 STUDENTS.
SO THE FIRST QUESTION WAS, YOU KNOW, TUMMY, HOW MANY, UM, FIRST QUESTION IS HOW MANY STUDENTS YOU HAD, ALTHOUGH THAT'S NOT WHAT THAT SAYS.
I'M JUST THINKING THAT UPDATE THAT NOT SENT TO YOU, THAT THE FIRST QUESTION WAS HOW MANY STUDENTS YOU HAD.
I THINK I CUT AND PASTED RUG, SORRY.
UH, WE WERE LOOKING AT THE RESULTS, SO THEY ANSWER ONE, TWO, THREE, FIVE, 10, WHATEVER.
UM, AND THAT'S HOW I CAME UP WITH HOW MANY STUDENTS WERE ACTUALLY AFFECTED BY THESE SURVEY RESULTS.
AND THEN THE SECOND QUESTION, UM, GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE.
ROBIN IS TELL US, YOU KNOW, THE REASON WHY YOU LEFT THE SCHOOL DISTRICT AND WE LEFT THAT ONE ON MO MULTIPLE CHOICE WITH A OPEN-ENDED OTHER.
SO, UM, AS YOU CAN SEE, 20, ALMOST 29% SAID THAT THEIR FAMILY NEEDED A FACE-TO-FACE SCHOOL.
UM, ABOUT 16% SAID OUR FAMILY NO LONGER LIVES IN BUFORD COUNTY.
UM, 17% WAS THEY WERE CONCERNED ABOUT EXPOSING THEIR, THEIR FAMILY TO COVID-19 AND THEN 38% OTHER REASONS.
AND, AND THOSE OTHER REASONS REALLY WERE A HODGEPODGE VARIETY.
LOT OF THEM WERE SORT OF, UM, AND THEY COULD ANSWER MORE THAN ONE OF THESE.
SO A LOT OF THEM ANSWERED, YOU KNOW, I NEED A FIVE DAY FACE TO FACE AND THEN ELABORATE IT A LITTLE MORE ABOUT THEIR SPECIFIC CONCERNS.
AND OBVIOUSLY WE'RE NOT GOING TO SHOW EVERYONE'S PRIVATE CONCERNS ABOUT THOSE, BUT, UM, MOST OF THEM STILL FELL INTO THOSE SAME CATEGORIES.
THEY WERE CONCERNED ABOUT EXPOSURE.
THERE WERE CONCERNS ABOUT STUDENTS WEARING MASK AND THOSE KINDS OF THINGS, JUST TO KIND OF GENERALIZE THOSE.
AND THEN THE THIRD QUESTION, THIS IS THE ONE WE REALLY WANTED THE BIGGEST ANSWER TO DOES YOUR STUDENT PLAN ON RETURNING TO BUFORD COUNTY SCHOOL NEXT YEAR? AND YOU CAN SEE JUST OVER 27 AND A HALF PERCENT SAY YES.
AND, UM, 72 AND A HALF PERCENT SAID, NO, THEY DO NOT PLAN ON COMING BACK.
IT'S SORT OF IN THE AREA THAT WE WERE GUESSING WHAT OUR RESULTS MIGHT BE.
WE WERE KIND OF THINKING ALONG THOSE LINES.
AND THEN THE FOURTH QUESTION REALLY WAS, IS THERE ANYTHING YOU THINK WE SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THE CHOICE THAT YOU HAVE MADE FOR COMING BACK OR NOT? AND THERE WERE SUCH A VARIETY OF, OF ANSWERS.
I JUST MADE A WORD CLOUD, SO YOU CAN KIND OF SEE, AND, AND MOST OF IT, WHEN YOU TRIED TO GENERALIZE THEIR ANSWERS OR THEY WERE MAKING DECISIONS BASED ON THEIR JOB'S NEEDS OR THEIR FAMILY'S NEEDS, UM, FACE-TO-FACE RETURNING, YOU SEE THOSE STUDENTS, CHILDREN CHOICE TEACHERS, YOU KNOW, UM, PUBLIC INPUT.
THEY WANTED THAT, UM, TRYING TO HIT A FEW OF THE MOVED.
SOME OF THESE PEOPLE MOVED AWAY, THEY'RE NOT COMING BACK.
AND SO, UM, AS YOU'LL SEE ON THE NEXT SLIDE, I THINK FOR ME ANYWAY, THE SURVEY RESULTS SORT OF ASK MORE QUESTIONS.
YOU KNOW, OTHER THINGS THAT WE KIND OF NEED TO CONSIDER, WHICH IS WE ALREADY KNOW BUFORD COUNTY IS A TRANSIENT POPULATION.
STUDENTS LEAVE, UM, ALL THE TIME.
AND WE REALLY HAVEN'T LOOKED AT WHAT IS A TYPICAL LOSS EACH YEAR.
HOW MANY STUDENTS DO WE NORMALLY LOSE STUDENTS NORMALLY MOVE AWAY BECAUSE WE DO HAVE THE MILITARY BASE.
AND THEN AGAIN, HOW MANY, YOU KNOW, SOME LEAVE AND THEN SOME COME BACK IN, HOW MANY NEW STUDENTS DO WE GET? NOT JUST NEW KINDERGARTNERS, BUT HOW MANY NEW NEW STUDENTS AT ALL GRADE LEVELS
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DO WE TYPICALLY GET IN A YEAR? AND THAT KIND OF ANALYSIS WOULD CERTAINLY TAKE SOME TIME TO DO TO KIND OF HELP US INTERPRET SOME OF THE RESULTS THAT WE GOT FROM THIS SURVEY.AND AGAIN, WE'VE NEVER SURVEYED PARENTS WHO LEFT THE DISTRICT TO ASK THEM WHY THEY LEFT THE DISTRICT.
SO WE DON'T KNOW IF THESE RESULTS WERE SIMILAR OR DIFFERENT FROM WHAT WE MIGHT SEE IN A TYPICAL YEAR.
THE OTHER THING THAT THIS DOESN'T REALLY CAPTURE IS WE KNOW THAT, YOU KNOW, WHEN WE LOOKED AT HOW MANY KINDERGARTENERS WE HAD THIS YEAR COMPARED TO PREVIOUS YEAR, THAT NUMBER WAS A BIGGER BOSS.
AGAIN, BECAUSE KINDERGARTEN ISN'T COMPULSORY.
THEY DIDN'T HAVE TO COME, BUT YOU KNOW, HOW MANY WILL WE GET BACK, NOT BACK, BUT HOW MANY WILL START THIS YEAR THAT WE DON'T KNOW.
UM, AND THERE'S NO REAL WAY TO CAPTURE AND SURVEY THOSE POTENTIAL STUDENTS WHO WILL START WITH BEAVER COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT FOR THE FIRST TIME AS FIRST GRADERS, INSTEAD OF KINDERGARTNERS, THAT THEY WOULD'VE POTENTIALLY STARTED LAST YEAR.
SO THAT'S JUST SOME OTHER THINGS TO THINK ABOUT AS WE'RE TAKING THESE SURVEY RESULTS AND TRYING TO INTERPRET THEM IN TERMS OF MOVING FORWARD OR WHAT WE THINK WAS GOING TO HAPPEN FOR ENROLLMENT FOR NEXT YEAR.
SO I HAVE A QUESTION AND IT'S JUST A CLARIFICATION QUESTION.
SO WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE TO DO THIS SURVEY EVERY YEAR AND THEN TRY TO DO THIS EVERY YEAR.
YOU KNOW, THAT I DON'T KNOW THAT THAT'S SOMETHING YOU ALL AS A BOARD SHOULD TALK ABOUT.
IS THIS KIND OF INFORMATION IMPORTANT FOR YOU ALL, UM, TO GET A FEEL FOR WHAT REALLY HAPPENS IN OUR COMMUNITY? UM, AGAIN, I DON'T THINK ANYONE'S EVER LOOKED AT THIS WHOLESALE AND THAT THERE'S, I THINK THERE'S PROBABLY WAYS WE CAN TAKE OLD DATA AND LOOK AT, YOU KNOW, HOW MANY FROM THE PREVIOUS YEAR AREN'T HERE THIS YEAR AND WHERE, WHERE, WHAT AREAS GEOGRAPHIC AREAS MAY POTENTIALLY BE MORE TRANSIENT FROM THAT I THINK, BUT AGAIN, THAT'S A LOT, YOU KNOW, THAT, THAT WILL TAKE SOME TIME TO DO THAT KIND OF ANALYSIS.
I THINK IT WOULD BE VERY HELPFUL BECAUSE IT SHOWS THE TRENDS ARE VERY TRANSIENT.
BUT IF YOU NOTICE I LIVE ON ONE 70, SO THERE'S A NEW SUBDIVISION DOWN THE STREET FROM ME, BUT IT'S RIGHT WHERE THE ELEMENTARY IS.
AND THAT WAS A QUESTION THAT I WAS GOING TO ASK, DOES ANYBODY KNOW WHAT'S GOING TO BE DEVELOPED RIGHT THEN? BECAUSE I KNOW THAT THERE WAS A COUNTY BOARD MEETING WITHOUT ZONING, SO WE HAVE MORE PEOPLE COMING IN TO STAY.
SO IT WOULD BE NICE TO HAVE THIS DATA AND YEAR SO WE CAN SEE THE TREND IN LIKE AREAS ARE IMPACTED MOST RIGHT.
UH, KINDERGARTEN STUDENTS NEVER STARTED WITH THIS.
HOW MANY WILL START SCHOOL AS FIRST GRADERS? SO KIN KINDERGARTEN IS NOT COMPULSORILY UM, WHO'S WHO SAYS THAT, IS THAT IN STATE LAW? I THINK SO.
AND SO WE CAN'T CONVINCE OR FORCE THEM NOT SKIP KINDERGARTEN.
UM, I GUESS THAT'S THE CASE, IS THAT RIGHT? DOES ANYBODY TALK TO THOSE PARENTS AND TELL THEM WHY IT'S NOT A GOOD IDEA TO SKIP KINDERGARTEN? DO WE USE OUR COUNSELORS OR GET INVOLVED IN THIS? UH, I MEAN, I, I THINK PARENTS JUST HAVE TO REGISTER THEIR CHILDREN FOR KINDERGARTEN AND IF THEY DON'T REGISTER THEM, WE WOULDN'T EVEN KNOW THEY EXIST.
WELL, I MEAN, WHAT'S, YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT IS ASHLEY HUTCHINSON'S WORLD AND SHE DOES RUT, UH, RUN THE CHILD FIND PROGRAM.
SO SHE IS ACTIVELY IN A TYPICAL YEAR, YOU KNOW, TRYING TO FIND THE KIDS, UM, THAT ARE IN, THAT ARE IN THE POVERTY AREAS AND TRYING TO GET THEM ENROLLED IN SCHOOL.
SO I GUESS TO KIND OF ANSWER YOUR QUESTION THAT IS OCCURRING AND THAT OCCURS EVERY YEAR, AS FAR AS THEY'RE TRYING TO SIGN UP THE KIDS TO GET INTO THE PRE-K PROGRAM AND THE KINDERGARTEN PROGRAM.
SO THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT ASHLEY HUTCHINSON DOES.
MADAM CHAIR IS THIS IS, THIS IS SIGNIFICANT PROBLEM DISTRICT WIDE, NOT JUST COME UP.
AND IT SEEMED TO ME THAT, UH, ISB NEEDS TO TALK TO US
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MORE ABOUT THIS EXACT ISSUE ABOUT IT.IT'S NOT GOING TO KINDERGARTEN GOING RIGHT TO FIRST GRADE IS GOING TO BE IN THE SAME CLASSROOM WITH FIRST GRADERS THAT DID GO TO KINDERGARTEN.
AND THAT'S NOT GOOD FOR THE FIRST GRADERS.
THAT'S NOT GOOD FOR THE, NO, THAT THE KINDERGARTEN, WELL, I MEAN, THIS IS, UH, THIS IS A SIGNIFICANT PROBLEM.
I GUESS I THOUGHT KINDERGARTEN WAS COMPULSORILY, BUT, UH, SO I'M KIND OF SURPRISED, BUT I'D SAY TYPICALLY OUR NUMBERS FOR KINDERGARTEN ARE NOT THAT MUCH LOWER THAN OUR NUMBERS FOR FIRST GRADE.
I MEAN, YOU CAN KIND OF FOLLOW THE GRADE BY GRADE PATTERN, RIGHT? SO, YOU KNOW, MOST PEOPLE WHO ARE GOING TO COME TO PUBLIC SCHOOL, THEY SEEM TO TEND TO COME AT KINDERGARTEN.
IT'S, IT'S USUALLY A LITTLE LOWER, BUT NOT, NOT SIGNIFICANTLY LOWER.
YOU KNOW, I, I WAS A PARENT OUT THERE.
MY TWO GRANDSONS WERE ABOUT TO GO INTO, ONE OF THEM WAS GOING INTO KINDERGARTEN THIS YEAR.
I SUGGEST TO MY SON VERY STRONGLY, HEY, LET HIM SIT OUT OF HERE AND GET ANOTHER YEAR OF MATURITY AND SO ON AND START ENJOYING THE GARDEN.
BUT I UNDERSTAND FAMILIES AND I'M THINKING OF MY YOUNGER GRANDSON.
HE WOULDN'T HAVE LIKED THAT BECAUSE THEN HE WOULD BE THAT MUCH FARTHER BEHIND HIS BROTHER.
BUT FOR HIS SAKE, IT WOULD BE EDUCATION SAKE.
IF IT WAS SCHOOL DISTRICTS SAY IT'S MUCH BETTER FOR THEM TO START IN THE GARDEN SO THAT THEY HAVE ALL THE NECESSARY TOOLS TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS FIRST GROUP.
ARE WE GOING TO LOSE FIRST GRADERS? BECAUSE YOU KNOW, A THIRD OF THE CLASS COMES IN THERE THAT DIDN'T GO TO KINDERGARTEN AND NOW THEY THINK THEY'RE STUPID BECAUSE THE KIDS THAT DID GO THIS YEAR ARE GOING TO BE SO MUCH FARTHER AHEAD.
I MEAN, YOU CAN SEE THE ISSUES THAT COULD COME OF THAT.
AND I THINK THIS IS A SIGNIFICANT ISSUE, BUT THAT'S, IT'S DISTRICT-WIDE.
SO IF I CAN GET BACK TO MY SECOND QUESTION, UH, WHEN I HAVE TAKEN MY SON OUT OF SCHOOLS, I JUST WENT TO THIS OFFICE AND I TALKED TO SOMEBODY AT THE FRONT DESK AND SAY, AND I'M TAKING MY SON OUT OF SCHOOL.
I NEED SOMETHING TO TAKE TO THE NEXT SCHOOL.
UH, AND IT WAS OKAY, SIGN THIS HERE'S THE TRANSCRIPT HAVE A GOOD DAY.
IS, IS THAT, DO WE KNOW IF THAT'S HOW WE DO THINGS HERE? IS IT JUST RIGHT NOW AT EACH INDIVIDUAL SCHOOL, BY THE STATE OF THE FRONT DESK? OR IS THAT HOW IT HAPPENS? THIS HANDLED AT, AT A SCHOOL LEVEL? NOT AT NECESSARILY AT A DISTRICT LEVEL, BUT SO IT'S NOT IMPOSSIBLE TO SAVE TO THE SCHOOLS WHEN YOU GET THAT PERSON COMING IN, THAT YOU HAVE A QUICK QUESTIONNAIRE, THIS DISTRICT COMES UP WITH.
SO WOULD YOU MIND FILLING THIS OUT, CHECK THE BLOCK, WHY YOU'RE LEAVING AND THEN THAT DATA COULD THEN BE PASSED ALONG TO YOU START CAPTURING THAT DATA GOING FORWARD.
YEAH, I SEE WHAT YOU'RE SAYING.
I DON'T KNOW IF DANIEL ISV WOULD DO THAT OR DANIEL ISD OR I DON'T KNOW HOW THAT WOULD BE RESPONSIBLE, BUT IT SEEMS THAT THAT IS PRETTY VALUABLE.
I JUST THINK THAT WE'RE GOING TO HAVE KIDS THAT WENT TO PRIVATE SCHOOL AND THEIR PARENTS ARE PAYING TUITION THIS YEAR.
AND I'M WONDERING, THEY'RE GOING TO SAY, HMM, MAYBE WE SHOULD GO BACK TO PUBLIC SCHOOL SO WE DON'T HAVE TO PAY THE TUITION.
SO WE DON'T KNOW HOW MANY WE'RE GOING TO GET, BUT THAT'S A PRETTY ONE OF THESE PRIVATE SCHOOLS HAVE PRETTY SIGNIFICANT TUITION.
I WONDER IF YOU CAN GET THAT INFORMATION FROM THE DATA SPECIALISTS AT THE SCHOOLS, BECAUSE THEY'RE THE ONES WHO HAVE TO FOR THE TRANSCRIPTS AND IN THAT INFORMATION.
SO THE DATA SPECIALIST MIGHT HAVE THAT INFORMATION ALREADY.
UM, WHEN STUDENTS LEAVE BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO MOVE THE TRANSCRIPTS ON TO WHEREVER, OH, THEY DO, MAYBE THE DATA, THE DATA SPECIALISTS, THEY DON'T GIVE THE TRANSCRIPT
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TO THE PARENTS.THEY ASK THE PARENTS WHERE THEY'RE GOING AND THEY SEND IT TO THE SCHOOL.
I KNOW AT THE ELEMENTARY, LIKE THEY MOVE, UM, WHEN STUDENTS REQUEST TRANSCRIPTS, LIKE FROM OUT OF STATE OR TO ANOTHER SCHOOL OR THE DATA SPECIALISTS MOVE THAT IF THEY MOVED THAT INFORMATION ONTO THE NEXT SCHOOL.
SO THEY MIGHT, THEY MIGHT HAVE THAT.
THEY MIGHT ALREADY HAVE SOME OF THAT INFORMATION.
I DON'T KNOW WHETHER THE, HOW THEY CAPTURE THAT DATA WHERE THERE, YOU KNOW, IF IT'S PUT INTO POWER SCHOOL OR THE OTHER SYSTEM, I'M NOT SURE.
MADAM CHAIR, WE NEED A MOTION TO ASK IF THERE'S INFORMATION.
WE CAN DO A MOTION OR YOU CAN JUST, UM, PERHAPS ASK THIS QUESTION AND WE'LL PUT IT AS A FUTURE AGENDA TOPIC, UM, TO REVISIT.
YOU KIND OF GIVE ISD A HEADS UP THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE ASKING THAT MAYBE BE ASKED TO THEM BEYOND THE AGENDA FOR OUR NEXT MEETING, COME AND TALK TO YOU.
AND IF WE HAVE SPECIFIC QUESTIONS, UM, THAT WE'D LIKE THEM TO ANSWER WHEN THEY COME PUT THEM IN AN EMAIL, MADAM CHAIR, LET ME CLARIFY.
WE ARE GOING TO BE ASKING HOW THEY CAPTURE INFORMATION WHEN THE CHILD IS WITHDRAWN FROM SCHOOL.
SO MAYBE WE CAN ADD A PIECE ASKING THE QUESTION OF WHY THEY'RE LEAVING AND IF THEY'RE COMING BACK.
UM, I THINK IT'S A TWO-PART QUESTION.
ONE IS, YOU KNOW, HOW ARE THEY PRESENTLY COLLECTING THE DATA? AND THEN WE PROBABLY WOULD NEED TO, UM, AFTER WE GET THAT INFORMATION, PERHAPS MAKE A MOTION TO GO TO THE FULL BOARD, UH, TO MAKE A DIRECTIVE ON, ON HAVING A CHANGE MADE.
UM, COLONEL GEIER WHERE YOU FINISHED.
I JUST HAD A COUPLE ITEMS. SO, UM, YOU SAID THERE WAS 400.
AND HOW MANY STUDENTS DOES THAT REPRESENT? 487.
WAS THAT CORRECT? FOUR 87 INDIVIDUAL STUDENTS? YES.
SO THE SURVEY RESULTS PRESENTLY HAVE GIVEN US A RESPONSE IN 487 STUDENTS OUT OF HOW MANY WERE THERE THAT WAS LOST AGAIN OVER 1100, WAIT, 1173 IS WHAT WE LOST, BUT THERE WERE, UH, RIGHT AROUND 2000 EMAIL ADDRESSES THAT THIS WENT TO, RIGHT.
IF WE MULTIPLE EMAIL ADDRESSES, WE'VE SENT THAT TO THEM.
YOU KNOW, YOU MIGHT HAVE TWO, TWO PARENTS EMAIL ADDRESS, RIGHT.
I'M JUST TRYING TO GET DOWN TO OF THE 1173 THAT HAVE LEFT THE SYSTEM.
THIS REPRESENTS APPROXIMATELY 487.
IS THAT AN ACCURATE STATEMENT? OKAY.
AND THEN I KNOW THERE WAS SOME, YOU KNOW, COMMENTS AT THE END THERE THAT WE'VE NEVER DONE IT IN THE PAST AND WHATNOT, BUT I DO KNOW THAT WE WERE SLATED TO GROW BY A CERTAIN PERCENTAGE AS WELL THIS YEAR.
SO WE HAVE THE LOSS AND THEN THE POTENTIAL GROWTH.
DO WE HAVE ANY IDEA ON OLD KINDERGARTEN ENROLLMENT DATA FOR PERHAPS LIKE THE LAST FIVE YEARS THAT WE HAVEN'T, WE COULD DETERMINE AN AVERAGE CLASS SIZE OF THE KINDERGARTNERS THAT COME INTO THE DISTRICT? YES.
WE HAVE ALL THAT HISTORICAL DATA.
SO THAT WOULD KIND OF BE ONE OF THE QUESTIONS THAT I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW THE ANSWER TO IS WHAT IS THE TYPICAL KINDERGARTEN CLASS SIZE LOOKS LIKE TO THE DISTRICT IN ANY GIVEN YEAR, BECAUSE THEN WE MAY BE ABLE TO MAKE AN ASSUMPTION ON WHAT THE FIRST GRADE CLASS SIZE MAY INCREASE BY, UM, NEXT YEAR.
I DON'T KNOW CAROL WHAT YOUR THOUGHTS ARE ON, ON THAT, BUT YEAH.
AND WE CAN TEASE THAT OUT, YOU KNOW, TO JUST LOOK AT THE BLUFFTON AREA, UM, AND, YOU KNOW, LOOK AT IT AS A WHOLE, AND THEN JUST LOOK AT IT IN THE BLUFFTON AREA, SINCE THAT'S OUR CONCERN IS THE BLUFFTON GROWTH, SO, RIGHT.
I THINK THAT WOULD BE A GOOD QUESTION TO TRY TO ANSWER THAT KIND OF YOUR, YOUR COMMENT KIND OF LEADS BACK INTO THAT BLUFFTON TARGET UP, UM, OF THESE RESULTS THAT WE RECEIVED.
IS THERE ANY WAY TO KIND OF TRUNCATE THAT DOWN FURTHER TO REPRESENTING THE STUDENTS THAT WERE AT BLUFFTON SCHOOLS? DO WE HAVE THE ABILITY TO TAKE THIS DOWN A NOTCH AND EVEN, YOU KNOW, LET'S, LET'S TAKE THE SURVEY RESULTS AND PERHAPS IF WE ANTICIPATE 30% OF WHAT WE LOST COMING BACK, WHAT DOES THAT POTENTIALLY
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LOOK LIKE AS WELL? RIGHT.AND, UM, BUT IF I CAN ADD TO THAT, AND I HOPE YOU ALL ARE REALIZING THOUGH THAT A 30% LOSS OR A 30% COMING BACK IS PROBABLY MORE THAN 30% COMING BACK, IF THAT MAKES ANY SENSE, BECAUSE WE ACTUALLY LOST 16% AND THAT'S WHAT WE DON'T KNOW WHAT WE NORMALLY LOSE IN A YEAR.
IF LET'S JUST SAY THAT WE'RE TYPICALLY LOSING 16 OR 20 OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT EVERY YEAR, UM, THEN WE'D EXPECT OUR GROWTH NEXT YEAR TO BE VERY SIMILAR TO HOW IT HAS BEEN IN THE PAST.
I MEAN, IT SHOULD BOUNCE RIGHT BACK.
UM, THAT'S WHAT WE DON'T KNOW, RIGHT.
UM, AND THAT'S TO COLONEL BUYER'S QUESTION IS TO SEE IF THERE IS A WAY TO, TO LOOK AT ANY OF THAT DATA THAT THE DATA SPECIALISTS MIGHT HAVE ABOUT UNENROLLED STUDENTS.
UM, OF COURSE, THAT DOESN'T TAKE CARE OF THE KINDERGARTEN THING, BUT HOPEFULLY WE CAN USE THAT AVERAGE CLASS SIZE FIGURE TO MAKE SOME ASSUMPTIONS THERE.
UM, I'M JUST TRYING TO GET US MORE TO A PLACE OF, I KNOW THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF UNKNOWNS AND I'M, I'M TRYING TO CLEAR SOME OF THAT GRAY AREA A LITTLE BIT WITH YOUR GUYS' HELP.
UM, SO, UM, MY LAST QUESTION WAS, HAS THERE BEEN ANY DISCUSSION, THIS MIGHT BE AN ISD QUESTION ABOUT ENROLLMENT OPENING, UM, BEING AT A, AT A EARLIER TIME FOR THE NEXT SCHOOL YEAR, UM, SO THAT WE GET A BETTER HANDLE OF HOW MANY KIDS ARE COMING BACK INTO OUR SYSTEM, UM, FOR THE NEXT SCHOOL YEAR.
CAUSE I KNOW THAT THERE'S A CERTAIN TIME PERIOD THAT THEY DO PK AND K I THINK IT IS, OR MAYBE IT'S JUST PK AND THAT'S ALREADY BEGUN, BUT I DIDN'T KNOW IF THERE'D BEEN DISCUSSIONS ABOUT, YOU KNOW, PUSHING THINGS OUT A LITTLE BIT EARLIER FOR RETURNING STUDENTS AND NEW STUDENTS FOR NEXT SCHOOL YEAR.
WELL, TYPICALLY, UH, ACTUALLY WE, WE, I THINK WE'RE DOING THE OPPOSITE.
WE'RE PUSHING IT BACK A LITTLE BIT BECAUSE TYPICAL ENROLLMENT AND CHOICE PROGRAM IS DUE AROUND TAX DAY, WHICH IS ABOUT APRIL, UM, 15TH, ABOUT MID APRIL.
AND IF I REMEMBER RIGHT, WE PUSHED THAT DATE BACK SINCE OUR, UM, OUR WHOLE CALENDAR MOVED BACK THIS YEAR.
AND I DON'T REALLY REMEMBER IT'S THE END OF APRIL, 1ST OF MAY NOW IS WHEN ALL THAT, THAT CLOSES.
DO YOU THINK, UM, FROM A PROJECTION STANDPOINT IT MAKES SENSE TO HAVE IT PUSHED BACK OR IS THAT GOING TO MAKE THINGS MORE DIFFICULT AND, AND OUR WORK, OR WHAT DO YOU THINK? UM, IT MAY MEAN IT COMES A COUPLE OF WEEKS LATER, BUT NO, I DON'T THINK IT'S GOING TO HAVE A MAJOR IMPACT.
I MEAN, TO YOUR POINT, THE EARLIER WE KNOW THE BETTER OFF WE WILL BE FOR PLANNING FOR NEXT YEAR, BUT, UH, THE APRIL TIMEFRAME STILL GIVES US TIME TO REACT.
I KNOW, UM, THEY'VE PUSHED THEIR HIRING DEADLINES BACK AS WELL.
UM, THEY'RE NOT AS, AS FORWARD AS THEY'VE BEEN TO GIVE US MORE SPACE TO REACT AS FAR AS THE NUMBER OF TEACHERS BEING HIRED FOR EACH SCHOOL.
SO, UM, YES, PROJECT THE EARLIER THE BETTER.
UM, BUT AT THE SAME TIME, WE'RE TRYING TO KEEP OUR SAME OF TIMING WITHIN THE SCHOOL YEAR, SINCE OUR WHOLE SCHOOL YEAR SHIFTED FURTHER BACK, WE LET THOSE DEADLINES KIND OF SHIFT WITH THE SCHOOL YEAR.
I WOULD LIKE TO ADD TO COLONEL GUYERS POINT ABOUT WHAT HE WOULD DO OR TELL HIS KIDS TO DO WITH, THEY HAD KINDERGARTEN NURSES TO HOLD THEM BACK, YOU KNOW, A YEAR AND REDO KINDERGARTEN.
I WOULDN'T BE SURPRISED IF WE DON'T SEE MORE OF THAT THAN NORMAL.
UM, SO YOU MAY, WE MAY HAVE HIGHER KINDERGARTEN ENROLLMENT NEXT YEAR, JUST BECAUSE OF EXACTLY WHAT YOU SAID.
I MEAN, I CAN SEE THAT AS WELL, KIDS BEING HELD BACK AND STARTING CAUSE THEY MISSED THAT OPPORTUNITY LAST YEAR AND WE DON'T, WE WON'T KNOW THAT UNTIL THAT ENROLLMENT CLOSES.
AND YOU KNOW WHAT, THAT KIND OF GOES TOWARDS ANOTHER QUESTION IN MIND.
AND AGAIN, THIS MIGHT BE AN ISD QUESTION, BUT I KNOW THAT FOR KINDERGARTENERS THEY'RE TYPICALLY, AND I THINK THOSE THAT ARE NEW TO THIS SCHOOL DISTRICT IN CERTAIN GRADES, I'M NOT SURE, BUT UM, THEY DO TESTING FOR THE STUDENTS.
SO HAS THAT TESTING THEN, UM, OR THAT TESTING TIME WINDOW EVEN BEEN MADE LARGER BECAUSE WE DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT'S GOING TO, I THAT OCCURS RIGHT ACROSS FROM OUR OFFICES.
SO I CAN TELL YOU IT'S GOING ON.
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UH, UH, BUT, UH, THAT'S ABOUT ALL I CAN TELL YOU ABOUT THAT, ASH, THAT AGAIN, THAT'S ACTUALLY HUTCHINSON AND, UH, YOU COULD INVITE HER TO ASK HOW THAT'S GOING OR THE BOARD COULD, OR HOWEVER YEAH.JUDGING BY THE TRAFFIC THAT WE SEE.
THEY'RE STILL OUT THERE, YOU KNOW, LOOKING FOR THOSE STUDENTS FOR PRE-K KINDERGARTEN, MAKING PARENTS AWARE OF SERVICES, THE DISTRICT OFFERS FOR THOSE, UM, EARLY LEARNING STUDENTS.
SO YEAH, SO KIND OF WHAT I'M GATHERING IS THAT WE NEED TO, UM, ASK THEM QUESTIONS, NOT ONLY A BIAS, BUT ALSO OF, UM, WHAT DOES THAT THE ASHLEY'S OFFICE, BUT SHE'S PART OF ISD, BUT SHE'S EARLY CHILDHOOD, EARLY CHILDHOOD.
BUT IT'S, UH, IT IS A PART OF ISD.
UH, NO, WE GOT, EVERYTHING IS SO SOFT NOW, YOU KNOW, WE'RE NOT GOING TO HAVE HARD DATA TO REALLY MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE BOARD UNTIL PROBABLY 45 DAYS AFTER THE START OF SCHOOL NEXT FALL.
BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT WE SHOULD JUST KIND OF SIT AROUND AND NOT DO ANYTHING.
I THINK HAVING SOME CONVERSATIONS WITH THE REALTORS IS ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL.
I ALSO BELIEVE THAT WE SHOULDN'T BE KIND OF THINKING OF WE'RE GOING THROUGH THIS OR JUST BY OURSELVES.
I, I, I WOULD LIKE TO, UH, REACH OUT TO FRED LYDA WHO HANDLES PRE PRE-K, UH, EDUCATION IN THE STATE AND THE COUNTY OF, UH, BUFORD AND, UH, SEE WHAT HE'S HEARING FROM HIS FOLKS THAT ARE DOING THAT AND SHOW HIM WHAT DATA WE HAVE, UH, BECAUSE YOU KNOW, HE'S, HE'S OUR FEEDER REALLY.
UM, AND WE SHOULD, WOULDN'T IT BE A GOOD IDEA FOR THIS COMMITTEE TO ARRANGE A MEETING WITH THE, UH, DISTRICT, UH, COUNTY COUNCIL, PEOPLE FROM THE BLUFFTON AREA TO JUST HAVE A MEETING AND SAY, OKAY, HERE'S WHAT WE'RE DOING.
AND HERE'S WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT.
WE NEED TO KINDA KEEP YOU, UH, PRAISED OF WHAT WE'RE DOING.
AND YOU GOT ANY IDEAS FOR US, UH, YOU KNOW, START, START ESTABLISHING THAT RELATIONSHIP WITH THAT THOSE COUNTY COUNCILS AND THE SAME THING APPLIES TO THE MAYOR OF BLUFFTON OTT.
AND SO ON JUST TO KEEP THEM INFORMED THAT WE'RE DOING SOMETHING ABOUT THIS, OR WE'RE, WE'RE LOOKING INTO SOME THINGS, BUT, YOU KNOW, JUST HAVING THAT CONVERSATION BECAUSE SO MUCH IN THIS COUNTY, THE SCHOOL DISTRICT COULD ASSIST SEEMS TO BE ISOLATED AND THEN MAKES DECISIONS.
AND THEN OTHER COUNTY ENTITIES SAY WHAT I NEVER HEARD ABOUT THAT.
AND THEN WE HAVE ALL KINDS OF ISSUES BACK AND FORTH WHERE ALL IT TAKES IS SOME, YOU KNOW, NOT FORMAL MEETINGS, BUT JUST GET TOGETHER AND SHARE INFORMATION.
WHAT DO YOU THINK? YEAH, I THINK THAT, UM, CERTAINLY WE NEED TO MEET WITH OUR COUNTERPARTS ON, UM, COUNTY COUNCIL OR THOSE THAT ARE IN THE BLUFFTON AREA, UM, YOU KNOW, UH, AND HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH THEM AND UPDATE THEM ON KIND OF LIKE IDEA WITH THE INTERIM REPORT OF HERE'S THE STATUS OF ALL THE SCHOOLS THAT WE LOOKED AT, SO THAT THEY'RE APPRISED OF THAT.
UM, LET THEM KNOW WHAT THESE, WHAT THE 45 DAY NUMBERS AND WHAT CAROL HAS FOUND IN THE SURVEY AS WELL, UM, FOR THIS PAST SCHOOL YEAR AND KIND OF WHERE WE'RE GOING IN THE FUTURE AND THE QUESTIONS THAT WE NEED TO ASK AND HAVING ANSWERED.
UM, I THINK THAT'S REALLY IMPORTANT FOR THE COUNTY COUNCIL LEVEL FOR THE BLUFFTON TOWN OFFICIALS.
UM, I THINK THAT THOSE MEETINGS OR PRESENTATIONS, IF YOU WILL, UM, SHOULD HAPPEN, UH, PUBLICLY, PERSONALLY, I THINK THAT WE DO NEED TO HAVE THOSE PUBLICLY SO THAT THEY CAN ASK QUESTIONS AND THAT NO ONE THINKS THAT THERE'S ANYTHING, UM, UNSEEMLY GOING ON.
SO I DO THINK WE DIDN'T HAVE THOSE PUBLICLY, WHETHER IT BE PERSON OR ON ZOOM, WHICHEVER, UM, BUT, UM, MS. MIDDLETON, DO YOU HAVE ANY COMMENTS IN THAT REGARD? NOT AT THIS TIME.
SO, UM, PERHAPS WE SHOULD HAVE THAT.
UM, SHOULD WE DO THAT AS A SEPARATE BOARD OR SEPARATE COMMITTEE MEETING DATE, UM, THAT WE PRESET, OR SHOULD
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I JUST REACH OUT TO THEM TO MAYBE GET INDIVIDUAL GROUPINGS, AVAILABILITY, UM, COUNTY COUNCILMAN'S AVAILABILITY AS ONE PERHAPS MEETING, UM, THE TOWN COUNCIL, BLUFFTON TOWN COUNCIL AS A SEPARATE MEETING? UM, I HAVE, I DON'T THINK IT'LL BE EASY TO SET A DATE AND SAY, HEY, COME TO THIS STATE AND GET EVERYBODY, BUT AS MANY AS WE CAN GET, UM, WOULD BE WONDERFUL.SO DO YOU WANT TO, UH, ARE YOU BOTH FINE WITH ME REACHING OUT TO THOSE INDIVIDUAL GROUPS THAT COUNCIL MEMBERS AND THE TOWN COUNCIL MEMBERS SEPARATELY, UH, VIA EMAIL, I WILL CC YOU ON THAT EMAIL JUST TO ELICIT SOME DATES AND TELL THEM THAT I WANTED TO HAVE THE COMMITTEE PRESENT THOSE TO THEM.
I KNOW WE HAVE SOME WORK SESSIONS COMING UP, UM, AND ONE IS ON A SATURDAY.
UM, MAYBE IS IT POSSIBLE THAT YOU CAN INVITE, UH, AND QUESTION AND PARDON THE DOG IN THE BACK, BUT DURING OUR WORK SESSIONS, CAN WE CONDUCT MEETINGS LIKE WE'RE PLANNING RIGHT NOW DURING OUR WORK SESSIONS? UM, I'M NOT SURE HOW THAT WOULD WORK.
OUR WORK SESSIONS ARE THE AGENDA IS USUALLY PRETTY, UM, PACKED WITH ITEMS AND REPORTS AND, UM, I DON'T THINK IT NECESSARILY WOULD FIT IN THERE DURING THAT TIME PERIOD.
UM, CAN THE PERSON ON THE IPHONE IDENTIFY THEMSELVES PLEASE? DID THEY JUST JOIN US? YES.
UM, THE PERSON ON THE IPHONE, CAN YOU IDENTIFY YOURSELF? OH, THERE WE GO.
SO, UM, WHAT I'VE GATHERED OUT OF THIS KIND OF GOES INTO OUR NEXT AGENDA ITEM, WHICH IS ITEM G DISCUSSION OF FUTURE AGENDA TOPICS.
UM, WHAT I GARNERED FROM THE PARENT SURVEY RESULTS IS THAT WE WOULD LIKE TO REQUEST, I ASKED D UM, AS WELL AS THE OFFICE OF, I GUESS, EARLY CHILDHOOD, UM, IN ISD TO COME TO OUR NEXT BOARD MEETING SO THAT WE CAN ASK THEM SOME QUESTIONS AND GET A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF, UM, WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE WHEN A CHILD LEAVES THE DISTRICT AND SEE IF THEY CAN KIND OF CLEAR SOME OF THIS UP FOR US A LITTLE BIT FURTHER.
UM, WAS THERE ANYTHING ELSE BESIDES ALSO I WILL I'LL REACH OUT AND TRY TO GARNER SOME DATES, UM, FOR THOSE OFFICIALS, ANYTHING ELSE THAT ANYONE HAS? I WILL ALSO BE REACHING OUT, UM, FOR OUR CONVERSATION TODAY TO, UM, THE REALTORS, THE REALTORS, OR THE REALTOR COMPANIES FOR THE MOTION.
IF ANYONE HAS ANYTHING FURTHER, UM, IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT AFTER THE MEETING OR YOU, UM, COME ACROSS ANOTHER ITEM THAT WOULD GO ONTO OUR NEXT AGENDA, PLEASE LET ME KNOW.
OTHERWISE, UH, ROBIN, I THINK WE ARE SET TO MEET AGAIN ON, LET'S SEE, MARCH 25TH IS FOUR 30 OR FIVE.
O'CLOCK BETTER FOR YOU, ANGELA OR THE REST OF THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS WITH TIME.
IT WAS BETTER FOR ME BECAUSE I'M RUNNING LIKE I'M GOING FROM ONE SYSTEM TO THE OTHER FOR FIVE O'CLOCK.
SO WE WERE MEETING AT FOUR, SO WE'LL MOVE IT TO FIVE O'CLOCK THAT'S FINE.
DO WE HAVE A MOTION TO ADJOURN TODAY BEFORE WE GO? WHAT ARE WE GOING TO GET OUR TENURE PLAN UNMUTE? UM, SHE, SHE TOLD ME SHE SHOULD HAVE THEM.
SHE WAS HOPING TO HAVE THEM PRINTED BY TOMORROW.
UM, SO I SHOULD BE ABLE TO PICK THEM UP HOPEFULLY TOMORROW.
AND THEN, YOU KNOW, WE CAN WORK WITH ROBIN TO GET YOU ALL YOUR HARD COPY OF THE BOOK, WHETHER IT SOUNDS LIKE HOW YEAH.
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THE LATEST, BUT HOPEFULLY, YEAH.AND ANYBODY THAT'S THAT DOESN'T COME IN PERSON TO THAT MARCH 2ND MEETING.
CAN, WE'LL TRY TO ARRANGE SOMETHING WITH ROBIN THEN.
THANK YOU FOR THAT QUESTION, COLONEL GUY.
DO I HAVE A MOTION TO ADJOURN? THE MEETING? I MOVED THERE.